1.Celeberrimo huic conventui episcopus et aldermannus intersunto; quorum alter jura divina, alter humana populum edoceto. [Let the bishop and alderman be present at this illustrious assembly; of whom let the one instruct the people in divine, the other in human laws.] LL. Eadgar. c. 5.
2. Decret. caus. 11. qu. 1. c. 41.
3. Ibid.
4. Hale. Hist. C. L. 102. Selden. in. Eadm. p. 6. l. 24. 4. Inst. 259. Wilk. LL. Angl. Sax. 292.
5.Nullus episcopus vel archidiaconus de legibus episcopolibus amplius in hundret placita teneant, nec causam quae ad reglmen animarum pertinet ad judicium secularium hominum adducant: sed quicunque secondum episcopales leges de quacunque causa vel culpa interpellatus fuerit, ad locum quem ad hoc episcopus elegerit et nominaverit, veniat; ibique de causa sua respondeat; et non secondum hundret, sed secundam canones et episcopales leges, rectum Deo et episcopo suo faciat. [No bishop or archdeacon shall longer hold pleas in the hundred court that are to be decided by episcopal laws, nor bring any cause which relates to spiritual matters for the judgment of secular persons; but whoever shall be sued according to the episcopal laws, for any cause or offence, shall come to the place chosen and appointed by the bishop for that purpose, and there make his own defense; to the end that right may be done to God and his bishop, according to the canon and episcopal laws, and not those of the hundred.]
6.Volo et praecipio, ut omnes de comitatu eant ad comitatus et hundreda, sicut fecerint tempore regis Edwardi. [I will and command that all persons belonging to the county attend the county and hundred courts as they did in the time of King Edward.] (Cort. Hen. l. in Spelm. cod. vet. Legum: 305.) And what is here obscurely hinted at, is fully explained by his code of laws extant in the red book of the exchequer, though in general but of doubtful authority. cap. 8. Generalia comitatuum placita certis locis et vicibus teneantur. Intersint autem episcopi, comites, &c; et agantur primo debita verae Christianitatis jura, secondo regis placita, postremo causae singulorum dignis satisfactionibus expleantur. [Let the general pleas of the counties be held in certain places and districts; and the bishops and counts, etc. be present; and first, let all affairs concerning religion be transacted; next, the pleas of the crown; and lastly, let the causes of individuals be heard and justly determined.]
7. 2 Inst. 70.
8.Ne episcopi saecularium placitorum officium suscipiant. [Let no bishop take charge of secular pleas.] Spelm. Cod. 301.
9. Ibid. 310.
10. See vol. I. introd. § 1.
11. For farther particulars see Burn's ecclesiastical law, Wood's institute of the common law, and Oughton's ordo judiciorum.
12. Book II. ch. 32.
13. Cod. vet. leg. 315.
14. chap. 8.
15. 4 Inst. 341.
16. Ibid.
17. 4 Inst. 324.
18. 1 Lev. 230. Show Parl. Cas. 60.
19. 4 Inst. 125.
20. 7 Mod. 127.
21. Gloss 13.
22. Arciden. 41.
23. See the sentiments of the president Montesquieu, and M. Vattel (a subject of the king of Prussia) on the answer transmitted by the English court to his Prussian majesty's Exposition des motifs etc. A. D. 1753. (Montesquieu's letters. 5 Mar. 1753. Vattel's droit de gent. L. 2. c. 7. § 84.)
