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wards well saw the same greedy spirit still in the Court : and CHAP, 

 therefore changed his mind, and thought the Bishops had XI1L 

 as good retain their ancient revenues, as to see them run 

 away with by the laity, and little good done with them. 

 And when this passage of his was sometimes afterward 

 thrown in his dish, he would say, as St. Paul did in another 

 case, Cum essem parvulus, loquebar cum parvulis, sapie- 

 bam ut parvulus : i. e. &quot; When I was a child, I spake as a 

 &quot; child, I thought as a child, &c.&quot; 



Take also a few instances of his judgment in matters of 

 worldly state and policy. 



His opinion of the proper government of this nation was His opinion 

 this : &quot; The regiment of England is not a mere monarchy, ^mmeSt&quot; 

 &quot; as some for lack of consideration think ; nor a mere oil- 

 &quot; garchy, nor democratic; but a mixed rule of all these: 

 &quot; wherein each one of these have, or should have, like au- 

 &quot; thority. The image whereof, and not the image but the 

 &quot; thing indeed, is to be seen in the Parliament House ; 

 &quot; wherein you shall find these three estates, the King or 

 &quot; Queen, which representeth the monarchy; the Noblemen, 

 &quot; which be the aristocratic ; and the Burgesses and Knights, 

 &quot; the democratic. The very same had Lacedaemonia, the 

 &quot; noblest and best governed city that ever was. They had 

 &quot; their King, their senate, and hippagretes, which were for 

 &quot; the people. As in Lacedaemonia none of these could 

 &quot; make or break laws, orders for war or peace, or do any 

 &quot; thing without the other ; the King nothing without the 

 &quot; Senate and Commons, nor either of them, or both, without 

 &quot; the King : albeit the senate and ephori had greater au- 

 &quot; thority than the King had. In like manner, if the Par- 

 &quot; liament use their privileges, the King can ordain nothing 

 &quot; without them : if he do, it is his fault in usurping it, and 

 &quot; their folly in permitting it. Wherefore,&quot; as he added, 

 &quot; those, in his judgment, that in King Henry s days would 

 &quot; not grant him, that proclamations should have the force 

 &quot; of a statute, were good fathers of the country, and wor- 

 &quot; thy commendation in defending their liberty.*&quot; 



He notably decided which of the two Queen sisters, Mary Compares 



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