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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A18210	A petition apologeticall, presented to the Kinges most excellent Maiesty, by the lay Catholikes of England, in Iuly last	Lecey, John.	1604 (1604)	STC 4835; ESTC S120958	34,556	41

Maiesty are taken from vs and yet your Maiesties coffers little the better therefore Our desire then is most gratious Prince to become your Maiesties whole subjectes and your Maiesty may so make vs in the twinckling of your eye or stampe of your foote wherewith you are able to raise vp more armies then euer Pompey the great could doe from whom the metaphor is borrowed in all his pompe and presumtious pride Vouchsafe then DREAD SOVERAIGNE to make vs as other your subjectes are of all professions intire and absolute English-men The conclusion vvith an Apostrophe to his Maiestie for nothing by Gods holy assistance can or euer shall deuide vs from our subjection and dutifull affection to your Maiesty but death which is vltima linea rerum the last period of all thinges for all other deuisions wee renounce from all other seruices we disclaime but that only which is due to God in the supernaturall course of our saluation which being gouerned by secret influences and supernaturall concurrences of his grace we alotte to God without diparagement to your Maiesty assuring our selues that your Maiesty so conuersant in all good writers and perfect Theologie is well assured that there is no diuision so honourable for a Prince as that which was attributed long sithence to Caesar and nowe is not improperly applied to your Maiestie Iupiter in coelis Caesar regit omnia terris Diuisum imperum cum Ioue Caesar habet Whiles this Apologie or Petition was a printing there came to my hands the copie of a letter written by the late banished Priests to the Lordes of his Maiesties most honourable priuie Councell which for the coherence of the argument I thought good to annexe hereunto THE COPPIE OF THE BANISHED PRIESTES LETTER TO THE LORDES OF HIS MAIESTIES MOST HONOVRABLE priuy Councell TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE OVR VERY GOOD LORDES THE LORDES OF HIS MAIESTIES MOST HONOVrable priuy Councell RIGHT HONOVRABLE As we haue suffered for Christ his sake and the profession of the true Catholike religion which he planted with his pretious bloud many yeares imprisonment and depriuation of all worldly comfortes and commodities so doe we with the like patience and humilitie endure this hard and heauy sentence of exile which is a certaine kinde of ciuill death or rather a languishing and continuall dying especially to them that haue the honour and safety of their Prince and Country in that recommendation as we euer both haue had and haue Notwithstanding least it might be imputed vnto to vs hereafter that this banishment was rather an extraordinary fauour and grace then an vndeserued punishment or penalty we thought it our dutie to let your Honours vnderstand that as we are content with patience and humility to suffer and support whatsoeuer you should impose vpon vs for our Religion so are we bound with all to make protestation af our innocencie according to that of S. Peter Nemo vestrum patiatur vt fur aut latro aut maledicus aut alienorum appetitor si autem vt Christianus non erubescat glorificet autem Deum in isto nomine May it please your Lordships therefore to vnderstand that the quality and condition of those that are comprehended vnder the selfe same sentence of banishmēt is very different and considerable both in honour and conscience among the which some there are that came voluntarily into prison vpon a proclamation set out by your Lordships in the late Queenes dayes and name with assurance of fauour vpon such their submission some came neither voluntarily into the prison nor into the Realme therefore not subiect to any censure all of them haue beene euer most faithfull seruantes and affectionate well-willers of his Majesty and haue to shewe vnder the great zeale of England his Majesties gratious generall pardon by which they are restored vnto the peace of his Majesty and place of true subiectes since which time they haue committed nothing against his Majesties quiet Crowne and dignity as being euer since in captiuitie and therefore in the rigour and extreamities of those lawes which in their best sence and nature were euer held both extreame and rigorous cannot be punished by any forme or course of lawe with so seuere a correction as aqua igne interdici to be depriued of the benefit of the common Ayre and Elementes of our most naturall and deare Country Yet sithence it is your Lordshippes pleasure we should be transported we are content in signe of obedience and conformity to that we see is your order for this time to forbeare the Realme for a while and to absent ourselues reputing our selues notwithstanding as men free from all danger or penalty of lawes and neither by this fact of banishment nor by any other act of our necessary retourne into our Country hereafter in worse estate then your Lordships found vs in the prison when your Lordshippes warrant came for the carrying vs out of the Realme And so hoping your honours will conceiue of vs as of men that haue the feare grace of God before our eyes and the sincere loue of our Prince Country in our hartes and dutifull reuerence and respect to your Lordshippes in all actions we humbly beseech your honours that if we happen for want of health or other helpes necessary for our reliefe to retourne hereafter into the Realme this banishment may not any way aggrauate our case or make vs lesse capable of fauour and grace then we were the xxj of September when your Lordshippes order came to remoue vs from post to piller from prison to exile so desiring God to inspire your Lordshippes vpon whose resolutions dependes the repose of the Realme and the saluation or perdition of many thousand soules with his holy grace and assistance in all your most graue and waightie determinations in most humble and dutifull manner we take our leaue from the Sea side this 24. of SEPTEMBER 1604. His Majesties true and loyall subjectes and your honours most humble seruantes The late banished Priestes

promise assure to your selfe of our fidelities in this time of your Maiesties present prosperity and fruition of this Crowne hauing proued our selues so faithfull to your Maiesty in times of your expectations And to conclude such is the d The confidence Catholikes haue in his maiesties royall dealing vvith them confidence we haue in your Maiesties clemency and so farre we rely vpon the bountie of your nature and royall proceeding with vs that whereas the not payment of twentie poundes a moneth for recusancy into the Exchequor at the tearmes by lawe prescribed putteth vs absolutely into your Maiesties hands and mercie for two partes of all our landes and reuenues during our liues and maketh vs a pray to the discretion of our enemies promotors disabling vs to sell our goods to let or set our lands for our reliefe to make joyntures for the maintenance of our wiues or estate of landes to our children albeit by not payment of the said summes at the tearmes aforesaid wee fell within the lapses of the Lawes in such extreamitie of daunger that our case was not to bee releeued but by speciall act of Parliament yet such of vs as at Wilton in Nouember last past had recourse to the Lordes of your Maiesties most honourable priuie Councell to be secured from the said forfeiture which otherwise we were to incurre in default of payment as is before sayde they were farre besides their expectation taxed by the Lordes of a kinde of difidence or chalenging your Maiesty with breach of promise for the casing vs of the said mulcte-money in sort as it was deliuered vs in Iulie precedent at Hampton-Court whereupon wee resolued absolutely to put our whole Estate into your Maiesties handes that your Maiesty may see how wee preferre the credit and confidence wee haue in your Maiesties justice equity conscience and mercie before our owne securitie our landes goodes and liuinges and so doe wee still remayne in the same predicament where if euery pennie had beene a pound euerie of our mole-hilles mountaynes wee would vpon such vrging of our diffidence haue prostrated all the same at your most Royall Maiesties feete CHAPTER 6. Ths carriage and behauiour of our Accusers The carriage of our Antagonistes IT resteth now lastly to consider what hath beene the behauiour of some of our accusers the Ministers we meane some hotte spirits of their adherentes and followers from time to time in your Maiesties affaires that hath so cherished dignified and aduaunced them and to other their lawfull Princes that haue not so fully concurred with them in matter of religion as your Maiesty doth vt contraria iuxta se posita magis clucescant that contraries compared together may the more cleerelie appeare If you demaund what they were that accounted it a matter treasonable to retaine any booke or paper in fauour of your Maiesties Title and that in publike bookes called your Mothers right to this Crowne a pretended Title Agendum est obsignatis tabulis and we must needs tell you that it was a Student of Lyons Inne a Lawer by profession and a Protestant in Religion that in a booke printed Anno 1584. intituled A discouery of treasons against the Queenes Majesty by Fraunces Throgmorton amongst other his treasons Pag. 3. he reckoneth this for one in these wordes There were also found among other his papers 12. petegrees of the descent of the Crowne of England printed and published by the Bishoppe of Rosse in the defence of the pretended Title of the Scotish Queene his Mistris What could be more vnjust and iniurious to that blessed Lady and all her posteritie then in a booke printed in defence of an execution of justice to call her Title false pretented and vnjust and account the euidences and recordes thereof as treason in the highest degree If inquiry be made who they were that in prejudice of your Maiesties right to this Crowne did set vp the vsurping Queene Iane descended from the younger sister of your Maiesties great Grand-Mother that was the eldest daughter to King Henry the vij th Our histories tell vs that they were a The Duke of Nothumb the Dukes of Somerset Suffolke other Protestants all the Protest Bishops Clergie Councell of K. Edvvard principally the clergie enemies to the Catholike faith which we professe the first aduauncers of the newe Religion in this Country If we call to minde the complotters and compassers of the murther committed on the Person of your Highnes b His maiesties Father and Grand-father slayne Father and Grand-Father and the barbarous butchering of your Mothers Secretary in her Royall presence and the miraculous escape of your Graces person by Gods singuler protection when a c His Maiesty pursued in his Mothers vvombe and miraculously preserued chardged pistoll put to your Mothers wombe by one of the traytorous race of the Gowries to haue distroyed you both at one blowe could not giue fire we finde by the printed monumentes of Scotish Annales that the actors authors and inuentors of those tragedies were not of the Catholike religion If we demaund who they were that tooke d The Ministers and Presbitery authors of these tumultes armes against your Maiesties gratious Mother that ouerthrewe her in the field that layd violent handes vpon her sacred Person and imprisoned her in Lawghleuen that depriued her of her Crowne and expelled her out of her Kingdome and procured afterwardes her captiuitie in this Realme no man is ignorant that the e The Earle of Moray Knox the Cataline of Scotland Bastard of Scotland with the Presbitery that runnegate Fryer Iohn Knox mortall enemies to all order rule and authority were the Architects of these detestable actions Howe zealous f Bothvvell Govvry tvvo pillers of the Presbitery Bothwell and Gowry were against poore Catholikes and what pillers and patrons they were of the Presbitery the world knoweth but your Maiestie by experience can best testifie what perilous turbulent and seditious members they were of the common wealth and howe often your sacred Person was indaungered by them and others of their profession Moreouer we hope that we may without offence to any confidently affirme that they were not Catholikes that caused your Mothers vntimely death the memory of which times for many respects we had forborne to touch but only to remoue the odious and vnjust imputations diuulged in the time of this present session of Parliament against vs in a certayne libell or rather a clamorous calumnions inuectiue published in this present session of Parliament against a most modest learned and submissiue supplication dedicated to your Maiestie in March last where the Libeller calleth Catholikes to the Barre and would haue then indighted and passe their triall for that matter g Sutclifes ovvne vvordes in the 8. chapter of his said libell Which done saith he his Majesty may easely perceiue that they are to be hated and abhorred as causers