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A19619	The copie of a letter to the Right Honourable the Earle of Leycester, Lieutenant generall of all her Maiesties forces in the vnited Prouinces of the lowe Countreys written before, but deliuered at his returne from thence: vvith a report of certeine petitions and declarations made to the Queenes Maiestie at two seuerall times, from all the lordes and commons lately assembled in Parliament. And her Maiesties answeres thereunto by her selfe deliuered, though not expressed by the reporter with such grace and life, as the same were vttered by her Maiestie.	Salisbury, Robert Cecil, Earl of, 1563-1612.; Crompton, Richard, fl. 1573-1599, attributed name.; Elizabeth I, Queen of England, 1533-1603.	1586 (1586)	STC 6052; ESTC S109079	14,965	38

ground and onely subiect whereupon such daungerous practises and complots had bene founded against hir Maiesties most Royall person and the Estate of this Realme for these many yeeres to the ouerthrowe of sundrie of the Nobilitie of the land and danger of Christian religion and that they coulde see no hope of her desisting and her adherents hut that still her Maiesties safetie must bee hazarded and stand to the euent of the like miraculous discoueries Therefore as most humble and instant suppliants they did vpon their knees at her most gratious feete beseech and request in most earnest maner that aswell for the continuance of Gods Religion the quiet of this kingdome preseruation of her person and defence of them and their posterities it woulde please hir Highnesse to take order that the saide sentence might be published and such further direction giuen as was requisite in this so weightie a cause according to the purport and intent of the said Statute Wherin if her Maiestie pursuing her wonted clemencie should nowe be remisse besides the imminent danger to hir person she might by the stay thereof procure the heauie displeasure of Almightie God as by sundry seuere examples of his Iustice in the sacred Scriptures doth appeare And so he deliuered to her Maiesties owne handes the petition in writing which he said had bene with great deliberation assented vnto by all the whole Parliament A SHORT EXTRACT OF such reasons as were deliuered in speach by Master Sergeant Puckering Speaker of the Lower House before the Queenes most excellent Maiestie in her Presence Chamber at Richmond the xii of Nouember 1586. in the xxviii yeere of her Reigne containing diuers apparant and imminent dangers that may grow to her Maiesties most Royal person and to her Realme from the Scottish Queene and her Adherents if remedie be not prouided ¶ First touching the danger of her Maiesties person 1 BOth this Scottish Queene and her fauourers doe thinke her to haue right not to succeed but to enioy your Crowne in possession and therefore as she is a most impacient competitor so will shee not spare any meanes whatsoeuer that may bereaue vs of your Maiestie the onely impediment that she enioyeth not her desire 2 Shee is obdurate in malice against your royall person notwithstanding you haue shewed her all fauour and mercie as well inpreseruing her kingdome as sauing her life and saluing her honour And therefore there is no place for mercie since there is no hope that shee will desist from most wicked attempts the rather for that her malice appeareth such that shee maketh as it were her testament of the same to be executed after her death and appoynteth her executors to performe it 3 Shee boldly and openly professed it lawfull for her to mooue inuasion vpon you And therefore as of inuasion victorie may ensue and of victorie the death of the vanquished so did shee thereby not obscurely bewraie that shee thought it lawfull for her to destroie your sacred person 4 Shee thinkes it not onely lawfull but honourable also and meritorious to take your life from you as being alreadie depriued of your Crowne by the excommunication of the holie father And therefore it is like shee will as hitherto she hath done continually seeke it by whatsoeuer meanes 5 That shee is greedie of your Maiesties death and preferreth it before her owne life and safetie for in her direction to one of her late Complices she aduised vnder couert termes that whatsoeuer should become of her that tragicall execution should be performed vpon you The danger of the overthrow of the true Religion 1 IT most perillous to spare her that cōtinually hath sought the ouerthrow and suppression of true Religion infected with Poperie from her tender youth and being after that a Confederate in that Holy league when she came to age and euer since a professed enemie against the trueth 2 She resteth wholly vpon Popish hopes to deliuer and aduance her and is thereby so deuoted to that profession that aswell for satisfaction of others as for feeding of her owne humor she will supplant the Gospell where and whensoeuer she may which euill is so much the greater and the more to be auoyded as that it slayeth the very soule and will spread it selfe not onely ouer England and Scotland but also into those partes beyond the Seas where the Gospell of God is mainteined the which cannot but be exceedingly weakened by the defection of this noble Ilande The perill of the state of the Realme 1 AS the Lydians saide Vnum Regem agnoscunt Lydi duos autem tolerare non possunt So wee say Vnicam Reginam Elizabetham agnoscunt Angli duas autem tolerare non possunt 2 As she hath already by her allurements brought to destruction moe Noble men and their houses together with a greater multitude of the Commons of this Realme during her being here then she should haue bin able to doe if she had bene in possession of her owne Crowne and armed in the fielde against vs so will she still be continuall cause of the like spoyle to the greater losse perill of this Estate And therefore this Realme neither can nor may endure her 3 Againe she is the onely hope of all discontented subiects she is the foundation whereon all the euill disposed do builde she is the roote from whence all rebellions and trecheries do spring And therefore whilest this hope lasteth this foundation standeth and this roote liueth they will reteine heart and set on foote whatsoeuer their deuises against the Realme which otherwise will fall away die and come to nothing 4 Mercie now in this case towards her would in the ende proue crueltie against vs all Nam est quaedam crudelis misericordia and therefore to spare her is to spill vs. 5 Besides this it will exceedingly grieue and in a manner deadly wound the hearts of all the good Subiects of your land if they shall see a conspiracie so horrible not condingly punished 6 Thousands of your Maiesties most liege and louing Subiectes of all sorts and degrees that in a tender zeale of your Maiesties safetie haue most willingly both by open subscription and solemne vowe entred into a firme and loyall association and haue thereby protested to pursue vnto the death by all forcible and possible meanes such as she is by iust sentence nowe found to be can neither discharge their loue nor well saue their othes if your Maiestie shall keepe her aliue of which burden your Maiesties Subiects are most desirous to bee relieued as the same may be if iustice be done 7 Lastly your Maiesties most louing dutiful commons doubt not but that as your Maiestie is duely exercised in reading the Booke of God so it will please you to call to your princely remembrance how fearefull the examples of Gods vengeance bee that are there to bee founde against King Saul for sparing King Agag and against King Achab for sauing the life of

bene before in deliberation amongst them and resolued vpon as appeared by their former petition exhibited to her Highnesse wherein they had expressed the same resolution Notwithstanding for her Maiesties further satisfaction they had entred into a newe consultation and for that purpose selected a great nomber of the choysest persons of that higher house of Parliament to conferre thereof either priuatly or together with the lower house which also was done accordingly at seueral times At all which conferences it was concluded by them all and so afterwards by the whole assembly of both houses that there could be no other assured meanes for the preseruation of her Maiesties life continuance of Gods Religion quiet of this State then by the full execution of the sentence according to their former petition instantly pressing her Maiestie with many arguments reasons tending thereto all which though by distance from his Lordship I could not wel conceiue yet this I did remember precisely especially was one that as it were iniustice to denie execution of Law at the suit of any one particular and the meanest of her people so much more not to yeelde to the earnest instance and humble prayers of all her faithful and louing subiects And so concluded with earnest petition for her Maiesties resolute determination and answere for a present and speedy direction by proclamation and otherwise also according to the forme of the statute A SVMMARIE REPORT of the second speech vttered by the Speaker of the Lower House by direction of all the Commons THat if her Maiestie should be safe without taking away the life of the Scottish Queene the same were most likelie and probably to grow by one of these meanes following 1 First that happily she might be reclaimed and become A repentant conuert agnising her Maiesties great mercie and fauours in remitting her heynous offence and by her loyaltie hereafter performe the fruites of such conuersion 2 Or els by a more Strayght guard be so kept as there shoulde be no feare of the like attempts hereafter 3 Or that good assurance might be giuen by Othe Bonds or Hostages as cautions for her good and loyal demeanour from henceforth 4 Or lastly by Banishment the realme might be voyded of her person and thereby the perils further remoued that growe to her Maiestie by her presence The moments whereof being duely pondered did yet appeare so light in all their iudgements that they durst not aduise any securitie to rest in any no not in all of them For touching her cōuersion it was considered that if pietie or duetie could haue restreined her frō such heynous attempts there was cause abundantly ministred to her on Maiesties behalfe when she not onely protected her against the violēce of her own subiects who pursued her to death by Iustice but couered her honor when the same by publique fame was touched by very heynous and capitall crymes obiected and proued against her before certeine Commissarie delegates assigned to examine the same more then blemished spared her lyfe when for her former conspiracies confederacies with the Northren Rebelles her highnesse was with great instance pressed by both the houses in the xiiii yeere of her Maiesties reigne to do like iustice vppon her as nowe is desired and as her treasonable practises then had most iustly deserued And where the penaltie of this Acte sufficiently notified vnto her should haue terrified her from so wicked attempts she hath neuerthelesse insisted in her former practises as a person obdurate in malice against her Maiestie and irrecouerable so as there was no probable hope of any conuersion but rather great doubt and feare of relaps and recidiuation forasmuch as she stood obstinately in the deniall of matter most euidently prooued and now most iustly sentenced against her and was not entred into the first part of repentance The recognition of her offence and so much the farther off from the true fruites that should accompany the same As for a surer guard and more strait imprisonment it was resolued that there was no security therein nor yet in the other two meanes propoūded of bonds and hostages for asmuch as the same meanes that shoulde bee practised to take her Maiesties life away which God forbid would aptly serue both for the deliuery of her person release of the bonds hostages that should be giuen for cautions in that behalfe which being vnhappily atchieued and to our irreparable losse who shoulde sue the bonds or deteine the hostages or being deteined what proportion was there in bonds or hostages whatsoeuer to counteruaile the value of so precious and inestimable a Iewel as her Maiestie is to this Realme and to vs all But she will solemnly vowe and take an othe that she will not attempt any thing to the hurt of her Maiesties person Shee hath already sundry times falsified her worde her writing and her othe and holdeth it for an article of religion That faith is not to be holden with heretikes of which sort shee accompteth your Maiestie and all the professors of the Gospel to be And therefore haue we litle reason to trust her in that wherof shee maketh so small a conscience As for banishment that were a step à malo in peius to set her at libertie a thing so greatly desired and thirsted for by her adherents and by some Princes her Allies who sought her enlargement chiefly to make her a head to be set vp against her Maiesty in time of inuasiō To the which were added some fewe reasons collected out of her owne letters the confession of Babington her instrument and chiefe conspiratour by which appeared howe her owne conscience bewrayed what might iustly fal vpon her in case any of her intended desseignements came to light that shee might haply bee shut vp in some more close and straite prison as the Towre of London if there befell her no worse thing and in that she directed Babington in case he failed in the action of her deliuery that he should neuerthelesse proceede in the residue which was the death of her Maiestie who also confessed that vpon assurance of her Maiesties death or the arriuall of strangers he intended to proclaime of Q. of Scots and made no doubt of the desired successe and therefore her Maiesties death being so earnestly sought for aduancement of this competitor her Highnes could not remaine in quietnes or securitie if the Scottish Queene should longer continue her life THE SECOND ANSVVERE made by the Queenes Maiestie deliuered by her owne mouth to the second speeche vttered in the names of the Lords Commons of the Parliament FVL grieuous is the way whose going on and end breede comber for the hire of a laborious iourney I haue striued more this day then euer in my life whether I shoulde speake or vse silence If I speake and not complaine I shal dissemble if I holde my peace your labour taken were full vayne For mee to make my

HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE DIEV ET MON DROIT THE COPIE OF A LETTER TO THE RIGHT HOnourable the Earle of LEYCESTER Lieutenant generall of all her Maiesties forces in the vnited Prouinces of the lowe Countreys written before but deliuered at his returne from thence With a report of certeine petitions and declarations made to the QVEENES Maiestie at two seuerall times from all the Lordes and Commons lately assembled in Parliament And her Maiesties answeres thereunto by her selfe deliuered though not expressed by the reporter with such grace and life as the same were vttered by her Maiestie ¶ Imprinted at London by Christopher Barker Printer to the Queenes most excellent Maiestie 1586. TO THE RIGHT HOnourable the Earle of Leicester c. ALbeit with earnest desire of my hart right honourable my very good Lord I haue alwayes endeuoured to do your Lordship some acceptable seruice for the honour you first vouchsafed me from beyond my cradel and after confirmed with the fauourable opinion wherewith you haue alwayes countenaunced me euer since euen thus farre onward on my daies which also together with my yeres hath increased faster then mine abilitie to performe being crossed in nothing more deepely then when I was letted by the ouermuch tendring of me by my parents to attend your Lordship in your late voyage and honourable expedition into the Lowe Countries yet haue I bene euer since most studious to obserue and apprehende some good occasion or fitte oportunitie to testifie the duetifull reuerence I beare to your Lordship wherein if hitherto I haue beene slacke in performance during your absence it hath proceeded of the care I had not to entertaine your Lordship with matter either friuolous or vulgar though thinges of that nature might best become my condition and well agree with my vnderstanding In which cogitation it came to my minde that the report of the speaches deliuered by the Queenes most excellent Maiestie in a late and weightie cause dealt in this Parliament in answere to the petitions presented to hir Maiestie the 12 24. of Nouember at Richmond by the Lord Chauncelour and Speaker respectiuely in the name and behalfe of both Estates accompanied with diuers of either sort would doubtlesse bee a thing to your L. most gratefull as one euer pleased iustly to admire the rare perfections of her mind and approoued Iudgement wherewith according to your Estate place deseruedly your L. hath beene vsually acquainted as also worthie of eternal monument and euerlasting memorie for as much as on the sodaine they were deliuered by her selfe for answere of a matter propounded debated resolued and digested with great labour and premeditation of the greatest grauest wisest and most choise persons of the whole Realme Whereof although I haue but slēderly purtraied the lineaments without expressing to life the external ornaments of her Royall speach accompanied with all Princely and gracefull accomplementes yet doubt I not but your Lordship will easily finde her inward vertues whereof it is impossible for mee to make the least adumbration And because in the dayly expectation of your Lordships returne I rested vncertaine how these might come safely to your Lordships hands I did therefore aduise to haue this my letter with the included copies to be ready to attend your first arriuall in gratulation of the safetie thereof which hath bene long desired Wherein as I striue to performe a particular duetie to your Lordship so trust I you will haue that honourable consideration that in the communication thereof with others there growe not any preiudice to me for my presumption in aduenturing to be a reporter of that which in the deliuerie wrought so great astonishment to all the hearers as it exceeded the fulnes of euery mans expectation and therefore without some fauourable construction of mine attempt I might incurre great blame by my slender maner of report so to haue blemished the excellencie of her Maiesties speaches whereof I humbly beseech your Lordship to haue fauourable regard Thus referring them to your Lordships disposition and my selfe to your fauourable protection I humbly take my leaue 25. Nouemb. 1586. Your Lordships most humbly in all duetie to commaund R. C. THE BRIEFE OF THE Lorde CHANCELLERS first speach at the time when he deliuered her most excellent MAIESTIE a petition in writing for and in the name of the Lordes and Commons Which speaches were of more length then here are by me collected but sure I am the substance thereof is here truely expressed THat the Lordes and Commons hauing of long time to their intollerable griefe found by howe many practises the Scottish Queene had compassed the destruction of her Highnes most Royall person in whose safetie next vnder God they acknowledged their chiefe felicitie to consist thereby not onely to bereaue them of the sincere and true Religion in this Realme professed and established but to bring backe againe this noble Realme into the thraldome of Romish tyrannie and to ouerthrowe the happie estate thereof wherein although her Highnesse of her abundant gratious naturall clemencie Princely magnanimitie hath either lightly passed them ouer or with no small indulgence tolerated notwithstanding the often and earnest instances of her Nobilitie and Commons in sudry Parliaments heretofore and further hath protected her from the violent pursuite of her owne people she yet as a person obdurate in malice as it appeares continued her former practises as had bene lately manifested by certaine wicked conspiracies plotted by one Anthonie Babington and diuers desperate persons that had combined and confederated themselues by vowe and oth in a most horrible enterprise by murther to take away the life of her Maiestie wherein the Scottish Q. did not only aduise them but also direct comfort and abbette thē with perswasion counsel promise of reward earnest obtestation Whereupon her Maiestie at the earnest request of such as tendered the safetie of her royall person and the quiet of the Realme did direct Commission vnder the great Seale to sundrie Lords and others of her Maiesties priuie Counsel and a great nomber of Lordes of Parliament of the greatest and most ancient degree assisted with some of the principall Iudges of the Realme to heare examine and determine the same according to a Statute in that behalfe made in the xxvij yeere of her reigne Who to the nomber of 36. hauing attended the execution of the said Commission and diuers daies and times heard the allegations against the said Scottish Queene in her owne presence and hearing she being permitted to say what shee woulde in her owne excuse did with one assent finde her culpable both in priuitie and consent to the saide crimes obiected and also in compassing the Queenes Maiesties death Which sentence by her owne directions vpon the hearing of the prooues and processe in Parliament was iudged to haue beene most honourable and iust and thereupon they all beseech hir Maiesty that forasmuch as the said Queene of Scots was the very

the Iudges haue not deceiued me or that the books you brought me were not false which God forbid I might as iustly haue tried her by the ancient Lawes of the land But you Lawyers are so nice in sifting and skanning euery woorde and letter that many times you stand more vpon forme then matter vpon sillables then sence of the Lawe For in the strictnes and exact folowing of common forme shee must haue beene indited in Stafford Shire haue holden vp her hand at the Barre and bene tried by a Iurie A proper course forsooth to deale in that manner with one of her Estate I thought it better therfore for auoiding of these and more absurdities to commit the cause to the inquisition of a good nomber of the greatest and most noble personages of this Realme of the Iudges and others of good accompt whose sentence I must approoue And all litle enough For we Princes I tel you are set on stages in the sight and viewe of all the world duely obserued The eies of many beholde our actions A spot is soone spied in our garments A blemish quickely noted in our doings It behooueth vs therefore to be carefull that our proceedings bee iust and honourable But I must tell you one thing more that in this last Acte of Parliament you haue brought me to a narowe straight that I must giue direction for her death which cannot be to mee but a most grieuous and irkesome burthen And least you might mistake mine absence from this Parliament which I had almost forgotten although there be no cause why I should willingly come amongst multitudes for that amongest many some may be euil yet hath it not bene the doubt of any such daunger or occasion that kept me from thence but onely the great griefe to heare this cause spoken of especially that such a one of State and kin should neede so open a declaration that this nation should be so spotted with blots of disloialtie Wherein the lesse is my grief for that I hope the better part is mine and those of the worse not much to be accompted of for that in seeking my destruction they might haue spoiled their owne soules And euen nowe coulde I tell you that which woulde make you sorie It is a secrete and yet I will tell it you although it is knowen I haue the propertie to keepe counsell but too well oftentimes to mine owne perill It is not long since mine eyes did see it written that an othe was taken within fewe daies either to kill mee or to be hanged themselues that to be performed ere one moneth were ended Hereby I see your danger in me and neither can nor wil be so vnthankfull or carelesse of your consciences as not prouide for your safetie I am not vnmindeful of your oth made in the association manifesting your great goodwils affectiōs taken and entred into vpon good conscience true knowledge of the guilt for safety of my person conseruation of my life done I protest to God before I heard it or euer thought of such a matter vntil a great nomber of handes with many Obligations were shewed mee at Hampton Court signed and subscribed with the names and seales of the greatest of this lande which as I doe acknowledge as a perfect argument of your true heartes and great zeale to my safetie so shall my bonde be stronger tied to greater care for all your good But for as much as this matter is rare waightie and of great consequence I thinke you doe not looke for any present Resolution the rather for that as it is not my manner in matters of far lesse moment to giue speedy answer without due consideration so in this of such importance I thinke it verie requisite with earnest Prayer to beseech his diuine Maiestie so to illuminate my vnderstanding and inspire me with his grace as I may doe and determine that which shall serue to the establishment of his Church preseruation of your estates and prosperitie of this commō wealth vnder my charge Wherein for that I knowe delaie is dangerous you shal haue with all conueniencie our Resolution deliuered by our message And what euer any Prince may merite of their Subiects for their approoued testimonie of their vnfained sinceritie eyther by gouerning iustly voide of all partialitie or sufferance of any iniuries done euen to the poorest that doe I assuredly promise inuiolablie to performe for requitall of your so many desertes ❧ The occasions of the second accesse This Answere thus made by her Maiestie the Lords and Commons were dismissed And then her Highnesse some fewe dayes after vpon deliberation had of this Petition being as it appeared of her mercifull disposition of nature and her Princely magnanimitie in some conflict with her selfe what to doe in a cause so weightie and important to her and the Realme sent by the Lorde Chauncelour as I heard and by the mouth of an Honorable person and a right worthy member of the lower house this message to both houses mouing and earnestly charging them to enter into a further consideration whether there might not be some other way of remedy then that they had already required so farre disagreeing from her owne naturall inclination Whereupon the Lords and Commons in either houses assembled had sundry consultations both in their seuerall houses generally and by priuate Committees deputed specially and after conference had betwixt the sayd Committees it was resolued with vnanimitie of consent amongst them in the lower house and by vniuersall concorde in the vpper house the question there propounded to euery one of the Lords that there could be found no other sound and assured meane in the depth of their vnderstanding for the continuance of the Christian religion quiet of the Realme and safetie of her Maiesties most Royall person then that which was conteined in their former petition The reasons whereof were summarily these that followe which are more shortly reported then they were vttered A BRIEFE REPORT OF the second accesse the 24. of Nouember 1586. and of the answere made in the name of the Lords of Parliament to a message sent from hir MAIESTIE by the L. Chauncelour after hir first answere THE Lord Chauncelour accompanied with aboue fiue or sixe and twentie Lords of Parliament came before her Highnes in her Chamber of presence to deliuer the resolutiō of all the Lords of Parliament concerning a message which he had not long before deliuered from her Maiestie for further cōsultation whether any other meanes could be thought of or found out by any of thē how the Scottish Queenes life might be spared and yet her Maiesties person saued out of perill and the state of the Realme preserued in quiet declared that according to that he had receiued in commandement from her Maiestie he had imparted the same to the Lordes assembled in the vpper house whome he found by their generall silence much amazed at the propounding thereof considering the same had