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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

every private person The end of all warre should be peace bellum geritur ut pax acquir atur 1 It is just cause of warre when publike negotiation and commerce is interrupted or disturbed and for recoverie of things wrongfully and by force taken fiom us by forraigne enemies 2 Or if any shall goe about to usurp upon the Kings right of dominion in any of his kingdoms It is just cause of warre After that David by Gods direction went up to Hebron and was anointed king over the house of Iudah upon the death of Saul he maintained a long warre against Ishbosheth the sonne of Saul for usurping the kingdome of Israel 2 Sam. 2. The revenge of an injurie or disgrace dispitefully done either to a Prince or to his Embassadors is likewise a good cause of warre when Naash the king of the children of Ammon dyed and Hanun his sonne succeeded in his stead David sent messengers to comfort him upon the death of his father their entertainment was not suitable to their errand Hanun by the advice of his Princes tooke Davids servants and shaved them and cut off their garments in the midst a natibus us●● ad pedes and so sent them away For this great disgrace and abuse the text faith grandem contumeliam sustinuerunt David did justly wage battell against the king of the Ammonites Chro. 1.19 He did the like against Sheba the sonne of Bochri a man of Belial for blowing a Trumpet and solliciting the men of Israel to revolt from David to him Samuell 2. chapter 20. ●●●y other particulars might be here instanced Next how farre the preeminence of a king as to life and member is to be consid●red Life and member considerable by the common and statute lawes specially by the common and Stature lawes of this kingdome by the common and positive lawes of England The subjects are bound by their legeance to go with the king and by the Commandement of the king in his wars aswell within the Realme as without and this doth copiously appeare by severall statutes which seeme to bee but declarative of the common law as 1 Ed. 3. cap. 7. which mentions the conveyance of souldiers into Scotland Gasconie or elsewhere 18. Hen. 6. cap. 19. which maketh it felonie If any Souldier retained to serve the King in his wars doth not goe with or doe depart from his Captaine without licence the preamble of the Statute tels us that the Souldier so doing did as much as in them was decay the honour and reverence of the king And by the Statute of 7. Hen. 7. cap. 1. Forasmuch as the offence of departing or not going did stretch to the hurt and jeopardie of the king the nobles of the Realme and all the Common weale thereof therefore he or they so offending should not injoy the benefit of Clergie By the Statute 11. Hen. 7. cap. 1. It is expressed that the subjects of this Realme are by reason of their allegeance bound to serve the Prince from the time being in his wars for the defence of him and the land against every rebellion power and might reard against him either within the land or without and this statute together with some others were adjudged Trin. 43. Eliza. to be perpetuall acts and not transitorie for the kings time only wherein they were made As peace is the true end of warre so peace must be preserved that warre may be avoided In the times of peace there must bee preparations for warre by causing musters and martiall meetings to be assembled at times convenient And therein the Lievtenants their Deputies of each severall Countie with Muster-masters and other subalterne officers have a speciall interest of imployment and therefore provision was made 4. 5. P. M. for the better ordering of Musters Captaines and souldiers In the time of peace the common and municipall law of this kingdome provides for suppressing of all rebellions insurrections and rietous assemblies To which end the king commits the custodie of each countie to an officer very ancient with us called a Sheriffe who for the service of the king and peace of the countrey hath power to raise the power of his countie And every subject is bound to attend him as the kings deputie in causes of publike service warranted by the lawes and this officer is to dwell in his proper person within his Baylywicke that he may the more readily attend the kings service The second point is terrene honour Terrene honour what it is and herein I must walke warily passibus aquis First must be determined what is meant by terrene honour Some would have it to be the outward worship and ceremoniall honour that wee can doe in this world to the king next to the service of God If that were only intended by these words it were but a shadow in regard of substance for in devoting our life and blood is comprehended the highest pitch and streyne of honour that might be Our Saviour Christ his words Matth. 6.25 Is not life more worth than meate and the body than raiment will fully satisfie us that the life of man is above all worldly riches and honours and therefore something else must be conceived out of these words more than a shadow or ceremonie By the first commandement of the second table in the subdivision of the persons to whom honor is due there is in the opinion of many Divines a kind of particular honor or esteem to be ascribed to a man who is more wealthy than his neighbour in regard of the talent of terrene riches wherewith God hath endowed him and thereby enabled him to supply the King and the common weal by rendring his respective dues and duties unto them in a larger proportion than other persons who are inferiour in their worldly meanes Dat census honores Then sithence all riches wealth and substance are called terrene quiae terris terrenis accrescant because they proceed and have their being out of earth and earthly things and are the causes of particular honour and esteem and of distinguishing the degrees of men as husbandmen Yeomen Gentlemen Esquires and the like and also of cradesmen both of Merchandize and manufacture according to the customes of this Kingdome It will follow by good consequence that as the King is to bee honoured and obeyed with life and member so with earthly substance according to the demension thereof and the degree of each mans earthly honour Saint Paul in the generall cleares this point of prerogative jure divino Romans 13. Omnis anima potestatibus sublimieribus subdita sit c. Let every soule bee subject to the higher power For there is no power but of God verse 2. whosoever therefore resisteth the power resisteth the ordinance of God And the Apostle pursues it with Ideo necessitate subditi estote c. verse 5. Wherefore yee must needes bee subject not only for wrath but also for conscience sake Verse 6. For this cause pay

question Have you not read that David being hungry entred into the House of God and did eate the shew-bread which was not lawfull for him nor any with him but only the Priests Or have you not read in the Law how on the Sabbath day the Priests in the Temple breake the Sabbath Sabbatum violant sine crimine sunt and are blamelesso And then he doth absolutely convict them of ignorance If yee knew what this is I will have mercy and not sacrifice yee would not have condemned the innocents Matth. 12. ver 1. Vsque 8. If the Law of God by the mouth and judgment of his blessed Sonne was dispensable No man can deny but humane lawes which are transitory may admit a qualification Or else our Gratious Salomon cannot according to the third branch of his oath doe equity and right Iustice with discretion and mercy Observe the rule of the Common Law in this point Dispensatio mali prohibiti est de jure Domine Regi concessa propter impossibilitatem praevidendi de omnibus particularibus Et dispensatio est mali prohibiti provida relaxatio utilitate seu necessitate pensata Co. 11.88 No greater argument of supreme and uncontrollable Majesty than a dispensatory power for when the Common Councell of the Kingdome have enacted penall Lawes for prohibiting somethings to bee done which are evill per accidens The KING by his owne Princely power alone may either in regard of persons or times or other necessarie conting encies dispence therewith PROTECTION as it is grande opus so it hath grave onus a great Balke a l●rgel arthen The o●-stretched and puissant Aimes of this Prot●ction 1. By Lawes 2. By Armes Are not supported and maintained without inexpressibie charge In the first S. Lawes observe in the maintenance and execution thereof the ●●●ries and wages of the great and reverend Iudges the fees stipends and allowances of other Ministers and Officers of Iustice his Majesties extraordinary great experce in sending abroad and dispersing his Edicts and Proclamations in all the quarters and corners of the kingdome In the second S. Armes observe no lesse if not sarre more in the reparations and constant maintenance and supply of His Royall Navie of His Ordinance Artilerie and all other munition And his assiduous preparation in the time of Perce against the occasion or expectation of Warres And all must be according to the Prayers of our own Church to maintaine the People in wealth peace and godlinesse But that wee may returne with the greater thankfulnesse to GOD Let us look back and there are not many quarters of yeares since this great worke of Protection was invaded the union of two Ancient Kingdomes disturbed The Subject with jealousies distracted the former Valour of our English hearts blounted and amated our Liberties in a desperate jeopardy of bondage And which is worst Quis talia fando Myrmidonum Dolopumve aut duri miles Vlyssis Virg 〈◊〉 l. 3. Temperet a lachrimis What flinty heart can forbeare from teares A sweet mild mercifull KING in his studious vigilancy for quenching of these flames most sensibly perplexed and indeed brought into a great strait that hee had just cause to invocate the Mercy Seate of Heaven in the language of the Kingly Prophet Angustia est mihi valde I am in a great strait 2 Sam. 24. v. 14. He was so indeed and like Ionathan and his Armour-bearer between two sharp rocks Bozez and Sench the fore-front of the one was situate North-ward the other South-ward 1 Sam. 14. v. 45. What was the cause of all these miserable tumults and turmoyles Truly our blessed Soveraigne unhappily fell upon those times wherein David complains of the Iudges Magistrates and Ministers under his subjection Psal 82. v. 1. c. God standeth in the congregation of Princes He is a Iudge amongst Gods ver 2. How long will yee give wrong judgment and accept the persons of the ungedly David by mentioning Gods pretence in the aomen ill ration of judgments endeavouring to 〈◊〉 be a tenor in their hearts adds that sharp increpa●●●n v. 2. ●sque quo judic at is iniquit●em c. ●o give 〈◊〉 judgment is in pronouncing of Law not to observe an equality or rule prescribed by the lawes but to give sentence pro arbitrio suo after their own will fancy and passion for no other cause but so they would have it whence that vox tyrannica that proverb sprung up Sic volo sic jubeo stat pro ratione voluntas Our will is our reason and our will ●hall command After this severe objurgation the Prophet declareth the true use and end of upright judgement Defend the poore and fatherlesse See that such as be in need and necessity have right v. 3. Deliver the outcast and pcore save them from the hand of the ungodly v. 4. And then despairing of their reformation he doth amplifie his reprehen sions against them They will not bee learned nor understand but walk on still in darknesse All the foundations of the earth are out of course ver 5. It was so in Davids kingdome and no lesse in King Charles His Great Britaine David invocated God for redresse Exurge Deus judica terram Arise O Lord and judge thou the earth v. 8. And so did King Charles God heard the prayers and humble supplications both of King and People For in ictu oculi when all conditions of this State in the out ward survey of humane judgment were most desperate and deplorable Moventur omnia fundamenta terrae Psalme 74.22 God did arise and plead or maintaine his owne cause Our gratious Iosuah by the dictates of the holy Spirit did summon his Elders called his Common-Councill or Great Congregation together ●ove 1640. to treat of the difficult and urgent affaires concerning his Majesty the State and defence of his Kingdome and the Church of England The like in his Realmes of Scotland and Ireland They have all happily and religiously met in their severall orbes the Civill and unnaturall breaches of the two disjoynted kingdomes are unanimously pacified and both more firmely reunited than ever before The issues and fruits of the Counsels and consultations of our Parliament have far sarpassed the presidents of all former ages Let the Acts Ordinances and proceedings themselves be Iudges And pray we incessantly to the throne of Heaven that God will be still present and president in the maturating of all their debates and deliberations concerning Church and State And in al such times when King Church and people are in a strait That God would arise exurgat Deus dissipentur inimici Amen Amen Amen FINIS