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A17013	English protestants plea, and petition, for English preists [sic] and papists to the present court of Parlament, and all persecutors of them: diuided into two parts. In the first is proued by the learned protestants of England, that these preists and Catholicks, haue hitherto been vniustly persecuted, though they haue often and publickly offered soe much, as any Christians in conscience might doe. In the second part, is proued by the same protestants, that the same preistly sacrificinge function, acknowledgeing and practize of the same supreame spirituall iurisdiction of the apostolick see of Rome, and other Catholick doctrines, in the same sence wee now defend them, and for which wee ar at this present persecuted, continued and were practized in this Iland without interruption in al ages, from S. Peter the Apostle, to these our tymes.	Broughton, Richard.	1621 (1621)	STC 3895.5; ESTC S114391	56,926	128

refragati sunt Did stoutly giue their voyces against this innouation They offered publicke defence by disputation of Catholike Religion both for doctrine and iurisdiction Cambden Annal pag. 26. in appart ad annal pag. 36 Mason lib. 3. consecrat pag. 206. cap. 5. Stow hist. an 1. Eliz. Holinsh. ibid. Godwyn Catol But the Protestants knowing how their chiefest champions had bene before so conuinced by them that they were hissed by the auditors durst not come to triall But the Parlament beginning on the 23. day of Ianuary they presently proceeded to make Queene Elizabeth supreme head of the Church and by that title to make a religion what pleased her and her few fauorites which by such indirect meanes as is heere testified by these Protestants they brought to passe in the beginning of that Parlament and in the very first acte and statute thereof Theater of great Brittaine lib. 9. cap. 24. parag 4. Godwyn Catal in the Bish. depriu an 1. Elizab. Parlament 1. an 1. Eliz. cap. And would neuer hearken to any disputation whatsoeuer vntill they had thus obteyned their purpose and vntill the last day of March two moneths after as all Protestant histories giue euidence And when they had by onely 6. voyces of laye-men condemned our learned Bishops and their holy religion the religion of the vniuersall Church of God they would not then allow them though condemned thus vniustly any disputation at all except they would accept of that bable and mockerie of disputation and all religion which I haue from these ProtestaÌ„ts remembred before Cambden in Annal. lib. pag. 27. Therefore let vs passe it ouer in this place and desire your instructing Protestants a little further to instruct and informe vs how shee proceeded and so strangely preuailed in this matter Orbe Christiano mirante to the wonder of all the Christian world for the prophane proceedings then vsed as your Protestants before haue testified Camben annal supra So soone as shee was proclaimed Queene long before her Coronation by proclamation she silenced the Catholike Bishops and Cleargie not to preach and by her Iniunctions gaue warrant to her laye protestant commissioners to giue licence to preach Proclamation of Q. Elizabeth an 1. Stowe histor an 1. Elizab. Iniunctions of Q. Elizabeth an Shee put in practise the oathe of Supremacie amongst many which refused that oath was the Lord Chancellour D. Heath Archbishop of Yorke from whom shee tooke the priuie seale and remitted it to Sr. Nicholas Bacon Stowe histor in Queene Elizabeth an reg 1. shee putt many from the cowncell and tooke new cownsaylers suis adiunxit sayth your best Antiquary Cambden Annal. in Elizabeth pag. 18.19 pro temporum ratione Gulielmum Parrum Marchionem Northamptoniae Franciscum Russellum comitem Bedfordiae Thomam Parrum Edwardum Rogers Ambrosium Cauum Franciscum Knolles Guilielmum Cecilium pauloque post Nicholaum Bacon singulos protestantium doctrinam amplexos nulloque sub Maria loco Quos vt reliquos in eorum locum iam inde suffectos ita temperauit cohibuit vt sibi essent deuotissimi ipsa semper sui iuris nulli obnoxij Shee ioyned to hyrs for the state of the tyme William Parr Marquesse of Northampton Francis Russell Earle of Bedford Thomas Parr Edward Rogers Ambrose Caue Francis Knolles and William Cecile and soone after Nicholas Bacon all become protestants in noe office vnder Q. Mary which as the rest which shee putt in for those shee displaced shee soe tempered and kept them in awe that they were moste seruiceable to her shee allwayes to doe what pleased her none to contradict her Shee concluded cum paruulis intimis Cambden supr pag. 22.23 with a few most inward with her de nobilibus Ã regio consilio amouendis episcopis ecclesiasticis de gradu deijciendis Iudicibus qui pro tribunalibus sederunt hirenanchis per singulos comitatus qui regnante Maria re aestimatione magni erant hos locos deturbandos legum seueritate coercendos nullosque nisi protestantes ad rerum administrationem adhibendos in collegia vtriusque academiae coaptandos censuerunt fimulque pontificios praesides ex academijs scholarchas ex wintoniensi Aetoniensi caeterisque scholis submouendos Q. Elizabeth presently after the death of Q. Mary taketh order with very few of her inward frends how to restore protestant Religion The plott by them was that new coÌ„missions should bee directed to iudges with prouision they should not giue any office new Iustices of peace and sheriffes should bee made in all countries the noble men should bee put from the councell Bishops and ecclesiasticall men displaced all iudges and iustices of peace that were in estimation in the tyme of Q. Mary should bee remoued in all shires and seuerely kept vnder and none but protestants to bee admitted to gouernment in the comon wealth and placed in the colledges of both vniuersities and all popish presidents of howses and scholemasters to bee renewed from Wincester Eton and other scholes And accordinge to this conclusion this Elizabeth neyther beeing crowned Queene as yet nor haueinge by any pretence power to meddle with the Title of Supreamacie because to speake in your protestants words Stowe histor an 1. Eliz ab statut in parlam an 1. Mariae Queene Mary restored all thinges according to the church of Rome reduced all ecclesiasticall iurisdiction vnto the papall obedience yett to write in the same protestants pen and words Stowe histor supr an 1. Eliz. The Queene tooke an exact suruey of all her cleargie and officers of estate and putt in practise the oath of supreamacie and amongst many which refused that oathe was the Lord chauncellor D. Heath Archbishop of yorke shee committed the custody of the greate Seale vnto Sâ— Nicholas Bacon a man moste malicious against papists whoe from that tyme was called Lord keeper Cambden supr annal pag. 27. Haueing thus displaced through the kingdome all catholicke magistrates and dissolued the catholicke parlament continueinge at the death of her Syster Queene Mary and putt new protestant officers in their places with all speed shee sommoned a parlament to begyn in Ianuary followeinge within twoe moneths of her sisters death Stowe supr Holinsh. histor an 1. Elizab. Theater of Britan. 16. Cambd. Annal. ann 1. Elizab. And haueing thus prouided for a fitt company in the lower howse of parlament swearers to the supremacie shee and her pauculi intimi were as prouident to packe some in the vpper howse alsoe Therefore a fewe dayes before the parlament to speake as your protestant Stowe an 1. Elizab. Cambden annal supr the 13. of Ianuary the Queene in the Tower created Sr. William Parr ob laesam maiestatem sub Maria gradu deiectum attainted of treason in Q. Maryes tyme Lord marquesse of Northampton Edward Seymor sonne to the late Duke of Sommersett attainted vicount Beuchamp and Earle of Hertford Tho. Howard second sonne of Tho. Duke of Norfolke vicount Bindon Sr. Oliuer

Saint Ihon Baron of Bletsoe and Sr. Henry Carey Lord Hounsdon Qui singuli Ã pontificia Religione alieni all which were alienated from the popes Religion all which that Queene and her pauculi intimi very fewe that consented vnto her knew by that meanes would giue their voyces in parlament to what shee should desire and not content with this proceeded soe in these indirect courses that as your protestants haue written Cambden Annall pag. 27. plures Ã¨ protestantibus data opera Ã¨ comitatibus tum Ã¨ ciuitatibus burgis fuisse electos Norfolciae ducem Arundeliaeque Comitem inter proceres potentissimos in suam siue rem siue spem Ceciliumque sua solertia suffragia emendicasse The papists complayned that more protestants of sett purpose were chosen out of Countries cyties and burroughts and the Duke of Norfolke and Earle of Arundell moste potent amonge the nobilitie eyther for their owne good or hope by the Queens promises of marriadge or such things and Cecyle by his cunninge had begged voyces And to helpe and further soe bad a cause the Queene herselfe your protestants words openly protested at that tyme in parlament that shee would neuer vexe or trouble the Romane Catholicks concerning any difference in Religion Neyther did this Queene or hir pauculi intimi Cecile and Bacon take this straunge course in hand for dislike of catholick Religion for your Antiquary telleth vs of Q. Elizabeth herselfe ad Romanae Religionis normam sacra audiret saepius confiteretur Missam permisit post mortem Mariae litanias Q. Elizabeth heard masse after the Romane order often went to confession and after Q. Maryes death allowed masse and litanies Cambden in Apparatu pag. 13. The like is as well knowne of those her intimi at that tyme. But they had other little laudable ends by protestant proceedings now thus expressed by your cheifest Antiquary Cambden in Annal. Rer. Anglic in Elizabeth pag. 21.22 Nonnulli ex intimis Consiliarijs in aures assiduÃ¨ insusurrarunt mollissimo ingenio virgini dum timerent ne animus in dubio facillimÃ¨ impelleretur actum de ipsa amicis esse conclamatum de Anglia si pontificiam authoritatem in dispensando aut alia quacunque re agnosceret duos pontifices matrem illegittimÃ¨ Henrico 8. emptam pronuntiasse inde in eorum sententia iam lata Scotorum Reginam ius in Regnum Angliae sibi arrogare pontificem sententiam istam nunquam rescissurum Some of her inward Counsaylors did dayly whisper into her eares beeing a mayden of a moste tractable disposition while they feared least her minde in doubt might most easely bee driuen forward to marry with king Philip of Spayne and soe continue the catholicke Religion that shee and her frendes were vndone if shee should acknowledge the popes authority in dispenseinge or any other matter For two popes had allready pronounced that her mother was vnlawfully marryed to Henry 8. and soe in their sentence denownced the Queene of Scots did challendge right to the kingdome of England And that the pope would neuer recall this sentence And agayne Prospexit huiusmodi matrimonium ex dispensatione contrahendo non posse non agnoscere seipsam iniustis nuptijs natam esse Shee thus perceaued that this marriadge with king Philipp of Spayne her Systers husband to bee by the popes dispensation must needs acknowledge that shee was borne in vnlawfull wedlocke And they knew alsoe that shee remayning a catholicke must seeke for the popes dispensation of this her birth not onely made and declared illegitimate by the pope but by her father himselfe and the whole parlament and Title to the crowne giuen her onely by the will and testament of her father parlament Henr. 8. of Illeg Lady Elizab. against which in this case your protestant hâ—an thus exclaymeth Howes histor preface in Henry 8. through feare and terror Henry 8. obteyned an Act of parlament to dispose of the right of succession to the crowne and then by his last will and testament K. Henry 8. in his last will and Testam contrary to the law of God and nature conuayes it from the lawfull heires of his eldest sister marryed vnto the kinge of Scotland vnto the heires of Charles Brandon and others his daughter Elizabeth and of these others thereby to haue defeated preuented and supprest the vnquestionable and immediate right from God of our gratious soueraigne kinge Iames as if it had beene in the power of his will or of the parlament to disenherite and preuent the diuine free guift and grace of almightie God by which the kings of this land doe hold their crownes Thus your protestant and priuiledged historians by which is euident that this proceedinge by such exorbitant courses concerning ReligioÌ„ was not for loue or likinge of their protestant Religion further then yt gaue them licence and libertie to doe and liue as pleased their sensuall appetites which the church and Religion of Rome would not allowe And yett all these sinistre and prophane proceedings not withstandinge to insist in your protestants words in chaungeing Religion in that her parlament Howes historial preface in Q. Elizabeth In this parlament notwithstandinge the presence of the Queene to countenance their bad cause with the apparant likelyhood of hir longe life and hope of issue to succeede her yett the maior part exceeded the minor but in sixe voyces at which time to wringe out consents the Queene openly pronounced that shee would neuer vexe or trouble the Romane Catholicks concerninge any difference in Religion Which promise of hirs was as well performed as that condition of her fathers before of bestoweinge the church reuenewes for as your protestants haue related her persecutions which soe vnprincely and vnchristianely in her name and power of that straunge claymed supreamacie in a woman and such a woman equaled or exceeded those of Nero and Dioclesian infensiue tyrants and enemyes of Christianitie Syr Edwyn Sandes in Relation of the state of Religion And in that parlament yt selfe where shee spake these words and proceeded to cruell inflicted penalties against those Romane Catholicks as all our holy Bishops were depriued imprisoned or exiled soe were all other ecclesiasticall parsons that would not doe as pleased her Stowe histor an 1. Elizab. Holinshed Theater ibid. Cambd. in Annalib Rerum Anglicarum in Elizab. Parlament 1. Elizabeth greate forfaictures and punishments imposed vppon all that should heare masse or not bee present at her new deuised seruice premunire losse of lands goods and perpetuall imprisonment and losse of life alsoe with note of Treason to them that would not acknowledge that spirituall supreame power in her of which shee was soe far vncapable in the iudgment of her owne protestants that diuers of them wrote and published to the world that a woman could not bee a supreame gouernor in things temporall Knoxe Godman and other protest against the Regim of women and they were soe violent herein both in England and

the Religious howses Hee would create your protestants words and mayntayne 40. Earles 60. Barons 3000. knights and 40. thowsand souldiers with skilfull captaines and competent mayntenance for them all for euer out of the auntient church reueneues and the people should bee noe more charged with loanes subsidies and fifteens Of all these blessings and benefites wee are spoyled and by your Religion depriued And not onely wee that now bee catholicks in England but all faythfull soules allready departed out of this world and those that ar not yet borne if they shall bee of the posteritie of those holy founders to bee prayed for to the end of the world by those Religious fowndations and al pore hungry bodyes â—ere releiued with those donations which â—otestant tymes haue conuerted to vanities â—d that which is vnchristian to persecute the â—eligion which fownded these holy howses â—nd with such vehemency and cruelty wee ar â—ersecuted as you haue before acknowledged our lawes records registers our miseries â—alamities and martyrdomes haue published â—o all the world Edw. howe 's in his historial preâ—reface in kinge Henry 8. All this you doe vnto vs vnder pretence â—hat wee will not forsake our holy Religion â—oe firmely and vndoubtedly proued by soe â—any vndeniable testimonies in your owne â—udgments that wee cannot bee deceaued exâ—ept God which is vnpossible can deceaue â—s And in remayninge and persisting wherein â—nd following and frequentinge that order which it prescribeth the sacrifice and Sacraments which it vseth wee shall by your best â—earned protestants writing with your publick â—riuiledge bee sure to bee saued when contraâ—ywise if wee should bee soe gracelesse as for â—eare of torments and afflictions to harken vnto you in matters of Religion the same your â—est learned protestant Bishops and others asâ—ure vs agayne wee shall come into a fallible â—eceaueable and actually erroneus Religion â—nd consequently shall bee damned for euer â—oue prot Bish. persuas Feild l. of the church pag. â—7 182 Couel def of Hooker pag. 68.73.76 Feild pag. 69. willet Antilog pag. 144. Theater of greaâ— Brit. Saxons Sam. Daniel hist. c. Feild pag. 20â— Isaac Casaub praef respons ad Gard. Peron Doâ— persuas Morton Apolog. part 2. pag. 315. willâ— Antilog praef to the Read vniuersities answeare ã€ˆâ—Šã€‰ the mill pet Confer at Hampt pag. 47. Protest Râ— lat of that conference printed by Ioh. windet in thrâ— seuerall copies 1.2.3 And if God and the truth of his holy causâ— mayntayned in our bookes against you haâ— not inforced and necessitated these your publicke writers thus publickly to condemnâ— you and forwarne vs from communicatingâ— with you in these affaires yett the lamentable and desolate experience it selfe in your parlaments of king Henry 8. k. Edward 6. Q. Elizabeth c. crieth out vnto the world that all the parlaments and princes supreame heads of Religion by you haue beene deceaued and deceaued all that followed them in these things Kinge Henry 8. was the first parlament of k. Henr. 8. after an Reg. 22. and was herein contrary to all antiquitie contrary to k. Edward his sonne parlam Edw. 6.1.2.3 daughter Elizabeth parlam 1. Elizab. iniunctionis of Q. Eliz. an 1. and kinge Iames. Articles of Relig. ann 1562 and to himselfe by diuers parlaments and his Religion dead with him and condemned by you Kinge Edward was contrary to his father his sister to you and to himselfe in diuers publicke parlaments and his publick iniunctions Queen Elizabeth was in the same â—se of contradiction to her father brother to â—u and herselfe by publicke practice parlaâ—ent proclamations and iniunctions in lesse â—me then three quarters of one yeare And â—uchinge that peece of her first parlament â—herein shee condemned the masse there was â—ot one diuine Bishop or other that gaue coÌ„â—ent or could giue it vnto her but all against â—nd their extrauagant proceedings therein were such as they bee related by your owne â—ntiquaries Cambden Howes and others â—hat Paganisme Turcisme Epicurisme Iudaisâ—ne Atheisme or any other heresie might as â—asely haue beene settled here as protestaÌ„tisme was which is not here to bee entreated King â—ames our present soueraigne is generally taâ—en to bee to too wise and learned to learne Religion of such Tutors Cambden in Apparat. â—d Annal. in Annal. in Elizabeth Howe 's histoâ—iall preface in Q. Elizabeth and others Kinge Henry the 8. desired at his death as â—rotestant histories sufficiently insinuate and â—iuers then liueing in his Court haue testified â—o bee reconciled to the church of Rome and â—n one of his laste Acts the inscription of his Tombe doth playnely omitt and relinquish â—or euer his pretended supreamacie And in his â—ast will and testament Howes supr in k. Henr. 8. â—towe an vlt. Henr. 8. in his laste will testameÌ„t â—rdeyned preists masses soe odious now and cheifest cause pretended of our perfection to continue in England to the end of the world willinge and chardgeinge the words of his will prince Edward his sonne all his executors all his heires and successors that should bee kings of this Realme as they will answeare before almightie God at the dreadfull day of iudgment that they euerie of them doe see it performed Exempl an 1. Edw. 6. die 14. Februar Kinge Edward 6. was but a child but both hee and his protectors by which hee was ruled should haue beene ruled by this will yet as protestants vle to doe presently breaking it for their worldly ends and breingeing in the protestant Religion Foxe to 2. Acts and monum in k. Henr. 8. and an 1. Edw. 6. The cheife Actor and Author of those proceedings the Duke of Northumberland Lord protector when hee came to dy renownced protestant Religion for heresie and as your protestant histories tell vs Stowe histor an 1. of Queen Mary and others was reconciled vnto and dyed in the vnitie and faith of the Romane church For Queene Elizabeth shee as some noble men and diuers ladyes of honor can informe you and some haue soe testified died noe good protestant neither could endure the sight of her protestant Bishops at that time protested in her life to the lady Saint-Iohn widowe to the Lord Oliuer Saint-Iohn of Bleâ—soe Deus testis soe shee confidently related and said see could shew that Queenes letters to that purpose that she would haue liued a Catholike but for her ouer-ruling Protestant Counsaile naminge some of them no happie members of this kingdome which your Proteâ—tant historians giue way vnto that she did very often before such men by politick deuises withâ—rew her from it frequent the Sacraments of Confession of the blessed bodie of Christ Masse â—nd the rites of Catholike Religion Edw. Howes historicall preface in Queene Elizabeth and proâ—ested in publicke Parlament neuer to vexe or â—rouble the Romane Catholikes concerning any difference in Religion Like was the case of William Cecile Lord Burleigh hir great Counsailor both â—or his Religion in that time and at his death charged his

sonne Robert Earle of Salisbury neâ—er to persecute any of that Religion Thus hee acknowledged to a worthy and noble witnesse who as God is witnesse so hath testified We doe not we will not contest with our present most honoured wise and learned Soueraigne neither enter into his priuate iudgement But if any the best learned protestant Archbishops or Bishops you haue will iustifie all those publicke speaches writings and bookes which goe vnder the name of our King to proceede from him if it will please him to giue way vnto â—t they shall haue maintained against them that â—y those published writings it is damnable for â—hem to persecute vs and we in conscience cannot if to gaine a thousand worlds be of your protestant Religion And we humbly hope this nothing derogateth to his prudent Maiestie for we openly and willingly write that concerning all your best learned Bishops and others that haue written as namely Whitguist and Bancroft of Canterburie Bilson and Andrewes of Winchester Doue Barlowe Godwyne Field Bridges Hooker Couell and all the best students amongst you were in iudgement far from persecution of Catholikes and as far from assurance that they themselues were in true Religion It is no vaine boasting now to write it because in all controuersiall poynts we haue many yeares since invincibly prooued it by your best learned Protestant Bishops and Doctors Protestants Recantation in matters of Religion l. 1. l 2 Protestants Demonstrat for Catholikes Recusancy c. both in generall that neither Scriptures Traditions Counsels Apostolike Churches Fathers or any authoritie in diuine matters is for you but all against you that you haue not neither hereafter by your Religion can possibly find any Rule or direction to bring you into trueth That there is not nor can be any true and competent Iudge or Consistorie with you to decide these contentions and bring you into the right way That there is neither true Bishop Priest or Cleargie man in your Congregation That in all particular questions betweene vs you are in error All these things so inuincibly prooued by your selues that now after diuers yeares our bookes receaue no answere at all And your best â—earned are so far from taking this charge in â—and that but for disgrace of these times with â—ou they would in their liues and health â—ot liue in your wauering religion but be reconâ—iled to the Romane Church as many of them â—ately at their deaths haue bene And now in â—his your Parlament time to moue you and London to know the trueth the late Proâ—estant Bishop thereof Doctor King in his life â—or external cariage a great persecutor of Priests â—nd Catholikes a little before his death did plainely denounce your Religion to be damnable renounced as wee had prooued before of all such that he was any Bishop or Cleargie man was penitent for his protesting heresie humblie at the feete of a Priest whom he had formerly persecuted confessed his sinnes receaued Sacramentall absolution at his handes and was reconciled to the Catholike Romane Church of which he had in his life bene so vehement a persecutor Zealously and openly protesting there was no saluation to be had out of that holy Catholike Romane Church Therefore wee neede not to dispute these matters anew But because by the present tempests you raise against vs in this your Parlament we are assured that your storming persecutions are not ceased if your wils and anger can maintaine their blustrings therefore we cannot but still defend our innocencie and humbly admonish you that by these courses you offer and doe we receaue and suffer wrong And because you see and know you are neither able to instruct vs or your selues persisting in persecution you fall into that lamentable estate preached vnto you out of Pulpit by your now Archbishop of Yorke D. Matthewes Serm. before the Parlament and in publike Parlament denounced by his Maiestie Persecution without instruction is but tyrannie K. Iames speach in Parlament That you cannot or vncharitably will not both leade to that damnable estate we are now euidently to demonstrate to you and make knowne to the world for our owne excuse which we can doe by no better or more certaine meanes in this case then publish and make knowne to our dearest countrey that from the first beginning of these your persecutions broached and borne in the first Parlament of Queene Elizabeth wee haue in all humble and best meanes we could requested and sought for instruction from your best learned Bishops Doctors and instructors among you if we be in error by many and sundry petitions to our protestant Princes Parlaments and others that were in chiefe place and command to procure it if there had bene any in your Religion that could performe it If you had that could and would not your estate is more then dangerous if you haue none can instruct vs which you make apparant if you still persist in persecution You heare our King and your Archbishop call vnto you Correction without instruction is but tyrannie Therfore in this first part of this Protestant plea and petition of your best learned Protestants in both parts to be vndeniably proued iustified by them wee propose some of those most humble suites and petitions we haue by the best warrant spirituall we had in England our most Reuerend Archpriest his learned Priests and chiefest renowned Catholikes presented to procure and obtaine this instruction in conference and disputation with your best learned Protestant Bishops and Doctors and with such vnequall conditions on our behalfe that except the Catholikes of England had bin assured they were in trueth and their disputant Priests could not be instructed by any the best learned in your Religion they could not in conscience haue made so large and disaduantageous offers vnto you as their seuerall petitions and suits will witnesse Except you will thinke to flatter your selues that these renowned Priests and catholikes did doubt of their Religion which their martirdomes and sufferings for it do inuincibly reproue and appeale to you for instruction which you denying and yet so persecuting them can neuer free your selues from that dolefull condition remembred by our gratious King and your Archbishop you will further receaue in this first part such iuste and most reasonable and vnanswereable reasons by the Religions and proceedings of all your supreame heads in spirituall busines vntill his maiesties time wherein silence will be vsed King Henry 8. King Edward the 6. and Queene Elizabeth that as they are set downe by your best protestant writers we cannot yeelde to you in matters of Religion neither you in conscience either persecute vs in these things or your selues secured in that profession Howe Catholike Religion was vniustlye suppressed by Queene Elizabeth not one Spirituall person hauing voyce in Parlamente consenting no disputation or ordinarie defence thereof permitted to the Catholike Bishoppes and Cleargie and their duetifull loyaltie notwithstanding their pietie honoured by their protestant

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