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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A01365	A very briefe and profitable treatise declaring hovve many counsells, and vvhat maner of counselers a prince that will gouerne well ought to haue The book speaketh. ...; Consejo i consejeros del principe. English. Abridgments	Furio Ceriol, Fadrique, d. 1592.; Blundeville, Thomas, fl. 1561.	1570 (1570)	STC 11488; ESTC S105670	28,475	130

A very briefe and profitable Treatise declaring hovve many counsells and vvhat maner of Counselers a Prince that will gouerne well ought to haue The Booke speaketh All you that Honors woulde atcheeue And Counslers eke desire to bee Of selfe loue flee the false beleeue And learne my lore that you may see What worthynesse in you doth reygne Such worthy state thereby tatteyne IMPRINTED at London by William Seres Firmo Appoggio 1570 To the ryght Noble Erle of Leycester one of hir highnesse most Honorable wise and graue Counselers FOR LACK OF BETter habilitie I am bolde after my olde wonte to presēt your Honor with Inke and Paper more to doe my bounde dutie in shewing my selfe thankfull towardes you for your great benifites bestowed on mee than for any profite or pleasure that I know your Honor can reape any waye of my rude wryting And yet amongst al the tryfles that euer I wrote there was none in mine opinion that ought to please you better than this little Treatise representing vnto you as it were in a glasse manye of those good vertues and qualities that do raigne in you ought to raigne in cuery other good counseler Which Treatise was first written in the Spanishe tongue by a Spanyard called FEDERIGO FVRIO and afterward trāslated into the Italian tongue by another Spanyard called ALFONSO D'VLLOA but not with so good grace as I beleeue it had in the Spanishe which in deede I neuer sawe and therefore though my very friend May ster Iohn Baptist Castiglion one of the Gromes of hir Highnesse priuie chamber vpō good zeale he had to profite many deliuered me the saide booke at my last being at the Court earnestly requesting me to put the same into our vulgar tong yet I would not altogither trāslate it but thought it best to make a briefe collection of the substance thereof cutting of all superfluous talke and yet leauing nothing out I trust that was necessary to be spoken But how soeuer it be I most humbly beseech your Honor to take it well in worth and in pervsing the same to conceyue of my labour bestowed therin with that fauourable iudgement which you haue alwayes vsed towardes mee in all my other doings and therwith to continue still my good Lord euen as I think my selfe bounde to continue your faythfull seruant Thus leauing to trouble your Honor any further I pray God to graunt you helth long lyfe with much prosperitie From Newton Flotman the first of Aprill 1570. Most bounde to your Honor Thomas Blundeuill With what order and methode the Institution of a Prince ought to be written WHO so vvill write the Institution of a Prince ought to deuide hys vvorke into fiue partes The first vvhereof vvould containe three Bookes and the first Booke must shevv vvhat a Prince is hovv he vvas first ordained to vvhat ende vvhat povver hee hath vvho gaue it him vvho may take it from him The second booke muste declare vvhat Artes and Sciēces are required in a Prince that vvill gouerne vvell The thirde booke must shewe vvhat morall vertues a Prince should haue and hovv to vse them The seconde part must treate of the Princes education of his Schoolemaysters gouernours seruantes friendes and louers of his house and householde and therefore as the Phisitians doe deuide mannes lyfe into seauen ages or times so this part would be likevvise deuided into seauen bookes the first treating of the Princes infancie the seconde of his childehood and all the reast of hys other ages or times The thirde part vvoulde contayne three Bookes the one vvhereof must shevve the dutie of the subiect in euerye poynt tovvardes the Prince and the other the dutye of the Prince tovvards the subiect vvhereby it shall plainely appeare vvho is a Traytour and vvho is a faythfull subiect and also vvho is a iust Prince vvho is a tyrant The fourth part vvould shevv hovve a Prince ought to rule and raigne so as he may escape and ouercome all diffycultes that may chaunce any maner of vvaye vvhich are not easily knovvne by cause they are diuers according to the diuersitie of the kingdome or principalitie vvhich is gotten possessed by one of these foure waies That is either by inheritaunce by election by forcyble conquest or else by pollicye it is requisite therefore that this part be deuided into foure Bookes euery one treating of ech of the sayde kindes of possession Finallye bicause the Prince can not heare all see all knovve all and prouide for all alone of himselfe the fift part therefore ought to treate of the councell and counselers of a Prince teaching him hovve to make hys counsell and vvhat maner of counselers to choose of vvhich part mine Aucthor aboute nine yeares past tooke vppon him to vvrite deuiding the sayde part into eyght bookes but as yet he neuer set forth more that I knovve than the fyrst Booke the effect vvhereof hereafter folovvith VVhat a counsell is and hovv many counsells a Prince ought to haue A Counsell is an assembly of vvise and discreete persons chosen by the Prince to counsell him in all his affayres both of peace and vvarre in such sort as he by their helpe maye gouerne hys Realme vviselye and foresee all daungers that may bety de so as in all his doings and enterprises he maye haue good successe or at the least as little euill successe and as seldome as maye bee And though that the Counsell and the Prince maketh in deede but one entyere thing in that it hath but one heade vvhich is the Prince yet it is necessarye that the saide counsell be deuided into manye partes vvhich though they haue dyuers offices yet they shall make but one body no more than the seuerall partes of mannes bodye seruing to dyuers purposes VVherefore it is meete first to shevve hovve manye seuerall counsells a Prince that vvil gouerne vvel ought to haue And than to euerye one of those counsells hovv many counselers hovv manye Presydents hovv manye Secretaries and hovv many Clarkes be needefull and also vvhat qualities be requyred in those men that they may be able and sufficient to serue the turne Also vvhat prerogatiues preheminences and authorities they ought to haue Againe hovv they ought to bee assembled vvhere in vvhat tyme and vvhat houre then vvhich matters ought to be first propounded to vvhom the Bylls of remembraunce for dispatch and al other vvritings ought to bee delyuered vvho ought to solicet the matters and hovve they should be entred into the bookes and many such lyke things Furthermore to shevve hovve one counsell ought to ansvvere another orderly to the intent there be no confusion nor mingle mangle of matters And lastly to shevv them vvhen they haue all determyned vppon some matter hovve and in vvhat sort they shall make relacion thereof vnto the Prince before they make any final resolution or conclusion Follovving then this order mine author sayth that if the Prince minde to

is the somme and effect of all that mine Author thought meete to treate of in this his firste of those eyght Bookes vvhich he hath promised to set foorth touching thys matter vvho vvisheth that he had bene as able to frame such a counsell in deede as hee hath heare descrybed in vvryting for then he vvoulde haue set foorth to the vvorlde a visible example of the goodnesse thereof to bee seene and felt rather than this imagined patterne to be considered onely vvith the minde And bicause he doubteth not but that some vvyll bee readye to finde faultes vvith this his vvorke he briefely aunfvvereth to such obiections as maye be lay de against him And first vvhereas it maye bee obiected that it is not a meete thing for a Prince to take such paine and to trouble himselfe in making so precyse a choyse He aunsvvereth that it is no trouble or paine at all in respect of the great ease rest and quietnesse that he shall thereby purchase to hymselfe vvhen he shall haue to deale in great affayres and matters of vvayte be it eyther in time of peace or vvarre for be they neuer so troublous or vvaytie of themselues yet to him hauing such counsells and counselers they shall seeme very easie and light Some againe vvill obiect that the Prince is free that he maye giue dispose his offices as him pleaseth best VVhervnto mine author ansvvereth that the freedome or libertie of the Prince is no freedome vvhen it passeth the bounds of reason and that in preferring vvill before reason he ought rather to be called a tyrant than a Prince Thirdly it may be sayde that it behooueth Noble men Gentlemen to bee revvarded according to their birth and calling vvhich mine Author denyeth not and yet therevvith sayth that it is not al one thing to revvarde a noble man to make him a counseler sith there bee meanes ynough to revvard him vvythout that vnlesse he bee meete for it Fourthly it may be obiected that there are no such counselers as he hath descrybed to hee founde in all the vvorlde VVherevnto he aunsvvereth that there are a number of good men and verie sufficient in all conditions to bee had if the Prince choose them for their vertue and deserts and not by his ovvne affection fauour or povver And thoughe there were not yet if the Prince vvould doe as he ought to doe he might make men of stones For to vvhat soeuer the Prince is giuen be it to vice or to vertue all men vvill follovve the same And therfore if the Prince delight in vvise learned and vertuóus counselers mine Author sayth that he dare aduenture his heade that a number of Barrons and Knightes in fevve yeres vvoulde become most sufficient counselers And for proofe thereof vvisheth that some Prince vvoulde put these his preceptes in vre not doubting but that in so doing hee should quickly see such an alteration in his Courte as those that doe novv leavvdely spende their tyme in ydlenesse vayne pastymes and in vvantonnesse of life vvould giue themselues to lavvdable exercises and therby make the Court to become a schoole of vertue and knovvledge VVhich should be to the great honour of the Prince to the profite of the common vvealth and to the glorye of God vvho giue grace to all Christian Princes so to order their courtes and to giue such ensample themselues as the cōmon people may learne therby to liue in the feare of God to doe that vvhich is acceptable in his sight and thus I ende thys treatise FINIS 1 2 3 4 5 The Eschequer These thinges belong to our high Courte of Parlament The priuie counsell which for worthinesse woulde be first placed The counsell of war whereof Englande hath most neede Purueyours The cōmon place These pointes also doe belong to our high Courte of Parlament The kings bench The Whitehal or court of revvards A liuely vvytte Eloquence Knowledge of tongues Reading of Hystories Morall Philosophy Pollicie Traueling of Countries Knowledge of the Princes power The zeale and true loue of the Counseler towardes his country Vpright iudgement Iustice. Liberalitie Beneficialnesse Affability Qualities of the body Age. Complexiō Stature ▪ Proportion of body Vysage The first aduertisement The second aduertisement The thirde aduertisement The fourth aduertisement The fift aduertisment The sixt aduertisment