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-s whereby it t'hulde be done /the caufes where iiuldc
be done or nat / tlir hrlpr, or impcdum-ntes that may be therin. In this purp'.ir examples of hiltories are of great effycacy.
The confutat y<>n the loyU n^e and rrfcllynge of other enemies layenges that haue or my^ht lie \> fought a^'.i\nlir our pur pole/ wherefore it loniyiieih in plai <. . places of con fyr-
OO/ai in of the contrary part/ n
be honcfte nor profytable / nor cafy to perfounne / or els vttcrly impoflyble.
The cofclufyon ttandcth in two thin^f' that IN to lave / a 1'ivrie and compendioufe repctyngc of all our rcalbns that we haue brought for vs afore / and in mouyng of aftY< And To d
UlylVes conclude his oracyon in the .xiii. boke of Guide I
umrphofy.
| I ) v a | of the thyrdc kynde of oracyons / called Judicial!
Oracyons iudiciall be that longe to controuerfies in the lawe and plees / whiche kynde of oracion in old tyme longed onely to
!f and men of lawe/ but nowe for the more pane it is ne^ of them / though there be nothynge more neccHarye to quickest the*r in crafty \ wyle hawdeling of theyr maters.
In thele oracions the fyrfte is to fynde out the Itatc of the caule / whiche is a 1'hort prepoficion 3 / conteynyn^e the hole effect of all the controuerlu in the oracion of Tully / made for
Mylo / of the whiche I made mencyon in the bcgynnynge of my boke. The Itate of the caufe is this. Mylo flcwc Clodius lawfully / \vh\( he thynije his aduerfaries denyed / and yf rully can proue it / the plee is wonne. Here mul\ be borne away that there be thre manor of ftates in fuche oracyons.
The fyrlte is called coniecturall. The lecond legitime. The thyrde / iudiciall / and euery of thefe hathe his owne proper places to fet out argumentes of thew, wherfore they fhall be fpoken of ieuerally. And fvrl'te we wyll treate of Itate coniecturall /whiche is vied whan we be certayne that the dede is done /but we be ignorant who [D v b| dyd it / and yet In >niectures
we haue one lufpecte / that of very lykelyhode it f*hulde be he that hathe commytied the cr Vnd therforc this ftate is
called comecturall / bycaule we have no manyfefte profe / but
1 U. faycngcs. a thynges. *
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