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It is the office of Judges to advance laws made for religion, according to their end, though the words be short and imperfect.

— Sir Henry Hobart, 1st Baronet Colt v. Glover (1614)

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The laws of the realm do admit nothing against the law of God.

Colt v. Glover (1614)

Fiction is never admitted where truth may work.

Wright v. Gerrard (1617)

A woman cannot be a pastor by the law of God. I say more, it is against the law of the realm.

Colt and another v. Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield (1612)

Men will not commonly steal women that are nothing worth.

Bruton v. Morris (1614)

That whom he could not by the sword destroy, he might supplant by the law.

Sheffield v. Ratcliffe (1615)

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