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 pas moins à y decider le roi [François I], choqué du latin barbare qu'employaient les tribunaux. Un arrêt rendu en ces termes: Dicta curia debotavit et debotat dictum Colinum de sua demanda, fut, dit on, ce qui entraîna la suppression du latin judiciaire.' Henri Martin, Histoire de France, vol. ., pp. 272—3; see also Christie, Étienne Dolet, ed. 2, p. 424.

Ellis, Original Letters, Ser. II., vol. ., p. 61, of Dr Layton to Cromwell: 'We have sett Dunce in Bocardo and have utterly banished him Oxforde for ever, with all his blynd glosses, and is now made a common servant to evere man, fast nailede up upon posts in all common howses of easement.'

Stat. 31 Hen. VIII., cap. 8. Already in 1535 Cromwell reports with joy an opinion obtained from the judges to the effect that in a certain event the king might issue a proclamation which would be 'as effective as any statute' (Letters and Papers, Henry VIII., vol. ., p. 411).

The story (with which we are familiar in England) of the evolution of various councils and courts from an ancient Curia Regis seems to have a close parallel in French history: so close that imitation on one side or the other may at times be suspected. After the parlement with its various chambers (which answer to our courts of common law) has been established, the royal council interferes with judicial matters in divers ways, and