I. JO CASK 01 Tilt , I OST-NATI OF SCOTLAND. 



the reasons of the law, as palma,&quot; and pugnus.&quot; 

 containing the reasons of the law. opened or in 

 folded, or displayed, (hey make all for ns. And for 

 the very words of reporters in books, you must, 

 acknowledge and say. ilicet ohrnimnr nuniero.&quot; 

 For yon have 22 Ass. pi. % 2r&amp;gt;. 27 Ass. the prior of 

 Shell s case. pi. IB. 14 II. IV. fol. |j). ;? 11. VI. 

 fol. :15. &amp;lt;&amp;gt; II. VIII. in my lord Dyer, fol. 2. In all 

 these books the very words of the reporters have 

 &quot; the allegiance of the king,&quot; and not. the allegiance 

 of England. And the book in the *24 Kchv. III. 

 which is your best book, although while it is tossed 

 ,it the bar, you have sometimes the words &quot; nlle- 

 gianee of England,&quot; yet when it comes to Thorp, 

 chief justice, to give the rule, he saith, &quot; wo will be 

 * certified by the roll, whether Scotland be within 

 &quot; the allegiance of the king.&quot; Nay. that farther 

 form of pleading beateth down your opinion : that it 

 sufliceth not to say that ho is born out of the 

 allegiance of the king, and stay there, hut lie must 

 show in the affirmative, under the allegiance of what 

 king or state he was born. The reason whereof 

 cannot bo, because it may appear whether he be 

 a friend or an enemy, for that in a real action is 

 all one : nor it cannot be because issue shall betaken 

 thereupon; for the issue must arise on the other side 

 upon &quot; indigena&quot; pleaded and traversed. And there 

 fore it can have no other reason, but to apprize 

 I he court more certainly, that the country of the 

 birth is none of those that are subject to the king. 

 \s for the trial, that it should be impossible to be 



