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A68283	Foure bookes of offices enabling privat persons for the speciall seruice of all good princes and policies. Made and deuised by Barnabe Barnes.	Barnes, Barnabe, 1569?-1609.	1606 (1606)	STC 1468; ESTC S106957	238,357	234

thy God reioyce in thee c. This is that blessing which hath beene so long prediuined and promised so that our auncestors in many fore-passed ages haue heartely longed to see the same but could not Let vs therefore which haue gotten this iewell highly rate and esteeme it and as we wish for the continuance of that peace which dependeth thereupon so let vs embrace and defend the same least the prouerbe bee verefied amongst vs with our calamitie That Enuie succeedeth our first glorie that we make not foes of our fellowes and fellowes of our foes Accord we therefore with ioyfull endeauours in vnanimitie because peace and friendship cannot possibly reigne together in people of diuerse and variable minds Let vs esteeme our selues all alike in liberti●… without ambicious crowding or thronging in for prioritie ascribing all earthly power and preheminence to the Soueraign of our nation and liuing togeher as men commorant in one familie Qui eodem igne fumo vtuntur c. Let vs like those auncient noble Romanes dilate and propagate our honours by sociable amitie rather than to repine at any iust and profitable equalitie to the pernicious confusion and ruine of our estates in generall Thus shall wee stirie vp our discont●…nted spirits if in vs any such wild●…e of ambition reigne to maintaine to protect and to glorifie those liberties which we possesse and by these meanes shall no forraine enemies dare to complain or repine against any thing in vs but of our greatnesse and amplitude By these meanes shall good fashions bee followed ciuill and martiall exercises embraced and practised concord and firme amitie shall be confirmed and encreased inuiolably both amongst our selues our old friends and new confederates This if we shall presently ponder and put in practise with the true vigour of our vertues then shall we not haue cause to curse our owne imaginations and foresights like foolish pilotes which when a tempest is apparant and alreadie begun lamentably threaten and as it were aftertell of the calamitie setting men to worke when all humane hopes are past or like to the imprudent gouernours of cities which when the first sedicious sparkes are kindled and breake forth to the ruine of their states which otherwise might haue beene antiuerted by their precaution spend the remnant of their time of succour in wayling and weeping But if my zeale carie mee too farre to make a question of that which many peraduenture wise do think needlesse and impertinent I craue pardon assuring my selfe that the diuell beeing confusion himselfe will bee very busie to make a disorder amongst the people of God that he might supplant the root of our true Christian glory Since therfore the blessed time of our vnion is accomplished and perfected we shall not need to doubt but that this our bride and bridegroome shal flourish like a garden inclosed and abound in precious vertue like a spring and fountain of happinesse which is sealed vp Neither is it to bee doubted or imagined which some friuolous opinions haue cast out that it cannot long and easily brooke your Maiesties absence as if according to the vulgar prouerb the chiefe person of maiestie being out of sight should be banished out of her loyall mind also for as I said they might know how the diuine spirit doth not call kings by the name of gods in vaine for so much as this royall vbiquitie disperseth their soueraigne power lawes and authoritie through all the parts of this world For we know that Fraunce which is much larger had not many ages past diuers great and free principalities contained within her bounders which by match and vnion as this of ours is and through the disobedience of some ambicious princes are now firme and annexed as parts and members of that crowne such as were Normandie little Brittaine Aquitaine Orleance and others and likewise in the kingdome of Spaine where at one time Aragon Castile Granada Corduba Gallicia Andelosia being all of thē little kingdomes were seuerally gouerned and Portugall also lately knit vnto king Philips Crowne All which principalities and prouinces are gouerned in peace by Presidents and Counsels established in them There seemeth then no reason to the contrary why Scotland should not containe it selfe and continue loyall shadowed vnder the royall curtaine of your gracious authoritie by that sapience which in your diuine policie is and shall be dispersed amongst them For they cannot be such impious barbarous and vnthankfull creatures as to forget their faith and allegeance vnto him that from his cradle was and is so dearely affied in them and which hath since the first spiracle of his reason expressed such mildnes and gouerned amongst them with such moderation benignitie Moreouer the nobles and gentlemen of that nation are in this age by the maruellous beneficence of God and Nature morethan euer ingenuous liberall honourable and for the most part vertuously affected desirous to learne knowledge good fashion which oftentimes I did obserue in the conditions of thē for the most part insomuch as it is a wonder that a region which was sometimes held and reported to bee rude and barbarous could affoord so many ciuile and gallant spirits which last good and honorable inclination is generally seene in the most of them being a speciall braunch of temperance drawne from modestie noted by the Philosophers and touched in the Morals of my first booke Shall any man then amongst the people of your Maiesties Nations bee so stubborne as to withstand this diuine ordinance or so proud amongst the seditious that dare appeale from this so charitable and peaceable decree For besides that royall Maiestie shall discountenance him the very Cannon of those ciuile lawes which are approued established throughout all Christendome vniuersally shall vtterly condemne them by that prerogatiue which is granted to your Highnesse in these words Rex Angliae est monarcha in suo regno à cuius sententia non appellatur quia praefectus multorum pralatorum est sui regni Much more priuiledge then is included in your Highnesse in whom is iustly planted the soueraigne right and inheritance of both these kingdomes now made one Nation Since therefore this head including your regall grace being prudently busied in continuall contemplation premeditation conference of things past present and to come which are noted to be the very faculties of prudence doth with a zealous and pastorall care tender vnto the heart being the iewell-house of vnderstanding and sapience the weale of this politicall body which it by mature deliberation disgesteth for the chiefe good thereof euen as the liuer with bloud the vocall organes and arme of iustice by pronounciation and distribution of the lawes and euery part in his particular function is ayding towards the preseruation hereof in health and tranquilitie so should this head with all these mentall faculties and that body with all his members conioyntly labour aboue all things to preserue the soule pure and blemishlesse

odious in a dogge a snake or any wild beast which is cherished or fedde at your table to bite or maligne their fosterers which is a thing very rarely to be seene howmuch more lothesome and contemptible is it in a man to whom God hath giuen heart and reason of gratification Mercie confounded is with hardnesse of heart vncharitablenesse vnconscionable actions strangenesse amongst brethren and societies being both pernicious to the soule of people and contagious to the peace and vnions of all ciuill states and policies Liberality perishethin these extreamities in auarice which cannot endure the thought of giuing and in prodigalitie dishabling the power thereof These are guarded with infinite vices of which two mischiefes prodigalitie more helpeth in repayring many whereas couetousnesse will not relieue any Vaine ostentation being vndecently slubbered vp and neighbouring auarice is opposite to magnificence there is likewise a proud immoderate and vnseasonable kinde of riotous magnificence accompanied with excesse the daungers of both are much like to the perils issuing from the extreames of liberalitie but of auarice ostentation prodigalitie I haue more at large spoken in the morals of my first booke of offices Friendship being the nauell or vp-shot of all iustice Etiam habitus verè perfectè diligendi alterum proper similitudinem morum Which is a habite of perfect and true loue betwixt men resembling one another in conditions and manners by naturall sympathie shall take place in the bottome base and groundworke of the rest and it is thwarted with enmity which worketh in mens hearts crueltie with hatred whereupon patricides and homicides ingender It is a common saying that such a man hath betrayed or deceiued his friend because the practise and example seemeth very frequent amongst vs in this age according to that saying of Salust Per maximam amicitiam maxima est fallendi copia that where greatest friendship harboreth there hath deceit most power and force to practise but I am not of that opinion how true friendship if it be mutuall and reciprocall hath any port which can open vnto the heart that could entertaine falshood against friends considering that true friendship is naked pure and immaculate according to the definition before expressed Howbeit there is a similitude of wicked natures which combineth men in a kinde of fraternitie which me seemeth may not be called so properly friendship being brethren in euill sacramentally tyed and periuriously vntyed at pleasure to succour loue deceiue and betray one another This in like opposition with the former is the very seede of all disunion and iniustice From hence distractions seditions factions oppressions and diuers sutes arise which neuer haue end nor will but by conspiracies vpon which the prince is many times forced to staine his hands with blood or to loose his soueraignetie Many men neglect this not looking into the danger which dayly stealeth out of it and yet it is easily found if they consider how the seed-time of each yeere present occasioneth the next yeeres haruest ministring store of matter to gorge vp the couetous bags of some ambicious Lawmen Aduocats and Atturneyes Now somewhat concerning that abilitie which strengtheneth iudges and iuridicall magistrates in th'administration of publike affaires To the perfection of knowledge herein it is right behoouefull that they which iudge be soundly read and practised in all the lawes Ciuill Cannon and prouinciall consenting with the lawes of those nations where men liue and also the lawes of all neighbouring Commonweales politickely gouerned whether they be Christian or pagane conferring them with the ground of all good laws deliuered first by God to the sacred prince Moyses his seruant in the decalogue as also that he studiously peruse all the bookes of Moyses wherein the politicke statutes and ordinances deriued from the fountaine of his vnserchable wisedome are touched as in the bookes of Exodus Detronomie Numbers likewise in the Iudges and Kings Nay let him peruse the whole volumes of the new Testament wherein he shall find the true formes and treasure of all good lawes and iudgements Likewise let him conuerse with the lawes of the ancient Egyptians which as Diodorus recordeth them are like in nature to these our Brittaine lawes from whence together with the secret misteries of their gods those ordinances were by Orpheus translated into Greece also the Troiane and Greeke laws from whenceour Nation as I before declared did receiue their first orders of gouernment the lawes of Saxons and Danes when they did inhabite vs conferring them seuerally together pondering which neerest cohere in precepts vniformitie with the sacred Decalogue It is also most commendable and would adde infinite riches to his iudgement if he can by diligent reading attaine the Lawes of all principall States and Kingdomes in this age established as in Spaine France Portugall the free States of Italie the Empire of Germany the Cantons of Swizzer-land the Kingdomes of Poleland Hungaria Prussia Moscouia with such like most of which although they be gouerned by the lawes imperiall haue not withstanding Edicts customarie prescriptions retaining legall force which are most fit and worthy to be knowne Also the Lawes of the Turkes of the Persians and of any strange heathens in the world which are partakers and be gouerned by rule of reason This Science with the riches of that knowledge which may be gotten by the same together with the iudicious conference of one with another I cannot sufficiently declare nor commend neither if it were possible for a man all other means being wanting thervnto to liue vntill he had visited those nations and had soiourned in each particular countrey till he were acquainted with their seuerall Lawes and orders could his paines answere the least part of benefit which that knowledge will dispense In publicke iudgements which according to th' imperiall Institutions are so called because the execution of them is referred to any of the people it much importeth him to be very skilfull cōferring them to the benefit of his priuate iudgement with the publicke iudgements as in cases criminall of his owne nation Of these some being capitall and the rest not capitall those which are doe punish with death or perpetuall exile as it was called by the Romans Interdiction from fire and water by which was intended an exclusion from all other benefit or comfort of his natiue Countrey Such were those 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as Freigius defineth being persons cast out or banished from all ciuill societie and they were called deportati or relegati by the Romans to whom was this interdiction of fire and water or the prescription and abdication of people Other iudgements vpon defamation proceed with pecuniary mulct which are also publicke and not capitall Howbeit publicke iudgements principally proceed in matters of maiestie touching traytors against the King or Common-wealth punished with losse of life and extirpation of their remembrance after their death in attainder of blood and destruction of their