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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A09927	The copie of a pistel or letter sent to Gilbard Potter in the tyme when he was in prison for speakinge on our most true quenes part the Lady Mary before he had his eares cut of. The. xiii of Julye.	Poor Pratte.	1553 (1553)	STC 20188; ESTC S100408	4,567	20

The copie of a pistel or letter sent to Gilbard Potter in the tyme when he was in prison for speakinge on our most true quenes part the Lady Mary before he had his eares cut of The .xiij. of Iulye Si deus nobiscum quis contra nos Anno. M. D. Liij the firste of August Poore Pratte vnto his frend Gilbard Potter the moost faythful and trew louer of quene Mary doth him salute with many salutations S. P. D. WHereas thou haste of late showed thy selfe most faithful Gilbard to be a true subiecte to Mary quene of England not only by wordes but by deedes and for the farther triall of thy true heart towardes her did offer thy bodye to be slayne in her quarell and offered vp thy selfe into the handes of the ragged beare most rācke with whome is nether mer cy pitie nor compassion but his in dignation presēt death Thy promis Gilbarde is faythfull Thy heart is true Thy loue is feruēte towardes her grace And wheras you did promis me faythfullye when I last visited thee in prisō to be torne with wild horses thou wouldest not denye Marye oure Quene to that whiche thou tofore dyd saye no denial shal be found in thee so styll do thou continue in the same mynde haue a respect of thy conscience Feare not to saye the truth if thou dye thou shalt die in the ryght pugna propatria fighte for thy countrey sayeth the Philoso pher For as it shal be to thi great honour and prayse in this world in heauen to dye in her graces quarel in the defence of thy coū trey so wold it be to the vtter destruction both of thy body soule to do the contrarye But o thou true Gilbard stande stiflye in her cause do thou according to thy last promis made me as I do not doubt but thou wilt then wil god kepe thee and preserue thee If thou shuld dye thou shalt die inno cent so shal you be assured to possesse the euerlastyng kyngdom of heauen If you fortune to lyue then shal it be also accōpted praise to thee And fully perswade with thy selfe that her grace wil consider thy faythful true heart as she hath iuste occasion For who could haue bene more faythfuller then thou haste bene What man coulde haue showed him selfe bolder in her graces cause then thou hast showed Or who dyd so valiantlye in the proclamation tyme when Iane was published quene vnworthy as she was more to blame I may say to thee are some of the consenters therunto Ther were thousandes more then thy selfe yet durst they not suche is the fragility weakenes of the flesh once moue their lippes to speake that whiche thou did speake Thou offerest thy selfe amongst the multitude of people to fight agaynste them all in her quarel and for her honour dyd not feare to runne vpon the poynt of the swordes O faythful subiect O true hearte to Mary our Quene I can not but wryte of the conding prayse that thou deseruest for thys thy boldnes I may compare thee to Sidrack Misack and Abdenago whych ra ther then they wold forsake their mayster were contented to suffer the tormentes in the hoate burnyng ouen And as young Daniel when he was broughte before such a ruler as that false Duke of Northumberland rather then to denye his Lord would suffer the paynes of imprysonment and to be cast in the denne of lions Euen so faythful Gilbard rather then thou wouldeste consente to their false trayterouse proclamation for Iane when thou dyd heare it hauyng a cleare conscience wold not consent to the same most traiterous fact And so litle regarded thy life boldly stode in thy mistres cause and offered thy bodye to be inprisoned to suffer death then to denye our vertuouse Mary to be quene And therfore trust to it my faythful Gilbard as the god of Sidrack Misack Abdenago saued them from al hurt in the hoat burnyng ouen that not so muche as one heare of their heade was peryshed So shall the same God saue thee out of the handes of the cruell beare and gyue hym no power of thy lyfe Agayne as God preserued Daniel when he was cast in the denne amongest the lions at the commaundemēt of the king Nabuchodonosor And whē he was in the middeste of thē the lions playd with him which was admirable So do thou trust to albeit thou art now in the denne amōgest deuourers I meane vnder the power of the beare the raged staf yet the god of Daniel shall safely delyuer thee out of all their hādes thee rather if thou dost stil continue stedfast and hold on Mary our quene and forsake thy mayster no more then Daniel the brethren did their God and mayster Dispayre not but lyue in hope to se a good day the soner wil it come it we continue in praier For my part faithful Gylbard I wyl neuer sease day nor nyght from praying for our good Mary that her grace mighte once obteyne the crowne that it wold please him of his omnipotente power to strengten helpe her grace Mary thy Quene mine so saye I to the death to conquere that beare So here I shall desire thee also to offer vp to the almighty lord god ly contemplations that she maye ouercome her enemies For as the inhabitours of the great city of Niniue continued in prayer clothed them selues in sackecloth caste duste vpon their heades repēted bewailed their manifold sinnes and offences at what tyme as the Prophete Ionas had preached to them the destruction of their citye knew that it was time to do all the same els destructiō wold folow So shulde we now not cease praying to God to send vs quietnes that the lady Mary might enioye the kingdō For we haue had manye Prophetes true preachers whiche did declare vnto vs that oure kinge shal be taken awaye from vs a tirant shal reygne the Gospel shal be plucked awaye the right heyre shal be dispossessed al for our vnthanckfulnes thinkest thou not Gilbard the world is now come Yea truely And what shal folow yf we repente not in tymes The same God wil take frō vs the vertuouse Lady Mary oure lawfull quene send such a cruel Pharao as the ragged beare to rule vs which shal pul pol vs spoyle vs vtterly destroy vs bringe vs in great calamities and miseries And this god wil send vs all for our iniquities For yf vnto oure quene Mary any euell shuld happē let vs fully perswade with our selues that it is not for her small sinnes only but for our euel liuinges And this litle troubles whiche be greuous to hir grace doth chaunse to her for thy sinnes and myne let vs so thinke For truely faythful Gilbard god is displeased with vs many wayes And here I dar be bold to say that her grace is more sorowful for the death of king Edwarde her