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B20451	Justice vindicated from the false fucus [i.e. focus] put upon it, by [brace] Thomas White gent., Mr. Thomas Hobbs, and Hugo Grotius as also elements of power & subjection, wherein is demonstrated the cause of all humane, Christian, and legal society : and as a previous introduction to these, is shewed, the method by which men must necessarily attain arts & sciences / by Roger Coke.; Reports. Part 10. French	Coke, Roger, fl. 1696.	1660 (1660)	Wing C4979	450,561	399

like Law is according to the nature of the fact if any of these be committed upon any solemn Festival And if any one will purge let him bring a threefold purgation Of deteining the Duties of the Church by force Cap. 45. If a Dane shall resist by force any one desiring the rights or duties belonging to God let him be punished for breach of the Law An Englishman shall be assessed in a deeper mulct unless he purge himself with eleven men and be himself the twelfth man But if he wound any man let him make amends and pay a grievous mulct to the Lord and let his hands be bored through unless he shall redeem them from the Bishop But if he killed any one let him be outlawed and pursued by all Magistrates with all the harm that they lawfully may And if afterward that man so pursued be killed let it be confirmed and unpunished and no further enquired after Of a man breaking Holy Order 46. If any man violate his Order or Rule of living let him be fined according to the dignity of his Order or price of his head for punishment of the breach of the Law or forfeit all he hath Of Repairing the Church 63. All men by right ought to use their endeavor to repair the Church Of him who keeps a man Excommunicated or Outlawed 64. If any man shall unjustly keep any Fugitive from Gods law let him be restored to right and forgiven those things which did appertain to him and let him pay to the King the price of his head But if any one shall keep and hold any other excluded from the protection of Divine or Humane laws he shall endanger himself and all he hath The Conclusion of Canutus his Laws Now I beseech all men and in the name of Almighty God command every man that they be truly from their heart converted to God and with all care and diligence search out what is to be followed and what avoided And truly it does much conduce to our souls health that we love God and hold his precepts and admonitions and hear his word by his teachers For we shall bring forth these to be seen in that day wherein God shall come to give judgment upon all men according to those things they did whilst they lived And then at length shall that blessed Keeper bring the Flock committed to his charge into the Heavenly kingdom and the joys of Angels for those things which he had done in his life and also that blessed Flock follow that Pastor who hath wreathed it out of the hands of the Devil and give the gain to God And further we study that all men may so agree to please God that for the time to come we may avoid the flames of Hell-fire The Interpreters of Gods Law ought often to preach the benefit of Divine things and indeed it is their function and does much benefit all men to salvation And all men ought with a good mind diligently to hear and have Gods admonitions always fixed in their soul for their profit And lastly that every one by his words and deeds all he can holily and thankfully do well to the greater amplitude and glory of God his Lord for so at length we shall abundantly all of us obtain Gods mercy Let the name of the Lord be praised to whom be laud honor and glory for ever God Almighty be merciful to us all according to his will Amen Ecclesiastical Laws made by Good King Edovard Who began to reign Anno Salutis 1042. Of Clerks and their Possessions Cap. 2. LEt every Clerk and also Scholars and all their goods and possessions wheresoever they be enjoy the peace of God and his Church Of the Times and Dayes of the Kings Peace 3. From the coming of our Lord until eight days after Epiphany let the peace of God and his holy Church be all over our Kingdom also from Septuagesima until eight days after Easter also from the Ascension of our Lord until eight days after Whitsuntide also all the days in Ember-weeks also upon every Saturday from the ninth hour and all the day following until Munday also upon the Vigils of S. Mary S. Michael S. John the Baptist of all the Apostles and Saints whose solemnities are celebrated by Priests upon Sunday and All Saints upon the Kalends of November alwaies from the ninth houre of the Vigil and the following Solemnity Also in Parishes in which the Dedication is observed also in the Parishes of Churches where the proper Feast of the Saint is celebrated And if any one will come devoutly to the celebration of the Saint he shall enjoy peace going staying and returning Also to all Christians going to Church to pray be peace in going and returning In like manner at Dedications Synods to men coming to Chapters whether they be summoned or of themselves have any thing to do be highest peace Also if any man excommunicated flee to the Bishop for absolution let him freely in going and returning enjoy the peace of God and his Church But if any man shall do otherwise with him let the Bishop do justice therefore But if any arrogant man will not amend for the justice of the Bishop the Bishop may make the matter known to the King and the King may constrain the malefactor to make him amends whom he hath outlawed viz. first to the Bishop then to him and so they shall be two swords and the sword shall help the sword Of the Justice of the Church 4. Wheresoever the Kings Justice is or before whomsoever Pleas are holden if one sent of the Bishops coming there opens the cause of the holy Church it shall first be determined For it is just that God be every where honored before others Of all Tenents of the Church 5. Whosoever shall hold any thing of the Church or have a mansion upon the ground of the Church shall not be compelled to hold Pleas out of the Ecclesiastical Courts although he be outlawed unless which God forbid he shall have default of right in the Court Ecclesiastical Of Guilty men fleeing to the Church 6. Whosoever guilty or nocent shall flee to the Church for protection after that he hath gotten the entrance of the Church let him not be apprehended of any man pursuing him unless by the Bishop or his Minister but if in fleeing he enters into the House or Court of any Priest let him enjoy the same security and peace he should have had at the Church so as the house of the Priest and his Court stood upon the ground of the Church Here if the thief or stealer be what he hath evil gotten if it be at hand let him restore but if he hath wholly consumed it and hath wherewith to restore of his own let him make full satisfaction for the damage he brought to him who was damnified But if as is usual the Thief hath not wherewith to do it and by chance hath

your souls sad rather then instructed you with sound and wholesome Doctrine it seemed good to us being met together to send to you Barnabas and Paul who had ventured their life for the Name of Christ With them we send Judas and Sylas who shall speak the same words It seemed good to the Holy Ghost and us not to impose more necessary burden then these things upon you That ye abstain from things offered to Idols and Blood and things strangled and from fornication and that ye will that which ye would other men should do to you From this one Commandment it is manifest That a man should restore every man his right neither is there need of any other Law-book This he should remember who sits a Judge over other men That he should not give that judgment upon other men which he would not have given upon himself After the Gospel of Christ was preached many Nations as also the English by Faith joyned themselves to the Word of God Some Bishops and other famous men as well in England as other Regions held a Council of wise men and these men taught by Gods mercy imposed upon every sinner a pecuniary mulct and left the power of exacting it to the Magistrates without any offence to God having obtained leave onely to the betrayer and forsaker of our Lord they did not judge fit that this light punishment should be inflicted because they deemed such a man not worthy to be spared as well because God would have such contemners of him unworthy of all mercy as also that Christ Gods Son would not have mercy on them that betrayed him to death and he bid them to worship God before any other They therefore in many Synods constituted punishments for all sins and commanded them to be written These Laws have I Alfred the King gathered together and commanded to be written a good part whereof our Ancestors have religiously observed there are also many things worthy to be observed of us with like Religion in this age yet some there are which seem less profitable to us by the advice of wise men I have altered some I have made new And because it may seem rashness for any one to command to be written more then his own Decrees as also it would be an uncertain thing how they would be esteemed afterward of which we make great account Whatsoever are worthy to be observed in the acts of Inas my Kinsman of Offa King of the Mercians or Ethelbert who was the first of Englishmen that was baptized I have collected them all and the other left And in taking them I Alfred King of the West-Saxons have used the counsel of the most wise men and it hath pleased them all to judge them worthy to be kept Of the Priviledge of the Church Cap. 2. If any man guilty of any crime shall flee to a Religious house if that belong not to the Farm of the King or some Honorable family let him there remain three nights in which let him heed his salvation unless in the interim he return into favor And if any one shall during that time weaken him with fear of stripes bonds or wounds let him be free as the custom of the Nation is with the price of his head and with fine and the damage of violation of the liberty of the Church with One hundred and twenty shillings to boot Of the Priviledge of Sanctuary Cap. 5. We do further grant this peace to every Church consecrated by a Bishop If an enemy afflict another and he implores help of the Temple let him in seven days be taken out by no man if for hunger he can live so long and not opened his way by force If a man does otherwise let him be held a breaker of the King and Church and also of a more grievous crime if he shall have stoln any thing thence If the Governor have more then ordinary occasion to use that place provide for him in another house which has not more doors then that which shuts the Church and let the Governor take care that in the mean time he gets no meat But if he will give his arms into the power of his adversaries let them keep him safe thirty days and then give him into the hands of his kindred Also the freedom of the Church is if any guilty man flee to the Church before he be accused and there confess it in Gods name he shall be remitted half of his mulct Of Sacriledge Cap. 6. If a man steal any thing in a Church let him pay the value of the thing stolne and that punishment belonging to that value and that hand wherewith he stole be cut off if he will redeem his hand and it be granted him let it be with the price of his head If a man steal upon a Sunday Christmas-day Easter-day Holy Thursday or upon a Communion-day let him pay double as also in the Fast of Lent Of them who steal money out of Churches 8. If any man shall take money out of a * * Church Minster without the Kings leave or the Bishops he shall pay 120 shillings half to the King half to the Bishop and the Lord of the Church Of the Fighting of Priests 21. If a Priest slea any man let all he has acquired be confiscate and the Bishop degrade him and let him be thrust out of the Church unless the Lord of the house will forgive him the price of his head Of him who binds himself to God or enters into Religion 28. If any other accuse a man entred into Religion or bound to God that he hath not performed something of those things which he has mentioned let him give a Fore-oath in four Churches and the other if he will justifie himself let him do it in twelve Churches Of Fight 38. This Chapter gives a Priviledge for the honor of the Church in case of Manslaughter to him who flees thither Of Mass-Holidays 39. All Freemen have freedom granted them on these Holidays but not Servants The twelve days in Christmas the day on which Christ subdued the Devil the Anniversary feast of S. Gregory and seven days before Easter and seven days after the feast-Feast-days of S. Peter and S. Paul In Autumn the whole week which is before the Feast of Mary the feast-Feast-days of all Saints and the four Wednesdays in Ember-weeks let servants have all holy liberty given and freedom that they may spend all their endeavor upon the benefit of those things which they have heretofore received in Gods name or for whatsoever benefit he shall hereafter earn The League of King Edovard and Guthrun Preface THese are the institutions of King Alfred and King Guthrun and then King Edoard and King Guthrun made in those very times when the Danes and English made league and bound themselves that those things which are afterward recited should be often amplified and increased to the common benefit of the Realm

suffet imprisonment for six moneths without bail or mainprize And for the second offence shall suffer a years imprisonment and be deprived of all his spiritual promotions and for the third offence shall suffer imprisonment during life It was Enacted that the Justices of Oyer and Terminer and Justices of Assize should have power and authority in the open and general Sessions to hear and determin the offences committed against this Act yet so that every Archbishop and Bishop had liberty to joyn and associate himself to the said Justices of Oyer and Terminer or to the Justices of Assize All books called Antiphoners Missals Grails Portuasses Primers in Latine An. 3. 4. Ed. 6. Cap. 10. or in English and other books used for service in the Church saving such as are set forth by the Kings Authority shall be clearly abolished All Images graven painted or carved taken out of any Church or Chappel and the aforesaid books shall be defaced or openly burnt Such form and manner of making and consecrating of Archbishops and Anno 3 4. Ed. 6. Cap. 12. Bishops Priests and Deacons and other Ministers of the Church as by six Prelates and six other men of this Realm learned in the Law of God by the King to be appointed and assigned or by most of the number of them shall be devised for that purpose and set forth under the Great Seal before the first of April next coming shall be lawfully exercised and used and none other An Act for uniformity of Prayer and administration of the Sacraments An. 5. 6. Ed. 6. Cap. 1. in the English Tongue and that every person upon every Sunday and Holiday having no lawful cause to be absent do resort to his Parish-Church and they which refuse are to be punished by the censure of the Church and that all persons who shall be at any other common prayer or Sacraments shall for the first offence suffer Imprisonment for six moneths without bail or mainprise for the second Imprisonment during a whole year and for the third Imprisonment during life All the Sundays of the year the Feast of our Lord Jesus his Circumcision of the Epiphany of the Purification of the blessed Virgin of St. Matthew An. 5. 6. Ed. 6. Cap. 2. the Apostle of the Annunciation of the blessed Virgin of St. Mark the Evangelist of St. Philip and Jacob the Apostles of the Ascension of our Lord Jesus Christ of the Nativity of St. John the Baptist of St. Peter the Apostle of St. James the Apostle of St. Barthelomew the Apostle of St. Matthew the Apostle of St. Michael the Archangel of St. Luke the Evangelist of St. Simon and Jude the Apostles of All Saints of St. Andrew the Apostle of St. Thomas the Apostle of the Nativity of our Lord of St. Stephen the Martyr of St. John the Evangelist of the holy Innocents Munday and Tuesday in Easter-week Munday and Tuesday in Whitson-week are to be observed and kept for Holy days and none other And that every even or day next going before any of the aforesaid days of the Feasts of the Nativity of our Lord of Easter of the Ascension of our Lord Pentecost of the Purification of the Annunciation of the blessed Virgin of all Saints and of all the Feasts of the Apostles other then the Feasts of St. John the Evangelist and Philip and Jacob shall be kept for fasting days and none other Archbishops Bishops in their Dioces and all other having Ecclesiastical or Spiritual Jurisdiction may enquire of every person offending in the premises and punish every offender by censures of the Church and enjoyn him such penance as by the spiritual Judge shall be thought meet This Statute does not abrogate abstinence from flesh in Lent and Fridays and Saturdays or any day appointed to be kept by vertue of an Act made the second and third Ed. 6. Cap. 19. When any Holy day happens on the Munday the fast of that day shall be kept upon the Saturday immediately before and not upon the Sunday A view of the Reformation of Ed. 6. and of the lawfulness of it That the Book of commom Prayer Administration of the Sacraments The Reformation made by Ed. 6. was not meerly a civil sanction and other rites and ceremonies of the Church after the use of the Church of England was framed and composed by the Archbishop of Canterbury and certain of the most learned and discreet Bishops of the Land assembled to that purpose by the King is clearly expressed in the Preface to the Act of the 2. 3. Ed. 6. Cap. 1. The right that Christian Kings have to call and assemble Synods It is no new thing for Kings to assemble the Bishops and Church to redress and reform errors Councels and Convocations for the redress and reformation of errors and corruptions in the Church is properly the subject of another Treatise but that the Kings and supream Powers before Christianity under the old Law from Moses to Maccabees did always use it and that the first great Nicene Councel the second general Councel at Constantinople the third at Ephesus the fourth at Calcedon the fifth at Constantinople the sixth at Constantinople the seventh at Ephesus were all called by Christian Emperors is manifested by the Bishop of Winchester Andrews in the Sermon of the Right and Power of calling Assemblies nor were the general Councels convoked by Emperors but the Emperors and Kings did convoke and assemble Provincial and National Assemblies and Synods He shews that the Bishop of Syracuse in Sicily and Restitutus Bishop of London in Britain were summoned to a Synod in France by the Emperor Constantine ' Writ onely this was in the beginning of his Reign in the latter end of it in the thirtieth year of his Reign and the year before his death he called the Councel at Tyre and from thence removed it to Jerusalem and from thence called them to appear before himself at Constantinople After him Constans called one at Sardis Valentinian at Lampsacus Theodosius at Aquileia Gratian at Thessalonica Nay when the Emperors were professed Arrians even then did the Bishops acknowledge their power to call Councels came to them being called sued to them that they might be called came to them as Hosius to that of Arimine Liberius to that of Sirmium and that of Seleucia sued for them as Liberius to Constantius as Leo to Theodosius for the second Ephesine Councel Innocentius to Arcadius and sometime they sped as Leo and sometime not as Liberius and Innocentius and yet when they sped not they held themselves quiet and never presumed to draw themselves together of their own heads After the Empire fell in pieces and the Western Empire fell into the hands of Kings in Italy Theodoric called one at Rome Alaric at Agatha In France Clowis the first Christian King there called one at Orleans Childebert at Auvern Theodebert called another at Orleans and Cherebert at Toures And