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A91202	King Richard the Third revived. Containing a memorable petition and declaration contrived by himself and his instruments, whiles Protector, in the name of the three estates of England, to importune and perswade him to accept of the kingship, and crown of England, by their joynt election, (as if he were unwilling to undertake, or accept, though he most ambitiously aspired after them, by the bloudy murthers of K. Henry 6. Edward 5. and sundry others) before his coronation; presented afterwards to, and confirmed by the three estates and himself, in his first Parliament, to give him a colourable title both by inheritance, and their election to the crown. Transcribed out of the Parliament roll of 1.R.3. (printed in Speeds History of Great Britain: where his other additionall policies to engage the City of London, lawyers, divines and people, to elect, and make him their king, are at large recorded.)	Prynne, William, 1600-1669.	1657 (1657)	Wing P3990; Thomason E896_5*; Thomason E903_9; ESTC R203357	7,970	11

that the Land was ruled by self-will and pleasure fear and dread all manner of Equity and Law laid apart and despised whereof ensued many inconveniencies and mischiefs as Murders Extortions and Oppressions namely of poor and impotent people so that no man was sure of his life land or livelyhood ne of his wife daughter or servant every good maiden and woman standing in fear to be ravished and deflowred And besides this what discorts inward battels effusion of Christian mens blouds and namely by the destrnction of the Nobles blood of this land was had and committed within the same it is evident and notorious through all this Realm unto the great sorrow and heavinesse of all true English men And here also we consider how that the said pretended Mariage betwixt the above-named King Edward and Elizabeth Gray was made of great presumption without the knowing and assent of the Lords of this land and also by Sorcery and Witchcraft committed by the said Elizabeth and her Mother Iaquet Dutchesse of Bedford as the common opinion of the people and the publique voice and fame is throughout all this land and hereafter if the cause shall require shall be proved sufficiently in time and place convenient And here also we consider how that the said pretended Mariage was made privily and secretly without edition of banes in a private Chamber a prophane place and not openly in the face of the Church after the Law of Gods Church but contrary thereunto and the laudable custom of the Church of England and how also at the time of contract of the same pretended Mariage and before and long time after the said King Edward was and stood maried and troth-plight to one Dame Elinor Butler daughter to the Earl of Shrewsbury with whom the said King Edward had made a Precontract of Matrimony long time before he made the said pretended Mariage with the said Elizabeth Gray in manner and form aforesaid Which premisses being true as in very truth they be true it appeareth and followeth evidently that the said King Edward during his life and the said Elizabeth lived together sinfully and damnably in adultery against the Law of God and of his Church and therefore no marvel that the Soveraign Lord and head of the land being of such ungodly disposition and provoking the ire and indignation of our Lord God such heynous mischief and Inconveniences as are above remembred were used and committed in the Realm amongst the Subjects Also it appeareth evidently and followeth that all the issue and children of the said King Edward be Bastards and unable to inherit or claim any thing by inheritance by the Law and custom of England Moreover we consider how that afterwards by the three Estates of this Realm assembled in Parliament holden at Westminster Anno 17. of the reign of the said King Edward the 4th he then being in possession of the Crown and royal Estate by Act made in the same Parliament George Duke of Clarence brother to the King Edward now deceased was convicted and attainted of High Treason as in the said Act is contained more at large because and by reason whereof all the issue of the said George was and is disabled and barred of all right and claim that in any case they might have or challenge by inheritance to the Crown and Dignity royal of this Realm by the antient Laws and Customs of this same Realm Over this we consider that you be the undoubted heir of Richard Duke of York very inheritor of the said Crown and dignity royal and as in right King of England by way of Inheritance And that at this time the premises duly considered there is none other person living but you only that may claim the said Crown and Dignity royal by way of Inheritance and how that you be born within this Land by reason whereof as we deem in our minds you be more naturally inclined to the prosperity and common weal of the same And all the three Estates of the Land have and may have more certain knowledge of your birth and filiation aforesaid We consider also the great wit prudence Justice Princely courage and the memorable and laudable acts in divers battels which as we by experience know you heretofore have done for the defence salvation of this Realm and also the great noblenesse and excellency of your birth and bloud as of him that is descended of the three most royal houses of Christendom that is to say England France and Spain Wherefore these premises duly by us considered we desiring effectually the peace tranquillity and weal publique of this Land and the reduction of the same to the antient honourable estate and prosperity And having in your great prudent Justice Princely courage and excellent vertue singular confidence * have chosen in all that in us is and by that our Writing choose you high and mighty Prince our King and Soveraign Lord c. to whom we know of * certain it appertaineth of Inheritance so to be chosen And hereupon we humbly desire pray and require your most Noble grace that according this election of us the three estates of your Land as by inheritance you will accept and take upon you the said Crown and royal dignity with all things thereunto annexed and appertaining as to you of right belonging as well by inheritance as by lawfull election and in case you so do we promise to assist and serve your Highnesse as true and faithfull Subjects and Liegemen and to live and dye with you in this matter and in every other just quarrel for certainly we be determined rather to adventure and commit us to the peril of our lives and jeopardy of death than to live in such thraldom and bondage as we have done long time heretofore oppressed and injured by Extortions and new Impositions against the Law of God and Man and the liberties and old policy and Laws of this Land wherein every Englishman is Inherited Our Lord God King of all Kings by whose infinite goodnesse and eternal providence all things bin principally governed in this world lighten your Soul and grant you grace to doe as well in this matter as in all other that which may be according to his will and pleasure and to the common and publique weal of this Land So that after great clouds troubles storms and tempests the Sun of Iustice and of Grace may shine upon us to the joy and comfort of all true-hearted Englishmen Albeit that the right title and estate which our Soveraign Lord King Richard the Third hath to and in the Crown and Royal dignity of this Realm of England with all things thereunto within the same Realm and without it annexed and appertaining bin just and lawfull as grounded upon the Laws of God Nature and also upon the antient

KING Richard the Third REVIVED Containing A Memorable Petition and Declaration contrived by himself and his Instruments whiles Protector in the name of the three Estates of England to importune and perswade him to accept of the Kingship and Crown of England by their joynt Election as if he were unwilling to undertake or accept though he most ambitiously aspired after them by the bloudy murthers of K. Henry 6. Edward 5. and sundry others before his Coronation presented afterwards to and confirmed by the three Estates and himself in his first Parliament to give him a colourable Title both by Inheritance and their Election to the Crown Transcribed out of the Parliament Roll of 1. R. 3. printed in Speeds History of Great Britain where his other Additionall Policies to engage the City of London Lawyers Divines and People to elect and make him their King are at large recorded Eccles. 3. 15. That which hath been is now and that which is to be hath already been and God requireth that which is driven away 1 Sam. 12. 17 19. The Lord shall send thunder and rain that ye may perceive and see that your wickednesse is great which ye have done in the sight of the Lord in asking you a King And all the people said unto Samuel Pray for thy servants unto the Lord thy God that we die not for we have added unto all our sins this evil to ask us a King LONDON Printed for William Leak at the Crown in Fleetstreet betwixt the two Temple-Gates 1657. In Rotulo Parliamenti tenti apud Westm. die Veneris vicessimo tertio die Januarii Anno regni Regis Richardi Tertii primo inter alia continentur ut sequitur Memorand quod quaedam Billa exhibita fuit coram Domino Rege in Parliamento praedicto in haec verba WHereas late heretofore that is to say before the Consecration Coronation and Inthronization of our Soveraign Lord King Richard the Third a roll of Parchment containing in writing certain Articles of the tenor underwriten on the behalf and in the name of the three Estates of this Realm of England that is to say of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and of the Commons by name and divers Lords Spiritual and Temporal and other Nobles and notable persons of the Commons in great multitude was presented actually delivered unto our said Soveraign Lord the intent and effect expressed at large in the same roll to the which roll and to the Considerations and instant petition comprized in the same our said Soveraign Lord for the publique weal and tranquility of this Land being duly assented Now for as much as neither the said three Estates neither the said persons which in their name presented and delivered as it is aforesaid the said Roll unto our said Soveraign Lord the King were assembled in form of Parliament by reason whereof divers doubts questions and ambiguities been moved and ingendred in the minds of divers persons as it is said Therefore to the perpetual memory of the truth and declaration of the same be it ordained provided and established in this present Parliament that the Tenor of the said Roll with all the Contents of the same presented as is abovesaid and delivered to our abovesaid Soveraign Lord the King in the name and in the behalf of the said three Estates out of Parliament Now by the said * three Estates assembled in this present Parliament and by authority of the same be ratified enrolled recorded approved and authorized to the removing of the occasions of doubts and ambiguities and to all other lawfull effects that shall now thereof ensue so that all things said affirmed specified desired and remembred in the said Roll and in the tenour of the same underwritten in the name of the said three Estates to the effect expressed in the said Roll be of the like effect vertue and force as if all the same things had been so said affirmed specified and remembred in full Parliament and by authority of the same accepted and approved the Tenor of the said Roll of Parchment wherof above is made mention followeth and is such To the high and mighty Prince Richard Duke of Gloucester PLeaseth it your Noble Grace to understand the considerations election and Petition underwritten of us the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons of this Realm of England and thereunto agreeable to give your assent to the Common and publique weal of this land and to the comfort and gladnesse of all the people of the same First we consider how that heretofore in time passed this land for many years stood in great prosperity honour and tranquillity which was caused for so much as the Kings reigning used and followed the advice and counsel of certain Lords Spiritual and Temporal and other persons of approved sagenesse prudence policy and experience dreading God and having tender zeal and affection to indifferent administration of Justice and to the Common and publique weal of the land Then our Lord God was dread loved and honoured Then within the land was peace and tranquillity and among the neighbours Concord and Charity Then the malice of outward enemies was mightily resisted and repressed and the land honourably defended with many great and glorious victories Then the intercourse of Merchants was largely used and exercised by which things above remembred the land was greatly inriched so that as well the Merchants as the Artificers and other poor people labouring for their living in divers Occupations had competent gain to the satisfaction of them and their housholds living without miserable and intollerable poverty But afterwards when as such had the rule and governance of this land delighting in adulation and flattery and led by sensuality and concupiscence followed the counsel of persons insolent vicious and of inordinate avarice despising the Counsel of persons good vertuous and prudent such as above be remembred the prosperity of this land decreased daily so that our felicity was turned into misery and our prosperity into adversity and the order of policy and the Lawes of God and man confounded whereby it is likely this Realm to fall into great misery and desolation which God defend without due provision of convenable remedie be had in this behalf in all godly haste Over this among other things more special we consider how that the time of the reign of Edw 4th late deceased after the ungracious pretended mariage as all England hath cause to say made betwixt the said King Edward and Elizabeth sometimes Wife to Sir Iohn Gray Knight late naming her self and many years heretofore Queen of England the order of politique rule was perverted the Laws of God and of Gods Church c. also the Laws of Nature and of England and also the laudable customs and liberties of the same wherein every Englishman is inheritor is broken subverted and contemned against all Reason and Justice so