two of the fairest flowers in the English Crown in lieu wherof it may be sayd ther is set in an ear of barly with a Chimney Wallflower ther is froth and fume given in exchange which doth so much sully the luster of it for as I intimated before the state and plenty of the Court was accounted the greatest glory of the Crown of England as Forren Authors of most Nations do acknowledg in their public Writings Now wheras some do affirm that the yeerly benefit of the Excise doth make a full compensation for the Court of Wards and tenures in Capite out of which ther was also computed fifty thousand pounds yeerly towards the Diet at Court It is too well known that the said Excise doth not make the King any Equivalent satisfaction for his Tenures alone if well managd much less for his Pourvoyances Preemptions and Carriages For ther was an exact account made by his Majesties special command of the last yeers expence that ther were Seventy three thousand six hundred and seven pounds fourteen shillings and seven pence spent more in the Court-diet and provision of the Stables then were in the time of Pourvoyance besides the extraordinary charge of Carriages for his Removes and Navy Royal. Now in expending those provisions that were servd into the Court by way of Pourvoyance and Composition ther was the greatest care and Oeconomical good husbandry usd that possibly could be for when ther were more Beefs and Muttons with other provisions servd in then the Court wanted The faithful Officers of the Green-cloth caused them to be Sould and with the moneys arising thence they were commonly usd to buy Napery and other Houshold-things for the service of the Kings House as also in paying the arrears of som of his Servants wages with the surplusages But now that we dance after the French Fiddle so fast as we always did so for the back and now begin to follow him also in things relating to the Belly by Board-wages c. I wish the time may not come that we do not follow him too farr As that one cannot put a grain of Salt in his pot unless he buy it of the King wherby in making Salt his own Commodity the French King raiseth by the meer Gabel which ariseth thence above 20 millions of Livres evry yeer which is two millions Sterling which sum is twice more then the King of Great Britain hath from all Incoms whatsoever as Crown-lands Customes and Imposts Excise and Chimney-money with other perquisits and casualities And as the French thus cannot put a grain of Salt in his pot so the Spaniard cannot put a corn of Peper into his Olla unless he hath it from the King Nor can he buy a pair of Cards or Dice to pass away the time withal unless he hath them of the King Nay he cannot buy half a sheet of Paper to write either Bond or Bill Acquittance or Receit or other legal Instrument but he must buy all of the King Which adds millions to his yeerly Revenues yet the peeple of Spain are cryed up for a free peeple But touching the Imposition of Excise which is given the King for his Royal Tenures and House-keeping I well remember the time that Excise was held such an abominable word that my Lord Carleton but only for naming it once in the Parlement-House yet to no ill meaning at all was violently cryed to the Bar and though a person of that eminence as being then a Privie Counsellor and principal Secretary of State he hardly escapd being committed to the Tower The Excise was then calld the Dutch Devil because it came first from Holland with other fine words as plunder storming c. which were all made free Denizons of England by that so longd-for Long Parlement And observable it is that the first imposing and use of Excise in England was to enable Rebels to make War against their King and Country Having thus briefly run over the Sumptuary part of the English Court we will now proceed to the Servants and Officers to the Attendance and State thereof which comes not behind any other Court whatsoever And this might be the ground of that ancient Proverb in England and nowhere els There is no Fishing to the Sea nor Service to the Kings The Court is the randevous of Vertu of Cadets and persons well qualified It is the Scale by which they rise the King being the fountain of Honour as well as of Bounty But before we come to speak of the Officers at Court and of their Diet and Bouche which by a pitiful corruption is vulgarly calld budg wheras it is bouche a mouth therfore it is a French phrase Il a bouche à la Cour He hath a mouth at Court viz. he hath a Diet I say before we come to speak of the Dishes and Diet at Court let the Reader take this small Advertisement in the way that evry Dish at Court was computed to cost the King viis modis at the years end 100 l. a dish But now since the Preemption and Pourvoyance is taken away evry dish doth stand in four times as much at least The Kings Court or Houshold The Lord Great Chamberlain and Earl Marshal are rather Officers of State and as it were extraneous in relation to the Houshold so in a manner are the four Officers of the Crown who use to have Houses abroad viz. The Lord Chancellor or Keeper of the Great Seal of England The Lord high Tresurer The Lord Privie Seal The Lord high Admiral But the properst Domestick Officers are as follow viz. The Lord Steward of the Houshold who hath allowed him evry day besides his Fee 32 dishes The Tresurer of the Houshold 32 dishes and besides his table he hath a Fee of 123 l. 14 s. 4 d. The Controuler besides thirty two dishes a day hath a Fee of 167 l. 17 s. 4 d. The Cofferer besides his Table hath 100 l. The principal Secretary of State hath besides his Table 100 l. The Secretary for the Latin Toung Fee 40 l. The Secretary for the French Toung Fee 66 l. 13 s. 4 d. The Clerks of the Signet Fee every one 40 l. Four Clerks of the Privie Council Fee evry one 50 l. Clerk of the Council in the Star-chamber Fee 26 l. 13 s. 4 d. Two Clerks of the Parlement Fee The first 40 l. Two Clerks of the Parlement Fee The second 10 l. Clerk of the Market Fee 20 l. Post-master Fee 20 l. Thirty standing Posts appointed by the Post-master evry one Fee 18 l. 5 s. Two Carriers To one 24 l. 3 s. 4 d. Two Carriers To the other 12 l. Officers above Stayrs Lord Chamberlain of the Houshold besides his Table of thirty two dishes a day hath a Fee 100 l. The Groom of the Stole who is always a Gentleman of the Bed-chamber hath evry day 32 dishes Vice-chamberlain Fee 100 Marks Knight-Marshal Fee 100 Marks The Gentlemen of the Privie Chamber whose
in the I le of Britain Just according to the ancient Greek Poet 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Many Lords are not good let there be but One. Now from that time to this the King of Britain had and hath as Souveraign and incontroulable a sway as any 'T is true that he admits others sometimes to share with him in Counsel but not in Power by a kind of Influence he gives Light and Command to others but he himself receives none from any In the Neighbouring Monarchies it cannot be said so and particularly in France and Spain where it may be said ther is Regnum in regno ther is another Power à Legatus de latere that in a Court of Plea sways ore the Ecclesiastiques who make a considerable part of the Peeple Touching the latter the King of Spain is Feodary either to the Pope the Emperour or to France for all the Countries he hath The Kingdomes of Navarre and Granada were made Feodary to the Pope under Iulius the second Aragon to Innocent the third as also Sardinia in formula fiduciae Sicilia is relevant from the Church as also both the Indies and the Canary Ilands For the Kingdome of Naples and Calabria he sends a Mule with a Purse-full of Gold as a Heriot to Rome evry year for fear of an Excommunication the next day at the receit whereof the Pope says Sufficiat pro hac vice He holds the Dukedome of Milan from the Empire and most of the Provinces in the Netherlands from France whereof he is a double Peer as he is Duke of Burgundy and Earl of Flanders Now 't is questionable among the Civilians whether a Feodary or Homager may be call'd an Absolut Prince specially when Appeals may be made from him to another Court as the Spanish Clergy may from the King to Rome in divers cases The Kings of ENGLAND are free from Subordinations of that kind as the Fundamental Laws of the Land and all the ancient Learned Judges do evidence 'T is a Principle in the English Laws which is confirm'd by Baldus and other great Forren Jurists That Rex neminem habet in Dominiis suis nec Superiorem nec Parem The King in his own Dominions hath neither Superior nor Equal He may be said to be both Caesar and Pompey There is another Omnes sub Illo Ille sub nullo All under Him He under none Another yet Satis habet Rex ad poenam quod Deum expectet Ultorem 'T is enough for the King that God is to be his Judge which is expressed in this Distic Subditus in Regem peccat Legemque Fidemque At Rex in Solum Rex quia nempe Deum Ther are divers others that are conducing hereunto As The King must not be put to do any thing per aspertè but of his free plesure The King never dies but the Heir apparent is King Inchoative as soon as the former dies and the Coronation is but a meer Ceremony not Essential for divers Kings as Hen. 5. and others had Alleageance sworn unto them before they were Crowned There are more Maximes yet That the King can do no wrong but his Ministers may through whose mouths he pronounceth sentence Moreover Nullum tempus occurrit Regi Ther 's no Immemorial or Prescription against the King It is High Treson not only to contrive but to imagine ill against the King By the Kings Prerogative Life it self may be leased c. But that Traverse twixt King Iohn and the Legat Pandolpho when they say he transferred the Crown to the Pope is much insisted upon wherunto t is thus answered That ther are four great things whereof the Records cannot be found The first is that wherin the Emperour Constantine gave Rome to the Pope The second is that wherin Venice hath the Dominion of the Adriatic or Illyrian Gulph The third is the Salique Law The fourth is that Instrument wherby King Iohn pass'd over his Crown and made the Pope Lord Paramount of England Sir Thomas More who was so far devoted to Rome that he is canoniz'd for one of her Martyrs denieth absolutly that King Iohn either did or could make England Feudetary to the Pope because without the consent of his Barons an Act so much prejudicial to his Royal Successors was not valid and that the Peter-pence which they hold to be a Tribut relating to the foresaid Act was but a meer Alms which was given by King Ina 500 years before Moreover put case ther had been such an Act yet it stands upon good record that Innocentius the third did give a Release in these words Per Praeceptum Domini Papae 7 Iulii Homagium relaxatur omninò The Rome-scot also was but Regis larga benignitas the Kings bountiful kindness Adde hereunto that when the Pontificial Power was here at the highest pitch no Legat de latere was allowed but the Archbishop of Canterbury his Subject who by his Dignity is perpetual Legat de latere He is Legatus natus as he of Toledo is in Spain and the Primat of Armagh in Ireland and in point of Precedence at the Council of Clermont anno 1096. a Prerogative was given him for ever to sit at all general Councils at the Popes right foot Pope Urban at that time declaring in these terms Includamus hunâ—… in Orbe nostro tanquam alterius Orbis Pontificem Maximum Let us include him in our world as Pope of another world 'T is true ther have been other Legats de latere upon extraordinary occasions admitted but it was with the Kings leave and with this Proviso That he hath no Authority to hold Plea in the Realm prejudicial to the Laws thereof or derogatory to the King Thus it appears that no Extern power hath any thing to do in Great Britain and as the Pope so the Peeple neither whether consider'd Diffusively Collectively Representatively or Vertually partake any thing of the Souverain Power ther is no power either Co-ordinat Co-equal Corrival or Collateral with it The Kings of England have had always by the known Laws of the Land a pure underived Power not depending upon Pope or Peeple or any other Prince whatsoever They are Kings by the Grace of God which implies no earthly Dependency It stands upon good record how King Ina in the Preamble to his Laws for he was a great Legislator begins I Ina by the Grace of God King c. and this was above a thousand years ago about two hundred years before Charlemain in whose time that stile of Dei Gratia came first in use in the Empire And as on Land the King of Great Britain hath such a Latitude and Independence of Supreme Power so by Sea he hath the like which is such that without disparagement much less any injustice to any I may avouch no other Prince hath the like The greatest claim of Sea-Dominion that France makes is to the Coasts of Armorica or little Britany and a few Leagues in the Mediterranean The Spanish Laws are for the
of England and Iohn 2. of Denmark and Norway 1490. England is put before France as for example Sancitum est quod Mercatores Homines Ligii Piscatores quicunque alii Reg. Angliae Franciae subditi liberè possint temporibus futuris in perpetuum ad Insulam Tyle i. e. Islandiam c. Augustus de Cavallis who is no obscure Author infers the Queen of England from her Ancestors both in respect of Inheritance Conquest and Gift to be Queen of France de Iure In the Treaty twixt Hen. the 7. and Philip of Castile 1506. the English Commissioners subsign'd first As also in the Treaty of Marriage with Queen Mary Anno 1533. the first Signature is given to the English Ambassadors When Queen Elizabeth employed the Earl of Derby the Lord Cobham Sir Iames Crofts Doctor Dale and Doctor Rogers in quality of Ambassadors with their Assistants to Ostend anno 1588. Dignitatis Praerogativa incedendo sedendo The Prerogative of going and sitting was given her Ambassadors In the Treaty at Bullen twixt England and Spain for renewing the Burgundian League Queen Elizabeth sent Sir Hen. Nevil Sir Iohn Herbert Robert Beale and Tho. Edmunds who in their Instructions had command in no case to give Precedence to the Spanish Ambassadors but being met ther was a Contest happend The English produc'd a Certificat procur'd privatly from Rome out of the Book of Ceremonies there which according to the Canon giveth the Rule in such cases That the King of England is to have place before the King of Castile That the English quietly held this Right in the Councils of Basil Constance and others They alledg'd also that the Kingdom of Castile which is the Spaniards first Title is but an upstart-in regard of England for it had no Kings but Earls till the year 1017. Moreover Pope Iulius 3. gave sentence for Hen. 7. of England against Ferdinand of Spain in this particular c. Furthermore for Eminency of Title Great Britain is oftentimes calld an Empire by Forren Authors nay Pope Urban terms it a World of it self at the Council of Clermont almost a thousand years since wherin the Archbishop of Canterbury is call'd Alteterius Orbis Papa The Pope of another World What wold he say now that Ireland and Scotland are added Some of the Saxon Kings stil'd themselfs Emperours as Ego Ethelredus Ego Edgarus Anglorum Induperator c. William the Conqueror writ Ego Willielmus Rex Anglorum ab incarnatione Domini 1089. 2 Anno mei Imperii This is found upon record in his Charter to the Monastery of Shaftsbury In Hen. 8. Raign the eighth year thereof England was declar'd an Empire in Parlement where he had also these Epithets Metuendissimus Praepotentissimus and London was call'd the Imperial Chamber But most memorable is that of King Edgar in the Charter that he gave the Church of Worcester Which Charter is yet extant and runs thus Altitonantis Dei largifluâ clementiâ qui est Rex Regum Ego Edgarus Anglorum Basileus omniumque Regum Insularum Oceanique Britanniam circumjacentis cunctarúmque Nationum quae infra Eam includuntur Imperator Dominus Gratias ago ipsi Deo omnipotenti Regi meo qui meum Imperium sic ampliavit exaltavit super Regnum Patrum meorum Qui licet Monarchiam totius Angliae adepti sunt à tempore Athelstani qui primus Regnum Anglorum omnes Nationes quae Britanniam incolunt sibi Armis subegit nullus tamen Illorum ultra ejus fines Imperium suum dilatare aggressus est Mihi autem concessit propitia Divinitas cum Anglorum Imperio omnia Regna Insularum Oceani cum suis ferocissimis Regibus usque Norwegiam Maximamque Partem Hiberniae cum sua nobilissima Civitate Dublinia Anglorum Regno subjugare Quos etiam omnes meis Imperiis colla subdere Dei favente gratia Coegi Quapropter ut Ego Christi Gloriam laudem in Regno meo exaltare ejus servitutem amplificare devotus disposui per meos Fideles Fautores Dunstanum Archiepiscopum Ayeliolanum ac Oswaldum Archiepiscopos quos mihi Patres Spirituales Consiliarios elegi magna ex parte disposui c. Facta haec sunt anno Dom. 964. Indictione 8 Regni Ego Alfrye Regina consensi signo Crucis confirmavi ✚ This being so ancient a Record and of so high a Tenure I thought good to render it into English for the satisfaction of the Common Reader By the clemency of the high-thundring God who is King of Kings I Edgar King of the English and of all Kings of Ilands and of the Ocean circumjacent to Britain and of all Nations which are included within her Emperour and Lord I give thanks only to Almighty God my King that he hath amplified and exalted my Empire above the Kingdome of my Fathers who although they had obtain'd the Monarchy of all England from the time of Athelstan who was the first that subdued the Kingdom of the English and all Nations who inhabit Britain yet none of them attempted to dilate his Empire beyond its bounds But propitious Divinity hath granted unto me to subjugat together with the Empire of the English all the Kingdomes in the Iles of the Ocean with their most ferocious Kings as far as Norway and most part of Ireland with her most Noble City of Dublin All whom I compell'd to bow their Necks to my Commands the Grace of God so favouring me c. This King Edgar though very little of stature was so magnanimous and successful that he was Row'd upon the River of Dee by four subjugated Kings whereof Kennad King of Scots was one Ther is also a very remarkable and authentic story of King Canutus afterwards who being upon Southampton-Strand at the flowing of the Sea he sate in a Chair of State which was brought him upon the sands and the Billows tossing and tumbling towards him he gave the Sea this command Thou art my Subject and the Earth wheron I sit is mine and ther was none yet that ever resisted my Command who went unpunish'd Therefore I command Thee that Thou come not up upon my Earth nor presume to wet the Garment or the Body of thy Lord. But the Sea continuing his cours dash'd and wetted his feet and thighs illfavouredly without any reverence or fear whereupon the King stepping back declar'd That none is worthy of the Name of a King but only He whose Nod both Sea and Earth observd And as the story hath it he never wore the Crown of Gold again but being fix'd to a Cross did consecrat it to the Image of our Saviour Ther have been also Titles of Dignity given to our Kings in the Abstract which hath more of State and Substance in it then the Concret as Celsitudo Tua Magnitudo Tua given by the Pope in his Letters to Ed. 2. And Edward the 4. was us'd to write Nostra Regia Majestas though indeed that word
choice men at Arms in a Fleet of 60 Sayl of Ships with Arms for 12000 men more into Scotland Therupon an English Army being raisd it struck into Scotland like a Whirlwind and piercing the very heart of the Country advancd as far as Dundee and returnd Victorious Henry the Fifth took Iames the first Prisoner and carried him over to attend him in his French VVars In Hen. 8. time the Scots King although his Brother-in-Law taking his advantage when he was in France battring the Walls of Bullen with the flower of the English Nobility raisd the greatest Army that Scotland could make for invading England therupon King Harry sent a Commission to the Earl of Surrey to raise Forces accordingly The two Armies met at Flodden-field where the Scots King and the Archbishop of Saint Andrews his Brother were slain with twelve Earls 14 Barons and 12000 more Not long after Solmosse Battail was fought where eight Scots Earls were taken Prisoners with 200 Gentlemen and others insomuch that as the story saith ther was never an English soldier but had his couple of Scots Prisoners Four and thirty yeers after the same day both of the month and the week as the Historians observe Musselborough-Battail was fought which because it was the last and one of the most signal and sanguinary great Battails from the Conquest that was fought twixt the English and the Scots I will here particularize but with as much brevity as may be The Duke of Somerset was General of the English the Earl of Warwik his Lieutenant the Lord-Admiral Clinton had 60 ships of War which were to hold cours with the Land-forces the whole Army consisted but of about 13000 Foot 1200 men at Arms 2500 Light-horse 16 Peeces of Ordinance evry Peece having a Gard of Pioners who came to about 1400. From Berwick they entred Scotland and marchd as far as Musselburgh far within the Country they seizd upon three small Castles as they passd and with infinit pains overcame the Natural and Artificial Difficulties of the Ways They understood that the Scots Army far exceeded them in number and ther came Recreuts dayly unto it For the Fire-cross was carried about by the Heralds through all parts which is two Firebrands upon the point of a Spear that all above sixteen and under sixty yeers shold repair to the General Rendevous insomuch that the Scots Historians themselfs do mention that ther were above thirty thousand in the whole Army which was twice the number of the English The Battail was fought with much resolution and cagerness on both sides yet notwithstanding that the Scot was at his own home and that the English were tir'd by a long difficult march they obtaind an absolute Conquest ther were slain of the Scots about 14000 out-right upon the place wherof ther were 3000 Kirk-men as Fryars and Monks Huntley with other great Lords were taken Prisoners 30 Peeces of Ordinance were taken and shippd for England with 30000 Iacks as the Record says and the English plunderd the Country five days march further and did what they wold We will conclude with the late Battail at Dunbar still fresh in memory where ther were not much more then 8000 English and the Scot had them at a great advantage yet the English making a Vertu of Necessity utterly overcame an Army of about 24000 Scots an Army that had been long a moulding and consisted of many of their Nobility and Gentry they lost both Bag and Bagage Artillery and Arms ther were above 3000 slain 10000 taken Prisoners whereof ther were 260 Officers 15000 Arms and 30 Peeces of Ordinance and neer upon 200 of their Colours were brought to hang in Westminster-Hall for Trophies Out of what hath been said this Inference may be made That in all those Traverses and Encounters of War that England had with Scotland which were neer upon an hundred since the Conquest take small and great together the English did always foyl the Scot except in Ed. 2. time as shall be said hereafter In some Battails we may find how they carried away more Captives then they were common soldiers themselfs driving them as it were like sheep before them And observable it is that the greatest Battails were fought in Scotland it self after that the English had been tir'd and dispirited by long marches over uncouth and strange places being ignorant both of the Advenues and Advantages of them Tru it is that in Ed. 2. Raign they won two or three Victories wherof that at Bannocks-Battail was the greatest where Gilbert de Clare Earl of Glocester and about 40 Barons with 700 Knights and English Gentlemen were killd In Hen. 8. Raign they got also a small Victory when Sir Ralph Evers was slain In the time of the Long Fatal Parlement they did likewise many Insolencies and rush'd far into England but those Invasions may be rather termd Invitations by some spurious and unworthy-degenerated English-men who had contrivd their coming in long before whose memories will stink in the Nostrils of all Posterity But the English have taken four of their Kings Captives killd two other in the field carried away their Crown with the chiefest Ensignes of Royalty c. Nor were such high Exploits performed by the Kings of England on Land only but by Sea they have been as glorious Historians say how King Edgar had a Navy of three thousand six hundred ships and bottoms of all sorts which he divided to three Fleets that usd to coast about and scowre the Seas as far as Norway evry year and he in person would go often Admiral himself and be all the Summer abroad Philip the French King not long before the Battail of Cressy to hinder Edward the thirds return into France got a mighty Navy in Equippage of 200 sayl of ships besides Gallies in the Haven of Sluce wherof King Edward being advertised prepared such another Fleet and encounters the French with such resolution and success having the Wind and the Sun for him that he utterly defeated the whole Navy slew about thirty thousand men and so returned with mighty triumphs and the admiration of all Europe Philip the second of Spain having as he conceavd endured divers Affronâ—…s and Injuries from Queen Elizabeth conceald his Discontents a long time until he had provided the Invincible Armada as it was calld wherewith he hoped to have swallowed all England It was three years preparing it consisted of above 150 sayl wherof most of them were Galeons they were mannd by 8000 Mariners they carried 20000 Listed soldiers besides Volunteers they had 1600 Brass Cannons 1000 of Iron and 120000 Granado's with other Fireworks of all sorts This Prodigious Fleet stood the King of Spain in 10 Millions first and last from the time that she set sayl out of Lisbonne as t is found in their Annals she lookd like a Forest at Sea as she steerd along Q Elizabeth had first news hereof from Hen. 4. of France But then how did that Masculine Queen
number is indefinite Fee evry one 50 l. Three Gentlemen-Ushers of the Privie Chamber 30 l. Ten Grooms of the Privie Chamber Fee apiece 20 l. Four Carvers Fee evry one 50 Marks Three Cup-bearers Fee evry one 50 Marks Four Sewers Fee evry one 50 Marks Four Escuyers of the Body Fee evry one 50 Marks Four Yeomen-Ushers Fee evry one 9 l. 2 s. 6 d. Twelve Ordinary Grooms Fee evry one 2 l. 13 s. 4 d. Four Pages Fee evry one 2 l. Clerk of the Closet Fee evry one 4 l. Four Messengers Fee evry one 5 l. The Band of fifty Gentlemen-Pensioners Fee for evry one 50 l. Standard-bearer to the Pensioners Fee 100 Marks The Guard Captain of the Guard fee besides a Livery-Gown 14 l. Two hundred ordinary Yeomen of the Guard Fee 16l 13s 4d Fifty extraordinary 8 d. per diem 1 l. 13 s. 4 d. Standard-bearer to the Guard Fee 100 Marks Clerk of the Check fee 100 Marks The Great Wardrobe The Master his fee 100 l. Livery 15 l. Two Clerks fee each 4 l. 6. 8 d. Rent-gatherer fee 5 l. 0 s. 8 d. Four Taylors fee evry one 9 l. 2 s. 6 d. Skinner fee 18 l. 5 s. 0 d. Three Embroderers fee evry one 18 l. 5 s. 0 d. The Butlary of England Chief Butler Fee 50 Marks The Counting House Four Clerks fee evry one 44 l. 6 s. 8 d. Clerk to the Cofferer fee 20 l. Yeoman fee 5 l. Groom fee 2 l. 13 s. 4 d. The Iewel-House Master his fee 50 l. Yeoman his fee 6 l. Groom his fee 2 l. 13 s. 4 d. The Green-cloth I should have spoken before herof in point of precedence It being a Court of Justice continually sitting in the Kings Palace The chiefest wherof are the Lord Steward the Tresurer the Controwler and Cofferer the Master of the Houshold two Clerks of the Green-cloth and two Clerks Controwlers Of these the first three are usually of the Privy-Council For unto This being as some hold the first and ancient Court of Justice in England is committed the Charge and surintendency of the Kings Court Royal for matter of government It is called the Green-cloth from the colour of the Carpet at which they sit wheron the Kings Arms are embrodered and on each side the Arms of the Counting House bearing verd a Key and a Rod or white Staff argent saultie signifying their power to reward or correct as persons for their great prudence and experience thought fit to exercise both those functions The Robes Yeoman fee 50 l. Groom fee 2 l. 13 s. 4 d. Page fee 2 l. Harbingers Knight-Harbinger fee 50 l. Four Harbingers fee evry one 10 l. Thirty Yeomen of the Crown fee evry one 6 l. 1 s. 8 d. The Beds Five Marshals fee evry one 11 l. 8 s. 1 d. ob Four Sewers fee evry one 11 l. 8 s. 1 d. ob Two Survayors fee evry one 11 l. 8 s. 1 d. ob Two Yeomen fee evry one 5 l. Clerk fee 14 l. Two Grooms fee evry one 2 l. 13 s. 4 d. Two Pages fee evry one 2 l. The Pantry Sergeants fee 11 l. 8 s. 1. ob Four Yeomen fee evry one 5 l. Four Grooms fee evry one 2 l. 13 s. 4 d. Two Pages fee evry one 2 l. Bread-bearer fee 1 l. 10 s. 4 d. The Boteller Yeoman fee 5 l. Groom fee 2 l. 13 s. 4 d. The Hall Servitors sixteen to four fee 3 l. 8 s. 4 d. To the rest 2 l. 13 s. 4 d. The Buttry Four Yeomen fee evry one 5 l. Four Grooms fee evry one 2 l. 13 s. 4 d. Two Pages fee each 2 l. The Cellar Sergeant fee 11 l. 8 s. 1 d. ob Seven Yeomen fee evry one 5 l. Groom fee 2 l. 13 s. 4 d. Two Pages fee each 2 l. The Ewry Sergeant fee 11 l. 8 s. 1 d. ob Three Yeomen fee evry one 5 l. Two Grooms fee each 2 l. 13 s. 4 d. Two Pages fee each 2 l. Three Clerks fee evry one 11 l. 8 s. 1 d. ob The Bake-house Sergeant fee 11 l. 8 s. 1 d. ob Seven Yeomen fee evry one 5 l. Two Grooms fee evry one 2 l. 13 s. 4 d. Four Conducts fee evry one per diem 4 d. The Kitchin Two Master-Cooks fee evry one 11 l. 8 s. 1 d. ob Six Yeomen fee evry one 5 l. Six Grooms fee evry one 2 l. 13 s. 4 d. Eight Children fee evry one 2 l. Galapines apparel for them of the Hall Kitchin and Privie Kitchin 50 l. Surveyor of the Dresser fee 22 l. 1 s. 3 d. To the Cooks at Easter in Larges 6 l. 13 s. 4 d. To the Scullery Larges 1 l. To the Pastry Larges 2 l. The Spicery Clerk fee 32 l. Yeoman fee 5 l. The Pitcher-House Two Yeomen fee evry one 5 l. Two Grooms fee evry one 2 l. 13 s. 4 d. Two Pages fee evry one 2 l. The Chaundlery Sargeant fee 11 l. 8 s. 1 d. ob Two Yeomen fee each 5 l. Two Grooms fee each 2 l. 13 s. 4 d. Two Pages fee evry one 2 l. The Larder Sergeant fee 11 l. 8 s. 1 d. ob Yeoman fee 5 l. Two Grooms fee evry one 2 l. 13 s. 4 d. Two Pages fee evry one 2 l. The Boyling House Two Yeomen fee evry one 5 l. Three Grooms fee evry one 2 l. 13 s. 4 d. Two Pages fee 2 l. Clerk fee 6 l. 13 s. 4 d. The Neatery Yeoman-Pourvoyer of Salt Fish fee 40 l. Yeoman-Pourvoyer of Fresh Fish fee 7 l. 13 s. 4 d. Seven Yeomen-Pourvoyers of Oxen Mutton Veal Lamb c. fee evry one 7 l. 13 s. 4 d. Four Grooms fee evry one 2 l. 13 s. 4 d. Yeomen of the Store-house fee 5 l. The Poultry Sargeant fee 11 l. 8 s. 1 d. ob Clerk fee 6 l. 13 s. 4 d. Four Yeomen-Pourvoyers fee evry one 7 l. 13 s. 4 d. The Scalding House Yeoman fee 5 l. Two Grooms fee each 2 l. 13 s. 4 d. Two Pages fee each 2 l. The Pastry Two Sergeants fee each 11 l. 8 s. 1 d. ob Clerk fee 6 l. 13 s. 4 d. Two Yeomen fee each 5 l. Four Grooms fee evry one 2 l. 13 s. 4 d. Four Children or Pages fee evry one 2 d. The Scullery Three Yeomen fee evry one 5 l. Two Grooms fee each 2 l. 13 s. 4 d. Two Pages fee each 2 l. Amners Gentleman-Amner fee 11 l. 8 s. 1 d. ob Sub-Amner fee 6 l. 16 s. 10 d. ob Four Yeomen fee evry one 5 l. Two Grooms fee each 2 l. 13 s. 4 d. Chappel Gentlemen of the Chappel fee apiece 11 l. 8 s. 1 d. ob Master of the Children his fee 40 l. To the Children at high-Feast-Largesses 9 l. 13 s. 4 d. Allowance for their Breakfasts 16 l. The Laundry Two Yeomen fee each 5 l. Two Grooms fee each 2 l. 13 s. 4 d. Two Pages fee each 2 l. One Woman-Laundress fee 10 l. The Wafry Clerk fee 6 l. 13
s. 4 d. Yeoman fee 5 l. Groom fee 2 l. 13 s. 4 d. The Wood-yard Sergeant fee 11 l. 8 s. 1 d. ob Four Yeomen fee evry one 5 l. Four Grooms fee evry one 2 l. 13 s. 4 d. Two Pages fee evry one 2 l. Two Wood-bearers Largess to them at Midsummer and to the Grooms of the Kings Hall 5 l. Six Porters and Scowrers Largess at Easter 5 l. Porters of the Kings Gates Three Yeomen fee evry one 5 l. Three Grooms fee evry one 2 l. 13 s. 4 d. Master of the Horse Besides thirty two Dishes per diem fee 100 l. In whose gift are the chief Avenor fee 40 l. Fourteen Escuyers fee evry one 20 l. Clerk of the Stable fee 16 l. 14 s. 7 d. Three Survayors fee evry one 16 l. 14 s. 7 d. Sergeant of the Carriages fee 22 l. 16 s. 3 d. Six Riders fee evry one 30 l. Sixteen Foot-men fee evry one 20 l. Eight Coach-men fee evry one 18 l. 5 s. Yeoman of the Stâ—…rrop fee 13 l. 13 s. Three Sadlers fee evry one 9 l. Six Litter-men fee evry one 10 l. Four Yeomen-Pourvoyers 12 l. 10 s. Three Yeomen-Granators 13 l. Yeomen of the Male fee 12 l. 13 s. 4 d. Sargeant-Ferrier fee 20 l. 15 s. 8 d. Three Yeomen-Ferriers fee 9 l. Yeoman-Bittmaker fee 6 l. 1 s. 8 d. Yeomen of the close Cart fee 12 l. 8 s. 1 d. ob Sixty four Grooms fee evry one 18 l. 5 s. The Tents Master fee 30 l. Controuler fee 12 l. 3 s. 4 d. Clerk fee 13 l. 6 s. 8 d. Keeper of the Tents fee 10 l. Yeoman his fee 9 l. 2 s. 6 d. Groom his fee 5 l. Revels Master fee 100 l. Yeoman fee 9 l. 2 s. 6 d. Four Masters of the Requests fee a piece 100 l. Hunting Master fee 18 l. 5 s. Sargeant fee 11 l. 8 s. 1 d. ob Officers and others serving under the Master Wages and Allowance for them 113 l. 6 s. 8 d. Harriers Master fee 18 l. 5 s. Officers and others subservient to the said Master Wages and Allowance for them 79 l. 1 s. 8 d. Otter-hounds Master fee 13 l. 6 s. 8 d. Buck-hounds Master 12 d. per diem for himself and to sundry Hunters serving at his appointment 50 l. Two Sargeants fee each 20 l. Two Yeomen-Prickers fee each 9 l. 2 s. 6 d. For meat for the Hounds to the Grooms 13 l. 6 s. 8 d. Musicians and Players Sargeant-Trumpeter fee 40 l. Sixteen Trumpeters fee evry one 24 l. 6 s. 8 d. Two Luters fee evry one 40 l. Two Harpers fee evry one 19 l. 5 s. Eight Singers fee evry one 6 l. 13 s. 4 d. Allowance to six Children for Singing 50 l. Rebeck fee 28 l. 6 s. 8 d. Nine Minstrels 151 l. 15 s. 4 d. Six Sackbutts fee evry one 24 l. 6 s. 8 d. Eight Viols fee evry one 20 l. Three Drumsteds fee evry one 18 l. 5 s. Two Players on the Flute fee a piece 18 l. 5 s. Two Players on the Virginals fee a piece 30 l. Seven Musician-strangers 183 l. 6 s. 8 d. Eight Players of Enterludes fee evry one 3 l. 6 s. 8 d. Two Makers of Instruments fees 30 l. Surgeons Two Surgeons fees between them 60 l. Two other fees to both 40 l. Two more fees between them 20 l. Three Physicians fees evry one 100 l. Three Apothecaries fee evry one 26 l. 13 s. 4 d. Astronomer fee 20 l. The Kings Barge Master fee 16 l. 8 s. 1 d. Twenty five Water-men for the Barge one 8 l. 1 s. 8 d. Another 6 l. 1 s. 8 d. The rest evry one 2 l. Artificers Stationer fee 26 l. 6 s. 8 d. Printer fee 4 l. Cutler fee 6 l. 1 s. 8 d. Weaver fee 9 l. 2 s. 6 d. Wheelwright fee 18 l. 5 s. Crossbow-maker fee 6 l. 1 s. 8 d. Coach-maker fee 10 l. Clock-maker fee â—…8 l. 5 s. Budget-maker fee 6 l. 1 s. 8 d. Feather-dresser fee 13 l. 6 s. 8 d. Lock-smith fee 2 l. 13 s. 4 d. Arrowhead-maker fee 6 l. 1 s. 8 d. Buckler-maker fee 3 l. 0 s. 8 d. Handgun-maker fee 24 l. 6 s. 8 d. Graver of Stones fee 20 l. Sargeant-Painter and others under him 100 l. Arbour-maker and Planters of Trees 25 l. 10 s. Stillers of Waters fee 40 l. Bowyer and Fletcher fee a piece 9 l. 2 s. 6 d. Clock-keeper fee 12 l. 13 s. 4 d. Keeper of the Libraries 13 l. 6 s. 8 d. The Kings Works Surveyor for himself one Clerk Boat-hire and Riding-charges 142 l. 19 s. 2 d. Controuler of the Works fee 18 l. One Clerk fee 9 l. 2 s. 6 d. Clerk of the Engrossment of the pay-book 18 l. 5 s. Pourvoyor fee with charge of a horse 18 l. 5 s. Paymaster fee 12 d. per diem 18 l. 5 s. Keeper of the Store-house fee 11 l. 8 s. 1 d. Clerk of the Check fee 10 d. per diem 15 l. 4 s. 2 d. Clerk of the Controulment 10 l. 12 s. 11 d. Carpenter fee per diem 12 d. 18 l. 5 s. Plummer fee per diem 12 d. 18 l. 5 s. Mason fee per diem 12 d. 18 l. 5 s. Joyner fee 19 l. 9 s. Glasier fee 36 l. 10 s. Survayor of the Mines fee 36 l. 10 s. Devisor of the Buildings fee 36 l. 10 s. Kings at Arms and Heralds Garter Principal King at Arms fee 40 l. Clarencieux King at Arms fee 30 l. Norroy King at Arms fee 20 l. Kings Heralds seven fee evry one 13 l. 6 s. 8 d. Poursuyvants at Arms four fee apiece 10 l. Sargeants at Arms twenty five fee evry one 18 l. 5 s. Standard-bearer fee 100 l. Banner-bearer fee 100 l The Admiralty Lord High Admiral of England fee 300 Marks Vice-Admiral fee 100 Marks Two Clerks fee of the one 18 l. 5 s. Two Clerks fee of the other 15 l. 1 s. 8 d. Boat-hire upon all occasions 10 l. Riding-charges during his travel per diem 10 s. Tresurer of the Navie fee 100 Marks Two Clerks fee 8 d. per diem 24 l. 6 s. 8 d. Riding-charges upon occasion per diem 6 s. 8 d. Master of the Ordnance fee 100 Marks Three Clerks fee among them per diem 3 s. 4 d. Boat-hire upon all occasions 8 l. Riding-charges per diem 6 s. 8 d. Controuler of the Navie fee 50 l. Two Clerks each per diem 8 d. Boat-hire 8 l. Riding-costs per diem 4 s. Survayor fee 40 l Two Clerks each per diem 8 l. Riding-coâ—…ts per diem 4 s. Boat-hire upon all occasions 8 l. Clerk of the Ships fee 33 l. 6 s. 8 d. Boat-hire upon all occasions 6 l. Riding-costs per diem 3 s. 4 d. Clerk of the Store-house at Deptford fee 33 l. 13 s. 4 d. One Clerk subservient 6 l. Pilot fee 20 l. Victualler of the Navie fee 58 l. One Clerk per diem 8 d. Riding-costs per diem 5 s. The Ordnance Master
of the Ordnance fee 151 l. 11 s. 8 d. Two Clerks one per diem 10 d. Two Clerks the other 8 d. Surveyor fee 36 l. 10 s. One Clerk per diem 8 d. Riding-costs per diem 6 s. Lieutenant of the Ordnance fee 100 Marks One Clerk per diem 8 d. Boat-hire upon all occasions 8 l. Riding-costs 0 s. 0 d. Keeper of the great Store fee 40 l. Clerk per diem 8 d. Riding-costs 0 s. 0 d. Keeper of the small Store fee 40 Marks Riding-costs 0 s. 0 d. Clerk of the Deliveries fee 20 l. Master-Gunner of England fee per diem 2 s. 6 d. 〈◊〉 maker fee per diem 12 d. 18 l. 5 s. Saltpeâ—…er-maker fee 18 l. 5 s. Two Gun-founders 33 l. 9 s. 2 d. Gun-smith fee 6 d. per diem 9 l. 2 s. 6 d. Engin-Artificer fee per diem 4 d. 6 l. 1 s. 8 d. Master-Carpenter fee per diem 8 d. 12 l. 3 s. 4 d. Ordinary Gunners or Cannoneers one hundred and nine fee 1161 l. 18 s. 4 d. Yeoman of the Ordnance fee per diem 9 d. 13 l. 14 s. 1 d. The Tower of London Constables fee 100 l Lieutenants fee 200 l. Porters fee 9 l. 2 s. 6 d. Yeomen-Waiters or Warders fee 9 l. 2 s. 6 d. Allowance for Fuel 6 l. 13 s. 4 d. Keeper of the Lions c. fee 36 l. 14 s. 6 d. Carpenter fee 12 l. 3 s. 4 d. Keeper of the Wardrobe fee 12 l. 13 s. 4 d The Armary Master of the Armary fee 31 l. 18 s. 9 d. Armarers under the Master twenty one at 36 l. Five evry one at 20 l. Three evry one at 15 l. The rest evry one at 9 l. 2 s. 6 d. The Mint Master or Tresurer of the Mint fee 100 l. Controuler of the Mint fee 100 Marks Assay-master fee 100 Marks Clerk of the Mint fee 10 l. Auditor of the Mint fee 44 l. 6 s. 8 d. Allowance for Paper 〈◊〉 and other necessaries 10 l. Teller of the Money fee 33 l. 6 s. 8 d. Survayor of the Melting-house fee 26 l. 13 s. 4 d. Clerk of the Irons fee 13 l. 6 s. 8 d. Chief Graver fee 30 l. Chief Finer fee 10 l. Sinker of Irons fee 10 l. Three Melters fee evry one 13 l. 6 s. 8 d. Two Branchers fee evry one 13 l. 6 s. 8 d. Pourvoyer fee 10 l. Pot-maker fee 10 l. Porter fee 10 l. Diet to all these Officers by the week 1 l. 10 s. The high Court of Chancery Lord Chancellor or Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of England fee per diem 23 s. 419 l. For his attendance in the Star-chamber 200 l. More by name of Annuity 300 l. Robes out of the Wardrobe 40 l. Wine out of the Butlery twelve Tuns 72 l. Wax out of the Wardrobe 17 l. Sum. allocat per an 1048 l. Master of the Rolls fee 34 l. 15 s. 8 d. Livery out of the Hamper 28 l. 8 s. 4 d. Masters of the Chancery fee apiece 6 l. 13 s. 4 d. Clerk of the Crown fee 20 l. Livery for Summer and Winter 26 l. 13 s. 4 d. Protonotary fee 33 l. 13 s. 4 d. Clerk of the Hamper fee 43 l. 13 s. 4 d. Annuity 40 l. Livery for himself and his Clerk 6 l. 13 s. 4 d. Controuler of the Hamper fee 10 l. Enrollers of Evidences fee 20 l. Seal fee 6 l. 16 s. 10 l. Livery â—…0 s. Sargeant at Arms fee 18 l. 5 s. Cryer Fee and Livery 7 l. 16 s. 10 d. Chafer of Wax 7 l. 6 s. 7 d. Necessary charges of Wax Parchment Paper Riding Coats and other yearly Expences 220 l. The Privie Seal Lord Keeper of the Privie Seal fee per diem 1 l. Allowd for his Table at Court 345 l. Clerks of the Privie Seal fee apiece 50 l. Four Masters of the Requests fee apiece 100 l. The Kings Bench. Lord Chief Justice of the Kings Bench who holds his place onely by a short Writ not by Patent as others do for his Fee Reward and Robes 208 l. 6 s. 8 d. Wine two Tuns 10 l. Allowance for Justice of Assize 20 l. To three Justices assistants Fee Reward and Robes apiece 128 l. 6 s. 8 d. Allowance to evry one as Justice of Assize 20 l. Clerk of the Crown fee 10 l. Livery out of the Wardrobe 6 l. 13 s. 4 d. Protonotary fee 26 l. 13 s. 4 d. Keeper of the Writs and Rolls fee 8 l. Cryer fee 6 l. 13 s. 4 d. The Common Pleas. Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas Fee Reward and Robes 141 l. 13 s. 4 d. Wine out of the Butlery two Tuns 8l Allowance for keeping the Assize of the Augmentation-Court 12l 10s Allowance for Justice of Assize 20l. Three coadjutant Justices Fee Reward and Robes to evry one 128l 6s 8d Allowance for being Justices of Assize 20l. Attorney-General fee 61l Allowance for being Justice of Assize 20l. Sollicitor-General fee 50l Keeper of the Writs and Rolls fee 4l Four Sargeants at Law to each Fee Rewards and Robes 26l 6s 8d Allowance as Justice of Assize 20l. Allowance for keeping the Assizes of the Court of Augmentations 12l 6s 8d Cryer fee 5l Chief Officers of the Kings Revenues and of the Exchequer The Lord High Tresurer of England fee 368l Robes out of the Wardrobe 15l 7s 8d Wine so many Tuns Impost free 0l 0s 0d Allowance for Diet 0l 0s 0d Chancellor of the Exchequer fee 113l 6s 8d Livery out of the Wardrobe 12l 17s 4d Tuns of Wine Impost free 0l 0s 0d Officers of the Exchequer-Court Lord Chief Baron fee 100l Livery out of the Wardrobe 12l 17s 4d Allowance for being Justice of Assize 20l. Tuns of Wine Impost free 0l 0s 0d The Barons of the Exchequer to each fee 46l 13s 4d Livery out of the Wardrobe 12l 17s 4d Allowance for being Justices of Assize 20l. Other Officers of the Exchequer The Kings Remembrancer fee 55l 17s 4d Livery out of the Wardrobe 4l 12s 4d The Lord Tresurers Remembrancer fee 46l 2s 1d Livery out of the Wardrobe 2l 13s 4d Clerk of the Pipe fee 65l 4s 2d Livery c. 2l 13s 4d Under-Tresurer of the Exchequer fee 73l 6s 8d Livery c. 4l 6s 8d Seven Auditors fee evry one 10l Forren Opposers fee 16l 13s 4d Clerk of the Extreats fee 15l Clerk of the Pleas fee 5l Clerk of the Summons fee 4l Two Marshals fee apiece 4l Two Deputy-Chamberlains fees apiece 2l 10s Two Secondaries in the Kings Remembrancers Office fee evry one 8l Two Secondaries in the Pipe-Office fee 5l Four Secondaries in the Tresurers Remembrancers Office fee evry one 4l Clerks of the Tallies fee evry one 17l 10s Clerk of the Pell fee 17l 10s Four Tellers fee evry one 13l 13s 4d Clerk in the Pipe-Office for offring Amercements fee 9l 13s 4d Clerk in the Office of the Kings Remembrancer fee for writing the Fines Issues and Amercements due to the King evry year 15l 6s 8d Clerk in
the Office of the Tresurers Remembrancer fee for offering the Amercements 6l Clerk in the Office of the Pleas fee 3l The four Ushers of the Court of Exchequer for their fees in delivery of Processes and for Paper Wax and other necessaries by them provided and bought for the Officers of the Court amongst them 140l Four Porters Livery to evry one 4s Two Joyners for Tallies fees apiece 10l Two Deputy-Chamberlains to write the controulment of the Pell fees apiece 6l One Clerk to write the Tallies of Controulment fee 9l One Porter of the Baggs and Keeper of the Tresure-House-Keys fee 6l 6s 8d Four Messengers fee per diem 4d ob The Grooms of the Receits fee by Rewards and Allowances 2l To the Tresurers and Chamberlains Officers allowd for Parchment 6l Three Ushers of the Receits Fees for Diet Wax Paper Parchment c. 60l The Court of First-fruits and Tenths Chancellor fee 200 Marks Diet-money 100l Hire for a house for himself and for the Records 9l Tresurer fee 20l. Diet-money 10l House-rent 10l A Deputy 4l A Clerk 6l 13s 4d Attorney fee 26l 13s 4d Auditor fee 20l. Diet-money 51l 10s One Clerk 6l 3s 4d Other Allowances and Expences Clerk of the Court fee 40l Keeper of the Records fee 20l. Messenger fee 2l 10s 7d Allowance 13l 6s 8d Usher fee 2l 10s 7d Allowance 3l 6s 8d The Dutchy of Lancaster Chancellor and Allowance with 4l for Paper Ink and Parchment 142l 16s Survayor Fee and Allowance 66l 13s 4d Attorney Fee and Allowance 38l 10s 4d Clerk of the Court Fee and Allowance 27l 10s 4d Messenger Fee besides Riding costs 10l Assistants in the said Court One Attorney for the Dutchy in the Exchequer fee 100l Attorney likewise in the Chancery fee 20l. To the Usher of the Receits in the Exchequer fee 20l. Four learned men in the Law retained for Counsel for the said Dutchy fee evry one 7l 6s 8d Besides Auditors Receivers c. The Presidential Court in Wales or the Council of the Marches Lord President Diet for himself and Council per an 1040l Divers Counsellors to some 100 Marks To others 50l To others 40l Secretary his fee 13l 6s 8d Atturney fee 13l 6s 8d Sollicitor fee 10l Surveyor fee 6l 13s 4d Touching the Presidential Court in the North where ther was usd to be also a Lord President four of the Learned Counsel a Secretary and other Officers the King saves nere upon 2000l per an The like sum or therabouts is savd by the Court of Wards though the loss which the Crown of England hath receavd therby in point of honour by Tenures in Capite and Royal Pourvoyances c. be invaluable which makes our next Forren Neighbours in a kinde of jeer and the best of their wit lies in jeering to say that all the Noblemen and Gentry of England since Tenure in Capite was taken away are become little better then Roturiers then Yeomen that hold in Soccage The former Catalog of Court-Officers was delivered to King Iames at his first coming in And ther may be some alterations since Now ther is a mighty number of other Officers belonging to the Crown as Auditors Receavors Surveyors Escheators Customers Governors and Constables of Castles Keepers of Forts Points and Bulwarks Rangers of Forests Keepers of Chaces Parks and Woods c. which wold make a Volume of it self and is not so proper to the designe of this subject which aims principally at the Menial and domestick servants attending at Court though we have bin transported as we went along to other Offices Out of the premises this result may be drawn that besides the unparallelld plenty fatness and hospitality of the English Court in point of provision and munition de Bouche as the Frenchman calls it Ther is no Court in Christendom servd with more punctual attendance and state wheras if you cross ore the Chanel and take a view of the next transmarin Court one shall see common Laquays Scullions and greasie Galopins bring meat to the very rayls of the Kings Table And touching the Spanish Court t is so pitifully thin at dinner and supper-time that one wold think he were in some Monastery of Capuchins But go to either of their Kitchins one may break his neck as soon as break his Fast. While I was writing this a plesant Repartie came into my memory that happend twixt that worthy and warlike British Knight Sir Roger Williams who being General of an English Army in France Henry the Great confessd to be a better Soldier then himself Sir Roger being at an Ordinary in Antwerp where among others ther was a Spanish Alferez who began to speak much of the dainty Fruits and Salades of his Country Sir Roger let him go on a good while and at last answered bluntly 'T is tru Sir we have not such Lemons Orenges and Pomegranats which you have in Spain but we have in England good Chines of Beef and Sirloyns of Veal c. We have the meat and you have but sauce for our meat I will close up this Paragraph with this humble Advertisement That it highly concerns the common interest of the English Nation to introduce again and revive the most ancient and legal usage of his Majesties just rights of Preemption and Pourvoyance or compositions for them Otherwise it is impossible for him to keep a Court any thing sutable to a King of Great Britain The Eighth Paragraph Touching the diversity of Nations and diffring Original Mother-Tongs with other Dialects that are under the Dominions of the King of Great Britain As also Of the variety of Royal Recreations number of Palaces Forests Chaces and Parks which belong to the Crown c. THe greatest Antiquaries and Linguists that treat of Tongs and of their Originals do affirm that ther are eleven Maternal Tongs throughout all Europe which are 1. the Greek 2. the Latin 3. the High-Dutch Teutonick or German 4. the Slavonian which hath two Characters both a Greek and Dalmatian character which come neer the shape of the Latin Then ther is 5. the British or Welsh Toung 6. Irish 7. The Bascuence or Cantabrian which is the reliques of the old Spanish or Iberian toung 8. the Albanian of a peeple who inhabit about the mountains of Epirus 9. the Hungarian which came into Europe out of Asia with the Huns 10. Is that of Finland neer to which is that of Lapland in the North of Sweden 11. Is that of the Cosacks and Tartars Of all these the Slavonian is of largest extent for it is observed that three and twenty several Nations speak it Now The French King hath not one Mother and pure indeâ—… Toung spoken in all his Dominions they are but dialects Languages or Speeches derivd from other Toungs The purest French which is spoken at Court and upon the river of Loire is but a dialect of the Roman or Latin Toung so is the Walloon the Provensal the Gascoon the Limosin and others That of Bearn is but
The Law presupposeth that he sits not only at the Kings Bench but in other Courts of Judicature for the Writs go Teste meipso And because the Law sayth that the King must govern in Mercie and Justice the sole power of Pardoning is in Him Moreover the power of Coinage is only in the King with the enhancing or decrying the price of money He is the sole Gran Master of the Mint wheras in France others partake with the King in this high Prerogative Nor doth any Kings Face shine in purer Metal for it shines onely in pure Gold and Silver and that of the finest Standard Mixture and Allay of any in Europe wheras I have seen and felt the face of the French King in Copper and Brass with other mixt mongrel stuff As also of the King of Spain's though he terms himself the Monark of Gold and Silver Mines yet the common currant Coyn twixt Merchant and Mechanick is Copper wherin the Hollander by his cunning hath done him a world of mischief from time to time by counterfaiting that Copper Coyn and â—…oysting it in by divers artifices as in a ship laden with Lead and Tin ther wold be somtimes divers Sows of Lead hollowed and crammd with quartils as also in hollowed Masts with other inventions Insomuch that one time when all the Vellon or Copper Coin was calld in and a scrutiny made how much had bin coynd ther were many millions more found to be brought in and counterfaited then had bin stampd in the Kings Mint By the Common Law of the Land the King of Great Britain hath three Royal Ensignes which cannot belong to any other He hath the Crown the Scepter and the Polemical Sword as I have mentiond in another Treatise and is proper to touch here By the first He reigns by the second he makes Laws by the third viz. the Sword He protects them Concerning the Crown or Royal Diadem the Laws of England assert that it descends upon his head by a right Hereditary line though through dâ—…vers ancient Royal Races wherof some were Conquerors The Crown is His as much as any mans Cap 's his own And ther is no Crown stuck with fairer Flowers I mean Royal Prerogatives wherof divers were spoken of before Concerning the Scepter it may be calld an Individual Copartner or a Royal Appendix to the Crown It doth capacitate the King to Enact Laws for before his Assent all the Results and Determinations of Parlement are but Bills they may be said to be but abortive things and meer Embryos nay they have no life at all in them till the King by his breath infuseth vigour and animation into them and the ancient Custom was for the King to touch them with the Scepter then they are Laws and have a virtue in them to impose an universal obligation upon all sorts of peeple Now it is an undeniable Principle of the Law of England That nothing can be generally binding without the Kings Royal Assent nor doth the Law take notice of any thing without it This makes Them to be calld afterwards the Kings Laws and the Judges are said to deliver the Kings Iudgments nay he himself is always Lord Chief Justice of England which Title is not assumable by any Subject Now before an English Law is made ther is mature and mighty long deliberation goes before for first the business is agitated and canvasd many days in the House of Commons which represents all the peeple of England till it comes to the ripeness of a Bill The Bill being drawn is read thrice in the House and having passd the brunt of all Exception t is engrossd and transmitted to the Lords and there also t is read thrice and debated with much deliberation Then by concurrence of both Houses t is presented to the King who consults with his Learned Counsel whether ther be any thing therin derogatory to his Prerogatives if not He gives his Royal Assent and then t is created a Law and generally binding Touching the power of the Sword it is more proper to treat of it in the next Paragraph Moreover the Lex Terrae the Common Law of England makes the King the Fountain of Honour nay without any disparagement or offence be it spoken He can confer Honor upon other Kings and Souverain Princes as he is Souverain of the Order of Saint George wherof ther have bin eight Emperors five Kings of the French four of Spain seven of Portugal two of the Scots four of Denmark three of Naples one of Poland and another of Sweden two Dukes of Urbine one of Millain one of Ferrara one of Savoy one of Calabria one of Holland one of Gueldres four Princes of Orenge seven Counts Palatin of the Rhin two Dukes of Brunswick two of Holstain one of Brandenburgh and one Duke of Wittenberg with divers other Forren Princes Now among all Orders purely Military ther is not any now remaining in the Christian world either more ancient or honorable then the Noble Order of Saint George wherof the Garter is a Symbole therfore are they calld Equites periscelidis Knights of the most Noble Order of the Garter which Order was first instituted by that Victorious King Edward the third who was offerd to be Emperour Anno 1350. which was threescore yeers wanting one before the Institution of the French Order of S. Michael by Lewis the eleventh and 229 yeers before the Order of St. Esprit by Henry the third and full fourscore yeers before the erection of the Order of the Golden Fleece by Philip Duke of Burgundy It is also 209 more ancient then the Order of the Knights of the Elephant which was devisd by the Kings of Denmark and much more then that of Amaranta excogitated by Sweden c. Now observable it is that among all these Orders l'ordre del toison d'or the Order of the Golden Fleece related to the English Wools which were transported to Flanders by our Merchants wherby all the Provinces adjoyning did so infinitly enrich themselfs And this Order of the Golden Fleece as it is one of the highest Esteem so it hath most affinity with our Order of St. George in point of Regulation as also that ther are so few of it For our Order is accounted far the Nobler because it hath constantly kept it self to the same number of Knights viz. 26. since the primitive Institution wheras the French Orders have multiplied so fast in number of Knights that one said the Order of the French Knighthoods are now become Collers for every Ass to wear about his neck And as this high Order of St. George hath the precedence of all other now worn by any King in point of Antiquity so the ground and designe of it was very Noble For when the first Idea of erecting a new Order of Knighthood entred into the head of the foresaid Heroick King Edward the third his thoughts reflected upon King Arthur who indeed was the first founder of Knighthood not only
the City wheras in London ther are four Royal Seats with two Parks annex'd to them I hope the Bastille will not offer to compare with the Tower of London nor the River of Seine with the Thames much less I believe will Paris offer to make any comparison with London in point of Traffick and Societies of Noble adventuring Merchants who trade on both sides of the earth as far as the Antipodes And divers Kings have been of their Corporations Nor will the Provost of Paris I think offer to compare with the Lord Mayor of London being the prime Man in England upon the decease of the King until another be proclaimed The City of London hath divers other advantages not only of Paris but of any other City of Europe take them all together which for a more methodical proceeding we will particularize as they are found in my Londinopolis which being so proper to this Paragraph I thought fit to insert here and being well considered it will be found that London need not vail to any City under the Sun 1. For conveniency of Situation and salubrity of Air. 2. For strictness of Government both Nocturnal and Diurnal 3. For the Magnificence of the Chief Magistrates 4. For Regulation of all Trades Domestik and Forren 5. For variety of Professions and Artisans 6. For a greater number of Corporations and Halls 7. For plenty of all provisions that Air Earth or Water can afford 8. For Springs Aqueducts and other conveyances of fresh wholsome Waters 9. For Universality of Trade and Bravery of the Adventurers 10. For solidity and richness of Native Commodities 11. For Artillery Ammunition Docks and a number of Military and stout well-arm'd Citizens 12. For an ancient and glorious large Temple 13. For an admirable mighty great Bridge 14. For a noble and straight Navigable River 15. For a cheerful and wholesome green circumjacent Soyle 16. For Hospitality and Festival publik Meetings of Corporations and other Societies to increase love and good intelligence between Neighbours 17. For all sorts of Boats by Water and number of Coaches by Land for the accommodation of Passengers 18. For sundry kinds of Reliefs for the Poor and Lame 19. For various kinds of honest corporal Recreations and Pastimes 20. For the number of Humane Souls T is confessd that many of these conveniences may be found in other Cities which taken singly may exceed London in some but take them all together she may vie with the best of them and run no great hazard Concerning the first advantage which is convenience of situation and salubrity of Air the wisdome of the old Britains our Ancestors is to be much commended for the election of the place in point of the benignity of the Hevens with the temperature and influences therof wherin London is as happy as any other City under the Skies Some hold that that City is best situated which resembleth a Camels back who hath by nature protuberancies and bunches so a City shold be seated upon small Hillocks or rising Grounds It is just the posture of London for she is built upon the sides flanks and tops of divers small Hillocks lying neer the banks of a great Navigable River being incompassd about with delightful green Medows and Fields on all sides She is at so fitting a distance from the Sea that no Forren Invasion can surprize her but she must have notice therof The quality of her soyle is Gravel and Sand which is held to be the wholsomst for habitation and conduceth much to the goodness of the Air though it useth to be barren but that barrenness is remedied by Art and Composts insomuch that round about the City within the distance of a mile or two one may behold two or three thousand milchd Cows a grazing evry day of the week besides number of other Beasts Touching the second advantage which is a strict and constant cours of Government ther 's no place goes beyond Her or indeed can equal Her take night and day together And wheras in Paris one dare not pass the Pont-Neuf with any place els after Ten a clock at night without danger one may pass through London-streets as safely as in the day time ther being Constables and their Watch up and down to secure Passengers yet they must give good account of their being abroad so late ther being strict Laws against Noctivagation Touching the Magnificence Gravity and State of the chief Magistrate neither the Pretor of Rome nor Prefect of Milan neither the Procurators of St. Mark in Venice or their Podesta's in other Cities neither the Provost of Paris or the Mark-grave of Antwerp or any other Oppidan Magistrate goes beyond the Lord-Mayor and Sheriffs of London if one go to the variety of their Robes somtimes Scarlet richly surrd somtimes Purple somtimes Violet and Puke What gallant Shows are therby Water and Land the day that the new Lord-Mayor is sworn What a huge Feast and Banquet is provided for him Touching the Regulation of all sorts of Trade and Laws for the improvement therof the City of London hath not her fellow Touching variety of Artisans London abounds with all sorts T is tru that mingling with Forreners hath much advantagd her herin But those strangers themselfs confess that the English having got an Invention use to improve it and bring it to a greater perfection Touching Corporations Halls Fraternities Guilds and Societies London hath not any Superiour witness the twelve great Companies out of which one is elected yeerly to be Lord Mayor with threescore several Companies of Citizens besides And touching all sorts of Opificers and variety of industrious ways to improve all kinde of Manufactures and therby gain an honest livelyhood and proportion of Riches London may be calld as Luca is in Italy a Hive of Bees or a Hill of Ants which have always been accounted the Emblemes of Industry and Providence Touching abundance and plenty of all kind of Provisions as Flesh Fish Fowl Fruits Fuel variety of Drinks and Wines with any other Commodity that may conduce to Plesure and Delight as well as to supply Necessity London may glory to be as well servd as any City under Heven A knowing Spaniard said that he thought Eastcheap-shambles alone vended more Flesh then is spent one week with another in all the Court of Spain Gascon Wines drink better in London then at Bourdeaux Canary Wines better then at Lancerote Rhenish Wines better then at Backrag Nor doth London abound with all things for the Belly alone but also for the Back either to keep it warm or make it gay What varieties of Woollen Stuffs are found in evry Shop What rich Broad-Clothes some being wrought to that height of perfection that some have been made of Ten pounds a Yard in price But our unlucky English-Schismatiques pretending to flee for persecution of conscience have set up their Looms and shewd the Hollanders the way to the great detriment of their own Country Concerning wholsome sweet Springs
Husband Maids and Unmarried Women took up some their Brothers some their Kinred and so all marchd out so Caesar pardond all I will conclude with a late example of Madame Sardaus who went so often privatly twixt Bruxels and the Hague until the peace was concluded twixt Spain and Holland after fourscore yeers Wars by Sea and Land Therfore she was calld La Maquarelle de la Paix which was no disgrace to her The seventh Paragraph Touching the Office Function and Duty of an Ambassador in the execution of his Place and acquitting himself of the great Fiduciary Trust reposd in Him c. THe Civilians who are best versd in the Laws of Embassies say Legatio est mysteriosum quid that it is a mysterious thing It is full of secrecie and darkness as it is of Faith and Trust. The Lord high Chancellor of England who is Keeper of the Kings Conscience as well as of the Great Seal hath a great trust reposd in him for to mitigat the rigor of the Laws by way of Equity The Lord Chief Justice of the Kings Bench he of the Common Pleas and the Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer have great trusts reposd in them but all these deal twixt Subject and Subject and sometimes twixt King and Subject But Ambassadors have a higher trust for they deal twixt Kings and Kings twixt Countries and Countries therfore as the burden is heavier so the honor is the greater ther is no secrecie belongs to the other Offices but reservedness and secrecie is the soul of Embassy which made one say If his Cap knew his privat Instructions he wold hurle it into the fire and burn it And as ther is honor in this high employment so ther is much honor attends it which made one say That that Ambassador who loseth one hair of his Masters honor forfeits his head at his return One of the principal Duties of an Ambassador is to stick close to his Instructions and the Mandats of his Master and therin an Ambassador Lidger doth not run so much hazard as an Extraordinary who hath many things commonly left to discretion by way of implicit trust Besoldus defines the Office of an Ambassador thus Ut Mandatum fideliter cum dexteritate exequatur acceptum responsum diligentissime notatum referat Mittenti That with faithfulness and dexterity he execut the Command and report to him who sent him the Answer most diligently noted Ther is a shorter definition Officium Legati est ut Mandata Legationis diligenter conficiat ex Fâ—…de That he perform carefully the Command of the Embassy and with Faith He derives all his Power from his Instructions for without them ther is no Mission or Embassy Ther is an Example of the Athenians that having employd Ambassadors with divers Iustructions wherof one was that they shold take such a way as they went they going another way though they had performd all the rest of the Instructions yet they were put to death at their return for infringing this one Ther are divers instances how Ambassadors exceeding their Commissions and falling into follies have bin punishd upon the place Hector Boetius relates that Olaus and Evetus killd the Scots Ambassadors Teaca Queen of Sclavonia killd a Roman Ambassador as Polybius mentions The Athenians causd Darius Ambassadors to be thrown into a Well Dandolo the Venetian Ambassador had his eyes pluckd out by the King of Sicily But let us descend to latter Ages Francis the first of France sent Fregosa and Rinion Ambassadors to the Turk Charles 5. soldiers discoverd surprizd and flew them in Italy The fact was justified by the Emperour because they were both his subjects the one being a Milanois the other of Genoa and servd his Enemy for ther were Wars then twixt Charles and Francis Edward the second of England employd a French Gentleman Ambassador to France who had bin executed for a Traytor for serving the Enemy had not the Queen interceded Anno 1302. the Pope sent an Ambassador to France where he practisd some Treson and being arraigned convicted and condemned to die the Popes Frends procurd that he shold be banishd only The Venetian drew out of the French Ambassadors House some who bad discoverd their secrets to the Turk where resistance being made Cannons were sent for from the Arsenal and so they were taken out by force and the French King not offended The Ambassadors in these latter examples by their own indiscretion and misdemenures drew these violences upon themselfs We will concude this point with a latter example in England 1624. at which time ther were two Spanish Ambassadors residing in London who were the Marquiss of Inojosa and Don Carlos Coloma and the Prince of Wales being newly returnd from Madrid Re infectâ without the Infanta matters began to gather ill bloud twixt England and Spain in regard that the Treties both of Match and Palatinat were dissolvd by Act of Parlement which was done by means of the Duke of Buckingham The said Ambassadors finding that they contrivd a way how to supplant and destroy the Duke Herupon falling into consideration that King Iames was grown old and that the least thing might make impressions of distrust and jealousies in him therfore in a privat audience they did intimat unto him that ther was a very dangerous designe against his Royal Authority traced by the Duke of Buckingham and his Complices which was that at the beginning of that Parlement the said Duke with certain Lords and others consulted of the argument means which were to be taken for the breaking and dissolving of the Treties both of the Spanish Match and for the restitution of the Palatinat and if his Majesty wold not conform therunto their consultations passd so far that he shold have a house of plesure where he might retire himself to his sports in regard that the Prince had now yeers sufficient and parts answerable for the Government of the Kingdome The King for the present dismissd them with thanks But the next day he made earnest instances that as they had discoverd a Conspiracie they wold also detect the Conspirators this being the only means wherby their own honor might be preservd in proving the truth of things To this they replyed That they had reveald enough already in order to the care and zeal they had to his Royal Person and Dignity Therupon the King commanded that the Duke of Buckingham shold be put to his Oath with others who were most suspectful which they all took for cleering their integrity This being done the King returnd to make new instances to the said Ambassadors that they wold not prefer the discovery of the names of the Conspirators to the security of his Person as also to the truth and honor of themselfs and to the hazard of an opinion to be held the Authors and Betrayers of a Plot of so much malice sedition and danger but they wold discover no more Yet a few days
whom I refer the Reader We will conclude this Paragraph with some further inspections into the Laws of England concerning Ambassadors In the 13 of Queen Elizabeth it was gravely debated in the Bishop of Rosse his case who was Ambassador here for Scotland An Legatus qui Rebellionem contra Principem ad quem Legatus concitat Legati privilegi is gaudeat an ut hostis poenis subjaceat Whether an Ambassador who raiseth Rebellion against the Prince to whom he is sent is to enjoy the privileges of an Ambassador or whether he is to lie under a punishment as an Enemy It was resolved by all the Judges of the Land that he had lost the privileges of an Ambassador and was punishable by the Law of the Land Herupon Mendoza the Spanish Amdassador was commanded away because he fomented a Rebellion c. Moreover as my Lord Coke hath it and therin he agreeth with the Civilians If an Ambassador committeth a delect contra Ius Gentium as Treason Felony Adultery c. he loseth the privilege of an Ambassador and may be punished in England as any privat Alien and not to be remanded but upon courtesie But committing any thing against the privat Municipal Law and Customes of England which is not Malum in se Iure gentium He is not punishable The breaking of Truces and Safe-conducts was once High Treason by the Laws of England but that was mitigated 2 Hen. 5. Furthermore my Lord Coke holds in his fourth Institut That if one be namd but Agent in his Credentials from a King yet he is an Ambassador The ninth Paragraph Concerning the wise Compliances and Witty facetious Sayings and Carriage of divers Ambassadors during the time of their Negotiation c. AS it is a principal quality in an Ambassador to be serious abstruse and reservd in the discharge of his Function so it is a mighty advantage for him to be Witty as well as Wise to be facetious and play the Drol sometimes for the Italian says Non è saggio chi non sà esser pazzo He is not wise who knows not how to play the Fool sometimes Apt pleasant and sudden Reparties discover a great deal of wit An Ambassador being sent to the King of Morocco whose Law we know is not to eat Swines Flesh be brought him Letters wherin all his Titles were not given him The King said Sus has Literas peperit A Sow begat these Letters The Ambassador suddenly answerd Ne iis Vescaris It was done that you shold not eat them The Town of Agrigentum as Herodotus reports having sent Gellias a very hard-favord man Ambassador to Centuripe a low dirty Town in Sicily and being jeerd and stard upon at his audience he answerd Ne Miremini Centuripini ut Urbes sunt ita Cives mei Legatos mittunt pulchros ad pulchras deformes ad deformes Do not wonder O you of Centuripe at me for my Masters of Agrigentum send their Ambassadors as the Cities are Faiâ—… to Faiâ—… Foul to Foul. Don Pedro de Toledo being employd Ambassador to Henry the 4. of France ther were many traverses between them at one privat audience and Don Pedro magnifying much the power of the Spanish Monarchy King Henry said That it was much like the Statue of Nebuchadnezzar composd of divers peeces but having Feet of clay Don Pedro then replying somewhat high the King rejoynd that if he were provokd he wold carry flames even to the Escurial and if that he once mounted he wold be soon in Madrid Don Pedro answerd Indeed King Francis was there meaning Francis the first who was taken at the Battail of Pavia and remaind Prisoner in Madrid divers yeers The King going on further to tax the King of Spain for usurping divers Countries of his and namely the Kingdome of Navarre which he might live to recover Don Pedro answerd That the Iustice wherby the King his Master held Navarre wold help him to defend it The King replyd Your reason is good till I be in Pampelona Don Pedro therupon rising hastily and going towards the door The King askd whither went he so hastily He answerd To provide entertainment for your Majesty at Pampelona A French Ambassador Monsieur de Tilliers as I take it residing here and being invited one day to Dine with King Iames the King being well disposd began a Health to him saying The King of France drinks the French Kings Health The Ambassador answerd as pleasantly Le Roy mon Maitre est bon Lieutenant Il tient bien la France de Luy The King my Master is a good Lieutenant he holds France well from him But of any that I have heard or read of Don Diego de Acunia Count of Gondamar had an extraordinary faculty this way and besides he had well studied the Genius of King Iames in whose Raign he resided here how he was pleasd with sudden plesant Reparties therfore he did Seria jocose he did dispatch serious things in a merry way When Sir Walter Rawleigh was gone with a Fleet to Guiana and when news was broght that he had taken San Toma plunderd the place and killd the Governor which was as some say beyond the bounds of his Commission wherin he was restraind from doing any Acts of hostility upon the firm Land Gondamar came early one morning to the King desiring to speak but only one word to his Majesty being admitted he cryed out Pyratas Pyratas Pyratas intimating that Sir Walter Rawleigh was turnd Pyrat but that word was so fatal that it took off Sir Walters head though upon an old score Another time having discoursd of many things with the King in a privat audience in French the King askd him whether he understood Latin or no Yes Sir said Gondomar I understand it and speak it Discoursing afterwards in Latin of divers things in a free and facetions way it happend that Gondamar spoke false Latin once or twice the King smiling said How comes it to pass that you being an Ambassador to so great a King who shold be exact in all things how comes it that you break Priscians head so often Gondamar replyed Sir I speak Latin like a King and your Majesty speaks Latin like an Ambassador Count Gondamar having bin outragd by the Rabble in London who threw Tobacco-pipes into his Litter and did him other affronts coming after to have a privat audience and the King taking notice of it he said La Harina de Ingalatierra es muy delgada y fina pero el afrecho es muy grossero Sir the Flowre of England meaning the Gentry is very fine but the Bran is very coorse meaning the common peeple Another time being to dispatch a Courrier to Spain and the old Countess of Buckingham being then in extraordinary high favor that most Suters made their address unto her he writ in a Postscript to Count Olivares That ther were never greater hopes then now that England wold turn Roman Catholik for the Mother was more worshippd
a place of surety here Wherunto he answerd That he held himself to be in a place of surety whersoever he had his sword by him Luynes little resenting the affront he had receavd from Sir Edward Herbert got Cadenet his Brother Duke of Chaune with a ruffling Train of Field-Officers neer upon a hundred wherof ther was not one as Cadenet told King Iames but had killd his man I say this Man came Ambassador Extraordinary to England a little after who mis-reporting the Traverses twixt Herbert and Luynes prevailed so far that Sir Edward Herbert was presently revokd to answer the Charge that shold be laid against him In the mean time the Earl of Carlile was employd Ambassador Extraordinary to France for accommodating Le Mal Entendu which might arise betwixt the two Crowns Carlile was commanded to inform himself of the truth of the business aforementiond and he could meet with no relation but what Luynes had made himself wherin more affronting and haughty expressions were laid to Sir Edward Herberts charge then had truly passed For though the first provocation came from Luynes yet the Ambassador kept himself within the bounds both of his Instructions and Honor. But as my Lord of Carlile was ready to send this mis-information to England the Gentleman formerly spoken of who stood behind the Hangings came to the Earl of Carlile and said That he owd so much duty to Truth and Honor that he could do no less then vindicat Cavalier Herbert from all indiscretion and unworthiness and therupon related the true circumstance of the business which was as it was before told The Earl of Carlile being thus rectified in knowledg of the truth gave account to King Iames accordingly who cleerd Sir Edward Herbert and resolvd to renvoy him Ambassador to France wherof he having notice He kneeld to the King before the Duke of Buckingham and desird that since the business was publik in both Kingdoms he might in a publik way demand reparation of Monsieur Luynes for which purpose he beseechd his Majesty that a Trumpeter if not a Herald might be sent on his part to Monsieur Luynes to tell him That he had made a false relation of the passages before mentiond and that Sir Edward Herbert wold demand reason of him with sword in hand on that point The King answerd that he wold take it into consideration but Luynes a little after died and Sir Edward Herbert was sent Ambassador to France again Iohn the late Earl of Bristol being Ambassador in Spain had many clashes with the Alguazils and the Alcalde himself together with divers Officers to preserve the Privileges of his House in point of Sanctuary which was done with much courage and discretion But ther was one signal passage among divers other One Scoppius had publishd an infamous base Book against King Iames and being in Flanders where Sir Iohn Benet was sent for among other things to demand Justice of the Archduke upon him he had fled to Madrid and the Earl being in despair to get him punishd there where the Iesuits are so powerful he employd a good resolut Gentleman Mr. George Digby his Kinsman to give the said Scoppius a Balaâ—…re or slash ore the face which he did to some purpose for t is athwart ore his face and his mouth that had offended which he carried as a mark of Revenge to his Grave The said Earl being also employd Ambassador to the Emperour in the heighth of the Wars for the Palatinat and returning neer Heydelberg or therabouts where Count Mansfelts Army was upon which the greatest strength of the Palsgrave depended which Army being ready to disband for want of Pay the Earl of Bristol pawnd his whole Cupboard of Plate to find mony for the said Army els all had bin lost at that time Such an extraordinary Noble Act and beyond Commission the Earl of Leicester did propose also to do when he was Ambassador to the King of Denmark For wheras that King made a delay to pay the Portion which was due unto the Lady Elizabeth out of the Estate of Queen Sophia her Granmother which amounted to about 150000 l. and which the said Earl had power to receave and the reason of the King of Denmarks delay being because ther were some accounts to be liquidated twixt his Nephew the King of Great Britain and Him The said Earl provided he might receave the said Portion due to the Lady Elizabeth to comfort her now in her great extremities offerd to engage besides his Honor all the Estate he had in England which his Majesty must partly know that this shold no way prejudice the accounts that were twixt Him and the King of Great Britain This motion of the Ambassadors was highly extolld by the King and all the Danish Court for the Nobleness of it The said Earl being afterwards Ambassador for many yeers in France he wold never give Precedence to Cardinal Richelieu and touching Hugo Grotius who as he was Ambassador for Sweden wold have made his Coaches drive before his he was put back avec un pied de nez with a Nose a footlong as is mentiond more at large in the last Paragraph of Great Britain which went before Liberorum Cerebri Sextus Post Quadraginta FINIS The Bookseller to the Reader THe Reason why ther is no Table or Index added herunto is That evry Page in this Work is so full of signal Remarks that were they couchd in an Index it wold make a Volume as big as the Book and so make the Postern Gate to bear no proportion with the Building CHR. ECCLESTON