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A91489	A treatise concerning the broken succession of the crown of England: inculcated, about the later end of the reign of Queen Elisabeth. Not impertinent for the better compleating of the general information intended.	Parsons, Robert, 1546-1610.	1655 (1655)	Wing P574; Thomason E481_2; ESTC R203153	79,791	168

hous of York that challenged the Crown and died in the quarrel His son was Edward the 4. The Issue of the Duke of Glocester Thomas of Woodstock had onely one childe Anne married to the Lord Stafford whose issue came after in regard of this marriage for Thomas was Earl of Buckingham too to bee Duke of Buckingham som of whose blood are yet in England The Issue of John of Gant by his first Wife John of Gant had three Wives 1 Blanch the heir of Lancaster aforesaid by whom hee had Henry 4. and Philippe married to John King of Portingal from whom are lineally descended such as at this day claim interest in that Crown and Elisabeth married to John Holland Duk of Exceter whose grand-childe Henry left onely Anne married to Sir Thomas Nevil Knight from whom the Earl of Westmerland is lineally descended By his second Wife By his second Ladie Constance daughter of Peter King of Castile hee had onely one daughter Katharine married to Henry the third King of Castile of whom the King of Spain that now is is lineally desended By his third Wife Henry 7. his Title His third Katharine Swinford daughter to a Knight of Henault and attending on his wife Blanch hee used as his Concubine in his wife Constance's time and begat of her three sons and one daughter and after married her to Swinford an English Knight who dead and his wife Constance also hee married her Anno 1396 and caused his said children by her to bee legitimated by Parlament Anno 1397. Henry 7. his Title from Lancaster His sons were 1. John Duke of Somerset 2. Thomas Duke of Excester 3. Henry Bishop and Cardinal of Winchester His daughter Jane married to the Earl of Westmerland The Issues of all these were soon spent except of John of Somerset who had two sons John and Edmund John one onely daughter Margaret married to Edmund Tidder Earl of Richmond by whom hee had Henry 7. Edmund and his three sons all died in the quarrel of the Hous of Lancaster without Issue The line of Clarence and Title of the Earl of Huntington George Duke of Clarence second brother of Edw. 4. had Issue Edw. Earl of Warwick put to death by Henry 7. and Margaret Countess of Salisbury married to Sir Richard Poole of Wales by whom hee had Henry Arthur Geoffroy and Reynald after Cardinal Henry Lo. of Montague put to death with his mother by H. 8. had Katharine married to the Earl of Huntington they the now Earl c. and Wenefred married to Sir Tho. Barrington Arthur Marie married to Sir John Stanny and Margaret to Sir Tho. Fitzherbert Geoffrey Geoffrey Poole hee Arthur and Geoffrey which yet live in Italie Henry 7. his Issue The Title of Scotland and of the Ladie Arbella Henry 7. had by the eldest daughter of Edw. 4. for of all the other three remaineth no issue besides Hen. 8. Margaret first married to the K. of Scots they James 5. who Mary mother to the now King After married to the Earl of Anguis they Margaret married to the Earl of Lenox they Henry married to the last Queen and murthered 1566. and Charles married to Elisa Ca4dish by whom the Ladie Arbella The Title of the Lord Beacham and his brother Marie the second daughter first married to Lewis 12. of France without issue then to Charles Brandon Duke of Suffolk they Francis married to Henry Gray Marquis Dorset after Duke of Suffolk beheaded by Q. Mary they Jane married to Dudley both beheaded Katharine first married to the Earl of Pembroke and left by him to the Earl of Hartfort as themselves affirmed in the Tower from whom descendeth the Lord Beacham and Edward Seymer his brother The Title of the Hous of Derbie Eleonor second daughter to Ch. Brandon and the Queen of France was married to Henry Clifford Earl of Cumberland they had issue Margaret married to Henry Earl of Derbie who had issue the last and the now Earl CAP. IV. The Controversie between the Houses of Lancaster and York The Pretence of the Hous of York BY Richard Duke of York son of Richard Earl of Cambridg aforesaid c. That considering hee had by descent joined in him the right aswell of Lionel Duke of Clarence second son to Edw. 3. as of Edward Duke of York the fourth son of Edw. 3. hee was to bee preferred before the Hous of Lancaster claiming onely from John of Gant the third son of Edward 3. Richard 2. Deposed Edward 3. in his old age for the love hee bare to the black Prince confirmed the Succession by Parlament to Richard 2. his son and caused the rest of his sons to swear thereunto Richard 2. for his misgovernment was deposed by common consent and Henry 4. chosen in his place which himself and his issue possessed about 60 years The question is Whether King Richard were rightfully deposed or no That a King may bee deposed on just causes First that a King on just causes may bee deposed is proved by Reason becaus the rule beeing given by the Common-wealth on condition of just government that much violated the condition is broken and the same Common-wealth may take the forfeiture This proved by the autoritie of all Law-makers Philosophers Divines and Governors of Common-wealths and by example of divers Depositions which God himself hath blessed with good success Proved by reasons and examples of Divinitie An ill Prince is an armed enemie with his feet set on the Realm's head whence hee cannot bee plucked but by force of Arms Object God may cut him off by sickness or otherwise and therefore wee are to attend his good pleasure Answ. God alwaies bindeth not himself to work miracles nor often with extraordinary means but hath left upon earth unto men and Common-wealths power to do justice in his Name upon offendors Examples hereof are Ehud stirr'd up by God to kill Eglon King of the Moabites by a stratageme Judg. 3. and the Philistins to kill David to persecute Saul Jeroboam to rebell against Roboam the son of Solomon 2 Reg. 11. 12. Jehu to depose Joram and Q. Jezabel his mother 4. Reg. 9. The Captains of Jerusalem at the persuasion of Jehoiada the high-Priest to conjure against Q. Athalia whom they deposed and Joash chosen in her room 4. Reg. 11. All which hee might have removed without blood-shed if hee would But hee appointed men to work his Will by these violent means to deliver that Common-wealth from oppression and for the greater terror of all bad Princes Allegations of the Lancastrians that King Richard 2. was justly Deposed Just causes of Deposing Richard 2. were Hee murthered his Uncle the Duke of Glocester without form of Law or process Hee put to death the Earl of Arundel banished Warwick Thomas Arundel Archbishop of Canterbury and Henry Duke of Hereford and Lancaster and after King whose goods and inheritance descending to the said Henry from his Father hee wrongfully seized on Hee suffered the Earl of Oxford

Parlament Holden at Segovia 1276. made Heir apparent of Spain and they put back in their Grand-father's time and by his and the Realms consent And this Don Sancho coming to the Crown in the year 1284. the two Princes were put in Prison but afterwards at the suit of Philip 3. of France their Uncle they were let out and endued with certain Lands and also they remain unto this day And of these do come the Dukes of Medina Celi and all the rest of the House of Cerda which are of much Nobilitie in Spain at this time and King Philip that Reigneth cometh of Don Sancho the yonger Brother Henry the Bastard and his Race to the prejudice of King Petro and his Heirs When Don Pedro the Cruel King of Castile was driven and his Bastard Brother Henry 2. set up in his place John of Gant Duke of Lancaster having Married Dona Constancia the said King Peter's Daughter and Heir pretended by succession the said Crown of Castile as indeed it appertained unto him But yet the State of Spain denied it flatly and defended it by Arms and prevailed against John of Gand as did also the Race of Henry the Bastard against his lawful Brother And though in this Third and principal Discent of the Kings of Spain when these Changes happened the matter of Succession were most assuredly and perfectly established yet no man will deny but that the Kings of Spain who hold by the latter Titles at this day be true and lawful Kings This King Henry the Bastard had a Son named John the first who succeeded him in the Crown of Spain and Married Dona Beatrix Daughter and Heir of King Ferdinando the first of Portugal But yet after the death of the said Ferdinando the States of Portugal would never agree to admit the said Juan for their King for not subjecting themselves by that means to the Castilians And took rather a Bastard Brother of the said Don Ferdinando named Don Juan a youth of twenty years old whom they Married afterward to the Lady Philippe Daughter of John of Gand by his first Wife Blancha Duchess and Heir of Lancaster in whose Right the Kings of Portugal and their Discendents do pretend unto this day a certain interest to the House of Lancaster Divers other Examples out of the States of France and England for proof that the next in Blood are somtimes put back from succession And how God hath approved the same with good success CAP. VIII Though the Crown of France never come to any Stranger yet it Changed twice in it self and had Three Rancks COncerning the State of France albeit since the entrance of their first King Pharamond they have never had any stranger come to wear their Crown yet among themselves have they changed twice their whole Lineage of Kings and have had three Discents and Races as well as the Spaniards The first of Pharamond the second of Pepin and the third of Capitus which endureth unto this present The First Ranck The First Ranck shall be let pass for that some perhaps may say that the Common-wealth and Law of Succession was not then so well setled as it hath been since and also because it were too tedious to peruse all the Three Rancks for the store that they may yield Examples of the second Ranck Carloman against the Law of Succession and the Order of his Father parted equally the Realm with his elder Brother Charles Pepin le Bref first King of the second Race left two Sons Charles and Carloman and his States and Kingdoms by Succession unto the eldest Charles the Great And albeit by that Law of Succession the whole Kingdom of France appertained unto him alone yet the Realm by his authoritie did part it equally between them two as Gerard du Haillan setteth down in these words Estant Pepin decedé les François eslurent Roy Charles Carloman ses fils à la charge qu'ils partagerrient entr'evor egalement le Roy And the very same citeth Belforest out of Egenart an ancient French Writer Charlemayne preferred to his nephews against succession After three years reign Carloman dying left many sons the elder whereof was named Adalgise but Belforest saith That the Lords Ecclesiastical and temporal of France swore fidelitie and obedience to Charles without any respect or regard at all of the children of Carloman who yet by right of succession should have been preferred And Paulus Emilius a Latine-writer saith Proceres regni ad Carolum ultrà venientes regem eum totius Galliae salutârunt whereby is shewed that exclusion of the children of Carloman was not by force or tyrannie but by free deliberation of the Realm Lewis 1. deposed Charles le Chauve his fourth son admitted to the prejudice of his elder brothers To Charles the Great succeeded Lewis le Debonnaire his only son who afterward at the pursuit principally of his own three sons by his first wife Lothaire Pepin and Lewis was deposed and put into a Monasterie But coming afterward to reign again his fourth son by his second wife named Charles le Chauve succeeded him against the right of succession due to his elder brother Lothaire Louys 2. to the prejudice of his elder brethren and his bastards to the prejudice of his lawful sons After Charles le Chauve came in Louis le Begue his third son the second beeing dead and the eldest for his evil demeanure put by his succession This Lewis left by his wife Adel trude daughter to King Alfred of England a little infant newly born and two bastard-sons of a Concubine Louys * and Carloman who for that the nobles of France said That they had need of a man to bee King and not a childe were to the prejudice of the lawful successor by the State chosen jointly for Kings and the whole Realm was divided between them And Q. Adeltrude with her childe fled into England Charles 4. to the prejudice of Louys 5. And Odo to the prejudice of Charles 4. Of these two Bastards Carloman left a son Louis le Faineant which succeded unto him But for his slothful life and vicious behaviour was deprived and made a Monk in the Abbey of St Denis where hee died And in his place was chosen for King of France Charles le * Gros Emperor of Rome who likewise afterward was for his evil government by them deposed and deprived not onely of the Kingdom but also of his Empire and was brought into such miserable penurie as divers write hee perished for want In his place was chosen Odo Earl of Paris and Duke of Angers of whom came Hugh Capet Charles the simple to the prejudice of Odo But beeing soon wearie of this man's government they deposed him as hee was absent in Gasconie and called Charles * named afterward the Simple out of England to Paris and restored him to the Kingdom of France leaving onely