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A02479	An oration conteyning an expostulation as well with the Queenes Highnesse faithfull subiects for their want of due consideration of Gods blessings enioyed by meanes of her Maiestie: as also with the vnnaturall english for their disloyaltie and vnkindnesse towards the same their soueraygne. At the first pronounced vpon the Queenes Maiesties birthday in the Guyldhall of the burrowe of Newe Windsore, by Edward Hake of Grayes Inne Gent. then Mayer of the same burrowe: and now newly imprinted this xvij. day of Nouember, in the xxx. yeere of the Queenes Highnesse most happie raigne.	Hake, Edward, fl. 1560-1604.	1587 (1587)	STC 12608; ESTC S103614	19,433	32

afore Nay if we Englishmen in the viewe therof shall be able to saye vnto our selues that not with any Nation vnder the Cope of heauen at this daye God hath so delt as with vs good Lorde what should folowe hereupon but that our very soules shoulde breake forth with thankesgiuing and our hartes bee for euer resolued to continewe and resounde his prayses to the ende of our liues yea if we coulde as we hope we shall without ending But what shall I beginne with Where there hath kin no stinte nor measure of receiuing how can there be any entrance or choyse of begining If to sette forth the ioye I should first beginne with the sorowe that ouerwhelmed the face of this Land If to sette forth the blessing I should beginne as I may say with the curse that before did threaten vs. Or if to descipher the good thinges that this our Elizabeth our souueraigne brought with her to the Crowne of England I should first delyuer vnto you what Seas of miseries possessed and wel neere ouerflowed this little but moste noble Ilande As both these I muste needes saye in opposition were not vnneedfull to bee spoken of so yet leaste the dilating of the one might be cause of the abridging of the other I will for the helpe of a iust proportion in the one of these namely in the Churches persecution praye in ayde of the moste famous Historiographer of our tyme who briefly handling the miseries that imediatly preceded the raigne of our souueraigne after this sorte compendiously reporteth them Now sayeth he after these so great afflictions falling vppon this Realme from the firste beginninge of Queene Maryes raigne wherein so many men women and Children were burned so many imprisoned and in prison starued dyuers exiled some spoyled of goodes and possessions a great number dryuen from howse and home so many weeping eyes so many sobbing hartes so many Children made fatherlesse so many fathers bereft of their wiues and Children so many vexed in Conseyence and diu●rs against Conscience constrayned to recante and in conclusion neuer a good man almoste but suffred something during the tyme of this bloody persecution After all this sayeth the Historien there was reste to the persecuted members of Christe Thus you see one waye what an heape and generall deluge of wofull miseries had pitifully ouertaken naye rather ouerwhelmed a chief portion of this Realme of England I meane the Churche of England Religion defaced Godlynes hated Truth oppressed Trew professors persecuted Persecutiō blody To be shorte none spared all pursued euen to the death in whome there was any Conscyence of the Faythe or regarde of holy profession And as it fared with the Churche of England so alas it fared with the common wealth of Englande The lande possessed of straungers those straungers most turbulent most prowde moste insolent most aspyring and as Englande and the bordering peoples about vs at this daye haue cause to saye nay rather by their lamentable experience to complaine straungers moste cruell moste blodie most vnsufferable as by whome the sweete peace of this Realme was so interrupted so mangled so defaced that besides the daylie and continual threatened tumultes at home our welth of England the men of England the munition and forces of England were wholy imploied nay constrayned to wait vpon the wars I say vpon the vnnecessary warres of these so daungerous strangers yea to be wasted and consumed euen about the quarelles and ambytions of these so pernytious guests so that trulie it was then and is yet to bee affirmed that Englande whiche at that tyme had no cause of warres or breach of league with other Nations was enforced or rather violentlie haled to beare armes against them euen against Fraunce if I may speake it for the ambytious seruice of Spayne And whiles these thinges were thus sorted whiles men money munition and Armour were in this wise expended what was the sequel thereof I pray you what was the prosperity and successe of the same Caleys was loste Caleys the Kaye of England Caleys the very Doore and passage into France Caleys the honour of this Realme and the ouerlooker of the french Nation with the welth and habundance of England which 216. yeares togither had bine in the quiet possession of England I saye Caleys with all this altogither all at one instant at the least with in the compasse of iiij daies was miserablie lost and vtterly forgone To conclude Caleys being lost what ensewed thereupon After the losse of Caleys the losse of all securitie and freedome the losse of all prosperity and welfare came russhing vpon this lyttle Iland euen as it had bine an armed man vpon him that is naked and despoyled of comfort Such Impositions suche loanes such taxes newe Inuentions and deuises to drawe away the remaynder of the perticuler welth of Englande the common Treasury thereof being wholly exhausted and consumed to the maintenaunce of the vnprosperous warres of Kinge Philippe as surely if you will but looke into the Chronicles of that tyme you shall see and saye that if God of his myraculous and extraordinary power and great mercy had not shortened those dayes there had wanted verie lyttle of vtter desolation to this our Countrey this I saye our auntient and florishing Country of England then euen then at the instant to fall into such miserable seruitude and bondage as all those Countreyes are oppressed with all that in times past haue bine famous Kingdomes and other florishing estates and are now languishing and spoyled Prouinces subdued to the thraldome of the Spanyards But of all that euer happened or which in those dayes was deuised suffred or neglected against the safety of this Realme there was neuer mischief so desperat or Treason so vile or villany so greate or so deepe as was the platte purpose and intention to make away and destroye the sacred persone of our Elizabeth now our happie souueraigne who then and in those dayes in that moste myserable and perillous tyme was reckened and accompted as spes alit miseros the onely creatur of the earth by whom and through whom God had reserued vs any hope of restauration or comforte of recouerye to that desolation then approching This then shalbee sufficient for the former parte of my present purpose namely to haue touched vnto you after a plaine and brief manner what miseries what troubles and pitifull calamities occupied the whole state of this Realme both Churche and Comon welth at such tyme as our moste gratious soueraigne her Maistie that now is tooke vppon her the possession of the Crowne thereof at such tyme I saie as God in his great mercy looked vppon vs as he did vpon the Israelites in Egipte and their Captiuities sending vnto vs in highe tyme this his holy handmayden as it were another Moses saued from the same waters of affliction that wee were plunged in to be our helper aduanced her and that by iust tytle to the Scepter and Dyadem

namque fides affectus eorum quorum est diuersa fides I hasten to an ende with you you Catholiques what is there now then I pray you that may further be thought of or deuised for the pacification of your malcontented stomackes Would you wish that her Maiestie inasmuche as now perhappes you are ashamed to require of her in flatte termes to abandon her owne profession for thr aduauncement of yours and forasmuch also as you are or maie bee stopped to saie there is sauetie in permitting two contrary Religions within this her lande would you now wish I saie that her highnes contenting herself with her owne particuler choyse in Religion and that for her owne gratious person onely should establish a contrary Religion wholy all-only amongst her Subiects Most deuilish would that be to be wisshed but most gracelesse to be thought that euer her Maiestie would be so vnnaturally enclined towards her so deere and louing people Hath her most gratious Maiesty so manie yeres in the highest care of her Subiects sauety and that chiefly in the regarde of their Soules health exposed herself to perilles beyond the compasse and proportion of mannes accompt and hath she for the generall mainteyning of the Gospell of Christ amongst al her whole people throughout her dominions from yere to yere nay almost from moneth to moneth endured the succession of so many so horrible so determined so imminent attempts of Treason against her royall persone her Crowne her life and would she now think you be so satisfied with the loue of her Subiects or rather with louing her Subiects whome her highnes séeith most insatiable in the loue of her and of her life and raigne that now louing or rather seeming to loue her self only shee should so highly neglect in this principall degree of loue and care the sauety of the Soules of her so louing and true harted people The lord forbidde there should be any so wicked as in this sort to think of her Maiestie But I wil abruptly turne my selfe from you you irreligious of the land for you haue tourned your selues from the Lord and haue lifted vp your Hornes againste his annoynted your Prince and Soueraigne Not I therefore but the Lorde shall further expostulate with you the cause of your Ingratitude Of which sort of vnnaturall english I hope there is none here present yet this spech to them as present is not vnnecessarie that if any light in company of any such they may the better arme them selues in thus challenging and reprouing them And now to you my louing brethren who reioyce to see y e daies euen this present daye of her Maiesties prosperity and Peace The chiefe exhortation I haue to commend vnto you is the same of the Apostle Reioyce in the Lord and againe I saye reioyce Let your softnes be knowne vnto all men The Lord is euen at hand be carefull for nothing but in all prayers and supplications let your petitions be manifest vnto god with giuing of thanks The time is spent and it is more then time I had ended And yet if I durst farther presume of your Honourable and worshipful patience I would speake somthing more that should not altogether be vnprofitable for your hearing and sith your coūtenances do promise me attention I wil go to it as briefly as I can For as much as it standeth cleere vnto the view of the whole worlde that this long continued peace of ours with all the other blessings whatsoeuer wherewith our English state gouernment hath for so many yeres now passed bin established as I might say amply enriched hath had none other existencie but in the great power and hand of our God openly manifesting it selfe in the Ministery of her Maiestie and of her prudent and most faithfull Counsailers How great an indignity therefore would it be vnto vs the Subiectes of this Lande if that whereas her Maiestie with her most honourable priuie Counsaile euen from the beginning of her raigne to this day hath gouerned vs by none other rule then by the rule of Gods most holy word nor by any other lawe then by the lawe of this lande nor by any other order or manner of administration then as maie best serue to sustayne and beare vp the common with the particuler and the particuler with the common in a mutuall regard and reciprocation the one to the other We againe for our partes should bee so farre from a dutifull acknowledgment hereof as that in stead of our readines and zeale towards her Maiestie and those her most honorable Counsaylours wee should yeeld them murmuring and repining and in steade of our thanckfulnes wee shoulde yeeld them hard speaking misconceiuing and which worse is bitter detraction O my brethren howe hard a case would this be And least any man being misled eyther by the error of his owne iudgement or by the secrete insinuation of the malicious malecontented in these troblesome times and yet hitherto thankes be to God more troublesome to our eares then to our eyes when as they see that by the déepe foresight of our graue and godly gouernours actions are otherwhiles to be vndertaken whether it be for repelling and resisting of knowne attempts or for the holding far of or keeping aloofe from vs the troubles abroade which otherwise woulde approche vs and that for the performance hereof some charge more then ordinary is betwixt while to be raysed They either little considering or of purpose not acknowledging how in a maner miraculous a thing it is that while the whole world as I mighte say euen the kingdomes and Countries rounde about vs to vs a worlde stand at this day garboiled and oppressed with troubles and sturres we euen we alone here in this our England as it were in a little Goshen neither feeling dint of sword nor hearing sounde of droomme nor fearing either slaughter or depilation of the oppressour sit vs still euery man in his owne home hauing freedome at the full to praise God in his Sanctuary and safety at the full to follow our affaires in the common wealth I say least any ignoraunt or seduced Subiect not so sufficiently pondering these blessinges as he ought to doe and as I would to God euery one of vs did should in the vniust discontentment of his minde eyther murmure and repine or otherwise speake euill of such as be in authority for some charge that may happen vnto him for the continuaunce heereof I would haue such a one to be taught that as he is vnable with all the Substaunce he hath to procure peace vnto himselfe if warre should come vpon him So to preuent war is not y e wroke of a Subiect it is the onely worke of a Soueraign and that by the alone deliberation of a prudent and Honourable Counsaile which may often fall out to bee with the very purchase of peace wherein as a Subiect standeth no further interested but to obey to be ready if neede