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A13158	A briefe examination, of a certaine peremptorie menacing and disleal petition presented, as is pretended, to the Kings most excellent Maiestie, by certaine laye papistes, calling themselues, the lay Catholikes of England, and now lately printed, and diuulged by a busie compagnion, called Iohn Lecey	Sutcliffe, Matthew, 1550?-1629.	1606 (1606)	STC 23452; ESTC S117870	127,037	159

sent to Eely to the Catholike recusants there imprisoned from the Lords of Queene Elizabeths priuie Councell with (c) A forme of submission sent down to the Catholiks from the Councell a forme of protestation of their duty and alleageance penned by the sayd Queens learned Councell with direction and commission to take the saide recusants subscriptions thereunto being altogether vnexpected of them they being close prisoners and hauing no intelligence at all of any Commissioners repairing to them So soone as these Commissioners had read some part of their commission to the Catholikes there they foorth with were seuerally deuided and in close prison restrained And notwithstanding the sayd formall originall sent purposely for them to subscribe vnto yet the Commissioners as it seemed for a more triall or for a more aduantage taking against the Catholikes there taxed euery of them to set downe immediately the protestation of their alleageance and dutie to like purpose as was set foorth in the originall seat to them from the Lordes of the Councell which the Catholike Gentlemen were permitted to haue but one onely time read vnto them This seuerall forme of submission in such strict order exacted by the Commissioners was in that (d) The catholikes exhibite a form of submission-far more complete thē that which was sent them ample 2 They had some dispensation to do vvhat they did and yet they did no great matter manner performed by the said recusants that the sayd Commissioners singularly extolling greatly preferring the same before the said originall accepted thereof and required not at all the Catholikes to subscribe to the said originall so penned by the said Queens learned Counccil and addresled by the Lords of the priuie Councell to whom the said prorestations being sent and by them perused they receiued such a full approbation that after that time neuer any odious imputation or calumniations against the fidelity of the Catholikes preuailed The like was the valour (a) The fidelity of Irish Catholikes fidelity and laudable seruice of the Irish Catholike recusants at Kinsale in Ireland anno 1600. who joyning their forces with the late Quens against the Spanish power and against then owne Countrimen and Kinsmen expelled with their assistance the Spaniard and were 1 These bastardly English do rob their ovvn countrimen of their honor in the battell by Kinsalo an 1600. and giue all to the Irish Gods glory like rebells to God they suppresse speciall meanes to keep Ireland in obedience to the Crowne of England which otherwise in the opinions of the commanders of the English forces then there had been vtterly lost And none of iudgement there doubted but that it was in the power of those Irish 2 Of these goodly Catholikes there vvere 4. rebells at the least for one true subiect in the Queens army Catholike Earles Barons Knights Gentlemen and their followers to haue betrayed then that Realme of Ireland to the hands of the Spaniards if either zeale of extirping the Protestant religion thence and firme establishing of the Catholike religion could haue preuayled with them or dread of (b) Excommunication hindred not the Irish Catholikes to do the duties of good subiects excommnnication or threatning of the powerfull inuader proclayming by sound of Trumpet and deuulging proclamations that his sword should no more spare a Catholike recuss●t disobeying that excommunication then it should doe a protestant resisting in armes And this singular act of loyalty so shortly after seconding and confirming the like of the English catholikes in Eighty eight without all gain-saying conuinceth that the English and Irish Catholike recusantes are not (c) English Itish Catholikes no conditionall subiects conditionall subiects but most true loyall and 3 To the Pope rather then to the king faithull subiects to their Prince and to the Crowne of England therein giuing place to no subiectes of those two Realmes whosoeuer or of what degree soeuer and whose proofe and triall herein farre excelleth all other the subiects of those Realmes if preheminence should in that behalfe be attributed to any profession of Religion in the sayd Kingdomes This argument of our sormer behauiour and of our obedience vnder the 4 Shame you not to charge so mercifull a Princesse vvith seuerity vvhen your selues both by color of lavv by lavvlesse massacres most or uelly murder quiet Christians seuerity of the late Queen may in all reason assure your maiesty that in matter of our loyal●e we are like pure Gold fined and refined in the fire of many years probation and therin not to be any way stained The second triall of our fidelities consisteth in matter likewise of fact (d) Catholiks behauiour towards his Maiesties Pre towards your Maiesties Predecessors your Title in them and in your selfe and the effect of our loue and affection performed in all occasions that might giue contentment to your Maiesty both before and since your entrance into this your Kingdome of Ergland which we will endeauour to touch as briefly as we can It cannot be denied then in the first ranke of these our comportements but that we our selues in our times and our Catholike Parents before vs at all times of opportunity offered haue declared our deuouted affectiōs to your 1 As may appear by Parsōs his book of Titles by Coluils libells and by the subscriptions and allovvances of them by diuers papists said Highnes (a) Catholiks alwaies affected to the Kings Title to England right to this crowne the testemonies whereof are in printed books and publike facts so manifest to the world that we need not long dwel on that point vouchsafe therefore patience we beseech you Deare Soueraigne to heare som instances of the (b) Blessings benefits his Maiesty hath receiued by catholikes blessings and the benefits your Maiesty hath receiued by 2 But not by papists beleeuing the doctrin of Trent and the kingkilling positions maintained by the popish faction catholikes and by our seruices and fidelities King Henry the 7. and his eldest Daughter from whome your Maiesty hath receiued lineally and directly your birth right and naturall succession to this crowne were most zealous and religious Catholikes and for that singular affection he did beare to the (c) Henry the 7 preferreth the Scotish King before the French Scotish nation principally for their great zeale at all times to the catholike religion preferred the same before France bestowing his sayd eldest Daughter on your Highnes great Grandfather and the yonger vpon the 3 King Henry the 7. vvas dead before the mach made vvith his daughter French King by which happy mariage came that lineall and rightfull descent of bloud that made your Maiesties renowned Mother Heyr apparant to this crowne of England who also was the vndoubted (d) His Maiesties Mother lineall heir to K. Edward the Confessor lineall Heire to King Edvvard the Confessor by his sister Margaret Queene and Saint and

apparell The councell of Laodicea condemneth the worshippe of angels Neyther is there any abuse in Popery that is of any antiquity but lightly the same is taxed in some ancient councel The popish worship of angells images crosses and such like halfe communions straunge and vnknown tongues and other abuses of popish religion likewise are either not knowne or generally condemned by the fathers 5. The auncient Christian religion came from Hierusalem but the popish worshippe of images and saints the doctrine of the carnall eating of Christs body transubstantiation halfe communions indulgences the popish doctrin of purgatory and the popes monarchy came neuer from thence 6 Finally we find when and where the principail points of popish doctrin which the church of England refuseth were established by the synagogue of Rome the worship of images was first receiued and established in the idolatrous second councell of Nice vnder Irene Gregory the 7. first tooke on him the vse of both swords and began with sorce to depose Emperors and to translate kingdomes from one to another Innocent the third first brought in transubstantiation and auricular confession in the councell of Lateran The conuenticle of Constance first decreed that accidents in the Eucharist subsist without a subiect and that all Christians beside the priest were to content themselues with one kind in the sacrament Eugenius the fourth in the conuenticle of Florence as is said setled the doctrin of purgatory and the popes supremacy then also was deliuered the doctrin of the 7. sacraments and established first by authority The rest of those popish doctrines concerning the sacrifice of the Masse indulgences and such like deuises which we refuse were lately confirmed in the conuenticle of Trent From thence the papists deriue the authority of the missalls breuiaries and other rituall books If any thing be taught by them more then this contrary to the sound forme of faith deliuered by the Apostles the same hath bin receiued either from olde hereticks or els from later Popes of Rome That religion therfore which papists teach ouer and aboue the christian faith is newly deuised and not to be deriued from the Apostles or prophets or ancient fathers of the church Chap. 10. That Popish religion is impious and blasphemous THE people of God vnder the law were so zealous of Gods glory that they vsed to rend their cloths if they did heare any man vtter any thing soūding like blasphemy Nay for the word that signifieth blaspheming the Hebrewes vse the worde of blessing which sheweth that all our actions shoulde tend to the prayse of god and none to his dishonor Is it not then straunge that Christians which shoulde excell all others in zeale and loue towards God should either professe or suffer popish religion that is so full of impieties and blasphemies against god This they thinke to wipe away with one impudent denial But this name of blasphemy is too deep grauen in the forehead of the whore of Babylon to be defaced with any deniall For first the Pope challengeth to himselfe the name and honour of God as is euident by the chap. satis dist 96. and c. inter corporalia de translat pral and the Canonists giue vnto him that name and honour as is to be seene in the glosse in c. cum inter extr Ioan. 22. de verb. signif and in the commentaries of Felin in c. ego N. de iureiur ando and Baldus in l. vlt. Cod. sententiae rescindendae Stapletō in his epist to Gregory the 13. before his doctrinale principles doth call the pope supremum numen in terris that is the soueraigne god of the earth 2. Secondly blasphemously the papists translate the honour of Christ to the Pope they call him the head foundation and spouse of the Church as appeareth by the disputes of Bellarmine lib. 2 de pontif Rom. c. 31. and by the glosses of the Canonists Abb as Panormitanus saith that Christ the Pope haue but one consistory This honour also the Pope is content to take to him as by the Chap. quoniam de imunitate in 6. and diuers other decretales it appeareth In the booke of Ceremonies hee applieth to himselfe these words which Christ vttereth of himselfe all power is giuen to me in heauen and earth 3. Thirdly they giue the name and titles of God to creatures Biel lect 48. super can missae saith the prieste is the creatour of his owne creator the same blasphemy is also found in Innocentius de mysterijs missae and in Stella Clericorum and was vttered by Bonner to certaine Priestes in the beginning of Queen Maries dayes 4. Fourthly they confesse theyr sinnes to angells and saints as well as to God as is euidently proued by their common confession in tfieir missalls Horatius Tursellinus in his Epistle to Peter Aldobrandini before his history of our Lady of Loreto saieth that god dooth at our Ladies pleasure gouerne the earth and bestow at her becke heauenly gifts vpon men Commonly they giue the office of mediation to our Lady to saintes and angells 5. They teach that the Massepriests are constituted priests after the order of Melchisedech Nay they make the priestes mediators for christs body as it appeareth by these wordes of the masse supra quae propit to ac secreno vuliu respicere digneris c. 6. They are not ashamed to affirme that a dogge or hogge or mouse eating a consecrated hoast doth eate christes true bodie as we may see in Thomas Aquinas 3. p. q. 83. art 6. and in 4. sent dist 13 and in Biel in 4. sent dist 12. in Alexander Hales and diuers other schoolemen 7. Nicholas the 2. in the chap. Ego Berengarius dist 2. de consecrat maketh Berengarius to confesse that Christs glorified body is torue with teethe and sensibly handled by the Priest 8. Clemens the 6. in the chap. vnigenitus extr de paenit et remiss doth make Christe like to the sinfull people of the Iewes in whome as we reade Isay c 1. from the heade to the foote there was nothing sound 9. Faber in his booke against the anatomy of the masse compareth christe to drūken Silenus annon sayth he mirificus Silenus suit christus in another place he calleth him an enchanter 10. Bellarmine lib. 1. de cult sanct c. 13. alledging a place out of Iustine Martyr but most fasly placeth angels before the holy ghost and woulde haue them worshipped together with the holy trinity 11. Julius the third called for his Peacock in despight of god and nothing is more common among papists then blasphemies imprecations as is confessed by themselues in the Romish catechisme 12. In the Romish breuiary the blessed virgin is called dulcis amica dei that is the sweet friend of god the happy gate of heuē They giue vnto her also power ouer her sonne and say iure matris impera redemptori that is by thy motherly power commād the Redeemer of the world 13. Bellarmine lib. 1. de

consequently your Maiesty from your Catholike Mother and her Catholike Predecessors hath not onely receiued the hereditary succession of the kingdome of Scotland but also a double right to the Crowne of England as (e) His Maiestie true heir both to the Saxō Norman Princes heire to the Saxon lineall line by a holy Saint and Catholike Queen and heire to the Norman line by a most worthy Catholike Prince and a blessed Martir and all them vnited in her and now duly descended to your Maiesty It was the pious and vertuous Queen Mary and her Catholike subiects Queen Mary who 4 Do not the papists professe themselues falsaries cancelling the authenticall vvills of kings cancelled the forged will of her Father King Henry the eight exceeding preiudiciall to your right in this Crowne that disproued itin Parliament and deposed the Protestant vsurping Queene Iane (f) Queen Ianc set vp by Protestants deposed by Catholikes 5 More papists then true Christians concurred in that action set vp then by the Protestants to the disinheriting of Henry the eight his daughters Queene Mary and Queen Elizabeth and his eldest sisters issue who was your Maiesties great Grand Mother and whose issue were in all right to haue beene preferred before her yonger sister Grandmother to the vsurping Protestant Queen Iane who so deposed by that renowned pious Catholike Queen Mary the crown by her roiall prouidence was reserued to the righful lawfull heirs thereof consequently descended now to your Maiestie conformable to the lawe of God Nature and Nations The serpentine inuectiue made by Hales and other Protestants in the beginning of Queen Elizabeths raigne directly against 1 Not so but rather against such as pretended a right before Queen Elizabeth your maiesties Title thereby intending (a) Hales inuectiue against the Title of Scotlād the aduancemente of a pretender potently in those daies possessed in the breasts of no meane multitudes was vpon the setting forth thereof in the time of Queen Elizabeth indelayedlie vndertaken fullie aunswered and learnedlie confuted by (b) Hales answered by Iustice Brown and Master Ployden both Catholikes 2 Neither be nor Ployden durst speak directly Neither can it he shevved that they acknovvledged the Popes supremacy Sir Anthony Brovvn then one of the Iustices of the common Pleas and lately before in Queen Maries raigne had beene chiefe Iustice of the same Court and M. Edmund Ployden famous Lawyers with the assent of other Catholike Diuines ciuill Lawiers and Gentlemen of good worth iudgement and experience How many (c) Hawards Persies Pagets Vaux Treshams Throgmortons Salisburies Abington families of Catholikes haue endured great damages and detrimentes in renowne and state for desire they had to maintain the right of your most blessed Mothers Title 3 They cared not a stravv for her Title furthen they thought the same a good pretence and colour for their sedicious courses as appeared aftervvard plainly vvhen they vvent to others and oppugned the kings Title in remainder and 4 By their aduentures they brought her to her end vvithout all peraduenture aduentures made to relieue her and deliuer the afflicted Princesse out of her captiuitie with much abundant loue teares and affection your sacred Mother testified publiquely at the end of her life Since your Mothers death we remained euer (d) Catholiks behauiour after the martyr dome of his Maiesties Mother constant to your Maiesties right to the succession of this Crowne not ebbing and slowing in our affections but resolute euer to liue or die with your Maiesty in that most iust pretence but if any particular person in forraign countries hath spoken or written to the contrarie for his priuate and particular pretentions he 5 As if none concurred vvith him that vver to answere also as vvel as he for oppugning the kings Title is to answer for himselfe and his own fact for therein we disclaime which party as we are credibly enformed hath both before and sithence the Queens death done great diligence to giue your maiestie 6 Viz. if vvords and leasings were paiment satisfaction And your Maiesty is not ignorant we are assured what hath bin the cariage opinion and opposition of vs and our friends euen in that particular in the fauour and defence of your Maiesties right both within and without the Realme what (a) The dangers damages and disgraces which M. Charles Paget Cap. Tresham M. Iohn Stoner of Stonor and diuers others suffered therefore are notorious dangers we haue passed at home and what slanders and damages very many of our catholike brethren haue suffered 1 So it appeareth his Maiesties Title vvas oppugned abroad abroad for shewing themselues Scotish in faction as we were tearmed that (b) Scotish in faction what is firmely and immoueably affected to your Maiesties righte of succession to this crowne your Maiestie haue heard and we haue felt and shall feele our honors and estates thereby being extreamely diminished and eclipsed whiles we liue vnlesse your Maiesties pious royall hart vouchsafe to repaire and relieue the same Neither did your Maiesties (c) His maiesties zeale in the Protestāts Religion did nothing diminish the Catholikes forwardnesse towards his right and iustice zeale in the Protestant 2 Nickname not true religiō you professors of antichristian religion religion any way alter or 3 Then are ye no papists For such may not tolerate any professing our religion if they dravv others to it by Bellarmines doctrin diminish the just conceit and dutifull consideration we caried to that iustice and right which God and nature had prepared for you from your cradell If then our cariage and affection to your Maiesty was such when your Religion was to ours so different your Person to vs vnknown your fortune doubtfull the factions diuers the oppositions in all likely hoode very great and the euent of your affaires very vncertaine what may your Maiestie presume of vs now or rather what may you not promise and 4 Iust nothing For the pope taketh on him to dissolue bonds of alleageance assure to your selfe of our fidelities in this time of your Maiesties present prosperitie 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 roiall dealing with them confidence wee haue in your Maiesties 5 Abused by papists that infringe his lavvs and maintaine intelligence vvith traitors and enemies abroad clemencie and so farre we rely vpon the bountie of your nature and roiall proceeding with vs that whereas the not paiment of twentie pounds a moneth for recusancie into the Exchequor at the tearms by law prescribed puteth vs absolutelie into your Maiesties hands and mercie for two parts of all our lands and reuenues during our liues and maketh vs a praie to the discretion of our enemies and promotors disabling

theire country but many things are often offered that are slenderly performed and such no doubt would the seruice haue been that is or was offered by them who seared more the Popes thunderboltes then the princes double cannons and onely desired to free themselues out of prison that they mighte after take part with the stronger to desire to bee placed in the forefront of the battel in theire shirts they had no reason vnlesse they had meante after they hadde put of their armes and clothes to runne awaye more ligtly My Lord Vaux was so good a man of warre that I woulde wish no greater benefit to England then that all our enemyes were such But suppose some few recusants did offer to serue the Queen yet neither had she reason to trust them nor we to beleeue that all the rest of the recusants meant to serue her faithfully being sworn vassals to the pope her sworn enemy Vnhappy had this land beene if theire prayers and vowes had been performed Foralbeit some papists then did acknowledge the Queenes authority notwithstanding the popes excommunications yet that was for that the excommunication did not bind them vntill such tyme as the Popes bulle might be put in exequntion as appeareth by the faculties granted to Parsons and Campian Fourthly out of England they runne into Ireland to tell vs of the fidelity of Irish papists But it appeareth those men neuer came there to trye it they shew so greate ignorance of the Irish and of the affaires of Ireland For in the battaile at Kiusale they cannot name 10. Jrish that did any greate seruice At other times the most part alwayes abandoned and betrayed those that relied vpon them and euer for one Irish man that truly serued the Quene there might bee reckened 10. that willingly serued the rebells And this should the king finde at theire hands J feare if he had occasion to trie them If then these petitioners haue no better argumentes to proue the fidelity of recusants then such as these they will not proue refined gold nor good copper but rather Corke guilt ouer like gold or some such other light and slight stuffe good for nothing Fiftly they tell his maiesty of the affection and behauiour of papists toward his predecessors himselfe and his title neither forgetting King Henry the 7. nor King Edward the confessor But all the question being concerning the moderne papists and theire loyalty to princes of contrary religion who seeth not how farre theire discourse runneth out and is transcendent aboue theire purpose the welshmen of our tyme may with better reasō alledge the noble acts of Hector and Aeneas of Troy or of king Brute King Arthur or some auncient famous man of Britayne How much they fauored the King it appeareth by diuers attempts against him in Scotland and by the treason of Clerk VVatson Copley Brooke Markham and now lately of Percy Catesby and others sence his comming into England Parsons and Coluill directly oppugned the Kings title in books in print and to that boke which Parsons set out as is saide in diuers languages the Iebusitical faction yeelded a greate applause Many of them also as the seculer preestes charged them subscribed vnto it Jf then nowe they pretend to fauour the kinges title it is because it were bootelesse and dangerous now to oppugne it likewise the papistes that heeretofore wrote and spake in defence of his Maiesties Mother and of the Kinges title respected nothing else but theire owne particuler thinking by theire glosing wordes either to bring in Popery or to aduaunce theire owne priuate pretences Finally they shew they haue great Confidence in his Maiesties clemency that they haue refused to pay the twenty pound a month due for recusancy albeit the penalty be greate But here they shoulde rather alledge cause to moue the King to trust them then to shew that they may assuredlie trust the Kings mercy whose Clemency is so exceeding and word so assured Further this rather argueth their disobediente and repugning humor then iustifieth theire sober disposition and desire to be loyal Lastly they shewe a great differēce betwixt the gentle proceeding of true christians that with light penaltyes seeke to winne men and are slow in exacting them and the rigor and cruelty of papistes that confiscate all the Lands and goods of true Christians most barbarously torment and massacre their persons without pitty or mercy Jf then our lay papistes haue no better defences nor pretēces for their fidelity then they haue formerly alledged theire owne words will rather conuince them then cleare them and such as had no euill opinion of recusants before will take occasion to suspect that this stubble of theirs is nothing but a couer for the seed of much hartburning discontentment and disloyalty as their billetts and fagots of late were laid to couer their barrels of gunpowder couched vnder the higher house of Parliament Chap. 20. An answere to the petitioners calumniations agayust the professors of the Gospel set downe in the 6. chapter of their popish apologetical petition IT were a most simple defence for a prisoner standing at the Barre of iustice and answering for his life before his iudges to alledge for his defence that his behauiour is as honest and loyall as that of his accusers Yet this is the best defence which these Massepriests vnder the maske of lay papists make in this place supposing very absurdly the accusation of their aduersaries to be a iustification and defence of their own actions Nay where they pretend to deale against their accusers they mistake the matter vtterly and speake against such as are long since departed this life and neuer either accused them or knewe them and inueigh against the ministers of the Church of England which are not parties against them leauing the kings sergeants and atturney to speak what they list and aunswering nothing to their informations accusations and enditements which principally touch them But will you heare their wooden weak accusation against vs as it followeth Chapter 6. The cariage and behauiour of our Accusers IT resteth now lastly to consider what hath been the behauiour of some of our 1 Your accusers are your ovvne consciences the kings Atturney and other officers The Ministers accuse you not but ansvver your sooleries accusers the Ministers we meane The cariage of our Antagonists and some hot spirits of their adherents and followers from time to time in your maiesties affaires that hath so cherished dignified and aduanced 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 elucescant that contraries compared together may the more cleerly appeare If you demand what they were that accounted it a matter treasonable to retain any book or paper in fauour of your Maiesties Title and that in publique books called your Mothers right to this Crowne a pretended Title Agendum est

asmuch grace now as they 1 The case is vnlike they neuer turned Italienated diuels nor held intelligence vvith forrain enemies did then without any such assurance as our Priestes shall put in And to make the case yet more cleare and vncontrouleable we adde further that since (d) No religion can consist without Priests and Pastors no Religion euer did or could consiste without 2 Your Priests are no Pastors neither had the ancient christian Church any such sacrificing shauen and greasie Masse-priests Priests Pastors and men to whom the disposition of diuine misteries did belong we hope that our desire to haue the benefite of such Clergie men as may stand with the safety of our Prince and country is conformable to reason as commaunded by the rules of conscience charity and Christianity And that it may be more apparent to the world that this our lowly Christian desire and humble demaund shall not any wayes be preiudiciall to your Maiesties Royall person or estate we 1 None but plain ideotes vvill make this offer offer to answer person for person and life for life for euery such Priest (a) The Catholikes offer for their Priests as we shall make election of and be permitted to haue in our seuerall houses for their fidelity to your Maiesty and to the state by which meanes your Maiesty may be assured both of our number and cariage of all such Priestes as shall remaine within the Realme for whome it is not credible that we would so deeply ingage our selues without full knowledge of their dispositions their being here by this meanes shall be publike the places of their abode certain their conuersation and cariage subiect to the eyes of the Bishoppes Ministers and Iustices of peace in euery prouince and place where they shall liue by which occasion there may probably arise a kind of vertuous and not altogether vnprofitable emulation between our Priests and your Ministers who shall exceede and excell the other in vertuous liuing and exemplarity of life and other acts and exercises of piety and deuotion which must needs turne to the edification of the people and extirpation of vice and we shall be so much the more circumspect and carefull of the comportments of our said Priests as our estate and security doth more directly depend vpon their honesties fidelities To conclude we do and euer will Redoubted Prince acknowledge your Maiesty our lawfull King and Soueraign Lord and will (b) Catholikes opposition against all pretenders defend and maintain your Maiestis Heirs and your Successors possession right and Title with life and liuely hoode against all 2 But such as are inuested by the Pope in the right of any crovvne are not taken for pretenders pretendants to the contrary Furthermore we will 3 As you haue done hitherto declaring the kings secrets to forrain enimies and as the Masse-priests did in Percies treasō (c) Their profer to reueale withstād all treasonable attempts reueale and to our powers withstand and preuent any conspiracy or intended treason against the person of your Maiesty your Heyrs and Successors and we will to our power defend your Realmes and Dominions against all inuasions or forraigne enemies vppon what pretence soeuer We do and will acknowledge due vnto your Maiesty from vs whatsoeuer is due for a subject vnto his Prince and Soueraigne either by the law of nature or by the word of God or hath beene vsed by any Catholike subiect towardes your Highnes Catholike Progenitors and this we will perform by protestation 4 The Pope can dispense vvith both as they beleeue (d) The catho likes oath and protestation oath or in such other manner as shall seem best to your Maiesty And this same oath and protestation our Priests so permitted 1 But vvhat if they break their othes then are they periured and the state vvithout remedy What goodly satisfaction is this shall take before they be admitted into our houses otherwise they shall not haue reliefe of vs. In this sort we doubt not but that your Maiesty may both in honour and security take protection of our persons mitigate our former afflictions and be assured of our future loyalties loues and affections if you but please to rake the view which your maiesty may do in this our Apologie of the rules of our 2 These rules declare you to be the Popes slaues and the kings enimies Doctrine and Religion in those cases of the experience of our former actions and of the 3 Or rather absurd and full of foolish complements absolute complete forme of this our submission and alleageance which Bands as they are most voluntary on our parts so are they far (a) Voluntary submission far to be preferred before counterfet conformity more honorable profitable and durable for your Highnes security then all the lawes and rigours in the world And to say the trueth what greater glory or triumph can so magnanimious a Monarch as your Maiesty is haue in this world then to see and behould so many 4 I hope many douzins vvill not subscribe this absurd and disleall petition thousands of your faithfull Citizens and subiects manumitted from seruitude resuscitated as it were from theyr sepulchers recalled from banishment deliuered from prisons rendred to their wiues and children and restored to their pristine honours and honest reputations by your Maiesties onely peerles Clemencie and benignity and to march before your 5 A pore triumph he is like to receiue by these mens seruices Persie meant to send him vvith fire gunpovvder to heauen triumphall chariot with all insignes of liberty loue freedom joy and estimation of whose affections your Maiesty can be no lesse assured then a mercifull Father of dutifull children Quos genuit in visceribus charitatis pietatis suae whom he hath begotten in the bowels of his charity and piety And if that renowned Roman was woont to say that he had rather (b) More glory in sauing one Citizen then in vāquishing a camp of enimies saue the life of one Citizen then ouercome a whole campe of his enemies what now shall your Maiesty gain in giuing life and liberty to so many thousands who are sicke of the late Queens euill whom no phisick can cure but the sacred hands of our anoynted King and are like to the (c) Cicero the pretor and patron of Sicily Sicilians whom none but Cicero or the (d) Flaminius restored the Grecians to their ancient liberties Grecians 6 Graeci semper mendaces so are these fellovvs in the tales of greeks and Sicilians and of their legends whom none but Flaminius could deliuer from the heauy yoke and insupportable seruitude which the Pretors and Princes their predecessors had imposed vpon them We are but halfe men if men at all whom in these later dayes and times no man durst defend countenance conuetse with or imploy and as your Maiesty