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A19623	A short declaration of the ende of traytors, and false conspirators against the state & of the duetie of subiectes to theyr soueraigne gouernour: and wythall, howe necessarie, lawes and execution of iustice are, for the preseruation of the prince and common wealth. Wherein are also breefely touched, sundry offences of the S. Queene, co[m]mitted against the crowne of this land, & the manner of the honorable proceding for her conuiction thereof, and also the reasons & causes alledged & allowed in Parliament, why it was thought dangerous to the state, if she should haue liued. Published by Richard Crompton, an apprentice of the common lawes. Seene and allowed.	Crompton, Richard, fl. 1573-1599.	1587 (1587)	STC 6055; ESTC S109080	31,136	50

Realme and to vs all That shée would solemnly haue vowed and taken an othe that she would not haue attempted any thing to the hurt of her Maiesties person Shée had already sundry time falsifyed her word her writing her othe and held it for an Article of Religion That faith was not to be holden with Heretickes of which sorte shee accounted her Maiestie and all the professors of y e Gospell to be And therfore there was little reason to trust her in that whereof she made so small a conscience As for banishment that was a step de malo in pei●…s to sette her at libertie béeing athing so greatly desired and thirsted for by her adherents and by some Princes her Allies who sought her enlargement chiefly tomake her a head to be sette vp against her Maiesty in time of inuasion Upon all which reasons and matters opened and petitiones made to her Maiestie as is aforesayd she not withstanding thought good very necessary in so great a cause to deliberate as by her most wise and graue answers to the premisses in the sayd Treatise set downe among other things plainely appeareth and afterward the sayd Scottish Quéene was executed in the Castle of Fodringham in the County of North-hampton where she was most carefully kept vnder the charge of that right honourable trusty and right faythfull Counseller to her Maiesty Sir Amyas Pawlett Knight on Wednesday the 8 of Feburary 1586. And the next day after there were Bonfiers ringing of Belles and singing of Psalmes by children and many others at the sayd fiers in the Cittie of London whereby appeareth that the people were ioyfull that so daungerous an enemie to this Common wealth was taken away Let me Remember the most vnnaturall and horible murder of the two sennes of C. 4. committed by the cōmaundement of K. Richard the third who thereby attayned the crowne and was afterwardes slaine in the battaile of Bosworth in Leicestershyre ●…y the Earle of Richmond who succéeded him in the crowne by iust title whose deade corpes was layd crosse vpon an horse and so brought to Leycester his legges and armes hanging downe all naked be sprinckled with turt and blody with such woundes as he receiued in the fielde and there buryed basely without any manner of solemnity a inst plague of God and a most worthy spectacle for so monsterous an acte and likewise how H. 4. hauing obteyned the crowne rather by force then lawfull succession doubting that he could not bee in saftie thereof so longe as R. 2. dyd lyue caused the sayd R. 2. to bee destroyed in Pomfret Castell whereupon great troubles and sundry insurrectiones within this Realme did happen vnto hym and though hee dyed possessed of the Crowne yet H 6. his sennes sonne was put from the same by E. 4. as Grafton dooth set it downe whereby the olde saying appeareth to bee true De rebus male partis vix gaudebit tertius haeres By these examples you may see how almightie God hath punished euen Princes which haue conspyred or opposed themselues or laid violent handes vpon the Lordes annointed and not spared the ofspring of the offender in that behalfe And because some will perhaps say that the Quéenes Maiestie could not procéede against the sayde Scottishe Quéene as is aboue mencioned in respect of the dignity of her person therefore although the sayd tryall by the sayd Commission and Estatute and resolution of the reuerend Iudges of the Lawe therein and that her Maiestie might haue tryed her by course of the Common Lawes ought to satisfie euery dutifull Subiect in y t behalfe yet it shal not be in vaine beere to set downe some authority for confirmation of theyr graue and sounde iudgement in this procéeding Wherevpon it is to bee noted that there is no difference in our Lawe betwixt naturall Subiect of this Realme and a méere Straunger or Alyen borne that in time of peace shall come into thys Realme and committe any offence there for which any naturall subiect thereof should incurre the iudgment eyther of felony or treason but the same straunger or Alien shalbe also in the same state or degrée For example in the case of Felony it appeareth by a Recorde in the thyrde yeere of King Edwarde the sixt that Charles Gauare a Spaniarde for murthering of one Gambo in England was attainted and executed for the same in Smithfield And for example of treason it appeareth by a Recorde in the third and fourth yéeres of Phillip and Mary that one Iohn Sharles a Frenchman in the time of peace betwixt the sayd Phillip and Mary and the French King with one Stafford an Englishman dyd rebelliously take y e Castle of Scarborough in the North partes of thys Realme and the same detayned certayne dayes for which they bothe were arraigned and attainted of treason for such taking or detayning is a leuying of warre against the Prince and therefore it is treason and the inditement wherevpon they were arraygned was contra legianciae suae debitum that is against the duetie of their allegiaunce but if it had béene in the time of warre betwixt the sayd Princes then it had béene treason only in Stafford and the other should haue béene counted but an enemy to bée raunsemed according to the law of Armes But it may be that some wyll say that the sayd examples proue nothing in this case for y t she was a Quéene To that I aunswere though she so were yet shee was not our Quéene neither were we subiects to her and that which almighty God sayth by hys Prophet Dauid Touch not mine annointed did not exempt the sayde Scottish Quéene but she was to bee taken of necessitie as a Subiect and ordered by the Lawes of thys Lands so long as she was resident héere sith she had not anye tytle to the Crowne of thys Land for otherwise if any forraine Prince in the time of peace shoulde come into an others Kingdome and should enter into any offence against the Crowne as ioyne with the Subiect to leauy warre against that Prince or conspyre hys death and should not therefore be punished by the Lawe of that Land euery Prince might be destroyed and state subuerted And nowe to returne againe to the matter touching the duety of Subiects to theyr Prince There is a saying in the tenth of Ecclesiastes verye notable where it is written thus Wish no euill to the King in thy thought nor speake any hurt of him in thy priuie Chamber for the byrdes of the ayre shall betray thee and wyth theyr winges shall bewray thy voyce And surely it is most true for though theyr conspyracies be neuer so secrete theyr treasons neuer so cunninglie contriued yet God doth in tymes alwayes reueale them to the destruction of the parties to the same as by the sayde examples may appeare Nowe for proofe by the word of God that it is not lawfull for the Subiect to touch the

A short declaration of the ende of Traytors and false Conspirators against the state of the duetie of Subiectes to theyr soueraigne Gouernour and wythall howe necessarie Lawes and execution of Iustice are for the preseruation of the Prince and Common wealth Wherein are also breefely touched sundry offences of the S. Queene cōmitted against the crowne of this Land the manner of the honorable proceding for her conuiction thereof and also the reasons causes alledged allowed in Parliament why it was thought dangerous to the state if she should haue liued Published by Richard Crompton an Apprentice of the common Lawes Séene and allowed ECCLESIA 10. Wish no euill to the King in thy thought nor speake anie hurte of him in thy priuie Chamber for a byrde of the ayre shall betray thy voyce and with her fethers shee shall bewray thy wordes AT LONDON Printed by I. Charlewood for Thomas Gubbins and Thomas Newman 1587. To the most reuerende Father in God Iohn by the diuine prouidence Archbyshoppe of Canterbury Metrapolytane of England hys Grace and one of her Maiesties most honourable priuie Counsell Rychard Crompton wysheth euerlasting felicitie ⸫ FOrasmuch most reuerend Father as these dayes are very dangerous and full of perill in which wickednes hath so deepely entred into the hartes of manye who not hauing the feare of GOD before theyr eyes nor regarde to the faith and loyaltie which euery Subiecte ought to beare to his soueraigne Gouernour nor respect to the zeale and loue that euery good manne naturally ought to carie to his natiue soyle and Country haue in these dayes so often entred into such wycked treasons and conspiracies as well against her Maiesties sacred personne as also this most happy gouernement as the like hath not beene hearde of in the raigne of any her noble Progenitors Princes of thys Lande sithence the Conquest thereof vnto this day And for that the same hath beene pretended to bee for matters touching Religion I haue therefore set down in this smal Treatise the myserable end confusion of dyuers which within our memory among vs most iustly haue suffered for such their wicked conspiracies and treasons and withall the duties of Subiects to theyr Prince and soueraigne Gouernour both which at the generall Sessions of the Peace in the Countie of Staff among other thinges pertayning to that seruice I lately published as a matter which I thought then much necessary for this present time to the ende that the one might be a terror to all men to offende in the like and the other an instruction in the duetie obedience which euery good Subiect ought to embrace And because some of that audience seemed as they sayd to like wel therof thought it in theyr opinions conuenient to bee made common to all men I haue at theyr request thought good to publish the same And forasmuch as no Kingdome nor Common wealth can stand where good Lawes are not established and Iustice executed I haue therefore also heerein sette downe in parte the commodities and profittes which grow to the same thereby And because the Lawes of themselues are dombe thinges remayning in Recordes Bookes and Customes and must therefore be published and put in execution by officers thervnto appointed I haue shewed what personnes they ought to bee which shoulde bee called to sitte in place of Iustice and to whom the trust and confidence of the execution of Lawes ought to bee committed and what great care they ought to haue to performe the same and withall haue touched the duties of Iurors and what regarde they ought to haue of theyr oathes verdytts and presentments sith that without them iustice cannot be doone vppon offenders transgressors of Law cannot be punished And am bolde vnder your Graces fauour to present these fewe leaues to the same as to one who I am assured wysheth well to this whole state and daylie prayeth for the presertation of her Maiestie whom God of his mercie long preserue and continue vnto vs. From the Myddle Temple the xij of Februarie 1587. ⸫ At the commaundement of your Grace most humbly R. C. ❧ A Declaration of the ende of Traytors and false Conspirators agaynst the state and of the duties of Subiects to theyr Prynce and soueraigne Gouernour c. IF euer Kingdome were blessed if euer Nation enioyed happy dayes if euer people liued in a golden age surelie this is that Kingdome we are that Nation and we are that people First in that it hath pleased God to gyue vs the light of his Gospel wherby manie errors and much superstition which hath crept into the Church of God are reformed Then in that it hath pleased him to giue vs so gracious a Soueraigne Ladie and Quéene not a forreyner not a stranger borne but one of our owne Nation which is obserued as a great blessing of God in the sacred Scriptures and of the right lyne and dyssent of the Noble Kinges and Princes of this Realme One by and vnder whom we haue enioyed such common peace quietnes within this lande these xxviij yeres and more as the like hath not béene hearde of neyther is to be found in Recorde or Chronicle since the Conquest of England to this day for the like time of gouernment One desirous to raigne with mercy with loue with pittie with clemencie and fender compassion and not by effuston of bloode not by tyrannie not by oppression of her Subiects neither alwayes by inflicting the extremitie of her Lawes vpon such as iustly haue deserued the execution of the same In that also it hath pleased him to assist her with such graue sage and honourable Counsellers men of such great wisedome of such déepe consideration of such pollicie forecast and experience as to speake it plainely and simply no Prince vnder y esunne is furnished with the like or at the least with a better By whose great wisedomes trauelles and indeuoures this common peace and quietnes hath béene the rather preserued and maintained If any thing hath béene purposed or meant which might any way tende to the daunger of her Maiesties person or to the trouble or perill of this state that hath béene by them quickly espied déepelie looked into and with great wisedome and pollicie in time preuented and auoyded to their immortall fames glories and renownes for euer Whereby the saying of the wise Salomon is founde to bee true Happy is that kingdome where there are many that can giue good counsell And Iesus the sonne of Syrack saith Where they that are in authoritie are men of vnderstanding there the citty doth prosper And again Salomon sayth Where no counsell is there the people decay But where many are that giue good counsel there is wealth If you well consider and looke into the ciuill warres and discention into the horrible murders of great personages into the pittifull slaughter of menne women and children by fire and sword into

by her Was not the saide VViat and dyuers other executed for the same Rebellion Looke into the same Booke and there it is plainely sette downe Did not y e Earles of Norththumberland and Westmerlande with fiftie Knights Esquires and Gentlemen besides a great number of the common sorte rebell in the North parts of this Realme in the xi yéere of her Maiesties ratgne to the ende to haue had alteration of this Religion and most happy state But what was the ende of these Earles were not they both attainted of treason was not the Earle of Northumberlande beheaded at Yorke and did not the other flie the Realme and were not the said fiftie persons attainted also of high treason Looke into the confirmation of their attainder by parliament in the xiii yéere of her Maiesties raigne and you shall finde it there apparant Diuers of which sayde fiftie personnes besides many other of the common sort were executed for that rebellion Consider of Arden which about the 25. yéere of her Maiesties raigne conspired her Maiesties with others death to the ende to haue had alteration of this Religion and estate were not they also then attainted of high treason was not Arden executed like a Traitor and did not Ientleman an other of them after his condemnation sor that offence hang himselfe in Newgate y e day before he that shold haue beene executed Then remember y t most rankest Traytor y t hath been heard of in our time Parry by name who notwithstanding hee had béene attainted for Burglarie and for the same attained her Maiesties pardon went afterwardes beyond the Scas and there carrying an offensiue mind against this state and Religion most wickedly with other forrainers conspired her highnes destruction and did remaine in that damnable purpose by the space of two yéeres then returned into England meaning to haue performed the same was not he in the 26. yéere of her Maiesties raigne hanged drawne and quartered as a detestable traytor to hys Prince and Countrie Did not the Earle of Northumberland conspire with the Lord Paget and Charles his Brother with Shelley and Throgmorton to haue suppressed this Religion to haue aduaunced the Romish Religion and by forraine inuasion into this Lande to haue vtterly subuerted this noble state and to haue aduaunced to the Crowne the S. Quéene In which their treasons was also imployed the destruction of our most gracious soueraigne Ladie So it appeareth by a small Treatise wherein these treasons are particularly sette forth Was not the saide Throgmorton about two yéeres last past executed as a Traytor for that cause Did not the said Earle knowing himselfe guiltye of those treasous most miserablie destroy himselfe with his owne hand in the Towre of London the xxvii yéere of her Maiesties raigne Was not the sayde Shelley shortly after condemned for that conspiracie and remaineth at the Quéenes mercie and are not the sayde Lord Pagett and his Brother attainted for that offence by vtlarie Was not Babington and thirteene other also executed in the xxviii yéere of her highnes raigne as Traitors for the like crimes And lastly haue not fourtéene Iesuites and Seminarie Priestes within these fiue yéeres béene erecuted as Traytors for practising to withdrawe her Maiesties subiects frō there due allegyance to her highnes and for that intent from the Religion now established to the Religion of Rome and to yeelde subiection to that Sea By these notable and memorable examples you may plainelie see the shamefull and miserable end of Traytors false conspirators and Rebelles against theyr Prince and soueraigne Gouernour what soeuer theyr pretences of Religion hath béene And these examples are héere sette downe for warnings to other and happy is he that can take béede by an others danger and mishappe as the wise Cato sayth Faelix quem faciunt aliena pericula cautum And was not the said late S. Queene priuie to sundry of the said conspiracies and treasons was she not a principall a better and comforter of the said offenders therein It is very euident by a Treatise published in print whereby appeareth that the Lordes and Commons of the high Court of Parliamēt hauing of long time to their intollerable gréefe sounde by howe many practises the sayd Scottish Quéene had compassed the destruction of her highnes most royall personne in whose safety next vnder God they acknowledged their cheefe felicitie to consist thereby not onelie to bereaue them of the sincere and true Religion in this Realme professed and established but to bring backe againe this noble Realme into the thraldome of Romish tyrannie and to ouerthrowe the happy estate thereof wherein although her highnesse of her aboundant gratious naturall clemency and princely magnanimitie had eyther lightly passed them ouer or with no small indulgence tolerated notwithstanding the often and earnest instances of her Nobilitie and Commons in sundry Parliaments héeretofore and further had protected her from the violent pursuite of her own people shée yet as a person obdurate in malice as it appeared continued her former practises as had béene lately manifested by certaine wicked conspiracies plotted by the sayd Babington and diuers desperate persons that had combined and confederated themselues by vowe oath in a most horrible enterprise by murther to take away the life of her Maiestie where in the Scottish Quéene did not onely aduise them but also direct comfort and abette them with perswasion counsell promise of reward and earnest obtestation Wherevpon her Maiestie at the earnest request of such as tendered y e safety of her royall personne and the quiet of the Realme did direct her Commission vnder the great seale to sundrye Lordes and others of her Maiesties priuie Counseil and a great number of Lords of Parliament of y e greatest and most auncient degree assisted with some of the principall Iudges of the Realme to heare examine and determine the same according to a Statute in that behalfe made in the xxvii yéere of her raigne Who to the number of thirty sixe hauing artended the execution of the said Commission and diuers dayes and times heard the allegations against the said Scottish Quéene in her owne presence and hearing she béeingpermitted to say what she woulde in her owne execuse dyd wyth one assent finde her culpable both in priuitie and consent to the sayd crimes obiected and also in compassing the Quéenes Maiesties death Which sentence by her owne directions vpon the hearing of the prooues and processe in Parliament was iudged to haue béene most honourable and iust And for asmuch as the said Quéene of Scots was the very ground and onely subiect whervpon such daungerous practises and complots had béen founded against her Maiesties most royall person and the estate of this Realme for these many yéenes to the ouerthrowe of sundry of the Nobilitie of the lande and daunger of Christian Religion and that they could see no hope of her desisting and her adherents