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A67820	Compendium politicum, or, The distempers of government under these two heads, the nobilities desire of rule, the commons desire of liberty : with their proper remedies, in a brief essay on the long reign of King Henry III / by J.Y. of Grayes-Inne, Esq.	Yalden, John.; Cotton, Robert, Sir, 1571-1631. Short view of the long life and raigne of Henry the Third.	1680 (1680)	Wing Y6; ESTC R12598	26,450	104

amongst us that these Kingdoms are not already the Subjects of irritated Justice when I hear the open murmurs and see the many Treasonable Libels in these licentious times The Prince abused and the People deceived by Instruments of Darkness and wicked practices by such men or rather Monsters who when they most violently cry up the Kingdomes good under the necessity of reforming the manners of Magistracy they onely aim at the destruction of Peace and Innocence which is the hated Object of such devouring Vultures Hence I foresee the Imminent Dangers and miserable Calamities that every moment seems to threaten inevitable miseries on these divided Kingdoms One may perceive the dreadful storm hanging as it were immediately over our Heads We are confounded on all Hands and the Disease seems almost Remediless Rome's horrid Plots are not yet fully detected and God knows how much of the Good old Cause remains yet to this day in the Hearts of partial and ill affected Puritans These two are the Sylla and Charibdis of our misfortunes and seem to make but one Body because they aim at one end the destruction of our Lives Religion and Government Let the King and People therefore of the established Church of England take as much care against the hatred of a Puritan as against the malice of a Jesuite the Contrivances of the latter being commonly prevented having never acted so vile a Tragedy as the Principles and Practices of the former The Pope in all his Bulls and Interdicts cannot fulminate more Maledictions than have been reduced into Practice amongst our Jesuited Fanaticks Let us then beware of these two Be obedient to our King and his Majesty careful both of himself and us let the Laws be duely practised and observed and then the King our Lives Religion and Government will be safely preserved Farewell ERRATA PAge 3. line 23. read such tortious p. 4. l. 17. r. would not p. 12. l. 14. r. any matter p. 16. l. 23. r. as the l. 25. dele B. p. 18. l. 13. r. and popularity p. 32. l. 7. r. the King's necessities p. 45. l. 16. r. former restrictions p. 47. l. 14. r. view of p. 51. l. 2. r. inraged p. 51. l. 12. r. So the. p. 60. l. ult r. and precipitation p. 61. l. 17. r. almost l. 21. r. bestowing COMPENDIUM POLITICUM OR The Distempers of Government With their proper Remedies in a short Essay on the long Reign of King HENRY III. SCarce was that unfortunate Prince King John entombed within the bowels of the Earth but the People wearied with the heavy burthens of his time but more especially with the lingring Calamities of Civil Arms and the affrighted fall of that Prince their licentious and unhappy Sovereign but all men stood at gaze expecting the event of their long desires Peace and the issue of their new hopes their own particular benefits for in all changes of Government and in every shift of Princes there are few either so mean or modest that please not themselves with some probable object of preferment But for the general satisfaction and composure of the minds of all a Child whose auspitious looks seemed to portend the common good ascends the Throne milde and gratious but easy of nature whole innocency and natural goodness the paths of the Almighty's providence led him safe along the various dangers of his Father's Reign Happy was he in his Uncle William Marshall Earl of Pembroke the guide and moderator of his Infancy and his most faithful Counsellor for no less than thirty years after whilst De Burgo that fast Servant of his Father 's against the French both in Normandy and England with Bigot Earl of Norfolk and others of great gravity and experience did govern and by their Counsels conduct the whole affairs of the Kingdom Few and none others were the Distempers of State but such as are incident and concurrent in all viz. The Nobility's desire of Rule and the Commons of Liberty Fulco de Brent De Fortibus and some others men that could onely thrive by Wars the Ballance of whose Lives was their keenest Swords ready at all adventures to abscind the right and peace of others These and such men misliked those days of Sloth for so they termed the calmness and tranquillity of King Henry's Government and the rather for that the Justice of quiet times urged from them to the lawful Owners tortious Possessions and unlawfull seisins as the sury of War had unjustly given them and finding that the King would make his Prerogatives as sacred in their use as they are in their Stile and that his Majesty would not suffer his Power of Protection to be made a Stalking-horse to the Rapines and Injustices of wicked men making good that Maxim Rex hoc solum non potest facere quòd non potest injustè agere They fell out into the Rebellion that with it ended their Lives and Competitions professing that the Swords which had set the Crown upon the Sovereign when neither Majesty nor Law could should secure those small pittances to their Masters when Majesty and Law could not Dangerous are too great benefits of Subjects to their Princes when it maketh the mind capable of Merit nothing of Duty Ambitious men are dangerous in Councils and disturb the quiet of the Commonweal more than the passionate Winds can toss or prejudice a ship in the Ocean No other turbulences did the State after feel but such as are incident in all the Malice of Authority Good and great men may secure themselves from Guilt but not Envy for greatest in trust for publick affairs are still shot at by the aspiring of those who deem themselves less in employment than merit These vapours did ever and easily vanish so long as the Helm was guided by temperate Spirits and the King tied his actions to the rule of good Counsell and not to young passionate or single advice Thirty years now passed and all the Guides of his youth dead but De Burgo a man in whom nothing of worth was wanting but moderation when length of days giving him advantage of sole Power his ambition and age gave him desires and art to seclude others which wrought him into the fatal envy of most and that was increased in the title of Earl and an Office the King gave him Time by this had wrought as in it self so in the affections of the people a Revolution The Affliction of their Fathers forgotten and the Surfeit of long Peace perchance having led in some abuses Hence the Commons to whom days present seem ever worst commend the foregone Ages they never remembred and condemn the present though they neither knew the Disease thereof nor the Remedy To these idle and pernicious humours of the unwary and unsteady Rabble some young and noble Spirits often adhere who always covet Action and rarely consider the Consequence who being as ignorant as the rest first by fullying the Wisdom and Conduct of the present