cosenage

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Sir Thomas Richardson, Lord Chief Justice of the King's Bench, to the Council, thinks there is not sufficient evidence to convict Bois Gaudre of cosenage or sorcery, but thinks he has committed a contempt worth punishment, in taking upon him to cure the King's Evil.

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  • Sir Thomas Richardson, Lord Chief Justice of the King's Bench, to the Council, thinks there is not sufficient evidence to convict Bois Gaudre of cosenage or sorcery, but thinks he has committed a contempt worth punishment, in taking upon him to cure the King's Evil. —  Primitive Psycho-Therapy and Quackery
  • _Endorsed: _ The Lord Chief Justice of the King's Bench is to call him for examination, to be indicted for cosenage. —  Primitive Psycho-Therapy and Quackery
  • For cosenage, theft, or living on his wit: —  A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 6
  • King's Bench, to the Council, thinks there is not sufficient evidence to convict Bois Gaudre of cosenage or sorcery, but thinks he has committed a contempt worth punishment, in taking upon him to cure the King's Evil. —  Primitive Psycho-Therapy and Quackery
  • If some heretical persons and schismatical sectaries have at any time formerly been so arrayed and clothed (though many have imputed such a kind of dress to cosenage, cheat, imposture, and an affectation of tyranny upon credulous minds of the rude multitude), I will nevertheless not blame them for it, nor in that point judge rashly or sinistrously of them. —  Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 3
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