Observations of all the Kings of England, Chapter 20 – Errata

Observations of all the Kings of England · Chapter 20 – Errata

p. 200CHAP. XX.

IAMES the first King of Great Brittain.

THe Tudors breathing out their last in excellent Elizabeth, Stuarts take their turn by an unquestionable title.

p. 2011. Iames the first of England, but sixth of Scotland.

2. Charles the first of England.

It may seem**Ita repugnante n…ine, Scotiae Rex Angliae possessionem …, prim…s que intra omnem annalium memoriam Britanniae totam Insulam uno imperio complexus est. Groti hist. Belg. wonderfull, that there was no commotion at all upon the Queens decease, that he came to the Crown here so peaceably, without any opposition.

He caused himself to be stiled King of Great Brittain, to prevent difference between the two Nations, one of which else would have preferred England in his title,One that writes Ruinorum conspiratio, saith, Quinqus Reges ex honoratissima. S…uartorum familia, etiam eodem omnes praenomine, continu…aserie invicem succedentes, in ips… aetatis ant flore, aut vigore extinctos acceperant: relictis semper regni haeredibus pueris aut impuneribus, qui per atatem gerendis rebus non sufficerent. and the other Scotland. The name of Brittain continued to be the name generally of the whole Island, but more specially of the parts of England and Wales, ever since before the invasion of the Romans. King Alfred was entituled, Governour of the Christians of all Brittain. King Edgar was stiled Monarch of all Brittain; King Henry the second was entituled King of all Brittain. King Iohn had his Coyn stamped with this Inscription, Iohannes Rex Britonum.

Walter sirnamed Banguho (according as his father was) returning into Scotland, fought valiantly for his King, against the Islands, Rebels, and the Savages of Scotland. In recompence of his extraordinary vertue, he was made Great Provost and Treasurer of the houshold Royall, which the Scots signifie by the name of Stuart or Steward. He so faithfully discharged the p. 202trust reposed in him,Favins Theater of Honour. l. 5. c. …. without the least reproach or wasting of the Kings Moneys, that the sirname of Stuart was imposed on him,See Dr. Heylins Geog. of the Brittish Isle. and given also to his posterity. This was the original of the Illustrious Family of Stuart. From this Walter descended that Robert Steward, who was after in right of his wife King of Scotland, See Mr. Wentworths Book before quoted.since which time there have been successively nine Soveraigns of that name in Scotand.

Margaret eldest daughter of King Henry the seventh,This Margaret was Grandmother to King Iames, by his father and mother. and Elizabeth his Queen, was twice married in Scotland, first to King Iames the fourth, then to Archibald Douglas Earl of Angis; her son by the King was King Iames the fifth, our King Iames his mothers father, her daughter by the Earl was Margaret Countess of Lennox, our King Iames his fathers mother.

David Bruse King of Scotland being dead without issue of his body, Robert Steward his sisters son, by the generall consent of all the Estates, was crowned King of Scotland, in the year of our Lord 1370. This family hath ever since born the Crown of Scotland, even unto this day.Grotii …ist. Belg.

King Iames united both the Kingdomes of England and Scotland, and testified this conjunction in the Money that was coined, p. 203both silver and gold with these words, Quae Deus conjuxit, nemo separet, and also, Tueatur unita Deus. The twenty shillings pieces had this Inscription, Faciam eos in gentem unam; other golden Coines had these words, Henricus rosas, regna Iacobus.

He was born in the Palace of Edinborough on the nineteenth of Iuly, anno 1566, and solemnly crowned King of the Scots on the same day of the MonethMonth, anno 1567, and joyfully received to the Crown of England on the fourteenth of March 1602.

He had a great dexterity in discovering an imposture,See Osborn… Miscellanies of Es…ayes, Paradoxes. p. 6, 7, 8, 9. and a marvellous sagacity to discuss natural things.

He detected the forgery of Richard Haydock a Physitian, pretending to preach at night in his sleep, who acknowledged his forgery to the King.

It was his custome to discourse during Meals with one or more Divines, concerning some point of controversie in Philosophy.

There was a Conference or Disputation at Hampton Court before him.Dr. Reynolds at its first coming out, being shewed it, read it over, and bought it, saying, he was concerned and wronged in it.

Some of our Divines taxe Dr. Barlow Dean of Chester, for a partial Penman of that Conference. See Mr. Ley his Discourse of Disputat. concerning matters of Religion, c. 4. p. 46.

p. 204Besides the relieving by Pensions all the poorer sort,Sir Walter Rauleigh his Hist. of the World, part. 1. l. 5. c. 6. Sect. 2. See more there. he hath honoured more Martial men, than all the Kings of England have done for this hundred years.

Had his Apothegmes or wise speeches (and also Queen Elizabeths) been collected by a skilfull hand, I suppose they would have been very usefull to the publick.

There is one that hath written a Book in Latine of Favourites, where I think my Lord Car the Earle of Somerset, & the Duke of Buckingham are reckoned for the English Favourites, the later of which was in great favour both with the Father, and Son, King Iames, and King Charles. Vossius in his Preface to his Book de Arte Grammatica (if I forget not) much commends King Iames. Isaac Causabone that famous Schollar, was much respected and encouraged by him.

He was both a wise and learned Prince of disposition merciful and gracious, a great seeker of peace, according to that Motto which he ever used, Beati pacifici.

In the stile of the Court he went for Great Britains Solomon; Vide Idaeam Rosae sive de Jacobi (Regis) virtutibus …arrationem.nor is it any excursion beyond the precincts of verity to say, that neither Britain nor any other Kingdome whatsoever, could ever since p. 205Solomons dayes glory in a King (for recondite learning and abstruse knowledge) so near a match to Solomon as he,Quis hodie foreign vere amans, non optet ex animo, magnae Britanniae magnum illuns Regem, ob eximias doctrina… dotes quibus tanti neminis Majesta…i sempiternam famam circumfudit, in universals reformatarum Ecclesiarum Concilio, ad modum magni illius Constantini, Episcopis & Pastoribus, non modo ad externi ordinio conservationem, ve…ùm etiam ad controversiarum, quae hodieagiantur definitionem, aliquando pra…sidere. Gers. Buc. Dissert▪ de Gubernat. Eccles. p. 115. Mr. Rushworths Historicall Collections. 23. Iacobi. p. 161.

He was compared to Solomon in severall respects, by Bishop Williams in his Funerall Sermon on 1 King. 11. 41, 42, 43.

Archbishop Spotswood saith, he was the Solomon of this age, admired for his knowledge of all manner of learning. Hist. of Scotland. l. 7.

His Works shew his great learning, especially his**Liber à Rege ad fillum conscriptus, in quo optimus Princeps omnibus …umcris absolutua elegantissimè depingitur. …acre. ibtle est, quot homi…um animos & studis inde sibi conciliarit, & quartum sui expectationem cum admiratione apud omnes concitarit. Camdeni Annal. rerum Anglie part 4. p. 171. Basilicon Doron, or Kingly gift.

It cannot be said, how well it was accepted in England, and what admiration it raised in all mens hearts of him, and of his piety and wisdome. Certain it is, that all the Discourses which came forth that time, for maintaining his right to the Crown of England, prevailed nothing so much as did that Treatise. Spotsw. Hist. of the Church of Scotland. l. 6.

Iustinians Institutes, Caesars Commentaries, p. 206foreign, and foreign, are prized for their Authors, as well as matter.

He had such a promptness in expr…ssing his mind, that his extemporall s…eeches were little inferiour to his premeditated writings.

His invention was as quick as his first thoughts, and his words as ready as his invention.

I' advouois franchement de n' avoir Iamais veu Prince dont la sincerité, la prudence & l' equaunimité meritast plus de gloire & de louanges. Que l' ayant tonsiours trouné d' un courage urayement Royal & tout genereux & d' un esprit plus intelligent, plus vif, plus penetrant & plus judicieux que nul de son Conseil, I' avois aussi tonsiours passionnement desiré de terminer & conclurre avec luy les affaires & non avec eux. Memoires de Mounsier de Rosny. Duc de Sully. Tom. 2. p. 141.

He was a good Poet.

A very good Horseman.

He had such a fashion in riding, that it could not so properly be said he rid, as that his Horse carried him, for he made but little use of his bridle, and would say, a Horse never stumbled, but when he was reined.

He was a great lover of quiet, and much given to hunting, and to his Book, and wholly fixt in Warring by writings with the Church. Bentivoglio his History of p. 207Flanders part 3. l. 8. See his Relation of the united Provinces of Flanders c. 3.

In his apparrell and civill garb, he seemed naturally to affect a majestick carelesness, in his pecuniary dispensations to his favourites, he was excessive liberall.

King Iames being invited in a hunting journey, to dine with Sir Thomas I. of Barkshire, turning short at the corner of a Common, happened near to a Countryman, sitting by the heels in the stocks, who cryed Hosanna unto his Majesty, which invited him to ask the reason of his restraint? Sir Thomas said, It was for stealing a Goose from the Common. The fellow replyed, I beseech your Majesty be judge who is the greater thief, I for stealing Geese from the Common, or his Worship for robbing the Common from the Geese? By my sale Sir (said the King to Sir Thomas) I'le not dine to day on your dishes, till you restore the Common for the poor to feed their flocks. Which was forthwith granted to them, and the witty fellow set free.

He spake broad in the Scottish tone and dialect.

Sir Kenelme Digby (in his Discourse touching the cure of wounds by the powder of Sympathy) saith, he had a strange antipathy to a naked sword, of which he there ascribes the cause.

He alleadged this reason to an English Divine, wherefore the Scottish Church was p. 208never troubled with heresie; for if (said he) it sprang up in a Purish, there was an Eldership ito… suppress it; if it had escaped them, the Presbytery was ready to crush it; if the Presbytery should be negligent, than the Synod would oppose…it; if it had not been by them suppressed, the Generall Assembly would take strict order concerning it.

Philip de Mornay Lord of Plessis often complained,S…vent je l' oioi plaindre, que S. M. d' Angleterre trop arreste a quelques petites dissensiones entre les siens, …' avoitpas asses de soin de la guerison de plus profondes playes qui sont en l' Eglise. La vie de M. du Plessis l. 2. that the King of England was too much taken up with some petty differences amongst his own, but was not carefull enough to heal the deep wounds and breaches which were in the Church. Yet his sending certain select and worthy Divines to the Synod of Dort, to compose the unhappy differences then in the Law Countries, and his causing the Bible to be translated into English by judicious Divines, and set forth more exactly than formerly it had been done, were noble works.

He had two sons, Prince Henry, and King Charles, and one daughter that lived, the Lady Elizabeth Queen of Bohemia.

The order of Knight Baronets was instituted by him, they must be Gentlemen of three descents, and should be worth a thousand pounds per annum, the number to be installed was not to exceed two hundred.

I may for his learning, and respect to the learned, his eloquence, and his profound questions at meals, compare him to Charles p. 209the Great, of whom Eginhardus de vita & gestis Caroli Magni. Inter caenandum aut aliquod acroamia, aut lectorem audiebat. Legebantur ei historiae, & antiquorum Regum gesta. Delectabatur & libris S. Augustini, pr…cipuè iis quos de civitate Dei inscripsit. Erat eloquentia copiosiu & exuberans, poterát que , quicquid vellet apertissimè exprimere. Artes liberales studio sissimè coluit, earúm que doctores plurimum veneratus, magnis afficiebat honoribus. Vide plura ibid.

The MonethMonth of November is memorable,The 29 of May is famous for our present Kings birth and return to London. for the seventeenth 1558, the initiation of Queen Elizabeth, in which the purity of the Gospel brake forth; and fifth in King Iames his Raign, in which the treachery of the Gospels enemies brake out.

Dr. Heylin in his Historia Quinqu-Articularis c. 22. saith, it was an usuall practice with him in the whole course of his Government, to ballance one extream by the other, countenancing the Papists against the Puritan **See Mr. Gatakers Vindication of the Annotat. of Ier. 10. 20. against Lilly. p. 75.Jer 10:20, and the Puritan sometimes against the Papist, that betwixt both, the true Religion and professors of it might be kept in safety. But in the Epistle of his Book to his Son, he shews what he means by Puritan.

He died at Theohalds in the year 1625,Of a Feavor. the twenty seventh of March, the fifty ninth year of his age, having raigned over all Great Brittain twenty two years compleat.

p. 210CHARLES the First, the second Monarch of Great Brittain.

He was born November the nineteenth,His birth. anno Dom. 16…0, at Dun-fermling in Scotland.

He was the third son of Iames the sixth King of the Scots, and of Anne his wife, daughter of Frederick the second, and sister of Christian the fourth, Kings of Denmarke.

He was comely of person, very active, temperate, chaste, mercifull.

He was thought to be the best markman, and the most comely manager of a great Horse, of any one in all the three Kingdomes.

Of his lawfull descent to his Crown and Kingdomes, from all the Kings of this Nation, See Flemings Royall Progeny.

He was crowned on the second of February at Westminster, Being about the age of twenty five years. God so loosed his tongue at his triall. that he spoke without the least stammering or hesitation.in the year 1626, by Dr. Abbot Archbishop of Canterbury.

He was rather slow than fluent in his words, as well by grace, as a naturall imperfection; yet he was pithy, pathetick, and sententiou in his expressions.

What the Brittains lost to the Saxons, they to the Danes, and the Norman got from p. 211both, was his birth-right,Sir Franck Wortley his Character besides the Kingdomes of Scotland and Ireland, and Principality of Wales, additions to the Normans Conquest.

Shortly after his Coronation he was married to the Lady Henrietta Maria, younger Daughter to Henry the fourth King of France, by whom he had seven Children, four Sons, and three Daughters.

He improved himself much by his travels, and was generally liked in Spain.

When he was there, Archee the fool came boldly to King Iames, as he found him once in a good humour, and told him that he was come to change Caps with him. Why, said the King? Marry, sayes Archee, because thou hast sent the Prince into Spain, from whence he is never like to return. But said the King, What wilt thou say when thou seest him come back again? Marry, sayes Archee, I will then take off the fools Cap which I put upon thy head, for sending him thither, and put it on the King of Spains, for letting him return. At which words, it is reported, that the King became exceeding pensive, never before so much apprehending the danger of that adventure,Dr. Gaud…n in his Eccles. Aug. Suspiria. l. 3. c. 22. saith, he was stedfast and able in his judgement against Popery. as then and afterward he did.

For his being a Papist, though it be charged by some of his enemies, yet I suppose there is little ground for it, as his manifesto at the beginning of the English and Scotch Presbytery p. 212shews. Therefore Mr. Baxter in his Key for Catholicks c. 45. hath vindicated him from this aspersion.

His own Letters to the Queen taken at Naseby **Letter 20. to the Queen, speaking of Religion, he saith, It is no thank to me to trust thee in any thing else but in this, which is the only thing of difference in opinion betwixt …., and his counsell to the Duke of Glocester, to obey the Queen his mother in all, but what related to Religion, sufficiently confute this calumny.

In the year 1618, King Iames published a Declaration, tolerating sports on the Lords day. It was so much disliked, as it was soon after called in. It was after revived and ratified by King Charles. L'estrange saith,See M. Gatakers Apologeticall Discourse aginst Lillie. Harvei excreit. 64. de generat. animal. there was not any one Royall Edict, during all King Charles his Raign, resented with equall regret.

It was his custome in his youth, for refreshing his mind, and the confirming of his health, almost every week to hunt the Harts and Does. In the three summer moneths he hunted the males, being fat and pleasant to eat; in the like space of time he hunted the females.

There was one Robert Par of Shropshire, aged 152,He as well as the Countess of Desmond (so much spoken of for her great age) is said to have lived in the Raign of Edward the fourth. who lived in the Raign of ten Kings, and being brought up to London by the procurement of the Earl of Arundell, died here, and lyes buried in Westminster Abbey.

Constat▪ quot generationes Carolingorum Johannes de Temporibus trisecli-senex superavit: & ille nuper Anglus sub▪ Edoardo 4. natus, p. 213sub Carolo denatus qui novem vel decem Regibus foreign fuit. Hornii Dissertatio de aetate mundi c. 6.

Never was there in this Isle a Scene of Justice more magnificent reared for any Subject, than that for the Earl of Strafford. Scaffolds were erected on either side of Westminster Hall,H. L'estrange. there the Commons sate uncovered, and in the midst of the lower ascent the Peers; behind, but raised above them, there was placed a Chair and Cloth of State for the King, on either side whereof was a close Gallery for the King, Queen, and Prince to be private, sutable to the ancient mode.

Which triall of his, if we consider all things, the high nature of the Charge against him, the pompous Circumstances, and stately manner of the triall it self, the time that it lasted, and lastly, of what moment and consequence the success of it must prove, I may safely say, that no Subject in England, and probably in Europe, ever had the like. Mr. May his History of the Parliament of England l. 1. c. 8. See more there.

Sir Thomas Roe was Chancellor of the most noble Order of the Garter, and of King Charles his Privy Councel, and severall years Embassador to the Great Mogor, Great Turk, King of Sweden, and lastly, to the Princes of the Protestant Union in Germany.

p. 214Iohn de Montreul a Parisian, was he, that thinking thereby to do some good office to the King of England, The History of the French Academy p. 220.negotiated that he might be put into the hands of the Scots. This unfortunate Prince (of whom he hath since given this testimony, that he never saw a man of greater spirit and more vertue) delighted often to discourse with him, and expressed a great deal of affection to him.

I learned from a friend of mine, to whom he told it himself, that he made use of a secret, which the King of England had taught him in the long conferences which they sometimes had together.Id. ib p. 221. 'Twas a certain powder, very rare, which being cast on the paper, made that which was before-hand written there with a white liquor, to appear, which without that, was wholly imperceptible.

His Majesty had a fine stroke with his pen,Boxhornius in his Metamorphosis Anglorum, hath collected Apophthegmata Carolina. 1. Theologica. 2. Moralia. 3. Politica. The Author of the Character of him mentions his severall vertues. which he practised at all times of leasure. By which means he became Master of a pure and elegant stile, as both his intercepted Letters, and those to Mr. Henderson at Newcastle in the point of Episcopacy, and his Book entituled foreign, or the Pourtraiture of his Sacred Majesty in his solitudes and sufferings, do most clearly evidence. Which Book is put into Latine by D^r Earle.

At King Iames his Funerall, he attended the Herse, as the chiefest mourner▪ an p. 215action laudable, and deserving better interpretation than some make of it.

He shewed great patience in his sufferings.

It argued a charitable temper in him, in pardoning his enemies when he died, and praying for them, and charging the Prince his eldest son to pardon them also.

He was the hundred and tenth Monarch of that line, that swayed the Scepter of Scotland successively. Bishop Bramhall his Answer to Militiere his Epistle.

His Works are all in two Volumes,King Iames his Works are all in one volume in Folio, both in Latine and English. Reliquiae Carolinae, and Bibliotheca Carolina.

The Arsenals, Store-houses, and Ship-docks erected by him, are so magnificent and universally usefull, that they are become a principall pillar of the Nations support, so far as they relate to the Navall defence of it, and affords variety of imployment, by the manufacture of Cordage,Mr. Philpots Kent surveyed and illustrated. as also by the car…ening and building of Ships.

The latter end of his life (by reason of the Civil broyls) was troublesome and painfull, as the Book stiled Iter Carolinum shews.

Lewis the thirteenth, the last King of France, spoke ofttimes of the troubles of Great Brittain in his sickness, and once he was over heard to say, that it was a just judgement, because his brother of England p. 216would have assisted his Subjects once against him. Mr. Howels Corollary to the life of Lewis the thirteenth.

In his March after Essex to the West, it happened that one of his Carriages brake in a long narrow Lane, which they were to pass, and gave his Majesty a stop, at a time of a great showr of rain, which fell upon him. Some of his Courtiers and others which were near about him, offered to hew him out a way through the hedges with their swords, that he might get shelter in some of the Villages adjoyning, but he resolved not to forsake his Canon upon any occasion: At which when some about him seemed to admire & marvel at the patience which he shewed in that extremity, his Majesty lifting up his Hat made answer, That as God had given him affliction to exercise his patience, so he had given him patience to …ear his afflictions. Mr. Fords Panegyrick on King Charles the first.

Let his Conference with the Marquess of Worcester, See M. S. …ords Loyall …ubjects Indignation for his R…vall S…vera…gn… D…col ….the Papers which passed betwixt his Majesty and Master Henderson, and those others with the Ministers in the Isle of Weight, testifie how great a Master he was of reason, how well read in the Fathers, the Councels Ecclesiasticall History, and the customes of the Church in all ages. Id. ib.

He made an admirable Anagram of himself, the day before his death, Carolus Rex; Cras ero lux. Id. ib.

p. 217His death (saith the Author of the Additions to Bakers Chronicle) was strange and unparalleld.Primus Reformatus à Reformatis, & à suis subjectis. Salmaqi ad militorum responsio. We may read (saith he) of many Kings who came to violent ends, but never any that was so formally and solemnly first tryed for his life, and then judicially executed in publick by his own Subjects.

Mr. Love in his Vindication of the London-Ministers,D. Cornelius Burgess preached against it on Amos 5. 13. Dr. Gauden protested also against it. I have heard that four French Divines, Bochart, Amyraut, Vincent, and de La…gly, have written against the Kings death, of which some I have seen.Amos 5:13 against Price his Clerico-Classicum, pag. 36. gives good reasons against putting the King to death, and saith, He was the first Protestant King in the world, so put to death by his own Subjects. pag. 55. he saith, He could produce multitudes of Protestant Divines, against the cutting off the Head of our King in particular, as the Ministers beyond the Seas, the Ministers of Scotland, the Ministers of Essex and Lancashire, and of many other places of the Kingdome, besides the London-Ministers, who unanimously declared their abhorrency of that horrid fact, of taking away the life of the King. pag. 59. he saith, That there is no president in all the Scripture, The Princess of Tureine, Daillé, Gachens, and Grelin…court, have also written against it.that the Sanhedrim of the Jewes, or Rulers of Israel, did ever judicially arraign and put to death any of the Kings of Judah, or Israel, though many of them were most gross Idolaters, and tyrannous Princes, who shed much innocent blood, and o… pressed the people sundry wayes.

This notwithstanding, another Divine of our own hath presumed to publish a Defence p. 218of the Sentence passed upon the late King.

He quotes Gen. 9. 6. Exod. 21. 12. Lev. 24. 17. Numb. 35. 30, 31, 33. Prov. 28. 17. and Mat. 26. 52. to prove the lawfulness of it.

That private person which sheddeth mans bloud wilfully, by man, that is, by the**Effundi volo ejus sanguinem per Magistratum scilicet volo in cum animadverti, & eum capito plecti lege talionis. Mercer. Vide Paul. Fag. col. lat. Translat. in loc. Magistrate (whose power is here stablished, saith Ainsworth, for killing all wilfull murtherers) shall his bloud be shed.

And this (saith Ainsworth there) accordeth with the Law, Numb. 35. 29, 30. but private men may not use the sword, Mat. 26. 52. Rom. 13. 4.

I have read that place Matth. 26. 52. strongly urged by some, against Subjects taking up Arms against their Princes, but never this way before. These Scriptures (though he think them of so express a tenour, of such a pregnant import) I conceive make little for the purpose he alleadgeth them.

When I consider with my self how many of note this Divine hath written against, and what paradoxall (if not heterodoxall) tenets he hath often laboured to maintain, sometimes against the determinations of a Parliament rightly so called, I wonder at that passage of his near the conclusion of his Novice-Presbyter instructed.

The great knower of hearts, and searcher of the reins, in whose presence I write, knoweth, that if himself would be pleased p. 219to discharge me of the service of contradicting and opposing men, and dispose of me in a way of retirement, were it never so private and obscure, where I might only contest with my own weakness and errors, he should give me one of the first-born desires of my soul in the things of this life, into my bosome.

He may do well to weigh those places, Exod. 22. 28. 1 Sam. 26. 9. Prov. 24. 21. Eccles. 10. 20.

The Greek word for King,foreign quasi foreign. notes him that is the stay or foundation of the people.

He is called 1 Pet. 2. 13. the Supreme, or Superiour. The Greek word signifies one that hath above others, in matter of Authority and Supremacy.

The Generals Commission, the Covenant, the Parliaments Declarations and Engagements both to the King and Scots, were for the preservation of the Kings person.

Even Mr. Goodwin in his Anticavallierism…, and Mr. Burroughs in his Lord of Hosts, though they justified the Warre; yet they shewed their dislike of any injury to the Kings person.

I may justly vindicate the Parliament of England, from having any hand in this abominable action. Nunquam in te peccavit Britannia tua, sed nec in Parentem: sola colluvies illa de formis nefariorum t…nebrionum haec p. 220cuncta execranda procudit. D. Creyghtoni Dedic…t. hist. Concilii Tridentini.

Some object, that every Monarch hath his power from the consent of the whole body▪ Vide Grotium de jure belli & pacis l. 1. c. 3, 4. & Cameronem ad Rom. c. 13. v. 3. Imperii sinis unicus populi utilitas. Jun. Brut. vind. contra Tyranui.Rom 13:3therefore the whole body hath a power above the power of the Monarch; and to this purpose they alleadge that Maxime,**Quod asseverant cum à quo aliquis constituitur esse superiorem constituto, verum duntaxat est in ea constitutione, cujus effectus perpetuò pender à voluntate constituentis, non etiam in e… quae ab initio est voluntatis, postea vero effectum habet necessitatis. Grotius de jure belli & pacis l. 1. c. 3. Vide plura ibid. Quicquid efficit tale est magis tale, (All Government (they say) is for the good of the governed; and Salus populi suprema lex.) That Maxime even in naturall causes is subject to divers restrictions, and it holds not in this particular; The Guardian is for his sake that is under age, yet he hath power over him. Of the right interpretation of the other Maxime, Salus populi suprema lex, See Dr. Sanderson de Obligat. Consc. Praelect. 9, & 10. Not that Prince which is most potent over his Subjects, but that Prince which is most potent in his Subjects, is truly potent, witness that incomparable Princess of happy memory, Queen Elizabeth. It was also our King Charles his own Golden Maxime, The peoples Liberty strengthens the Kings Prerogative, and the Kings Prerogative is to defend the peoples Liberty.

Let us leave the Doctrine of King-killing to Mariana the Iesuite to defend, and the perpetration of such a horrid act, to Ravilliac, and such monsters of men. Of Marianas Doctrine, and of the Iesuites opinion of p. 221the lawfulness of deposing Princes that are hereticall, See in Dr. Taylors collection of Polemicall and Morall Discourses, his Sermon preached upon the fifth of November on Luke 9. 54.

I shall close up all with Davids patheticall speech, 2 Sam. 1. 20. Tell it not in Gath; publish it not in the streets of Askelo…: lest the daughters of the Philistims rejoyce, lest the daughters of the uncircumcised triumph.

As I have severall times in the Parliament, so I thought sit here, to give in my testimony against that unsound opinion, and abominable practice. Had I been sooner freed out of the Kings-head in the Strand, (where I with many other worthy Secluded Members, were confined for not going along with the rest of the House, in their intended evill designe,) I had published a Treatise against King-killing, (which I had formerly composed) before that Fatall stroake. Finis.

Errata.

PAge a line 15. read Hervord. p. 3. l. 22. Ethelbald. p. 4. margin, Histoire d' Angleterre. p. 9 l. penult. & ult. r. Aidan & p. 10. l. 4. p. 9. l. 9. r. Oswalstre. p. 16. marg. l. 10. r. nami illi argentei. & l. 11. r. pontificius quaestor. l. 11, & 12. dele qui publicé bonas artes profiterentur, quô multi doctrina clari confluérunt, docendi gratta. p. 20. marg. dele Vid Asser, &c. p. 29. l. 9. r. sica. p. 28. l. penult. r. upon a. p. 34. l. e 30. r. this. l 31. r. all. p. 44. marg. l. 20, 21. r. ipse suae. p. 51. l. 4. r. He refused. p. 61. l. 36. r. cotraderet. p. 68. marg. l. 20. dele non. p. 73. marg. l. 1. r. plerisqué. p. 81 l. 15. r. one, one, one, &c. p. 85. l. 29. r. of. p. 90. l. 21. r. Cyrus. p. 95. marg. l. ult. r. loquentem. p. 106. marg. l. 8. r. Episcopus. p. 116. m. l. 11. r. Polyd. p. 111. l. 14. r. Civilis. p. 129. l. 6. r. Westminster.