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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

Iane Seymor and then declared the Ladie Elizabeth to be illegitimate Thus word by word this Protestant historian Then by this such like proceedings as first bringing the cleargie into danger of Premunire threats importunities and such practises as these Protestants tel vs Parker Stow Hollinshed Theater vt supr procuring the title of Supremacie to himselfe in matters ecclesiasticall This Protestant antiquarie thus proceedeth in this Kings proceedings The king obtained the Ecclesiasticall supremacie into his particular possession and therewithal had power giuen him by parlament to suruey reforme the abuses of al Religious houses parsons But the King because he would go the next way to worke ouerthrew them and razed them Whereat many the Peeres and common people murmured because they expected that the abuses should haue bene onely reformed and the rest haue still remained The general plausible proiect which caused the Parlaments consent vnto the reformation or alteration of the Monasteries was that the Kings exchequer should for euer be enriched the Kingdome and nobilitie strengthened and encreased and the common subiectes acquitted and freed from all former seruices and taxes to witte that the Abbots Monkes Friers and Nunnes being suppressed that then in their places should be created fourty Earles threescore Barons and three thousand Knights and fourtie thousand souldiers with skilfull captaines and competent maintenance for them for euer out of the antient church-reuenewes so as in so doing the King and his successors should neuer want of treasure of their owne nor haue cause to be beholding to the common subiect neither should the people be any more charged with loanes subsidies and fifteenes since which time there haue bene more statute laws subsidies and fifteenes then in fiue hundred yeares before and not long after that the King had subsidies granted and borrowed great sommes of money and dyed in debt and the forenamed religious houses were vtterly ruinate whereat the cleargy peeres and coÌ„mon people were all sore grieued but could not helpe it He also supprest the knights of the Rhodes and many faire hospitals This was done after the king was diuorced from Catherine of Spaine his first wife He began his raigne prodigally reigned rigorously liued proudly and dyed distemperatly Through feare and terrour he obtained an acte of Parlament to dispose of the right of successioÌ„ in the Crowne and then by his last will and testament contrary to the law of God and nature conueyes it from the lawful heyres of his eldest Sister marryed to the king of Scotland vnto the heires of Charles Brandon and others thereby to haue defeated preuented and suppressed the vnquestionable and immediate right from God of our gratious Soueraigne king Iames. At his death he was much perplexed and spake many things to great purpose but being inconstant in his life none durst trust him at his death Thus your Protestant historian hath described this first protestant supreame head of the church in England They that desire more knowledge of him may resort to his owne statutes the Protestant Theater of Britanie Sir Walter Raleigh his preface to his historie of the world and a booke of the tyrants of the world published by the Protestants of Basile where they may find him a supreame head among them statut Henr. 8. ab an Regni 21. Theater of Brit. in Henr. 8. Walter Ral. histor of the world praef lib. of Tyran Basil And his ghostly father Cranmer his chiefe instrumeÌ„t in those moste execrable sinnes for a Cleargie man was not inferiour vnto him Hee was as your first protestantly ordained Archbishoppe Parker in his life with others witnesseth both the mooued and moouing instrument of this king in this and many other his wicked designements Hee was of all the Religions of King Henry the 8. Edward the 6. He diuers times swore to the Pope and was forsworne Hee swore to King Henry the 8. and was forsworne when he swore otherwise to king Edward his sonne and was publickly prooued a periured man he was a chiefe executor of king Henrie the 8. his will and within 24. houres of his death a chiefe breaker thereof He was a continued felon vnto him in his life married against his lawes making it felony in such men hee was for chastitie to my reading the first last and onely trigamus a Bishoppe husband of three wiues in the world He counterfeited the hands and seales of 50. conuocation men and among the rest of the blessed martyr Bishop Fisher He gaue chiefe consent and swore that Edwarde the 6. a childe of nine yeares old was supreame head of the Church had al iurisdiction spiritual in himselfe Parker antiq Britan. in Cranmer Foxe tom 2. in Cranmer Stow histor in Har. 8. Holinsh. Hist of Engl. ibid. Theater of great Britanie in K. Henr. Godwyne Catalogue of Bishops in Canterburie in Tho. Cranmer Stow Holinsh Theater Foxe and others in Q. Marie and Edw. the 6. Harpesfield in the life of B. Fisher and all that Cranmar had he receaued from him yea your Protestants witnesse by the Protestant Confessions themselues of Heluetia Bohemia Belgia Augusta Wittenberge and Swe that boyes could not take or giue such power Th. Rogers pag. 140. artic 23. Confess Heluet Bohem. Belg. August Wittenb c. If any thing now controuersied defended sworne vnto can make a man an heretike CraÌ„mar professing and swearing vnto them all was an hereticke and traytor to God If conspiracie open hostilitie and rebellion to his true and lawfull prince Queene Marie doth make a man a traytor to his Soueraigne If to be hissed in the publicke schooles of Oxford in publike disputation after all these changes doth conuince a man vndertaking so many matters to be a man vnworthie and ignorant If to recant heresie fall to it againe putteth a man in case of relapse of heresie all these thinges be written of this Archbishop Archactor Architector Arch-hereticke Arch-traytor Arch-periured prophane wretch of your Religion by your owne writers here cited and were publickly to the eternal infamie of that vnhappie and gracelesse man and his followers therein prooued against him Therefore although King Henry the eight did rather differ from the Church of Rome in matter of Iurisdiction spiritual by his claymed Supremacie as your protestants testifie and his lawes are witnesses Stow histor in Henr. 8. Holinsh and Theator ibid. statut of K. Henrie 8. c. theÌ„ any way in matter of doctrine Catholiks cannot in conscience by your Protestants ioyne either with him or you therein beeing the first as they haue assured vs that euer claymed it in this kingdome and procuring it in so vile vnlawful maner as your historians haue declared and practizing it to his wanton and ambitious ende against his owne conscience For al the foundatioÌ„s of our Religious houses being pro remedio animaruÌ„ to say Masse pray for their posteritie for euer For the honor of God the most blessed Virgin and other Saints as all our

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 proportioÌ„ 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 froÌ„ 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 idipsuÌ„ 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 satisfactioÌ„ 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 heaueÌ„ly court froÌ„ whence the irreuocable law is proceeded with great terror published Woe to theÌ„ that make vniust lawes and writing haue written iniustice that in iudgemeÌ„t 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 frieÌ„ds the Catholike RecusaÌ„ts of this realme of EnglaÌ„d 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 coÌ„spiracie 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 instructioÌ„ 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 coÌ„spiring or priuie to that or any such wâ—ked designement but the very remeÌ„brance that any such enterprise should be intended or deuised by any maÌ„ 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 meÌ„ 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 traÌ„sgression 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 excelleÌ„t 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 theÌ„ 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 reformatioÌ„ 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 Britâ—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 parlameÌ„t 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

of conscience King Iames in Parlament therefore of himselfe he did not thinke vs worthie to be persecuted or inthralled but rather lightned of those miseries as his next wordes a warrant I was so far from encreasing their burdens with Roboam as I haue so much as either time occasion or lawe could permit lightned them And in his censure against Conradus Vorstius the Dutch heretike recounting the differences betweene protestants and vs hee findeth not one for which we may be persecuted but the contrary At his comming in he set the Catholikes and Priestes at libertie gaue free pardons vnto all of them both priests and others that would sue them foorth and paye foure or fiue Nobles at the moste for them to the Lorde Chancellour In those pardons hee remitted both the guilt and danger from priesthood and much more then any of vs had transgressed in he stiled vs as our dignities discentes or callings were gentlemen priestes or of what degree dignitie or preeminence soeuer he were his belooued subiects which wordes and state are incompatible wtth the name of Treason in those pardons hee pardoned whatsoeuer could be in any rigour interpreted to be within the daunger of that Lawe both our comming into England and abyding and remayninge heere so that by pardon being dead they cannot possiblie be reuiued because the graunt is irreuocable Our comming in was but one indiuiall acte and offence in Lawe and so remitted cannot be offence our continuance and remayning so long as we doe not reiterate it againe by going foorth and comming in the second time is also but one particular singular and indiuidual action without discontinuance one ens fluens as all such not interrupted be an hower a daye a weeke a moneth a yeare a life an age and the like This all philosophie common reason whereon our common law is and must be founded teacheth vs. Thus diuers protestaÌ„t good lawyers haue answered thus his Maiestie esteemed when hearing of a priest named M. Freeman put to death for his priesthood by the Iudges of Warwicke soone after his Maiesties comming hither with signe of sorrow answered Alas poore man had he not foure nobles to buye his pardon by which he concluded that a priest being pardoned for his priesthood could not after for being a priest be put to death or tearmed a traytour or indanger his friends and receauers but was a free and lawfull true subiect from that imputation His Maiestie also allowed the times of Constantine for times of true Religion and the Roman Church then and after to be the true our mother Church and not to be departed from Then wee may not so vnder-value the learning and iudgement of our learned and Soueraigne in diuinitie and histories but he well knoweth which no learned man is ignorant of that in the time of Constantine the Church of Rome had the same holy sacrifice of Masse and the same holy sacrifycing priesthood which now it hath which I will hereafter demonstrate by the best learned protestant antiquaries of this nation as also that the Church of Rome at the reuolt of King Henry the 8. was the same in all essential things which it was in that prefixed time of Constantine And to be liberal to my needy protestant contrymen in this case I say that the Church of Rome the Religion of the Priests of England their priesthood and sacrifice of the Masse is the same which were in Rome and in this Iland also in S. Peters time in euery age without interruption since then vnto these dayes of Protestants And if we may beleeue Isaac Casaubon the stipendarie champion for the Protestants of England who saith ab ore regis accepi and haec est Religio Regis Angliae c. Isaac Casaubon contra Cardinal Peron Pag. 50.51.52 I haue it from the Kings mouth this is the Religion of the King this is the Religion of the Church of England The fathers of the Primatiue church did acknowledge one sacrifice in christian Religion that succeeded in the place of the sacrifice of Moses The sacrifice offered by Priests is Christs bodie and the same obiect and thing which the Romane Church beleeueth These and such things troubled the heads of some great Protestant persecutors in England their consciences being guiltie of some-what not good that they coulde not enduer the least clemency of his Maiestie towards his loyall and truest catholike subiects but olde stratagems and tragedies of Queene Elizabeths time must needes be renewed and playde againe to bring not only the Catholikes of England but their holy religion if possiblie it could be done into obloquie especiallie with his gratious Maiestie and thereupon an execrable and most damnable treacherie by gunpowder was to be inuented for a few wicked desperatly minded men to doe whom many protestants tearmed papists although the true Priests and Catholikes of England knew them not to bee such nor can any protestant truely say that any one of them was such a one as their lawes and proceedings against vs name Papists Popish recusants or the like What he was papist or protestant rich or poore noble or vnnoble of Courte or countrey that was inuentor of this horrible deuise I will not discusse but referre all indifferently minded men and of iudgement able to discerne the probable trueth in such a cause to the historie and circumstances thereof as they are set downe by the Protestant historian M. Ed. How 's histor of Engl. in King Iames. But to graunt to our Protestant persecutors for arguments sake that which I may not and they will as hardly proue that this wicked interprise was first inuented by Catesby and some of his consorts and that diuers of them were papists and had acquaintance with the chiefe Iesuite then in England who at least in confession knew of this conspiracie did not reueale it that there were foure of this coÌ„panie arraigned for the conspiracie three gentlemeÌ„ though two of these Fauxe and Keyes were but seruing men as the fourth Thomas Bates styled yeomaÌ„ that one Knight and three Esquires concealed it of which the Knight was so ignorant that as the Protestant relator of this matter saith at his death he spake these wordes Howes supr in Sir Edward Digby If he had knowne it first to haue bene so fowle a treason he would not haue concealed it to haue gayned a world Which he could not haue truely said if he had knowne it in particular in it selfe a most horrible damnable thing and the rest as this author writeth dyed penitent and besought all Catholikes neuer to attempt such a bloodie acte being a course which God did neuer fauour nor prosper Those that were vp in tumult with Catesby were as the Protestants relateth Howes supr neuer full fourscore strong besides many of their houshold seruants no doubt papists if their maisters were so forsooke them how erlie yet they diuulged many detestable vntruths against the king state

omitting no scandal which they thought might serue their traiterous purpose that they were assembled and prepared to some special seruice for the aduancement of the catholike cause hoping thereby to haue drawne into their rebellion those of that religion other wilful malecontents And to make euident it was rather a madde desperat attempt of one priuate kindred or acquaintance then of any religion Thus it is creedibly recounted by them that knew their discents for I was a stranger to them all Catesby and Tresham were sisters children the two Graunts brethren and the elder intermarryed with Winters sister calling his eldest sonne Winter Graunt the Winters Grandmother was sister to the GraÌ„dmother of Catesby Treshame and so they were kinsmen Yorke and the Winters sisters children by the Englebies the two Wrytes long time dependers of Catesby and their sister married to Percy Catesby Tresham T. Winter two Wrights and Graunt were in Essex rebellion All these were yong except Percy who gaue the Pistoll to his Maister the olde Earle of Northumberland in the Tower And if any of these were Catholikes or so dyed they were knowne Protestants not long before and neuer frequenters of Catholike Sacramentes with any Priest as I could euer learne as all the Protestant courts will witnesse not one of them a conuicted or knowne Catholike or recusant And of all these remembred of that conspiracie or acquainted with it the L. Mounteagle now L. Morley who disclosed it was most noted to be a Catholike as his Ladie and ChildreÌ„ were Therefore seeing as the Protestants haue testified no Catholikes could by any deuise be drawne into this matter not one among so many hundreth or thousands of knowne Catholikes priuie vnto it but detesting it when it was knowne the Archpriest by writing condemning it presently when he vnderstood it all his Priests abhorring it euery one of theÌ„ with the Archpriests warrant and the consent of the chiefest Catholikes in England and all they in their petitions hereafter condemning it for a most horrible offence Archpriest letter of prohibit Author of moderat answ epist dedicat to the king Catholiks petitions to the parlament and chiefe Secretary And not one either Prieste or knowne Catholike with all those strickt and diligent searches and examinations then made by the protestant state about it was either prooued or probablie suspected to be guiltie of it but so farre freede that the Lords of the Councel requested that a Priest should be appoynted to perswade and assure Fauxe a chiefe agent in it that he was bound in conscience to vtter what he could of that conspiracie and M. Tho. Write a learned Priest did hereupon come to the councell and offer his best seruice herein and had a warrant to that purpose subsigned with 12. priuie Councellors hands which he shewed vnto me and I am witnesse of his hauing such a warrant But as he said Fauxe had confessed all they could wish before he could come vnto him so that no man of conscience can or will thinke but generally al the Priestes and Catholikes of England did rather deserue fauour honour and enfranchisement from all afflictions for their moste religious and holy seruing of God and as loyal obedient and dutiful trueth alleageance and fidelitie to our protestant King and countrey then the least disfauour for this practise For if the Priestes and Catholikes so manie thousands in England would haue entertayned it no man can be so malicious and simple to thinke but there would haue bene a greater assemblie then fourescore to take such an action in hand and the councell could not be so winking eyed but they would haue found foorth some one or other culpable which they could neuer doe though some of them most powreable in it tentered and racked forth their enuie and hatred against vs to the vttermost limites they could extend To confirme this our innocencie the kings Maiestie in his second proclamation against that wickednesse calleth all the confederates men of lewde insolent disposition and for the most part of desperate estate Proclamat 2. against Percy c. an 1605. and in his third Proclamation when they were all discouered and knowne thus he proclaimeth and publisheth Procl 3. an eod 1605. It appeareth now in part who were the complices in this detestable Treason published by our former proclamations in their assembling together to mooue our people to rebellion although perhaps many of them did neuer vnderstande the secrete of his Percies abhominable purpose Where wee plainely see that the King and his counsell then knew the complices and partakers of that villanie yet they neuer taxed any Priest or knowne catholike therewith And it further proueth that they which ioyned therein knew not the practise in particular neither durst the workers of it disclose it to theÌ„ least for the vilenes of it they would haue reiected or reuealed it as al true Catholiks would haue done And his Maiestie in publicke parlament doth free Catholikes as much as Protestants in this inuention when hee plainelie saith as trueth is if it had taken effect Protestants and Papists should haue all gone awaye and perished together Kings speath parl an 1605. And to demonstrate from his maiesties publike acte that Priestes and catholikes were as innocent as Protestants and as the Kings Maiestie himselfe of this and all such vilenesse hee declareth by Proclamation Proclamat die 7. Nouembr an 1605 We are by good experience so well perswaded of the loyaltie of diuers subiectes of the Romane religion that they doe as much abhorre this detestable conspiracie as our selfe and will be readie to doe their best endeauours though with expence of their blood to suppresse al attempters against our safetie and the quiet of our estate to discouer whomsoeuer they shall suspect to be of rebellious or trayterous disposition Thus his maiestie by good experience hath publickly pronounced And though I am no Iesuit yet religioÌ„ iustice charitie draw my pen to write thus much for the supposed guiltines of M. Garnet superior of Iesuits here at that time we haue but the protestants affirmation and him denying it and we haue from the same protestants that which rather iustifyeth his denial then their affirmatioÌ„ for they published his examination before the Councell wherein they set downe his opinion H. Garnets examination before the Councel anno 1605. That the Pope could not depose the king and they adde his reason thus because the King was neuer subiect to the Pope which reason I doe not examine but thus iustifie that if in his opinion the pope could not depose the king and the king was neuer subiect to the pope then the pope could not licence any man supposed a Catholike so to proceed for himselfe could not by this his opinion so doe much lesse any papist by his allowance and if the king was neuer subiect to the pope he could neuer be subiect to any papist the popes and his owne subiect And whereas

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