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A03941	A Nevv-Yeares gift for English Catholikes, or A briefe and cleare explication of the new Oath of Allegiance. By E.I. student in Diuinitie; for a more full instruction, and appeasement of the consciences of English Catholikes, concerning the said Oath, then hath beene giuen them by I.E. student in Diuinitie, who compiled the treatise of the prelate and the prince.	E. I., student in divinitie.; Preston, Thomas, 1563-1640.	1620 (1620)	STC 14049; ESTC S119291	68,467	212

Successours and him and them will defend to the vttermost of my power against all Conspiracies and Attempts whatsoeuer which shall be made against His or their Persons their Crown and Dignitie by reason or colour of any such Sentence or Declaration or otherwise and will doe my best endeuour to disclose and make knowne vnto his Maiestie his Heires and Successours all Treasons and Trayterous Conspiracies which I shall know or heare of to bee against him or any of them 4. And I doe further sweare That I doe from my heart abhorre detest and abiure as impious and hereticall this damnable doctrine and position That Princes which bee excommunicated or depriued by the Pope may be deposed or murthered by their Subiects or any other whatsoeuer 5. And I doe beleeue and in conscience am resolued that neither the Pope nor any person whatsoeuer hath power to absolue mee of this Oath or any part thereof 6. Which I acknowledge by good and full authoritie to bee lawfully ministred vnto me and doe renounce all Pardons and Dispensations to the contrarie 7. And all these things I doe plainly and sincerely acknowledge and sweare according to these expresse words by mee spoken and according to the plaine and common sense and vnderstanding of the same words without any Equiuocation or mentall euasion or secret reseruation whatsoeuer 8. And I doe make this recognition and acknowledgement heartily willingly and truly vpon the true Faith of a Christian So helpe me God A Copie of the Protestation which thirteene Reuerend Priests made of their Allegiance to Queene Elizabeth by a publike Instrument the last day of Ianuary 1602. in the last yeere of her Maiesties Reigne WHereas it hath pleased our Dread Soueraigne Ladie to take some notice of the Faith and Loyaltie of vs Her naturall borne Subiects Secular Priests as it appeareth in the late Proclamation and of her Princelike clemencie hath giuen a sufficient earnest of some mercifull fauour towards vs being all subiect by the Lawes of the Realme to death by our returne into the Countrie after our taking the Order of Priesthood since the first yeere of Her Maiesties Reigne and only demandeth of vs a true profession of our Allegiance therby to bee assured of our fidelitie to Her Maiesties Person Crowne Estate and Dignitie Wee whose names are vnderwritten in most humble wise prostrate at Her Maiesties feet doe acknowledge our selues infinitely bound vnto Her Maiestie therefore and are most willing to giue such assurance and satisfaction in this point as any Catholike Priests can or ought to giue vnto their Soueraignes First therefore wee acknowledge and confesse the Queenes Maiestie to haue as full Authority Power and Soueraigntie ouer vs and ouer all the Subiects of the Realme as any Her Highnesse Predecessours euer had And further we protest that we are most willing and readie to obey Her in all Cases and Respects as farre forth as cuer Christian Priests within this Realme or in any other Christian Countrie were bound by the Law of God and Christian Religion to obey their Temporall Princes as to pay Tribute and all other Regall Duties vnto Her Highnesse and to obey Her Lawes and Magistrates in all Ciuill Causes to pray vnto God for Her prosperous and peaceable Reigne in this life according to his blessed will and that shee may hereafter attaine euerlasting blisse in the Life to come And this our acknowledgement wee thinke to bee so grounded vpon the Word of GOD as that no Authoritie no Cause or pretence of Cause can or ought vpon any occasion be a sufficient Warrant more vnto vs then to any Protestant to disobey Her Maiestie in any Ciuill or Temporall matter Secondly whereas for these many yeeres past diuers Conspiracies against her Maiesties Person and Estate and sundrie forcible attempts for inuading and conquering her Dominions haue bin made vnder we knew not what pretences and intendments of restoring Catholike Religion by the sword a course most strange in the World and vndertaken peculiarly and solely against Her Maiestie and Her Kingdomes among other Princes departed from the Religion and Obedience of the See Apostolike no lesse then she by reason of which violent Enterprizes her Maiestie otherwise of singular clemencie toward Her Subiects hath beene greatly mooued to ordayne and execute seuerer Lawes against Catholikes which by reason of their vnion with the See Apostolike in Faith and Religion were easily supp●sed to fauour these Conspiracies and Inuasions then perhaps had euer bin enacted or thought vpon if such Hostilitie and Warres had neuer beene vndertaken We to assure Her Maiestie of our faithfull Loyaltie also in this particular cause doe sincerely protest and by this our publike fact make knowne to all the Christian World That in these cases of Conspiracies of practizing Her Maiesties death of Inuasions and of whatsoeuer forcible Attempts which hereafter may be made by any forraigne Prelate Prince or Potentate whosoeuer either ioyntly or seuerally for the disturbance or subuersion of Her Maiesties Person Estate Realmes or Dominions vnder colour shew pretence or intendment of restoring the Catholike Romane Religion in England or Ireland We will defend Her Maiesties Person Estate Realmes and Dominions from all such forcible and violent ass●ults and iniuries And moreouer Wee will not only our selues detect and reueale any Conspiracies or Plots which we shall vnderstand to bee vndertaken by any Prelate Prince or Potentate against Her Maiesties Person or Dominions for any cause whatsoeuer as is before expressed and likewise to the vttermost of our power resist them but also will earnely perswade as much as in vs lyeth all Catholikes to doe the same Thirdly if vpon any Excommunication denounced or to bee denounced against Her Maiestie or vpon any such Conspiracies Inuasions or forcible Attempts to be made as are before expressed the Pope should also excommunicate euery one borne within Her Maiesties Dominions that would forsake the aforesaid defence of Her Maiestie and Her Realmes and take part with such Conspirators or Inuaders in these and all other like Cases wee in these and all such like Cases doe thinke our selues and all the Lay-Catholikes borne within Her Maiesties Dominions not bound in conscience to obey this or any such like Censure but will defend our Prince and Countrie accounting it our duties so to doe and that notwithstanding any Authoritie or any Excommunication whatsoeuer either denounced or to bee denounced as is aforesaid to yeild vnto Her Maiestie all obedience in Temporall Causes And because nothing is more certaine then that whilst we endeuor to assure Her Maiestie of our dutifull Affection and Allegiance by this our Christian and sincere Protestation there will not want who will condemne and misconstrue our lawfull Fact yea and by many finister suggestions and calumnies discredit our doings with the Christian World but chiefly with the Popes Holinesse to the greatest preiudice and harme of our good names and persons that may be vnlesse maturely wee preuent their endeuours herein

Wee most humbly beseech Her Maiestie that in this our recognizing and yeilding Caesars due vnto Her wee may also by Her Gracious leaue be permitted for auoyding Obloquie and Calumnies make knowne by like publike Act that by yeilding Her right vnto Her wee depart from no bond of that Christian Dutie which we owe vnto our Supreme spirituall Pastour And therefore wee acknowledge and confesse the Bishop of Rome to be the Successour of Saint Peter in that See and to haue as ample and no more Authoritie or Iurisdiction ouer vs and other Christians then had that Apostle by the gift and commission of Christ our Sauiour and that Wee will obey him so farre forth as we are bound by the Lawes of God to doe which we doubt not but will stand well with performance of our Duty to our Temporall Prince in such sort as we haue before professed For as we are most ready to spend our bloud in the defence of Her Maiestie and our Country so we will rather lose our liues then infringe the lawfull authoritie of Christs Catholike Church William Bishop Iohn Colleton Iohn Mush Robert Charnocke Iohn Bosseuile Anthonie Hebborne Roger Cadwallader Robert Drury Anthony Champney Iohn Iackson Francis Barneby Oswald Needham Richard Button This Protestation of the thirteene Catholike Priests to which a great number more would haue subscribed if the Articles which those Priestes gaue vp to the State had beene returned them backe but some few dayes before the end of the time prefixed to them by the Proclamation to make known to the State their Allegiance was the ground and foundation from whence the Parliament as the Lord Archbishop of Canterburie D. Bancroft told a friend of mine framed the forme of this new Oath of Allegiance as agreeable to the doctrine which any Catholike subiect according to the grounds of true Catholike Religion might lawfully maintaine to make thereby a true distinction not betweene Protestants and Catholikes but betweene ciuilly obedient Catholikes and in all other things good Subiects and such other Catholikes as in their hearts maintained the like violent bloodie maximes that the Powder-Traitours did See beneath in the third Obseruation And doubtlesse whosoeuer will compare the new Oath and their Protestation together and doe withall consider that Queene Elizabeth was long before that time depriued of all Regall power authoritie dignitie and Iurisdiction by the Bull of Pius Quintus and also obserue vpon what assured grounds and principles those Priests could lawfully acknowledge her Maiesty to haue as full Authority Power and Soueraignty ouer them and all the Subiects of this Realme as any Her Predecessours euer had and also could lawfully promise that they would yeild to Her Maiestie all Obedience in Temporall Causes notwithstanding any authority or any Excommunication whatsoeuer denounced or to be denounced against Her Maiestie or Her Subiects as is aforesaid he will cleerly perceiue that their Protestation is all one in effect and substance with this new Oath of Allegiance and that the only difference betwixt them is that in the Oath the Popes authority to depose the King c. is expresly and in plaine wordes denyed and in their Protestation the deniall thereof is only couertly vertually and by a necessary consequence implyed notwithstanding all the euasions tergiuersations turnings windings sayings and vnsayings which any one of these Priests if for some worldly respect or other motiue hee should now repent him of what he had done could to excuse himselfe from Periurie possibly vse or inuent A Copie of Master Iohn Colletons Petition to the Lord Archbishop of Canterburies Grace wherein hee confirmeth his former Protestation many yeeres after the new Oath of Allegiance was established IF your Grace and the State saw the present affections of my heart and were pleased to looke on my carriages past neyther trouble some or vnrespectiue I hope the fauour I am to desire albeit it may seeme extraordinary yet the same could not altogether be deemed vnworthily extended The voluntarie and free Recognition I made in the late Queenes Reigne as it then sufficed and is now extant in print so doth it still witnesse the readinesse of my professed Allegiance in all Secular and Ciuill affaires Neither haue I bin am now or by Gods grace euer shall be otherwise affected then in like sort to acknowledge his Maiestie that now gouerneth for my lawfull Dread Soueraigne obey in all Politicall administration and defend his sacred Person Crowne and Dominions to the vttermost of my power against all enemies of what place and calling soeuer The commiseration I most humbly beseech your Grace to take of my aged yeeres accompanied with sundrie infirmities is to stand so good Lord vnto me as to enlarge me vpon sufficient securitie for my appearance before your Honour at the time your Lordship shall thinke fit to assigne An euident meane of lengthing my life beside the easing of the heauy charge my imprisonment imposeth I would very gladly haue beene herein my owne Sollicitour in person but that I hold the boldnesse greater in respect of my disgracefull state then I durst to aduenture on without your Lordships good liking thereunto first vnderstood 26. of March 1610. Your Graces most suppliant Petitioner IOHN COLLETON A Copie of the Declaration and Acknowledgement which Master Iames Houghton alias Thomas Green a Religious Priest of the Order of Saint Benedict and professour of Dininitie made vnder his owne hand writing to the Lord Bishop of Durham the first of Nouember 1619. touching his opinion of the Oath of Allegiance Iames Houghton alias Thomas Green his opinion touching the Oath of Allegiance 1 FIrst I do ingenuously confesse that his Maiestie had very iust cause by occasion of that most trecherous plot of the Gunpowder-Treason to propose to all his Subiects English Catholikes 〈◊〉 Oath of ciuill fidelitie and obedience due vnto Kings both by the Lawes of God and Nature and that in most effectuall and peremptory termes for tryall of their fidelity and loyalty to H●… Maiestie their true Soueraigne Lord and King 2. Secondly it seemeth to me that the Church had done her dutie if she had shewed her dislike of that odious practice of the Gun-powder-Treason by some publike declaration in detestation thereof both for his Maiesties satisfaction and for the confirmation of his Catholike Subiects in their fidelity and allegiance vnto Him 3. Thirdly I doe ingenuously confesse that to me it seemeth most true that the doctrine which approueth murthering of Kings by their owne Subiects or any else is both damnable and hereticall yea though it be in casu Apostasiae a fide aut Infidelitatis in case of Apostasie from faith or of Infidelitie 4. Fourthly I do ingenuously grant that it seemeth to mee in my priuate iudgement that there is nothing in the Oath but that it may according to Roger Widdrington his Glosse and Exposition be lawfully taken of English Catholikes His Maiesties Subiects though some both Learned and Religious hold

that false and peruerse opinion shall be held for seditious and to bee censured All Strangers that shall write and publish it for sworne Enemies of the Crowne All his Maiesties Subiects that shall adhere vnto it of what qualitie or condition soeuer they be for Rebels infringers of the fundamentall Lawes of the Kingdome and guiltie of Treason in the higstest degree And if there be found any booke or Discourse written by any Stranger Ecclesiastike or of any other qualitie that containeth any proposition contrarie to the said Law directly or indirectly the Ecclesiastikes of the same Order established in France shall be bound to answere them to impugne and contradict them incessantly without respect ambiguitie or equiuocation vnder paine of being punished with the same punishments as aboue said as abetters of the enemies of this State This Article is in effect and substance all one with our new Oath of Allegiance and the lawfulnesse thereof is manifest by the former Discourse and how greatly Card. Peron was mistaken in impugning the said Article Widdrington sheweth both in his Answere to Fitz-herbert part 3. chap. 11. num 15. seq and in his Discussion of the decree of the Lateran Councell against Lessius part 2. sec 9. and part 3. sec 9. A Copie of the Arrest or Decree of the Parliament of Paris wherein Card. Bellarmine his booke against William Barclay is condemned Taken out of the Records of the Court of Parliament the 26. of Nouember 1610. THis present day the Kings Solicitours Lewis Seruin the Kings Attorney making the Declaration and Lewis Duret the Kings Aduocate subscribing aduertised the Court that it was related to them that some few daies since there hath beene divulged in this city of Paris a new booke entituled Tractatus de potestate Summi Pontificis in temporalibus aduersus Gulielmum Barclaium Auctore Roberto S. R. E. Cardinale Bellarmino Romae per Bartholomaeum Zannetti printed this present yeere out of which booke diuers persons some with a good intent and others with an euill haue divulged many things which they haue collected from thence And because this Booke doth containe propositions which are preiudiciall to the Kings power and authoritie and to the State of France of whom the Author speaketh in the same manner as of other Kings Princes and Common-wealths they haue through their care gotten a Copie thereof which they hauing exactly read and examined thought it their duties to aduertise the Parliament of those things which are against the Powers established by God and especially against this Kingdome Wherefore they haue obserued that Cardinall Bellarmine doth in this new Treatise not only teach those propositions which hee affirmed in his former books as in that booke which is intituled De Romani Pontificis Hierarchia written in the time of Pope Sixtus the V. and dedicated to the said Pope which he hath deuided into fiue books in the last whereof hee maintaineth that the Pope hath temporall power indirectly But they also haue obserued that to this erroneous assertion others no lesse false and tending further are added in the places by them cited which the Parliament if it be so pleased may behould And first the very Title is to be obserued wherein he giueth to the Pope a power in temporals Then hee bringeth diuerse authorities from the writings of Italians French-men Spaniards Germans English Scots beginning with Pope Gregorie the VII who liued in the yeere of our Lord 1073. c. Wherefore to the end that fraud and deceit may for the safegard of true French men be preuented the aforesaid Attorney generall considering that in regard of Conscience and the office which hee beareth in being the Kings Attorney he is bound sincerely to discharge his duty produceth Cardinall Bellarmines booke which was written when our King Henry the Great was liuing in whose raigne none durst aduenture to diuulge the same but published forthwith as soone as he was dead wherein hee hath noted diuers places which the Parliament may peruse especially pag. 37 38. 57. 58. and 76. 77. to which may be added 160. 115. 116. And moreouer he exhibiteth in written hand the requests which the Kings Attorneys doe in the Kings name demand to wit that by Decree of the Parliament it be enacted That none of what qualitie or condition soeuer shall receiue haue keepe print or vtter this booke of Bellarmine vnder paine of Treason ordained against those that shal transgresse the same c. The matter being examined The great Chamber Criminall and of the Edict being assembled THe Court hath decreed and doth decree that no person of what qualitie or condition soeuer vnder payne of Treason ordayned against those that transgresse the same doe receiue keepe communicate print vtter or sell the said Booke which contayneth that false and detestable proposition tending to the subuersion of supreme Powers established and ordayned by God inciting Subiects to rebellion and derogating from the authoritie of Princes animating to attempt against their liues and Crownes and finally to disturbe the publike peace and quietnesse Those that haue Copies of the saide Booke or know any that haue are commanded forthwith to make it knowne to their Iudges that vpon the demand of the Kings Attorneys Inquisition bee made against the Crime and those that be guiltie be punished accordingly It forbiddeth vnder the same punishment Doctours Professours and others to treat dispute write teach directly or indirectly in Schooles Colledges or other places the said proposition The said Court doth ordayne that this Decree bee sent read published recorded and obserued according to the afore said manner and forme in all the Benches subiect to the Iurisdiction of this Court. The Substitutes to the Kings Attorney are commanded to cause forthwith this Decree to be put in execution and to aduertise the Court within a moneth of their diligence Made in Parliament vpon Friday 26. Nouemb. 1610. Signed VOISIN The decree being made the Kings Attorneys were sent for to whom the pleasure of the Court was signified and according to the Decree the said Booke of Bellarmine was deliuered to their hands A Decree of the Court of Parliament made the 26. and executed the 27. of Iune 1614. Against a Booke printed at Collen this present yeare which is entituled Francisci Suarez Granatensis Societatis Iesu doctoris Theologi Defensio fidei Catholicae Apostolicae aduersus Anglicanae sectae errores contayning many maximes and propositions contrarie to the Soueraigne powers of Kings ordayned and established by God the safetie of their persons the peace and quietnesse of their States The Place ✚ where the Kings armes of France and Nauarre are set At Paris By F. Morel and P. Mettayer the Kings ordinarie Printers and Stationers 1614. With his Maiesties Priuiledge Taken out of the Records of the Parment The Court of the great Chamber Criminall and of the Edict assembled hauing seene the Booke printed at Collen this present yeare entituled Francisci Suarez Granatensis Societatis