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A09097	A conference about the next succession to the crowne of Ingland diuided into tvvo partes. VVhere-of the first conteyneth the discourse of a ciuill lavvyer, hovv and in vvhat manner propinquity of blood is to be preferred. And the second the speech of a temporall lavvyer, about the particuler titles of all such as do or may pretende vvithin Ingland or vvithout, to the next succession. VVhere vnto is also added a new & perfect arbor or genealogie of the discents of all the kinges and princes of Ingland, from the conquest vnto this day, whereby each mans pretence is made more plaine. Directed to the right honorable the earle of Essex of her Maiesties priuy councell, & of the noble order of the Garter. Published by R. Doleman.	Allen, William, 1532-1594.; Parsons, Robert, 1546-1610, attributed name.	1595 (1595)	STC 19398; ESTC S114150	274,124	500

by nature is valiant wise liberal or politique shal be the more if also he be pious and religious Which we see euidentlv in king Dauid who notwithstanding al his piety yet omitted he nothing apperteyning to the state and gouerment of a noble wise and politique Prince For first of al he began with reformation of his owne court and realme in matter of good life and seruice of God wherin he vsed the counsel and direction of Gad and of Nathan the Prophet as also of Abiathar and Hitam the cheefe priestes and of Heman his wise councellor He reduced the whole clergie into 24. degrees appointing foure thousand singars with diuers sortes of musycal instruments vnder Asaph Heman and other principal men that should be heades of the quyre He appoynted al officers needful both for his court and also the commō wealth with the armes of the crowne which was a Lyon in remembrāce of the Lyon which he had slayne with his owne handes when he vvas a child he ordeyned a mynt with a peculier forme of money to be stamped tooke order for distributing reliefe vnto the poore other lyke actes of a prudent and pious Prince After al this he turned him selfe to his old exercise of warres to which he was giuen from his child hood being wonderful valiant of his owne person as appereth by the Lion and beare that he slew vvith his owne handes and the corage vvherwith he tooke vppon him the combat with Goliath and as he had shewed himselfe a great vvarier and renowmed captayne many yeares in the seruice of Saul agaynst the Philistians and had gayned many noble victoryes so much more did he after he vvas king hymself for that he conquered not only the Philistians but also the Amorits Idumeans Moabites vvith the kings and people of Damasco and al Syria euen vnto the ruier Euphates left al thes countryes peace-able to his successor and the scripture recompteth in one only chapter how that in three or foure battailes wherin Dauid himselfe vvas present vvith in the space of two or three yeares almost a hundreth thousand horse and foote slayne by him and that himselfe slew in his dayes eight hundreth vvith his owne handes and that he made by his example thirty seuen such Captaynes as ech one of them was able to lead and gouerne a vvhole army and yet among al thes expenses of vvarres had he care to lay vp so much money and treasure as vvas sufficient for the buylding of that huge and vvonderful temple after him which he recommended to his sonne Salamon and amiddest al this valor and couradge of so vvarlyke a king and Captayne had he so much humility as to humble himselfe to Nathan the Prophet vvhen he came to rebuke him for his fault and so mnch patience and charity as to pardon Semei that reuyled him and threw stones at him in the high way as he vvent and among so many and continual busineses both martial and ciuil great affaires of the common vvealth he had tyme to write so many Psalmes as we see and to sing prayses seuen tymes a day to almighty God and to feel that deuotion at his death which we read of finally he so liued and so dyed as neuer Prince I thinke before him nor perhapps after hym so-ioyned together both valor and vertue courage and humility vvisdom and piety gouerment and deuotion nobility and religiō Wherfore though I haue bin somwhat longer then I would in this example yet hath it not bin from the purpose to note somwhat in particuler vvhat two vvorthy kings vvere put vp by God in place of tvvo other by him depriued deposed And now if we vvil leaue the Hebrues and returne to the Romans of vvhom vve spake before we shal find diuers things notable in that state also to the purpose vve haue in hand For before I tould you how that Romulus their first king hauing by litle and litle declined into tyranny he was stayne and cut in peeces by the senate which at that tyme conteyned a hundred in number and in his place was chosen Numa Pompilius the notablest king that euer they had who prescribed al their order of religion and manner of sacrifices imitating therin and in diuers other poyntes the rites and ceremonyes of the Iewes as Tertulian and other fathers do note he began also the buylding of their Capitol added the two monethes of Ianuary and February to the yeare and did other such notable things for that common wealth Agayne when Tarquinius the proud ther seuenth and last king was expelled by the same senate for his euel gouerment and the whole manner of gouerment chainged as before hath bin rouched we see the successe vvas prosperous for that not only no hurt came therby to the common vvealth but exceding much good seing their gouerment and increase of Empire vvas so prospetous vnder their consuls for many yeares in such sort that wheras at the end of their kings gouerment they had but fiftene myles territory without their cytie it is knowne that when their consuls gouerment ended and vvas chainged by Iulius Caesar their territory reached more then fiftene thousand myles in copasse for that they had not only al Europe vnder ther dominion but the principal partes also of Afia and Africa so as this chastisment so iustly layd vppon their kings vvas profitable and beneficial to their common wealthe also Moreouer vvhen Iulius Caesar vppon particuler ambition had brokē al law both humane and diuine and taken al gouerment in to his owne hands alone he was in reuenge hereof slayne as the vvorld knoweth by senators in the senate-house and Octauianus Augustus preferred in his roome vvho proued aftervvards the most famous Emperor that euer vvas I might note here also how Nero sixth Emperor of Rome vvhich succeded lawfully his vnckle Claudius in the Empire and being afterward deposed and sentenced to death by the senate for his wicked gouerment which was the first iudicial sentence that euer the senate gaue agaynst Emperor albeit peace insued not presently but that Galba Otho and Vitellius three great Captaynes of the Empire made some litle enterludes of tragical killing of one the other yet with-in few monethes the whole Empire by that meanes fel vppon Vespasian and his sonne Titus two of the best gouernors that thos tymes euer saw The like might be noted of the noble ranck of fiue excellent good Emperors to wit Nerua Traian Adrian Antoninus Pius aud Marcus Aurclius that ensued in the empire by the iust death of cruel Domitian which execution the senate is thought in secret to haue procured being not able to performe it openly by iustice which vvas seen by that that when the act vvas dōne the senate did presently by publique decree allow of the same and disanulled al his barbarous actes for their

for that I do not thinke it to be improbable which this author and others do note to wit that most nations round about haue taken their particuler formes of anoynting and crowning their kings from this anciēt custome of France though the substance therof I meane of ther sacring and anoynting be deduced from examples of far more antiquity to wit from the very first kings among the people of Israel whō God caused to be anoynted by his priestes and prophets in token of his election and as a singuler priuiledge of honor and preheminence vnto them wherof king Dauid made so great accōpt when he said to the souldiar that had killed Saul his enimye in the warr quare non timuisti mittere manum tuam in Christum Domini VVhy diddest thow not feare to lay thy hands vppon the anoynted of God and he put him to death for it notwithstanding that Saul had bin long before deposed and reiected by God and that himselfe had lawfully borne armes against him for many daies so much was that ceremony of anoynting estemed in thos dayes so hath it bin euer since among christian people also for that kings hereby are made sacred and do not only perticipate vvith priests but also vvith Christ himselfe vvho hath his name of this circumstance of anoynting as al the vvorld knoweth Probable then I say it is that albeit the substance of this ceremony of anoynting kings be much elder then the christian kingdome of France yer is this partic uler and maiestical manner of doing the same by waye of coronation the most ancient in France aboue al other kingdomes round about especialy if it began vvith ther first christian king Clodouaeus not ful 500. yeares after Christ as french authors do hold At what tyme also they recount a great miracle of holy oyle sent from heauen by an angel for anoynting Clodouaeus vvherof they say they haue stil remaining for the anoynting of their kings at Rhemes vvhich point I vvil not stand to treat or discoursein this place but rather wil refer my reader to the foresaid chapter of Francis Belforest chonicler of Frāce vvho alleageth diuers vvriters of almost 500. yeares antiquitie that write of the same but howsoeuer that be very probable it semeth that al the ceremoneys of coronation in Germany Polonia before recited which had ther beginning long after the reigne of Clodouaeus might be taken frō thence and so the affinity and likenes of the one to the other doth seeme to agree and Garribay also the chronicler of Spayne and of Nauarra in his 22. booke talking of this custome of anoynting and crowning the kings of Nauarra saith that this excellent custome began ther I meane in Nauarra aboue 800. yeares past and vvas brought in by certaine Earles of Champayn of France named Theobaldes who comming to attayne that crowne brought with them that reuerent ceremony of anoyntig crowning ther kings according to the vse of the French which custome endureth vntil this day in that part of Nauarra that is vnder the house of Vandome albeit in the other that is vnder the Spaniardes which is far the greater it vvasleft of in the yeare 1513. When Ferdinande surnamed the Catholique king of spayne entred ther-vppon for that the Spanish kings are neuer anoynted nor crowned but otherwise admitted by the common vvealth as before I haue declared But among al other kingdomes it semeth that Ingland hath most particularly taken this custome and ceremony from France not only for the reason before alleaged that diuers of our Inglish kings haue come out of France as William Conqueror borne in Normandy king Stephen sonne to the Earle of Blois and Bollen a French man and king Henry the second borne likwise in France and sonne to the Earle of Aniou but also for that in very deede the thing it selfe is al one in both nations and albeit I haue not sene any particuler booke of this action in Ingland as in French ther is yet it is easy to gather by storyes what is vsed in Ingland about this affaire For first of al that the Archbishop of Canterbury doth ordinarily do thes ceremony in Inland as the Archbishop of Rhemes doth it in France ther is no doubte with the same solemnity and honor according to the condition and state of our countrey and Polidor Virgil in his story noteth that pope Alexander did interdict and suspend the Archbishop of Yorke with his two assistants the bishops of Londō Salisbury for that in the absence of Thomas Becket Archbishop of Canterbury and without his licence they did crowne king Henry the seconds sonne named also Henry at his fathers perswation and diuers do attribute the vnfortunate successe of the said king Henry the yonger that rebelled against his father to this disorderly and violent coronation by his fathers appointment secondly that the first thing which the said Archbishop requireth at the new kings hands at his coronatiō is about religion church matters and the cleargie as in France vve haue seene it appereth euidently by thes vvords which the same Archbishop Thomas surnamed commonly the martyr remayninge in banishment vvrote to the same king Henry the second which are thes Memores sitis confessionis quam fecistis posuistis super altare apud westmonsterium de seruanda Ecclesiae libertate quando consecrati fuistis vncti in regem à praedecessore nostro Thebaldo Which is do you cal to your remembrance the confession which you made and laid vppon the aulter at vvestminster for keping defending the libertie of the church when you vvere consecrated and annoynted king by Thebaldus our predecessor By which wordes appereth that as the king of Ingland vvas consecrated and annoynted in thos dayes by the Archbishop of Canterbury so did he sweare and giue vp his oth also in vvriting and for more solemnity and obligation layd it downe or rather offered it vp vvith his owne handes vppon the aulter so much as vvas repuired of him by the said Archbishop cleargie for the special safety of religion and theis ecclesiastical liberties which is the selfe same pointe that vve haue sene before as vvel in the oth of the kings of France as also of Polonia and Spayne and of the Emperors both Grecian and German The very like admonition in effect I finde made by an other Thomas Archbishop of Canterbury to an other king Henry to wit by Thomas Arundel to king Henry the fourth vvhen in a parlament holden at Couentry in the yeare 1404. the king vvas tempted by certayne temporal men to take away the temporalityes from the cleargie Wherunto vvhen the said Archbishop Thomas had answered by diuers reasons at last turning to the king he besought him saith Stow to remember the oth which he voluntarily made that he would honor defend the church and ministers therof VVherfore he desired him to permit and

wherof the first he hath in that he is a man and the other in that he is a Prince For this cause then al common wealthes haue prescribed lawes vnto their Princes to gouerne therby as by a most excellent certayne immutable rule to which sense Cicero said leges sunt inuentae vt omnibus semper vna 〈◊〉 voce loquerentur lawes were inuented to the ende they should speake in one and the 〈◊〉 same sense to al men For which very reason in lyke maner thes lawes haue bin called by Philosophers a rule or square inflexible and by Aristotle in particular a mynde without passion as hath bin said but the Prophet Dauid who was also a Prince king semeth to cal it by the name of Discipline for that as discipline doth keepe al the partes of a man or of a particuler house in order so law vvel ministred keepeth al the partes of a common vvealth in good order and to sheow how seuerely God exacteth this at al Princes handes he sayth these wordes And now learne ye kinges and be instructed you that iudge the world serue God in feare and reioyse in him with trembling embrace ye discipline least he enter into wrath and so ye perish from the way of righteousnes Which wordes being vttered by a prophet and king do conteyne diuers poynts of much cōsideration for this purpose as first that kings and Prince are bound to learne law and discipline and secondly to obserue the same vvith great humility and feare of Gods wrath and thirdly that if they do not they shal perish frō the way of righteousnes as though the greatest plage of al to a Prince weare to lose the way of righteousnes law and reason in his gouerment and to giue himselfe ouer to passion and his owne vvil whereby they are suer to come to shipwrack and thus much of the first helpe The second help that common wealthes haue giuen to their kings and Princes especially in later ages hath bin cerrayne councelles and councellors with whom to consult in matters of most importance as we see the parlaments of Ingland and France the courtes in Spayne and diets in Germany vvithout which no matter of great moment can be concluded and besides this commonly euery king hath his priuy councel whom he is bound to heare and this vvas done to temper somwhat the absolute for me of a Monarchy whose danger is by reason of his sole authority to fal into tiranny as Aristotle vvisely noteth in his fourth booke of politiques shewing the incōuenience or dangers of this gouerment vvhich is the cause that vve haue few or no simple monarchies now in the world especially among Christians but al are mixt lightely with diuers pointes of the other two formes of gouerment also and namely in Ingland al three do enter more or lesse for in that ther is one king or Queene it is a monarchy in that it hath certayne councelles which must be hard it participateth of Aristocratia and in that the commonalty haue their voices and burgesses in parlament it taketh part also of Democratia or populer gouerment al which limitations of the Princes absolute authority as you see do come for the common wealth as hauing authority aboue their Princes for their restraint to the good of the realme as more at large shal be proued hereafter From like authority and for like considerations haue come the limitations of other kings and kingly povver in al tymes and countries from the beginning both touching themselues and their posterity and successors as breefly in this place I shal declare And first of al if we vvil consider the tvvo most renoumed and allowed states of al the world I meane of the Romans and Grecians vve shal finde that both of them began vvith kings but yet vvith far different lawes and restraints about their authorityes for in Rome the kings that succeded Romulus their first founder had as great and absolute authority as ours haue now a dayes but yet their children or next in blood succeded them not of necessity but new kings were chosen partly by the senate and partly by the people as Titus Liuius testifieth so as of three most excellent kings that ensewed immediatly after Romulus to wit Numa Pompilius Tullius Hostilsus Tarqninus Priscus none of them were of the blood royal nor of kyn the one to the other no nor yet Romans borne but chosen rather from among straingers for their vertue and valor and that by election of the senate and consent of the people In Greece and namely among the lacedemonians which vvas the most emynent kingdom among others at that tyme the succession of children after their fathers was more certayne but yet as Aristotle noteth ther authority power was so restrayned by certayne officers of the people named Ephori which commonly vvere fiue in number as they were not only checked and chastined by them if occasion serued but also depriued and some tymes put to death for which cause the said philosopher did iustly mislike this emynent iurisdiction of the Ephori ouer their kings but yet hereby we see vvhat authority the common wealth had in this case and what their meaning vvas in making lawes and restrayning their kings power to wit therby the more to binde them to do iustice which Cicero in his offices vttereth in tbes vvordes Iustitiae fruendae causae apud maiores 〈◊〉 I se Asia in Europe bene morati regesolint sunt constituti c. at cum ius aequabile ab vno viro 〈◊〉 non consequerentur inuentae sunt leges Good kings vvere appoynted in old tyme among our ancestors in Asia and Europe to the end therby to obteyne iustice but when men could not ob teyne equal iustice at one mans handes they inuented lawes The same reason yealdeth the same philosopher in another place not only of the first institution of kingdomes but also of the chainge therof agayne into other gouerments when thes vvere abused Omnes antiquae gentes regibus 〈◊〉 paruerunt c. That is al old nations did liue vnder kingdomes at the beginning which king of gouerment first they gaue vnto the most iust and wisest men which they could finde and also after for loue of them they gaue the same to their posterity ot next in kynne as now also it remayneth vvher kingly gouerment is in vse but other countries which liked not that forme of gouerment and haue shaken of haue done it not that they wil not be vnder any but for that they wil not be euer vnder one only Thus far Cicero and he speaketh this principally in deferice of his-owne cornmō wealth I meane the Roman which had cast of that kinde of gouerment as before hath bin said for the offence they had taken agaynst cessayne kings of thers and first of al agaynst 〈◊〉 himselfe their first founder for 〈◊〉