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A19623	A short declaration of the ende of traytors, and false conspirators against the state & of the duetie of subiectes to theyr soueraigne gouernour: and wythall, howe necessarie, lawes and execution of iustice are, for the preseruation of the prince and common wealth. Wherein are also breefely touched, sundry offences of the S. Queene, co[m]mitted against the crowne of this land, & the manner of the honorable proceding for her conuiction thereof, and also the reasons & causes alledged & allowed in Parliament, why it was thought dangerous to the state, if she should haue liued. Published by Richard Crompton, an apprentice of the common lawes. Seene and allowed.	Crompton, Richard, fl. 1573-1599.	1587 (1587)	STC 6055; ESTC S109080	31,136	50

the lamentable rauishments deflowringes of Maydes Wiues and Widdowes into the ransacking and spoyling of Citties and Townes with a number of other miseries and calamities which haue happened of late yéeres in other Countries not farre hence you shall finde that this Realme of England aboue all Nations vnder the Sunne at this day hath moste cause to thinke it selfe bounde to the goodnes of almighty God In that hee hath not suffered vs to be afflicted or visited with the like And now what shall I say of them to whom this her Maiesties most gracious gouernment these happy daies these blessed yéeres haue béene thought tedious and too long to haue continued and therefore haue most vnnaturally most wickedly yea and moste trayterouslie sought the vntimely death and destruction of her vnder whom by Gods great mercy and fauour towardes vs we haue enioyed all these good thinges Shall I say they were vnkinde people Shall I say they were vnnaturall Subiects Nay I will rather say that they were and such as they are more méete to liue vnder an Infidell vnder a Turke vnder a Iewe vnder a blooddy Prince or Tyrant rather then vnder so gracious and so mercifull a soueraigne Ladye and Quéene as she hath shewed herselfe to be to all sortes of her Subiects euen from the beginning of her blessed raigne to this day whereof we are all witnesses What good Subiect will not hartilie lament to thinke what sorrow her Maiestie dooth make what inwarde gréefe shée hath conceiued what déepe sighes procéede from her noble hart what teares distill from her tender eyes as we may imagine and suppose when she calleth vnto her gracious remembraunce the greate loue which she doth and alwayes hath born to her good Subiects the dailie care she hath of their prosperitie and well dooing her continuall desire that they may liue in peace and rest vnder her To haue this her loue so vnkindlie requited her care so vngentlie recompenced her desire so vngratefullie rewarded as to haue her death so often conspyred her destruction so many waies intended and this her most happie gouernment many times trayteroustie deuised to bee suppressed where it is the part and duetie of euerie good Subiect to be true faithfull obedient and loyall to his Prince and soueraigne Gouernour whom God hath appointed to raigne ouer him though her Maiestie by these her manifold kindnesses had not as she hath merited and deserued the same But most gracious soueraigne Lady let not these theyr wicked and trayterous conspiracies dismay you let them not discourage you but be of good comfort and doubt not but as almighty GOD hath hetherto most graciouslie saued and defended you from the most wicked purposes of such as haue so often most trayterously practised and pretended your vntimelie death and destruction so he will protect you from the like her eafter doubt not but he will sende his holie Angell who shall pitch his Tentes rounde about you that theyr damnable deuises and determinations shall neuer take effect Doubt not but that he will be your strength Buckler for he is and euer will be the sure defence of his annointed as the Prophet Dauid witnesseth Comfort your selfe also in this that there are within your Realme of England euen thousand of thousands which according to their bounden dueties doo dayly most hartilie pray to God for the preseruation of your sacred personne that will shedde their bloodes spend their lands and goods in your defence before such wicked Traytors or their adherents shall euer haue their purposes Comfort your selfe also in this that you haue so graue and faythfull a Counsell that is most studious and carefull of the safetie of your noble person and this state that can so politiquelie spie out these wicked Conspirators and trys out their most deuillish deuises tending to your Maiesties vntimelie death and to the vtter subuersion and ruine of this your most happie gouernment that can so in time preuent the manifolde perilles and daungers which otherwise might by such treasons haue ensued vnto the same Comfort your selfe also in this that they euen they I say which haue thus conspired to take your Maiesty from vs when they haue come into your presence meaning then to haue accomplished theyr most trayterous purpose haue béene so diswayed vpon the sight of your princely person and in beholding your most gracious countenaunce that they hadde no power to performe the thing which they had before determined vppon A most certaine token of the great mercie and fauour of God towardes your Maiestie and to vs all If it were lawfull for the Subiect to enter into the examinations of causes or matters appertayning to y e Prince and soueraigne Gouernour as it is not what coulde these sortes of men I pray you obiect or what coulde they say why they thus most wickedly thus most vnnaturallie and thus most trayterously shoulde séeke the death and destruction of so gracious a Soueraigne Ladie and Quéene It is trowe you because they thought that her Maiestie is not studious to sette forth the honour and glorie of God Compare the time present with the great abuses which haue entred into the Church of olde time and thereby you shall plainely perceiue howe carefull shée is and from time to time hath béene to aduaunce the true worshipping of God to the vttermost of her power Is it trowe you because they thought that she hath not made and published wholsome and necessary Lawes for the preseruation and mayntenaunce of the state of thys Common wealth Looke into the most gracious Acts of Parliament made in her time and you shall finde as good as necessary and beneficiall Lawes published by her most high Courtes of Parliament as better or more necessarye haue not béene giuen by the like authoritie in any Princes time héeretofore Is it because they thought that her Maiestie is not desirous that right and iustice shoulde bee ministred vnto all sortes of her Subiects without respect of personne Looke into the procéedinges of her most honourable Counsell in her high Court of Starre Chamber and there you shall sée the causes of her people iudiciallie brought before them so indifferentlie examined so déepely looked into and with such greate wysedome and equitie ordered and decreed that euerye man hath iust cause therewith to content himselfe Againe looke into the procéedings of her graue and sage Iustices of her Lawes And you shall finde the causes of her Subiects brought before them so learnedly debated so vprightly handled and with such equitie adiudged and determined according to the Lawe that no man can therewith iustlie finde fault Is it trowe you because they thought that her Maiestie is not mercifull to such as are transgressors and offenders of her Lawes Looke into the Recordes of her high Court of Chauncery and there you shall finde a great number of her most gracious and mercifull pardons as well touching lyfe and member

is not executed Almighty God therefore knowing in his euerlasting wisedome and prescience how necessary good and holesome lawes and the execution thereof should be to rule his people after they had béene both before the vniuersall floodde and by manie yéeres after gouerned by the law of nature did giue the Law of the tenne Commandements in the Mount Sinay wherein is first contained our duetie to God and next to our Neighbours and also did ordeyne Kinges and Magistrates to rule and correct them by the same and other lawes as in the Booke of Exodus and sundrie other places of the holie Scripture appeareth he gaue also power to Princes to make good lawes for the preseruation of their kingdomes Countries and seignories and for the politique regiment of their Subiects as it is written in the Prouerbs of Salomon Through me Kinges raigne and Princes make iust Lawes which Lawes must bee consonant and agréeing or at the least not contrarie to the Lawe of God For woe is threatned in the Scriptures to them that make vnrighteous Lawes too harde for people to kéepe and withall did giue speciall commaundement to the subiects to submitte themselues to theyr Lawes and ordenaunces as S. Peter doth tetifie as is afore remembred Now touching what thing lawe is some define it thus Lex est summa ratio intua in natura que iubet que faciendo sunt prohibetque contraria that is The Lawe is the highest reason grafted in nature that commandeth the thinges which are to be doone and forbiddeth the contrarie And Cicero in his second booke de legibus affirmeth Legem neque sapientissimorum fuisse sententiam neque hominum ingenijs excogitatam neque scitum esse populorum sed eternum quiddam quod vniuersum mundum regeret imperandi prohibendique sapiencia that is the Law was neither y e iudgment of y e wisest neither foūd out by mans wit nor established by the people but a certaine euerlasting thing which should gouerne y e whole worlde by wisedome to command and to prohibite which saying rather séemeth to be a diffinition of y e Law of Nature then of the Law generally after the opinion of Osorius Lex est recta ratio deterrens a flagitijs et ad studium honestatis impellent That is the Lawe is the perfect reason fearing men from euill and wicked actes forcing them to the studdie of vertue and good things And Musculus in his common places saith That Law may be said to bee reason rule and sentence which is strengthened with authoritie and Iustice whereby are commaunded such things as are to be kept and performed and such thinges as are to be auoided are forbidden which me séemeth is very aptly saide Nowe touching what iustice is Bracton saith Iusticia est constans et perpetua voluntas ius suum cuique tribueus that is iustice is a constant and perpetual will to yéelde to euery one his right he calleth her constant because she is not mutable perpetual because she shal neuer decay touching the qualities of lawe Tully saith that Leges sunt fundamenta ciuitatum sunt humani generis praesidium atque regimen quibus homines astricti abstinēt iniurijs et faciunt hōmines mitiores ac valde exultantes repremunt legum habene That is the lawes are the foundations of Citties the safegard and gouernours of mankind by which men being bound abstaine from iniuries they make men gentle the reignes of law doo greatly bridle and restraine the proude and haughty persons And yet Anacharsis the wyse Sythian was wont to say that Lawes are made like Spyders webs wherein the weakest moste séeblest beastes be catched and stick fast but the strongest breake out so lawes bynd the poore and meane persons but the rich cubbes escape vnpunished but thys is not the default of lawe which is indifferent to all but of them that haue the law in gouernment The same is not more necessary to the world sayth Aristotel thē good and holesome lawes are for the preseruation of the weale publique and surely he sayth true for as the sunne by hys naturall heate and influence doth comfort preserue and mayntaine euery lyuing thing hearbe plant and trée and giueth vertue and strength to them whereby they yéelde fruite in theyr due time according to theyr kindes and properties necessary for mans vse so doo good and holesome lawes preserue and maintaine the state of euery kingdome and common wealth for by law the honour of God is aduaunced Traytors rebelles and false conspirators the mortall enemies to enery Common wealth as the Poet sayth Regnorum pessima pestis seditio are cutt off whereby the Prince sitteth the more sure in his royall seate By execution of iustice we possesse our liues our wyues our children our landes our goods and what soeuer other things we haue when murtherers théeues robbers and other offenders haue theyr deseruing By law common peace and quietnes is maintayned if there were no lawe there wold be no order if there were no order al things would be confounded as the Scripture sayth vbi nullus ordo ibi est confusio The law of it selfe is an honourable thing it hath no desire of reuenge it doth carry an indifferent mind to all sortes in poynt of Iustice it oppresseth none it is not angry wyth any it coueteth no mans life goods nor landes it is induced only for equities cause to punish and redresse wronges and iniuries it hateth none for it knoweth not when nor vpon whōe it should be reuenged it condemneth none without premonition or forewarning to speake for himselfe It generally forbiddeth all men to doo euill it threatneth to all reuenge which doo transgresse her preceptes like as the bridle and the spurre driueth and constrayneth the horse swyftly and well to performe his iurney so do good and reasonable ordinaunces lawes lead direct men to vse good manners and conditions and thereby to honour dreade loue and serue God vertuously to liue among their neighbours in continuall peace and tranquilitie in firme concorde and agréement in a vnitie of wyll and minde and in sincere loue and charitie which thing duelie to performe is not gyuen to mankinde immediatly and onely by nature as is gyuen to all other creatures which are by nature constrayned to doo and to liue after theyr kindes but by Gods reasonable ordenaunces to instruct and direct men to the same the law induceth the good subiect to be true and faythfull to hys Prince and soueraigne Gouernour it encourageth him to doo well whereby he increaseth in wealth and enioyeth the fruites of hys owne indeuour The Lawe is terrible to offenders but comfortable to well dooers as S. Paule sayth The Magistrate is not fearefull to them that doo well but to them that do euill Wylt thou be without feare of the power saith S. Paule doo well then and so