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and may, if it stand with your majesty s pleasure, be 

 so explained* 



Wherein in all hunablenress I submit myself to 

 your Majesty s princely censure and judgment. 



EDW. COKE. 



THE HUMBLE AND DIRECT ANSWER TO THE QUESTION 

 RISING UPON GODFREY S CASE. 



SOME courts cannot imprison, fine, nor amerce, as 

 ecclesiastical courts holden before the ordinary, arch 

 deacon, or their commissaries and such like, which 

 proceed according to the common or civil law. 



And being commanded to explain what I meant 

 by this passage, I answer, that I intended only those 

 ecclesiastical courts there named and such like, that 

 is, such like ecclesiastical courts, as peculiars, etc. 



And within these words, (And such like) I never 

 did nor could intend thereby the high commission ; 

 for that is grounded upon an act of parliament, and 

 the king s letters patents under the great seal. 

 Therefore these words &quot; commissaries&quot; and &quot; such 

 like&quot; cannot be extended to the high commission, 

 but, as I have said, to inferior ecclesiastical courts. 



Neither did I thereby intend the court of the 

 admiralty ; for that is not a like court to the courts 

 before named ; for those be ecclesiastical courts, and 

 this is temporal. But I referred the reader to the 

 case in Brooks s abridgment, pla. 77, where it is 

 that, if the admiral, who proceeded by the civil law, 



