l Fawkes discovered the names of the conspirators. We may
infer, however, from a letter in Winwood's Memorials, (vol. ii p. 171,)
that Salisbury's sagacity led the king in his conjectures, and that the
minister, like an artful courtier, gave his master the praise of the
whole discovery.

[Footnote 51: NOTE YY, p. 417. We find the king's answer in Winwood's
Memorials, vol. iii. r. 198, 2d edit. "To the third and fourth, (namely,
that it might be lawful to arrest the king's servants without leave, and
that no man should be enforced to lend money, nor to give a reason why
he would not,) his majesty sent us an answer, that because we brought
precedents of antiquity to strengthen those demands, he allowed not of
any precedents drawn from the time of usurping or decaying princes,
or people too bold and wanton; that he desired not to govern in that
commonwealth where subjects should be assured of all things, and hope
for nothing. It was one thing 'submittere principatum legibus,' and
another thing 'submittere principatum subditis.' That he would not leave
to posterity such a mark of weakness upon his reign; and therefore his
conclusion was, 'non placet petitio, non placet exemplum.:' yet with
this mitigation, that in matters of loans he would refuse no reasonable
excuse, nor should my lord chamberlain deny the arresting of any of his
majesty's servants, if just cause was shown." The parliament, however,
acknowledged at this time with thankfulness to the king, that he allowed
disputes and inquiries about his prerogative much beyond what had been
indulged by any of his predecessors. Parliament. Hist. vol. v. p. 230.
This very session he expressly gave them leave to produce all their
grievances, without exception.]

[Footnote 52: NOTE ZZ, p. 420. It may not be unworthy of observation,
that James, in a book called The true Laws of free Monarchies, which
he published a little before his accession to the crown of England,
affirmed, "That a good king, although he be above the law, will subject
and frame his actions thereto, for example's sake to his subjects, and
of his own free will, but not as subject or bound thereto." In another
passage, "According to the fundamental law already alleged, we daily
see, that in the parliament, (which is nothing else but the head court
of the king and his vassals,) the laws are but craved by his subjects,
and only made by him at their rogation, and with their advice. For
albeit the king make da