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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At London :: Printed by Henrie Midleton for Gregorie Seton,
Anno Domini 1583.
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Great Britain -- Politics and government -- Early works to 1800.
Great Britain -- Constitutional law -- Early works to 1800.
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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 May 21, 2024.
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Triall of iudgement by battle. CHAP. 7.
THis is at this present not much vsed, partly because of long time the Pope and the cleargie to whom in times past we were much subiect, alwayes cryed a∣gainst it as a thing damnable and vnlawful, and part∣ly because in all common wealthes (as to the tongue) so to the maners, fashions, habites, yea and kindes of trials and iudgmentes, and to all other thinges that is therein vsed, time and space of yeares bringeth a chaunge. But I could not yet learne that it was euer abrogated. So that it remaineth in force, whensoeuer it be demanded. The maner of it is described in Briton.
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