purra doner ensample & terrour a autres d'ensi malefaire en temps avenir; C'est assaver, q si ascune tue ou niurdre ascun q'est venuz ency soutz vre protection al Parlement, q'il soil ajugge Treson, & si ascun maheyme ou disfigure ascun tiel ensi venuz south protection, q'il pde sa mayn. Et si aucun naufre ou bate ascun dc tieux ensj" venuz, q'il eit la prisone d'un an, & fyn & raunson a Roy: Et q vous pleise de vre grace especial desore en avant de vous abstiner des cRresde pardon en tiel cas, saunz ceo q les parties soient pleinenienl accordez.
' Resposio. Pur ceo q le fait feust fait deinz le temps de cest Parlement, soit fait proclamation la ou le dit fait se fist, q Johan, Sallage deinz escript appierge & soi rende en Bank le Roy deinz un quarter d'un an apres la proclamation faite. Et s'il ne le face, soit le dit Johan. atteint de le fait suisdit, & paie au partie endamagee ses damages, au double, a taxer p discretion des Juges du dit Bank pur le temps esteantz, ou p Enquest. s'il embosoigne, & face fyn & raunceon a volunte du Roy. "Et semblablement soit fait en temps a vener en cas semblable."
The conclusion of this answer with respect to "similar Cases in time to come," certainly made this a general law, and so it is considered by all the writers who have mentioned this Case, and is accordingly entered on the Statute Roll, 5th Hen. IV. ch. 6, and continues a subsisting law at this day. No notice is taken in the answer, of the very rigorous punishments prayed for by the Commons against such as make the assault, or maim, &c. it being thought perhaps, as in the former Case, that the present remedy was sufficient, and therefore no new punishment is created by this law for these offences; it only gives a remedy to compel the person complained of to appear, then to be dealt with according to the law as it then stood. The title
