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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A04323	A supplication to the Kings most excellent Maiestie wherein, seuerall reasons of state and religion are briefely touched: not vnworthie to be read, and pondered by the lords, knights, and burgeses of the present Parliament, and other of all estates. Prostrated at his Highnes feete by true affected subiects.	Colleton, John, 1548-1635.; England and Wales. Sovereign (1603-1625 : James I)	1604 (1604)	STC 14432; ESTC S107663	42,852	54

that is best and most rightly informed To drawe to an ende wee most submissiuely beseech your Maiestie to conceaue no otherwise of vs then of your most dutifull and loyall vassals acknowledging in all politike and ciuill affaires no other Superior then the sacred authoritie of your Highnesse and resting euer most ready to accomplish all your commandements touching the same were our liues neuer so certainely engaged in the execution Onely requesting that in matters of soule and conscience we may haue leaue to distinguish an eternall Lorde from a temporall Lorde and to preferre our obedience to the one before our obedience to the other if obedience to Princes against God may bee tearmed obedience and not rather irreligious pusillanimitie And as wee haue presumed most pretious Soueraigne vpon confidence of your true royall disposition and benignitie to make knowne to your Princely consideration and wisedome our griefes our hopes the fauour and conniuence we desire together with some fewe reasons aswell of state as of religion for shewing the concordaunce that our request hath with the good of state and also the groundes of our perswasion in conscience why the religion we beleeue in is true So do we carrie a most tender regarde of yeelding all satisfaction to your Maiestie and to all other in authoritie yea euen to those who stand most iealously conceited of the true affection and loyaltie of Priestes the Pastours of our soules towardes your Highnesse person Crowne and the weale of the Realme In whose behalfe we doe therefore confidently and most assuredly vndertake that they all shal willingly readily take their corporall oathes for continuing their true alleageance to your Maiesty and the State or in case that be not thought assurance enough they shall giue in sufficient suerties one or moe who shall stand bound life for life for the performance of the said alleageance and of their fidelitie and faithfulnesse in the premisses Yea they most voluntarily offer yet further that if so any of their number bee not able to put in such securitie for their loyall cariages that then they will all ioyne in one supplication to the Pope for recalling such priestes out of the Land whosoeuer they be or how many soeuer We feare to be tedious and therefore we will shut vp all in few words Our harts our soules and both with deepest cries do most humblie and alike instantlie beseech your most excellent Maiestie to take pitie of our afflictions to compassionate our sufferings and to relieue our long indured pressures either by licensing the free vse of our Catholike Religion or if we may not be so happie yet at least by granting a publike Disputation to the end we may be heard our cause tryed and our teachers receiue confutation and the deserued shame of their false doctrine if in case they haue misled vs. A fauour which the aduersaries of our religion haue obtain●d in other Countries and which our Country-oppositors seeme in their bookes to be very desirous of and is also of it selfe of all other meanes the most potent to reunite all parties in one the deceiued being hereby let to see their errors So that by the graunt thereof no doubt your Maiestie shall get eternall praise ouer the Christian world the Protestant religion euerlasting fame if she preuaile the neighbour countries great edification the wauerers and such as are doubtfull in faith a stay and worthie satisfaction as none greater all posteritie a right noble example and president to follow And we your Maiesties loyall subiects must and shall alwayes as our bounden dutie exacteth rest through the deliuery out of the blindnes if so wee liue in blindnes for euer most strictly oblieged to pray incessantly for your Highnesse long life and prosperous raigne ouer all your Dominions with multiplication of immortall renowne in this world and of endles ioyes in the next God saue the King Faults escaped in the Printing 〈◊〉 line 26. for to impugne reade do impugne Page 14. in the Mar 〈…〉 Francis Dominik reade Francis Dominik Page 36. line 27. for 〈…〉 30 reade daily go