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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A08357	To the Quenes Maiesties poore deceyued subiectes of the north countrey, drawen into rebellion by the Earles of Northumberland and Westmerland. Written by Thomas Norton. Seen and allowed according to the Quenes iniunctions	Norton, Thomas, 1532-1584.	1569 (1569)	STC 18680; ESTC S113359	23,488	60

of her preseruing And God giue vnto hir grace the hart in perills touching her persone and estate not to haue too great clemencie remembring that though it be magnificall and noble to contemne treasons to pardon traytours to recōcile dāgerous vnderminers of her estate yet the whole realme hauing interest in hir life by which we all lyue and can not liue well without her it is farre more honorable to be good Ladie to true men than to false to the whole cōmon welth of god men that depend vpon her than to any knot of euill men that may practyse her danger by which the whole realm must needes come to such confusion as your wise guides wold fayn bring it But in the meane time you sée they haue brought you in a gay case vpon trust of their words their vayne colours in their proclamations their false promises of great succours You are in the way of vndoing for euer to helpe them to a little leysure to shift or if they abyde by it to giue the aduenture of their most heynous treasons And hereto they persuade you with promis of the help of god and good people directly against the commandement of God to the disturbance of good people But I pray you what people or what Goodnesse looke they for to ayde them The late tumults in king Edwards time haue taught al the wise people of the Realm to beware of suche follies The good honest subiects of the West that were then seduced nowe haue learned and do like good subiectes continue in loyall duetie be ready to employ theyr force against you to teach you by smart that which you will not lern by example The noble wel gouerned city of Exceter hath taught al Cities townes the honor of faithfulnesse Al the south the east eche part the land the sea heauen it selfe are ioyned against you Ech man séeth the horror of the fact but your selues alone Reade I beséech you the excellent treatis of sir Iohn Cheke Knight of the Hurt of sedition there sée as in a glasse the deformitie of your faulte learne to wype away those spots that haue so fowly arayed you that you loke not like Christian people but like monsters in nature policie howeuer your captains cal you good people being so rebellious against so good a Soueraine banded in hostilitie against all good subiects So eche thing that they pretend with mere contrarietie of truth bewrayeth their open falshod vnlesse they wil to defend thēselues to haue said in one only thing true that they rise to redresse thinges amisse say that they meane not things amisse to be redressed but things to be amisse redressed In like maner is all the rest They will they say restore auncient customes and liberties to the church and realme Are all customes without respect of good or bad to be restored are not rather the badde to be reformed and so is it true libertie to be deliuered from them and not remayne thrall and bounde vnto them For he that bindeth least and setteth fréest offereth most liber tie If they meane by libertie lewde licentiousnesse and dissolute disordre of lyfe to haue no feare of God Prince law or shame to haue no respect or awe of honestie such libertie I graunt they propounde vnto you and giue you dayly examples of But if the true libertie of Christes churche and flocke be to heare his voyce and no straungers to be subiect or in bondage to no strange power or vsurped tyrannie that shall syt in the cōsciences of christian men captiuing them to an implicite general faith of what so euer they shall teach without the warrant of Christ the true head of the church then your great Libertines bring but bondage and slauerie Beware therfore lest vnder name of libertie you take the heuy yoke of thraldom When most noble and victorious kings and princes most graue valiant and wyse counsellers and nobilitie most learned discrete and vertuous prelates and other of the clergie haue with their great trauail study and aduenture made a conquest of Antichriste that kept vs in bondage deliuered this Realme to very fréedom in déede set it at libertie from foreine tyrants yoke is this to restore the libertie of the Church to make it bond again Can you be so mad to think it Great are the illusions vpon those whome Gods grace hath forsaken Pray to God to bring your hartes to libertie of consideration and you shall plainly see the libertie of the churche assayled by your owne factious the libertie of your consciences captiued and the true libertie of your lyues in lawfull things restrayned Sweete in deede is the name of libertie c. the treasure of the thing it self beyond al value inestimable so much the more it behoueth you to take hede that with the sweetenesse of the name you lese not the value of the thing You may not thinke her maiestie her selfe and her nobilitie clergie and other good subiectes so farre throwne downe in courage as they woulde lose the fewell of libertie Much lesse muste ye beleue your licentious bosters of libertie that will bring you in deed nothing but bondage You sée the difference of their credit and the euidence of your perill iudge therfore the falshod of this colour as wel as the rest and with the fond deuise that foloweth to pretende a care for their countrey into whose bowels they haue thrust their weapon least they should be behind strangers in wounding her They say they feare a reformation by Strangers to the hazard of the realme and therefore forsooth these noble hazarders of their own wealth estate and honour and of your sureties must hazard the realme them selues lest strangers should and yet further withall lest themselues should not suffise to hazard it enough they directely signifie and it is wel known that thēselues haue sought and vsed conspiracie of strangers to further the hazarde to their vttermost But note the fraude I pray you for the meaning is to deceiue you and therefore it behoueth you to note it They will not say directly we haue practized with strangers to take our partes for that were too broad and too plaine but it must be penned in such words that you must be giuen to vnderstand that strangers are of that faction yea and so far forward that they are also ready to do that which you haue enterprised though forsooth your captains and they be not of one conspiracie He is blinde that séeth it not Al this is but to encourage you and to put you in hope of ayde either by traytors in Englande or enimies abroade whence it come it makes no matter But they deceiue you it wil not be wey it wel féede not your selfe with vaine hopes First if strangers were dysposed to come it is a mad saying let vs rise and refourme least strangers come refourme as though strangers hauing purpose to