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First, in the book-case, in the 13th year of king 

 Henry the fourth, in whose reign the statute was 

 made, it is expressly said, one liege-man was killed in 

 Scotland by another liege-man ; and the wife of him 

 that was killed, did sue an appeal of murder in the 

 constable s court of England. &quot; Vide Statutum,&quot; 

 saith the book, &quot; de primo Henrici IV. Cap. 14. Et 

 contemporanea exposito est fortissima in Lege.&quot; 

 Stanford,* an author without exception, saith thus, 

 fol. 65, a. : &quot; By the statute of Henry IV. Cap. 14. 

 if any subject kill another subject in a foreign king 

 dom, the wife of him, that is slain, may have an 

 appeal in England before the constable and marshal ; 

 which is a case &quot; in terminis terminantibus.&quot; And 

 when the wife, if the party slain have any, shall have 

 an appeal, there, if he hath no wife, his next heir 

 shall have it.&quot; 



If any fact be committed out of the kingdom, upon 

 the high sea, the lord admiral shall determine it. If 

 in a foreign kingdom, the cognizance belongeth to 

 the constable, where the jurisdiction pertains to him. 



And these authorities being seen by Bromley, 

 chancellor, and the two chief justices, they clearly 

 resolved the case, as before I have certified your 

 majesty. 



* Sir William, the most ancient writer on the pleas of the 

 crown. He was born in Middlesex, August 22, 1509, educated 

 in the university of Oxford, studied the law at Gray s Inn, in 

 which he was elected autumn reader in 1545, made serjeant in 

 1552, the year following queen s serjeant, and, in 1554, one of 

 the justices of the Common Pleas. He died August 28, 1558. 



