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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A00981	A briefe and familiar epistle shevving His Maiesties most lawfull, honourable and iust title to all his kingdomes VVith an epitaph or briefe lamentation for the late Maiestie Royall of most famous, godly, and honourable memory: with a reioycing after sorrow for the same. And lastly a prayer for his Maiesties most happy succession, and for the Queene and their children. By Robert Fletcher.	Fletcher, Robert, purveyor of carriages to Queen Elizabeth.	1603 (1603)	STC 11086; ESTC S102443	4,774	16

A BRIEFE AND FAMILIAR EPISTLE SHEVVING HIS MAIESTIES MOST LAWFVLL HONOVRABLE AND IVST TITLE TO ALL HIS KINGDOMES With an Epitaph or briefe lamentation for the late Maiestie Royall of most famous godly and honourable memory With a reioycing after sorrow for the same And lastly a prayer for his Maiesties most happy succession and for the Queene and their children By Robert Fletcher Imprinted at London for Iohn Harrison dwelling in Pater-noster rowe at the signe of the Anchor 1603. TO THE RIGHT WORSHIPFVLL HIS EVER good friend Marmaduke Darell Esquier Clarke Comptrouler of the late Queenes Maiesties houshold and victuler of her Nauie Royall c. Robert Fletcher Yeoman Purueyor of Cariages for remooues of our sayde late Soueraigne Lady the Queene wisheth a long life with continuance of those vertues which God hath endued him vvith SIR although my sences were soaked and ouer drowned with sorrow for the death of our late dread Soueraigne vnder whose Table I haue had for the most part my nourishment almost fortie yeares of my life past and in my trauels hearing some to dispute of his Maiesties iust and most lawfull Title others to mourne with me others to reioyce with Songs Ballads c. And lastlie a Souldiers wish Intituled to his Maiestie and patronized by all the Lords c. I could not choose but imitate and therefore haue written a briefe Epistle to the vulgar touching his Maiesties Title Secondly a meane Epitaph for her late Maiestie Thirdly a fewe verses of reioycing after sorrow And lastly a prayer for the King the Queene and their children With a thankesgiuing to God for sending their Maiesties to vs with such hope of happy succession all which I beseech you to patronize with my selfe also as your place and occasion may affoorde and as Iustice and equitie according to your wisedome shall direct you At my lodging neere Charing Crosse the xxiii of Aprill 1603. Your worships to be commanded as abouesaid euer Robert Fletcher A briefe and familiar Epistle shewing his Maiesties most Lawfull Honourable and iust Title to all his Kingdomes c. IF any will be so desperate impudent to affirme that our Sacred and most excellent Soueraigne now deceassed was not to be naturally sorrowed for I am perswaded that euerie good Christian wil condemne that person euen so euery one that now after our mourning and bootlesse sorrow will not confesse that our most excellent Soueraigne Lord and King is not the true lineall most honourable heire and lawfull successor he hath not reade any of our own histories or Chronicles nor doth he vnderstand ought but may be reckoned among the vulgar to be voyde of common sence for as the first proclamation was excellently penned touching his Maiesties most lawful right and lineall succession so it is not yet much aboue fifty yeres since a coniunct vnion was sought to haue knit both the Realmes of England and Scotland together Not withstanding the neere proximitie of bloud betweene the two yong Princes of England Edward of Scotland Mary King Henry the eight and our last of that name sought it first by all good and honourable meanes after his decease The like course was holden as who will reade the Epistle exertatory written by the Duke of Sommerset the whole Counsell of England vnto the nobles commons then of Scotland may perceiue and conceiue what blessed happines and happy blessednes was therein promised to both the nations but it may serue and that to all men of any reasonable foreseeing capacity that the al-seeing spirit of the eternall Maiesty did see what then was most meetest to confirme his glory and our comforts for looke into the propagation of the Gospel of peace you shall perceiue that the almighty had his ocult iudgement in the seuerall raignes of King Henries children viz. King Edward to beginne to build the Temple of the Lord so much as sixe yeares od monthes could giue him leaue amongst many rebellions and perturbacions moued by his people both abroade in the Realme and among his very domesticalls at home Queene Mary to pull all downe againe and to plant Popery hauing to aide her therein the helpe of Spaine c. this was no doubt for the triall of Gods children in England and confirmation of the faithfull v. yeares odde monethes was her Raigne little to her owne comfort and lesse to her subiects Then came the mirror of the world our late dread soueraigne Elizabeth the paterne and patronisse of many yea almost of all the religious godly Princes of Christendome and she planted religion suppressed though not cleane supplanted superstition and idolatry raigned full xliiii yeares od monethes and howsoeuer her Maiesty might seeme to conseale from vs her heire apparant by her graue wise honourable foreseeing Counsell yet you may see that her most prudent Counsell suruiuing her most gratious Maiesty did presently proclaime this royall Gentleman to be our King and blessed substitute sent of God Who being the graund sonne of the eldest daughters son of King Henry the vii and Queene Elizabeth his wife as then the very heire to the imperiall Crowne of this land he is also the intire and most deare sonne of the same eldest sisters daughters sonne a most Godly goodly and noble young gentleman borne heare in England amongst vs whose very princely presence my selfe haue seene and spoken with at Saint Iames house neere Charing Crosse so that he is our lawfull and true vndoubted King of Scotland by mother and father of England by father and mother of whose Maiesty Magnanimity Princely power most excellent gouernment we are assured by a booke written by himselfe to the Prince his sonne and heire apparant according to the Counsell contained in the saide booke directed to the most mighty and excelent young Prince now in Europe liuing both for parents and for patrimonie I doe most humbly beseech almighty God that all the subiects in these his Maiesties dominions may mediate imitate and teach it to posterity For thereby such gouernement must needes ensue both generally abroade in the common wealth domesticall at home in euery mans perticuler that vertue will be aduanced vice vtterly suppressed the almighty serued our Kingobeied the honorable honoured the Cleargy reuerenced the poore releeued and euery degree so setled the King reioycing in his subiects the subiects glorying in their King which the King of eternall glory grant vs all to be pertakers of AMEN An Epitaph or briefe Lamentation for the late Maiestie Royall of most famous godly and honorable memorie our gratious Queene Elizabeth BEwaile our greatest and most greeuous losse all mortall wights that on the earth do tread Your honour glory beauty turnde to drosse your wealth your peace your plentie lapt in Lead Lieth mortifide and in her Pallace plac'd Whom earst late earst all earthly Princes grac'd Gone is she now that was a Flower in youth a Iuno Pallas Venus in her age A future hope for to maintaine

the trueth oh want of breath hath turn'd her from the Stage And Kingly throne wherein on earth was plac'd Her Maiestie whom all the world late grac'd Bewaile her death yee Muses and all men Apollo weepe Minerua likewise mourne All Poets now bring each a golden Pen and beautifie her hearce each in his turne Let it be knowne t'all Princes farthest plac'd That our Eliza was before them grac'd And I poore soule that mourne with all my hart For my good Queene and Soueraigne mistresse deare Will set my Pen and study now apart it to the world for euer shall appeare That while the Lord on earth doth let me liue I for the dead no line or word will giue But this last seruice to my peerelesse Prince ah wretch and is it euen the last indeed It is the last and doth my Muse conuince so hath our God and Nature both decreed That this should be the last yeare of her life Doubtfull to some to haue begun our strife Yet see the Lord did harbour in her brest which she kept secret more then fortie yeare Who should succeed her and continue rest amongst her subiects whom she held most deare A King by birth and neerest to her blood Ordain'd of God Englands aye lasting good O mirror then of Maiestie and power of wisdome and of woman-hood the best That could conceale vntill her latest hower that we in her succession should be blest O Iewell rare O Iem of greatest price Thy soule with God possesseth Paradice FINIS Our late sorrow and our present ioye SVch mirth from moane such ioy from care in Britaine soile was neuer seene True English harts did all prepare to mourne the losse of their good Queene But now reioyce with harts content For this good King which God hath sent Our earthly Paragon hath past her glorious dayes and happy raigne No state or sexe can longer last then power deuine did preordaine The Sunne by course doth set at night And in the morning rise more bright Our Cynthia in the euening set or after midnight tooke her rest Dan Phoebus straight did not forget to thinke his mansion must be blest With glorious beames sent from aboue Descending downe with ardent loue View then the workes of power deuine whose hests are iust and neuer faile Maintaining true discent and line which none can crosse or counteruaile Then sing lament reioyce complaine First Englands losse next Englands gaine First England hath a Lady lost a mirror to the worlds of men Now found a King and with no cost Iust cause therefore to ioye againe Now King and Queene with daughter sonne Haue Englands ioy and raigne begunne You trembling harts that quakte for feare with watch and ward to doubt the worst Now here proclaimed euery where the ioyfull newes of Iames the first Vndoubted King by iust discent whose right no title can preuent Most worthy Prince in Europe bred is now our soueraigne Lord and King Who by Gods wisedome will be led to worke our weale in euery thing Religious wise of valiant minde Who to such subiectes will be kinde Of Britaine I le in briefe to speake that now one Monarch must maintaine Conioyning harts must malice breake be reconcil'd and friendes againe Let euery former foughten field Like sonnes vnto their fathers yeelde Like Lancaster and Yorke in loue must England now and Scotland ioyne Such vnity God grant may prooue no forraine power dare then purloyne One foote of ground from Britaines peace But Britaines may their ground increase For this good King then let vs pray that Nestors yeares mongst vs he raigne His Queene and Princes also they in like felicity maintaine O gratious God defend from those All forraine and domesticke foes FINIS A Praier for the King the Queene and their Children with a thanks-giuing to God for sending to vs their Maiesties with such hope of happie succession O Eternall God most holy and blessed father in Iesus Christ which hast created all things who wilt also be the Iudge of all men we thy most and vnworthy creatures in the due regard of our sinnes do most humbly beseech thee to be mercifull vnto our most dread Soueraigne Lord Iames the first Thy most honourable seruant our King and gouernor that as thou didst first in great mercie send vnto this realme a Deborah to defend vs from Sissera a most blessed woman to redeeme vs from Roome and Romish religion and the tyranny thereof formerly inflicted vpon this Church of England and the true professors of thy most glorious Gospell and more hauing Sanctified her soule and made it meete for thy most glorious and blessed presence we doe laude and magnifie thy holy name therefore humbly beseeching the same to inspire the hart of our King to looke into the ruines of the Church and common-weale of England that as her late Maiestie like Dauid had conceiued to build the Temple c. So his Maiesty like Salomon may fully finish and effect the same that the Queene may be like Bersheba to giue counsell like Hester to preserue like Iudeth to confound Holophernus c. And that their seede and prosperity may be as Iosiah Hezechia and all other good and Godly Kings in the Israel of God And hereto O Lorde we doe giue thy deuine Maiesty most humble and harty thankes in that it hath pleased thee to send vs a Prince of our English Tribe extracted from the loines of our most famous Kings and Queenes not deuided from vs by seas not alienated from vs by nature nor much by the very Elimologi of our vulgar speach but principally and before all things O gratious God not differing from vs in religion and the trueth of thy blessed word vnlesse it be in greater measure of zeale to his much greater glory and our iust condemnation these great mercies O Lord we doe confesse to haue receiued of thy mercie grace compassion loue and prouidence without any merits or desert of ours Nay we doe much rather O Lord confesse to thy farther glory to our owne shame that in regard of our wilfulnes in sinning against thee after xliiii yeres taught in thee and in the Schoole of thy deuine will and commandements for our wants in well doing repentance contrision confession and a generall reformation of our selues to haue beene giuen ouer of thee and exposed to all the dangers and miseries of this mortall life which hauing preuented O Lord we doe further praise thee pray thee in the name and mediation of our Lord and Sauiour Iesus Christ as he in mercie hath taught vs saying Our father c. FINIS The Queene The King ●enry ●arle of ●ichmond ●nd Eliza●●th the ●aughter 〈◊〉 Edward the ●●urth