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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02937	Ansvvere made by the kynges hyghnes to the petitions of the rebelles in Yorkeshire	England and Wales. Sovereign (1509-1547 : Henry VIII)	1536 (1536)	STC 13077; ESTC S109524	4,782	14

ANSVVERE MADE BY THE KYNGES HYGHNES TO the Petitions of the rebelles in Yorkeshire ❧ ANNO. M.D.XXXVI FYRSTE AS TOVCHYNGE the mayntenance of the faythe the termes be so generall that it wolde be very harde to make certaine answere to the same but if they mean the faithe of Christe to the whiche all christen menne be only bounde We declare and proteste our selfe to be that prince that dothe entende and hath always mynded to lyue and dye in the mayntenaunce defence and obseruation of the puritie of the same And that no man can or dare set his fote by vs in prouynge of the contrary We meruayle therfore moche that ignoraunt people woll go about to take vpon them to instructe and teche vs which haue ben noted somthynge lerned What the feyth shuld be and also that they being ignorant people be so presumptuous seinge that we and our hole clergy in conuocation haue in articles declared it to take vpon them to correcte vs all therin or that they wold be so ingrate and vnnaturall towardes vs theyr moste rightfull kyng and soueraigne lorde without any our deserte vpon fals reportes or surmyses to suspect vs of the same and gyue rather credence to forged lyght tales than to the very trouthe by vs these .xxviii. yeres vsed and by our dedes approued ¶ TO THE second which towcheth the mayntenance of the church the lyberties of the same we saye It is so generall a proposicion that without distinctions no man can well aunswere it For fyrste the churche which they meane must be knowen Seconde whyther those thinges whych they calle lyberties and saye they wolde maynteyne be thinges lawfull and beneficiall to the prynce and common welthe or otherwyse And these knowen we doubt not but they shal be answered according to goddis lawes equitie and Iustyce Neuertheles for al their generalite this we dare affirme that meanynge what churche they lyst we haue doone nothynge that maye not be abyden by bothe by goddis lawes and mans lawes or that is preiudiciall to the common welthe if our procedynges may be indifferently wayed and consydered And in our owne churche of Englande whereof we be the supreme heed in erthe we haue done nothynge so onerous and chargeable to theym as many of our predecessours haue doone vppon moche lesse groūdes For dyd not kynge Edwarde the thyrde of most noble memory our progenitour suppresse all the monasteries of one hole religion that were within this realme and conuerted theym holly to his owne vse sauynge a certayne of the same that he gaue to his noble men and gentyll men as we haue at this tyme lyke wyse done Dyd not kyng Henry the .v. suppresse aboue one hundreth monasteryes takynge the greate benefite of the same to his owne propre vse and behoufe And what acte dyd he agayne within this realme that coulde be noted to the prouffite of the common weale of the same onles it were the erection of Syon and the house of the Charterhouse at Shene Dydde not kynge Henry the .vi. semblably suppresse a good nombre of monasteries for the makynge of a college in Cambridge and yet neuertheles but a very fewe of them were cōuerted to the vse therof Dyd not our Grandame in lyke maner for the edifieng of two colleges in our vniuersitie of Cambridge procure the suppression of a great many houses of religion Dyd not byshop Alcock beinge noted a good man procure the suppression of certayn monasteries for the building of an other college within the same vninersitie Dyd not the cardinall of yorke lately for the erectiō of a college in Oxforde cōpasse the supp̄ssion of thirty monasteries Howe many byshops besydes as of Canturbury Wynchester Rochester Lyncolne others haue procured the putting downe of abbeys for the buylding and endowementes of dyuers Colleges whiche sundry of them haue made within dyuers vnyuersities and also for sundrie other purposes and fūdations Wherfore sythens this article perteynith nothyng to any of our cōmons nor that they beare any thynge therin we can not but recken a greate vnkyndenes and vnnaturalnes in theym whiche had leauer a chorle or twayne shulde enioye those profites of their monasteryes for the supportation and mayntenaunce of abhomynable lyfe thanne that we their prince shuld receyue the same to wardes our extreme charges done and daily susteyned for their defence agaynst forayn ennemies ¶ The thirde article toucheth thre thynges The fyrst is the lawes The second is the cōmon welth The thirde the directours of the lawes vnder vs. Touchynge the lawes as it becometh not blynde men to iudge any colours ne to take vpon theym to be iudges in the same so we dare expressely and boldly affirme as a thynge that may be easily and duely proued that there was neuer in any one of our predecessours dayes so many holsom commodious and beneficiall actes made for the common welth as haue ben made in our tyme and sythens some of them hadde credite and doynge in our affayres that wolde nowe perchaunce fayne pycke them thanke without deserte for our lord forbede that bothe we and our counsayle shulde haue loste so moche tyme as not to knowe better nowe than we dyd in the begynnyng of our reigne what were a common welth and what were against the good and commoditie of the same seinge we haue ben a kynge these .xxviii. yeres and by experience lerned the perfytenes therof and all thoughe the folye and vnkyndnes of some wol not percase so knowlege it yet we truste and doubte not but the most parte of our louyng subiectes specially those whiche be not seduced by fals reportes do both thinke it accepte it and fynde it soo ¶ Nowe touchyng the cōmon welthe what kyng hath kepte his subiectis so longe in welth peace so longe without takynge or doing wronge one to an other so indyfferently minystred Iustice to all estates bothe hygh and lowe so defēded them from al outwarde ennemies so fortified the fronters of his realme to his no lytell and in maner inestimable charges and all for their welthes and sureties What kynge hathe gyuen amonge his subiectes mo generall or free pardons What kynge hath ben lother to punysh his subiectis or shewed more mercy amonges them These thynges beinge soo true as no true man can denye them It is an vnnaturall an vnkynd demeanour of you our subiectis to beleue or deny the contrary of it by whose reporte so euer it shuld be set forth ageynst vs. ¶ And touchynge the begynnyng of our reygne where it is sayde that so many noble menne were counsaylours we do not forget who were thenne of our coūsayle For of the temporaltie there were but two worthy to be called noble the one the treasorer of Englande the other the hyghe Steward of our housholde others as the lord Marney and Darcy but meane borne gentylmen ne yet of any great landes tyl they were promoted by the kinge our father of most noble memorie by vs and