An historicall discourse of the uniformity of the government of England .. . to be done only by men of fo high accomplifh-ment. And by this means Lordfl:iip, once bringing therewithboth Authority and Power unto Kings, before Kings grew jea-lous of their greatnefs, in thefe later days is become a mecr jelly,and neither able to ferve the inteteft of Kings (if the people Oiould The Conclujton. 5107 (hould beftir themfelvesj nor their own any longer : Hence* forth the Commons of England are no mean Perfons,and their Pxeprefcntaiive of fuch Concernment, as if Kings will have them to obferve him, he
An historicall discourse of the uniformity of the government of England .. . to be done only by men of fo high accomplifh-ment. And by this means Lordfl:iip, once bringing therewithboth Authority and Power unto Kings, before Kings grew jea-lous of their greatnefs, in thefe later days is become a mecr jelly,and neither able to ferve the inteteft of Kings (if the people Oiould The Conclujton. 5107 (hould beftir themfelvesj nor their own any longer : Hence* forth the Commons of England are no mean Perfons,and their Pxeprefcntaiive of fuch Concernment, as if Kings will have them to obferve him, he mull ferve them with their Liberties and Laws i and every one the publick good of the people : No mans work is beneath, no mans above it, the beft Honour of the Kings work is to be, NobilisPrvitut (as Antigonus faid to ^.lUn his Son) or in plain Engli(h, Supreme Service above all and to rar. bifi. caf. the whole. I now conclude, wifhing we may attain the hap- zo. pincfsof our Fore-Fathers the ancient Saxons, §uilihet coa- tentHS forte propria, Taeit, T t 2 A Table. A Table of the PrincipalMatters contained in thisBook. A Fol. A Betting of Felony madeFelony 2pf^ Adminiftrationgranted to the next of theKindred. 51 Admirals porver from theTarliament ^\, formerly undermany^ brought into one 4,2. oncegained jurifdiSion to the highwater-mark^^^. and his Powerregulated by Law ibid, overSea-men^ forts and Ships 44 Allegiance according to Larv18. vide Supremacy, the na-ture thereof in general 7^. its A Fol, not natural 7p,8p. not abfoluteor indefinite 82. not to the King />. in his natural capacity ^6,Jt ^ -fiJ-^a^^obligeth not the people to fervein foraign fFar 103. it is dueto the perfon of the King for thetime being 246, 275). what itis in time of JFar^ and relationthereunto 2 ^y. Henry the Se-venth^ and Henry the Eighth 1indeavonred to advance it in re- Ilationto the Crown^ but efededit not 104Appeals in cafes Ecclefiajiicalrejirainedfrom KomQ^and given in The Tabl
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