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A53949	The apostate Protestant a letter to a friend, occasioned by the late reprinting of a Jesuites book about succession to the crown of England, pretended to have been written by R. Doleman.	Pelling, Edward, d. 1718.; L'Estrange, Roger, Sir, 1616-1704.	1682 (1682)	Wing P1075; ESTC R21638	46,592	63

Confessors Title by Succession cannot be justified for that his eldest Brothers Son was then alive to wit Prince Edward who in this Kings Reign came into England and brought his Wife and three lawful Children with him But yet was not this good King Edward the Confessor so scrupulous as to give over his Kingdom to any of them or to doubt of the right of his own Title which he had by Election c. Id. p. 151. And though this Edward had an undoubted Title to the Crown if Proximity of Bloud could have given it yet the Confessor was so far from suspecting any danger from such a Title as that he invited his Nephew into England and welcom'd him when he came with the greatest expressions of Joy and entertain'd him with the greatest confidence Id. ibid. This King Edward being dead Harald Son of Earl Godwin had also the approbation of the Realm to be King Id. p. 152. Nor had the People any regard to this Royal Bloud upon the death of the Confessor but elected Harald the Son of Earl Godwin Id. p. 2. All this is before the Conquest but if we should pass any further down we should find more Examples than before viz. of Kings made in England by only Authority and Approbation of the Commonwealth contrary to the ordinary cours● of Linc●l Successi●n by Propinquity of Bloud Id. p. 53. These few among many other instances which may be given will shew plainly enough how men intituled themselves to the Crown in those days and that then it was no strange thing to hear of a Parliaments medling with the Succession Let us go on more particularly to observe what has been done since the Conquest Id. ibid. After the Conquerors death William Rufus was chosen King though younger Brother to Robert Duke of Normandy to whom the most part of the Realm he means the Normans was inclined to have given the Kingdom presently as due to him by Succession notwithstanding his Fathers Will to the coutrary Id. p. 153. William Rufus had the consent of the Nobles and wise men for his Title and the English Interest was so great at that time that it k●pt the Crown upon William Rufus's head in spight of all that the Normans could do in the behalf of Robert though they universally joyn'd with him Id. p. 3. By like means got Henry his younger Brother the same Crown afterward to wit by fair promises to the People c. Id. p. 154. It was by the full consent and Counsel of the whole body of the Realm that the Conq●erors Third Son Henry was Elected for their King Id. p. 3. King Henry dying left a Daughter behind him named Mawd which being married first to the Emperour Henry V. he died without Issue and then was she married again the second time to Geoffry Plantaginet Earl of Anjou to whom she bare a Son named Henry But for that Stephen Earl of Bologn was thought by the State of England to be more fit to govern he was admitted and Henry put back Id. p. 154. King Henry died leaving no Issue but Mand his Daughter who had been married to the Emperour and afterward to Geoffry Plantagenet Earl of Anjou No dispute can be made but that she had all the right which Proximity of Bloud could give yet Stephen Earl of Bologn stept in before her and prevail'd with the Estates of the Realm to Elect him King Id. p. 3. The States some years after in a Parliament made an agreement that Stephen should be lawful King during his life only and that Henry and his Off-spring should succeed him Id. p. 155. Afterwards Stephen came to an Agreement with the Empress and her Son and a Parliament who alone could give a Sanction to such Agreement was assembled to confirm it and then Stephen publickly adopts Henry for his Son and with their full consent declares him his Heir and with the same consent Henry gives Stephen the name of Father and agrees that he should continue to be King during his Lise c. Id. p. 4. After King Richard John younger Brother to Richard was Admitted and Crowned by the States of England and Arthur Duke of Britain Son and Heir to Geoffry that was Elder Brother to John was against the ordinary course of Succession Excluded Id. p. 155. Richard dying without Issue Arthur Son of Geoffry Duke of Britain the next Heir to the Crown ought to have Succeeded But John younger Brother to Richard without regarding this divine right of his Nephew applies himself to the People for a more sure though but a Humane Title who being summoned together Elected him King Id. p. 5. Some years after when the Barons and States of England misliked utte●ly the Government and Proceeding of this K. John they rejected him again and chose Lewis the Prince of France to be their King and did swear Fealty to him in London depriving also the young Prince Henry King John's Son that was at that time but eight years old Id. p. 156. When King John gave over to dissemble his Nature and went about to change his Religion and discovered himself not to be that worthy man which the People supposed him to have been they remember'd whence he derived his Title and proceeded upon the same reason they had chosen him to make a new Election chusing Lewis Son of Philip King of France who coming to London was there Elected and Constituted King Id. p. 5. Upon the death of King John the People recalled again their former Sentence and admitted Prince Henry to the Crown by the name of King Henry the Third and disanulled the Oath of Allegiance made unto Lewis Prince of France Id. p. 156. King John hapning to die very opportunely the Great men of the Kingdom were called together and Prince Henry then an Infant placed in the midst of them and the whole Assembly cried out unanimously Fiat Rex and acordingly they Crowned King Henry the Third and soon after compelled Lewis to renounce all pretences to the Crown Id. p. 6. The Jesuit Parsons goes no further upon particulars in Chap. 8. Part. 1. than Henry the Third But saith Should we enter into the contention about the Crown between the Two Houses of York and Lancaster which took their beginning from King Henry the Third we should see plainly that the best of all their Titles after the deposition of King Richard the Second depended on the Authority of the Commonwealth for that as the People were affected and the greater part prevailed so were their Titles either allowed confirmed altered or disanulled by Parliaments Cap. 8. Part. 1. Pag. 156. This hint the Collector of the History of Succession took to proceed upon more particulars still and pickt them up and down out of other places in Doleman to which Book he was mainly beholden for the History of the Pretences Claims Titles and Fates of those Princes he names since Henry the Third The doubt whether Edward the First or his Brother