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A11683	Treason pretended against the King of Scots by certaine lordes and gentlemen, whose names hereafter followe. With a declaration of the Kinges Maiesties intention to his last acts of Parliament: which openeth fully in effect of all the saide conspiracy. Out of Skottish into English.	Studley, Christopher.; James I, King of England, 1566-1625.; Adamson, Patrick, 1537-1592. Declaration of the Kings Majesties intentioun and meaning toward the lait actis of Parliament. aut	1585 (1585)	STC 21949.5; ESTC S121502	10,840	26

TREASON Pretended against THE KING OF SCOTS by certaine Lordes and Gentlemen whose names hereafter followe WITH A DECLARATION OF the Kinges Maiesties intention to his last Acts of Parliament which openeth fully in effect all the saide conspiracy Out of Skottish into English ¶ Imprinted at London for Thomas Nelson and are to be solde at the West ende of Paules 1585. ¶ The Coppie of a letter sent from a Gentleman in Scotland to a frend of his in England touching the conspiracie against the kings maiestie MY approued friend T. S. There hath beene lately secret practising against the kinges Maiestie of Scotland But time serueth not nowe to set down the maner of their proceeding in the said attempt I haue here sent to you the Kinges declaration to his last Acts of Parliament and for breuitie haue set downe the names of the conspirators which are as followeth And thus in hope you will accept my good will I commit you to the Almightie From Edenbrough this 20. of Februarie 1585. Yours Christopher Studley These wer apprehēded at y e kinges Court The Lord of Don Whasell The Lord of Dunkrith The Lord of Baythkicte Robert Hamelton of Ynchmachā M. Iames Sterling Iohn Hoppingell of the Mores apprehended at his owne house by the Captaine of the kings Garde The Lord Keir Lord Maius apprehended with other Gentlemen about Sterling The Lord Blaketer and Georg Douglasse are sommoned to the Court vpon suspition The Lord Don Whasell The Lord Maius executed The treason discouered by Robert Hamelton THE KINGES MAIESTIES DECLARATION OF his Acts confirmed in Parliament FORASMVCH as there is some euil affected men that goeth about so farre as in them lieth to inuent lies and tales to slaunder and impaire the kings maiesties fame and honour and to raise reportes as if his Maiestie had declined to Papistrie and that he had made many Actes to abolish the frée passage of the Gospel good order and discipline in the Church Which bruites are maintained by rebellious subiectes who would gladly couer their seditious enterprises vnder pretense of Religion albeit there can be no godly religion in such as raiseth rebelliō to disquiet the state of their natiue soueraigne and periuredly doeth stand against the othe band and obligation of their faith whereunto they haue sworne and subscribed therefore that his Maiesties faithfull subiects be not abused with such slanderous reportes and his highnes good affectionated friends in other countries may vnderstand the veritie of his vpright intention his highnesse hath commaunded this briefe declaration of certaine of his maiesties Acts of Parliament holden in May 1584. to be published imprinted to the effect that the indirect practises of such as slaunder his maiestie and his lawes may be detected and discouered IN the first Acte his Maiestie ratifies and approues the true profession of the Gospell sincere preaching of the Worde and administration of the Sacraments presently by the goodnes of God established within this Realme and aloweth of the confession of the Faith set downe by Acte of Parliament the first yéere of his maiesties raigne Likewise his highnesse not onely professeth the same in all sinceritie but praysed be God is come to that ripenesse of iudgement by reading and hearing the worde of God that his highnesse is able to conuince and ouerthrow by the doctrine of the Prophets and Apostles the most learned of the contrary sect of the aduersaries So that as Plato affirmeth that common wealth to be most happy wherein a Philosopher raigneth or he that raigneth is a Philosopher We may much more estéeme this countrey of Scotland to be fortunate wherein our king is a Diuine whose heart is replenished with the knowledge of the heauenly Philosophy for the comfort not onely of his good subiects and friends in other countreys but of them that professeth the Gospell euery where he beyng a king of great wisedome and by his birthright borne to great possessions but much more his highnesse vertue godlinesse and learnyng and daily encrease of all heauenly sciences doth promise and assure him of the mightie protection of God and fauour of all them that feare his holy name IN the second Acte his Maiesties royall authoritie ouer all estates both spirituall and temporall is confirmed Which Acte some of malice and other some of Ignorance doth traduce as if his Maiestie pretended to be called the head of the Church A name which his Maiestie acknowledgeth to be proper and peculiar to the sonne of God the Sauiour of the world who is the head and bestoweth life spirituall vpon the members of his misticall body and he hauyng receiued the holy spirite in all aboundance maketh euery one of the faithful pertakers thereof according to the measure of faith bestowed vpon them Of the which number of the faithful vnder the head Christ his Maiestie acknowledgeth himselfe to be a member baptised in his name pertaker of the mysterie of the crosse and holy communion and attending with the faithfull for the comming of the Lord and the finall restitution of Gods elect And not withstanding his Maiestie surely vnderstandeth by the scriptures that he is the chiefe and principall member appointed by the law of God to sée God glorified vice punished vertue maintained within his Realme and the soueraigne iudgement for a godly quietnesse and order in the common wealth to appertaine to his highnesse care and solicitude Which power and authoritie of his highnesse certaine ministers being called before his Maiestie for their seditious and factious sermons in stirring vp of the people to rebellion against their natiue king by the instigation of sundry vnquiet spirites would in no wyse acknowledge but disclaime his Maiesties authoritie as an incompetent iudge and specially one called M. Andrew Meluile an ambitious man of a salt and fiery humour vsurping the pulpit of Sandroyes without any lawfull callyng and priuie at that tyme to certaine conspiracies attempted against his Maiestie and crowne went about in a Sermon vpon a Sunday to inflame the hearts of the people by odious comparisons of his Maiesties progenitours and counsaile albeit the duetie of a faithfull preacher of the Gospell be rather to exhort the people to the obedience of their natiue King and not by popular Sermons which hath béene the euersion and decay of great cities and common wealths and hath greatly in tymes past bred disquietnesse to the state thereby to trouble and perturbe the countrey The sayd M. Andrew beyng called before his highnesse presumptuously answered that he would not be iudged by the king counsaile because he had spoken the same in pulpit which pulpit in effect he alleged to be exempted from the iudgement correction of princes as if that holy place sanctified to the word of God and to the breaking of the bread of life might be any colour to any sedition in worde or déede against the lawfull authoritie without punishment Alwaies his Maiestie béeing of himselfe a most gratious Prince was not

willing to haue vsed any rigour against the saide Maister Andrew if he had humbly submitted himselfe acknowledged his offence and craued pardon Who notwithstanding afraid of his owne guiltines being priuie to diuers conspiracies before fled out of the Realme whose naughty and presumptuous refusing of his Highnes iudgement was the occasion of the making of this seconde Acte videlicet that none should decline from his highnes authoritie in respect that the common Prouerbe beareth Ex malis moribus bonae leges natae sunt that is Of euill maners good lawes procéede And in verie déede it wanteth not any right intollerable arrogancy in any Subiect called before his Prince professing and ancthorising the same truth to disclaime his authoritie neither doe the Prophets Apostles nor others conducted by the spirite of God minister y ● like example for it is a great errour to affirme as many doe that Princes and Magistrates haue onely power to take order in ciuill affaires and that Ecclesiasticall matters doth onely belong to the Ministerie By which meanes the Pope of Rome hath exempt himselfe and all his Clergie from all iudgements of Princes he made himself to be Iudge of Iudges and to be iudged of no man whereas by the contrarie not onely by the examples of the godly gouernors Iudges and Kings of the old Testament but also by the new Testament and the whole history of the primitiue Church in the which the Emperors being Iudges ouer the bishop of Rome deposed them from their seates appointed Iudges to decide and determine in causes Ecclesiastical and chalenge innocent men as Athanasius from the determination of the Councell holden at Tyrus and by infinite good reasons which shall bée set downe by the grace of God in an other seuerall worke shall be sufficiently prooued and verified But this appeareth at this present to bée an vntimely and vnprofitable question which hath no ground vpon their part but of the preposterous imitation of the pretended iurisdiction of the Pope of Rome For if there were any question in this land of heresie whereby the profound mysteries of the Scriptures behooued to be searched foorth his Maiestie would vse the same remedy as most expedient which y e most godly Emperours hath vsed And his Maiestie following their example would alow the councell of learned Pastours that by conference of Scriptures the veritie might be opened and heresie repressed But God be thanked we haue no such controuersies in this land neither hath any heresie taken any déepe roote in the country but that certaine of the ministerie ioyning thēselues to rebels hath traueled to disquiet y e state with such questions that the people might embrace any sinister opinion of his Maiesties vpright procéedings and factions might be nourished and entertained in the countrey Neither is it his maiesties meaning nor intention in any sort to take away the lawfull and ordinarie iudgement in the Church whereby discipline good order might decay but rather to preserue maintaine and increase the same And as there is in the realme Iustices Constables Shirifes Prouosts Bailifes and other iudges in temporall matters so his Maiestie aloweth that all things might be done in order and a godly quietnes may be preserued in the whole estate the Sinodal assemblies by the Bishops or Commissioners where the place was vsed to be conuenient twise in the yéere to haue the ordinary trial of matters belonging to the ministery and their estate Alwaies reseruing to his highnesse that if they or any of them doe amisse neglect their duetie disquiet the estate or offend in any such maner and sort that they in no wayes pretend that immunitie priuiledge and exemptiō which onely was inuented by the Popes of Rome to tread vnder foote the scepters of Princes and to establish an Ecclesiasticall tyranny within this countrey vnder pretence of new inuented Presbiters which neither should answer to the king nor Bishop vnder his Ma. but should haue such infinite iurisdiction as neither the lawe of God nor man can tolerate Which is onely his Maiesties intention to represse and not to take away any godly or due order in the Church as hereafter shall appeare THe third Act of his Maiesties foresaid Parliament dischargeth all iudgements Ecclesiasticall and all assemblies which are not allowed by his Maiestie in Parliament which acte specially concerneth the remouing and discharging of that forme inuented in this land called the presbyterie wherin a number of Ministers of a certeine precinct and boundes accounting themselues to be equal without any difference and gathering vnto them certeine Gentlemen and others of his Maiesties subiects vsurpe all the whole Ecclesiasticall iurisdiction and altereth the lawes at their owne pleasure without the knowledge and approbation of the king or y e estate A forme of doing without example of any nation subiect to a Christian Prince The perill whereof did so increase that in case it had not béene repressed in due season and forbidden by his Maiesties lawes the same had troubled the whole countrey And béeing tried by his highnes to be the ouerthrow of his Maiesties estate the decay of his Crowne and a ready introduction to Anababtistrie and popular confusion in all estates his maiestie hath giuen commaundemēt against the same And that the Reader may vnderstand the daunger thereof by many inconueniences which thereby ensueth in this lande I will not onely set downe one whereby they may vnderstand what peril was in the rest The embassadour of Fraunce returning home vnto his owne countrey commaunded the Prouost Baliffes and Counsaile of Edingbrough to make him a banket that he might be receiued honourably according to the amitie of auncient times betwéene the two Nations This commaund was giuen on the Saturday by his highnes and the banquet appointed to be on the Monday A number of the foresaid pretended presbyterie vn derstanding thereof assembled themselues on Sonday in the morning and presumptuously determined and agréed that the Ministers of Edinbrough should proclaime a fasting vppon the same monday where thrée seuerall Ministers one after another made thrée seueral sermons inuectiues against the Prouost Bayliffes and Counsaile for the time and the noble men in the cuntry who repaired to the banquet at his Ma. commaund The foresaid presbyterie called and perswaded them and scarsly by his Maiesties authoritie could bee witholden from excommunicating the saide Magistrates and noble men for obeying onely his highnes lawfull command which the law of all countreys called Ius gentium requires towards Embassadors of forreine countreys And not onely in this but innumerable other things their commaundement was proclaimed directly vnder the paine of excōmunication to the kings Ma. and his laws Which forme of procéeding ingendred nothing but disbut disquietnes sedition and trouble as may manifestly appéere in that the speciall authors of the inuenting promoting and assisting of the foresaide pretended Presbyteries hath ioyned themselues with his Maiesties Rebels and fleing foorth of the realme in respect of