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A01472	Great Brittans little calendar: or, Triple diarie, in remembrance of three daies Diuided into three treatises. 1. Britanniæ vota: or God saue the King: for the 24. day of March, the day of his Maiesties happy proclamation. 2. Cæsaris hostes: or, the tragedy of traytors: for the fift of August: the day of the bloudy Gowries treason, and of his Highnes blessed preseruation. 3. Amphitheatrum scelerum: or, the transcendent of treason: the day of a most admirable deliuerance of our King ... from that most horrible and hellish proiect of the Gun-Powder Treason Nouemb. 5. Whereunto is annexed a short disswasiue from poperie. By Samuel Garey, preacher of Gods Word at Wynfarthing in Norff.	Garey, Samuel, 1582 or 3-1646.	1618 (1618)	STC 11597; ESTC S102859	234,099	298

Natious accept and approue Ius pendendi vectigalia apud omnes gentes fuit semper receptissimum saith the same Hiperius The Law and right of paying Tribute among all Nations hath euer beene accustomed for how could Kings maintaine their States defend their Countries reward their faithfull seruants vndergoe so manifold expences which belong to a regall reckoning vnlesse their Subiects with Tributes Taxes and Subsidies helpe to sustaine the common charge And therefore Caluin writes well that Tributes and Taxes are the lawfull reuenewes of Princes which serue to maintaine their royalty and the Common-wealths tranquility Tributa necessaria sunt reip sine eis nec quies nec arma haberi possunt saith Tacitus Tributes are so necessary for the Common-wealth that neither peace nor warre nor weapons can be without them for warre cannot be maintained without men nor men without money which is Neruus belli The sinew of warre Tributis vectigalibus nulla resp aut imperium nedum magnum carere potest saith the same Tacitus No Countrey or Kingdome be it neuer so great can lacke the payment of Tributes c. In regnis bene constitutis certum constitutum est Tributum saith Herodotus In wel gouerned Kingdomes there is certaine Tribute to be paid Augustus Caesar taxed all the World that is all the Regions and Prouinces then subiect to the Romaines as the learned interpret it and this was as Caluin notes Annuum Tributum sed non quotannis fiebat descriptio A yeerly Tribute though not euery yeere put in wrighting And the Iewes though at first they did aegre ferre mentionem discriptionis Hardly away with this yeerely taxing Non tamen reluctatos esse pertinaciter as Iosephus writes They did not obstinately resist it but by the perswasion of their High Priest they suffered themselues to be taxed Salomon could not haue beene so rich if his people had not payed him Tribute but the weight of gold they brought to Salomon in one yeere was sixe hundreth threescore and sixe Talents of Gold This duty of paying Tribute Subsidies and Taxes c by the subiects to the Soueraigne is by the law of God and lawes of men and common customes of most Nations commanded and approued and that for foure principall causes First to maintaine that royall estate which God hath giuen to Kings the glorious patternes of Kings magnificence may be fully seene in royall Salomon Looke but vpon his Throne 2 Chro. 9. 17 and you may iudge of all the rest of his royalty Secondly To defend the Common-wealth both in peace and in warre which requires a great Treasury A great Bird had need of a great neast That High Head which cares for all the politicke body and night and day studies to preserue their welfare must participate of their wealth without which the publike peace and security cannot be effected for it is Status insolidus qui earet solidis Thirdly To contestate and acknowledge their homage and subiection to their Soueraigne for Tributum dare est imperatori subiici signum seruitutis say the Canonists nonists to pay Tribute is to be subiect to the Emperour and a signe of seruitude confessing all duty and loyalty to be due to their annointed Soueraigne who hath power to command them their goods lands liues for the seruice of the Kings and Countries preseruation Looke vpon the Israelites when King Saul was dead comming to elect and annoynt Dauid in Hebron to be King ouer Israel Behold we are thy bones and thy flesh meaning as I take it that their liues and all were at his seruice and commandement for Tribute is not onely of money but Sudor sanguis populi The sweat and blood of the people if such need require to defend their King and Countrey is a Tribute due from them willing and ready to aduenture their liues and limbes to giue repulse and resistance to forraine or domesticall violence Fourthly To testifie their gratefull affections to their gracious Princes in thankefulnesse for the great benefits by their prudent prouident and politicke gouernement reaped and receiued So Dauid in lamenting Sauls death remembers the benefits his subiects receiued by him in his life time Ye Daughters of Israel weepe for Saul which cloathed you in scarlet with pleasures and hanged ornaments of gold vpon your apparell So Ieremy of the good King Iosiah lamenting his death The breath of our nostrels the Annoynted of the Lord was taken in their nets of whom we said Vnder his shadow we shall be preserued among the Heathen A good King brings many blessings benefits vnto his people and therefore when such as are in authority be righteous the people reioyce saith Salomon A King by iudgement maintaines the countrey By a man of vnderstanding and knowledge a Realme endureth long saith the same Salomon yea as wise Plato well said Beatas fore resp cum aut Philosophentur reges aut regnent Philosophi When as Kings were Philosophers or Philosophers Kings then such Common-wealths should be happy And indeed all earthly happinesse which is deriued to the members proceeds from the Head next vnder God the primary Author of all good things by whose direction discretion circumspection care counsell and continuall vigilancy they are preserued in peace and prosper in plenty for there are sixe externall earthly helpes necessary for the temporall prosperity of any Kingdome 1. A King to rule 2. A Law to iudge 3. Pollicy to guide 4. People to inhabite 5. Power to defend 6 Riches to maintaine it and which is the Alpha and Omega of all and aboue all and before all the Lord and King of all to prosper and preserue all without whose protection these must come to ruine all Except the Lord keepe the City the keeper watcheth but in vaine Except the Lord gouerne and guide the shippe of State it runnes vpon the rocke Therefore Prince and people ought duly to say with the Psalmist Thou art our King O God send helpe vnto Iacob Through thee haue wee thrust backe our enemies through thee haue wee trodden downe them that rose vp against vs c. Rise vp for our succour and redeeme vs for thy mercies sake Well Tributes Subsidies Taxes c are a good meanes to help to support the state of Kingdomes and as they bee the publike Tribute of the Common-wealths so should they bee imployed about the publike tranquility Let no Theudas herein deceiue you or any Iudas of Galile who in the dayes of the Tribute drew away much people as Gamaliel speakes delude you for he perished and all that obeyed him Si quis putat non esse vectigal soluendum aut tributum aut honorem exhibendum in magno errore labitur saith Austen If any one thinke Imposts Tribute and honour ought not to be paid to them he falles into a great errour Iure debemus nisi facimus

deceitfull and bloody men doe not liue out halfe their dayes they hasten death vpon themselues and shame to their posterities And as their names be disgraced so their posterity depriued of the honour and pedigree where before their fall they were interessed and lineally inuested for although Traytors in England are not vsed as they were in Persia that euery one of the Family should be put to death or as in Macedonia fiue of the Traytors nearest Kins-folke suffer with him yet are they punished here in name and posterity depriued of their lands liuings goods offices blood and honour which is the fourth greefe that might if it were possible euen vexe a Traytor in his graue to behold himselfe to be naked and destitute of all the goods of nature Fame and Fortune and by his fall to haue deplumed all his Progeny not onely of Pedigree but of Patrimony left them to the mercy of the Prince and the mifery of Time What Parent though like Romulus nursed vp with a Shee-wol●e or as stony-hearted as a Myrmidon Aut duri miles vlyssi Yet must be moued with immeasurable mourning though sencelesse of his owne sorrowes which are great and grieuous as losse of liberty liuing life goods and good name and when paine on earth is past yet still to be punished in his Issue and Posterity Maiorum culpas luere nepotes His children bred of his owne loynes by his leud life disinherited of their liuelihood and can challenge no more for their owne Nisi pontus aer VVho cannot but be moued with the loue of his owne children and especially when they are ruinated hy his owne fact and folly Quis si non genitus duris è cautibus horrens Caucasus vt stirpis modice moueatur amore VVho if not bred vpon a stony Rocke But fancy moues to loue his filiall stocke To behold his wife and children Pignora chara amoris exposed to all stormes of time and contempt depriued of all riches and respects who though he be regardlesse of his owne fall yet in this case must needs weep for himselfe and for his children or if he haue neither of these to weepe for yet may he iustly weepe for hauing an hand or heart in so foule a sinne as Treason is for which hee must suffer an ignominious death and haue his capitall offence recorded Ad perpetuam eius infamiam To his eternall infamy or if he regard not Fame or Name yet ought he to regard his Conscience which must needs accuse him for such a sinne and beholding the eternall Iudge stand before the doore able to cast body and soule into hell fire and there Vnusquisque quantum exigit culpa tantum illic sentiet poenam according to the greatnes of his sinne shall there find the grieuousnesse of his punishment And therefore to conclude this with Saint Cyprian Si quam turpem cogitationem in mentem tuam venire animad●●rtis suscipe sta●im iudicij extremi salutarem commemorationem If thou once perceiuest any filthy thoughts to enter into thy mind straight to call to mind the day of doome and last iudgement So let all men daily thinke of the manifold iudgements and punishments which Rebels and Traytors on earth haue suffered and receiued and without deepe repentance and diuine mercy must needs suffer at their final doome when Christ shall say Depart from me all ye workers of iniquity CHAP. 5. THus hauing in part set downe the fall and punishment of Traytors next let vs obserue the corrupt causes which produce these cursed effects for though in Treason the Diuell is alwayes primus motor being an Arch-Traytor to God and Man and reignes in the Children of disobedience and puts into the heart of Iudas to betray Christ yet are there also procreant causes in themselues to allure and procure the wicked to such wretched and wofull motions And the Mother of these mischiefs vsually is Ambition whose Daughter is superbia Pride which Saint Austen cals Cathedram pestilentiae The Chaire of Pestilence Ambition is a dangerous malady and as Saint Ambrose speakes of it Quos nullapotuit mouere luxuria nulla auaritia subruere facit ambitio criminosos habet enim for ensem gratiam domesticum periculum vt dominetur alijs prius seruit dum vult esse sublimior fit remissior Though Luxury or couetousnesse could not moue them yet Ambition makes them sinfull hunting for popular applause and hauing domesticall danger and that they might rule they will first serue and to be high they will seeme humble Saint Bernard paints out Ambition in perfect colours Ambitio secretum virus pestis occulta doli artifex mater hypocrisis liuoris parens vitiorum origo tinea sanctitatis excaecatrix cordium exremedijs morbos creans ex medicina languorem generans Ambition is a secret poyson an inward plague the contriuer of deceit the mother of hypocrisie the parent of enuie the originall of vice the moth of sanctity the blinder of hearts creating sicknesses of salues and of medicines maladies The World is now much infected with this plague and we may see and say with Bernard Limina Apostolorum amplius ambitio quàm deuotio terit vocibus eius tota die resultat palatiū Ambition rather then Deuotion possesseth many in euery State gaping for promotion Honores ambiunt qui onera non sentiunt Though their desarts small their desires great and are neuer content with their present estate so that we may say with Salomon There be three things that will not be satisfied yea foure that say not It is enough The graue the barren wombe the earth and fire and among many more I will adde two more an ambitious man and a couetous Lawyer the one with honour the other with mony will neuer say It is enough Ambition liues in euery Climate and loued of euery Tribe In the state politicall the poore man would be a yeoman the yeoman after the death of his wife or dearth of corne would be a gentleman and will giue armes if the Herald will accept of Angels the Squire would bee a Knight the Knight a Baron the Baron an Earle the Earle a Duke the Duke a King the King Caesar and is the worlds Emperour still ambitious The Poet tels vs Iuuenal Vnus Pellaeo iuueni non sufficit orbis Aestuat infaelix angusto limine mundi One world is not enough for Alexander and therefore he weepes and is discontent as if he wanted sufficient elbow roome In the State Ecclesiasticall Ambition finds fauourites The Mendicant Frier would be the Master Prior The Prior the Abbot the Abbot a Bishop the Bishop an Archbishop the Metropolitane a Cardinall the Cardinall Pope the Pope God nay that is too little aboue all that is called God 2 Thess 2. 4. Ambitio ambientium crux quomodo omnes torques omnibus places saith Bernard O Ambition how painefull