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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A34711	A discourse of foreign war with an account of all the taxations upon this kingdom, from the conquest to the end of the reign of Queen Elizabeth : also, a list of the confederates from Henry I to the end of the reign of the said queen ... / formerly written by Sir Robert Cotton, Barronet, and now published by Sir John Cotton, Barronet.	Cotton, Robert, Sir, 1571-1631.	1690 (1690)	Wing C6488; ESTC R9016	65,651	106

Pecuniam suam effuderunt quod inde pauperes omnes recesserunt unde Regi de jure auxilium non debebant they had poured out their money so liberally as that being all impoverished by it they were not obliged to assist him any farther And thus dissolved the Parliament The Clergy of the Realm in the twenty fourth of Edward the first denyed the demand of Contribution in expeditionem Regis contra Gallos ad reprimendos Scotos towards the Kings expedition against the French and the repressing of the Scots And ob has crebras exactiones magnus fit tumultus inter Regem Barones by reason of these frequent extorsions there arose a great difference betwixt the King and the Barons One of the Articles of treason objected against Mortimer in Parliament in the fourth of Edward the third was the offence he bred in the Commonwealth by causing a Subsidie to be exacted This humour of the people did somewhat suit with that of the Inhabitants of Trevers who stoned to death Proclerus for perswading Theodoret the Goth to crave a Subsidy The Clergy in the twelfth of Edward the third deny such a grant of their Wools as the Laiety had yielded to for supplying the King in his affairs of France The like answer they make the forty fourth of the same King when he demanded in Parliament a Subsidy of them and the Commons of 100000l And the same King grown doubtful of his people prest down with Impositions requireth the Archbishop Quod cum Populus Regni sui variis Oneribus Tallagiis Impositionibus praegravetur ut idem Archiepisc Indulgentiarum muneribus piis Exhortationibus aliis modis eundum Populum placare studeat ipsum Regem excuset that since the Subjects of his Kingdom were over-charged with many Burthens Tallages and other Impositions the said Archbishop would by grant of Indulgences seasonable Exhortations and other ways endeavour to pacifie the people and excuse the King By reason of the Census per Capita Pol-money imposed by Parliament in the third of Richard the second to defray the wars in France there were dirae imprecationes in Regem magnae ●…ost perturbationes in Regno ex Plebis insurre●…ione heavy and bitter imprecations against ●…he King which were followed with great trou●…les in the Nation by the insurrection of the Commons And as well in the reign of this King as some other of his Predecessours and Suc●…essours the Parliament was so tender in grant of Subsidy and other Taxes that they added into their Act quod non trahatur in consequentiam that 〈◊〉 should be no example for the future appointing ●…eculiar Treasurers of their own to give account ●…pon Oath the next Parliament and such Grants which they professed to proceed ex libera ●…pontanea voluntate Dominorum Comitatuum ●…rom the free and voluntary grant of the Lords and ●…espective Counties to be void if Conditions on ●…he Kings part were not performed And this un●…ortunate King had cast upon him as an argument of his unworthiness to govern the exacting of so great Subsidies and extorting so much money from ●…he Shires that submitted their Fortunes unto his ●…mercy And when Henry the sixth in anno 20. would ●…ave had a Relief from his Subjects de aliqua ●…umma notabili of some considerable summ he ●…ad in answer Propter inopiam c. populi il●…ud non posse obtineri that in regard of the pover●…y c. of the people it could not be granted The ●…ike in the twenty fourth of the same King Great men have been disposed sometimes to humour the waste of Treasure in their Princes either to subject Power by Need to their devotion and ●…we for Princes dare most offend them whom they have least cause to use or to force Necessity to extend Prerogative so far untill by putting all into Combustion some may attain unto the end of their Ambition others the redress of supposed Injuries Thus did the Faction of Henry the fourth in the one and the Nobility under Henry the third in the other who hereby quitted the State oppressed as they thought with the Kings Half-brothers the Poictovins and other Strangers Subjects fear to have the enemies of their Soveraigns too much weakned lest themselves become Tyrants And it is in the farthest respect in the Baronage under John Henry his son and Edward the second to fear as much the absolute Greatness of their Soveraign as they did the Diminution of their own estates And therefore when they found their King to grow too fast upon any neighbour Adversary then would they lend their best aid to diminish his power or fortune left by inlarging himself upon the other that poized his greatness he might forget and become a Tyrant as one saith of Henry the first Assumpserat cornua audaci● tam contra Ecclesiam quam Regni universalitatem Roberto fratre aliis inimicis edomitis having once overcome his brother Robert and other enemies with audacious and presumptuous horns he goared as well the Church as the rest of the Kingdom breaking his Seal his Charter and his Oath The memory of this caused the Nobility to call in the French Kings Son when John their Soveraign began to know his own authority as they thought too much And the French Subjects aided on the other side Henry the third against their Master when he was almost cooped up in his Britain journey This as the Stories report being a practice usual in those days THe last mischief is the disposition that Military education leaveth in the minds of many For it is not born with them that they so much distaste peace but proceeds from that custome that hath made in them another nature It is rarely found that ever Civil troubles of this State were dangerously undertaken but where the plot and pursuit was made by a spirit so infused King John had been after sine Regno without a Kingdom as he was at first sans terre without land if his rebenediction had not wrought more upon the disloyal designs of Fitzwalter and Marshal whom his own elective love had made great in opinion by the Norman Services than either his rebated Sword or blasted Sceptre could If Simon Montfort had not been too much improved in Experience and his own Opinion by the many services he underwent in the Government of Gascoign he had never so much dared against Duty as to come over at the first call to make head against his Master and pursue him with that fury of Ambition until he had forced him to redeem the liberty of his person by the blasting of so many flowers of his Imperial Crown and to set himself so far below the seat of Majesty as to capitulate with them upon even conditions which not performed I use his own words Liceat omnibus de Regno nostro contra nos insurgere it