Of Treason, & the trial which is vsed for the higher nobilitie and Barons. CHAP. 25.
THe same order touching trial by enquest of xij men is taken in Treason, but the paine is more cruell. First to be hanged, taken downe aliue, his bowels ta∣ken
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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out and burned before his face, then to be behea∣ded, and quartered, and those set vp in diuerse places. If anie Duke, Marques, or any other of the degrée of a Baron, or aboue, Lord of the Parliament be appea∣ched of treason, or anie other capitall crime, he is iud∣ged by his péeres and equals: that is, the yeomanrie doth not go vpon him, but an enquest of the Lordes of the Parliament, and they giue their voice, not one for all, but eche seuerally as they do in Parliament, be∣ginning at the youngest lord.* 1.1 And for Iudge one lord sitteth, who is Constable of England for that day. The iudgement once giuen, he breaketh his staffe and ab∣dicateth his office. In the rest there is no difference from that aboue written.
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* 1.1
Or rather high stewa•••• of England••