45(&amp;gt; LLTTEHS RELATING TO 



JOHN LORD NEVILLE S CASE. 



50 Edw. 3. His offences were, the not supplying 

 the full number of the soldiers in Bretagne, according 

 to the allowance of the king s pay. And the second 

 was for buying certain debts, due from the king, to 

 his own lucre, and giving the parties small recom- 

 pence, and specially in a case of the lady Raven- 

 sholme. 



And it was prayed by the commons, that he 

 might be put out of office about the king : but there 

 was no judgment given upon that prayer, but only 

 of restitution to the lady, and a general clause of 

 being punished according to his demerits. 



MY LOUD, 



IF your lordship have done with that &quot; Mascardus 

 de Interpretatione Statutorum*,&quot; I shall be glad, 

 that you would give order that I might use it. And 

 for that of 12 Hen. 7. touching the grand council 

 in the manuscript, I have since seen a privy seal of 

 the time of Henry 7. (without a year) directed to 

 borrow for the king ; and in it there is a recital of 

 a grand council, which thought, that such a sum 

 was fit to be levied ; whereof the Lords gave 40,000/. 

 and the rest was to be gotten by privy seal upon 



*Alderani Mascardi communes conclusiones utriusque juris ad 

 generalem statutorum interpretationem accommodata : printed at 

 Ferrara, 1608. 



