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all transgressors that offended in their dominion.
In the time of Kassibelanus there arose some
controversy between the superial King Kaswallawne
and Ararwj', king of London, one of his
The
inferior kings, about a murther committed.
case is thus. The superial king keeping his court
within the dominion of one of the inferior kings,
a controversy falling between twain within the
court, and there and then one was slain, the question
is, Whether the murtherer ought to be tryed
by the officers and privilege of the superior king,
or of the inferior king.
ought to be tried
I think that the murtherer
by the law and custom of the
inferior king's court, because it is more seemly
that the superior king's court, which did indure
in that country but a week or twain, or such like
time, should lose his privilege there for that time,
than the inferior king's court should lose it for
ever. Vide in lihro meo de legibus. It may seem
to those that have judgment in histories, that this
was the very cause that Ararwy would not have
his kinsman tried by the judges and laws or privilege
of Kaswallawne, whose court did remain in
the dominion of Aranvy but a little while, but
wou4d have the felon tried by his judges and his
court.
There is no mention made of Talaith any
where amongst the Britons before the destruction
of Britain, but that there were in Britain but one
superial crown and three
Talaith or coronets or
Prince's crowns ; one for the Alban, another for