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A17013	English protestants plea, and petition, for English preists [sic] and papists to the present court of Parlament, and all persecutors of them: diuided into two parts. In the first is proued by the learned protestants of England, that these preists and Catholicks, haue hitherto been vniustly persecuted, though they haue often and publickly offered soe much, as any Christians in conscience might doe. In the second part, is proued by the same protestants, that the same preistly sacrificinge function, acknowledgeing and practize of the same supreame spirituall iurisdiction of the apostolick see of Rome, and other Catholick doctrines, in the same sence wee now defend them, and for which wee ar at this present persecuted, continued and were practized in this Iland without interruption in al ages, from S. Peter the Apostle, to these our tymes.	Broughton, Richard.	1621 (1621)	STC 3895.5; ESTC S114391	56,926	128

power Ormerod protest Assert an 1604. pag. 218. Then much lesse of that supreame power And if shee had been a man yett in that case your protestant historians before haue told vs made illegitimate by publicke parlament the Kinge Lords spirituall and temporall with the rest there must haue beene as greate a power to recall yt which was not in that her first parlament for the Lords spirituall whoe onely haue power in such cases did vtterly dissent to yeeld her any such priuiledge soe that noe man or company that had power of dispensations in such things dispensed with her but contrary Againe it is a maxime in the Lawes as you Lord Cooke writeth l. 4. fol 23. nemo potest plus iuris in alium transferre qnÃ m ipse habet None can giue more power to an other then they haue to giue and the contrarie is vnpossible Therefore seeing no Parlament that euer was in England when all the Bishops and Abbots and chiefe spirituall men it euer had were assembled had at any time either for themselues or to giue vnto any other that supreame spirituall power but as your Bishops haue told vs before it was wholly in the Pope of Rome euer from our conuersion and so could neuer be deriued to King Henry the eight or Edward the six Parker antiquit Britan. in Cranmer Polydor. Virg. in Henr. 8. l. vlt. histor c. it is much more stronge against Q. Elizabeth both for her sexe and the other incapabilitie as Protestants assure vs. And for her or any to clayme it by that Parlament wherein shee tooke it vpon her is a thing more then to be wondred at for all men of that Parlament which had any spiritual iurisdiction as the Catholike Bishops did by all meanes resist and contradict it and the words of the statute as your Protestants haue published it by which shee tooke vpon her to exercise it and persecute Catholikes onely by pretence of this power there giuen vnto her are these Most humbly beseech your most excellent Maiestie your faithful and obedient subiects the Lordes Spiritual and Temporal and the vvhole commons in this your present Parlament assembled That the supreame power spirituall should be in that Queene when it is euident by all our ProtestaÌ„t histories that not one Lord Spirituall either desired it or consented vnto it but all repugned and gaine-said it and for that cause were committed to prison or otherwise most grieuously afflicted Stow histor an 1. Elizab. Holinsh. Theater an 1. Eliz. Cambd. annal rerum Anglic. in 1. Elizab. c. And yet there was not any man in that Parlament that could giue vnto her if she had bene capable as she was not the least spiritual iurisdiction ouer the least parish in England And if she had not insisted in her fathers steppes of flatterie terrors dissimulatioÌ„ promises of great matters without performaÌ„ce in some degrees by the cunning of some about her without conscience exceeded him shee might haue founde as little applause and consent in the Lords temporall and others For vsing all meanes she could to further her strange proceedings partly to be hereafter from her Protestant writers remembred yet shee found such and so manifest reasons opposed against her that the scarres of those wounds then giuen to your religion will neuer be recouered A principall antiquarie among you writeth Cambden Annal. in Eliz. pag. 26. that the Lord Vicount Mountague which a little before had bene Ambassadour at Rome with Bishop Thursby of Ely for the reconciling of England to the Church of Rome in Queene Maries time publickly in parlament these opposed Hic ex Religionis ardore honoris ratione acriter instabat magno Angliae dedecori esse si ab Apostolica sede cui nuper se submisse reconciliarat mox deficeret Hee out of loue of religion and care of honour did earnestly vrge how great a shame it would be to England if it should so soone reuoult from the Sea Apostolike to which it had lately submissiuelie reconciled it selfe and would turne to greater danger if excommunicated it by such defection be exposed to the rage of neighboring enemies Hee in the name of the nobilitie and all degrees in England in their name had done obedience to the Pope of Rome and must needes performe it Therefore he vrgently besought them that they would not depart from the Romane Sea to which they were indebted both for first receauing the faith from thence and from thence hauing it continually preserued This was sufficiently prooued at that time of the reconciliation of England to the Church of Rome in open Parlament also by Cardinall Pole as your first protestantly ordeyned Archbish in these wordes affirmeth Parkerant Brit. in Reginald Polo HaÌ„c in sulae nobilitatem atque gloriam Dei prouidentiae atque beneficientiae soli accepta ferendam sed tamen viam ipsam atque rationem qua hac nobilitas atque gloria parta est sede Romana nobis prima semperque monstratam patefactam fuisse In Romana exinde fidei vnitate nos semper perseuerasse fuisseque nostram antiquissimam Romanae ecclesiae subiectionem The noblenes of this Iland for being the first of all the Prouinces of the worlde that receaued the Christian faith and the glorie thereof is to be acknowledged to haue proceeded from the prouidence and goodnesse of God yet the way it selfe and meanes by which this nobilitie glory was wonne vnto it was first alwaies shewed and layde open vnto vs from the Sea of Rome wee haue alwaies from that time perseuered in the vnity of the Romane faith and our subiection to the Romane Church is most auntient And this reconciling of England then to the Romane Church was so ioyful and honorable a thing to this natioÌ„ that to vse your Protestant Archbishops wordes Parker antiquit Britan. in Polo In Synodo decretum est vt dies ille quo pontifici Romano authoritas restituta fuerit quotannis festus dies celebraretur atque Anglicanae ecclesiae reconciliatio diceretur It was decreede in a Synode that the daye on which authoritie was restored to the Pope of Rome should yeerely be kept holie daie and called the Reconciliation of the Church of England Abbot Fecknham in Parlm Elizab. in his oration to that Parlament of Q. Elizabeth hath thus Damianus and Fugatianus as Ambassadours from the Sea Apostolike of Rome did bring into this Realme 1400. yeares past the very same religion whereof wee are now in possession and that in the latine tongue as the auntient historiographer Dominus Gylduas witnesseth in the prologue and beginning of his booke of the Britaine histories which he would not haue dared to vtter in that time and place but that then he could produce that antiquitie to be his warrant which with many others condemning the new religion of Protestants are by them suppressed All the Bishops of whom more hereafter and whom tearmeth your Protestant glorious renowned men obfirmate

of conscience King Iames in Parlament therefore of himselfe he did not thinke vs worthie to be persecuted or inthralled but rather lightned of those miseries as his next wordes a warrant I was so far from encreasing their burdens with Roboam as I haue so much as either time occasion or lawe could permit lightned them And in his censure against Conradus Vorstius the Dutch heretike recounting the differences betweene protestants and vs hee findeth not one for which we may be persecuted but the contrary At his comming in he set the Catholikes and Priestes at libertie gaue free pardons vnto all of them both priests and others that would sue them foorth and paye foure or fiue Nobles at the moste for them to the Lorde Chancellour In those pardons hee remitted both the guilt and danger from priesthood and much more then any of vs had transgressed in he stiled vs as our dignities discentes or callings were gentlemen priestes or of what degree dignitie or preeminence soeuer he were his belooued subiects which wordes and state are incompatible wtth the name of Treason in those pardons hee pardoned whatsoeuer could be in any rigour interpreted to be within the daunger of that Lawe both our comming into England and abyding and remayninge heere so that by pardon being dead they cannot possiblie be reuiued because the graunt is irreuocable Our comming in was but one indiuiall acte and offence in Lawe and so remitted cannot be offence our continuance and remayning so long as we doe not reiterate it againe by going foorth and comming in the second time is also but one particular singular and indiuidual action without discontinuance one ens fluens as all such not interrupted be an hower a daye a weeke a moneth a yeare a life an age and the like This all philosophie common reason whereon our common law is and must be founded teacheth vs. Thus diuers protestaÌ„t good lawyers haue answered thus his Maiestie esteemed when hearing of a priest named M. Freeman put to death for his priesthood by the Iudges of Warwicke soone after his Maiesties comming hither with signe of sorrow answered Alas poore man had he not foure nobles to buye his pardon by which he concluded that a priest being pardoned for his priesthood could not after for being a priest be put to death or tearmed a traytour or indanger his friends and receauers but was a free and lawfull true subiect from that imputation His Maiestie also allowed the times of Constantine for times of true Religion and the Roman Church then and after to be the true our mother Church and not to be departed from Then wee may not so vnder-value the learning and iudgement of our learned and Soueraigne in diuinitie and histories but he well knoweth which no learned man is ignorant of that in the time of Constantine the Church of Rome had the same holy sacrifice of Masse and the same holy sacrifycing priesthood which now it hath which I will hereafter demonstrate by the best learned protestant antiquaries of this nation as also that the Church of Rome at the reuolt of King Henry the 8. was the same in all essential things which it was in that prefixed time of Constantine And to be liberal to my needy protestant contrymen in this case I say that the Church of Rome the Religion of the Priests of England their priesthood and sacrifice of the Masse is the same which were in Rome and in this Iland also in S. Peters time in euery age without interruption since then vnto these dayes of Protestants And if we may beleeue Isaac Casaubon the stipendarie champion for the Protestants of England who saith ab ore regis accepi and haec est Religio Regis Angliae c. Isaac Casaubon contra Cardinal Peron Pag. 50.51.52 I haue it from the Kings mouth this is the Religion of the King this is the Religion of the Church of England The fathers of the Primatiue church did acknowledge one sacrifice in christian Religion that succeeded in the place of the sacrifice of Moses The sacrifice offered by Priests is Christs bodie and the same obiect and thing which the Romane Church beleeueth These and such things troubled the heads of some great Protestant persecutors in England their consciences being guiltie of some-what not good that they coulde not enduer the least clemency of his Maiestie towards his loyall and truest catholike subiects but olde stratagems and tragedies of Queene Elizabeths time must needes be renewed and playde againe to bring not only the Catholikes of England but their holy religion if possiblie it could be done into obloquie especiallie with his gratious Maiestie and thereupon an execrable and most damnable treacherie by gunpowder was to be inuented for a few wicked desperatly minded men to doe whom many protestants tearmed papists although the true Priests and Catholikes of England knew them not to bee such nor can any protestant truely say that any one of them was such a one as their lawes and proceedings against vs name Papists Popish recusants or the like What he was papist or protestant rich or poore noble or vnnoble of Courte or countrey that was inuentor of this horrible deuise I will not discusse but referre all indifferently minded men and of iudgement able to discerne the probable trueth in such a cause to the historie and circumstances thereof as they are set downe by the Protestant historian M. Ed. How 's histor of Engl. in King Iames. But to graunt to our Protestant persecutors for arguments sake that which I may not and they will as hardly proue that this wicked interprise was first inuented by Catesby and some of his consorts and that diuers of them were papists and had acquaintance with the chiefe Iesuite then in England who at least in confession knew of this conspiracie did not reueale it that there were foure of this coÌ„panie arraigned for the conspiracie three gentlemeÌ„ though two of these Fauxe and Keyes were but seruing men as the fourth Thomas Bates styled yeomaÌ„ that one Knight and three Esquires concealed it of which the Knight was so ignorant that as the Protestant relator of this matter saith at his death he spake these wordes Howes supr in Sir Edward Digby If he had knowne it first to haue bene so fowle a treason he would not haue concealed it to haue gayned a world Which he could not haue truely said if he had knowne it in particular in it selfe a most horrible damnable thing and the rest as this author writeth dyed penitent and besought all Catholikes neuer to attempt such a bloodie acte being a course which God did neuer fauour nor prosper Those that were vp in tumult with Catesby were as the Protestants relateth Howes supr neuer full fourscore strong besides many of their houshold seruants no doubt papists if their maisters were so forsooke them how erlie yet they diuulged many detestable vntruths against the king state

well wishing contry man TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE Court of parlament especially such as therein bee persecutors of Catholicks and to all other such persecutors A Breuiate of the vndoubted truthe of catholick Religion persecuted in England Right honorable and the rest THe penalties and persecutions which in these daies of Protestants haue been heaped vpon and prosecuted against the sacred preists and renowned Catholicks of England haue beene soe heauy and greate by his Maiesties regall sentence in publice parlament that they moued him to these words of commiseration My mynde was euer free from persecution or thrallinge my subiects in matters of conscience I was soe far froÌ„ encreasing their burdens with Roboham as I haue soe much as either tyme occasion or lawe could permitt lightned them Your Courte well knoweth what the case of Roboham was wee neede say noe more and what other heauie burdens haue been since then heaped vpon vs And by your present assemblie now againe to bee inuented and added in his publick speach in his 1. parlam You cannot possibly bee ignorant what an eminent man in your house and companie hath written of the opinion of the christian world of these proceedings The suffrings Syr Edwyne Sandes speaketh vnto you in his booke of the relation of the state of Religion and martyrdomes of English catholicks in these times ar accompted to the height of Neroes and Dioclesians persecutions and the suffrings on their side both in meritts of cause in extremitie of torments and in constancie and patience to the renowned martyrs of that heroicall church age What Nero and Dioclesian were amonge the greatest tyrants and persecutors your place and lawe-makers may not pleade ignorance neyther what the honor and glory of that moste sacred preisthood sacrifice and Religions which soe vehemently and beyonde example you persecute If all catholicks would bee silent your owne protestant Bishops and Antiquaries haue published in Theaters histories to the present world and future posterities that the very same were planted and embraced here in the Apostles tyme and were neuer chaunged in any materiall thinge vntill your pretended reformatioÌ„ Protest Bishops in the Theater of Brit. l. 6. Holinsh. â—ist of Engl. in Claud. Cambden in Britan. Godwyn Conuers Parker antiq Brit. GrymstoÌ„ booke of Estaâ—es in Engl. Scotland Ireland Yf wee appeale to kings and parlaments â— whereon you builde all the auncient parlaments lawes liues of the kings of ScotlaÌ„d â—ry out vnto vs that after 80. Christian kings â—here king Iames is the first and onely proâ—estant kinge The parlaments lawes liues of kings and histories of England and Ireland doe publish vnto vs that of all his primogeniâ—ors kings of these nations hee alone is protestant kinge of them Hee claymeth nothing from king Henry 8. Edward 6. or Q Elizabeth â—ee enioyeth and longe and happily God graunt him to enioy it this Empire by a betâ—er and truer right then they could giue him Hector Boeth Vereca alij hist Scot. all English â—rish hist with their parlam c. Your histories and the laste wills and testaments of those kings ar witnesses against theÌ„ and your Religion that they laboured moste â—niustly against the lawe of God and nature â—o suppresse the vnquestionable right of our soueraigne and his holy mother Edw. Howes preface historial in king Henr. 8. last will of king Henr. 8. All those lawes parlaments and antiquities ar warrant that from our first conuertion to Christ wee had noe other Bishops preists ministers or church seruice which you call communion but Romane catholicke Bishops preists whom you make Traytors and sacrifice of masse for the liuinge and the dead now soe persecuted by you vntill the second parlament of kinge Edward 6. a childe moste childishly began this innouation Parlament 2. Edw. 6. cap. â— an 5. c. 1. Confer at hampt court And in Scotland your ministry and communioÌ„ deuised there by that Traytor to God and prince is of a yonger standinge in the yeares 1560. and 1571. Commun booke c. of the kirke of Scotland by Iohn knoxe 9. of march an 1560. and 1571. Your protestant Antiquaries mustar vnto vs about 1000. approued classicall writers in this kingdome that be renowned in the christian world whoe were such preists said masse preached and proued that Religion they tell vs of many thousand Bishops by continuall succession from our first christianitie of aboue 1000. canonized Saints of diuers thousands of Religious men and woemen liuing in continuall pouertie chastitie and obedience since the tyme of Saint Ioseph of Arimathia that buryed Christ and brought monasticall life into this kingdome wee had 700. Religious howses founded for them which you haue defaced Baleus l. de Scriptor centur 1.2.3.4 Ioh. Leland de script Pitseus de vir illustrib aetate 2.3.4.5 c. Capgrau al. de Sanct. histor Angl. passim Theater of Brit. per tot Stowe hist Holinsh. histor Eng. Scot. Irland Camb. Britan. Our Religion builded those churches which â—ou haue reserued many thowsands which â—ou haue defaced Wee enioyed aboue the â—hird part of England to our Religion 600. â—eares paste and after wee had more kings Queens and princes Saints in this Island and â—reland by your owne historyes and kaleÌ„ders â—hen there euer were since in all the world of â—our Religion Tom. 1.2.3.4 Concil Our Religion had for external warraÌ„t aboue 20. general â—ouncells From the first of nyce in the time of Constantine our Kinge Emperour and conâ—ryman and Sardyce where the popes supreaâ—acy masse and preisthood are confirmed Concil Nic. 1. can 6.7 Sardic concil Theater of Briâ—an in Brit. Stowe hist. Holinsh. ib. Camb. Brit. which our brittist bishops receued vntill the â—aste of Trent in the tyme of Q. Elizabeth to which our catholicke Bishop Pates of worcesâ—er subscribed for England for vs and against you as your protestant Bishop telleth vs. Godwyn Catalog of Bish. in worcester in Rich. Pates wee had consequently all holy fathers and Bishops present in them to warrant vs. wee had and haue as your protestants acknowledge Casaubon respons ad Cardinal Peron pag. 69.70 all Apostolicke seas for vs against you wee had and haue consequently all those true and vndeniable motiues of true ReligioÌ„ which moued the christian world to embrace the lawe of Christ to assure and confirme vâ— in this truthe wee see and knowe that this our holy faith accordinge to the foretelling of Christ his prophets and Apostles is preached and planted in all the worlde Europe Africke Asia and America neuer any Religion in the lawe of nature of Moyses Iewes Turcks Tartares protestants pagans or other is or was at any tyme in any degree dilated as it is Grymston Booke of estates in kâ— of Spaine Europe Asia Africk America And for externall splendor at home it was soe greate when king Henry 8. began to enuie the glory of it that he promised the parlameÌ„t as your protestaÌ„t histories assure vs if it would graunt him power to visitt

of her cause was such and the learning and conuersation of life of those her Protestant ministers whom she must imploy in this busines so vnequall and inferiour to the Catholike Bishops and Cleargie of England that no hope of such succeâ—e as they sought could bee except these holie and worthie men were depriued imprisoned banished or vtterly one way or other put to silence in such maner that after their deathes our most sacred order of Priesthood which had continued in this nation here in honor and glorie from S. Peter the Prince of the Apostles as we haue made demonstrance in other places might vtterly and for euer be abolished and extinguished as these fewe secrete friends of those designements open Antipriests or Antichristians for the Religion of Christ cannot be without the Priests of Christs plotted and hoped to effect Your principall protetestant Antiquarie thus relateth that cruel Tragedie Camden in Annalib pag. 36. Parlamento dimisso ex eiusdem authoritate Episcopis pontificijs alijs ecclesiasticae professionis iuramentum suprematus proponitur Quotquot iurare abnuerunt beneficijs dignitatibus exuuntur 80. rectores ecclesiarum 50. prebendarij 15. praesides Collegiorum Archidiaconi 12. totidem decani 6. Abbates Abbatissae episcopi 14. Omnes qui tunc sederunt praeter vnum Antonium Landauensem sedis suae calamitatem The Parlament being ended by the authoritie therof the oath of the Queenes supreamacie was proposed to the popish Bishops and all Ecclesiasticall persons as many as refused to sweare were depriued of their benefices dignities and Bishoprickes 80. Rulers of Churches 50. Prebendaries 15. Masters of Colledges 12. Archdeacons 12. Deanes 6. Abbots and Abbases and 14. Bishops all that then remained except one Anthony Bishop of Landaffe the calamitie of his See These Bishops inferiour in vertue and learning to none in Europe as your Protestants acknowledge Mason lib. 3. consecrat c. 1. pag. 100. Cambd. in Annal. sup Stowe histor an 1. Eliz. Holinsh. hist of Engl. 16. thus deposed and imprisoned and there to languish to death they thought none could suruyue to consecrate anie more priestes for England and all rulers of our Colledges in our then renowned Vniuersities thus expelled that would not forsweare themselues in such a sacrilidgeous manner they thought themselues assured we could haue no succession of Catholike students here to enter into that holy priestly order But non est consilium contra Dominum there is no counsayle against our Lord. The prophane craft and wylinesse of a few wicked men ioyned with a womans spiritual supreamacie was too weake to oppose and battaile against the heauenly wisdome and will of God For a very small number and those of the meanest then of our glorious Cleargie transporting themselues to Catholike nations and by such poore meanes as they could procure liueing in collegiall discipline and order at Doway in Flaunders where our common happie and spirituall Nurse and Mother is haue so wounderfull and far beyond the reach of your protestant polycies and strategems to the honour of God and his holy cause against you multiplied and encreased that the number and glory of our renowned publikely stiled writers which in this time haue come from thence giueth not place to anye age since our firste conuersion to Christe Pits de virg illustrib Brit. aetate 16.17 our holye Martirs violently put to death by your Edictes and proceedings Stowe histor in Henric. 8. Elizabeth Iacob Catalog martyr sub Henric. 8. Elizab. Iacob 1.5 exceede the number are not exceeded in glorie by any that histories amonge vs remember or whose memories by iniquitie of times are not remaining except the nouenius persecution duringe but nine yeares Gyldas de excid ours ninetimes as longe vnder Dioclesian the tyrant The Religious men of our Nation all the spirituall Children of that Mother are nowe possessours of manye Religious Colledges and Monasteries vnder Catholike princes and some of them in England with so many of ours are enrolled in the Catologue of glorious martyrs and a great number here stil working in this holy labour with vs. And if to enter into scholes with your best learned wee needed their assistance wee doubt not but diuers of them are both wel able and also readie to assist vs. But wee haue euer bene so far from either needing or requiring it of them that when you gaue vs the greatest hopes of disputation wee neuer sent for any of our owne re-â—enowned professors lyuing in forraine nations But as true Priests of England are the successors of Saint Peter the glorious Apostle and his holie Disciples in this Nation by a continued and neuer yett interrupted Hierarchicall succession to this daye as we will iustifie against your best antiquaries and diuines and firste after our Bishops by you depriued imprisoned and persecuted vndertooke this quarrell of God in hande against you and gayned many soules to Christ and for no crueltie or persecutions you raysed or exagerated against them coulde at any time be forced to forsake that holie combate they had vndertaken But as true Pastors they aduentured and gaue their liues for the sheepe of our highest shepheard and redeemer so to the hazard of the honour of Catholike Religion if Protestants could haue put them to foyle in all these miseries and afflictions destitute of bookes conference and harbour oftentimes to hide their heades they were euer readie to offer and entreate for tryall with vnequall conditions and so vnequall and preiudiciall to the disputante Priestes and Catholickes of Englande that except they had beene so confidente in their cause that they could not be ouercome and the Protestant Bishops and Doctors compleately furnished and prouided of all thinges requisite to such a conflicte if their quarrell were iust had not bene desperatly diffident in these matters neither might the Catholikes in conscience haue made those suits and offers or these protestants without damnable shame haue refused them as the petitions themselues will be euerlasting witnesse to the world And when the protestant state of England had in aboue twenty of the first yeares of Q. Elizabeth afflicted vs with many miseries and had put many of our renowned and best learned priests M. Sherwine Foord and others to whom they durst not graunt priuate disputation in the Tower itselfe though neuer so secret vniustly to cruell death and had vsed M. Campion the glorie of that Societie in England in such measure neuer allowing him to defende his owne written booke though neuer so priuatly vntill by tortures and rackes they had al-most depriued him of his life and after with many of our learned and holy priests did depriue him thereof had banished M. Heywood and M. Parsons had forsaken England the three prime English Iesuits of that time And no other religious man either of that or any other order but onely priests being here and of them aboue thirtie in prisoÌ„ in the Tower Marshalsea Kings-bench and other places About which time the 27.

omitting no scandal which they thought might serue their traiterous purpose that they were assembled and prepared to some special seruice for the aduancement of the catholike cause hoping thereby to haue drawne into their rebellion those of that religion other wilful malecontents And to make euident it was rather a madde desperat attempt of one priuate kindred or acquaintance then of any religion Thus it is creedibly recounted by them that knew their discents for I was a stranger to them all Catesby and Tresham were sisters children the two Graunts brethren and the elder intermarryed with Winters sister calling his eldest sonne Winter Graunt the Winters Grandmother was sister to the GraÌ„dmother of Catesby Treshame and so they were kinsmen Yorke and the Winters sisters children by the Englebies the two Wrytes long time dependers of Catesby and their sister married to Percy Catesby Tresham T. Winter two Wrights and Graunt were in Essex rebellion All these were yong except Percy who gaue the Pistoll to his Maister the olde Earle of Northumberland in the Tower And if any of these were Catholikes or so dyed they were knowne Protestants not long before and neuer frequenters of Catholike Sacramentes with any Priest as I could euer learne as all the Protestant courts will witnesse not one of them a conuicted or knowne Catholike or recusant And of all these remembred of that conspiracie or acquainted with it the L. Mounteagle now L. Morley who disclosed it was most noted to be a Catholike as his Ladie and ChildreÌ„ were Therefore seeing as the Protestants haue testified no Catholikes could by any deuise be drawne into this matter not one among so many hundreth or thousands of knowne Catholikes priuie vnto it but detesting it when it was knowne the Archpriest by writing condemning it presently when he vnderstood it all his Priests abhorring it euery one of theÌ„ with the Archpriests warrant and the consent of the chiefest Catholikes in England and all they in their petitions hereafter condemning it for a most horrible offence Archpriest letter of prohibit Author of moderat answ epist dedicat to the king Catholiks petitions to the parlament and chiefe Secretary And not one either Prieste or knowne Catholike with all those strickt and diligent searches and examinations then made by the protestant state about it was either prooued or probablie suspected to be guiltie of it but so farre freede that the Lords of the Councel requested that a Priest should be appoynted to perswade and assure Fauxe a chiefe agent in it that he was bound in conscience to vtter what he could of that conspiracie and M. Tho. Write a learned Priest did hereupon come to the councell and offer his best seruice herein and had a warrant to that purpose subsigned with 12. priuie Councellors hands which he shewed vnto me and I am witnesse of his hauing such a warrant But as he said Fauxe had confessed all they could wish before he could come vnto him so that no man of conscience can or will thinke but generally al the Priestes and Catholikes of England did rather deserue fauour honour and enfranchisement from all afflictions for their moste religious and holy seruing of God and as loyal obedient and dutiful trueth alleageance and fidelitie to our protestant King and countrey then the least disfauour for this practise For if the Priestes and Catholikes so manie thousands in England would haue entertayned it no man can be so malicious and simple to thinke but there would haue bene a greater assemblie then fourescore to take such an action in hand and the councell could not be so winking eyed but they would haue found foorth some one or other culpable which they could neuer doe though some of them most powreable in it tentered and racked forth their enuie and hatred against vs to the vttermost limites they could extend To confirme this our innocencie the kings Maiestie in his second proclamation against that wickednesse calleth all the confederates men of lewde insolent disposition and for the most part of desperate estate Proclamat 2. against Percy c. an 1605. and in his third Proclamation when they were all discouered and knowne thus he proclaimeth and publisheth Procl 3. an eod 1605. It appeareth now in part who were the complices in this detestable Treason published by our former proclamations in their assembling together to mooue our people to rebellion although perhaps many of them did neuer vnderstande the secrete of his Percies abhominable purpose Where wee plainely see that the King and his counsell then knew the complices and partakers of that villanie yet they neuer taxed any Priest or knowne catholike therewith And it further proueth that they which ioyned therein knew not the practise in particular neither durst the workers of it disclose it to theÌ„ least for the vilenes of it they would haue reiected or reuealed it as al true Catholiks would haue done And his Maiestie in publicke parlament doth free Catholikes as much as Protestants in this inuention when hee plainelie saith as trueth is if it had taken effect Protestants and Papists should haue all gone awaye and perished together Kings speath parl an 1605. And to demonstrate from his maiesties publike acte that Priestes and catholikes were as innocent as Protestants and as the Kings Maiestie himselfe of this and all such vilenesse hee declareth by Proclamation Proclamat die 7. Nouembr an 1605 We are by good experience so well perswaded of the loyaltie of diuers subiectes of the Romane religion that they doe as much abhorre this detestable conspiracie as our selfe and will be readie to doe their best endeauours though with expence of their blood to suppresse al attempters against our safetie and the quiet of our estate to discouer whomsoeuer they shall suspect to be of rebellious or trayterous disposition Thus his maiestie by good experience hath publickly pronounced And though I am no Iesuit yet religioÌ„ iustice charitie draw my pen to write thus much for the supposed guiltines of M. Garnet superior of Iesuits here at that time we haue but the protestants affirmation and him denying it and we haue from the same protestants that which rather iustifyeth his denial then their affirmatioÌ„ for they published his examination before the Councell wherein they set downe his opinion H. Garnets examination before the Councel anno 1605. That the Pope could not depose the king and they adde his reason thus because the King was neuer subiect to the Pope which reason I doe not examine but thus iustifie that if in his opinion the pope could not depose the king and the king was neuer subiect to the pope then the pope could not licence any man supposed a Catholike so to proceed for himselfe could not by this his opinion so doe much lesse any papist by his allowance and if the king was neuer subiect to the pope he could neuer be subiect to any papist the popes and his owne subiect And whereas

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