Parliamentary Case
BISHOP ANDREWS, who was master and a great benefactor of Pembroke Hall,
was one day at court with Waller the poet, and others. While King James
was at dinner, attended by Andrews, Bishop of Winchester, and Neale,
Bishop of Durham, his Majesty said to the prelates: My lords, cannot I
take my subjects' money when I want it, without all this formality in
Parliament? Bishop Neale quickly replied, God forbid, sir, but you
should: you are the breath of our nostrils. On which the king said to
the Bishop of Winchester, Well, my lord, and what say you?--Sir,
replied Andrews, I have no skill to judge of Parliamentary
cases.--Come, come, answered his Majesty, no put-offs, my lord;
answer me presently.--Then, sir, said Andrews, I think it lawful for
you to take my brother Neale's money, for he offers it.