they in their practice deny that all is the king's. They sue him, and so does all the nation, whereof they are a part. What matter is it then what they preach or teach in the schools? 3. Kings are all individual, this or that king: there is no species of kings.

4. A king that claims privileges in his own country, because they have them in another, is just as a cook, that claims fees in one lord's house, because they are allowed in another. If the master of the house will yield them, well and good.

5. The text, “Render unto Cæsar the things that are Cæsar's," makes as much against kings as for them, for it says plainly that some things are not Cæsar's. But divines make choice of it, first in flattery, and then because of the other part adjoined to it, "Render unto God the things that are God's," where they bring in the church.

6. A king outed of his country, that takes as much upon him as he did at home, in his

mons of Bishop Sanderson. This famous prelate avers that it is not expedient to take up arms against a lawful sovereign; "not for the maintenance of the lives or liberties either of ourselves or others; nor for the defence of religion; nor for the preservation of a church or state; no, nor yet, if that could be imagined possible, for the salvation of a soul; no, not for the redemption of the whole world!"

own court, is as if a man on high, and I being upon the ground, used to lift up my voice to him, that he might hear me, at length should come down, and then expects I should speak as loud to him as I did before.

KING OF ENGLAND.

1. THE king can do no wrong; that is, no process can be granted against him what must be done then? Petition him, and the king writes upon the petition "Soit droit fait," and sends it to the Chancery; and then the business is heard. His confessor will not tell him he can do no wrong.

2. There is a great deal of difference between head of the church, and supreme governor, as our canons call the king. Conceive it thus there is in the kingdom of England a college of physicians; the king is supreme governor of those, but not head of them, nor president of the college, nor the best physician.

3. After the dissolution of abbeys, they did not much advance the king's supremacy, for they only cared to exclude the pope; hence have we had several translations of the Bible put upon us. But now we must look to it,

otherwise the king may put upon us what religion he pleases.

4. It was the old way when the king of England had his house, there were canons to sing service in his chapel; so at Westminster, in St. Stephen's chapel, where the House of Commons sits, from which canons the street called Canon-row has its name, because they lived there; and he had also the abbot and his monks, and all these the king's house.

5. The three estates are the lords temporal, the bishops or the clergy, and the commons, as some would have it; (take heed of that) for then, if two agree, the third is involved, but he is king of the three estates.

6. The king hath a seal in every court; and though the great seal be called "sigillum Angliæ," the great seal of England, yet it is not because it the kingdom's seal, and not the king's, but to distinguish it from "sigillum Hiberniæ, sigillum Scotia."

7. The court of England is much altered. At a solemn dancing, first you had the grave measures, then the courantoes and the galliards; and this is kept up with ceremony: at length, to French-more, and the cushiondance; and then all the company dances, lord and groom, lady and kitchen-maid, no distinction. So in our court, in queen Elizabeth's

time, gravity and state were kept up in king James's time, things were pretty well but in king Charles's time, there has been nothing but French-more and the cushion-dance, nium gatherum," tolly polly, hoite-come-toite.

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THE KING.

1. 'Tis hard to make an accommodation between the king and his parliament. If you and I fell about money -you said I owed you twenty pounds, I said I owed you but ten pounds it may be, a third party, allowing me twenty marks, might make us friends. But if I said I owed you twenty pounds in silver, and you said I owed you twenty pounds in diamonds, which is a sum innumerable, it is impossible we should ever agree. This is the

case.

2. There is not the same reason for the king's accusing men of treason, and carrying them away, as there is for the houses themselves, for they accuse one of themselves : for every one that is accused is either a peer or a commoner, and he that is accused hath his consent going along with him; but if the king accuses, there is nothing of this in it.

3. The king is equally abused now as before then they flattered him and made him do ill things; now they would force him against his conscience. If a physician should tell me, every thing I had a mind to was good for me, though in truth it was poison, he abused me; and he abuses me as much, that would force me to take something whether I will or no.

4. The king, so long as he is our king, may do with his officers what he pleases; as the master of the house may turn away all his servants, and take whom he please.

5. The king's oath is not security enough for our property, for he swears to govern according to law. Now the judges they interpret the law, and what judges can be made to do we know.

6. The king and the parliament now falling out, are just as when there is foul play offered amongst gamesters: one snatches the other's stake; they seize what they can of one another's. 'Tis not to be asked whether it belongs not to the king to do this or that before, when there was fair play, it did; but now they will do what is most convenient for their own safety. If two fall to scuffling, one tears the other's band, the other tears his; when they were friends, they were quiet, and did no such thing; they let one another's bands alone.