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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02498	A letter sent by F.A. touchyng the proceedings in a priuate quarell and vnkindnesse betweene Arthur Hall, and Melchisedech Mallerie gentleman, to his very friende L.B. being in Italie. VVith an admonition to the father of F.A. to him being a burgesse of the Parliament, for his better behauiour therein.	Hall, Arthur, 1539?-1605.	1576 (1576)	STC 12629; ESTC S118961	87,420	125

whose experience and wisedome of themselues is great and much by councel do you thinke to auoyde Iohns rewarde If you Iohn it with the nobility do you deeme them children will not nobility followe in deede the noblenesse of bloud to abhorre and detest suche shamelesse shifting Iackeryes yes assuredly to your vtter infamy and ouerthrowe But take the other course and truth may be blamed but it will neuer be shamed It may be loked bigge on but it wyl not be out of countenaunce it may bee shut out of the dore but it wyll bee sente for in againe and set at the table with the best when Curteous Maister Iohn shal be glad to take the leauing of the Pages and hereof assuredly perswade your selfe vnlesse your minde be so far possessed with mischiefe too thinke the Falcons can feed of carrion or Dolphyns delight in puddels which as by nature they do abhorre so do Princes nobility by long succession norished and bredde in honour reiecte and contempne all suche seruile disceyte and treasonable shifting Now are we come to consider howe to answere the office your trusters put you in not for any perticular profit but for the whole common good Hoc opus hic labor est But if those good parts be in you which they perswade are as is recited the burden is soone discharged to all your commendations welch quietnesse ▪ First they accompt of you as one religious c. and after as you haue heard As touching that part I presume not to deale bicause the Cobler may not passe the shoo but with feare I will reuerently with all good meaning embrace the sounde and perfecte opinion of the Learned which for the two parts the one duty to god and the other to a mans neighbour lies open to all menne by Deuines the latchets of whose shooes I counte not my selfe woorthy to vnloose Marcus Tullius Cicero let me remember you of and of his treatise de Amicitia which being a boy as Scollers do I did vnwillingly acquaint my selfe with He maks not as I take it aboue foure payre of friendes whose names being so common to repeate again were but spending of inke and paper He cōmends whē men would so far as I may terme it beleue in other for friendship sake as they drew cuts who should go to the hacke first and not so onely but the one would face down a lye to be tormented to saue the other Tulli sayde true for he saide it Historically I am sory the Paganisme may cast in our noses foure rare examples and we not able to afourde them one such coupple If you had such a one your selfe as Eurialus was to Nisus Damon to Pythias Orestes to Pylades and Theseus to Perithous were one to another you coulde not but make of such a Iewel And if you would beguile him who should haue the losse your selfe only in respecte of all extremity among the best by whō I meane the vertuous not the Turks Bassaes for why ingratitude shold rather deserue quartering thā clipping of coine This frendship for such affiance trust betwene party party is rare is commendable is not to be found and yet dependeth vpon particular action betwene two it is determyned betwene them that is at the death or absence of either of both and then so far as wel wishing may extend But sée what the commons of Englande put in your handes when you are chosen a spokesman for them They end not with their liues that make you a Parliament mā but with the perticulars and al in al that I named before Wyl you haue more than all giuen you of him that demes well of you you cannot Do they store vp in you by trust conceiued what depends vpon thē as it is recited it semeth so iudge your selfe Wil you go to Law of nature to the Law of God to the Law of Princes too the Law of Confederats wil not al condemne you if you iugle I haue found it so Although in very deede some men accept iuggling for an English word in good part yet I neuer vnderstoode it in Chaucer or olde English neyther in the conscience of the professors of Charity or well dealing part the wordes at your pleasure enter too Ethnickes or too Christianes Here is the warre here is the daunger here is both your credits that is the electors theirs and yours vpon a mum chaunce pardon me if I offend in words I haue playde at the dice If you discharge your truste wel they are in your debt they wel may vaunte of the perfection of your executiō not more that you haue done a thing cōmendable in general thā that they haue chosen in perticular so sufficiēt a member in so great a cause here is a good Harmonie the wel true singing of which sōg makes al mē merry at midnight at al times in al things alwayes not now only present but to come yea those who neuer smelt of the matter if you go a trewāting if you play Legerdemayn if you wil be bridled if you gape for ambitiō if you play y Mongrel if fayre words abuse you if carelesnes make you hold no hand of your doings if fury make you dronk if affectiō blinde you hereof wil procéede not only to your trusters theirs now borne vnborne I vse the word stil bycause I knowe not how so rightly too hit the minde of your choosers who commit trust in you Ploratus and Stridor dentium but the same to you and yours in like predicament although some present outward shew may make you thinke the cōtrary And therfore what I haue gathered of others for Praeter auditum nihil habeo I wil follow which and God graunt you may receive as much benefit thereof as I desire if you want from me the faulte is not mine you haue the best I can vpon the maner of wryting of letters I perswade wyth my selfe you cannot possibly play the spider wyth these my barren flowers tho it were in May or Iune If you make any hony of them I wil be the gladder to go to my graue in consummatione aetatis mei for that to you and to my country two parts of my greatest care I shal be assured some benefit will redowne by the reliques of my collections whiche I neuer tended for my owne prefermente ▪ so muche as for the aduauncemente of the common wealth as is to be gathered by my beggery which perhaps I might better haue withstoode if I could haue giuen my selfe Adulari and Sycophantari Your countryes welfare must alwayes be your onely and greatest care The florishing whereof is the Princes strength and toylity the nobilities quietnesse and greatnesse For as a King cannot King it without people nor Lordes Lord it without Tenauntes no more can nations liue in commōwelths without the higher aucthority The musicke of which thrée ioyned and agreing in one doth make the olde onelegged man hop for ioy and the

yeare it was enacted that no subsidie nor other charge shoulde be sette nor graunted vppon the Woolles by the Marchants nor by any other from thenceforth without the assent of the Parliament rare presidents to finde before the conquest in William Cōquerors time or since in a manner at all til this kings dayes Richard the seconde his successor helde euen on as his Graundfather began had almoste euery yeare a Parliament according to the statuts that there shoulde bee one yearely at the leaste In the beginnings of al the whiche almost the great Charter and that of the Forrest with all Liberties to holy churches fraunchises c. were granted stablished and confirmed and the authority of passing the actes is as you haue in his predecessors time Edward the thyrde sometime with one maner of words and somtime another He had very many free bountiful aydes of his subiectes by mony in number for hys two twenty yeares time no whit wanting with his Graundfathers likewise by diuerse pardons he declared his good accepting of them Kyng Henry the fourth first Erle of Darby then Duke of Herforde by his father Iohn of Gaunt Duke of Lancaster the fourth begottē son of king Edward the second also inuested with the title of the Dukedome no more against king Richard 〈◊〉 than against lawe ryght and iustice did clayme the Crowne and at London called a Parliament in king Richards name asmuch without his direction as without iust aucthority and howe far wythout the ful partes of an Englishe Parliament which wee brag of and iustly may I referre mee to the iudgemente of deeper heades than mine owne In this Parliament forsooth is 31. Articles at the leaste layde to our Kyng Richarde a shrewd an vnaccustomed president Wel it was thought by the most parte that he was worthy to be deposed and prouision according was prouided But King Richardes friendes going to bed without candel when none was to be had perswaded their maister too yeeld contented the Crowne from his heade whiche otherwise woulde haue byn snatched off perforce and brought the skyn with it He doth resign he craues life without raigne it is liberally granted but more liberally broken with hasty shameful slaughter As who searches shal find to whō I rather cōmit the reading thā I to cal to remēbrance such vndutiful hard dealing specially when the Parliament hath any interest in the same or should be noted with error This Henrie the fourth raigned thirtéene yeares and somewhat more in whose time there was almost euery yeare a Parliamēt in all the which for the most parte first the Charters and liberties be confirmed to all men and the Actes be thus aucthorized Henrie by the grace of god c. of the assent of the Prelates Dukes Erles Barons and at the instant special request of the commons of the same Realme assembled at his Parliament holden at Westminster c. Al establishmēts cōfirmations and makings of statuts in his time you shal finde stil at the request ernest instance and prayer of the commons yet was he king as you haue hearde and in the first yeare of hys raigne he had such a heauy Taxe graunted him as it was conditioned it should not be recorded for a president diuers others he reaped the benefite of retourned also sundry pardons to the freeing of many of his subiectes His sonne Henrie was Kyng nine yeares and somewhat more and yerely as it seemes helde a Parliamente but hys sixt yeare in al which wherin the commons were named he sayth as before for himselfe and the Lords he hath at the special instance and request of the Cōmons in the same Parliamēt c. Hath don to be ordained c. The liberties of holy Churches the Charters and priuileges are enacted and agreed soundely to abide in force I can not perceiue for all his great Conquest and warres in Fraunce that he troubled his Subiectes in a manner at all to speake of wyth Taxe or Subsidie That smal ayde hee had rose as I can gather of some Tenthes and Fifteenthes were graunted him And yet did he for custome curtesie or congratulation sake also imparte his pardons He left his sonne Henrie in his place being but eighte monethes olde during whose raigne the Parliamentes were very thicke helde as in the former times As thys Prince was very yong at the death of his father so was he when he came to age more giuen to quietnesse and Religion than to worldly affayres or weapons And therefore it may be gathered that the nobility and commons stoode not in doubt of the infringing by him of great Charters and liberties Wherefore they labored not euery Parliament the confirmation of them as in his Predecessors tyme they did for in his Parliaments wee finde no suche mention made of them as vsually is had before his gouernement for making of Lawes most commonly I see Our soueraigne Lord king Henry the sixth at his Parliamente c. By the aduise and assente of the Lordes spirituall and temporal and at the speciall request of the commons of the Realme being in the same Parliament haue done to be made c. There is also Our soueraigne Lord King Henrie c. For the weale of him and of his Realme by the aduise and assent of the lords spiritual and temporal and the commons of the same Parliament assembled hath made ordayned c. This last manner of mencioning the cōmons it is in the middle of the kings raign which might proceede of some occasions which your selfe maye finde out if you tourne ouer the cronicles I take it needlesse to be written In the th●●tie three yeare of his raigne there was something enacted in a Parliamente touching the Lord Richard Duke of Yorke and also in another in his thirtie three yere concerning the same Prince which I cannot be perswaded that King Henrie de mero motu consented to I do not vnderstande that he burdened his subiectes in a manner at all with exactions for al his continuall and great warres in Fraunce but rather contented him selfe with the losse and so far as in lesse than fourtie yeres he forewent the Crowne of Fraunce abroade and lost his kingdome of Englande at home And tho by hys friendes he recouered the one againe yet woulde it not be kept but hee that receiued it firste efte obtayned it so that Kyng Henrie was depriued the second time not only of hys regalty but presently of his life Edward Earle of March righte heire of the house of Yorke was the man that Kinged it in King Henries rome and so continued it twenty two yeares and somewhat more during which gouernement he hadde at leaste tenne Parliaments in all the which hee names his auctority and the nobilityes aduise and consent and the instāce and request of the commons but only in the Parliamente the thirde yeare of his raigne wherin he sayes At the Parliament summoned at Westminster