A
Short
view
of
the
long
Raigne
of
Henry
the
third
.
WEaried
with
the
lingring
calamities
of
Ciuill
Armes
,
and
afrighted
at
the
sudden
fall
of
a
licencious
Soueraigne
,
all
men
stood
at
gaze
expecting
the
euent
of
their
long
desires
(
Peace
)
and
issue
of
their
new
hopes
(
Benefit
.
)
For
in
euery
shift
of
Princes
there
are
few
either
so
meane
or
modest
that
please
not
themselues
with
some
probable
object
of
preferment
.
To
satisfie
all
,
Pembrook
,
the
guide
of
his
infancy
,
and
no
lesse
then
for
thirty
yeares
after
whilst
De
Burgo
,
that
fast
seruant
of
his
Fathers
against
the
French
,
both
in
Normandy
and
England
with
Bygod
Earle
of
Norffolke
and
others
of
like
grauity
and
experience
did
manage
the
Affaires
.
Few
and
no
other
were
the
distempers
then
in
State
,
but
such
as
are
incident
to
all
,
the
Commons
greedy
of
liberty
,
and
the
Nobility
of
Rule
,
Fulco
de
Brent
de
Fortibus
and
others
,
men
that
could
onely
thriue
by
the
warres
,
misliking
those
dayes
of
sloath
▪
(
for
so
they
termed
that
calme
of
King
Henries
gouernement
;
)
and
the
rather
because
the
Iustice
of
quiet
times
vrged
from
them
to
the
lawfull
owners
,
such
Lands
and
Castles
as
the
fury
of
war
had
vniustly
giuen
them
,
for
finding
in
the
vprightnesse
of
the
King
,
that
power
of
protection
should
not
be
made
a
wrong
doer
,
they
fell
out
into
that
rebellion
,
that
with
it
,
Thirty
yeares
now
passed
,
de
Burgo
,
(
a
man
in
whom
nothing
of
worth
was
wanting
but
moderation
,
)
whose
length
of
dayes
giuing
him
the
aduantage
of
sole
power
,
his
owne
Ambition
and
Age
gaue
him
desire
,
and
Art
,
to
keepe
out
others
,
which
wrought
him
into
the
fatal
enuy
of
most
,
and
that
encreased
in
the
Title
of
Earle
,
&
great
Offices
the
King
then
gaue
him
.
Time
by
this
,
had
wrought
,
as
in
it selfe
,
so
in
the
hearts
of
the
people
,
a
Reuolution
,
the
afflictions
of
their
fathers
forgotten
,
and
the
surfeit
of
long
peace
;
perchance
hauing
let
in
some
abuses
,
from
hence
,
the
Commons
to
whom
dayes
present
seeme
euer
worst
,
commend
the
foregone
ages
they
neuer
remembred
,
and
condemne
the
present
,
though
they
knew
neither
the
disease
thereof
,
nor
the
remedy
.
Next
confirmed
in
their
owne
worth
by
Sommery
and
Spencer
,
But
the
King
taught
by
the
new
Earle
,
That
Consilia
senum
hastas
juvenum
esse
;
and
that
such
wits
,
(
for
so
they
would
be
stiled
)
were
Nouandis
quam
gerendis
rebus
aptiores
,
fitter
in
being
factious
to
disorder
,
then
to
settle
affayres
,
eyther
denyed
or
delayed
their
desires
;
for
wise
Princes
will
ever
choose
their
Instruments
Parnegotijs
,
and
not
supra
,
Creatures
out
of
meere
election
,
that
are
onely
theirs
,
otherwise
,
without
friends
or
power
.
Amongst
this
vnequal
medly
,
there
were
of
the
Nobility
,
Pembrook
,
Glocester
,
and
Hartford
,
darlings
of
the
multitude
;
some
for
the
merrit
of
their
Fathers
,
whose
memories
they
held
Sacred
,
as
Pillars
of
publike
liberty
and
opposers
of
encroaching
Monarchy
:
at
Runemeed
the
Armies
met
.
And
of
the
Gentry
,
Fitz-Geffe●ry
,
Bardolph
,
Grisley
,
Maunsell
and
Fitz-Iohn
,
spirits
of
as
much
Acrimony
and
Arrogant
spleene
,
as
the
places
from
whence
they
were
elected
Campe
,
Court
,
or
Countrey
,
could
affoord
any
:
These
by
force
would
effect
what
the
other
did
affect
by
cunning
;
but
all
impatient
,
to
see
their
ends
thus
frustrate
,
and
that
so
long
as
the
King
followed
the
direction
of
the
Earle
of
Kent
,
they
had
small
hope
of
their
desires
,
they
made
often
meetings
;
In
the
end
,
Sommery
and
Spencer
,
two
that
were
farre
in
opinion
with
the
rest
,
Gentle-men
,
by
Forraine
education
and
imployment
,
more
quallified
then
vsually
men
of
these
Times
;
and
that
set
vppon
their
owne
deserts
,
the
best
places
when
the
Streame
should
turne
,
(
which
one
of
them
,
Spencer
,
did
vnworthily
obtayne
,
for
he
dyed
in
actuall
Rebellion
,
Iusticiarius
Angliae
,
against
his
master
)
advised
that
the
best
meanes
to
remooue
that
great
and
good
obstackle
,
the
Earle
of
Kent
,
out
of
the
way
of
their
advancement
,
was
by
sifting
into
his
actions
,
and
siding
with
his
opposite
,
Peter
Bishop
of
Winchester
,
(
an
ill
man
,
but
gracious
with
the
King
)
making
still
their
ends
,
that
the
worthiest
beeing
driuen
out
by
the
worst
,
they
shall
eyther
be
able
to
mate
him
with
his
owne
vice
,
which
will
bee
euer
more
visible
,
as
hee
is
more
potent
,
and
so
remooue
him
at
pleasure
;
or
else
giue
over
the
King
to
such
Ministers
,
to
their
bad
desires
,
as
loosing
him
the
hearts
of
his
people
,
might
smooth
them
away
to
their
bad
desires
,
Honores
quos
quieta
Republica
desperant
,
Acero
in
Cattalline
Orat.
prima
.
perturbata
consequi
se
posse
arbitrantur
.
This
Counsell
heard
,
approoued
and
put
in
practise
,
the
corrupt
and
ambitious
Bishop
is
easily
insnared
to
their
part
,
by
mony
and
opinion
,
of
encrease
of
power
.
Articles
are
in
all
hast
forged
,
and
vrged
against
the
Earle
,
Lib.
Bermondsey
Vita
abbati
sancti
alban●
as
sale
of
Crowne
land
;
wast
of
the
Kings
Treasure
;
and
lastly
,
(
that
which
these
doubtfull
times
held
capitall
)
his
giuing
allowance
to
any
thing
that
might
breed
a
rupture
between
the
Soueraigne
and
the
Subiects
,
as
hee
had
done
in
making
way
with
the
King
,
to
annihilate
all
Patents
granted
in
his
nonage
,
Well
?
hee
cleared
himselfe
of
all
,
but
the
last
,
and
did
worthily
perish
by
it
,
for
arts
that
fill
Princes
Coffers
,
are
euer
the
ruines
of
their
first
Inventors
;
bad
times
corrupt
good
Councells
,
and
make
the
best
Ministers
,
yeelde
to
the
lust
of
Princes
,
therefore
this
King
cannot
passe
blamelesse
,
that
would
so
easily
blemish
all
former
merrits
,
of
so
good
a
seruant
,
for
that
wherein
himselfe
was
chiefe
in
fault
.
But
Princes
natures
are
more
variable
,
and
sooner
cloyd
then
others
,
more
transitory
their
fauours
,
and
as
their
mindes
are
large
,
so
they
easily
ouer
looke
their
first
election
,
tying
their
affections
,
no
further
then
their
owne
satisfactions
.
The
Bishop
now
alone
manageth
the
State
,
chooseth
his
chiefe
Instrument
,
Peter
De
Riuallis
,
a
man
like
himselfe
,
displaceth
the
natiues
,
and
draweth
Poictoins
and
Brittons
into
Offices
of
best
trust
,
and
benefit
;
and
the
King
into
an
euill
opinion
of
his
people
.
For
nothing
is
more
against
the
nature
of
the
English
,
then
to
haue
strangers
rule
ouer
them
,
of
this
mans
time
,
Wendouer
,
an
Author
then
liuing
,
sayth
,
Iuditia
committunter
injustis
,
Leges
ex
▪
legibus
,
Pax
discordantibus
,
justitia
iniuriosis
.
Thus
the
plot
of
the
tumultuous
Barons
went
cleare
,
and
had
not
the
discreeter
Bishops
calmed
all
by
dutifull
perswasions
,
Annalis
de
Ely
.
and
informing
the
King
that
the
support
of
this
bold
mans
power
(
whose
carriage
before
had
lost
his
Father
▪
Normandy
,
the
loue
of
his
people
,
and
in
that
his
Crowne
)
would
by
teaching
the
sonne
to
reject
in
passion
the
just
petitions
of
his
loyall
Subjects
,
(
as
of
late
the
Earle
of
Pembrooke
his
Earle
Marshall
of
England
the
due
of
his
Office
)
driue
all
the
State
into
discontent
by
his
bad
advise
,
and
corrupt
manners
;
doubtlesse
the
rebellious
Lords
had
ended
this
distemper
,
as
their
designe
was
,
in
a
ciuil
Warre
.
Denials
from
Princes
must
bee
supplyed
with
gracious
vsage
,
that
though
they
cure
not
the
sore
,
yet
they
may
abate
the
sence
of
it
;
but
best
it
is
,
that
all
fauours
come
directly
from
themselues
;
denialls
and
things
of
bitternesse
from
their
Ministers
.
Thus
are
the
strangers
all
displaced
and
banished
,
Riuallis
extortions
ransackt
,
Treuet
sayth
)
to
seeke
as
he
presently
did
,
advise
and
loue
amongst
strangers
,
seeing
no
desert
could
purchase
it
at
home
,
all
bore
themselues
like
Tutors
and
Controllers
,
few
like
subjects
and
Councellours
.
God
wee
see
holdeth
the
hearts
of
Princes
,
and
sendeth
them
such
Councellors
as
the
quality
of
the
subiect
merriteth
.
At
this
the
great
and
grauest
men
began
to
grieue
,
knowing
the
vnworthy
without
honour
,
or
merrit
,
thus
to
deale
alone
in
that
which
should
passe
through
their
hands
,
and
to
leape
ouer
all
their
heads
,
to
the
greatest
Honour
and
Offices
,
and
therefore
runne
along
with
the
then
rising
grace
of
the
Kings
halfe
brethren
,
(
though
strangers
)
hoping
thereby
to
deuide
that
power
,
which
otherwise
they
saw
impossible
to
breake
.
Leicester
confident
of
his
Maisters
loue
,
and
impatient
to
beare
eyther
riuall
in
fauour
,
Chron.
Reading
.
or
partner
in
rule
,
opposeth
them
all
,
but
findeth
in
his
ebbe
of
fauour
,
the
Fortune
of
others
,
and
that
this
King
could
euer
as
easily
transferre
his
fancy
as
he
had
setled
his
affection
.
Great
we
see
must
be
the
arte
and
cunning
of
that
man
,
that
keepes
himselfe
a
floate
in
the
streame
of
Soueraignes
fauour
,
since
the
change
of
Princes
wils
,
which
for
the
most
part
are
ful
of
fancy
and
soone
satiate
are
hardly
arrested
:
Who
so
would
effect
this
,
must
only
attend
the
honour
and
service
of
his
Maister
,
and
dispoyled
of
all
other
respects
,
transforme
himselfe
into
his
inward
inclination
and
worke
into
necessity
of
imployment
,
by
vndergoing
the
Offices
of
most
secrecy
,
eyther
of
publicke
seruice
,
or
princes
pleasures
,
he
must
also
beate
downe
Competitors
of
worth
by
the
hands
of
others
,
conceale
his
owne
greatnes
in
publicke
,
with
a
fained
humility
,
and
what
impotency
or
gouernment
he
affecteth
,
let
it
rather
seeme
the
worke
of
others
,
out
of
conveniency
,
then
any
appetite
of
his
owne
.
Now
were
the
raynes
of
rule
,
by
this
advantage
,
taken
by
the
rebellious
Lords
,
Adam
,
Guido
,
Godfray
,
and
William
,
himselfe
as
before
;
Et
magna
Fortuna
licentiam
tantum
vsurpans
:
For
to
act
his
owne
part
,
hee
was
ever
wyer-drawne
when
hee
had
such
worthy
servants
as
would
often
for
his
Honour
vrge
it
.
For
these
Masters
,
(
as
Wallingford
termeth
them
)
Tanta
elati
jactantia
quod
nec
superiorem
sibi
intelligunt
,
nec
parem
mellitis
&
mollitis
adulationibus
animum
Regis
pro
libito
voluntatis
à
ratione
tramite
declinantes
,
do
alone
what
they
list
.
They
fill
vp
the
place
of
Iustice
and
Trust
,
with
their
Country-men
,
strangers
,
exact
of
whom
,
how
and
what
they
they
please
;
waste
the
Treasure
and
Crown
Lands
on
themselues
,
and
their
followers
,
set
prices
on
all
offices
,
and
rayne
the
Lawe
within
the
rule
of
their
owne
Brests
.
Wil.
de
Rishanger
.
The
vsuall
reply
of
their
seruants
,
to
the
playnts
of
the
Kings
subjects
,
beeing
Quis
tibi
rectum
faciet
?
Dominus
rex
vult
;
quod
Dominus
meus
vult
;
these
strangers
seemed
in
their
Lawlesse
carriage
not
to
haue
bin
inuited
,
Lib.
Monastery
Ramsey
.
but
to
haue
entred
the
state
by
Conquest
:
The
great
men
they
enforced
not
to
obey
,
but
to
serue
,
and
the
meane
to
liue
so
as
they
might
justly
say
,
they
had
nothing
,
yet
least
the
King
should
heare
the
groanes
of
his
people
,
and
the
wickednesse
of
his
Ministers
,
which
good
and
able
men
would
tell
him
,
they
barre
all
such
accesse
:
Suspition
beeing
the
best
preseruer
of
her
owne
deserts
,
aymeth
at
these
,
who
hath
more
of
vertue
then
themselues
,
as
fearing
them
most
.
Thus
is
the
incapacity
of
governement
in
a
King
,
when
it
falls
to
bee
prey
to
such
Lawlesse
Minious
,
the
ground
of
infinite
corruption
in
all
the
members
of
the
State
,
all
take
warrant
generally
from
Princes
weakenesses
,
of
licencious
liberty
,
and
greatnesse
makes
profit
particularly
by
it
,
and
therefore
giue
way
to
encrease
ill
,
to
encrease
their
gaynes
.
A
Famine
accompanieth
these
corruptions
,
and
that
so
violent
,
London
.
Famine
proceedes
,
Fames
praecessit
&
secutus
est
gladius
tam
terribilis
vt
nemo
inermis
secure
possit
,
provincia●
peruagare
:
For
all
the
Villages
of
the
Kingdome
were
left
a
prey
to
the
Lawlesse
Multitude
:
Who
Per
diuersas
partes
itinerantes
velut
per
Consensum
aliorum
,
(
as
the
Record
sayth
)
did
imply
that
the
factious
Lords
suspected
by
the
King
,
had
giuen
some
heat
to
that
commotion
.
Seditious
Peeres
bringing
euer
fewell
to
such
popular
fires
.
Neyther
was
the
Church
without
a
busie
part
in
this
Tragicke
worke
for
Walter
Bishop
of
Worcester
,
Wil.
de
Rishanger
.
and
Robert
of
Lincolne
,
to
whom
Mountford
and
his
faction
,
Prae-cordialiter
adhaerebant
were
farre
ingaged
.
In
such
designes
,
Church-men
are
neuer
wanting
,
and
the
distaste
of
the
present
gouernement
,
(
as
well
in
the
Church
as
in
the
Common-wealth
,
)
will
euer
bee
a
knot
of
strength
for
such
vnquiet
spirits
,
who
aswell
frame
to
themselues
some
other
forme
of
gouernment
;
then
the
present
in
the
Church
,
as
in
the
temporall
state
,
as
that
which
with
the
giddy
multitude
winneth
best
opinion
,
and
did
at
this
time
fitly
suite
the
peoples
humours
,
so
much
distasting
the
new
Courts
of
the
Clergy
,
their
pompe
,
their
greedines
and
the
Popes
extortions
.
A
fayre
pretext
was
it
to
those
factious
Bishops
,
to
vse
their
bitter
pens
and
speeches
,
so
farre
agaynst
Religious
Orders
,
Ceremonies
,
and
State
of
the
Church
,
that
one
of
them
incurred
the
sentence
of
Excommunication
at
Rome
,
and
Treason
at
home
;
Remissione
peccatorum
vt
causam
illam
(
meaning
his
Rebellions
)
vsquae
ad
mortem
assumeret
,
Wil.
de
Rishanger
▪
asserens
pacem
Ecclesiae
Anglicanae
numquam
sine
gladio
materiali
posse
firmari
.
It
was
not
the
best
Doctrine
that
this
man
could
plant
,
by
liberty
or
warre
when
the
first
Church
rose
by
fasting
and
prayer
.
True
Piety
binds
the
Subiect
to
desire
a
good
Soveraigne
,
but
to
beare
with
a
bad
one
,
and
to
take
vp
the
burthen
of
Princes
with
a
bended
knee
,
rather
in
time
so
to
deserue
abatement
,
then
resist
authority
.
Church-men
therefore
ought
not
alwayes
to
leade
vs
in
the
rule
of
Loyalty
,
but
a
knowledge
of
our
owne
duties
,
in
difficult
poynts
of
Religion
,
where
an
humble
ignorance
,
is
a
safe
and
secure
knowledge
,
wee
may
relye
vpon
them
.
To
suppresse
these
troubles
,
and
supply
the
kings
extremity
,
a
Parliament
was
called
,
●arth
.
Co●on
.
much
to
the
liking
of
those
Lords
,
who
as
little
meant
to
releeue
the
King
as
they
did
to
acquiet
the
State
,
Here
they
began
to
tell
him
hee
had
wronged
the
publicke
State
in
taking
to
his
priuate
election
the
Iustice
,
Chancellour
and
Treasurer
,
M.
Paris
.
that
should
bee
onely
by
the
Common
Councell
of
the
Realme
,
Wendouer
.
commending
much
the
Bishop
of
Chicester
for
denying
deliuery
of
the
great
Seale
but
in
Parliament
where
hee
receiued
it
.
They
blame
him
to
haue
bestowed
the
best
places
of
trust
and
benefit
in
his
gift
on
strangers
,
Wallingford
.
Paris
.
and
to
leaue
the
English
vnrewarded
,
to
haue
vndone
the
trade
of
Merchants
by
bringing
in
Maletosts
and
heauy
customes
,
Wil.
de
Rishanger
.
and
to
haue
hurt
the
common
liberty
by
non
obstantes
in
his
Patents
,
to
make
good
Monopolies
for
priuate
fauorites
.
That
he
hath
taken
from
his
Subiects
quicquid
habuerunt
in
esculentis
&
poculentis
.
Rusticorum
enim
equos
,
bigas
,
vina
,
Chron.
Sancti
.
Albani
.
victualia
ad
libitum
caepit
.
That
his
Iudges
were
sent
in
Circuits
vnder
pretext
of
Iustice
to
fleece
the
people
,
Causis
fictitijs
quoscunque
poterant
diripuerunt
.
And
that
Sir
Robert
de
Purslowe
had
wrung
from
the
Borderers
of
his
Forrest
vnder
pretence
of
encrochments
or
assarts
,
great
summes
of
money
.
And
therefore
they
wonder
that
he
should
now
demaund
reliefe
from
his
so
pilled
and
polled
Commons
,
Postquam
regni
caepit
asse
dilapidator
,
was
summed
vp
by
them
to
aboue
800000
l.
Wil.
de
Rishanger
It
were
fitting
to
pull
from
his
fauourites
,
who
had
gleaned
the
Treasure
of
his
Kingdome
,
and
shared
the
olde
Lands
of
the
Crowne
,
seeing
one
of
them
there
whom
the
Lords
described
to
bee
Miles
litteratus
,
or
Clericus
militaris
,
who
had
in
short
space
from
the
inheritance
of
an
acre
,
growne
to
the
Possession
of
an
Earledom
;
Wil.
de
Rishanger
promotions
with
the
cure
of
soules
)
rose
to
dispend
in
annuall
reuenue
4000.
marks
,
Epist.
Robert
Lincolne
.
whereas
more
moderate
Fees
would
haue
become
a
pen-man
,
no
better
quallified
then
with
the
ordinary
fruits
of
a
Writing
Schoole
;
yet
if
a
moderate
supply
would
suite
with
the
Kings
occasions
,
they
were
content
to
performe
so
farre
reliefe
in
Obedience
,
as
the
desert
of
his
carriage
should
merrit
toward
them
:
And
so
as
the
Record
sayth
,
At
which
day
vppon
new
grant
of
the
great
Charter
,
Thus
Parliaments
that
before
were
euer
a
medicine
to
heale
vp
any
rupture
in
Princes
fortunes
,
are
now
growne
worse
then
the
mallady
,
sith
from
thence
more
mallignant
humors
beganne
to
raigne
in
them
,
then
well
composed
tempers
.
The
King
by
this
,
our
Inheritance
is
conuerted
to
Alliens
,
and
our
Houses
to
Strangers
.
Followers
to
a
King
excessiue
in
guifts
,
are
excessiue
in
demaunds
,
and
cut
them
not
out
by
reason
,
but
by
example
:
Fauours
past
are
not
accompted
,
wee
loue
no
bounty
but
what
is
meerely
future
,
the
more
that
a
Prince
weakeneth
himselfe
in
giuing
,
the
poorer
he
is
of
friends
:
For
such
prodigallity
in
a
Soveraigne
,
euer
ends
in
the
rapine
and
spoyle
of
his
subjects
.
Yet
before
the
King
would
agayne
submit
himselfe
,
as
hee
had
the
last
Parliament
,
to
so
many
braues
and
strict
inquiries
of
his
disloyall
subiects
,
he
meaneth
to
passe
through
all
the
shifts
,
that
extreamity
of
neede
,
with
greatnesse
of
minde
could
lay
vppon
him
.
Claus
.
anno
46
&
47.
Henry
3.
He
beginneth
first
with
sale
of
Lands
,
and
then
of
Iewells
,
pawneth
Gascoyne
,
and
after
that
,
his
Imperiall
Crowne
;
and
when
hee
had
neyther
credit
to
borrow
,
(
hauing
so
often
fayled
,
the
trust
hee
had
made
,
)
nor
pawnes
of
his
owne
,
Claus
.
anno
37
Henry
3.
hee
then
layeth
to
pawne
the
Iewells
and
Ornaments
of
St.
Edwards
Shrine
;
and
in
the
end
,
not
hauing
meanes
to
defray
the
dyet
of
his
Court
,
was
enforced
to
breake
vp
House
,
(
and
as
Paris
sayth
)
with
his
Queene
and
Children
,
Cum
Abbatibus
&
Prioribus
satis
humiliter
Hospitia
quae
siuit
&
prandia
.
This
low
ebbe
which
agayne
the
Kings
improuidence
had
brought
him
to
,
gaue
great
assurance
to
the
Rebellious
Lords
,
that
they
should
now
at
the
last
,
haue
the
Soveraigne
power
,
left
a
prey
to
their
ambitious
designes
,
and
to
bring
it
faster
on
,
they
desire
nothing
more
,
then
to
see
the
Kings
extreamity
▪
Constrayne
a
Parliament
,
for
at
such
times
,
Princes
are
euer
lesse
then
they
should
be
,
subiects
more
.
To
hasten
on
the
time
,
and
adapt
the
the
meanes
,
Wil.
de
Rishanger
.
there
are
sowne
certayne
seditious
rumours
,
that
the
Kings
necessity
must
repayre
itselfe
vppon
the
fortunes
and
blessings
of
his
people
,
that
hauing
nothing
of
his
owne
left
,
hee
might
and
meant
to
take
of
others
:
For
Kings
may
not
want
,
as
long
as
the
Subiects
haue
meanes
to
supplye
.
This
tooke
fire
just
to
their
mindes
,
and
wrought
a
little
moouing
in
the
State
,
which
doubtlesse
had
flamed
higher
,
if
the
King
had
not
asswadged
it
by
Proclamations
,
wherein
hee
declared
,
Quod
quidam
malivoli
sinistra
praedicantes
,
Claus
.
anno
49
〈◊〉
3.
illis
falso
suggesserant
illum
velle
eos
indebite
gravari
,
ac
jura
&
libertates
Regni
subuertere
,
&
per
suggestiones
illas
dolosas
&
omnina
falsas
eorum
corda
à
sua
malidictione
,
&
fidelitate
auerterent
,
but
desireth
,
that
Hujusmodi
animorum
suorum
perturbationibus
ne
fidem
adhiberent
,
for
that
hee
was
euer
ready
to
defend
them
from
the
oppression
of
the
great
Lords
,
Et
omnia
jura
&
Consuetudines
eorum
debitas
bonas
,
&
Consuetas
,
in
omnibus
&
per
omnia
plenius
obseruare
,
and
that
they
may
rest
of
this
secure
:
De
voluntate
sua
libera
,
litteras
suas
fecit
patentes
.
But
seeing
still
that
Maiesty
and
right
subsist
not
without
meanes
and
power
,
and
himselfe
had
of
neyther
,
so
much
as
would
stop
the
present
breach
in
his
owne
wants
,
or
his
subiects
loyalties
,
hee
flyeth
to
the
bosome
of
his
people
,
for
reliefe
and
Councell
.
At
Oxford
they
met
in
Parliament
,
Parl.
Oxon●
.
where
his
necessity
,
met
so
many
vndutifull
demaunds
,
that
he
was
forced
to
render
vp
to
their
Rebellious
will
,
his
Royall
power
.
Heere
the
Commons
knowing
that
,
Quum
eligere
inceperunt
,
they
were
Loco
libertatis
,
stood
with
the
King
to
haue
the
managing
of
the
State
,
Math.
Paris
.
put
to
the
care
of
twenty
foure
,
whereof
twelue
by
their
election
,
Mountford
,
Glocester
,
and
Spencer
,
which
besides
the
weakening
of
his
owne
part
,
wonne
to
those
his
late
opposites
,
an
opinion
of
great
interest
they
had
got
in
his
fauour
,
hee
now
hath
left
neyther
election
of
publicke
office
,
nor
priuate
attendants
,
his
halfe
brethren
and
their
followers
,
he
must
dispoyle
of
all
fortune
,
and
exile
by
prescription
vnder
his
owne
hand
,
commaunding
his
Writs
,
Pro
transportatione
fratrum
suorum
,
to
bee
directed
to
the
Earles
of
Hartford
and
Surrey
,
and
not
to
passe
eyther
their
Money
,
Armes
,
or
Ornaments
,
Nisi
in
forma
quam
dicti
Committes
iniunxerent
,
and
after
their
departure
enjoyned
the
men
of
Bristoll
,
Thus
wee
see
how
easily
mens
estates
doe
change
in
a
moment
,
and
how
hard
it
is
to
make
vse
of
things
ill
gotten
.
Richard
Elect
of
the
Empire
,
the
Kings
full
Brother
,
and
then
beyond
Sea
;
Chron.
Sancti
Albani
.
must
bee
wrought
by
Letter
,
as
his
free
desire
to
confirme
by
Oath
those
former
restrictions
of
regall
power
,
which
though
performed
,
yet
would
the
Lords
suffer
neyther
the
one
or
the
other
,
Reg.
Roffen
.
to
enter
Douer
Castle
(
the
Key
of
the
Kingdome
)
which
they
had
furnished
,
as
most
of
the
other
Fortes
of
reputation
in
the
Realme
with
Guardians
of
their
owne
,
sworne
respectiuely
to
the
State
;
and
then
taking
the
like
assurance
of
al
the
Shrieffes
,
Bayliffes
,
Coroners
,
and
other
publicke
Ministers
,
Rot.
in
Scrio
.
searching
the
behauiour
of
many
by
strict
Commission
vppon
oath
,
to
winne
opinion
in
shewe
among
the
Vulgar
,
Wil.
de
Rishanger
.
who
groaned
vnder
their
late
Extortions
,
whereas
their
end
was
truely
,
as
it
after
prooued
,
by
displacing
the
faythfull
Seruants
of
the
King
,
to
open
away
,
to
their
owne
dependants
.
Thus
changing
sole
power
into
the
rule
of
many
,
and
those
by
popular
election
,
made
the
State
beleeue
,
that
this
forme
of
limitted
pollicy
,
they
had
vtterly
suppressed
the
minde
of
man
,
for
euer
dreaming
more
vppon
the
imaginary
humours
or
lycencious
Soveraignity
:
But
it
fell
out
nothing
so
,
for
now
euery
man
beganne
to
estimate
his
owne
worth
,
and
to
hammer
his
head
on
euery
designe
,
that
might
enlarge
his
power
and
commaund
.
Then
beganne
the
great
men
to
rent
from
the
body
of
the
Crownes
,
and
regall
signiories
,
all
such
royall
suitors
as
neighboured
any
of
their
owne
seats
,
Rot.
Parlia
in
Scacar
.
whereto
they
enforce
their
seruice
,
and
so
(
as
the
Record
sayth
)
Ad
sectas
indebitas
,
&
seruitutes
intollerabiles
subditos
Regis
compulerunt
:
Thus
raysing
meane
manners
to
become
great
Honours
,
and
renting
asunder
the
regall
Iustice
,
they
made
themselues
of
so
many
subiects
whilst
they
liued
in
duty
,
Totidem
Tiranni
(
as
the
Booke
of
Saint
Albans
sayth
)
when
they
had
left
their
loyalty
,
Mountford
,
Glocester
,
and
Dispencer
,
Wallingford
.
the
Heads
of
this
Rebellious
designe
,
hauing
by
the
late
prouisions
drawne
to
the
hands
of
the
twenty
foure
Tribunes
of
the
people
,
the
entire
managing
of
the
Royall
State
,
and
finding
that
power
too
much
disperced
to
worke
the
end
of
their
desires
,
forst
agayne
the
King
to
call
a
Parliament
,
where
they
deliuered
ouer
the
authority
of
the
twenty
foure
vnto
themselues
,
and
Create
a
Triumvirate
,
Wil.
de
Rishanger
.
non
Constituenda
Republicae
causa
,
as
they
first
pretended
,
for
their
owne
endes
,
Dictator
perpetuus
:
Ambition
is
neuer
so
high
,
but
she
thinkes
still
to
mount
,
that
station
which
seemed
lately
the
toppe
,
is
but
a
steppe
to
her
now
,
and
what
before
was
great
in
desiring
,
seemes
little
,
being
once
in
power
.
These
three
elect
nine
Councellours
,
and
appoynt
Quod
tres
ad
minus
alternatim
semper
in
curia
sint
,
Ordinat
.
inter
Re●
:
Lond.
to
dispose
of
the
custody
of
Castles
,
&
de
alijs
Regni
negotijs
,
the
chiefe
Iustice
,
Chancellour
and
Treasurer
with
all
Offices
,
Maiores
&
minores
,
they
reserue
the
choyce
of
to
themselues
,
and
bind
the
King
to
this
hard
bargayne
vppon
such
strong
security
;
that
hee
is
contented
vnder
the
great
Seale
,
and
Oath
,
to
loose
to
them
the
knot
of
Regall
duty
,
whensoeuer
hee
assumeth
to
himselfe
his
Regall
dignity
,
Chran
.
Origin
.
sub
sigillo
.
Liceat
omnibus
de
Regno
nostro
contra
nos
▪
in
surgere
,
&
ad
grauamen
nostrum
opem
&
operam
dare
ac
si
nobis
in
nullo
tenerentur
.
This
prodigy
of
fortune
on
whom
she
had
set
a
pittifull
example
of
her
inconstancy
,
finding
no
part
of
his
Soveraignty
left
,
but
the
bare
Title
,
and
that
at
their
leaue
,
beggeth
succour
from
Vrbane
the
fourth
,
agaynst
his
disloyall
subiects
.
The
Pope
by
his
Bul
cancelleth
his
Oath
,
and
contract
,
and
armeth
him
with
Excommunications
agaynst
all
those
that
returne
not
with
speede
,
to
their
due
and
old
Obedience
,
since
promises
made
by
men
,
which
cannot
say
they
are
at
liberty
,
are
weake
,
and
force
hath
no
power
to
make
iust
interest
.
The
Lords
on
the
other
side
that
had
imped
their
winges
with
Eagles
feathers
,
Wil.
de
Rishanger
.
and
liked
no
game
now
,
but
what
was
raked
out
of
the
ashes
of
Monarchy
,
made
head
against
their
Soveraigne
,
and
to
mate
him
the
better
,
called
in
ayde
,
some
French
forces
:
Thus
the
Common-wealth
turned
agayne
her
sword
into
her
owne
bowells
,
Chro.
Brettaniae
.
and
invited
her
ancient
enemy
,
to
the
funerall
of
her
liberty
;
so
that
it
was
a
wonder
she
should
not
at
this
time
passe
vnder
a
forrayne
servitude
.
Dunst.
And
though
these
men
were
more
truely
sensible
of
their
owne
disgrace
,
then
of
others
misery
:
Yet
found
they
no
better
pretext
for
priuate
interest
then
that
of
the
publicke
.
And
therefore
at
the
entry
of
this
war
,
they
cryed
liberty
,
although
when
they
came
neere
to
an
end
,
they
neuer
spake
word
of
it
.
At
Lewis
the
Armies
met
,
where
the
King
endeauours
a
reconciliation
,
but
in
vayne
,
Wil.
de
Rishager
.
for
perswasions
are
euer
vnprofitable
▪
when
Iustice
is
inferiour
to
force
.
The
sword
decides
the
difference
,
and
gaue
the
two
Kings
,
and
their
eldest
Sonnes
Prisoners
:
The
person
now
aswel
as
the
regall
power
;
thus
in
the
hands
of
Mountford
and
Glocester
,
found
neyther
bond
of
security
,
nor
expectation
of
liberty
,
but
what
the
emulous
competition
of
greatnesse
(
which
now
beganne
to
break
out
betweene
these
mighty
Riualls
,
)
gaue
hope
of
,
for
Leicester
meaning
by
ingrossing
from
his
partner
,
to
himselfe
,
the
person
of
the
King
,
and
to
his
followers
the
best
portion
of
the
spoyle
,
to
draw
more
fruite
from
this
advantage
,
then
it
should
in
fellowship
yeeld
,
disolved
the
knot
of
all
their
amity
.
Thus
equall
Authority
with
the
same
power
,
is
euer
fatall
(
wee
see
)
to
all
great
actions
:
For
to
fit
mindes
to
so
euen
a
temper
,
that
they
should
not
haue
some
motions
of
dissenting
is
impossible
.
Mountford
hauing
thus
broken
all
faith
with
his
Confederates
,
and
duty
to
his
Soveraigne
,
left
the
path
of
moderation
so
wisedome
to
come
to
the
King
by
that
of
pride
and
distrust
.
To
him
he
telleth
that
his
Armes
and
ends
had
no
other
object
euer
but
order
of
the
State
,
and
ease
of
the
people
,
that
hee
did
not
in
this
,
carry
affection
against
duty
,
but
well
knew
how
to
reyne
his
desires
,
to
his
just
power
,
and
so
no
lesse
to
his
Maiesties
content
,
if
hee
would
be
ruled
;
which
was
to
commaund
the
Fortes
and
Castles
of
his
now
opposite
Glocester
,
and
the
rest
into
his
hands
.
It
was
hard
to
this
King
thus
to
take
a
Law
from
his
inferiour
,
but
necessity
in
Soueraigne
affaires
doth
often
force
away
all
formallity
;
and
therefore
this
poore
Prince
,
who
now
at
the
Victors
discretion
,
seemed
to
haue
beene
onely
raysed
to
shew
the
inconstancy
of
fortune
and
vanity
of
man
;
suited
himselfe
with
incomparable
wisedome
,
according
to
the
necessity
of
the
time
.
Neyther
did
humillity
wrong
Maiesty
,
when
there
was
no
other
meanes
to
contayne
spirits
so
insolent
but
dissembling
.
He
therfore
summoneth
in
his
owne
person
the
forts
of
his
fastest
friends
,
to
yeeld
to
his
greatest
enemies
.
This
hee
enters
in
shew
as
his
lodging
,
but
in
effect
his
Prison
,
and
saw
himselfe
forced
to
arme
against
his
friends
,
and
to
receiue
now
Lawe
from
him
,
to
whom
hee
lately
thought
to
giue
it
.
Thus
Leicester
is
become
a
darling
of
the
common
rout
,
who
easily
change
to
euery
new
Maister
,
but
the
best
durst
not
sayle
along
his
Fortune
,
by
the
light
of
his
glory
:
Christall
that
fairely
glistereth
doth
easily
breake
and
as
the
ascent
of
vsurping
royalty
is
slippery
,
so
the
top
is
shaking
,
and
the
fall
fearefull
.
To
hold
this
man
then
at
the
entry
of
his
false
felicity
fully
happy
,
was
but
to
giue
the
name
of
the
Image
,
to
the
mettle
that
was
not
yet
molten
,
for
by
this
the
imprisoned
Prince
was
escaped
,
and
fast
assured
of
Glocester
,
by
the
knot
of
his
great
minde
,
and
discontent
,
and
both
with
the
torne
remainder
of
the
loyall
Army
vnited
,
and
by
speedy
march
arriued
vnlooked
for
,
neere
Euesham
,
to
the
vnarmed
troupes
of
the
secure
Rebells
,
whom
they
instantly
assayled
,
for
it
▪
was
no
fit
season
to
giue
time
,
when
no
time
did
assure
so
much
,
as
expedition
did
promise
.
Dispencer
and
other
Lords
of
that
faction
,
made
towards
the
King
,
with
the
best
speede
for
mercy
,
but
could
not
breake
out
,
beeing
hurried
along
the
storme
of
the
giddy
multitude
.
Publicke
motions
depends
on
the
Conduct
of
Fortune
;
private
on
our
owne
carriage
,
we
must
beware
of
running
downe
steepe
hills
,
with
weighty
bodies
,
they
once
in
motion
,
Suo
feruntur
pondere
,
stoppes
are
not
then
voluntary
;
but
Leicester
at
that
instant
with
the
King
,
and
out
of
the
storme
might
haue
escaped
,
if
his
courage
and
hope
had
not
made
him
more
resolute
by
misfortune
,
so
that
hee
could
neyther
forsake
his
followers
,
nor
his
ambition
;
thus
making
adversity
the
exercise
of
his
vertue
,
hee
came
,
and
fell
.
The
King
by
this
blessed
fortune
freed
,
and
obeyed
,
began
to
search
the
ground
of
his
former
misery
,
and
why
that
vertue
and
fortune
that
had
so
long
setled
and
maintayned
vnder
his
ancesters
the
glory
of
his
Empire
,
had
cast
her
in
his
time
off
,
and
conspired
with
her
Enemies
to
her
almost
ruine
,
as
if
they
Genius
of
the
state
had
quite
forsooke
her
;
Here
he
findes
his
wastfull
hand
had
beene
too
quicke
both
ouer
the
fortunes
and
the
blessings
of
his
people
,
the
griping
Auarice
of
his
ciuill
Ministers
and
lawlesse
liberty
of
his
Martiall
followers
,
Tyrants
shed
blood
for
pleasure
Kings
for
necessity
,
yet
least
his
Iustice
and
power
might
to
much
suffer
in
his
grace
and
mercy
,
some
few
hee
punished
by
small
fines
some
by
banishment
,
as
the
two
guiltlesse
yet
vnpittied
sonns
of
the
Arch-traytor
.
Claus
.
52.
H.
3.
M.
29.
Treason
so
hatefull
is
to
the
head
,
that
it
draweth
(
we
see
in
this
)
the
carriage
of
the
innocent
children
into
an
euerlasting
suspect
,
and
what
is
suspition
in
others
is
guilt
in
them
:
Vpon
the
constant
followers
of
his
broken
fortunes
he
bestoweth
,
but
with
a
more
wary
hand
then
before
the
forfeiture
of
his
Enemies
:
Immoderate
liberality
he
had
found
but
a
weake
means
to
win
loue
,
for
it
lost
more
in
the
gathering
then
it
gained
in
the
giuing
.
This
bounty
bestowed
without
respect
,
was
taken
without
grace
,
discredited
the
receiuer
and
detracteth
from
the
iudgement
of
the
giuer
,
and
blunted
the
Appetites
of
such
,
as
carried
their
hopes
out
of
vertue
and
seruice
:
In
himselfe
hee
reformed
his
naturall
Errors
,
Princes
manners
though
a
mute
law
,
haue
more
of
life
and
vigour
then
those
of
letters
,
and
though
he
did
sometimes
touch
vpon
the
verge
of
vice
hee
forbore
euer
after
to
enter
the
circle
.
His
court
where
in
at
this
time
the
faults
of
great
men
did
not
onely
by
approbation
,
but
Imitation
receiue
true
comfort
,
and
authority
,
for
their
crimes
now
became
examples
,
and
customes
,
hee
purged
very
iudiciously
and
seuerely
,
since
from
thence
proceeds
either
the
regular
or
irregular
condition
of
the
common
state
.
Ordinat
author
.
Reg.
aulae
.
Claus
.
53.
H.
3.
R●shanger
.
Expence
of
house
he
measureth
by
the
just
Rule
of
his
proper
reuenew
and
was
heard
often
to
say
,
that
his
excesse
of
wast
before
had
beene
an
issue
of
his
Subjects
blood
,
the
insolency
of
his
Souldiers
made
lawlesse
by
the
late
liberties
of
Ciuill
armes
he
spendeth
in
forraigne
expedition
.
Hauing
seene
that
the
quiet
Spirits
vnderwent
all
the
former
Calamities
,
and
the
other
neuer
were
satisfied
but
in
the
misery
of
Innocents
,
and
would
if
they
had
no
enemies
abroad
seeke
out
at
home
as
they
had
done
before
.
Comment.
de
Trail●aston
.
and
redresseth
by
strict
Commission
;
For
the
sence
of
their
seueritie
,
became
a
murmure
of
his
owne
cruelty
.
The
seates
of
Iudgement
and
Councell
he
filled
vp
with
men
nobly
borne
.
For
such
attract
with
lesse
offence
,
the
generous
spirits
to
respect
and
reuerence
.
Their
Abilities
he
measureth
not
by
fauour
or
by
priuate
Information
as
before
,
but
by
publike
voyce
for
euery
man
in
particular
may
deceiue
and
be
deceiued
,
but
no
man
can
deceiue
all
,
nor
all
one
.
And
to
discouer
now
his
owne
Capacity
and
what
part
he
meaneth
to
beare
hereafter
in
all
deliberate
Expeditions
he
sitteth
himselfe
in
Councell
dayly
,
and
disposeth
Affaires
of
most
weight
in
his
owne
person
.
For
Councellors
be
they
neuer
so
wise
or
worthy
are
but
as
accessaries
,
not
principals
,
in
sustentation
of
the
State
;
their
Office
must
be
subjection
,
not
fellowship
in
considerations
of
moment
,
and
to
haue
ability
to
aduise
,
not
authority
to
resolue
.
For
as
to
liue
the
Prince
must
haue
a
perticular
soule
so
to
rule
his
proper
and
interne
Councell
,
without
the
one
hee
can
neuer
be
truely
man
,
without
the
other
he
shall
neuer
be
securely
a
Prince
,
for
it
offendeth
aswell
the
minister
(
of
merrit
)
as
the
people
to
force
obedience
to
one
vncapable
of
his
owne
greatnesse
,
or
vnworthy
of
his
fortunes
.
This
wonderfull
Change
to
the
generall
State
(
so
hopelesse
lately
to
recouer
her
former
libertie
,
they
sought
now
for
nothing
but
the
mildest
seruitude
)
brought
them
home
againe
with
admiration
to
his
devotion
and
their
owne
duty
.
He
that
will
lay
(
we
see
)
the
foundation
of
Greatnesse
vpon
popular
loue
,
must
giue
them
ease
and
Iustice
,
for
they
measure
the
bond
of
their
obedience
,
by
the
good
alwayes
that
they
receiue
.
Englands
Iustinian
,
and
freed
this
Kingdome
from
the
wardship
of
the
Peeres
,
shewing
himselfe
in
all
his
Actions
after
,
capable
to
Commaund
not
the
Realme
onely
,
but
the
whole
world
.
Thus
doe
the
wrongs
of
our
Enemies
more
then
our
owne
discretions
,
make
vs
sometimes
both
wise
and
fortunate
.
FINIS
.