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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A53490	Historical memoires on the reigns of Queen Elizabeth and King James	Osborne, Francis, 1593-1659.	1658 (1658)	Wing O515; ESTC R23008	34,729	132

Crowne to her Sister Elizabeth not only swept and washed from all Competition or Claimes by the bloud of Queene Ieane but garnished with the applause and consent of the people no less amazed at the huge fires she had daily kindled to devoure the enimies of the Court of Rome then jealous of the partiality shewne to the Priests whose exactions were become no lesse odious in things temporail then their latine Mumsimus had made them appeare in what related to the worship of God Edward the sixt's reigne being too short to give them a satiety or make all the inconveniences appeare likely to follow so totall a defection from a Church reverenced by all Christian Princes besides It might be no weak motive to the new Queene so fairely to demeane her selfe at first that though she entertained the Protestants in hope no perswasions could tempt her to cast the Papists into dispaire till the Pope better seen in the Dignity belonging to his greatnesse then the Arts his Predecessors had used in their conduct to it did by denying her Embassadors a favorable Reception reduce her to a present necessity of renouncing the Roman Miter or her pretence to that Crowne she had without any considerable opposition so happily possest There being no way so probable to continue her in power after the Popes so publike manifestation of a blemish in her Birth as by adhering to a Party which during the Reigne of her Sister did justify in the flames of a hot persecution That the Authority of his Holinesse was spurious it selfe and the owners of it no better then Anti-Christs which attempt of hers might possibly have worse succeeded but for the protection Philip the second afforded during the infancy of her power flattered to it in hope of Marriage no lesse then compelled out of a feare to see England possessed by the Scots a people ever in conjunction with France and therefore likely to prove malignant to his affaires And as these considerations had made him solicitous of her safety during his Match with her Sister they continued still so prevalent as he did not only forbeare him selfe but restrayned others from making use of that advantage so totall a defection could not but afford Nor was the aspect of a Councill then sitting in Trent to which she omitted not to send her Ministers of small consequence to her designe Because not only this nation but all Europe were in the strongest of their labour to produce a Reformation Though farre short of the pretences of Luther to whose memory the Queene had an unappeasable feud ever since he upbrayded her Father with the Repudiation of Charles the fifts Sister whose birth by this became so unhappy as to be not only disapproved by the Catholickes but the Founder of that profession she meant to establish Nor were the Religious bouses and lands possessed promiscuously by those of both tenents a weak shelter to this new Princesse looked upon by all as the likeliest and most obliged person to keepe them from reverting to their antient use And therefore in hope to be vigorously asserted by the Protestants and at worst but weakly opposed by such as had not yet quite relinquished the Roman yoake 2. And that the penners of this Story may be as free from the imputation of malice as Ignorance though they acknowledge her rather thrown then of her selfe fallen from the obedience of Rome is deducible from the Ceremonies used at her Inauguration all purely Catholike and the retention of the Ring Crosse and Surplice contrary to the grayne of her strongest assertors From whence her ayme may be ghest as not poynting at a greater dissent from the doctrine of Rome then her Fathers proceedings had chalked her out Commanding the Common prayer book which containes most of the Masse in english to be publikely read And its opposers the Brownists Anabaptists Family of Love with a number of other crawling errors the unnaturall heate of Luthers difputes had produced like Insects over all Germany to be restrained under no slighter penalty then Death or Imprisonment Nor was she tempted to this out of a vainer hope then to draw her neighbour Princes to the same resolut on already in dispaire of procuring good from any milder indevours then those of power The Roman Courtiers participating so much of the nature of the Mules they ride on as they will rather indure through a sullen obstinacy the last extremity then remoove never so little out of their track of honour and profit no lesse manifest through all Ages then in their carriage towards this Princesse and their later proceedings with the Republique of Venice From whence more connivance then love fell to the share of the Puritans that abhor'd the lenity of the Queene in not countenancing such as bent their force against the Church of Rome betwixt which and the Court there may be a wider difference then our grosser disputes will suffer us to discerne from whose practice though some desired a Reformation a farre greater part thought it damnable to reject it quite few yet acknowledging any Descent or Ordination but what was derived from the Catholike Church a terme of too great a Latitude to be concealed for a day much lesse for whole ages as many indeavour to prove But leaving these disputes to Dr Iuell and the rest of her Divines at that time better able to play the Scholars prize then any amongst the Fryers were found in their Answers Her Iuncto in which she had a choyce number consisting of both Factions did think it prudence not to stray farther then the inexorable necessity of the time compeld from that union of Doctrine which had a Councill to vouch That no faith was to be held with any but themselves which must have rendered all her Leagues voyd or uselesse to the very Oaths she took of her Subjects yet notwithstanding these Shackles she spunne out a long and as happy a Raigne as ever this Nation did injoy 3 The precedent Reasons joyning forces with the deplorable condition she lived in during the Government of her Sister and meeting with so Fortunate a Catastrophe caused a no lesse consternation in the hearts of the Papists already much broken and unsetled in their passage through so many suddaine and unexpected changes then it produced joy in those of the Reformation who apprehending her successe as issuing out of the immediate care God had of their affaires became so farre incouragad and sedulous that whilest the other party stood amazed in an expectation which way this new Princesse would incline the ensuing Parliament was wholy made up of such persons as had already voted in their words and actions every thing the Queene could desire to have confirmed in the House so as no side but were mistaken in their account the Protestants gaining more and the Catholicks lesse then could be expected to the taking the title of head of the Church and conferring it on her Majesty which was thought unsutable to her