The prerogative of parlaments in England proued in a dialogue (pro & contra) betweene a councellour of state and a iustice of peace / written by the worthy (much lacked and lamented) Sir W. R. Kt. ... ; dedicated to the Kings Maiesty, and to the House of Parlament now assembled ; preserued to be now happily (in these distracted times) published ...
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The prerogative of parlaments in England proued in a dialogue (pro & contra) betweene a councellour of state and a iustice of peace / written by the worthy (much lacked and lamented) Sir W. R. Kt. ... ; dedicated to the Kings Maiesty, and to the House of Parlament now assembled ; preserued to be now happily (in these distracted times) published ...
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Prerogatiue
of
Parlaments
in
ENGLAND
:
Proued
in
a
Dialogue
(
pro
&
contra
)
betweene
a
Councellour
of
State
and
a
Iustice
of
Peace
.
Written
by
the
worthy
(
much
lacked
and
lamented
)
Sir
W.
R.K
t.
deceased
.
Dedicated
to
the
Kings
Maiesty
,
and
to
the
House
of
Parlament
now
assembled
.
Preserued
to
be
now
happily
(
in
these
distracted
Times
)
Published
,
and
Printed
at
Hamburgh
.
1628.
To
the
KING
.
Most
gracious
Soueraigne
:
THose
that
are
supprest
and
helpelesse
are
commonly
silent
,
wishing
that
the
common
ill
in
al
sort
might
be
with
their
particular
misfortunes
:
which
disposition
,
as
it
is
vncharitable
in
all
men
,
so
would
it
be
in
me
more
dogge-like
then
man-like
,
to
bite
the
stone
that
strooke
me
:
(
to
wit
)
the
borrowed
authoritie
of
my
Soueragne
misinformed
,
seeing
their
armes
and
hands
that
flang
it
,
are
most
of
them
already
rotten
.
For
I
must
confesse
it
euer
,
that
they
are
debts
,
and
not
discontentments
,
that
your
Maiesty
hath
laid
vpon
me
;
the
debts
and
obligation
of
a
friendlesse
aduersity
,
farre
more
payable
in
all
Kinds
,
then
those
of
the
prosperous
:
All
which
,
nor
the
least
of
them
,
though
I
cannot
discharge
,
I
may
yet
endeauour
it
.
And
notwithstanding
my
restraint
hath
retrenched
all
wayes
,
as
well
the
wayes
of
labour
and
will
,
as
of
all
other
imployments
,
yet
hath
is
left
with
me
my
cogitations
,
then
which
I
haue
nothing
else
to
offer
on
the
Altar
of
my
Loue.
Of
those
(
most
gracious
Soueraigne
)
I
haue
vsed
some
part
in
the
following
dispute
,
betweene
a
Counsellour
of
Estate
,
and
a
Iustice
of
Peace
,
the
one
disswading
,
the
other
perswading
the
calling
of
a
Parliament
.
In
all
which
,
since
the
Norman
Conquest
(
at
the
least
so
many
as
Histories
haue
gathered
)
I
haue
in
some
things
in
the
following
Dialogue
presented
your
Maiestie
with
the
contentions
and
successes
.
Some
things
there
are
,
and
those
of
the
greatest
,
which
because
they
ought
first
to
be
resolued
on
,
I
thought
fit
to
range
them
in
the
front
of
the
rest
,
to
the
end
your
Maiestie
may
be
pleased
to
examine
your
owne
great
and
Princely
heart
of
their
acceptance
,
or
refusall
.
The
first
is
,
that
supposition
,
that
your
Maiesties
Subiects
giue
nothing
but
with
adiunction
of
their
own
interests
,
interlacing
in
one
and
the
same
act
your
Maiesties
reliefe
,
and
their
owne
liberties
;
not
that
your
Maiesties
pietie
was
euer
suspected
,
but
because
the
best
Princes
are
euer
the
least
iealous
,
your
Maiestie
iudging
others
by
your selfe
,
who
haue
abused
your
Maiesties
trust
.
The
fear'd
continuance
of
the
like
abuse
may
perswade
the
prouision
.
But
this
caution
,
how
euer
it
seemeth
at
first
sight
,
your
Maiesty
shall
perceiue
by
many
examples
following
but
friuolous
.
The
bonds
of
Subiects
to
their
Kings
should
alwayes
be
wrought
out
of
Iron
,
the
bonds
of
Kings
vnto
Subiects
but
with
Cobwebs
.
This
it
is
(
most
renowned
Soueraigne
)
that
this
trafficke
of
assurances
hath
beene
often
vrged
,
of
which
,
if
the
Conditions
had
beene
easie
,
our
Kings
haue
as
easily
kept
them
;
if
hard
and
preiudiciall
,
either
to
their
honours
or
estates
,
the
Creditours
haue
beene
paid
their
debts
with
their
owne
presumption
.
For
all
binding
of
a
King
by
Law
vpon
the
aduantage
of
his
necessitie
,
makes
the
breach
it selfe
lawfull
in
a
King.
His
Charters
and
all
other
instruments
being
no
other
then
the
suruiuing
witnesses
of
vnconstrained
will
:
Princeps
non
subijcitur
nisi
sua
voluntate
libera
,
mero
moto
&
certa
Scientia
:
Necessary
words
in
all
the
grants
of
a
King
witnessing
that
the
same
grants
were
giuen
freely
and
knowingly
.
The
second
resolution
will
rest
in
your
Maiesty
leauing
the
new
impositions
,
all
Monopolies
,
and
other
grieuances
of
the
people
to
the
consideration
of
the
House
;
Prouided
,
that
your
Maiesties
reuenue
be
not
abated
,
which
if
your
Maiesty
shall
refuse
,
it
is
thought
that
the
disputes
will
last
long
,
and
the
issues
will
be
doubtfull
:
And
on
the
contrary
,
if
your
Maiesty
vouchsafe
it
,
it
may
perchance
be
stiled
a
yeelding
,
which
seemeth
by
the
sound
to
braue
the
Regalty
.
But
(
most
excellent
Prince
)
what
other
is
it
to
th'
eares
of
the
wise
,
but
as
the
sound
of
a
trumpet
,
hauing
blasted
forth
a
false
Alarme
,
becomes
but
common
ayre
?
Shall
the
head
yeeld
to
the
feet
?
certainly
it
ought
,
when
they
are
grieued
;
for
wisdome
will
rather
regard
the
commodity
,
then
obiect
the
disgrace
,
seeing
if
the
feet
lye
in
fetters
,
the
head
cannot
be
freed
,
and
where
the
feet
feele
but
their
owne
paines
,
the
head
doth
not
onely
suffer
by
participation
,
but
withall
by
consideration
of
the
euill
.
Certainly
,
the
point
of
honour
well
weighed
hath
nothing
in
it
to
euen
the
ballance
,
for
by
your
Maiesties
fauour
,
your
Maiesty
doth
not
yeeld
either
to
any
person
,
or
to
any
power
,
but
to
a
dispute
onely
,
in
which
the
Proposition
and
Minor
proue
nothing
without
a
conclusion
,
which
no
other
person
or
power
can
make
,
but
a
Maiesty
:
yea
,
this
in
Henry
the
third
his
time
was
called
a
wisedome
incomparable
.
For
,
the
King
raised
againe
,
recouers
his
authority
:
For
,
being
in
that
extremity
as
hee
was
driuen
with
the
Queene
and
his
Children
,
Cum
Abbatibus
&
Prioribus
saris
homilibus
hospitia
quaerere
&
prandia
:
For
the
rest
,
may
it
please
your
Maiesty
to
consider
that
there
can
nothing
befall
your
Maiesty
in
matters
of
affaires
more
vnfortunately
then
the
summons
of
a
Parliament
,
with
ill
successe
:
A
dishonour
so
perswasiue
and
aduenturous
as
it
will
not
onely
finde
arguments
;
but
it
will
take
the
leading
of
all
enemies
that
shall
offer
themselues
against
your
Maiesties
estate
.
Le
labourin
de
la
paurete
ne
saict
poinct
de
breuct
:
of
which
dangerous
disease
in
Princes
,
the
remedy
doth
chiefly
consist
in
the
loue
of
the
people
,
which
how
it
may
be
had
and
held
,
no
man
knowes
better
then
your
Maiesty
;
how
to
loose
it
,
all
men
know
,
and
know
that
it
is
lost
by
nothing
more
then
by
the
defence
of
others
in
wrong
doing
.
The
onely
motiues
of
mischances
that
euer
came
to
Kings
of
this
Land
since
the
Conquest
.
It
is
onely
loue
(
most
renowned
Soueraigne
)
must
prepare
the
way
for
your
Maiesties
following
desires
.
It
is
loue
which
obeyes
,
which
suffers
,
which
giues
,
which
stickes
at
nothing
:
which
Loue
,
as
well
of
your
Maiesties
people
,
as
the
loue
of
God
to
your
Maiesty
,
that
it
may
alwayes
hold
shall
be
the
continuall
prayers
of
your
Maiesties
most
humble
vassall
,
Walter
Ralegh
.
A
DIALOGVE
BETWEENE
A
COVNSELLOVR
OF
STATE
,
AND
A
IVSTICE
OF
PEACE
.
COVNSELLOVR
.
NOW
Sir
,
what
thinke
you
of
M
S
▪
Iohns
tryall
in
Star-Chamber
?
I
know
that
the
bruite
ranne
that
he
was
hardly
dealt
withall
,
because
he
was
imprisoned
in
the
Towre
,
seeing
his
disswasion
from
granting
a
Benevolence
to
the
King
was
warranted
by
the
Law.
IVSTICE
.
Surely
Sir
it
was
made
manifest
at
the
hearing
,
that
M.S.
Iohn
was
rather
in
loue
with
his
owne
letter
;
he
confessed
hee
had
seene
your
Lordships
letter
before
hee
wrote
his
to
the
Maior
of
Marleborough
,
and
in
your
Lordships
letter
there
was
not
a
word
whereto
the
Statutes
by
M
t
S
t
Iohn
alleadged
,
had
reference
;
for
those
Statutes
did
condemne
the
gathering
of
money
from
the
Subject
,
vnder
title
of
a
free
gift
▪
whereas
a
fift
,
a
sixt
,
a
tenth
,
&c.
was
set
downe
and
required
.
But
my
good
Lord
,
though
diuers
Shires
haue
giuen
to
his
Maiestie
,
some
more
,
some
lesse
,
what
is
this
to
the
Kings
debt
?
COVNS
.
We
know
it
well
enough
,
but
we
haue
many
other
projects
.
IVST
.
It
is
true
my
good
Lord
:
but
your
Lordship
will
find
,
that
when
by
these
you
haue
drawn
many
petty
summs
frō
the
subjects
,
&
those
sometimes
spent
as
fast
as
they
are
gathered
,
his
Maiesty
being
nothing
enabled
thereby
,
when
you
shal
be
forced
to
demand
your
great
aide
,
the
countrey
will
excuse
it selfe
in
regard
of
their
former
payments
.
COVNS
.
What
meane
you
by
the
great
aide
?
IVST
.
I
meane
the
aide
of
Parliament
.
COVNS
.
By
Parliament
,
I
would
faine
know
the
man
that
durst
perswade
the
King
vnto
it
,
for
if
it
should
succeed
ill
,
in
what
case
were
he
?
IVST
.
You
say
well
for
your selfe
my
Lord
:
and
perchance
you
that
are
louers
of
your selues
(
vnder
pardon
)
do
follow
the
advice
of
the
late
Duke
of
Alva
,
who
was
euer
opposite
to
all
resolutions
in
businesse
of
importance
;
for
if
the
things
enterprized
succeeded
wel
,
the
advice
neuer
came
in
question
:
If
ill
,
(
whereto
great
vndertakings
are
commōly
subiect
)
he
then
made
his
advantage
by
remembring
his
countrey
councell
:
But
my
good
Lord
,
these
reserued
Polititians
are
not
the
best
seruants
,
for
hee
that
is
bound
to
adventure
his
life
for
his
Master
,
is
also
bound
to
adventure
his
advice
,
Keep
not
backe
councell
(
saith
Ecclesiasticus
)
when
it
may
doe
good
.
COVNS
.
But
Sir
,
I
speake
it
not
in
other
respect
then
I
think
it
dangerous
for
the
King
to
assemble
the
three
estates
,
for
thereby
haue
our
former
kings
alwaies
lost
somwhat
of
their
prerogatiues
.
And
because
that
you
shall
not
thinke
that
I
speake
it
at
randome
,
I
will
begin
with
elder
times
,
wherein
the
first
contention
began
betwixt
the
Kings
of
this
land
,
and
their
subiects
in
Parliament
.
IVST
.
Your
Lordship
shall
doe
me
a
singular
fauour
.
COVNS
.
You
know
that
the
Kings
of
England
had
no
formal
Parliament
till
about
the
18
th
yeare
of
Henry
the
first
,
for
in
his
17
yeare
,
for
the
marriage
of
his
daughter
,
the
King
raised
a
tax
vpon
euery
hide
of
land
by
the
advice
of
his
privy
councell
alone
.
But
you
may
remember
how
the
subiects
soone
after
the
establishment
of
this
Parliament
,
beganne
to
stand
vpon
termes
with
the
King
,
and
drew
from
him
by
strong
hand
and
the
sword
the
great
Charter
.
IVST
.
Your
Lordship
sayes
well
,
they
drew
from
the
King
the
great
Charter
by
the
sword
,
and
hereof
the
Parliament
cannot
be
accused
,
but
the
Lords
.
COVNS
.
You
say
well
,
but
it
was
after
the
establishment
of
the
Parliament
,
&
by
colour
of
it
,
that
they
had
so
great
daring
,
for
before
that
time
they
could
not
endure
to
heare
of
S
Edwards
lawes
,
but
resisted
the
confirmation
in
all
they
could
,
although
by
those
lawes
the
Subjects
of
this
Iland
were
no
lesse
free
then
any
of
all
Europe
.
IVST
.
My
good
Lord
,
the
reason
is
manifest
;
for
while
the
Normans
&
other
of
the
French
that
followed
the
Conquerour
,
made
spoyle
of
the
English
,
they
would
not
endure
that
any
thing
but
the
will
of
the
Conquerour
should
stand
for
Law
:
but
after
a
discent
or
two
when
themselues
were
become
English
,
&
found
themselues
beaten
with
their
own
rods
,
they
then
began
to
sauour
the
difference
betweene
subjection
&
slauery
,
&
insist
vpon
the
law
,
Meum
&
Tuum
:
&
to
be
able
to
say
vnto
themselues
,
hoc
fac
&
vives
:
yea
that
the
conquering
English
in
Ireland
did
the
like
,
your
Lordship
knowes
it
better
than
I.
COVNS
.
I
thinke
you
guesse
aright
:
And
to
the
end
the
subiect
may
know
that
being
a
faithfull
seruant
to
his
Prince
he
might
enioy
his
own
life
,
and
paying
to
his
Prince
what
belongs
to
a
Soueraigne
,
the
remainder
was
his
own
to
dispose
.
Henry
the
first
to
content
his
Vassals
,
gaue
them
the
great
Charter
,
and
the
Charter
of
Forrests
.
IVST
.
What
reasō
then
had
K.
Iohn
to
deny
the
cōfirmatiō
?
COVNS
.
He
did
not
,
but
he
on
the
cōtrary
confirmed
both
the
Charters
with
additions
,
&
required
the
Pope
whom
he
had
thē
made
his
superior
to
strengthē
him
with
a
goldē
bul
.
IVST
.
But
your
honour
knowes
,
that
it
was
not
long
after
,
that
he
repented
himselfe
.
COVNS
.
It
is
true
,
&
he
had
reason
so
to
do
,
for
the
Barons
refused
to
follow
him
into
France
,
as
they
ought
to
haue
done
,
and
to
say
true
,
this
great
Charter
vpon
which
you
insist
so
much
,
was
not
originally
granted
Regally
and
freely
:
for
Henry
the
first
did
vsurpe
the
kingdome
,
and
therefore
the
better
to
assure
himselfe
against
Robert
his
eldest
brother
,
hee
flattered
his
Nobility
and
people
with
those
Charters
.
Yea
King
Iohn
that
confirmed
them
had
the
like
respect
:
for
Arthur
Duke
of
Britaine
,
was
the
vndoubted
heire
of
the
crowne
,
vpon
whom
Iohn
vsurped
.
And
so
to
conclude
,
these
Charters
had
their
originall
from
Kings
de
facto
but
not
de
iure
.
IVST
.
But
King
Iohn
confirmed
the
Charter
after
the
death
of
his
Nephew
Arthur
,
when
he
was
then
Rex
de
iure
also
.
COVNS
.
It
is
true
,
for
he
durst
doe
no
other
,
standing
accursed
,
whereby
few
or
none
obeyed
him
,
for
his
Nobility
refused
to
follow
him
into
Scotland
:
and
he
had
so
grieued
the
people
by
pulling
downe
all
the
Parke
pales
before
harvest
,
to
the
end
his
deere
might
spoyle
the
Corne
;
And
by
seizing
the
temporalities
of
so
many
Bishoprickes
into
his
hands
,
and
chiefly
for
practizing
the
death
of
the
Duke
of
Brittaine
his
Nephew
,
as
also
hauing
lost
Normandy
to
the
French
,
so
as
the
hearts
of
all
men
were
turned
from
him
.
IVST
.
Nay
by
your
fauour
my
Lord.
King
Iohn
restored
K.
Edwards
Lawes
after
his
absolution
,
and
wrote
his
letters
in
the
15
●
of
his
reigne
to
all
Sheriffes
countermaunding
all
former
oppressions
,
yea
this
he
did
notwithstanding
the
Lords
refused
to
follow
him
into
France
.
COVNS
.
Pardon
me
,
he
did
not
restore
King
Edwards
Lawes
then
,
nor
yet
confirmed
the
Charters
,
but
he
promised
vpon
his
absolution
to
doe
both
:
but
after
his
returne
out
of
France
,
in
his
16
th
yeare
he
denyed
it
,
because
without
such
a
promise
he
had
not
obtained
restitution
,
his
promise
being
constrained
,
and
not
voluntary
.
IVST
.
But
what
thinke
you
?
was
hee
not
bound
in
honour
to
performe
it
?
COVNS
.
Certainely
no
,
for
it
was
determined
the
case
of
King
Francis
the
first
of
France
,
that
all
promises
by
him
made
,
whilst
he
was
in
the
hands
of
Charles
the
fifth
his
enemie
,
were
voide
,
by
reason
the
Iudge
of
honour
,
which
tells
vs
he
durst
doe
no
other
.
IVST
.
But
King
Iohn
was
not
in
prison
.
COVNS
.
Yet
for
all
that
,
restraint
is
imprisonment
,
yea
,
feare
it selfe
is
imprisonment
,
and
the
King
was
subject
to
both
:
I
know
there
is
nothing
more
kingly
in
a
King
than
the
performance
of
his
word
;
but
yet
of
a
word
freely
and
voluntarily
giuen
.
Neither
was
the
Charter
of
Henry
the
first
so
published
,
that
all
men
might
plead
it
for
their
advantage
:
but
a
Charter
was
left
(
in
deposito
)
in
the
hands
of
the
Archbishop
of
Canterbury
for
the
time
,
and
so
to
his
successours
.
Stephen
Langthon
,
who
was
euer
a
Traytor
to
the
King
,
produced
this
Charter
,
and
shewed
it
to
the
Barons
,
thereby
encouraging
them
to
make
warre
against
the
King.
Neither
was
it
the
old
Charter
simplie
the
Barons
sought
to
haue
cōfirmed
,
but
they
presented
vnto
the
King
other
articles
and
orders
,
tending
to
the
alteration
of
the
whole
common-wealth
,
which
when
the
King
refused
to
signe
,
the
Barons
presently
put
themselues
into
the
field
,
and
in
rebellious
and
outragious
fashion
sent
the
King
word
except
he
confirmed
them
,
they
would
not
desist
from
making
warre
against
him
till
he
had
satisfied
them
therein
.
And
in
conclusion
,
the
king
being
betrayed
of
all
his
Nobility
,
in
effect
was
forced
to
graunt
the
Charter
of
Magna
Charta
,
and
Charta
de
Forestis
,
at
such
time
as
he
was
invironed
with
an
Army
in
the
meadowes
of
Staynes
,
which
Charters
being
procured
by
force
,
Pope
Innocent
afterward
disavowed
,
&
threatned
to
curse
the
Barons
if
they
submitted
not
themselues
as
they
ought
to
their
Soueraigne
Lord
,
which
when
the
Lords
refused
to
obey
,
the
King
entertained
an
army
of
strangers
for
his
own
defence
,
wherewith
hauing
mastered
&
beaten
the
Barons
,
they
called
in
Lewes
of
France
(
a
most
vnnaturall
resolution
)
to
be
their
King.
Neither
was
Magna
charta
a
law
in
the
19
th
of
Henry
the
2●
,
but
simply
a
Charter
which
hee
confirmed
in
the
21
●
of
his
reigne
,
&
made
it
a
law
in
the
25
th
,
according
to
Littletons
opinion
.
Thus
much
for
the
beginning
of
the
great
Charter
,
which
had
first
an
obscure
birth
from
vsurpation
,
and
was
secondly
fostered
&
shewed
to
the
world
by
rebellion
.
IVST
.
I
cannot
deny
but
that
all
your
Lordship
hath
said
is
true
;
but
seeing
the
Charters
were
afterwards
so
many
times
confirmed
by
Parliament
&
made
lawes
,
&
that
there
is
nothing
in
them
vnequall
or
prejudicial
to
the
King
:
doth
not
your
Honour
thinke
it
reason
they
should
be
obserued
?
COVNS
.
Yes
,
&
obserued
they
are
in
all
that
the
state
of
a
King
can
permit
,
for
no
man
is
destroyed
but
by
the
lawes
of
the
land
,
no
man
disseized
of
his
inheritance
but
by
the
lawes
of
the
land
,
imprisoned
they
are
by
the
prerogatiue
wherē
the
King
hath
cause
to
suspect
their
loyaltie
:
for
were
it
otherwise
,
the
King
should
neuer
come
to
the
knowledge
of
any
conspiracy
or
treason
against
his
Person
or
state
,
and
being
imprisoned
,
yet
doth
not
any
man
suffer
death
but
by
the
law
of
the
land
.
IVST
.
But
may
it
please
your
Lordship
,
were
not
Cornewallis
,
Sharpe
,
&
Hoskins
,
imprisoned
,
being
no
suspition
of
treason
there
?
COVNS
.
They
were
,
but
it
cost
them
nothing
.
IVST
.
And
what
got
the
King
by
it
?
for
in
the
conclusion
(
besides
the
murmure
of
the
people
)
Cornewallis
,
Sharpe
,
&
Hoskins
hauing
greatly
ouershot
themselues
,
and
repented
them
,
a
fine
of
5
or
600
l
was
laid
on
his
Maiesty
for
their
offences
,
for
so
much
their
diet
cost
his
Maiestie
.
COVNS
.
I
know
who
gaue
the
advice
,
sure
I
am
that
it
was
none
of
mine
:
But
thus
I
say
,
if
you
consult
your
memory
,
you
shall
finde
that
those
kings
which
did
in
their
own
times
confirme
the
Magna
Charta
,
did
not
onely
imprison
,
but
they
caused
of
their
Nobility
and
others
to
bee
slaine
without
hearing
or
tryall
.
IVST
.
My
good
Lord
,
if
you
will
giue
me
leaue
to
speak
freely
,
I
say
,
that
they
are
not
well
advised
that
perswade
the
King
not
to
admit
the
Magna
Charta
with
the
former
reseruations
.
For
as
the
King
can
neuer
loose
a
farthing
by
it
,
as
I
shall
proue
anon
:
So
except
England
were
as
Naples
is
,
and
kept
by
Garrisons
of
another
Nation
,
it
is
impossible
for
a
King
of
England
to
greaten
and
inrich
himselfe
by
any
way
so
assuredly
,
as
by
the
loue
of
his
people
:
For
by
one
rebellion
the
King
hath
more
losse
then
by
a
hundred
yeares
observance
of
Magna
Charta
.
For
therein
haue
our
Kings
beene
forced
to
compound
with
Roagues
and
Rebels
,
and
to
pardon
them
,
yea
the
state
of
the
King
,
the
Monarchie
,
the
Nobility
haue
beene
endangered
by
them
.
COVNS
.
Well
Sir
,
let
that
passe
,
why
should
not
our
kings
raise
mony
as
the
kings
of
France
doe
by
their
letters
and
Edicts
only
?
for
since
the
time
of
Lewes
the
11
th
,
of
whom
it
is
said
,
that
hee
freed
the
French
Kings
of
their
wardship
,
the
French
Kings
haue
seldome
assembled
the
States
for
any
contribution
.
IVST
.
I
will
tell
you
why
;
the
strength
of
England
doth
consist
of
the
people
and
Yeomanry
,
the
Pesants
of
France
haue
no
courage
nor
armes
:
In
France
euery
Village
and
Burrough
hath
a
castle
,
which
the
French
call
Chastean
Villain
,
euery
good
citty
hath
a
good
Cittadell
,
the
king
hath
the
Regiments
of
his
guards
and
his
men
at
armes
alwayes
in
pay
;
yea
the
Nobility
of
France
in
whom
the
strength
of
France
consists
,
doe
alwaies
assist
their
King
in
those
leavies
,
because
them selues
being
free
,
they
make
the
same
leavies
vpon
their
tennants
.
But
my
Lord
,
if
you
marke
it
,
France
was
neuer
free
in
effect
from
ciuill
warres
,
and
lately
it
was
endangered
either
to
be
conquered
by
the
Spaniard
,
or
to
be
cantonized
by
the
rebellious
French
themselues
,
since
that
freedome
of
Wardship
.
But
my
good
Lord
,
to
leaue
this
digression
,
that
wherein
I
would
willingly
satisfie
your
Lordship
,
is
,
that
the
kings
of
England
haue
neuer
receiued
losse
by
Parliament
,
or
preiudice
.
COVNS
.
No
Sir
,
you
shall
find
that
the
subiects
in
Parliament
haue
decreed
great
things
to
the
disadvantage
and
dishonour
of
our
kings
in
former
times
.
IVST
.
My
good
Lord
,
to
avoide
confusion
,
I
will
make
a
short
repetition
of
them
all
,
and
then
your
Lordship
may
obiect
where
you
see
cause
;
And
I
doubt
not
but
to
giue
your
Lordship
satisfaction
.
In
the
sixt
yeare
of
Henry
the
3
rd
there
was
no
dispute
,
the
house
gaue
the
King
two
shillings
of
euery
plough
land
within
England
,
and
in
the
end
of
the
same
yeare
he
had
escuage
paid
him
(
to
wit
)
for
euery
knights
fee
two
markes
in
siluer
.
In
the
fifth
yeare
of
that
King
,
the
Lords
demaunded
the
confirmation
of
the
Great
Charter
which
the
kings
Councell
for
that
time
present
excused
,
alleadging
that
those
priviledges
,
were
extorted
by
force
during
the
Kings
Minoritie
,
and
yet
the
King
was
pleased
to
send
forth
his
writ
to
the
Sheriffes
of
euery
county
,
requiring
them
to
certifie
what
those
liberties
vvere
,
and
hovv
vsed
,
&
in
exchange
of
the
Lords
demaund
,
because
they
pressed
him
so
violently
,
the
king
required
all
the
castles
&
places
which
the
Lords
held
of
his
,
&
had
held
in
the
time
of
his
Father
,
vvith
those
Manors
&
Lordships
vvhich
they
had
heeretofore
vvrested
from
the
Crovvne
,
vvhich
at
that
time
(
the
King
being
provided
of
forces
)
they
durst
not
deny
.
In
the
14
th
yeare
he
had
the
15
th
peny
of
all
goods
giuen
him
vpon
condition
to
confirme
the
great
Charter
:
For
by
reason
of
the
vvars
in
France
,
&
the
losse
of
Rochell
,
hee
vvas
then
enforced
to
cōsent
to
the
Lords
in
all
they
demanded
.
In
the
10●●
of
his
reigne
hee
fined
the
citty
of
London
at
50000
markes
,
because
they
had
receiued
Lewes
of
France
.
In
the
11
th
yeare
in
the
Parliament
at
Oxford
,
he
revoked
the
great
charter
being
granted
vvhen
he
vvas
vnder
age
,
&
gouerned
by
the
Earle
of
Pembroke
,
&
the
Bishop
of
Winchester
.
In
this
11
th
yeare
the
Earles
of
Cornevvall
&
Chester
,
Marshall
,
Edward
Earle
of
Pembroke
,
Gilbert
Earle
of
Gloucester
,
Warren
,
Hereford
,
Ferrars
,
&
Warwicke
,
&
others
rebelled
against
the
King
,
&
constrained
him
to
yeeld
vnto
them
in
vvhat
they
demaunded
for
their
particular
interest
,
vvhich
rebellion
being
appeased
,
he
sayled
into
France
,
&
in
his
15
th
yeare
he
had
a
15
th
of
the
temporality
,
&
a
disme
&
a
halfe
of
the
Spirituality
,
and
vvithall
escuage
of
euery
Knights
fee.
COVNS
.
But
what
say
you
to
the
Parliament
of
Westminster
in
the
16
th
of
the
king
,
where
notwithstanding
the
wars
of
France
and
his
great
charge
in
repulsing
the
Welsh
rebels
,
he
was
flatly
denyed
the
Subsedie
demaunded
.
IVST
.
I
confesse
,
my
Lord
,
that
the
house
excused
themselues
by
reason
of
their
pouerty
,
and
the
Lords
taking
of
Armes
;
in
the
next
yeare
it
was
manifest
that
the
house
was
practised
against
the
king
:
And
was
it
not
so
,
my
good
Lord
thinke
you
in
our
two
last
Parliaments
,
for
in
the
first
euen
those
whom
his
Majestie
trusted
most
,
betrayed
him
in
the
vnion
,
&
in
the
secōd
there
were
other
of
the
great
ones
ran
counter
.
But
your
Lordship
spake
of
dangers
of
Parliaments
,
in
this
,
my
Lord
,
there
was
a
deniall
,
but
there
was
no
danger
at
all
:
But
to
returne
where
I
left
,
what
got
the
Lords
by
practizing
the
house
at
that
time
?
I
say
that
those
that
brake
this
staffe
vpon
the
K.
were
ouerturned
with
the
counterbuffe
,
for
hee
resumed
all
those
lands
which
hee
had
given
in
his
minority
,
hee
called
all
his
exacting
officers
to
accompt
,
hee
found
them
all
faulty
,
hee
examined
the
corruption
of
other
magistrates
,
and
from
all
these
he
drew
sufficient
mony
to
satisfie
his
present
necessity
,
whereby
hee
not
onely
spared
his
people
,
but
highly
contented
them
with
an
act
of
so
great
Iustice
:
Yea
Hubert
Earle
of
Kent
,
the
chiefe
justice
whom
hee
had
most
trusted
,
and
most
advanced
,
was
found
as
false
to
the
King
,
as
any
one
of
the
rest
.
And
for
conclusion
in
the
end
of
that
yeare
at
the
assemblie
of
the
States
at
Lambeth
,
the
King
had
the
fortith
part
of
euery
mans
goods
given
him
freely
towards
his
debts
,
for
the
people
,
who
the
same
yeare
had
refused
to
giue
the
King
any
thing
,
when
they
sawe
hee
had
squeased
those
spunges
of
the
common
wealth
,
they
willingly
yeelded
to
giue
him
satisfaction
.
COVNS
.
But
I
pray
you
,
what
became
of
this
Hubert
,
whō
the
King
had
favoured
aboue
all
men
,
betraying
his
Majestie
as
he
did
.
IVST
.
There
were
many
that
perswaded
the
King
to
put
him
to
death
,
but
he
could
not
be
drawne
to
consent
,
but
the
King
seized
vpon
his
estate
which
was
great
;
yet
in
the
end
hee
left
him
a
sufficient
portion
,
and
gaue
him
his
life
because
hee
had
done
great
service
in
former
times
:
For
his
Majestie
,
though
hee
tooke
advantage
of
his
vice
,
yet
hee
forgot
not
to
haue
consideration
of
his
vertue
.
And
vpon
this
occasion
it
was
that
the
King
,
betrayed
by
those
whom
hee
most
trusted
,
entertayned
strangers
,
and
gaue
them
their
offices
and
the
charge
of
his
castles
and
strong
places
in
England
.
COVNS
.
But
the
drawing
in
of
those
strangers
was
the
cause
that
Marshall
Earle
of
Pembroke
moued
warre
against
the
King.
IVST
.
It
is
true
,
my
good
Lord
,
but
hee
was
soone
after
slaine
in
Ireland
,
and
his
whole
masculine
race
,
ten
yeres
extinguished
,
though
there
were
fiue
sonnes
of
them
,
&
Marshall
being
dead
,
who
was
the
mouer
and
ring-leader
of
that
warre
,
the
King
pardoned
the
rest
of
the
Lords
that
had
assisted
Marshall
.
COVNS
.
What
reason
had
the
King
so
to
doe
?
IVST
.
Because
he
was
perswaded
,
that
they
loued
his
person
,
&
only
hated
those
corrupt
Counselours
,
that
then
bare
the
greatest
sway
vnder
him
,
as
also
because
they
were
the
best
men
of
warre
hee
had
,
whom
if
he
destroyed
,
hauing
warre
with
the
French
,
he
had
wanted
Commanders
to
haue
served
him
.
COVNS
.
But
what
reason
had
the
Lords
to
take
armes
?
IVST
.
Because
the
King
entertayned
the
Poictoui●s
,
were
not
they
the
Kings
vassals
also
?
Should
the
Spaniards
rebell
,
because
the
Spanish
King
trusts
to
the
Neopolitans
,
Portagues
,
Millanoies
,
and
other
nations
his
vassals
,
seeing
those
that
are
governed
by
the
Vice-royes
and
deputies
,
are
in
pollicy
to
be
well
entertayned
and
to
be
employed
,
who
would
otherwise
devise
how
to
free
themselues
;
whereas
,
beeing
trusted
and
imployed
by
their
Prince
,
they
entertaine
themselues
with
the
hopes
that
other
the
Kings
vassals
doe
.
if
the
King
had
called
in
the
Spaniards
,
or
other
Nations
,
not
his
Subjects
,
the
Nobility
of
England
had
had
reason
of
griefe
.
But
what
people
did
euer
serue
the
King
of
England
more
faithfully
then
the
Gascoynes
did
even
to
the
last
of
the
conquest
of
that
Duchy
.
IVST
.
Your
Lordship
sayes
wel
,
&
I
am
of
that
opinion
that
if
it
had
pleased
the
Queene
of
Eng.
to
haue
drawne
some
of
the
chiefe
of
the
Irish
Nobility
into
Eng.
&
by
exchange
to
haue
made
them
good
freeholders
in
Eng.
,
shee
had
saued
aboue
2.
millions
of
pounds
which
were
consumed
in
times
of
those
rebellions
.
For
what
held
the
great
Gascoigne
firme
to
the
Crowne
of
England
(
of
whom
the
Duke
of
Espernon
married
the
inheritrix
)
but
his
Earldome
of
Kendall
in
England
,
whereof
the
Duke
of
Espernon
(
in
right
of
his
wife
)
beares
the
title
to
this
day
.
And
to
the
same
end
I
take
it
,
hath
Iames
our
Soueraigne
Lord
given
lands
to
divers
of
the
Nobility
of
Scotland
.
And
if
I
were
worthy
to
advise
your
Lordship
,
I
should
thinke
that
your
Lordship
should
do
the
King
great
service
to
put
him
in
mind
to
prohibite
all
the
Scottish
nation
to
alienate
and
sell
away
their
inheritance
here
;
for
they
selling
,
they
not
only
giue
cause
to
the
English
to
complaine
that
the
treasure
of
England
is
transported
into
Scotland
,
but
his
Majesty
is
thereby
also
frustrated
of
making
both
Nations
one
,
and
of
assuring
the
service
and
obedience
of
the
Scots
in
future
.
COVNS
.
You
say
well
,
for
though
those
of
Scotland
that
are
advanced
and
enriched
by
the
Kings
Majesties
will
,
no
doubt
serue
him
faithfully
,
yet
how
their
heires
&
successours
,
hauing
no
inheritance
to
loose
in
England
may
be
seduced
is
vncertaine
.
But
let
vs
goe
on
with
our
Parliament
.
And
what
say
you
to
the
deniall
in
the
26
●
yeare
of
his
reigne
,
even
when
the
King
was
invited
to
come
into
France
by
the
Earle
of
March
,
who
had
married
his
mother
,
and
who
promised
to
assist
the
King
in
the
conquest
of
many
places
lost
.
IVST
.
It
is
true
,
my
good
Lord
,
that
a
subsidy
was
then
denied
,
&
the
reasons
are
delivered
in
Enlish
histories
,
&
indeed
the
King
not
long
before
had
spent
much
treasure
in
ayding
the
Duke
of
Britaine
to
no
purpose
,
for
hee
drew
ouer
the
King
but
to
drawe
on
good
conditions
for
himselfe
,
as
the
Earle
of
March
his
father
in
law
now
did
:
As
the
English
Barons
did
invite
Lewes
of
France
not
long
before
,
as
in
elder
times
all
the
kings
and
states
had
done
,
and
in
late
yeares
the
Leaguers
of
France
entertayned
the
Spaniards
,
and
the
French
Protestants
and
Netherlands
,
Queene
Elizabeth
,
not
with
any
purpose
to
greaten
those
that
ayde
them
,
but
to
purchase
to
themselues
an
advantageous
peace
.
But
what
say
the
histories
to
this
deniall
?
they
say
with
a
world
of
payments
there
mentioned
,
that
the
King
had
drawne
the
Nobility
drie
.
And
besides
,
that
whereas
not
long
before
great
summes
of
mony
were
giuen
,
and
the
same
appointed
to
be
kept
in
foure
castles
,
and
not
to
be
expended
but
by
the
aduice
of
the
Peeres
;
it
was
beleeved
that
the
same
treasure
was
yet
vnspent
.
COVNS
.
Good
Sir
you
haue
said
enough
,
judge
you
whether
it
were
not
a
dishonour
to
the
King
to
be
so
tyed
,
as
not
to
expend
his
treasure
,
but
by
other
mens
aduice
as
it
were
by
their
licence
.
IVST
.
Surely
my
Lord
,
the
King
was
well
aduised
to
take
the
mony
vpon
any
condition
,
&
they
were
fooles
that
propounded
the
restraint
,
for
it
doth
not
appeare
that
the
King
tooke
any
great
heed
to
those
ouerseers
.
Kings
are
bound
by
their
piety
and
by
no
other
obligation
.
In
Queene
Maries
time
,
when
it
was
thought
that
shee
was
with
child
,
it
was
propounded
in
Parliament
,
that
the
rule
of
the
Realme
should
bee
giuen
to
king
Philip
during
the
minority
of
the
hoped
Prince
or
Princesse
,
and
the
king
offered
his
assurance
in
great
summes
of
money
to
relinquish
the
government
at
such
time
as
the
Prince
or
Princesse
should
bee
of
age
:
At
which
motion
when
all
else
were
silent
in
the
house
,
Lord
Dueres
(
who
was
none
of
the
wisest
)
asked
who
shall
sue
the
kinges
bondes
,
which
ended
the
dispute
,
for
what
bonde
is
betweene
a
king
and
his
vassals
,
then
the
bond
of
the
kinges
faith
)
But
my
good
Lord
the
king
notwithstanding
the
deniall
at
that
time
was
with
gifts
from
perticular
parsons
,
&
otherwise
supplyed
for
proceeding
of
his
iourney
for
that
time
into
France
,
he
tooke
with
him
30
caskes
filled
with
silver
and
coyne
which
was
a
great
treasure
in
those
dayes
.
And
lastly
notwithstanding
the
first
denyall
in
the
Kings
absence
hee
had
Escuage
graunted
him
(
to
wit
)
20
s
of
euery
Knights
Fee.
COVNS
:
What
say
you
then
to
the
28●
yeare
of
that
King
in
which
when
the
King
demaunded
reliefe
,
the
states
would
not
consent
except
the
same
former
order
had
bin
taken
for
the
appointing
of
4
overseers
for
the
treasure
.
As
also
that
the
Lord
chief
Iustice
&
the
Lord
Chancellor
should
be
chosē
by
the
states
with
some
Barōs
of
the
exchequor
&
other
officers
.
IVS
:
My
good
Lord
admit
the
King
had
yeelded
their
demaunds
,
then
whatsoever
had
beene
ordained
by
those
magistrates
to
the
dislike
of
the
Common
wealth
,
the
people
had
beene
without
remedie
,
whereas
while
the
King
made
them
they
,
had
their
appeale
and
other
remedies
.
But
those
demaunds
vanished
and
in
the
end
the
King
had
escuage
giuen
him
without
any
of
their
conditions
.
It
is
an
excellent
vertue
in
a
King
to
haue
patience
and
to
giue
way
to
the
fury
of
mens
passions
.
The
whale
when
he
is
stroken
by
the
fisherman
,
growes
into
that
fury
,
that
he
cannot
be
resisted
,
but
will
overthrowe
all
the
ships
and
barkes
that
come
in
to
his
way
,
but
when
he
hath
tumbled
a
while
,
hee
is
drawne
to
the
shore
with
a
twind
thred
.
COVNS
:
What
say
you
then
to
the
Parliament
in
the
29
th
of
that
King.
IVST
:
I
say
that
the
commons
being
vnable
to
pay
,
the
king
relieues
himselfe
vpon
the
richer
sort
,
and
soe
it
likewise
happened
in
the
33
of
that
king
,
in
which
hee
was
relieued
chiefely
by
the
Citty
of
London
.
But
my
good
Lord
in
the
Parliament
in
London
in
the
38
yeare
,
he
had
giuen
him
the
tenth
of
all
the
revenues
of
the
Church
for
three
yeares
,
and
3
markes
of
every
knights
Fee
throughout
the
kingdome
vpō
his
promise
&
oath
vpon
the
obscruing
of
magna
Charta
but
in
the
end
of
the
same
yeare
,
the
king
being
thē
in
France
,
he
was
denyed
the
aydes
which
he
required
.
What
is
this
to
the
danger
of
a
Parliament
?
especially
at
this
time
they
had
reason
to
refuse
,
they
had
giuen
so
great
a
some
in
the
beginning
of
the
same
yeare
.
And
again
because
it
was
known
that
the
King
had
but
pretended
warre
with
the
king
of
Castile
with
whome
he
had
secretly
contracted
an
alliance
and
concluded
a
marriage
betwixt
his
sonne
Edward
and
the
Lady
Elenor.
These
false
fires
doe
but
freight
Children
and
it
commonly
falles
out
that
when
the
cause
giuen
is
knowne
to
be
false
,
the
necessity
pretended
is
thought
to
be
fained
,
Royall
dealing
hath
euermore
Royall
successe
:
and
as
the
King
was
denied
in
the
eight
&
thirtyeth
yeare
,
so
was
he
denyed
in
the
nine
&
thirtieth
yeare
,
because
the
Nobility
and
the
people
saw
,
that
the
King
was
abused
by
the
Pope
it
plainly
who
aswell
in
despite
to
Manfred
bastard
son
to
the
Emperour
Fredericke
the
second
,
as
to
cozen
the
King
and
to
wast
him
,
would
needes
bestowe
on
the
King
the
kingdome
of
Sicilie
,
to
recouer
which
,
the
King
sent
all
the
treasure
he
could
borrow
or
scrape
to
the
Pope
,
and
withall
gaue
him
letters
of
credence
,
for
to
take
vp
what
he
could
in
Italy
,
the
King
binding
himselfe
for
the
payment
.
Now
my
good
Lord
the
wisdome
of
Princes
is
seen
in
nothing
more
then
in
their
enterprises
.
So
how
vnpleasing
it
was
to
the
State
of
England
to
consume
the
treasure
of
the
land
,
&
in
the
conquest
of
Sicily
so
farre
of
,
and
otherwise
for
that
the
English
had
lost
Normandy
vnder
their
noses
and
so
many
goodly
parts
of
France
of
their
owne
proper
inheritances
:
the
reason
of
the
deniall
is
as
well
to
be
considered
as
the
denyall
.
CONS
.
Was
not
the
King
also
denyed
a
subsidie
in
the
fourty
first
of
his
raigne
?
IVST
.
No
my
Lord
,
for
although
the
King
required
mony
as
before
for
the
impossible
conquest
of
Sicily
,
yet
the
house
offered
to
giue
52000
markes
,
which
whether
hee
refused
or
accepted
is
vncertaine
,
&
whilst
the
King
dreamed
of
Sicily
,
the
Welsh
inuaded
&
spoyled
the
borders
of
England
,
for
in
the
Parliament
of
London
,
when
the
King
vrged
the
house
for
the
prosecuting
the
cōquest
of
Sicily
,
the
Lords
vtterly
disliking
the
attempt
,
vrged
the
prosecuting
of
the
Welshmen
:
which
Parlament
being
proroged
did
again
assemble
at
Oxford
,
&
was
called
the
madde
Parlamēt
,
which
was
no
other
thē
an
assembly
of
rebels
,
for
the
Royall
assent
of
the
K.
which
giues
life
to
all
lawes
,
form'd
by
the
three
estates
,
was
not
a
Royal
assent
,
when
both
the
K.
&
the
Prince
were
cōstrained
to
yeeld
to
the
Lords
.
A
cōstrained
consent
is
the
consent
of
a
Captiue
&
not
of
a
K.
,
&
therefore
there
was
nothing
done
there
either
legally
or
royally
.
For
if
it
be
not
properly
a
Parliament
where
the
subiect
is
not
free
,
certainely
it
can
be
none
where
the
King
is
bound
,
for
all
Kingly
rule
was
taken
from
the
King
,
and
twelue
Peeres
appointed
,
and
as
some
writers
haue
it
24
Peeres
,
to
gouerne
the
Realme
,
and
therefore
the
assembly
made
by
Iack
Strawe
&
other
rebels
may
aswell
bee
called
a
Parliament
as
that
of
Oxford
.
Principis
nomen
habere
,
non
est
esse
Princeps
,
for
thereby
was
the
King
driuen
not
only
to
cōpoūd
all
quarrels
with
the
French
,
but
to
haue
meanes
to
be
revenged
on
the
rebell
Lords
:
but
he
quitted
his
right
to
Normādy
Aniou
&
Mayne
.
COVNS
.
But
sir
what
needed
this
extremity
,
seeing
the
Lords
required
but
the
confirmation
of
the
former
Charter
,
which
was
not
preiudiciall
to
the
King
to
graunt
?
IVST
.
Yes
my
good
Lord
,
but
they
insulted
vpon
the
King
and
would
not
suffer
him
to
enter
into
his
own
castles
,
they
put
downe
the
Purvey
or
of
the
meate
for
the
maintenance
of
his
house
as
if
the
King
had
beene
a
bankrupt
,
and
gaue
order
that
without
ready
money
he
should
not
take
vp
a
Chicken
.
And
though
there
is
nothing
against
the
royalty
of
a
King
in
these
Charters
(
the
Kings
of
England
beeing
Kings
of
freemen
and
not
of
slaues
)
yet
it
is
soe
contrary
to
the
nature
of
a
King
to
bee
forced
euen
to
those
thinges
which
may
be
to
his
advantage
,
as
the
King
had
some
reason
to
seeke
the
dispensation
of
his
oath
from
the
Pope
,
and
to
drawe
in
strangers
for
his
owne
defence
:
yea
Iure
saluo
Coronae
nostrae
is
intended
inclusiuely
in
all
oathes
and
promises
exacted
from
a
Soueraigne
.
COVNS
:
But
you
cānot
be
ignorant
how
dangerous
athing
it
is
to
cal
in
other
natiōs
both
for
the
spoile
they
make
,
as
also
so
,
because
they
haue
often
held
the
possession
of
the
best
places
with
which
they
haue
beene
trusted
.
IVST
:
It
is
true
my
good
Lord
,
that
there
is
nothing
so
daungerous
for
a
King
as
to
be
constrained
and
held
as
prisoner
to
his
vassals
,
for
by
that
,
Edward
the
second
,
and
Richard
the
second
lost
their
Kingdomes
and
their
liues
.
And
for
calling
in
of
strangers
,
was
not
King
Edward
the
sixth
driuen
to
call
instrangers
against
the
rebels
in
Norfolke
,
Cornewall
,
Oxfordshire
and
elsewhere
?
Haue
not
the
K
s.
of
Scotland
beene
oftentimes
constrained
to
entertaine
strangers
against
the
Kings
of
England
,
And
the
King
of
England
at
this
time
had
he
not
bin
diuerse
times
assisted
by
the
Kings
of
Scotlād
,
had
bin
endāgered
to
haue
bin
expelled
for
ever
.
COVNS
.
But
yet
you
knowe
those
Kings
were
deposed
by
Parliament
.
IVST
:
Yea
my
good
Lord
being
Prisoners
,
being
out
of
possession
and
being
in
their
hands
that
were
Princes
of
the
blood
and
pretenders
.
It
is
an
old
countrey
prouerbe
:
(
that
might
overcomes
right
)
a
weake
title
that
weares
a
strong
sword
,
commonly
prevailes
against
a
strong
title
that
weares
but
a
weake
one
,
otherwise
Philip
the
second
had
never
bin
Duke
of
Portugal
,
nor
Duke
of
Millayne
,
nor
K.
of
Naples
&
Scicilie
.
But
good
Lord
Errores
not
sunt
trah
▪
udi
in
exemplum
:
I
speake
of
regall
,
peaceable
,
and
lawfull
Parliaments
.
The
King
at
this
time
was
but
a
King
in
name
,
for
Glocester
,
Leycester
and
Chichester
made
choise
of
other
Nyne
,
to
whom
the
rule
of
the
Realme
was
committed
,
&
the
Prince
was
forced
to
purchase
his
liberty
frō
the
Earle
of
Leycester
,
by
giuing
for
his
ransome
the
County
Pallatine
of
Chester
.
But
my
Lord
let
vs
judge
of
those
occasions
by
their
events
,
what
became
of
this
proud
Earle
?
was
hee
not
soone
after
slaine
in
Euesham
?
was
he
not
left
naked
in
the
field
,
and
left
a
shamefull
spectacle
,
his
head
being
cut
off
from
his
shoulders
,
his
priuy
parts
from
his
body
&
laid
on
each
side
of
his
nose
?
And
did
not
God
extinguish
his
race
,
after
which
in
a
lawfull
parliament
at
Westminster
(
confirmed
in
a
following
parliament
of
Westminster
,
were
not
all
the
Lords
that
followed
Leycester
disinherited
?
And
when
that
foole
Glocester
,
after
the
death
of
Leycester
(
whom
he
had
formerly
forsaken
)
made
himselfe
the
head
of
a
second
rebellion
,
and
called
in
strangers
,
for
which
not
lōg
before
he
had
cried
out
against
the
K.
was
not
hee
in
the
end
,
after
that
hee
had
seene
the
slaughter
of
so
many
of
the
Barons
▪
the
spoile
of
their
castles
,
&
Lordships
constrained
to
submit
himselfe
,
as
all
the
suruiuers
did
,
of
which
they
that
sped
best
▪
payd
their
sines
and
ransomes
,
the
King
reserving
to
his
younger
sonne
,
the
Earledomes
of
Leycester
and
Derby
.
COVN
:
Well
sir
,
we
haue
disputed
this
King
to
his
graue
,
though
it
be
true
,
that
he
outliued
all
his
enimies
,
&
brought
them
to
confusion
,
yet
those
examples
did
not
terrifie
their
successors
,
but
the
Earle
Marshall
,
and
Hereford
,
threatned
King
Edward
the
first
,
with
a
new
warre
.
IVST
:
They
did
so
,
but
after
the
death
of
Hereford
,
the
Earle
Marshall
repented
himselfe
,
and
to
gaine
the
Kings
favour
,
he
made
him
heire
of
all
his
lands
.
But
what
is
this
to
the
Parliament
?
for
there
was
never
K.
of
this
land
had
more
giuen
him
for
the
time
of
his
raigne
,
then
Edward
the
sonne
of
Henry
the
third
had
.
COVNS
:
How
doth
that
appeare
?
IVST
:
In
this
sort
my
good
Lord
,
in
this
kings
third
yeare
he
had
giuen
him
the
fifteenth
part
of
all
goods
.
In
his
sixt
yeare
a
twentith
.
In
his
twelfth
yeare
a
twentyeth
,
In
his
fourteenth
yeare
hee
had
escuage
(
to
wit
)
forty
shillings
of
euery
knights
Fee
:
in
his
eighteenth
yeare
hee
had
the
eleventh
part
of
all
moueable
goods
within
the
kingdome
,
in
his
nineteenth
yeare
the
tenth
part
of
all
Church
liuings
in
England
,
Scotland
and
Ireland
,
for
sixe
yeares
,
by
agreement
from
the
Pope
,
in
his
three
&
twentith
yeare
he
raised
a
taxe
vpō
wooll
and
fels
,
&
on
a
day
caused
all
the
religious
houses
to
be
searched
,
&
al
the
treasure
in
thē
to
be
seized
&
brought
to
his
coffers
,
excusing
himselfe
by
laying
the
fault
vpō
his
treasurer
,
he
had
also
in
the
end
of
the
same
yeare
,
of
algoods
,
of
all
Burgesses
,
&
of
the
Commons
the
10
●
part
,
in
the
25
●
yeare
of
the
Parliamēt
of
S
t
Edmūdsbury
,
he
had
an
18
th
part
of
the
goods
of
the
Burgesses
,
and
of
the
people
in
generall
,
the
tenth
part
.
Hee
had
also
the
same
yeare
by
putting
the
Clergy
out
of
his
protection
a
fift
part
of
their
goods
,
and
in
the
same
yeare
he
set
a
great
taxe
vpon
wools
,
to
wit
,
from
halfe
a
marke
to
40
●
vpon
euery
sacke
,
wherevpon
the
Earle
Marshall
,
and
the
Earle
of
Hereford
refusing
to
attend
the
King
into
Flanders
pretended
the
greeuances
of
the
people
But
in
the
end
the
king
hauing
pardoned
thē
,
&
cōfirmed
the
great
Charter
,
he
had
the
ninth
penny
of
all
goods
from
the
Lords
and
Commons
of
the
Clergy
,
in
the
South
hee
had
the
tenth
penny
,
and
in
the
North
the
fift
penny
.
In
the
two
and
thirtyeth
yeare
he
had
a
subsedy
freely
graunted
.
In
the
three
and
thirtyeth
yeare
hee
confirmed
the
great
Charter
of
his
owne
Royall
disposition
,
and
the
states
to
shew
their
thankfulnesse
,
gaue
the
king
for
one
yeare
,
the
fift
part
of
all
the
revenues
of
the
land
and
of
the
Citizens
the
sixt
part
of
their
goods
.
And
in
the
same
yeare
the
king
vsed
the
inquisition
called
Traile
Baston
.
By
which
all
Iustices
and
other
Magistrates
were
grievously
fined
that
had
vsed
extortion
or
bribery
,
or
had
otherwise
misdemeaned
themselues
to
the
great
contentation
of
the
people
.
This
commission
likewise
did
enquire
of
intruders
,
barrators
&
all
other
the
like
vermine
,
whereby
the
king
gathered
a
great
masse
of
treasure
with
a
great
deale
of
loue
.
Now
for
the
whole
raigne
of
this
king
,
who
governed
England
35
yeares
,
there
was
not
any
Parliament
to
his
preiudice
.
COVNS
:
But
there
was
taking
of
armes
by
Marshall
and
Hereford
.
IVST
:
That
's
true
,
but
why
was
that
?
because
the
king
,
notwithstanding
all
that
was
giuen
him
by
Parliament
,
did
lay
the
greatest
taxes
that
ever
king
did
without
their
consent
.
But
what
lost
the
king
by
those
Lords
?
one
of
them
gaue
the
king
all
his
lands
,
the
other
dyed
in
disgrace
.
COVNS
:
But
what
say
you
to
the
Parliament
in
Edward
the
Seconds
time
his
successor
:
did
not
the
house
of
Parliament
banish
Peirce
Gaueston
whom
the
king
favoured
?
IVST
:
But
what
was
this
Gaueston
but
an
Esquier
of
Gascoine
,
formerly
banisht
the
Realme
by
king
Edward
the
first
,
for
corrupting
the
Prince
Edward
,
now
raigning
.
And
the
whole
kingdome
fearing
and
detesting
his
venemous
disposition
,
they
besought
his
Maiesty
to
cast
him
off
,
which
the
king
performed
by
an
act
of
his
owne
,
and
not
by
act
of
Parliament
,
yea
Gauestons
owne
fatherinlawe
,
the
Earle
of
Glocesterw
,
as
one
of
the
Chiefest
of
the
Lords
that
procured
it
.
And
yet
finding
the
kings
affection
to
follow
him
so
strongly
,
they
all
consented
to
haue
him
recalled
.
After
which
when
his
credit
so
increased
,
that
hee
despised
and
set
at
naught
all
the
auncient
Nobility
,
and
not
onely
perswaded
the
king
to
all
manner
of
outrages
and
riots
,
but
withall
transported
what
he
listed
of
the
kings
treasure
,
and
jewels
,
the
Lords
vrged
his
banishment
the
second
time
,
but
neither
was
the
first
nor
second
banishment
forced
by
acte
of
parliament
,
but
by
the
forceable
Lords
his
enemies
.
Lastly
hee
being
recalled
by
the
king
,
the
Earle
of
Lancaster
caused
his
head
to
bee
stricken
off
,
when
those
of
his
party
had
taken
him
prisoner
.
By
which
presumptuous
acts
,
the
Earle
and
the
rest
of
his
company
committed
treason
and
murder
,
treason
by
raysing
an
army
without
warrant
,
murder
by
taking
away
the
life
of
the
kings
subiect
.
After
which
Gaveston
being
dead
,
the
Spencers
got
possession
of
the
kings
favour
,
though
the
younger
of
them
was
placed
about
the
K.
by
the
Lords
themselues
.
COVNS
.
What
say
you
then
to
the
Parliament
held
at
London
about
the
sixt
yeare
of
that
king
?
IVST
.
I
say
that
king
was
not
bound
to
performe
the
acts
of
this
parliament
,
because
the
Lords
beeing
too
strong
for
the
king
,
inforced
his
consent
,
for
these
be
the
words
of
our
own
history
.
They
wrested
too
much
beyond
the
boūds
of
reasō
.
CONS
.
What
say
you
to
the
Parliaments
of
the
white
wands
in
the
13
th
of
the
king
.
IVST
.
I
say
the
Lords
that
were
so
moued
,
came
with
an
army
,
and
by
strong
hand
surprised
the
King
,
they
constrained
,
(
sayth
the
story
)
the
rest
of
the
Lords
and
compelled
many
of
the
Bishops
to
consent
vnto
them
,
yea
it
sayth
further
,
that
the
king
durst
not
but
graunt
to
all
that
they
required
,
(
to
wit
)
for
the
banishment
of
the
Spencers
.
Yea
they
were
so
insolent
that
they
refused
to
lodge
the
Queene
cōming
through
Kent
in
the
Castle
of
Leedes
,
and
sent
her
to
prouide
her
lodging
where
shee
could
get
it
so
late
in
the
night
,
for
which
notwithstanding
some
that
kept
her
out
were
soone
after
taken
and
hang'd
,
and
the
refore
your
Lordship
cannot
call
this
a
Parliament
for
the
reasons
before
alleaged
.
But
my
Lord
what
became
of
these
Lawgiuers
to
the
king
,
even
when
they
were
greatest
,
a
knight
of
the
North
called
Andrew
Herkeley
assembled
the
Forces
of
the
Countrey
,
ouerthrew
them
and
their
army
,
slewe
the
Earle
of
Hereford
and
other
Barons
,
tooke
their
generall
Thomas
Earle
of
Lancaster
,
the
Kinges
cozen-germane
at
that
tyme
possessed
of
fiue
Earledomes
,
the
Lords
Clifford
,
Talbort
,
Mowbray
,
Maudiut
,
Willington
,
Warren
,
Lord
Darcy
,
Withers
,
Kneuill
,
Leybourne
,
Bekes
,
Louell
,
Fitzwilliams
,
Watervild
,
and
diverse
other
Barons
,
Knights
and
Esquires
,
and
soone
after
the
Lord
Percy
,
and
the
Lord
Warren
tooke
the
Lords
Baldsemere
,
and
the
Lord
Audley
,
the
Lord
Teis
,
Gifford
,
Tuchet
,
and
many
others
that
fled
from
the
battaile
,
the
most
of
which
past
vnder
the
hands
of
the
hangman
,
for
constraining
the
King
vnder
the
colour
and
name
of
a
Parliament
.
But
this
your
good
Lordship
may
iudge
,
to
whom
,
those
tumultuous
assemblies
(
which
our
histories
falsely
call
Parliaments
haue
beene
daungerous
,
the
Kings
in
the
end
ever
preuailed
,
and
the
Lords
lost
their
liues
,
&
estates
.
After
which
the
Spencers
in
their
banishment
at
Yorke
,
in
the
15
th
of
the
King
,
were
restored
to
the
honors
and
estates
,
and
therein
the
King
had
a
subsedy
giuen
him
the
sixt
penny
of
goods
throughout
England
,
Ireland
,
and
Wales
.
COVNS
:
Yet
you
see
the
Spencers
were
soone
after
dissolued
.
IVST
:
It
is
true
my
Lord
,
but
that
is
nothing
to
our
subiect
of
Parliament
,
they
may
thanke
their
owne
insolencie
,
for
they
branded
&
despised
the
Queene
,
whom
they
ought
to
haue
honored
as
the
Kings
wife
;
they
were
also
exceeding
greedy
,
&
built
thēselues
vpon
other
mens
ruines
,
they
were
ambitious
&
exceeding
malitious
,
wherevpon
that
came
,
that
when
Chamberlaine
Spencer
was
hang'd
in
Hereford
,
a
part
of
the
24
th
Psalme
was
written
over
his
head
:
Quid
gloriaris
in
malitia
potens
?
COVNS
.
Well
Sir
,
you
haue
all
this
while
excused
your selfe
vpon
the
strength
and
rebellions
of
the
Lords
,
but
what
say
you
now
to
King
Edward
the
third
,
in
whose
time
(
and
during
the
time
of
this
victorious
king
,
no
man
durst
take
Armes
or
rebel
)
the
three
estates
did
him
the
greatest
affront
that
euer
king
receiued
or
endured
,
therefore
I
conclude
where
I
began
,
that
these
Parliaments
are
dangerous
for
a
king
.
IVST
.
To
answere
your
Lordship
in
order
,
may
it
please
you
first
to
call
minde
,
what
was
giuen
this
great
king
by
his
Subjects
before
the
dispute
betwixt
him
and
the
house
happened
,
which
was
in
his
latter
dayes
,
from
his
first
yeare
to
his
fift
yeare
there
was
nothing
giuen
the
king
by
his
subjects
:
In
his
eight
yeare
at
the
Parliament
at
London
a
tenth
and
a
fifteenth
was
graunted
:
in
his
tenth
yeare
hee
ceased
vpon
the
Italians
goods
heere
in
England
to
his
owne
vse
,
with
all
the
goods
of
the
Monkes
Cluniacqs
and
others
,
of
the
order
of
the
Cistertians
.
In
the
eleuenth
yeare
,
hee
had
given
him
by
parliament
a
notable
relief
,
the
one
halfe
of
the
woolls
throughout
England
,
and
of
the
Cleargy
all
their
wools
,
after
which
,
in
the
end
of
the
yeare
hee
had
granted
in
his
parliament
at
Westminster
,
forty
shillings
vpon
every
sacke
of
wool
,
and
for
every
thirty
wool
fels
forty
shillings
,
for
every
last
of
leatherne
,
as
much
,
and
for
all
other
merchandizes
after
the
same
rate
.
The
king
promising
that
this
yeares
gathering
ended
,
he
would
thenceforth
content
himselfe
with
the
old
custome
,
he
had
ouer
and
aboue
this
great
ayde
the
eight
part
of
all
goods
of
all
citizens
and
Burgesses
,
and
of
others
as
of
forreigne
Marchants
,
&
such
as
liued
not
of
the
gaine
of
breeding
of
sheepe
and
cattell
the
fifteenth
of
their
goods
:
Nay
my
Lord
:
this
was
not
all
:
though
more
then
euer
was
granted
to
any
king
,
for
the
same
parliament
bestowed
on
the
king
the
ninth
sheafe
of
all
the
corne
within
the
lande
,
the
ninth
fleece
,
and
the
ninth
lambe
for
two
yeares
next
following
:
now
what
thinke
your
Lordship
of
this
parliament
.
COVNS
.
I
say
they
were
honest
men
.
IVST
:
And
I
say
,
the
people
are
as
loving
to
their
king
now
,
as
euer
they
were
,
if
they
bee
honestly
and
wisely
dealt
withall
,
and
so
his
Majestie
hath
found
them
in
his
last
two
parliaments
,
if
his
Majestie
had
not
beene
betrayed
by
those
whom
he
most
trusted
.
COVNS
.
But
I
pray
you
Sir
,
who
shall
a
king
trust
,
if
he
may
not
trust
those
whom
he
hath
so
greatly
advanced
?
IVST
.
I
will
tell
your
Lordship
whom
the
king
may
trust
.
COVNS
.
Who
are
they
?
IVST
.
His
owne
reason
,
and
his
owne
excellent
judgement
which
haue
not
deceived
him
in
any
thing
,
wherein
his
Majestie
hath
beene
pleased
to
exercise
them
,
Take
councell
of
thine
heart
(
saith
the
booke
of
Wisedome
)
for
there
is
none
more
faithfull
vnto
thee
then
it
.
COVNS
.
It
is
true
,
but
his
Majestie
found
that
those
wanted
no
judgement
whom
hee
trusted
,
and
how
could
his
Majestie
divine
of
their
honesties
?
IVST
.
Will
you
pardon
mee
if
I
speake
freely
,
for
if
I
speake
out
of
loue
,
which
(
as
Salomon
saith
)
covereth
all
trespasses
,
The
trueth
is
,
that
his
Majestie
would
never
beleeue
any
man
that
spake
against
them
,
and
they
knew
it
well
enough
,
which
gaue
them
boldnesse
to
do
what
they
did
.
COVNS
.
What
was
that
?
IVST
.
Even
,
my
good
Lord
,
to
ruine
the
kings
estate
so
farre
as
the
state
of
so
great
a
king
may
be
ruin'd
by
men
ambitious
and
greedy
without
proportion
.
It
had
beene
a
braue
increase
of
revenue
,
my
Lord
,
to
haue
raysed
50000′
land
of
the
kings
to
20000′
revenue
,
and
to
raise
the
revenue
of
wards
to
20000′
more
,
40000′
added
to
the
rest
of
his
Majesties
estate
,
had
so
enabled
his
Majestie
,
as
hee
could
never
haue
wanted
.
And
my
good
Lord
,
it
had
beene
an
honest
service
to
the
king
,
to
haue
added
7000′
lands
of
the
Lord
Cobhams
,
woods
and
goods
being
worth
30000′
more
.
COVNS
.
I
know
not
the
reason
why
it
was
not
done
.
IVST
.
Neither
doth
your
Lordship
,
perchance
knowe
the
reason
why
the
10000′
offer'd
by
Swinnerton
for
a
fine
of
the
French
wines
,
was
by
the
then
Lord
Treasurer
conferr'd
on
Devonshire
and
his
Mistris
.
COVNS
.
What
moued
the
Treasurer
to
reject
&
crosse
that
raising
of
the
kings
lands
?
IVST
.
The
reason
,
my
good
Lord
,
is
manifest
,
for
had
the
land
beene
raised
,
then
had
the
king
knowne
when
hee
had
given
or
exchanged
land
,
what
hee
had
giuen
or
exchanged
.
COVNS
.
What
hurt
had
that
beene
to
the
Treasurer
whose
office
is
truely
to
informe
the
King
of
the
value
of
all
that
he
giveth
?
IVST
.
So
hee
did
when
it
did
not
concerne
himselfe
nor
his
particular
,
for
hee
could
neuer
admit
any
one
peece
of
a
good
Manour
to
passe
in
my
Lord
Aubignes
booke
of
1000′
land
,
till
hee
himselfe
had
bought
,
&
then
all
the
remaining
flowers
of
the
Crowne
were
culled
out
.
Now
had
the
Treasurer
suffer'd
the
Kings
lands
to
haue
been
raised
,
how
could
his
Lordshippe
haue
made
choice
of
the
old
rents
,
as
well
in
that
book
of
my
Lord
Aubigne
,
as
in
exchange
of
Theobalds
,
for
which
hee
tooke
Hatfield
in
it
,
which
the
greatest
subject
or
favorite
Queene
Elizabeth
had
never
durst
haue
named
vnto
her
by
way
of
gift
or
exchange
.
Nay
my
Lord
,
so
many
other
goodly
Mannors
haue
passed
from
his
Majestie
,
as
the
very
heart
of
the
kingdome
mourneth
to
remember
it
,
and
the
eyes
of
the
kingdome
shedde
teares
continually
at
the
beholding
it
▪
yea
the
soule
of
the
kingdome
is
heavy
vnto
death
with
the
consideration
thereof
,
that
so
magnanimous
a
Prince
,
should
suffer
himselfe
to
be
so
abused
.
COVNS
.
But
Sir
you
knowe
that
Cobhams
lands
were
entayled
vpon
his
Cosens
.
IVST
.
Yea
,
my
Lord
,
but
during
the
liues
and
races
of
George
Brooke
his
children
,
it
had
beene
the
kings
,
that
is
to
say
,
for
euer
in
effect
,
but
to
wrest
the
king
,
and
to
draw
the
inheritance
vpon
himselfe
,
he
perswaded
his
Majestie
to
relinquish
his
interest
for
a
petty
summe
of
money
;
and
that
there
might
be
no
counterworking
,
he
sent
Brooke
6000
l
to
make
friends
,
vvhereof
himselfe
had
2000
l
backe
againe
,
Buckhurst
and
Barwicke
had
the
other
4000
l
,
and
the
Treasurer
and
his
heires
the
masse
of
land
for
euer
.
COVNS
.
What
then
I
pray
you
came
to
the
king
by
this
great
confiscation
.
IVST
.
My
Lord
,
the
kings
Majestie
by
all
those
goodly
possessiōs
,
vvoods
&
goods
looseth
500
l
by
the
yere
which
he
giueth
in
pension
to
Cobham
,
to
maintaine
him
in
prison
.
COV
.
Certainly
,
even
in
conscience
they
should
haue
reserved
so
much
of
the
land
in
the
Crowne
,
as
to
haue
giuen
Cobham
meate
and
apparell
,
&
not
made
themselues
so
great
gainers
,
and
the
King
500
l
(
per
annum
)
looser
by
the
bargaine
,
but
it
's
past
:
Consilium
non
est
eorum
quae
fieri
nequeunt
.
IVST
.
Take
the
rest
of
the
sentence
,
my
Lord
:
Sed
consilium
versatur
in
iis
quae
sunt
in
nostra
potestate
.
It
is
yet
,
my
good
Lord
,
in
potestate
Regis
,
to
right
himselfe
.
But
this
is
not
all
my
Lord
:
And
I
feare
mee
,
knowing
your
Lordships
loue
to
the
King
,
it
would
put
you
in
a
feaver
to
heare
all
:
I
will
therefore
goe
on
vvith
my
parliaments
.
COVNS
.
I
pray
doe
so
,
and
amongst
the
rest
,
I
pray
you
what
say
you
to
the
Parliament
holden
at
London
in
the
fifteenth
yeare
of
King
Edward
the
third
?
IVST
.
I
say
there
was
nothing
concluded
therein
to
the
prejudice
of
the
King.
It
is
true
,
that
a
litle
before
the
sitting
of
the
house
,
the
King
displaced
his
Chancellour
and
his
Treasurer
,
and
most
of
all
his
judges
and
officers
of
the
exchequer
,
and
committed
many
of
them
to
prison
,
because
they
did
not
supplie
him
with
mony
being
beyond
the
seas
,
for
the
rest
,
the
states
assembled
,
besought
the
King
that
the
lawes
of
the
two
Charters
might
bee
obserued
,
and
that
the
great
officers
of
the
Crowne
might
bee
chosen
by
parliament
.
COVNS
.
But
what
successe
had
these
petitions
.
IVST
.
The
Charters
were
observed
,
as
before
,
&
so
they
wil
be
euer
,
&
the
other
petition
was
reiected
,
the
King
being
pleas'd
notwithstanding
,
that
the
great
Officers
should
take
an
oath
in
Parliament
to
doe
Iustice.
Now
for
the
Parliament
of
Westminster
,
in
the
17
th
yeare
of
the
King
,
the
King
had
three
markes
and
a
halfe
for
euery
sacke
of
wooll
transported
;
and
in
his
18
th
he
had
a
10
th
of
the
Clergy
,
and
a
15
●
of
the
Laity
for
one
yeare
.
His
Maiesty
forbare
after
this
to
charge
his
subiects
with
any
more
payments
,
vntill
the
29
th
of
his
reigne
,
when
there
was
giuen
the
King
by
Parliament
50
for
euery
sacke
of
wooll
transported
for
sixe
yeares
,
by
which
grant
,
the
King
receiued
a
thousand
marks
a
day
,
a
greater
matter
then
a
thousand
pounds
in
these
dayes
,
&
a
1000
l
a
day
amounts
to
365000
a
yeare
,
which
was
one
of
the
greatest
presents
that
euer
was
giuen
to
a
King
of
this
land
.
For
besides
the
cheapnes
of
all
things
in
that
age
,
the
Kings
souldiers
had
but
3
d
a
day
wages
,
a
man
at
armes
6
l
,
a
Knight
but
2
●
.
In
the
Parliament
at
Westminster
,
in
the
33
●
yeare
he
had
26
●
8
d
for
euery
sacke
of
wooll
transported
,
&
in
the
42
t●
yeare
3
dismes
&
3
fifteens
.
In
his
45
l
yeare
he
had
50000
of
the
Layty
,
&
because
the
Spiritualty
disputed
it
,
&
did
not
pay
so
much
,
the
King
chang'd
his
Chancellour
,
Treasurer
,
and
Privy
Seale
,
being
Bishops
,
and
placed
Lay
men
in
their
roome
.
COVNS
.
It
seemes
that
in
those
dayes
the
kings
were
no
longer
in
loue
with
their
great
Chancellors
,
then
when
they
deserued
well
of
them
.
IVST
.
No
my
Lord
,
they
were
not
,
&
that
was
the
reason
they
were
well
serued
,
&
it
was
the
custome
then
,
&
in
many
ages
after
,
to
change
the
Treasurer
&
the
Chancellour
euery
3
yeares
,
&
withall
to
heare
all
mens
complaints
against
thē
.
COVNS
.
But
by
this
often
change
,
the
saying
is
verified
,
that
there
is
no
inheritance
in
the
fauour
of
Kings
.
Hee
that
keepeth
the
figge
tree
(
saith
Salomon
)
shall
eat
the
fruite
thereof
;
for
reason
it
is
that
the
seruant
liue
by
the
Master
.
IVST
.
My
Lord
,
you
say
well
in
both
,
but
had
the
subiect
an
inheritance
in
the
Princes
favor
,
where
the
Prince
hath
no
inheritance
in
the
subiects
fidelity
,
then
were
kings
in
more
vnhappy
estate
then
common
persons
.
For
the
rest
,
Salomon
meaneth
not
,
that
he
that
keepeth
the
figge
tree
should
surfet
,
though
he
meant
he
should
eate
,
hee
meant
not
hee
should
breake
the
branches
in
gathering
the
figs
,
or
eate
the
ripe
,
&
leaue
the
rotten
for
the
owner
of
the
tree
;
for
what
saith
hee
in
the
following
chapter
,
he
saith
that
he
that
maketh
haste
to
be
rich
,
cannot
be
innocent
.
And
before
that
,
he
saith
,
that
the
end
of
an
inheritance
hastily
gotten
,
cannot
be
blessed
.
Your
Lordship
hath
heard
of
few
or
none
great
with
Kings
,
that
haue
not
vsed
their
power
to
oppresse
,
that
haue
not
grown
insolent
&
hatefull
to
the
people
;
yea
,
insolent
towards
those
Princes
that
advanced
them
.
COVNS
.
Yet
you
see
that
Princes
can
change
their
fancies
.
IVST
.
Yea
my
Lord
,
when
favorites
change
their
faith
,
when
they
forget
that
how
familiar
socuer
Kings
make
thēselues
with
their
Vassals
,
yet
they
are
kings
:
He
that
provoketh
a
King
to
anger
(
saith
Salomon
)
sinneth
against
his
owne
soule
.
And
he
further
saith
,
that
pride
goeth
before
destruction
,
and
a
high
minde
before
a
fall
.
I
say
therefore
,
that
in
discharging
those
Lucifers
,
how
deare
soeuer
they
haue
beene
,
kings
make
the
world
know
that
they
haue
more
of
Iudgement
then
of
passion
,
yea
they
thereby
offer
a
satisfactory
sacrifice
to
all
their
people
,
too
great
benefits
of
subjects
to
their
King
,
where
the
minde
is
blowne
vp
with
their
owne
deseruings
,
and
too
great
benefits
of
Kings
confer'd
vpon
their
subiects
,
where
〈◊〉
minde
is
not
qualified
with
a
great
deale
of
modesty
,
are
equally
dangerous
.
Of
this
later
and
insolenter
,
had
King
Richard
the
second
deliuered
vp
to
Iustice
but
three
or
foure
,
he
had
still
held
the
loue
of
the
people
,
and
thereby
his
life
and
estate
.
COVNS
.
Well
,
I
pray
you
goe
on
with
your
Parliaments
.
IVST
.
The
life
of
this
great
King
Edward
drawes
to
an
end
,
so
doe
the
Parliaments
of
this
time
,
where
in
50
yeares
raigne
,
he
neuer
receiued
any
affront
,
for
in
his
49
th
yeare
he
had
a
disme
and
a
fifteene
granted
him
freely
.
COVNS
.
But
Sir
it
is
an
olde
saying
,
that
all
is
well
that
ends
well
:
Iudge
you
whether
that
in
his
50
th
yeare
in
Parliament
at
Westminster
hee
receiued
not
an
affront
,
when
the
house
vrged
the
King
to
remoue
&
discharge
frō
his
presence
the
Duke
of
Lancaster
,
the
Lord
Latimer
his
Chamberlaine
,
Sir
Richard
Sturry
,
and
others
whom
the
King
fauoured
and
trusted
.
Nay
,
they
pressed
the
King
to
thrust
a
certaine
Lady
out
of
the
Court
,
which
at
that
time
bare
the
greatest
sway
therein
.
IVST
.
I
will
with
patience
answere
your
Lordship
to
the
full
,
and
first
your
Lordship
may
remember
by
that
which
I
euen
now
said
,
that
neuer
King
had
so
many
gifts
as
this
King
had
from
his
subiects
,
and
it
hath
neuer
grieued
the
subiects
of
England
to
giue
to
their
King
,
but
when
they
knew
there
was
a
devouring
Lady
,
that
had
her
share
in
all
things
that
passed
,
and
the
Duke
of
Lancaster
was
as
scraping
as
shee
,
that
the
Chancellour
did
eat
vp
the
people
as
fast
as
either
of
them
both
.
It
grieued
the
subjects
to
feede
these
Cormorants
.
But
my
Lord
there
are
two
things
by
which
the
Kings
of
England
haue
beene
prest
,
(
to
wit
)
by
their
subiects
,
and
by
their
owne
necessities
.
The
Lords
in
former
times
were
farre
stronger
,
more
warlike
,
better
followed
,
liuing
in
their
countries
,
then
now
they
are
.
Your
Lordship
may
remember
in
your
reading
,
that
there
were
many
Earles
could
bring
into
the
field
a
thousand
Barbed
horses
,
many
a
Baron
5
or
600
Barbed
horses
,
whereas
now
very
few
of
them
can
furnish
twenty
fit
to
serue
the
King.
But
to
say
the
truth
my
Lord
,
the
Iustices
of
Peace
in
England
,
haue
oppos'd
the
iniusticers
of
warre
in
England
,
the
kings
writ
runs
ouer
all
,
&
the
great
Scale
of
England
,
with
that
of
the
next
Constables
will
serue
the
turne
to
affront
the
greatest
Lords
in
England
that
shall
moue
against
the
King.
The
force
therefore
by
which
our
Kings
in
former
times
were
troubled
,
is
vanisht
away
.
But
the
necessities
remaine
.
The
people
therefore
in
these
later
ages
,
are
no
lesse
to
bee
pleased
then
the
Peeres
;
for
as
the
later
are
become
lesse
,
so
by
reason
of
the
trayning
through
England
,
the
Commons
haue
all
the
weapons
in
their
hands
.
COVNS
.
And
was
it
not
so
euer
?
IVST
.
No
my
good
Lord
,
for
the
Noblemen
had
in
their
Armories
to
furnish
some
of
thē
a
thousand
,
some
two
thousand
,
some
three
thousand
men
,
whereas
now
there
are
not
many
that
can
arme
fifty
.
COVNS
.
Can
you
blame
them
?
But
I
will
only
answere
for
my selfe
,
betweene
you
&
me
be
it
spoken
,
I
holde
it
not
safe
to
maintaine
so
great
an
Armory
or
Stable
,
it
might
cause
me
,
or
any
other
Nobleman
to
be
suspected
,
as
the
preparing
of
some
Innovation
.
IVST
.
Why
so
my
Lord
,
rather
to
bee
commended
as
preparing
against
all
danger
of
Innovation
.
COVNS
.
It
should
be
so
,
but
call
your
observation
to
accompt
,
&
you
shall
find
it
as
I
say
,
for
(
indeed
)
such
a
jelousie
hath
been
held
euer
since
the
time
of
the
Ciuill
wars
,
ouer
the
Military
greatnes
of
our
Nobles
,
as
made
them
haue
litle
will
to
bend
their
studies
that
wayes
:
wherefore
let
euery
man
prouide
according
as
hee
is
rated
in
the
Muster
booke
,
you
vnderstand
me
.
IVST
.
Very
well
my
Lord
,
as
what
might
be
replyed
in
the
preceiuing
so
much
;
I
haue
euer
(
to
deale
plainly
and
freely
with
your
Lordship
)
more
fear'd
at
home
popular
violence
,
then
all
the
forreine
that
can
be
made
,
for
it
can
neuer
bee
in
the
power
of
any
forreine
Prince
,
without
a
Papisticall
party
,
either
to
disorder
or
endanger
his
Majesties
Estate
.
COVNS
.
By
this
it
seemes
,
it
is
no
lesse
dangerous
for
a
king
to
leaue
the
power
in
the
people
,
then
in
the
Nobility
.
IVST
.
My
good
Lord
,
the
wisdome
of
our
owne
age
,
is
the
foolishnes
of
another
,
the
time
present
ought
not
to
bee
prefer'd
to
the
Policy
that
was
,
but
the
policy
that
was
,
to
the
time
present
.
So
that
the
power
of
the
Nobility
being
now
withered
,
and
the
power
of
the
people
in
the
flowre
,
the
care
to
content
them
would
not
be
neglected
,
the
way
to
win
them
often
practized
,
or
at
least
to
defend
them
from
oppression
.
The
motiue
of
all
dangers
that
euer
this
Monarchy
hath
vndergone
,
should
bee
carefully
heeded
,
for
this
Maxime
hath
no
posterne
,
Potestas
humana
radicatur
in
voluntatibus
hominum
.
And
now
my
Lord
,
for
King
Edward
it
is
true
,
though
he
were
not
subject
to
force
,
yet
was
hee
subiect
to
necessity
,
which
because
it
was
violent
,
hee
gaue
way
vnto
it
,
Potestas
(
saith
Pythagoras
)
iuxia
necessitatem
habitat
.
And
it
is
true
,
that
at
the
request
of
the
house
he
discharged
&
put
from
him
those
before
named
,
which
done
,
he
had
the
greatest
gift
(
but
one
)
that
euer
he
receiued
in
all
his
dayes
(
to
wit
)
from
euery
person
,
man
&
woman
aboue
the
age
of
fourteen
yeares
.
4
●
of
old
mony
,
which
made
many
Millions
of
Groats
,
worth
6
●
of
our
mony
.
This
he
had
in
generall
,
besides
he
had
of
euery
beneficed
Priest
,
12
d.
And
of
the
Nobility
&
Gentry
,
I
know
not
how
much
,
for
it
is
not
set
down
.
Now
my
good
Lord
,
what
lost
the
King
by
satisfying
the
desires
of
the
Parliament
house
;
for
assoone
as
hee
had
the
money
in
purse
,
hee
recalled
the
Lords
,
and
restored
them
,
&
who
durst
call
the
King
to
accompt
,
when
the
Assembly
were
dissolued
.
Where
the
word
of
a
King
is
,
there
is
power
(
saith
Ecclesiasticus
)
who
shall
say
vnto
him
,
what
doest
thou
?
saith
the
same
Author
,
for
euery
purpose
there
is
a
time
&
judgment
,
the
King
gaue
way
to
the
time
,
&
his
judgmēt
persweded
him
to
yeeld
to
necessity
,
Consularius
nemo
melior
est
quàm
tempus
.
COVNS
.
But
yet
you
see
the
king
was
forc'd
to
yeeld
to
their
demaunds
.
IVST
.
Doth
your
Lordship
remember
the
saying
of
Monsieur
de
Lange
,
that
he
that
hath
the
profit
of
the
warre
,
hath
also
the
honour
of
the
warre
,
whether
it
be
by
battaile
or
retreate
,
the
King
you
see
had
the
profit
of
the
Parliament
,
and
therefore
the
honour
also
,
what
other
end
had
the
king
then
to
supply
his
wants
.
A
wise
man
hath
euermore
respect
vnto
his
ends
:
And
the
king
also
knew
that
it
was
the
loue
that
the
people
bare
him
,
that
they
vrged
the
remouing
of
those
Lords
,
there
was
no
man
among
them
that
sought
himselfe
in
that
desire
,
but
they
all
sought
the
King
,
as
by
the
successe
it
appeared
.
My
good
Lord
,
hath
it
not
been
ordinary
in
England
and
in
France
to
yeeld
to
the
demaunds
of
rebels
,
did
not
King
Richard
the
second
graunt
pardon
to
the
outragious
roagues
&
murtherers
that
follovved
Iack
Straw
,
&
Wat
Tyler
,
after
they
had
murthered
his
Chancellor
,
his
Treasurer
,
Chiefe
Iustice
,
and
others
,
brake
open
his
Exchequer
,
and
committed
all
manner
of
outrages
and
villanies
,
and
why
did
he
doe
it
,
but
to
avoid
a
greater
danger
:
I
say
the
Kings
haue
then
yeelded
to
those
that
hated
them
and
their
estates
,
(
to
wit
)
to
pernicious
rebels
.
And
yet
without
dishonour
shall
it
be
called
dishonour
for
the
King
to
yeeld
to
honest
desires
of
his
subjects
.
No
my
Lord
,
those
that
tell
the
King
those
tales
,
feare
their
own
dishonour
,
and
not
the
Kings
,
for
the
honour
of
the
King
is
supreame
,
and
being
guarded
by
Iustice
and
piety
,
it
cannot
receiue
neither
wound
nor
stayne
.
COVNS
.
But
Sir
,
what
cause
haue
any
about
our
King
to
feare
a
Parliament
?
IVST
.
The
same
cause
that
the
Earle
of
Suffolke
had
in
Richard
the
seconds
time
,
and
the
Treasurer
Fartham
,
with
others
;
for
these
great
Officers
being
generally
hated
for
abusing
both
the
King
and
the
subiect
,
at
the
request
of
the
States
were
discharged
,
and
others
put
in
their
roomes
.
COVNS
.
And
was
not
this
a
dishonour
to
the
king
?
IVST
.
Certainly
no
,
for
King
Richard
knew
that
his
Grandfather
had
done
the
like
,
and
though
the
king
was
in
his
heart
vtterly
against
it
,
yet
had
hee
the
profite
of
this
exchange
;
for
Suffolke
was
fined
at
20000
markes
,
&
1000
●
lands
.
COVNS
.
Well
Sir
,
we
will
speake
of
those
that
feare
the
Parliament
some
other
time
,
but
I
pray
you
goe
on
with
that
,
that
happened
in
the
troublesome
raigne
of
Richard
the
second
who
succeeded
,
the
Grandfather
beeing
dead
.
IVST
.
That
king
,
my
good
Lord
,
was
one
of
the
most
vnfortunate
Princes
that
euer
England
had
,
hee
was
cruell
,
extreame
prodigall
,
and
wholly
carryed
away
with
his
two
Minions
,
Suffolk
▪
&
the
duke
of
Ireland
,
by
whose
ill
advice
&
others
,
he
was
in
danger
to
haue
lost
his
estate
;
which
in
the
end
(
being
led
by
men
of
the
like
temper
)
he
miserably
lost
.
But
for
his
subsedies
hee
had
giuen
him
in
his
first
yeare
being
vnder
age
two
tenths
,
and
two
fifteenes
:
In
which
Parliament
,
Alice
Peirce
,
who
was
remoued
in
king
Edwards
time
,
with
Lancaster
,
Latimer
,
and
Sturry
.
were
confiscate
&
banished
.
In
his
second
yeare
at
the
Parliament
at
Glocester
,
the
King
had
a
marke
vpon
euery
sacke
of
wooll
,
and
6
d
the
pound
vpon
wards
.
In
his
third
yeare
at
the
Parliament
at
Winchester
,
the
Commons
were
spared
,
and
a
subsedy
giuen
by
the
better
sort
,
the
Dukes
gaue
20
markes
,
and
Earles
6
markes
,
Bishoppes
and
Abbots
with
myters
fixe
markes
,
euery
marke
3●
4
d
,
&
euery
Knight
,
Iustice
,
Esquier
,
Shrieue
,
Parson
,
Vicar
,
&
Chaplaine
,
paid
proportionably
according
to
their
estates
.
COVNS
.
This
me
thinkes
was
no
great
matter
.
IVST
.
It
is
true
my
Lord
,
but
a
little
mony
went
far
in
those
dayes
:
I
my selfe
once
moued
it
in
Parliament
in
the
time
of
Queene
Elizabeth
,
who
desired
much
to
spare
the
Common
people
,
and
I
did
it
by
her
Commaundement
;
but
when
we
cast
vp
the
subsedy
Bookes
,
wee
found
the
summe
but
smal
,
whē
the
30
●
men
were
left
out
.
In
the
beginning
of
his
fourth
yeare
,
a
tenth
with
a
fifteene
vvere
granted
vpon
condition
,
that
for
one
vvhole
yeare
no
subsedies
should
bee
demaunded
;
but
this
promise
vvas
as
suddenly
forgotten
as
made
,
for
in
the
end
of
that
yeare
,
the
great
subsedy
of
Poll
mony
vvas
granted
in
the
Parliament
at
Northampton
.
COVNS
.
Yea
,
but
there
follovved
the
terrible
Rebellion
of
Baker
,
Straw
,
and
others
,
Leister
,
Wrais
,
and
others
.
IVST
.
That
vvas
not
the
fault
of
the
Parliament
my
Lord
,
it
is
manifest
that
the
subsedy
giuen
vvas
not
the
cause
;
for
it
is
plaine
that
the
bondmen
of
England
began
it
,
because
they
vvere
grieuously
prest
by
their
Lords
in
their
tenure
of
Villenage
,
as
also
for
the
hatred
they
bare
to
the
Lavvyers
&
Attorneyes
:
for
the
story
of
those
times
say
,
that
they
destroyed
the
houses
&
Mannors
of
men
of
lavv
,
and
such
Lavvyers
as
they
caught
,
slevv
them
,
&
beheaded
the
Lord
chiefe
Iustice
,
which
commotion
being
once
begun
,
the
head
mony
was
by
other
Rebels
pretended
:
A
fire
is
often
kindled
with
a
litle
straw
,
which
oftentimes
takes
hold
of
greater
timber
,
&
consumes
the
whole
building
:
And
that
this
Rebellion
was
begun
by
the
discontented
slaues
(
whereof
there
haue
beene
many
in
Elder
times
the
like
)
is
manifest
by
the
Charter
of
Manumission
,
which
the
King
granted
in
haec
verba
▪
Rich.
Dei
gratia
&c.
Sciatis
quòd
de
gratia
nostrâ
spirituals
manumissimus
&c.
to
which
seeing
the
King
was
constrained
by
force
of
armes
,
hee
revoked
the
letters
Pattents
.
and
made
them
voide
,
the
same
revocation
being
strengthened
by
the
Parliament
ensuing
.
In
which
the
King
had
giuen
him
a
subsedy
vpon
wools
,
called
a
Maletot
.
In
the
same
fourth
yeare
was
the
Lord
Treasurer
discharged
of
his
Office
and
Hales
Lord
of
S
Iohns
chosen
in
his
place
.
In
his
fift
yeare
was
the
Treasurer
againe
changed
,
and
the
Staffe
giuen
to
Segraue
,
and
the
Lord
Chancellour
was
also
changed
,
and
the
staffe
giuen
to
the
Lord
Scroope
:
Which
Lord
Scroope
was
againe
in
the
beginning
of
his
sixt
yeare
turned
out
,
and
the
King
after
that
he
had
for
a
while
kept
the
Seale
in
his
own
hand
,
gaue
it
to
the
Bishop
of
London
,
from
vvhom
it
vvas
soone
after
taken
&
bestovved
on
the
Earle
of
Suffolke
,
vvho
they
say
,
had
abused
the
king
,
and
converted
the
kings
Treasure
to
his
ovvne
vse
.
To
this
the
King
condiscended
,
and
though
(
saith
Walsingham
)
he
deserued
to
loose
his
life
and
goods
,
yet
he
had
the
fauor
to
goe
at
liberty
vpō
good
sureties
:
&
because
the
K.
vvas
but
yong
,
&
that
the
reliefe
granted
vvas
committed
to
the
trust
of
the
Earle
of
Arundell
for
the
furnishing
of
the
Kings
Navy
against
the
French.
COVNS
.
Yet
you
see
it
vvas
a
dishonor
to
the
K.
to
haue
his
beloued
Chancellour
remoued
.
IVS.
Truly
no
,
for
the
K.
had
both
his
fine
1000
lāds
,
&
a
subsedy
to
boot
.
And
though
for
the
present
it
pleased
the
K.
to
fancy
a
man
all
the
vvorld
hated
(
the
K
s
passiō
ouercōming
his
Iudgmēt
)
yet
it
cānot
be
cal'd
a
dishonor
,
for
the
K.
is
to
belieue
the
general
coūsel
of
the
kingdom
,
&
to
prefer
it
before
his
affection
,
especially
vvhen
Suffolk
vvas
proued
to
be
false
euen
to
the
K
:
for
were
it
otherwise
loue
and
affection
might
bee
called
a
frenzie
and
a
madnesse
,
for
it
is
the
nature
of
humane
passions
,
that
the
loue
bredde
by
fidelity
,
doth
change
it selfe
into
hatred
,
when
the
fidelity
is
first
changed
into
falshood
.
COVNS
:
But
you
see
there
were
thirteene
Lords
chosen
in
the
Parliament
,
to
haue
the
oversight
of
the
government
vnder
the
King.
IVS
:
No
my
Lord
,
it
was
to
haue
the
oversight
of
those
Officers
,
which
(
saith
the
Story
)
had
imbezeled
,
lewdly
wasted
,
and
prodigally
spent
the
Kings
treasure
,
for
to
the
Cōmission
to
those
Lords
,
or
to
any
six
of
them
,
joyn'd
with
the
Kings
Counsell
,
was
one
of
the
most
royall
and
most
profitable
that
euer
he
did
,
if
hee
had
bin
constant
to
himself
.
But
my
good
Lord
,
man
is
the
cause
of
his
own
misery
,
for
I
wil
repeate
the
substance
of
the
commission
granted
by
the
K
▪
&
confirmed
by
Parliament
,
which
,
whether
it
had
bin
profitable
for
the
K.
to
haue
prosecuted
,
your
Lordship
may
judge
.
The
preamble
hath
these
words
:
Whereas
our
Sovereigne
Lord
the
King
perceiveth
by
the
greivous
complaints
of
the
Lords
&
Commons
of
this
Realme
,
that
the
rents
,
profits
,
&
revenues
of
this
Realme
,
by
the
singular
and
insufficient
Councell
and
evill
gouernment
,
aswell
of
some
his
late
great
Officers
,
and
others
,
&c.
are
so
much
withdrawen
,
wasted
,
eloyued
,
giuen
,
granted
,
alienated
,
destroyed
,
and
evill
dispended
,
that
he
is
so
much
impoverished
and
void
of
treasure
and
goods
,
and
the
substance
of
the
Crown
so
much
diminished
and
destroyed
,
that
his
estate
may
not
honorably
be
sustained
as
appertayneth
.
The
K.
of
his
free
will
at
the
request
of
the
Lords
and
Commons
,
hath
ordayned
Williā
Archbishop
of
Canterbury
and
others
with
his
Chancellour
,
Treasurer
,
keeper
of
his
privy
seale
,
to
survey
and
examine
as
well
the
estate
and
governance
of
his
house
,
&c.
as
of
all
the
rents
,
and
profits
,
and
revenues
that
to
him
appertayneth
,
and
to
be
due
,
or
ought
to
appertaine
and
be
due
,
&c.
And
all
manner
of
gifts
,
graunts
,
alienations
and
confirmations
made
by
him
of
lands
,
tenements
,
rents
,
&c.
bargained
and
sold
to
the
preiudice
of
him
and
his
Crowne
,
&c.
And
of
his
iewels
&
goods
which
were
his
Grandfathers
at
the
time
of
his
death
,
&c.
and
where
they
be
become
.
This
is
in
effect
the
substance
of
the
commission
,
which
your
Lordship
may
reade
at
large
in
the
booke
of
Statutes
,
this
commission
being
enacted
in
the
tenth
yere
of
the
Kings
reigne
.
Now
if
such
a
commission
were
in
these
daies
granted
to
the
faithfull
men
,
that
haue
no
interest
in
the
sales
,
gifts
nor
purchases
,
nor
in
the
keeping
of
the
jewells
at
the
Queenes
death
,
nor
in
the
obtaining
,
graunts
of
the
Kings
best
lands
,
I
cannot
say
what
may
be
recouered
,
&
justly
recovered
;
and
what
say
your
Lordship
,
was
not
this
a
noble
acte
for
the
King
,
if
it
had
beene
followed
to
effect
?
COVNS
.
I
cannot
tell
whether
it
were
or
no
,
for
it
gaue
power
to
the
Commissioners
to
examine
all
the
graunts
.
IVST
.
Why
my
Lord
,
doth
the
King
graunt
any
thing
,
that
shames
at
the
examination
?
are
not
the
Kings
graunts
on
record
?
COVNS
.
But
by
your
leaue
,
it
is
some
dishonour
to
a
King
,
to
haue
his
judgement
called
in
question
.
IVST
.
That
is
true
my
Lord
,
but
in
this
,
or
vvhensoever
the
like
shall
be
graunted
in
the
future
,
the
Kings
judgement
is
not
examined
,
but
their
knavery
that
abused
the
K.
Nay
by
your
favour
,
the
contrary
is
true
,
that
vvhen
a
King
will
suffer
himselfe
to
bee
eaten
vp
by
a
company
of
petty
fellowes
,
by
himselfe
raised
,
there
in
both
the
judgement
and
courage
is
disputed
.
And
if
your
Lordship
vvill
disdaine
it
at
your
own
servants
hands
,
much
more
ought
the
great
heart
of
a
King
,
to
disdaine
it
.
And
surely
my
Lord
,
it
is
a
greater
treason
(
though
it
vndercreepe
the
law
)
to
teare
from
the
Crowne
the
ornaments
thereof
:
And
it
is
an
infallible
maxime
,
that
hee
that
loues
not
his
Majesties
estate
,
loues
not
his
person
.
COVNS
.
How
came
it
then
,
that
the
acte
was
not
executed
?
IVS.
Because
these
,
against
vvhom
it
was
graunted
,
perswaded
the
King
to
the
contrary
:
As
the
Duke
of
Ireland
,
Suffolke
,
the
chief
Iustice
Trisilian
,
&
others
,
yea
,
that
which
vvas
lawfully
done
by
the
King
,
and
the
great
Councell
of
the
kingdome
,
was
(
by
the
mastery
which
Ireland
,
Suffolke
,
and
Tresilian
had
ouer
the
Kings
affections
)
broken
and
disavowed
.
Those
that
devised
to
relieue
the
King
,
not
by
any
private
invention
,
but
by
generall
Councell
,
were
by
a
private
and
partiall
assemblie
,
adjudged
traytors
,
and
the
most
honest
Iudges
of
the
land
,
enforced
to
subscribe
to
that
judgment
.
In
so
much
,
that
Iudge
Belknap
plainely
told
the
Duke
of
Ireland
,
and
the
Earle
of
Suffolke
,
when
hee
was
constrained
to
set
to
his
hand
,
plainely
told
these
Lords
,
that
he
wanted
but
a
rope
,
that
he
might
therewith
receiue
a
reward
for
his
subscription
.
And
in
this
Councell
of
Nottingham
vvas
hatched
the
ruine
of
those
which
governed
the
King
,
of
the
Iudges
by
them
constrained
,
of
the
Lords
that
loued
the
King
,
and
sought
a
reformation
,
and
of
the
King
himselfe
;
for
though
the
King
found
by
all
the
Shreeues
of
the
shires
,
that
the
people
would
not
fight
against
the
Lords
,
whom
they
thought
to
bee
most
faithfull
vnto
the
King
,
when
the
Citizens
of
London
made
the
same
answere
,
beeing
at
that
time
able
to
arme
50000●
men
,
&
told
the
Major
,
that
they
would
never
fight
against
the
Kings
friends
,
and
defenders
of
the
Realme
,
when
the
Lord
Ralph
Basset
,
who
was
neere
the
K.
told
the
King
boldly
,
that
hee
would
not
adventure
to
haue
his
head
broken
for
the
Duke
of
Irelands
pleasure
,
vvhen
the
Lord
of
London
told
the
Earle
of
Suffolke
in
the
Kings
presence
,
that
he
was
not
worthy
to
liue
,
&c.
yet
vvould
the
King
in
the
defence
of
the
destroyers
of
his
estate
,
lay
ambushes
to
entrap
the
Lords
,
when
they
came
vpon
his
faith
,
yea
when
all
was
pacified
,
and
that
the
King
by
his
Proclamation
had
clear'd
the
Lords
,
and
promised
to
produce
Ireland
,
Suffolke
,
&
the
Archbishop
of
Yorke
,
Tresilian
&
Bramber
,
to
answer
at
the
next
Parliament
,
these
men
confest
,
that
they
durst
not
appeare
;
and
when
Suffolke
fled
to
Callice
,
and
the
Duke
of
Ireland
to
Chester
,
the
King
caused
an
army
to
be
leavied
in
Lancashire
,
for
the
safe
conduct
of
the
Duke
of
Ireland
to
his
presence
,
when
as
the
Duke
being
encountered
by
the
Lords
,
ranne
like
a
coward
from
his
company
,
&
fled
into
Holland
.
After
this
vvas
holden
a
Parliament
,
which
vvas
called
that
vvrought
vvonders
.
In
the
eleuenth
yeare
of
this
King
,
wherein
the
forenamed
Lords
,
the
Duke
of
Ireland
&
the
rest
,
were
condemned
and
confiscate
,
the
Chiefe
Iustice
hang'd
with
many
others
,
the
rest
of
the
Iudges
condemned
&
banisht
,
&
a
10
th
and
a
15
th
given
to
the
King.
COVNS
:
But
good
Sir
:
the
King
was
first
besieged
in
the
Tower
of
London
,
and
the
Lords
came
to
the
Parliament
,
&
no
man
durst
contradict
them
.
IVST
:
Certainly
in
raising
an
army
,
they
committed
treason
,
and
though
it
did
appeare
,
that
they
all
loued
the
King
,
(
for
they
did
him
no
harme
,
hauing
him
in
their
power
)
yet
our
law
doth
construe
all
leavying
of
war
without
the
kings
commission
,
and
all
force
raised
to
be
intended
for
the
death
&
destruction
of
the
K.
not
attending
the
sequell
.
And
it
is
so
judged
vpon
good
reason
,
for
every
vnlawfull
and
ill
action
is
suppos'd
to
be
accompanied
with
an
ill
intēt
.
And
besides
,
those
Lords
vsed
too
great
cruelty
,
in
procuring
the
sentence
of
death
against
diuers
of
the
Kings
servaunts
,
who
were
bound
to
follow
and
obey
their
Master
and
Soveraigne
Lord
,
in
that
hee
commaunded
.
COVNS
.
It
is
true
,
and
they
were
also
greatly
to
blame
,
to
cause
then
so
many
seconds
to
be
put
to
death
,
seeing
the
principalls
,
Ireland
,
Suffolke
▪
and
Yorke
had
escaped
them
.
And
what
reason
had
they
to
seeke
to
enforme
the
State
by
strong
hand
,
was
not
the
Kinges
estate
as
deere
to
himselfe
,
as
to
them
?
He
that
maketh
a
King
know
his
errour
manerly
and
priuate
,
and
giues
him
the
best
aduice
,
hee
is
discharged
before
God
,
and
his
owne
conscience
.
The
Lords
might
haue
retired
themselues
,
when
they
saw
they
could
not
prevaile
,
and
haue
left
the
King
to
his
owne
wayes
,
who
had
more
to
loose
then
they
had
.
IVST
.
My
Lord
,
the
taking
of
Armes
cannot
be
excused
in
respect
of
the
law
,
but
this
might
be
said
for
the
Lords
that
the
K.
being
vnder
yeres
,
&
being
wholly
governed
by
their
enimies
,
&
the
enimies
of
the
kingdome
,
&
because
by
those
evill
mens
perswasiōs
,
it
was
aduised
,
how
the
Lords
should
haue
bin
murthered
at
a
feast
in
London
,
they
were
excusable
during
the
kings
minority
to
stand
vpō
their
guards
against
their
particular
enemies
.
But
we
will
passe
it
ouer
and
go
on
with
our
parliaments
that
followed
,
whereof
that
of
Cambridge
in
the
K
s
12
th
yeare
was
the
next
,
therein
the
K.
had
giuen
him
a
10
th
&
a
15
th
,
after
which
,
being
20.
yeares
of
age
rechāged
(
saith
H.
Kinghton
)
his
Treasurer
,
his
Chancellor
,
the
Iustices
of
either
bench
,
the
Clerk
of
the
priuy
seale
&
others
,
&
tooke
the
gouernment
into
his
own
hands
.
Hee
also
tooke
the
Admirals
place
frō
the
Earle
of
Arundell
,
&
in
his
roome
hee
placed
the
Earle
of
Huntingdon
in
the
yeare
following
,
which
was
the
13
th
yeare
of
the
K.
in
the
Parliament
at
Westminster
,
there
was
giuen
to
the
King
vpon
every
sacke
of
wooll
14
s
and
6
d
in
the
pound
vpon
other
marchandize
.
COVNS
:
But
by
your
leaue
,
the
King
was
restrained
this
parliament
,
that
he
might
not
dispose
of
,
but
a
third
part
of
the
money
gathered
.
IVST
:
No
my
Lord
,
by
your
fauour
.
But
true
it
is
that
part
of
this
mony
was
by
the
Kings
consent
assigned
towards
the
wars
,
but
yet
left
in
the
Lord
Treasurers
hands
,
And
my
Lo
:
it
would
be
a
great
ease
,
&
a
great
sauing
to
his
Maiestie
our
Lord
and
Master
,
if
it
pleased
him
to
make
his
assignations
vpon
some
part
of
his
revenewes
,
by
which
he
might
haue
1000●
vpon
every
10000●
,
and
saue
himselfe
a
great
deale
of
clamour
.
For
seeing
of
necessity
the
Nauy
must
be
maintained
,
&
that
those
poore
men
aswell
Carpenters
as
ship
keepers
must
be
paid
,
it
were
better
for
his
Maiesty
to
giue
an
assignation
to
the
treasurer
of
his
nauy
for
the
receiuing
of
so
much
as
is
called
ordinary
,
then
to
discontent
those
poore
men
,
who
being
made
desperate
beggers
,
may
perchance
be
corrupted
by
them
that
lye
in
waite
to
destroy
the
K
s
estate
.
And
if
his
Maiesty
did
the
like
in
all
other
payments
,
especially
where
the
necessity
of
such
as
are
to
receiue
,
cannot
possible
giues
daies
,
his
Maiesty
might
then
in
a
litle
rowle
behold
his
receipts
and
expences
,
hee
might
quiet
his
heart
when
all
necessaries
were
provided
for
,
and
then
dispose
the
rest
at
his
pleasure
.
And
my
good
Lord
,
how
excellently
and
easily
might
this
haue
bin
done
,
if
the
400000●
had
beene
raised
as
aforesaid
vpon
the
Kings
lands
,
and
wards
,
I
say
that
his
Maiesties
house
,
his
navy
,
his
guards
,
his
pensioners
,
his
munition
,
his
Ambassadors
and
all
else
of
ordinary
charge
might
haue
beene
defrayed
,
and
a
great
summe
left
for
his
Maiesties
casuall
expences
and
rewards
,
I
will
not
say
they
were
not
in
loue
with
the
Kings
estate
,
but
I
say
they
were
vnfortunately
borne
for
the
King
that
crost
it
.
COVNS
.
Well
Sir
,
I
would
it
had
beene
otherwise
,
But
for
the
assignments
,
there
are
among
vs
that
will
not
willingly
indure
it
.
Charity
begins
with
itselfe
,
shall
wee
hinder
our selues
of
50000●
per
annum
to
saue
the
King
20
?
No
Sir
,
what
will
become
of
our
New-yeares
gifts
,
our
presents
and
gratuities
?
We
can
now
say
to
those
that
haue
warrants
for
money
,
that
there
is
not
a
penny
in
the
Exchequer
,
but
the
king
giues
it
away
vnto
the
Scots
faster
then
it
comes
in
.
IVST
.
My
Lord
you
say
well
,
at
least
you
say
the
trueth
,
that
such
are
some
of
our
answeres
,
and
hence
comes
that
generall
murmure
to
all
men
that
haue
money
to
receiue
,
I
say
that
there
is
not
a
penny
giuen
to
that
nation
,
be
it
for
seruice
or
otherwise
but
it
is
spread
over
all
the
kingdome
:
yea
they
gather
notes
,
and
take
copies
of
all
the
priuy
seales
and
warrants
that
his
Maiesty
hath
given
for
the
money
for
the
Scots
,
that
they
may
shew
them
in
Parliament
.
But
of
his
Maiesties
gifts
to
the
English
,
there
is
no
bruite
though
they
may
be
tenne
times
as
much
as
the
Scots
.
And
yet
my
good
Lord
,
howsoeuer
they
be
thus
answered
that
to
them
sue
for
money
out
of
the
Exchequer
,
it
is
due
to
them
for
10
or
12
▪
or
20
in
the
hundred
,
abated
according
to
their
qualities
that
sue
,
they
are
alwaies
furnished
.
For
conclusion
,
if
it
would
please
God
to
put
into
the
Kings
heart
to
make
their
assignations
,
it
would
saue
him
many
a
pound
,
and
gaine
him
many
a
prayer
,
and
a
great
deale
of
loue
,
for
it
grieueth
every
honest
mans
heart
to
see
the
abūdance
which
euen
the
petty
officers
in
the
Exchequer
,
and
others
gather
both
from
the
king
and
subiect
,
and
to
see
a
world
of
poore
men
runne
after
the
King
for
their
ordinary
wages
.
COVNS
.
Well
,
well
,
did
you
never
heare
this
old
tale
,
that
when
there
was
a
great
contention
about
the
weather
,
the
Seamen
complaining
of
contrary
windes
,
when
those
of
the
high
Countreyes
desired
raine
,
and
those
of
the
valleyes
sunshining
dayes
,
Iupiter
sent
them
word
by
Mercury
,
then
,
when
they
had
all
done
,
the
weather
should
be
as
it
had
bin
,
And
it
shall
euer
fall
out
so
with
them
that
complaine
,
the
course
of
payments
shall
be
as
they
haue
beene
,
what
care
we
what
petty
fellowes
say
?
or
what
care
wee
for
your
papers
?
haue
not
we
the
Kings
eares
,
who
dares
contest
with
vs
?
though
we
cannot
be
revenged
on
such
as
you
are
for
telling
the
trueth
,
yet
vpon
some
other
pretence
,
wee
'le
clap
you
vp
,
and
you
shall
sue
to
vs
ere
you
get
out
.
Nay
wee
'le
make
you
confesse
that
you
were
deceiued
in
your
proiects
,
and
eate
your
owne
words
:
learne
this
of
me
Sir
,
that
as
a
little
good
fortune
is
better
then
a
great
deale
of
vertue
:
so
the
least
authority
hath
advantage
ouer
the
greatest
wit
,
was
he
not
the
wisest
man
that
said
,
the
battaile
was
not
to
the
strongest
,
nor
yet
bread
for
the
wise
,
nor
riches
to
men
of
vnderstanding
,
nor
fauour
to
men
of
knowledge
:
but
what
time
&
chance
came
to
them
all
.
IVST
.
It
is
well
for
your
Lordship
that
it
is
so
.
But
Qu
:
Elizabeth
would
set
the
reason
of
a
meane
man
,
before
the
authority
of
the
greatest
Councellor
she
had
,
and
by
her
patience
therein
shee
raised
vpon
the
vsuall
and
ordinary
customes
of
London
without
any
new
imposition
aboue
50000●
a
yeare
,
for
though
the
Treasurer
Burleigh
,
and
the
Earle
of
Leicester
,
and
Secretary
Walshingham
all
three
pensioners
to
Customer
Smith
did
set
themselues
against
a
poore
waiter
of
the
Custome-house
called
Carwarden
,
and
commaunded
the
groomes
of
the
privy
Chamber
not
to
giue
him
accesse
,
yet
the
Queene
sent
for
him
,
and
gaue
him
countenance
against
them
all
.
It
would
not
serue
the
turne
,
my
Lord
,
with
her
;
when
your
Lordships
would
tell
her
,
that
the
disgracing
her
great
officers
by
hearing
the
complaints
of
busie
heads
,
was
a
dishonour
to
herselfe
,
but
shee
had
alwaies
this
answere
,
That
if
any
man
complaine
vniustly
against
a
Magistrate
,
it
were
reason
he
should
be
severely
punished
,
if
iustly
,
shee
was
Queene
of
the
small
,
aswell
as
of
the
great
,
and
would
heare
their
complaints
.
For
my
good
Lord
,
a
Prince
that
suffereth
himselfe
to
be
besieged
,
forsaketh
one
of
the
greatest
regalities
belonging
to
a
Monarchie
,
to
wit
,
the
last
appeale
,
or
as
the
French
call
it
,
le
dernier
resort
.
COVNS
:
Well
Sir
,
this
from
the
matter
,
I
pray
you
go
on
.
IVST
:
Then
my
Lord
,
in
the
kings
15
th
yeare
he
had
a
tenth
and
at
fifteene
graunted
in
Parliament
of
London
.
And
that
same
yeare
there
was
a
great
Councell
called
at
Stamford
to
which
diuerse
men
were
sent
for
,
of
diuerse
counties
besides
the
Nolility
,
of
whom
the
K.
tooke
advice
whether
he
should
continue
the
war
,
or
make
a
finall
end
with
the
French.
COVNS
.
What
needed
the
king
to
take
the
advice
of
any
but
of
his
owne
Councell
in
matter
of
peace
or
warre
.
IVST
.
Yea
my
Lord
,
for
it
is
said
in
the
Prouerbes
▪
where
are
many
counsellers
,
there
is
health
.
And
if
the
king
had
made
the
warre
by
a
generall
consent
,
the
kingdome
in
generall
were
bound
to
maintaine
the
warre
,
and
they
could
not
then
say
when
the
King
required
ayde
,
that
he
vndertooke
a
needlesse
warre
.
COVNS
.
You
say
well
,
but
I
pray
you
go
on
.
IVST
.
After
the
subsedy
in
the
15
yeare
,
the
King
desired
to
borrow
10000
l
of
the
Londoners
,
which
they
refused
to
lend
.
COVNS
.
And
was
not
the
King
greatly
troubled
therewith
.
IVST
:
Yea
but
the
King
troubled
the
Londoners
soone
after
,
for
the
king
tooke
the
advantage
of
a
ryot
made
vpon
the
Bishop
of
Salisbury
his
men
,
sent
for
the
Maior
,
and
other
the
ablest
cittizens
,
committed
the
Maior
to
prison
in
the
Castle
of
Windsor
,
and
others
to
other
castles
,
and
made
a
Lord
VVarden
of
this
citty
,
till
in
the
end
what
with
10000
l
ready
money
,
and
other
rich
presents
,
insteed
of
lending
10000
l
it
cost
them
20000
l.
Betweene
the
fifteenth
yeare
and
twentith
yeare
,
hee
had
two
aydes
giuen
him
in
the
Parliaments
of
VVinchester
and
VVestminster
:
and
this
later
was
given
to
furnish
the
Kings
iourney
into
Ireland
to
establish
that
estate
which
was
greatly
shaken
since
the
death
of
the
Kings
Grandfather
,
who
receiued
thence
yearely
30000
l
and
during
the
Kings
stay
in
Ireland
hee
had
a
10
th
and
a
15
th
graunted
.
COVNS
.
And
good
reason
,
for
the
King
had
in
his
army
4000
horse
and
30000
foote
.
IVST
.
That
by
your
fauour
,
was
the
Kings
sanity
:
for
great
armies
do
rather
devour
themselues
then
destroy
enimies
.
Such
an
army
,
(
whereof
the
fourth
part
would
haue
conquered
all
Ireland
)
was
in
respect
of
Ireland
such
an
army
as
Xerxes
led
into
Greece
in
this
twentith
yeare
,
wherein
hee
had
a
tenth
of
the
Cleargy
,
was
the
great
conspiracy
of
the
Kings
vnkle
,
the
Duke
of
Glocester
,
and
of
Moubrey
,
Arundell
,
Nottingham
,
and
Warwick
,
the
Archbishop
of
Canterbury
and
the
Abbotte
of
VVestminster
,
and
others
who
in
the
21
●
yeare
of
the
King
were
all
redeemed
by
parliament
.
&
what
thinkes
your
Lordship
,
was
not
this
assembly
of
the
3
states
for
the
kings
estate
,
wherein
hee
so
prevailed
,
that
hee
not
onely
overthrew
those
popular
Lords
,
but
besides
(
the
English
Chronicle
sayth
,
the
king
so
wrought
and
brought
things
about
,
that
hee
obtained
the
power
of
both
houses
to
be
graunted
to
certaine
persons
▪
to
15
Noblemen
and
Gentlmen
,
or
to
seauen
of
them
.
COVNS
:
Sir
,
whether
the
king
wrought
well
or
ill
I
cannot
judge
,
but
our
Chronicles
say
,
that
many
things
were
done
in
this
parliament
,
to
the
displeasure
of
no
small
number
of
people
,
to
wit
,
for
that
diverse
rightfull
heires
were
disinherited
of
their
lands
&
liuings
,
with
which
wrongfull
doings
the
people
were
much
offended
,
so
that
the
King
with
those
that
were
about
him
,
and
chiefe
in
counsell
,
came
into
great
infamy
and
slander
.
IVST
.
My
good
Lord
,
if
your
Lordship
will
pardon
mee
,
I
am
of
opinion
that
those
Parliaments
wherein
the
kings
of
this
land
haue
satisfied
the
people
,
as
they
haue
beene
euer
prosperous
,
so
where
the
king
hath
restrained
the
house
,
the
contrary
hath
happened
,
for
the
K
●
atchiuements
in
this
parliament
,
were
the
ready
preparations
to
his
ruine
.
COV
:
You
meane
by
the
general
discontetmet
that
followed
,
and
because
the
King
did
not
proceede
legally
with
Glocester
and
others
.
Why
Sir
,
this
was
not
the
first
time
that
the
Kings
of
England
haue
done
things
without
the
Counsell
of
the
land
:
yea
,
contrary
to
the
lawe
.
IVST
:
It
is
true
my
Lord
in
some
particulars
,
as
euen
at
this
time
the
Duke
of
Glocester
was
made
away
at
Callice
by
strong
hand
,
without
any
lawfull
triall
:
for
hee
was
a
man
so
beloued
of
the
people
and
so
allied
,
hauing
the
Dukes
of
Lancaster
,
and
Yorke
his
brethren
,
the
Duke
of
Aumarle
,
and
the
Duke
of
Hereford
his
Nephewes
,
the
great
Earles
of
Arundell
and
VVarwicke
,
with
diuerse
other
of
his
part
in
the
conspiracy
,
as
the
King
durst
not
trie
him
according
to
the
law
:
for
at
the
tryall
of
Arundell
and
VVarwicke
,
the
king
was
forced
to
entertaine
a
petty
army
about
him
.
And
though
the
Duke
was
greatly
lamented
,
yet
it
cannot
be
denyed
but
that
he
was
then
a
traytor
to
the
King.
And
was
it
not
so
my
Lord
with
the
Duke
of
Guise
:
your
Lordship
doth
remember
the
spurgald
proverbe
,
that
necessitie
hath
no
law
:
and
my
good
Lord
,
it
is
the
practice
of
doing
wrong
,
and
of
generall
wrongs
done
,
that
brings
danger
,
and
not
where
kings
are
prest
in
this
or
that
particular
,
for
there
is
great
difference
betweene
naturall
cruelty
and
accidentall
.
And
therefore
it
was
Machiauels
advice
,
that
all
that
a
king
did
in
that
kind
,
he
shall
do
at
once
,
and
by
his
mercies
afterwards
make
the
world
know
that
his
cruelty
was
not
affected
.
And
my
Lord
take
this
for
a
generall
rule
,
that
the
immortall
policy
of
a
state
cannot
admit
any
law
or
priuiledge
whatsoeuer
,
but
in
some
particular
or
other
,
the
same
is
necessarily
broken
,
yea
in
an
Aristocratia
or
popular
estate
,
which
vaunts
so
much
of
equality
and
common
right
,
more
outrage
hath
beene
committed
then
in
any
Christian
Monarchy
.
COVNS
:
But
whence
came
this
hatred
between
the
Duke
and
the
King
his
Nephew
.
IVST
:
My
Lord
,
the
Dukes
constraining
the
King
,
when
he
was
young
,
stucke
in
the
kings
heart
,
and
now
the
Dukes
proud
speech
to
the
King
when
hee
had
rendred
Brest
formerly
ingaged
to
the
Duke
of
Brittaine
,
kindled
againe
these
coales
that
were
not
altogether
extinguished
,
for
he
vsed
these
words
:
Your
grace
ought
to
put
your
body
in
great
paine
to
winne
a
strong
hold
or
towne
by
feares
of
armes
,
ere
you
take
vpon
you
to
sell
or
deliuer
any
towne
gotten
by
the
manhood
and
strong
hand
and
policy
of
your
noble
progenitours
.
VVhereat
,
sayth
the
story
,
the
King
chaunged
his
countenance
&c
:
and
to
say
trueth
▪
it
was
a
proud
and
maisterly
speech
of
the
Duke
;
besides
that
inclusiuely
hee
taxed
him
of
sloath
and
cowardize
,
as
if
he
had
neuer
put
himselfe
to
the
adventure
of
winning
such
a
place
,
vndutifull
wordes
of
a
subiect
do
often
take
deeper
roote
then
the
memory
of
ill
deedes
do
:
The
Duke
of
Biron
found
it
when
the
King
had
him
at
advantage
.
Yea
the
late
Earle
of
Essex
told
Queene
Elizabeth
that
her
conditions
was
as
crooked
as
her
carkasse
:
but
it
cost
him
his
head
,
which
his
insurrection
had
not
cost
him
,
but
for
that
speech
,
who
will
say
vnto
a
King
(
saith
Iob
)
thou
art
wicked
.
Certainly
it
is
the
same
thing
to
say
vnto
a
Lady
,
thou
art
crooked
(
and
perchance
more
)
as
to
say
vnto
a
King
that
he
is
wicked
,
and
to
say
that
hee
is
a
coward
,
or
to
vse
any
other
wordes
of
disgrace
,
it
is
one
and
the
same
errour
.
COVN
:
But
what
say
you
for
Arundell
,
a
braue
and
valiant
man
,
who
had
the
Kings
pardon
of
his
contempt
during
his
minority
.
IVST
:
My
good
Lord
,
the
Parliament
which
you
say
disputes
the
Kings
prerogatiue
,
did
quite
contrary
,
and
destroyed
the
kings
charter
and
pardon
formerly
giuen
to
Arundell
.
And
my
good
Lord
,
do
you
remember
,
that
at
the
Parliament
that
wrought
wonders
,
when
these
Lords
compounded
that
parliament
,
as
the
King
did
this
,
they
were
so
mercilesse
towards
all
,
that
they
thought
their
enemies
,
as
the
Earle
of
Arundell
most
insolently
suffered
the
Qu
:
to
kneele
vnto
him
three
houres
for
the
sauing
of
one
of
her
servants
,
and
that
scorne
of
his
manebat
alto
mente
repostum
.
And
to
say
the
truth
,
it
is
more
barbarous
&
vnpardonable
then
any
act
that
ever
hee
did
to
permit
the
wife
of
his
Soueraigne
to
kneele
to
him
being
the
Kings
vassaile
.
For
if
he
had
saued
the
Lords
seruant
freely
at
her
first
request
,
as
it
is
like
enough
that
the
Qu
:
would
also
haue
saued
him
,
Miseris
succurrens
paria
obtinebis
aliquando
.
For
your
Lordship
sees
that
the
Earle
of
Warwicke
who
was
as
farre
in
the
treason
as
any
of
the
rest
,
was
pardoned
.
It
was
also
at
this
parliament
that
the
Duke
of
Hereford
accused
Mowbray
Duke
of
Norfolke
,
and
that
the
Duke
of
Hereford
,
sonne
to
the
Duke
of
Lancaster
,
was
banished
to
the
Kings
confusion
,
as
your
Lordship
well
knowes
.
COVNS
.
I
know
it
well
,
and
God
knowes
that
the
K.
had
then
a
silly
and
weake
Counsell
about
him
,
that
perswaded
him
to
banish
a
Prince
of
the
blood
,
a
most
valiant
man
,
and
the
best
beloued
of
the
people
in
generall
of
any
man
liuing
,
especially
considering
that
the
K.
gaue
every
day
more
then
other
offence
to
his
subiects
.
For
besides
that
he
fined
the
inhabitants
that
assisted
the
Lords
in
his
Minority
of
the
17
shires
)
which
offence
he
had
long
before
pardoned
,
his
blank
Charters
,
&
letting
the
Realme
to
farme
to
meane
persons
,
by
whom
he
was
wholly
advised
,
increased
the
peoples
hatred
towards
the
present
gouernment
.
IVST
:
You
say
well
my
L.
Princes
of
an
ill
destiny
do
alwaies
follow
the
worst
counsell
,
or
at
least
imbrace
the
best
after
opportunity
is
lost
,
Qui
confilia
non
ex
suo
corde
sed
alienis
viribus
colligunt
,
non
animo
sed
auribus
cogitant
,
And
this
was
not
the
least
griefe
of
the
subiect
in
generall
,
that
those
men
had
the
greatest
part
of
the
spoile
of
the
cōmonwealth
,
which
neither
by
vertue
,
valour
or
counsell
could
adde
any
thing
vnto
it
:
Nihil
est
sordidius
,
nihil
crudelius
(
saith
Anto
:
Pius
)
quāsi
Remp.
ij
arrode
,
qui
nihil
in
eam
suo
labore
cōferent
.
COVNS
:
Indeede
the
letting
to
farme
the
Realme
was
very
grievous
to
the
subiect
.
IVST
.
Will
your
Lordship
pardon
me
if
I
tell
you
that
the
letting
to
Farme
of
his
Maiesties
Customes
(
the
greatest
revenue
of
the
Realme
)
is
not
very
pleasing
.
COVNS
.
And
why
I
pray
you
,
doth
not
the
K.
thereby
raise
his
profits
every
third
yeare
,
and
one
farmer
out
bids
another
to
the
kings
advantage
.
IVST
.
It
is
true
my
Lord
,
but
it
grieues
the
subiect
to
pay
custome
to
the
subject
,
for
what
mighty
men
are
those
Farmers
become
,
and
if
those
Farmers
get
many
thousands
every
yeare
,
as
the
world
knowes
they
doe
,
why
should
they
not
now
(
being
men
of
infinite
wealth
)
declare
vnto
the
K.
vpon
oath
,
what
they
haue
gained
,
and
henceforth
become
the
Kings
collectors
of
his
custome
,
did
not
Queene
Elizabeth
,
who
was
reputed
both
a
wise
and
just
Princesse
,
after
shee
had
brought
Customer
Smith
from
14000
l
a
yeare
to
42000
l
a
yeare
,
made
him
lay
downe
a
recompence
for
that
which
hee
had
gotten
?
And
if
these
Farmers
doe
giue
no
recompence
,
let
them
yet
present
the
King
with
the
trueth
of
their
receivings
and
profits
.
But
my
Lord
for
conclusion
,
after
Bollingbrooke
arriuing
in
England
with
a
small
troope
:
Notwithstanding
the
King
at
his
landing
out
of
Ireland
,
had
a
sufficient
and
willing
army
:
yet
hee
wanting
courage
to
defend
his
right
,
gaue
leaue
to
all
his
souldiers
to
depart
,
&
put
himselfe
into
his
hands
that
cast
him
into
his
graue
.
COVNS
.
Yet
you
see
,
hee
was
depos'd
by
Parliament
.
IVST
.
Aswell
may
your
Lordship
say
hee
was
knock't
in
the
head
by
Parliament
,
for
your
Lordship
knowes
,
that
if
King
Richard
had
ever
escaped
out
of
their
fingers
,
that
deposed
him
,
the
next
Parliament
would
haue
made
all
the
deposers
traytors
and
rebels
,
and
that
iustly
.
In
which
Parliamēt
,
or
rather
vnlawful
assembly
,
there
appeared
but
one
honest
man
,
to
wit
,
the
B.
of
Carliel
,
who
scorned
his
life
&
estate
,
in
respect
of
right
&
his
allegiāce
,
&
defēded
the
right
of
his
Soveraigne
Lo
:
against
the
K.
elect
&
his
partakers
.
COVNS
.
Well
I
pray
goe
on
with
the
Parliaments
held
in
the
time
of
his
successor
Henry
the
fourth
.
IVST
.
This
King
had
in
his
third
yeare
a
subsedy
,
&
in
his
fift
a
tenth
of
the
Cleargie
without
a
Parliament
;
In
his
sixt
yeare
he
had
so
great
a
subsedie
,
as
the
House
required
there
might
bee
no
record
thereof
left
to
posterity
,
for
the
House
gaue
him
20
of
euery
knights
Fee
,
and
of
every
20●
land
,
20●
and
12●
the
pound
of
goods
.
COVNS
.
Yea
in
the
end
of
this
yere
,
the
Parliamēt
prest
the
king
to
annex
vnto
the
Crowne
all
temporall
possessions
belonging
to
Church-men
within
the
land
,
which
at
that
time
,
was
the
third
foote
of
all
England
.
But
the
Bishops
made
friends
,
and
in
the
end
saued
their
estates
.
IVST
.
By
this
you
see
,
my
Lord
,
that
Cromwell
was
not
the
first
that
thought
on
such
a
businesse
.
And
if
king
Henry
the
8●
had
reserued
the
Abbeyes
,
and
other
Church
lands
,
which
he
had
given
at
that
time
,
the
revenue
of
the
Crowne
of
England
,
had
exceeded
the
reuenue
of
the
Crowne
of
Spaine
,
with
both
the
Indies
,
whereas
vsed
as
it
was
,
(
a
little
enriched
the
Crown
)
served
but
to
make
a
number
of
petty-foggers
,
and
other
gentlemen
.
COVNS
.
But
what
had
the
king
in
steed
of
this
great
revenue
.
IVST
.
Hee
had
a
15
th
of
the
Commons
,
and
a
tenth
,
and
a
halfe
of
the
Clergy
,
and
withall
,
all
pensions
graunted
by
king
Edward
,
and
king
Richard
were
made
voide
.
It
was
also
moved
,
that
all
Crowne
lands
formerly
giuen
(
at
least
given
by
K.
Ed
:
and
K.
Rich
:
)
should
bee
taken
backe
.
COVNS
.
What
thinke
you
of
that
,
Sir
?
would
it
not
haue
beene
a
dishonour
to
the
king
?
and
would
not
his
Successors
haue
done
the
like
to
those
that
the
king
had
advanced
?
IVST
.
I
cannot
answere
your
Lordship
,
but
by
distinguishing
▪
for
where
the
kings
had
given
land
for
services
,
and
had
not
beene
over-reached
in
his
gifts
,
there
it
had
bin
a
dishonour
to
the
king
,
to
haue
made
voide
the
graunts
of
his
predecessors
,
or
his
graunts
,
but
all
those
graunts
of
the
kinges
,
wherein
they
were
deceived
,
the
very
custome
and
policy
of
England
makes
them
voyde
at
this
day
.
COVNS
.
How
meane
you
that
,
for
his
Majestie
hath
given
a
great
deale
of
land
among
vs
since
he
came
into
England
,
and
would
it
stand
with
the
kinges
honour
to
take
it
from
vs
againe
?
IVST
.
Yea
my
Lord
,
very
well
with
the
kinges
honour
,
if
your
Lordship
,
or
any
Lord
else
,
haue
vnder
the
name
of
100
land
a
yeare
,
gotten
500●
land
,
and
so
after
that
rate
.
COVNS
.
I
will
never
belieue
that
his
Majestie
will
ever
doe
any
such
thing
.
IVST
.
And
I
beleeue
as
your
Lordship
doth
,
but
we
spake
e're-while
of
those
that
disswaded
the
King
frō
calling
it
a
Parliament
:
And
your
Lordship
asked
mee
the
reason
,
why
any
man
should
disswade
it
,
or
feare
it
,
to
which
,
this
place
giues
me
an
opportunity
to
make
your
Lordship
an
answer
,
for
though
his
Majestle
will
of
himself
never
question
those
graunts
,
yet
when
the
Commons
shall
make
humble
petition
to
the
King
in
Parliament
,
that
it
will
please
his
Majestie
to
assist
them
in
his
reliefe
,
with
that
which
ought
to
be
his
owne
,
which
,
if
it
will
please
his
Majestie
to
yeeld
vnto
,
the
house
will
most
willingly
furnish
and
supply
the
rest
,
with
what
grace
can
his
Majestie
deny
that
honest
suite
of
theirs
,
the
like
hauing
beene
done
in
many
Kinges
times
before
?
This
proceeding
,
my
good
Lord
,
may
perchance
proue
all
your
phrases
of
the
Kings
honour
,
false
English.
COVNS
.
But
this
cannot
concerne
many
,
&
for
my self
,
I
am
sure
it
concernes
me
little
.
IVST
.
It
is
true
my
Lord
,
and
there
are
not
many
that
disswade
his
Majestie
from
a
Parliament
.
COVNS
.
But
they
are
great
ones
,
a
fewe
of
which
will
serue
the
turne
well
enough
.
IVST
.
But
my
Lord
,
bee
they
neuer
so
great
(
as
great
as
Gyants
)
yet
if
they
disswade
the
King
from
his
ready
and
assured
way
of
his
subsistence
,
they
must
devise
how
the
K.
may
be
else-where
supplied
,
for
they
otherwise
runne
into
a
dangerous
fortune
.
COVNS
.
Hold
you
contented
Sir
,
the
King
needes
no
great
disswasion
.
IVST
.
My
Lord
,
learne
of
me
,
that
there
is
none
of
you
all
,
that
can
pierce
the
King.
It
is
an
essentiall
property
of
a
man
truely
wise
,
not
to
open
all
the
boxes
of
his
bosome
,
even
to
those
that
are
neerest
and
deerest
vnto
him
,
for
when
a
man
is
discovered
to
the
very
bottome
,
he
is
after
the
lesse
esteemed
.
I
dare
vndertake
,
that
when
your
Lordship
hath
served
the
King
twice
twelue
yeares
more
,
you
will
finde
,
that
his
Majestie
hath
reserved
somewhat
beyond
all
your
capacities
,
his
Majestie
hath
great
reason
to
put
off
the
Parliament
,
as
his
last
refuge
,
and
in
the
meane
time
,
to
make
triall
of
all
your
loues
to
serue
him
,
for
his
Majestie
hath
had
good
experience
,
how
well
you
can
serue
your selues
:
But
when
the
King
finds
,
that
the
building
of
your
owne
fortunes
and
factions
,
hath
beene
the
diligent
studies
,
and
the
service
of
his
Majestie
,
but
the
exercises
of
your
leisures
:
Hee
may
then
perchance
cast
himself
vpon
the
general
loue
of
his
people
,
of
which
(
I
trust
)
hee
shall
never
bee
deceiued
,
and
leaue
as
many
of
your
Lordships
as
haue
pilfered
from
the
Crowne
,
to
their
examination
.
COVNS
.
Well
Sir
,
I
take
no
great
pleasure
in
this
dispute
,
goe
on
I
pray
.
IVST
.
In
that
Kinges
5
th
yeare
,
hee
had
also
a
subsedy
,
which
he
got
by
holding
the
house
together
from
Easter
to
Christmas
,
and
would
not
suffer
them
to
depart
.
He
had
also
a
subsedie
in
his
ninth
yeare
.
In
his
eleventh
yeare
the
Commons
did
againe
presse
the
king
to
take
all
the
temporalities
of
the
Church-men
into
his
hands
,
which
they
proved
sufficient
to
maintaine
150
Earles
,
1500
knights
,
and
6400
Esquiers
,
with
a
hundred
hospitals
,
but
they
not
prevayling
,
gaue
the
King
a
subsedy
.
As
for
the
notorious
Prince
,
Henry
the
fift
,
I
finde
,
that
he
had
given
him
in
his
second
yeare
300000
markes
,
and
after
that
two
other
subsedies
,
one
in
his
fifth
yeare
,
another
in
his
ninth
,
without
any
disputes
.
In
the
time
of
his
successour
Henry
the
sixt
,
there
where
not
many
subsedies
.
In
his
third
yeare
,
he
had
a
subsedy
of
a
Tunnage
and
Poundage
.
And
here
(
saith
Iohn
Stom
)
began
those
payments
,
which
wee
call
customes
,
because
the
payment
was
continued
,
whereas
before
that
time
it
was
granted
but
for
a
yeare
,
two
,
or
three
,
according
to
the
Kings
occasions
.
Hee
had
also
an
ayde
and
gathering
of
money
in
his
fourth
yeare
,
and
the
like
in
his
tenth
yeare
,
and
in
his
thirteenth
yere
a
15
th
.
He
had
also
a
fifteenth
for
the
conveying
of
the
Queene
out
of
France
into
England
.
In
the
twenty
eight
yeare
of
that
King
was
the
acte
of
Resumption
of
all
honours
,
townes
,
castles
,
Signieuries
,
villages
,
Manors
,
lands
,
tenements
,
rents
,
reversions
,
fees
,
&c.
But
because
the
wages
of
the
Kings
seruants
,
were
by
the
strictnes
of
the
acte
also
restrained
,
this
acte
of
Resumption
was
expounded
in
the
Parliament
at
Reading
the
31
th
yeare
of
the
Kings
reigne
.
COVNS
.
I
perceiue
that
those
acts
of
Resumption
were
ordinary
in
former
times
;
for
King
Stephen
resumed
the
lands
,
which
in
former
times
hee
had
giuen
to
make
friends
during
the
Ciuill
warres
.
And
Henry
the
second
resumed
all
(
without
exception
)
which
King
Stephen
had
not
resumed
;
for
although
King
Stephen
tooke
backe
a
great
deale
,
yet
hee
suffered
his
trustiest
seruants
to
enjoye
his
gift
.
IVST
.
Yes
my
Lord
,
&
in
after
times
also
;
for
this
was
not
the
last
,
nor
shall
be
the
last
,
I
hope
.
And
judge
you
my
Lord
,
whether
the
Parliaments
doe
not
only
serue
the
King
,
whatsoeuer
is
said
to
the
contrary
;
for
as
all
King
Henry
the
6
,
gifts
&
graunts
were
made
voide
by
the
Duke
of
Yorke
,
when
he
was
in
possession
of
the
kingdome
by
Parliament
.
So
in
the
time
of
K.
H.
when
K.
Edw
:
was
beaten
out
again
,
the
Parliament
of
Westminster
made
all
his
acts
voyde
,
made
him
&
all
his
followers
traytors
,
&
gaue
the
King
many
of
their
heads
&
lands
.
The
Parliaments
of
England
do
alwaies
serue
the
King
in
possession
.
It
seru'd
Rich.
the
second
to
condemne
the
popular
Lords
.
It
seru'd
Bollingbrooke
to
depose
Rich.
When
Edw.
the
4.
had
the
Scepter
,
it
made
them
all
beggars
that
had
followed
H.
the
6.
And
it
did
the
like
for
H.
when
Edw.
was
driuen
out
.
The
Parliaments
are
as
the
friendship
of
this
world
is
,
which
alwayes
followeth
prosperity
.
For
K.
Edw.
the
4
:
after
that
hee
was
possessed
of
the
Crown
,
he
had
in
his
13
yeare
a
subsedy
freely
giuen
him
:
&
in
the
yeare
following
hee
tooke
a
benevolence
through
England
,
which
arbitrary
taking
frō
the
people
,
seru'd
that
ambitious
traytor
the
Duke
of
Bucks
.
After
the
Kings
death
was
a
plausible
argument
to
perswade
the
multitude
,
that
they
should
not
permit
(
saith
Sir
Thomas
Moore
)
his
line
to
raigne
any
longer
vpon
them
.
COVNS
Well
Sir
,
what
say
you
to
the
Parliament
of
Richard
the
third
his
time
?
IVST
.
I
finde
but
one
,
and
therein
he
made
diuerse
good
Lawes
.
For
K.
Henry
the
seuenth
in
the
beginning
of
his
third
yeare
hee
had
by
Parliament
an
ayde
granted
vnto
him
,
towards
the
reliefe
of
the
Duke
of
Brittaine
,
then
assailed
by
the
French
King.
And
although
the
King
did
not
enter
into
the
warre
,
but
by
the
advice
of
the
three
estates
,
who
did
willingly
contribute
:
Yet
those
Northerne
men
which
loued
Richard
the
third
,
raised
rebellion
vnder
colour
of
the
mony
impos'd
,
&
murthered
the
Earle
of
Northumberland
whom
the
King
employed
in
that
Collection
.
By
which
your
Lordship
sees
,
that
it
hath
not
beene
for
taxes
and
impositions
alone
,
that
the
ill
disposed
haue
taken
Armes
▪
but
euen
for
those
payments
which
haue
beene
appoynted
by
Parliament
.
COVNS
.
And
what
became
of
those
Rebels
?
IVST
.
They
were
fairely
hang'd
,
and
the
mony
levied
notwithstanding
,
in
the
Kings
first
yeare
he
gathered
a
marvailous
great
masse
of
mony
,
by
a
benevolence
,
taking
patterne
by
this
kind
of
levie
from
Edw.
4
th
.
But
the
King
caused
it
first
to
be
moued
in
Parliament
where
it
was
allowed
,
because
the
poorer
sort
were
therein
spared
.
Yet
it
is
true
that
the
king
vsed
some
arte
,
for
in
his
Letters
hee
declared
that
hee
would
measure
euery
mans
affections
by
his
gifts
.
In
the
thirteenth
yeare
hee
had
also
a
subsedy
,
whereupon
the
Cornish
men
tooke
Armes
,
as
the
Northerne
men
of
the
Bishoppricke
had
done
in
the
third
yeare
of
the
King.
COVNS
.
It
is
without
example
,
that
euer
the
people
haue
rebelled
for
any
thing
granted
by
Parliament
,
saue
in
this
kings
dayes
.
IVST
.
Your
Lordship
must
consider
,
that
he
was
not
ouer
much
belou'd
,
for
hee
tooke
many
advantages
vpon
the
people
and
the
Nobility
both
.
COVNS
.
And
I
pray
you
what
say
they
now
of
the
new
impositions
lately
laide
by
the
Kings
Maiesty
?
doe
they
say
that
they
are
justly
or
injustly
laide
?
IVST
.
To
impose
vpon
all
things
brought
into
the
Kingdome
is
very
auncient
:
which
imposing
when
it
hath
beene
continued
a
certaine
time
,
is
then
called
Customes
,
because
the
subjects
are
accustomed
to
pay
it
,
&
yet
the
great
taxe
vpon
wine
is
still
called
Impost
,
because
it
was
imposed
after
the
ordinary
rate
of
payment
,
had
lasted
many
yeares
.
But
we
doe
now
a
dayes
vnderstand
those
things
to
bee
impositions
,
which
are
raised
by
the
commaund
of
Princes
,
without
the
aduice
of
the
common-wealth
,
though
(
as
I
take
it
)
much
of
that
which
is
now
called
custome
,
was
at
the
first
imposed
by
Prerogatiue
royall
:
Now
whether
it
be
time
or
consent
that
makes
them
just
,
I
cannot
define
,
were
they
just
because
new
,
and
not
justified
yet
by
time
,
or
vnjust
because
they
want
a
generall
consent
:
yet
is
this
rule
of
Aristotle
verified
in
respect
of
his
Majestie
:
Minus
timent
homines
iniustum
pati
à
principe
quem
cultorem
dei
putant
.
Yea
my
Lord
,
they
are
also
the
more
willingly
borne
,
because
all
the
world
knowes
they
are
no
new
Invention
of
the
Kings
.
And
if
those
that
advised
his
Maiestie
to
impose
them
,
had
raised
his
lands
(
as
it
was
offered
them
)
to
20000
l
more
then
it
was
,
and
his
wards
to
asmuch
as
aforesaid
,
they
had
done
him
farre
more
acceptable
seruice
.
But
they
had
their
own
ends
in
refusing
the
one
,
and
accepting
the
other
.
If
the
land
had
beene
raised
,
they
could
not
haue
selected
the
best
of
it
for
themselues
:
If
the
impositions
had
not
been
laide
,
some
of
them
could
not
haue
their
silkes
,
others
peeces
in
farme
,
which
indeed
grieued
the
subiect
tenne
times
more
then
that
which
his
Maiestie
enjoyeth
.
But
certainly
they
made
a
great
advantage
that
were
the
advisers
,
for
if
any
tumult
had
followed
his
Maiesty
,
ready
way
had
beene
to
haue
deliuered
them
ouer
to
the
people
.
COVNS
.
But
thinke
you
that
the
King
would
haue
deliuered
them
if
any
troubles
had
followed
?
IVST
.
I
know
not
my
Lord
,
it
was
Machiavels
counsell
to
Caesar
Borgia
to
doe
it
,
and
K.
H.
the
8
deliuered
vp
Empson
and
Dudley
,
yea
the
same
King
,
when
the
great
Cardinall
Woolsey
,
who
gouerned
the
King
and
all
his
estate
,
had
(
by
requiring
the
sixt
part
of
euery
mans
goods
for
the
King
)
raised
a
rebellion
,
the
King
I
say
disavowed
him
absolutely
,
that
had
not
the
Dukes
of
Norfolke
and
Suffolke
appeased
the
people
,
the
Cardinall
had
sung
no
more
Masse
:
for
these
are
the
words
of
our
Story
:
The
King
then
came
to
Westminster
to
the
Cardinals
palace
,
and
assembled
there
a
great
Councell
,
in
which
he
protested
,
that
his
minde
was
neuer
to
aske
any
thing
of
his
Commons
which
might
sound
to
the
breach
of
his
Lawes
.
Wherefore
hee
then
willed
them
to
know
by
whose
meanes
they
were
so
strictly
giuen
foorth
.
Now
my
Lord
,
how
the
Cardinall
would
haue
shifted
himselfe
,
by
saying
,
I
had
the
opinion
of
the
Iudges
,
had
not
the
rebellion
beene
appeal'd
,
I
greatly
doubt
.
COVNS
.
But
good
Sir
,
you
blanch
my
question
,
and
answere
mee
by
examples
.
I
aske
you
whether
or
no
in
any
such
tumult
,
the
people
pretending
against
any
one
or
two
great
Officers
,
the
King
should
deliuer
them
,
or
defend
them
?
IVST
.
My
good
Lord
,
the
people
haue
not
stayde
for
the
kings
deliuery
,
neither
in
England
,
nor
in
France
:
Your
Lordship
knowes
how
the
Chauncellour
,
Treasurer
,
and
Chiefe
Iustice
,
with
many
others
at
seuerall
times
haue
bin
vsed
by
the
Rebels
:
And
the
Marshals
,
Constables
,
and
Treasurers
in
France
,
haue
beene
cut
in
pieces
in
Charles
the
sixt
his
time
.
Now
to
your
Lordships
question
,
I
say
that
where
any
man
shall
giue
a
King
perilous
advice
,
as
may
either
cause
a
rebellion
,
or
draw
the
peoples
loue
from
the
King.
I
say
,
that
a
King
shal
be
advised
to
banish
him
:
But
if
the
King
doe
absolutely
commaund
his
seruant
to
doe
any
thing
displeasing
to
the
Common-wealth
,
and
to
his
own
peril
,
there
is
the
King
bound
in
honour
to
defend
him
.
But
my
good
Lord
for
conclusion
,
there
is
no
man
in
England
that
will
lay
any
invention
either
grieuous
or
against
law
vpon
the
Kings
Maiesty
:
And
therefore
your
Lordships
must
share
it
amongst
you
.
COVNS
.
For
my
part
,
I
had
no
hand
in
it
,
(
I
thinke
)
Ingram
was
he
that
propounded
it
to
the
Treasurer
.
IVST
.
Alas
my
good
Lord
,
euery
poore
wayter
in
the
Custome-house
,
or
euery
promoter
might
haue
done
it
,
there
is
no
invention
in
these
things
.
To
lay
impositions
,
and
sell
the
Kings
lands
,
are
poore
and
common
devices
.
It
is
true
that
Ingram
and
his
fellowes
are
odious
men
,
and
therefore
his
Maiestie
pleas'd
the
people
greatly
to
put
him
from
the
Coffership
.
It
is
better
for
a
Prince
to
vse
such
a
kinde
of
men
,
then
to
countenance
them
,
hang-men
are
necessary
in
a
Commonwealth
:
yet
in
the
Nether-lands
,
none
but
a
hangmans
sonne
will
marry
a
hang-mans
daughter
.
Now
my
Lord
,
the
last
gathering
which
Henry
the
seuenth
made
,
was
in
his
twentieth
yeare
,
wherein
hee
had
another
benevolence
both
of
the
Cleargy
and
Laity
,
a
part
of
which
taken
of
the
poorer
sort
,
hee
ordained
by
his
Testament
that
it
should
bee
restored
.
And
for
King
Henry
the
eight
,
although
hee
was
left
in
a
most
plentifull
estate
,
yet
he
wonderfully
prest
his
people
with
great
payments
;
for
in
the
beginning
of
his
time
it
was
infinite
that
hee
spent
in
Masking
and
Tilting
,
Banquetting
,
and
other
vanities
,
before
hee
was
entered
into
the
most
consuming
expence
of
the
most
fond
and
fruitlesse
warre
that
euer
King
vndertooke
.
In
his
fourth
yeare
hee
had
one
of
the
greatest
subsedies
that
euer
was
granted
;
for
besides
two
fifteenes
and
two
dismes
,
hee
vsed
Dauids
Lawe
of
Capitation
or
head-money
,
and
had
of
euery
Duke
ten
markes
,
of
euery
Earle
fiue
pounds
,
of
euery
Lord
foure
pounds
,
of
euery
Knight
foure
markes
,
&
euery
man
rated
at
8
●
in
goods
,
4
markes
,
and
so
after
the
rate
:
yea
euery
man
that
was
valued
but
at
40
paide
12
●
,
and
euery
man
and
woman
aboue
15
yeares
4
●
.
Hee
had
also
in
his
sixt
yeare
diuers
subsedies
granted
him
.
In
his
fourteenth
there
was
a
tenth
demaunded
of
euery
mans
goods
,
but
it
was
moderated
.
In
the
Parliament
following
,
the
Clergie
gaue
the
King
the
halfe
of
their
spirituall
liuings
for
one
yeare
,
&
of
the
Laity
there
was
demanded
800000
'
,
which
could
not
be
levied
in
England
,
but
it
was
a
marveilous
great
gift
that
the
king
had
giuen
him
at
that
time
.
In
the
Kings
seuenteenth
yeare
was
the
Rebellion
before
spoken
of
,
wherein
King
disavowed
the
Cardinall
.
In
his
seuenteenth
yeare
hee
had
the
tenth
and
fifteenth
giuen
by
Parliament
,
which
were
before
that
time
paide
to
the
Pope
.
And
before
that
also
,
the
monyes
that
the
King
borrowed
in
his
fifteenth
yeare
were
forgiuen
him
by
Parliament
in
his
seuenteenth
yeare
.
In
his
35
yeare
a
subsedy
was
granted
of
4
●
the
pound
of
euery
man
worth
in
goods
from
20●
to
5
●
,
from
5
●
to
10
l
and
vpwards
of
euery
pound
2.
And
all
strangers
,
denisens
and
others
doubled
this
summe
,
strangers
not
being
inhabitants
aboue
16
yeares
,
4
●
a
head
.
All
that
had
Lands
,
Fees
,
and
Annuities
,
from
20
to
5●
,
and
so
double
as
they
did
for
goods
:
And
the
Cleargy
gaue
6
the
pound
.
In
the
thirty
seuenth
yeare
,
a
Benevolence
was
taken
,
not
voluntary
,
but
rated
by
Commissioners
,
which
because
one
of
the
Aldermen
refused
to
pay
,
he
was
sent
for
a
soldier
into
Scotland
.
He
had
also
another
great
subsedy
of
sixe
shillings
the
pound
of
the
Clergy
,
and
two
shillings
eight
pence
of
the
goods
of
the
Laity
,
and
foure
shillings
the
pound
vpon
Lands
.
In
the
second
yeare
of
Edward
the
sixt
,
the
Parliament
gaue
the
King
an
ayde
of
twelue
pence
the
pound
of
goods
of
his
Natural
subiects
,
and
two
shillings
the
pound
of
strangers
,
and
this
to
continue
for
three
yeares
,
and
by
the
statute
of
the
second
and
third
of
Edward
the
sixt
,
it
may
appeare
,
the
same
Parliament
did
also
giue
a
second
ayde
,
as
followeth
,
(
to
wit
)
of
euery
Ewe
kept
in
seuerall
pastures
,
3
:
of
euery
weather
kept
as
aforesaid
2
●
:
of
euery
sheepe
kept
in
the
Common
,
1
●
ob
.
The
House
gaue
the
King
also
8
the
pound
of
euery
woollen
cloath
made
for
the
sale
throughout
England
for
three
yeares
.
In
the
third
and
fourth
of
the
King
,
by
reason
of
the
troublesome
gathering
of
the
polymony
vpon
sheepe
,
&
the
taxe
vpon
cloath
,
this
acte
of
subsedy
was
repeal'd
,
and
other
reliefe
giuen
the
King
,
and
in
the
kings
seauenth
yeare
hee
had
a
subsedy
and
two
fifteenes
.
In
the
first
yeare
of
Queene
Mary
,
tunnage
and
poundage
were
granted
.
In
the
second
yeare
a
subsedy
was
giuen
to
King
Philip
,
and
to
the
Queene
,
shee
had
also
a
third
subsedy
in
Annis
4.
&
5.
Now
my
Lord
,
for
the
Parliaments
of
the
late
Queenes
time
,
in
which
there
was
nothing
new
,
neither
head
money
,
nor
sheepe
money
,
nor
escuage
,
nor
any
of
these
kindes
of
payments
was
required
,
but
onely
the
ordinary
subsedies
,
&
those
as
easily
graunted
as
demaunded
,
I
shall
not
neede
to
trouble
your
Lordship
with
any
of
them
,
neither
can
I
informe
your
Lordship
of
all
the
passages
and
actes
which
haue
passed
,
for
they
are
not
extant
,
nor
printed
.
COVNS
.
No
,
it
were
but
time
lost
to
speake
of
the
latter
,
and
by
those
that
are
alreadie
remembred
,
we
may
iudge
of
the
rest
,
for
those
of
the
greatest
importance
are
publique
.
But
I
pray
you
deale
freely
with
mee
,
what
you
thinke
would
bee
done
for
his
Maiestie
,
if
hee
should
call
a
Parliament
at
this
time
,
or
what
would
bee
required
at
his
Maiesties
hands
?
IVST
.
The
first
thing
that
would
be
required
,
would
be
the
same
that
vvas
required
by
the
Commons
in
the
thirtenth
yeare
of
H.
the
8
:
(
to
wit
)
that
if
any
man
of
the
commons
house
should
speake
more
largely
,
then
of
duety
hee
ought
to
doe
,
all
such
offences
to
be
pardoned
,
and
that
to
be
of
record
.
COVNS
.
So
might
euery
Companion
speake
of
the
King
what
they
list
.
IVST
.
No
my
Lord
,
the
reuerence
vvhich
a
Vassall
ovyeth
to
his
Soueraigne
,
is
alvvaies
intended
for
euery
speech
,
howsoeuer
it
must
import
the
good
of
the
King
,
and
his
estate
,
and
so
long
it
may
bee
easily
pardoned
,
othervvise
not
;
for
in
Queene
Elizabeths
time
,
vvho
gaue
freedome
of
speech
in
all
Parliaments
,
vvhen
Wentworth
made
those
motions
,
that
were
but
supposed
dangerous
to
the
Queenes
estate
,
he
was
imprisoned
in
the
Towre
,
notwithstanding
the
priviledge
of
the
house
,
and
there
died
.
COVNS
.
What
say
you
to
the
Scicilian
vespers
remembred
in
the
last
Parliament
?
IVST
.
I
say
,
hee
repented
him
heartily
that
vsed
that
speech
,
and
indeede
besides
that
,
it
was
seditious
,
this
example
held
not
:
The
French
in
Scicily
vsurped
that
Kingdome
,
they
kept
neither
law
nor
faith
,
they
tooke
away
the
inheritance
of
the
Inhabitants
,
they
tooke
from
them
their
wiues
,
and
rauished
their
daughters
,
committing
all
other
insolencies
that
could
bee
imagined
.
The
Kings
Maiesty
is
the
Naturall
Lord
of
England
,
his
Vassals
of
Scotland
obey
the
English
Lawes
,
if
they
breake
them
,
they
are
punished
without
respect
.
Yea
his
Maiesty
put
one
of
his
Barons
to
a
shamefull
death
,
for
being
consenting
onely
to
the
death
of
a
Common
Fencer
:
And
which
of
these
euer
did
or
durst
commit
any
outrage
in
England
,
but
to
say
the
trueth
,
the
opinion
of
packing
the
last
,
was
the
cause
of
the
contention
and
disorder
that
happened
.
COVNS
.
Why
sir
?
doe
you
not
think
it
best
to
compound
a
Parliament
of
the
Kings
seruaunts
and
others
,
that
shall
in
all
obey
the
kings
desires
?
IVST
.
Certainely
no
,
for
it
hath
neuer
succeeded
well
,
neither
on
the
kings
part
,
nor
on
the
subiects
,
as
by
the
Parliament
before-remembred
your
Lordshippe
may
gather
,
for
from
such
a
composition
doe
arise
all
jealousies
,
and
all
contentions
.
It
was
practized
in
elder
times
,
to
the
great
trouble
of
the
kingdome
,
and
to
the
losse
and
ruine
of
many
.
It
was
of
latter
time
vsed
by
King
Henry
the
eight
,
but
euery
way
to
his
disadvantage
.
When
the
King
leaues
himselfe
to
his
people
,
they
assure
themselues
that
they
are
trusted
and
beloued
of
their
king
,
and
there
was
neuer
any
assembly
so
barbarous
,
as
not
to
aunswere
the
loue
and
trust
of
their
King.
Henry
the
sixt
when
his
estate
was
in
effect
vtterly
ouerthrowne
,
&
vtterly
impouerished
at
the
humble
request
of
his
Treasurer
made
the
same
knowne
to
the
House
,
or
otherwise
,
vsing
the
Treasurers
owne
words
,
Hee
humbly
desired
the
King
to
take
his
staffe
,
that
hee
might
saue
his
wardship
.
COVNS
.
But
you
know
,
they
will
presently
bee
in
hand
with
those
impositions
,
which
the
King
hath
laid
by
his
owne
royall
prerogatiue
.
IVST
.
Perchance
not
my
Lord
;
but
rather
with
those
impositions
that
haue
beene
by
some
of
your
Lordships
laide
vpon
the
King
,
which
did
not
some
of
your
Lordships
feare
more
than
you
doe
the
impositions
laid
vpon
the
Subjects
,
you
would
neuer
disswade
his
Majestie
from
a
Parliament
:
For
no
man
doubted
,
but
that
his
Majestie
was
advised
to
lay
those
impositions
by
his
Councell
;
and
for
particular
things
on
which
they
were
laid
,
the
aduice
came
from
petty
fellowes
(
though
now
great
ones
)
belonging
to
the
Custome-house
.
Now
my
Lord
,
what
prejudice
hath
his
Majestie
(
his
revenue
beeing
kept
vp
)
if
the
impositions
that
were
laid
by
the
aduice
of
a
few
,
be
in
Parliament
laid
by
the
generall
Councell
of
the
kingdome
,
which
takes
off
all
grudging
and
complaint
.
COVNS
.
Yea
Sir
,
but
that
which
is
done
by
the
King
,
with
the
aduice
of
his
priuate
or
priuy
Councell
,
is
done
by
the
Kings
absolute
power
.
IVS.
And
by
whose
power
is
it
done
in
Parliament
,
but
by
the
Kinges
absolute
power
?
mistake
it
not
my
Lord
:
The
3
estates
doe
but
advise
,
as
the
priuy
Councel
doth
,
which
advice
if
the
king
embrace
,
it
becomes
the
kings
own
acte
in
the
one
,
&
the
kings
law
in
the
other
,
for
without
the
kings
acceptation
,
both
the
publicke
&
priuate
aduices
bee
but
as
empty
egge-shels
;
and
what
doth
his
Majestie
loose
if
some
of
those
things
,
which
concerns
the
poorer
sort
be
made
free
again
,
&
the
reuenue
kept
vp
vpō
that
which
is
superfluous
?
Is
it
a
losse
to
the
K.
to
be
beloued
of
the
Commons
?
if
it
be
revenue
which
the
K.
seekes
,
is
it
not
better
to
take
it
of
those
that
laugh
,
than
of
those
that
crie
?
Yea
if
all
bee
content
to
pay
vpon
a
moderation
and
chaunge
of
the
Species
:
Is
it
more
honourable
and
more
safe
for
the
King
,
that
the
Subject
pay
by
perswasion
,
then
to
haue
them
constrayned
?
If
they
be
contented
to
whip
themselues
for
the
King
,
were
it
not
better
to
giue
them
their
rod
into
their
owne
hands
,
than
to
commit
them
to
the
executioner
?
Certainly
it
is
farre
more
happy
for
a
Soveraigne
Prince
,
that
a
Subject
open
his
purse
willingly
,
than
that
the
same
bee
opened
by
violence
.
Besides
that
when
impositions
are
laid
by
Parliament
,
they
are
gathered
by
the
authority
of
the
lawe
,
which
(
as
aforesaid
)
rejecteth
all
complaints
,
and
stoppeth
every
mutinous
mouth
:
It
shall
ever
be
my
praier
,
that
the
King
embrace
the
Councell
of
honour
and
safety
,
&
let
other
Princes
embrace
that
of
force
.
COVNS
.
But
good
Sir
,
it
is
his
Prerogatiue
which
the
K.
stands
vpon
,
and
it
is
the
Prerogatiue
of
the
kings
,
that
the
Parliaments
doe
all
diminish
.
IVST
.
If
your
Lordship
would
pardon
mee
,
I
would
say
then
,
that
your
Lordships
objection
against
Parliaments
is
ridiculous
.
In
former
Parliaments
three
thinges
haue
beene
supposed
dishonour
of
the
King.
The
first
,
that
the
Subjects
haue
conditioned
with
the
King
,
when
the
King
hath
needed
them
,
to
haue
the
great
Charter
confirmed
:
the
second
,
that
the
Estates
haue
made
Treasurers
for
the
necessary
and
profitable
disbursing
of
those
summes
by
them
given
,
to
the
end
,
that
the
kinges
,
to
whom
they
were
giuen
,
should
expend
them
for
their
owne
defence
,
&
for
the
defence
of
the
common-wealth
:
The
third
,
that
these
haue
prest
the
King
to
discharge
some
great
Officers
of
the
Crowne
,
and
to
elect
others
.
As
touching
the
first
my
Lord
,
I
would
faine
learne
what
disadvantage
the
Kings
of
this
Land
haue
had
by
confirming
the
great
Charter
,
the
breach
of
which
haue
served
onely
men
of
your
Lordships
ranke
,
to
assist
their
owne
passions
,
and
to
punish
and
imprison
at
their
owne
discretion
the
Kings
poore
Subjects
.
Concerning
their
private
hatred
,
with
the
colour
of
the
Kings
service
,
for
the
Kings
Majestie
takes
no
mans
inheritance
(
as
I
haue
said
before
)
nor
any
mans
life
,
but
by
the
Law
of
the
land
,
according
to
the
Charter
.
Neither
doth
his
Majestie
imprison
any
man
,
(
matter
of
practice
,
which
concernes
the
preservation
of
his
estate
excepted
)
but
by
the
law
of
the
land
.
And
yet
hee
vseth
his
prerogatiue
as
all
the
Kings
of
England
haue
ever
vsed
it
:
for
the
supreame
reason
cause
to
practise
many
thinges
without
the
aduice
of
the
law
.
As
in
insurrections
and
rebellions
,
it
vseth
the
marshall
,
and
not
the
common
law
,
without
any
breach
of
the
Charter
,
the
intent
of
the
Charter
cōsidered
truely
.
Neither
hath
any
Subject
made
complaint
,
or
beene
grieued
,
in
that
the
Kings
of
this
land
,
for
their
own
safties
,
and
preservation
of
their
estates
,
haue
vsed
their
Prerogatiues
,
the
great
Ensigne
,
on
which
there
is
written
soli
Deo.
And
my
good
Lord
,
was
not
Buckingham
in
England
,
and
Byron
in
France
condemned
,
their
Peeres
vncall'd
?
And
withall
,
was
not
Byron
vtterly
(
contrary
to
the
customes
&
priviledges
of
the
French
)
denyed
an
advocate
to
assist
his
defence
?
for
where
lawes
forecast
cannot
prouide
remedies
for
future
daungers
,
Princes
are
forced
to
assist
themselues
by
their
prerogatiues
.
But
that
which
hath
beene
ever
grievous
,
and
the
cause
of
many
troubles
,
very
dangerous
is
,
that
your
Lordships
abusing
the
reasons
of
state
,
doe
punish
and
imprison
the
Kings
Subiects
at
your
pleasure
.
It
is
you
my
Lords
,
that
when
Subjects
haue
sometimes
neede
of
the
Kings
prerogatiue
,
doe
then
vse
the
strength
of
the
law
,
and
when
they
require
the
lawe
,
you
afflict
them
with
the
prerogatiue
,
and
tread
the
great
Charter
(
which
hath
beene
confirmed
by
16.
actes
of
Parliament
)
vnder
your
feete
,
as
a
torne
parchment
or
wast
paper
.
COVNS
.
Good
Sir
,
which
of
vs
doe
in
this
sort
breake
the
great
Charter
?
perchance
you
meane
,
that
we
haue
aduised
the
King
to
lay
the
new
impositions
.
IVST
.
No
my
Lord
:
there
is
nothing
in
the
great
Charter
against
impositions
:
and
besides
that
,
necessity
doth
perswade
them
.
And
if
necessity
doe
in
somewhat
excuse
a
private
man
a
fortiori
,
it
may
then
excuse
a
Prince
.
Againe
,
the
Kinges
Majestie
hath
profit
and
increase
of
revenue
by
the
impositions
.
But
there
are
of
your
Lordships
(
contrary
to
the
direct
letter
of
the
Charter
)
that
imprison
the
Kinges
Subjects
,
and
deny
them
the
benefit
of
the
law
,
to
the
Kings
disprofit
.
And
what
do
you
otherwise
thereby
(
if
the
impositions
be
in
any
sort
grievous
)
but
Renovare
dolores
?
and
withall
digge
out
of
the
dust
the
long-buried
memory
of
the
Subjects
former
intentions
with
their
Kings
.
COVNS
.
What
meane
you
by
that
?
IVST
.
I
will
tell
your
Lordshippe
when
I
dare
,
in
the
meane
time
it
is
enough
for
mee
,
to
put
your
Lordship
in
minde
,
that
all
the
estates
in
the
world
,
in
the
offence
of
the
people
,
haue
either
had
profit
or
necessity
to
perswade
them
to
adventure
it
,
of
which
,
if
neither
bee
vrgent
,
and
yet
the
Subject
exceedingly
grieved
,
your
Lordship
may
conjecture
,
that
the
House
will
bee
humble
suitors
for
a
redresse
.
And
if
it
bee
a
Maxime
in
policie
to
please
the
people
in
all
thinges
indifferent
,
and
neuer
suffer
them
to
bee
beaten
,
but
for
the
Kinges
benefit
,
(
for
there
are
no
blowes
forgotten
with
the
smart
but
those
)
then
I
say
to
make
them
vassals
to
vassals
,
is
but
to
batter
downe
those
mastering
buildings
,
erected
by
King
Henry
the
seaventh
,
and
fortified
by
his
Sonne
,
by
which
the
people
and
Gentlemen
of
England
were
brought
to
depend
vpon
the
King
alone
.
Yea
my
good
Lord
,
our
late
deare
Soveraigne
kept
them
vp
,
and
to
their
advantage
,
as
well
repaired
as
ever
Prince
did
,
Defend
mee
,
and
spend
me
,
saith
the
Irish
churle
.
COVNS
.
Then
you
thinke
that
this
violent
breach
of
the
Charter
will
be
the
cause
of
seeking
the
confirmation
of
it
in
the
next
Parliament
,
which
otherwise
could
neuer
haue
bin
moued
.
IVST
.
I
knowe
not
my
good
Lord
,
perchance
not
,
for
if
the
House
presse
the
King
to
graunt
vnto
them
all
that
is
theirs
by
the
lawe
,
they
cannot
(
in
justice
)
refuse
the
King
all
that
is
his
by
the
lawe
.
And
where
will
bee
the
issue
of
such
a
contention
?
I
dare
not
divine
,
but
sure
I
am
that
it
will
tend
to
the
preiudice
both
of
the
K
:
and
subiect
.
COVN
:
If
they
dispute
not
their
owne
liberties
;
why
should
they
then
dispute
the
Kings
liberties
,
which
wee
call
his
prerogatiue
.
IVST
:
Among
so
many
&
so
diverse
spirits
,
no
man
can
foretell
what
may
be
propounded
,
but
howsoeuer
if
,
the
matter
be
not
slightly
handled
on
the
Kings
behalfe
,
these
disputes
will
soone
dissolue
,
for
the
King
hath
so
little
neede
of
his
prerogatiue
,
and
so
great
advantage
by
the
lawes
,
as
the
feare
of
imparing
the
one
,
to
wit
,
the
prerogatiue
,
is
so
impossible
,
and
the
burthen
of
the
other
(
to
wit
)
the
lawe
so
waighty
,
as
but
by
a
branch
of
the
Kings
prerogatiue
,
namely
of
his
remission
and
pardon
,
the
subiect
is
no
way
able
to
vndergoe
it
.
This
my
Lord
is
no
matter
of
flourish
that
I
haue
said
,
but
it
is
the
truth
,
and
vnanswerable
.
COVNS
.
But
to
execute
the
lawes
very
severely
,
would
be
very
grievous
.
IVST
.
Why
my
Lord
,
are
the
Lawes
grievous
which
our selues
haue
required
of
our
Kings
?
and
are
the
prerogatiues
also
which
our
Kings
haue
reserued
to
themselues
also
grieuous
?
how
cā
such
a
people
then
be
well
pleased
?
And
if
your
Lordship
confesse
that
the
lawes
giue
too
much
,
why
does
your
Lordship
vrge
the
prerogatiue
that
giues
more
?
Nay
I
will
be
bold
to
say
it
,
that
except
the
Lawes
were
better
obserued
,
the
prerogatiue
of
a
religious
Prince
hath
manifold
lesse
perils
then
the
letter
of
the
Lawe
hath
.
Now
my
Lord
,
for
the
second
&
third
,
to
wit
,
for
the
appointing
of
Treasurers
,
and
remouing
of
Counsellers
,
our
Kings
haue
evermore
laught
them
to
scorne
that
haue
prest
either
of
these
,
&
after
the
Parliament
dissolued
,
tooke
the
money
of
the
Treasurers
of
the
Parliament
,
and
recalled
&
restored
the
officers
discharged
,
or
else
they
haue
bin
contented
,
that
so
me
such
persons
should
be
remoued
at
the
request
of
the
whole
kingdome
,
which
they
themselues
out
of
their
noble
natures
,
would
not
seeme
willing
to
remoue
.
COVNS
.
Well
Sir
,
would
you
notwithstanding
all
these
arguments
advise
his
Maiesty
to
call
a
Parlament
?
IVST
:
It
belongs
to
your
Lordships
who
enioy
the
Kings
favour
,
&
are
chosen
for
your
able
wisdome
to
advise
the
K.
It
were
a
strange
boldnesse
in
a
poore
and
priuate
person
,
to
advise
Kings
,
attended
with
so
vnderstanding
a
Councell
.
But
belike
your
Lordships
haue
conceiued
some
other
way
,
how
money
may
be
gotten
otherwise
.
If
any
trouble
should
happen
,
your
Lordship
knowes
,
that
then
there
were
nothing
so
daungerous
for
a
King
,
as
to
be
without
money
:
a
Parliament
cannot
assemble
in
haste
,
but
present
dangers
require
hasty
remedies
.
It
wil
be
no
time
then
to
discontent
the
subjects
by
vsing
any
vnordinary
wayes
.
COVNS
.
Well
Sir
,
all
this
notwithstanding
wee
dare
not
advise
the
king
to
call
a
parliament
,
for
if
it
should
succeede
ill
,
wee
that
advise
,
should
fall
into
the
kings
disgrace
.
And
if
the
king
be
driuen
into
any
extremity
,
wee
can
say
to
the
K.
that
because
we
found
it
extreamely
vnpleasing
to
his
Maiestie
to
heare
of
a
Parliament
,
we
thought
it
no
good
manners
to
make
such
a
motion
.
IVST
.
My
Lord
,
to
the
first
let
me
tell
you
,
that
there
was
never
any
iust
Prince
that
hath
taken
any
advantage
of
the
successe
of
Councels
,
which
haue
beene
founded
on
reason
.
To
feare
that
,
were
to
feare
the
losse
of
the
bell
,
more
then
the
losse
of
the
steeple
,
and
were
also
the
way
to
beate
all
men
from
the
studies
of
the
Kings
seruice
.
But
for
the
second
,
where
you
say
you
can
excuse
your selues
vpon
the
Kinges
owne
protesting
against
a
parliament
,
the
king
vpon
better
consideration
may
encounter
that
finenesse
of
yours
.
COVNS
:
How
I
pray
you
?
IVST
:
Even
by
declaring
himselfe
to
be
indifferent
,
by
calling
your
Lordships
together
,
and
by
delivering
vnto
you
,
that
he
heares
how
his
loving
subiects
in
generall
are
willing
to
supply
him
,
if
it
please
him
to
call
a
Parliament
,
for
that
was
the
common
answere
to
all
the
Sheriffes
in
England
,
when
the
late
benevolence
was
commaunded
.
In
which
respect
,
and
because
you
come
short
in
all
your
proiects
,
and
because
it
is
a
thing
most
daungerous
for
a
King
to
be
without
treasure
,
he
requires
such
of
you
,
as
either
mislike
,
or
rather
feare
a
parliament
,
to
set
downe
your
reasons
in
writing
,
which
you
either
misliked
,
or
feared
it
.
And
such
as
wish
and
desire
it
,
to
set
downe
answeres
to
your
obiections
:
And
so
shall
the
King
prevent
the
calling
or
not
calling
on
his
Maiesty
,
as
some
of
your
great
Councellers
haue
done
in
many
other
things
shrinking
vp
their
shoulders
,
and
saying
,
the
K.
will
haue
it
so
.
COVNS
.
Wel
Sir
,
it
growes
late
,
and
I
will
bid
you
farewell
,
only
you
shall
take
well
with
you
this
advice
of
mine
,
thst
in
all
that
you
haue
said
against
our
greatest
,
those
men
in
the
end
shal
be
your
Iudges
in
their
owne
cause
,
you
that
trouble
your selfe
with
reformation
,
are
like
to
be
well
rewarded
:
for
hereof
you
may
assure
your selfe
,
that
wee
will
never
allow
of
any
invention
how
profitable
soeuer
,
vnlesse
it
proceede
,
or
seeme
to
proceede
from
our
▪
selues
.
IVST
:
If
then
my
Lord
,
wee
may
presume
to
say
that
Princes
may
be
vnhappy
in
any
thing
,
certainly
they
are
vnhappy
in
nothing
more
then
in
suffering
themselues
to
be
so
inclosed
.
Againe
,
if
we
may
beleeu
Pliny
,
who
tels
vs
,
that
t'
is
an
ill
signe
of
prosperity
in
any
kingdome
or
state
,
where
such
as
deserue
well
,
find
no
other
recompence
then
the
contentment
of
their
owne
consciences
,
a
farre
worse
signe
is
it
,
where
the
justly
accused
shall
take
revenge
of
the
just
accuser
.
But
my
good
Lord
,
there
is
this
hope
remaining
,
that
seeing
he
hath
beene
abused
by
them
he
trusted
most
,
hee
will
not
for
the
future
dishonour
of
his
iudgment
(
so
well
informed
by
his
owne
experience
)
as
to
expose
such
of
his
vassals
(
as
haue
had
no
other
motiues
to
serue
him
,
then
simply
the
loue
of
his
person
and
his
estate
)
to
their
revenge
,
who
haue
only
beene
moued
by
the
loue
of
their
owne
fortunes
,
and
their
glory
.
COVNS
:
But
good
Sir
,
the
King
hath
not
beene
deceiued
by
all
.
IVST
.
No
my
Lord
,
neither
haue
all
beene
trusted
,
neither
doth
the
world
accuse
all
,
but
beleeue
,
that
there
be
among
your
Lordships
very
just
and
worthy
men
,
aswell
of
the
Nobility
as
others
,
but
those
though
most
honoured
in
the
Common-wealth
,
yet
haue
they
not
beene
most
imployed
:
your
Lordship
knowes
it
well
enough
,
that
3
or
4
of
your
Lordships
haue
thought
your
hands
strong
enough
to
beare
vp
alone
the
weightiest
affaires
in
the
Common-wealth
,
and
strong
enough
,
all
the
land
haue
found
them
to
beate
downe
whom
they
pleased
.
COVNS
:
I
vnderstand
you
,
but
how
shall
it
appeare
that
they
haue
onely
sought
themselues
.
IVST
:
There
needes
no
perspectiue
glasse
to
discerne
it
,
for
neither
in
the
treaties
of
peace
and
warre
,
in
matters
of
revenue
,
and
matters
of
trade
,
any
thing
hath
happened
either
of
loue
or
of
judgment
.
No
my
Lord
,
there
is
not
any
one
action
of
theirs
eminent
,
great
or
small
,
the
greatnesse
of
themselues
only
excepted
.
COVNS
:
It
is
all
one
,
your
papers
can
neither
answere
nor
reply
,
we
can
.
Besides
you
tell
the
King
no
newes
in
delivering
these
complaints
,
for
hee
knowes
as
much
as
can
be
told
him
.
IVST
:
For
the
first
my
Lord
,
whereas
he
hath
once
the
reasons
of
things
deliuered
him
,
your
Lordships
shall
neede
to
be
well
advised
,
in
their
answeres
there
is
no
sophistrie
wil
serue
the
turne
,
where
the
Iudge
,
&
the
vnderstāding
are
both
supreame
.
For
the
2
d
,
to
say
that
his
Maiesty
knowes
,
&
cares
not
,
that
my
Lord
were
but
to
despaire
all
his
faithfull
subiects
.
But
by
your
fauour
my
Lord
,
wee
see
it
is
contrary
,
wee
find
now
that
there
is
no
such
singular
power
as
there
hath
beene
,
justice
is
described
with
a
ballance
in
her
hand
,
holding
it
even
and
it
hangs
as
even
now
as
ever
it
did
in
any
kings
dayes
,
for
singular
authority
begets
but
generall
oppression
.
COVNS
.
Howsoeuer
it
be
,
that
's
nothing
to
you
,
that
haue
no
interest
in
the
kings
fauour
,
nor
perchance
in
his
opinion
,
&
concerning
such
a
one
,
the
misliking
,
or
but
misconceiuing
of
any
one
hard
word
,
phrase
,
or
sentence
,
will
giue
argumēt
to
the
K.
either
to
cōdemn
or
reiect
the
whole
discourse
.
And
howsoever
his
M●
may
neglect
your
informations
,
you
may
be
sure
that
others
(
at
whom
you
point
)
wil
not
neglect
their
revenges
,
you
will
therefore
confesse
it
(
when
it
is
too
late
)
that
you
are
exceeding
sory
that
you
haue
not
followed
my
aduice
.
Remēber
Cardinall
Woolsey
,
who
lost
all
men
for
the
Kings
service
,
and
when
their
malice
(
whom
hee
grieved
)
had
out-liued
the
Kings
affection
,
you
know
what
became
of
him
as
well
as
I.
IVST
.
Yea
my
Lord
,
I
know
it
well
,
that
malice
hath
a
longer
life
,
than
either
loue
or
thankfulnesse
hath
,
for
as
we
alwaies
take
more
care
to
put
off
paine
,
than
to
enjoy
pleasure
,
because
the
one
hath
no
intermission
,
&
with
the
other
we
are
often
satisfied
,
so
it
is
in
the
smart
of
injury
and
the
memory
of
good
turnes
:
Wrongs
are
written
in
marble
:
Benefits
are
(
sometimes
)
acknowledged
,
rarely
requited
.
But
my
Lord
,
wee
shall
doe
the
K.
great
wrong
,
to
judge
him
by
common
rules
,
or
ordinary
examples
,
for
seeing
his
Majesty
hath
greatly
enriched
and
advanced
those
that
haue
but
pretended
his
service
,
no
man
needes
to
doubt
of
his
goodnesse
towards
those
that
shal
performe
any
thing
worthy
reward
.
Nay
,
the
not
taking
knowledge
of
those
of
his
owne
vassals
that
haue
done
him
wrong
,
is
more
to
be
lamented
,
than
the
relinquishing
of
those
that
doe
him
right
,
is
to
be
suspected
.
I
am
therefore
,
my
good
Lo
:
held
to
my
resolutiō
by
these
a
,
besides
the
former
.
The
1
,
that
God
would
neuer
haue
blest
him
with
so
many
yeres
,
&
in
so
many
actiōs
,
yea
in
all
his
actions
,
had
he
paid
his
honest
servants
with
evill
for
good
.
The
2
d
,
where
your
Lordship
tells
me
,
that
I
will
be
〈◊〉
for
not
following
your
aduice
.
I
pray
your
Lordship
to
belieue
,
that
I
am
no
way
subiect
to
the
common
sorrowing
〈◊〉
worldly
men
,
this
Maxime
of
Plato
beeing
true
.
Dolores
aex
amore
animi
orga
corpus
noscuntur
.
But
for
my
body
,
my
mind
values
it
at
nothing
.
COVNS
.
What
is
it
then
you
hope
for
or
seeke
?
IVST
.
Neither
riches
,
nor
honour
,
nor
thankes
,
but
I
only
seeke
to
satisfie
his
Majestie
(
which
I
would
haue
bin
glad
to
haue
done
in
matters
of
more
importance
)
that
I
haue
liu'd
,
and
will
die
an
honest
man.
EINIS
.
The
Authours
Epitaph
,
made
by
himselfe
.
EVen
such
is
Time
,
which
takes
in
trust
Our
Youth
,
and
Ioy
's
,
and
all
wee
haue
,
And
payes
vs
but
with
age
and
dust
,
Which
in
the
darke
and
silent
graue
,
When
wee
haue
wandred
all
our
wayes
,
Shuts
vp
the
story
of
our
daies
:
And
from
which
Earth
,
and
Graue
,
and
Dust
The
Lord
shall
raise
mee
vp
I
trust
.
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