Sir William Gascoigne refuses to sentence a prelate or peer mb-code 2594265 View of the Crooked Billet

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

MYCETES URSINUS

18th May 1968

Sir William Gascoigne refuses to sentence a prelate or peer mb-code 2594265 View of the Crooked BilletSir 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.