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principal care of our prerogative and benefit, do 

 assemble together concerning the discussing of that, 

 which, as is aforesaid, was formerly referred ; and also 

 what cases Sir Edward Coke hath published to the 

 maintenance of our prerogative and benefit, for the 

 safety and increase of the revenues of the Church, 

 and for the quieting of men s inheritances, and the 

 general good of the commonwealth : in all which we 

 require your advice and careful considerations ; and 

 that before you make any certificate to us, you con 

 fer with the said Sir Edward, so as all things may 

 be the better cleared. 



To all the judges of England, and barons of the 

 Exchequer. 



In the library of the late Thomas earl of Leices 

 ter, the descendent of Sir Edward Coke, at Holkham 

 in Norfolk, is a copy of the Novum Organum, inti- 

 tled Instauratio Magna, printed by John Bill in 

 1620, presented to Sir Edward, who at the top of 

 the title page has written Edzv. C. ex dono auctoris. 



Auctori Consilium. 



Instaurare paras veterum documenta sophorum : 

 Instaurare Leges Justitiamq ; prius. 



And over the device of the ship passing between 

 Hercules s pillars, Sir Edward has written the two 

 following verses : 



&quot; It deserveth not to be read in schooles, 

 But to be freighted in the Ship of Fools. 1 



Alluding to a famous book of Sebastian Brand, 

 born at Strasburgh about 1460, written in Latin and 





