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monarchy--A86626	Howell, James, 1594?-1666.	The instruments of a king: or, A short discourse of the svvord. The scepter. The crowne. ...	1648.0		.xml	application/xml	3857	112	61	The second regall Instrument is the Scepter , which may be called an inseparable companion , or a necessary appendix to the Crowne ; this invests the KING with the sole Authority of making Lawes , for before His confirmation all results and determinations of Parliament are but Bills or {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} , they are but abortive things , and meer Embryos ; nay , they have no life at all in them till the KING puts breath and vigour into them : and the antient custome was for the KING to touch them with His Scepter , then they are Lawes , and have a virtue in them to impose an obligation of universall obedience upon all sorts of people , It being an undeniable maxime , That nothing can be generally binding without the King's royall assent , nor doth the Law of England take notice of any thing without it : This being done , they are ever after stil'd the King's Lawes , and the Judges are said to deliver the King's judgments , which agrees with the holy Text , The King by judgment shall stablish the Land : nay , the Law presumes the King to be alwaies the sole Judge Paramount , and Lord chief Justice of England , for he whom He pleaseth to depute for His chiefest Justice , is but stil'd Lord chief Justice of the King's Bench , not Lord chief Justice of England , which title is peculiar to the KING Himself , and observable it is , that whereas He grants Commissions and Parents to the Lord Chancellour ( who is no other then Keeper of His Conscience ) and to all other Judges , He names the Chief Justice of His own Bench by a short Writ only containing two or three lines : If one shold go back to the nonage of the world , when Governers and Rulers began first , one will find the peeple desir'd to live under Kings for their own advantage , that they might be restrain'd from wild exorbitant liberty , and kept in unity ; Now unity is as requisit for the welbeing of all naturall things , as entity is for their being , and 't is a receiv'd maxim in policy , that nothing preserves Unity more exactly then Royall Government : besides 't is known to be the noblest sort of sway ;	cache/monarchy--A86626.xml	txt/monarchy--A86626.txt