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by whose opinion the matter must be decyzed, and not otherwyse But doinge the contrarie it shall seme a thinge moste vndecente and far from all discipline of armes, as a custome belonging to butchers and men of base condicion, who ought wth open iustice to be punished. And for that a thinge discommendable ought not be vsed emonge gentlemen nor others of honnorable profession, therfore it is saide that ye defender is not bounde to goe vnto solitarie places, for the reason before written of diuers Romaines who performed their combat in places common to the whole armie, and sought not for places aparte where was no Iudgemente of gentlemen & soldiers to be had. And therfore it was concluded that combat ought not to be in places wch are vnworthie for gentlemen to fight in.

Finis Secundi Libri.