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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A20886	A true report of the araignment, tryall, conuiction, and condemnation, of a popish priest, named Robert Drewrie at the Sessions house in the old Baylie, on Friday and VVednesday, the 20. and 24. of February: the extraordinary great grace and mercie offered him, and his stubborne, traytorous, and wilfull refusall. Also the tryall and death of Humphrey Lloyd, for maliciouslie murdering one of the Guard. And lastly the execution of the said Robert Drewry, drawne in his priestly habit, and as he was a Benedictine fryer, on Thursdaie following to Tiborne, where he was hanged and quartered.		1607 (1607)	STC 7261; ESTC S109954	11,237	30

to offer violence or hurte to his Maiesties royall Person state or gouernment or to any of his Maiesties subiectes within his maiesties Dominions Also I do sweare from my hart that notwithstanding any declaration or sentence of excommunication or depriuation made or graunted or to be made or graunted by the Pope or his successors or by anie Authority deriued or pretended to bee deriued from him or his See againste the said king his heires or Successors or any absolution of the saide subiects from their obedience I will beare faith and true allegiance to his Maiestie his heires successors and him and them wil defend to the vttermost of my power against al conspiracies and attempts whatsoeuer which shal be made against his or their persons their crown and dignity by reason or colour of anie such sentence or declaration or otherwise and wil doe my best indeuour to disclose and make knowne vnto hys Maiesty his heires and successors al Treasons and Traterous conspiracies which I shal know or hear of to be against him or any of them And I doe further sweare that I doe from my hart abhorre detest and abiure as impious and heretical this damnable doctrine and position that Princes which be Excommunicated or depriued by the Pope may bee deposed or murdered by their subiects or anie other whatsoeuer And I do beleeue and in conscience am resolued that neither the Pope nor any person whatsoeuer hath power to absolue me of this Oath or any parte thereof which I acknowledge by good and faithful authority to be lawfully ministred to me and doe renounce all pardons and dispensations to the cōtrary And al these things I do plainly and sincerely acknowledge and sweare according to these expresse wordes by me spoken and according to the plaine and common sence and vnderstanding to the same words without Equiuocation or mentall euasion or secret reseruation whatsoeuer And I do make this recognition and acknowledgement hartily willingly and truly vpon the true faith of a Christian so helpe me GOD. This Oath which no good subiect will refuse to take hauing beene very audibly read well neare in the perfect hearing of euery one there present hee was required to alleadge or inferre against any part thereof what he could But he insisting vainely as he had done before that hee had but giuen his opinion thereof for others and refusing vtterly to take it himselfe gaue euident and manifest testimony that such Priestes as himselfe was were not included in y e ranke of honest or good Catholikes but apparant Traitors to the King and state in saying one thing and dooing the contrary in making an outward shew of duty obedience vnder hand writing and reseruing a traytorous intentiō in their close bosome Wherin the grosse deceiuing and abusing of too many ouer-credulous soules being falsely perswaded of such men otherwise thē they are indeede is very much to be pittied and lamented for they do but iudge by y e exterious habit of smooth sanctitie and holines and not by the close seducing of them and their soules Religion is the Cloake cast ouer intended treason and holy protestations hide hollow harted practises more deuillish then in plaine meaning can easily be doubted and far more dangerous then weake capacities are able to discouer as very excellently and elegantly was there plainely approued Another allegation also as impertinent did Drewrie make in saying that a French Priest or a Spanish Priest comming into this land to exercise their function at either of their Lord Ambassadors or otherwise they might in like manner be tearmed traitors whereat all the by-standers were euen ready to hisse him Knowing very well and as it was with good discretion answered him that such priests neither were or could be reckoned subiects to this state nor were they enabled to deale in such daungerous manner with our people wanting our language and credit in such a case to countenaunce them as by their slye insinuating they being borne subiects credited more then beseemed did too much preuaile by And as freely might such Ambassadours haue men of spiritual office about them being of their owne country as ours are allowed the like within their Maisters Dominions So that still he wold haue maintained that Priesthood and not the trecherous complotting and practises of Priests in his vnderstanding was to bee helde for Treason The same grace fauor which had beene before extended to Drewrie in as ample measure was offered to Dauies the other Priest and hee was demaunded whether he would take the Oath or no. Hee replyed that he was a poore simple ignorant man and could hardly censure what thereto belonged For there were many learned Priests whose iudgements in this case he would first know then perhaps hee might be otherwise altered Wherein appeareth y t one onely Romish rule and obseruation is a lesson or direction to them all and the Buls or Breues of the Pope are more regarded and respected by them then the natiue loyalty and obedience they owe to their King and Country But mercy hath beene ouermild too long and won no such grace from as iustly was expected but rather hath armed them with more boldnesse insolence then either is fit in them to offer or standes with the wisedome of so great a state to endure For Nunquid colligunt de spinis ruas 〈◊〉 de tribulis ficus Do o Men gather Grapes of Thornes or Figs of Thistles When no further good either by testimonie of their owne shame or euen Father-like most kinde perswasions could be wrought vpon either of them first a most graue learned and indicious admonition was made vnto them containing breefely the many extraordinarie great graces of the kings Maiestie towarde menne of their condition and howe after graunting them first his free and generall pardon hee neuer left off but pursued them still with all fauours that could bee deuised as not desiring the death of any one but rather to liue quietly like a godly peacefull and religious King not enacting any new or seuere Lawes against such daungerous Persons but ratyfieng and confirming them that he found at his comming which Queene Elizabeth of euer happy memory compulsiuely was cōpelled and enforced to make against them And yet the Iustice of those Lawes which had beene of seauen and twenty yeers continuance before his Maiestie did forbeare to execute and finding manye whose liues lay vnder the forfeit of the law not onely did hee remitte them in grace but likewise gaue his free pardon to all Sending so manie as were in durance away at his own cost and charge and publishing the like offer to all other that woulde except of so kind a benifit as loath to meddle with their blood that were enemies to his life and desirous to win them by mercy if they were not too monstrous Nor hath he sentenced any Priest with death since his comming to the Crowne but such as were men of most dangerous