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cause had been so lately handled and argued, and 

 would not receive judgment by the Easter term next, 

 as the judges themselves afterwards confessed. 



And afterwards, because there was another just 

 cause of absence for the two chief justices, for that 

 they ought to have assisted the lord chancellor the 

 same day in a great cause of the king s followed by 

 the lord Hunsdon against the lord William Howard 

 in chancery; which cause of the king s, especially 

 being so worthy, ought to have had precedency before 

 any cause betwixt party and party. Also whereas it 

 was contained in the judges letter that the cause of 

 Commendams was but a cause of private interest be 

 tween party and party, his majesty shewed plainly 

 the contrary; not only by the argument of serjeant 

 Chiborne, which was before his commandment, but 

 by the argument of the judges themselves, namely 

 justice Nicholls, which was after; but especially 

 since one of the parties is a bishop who pleaded for 

 the Commendams by the virtue of his majesty s 

 prerogative. 



Also whereas it was contained in the judges let 

 ter, that the parties called upon them earnestly for 

 justice, his majesty conceived it to be but pretence; 

 urging them to prove that there was any solicitation 

 by the parties for expedition, otherwise than in an 

 ordinary course of attendance; which they could 

 not prove. 



As for the form of the letter, his majesty noted, 

 that it was a new thing, and very indecent and unfit 

 for subjects to disobey the king s commandment, 



