The Office of the King.
ANd thus whilest the King and his Councell embraced all man∣ner of Complaints without excep∣tion,* 1.1
Archeion, or, A discourse vpon the high courts of iustice in England. Composed by William Lambard, of Lincolnes Inne, Gent
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- Archeion, or, A discourse vpon the high courts of iustice in England. Composed by William Lambard, of Lincolnes Inne, Gent
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- Lambarde, William, 1536-1601.
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the Subjects were thereby ma∣ny times injuriously vexed, and put to travaile and charge: So as this repugnancie tooke root betweene them, and this Antinomia (or Con∣trarietie of Law) did spring out of the same: The which howsoever in appearance it may seeme great and irreconciliable, yet if recourse may be had to that golden Mediocritie, which both Religion, Reason, and Law doe maintaine in this point, the Controversie will soon be decided, and that without any derogating from the Authoritie of the King and his Councell, or prejudicating that lawfull Freedome of the Subject, which is claimed for him. For as it is inseparably annexed to the Of∣fice of a King, to be the Iudge of his people, and as he cannot any longer remaine King indeed,* 1.2 than he shall be readie to deliver Iudgement and Iustice unto them, which two things
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Bracton saith, Faciunt ipsam Coronam, nec ab ea separari possunt: So how so∣ever many Courts of ordinarie re∣sort shall bee established by him, yet if either they have not, as I said, authoritie to apply Remedie for all wrongs and diseases, or if that power and authoritie which they have, may not enjoy her free course and pas∣sage, then must the King either ex∣ercise his pre-eminent and royal Iuris∣diction, or else must the injuriously afflicted be deprived of that helpe and remedie, which both the Ordi∣nance of God, the Dutie of a Kingly Iudge, and the common Law of Na∣ture and Reason doe afford unto him.
And on the other side againe, it is not to be doubted, but that if the subject were once utterly barred of this accesse to the person of the King in case of such his distresse, he would cry out upon the ordinarie
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Law, for the Authoritie whereof he so eagerly striveth; and would not sticke to lay to the Kings charge, that hee bare the Sword in vaine; that he kept not the promise of the Great Charter; Nulli negabimus aut differemus Iustitiam; and that hee violated the solemne Oath and Vow of his Coronation, faciam fieri ju∣stitiam.
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* 1.1
It is the Office of the King, to deliver Iustice.
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* 1.2
C••sus in 3. Polic. 300. Cic. 1. de Orat.