a speech to present a petition touch purveyor deliver to his majesty in the  with draw Chamber at white hall in the parliament hold oh oh James the first  session it be well know to your majesty excellent king that the emperor of  Rome for their better glory and ornament do use in their title the addition of  the country and nation where they have obtain victory as Germanicus   the British Channel the like but after all those name as in the high place  follow the name of pater native land as the great name of all human honour  immediate precede that name of Augustus whereby they take themselves to  express some affinity that they have in respect of their office with divine  honour your majesty may with good reason assume to your self many of those  other name as Germanicus Saxonicus  the British Channel Francicus danicus  Gothicus and other as appertain to you not by blood shed as they bear they but  by blood your majesty royal person be a noble confluence of stream and vein  wherein the royal blood of many kingdom of Europe be meet and unite but no  name be more worthy of you nor may more true be ascribe unto you then that  name of father of your people which you bear and express not in the formality  of your style but in the real course of your government we ought not to say  unto you as be say to Caesar Julius who wonder to have quaelaudemus  to look out for that we have already wherefore to admire you and that now we  expect somewhat for which to commend you for we may without suspicion of  flattery acknowledge that we have find in your majesty great Cause both of  admiration and commendation for great be the admiration wherewith you have  possess we since this parliament begin in those two cause wherein we have have  access unto you and hear your voice that of the return of sir Francis Goodwin  and that of the union whereby it seem unto we the one of these be so subtle a  question of law and the other so high a Cause of estate that as the cripture  aith of the wise king that his heart be as the sand of the sea which though it  be one of the large and vast body yet it consist of the small moat and portion  so I say it appear unto we in these two example that God have give your  majesty a rare sufficiency both to compass and fathom the great matter and to  discern the least and for matter of praise and commendation which chief belong  to goodness we can but with great thankfulness profess that your majesty  within the circle of one year of your reign infra circle striving to turn have  endeavour to unite your church which be divide to supply your nobility which  be diminish and to ease your people in case where they be burden and oppress  in the last of these your high merit that be the ease and comfort of your  people do fall out to be comprehend the message which I now bring unto your  majesty concern the great grievance arise by the manifold abuse of urveyors  differ in some degree from most of the thing wherein we deal and consult for  it be true that the knight citizen and urgesses in parliament assemble be a  Representative body of your Commons and three estate and in many matter  although we apply our self to perform the trust of those that choose we yet it  may be we do speak much out of our own sense and discourse but in this  grievance be of that nature whereunto the poor people be most expose and man  of quality less we shall most humble desire your majesty to conceive that your  majesty do not hear our opinion or sense but the very groan and complaint  temselves of your Commons more true and vive then by representation for there  be no grievance in your kingdom so general so continual so sensible and so  bitter unto the common subject as this whereof we now speak wherein it may  please your majesty to vouchsafe I leave first to set forth unto you the  dutiful and respective carriage of our proceed nxt the substance of our  petition and three some reason and motive which in all humbleness we do offer  to your majesty royal consideration or commiseration we assure our self that  never king reign that have better notion of head and motion of heart for the  good and comfort of his love subject for the first in the course of remedy  which we desire we pretend not nor intend not in any sort to derogate from  your majesty prerogative nor to touch diminish or question any your majesty  regality or right for we seek nothing but the reformation of abuse and the  execution of former law whereunto we be bear and although it be no strange  thing in parliament for new abuse to crave new remedy year nevertheless in  these abuse which if not in nature yet in extremity and height of they be most  of they new we content our self with the old law only we desire a confirmation  and quicken of they in their execution so far be we from any humour of  Inovation or encroachment as to the court of the green cloh ordain for the  provision of your majesty most honourable household we hold it ancient we hold  it reverend other court respect your politic person but that respect your  natural person but yet notwithstanding most excellent king to use that freedom  which to subject that pour out their grief before so gracious a king be  Allowable we may very well allege unto your majesty a comparison or Simitude  use by one of the father in another matter and not unfit represent our case in  this point and it be of the leave and root of nettle the leave be venomous and  sting where they touch the root be not so but S without venom or malignity and  yet it be that root that bear and support all the leave to come now to the  substance of our petition it be no other then by the benefit of your majesty  law to be relieve of the abuse of purveyor which abuse do natural divide  themselves into three sort the first they take in kind that they ought not to  take the second they take in Quntity a far great proportion then come to your  majesty use the three they take in a unlawful manner in a manner I say direct  and express prohibit by diverse law for the first of these I be a little to  alter their name for instead of taker they become taxer instead of take  provision for your majesty service they tax your people and to buy back  shaking impose upon they and extoting from they diverse sum of money sometime  in gross sometime in the nature of stipend annual pay ne to do harm to be free  and ease of their oppression again they take tree which by law they can do  timber tree which be the beauty countenance and shelter of man house that man  have long spare from their own purse and profit that man esteem for their use  and delight above ten time the valve that be a loss which man can repair or  recover these do they take to the deface and spoil of your subject mansion and  Dwellins except they may be compound with to their own appetite and if a  gentleman be too hard for they while he be at home they will watch their time  when there be but a bailiff or a servant remain and put the Axe to the root of  the tree ere ever the master can stop it again they use a strange and most  unjust exaction in cause the subject to pay poundage of their own debt due  from your majesty unto they so as a poor man when he have have his hay or his  wood or his poultry which perchance he be full loath to part with and have for  the provision of his own family and not to put to sale take from he and that  not at a just price but under the valve and come to receive his money he shall  have after the rate of penny in the pound abate for poundage of his due  payment upon so hard condition nay further they be grow to that extremity as  be affirm though it be scarce credible save that in such person all thing be  credible that they will take double poundage once when the debenture be make  and gain the second time when the money be pay for the second point most  gracious sovereign touch the quantity which they take far above that which be  answer to your majesty use they be the only multiplier in the world they have  the be of multiplication for it be affirm unto I by diverse gentleman of good  report and experience in these cause as a matter which I may safe avouch  before your majesty to who we owe all truth as well of information as  subjection that there be no pound profit which redound to your majesty in this  course but induce and beget three pound damage upon your subject beside the  discontentment and to the end they may make their spoil more secure what do  they whereas diverse statute do strict provide that whatsoever they take shall  be register and attest to the end that by make a collation of that which be  take from the country and that which be answer above their deceit may appear  they to the end to obscure their deceit utter omit the observation of this  which the law prescribe and therefore to descend if it may please your majesty  to the three sort of abuse which be of the unlawful manner of their take  whereof this question be a branch it be so manifold as it rather ask a  enumeration of some of the particular then a prosecution of all for their  price by law they ought to take as they can agree with the subject by abuse  they take at a impose and enforce price by law they ought to make but one  Aprizement by neighbour in the country by abuse they make a second Aprizement  at the court gate and when the subject cattle come up many mile lean and out  of plight by reason of their travel then they prize they anew at a abate price  by law they ought to take between sun and sun by abuse they take by twilight  and in the night time a time well choose for malefactor by law they ought not  to take in the high way a place by your majesty high prerogative protect and  by statute by special word except by abuse they take in the way in contempt of  your majesty prerogative and law by law they ought to show their Commission  and the from of Commission be by law set down the commission they bring down  be against the law and becaue they know so much they will not show they a  number of other particular there be whereof as I have give your majesty a  taste so the chief of they upon deliberate advice be set down in write by the  labour of certain committee and approbation of the whole house more particular  and lively than I can express they my self have they at the second hand by  reason of my abide above but this write be a collection of they who dwell  among the abuse of these offender and complaint of the people and therefore  must needs have a more perfect understanding of all the circumstance of they  it remain only that I use a few word the rather to move your majesty in this  cause a few word I say a very few for neither needs so great enormity any  aggravate neither needs so great grace as use of it self to flow from your  majesty princely goodness any artificial persuade there be two thing only  which I think good to set before your majesty the one the example of your most  noble progenitor king of this realm who from the first king that endow this  kingdom with the magnacartas of their liberty until the last have ordain most  of they in their several reign some law or law against this kind of offender  and special the example of one of they that king who for his greatness wisdom  glory and union of several kingdom resemble your majesty most both in virtue  and fortune king Edward the three who in his time only make ten several law  against this mischief the second be the example of God himself who have say  and pronounce that he will not hold they guiltless that take his name in vain  for all these great misdemeanour be commit in and under your majesty name and  therefore we hope your majesty will hold thm twice guilty that commit these  offence once for the oppress of the people and once more for do it under the  colour and abuse of your majesty most dread and belove name so then I will  conclude with the say of Pindar optima res water not for the excellency but  for the common use of it and so contrary wise the matter of abuse of  purveyance if it be not the most heinous abuse yet certain it be the most  common and general abuse of all other in this kingdom it rest that accord to  the command lie upon I I do in all humbleness present this write to your  majesty royal hand with most humble petition on the behalf of the Commons that  as your majesty have be please to vouchsafe your gracious audience to hear I  speak so you will be please to enlarge your patience to hear this write read  which be more material