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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A04926	A faythfull admonition made by Iohn̄ Knox, vnto the professours of Gods truthe in England whereby thou mayest learne howe God wyll haue his Churche exercised with troubles, and how he defendeth it in the same.	Knox, John, ca. 1514-1572.	1554 (1554)	STC 15069; ESTC S108127	51,531	126

and of London had for their false doctrine and traito●…ous actes suffered death when they iustly deserued the same then woulde errant Papistes haue alledged as I and other haue herde them do that they were men reformable that they wer mete instrumētes for a cōmō wealth y t they were not so obstinate malicious as they were iudged neither that they thristed for the bloude of any man And of Ladye Marye who hath not herde that she was sober mercyful and one that loued the cōmon wealth of Englande Bad she I saye and suche as now be of her pestilent counsel ben sent to hel before these dayes thē should not their iniquitie and crueltie so manifestlye haue appeared to y e worlde For who coulde haue thought that suche cru eltie could haue entred into the hert of a womā and into the hert of her that is called a virgine y t she would thirst the bloud of innocētes and of suche as by iuste lawes and faythful wytnesses can neuer be proued to haue offended by them selues I fynde that Athalia through appetite to raigne murthered the seed of the kynges of Iuda And that Berodias daughter at the desyre of an hooryshe mother obteyned the heade of Iohn the Baptiser But that euer a woman that suffred her selfe to be called the moste blessed virgine caused so muche bloud to be spilt for establishyng of an vsurped authoritie I thynte is rare to be founde in Scripture or historie I fynde that Iesabel that cursed Idolatres caused the bloud of the prophetes of God to be shedde And Naboth to be murthered vniustly for his owne vineyard but yet I thinke she neuer erected halfe so many gallowes in al Israel as myscheuous Marye hath done within London alone But you Papistes wyl excuse your Marye the virgine wel let her be your virgine and a goddes mere to maintaine such Idolatrers yet shal I ryghtlye laye to her charge that which I thyncke no Papist within Englande wyl iustifie nor defende And therfore O ye Papistes here I wyl a lytle turne my penne vnto you Answere vnto this question O sede of the Serpent Would any of you haue confessed two yeres ago that Mary your mirrour had bene false dissembling vncōstant proud and a breaker of promyses Excepte suche promyses as she made to your god the Pope to the great shame dishonoure of her noble father I am sure you would full lytle haue thought it in her And now doth she not manifestlye shewe her selfe to be an open traitoresse to the Imperiall crowne of England contrary to the iuste lawes of the realme to brynge in a straunger and make a proude Spaniarde kynge to the shame dishonoure and destruccion of the nobilitie to the spoyle from them and theirs of their honoures landes possessions chiefe offices and promocions to the vtter decaye of the treasures commodities ●…auie and fortifi catiōs of the realme to the abasyng of the yomanry to the slauery of the communaltie to the ouerthrowe of Christianitie and Goddes true religion and finally to the vtter subuercion of the hole publicke estate and common wealth of Englande Let 〈◊〉 ●…uffolke let her owne promyse and proclamacion let her fathers testament let the cytie of Lō don let the auncient lawes Actes of parliamentes before establyshed in Englande be iudges betwixte myne accusacion and her moste tray tourus iniquitie Fyrst her 〈◊〉 and proclama cion dyd signifie declare that neither she would 〈◊〉 in neither yet mar●… any straunger 〈◊〉 and ●…uffolke and the cytie of London doth testifie and wytnesse the same The aūcient lawes and actes of par liament pronounceth it treason to transferre the crowne of Englande into the handes of a forreyn nacion And the othe made to obserue the sayd statutes cryeth out that al they are periured that consent to that her traitorous facte ●…peake now O ye Papistes defende your monstrous maistres and deny yf ye can for shame that she hath not vttered her self to be borne Alasse therfore to the ru yne and destruccion of noble Englande Oh who would euer haue be leued I wryt nowe in bytternesse of herte that suche vnnatural crueltie should haue had dominion ouer any reasonable creature But the saying is to true that the vsurped gouernement of an affeccionate woman is a rage without reason Who would euer haue thought that the loue of that realme whiche hath brought forth which hath nurryshed so noblye mayntayned that wicked woman should not 〈◊〉 haue moued her herte with 〈◊〉 Who seeth not nowe that she in all her doynges declareth moste manyfestlye that vnder an Englyshe name she beareth a Spaniardes herte If God I say had not for our scour ge suffred her and her cruell counsell to haue come to auctoritie than could neuer these their abhominacions crueltie and treason agaynst God agaynste his saynctes and agaynst the Realme whose liberties they are sworne to defende so manifestly haue bene declared And who euer could haue beleued that gloriouse Gardener and trecherouse Tunstal whome al papistes praysed for the loue they bare to theyr countrey could haue become so manifest traytoures that not only agaynst theyr solēne othes that they shuld neuer consent nor agre vnto that a foren straunger shuld raygne ouer Englād but also that they wold adiudge y e Imperial croune of the same to appertayn to a Spaniarde by Enheritaunce and lyneal dissent O traytours traytours how can yow for very 〈◊〉 shewe youre faces It commeth to my mynde vpon Christemas daye in the yere of oure lorde 1552. preachinge in new Castle vpon tyne and speakinge agaynste the obstinacie of the papistes I made this affirmaciō That who so ouer in his herte was enemie to Christes gospel and doctrine which then was preached within the realme of Englande was enemy also to God and secrete traytours to the croune and common wealth of Englande For as they thristed nothinge more than the Kinges death which their iniquitie wolde procure so they regarded not who shuld raign ouer them so that their idolatrie myght be erec ted agayn Howe these my wordes at that tyme pleased mē the crymes and accion intended agaynste me dyd declare But let my veray enemies nowe saye their conscience if those my wordes are not proued true And what is the cause that wynchester and the reste of his pestilent secte so gredely wold haue a spaniarde to raygn ouer England The cause is manifest For as that hel nacyon surmounteth al other in pride and whordome so for idolatrie and vayne papistical deuellysh Ceremonies thei may rightly be called the veray sonnes of supersticion And therfore as they foūde and iudged by the progeny of Antichriste most apte instrumētes to maynteyn establysh and defende the Kingdom of that cruel beast whose head and wounde is lately cured within England Which alasse for pitie must nowe be brought into bondage and thraldome that pestilent papistes maye raygne