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A29176	A true and exact history of the succession of the crown of England collected out of records, and the best historians, written for the information of such as have been deluded and seduced by the pamphlet, called, The brief history of the succession, &c., pretended to have been written for the satisfaction of the Earl of H.	Brady, Robert, 1627?-1700.	1681 (1681)	Wing B4195; ESTC R19500	55,203	51

and her Council secretly thought of her own Personal Title Yet upon the Treaty or Marriage with the Duke of Anjon in the Answer to the sixth Article delivered by the French Ambassador it is declared that the Succession in her Kingdoms was and ought to be Hereditary according to nearness in Blood The words are Liberi ex hoc matrimonio prognati in materna haereditate succedent in regnis secundum jura consuetudines regnorum viz. primogenitus filius in Coronam quam Regina mater habet si nulli extabunt filii Masculi filioe si extabunt viz prima sola maxima natu c. Atque idem ut fiat in hoereditate paterna loequum est quomodo consuetudines locorum id ferent intelligi parest That is The Children begotten of this Marriage shall succeed in the Mothers Inheritance in the Kingdoms according to the Laws and Customs of the Kingdoms that is to say The First born Son shall enjoy the Crown which the Queen Mother hath And if there be no Issue Male the Daughters if there be any shall succeed that is to say the Eldest first and alone c. And that it is just the Succession should obtain after the same manner in the Paternal Inheritance if the Custom of the places would allow it After the death of Queen Elizabeth the Act of Recognition made Upon King James his coming to the Crown doth not take notice of the Title raised by Act of Parliament to Henry the Seventh and the Heirs of his Body But declares that he was Lineally Rightfully and Lawfully descended of the Body of the most excellent Lady Margaret eldest Daughter of this most renowned King Henry the Seventh and the high and noble Prinress Queen Elizabeth his Wife eldest Daughter of King Edward the Fourth The said Lady Margaret being eldest Sister of King Henry the Eighth Father of the High and Mighty Princess of famous Memory Elizabeth late Queen of England In consideration whereof the Parliament doth acknowledge King James their only Lawful and Rightful Leige Lord and Sovereign And further say as being bound thereunto both by the Laws of God and Man they do recognize and acknowledge that Immediately upon the Dissolution and Deceasy of Elizabeth late Queen of England the Imperial Crown of the Realm of England and all the Kingdoms Dominions and Rights belonging to the same did by inherent Birth-right and lawful and undoubted Succession descend and come to His most excellent Majesty as being lineally justly and lawfully next and SOLE HEIR of the Blood-Royal of this Realm as it is afore said And thereunto they do most humbly and faithfully submit and oblige themselves their Heirs and Posterities for ever until the last drop of their Bloods be spent What can be clearer than that the Succession to the Crown of England was always thought judged had taken and reputed to be from Nextness of Blood by the Opinion of all sober Men by Law and Custom by this and other Acts of Parliament and Statutes before cited This then being the true History and Case of Succession to the Crown of England and its being only founded upon Proximity of Blood the Author of the Brief History of Succession c. ought to have called it An History of Vsurpations Seditions and Rebellions It was written and intended for a purpose he will not own that is to shew that In the English Monarchy there is not Right of Succession but that Parliaments or Armies may set up whom they please This I confess hath been practised in this Nation and it was the main Cause of the War between the Families of Tork and Lancaster that proceeding from the Right of the one Patty and Possession of the other and the Contrarieties of Acts of Parliament was caused by the Alternate Victories of both But the doing of a thing makes it not lawful Repeated Wickedness or the frequent Repetition of Wiekedness gives no Authority to any one to commit that Wickedness as the frequency of Adulteries or Robberies doth not justifie either of them I think it 's no good Argument to say Edward the Second was deposed and murthered therefore Richard the Second might be deposed and murthered or That they were both deposed and murthered therefore Charles the First might be deposed and murthered or Because King Charles the First was deposed and murthered therefore King Charles the Second may be deposed and murthered Precedents are of force only in things lawful obscure or dubious but never in things unjust The Depositions and Murthers of Edward the Second and Richard the Second the Usurpations and unlawful Actions of Henry the Fourth and Richard the Third were in their own times condemned by all good Men even as the Actions of that Parliament began in 1641. in ours which I suppose is the reason why the Author of the Pamphlet brings not them in as a Precedent which would have served his turn better than all his other Instances But besides their impious Instances we ought to take notice of the Expressions of these Men of Jesuitical Principles They call Usurpation the Election of the People a Faction the Commonwealth the Actions of a few they impute to all They call Rebellion a just and judicial Proceeding often and open Perjury an orderly Revoking of a Sentence God's secret Judgment in permitting Injustice to prevail his owning and allowance thereof the Inconsistency and present Humour of the heedless Multitude who judge of things not by Reason or Justice but either by Opinion which commonly is partial or else by Report which is usually full of Incertainties and Errors the most part Doing because others Do all easie to be drawn in to serve any wicked and ambitious Men's Attempts they call the presumed Will and Consent of the People According to which say they the Succession of the Crown is to be directed And by these Arts they do very much impose upon their unwary Readers To this History of Succession belongs the Act of the Thirteenth of Elizabeth cap. 1. intituled An Act whereby certain Offences are made Treason which as many great and learned Persons think was upon the debate and making of it intended and designed to declare a Power in the Queen and her Successors for ever by Authority of Parliament to make Laws and Statutes of sufficient force and validity to limit and bind the Crown of England and the Descent Limitation Inheritance and Government thereof Sir Edward Coke says Many Acts of Parliament are hardly to be understood unless the History of that time be joyned thereunto This Parliament met April 2. 1571. 13 Eliz. and was dissolved May 29. following This Parliament we see was holden in the beginning of the Year 1571. Some Years before but most especially in the Year1570 immediately preceding there had been many Practices and Seditious and Treasonable Contrivances against Queen Elizabeth by Foreign as well as Domestick Enemies By the Pope and

The Year following the Bishops of Winchester and Norwich with John de Britannia Earl of Richmond were employed to that purpose and after much desceptation about it they received a Form of Peace from the King of France And at length the Queen by Advice given by the Bishops and Great Men to the King was sent to her Brother the King of France for making up and Confirmation of the Peace and it was accorded that King Edward should give the Prince his Son the Dutchy of Aquitain and County of Pontheu that he should go over into France and do Homage for them which he did accordingly But the Prince being in France with his Mother she had no mind to return The King sent divers Letters to his Son Edward and his Queen Isabel expostulating the Cause of their stay in France against his Will and the Confederation they made there with Roger Mortimer his Enemy and Rebel and others Walsingham says Some affirmed she stayed there against her Will Alii voro asserebant quod voluntarie propter nimiam familiaritatem tunc contractam inter Reginam Rogerum de Mortuo-mari si●● quo aliis Nobilibus de Anglia profugatis nolluit dicta Regina redire maxime in odium dispensatorum But others affirmed she stayed voluntarily by reason of the too great Familiarity she had contracted with Earl Roger Mortimer without whose Advice she did nothing and without whom and the other Noble-men that had fled out of England she would not return and especially for the Hatred she bare towards the Spencers proud ambitious haughty and covetous Men by whom the King was too much swayed in the Management of his Affairs which might give a dissatisfaction to the Nobility though not warrant their Actions The next Year having married the Prince not then fourteen Years old to the Earl of Hanault's Daughter who furnished her with Shipping and two thousand seven hundred and fifty Men led by his Brother John she with Edmund Earl of Kent and Roger Mortimer Lord of Wigmore and many other Great Men who had sled out of England landed at Harwich to whom the Earl Marshal the Earl of Leicester and other Barons and Knights of those Parts and almost all the Bishops did adhere and proceeding her Army daily increased so as at last she took her Husband the King Prisoner and put to death both the Spencers the Younger without Hearing or Answering ' The imprisoned King was carried and removed from place to place but at last fixed at Berkeley-Castle in Glocester shire under the Guard of Thomas Berkeley and John Maltravers who had allowed an hundred Shillings a Day for his Expences arid Keeping The Queen never would see him during his Imprisonment Regina misit sibi Indumenta delicata Literas blandientes sed tamen ipsum videre nolebat fingens quod communitas regni non permisit The Queen sent him gay Cloaths and flattering Letters but would not see him feigning the Community of the Kingdom would not permit her He was made Prisoner November 16. and the Morrow after Twelfth-Day all the Nobility of the Kingdom being summoned to Parliament met at London and judged the King unit to rule and for several Reasons to be deposed and his Son Prince Edward to be chosen King Convenit Londoniis tota Nobilitas regni citata per prius ad Parliamentum tenendum ibidem in crastino Epiphaniae ubi cuncti censuerunt Regem indignum Diademate propter plures Articulos deponendum Edvardum filium ejus primogenitum in Regem unanimiter eligendum quod etiam consequenter factum est Of which Transaction when the Queen had notice she was full of Grief outwardly ut for is apparuit saith Walsingbam But the Prince affected with this outward Passion of his Mother as young as he was would not accept of this Title whether out of his own Apprehension of things or by grave and mature Advice which is most probable Et Juravit quod invito patre nunquam susciperet coronam Regni And swore that without his Father's Consent he would never take upon him the Crown of the Kingdom Whereupon several Messengers being dispatched to the King then Prisoner at Kenelworth-Castle who told him what had been done and concluded of and diligently required him to resign his Royal Dignity and Crown and permit his Son to reign in his stead He was much disturbed with the Message and said Since it could be no otherwise he thanked them for chusing his First-born Son making his Resignation and delivering up the Royal Ensigns or Tokens of Sovereignty This done Edward the Third directs his Writs to the Sheriffs of the several Counties for preserving and keeping the Peace with this Preamble Rex Vicecom Ebor. Salutem Quia Dominus Edwardus nuper Rex Angliae Pater Noster de Communi Consilio assensu Praelator Com. Baron alior Magnat necnon Communitat totius Regni praedict SPONTANEA VOLUNTATE se amovit a Regimine dicti Regni VOLENS CONCEDENS quod nos tanquam ipsius primogenitus HAERES ipsius regni qubernationem regimen assumemus nosque ipsius patris nostri beneplacito in hac parte de consilio avisamento Praelator Com. Baron Magnat Comitat. praedict annuentes Gubernacula suscepimus dicti regni side litates Homag ipsorum Praelator Magnat recepimus ut est moris Teste Rege apud Westmonas●erium 29 Jan. The King to the Sheriff of Tork-shre Greeting Because Edward late King of England our Father by Common Council and Assent of Prelates Earls Barons and other Great Men and also of the Communities of the said Kingdom of his own Free Will removed himself from the Government of the said Kingdom Willing and Granting that We as his First-born and Heir of his Kingdom should take upon us the Rule and Government And We yielding to the good Pleasure of our Father by the Counsel and Advisement of the Prelates Earls Barons Great Men and Communities aforesaid have taken upon Us the Government of the said Kingdom and received the Fealties and Homages of the said Prelates and Great Men according to Custom Witness the King at Westminster Jan. 29. Nine days after he was invested with Kingship and not long after that King Edward the Second was murdered in Berkeley-Castle Any Man though but of an indifferent Capacity that seriously considers the story of this unfortunate Prince will easily perceive he was deposed by notorious Rebellion raised by factious Bishops and Tumultuous Barons and not without great suspition of an intended Vsurpation by Thomas Earl of Lancaster and may easily see through the Contrivance of the Queen and Mortimer afterwards and from thence cannot but judge it to have been a Design of wicked popular Barons and not the Action much less the Choice of the People In the Fourth of Edward the Third Roger Mortimer Earl of March

Titles were whispered up and down the Act of 35 Hen. 8. or this Act of Recognition were not thought sufficient to secure the Queen Elizabeth Then was this Act in the Thirteenth of her Reign made meerly either to create or strengthen her Title and not to Exclude the Queen of Scots from the SUCCESSION unless she attempted any thing against her or laid Claim to the Crown which was also in its own nature a securing Clause to Queen Elizabeth But the great Clause of Security to Queen Elizabeth in this Act was that Clause by which it was made Treason for any man to affirm that she by Authority of Parliament could not make Lawes and Statutes to bind the Succession of the Crown or that this Act or other Lawes to be made by the Parliament of England by her Royal assent for limiting the Crown and recognizing the right to be lawfully and justly in her person is not are not or shall not or ought not to be for ever of good and sufficient force This Clause was levelled against the Opinion That the Queen of Scots had the best Title which began to spread and gain much credit as well amongst the Nobility as Commons By all which it is manifest this whole Act was but Temporary and therefore we may note with Pulton that it expired with Queen Elizabeth and it was no Act of Exclusion but a Law only to secure her Person and to make and confirm unto her a Title which without Statute-Law was in it self at least doubtful And the new Clause which was added That it should be High Treason during her Life for any Person to affirm she by Authority of Parliament had not Power to bind the Crown and Succession thereof or That the Right of the Crown and Realm was not justly and lawfully in her Royal Person cannot affect the Title of a lawful Successor by Inheritance nor be brought or made use of as a Precedent to exclude him from the Succession But it may be said There is a great Forfeiture inflicted upon every Person holding and affirming after her Decease That Queen Elizabeth and a Parliament could not limit the Succession and fix the Crown upon her own Head This Clause could take no effect after her death and therefore was added to preserve her Memory from being defamed after her Death or slanderously charged with the hainous Crime of Vsurping the Crown which in must have been the inevitabble Consequence of affirming she and her Parliament could not limit the Succession For she valued much her Credit and Reputation and would seem to maintain still that he acted nothing against the Queen of Scots and therefore the Law is made in general Words against every Person or Persons whatsoever of what Degree Place Nation or Condition whatsoever that should affirm she was not in Right true and lawful Queen or that should claim the Crown c. In the Point of Succession she could never be brought expresly by Name to exclude the Queen of Scots or name any other Successor as is clear from these several Passages in Camden Dudley desirous by all means to oblige and obtain the Favour of the Queen of Scots accused the Lord Keeper Bacon to the Queen That he had intermedled against the Queen of Scots in the matter of Succession for which he lost the Queens Favour and was with much ado at last restored to it again by the Mediation of Cecil upon which our Author says Certainly the Queen never heard any thing more unwillingly than that the Right of Succession should be called in question or disputed The same Year Queen Elizabeth hearing of a Match like to be between the Queen of Scots and Henry Lord Darly to prevent it advertifed her by her Lieger Randolph That that Marriage was generally so dishked by all the English that she had Prorogued the Parliament to another time against the minds of her Council left the Estates of the Realm being incensed shou'd even for this cause Enact somewhat against her Right to the Succession Which that it might not be done afterwards she recommended Leycester unto her for a Husband whom chiefly for that Reason she had created Earl In the Year 1566 a Parliament was called to meet on the First of November They began to Debate roundly about the Succession and the Earls of Pembroke and Leycester and Duke of Norfolk thought that an Husband was to be imposed upon the Queen or a Successor publickly designed by Act of Parliament even against her will Whereupon they were excluded the Presence-Chambcr and denied Access to the Queen but they soon submitted themselves to her and obtained pardon Yet the Upper House did by the Lord Keeper Bacon advise move and pray her to Marry and to appoint a Successor if she or her Children should die without Issue But some in the Lower House handled these things more tumultuously Bell and Monson great Lawyers Dutton Paul Went worth and others who grated upon the Queens Authority too much and amongst other things maintained That Kings were bound to design a Successor At last they offered her far greater Subsidies than they were wont upon condition that she would design a certain Successor She absolutely refused that extraordinary Offer and accepted an ordinary Sum commending their Affection The last day of the Parliament she made a Speech and gave the busie Men a smooth Reprehension I find saith she that in this Parliament DISSIMVLATION hath walked up and down masked under the Vizor of LIBERTY and SVCCESSION Some of your Number there are that thought it LIBERTY to dispute of the SVCCESSION and that the Establishment of the same is absolutely to be granted or denied If I had granted it these Men had had their desire and had triumphed over me but if I had denied it they thought to have moved the Hatred of my People against me which my greatest Enemies could never yet do But their Wisdom was unseasonable and their Counsels over-hasty neither did they foresee the Event Yet hereby I easily perceived who inclined toward me and who were averse unto me c. Upon this Speech Camden makes this Remarque Thus a Woman's Wisdom suppressed these Commotions every day so qualified them shining clearer and clearer that very few besides such as were seditious and fearful were troubled about a Successor And certainly most men whatever they pretend have no more sense of Publick Matters than what concerns their own Private To these Testimonies of the Queens aversion to pass a Bill of Exclusion of the Q. of Scots may be added a very clear and convincing one out of the Journal of the House of Commons in the Fourteenth of her Reign after the passing this Act which is said so much to favour a Bill of Exclusion Mr. Treasurer of the Houshold Sir Francis Knolles from the Queen advised the House of Commons to go forwards against the Queen of Scots with a second Bill