Fair sequence and careless
patients
•“Blank charters”
•“Inky blots and rotten parchment bonds”
•“Thy state of law is bondslave to the law”
•“Take Herford’s rights away and take from time / His charters and
his customary rights. / Let not tomorrow then ensue today. / Be not thyself. For how
art thou a king / But by fair sequence and succession?” (II. 1.
195-9)