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A shorte treatise of politike pouuer and of the true obedience which subiectes owe to kynges and other ciuile gouernours, with an exhortacion to all true naturall Englishe men, compyled by. D. I.P. B. R. VV.
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Ponet, John, 1516?-1556.
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the kyng and haue the greatest offices Thus were our countreymen the Britaynes remoued from their king straungers placed in all offices and holdes and at leynght the lande was ouerrunne and possessed of Straungers And the mane of Britayne put awaye and the realme called Englande The Danes after vnderstanding how fertile and pleyntifull England was sought meanes by litle and litle to place themselues in Englande and after a king of DeÌmarke in his owne persone inuaded EnglaÌd in the Northe aÌd made woÌderfull cruell warres they spared none they burned and wasted Yorkeshire Northumberlande and all places so that the enhabitauntes were forced to sue for peace at the Danes han des Then built they the towne of Dancastre that is the Castle of the Danes and whiles they had peace sent for moo Danes and whan they thought their for ce and power bigge ynough they passed not vpon promyses and leagues that they had made but renued the warres killed burned aÌd spoiled in euery place til thei came to Excestre the people and realme was most miserably tormented and made tributarie to them Diuerse of the nobilitie of England vpon light yea no occasiones but only bicause they were thought not to fauour the Danes were taken their nose trilles most villanously slytted their handes cut of ⪠Ah good God who can remembre these thinges without weping Who that feareth thy wrathe lorde will not amââ¦de his life aÌd call to thee for mercie What naugh tie nobilitie were that that wolde oppresse the commo nes and afterward be vsed and oppressed them selues by straungers as their predecessours haue ben before tyme What deuillis he CoÌmones might that be called that wolde repyne or rebelle against the nobilitie and gentilmen and than to be ouerrunne them selues with priestes and forayners and to be pyned with suche miserie as ye heare that our auncettours were and all bicause the gentilmen and coÌmones agred not among them selues Who is a natural Englishe man that will not in tyme forsee and considre the miserie towarde his countreye and him selfe aÌd by all meanes seke to let it who is it that caÌ hope for quietnesse pea ce healthe pleyntie and such like giftes of God without Goddes fauour and mercie And how is it possible that God should vse mercie with them that beare inwarde hatred and grudge one to an other aÌd will vse no merci with others If ye forgeue other meÌ their offenses that thei coÌmitte agaiÌst you saieth Christ your heauenly father will forgeue thoffenses that ye haue coÌmitted against him But if ye doo not forgeue other meÌ their faultes neither will your father forgeue you your faultes No whilest ye saye the lordes praier aÌd be full of raÌcour malice hatred aÌd eÌuie towarde your neighbour ye coÌdemne your selues and desire Goddes plages and vengeaunce to fall on your selues for ye meane veÌgeauÌce to your neighbours aÌd wishe all euill to fall on them And so it dothe fall on you as ye see by experieÌce of the playes aÌd miseries that are aÌd shall come to you But from inwarde sedicion and ciuile discorde that briedeth so muche mischief let vs come to outwarde warres and inuasiones made by strauÌgers But ye will saye ye haue no warres with any forain prince It is true but shall ye haue none yes yes the tyme is not yet come all is not hatched that is vnder the henne Your winges must be dubbed your fethers must be pulled your coÌbes must be cut you must be cleane piked your substaunce shalbe gotten by littel and littell out of your handes by taxes and subsidies by beneuolences and loanes and so froÌ a litell to more and froÌ more to more and at leynght all the marchauntes goodes to be confiscate in Flaunders by an inquisitioÌ and others in England by an opeÌ excoÌmunicatioÌ And whan ye be ones cleane stripped of your stoare and thus weakened out of courage aÌd your harte in your hose as they saie than shall your king returne to his welbeloued wife England with great poÌpe aÌd power and shall coÌpell you in despight of your hartes to reÌ dre and deliuer her holly in to his handes Than shall the easter linges vpon hope to recouer their olde and greater priuileges aide him with meÌ money and ship pes as allready they haue offred and promised as diuerse credible lettres haue declared ThaÌ shall they in uade Englande and shalbe by shiploades if no worse happeÌ vnto you caried in to newe Spaine aÌd ther not lyue at libertie but bicause ye are a stubburne and vn faithfull generacioÌ ye shalbe tyed in chaynes forced to rowe in the galie to digge in the mynes aÌd to pike vp the golde in the hotte sande And so with soro we to your soppes your three maÌnes song shall be Alas and Weale awaye Than shall ye knowe the pride aÌd lorde lynesse of the Spanyardes though for a while til they maie get the ouer hande they crepe and crouche fede men with swete wordes Baso las manos and women with confettes swete wynes pleasaunt pfumes gaye apparail and suche like vayne to yes but whââ¦n they be ones alofte ther is no nacioÌ vnder the cope of Christ like theÌ in pride crueltie vnmercifulnesse nor so farre froÌ all humanitie as the Spanyardes be which thig the realme of Naples the Dukedome of Milane the citie of Siena many partes of Duchelande and the lande of Iulike Cleuelande and Geldre lande can to theyr coste right well testifie And maie it not be thought that the FreÌche kìg whaÌ he seeth oportunitie wil set in a fote makìg clayme to Englande in the right of the Quene of Scottes as heire to hing HeÌry theight by his eldest syster And maie it not be suspected that the pope to doo the Frenche king a pleasure shall saye the Diuorce betwene king Henry and the dowager was by the canon lawes laufull and shall excommunicate the realme onles they reuoke thacte of parliament wherby the Dyuorce of late was iudged vnlaufull RemeÌbre remembre good countrey men and true English hartes the miserie that folowed in our poore countrey vpon the conquest made by thambicious William Duke of NormaÌdie vpon how small a title he entred aÌd how tyraÌnously he vsed him self His only colour was a bequest or promise made to him by king Edward brother to Cauntus and Heraldus kinges of England whaÌ he was a banished man in Normandie if he should dye without issue as he did At his first en trie he had a great batail with the newe choseÌ king of EnglaÌd aÌd slewe hì aÌd tweÌtie thousauÌt of our couÌtreye meÌ which put suche a feare in all men the Nobilitie the cleargie the LoÌdoners aÌd others the coÌmons that it mââ¦de theÌsue for peace aÌd to geue pledges for their ââ¦delitie whom he sent in to Normandie At the first he made theÌ many fayre promises of peace quietnesse aÌd iustice wherwith the folishe foÌde people were sone begyleâ⦠They thought they had
ye passed nothing on it but as the Iewes being downed in sinne mocked scorned and murthred the prophetes of God which long before prophecied vnto them their captiuities and vtter destruction so ye laughed and iested at your preachers wordes nothing regarding the threattes of God but conteÌnyng theÌ yea increaceiÌg in your wickednesse aÌdnowat leyn ght murthering most cruelly the ministers of God And seing wordes of warnyng toke no place with you God for his louing mercie hathe warned you also by monstrous maruailes on the earthe and horrible wonders in thelement to put you beside all maner of excuses What wonderfull monstres haue ther now lately ben borne in Englande What celestial signes most horrible A childe borne besides Oxforde in the yeare M. D. LII with two heades and two partes of two euil shaped bodyes ioyned in one A childe borne at Couentree in the yeare M. D. LV without armes or legges A childe borne at FulhaÌ by LondoÌ euen now this yeare with a great head euil shaped the armes with bagges hanging out at the Elbowes and heles and fete lame A childe newe borne at LoÌdoÌ furthewith speaking as a prophet and mes sager of God An horrible Comete this year besides diuerse eclipses whiche folowe But what were these only bare signes No certaynly they doo and must signifie the great wrathe and indignacion of God Not long after the passion of our saueour Christ whan the Britaines our coÌtreymen went about to re couer their libertie and to be despeched of the most cruel seruitude and miserie which the Romaines kept theÌ in wherein no Britayn was certayn of wife childreÌ goodes no not of their liues all thigs were so in boÌdâ⦠ge of the cruel Romaynes pleasur ther were of our couÌtreymeÌ slayne at one tyme three score aÌd ten thousauÌt meÌ aÌd at an other tyme thrittie thousauÌt Before which slaughters ther were many woÌders sene in Eng laÌd Thimage of the Idole which the Romaines hade in their teÌple called Victorie was turned backe as though she gaue place to thenenies The sea was like blood ymages of meÌnes bodyes founde on the sea syde And womeÌ were out of their wittes aÌd cried destructioÌ at haÌde destructioÌ at haÌde so that the Britaynes were in great hope aÌd the Romaynes in great feare Before Britayn now called EnglaÌd came in to the full power of the Danes kiÌg EdmuÌde the soÌne of Ethelberte beiÌg slayne ther were diuerse strauÌge thinges wherby all men gessed that an alteration of the Realme was towarde but chiefly they gessed the great calamitie by the sodain swelling of the sea without any euideÌt cause which so brake in to the lande that it destroyed many townes and people Before that great slaughter of Englishe men and NormaÌdes which was by reason of the warres that were in Normandie betwene king HeÌri the furst king of EnglaÌde and Robert Duke of Normandie his brother at which tyme Normandie was ioyned to Englande the ryuer of Trent did not runne one hole daye together but was so emptie that men passed ouer on fote and at that tyme a sowe brought furthe a monstre with the face of a man and a henne a foure foted monstre So that by that that is past ye maye the boldlier diuine of that that is to come The childe by Oxforde what did it betoken but that our one swete head king Edwarde should be taken awaye as he was in dede and that ther should be in his place two headdes diuerse gouernours and a towarde diuision of the people but not all together which so manyfestly folowed that no man can denye it or two people should be knytte together but not in god proporcion nor agrement The childe of Couentrie without the principal membres to helpe and defende the bodye must nedes signifie that the natural body that is the people of Englande shalbe helpeles ready to be troden vnder the fote of euery creature and non to releue or succour it The childe of Fulham what can it signifie but that the natural body of England shalbe weake the chief membres tharmes and legges which is the nobilitie so clogged with chaynes of golde and bagges of money that the hande shall not be hable to drawe out the sweorde nor the heles to spurre the horse to helpe and defende the body that is the commones And as the head of it is the greatest part and greater than it ought to be with to muche superfluitie of that it should not haue wherfore it must pull from the other membres to confort it and lacke of that good proporcion it ought to haue so shall the gouernours and headdes of Englande sucke out the wealth and substaunce of the people the politike body and kepe it bare so that it shall not be hable to helpe it self yet shall the head neuer come to that nature requireth What is to be gathered of the yoÌg chil de I doo not saie it is true bicause the father was forced onles he wold haue lost his life to rââ¦cant it but might it not be true Is ther not as muche to be saied for it as for the popes traÌsubstaÌciacion Dothe not Eusebius Pamphili a man of as good credite as Thomas Aquinas Scotus Gratianus and suche other the inueÌtours and mainteners of transubstanciacion write that a lambe contrary to nature and possibilitie did in plaine wordes before declare the nature and disposicion of Bochorus king of Egipt They that write the cronicles of the Romaines saie that a dogge a serpent and oxen did speake But scripture plainly saieth that Baalams asse a creature vnreasonable without possibilitie to speake did saie to his maister why beatest thou me And Iohn the baptist contrary to the common course of nature lept and reioiced in his mothers wombe whan Christes mother being with childe came to see Elizabeth his mother If men that beleued not the miracles which the gogle ââ¦ied Roode of Boxley the Idole of walsinghaÌ the bawde of willesdoÌ which euery foole might see to be deceates and open illusions were condemned and burned for heretikes how should they be taken that doo not beleue the manifest workes of God The horible Comete and blasing starre that was sene this yeare greater in Englande than elles wher what elles dothe it betoken but the great displeasure of God and therfore famin pestileÌce warres sedicioÌ deathe of princes inuasion of forain naciones destruction of som or many cities and countreies and the alteracion and chaungeing of the state and gouernement For if it be laufull for man to diuine of Goddes wonderfull workes and by the like thinges past coniecture those that be to come why should we not affirme that these plages will folowe Before the great warres made by Xerses against the Grecianes and the ouerthrowing of the hole state of Grece ther was a blasing starre sene of the shape of an horââ¦e and an eclipse of the sunne Before the last and vtter destruction of the citie of Ierusalem ther was sene hanging in thelement ouer