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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

of all degrees descended of honorable and worshipful parentage Their arraignements being onely and directly for matters of conscience as also the famine and miserable ende of diuers imprisoned the pittiful whippings the penaltie of twentie pounde a moneth by reason wherof many good and worshipful housholders their wiues and children are brought to extreame pouertie Many stand out-lawed and a number of poore soules remaine prisoners for that cause beside many other strange distressed Catholikes whose miseries heretofore not throughly knowen to your Maiestie haue bene and are disgested with mildnesse and tempered with dutifulnesse hoping that now at length our approoued patience will mooue your most tender heart to haue some pitie and compassion of vs. Moreouer moste gratious dreade soueraigne Ladie and Queene it may please your most excellent Maiestie to graunt vs the grace and fauour to heare the vnfolding of our greater and more dangerous calamitie hanging ouer our beades For as much as nothing is more often and deepely to be called to our mindes then the frailtie of men and howe apt and prone we are to all sinne and wickednesse for the staye and remedie whereof our Lord and Sauiour Iesus Christ hath instituted and left behinde him moste holy and blessed sacraments for the comfort of mankinde and hath commanded the vse of them to be continued and preached in the Catholike Church as the conduits of his grace without the which the benefits of his deare passion cannot ordinarily descende or be applyed vnto vs as by which we are receaued confirmed remitted fedde gouerned multiplyed and absolutely prepared to life euerlasting These benefites are to be valued at no lesse price to vs then they were to our forefathers who religiously esteemed the want of them more dangerous and discomfortable then death it selfe The ordinary ministers whereof are and alwaies haue bene catholike Bishops and Priests lawfully called and anoynted to that charge and spirituall authoritie whom by diuine ordinance we are bound to heare receaue and obeye with dew honour and reuerence and to seeke vnto them as to the dispensers of the mysteries of God for counsel and helpe howe to liue and die in the loue and fauour of him who hath power to cast both the body and soule of his enemies into perpetuall tormente of hell fyer In consideration of all which necessary poynts and for the humble and true purgation of our selues we doe protest before the liuing God that all and euery Priest or Priests who haue at any time conuersed with vs haue recognised your Maiestie their vndoubted and lawfull Queene Tam de iure quam de facto They speake reuerently of you They deuely pray for you they zealously exhort your subiects to obey you they religiously instruct vs to suffer patiently what authoritie shall impose on vs yet they precisely admonish vs that it is an heresy condemned by generall Councels for any subiect to lifte vp his hand against his annoynted This is their doctrine this they speake this they exhorte and if wee knowe or shall knowe in anie of them one poynt of treason or treacherous deuise or any vndecent speach or any thought iniurious to your Royall person wee doe binde our selues by oathe irreuocable to bee the first apprehenders and accusers of such If nowe most Gratious Ladie these Priestes who haue not at any time bene detected accused or charged with anie acte or deuise of treason shall offerre to continue within this your Realme and for so doing shall be adiudged traitours be it for their comming hither or continuance here or for practising or administring of the blessed Sacramentes onelye then consequently wee your faithfull and louing subiectes are like to bee capitallie touched with the same treason and wee knowe by no possible meanes how to cleare and keepe our selues from it For when the Prophets and annoynted Priests of God mooued by zeale to gayne soules doe repayre hether to distribute Spirituall comfortes according to euerie mans neede and comming to our gates to craue naturall sustenance for their hungrie and persecuted bodies promising vs also ghostlye foode and medecine for our vncleane soules What shall wee nowe doe we doe verily beleeue them to be Priestes of Gods Church wee doe certainelie knowe that they doe daylie praye for your Maiestie Their predecessoures in that calling haue ministred Baptisme and Confirmation vnto your Maiestie annoynted you Queene and ordinarily and rightlye placed you in your Royall seate as all your Maiesties ancestours haue bene O poore wormes what shall become of vs what desolatione are wee brought vnto O God of Heauens Earth and Men witnesse with vs and pleade our cause O moste lamentable condition if wee receaue them by whome we know no euill at all it shall bee deemed Treason in vs if wee doe shutte our doores and denie temporall reliefe to our Catholique Pastours in respecte of their function then are wee all alreadie iudged most damnable Traytours to Almightie God and his holie members and are moste guiltie of that curse threatned to light vpon such as refuse to comfort and harbour the Apostles and disciples of Christ saying whosoeuer shal not receaue you not heare your wordes truely it shall be easier for them of the lande of Sodome and Gomorra in the daye of iudgemente c. againste which irreprooueable sentence wee maye in noe wyse wrastle Beholde most gratious and Liege Soueraigne into what streight we are plunged be fauourable we beseech your heighnesse to the liues and soules of men it is the force of your Royall word and the protection of your large prerogatiue that can onely disperse these torments and direct vs to the calme and safe hauen of indempnity of conscience The mindes of men most heigh and royall soueraigne are vttered in their willes and their willes with affections are commonly expressed in their wordes and deedes Let our deedes throughly be examined and there shall be found harboured neither in our willes euill affects neither in our mindes disloyal thoughts Wherefore with most deepe sighes prostrate before the throne and at the feete of your Heighnes royall Maiestie we with all humilitie doe submit these our lamentable griefes And albeit that many wayes we haue bene afflicted yet this affliction following if it be not by the accustomed natural benignitie of your Maiestie suspended or taken away will light vpon vs to our extreame ruine and certaine calamitie that either we being Catholikes must liue as bodies without soules or else loose the temporal vse both of body and soule O most mighty Queene let your excellent and heauenly vertues now take their chiefe effects let your rare and incomparable wisdome enter into the consideration of these poynts and let that Orient pearle and gratious worke of nature which in your royall person hath so many wealthful yeares shined amongst vs and administred most bright and comfortable beames of grace to all men Let this vnspeakable and singular good nature of yours deare Ladie and Queene delight to worke another

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 proportiō 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 frō 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 idipsū 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 satisfactiō 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 heauēly court frō whence the irreuocable law is proceeded with great terror published Woe to thē that make vniust lawes and writing haue written iniustice that in iudgemēt 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 friēds the Catholike Recusāts of this realme of Englād 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 cōspiracie 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 instructiō 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 cōspiring or priuie to that or any such w●ked designement but the very remēbrance that any such enterprise should be intended or deuised by any mā 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

offer professe and promise as great ample true and faithful obedience loyaltie dutie to his Maiestie as though he were a Prince of our owne religion as much as any our auncestours in this Kingdome did yeelde to any his heighnes progenitors Kings and Princes thereof or as is required of Catholike subiects in other countries to their Protestant rulers or as any Protestant subiects obserue or performe to their Protestant or Catholike Soueraignes in ciuill obedience That neither vvee can offer nor his Maiestie or estate require more of vs all worlds and generations of mē Catholikes Protestants Christians Pagans whatsoeuer in this and all other Kingdomes past present and to come wil witnesse for vs. And for our sinceritie dutifull and obedient meaning herein wee appeale to all our persecutors their most strict politicke and cunning inquiries and examinations of our behauiour and carriage from time to time by which vvee stand as clearely vnspotted as irreprehensible as irreprooueable as dutiful in all ciuil respects and duties as any Protestant in this Nation Therefore Right honorable if some fewe vnhappie men of our religion haue made trāsgression of their alleageance we hope it shal be no motiue to change your graue and vnresolued minde from thinking it vndue to impose a burthen vpon innocents for the fact of the guiltie according to your owne excellēt speeche heeretofore vsed and now at this present Solum necis artifices arte perire sua And your Lordships most christian desire of one vniformitie in true religion in this kingdome bringeth no smale hope vnto vs that now at last our so-long and many times in humble maner requested petitions concerning our not comming to your churches may by your honourable mediation to his Maiestie be brought to tryall by the learned of both parties whether without committing sinne it may be done by vs which wee take to be the onely meanes to bring this kingdome to your so-much desired vniformitie in religion For if your Protestant novv assembled or best learned doctors can and doe prooue it lawfull to our learned diuines vve absolutely offer to performe it vvithout delay or further exception And may it please your Lordship to call to minde the ordinarie knowne practise of Catholikes and Protestants in France Heluetie Germanie and other countries where they communicate in ciuill societies and not in churches and spirituall communications vvhich pleadeth that our refusull is not singular but hauing ground and patronage both from Catholiques and Protestants in this point Our confidence now is that his Maiestie your honour and the state will not take this our humble and necessarie petition in euill parte considering that catholique Emperours Kings of France and other Princes haue granted the like to their Protestant subiects and this in those countries vvhere no other Religion thē the Catholique Romane Religion hath bene publicklie exercised at any time since their first conuersion from Paganisme All these petitions being presented according to their titles at that time though the two first to his Maiestie were printed and the booke after his maner answered by D. Norton a Protestant Bishoppe yet he neuer tooke notise of either of those petitions or any one sentence of them and the Parlament was as silent for that presented vnto it Onely this Secretaty was so much distasted with the gentlemen that subsigned it that hee tolde M. Anthony Skinner who presented it vnto him that if they were present he would set them all by the heeles a punishment for rogues not for men of their worth and reputation There was no other answere made to these petitions but onely this the oath was enacted and after prosecuted with such violence as the world can witnesse such accompt and regarde hath bene made of our miserie by these Protestants Whether any reformatiō may be found in the pretended reformers of religion for Catholikes to follow And first of King Henry the 8. with whome neither Catholikes nor Protestants now ioyne in Religion NOW seeing if we be in errour we cannot possible by all meanes we can work procure that the learned protestant bishops and doctors who haue controlled all the christian world in their secret assemblies will vndertake to instruct a few Priests of England but suffer in their proceedings many thousandes of Catholikes by this meanes to be tyrannized ouer both in bodies and soules let vs returne to the first founders of this religion in England The father King Henry the 8. his yong sonne and daughter and see if wee can finde any motiue in their proceedings to mooue vs from our error if we be in error And first to begin with the first the father in this new Religion and spirituall power all Protestant antiquaries Foxe Parker Stowe Holinshed Cambden Howes and the rest entreating of this matter assure vs both that King Henrie the 8. and his fit instrument Cranmer for a cleargie man were the principall and first actors in this Tragedie Foxe tom 2. in Henr. 8 and Cranmar Parker antiq Brit. in Cranm. Stow hist. in Henr. 8. Holinsh. ibi Theater of great Brit●in eod Howe 's historial praef Cambd. praef hist Eliz. c. and the occasion King Henry tooke to make his reuolt from the Church of Rome because the pope would not consent for his putting away his wife Queene Katherine that holie Ladie of Spayne For before that time king Henry was so obedient a childe to the Sea and Religion of Rome that by the pen of the blessed Bishop Fisher whom hee after put to death for denyal of his assumpted Supreamacy in his owne name he defended them against the scurrilous bookes of Martin Luther and was for that stiled by the Pope Defensor fidei defendor of the faith Henr. 8. l. cont Luther which his Maiestie King Iames still vseth by vertue of that donation One of late among the rest with greatest warrant speaking of this his first reuoult hath these wordes Hovves historicall praeface to his Hist. in Henry 8. This was done after the king was deuorced from Catherine of Spaine his first wife with whom he had liued aboue twenty yeares and by her had fiue children The cleargie nor parlamēt notwithstanding the Kings importunitie would neuer yeelde to the diuorce by reason they could not finde any iust cause The King made Cranmar Archbishop of Canterbury who was very apt and ready to performe the Kings will and he denounced the sentence of diuorce Then the King contrary to the good liking of all men marryed Anne Bulleyne by whom he had the Ladie Elizabeth And then by acte of Parlament made it treason against all men that should say the marriage was not lawful And presently after her birth he pickt a quarrell against Queene Anne and then repealed the former acte made a new acte of Parlament whereby it was enacted that it should be heigh treason for any to iustifie his former marriage to be lawfull and the next day after her behedding he marryed her hand-maid