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MAGNA CHARTA.
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therefore theſe companions were, by their place, to right the ſubjects in parliament[1].
The ſame is more largely ſet down by the lord chief juſtice Bracton; and therefore I will tranſcribe it in his own words[2].
- ↑ Mirror, p. 9. Et tout ſoit que le Roye ne dewoit aver nul peere en lu terre, pur ceo nequidant que le Roy de ſon tort, s’il pecha vers aſcun d’ ſon people, ne nul de ſes commiſſaires, poit e. judge & partee, couvient per droit que le Roy uſt compaignions pur oyer & terminer aux parliaments treſtouts les breves & plaints de torts de le Roy, de la Roigne, & de lour infans, & de eux eſpecialment de que torts len ne poit aver autrement commun droit.
- ↑ Rex autem habet ſuperiorem, Deum ſ. Item legem, per quam factus eſt rex: Item curiam ſuam, videlicet comites, barones, quia comites dicuntur quaſi ſocii regis; & qui habet ſocium habet magiſtrum: & ideo ſi Rex fuerit ſine fræno, ſine lege, debent ei frænum ponere, niſi ipſimet fuerint cum rege ſine fræno; & tunc clamabunt ſubditi, & dicent, Domine Jeſu Chriſte, in chamo & fraeno maxillas eorum conſtringe; ad quos Dominus, vocabo ſuper eos gentem robuſtam & longinguam & ignotam, cujus linguam ignorabunt, quae deſtruet eos, & evellet, radices eorum de terra, & a talibus judicabuntur, quia ſubditos noluerunt juſte judicare; & in fine, ligatis manibus & pedibus eorum, mittet eos in caminum ignis & tenebras exteriores, ubi erit fletus & ſtridor dentium. Lib. II. cap. 16. f. 34.
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