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Yf one list to reason from the place, called in latin Locus, he may thus say. Suche a one is in the countrye, Ergo he is not in the Citie. Yf I will proue that a man beynge accused of murder vniustly, did not offend: I may reason both from the time, and the place. The man was killed in the fieldes, aboute iij. of the clocke in the after none, all whiche time this other man came not
abrode. No, he loked not out of his house all that daye. Ergo this man dyd not kyll hym. Clodius was accused at Ro∣me that he had made a spoyle of the re∣liques in the tēple of Bona Dea, where as he at the same tyme when this dede was thought to be done, was at Inte∣ramna, a village in the countrye beside Rome. Quintilian saith thus. Thou hast killed an adulterer, which the law doth permitte, but bycause thow haste kylled the same mā in a brothels house, thou art worthye to dye thie selfe. Not¦withstandinge these .i••. places are ra∣ther vsed of the Rethoriciens, than e∣mong the logiciens, for when a man is taken of suspection we go aboute to proue hym faultie by diuerse coniectu∣res. As if he ware about ye same place, at the self same time, whan a man was slayne, and also had his sworde aboute hym: we coniecture that he might haue killed hym. Againe if we perceiue one to be a riotous felowe, readie to fight with euery bodie, accompanyeng with naughtie packes, and euermore at one end of al frayes, waxyng pale when he is ap∣prehended,
shakynge for feare, or run∣nyng awaye, when he should be taken, we suspect suche a one that he is not al∣together cliere. Therfore Oratours do vse to marke thinges that go before the facte, as whether he hated the man or no, or what gaine he might haue by his death, and also obserue thynges ioy∣ned with the faulte, as changynge of hewe, when he is apprehended, or his sworde to be blodie, or any parte of his apparell, and thyrdlye thei note what followeth. that is, if he ran awaye, if he cannot tell his tale plainlye, and so they conclude as they are led by suspe∣ction. Some Argumētes are necessary, some probable, as thus, from the conse∣quent. Such a womā is brought in bed with a childe, Ergo she hathe had the compaignie of man. Suche a man had a bluddye sworde in his hande straight after the death of his neyghbour, euen in the same fildes wher his neyghbour was slaine, Ergo it is like this mā hath slayne hym. All which argumentes are deriued from the place called Contin∣gentia as I wyll shewe it hereafter.