ll their Kings to account; and
where the change of government hath been upon occasion of the
Tyranny and Misgovernment of those that have been placed over
them, I will not spend time to mention either France, or Spain,
or the Empire, or other countries; volumes may be written of it.
But truly, Sir, that of the kingdom of Arragon, I shall think
some of us have thought upon it, where they have the justice of
Arragon, that is, a man, _tanquam in medio positus_, betwixt the
King of Spain and the people of the country; that if wrong be
done by the King, he that is king of Arragon, the justice, hath
power to reform the wrong; and he is acknowledged to be the
king's superior, and is the grand preserver of their privileges,
and hath prosecuted kings upon their miscarriages.

Sir, what the Tribunes of Rome were heretofore, and what the
Ephori were to the Lacedemonian State, we know that is the
Parliament of England to the English state; and though Rome
seemed to lose its liberty when once the Emperors were; yet you
shall find some famous acts of justice even done by the Senate
of Rome; that great Tyrant of his time, Nero, condemned and
judged by the Senate. But truly, Sir, to you I should not need
to mention these foreign examples and stories: If you look but
over Tweed, we find enough in your native kingdom of Scotland.
If we look to your first King Fergus, that your Stories make
mention of, he was an elective king; he died, and left two sons,
both in their minority; the kingdom made choice of their uncle,
his brother, to govern in the minority. Afterwards the elder
brother, giving small hope to the people that he would rule or
govern well, seeking to supplant that good uncle of his that
governed them justly, they set the elder aside, and took to the
younger. Sir, if I should come to what your Stories make mention
of, you know very well you are the hundred and ninth king of
Scotland; for not to mention so many kings as that kingdom,
according to their power and privileges, have made bold to deal
withal, some to banish, and some to imprison, and some to put to
death, it would be too long: and as one of your own authors
says, it would be too long to recite the manifold examples that
your own stories make mention of. _Reges_, etc. (say they) we do
create: we created kings at first: _L