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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A69275	A true report of the most gratious and mercifull message of Hir Most Excellent Maiestie sent by the righte honourable Sir Christopher Hatton Knight, vizchamberlaine, & one of Hir Highnesse most honourable priuie counsell, to the place where Thomas Appeltree should haue suffered for his most traitorlike action ; with such other discourse as it pleased him to vse vpon the matter at the same time, wherein nothing is added, but his onely speach verbatim, as my weake memorie would serue me to doe it.	Hatton, Christopher, Sir, 1540-1591.	1579 (1579)	STC 7602.5; ESTC S1088	4,995	13

the meanest of vs al or of any subiects should suffer the slaunder of so tyrannous or trayterous a facte yea or of the prepension or forethoughte of so horrible a treason tovvarde hir though it vvere in facte neuer executed Wherein to all our singular comfortes it pleased hir vvith most princelie affection earnestnesse graciously to affirme that neuer Prince had better nor more kinde true Subiectes God for his mercie directe vs euer to be so and vvith our due gratefulnesse to sacrifise at hir kinglie feete our bloud and lyues for hir seruice sake vvhen occasion shal call vs thereto One other thing I find hir Maiestie troubled vvith that is the sorovv this noble young Gentleman M. Henrie Carie hath suffered in continual griefe of his hart for the offence of his man vvho through the vaine ielosie of some euill dysposed persons hath lykevvise borne some sclaunder of the cause But it suffiseth to cleare him that no intent of malice nor forethought of this facte is founde in the partie himselfe His conuersation besides vvith exceeding fayth and diligence in hir highnesse seruice vvil euer deliuer him as a most acceptable Gentleman free from this and all other euil in the sight of hir Maiestie and all the vvorlde I shall not need therfore to speake of him for his cause needeth none excuse Here may you beholde the rare goodnes of our greate and gracious Mistresse full of Religion pietie Iustice and mercie Temperance and magnanimitie and that I cannot but tell you of the most constant and noble courage that euer liued the proofe vvhereof the cause hard vvherat I vvas present I leaue to your iudgements Hir Maiestie taking prospecte out of the bales of hir Barge at the very instant did see the man stroken and behelde his fall and heard as it vvere his deadly scritche vvhom she immediately commaunded to bee taken vppe and then beholding him all embrued vvith bloud commaunded his vvoundes to be lapped vp vvith a scarffe of hir ovvne and so vvith hir most constant and amiable coūtenance continued hir entertainment of the Embassadour as though there had bene no such matter Aftervvardes the man began to fainte hir highnesse then commaunded a cloke to be put on his body vvith other such necessarie reliefes as vvere there presentely to be had vvithout alteration of countenance Beholde this kinglie heart and courage of rare magnanimitie seing as it vvere the present death of the next to hir neyther feared hir ovvnelyfe nor vvas dismayed vvith this treasonable chaunce An action more than maruellous in hir sexe Hereof hovv much vve may reioyce I vvant vvit to tell you But in one vvorde hir highnesse that vvith hir singular vvisdome and policy hath preserued hir Empire these tvventie yeares in most ioyfull peace vvith this courage and magnanimitie vvill no doubt as mightily defend vs in the most cruell vvarres God therefore euer blisse hir and let vs vvith oure handes stretched vp to heauen and oure eyes fixed on the seate of God pray for hir long lyfe and moste prosperous raigne ouer vs THOMAS APPELTREE receyue thy lyfe from hir most excellent Maiestie and praye vnto God vpon thy knees for hir all thy dayes to come c. And so the people being moued to prayer for his Maiesties moste happie escape and for the blessing of God to lengthen hir dayes for many and many yeares he fell dovvne on his knees vvith greate deuotion amongst them and so departed vvith exceding ioy to the people and a thousand blessings on himselfe The people doubted of a pardon at his first speache The people maruelous attentiue to heare The cause is declared why hir Maiestie toke the water Only gods prouidence in sauing hir Maiesty from the shotte A straunge and a horrible terrour neuer hard nor seene the like in Englad before The sodaine great feare of the Lordes of the Caunsell at the heering of these terrible newes The Counsell most desirous to punishe this facte It was strāge to see the people staring in M. Vizchamberlains face some weeping at the speking of these words Here they left all both hands and eyes to heauen saying God blesse hir Maiestie god blesse hir maiestie c. Here the people with tears shewed themselues moste sorrowfull of these tragicall speaches This sodaine straunge pardon amazed the people The gretnesse of h●r Maiest●● m●●cye s●●med suche as the people betwene ioyes and sorrowes were amased A true description of mans fraile nature in seeking reuenge confirmed with examples Here hee noteth the heauenlie dispositiō of hir Maiestie far differente from the nature of man in pardonyng so gret an offence against lawe and nature See the exceding loue of a priace toward hir subiectes in excusing all accidents without anye suspition of all meaning Here all the people shouted oute Amen Amen M. Carie was master to this leud man APPELTREE and Knight Marshall for that day apoynted M. Caries cōmendation He reciteth the Queenes vertues and most worthily commendeth hir rare courage in such a pilous chance Behold hir princely stoutnesse nothing dismayed at this sodaine terror but with such care to this poore woūded man and with such countenaunce to the Embassadour that she seemed a mother to the one and a Queene to the other Hir highnesse magnanimity mingled with mercie the one most comfortable to hir subiectes and the other most terrible to hir foes An earnest exhortation to pray Here M. Viz chamberlaine kneled on his knees with all the people praysing God for hir maiesties safe ●●liuerie