32 LETTERS FROM THE CABALA. 



counsel : and never upon a judge. For Audley was 

 raised from king s serjeant, my father from attorney of 

 the wars, Bromley from solicitor, Puckering from ser 

 jeant, Egerton from master of the rolls, having newly 

 left the attorney s place. Now I beseech your majesty, let 

 me put you the present case, truly. If you take my Lord 

 Coke, this will follow ; first, your majesty, shall put an 

 over-ruling nature into an over-ruling place, which may 

 breed an extreme : next, you shall blunt his industries in 

 matter ol finances, which seemeth to aim at another place. 

 And lastly, popular men are no sure mounters for your 

 majesty s saddle. If you take my Lord Hubbard, you shall 

 have a judge at the upper end of your council-board, and 

 another at the lower end : whereby your majesty will find 

 your prerogative pent. For though there should be emula 

 tion between them, yet as legists they will agree, in mag 

 nifying that wherein they are best, he is no statesman, but 

 an economist, wholly for himself. So as your majesty, 

 (more than an outward form) will find little help in him, for 

 the business. If you take my lord of Canterbury, I will 

 say no more, but the chancellor s place requires a whole 

 man. And to have both jurisdictions, spiritual and tempo 

 ral, in that height, is fit but for a king. 



For myself, I can only present your majesty with &quot; glo 

 ria in obsequio :&quot; yet I dare promise, that if I sit in that 

 place, your business shall not make such short turns upon 

 you, as it doth ; but when a direction is once given, it shall 

 be pursued and performed ; and your majesty shall only be 

 troubled with the true care of a king, which is to think what 

 you would have done in chief, and not how, for the pas 

 sages. 



I do presume also, in respect of my father s memory, 

 and that I have been always gracious in the lower house, 

 I have interest in the gentlemen of England, and shall be 

 able to do some good effect, in rectifying that body of 



