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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A11683	Treason pretended against the King of Scots by certaine lordes and gentlemen, whose names hereafter followe. With a declaration of the Kinges Maiesties intention to his last acts of Parliament: which openeth fully in effect of all the saide conspiracy. Out of Skottish into English.	Studley, Christopher.; James I, King of England, 1566-1625.; Adamson, Patrick, 1537-1592. Declaration of the Kings Majesties intentioun and meaning toward the lait actis of Parliament. aut	1585 (1585)	STC 21949.5; ESTC S121502	10,840	26

their giltines hath discouered what malitious practises was deuised amongst them if God had not in time prouided remedie The other forme of iudg ment which his Maiesty hath discharged is the generall assembly of the whole Clergie in the Realme vnder pretence whereof a number of Ministers from sundry presbyteries did assemble with some Gentlemen of the cuntrey wherof some for that time malcontents of the estate sought that color as fauorers of the Ministerie by the which thei haue practised many enterprises in the realme where there was no certeine law in Ecclesiasticall affaires but all depended vpon the saide generall conuention where the lawes of the church were alterable after the nūber of voices which for the most part succéeded vnto the most vnlearned of the multitude This generall assembly amongst other things did appoint and agrée with his Maiest regentes in his highnes minority y ● the estate of bishops which is one of the estates of Parliament should bee mainteined authorised As it is registred in y e bookes of counsel and subscribed by the commissioners for the time Which order was obserued many yéeres and Bishops by their consentes appointed to the diocesse vntill within this late time in assemblies holden at Dundie and Glasgow respecting the foresaid ministers assemblies tooke vppon them contrarie to their owne hand writing to discharge the estate and to declare y e same to be vnlawfull in their pretended maner And there commaunded the Bishops of the countrey to demit and leaue their offices iurisdictions that in no wise they should passe to the kings Maiesties counsell or Parliament without commission obteined from their assemblie That they should confirme nothing in parliament and counsell but according to their acts and iniunctions And further they directed their Commissioners to the kings maiestie commanding him and the councell vnder paine of y e censures of the Church whereby they vnderstoode excōmunication to appoint no Bishop in time to come because they had concluded that estate to be vnlawfull And notwithstanding that which they would haue deiected in the bishops they purposed to erect in themselues desiring that such commissioners as they should send to parliament and coūsell might bee authorised in place of the estate wherby it should haue come to passe that where as now his Ma. may select the most godly learned wise and experimented of the ministerie to bee on his Ma. estate his highnesse should haue been by that means compelled to accept such as the multitude by an odde consent of y e most vnlearned should haue appointed which could not tend but to the ouerthrow of the realme whereof that estate hath bene a special stop After they had discharged bishops they agréed to haue Superintendents Commissioners and Uisitours but in the end they discerned that there should be no difference amongst the ministers imagined that new forme of Presbiterie wherof we haue spoken before Neither was there any other appearance that they should haue staid frō such daily alterations in the common wealth which could not but continually be disquieted where the law of conscience which they maintained by the sword of cursing was subiect to such mutations at the arbitrement of a number whereof the most part had not greatly tasted of learning At our the foresaid assembly was accustomed not only to prescribe the law to the king and estate but also did at certain times appoint general fastings throughout the realme specially when some factioners in the countrey was to mooue any great enterprise For at the fast all y e ministers was commanded by the assemblie to sing one song and to cry out vpon the abuses as they termed it of the court and estate for y e time whereby it is most certaine great alterations to haue ensued in this land while at the good pleasure of God and his blessing towardes his Ma. the pretence of the last fast was discouered his highnes deliuered from such attempts whereby his Ma. hath bene iustly mooued to discharge such conuentions which might import so preiudicially to his estate But specially his Ma. had no small occasion whereas the same assemblie being met at Edenbrough did authorise auow the fact perpetrate at Ruthuen in the takyng of his highnes most noble person The which déed notwithstanding his Ma. with the aduise of his estates in Parliament accounted to be treason the said assembly estéeming their iudgement to be the soueraigne iudgement of the realme hath not onely approoued the same but ordained all them to be excommunicate that would not subscribe and allow the same So the actes of this assembly and the lawes of the estate directly weighed in ciuil matter with the which the assembly should not haue medled it behooued his highnes either to discharge himselfe of y e crown or the ministerie of y t forme of assembly which in déede of it selfe without the kings Maiesties licence approbation could not be lawfull Like as generall councels at no time could assemble without the commaundement of the Emperour for the time and our king hath no lesse power within his owne realme then any of them had in the empire Yea the Bishop of S. Androis had not in time of Poperie power to conuent y ● Bishops clergie out of their owne Diocesse with out licence giuen before of his highnes most noble progenitors of good memorie and the causes thereof intimated allowed Notwithstanding that his Maiesties intention and meaning may fully be vnderstood It is his highnesse wil y ● the Bishop or Commissioners of any Diocesse or Prouince or part thereof shall at their Uisitation appointed in euery parish accordyng to the greatnesse thereof some honest vertuous and discrete men to aide and assist the Minister and to haue the ouersight and censure of the maners and behauiour of the people of that parish And if there be any notable offence worthy of punish ment that the Bishop and Commissioners bée aduertised thereof who shall haue an Officer of armes to be assistant for the punishment of vice and executions to follow thereupon that they who contemneth the godly and lawfull order of the Church may finde by experience his maiesties displeasure and be punished according to their deseruings And further his Maiestie vpon necessary occasions which may fall foorth by diuers maner of wayes among the Clergie vpon humble supplication made vnto his highnesse will not refuse to graunt them licence to assist the bishops Commissioners and some of the most vertuous learned and godly of their Diocesse where such Ecclesiasticall matters as appertaineth to the vniformitie of doctrine and conseruation of a godly order in the Church may be intreated and concluded in his maiesties owne presence or some of his Maiesties honourable counsell who shall assist for the tyme Where if necessitie so require a publike fast throughout the whole realme may be commaunded and by his Maiesties authoritie proclaimed to auoide the imminent displeasure and daunger of