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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A22664	An Admonicion or warnyng to all the Kynges Maiesties justices of peace in the name of the Lorde Protector and the rest of the Kynges Maiesties counsaill spoken in the Sterre Chamber, by the Lorde Chauncelor of Englande, the fourth of Maie, in the second yere of the reigne of our souereigne lorde Kyng Edwarde the Sixte, &c.	Rich, Richard, Sir, 1496?-1567.; England and Wales. Lord Chancellor's Dept.	1548 (1548)	STC 9181.3; ESTC S1929	2,701	8

¶ An admonicion or warnyng to all the Kynges Maiesties Iustices of Peace in the name of the Lorde Protector and the rest of the Kynges Maiesties counsaill spoken in the Sterre Chamber by the Lorde Cha●ncelor of Englande the fourth of Maie in the second yere of the reigne of our souereigne lorde Kyng Edwarde the sixte c. IT hath been vsed and accustomed before this tyme to call at certayne tymes the Iustices of peace before the Kynges Maiesties counsail to geue vnto theim admonicion and warnyng diligentely as their duetie is to loke to the obseruyng of suche thynges as be committed to their charges according to the truste whiche the Kynges maiestie hath in theim How bee it now at this tyme wee call you before vs not onely of custome but rather of necessitie For hearyng daily and perceiuyng as we do the greate negligence and the litle hede whiche is taken and geuen to the obseruyng of the good and wholsome Lawes and orders in this realme whereupon muche disordre dooth daily ensue and the Kynges Maiesties Proclamacions and orders taken by the counsaill as we are aduertised not executed the people brought to a disobedience and in maner all his Maiesties studie and oures in settyng a good and moste Godly staie to the honor of God and the quiet of the relame spent in vain and come to nothing The whiche as wee haue greate hope and trust not to bee altogether so yet so muche as it is and so muche as it lacketh of kepyng the realme in a moste Godly ordre and state we muste nedes impute and laie the faulte therof in you whiche are the Iustices of Peace in euery Shire to whom we are wont to directe our writynges to whose trust and charge the Kynges maiestie hath committed the execucion of all his Proclamacions of his Actes of Parliament of his Lawes We are infourmed that many of you be so negligent and so slacke in that that it doth appere that you doo rather loke as it wer through your fingers then diligently to se for the execucion of thesaied Lawes and Proclamacions For if you would accordyng to your dueties to your othe to the truste whiche the Kynges maiestie hath in you geue your diligence and care toward thexecucion of thesame most Godly Statutes and Iniunccions there should no disobedience no disordre nor euill rule bee begon or arise in any part of the realme but it should by and by be repressed kepte doune and reformed Mary it is feared and the thyng it self geueth occasion thereto that diuerse of you do not onely set furthe but rather hynder so muche as lieth in you the kynges maiesties procedynges and are content that there should arise some disobedience and that menne should repine against Godly orders set furthe by his Maiestie you do so slackly looke to the execucion of thesame So that in some Shires whiche bee further of it maie appere that the people hath neuer hard of diuerse of his maiesties Proclamaciōs or if thei haue hard that you are content to wincke at it and to neglecte it so that it is all one as though it wer neuer commaunded But if you doo considre and remembre your dueties firste to almightie God and then to the kynges Maiestie the wealthe of the whole Realme the safegarde and suretie of your awne selfes you must nedes se that excepte suche ordres as the kynges Maiestie hath sette and shall herafter appoynt to be kept neither the realme can bee defended if the enemie should inuade nor in peace it cannot stande but vpon the contempt of good and wholsome lawes all disordre and inconueniences should come the people should be wilde and sauage and no man sure of his awne And if at any tyme there was occasion and cause to be circumspect and diligent aboute thesame there was neuer more tyme then now How wee stande in Scotlande you knowe and that other forrein power maketh great preparacion to aide them and in deede doth come to their aide we are surely informed and certified Wherfore if there should not be good ordre and obedience kepte in the realme the realme were like vtterly to be destroyed Neuer forrein power could yet hurte or in any parte preuaile in this realme but by disobedience and misordre within out selfes that is the waies wherewith God will plague vs if he mynde to punish vs and so long as we do agree within our selfes and be obedient to our Prince and to his Godly ordres and lawes wee maie bee sure that God is with vs and that forrein power shall not preuaile against vs nor hurte vs. Wherfore once again and stil we must and doo laie this charge vpon you that are the better of the Shire ▪ and Iustices of Peace that with so conuenient spede as you can you doo repaire doune into your countreys And you shall also gaue warnyng to the Gentle menne of the Shire whiche haue not necessarie busines here that thei repaire doune eche man into his countrey and there bothe you and thei who be reconed the staie of euery Shire to se good ordre and rule kepte You that your Sessions of Gaole deliuery and quarter Sessions bee well kepte and therein your metynges to bee suche that Iustice might be well and truly ministered the offendors and malefactors punished accordyng to the Lawes of the realme without any teare of any man or that for fauoure you should suffre those to escape ▪ whiche with their euill exāple might bryng other to like mishappe and that all Vacaboundes al lewde and light tale tellers and sedicious berers of false newes of the Kynges Maiestie or of his counsaill or suche as will preache without license be immediatly by you represte and punished And if there should chaunce any lewde and light fellowes to make any routes or riottes or vnlawfull assembles any sedicious metynges vprors or vprisynges in any place by the sedicious and deuilishe mociō of some priuie traitors that you and thei appease theim at the firste and apprehende the firste aucthors and causers therof and certifie vs with spede The lightnes of the rude and ignoraunt people must be represte and ordered by your grauitie and wisedome And here you maie not if any suche thyng chaunce dissemble with those suche lewde men and hide your selfes For it shalbe required of you if suche misordre bee and surely without your aide and help or your dissemblyng suche misordre cannot bee Nor we dooe not saie this that wee feare any suche thyng or that there is any such thyng likely to chaunce but we geue you warning before least it should chaunce We haue had to muche experience in this Realme what inconuenience commeth of suche mattiers and though some light persones doo not in their rage consider it yet wee doo not doubte but that you weigh it and knowe it well inough And if it should chaunce our enemie who is mainteined by other forrein powers and the Bushoppe of Rome should sodainly arriue in some place of Englande either driuen by tempeste or of purpose to do hurte ye should se suche ordres kepte by fieryng of Beacons as hath all ready been written vnto you by our letters to repulse thesame in so good arraie as you can as we do not doubte but you will for the saufegarde of your countrey so that the enemie shall haue litle ioye of his commyng And for that purpose you shall se diligently that menne haue Horse Harneis and other furniture of weapon redy accordyng to the Statutes and good orders of the realme and the Kynges Maiesties commaundementes God saue the Kyng Excusum Londini in aedibus Richardi 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