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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A16184	Mr. George Blackvvel, (made by Pope Clement 8. Arch-priest of England) his answeres vpon sundry his examinations together, with his approbation and taking of the Oath of allegeance: and his letter written to his assistants, and brethren, moouing them not onely to take the said Oath, but to aduise all Romish Catholikes so to doe.	Blackwell, George, 1546 or 7-1613.	1607 (1607)	STC 3105; ESTC S121307	12,187	42

armes raise tumult or to offer any uiolence or hurt to his Maiesties royall Person State or gouernment or to any of his Maiesties subiects within his Maiesties Dominions Also I doe sweare from my heart that notwithstanding any Declaration or sentence of Excommunication or Depriuation made or granted or to be made or granted by the Pope or his Successours or by any Authoritie deriued or pretented to be deriued from him or his See against the said King his Heires or Successours or any absolution of the said Subiects from their Obedience I will beare faith and true allegeance to his Maiestie his Heires and Successors and him and them will defend to the uttermost of my power against all conspiracies and attempts whatsoeuer which shall be made against his or their Persons their Crowne and Dignitie by reason or colour of any such Sentence or Declaration or otherwise and will doe my best endeauour to disclose and make knowen unto his Maiestie his Heires and Successours all Treasons and traiterous conspi 〈…〉 ies which I shall know or heare of to be against him or any of them And I doe further sweare That I doe from my heart abhorre detest and abiure as impious and hereticall this damnable doctrine and position That Princes which be excommunicated or depriued by the Pope may be deposed or murdered by their Subiects or any other whatsoeuer And I doe belieue and in conscience am resolued That neither the Pope nor any person whatsoeuer hath power to absolue mee of this Oath or any part thereof which I acknowledge by good and full Authoritit to be lawfully ministred vnto mee and doe renounce all Pardons and Dispensations to the contrarie And all these things I doe plainely and sincerely acknowledge and sweare according to these expresse words by me spoken and according to the plaine and common sense and understanding of the same words without any Equiuocation or mentall euasion or secret reseruation whatsoever And I doe make this recognition and acknowledgment heartily willingly and truely upon the true faith of a Christian So helpe me God George Blackwell Arch-priest ¶ The seuenth Examination taken at Lambeth c. the 4. of Iuly 1607. MAfter Blackwell being vrged to explicate himselfe more fully touching the sense hee relieth vpon out of his Maiesties words 19. Martij 1603. since published in print in that he may so vnderstand them as notwithstanding his oath formerly taken that duety which is expected is no way satisfied because his Maiesties meaning is euident that he doeth account it to proceede from appetite and rashnesse in any of the Bishops of Rome whosoeuer who presuming to excommunicate any King shall by the same either absolue his Subiects from their obedience or excite them to beare Armes against him or authorize them to lay violent hands vpon his Person or to stirre vp any sedition or tumult within his Kingdome or to assist any that shall make such Attempts either against the King or the State of the Kingdome Hee answereth for the further opening of his meaning That no lawfull Excommunication can ●roduce such effects nor ought to inforce the same And he further saith First that he is verily perswaded in his conscience that the Bishop of Rome wil neuer Excommunicate his Maiestie and yet that if he should so do and in the same take vpon him to discharge his Maiesties subiects of their allegeance or require them to beare Armes against him or to offer violence vnto his Royall person he this Examinate would neuerthelesse for his owne part continue his Maiesties faithfull Subiect and that in his iudgement all Catholikes ought to concurre with him therein notwithstanding any thing in the sayd Excommunication that might be inserted or threatned against those Catholikes that should so doe For he verily thinketh and therein is resolute that no lawfull Excommunication can bee iustly denounced or published against his Maiestie that can or ought to worke any such effects but that all his Maiesties Subiects the same notwithstanding doe continue obliged vnto him as fully to all intents and purposes as euer they were before or as if the sayd Excommunication had neuer bene either framed denounced or published Georgius Blackwellus Archi-presbyter ¶ M. BLACKWELS Letter to the Priests his brethren for the lawfulnesse of taking the Oth of Allegeance 7. Iuly 1607. My very reuerend Abetaistants and deare Brethren M. Blackwell being sent for to Lambeth the eighth time vpon some speeches with him did thinke it fit to write to his Assistants the ●u 〈…〉 e in generall of all his former examinations as by the letter it selfe doth appeare YOu knowe how many yeeres I haue passed ouer among you in much tribulation and how often vnder God his holy protection I haue escaped dangers albeit they were still imminent and hanging ouer my head But now of late it hath pleased our gracious Lord to suffer me to fall into the mouth of one who long hath gaped after me for the sasetie of whose soule if I be as carefull as he hath been forward vpon the apprehension of my body I shall but performe the duety of a good Christian I thanke God that in all my afflictions of twelue dayes close imprisonment and of eight Examinations at Lambeth I haue giuen no occasion to any person to speake euill of me neither as I trust shall I runne vpon your hard censures for any thing I haue done I must confesse but not without much griefe that in the course of my Examinations I espied great defects of sincere dealing among our selues for the Lord Archbishop made an heauie present vnto me of his holinesse Briefs and of the copies of my Letters about the publication of the same with such other pressing euidences of all my proceedings that I could not auoide without a reproachfull note and much discredite the force of trueth in the points obiected against mee But the urging supereminent point was to knowe whether I had altered or reteined still the continuance of my former opinion about the lawfulnesse of taking the Oath of Allegeance For answere finding what hatred and iealoufnesse wee haue incurred in the opinion of his Maiesty and the State for the refusall of the Oath and thereupon making a reuiew of the reasons drawing mee into the former publike approbation thereof and relying vpon very mouing considerations deliuered by his Maiestie the nineteenth of March An. 1603. which are now in print And further being informed how the Parliament did purposely auoid to call into question the authoritie of the Pope to Excommunicate but did onely intend to preuent the dangers which might ensue by the supposed doctrine of such inferences as thereupon hath beene made and are mentioned in that Oath Vpon these respects others I granted and made knowen the admittance of my former Opinion and did accept of the Oath of Allegeance and haue taken the same word for word as it is set down in the Statute Afterwards falling into speech of