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parliament_n	burgess_n	king_n	knight_n	3,853	5	7.2952	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A00060	An harborovve for faithfull and trevve subiectes agaynst the late blowne blaste, concerninge the gouernme[n]t of vvemen. wherin be confuted all such reasons as a straunger of late made in that behalfe, with a breife exhortation to obedience. Anno. M.D.lix.	Aylmer, John, 1521-1594.	1559 (1559)	STC 1005; ESTC S100367	81,623	134

are lyke to enfect the best heads in Europe I meane the Italyans if God prouide not remedy Shall it be easy thynke you for euery man to ioyne with them I can not tell howe simple they be But one man of that sect so distourbed a whole vniuersitie in Germany that all the learned men there and the Prince him self Tubinga in Sueuia was not hable to scrape out that he had wickedly grauen The Swingfieldians the Maioranes the Pelagians the froward freewyll men the Adiaphoristes the Osdrianistes thenewe Marcionistes the Anabaptistes with infinite other swarmes of Satanistes do you thinke that euery pulpit man wyll be hable to aunswer them I pray God there be many that can I saye therfore because there is so muche required in a spirituall minister that all men bee not mete for the office And therfore that with good reason women bee debarred from it Albeit at some tymes it pleaseth God to vse their ministrie euen in this poynt Ioh. 4. as the woman of Samaria whiche was the fyrst preacher to hir cytezens of the Messias and the women Math. 28. Marc. 16. Ioh. 20. Ruff. li. 10 cap. 10. Theo li. 1. cap. 23. the fyrst Apostles and messengers of the resurrection And as we reade in the Ecclesiasticall historie A certen woman vnder Const Mag. was the Apostle of the Iberians whiche turned first the Kynge and Quene and then the whole countrey to the fayth of Christe This coulde not bee done without some talke in thassēblies nor without a kynde of preachyng Yea Theodoretus sayeth that she dyd preache to them wherfore me thinke euen in this poynte wee muste vse 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a certen moderacion not absolutelie and in euerye wyse to debarre them herein as it shall please GOD to serue Christe Are there not in Englande women thynke you that for their learnynge and wysdome coulde tell their housholde and neighbours as good a tale as the best Sir Ihon there And what if by occasion not by common office they shoulde sumtyme make their neighbours partakers of their giftes were it so heinous a matter 1. Tim. 2. I pray you what more vehemencye vseth Paule in the forbiddynge of women to preache then inforbydding them to vncouer their heads He sayeth of the one 1. Cor. 11. it is euyll fauoured and of the other that it is against nature As vvomē be forbidden to preache so be they to go bare headed And yet you knowe that in the best reformed churches of all Germany all the maides be bare headed whiche the preachers and learned men make noo greate accompte of This I saye not because I allowe either for I assure you I dooe not But that wee should not in suche pointes grate vpon the woordes to sore as though in no respecte a woman may opē hir mouth to edifie But if this be vtterly taken from them in this place what maketh it against their gouernment in a politike weale where neither the woman nor the man ruleth If there be no tyraunts but the lawes For as Plato saith Plato de leg lib. Illi ciuitatiparatū est exitiū vbi magistratꝰ legibus inperat et nō leges magistratui That cytie is at the pits brinke wherin the magistrate ruleth the lawes and not the lawes the magistrate VVhat could any kyng in Israell do in that cōmon wealth besides the pollycie appoynted by Moyses They be but ministers obeyed for the lawes sake and not for their owne Nowe what vnhablenes is in a woman for the ministring of lawes She knoweth not the lawes no more doth your kyng She sitteth not in iudgement howe oft doth your kyng Onles you call determining matters in his priuie chamber iudging She is not mete to go to the warres she hath that bee mete Tillius Arnoldus Iust Herodot and some wemen haue gonne and sped wel She is not of so sound iudgement peraduenture beter of more lerning then your kyng as it happeneth at this tyme that you can neuer shewe in al Englande synce the conquest so learned a kyng as we haue now a Quene Men will not stande in aweso muche of a woman as of a man that is their faulte and not hirs No more will they of a childe and yet be they traytours that do disobey him Solin 43. cap. Solinus writeth that the neighbours of Sambri haue a dogge to their kynge and by his beckes and fawnings they gesse what they must do But thei were foles in obeying a brute beast and you bee Traytours in not obeying a reasonable creature It is lesse daunger to be gouerned in Englād by a vvoman then any vvhere els They are to obedient a shrewed faulte and you to disobedient that is no faulte VVell a womā may not reigne in Englande Better in England thē any where as it shall wel appere to him that without affection will consider the kinde of regiment whyle I conferre ours with other as it is in it selfe and not may med by vsurpacion I can fyndenone either so good or so indifferent The regiment of Englande is not a mere Monarchie as some for lacke of consideracion thinke nor a meere Oligarchie nor Democratie The kind of gouernment in England Amonarchie is vvher one alone rule An Obligarchie vvhere a fevv rule A Democratie vvher the people rule Architas de leg iustit but a rule mixte of all these wherein ech one of these haue or shoulde haue like authoritie Thimage whereof and not the image but the thinge in dede is to be sene in the parliamēt hous wherin you shal find these .3 estats The King or Quene which representeth the Monarche The noble men which be the Aristocratie And the Burgesses and Knights the Democratie The verye same had Lacedemonia the noblest ād best city gouerned that euer was thei had their kings their senate ād Hippagretes which wer for the people As in Lacedemonia none of these could make or breake lawes order for warre or peax or do any thing without thother the king nothinge without the Senate and commons nor either of thē or both withoute the kinge Albeit the Senate and the Ephori had greater authoritie then the Kinge had In like maner if the parliament vse their priuileges the King can ordein nothing without them If he do it is his fault in vsurping it and their follye in permitting it wherefore in my iudgement those that in King Henry the .viii dais The Parliament in Kinge Henry .8 daie would not graunt him that his proclamacions shuld haue the force of a statute were good fathers of the countri and wurthy cōmendacion in defending their liberty Vvold God that that court of late daies had feared no more the fearcenes of a woman then they did the displeasure of such a man Then should they not haue stouped contrary to their othes and alledgiaunce to the crowne againste the preuilege of that house vppon their marye bones to receiue the