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A table gathered ouut of a booke named A treatise of treasons against Q. Elizabeth, and the croune of England latelie compiled by a stranger and sent owt of France ...
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Leslie, John, 1527-1596.; G. T.
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1572
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STC 23617.5; ESTC S2355
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A TABLE GATHERED OVVT OF A BOOKE NAMED A Treatise of treasons against Q. Elizabeth and the Croune of England latelie compiled by a stranger and sent owt of France Printed in the yeare of our Lord 1572. The didicatorie epistle to her heighnesse MADAM this table of treasons doth your heighnes to witt of à booke called A treatise of treasons against you and the Croune of England That treatise is addressed of gratefull affection borne to yow â—…nd discovereth hidden treasons which â—…each to the danger of your person of your â—…ate and life That treatise discovereth the â—…ransposing of the crowne the extincting of your line and the hazarding of the Reâ—…lme It openeth vnto yow the contrivers of those treasons to be a couple of companions of base parentes borne first callid to Court th one from booke thother from butterie which two be now more then Barons by office and dignitie more then Earles by possessions and wealth more then Dukes in authoritie which two be now your cosoning Counsaillors though sett vppe by your good fauour in the cheifest places of the Realme whereby they haue made them selues mightie in money mariages and allies and be the two captaine coÌ„spiratours that haue in their owne power and in the handes of their confederates all the offices all the portes all the fortresses your treasour your armour yea your selfe your succession and the whole realme to dispose at their will They be the two captaine conspiratours that haue beset yow rownde abowte with feares and dangers prepared by them selues and by sondrie fine deuises remoued from yow all defenses of faithfull frindes at home and a broade deuided the realme into factions abused your authoritie imploied your treasours to the danger of your state to the infamie of your person and to your final ouerthrow by death or depriuation â—…ere it be long Thus that treatise discouereth those two traiterous Counsaillours who to worke more subtilly their mischeuous intentions and to kepe yow from espying their terrible treasons haue misleaden yow by a false show of other treasons wich were neuer intended and abused yow vndre title of dutie pretence of seruice and colour of securitie to hold them vnsuspected In that treatise also your heighnes shal see the vnbuckling and lifting vpp of their â—…sardes and veiles that wold walke vnâ—…eene and still couertlie circumuent yow by their fine fetches whiles they freelie finish their determined treasons against your person and state That treatise of treasons is abridged into this table which showeth forth but in â—…reife maner vvhat in the same is at full enlarged It is therefore passing necessarie that â—…auing good regarde of your owne perâ—…on the preseruation of the realme and the â—…ightfull succession of the same yow call â—…or that treatise yow reade that treatise â—…s wel for the more full and better vnderstanding of the conspiratours practises fiâ—…allie ment as for their mischeuous meanes â—…sed to bring their practises to passe And â—…t is more then high time to vnderstand the â—…mpudent falsehood the fatall malice the desperat deuises of the conspiratours against your line your life and Succession if by speedie meanes and good aduise they be not prevented The author of the treatise and the abridger of the same beare good affectioÌ„ to yow and to the realme and therefore doe discouer vnto you the present perills that now hang over both which when yow shal by survew perceave and vnderstand God giue yow grace to consider and preuent And Madam for that it cannot be doubted but that those two Conspiratours doe watchfullie care and politickly provide how to kepe froÌ„ yow alletters bookes and treatesies which they feare may let or discouer their final purpose It hath ben thought neccessarie to invent and find owt all good meanes whereby the said treatise or at least the Table of the same might by some more faithful seruant of yours be addressed to your owne handes for the which respect it hath bene by meanes conveighed to the sight of your trustie servant Mr. Hatton and others who of dewtie and alleageance hath bene thought the most fitt instrument to present yow the same wherein he shal showe your heighnes more love dutie and faithful obediece then those of your Counsaillors that so many monethes sithence haue had the treatise it selfe in their handes and concealed the same either of doubt their practises might be vntimelie discouered and preueÌ„ted or in deede for lack of love towardes your heighnes person which standeth in greater perill then yow can beleeve God geve yow grace to sorsee and avoide the same Your heighnes dailie Orator G. T. A BRIEFE TABLE GATHERED OVVT of a booke callid a treatise of treasons against Q. Elizabeth and the Crowne of England c. Treasons in general THE coÌ„spiratours final treasons be to extinct the howses and lines of King Henrie the 8. and of his Sister Queene Margarite of Scotl. Thone resting presentlie in the Q. that now is and thother in the Q. of Scotl. and to bring the Crowne vntimelie vnto the third howse the howse of Suffolke vnto the which them selues are vnited and their children incorporated Treasons in particular against the Queenes person the realme and right succession THE conspiratours induced the Q. to holde her selfe vnmaried whereby the howse of England might consume in it selfe and that whole line finishe in and with her person They haue preuented that none be declared nor accepted as heyre by lawe and by pretence of lawe haue compassed that the Q. haue no heire iudiciallie They meane by pretence of lawe to impeache al interestes and titles to the crowne that the trial thereof maie come to the swoard the principal force whereof resteth in the conspiratours handes They haue by spetial lawe prouided vnder paine of treason that their be no knowen heire in succession established and that the knowen heire be made not knowen They haue circumuented the Queene to extinct her owne line and made her an instrument to remoue the Queene of Scotl. whose depriuation they haue alreadie procured The keping of the Queene of Scotland in prison is a plaine promise of their indempnitie for murdering the Queene her selfe They gouerne tirannically whereby to bring the Q. in hatred an to kendle in the hartes of the people à wearines of her subiection that they may be the gladder to embrace such mutation as they intend and will attempt when they shal think the time ripe by death or depriuation to remoue her They haue deuided the realme into factions for the Crowne by preferring vntimelie the third howse before the second They haue made the Q. a warde at 40. yeres age and her suertie lesse by the halfe and made her an instrument to vndoe her selfe and do leade her to her owne destruction Their last new law taking his effect leaueth the Crowne without proprietarie to claime it They haue compassed the extincting of the howse and line of EnglaÌ„d and
Bailie a stranger afflicted and imprisoned without colour of cawse other then for seeking to publish a pamflett in the defence of the Q. of Scotl. The Q. of Scotl. could never obtein to come to the sight presence nor speach of the Q. to pleade her innocencie could never obtaine sentence to be geuen for her or against her iudiciallie could never obtein to come to the Parliament there to acknowledge and confirme the Q. estate though she importunatlie laboured the same The Q. of ScotlaÌ„ds overtures to wit that she would geve the person of the yong Prince with the persons of iiij Noble men or their eldest sonnes as pleadges for xiiii yeres c. and to procure the handes and seales of the Kinges of Spaine and France for the performance c. could not be admitted The principal conspiratour executed his privat malice and reueÌ„ge against the Duke for that he had charged him at Greenewich with robbing the realm dishonouring the Q. and mainteyninge rebells and would haue remoued him from the Q. A description of the English Sinon OF base parentage ambitions minde of subtil witte of smoth tongue of shamelesse face of little honestie of no coÌ„science ennemie to the old blood Royal Intollerablie insolent in authoritie vile and abiect in aduersitie Sinons Credo vnder King H. catholique vnder King E. protestaÌ„t vnder Q. M. acreper to the crosse vnder Qu. E. first a Lutheran then a Caluenist then a puritaine no we a Macheuelian if not an Anabaptist c. fol. 97. Sinons sophistrie Sinons falsehood in felowshippe Sinons table talke Sinons badgies Sinons similitude Sinons bone to gnaw vppon Sinons prouisions Sinons Tenants to do him seruice Sinons Text to write vppon Sinons Cockerel Sinons horse Dispersed Notes in the booke worth the consideration A Glasse presented to the Q. wherein she may plainlie see her owne estate present and by things done and past devine what is to come A trew Annatomie of the new Religion The great differeÌ„ce betwene the english Churche and al other Churches At Hanborough is preached publikelie who so lodgeth any man of an english religion is an Ost to Sathan and lodgith a deuill in his howse Impossible to extinct the partie Catholique in England whiles France Flandres Spaine Italy Ireland and others can not be induced to admitt any other religion King H. 8. after much hanging hedding and wasting his Nobilitie sought his reconciliation and had obtained it if death had not prevented him The Q. of Scotl. seeth the best of her state as long as the conspiratours sitt at the stearn of the English government the end of whose life is the beginning of the Q. death A frindlie Alarme Beware yow Shrowsburie Darby Sussex Huntington Beford Leycestre and the rest yow that are yet muche made of lulled and culled in Catelins armes some sooner some later and the most of yow must drinck of the drags that Norfolke hath lefte in the cuppe and yow soonest that be accompted wisest stoutest and least likelie to be wonne to the vntimely setting vppe of the family of Suff. A rable of names with their several actions and practises the copies of manie monstrouse horrible letters promised shal be published which the writers thinke are not to be seene The conclusion of the Treatise proponeth 7. waies to her heighnes whereby to restore her selfe to her pristinat securitie in which she shal finde trew quietnes both forrein and domesticque trew honour before God and man vnfeigned amitie abroade hartie obedience at home faithfull love and revereÌ„ of her cosins and heires â–ª and al loyaltie of her Nobilitie by which she shall ioye in her reigne and end it with the quiet that she began it And so God graunt it G. T. A COPIE OF A LETTRE ADDRESSED from Antwerp the xxvi of Iune to Mr. Hatton and deliured vnto him at Spaw the 5. of Iulie 1573. SIR yow maie not finde strange sith God hath geuen to eche man a charge and care of his Neighbour as it is in holie writ if some one that wissheth yow 〈◊〉 do geue this aduenture in few 〈◊〉 to puâ—… yow in remembrance of God your â—…oule your prince and contrey The â—…st being mattre that ought to be most deeâ—…e vnto yow is most to be considered as that yow were first baptized in the faith Catholicque your continuance for manie yeres therein and the danger in forsaking the same the weight whereof no worldlie treasors or dignities can counteruaille the one being eternall the other temporall brittle and fraile as ouer manie of your condition haue tried finding their experience powdered with bitter repentance But your Naturall good inclination giueth forth bettre hope that yow will in time embrase the best wherevnto itseemeth God moueth yow by laying his heauie hand louinglie vppon yow that yow might for errors past endeuour timely satisfaction and thereto hath brought yow to a safe porte if yow list therein to repose and quiet your selfe â–ª where doubtlesse yow shal finde more trew comfort and peace of conscience then if yow would delighting still in vanities retourn againe to the place that floweth and abondeth with the tempestes of wordlie temptations And for that yow be knowen to be in the good fauour and grace of your Prince and to tendre mattres that appertaine to her securitie and would what in yow lieth aduance to her knowlege whatsoeuer threatneth her perill her state and the cutting of the rightful Succession of the same as also to be readie to ministre her the occasion whereby her heighnes may in time repaire her dishonors and infamies procured by such as she accompted her most faith full subiectes this inclosed being a table of Treasons collected owt of a booke latelie come owt of FraÌ„ce is addressed vnto yow that you should thereof make speedie conveye in sort that the same may not faile to passe directlie to her heighnes handes in dutie whereof it is hoped yow wil not faile for that it is â—…irder intended that the said Table shal also be consigned to others of your qualitie and shortlie come to print and be published so as both her highnes and the world may be wittnes that some one that loueth her and wanteth other readie meanes for the conveye thereof hath by laying the same vpon yow and others discharged his band and dutie in that respect Thus wisshing yow as much grace and comfort as to my selfe doe hartelie recoÌ„mend yow to the mercies of almightie god From Antwerp the 26. of Iune 1573. By yours to his power G. T. CERTAIN IMPORTANT POINTS added by the Abridger of the Treatise after the deliuery of the Table to Mr. Hattons handes implying vehement demonstrations of the present peril of your Heighnes life and person ALBEIT your Heighnes great wisedom caÌ„not but easily finde in this table and treatise the great daÌ„ger and peril that imminently dependeth vpon your