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Page 46 - Ipse autem rex non debet esse sub homine, sed sub Deo et sub lege, quia lex facit rtgem. Attribuat igitur rex legi, quod lex attribuit ei, videlicet, daminium et potestatem, non est enim rex, ubi dominatur voluntas et non lex, Bract., 5 b.
Page 231 - Eschaetori suo citra Trentam salutem. Cum Rogerus de Leyburn, qui de nobis tenuit in capite diem clauserit extremum propter quod Alyanora de vallibus Comitissa Winton' que fuit vxor prefati Rogeri ad nos venit et nos instanter rogauit vt dotem suam ipsam contingentem de terris et tenementis que fuerunt predicti Rogeri quondam viri sui sibi assignari faceremus secundum legem et consuetudinem regni nostri, volentes quod dos illa sibi per nos assignetur : vobis mandamus (to make without delay an extent...
Page 147 - lib. iii. tract, ic 10. The passages quoted by Prynne, Plea for the Lords, p. 97, stating that the king might be sued, are scarcely relevant, for they belong to the year 1259, and are apparently misconstrued.
Page 146 - Homage and oath of the subject is more by reason " of the crown than by reason of the person of the " king, So that if the king doth not guide himself " by reason in right of the crown, his lieges are " bound by their oath to the crown to remove the
Page 203 - Rex autem habet superiorem, Deum scilicet ; item legem per quam factus est rex ; item curiam suam, videlicet comites...
Page 147 - Hence, in order that the oath may be saved, when the king will not right a wrong and remove that which is hurtful to the people at large and prejudicial to the crown, and is so adjudged by the people, it behoves that the evil must be removed by constraint, for the king is bound by his oath to govern his people, and his lieges are bound to govern with him and in support of him. As regards the person who is talked about, the people ought to judge him as one not to be suffered because he disinherits...
Page 239 - ... et ceo qe sera troue soit returne en Chauncellerie et outre ent fait droit illeoqes, ou en autre place ou la busoigne purra estre termine par la ley. m. 14-3. Letters patent, dated July 18, 1354, per peticionem de parliamento, to William de Shareshulle, John de Stonford, and Richard de Birtone. Supplicauit nobis Isabella que fuit vxor Godeto Robert the lands which had been taken into the king's hands by reason of the queen's death and which had been appropriated to the use of the queen after...
Page 62 - By a writ of 1281 (CCR, 8 Ed. I, 78) the sheriff is ordered, not to intermeddle further with a certain manor, and to deliver the custody of it to one Robert de Staundon, retaining in the king's hands the lands which John de Chetewynd had held at his death of a tenant in chief, a minor in the king's wardship ; for the king had learned by an inquisition taken by the sheriff that Chetewynd had held nothing of the king in chief as of the crown, but that he had held the manor in question of Staundon by...
Page 46 - Dominum expectet ultorem . . . nisi sit qui dicat quod universitas regni et baronagium suum hoc facere debeat et possit in curia ipsius regis ;
Page 113 - RP ii. 140, no. 4). 3 lbid. ii. 241, no. 40 : ' Item prie la Commune, qe come contenu soit en la Grande Chartre, "Qe nostre Seignur le Roi ne vendra ne deleiera droit a nulli " : Et ceux qi vodroient purchacer Briefs en la Chauncellerie, queux Briefs sont la primere partie de sa Leie, quele Leie est soverein Droit de son Roialme et de sa Corone, ne poent aver Briefs sanz Fyn faire . . . Prie la dite Commune qe lui plese, pur Dieu et pur Droit . . .