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An answer vnto the Catholiques supplication, presented vnto the Kings Maiestie, for a tolleration of popish religion in England wherein is contained a confutation of their vnreasonable petitions, and slaunderous lyes against our late soueraigne Queene Elizabeth ... : together with an information vnto His Maiestie of diuers their wicked and treasonable practises, attempted in the life time of our late Queene ... : wherevnto is annexed the supplication of the papists, word for word as it was presented vnto the Kings Maiestie ... / written by Christopher Muriell the elder.
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Muriell, Christopher.
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STC 18292.2; ESTC S2825
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AN ANSVVER VNTO THE CATHOLIQVES SVPPLICATION PRESENTED VNto the Kings Maiestie for a tolleration of Popish religion in England WHEREIN IS CONTAINED A confutation of their vnreasonable petitions and slaunderous lyes against our late Soueraigne Queene Elizabeth whose happy and gratious gouernement the Papists in their said Supplication doe so peremptorilie traduce Together with an information vnto his Maiestie of diuers their wicked and treasonable practises attempted in the life time of our late Queene his worthy predecessor whose life they alwayes sought meanes to extinguish Wherevnto is annexed the Supplication of the Papists word for word as it was presented vnto the Kings Maiestie With some necessarie annotations thereupon Newlie corrected and augmented Written by Christopher Muriell the elder Imprinted at London by R. R. for Francis Burton and are to be solde in Paules Church-yard at the figne of the White-Lyon 1603. TO THE MOST GRAcious renowmed Christian King IAMES by the grace of God of England Scotland France and Ireland King defender of the true Catholique and Apostolique faith All diuine and celestiall graces mercies and blessings be multiplyed from generation to generation for euermore Amen MOst Gratious and renowmed Christian King whereas the Papists who vsurpe the name of Catholiques hauing posted vnto your Maiestie to exhibite vnto your royall person a Supplication full of vntrueths I one of the meanest of your Maiesties most humble and loyall subiects mooued with zeale of the holy and vndoubted true religion now professed in England haue thought it not inconuenient with your Graces fauour which I humbly craue to answer the chiefe and most materiall points of the saide supplication because it tendeth to the greeuous slaunder of our late deceased Soueraigne Queene Elizabeth and also of the noble and worshipfull personages of this your Graces Realme of England and the rather because I heare that some fauorites of the Romane religion doe so highly extoll and aduance the learned and eloquent penning of the same and the imaginary validity and force thereof that they vaunt that it cannot be contradicted yet doubt I not but that the plaine verity of this short aunswer will be of sufficient force to daunt their expectations and to bewray their vntruthes to their deserued discredit The saide Supplication consisteth of feauen seuerall partes as by perusall thereof may appeare 1. The first part is their exordium wherein they pretend faith and dutifull obedience and loyaltie vnto your Maiestie the which protestation I pray God they may effect in verity in as effectuall and ample manner as they haue in flourishing and glosing shew of words professed the same But I commit that to God who searcheth the harts and reynes time trieth all things nil fictum diuturnum essepotest 2. In the second part they doe complaine that they were ouer-whelmed with greeuom persecutions by the seuerity of our late deceased Queene We doe not a little maruell that they blushed not to informe your Grace with so manifest vntruthes if they supposed as they in wordes pretend that God hath blessed you with a wise and vnderstanding hart rightly to discerne betweene truth and fashood For I dare boldly affirme that they cannot prooue that any one receiued the sentence of death onely for professing the Romish religion except treason were thereunto also annexed And if it may please your most Gracious Maiestie to waigh in equall ballance the persecutions to vse their owne wordes they suffered either by imprisonment or fining by the purse wherewith verye fewe in comparison were touched your highnesse shall vnderstand that their owne wilfull obstinacie and not the Queenes Maiesties feueritie vrged the same for whensoeuer it pleased them to resort to their parish churches vnto diuine prayers they had present releasement both of their imprisonment and also of their fines and fees But seeing that their vniust exclamations inforce me to call to fresh remembrance the most sauage and brutish dealings of the Papists in Queene Maryes dayes how they then dominered your highnesse cannot be ignorant how vnmercifully did they torment vnto death the faithfull seruants and Saints of God for professing the glorious Gospell of our redeemer Christ Iesus Some they tormented with most sharpe and long imprisonment some they whipped with roddes some they secretly murthered in prison but the greatest and generall number were sacryficed in the fire in which kinde of torment they spared none no not any degrees of persons not so much as women great with childe but tormented them to death euen when the children did fall out of the mothers wombes into the fire in the view of the Papists who being past shame and grace nothing regarded it Yea such was their raging madnesse that they digged vp the dead bones of those two godly and learned fathers Martin Bucer and Paulus Phagius and burned them in Cambridge It is manifest vnto the world that the Papists tortured to death as graue as wise as vertuous and as learned and Catholike fathers as Europe affordeth Acts and Monuments The records of these things are so manifest so true and so fresh in memorie of many yet liuing that they cannot bee contradicted But to returne to our late deceased Queene wheras the Papists doe vniustly charge her that she was A grieuous persecutor of them their assertion consisteth of contrarieties for after the death of her brother King Edward they vndelayedly persecuted her Grace in the dayes of Queene Mary they tossed her from prison to prison threatning her with continuall death so that she dayly expected the Axe to seuer her sacred head from her Princely shoulders a D. Sutcliffe in his reply to the Apo. pa. 84. and once a precept was giuen for the executing thereof to the Lieutenant of the Towre by the treacherous dealing of one of the Popes b Gardiner Bishop of Winchester minions the bearing great sway in England in so much that if the Lieutenant of the Tower had not himselfe presently posted vnto the Court vnto the Queene her sister to vnderstand certainly her pleasure therein she had dyed before the Queene had beene acquainted therewith But in processe of time she by Gods prouidence beeing freed from that danger and her selfe enioying the royall Crowne Scepter and dignitie of the Realme did not the Pope deale with her as his predecessour did in former time deale with King Iohn By his cursed Bul he cursed and excommunicated the aforesaid King interdicted the whole realme So that for diuers yeares none were suffered to be Christianly buried he charged all his subiects that none of them should releeue helpe or succour him by any meanes eyther directly or indirectly vpon paine of his curse so that the rebellion of his nobles was so great that of force to procure his peace he was constrained to c Stovves Chro in the life of K. John Page 255. and 256. resigne both the kingdomes of England and Ireland into the Popes hands and did take it again of the Pope by fee