Note 18 — Chapter VIII · Benefit of Clergy.
Reading edition
9 Edward IV. 28.
Kelying reports a case, where at the Lent Assizes, for Winchester, the clerk appointed by the bishop to give clergy for the prisoners, charged with larceny, delivered the book to the prisoner and the prisoner did not look at the book at all, but when asked, “legit or non-legit,” the clerk replied “legit.” The court then bid the clerk of assizes not to record that the prisoner read, and fined the bishop’s clerk for so finding. (18 Car. II.)