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The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part B.

CHAPTER XIV
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115.
***** Ypod.Neust.p.

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****** T.de la More, p.596.Walsing.p.

116.
In those violent times, the laws were so much neglected on both sides, that, even where they might, without any sensible inconvenience, have been observed, the conquerors deemed it unnecessary to pay any regard to them.

Lancaster, who was guilty of open rebellion, and was taken in arms against his sovereign, instead of being tried by the laws of his country, which pronounced the sentence of death against him, was condemned by a court-martial,[*] and led to execution.


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