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"during the time of his anfwer." On this many angry words took place between the Bishop and the Earl Marshall. The Duke of Lancaster then interfered, and told the Bishop, "that the "Earl Marshall's motion was a very reasonable 66 one, and that as for him, (the Bishop,) he was "now become fo proud and fo arrogant, that "he (the Duke) would bring down not only "the pride of him but of every prelate in Eng"land;" adding, "that rather than take what "the Bishop faid at his hands, he would pull "him out of the church by the hair of his head." These speeches occafioned the affembly to become very tumultuous, fo the Court broke up without doing any thing.

Wickliffe died of the palfy, at his parfonage of Lutterworth, in 1382, and his bones were taken up and burnt by a decree of the Council thirteen years afterwards.

The learned and candid Melancthon speaks thus of Wickliffe:

"He foolishly confounds the Gofpel and politics, and does not fee that the Gospel permits "us to make use of all the lawful forms of Go"vernment of all nations. He contends, that it " is not lawful for Priefts to have

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"infists that tithes ought only to be paid to those "who teach, as if the Gospel forbad the ufe of "political ordinances. He wrangles fophiftically "and completely feditiously about civil domi"nion."

HENRY THE FOURTH.
[1399-1413.]

"DURING his laft fickneffe," fays Hollinfhed, "Henry caused his crowne (as fome write) to "be fet on a pillow at his bed's head, and fud"denlie his pangs fo fore troubled him, that he "laie as though all his vital fpirits had beene "from him departed. Such as were about him, "thinking

* Olborne in his celebrated " Advice to his Son," fays, "Grudge not tithes to the teachers of the Gospel, affigned "for their wages by the Divine Legislator: of whose in"stitutes this was none of the least profound, that the Tribe "of Levi were prohibited all other revenue than what was ❝ deducible out of the tenth part of the other eleventh's in"creafe; fetting bounds thereby to all the improvement " their wisdom, and the tie the priesthood had over the "people's confciences, might in the future poffibly make, "in caufing their maintenance to rise and fall proportionably "to the general standard of the nation's felicity; which this "limitation obliged them to promote, and for their own "fakes to oppofe all incroachments likely to interrupt their "brethren's utility."

"thinking verelie that he had been departed, "covered his face with a linen-cloth.

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"The Prince his fonne, (afterwards King

Henry the Fifth,) being hereof advertised, "tooke awaie the crowne and departed. The "Father, being fuddenlie revived out of that "trance, quicklie perceived the lacke of his 66 crowne; and having knowledge that the Prince "his fonne had taken it awaie, caufed him to "come before his prefence, requiring of him, "what he meant, fo to mifufe himself. "Prince with a good audacitie answered, "to mine and to all men's judgements, you "feemed dead in this world; wherefore I, as

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(faid the King, with a great figh,) what right "I had to it, God knoweth.'-" Well, (faid the Prince,) if you die King, I will have the gar"land, and truft to keep it with the sworde • against all mine enemies, as you have done.'"Then (faid the King) I commit all to God, " and remember you to do well.' With that " he turned himself in his bed, and shortlie after departed to God."

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SIR WILLIAM GASCOIGNE,

LORD CHIEF JUSTICE OF THE KING'S BENCH.

THE following account of this courageous and inflexible Magiftrate is taken from " Magna Bri"tannia Notitia," article "Gunthorp:"

"Famous only for the antient, virtuous, and "warlike family of Gafcoign, two of which

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(both Knights and named William) were High "Sheriffs of the county of York in the reigns of "Henry VI. and VII. But, before either of

thefe, there was a Knight of this family, named "alfo Sir William Gafcoign, far more famous "than they. He was bred up in our Municipal "laws in the Inner Temple, London, and grew "fo eminent for his fkill and knowledge in "them, that he was made Chief Justice of the "King's Bench by Henry the Fourth, in the "eleventh year of his reign, and kept that high "fituation till the fourteenth year of that King's

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reign, demeaning himself all the time with "admirable integrity and courage, as this example will fhew:

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"It chanced that the fervant of Prince Henry "(afterwards Henry V.) was arraigned before "the Judge for felony; and the Prince, being "zealous to deliver him out of the hand of juf"tice, went to the Bench in fuch a fury, that

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"the spectators thought he would have ftricken "the Judge; and he attempted to take his fer"vant from the bar: but Sir William Gascoign, "well knowing whose perfon he represented, fat "unconcerned; and, knowing the Prince's attempt to be illegal, committed him to the 86 King's Bench Prison, there to remain till the King his father's pleasure was known. This "action was foon represented to the King, with "no good will to the Judge, but it proved to "his advantage; for when the King heard what "his Judge had done, he replied, that he "thanked God for his infinite goodness, who "had at once given him a Judge that dared im"partially to administer justice, and a fon who "would fubmit to it." The Prince himself, "when he came to be King, (reflecting upon this "tranfaction,) thus expreffed himself in relation "to Sir William Gafcoign: I shall ever hold "him worthy of his place and of my favour ; "and I wish that all my Judges may poffefs the "like undaunted courage to punish offenders, of "what rank foever."

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