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A05354	A treatise tovvching the right, title, and interest of the most excellent Princess Marie, Queene of Scotland, and of the most noble king Iames, her Graces sonne, to the succession of the croune of England VVherein is conteined asvvell a genealogie of the competitors pretending title to the same croune: as a resolution of their obiections. Compiled and published before in latin, and after in Englishe, by the right reuerend father in God, Iohn Lesley, Byshop of Rosse. VVith an exhortation to the English and Scottish nations, for vniting of them selues in a true league of amitie.; Defence of the honour of the right highe, mightye and noble Princesse Marie Quene of Scotlande and dowager of France. Selections	Leslie, John, 1527-1596.	1584 (1584)	STC 15507; ESTC S108494	94,307	147

common bond of loue among all Princes generallye I may not herein ouer passe that godlye father which sittethe in the holy Seat and as it is well knowen like a second Samuel will not anoint with holye oyle that is to say confirme by his authoritie any other to be rulers ouer Christians than suche Princes as might well seme to be Sauls and Dauids whiche represented the persones of all laufull Kynges For beside her vndoubted right of Succession which is accounted a kynd of diuine callyng and choyse to a Kyngdome this may speciallie persuade hym to defend her as his daughter whiche neyther by straitnesse of prison nor by any kinde of affliction could be hitherto seduced from honoring him as her father VVhat nede is there to call vpon the most sacred Emperour and other Kynges and Princes in particular sith they are all allied vnto the sayd noble Queene eyther by a sure knot of amitie and frendship or by a most fast bond of consanguinitie and kynred Neyther is it necessarie to proue this by genealogies and pedegrues seing the world allredye knoweth that she is descended both by father and mother from the most noble Princes Kynges and Emperours of the whole Christian worlde As for the nobilitie and Commons of England this should moue them to loue her that she is come so many wayes of English blood and had her great Grandmother out of the Princelie house of Somerset and had for her Grandmother the Lady Margaret eldest daughter to King Henrye the seuenth And is not this muche to moue them further that she was by this meanes so muche affected toward the Englishe Nation as in her troubles afflictions at home she rather hoped for relefe at their handes and therfore trusted the now Queene of England vpon her promises so farre as she made her choyse rather to come for succoure to the Englishe where now she liueth in prison than to other Princes her speciall freends of whome she was assured to haue found relefe and succour Adde this withall that before all other Christian Princes she choase an Englishe man to be her husband and by hym brought foorthe a sonne heyr to the same Kyngdome VVhat should I report of the signes and tokens of her pietie wiche now she showeth in England or of her Courtesie good will and loue towarde the English Nation how freendlye she thinketh of them how honorably she speaketh of them and how nobly she writeth of them yea how that by long conuersing with them she hath now so perfectlie lerned their manners their language and their customes as hauing almost forgot all other fashions she seemeth to be brought in to this world by the prouidence of God iustlie to gouerne the people of England VVherefore sithe this our Queene is the woorthie heir and the righteous heir of the English Croune it standeth agreablie with your charitie whiche you as Kinges are wont to vse toward Queenes and vith those offices of courtesie and kyndenesse whiche you owe as Allies to your freendes or as Cosaines to your kynsewomen to prouide by all possible meanes that she be not defeated of her right nor barred from that dignitie whiche by many titles is due vnto her lest that the harmes whiche fall vpon her by suche losses doe procure great perilles to you and youre posteritie And the better to auoyde all stoppes whiche might brede in you by any obscure or breefe relation I here present vnto your Maiesties with all humilitie this booke conteyning a full discourse of the whole cause whiche during my abode in England about the affaires of my sayd Soueraigne I caused to be published in Englishe to the vse of Englishe menne and haue now augmented it with a Genealogie of the Competitors whiche by discent from two Princelie families in that Realme to wit Yorke and Lancastre pretend title to the Croune And herein the cauilles and surmises of the aduersaries are so refuted their sleightes so discouered and auoided and their argumentes whiche they leane vpon so ouerthrowen as the scruples and dowbtes whiche before neuerthelesse to menne of equall and indifferent iudgementes were playne enoughe may well seme to be remoued and pulled out of the hartes and myndes of the aduersaries I humblie therfore beseche your Maiesties to accept that freendly whiche I present vnto you to mark that attentiuelie whiche in writing I sett downe before you and to performe that Iustlie whiche best beseemeth you So fare ye well and fauour the cause of a most laufull Queene TO THE MOST EXCELLENT AND MOST GRACIOVSE QVENE MARIE AND TO THE MOST noble king Iames her sonne Quene and kyng of Scotland his vndoubted Souereignes Iohn Lesley Byshop of Rosse wisheth all true felicitie O FALL the most excellent guyftes and benefites which God of his goodnesse hathe bestowed vpon mankynde I knowe not whether there be any one for profit more fruitfull or in estimation more excellinge than is the inclination among menne to mutuall loue and amitie For suche is the force thereof in matters of greate importance as the persone in whome it is once well establyshed can not be at any time eyther by counseil seduced by iniquitie of time imbased by fortunes frowning disquyeted nor by any violence shaken muche lesse ouerthrowen or destroyed In somuche as I must nedes saye that whosoeuer wanteh this guyft of nature he is not onlye farre from all commendation of constancie and wysedome in greate affaires but also putteth of all humanitie and is become impious wylde and sauage And this sense or feling of loue and amitie although it be naturally planted in euery man and woman yet is it most especiallye in them that are by blood and kynred most neerly conioyned together VVherfore so often as I consider the tender loue of parents toward their children the pietie of children toward their parents I alwayes acknowleige this naturall inclinatioÌ„ to loue and amitie without whiche no common wealth can endure nor any famylie stand to be a speciall benefit of God bestowed vpon mankynde And so often also most graciouse Princes I fynde iust cause to moue me in the behalfes of your Maiesties and of your subiectes to reioyse and to gyue God thankes for that these lawes of nature and guyftes of grace in you by God singularlye planted you haue reserued and kept whole and inuiolate from the iniurie of the time and from the malytiouse stinges of peruerse detractours in suche sorte as you could not by any other occasion haue gyuen a better testimonie of honorable courtesie and vertue nor haue raised in the hartes of your subiectes a more assured hope of the best mean to preserue yea and to enlarge also and amplyfie your kyngdome For to me and to all your louinge subiects nothing can be more gratefull than this firme and fast loue and agrement betwene you nothing that ought to be more acceptable to your selues nothinge more agreable to the generall wellfare of all men Ernestlie therfore and in the

matter groweth to faction and from factioÌ„ bursteth out to plain and open hostilitie wherevpoÌ„ foloweth passing great perilles and oftentimes detestable alterations and subuersions of the plublick state For the better auoyding of suche and lyke inconueniences albeit at the beginning Princes reigned not by descent of blood and succession VVhy all the vvorld almost embraceth succession of princes rather than election but by choyse and election of the worthiest the world was for the most part constreyned to reiect and abandon election and so oftentimes in stead of a better and woorthier to take for their Gouernour some certain issue ofspring of one family though otherwyse perhappes not so mete VVhich defecte is so supplied partly by the greate benefit of the good reast and quyetnesse that the people vniuersally enioye by this course of succession and partly by the industrie and trauail of graue and sage personages whose counseil Princes doe vse in their affaires that the whole world in a manner these many thousand yeres hath embrased successioÌ„ by blood rather than by election And all politike Princes wanting issue of their own bodies to succede them haue euer had a speciall care foresight for auoyding of ciuil dissention that the people allwayes myght knowe the true and certain heyr apparent of the Croune specially when there appeared any lykelyhode of varitie of opinions or factions to ensue about the true and laufull succession in gouernement The care of English kinges to haue the successour to be knovvn This care and foresight doeth manifestly appear to haue bene not only in manye Princes of forain Countreis but also in the kynges of England aswell before as after the Conquest namely in S. Edward kyng of England that holie Confessour by declaring and appoynting Edgar Atheling his nephews fonne Flores hist anno 1057 to be his heyre as also in kynge Richard the first who before he interprised his Iourney to Ierusalem Richard Chanon of the Trinitie iÌ„ LondoÌ„ assembled his Nobilitie and Commons together and by their consentes declared Arthure sonne of his brother Duke of Britain to be his next heir and Successour of the Croune Of whiche Arthure flores hist anno 1190 Poli. l. 14. as also of the sayd Edgar Atheling we will speake more hereafter This care also had king Richard the second what time by authoritie of Parlament he declared for heir apparent of the Croune the Lord Edmond Mortymer that Maried Philip daughter and heyr of his vnkle Leonell Polid. l. 20. duke of Clarence And to descend to later times the late kyng Henry the eight shewed as it is knowen his prudence and zelous care in this behalfe before his last voyage in to Fraunce And nowe if almightie God should as we be all bothe prince and others subiecte to mortall chaunces once bereaue the Realme of England of their present Queene the hartes and mindes of men being no better nor more firmely setled and stayed towardes the expectation of a certain succession than they seme now to be then woe alas it woundeth my very hart euen once to thinke vpon the imminent and almost ineuitable perilles of that noble Realme being lyke to be ouerwhelmed with the raiging roaring waues stormes of mutuall discorde and to be consumed with the terrible fire of ciuil dissention The feare whereof is the more by reason that already in these later yeres some flames of this horrible fire haue sparkled and flushed abroad some part of the rage of those fluddes haue beaten vpon the Englishe shores I mean the hote contention that hath there bene sturred in so many places and among so many persones Of bookes also dispersed abroode so many wayes fashioned framed as either depraued affection peruersely lusted or zelous defense of truthe sincerely moued men Seing therfore that there is iust cause of fear and of great daunger lykely to happen by this varietie of mennes myndes and opinions so diuersely affected aswell of the meaner sort of menne as of greate personages I take it to be the parte of euery naturall Englishe man of suche as fauoure them to labour and trauaile eache man for his possibilitie and for suche talent as God hath gyuen hym that this so imminent a mischiefe may be in conuenient time preuented VVe see what witt policye paynes and charges men employe with dammes weares and all kynde of ingenious deuises to prouide that the sea or other riuers doe not ouerflowe or burst the bankes in suche places as are most subiecte to suche daunger VVe knowe also what politike prouision is made in many good Cities and townes that no daungerous fires do aryse through negligence and that the furie therof if any happen may speedilye be repressed with diligence VVherein Augustus the Emperour among other his famours actes is woorthely commended honored for appointing in Rome an ordinary wache of seuen companies in seuerall places to preuent suche mischiefes as come by fyre being hereunto induced by reason that the Citie was set on fire in seuen seuerall places in one daye And shall not then euery man for his part and vocation haue a vigilant care and respect to extinguishe and quenche fuche a fyre alreadye bursten owt as may if the matter be not wyselye looked vnto subuert distroy and consume not one Citie onlye but also a whole Realme Countrye VVhiche to suppresse one ready and commodiouse waye as I thinke is that the Countrey men people of that nation may throughly vnderstand and knowe from time to time in what persone the right of succession of the Croune of that Realme doeth stande and remayne For now many men partly through ignorance of the sayd right title partly through sinister persuasion of some lewd pamphlets whereunto they haue too lightly giuen credit are seduced and caried away quite from the right opinion and good meaning whiche once they had conceiued and from the reuerence and duetie that they other wyse woulde and shoulde haue VVhiche corruption of Iudgement and opinion I doe hartely wishe to be plucked out of the hartes and mindes of men and shall in this Treatise doe my best indeuoure with moste strong reasons and prooses to remoue the same not presuminge vpon my selfe that I am better able than all others this to doe but vpon duety and zeal to open a waye fot the knoulege of trueth whiche by so many indirect meanes is restreined obscured and persecutde after reading and vewing of suche bookes and the argumentes therof as haue bene set forth by the aduersaires to the contrarie whiles I was in England Ambassador for my most gratiouse Soueraigne ladye the Quene of Scotland I attempted this woork not vnrequested of some noble personages then of great accompte nor without the aduise counsail and Iudgement of some verie skillfull in the customes lawes and statutes of that Realme VVherein I verily hope to showe suche good matter for euident demoÌ„stration of the truth as semeth to me

sufficient to satisfie euery honest and indifferent persone and able to persuade all such as are not obstinatly bent to their own partiall affections or not gyuen ouer to some sinister meanyng and factiouse dealing TO THE NOBILITIE AND people of England and Scotland A Poesie made by T. V. Englishman Dravve neare vvith heedfull eyes this booke peruse VVho that desires assuredlie to knovve Those iust decrees that English people vse For rightfull heyres to whom the Croune dothe grovve VVith gloriouse Rases of so riche a soyle And golden bondes of most assured peace VVhiche after vvarres and many a bloodie broyle Hath long time lasted and dothe still encrease By Henries vvyfe vvhom Stories seuenth doe name From vvhose renoumed stocke and princelie straine Marie novv present Quene of Scotland came And Iames her sonne as king to rule and raigne Vnder that Pole vvhiche vve the Northern call This ladie by her predecessors right Dothe looke the Englishe Croune to her shall fall Vertue to defend and people by her Might To guyde in peace vvhen Henries heyres are dead VVhiche vvas the eight in great renoume of late For then vvith right pretence vvho can procede To gayn saye her and spoyle her of her state And right to beare the svvaye in Englishe land But lest the simple man should grovve in doubt VVhat lavve allovves her for their heyr to stand Lesley vvell knovveing all the cause throughout As one that loues his Quene and common peace By busie toyle hathe brought this thing aboute And dothe his best to make false practise cease You Britaine 's therfore vvith attentiue heede Dravve neer and reape the croppe of this his seede Esteme his vvorke and vveighe his vvarninges vvyse That telles the truthe still one in vvoorde and mynde Regarde the right of her vvho once may ryse And rule in state your Quene to heauens resigned That onlie Realm is in most happie state VVhiche beares no Tyrannes rule nor blody band And whose renowmed Prince doeth euell hate And rules in peace the people of her land A TREATISE TOVVCHING THE RIGHT TITLE AND interest asvvell of the most excellent Princesse Marye Queene of Scotland as of the most noble Kyng Iames her Graces sonne to the succession of the Croune of England And first touching the Genealogie or pedegrue of suche Competitors as pretend title to the same Croune A DECLARATION OF THE TABLE folovveing touching the rase progenie of suche persones as desceÌ„ding from the Princely families of Yorke and Lacastre doe eyther Iustlye clame or vniustlye aspire vnto the Croune of England set foorthe for this speciall intent that all men may clearlye see as by a plain demonstration and by the best proofe that can be of a true and laufull succession hovv the most Graciouse Princesse Marye Queene of Scotland and from by her the most noble King Iames the sixt of that name her Graces sonne ought Iustlye to barre all others contending to intrude them selues into the Royal Throne of the Realme of England before their time CERTAINE IT IS Queene of Scots right heir apparent of the Croune of England and assuredlie tried and knowen to all men that after the decease of Elizabeth now Queene of England without laufull yssue of her bodie the Soueraigne Gouernement of that Realme by right and iust title of a laufull succession is to remayn and come to Marie the most noble Queene of Scotland and from her to the sayd Kyng Iames. And this is suche an vndoubted truthe as the Aduersaries them selues are not able to denye it yf they will cast away all partiall affection of priuate quarrelles and sincerely discouer their owne consciences For A vvomaÌ„ may haue the kingdome of England to let passe as sufficiently by others aunswered and clearly confuted that absurde paradox heretical assertion blowen abrode by vndiscrete and seditiouse libells against the regiment of women I make this full accoumpt and reckening as of a thing most clearly knowne and confessed in the hartes and myndes of euery true English man and as agreable with the lawes of God and nature that for default of heyr male inheritable to the Croune of England the next heir female in an ordinary course of inheritance succession is to be inuited called to the laufull possession of the Croune And that aswell by the auncient common lawe and custome of England yet in force as also by the Statutes and actes of Parliaments of that Realm and by the vsuall construction and continuall practise of the same In like manner it is euident and playne that the right noblye renoumed Princesse of famouse memorye Lady Margaret some tyme Queene of Scotland eldest daughter of the seuenth Henry King of England and of his most noble wyfe Queene Elizabeth the vndouted heir of the howse of Yorke was maried to Iames King of Scotland the fowerth of that name by whome she had one only sonne called king Iames the fift that the said most excellent Princesse Marye now Queene of Scotland is the sole daughter of the same King Iames the fift VVherupon it falleth owt that after the decesses of the heirs males of the bodies of the sayed kyng Henry the seuenth and Queene Elizabeth his sayd wyfe whithout laufull issue of their bodies then the right title and interest to the Croune of England ought to descend Margaret King HeÌ„ry the seuenth his eldest daughter graundmother to the Scottish Queene and come by a laufull course of inheritaunce and succession first before all others to the sayd most gracious Lady Marie Queene of Scotland as next heir in a laufull descent from her sayd graundmother the sayd Queene Margaret eldest daughter of the sayd King Henry the seuenth and of Queene Elizabeth his sayd wyfe Now this is a briefe narration of suche an vndoubted truthe as should nede no further explication if men were deuoutlye inclined to credit a truthe But because some men are by ambition so blynded caried away with their own phantasies as they mynd nothing more than with coÌ„tentiouse quarrelles to obscure and deface this matter I must fet a further course and though the thing be playn enough of it selfe yet must it be delated with a larger discourse of many proofes experimentes and examples to the intent that all those Competitors and Chalengers whiche oppose them selues against her Maiesties right albeit of them selues they will not yeeld to reason may neuerthelesse be so conuinced and daunted as they shall haue nothing left to gaynsaye when the truthe of the cause shal be clearlye reuealed and sincerely layd open to the vewe of Princes and people of all nations Fyrst therefore I will set downe a Genealogie The argumeÌ„t of this vvorke and Pedegrue of the Kinges of England And I will deriue the same frome king Edward the thirde And so frome the most noble houses of Yorke and Lancastre in manner of an historie vntil these our dayes Then will I duelie examin suche argumeÌ„tes as the Competitours

and so impatient desire to rule and Raigne caried awaye the cruell mynde of an outragiouse Tyranne But I woote well that none of you at this day doe fauoure such aspirynge myndes ambitiouse desirers of Souereintye except those whiche seek their own priuate gayne by the generall discoÌ„moditie of the whole Yle and preferre the doctrine of Machiauel before the institution of a Christian I hope therfore now that the olde reproche that was wont to be obiected against the English wil be quite forgotten It is a common prouerbe sayth Polidor that English menne by an olde custome haue least regarde of all other nations to the common wealthe of their own Countrie euer inclined to factions and by that meanes haue layed their countrie open to the spoyle and pray of their enemies And this to haue hapned to that nation experience teacheth vs. For in the begynnyng of that kyngdome as Polidor in his first booke reporteth when euery mightye manne sought to be a kyng great ciuil warres continued there so long till at the last the whole Soueraingntie came into the haÌ„des of fyue Tyrannes Therfore throughe domesticall trouble and sedition it was then a barbarous cruell age For these inflamed with ambition to rule and incensed with mutuall hatred among them selues afflicted the inhabitantes of that countrey miserablye But at last when they had destroyed one an other the whole gouernement of the common wealthe was referred to one of the same countrey and by hym all thinges were reduced to vnitie and after long warres peace was established Cornelius Tacitus making mention of the factions of those rulers sayeth that the Britaine 's were so diuersely mynded and distracted in suche and so many parties as scarsely any two Cities wolde ioyne together against a common perill and thus whiles one dyd stryue against an other they went all to wrecke Besyde all this the lyke dissention fallynge amoÌ„g your Auncestours the Britaines of the South and the Britaine 's of the Northe nowe called Scottes brought the kyngdome of the one side vnto the Englyshe Saxones For these beyng called in by the Southern Britaines to ayd theÌ„ against the Scottish turned their weapoÌ„s against the Southern spoyled them of they re kyngdome Thus by experience the Britaines found these wordes to be true whiche Vigetius sayeth ciuill hatred maketh menne rashe to annoy their enemye and heedlesse to defende them selues But those Englishe Saxones when they had gotten the kyngdome were by discorde and factions very sone diuided in so muche as of one kyngdome there dyd seuen aryse and so many kinges withall by whose dissentions the publike weale was a long while dismembred till at last after many yeres the Soueraigntie of all came to Egbert alone He was the first that called the Southeparte of Britaine by the name of England Nowe then the Englishe Saxones recouered a force and waxed stronge Vherevpon the Scottyshe Britaines vnder the gouernement of king Achaius doubting that the Saxones wold seke to tyrannize ouer them as they had ouer the others entered in to a firme perpetuall league of allyance amitie with Charles the great called Charlemain King of Fraunce to the end that those two nations Frenshe and Scottishe should from tyme to tyme for euer ayde and succour one an other against their common enemye By occasion of a lyke dissention that fell among these Englyshe Saxones the Danes vnder conduct of kyng Swayn bereft the Saxones of the kyngdome of England And at last the Normannes vnder the leading of Duke VVilliam the Bastard coÌ„quered the Realme of England And since that tyme hitherto the whole Yland hath remained vnder the gouernement only of two kynges VVhoe neuerthelesse being so fewe could not yet keepe peace and concorde amonge them selues But yf a man will seke to know a reason whye Britaine can not brooke the regiment of many Soueraignes as Germanie Italie and the famouse state of venice doe he shall fynde euen among them that there is but one vvhiche is the heade For thoughe the Princes of Germanie Lyue in great Libertie yet are they neuerthelesse all subiect to the authoritie of one Emperour a thing very commodious for preseruation of peace and concorde amonge them And for trueth in Italie there is no stayed forme of Gouernement sythe it is subiect to the rule and dominion not of one but of many in respecte whereof some writers are of opinion that it is lesse fortunate if not miserable As for the state of Venice Conteranus hath in effect witten thus For so muche saythe he as euery Citie by peace and vnion in mynde and consent is compact and buylt and that this vniformitie in consent and will can not be reteyned except some one persone haue a preeminence ouer all other aswell magistrates as Commons whiche may as it were of many seuerall dispersed members fashion and frame one entyre bodye It was therfore most wysely prouided and ordeyned by our predecessors that in our Citie there should be a certaine Royall power that one should be chosen which should be called Prince or Soueraign Hereupon I thynk it clear manifest that the Soueraigntie of one onlie persone is of all other most necessarye for a common wealthe And this playnly maybe perceyued not only in ciuil policie but in other matters also For by the prouidence of one God the whole worlde is ruled so is the bodye of man by one soule gouerned a shippe by one master is guyded and one howsehold or familye is directed by one father wherupon it foloweth that your Yle of Britaine can not commodiouslye be gouerned by manye Soueraignes This affection therfore to faction and coÌ„tentiouse parttaking is to be of all men eschewed and abhorred specially of those whiche are brought vp in the house of God For it is theyr part dutye all partialitie priuate quarrells sett a syde to moue and exhort others as Sainct Augustin dyd to all thinges that among christians serue for the abolishing of stryfe and establyshing of concord whiche is nothing else but a quyetuesse and peace of minde fastened and fortifyed with the bond of loue and Charitie and suche a one as hateth all enmitie and priuye grudge and loueth all alyke For Charitie as Sainct Paul sayeth is patient 1 Cor. 13. benigne Charitie enuyeth not dealeth not peruersely is not puffed vpp is not ambitiouse thinketh not euell reioyseth not vpon iniquitie but reioyseth with truthe suffereth all thinges beleueth all thinges hopeth all thinges beareth all thinges Yf you embrace this sentence you will sone lay asyde all hatred disbourden your myndes of all disdeyn and arrogance and cast away your madde armure wherwith hitherto you haue vainly contended and without all fraud and guyle you will establyshe a perpetuall Christian profitable and assured peace vnder the quiet and stedfast gouernement of one Prince For so doeth bothe honestie and profitt admonishe vs to doe all our own aswell priuate as publique affayre requyre and exact the same

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