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A05354	A treatise tovvching the right, title, and interest of the most excellent Princess Marie, Queene of Scotland, and of the most noble king Iames, her Graces sonne, to the succession of the croune of England VVherein is conteined asvvell a genealogie of the competitors pretending title to the same croune: as a resolution of their obiections. Compiled and published before in latin, and after in Englishe, by the right reuerend father in God, Iohn Lesley, Byshop of Rosse. VVith an exhortation to the English and Scottish nations, for vniting of them selues in a true league of amitie.; Defence of the honour of the right highe, mightye and noble Princesse Marie Quene of Scotlande and dowager of France. Selections	Leslie, John, 1527-1596.	1584 (1584)	STC 15507; ESTC S108494	94,307	147

doe alleige for their proofe to the ende that by suche discourse on bothe parties the trueth may better appeare King Henry the seuenth The processe of the descent of the houses of York Lancastre and their diuersites in Armurye being descended of the house of Lancastre had for his wyfe Elizabeth eldest daughter of kyng Edward rhe fowrth and right heyr of the house of Yorke By which marieage the bloodye broyles cruell factions of those two noble howses which so many yeres had miserably afflicted the state of England being called the factions of the white Rose and the reade meaning by the white Rose the house of York and by the reade Rose the house of Lancastre vpon that diuersitie in Armurie were by the mercifull prouidence of God broken and ended For those two mightie families descending th one from Iohn of Gaunt Duke of Lancastre the other from Edmond Duke of Yorke two of the sonnes of king Edward the thirde striuyng for the kyngdome did drawe after them in contrary parties all the nobles and Cōmons of that Realme And no ende nor measure of ciuile dissentions slaughters and morders could be founde vntill suche tyme as the titles interests of those two houses were by the sayd mariage cōbyned in one and closed together and thereby all factions and domesticall dissentions ceased and determined The originall cause of those dissentions was as here after foloweth The cause of debate betvvene the houses of Yorke and Lancastre Kyng Edward of England the third had fower sonnes of whome there was yssue to witt Edward Prince of wales whiche was the eldest sonne Lionell duke of Clarence the next Iohn of Gaunt duke of Lancastre the thirde And Edmund of Langley Duke of Yorke the fowerth sonne Edward Prince of wales dyed before his father left a sonne which succeded his Graund father was called king Richard the second This Richard was by his cousin germain Henry sonne of the said Iohn of Gaunt by Blanche his wyfe deposed from hys kyndome and dyed in prison without yssue And then the kyngdome was translated to the heirs of the thyrd brother and so to the house of Lancastre by this meanes Lionell the second of the sayd fower brothers Duke of Clarence had one onely daughter heir called Philippe she was Maried to Edmund Mortimer Erle of Marche and by him had a sonne called Roger Mortimer Erle of Marche whose daughter and sole heir called Anne was the wyfe of Richard Erle of Cambringe And by him had yssue Richarde Plantagenet Duke of Yorke heyr in descent to Edmund of Langley the fowerth brother before named Thus the house of yorke by mariage of the sayd Anne heir of the house of Clarence gained a nearer title to the Croune of Englād And therupō folowed priuie grudge malice hatred and afterward horrible warres betwene those two families The thirde brother Iohn of Gaunt had to his first wyfe the Ladie Blanche daughter and sole heir of Henry Duke of Lancaster descēded of Edmond Erle of Lancastre called Edmonde crowcheback sonne of king Henry the third Polidor li. 16 〈◊〉 Some there were as Polidor writeth which afterward reported that this Edmond crowchebacke was the eldest sonne of the sayd king Henry the third and therfore his heir but by reason of his deformitie his brother Edward was perferred to the Croune In so muche as vnder pretense hereof the before named Henry sonne of Iohn of Gaunt by the sayd Blanche which deposed king Richard the second as is before mensioned to shewe some coloure of good title to the Croune and for to auoyde suspicion of iniuriouse intrusion was aduised by his freends at the tyme of his coronation to clame that kyngdome in the right of his mother the sayd Ladye Blanche But bycause that pretense was misliked the same kyng Henry the fowerth deuised other matter of title and published the same by proclamation Polidor li. 21. in initio as Polidor also writeth and vnder pretense thereof clamed the kyngdome and called hym selfe kyng Henry the fowerth After hym succeded his sonne king Henry the fyft maryed the Ladye Catharin the onely daughter of the sixt kyng Charles of France and by her had a sonne called Henry the sixt whome king Edward the fourth descēded of the house of Yorke dyd cast into prison where he dyed recouered the kyngdome to hym selfe and after the battail of Teukesbury caused Edwarde sonne of the same king Henry the sixt priuilye to be put to death Yet neuerthelesse the house of Lancastre did stand For Iohn of Gaunt before named by his third and last wyfe had a sonne called Iohn Erle of Somerset and Marques of Dorcestre And this Iohn had a sonne named Iohn Duke of Somerset and Erle of Montague and a daughter called Ioan she was maried to the first Iames king of Scotland the third of the house of Stewards after the two Roberts the second and third This Iames the first was father to Iames the secōd father of Iames the third father of Iames the fowerth kynges of Scotland VVhich Iames the fowerth maried the said Queene Margaret eldest sister to kyng Henry of England the eight and by her had Iames the fyft father of Marie now Queene of Scotland The sayd Iohn Duke of Somerset and Erle of Montague had one onely Daughter called Margaret Duchesse of Somerset whiche was maried to Edmond afterward Erle of Richemond brother of the halfe blood to king Henry the sixt by one the same mother the sayd Queene Catharin for his fathers name was Owen Teuther the second husband of the same Queene Catharin This Edmond had by the said Lady Margaret Duchesse of Somerset a sonne called Henry who vpō the death of that Tyranne the third kyng Richard obteyned the kyndome of England and was named king Henry the seuenth But to come to the house of york descended of the fowerth sonne of kyng Edward the third so it is that Richard the before named Erle of Cambridge by his sayd wyfe the Lady Anne mortimer before named the only heir of the house of Clarence had as is before sayd a sonne called Richard Duke of York This Richard the principal persone of the faction whiche dyd beare the white Rose after great warres with king Henry the sixt the cheefe of that syde whiche dyd beare the read Rose was slayne in the battail of VVakefeild And had three sonnes Edward Duke of Yorke George Duke of Clarence and Richard Duke of Glocestre This Edward Duke of York as is before mentioned put the sixt king Hēry in prison obteined the kingdome and so brought the Croune to the house of York and was called king Edward the fowerth He had a sonne whiche succeded hym and was called kyng Edward the fyft and a Daughter the Lady Elizabeth afterward wyfe to king Henry the seuenth The second brother George Duke of Clarence was by his brother kyng Edward the fowerth put to death he had a daughter

common bond of loue among all Princes generallye I may not herein ouer passe that godlye father which sittethe in the holy Seat and as it is well knowen like a second Samuel will not anoint with holye oyle that is to say confirme by his authoritie any other to be rulers ouer Christians than suche Princes as might well seme to be Sauls and Dauids whiche represented the persones of all laufull Kynges For beside her vndoubted right of Succession which is accounted a kynd of diuine callyng and choyse to a Kyngdome this may speciallie persuade hym to defend her as his daughter whiche neyther by straitnesse of prison nor by any kinde of affliction could be hitherto seduced from honoring him as her father VVhat nede is there to call vpon the most sacred Emperour and other Kynges and Princes in particular sith they are all allied vnto the sayd noble Queene eyther by a sure knot of amitie and frendship or by a most fast bond of consanguinitie and kynred Neyther is it necessarie to proue this by genealogies and pedegrues seing the world allredye knoweth that she is descended both by father and mother from the most noble Princes Kynges and Emperours of the whole Christian worlde As for the nobilitie and Commons of England this should moue them to loue her that she is come so many wayes of English blood and had her great Grandmother out of the Princelie house of Somerset and had for her Grandmother the Lady Margaret eldest daughter to King Henrye the seuenth And is not this muche to moue them further that she was by this meanes so muche affected toward the Englishe Nation as in her troubles afflictions at home she rather hoped for relefe at their handes and therfore trusted the now Queene of England vpon her promises so farre as she made her choyse rather to come for succoure to the Englishe where now she liueth in prison than to other Princes her speciall freends of whome she was assured to haue found relefe and succour Adde this withall that before all other Christian Princes she choase an Englishe man to be her husband and by hym brought foorthe a sonne heyr to the same Kyngdome VVhat should I report of the signes and tokens of her pietie wiche now she showeth in England or of her Courtesie good will and loue towarde the English Nation how freendlye she thinketh of them how honorably she speaketh of them and how nobly she writeth of them yea how that by long conuersing with them she hath now so perfectlie lerned their manners their language and their customes as hauing almost forgot all other fashions she seemeth to be brought in to this world by the prouidence of God iustlie to gouerne the people of England VVherefore sithe this our Queene is the woorthie heir and the righteous heir of the English Croune it standeth agreablie with your charitie whiche you as Kinges are wont to vse toward Queenes and vith those offices of courtesie and kyndenesse whiche you owe as Allies to your freendes or as Cosaines to your kynsewomen to prouide by all possible meanes that she be not defeated of her right nor barred from that dignitie whiche by many titles is due vnto her lest that the harmes whiche fall vpon her by suche losses doe procure great perilles to you and youre posteritie And the better to auoyde all stoppes whiche might brede in you by any obscure or breefe relation I here present vnto your Maiesties with all humilitie this booke conteyning a full discourse of the whole cause whiche during my abode in England about the affaires of my sayd Soueraigne I caused to be published in Englishe to the vse of Englishe menne and haue now augmented it with a Genealogie of the Competitors whiche by discent from two Princelie families in that Realme to wit Yorke and Lancastre pretend title to the Croune And herein the cauilles and surmises of the aduersaries are so refuted their sleightes so discouered and auoided and their argumentes whiche they leane vpon so ouerthrowen as the scruples and dowbtes whiche before neuerthelesse to menne of equall and indifferent iudgementes were playne enoughe may well seme to be remoued and pulled out of the hartes and myndes of the aduersaries I humblie therfore beseche your Maiesties to accept that freendly whiche I present vnto you to mark that attentiuelie whiche in writing I sett downe before you and to performe that Iustlie whiche best beseemeth you So fare ye well and fauour the cause of a most laufull Queene TO THE MOST EXCELLENT AND MOST GRACIOVSE QVENE MARIE AND TO THE MOST noble king Iames her sonne Quene and kyng of Scotland his vndoubted Souereignes Iohn Lesley Byshop of Rosse wisheth all true felicitie O FALL the most excellent guyftes and benefites which God of his goodnesse hathe bestowed vpon mankynde I knowe not whether there be any one for profit more fruitfull or in estimation more excellinge than is the inclination among menne to mutuall loue and amitie For suche is the force thereof in matters of greate importance as the persone in whome it is once well establyshed can not be at any time eyther by counseil seduced by iniquitie of time imbased by fortunes frowning disquyeted nor by any violence shaken muche lesse ouerthrowen or destroyed In somuche as I must nedes saye that whosoeuer wanteh this guyft of nature he is not onlye farre from all commendation of constancie and wysedome in greate affaires but also putteth of all humanitie and is become impious wylde and sauage And this sense or feling of loue and amitie although it be naturally planted in euery man and woman yet is it most especiallye in them that are by blood and kynred most neerly conioyned together VVherfore so often as I consider the tender loue of parents toward their children the pietie of children toward their parents I alwayes acknowleige this naturall inclinatiō to loue and amitie without whiche no common wealth can endure nor any famylie stand to be a speciall benefit of God bestowed vpon mankynde And so often also most graciouse Princes I fynde iust cause to moue me in the behalfes of your Maiesties and of your subiectes to reioyse and to gyue God thankes for that these lawes of nature and guyftes of grace in you by God singularlye planted you haue reserued and kept whole and inuiolate from the iniurie of the time and from the malytiouse stinges of peruerse detractours in suche sorte as you could not by any other occasion haue gyuen a better testimonie of honorable courtesie and vertue nor haue raised in the hartes of your subiectes a more assured hope of the best mean to preserue yea and to enlarge also and amplyfie your kyngdome For to me and to all your louinge subiects nothing can be more gratefull than this firme and fast loue and agrement betwene you nothing that ought to be more acceptable to your selues nothinge more agreable to the generall wellfare of all men Ernestlie therfore and in the

eight imprisoned in the Tower of london where he remayned many yeres till the death of king Edward the sixt At whiche time that patterne of singular clemencie Queene Marie dyd not only delyuer hym but also restored hym to his auncient estate of blood and dignitie This yong noble man afterward dyed without issue at Padua in Italie but if he had liued he might with best right haue claimed the Croune of England after the issues of king Henry the seuenth and Queene Elizabeth his wyfe had bene extinguishhed In this Courtney now deceased the progenie of King Edward the fowerth had bene determined as concerning the streight line if the ofspring of king Henry the seuenth and Quene Elizabeth his wyfe were not yet liuing But if that at any tyme faile then must they seke for an heyr in the collateral line Therfore it is to be noted The collaterall lyne of the succession that the before mentioned Richard Plantagenet Duke of York which was slayn by Henry the sixt in the battail of wakefeild and of whose progenie we now speake had three sonnes to witt king Edward the fowerth George Duke of Clarence and Richard Duke of Glocestre Now then for default of issue in lineal descent from Edward the eldest brother we must haue recourse as is before sayd vnto the collateral descent that is to George Duke of Clarenee the second brother and to his succession For to speak any more of Richard the yongest brother whiche dyed without issue it were superfluouse George then duke of Clarēce yonger brother to Edward the fowerth had by his vyfe Isabell Countesse of VVarwik and Sarisbury two children to witt Edward and Margaret This George vpon suspition of treason to affect the kyngdome was by kyng Edward his brother priuilye put to deathe And his sonne Edward being but a child emprisoned in the Tower of lond where he was deteined vntill at last vpon lyke surmise kinge Henry the seuenth stroke of his head But the sayd Lady Margaret Countesse of Sarisburie was maried to Sir Richard pole knight by whom she had diuers sonnes to wytt Henry Arthur Geffray Reinald the same which afterward for his rare vertues and singular wisdome and learning was aduaunced to the dignitie of a Cardinal Cardinal Pole and called Cardinal Pole Henry the eldest brother to omitt the rest had two daughters Catharin Pole the elder sister whiche was maried to Francise Hastinges Erle of Huntingdon and VVenefride the yonger sister Of whiche VVenefride there is no nede to speak any more because there is yet liuing descended of the sayd Ladye Catharin a plentifull generation Thus it is euident and very playn that whan the lineal descent in bloode from king Henry the seuenth and Queene Elizabeth his wyfe shall fayle then must the right of the white Rose that is to saye of the house of Yorke whiche dyd spring of king Edward the fowerth be transplanted and be deriued by a collateral lyne from George Duke of Clarence vnto the house of the Poles and so vnto the house of haftings or Hūtingdon Yet is there an other braunche sprong out of the same stock The novv Emperor and King Philip are descended from King Edvvard the third I mean from Edward the third in a long course of descent And that is Philip the king Catholique of Spayn descended from Iohn of Gaunt Duke of Lancastre third sonne of king Edward the third For the sayd Iohn of Gaunt had two daughters Philipp and Catharin This Ladye Philipp was mother to Edward king of Portugal of whome all other the kings of Portugal sithince that tyme till this day are descended This Edward king of Portugal was father to Eleonor the Emperesse whiche was mother to Maximilian the Emperor father to Philipp king of Castil father to that most victoriouse Emperour Charles the fift father to the most prudent Prince Philipp the King Catholik of Spayn now raigning to the most graciouse Ladye Marie mother to Rudolphus now Emperour But no to omitt any thing which apperteyneth to the Royall succession I think it good to adde a word or two touching the Lady Margaret Duglasse Aunt that is to saye sister to the father of my Soueraign Lady now Queene of Scotland her mean whiche was maried to the Erle of Leneux a mariage verie plausible to king Henrye the eight or he indued her with great possessiōs in England this Ladye Margaret had by the sayd Erle two sonnes Henry and Charles Atferward the same Henry went in to Scotland to visit his father and sing in the Court there a comely yong gentlemā verie personable and of great expectation fownd suche fauour in the sight of that most Gratiouse Queene of Scotland as her Maiestie created hym Duke of Albanie Erle of Rosse And there withal she made a speciall choyse of hym to be her husband thynking therby that because he was born and brought vp in England her right and title might be more fortifyed and all surmised defectes supplied yf any thing there were that coulde be obiected against her Maiestie After this Mariage betwene that most noble Queene and the sayd Henry was solemnized and consummate her Grace had by hym a sonne my said Soueraign now king of Scotland called Iames the sixt A noble Prince of heroical towardnesse and of the best hope the vndoubted laufull heir of that most gratiouse Queene representing allwayes from his infancie a liuely Image of his mother and of her beautie vertues and graces Thus muche in few woordes concerning the succession of the Croune of England and of those persones which clame any interest therein But to the ende that all thinges may be more perfectlye discerned I haue caused to be sett downe in a table hereunto annexed all the degrees of descents both lineal and collaterall from king Edward the third from whome eyther of those two families of York Lancastre doe take their begynning In whiche table the whole order and processe of that noble stocke hanging together in a continuall course of succession may most easily appeare at the first sight Here is to folowe a Table of the sayd Genealogie A table of the Rase and progenye of suche persones as descending from the princely families of Yorke Lācastre doe eyther iustly clame or ambytiously couet the title of successiō to the Croune of Englād VVhere by all men may see by what right and in what course eache of the yssues of King Henry the seauenth and Queene Elizabeth his wife are to be orderly called to the Croune of that Realme A genealogie of the Kinges of Englād from VVilliam Duke of Normandie called VVilliam the cōquerour vntill this present yere of our Lorde 1584. VVhereas some persones ambitiouslie coueting the Croune of England doe practize sinisterly to discredit the right title of the laufull heyres and seke priu ilye to aduaunce I knowe not what new titles of their owne creation Therefore to remoue all scruples that hereupon may growe this table