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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A72894	A briefe discourse of royall monarchie, as of the best common weale vvherin the subiect may beholde the sacred maiestie of the princes most royall estate. VVritten by Charles Merbury Gentleman in duetifull reuerence of her Maiesties most princely Highnesse. Whereunto is added by the same gen. a collection of Italian prouerbes, in benefite of such as are studious of that language.	Merbury, Charles.	1581 (1581)	STC 17823.5; ESTC S112612	39,761	95

his subiectes in generall and ouer euery one in particular Not to rule for a yeare onely as the Consulles of ROME did Nor for two yeares as the Dukes of GENOVA doe Nor for three as the VICEROYES of NAPLES or for nine or ten yeares as the great Archon of ATHENES did Not to be DICTATOVR for a daye onely as MAMERCVS A Royall Prince is to rule without limitatiō of time was Nor for eight dayes as SERVILIVS PRISCVS or for fifteen as CINCINNATVS No nor yet for fifteen yeares as SILLA had gotten it graunted vnto him by a Lawe to be Dictatour foureskore yeares although he raigned but foure and then after the terme of yeares expired to render vp his gouernement vnto an other perhappes vnto a stranger perhappes vnto his enemie But his Power shall last by Gods grace perpetually first during his owne life in him selfe and then after his death in his sonnes and successors Neither is he countable of such his gouernement A Royall Prince is not Countable vnto Any sauing to God and his Conscience else not vnto any other in such forte As LEGATES LIEFTENANTES PRESIDENTES REGENTS are who though they haue authoritie sometimes during their liues yet are they to render accoumpte vnto those which gaue them the same The DOGES of VENICE if they gouerne not well are deposed by the SIGNORIE of the gentlemen as TEODATVS and GALLA of MALOMOCCO were banished and had their eyes putte out because they ruled to Lordly the Gouerners of BOLOGNA LA GRASSA when they goe out of their office are bounde to render accoumpte vnto two SYNDICI The Dictators of ROME were forced by the TRYBVNES to render reason vnto the People The Regentes of SCOTLANDE the Lordes Protectors of ENGLAND although they rule neuer so highly during the minoritie of their Princes Yet we see that after they are out of their Offices they are constrained to aunswere vnto many oppositions There was neuer greater and more absolute Power graunted vnto any subiecte then was by CHARLES the ninth vnto his brother HENRY Duke of ANIOVE when he made him his Lieftenant Generall and perpetuall ouer all his dominions And yet was there in th' ende of his letters patentes this Clause apposed Tant qu'il nous plaira to signifie that the Dukes authoritie was both countable and reuocable at the will and pleasure of the kinge the giuer Our Prince A Royall Prince is not to depende vpon any therefore is not to receiue his power from any excepte from God the giuer of all Power For if he receiue it from any other higher Prince then is he not the Principall and supreame Magistrate but there is an other higher and greater then he For as honour dependeth more of the giuer then of the receiuer So likewise that Power is greatest from whence the others are deriued But our Prince who is the Image of God on Earth and as it were Vn minor essempio of his almightie Power is not to acknowledge any greater then him selfe nor any authoritie greater then his owne VVherefore as he is A Royall Prince is not subiecte vnto any of his owne Countrey not to receiue his Power from any so is he neither to be subiect vnto any higher Power either at home or abroade Though some doe mainteine that a Prince ought to be subiect vnto the states and Peares of his Realme as the kinges of LACEDEMON were to the EPHORI An Opinion if it be not well tempered and conueniently limited most preiudiciall vnto th' estate of a MONARCHIE peruerting and conuerting the same into a meere ARISTOCRATIE Much lesse is he subiecte in any thing vnto the Multitude of the common people who as they haue more authoritie are for the most parte more insolente and more disposed vnto rebellion VVherefore in all wel ordained kingdomes these haue no other then a voice SVPPLICATIVE those a voice DELIBERATIVE and the Prince onely a voice DEFINITIVE But some will aske if this great MONARCHE of ours shall not be subiecte vnto the Lawes Customes and Priuileges of the Countrey where he gouerneth vnto the othe which he taketh at his entrance vnto such couenantes and promises as he maketh vnto his people Vnto whome we aunswere that our Prince is subiect vnto lawes both ciuill and common How a Prince is subiect vnto the Lawes to customes priuileges couenantes and all kinde of promises So farre forth as they are agreable vnto the lawe of God Otherwise we thinke that he is not bounde to obserue them VVherein we neither diminishe the libertie of the subiecte supposing all lawes to be good or ought to be good Neither doe we inlarge to much the Power of the Prince as to make him lawlesse subiect neither to God his lawe nor mans lawe As some flaterers persuade the POPES and EMPEROVRS that they are aboue all lawes and may vse the bodyes and liues of their subiectes at their luste and pleasure taking from them their landes goodes and liberties without right or reason a thing expressely contrarie vnto the worde of God Thou shalt not couet thy neighbours house c. and a doctrine most pernicious vnto Princes who puffed vp with such opinions should take their course vnto a Tyrannicall kinde of puissance making their couetousnesse confiscation their loue Adulterie their hatred Murder and as the lightening goeth before the thunder so they depraued with such corrupted Councellers should make the accusation to goe before the faulte and the condemnation before the tryall From the which kindes of libertie or rather licentiousnesse our ROYALL Prince shal be as farre of as he is free from all kinde of subiection both domesticall and forreine For it is not An absolut Prince is not subiecte vnto any stranger enough for so worthy a kinge to be obeyed of his owne people at home but he must be also well estemed of strangers abroade not onely beloued of his freindes but honoured of his neighbours and feared of his enemies VVherfore as we haue saide already that he is not subiect or inferiour vnto any of his owne Nation So is he neither to acknowledge any greater then him selfe abroade Kinge EVMENES though he was but a poore Prince and had but one onely Castell of PERGAMON vnder his power yet when he came to capitulating with ANTIGONVS the greate kinge of ASIA he would not yeelde one iote vnto him in prerogatiue of honour saying that so long as he had his sworde by his side he knew no man greater then him selfe and yet by his leaue he fetched his fier from the Romanes who mainteined him in all his quarrelles both against ANTIGONVS and against PHILLIPPE kinge A Royall Prince needeth no Protection of MACEDONES But our ROYALL Prince is not to shrewd him selfe vnder the shadow of an other as EVMENES did vnder the Romanes Nor to shield him selfe vnder any buckelar of Protection as FERRARA doth vnder FRANCE BOLOGNA vnder the POPE FLORENCE and LVCCA vnder the kinge of A