Page:A View of the State of Ireland - 1809.djvu/492

 194 campion's historie memory of the Governour that devised it. The day of prorogation k when the Knights and Burgesses of the Cominalty resorted to the Lordes of the upper house, much good matter was there uttered betweene the De- puty and the Speaker, whereof comming home to my lodging I tooke notes, and here I will deliver them, as neere as I can call them to minde, in the same words and sentences, that I heard them. First the Speaker lames Stanihurst an Esquire of worship, Recorder of Divelin, and for the Citty Burgesse at that present, began thus. Rather of custome and dutyfull humility, then for doubt of your honourable disposition, (so well knowne to us all, and to every of us in private, that it little needeth my praise) we are to request your Lordship in the behalfe of our selves, and our countryes, whom we represent in this Parliament, to accept our service and endeavour in driving these conclusions, where by to the uttermost of our skill we have intended without injury, the Crowne to enrich, treasons to chastise, to better the state, traffique to further, learning to cherish, and in briefe, to maintaine with our best advice those benefits, which the Prince hath inferred upon this Realme by you, and you Nvith your sword and wisedome have performed. An ordinary suite it is, in the end of such assemblies to crave executions of law, for it sufficeth not, to keepe a statute tanquam in- clusum in tabulis, as a thing shut up in parchment k 12. Decembris 1570.