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A29484 A brief survey (historical and political) of the life and reign of Henry the III, King of England dedicated to His Most Sacred Majesty. Cotton, Robert, Sir, 1571-1631. 1680 (1680) Wing B4650; ESTC R18954 16,080 30

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A BRIEF SURVEY HISTORICAL and POLITICAL OF THE Life and Reign OF Henry the III. KING OF ENGLAND Dedicated to his most Sacred MAJESTY LONDON Printed for James Vade at the Cock and Sugar Loaf near St. Dunstan's Church in Fleet-street 1680. SACRO-SANCTAE MAJESTATI CAROLI SECUNDI DEI GRATIA MAGNAE BRITANNIAE FRANCIAE ET HIBERNIAE REGIS FIDEI PROPUGNATORIS CHRISTIANAE PACIS PERPETUAE INSTAURATORIS PUBLICAE AUCTORIS AUGUSTI SECURITATIS ET NATI BRITANNICI AD AETERNITATEM NOMINIS ET IMPERII QUAM HUMILLIME D. D. CONSECRATURQUE HOC OPUSCULUM A BRIEF SURVEY OF THE LIFE and REIGN OF Henry the III etc. OPpress'd with the insupportable Calamities of Civil Arms and affrighted at the sodain fall of a Licentious Sovereign who was reported to have been Poyson'd by a Monk all men stood at gaze expecting Peace the Event of their long Desires and Benefit as the Issue of their new Hopes Experience telling us that in every Shift of Princes there are very few either so Mean or so Inopinionative as not to please themselves with some probable Object of Preferment To content all October 19. 1216. a Child ascends the Throne Mild and Gracious but Easie of Nature whose Innocency and natural Goodness protected him throughout the various Perils of his Father's Reign Happy was he in his Uncle William Earl of Pembroke the Guide of his Infancy and no less fortunate for thirty years after whilst Hubert de Burgh Earl of Kent that Fast Servant of King John's against the French both in Normandy and England together with Bygot Earl of Norfolk and others of like Gravity and Abilities had the management of Affairs Publick Distempers were then very few and such only as are incident to all States the Commons greedy and tenacious of Liberty and the Nobility of Rule One violent Storm 't is true was rais'd by some old constant Followers of his Father as Foulk de Brent who though a Forreigner yet held at one time the Earldoms of Nottingham Oxford Bedford and Buckingham Brian de Lisle and some others These being men of turbulent Spirits and that could only Thrive by the Wars were very ill at ease in those days of Sloth as they term'd that Calm of King Henry's Government Beside that the Justice of Peaceable Times urg'd from them to the lawful owners such Lands and Castles as the fury of War had unjustly given them Now perceiving by the Uprightness of the King that Power of Protection should not be made a wrong-doer they broke forth into such a Rebellion as ended not but with their Lives declaring that those their Swords which had set the Crown upon their Sovereign's Head when neither Law nor Majesty could should now secure those Acquests to their Masters when Majesty or Law would not Thus we see how dangerous are too great Benefits of Subjects to their Princes as rendring the Mind incapable of any other sense than that of Merit This Blast being over the Government felt no other affliction than the Common and Invidious Malevolence to Authority Good and Great Men may preserve themselves from Guilt but not from Envy being still shot at by the Aspiring of those that look upon themselves as less in Employment than they are in Desert These Vapours however did ever vanish without much trouble so long as the Helm was steered by Temperate Spirits and the King squar'd his Actions by the Rule of Good Counsel and not of Young Passionate or single Advice Thirty years being now past and gone and none of the old Guides of the Kings Youth left alive but de Burgh a man in whom nothing of Worth was wanting save Moderation his length of days gave him the advantage of Sole Power his Ambition furnishing Desire and Art to keep out others This drew upon him the implacable malice of a great many which was yet further augmented by the fresh Honours and Offices that the King was then pleas'd to confer upon him Time had now wrought a Revolution as in it self so in the Hearts of the People who had forgotten the late Sufferings of their Fathers and labour'd under the surfeit of a long Peace which having probably let in some Abuses the Commons to whom the Present seems ever worst take the Alarm fall to commending the past Ages they never remembred and condemning the Present though equally ignorant of the Disease of it and of the Remedy With these idle and usual Humours struck in some of the young Nobility that were warm and over weening though altogether as unskilful as the rest these fall to sullying the Wisdom and Integrity of the Court-Officers by magnifying each casual mishap into a Crime and exposing every Blemish in Government and then having their Heads fill'd with certain Ideas and Phantastick Forms of Commonwealths they flatter themselves that they are able to mold any State according to these general Rules which in particular Application do still appear to be but idle and gross Absurdities Being thus puft up in Opinion of their own worth they begin to cast about how to get into Employment a thing they had long desired and now do sue for and probable it is that the farthest of their Aim as yet was to be quiet Instruments in serving the Crown had they then been look'd upon as fit and well deserving But the King having been tutor'd into a just veneration for the Counsels of the Aged States-Men and reflecting that such Green Heads were fitter for disordering than setling Affairs either deny'd or delay'd their Requests for Princes will ever chuse their Ministers Equal to not above their Business Creatures that are only theirs out of meer Election otherwise without Friends or Power Amongst this unequal Medly there were of the Nobility the Earls of Pembroke Glocester and Hertford darlings of the Rabble some of them upon the score of their Fathers Merits whose memories were held Sacred as pretended Pillars of Publick Liberty and opposers of encroaching Monarchy Of the Gentry were Fitz-Geoffrey Bardolph Grisley and Fitz-John Spirits of as much Arrogance and A●●imony as Camp Court Country the places from whence they were Elected could afford any These were for attempting by open Force what the other sought to effect by Artifice but yet they were all of them equally Impatient to behold their Ends thus frustrated and that so long as the King followed the Advice of the Earl of Kent there would be no hopes of obtaining their desires Wherefore they became frequent in their Consults and Cabals day and night and at last Sommery and Spencer two that were far in Opinion with the rest as being Gentlemen of Forreign Education and b● qualifi'd than was usual for men of those times gave it as their Advice that the surest way to remove de Burgh that great and good Obstacle out of the way of their Advancement would be to pry narrowly into his Actions and side with his Opposite Peter Bishop of Winchester an ill man but in favour with the King backing the