Of the chiefe Tribunals, benches or courtes of England. CHAP. 10.
IN times past (as may appeare to him that shall with iudgement reade the histories and antiquites of England) the courtes and benches followed the king
De republica Anglorum The maner of gouernement or policie of the realme of England, compiled by the honorable man Thomas Smyth, Doctor of the ciuil lawes, knight, and principall secretarie vnto the two most worthie princes, King Edwarde the sixt, and Queene Elizabeth. Seene and allowed.
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- De republica Anglorum The maner of gouernement or policie of the realme of England, compiled by the honorable man Thomas Smyth, Doctor of the ciuil lawes, knight, and principall secretarie vnto the two most worthie princes, King Edwarde the sixt, and Queene Elizabeth. Seene and allowed.
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- Smith, Thomas, Sir, 1513-1577.
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- Anno Domini 1583.
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"De republica Anglorum The maner of gouernement or policie of the realme of England, compiled by the honorable man Thomas Smyth, Doctor of the ciuil lawes, knight, and principall secretarie vnto the two most worthie princes, King Edwarde the sixt, and Queene Elizabeth. Seene and allowed." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A12533.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 14, 2024.
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and his court wheresoever he went, especially shortly after the conquest. Which thing being found very cum∣bersome, paineful and chargeable to the people, it was agreed by parliament, that there shoulde be a standing place where iudgement should be giuen. And it hath long time béene vsed in Westminster hall, which king William Rufus builded for the hall of his owne house. In that hal be ordinarily séene 3. Tribunals or Iudges seates. At the entrie on the right hande, the common place, where ciuill matters are to be pleaded, specially such as touch landes or contractes. At the vpper ende of the hall, on the right hand, the kinges bench, where pleas of the crowne haue their place. And on the left hand sitteth the Chauncelor accompanyed with the master of the Roules, who in latine may be called custos archiuorum regis, and certaine men learned in the ciuill lawe called Masters of the chauncerie, in latine they may be named Assessores.