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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A57532	Remains of Sir Walter Raleigh ...; Selections. 1657	Raleigh, Walter, Sir, 1552?-1618.; Vaughan, Robert.	1657 (1657)	Wing R180; Wing R176_PARTIAL; ESTC R20762	121,357	368

pleas'd notwithstanding that the great Officers should take an oath in Parliament to do Iustice. Now for the Parliament of Westminster in the 17th year of the King the King had three markes and a half for every sack of Wooll transported and in his 18th he had a 10th of the Clergie and a 15th of the Laity for one year His Majestie forbare after this to charge his Subjects with any more payments untill the 29th of his reigne when there was given the King by Parliament 50 for every sack of Wool transported for six yeares by which grant the King received a thousand markes a day a greater matter then a thousand pounds in these dayes and a 1000l a day amounts to 365000l a year which was one of the greatest presents that ever was given to a King of this land For besides the cheapenesse of all things in that age the Kings souldiers had but 3d. a day wages a man at armes 6d a Knight but 2s In the Parliament at Westminster in the 33th year he had 26s 8d for every sack of Wooll transported in the 42th year 3 dismes and 3 fifteens In his 45th year he had ●0000l of the Laity and because the Spiritualty disputed it and did not pay so much the King chang'd his Chancellour Treasurer Privy Seal being Bishops and placed Lay men in their roome COUNS. It seems that in those dayes the Kings were no longer in love with their great Chancellors then when they deserved well of them JUST No my Lord they were not and that was the reason they were well served and it was the custome then and in many ages after to change the Treasurer the Chancellour every 3 years and withall to hear all mens complaints against them COUNS. But by this often change the saying is verified that there is no inheritance in the favour of Kings He that keepeth the figge-tree saith Solomon shall eate the fruit thereof for reason it is that the servant live by the Master JUST My Lord you say well in both but had the subject an inheritance in the Princes favour where the Prince hath no inheritance in the Subjects fidelity then were Kings in more unhappy estate then common persons for the rest Solomon meaneth not that he that keepeth the figge tree should surfet though he meant he should eat he meant not he should break the branches in gathering the figs or eat the ripe and leave the rotten for the owner of the tree for what saith he in the following chapter he saith that he that maketh hast to be ●ich cannot be innocent And before that he saith that the end of an inheritance hastily gotten cannot be blessed Your Lordship hath heard of few or none great with Kings that have not used their power to oppresse that have not growne insolent and hatefull to the people yea insolent towards those Princes that advanced them COUNS. Yet you see that Princes can change their fancies IUST Yea my Lord when favorites change their faith when they forget that how familiar soever Kings make themselves with their Vassals yet they are Kings He that provoketh a King to anger saith Solomon sinneth against his own soul. And he further saith that pride goeth before distruction and a high mind before afall I say therefore that in discharging those Lucifers how dear soever they have been Kings make the world know that they have more of Iudgement then of passion yea they thereby offer a satisfactory sacrifice to all their people too great benefits of subjects to their king where the mind is blown up with their own deservings and to great benefits of Kings conferr'd upon their Subjects where the mind is not qualified with a great deal of modesty are equally dangerous Of this later and insolenter had King Richard the second delivered up to Iustice but three or four he had still held the love of the people and thereby his life and estate COUNS. Well I pray you go on with your Parliaments IUST The life of this great King Edward drawes to an end so do the Parliaments of this time wherein 50 years raigne he never received any affront for in his 49th year he had a disme and a fifteen granted him freely COUNS. But Sir it is an old saying that all is well that ends well Iudge you whether that in his 50th year in Parliament at Westminster he received not an affront when the house urged the King to remove and discharge from his presence the Duke of Lancaster the Lord Latimer his Chamberlaine Sir Richard Sturry and others whom the King favoured and trusted Nay they pressed the King to thrust a certain Lady out of Court which at that time bare the greatest sway therein IUST I will with patience answer your Lordship to the full and first your Lordship may remember by that which I even now said that never King had so many gifts as this King had from his subjects and it hath never grieved the subjects of England to give to their King but when they knew there was a devouring Lady that had her share in all things that passed and the Duke of Lancaster was as scraping as shee that the Chancellour did eat up the people as fast as either of them both It grieved the subjects to feed these Cormorants But my Lord there are two things by which the Kings of England have been prest to wit by their subjects and by their own necessities The Lords in former times were farre stronger more warlike better followed living in their Countries then now they are Your Lordship may remember in your reading that there were many Earles could bring into the field a thousand Barbed horses many a Baron 5. or 600. Barbed horses whereas now very few of them can furnish twenty fit to serve the King But to say the truth my Lord the Iustices of peace in England have oppos'd the injusticers of war in England the Kings writ runs over all and the great Seal of England with that of the next Constables will serve the turn to affront the greatest Lords in England that shall move against the King The force therefore by which our Kings in former times were troubled is vanisht away But the necessities remain The people therefore in these later ages are no lesse to be pleased then the Peeres for as the later are become lesse so by reason of the trayning through England the Commons have all the weapons in their hand COUNS. And was it not so ever IUST No my good Lord for the Noblemen had in their Armories to furnish some them a thousand some two thousand some three thousand men whereas now there are not many that can arme fifty COUNS. Can you blame them But I will onely answer for my self between you and me be it spoken I hold it not safe to mantain so great an Armory or Stable it might cause me or any other Nobleman to be suspected as the preparing of some Innovation IUST Why so my

gathering of money from the subject under title of a free gift whereas a fift a sixt a tenth c. was set down and required But my good Lord though divers Shires have given to his Majestie some more some lesse what is this to the Kings debt COUNS. Wee know it well enough but we have many other projects IUST It is true my good Lord but your Lordship will find that when by these you have drawn many petty summes from the subjects and those sometimes spent as fast as they are gathered his Majesty being nothing enabled thereby when you shall be forced to demand your great aide the the Countrey will excuse it self in regard of their former payments COUNS. What mean you by the great aide JUST I mean the aide of Parliament COUNS. By Parliament I would fain know the man that durst perswade the King unto it for if it should succeed ill in what case were he JUST You say well for your self my Lord and perchance you that are lovers of your selves under pardon do follow the advice of the late Duke of Alva who was ever opposite to all resolutions in businesse of importance for if the things enterprised succeeded well the advice never came in question if ill whereto great undertakings are commonly subject he then made his advantage by remembring his Countrey Councell But my good Lord these reserved Polititians are not the best servants for he that is bound to adventure his life for his Master is also bound to adventure his advice Keep not back Councell saith Ecclesiasticus When it may do good COUNS. But Sir I speak it not in other respect then I think it dangerous for the King to assemble the three estates for thereby have our former Kings alwayes lost somewhat of their prerogatives And because that you shall not think that I speak it at randome I will begin with elder times wherein the first contention began betwixt the Kings of this land and their subjects in Parliament IUST Your Lordship shall do me a singular favour COUNS. You know that the Kings of England had no formal Parliament till about the 18. year of Hen. the first for in his 17 year for the marriage of his Daughter the King raised a tax upon every hide of land by the advice of his privy Councell alone But you may remember how the subjects soon after the establishment of this Parliament began to stand upon termes with the King and drew from him by strong hand and the sword the great Charter JUST Your Lordship sayes well they drew from the King the great Charter by the sword and hereof the Parliament cannot be accused but the Lords COUNS. You say well but it was after the establishment of the Parliament and by colour of it that they had so great daring for before that time they could not endure to hear of Sr. Edwards lawes but resisted the confirmation in all they could although by those lawes the Subjects of this Iland were no lesse free than any of all Europe JUST My good Lord the reason is manifest for while the Normans and other of the French that followed Conquerour made spoyle of the English they would not endure that any thing but the will of the Conquerour should stand for Law but after a difcent or two when themselves were become English and found themselves beaten with their own rods they then began to favour the difference between subjection and slavery and insist upon the Law Meum tuum and to be able to say unto themselves hoc sac vives yea that the conquering English in Ireland did the like your Lordship knowes it better than I. COUNS. I think you guesse aright And to the end the subject may know that being a faithfull servant to his Prince he might enjoy his own life and paying to his Prince what belongs to a Soveraigne the remainder was his own to dispose Henry the first to content his Vassals gave them the great Charter and the Charter of Forrests JUST What reason then had K. Iohn to deny the confirmation COUNS. He did not but he on the contrary confirmed both the Charters with additions required the Pope whom he had them made his superior to strengthen him with a golden Bul. JUST But your honour knowes that it was not long after that he repented himself COUNS. It is rrue and he had reason so to do for the Barons refused to follow him into France as they ought to have done and to say true this great Charter upon which you insist so much was not originally granted Regally aud freely for Henry the first did usurpe the Kingdome and therefore the better to assure himself against Robert his eldest Brother hee flattered the Nobility and people with those Charters Yea King Iohn that confirmed them had the like respect for Arthur Duke of Britain was the undoubted heir of the Crown upon whom Iohn usurped And so to conclude these Charters had their originall from Kings de facto but not de jure JUST But King Iohn confirmed the Charter after the death of his Nephew Arthur when he was then Rex de jure also COUNS. It is true for he durst do no other standing accursed whereby few or none obeyed him for his Nobility refused to follow him into Scotland and he had so grieved the people by pulling down all the Parke pales before harvest to the end his Deere might spoil the corn And by seizing the temporalities of so many Bishopricks into his hands and chiefly for practising the death of the Duke of Britain his Nephew as also having lost Normandy to the French so as the hearts of all men were turned from him IUST Nay by your favour my Lord King Iohn restored K. Edwards Laws after his absolution and wrote his letters in the 15. of his reigne to all Sheriffes countermanding all former oppressions yea this he did notwithstanding the Lords refused to follow him into France COUNS. Pardon me he did not restore King Edwards Lawes then nor yet confirmed the Charters but he promised upon his absolution to doe both but after his return out of France in his 16. year he denyed it because without such a promise he had not obtained restitution his promise being constrained and not voluntary IUST But what think you was hee not bound in honour to performe it COUNS. Certainly no for it was determined the case of King Francis the first of France that all promises by him made whilest he was in the hands of Charles the fift his enemy were void by reason the Judge of honour which tells us he durst doe no other JUST But King Iohn was not in prison COUNS. Yet for all that restraint is imprisonment yea fear it self is imprisonment and the King was subject to both I know there is nothing more Kingly in a King than the performance of his word but yet of a word freely and voluntarily given Neither was the Charter of Henry the first so