M. Horne. The .151. Diuision. pag. 89 b.* 1.1
Besydes these Lavviers, this vvas the common opinion of the chiefest vvri∣ters of the cōmon Lavv of this realme, as appeareth (.496.)* 1.2 by Braughton in these vvoordes: Sunt & sub rege &c. Vnder the King are bothe freemen and bondemen, and they be subiect to his power, and are all vnder him, and he is a certaine thing or creature that is vnder none but onely vnder God. And againe in the Chapiter the title vvhereof is this. Rex non habet parem, &c. The King hath no peere or equall in his Kingdome: The King (saith he) in his Kingdom hath no equall, for so might he lose his precepte or authoritie of commaunding, sithe that an equall hathe no rule or commaundement ouer his equall: as for the King himselfe ought not to be vnder man, but vnder God, and vnder the law, because the Law maketh a King. Let the King therefore attri∣bute that vnto the Lawe, that the Lawe attributeth vnto him,* 1.3 to wit, dominion and power. For he is not a King in whom will and not the law doth rule, and that he ought to be vnder the Law, Cùm sit Dei Vicarius, sith he is the Vicare of God, it appeareth euidently by the likenes of Iesu Christe, whose vicegerent he is in earth: and vvithin a litle after he concludeth thus: Igitur non debet maior esse eo in regno suo (.497.) Therfore there ought to be none greater then he in his kingdome.