bora est iam nos de somno surgere caet WHyche parcell of Scripture was so Godlye and so clearkelye handeled by him as no manne alyue all flattery doutles set aparte was able to meande it And there as saincte Paule exhorted the Romaines to caste awaye the workes of darkenes and to put on the Armoure of lyght c. Euenso his Lordshippe exhorted wished and willed yea and with all his hart desyered and praied all Englysh men and others which hadde slepte in Englande these one and twenty yeares in detestable Here◅yes and erronious Doctrines to forsake the deuel the fleshe and the worlde which was the occa◅yon of all euill and to embrace God and hys holye Catholyke fayth whyche fayth was tau◅hte by him preached by hys Apostles and receued of thē by the auncient olde fathers in the primitiue churche Whyche faith also hath cōtinued through al Christendom from age to age and also in Englande vntil kīg Henry the Eight toke on hym to be Supreme head of the church Frō which tyme vnto the reygne of the Quenes magestie y ◠now is his lordshippe declared what miseries what calamities what sorowes and griefes Englande had susteaned What malice what enuie and ha tred what falshed what crafte subtiltie had reygned emongest all degrees in Englande What abhominable Herisyes what synistrat and erronious opinions were ill Englande withoute anye restreynt taught and receaued what tumultes and insurrections to the castinge awaye of manye and to the empoueryshynge of all were in dyuers quarters of the same And finallye vnto what ruyne and decaie the realme of England was like to come yf almyghtye god of hys goodnes had not blest the same in tyme with hys moste holye handes These wyth manye other notable yea and lamentable lessons to longe here to bee rehersed hys Lordeshyppe there declared whyche moued a greate numbre of the audience with sorowfull syghes and wepynge teares to chaunge theyr cheere In thys same selfe sermon he declared also how xix yeares agoe at that tyme when the insurreccion was in the north of England in defence of religion that king Henry the eyght was minded to haue geuen ouer the Supremacy to the Popes Holines but the leat therof was then because he thoughte it woulde be sayed it shoulde haue been done for feare He declared also how the said king sente him and Syr Henry Kneuet Knyghte to the Emperoure exhorting his Imperial maiesty to be intercessour for him to the Poope to receyue the supremacye but it tooke none effect because the time was not He declared further howe in kinge Edwardes dayes the counsell were once mynded to haue the Pope restored to y e Supremacy but the let therof was in those daies because as it was supposed it would haue ben sayd that the Realme could not be defended durynge the kynges minoritie without the Popes adsistaunce And finally he declared how the Quenes magestie at her coronacyō thoughte for to haue restored the Popes holynes to his Supremacy but the tyme he sayed was not then But now sayd he the tyme is cum that the kinges and Quenes magesties haue restored our holy father the Pope to his Supremacy And the thre Estates assembled in the parliament representing y e whole body of thys noble Empire of Englād and dominions of the same haue submitted them selues to his holynes and his successours foreuer He declared also howe that the moste Reuerende Father in God Lorde Cardinall Poole beinge there put by the kinge was sent in England as deputed Legat and Ambassadoure from the Sea Apostolyke of Rome hauinge full and ample commission from the Popes holynes to blesse the realme of Englande And here also he declared howe muche bounde Englande is to thanke God who of his deuine prou◅dence hath appointed suche a godlye and vertuous Prynce as the kynge that nowe is he beinge sonne to loo victorious and moste riche an Emperour and he beinge also so riche a Prince him selfe to ioyne in mariage with the Quenes Maiestie Who for the moste hartye loue that he had to hir hyghenes lefte his owne countreys realmes and regions to strengthē hir most noble grace to enriche her Empyre of England And so to conclude his lord shippe declared that all the premisses being well remembred consydered of all the audience And also the kyng and Quenes maiesties Godly procedinges beinge of them and all other theyr true subiectes hartely embraced and faithfully followed They al then mighte synge with the Angell whiche appered to the shepherde at the natyuytie and birth of oure sauioure Iesus Christe Gloria in excelsis deo et in terra pax hominibus c. And finally to say with the Prophet and Psalmist Dauid Haec es◅ dies quam fecit dominus exultemus etletemur in ea Whiche sermon beeyng done the kynges magestie departed to wardes Westminster with his highnes my lord Cardinall with the crosse only borne before him Syns the day of whiche sermō all suche thynges as were amis and out of order here begin now to cum in rule and square and occupye their auncyente and accustomed places And the moste holy Catholike fayth and true relygion of Christ whyche in Englande hath been thys long tyme behynde the post and in Captiuitie is now being delyuered and cummyng home agayne of all bothe younge and olde embraced worshipped honoured And all erronious doctrine heretical bokes with the teachers setters fourth of the same are cōuicted abolished yea explosed and dryuen out of Englande for euer And finallye all they whiche were herers and fauorers of them nowe layinge theyr handes to theyr heartes and perceauinge theym selues seduced and deceaued by suche meanes are sory and do hartlye repent mynding faithfully from hensforth their fautes to amend Amongest whome I can no les do ◅y very good lorde thenne numbre my selfe as one For althoughe I was neuer praysed by god associated with any which wer erronious or suspected to be fautours and defendours of hereticall and sinistrate opinions but liuinge vnder silence during the two late kinges procedinges haue kept my selfe clere on euery side Yet neuertheles as oftē as I haue do remēber w e my selfe how lasciuiously I liued in Eng lād these xx yeres y e most part thereof haue followed the same trade of liberty voluptuous liuing as a great nūbre haue done where I myghte haue had endeuoured myselfe in the meane season to vertuous learning and studye I can no les doe then lament ▪ and be sory yea and with all my hart to repente as others doe Purposinge by Gods grace with them to mend my most miserable and synfull lyfe and so to continew to my lyues ende In whiche doing I with those whiche haue thus offēded they with me may be assured that our Sauiour Christ according vnto his owne infallible wordes spoken of one in the name of al sinners wil haue mercy pity compassion on vs saying
their way a skoller of Paules skoole decked vp in cloth of gold delyuered vnto the kinges highnes a fayre boke which he receaued verye ientlie Where also a fellow came slipping vpō a corde as an arrow out of a bow from Paules steple to the grounde lighted with his heade forwarde on a greate sorte of fether beds And after he clame vp the corde again and done certaine feates their magesties lighted being in Paules church receaued with procession by the Bishop of London and Te deum songe ended they departed and marched towardes fletestrete at the condit whereof they made the sixt last staye where was the fift and hin dermost pagent of all Wherein was a Quene a king representing their highnes hauing of their right side Iusticia with a swerd in her hande and Equitas wyth a payre of ballaunce And of theyr left side Veritas wyth a boke in her hande wheron was written Verbum Dei Misericordia with a hearte of golde Where also from the heigth of the pageant descended one which signified Sapientia with a crowne in eche of her handes wherof the one she put on y e head of her that presented the quene and the other on the head of him that presented the king vnder which two wer written in a field azure with fayre Roman letters of siluer these vi verses folowig Qui uer ax clemēsque simul ac iustus et equus Virtutisque suam compleuit lumine mentem Si diadema uiro tali sapientia donet Ille gubernabit totum foeliciter orbem Et quia te talem cognouimus esse Philippe Nos fortunatos fore te regnante putamus That is to saye When that a man is ◅entle iust and true With vertuous giftes fulfilled plenteously If wisdome then him with hir crowne endue He gouerne shal the whole world prosperously And sith we know thee Philip to be such While thou shalt reigne w◅ thinke vs happy much ANd after y e their magesties had seen the effecte of thys pageant they proceded forward towardes tēple bar where they stayed a litle in viewinge a certayn Oracion in Latin which was in a long table wrytten with Romayne Letters aboue the parte therof as they passed and departed furth of y ◠Citie Which oraciō declared that such triumphes and pagiantes as were deuised and made in the noble citie of london by the Lord Maior therof his brethren and the citisens for theyr entries whose most happy cumming they most hertly so long tyme desired and wished for and agayne the running and reioysing of the greate number of people as were there calling and crying euery where God saue your graces was an euident token testimonie and witnes of their faithful and vnfained hertes to the Quenes highnes the king For whose moste excellente Maiesties they prayed vnto almightye God longe to lyue rule and reygne ouer their moste noble Empyre of Englande ANd now makyng an end here of this theyr most triumphyng entries into y ◠noble citye of Lōdon they de parted from Temple Barre towardes Yorke place otherwyse called the whyte hal Wher after they had lighted they came hand in hand into y e great chamber of presens Where also after they had talked a litle space they toke theyr leaue eache of other And so the Quenes magestie en tring that part of the courte comenly called the kinges side and the kynges highnes entryng the other parte called the Quenes there they rested and remayned for certayne dayes Wher in the meane season two princely presentes came to their Magesties The one from the Emperour which is xii pieces of Arras worke so richelie wrought with Golde Siluer and silke as none in the worlde maye excell them In which peces be so excellentlye wroughte and sette out all the Emperoures maiesties procedinges victories againste the Turkes as Apelles were not able if he were aliue to mende any parcell thereof with his pensell And the other present from the Quene of Polonia which is a paire of Regalles so curiouslye made of golde and siluer and so set with precious stones as lyke or none suche haue bene seldome sene And after they had thus remained at the white hall certaine daies as I haue said and hadde bene in Westminster colledge where their maiesties were receyued with Procession by the Deane therof had heard masse perused al the monumētes and tōbes of such kinges as be enterred they their departed to Hāptō Courte where they continued vntill thys Parliment At which tyme they came from thens to white hall agayne Whyche Par limente did begin the. xii day of Nou◅ber last on which day both their magesties and al the lords spirituall and temporall as vse custum hath euer been rode to westmister Abbey with all Princely ensignes of honor and so lempnities appertayning to the Roiall estate Further youre Lordeshippe shall vndrestande that the. xviii daye of the sayed moneth The Righte Reuerende Father in GOD LORDE Cardinall Poole accompanyed wyth my Lorde Paget my lord Clynton syr Anthony Browne knight late created Lorde Montague and dyuers other noble menne came from Grauesende to the white hall in one of the kynges barges Where the kinges maiestie beinge aduertysed that he hadde shot London brydge his highnes with the swerde of honoure borne before hym came downe and receaued him verye amiably as he landed at the com mon landynge brydge of the Courte And from thence they bothe passed vp to the Chambre of presence where the Quenes maiestie was sittinge vnder the clothe of estate whose highnes also receaued him very ioyfully And after that both theyr maiesties and he had communed an houre very Louinglye my lorde Cardinal toke his leaue of their highnes And thē my lord Chaūceler of his right hande and the Erle of Shrewsbery of his left they went by water to Lambeth which is a place perteyninge to the Archebishop of Canterbury where his lordeship lyeth as yet This Cardinall is an Englyshe mā borne of whome I am sure your lordshyp hath hearde discended of the bloude Roiall of Englande For his mother was doughter to George Duke of Clarence which was brother to Edward y e fourth of that name kinge of Englande Whyche Cardinall hathe bene an exile out of England these xxi yeres The cause whereof was that he woulde not assente to kynge king Henry the eight in the matter of diuorse from his most lawfull wife Quene Katherin mother to the quene that nowe is And that he would not admitte the sayd king to beare the title of Supreme head of the Churche of Englande whiche by a newe example he hadde lately as it is now sayd vsurped This opinion did not onely purchase exile to thys Cardinal himselfe but also was the death of the vertuouse lady the Countes of Salysbery his mother y e lord Montegle hys brother and the Marques of Exester his cousin
affectiō loue that he bare to thys realme being his natiue coūtry gaue to henry the. ii king of Englād y ◠right seniory of the dominiō of Irelād whiche pertained to y e see of Rome I wil not reherse y ◠manifold benefites y ◠this realme hath receaued frō y ◠Apostolike sea nor how ready the same hath been to reliue vs in all our necessities Nor I wil not re hearse the manifolde miseries and calamities that this Realme hath suffred by swaruing from that vnitie And euen as in thys Realme so in all other countries which refusing the vnitie of the Catholike fayth haue followed fātastical doctryne y ◠like plages haue happened Let Asia and the Empire of Grece be a spectacle vnto y ◠world who by swaruing from the vnitie of the Churche of Rome are broughte into captiuitie and subieccion of the Turke All storyes be full of like examples And to cum vnto latter tyme loke vpō our nie neigh bours of germany who by swarving from this vnitie are miserablye afflicted with diuersitie of sectes deuided in faccions What shal I rehearse vnto you the ◅umultes effusion of blood that hath happened there in late dayes Or trouble you with the rehersal of those plages y ◠haue happened sins this Innouacion of religion wherof you haue felt the bitternes and I haue hearde the reporte Of al which matters I can say nomore but suche was the misery of the tyme. And see how farre forth this furie went For those that liue vnder the Turke may frely liue after their conscience and so was it not lawfull here Yf men examined wel vpon what groundes these Innouations began they shall well finde that the rote of thys as of many other mischieffes was avarice And that the lust Carnal affeccion of one mā confounded all lawes both deuine and humane And notwithstanding all these deuises pollicies practised within thys Realme against the church of Rome they neded not to haue loste you but that they sought rather as frēdes to reconcile you then as enemies to enfeaste you For they wanted not great offers of the most mightie Potentates in all Europe to haue ayded the church in that quarell Then marke the sequel ther semed by these chaun ges to rise a gret face of riches gayne which in profe cam to gret misery and lacke Se howe god then can confounde the wisdome of the wise and turne vniust pollicy to mere folye and that thing that semed to be done for reliefe was cause of playne ruyne and decay Yet see that goodnes of God which at no tyme fayled vs but moste benignlye offered hys grace when it was of our partes leaste soughte and worste deserued And when all lyghte of true religiō seamed vtterly extīcte as the churches defaced the aulters ouerthrowen the ministers corrupted ◅euen lyke as in a lampe the lyghte beyng cou◅red yet it is not quenched euē so in a few remained the confessiō of Christes fayth namely in the brest of the Quenes excellency of whom to speake wythoute adulacyon the saing of the Prophet may be verified Ecce quasi der elicta And see howe miraculouslye GOD of hys goodnes preserued her hyghenes contrarye to the expectacyon of manne That when numbers conspyred agaynste her and pollicies were deuised to disherit hir and armed power prepared to destroye hir yet she being a Uirgin helples naked and vnarmed preuailed had the victorye ouer tyrauntes which is not to be ascribed to any pollici of mā but to the almighty greate goodnes prouidence of God to whome the honoure is to be geuen And therfore it may be sayd Da gloriam deo For in mannes iudgemente on her graces parte was nothinge in apparance but dispayre And yet for all these practises deuises of ill mē here you se hir grace established in hir estate being your lawful Quene and Gouernes borne amonge you whome God hathe appointed to reigne ouer you for the restitucion of true religion and extirpacion of all erroures sectes And to confirme hir grace the more stronglye in thys enterprise Lo howe the prouidence of God hath ioyned her in mariage with a Prince of like religion who beinge a kinge of great might armour and force yet vseth towardes you neyther Armour nor force but seketh you by the waye of loue and amitie in whiche respecte greate cause you haue to gyue thankes to almighty God that hathe sent you suche Catholyke Gouernours It shal be therfore your parte againe to loue obey and serue them And as it was a synguler fauoure of God to conioyue theym in maryage so it is not to be doubted but that he shal sende them yssue for the comforte and suerty of thys common wealthe Of all Prynces in Europe the Emperours hath trauayled most in the cause of religion as it appereth by hys actes in Germany ▪ yet happly by some secret iudgement of god he hath not atchiued the ende with whom in my iourney hetherwardes I had conference touchinge my Legation whereof when he had vnderstandinge he shewed great apperaunce of most ernest ioye and gladnes saying that it reioysed him no les of there concilemēt of this realme vnto christian vnitie then that his sonne was placed by mariage in y ◠king dome And most glad of all that the occasion thereof shuld come by me beinge an English manne borne whiche is as it were to call home oure selues I can wel compare hym to Dauid whiche thoughe he were a manne electe of GOD yet for that he was contaminate with bloode war coulde not builde the temple of I◅rusalem but lefte the finishynge therof to Salomon whiche was Rex pacificus So may it be thoughte that the appeasing of controuersies of religion in Christianity is not appoynted to this Emperour but rather to his sonne who shal perfourme the buildyng that his father hath begun which church cannot be perfitly builded wythout vniuersallye in all Realmes we adhere to one head and do acknowledge hym to be the vica◅ of god and to haue power from a boue For al power is of God accordyng to the saying Non est potestas nisi adeo And therefore I consider that all power being in god yet for the conseruacion of quiet godly life in the world he hath deriued that power from aboue into two partes here in earthe whiche is in the power Imperial and ecclesiasticall And these two powers as they be seuerall and distinct so haue they two seueral effectes and operacions For seculer Princes to whom the Tēporall swerde is committed be ministers of god to execute vengeaunce vpon transgressours ill liuers and to preserue the wel doers and innocentes from iniury and violence Which power is represented in these two most excellence persons the king and Quenes Magesties here preesēt who haue this power committed vnto theim Immediatlye from god wythout any superioure in that behalfe The other power is of ministracyon
The Copie of a letter sent in to Scotlande of the ariuall and landynge and moste noble marryage of the moste Illustre Prynce Philippe Prynce of Spaine to the most excellente Princes Marye Quene of England solemnisated in the Citie of Winchester and howe he was receyued and installed at Windsore and of his triumphyng entries in the noble Citie of London ¶ Wherunto is added a brefe ouerture or openyng of the legacion of the most reuerende father in God Lorde Cardinall Poole from the Sea Apostolyke of Rome with the substaunce of his oracyon to the kyng and Quenes Magestie for the reconcilement of the Realme of Englande to the vnitie of the Catholyke churche With the very copye also of the SupplycacioÌ„ exhibited to their highnesses by the three Estates assembled in the parlamente Wherin they representing the whole body of the Realme and dominions of the same haue submitted theÌ„selues to the Popes Holynesse To the ryghte reuerende his very especial good lord lord Robert Stuarde Bishoppe of Cathenes ê“uest of DuÌ„britane Colledge in Scotland Iohn Elder his humble oratour wisheth health and prosperous felicitie ALthough I haue ben minded diuers times my very good lord for to haue writteÌ„ to your Lordeship such newes as haue occurred here in time of peace or els where yet neuertheles by reason of vnnaturall warres betwixt both these Realmes of Englande Scotlande at whiche tyme I woulde not presume to wryte to foreÌ„ places and partly because I could mete with none which had accesse to the place where you remained I haue therfore been let ted from so doing hetherto from tyme to tyme. And where as I haue good occasion ministred now to write by reason of suche most noble newes as are in Eng land at this preseÌ„t I wil so briefly as I maye aduertis you of the same Therfore your Lordeship shall vnderstande That Philip by the grace of god king of England Fraunce Naples Hierusalem and Irelande and sonne to the most fortunate and most victorious Monarche Charles the fifte of that name nowe Emperour of rome arriued to the coast of Englande with a nauy of vii score saile and landed at South haÌ„pton in Hamshire within ten â—…le of the Citie of Winchester on friday the. xx day of Iuly last at iii. of the clocke at after none At whiche towne the Quenes maiestie being seuen mile from thens the Lordes of the counsel diuerse other Noble men most louyngly welcomed him where in the meane season my lord the Erll of Arundel lord Steward of Englande put a very riche garter about his left legge And there to recreat him selfe after the Sea with suche noble men as came with him he continued friday satterday and Sundaye ThaÌ„ the next muÌ„day which was the. xxiii of Iuli his highnes came to the Citie of winchester at vi of the clocke at nighte the noble men of Englande and his nobles riding one with an other before him in good order through the Citie euery one placed according to his vocacion and office he riding on a faire white horse in a riche coate embrodred with gold his doublâ—…t hosen and hat suite like with a white fetherin his hat very faire And after he lighted â–ª he came the hie waye towardes the weast dore of the cathedrall churche where he was most reuerently receiued wyth professioÌ„ by my lorde the Bishop of winchester now lord ChanÌ„celler of EnglaÌ„d v. other Bishops mitred coped and staued where also after he had kneled kissed â—…he Crucifix and done his praier â—…e ascended from thens v. steps vpon a skafholde whiche was â—…ade for the solemnizacioÌ„ of his â—…ariage and vntill he came to â—…he Quere doore the procession â—…ong Laus honor et Virtus And after â—…e had entred the Quere perâ—…eiued the moste holy Sacrament he put of his cap and went bare headed with greate humilitie vntil he entred his seat or tra ues as they cal it where after he had kneled my Lorde Caunceller began Tedeum Laudamus and the Quere together with the OrgaÌ„s song and plaied the rest Whiche beig doen he was brought with torch light to the Deanes house the lordes going before him and the Quenes garde in their riche coates staÌ„ding al the way which house was very gorgeously prepared for him adioining to my lorde the Bishop of winchesters palaice where the Quenes highnes then lay not passing a paire of but lengthes betwene Thys nighte after he had sopped at x. of the clocke as I am crediblye informed he was brought by the counsell a priuie waye to the quene Where her grace verye louingly yea and most ioyfullye receyued him And after that thei had talked together half an hour they kissed and departed I am crediblie informed also that at his departing he desired the quenes highnes to teache hym what he should say to the lordes in English at his departing and she tolde him he should say Good night my Lordes all And as he came by the lordes he â—…aid as the Quene had taught him So the nexte Tuesdaye at three of the clocke he went to the Quene froÌ„ the Deanes house a fote where euery body mighte see him The Lorde Stewarde The Erle of Darbey the Erll of Penbroke with diuers other lordes and noble menne as well Englishe as others weÌ„t before him he going alone in a cloke of blacke cloth enbroidred with siluer a paire of white hose And after that he had entred the Courte where all kinde of Instrumentes played very melodiously and came with in the hal wher the Quenes ma gestie was standyng on a skafhold hir highnes descended and amiably receauing him did kisse him in presense of all the people And theÌ„ taking him by the right hande they went together in the chaumber of presence where after they had in sighte of all the lordes and ladies a quarter of an houre pleasantly talked coÌ„muned together vnder the cloth of Estate and eche of them merily smylyng on other to the greate comforte and reioising of the beholders he toke his leue of her grace departed towardes the Cathedrall churche to EuensoÌ„g al the lordes as I haue said going before him where also froÌ„ the Courte hal dore to the courte gate all the pensioners and the garde as he and the lordes weÌ„t stode all along on both sides the wape â—…uensong being done he was very princely broughte froÌ„ the churche with torche lyghte vnto the Deanes house agayne Then wedins daye being â—…aÌ„ct Iames daie and the. xxv of Iu ly his highnes at x. of the clocke and his nobles before him went to the Cathedral churche and remayned there the dores beyng very straightlie kepte vntyll the Quenes highnes came whose magestie with al her counsel and nobilitie before her came thyther at half houre to a leuen And entring at the west dore of the said Cathedrall churche where her grace was receaued the satterday before in like maner
wyth manye other noble menne being suspect as adherentes to him in the same opinion Surely thys cruelty was great but that whyche exceded all the rest thys olde lady being at least lx and .x. yeares of age cosin to the king and beyng as it is saied most innocent and giltles was without iudgement or processe of the lawe drawen by the hore heres to y e blocke not knowyng any cause why to dye Many lyke examples of crueltie folowed in Englande by that alteracion whiche are oute of my purpose but this I haue touched by occasion of this Cardinall who nowe by the quenes goodnes is restored to the honour of his house And now of late is arriued in Englande as Ambassadour and legate from the Popes holynes with moste ample commission to receiue the e Ralme of Englande vnto the vnitie of the church wherof your lordship shal ê‘ceue more hereafter He is se meth to be of nature sad graue whose good lyfe maye be an example to the reste of his profession and hys excellent learning is well knowen through all Europe For I assure your lordship that at my beinge in Rome xvi yeares agon I haue hearde out of the mouthes aswel of my couÌ„try men then being in Rome as of the Romaines them selfes no les yea and more then I haue saide For it is commonly sayde of him by lerned men in Rome and in other places where I haue trauayled Polus Cardinalis natione Anglus pietatis et literarum testimonio dignus non qui Polus Anglus sed qui polus Angelus uocetur But nowe passinge ouer the praysinges of thys noble vertuous prelate whome no manne dispraiseth I will procede where I lefte Within fewe daies after hys cumminge to Lambeth a daye was prefixed by appoyntment of the king and Quenes maiesties that the three estates of England being called vnto the parliament shoulde be brought vnto the presence of the Cardinal for the better vnderstanding of his legation This assemble was appointed in the greate Chambre of the court at Westminster where as the king and Quenes maiesties sitting vnder the cloth of estate and al the three estates placed in theyr degrees the Cardinall sytting in a Chaire on y e right haÌ„d out of the cloth of estate my lord Chaunceller of England began in this maner MY lordes of y e vpper house you my masters of the nether house here is present y â— righte reuerend father in god my lord Cardinal Pole come froÌ„ the Apostolike Sea of Rome as ambassadour to the king and Quenes magesties vpon one of the moste weightiest causes that euer happened in thys Realme And whiche perteineth to the glo ry of god and your vniuersall benefit The which ambassage their magesties pleasure is to be signâ—… fied to you all by hys own mouth Trustyng that you will receyue and accepte it in as beneuolent and thankefull wyse as theyr highnesses haue done and that you will geue attente and inclynable eare to hym When hys Lordship had thus made an ende my Lorde Cardinall taking the occasion offred without any studye as it semed spake in effecte as foloweth My lordes all you that are y e coÌ„mons of this preseÌ„t Par liment assembled which 〈◊〉 effect is nothing els but the statâ—… body of the whole Realme As y e cause of my repaire hither hath been both wisely grauely declared by my lord Chaunceller So before y e I entre to y e particularities of my coÌ„missioÌ„ I haue somwhat to say touching my selfe to geue most huÌ„ble harti thaÌ„kes to the king Quenes magesties after theÌ„ to you all whiche of a maÌ„ exiled and banisht froÌ„ this coÌ„ mon wealth haue restored me to a member of the same and of a man hauyng no place nether here or els where within this realme haue admitted me in place where to speake and to be heard Thys I protest vnto you al that though I was exiled my natyue country w tout iust cause as god knoweth yet y â— ingratitude could not pull from me the affeccion and desire that I had to proffit and doe you good Yf the offer of my seruice might haue ben receaued it was neuer to seke where that could not be taken you neuer failed of my prayer nor neuer shall But leauing the rehersall therof and cumming more nere to the matter of my commission I signifie vnto you all that my principall trauayl is for the restitucion of thys noble Realme to the auncient nobilitie and to declare vnto you that the Sea Apostolike froÌ„ whens I come hath a special respect to this Realme aboue al other and not without cause seiÌ„g that god himselfe as it were by prouideÌ„ce hath geueÌ„ this Realme prerogatiue of nobilitie aboue other which to make more playne vnto you it is to be considered that this Iland first of al IlaÌ„des receiued the light of Christes religion For as stories testifie it was prima prouinciarum quae amplexaest fidem Christi For the BrittoÌ„s beiÌ„g first inhabitauÌ„tes of this realme not withstandyng the subieccion of the Emperours heathen Princes dyd receyue Christes fayth from the Apostolike Sea vniuersally not in partes as other countryes nor by one one as clockes encrease their houres by distinction of tymes but al together at ones as it were in a moment But after that their ill merites or forgeatfulnes of god had deserued expulsioÌ„ and that Straungers being infidels had possessed this land yet god of his goodnes not leauing where he ones loued so illumined y â— hartes of the Saxons being heatheÌ„ mâ—… that they forsoke the darknes of heathen errours enbraced the light of Christes religioÌ„ So that within small space Idolatry and heatheÌ„ supersticion was vtterlye abaÌ„doned iÌ„ this IlaÌ„d This was a greate prerogatiue of nobilitie wherof though the benefite be to be ascribed to god yet the meane occasion of the same came from the Church of Rome In y e faithe of whiche churche we haue euer since continued and consented with the rest of the worlde in vnitye of religion And to shew further the feruent deuocion of the inhabitauntes of this Iland towardes the Churche of Rome We rede y â— diuers Princes in the Saxons time with great trauell and expenses went personally to Rome as Offa Adulpbus whiche thought it not inough to shew theÌ„ selfes obedient to the said see vn les y â— in their owne persones they had gon to that same place from whence thei had receued so great a grace benefite In the time of Carolus magnus who first fouÌ„ded the vniuersity of Parys he sent into England for Alcuinus a great learned maÌ„ which first brought learning to that vniuersity Wherby it semeth that the greatest part of y â— world fet the light of religioÌ„ froÌ„ EnglaÌ„d AdriaÌ„ y â— fourth being an English maÌ„ coÌ„uerted norway froÌ„ infidelity which AdriaÌ„ afterwardes vpoÌ„ great
whyche is the power of the keies and order in the Ecclesiastical state which is by the authoritie of gods word and examples of the Apostles and of all olde holy fathers from Christ hitherto attributed and geuen to the Apostolike Sea of Rome by speciall prerogatiue From which Sea I am here deputed Legate Ambassadour hauing full and ample commission froÌ„ thence and haue the keyes committed to my handes I confes to you that I haue the keyes not as mine owne keyes but as y e keies of him that sent me and yet cannot open not for wante of power in me to gyue but for certayne impedimentes in you to receaue whiche must be taken awaye before my commission can take effect This I protest vnto you my commyssion is not of preiudice to anye persone I cum not to destroy but to build I cum to reconcyle not to condemne I cum not to compel but to call againe I am not cum to call anything in question alredy done But my commission is of grace and clemencye to suche as will receaue it For touchinge al matters that be past they shal bee as thinges cast into the Sea of forgetfulnes But the meane wherby you shal receaue this benefit is to reuoke and repeale those lawes and statutes whiche be impedymentes blockes and barres to the execution of my coÌ„mission For like as I my self had neyther place nor voice to speake here amonge you but was to all respectes a banished maÌ„ til such time as ye hadde repealed those lawes that laie in my way euenso can not you receaue the benifite and grace offered from the Apostolike Sea vntyll the abrogacion of suche lawes whereby you haue disioyned and disseue red your selues from the vnity of Christes Church it remaineth therfore that you lyke true Christians and prouydente men for the weale of youre soules and bodies ponder what is to be don in this so weightye a cause And so to frame youre actes and procedinges as they may tend first to the glorye of GOD and next to the conseruacion of youre coÌ„mon wealthe suertye and quietnes This was the substaunce of my Lorde Cardinalles oration or rather his tale whiche he pronounsed in such sort as no man coulde iudge it any studyed matter but a thinge spoken Ex tempore Wherof a frende of myne beeinge a Burges of the Parliamente and presente at the same tyme toke the notes and gaue me the same in writing so as I beleue nothinge that he spake in effect is omitted And after that the assemble was broken my lord Cardinal taking leaue of the king and Quenes magesties went to hys house at Lambeth Then shortly after the foresayd thre Estates assembled agayne in the great Chamber of the Court at Westmister where the kyng and quenes magestyes and also my Lorde Cardynal being present they did exhibit syttyng al on their knees a supplicacion to their highnesses Whiche supplicacion beyng read their ma gesties exhibited the same vnto my Lorde Cardinall Whose reuerence perceyuing the effecte therof to be correspoÌ„dyng to his expectacion did not only receiue the same most humbly from their magesties but also after he had in few woordes geuen thankes to GOD and hadde declared what greate cause he had to reioyse aboue al others that his cuÌ„myng from Rome into EnglaÌ„de hadde taken moste happye successe he representyng there the Popes holynes and hauyng the keys and hys full power for the tyme dyd geue them hys Benediccion Whyche beeyng done they all departed The Copie of whyche supplycacion I haue sent here also to your Lordeship in maner fourme and effecte as foloweth woorde by worde We the Lordes Spirituall and temporall and the Commons of thys presente Parlyment assâ—…bled representing the whole body of the Realme of Englande and dominions of the same in oure owne names particulerly and also of the sayde bodye vniuersallye in this supplycacion dyrected to youre Magestyes wyth moste humble suite That it maye by youre gracious intercession and meane bee exhybyted to the moste reuerende father in God the Lorde Cardinall Poole Legate sente speciallye hyther from oure moste holye Father Pope Iulio the thirde and the SEA Apostolyke of Rome dooe declare our selues verye sorye and repenrante of the Scisme and disobedyence commytted in thys Realme and the dominions of the same agaynste the sayd Sea Apostolyke eyther by makynge agreing or executynge any lawes ordynaunces or commaundementes agaynste the Supremacye of the sayed SEA or otherwyse dooynge or speakynge that myghte impugne the same Offeryng our selues and promising by thys oure Supplicacyon that for a token and knowledge of our sayed repentaunce we be and shal be alway readye vnder and with the authorities of youre magesties to the vttermoste of oure power to dooe that shal be in vs for the abrogacyon and repealynge of the sayed lawes and ordinaunces in thys presente Parlyment as well for oure selues as for the whole bodye whom we represente Wherupon we most humblye beseche your maiesties as persons vndetiled in the offence of thys bodye towardes the saide Sea which neuertheles God by hys prouidence hath made subiect to your maiesties so to set fourthe this oure moste humble suit that we maye obtaine from the Sea Apostolike by the saide moste reuerend father aswell particularlye as vniuersallye Absolution Release and discharge from all daunger of suche censures and sentences as by the lawes of the Churche we be fallen in And that we maye as Childeren repentaunte be receaued in to the bosome and vnitye of Christes Churche So as thys noble realme wyth all the membres thereof maye in vnitie and perfecte obedience to the Sea Apostolike and 〈◊〉 for the tyme beinge serue God and your maiesties to the furderance and aduanÌ„cement of hys honoure and glory Amen THen the fyrste Sundaye in Aduent followinge my Lorde Cardinall came at tenne of the clocke from Lambeth by water and landed at Poles wharfe And cuÌ„mynge from thence to Poles Churche with a crosse ii pyllers two pollaxes of Syluer borne before hym he was there receaued by my Lorde Chaunceller wyth Procession Where he taryed vntill the kinges cummynge whose hyghnes came from westmynster by lande and all hys nobles before him to Poles also at a leuen of the clocke And so the kynges maiesty and my lord Cardinall wyth all the lordes of the priuy counsell beinge present with suche an audience of people as was neuer sene in that place before my Lorde Chaunceller entered Poles crosse And after that the people ceased that so much as a whispering could not be hearde emongest them more then emongest those of whome the Poet Virgil speaketh Conticuere omnes intentique or a tenebant But euery manne bente hartelye wyth eares to here eyes to perceaue and handes to wryte hys Lordshyp proceded and tooke to hys theam these wordes of the Epystle of that daye wrytten by Sayncte Paule the holye Apostle in the. xiii Chapter to the Romaynes Fratres scientes quia