. Old England : a pictorial museum of regal, ecclesiastical, baronial, municipal, and popular antiquities . Field of the Cloth of Gold. (From the large Print published by the Royal Society of Antiquaries, engraved after the Original Picture preserved mHampton Court). 1419.—Henry VIH. at the Field of the Cloth of Gold. 3420—Ellham Palace. No. 50.—Vol. II. 10 OLD ENGLAND. [Book V. calculated still more to popularize the new King and government;this was the arrest and prosecution of the two favourite financeministers of Henry, Empson and Dudley. Both were lawyers; andto serve Henrys pur
. Old England : a pictorial museum of regal, ecclesiastical, baronial, municipal, and popular antiquities . Field of the Cloth of Gold. (From the large Print published by the Royal Society of Antiquaries, engraved after the Original Picture preserved mHampton Court). 1419.—Henry VIH. at the Field of the Cloth of Gold. 3420—Ellham Palace. No. 50.—Vol. II. 10 OLD ENGLAND. [Book V. calculated still more to popularize the new King and government;this was the arrest and prosecution of the two favourite financeministers of Henry, Empson and Dudley. Both were lawyers; andto serve Henrys purpose and their own, had turned law andjustice into wormwood and rapine. Never, at any other period,had the people of this country endured such infamous exactionsanler the authority of a royal government. Packs of spies andoilier myrmidons were kept in every part of the kingdom to assistthese ministers to make fines and forfeitures for offences, many ofwhich were of their own invention. A rabble was kept forjuries, until juries were found to be better dispensed with altogether,as well as arrests by indictment: in the place of both, the officersseized by precept, and their masters, for the purpose of extortingmoney, tried by commission in their own houses. Though t
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