Yes, I kind of presumed as much, Robin about the majority of it. I thought
you had fiddled a bit to make the opening couplet. Amazing. Love 'him of
whom the word was moved'. Words move so oddly in the current term limited
elected monarch. David Brooks on New York Times points out the difficulties
'trying to understand a guy whose thoughts are often just six fireflies
beeping randomly in a jar'.
Bill
On Wed, 17 May 2017 at 10:04 am, Robin Hamilton <
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> Not my words, Bill, but an actual Act of Parliament passed in the second
> year of
> the reign of Richard II.
>
> Didn't turn out real well for him either, did it?
>
> Came on it accidentally, and was quite disconcerted at how apposite it is
> to
> certain things being uttered by a current term-limited elected monarch.
>
> Next down the line: the Divine Right of Presidents -- "I was elected by
> the
> people, and the people are the Voice of God, so anyone who objects to what
> I do
> is committing blasphemy, and will be dealt with accordingly."
>
> Robin
>
> >
> > On 17 May 2017 at 00:28 Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
> >
> >
> > Impressive accretion of moving words here, Robin.
> >
> > Bill
> >
> > On Wed, 17 May 2017 at 6:20 am, Robin Hamilton <
> > [log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >
> > > Item, of Devisors of false News and of horrible and false Lyes
> > >
> > > of Prelates, Dukes, Earls, Barons, and other Nobles, and great
> > >
> > > Men of the Realm, and also of the Chancellor, Treasurer,
> > >
> > > Clerk of the Privy Seal, Steward of the King’s House, Justices
> > >
> > > of the one Bench or of the other, and of other great Officers of
> > >
> > > the Realm, of things which by the said Prelates, Lords, Nobles,
> > >
> > > and Officers aforesaid were never spoken, done, nor thought, in
> > >
> > > great Slander of the said Prelates, Lords, Nobles and Officers,
> > >
> > > whereby Debates and Discords might arise between the said
> > >
> > > Lords, or between the Lords and the Commons (which God
> > >
> > > forbid), and whereof great Peril and Mischief might come to
> > >
> > > all the Realm, and quick Subversion and Destruction of the
> > >
> > > said Realm if due remedy be not provided ; it is straitly de-
> > >
> > > fended upon grievous pain for to eschew the said Damages and
> > >
> > > Perils, that from henceforth none be so hardy to devise, speak,
> > >
> > > or to tell, any false News, Lyes, or other such false things, of
> > >
> > > Prelates, Lords, and of other aforesaid, whereof Discord or any
> > >
> > > Slander might arise within the same Realm, and he that doth
> > >
> > > the same shall incur and have the pain another time ordained
> > >
> > > thereof by the Statute of Westminster the first, which will, that
> > >
> > > he be taken and imprisoned till he have found him of whom the
> > >
> > > word was moved.
> > >
> > > 2 R. 2. st. 1. c. 5. [i.e. 1379]
> > >
> >
>
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