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A55555	A treatise of the antiquity, authority, vses and jurisdiction of the ancient Courts of Leet, or view of franck-pledge and of subordination of government derived from the institution of Moses, the first legislator and the first imitation of him in this island of Great Britaine, by King Alfred and continued ever since : together with additions and alterations of the moderne lawes and statutes inquirable at those courts, untill this present yeare, 1641 : with a large explication of the old oath of allegeance annexed.	Powell, Robert, fl. 1636-1652.	1641 (1641)	Wing P3066; ESTC R40659	102,251	241

and without limit from this day forward 2 The terminus a quo you every subject whom the Law injoynes to take this oath 3 The qualities or properties required that is to be true and faithfull 4 Terminus ad quem to whom To our Soveraigne Lord the King and his heires 5 In what manner And faith and truth shall beare of life and member That is as in Calvins case untill the letting out of the last drop of our dearest heart blood And I must adde what is there omitted And terrene honour That is the uttermost of our estate and livelihood 6 The circumstance of place where these duties of Legeance concerning our lives and estate ought to be performed it must bee in all plaees whatsoever without any circumscription for you shall neither know nor heare of any ill or dammage c. that you shall not defend The parts of this oath for the better instruction of the common people I shall summe up in this one proposition which I will presume briefly and succinctly to handle Every subject must be true and faithfull to the King and his heires to the uttermost of his life and fortune or estate 1 The King hath a double capacitie in him one a naturall bodie being descended of the blood Royall of the Realme which is subject to death infirmitie and such like 2 The other is a politike bodie or capacitie so called because it is established by the policie of man and in this capacitie the King is esteemed to be immortall invisible not subject to death infirmitie infancie non-age c. This Legeance is due to the naturall person of the King which is ever accompanied with the politike capacitie that is the Crowne and Kingdome And is not due to the politike capacitie only distinct from his naturall as by divers reasons in Calvins case is at large recited and resolved For if that distinction might take place then would the faith legeance and obedience of every subject due to his Soveraigne be appropriated regimini non regenti to the government of a Kingdome not to him that ruleth or governeth In the time of Edward the second at a Parliament holden at Yorke Hugh la Spencer the sonne being nominated and appointed to serve the King in the office of Chamberlein did draw unto his adherence Hugh Spencer his father and they both usurping upon the Kings Royall power and compassing about to have the sole government of the land to themselves did traiterously contrive a declaratorie writing which they would have compelled the King to signe purporting amongst other mischievous positions That homage and oath of Legeance was more by reason of the Kings crown that is his politike capacitie than by reason of the person of the King whence they inferred these damnable and detestable consequents 1 If the King did not demsne himselfe by reason in the right of his Crowne his leiges were bound by oath to remove him 2 That sithence the King could not be reformed by suite of Law that ought to be done per aspertee by asperitie of Compulsion 3 That his leiges be bound to governe in aide of him and in default of him All which execrable opinions were condemned by two Acts of Parliament one in the 14. yeare of the raigne of the same king Edward the second called Exilinm Hugonis le Despensor patris fili● the other An. 1. Ed. 3. cap. 1. which confirmed the banishment of these Spensers Legeance then by law of nature before any judiciall or municipall lawes were recorded or reported is due to the sacred person of the king alone immediately and without any intervallum or moment of time and before the solemnitie of his Coronation and so must remain to him and his heires and entirely without any partnership with him or any intermission in default of him emnimode by all wayes and meanes It is due to his naturall person accompanied with his politike capacitis indistinctly without any partition or separation and this oath is a politicall confirmation of that Legeance It is due to him as he is mixta persona anointed by the hand of the priest as he is supreme head under Christ in all causes and ove● all persons aswell Ecclesiasticall as Civill The qualities prescribed by this oath are naturally incident to Legeance veritie and fidelitie to be true and faithfull and they comp●ehend what before is spoken of faith obedience and subjection faith unto his person obedience to his lawes Subjection to his government or all to all faith subjection and obedience to his person laws and government By the ancient lawes of this Realm this kingdome of England is an absolute Empire and Monarchie consisting of one head which is the king and of a bodie politike which is the common wealth compact and compounded of many and almost infinite severall members all which the law divideth into severall parts the Clergie and the Laietie this Legeance requires a due observancie of all the Morall lawes contained in both Tables of the Decalogue To obey our king in the true and sincere worship of God according to the canonicall discipline of the Church ratified by his regall authoritie To obey him in abandoning all apostasie from Christianitie heresies schisms factions fond and fantastike opinions repugnant to the Orthodox doctrin of the Church To obey him in acknowledging a supremacie in him and a subordinate superiority in his Ministers and Magistrates over his people To obey him in all the rights of distributive and commutative justice in doing good as works of mercy charitie and pietie and eschewing evill that is all sorts of felonies fraud force deceit and all offences whatsoever which derogate from or deprave the peace and government of the Realm The performance of these duties makes a true and faithfull subject The latitude and extent of this veritie and fidelitie from the subject to the Soveraign is twofold The extent this oath first of life and member secondly of terrene honour wherein the prerogative of the king is considerable generally according to the speciall law of nature called by some jus Gentium and stiled by our common law lex rationis the law of reason and more specially according to the municipall lawes and customes of this kingdome The King is pater patria and every subject is bound by the law of nature to hazzard and adventure both life and member for the safetie of the King and Countrey either against privie and traiterous conspiracies civill mutinies and dissentions or hostile Invasions or injust warres or in the execution of legall acts of justice The Poet could say Dulci est pro patria mori a sweet thing it is to die for our Countrey and as sweet a thing it is to die pro patre patria for the father of our Countrey for indeed both come to one There may bee many causes of warre which when they are discussed and resolved by the King and State the justnesse of them is not to be disputed by

was presented by the Peeres and Commons unto his Majestie in their petition of right concerning diverse rights and liberties of the Subjects before mentioned which had bin intrenched upon touching their lives persons and estates Whereupon his Majesty did fully freely and graciously confirme in all points their said petition of ●gnt with Soit Droit fait come est desire And I da●e boldly say His Royall goodnesse hath beene of himselfe most vigilantly carefull and tender to observe it It is said before that the Law is the Guardian of liberty The Law must bee under wardship too Who be the Law Wardens who then be the Law-Wardens The King originally is intrusted under God with the custody of the Lawes under him the learned and Reverend Iudges are interessed in the Curator-ship of the Lawes and in them of the lives liberties and estates of the whole kingdome And at their first investiture into their places they take a solemne oath incident to their great offices By that oath they ingage themselves as fe-offees in trust to Minister true right betweene King and people and to execute Iustice to the people according to the Lawes of the Land and thereby and by receiving the weighty trust from and under him for the custody of that inestimable Iewell the Lawes they are to acquit the King of so much of his oath I cannot here forget some old verses Realmes have rules and Rulers have a syse Which if they keep not doubtlesse say I dare That eithers greefes the other shall agrise Till the one be lost the other brought to care I will not Comment upon them they were written upon a Subject of 240. yeares a gone and a bad sample thereof hath h●pned in our times Lawes are the syse of rule and government By which the opinions and judgements of our twelve Iustitiars must bee weighed and guided they are the Subjects birth-right and inheritance They are the golden ring by which the King at his Coronation is politically espowsed to the Common-Weale and have bin enameld with the bloud of many Millions and Myriads of soules Woe be therefore unto them that have been are or shall be the violaters and betrayers of that sacred trust What must they be that will render themselves guilty of so haynous a crime Surely none of Iethro his Counsellors Not men of courage nor fearing God nor loving Truth nor hating Covetousnesse They must be in their conditions Tyrants haters of Law for having once broken the lore of Law they feare to be tryed by the plumb-line of the Law And then followes Quod timent oderunt quod oderunt destrui irritum omniò esse volunt what they feare they hate and what they hate they would utterly destroy Oderunt impij omnia Disciplina vincula legem ●yrannum esse judicant Moller in Psa 139. The wicked hate all bonds of Discipline and condemne the Law to be a Tyrant But their guerdon is Qui peccant contra legem lege plectentur Offenders or Subverters of the Law shall have their demerited punishment by the Law It is said of sacrilegious Church-robbers Frustra petunt auxi lium Ecclesiae c. They are excluded all benefit of Clergie that sinne against the Church The Law is the Temple or Sanctuary whether the Subject is to runne for shelter and refuge M. Saint Ioh●s speech fol. 4● If the Wardens of this Temple desert their Office and abjure the Sanctuary Let them expect nor fuge thither nor other but the Law to bee testem jud cem Satellitem their witnesse their Iudge their executioner And their I leave them So much for Law THe other prop or Piller of Protection is Armes Armes whereof I have sufficiently spoken before for so much as concerne the Subjects duty and legeance And for that which concernes his Majesty It is so generally knowne That I shall need to give but a touch By the Common-Law of the Kingdome No man was chargeable to arme himselfe otherwise than hee was wont in the time of the Kings progenitors S. Edw. 1. And no man was compellable to go out of the Shire but where necessity required and sudden comming of strange enemies into the Realme And then it should be done as had been used in times past for defence of the Realme Likewise the preparing men of Armes and conveying them unto the King into forreigne parts was meerely to bee at the Kings charge And howsoever in the time of Edw. 1. certaine Commissioners did incroach upon the Commons and compelled the shires to pay wages to the Preparers Conveyers and Souldiers whereby the Commons had bin at great charge and much impoverished The King did will that it should be so done no more Stat. 1. Edw. 3. cap. 5.7.1327 And 18. Edw. 3. Cap 7. It is provided That men of Armes Halberts and Archers chosen to goe in the Kings Service out of England shall be at the Kings wages from the day that they depart out of the County where they were chosen till they returne Those Statutes are but affirmations or the Common Law and are utterly destructive to the late impositions of Coate and Conduct money and such like levies in that kinde as are not warranted by common assent in Parliament By both these S. Lawes and Armes the peace and unitie of those two deare sisters the Church and Common weale are strengthened and upheld And in both these the Prince hath power of direction to make and establish lawes to raise and levie Wars and power to command the execution and expedition of them Neither of these are acted without Counsell frustra leges frustra sunt arma nisi sit consilium And it is a true rule Sanissimum consilium non fine concilio the best Counsell is from a Councel or Assembly of Counsellors And therefore the King as you heard before is attended with his Privie Councell which is a body politike unum è pluribus const tutum and no body without a head for as Forrescue fol. 30. saith Quandocunque ex pluribus co●st tuitur unum inter illa unum erit regens alia erunt recta This body politike whereof the King is head the autiquity and use whe●of I have sufficiently before remonstrated is at ended with two great Nuncioes Angelis è Caelo Iustice and Mercy They are ornamenta coronae The pr●tious Diadems of the Kings Crowne they are columnae Majestatis the two maine supper●ers of regall d●gnity By the one S. His Iustice he hath potestatem praeveniendi and subveniendi a power by making of Lawes sending forth his Edicts and Proclamations of preventing all capitall and criminall offences all homicides rapines oppressions injuries rebellions mutinies and all greevances whatsoever either of force or frand and either against the person or estare of His Majesties Subjects And if prevention be not availeable ●●in naturall so in Civill diseases it sometimes failes Then must his power of subveniendi be administred and that by 〈…〉 execution