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can make good second judges, as he hath done 

 lately* ; but that is no mastery, because men sue to 

 be kept from these places. But now is the trial in 

 those great places, how his majesty can hold good, 

 where there is great suit and means. 



TO THE KING. 



IT MAY PLEASE YOUR MAJESTY, 



THIS morning, according to your majesty s com 

 mand, we have had my lord chief justice of the king s 

 bench f before us, we being assisted by all our 

 learned council, except serjeant Crew, who was then 

 gone to attend your majesty. It was delivered unto 

 him, that your majesty s pleasure was, that we 

 should receive an account from him of the perform 

 ance of a commandment of your majesty laid upon 

 him, which was, that he should enter into a view 

 and retraction of such novelties, and errors, and 

 offensive conceits, as were dispersed in his &quot;Reports ;&quot; 

 that he had had good time to do it ; and we doubted 

 not but he had used good endeavour in it, which 

 we desired now in particular to receive from him. 



His speech was, that there were of his &quot; Reports,&quot; 

 eleven books, that contained about five hundred 



* Sir John Dodderidge was madejudge of the King s Bench, 

 November 25, 1612, and Sir Augustin Nichols of the Common 

 Pleas the day following. 

 f Sir Edward Coke. 



