nor land and though it was at their own suit yet I know they will wrong me in all that they can I beseech your Honour that the scorn of men may not be believed of me who have taken more pains and suffered more than the meanest Rascall in the Ship these being gone I shall be able to keep the Sea untill the end of August with some four reasonable good ships Sir wheresoever God shall permit me to arrive in any part of Europe I will not fail to let your Honour know what we have done till then and ever I rest Your Honours servant W. Raleigh Sir WALTER RALEIGH'S Letter to King JAMES at his return from GVIANA May it please your most excellent Maiestie IF in my Journey outward bound I had my men murthered at the Islands yet spared to take revenge if I did discharge some Spanish Barks taken without spoil if I so bear all parts of the Spanish Indies wherein I might have taken twentie of their Downs on the sea coasts and did onely follow the enterprize I undertook for Guiana where without any directions from me a Spanish Village was burnt which was new set up within three miles of the Myne By your Majesties favour I find no reason why the Spanish Ambassador should complain of me If it were lawfull for the Spaniards to murther twentie six English men tying them back to back and then cutting their throats when they had traded with them whole moneth and came to them on the land without so much as one sword and that it may not be lawfull to your Majesties subjects being charged first by them to repell force by force we may justly say O miserable English If Pâ—â—â—â—â— and â—â—eâ—â—â—m took Campeâ—â—â— and other places in the Honduras seated in the heart of the Spanish Indies burnt towns and killed the Spaniards and had nothing said unto them at this return and my self forbore to look into the Iâ—â—â—â—as because I would not offend I may as justly say O miserable Sir Walter Raleigh If I have spent my poor estate lost my son suffered by sicknesse and otherwise a world of miseries if I have resisted with manifest hazard of my life the Robberies and Spoils with which my Companions would have made me rich if when I was poor I would have made my self rich if when I have gotten my liberty which all men and nature it self do much prize I voluntarily lost it if when I was sure of my life I rendered it again if I might elsewhere where have sold my ship and goods and put five or six thousand pounds in my purse and yet brought her into England I beseech your Majestie to believe that all this I have done because it should not be said to your Majestie that your Majestie had given libertie and trust to a man whose end was but the recoverie of his libertie and who had betrayed your Majesties trust My Mutiniers told me that if I returned from England I should be undone but I believed in your Majesties goodnesse more than in all their being arguments Sure I am the first that being free and able to enrich my self yet hath embraced povertie and perill And as sure I am that my example shall make me the last but your Majesties wisdom and goodnesse I have made my judges who have ever been and shall ever be Your Majesties most humble Vassal Walter Raleigh Sir Raleighs's Letter to his Wife after his Condemnaetion YOu shall receive my dear Wife my Last words in these my Last lines my love I send you that you may keep when I am dead and my counsell that you may remember it when I am no more I would not with my will present you sorrows dear Bess let them go to the grave with me and be buried in the dust And seing that it is not the will of God that I shall see you any more bear my destruction patiently and with an heart like your self First I send you all the thanks which my heart can conceive or my words expresse for your many travels and cares for me which though they have not taken effect as you wished yet my debt to you is not the lesse but pay it I never shall in this world Secondly I beseech you for the love you bare me living that you do not hide your self many days but by your travels seek to help my miserable Fortunes and the Right of your poor Child your mourning cannot avail me that am but dust Thirdly you shall understand that my Lands were conveyed bona fide to my Child the writings were drawn at Midsummer was twelve moneths as divers can witness and I trust my bloud will quench their malice who desired my slaughter that they will not seek also to kill you and yours with extream poverty To what friend to direct you I know not for all mine have left me in the true time of triall Most sorrie am I that being thus surprised by death I can leave you no better Estate God hath prevented all my determinations that great God which worketh all in all and if you can live free from want care for no more for the rest is but a vanitie Love God and begin betimes in him you shall find true everlasting and endlesse comfort when you have travelled and wearied your self with all sorts of worldly cogitations you shall sit down by sorrow in the end Teach your son also to serve and fear God whilest he is young that the fear of God may grow up in him then will God be an Husband to you and a Father to him an Husband and a Father that can never be taken from you Baylie oweth me a thousand pounds and Arvan six hundred in Jâ—rnesey also have much owing me Dear wife I beseech you for my Souls sake pay all poor men When I am dead no doubt you shall be much sought unto for the world thinks I was very rich have a care to the fair pretences of men for no greater miserie can befall you in this life than to become a prey unto the world and after to be despised I speak God knows not to disswade you from Marriage for it will be best for you both in respect of God and the world As for me I am no more yours nor you mine death hath cut us asunder and God hath divided me from the world and you from me Remember your poor Child for his Fathers sake who loved you in his happiest estate I sued for my life but God knows it was for you and yours that I desired it for know it my dear Wife your Child is the Child of a true man who in his own respect despiseth Death and his mishapen and ugly forms I cannot write much God knows how hardly I steal this time when all sleep and it is also time for me to separate my thoughts from the world Beg my dead body which living was denied you and either lay it in Sâ—â—â—bâ—rn or in Exceter Church by my
father and mother I can say no more Time and Death calleth me away The everlasting God powerfull infinite and inscrutable God Almightie who is goodnesse it self the true Light and Life keep you and yours and have mercy upon me and forgive my Persecutors and false accusers and send us to meet in his glorious kingdom My dear Wife farewell Blesse my Boy Pray for me and let my true God hold you both in his Arms. Yours that was but now not mine own Walter Raleigh Sir Raleigh's Letter to Prince Henry touching the model of a Ship Most excellent Prince IF the Ship your Highness intends to build be bigger than the Victorie then her beams which are laid overthwart from side to side will not serve again and many other of her timbers and other stuff will not serve whereas if she be a size less the timber of the old Ship will serve well to the building of a new If she be bigger she will be of less use go very deep to water and of mightie charge our Channels decaying every year less nimble less mannyable and seldom to be used Grande Navio grande satica saith the Spaniard A Ship of six hundred Tuns will carrie as good Ordinance as a Ship of twelve hundred Tuns and where the greater hath double her Ordinance the less will turn her broad side twice before the great Ship can wind once and so no advantage in that over-plus of Guns The lesser will go over clear where the greater shall stick and perish the lesser will come and go leave or take and is yare whereas the greater is slow unmanyable and ever full of encumber In a well conditioned Ship these things are chiefly required 1. That she be strong built 2. Swift in sail 3. Stout-sided 4. That her Ports be so laid as that she may carry out her Guns all weathers 5. That she hull and trie well 6. That she stay well when boarding or turning on a wind is required To make her strong consisteth in the care and truth of the work-man to make her swift is to give her a large Run or way forward and so afterward done by act and just proportion and that in laying out of her bowes before and quarters behind the Ship-wright be sure that she neither sink nor hang into the water but lie clear and aâ—ove it wherein Ship-wrights do often fail and then is the speed in sailing utterly spoiled That she be stout-sided the same is provided by a long bearing floar and by sharing off from above waters to the low â—â—edge of the Ports which done then will she carry out her Ordinance all weâ—thers To make her to hull and to trie well which iâ— called a good sea-Ship there are two things principally to be regarded the one that she have a good draught of water the other that she be not overcharged And this is seldom done in the Kings Ships and therefore we are forced to lye or trie in them with our main Course and mizen which with a deep keel and standing streak she would perform The extream length of a Ship makes her unapt to stay especially if she be floatie and want sharpnesse of way forward And it is most true that such over-long Ships are fitter for the narrow Seas in summer than for the Ocean or long voyages and therefore an hundred foot by the Keel and thirtie five foot broad is a good proportion for a great Ship It is to be noted that all Ships sharp before not having a long floar will fall rough into the sea from a billow and take in water over head and ears and the same quality have all narrow-quartered ships to sink after the tail The high Charging of ships is that that brings many ill qualities it makes them extream Lee-ward makes them sink deep into the seas makes them labour sore in foul weather and oft-times overset Safety is more to be respected than shews or nicenesse for ease in sea journeys both cannot well stand together and therefore the most necessary is to be chosen Two Decks and an half is enough and no building at all above that but a low Masters Cabbin Our Masters and Mariners will say that the ships will bear more well enough and true it is if none but ordinary Mariners served in them But men of better sort unused to such a life cannot so well endure the rowling and tumbling from side to side where the seas are never so little grown which comes by high Charging Besides those high Cabbin works aloft are very dangerous in sight to tear men with their splinters Above all other things have care that the great Guns be four foot clear above water when all lading is in or else these best pieces are idle sea for if the Ports lie lower and be open it is dangerous and by that default was a goodly Ship and many gallant Gentlemen lost in the days of Henry the Eigth before the Isle of Wight in a Ship called by the name of Mary-Rose Sir Walter Raleighs PILGRIMAGE GIve me my Scallop shell of Quiet My Staff of Faith to walk upon My Scrip of Joy immortall Diet My Bottle of Salvation My Gown of Glorie Hopes true gage And thus I le take my Pilgrimage Bloud must be my Bodies onely Balmer No other Balm will there be given Whil'st my Soul like a quiet Palmer Travelleth towards the Land of Heaven Over the silver Mountains Where springs the Nectar Fountains There I will kisse the Bowl of Blisse And drink mine everlasting fill Upon every Milken hill My Soul will be a drie before But after it will thirst no more I le take them first to quench my Thirst And tast of Nectars suckets At those clear Wells Where sweetnesse dwells Drawn up by Saints in Chrystal Buckets Then by that happy blestfull day More peacefull Pilgrims I shall see That have cast off their rags of clay And walk apparelled fresh like me And when our Boâ—les and all we Are fill'd with immortalitie Then the blessed Parts wee 'l travell Strow'd with Rubies thick as gravell Sealings of Diamonds Saphire flowers High walls of Coral and Pearly Bowers From thence to Heavens bribeless Hall Where no corrupted voices brawl No Conscience molten into Gold No forg'd Accuser bought or sold No cause deferr'd no vain-spent Iourny For there CHRIST is the Kings Attorney Who pleads for all without degrees And he hath Angels but no Fees And when the twelve Grand-million Iury Of our Sins with direfull furie 'Gainst our Souls black Verdicts give Christ pleads his Death then we Live Be thou my Speaker taintless Pleader Unblotted Lawyer true Proceeder Thou would'st Salvation even for Alms Not with a bribed Lawyers Palms And this is mine eternall Plea To him that made Heaven Earth Sea That since my Flesh must die so soon And want a Head to dine next noon Iust at the stroak when my Veins start spread Set on my Soul an everlasting Head Then am I ready like
mind is alienate and face transformed Whom have not plentifull cups made eloquent and talking When DIOGENES saw a house to be sold whereof the owner was given to drink I thought at the last quoth Diogenes he would spue out a whole house Sciebam inquit quod domus tandem evomeret CHAP. X. Let God be thy Protectour and Directour in all thy Actions NOw for the World I know it too well to perswade thee to dive into the practices thereof rather stand upon thine own guard against all that tempt thee thereunto or may practise upon thee in thy conscience thy reputation or thy purse resolve that no man is wise or safe but he that is honest Serve God let him be the Authour of all thy actions commend all thy endeavours to him that must either wither or prosper them please him with prayer lest if he frown â—e confound all thy fortunes and labours like the drops of Rain on the sandy ground let my experienced advice and fatherly instructions sink deep into thy heart So God direct thee in all his ways and fill thy heart with his grace FINIS The dutifull ADVICE OF A LOVING SON To his AGED FATHER SIR I Humbly beseech you both in respect of the honour of God your duty to his Church and the comfort of your own soul that you seriously consider in what tearms you stand and weigh your self in a Christian ballance taking for your counterpoise the judgements of God Take heed in time that the word TEKEL written of old against Belshazzar and interpreted by Daniel be not verified in you whose exposition was You have been poized in the scale and found of too light weight Remember that you are now in the waining and the date of your pilgrimage well nigh expired and now that it behoveth you to look towards your Countrey your forces languisheth your senses impair your body droops and on every side the ruinous Cottage of your faint and feeble flesh threateneth the fall And having so many harbirgers of death to premonish you of your end how can you but prepare for so dreadfull a stranger The young man may die quickly but the old man cannot live long the young mans life by casualty may be abridged but the old mans by no physick can be long adjourned and therefore if green years should sometimes think of the grave the thoughts of old age should continually dwell in the same The prerogative of Infancy is innocency of Child-hood reverence of Man-hood maturity and of old age wisdom And seeing then that the chiefest properties of wisdom are to be mindfull of things past carefull for things present and provident for things to come Use now the priviledge of natures talent to the benefit of your own soul and procure hereafter to be wise in well doing and watchfull in the fore-sight of future harms To serve the world you are now unable and though you were able yet you have little cause to be willing seeing that it never gave you but an unhappy welcome a hurtfull entertainment and now doth abandon you with an unfortunate fare-well You have long sowed in a field of flint which could bring nothing forth but a crop of cares and afflictions of spirit rewarding your labours with remorse and affording for your gain eternal danger It is now more than a seasonable time to alter the course of so unthriving a husbandry and to enter into the efild of Gods Church in which sowing the seed of repentant sorrow and watering them with the tears of humble contrition you may hereafter reap a more beneficial harvest and gather the fruits of everlasting comfort Remember I pray you that your spring is spent your summer over-past you are now arrived at the fall of the leaf yea and winter colours have long since stained your hoary head Be not carelesse saith Saint Augustine though our loving Lord bear long with offenders for the longer he stays not finding amendment the sorer he will scourge when be comes to Iudgement And his patience in so long forbearing is only to lend us respite to repent and not any wise to enlarge us leisure to sin He that is tossed with variety of storms and cannot come to his desired Port maketh not much way but is much turmoyled So he that hath passed many years and purchased little profit hath a long being but a short life For life is more to be measured by well doing than by number of years Seeing that most men by many days do but procure meny deaths and others in short space attain to the life of infinite ages what is the body without the soul but a corrupt carkasse And what is the soul without God but a sepulchre of sin If God be the Way the Life and the Truth he that goeth without him strayeth and he that liveth without him dieth and he that is not taught by him erreth Well saith Saint Augustine God is our true and chiefest Life from whom to revolt is to fall to whom to return is to rise and in whom to stay is to stand sure God is he from whom to depart is to die to whom to repair is to revive and in whom to dwell is life for ever Be not then of the number of those that begin not to live till they be ready to die and then after a foes desert come to crave of God a friends entertainment Some there be that think to snatch Heaven in a moment which the best can scarce attain unto in the maintainance of many years and when they have glutted themselves with worldly delights would jump from Diâ—e Diet to Lazarus Crown from the service of Satan to the solace of a Saint But be you well assured that God is not so penurious of friends as to hold himself and his Kingdom saleable for the refuse and reversions of their lives who have sacrificed the principall thereof to his enemies and their own bruitish lust then onely ceasing to offend when the ability of offending is taken from them True it is that a thief may be saved upon the crosse and mercy found at the last gasp But wâ—l saith S. Augustine though it be possible yet it is scarce credible that he in death should find favour whose whole life deserved death and that the repentance should be more excepted that more for fear of hell and love of himself than for the love of God and loathsomnesse of sin crieth for mercy Wherefore good SIR make no longer delays but being so near the breaking up of your mortall house take time before extremity to pacifie Gods anger Though you suffer the bud to be blasted though you permitted the fruits to be perished and the leaves to drie up yea though you let the boughs to wither and the body of your tree to grow to decay yet alas keep life in the root for fear left the whole tree become fewel for hell fire For surely where the tree falleth there it shall lie whether towards the South
of the wars in France and the losse of Rochett he was them enforced to consent to the Lords in all they demanded in the tenth of his reigne he fined the City of London at 50000. marks because they had received Lewis of France in the 11. year in the Parliament at Oxford he revoked the great Charter being granted when he was under age and governed by the Earle of Pembroke and the Bishop of Winchester in this 11. year the Earles of Cornewall and Chester Marshall Edward Earle of Pembroke Gilbert Earle of Gloucester Warren Hereford Ferrars and Warwick and others rebelled against the King and constrained him to yeeld unto them in what they demaunded for their particular interest which rebellion being appeased he sayled into France and in his 15. year he had a 15th of the temporality and a disme and a half of the spirituality and withall escuage of every Knights fee. COUNS. But what say you to the Parliament of Westminster in the 16th of the King where notwithstanding the wars of France and his great charge in repulsing the Welsh rebels he was flatly denyed the Subsidy demanded IUST I confesse my Lord that the house excused themselves by reason of their poverty and the Lords taking of Armes in the next year it was manifest that the house was practised aganst the King And was it not so my good Lord think you in our two last Parliaments for in the first even those whom his Majesty trusted most betrayed him in the union and in the second there were other of the great ones ran counter But your Lordship spake of dangers of Parliaments in this my Lord there was a denyall but there was no danger at all but to returne where I left what got the Lords by practizing the house at that time I say that those that brake this staffe upon the King were overturned with the counterbuffe for he resumed all those lands which he had given in his minority he called all his exacting officers to accompt he found them all faulty he examined the corruption of other Magistrates and from all these he drew sufficient money to satisfie his present necessity whereby he not onely spared his people but highly contented them with an act of so great Iustice Yea Hubert Earle of Kent the chief Iustice whom he had most trusted and most advanced was found as false to the King as any one of the rest And for conclusion in the end of that year at the assembly of the States at Lambeth the King had the fortieth part of every mans goods given him freely toward his debts for the people who the same year had refused to give the King any thing when they saw he had squeased those spunges of the Common-wealth they willingly yeelded to give him satisfaction COUNS. But I pray you what became of this Hubert whom the King had favoured above all men betraying his Majesty as he did IUST There were many that perswaded the King to put him to death but he could not be drawn to consent but the King seized upon his estate which was great yet in the end he left him a sufficient portion and gave him his life because he had done great service in former times For this Majesty though he tooke advantage of his vice yet he forgot not to have consideration of his vertue And upon this occasion it was that the King betrayed by those whom he most trusted entertained strangers and gave them their offices and the charge of his Castles and strong places in England COUNS. But the drawing in of those strangers was the cause that Marshall Earle of Pembroke moved war against the King JUST It is true my good Lord but he was soon after slain in Ireland and his whole masculine race ten yeares extinguished though there were five Sons of them and Marshal being dead who was the mover and ring-leader of that war the King pardoned the rest of the Lords that had assisted Marshall COUNS. What reason had the King so to doe JUST Because he was perswaded that they loved his person and only hated those corrupt Counsellors that then bare the greatest sway under him as also because they were the best men of war he had whom if he destroyed having war with the French he had wanted Commanders to have served him COUNS. But what reason had the Lords to take armes JUST Because the King entertained the Poictovins were not they the Kings vassals also Should the Spaniards rebell because the Spanish King trusts to the Neapolitans Fortagues Millanoies and other Nations his vassals seeing those that are governed by the Vice-royes and deputies are in policy to be well entertained to be employed who would otherwise devise how to free themselves whereas being trusted and imployed by their Prince they entertain themselves with the hopes that other the Kings vassals do if the King had called in the Spaniards or other Nations not his Subjects the Nobilitie of England had reason of grief COUNS. But what people did ever serve the King of England more faithfully then the Gascoynes did even to the last of the conquest of that Duchie IUST Your Lordship sayes well and I am of that opinion that if it had pleased the Queen of Eng. to have drawn some of the chief of the Irish Nobilitie into Eng. and by exchange to have made them good free-holders in Eng. she had saved above 2. millions of pounds which were consumed in times of those Rebellions For what held the great Gascoigne firme to the Crown of England of whom the Duke of Espernon married the Inheritrix but his Earldome of Kendall in England whereof the Duke of Espernon in right of his Wife beares the Title to this day And to the same end I take it hath Iames our Soveraign Lord given Lands to divers of the Nobilitie of Scotland And if I were worthy to advise your Lordship I should think that your Lordship should do the King great service to put him in mind to prohibite all the Scottish Nation to alienate and sell away their inheritance here for they selling they not only give cause to the English to complain that the Treasure of England is transported into Scotland but his Majestie is thereby also frustrated of making both Nations one and of assuring the service and obedience of the Scots in future COUNS. You say well for though those of Scotland that are advanced and enriched by the Kings Majesties will no doubt serve him faithfully yet how their heires and successors having no inheritance to lose in England may be seduced is uncertain But let us go on with our Parliament And what say you to the denyall in the 26th year of his reigne even when the King was invited to come into France by the Earle of March who had married his Mother and who promised to assist the King in the conquest of many places lost IUST It is true my good Lord that a subsidie was then denied and the reasons are
relief the one half of the Woolls throughout England and of the Clergy all their Woolls after which in the end of the year he had granted in his Parliament at Westminster forty shillings upon every sack of Wooll and for every 30 wooll fels forty shillings for every last of leatherne as much and for all other merchandizes after the same rate The King promising that this years gathering ended he would thenceforth content himself with the old custome he had over and above this great aide the eight part of all goods of all Citizens and Burgesses and of other as of forreigne Merchants and such as lived not of the gain of breeding of sheep and cattell the fifteenth of their goods Nay my Lord this was not all though more then ever was granted to any King for the same Parliament bestowed on the King the ninth sheaf of all the corn within the Land the ninth fleece and the ninth lambe for two years next following now what think your Lordship of this Parliament COUNS. I say they were honest men IUST And I say the people are as loving to their King now as ever they were if they be honestly and wisely dealt withall and so his Majesty hath found them in his last two Parliaments if his Majestie had not been betrayed by those whom he most trusted COUNS. But I pray you Sir who shall a King trust if he may not rust those whom he hath so greatly advanced JUST I will tell your Lordship whom the King may trust COUNS. Who are they IUST His own reason and his own excellent Iudgement which have not deceived him in any thing wherein his Majesty hath been pleased to exercise them Take Councell of thine heart saith the book of Wisedome for there is none more faithfull unto thee then it COUNS. It is true but his Majesty found that those wanted no judgement whom he trusted and how could his Majestie divine of their honesties JUST Will you pardon me if I speak freely for if I speak out of love which as Solomon saith covereth all trespasses The truth is that his Majestie would never beleeve any man that spake against them and they knew it well enough which gave them boldnesse to do what they did COUNS. What was that JUST Even my good Lord to ruine the Kings estate so far as the state of so great a King may be ruin'd by men ambitious and greedy without proportion It had been a brave increase of revenue my Lord to have raysed 50000l land of the Kings to 20000l revenue and to raise the revenue of wards to 20000l more 40000l added to the rest of his Majesties estate had so enabled his Majestie as he could never have wanted And my good Lord it had been an honest service to the King to have added 7000l lands of the Lord Cobhams Woods and goods being worth 30000l more COUNS. I know not the reason why it was not done JUST Neither doth your Lordship perchance know the reason why the 10000l offer'd by Swinnerton for a fine of the French wines was by the then Lord Treasurer conferr'd on Devonshire and his Mistris COUNS. What moved the Treasurer to reject and crosse that raising of the Kings lands JUST The reason my good Lord is manifest for had the land been raised then had the King known when he had given or exchanged land what he had given or exchanged COUNS. What hurt had been to the Treasurer whose Office is truely to informe the King of the value of all that he giveth JUST So he did when it did not concerne himself nor his particular for he could never admit any one peece of a good Manour to passe in my Lord Aubignes book of 1000l and till he himself had bought and then all the remaining flowers of the Crowne were called out Now had the Treasurer suffer'd the Kings lands to have been raised how could his Lordship have made choice of the old â—ents as well in that book of my Lord Aubigne as in exchange of Theobalds or which he took Hatfield in it which the greatest subject or favorite Queen Elizabeth had never durst have named unto her by way of gift or exchange Nay my Lord so many other goodly Mannors have passed from his Majestie as the very heart of the Kingdome mourneth to remember it and the eyes of the Kingdome shedde teares continually at the beholding it yea the soul of the Kingdome is heavy unto death with the consideration thereof that so magnanimous a Prince should suffer himself to be so abused COUNS. But Sir you know that Cobhams lands were entayled upon his Cofens JUST Yea my Lord but during the lives and races of George Prook his children it had been the Kings that is to say for ever in effect but to wrest the King and to draw the inheritance upon himself he perswaded his Majestie to relinquish his interest for a pretty summe of mony and that there might be no counterworking he sent Prook 6000 l. to make friends whereof Lord Hume had 2000l back again Buckhurst and Barwick had the other 4000 l. and the Treasurer and his heires the masse of land forever COUNS. What then I pray you came to the King by this great consiscation IUST My Lord the Kings Majestie by all those goodly possessions Woods and goods looseth 500l by the year which he giveth in pension to Cobham to maintain him in prison COUNS. Certainly even in conscience they should have reserved so much of the land in the Crown as to have given Cobham meat and apparell and not made themselves so great gainers and the King 500l per annum looser by the bargain but it 's past Consilium non est eorum quae fieri nequeunt JUST Take the rest of the Sentence my Lord Sed consilium versatur in iis quae sunt in nostra potestate It is yet my good Lord in potestate Regis to right himself But this is not all my Lord And I fear me knowing your Lordships love to the King it would put you in a feaver to hear all I will therefore go on with my Parliaments COUNS. I pray do so and amongst the rest I pray you what say you to the Parliament holden at Iondon in the fifteenth year of King Edward the third IUST I say there was nothing concluded therein to the prejudice of the king It is true that a little before the sitting of the house the King displaced his Chancellour and his Treasurer and most of all his Iudges and Officers of the Exchequer and committed many of them to prison because they did not supply him with money being beyond the Seas for the rest the States assembled besought the King that the Lawes of the two Charters might be observed and that the great Officers of the Crowne might be chosen by Parliament COUNS But what successe had these petitions IUST The Charters were observed as before and so they will be ever and the other petition was rejected the King being