SIR EDWARD COKE. 



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king s bench, he prevailed, 

 though it was holpen by the 

 good service of others. But 

 the opinion, which he held, 

 amounted in effect to this, 

 that no word of scandal or 

 defamation, importing that 

 the king was utterly unable 

 or unworthy to govern, were 

 treason, except they disabled 

 his title, etc. 



14. Owen s case. In this we prevailed with 



him to give opinion it was 

 treason : but then it was upon 

 a conceit of his own, that was 

 no less dangerous, than if 

 he bad given his opinion 

 against the king : for he pro 

 claimed the king excommu 

 nicate in respect of the anni 

 versary bulls of tf Ccena Do 

 mini,&quot; which was to expose 

 his person to the fury of any 

 jesuited conspirator. 



15. The value of By this the intent of the 

 benefices not to be statute of 21 Henry VIII. is 

 according to the frustrated ; for there is no 

 tax in the king s benefice of so small an mi- 

 book of taxes. proved value as 8/. by that 

 kind of rating. For this the 

 judges may be assembled in 



