1567 "A learned commendation of the politique lawes of Englande / newly translated into Englishe by Robert Mulcaster."

Submitted by Robert (United States), Aug 29, 2018 at 23:07

Dear Daniel Pipes,

First, I'm very sorry for my numerous typographical errors.
Now that I know that you pay attention to your posts on your cite,
I'll make an extra effort at least to check for typos at least once.

I want to bring your attention to the fact that the TITLE PAGE you posted
of Sir John Fortescue book is dated DC.XVI. = 1616, not 1470.
The earliest version I could find in the USA
is dated 1567,and is an alleged new translation from the Latin.
It is available at HATHI TRUST here:

1567
"A learned commendation of the politique lawes of Englande /
newly translated into Englishe by Robert Mulcaster."

https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/100217104

It wasn't until the Reign of Queen Elizabeth I 1603 beginning)
that books became more readable,
as you can see by examining this PDF of the 1567 imprint.

Now I want to demonstrate how Revolutionary Fortescue was
by quoting 2 paragraph from Britannica online.
Incidentally, this was a "Revolutionary" time of "Civil War"
known as the War of the Rose.

Here are the 2 paragraphs
which I think show that Fortescue was neither a Conservative nor a Liberal,
but a Radical Revolutionary (in the modern sense of the latter term:

"Sir John Fortescue, (born c. 1385, Norris, Somerset, Eng.—died c. 1479, Ebrington, Gloucestershire), jurist, notable for a legal treatise, De laudibus legum Angliae (c. 1470; "In Praise of the Laws of England"), written for the instruction of Edward, prince of Wales, son of the deposed king Henry VI of England. He also stated a moral principle that remains basic to the Anglo-American jury system: It is better that the guilty escape than that the innocent be punished."
...
"Unusual for its time, De laudibus depreciates the Roman-derived civil law and eulogizes the English constitution, statutes, and system of legal education, while offering suggestions for reform. It was probably the first book about law written in a style so simple and lucid as to be comprehensible to the layman."

https://www.britannica.com/biography/John-Fortescue#ref220557

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