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Compare 1577 edition: 1 For if one go to sanctuarie with another mans goods, whie should not the king, leauing his bodie at libertie, satisfie the partie of his goods, euen within the sanctuarie? For neither king nor pope can giue anie place such a priuilege, that it shall discharge a man of his debts, being able to paie. [And with that, diuerse of the clergie that were present (whether they said it for his pleasure, or as they thought) agréed plainelie, that by the law of God, and of the church, the goods of a sanctuarie man should be deliuered in paiment of his debts, and stollen goods to the owner, and onlie libertie reserued him to get his liuing with the labor of his hands.]

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 Uerelie (quoth the duke) I thinke you say verie truth. And what if a mans wife will take sanctuarie, bicause she lust to run frõ hir husband, I would ween if she could alledge none other cause, he maie lawful|lie without anie displeasure to saint Peter, take hir out of saint Peters church by the arme. And if no bodie maie be taken out of sanctuarie, that saith hée will bide there; then if a child will take sanctuarie, bi|cause he feareth to go to schoole, his maister must let him alone. And as simple as that sample is, yet is there lesse reason in our case than in that; for therein, though it be a childish feare, yet is there at the least|wise some feare, and herein is there none at all. And verelie, I haue often heard of sanctuarie men, but I neuer heard earst of sanctuarie children.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 4 5 And therefore, as for the conclusion of my mind, who so maie haue deserued to need it, if they thinke it for their suertie, let them keepe it. But he can be no sanctuarie man, that neither hath wisdome to desire it, nor malice to deserue it; whose life or libertie can by no lawfull processe stand in ieopardie. And he that taketh one out of sanctuarie to doo him good. I saie plainlie, that he breaketh no sanctuarie. When the duke had doone, the temporall men whole, and a good EEBO page image 719 part of the spirituall also, thinking no hurt earthlie meant toward the yoong babe, condescended in ef|fect, that if he were not deliuered, he should be fet|ched. Howbeit they thought it all best, in the auoi|ding of all maner of rumor, that the lord cardinall should first assaie to get him with hir good will.

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