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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B07995	The Catholikes supplication vnto the Kings Maiestie, for toleration of Catholike religion in England: with short notes or animaduersions in the margine. : Whereunto is annexed parallel-wise, a supplicatorie counterpoyse of the Protestants, vnto the same most excellent Maiestie. : Together with the reasons of both sides, for and against toleration of diuers religions..	Powel, Gabriel, 1576-1611.	1603 (1603)	STC 20141.5; ESTC S94766	17,197	37

THE CATHOLIKES SVPPLICATION VNTO THE KINGS MAIESTIE FOR TOLERATION OF Catholike Religion in England WITH SHORT NOTES OR Animaduersions in the margine Whereunto is annexed Parallel-wise a Supplicatorie Counterpoyse of the Protestants vnto the same most excellent Maiestie Together with the reasons of both sides for and against toleration of diuers Religions BY WISDOME PEACE BY PEACE PLENTY AT LONDON Imprinted by Felix Kyngston for Edmund Weauer and are to be solde at his shop at the great North doore of Paules Church 1603. THE CATHOLIKES SVPPLICATION Most puissant Prince and orient Monarch 1_SVch are the rare perfections and admirable gifts of wisedome prudence valour and iustice wherewith the bountifull hand of Gods diuine Maiestie hath endued your Maiestie as in the depth of your prouident iudgement we doubt not but you foresee what concerneth both the spirituall and temporall gouernment of all your kingdomes and dominions 2 Notwithstanding your Graces most afflicted subiects and deuoted seruants the Catholikes of England partly to preuent sinister informations which happily may possesse your sacred eares before our answere be heard partly almost as men 1 Impudent fellowes A manifest vntruth as all the world knoweth ouerwhelmed with persecutions for our consciences we are enforced to haue speedie recourse in hope of present redresse from your Highnesse and to present these humble lines vnto your royall person to pleade for vs some commiseration and fauour 3. What allegeance or dutie 2 What dutie Fidelitie and loyaltie which the Papists by vertue of their Religion can affoord no potentate but the Pope can any 3 These men hold that no temporall Prince ought to desire or expect any thing at their hands which may preiudice the Pope temporall Prince desire or expect at his vassals hands which wee are not addressed to 4 True conditionally if they thinke it be not preiudiciall to the Pope performe How many Noble-men and worthie Gentlemen most zealous in the Catholike Religion haue endured some losse of lands and liuings some exile others imprisonment some the effusion of bloud and life for the aduauncement of your blessed Mothers 5 The Papists iudged Queene Elizabeth hereticall and iustly deposed by the Bull of Pius V. and therefore thought themselues free from their allegeance vnto her and so traiterously gaue away her right vnto another Otherwise how could any pretend RIGHT vnto the scepter of Albion Queene Elizabeth being yet liuing and there is great difference betweene RIGHT and TITLE right vnto the scepter of Albion Nay whose finger did euer ake but Catholikes for your 6 What loyall hearts Papists beare the Kings Maiestie appeareth by their sundrie conspiracies against his sacred person from time to time especially by that in the yeere 1591 recorded in publike print Maiesties present title and dominion 4 How many 7 If any so fled it was not for their good behauiour and wise Princes doe well know how to esteem of such mens offers fled to your Court offering themselues as hostages for their friends to liue and die in your Graces quarrell if euer Aduersarie had opposed himself against the 8 Who forged and furthered the Jnfantaes pretended title but Papists yet now they acknowledge Gods right and their owne madnes equitie of your cause If this they attempted with their 9 Good and loyall subiects forsooth vnto their owne Prince in the meane while Can trayterous hearts vnto Queene Elizabeth be good subiects vnto King James Princes disgrace to obtaine your Maiesties grace what will they doe nay what will they not do to liue without disgrace in your Graces fauour 5 The maine of this Realme if we respect Religion setting pettie sects aside consisteth vpon 10 A manifest slaunder of our Christian Church and S●a●● foure parts Protestants who haue dominiered all the former Queenes daies Puritanes who haue crept vp apace among them Atheists or Polititians who were bred vpon their brawles and contentions in 11 A flat vntruth the dissension betweene them is onely concerning externall matters of discipline and ceremonies which belong rather to the policie of the Church then to faith and doctrine matters of faith And Catholikes who as they are opposite to all so are they detested of all 12 An argument from the staffe to the corner because Errour was euer an enemie to Truth 6 Hardly al or any of the first two three can be 13 They would faine suppresse the Kings Maiestie also among other Protestants if they could tell how God preserue his grace from such subiects Amen suppressed and therefore we beseech your Maiestie to yeeld vs as much fauour as 14 Will you haue as much fauour as the Atheists haue Like lips like lettuce others of contrarie religion to that which shall be publikely professed in England shall obtaine at your hands For if our fault be 15 No likenes at all Protestants are loyall subiects so are not Papists Atheists we haue none at least none that professe themselues so to be so would God we had no Papists Puritane is a name proper vnto the Anabaptists and Famelians whom our state doth no way fauour like or lesse or none at all in equitie our punishment ought to be like or lesse or none at all 7 The Gates Arches and Pyramides of France proclaimed the present King Pater patriae pacis restitutor because that kingdome being well nigh torne in pieces with ciuill warres and made a pray to forraine foes was by his prouident wisedome and valour acquited in it self and hostile strangers expelled the which he principally effected 16 Non causa pro causa Read the Counterpoyse by condescending to tolerate them of an aduerse religion to that was openly professed 8 Questionlesse dread Soueraigne the kingdome of England by cruell 17 An impudent lye persecution of Catholikes hath been almost odious to all Christian Nations Trade and traffique is 18 And all by reason of Catholikes treason rebellion and other disloyall practises stratagems decayed warres and bloud hath seldome ceased Subsidies and taxes neuer so many discontented mindes innumerable all which your Maiesties princely 19 If the Papists haue practised treason and rebellion in time of their restraint what will they not dare to attēpt hauing further libertie conniuencie to your humble Suppliants the afflicted Catholikes will easily redresse especially at your Highnesse ingresse * 3. Reg. 12.7 Si loquaris ad eos verba lenia erunt tibi serui cunctis diebus said the sage Counsellors of Salomon to 20 The Kings Maiestie is not such an infant in gouernment but he knoweth No subiect can faithfully serue two masters the Pope and his liege King Rehoboam For enlargement after affliction resembleth a pleasant gale after a vehement tempest and a benefit in distresse doubleth the value thereof 9 How gratefull will it bee to all 21 Syrenicall fond suggestions as if his Highnes cared what account the Turke or Pope