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A17013	English protestants plea, and petition, for English preists [sic] and papists to the present court of Parlament, and all persecutors of them: diuided into two parts. In the first is proued by the learned protestants of England, that these preists and Catholicks, haue hitherto been vniustly persecuted, though they haue often and publickly offered soe much, as any Christians in conscience might doe. In the second part, is proued by the same protestants, that the same preistly sacrificinge function, acknowledgeing and practize of the same supreame spirituall iurisdiction of the apostolick see of Rome, and other Catholick doctrines, in the same sence wee now defend them, and for which wee ar at this present persecuted, continued and were practized in this Iland without interruption in al ages, from S. Peter the Apostle, to these our tymes.	Broughton, Richard.	1621 (1621)	STC 3895.5; ESTC S114391	56,926	128

vvould be to your Consistorie vvhole Religion to impose and multiplie penalties vpon vs these offers considered for not doing those things vvhich by your ovvne knovvledge your best learned in diuinitie on vvhose vvordes and vvarrant you hazard your soules cannot nor vvill not take vpon them to maintaine as lavvfull for vs to doe But if so many suites supplications reasons and examples vvill not call you to a contrary minde but you haue set vp your resolution vvithout any ansvvere or defence by vs to be our accusers iudges and executioners and singularly vvithout any example at all in the vvorld either of Christians or others to persist in vehemencie of persecution against our religion let vs finde you so far to harken vnto vs that to retaine the name of lavve-makers you vvill retaine some proportioÌ„ anologie as all so named must doe vvith the most auntient lavve of God of nature nations and this kingdome not to punish tvvice one and the same offence If by strong hand you will haue that to be offence which vve assure our selues is so far froÌ„ that name and nature that the contrary is great and heigh offence to God Non consurgat duplex tribulatio and afflixi te non iterum affligam and againe Deus non punit bis in idipsuÌ„ And as a double punishments is not to be inflicted for one offence so by these lavves pro mensura delicti erit plagarum modus vvhich our auntient lavves in our great charter of England follovve Nullus liber homo amercietur sed secundum modum delicti ipsius saluo tenemento suo Magna Charta cap. 14. Peruse if it please you but the heades of the punishments prouided against vs for sundry respects questionable vvhether any offence or no and shal perceaue that your lavvs do not impose you or prosecute such seuere penalties by many degrees vpon sins that certainly and by al iudgements are confessed and acknovledged to be sinnes yea and great sinnes against the lawe of God nature all nations this Kingdome By this we hope you vnderstand that if you wil haue example either in heauen or earth to follow your persecutions must die or must diminish for we haue yeelded ful satisfactioÌ„ to all your pretended reasons to persecute vs. That which remaineth wee desire you to consider what a resemblance there is or should be betweene yours the heaueÌ„ly court froÌ„ whence the irreuocable law is proceeded with great terror published Woe to theÌ„ that make vniust lawes and writing haue written iniustice that in iudgemeÌ„t they might oppresse the poore and do violence to the cause of the humble of my people that widdowes might be their prey and the spoyle of fatherles So beseeching the almightie that in these and other causes in that heigh Court now in hand you may in such sort proceed as may be to his honor and glory the securitie good of his maiestie his of-spring posterity and this common wealth we leaue you to Gods holy protection Your wel-wishing Countrymen kinsmen alliance frieÌ„ds the Catholike RecusaÌ„ts of this realme of EnglaÌ„d An other also of the like tenure which here ensueth was then with the same assent subscribed with 23. handes of the chiefest Catholike gentlemen of England and presented to the chiefe Secretarie of estate potent in those times in court and councell and as the Catholikes then feared not equally effected towards them though neuer so innocent and wel-deseruing who was one of them who with other of the councell declared to diuers of these gentlemen as they confidently reported vpon their reputation that the Kings pleasure was they should paye no more the penaltie of twentie pounds a month for their recusancie and after when hee had perswaded his maiestie to the contrarie denyed his former assertion of the releace thereof although the gentlemen most sincere and iuste still insisted and maintayned that this messadge was so deliuered vnto them which also the then Earle of Northampton L. Henry Howard did freely confesse acknowledge to be most true And the same Catholiks were more then iealous that this practise of coÌ„spiracie was no great secret to that Secretary long before diuers of them that were actors in it and by him named Catholikes were acquainted with it We may not enter into iudgement where men are not defamed of such inuentions to entrappe those they doe not affect for the rest let M. Howe 's his historie of that matter make relation who it was a great protestant that had more or not much inferiour knowe ledge of it by his relation then some that wer-put to death for concealing it But howsoeuer the petition followeth in these tearmes TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE ROBERT Earle of Salisburie chiefe Secretarie of estate to his Maiestie the petition of the Catholicks of England IF the corrupted and obscured vnderstanding of men not knowing God could among other cloudes and mystes of ignorance be so far blinde in that wherein the lawe light of nature it selfe doth giue sufficient instructioÌ„ to all people and nations that Princes and rulers in authoritie are to be honoured and obeyed yet the heauenly and supernatural illumination doth clearly deliuer all Christians especially Catholikes from such darkenesse and want of dutie giuing knowledge that euerie soule must be subiect to superiour powers that God is he per quem reges regnant and he that resisteth power resisteth the ordinance of God Wherefore vvee your Lordshippes humble suppliants the Lay Catholiques of this Kingdome so long probationers for religious causes haue euer in our hearts wordes and workes abandoned all contrarie proceedings as a Babilonian building and insurrection against the might and commande of heauen damnable and rebellious vnto all regall and princely power peace and vnitie on earth Therefore being admonished by the vvisest King that there is as well tempus loquendi as tacendi and occasions of these times being such as inforce vs to speake least by silence vvee might be censured by some no equall minded-men vnto vs to be suspected criminal in that vvherein as al matters of that nature vve doe and euer did by long-knovvne experience stande most innocent vvee therefore protest concerning the late conspiracie that vvee doe condemne it for a most impious vnnatural barbarous and execrable offence against the lavve of nature the sacred vvord of God and the canons and practise of the holy Catholike Church wherein vvee doe liue to vvhich no pretence of holinesse no petence of Religion no pretence of priuate or publicke authoritie can giue vvarrant to make it lavvful And vvee take God to vvitnesse that vvee vvere neither consenting coÌ„spiring or priuie to that or any such wâ—ked designement but the very remeÌ„brance that any such enterprise should be intended or deuised by any maÌ„ especially bearing the name of a Catholik is the continuall sorrow of our hearts and among al tribulations the obiect of our greatest griefe And for this present and all future times we

enemies IN THE first yeare and Parlamente of Queene Elizabeth when our aunciente holy Catholike Religion was so vnholily and irreligiously suppressed and the new Protestant maner and fashion by her authoritie receaued as partly before remembred from our Protestant Histories and will by them more amplie be declared hereafter All the Catholike Bishops of England then liuing so farre opposed against it that as a Protestant Antiquarie relateth obseruing the willfull and indirect proceedings of her and some few of her secret Councellours and aduisers in that so importunat businesse far aboue the compasse calling and correction of a yong woman and laye men diuers of them vrged to proceede to excommunicate that Queene at that time Cambd. Annal in Elizab. p 37. But others which preuailed aduised to reserue it to the Pope of Rome And they all ioyntly contradicted that innouation and then and there offered as all protestant historians agree Stowe and Howes hist. an 1. Eliz. Holinsh. hist. of Engl. Ibid. Theater of Brit an 1. Elizab. Cambd. in Annal. supr publickly to defend and maintaine by disputation against all aduersaries whatsoeuer their holy professioÌ„ and religion and to that purpose assigned and appointed these disputants The then Bishop of Winchester the Bishop of Lichfielde the Bishop of Chester the Bishop of Carlile who had crowned her the Bishop of Lincolne Doctor Cole Doctor Harpesfield Doctor Langdal and Doctor Chadsey But that protestaÌ„t Q. her fauorites knowing the weaknes of their cause to be such and how their chiefest champioÌ„s had bene not long before in publike schooles at Oxford in the time of Queene Marie so shamefully conuinced by some of these Catholikes that they were hissed by the learned Auditors durst not ioyne with theÌ„ in tryal Foxe in Q. Mary CraÌ„ c. But the ParlameÌ„t begining on or about the 23. of Ianuary they had so prepared their way before that almost in the beginning of that ParlameÌ„t they obtained their purpose for the receauing their new Religion and effected that in the very first Acte or law of that Parlament Statut. an 1. Eliz. cap. 2. and would neuer harken to any motion or petition for disputation vntill the laste day of March Stowe Howes Holinsh. supr almost two moneths after they had thus vtterly excluded the Popes authoritie and the cathotholike religion vsed and practised here in this kingdome euer since the time of Pope Elutherius and King Lucius as the catholikes offered in Parlament to maintaine fourteene hundred yeares togeather without interruption Feckh orat 1. Elizab. and publicke Masse and seruice of â—he church to haue bene here so long celebrated in the latine tongue And would not then condiscend to any disputation at all except the catholikes would accept to write in Protestants words That Baconus in Theologicis parum versatus pontificus in festissimus ordinis vâ—ndex tanquam iudex praesideret Bacon a lay man vnskilful in diuinitie most infestuous enemy to Papists and persecutor of their order should be iudge Camden Annal. pag. 27. And if we may beleeue the present protestant Archbishop the director of M. Francis Mason in their booke of consecration among so many essentiall matters controuersed betweene the Protestants and vs they would not dispute any one at all but onelie three concerning some ceremonies Fr. Mason in praef of their booke of consecrat and pag. 103. 1. about common prayer in the Latine or vulgar tongue 2. Of the power of Churches to change ceremonies The third and last whether communion was to be ministred in both kindes and the triall of these three ceremonies to be made by a fourth most strange ceremonie in disputation onely to be put in writing within two daies warning at the most vnum alterum diem de quaestionibus praemoniti as your Antiquarie writeth and deliuered to their said offensiue enemy Sir Francis Bacon Cambden annal pag. 27. A thing so ridiculous and vnequal in the iudgement of all learned and wise men that if it had bene offered before Catholike religion was there condemned it could not in conscience either by those learned Bishops and Doctors or the most learned that euer were in the Church of Christ nor by the holy Apostles themselues if they had then and there bene be accepted Yet Queene Elizabeth and her aduisers in this notwithstanding that she had in open Parlament before as before is testified by our Protestant writers Howes historicall preface in Q. Elizabeth openly pronounced that shee would neuer vexe or trouble the Romane Catholikes concerning any difference in Religion in that very parlament where she spake these wordes and made that promise proceeded to cruell penalties against those Romane Catholikes all our holie Bishops were depriued imprisoned or exiled Stow histor an 1. Eliz. Holinsh. ibid. Cambden Annal an 1. Elizab. Theatre of Brit. an 1. Eliz. c. So were all other Ecclesiasticall persons that would not doe as pleased her Great forfaitures and punishments were imposed vpon all that should heare Masse or not be present at the new deuised seruice Parl. an 1. Eliz. cap. 1.2 praemunire losse of landes goods and perpetual imprisonment and losse of life also with note of Treason to them that should denie that supreame spirituall power to be in her which many Protestants and learned both then and at this time said and say she was incapable of All which notwithstaÌ„ding that most worthy cleargie in exile and prisons at home so caried themselues in all ciuill dutie to that Queene that they are in that respect recommended and honored by their greatest Protestant aduersaries and persecutors and for learning and pietie dignified and exalted more by theirs and our enemies then euer any Protestant Bishops or Ministers which inuaded their holy places since that time Protest def of English Iustice. Godwine Catal in those Bish. Camden in Annal. But of this strange innouation of Religion by Q. Elizabeth I shall write more largely from these Protestants hereafter The vertue learning and dutiful loyaltie of the Seminarie or secular as some name them Priestes which came after into England the vniust persecution of them and catholikes here and their most christian and religious offers and behauiour AFter Q. Elizabeth had by profane deuises inueÌ„tions of some few irreligeous couÌ„cellors suppressed the auntient catholike religioÌ„ of this nation by such sinister proceedings as are before insinuated to the wonder of the christian world orbe christiano mirante as this Protestant chiefest antiquarie truely noteth Cambden Ann. p. 39. for the vncoÌ„scionable maner effecting herof though she had in opeÌ„ ParlameÌ„t as befor protested neuer to vexe or trouble the Roman Catholikes coÌ„cerning any differeÌ„ce in ReligioÌ„ How 's historical praeface in Q. Elizabeth yet being assured as the truth was by her pauculi intimi her very few secret friends Cambd. supr that except she became a persecutor against her faith promise so publikely and lately giuen so ioyne craft and violence together the weaknes

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