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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A11376	Of the antient lavves of great Britaine. George Saltern	Salteren, George.	1605 (1605)	STC 21635; ESTC S116514	35,849	88

Nobles he was perswaded to establish the former lawes he then by the counsell of his Nobles and according to the course and common Lawes of the Realme impanelled twelue men of euerie Shire to inquire make a true presentment of the said auncient Lawes and customes for so be the words Electi de singulis totius patriae comitatibus duodecim viri Lamb. Arc. Houeden iureiurando Coram Rege primum confirmauerunt vt quoad possent recto tramite incedentes nec ad dextrā nec ad sinistrā diuertentes legum suarum et consuetudinum sancita patefacerent c. And amongst the rest they make menciō of the customes of London which I cited before I say nothing here that the footesteps of this triall are found in the lawes of Etheldred made at wantage which is cited by Maister Camden nor of the ordinance made for the mountainers of Wales Malmesbury Huntingdō Ethelwardus Historia Ely remaining with St. Robert Cotton Ingulfus nor of the law of Kennethus the famous Scottish King about the yere of our Sauiour Christ 840. mentioning some such matter nor of the learned diligent Historians that liued neere about the conquest might easily haue tolde vs if any such thing had been begun by the Saxons nor of the Historie of Ely written before the conquest and Ingulfus soone after plainly speaking of Mannors Feoffements Shiriffes Coūty Courts Tearmes at Londō recoueries in an assise or writ of right as of thinges thē common and vsuall We read also of Parlaments wapentakes homages fealties discents from the Grandfather to the Nephew Eschets to the King for want of heires in the daies of Aurelius Ambrosius Leland Hooker Galf. Mon. Gildas and of Arthur the worthy streight way after Gildas maketh mencion of Courts Iudges Freshsuit after thieues Iudgements which could not be without trialls By all which I thinke it is manifest that these points of common law namely these trialls by twelue are of most aunciēt antiquitie according to the commō law and vsed amongst other customes of the citie of London before the times of the Saxon and Norman Princes of whome no such Libertie or course of proceeding could be gotten without patent and no other forme of auncient tryalls doth appeare vpon which I conclude as before that they had it in the times of the Britaines The same is prooued by al the auncient and new records of Assises of Freshforce of writs of right and other tryalles in London which must bee all falsified and many thousands of records besides if wee ouerthrowe this prescription And this being so consonant to the iudgments of those excellent men before cited Cāden Belknap Sr. Io. Fortescue Sr. Ed. Cook Let vs now leaue Maister Polidor his followers which either neuer saw or did not vnderstand our auncient Histories and Records let vs leaue them I say to their owne imaginations with this admonition to all discreet Antiquaries that they be not ouer-hasty to beleeue either the Roman or other Authors speaking of the Britaines thire enemies but holding them suspect for partialitie or ignorance which may easily appeare to euerie iudiciall Reader let vs followe the true groundes confirmed by these faithfull Monuments of our Lawes and the Histories thereunto agreeing And this being ascertained it is easie now to beholde from whence all our Assises of nouel diseisin of Mordancester of darrain presentment our great Assises Iuries Challenges the rest of which Mr. Bracton at large discourseth are lineally descēded being as I take it the greatest part of our common Lawes and it appereth by that which is before spoken that these also are most agreeable to the Scripture of God whereupon I conclude fully that all our common Lawes was in vse in the Britaines time long before the Saxons howsoeuer suppressed the bookes thereof defaced by forreine inuasions and intestine dissentions And thus much of Lucius and the Britaines Now of the Saxon Princes Cap. 11. IT hath bene a worke of the special prouidēce of Almightie God of his infinite mercie to this Iland in the middes of Poetical fables wherwith the British Histories haue bene mixed and of those Barbarous inuasiōs which haue wasted and spoyled them to leaue vs yet certaine remnants and monuments whereby to iudge of those long past Antiquities in iudging wherof men by taking contrarie courses haue made the controuersie more difficult that the truth foūd out might be the better confirmed For some haue giuē thēselues to fauour the Romane Historie so much as to abrogate all faith and credit from the British as if the ambitious Romanes Caesar would say nothing for their owne aduantage who of all others most couetous of glorie is iustly noted by Suetonius Lucian and Asinius Pollio to haue written his commētaries as much as he might to saue his owne Honour especiallye of his Actions in these remote places Others haue gone so farre to the bowehand as to fauour all the vanities of the Poeticall Bardes as if nothing could bee denied which they had once turned into Rythme But that God which came into the world to beare witnesse of the truth so much doth he loue it hath left vs rules and directions to trie out the verity of aunciēt times By the mouth of two or three witnesses euerie word shall be confirmed sayth Moses and as it is moste certaine truth cannot be so much oppressed as to be vtterly destitute of proofes Let therefore the proofe rest vpon witnesses and comparison of circumstances it will appreare as Sir Iohn Prise truely auerreth and learnedly prooueth that the British Story is in many things more to be credited then Caesar and Polidore and other Italians Besides the Scottish Historie agreeing in many things with vs manifestly conuinceth the Romanes of their Arrogancie and vanitie and with all ministreth further groundes not onely to proue the antiquitie and sincerity of our common Lawes but that the same or others much like obtained in Scotland also as well as heere which may bee seene by the Lawes of Brechus Fergusius answering in time to Mulmutius and Mercia and by the Lawes of Kennethus not much distant from Alfred and last of all by their Bookes of Regiam Maiestatem a principal booke of Common Law amongst thē agreeing in effect with our Glanuill And to say truth there was litle difference in Lawes and Religion betwixt these two Nations vntill the bloody warres that began after the time of our King Henry the third before whose daies Glanuill did write Againe the most auncient of the Saxon Princes law-makers doe make mencion of many thinges in our common Law which we are forced to beleeue that they receiued from the Britaines for that they speake of them as of things vsual and common Ina Alfred Lamb. Arc. Edgar other the Saxon law makers speake of the Parlament of Iudgemēts of Treason of Sanctuaries of Purgatiō of execution by hanging for theft of fresh sute after theiues