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Robert de Sadington, the Chief Baron, received 40 marks annually; twice a year the Knights Hospitallers presented caps to one hundred and forty officers of the Exchequer; and they expended 200 marks per annum on gifts that were distributed in law courts, "pro favore habendo, et pro placitis habendis, et expensis parliamentorum."
Anaxagoras was put in prison for affirming that the sun was by many degrees larger than the whole Peloponnesus . Kepler is of opinion that all the stars are at an equal distance from us, and are fixed in the same surface or sphere. Plutarch, De Placitis Philosophorum. Diogenes Laertius.
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