The Commons gained the stature of the Lords and statutes were
regularly enacted by the "assent of the lords spiritual and
temporal and the commons", instead of at the request of the
Commons.
- The Law -
Royal proclamations clarifying, refining or amplifying the law had
the force of parliamentary statutes. In 1486, he proclaimed that
"Forasmuch as many of the King our sovereign lord's subjects
[have] been disposed daily to hear feigned, contrived, and forged
tidings and tales, and the same tidings and tales, neither
dreading God nor his Highness, utter and tell again as though they
were true, to the great hurt of divers of his subjects and to his
grievous displeasure: Therefore, in eschewing of such untrue and
forged tidings and tales, the King our said sovereign lord
straitly chargeth and commandeth that no manner person, whatsoever
he be, utter nor tell any such tidings or tales but he bring forth
the same person the which was author and teller of the said
tidings or tales, upon pain to be set on the pillory, there to
stand as long as it shall be thought convenient to the mayor,
bailiff, or other official of any city, borough, or town where it
shall happen any such person to be taken and accused for any such
telling or reporting of any such tidings or tales. Furthermore the
same our sovereign lord straitly chargeth and commandeth that all
mayors, bailiffs, and other officers diligently search and inquire
of all such persons tellers of such tidings and tales not bringing
forth the author of the same, and them set on the pillory as it is
above said.
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