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another kind of redemption from him, which he little 

 expected. For as to the &quot; Reports,&quot; after three 

 months time and consideration, he had offered his 

 majesty only five animadversions, being rather a 

 scorn, than a satisfaction to his majesty; whereof 

 one was that in the prince s case he had found out 

 the French statute, which was &quot; filz aisne,&quot; whereas 

 the Latin was &quot; primogenitus ;&quot; and so the prince is 

 duke of Cornwall in French, and not duke of Corn 

 wall in Latin. And another was, that he had set 

 Montagu to be chief justice in Henry VIII s time, 

 when it should have been in Edward Vl s, and such 

 other stuff; not falling upon any of those things, 

 which he could not but know were offensive. 



That hereupon his majesty thought good to re 

 fresh his memory, and out of many cases, which his 

 majesty caused to be collated, to require his answer 

 to five, being all such, as were but expatiations of his 

 own, and no judgments; whereunto he returned such 

 an answer, as did either justify himself, or elude the 

 matter, so as his majesty seeth plainly &quot; antiquum 

 obtinet.&quot; 



TO THE KING. 



MAY IT PLEASE YOUR EXCELLENT MAJESTY, 



I send your majesty a form of discharge for my lord 

 Coke from his place of chief justice of your bench*. 



* Sir Edward Coke was removed from that post on the 15th 

 November, 1616. 



