Our credite and autority such, and so esteemde,
That what wee[102] concluded[103] was taken for a grounde,
Allowed was for lawe what so to vs best seemed,
Life, death, landes, goods,[104] and all by vs was deemed:
Whereby with easy paine great gayne wee did in fet,[105]
And euery thing was fishe, that came vnto our net.
9.
At sessions and at sises,[106] wee bare the stroake and sway,
In patentes and commission, of quorum alwaye chiefe:[107]
So that to whether syde soeuer wee did way,