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A02479	An oration conteyning an expostulation as well with the Queenes Highnesse faithfull subiects for their want of due consideration of Gods blessings enioyed by meanes of her Maiestie: as also with the vnnaturall english for their disloyaltie and vnkindnesse towards the same their soueraygne. At the first pronounced vpon the Queenes Maiesties birthday in the Guyldhall of the burrowe of Newe Windsore, by Edward Hake of Grayes Inne Gent. then Mayer of the same burrowe: and now newly imprinted this xvij. day of Nouember, in the xxx. yeere of the Queenes Highnesse most happie raigne.	Hake, Edward, fl. 1560-1604.	1587 (1587)	STC 12608; ESTC S103614	19,433	32

afore Nay if we Englishmen in the viewe therof shall be able to saye vnto our selues that not with any Nation vnder the Cope of heauen at this daye God hath so delt as with vs good Lorde what should folowe hereupon but that our very soules shoulde breake forth with thankesgiuing and our hartes bee for euer resolued to continewe and resounde his prayses to the ende of our liues yea if we coulde as we hope we shall without ending But what shall I beginne with Where there hath kin no stinte nor measure of receiuing how can there be any entrance or choyse of begining If to sette forth the ioye I should first beginne with the sorowe that ouerwhelmed the face of this Land If to sette forth the blessing I should beginne as I may say with the curse that before did threaten vs. Or if to descipher the good thinges that this our Elizabeth our souueraigne brought with her to the Crowne of England I should first delyuer vnto you what Seas of miseries possessed and wel neere ouerflowed this little but moste noble Ilande As both these I muste needes saye in opposition were not vnneedfull to bee spoken of so yet leaste the dilating of the one might be cause of the abridging of the other I will for the helpe of a iust proportion in the one of these namely in the Churches persecution praye in ayde of the moste famous Historiographer of our tyme who briefly handling the miseries that imediatly preceded the raigne of our souueraigne after this sorte compendiously reporteth them Now sayeth he after these so great afflictions falling vppon this Realme from the firste beginninge of Queene Maryes raigne wherein so many men women and Children were burned so many imprisoned and in prison starued dyuers exiled some spoyled of goodes and possessions a great number dryuen from howse and home so many weeping eyes so many sobbing hartes so many Children made fatherlesse so many fathers bereft of their wiues and Children so many vexed in Conseyence and diu●rs against Conscience constrayned to recante and in conclusion neuer a good man almoste but suffred something during the tyme of this bloody persecution After all this sayeth the Historien there was reste to the persecuted members of Christe Thus you see one waye what an heape and generall deluge of wofull miseries had pitifully ouertaken naye rather ouerwhelmed a chief portion of this Realme of England I meane the Churche of England Religion defaced Godlynes hated Truth oppressed Trew professors persecuted Persecutiō blody To be shorte none spared all pursued euen to the death in whome there was any Conscyence of the Faythe or regarde of holy profession And as it fared with the Churche of England so alas it fared with the common wealth of Englande The lande possessed of straungers those straungers most turbulent most prowde moste insolent most aspyring and as Englande and the bordering peoples about vs at this daye haue cause to saye nay rather by their lamentable experience to complaine straungers moste cruell moste blodie most vnsufferable as by whome the sweete peace of this Realme was so interrupted so mangled so defaced that besides the daylie and continual threatened tumultes at home our welth of England the men of England the munition and forces of England were wholy imploied nay constrayned to wait vpon the wars I say vpon the vnnecessary warres of these so daungerous strangers yea to be wasted and consumed euen about the quarelles and ambytions of these so pernytious guests so that trulie it was then and is yet to bee affirmed that Englande whiche at that tyme had no cause of warres or breach of league with other Nations was enforced or rather violentlie haled to beare armes against them euen against Fraunce if I may speake it for the ambytious seruice of Spayne And whiles these thinges were thus sorted whiles men money munition and Armour were in this wise expended what was the sequel thereof I pray you what was the prosperity and successe of the same Caleys was loste Caleys the Kaye of England Caleys the very Doore and passage into France Caleys the honour of this Realme and the ouerlooker of the french Nation with the welth and habundance of England which 216. yeares togither had bine in the quiet possession of England I saye Caleys with all this altogither all at one instant at the least with in the compasse of iiij daies was miserablie lost and vtterly forgone To conclude Caleys being lost what ensewed thereupon After the losse of Caleys the losse of all securitie and freedome the losse of all prosperity and welfare came russhing vpon this lyttle Iland euen as it had bine an armed man vpon him that is naked and despoyled of comfort Such Impositions suche loanes such taxes newe Inuentions and deuises to drawe away the remaynder of the perticuler welth of Englande the common Treasury thereof being wholly exhausted and consumed to the maintenaunce of the vnprosperous warres of Kinge Philippe as surely if you will but looke into the Chronicles of that tyme you shall see and saye that if God of his myraculous and extraordinary power and great mercy had not shortened those dayes there had wanted verie lyttle of vtter desolation to this our Countrey this I saye our auntient and florishing Country of England then euen then at the instant to fall into such miserable seruitude and bondage as all those Countreyes are oppressed with all that in times past haue bine famous Kingdomes and other florishing estates and are now languishing and spoyled Prouinces subdued to the thraldome of the Spanyards But of all that euer happened or which in those dayes was deuised suffred or neglected against the safety of this Realme there was neuer mischief so desperat or Treason so vile or villany so greate or so deepe as was the platte purpose and intention to make away and destroye the sacred persone of our Elizabeth now our happie souueraigne who then and in those dayes in that moste myserable and perillous tyme was reckened and accompted as spes alit miseros the onely creatur of the earth by whom and through whom God had reserued vs any hope of restauration or comforte of recouerye to that desolation then approching This then shalbee sufficient for the former parte of my present purpose namely to haue touched vnto you after a plaine and brief manner what miseries what troubles and pitifull calamities occupied the whole state of this Realme both Churche and Comon welth at such tyme as our moste gratious soueraigne her Maistie that now is tooke vppon her the possession of the Crowne thereof at such tyme I saie as God in his great mercy looked vppon vs as he did vpon the Israelites in Egipte and their Captiuities sending vnto vs in highe tyme this his holy handmayden as it were another Moses saued from the same waters of affliction that wee were plunged in to be our helper aduanced her and that by iust tytle to the Scepter and Dyadem