25110. tesmoignal: the original idea of a jury, as a body of persons living in the locality and able to bear witness to the facts of the case, had not disappeared in the fourteenth century.
25127. le pot hoster, ‘might have stopped it.’
25151. serra vendu, ‘will prove to have been bought by you’ (at a high price).
25153. ‘Truth is no libel,’ the author’s justification for speaking freely.
25166. Cp. Vox Clam. vi. 439,
‘Causidici lanam rapiunt, isti quoque pellem
Tollunt, sic inopi nil remanebit oui.’
25177 ff. With this compare the heading of Bk. v. ch. ii. in the Vox Clamantis: ‘Quia varias rerum proprietates vsui humano necessarias nulla de se prouincia sola parturit vniuersas,’ &c.
25216 ff. Cp. Conf. Am. Prol. 489 ff.
25239. In the Vox Clamantis also we have cheating personified (under the name of Fraus), and its operations classified as affecting (1) Usurers, (2) Merchants and shopkeepers, (3) Artificers, (4) Victuallers. See Vox Clam. v. 703-834.