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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A18210	A petition apologeticall, presented to the Kinges most excellent Maiesty, by the lay Catholikes of England, in Iuly last	Lecey, John.	1604 (1604)	STC 4835; ESTC S120958	34,556	41

and contriuers of all his Mothers troubles and calamities his proofes are the authour of the Iesuites Catechisme a The authour of that Catechisme an inueterat enemy of that order therfore more credulous then conuenient in matter of theirs dishonour written in disgrace of that order which booke is of as great credit with men of tender consciences and vpright carriage in matter of truth and equitie as Lucians Dialogues Watsons Quodlibets or Esopes fables and what this Catechiste wrote of priuate passion without any authenticall warrant this libeller doth vrge with the like perturbation And here DREAD SOVERAIGNE we might as readely as liuely produce a world of inuinceable proofes in reproofe of this libeller by prouing the actors of that complotment and tragicall proceeding not to haue beene any one of them Catholikes or their well-willers but we carefully shunning to charge any with bloudy imbrumentes in that lamentable fact of Englands agony and only to free our selues from that most odious impudent and falfe calumniation wee soly resort to matter of highest record dayly extant to bee seene of all men in publike printed statutes being the fore-runners of that strange execution of your blessed and most glorious Mother Whereby it is most euident and well knowne etiam lippis tonsoribus to blinde men barbers that they were not Catholikes that made and enacted those statutes of the thirtenth of Queene Elizabethes Raigne for the b 13. Elizabeth Limitation of the right of the Crovvne limitation of the right of the Crowne to the disposition of the Lords and Parliament from the free right and course of bloud and descent That made it treason in the same Parliament to c Treason to say that the persons Titles possibilities of all pretenders to the crovvne be not subiect to the actes made in Parliament hould or say that the common lawes of England and statutes to be made in Parliament are not of sufficient validity to gouerne the persons and to binde and limitte the Titles of any that hath any possibility to the Crowne They were not Catholikes that made it treason in the same Parliament d Reconciliation treason to absolue from sinne and reconcile or to be so absolued or reconciled e Agnus Dei Beades or Crosses premunire A premunire to bring in any tookens called Agnus Dei or Crosses Pictures or halowed Beades or to haue or receiue them They were not Catholikes that the 23. of Queene Elizabethes Raigne made it treason f 23. Elizabeth treason to persvvade men to the Catholike religion to perswade men to the Catholike religion and the losse of 200. markes to heare g 200 markes for laing 100 markes for hearing a mas Masse or to pay xx pound monethly for h xx pound a moneth for recusancy refusing to goe to the Protestants seruice or the forfeits of x. pound monethly for such as should keepe any i x. pound a moneth for keeping a schoolmaster Schoolmaster not allowed by the Bishoppe of the Dioces and refusing to goe to Church They were not Catholikes who made an act 27. of the said Queene by vertue whereof your gratious k 27. Eliz. the act vvas made vvhich caused the death of his Maiesties Mother Mother lost her life and in the same Parliament it was made treason for all l In the same yeare it vvas made treason to be a Priest and come in or remaine in the land felony to receiue or releeue them Priests or Religious men that had taken orders by any forraigne authority to remayne or come into this Kingdome and fellony to relieue or entertayne them It was made treason to be brought vp in the Seminaries premunire to send thither any reliefe In the 28. of the said Queene it was enacted that the two partes of the landes and leases of such recusantes as should faile to pay the xx pound a moneth in the Exchequor at the tearmes prefixed should be seazed into the Queenes handes In the 35. it was enacted that euery m 25. Elizab. certayne recusants vvere by an act then made to abiure the realme recusant aboue the age of sixteene yeares being not worth twentie markes exceeding his confined limittes should abjure the Realme and if he refused to abjure or retourned after abjuration to be accounted a fellon Item that the partie should pay ten pound a moneth that n Ten pound a moneth for keeping a recusant in the hovvse keepes any recusant in his howse after warning In the same Parliament recusantes are o The same yeare vvas the statute of confinementes enacted restrayned to their certayne vsuall and common places of abode and are not to remoue aboue fiue miles thence without licence of the Bishoppe and two Iustices vpon payne of forfeiting of all their goodes and all their free and coppyhold landes and annuities during life all such recusants that had not landes of twentie markes value by yeare or goodes of fourtie pound if they conformed not themselues or repayred not to their places of limitation shall abjure the Realme By the course and contriuing of such capitall and cruell lawes at the same time and in the same sessions aswell against Catholikes as against your gratious Mother it seemeth by all probability to persons esteemed of judgement great experience in the insight of worldly driftes both in this Realme and in forraigne Regions that the principal marke which was aymed at in those times was at the selfe same season by seuerity and shadowe of the same lawes an instance to ruinate ouerthrowe the p The person of his Maiesties Mother her right and Title and the Catholikes cause all shotte at by the same lavves and at the same time person of your gratious Mother and her right and the professors of the Catholike religion supposing that those three must either stand or fall togither of necessitie but non est consilium contra Dominum there is no councell against God her right posterity hath God bethāked preuayled the poore Catholikes from that time to this the more they haue beene oppressed the more they haue increased which cannot fall out otherwise vnlesse it proue false which God hath said by the mouth of his Saints and seruants Preciosa in conspectu Domini mors Sanctorum eius pretious in the sight of our Lord is the death of his Saints Et sanguis Martirum semen Ecclesiae the bloud of Martirs the seede of the Church We accuse no man in particuler in this case and could haue beene content vlcus hoc intactum leuiter pertransire to haue sleightly past ouer this boch vntouched but that this respondent would needes deale with vs as Putifars q The libeller like Ioseph his Mistris Susannas iudges wife did with holy Ioseph or the carnall judges with the chaste Susanna viz. put vs to our plunges and purgations for such crimes as were proper and peculiar to themselues Neuer