YEs, good Chancellor, quoth the Prince, this Law I doe allow much more then the other. For in ye first part of it, which you noted, it prouideth much more warily for the securitie and safegard of the pupill, then the Ciuill law doth. Howbeit in the second part of the same, I do take more delight. For thereof it cōmeth to passe, that in England Noble mens children cannot ea∣sily degenerat, but rather passe and surmount their auncestors in vertue, in courage, and in honest conditions, forsomuch as they are brought vp and instructed in an higher
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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"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 May 1, 2024.
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& an honourabler Court, then in the houses of their Parents, though their Parents were peraduen∣ture brought vp in the like places: For their Parents house was ne∣uer yet like the Lords house, whom as well the Parents, as also the Children serued. The Princes also of the Realme, being ruled by this Lawe, and likewise other Lordes, holding their Lande immediate∣ly of the King, cannot lightly fall to wanton∣nesse and vnseemelinesse, seeing that in their child∣hoode, while they bee Orphanes, they are brought vp in the Kinges house, wherefore I must needes highly praise and commende the riches
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and high porte of ye Kings Court, in that it is the chiefest schoole within the Realme, for the Nobility of the Land. It is also the Schoolehouse of man∣hood, of vertue, and of good manners, whereby the Realme is honoured, and flourisheth, & is pre∣serued against inuasions: so that it is dreaded both of friends and foes. And to be plaine, this great commoditie could not haue happened to the Realme, if Noble mens children, being Orphanes and pupilles, had beene nourished and broughte vp by the poore friends of their Parents. Neither can this bee preiudiciall or hurtfull to the wealth of the Realme, that the Children of Burgesses,
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and of other freeholders, which holde their tene∣ments in ••ocage, & are not therby bound to warfare, are brought vp in ye hou∣ses of their like friends, as to him, that shall tho∣roughly weigh ye matter, it may euidently appeare.