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Show S4 A Charge, i11 the Star .. Chamber, againft vVilliam Talbot. felves, to rhat part of the ropes Power, be not, by. al.l po~ible S~- 't, repreiied and punifhed; TheStateofchrifltanKtng.r,wllt vb enn o}o >t her then' theanc•t entTorment~ d e1r cn· b·e db yt h e ro ct s, ine the Hell ~f the Heathen : A 11Mn fitting, rickly roabed,.folcmnl}' attended, delirious fare &c. With a s~vord hangmg over hu Head, h mging by a Ima/1 thread'!/ rr.ady every moment to be cut dowtJ, by a~ acwrjng , ~nd accurjed, ha11d. Su rely, I had t~ought, they had been the Prerogatives, of G_od alone, a~d ofh~s !e.cre~ J udgements;so!vam Cingula Regum;I n:lllloofen the Gtrd~es ofK_mg~, Or again; He powreth contempt upon rrmces.; Or. I will g1ve tt Kn~g 11:1. my wrath, and tafte hint away again; in my difpletlfo~e. And the like: But if thefe be the Claims of a Mortal! Man,certamly, they are but t he Myfleries, of that rerf~n, w hi~~ exalts himfelf, .ab~ve ~II that is callt:o God: supra omne quod d1ctf1tr Leu1; (Note Jt well:) Not · above cod, \. though that, in a fenfe, be true, 1n refpect oft · ~Authority:~ they claim over the Scriptures;) ~u t, Above all that ts cal ledGod· That is Lawful1Ki11g.r, and.A--Jagijirater. · , But,'my Lord;, in this · 11cl~ I fit ,d.r his 1 t~.!bot that is now. before you, but a Coward: For ~e hath g1ven ground; H~ bath gone backw· rd and forward) But in fuch a fafhion,and wtth fuch Interchange: bfRepenting, and Relaplin~, as I cannot tell, whether it doth extenuate, or aggravate, hts Offence. If he fi1all, more publikely, in the tace of the court, fall, and fettle, up~n a right mind, I fhall be glad ofit.; And he that _would be agatnO: the Kings Mercy, I would he m1ght need the Kzngs Mercy ; But, nevertheleife, the Court will proceed,by Rules ofJufiice. The Offence, wherewith I charge this Talbot,Prifoner at the B~r, i.5 this, in brief) and in EffeCt: That he hath maintained, and ntamtaineth:; under his hand, a power in the Pope for the Depojing,and ll11trthering ofKings. In whatforthedoththis, when IcomeJ tothe prope;) and particular, cka~ge, I will deliver it,in his own wo~d~, without Preffing, or Stratnmg. Bt:i before I come to the particular charge, ofthi5 Man; I cannot proceed fo coldly, but I mufi exprefie, unto your Lordjlips, the extreme, and imminent Danger, wherein our Dear, and Dread soveraign, is; And., in him, we all; Nay, and whereins all Princes of both Religions, (For it is a common Caufe,) do fbnd at this day; B}j the fpreading, and Enforcing, of this furious, and pernicious, Opinion, ofthePopesTemporallPower : which though, the modefi: Sort, would blanch, with t.he Diftinflion of; I.n or dine ad spiritualia, yet that is but an Elufion; For he that maketh the Di.ftinllion, will alfo make the Cafe. This perill, though it be, in it felf, notorious, yet becaufe there is a kiod ofDulnefs, and, almoft~ a Lethargy, in this Age; Give me leave to fet before you, two Glaffes; Such as, certainly, the like, never met, in one Age; The G/.1-jfes of France, and the Gla.!Je of England. In that of France, the Traj!,edies acted, and executed, in two Immediate Kings; In the Glaffe of Engluzd, the fame, or more horrible, at tempted --~~--------------~-------------------------------- -.A C-bargt:, in the Star-Ch~tm'her ag-ainft William Talbot. / r;c; I ~empted, likew~fe, in a ~eenj::tnd King, immediate; But ending, ~ tn a happy Ddtverance. In Franqe1 H. 3· in the face of his A~- my, before the wall.s of raris, fiabbed, by a wretched Jacobine . Fryer,· H. 4· (a rrrnce, t~at the French do furname the Great;) One, that had been a Savwur, and Redeemer of his Count. frat? infinite Calamities; And a Refiorer of that'll.fonarchy, tot~~ anclent ~tate,_ and Spl~ndour; And a Prince, almofi, Heroic~zll; (except It be, tn the.Pomt, of Revolt, from Religion ; ) At a time:> when he "Yas s as tt were to mount on Horfe.back, for the Co.mma~dl~g, of the gr~atefi, F~rces, that, oflong time, had been levied _In ~·ranee; Th1s King, hkewife, fiilletted, by a Rafcal . votary; which had been enchanted and conjured, for the pur-pofe. In England, Q!.1een Eliz.abe~h,ofblelfed memory; A ~ee~tcomparable, and to_be r~nkr ·' wtth the greatefi King.r; Otten times , attemp;ed, by hke votanes; Sommervile, Parry, Savage~ and 0 _ thers; But fitll protected, by the Watch-111a11 th~t slumbrcth not Again, our excellent Soveraign, King James; The Sweetnefs and ~lemency, ~f ~hofe nature, were enou.ghJ to quench, and ~orttfi~, al~ Malig~tty .; A~d a King ~ielded, .and fup?orted, by p 0 .. fienty. Yet this f!tng, m the ~hatr of Ma;efty, ( hxs Pine and Olive ~ranch~s about hzm;) J_\tteqded, by his Nobles, and 7hird Eftate, ID Parl~ament; Ready, tn the Twincbjing of an EJe; (As ifit had b~en, a particular Doomefday;) To have bten brought to Afhes, dtf~crfed to the four WindJ. l noted, the lafr day my Lord Chief Juflice, when he f pake, of this Powd.er Trcafon, be lttboured for words; Though they came from him, with great Efficacy, yet he truly confeffed, and fo mufr all Men ; That, that Treafon, is above the~harge, and Report, of ttnJ Words whatfoever. Now, my Lords, I cannot let paffC', but in thefe G!tljfes, which I fpake?f, beiides the Falls themfelves, and Danger, to ihew you two Thmgs. The one, the Wayes of God .Almighty, which turneth the sword of Rome, upon ~he Kings, tqat are the vajfals of Rome; And over them, gtves It power ; But pr'otecteth thofe Kings, which ha.ve not ~ecepted, the Yoak of his Tyranny, from th~ ~ffecrsof hts Malhce. T~e other~ that, (as I faidat firft,) tht~l~ a common Caufe, of~rtnce~; It 1n:rolveth Kings, of both Rcltgrons ; A~d therefore, hts Ma_;efly, dtd mofi worrhily, and prudently, nng out the Al11r1un Belt, to awaken all other rrinces to 'think of it, ferioufly, and in Time. But this is a miferabJ; cafe, the while; That thefe Roman SoHldieN, do, either thrufi: the Spear, into the Side of Gods Annointed; Or, at leafi, they crown them with Thorns; That is, pit!rcing, and pricking, Cares, and Feares, that they can never be quiet,orfeclire, of their Lives or States. And as this Perill, is common to Prittces, of both Relfgions: So rrinces of.both Religions h~ve b~en, likewife) equally fenfible, t9feverylnJury, that touch t thetr Temporal!. Thunaus reports in his Story; That when dae Realm ofFrar~nce .. was ' ' "'--"'--=.;.;... _ •. |