A Collection of such thinges as Robert, late Earle of Salisburye thought fitt to offer vnto King James his Maiestye vpon the Occasion of calling a parlyament

Seeing your Maiesties owne necessities and the Age of the Prince doth move you to call A Parlyament I haue thought it fitt to offer such thinges as the tyme and that occasion doth require, whereof some are such as the dutye of my place per= ticularlye imposeth vppon mee The next are such Collections, as maye giue occasion to some others to prepare themselves against the Tyme when those things come in question / which doe so neerly Concerne you and yours, This being the somme of all my Labours/

(1) First to shew your Majestye your Present Estate

(2:) Secondly what meanes maye be most likelye to persuade your people to Supplye you

(3) Lastlye what Course maye be taken afterwards to preserve you from A newe relapse /

For the First there is A table made wherein your maiestie Shall perticulerlye see what all your certaine receipts doe amount vnto in their severall natures What are your certaine Issues that cannot be avoided / What your Extraordinaries haue beene this yeere and are like to bee / Howe much your debts A= mount vnto / What your Revenue was at the Tyme of the Lord Treasurers deathe and what you ought / What hath bine improved Since you came to the Crowne / What Landes you haue sold / What is the yeerelye Charge of the Princes expences with A blanke paper for an Encrease according to your Majesties pleasure / What hath beene assigned to Former Princes respecting Titles, Powers & Territo= ries / What is assured already to the Duke of Yorke with a Blanke for an encrease /

Some Remembrances For the parlyament A Collection of all that hath beene given your Majestye from your people Since you came to the Crowne

What haue beene the Iustest and greatest Causes of your Expenses

What helpes they haue afforded other Princes

What reasons they haue to helpe your majestye at this tyme with a Collection of some obiections & Answeres to them Provisionally

A President of two Graunts of Subsidies in Parlyament

A Collection of the Landes sould in the Tyme of Q: Elizabeth

A Note of Landes sould in kinge Edwardes Tyme

A Collection of K: H: 8th ordinarye Receipts and expenses with A noate of the Treasure left him & the debt hee dyed in

A collection of such Favors as maye be yeilded to by the Prince in Casse they shew themselves conformable at this Tyme /

What Obiections are likelye to be made /

What Answeres to be given them

Lastlye because your majestye cannot well haue further help from your your Parlyament except some iust cause of Warre should hapen I haue bethought mee allsoe what course maye be most likelye to preserve your Majestye from anye suddaine necessitye, & there in haue had respect aswell to the honor of your Estate, to matters of bountye and reward, and to the Furtherance of all other thinges which maye give ornament to the kingdome, or an encrease to the in= dustrie of your people, All which maye be comprehended vnder the title of generall Pollicye to much neglected in this State, where wee haue A kinge and Councell soe well composed for such works /

A Coppy of your lordshipps First Speech deliuered to the lower house of parlyament / I am enioyned two Things by the Lordes / The First to giue you notice of the Contentment they haue receaved in this meeting as well because it is soe good A Preparatiue to the worke which could not be well ended wth out such A beginning as because you haue yeilded to it with such Alacritie and expedition

The Second is to make vnto you A Declaracion of that which before I had spoken in the higher house confined to A Relacion not best to Election, either in substance or Circumstance I must needes suspecte that it will be tedious to their Lord ships to hear anye thinge twice, and yett I well hope to haue from you A hearing with Favor and patience in respecte of the matter which speaketh soe well for it selfe, and not inregard of my perswations that knowe the Force of my Arguments , must more consist in Animo audientis quam in lingua dicentis

Politique utilitye The generall obiect of this Consultacion is publique vtilitye In the handlinge of the Conference. The Lordes make noe distinction of powers, but acknowledge vnion and equallitye of Interrests knowing well that the kinge (being the publique head can receave noe other good from the bodye of this Parlyament (seured in it selfe) then the naturall can receave Comforte when there is interuption of the Passages betweene the braine and the heart, whereof the best Issue can be noe other but the effect of a dead Palsye which taketh awaye motion First and liffe after /

For my declaracions it consists of two Parts

Causes of calling the Parlyament The First to make knowne the Causes of Callinge this Parlyament

The Second to propound some Motions

In the First you shall haue truth but at great lengthe

For the Second, they shall be such both in nature and vse, as when you haue heard and well waighed, then I doubt not but you will receave them Paucis mambus

Institucion of this Monarchie From the First Institucion of the Monarchie which consists (as all others doe) of people governement and Revenue All wise Prince whensoever there was cause to withstand present Euells or future perills ( soe much the more perillous because invisible) haue allwayes addressed themselves to their Parlyaments for Councell & defence according to the severall sortes, For States to worke vpon

Some Parlyaments haue bene called for making of lawes, the Soule of the Common weale As in the Tyme of Ed: the First

Others for entayling possessions to the Crowne as in the 5: of Hen: 4: And in the Tyme of Hen: 8: There was A Parlyament for the establishing of A Succession, And therein not onlye the Members of both houses sworne, and their names subscribed to A Parchment Roll declating soe much, but Commissions sent throughout The sessions of Parlyament called for two Causes / Supply - throughout to sweare everye man and woman by the Poll

Having thus breiffelye poynted at some few Causes of calling Former Parlyaments, I will now discend to the perticuler causes of Assembling this present Parlyament / They are onlye Two /

One to procure supplye for his Majeste State, with some ease to be given to the Subiecte Pulcher Thesaurus bene locata gratia

The other to make you wittnesses (as some other kinges haue done your Predecessors of those great honors and Favors which his majestye intendeth to performe to his Royall Sonne in Creating him Prince of Wales , and Earle of Chester, of which parte though it be the Second member of my devision , yett because it is A Subjecte that hath raysed much discourse (some asking whether it might be done without A Parlyament, others whye it is lefte to Parlyament, If there were noe such necesitie, I willbe bould to shew you some of my observations, though not much worth hearing, yet not alltogether impertinent, to be by you reported to men of inferior Iudgment because they doe rather looke vpon the Super= ficies then the Inner causes

England neuer had more then eleven Princes of Wales In all my observacions as well of that whereof Story maketh mencions As of that which appeareth in Authentique Records and Auntient Charters, I finde that this kingdome had never more then Eleaven Princes of Wales /

The First was the Sonne of H: 3: whoe was after called Ed: 1: Created at London, of whose Creation it is written that Pater ouis (meaning H: 3) mortaliter proganisus est This was the kinge that setled the Lawes and governement in first & best repose /

Ed: 2:) Next was his Sonne (after called Edward 2: created at London

Ed: 3:) Then his Sonne (after called Ed: 3: created at Yorke /

For these three I haue the warrant of divers Historiographers (the Particular Charters being not extant, And the Story saithe that they were created in A greate Councell or Parlyament

of Princes whose Charters are extant Ed:the Black Prince The First was Edward the Blacke Prince Sonne of Ed: 3: Created at London and by Parlyament withe theise wordes ( ex con= sensu Pralatorum et comunitatis

( Rich: 2: His Sonne who was after called Richard the Second created at Havering without Parlyament

(Hen: 5:) After him Hen: 5: the eldest Sonne of Hen: 4: Created at London by Parlyament

(Ed: 4:) After him Edward the Sonne of Hen: 6: created at Reading by Parlyament

The next was the Sonne of Ed: 4: whoe was afterwardes called Ed: 5: Created at London without Parlyament

Ed: sonne of Rich= 3:) Next was Ed: the Sonne of Rich: 3: Created at London without Parlyament

The Two Sonnes of Hen: 7: ) Lastlye the Two Sonnes of H: 7: Arthur and Hen: were created at London by Parlyament

Kinge Ed : 6: had noe Creation nor the Lady Marye more then Titularye sent into Wales with divers of his Majests councell and other officers to direct hir governement

Out of all this (which is but Vulgar) there be two thinges I desire you to noate /

Parlyament hath no essenci= all power in the creation of Princes The one that the Parlyament hath noe Essentiall power in the Creation of Princes as maye appeare by the aunsweare of Edward Edward: 3: when the Commons made suite to haue his grandchilde Rich: 2: created in Parlyament, It was aunswered That both the time place, and power of Creation was onlye in Suic Regis & therefore it might be done at some greate Feast, and soe it was

The second thinge I desire you to note (though for anye sub= stantiall parte it bee little better then the old wives tale) it is onlye this that howsoever some others haue had their Crosses, yett everye one of those that haue bene made out of Parlyament haue beene Princes of infortunitie, Richard the Second deposed Ed: 5: murthered, And the Sonne of Richard the third dyed with in three Monthes after /

But what doe I speake of Tyme, place, and such like circumstance which are but the Shells and Shadowes of this Account, Let vs leave this and behold the Prince himselfe with Comfort and admiration A Prince in whom there are more strang Images of externall formositie, vigour, and Activitie, And for the internall faculties of the Mynde greater Capacitie, promptnes to Learning & Iudgment in pointe of election then ever appeared in Prince of England / It is true I mought haue forborne this Comendacion amongst you whose Eyes I need not open to behold his virtues, yett such is my Ioye when I see him. and soe doe my affeccions kindle when I must speake of him as though I had never had Promptum ad adulaconem Ingenium yett when I am speaking I cannot but chuse but speake what I thinke

Earldome of Chester For the Earldome of Chester, though it be lesse then the former in pointe of dignitie, yett considering howe the state there of was by wisedome of Parlyament in the Tyme of H: 8: changed and reduced for the good of the kingdome Quoad votestatem and to goe on with the rest of my Fragments of the Antiquaryes I cannot omitt to saye something of the State thereof, which hath in it at this daye all Regallities and powers incident to a Countie Pallatine that are not directlye taken away by the Statute 27: H:8:

Hughe Lupus first Earle of Chester The first Earle of Chester (before it came to A Sonne of the Crowne was Hugo Lupus to whom the Conqueror gave the Earledome in these wordes Tenendum ita libere ad gladium sicut ..se Rex tenet Angliam et Coronam , Soe it continued till it came to Johannes Scotus After whom it fell to the heyres By Conquest E: of Flint Bishopricke of St Asaphe in the Princes Presentacion Males, And then by Hen: 3: it was vpon Composition resumed to the Crowne ..e tanta haereditas deuideretur inter colas. A= mong other things, I finde that as he is Earle of Flint (which hee was by Conquest the Bishop: of St Assaph is in his Presentation

I haue now dwelt to long vpon the observations of these things that are as well knowne to you as to my Selfe, For which I must crave pardon, and patience to add thus much further (thoughe it be but Duke of cornewall & Dolphin of Fraunce not much differinge in their Age Triviall, that the honor of the Duke of Cornewall, and that of the dolphine of Fraunce, are not much differing in theire Age the one being established vpon the First Sonne of the kinge by Parlyment in the Tyme of Ed: 3: The other by the three States vpon the Eldest Sonne of Fraunce in the Tyme of Charles the 5: which tuo kinges are, Raigning at the same Tyme

And nowe to come to the First part which is for supplie I must needs laye before you the discription of his Majests Estate And thereof make the wants soe greate as I might entertayne some suspicion, that the Truth of my Relation might be doubted If If I did not knowe that all mens wordes are weighed heere in the ballance of honor and Iustice or could haue accused my selfe to haue deserved soe little Creditt heere (where on the Contrary both the Father and the Sonne, haue had soe good experience of ex= traordinarye private duetie in this place where I sett, not by anye personall or Temporarye honnor or Office But as A Peere that by his majesties Favor haue such A fixed porcion in the greatnes of this Estate. As onlye breach of Loyaltie can take it from me or my posteritie

Bee pleased therefore seeing in Courts of Justice much trust is given to A single Affidavit (though sometimes of an obscure personn, to beleeve what I shall tell you For I protest before God I will not willinglie speake an vntruth

How to Judge of Princes States / Whosoever will rightlie Iudge of Princes State, must examyn whether his ordinarie receipt be sufficient to beare his ordinary yssues, leaving allwayes A porcion to answere extraordinaryes, which are soe certaine in proofe as all men must provide, For thoughe they knowe them not before hand especiallie in the Condicion of A greate Prince, Seing there is noe private man that makes a good reckoning but shall conclude that the Extraordinary will amount to the 4th parte of his Ordinarye Nor anye prince can be safe and happie, that is not able to offend his Enemie vpon iust cause to de= fend himselfe vpon suddaine Iniurye or assist his Freind in Cases of oppression and violence

Of which severall Consideracions though the last may seeme the least yet hath the Experience of her late Majestyes happie and politique gouernment made both by the vse and the honor of that councell appeare by her proceedings towards the French king and the States in the Tyme of their soe Eminent perill & Confusion. As there is noe man of Comon Sence and vnderstanding that will not acknowledge that that kingdome and those provinces must needs haue proved daungerous neighbours to this Crowne For if it be conside= red that Forraigne Amities depends vpon Treaties and that all Treaties are Subiect to contingent causes, That State can never be accounted safe nor provident which is to seeke for meanes Queene Elizabeth in the 2: of her raign had in deposite aboue 2: Millions of Crowns when there is occasion / A matter soe farr from neglect in her majesties tyme as before shee had any Warre with Spayne or had sent anye forces into the low Countryes, hir people had soe Enabled her with frequent Subsidies as shee had at one Instant in the 27th of her raigne aboue Two Millions of Crownes in deposite /

If it be obiected that some other warres which shee had at seuerall Tymes, were cause of those Subsidyes, Soe that I Maye answere, that they were of small consequence till the rebellion in Dismond

subsidies & fifteenes giuen to the late Q from 1st till Anno 27: came to allmost fiue Millions of Crownes For the First was onelye a Change of some fewe forces sent to Hithe, The Second to Newhaven, towards all which her people gave hir soe much in Subsidyes and Fifteenes as it will appeare, That if love and providence had not beene the motives of those Subsidyes they would never haue come soe freelye nor soe frequentlye, For accounting from Primo till Anno. 27: it came to allmost 5: Millyons of Crownes

Of all which and manye other thinges because I meane not to deliver you matters at Randome I haue heere the accompts in my bagg / I would the monye were in the Chamber, From Example men maye well Collect, that the Provisions for Princes safetie are Children of Peace and not of Warre /

But nowe to speake regularlye of his Majesties State wherein I I would be loath to deliver you that for Truthe to daye which should be falce tomorrowe In which kinde I would not willingly take my Farewell that knowe not whether ever I shall speake againe on this place vpon such A Subiect, I must deliver plainely vnto you by the duetie I owe vnto the K: by whom I am warranted

His Majesties expenses vpon his certaine ordinaries exceed every yeere the vtter most of his Receipts That his Majesties expenses vpon his certaine ordinaryes, ex ceed everye yeere, the vttermost of his Receipts ( omnibus viis et modis ) not accounpting such Extraordinaries as are incident and ordinarye to all Princes, neither doe I speake of those changes which breake out in tyme of Warre because that Torrent when itt comes doth ruine with such A streame as noe man can make an estimate that will stopp it nor better prevent anye such Contin= gent perill or disaster, Then by enabling the Estate before hand with the readye and sufficient meanes to resist the same

The kings Debt To this I must allsoe add that Further weight which makes the Ballance much more heavye, and that is the great debts of the kinge, whereof I resolve to speake perticularlye and to support my declaracion by taking my grounds from that Relation which was made in this place, by my predecessor the Earle of Dorsett nowe with god

A declaracion of his Majesties Debt vnder the hand of the late Lo: Treasurer Dorsett / For the veritye whereof that I shall nowe speake, which could not nowe be produced Anew to serue anye present turne, And that in the declaracion Extant, heere vunder his owne hande, conteyning that which followeth (Vizt)

That in Anno 3: his Majesty was indebted the some of seaven hundred and thirtye Thousand poundes

That his receipt was shorte of his Ordinarye yssue the some of Fourescore and one Thousand poundes. Besydes the want of Treasure to discharge all Extraordinarye Expence which never came soe lowe in anye yeere either before or since, As one hundred Thousand poundes For this debt and that vnequallity you maye therefore safelye Conclude, That the debt could not but be Swolne to A highe proporcion of late, because in everye one of the Succeeding Ages From No.3: till Michalmas No.6: there was such an encrease vppon the ordinarye by reenforcing the Armye into Ireland since the beginning of Odoherties Rebellion and vppon some other home causes, As made the vnequallity of Fourescore one Thousand poundes (as it stood No. 3:) Rise by degrees to one hundred and Fortye Thousand poundes, att Michalmas Anno 6: Soe as by the End of that yeere, the whole debt was raysed by that meanes, and by the yeerelye groweinge charges vpon the Extraordinarye to noe lesse then Fourteene hundred Thoousand poundes. A matter soe well knowne to diuerse of the Lordes (that haue wyned with mee in councell and en= deavord to resist that necessitie which was without example in this Monarchie, as I doubt not, I haue their Testimony toe the Truthe thereof

The Debt diminished This news I am sure is vnwellcome to you And therefore I will hold you noe longer in expectation either what is now the debt or the inequallitie, Because though it be farr from well, it is better then it was, For I acknowledge that from Fourteene hundred Thousand poundes at Michalmas Anno 6: it is drawn downe to Three hundred Thousand poundes would God I could saye his Reuenewe held noe lesse disporoporcion which his certaine expence respecting meere ordinaryes and those Extraordinaries Extraordinaryes which everye yeere must require ( though I can not Enumerate the Species, howbeit I maye saye thus much that from that late Inequallitie of one hundred and Forty Thousand pounds to answere meere Ordinaryes, as it stood at Machalmas was Twelve monthes, The receipts doe nowe Equall the Issues within Fortye Six Thousand poundes (thoughe for the Extraordinaryes there remayneth Still lacke of Provicion

Having nowe layd open the great difficultie in his majesties Estate litle by Comparison of what it was, Allthoughe I meane not to trouble you with my diffinition or discription of that which maye be the consequence thereof, that knowe how much the necessitie of Princes invite Forraigne Practises begett contempt at home and Clogg the passages to all noble designes, yet I may boldly saye this, that from the want of kings vnrepaired, there riseth such A Hydra of evills, As all men ought that love their Countrye to make hast to distroye this monster, both in Radice of Gemine

and for my particular I must saye this much, That if sittinge soe neere the Storme and seeing it come in the Ayre, I shoulde haue suffered it to breake and be.. aued my selfe in a private Corner without reporting to the naturall place for remedye I were not worthye to carrye this Staffe in my hand

what hath bene giuen to his Majestye Since his happy Auguracion It remayneth likewise now in further congruitie that I doe al soe giue you an accompte, what hath bine given by his majesties people in the whole since his happye Auguracion, and what use his majesty hath made of it, as well for support of his generall expence As for drawing downe his huge debt to the State it now is

subsidyes First his Majestye receaved his Subsidies due to the queene noe lesse then Three hundfed fiftye Thousand poundes He hath had 4 hundred fiftye thousand pounds in Subsidies, since the Parlyament

Ayde / hee hath had Twenty thousand poundes For the Ayde, where in (Mr Recorder to you I speake it) this is worthie of note, though not worthie to remayne for A record, that the Lords Spirrituall and Temporall haue disbursed neere the pointe of 4 thousand Poundes, For that Ayde, which is foure tymes as much as the cittye of London, put all these togither, then haue you Eight hundred and twentye Thousand pounds

Privye Seales Yf you will saye I haue left out the Monye the king hath had by privye Seales which is little lesse then one hundred 20: Thousand Poundes, my best aunswere must ne vnto you that my memorye Spends apace, and the rather in this perticuler, with which I meant not to charge it, because it is repayd to the right Honers within Five Thousand Poundes and that readye to be receaved when the right as Fast as it is called for /

Of this great Summe and others Raysed out of his owne Estate his Majestye hath made this use

A Declaracion of what use his Majestye hath made of these great Summes / First the three hundred and Fiftye Thousand poundes of Subsidies due to the queene, and paid to the kinge, his majesty tooke it with the one hand and paid it with the other for her owne debts, Hee redeemed the Landes of the Crowne which shee had morgaged to the Cittie

he paid the Reckonings of the base monye in Ireland to the valewe in Silver, discharged an arreare of the debts to the Army in the Admiralltye, Wardrobe and ells where which amounted to three Thousand Fiftie Thousand pounds /

For these Three Subsidies which haue bene geuen to his majesty himselfe, himselfe in Parlyament, at which Tyme the kings debt was de= clared to be Seaven hundred Thirtie Thousand Poundes, which haue since soe much increased, it hath abated Foure hundred fiftye thousand Poundes & the ayde Twentie two Thousand Poundes

Parte of the Kings Debts discharged by Sale of his Lands For the rest of the debt it hath beene discharged partlye by the Sale of some of his Majesties Landes, For the most parte personage Chauntryes in Fee Farme wich hath raysed Foure hundred and odd Thousand Poundes /

Defectiue titles woods and Coppy holds There hath allsoe defectiue Titles vpon Sale of woods, vpon Fynes for Coppye holds, (Comonlye drunke vp by the Stewards) bine raysed the some of one hundred thousand poundes since Michalmas was twelve Monthes

Calling in of Iust debts Sence 30: of Eliz: etc There hath allsoe bine raysed by calling in of Iust debts and Arrerages ( which should haue bine in former yeeres All due since the 30: yeere of the Queene togither with some other Effects of A= bridginge loose Accompts, and liberall expence in Inferiour Mynisters well neere the some of Two Thousand pounds

And nowe that I am come soe farr onward in this wildernes of Accoumpt, which are things more fitt for mee to take of others as I am Treasurer of England, then to make any other, The person of the kinge excepted And this place which hath such A Re= presentation of the kingdome I will be bold to saye some thing of the Tyme Past and therein take occasion to Answere some tacit obiections against the Expences since the Queenes death and the Causes thereof, and soe make hast to that motion, which hath bine the principall of this Conference nam causa et orige et materia negotii /

The late Queens Coffers em= ptied at hir death by the Warres in Ireland When Queen Elizabeth of pretious and famous memorye dyed her Coffers were emptied principallye by the warres in Ireland, wherein shee expended betweene the yeere 94: (some fewe yeeres before Sir Henrye Bagnoll was defeated at the Nerove and the Tyme of her deathe the some of nineteene

Expence in thos wars betweene the yeere 94: and the time of her death 19: hundred Twentye Fower Thousand Poundes, Besydes the Charges of the Lowe Countryes which cost her Foure hundred Thirtye Foure Thousand poundes

The helpe to the French kinge, amounting to little lesse then foure hundred thousand Poundes, make alltogither Twentye eight hundred fiftye eight Thousand poundes, A masse that had left her Croune noe better then A doddard Tree, yf the Subsidies had not helped her with Fifteene hundred Sixtie Thousand poundes, For soe much did they giue her betweene 31 of her Raigne and 43:

The Remaine which was Twelve hundred Ninetye Eighte Thousand poundes being to be borne vpon her ordinarye made this hir debt such as it was when it pleased god to call her to his mercye

The number of the Subsidies giuen the late Queene from the begining of her raigne to her deathe Yf you will aske what from the First daye of hir raigne tell the last daye of hir breath That renowned Lady had of her loving Subiects noe lesse then nyneteene Subsidies of the Clergy Twentye Subsidies and Thirtye nyne Fifteenes of the Laitye All amounting to three Millions Five hundred nynetye thous= and Five hundred Sixtye Fower poundes

charges in Ireland betweene the Earle of Essex and the Earle of Deuonsheire at the be= seige of King Saile / Of theise latter Charges in Ireland in her latter tyme there was spent in one yeere and odd monthes, betweene the Earle of Essex goeing, and the Earle of Devonsheyre Foure hundred Thousand pounds and odd

In another yeere which was when King Saile was beleaguerd beleaguerd and the Realme of Ireland laye at stake there was spent vnder the Earle of Devonsheire, noe lesse then five hundred Thousand poundes, wherein allthoughe it might be sayd, that this Narration hath noe perticuler reference to his Majestyes since her deathe / yet haue I layd it before you that you maye see howe impossible it was for the kinge on the suddaine to discharg that greate Armye which was noe lesse then 14000: men in a litle before her deathe But by degrees both in pointe of honor & Con= science whereby soe manye of the Noblest that were Commanders and other well deserving Soldiers should haue bene disposed to want and penurye And in pointe of Pollicye it being not safe for his majesty after soe inveterate A deffeccion soe newly suppresed not haue kept the Sworde in his hand, Noe what soeuer be the opynions That the kinge is nowe in peace I maye boldlye affirme that betweene the queene till Christmas last, Ireland onelye and the low Countrys haue cost the kinge nyne hundred Thousand pounds, and by the certeine Establishment of that paye which is yssued nowe at every quarter since this Armie was abated, those two places draw from his Majesty One hundred Thousand pounds Sterling A Summe of Monye that would haue made king H: 7: looke about him ( yf in time of peace he had heard of such an Assignacion

And which is more, For all the Myllions, that were left to K H: 8: (whose Expence did never equall in Tyme of Warre, the Expence of the kinge. For these and other materiall Consideracions he would haue left the Crowne at Pawne, For more then it was worthe. Not withstanding all the power hee assumed to himselfe in Parlyament yf he had not raysed to himselfe in Effecte another Crowne in poynt of Reuenue by the fall of Abbyes, whereof the rent as it was in their handes, though he gaue much of it awaye was noe lesse in old Rent Then one hundred Twentye thousand poundes /

And because I must follow my direction, which is not onlye to tell Truthe, I will desire you to remember one litle Summe more, And yet it exceedeth all that you haue given to king James which he hath spent, And I am sure yourselves will not mislike when I shall lay the Summe before you

Charges at the kings and Qs Entraunce Would you, or could you haue wished, that the king ( the Leinall and naturall Successor of that pretious Ladye should haue left her vnburyed, Noe he was noe Soner advertizedof her death but he was carefull to doe her that honor Had it bene fitt for him to come from Edenborough like A private Gentleman when he brought a Crowne on his head, and was to receave another heere /

Had it beene comelye that the Queene discended of that Royall birthe carrying with her soe many markes of State and greatnes Mother of our Future hopes, in her passage through England with her precious Iewells, like the Sun in Transita to haue come in with A Coach and Foure horses like the wife of an Earle had it not bene dishonorable to haue wanted magnificence at the kings royall entry at the coming of the kinge of denmarke /

Forraine Ambassadors Should the Embassadors of Forraigne Princes (more then euer this Crowne receaved) haue blased abroad the kings wants, For lacke of such presents as other Princes vse to giue

sending of Ambassa= dors to Forraine Princes Could the Extraordinarye Charg of sending Ambassadours to Forraine Princes, or the Entertaynent of soe many Commissioners in matters of Treaties haue bene saved by providence Noe surelye I presume you all would haue thought it as error, which makes me assured that you will not wonder at that expence, such as it is, you shall knowe it Amounting to £500000: it with the rest Amounting to noe lesse then Five hundred thousand poundes, which some if you will please to take into the Reconinge of his Majesties Tyme For which you shall haue both the Vouch of honor and oathe of divers men. Omitting other Expences of seuerall natures Buryall of two young Princes / As the birth of Two young Princes and the buryall of them in which noe necessary Expence hath bene omitted, I am persuaded you will be able to satisfye any of thos that shall wonder at the wante or starte at the Supplye, except it be such as studdye nothing but theire owne Ends, Nor beleeve nothing but that which they finde written in the Storyes of their owne Ignorance, Among which I will take A Bruite raysed vpon binding of Printed Proclamacions into A Booke / those persons to be, whoe hearing of A Course to binde vpp all the printed Proclamacions into A booke to the Intent there maye bee better notice taken of those thinges which they comaund, haue beene Content to rayse A bruite That it was intended at this Parlyment to make the Power of Proclamacions equall to the lawes

Vpon which occasion seeing this is the Tyme I haue leave to wander I thinke it not amisse to lett you allso knowe howe falselye some A false report for ta= king the forfeitures of monyes lent at In= terest haue reported, That the kinge haveing made A Tryall of his owne borrowing whoe were monyes men had nowe given order to follow the lawe which giues the Forfeiture of all the Intrest that is taken though it doth not exceed Tenn in the hundred

heere would I be content to closse vpp that parte which conteyneth matter of Acte. The Conclusion whereof is this, that for the Eight hundred and twentie Thousand poundes which his majesty hath receaved, he hath spent in the Millitarye Charge, and those of Magnificence Fourteene hundred Thousand poundes

But mee thinkes I heare it should be obiected. That the king mought haue bene in better case had he stayed his hand from an irregular Bountie

His Majesties Bountye Itt is true that he mought haue giuen if soe it had pleased him, yett is that bountie A disease, that few complayned of in Queen Elizabeths dayes, which I speak not to cast any aspertion vpon her, For there are manye ( in which number I am one ) that haue tasted of her Bountye, But true it is the Grandchilde of A Frugall Grand Father, daughter of A loose handed Father, which made her studie more A Mediocritie there in then some others did before / For as it is true, that bountye is inseperable from this kinge / whoe as he is a man cannot be withput desires though never man soe moderate, yf they concerne himselfe, Soe as he is a kinge Yf he did not giue, I should hold that his Subiects lived in A miserable clymate / And for my parte of that which hath beene bestowed vpon those, which were not borne amongst vs, it must be remembred that he was borne amongst them Soe as to haue A king, wished to haue left soe many vnrewarded of Worthe and Mirritt, had beene enough to haue changed his virtue because he had Changed his Fortune

I will therefore conclud this pointe that Q: Marye A Ladye of greate devotion in hir kinde, and morall virtue (betweene whose Fortune and his there must be a great disparitie) did giue awaye in hir Tyme, by waye of Restitution of perticler men Nyne Thousand two hundred pound Land And Donatiuo genere Seaven Thousand and Sixe hundred poundes, Besydes huge porcion in Parsonages, Tithes and Cerritories to the Sea of yorke at the suite of Cardinall Poole, though that was afterwards revoked by Queene Elizabeth in Anno 1 primo.

It is nowe more then Tyme For mee to reduce my selfe to the last parte of my Lordes direction whereof there are two Braunches The The one is to moue you with all Earnestnes to consider of some such supplye as maye make this State both safe and happye. The other to assure you of our Intention to ioyne with you in anye reasonable request For the publique good which may serve you for an Answere to anye that shall obiect disadvantage to you by Conferring with vs seeing wee haue the happynesse to serve vnder such a kinge as is not vnlike to receave any motion of ours wherein wee shall both hould A iust Symmetrie & proporcions amongst our Selves, and observe those duties, which are due to a great and gratious kinge. In which I assure myselfe wee should never Fayle, were it possible wee might often meet & exchang mutuall thoughts, prevent Iealousies, & not precipitately proiect causes For whoe doth not knowe that even in the vulgar Corporations (in which the greater Number are of meane vnderstanding) produce good & discreete Orders, much more in A Courte of Parlyament For in Multitudine prudentium magna visinest /

To come neere therefore to that which is our obiect: For the king I haue noe more to saye but this. That if his Majestye be pleased to vouchsafe vs those Favors which are in his power to doe, thoughe wee cannot challeng, de Iure, whatsoever may shall be thought shall be our Motion the Advantage shalbe wilbe yours, & ours in Retribution /

For the kinge desires not anye thinge that maye make you feare any change of Liberties pressing of new lawes to satisfye Furye or private passion. Everye man maye dwell in saffetie vnder his owne Olive in this kings dayes of whom maye be well sayde non sum Athemensis qui Leges Sanguine conscriptus vellim

Hee desired nothing more then wee should all Eatari et bene facere, And wee for him at this Tyme onelye some supplye of mony which I beleeve is lesse then you expected after such an Indigested chaos of wordes, what for what this there of lesse value where there is question of the Interest of Such A Father whome we may rightlye tearme the deare parent of the Countrye or of such A Sonne as is Iustlie termed Pars patris Naye which is more for I haue seene it in divers Charters where hee is sayde to bee Eadem persona cum patre thoughe it is True that in the Eye of the Lawe there is A distinction Quoad protestatem Strange I saye it were If wee should not Studdie to preserue both theis From whom wee haue receaved such A world of Plentie or doubt that you will not concurre with vs for supplye to the payment of his debts for support of his yeerelye Expeence. For Provisione for his Navye, For his Magazines and such like with soe much more as you would wish a king of Brittaine to haue in store to answere all occasions

But you will saye peradventure that the nature of the demaund is without presedent Let vs not I pray you researche and stirre vp ould Presidents, For there were some of Stranger nature in matter of payment and supplye wittnes the Comission of Mayle Baston in Ed: 1: his Tyme by the severitie whereof soe greate Summes were levyed / Wittnes likewise payment by the Pole From the duke to the Bagger. And lastlye the Acte of Parlyament in the 21: H: 8: whereby there was A remission of all the Kings debts generall without Schedule or Lymitacion being A Matter of soe great and in iust in iust inequallitye, as it might be divers mens ruines and for some others scarce felt Besydes whoe doth not knowe that wise men must liue non ad similitudinem sed ad rationem, neaper being the Father of Presidents, and it being the manner only of Creatures destitute of Reason like Flocks of Sheepe to goe non quo eundam est sed quo itur It is but one, onelye monye that is desired, A matter easilye granted, yf you will make A right vse of this base Creature, whereof noe wise man speaks without contempt In soe much as Plato speaking of Riches saith That true Ritches are but food and Rayment, the Rest is nugatorum quiddam And other Philosophers saye it is but Parvor pare tarrae , And soe but Orassior pars Aquae A thing vnworthie the denyall to such A kinge In whom Beatitudo nostra et nata et data est / A kinge not onlye the wisest of kings (well I maye saye of men But the verye Image of an Angell that doth both bring good Tydings & puts vs in the fruition of all good things

Is not this hee that hath declared himselfe soe farr for the good of the Church out of the depth of knowledg, as well as out of Conscience as hee deserues better then anye to carrye the Title of fidei Defensor , Is not this hee that hath brough vs an yssue that makes all neighboure Princes Studdie rather how to keepe that they haue then to gaine vpon this Crowne Is not nowe the Backe dore shutt that was want to divert vs from all forraine Enterprises In soe much as both the yellow & Red Lyon can stand soe quiettlye in one windowe, without breaking Peyne of Glasse, yes surelye this is the kinge of the Realme which Ed: 1: soe readilye sought to make an Union, did not H: 7: expres greate Contentment in the match of his daughter to the K: great GrandFather. did not the State in the Tyme of Ed:6: with great affection seeke to Marye that Royall Queene Marye the kings Mother And can it savour either of gratitude or discresion to suffer this kinge or his Olive Branches to fall vpon the Rocke of his Necessitie which to the meanest man is Durum Telur / Noe surelye, and yett in all this, and whatsoever els I shall saye, I desire to be thus vnderstood, that there is noe king be he neuer soe greate that ought to burthen his people at pleasure / Noe more ought Subiects to denye the Requests of kings out of honor I meane not this to the house as Taxing you or them of honor Bee it farre from mee But I yeild it you as an Answere to those Countryes that will aske you an Accompte, whye you haue charged them / And truelye for my owne opynion, I haue euer held itt to the True scale and Measure of kings Prorogatiues when theire desire of this nature haue an open concurrence with the publique good /

It is true that the king impose vpon Forraigne Comodityes, yett not soe as to destroye Commerce, yett such is the Abuse (would god there were A Lawe provided against it) as where the kinge hath imposed but A penny for his owne necessarye vse, the Shop keeper will rayse A Shilling, and yett that is lest talked of then the Penny that is paid to our Caesar

For other Rights that beloged to Princes they are of two sorts

Some are such as are their owne de Iure Corona As for Example example whoe is Ignorant that the kings hath power of his Freehold giving as he hath the Tutelage of the Comon wealthe

The Wardshipp of Children paying him Fynes for Alienacions government of Widdowes, and such like power to dispose & order both the Courte and fines of Justice /

In all which wee must aknowledge our selves happilye borne while wee finde A moderate hand Soe is there A Second power which the Lawes of our owne making hath invested in the kings of England. Wherein wee shalbe ill Advised yf we doe not seeke to deliver our selves by humble petition from those burthens wher of wee cannot complayne. And therein as in anye other Thinge, that maye giue the Subiect due repose, The Lords hath given mee in Charge to assure you, that you never mett with such an vpper house, For readines to Concurre with you in Consultacion ioyne with you in humble requestes, For A Favorable Retribution in Case / You deale Clerelye and Freelye wthvs in our Conference and retayne all those respects , that are due to Soveraigntie, and modest in your proceedings, Neither doe the Lords meane to presse you For the one, as to Conclude without the other, Soe farre, as to bread notorious delaye or Confusion

For proofe of which intencion of ours amongst other thinges wee haue had some thinge in Confference, Concerning Statute Lawes which wee haue devided into Three Clauses

Some are vtterlye Impossible

Some more fitt when they were made then nowe according to those Constitutions which are called the Lawes of Tyme

Some very fitt to be observed and of those many that are defective in their direction and Rigorous in their Execution

And in all this Seeing that veina est benae Remissio Et ueina a bono Rege datur non debitur Lett vs therefore neither A kinge trie the power he hath the purpose, nor lett vs seeke precipitate remedyes what soever wee maye suppose the grevaunce, For allthough the best Bodyes are not free from some diseases yett in all diseases Imatura remedia pericatissisina

So as for Conclusion of this Extravagant Masse of my Speeche Conteyning the Causes of his wants, the necessitye of Supplyes , and the Condition whervpon it is demaunded I will make an End not doubting that God will soe direct the kinge betweene the Loue and Feare of his Subiects nam Docet Caesarem timeri ac proteis dilige And so to blesse his Coun= cells that wee maye enioye him to Raigne over vs, And wee to liue vnder him Iuto comode /