Absolucio[n] is wherby the defendour she- weth that it is laufull for hym to do that what the aduersary bringeth in for a signe of his malice.
And yet I do not speake this / as though I dyd condemne the counsell of many good prĩces / which haue cast the Iues owt of their countrye / for good iuste and laufull causes.
For to women can that honor neuer be due nor laufull (muche lesse inheritance) whiche God hath so manifestlie denied vnto them.
She is not borne to rule ouer men: and therfore she can apointe none by her gift, nor by her power (which she hathn ot) to the place of a laufull magistrat.
Sidenote 68: Common welthes under the rule of women, lacke a laufull heade] [Sidenote 69: Idol.
For to the most parte of 'men, laufull and godlie appeareth, what soeuer antiquitie hath receiued.
If after, the natiue prince did recouer his iust honor and possession, shuld he repute or esteme any man of the traitors apointement for a laufull magistrate?
But iust or laufull shall that possession neuer be, till God do chaunge the statute of his former lawe: whiche he will not do for the pleasure of man.
Debora did rule in Israel, and Hulda spoke prophecie in Iuda: Ergo it is laufull for women to reigne aboue realmes and nations, or to teache in the presence of men[110].
For ether doth it lack a laufull heade (as in very dede it doth) or els there is an idol[69] exalted in the place of the true head.
But impossible it is to man and angel, to geue vnto her the properties and perfect offices of a laufull heade.
I answer, it is not onlie laufull that women possesse their inheritance, but I affirme also that iustice and equitie require, that so they do.
In which, I suppose, at that time there, was no laufull magistrate, by the reason of their greate affliction.
Kyngs letters patentes suffycyent and laufull of the ward of the seyd londes.
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