NO nor it booteth not, good Chancellour heerein much to tarrie, {quod} the Prince. For though in England, aswell o∣pen, as priuy theeues, are commonly put to death, yet cease they not there from stealing, as though they had no feare of so great a punishment. Howe much lesse then woulde they withholde their handes from theft,
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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if they foresawe once that the punishment were mi∣tigated? And God forbid, that hee, which once hath escaped miserable serui∣tude, should euer after tremble and quake at the threatnings of bondage, specially vnder the colour of ingratitude or vnkind∣nesse, seeing the kindes of ingratitude are so ma∣ny, that they can skante well bee numbred: and mans nature in the cause of libertie of freedome, more then in other causes, requireth fauour. Wherefore at this time, good Chauncellour, I be∣seech you hartily meddle no more with the exami∣nation of any such cases. But now explane & open vnto me, why the laws of England, being so good,
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so fruitfull, and so com∣modious, are not taught in the Vniuersities, as the Ciuill and Canon lawes are: and why in the same, none are commenced Ba∣chelers and Doctors, as in other faculties and scien∣ces it is accustomed.