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unto me by Mr. Solicitor, I called the lord chief 

 justice before me on Thursday the 17th of this in 

 stant, in the presence of Mr. Attorney and others of 

 your learned counsel. I did let him know your 

 majesty s acceptance of the few animadversions, 

 which, upon review of his own labours, he had sent, 

 though fewer than you expected, and his excuses 

 other than you expected, as namely, in the prince s 

 case, the want of the original in French, as though, 

 if the original had been &quot; primogenitus&quot; in Latin, 

 then he had not in that committed any error. I told 

 him farther, that because his books were many, and 

 the cases therein, as he saith, 500, your majesty, out 

 of your gracious favour, was pleased, that his memory 

 should be refreshed ; and that he should be put in 

 mind of some passages dispersed in his books, which 

 your majesty, being made acquainted with, doth as 

 yet distaste, until you hear his explanation and judg 

 ment concerning the same. And that out of many 

 some few should be selected, and that at this time he 

 should not be pressed with more, and these few not 

 to be the special and principal points of the cases, 

 which were judged, but things delivered by discourse, 

 and, as it were, by expatiation, which might have 

 been spared and forborn, without prejudice to the 

 judgment in the principal cases. 



Of this sort Mr. Attorney and Mr. Solicitor made 

 choice of five specially, which were read distinctly to 

 the lord chief justice. He heard them with good 

 attention, and took notes thereof in writing, and, lest 

 there might be any mistaking either in the declaring 



