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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A29176	A true and exact history of the succession of the crown of England collected out of records, and the best historians, written for the information of such as have been deluded and seduced by the pamphlet, called, The brief history of the succession, &c., pretended to have been written for the satisfaction of the Earl of H.	Brady, Robert, 1627?-1700.	1681 (1681)	Wing B4195; ESTC R19500	55,203	51

acceptabant ipsumque Comitem in Regem eligentes assumentes exclamant dicentes vivat Rex Interrogatus autem postea Archiepiscopus Hubertus quare haec dixisset respondet ve praesagia mente conjecturare quibusdam Oraculis Edoctum Certificatum fuisse quod ipse Johannes Regnum Coronam Angliae foret aliquando corrupturus in magnam confusionem praecipitaturus ne haberet liberas habenas hoc faciendi ipsum electione non successione haereditaria Elegi debere affirmabat That is The Arch-Bishops Bishops Earls and Barons and all others Officers probably required to be there which ought to be present at his Coronation meeting at London The Arch Bishop standing in the middle of them said Hear all of you your Discretion shall know that no Man hath Right to succeed in the Kingdom unless after seeking God he be unanimously chosen by the University of the Kingdom that is those that are here said to meet at London And according to the Eminency of his Endowments pre-elected according the Example and Similitude of Saul the first anointed King whom God set over his People not the Son of a King or of the Royal Line likewise after him David the Son of Jesse This because stout and fit for Royal Dignity the other because holy and humble That so he which exceeded all Men of the Kingdom in Strength or Prowess should be set over all in Power and Government but if an of the Progeny of the dead King did excell others they ought more readily to consent to the Election of him These things we have therefore said in the behalf of the famous Earl John who is here present the Brother of our most illustrious dead King Richard that died without Issue of his Body who is Provident Stout and manifestly Noble whom we having invoked the Grace of the Holy Spirit have all of us unanimously chosen Nor dare any others so much as doubt of these things knowing the Arch-Bishop had not thus decreed this Matter without Cause But Earl John and all there acquiesced in what he had said and chusing or acknowledging and receiving him for their King shouted saying Let the King live But Arch-Bishop Hubert being asked afterward why he said these things answered that he guessed and was taught and ascertained by certain Oracles that John would bring the Kingdom and Crown into great Confusion And therefore lest he might have too much Liberty in doing it he affirmed he ought to come in by Election and not by Hereditary Succession and so was Crowned as before rehearsed This Learned Doctrine and Preachment of the Arch-Bishop asserts not any Right of Election in the Convention of Bishops Earls Barons and others required to be at the Coronation but by his own Answer when he was asked why he said these things it clearly discovers a Design only and Artifice in the Arch-Bishop to cause them to set up and make John King In which also he denies any such Right of Election Hoveden hath none of nor doth mention this Harangue and therefore it seems rather to be an invention of Matthew Paris than a Sermon of the Arch-Bishop Historians commonly make Speeches for other Men they write of Brompton takes no notice of it all he says is that Johannes Lundoniam veniens in Festo ascensionis Domini VI. Kalend Junii Anno Dom. 1199. ab Huberto Contuariensi Archiepiscopo in Ecclesia B. Petri Westmonasterii inungitur in Regem Angliae coronatur assistente Prelatorum Comitum Baronum aliorum Nobilium multitudine infinita John coming to London on Ascension-Day the 27th of June 1199. was Anointed and Crowned king of England By Hubert Arch-Bishop of Canterbury in St. Peter's Church in Westminster an infinite multitude of Bishops Earls Barons and other Noble men assisting him Not one word here or in Hovedon or Paris of the ordinary People And this Doctrine of the Arch-Bishop concerning the Election of Kings if meant according to the Modern Understanding of it was then new for Gervase a Monk of Canterbury in the Year 1122. speaking of the Coronation of Henry the First says It was manifest and known almost to all Men than the Kings of England were only obliged and bound to God for the Possession of the Kingdom and to the Church of Canterbury for their Coronation Manifestum est autem omnibus sere notur Reges Angliae soli Deo obligari teneri exipsius regni adeptione ECclesiae Canturiensi ex Coronatione King John doth say in a Charter dated the first Year of his Reign that he came to the Crown Jure haereditario mediante tam Cleriquam populi unanimi consensu favore By Right of Inheritance and by unanimous Consent and Favour as well of the Clergy as Laity This unanimous Consent of the Clergy and Laity was rather their Acknowledgment and Submission than any thing else for according to Hoveden's Relation of his coming to the Crown which is the most exact extant They submitted and swore Fealty to him against all Men before he came into England some time before his Coronation Nor could it be true that he had an Hereditary Right for Arthur Duke of Britain Son and Heir to his elder Brother Jeffrey and his Sister Eleanor was then living unless ho had regard to the Donation of his brother Richard and so esteemed himself a Testamentary Heir After the death of King John Henry the Third his eldest Son and Heir by the Assistance of the Loyal Barons was Crowned King notwithstanding the Barons which had made War against King John when they were reduced to great Streights called out of France Lewes the King's Son to whom they with the Londoners sware Fealty and advanced him to the Throne and adhered to him against their own Prince until by Force they were reduced and he driven out of the Kingdom This Treasonable calling in of Lewes some that are pertinacious in the fancy of Election will have it to be one Indeed King Henry the Third at this time had no good Hereditary Title and therefore Johannes ex hac vita transmigravit Henricum primogenitum suum regni constituens haeredem And this Donation of his Father or his making him his Heir was his best Title for until that Eleanor the Daughter of his Uncle Jeffrey died in the twenty fifth Year of his Reign he was not true Heir by Right of Blood Obiit Eleanora saith Matthew Paris filia Galfridi Comitis Britanniae in clausura diuturna carceris sub arcta custodia reservata fol. 574. n. 40. 25 H. 3. Anno Dom. 1241. To Henry the Third succeeded his eldest Son Edward the First though the Lancastrians said his second Son Edmund commonly called Crouch-Back was the eldest and laid aside for his deformity on whose Person was originally founded the great Contention between the two Royal Houses of York and Lancaster But that he was really the eldest there can be no pretence

England usurped upon the said Crown and Lordship and that he and also Henry late called King Henry the Fifth his Son and Henry late called King Henry the Sixth his Son occupied the Realm of England and Lordship of Ireland and exercised the Governance thereof by unryghtwyse intrusion usurpation and no otherwise That the Amotion of Henry late called King Henry the Sixth from the Exercise Occupation Usurpation Intrusion Reign and Governance of the same Realm and Lordship done by our Soveraigne Lord King Edward the Fourth was and is rightwyse lawfull and according to the Lawes and Customes of the said Realme and soe ought to be taken holden reputed and accepted Further Some if not all the Grants made by Henry Earl of Derby called Henry the Fourth the said Henry his Son or the said Henry called Henry the Sixth or by Authority of any pretenced Parliament in any of their days were reputed null and void That the unrightwyse and unlawful Usurpation and Intrusion of the same Henry upon the Crown of England and Lordship of Ireland was to the great and intolerable hurt prejudice and derogation of Edmund Mortimer Earle of Maroh next Heir of Blood of the said King Richard at the time of his Death and to the Heirs of the said Edmomd and to the great and excessive Damage unto the Realm of England and to the politick and peaceable Governance thereof by inward Wars moved and grounded by occasion thereof In the First of Richard the Third the Three Estates after having much faulted the Government Marriage and Person of Edward the Fourth and affirmed That the Right and Title of the Issue of George Duke of Clarence was barred by his Attainder and extolling the Parts Wisdom and Justice of Richard his Brother declared him undoubted Heir of Richard Duke of York Father to Edward the Fourth very Inhaeritor of the Crown of England and Dignity Royal and as in Right King of England by way of Inheritance and therefore having in his great prudent Justice Princely Courage and excellent Vertue singular Confidence did by Writing in all that in them lay chuse him their King and Sovereign Lord to whom they knew of certain it apperteined to be so chosen c. And do further declare That the Right Title and Estate which King Richard the Third had to and in the Crown and Royal Dignity of the Realm of England with all things thereunto within the said Realm and without it annexed and apperteining was just and lawful as grounded upon the Laws of God and Nature and also upon the antient Lawes and laudable Customes of this said Realm as also taken and reputed by all such Persons as were learned in the abovesaid Laws and Customs And then they proceed and say Yet nevertheless forasmuch as it is considered that the most part of the People is not sufficiently learned in the aforesaid Laws and Customs whereby the Truth and Right in this behalf of likelyhood may be hid and not clearly known to all the People and thereupon put in doubt and question And over this how that the Court of Parliament is of such Authority and the People of this Land of such a nature and disposition as Experience teacheth that Manifestation or Declaration of any Truth made by the Three Estates of this Realm assembled in Parliament and by Authority of the same maketh before all other things most faithful and certain quieting of Mens minds and removeth the occasion of Doubts and seditious Language Therefore at the Request and by the Assent of the Three Estates of this Realm THAT IS TO SAY The Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons of this Land assembled in this present Parliament and by the Authority of the same be it pronounced decreed and declared That our said Sovereign Lord the King was and is the very undoubted King of this Realm of England with all things thereunto belonging within the said Realm and without it united annexed and apperteining as well by Right of Consanguinity and Inhaeritance as by lawful Election Consecration and Coronation Haereditary Right and Right of Blood was the Ground of this Establishment Henry the Seventh having no Haereditary Title of his own and being always averse to take upon him the only true and undoubted Title of his Queen eldest Daughter and Heir to Edward the Fourth procured an Act of Parliament That the Inhaeritance of the Crown of the Realms of England and France with all the Preheminencies and Dignities Royal to the same apperteining and the Ligeances to the King belonging beyond the Seas c. shall be rest remain and abide in the most Royal Person of our most Sovereign Lord Henry the Seventh and in the Heirs of his Body lawfully coming perpetually and so to endure and no otherwise It may be noted from these words That the inheritance of the Crown should rest remain and abide in the King c. That he designed not a Declaration or Recognition of his Right but rather an Establishment of that Possession he had gotten by the Sword for not thinking this Act a Sufficient Security for him nor depending on this Parliamentary Title he extended his pretences beyond this Establishment in at much as he procured it to be confirmed the year following by the Bull of Pope Innocent the Eighth in which this Statute with his Titles of Couquest and Descent are mentioned and confirmed The Bull says That the Kingdom of England belonged to him by undubitable right Non modo jure Belli ac notorio indubitato proximo successions Titulo verum etiam omnium prelatorum procerum Magnatum Nobilium totiusque ejusdem Regni Angliae plebis Electione et noto ac decreto statuto et ordinatione ipsius Angliae Regni trium Statuum in ipsorum conventu Parliamento nuncupato That is Not only by the right of War and the notorious and indubitable next Title of Succession but also by the election of all the Prelates and great Men and of the whole Commonalty of the Kingdom of England and by a known and decreed Statute and Ordinance of the Three Estates of the same Kingdom of England their meeting called a Parliament And afterward in the Thirteenth of his Reign he got his Bull renewed and the Act confirmed again by Pope Alexander the Sixth under pain of Excommunication and Curse to such as should upon any pretence whatsoever disturb the peace of the Nation and create trouble against this Title of Henry the Seventh So that notwithstanding this Act of Parliament which was cunningly penned to Establish his possession he had obtained by the sword He thought that and the Popes Bulls of Confirmation his best Title yet not omitting his own pretended indubitable next Right of Succession Henry the Eighth next heir to the Crown by Proximity of Blood as right Heir to his Mother Elizabeth Daughter and right Heir to Edward the Fourth succeeded his Father in