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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A52746	The Necessity of setling the crown of England		1689 (1689)	Wing N372; ESTC R4305	3,197	6

THE NECESSITY OF SETLING THE Crown of England WITHOUT making particular remarks upon what I am about to acquaint the Reader with which is bare matter of Fact or any application thereof to our present circumstances as supposing the design of this Paper obvious to all Men's understandings at the first view I shall in the First place relate some of those considerations that induced the whole Parliament in the Twenty eighth year of Queen Elizabeth's Reign to petition the Queen That sentence of Death which had been given against Mary Queen of Scots might be put in Execution And Secondly I shall represent how the Succession to the Crown of England now stands and into what Families it is likely to come if care be not taken thereof in this present Convention The Parliament in the Twenty eighth of Elizabeth was Summon'd and Assembled upon no other cause or ground than the timely and strange Discovery of that bloody and merciless Treason Plotted by Babington and others for the violent taking away of her Majesty's Life of which Mary Queen of Scots had been first by a most Just and Honourable Trial fully Convicted and afterwards judicially pronounced to have been in a high nature Guilty But yet her Majesty not being satisfied with her so just Trial and Attaindure Assembled the Parliament on purpose that so all those former Proceedings how just soever might be further committed and referred to the Impartial Examination and Final Judgment of the whole Realm Both Houses of Parliament Unanimously voted the Sentence to be just true and honourable and Petition'd the Queen that Execution might be done for that they could find no other way to secure her Majesty's safety and that of these Realms The Reasons upon which they grounded their Petition I shall put down as succinctly as I can out of Sir Simon D'Ewe's Journal of Queen Elizabeth's Parliaments and they are as follow viz. For that they had a long time to their intolerable grief seen by how manifold most dangerous and execrable practices the said Queen of Scots had compassed the destruction of her Majesty's person thereby not only to bereave them of the sincere and true Religion of Almighty God bringing them and this Noble Crown back again into the Thraldom of the Romish Tyranny but also utterly to ruinate and overthrow the happy State and Commonweal of this most Noble Realm to Banish and destroy the Professors and Professing of the true Religion of Jesus Christ and the ancient Nobility of this Land and to bring this whole State and Commonweal to Foreign Subjection and to utter ruine and confusion which malicious purposes would never cease to be prosecuted by all possible means so long as the said Queen's Confederates her Ministers and Favourers had their eyes and imaginations fixed upon the said Queen the only ground of their Treasonable hopes and conceits and the only Seed-plot of all dangerous and traiterous Devious and Practices against her Majesty's Sacr●d Person And for that upon Advised and great Consultation they could not find any possible means to provide for her Majesty's Safety but by the just and speedy Execution of the said Queen the neglecting whereof might procure the heavy displeasure and punishment of Almighty God as by sundry severe Examples of his great Justice in that behalf left us in sacred Scripture doth appear and that if the same were not put in Execution they should thereby so far as man's reason could reach be brought into utter dispair of the continuance amongst them of the true Religion of Almighty God and of her Majesty's Life and of the safety of all the ●ubjects and of the good estate of this Flourishing Commonweal For that she the said Queen of Scots had continually breathed the overthrow and suppression of the Protestant Religion being poisoned with Popery from her tender Youth and at her Age joining in that false termed Ho●●●●eague and had been ever since and was then a professed Enemy of the Truth For that she rested wholly upon Popish hopes to be delivered and ad●●nced and was so devoted and doted in that Profession that she would as well for the satisfaction of others as for the feeding her own humour supplant the Gospel where and whensoever she might Which evil was so much the greater and the more to be avoided for that it slayeth the Soul and would spread it self not only over England and Scotland but also into all parts beyond the Sea where the Gospel of God is maintained the which cannot but be exceedingly weakned if defection should be in these two most valiant Kingdoms For that if she prevailed she would rather take the Subjects of England for Slaves than for Children For that she had already provided them a Foster-father and a Nurse the Pope and the King of Spain into whose hands if it should happen them to fall what could they else look for but ruine destruction and utter extirpation of Goods Lands Lives Honour and all For that as she had already by her poisoned baits brought to destruction more Noble men and their Houses and a greater multitude of Subjects during her being here than she would have done if she had been in possession of her own Country and armed in the Field against them so would she be still continually the cause of the like spoil to the greater loss and peril of this Estate and therefore this Realm neither could nor mought endure her For that her Sectaries both Wrote and Printed that the Protestants would be at their wit's end world's end if she should overlive Queen Elizabeth 〈◊〉 thereby that the end of the Protestant world was the beginning of their own and therefore if she the said Queen of Scots were taken away their world would be at an end before its beginning For that since the spairing of her in the fourteenth year of Queen Elizabeth's Reign Popish Traitors and Recusants had multiplied exceedingly And if she were now spared again they would grow both innumerable and invincible also And therefore mercy in that case would prove cruelty against them all Nam est quaedam crudelis misericordia and therefore to spare her blood would be to spill all theirs For that God's Vengeance against Saul for sparing the Life of Agag and against Ahab for sparing the Life of Benhadad was most apparent for they were both by the just Judgment of God deprived of their Kingdoms for sparing those wicked Princes whom God had delivered into their hands And those Magistrates were much commended who put to death those mischievous and wicked Queens Jezabel and Athalia How far these Reasons that then swayed with the Lords both Spiritual and Temporal and all the Commons to Petition the Queen for the Execution of Mary Queen of Scots ought in this present Conjuncture of Affairs to sway with the people of England against any Application to or coming to any manner of Accommodation with the now withdrawn King will farther appear if we take a view how the Succession to the Crown of England now stands and into what Families we are like to fall if timely remedy be not carefully applied I shall say no more of the pretended Prince of Wales than this That if he be an Imposture who shall secure us against having many more such tricks play'd us If he be not an Imposture he ought at least to be delivered into Protestant hands to be Educated in that Religion which whoever comes to be King or Queen of England must swear to Maintain and Defend If not every man is at liberty to imagine what the Nation may expect from such a Successor The next Heir to the English Crown after the two Princesses and the Prince of Orange was the Princess Henrietta King Charles the First 's Youngest Daughter she was Married to the only Brother of the French King by whom she had Issue two Daughters the Elder of which is Married to Charles the Second of that name now King of Spain by whom she as yet had no Issue The younger Daughter is Married to the Duke of Savoy by whom she hath Children The next Heir to the Crown of England is the Princess Louisa only Daughter of Charles Lodowick Prince Palatine Married to the present Duke of Orleans by whom she hath divers Children The next Heir to the Crown of England after the Issue of the present Dutchess of Orleans were three French Ladies Daughters of Prince Edward who was a Younger Son of the Queen of Bohemia the Eldest of these is Married to the Duke d' Enguien Eldest Son to the Prince of Co●de the other two ●●e dead without Issue So that unless the Nation take advantage of this opportunity now so miraculously put into their hands by Almighty God of securing to themselves their Religion and Liberties and securing the Government in Protestant hands what can we expect but to be delivered up in a few years space to a Spanish Inquisition to French Dragooning to Massacres and all sorts of persecutions which the poor Protestants have been harassed with in those Countries by Princes of an inveterate and hereditary malice to us and our Religion from whose Families we shall be forced to admit of Successors FINIS LONDON Printed in the Year 1689.