PROSECUTIONS. 



power, attempted to be repressed by criminal prosecu 

 tions. Amongst others, the Attorney General was employed 

 in the prosecution for high treason of a Mr. Peacham, 



first of these, which concerns the King, I have taken to 

 myself, the other three I have distributed to my fellows ; 

 and the part which I have selected gives me a just and 

 necessary occasion to make some representation of his 

 majesty, such as truly he is found to be in his government. 



&quot; My lords, I do not mean to make any panegyric or 

 laudative, but it is fit to burn incense where evil odours 

 have been cast and raised. The libel says King James is a 

 violator of the liberties, laws, and customs of his kingdoms. 

 I say he is a constant protector and conservator of them 

 all: in maintaining religion; in maintaining the laws of 

 the kingdom, which is the subject s birthright; in tempe 

 rate use of the prerogative ; in due and free administration 

 of justice, and conservation of the peace of the land. 



&quot; For religion, he hath maintained it not only with sceptre 

 and sword, but by his pen. He hath awaked and reautho 

 rized the whole party of the reformed religion throughout 

 Europe, which through the insolency, and diverse artifices 

 and enchantments of the adverse part, was dejected. He 

 hath summoned the fraternity of kings to enfranchise 

 themselves from the usurpation of the see of Rome. He 

 hath made himself a mark of contradiction for it. 



&quot; I cannot remember religion and the church, but t must 

 think of the seedplots of the same, which are the univer 

 sities, to which he hath been a benign or benevolent 

 planet, by whose influence those nurseries and gardens of 

 learning were never more in flower nor fruit. 



&quot; For the maintaining of the laws, which is the hedge 

 and fence about the liberty of the subject, I may truly 

 affirm it was never in better repair. He doth concur with 

 the votes of the nobles, Nolumus leges Anglia mutare. 

 He is an enemy of innovation ; neither doth the univer- 



