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If the defender cannot finde a Prince that
will graunte place of combatt, whether
he be bounde to goe to anie infidell Prince

Ca. 9.

When as a gentleman or other soldier is chal:
lenged to personall combatt, and required as he
ought to finde place & iudge sufficiente according to order
in armes seekinge thorough all christendome, and cannot
of any prince obteine place for combatt, yf he also willed
by his challenger to seeke the same emonge the infidell
and barbarous nations, yet is he not vppon this occasion
bounde to departe. The reason is this, That no christ:
ian oughte to submitt him selfe to the iudgemt of infidells.
And thoughe diuers christians have gone to fighte in
barbarous & infidell contries, yet by the lawe written the
same is not graunted, because all christen subiects are
forbidden wthout lycence of the Princes to passe into
anye Infidells contrye, for that the Infidell kings are enne:
mies to the christian nations, infamous, and cannot reprove
or iudge of our faithe or criminall differents happeninge
emonge christians, no christian therfore can geve aucthory:
tie to an Infidell to pronounce iudgements, and who so for
like cause goeth to infidell contries or barbarous, beinge
taken for a christian, shall euer remaine as a bonde
man, to him that dooth firste apprehende him, whoe
maye also as a moste wicked man see him. Also our faith
forbiddeth that by anie meanes he sholde haue libertie
thoughe the custome be yf manie times libertie is geven
at the will of the Mr. ffor thease reasons they muste
demannde yf the challinger ought to be refuzed, and in
case the challenger wolde in the sighte of an infidell
Prince remitt the defender, yet sholde yt sentence nothing
prevaile, but rather for the same at his retorne, before
the ecclesiasticall or seculer Iudge be grevouslie punished,
And also shall councell and disannull everie acte written,
in the continuacie of the christian knighte, that before
the infidell Iudge to his dyshonnor was made, refuzing