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A02479	An oration conteyning an expostulation as well with the Queenes Highnesse faithfull subiects for their want of due consideration of Gods blessings enioyed by meanes of her Maiestie: as also with the vnnaturall english for their disloyaltie and vnkindnesse towards the same their soueraygne. At the first pronounced vpon the Queenes Maiesties birthday in the Guyldhall of the burrowe of Newe Windsore, by Edward Hake of Grayes Inne Gent. then Mayer of the same burrowe: and now newly imprinted this xvij. day of Nouember, in the xxx. yeere of the Queenes Highnesse most happie raigne.	Hake, Edward, fl. 1560-1604.	1587 (1587)	STC 12608; ESTC S103614	19,433	32

afore Nay if we Englishmen in the viewe therof shall be able to saye vnto our selues that not with any Nation vnder the Cope of heauen at this daye God hath so delt as with vs good Lorde what should folowe hereupon but that our very soules shoulde breake forth with thankesgiuing and our hartes bee for euer resolued to continewe and resounde his prayses to the ende of our liues yea if we coulde as we hope we shall without ending But what shall I beginne with Where there hath kin no stinte nor measure of receiuing how can there be any entrance or choyse of begining If to sette forth the ioye I should first beginne with the sorowe that ouerwhelmed the face of this Land If to sette forth the blessing I should beginne as I may say with the curse that before did threaten vs. Or if to descipher the good thinges that this our Elizabeth our souueraigne brought with her to the Crowne of England I should first delyuer vnto you what Seas of miseries possessed and wel neere ouerflowed this little but moste noble Ilande As both these I muste needes saye in opposition were not vnneedfull to bee spoken of so yet leaste the dilating of the one might be cause of the abridging of the other I will for the helpe of a iust proportion in the one of these namely in the Churches persecution praye in ayde of the moste famous Historiographer of our tyme who briefly handling the miseries that imediatly preceded the raigne of our souueraigne after this sorte compendiously reporteth them Now sayeth he after these so great afflictions falling vppon this Realme from the firste beginninge of Queene Maryes raigne wherein so many men women and Children were burned so many imprisoned and in prison starued dyuers exiled some spoyled of goodes and possessions a great number dryuen from howse and home so many weeping eyes so many sobbing hartes so many Children made fatherlesse so many fathers bereft of their wiues and Children so many vexed in Conseyence and diu●rs against Conscience constrayned to recante and in conclusion neuer a good man almoste but suffred something during the tyme of this bloody persecution After all this sayeth the Historien there was reste to the persecuted members of Christe Thus you see one waye what an heape and generall deluge of wofull miseries had pitifully ouertaken naye rather ouerwhelmed a chief portion of this Realme of England I meane the Churche of England Religion defaced Godlynes hated Truth oppressed Trew professors persecuted Persecutiō blody To be shorte none spared all pursued euen to the death in whome there was any Conscyence of the Faythe or regarde of holy profession And as it fared with the Churche of England so alas it fared with the common wealth of Englande The lande possessed of straungers those straungers most turbulent most prowde moste insolent most aspyring and as Englande and the bordering peoples about vs at this daye haue cause to saye nay rather by their lamentable experience to complaine straungers moste cruell moste blodie most vnsufferable as by whome the sweete peace of this Realme was so interrupted so mangled so defaced that besides the daylie and continual threatened tumultes at home our welth of England the men of England the munition and forces of England were wholy imploied nay constrayned to wait vpon the wars I say vpon the vnnecessary warres of these so daungerous strangers yea to be wasted and consumed euen about the quarelles and ambytions of these so pernytious guests so that trulie it was then and is yet to bee affirmed that Englande whiche at that tyme had no cause of warres or breach of league with other Nations was enforced or rather violentlie haled to beare armes against them euen against Fraunce if I may speake it for the ambytious seruice of Spayne And whiles these thinges were thus sorted whiles men money munition and Armour were in this wise expended what was the sequel thereof I pray you what was the prosperity and successe of the same Caleys was loste Caleys the Kaye of England Caleys the very Doore and passage into France Caleys the honour of this Realme and the ouerlooker of the french Nation with the welth and habundance of England which 216. yeares togither had bine in the quiet possession of England I saye Caleys with all this altogither all at one instant at the least with in the compasse of iiij daies was miserablie lost and vtterly forgone To conclude Caleys being lost what ensewed thereupon After the losse of Caleys the losse of all securitie and freedome the losse of all prosperity and welfare came russhing vpon this lyttle Iland euen as it had bine an armed man vpon him that is naked and despoyled of comfort Such Impositions suche loanes such taxes newe Inuentions and deuises to drawe away the remaynder of the perticuler welth of Englande the common Treasury thereof being wholly exhausted and consumed to the maintenaunce of the vnprosperous warres of Kinge Philippe as surely if you will but looke into the Chronicles of that tyme you shall see and saye that if God of his myraculous and extraordinary power and great mercy had not shortened those dayes there had wanted verie lyttle of vtter desolation to this our Countrey this I saye our auntient and florishing Country of England then euen then at the instant to fall into such miserable seruitude and bondage as all those Countreyes are oppressed with all that in times past haue bine famous Kingdomes and other florishing estates and are now languishing and spoyled Prouinces subdued to the thraldome of the Spanyards But of all that euer happened or which in those dayes was deuised suffred or neglected against the safety of this Realme there was neuer mischief so desperat or Treason so vile or villany so greate or so deepe as was the platte purpose and intention to make away and destroye the sacred persone of our Elizabeth now our happie souueraigne who then and in those dayes in that moste myserable and perillous tyme was reckened and accompted as spes alit miseros the onely creatur of the earth by whom and through whom God had reserued vs any hope of restauration or comforte of recouerye to that desolation then approching This then shalbee sufficient for the former parte of my present purpose namely to haue touched vnto you after a plaine and brief manner what miseries what troubles and pitifull calamities occupied the whole state of this Realme both Churche and Comon welth at such tyme as our moste gratious soueraigne her Maistie that now is tooke vppon her the possession of the Crowne thereof at such tyme I saie as God in his great mercy looked vppon vs as he did vpon the Israelites in Egipte and their Captiuities sending vnto vs in highe tyme this his holy handmayden as it were another Moses saued from the same waters of affliction that wee were plunged in to be our helper aduanced her and that by iust tytle to the Scepter and Dyadem

behauiour of Licinnius likewise a crowned Emperour with him I say of Licinnius his copartner in the Empire and his brother in lawe as hauing maried his Sister Constantia Firste vppon the taking of him at Chrisopolis a Cittie of Bithynia he deposed him from the Crowne enioyning him to leade a priuate life in Thessalonica And afterwardes when as hee saw the same Licinnius to endeuour by fighting to reuenge his former foyle he commaunded that he should be put to death and so he was with the good conformitie of all his true harted Subiectes and people But touching our Elizabeth the whole Realme of England séeth Nay god himselfe witnesseth that for the very treasons that haue bin most traiterously intended against her roial person Crowne and life her highnesse hath bin more seene to sorrow the ruine of the offenders yea euen of those Capitall offenders for whose cause and with whose consent the greatest treasons that haue bin haue bin complotted then to feare or be dismaide at the daylye and howrely hazardes of her owne life The case then standing thus betweene our Prince and you you cruell and vnkinde Englishe that as on the one parte your Treasons haue ouermatched the Treasons of all Treasonfull Subiects that euer were so on the other parte her highnes compassion hath equalled if not excelled the compassion of all Princes Chrstian or Heathen What can there be possibly alledged on your behalfe that so much as in colour may serue to shrowde the deapth of your disloyalty If you will nowe saye the freedome of your consciences whereby I know you meane the free vse of your popish Religion is the matter you seeke after and being therof restrained you are thereuppon thus drawne to the extremity of these so outragious and violent attemptes Good Lord and can it bee possible that any profession in the worlde taking vnto it the name and tytle of religion should enable the professors therof to arme themselues against their soueraigne and that for not permitting vnto them the free vse of a contrary Religion Tell me you religious or rather Irreligious professors was there euer anye profession of Christianity vnder the Heathen and persecuting Emperours which by anie other meanes sought to preuaile in their Religion then by prayers teares Was there euer any resistance in the primitiue Church other then by preaching or open professing of the Truth thervppon by yéelding vp the body to persecution True it is that Heretiques and none but Heretiques haue sought to preuaile by Stratagems and deuises But you will say perhappes for what is it you will not saie to the sclaunder of this blessed gouernment that her Maiesties lawes made for the ponishing of Recusants are so sharpe and ouer sharpe for the tender case of a Religious and resolued Conscience that hereupon for your contentment you are Religiously and resoluedly drawen to the participation of highe and moste desperate Treasons Well leauing to call you herein to the consideration of these her Maiesties lawes which you so terme to be sharpe and ouer sharpe by comparing them with your owne burning bloody lawes by which your lawes not the purse but the persone not ponishing but destroying not of olde but of olde and yong not of men or women but of men women and Children yea of Infants newly borne nay I might saye scarsely borne not for preaching or open professing but for belieuing only haue bine so heauily knowen and felte within this lande leauing I saye to deale with you in the behalf of her Maiesties moste godly and iuste lawes after any suche sort I only aske of you a question or two and so I will leaue you Taking view of her Maiesties dispensation of Iustice from the begnining of her raigne hitherto what find you therein allowing vnto her highnes her soueraigne power to establish Religion within the lande what find you I say therein that any Subiect of any Secte or profession in the world may not tollerate and indure without eyther losse or hazard of life or of liuing Is the difference of opinion in matters of Religion or the priuate mistakinges in controuersies of Religion in any of what sorte or qualitie so euer not participating matter of treason or of flat recusancie any cause to him or them to feare either losse of life or impeachement of Honour or credite be it eyther in office or in dignitie or in whatsoeuer else within this Realme that may be sayde to be of profite or countenance vnto the same I suppose no Naye you your selues muste needes aunswere me no. Go to then you religious Catholiques or rather you Catholique Conspiratours what is it in this our gouernment that makes you so wayward so treasonfull so discontented Would you haue her Maiestie and the state permitte and allowe vnto you Churches within this Realme for the free excercise of your Popish Religion and so maintaine two religions in opposition within the Lande It is a Prouerbe of greate antiquitie Multitudo Imperatorum Cariam perdidit And I would aske you this question admitting you had so farre preuailed in the gracelesse prosecution of some daungerous and abortiue Title that you had alreadie brought to passe to aduaunce within this Realme a banefull companion with her Maiestie in her Kingdome whiche the Lorde for euer forbidde saie the truth herein would you thincke it safe that these two thus consorted should continewe and remaine together in this kinde of partnershippe Cleerely you would not naie you coulde not And feeling the mislike thereof is it not apparant to the world which of these too you would soonest and spéediliest remoue Quisquis amat Ranam Ranam put at esse Dianam And as for loue and Lordshippe you knowe they will haue no felowshippe Bassianus the bloodie Tyrant maie not long endure good Geta the gentle Caesar no though Bassianus might enioie more then half the Empire for his share And stand these thinges thus you Catholiques in the consideration of earthly Kingdomes and are you able to conceiue that in this kinde of gouernment your state would become vnsafe by the rule of two Princes atonce the one altogither different from the other in conditions And alas are you so grosely blinde that you cannot consider the like respects to bee in the Empire and Kingdome of Chrsst Who is it that sayeth that Lighte and darcknes canot dwell together And whose saying is it that there is but one God one father c To conclude then As the abhomination detestation hereof would bee high and heinous in the eyes of the Lorde so no doubte the euents that would ensewe therevpon namely by displeasing of so highe a Maiestie could be no lesse in effecte then the totall confusion both of Prince and of people And for a meane sequel of permitting the vse of too contrary religions take the Massacres of Fraunce looke into them waye them and so conclude with your selues that from the like causes the like effectes would speedily fall out Nulla