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Constitutional History of England, Henry VII to George II. Volume 1 of 3

Note 349 — Chapter IV

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Strype's Whitgift, 521, 537, App. 136. The archbishop could not disguise his dislike to the lawyers. "The temporal lawyer," he says in a letter to Cecil, "whose learning is no learning anywhere but here at home, being born to nothing, doth by his labour and travel in that barbarous knowledge purchase to himself and his heirs for ever a thousand pounds per annum, and oftentimes much more, whereof there are at this day many examples."—P. 215.

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