Origines juridiciales, or, Historical memorials of the English laws, courts of justice, forms of tryall, punishment in cases criminal, law writers, law books, grants and settlements of estates, degree of serjeant, Innes of court and chancery also, a chronologie of the lord chancelors and keepers of the great seal, lord treasurers, justices itinerant, justices of the Kings Bench and Common Pleas, barons of the Exchequer, masters of the rolls, Kings attorneys and sollicitors, & serjeants at law / by William Dugdale, Esq. ...

If the quarell be taken into the Kyng's hand.

ANd if it happed so, that the Kyng wold take the quarell in his hand, and make theym accorded, and lete them fight no more, than the Constable takyng that one partie, and the Mareschall that othir, shall bring them before the Kyng; and he shew∣yng them his wille, the Constable and Mareschall shull bring them to one of the Gates of the Lists, with her wepyns, Horses, and Armuryes, like as they have and been found, whan the King taketh the quarrell in∣to his hand; and so shull they evynly be brought out att the Porte of the Lysts, so that that one go nat before that othir by no wey in thinge: For after that the Kynge have take the quarell in his hand it were nat honest, that eny of the partyes shuld have more dishonour one more than an othir; for it hath ben seide by ma∣ny auncyen people; that he that go∣eth first out of the Lists hath the dishonour, and that aswele in cause of Treson as in any othir cause.