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A02833	An aduertiseme[nt] to the subjects of Scotland of the fearfull dangers threatned to Christian states; and namely, to Great Britane, by the ambition of Spayne: with a contemplation, of the truest meanes, to oppose it. Also, diverse other treatises, touching the present estate of the kingdome of Scotland; verie necessarie to bee knowne, and considered, in this tyme: called, The first blast of the trumpet. Written by Peter Hay, of Naughton, in North-Britane.	Hay, Peter, gentleman of North-Britaine.	1627 (1627)	STC 12971; ESTC S118431	133,365	164

bene better Princes than Titus Trajan vvhome the Histories doe call the S●aviters and Delightes of Men and none so much as they did honour the Senate none againe more badde than Nero and Domisian who most of anie did vilipend the same We reade howe greatlie it was to the prayse of the French King Charles the fift called Le Sage vvho having received some Appellations and Complayntes from those of Guyen beeing for the tyme Subjects to the King of England vvhich when he remembered to bee done agaynst the Articles of Peace betwixt him and the sayde King hee conveaned his Parliament to bee judged of them for that which had escaped him And agayne for the Danger that is in the meere Absolutenesse of Princes Your Majestie hath that Famous Testimonie given by Lewis the eleventh of Fran●e a moste subtill King most jealous of Soveraigne Pointes and in his Counsels most absolute of anie who acknowledging that by such kynde of doing hee had almost ruinated himselfe therefore hee would not suffer that his Sonne Charls the eyght should be taught more than three wordes of Latine to the ende that want of Learning which is commonlie accompanied with Presumption of Wi● a perilous Poynt in Princes should constrayne him the more to governe his things by Advyce of his Counsell Some joyne herevnto that he thought as all Politickes doe too much Curiositie of Learning not fitting for Kings the Opinion being generallie helde that Delight of Letters doeth as I haue sayd before in a sort emasculate the Cowrage to Action in all Men and draweth them away to Contemplation Kings being appoynted for the actiue Lyfe Tu regere Imperio populos Romane memento Hae tibi erunt artes pacique imponere morem Parcere Subjectis debellare superbes Alwayes SIR to returne to Augustius he did not onlie honour the Senate but did also fore-see that none were of that Order but Men most worthie of Honour When a Place did vake hee would haue the Entrant olde in years and olde in Experience of knowne Vertue vnspotted Fame able to vnder-lye the Sentence of a Censor and then of honourable Meanes valiant at least of 40000 Crownes whereof what was wanting hee did himselfe supplie neither durst any Man bring in Question the Name and Credite of a Senator other than the Censor who was indeed a fearfull penetrant Explorator of their Manners where-of our Iudges for Grievances newlie erected seeme to bee an Image That Libertie for anie to accuse Counsellers did creepe in vnder the Insidious Reigne of Tyberius and those were called Delatores Instrumenta Imperij and such doings haue ever since beene sayde to bee Artes Tyberianae O SIR how much it were to bee wished that Youthhead could know the Wisdome of Age or that young Princes might vnderstand the Precious Worth of Aged Counsellers who bee faythfull Darius who was the Father of Xerxes and an excellent King having by manie Experiences proved the Loyaltie Loue and Actiue Services done to him by Zopyrus and having at length also taken in the Towne of Babylon by the VVit Industrie of the same Zopyrus who whylst he went about that Businesse did sustaine deadly Wounds and Mutilation of his Person And when his Master did possesse the Towne peaccablie hee saide that he rather did wish to haue Zopyrus restored to the integritie of his Bodie than to haue an hundreth Babylons SIR I doe most humblie craue Your Majesties Pardon to say thus much That if Your Majestie should be pleased to cast over the Stories of Scotland and England to consider there vvhat bad Carriage hath beene in both betwixt Princes and their People what Tyrannie vvhat Revolts vvhat Intestine Blood and Crueltie vnnaturall vvhat fearfull Perpetrations Your Majestie should finde Reason to thinke that it vvere good at all times to multiplie your Senators vvith the most Choyse and Privie Men for Goodnesse and Sufficiencie that bee in either Kingdome As for Examples of the Perillous Evils vvhich doe infalliblie ensue vvhen young Princes doe attake themselues to young Counsellers that one of Rheboboam may serue for a thousand from the lyke to vvhich I doubt not but GOD vvho hath chosen your Majestie to great Actions vvill deliver you I doe confesse vvithall that the best Counsellers are no vvo●se to bee super-intended and looked to seeing Men are but Men and there is none who cannot erre Vnlesse it bee the Pope in the vvhich Case your Majestie may vse in your owne Person the Office of the Censor as Augustus did and at your owne pleasure examine their Carriage The third thing SIR vvhich is greatlie commended to Princes in the Policie of Augustus vvas his particular Painfulnesse in all the Effaires of that great State vvhose Example hath beene vvell followed by the Bravest of Emperours and Kings that haue beene since Tyberius Vespasian Trajan Adrian and the Antonines vvho lived all to great Age and were Masters of Civill Governament After Augustus had attained 74 yeares whereof hee reigned aboue 50 counting from the Death of Iulius Caesar hee left behinde him three Bookes vvritten vvith his owne Hand one contained The severall Actions of his publicke Governament The second The order of his Testament The third which is the Point I doe recommend to your Majestie did beare A Register of the whole Estate of that vast Empyre the Finances and Rents over all the number of the Provinces the Legions mayntayned there-into the Armes the Munitions the Fortresses the Shipping the Colonies the Allyes and Confederates with speciall Records of the Debursments Dues and Charges necessarie for everie of them Donatiues ordinarie to Friends Expenses of Publicke and Theatriall Showes for the People Pensions to Captaines Nobles and other Serviceable Men and that monethlie hee knew what Proportion was betwixt those Debursments and their present Moneyes Such indefatigable Paines of this kynde did hee vndergoe that being mooved at the Request of the Senate after his Victorie over Antoni●us to accept in his Person the Office of the Censor and made Prefe●us morum hee did three severall tymes make Numeration of the whole Romanes as well resident at Rome as dispersed abroad and of the Subjectes of the whole Provinces with severall Estimation and Reckonings of everie Man's Goods in particular The Persian Empyre was yet greater than that of Augustus having vnder it 27 Provinces and the Stories doe tell vs that their Kinges haue ordinarlie lying on a Table before them a Register like vnto this of Augustus Your Majestie may reade in the Sacred Historie of Hester that when Artaxerxes had escaped the Treason of the Eunuches by the Meanes of Mordechay there-after hee did himselfe enroll Mordechay to the Condition of his Reward And tho Histories make Mention that this same was the Practise of the late Kings of Spayne vvhether it bee so for the present your Majestie doeth better know This SIR is a Diligence worthie the greatest Monarches this doeth

AN ADVERTISEMENT To the Subjects of Scotland Of the fearfull Dangers threatned to Christian States And namely TO GREAT BRITANE by the Ambition of SPAYNE With a Contemplation of the truest Meanes to oppose it Also Diverse other TREATISES Touching the present estate of the KINGDOME of SCOTLAND Verie necessarie to bee knowne and considered in this Tyme CALLED The First Blast of the Trumpet WRITTEN by PETER HAY of NAVGHTON IN NORTH-BRITANE IN ABERDENE PRINTED BY EDWARD RABAN Cum Privilegio 1627. BON. ACCORD Insignia Vrbis abredonie TO THE MOST ROYALL AND MIGHTIE MONARCH CHARLES BY THE GRACE OF GOD KING OF GREAT BRITANE FRANCE and IRELAND Defender of the Fayth MOST Gracious and most Sacred Soveraigne This Tyme and This Subject doe joyne and meete so vvell together that it is novv if ever and in this if in anie thing that I dare be bolde expresse the desire I haue to doe service to Your Majestie and to my Countrey I vvish the occasion had not beene so faire for venting 〈◊〉 ambition but rather that it had lyen buried in my Breast and I my selfe had beene vnknovvne of Your Majestîe to my liues ende But GOD vvho putteth Marches to Peace and Warres and periods to Tyme and ●vho hath His apt and proper Instruments for everie disposition of Tyme HEE hath encouraged mee to offer to Your Majestie this Treatise as a necessarie and vsefull Inter-course of this Tyme I did stryue so much as I could to make it short but by reason of so manie Histories Discourses and Examples as vvere to bee pertinentlie and profitablie brought in I could not confyne it to a more narrovv Compend And yet vvhen Your Majestie shall consider it it vvill bee found minus mole quam facultate a great deale lighter in Paper than in Matter For vvhy It contayneth the large Extent and Misteries of the Spanish Ambition vvith a Contemplation of the truest Contrapoyse to bee made therevnto by Neighbour States Graue and Weightie Theorems indeede but vvhich fevv of them doe speculate so deeplie as neede vvere the greatest part beeing vvhollie carried to things sensible present and of nearest commoditie to them-selues in particular al-be-it it should import a manifest danger to their Common-peace and Prosperitie vvithout the care and curious mayntaynance vvhere-of neyther can anie one of Them flovvrish by it selfe nor yet the most flovvrishing long endure Farther SIR Heere are contayned diverse Purposes and Passages touching The present estate of this Kingdome of SCOTLAND most expedient for avvaking Your Majesties Subjects to looke to that vvhich the great exigence of this Tyme doeth require at their Handes together vvith a varietie of delicate Conceits verie fit to season both the Understanding and Humour of a young PRINCE and those not hatched in my Braynes but sought and sucked by me from the richest Hyues of Politicke Wits vvhich haue beene committed to Registers in anie Age gone Heere also is contayned A new Reason brought from the mysticall Theologie for the holinesse and perfection of the number 10 and vvhy GOD did choose it to be the Quotient of the Ecclesiasticke Goods in the Leviticall Churches So that if Your Majestie shall vouchsafe to reade it once I haue good hope that Ye shall do● it tvvise al-be-it I knovv that it is not Your Majesties Calling to cast over Bookes Tu regere imperio popul Rom. mem hae tibi erunt artes but such Bookes doe belong vnto that same Arte. Demetrius Phalereus did counsell King Proleme to buy all Bookes vvritten de regno imperioque eosque lectitaret quia inquit quae amici non audent Reges monere ea in ejusmodi libris descripta esse Alexander the Great did sleepe vvith Homer's Poësies vnder his head Iulius Caesar amidst the combustion of bloodie Warres did spende most part of nights in reading and vvryting Therefore SIR let it please Your Majestie to take paynes remembring hovve the same Homer vvhome that great Monarch did so affect and vvhome the Philosophs esteemed to be A source of humane Sciences hee hath left this Aphorisme for a King Non decet Principem solidam dormire noctem A Prince must not take a vvhole nights sleepe A thing vvell proved by that Arch-Prince for civill vvisdome Augustus vvho vvhyles at a certaine tyme hee could not rest in the night having his mynde loaden vvith anxieties and cares of the State hee sent for the pillovv of a knovvne Bancq-ruptier greatlie indebted vvho vvas reported to sleepe vvell GOD hath called Your Majestie vp in-to this Mountayne of Paynfull Governament not lyke vnto Helias vvho vvhyles hee vvent vp too much delyted vvith the pleasant vmbrage of the Iunopre Tree hee fell a-sleeping there-by But lyke to Moses to vvhome it vvas sayde Ascende in Montem esto ibi Upon vvhich vvordes Esto ibi another doeth vvell note Non dicitur venisse qui non steterit Wee doe not reade that Moses sleeped in that Voyage to the Mountayne It vvas a significant Hyerogliffe vvhich the Aegyptians had of a King Oculum cum Sceptro One Eye and one Scepter Shevving that Princes are to joyne Vigilance vvith Power and ought to haue Aquiline Eyes able to penetrate the hidden thinges of the Vulgar Valleyes belovve them Even as the Eagle doeth espy the Prey vnder him before him-selfe can bee perceived of Fowles Nazianzen speaking of Governament he sayeth it is Ars artium to rule a People And Seneca speaking of Man Nullum morosius animal nec majori arte tractandum There is not a more enorme and insolent Creature than Man nor vvhich is to bee managed vvith more cunning And as Plutarch sayeth That as Beasts can not bee guided nor commanded but by Men So Men cannot bee governed but by Him vvho is more than a Man and hath a great measure of Deitie into Him Certaynlie Your Majestie hath neede of Eyes vnder Wings as is sayde of the Spanish Cuttuio that Yee might flie abroade to explore the manners of Your Subjects and malice of Your Enemies to see that no Backe-doore bee left for those to enter at nor no Fielde commodious vvhere they may cover their insidious Nettes but that the vvhole Sea of Your Majesties Governament bee calme and peaceable vnderstanding hovv the Spanyard is skilfull to fish in drumblie Waters Hee can practise as vvell Protestants as Papists if hee finde them loose and vvavering Which particular Your Majestie vvill see examplified in this Treatise besides Testimonies of French Wryters vvhich might bee suspected of Partialitie and malicious detraction it is verefied by naturall Spaniards namelie Antonio Peres vvho vvas a chiefe Secretarie of Estate vnder Philip the second and vvhose Relation in some thinges touching the sayde King and Estate of Portugall I haue trusted and follovved for tvvo respects First Because none could haue knovvne those better and secondlie Because hee did handle the lyke Theame to this by vvay of shovving to King Henrie the fourth of France the necessitie of making Warres to Spayne Your Majestie knovveth that it

latter Appellation was ordayned to bee from the Senate it selfe vnto the People by the Law VALERIA which is sayd by Livius to be the Fundament Mayne Strength of the Popular Soveraignitie The Practise here-of we reade in the Case of Sergius Galba the Orator who being convinced of Lese-Majestie by Cato the Censor did appeale vnto the People had his Absolution from them Agayne when this Popular State of Rome was reduced in a Principa●tie by Caesar the Dictator the Mittigation of Lawes or Absolution there-from did returne and rest into the person of the Prince as we reade of Cicero pleading for Pardon to Ligarius at the Hands of Caesar When I pleade sayth he before other Iudges I speake not of Pardon to my Client but stand to my Defences That the Accusator is calumnious the Cryme forged by Envie the Witnesses infamous but beere sayeth hee I eraue Grace Quia poena Legi Gratia Principi debetur Agayne we reade in Contareno vpon the Venetian Governament that the first Law that was made for the establishment of that Republicke was for a last Appellation from all Iudges Ordinarie● vnto their Great Counsell into the which the Soveraigne Majestie was placed that State beeing Aristocraticke so that this Power to absolue or dispense from Lawes by a last Appellation hath ever beene incorporate in the Soveraignitie geaue Lawes as naturallie belonging there-so and inseparable from the same Thus there beeing a Necessitie which no man can deny of Appellation from Legall Rigour to some Soveraigne Power who may mittigate the same and that being proper to the Supreame Majestie of the State as I haue showed those haue led me vpon the second Circumstance touching the Commission of Grievances that is to speake of the Authoritie where-by it may bee established and whether or not His Majestie may doe so much by His Prerogatiue Royall without the Approbation of a Parliament added there-vnto And that I should not seeme to corrupt the Veritie of so Soveraigne a Point with Flatterie of the Prince or for feare of Subjects for the first I will confesse that I am not of the Opinion of Melancton who helde that those hard and imperious Practises of Kings objected by Samuell to the Israelites when they did demand a King to rule over them were the true and naturall Priviledges of the Soveraigne Majestie But I doe thinke that they were rather permitted Acts of GOD His Iudgement against a wicked and rebellious People for other-wayes Samuell being then their Supreame Prince him-selfe would not haue justified the vprightnesse of his Governament by saying Whose Oxe or whose Asse haue I taken If it had beene lawfull for him to take them as hee doeth there pronounce that the following Kings should take them Besides that the Text of Samuell in that place doeth not say that a King shall haue right To take their Sonnes Daughters and Fieldes and to employ them to his vse and service But onlie that it shall be the manner and fashion of doing of their Kings Neither doeth the Hebrew word Mishpat in that same place signifie a Right to doe but a Custome and Fashion of doing and therefore the greater part of the Learned holde it true which some Hebrewes haue written of Samuell that the Booke composed by him a part of the Priviledges and Prerogatiues of the Soveraignitie mentioned in his Text of the Scripture was suppressed and destroyed by the succeeding Kings for their greater Libertie to exercise the Artes of Tyrannie But whylst it is so yet wee are to vnderstand that there is nothing more sacred next vnto GOD in this World than Soveraigne Kings they are the LORD His Anointed they carrie His Image they holde the Charter of their Authoritie immediatelie of Him they are like vnto the highest Spheares receiving the first Influence and Emanation from GOD they are His Lieuetenents to command over all Men holding them-selues onlie of Him so respected of GOD that wee are commanded by the Spirit of GOD to obey Kings generallie without restriction whether they bee Good or Bad because they are of GOD if they bee good Hee hath ordained them for the Quyetnesse and Prosperitie of good People if they bee Bad Hee hath ordained them for the punishment of Wicked and rebellious People so farre that in my judgement wee can finde no lawfull Warrand for Subjects to dethrone the Bad more than the Best in which Respects it is most necessarie that we should rightlie know the Qualities of their Persons and Dignitie of their high Calling to the ende that wee may vnderstand what kynde of Obedience is due vnto them It is not ydle nor without great Reason sayd that Soveraigne Kings are lyke vnto GOD. There are in GOD manie thinges communicable to His Creatures His Iustice Mercie Veritie Loue Wisdome Providence of all which His Creatures doe in some degree participate Agayne there are in GOD thinges mierlie incommunicable to Creatures and which can never bee spoken of them but privatiuelie as His Omnipotencie Infinitie Eternitie and these are the proper Markes of the DEITIE that can never fall in anie Creature what-so-ever Even so there bee in Kinges vvho represent GOD on Earth diverse and manie thinges communicable to Subjects besides Honour and Ritches vvhich from Princes doe reflect and shyne vpon Subjects A Subject may resemble his Prince in some Proprieties both of Bodie Mynde but with-all in that also lyke vnto GOD they haue some inseparable Marks of Soveraignitie vvhich cannot be communicated to Subjects vvithout the over-throw or Laesion at least of their Majestie As for the first to bee Law-givers the Disputes and Decreets of their Counsels Sonates and Parliaments are but a dead Letter vnto the tyme that the Royall Word SCEPTER Signe or Seale doe giue Lyfe and Authoritie there-vnto Senatus decrevi● Rex jussit If this Point to giue Lawes were communicable vnto Subjects then Subjects also might dispense with Lawes so participate of the Soveraignitie Another inseparable Marke of Soveraigne Majestie is to decreet of Peace and Warre Counsels and Parliamentes may agitate the Prince onelie may resolue I grant indeed that in Christian Kingdomes vvhich holde more of Aristocracie than of Monarchie the things of Peace and Warre doe much depende vpon the Voyce of the Nobles but the Seale of Authoritie is onlie from the King A third Marke inseparable of Soveraignitie is the Institution or Deposition of chiefe Magistrates which by the fore-sayd Law Valeria was annexed to the Popular State as due to the Soveraigne Majestie then Popular And certaynlie here-in lyeth not onlie a conspicuous Marke of Soveraignitie but also a Mayne Poynt of the Fortitude and Strength of the same A fourth Marke of Soveraigne Majestie and which is of it selfe most Soveraigne incommunicable is this latter Appellation of Subjectes to their Soveraignes in the Cases of Legall Rigour from what-so-ever Iudge vvithout the which the light of Reason doth show to anie Man that there can bee no true Soveraignitie lyke

as wee see that the Consent of the World the Practise of all Ages these of our owne Nation doe giue to Kinges the Royall Priviledge of granting Grace and Remission from Lawes even where the LAW of GOD doeth ordayne Punishment by Death And the most temperate Christian Kings doe assume and exercise this Priviledge to pardon Persons Criminall for Slaughter at their owne pleasure It beeing so how much more ought the Royall Soveraignitie to haue this latter Appellation annexed vnto it from all Iudges and Causes Civill vvhere Legall Decreets are found to be hard and tyrannous Or if a King cannot bestowe this Grace vpon a distressed Subject to repledge him from the tyrannie of Law how can hee bee sayde to carrie in His Person a Soveraegne Power This Priviledge of a last Appellation in difficult Cases is not onelie proper to Soveraignitie but lykewyse a thing ever sought and challenged by Subjects as due vnto them to bee granted by their Kings Nero and Caligula Princes givē to private Laesciviousnesse they did for their owne Ease and Freedome from Effaires ordayne that no Appellation should be frō the Senate vnto them but yet the Romanes would never quyte that Benefite of a latter Refuge to their Emperours And if we shall try thinges well wee should find that the present Practise of almost all Christian Princes hath put Commissioners or Lieuetennants in their Place to exercise that Poynt of the Soveraigne Majestie for receiving of latter Appellations in Causes Compassionable as the foure Courts of Spayne to which as to the Royall Soveraignitie there are Appeales from all Iudges Their Syndicators in their Provinces abroad are instituted to the same end and that so profitablie that there is not in any Christian State a surer Means for mayntaynance of Peace Iustice amongst People The Chamber Imperiall in Germanie vvhere-vnto there are drylie Appellatious from all the Cities Dutc●ies Counties Baronies within the whole Empyre In England they haue their Court of Conscience for the same vse and ende So that I doe thinke for this Commission for Grievances here presenting the King His owne person to receiue these latter Appellations due to the Soveraignitie albeit it seeme to bee a newe Iudicatorie of late Invention yet it is not so because it was ever incorporate and inseparablie included in the Soveraigne Maiestie I trust we will all thinke that nothing is more agreeable with Pietie Good Conscience than the allowing of such Appellations from Legall Rigour and Extremitie neyther anie thing more becomming the Soveraignitie that GOD hath placed in Christian Kinges than to receiue and heare them since Iudges Ordinarie may not doe it in the nature of their Office being sworne to administrate Iustice in Legall tearmes wanting power to dispense with Lawes vnlesse that His Maiestie vvould grant to the Lords of our Session the same Commission and Power appoynting some of them for Lawe and others for Conscience and so consolidate both the Offices in one Alwayes if the King ought or may heare the Grievances of His Subjects as due vnto His Soveraignitie and if he may doe so much in His own person then there is no doubt but He may doe it by Commissioners and must doe so because of Remotenesse of Pla●e for our Ease and because of multitude of Effaires for His owne Ease I thinke it not amisse heere to declare how our Historiographer Buchanan treating of the Originall Election of our Colledge of Iustice vnder King Iames the fift hee did esteeme it a meere Tyrannie if no Appellation should bee there-from Quando Collegiam Iudicum sayeth hee in his fourteenth Booke Edinburgi constitutum fuisset tamen qui sperabatur eventus non est consecutus nam cum in Scotianullae pene sint leges praeter conventuum decreta eaque pleraque non in perpetuum sed in tempus facta judices●que quod in se est lationem legum impediant omnium civium bona quindecem hominum arbitrio sunt commissa quibus perpetua est potestas imperium plane tyrannicum that is to say When the Colledge of Iustice was planted and authorized at Edinburgh there did not follow there-on the good Events which were expected for there beeing no other Lawes in Scotland almost but Actes of Parliament and Iudges given so farre as lyeth in them to hinder the promulgation of Lawes the Lands Goods of all the Subjects were committed to the arbitriment of fifteene Men to whome was granted a perpetuall power and Authoritie playnlie tyrannous Now to proceede touching Ordinarie Magistrates As Lawes are not perpetuall so are not Magistrates everie-where nor at all tymes neyther is it absolutelie expedient or necessarie to be so albeit we must all confesse that it is not without great publicke detriment that old and faythfull Magistrates should be often changed yet the Current of States is so fluxable subject to so manie casuall Changes that very good Princes haue changed verie good Magistrates for verie good Causes Marc. Aurol going abroad through his Provinces to view and consider the Administration and Order of Iustice he did displace hang even of the best and speciall Magistrates because that hee vvould suffer no Man to beare Office in the Countrey where hee dwelt namelie a Great Man as if His Majestie should not permit a Noble-man inhabiting the North of Scotland to bee heritable Shyreffe or Lieuetennant there and respected there by that Meanes as a Prince Which kinde of doing as I vnderstand is observed thorow all Spaine where everie Iudge Ordinarie is a Stranger there where hee judgeth And oft-times as wee may reade into their Histories it hath beene acted by the Parliaments of France that two of one Familie should not bee of one Session and most sufficient Magistrates to haue beene remooved for that Respect and briefe there is no Question but Princes not onlie may change their Magistrates but doe often finde it verie good Policie to doe so being alwayes oblished to place into their Rowmes Men truelie sufficient for Knowledge and Sinceritie Plutarch a rare Man both for Morall and Statelie VVisdome saide against those who would establish perpetuall Magistrates Videmini aut non multi facere Magistratum aut non multos Magistratu dignos habere But I come to speake which appearinglie is not yet in Head of another Point of Reformation into our Seate of Iustice than the which there is nothing that would breede greater Solace to the whole Bodie of this Kingdome and would to GOD His Majestie should take it to Heart and bee truelie enformed of the Importance there-of And this is of the great numbers of Advocates who for their Commoditie Particular doe breed the longsomnesse of Processes that spoileth so manie good People and which manie good and great Kings haue endevoured to correct By this Abuse the Seate of Iustice is turned to bee a Sinke that draweth into it the greatest part of the Ritches of the Land and this aboue all