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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A12533	De republica Anglorum The maner of gouernement or policie of the realme of England, compiled by the honorable man Thomas Smyth, Doctor of the ciuil lawes, knight, and principall secretarie vnto the two most worthie princes, King Edwarde the sixt, and Queene Elizabeth. Seene and allowed.; Common-wealth of England	Smith, Thomas, Sir, 1513-1577.	1583 (1583)	STC 22857; ESTC S117628	79,409	124

of families together within themselues how to demeane and order their matters best for the conseruation of themselues and ech of their families generally and particularly Thus a few being heades and the chiefe of their families equall in birth and nobilitie and not much different in riches gouerned their owne houses and the descendentes of them particularly and consulted in common vpon publike causes agreeing also vpon certaine lawes and orders to be kept amongst them So the best chiefest and sagest did rule and thother part had no cause to striue with them nor had no cause nor apparance to compare with anie of them neither for age nor discretion nor for riches or nobilitie The rulers sought ech to keepe and maintaine their posteritie as their sonnes and nephewes and such as shoulde succeede them and carie their names when they were deade and so render them being mortall by nature immortall by their fame and succession of posteritie hauing most earnest care to maintaine still this their cousinage and common familie aswell against forraigne and barbarous nations which were not of their progenie tongue or religion as against wilde and sanage beasts This seemeth the naturall sourse and beginning or image of that rule of the fewer number which is called of the Greekes 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and of the Latines optimatum respublica The first originall or beginning of the rule of the multitude called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 CHAP. 14. NOw as time bringeth an ende of all thinges these brethren being all dead and their offpring encreasing daily to a great multitude and the reuerence due to the old fathers in such and so great number of equals fayling by the reason of the death or doting of the Elders eche owing their merites of education apart to their fathers and grandfathers and so many arising and such equalitie among them it was not possible that they should be content to be gouerned by a fewe For two thinges being such as for the which men in society and league do most striue that is honour and profitte no man of free courage can be contented to be neglected therein so that they were faine of necessitie to come to that that the more part should beare the price away in election of magistrates and rulers So that either by course or by lot ech man in turne might be receaued to beare rule and haue his part of the honour and if any were of the profit which came by administration of the common wealth For whosoeuer came of that old great grandfathers race he accompted him selfe as good of birth as any other For seruice to the cōmon wealth all or such a number had done it as they coulde not be accompted few And if a few would take vpon them to vsurpe ouer the rest the rest conspiring together would soone be master ouer them and ruinate them wholly Whereupon necessarily it came to passe that the common wealth must turne and alter as before from one to a few so now from a few to many and the most part ech of these yet willing to saue the politicke bodie to conserue the authoritie of their nation to defende themselues against all other their strife being onely for empire and rule and who shoulde doe best for common wealth whereof they would haue experience made by bearing office and being magistrates This I take for the first and naturall beginning of the rule of the multitude which the Greekes called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Latines some Republica by the generall name some populi potestas some census potestas I cannot tell howe latinely That the common wealth or policie must be according to the nature of the people CHAP. 15. BY this processe and discourse it doth appeare that the mutations changes of fashions of gouernement in common wealthes be naturall do not alwayes come of ambitiō or malice And that according to the nature of the people so the commō wealth is to it sit proper And as all these iii. kindes of common wealthes are naturall so when to ech partie or espece and kinde of the people that is applied which best agreeth like a garmēt to the bodie or shoe to the foote then the bodie politique is in quiet findeth ease pleasure and profit But if a contrary forme be giuen to a contrary maner of people as when the shoe is too litle or too great for the foote it doth hurt and encomber the conuenient vse thereof so the free people of nature tyrannized or ruled by one against their willes were he neuer so good either faile of corage and were seruile or neuer rest vntill they either destroie their king and them that would subdue them or be destroyed themselues And againe another sort there is which without being ruled by on●e prince but set at libertie cannot tell what they shoulde doe but either through insolencie pride and idlenes will fall to robbery and all mischiefe and to scatter and dissolue themselues or with foolish ambition and priuate strife consume one another and bring themselues to nothing Of both these two we haue histories enough to beare witnesse as the Greekes Romanes Samnites Danes Uandals and others Yet must you not thinke that al common wealthes administrations and rulinges began on this sort by prouining or propagation as is before written but many times after a great battle and long war the captaine who led a multitude of people gathered peraduenture of diuerse nations languages liking y e place which he hath by force conquered tarieth there beginneth a common wealth after this maner for the most part a kingdome As the Gothes Lumbardes in Italie the Frenchmen in Gaule the Sarasins in Spaine and part of Fraunce the Saxons in great Brittaine which is nowe called Englande of which when that one and chiefe prince is dead the nobler sort consult among themselues and either choose an other head and king or diuide it into more heads rulers so did the Lumbards in Italie and the Saxons in England or take at the first a common rule popular estate as the Zwisers did in their cantous do yet at this day or else admit the rule of a certaine fewe excluding the multitude and communaltie as the Paduans Veronenses and Venetians haue accustomed The diuision of the parts and persons of the common wealth CHAP. 16. TO make all thinges yet cleare before as we shal go there ariseth another diuision of the partes of the common wealth For it is not enough to say that it consisteth of a multitude of houses families which make stretes villages the multitude of the stretes villages make townes and the multitude of townes the realme that freemen be cōsidered only in this behalf as subiects citizēs of the cōmonwealth not bondmen who can beare no rule nor iurisdiction ouer freemen as they who be taken but as instruments the goods and possessions of others In which consideration