Commissioners which because one of the Aldermen refused to pay he was sent for a souldier into Scotland He had also another great subsedy of six shillings the pound of the Clergy and two shillings eight pence of the goods of the Laity and four shillings the pound upon Lands In the second yeare of Edward the sixt the Parliament gave the King an aid of twelve pence the pound of goods of his Naturall subjects and two shillings the pound of strangers and this to continue for three yeares and by the statute of the second and third of Edward the sixt it may appear the same Parliament did also give a second aid as followeth to wit of every Ewe kept in severall pastures 3d of every weather kept as aforesaid 2d of every sheep kept in the Common 1d ob The House gave the King also 8d the pound of every woollen cloath made for the sale throughout England for three years In the third and fourt of the King by reason of the troublesome gathering of the poly money upon sheep and the tax upon cloath this act of subsedy was repeal'd and other relief given the King and in the seventh yeare he had a subsedy and two fifteens In the first yeare of Queen Mary tunnage and poundage were granted In the second yeare a subsedy was given to King Philip and to the Queen she had also a third subsedy in Annis 4. 5. Eliz. Reg Now my Lord for the Parliaments of the late Queens time in which there was nothing new neither head money nor sheep money nor escuage nor any of these kinds of payments was required but onely the ordinary subsedies and those as easily graunted as demanded I shall not need to trouble your Lordship with any of them neither can I inform your Lordship of all the passages and acts which have passed for they are not extant nor printed COUNS. No it were but time lost to speak of the latter and by those that are already remembred we may judge of the rest for those of the greatest importance are publick But I pray you deal freely with me what you think would be done for his Majesty If he should call a Parliament at this time or what would be required at his Majesties hands IUST The first thing that would be required would be the same that was required by the Commons in the thirteenth yeare of Hen. the eight to wit that if any man of the commons house should speak more largely then of duty he ought to do all such offences to be pardoned and that to be of record COUNS. So might every Companion speak of the King what they list IUST No my Lord the reverence which a Vassall oweth to his Soveraigne is alwaies intended for every speech howsoever it must import the good of the King and his estate and so long it may be easily pardoned otherwise not for in Queen Elizabeths time who gave freedome of speech in all Parliaments when Wentworth made those motions that were but supposed dangerous to the Queens estate he was imprisoned in the Tower notwithstanding the priviledge of the house and there died COUNS. What say you to the Scicilian vespers remembred in the last Parliament IUST I say he repented him heartily that used that speech and indeed besides that it was seditious this example held not The French in Scicily usurped that Kingdome they neither kept law nor faith they took away the inheritance of the Inhabitants they took from them their wives and ravished their daughters committing all other insolencies that could be imagined The Kings Majesty is the Naturall Lord of England his Vassals of Scotland obey the English Laws if they break them they are punished without respect Yea his Majesty put one of his Barons to a shamefull death for being consenting onely to the death of a Common Fencer And which of these ever did or durst commit any outrage in England but to say the truth the opinion of packing the last was the cause of the contention and disorder that happened COUNS. Why sir do you not think it best to compound a Parliament of the Kings servants and others that shall in all obey the Kings desires IUST Certainly no for it hath never succeeded well neither on the kings part nor on the subjects as by the Parliament before-remembred your Lordship may gather for from such a composition do arise all jealousies and all contentions It was practized in elder times to the great trouble of the kingdome and to the losse and ruine of many It was of latter time used by King Henry the eight but every way to his disadvantage When the King leaves himself to his people they assure themselves that they are trusted and beloved of their king and there was never any assembly so barborus as not to answer the love and trust of their King Henry the sixt when his estate was in effect utterly overthrown and utterly impoverished at the humble request of his Treasurer made the same known to the House Or other wise using the Treasurers own words He humbly desired the King to take his Staffe that he might save his wardship COUNS. But you know they will presently be in hand with those impositions which the King hath laid by his own Royall Prerogative IUST Perchance not my Lord but rather with those impositions that have been by some of your Lordships laid upon the King which did not some of your Lordships fear more then you do the impositions laid upon the Subjects you would never disswade his Majesty from a Parliament For no man doubted but that his Majesty was advised to lay those impositions by his Councell and for particular things on which they were laid the advice came from petty fellows though now great ones belonging to the Custome-House Now my Lord what prejudice hath his Majesty his Revenue being kept up if the impositions that were laid by the generall Councell of the Kingdome which takes off all grudging and complaint COUNS. Yea Sir but that which is done by the King with the advice of his private or privy Councell is done by the Kings absolute power IUST And by whose power it is done in parliament but by the Kings absolute power Mistake it not my Lord The three Estates do but advise as the privy Councell doth which advice if the King imbrace it becomes the Kings own Act in the one and the Kings Law in the other for without the Kings acceptation both the publick and private advices be but as empty Egg shels and what doth his Majesty lose if some of those things which concerns the poorer sort to be made free again and the Revenue kept up upon that which is superfluous Is it a losse to the King to be beloved of the Commons If it be revenue which the King seeks is it not better to take it of those that laugh then of those that cry Yea if all be conten to pay upon moderation change of the Species Is it
If she study to please thee and be sweet unto thee in conversation without thy instruction for Love needs no teaching nor precept On the other side be not sower or stern to thy wife for cruelty engendereth no other thing than hatred Let her have equall part of thy Estate whilest thou livest it thou find her sparing and honest but what thou givest after thy death remember that thou givest it to a stranger and most times to an enemy for he that shall marry thy wife will despise thee thy memory and thine and shall possesse the quiet of thy labours the fruit which thou hast planted enjoy thy love and spend with joy and ease what thou hast spared and gotten with care and travel Yet always remember that thou leave not thy wife to be a shame unto thee after thou art dead but that she may live according to thy estate especially if thou hast few Children and them provided for But howsoever it be or whatsoever thou find leave thy wife no more than of necessity thou must but onely during her widowhood for if she love again let her not enjoy her second love in the same bed wherein she loved thee nor flâ—e to future pleasures with those feathers which death hath pulled from thy wings but leave thy estate to thy house and children in which thou livest upon earth whilest it lasteth To conclude Wives were ordained to continue the generation of men not to transferre them and diminish them either in continuance or ability and therfore thy house and estate which liueth in thy son and not in thy wife is to be preferred Let thy time of marriage be in thy young and strong years for believe it ever the young wife betrayeth the old husband and she that had thee not in thy flower will despise thee in thy fall and thou shalt be unto her but a captivity and sorrow Thy best time will be towards thirty for as the younger times are unfit either to chuse or to govern a wife and family so if thou stay long thou shalt hardly see the education of thy Children which being left to strangers are in effect lost and better were it to be unborn than ill bred for thereby thy posterity shall either perish or remain a shame to thy name and family Furthermore if it be late ere thou take a wife thou shalt spend the prime and summer of thy life with Harlots destroy thy health impoverish thy estate and endanger thy life and be sure of this that how many Mistresses soever thou hast so many enemies thou shalt purchase to thy self for there never was any such affection which ended not in hatred or disdain Remember the saying of Solomon There is a way which seemeth right to a man but the issues thereof are the wages of death for howsoever a lewd woman please thee for a time thou wilt hate her in the end and she will study to destroy thee If thou canst not abstain from them in thy vain and unbridled times yet remember that thou sowest on the lands dost mingle the vital bloud with corruption and purchasest diseases repentance and hatred onely Bestow therefore thy youth so that thou mayest have comfort to remember it when it hath forsaken thee and not sigh and grieve at the account thereof whilest thou art young thou wile think it will never have an end but behold the longest day hath his evening and that thou shalt enjoy it but once that it never turns again use it therefore as the Spring time which soon departeth and wherein thou oughtest to plant and sow all provisions for a long and happy life CHAP. III. Wisest men have been abused by flatterers TAke care thou be not made a fool by flatterers for even the wisest men are abused by these Know therefore that flatterers are the worst kind of Traitours for they will strengthen thy imperfections encourage thee in all evil correct thee in nothing but so shadow and paint all thy vices and follies as thou shalt never by their will discern evil from good or vice from virtue And because all men are apt to flatter themselves to entertain the additions of other mens praises is most perillous Do not therefore praise thy self except thou wile be counted a vain glorious fool neither take delight in the praises of other men except thou deserve it and receive it from such as are worthy and honest and will withall warn thee of thy faults for flatterers have never any virtue they are ever base creeping cowardly persons A flatterer is said to be a beast that biteth smiling it is said by Isaiah in this manner My people they that praise thee seduce thee and disorder thâ— paths of thy feet and David desired God to cut out the tongue of a flatterer But it is hard to know them from friends so are they obsequious and full of protestations for as a wolf resembles a dog so doth a flatterer a friend A flatterer is compared to an Ape who because she cannot defend the house like a dog labour as an ox or bear burdens as a horse doth therefore yee play tricks and prouoke laughter Thou mayest be sure that he that will in private tell thee thy faults is thy friend for he adventures thy mislike and doth hazard thy hatred for there are few men that can endure it every man for the most part delighting in self-praise which is one of the most uniuersall follies which bewitcheth mankind CHAP. IV. Private quarrels to be avoided BE carefull to avoid publick disputations at Feast or at Tables among cholerick or quarrelsom persons and eschew evermore to be acquainted or familiar with Ruffians for thou shalt be in as much danger in contending with a brawler in a private quarrel as in a battel wherein thou mayest get honour to thy self and safety to thy Prince and Countrey but if thou be once engaged carry thy self bravely that they may fear thee after To shun therefore private fight be well advised in thy words and behaviour for honour and shame is in the talk and the tongue of a man causeth him to fall Iest not openly at those that are simple but remember how much thou art bound to God who hath made thee wiser Defame not any woman publickly though thou know her to be evil for those that are faulty cannot endure to be taxed but will seek to be avenged of thee and those that are not guilty cannot endure unjust reproch And as there is nothing more shamefull and dishonest than to do wrong so truth it self cutteth his throat that carrieth her publikly in every place Remember the divine saying He that keepeth his mouth keepeth his life Do therefore right to all men where it may profit them and thou shalt thereby get much love and forbear to speak evil things of men though it be truâ— if thou be not constrained and thereby thou shalt avoid malice and revenge Do not accuse any man of any crime if
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