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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A19619	The copie of a letter to the Right Honourable the Earle of Leycester, Lieutenant generall of all her Maiesties forces in the vnited Prouinces of the lowe Countreys written before, but deliuered at his returne from thence: vvith a report of certeine petitions and declarations made to the Queenes Maiestie at two seuerall times, from all the lordes and commons lately assembled in Parliament. And her Maiesties answeres thereunto by her selfe deliuered, though not expressed by the reporter with such grace and life, as the same were vttered by her Maiestie.	Salisbury, Robert Cecil, Earl of, 1563-1612.; Crompton, Richard, fl. 1573-1599, attributed name.; Elizabeth I, Queen of England, 1533-1603.	1586 (1586)	STC 6052; ESTC S109079	14,965	38

Benadad both which were by the iust iudgement of God depriued of their kingdoms for sparing those wicked Princes whome God had deliuered into their handes of purpose to be slaine by them as by the ministers of his eternal and diuine Iustice Wherein full wisely Salomon proceeded to punishment when hee tooke the life of his owne naturall and elder brother Adonias for the only intention of a marriage that gaue suspition of treason against him Herein we your Maiesties most louing and obedient subiects earnestly depend vpon your princely resolution which we assure our selues shall be to God most acceptable and to vs no other then the state of your Regall authoritie may afford vs and the approoued arguments of your tender care for our safetie vnder your charge dooth promise to our expectation A REPORT OF HER MAiesties most gratious answere deliuered by her selfe verbally to the first petitions of the Lords and Commons being the Estates of Parliament in her Chamber of Presence at Richmond the xij day of Nouember 1586. at the full almost of xxviij yeeres of her Reigne Whereof the Reporter requireth of all that were hearers a fauourable interpretation of his intent because he findeth that he can not expresse the same answerable to the originall which the learned call Prototypon THE bottomlesse graces and immeasurable benefits bestowed vpon me by the Almightie are and haue bene such as I must not onely acknowledge them but admire them accounting them as well miracles as benefites not so much in respect of his diuine Maiestie with whome nothing is more common then to doe things rare and singular as in regard of our weakenesse who can not sufficiently set foorth his wonderfull worker and graces which to mee haue bene so many so diuersely folded and imbroydered one vpon another as in no sorte I am able to expresse them And although there liueth not any that may more iustly acknovvledge them selues infinitely bounde vnto God then I whose life he hath miraculously preserued at sundry times beyonde my merite from a multitude of perils and dangers yet is not that the cause for which I count my selfe the deeplyest bounde to giue him my humblest thankes or to yeelde him greatest recognition but this which I shall tell you hereafter which will deserue the name of wonder if rare things and seeldom seene be worthie of accompt Euen this it is that as I came to the Crowne with the willing hearts of my subiects so doe I now after xxviij yeres Reigne perceiue in you no diminution of good willes which if happily I should want well might I breath but neuer thinke I liued And now albeit I finde my life hath bene full dangerously sought death contriued by such as no desert procured yet am I therein so cleare from malice which hath the property to make men glad at the falles and faultes of their foes and make them seeme to doe for other causes when rancor is the ground as I protest it is and hath bene my grieuous thought that one not different in sexe of like Estate my neere kin shoulde fall into so great a crime yea I had so litle purpose to pursue her with any colour of malice that as it is not vnknowen to some of my Lordes here for nowe I will play the blabbe I secretly wrote her a letter vpon the discouery of sundry Treasons that if she woulde confesse them and priuately acknowledge them by her letters to my selfe shee neuer shoulde neede be called for them into so publike question Neither did I it of minde to circumuent her for then I Knew as much as she could confesse and so did I write And if euen yet nowe that the matter is made but to apparāt I thought she truely would repent as perhappes she would easily appeare in outwarde shewe to doe and that for her none other would take the matter vpon them or that we were but as tvvo milke maides vvith pailes vpon our armes or that there vvere no more dependancie vpon vs but mine ovvne life vvere onely in danger not the vvhole Estate of your Religion and vvell doings I protest vvherein you may beleeue me for though I may haue many vices I hope I haue not accustomed my tongue to be an instrument of vntrueth I would most vvillingly pardon and remit this offence Or if by my death other nations and Kingdomes might truely say that this Realme had attained an euerprosperous florishing estate I vvould I assure you not desire to liue but gladly giue my life to the ende my death might procure you a better Prince And for your sakes it is that I desire to liue to keepe you from a vvorse For as for me I assure you I finde no great cause I should be fonde to liue I take no such pleasure in it that I shoulde much vvish it nor cōceaue such terror in death that I should greatly feare it and yet I say not but if the stroke vvere cōming perchance flesh and blood vvould be moued vvith it and seeke to shunne it I haue had good experience and tryall of this vvorld I know what it is to be a subiect what to be a Soueraigne vvhat to haue good neighbors and sometime meete euill willers I haue founde treason in trust seene great benefits litle regarded in stead of gratefulnes courses of purpose to crosse These former remembrances present feeling and future expectation of euils I say haue made me thinke An euill is much the better the lesse while it endureth and so them happiest that are soonest hence taught me to beare with a better minde these treasons then is common to my sexe yea with a better heart perhaps then is in some mē Which I hope you wil not meerly impute to my simplicitie or want of vnderstāding but rather that I thus conceiued that had their purposes taken effect I should not haue found the blow before I had felt it and though my perill should haue bene great my paine shoulde haue bene but smal short wherein as I would be loth to dye so bloody a death so doubt I not but God would haue giuen me grace to be prepared for such an euent chance when it shall which I referre to his good pleasure And now as touching their treasons and conspiracies together with the contriuer of them I will not so preiudicate my selfe and this my Realme as to say or thinke that I might not without the last Statute by the ancient lawes of this land haue proceeded against her which was not made particularly to preiudice her though perhaps it might then be suspected in respect of the disposition of such as depend that way It was so farre from being intended to intrap her that it was rather an admonition to warne the danger thereof but sith it is made and in the force of a Lawe I thought good in that which might concerne her to proceede according thereunto rather then by course of common Law wherein if you

ground and onely subiect whereupon such daungerous practises and complots had bene founded against hir Maiesties most Royall person and the Estate of this Realme for these many yeeres to the ouerthrowe of sundrie of the Nobilitie of the land and danger of Christian religion and that they coulde see no hope of her desisting and her adherents hut that still her Maiesties safetie must bee hazarded and stand to the euent of the like miraculous discoueries Therefore as most humble and instant suppliants they did vpon their knees at her most gratious feete beseech and request in most earnest maner that aswell for the continuance of Gods Religion the quiet of this kingdome preseruation of her person and defence of them and their posterities it woulde please hir Highnesse to take order that the saide sentence might be published and such further direction giuen as was requisite in this so weightie a cause according to the purport and intent of the said Statute Wherin if her Maiestie pursuing her wonted clemencie should nowe be remisse besides the imminent danger to hir person she might by the stay thereof procure the heauie displeasure of Almightie God as by sundry seuere examples of his Iustice in the sacred Scriptures doth appeare And so he deliuered to her Maiesties owne handes the petition in writing which he said had bene with great deliberation assented vnto by all the whole Parliament A SHORT EXTRACT OF such reasons as were deliuered in speach by Master Sergeant Puckering Speaker of the Lower House before the Queenes most excellent Maiestie in her Presence Chamber at Richmond the xii of Nouember 1586. in the xxviii yeere of her Reigne containing diuers apparant and imminent dangers that may grow to her Maiesties most Royal person and to her Realme from the Scottish Queene and her Adherents if remedie be not prouided ¶ First touching the danger of her Maiesties person 1 BOth this Scottish Queene and her fauourers doe thinke her to haue right not to succeed but to enioy your Crowne in possession and therefore as she is a most impacient competitor so will shee not spare any meanes whatsoeuer that may bereaue vs of your Maiestie the onely impediment that she enioyeth not her desire 2 Shee is obdurate in malice against your royall person notwithstanding you haue shewed her all fauour and mercie as well inpreseruing her kingdome as sauing her life and saluing her honour And therefore there is no place for mercie since there is no hope that shee will desist from most wicked attempts the rather for that her malice appeareth such that shee maketh as it were her testament of the same to be executed after her death and appoynteth her executors to performe it 3 Shee boldly and openly professed it lawfull for her to mooue inuasion vpon you And therefore as of inuasion victorie may ensue and of victorie the death of the vanquished so did shee thereby not obscurely bewraie that shee thought it lawfull for her to destroie your sacred person 4 Shee thinkes it not onely lawfull but honourable also and meritorious to take your life from you as being alreadie depriued of your Crowne by the excommunication of the holie father And therefore it is like shee will as hitherto she hath done continually seeke it by whatsoeuer meanes 5 That shee is greedie of your Maiesties death and preferreth it before her owne life and safetie for in her direction to one of her late Complices she aduised vnder couert termes that whatsoeuer should become of her that tragicall execution should be performed vpon you The danger of the overthrow of the true Religion 1 IT most perillous to spare her that cōtinually hath sought the ouerthrow and suppression of true Religion infected with Poperie from her tender youth and being after that a Confederate in that Holy league when she came to age and euer since a professed enemie against the trueth 2 She resteth wholly vpon Popish hopes to deliuer and aduance her and is thereby so deuoted to that profession that aswell for satisfaction of others as for feeding of her owne humor she will supplant the Gospell where and whensoeuer she may which euill is so much the greater and the more to be auoyded as that it slayeth the very soule and will spread it selfe not onely ouer England and Scotland but also into those partes beyond the Seas where the Gospell of God is mainteined the which cannot but be exceedingly weakened by the defection of this noble Ilande The perill of the state of the Realme 1 AS the Lydians saide Vnum Regem agnoscunt Lydi duos autem tolerare non possunt So wee say Vnicam Reginam Elizabetham agnoscunt Angli duas autem tolerare non possunt 2 As she hath already by her allurements brought to destruction moe Noble men and their houses together with a greater multitude of the Commons of this Realme during her being here then she should haue bin able to doe if she had bene in possession of her owne Crowne and armed in the fielde against vs so will she still be continuall cause of the like spoyle to the greater losse perill of this Estate And therefore this Realme neither can nor may endure her 3 Againe she is the onely hope of all discontented subiects she is the foundation whereon all the euill disposed do builde she is the roote from whence all rebellions and trecheries do spring And therefore whilest this hope lasteth this foundation standeth and this roote liueth they will reteine heart and set on foote whatsoeuer their deuises against the Realme which otherwise will fall away die and come to nothing 4 Mercie now in this case towards her would in the ende proue crueltie against vs all Nam est quaedam crudelis misericordia and therefore to spare her is to spill vs. 5 Besides this it will exceedingly grieue and in a manner deadly wound the hearts of all the good Subiects of your land if they shall see a conspiracie so horrible not condingly punished 6 Thousands of your Maiesties most liege and louing Subiectes of all sorts and degrees that in a tender zeale of your Maiesties safetie haue most willingly both by open subscription and solemne vowe entred into a firme and loyall association and haue thereby protested to pursue vnto the death by all forcible and possible meanes such as she is by iust sentence nowe found to be can neither discharge their loue nor well saue their othes if your Maiestie shall keepe her aliue of which burden your Maiesties Subiects are most desirous to bee relieued as the same may be if iustice be done 7 Lastly your Maiesties most louing dutiful commons doubt not but that as your Maiestie is duely exercised in reading the Booke of God so it will please you to call to your princely remembrance how fearefull the examples of Gods vengeance bee that are there to bee founde against King Saul for sparing King Agag and against King Achab for sauing the life of