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A shorte treatise of politike pouuer and of the true obedience which subiectes owe to kynges and other ciuile gouernours, with an exhortacion to all true naturall Englishe men, compyled by. D. I.P. B. R. VV.
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Ponet, John, 1516?-1556.
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or elles quickly after But it shall almost come to late for common persones for they be so hanged vp by xx and xl in a plumpe and a great nombre of them bicause they confessed and professed that they should be saued by thonly merites of Christes passion that the pestilence shall haue litel matier amoÌ„g the meane sorte to be occupied on but therfore must be the more occupied with the great And hast thou England had no sedicion and inwarde grudge Yes so muche that the headdes and gouernours durst not pepe out of their priuie chambres nor one neighbour seme to talke with an other for feare to be noted and accused of conspiracie Yea and that that is worst of all and to be lamented of all englishe men ther is inwarde grudge and secret malice betwene the membres that is the Nobilitie aÌ„d Commones The one hateth and contemneth the other which is the worke of the deuil and his ministers the popishe Prelates and priestes They cast water in to the coles to make the fire greater for they knowe onles such diuision and dissension be fostred and nourished their kingdome wolde sone lie in the dirte This is the practice of suche as minde the conquest or vtter destruction of any people to maintene and pricke forewarde dissension diuision and discorde among the people For Christes wordes are true who saieth that euery kiÌ„gdome diuided in it self shalbe desolate and euery citie or house diuided against it self shall not continue The prophet prophecieng of the destruction of the kingdome of the Iewes saied before that ther should be ciuile and inwarde sedicion as ther was in dede in Ierusalem betwene three pestilent factiones and partes wherof Symon Ioannes and Eleazarus were the autors and headdes This was Xerses practice to set the Grecianes by the eares to maintene Ciuile warres and dissension among them that so whan one had destroied an other he might easily enioye all This policie haue all other ambicious monarkâ—…s hitherto in all places practiced And as Gardyner whan he should dye did not lament his synnes but sent for the Quene and wept to her that he could no longer lyue to serue her grace that is to vndoo the nobilitie and coÌ„mons of the Realme but he desired her to procede as he counsailed her by his worde and writing so Granuell whan he should also dye sent worde to theÌ„perour Charles and required him not to forget his counsail but still vse it thâ—…t is to nourishe and mayntene dissension among the sta tes of Germanie and so he should at leynght easily come by the hole In like maner if the traiterous bishoppes and priestes can ones set the coÌ„mones against the nobilitie and gentilmen they will sone the nobilitie being ones suppressed sende the coÌ„mones to clymbe a dawes nest and vse them at their pleasur But wise meÌ„ and suche as loued their countrey in tyme past foresawe this mischief that came by inwarde grudge and ciuile discorde and euer as muche as in them laie went about to let it They thought it was most necessare to prouyde for the sauegarde of the hole by all meanes and not for any particular parte which maye wel appear by the wisdoÌ„ of Thrasibulus who beiÌ„g dry uen out of Athens his countrey by the xxx tirannes bicause he wolde not consent to their tirannye ad to see his countrey destroyed at leynght gathered to gether all those that were banished with him and by the helpe of the Thebanes their neighbours toke a castle besides Athenes and afterwarde in batail he ouercame the tirannes and restored all those that wer banished to their couÌ„trey aÌ„d their olde lawes that we re takeÌ„ awaie by the tyraÌ„nes And seiÌ„g what mischief might folowe if he did not tak awaie thiÌ„warde grudge that was among the people and make an vnitie betwene theÌ„ albeit the poore banished men were spoiled of all that they had and their goodes in those handes that hade no right therto yet made he theÌ„ all to geue a promyse that non should claime any thing of an other but that all should be forgeuen and forgoten And the same wisedom did the Romaynes many tymes vse to make quietnesse among the people and to preserue the hole common wealthe Yea the noble men of Rome albeit they were as ambicious as others and one enuied an others glorie yet whan the common wealthe was in hasarde and that their seruice must be vsed for the defense of their countrey they did cleane forgeue and forget all priuate iniuries and inwarde grudge yea it was the chief meane to reconcile enemyes And no maruail among wisemen for they sawe if the hole body of their countrey should perishe they could not prospre Ther can be no arme wher ther is no body and it is a feble body that lacketh the armes and legges Yea it is a most misera ble body wher the armes and leggs beate the body aÌ„d the body goeth about to shake of tharms and legges And albeyt ther be no people that haue ben more pla ged by inwarde sedicion and ciuile discorde than Englishemen yet is ther none that lesse considre it I can not tell wherof it cometh but commonly they neither remembre that is past nor forsee that is to come but only as vnreasonable creatures loke vpoÌ„ those thin ges that be present The dissension and discorde that was in Britayne our couÌ„trey which now is called En glaÌ„d and betwene our owne couÌ„trey meÌ„ brought first the Romaynes in to England who after they were en tred sone toke all to theÌ„ selues they murthered a great noÌ„bre of the Britaynes of som they toke their childreÌ„ pledges and sent theÌ„ to Rome aÌ„d to ridde the Realme of strong aÌ„d lustie ê‘sones that ther might be none to withstaÌ„de theÌ„ they sent armies aÌ„d garisones of theÌ„ out of the realme to serue in forayn couÌ„treies Those that were lest at home they spoiled of their goodes with great taxes and imposiciones and a great nombre made slaues and bondemen and glad was he that could fynde fauour to enioye any litel parte of his owne as long as he lyued By this meanes was the real me almost made desolate and than the Pictes a barbarous and cruel nacion inuaded Britayne and destroied man woman and childe that came in to their handes and so greater miserie folowed the people forced to flye in to montaynes wooddes and caues for their sauegarde and by that meanes the grounde not tilled great famyncame on them and than wonderfull pestilence as lightli thone goeth not without the other Thus our countreimen the Britaynes being oppressed by the Pictes sought aide of the Saxones men of great force but of little truthe who whan they were come in to the Realme and sawe the fertilitie of it subtily deuysed to marie Ronix daughter to their captayn Hengistus to the king of Britayne called Vortiger She being instructe what she should doo fouÌ„de the meanes that her owne countreymen should be placed nyghest