" second degree, the canonists do reckon in the
" first, and those whom they place in the
" fourth, these place in the second; therefore,
" if we will know in what degree two of kindred
" do stand according to the civil law, we
" must begin our reckoning from one, by
" ascending to the person from whom both are
" branched; and then by descending to the
" other to whom we do count; and it will appear
" in what degree they are.  For example--
" In brother's and sister's sons, take one
" of them, and ascend to his father, there is
" one degree, from the father to the grand father,
" that is the second degree; then descend
" from the grand father to his son, that is the
" third degree, then from his son to his son,
" that is the fourth.  But by the canon law
" there is another computation, for the canonists
do ever begin from the stock, namely
" from the person of whom they do descend,
" of whose distance the question is; for example,
" if the question be, in what degree the
" sons of two brothers stand by the canon law,
" we must begin from the grand father and
" descend to one son, that is one degree, then
" descend to his son, that it another degree,
" then descend again from the grand father to
" his other son, that is one degree, then descend
" to his son, that is the second degree;