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CAP. 10. Occasions of declining, which arise vnto the common-weale sometimes, by secluding a nation con∣quered, from bearing of offices, and dignities.
Let vs proceede vnto other occasions of declining of estates and common-weales, which arise oftentimes by seclu∣ding a nation or people conquered from bearing of offices or dignity in the common-weale: for they remaine possessed with a desire to be restored vnto their former liberty, for this cause es∣pecially, Ʋt ipsis dominari, & publicis muneribus praefici liceat.
And one the other side, no lesse occasion is given of declining, if you shall advaunce them vnto the offices, and dignities of the common-weale. For did not Salamina decline sometimes by constituting Garralde Fitz Garralde attainted, Lievetenant of Sa∣lamina? did they not at other times decline by constituting Thomas Fitz Garralde sometimes Lievetenaunt of the severall provinces thereof? and at other times, by giving authority into the hands of Iames of Desmonde? all which, to them which shall viewe the seve∣rall recordes of their attainder, more at large may appeare. For the like causes, Nec Achaeorummerita in Romanos, vel Aetolorum vn∣quam effecerunt, vt aliqua sibi imperij fieret accessio; nec Antiochi po∣tentia fuerunt inducti, vt suo ipsorum consensu aliquam in ea provincia po∣testatem haberet. If the Lacedaemonians in their petition exhibited to the counsel of Amphictyons, held it convenient and necessarie, that the townes and Cities of Greece, which were not of the league with the Graecians, against the barbarous people, should be remo∣ved from the place of a councellour; then much more, those which are not onely, not parties with the Graecians, but of league with the barbarous people, yea their feeed and sworne servantes, are to be dismissed by the counsell of Amphictyons; for to such we shall more safely give offices of profite, then of commaunde∣ment,