Volume II 1603-1660 - The Honourable Society of the Inner Temple

346 APPENDIX NO. IV.
Edward Coke is this presente nynth day of October, 1588, according
to the said lettres and acte of parliament by the assent aforesaid, to
the premysses admitted by the treasorer of this House
JOHN BULLOCKE, Thes."
fol. 147 Admittance of Edward Cooke, Esq. her Majesty's Attorney
General and one of the benchers, on i i November, 1594, to all those
rooms and buildings as well new as old late erected and builded by
Edward Williams, now deceased, by Thomas Cxsar, vice treasurer.
APPENDIX No. V.
THE EFECT
OF WHAT WAS SPOKEN BY SIR EDWARD COKE
AT YE INSTALLINGE OF ELEAVEN SERIEANTS IN THE INNER
TEMPLE HALL IN ANNO DOMINI 1614.
British Museum, Additional MS. 22, 591, fol. 93b.
As a naturall Bodye is quickned and Maineteyned in Life and
being, by the Soule, and governed by the reasonable part thereof, Soe
is the Pollitique Bodye by Lawe, which is the Soule of the Comon
wealthe, Lex est anima Reipublicx. For the Conservation whereof it
standeth in need of Summa Ratio and that is Lex bona fundata.
The Comon Lawe of England hath allwayes had three Adversaries,
wresters, and preventers (sic) of the Lawe illustrated by example
of ye Spencers, with A Prosecution of the daunger thereof insueing,
chosing thus Corruptio optimi perniciocissima pestis, when the best
Things are perverted thereof ensueth the greatest perrill ye Common
wealth can undergo.
The Second enemye, the Romanists, whoe have allwayes bene
verye Potent and Continua11 attemptinge Adversaryes but always
resisted by the Barons, whoe in Parlyament seeking ye Legitimation
of Bastards, refused them to their Faces, saying Nolumus mutare
Leges veteres et consuetudines Anglix, etc.
The third enemyes, Flatterers, De la Poole in Hen : 6 : Tyme,
Northampton, thoughe not named, glanced at (de la Poole commended
by him) thoughe ffor other good Partes, vide what death hee dyed in
the Chronicles, observed that none of theis Three enemyes could ever
prevayle against the Cornon Lawe of England and most of them were
overthrowne by that which they sought to overthrowe, namelye
amongst the wresters and perverters Empson, in Hen : 7 : tyme named
by him (but not Dudley) the fforesaid Spencers in exilium acti secure
et lege percussi, The Duke of Somersett in Ed : 6 : Tyme, as one that