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and advancement of men to place, be no council-table 

 matters, but belong to his majesty s princely will and 

 secret judgment ; yet his majesty will do his council 

 this honour, that in his resolutions of that kind, his 

 council shall know them first before others, and shall 

 know them, accompanied by their causes, making as 

 it were a private manifesto, or revealing of himself 

 to them without parables. 



Then to have the report of the lords touching the 

 business of the lord Coke, and the last order of the 

 council read. 



That done, his majesty farther to declare, that he 

 might, upon the same three grounds in the order 

 mentioned, of deceit, contempt, and slander of his 

 government, very justly have proceeded then, not 

 only to have put him from his place of chief justice, 

 but to have brought him in question in the star- 

 chamber, which would have been his utter over 

 throw ; but then his majesty was pleased for that 

 time only to put him off from the council-table, and 

 from the public exercise of his place of chief justice, 

 and to take farther time to deliberate. 



That in his majesty s deliberation, besides the 

 present occasion, he had in some things looked back 

 to the lord Coke s former carriage, and in some things 

 looked forward, to make some farther trial of him. 



That for things passed, his majesty had noted in 

 him a perpetual turbulent carriage, first towards 

 the liberties of his church and estate ecclesiastical; 

 towards his prerogative royal, and the branches 

 thereof; and likewise towards all the settled juris- 



