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A01080 A learned commendation of the politique lawes of Englande vvherin by moste pitthy reasons & euident demonstrations they are plainelye proued farre to excell aswell the ciuile lawes of the Empiere, as also all other lawes of the world, with a large discourse of the difference betwene the. ii. gouernements of kingdomes: whereof the one is onely regall, and the other consisteth of regall and polityque administration conioyned. written in latine aboue an hundred yeares past, by the learned and right honorable maister Fortescue knight ... And newly translated into Englishe by Robert Mulcaster.; De laudibus legum Angliae. English and Latin Fortescue, John, Sir, 1394?-1476?; Mulcaster, Robert. 16th Century 1567 (1567) STC 11194; ESTC S102454 98,618 567

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amonge y e sāe one shal be the rueler and the other shal be rueled wherfore a people that wyll rayse thēselfs into a kingdome or into any other bodie politique must euer appointe one to be chiefe rueler of the whole bodie which in kīgdōes is called a kīge After this kīde of order as out of the embryō rieseth a bodie natural ruled by ōe head euen so of a multitude of people arieseth a kyngedōe whiche is a bodie mistical goūned by ōe mā as by an head And like as in a natural body as saieth the Philosopher the hart is y e first y e liueth hauig w tin it bloud which it distributeth among all y e other members whereby they are quickened doe lyue sēblably in a bodye politik y e intēt of y e people is the first liuely thīg hauing w tin it bloud y t is to say politike prouision for the vtilitie welth of the same people which it dealeth furth imparteth aswel to the head as to al y e mēbers of the same body wherby y e body is nourished mainteined Furthermore the lawe vnder the which a multitude of men is made a people representeth the sēblance of synews ī y e body natural Because that lyke as by synewes the ioynyng of the bodie is made sounde so by the lawe which taketh the name a ligando y t is to witte of byndynge suche a misticall bodie is knytt and preserued together And the members bones of the same bodye whereby is represented y e soundenes of the wealth wherby that bodie is susteyned do by the lawes as the naturall bodie by synewes reteyne eueryone their proper fūctions And as the head of a bodi natural cā not chaūge his sinewes nor cā not denie or witholde from his inferiour mēbers their peculiar powers seueral nourishm̄tz of bloud no more cā a kīge which is y e head of a bodie politik chaūge the lawes of y e bodie nor withdrawe from the same people their proper substāce against their wills and consentes in that behalfe Nowe you vnderstande most noble prince the fourme of institucion of a kīgdome politique wherebye you maye measure the power whiche the king therof maye exercise ouer the lawe and subiectes of the same For such a kinge ys made and ordeyned for y e defence of the lawe of his subiectes and of theire bodies and goodes whereunto he receaueth power of his people so y t hee can not gouern his people by any other power Wherfore to satisfy your request in y t you desire to be certified how it cōmeth to pas that in y e powers of kings ther is so great diuersitie suerly in mine opinion the diuersitie of the institutiōz or first ordinances of those dignities whiche I haue nowe declared is the onelye cause of this foresayde difference as of the premisses by the discourse of reason you maye easelye gather For thus y e kingdome of Englande oute of Brutes retinue of the Troians whiche he brought out of the coastes of Italie and Greece firste grewe to a politique regall dominion Thus also Scotland which somtime was subiect to Englande as a Dukedome thereof was aduaūced to a politik and roiall kingdome Many other kīgdōs also had thus their first begīninge not onely of regal but also of politique gouernement Wherefore Diodorus Siculus in his seconde boke of olde histories thus writeth of the Egiptiās The Egiptien kings liued first not after y e licentious maner of other rulers whose will pleasure is in steede of law but they kept thēselfes as priuate persones in subiection of the lawes And this did they willingly beeing perswaded that by obeyinge the laws thei should bee blessed For of suche rulers as folowed theire owne lusts they supposed many thinges to be done whereby they were brought in daunger of diuers harmes and perylles And in his fowerth boke thus he writethe The Ethiopian kinge as sone as hee is created he ordereth his life accordīg to y e laws and doth al things after y e maner and custom of hys countrey assigninge neyther rewarde nor punishment to anye man otherthen the law made by his predecessours appointethe He reportethe likewise of the kinge of Saba in Arabia the happie and of certein other kinges whiche in olde time honorablye reigned SAnctus Augustinꝰ in libro xix de ciuitate dei capitulo xxiii dicit Quod populus ēcetus hominū iuris consensu et vtilitatis cōmunione sociatus Nec tamē populus huiusmodi dum Acephelꝰ id est sine capite est corpus vocare meretur Quia vt in naturalibus capite detruncato residuū nō corpꝰ sed trūcū appellamꝰ sicet in politicis sine capite cōmunitas nullatenus corporatur Quo p̄mo politic̄ dicit philosophus quôd quādocūque ex pluribꝰ cōstituitur vnū inter illa vnū erit regēs et alia erūt recta Quare populū se in regnum aliudue corpꝰ politic̄ erigere volētē sēꝑ oport ’ vnū p̄ficere totius corporis illiꝰ regitiuū quē regē nōin̄ solit ’ ē Hoc ordin̄ sicut ex embrione corpꝰ surgit phisi cū vno capite regulatum sic ex populo erumpit regnum qd corpus extat misticū vno hoīe vt capite gubernatū Et sicut in naturali corꝑe vt dicit philosophus cor est primum viuēs habēs in se sāguinē quē emittit in oīa eius mēbra vnde illa vegetāt ’ et viuūt sic ī corꝑe politico intētio populi primū viuidū est habēs in se sanguinē vz ꝓuisionē politicā vtilit ’ populi illiꝰ quā in caput et in oīa mēbra eiusdē corꝑis ipsa trāsmittit quo corpus illud alitur vegetatur Lex vero sub qua cetꝰ hominū populus efficitur neruorū corporis phisici tenet ration̄ q̄a sicut ꝑ neruos cōpago corporis solidatur sic per legem quae a ligando dicitur corpus huiusmodi misticum ligatur et seruatur in vnū et eius dem corporis mēbra ac ossa quae veritatis qua cōmunitas illa sustentatur soliditatē denotāt per legem vt corpus naturale per neruos propria retinent iura Et vt non potest caput corporis phisici neruos suos cōmutare neque mēbris suis ꝓp̄as vires et ꝓp̄a sāguinis alim̄ta denegare nec rex qui caput corpor ’ politici ē mutar ’ potest leges corpor ’ illiꝰ nec eiusdē populi substātias ꝓprias subtrahere reclamantibꝰ eis aut inuitis Hēs ex hoc iā prīceps institutiōis politici Regni formā ex qua metiri poteris potesta tē quā rex eiꝰ in leges ipsiꝰ aut subditos valeat exercer ’ Ad tutelā nāque legis subditorū ac eorū corpū et bonorū rex hm̄odi erectꝰ est et ad hāc potestatē a populo effluxā ipse hēt quô ei nō licet potestate alia suo populo dn̄ari Quare vt
agninis semper al bis implicatur qualē habitū te plꝰ ornare optarē cū potestas tibi fuerit ad decorē status legis et honorem regni tui Scire te etiam cupio qd ’ iusticiarii angliae nō sedētī curiis regis nisi pertres horas in die s. ab hora viii ante meridiē vsque horā xi cōpletam quia post meridiē curiae illae non tenentur Sed placitātes tūc se diuertunt ad ꝑuisū et alibi cōsulētes cū seruientibus ad legē et aliis cōsiliar ’ suis Quare iusticiarij postquā se refecerint totū diei residuū ꝑtrāseūt studēdo in legibus sacram legēdo scripturā et aliter ad eorū libitū cōtēplādo vt vita ipsorū plꝰ cōtemplatiua videatur quā actiua Sicque quietā illi vitā agūt ab oī solicitudine et mundi turbinibꝰ semotam nec vnquā cōꝑtū ē eorū aliquē donis aut muneribꝰ fuisse corupt ’ Vnde et hoc genus gratiae vidimꝰ subsecutū qd vix eorū aliq is sine exitu decedat qd iustis magn̄ et quasi apꝓpriatae benedictionis dei est mihi quoque nō minimi muneris diuini censetur esse pēsād qd ex iudicū sobole plures de proceribus et magnatibꝰ regni hucusque ꝓdierūt quā dealiquo alio statu hoīm regni q i se prudētia et industria ꝓpria opulētos inclitos nobilesque fecerunt Quāquā mercatorū statꝰ quorū aliqui sūt q i oībꝰ iusticiariis regni p̄stāt ī diuitiis iudicū numerū in milibꝰ hoīm excedat Nā fortunae q̄ nihil est istud ascribi nō poterit sed diuinae solū benedictioni fore arbitror tribuēd Cū ipse ꝑ ꝓphetā dicat qd generatio rectorū benedicetur Et alibi de iustis loquēs ꝓpheta ait qd filii eorum in benedictione erūt Dilige igitur fili regis iusticiā quae sic ditat colit et ꝑpetuat f●tꝰ colentium eā Et zelator esto legis que iustitiam parit vt a te dicatur qd a iustis scribitur et semen eorum ineternū manebit The prince findeth fault with delayes that are made in the kinges courtes Cap. 52. THere remayneth now but one thynge good Chauncellour quod the prīce to be declared wherwith my mynde sōewhat yet wauereth and is disquieted wherī if you stay and satisfie me I wyll trowble you with no mo questions The lawes of England as the reporte goeth suffer great delaes in their processes more then the lawes of other nations which vnto suters is not onely a hinderaunce of their right but also many tymes an importable burden of charges chiefly in those actions wherī damages are not alowed Princeps Vnum iā solum super est Cācellarie declarādum quo parumꝑ adhuc fluctuat inq̄etat ’ quoque mens mea In quo si eā solidaueris nō āpliꝰ te q̄stionibꝰ fatigabo Dilationes ingentes vt asseritur patiuntur leges Angliae in ꝓcessibus suis plusquā leges aliarū nationum qd petētibꝰ nedū iuris sui ꝓgatio ē sed et sumptuum quādoquidem importabile onꝰ et maxime in actionibꝰ illis in quibꝰ damna petētibꝰ nō redduntur Delaies that happen in the kynges courtes are neacessarie and reasonable Ca. 53. IN actions personall quod the Chaūcellour out of Cities townes of merchandise where the maner of proceedynge is acordynge to the customz and liberties of the same there the procedinges are ordinarie And thoughe they suffer great delaies yet they be not excessiue But in the same Cities and townes chiefeli whē any vrgent cause so requireth there is quicke dispatche made lyke as in other partes of the world and yet not w t suche hote hast as in some other places that the ꝑtye be there by endammaged Agaīe in accions reall the procedynges are verie slowe almost in all partes of the worlde For within the royalme of Fraunce in y e hieghest court ther which is called the court of parliamēt there be certeī processes y t haue hāged there aboue xxx yeares And I knowe that a cause of appeale which in that court betweene Richard Herō an Englishe merchaunt other merchaunt mē for a trasgression made hath ben debated withī the iurisdiction of that courte hathe alredy hāged by y e space of x. yeares And it is not yet lyke that it can be decided within other x. yeares● ▪ whyle I was lately abydynge ī Paris myne hoste shewed me his processe in writynge which in the court of parliament there he had thē folowed full viii yeares for iiii.s. rēte which ī our monei maketh not aboue viii d and yet he was ī no hope to obteyne iudgmēt in .viii. yeares more And I knowe other cases ther lyke vnto these So that the lawes of Englād as seemeth to me cause not so gre●t delayes as do y e lawes of that countrey But to speake vpprightly it is necessarie that delayes be had in the processes of all actions so that the same be not to muche excessiue For by reasō thereof the parties and chiefely the partie defēdant do often tymes ꝓuide themselfes of good defenses and also of coūsels which els y ey should lacke And in iudgemēts there is neuer so greate daunger toward as whē processe goeth foreward with ouer muche haste For I sawe ones in the Citie of Salisburi before a certein iudge at a gaole delyuerie there with the clerk of the assyfes a womā attaīted burned for the death of her husband within a yeare a●ter he was slaine In the which case it was in the iudges power to haue reprieued or respected that womās arraygnement til the end of that yeare And about a yeare after that I saw one of y e seruants of the slaine man cōuict before y e same Iustice of the death of the same his maister Whoe then openlye confessed y t he himselfe alone slew his master and that his maistres hys wyfe whiche before was burned was altogether innocent of hys deathe And he for y e same was drawen and hanged And still euen at y e pointe of death he lamented the womā burned as one cleare from that offence O what perplexitie remorse of c●nscience it is to bee thought that this so hasty a Iustice hadde of thys deede which might iustly haue stayed the processe He himselfe alas often confessed vnto me that hee should neuer durynge his lyfe be hable to cleare hys conscience of this fact For manye times in deliberatiōs iudgemēts growe to riepenes but in ouer hasty processe neuer Wherfore the laws of England admit essoyne and so do noe other laws of al y e worlde Are not vouchinges to warrant right profitable Are not the aydes of them profitable to whom the reuersion of tenementes brought in plea belongethe and whiche haue the euidences of the same Are not also the aydes of coperteners ꝓfitable whiche shall paye accordinge to the rate of a tenemente allotted to their coꝑtener by force of the