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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A08357	To the Quenes Maiesties poore deceyued subiectes of the north countrey, drawen into rebellion by the Earles of Northumberland and Westmerland. Written by Thomas Norton. Seen and allowed according to the Quenes iniunctions	Norton, Thomas, 1532-1584.	1569 (1569)	STC 18680; ESTC S113359	23,488	60

come and intending to gayne by spoyle woulde come so much the later for hauing somuch ayde as so many rebelles to helpe them to spoyl Therfore when they come not in déede you must néedes say that you were falsly so borne in hand with a gay hope to make you the bolder to runne to your owne destruction An vnnaturall hope it is and beastly to ioyne with any strangers to the spoyle of their own countrey But such is the nature of that false religion to regard no countrey fayth nature or common honestie Remember I pray you what yelded the realme tributarie and the King Uassal I meane king Iohn but the treason of Popish Religion What gaue the Crowne to Ludouike the Dolphin of France that inuaded and possessed muche of the realme a long time by the ayde of disloyal Barons in England but the treason of popish religion What sente Legates and Messangers yea Englishe traytours about Christendom to forren Emperors and Kyngs to offer them this Realme to pray spoyle and conquest to exhort them to turne their prepared powers from inuading the Turk to make war vpon the king of Englande our Soueraigne Ladies moste noble father whom they termed worse than any Turk but treason of popish Religion What hazarded this Realme with subiection to strangers in our late memorie but treason of popish Religion What then deriued yet daily doth solemn pedigrees to Spaniards other foreins yea wresteth lawe for dangerous strangers to make them acceptable to the deceyued multitude as though they were our naturall princes but only treason of popish religiō But God hath hetherto preserued this land from being subdued by these horrible treasons and I trust hée will still and in your poore case is most likelie to leaue your vain trust disapointed For consider the likelyhod The example so toucheth the common state of al Kings and Princes as you being rebelles may loke for no foren ayde though it were but for presidents sake Such forens as mighte come to you by lande are truer frends to the Quéene than you be subiectes where by the waye looke for no retire nor safe refuge but her maiesties mercy Other strangers that in déede haue vttered more malice to her Maiestie and her realm haue interrupted the good loue and peace and ancient loue amitie and intelligence betwéen her Maiestie and those Princes of whome shée hath moste constantely well deserued alas they be neyther much terrible to her maiestie nor can be much cōfortable to you Wil they in such season as may serue you● turnes hauing so fewe to spare where they be bring a meane power by Sea so farre so dangerous a viage along the Quenes highnesse coast in such time of yeare being neyther able to resist her nauie by the way lesse able when their men be landed and leaste able to come againe to fetch them when the enterprise is ended Be they so mad trowe you to leaue their Nobilitie Captains and Souldiours in their enimies lande inclosed betwéen enimies of bothe Realmes without more succour than vnlikely Fortune the trust of a fewe Rebelles No no they be not yet so madde though you be madder There muste be greater heades and power than you be or haue at libertie that they wil ioyne wythall They can be contente to giue you vaine hope perhaps For if England may be in tumult by their practize and you come to your deserued ende it contenteth and suffiseth them to haue ventured the state at your perill and to haue gréeued her Maiestie with alienation and destruction of so many poore deceyued Subiectes Looke vnto your selues well the greate bragges are not perfourmed the promises are not kepte you are betrayed by your owne leaders Call to God for mercie bytimes satisfie her Maiestie with returning to dutie and that with al spede least though ye scape slaughter by the true subiectes hand you may not with honor be too gently delt with Deliuer them that betrayed you that they which in proclamations haue published vnto you vayne and false hopes of treasons may vpon scaffolds preach vnto you the right frutes of rebellion and dutie of obedience that their death may do more good in example than euer their liues did in practise This counsell I hope you will followe when the light of true consideration shall shine into your hartes and chase away all darknesse of these erronious shewes and false colors that yet haue blinded you and so much the more when you shall further note all the necessarie circumstances that may reduce you to truthe What be your leaders Your two Erles you know wel are euen of the meanest of all Nobilitie in hauior credite and power to conducte you through so great and dangerous an enterprise The one you see hardly beareth the coūtenance of his estate with his smal portion of that which his ancesters sometime had and lost his dayly sales and shiftes for necessitie euen then when he hadde lesse charge than to mainteine an army both in Sussex and else where are well knowen suche power as he hath had vsed in those partes aboute you is to be ascribed to her Maiesties authoritie vnder whom he serued which now is bent against him otherwise neyther his pollicie great to rule or redresse a Realm nor yet to espie the true faultes much lesse the remedie an vnfitte iudge of Religion and a very euill chosen chastiser of disordered life The other of no credit no wisdome nor gouernance no abilitie no vertue Who knoweth not the enormities of his life the indiscretion of ruling his owne the great lackes dettes wherein he is by his owne fault endangered the estimation of him as of a contemned man none otherwyse regarded than for the name sake of honor and some possibilitie that he might parhaps leaue a better son to amend the state of his house Thoughe his Father were touched with many great faults much noted in y e world some whereof this Gentleman hath as by inheritance receyued yet neuer dyd he so hurtfull a déed eyther to the cōmon weale or to his owne name and familie as when he begatte so vngracious a sonne Euen he that neuer gouerned well him selfe nor any thing that he hath whom no wiseman nor I thinke any of you as mad as ye be would priuately trust with ordering of a mean houshold now must take in publike charge the power of a shire or two yea of all the Realme if the rest wold aduenture as madly as you For the case of Religion doth any man knowe that euer he pretended any religion or conscience at all till now he makes an Apish counterfayting of fayned popish deuotion And now yet by your good iudgement he that knoweth neyther religion faith nor learning must come to comptroll the iudgement lerning faith of the Quenes Maiestie her Counsell and all her Clergie What madabsurdities are you runne into to beleue so apparant

vntruthes dissimulations and bypocrisies The residue of your doltish Captaynes what be they think you they be men able to beare you out against the power of a Prince al her Nobilities Cities Realme subiects frends and allies One with little wit far set an other in his olde age wery of his welth an other a runne-away with a yong wilde braine tickled to sée fashions Alas what be these to carry you through the serious and earnest dangerous enterprise that you haue in hand ▪ They are rather méeter to fraye you from it méete men surely to followe your ominous fatall or vnluckie ensignes wounde and crosses the apte and due signes of iust slaughter or infamous execution But yet perhaps some of you haue this meaning that you owe them dutie and for dutie you will not forsake any danger If this consideration haue place in any dutie it hath it chiefly in the highest dutie which you haue despised A mad excuse it is to say you entred into danger for duty when the principall dutie did bid you sitte in quiet without danger at all Euen such a fonde doing of dutie it is as if one would kill his Father to please his Maister or rather murder Father Maister and him selfe to kepe promise with a théefe What be these duties that may moue you wey them and compare them The name of Percies and Neuilles haue long bene honourable and well beloued among you some of you and your for fathers haue ben auanced by them and their ancesters some perhaps be knit in kinred some be tenantes some be seruants some be with like causes allied and bound to the meaner Captaines Greate things be these to moue loue and good neibourhed and of great importance and efficacie to draw honest true and kinde harted men to sticke by their Lords frends in all wars against the Princes enemies and in al honest quarels and perilles but small matters they be yea no causes at all to draw any man to stand with any man in rebellions and treasons Is Percie and Neuill more auncient more beloued and deare vnto you than your naturall Soueraigne Ladie the Quéene of England yea or England it selfe Doth one small tenancie moue you more than the holding of the whole realme Is not in all your homages and fealties vnto them saued your faith and allegeāce to your souerain Lady This is euen as vntoward a follie as if a mad foole in a tempest would trauayle to drowne the whole ship to saue one of the mariners cabbens This is not rightly considered of you The common weale is the ship we sayle in no one cā be safe if the whole do perish To god then to the realme to the croun to the law and gouernment your leaders and you we all do owe our selues and all that we haue in highest degrée of dutie Al other inferior duties are but meanes that these may be the better performed When now your Captains haue forsaken faith dutie to God naturall loue and dutie to the realme allegeance and dutie to the Croune obedience and duetie to lawe and gouernement it is no following of dutie to followe them against these duties no thoughe they were your fathers And that they haue done so you may not beléeue their pretenses you must beléeue the booke of GOD which you haue troden vnder foote ye must beleue the lawes of the Realme which you haue contemptuously broken you must beleeue the Quéenes Maiestie her selfe speaking in her Proclamations and by the mouthes of her officers whose gracious voice you haue rebelliously contemned Now as I haue compared your smal duties pretended with your great duties forsaken compare again your most due duties with your vndue doings You haue without warrant fro the Q. Maiestie or any by her authorized assembled yourselues in forcible maner adhered to those whom her maiestie hath declared traitors rebels you haue leuied war within y e realm against the realm within the Quenes dominions against the Quene you haue broken the common peace wherby your selues your families and possessions haue hitherto bene preserued you haue in your rebellious outrage committed many haynous and horrible factes you haue destroyed the monumentes of Gods moste holy Communion you haue torne and defaced the sacred Byble of Goddes most holy worde the very pledge of youre saluation you haue presumed to alter the forme of Christes Religion you haue in dishonoure of Christes most blissed and onely sufficient sacrifice sette vp the most abhominable and blasphemous sacrifice of wicked Masse you haue committed vnnaturall and vyle crueltie vppon Gods Ministers and dispensers of Gods mysteries and of the health of youre Soules you haue defaced Gods holy ordinance whereby all mankynde is preserued in chastitie and continued by lawefull encrease you haue robbed your neyghboures spoyled and destroyed the Quéenes true subiectes you haue wasted the prouision for your wiues and children you haue vndone your selues Trow you this be your dutie eyther as Christian men Englishmen subiectes tenauntes husbandes fathers neighbours yea or naturall men And when you haue thus done thynke you to beare it thus away A piece of the Bishoprike of Durhamme and Richmond shire conteyneth not all Englande Your courage may be good I would it were employed to better causes your power is but small You know you are but fewe weake vnarmed vnfurnished to holde out vnlawfully called vnskilfully guyded sclenderly prouided for falsely abused fondly blinded your captains not trustie to you nor bound by any authoritie so to be youre companie not holden togither by any iuste power but that they may slip away as their luste their werynesse their néede their businesse hope of pardon or better aduisement may come vppon them your succoures faile you within and without youre vittayles in a barren place not like long to endure the season harde your lodgings incommodious your housholdes in perill of famine or destruction in youre absence no stoare of armoure Weapon nor Munition youre number of Horsse though not nowe manie yet dayly like to be fewer those necessaries that you haue eyther for defence inuasion or sustenance being once spente no way to recouer more one ouerthrowe destroyeth you wholly you haue no meane to repaire yours force you are enclosed round about no refuge by Lande no escape by Sea Are not you in a gay taking And this you know to be true On the other side beholde the dreadefull maiestie of God the Lord of hostes is displeased with you ▪ the Quenes highnesse sometime your louing Soueraigne Lady now by your lewdnesse is enforced to be the heuie minister of Gods wrath against you The whole nobilitie for their dutie and the rather for reuenge of the dishonorable spots and suspitions sprinkled vpon them by your trayterous proclamations is earnestly bent to ouerthrowe you the whole number of her highnesse true subiects ready to die vpon you ▪ the number is great against you infinitely excéeding your petit