coke high commission mich James king memorandum that upon Thursday in this  term a high Commission in cause ecclesiastical be publish in the great Chamber  of the archbishop at Lambeth in which I with the chief justice chief baron  justice William justice crook baron Altham and baron Bromley be name  commissioner among all the lord of the Council diverse bishop attorney and  solicitor and diverse dean and doctor of the canon and civil law and I be  command to sit by force of the say commission which I refuse for these cause  for this that nor any of my brother of the common plea be acquaint with the  commission but the judge of the king bench be that I do not know what be  contain in the new commission and no judge can execute any commission with a  good conscience without knowledge and that always the gravity of the judge  have be to know their commission for so much Himself be permission quantum  comniissum and if the commission be against law they ought not to sit by  virtue of it that there be not any necessity that I shall sit who understand  nothing of it so long as the other judge be there the advice of who have be  have in this new commission that I have endeavour to inform myself of it and  have send to the roll to have a copy of it but it be not enrol nun can sit by  force of any commission until he have take the oath of supremacy accord to the  statute of Elizabeth and for this if they will read the commission so that we  may hear it and have a copy to advice upon it then I will coke report er p  either sit or show cause to the contrary but the Lord treasurer will for  diverse reason persuade I to sit which I utter deny and to this the chief  justice chief baron and some other of the judge seem to incline upon which the  Lord treasurer confer in private with the archbishop Bancroft who say to he  that he have appoint diverse cause of heresy incest and enormous crime to be  hear upon this day and for that he will proceed but at last he be content that  the commission shall be solemnly read and so it be which contain three great  skin of parchment and contain diverse point against the law and statute of  England and when this be read all the judge rejoice that they do not sit by  force of it and then the lord of the Council videlicet the archbishop the Lord  treasurer the Lord privy seal the Lord admiral the Lord chamberlain the earl  of Shrewsbury the earl of Worcester with the bishop take the oath of supremacy  and allegiance and their we as commissioner be require to take the oath which  I refuse until I have consider of it but as the subject of the king I and the  other judge also take the oath of supremacy and allegiance their the Lord  archbishop make a oration in commendation of the care and providence of the  king for the peace and quiet of the church also he commend the commissioner  also the necessity of the commission to proceed summary in these day wherein  schism of a detestable nature and faction and schism do abound and protest to  proceed sincere by coke force of it and then he cause to be call a most  blasphemous heretic and after he another who be bring hither by his  appointment to show to the lord and the auditory the necessity of that  commission and after the archbishop come to the chief justice and to I and  promise we that we shall have a copy of the commission and then I shall  observe the diversity between the old commission and this and all the time  that the long commission be in read the oath in take and the oration make I  stand and will not sit as I be request by the archbishop and the lord and so  by my example do all the rest of the justice and the archbishop say that the  king have command he to sit by virtue of this new commission in some open  place and at certain day and for that cause be appoint the great Chamber at  Lambeth in winter and the hall in the summer and every Thursday in the  termtime at two of the clock in the afternoon and in the forenoon he will have  a sermon for the better inform of the commissioner of their duty in the true  and sincere execution of their duty