as designed; so, as beeing one nominated by them, I did the best lay in me for collecting the guiftc, or rather, assessing of it, though after I found us mistaken, never any prince making greater excesse in rewards then they to each other.
   13. Some while after, hearing of the perpetuating the Parliament, The Earl of Strafford's execution by a private law (wch yet no other judge was to take for a rule), No other declaration of hys treason but Mr. Sollicitor's argument, of which before, n. 2, I cannot deny but I beegan to bee much troubled, and resolved to sequester myself from anything of publick so much as lay in my power, remembring a saying of my father's, "Bene vivit qui bene latet." And that I might give no offence, resolved, as occasion should serve, to goe beeyond ye Seas, for which purpos I had provided me of a passe, which I kept by me.
   14. That which troubled me in my Lord's execution was, that if penall Statutes, even those concerned Treason, might be expounded, not according to the letter, but by equity, I did not see any man could bee certayn not to bee impeached of Treason; and ye clause in ye 25 Ed. 3d, That the Justicess hould not determine any thing to bee treason not in it specyfyed, tyll it were declared by Parlyament,1 to bee absolutely inverted; that being (as I understood it) an answer to the Commons, and for ye securing of them in future, in respect some had dyed, as they shewde, for that they understoode not to bee Treason; upon wch the King enumerates what should bee so reputed, and for their safety in tyme to come, that none might pretend ignorance, added this,
" Qe si autre case suppose treison qe n'est especifietz par
" avant avegne de novel devant ascuns Justices, demoerge
" le Justice sanz aler a jugement de Treison tanqe devant
" nostre Seigr le Roy et son Parlement soit le cas monstre
   ¹ i.e. Seemed to be absolutely inverted.—ED