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A80662	The troublesome life and raigne of King Henry the Third. Wherein five distempers and maladies are set forth. Viz. 1. By the Pope and church-mens extortions. 2. By the places of best trust bestowed upon unworthy members. 3. By patents and monopolies for private favourites. 4. By needlesse expences and pawning of jewels. 5. By factious Lords and ambitious peeres. Sutable to these unhappie times of ours; and continued with them till the King tied his actions to the rules of his great and good councell, and not to passionate and single advice.; Short view of the long life and raigne of Henry the Third, King of England.	Cotton, Robert, Sir, 1571-1631.	1642 (1642)	Wing C6504; Thomason E38_11; Thomason E110_16; ESTC R4221	14,198	16

The Troublesome LIFE AND RAIGNE OF King Henry the Third Wherein five Distempers and Maladies are set forth Viz. 1. By the Pope and Church-mens extortions 2. By the places of best trust bestowed upon unworthy Members 3. By Patents and Monopolies for private Favourites 4. By needlesse expences and pawning of jewels 5. By factious Lords and ambitious Peeres Sutable to these unhappie times of ours and continued with them till the King tied his Actions to the rules of his great and good Councell and not to passionate and single advice Imprinted at London for George Lindsey 1642. A Short VIEVV OF THE LIFE AND RAIGNE OF King HENRY the Third WEarie in the lingring calamities of civill armes and affrighted at the sudden downfall of a licentious Soveraigne all men stood at gaze expecting the event of their long desires peace and the issue of their new hopes benefit For in everie shift of Princes there are few either so meane or modest that pleasure not themselves with some probable object of preferment To satisfie all a child ascendeth the Throne Hist Maj M. Paris mild and gracious but easie of nature whose innocencie and naturall goodnesse led him along the various dangers of his fathers raigne Ra. de Wendover Happie was hee in his uncle the Earle of Pembroke the guide of his infancie and no lesse for thirtie yeares whilst De Burgo the last servant of his fathers against the French both in Normandy and England with Bigot Earle of Norfolk and others of like gravitie and experience did manage the affaires Five and no more were the distempers then in state but such as are incident in all the Commons greedy of libertie as the Nobilitie of rule and but one violent raised by some old and constant followers of his fathers ●ulio de Bren Hist Maj. M. Paris De Fortbus and others men that could only thrive by the wars misliking those dayes of sloth for so they termed that calme of King Henries reigne and rather because the justice of quietnesse urged from them to the lawfull owners such lands and castles as the furie of war had unjustly given them for finding in the uprightnesse of the King that protection could not be made a wrong doer Hist Sancti Albani they fell out into the rebellion which ended their lives and competitions professing their swords that had set the Crowne upon the Soveraigne should now secure those small pittances when Majestie and Law could not Dangerous are too great benefits to Subjects of their Princes when it maketh the mind capable only of merit nothing of dutie No other disquiet did the State after this feele but such as are incident to all Malice to authoritie goodnesse and greatnesse may secure themselves from guilt but not from envie for highest in trust in publike affaires are still shot at by the aspiring of those that see themselves lesse in employment than they deeme in merit Those vapours did ever and easily vanish so long as the helme was guided by wise and temperate spirits and the King tyed his actions to the rules of good counsell and not to young passionate and single advice Thirtie yeares now passed and all the old guides of his youth dead but De Burgo Christ de Dunst a man in whom nothing of worth was wanting but moderation whose length of dayes giving him the advantage of sole power his owne ambition and age gave him desire and art to keep out others This bred to him the fatal envie of most which the proud title of Earle and offices then bestowed on him much encreased Sin by this had wrought as in it selfe so in the affection of the people a revolution the affection of their fathers forgotten and the surfet of long peace having led them perchance into some abuses From thence the Commons to whom everie dayes presence seeme worst commend the foregone ages they never remembred and condemne the present though they knew neither the disease thereof nor the remedie To this idle and usuall humour fals in some noble spirits warme and overweening who being as truly ignorant as the rest Christ Lichfield first by fulling the wisdome of the present and greatest Rulers making each casuall hap their errour seeme to decypher everie blemish in government and then by holding certaine imaginarie and fantasticall formes of Common-weale flatter their own beleefes and abilities that they could mould any state to those generall rules which in particular applications will prove them grosse and idle absurdities confirmed in their owne worths by Sommery and Spencer Gual Coven they take it a fit time to work themselves into action and authoritie now a thing they long desired and thought unwilling to seeme to sue for Doubtlesse the surest of their aimes was yet to become quiet instruments in serving the State if they had been held worthy but the King taught by the new Earle Consilia senum hast as juvenum esse and that such wits for so they would be stiled Novandis quam gerendis aptiores fitter in being fietie to disorder than to settle affaires either delayed or denyed their desires For wise Princes will ever chuse their Instrument negotiis non supra creatures out of free election that are only otherwise without freenesse or power Among this unequall medley there were of Nobilitie Pembroke Glocester Hist major M. Paris Hartfield Darlings of the multitude some for the merits of their fathers whose memories they held sacred as pillars of publike libertie and oppresiours of encroaching Monarchie Others of the Gentrie Fitz-Geffery Bardolfe Gruby Mansell and Fitz-Iohn spirits of as much acrimony and arrogant spleene as the places from whence they were elected Camp Court or Countrey could afford any These by force would effect what by cunning the others did affect but all impatient to see their ends thus frustrate and that so long as the King followed the directions of the Earle of Kent they had small hopes of their desires they made often meetings and as one saith of them Hist minor M Paris Clam nocturnis colloquiis an t flexa in vesperum diem At last Sommery and Spencer two that were far in opinion with the rest Gentlemen that by forraine education and employment were better qualified than usually men of those times and that set upon their owne deserts the best places when the streame should turne which some of them did unworthily obtaine for he died in actuall rebellion Iusticiarius Angliae against his Majestie advised that the surest means to remove that great and good obstacle the Earle of Kent out of the way of their advancement was by sifting into his actions and siding with his enemie Peter Bishop of Winchester an evill man but gracious with the King aiming that the worthiest driven out by the worst they should ever be able to match him with his owne vices which will be more visible as he is more potent and so remove him at pleasure or else