allows the caſe; I ſay, theſe vaſſals, if they had been ſo minded, inſtead of being contented with a charter at Running-Mead, might ſoon have been quite off of K. John, by reſigning their homage to him. This K. Edward the ſecond’s vaſſals did in manner and form by the mouth of William Trussel, a judge, in theſe words[1]: “I William Trussel, in the name of all men of the land of England, and of the whole parliament procurator, reſign to thee, Edward, the homage formerly made to thee, and henceforward I defy thee, and prive thee of all royal power and dignity, and ſhall never hereafter be tendant on thee as King.” This was the ſtanding law long before the time of K. John’s barons; for the parliament in the 10th of Richard II. ſent the King a ſolemn meſſage, that[2] by an antient ſtatute, they had power to depoſe
- ↑ Ego Willielmus Truſſel, vice omnium de terra Angliæ, & totius parliamenti procurator, tibi Edwarde reddo homagium prius tibi factum; & extunc diſſido te; & privo omni poteſtate regia & dignitate, nequaquam tibi de cætero tanquam regi pariturus. Knyghton, col. 2549.
- ↑ Knyghton, col. 2683. Habent enim ex antiquo ſtatute, & de facto non longe retroactis temporibus experienter quod dolendum eſt habito, ſi rex ex maligno conſilio, quocunque vel
