valuation past  fault ex at last facto never to come into being the law  construe neither penal law nor penal fact by intendment but consider the  offence in degree as it stand at the time when it be commit so as if any  circumstance or matter be subsequent which lie together with the beginning  shall seem to draw to it a high nature yet the law do not extend or amplify  the offence therefore if a man be wound and the percussor be voluntary let go  at large by the jailor and after death ensue of the hurt yet this be no  felonious escape in the jailor so if the villain strike the heir apparent of  the lord and the lord die before and the person hurt who succeed to be lord to  the villeine die after yet this be no petty treason so if a man compass and  imagine the death of one that after come to be king of the land not be any  person mention within the statute of Edward this imagination precedent be not  high treason so if a man use slanderous word of a person upon who some dignity  after descend that make he a peer of the realm yet he shall have but a simple  action of the case and not in the nature of a temptation to sin great man upon  the statute so if John style steal d from I in money and the king by his  proclamation do raise money that the weight of silver in the piece now of d  shall go for d yet this shall remain petty larceny and no felony and yet in  all civil reckon the alteration shall take place as if I contract with a  labourer to do some work for d and the enhance of money come before I pay he I  shall satisfy my contract with a sixpenny piece so raise so if a man deliver  good to one to keep and after retain the same person into his service h h  maxim h who afterward go away with his good this be no felony by the statute  of h because he be no servant at that time in like manner if I deliver good to  the servant of I S to keep and after die and make I S my executor and before  any new commandment of I S to his servant for the custody of the same good his  servant go away with they this be also out of the same statute quoth notam but  note that it be say priteriti fault for any accessary before the fact be  subject to all the contingency pregnant of the fact if they be pursuances of  the same fact as if a man command or counsel one to rob a man or Beatrice he  grievous and murder ensue in either case he be accessary to the murder because  in crimnalibus pristantur accidental happening