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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A31592	Cabala, sive, Scrinia sacra mysteries of state & government : in letters of illustrious persons, and great agents, in the reigns of Henry the Eighth, Queen Elizabeth, K. James, and the late King Charls : in two parts : in which the secrets of Empire and publique manage of affairs are contained : with many remarkable passages no where else published.; Cabala, sive, Scrinia sacra.		1654 (1654)	Wing C184_ENTIRE; Wing C183_PARTIAL; Wing S2110_PARTIAL; ESTC R21971	510,165	642

power then other Courts and if you be not tied to the ordinary course of Courts or presidents in point of strictnesse and severity much more in points of mercy and mitigation And yet if any thing I should move might be contrary to your honourable and worthy ends to introduce a reformation I should not seek it But herein I beseech your Lordships to give me leave to tell you a story Titus Manlius took his sons life for giving battail against the prohibition of his General Not many years after the like severity was pursued by Papirius Cursor the Dictator against Quintus Maximus who being upon the point to be sentenced was by the intercession of some principal persons of the Senate spared whereupon Livie maketh this grave and gracious observation Neque minus firmata est disciplina militaris periculo Quinti Maximi quam mirabili supplicio Titi Manlii The discipline of War was no lesse established by the questioning onely of Quintus Maximus then by the punishment of Titus Manlius And the same reason is of the reformation of Justice for the questioning of men of eminent place hath the same terrour though not the same rigour with the punishment But my Case stayeth not there for my humble desire is that his Majestie would take the Seal into his hands which is a great downfal and may serve I hope in it self for an expiation of my faults Therefore if mercy and mitigation be in your Lordships power and do no wayes crosse your ends why should I not hope of your favours and Commiserations Your Lordships may be pleased to behold your chief Pattern the King our Soveraign a King of incomparable Clemencie and whose heart is instructable for wisdom and goodnesse You well remember that there sate not these hundred years before in your House a Prince and never such a Prince whose presence deserveth to be made memorable by records and acts mixt of mercy and justice Your selves are either Nobles and Compassion ever beateth in the veins of noble bloud or Reverend Prelates who are the servants of him that would not break the bruised reed nor quench smoaking flaxe You all sit upon a high Stage and therefore cannot but be more sensible of the changes of humane Condition and of the fall of any from high places Neither will your Lordships forget that there are vitia temporis as well as vitia hominis and that the beginning of reformation hath a contrary power to the pool of Bethesda for that had strength onely to cure him that was first cast in and this hath strength to hurt him onely that is first Cast in and for my part I wish it may stay there and go no further Lastly I assure my self your Lordships have a noble feeling of me as a member of your own body and one that in this very Session had some taste of your loving affection which I hope was not a lightning before the death of them but rather a spark of that grace which now in the Conclusion will more appear And therefore my humble suit to your Lordships is that my voluntary Confession be my sentence and the losse of the Seal my punishment and that your Lordships will spare any farther sentence but recommend me to his Majesties grace and pardon for all that is past And so c. Your Lordships c. Francis St. Alban Can. Five Letters more of my Lord Bacons Bacon to the King July 31. 1617. Lord Keeper Bacon to his Majestie I Dare not presume any more to reply upon your Majestie but reserve my Defence till I attend your Majestie at your happy return when I hope verily to approve my self not onely a true servant to your Majestie but a true friend to my Lord of Buckingham and for the times also I hope to give your Majestie a good account though distance of place may obscure them But there is one part of your Majesties Letter that I could be sorry to take time to answer which is that your Majestie conceives that whereas I wrote That the height of my Lords Fortune might make him secure I mean that he was turned proud or unknowing of himself Surely the opinion I have ever had of my Lord whereof your Majestie is best witnesse is far from that But my meaning was plain and simple that his Lordship might through his great fortune be the lesse apt to Cast and foresee the unfaithfulnesse of friends and the malignity of enemies and accidents of times Which is a judgment your Majestie knoweth better then I that the best Authors make of the best and best tempered spirits Vt sunt res humanae Insomuch as Guicciardine maketh the same judgment not of a particular person but of the wisest state of Europe the Senate of Venice when he sayeth their prosperity had made them secure and under-weighers of perils Therefore I beseech your Majesty to deliver me in this from any the least imputation to my dear and Noble Lord and friend And so expecting that that Sun which when it went from us left us cold weather and now it is returned towards us hath brought with it a blessed harvest will when it cometh to us dispel and disperse all mists and mistakings I am c. Lord Chancellour to his Majestie 2. Jan. 1618. It may please your most excellent Majestie I Do many times with gladnesse and for a remedy of my other labours revolve in my mind the great happinesse which God of his singular goodnesse hath accumulated upon your Majesty every way and how Compleat the same would be if the state of your meanes were once rectified and well ordered your people militarie and obedient fit for war used to peace your Church illightened with good Preachers as an heaven of Stars your Judges learned and learning from you just and just by your example your Nobility in a right distance between Crown and People no oppressors of the people no overshadowers of the Crown your Councel full of tributes of Care faith and freedom your Gentlemen and Justices of Peace willing to apply your Royal Mandates to the nature of their several Counties but ready to obey your servants in awe of your wisdome in hope of your goodnesse The fields growing every day by the improvement and recovery of grounds from the desert to the garden The City grown from wood to brick your Sea-walls or Pomerium of your Island surveyed and in edifying your Merchants imbracing the whole compasse of the World East West North and South The times give you Peace and yet offer you opportunities of action abroad And lastly your excellent Royal Issue entayleth these blessings and favours of God to descend to all posterity It resteth therefore that God having done so great things for your Majestie and you for others You would do so much for your self as to go through according to your good beginnings with the rectifying and settling of your estate and means which onely is wanting Hoc rebus