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days; they are to have a good salary, and be hanged and quartered if they take money from any person.
226. The Emperor Maximilian.
The Emperor Maximilian said, as Johannes Aventinus witnesseth, (De Bello Turcico,) that the Emperor of Germany was Rex Regum, meaning that his Princes were so great men. The King of Spain was Rex Hominum, because his People would obey their Prince in any reasonable moderation. The King of England was Rex Diabolorum, because the subjects had there divers times deprived their Kings of their crowns and dignity. But the King of France was Rex Asinorum, in as much as his people did bear very heavy burdens of taxes and impositions[1]."
- ↑ Archbishop Abbot's brief Description of the Whole World.
