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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A96344	For the sacred lavv of the land. By Francis Whyte.	White, Francis, d. 1657.	1652 (1652)	Wing W1765; Thomason E1330_2; ESTC R209102	136,470	313

6. And again there in the Chapter of the Maletot u c. 7. The ill Toll or Charge of 40 s. upon every sack of Wool is taken away where are these words We have granted for us and our Heirs not to take c. without common consent and good will By the Statute called de Tallagio non concedendo No Tollage nor aid was to be set or levied but by common consent w 34 E. 1. All new Offices with new Fees are within this Statute x 2 Inst 533. No man is to be charged by any benevolence which is condemned by a Statute as against the Law y 1 R. 3.2 He who judges things impartially must confesse the English ever to have been the most happy and most free of all people while they enjoyed the benefit of these lawes and are likely yet to continue ●s happy under them for the time to come But as some there are as is noted who will allow no authority but their own not reason it selfe nothing without themselves so some there may be rather for a Sect then the truth more willingly following a great name then reason chusing number rather then weight and worth carryed away with authority as they call it such as will yeeld to nothing else If any such there be I will please them they shall have authority with truth weight and worth together Not that I bring in other vouchers as if I refused those or thought them not sufficient who as have shown before are the true and undoubted Judges of the lawes In the Councel at Oxford of the English and Danes held in the sixt yeere of King Cnut The English and Danes are said to agree about keeping the Laws of King Edward the first Wherefore they were commanded by King Cnut to be translated into the Latine Tongue and for the equity of them those are the words to be kept as wel in Denmark as in England z Mat. West flor Hist l. 1. 311. Wigorn. 311. Although it is said the English laws * Gloss ver Lex Dan. were silent spake not in the times of the Danes which might generally be true yet in the reigne of of this King it was otherwise as appeares by his excellent lawes of Winchester full of piety and justice a Concil saex 569. These were the famous lawes observed by King Edw. the Confessour after many of the laws of K. Aetheldred many of those of the renowned Councel of Aeaham under the same Aetheldred are amongst them In the Epistle of King Cnut writ to the English when he was coming from Rome He saies He bad vowed to govern the Realms subject to him justly and piously and judgement in all things to observe At his returne saies Malmesbury he was as good as his word For all the Laws by the ancient Kings and especially by his ancestour Aetheldred given under penalties be commanded to be observed for ever which now men swear to keep under the name of King Edward not that he ordained them but because he observed them b Malm●b de Gest Reg. l 2. c. 11. p. 75. How much the ancient Englishman loved and prised the Common lawes is evident by what has been before said concerning the Magna Charta and the setling them And it is more evident by the odiousnesse which subversion and the subverters of the Lawes have lain under in all ages There is a Writ in the Register as before to take the impugners of the Lawes and bring them to Newgate c Regist 64. In the complaint of the Bishops of Henry the thirds reigne against the strangers Poictouins his favourites are these words As also because the Law of the land sworn and confirmed and by excommunication strengthned this was the Magna Chaeta together with justice they confound and pervert d Ma. Pa. 396. The Earle Marshall Richard complaines of these Poictouins to this King as men who impooy themselves to the oppression of the Lawes and liberties e ibid. 384. Stephane of Segrave the chiefe Justice is charged in another place with corrupting the laws and introducing new ones f ibid. 392. The same King is told by those Bishops That if the subjects bad been governed according to justice and right judgement of the land c. those troubles had not hapned The Statute banishing the Spencers the father and son has this Article To the destruction of the great men and of the people they put out the good and fit ministers and placed others in their room false and wicked men of their Covin who would not suffer right or law to be had and They made such men Justices who were not at all conversant in the law of the land to hear and determine things Empsons indictment runs Nor having God before his eyes c. falfely deceitfully and treasonously the Law of England subverting g 4 Just 199. The Articles against Cardinal Wolsey before mentioned begin Hath by divers and sundry waies and fashions committed high and notable and grievous offences misusing altering and subverting the order of the lawes His articles are there by the introduction said to be but a few in comparison of all his enormities excesses and transgressions against the Laws These Articles were subscribed by the Dukes of Norfolk and Suffolk the Marquesses of Dorset and Exceter the Earls of Oxford Northumberland Shrewsbury the Lords Fitzwalter Rochford Darcy Mounjoye and Sandys c. all which as those others taking subversion to be so heinous an offence must needs be imagined to esteem the Lawes highly Lewis of France invited hither by the Barons in King John his time in the entrance to his new principality is made to sweare to restore to every of them the good Lawes h Ma. Pa. 282. As others to maintain ad keep the institutions of the Countrey Those who desired a stranger for their master would not be governed by new and strange laws amongst the covenants of marriage betwixt Queen Mary of England and Philip the second of Spain there is one to this effect That he the King Philip should make no invasion of State against the laws and customes of the Realm neither violate the Priviledges thereto belonging i Hollinsh p. 1118. And amongst those covenants of marriage treated betwixt Elizabeth of most happy memory and Francis Hercules of Valois Duke of Anjou the same care and warinesse is had one of the conditons is That the Duke shall change nothing in the laws but shall conserve all the customes of England k Comd. Eliz. 338. The Lord Treasurer Burleigh the Earles of Lincoln Sussex Bedford and Leicester Sir Christopher Hatton and Sir Francis Walsingham were delegates for the Queen men too wise to tie themselves and others to preserve those things which are neither worth a care nor being The Statute 28 of Edw. the 3 l An. Dom. 1363. speaks thus The good ancient Laws customes and Franchises of the said Realm The

is to buy by the lump tenuta seisin venter a woman with childe or as Alciate a posthumus fusiones publique Functions Whoso shall turn over the Laws of the Frankes Lombards Boiorians and other of the Teutonick Nations he will meet Mormoes and Goblins formidable indeed such as the most knowing glossaries must be contented to recite only or wisely to passe by in sacred silence which yet will be read by those who admire not themselves and their own age too much who will allow in some proportion both wisdom and civility to their forefathers and are curious to be satisfied how they lead their lives upon what policie and order the Empire of the German Franks Lombards rose and moved for however governments may begin Justice good lawes assure them give them vigour and continuance lasting violence had been a fire which suddenly would have burnt their Trophies these German Conquerours how fierce soever they seem in their first appearance of all which might be said which is related of Mezentius Dextra mihi deus c. Or the Quadi a part in that Eductis mucronibus quos pro numine colebant the sword was their deity spent the yeers of their entrance into their Provinces to compose mindes their first peace and rest from the turmoils of war was ever dedicated to the polishing and smoothing of those foundations which else laid with too hasty and too rough an hand would have fallen alone Augustus was more happy in his moderation then in his victories it might be thought he subdued his Country to preserve it his peace was so sweetned by the equity and clemency of his laws that all the calamities of the triumvirate and its proscriptions were forgotten no tears were left but such as the whole world powred out to his memory There is its honour due to antiquity yet there may be met with in the lawes of these people though they seem what Du Bartas speakes of Marots verse torne Monuments and age worne Images that policy and excellency of constitution which if we will not imitate perhaps we can never exceed It is observed for the honour of our English that an Earle of Arundel in his travels to Italy and the Lord William Howard in his Government of Calice although they understood other languages would not speak to any stranger but in their English And that Cardinal Woolsey in his French Embassie would not suffer his attendance to speak any tongue else to the French And I know not why our English where it is more pure and lesse corrupt where it is a mother tongue and the best Dialect of a mother tongue should not have the esteem it is worthy of It was made none of the least of venerable Bede's praises that he was learned in it A great man before mentioned rather transported with choller against som of the Profession and indirectly I thinke then out of his own judgement is very angry at the Law which he says cannot passe the Seas It were wonderful if it shou'd who looks that neighbourhood alone should make Nations like the same things I have shewn already what great agreement there is betwixt the French and us enough to make it evident they and we had but one stock in Constitutions more ancient then the Civill Law there and it takes off nothing though our Law would not be known in the Courts at Paris This Author grants no man he sayes can deny it it is a sacred both Thing and Title our professors wil not envy the learning of Brissonius his Lexicon or his formulae so much praised and it is confessed we cannot shew any Terms of law like them yet are ours to as much purpose they interpret the words of art of our homebred Lawes and I cannot tell what is to be required more All men may know that as there have been additionary Laws since the Saxons so have there necessarily been additionary termes since which according to the custome of the times when the Law began to speak French were French and when they began as good perhaps and as pure French as any then spoken The leagues and agreements concerning the Sea betwixt King Edward the first and other Princes shew what the old French was by these words soffrera souccours resceipts Pees Trewes subgitz forspris nadgairts c. x D. Seld. Ma. Claeus 267 276. The Lord of Argentons History much later manifests what the language was and how it has changed These terms are so enterwoven as the Lord Coke into the Lawes they cannot possibly be changed I wil appeal to any man who understands the modern French for many of them are yet retained by it whether any words can more aply hit the sense which these signifie there is a supposition where these objections lie that if the great Lawyers abroad should come hither much amazed they would stand at our voucher cited for a big word like to tear the ear but unluckily brought in it is yet in the French advocare to vouch call in aide in a suit and certainly was understood by some of the great Lawyers Rigaude and Bignon being such as had the word bene antique indeed would not have been amazed at it They were not confined within the knowledge of their own age onely what is much to Bignon's honour Sir Hen. Spelman acknowledges himselfe owing to him for many things in his Glossary Garrantie is the same yet with our Warranty Pleviner to plevin give surety saisine is yet seifin rebutter to repell as the heir with us is repelled by the Warranty of his ancestors Larcin is theft fellony robbery fee demain or domain prescription Escbet rent as we use them nampt is our naam halfe withernam a distresse briga with which by this author in another place the professours of our Lawes are reproached and have the stile of his barbarians has been continued amongst them ever since Edw. the 3. before which it was but rarely used yet is in the modern French viz. brigue for it signifying contention or wrangling The onely man abroad who may seem an adversary is Hotomanne a Civilian very learned but I believe not at all in our laws a man of a peevish heady temper who writ against his own State and fled for it yet is he not so much an enemy to the Laws of England as to Litleton's tenures the book so called which very probably he never understood in his Comentary of the feudall word in the word feudum he writes thus Stephane Pasquier a man of an excellent wit c. gave me an English Litleton in which the Laws of the English feuds are discoursed written so rudely absurdly and without method that it appeareth easily to be true which Polydore Virgil in the English History writes That foolishnesse in that book contends with malice and the study to calumniate Here is his own judgement seconded with the censure of that uncleane beast Polydore whofreely indeed as is said railes in that book against