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I am A Subiect and boorn to obbey lawse, and, knowing that the tryall…

Quote byThomas Cromwell · 1485–1540

Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Letter to Henry VIII (30 June 1540), quoted in Roger Bigelow Merriman, Life and Letters of Thomas Cromwell, Volume II: Letters from 1536, Notes, Index (1902), p. 273.

English (original)

I am A Subiect and boorn to obbey lawse, and, knowing that the tryall of all lawse only consystethe in honest and probable wytnes.

— Thomas Cromwell

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