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B20451	Justice vindicated from the false fucus [i.e. focus] put upon it, by [brace] Thomas White gent., Mr. Thomas Hobbs, and Hugo Grotius as also elements of power & subjection, wherein is demonstrated the cause of all humane, Christian, and legal society : and as a previous introduction to these, is shewed, the method by which men must necessarily attain arts & sciences / by Roger Coke.; Reports. Part 10. French	Coke, Roger, fl. 1696.	1660 (1660)	Wing C4979	450,561	399

Plate Jewels and Treasure of the Churches and Religious Houses within the Realm and compelled the Clergy to give him the one half of one years value of all their Ecclesiastical promotions and dignities But such was the felicity of this Prince that neither Pope nor Clergy durst openly oppugne him but in the 27. year of his Reign at the request of Boniface 8. says Martin he set John Baliol adjudged by Edward before King of Scotland at liberty And having conquered Scotland in the 33. year of his Reign Robert Bruce procured an Instrument from the Pope that the Kingdom of Scotland was holden of the Church of Rome and therefore required the King to desist from the prosecution of his Wars there But how little King Edward regarded this Instrument and what answer he returned to the Pope you may read in our English Chronicles nor do I finde that ever more prosecution was made by the Pope in this Kings life-time 20. From this time until Henry the Eighth the Kings of England and In the reign of Hen. 4. the Popes kept so good correspondence that they never went so far as Excommunication or Interdiction on the Popes part and how far the Kings did restrain the Popes jurisdiction in their several reigns after the Conquest shall be shewed in Chap. 3. Yet I cannot pass over one thing of the whole Hierarchy of the Church of England except only the Bishop of Carlisle who all factiously and traiterously conspired or adhered to Henry the Fourth his unjust Usurpation and Deposition of their Soveraign Richard the Second CHAP. II. Of Ecclesiastical Laws made by the Saxon and Danish Kings before the Conquest I Inas by Gods gift King of the West-Saxons by the advice and instruction Inas began to reign in the year of Christ 712 died 727. of Cenredes my Father and Heddes my Bishop and Eorkenwoldes my Bishop and with all my * Counsellors Earls Ealdermen and them of best birth of the Wisest of my people and eke in a great Assembly of Gods Servants did religiously study as well for the health of my soul as for the common profit of our Kingdom that right Laws of Marriage and just Judgment be firmly established through every folk and that hereafter it shall not be lawful for any Ealderman or any under our rule to make void these our Dooms or Judgments Cap. 1. Of the Rule of Gods Servants First we command that Gods Servants have a right rule of living After that we command all folk to observe these Laws and Dooms or Judgments Cap. 2. Of Children A Child shall be baptized within thirty days after it be born if that be not done let thirty shillings be forfeited If that it die before it be baptized he shall forfeit all he hath Cap. 3. Of working upon Sunday If a Slave work on Sunday by his Masters command let him be free and the Master shall pay thirty shillings But if the Servant did his work without command of his Master beat his hide or make him to fear a hide-beating If a Free servant do any work without his Masters bidding let him forfeit his freedom or sixty shillings and a Priest double so much Cap. 4. Of First-fruits First-fruits shall be paid upon the Mass of S. Martin he who shall not then pay them shall forfeit forty shillings and pay twelvefold the value of the fruits Cap. 5. Of Church-Priviledge or Sanctuary If any man guilty of death flee to the Church let his life be spared and let right be done to him And if any man deserving stripes implores help of the Church let him be remitted his stripes Cap. 6. Of Fighting If a man strike in the Kings house he shall forfeit all he hath and let it depend upon the Kings judgment whether he shall lose his life If one strike in a * Cathedral Church Minster he shall pay one hundred and twenty shillings c. Cap. 62. Of First fruits Every man shall pay First-fruits for the Roof and Hearth where he shall be upon the day of the birth of our Saviour Cap. 75. Of the killing of Godfather or Godson If any one shall slay his Godson or his Godfather he shall compensate so much to his next of kin as the compensation due to his Lord had been And this payment to the value of him which is killed shall be increased or lessened accordingly as the payment to the Lord for the Servant killed should have been performed If it be the Kings Godson which is killed he shall satisfie the King and his kindred but if the next of kin kills him he shall pay to the Godfather so much as should have been paid to the Lord for the slaughter of his Servant If he be a Bishops son he shall pay half so much Ecclesiastical Laws made by King Alfred or Alured who began to reign in the Year 871. The Preface GOD did speak these words to Moses and thus said I am the Lord thy God I led thee out of Egypt land and of the house of bondage Thou shalt not choose other Gods before me Do not take my Name in idleness for I will not hold him innocent who on idleness taketh my Name Remember thou keep holy the Seventh day Do thy work on six days and on the Seventh rest thou and thy son and thy daughter thy servant and handmaid and thy work-cattel and the stranger that is within thy door For on six days Christ made heaven and earth sea and all things thereon were created by him and rested on the Seventh day and therefore the Lord hallowed it Honor thy Father and thy Mother whom the Lord gave thee that thou maist live long on earth Thou shalt not kill Thou shalt not steal Thou shalt not commit adultery Nor report false witness of thy neighbor nor covet thou thy neighbors inheritance without right Nor work golden gods or silver Thou shalt constitute these Judgments If a man buy a Christian man he shall serve six years the seventh let him be free without cost With the same vestment he came in with the same let him go out if he have a wife let her go out with him if his Lord gave him his wife she and her * * Children bearns are the Lords But if the servant shall say I will not part from my Lord nor from my wife nor from my children nor from my work then let his Lord bring him to the door of the Temple and there let him bore his ear with an eal for a sign that ever after he is his servant If any man sell his daughter for an handmaid he shall not use her as an handmaid he shall use her courteously neither shall he sell her to other folk and if she be negligent let him be pacified let him set her free to stranger folk if he ally her to his son in marriage let him give a garment the reward of her modesty and endow

came under one Monarch or King again for the Royal dignity of a Monarch or King from whence all subordinate dignities tanquam lumen de lumine are derived without any diminution will suffer no division Regia dignitas est indivisibilis quaelibet alia derivativa dignitas est similiter indivisibilis The most woful event that fell out in this Kingdome when Gordobug divided this Kingdom between his two Suns Ferrex and Porrex and what heavy event came to pass untill it was reduced again under one Monarch let our Histories tell you and letting pass others I cannot overpass the miserable estate within this Kingdom under the Heptarchy untill all was reunited under one Soveraign and this is the reason that in England Scotland and Ireland the Royal dignity is descendible to the eldest daughter or sister Sir E. Coke Inst 4. 243. c. Regia dignitas est indivisibilis 2. Of these Governments Monarchy is the best as appears by reason by How many ways Monarchy is the best Government the consent of the world by the institution of God and his commanding obedience only to this Government and by woful experience 3. Monarchy in reason is the best Government for the dignity and Monarchy is the best Government in reason majesty of one man is more easie to be maintained then of many The ills that follow from bad Monarchs are no worse than what do and alwaies did happen from the best of humane Laws viz. mischiefs to particular men Nor can the mischiefs which happened to Silus Sabinus Sillanus c. who not well brooking the powers of Tiberius and Caligula Emperors as bad as who were worst had been over lavish of their tongues in vilifying the power of the Caesars and magnifying that of the Senate and probably had they been able would have advanced the power of the Senate to the abdication of Caesars be compared with the inconveniences which came upon the Senate and people of Rome in those times of Silla and Marius of Caesar and Pompey Besides factious and discontented persons cannot hope for that encouragement in their designs where the supreme power is in one individual person as where it is compounded of many The freedome and liberty of the Subject is more under one then more for it is easier to obey one then many The common people of Rome never enjoyed so much liberty as under the Emperors and therefore when after the death of Caligula the Senate endeavored to restore Rome to her antient liberty as they Sueton. in vita Claud. cap. 10. called it and extinguish the name and power of the Caesars and to that end had seised upon the Capitol they aided by the Preterian coherts continued the power of their Emperors in Claudius and the day and night wherein the Senate would not receive him was the cause of much trouble which Josephus notes l. 19. c. 30. 4. By the consent of the world for every where in the known world By the consent of the world before 1641. either in Europe Asia Africa or America over Christians Mahumetans and Infidels except the State of Venice the usurped power of the Cantons in Switzerland the State of the Neatherlands the Hans-towns Genoa and Geneva who seek protection of the Emperor and Kings of France this Government is established 5. By God himself for he never instituted any Government either in By Gods owning it only Priesthood Judges or Kings but only this nor commands obedience to any other Can a man touch the Lords anointed and be guiltless 1 Sam. 26 9. And submit your yelves to every ordinance of man for the Lords sake whether it be to the King as supreame c. St. Pet. 2. 13. Feare God honor the King And I counsel thee to keep the Kings commandments and that in regard of the oath of God And therefore what thing an Unite is in numbers the Minde in the faculties of the soule a Centre in a circle the same is God the most omnipotent King in the world simple in unity indivisible in nature most holy in purity placed by an infinite interval far remote above the fabrick of the highest Heaven joyning this perspirable region with the celestial and intelligible keepes and preserves from ruine as by a secure care the whole universe framed and compounded in such admirable order and harmony to whose great example ought every good King who is the Unite the minde and centre of his kingdome that hopes to govern and preserve his subjects not only safe but honest and happy wholly to betake himself 6. By woful experience I do not find any mans life except the destitute and deposed Princes Arthur Ed. 2. Rich. 2. Hen. 6. and his sonne By wofull experience Ed. 5. and his brother herein and in many other things doubtless more unhappy then private men and the Duke of Clarence after conviction and attainder thought by the consent of Ed. 4. to be drowned in a Butt of Malmsey and Cromwell Earle of Essex condemned and executed unheard in Parliament see a remarkable passage herein by Sir Ed. Co. Insti 4. fo 37. 38. Queen Katherine fifth wife to H. 8. Mary Queen of Scots and the Earl of Strafford or estate taken away by any of the Kings of England for these last 500 years in an extraordinary and extrajudicial manner If the dissolution of the Abbies by Hen 8. be objected I answer it was usual in Parliament to alter many things in the Common law as the statute de donis conditionalibus made a great alteration in the Common law for before all estates which were not for life and under were either in fee absolute or conditional and so the Statutes which gave power of entry where before no remedy was to be had by Common law but by a Cui in vita And to Jointenants to compell others to sue a Writ of partition c. In case of life the ordinary way of trial was by Peers the Nobility by the Nobility and the Commons by the Commons but a Parliament being a body compounded of heterogenial and dissimilary parts viz. King Lords and Commons could not be Peers to any man which was the usual way of Trial with us neither were the Estates so taken from Abbots c. but that they enjoyed them or a full value in lieu of them during their lives so that by this act no wrong was done to any man living Yet it is true which Sir Ed. Co. saies in his Comment upon Magna charta chap. 1. Quod datum est Ecclesiae datum est Deo what was given to the Church was given to God which by the Law of God Numb 16 37 38. is unalterable nor can be be employed to any profane or common use So that I am confident I may safely affirm that the Subject in seaven years under the Long Parliament suffered extraordinarily and extrajudicially five hundred times more then all their Ancestors in 500 years before did

shall incur any forfeiture or losse for travelling or making appearance accordingly Every person so restrained as aforesaid shall be bound to yeeld their bodies to the Sherif of the County upon Proclamation in that behalfe made nor shall incurre any penalty for so doing If any person which shall offend against this Act shall before he be thereof convict come to some parish Church on some Sunday or Festivall day and then heare divine Service and at Service time or at the reading of the Gospell make open submission and declaration of his conformity to the Queenes Lawes as hereafter is declared that then every such offendor shall be cleerly discharged The forme of the submission is I A. B. doe humbly confesse and acknowledge That I have grievously offended God in contemning her Majesties godly and lawfull government and authority by absenting my selfe from Church and from hearing Divine Service contrary to the godly Lawes and Statutes of this Realm and am heartily sory for the same and doe acknowledg and testifie in my Conscience That the Bishop or See of Rome hath not or ought to have any power or authority over her Majesty or within any of her Majesties Dominions or Realmes And I do promise and Protest without dissimulation or any colour or meanes of dispensation That from henceforth I will from time to time obey and performe her Majesties Lawes and Statutes in repairing to Church and hearing Divine Service and doe my utmost endeavor to maintain and defend the same The Minister or Curate of every parish where such submission shall bee made shall presently cause the same to be entred into a booke to be kept in every Parish for that purpose and within ten dayes after shall certifie the same to the Bishop of the Diocess Every offendor that shall after such submission relapse and become Recusant in not repairing to Church to heare Divine service as aforesaid shall lose all benefit he might have enjoyed by such submission Every woman married shall be bound by every article branch and matter contained in this Act other then the branch or article of abjuration nor shall any woman married be compelled to make abjuration Of the Reformation made by Queen Elizabeth QUeen Mary dying upon the 17. Novemb. 1558. the same day both The Pope did reject the Queen before the Queen rejected the Pope Houses of Parliament without any contradiction did acknowledge and receive Elizabeth to be the true and undoubted Heir to the Crown of England and without delay with sound of Trumpet dissolved the Parliament for that being called by Queen Mary could have no being or continue after her death The Queen caused an account to be given of her assumption to the Pope who was Paulus Quartus with letters of Credence to Sir Edward Cerne who was Ambassador to her Sister and not departed from Rome But the Pope was so far from acknowledging her that he answered that that Kingdome viz. of England was held in Fee of the Apostolick See that she could not succeed being illegitimate that he could not contradict the Declaration of Clement the Seventh and Paul the Third that it was a great boldness to assume the name of Government without him that for this she deserved not to be heard in any thing yet being desirous to shew a fatherly affection if she will renounce her pretensions and refer her self wholly to his free disposition he will doe whatsoever may be done in the honor of the Apostolick See * And afterwards he commanded Sir Edward Hist conc Trint 411. Cerne who had continued Ambassador at Rome for Henry the Eighth Queen Mary and then for Queen Elizabeth to lay down his office of Ambassador that I may use his own very words sayes the Author by force of a Mandat made by Lively voice from the Oracle of our most Holy Lord the Pope by virtue of holy obedience and under pain of the greater Excommunication and also of losse of all his goods that he should not depart out of the City but undertake the Government of an Hospitall of the English * It is true Indeed that Pius 4. a man of much more moderate disposition Camb. Eliz. Keg Pag. 28. then his Predecessor did in the year 1560. by Letters sent by Vineentius Parpalia Abbot of St. Saviours to her full of humanity not only acknowledge her Queen of England and invited her to return into the bosome of the Church but also as the report went promised to recall the sentence pronounced against her Mothers Marriages as unjust to confirme the book of Comon-prayer in English by his authority and to permit the use of the Sacrament in both kinds to the People of England in case she will joyn her self to the Church of Rome and acknowledge the Primary of the Roman See * And afterwards in the year 1561. in Letters full of affection by Abbot Camb. Eliz. Reg. 58. 59. Martinego he invited her to the Councell of Trint Camb. Eliz. Reg. 68. 69. but matters were so far thrust off the hinges that not only Parpalia returned without any fruit but Martinego was denied access into England Not only the Arch-bishop of York but all the other Bishops except The Bishops except Carlile refuse to crown her Carlile did refuse to Crown the Queen both because she had been instructed in the Protestant Religion and because she had forbidden the Archbishop of York a little before he was to celebrate Divine service to elevate the Host for adoration and had suffered the Letany with the Epistles and Gospel to be used in the popular tongue It is no wonder therefore if the Parliament which happened immediately after and the Commons especially who once usually swayed only by passion and affection and much averse from the Religion of the Church of Rome did endue the Queen with such plentifull power as to make her supreme Governor the title of Head was waved in all causes as well Spirituall as Temporall This power the Queen well understanding what advantage would be How far the Queen did declare her Power in Ecclesiasticall matters made thereof by her adversaries did by Proclamation and after by her Injunctions declare that she took nothing upon her more then what anciently of right be longed to the Crown of England to wit that she had supreme power and jurisdiction under God over all sorts of people within the Kingdome of England whether they be Ecclesiasticall or Lay persons and that no forrein Power hath or ought to have any jurisdiction or authority over them Camb. Eliz. Reg. 39. 40. In the 37. Article of the Church of England she declares We give to How far the Church of England declares the Prerogative of Princes Our Princes that Prerogative which we see in holy Scripture alwayes given to all godly Princes by God himself to rule all estates and degrees of men committed to their charge by God whether they be Ecclesiasticall or Temporall and to restrain