Sir William Gascoigne refuses to sentence a prelate or peer mb-code 2594265 The border shows heraldic signs

The border shows heraldic signs

King Edward VI (top)

Plate 18 figure 3 from the paper 'Account of an assemblage of fossil teeth and bones of elephant

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Sir William Gascoigne refuses to sentence a prelate or peer mb-code 2594265 The border shows heraldic signsSir William Gascoigne defies King Henry IV, 1405 (1864). Gascoigne (1366 1423), Chief Justice of England, refusing to pass a sentence of death upon Lord Scrope (1350 1405), Archbishop of York, and Thomas Mowbray, the Earl Marshal, who had been implicated in the failed uprising against the King in the north. Gascoigne insisted that they had the right to be tried by thier peers. Both men were subsequently executed.