Note 161 — The falle of Robert Tresilian chiefe justice of England, and other his fellowes, for misconstruing the lawes, and expounding them to serue the prince’s affections. Anno 1388.[72]

If som in latter dayes, had called vnto mynde, The fatall fall of vs for wrestynge of the right, The statutes of this land they should not haue defynde So wylfully and wittingly agaynst the sentence quyte: But though thei skaped paine, the faut was nothing light, Let them that cum hereafter both that and this compare, And waying well the ende, they will I trust beware. 1559, 63.