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expect, and both set their hearts and my ears at rest ; 

 not moving me in any thing against these rules ; 

 knowing that my answer is now turned from a &quot; no- 

 lumus&quot; into a &quot; non possumus.&quot; It is no more, I 

 will not, but, I cannot, after this declaration. 



And this I do also under three cautions. 



This first is, that there be some things of a more 

 secret and council-like nature, more fit to be acted 

 than published. But those things which I shall 

 speak of to-day are of a more public nature. 



The second is, that I will not trouble this pre 

 sence with every particular, which would be too 

 long ; but select those things which are of greatest 

 efficacy, and conduce most &quot; ad summas rerum;&quot; 

 leaving many other particulars to be set down in a 

 table, according to the good example of my last pre 

 decessor in his beginning. 



And lastly, that these imperatives, which I have 

 made but to myself and my times, be without preju 

 dice to the authority of the court, or to wiser men 

 that may succeed me ; and chiefly that they are 

 wholly submitted unto the great wisdom of my so 

 vereign, and the absolute prince in judicature that 

 hath been in the Christian world ; for if any of these 

 things which I intend to be subordinate to his direc 

 tions, shall be thought by his majesty to be inordi 

 nate, I shall be most ready to reform them. These 

 things are but, &quot; tanquam album praetoris ;&quot; for so 

 did the Roman praetors, which have the greatest 

 affinity with the jurisdiction of the chancellor here, 

 who used to set down at their entrance, how they 



