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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A01503	The countrie gentleman moderator Collections of such intermarriages, as haue beene betweene the two royall lines of England and Spaine, since the Conquest: with a short view of the stories of the liues of those princes. And also some obseruations of the passages: with diuers reasons to moderate the country peoples passions, feares, and expostulations, concerning the Prince his royall match and state affaires. Composed and collected by Edm. Garrard.	Garrard, Edmund.	1624 (1624)	STC 11624; ESTC S102860	39,587	76

power and she in some passion accused Wolsey as the principall brocher of that doubt and a maintainer of that contention which he denied and excused himselfe The King pretending nothing in this businesse but truth sinceritie and Iustice according to the Lawes of God and man was well contented that the Queene should make choyse of the greatest Clerkes and the best learned men in the kingdome to defend and maintaine her cause which she accordingly did Commissioners chosen by the Queene as namely William Warham then Archbishop of Canterbury and Nicholas West Bishop of Ely Iohn Fisher Bishop of Rochester and Henry Standish Bishop of Assoph For the prosecuting of this businesse a stately Court was crected in the great Hall at the Black-Friers where the two Legates sate as Iudges the King and Queene scited in their owne persons or by their Procters to appeare The King by his Procter submitted himselfe to the Apostulation authority and power which by the Pope to the two Legates was giuen But the Queene her selfe accompanied with many Lords Knights Ladies Gentlemen and Gentlewomen and hauing first done great reuerence to the two Legates appealed from them as from Iudges which were not compotent and indifferent to determine betwixt the Queene and King to the Court at Rome This appeale they allowed not but in the same Court they sate weekely and before them many learned and subtill Disputations touching the lawfulnesse and also concerning the insufficiencie of that Mariage were daily made before them The King perceiuing that no quicke dispatch was vsed though oftentimes they deliberately consulted came with the Queene into the said Court where his Maiestie solemnly protested his infinite loue towards her acknowledging her to be the most amiable The Kings protestation and loue to the Queene louing kinde dutious modest and sweetest Wife that he thought was in the world and that therefore he should not take so much ioy and comfort in any thing else whatsoeuer as he should doe in her if by the lawes of God and man she might remaine his Wife and therefore for the determining of that question and for the quieting of his troubled conscience he instantly importuned a quicke dispatch and a finall end Then was the Queene demanded whether shee would sticke to her appeale or no who answered yea yet for all that the Court proceeded weekely though softly as before The Queene presently rose vp and going about the Court to the King fell downe on her knees before his feete and in the hearing of the people spake thus in effect The Queens speech to the King Sir I desire you to take some pitty vpon me and doe me iustice and right I am a poore Woman a stranger borne out of your Dominions hauing here no indifferent counsell and lesse assurance of friendship alas wherein haue I offended or what cause of displeasure haue I giuen that you intend to put me away I take God to my iudge I haue beene to you a true and humble wife euer conformable to your will and pleasure neuer gainsaying any thing wherein you tooke delight without all grudge or discontented countenance I haue loued all them that haue loued you howsoeuer their affections haue beene to me-ward I haue borne you children and beene your wife now this twenty years Of my virginity and mariage bed I make God and your owne conscience the iudge and if it be otherwise proued I am content to be put from you with shame The King your father in his time for his wifedome was knowne to be a second Solomon and Ferdinando of Spaine my Father the wisest amongst their kings could they in this match be so farre ouerseene or are there now wiser and more learned men then at any time were surely it seemeth wonderfull to me that my mariage after twenty yeares should be thus called in question with new inuention against me who neuer intended but honestie Alas Sir I see I am wronged hauing no Councell to speake for me but such as are your subiects and cannot be indifferent on my part therfore I most humbly beseech you in charity stay this course vntill I may haue aduise and counsell from Spaine if not your Graces pleasure be done and therewithall rising and making lowly obeisance to the Court departed thence Queene Katherine departed the Court. leaning vpon the arme of her seruant deceiued each man expecting she had returned to her seate when as she tooke directly out of the place which being perceiued the Cryer againe called her by the name of Queene Katherine to come into the Court Madam quoth her guide you are againe called on said she it maketh no matter this is no indifferent Court for me therefore goe forward The King perceiuing that she was departed The Kings report of the Queene presently spake thus vnto the assembly I will quoth he in her absence declare before you all that she hath beene to me a most true obedient and comfortable wise endued with all vertuous qualities conditions according to her birth and lowlinesse equalls any of the meanest estate The Court sate many times after where many subtle and vebement allegations were vrged for the lawfulnesse and nullity of the Mariage the King eagerly bent to haue an end foresaw he should neuer there haue any whilest the businesse was in debate and handling he priuately imployed diuers Lords and the greatest Diuines within his kingdome to trauaile into all the Vniuersities in the Christian world and there to be resolued of their opinions touching the validitie or nullity of the mariage And when they all returned they brought with them twelue Instruments sealed with the publike Seales of so many of the Vniuersities and also the opinions of sundry great and famous learned men The Kings mariage iudged vnlawfull by all which it appeared that they agreed and consented in one that the Kings mariage with his Brothers wife was vtterly voyde and contrary to the lawes of God and man notwithstanding the dispensation of the Pope The King sent those Instruments vnto the Queene desiring to be satisfied from her whether she would yeeld her consent to the Diuorce or no for the quieting of the Kings conscience to referre it to foure Prelates and foure temporall Lords The Queene thereunto made a long graue noble and patient answer positiuely concluding she would not submit her selfe to any course therein vntill the Court of Rome which was priuie to the beginning had made there a determination and finall end the King hauing seuerall times formerly sent vnto the Pope had beene long delayed seeing no likelihood of an end resolued no longer to wait in his attendance on the Court of Rome went roundly and resolutely on in another course summons a Parliament there shewing the twelue Instruments from the seuerall Vniuersities The Kings Diuorce by act of Parliament an Act passed and his mariage with the Lady Katherine was dissolued and made voide a sentence of Diuorce pronounced

pounds The ioyncture and aduancement assured by the King of Scotland was two thousand pounds a yeare after King Iames his death one thousand pounds a yeare in present for the Ladies maintenance This to be set forth in lands of the best and most certaine Reuenue The King as it is reported A question proposed by the Lords of the Counsell before this Match was concluded proposed it to his Councell and amongst them it was debated some of the Table in the Freedome of Councellours the King being present did put the case that if God should take away the Kings two Sonnes without issue that then the kingdome of England would fall vnto the King of Scotland The. Kings Reply which might preiudise the Monarchie of England whereunto the King himselfe replyed that if that should be Scotland would be but an accession to England and not England to Scotland for that the greater would draw the lesse and that it was a safer Vnion for England then that of France This passed as an Oracle and silenced those that moued the question This was a kinde of diuine and propheticall proposition made by the Lords of the Councell and so accordingly answered by the King so that the said Iames the fourth King of Scotland had issue by the Lady Margaret Iames the Fift The Kings Discent and he had issue Queene Mary she had issue our now Soueraigne so that he is great Grandchilde of Margaret eldest Daughter to Henry the Seauenth Now seeing I haue gone thus farre in matters of Mariage contrary to my intent as not to haue medled with any but those of Spaine I will now goe through by way of touch rather then by ample discourse of the mariage of the last and indeed of all the Daughters and children of King Henry the Seauenth Henry the Seauenth contracteth Mary his youngest Daughter to the Emperor and the rather for that it was the last act that concluded his temporall felicitie which was the conclusion of a glorious match betweene his Daughter Mary and Charles Princes of Castyle afterwards the great Emperour both being of tender yeares which treatie was perfected by Bishop Foxe Henry the Seauenth dying the Mariage tooke not effect and others his Commissioners at Calice But by reason the King about some yeare after died that mariage did not take effect Mary King Henryes youngest Daughter married to the King of France Afterwards to the Duke of Suffolke she was afterwards maried to the King of France who being aged shortly after died had no issue by her King Henry the Eight her brother sent ouer into France Charles Brandon Duke of Suffolke to fetch her from thence who maried her and by him she had issue the farther particulars in those affaires I leaue the readers to the perusall of the workes of many Writers Stowe Holland Speede. that haue written the same at large For Henry the Seauenth I will conclude being he himselfe by the generall concluder of all was concluded Only this he had the fotune of a true Christian aswell as of a great King ●ote in liuing exercised and dying repentant his happinesse was much the more as when he left the world was in great felicitie being as it were at the top of all worldly blisse in regard of the high mariages of his Children his great renowne throughout Europe his great Riches and the perpetuall constancie of his prosperous successes all which were some way a shadow and vaile that it did not so euidently appeare as otherwise it would in what obloquie of the people he notwithstanding liued So that death to him was wonderfull opportune to withdrawe and preserue him from any future blow of Fortune which in all likelyhood would haue fallen vpon him in regard of the great hatred of his people and the Title of his Sonne being then come to eighteene yeares of age and being a bold Prince and liberall gained vpon the people by his very aspect and presence The King according to the contract made by his Father King Henry the 8. married the Lady Katherine his brothers widdow married his Brother Prince Arthurs Widow The secret prouidence of God ordaining that Mariage to be the cause of great euents and changes our Writers doe not lay it to the Ladies charge that she in her particuler ministered any occasion thereof The storie of the Kings life more or otherwise then it shall concerne the diuorce the Ladies life and conuersation I will not here meddle many haue written of him at large but the lesse is the more for his commendation Queene Katherine liued twenty years with the King When this Lady had liued aboue twenty yeares with the King as a vertuous and loyall Wife Cardinall Wolsey we finde had a great part in this play whose discent Pollidor Vigill relateth Parentem habuit virum probum at lanium had an honest man to his Father but a Butcher then for the particular story of his life more then shall concerne this affaire I leaue the Readers to many other Authors that haue written the same at large but in briefe he was intollerable wicked pompous and magnificent and according to the fate commonly of such men his end was infamous and infortunate vpon some priuate grudge he bore to Queene Katherine partly to be reuenged thereby vpon her Nephew the Emperour because he would not make him Pope as secretly he had requested him and partly because often-times in a most secret louing and gentle fashion she had admonished and warned him of his couetousnesse tyranny of his extortions oppressions of his pride and licentious course of life such men when they are told of those things being eminent and powerfull vsually will extend it to the highest to execute their malice which Wolsey so did towards the Queene as it afterwards fell out to bee apparant that to the King in priuate hee had cast some scruples with some subtle disputations concerning the lawfulnesse and nullitie of the Kings mariage who hauing as it seemed a desire to change as by his hauing so many Wiues afterwards it was somewhat probable made a great shew and expressure to the world that he began to be tender ouer his conscience and prouident to establish the true succession of the kingdome in a lawfull heire strucke so great an impression into him and so busied his cogitations and thoughts that a religious sorrow began to seaze vpon him and to auoide the continuance in that incestuous sinne vntill by a iudiciall sentence the doubts were cleered he refrained from the Queenes bed and the Cardinall to make himselfe more great then he was procured a Commission from the Pope to be directed to him and to his ancient brother Cardinall Campeius that before them as supreme Iudges that question by legall processe and proceedings might be heard debated on and censured according to the lawes of God These two Legates hauing receiued their Commission informeth the Queene of their authoritie and