Impressive accretion of moving words here, Robin.
Bill
On Wed, 17 May 2017 at 6:20 am, Robin Hamilton <
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> Item, of Devisors of false News and of horrible and false Lyes
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> of Prelates, Dukes, Earls, Barons, and other Nobles, and great
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> Men of the Realm, and also of the Chancellor, Treasurer,
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> Clerk of the Privy Seal, Steward of the King’s House, Justices
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> of the one Bench or of the other, and of other great Officers of
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> the Realm, of things which by the said Prelates, Lords, Nobles,
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> and Officers aforesaid were never spoken, done, nor thought, in
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> great Slander of the said Prelates, Lords, Nobles and Officers,
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> whereby Debates and Discords might arise between the said
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> Lords, or between the Lords and the Commons (which God
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> forbid), and whereof great Peril and Mischief might come to
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> all the Realm, and quick Subversion and Destruction of the
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> said Realm if due remedy be not provided ; it is straitly de-
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> fended upon grievous pain for to eschew the said Damages and
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> Perils, that from henceforth none be so hardy to devise, speak,
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> or to tell, any false News, Lyes, or other such false things, of
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> Prelates, Lords, and of other aforesaid, whereof Discord or any
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> Slander might arise within the same Realm, and he that doth
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> the same shall incur and have the pain another time ordained
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> thereof by the Statute of Westminster the first, which will, that
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> he be taken and imprisoned till he have found him of whom the
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> word was moved.
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> 2 R. 2. st. 1. c. 5. [i.e. 1379]
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