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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A21195	The forerunner of reuenge Vpon the Duke of Buckingham, for the poysoning of the most potent King Iames of happy memory King of great Britan, and the Lord Marquis of Hamilton and others of the nobilitie. Discouered by M. George Elisham one of King Iames his physitians for his Majesties person aboue the space of ten yeares.; Prodromus vindictae in ducem Buckinghamae. English	Eglisham, George, fl. 1612-1642.	1626 (1626)	STC 7548; ESTC S100255	16,891	24

speech I rest Your Maiesties dayly suppliant GEORGE EGLISHAM TO THE MOST HONOVRABLE THE NOBILITIE KNIGHTS AND BVRGESSES OF BOTH THE HOVSES OF PARLIAMENT OF THE KINGDOM OF ENGLAND The humble supplication of M. GEORGE EGLISHAM Doctor of Physicke and one of the Physitians to King IAMES of happy memorie for his Majesties person aboue the space of tenne yeares WHeras the chief humane caire of Kings and courts of parliament is the preseruation and protection of the subiects liues liberties and estates from priuat or publike iniuries to the end that all things may be caried in the equall ballance of iustice without the which no Monarchie no common wealth no societie no familie yea no mans life or estate can consist albeit neuer so little it can not be thought iniust to demand of Kings and parliaments the censure of wrongs The consideration herof was so great in our late Monarch of happy memorie King Iames that he hath often publikly protested euen in the presence of his apparent heire that if his owne sonne should cōmit murther or any such execrable act of iniustice he would not spare him but would haue him die for it and wold haue him more seuerely punished thē any other For he well obserued no greater iniustice no iniury more intolerable cā be done by man to man then murther In all other wrongs fortune hath recours the losses of honor or goods may be repaired satisffaction may be made reconciliation may be procured so long as the party inuried is aliue but when the person murthered is bereft of his life what can restore it what satisfaction can be giuen him where shall the murtherer meete with him to be reconciled to him vnlesse he be sent out of this world to follow his spirite which by his wickednes he hath separated frō his body Therfor of all iniuries of all the actes of iniustice and of all things most to be looked into murther is the greatest and of all murthers the poysoning vnder trust aud profession of freindship is the most haynous Which if you suffer to go vnpunished let no man thinke him selfe so secure to liue amongst you as amongst the wildest aud most furious beastes in the world for by vigilancie and industrie meanes may be had to resist or euite the most violent beast thar euer nature bred but from false and treacherous hartes from poysoning murtherers what wit or wisdome can defend This concerneth your lordships every one in particular as well as any They of whose poysoning your petitioner complaineth to wit king Iames the L. Marquis of Hamiltō and others whose names after shal be expressed haue beene the most eminent of the kingdome and satte on these honorable benches wheron your honors now do sitte The party whom your petitioner accuseth the Duke of Buckingham is so powerfull that vnlesse the whole body of a parliament lay hold vpō him no iustice cā be had of him For what place is there of iustice what office of the crowne vvhat degree of honor in the kingdome vvhich he hath not sold and sold in such crast that he can shake the buyers out of them and intrude others at his Pleasure All the Iudges of the kingdome all the officers of the state ar his bound vassals or allies or afeared to become his outcasts as is notorious to all his Maiesties true and loving subiects Yea so farre hath his ambitious practises gone that vvhat he vvold have done should have beene performed vvhether the king would or not and vvhat the king vvold have done could not be done if he opposed vvherof many instances may be given vvhensoeuer they shall be required neyther ar they vnkovven to this honorable assemblie Hovvsoeuer the meanes he vseth be lavfull or vnlavvfull humane or diabolike so he tortereth the kingdome that he procureth the calling breaking or continuing of parliaments at his pleasure placeing or displaceing the Officers of iustice of the counsell of the kings court of the courtes of iustice to his violent pleasure and as his ambitious villanie moueth him What hope then cā your petitioner have that his cōplainte shall be heard or being heard should take effect To obtaine iustice he may dispaire to provoke the Duke to send forth a poysoner or other murtherer to dispetch him and send him after his dead freinds allready murthered he may be sure this to be the euent Let the euent be what it will come what soeuer can come the losse of his owne life your petitioner valueth not having suffered the losse of the lives of such eminent friends esteeming his life can not be better bestowed then vpon the discovery of so haynous murthers Yea the iustnes of the cause the dearenes aud neerenes of his freinds murthered shall prevaile so farre with him that he shall vnfold vnto your honors and to the whole world these raisons against the accused and named by him the author of so greate murthers George Villiers Duke of Buckingham which against any privat man ar sufficient for his apprehension and torture And to make his complaint not very tedious he will only for the present declare vnto your honors the two most eminent murthers committed by Buckingham to wit of the Kings Majestie and of the L. Marquis of Hamilton which for all the subtilitie of his poysoning art could not be so cunningly conveyed as the murtherer thought but that God hath discovered manifestly the author And to observe the order of the time of there death because the L. Marquis of Hamilton dyed first his death shall be first related euen from the roote of his last quarrell with Buckingham albeit many other iarres have preceeded from time to time betwixt them CONCERNING THE POYSONING OF THE L. Marquis of Hamilton Bucikngham ones raised from the bottome to the top of fortunes wheele by what desert by what right or wrong no matter is it by his cariage verifyed the prouerb No thing more proud then baser broud vvhen it doth rise aloft Suffered his ambition to cary him selfe so farre as to aspire to match his blood with the blood Royall both of England and Scotland and well knowing that the L. Marquis of Hamilton was acknowledged by King Iames to be the prime man in his dominions who next to his owne line in his propre season might clame an hereditarie title to the Kingdom of Scotland by the daughter of King Iames the first and to the crowne of England by Ioan of Somerset wife to King Iames the first declared by act of parliament heretrix of England in her due ranke neuer suffered the King to be at rest but vrged him alwayes to send some of the priuy counsell to sollicit the Marquis to match his eldest sōne with Buckinghās neece making greate promises of cōditiōs which the meane familie of the bride could not performe vvithout the kings liberalitie to vvit fiftie thousand pounds sterling valueing fiue hundreth thousand florens vvith the Erledome of Orknay vnder the title of a Duke whatsoeuer the Marquis