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The Star-Chamber, Volume 1

CHAPTER IX
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"You will find that his Majesty hath thus written;--'_In cujus rei testimonium has Literas nostras fieri fecimus patentes.

Teste Meipso, apud Westm.

10 die Maij, Anno Regni nostri_,' &c.

Then follows the royal signature.
None of ye, I presume, will question its authenticity ?" A deep silence succeeded, in the midst of which Jocelyn Mounchensey broke forth:-- "I, for one, question it," he cried.

"I will never believe that a king, who, like our gracious sovereign, has the welfare of his subjects at heart, would sanction the oppression and injustice which those warrants, if entrusted to unscrupulous hands, must inevitably accomplish.


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