known, and
therefore I needed not so much to have insisted upon them, but that
in this case I would be thought not to innovate anything of my own
head, but to follow the former precedents of the court, though I
mean to do it more thoroughly, because the time requires it more.

Therefore now to come to that which concerneth my part, I say that
by the favor of the king and the court, I will prosecute in this
court in the cases following: If any man shall appoint the field,
though the fight be not acted or performed. If any man shall send
any challenge in writing, or any message of challenge. If any man
carry or deliver any writing or message of challenge. If any man
shall accept to be second in a challenge of either side. If any man
shall depart the realm, with intention and agreement to perform the
fight beyond the seas. If any man shall revive a quarrel by any
scandalous bruits or writings, contrary to former proclamation
published by his Majesty in that behalf.

Nay I hear there be some counsel learned of duels, that tell voting
men when they are beforehand, and when they are otherwise and
thereby incense and incite them to the duel, and make an art of
it. I hope I shall meet with some of them too; and I am sure, my
lords, this course of preventing duels, in nipping them in the bud,
is fuller of clemency and providence than the suffering them to go
on, and hanging men with their wounds bleeding, as they did in
France.

To conclude, I have some petitions to make first to your lordship,
my lord chancellor, that in case I be advertised of a purpose in any
to go beyond the sea to fight, I may have granted his Majesty's writ
of _ne_ _exeat_ _regnum_ to stop him, for this giant bestrideth the
sea, and I would take and snare him by the foot on this side; for
the combination and plotting is on this side, though it should be
acted beyond the sea. And your lordship said notably the last time
I made a motion in this business, that a man may be as well _fur_
_de_ _se_ as _felo_ _de_ _se_, if he steal out of the realm for a
bad purpose. As for the satisfying of the words of the writ, no man
will doubt but he does _machinari_ _contra_ _coronam_, as the words
of the writ be, seeking to murder a subject; for that is ever
_contra_ _coronam_ _et_ _dignitatem_. I have also a suit to your
lordships all in general, that for justice's sake, and for true
honor's sake, honor of religion, law, and the King our master,
against thi