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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A21201	The copie of a letter sent in to Scotlande of the arivall and landynge, and most noble marryage of ... Philippe, prynce of Spaine to the ... Princes Marye quene of England solemnisated [sic] in the citie of Winchester : and howe he was receyved ... at Windsore, and of his ... entries in ... London : whereunto is added a brefe ouerture or openyng of the legacion of the most reuerend father in God Lord Cardinall Poole ... for the reconcilement of the realme of Englande to the vnitie of the Catholyke churche : with the very copye also of the supplycaciõ exhibited to their highnesses by the three estates assembled in the parlamente, wherin they representing the whole body of the realme ... haue submitted thes̃elues to the popes holynesse.	Elder, John, fl. 1555.	1555 (1555)	STC 7552; ESTC S105462	27,175	96

whyche is the power of the keies and order in the Ecclesiastical state which is by the authoritie of gods word and examples of the Apostles and of all olde holy fathers from Christ hitherto attributed and geuen to the Apostolike Sea of Rome by speciall prerogatiue From which Sea I am here deputed Legate Ambassadour hauing full and ample commission frō thence and haue the keyes committed to my handes I confes to you that I haue the keyes not as mine owne keyes but as y e keies of him that sent me and yet cannot open not for wante of power in me to gyue but for certayne impedimentes in you to receaue whiche must be taken awaye before my commission can take effect This I protest vnto you my commyssion is not of preiudice to anye persone I cum not to destroy but to build I cum to reconcyle not to condemne I cum not to compel but to call againe I am not cum to call anything in question alredy done But my commission is of grace and clemencye to suche as will receaue it For touchinge al matters that be past they shal bee as thinges cast into the Sea of forgetfulnes But the meane wherby you shal receaue this benefit is to reuoke and repeale those lawes and statutes whiche be impedymentes blockes and barres to the execution of my cōmission For like as I my self had neyther place nor voice to speake here amonge you but was to all respectes a banished mā til such time as ye hadde repealed those lawes that laie in my way euenso can not you receaue the benifite and grace offered from the Apostolike Sea vntyll the abrogacion of suche lawes whereby you haue disioyned and disseue red your selues from the vnity of Christes Church it remaineth therfore that you lyke true Christians and prouydente men for the weale of youre soules and bodies ponder what is to be don in this so weightye a cause And so to frame youre actes and procedinges as they may tend first to the glorye of GOD and next to the conseruacion of youre cōmon wealthe suertye and quietnes This was the substaunce of my Lorde Cardinalles oration or rather his tale whiche he pronounsed in such sort as no man coulde iudge it any studyed matter but a thinge spoken Ex tempore Wherof a frende of myne beeinge a Burges of the Parliamente and presente at the same tyme toke the notes and gaue me the same in writing so as I beleue nothinge that he spake in effect is omitted And after that the assemble was broken my lord Cardinal taking leaue of the king and Quenes magesties went to hys house at Lambeth Then shortly after the foresayd thre Estates assembled agayne in the great Chamber of the Court at Westmister where the kyng and quenes magestyes and also my Lorde Cardynal being present they did exhibit syttyng al on their knees a supplicacion to their highnesses Whiche supplicacion beyng read their ma gesties exhibited the same vnto my Lorde Cardinall Whose reuerence perceyuing the effecte therof to be correspōdyng to his expectacion did not only receiue the same most humbly from their magesties but also after he had in few woordes geuen thankes to GOD and hadde declared what greate cause he had to reioyse aboue al others that his cūmyng from Rome into Englāde hadde taken moste happye successe he representyng there the Popes holynes and hauyng the keys and hys full power for the tyme dyd geue them hys Benediccion Whyche beeyng done they all departed The Copie of whyche supplycacion I haue sent here also to your Lordeship in maner fourme and effecte as foloweth woorde by worde We the Lordes Spirituall and temporall and the Commons of thys presente Parlyment ass●…bled representing the whole body of the Realme of Englande and dominions of the same in oure owne names particulerly and also of the sayde bodye vniuersallye in this supplycacion dyrected to youre Magestyes wyth moste humble suite That it maye by youre gracious intercession and meane bee exhybyted to the moste reuerende father in God the Lorde Cardinall Poole Legate sente speciallye hyther from oure moste holye Father Pope Iulio the thirde and the SEA Apostolyke of Rome dooe declare our selues verye sorye and repenrante of the Scisme and disobedyence commytted in thys Realme and the dominions of the same agaynste the sayd Sea Apostolyke eyther by makynge agreing or executynge any lawes ordynaunces or commaundementes agaynste the Supremacye of the sayed SEA or otherwyse dooynge or speakynge that myghte impugne the same Offeryng our selues and promising by thys oure Supplicacyon that for a token and knowledge of our sayed repentaunce we be and shal be alway readye vnder and with the authorities of youre magesties to the vttermoste of oure power to dooe that shal be in vs for the abrogacyon and repealynge of the sayed lawes and ordinaunces in thys presente Parlyment as well for oure selues as for the whole bodye whom we represente Wherupon we most humblye beseche your maiesties as persons vndetiled in the offence of thys bodye towardes the saide Sea which neuertheles God by hys prouidence hath made subiect to your maiesties so to set fourthe this oure moste humble suit that we maye obtaine from the Sea Apostolike by the saide moste reuerend father aswell particularlye as vniuersallye Absolution Release and discharge from all daunger of suche censures and sentences as by the lawes of the Churche we be fallen in And that we maye as Childeren repentaunte be receaued in to the bosome and vnitye of Christes Churche So as thys noble realme wyth all the membres thereof maye in vnitie and perfecte obedience to the Sea Apostolike and 〈◊〉 for the tyme beinge serue God and your maiesties to the furderance and aduan̄cement of hys honoure and glory Amen THen the fyrste Sundaye in Aduent followinge my Lorde Cardinall came at tenne of the clocke from Lambeth by water and landed at Poles wharfe And cūmynge from thence to Poles Churche with a crosse ii pyllers two pollaxes of Syluer borne before hym he was there receaued by my Lorde Chaunceller wyth Procession Where he taryed vntill the kinges cummynge whose hyghnes came from westmynster by lande and all hys nobles before him to Poles also at a leuen of the clocke And so the kynges maiesty and my lord Cardinall wyth all the lordes of the priuy counsell beinge present with suche an audience of people as was neuer sene in that place before my Lorde Chaunceller entered Poles crosse And after that the people ceased that so much as a whispering could not be hearde emongest them more then emongest those of whome the Poet Virgil speaketh Conticuere omnes intentique or a tenebant But euery manne bente hartelye wyth eares to here eyes to perceaue and handes to wryte hys Lordshyp proceded and tooke to hys theam these wordes of the Epystle of that daye wrytten by Sayncte Paule the holye Apostle in the. xiii Chapter to the Romaynes Fratres scientes quia