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A15442	A iustification or cleering of the Prince of Orendge agaynst the false sclaunders, wherewith his ilwillers goe about to charge him wrongfully. Translated out of French by Arthur Goldyng; Justification or cleering of the Prince of Orendge agaynst the false sclaunders, wherewith his ilwillers goe about to charge him wrongfully.	Golding, Arthur, 1536-1606.	1575 (1575)	STC 25712; ESTC S120044	80,195	190

and heresies then they shal be executed by the fire and in all caces their goodes shal bee confiscate to our behofe And we will and declare that from the day wherin the said heretickes shal be falne into their errours they shal be vnable to dispoze of their go●…des and all alienatiōs giftes cōueyances sales settyngs ouer Testamentes last bequestes by will made by them after such tymes shal be as nothyng and of none effect Furthermore we obteine and decree it for a perpetuall statute and law as afore that no man shall presume to hold or suffer in his house or els where any co●…enticles or meetynges or to talke or dispute of holy Scripture specially in matters hard and doutfull or to read the same holy Scripture to others or to preach it vnlesse they be Diuines allowed by some famous Uniuersitie or admitted thereto by the ordinarie of the place vnder like penaltie Also that no man shal Print or cause to be Printed or otherwise put forth any booke that treateth or maketh mention of the holy Scripture or that in any wise toucheth our holy fayth and the constitutiōs of the Church vnlesse it be first ouerseene by the ordinary of the place that he haue gotten our graūt licence to Print it vnder like penaltie Moreouer we ordeine decree that no man of what state or callyng so euer he be shall presume to lodge receiue in●…ine or fauour any heretickes or Anabaptistes that all such as shall haue lodged receiued interteined or fauored them knowyng them to be such ▪ shall come and bewray accuze them to the officer of the place if it be a priuiledged place or els if it be not to the cheef officer of the good towne next to the place where they dwell vnder peyne of being punished as heretickes And bycause we be desirous to come to the knowledge of the sayd heresies errours and abuses we inact decree that the accuzers bewrayers of them shall haue the one moitie of their goods that are so bewrayed and accuzed before their misusage do appeere they dewly conuicted thereof condicionally that the sayd goodes passe not the summe of one hundred poundes Flemishe of the great for if they passe that summe then shall they haue but the tenth penny of that which the said goodes amount vnto aboue it the costes and charges in the law first deducted And to the end that our Iustices Officers which shall haue apprehended the sayd Heretickes or Anabaptistes may not haue occasion to beare with them their complices and fautors or to punish them lesse than they deserue vnder pretence that the punishementes may seeme to great and rigorous to haue bin set but onely for the terrour of offēders as we see it commeth oftentymes to passe We will and commaunde that whosoeuer violateth this our ordināce by keepyng printyng sellyng distributyng or settyng forth any bookes writynges or images that are hereticall or offēsiue or otherwise against the points aboue declared or any of thē shal be punished and corrected indifferently by the peynes afore mēcioned Forbiddyng all our Iudges Officers and Iustices to alter qualifie or chaunge the same punishmentes in any maner of wise and chargyng them onely to denounce the sayd penalties and punishmentes vpon them as soone as they shall perceiue them to haue violated any of the sayde points vnder penalty to be depriued of their roomes offices to be denounced vnable to beare any Office for euer after and moreouer to be corrected for it at our pleasure And we commaund all our Officers to aduertize vs or our sayd sister the Queene when our Iudges Headborowes Aldermē or any others hauyng the examination of such offenders do make nyce to follow this our decree and to denounce the sayd penalties that we may proceede agaynst thē by the selfe same punishmentes Furthermore we decree that if any man chaunce to know any place where any hereticke or Anabaptist doth secretly lurke he shal be bound to bewray it to the officer of that place vpon peyne to be taken for a fa●…rer harbrowgher and adh●…ent of the heresie wherewith the person so hidden is infected and to bee punished with the same peyne that the hidden person should bee punished withall if he were caught And bycause that heeretofore when some Heretickes or Anabaptistes being appeached and cited haue gotten them selues out of the Countrey and shrunke a●…de or hid them selues in some secret place ▪ there could bee no proceedyng agaynst thē by any other conuenient punishment thā onely by banishment and that such heeryng that their compli●…es adherentes were dead or executed so as it was not possible for the officer to proue sufficiently that they were rebaptized or heretickes did vpon hope confidence therof some forth dayly and make sute to get leaue to pu●…ge them selues or to get some other benefite of law w●…he thyng ministred 〈◊〉 of delay of Iustice and made the heretickes and Anabaptistes bold to returne into our coūtreys and there to sow abrode their errours false doctrines to the great pe●…ill offence preiudice of our sayd coūtreys subiectes We myndyng to prouide for it do forbid the cheef Iustices of our hygh Courtes the Presidents of our prouinciall Counselles to giue graunt or cause to be sealed to such as are suspected appeached for 〈◊〉 or Anabaptistes and ha●…yng bin once cyted by order of law appeere not but suffer thēselues to be banished through their owne wilfulnesse any protection of law to stand to their purgation or otherwize to frequent our sayd coūtreys And we denounce that such fugitiues banishēd ●…olke shal be taken for conuicted that processe shall go out agaynst them vnder the peynes aforesayd Besides this we forbyd all men of what state or condition so euer they be vnder payne of beyng taken for fauorers of heretikes to offer vnto vs or our counsellers hauyng power to pardon any Supplicatiō for the sayd fugitiues banished men rebaptized or otherwise defamed or hauyng bin noted of the sayd disallowed sectes to 〈◊〉 grace for their mis●…sages errours and heresies for we wyl not that any grace shal be graunted them vppon payne of being disabled for euer to haue or execute any charge or office in our Countreys and moreouer to be punished at our pleasure Likewise also we forbyd all Aduocates Proc●…ors Clerkes Apprentizes and Sollicitors to indite write or preferre any such Supplications vnder like payne All whiche poyntes and articles we wyl and commaund to be kept and obserued inuiolably for euer accordyng to their forme and tenor And to the ende that euery man may haue knowledge thereof we wyll you to proclayme all these thinges incontinently and without delay in the places where Proclamations are woont to be made and that you proceede and cause others to proceede agaynst such as withstande or disobey with all rigorous execution of the penalties afore declared and without any fauor dissembling or

duetyes sake to his maiesty and my natiue soyle I woulde I say aduenture not onely al the goodes that I haue in the worlde but also myne owne person my wife and my children whom euen nature wylleth me to preserue and keepe Wherefore I beseech you let it please your highnesse to haue regard of it according to your tryed and accustomed discretion and to take this mine information in good parte as proceedyng from one that speaketh of earnest affection and good wyll to doo his maiestie seruis and to preuent all inconueniences ▪ wherof I take God to witnesse whom hauing commended my selfe most humbly to the good grace of your highnesse I beseeche to giue you long and good lyfe in health From Brusselles the. xxiiij day of Ianuarye 1565. accordyng to the Computation of Braband ¶ The Regentes answere to the Princes Letter MY good cousin I haue receiued your two Letters of the xvi e. of this present moneth by the one of which you excuse your selfe of your not cōmyng hither as you would haue done And by the other you put me in mynde of the declarations which you haue made to me at other tymes cōcernyng the inconueniences that might rise of the three poyntes which my Lord the king hath commaūded which I remember very well And since that tyme as I am informed the discontentement and grudging of the people is growē in such wise as I am done to vnderstand by diuers aduertizementes commyng to me dayly from good places that the sayd inconueniences are tootoo apparāt euē at the poynt to shew themselues to open sight Which thyng caused me to thinke it meete and expedient to assemble the Gouerners as I haue done to be heere vpon Monday or Tewsday next at the furthest that by their helpe I may consult of such things as shal be most expedient for the preuentyng of the sayd inconueniences or for the good seruice of the king for the peace and tranquillitie of his countreys and for the safety of his vassals subiectes and inhabitants And I know your affection and zeale towardes his Maiesties affayres and in the behalfe of the Countrey to be such as I assure my selfe that you will not fayle all other matters set aside and omitted to be here at the same tyme which I pray you hartily good Cousin to do for to that ende doth this letter purposely come vnto you And I pray the Creator to graūt you the thyng that you would most desire of him From Brussels the xix day of Marche 1565. It was vnderwritten Your good Cousin and signed Margaret and further countersigned Berty And the superscription was To my good Cousin the Prince of Orendge Coūtie of Nassaw Knight of the Order Gouerner of the Coūtie of Burgon and of the Countreys of Holland Zeland and Vtreyght ¶ Extractes of certaine points cōprized in the Iniunctions and ordinances set forth in the lowe Countreys in the cace of Religion And first of the generall Iniunction or Edict made and decreed by the Emperour Charles the. xxij of September the yeere 1540. which was made after the paterne of an other as rigorous as that whiche came foorth in the yeere 1531. FOr asmuch as in consideratiō aforesayd we be desirous to the vttermost of our power to plucke vp abolish roote out the sayd condemned and disallowed sectes errours and heresies to keepe our subiectes in the feare of God and in the true obedience of our sayd holy Catholicke fayth likewise in awe of our mother holy Church we vpō great and substantial deliberation with our Coūsell and by the aduice of our right deare welbeloued sister the Queene Dowager of Hungarie and Beame c. Regēt Gouernesse of our Countreys heere and also by the aduice of our cheef Coūselers haue of our owne will certeine knowledge ordeined and decreed do ordeyne and decree for an euerlastyng Statute and Law as followeth First that no person of what state degree or callyng so●…uer he bee shall haue sell giue cary read preach teach maynteine talke of nor dispute of either secretly or openly the doctrines writynges or bookes that are made or shal be made by Martin Luther Ioh. Wickliffe Iohn Husse Marcil of Padua Oecolampadius Vlrichus Zuinglius Philip Melancthon Frauncis Lambert Iohn Pomerane Otto Brunfelsius Iustus Ionas Iohn Puper and Gorcian or by any other authors of their sect or by any other heretickes and 〈◊〉 or the errours disallowed by the Church or the doctrine of their adherentes fauorers and complices no nor euen the new Testamēts Printed by Adrian of Bergues Christopher of R●…mōd and Iohn Zell nor theis Latin bookes followyng videl The phrases of holy Scripture The Interpretation of the Chaldey names Vadians Abridgement of Topographie The Paralippomenon or Chronicles of thyngs worthy of rememberance The story of the originall of the Garmanes The Cōmētaries vppon the Poetry of Pythagoras Walcurioze Commentaries vpon Aristotles Phisikes The workes of Eobanus Hessus Griphies Prayers vpō the Lordes Prayer The Method vpō the cheef places of Scripture The Cathechizin of Erasmus Sarcerius The same mans Scholies vpon the Gospels of Mathew Marke Luke The same mās Postilles vppon all the Sondayes Gospelles through the whole yeere Also of the maner of learnyng Diuinitie Of the framyng of a mans lyfe and of the reformation of manners Christopher Hegendorphius exhortation The same mans instruction of Christen youth with an exposition of the Lordes Prayer Philip 〈◊〉 abridgement of Chronicles both in Latin and in Duche Sebastian Munsters Annotations vppon Saint Mathewes Gospell and the Enterludes played not lōg ago in our Citie of Gaunt by the nineten places of Rhetoricke vppon this question what is the greatest comforte to a man that is at the point to dye nor any other bokes written or printed within theis xviij yeeres last past without declaryng of the author printer tyme and place nor likewise the new Testament the Gospels the Epistles the Prophesies or any other bookes in Frenche or Duche conteining Prefaces Prologes Appostils or glozes sauoryng of doctrines disallowed repugnant or cōtrary to our holy Catholicke fayth or to the Sacramentes or to the commaundementes of God or of the Church Also that no man shall peynt or cause to bee peynted or portrayed or holde haue or keepe any Images portraitures or pictures to the reproche or disgracyng of the virgin Marie or of the saints that are canonized by the church nor also breake deface or pull down the Images made or heerafter to be made in the honor or rememberance of them that if any body haue any such books peyntyngs in his hands or keepyng he burne them incontinently Upō peyne in cace that any be foūd to haue done agaynst any of the pointes aboue declared to be executed that is to say the mē by the sword and the women by the pit so they do not maintein defend their errours but if they stand in those errours