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A16774	An admonition to the nobility and people of England and Ireland concerninge the present vvarres made for the execution of his Holines sentence, by the highe and mightie Kinge Catholike of Spaine. By the Cardinal of Englande; Admonition to the nobility and people of England and Ireland concerninge the present warres made for the execution of his Holines sentence, by the highe and mightie Kinge Catholike of Spaine.	Allen, William, 1532-1594.	1588 (1588)	STC 368; ESTC S120636	32,181	61

nation and people to whom the matter so nearly apperteineth may throughly iudge aswell of this womans and her parentes de●ertes as of his Holines and his mightie and godly confederates moste happie intention and howe iustelie and nedefullie for our only benefi●e and succour they procede at this present to her chastisement and deposition Yt may please all my most deere cuntrymen and specialy our peeres and Nobilitie on whom the auncyent honor and libertie of our churche and cuntrie cheifely dependethe and by whose sworde and kinghtehood specially giuen to them and theire noble progenitors for defence of the Catholike religion our cuntrie hathe often bene deliuered from the tyranny and vexation of diuers disordered insupportable kinges and cruell vsurpers May it please them I saie to consider but alitle with me the condition of the person pursued and censured by Gods Churche together with the weight qualety number of her offences and horrible crimes which beinge open almoste to all the worlde before and now brefely recorded by this writinge no man I truste shall maruell why Christes vicar here in earthe with other highe ministers of Gods iustice wolde or could depriue this tirante of her vsurped state and dominion when no commonwealthe by lawe of nature nether wolde nor mighte iustelie suffer any suche to rule or raigne ouer any humane societie thoughe neither Christe Pope fayth nor religion were knowne The chee se poinctes of this admonitiō To procede therfore brefely and plainely we will sett downe what manner of womā she ys against whom this holie enterprise ys made of whom and in what māner dissended Howe intruded into that dignity wherin she standeth Howe she hath behaued herself both at home and abrode By what lawes of God and man her punishement ys pursued Howe iuste honest and necessarie causes all true Englishmen haue to embrace sett forward the same seing yt procedeth from so lawfull authorite so iust groundes so holie intentions and tendeth to so happie an ende and is to be executed by so suer and sweete meanes and chosen persons as now shall be declared And first of all it is notorious to the whole worlde that Henrie the supposed father to this pretensed Queene besides the infinite quantety and enormeous qualety of his most execrable wickednes for the which by all lawe of religiō reason nature he deserued often times to be depriued was in fine for his horrible sacriledges murtheringe of Saintes and rebelliō against Gods Churche lawfully excommunicated and depriued by Paulus tertius in the yeare 1535 and there withall by name and in particuler all the issue that should procede of his incestuous copulation with Anne Bullen was moste iustly declared illegitimate and vncapable of succession to the croune of England and that aswell by the sentence of the said Paule and of his predecessor Clement the VII in the yeare of our lorde 1533. bothe which stande in theire full force still as by sundry actes of parliament made by Henry him self and neuer repealed legitimating her sister and declaringe her to be base she must nedes be adiudged by lawe nature vnable to inherite the croune Neyther may she here alege that by consent of the states and Commonwelthe she ys lawfully possessed for that by force she intruded and constreyned many men to giue theire consentes deposinge vniustly the Lordes of the Clergy without whome no lawfull Parlament can be holden in that Realme nor Statute made which hath force to authorise Prince or binde Subiectes Ouer and besides that she neuer had consente nor any approbation of the See Apostolike without which she nor any other can be lawfull Kinge or Quene of Englande by reason of the auncyent Acorde made betwene Alexāder the. III. the yere 1171. and Hēry the II. then kinge when he was absolued for the deathe of sainte Thomas of Cāterburie that no mā might lawfully take that Crowne nor be accōpted as Kinge till he were confirmed by the soueraigne Pastor of our soules which for the time shoulde be This accorde afterwardes beinge renewed aboute the yere 1210. by Kinge Iohn who confirmed the same by othe to Pandulphus the Pope his legate at the speciall requeste and procurement of the Lordes and Comons as a thinge most necessary for preseruatiō of the Realme from vniust vsurpation of Tyrantes and auoydinge other incōueniences which they had proued and mighte easely fall againe by the disorder of some wicked Kinge But howsoeuer she be dissended or possessed of the croune her manifolde wickednes hath ben so heinous and intollerable that for the same she hathe bene in person iustly deposed by the sentences of thre sundrie Popes wherunto yf we adde the two former censures condemninge her incestuous natiuity and generatiō we shall finde that she hathe ben condēned by fiue declaratorie iuditiall sentēces of Gods Churche Personable crimes of Elizabeth and first of Heresie And to beginne with the highest and most heinouse crime of all against God and his Churche she ys conuicted of many damnable heresies and open rebellion against Gods Churche and See Apostolike for which she ys so notoriously knowne termed and taken for an heretike aswell at home as abrode that she was glad to prouide by a special acte of parliament that none should call her heritike Schismatike Tyrante vsurper or infidell vnder paine of highe treason She arrogateth spirtiuall dignite She vsurpeth by Luciferian pride the title of supreme Ecclesiasticall gouernment a thinge in a woman in all mens memory vnheard of nor tollerable to the mastres of her owne secte and to Catholikes in the world most ridiculous absurde monstrous detestable and a verie fable to the posterite Bastardie She vnlawfully intruded herself as before I haue said in to possession of the croune of England and the annexed dominions not by any dissent of inheritannce or other lawfull title but only by enforced vniust partly made by her supposed father beinge then an excommunicated person and partely coacted by herself and her coplices in the beginninge of her pretended raigne beinge indede taken and knowen for an incestuons bastard begotten and borne in sinne of an infamous curtesan Anne Bullen after warde executed for aduoutery treason heresie and inceste amōgest others with her owne naturall brother which Anne her said supposed father kepte by pretensed mariage in the life of his law full wife the most renonmed and blessed ladie Queene Katherine daughter of Castill and Ara gon as he did before vnnaturally knovve and ke pe bothe the said Annes mother and sister Periury and impiety She ys guilty of periury and highe impietie for that she did breake violate and deride the sollemne othe and promise made in her coronation for defence of the Ecclesiasticall liberties and priuileges graunted by the aunciēt Christian kinges of our realme and for the contempte of the holy ceremony vsed in the annointinge and inuestinge of all faithfull princes wher in her wickednes was so notorious that the

batail to the inhabitantes of the realme Po●●nge the peaple She hathe not spared to oppresse her subiects neuer hauinge iust vvarres vvith any kinge or cuntrie in the vvorld vvith manifolde exactiōs not only by ordinatie meanes of more frequent and large subsedies for vvhich only ende she hathe had more parliaments and more often prorogations therof then euer any lavvful prince had in so many yeares but also by sundrie shameful guiles of lotaries lavves decrees falles of money and suche like deceites and hathe imploied the riches of the realme to sett vp and susteine Rebells and Heretikes against their naturall princes to the great dishonor of our nation damage and daunger asvvell of our marchauntes as of all other trauaylers a publike piracie and robberie bothe by sea and land thervvith authorisinge by her letters of marte and othervvise permittinge diuers vvicked persons to spoile vvhom they liste vvithout sparinge sum peece of the gaine retorninge to sum of her ovvne cheif councellers and officers Sellinge of lavves She dothe for monye and bribes to the enrichinge of herself and seruantes by licenses dispensations pardons and permissions abolishe or frustrate many proffitable lavves as she dothe to the same ende multeplie sundry friuolous actes vvith great sorfets to the transgressors vvittingly forbearing as yt may be thought the execution of the same that after obliuion of the obseruation therof her courtiers and other loste Cosines and compagnions vvhom her excessiue auarice vvill not suffer to revvarde of her ovvne may make pray by promotinge the poore people so liue and fede on the carcas of the commonvvealthe yea euen sucke out the verie bludd of poore aflicted Catholike mens consciences vvho besides those sacrilegious mas mulctes and the nevv made spoiles and intollerable extorsions for not cōminge to their dam nable Idolatry of the communion vvhich for the loue of Gods lavve they often incurr and susteine to the vtter lamentable ruine of them their posterity be faine by great importable giftes to procure at her officers handes sum little ease and release of the intollerable feares and miseries that they liue in By vvhich vvicked trafique and other pittifull pillage of the people sum of her creatures are grovvne so great insolēt that all states degrees vvithin the Realme stand in avve and daunger of them D●ytester In vvhich sorte besides others whō vve nede not note she hath exalted one speciall extorsioner vvhom she tooke vp first of a Traitor vvoorse thē naughte only to serue her filthy luste vvherof to haue the more fredō and intrest he as may be presumed by her consent caused his ovvne vvife cruelly to be murthered as after vvarde for the accomplishement of his like brutis The Erle of Essex he pleasures vvith an other noble dame it is openly knovvne he made avvaie her husband who novv of an amorous minion aduaunsed to highe office degree excessiue vvelthe is becum her cheife leader in all her vvicked and vnvvonted course of regimēt her instrument of the destructiō of the nobilitie by many indirect meanes of the ruining abacinge disgracinge disauthorisinge diuers auncyent hovvses names and persons of renoume besides innumerable of the cōmunalty perished most pittifulie in sundry prouinces for the feeding of his infinite auarice and other his vnsatiable companions reteinors liuinge only of briberie spoile and roberie wherby and throughe the fauoure of the pretended he hathe this n any a yeare ouerruled the chamber courte counsell parliamēt portes fortes Seas Shipps borders men munition and all the cuntrie hathe had still at commaundment all officers iustices Benches Barres Sessions hath had the sale and monopolie of all lawes offices licenses ●or●ettes Byshoprickes benefices and Colleges hathe made suche traffique hoppinge chaunginge with his mistris aboute the treasures prerogatiues landes and commodeties of the croune that so by diuerse vnspeakable trecheries he hathe enabled and fortefied himselfe farr aboue the measure of any English subjecte and hathe bene the principall disturber and destroyer of the prouinces rounde about vs to the impouerishment of the people at home and decay of all trafique abrode with extreme perill of the lande Her dishonest lyfe VVith the forsaid person and diuers others she hathe abused her bodie against Gods lawes to the disgrace of princely maiestie the whole nations reproche by vnspeakable and incredible variety of luste which modesty suffereth not to be remembred neyther were it to chaste eares to be vttered how shamefully she hath defiled and infamed her person and cuntry and made her Courte as a trappe by this damnable and detestable arte to intāgle in sinne and ouerthro we the yonger sorte of the nobilitye and gentlemen of the lande whereby she is become notorious to the worlde in other cuntryes a comō fable for this her turpitude which in so highe degre namely in a woman and a Queene deseruethe not onelie deposition but all vengeaunce bothe of God and man and cannot be tollerated with out the eternal infamie of our whole cun rie the whole world deriding our effeminate dastar die that haue suffred suche a creature almost thir tie yeares together to raigne bothe ouer our bodies and soules and to haue the chief regiment of all our affaires aswel spirituall as temporal to the extinguishinge not onely of religion but of all chaste liuinge and honesty Refusinge 〈…〉 She coulde neuer be restrained from this incontinence thoughe the principall peers of the realme and others of high authority as deputies from the whole parliament and estates made humble sute and supplicacion to her that for pittie and compassion of their desolate case and of the daunger that the whole realme and specially the nobility should be in yfshe deceased without lawful issue in suche a number of competitors of the croune she wold therfore marrie and procure yf yt were Gods pleasure lawfull heires of her bodie to inherite her dominions after her to whom sumtimes she merely and mockingly answered that she wold die a maidē Queene but afterwards in contēpte and rebuke of all the states of the realme and to the cōdemnation of chaste and lawfull mariage wher unto as to a bridle of her licentiousnes she ys enemie she forced the verie parliament it self to giue consent and to prouide by a pretēded lawe not tollerable nor euer I trowe hearde of before in a Christian free people that none should so muche as be named for her successor duringe her life sauinge the naturall that ys to saie bastard borne childe of her owne bodie A wonderfull thraldōe a lamētable case that this highe courte of olde so renoumed for fredome and iustice should now be at the deuotion of one woman so farr as to authorise both her shamefull incontinency pernitious obstinacy against the honor and good of the whole realme hauinge no cause in the worlde why the next laufull heire may not better beare the naminge then her vnlawfull longe concealded