The Speech of Queen Katherine to Cardinal | play with a pot of ale at Kneesworth Campeius, and Wolsey, they being sent costs deducted, 1s. 7d. by the King. My lords, I cannot answer you so suddenly for I was set among my maids, at work, little thinking of any such matter; wherein there needs a longer deliberation, and a better head than mine, to make answer. For I have need of council in this case, which concerns me so near and for any council, or friends that I can find in England, they are not for my profit. For it is not likely that any Englishman will council me, or be a friend to me against the king's pleasure, since they are his subjects; and for my council, in which I may trust, they are in Spain. Speech of Cardinal Campeius, upon King Henry the VIIIth's calling for Judgment. I WILL not give judgment, till I have made relation to the pope of all our proceedings; whose council, and command, I will observe. The matter is too high for us to give an hasty judgment, considering the highness of the persons, and doubtfulness of the case; and also whose commissioners we be, under whose authority we sit. It were therefore reason that we should make our chief head a council in the same, before we proceed to a definitive sentence. I came not to please, for favour, need, or dread, of any person alive, be he king, or otherwise. I have no such to the person, that I will offend my conscience. I will not, for the favour or disfavour of any high estate, do that thing, which shall be against the will of God.am an old man, (both weak and sickly) that look daily for death. I will not wade any farther in this matter, untill I have the opinion and assent of the Pope. respect Expences for Exhibiting a Play in 1511, at Basingborne, Cambridgeshire. Memorandum. Received at the play held on St. Margaret's day A. D. MDXI in Basingborne of the holy Martyr St. George. Expence of the said Play. First paid to the Garnement man for nements and Propyrts and play books 20 To a Mynstrel and three Waits of Monday. Two of them the first day, bridge for the Wednesday, Saturday three the other days 5s. 11d. Item in expences on the players, the play was shewed, in bread and ale for other Vittails at Royston for those pl 3s. 2d. bodies of six sheep 22d. each 9s. 2d. Item in expences on the playday for Item for three calves aud half a h 8s. 2d. Item paid five days board of one Pyke pyrte making for himself and his servan day and for his horse's pasture six days Is Item paid to Turners of Spits and for 9d. Item for four chickens for the gentleme Item for fish and bread and setting up stages 4d. Item to John Becher for painting of t Characters of the Sixteenth Century The specimen which follows is very wh sical but very expressive, and may serve lively picture of former manners, of part dress now unknown, of delicacies perfe foreign to the present taste, and of nati peculiarities to which modern customs b not the smallest similitude.-It is extra from Thomas Reeve's Sermons deliv ed within the City of London, and e tled, "God's Plea for Nineveh, or Londo "Precedent for Mercy. Printed by W "liam Wilson, for Thomas Reeve, B. "Divinity, living at the Bunch of Grapes Chancery Lane, near Lincolnes-Ini "1657." Received of the Township of Royston 12s. Tharfield 6s. 8. Melton 5s. 4d. Lillington The Drudge. 10s. 6d. Whaddon 4s. 4d. Steeplemeuden If thou beest for profit, thy ranges 4s. Barly 4s. 1d. Ashwell 4s. Abingdon known; after thou hast called up thy servar 3s.4d. Orwell 3s. Wandy 2s. 9d. Wim- to hunt for gain at home, thou thyself, pole 2s. 7d. Meldreth 2s. 4d. Arrington one in full quest for lucre abroad, art visito 25. 4d. Shepreth 2s. 4d. Kelsey 2s. 5d. other men's storehouses, searching their wat Willington 1s. 10d. Fulmer 1s. 8d. Gil- houses, ransacking their cellers; thou goest den Morden 1s. Tadlow 1s. Croydon, 1s the Customhouse to try what exporting a 1s. ld. Hattey 10d. Wratlingworth 9d. importing there hath been, thou repairest Hastingfield 9d. Barkney 3d. Foxten 4d. the Exchange to examine what mercha Kneesworth 6d. thou canst meet with, with whom thou mai truck in minivers, and tissues, musks, an civets, the teeth of elephants, the bones whales, the stones of bezars, the claws crabs, the oyles of swallows, the skins of vi pers, yea, be it but in black coal, black pitch Item received of the town of Basingborne on the Monday and Friday after the play, together with other comers on the Monday, 14s. 5d. Item received on the Wednesday after the AUDI ALTERAM PARTEM. e chalk, white sope, rusty iron, or aboable mummy, it will serve the turn; or if merchandising fail there, thou turnest thy STATEMEnt of the dutcH COMMISSIONERS ing another way, to seek about for a ase, or a patent, or perhaps to pry out e decayed heir, or foundered gallant, that ferret might be sent forth into that ough, or thy setting dog let loose to drive covey, to hook in some mortgage, or to upon some forfeiture, and if all these dewill not take place, then thou stirrest leggs to go suck venome from a pettyer, or magick from some conjurer. And doth the Drudge of the World spend his The Gallant. thou beest for bravery, I cannot follow by the track, nor find out thy various ons. The gallant is counted a wild creano wild colt, wild ostrich, wild cat of mountain, comparable to him; he is inthe buffoon, and baboon of the times; mind is wholly set upon cuts and slashes, s and roses, patchings and pinkings, jagtaggins, borderings, brimmings, halfs, half-arms, yawning brests, gaping , arithmeticall middles, geometricall mathematicall wasts, musicall heels, logicall toes. I wonder he is not for the fians branded skin, and ringed snowts. phantastic dotages are so many, that he a free-school, bookish about inventions him; nay, an academy of wits studying ply to devise fashions according to his mour: know ye not the multitude of stuats, artists, graduates that are subliming eir notions to please this one light head? en hear them by their names, perfumers, uplexioners, feather-makers, stitchers, snip, drawers, yea who not? yet amongst se doth the nitid spark spend out this time: is is the Gallant's day. The Epicure. If thou beest for dainties, how art thou en for spread-tables and plenished flagons? eu art but a pantry-worm, and a pastry-fly. hou art all for inlandish meat, and outlandsawces, thou art the dapifer to thy palate the cup-berer to thy appetite, the creature f the swallow, or the slave of the wesand. The land hath scars flesh, the sea fish, or the ir fowl curious enough for thy licorous throat; by thy good will thou wouldst eat nothing but kids and fawns, carps and mullets, snipes and quailes; and drink nothing but Frontiniack, white muskadines, leathick-wine, and Vin de Pary. Thy alies, and hogoes, creepers and peepers, Italian cippets and French breaths, do shew what a bondman to the paunch thou art; even the idolatour of the banquetting-house. Thy belly is thy god. Thus doth the glutton wast out his pilgrimage: this is the Epicure's day. ON THE NATURE OF THEIR FUNCTIONS. It is due to justice to record the statement made by those gentleman, whose charges as Commissioners under the Crown, have been the subject of Parliamentary animadversion; and of considerable disapprobation among the public at large. The following is the substance of two papers circulated on their behalf; with which the Panorama has been favoured.— Compare Panorama, Vol. VI. p. 193 to 210. The Dutch Commissioners were appointed in June, 1795, without any stipulation for remuneration, under the Authority of an Act of Parliament. Very soon after their appointment, Orders for Keprisals were issued, upon which the whole Property placed under their care became Prize to His Majesty, and was subsequently condemned to him. An additional Character then devolved upon the Commissioners; they became Prize Agents; and were so recognized in the House of Lords, where the Lord Chancellor expressly stated them to be Prize Agents, and declared that they could not, as Commissioners, recover in a Law Suit against Underwriters for upwards of 180,000. At that time Prize Agents invariably received Five per Cent. upon their Gross Proceeds. In representing themselves as Prize Agents, Duties they had to perform; Duties at once they convey a very inadequate notion of the extremely various and arduous, and very far exceeding those which devolve upon Prize Judicial Functions, in the investigating of and Agents; one of which was the Exercise of deciding upon numerous Claims made by British and Neutral Subjects. As Prize Agents they were also under the necessity of attending to proceedings in the Courts of Admiralty, as well in Ireland, as in Great Britain, in respect to Vessels under their Charge. Prize Agents derive Advantage from the Monies remaining in their hands. The Commissioners in deriving that Advantage exercised a Just Right; yet they have since offered to relinquish all the Interest which they had received; thereby making a sacrifice of what they were intitled to retain, and they protest against any other construction being put upon their Conduct. They have deposited in the Bank all the interest they have received. They never retained larger Balances in their Hands than, upon the best Calculation they could make, appeared at the time adequate to the Demands and Exigencies, to which they considered themselves liable; they apprehend that a Service of Fourteen Years would intitle them to at least an equivalent advantage, on the ground of a reasonable Remuneration. The Commission hitherto received by them, after deducting the Charges of their Establishment, (the amount of which Charges must continue to increase until the conclusion of their business) does not exceed £74,000, | and the Commission now due to them and which they have still to charge is about £10,000. This Remuneration cannot they are confident appear too great for the Services of Five Commissioners during Fourteen Years, especially if the nature and variety, as well as the duration of those Services, be taken into consideration; they conceive indeed that a less Compensation than this would be inadequate, and consequently unjust. In respect of having deposited Money with Private Bankers, they affirm, that had they paid it into the Bank, they could not have drawn it out again to meet expected payments; as it would have become subject to the order of his Majesty in Council, only. The great magnitude of the difference between their Gross and Net Proceeds is principally owing to their having been obliged to make very large payments, which do not occur on ordinary occasions. If they had been Prize Agents to Individuals, they have no doubt that they could have established their Right to all that they have claimed. That the continuance of their Functions during so long a period was unavoidable, is proved by the Opinion of the Law Officers of the Crown: who being consulted on that point by Government, in the year 1804, declared (as appears by the Evidence annexed to the Report) that it was necessary to keep the Commission in force. Extracted from a Paper sent to the Commit tee on Public Offices, 10th April, 1809; but too late to be inserted in the Report. In consequence of circumstances which probably never before occurred, the difference between Gross and Net Proceeds is equal to nearly One-third of the whole property y; and the Disbursements, which occasion this difference are of that nature, that the Principle of an Allowance of Five per Cent upon the Net Pro. ceeds, after the deduction of those Disbursements, would in several instances, and in res. pect of several Ships and Cargoes, instead of remunerating the Commissioners for the Care and Management of those Ships and Cargoes, hare the effect of depriving them of part of the Commission which of Right belonged to them for the disposal of other Ships and Cargoes. If the Commission were charged on Net Proceeds only, the Commisssoners would lose Five per Cent. on the whole of the Seamen's Wages paid by them, the amount of which was very large, also on the Amount of their Law Charges, and all disbursements incurred in consequence of their Law Proceedin and if they pay out of their Commission Charges of their Establishment, they w incur a further Loss of the amount of t charges during the long period of conti Attendance which the Law Suit has rend necessary, which charges are nearly equi all the Commission which they have to red in consequence of their Success in that S and to which Commission, had the Suit determined against them, they would i had no Claim. They instance also the case of one Ship Cargo (and there were many such) ands pose them to produce £20,000; the Sum bursed on this Ship and Cargo has pe amounted to 30,000. In such case the C missioners can have no Remuneration, being no Net Proceeds on which a Com on can be charged. This would be a sing situation of things-but the principle opt further; for it would oblige the Commis. ers, instead of receiving any Commission other Remuneration for their trouble, wo Five per Cent. Commission on the £10 which this Ship and Cargo turned out so that an Allowance upon the Net Proce only, would, in those instances in which Commissioners have experienced most tro and consumed most time, instead of gy them an additional Remuneration, ope to deprive them of part of that commun muneration, which, without any exin dinary trouble or consumption of time, would have been intitled to receive, STATE OF WINDSOR FOREST, ITS PROPERTY, TIMBER, INHABITANTS, ABSTRACTED FROM Three Reports addressed to the Lords of Treasury by his Majesty's Commissioner Thy forests, Windsor! and thy green retrea's At once the Monarch's, and the Muses' seats.Here waving groves a chequer'd scene display, And part admit, and part exclude the day; There, interspers'd in lawn and opening giades Thin trees arise that shun cach other's shades: Here in full light the russet plains extend; There, wrapt in clouds, the bluish hills ascend; Ev'n the wild heath displays her purple dyes, And midst the deserts, fruitful fields arise. So sung the bard of Twickenham : verses suggest the idea of intermingling co fusion and irregularity, little suitable to t residence of a mighty chieftain, still less to h of the Sovereign of Britain. And in t they are characteristic of the subject of h song. That our population increases to in proportion to our means of supporting i tha part, if not the whole of it, must ere The system of forest law never was popular among the natives of England; and there always was attached to it, a sensible recollection of those tyrannical scenes it occasioned when first promulgated; and which later ages dreaded whenever it was vigorously enforced. The death of Rufus in the chace was handed down by tradition, with a perpetual comment on the justice by which it was appointed as a punishment; and those who had long inhabited parts where visitors rarely intrude, found in convenience a good title to the acquisition of property from wilds and wastes, the owner of which though not unacknowledged in general was little heeded in particulars. To accomplish the object in view with all practicable moderation as well as justice an Act of Parliament was passed for the purpose, July 22, 1806, and a commission was issued, under this act in October followBut though we are proof against instant ing. The Commissioners, however, met in arm, yet we acknowledge the propriety of the forest, in August 1806, with a view to being wise beforehand. Prudence, which obtain information, and acquire some knowrides against necessities before they ap-ledge of their expected duties. They found. roach, is doubly prudent; and the use of with surprize, that although the Forest of means to prevent misfortune, is the proper ad- Windsor had existed many ages, although its antage to be made from the well intended, castle had long been a regal residence, alough overweening terrors of the timid. To though it had proper officers to inspect its vaet the wants of increasing population,rious departments, and although it had proper Convert waste lands into arable: to plank the depositories for records, yet records it had des of our floating castles with British tim-none; and not a single original document of ber-plant oaks not by detail in scattered any antiquity was to be found. Such had clamps, and in feeble subdivisions, but in indeed, formerly existed, but the room in large masses, by thousands, by tens of thon- which they were kept being converted into a sands; and trust to time and nature for their guard room, the papers were dispersed, and eventual magnitude and maturity. no care was taken of them. : Thy trees, fair Windsor, then shall leave their woods, Thine oaken forests rush to rule the floods. Bear Britain's thunder, and her cross display, The nobles of our land have, within the last fifty years, adorned and improved Whatever parts of their estates would bear it, by planting the Oak: and those who wished to se Royalty take the lead in every thing hadable, have long regretted that no more effective use was made of the extensive do main attached to the royal and dignified Palace and Castle of Windsor. The same sentiments influenced his By degrees, however, the Commissioners traced the proceedings of a Court of Eyre held in the 8th of Charles I. mentioned in Sir W. Jones's Reports: they found also that a very minute survey of Windsor Forest had been made in 1613, under a commission from the Court of Chancery: another in the 1st and 2nd of Philip and Mary: they derived much useful information from the public institutions for conservation of interesting documents: the MSS. in the British Museum; in the Harleian collection in the British Museum Augmentation Office; at the Rolls, &c. The supplied them with a Map in 17 parts, taken surveyor of the woods. A modern map of the in 1607 by John Norden, who was deputy forest, taken in 1789, under the direction of added much to their information; and some John Robinson, Esq. then surveyor general, of the gentlemen who possessed-property`ad Majesty, who, about the year 1790, di-jacent to, or connected with, this forest, conrected a survey of the woods in this Fo-tributed all they could to complete their purrest; and who, lately, has interested himself pose. But it may readily be supposed that in obtaining an accurate report of the state out of the great number of persons whose esand contpetency of this part of the royal pro-under this commission, sonre would yield but tates were affected by the enquiries instituted a reluctant obedience to what was required of perty to contribute to maintain the honour of the Empire, and the dignity of the crown. them; while the properties of others would have changed hands so frequently that the present occupier could say little in proof of his right to his minor privileges, though he had been taught to claim them. The number of persons who have committed encroachments is 340. The quantity of acres encroached is about 600. The Commissioners, at first demanded written authority whereby the rights of occupants might be established: but this proving onerous to many persons, Parliament repealed this provision; and verbal evidence is now received. The following are the principal points introduced by the Commissioners in their account of the present state of this forest. WINDSOR FOREST was formerly of much greater extent than it is at present. According to the Inquisition in the time of Charles I. and the perambulation lately made, it extends into the five Hundreds of Ripplesmere, Cookham, Charlton, Wargrave, and Soninge, and comprehends the whole of some of them, and part of others. The entire Parishes within the Forest are 12, it extends into parts of 5 others. It contains 15 principal or chief Manors, having within them several subordinate or mesne Manors. Of the principal or chief Manors some are co-extensive with the Parishes in which they lie, others are not so, and some of them extend over more Parishes than one. The whole quantity of Land in the Forest, according to the Survey and Map of 1789 is Acres. R. P. Days Court. For many years past it has b held only twice a year in Windsor For No Court of Justice Seat or Court of E has been held for this Forest since the 80 Charles I. The Officers are, a Lord Warden and Deputy, four Verdurers, an Out Ran Steward of the Forest Courts, Riding Fores Woodward, Head Keeper and Under Kee of the fifteen different Walks into which Forest is divided. Two of the Head Kee claim their offices as hereditary by grants fi the Crown, and two others are now held patent from the Crown during pleasure. these may be added, the Surveyor Genera the Woods, who is an Officer of authority this, in common with all the other Ro Forests. Verdurers by the constitutions of Forest must be gentlemen of the cour chosen by the Freeholders of every descrip of the county, and who except Corone are the only judicial officers in the cour chosen by the people at their Court the of guilt or innocence must be decided t jury of 12 men, Freeholders of the Forest and New and Old Windsor, that are vested Wood in Cookham and Bray...... Wood in Winkfield............................................... Wood in New and Old Windsor. Inclosed Property of the Crown in Bray, Cookham, Winkfield, New and Old Windsor.. Inclosed Property of private Persons in d°.. Total Waste Land in do.. Total Open Wood in do. 3,3 5,0 3 1,0 5,3 10,3 9,4 1,5 The rights claimed before the Comm sioners are, right of Common of Pasture for cattle in all open places within the Forest all times of the year; Common of Turbary the right of cutting Heath, Fera and Furze right to cut, dig, take and carry away Tur Gravel, Sand and Loam; Mastage and Pa nage in the woods: Browze Wood and Roo age in the Woods and Forest, and right cutting the same. Mr. Justice Manwood, in his Treatise o the Forest Laws, says," no man can pre "cribe to have Common in a Forest for Goats "Geese, Sheep and Hogs;" But, he adds My Lord Coke tells us a man may pre "cribe to have a Common for Sheep there. |