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hold plea of any thing done upon the land, that it is 

 void and &quot; coram non judice ;&quot; and that an action of 

 transgressions in that case doth lie, as by the said 

 case it appeareth. And therefore that in that case 

 he can neither fine nor imprison. And therewith 

 agree divers acts of parliament ; and so it may be 

 explained, as it was truly intended. 



All which I most humbly submit to your ma 

 jesty s princely judgment. 



EDW. COKE. 



JOHN SELDEN, ESQ. TO THE LORD VISCOUNT ST. ALBAN. 



MY MOST HONOURED LORD, 



AT your last going toGorhambury,you were pleased 

 to have speech with me about some passages of par 

 liament ; touching which, I conceived, by your lord 

 ship, that I should have had farther direction by a 

 gentleman, to whom you committed some care and 

 consideration of your lordship s intentions therein. I 

 can only give this account of it, that never was any 

 man more willing or ready to do your lordship ser 

 vice, than myself; and in that you then spake of, I 

 had been most forward to have done whatsoever I 

 had been, by farther direction, used in. But I un 

 derstood, that your lordship s pleasure that way was 

 changed. Since, my lord, I was advised with, touch 

 ing the judgments given in the late parliament. For 

 them, if it please your lordship to hear my weak 

 judgment expressed freely to you, I conceive thus. 



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