It was right well found, Robin.
A lengthy look back, & then at where we are ow (I think there are a few more local PMs you might include…?).
Bill: I wouldnt rally trust David Brooks as far as I could heave him, but…
Doug
> On May 16, 2017, at 6:48 PM, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> 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 <
> [log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>> 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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