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A19623	A short declaration of the ende of traytors, and false conspirators against the state & of the duetie of subiectes to theyr soueraigne gouernour: and wythall, howe necessarie, lawes and execution of iustice are, for the preseruation of the prince and common wealth. Wherein are also breefely touched, sundry offences of the S. Queene, co[m]mitted against the crowne of this land, & the manner of the honorable proceding for her conuiction thereof, and also the reasons & causes alledged & allowed in Parliament, why it was thought dangerous to the state, if she should haue liued. Published by Richard Crompton, an apprentice of the common lawes. Seene and allowed.	Crompton, Richard, fl. 1573-1599.	1587 (1587)	STC 6055; ESTC S109080	31,136	50

by her Was not the saide VViat and dyuers other executed for the same Rebellion Looke into the same Booke and there it is plainely sette downe Did not y e Earles of Norththumberland and Westmerlande with fiftie Knights Esquires and Gentlemen besides a great number of the common sorte rebell in the North parts of this Realme in the xi yéere of her Maiesties ratgne to the ende to haue had alteration of this Religion and most happy state But what was the ende of these Earles were not they both attainted of treason was not the Earle of Northumberlande beheaded at Yorke and did not the other flie the Realme and were not the said fiftie persons attainted also of high treason Looke into the confirmation of their attainder by parliament in the xiii yéere of her Maiesties raigne and you shall finde it there apparant Diuers of which sayde fiftie personnes besides many other of the common sort were executed for that rebellion Consider of Arden which about the 25. yéere of her Maiesties raigne conspired her Maiesties with others death to the ende to haue had alteration of this Religion and estate were not they also then attainted of high treason was not Arden executed like a Traitor and did not Ientleman an other of them after his condemnation sor that offence hang himselfe in Newgate y e day before he that shold haue beene executed Then remember y t most rankest Traytor y t hath been heard of in our time Parry by name who notwithstanding hee had béene attainted for Burglarie and for the same attained her Maiesties pardon went afterwardes beyond the Scas and there carrying an offensiue mind against this state and Religion most wickedly with other forrainers conspired her highnes destruction and did remaine in that damnable purpose by the space of two yéeres then returned into England meaning to haue performed the same was not he in the 26. yéere of her Maiesties raigne hanged drawne and quartered as a detestable traytor to hys Prince and Countrie Did not the Earle of Northumberland conspire with the Lord Paget and Charles his Brother with Shelley and Throgmorton to haue suppressed this Religion to haue aduaunced the Romish Religion and by forraine inuasion into this Lande to haue vtterly subuerted this noble state and to haue aduaunced to the Crowne the S. Quéene In which their treasons was also imployed the destruction of our most gracious soueraigne Ladie So it appeareth by a small Treatise wherein these treasons are particularly sette forth Was not the saide Throgmorton about two yéeres last past executed as a Traytor for that cause Did not the said Earle knowing himselfe guiltye of those treasous most miserablie destroy himselfe with his owne hand in the Towre of London the xxvii yéere of her Maiesties raigne Was not the sayde Shelley shortly after condemned for that conspiracie and remaineth at the Quéenes mercie and are not the sayde Lord Pagett and his Brother attainted for that offence by vtlarie Was not Babington and thirteene other also executed in the xxviii yéere of her highnes raigne as Traitors for the like crimes And lastly haue not fourtéene Iesuites and Seminarie Priestes within these fiue yéeres béene erecuted as Traytors for practising to withdrawe her Maiesties subiects frō there due allegyance to her highnes and for that intent from the Religion now established to the Religion of Rome and to yeelde subiection to that Sea By these notable and memorable examples you may plainelie see the shamefull and miserable end of Traytors false conspirators and Rebelles against theyr Prince and soueraigne Gouernour what soeuer theyr pretences of Religion hath béene And these examples are héere sette downe for warnings to other and happy is he that can take béede by an others danger and mishappe as the wise Cato sayth Faelix quem faciunt aliena pericula cautum And was not the said late S. Queene priuie to sundry of the said conspiracies and treasons was she not a principall a better and comforter of the said offenders therein It is very euident by a Treatise published in print whereby appeareth that the Lordes and Commons of the high Court of Parliamēt hauing of long time to their intollerable gréefe sounde by howe many practises the sayd Scottish Quéene had compassed the destruction of her highnes most royall personne in whose safety next vnder God they acknowledged their cheefe felicitie to consist thereby not onelie to bereaue them of the sincere and true Religion in this Realme professed and established but to bring backe againe this noble Realme into the thraldome of Romish tyrannie and to ouerthrowe the happy estate thereof wherein although her highnesse of her aboundant gratious naturall clemency and princely magnanimitie had eyther lightly passed them ouer or with no small indulgence tolerated notwithstanding the often and earnest instances of her Nobilitie and Commons in sundry Parliaments héeretofore and further had protected her from the violent pursuite of her own people shée yet as a person obdurate in malice as it appeared continued her former practises as had béene lately manifested by certaine wicked conspiracies plotted by the sayd Babington and diuers desperate persons that had combined and confederated themselues by vowe oath in a most horrible enterprise by murther to take away the life of her Maiestie where in the Scottish Quéene did not onely aduise them but also direct comfort and abette them with perswasion counsell promise of reward and earnest obtestation Wherevpon her Maiestie at the earnest request of such as tendered y e safety of her royall personne and the quiet of the Realme did direct her Commission vnder the great seale to sundrye Lordes and others of her Maiesties priuie Counseil and a great number of Lords of Parliament of y e greatest and most auncient degree assisted with some of the principall Iudges of the Realme to heare examine and determine the same according to a Statute in that behalfe made in the xxvii yéere of her raigne Who to the number of thirty sixe hauing artended the execution of the said Commission and diuers dayes and times heard the allegations against the said Scottish Quéene in her owne presence and hearing she béeingpermitted to say what she woulde in her owne execuse dyd wyth one assent finde her culpable both in priuitie and consent to the sayd crimes obiected and also in compassing the Quéenes Maiesties death Which sentence by her owne directions vpon the hearing of the prooues and processe in Parliament was iudged to haue béene most honourable and iust And for asmuch as the said Quéene of Scots was the very ground and onely subiect whervpon such daungerous practises and complots had béen founded against her Maiesties most royall person and the estate of this Realme for these many yéenes to the ouerthrowe of sundry of the Nobilitie of the lande and daunger of Christian Religion and that they could see no hope of her desisting and her adherents

Princes person Howe often doth almighty God by hys Prophet Dauid say as is aboue sayd Touch not mine annoynted as though he should say Forasmuch as I haue placed her in the kynglye throne of thys Realme and haue appoynted her to rule and gouerne my people looke thou touch her not lay no handes on her offer no violence vnto her personne for I haue annoynted and consecrated her to that office and function I finde in the first Booke of Samuell where Dauid was vrged by hys men to haue kylled Saule a great and mighty Prince and yet out of the fauour of God a mortall enemy to Dauid of whom almighty God so often sayth I haue found Dauid a man euen according to my hartes desire but what did Dauid dyd hee laye hys handes on hym no he made his prayers to almighty God saying Lord keepe me that I lay not my hands vpon my master the Lordes annoynted for as surely as the Lord lyueth except he discende into the battayle and there perish or that hys day become to dye or that the Lord doo smyte hym the Lord bee mercifull to me that I lay not my handes vppon the Lordes annointed and so they departed without dooing any hurt to Saule I find also in the same Booke that Dauid and Abysay hys seruaunt at an other time came into the Tent where Saule was fast a sléepe and Abysay sayde vnto Dauid Forasmuch as the Lord hath deliuered thy enemy Saule into thy handes at thys time suffer me to strike him but once with my speare and I wyll not smite him the second time Meaning to haue kylled hym euen at the first blowe but Dauid sayde destroy him not for who can lay his hands vppon the Lordes annointed and be guiltles for as sure as the Lorde lyueth except he discend into the battaile and there perish or that the Lord doth smyte him or that hys day become God forbidd that thou shouldest lay thy hande vpon the Lords annoynted and so they departed without dooing any hurt to him I finde also in the History of Kynges that an Amelekite taking vpō him the death of Saule whom he found dead brought his Crowne of Gold vnto Dauid because he thought thereby the rather to perswade Dauid that hee was the man that had slayne Saule and hoped to haue had some great rewad for hys labour whē Dauid did sée the Crowne and did knowe that it was Saules Crowne he rent his clothes and wept saying to thys Amalekite How is it that thou wast not afrayd to laye thy hand vppon the annointed of the Lord to destroy him as truely as the Lord lyueth forasmuch as thy owne mouth doth witnes against thee thou shalt dye the death and so he commaunded his seruauntes and they did kill him presentlie Now let vs sée what hath happened to murmurers against the Rulers and Magistrates appointed ouer them by God It appeareth in sundry places of the Scriptures that some of them were striken with foule leprosie many burned wyth fire suddainlie sent from God sometime a great many of thousandes were consumed with the pestilence some times they were stinged to death with fierie Serpents of straunge kind sometime the earth opened and swallowed vp quicke into hell their Captaynes and bandes of murmurers and their wiues children and familie Thus you sée what straunge and horrible plagues hath fallen vpon such subiects as did but onelie murmure and speake euill against theyr heads and Rulers Then touching such as haue apposed themselues against their soueraigne Gouernour by rebellion though they haue not laid violent hande vpon him yet it appeareth they haue béene by Gods iust iudgment sundry wayes punished as by the example of Absolon is manifest who entred into conspiracie against King Dauid his father and vsed the aduise of manie wittie men and assembled a verie great and huge company of Rebelles which Absolon though he were most goodly of personne of great nobility béeing the Kinges sonne in great fauour of the people and so déerely beloued of the King himself so much that he gaue commandement notwithstanding hys rebellion his life should be saued When for these considerations most men were afraid to lay their hands vpon him a great Trée stretching forth her arme as it were for that purpose caught him by the great long bush of his goodly haire lapping about it as he fled hastilie bare-headed vnder the said Trée and so hanged him vp by the hayre of the head in the ayre to giue an eternall document that neither comlines of personage neither nobilitie nor the fauoure of the people nor the fauour of the King himselfe can saue a Rebell from due punishment God the King of all kinges béeing so offended with him that rather then he should lacke due execution for his treasons euery trée by the way will bée a gallowes or Iebbet vnto him and the haire of hys own head will be vnto him in stedde of a haulter to hang him vp with rather then he should lacke one A fearefull example of Gods punishment to consider Achitophell though otherwise an excéeding wise man yet the mischeuous Counseller of Absolon in this wicked rebellion for lacke of a hangman a conuenient seruiter for such a Traytor went and hanged vppe himselfe a worthie end of all Rebelles who rather then they should lacke due execution will by Gods iust iudgment become hangmen to themselues Thus happened it to the Captaynes of that rebellion besides forty thousande of rascall rebelles slayne in the fielde and in the chase likewise it is to be séene in the holy Scriptures howe that great rebellion which the Traytor Seba mooued in Israell was suddainly appeased the heade of y e Captaine Traytor by meanes of a silly woman beeing cutt off Thus you sée also the ende of Traytors false Rebels though theyr intent were not to touch the person of their soueraigne Gouernour Surely it is not lawfull for the Subiect of the Turke nor of the most vngodliest King that raigneth to murmure or rebell a-against his Prince whom God hath placed in y e throne of gouernment either for the comfort of good people or for the punishmēt of the bad if ought be to be reformed touching gouernment in the king it dooth not belong to the Subiect to redresse the same but he must refer the matter to God onely who hath the hartes of Kinges in his order and disposeth them as it séemeth best to hys godlie wisedome The duety of the Subiect is alwayes to be obedient as S. Paule saith Submitte your selues vnto the higher powers for there is no power but of God all powers that be are ordeyned of God who that resisteth powers resisteth the ordenaunce of God and procureth vnto himselfe damnation Héere is no exception of Turke nor Infidell of the wicked and vngodlie Prince more then of the Christian and vertuous King for his wordes be generall there is no power

the lamentable rauishments deflowringes of Maydes Wiues and Widdowes into the ransacking and spoyling of Citties and Townes with a number of other miseries and calamities which haue happened of late yéeres in other Countries not farre hence you shall finde that this Realme of England aboue all Nations vnder the Sunne at this day hath moste cause to thinke it selfe bounde to the goodnes of almighty God In that hee hath not suffered vs to be afflicted or visited with the like And now what shall I say of them to whom this her Maiesties most gracious gouernment these happy daies these blessed yéeres haue béene thought tedious and too long to haue continued and therefore haue most vnnaturally most wickedly yea and moste trayterouslie sought the vntimely death and destruction of her vnder whom by Gods great mercy and fauour towardes vs we haue enioyed all these good thinges Shall I say they were vnkinde people Shall I say they were vnnaturall Subiects Nay I will rather say that they were and such as they are more méete to liue vnder an Infidell vnder a Turke vnder a Iewe vnder a blooddy Prince or Tyrant rather then vnder so gracious and so mercifull a soueraigne Ladye and Quéene as she hath shewed herselfe to be to all sortes of her Subiects euen from the beginning of her blessed raigne to this day whereof we are all witnesses What good Subiect will not hartilie lament to thinke what sorrow her Maiestie dooth make what inwarde gréefe shée hath conceiued what déepe sighes procéede from her noble hart what teares distill from her tender eyes as we may imagine and suppose when she calleth vnto her gracious remembraunce the greate loue which she doth and alwayes hath born to her good Subiects the dailie care she hath of their prosperitie and well dooing her continuall desire that they may liue in peace and rest vnder her To haue this her loue so vnkindlie requited her care so vngentlie recompenced her desire so vngratefullie rewarded as to haue her death so often conspyred her destruction so many waies intended and this her most happie gouernment many times trayteroustie deuised to bee suppressed where it is the part and duetie of euerie good Subiect to be true faithfull obedient and loyall to his Prince and soueraigne Gouernour whom God hath appointed to raigne ouer him though her Maiestie by these her manifold kindnesses had not as she hath merited and deserued the same But most gracious soueraigne Lady let not these theyr wicked and trayterous conspiracies dismay you let them not discourage you but be of good comfort and doubt not but as almighty GOD hath hetherto most graciouslie saued and defended you from the most wicked purposes of such as haue so often most trayterously practised and pretended your vntimelie death and destruction so he will protect you from the like her eafter doubt not but he will sende his holie Angell who shall pitch his Tentes rounde about you that theyr damnable deuises and determinations shall neuer take effect Doubt not but that he will be your strength Buckler for he is and euer will be the sure defence of his annointed as the Prophet Dauid witnesseth Comfort your selfe also in this that there are within your Realme of England euen thousand of thousands which according to their bounden dueties doo dayly most hartilie pray to God for the preseruation of your sacred personne that will shedde their bloodes spend their lands and goods in your defence before such wicked Traytors or their adherents shall euer haue their purposes Comfort your selfe also in this that you haue so graue and faythfull a Counsell that is most studious and carefull of the safetie of your noble person and this state that can so politiquelie spie out these wicked Conspirators and trys out their most deuillish deuises tending to your Maiesties vntimelie death and to the vtter subuersion and ruine of this your most happie gouernment that can so in time preuent the manifolde perilles and daungers which otherwise might by such treasons haue ensued vnto the same Comfort your selfe also in this that they euen they I say which haue thus conspired to take your Maiesty from vs when they haue come into your presence meaning then to haue accomplished theyr most trayterous purpose haue béene so diswayed vpon the sight of your princely person and in beholding your most gracious countenaunce that they hadde no power to performe the thing which they had before determined vppon A most certaine token of the great mercie and fauour of God towardes your Maiestie and to vs all If it were lawfull for the Subiect to enter into the examinations of causes or matters appertayning to y e Prince and soueraigne Gouernour as it is not what coulde these sortes of men I pray you obiect or what coulde they say why they thus most wickedly thus most vnnaturallie and thus most trayterously shoulde séeke the death and destruction of so gracious a Soueraigne Ladie and Quéene It is trowe you because they thought that her Maiestie is not studious to sette forth the honour and glorie of God Compare the time present with the great abuses which haue entred into the Church of olde time and thereby you shall plainely perceiue howe carefull shée is and from time to time hath béene to aduaunce the true worshipping of God to the vttermost of her power Is it trowe you because they thought that she hath not made and published wholsome and necessary Lawes for the preseruation and mayntenaunce of the state of thys Common wealth Looke into the most gracious Acts of Parliament made in her time and you shall finde as good as necessary and beneficiall Lawes published by her most high Courtes of Parliament as better or more necessarye haue not béene giuen by the like authoritie in any Princes time héeretofore Is it because they thought that her Maiestie is not desirous that right and iustice shoulde bee ministred vnto all sortes of her Subiects without respect of personne Looke into the procéedinges of her most honourable Counsell in her high Court of Starre Chamber and there you shall sée the causes of her people iudiciallie brought before them so indifferentlie examined so déepely looked into and with such greate wysedome and equitie ordered and decreed that euerye man hath iust cause therewith to content himselfe Againe looke into the procéedings of her graue and sage Iustices of her Lawes And you shall finde the causes of her Subiects brought before them so learnedly debated so vprightly handled and with such equitie adiudged and determined according to the Lawe that no man can therewith iustlie finde fault Is it trowe you because they thought that her Maiestie is not mercifull to such as are transgressors and offenders of her Lawes Looke into the Recordes of her high Court of Chauncery and there you shall finde a great number of her most gracious and mercifull pardons as well touching lyfe and member

but that still her Maiesties safetie must be hazarded and stand to the euent of the like miraculous discoueries Therefore as most humble and instant suppliants they did vpon theyr knées at her most gracious féete beséeche and request in most earnest manner that aswell for the continuaunce of Gods Religion the quiet of this Kingdome preseruation of her person and defence of them and theyr posterities that it woulde please her highnes to take order that the sayd sentence might bee published and such further direction giuen as was requisite in this so waighty a cause according to the purport and intent of the sayd Statute touching the daungers that her Maiesties person was in by the practises of the Scottish Quéene and her fauourers they appeare in that they did thinke that she had right not to succéede her Maiestie but to enioy her Crowne in possession and therefore as she was a most impatient competitor thereof so she would haue spared no meanes whatsouer that might haue bereft vs of her Maiestie the onelie impediment that shee could not enioy her desire Shee was obdurate in malice against her royall person notwithstanding her Maiestie had shewed her all fauour and mercie as well in preseruing her hingdome as sauing her life and saluing her henour And therefore there was no place for mercie since there was no hope that shee would haue desisted from her most wicked attempts Shee boldly and openly professed that it was lawfull for her to mooue inuasion vppon her Maiestie and therefore as of inuasion victory might ensue and of victorie the death of the vanquished so did she therby not obscurely bewraie that she thought it lawfull for her to destroy her Maiesties sacred personne She did thinke it not onely lawfull but honorable also and meritorious to take her Maiesties life from her as béeing all ready depriued of her Crowne by the excommunication of the holy Father And therefore it was like she would as she had doone continually séeke it by whatsoeuer meanes That she was gréedie of her Maiesties death and preferred it before her owne life and safetie appeareth for in her direction to one of her late Complices she aduised vnder couert termes that whatsoeuer shoulde become of her that tragicall execution should bee performed vpon our most gracious soueraigne Lady namely the destruction of her royall personne She was the onely hope of all discontented subiects she was the foundation whereon all the euill disposed did builde she was the roote from whence all rebellions and trecheries did spring And therefore while this hope lasted this foundation stoode and thys roote liued they would haue retained hart and set on foote whatsoeuer theyr deuises against this Realme which otherwise will fall away die and come to nothing All these matters her Maiestie did most déepelye consider of and yet to the ende it might euidently appeare howe vnwylling she was to take away y e Quéene of Scots life she required to vnderstand by the consideration and resolution of the high Court of Parliament whether any other meanes could be thought of or sound by anie of them how the Scottish Queenes life might be spared and yet her Maiesties personne saued out of perill and the state of the Realme preserued in quiet For her Maiesties further satisfaction they enteredinto a new consultation for that prupose selected a great number of the choysest persons of the higher house of Parliament to conferre thereof eyther prinately or together with the lower house and vppon sundry conferences had in that behalfe at seueral times it was concluded by the whole assemblic of both houses that there could be no other assured meanes for the preseruation of her Maiesties life continuance of Gods Religion and quiet of this state then by the full execution of the sayd sentence That if her Maiestie should be safe without taking away the life of the Scottish Queene the same were most likely and probably to grow by one of these means following First that happilie she myght haue béene reclaimed and become repentaunt conuert agnising her Maiesties great mercie and fauour in remitting her heynous offence and by her loyaltic haue performed the fruites of such conuersion 2. Or els by a more straight guarde might haue béen so kept as there should haue béene no feare of the like at tempts after 3. Or that good assuraunce might haue béene gyuen by O the Bondes or Hostages as cautions for her good and loyall demeanour from thenceforth 4. Or lastlie by Banishment the Realme might haue béene boyded of her personne and thereby the perils further remooued that might growe to her Maiesty by her presence All which matters béeing duely pondered it did yet appeare in all theyr iudgments that they durst not aduise anie securitie to rest in any no not in all of them For touching her Conuersion it was considered that if pietie or duety could haue restrained her from such haynous attempts there was cause aboundantlye ministred to her on her Maiesties behalfe when she not onelie protected her against the violence of her owne Subiectes who pursued her to death by Iustice but couered her honour when y t same by publique fame was touched and by verie heynous and capitall crimes obiected and prooued against her before certaine Commissarie delegates assigned to examine the same more then blemished and spared her life when for her former conspiracies and confederacies with y e Northren Rebels her highnes was with great instance pressed by bothe the houses in the fouretéene yéere of her Maiesties raigne to do like Iustice vpon her as now was desired and as her treasonable practises then hadde most iustly deserued And where the penaltie of thys Acte sufficientlye notified vnto her should haue terrified her from so wicked attempts she did neuerthelesse insist in her former practises as a personne obdurate in malice against her Maiestie and irrecouerable so as there was no probable hope of anie conuersion but rather great doubt and feare of relaps forasmuch as she stoode obstinatly in the deniall of matter most euivently prooued and moste iustly sentenced against her and was not entered into the first parte of repentaunce The recognition of her offence and so much the farther off from the true fruits that shoulde accompanie the same As for a surer guarde and more straite imprisonment it was resolued that there was no security therin nor yet in the other two meanes propounded of Bondes and Hostages forasmuch as the same meanes that should be practised to take her Maiesties life away which God forbid would aptly serue bothe for the deliuerie of her person and release of the Bondes Hostages that should be giuen for cautions in that behalfe which béeing vnaptlie atchiued and to our irreparable lesse who should sue the Bondes or detaine y e Hostages or béeing detained what proportion was there in bonds or hostages whatsoeuer to counteruaile the value of so precious and inestimable a Iewell as her Maiestie is to this