" admit of no such Alienation, though promised " by the King: That the People of Burgundy like" wife exclaimed against it; that the Princes, his "Friends and Confederates, were all of the same

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Opinion : And therefore he had been obliged, " in his own Defence, to enter into a strict Alliance " with them." Then he concludes with imploring all the Christian Princes, not to fee him and his Children wronged; but he says not one Word of the Oath he had taken to obligate him to return to Prifon. The

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* the Law; and therefore in his • princely Place he hath constiChacellor, to order ' for him the same, and there fore the Court of Chancery ' hath been commonly called the • Court of Conscience; for that • it hath Jurisdiction to command • the Law in every Cafe, to de• fist from the Rigour of the Exe'cution: And now I say to you,

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Master Shelley, havela Power, or may I with Confcience give • that away which is now mine • for me and my Successors ?

If this be Law and Confcience, • I pray you shew me your Opi' nion.

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• late give away the Patrimony of the Church, and fo, in Process of Time, leave nothing for their Successors to main'tain their Dignities, which ' would be but little to the King's 'Honour.

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Well, quoth my Lord, let me see your Commission, which was shewed to him. Then, quoth my Lord, tell his Highness, ne that I am his most faithful Subject and obedient Beadfman, whose Command I will in no wife disobey, but will in 'all Things fulfil bis Pleasure,

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as you the Fathers of the Law 'fay 1 may: Therefore I charge your Confcience to discharge and shew bis Highness 'from me, that I must defire 'bis Majesty to remember there 'is both Heaven and Hell. And

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thereupon the Clerk took and ' wrote the Recognizance, and ⚫ after some fecret Talk they departed.

• Thus continued my Lord at Ashur; receiving daily Mefsages from the Court, some good, and soine bad, but more

• That I know well, quoth my Lord, but there is no fuch • Condition, but only a bare and • fimple Departure of others • Rights: If every Bishop should • do so, then might every Pre-ill than good; for his Enemies,

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The Imperialists were not wanting in setting out a long Answer to this Apology, retorting upon the King all he charges upon the Emperor.

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"First, as to the Breach of Faith, they prove it upon the King in the Treaties of Paris and Noyon,

as the Case was decided by the King of England, " when he was conftituted Umpire to adjudge which " of them had infringed the Articles of these Treaties, " who had absolutely declared against France."

Then they bring in many Instances of the King's unjust

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• perceiving the good Affection • the King bare always to him, • devised a Means to disquiet his • Patience, thinking thereby to • give him Occasion to fret and • chafe, that Death should rather • ensue than otherwise, which • they most defired, for they • feared him more after his Fall, • then they did in his Profperity, • fearing that he should, by Rea• fon of the King's Favour, rise ⚫ again, and be again in Favour, • and great at the Court; then • his Enemies might be in Danger ⚫ of their Lives for their Cruelty • wrongfully miniftred unto him, ⚫ and by their malicious Surmises • invented and brought to pass ' against him: And did conti⚫nually find new Matters against • him to make him vex and fret, ' but he was a wife Man, and • did arm himself with much • Patience.

• At Christmas he fell very • fick, and most likely to die; • the King, hearing thereof, was

very forry, and sent Dr. Butts, • his Physician, unto him, who • found him very dangerously • fick in Bed, and returned to

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' the King. The King demand'ed, saying, Have you feen yonder Man ? Yes, Sir, quoth he:-How do you like him ? quoth the King.--Sir, quoth he, • if you will have him dead, I ' will warrant you he will be ' dead within these four Days, ' if he receive no Comfort from

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Marry, God forbid, quoth ' the King, that he should die, ' for I would not lose him for 20,0001. I pray thee go to him, and do your Care to ' him.

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• Then must your Grace, quoth Dr. Butts, send him ' some comfortable Message.-So ' I will, quoth the King, by you; ⚫ therefore make Speed to him

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again, and you shall deliver him ⚫ this Ring from me for a Token. • In the which Ring was the • King's Image engraven with • a Ruby, as like the King as

might be devised: This Ring ⚫ he knoweth well, for he gave • me the fame; and tell him, That I am not offended with him in my Heart for any thing; and that shall be • known

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unjust Proceedings, as " his agreeing with Pope "Leo the Xth, to divide the Emperor's Dominions " in Italy; his encouraging the Rebellion in Spain; "his invading Flanders and Navarre, and much more

to the fame Purpose." As to the Affair of Milan they urge, "the King of France commenced the War " without any Right to that Dukedom, which is " undoubtedly a Fief of the Empire". In regard to Flanders and Artois they plead, "the Imperial Dignity takes off all Acknowledgment of Superiority

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'known shortly; therefore bid 'him pluck up his Heart, and * be of good Comfort: And I charge you come not from him, till you have brought him out of the Danger of Death, if *it be possible.

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"to any other; besides that, the Fealty of these "Provinces were unduly introduced by Philip the Ist." Concerning the Duke of Bourbon they say, that no " Promises from the Emperor, but the King's refusing to do him Justice, obliged that Prince to fly to his Imperial Majesty for Protection; that the Earldom of Provence of Right appertained to "the Emperor, and not to the King; that the King " had not been conquered by Fortune, but by dint of Valour; was conveyed into Spain at his own Request, " and

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good. Way of Amendment, they took their Leaves and departed, to whom my Lord offered his Reward; but they re• fused, saying, The King hath given a special Commandment, that they should take nothing of him, for at their Return f he would reward them of his own Coft.

After this my Lord continued at Afbur till Candlemas, before and againft which Feast, ' the King caused to be sent to my Lord three or four Loads of Stuff; and most thereof, except Beds and Kitchen-stuff, was • londed in Standards, wherein was both Plate and rich Hangings, • and Chapel-stuff, which was f done without the Knowledge of the Lords of the Council; • for all which he rendered the • King most humble and hearty Thanks; and afterwards made suit unto the King to be removed from Afpur to Richmond, which Request was granted.

The House of Richmond a little before was repaired by

I my Lord to his great Coft, for

' the King had made an Ex' change with him for Hamptoncourt. Had the Lords of the 'Council known of these Fa

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yours from the King to the • Cardinal, they would have per 'fuaded the King to the contrary, for they feared left his now Abode near the King ⚫ might move the King at some • Seafon to refort unto him, and

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" and there treated as if in his own Kingdom: That he himself proposed to yield up all his Pretences in Flanders, Milan, Genoa, and Naples, and, in "Lieu of Burgundy, to conquer Florence and Venice " for the Emperor; to bear half the Charges of

the Emperor's War, and to serve him in Person: "That he was never threatned with perpetual Im* prisonment, but had Liberty to walk Abroad and "hunt: That the King notwithstanding was carrying on Projects against the Emperor, and had endea"voured

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Benefice: Well then, Thomas, quoth my Lord, we will go then to Winchester. I will then, quoth Master Cromwell, • tell my Lord of Norfolk what you fay; and fo he did at his next meeting of him. What • should be do there? quoth the * Duke; let him go to the rich Bishoprick of York, where his * greatest Honour and Charge • lieth, and so shew him. The • Lords who were not his Friends • perceiving, that my Lord was disposed to plant himself so nigh the King, thought then * to withdraw his Appetite from Winchester, moved the King to give my Lord a Pension of 4000 Marks out of Winchester, • and all the rest to be distribut' ed amongst the Nobility and • his Servants; and so likewise ' to divide the Revenues of St. • Albans, whereof some had 200 Pounds: And all the Revenues • of his Lands, belonging to his

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College at Oxford and Ipswich, * the King took into his own • Hands; whereof Master Crom• well had the Receipt and Goverriment before my - Lord's Afsignment, wherefore it was

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thought very necessary that he 'should have the same still, ' who executed all Things so ' well and exactly, that he was ⚫ had in great Estimation for ' his Behaviour therein.

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' Now it came to pass that ' those, to whom the King had

given any Annuities or Fees • for Term of Life, or by Pa'tent, could not be good but • only for and during my Lord's

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Life, forasmuch as the King ' had no longer Estate therein, ' but what he had by my Lord's 'Attainder in the Premunire; ' and, to make their Estate good • and fufficient, there was no ' other Way but to obtain my Lord's Confirmation of their 'Patents; and to bring this a bout, there was no other Mean's but by Master Cromwell, who was thought the fittest Instru ment for this Purpose, and for his Pains therein he was wor thily rewarded; and his De meanor, his Honesty, and • Wisdom was such, that the King took great notice of him, as you shall hereafter

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