Selected quad for the lemma: england_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
england_n	king_n	lord_n	sir_n	19,204	5	6.2509	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A22060	A proclamation published vnder the name of Iames King of Great Britanny. With a briefe & moderate answere therunto. Whereto are added the penall statutes, made in the same kingdome, against Catholikes. Togeather with a letter which sheweth the said Catholikes piety: and diuers aduertisements also, for better vndersatnding of the whole matter. Translated out of Latin into English; Proclamations. 1610-06-02	England and Wales. Sovereign (1603-1625 : James I); James I, King of England, 1566-1625.; Cresswell, Joseph, 1556-1623, attributed name.; Walpole, Michael, 1570-1624?, attributed name.	1611 (1611)	STC 8448; ESTC S119940	92,335	142

manner but the prisoners cast them of with contempt and being asked the cause answered that their doctrine had brought them to the gallowes and seing it could not help them to heauen they had resolued to die Catholiks and if they had liued in the same Religion wherin they desired to die they had neuer come to that infamous death but seing things past could not be vndone they most willingly accepted the punishment which God had layd vpon them with great confidence and assurance that for the merits of our Sauiours passion and death he would receaue theirs and their harty repentance in some recompence of their former sinnes And so died with great edification and example to the people verifying in England that which Christ sayd to the Princes of the Iewes Publicani Meretrices praecedent vos in Regno Dei The Caluinists or Protestants call them as you list for they be eyther haue intrenched themselues in this Iland like so many mutined souldiars that haue gotten a strong Hold and there they make Lawes at their pleasure disguising their vnlawfull proceedings with honorable termes and honest manner of speach and as it seemeth persuade themselues that others must vnderstād them accordingly But it is impossible that so euident a truth can be hid vnder their bushell The nature of truth challengeth her place in the view of the world and for themselues it most importeth that truth be laied open and discouered to the end that when all other respects should faile yet the iust feare of infamie may moderate their excesses or at least keepe in others by their example as the Poet sayth Auidos vicinum funus vt aegros Exanimat mortisque metu sibi parcere cogit Sic teneros animos aliena opprobria saepe Absterrent vitijs Horat. lib. 1. serm 7. I haue also heard these dayes reported by persons of credit lately come from Spayne another case worthy to be knowne for it confirmeth not a little that which hath beene sayd to wit that the Catholicke fayth the (A) Sicut palma florebit more it is trodden downe the more it riseth the more it is cropt the deeper roote it taketh and the more it is oppressed with persecution the more it spreadeth it selfe and euery day gayneth more ground and more opinion and authority in all good mens minds and is more loued and esteemed of all The report is also that about the same time that in England they banished by Proclamation all Priests and Religious men from London their Court God Almighty inspired a Stranger (B) Caesar Bogaçio to call them by his last Will and Testament to the Court of Spayne leauing them commodious dwelling both for the situation and capacity of the houses and all his goods to make an English Colledge in Madrid moued as they say by that which he had seene in the Seminarie of Valliadolid as a neere Neighbour to it when the Court was there And two circumstances concurre in this action worthy to be noted one that he began this Colledge in the Catholike Court the very same day that his Maiesty of England had prefixed for the Priests to depart out of his The other that the partie who gaue this gift did it vnder condition that no memory should be made with men of that which he did But for the very same reason I haue taken this occasion to remember him For honour of right belongeth only to them that flie it and God Almighty vseth to reward not onely in heauen but in this world also works of vertue done purely for his sake This Gentleman was an Italian borne in the Citty of Luca although for his long continuance in the King of Spayne his seruice he was accounted as one of that Countrie And here likewise it is to be considered that Antonius Bonuiso the Man that with his charity maintained the Lord Chancellour of England and Martyr Syr Thomas More patterne of loialty in Kings Counsellours and seruants all the time that his Lord King Henry the eyght kept him prisoner in the Tower of London because he would not consent to his vnlawfull outrages was of the same Citty of Luca. And the same Bonuiso afterwards with great liberality intertayned in his house at Louayne the Priests and secular Catholikes that left England in the beginning of Queene Elizabeths persecution And if any man aske me what correspondence there is or what occasion of amity betwene England and the State of Luca that from thence should arise men so eminently well affected to English Catholikes in such occasions as these There can be giuen no other cause as I suppose but the good pleasure of Almighty God that layd hand vpon Abacuc and carried him from Iudaea by the haire of his head to feed his Prophet in the dungeon of Babylon and chose Zachaeus for his Host in Iericho and the house of Lazarus his sisters in Bethania for his ordinary Inne and would not do this fauour to any of the Scribes or Pharisies in Ierusalem nor to any other Inhabitant of that Citty This is a priuiledge which our Sauiour granteth to whome he pleaseth and we can giue no other reason why he doth it but his holy will Onely by experience we see that he will not be serued of euery mans house nor of euery mans person or goods in these like occasions In fine he is Lord and Owner of all Domini est terra plenitudo eius And as the Princes of the earth do not serue themselues indifferently of all but of their best beloued and most trustie seruants in things of their particuler liking so it fareth with this great Lord of Lords And as it is a fauour when he giueth any man meanes possibility to do good works so is it a double and farre greater fauour to giue him withall prudence good occasion and desire to do them and to bestow profitably that which God hath left to his disposition And amongst all the imployments that can be in this world of temporall goods there is none so certayne and of so great interest as that which Christians haue vnder the gouerment of Infidels that spoyle them and make hauocke of their goods because they will not forsake their fayth nor consent to their errour For these men doubtlesse in lieu of the little which they can leese for God receaue euen in this world the comforts and pledges of eternall saluation wherof hath beene spoken aboue and soone after shall enter into his riches that haue no measure and enioy the treasure of euerlasting felicity and be made partakers of his Kingdome for euer THE PRINCIPALL HEADS contayned in this Booke 1. THE Preface to the Reader Pag. 1. 2. The Proclamation against Catholikes and Answere therunto Pag. 7. 3. A Letter of a Gentlewoman residing on this side the seas written to her Husband in England exhorting him to constancy in the persecution Pag. 27. 4. An Aduertisment to the Reader for the better vnderstanding of the former Proclamation and Answere Pag. 31. 5. An Apostrophe to the Martyrs and Confessours that suffer for Christ Pag. 69. 6. An Abstract or briefe summe of the Lawes that are termed good and wholsome made by his Maiesty and the Parlament of England against Recusants of that Kingdome Pag. 73. 7. The execution of the said Lawes made against Catholikes Pag. 95. 8. A Counter Commaund of certaine Lawes and heauenly Instructiōs opposite to the former against Catholikes by which if they be well vnderstood the other be disanulled and loose their force Pag. 103. 9. Profitable Considerations for the Kings most Excellent Maiesty and those of his Counsaile concerning the affliction of his Catholike Subiects Pag. 127. 10. A Letter written to S. Cyprian in the name of the whole Clergy of Rome declaring the comfort and consolation of those that then suffered persecution for Christ Pag. 168. 11. A Letter written out of Englād concerning new Lawes enacted in the last Parlament against Catholikes and added to the former Pag. 171. FINIS

good subiectes hartes from their due obedience both to God and vs. And lastly because the horror and detestation of the Powder Y The Catholikes haue more horrour and detestation against such Actes then those that make all this shew I haue touched before that which in this all other treasons may be obiected which they do impute vnto them that haue as little hand in them as themselues as they know full well here in part bewray imputing to English Catholikes the death of the late King of France wherein all the world knoweth they neyther had nor possibly could haue any hand treason in the mindes of our Parliament bred amongst other thinges that Oath of Z This is a matter mistaken and the Statistes are farwyde that thinke to draw Subiects by violence to their Allegiance and fidelity by force For to my vnderstanding and to any mans else that vvill iudge indifferētly there can be no more direct cause of disloyalty to Kings then to constraine their Subiects to infidelity and inforce them to be disloyal to God the King of Kings and Lord of all Allegiance to be taken by our subiectes so highly impugned by the Pope his followers as we are inforced by our A His Maiesties pen had bene ill imployed and himselfe very ill aduised as by effect is seen if the Book had bene his For it hath bene reproued in all Kingdomes confuted almost in all Languages vvith losse of reputation and note of small learning and lesse discretion in the Author For although the Pamphlet was published in his Maiesties Name yet it is generally held that the Name onely was his verily they who hould this opinion doe him more seruice and honour his Maiesty more then the others that father so seely a worke vpon so wise and learned a Prince as his Maiesty of Great Britanny is knowne to be owne pen to take in hand the mayntenance of our cause for that Oath which howsoeuer odious it was to the Pope yet was it deuised as an Act of great fauour and Clemency towardes so many of our subiects who though blinded with the B Woe be to you saith the Prophet that call euill good and good euill that make darknes light and light darknes Isay 5. 20. superstition of Popery yet carryed a dutyfull hart towardes our obedience For hereby was there a separatiō and distinction made betweene that sort of Papistes and the other pernicious sort that C This is a manifest calumniation and slaunder wherwith malicious people haue possessed his Maiesty depraued his vnderstanding to make him more vntractable in his false religion and more implacable with Catholikes couple togeather that damnable doctrine and detestable practice before mētioned Therfore in consideration that the said Oath serueth to D A pretty deuise when all other faile to draw away money from them But I will foretell you the successe Non gaudebit tertius heres Quia pretium sanguinis est It is the price of bloud and cannot prosper make so true and mercifull distinction between these two sortes of Papistes as is allreadie sayd we cannot but hould it most conuenient for the weale of all our good subiectes and discouerie of bad people that greater care shal be vsed hereafter in the generall ministration of this Oath E And when all should take it what profit would redound to the King verily none at all but rather great harme as already hath bene said and shal be said more at large hereafter to all our subiects then hath beene heretofore vsed And therfore it is our express will and pleasure accordingly we doe heerby straitly charge commaund all and singular our Bishops Iustices of Assise Iustices of Peace and all other our Officers whome it may cōcerne to minister the same to all such persons and in all F This Oath cannot in any case be lawfull for the end which they dō p●etend nor is it a Law that which approueth it But in this as in many other things they abuse euidently the word Law to credit their dealings in these lawlesse practises Neyther can it haue any true conueniency for a thing so violent and vniust cannot be conuenient eyther to assure the safety of his Maiesties person or of his Royall succession nor to appease the disquietnes feare which he may conceaue eyther vpon iust or vniust cause but all quite contrary as hath bene said The selfe sam● comparison houldeth as the Philosopher saith betweene the King and his Subiects the Father and his children the Sheepheard and his flocke Similis est comparatio Arist 8. Ethic. A good and true Prince indeed ought to be able to gouerne his people not onely vprightly but also with loue and courtesy For it is vnfitting that a sheepheard should hate or persecute his flock Arch. de lege Iust But what faith the Poet in this case Qui Sceptra duro saeuus Imperio regit Timet timentes metus in auctorem redit Oed. ac 3. Ille tot Regum parens Caret sepulchro Priamus flamma indiget ardente Troia Sen. in Hecub such cases as by the law they are enabled knowing that the meaning of the law was not onely to authorize thē to do it when they would and to forbeare it at their pleasure but to require it at their handes as a necessary dutie committed to them and imposed vpon thē as persons of chiefe principall trust vnder vs for the good and safety of vs and our estate Giuen at our Pallace of VVhite-hall the second day of Iune in the eight yeare of our Raygne of Great Brytaine France and Ireland A LETTER OF A GENTLE VVOMAN OF QVALITY residing on this side the seas written to her Husband in England exhorting him to constancie in the persecution Translated out of the Latin Copie GOOD Sir I humbly thank you for the care you haue takē in giuing me notice of that which passeth and am right glad to see you so resolute our Lord giue you grace to continue constant vnto the end And seing God hath giuen you light to discerne what doth most import you I beseech you for his loue remember that to go back at any tyme herafter or leaue this holy Resolution for humane respects should be for your greater condemnation And although the loue you beare vnto me and to your children with other respectes of flesh and bloud might cause in you some strife and contradiction yet good Husband do not in any case suffer your feruour to wax cold As for our children they are so well allyed that there is no feare they can want being of the yeares they are all well considered they haue inough left them But if notwithstanding all these hopes should fayle them yet they liue vnder the protection of their heauenly Father and vnder his prouidence which is more to be esteemed then all the treasures of the world As for my selfe or any thing that may concerne me do not afflict your selfe in

many Persecutors to help themselues with simulation and sleight when they found by experience that open violence did not auayle them but Totius iniustitiae nulla est capitalior quàm eorum qui cùm maximè fallunt id agunt vt honi videantur Offic. lib. 1. bloud in any case that might haue any relation to Conscience though but of deceaued and disguised conscience as notwithstanding the care and K Zelum habent sed non secundum scientiam they haue zeale but want knowledge Rom. 10. 2. zeale that we haue euer carried for the maintenance and propagation of this ancient true Catholicke L It is neyther ancient nor true nor Catholicke Religion And what will not these men affirme if it may serue their turne that haue no conscience nor scruple to abuse the world with such impropriety of wordes in thinges so notorious and of so great consequence Religion which we professe yet hath our said naturall Clemēcie euer withhoulden vs from putting the law to that due execution against Popish Priestes and Recusantes which their euill M These be their faultes and ill desertes to receaue Priests into their houses to heare Masse to frequent the holy Sacraments not to communicate with Heretickes in their errours and Sacriledges to be loyall to God and obedient to his Church and to the Prince also in whatsoeuer is not against God and his holy law desertes at diuers tymes towardes vs and their insolent N They call the resolution and constancie of the Catholickes in these their tryalls Pryde and Arrogancie with the same truth and liberty of speach that they terme the Nouelties of their Sectes Ancient True and Catholicke Religion Venite cogitemus c. Come let vs bethink our selues to inuent somthing against Hieremy Come let vs giue him a woūd with our tōgue This was at that tyme the counsayle of the Iewes against Hieremy or rather against our Lord and Sauiour Et hodie Haereticorum contra seruos eius est cogitatio vt calumnias struant sanctos viros accusatione praeueniant Hieron in cap. 18. Hieremiae and proud carriage especially of late did iustly deserue at our handes But now that their ill behauiour at home manifested first by the Priests O The Authors of this Conspiracie were Puritans and Protestants to wit the Barons Cobham Gray Syr VValter Rawley treason imediatly after our entry into this Kingdome and next at the horrible Powder P There are great presumptions it is receaued amongst Protestants themselues that likewise the Authors and inuentors of this Conspiracy were some of the same persons that haue their hand in these Proclamations and that it was one of their accustomed policies and trickes of State to make a way with some colour of Iustice to this new Persecution long before intended by some of them not vnlike to another deuise wherwith they intangled and defamed the pious memory of the Queene of Scotlād Mother to his Royall Maiesty tooke away her life with the barbarous cruelty that all men know treason the vnnaturall Cruelty wherof is neuer to be forgottē loined to this horrible and lamentable accident abroad we meane that Diuelish and vnnatural murder of the late French Q What fault had the Catholickes of England or what can they be imagined to haue had in the death of the King of France But herin is verified that which Salomon saith Occasiones quaerit qui vult recedere ab amico He that is minded to leaue his friend seekes occasions Prou. 18. 1. King our Dearest Brother hath so stirred R How can this agree with the Kinges speach made to the Parlament to incense them against the Catholickes set out in print vnder his name vp the harts of our louing subiects represented by the Houses and Body of Parlament as both the Houses haue ioyned in making an S Whether it were by their petition or no it importeth little but it is the ordinary stile of these Statistes For so the Parlament made petition to King Henry the eyght to put away his lawfull wyfe and after to Queene Elizabeth to change Religion and to put to death the Queene of Scotland and all such iniust and ignominious Actions must forsooth be proposed by supplication Antiquum obtinent humble petition to vs to be more wakeful then hertofore we haue beene vpon the Courses T O that they would consider their Courses and Steppes with intent to imitate their innocency vertuous liues But alas all this vigilancy is to another end to wit to spy what they may lay hould vpon This is A●s artium Scientia scientiarum the Alchimy of our age and the Purseuāts patrimony and steppes of the Papistes And to this effect that we would be pleased to put in due execution hereafter without any longer conniuency the good V It shall appeare by and by how good wholsome these Lawes be All the ancient lawes of the Kingdome are in fauour of Catholike Religiō Such lawes as King Henry the eight Q. Elizabeth and now lastly his Maiesty of England haue made against it are neither good nor wholsome but violent vniust pernicious both to the Common-wealth to the King himselfe if he would consider them with indifferency and wholsome lawes of this Realme made against them the most part whereof were made before X They meane the lawes of Queene Elizabeth which his Maiesty hath cōfirmed adding to them many other of his owne Et nouissimus error est peior priore as shal be seene our entry into this Kingdome so were we at our Coronation sworne to the maintenāce of them We haue iust reason according to their humble desire to be more carefull then heretofore we haue beene in seeing our said Lawes put in due execution since in this case our Y What scrupulosity is this they make no Cōscience to mooue Catholicke Princes to breake the holy Oathes which all their Predecessors haue taken and Conscience is burdened in regard of Religion and since there is their dwelling places It is our expresse will pleasure to discharge like as by these Presents we doe discharge all by-past licences graunted vnto them for their repayring hither And although this tyme of Parlament and the Creation of our eldest Sonne be so vnfit and dangerous F Trepidauerunt timore vbinpon erat timor Danger might be magined but there could be none they know well inough their conscience telleth it them that there is no feare to be had of the Recusantes The feare is theirs for they liue in continuall daunger subiect to violent lawes and to the insolency of their Persecutors because they will not leaue God nor offend their consciences Others there be that force thēselues to obey these lawes with knowne daunger to their soules who of force must and do feele inspeakable repugnance disquietnes and horror considering what a styrring spark the conscience is These are the men that with most reason are to be feared as the most oppressed If his

done or neglected and hath in his hand aswell the tymes oportunityes occasions as the harts of Kinges and Princes to dispose them as he listeth I haue many tymes set my selfe to consider how it cōmeth to passe or what may be the cause that God doth suffer the Kingdome of England where the Standard of Christes Crosse was first publickly aduaunced and that in former ages did florish so much in all kynd (Z) Tempus est vt incipiat iudiciū à domo Dei si autē primùm à nobis quis finis eorum qui non credūt Euangelio Et si iustus vix saluabitur implꝰ peccator vbi parebunt 1. Pet. 4. 17 Si in ligno viridi haec faciunt in arido quid fiet Luc. 23. 31. of piety and deuotion to fall so farre from the ancient Religion as to persecute it with such vehemency as we se and become a deadly enemy to the Sea Apostolike which as all confesse taught them first the fayth of Christ and to whome in ancient times they were so obedient deuout that no people in all the Christian world was more To this me thinks may be answered the same which Origen writeth in his Commentary vpon Iob that as the contention then was indeed principally not betweene the euill Spirit and Iob but betwixt God and the euill Spirit and the tryall to be made in the person of Iob whether the Diuels temptation or Gods grace had greater force in his free will so now also in this Controuersy The Diuell auouched stifly that the holy man serued God as manie bad Christians donow a daies onely for interest and that if he would propose him to the battrie of tribulation he should find him like a peece of glasse ready to breake in peeces But saith Origen his maker that knew him to be no brickle glasse but a fine diamond and his charity vnfayned and inuincible put him to the tryall and got the victory as alwayes he doth in such as adhere vnto him For his hand is omnipotent and maketh them as himselfe Almighty Those which at this day are specially assaulted by the Diuell and tried by Gods permission and licence are the Catholicks of England to his (A) Debemus gratias agere Deo semper pro vobis fratres dilecti à Deo quod elegerit vos Deus primitias in salutem in sanctificatione spiritus in fide veritatis in acquisitionē gloriae Domini nostri Iesu Christi 2. Thessal 2. 13. great honour and the edification of his Church And they are most happie which he chooseth and maketh worthy of victory in this triall and a thousand times miserable and vnhappy be they that make themselues Sathans instruments in the triall and exercise of Gods Saints But howsoeuer it be God Almighty is wil be glorified whether the persecution cease or endure For assuredly none shal be lost but (B) Et tunc reuelabitur ille iniquus c. cuius aduentꝰ est secundum operationē Satanae in omni seductiōe iniquitatis ijs qui pereunt eò quòd charitatē veritatis non receperunt vt salui fierent Ideo mittet illis Deus operationem erroris vt credant mendacio vt iudicentur omnes qui non crediderunt veritati ed consenserunt iniquitati 2. Thessal 2. 8. false harted Christians and those which Christ calleth the Children of perdition which would haue deserued damnation for other sinns though there had beene no persecution for Religion And the sincere pure and fine mettald Catholicks haue so much greater glory by how much greater proofes they suffer of their fideliy and withall they serue for patterns and watch-bels to all other Christians to awake vs from sleep and teach vs what (C) Benedictus Deus c. qui regenerauit nos in spem viuā per resurrectionē Iesu Christi ex mortuis in hereditatē incorruptibilem conseruatam in caelis in vobis qui in virtute Dei custodimini per fidem in salutem paratam reuelari in tēpore nouissimo in quo exultabitis modicum nunc si oportet contristari in varijs tentationibus 1. Pet. 1. 3. account we ought to make of fayth obedience to God and his Church and the equability and indifference of mind wherwith we should beare such troubles as his diuine Maiesty is pleased to send vs persuading our selues certainely that he disposeth all things sweetly for (D) Vt probatio vestraeifidei multò pretiosior auro quod per ignem probatur inueniatur in laudem gloriam honorē in reuelatione Iesu Christi 1. Pet. 1. 16. our greater good and as his Maiestyes Mother of happy Memory was wont to say Neuer sendeth aduersity but that he giueth a hart to beare it Moreouer the same Origen affirmeth that he had found in auncient records how Moyses to comfort the people of God in the afflictions which they suffered vnder the Aegyptians and to strengthen their confidence and trust in Gods promises composed the history of Iob and distributed it amongst the Tribes families with command that they should read it and heare it with attention to the end they might learne to imitate the holy mans patience and magnanimity and see by experience how God succoureth his seruants in their troubles and rewardeth their suffering as he did his faythfull seruant Iob. And for the same purpose the Holy ghost ordayned that the foure Euangelists should commit distinctly and with particularity to writing all the paces of the poore humble and afflicted life of the (E) Quem cùm non videritis diligitis in quem nunc quoque non videntes creditis credentes autem exultatis laetitia inenarrabili glorificata reportantes finem fidei vestrae salutem animarum vestrarum 1. Pet. 1. 8. Sonne of God and his bitter Passion and Death and how after so many troubles afflictions and paines he was raysed to euerlasting glorie figured in the restoring of Iob to his former prosperity And so wee see that the Apostle S. (F) Iac. 5. 10. Iames setteth before vs these two patterns and examples of Patience and because his words are much to our purpose for Confirmation and Conclusion of all that we haue said with them I will end this Treatise Ecce Iudex ante ianuam assistit Exemplum accipite fratres laboris ac patientiae Prophetas qui locuti sunt in nomine Domini Ecce beatificamus eos qui sustinuerūt Sufferentiam Iob audistis finem Domini vidistis quoniam misericors est Dominus miserator Lo the euerlasting Iudge standeth at our gate my brethren take for example of labour patience the Prophets that in times past haue taught vs by Gods appointment and in his name Lo we hold for blessed and happy those that haue suffered for him You haue heard the patience of Iob and seene the end of our Sauiour for he is full of mercy and inclined to vse it to all that put their trust in his