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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A07106	A speach deliuered, to the Kings most excellent Maiestie in the name of the sheriffes of London and Middlesex. By Maister Richard Martin of the Middle Temple	Martin, Richard, 1570-1618.	1603 (1603)	STC 17510; ESTC S112363	3,751	12

A SPEACH DELIVERED TO THE KINGS MOST EXCELLENT MAIESTIE IN THE NAME OF THE SHERIFFES OF LONDON AND MIDDLESEX By Maister Richard Martin of the Middle Temple AT LONDON Imprinted for Thomas Thorppe and are to be sould by William Aspley 1603. A SPEACH DELIVERED TO THE KINGS MOST EXCELLENT MAIESTIE AT HIS NEERE APPROACH TO LONDON IN THE NAME OF THE SHERIFFS OF LONDON AND MIDDLE SEX THe common feares difficulties which perplex most confident Orators speaking before Princes would more confound my distrustful spirit speaking to your high Maiestie most mighty King our dreade soueraigne Lord did I not know that the message which I bring is to a good King alwayes gratefull Curiosity of wit and and affected straines of Oratory I leaue to those who more delight to tickle the Princes eare then satisfie his deeper iudgement To me most gracious Soueraigne your Maiesties meanest subiect vouchsafe your milde and Princely attention whiles in the names of these graue Maiestrates your Maiesties faithfull Sheriffes of London and Middle SeX I offer to your benigne grace that loyall and harty welcome which from that Honorable and ancient Cittie the heart of this kingdome is brought by them whose deepe and inward griefe conceaued for the losse of our Peerelesse and renouned Queene Elizabeth is turned into excessiue ioy for the approach of your excellent Maiesty by whom the long and blessed peace of fiue and forty yeeres is made perpetuall Great is thac'knowledgement we owe to the memory of our late Princes gouernement whose far spread fame as it shall liue recōmended to posterity for euer so of her flourishing raigne no other testimony neede be required then that of your high Maiestie since none can be more honourable that the like hath not beene read or heard of in our dayes or since the raigne of great Augustus So that euen glorious and victorious Kings haue iust cause to enuy the glory and virtue of a woman But she is gathered in peace to her fathers a memorable instance of your Maiesties diuine obseruation that Princes differ not in stuffe but in vse from common men Out of the Ashes of this Phenix wert thou King Iames borne for our good the bright starre of the North to which all true adamantine harts had long before turned themselues Whose fame like a new Sunne rysing dispersed those cloudes of feare which either our politicke friendes or open enimies or the vnnaturall factors for the fift Monarchy had giuen vs some cause to apprehend yea our nobility Councellors and Commons whose wisedome and fidellity is therefore renouned as farre as this Iland is spoken of with a generall zeale poasted to your Maiesties subiection not more incited heere vnto by the right of your Maiesties discent royall bloud drawen to this faire inheritāce from the loynes of our ancient Kings then enflamed with the fame of your Princely and eminent virtues wherewith as a rich Cabinet with precious iewels your Kingly minde is furnished if constant fame haue deliuered vs a true inuentory of your rare qualities A King whose youth needes no excuse and whose affections are subdued to his reason A King which not onely does iustice which euen Tyrants doe some times but loues iustice which habit none but vertuous Princes can put on Who immitating the free bounty of the King of Kings inuites all distressed people to come vnto him not permitting Gehaezie to take talents of siluer nor change of garments In some Princes my Soueraigne Lord it is inough that they be not euill but from your Maiesty wee looke for an admirable goodnesse and particular redresse so strange an expectation forerunning your Maiesties comming hath inuested the mindes of good men with comfort of bad with feare And see how bounteous heauen hath assined foure kingdomes as proper subiects for your Maiesties foure Kingly vertues Scotland hath tried your prudence in reducing those things to order in the Church and Common-wealth which the tumultuous times of your Maiesties infancie had there put out of square Ireland shall require your iustice which the miseries I dare not say the pollicies of ciuil wars haue there defaced France shall prooue your fortitude when necessary reason of state shall bend your Maiesties Counselles to that enterprize But let England be the schoole wherein your Maiesty will practize your temperance and moderation for here flattery will essay to vndermine or force your Maiesties strongest constancie and integrity base assentation the bane of virtuous Princes which like Lazarus dogs licks euen the Princes soares a vice made so familiar to this age by long vse that euen Pulpits are not free from that kinde of treason A treason I may iustly call it most capitall to poyson the fountaine of wisedome and iustice whereat so many kingdomes must be refreshed Nor can I be iustly blamed to lay open to a most skilfull and faithfull Phisition our true griefes nay it shall bee the comfort of mine age to haue spokē the truth to my Lord the King and with a hart as true to your Maiestie as your owne to make knowne to an vncorrupted King the hopes and desires of his best subiects Who as if your Maiestie were sent downe from Heauen to reduce the golden age haue now assured themselues that this Iland by strange working and reuolution now vnited to your Maiesties obedience shall neuer feare the mischiefes and misgouernments which other countries and other times haue felt Oppression shall not be here the badge of authoritie nor insolence the marke of greatnesse The people shall euery one sit vnder his owne Oliue tree and anoynt himselfe with the fat thereof his face not grinded with extorted sutes nor his marrow suckt with most odious and vniust Monopolies Vnconcionable Lawiers and greedie officers shall no longer spinne out the poore mans cause in length to his vndoing and the delay of iustice No more shall bribes blinde the eyes of the wise nor gold be reputed the common measure of mens worthinesse Adulterate gold which can guild a rotten post make Balam a Byshoppe and Isachar as worthy of a iudiciall chaire as Solomon where he may wickedly sell that iustice which he corruptly bought The money changers and sellers of Doues I meane those which trafique the liuings of simple and religious pastors shall your Maiestie whip out of the Temple and common wealth For no more shall Church liuings be pared to the quicke forcing ambicious Church-men pertakers of this Sacriledge to enter in at the window by simonie and corruption which they must afterwards repaire with vsurie and make vpp with pluralities The Ports and Hauens of these kingdomes which haue long beene barrd shall now open the mouthes of there riuers and the armes of there seas to the gentle amity and iust trafficke of all nations washing away our reproach of vniuersall pirats and sea-wolues and deryuing by the exchange of home-bred commodities with forraigne into the vaines of this land that wholesome blood and well gotte treasure which shall