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A19619 The copie of a letter to the Right Honourable the Earle of Leycester, Lieutenant generall of all her Maiesties forces in the vnited Prouinces of the lowe Countreys written before, but deliuered at his returne from thence: vvith a report of certeine petitions and declarations made to the Queenes Maiestie at two seuerall times, from all the lordes and commons lately assembled in Parliament. And her Maiesties answeres thereunto by her selfe deliuered, though not expressed by the reporter with such grace and life, as the same were vttered by her Maiestie. Salisbury, Robert Cecil, Earl of, 1563-1612.; Crompton, Richard, fl. 1573-1599, attributed name.; Elizabeth I, Queen of England, 1533-1603. 1586 (1586) STC 6052; ESTC S109079 14,965 38

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the Iudges haue not deceiued me or that the books you brought me were not false which God forbid I might as iustly haue tried her by the ancient Lawes of the land But you Lawyers are so nice in sifting and skanning euery woorde and letter that many times you stand more vpon forme then matter vpon sillables then sence of the Lawe For in the strictnes and exact folowing of common forme shee must haue beene indited in Stafford Shire haue holden vp her hand at the Barre and bene tried by a Iurie A proper course forsooth to deale in that manner with one of her Estate I thought it better therfore for auoiding of these and more absurdities to commit the cause to the inquisition of a good nomber of the greatest and most noble personages of this Realme of the Iudges and others of good accompt whose sentence I must approoue And all litle enough For we Princes I tel you are set on stages in the sight and viewe of all the world duely obserued The eies of many beholde our actions A spot is soone spied in our garments A blemish quickely noted in our doings It behooueth vs therefore to be carefull that our proceedings bee iust and honourable But I must tell you one thing more that in this last Acte of Parliament you haue brought me to a narowe straight that I must giue direction for her death which cannot be to mee but a most grieuous and irkesome burthen And least you might mistake mine absence from this Parliament which I had almost forgotten although there be no cause why I should willingly come amongst multitudes for that amongest many some may be euil yet hath it not bene the doubt of any such daunger or occasion that kept me from thence but onely the great griefe to heare this cause spoken of especially that such a one of State and kin should neede so open a declaration that this nation should be so spotted with blots of disloialtie Wherein the lesse is my grief for that I hope the better part is mine and those of the worse not much to be accompted of for that in seeking my destruction they might haue spoiled their owne soules And euen nowe coulde I tell you that which woulde make you sorie It is a secrete and yet I will tell it you although it is knowen I haue the propertie to keepe counsell but too well oftentimes to mine owne perill It is not long since mine eyes did see it written that an othe was taken within fewe daies either to kill mee or to be hanged themselues that to be performed ere one moneth were ended Hereby I see your danger in me and neither can nor wil be so vnthankfull or carelesse of your consciences as not prouide for your safetie I am not vnmindeful of your oth made in the association manifesting your great goodwils affectiōs taken and entred into vpon good conscience true knowledge of the guilt for safety of my person conseruation of my life done I protest to God before I heard it or euer thought of such a matter vntil a great nomber of handes with many Obligations were shewed mee at Hampton Court signed and subscribed with the names and seales of the greatest of this lande which as I doe acknowledge as a perfect argument of your true heartes and great zeale to my safetie so shall my bonde be stronger tied to greater care for all your good But for as much as this matter is rare waightie and of great consequence I thinke you doe not looke for any present Resolution the rather for that as it is not my manner in matters of far lesse moment to giue speedy answer without due consideration so in this of such importance I thinke it verie requisite with earnest Prayer to beseech his diuine Maiestie so to illuminate my vnderstanding and inspire me with his grace as I may doe and determine that which shall serue to the establishment of his Church preseruation of your estates and prosperitie of this commō wealth vnder my charge Wherein for that I knowe delaie is dangerous you shal haue with all conueniencie our Resolution deliuered by our message And what euer any Prince may merite of their Subiects for their approoued testimonie of their vnfained sinceritie eyther by gouerning iustly voide of all partialitie or sufferance of any iniuries done euen to the poorest that doe I assuredly promise inuiolablie to performe for requitall of your so many desertes ❧ The occasions of the second accesse This Answere thus made by her Maiestie the Lords and Commons were dismissed And then her Highnesse some fewe dayes after vpon deliberation had of this Petition being as it appeared of her mercifull disposition of nature and her Princely magnanimitie in some conflict with her selfe what to doe in a cause so weightie and important to her and the Realme sent by the Lorde Chauncelour as I heard and by the mouth of an Honorable person and a right worthy member of the lower house this message to both houses mouing and earnestly charging them to enter into a further consideration whether there might not be some other way of remedy then that they had already required so farre disagreeing from her owne naturall inclination Whereupon the Lords and Commons in either houses assembled had sundry consultations both in their seuerall houses generally and by priuate Committees deputed specially and after conference had betwixt the sayd Committees it was resolued with vnanimitie of consent amongst them in the lower house and by vniuersall concorde in the vpper house the question there propounded to euery one of the Lords that there could be found no other sound and assured meane in the depth of their vnderstanding for the continuance of the Christian religion quiet of the Realme and safetie of her Maiesties most Royall person then that which was conteined in their former petition The reasons whereof were summarily these that followe which are more shortly reported then they were vttered A BRIEFE REPORT OF the second accesse the 24. of Nouember 1586. and of the answere made in the name of the Lords of Parliament to a message sent from hir MAIESTIE by the L. Chauncelour after hir first answere THE Lord Chauncelour accompanied with aboue fiue or sixe and twentie Lords of Parliament came before her Highnes in her Chamber of presence to deliuer the resolutiō of all the Lords of Parliament concerning a message which he had not long before deliuered from her Maiestie for further cōsultation whether any other meanes could be thought of or found out by any of thē how the Scottish Queenes life might be spared and yet her Maiesties person saued out of perill and the state of the Realme preserued in quiet declared that according to that he had receiued in commandement from her Maiestie he had imparted the same to the Lordes assembled in the vpper house whome he found by their generall silence much amazed at the propounding thereof considering the same had
mone were strange and rare for I suppose you shal finde fewe that for their owne particular will comber you with such a care Yet such I protest hath bene my greedy desire and hungrie will that of your consultation might haue fallen out some other meanes to woorke my safetie ioyned with your assurance then that for which you are become such earnest sutors as I protest I must needes vse complaint though not of you but vnto you and of the cause for that I do perceiue by your aduises prayers and desires there falleth out this accident that Onely my Iniuerers bane must be my lifes suertie But if any there liue so wicked of nature to suppose that I prolonged this time onely proforma to the intent to make a shew of clemencie thereby to set my prayses to be wyer drawers to lengthen them the more they doe me so great a wrong as they can hardly recompence Or if any person there be that thinke or imagine that the least vayneglorious thought hath drawen mee further herein they doe me as open iniurie as euer was done to any liuing creature as he that is the maker of all thoughtes knoweth best to be true Or if there bee any that thinke that the Lords appoynted in Commission durst do no other as fearing thereby to displease or els to be suspected to be of a contrary opinion to my safetie they doe but heape vpon me iniurious conceites For either those put in trust by me to supplie my place haue not haue signified vnto you all that my desire was that euery one should do according to his conscience in the course of his proceedings should enioy both freedome of voyce libertie of opinion what they would not onely declare they might priuately to my selfe haue reuealed It was of a willing minde great desire I had that some other means might be found out wherein I should haue taken more comfort then in any other thing vnder the Sunne And since nowe it is resolued that my suretie can not bee established without a Princesse ende I haue iust cause to complaine that I who haue in my time pardoned so many Rebels winked at so many treasons and either not produced them or altogether slipt them ouer with silence shoulde nowe be forced to this proceeding against such a persō I haue besides during my reigne seene and heard many opprobrious bookes and Pamphlets against me my Realme and State accusing me to be a Tyrant I thanke them for their almes I beleeue therein their meaning was to tell me newes and newes it is to me in deede I would it were as strange to heare of their impietie What will they not now say when it shal be spread That for the safety of her life a Mayden Queene could be content to spill the blood euen of her owne kinsewoman I may therfore ful wel complaine that any man should thinke mee giuen to crueltie whereof I am so guiltlesse and innocent as I should slaunder God if I should say he gaue me so vile a minde yea I protest I am so farre from it that for mine owne life I would not touche her neither hath my care bene so much bent howe to prolong mine as how to preserue both which I am right sory is made so hard yea so impossible I am not so voide of iudgement as not to see mine owne perill nor yet so ignorant as not to knowe it were in nature a foolish course to cherish a sworde to cutte mine owne throate nor so carelesse as not to weigh that my life dayly is in hazard but this I do consider that many a man would put his life in daunger for the safegarde of a King I doe not say that so will I but I pray you thinke that I haue thought vpon it But sith so many haue both written and spoken against mee I pray you giue me leaue to say somewhat for my selfe and before you returne to your countries let you know for what a one you haue passed so careful thoughts Wherin as I thinke my selfe infinitely beholding vnto you al that seeke to preserue my life by al the meanes you may so I protest vnto you that there liueth no Prince that euer shall be more mindefull to requite so good desertes And as I perceyue you haue kept your olde wonts in a general seeking of the lengthning of my dayes so am I sure that I shall neuer requite it vnles I had as many liues as you all but for euer I will acknowledge it while there is any breath left mee Although I may not iustifie but may iustly condemne my sundry faults and sinnes to God yet for my care in this gouernment let me acquaynt you with my intents When first I tooke the Scepter my title made me not forget the giuer and therefore began as it became me with such religion as both I was borne in bred in I trust shal die in Although I was not so simple as not to know what danger and perill so great an alteration might procure me howe many great Princes of the contrary opinion woulde attempt all they might against me and generally what enimitie I should breede vnto my selfe which all I regarded not knowing that he for whose sake I did it might and would defend me For which it is that euer since I haue bene so daungerously prosecuted as I rather maruaile that I am then muse that I should not be if it were not Gods holy hand that continueth me beyond all other expectation Then entred I further into the schoole of experience bethinking what it fitted a King to do and there I saw he scant was wel furnished if either he lacked Iustice Temperance Magnanimitie or Iudgement As for the two latter I wil not boaste my sexe doeth not permit it But for the two first this dare I say Amōgst my subiects I neuer knew a difference of person where right was one Nor neuer to my knowledge preferred for fauour whome I thought not fit for worth Nor bent my eares to credite a tale that first was tolde me Nor was so rash to corrupt my iudgement with my censure before I heard the cause I wil not say but many reports might fortune be brought mee by such as might heare the case whose partialitie might marre sometime the matter For wee Princes may not heare all our selues But this dare I boldly affirme My verdit went euer with the trueth of my knowledge As ful well wished Alcibiades his friende that hee should not giue any answere till he had recited the letters of the Alphabet so haue I not vsed ouer sudden resolutions in matters that haue touched me full neere you wil say that with me I thinke And therfore as touching your counsels and consultations I conceiue them to bee wise honest and conscionable so prouident and careful for the safetie of my life which I wish no longer then may be for your good that though I neuer can yeeld you of recompence your due yet shall I endeuour my selfe to giue you cause to thinke your good wil not ill bestowed striue to make my selfe worthy for such subiects And now for your petition I shal pray you for this present to content your selues with an answere without answere Your iudgement I condēne not neither do I mistake your reasons but pray you to accept my thankfulnesse excuse my doutefulnesse and take is good part my answere answerelesse wherein I attribute not so much to mine owne iudtgemēt but that I thinke many particular persōs may go before me though by my degree I go before them Therefore if I should say I would not doe what you request it might peraduenture be more then I thought and to say I would do it might perhaps breed perill of that you labour to preserue being more then in your owne wisdomes and discretions would seeme cōuenient circumstances of place and time being duely considered HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE DIEV ET MON DROIT Imprinted at London by Christopher Barker Printer to the Queenes most excellent Maiestie 1586.