Qui inter cetera bona, quae genti suae consulendo conferebat, etiam decreta illi iudiciorum, iuxta exempla Romanorum, cum consilio sapientium constituit; quae conscripta Anglorum sermone hactenus habentur, et observantur ab ea: in quibus primitus posuit, qualiter id emendare deberet, qui aliquid rerum vel ecclesiae, vel episcopi, vel reliquorum ordinum furto auferret: volens scilicet tuitionem eis, quos et quorum doctrinam susceperat, praestare.
Which king, beside all other benefits that he of wise policy bestowed upon his subjects, appointed them, with his council of wise men, judicial dooms according to the example of the Romans; which being written in the English tongue are until this day kept of them and practised: in which dooms he for the first time ordained what amends he ought to make, which had by theft taken away anything from the churches, bishops or the other orders: wishing doubtless to provide a safeguard for them whom and whose doctrine he had received.
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