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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

Musters with looking to fortifications and such like worldlie affaires But my Lord I know to whom I write to him which considereth between things worldly and heavenly to him that knoweth the feare of God is the beginning of wisdome and therewith I end Now to your Externall care where certainely God is served and pleased with them that accomplish the same to their powers and if wisdome lacke they may aske it of him who hath the treasure of Wisdome and Goodnesse Your Lordship hath there a great charge of Government I know you think your selfe unmeet thereunto especially in knowledge and surely to know that amendeth your abilitie for more hurt comes of mens securities and presumption of wisdome then in mistrust It is a good thing for you to be think your selfe of some Noble man whom you have either read or heard whose doings have bin worthy of commendations in such service as this And to make a Paterne and example to your selfe dayly in your doings practising the imitation of him throughout all your life and in this point may you choose manie noble properties of your owne naturall good Father to follow whereunto nature shall bend and make you soonest inclinable If you have heard of any Noble man famous in Justice not being led by affection on the one side or on the other nor being strict in severenesse of Law it were good to follow him If also you have heard the same to be mercifull to have had compassion of others in adversitie and willing to end all causes with quietnesse and charitie the example will be good You may also propound to your selfe the example to follow such a one as hath liberalitie in expences without prodigalitie remembring that the propertie of vertue is to continue in well doing and therefore to hold the meane is hard As certainely in these or other like vertues you shall see the fault on both sides so nigh standing to the vertues that unlesse you keepe your selfe in your doings very upright it is easy to erre on the one side or the other as for example in your expences if you keepe not a measure in your giving you shall faile on the one side and shall lack to give when most gladly you would give on the other side if you forbeare to give where you may and when you ought then do you as the Scripture saith heape up stones for your Grave The like is in the vertue of Justice wherein it shall suffice to remember of one Byas that when he had given Judgment on one wept himselfe and being asked of the cause he said in weeping he satisfied nature in my sentence the Law his pitie was naturall and hindred not Justice his Justice was lawfull and not unnaturall Thus I might spend your Lordships time in reading a long and weary Letter if I would continue in that Morall advertisement I will therefore draw more to particulars of your charge and as I guesse thereby more aptly to satisfie your Lordships request The foundation of your services there is your commission and under seale of discharge the force thereof is the end of your charge wherefore you shall do well by frequent reading and consideration thereof to understand it well and keepe it in memory for which purpose it shall be expedient to have some conference with some learned man in the Law for the behalfe in Law and of some other discreet men for the execution of the same In like case this know as you see time convenient so may you performe the commandements But me thinkes you will say I took upon me the easiest parts of advertisement that is to do discreetly but I shew you not how but remitt you to others and then will you thinke that I do as one that may bidd a sicke man be whole be quitt shake of your sicknesse but how to do he teacheth not Forsooth my Lord my excuse is too waies first I know not your Commission and that you know is true next if I did know it yet J have no such knowledge specially in Law to informe you withall more particularly then J do but these J thinke contenteth you not for you will according to your old mirth call this a reason that commeth from Colliweston and therefore to keepe you occupied with scribling J will follow on with a hotch-potch of sentences Jn your Commission J think manie things be committed to your discretion which maketh the burthen greater then if you had been expressely commanded what to do Therefore must you needs consider what is ment by discretion which as we terme it in our language seemeth to be a knowledge to discerne and judge one thing from another And this part truly is properly pertaining to wisdome for before a man can discerne he must know it and he that will performe this part must measure and judge of these things and therefore before you shall conclude of anie thing of weight you must discerne oft thereupon and before you can do that you must know the thing that is discerned and then for the election of these it is very profitable to imagine a paire of Ballances and in the one to lay reasons on the one side and in the other to lay the contrary and then judge which is the heaviest I meane which Ballance hath the best reasons nor the most And touching your owne person see things pertaining thereto be meet for the place which you keepe neither too negligent neither too curious to the one of these peradventure you are more subject then to the other and therefore you must regard your selfe the more Your household must be Governed as it may be an example of vertue to others and an ornament to your Office let your Officers have good ancient Rules for order and see they be not neglected you must your selfe so with the same as your servants may know you acquainted with their doings and yet not seeme to strangers to meddle therewith If you have cause to blame your Officer and have a mind to keepe him do it secretly that he may know his fault but not be known to the servant underneath him in any wise cause not idlenesse to remaine among your people let not your servants exceed in Apparell their degree for the charge at length will be to your purse or estimation let them understand that you love them best who live best in order them next who live nearest order and them nothing at all which live farr from order let them which do well in your house feele both your love and reward At your table let no matter of Princes affaires or Princes regiments be disputed nor of Religion for meate and drinke requireth meaner talke to keepe men occupied of the Common talke of the Country or other honest merry talkes Lastly note let Job serve in his degree your Lordship can well enough with a few questions set men occupied in talke For your fare your Lordship must give me leave to be bold I can

very well like that in respect of your degree that your service be both in order and service honourable and in substance plenreous and in art curious but considering the pronesse of this age to excesse J can best allow the first without the last and in any wise whatsoever you shall like do in other places let not your Orders belonging to your Estate especially in Common assemblies at your table be neglected and if your table be also plenteous it is also serviceable for the poore but the last to have many devises of counterfeit meates and also spiced maketh wast in the household gaineth little giveth ill example to be followed and is not wholsome to your guests and in the end serveth small to hospitalitie Now for the usage of men there in those parts as you find them at your comming so as little as you may seeke to alter their estate unlesse you see some cause let it not appeare you use any man with singular affection above the rest and yet you may use indeed as you see cause men either for wisdome credit with respect of others envyes not them whom you shall make choice of Jn your Consultations give every man leave to speake and beare with their lackes so that you make choice of the best do what you can to make every one live according to his own estate the Gentlemen to live of their owne without reproach and if you see any young Gentlemen towards wasting conferr with his friends for the stay thereof especially if his be of any continuance likewise see that poore men have their right not for importunitie of clamour but for pitie and truth Touching the Lawyers of the Countrie esteeme them of learning see they lack not too much honestie but in no wise seeme to favour these Demy-Lawyers except you see perfection of honestie for in all Countries they have least kill and do most harme Do what you can to make the Gentlemen accord amongst themselves and to extinguish old factions either by some devise of marrying or by redemption of titles of Lands or such like incumbrances which commonly be the seeds of discord For termination of poore mens suites remit them as much as you may to indifferent Arbitrators to end do not intermeddle therewith your selfe for so shall your labour be bottomelesse Whilst you be in that Countrie if you take anie servants let them be Gentlemens sonnes and if you may their heires that by their education with you they may know you and yours Set up artillerie and neglect not the game of wrastling let there be frequent games as shooting running on horse and foote and wrestling in my Countrie have been used all waies for such purposes and in this behalfe I meane not to have you induce new devices in that Country if they have other of their owne But some might aske me this is this the true use of Holy daies forsooth touching that part of the day where the Civill Magistrate hath power I thinke it not much amisse but for the time the Ecclesiasticall Minister doth appoint to pray and teach a Sermon I thinke it not meet to be put to this use But therein I will not much dispute for it belongeth to Divinitie whereunto your Commission extendeth not for hereof the Bishops and others have their charge Surelie my Lord it would be time now to leave my scribling least I shall be like the s ingers which are dainetie to begin know not when to leave I thinke your Lordship shall be weary of reading wherefore J will leave with a few lines like to my beginning Your doings here have deserved praise see you continue your distance so farre of your acception here J meane as J know You were wont and have professed unto me that is to serve uprightly and truly and to do therein as you can and then may you be bold of praise and if you misse of that yet of no dishonour for nothing indeed is honourable but well doing the weale of your Countrie J meane the quietnesse of such as you have authoritie to governe is your marke shoote thereat guiding your purpose with the feare of God and so shall you gaine the love of God and Man Jf you do some time as you see cause advertise the Queenes Majestie of the good Estate of that Countrie and of the Gentlemen there so it be by short Letters referring if you have anie long Declaration of things to your Letters to the Privy Counsell if any thing be to be misliked or tedious to be advertised procure others also to write thereof and in no wise write thereof alone for you know fortunate things are wellcome from anie man but how the contrary may come from you you may doubt Jt is full time for me to end my follie and your Lordship to end your labour beseeching you to make my will in satisfieing your request answer the other lacke fault and that J may be humbly remembred to my ladie to whom J acknowledge much dutie and am ashamed of my small deserving of her great goodnesse to me wards From my poore house at Wimbelton WILL CECILL FINIS