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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A93287	The state and dignitie of a secretarie of estates place, with the care and perill thereof, / written by the Right Honourable Robert late Earle of Salisbury. With his excellent instructions to the late Earle of Bedford, for the government of Barwick. A work worthy of memory.	Salisbury, Robert Cecil, Earl of, 1563-1612.; Burghley, William Cecil, Baron, 1520-1598.	1642 (1642)	Wing S387; Thomason E128_31; ESTC R23051	6,715	20

ILLUSTRISS DN9 ROBERTUS CECILIUS COMES SARISBVRIAE ANGLIAE THESAURIUS ETC. HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE The right honourable ROBERT CECILL Earle of Salisbury Viscount Cranborne Baron of E●…inden late Lo Treasurer of England Knight of the most noble Order of the Garter and one of his Maties most honourable priuy Counsell Are to besould by Iohn Hind THE State and Dignitie OF A SECRETARIE OF ESTATES PLACE With the care and perill thereof Written by the Right Honourable ROBERT LATE EARLE OF SALISBVRY With His excellent Instructions to the late Earle of BEDFORD for the Government of Barwick A work worthy of memory LONDON Printed in the yeare 1642. The State AND DIGNITIE OF A Secretarie's Place with the perill thereof written by the RIGHT HONOVRABLE ROBERT LATE Earle of SALISBVRY With his requested Instructions to the Earle of Bedford for the Government of Barwick Worthy of memory ALL Officers and Councellors of Princes have a prescribed Authoritie by Patent by Custome or by oath the Secretary onely excepted but to the Secretary out of a Confidence and singular affection there is a libertie to negotiate at discretion at home and abroad with friends and enemies in all matters of speech and intelligence All Servants of Princes deale upon strong and warie authoritie and warrant in disbursements as Treasurers in conference with enemies as Generall in Commissions in executing Offices by Patent instructions so in whatsoever else only a Secretary hath noe warrant or Commission noe not in matters of his own greatest particulars but the vertue and word of his Soveraigne For such is the multiplicitie of actions and variable motions and intents of Forraigne Princes and their dayly practises and in so many parts and places as Secretarie's can never have any Commission so long and universall as to secure them So as a Secretary must either conceive the very thought of a King which is onely proper to GOD or a King must exercise the painfull Office of a Secretary which is contrary to Majestie and libertie or else a Prince must make choice of such a servant of such a Prince as the Princes assurance must be his confidence in the Secretary and the Secretarie's life his trust in the Prince To deale now with a Prince tanquam infirmum futurum cannot be a rule for a Secretary for all that he hath to trust to is quite contrary which is that his Prince will be semper idem All strange Princes hate Secretarie's all Aspirers and all Conspirers because they either kill those monsters in their Cradles or else tract them out where no man else can discerne the print of their footing Further more this is manifest that all men of warre do malign them except they will be at their desires Their fellow Councellors envy them because they have most easie and free accesse to Princes and wheresoever a Prince hath cause to delay or deny to search or punish none so soone beare so much burthen Kings are advised to observe these things in a Secretary First that he be created by himself and of his owne raising Secondly that he match not in a factious familie And lastly that he have reasonable capacitie and convenient abilitie On the other side the place of a Secretary is dreadfull if he serve not a constant Prince for he that liveth by trust ought to serve truly so he that lives at mercy ought to be carefull in the choice of his Master that he be just de bona Natura If Princes be not confident on those whom they have made choice of they shall ill trust the work of a strange hand and if the rule hath failed in some of those that have sinned in ingratitude to those Princes it is in those of the highest order Ero similis Altissimo But for those of private qualitie who have no other consistance nor can ever look for equall blessednesse there the jealousie of a Prince hath never beheld suspect but meere contempt As long as any matter of what weight soever is handled onely between the Prince and the Secretary Those Councells are compared to the mutuall affections of two lovers undiscovered to their friends When it commeth to be disputed in Councel it is like the conference of Parents and solemnization of Marriage the first matter the second Order and indeed the one the act the other the Publication If there be then a Secretary whose State can witnesse that he covereth not for profit and if his carefull life and death shall record it that love is his Object if he deale lesse with other mens suites whereby Secretarie's gaine then ever any did if he preferr his Majestie and despise his own If such an one should finde that his hope could not warrant him no not against the Slanders of those wicked ones whom he must use onely then surely that Secretary must resolve that the first day of his entrie is the first day of his miserie for if he be not worthy of trust he is lesse worthy of life and a suspicion of a Secretary is both a tryall and Condemnation and a Iudgment Master SECRETARIE'S ANSWER to the Earle of Bedford Sir I Am very sorry that I find in my self that I am neither able to satisfie your Lordships request nor my owne desires and yet your selfe perchance will better accept my doings then I shall my selfe allow them Your Lorship would have me by your Letters give you advice for your affaires and service there It commeth of your two much good opinion of me that your Lordship thinkes me able thereunto which surely I am not and though my desire be to do this as you would yet cannot I satisfie my selfe as I would and if I should spend any words to declare my owne unabilitie your Lordship would not like them and to enterprise to do that which I know not I am not therein like my selfe Yet notwithstanding I had rather please your Lordship with my folly then alltogether my selfe with silence if I write foolishly or unseasonably the lack is mine but the occasion of my fault is your Lordships I heard so good report of your doings the best is I can give you to go forward and countenance your owne example and the next advice thereunto is that when you see one day comming to amend the day past my meaning is to have you in all your action do as all other naturall things do and most plainely Things growing which dayly from time to time do Increase whose example if a man would follow he should as his body groweth in age so see his witt with knowledge his conditions with vertues should amend and as we do live we grow towards death by moments of time so should we grow towards heaven by multiplying of vertues and good gifts You see I am at the first step in Divinity and so might I seeme to many other of your Estate to be of small discretion to fall in Preaching to him that must be 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