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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A19619	The copie of a letter to the Right Honourable the Earle of Leycester, Lieutenant generall of all her Maiesties forces in the vnited Prouinces of the lowe Countreys written before, but deliuered at his returne from thence: vvith a report of certeine petitions and declarations made to the Queenes Maiestie at two seuerall times, from all the lordes and commons lately assembled in Parliament. And her Maiesties answeres thereunto by her selfe deliuered, though not expressed by the reporter with such grace and life, as the same were vttered by her Maiestie.	Salisbury, Robert Cecil, Earl of, 1563-1612.; Crompton, Richard, fl. 1573-1599, attributed name.; Elizabeth I, Queen of England, 1533-1603.	1586 (1586)	STC 6052; ESTC S109079	14,965	38

Benadad both which were by the iust iudgement of God depriued of their kingdoms for sparing those wicked Princes whome God had deliuered into their handes of purpose to be slaine by them as by the ministers of his eternal and diuine Iustice Wherein full wisely Salomon proceeded to punishment when hee tooke the life of his owne naturall and elder brother Adonias for the only intention of a marriage that gaue suspition of treason against him Herein we your Maiesties most louing and obedient subiects earnestly depend vpon your princely resolution which we assure our selues shall be to God most acceptable and to vs no other then the state of your Regall authoritie may afford vs and the approoued arguments of your tender care for our safetie vnder your charge dooth promise to our expectation A REPORT OF HER MAiesties most gratious answere deliuered by her selfe verbally to the first petitions of the Lords and Commons being the Estates of Parliament in her Chamber of Presence at Richmond the xij day of Nouember 1586. at the full almost of xxviij yeeres of her Reigne Whereof the Reporter requireth of all that were hearers a fauourable interpretation of his intent because he findeth that he can not expresse the same answerable to the originall which the learned call Prototypon THE bottomlesse graces and immeasurable benefits bestowed vpon me by the Almightie are and haue bene such as I must not onely acknowledge them but admire them accounting them as well miracles as benefites not so much in respect of his diuine Maiestie with whome nothing is more common then to doe things rare and singular as in regard of our weakenesse who can not sufficiently set foorth his wonderfull worker and graces which to mee haue bene so many so diuersely folded and imbroydered one vpon another as in no sorte I am able to expresse them And although there liueth not any that may more iustly acknovvledge them selues infinitely bounde vnto God then I whose life he hath miraculously preserued at sundry times beyonde my merite from a multitude of perils and dangers yet is not that the cause for which I count my selfe the deeplyest bounde to giue him my humblest thankes or to yeelde him greatest recognition but this which I shall tell you hereafter which will deserue the name of wonder if rare things and seeldom seene be worthie of accompt Euen this it is that as I came to the Crowne with the willing hearts of my subiects so doe I now after xxviij yeres Reigne perceiue in you no diminution of good willes which if happily I should want well might I breath but neuer thinke I liued And now albeit I finde my life hath bene full dangerously sought death contriued by such as no desert procured yet am I therein so cleare from malice which hath the property to make men glad at the falles and faultes of their foes and make them seeme to doe for other causes when rancor is the ground as I protest it is and hath bene my grieuous thought that one not different in sexe of like Estate my neere kin shoulde fall into so great a crime yea I had so litle purpose to pursue her with any colour of malice that as it is not vnknowen to some of my Lordes here for nowe I will play the blabbe I secretly wrote her a letter vpon the discouery of sundry Treasons that if she woulde confesse them and priuately acknowledge them by her letters to my selfe shee neuer shoulde neede be called for them into so publike question Neither did I it of minde to circumuent her for then I Knew as much as she could confesse and so did I write And if euen yet nowe that the matter is made but to apparāt I thought she truely would repent as perhappes she would easily appeare in outwarde shewe to doe and that for her none other would take the matter vpon them or that we were but as tvvo milke maides vvith pailes vpon our armes or that there vvere no more dependancie vpon vs but mine ovvne life vvere onely in danger not the vvhole Estate of your Religion and vvell doings I protest vvherein you may beleeue me for though I may haue many vices I hope I haue not accustomed my tongue to be an instrument of vntrueth I would most vvillingly pardon and remit this offence Or if by my death other nations and Kingdomes might truely say that this Realme had attained an euerprosperous florishing estate I vvould I assure you not desire to liue but gladly giue my life to the ende my death might procure you a better Prince And for your sakes it is that I desire to liue to keepe you from a vvorse For as for me I assure you I finde no great cause I should be fonde to liue I take no such pleasure in it that I shoulde much vvish it nor cōceaue such terror in death that I should greatly feare it and yet I say not but if the stroke vvere cōming perchance flesh and blood vvould be moued vvith it and seeke to shunne it I haue had good experience and tryall of this vvorld I know what it is to be a subiect what to be a Soueraigne vvhat to haue good neighbors and sometime meete euill willers I haue founde treason in trust seene great benefits litle regarded in stead of gratefulnes courses of purpose to crosse These former remembrances present feeling and future expectation of euils I say haue made me thinke An euill is much the better the lesse while it endureth and so them happiest that are soonest hence taught me to beare with a better minde these treasons then is common to my sexe yea with a better heart perhaps then is in some mē Which I hope you wil not meerly impute to my simplicitie or want of vnderstāding but rather that I thus conceiued that had their purposes taken effect I should not haue found the blow before I had felt it and though my perill should haue bene great my paine shoulde haue bene but smal short wherein as I would be loth to dye so bloody a death so doubt I not but God would haue giuen me grace to be prepared for such an euent chance when it shall which I referre to his good pleasure And now as touching their treasons and conspiracies together with the contriuer of them I will not so preiudicate my selfe and this my Realme as to say or thinke that I might not without the last Statute by the ancient lawes of this land haue proceeded against her which was not made particularly to preiudice her though perhaps it might then be suspected in respect of the disposition of such as depend that way It was so farre from being intended to intrap her that it was rather an admonition to warne the danger thereof but sith it is made and in the force of a Lawe I thought good in that which might concerne her to proceede according thereunto rather then by course of common Law wherein if you