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state_n	authority_n	foreign_a	jurisdiction_n	1,050	5	9.5170	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A51173	Megalopsychy, being a particular and exact account of the last XVII years of Q. Elizabeths reign, both military and civil the first written by Sir William Monson ..., the second written by Heywood Townsend, Esq. ; wherein is a true and faithful relation ... of the English and Spanish wars, from the year 1585, to the Queens death ; with a full account of the eminent speeches and debates, &c., in the said time ; to which is added Dr. Parry's tryal in the year 1584 ; all written at the time of the actions, by persons eminently acting therein.	Monson, William, Sir, 1569-1643.; Parry, William, d. 1585. True and plain declaration of the horrible treasons.	1682 (1682)	Wing M2465; ESTC R7517	94,931	102

seemed to glory greatly in the Profession of his pretensed Catholick Religion The whole course and action of his Life sheweth plainly how profanely and irreligiously he did always bear himself He vaunted that for these two and twenty years past he had been a Catholick and during all that time never received the Communion Yet before he travelled beyond the Seas at three several times within the compass of those two and twenty years he did voluntarily take the Oath of Obedience to the Queens Majesty set down in the Statute made in the first year of her Highness Reign by which amongst other things he did testifie and declare in his Conscience that no Forreign Prince Person Prelate State or Potentate hath or ought to have any Jurisdiction Power Preeminence or Authority Ecclesiastical or Spiritual within this Realm and therefore did utterly renounce and forsake all Forreign Jurisdictions Powers and Authorities and did promise to bear Faith and true Allegeance to the Queens Highness her Heirs and lawful Successors With what Conscience or Religion he took that Oath so often if he were then a Papist indeed as sithence the discovery of his Treasons he pretended let his best friends the Papists themselves judge But perhaps it may be said that he repented those his Offences past that since those three Oaths so taken by him he was twice reconciled to the Pope and so his Conscience cleared and he become a new man and which is more that in the time to his last Travel he cast away all his former lewd manners that he changed his degree and habit and bought or begged the grave Title of a Doctor of Law for which he was well qualified with a little Grammar-School Latine that he had Plenary Indulgence and Remission of all his Sins in consideration of his undertaking of so holy an Enterprise as to kill Queen Elizabeth a sacred anointed Queen his Natural and Soveraign Lady That he promised to the Pope and vowed to God to perform it that he confirmed the same by receiving the Sacrament at the Jesuits at one Altar with his two Beaupeers the Cardinals of Vendosme and Narbonne And that since his last return into England he did take his Oath upon the Bible to execute it These Reasons may seem to bear some weight indeed amongst his Friends the Jesuits and other Papists of State who have special Skill in matters of such importance But now lately in the beginning of this Parliament in November last he did eftsoons solemnly in publick place take the Oath before mentioned of obedience to her Majesty How that may stand with his reconciliations to the Pope and with his Promises Vows and Oath to kill the Queen it is a thing can hardly be warranted unless it be by some special priviledge of the Popes omnipotency But let him have the glory he desired to live and die a Papist He deserved it it is fit for him his death was correspondent to the course of his life which was disloyal perjured and Traiterous towards her Majesty and false and perfidious towards the Pope himself and his Catholicks if they will believe his solemn protestations which he made at his Arraignment and Execution that he never meant nor intended any hurt to her Highness Person For if that be true where are then his Vows which he said were in Heaven his Letter and Promise upon Earth Why hath he stollen out of the Popes shop so large an Indulgence and plenary Remission of all his Sins and meant to perform nothing that he promised Why was his Devotion and Zeal so highly commended Why was he so specially prayed for and remembred at the Altar All these great favours were then bestowed upon him without cause or desert for he deceived the Pope he deceived the Cardinals and Jesuites with a false semblance and pretence to do that thing which he never meant But the matter is clear the Conspiracy and his traiterous intent is too plain and evident it is the Lord that revealed it in time and prevented their malice there lacked no will or readiness in him to execute that horrible fact It is the Lord that hath preserved her Majesty from all the wicked Practices and Conspiracies of that Hellish Rabble it is he that hath most gratiously deliver'd her from the hands of this Traiterous miscreant The Lord is her onely defence in whom she hath always trusted A Prayer for all Kings Princes Countries and People which do profess the Gospel and especially for our Soveraign Lady Queen Elizabeth used in Her Majesties Chappel and meet to be used of all persons within Her Majesties Dominions O Lord God of hosts most loving and merciful Father whose power no creature is able to resist who of thy great goodness hast promised to grant the petitions of such as ask in thy Sons Name We most humbly beseech thee to save and defend all Princes Magistrates Kingdoms Countries and People which have received and do profess thy holy Word and Gospel and namely this Realm of England and thy servant Elizabeth our Queen whom thou hast hitherto wonderfully preserved from manifold Perils and sundry Dangers and of late revealed and frustrated the Traiterous Practices and Conspiracies of divers against her for the which and all other thy great goodness towards us we give thee most humble and hearty thanks beseeching thee in the Name of thy dear Son Iesus Christ and for his sake still to preserve and continue her unto us and to give her long life and many years to rule over this Land O Heavenly Father the practices of our Enemies and the Enemies of thy word and truth against her and us are manifest and known thee Turn them O Lord if it be thy blessed Will or overthrow and confound them for thy Names sake Suffer them not to prevail Take them O Lord in their crafty Willness that they have invented and let them fall into the Pit which they have digged for others Permit them not ungodly to triumph over us Discomfort them discomfort them O Lord which trust in their own multitude and please themselves in their subtile devices and wicked Conspiracies O loving Father we have not deserved the least of these thy Mercies which we crave For we have sinned and grievously offended thee we are not worthy to be called thy Sons We have not been so thankful unto thee as we should for thy unspeakable benefits powred upon us We have abused this long time of Peace and Prosperity We have not obeyed thy Word We have had it in Mouth but not in heart in outward appearance but not in deed We have lived carelesly We have not known the time of our visitation we have deserved utter destruction But thou O Lord art merciful and ready to forgive therefore we come to thy Throne of Grace confessing and acknowledging thee to be our only refuge in all times of peril and danger And by the means of thy Son we most heartily pray thee to forgive us our