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england_n	french_a	henry_n	king_n	13,576	5	4.7067	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A19438	A short vievv of the long life and raigne of Henry the Third, King of England presented to King Iames.	Cotton, Robert, Sir, 1571-1631.	1627 (1627)	STC 5864; ESTC S302	15,247	50

A SHORT VIEVV OF THE Long Life and Raigne of HENRY the Third King of ENGLAND Presented to King IAMES Printed MDcxxvII Henricus III D. G. Rex Ang Dux Aquit etc Dom Hib A Short view of the long Raigne of Henry the third WEaried with the lingring calamities of Ciuill Armes and afrighted at the sudden fall of a licencious Soueraigne all men stood at gaze expecting the euent of their long desires Peace and issue of their new hopes Benefit For in euery shift of Princes there are few either so meane or modest that please not themselues with some probable object of preferment To satisfie all a child ascendeth the throne mild and gracious but easie of nature whose Innocency and naturall goodnesse led him safe along the various daungers of his fathers Raigne Happy was hee in his Vnkle the Earle of Pembrook the guide of his infancy and no lesse then for thirty yeares after whilst De Burgo that fast seruant of his Fathers against the French both in Normandy and England with Bygod Earle of Norffolke and others of like grauity and experience did manage the Affaires Few and no other were the distempers then in State but such as are incident to all the Commons greedy of liberty and the Nobility of Rule and but one violent storme raised by some olde and constant followers of his Father Fulco de Brent de Fortibus and others men that could onely thriue by the warres misliking those dayes of sloath for so they termed that calme of King Henries gouernement and the rather because the Iustice of quiet times vrged from them to the lawfull owners such Lands and Castles as the fury of war had vniustly giuen them for finding in the vprightnesse of the King that power of protection should not be made a wrong doer they fell out into that rebellion that with it ended their liues and competitors professing that those their swords that had set the Crown vpon their Soueraignes head when neither Maiestie nor Lawe could should now secure those small pittances to their Maisters when Maiesty or Lawe would not Dangerous are too great benefits of Subjects to their Princes when it maketh the mind only capable of merrit nothing of duty No other disquiet did the State after this feele but such as is incident in all the malice to Authority Good and great men may secure themselues from guilt but not from enuy for the greatest in trust of publicke affaires are still shot at by the aspiring of those that deeme themselues lesse in imployment then they are in merit These vapours did euer and easily vanish so long as the helme was guided by temperate spirits and the King tied his Actions to the rule of good Counsell and not to young passionate or single aduise Thirty yeares now passed and all the old guides of his youth now dead but de Burgo a man in whom nothing of worth was wanting but moderation whose length of dayes giuing him the aduantage of sole power his owne Ambition and Age gaue him desire and Art to keepe out others which wrought him into the fatal enuy of most and that encreased in the Title of Earle great Offices the King then gaue him Time by this had wrought as in it selfe so in the hearts of the people a Reuolution the afflictions of their fathers forgotten and the surfeit of long peace perchance hauing let in some abuses from hence the Commons to whom dayes present seeme euer worst commend the foregone ages they neuer remembred and condemne the present though they knew neither the disease thereof nor the remedy To these idle and vsuall humors fell in some of the young and noble spirites warme and over-weaning who being as truly ignorant as the rest first by sullying the wisedome of the present and greatest rulers making each casuall mishap their Errors seeme to decypher euery blemish in Gouernment and then by holding certaine imaginary and fantasticke formes of Common wealths flatter their owne beleefe and ability that they can mold any State to these generall rules which in particular application will proue idle and grosse absurdities Next confirmed in their owne worth by Sommery and Spencer they take it a fit time to worke themselues into action and imployment a thing they had long desired and now though vnwilling to seeme so doe sue for and doubtlesse the furthest of their ayme was yet to become quiet instruments in serving the State if they had beene then helde fit and worthy But the King taught by the new Earle That Consilia senum hastas juvenum esse and that such wits for so they would be stiled were Nouandis quam gerendis rebus aptiores fitter in being factious to disorder then to settle affayres eyther denyed or delayed their desires for wise Princes will ever choose their Instruments Parnegotijs and not supra Creatures out of meere election that are onely theirs otherwise without friends or power Amongst this vnequal medly there were of the Nobility Richard Earle of Pembrook Glocester and Hartford darlings of the multitude some for the merrit of their Fathers whose memories they held Sacred as Pillars of publike liberty and opposers of encroaching Monarchy at Runemeed the Armies met And of the Gentry Fitz-Geffe●ry Bardolph Grisley Maunsell and Fitz-Iohn spirits of as much Acrimony and Arrogant spleene as the places from whence they were elected Campe Court or Countrey could affoord any These by force would effect what the other did affect by cunning but all impatient to see their ends thus frustrate and that so long as the King followed the direction of the Earle of Kent they had small hope of their desires they made often meetings and as one sayth of them Clam nocturnis colloqujs aut flexum in vesperum die In the end Sommery and Spencer two that were farre in opinion with the rest Gentle-men by Forraine education and imployment more quallified then vsually men of these Times and that set vppon their owne deserts the best places when the Streame should turne which one of them Spencer did vnworthily obtayne for he dyed in actuall Rebellion Iusticiarius Angliae against his master advised that the best meanes to remooue that great and good obstackle the Earle of Kent out of the way of their advancement was by sifting into his actions and siding with his opposite Peter Bishop of Winchester an ill man but gracious with the King making still their ends that the worthiest beeing driuen out by the worst they shall eyther be able to mate him with his owne vice which will bee euer more visible as hee is more potent and so remooue him at pleasure or else giue over the King to such Ministers to their bad desires as loosing him the hearts of his people might smooth them away to their bad desires Honores quos quieta Republica desperant perturbata consequi se posse arbitrantur This Counsell heard approoued and put