ONe only doubt, wher∣wt your mind is trou∣bled, remaineth now be∣hind vndiscussed, And yt is this: whether as the ciuill laws, so likewise ye lawes of England, bee fruitfull and effectuall, these for the Realme of England,
De laudibus legum Angliæ writen by Sir Iohn Fortescue L. Ch. Iustice, and after L. Chancellor to K. Henry VI. Hereto are ioind the two Summes of Sir Ralph de Hengham L. Ch. Iustice to K. Edward I. commonly calld Hengham magna, and Hengham parua. Neuer before publisht. Notes both on Fortescue and Hengham are added
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- De laudibus legum Angliæ writen by Sir Iohn Fortescue L. Ch. Iustice, and after L. Chancellor to K. Henry VI. Hereto are ioind the two Summes of Sir Ralph de Hengham L. Ch. Iustice to K. Edward I. commonly calld Hengham magna, and Hengham parua. Neuer before publisht. Notes both on Fortescue and Hengham are added
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- Fortescue, John, Sir, 1394?-1476?
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- M.DC.XVI [1616]
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"De laudibus legum Angliæ writen by Sir Iohn Fortescue L. Ch. Iustice, and after L. Chancellor to K. Henry VI. Hereto are ioind the two Summes of Sir Ralph de Hengham L. Ch. Iustice to K. Edward I. commonly calld Hengham magna, and Hengham parua. Neuer before publisht. Notes both on Fortescue and Hengham are added." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A01083.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 30, 2024.
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as the other for the Em∣pire, and whether they may worthily bee iudged fitte and meete. Com∣parisons, most noble Prince, (as I remem∣ber I heard you once say) are compted odi∣ous. Wherefore I am loath to meddle with them: but whether they bee both of like worthy∣nesse, or that the one de∣serueth an higher com∣mendation then the other heereof you may gather a pithier argument, out of those points, wherein their sentences do differ, then by my declaration. For where bothe the Lawes doe agree, the praise of them is equall. But in cases where they disagree, the worthier Law is most praise wor∣thy.
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Wherefore we will now propound some such cases, to the intent you may indifferently pon∣der and weigh, whe∣ther of these doth most iustly and better define the same: And first, wee will put foorth ex∣amples of cases of much weight.