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A19078	The Lord Coke his speech and charge VVith a discouerie of the abuses and corruption of officers.	Pricket, Robert.; Coke, Edward, Sir, 1552-1634.	1607 (1607)	STC 5491; ESTC S104999	27,699	62

I behold a Riuer with a siluer currant bounded in her equall course with what just proportion shee doth disperse her streames without bewraying any little rage of intemperate violence But if the passage of that streame bee stopt then how like a raging Sea shee ouer-flowes her banckes and that then by an vnresisted force the Meadowes humble Vallies weake and low growne Shrubs are drowned vp enduring a recure-lesse wracke whilest Hilles Mountaines stand safe from feare of harme Euen so it fareth with vs The equall course of Iustice being stayed the poore meaner sort of people they are ouerwhelmed with wrongs oppression whilest great and wealthy men like Hilles and Mountaines buyld their Stations sure being freed from any cause of griefe Iustice with-held only the poorer sort are those that smart for it Iustice vnto all estates doth measure an euen proportion to rich and poore her met-wand keepes an equall length being sealed with the testimonie of an vpright conscience To Kings Rulers Iudges and Magistrates this sentence is proper Vos Dijestis you are Gods on earth when by your execution of Iustice and Iudgement the God of heauen is by your actiōs represented but if by vs that so are called Gods Iustice and Iudgement be peruerted it will be heauy for our soules when we shall dye like men Briefly the office of a Iudge is patiently to heare each party speake soberly to answere or object directly to see as neere as may bee possible each truth substantially prooued And then to Iudge with an vpright heart according to Iustice and Equitie Neuer in any one thing preferring Conclusion before a conscionable wise and judiciall Consideration In which vprightnesse the execution of Iustice vsed by the Right Honourable my most worthie Predecessor in this place shall be an Example which I will desire to follow Of all the Morall vertues Iustice Queene-like is enthroned for vnto her onely is a Throne ascribed because her Execution doth neerest represent Heauens eternall Deitie Iustice and Mercie are inseparable Vertues Mercie and Iudgement as it was Righteous King Dauids and lately our good Queenes heauenly Elizabeth so it is nowe vertuous King Iames his Song in whose princely breast Mercie and Iudgement are most gloriously vnited And to the end that I his Subiect and in his place his Substitute and you his Subiects may execute Iustice as wee ought I will nowe out of my last word de Quibus declare vnto you of whom and of what Causes wee are to enquire that Iustice and Iudgement may thereby receiue a more cleare and powerfull Execution Those then of whome wee are in the first place to enquire are such by whome our King is most disobeyed his State disturbed and Kingdomes threatened Whereof if you consider it will be euident That all those growing and desperate attempting euils by which wee are most prowdly menaced and Aflicted doe principally proceed from three sorts of Recusants liuing amongst vs. Of all which the Popish Recusant is the most dangerous with our English Romanists will I therefore at the first begin and in the discription of their Actions and practises I doe desire that my wordes may bee entertained with your best Attention Our Worldes Admired Queene Renowned Elizabeth did as you know in the beginning of her Raigne change the State of Religion in this Kingdome in her first Parlament by the consent of her Lordes Spirituall and Temporall being especially by the Lord of Heauen directed Error Popish blindnesse and Faithlesse Constitutions grounded vpon Humaine Traditions were extinct And Religions Puritie according to the Law of Faith was Reestablished being built vpon the vnremoued foundation of the alone Autenticke word Canonicall The bookes of the old and newe Testament from the trueth whereof shee did alwayes direct the course of her so happie and Tryumphant Gouernment Notwithstanding the Change of Religion it cannot bee denyed That for the first tenne yeeres of her Maiesties Raigne the estate of Romaine Catholique in England was Tollerable though some were Committed in the beginning of her Cōming to the Crowne yet none but those whose precedent Actions had caused the faith of their Allegience to remaine doubtfull and so was the manner of their commitment mixed with such gratious Clemencie As that they rather endured a fauourable restraint then any straight or rigorous imprisonment But aswell those so restrayned as generally all the Papists in this Kingdome not any of them did refuse to come to our Church and yeeld their formall Obedience to the Lawes Established And thus they all Continued not any one refusing to Come to our Churches during the first tenne yeeres of her Maiesties gouernment And in the beginning of the eleuenth yeere of her Raigne Cornewallyes Beddingfield and Silyarde were the first Recusants They absolutely refusing to come to our Churches And vntill they in that sort began the name of Recusant was neuer heard of amongst vs. In the beginning of the eleuenth yeere when three Recusants were onely in this Kingdome to bee found In the same yeere Pope Impius though abusiuely surnamed Pius Quintus his Hellishnes was informed by some of our English Iesuits that such was the number of Romaine Catholiques here in England as that if his Horriblenesse would denounce an Excommunication against the Queene there was in this Realme and Kingdome a power Catholical which would presently vpon an instant be in redinesse to enter into open hostilitie with force sufficient to depose and vtterly to supplant her Highnes and to reestablish the Romaine faith Pope Impius of that name the firste vpon the Information specified the better to seuer his hope in his good meaning to this Kingdome presently plotteth with the King of Spaine for asuddaine Inuasion vpon the present Excommunication of the Queene And to this end one Robert Rodulphy a gentleman of Florence was sent by the Pope vnder colour of Marchandize to sollicit a Rebellion amongst vs. And gaue order vnto him for the receiuing of one hundred and fiftie thousand Crownes to set forward this Attempt And Phillip King of Spaine by the instance of the Pope had determined to send the Duke of A●lna into England with all his forces in the Low Countries To Assist some great men amongst vs who were by the Pope Sollicited to be the principall Agents in a most Rebellious enterprise vnto whome some of the one hundred and fiftie Thousand Crowns was deliuered and some other part sent into Scotland for the like effect Thus as you haue heard euen at the same time when her Maiesty the late Queene delt most mercifully with the Papists did the Pope with them conspire to worke her Ruyne this Kingdomes Ouerthrowe secretly complaning how on sodaine they might bring vpon vs Distructions Spoyle and generall Desolatton when our then Soueraigne that Queene of Vertue knowing Shee had diserued no such euill did not in the least sort suspect any such danger The Pope hauing as he thought surely Established the foundation of his hopes Hee

damnable a spirit is in their bookes and writings bewrayed All the Papists in this kingdome were most violently perswaded that vpon the Spanish inuasion they should all ioyne their greatest force with Spaine It was in them accounted an error of conscience want of courage and effeminate dastardie that they had suffered her Maiestie almost thirtie yeares to raigne ouer them They were threatned with Excommunication and vtter ruine both of themselues and their posteritie if they did any longer obey and defend or acknowledge her highnes to be their Queene or superior and did not foorthwith ioyne their forces to the Spaniards And to the end that this most godlesse trayterous inhumane and vnnaturall appointment by subiects to their lawfull annointed Soueraigne and natiue countrey might receiue the better acceptance There was vsed a most insinuating though faithlesse manner of perswasion guilded ouer with a seeming shewe of Holinesse For thus our English Romane Catholikes were promised That in the king of Spaines armie there were diuerse Priests readie to serue euerie mans spirituall necessitie by confession counsell and all consolation in Christ Iesus and that they should be so assisted by the blessed patrons both in heauen and in earth with the gard of all Gods holy Angels with our blessed Sauiour in the soueraigne Sacrament and with the dailye most holy Oblation of Christs owne deare body and bloud As that it could not fall out otherwise but that they should assuredly preuaile Hereby may the world perceiue in what Angelike manner of brightnesse Popish doctrine can suite treasons damnable euen as blacke as hell You haue heard what preparation was prouided by the Pope and Papists for the furtherance of Spaines intended inuasion we will now proceed to matter of action And but call to our remembrance that euer to bee remembred powerfull wo●ke of God for our deliuerance in the yeare 88. The king of Spanes Armado that admirable and warlike nauie so well furnished with valiant souldiers and all munition fit for warre when suddenly we were in danger by a Potent enemie to be surprised when her late Maiesties Royall Nauie was scar●ly put foorth to sea And the best ships of strength not fully furnished with shot and powder as was necessatie in so weightie a businesse yet to the neuer dying glory of a maiden Queene such was her princely power although at sea but in part ' vnprouided as that by the loue and grace of heauens eternall prouidence her Maiestie by a most noble Battell at sea euen in the presence of her kingdoms Territories did vtterly disperse and ouerthrow that surnamed inuincible Spanish nauie so that not any Spaniards floate vnlesse brought captiue could arriue vpon her Englands shoare Nor but verie few of their so much admired fleete of shippes returned to their natiue home Thus did God on Queene Elizabeth bestow a glorious victorie euen in the despite of Pope Papist trayterous Iesuits Seminaries Monkes Friers and all the rablement of that Antichristian See The power of Spaine was brought against vs by the procurement of our English Papists and what recompence was intended for them in the charitie of their catholike profession may appeare by that which the Duke of Medina Sidonia affirmed which was That both Catholickes and Heretikes that came in his way should be all one to him his sword could not discerne them so he might make way for his maister all was one to him Thus did Papists as still they doe desire to worke our downe fall in the certaintie of their owne destruction God hauing shewed his loue to our late Queene and kingdome by that wonderfull deliuerance before described The Pope to further his accustomed indeuours practised with Spaine about a new inuasion and the better to bring his purpose to passe Parsons that auncient Iesuite and most notorious traytor vnder the Pope chiefe gouernour of all the Iesuits principall enemies to Iesus was placed in the Spanish Court by whose perswasion there was a new Seminarie erected at Valedolyde from whence in three yeares there was sent thirteene priests into England to prepare a passage for the new intended inuasion Whereupon in the yeare 1591. a Proclamation went forth for the apprehending of all such Priests or Seminaries as should come from Spaine Because their intention was knowne vnto the State here But to the end the Diuell the Pope I should say might want no instruments for the effecting of murthers treasons and rebellions by Parsons procurement more Seminaries were erected in Spaine and England still troubled with Romes trayterous disciples But the new inuasion being twise set on foote God did so warre against their purposes as that their prepared Nauie was at sea dispersed by stormes so as most of them endured shipwracke That expectation failing then was the Infant of Spaine intituled to the Crowne of England and to that end sundry bookes diuulged Queene Elizabeth was by them accounted a tyrant more tyrannicall then Nero Decius Dioclesian Maxentius or any the greatest persecutors of the Christians Not thus contented from the yeare 88. to the yeare 99. there were continuall treasons practised against the Royall person of her late Maiestie Patricke Collen Lopez Yorke VVilliams Squier all attempting to murther her Highnesse All these attempts plots proiects trayterous stratagems taking no effect Then was there from the Pope a new Bull sent whereby the Papists were commanded to vse a formall maner of obedience vntill they might grow to be a strength sufficiently strong to depose the Queene Which expectation once accomplished then had they power by the sayd Bull to take vp armes against her Thus they neuer left continuall practising vntill a little before her Maiesties death about which time by some of the principall Agents in the last most horrible treason there was complotted another Spanish inuasion For the accomplishing whereof the yonger VVinter was a messenger vnto the king of Spaine and Guydo Fawkes vnto the Pope and a third was imployed to the Archduke The king of Spaine at that time being our enemie entertained VVinters motion with most kind acceptance protesting that the English Catholiks should bee as deare vnto him as his home-borne Castillians and in loue to the intended businesse vowed in the word of a king to defend their safety all which as souldiers say with pollicie in warre he might do being then our enemie But it is a matter cleane out of my Element and therefore I will dispute no further about it But the Counsell of Spaine holding a conference about the mannaging of the plot by VVinter layd It was obiected that there would be want of horse for such a businesse Whereupon Winter vndertaketh to furnish them with a certaine number and receiueth gold to that end At last the purposed designement being embraced with a generall consent a souldier standing by being some Commander a Captaine or such like ruffles out this souldier like Latine Nunc tempus pro nobis erit aliquid obtinere Now shall it be time for