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A34331	The Connexion being choice collections of some principal matters in King James his reign, which may serve to supply the vacancy betwixt Mr. Townsend's and Mr. Rushworth's historical collections.	England and Wales. Sovereign (1603-1625 : James I)	1681 (1681)	Wing C5882; ESTC R2805	57,942	188

cases of spoil and their accessaries or dependencies be granted hereafter Item That no Ship or Goods taken from any of his Majesties Friends shall be delivered by any other Order than upon proof made in the said Court of the Admiralty before the said Judge or his Deputy to the end that a Record may be kept of all such restitutions made to strangers to serve when occasion shall require Item That every Vice Admiral is enjoyned by this Proclamation whereof he shall take notice at his peril to certifie into the said Court of the Admiral●y every Quarter of the Year what man of War hath gone to the Sea or returned home within that time with any Goods taken at Sea or the procedure thereof upon pain to lose to his Majesty by way of fine for every such default forty pounds of current money of England to be answered into his Majesties Receipt of the Exchequer by Certificate from the said Judge of the Admiralty under the Great Seal of that Office to be directed to the Lord Treasurer and the Barons of the Exchequer Item That all the Kings Subjects shall forbear from aiding or receiving of any Pyrate or Sea-Rover or any person not being a known Merchant by contracting buying selling or Exchanging with them or by victualling of them or any of their Company whereby they or any of them shall be the more inabled to go or return to the Seas to commit any pyracy or disorder upon pain for so doing to be punished presently as the principal Offenders and Pyrates ought to be Item That the Vice-Admirals Customers and the other Officers of the Ports shall not suffer any ship to go to Sea before such time as they respectively in their several Ports have duly searched and visited the same to the intent to stay such persons as apparently shall be furnished for the Wars and not for ●erchandize or Fishing and if there shall be any manner of suspicion that the said person though he shall pretend to trade for merchandize or fishing hath or may have an intent by his provisions or furniture otherwise than to use the trade of merchandize or fishing tha● in such case of suspicion the Officers of the Ports shall stay and in no wise suffer the same to pass to the Seas without good Bonds by sufficient Sureties first had to use nothing but a lawful trade of merchandize or fishing and if the said Officers shall suffer any person otherwise to repair to the Seas then above is mentioned they shall not onely answer for any pyracies which any such person shall chance hereafter to do upon the Seas but shall suffer imprisonment until the Offenders may be apprehended if they shall be living And generally his Majesty declareth and denounceth all such Pyrats and Rovers upon the Seas to be out of his Majesties protection and lawfully to be by any person taken punished and suppressed with extremity And whereas divers great and enormous spoyles and pyracies have been of late time committed within the Streights of Gibralter by Capt. Thomas Tomkins Gent Edmond Bonham Walter Janerin Mariners and divers others English Pyrates and the Goods monies and merchandizes brought into England by them have been scattered sold and disposed of most lewdly and prodigally by the means of their Receivers Comforters and Abettors to the exceeding prejudice of his Majesties good friends the Venetians whom they have robbed and to the great displeasure of God and dishonour of this State His Majesty doth expresly command all Lieutenants Deputy-Lieutenants Admirals Vice Admirals and their Deputies and all other Officers of the Admiralty and all Justices of the Peace Mayors Sheriffs Bailiffs Constables and all others his Officers and Ministers whatsoever to use all care and diligence in the inquiring searching for and apprehending all such Pyrates their Receivers Comforters and Abettors and if they shall by their travels and cares find any of them to send them presently under safe custody to the Common-Goales of Hampshire or Dorse●shire there to remain without Bail or mainprise till the Lord High Admiral of England or his Lieutenant the Judge of the High Court of the Admiralty shall dispose of them according to the Laws in that case provided Given at his Majesties City of Winchester the 30th day of September 1603. in the first year of his Highness Reign of England France and Ireland and of Scotland the seven and thirtieth Anno Dom. 1604. An. Reg. Jac. 2. A Proclamation by King James for the Revocation of Mariners from forreign services to prevent their turning of Pyrates and to hinder Acts of Hostility to be committed on the Coasts of England WHereas within this short time since the Peace concluded between us and the King of Spain and the Arch-Dukes our good Brothers It hath appeared unto us that many Mariners and Sea-faring men of this Realm having gotten a custome and habit in the time of the War to make profit by spoil do leave their ordinary and honest Vocation and trading in merchantly Voyages whereby they might both have convenient maintenance and be serviceable to their Country and do betake themselves to the service of divers foreign States under the title of men of War to have thereby occasion to continue their unlawful and ungodly course of living by spoil using the service of those Princes but for colour and pretext but in effect making themselves commonly no better than Pyrates to rob both our own Subjects their Country men and the Subjects of other Princes our neighbours going in their honest trade of merchandize By which courses they impeach the quiet Traffique of Nations one with other leave our Realm unfurnished of men of their sort if we should have cause to use them and inure themselves to an impious disposition of living by rapine and evil means although by reason of the universal peace wherein we rre at this present with all Christian Princes and States they may have a more plentiful imployment in an orderly and lawful na●igation that at any time of late years they could have had We have thought it necessary in time to prevent the spreading of such a corruption amougst our subjects of that sort and calling whereby our Nation will be so much shandered and our Realm so greatly disedvnataged wherefore we do will and command all Masters of ships Pi●ts Mariners and all other sort of ●ea-faring men who now are in the ●artial service of any foreign State ●at they do presently return home in●o their own Country and leave all ●ch foreign services and betake them●lves to their vocation in the lawful ●ourse of merchandize and other or●erly Navigation upon such pains and ●unishments as by the Laws of our ●ealm may be inflicted upon them if ●fter this Declaration of our pleasure ●hey shall not obey And We do also ●pon the same pains straitly charge and ●ommand all our Subjects of that profes●on that none of them shall from hence●orth take Letters of Mark or Reprisal ●r serve under

where so much as in us lies to ●oot out and extirpate and Hereticks so convict to punish with Condig● Punishment holding that such an H●retick in the aforesaid Form Convi●● and Condemned according to th● Laws and Customs of this our Kingdom of England in this part accustomed ought to be Burned with Fire● We command thee that thou cause the said Edward Wightman being i● thy Custody to be committed to the Fire in some publick and open Place● below the City aforesaid for the Cause aforesaid before the People and the same Edward Wightman in the same Fire cause really to be Burned in the Detestation of the said Crime and for manifest Example of other Christians that they may not fall into the same Crime And this no ways omit under the Peril that shall follow thereon Witness c. Anno Dom. 1616. An. Reg. Jac. 14. ● Order of the King 's Privy Council sent to the Peers of the Realm for the Tryal of the Earl and Countess of Somerset Whitehall Apr. 24. 1616. AFter our very hearty Commendations to your Lordship ●hereas the King 's Majesty hath re●ved that the Earl of Somerset and ●e Countess his Wife lately indicted ●f Felony for the Murder and Poy●ning of Sir Thomas Overbury then ●s Majesties Prisoner in the Tower ●all now receive their Lawful and ●ublick Tryal by their Peers imme●ately after the end of this present ●aster Term. At the Tryal of which ●oble Personages your Lordship's ●resence as being a Peer of the Realm ●nd one of approved Wisdom and In●grity is requisite to pass upon them ●hese are to let your Lordship understand that his Majesties Pleasure ●● and so commandeth by these our Le●ters that your Lordship make you● repair to the City of London by th● Eleventh day of the Month of M●● following being some days before th● Tryal intended at which time you● Lordship shall understand more of hi● Majesties Pleasure So not doubtin● of your Lordships Care to observe h● Majesties Directions we commit yo● to God Your Lordships very loving Friends G. Cant. T. Ellesmere Canc. Fenton E. Wotton Tho. Lake Lo. Dare. C. Edmonds E. Worcester Lenox P. Herbert R. Winwood F. Grevyll J. Caesar ●he Speech of Sir Francis Bacon at the Arraignment of the Earl of Somerset the Countess having received the King's Pardon ●T may please your Grace my Lord High Steward of England and you ●y Lords the Peers You have here ●efore you Robert Earl of Somerset ●● be Tried for his Life concerning ●e Procuring and Consenting to the ●oysoning of Sir Thomas Overbury ●●en the King's Prisoner in the Tower ●f London as an Accessary before the ●act I know your Honours cannot be●old this Noble Man but you must ●emember the great Favours which ●he King hath conferred on him and ●ust be sensible that he is yet a Mem●er of your Body and a Peer as you ●re so that you cannot cut him off ●●om your Body but with grief and ●herefore you will expect from us that give in the King's Evidence sound ●nd sufficient matter of Proof to satisfie your Honours Consciences As for the manner of the Evidence the King our Master who amongst other his Vertues excelleth in that Vertue of the Imperial Throne which is Justice hath given us Command that we should not expatiate nor make Invectives but materially pursue the Evidence as it conduceth to the points in question A matter that though we are glad of so good a Warrant yet we should have done of our selves For far be it from us by any Strains of Wit or Arts to seek to play Prizes or blazon our Names in Blood or to carry the Day other ways than on sure grounds We shall carry the Lanthorn of Justice which is the Evidence before your Eyes upright and so be able to save it from being put out with any grounds of Evasion or vain Defence not doubting at all but that the Evidence it self will carry that Force as it shall need no Advantage or Aggravation First My Lords The Course that will hold in delivery of that which shall say for I love Order is First I will speak something of the Nature and Greatness of the Offence which is now to be Tried not to weigh down my Lord with the great●ess of it but rather contrariwise to ●ew that a great Offence needs a ●ood Proof And that the King how●ever he might esteem this Gentle●an heretofore as the Signe● upon his ●inger to use the Scripture Phrase ●et in such a Case as this he was to ●ut it off Secondly I will use some few words ●ouching the Nature of the Proofs which in such a Case are competent Thirdly I will state the Proofs And Lastly I will produce the ●roofs either out of Examination ●nd matters of Writing or Witnesses ●iva voce For the Offence it self it is of Crimes ●ext unto High Treason the greatest is the foulest of Felonies It hath ●ree Degrees First It is Murder by Impoysonment Secondly It is Mu●der committed upon the King's Prisoner in the Tower Thirdly I might say it is Murder under the colour ● Friendship but that it is a Circumstance Moral and therefore I leav● that to the Evidence it self For Murder my Lords the fir●● Record of Justice which was in th● World was Judgment upon a 〈◊〉 therer in the Person of Adam's First born Cain and though it was not punished by Death but Banishment and marks of Ignominy in respect of the Primogenitors or the Population o● the World yet there was a sever● Charge given that it should not g●● unpunished So it appeareth likewise in Scripture that the Murder of Abner by Joab though it were by David respited in respect of great Services past or reason of State yet it was not forgotten But of this I will say no more because I will not discourse It was ever admitted and ranked in God's own Tables That Murder is of Offences between man and man next unto High Treason and Disobedience to Authority which sometimes have been referred to the first Table because of the Lieutenancy of God in Princes the greatest For Impoysonment I am sorry it should be heard of in our Kingdom It is not nostri generis nec sanguinis pec●atum it is an Italian Comfit fit for the Court of Rome where that person that intoxicateth the Kings of the Earth is many times really intoxica●ed and poysoned himself but it hath three Circumstances which makes it grievous beyond other matters The First is That it takes a man away in full peace in God's and the King's peace that thinks no harm ●ut is comforting of Nature with Re●ection and Food so that as the Scripture saith his Table is made a Snare The Second is That it is easily committed and easily conceal'd and on ●he other side hardly prevented and hardly discovered For Murder by violence Princes have Guards and Private Men have Houses Attendants and Arms. Neither can such Murder be committed but Cum sonitu with some