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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A08357	To the Quenes Maiesties poore deceyued subiectes of the north countrey, drawen into rebellion by the Earles of Northumberland and Westmerland. Written by Thomas Norton. Seen and allowed according to the Quenes iniunctions	Norton, Thomas, 1532-1584.	1569 (1569)	STC 18680; ESTC S113359	23,488	60

come and intending to gayne by spoyle woulde come so much the later for hauing somuch ayde as so many rebelles to helpe them to spoyl Therfore when they come not in déede you must néedes say that you were falsly so borne in hand with a gay hope to make you the bolder to runne to your owne destruction An vnnaturall hope it is and beastly to ioyne with any strangers to the spoyle of their own countrey But such is the nature of that false religion to regard no countrey fayth nature or common honestie Remember I pray you what yelded the realme tributarie and the King Uassal I meane king Iohn but the treason of Popish Religion What gaue the Crowne to Ludouike the Dolphin of France that inuaded and possessed muche of the realme a long time by the ayde of disloyal Barons in England but the treason of popish religion What sente Legates and Messangers yea Englishe traytours about Christendom to forren Emperors and Kyngs to offer them this Realme to pray spoyle and conquest to exhort them to turne their prepared powers from inuading the Turk to make war vpon the king of Englande our Soueraigne Ladies moste noble father whom they termed worse than any Turk but treason of popish Religion What hazarded this Realme with subiection to strangers in our late memorie but treason of popish Religion What then deriued yet daily doth solemn pedigrees to Spaniards other foreins yea wresteth lawe for dangerous strangers to make them acceptable to the deceyued multitude as though they were our naturall princes but only treason of popish religiō But God hath hetherto preserued this land from being subdued by these horrible treasons and I trust hée will still and in your poore case is most likelie to leaue your vain trust disapointed For consider the likelyhod The example so toucheth the common state of al Kings and Princes as you being rebelles may loke for no foren ayde though it were but for presidents sake Such forens as mighte come to you by lande are truer frends to the Quéene than you be subiectes where by the waye looke for no retire nor safe refuge but her maiesties mercy Other strangers that in déede haue vttered more malice to her Maiestie and her realm haue interrupted the good loue and peace and ancient loue amitie and intelligence betwéen her Maiestie and those Princes of whome shée hath moste constantely well deserued alas they be neyther much terrible to her maiestie nor can be much cōfortable to you Wil they in such season as may serue you● turnes hauing so fewe to spare where they be bring a meane power by Sea so farre so dangerous a viage along the Quenes highnesse coast in such time of yeare being neyther able to resist her nauie by the way lesse able when their men be landed and leaste able to come againe to fetch them when the enterprise is ended Be they so mad trowe you to leaue their Nobilitie Captains and Souldiours in their enimies lande inclosed betwéen enimies of bothe Realmes without more succour than vnlikely Fortune the trust of a fewe Rebelles No no they be not yet so madde though you be madder There muste be greater heades and power than you be or haue at libertie that they wil ioyne wythall They can be contente to giue you vaine hope perhaps For if England may be in tumult by their practize and you come to your deserued ende it contenteth and suffiseth them to haue ventured the state at your perill and to haue gréeued her Maiestie with alienation and destruction of so many poore deceyued Subiectes Looke vnto your selues well the greate bragges are not perfourmed the promises are not kepte you are betrayed by your owne leaders Call to God for mercie bytimes satisfie her Maiestie with returning to dutie and that with al spede least though ye scape slaughter by the true subiectes hand you may not with honor be too gently delt with Deliuer them that betrayed you that they which in proclamations haue published vnto you vayne and false hopes of treasons may vpon scaffolds preach vnto you the right frutes of rebellion and dutie of obedience that their death may do more good in example than euer their liues did in practise This counsell I hope you will followe when the light of true consideration shall shine into your hartes and chase away all darknesse of these erronious shewes and false colors that yet haue blinded you and so much the more when you shall further note all the necessarie circumstances that may reduce you to truthe What be your leaders Your two Erles you know wel are euen of the meanest of all Nobilitie in hauior credite and power to conducte you through so great and dangerous an enterprise The one you see hardly beareth the coūtenance of his estate with his smal portion of that which his ancesters sometime had and lost his dayly sales and shiftes for necessitie euen then when he hadde lesse charge than to mainteine an army both in Sussex and else where are well knowen suche power as he hath had vsed in those partes aboute you is to be ascribed to her Maiesties authoritie vnder whom he serued which now is bent against him otherwise neyther his pollicie great to rule or redresse a Realm nor yet to espie the true faultes much lesse the remedie an vnfitte iudge of Religion and a very euill chosen chastiser of disordered life The other of no credit no wisdome nor gouernance no abilitie no vertue Who knoweth not the enormities of his life the indiscretion of ruling his owne the great lackes dettes wherein he is by his owne fault endangered the estimation of him as of a contemned man none otherwyse regarded than for the name sake of honor and some possibilitie that he might parhaps leaue a better son to amend the state of his house Thoughe his Father were touched with many great faults much noted in y e world some whereof this Gentleman hath as by inheritance receyued yet neuer dyd he so hurtfull a déed eyther to the cōmon weale or to his owne name and familie as when he begatte so vngracious a sonne Euen he that neuer gouerned well him selfe nor any thing that he hath whom no wiseman nor I thinke any of you as mad as ye be would priuately trust with ordering of a mean houshold now must take in publike charge the power of a shire or two yea of all the Realme if the rest wold aduenture as madly as you For the case of Religion doth any man knowe that euer he pretended any religion or conscience at all till now he makes an Apish counterfayting of fayned popish deuotion And now yet by your good iudgement he that knoweth neyther religion faith nor learning must come to comptroll the iudgement lerning faith of the Quenes Maiestie her Counsell and all her Clergie What madabsurdities are you runne into to beleue so apparant