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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A18210	A petition apologeticall, presented to the Kinges most excellent Maiesty, by the lay Catholikes of England, in Iuly last	Lecey, John.	1604 (1604)	STC 4835; ESTC S120958	34,556	41

probation and therein not to be any way stayned The second triall of our fidelities consisteth in matter likewise of fact a Catholikes behauiour tovvardes his Maiesties Predecessors and him selfe towardes your Maiesties Predecessors your Title in them and in your selfe and the effect of our loue and affection performed in all occasions that might giue contentment to your Maiesty both before and since your entraunce into this your Kingdome of England which we will endeauour to touch as briefly as we can It cannot be denied then in the first ranke of these our comportements but that we our selues in our times and our Catholike Parents before vs at all times of opportunity offered haue declared our deuouted affections to your said Highnes b Catholikes alvvayes affected to the K. Title to England right to this Crowne the testemonies whereof are in printed bookes and publike facts so manifest to the world that we neede not long dwell on that point vouchsafe therefore patience we beseech you DEARE SOVERAIGNE to heare some instances of the c Blessinges benefittes his Maiesty hath receiued by Catholikes blessinges and the benefits your Maiesty hath receiued by Catholikes and by our seruices and fidelities King Henry the vij th and his eldest Daughter from whome your Maiesty hath receiued lineally and directly your birth right and naturall succession to this Crowne were most zealous and religious Catholikes and for that singuler affection he did beare to the d Henry the 7. preferreth the Scotish King before the Frensh Scotish nation principally for their great zeale at all times to the Catholike religion preferred the same before Fraunce bestowing his said eldest Daughter on your Highnes great Grand-Father and the younger vpon the French King by which happy marriage came that lineall and rightfull descent of bloud that made your Maiesties renowned Mother Heyre apparant to this Crowne of England who also was the vndoubted e His Maiesties Mother lineall heire to King Edvvard the Confessor lineall Heire to King Edward the Confessor by his sister Margaret Queene and Saint and consequently your Maiesty from your Catholike Mother and her Catholike Predecessors hath not only receiued the hereditary succession of the Kingdome of Scotland but also a double right to the Crowne of England as f His Maiestie true heire both to the Saxon Norman Princes heire to the Saxon lineall line by a holy Saint Catholike Queene and heire to the Norman line by a most worthy Catholike Prince and a blessed Martir and all them vnited in her and nowe duly descended to your Maiesty Queene Mary It was the pious and vertuous Queene Mary and her Catholike subjects who cancelled the forged will of her Father King Henry the eight exceeding preiudiciall to your right in this Crowne that disproued it in Parliament and deposed the Protestant vsurping Queene Iane a Queene Iane set vp by Protestants deposed by Catholikes set vp then by the Protestants to the disinheriting of Henry the eight his daughters Queene Mary and Queene Elizabeth and his eldest sisters issue vvho was your Maiesties great Grand-mother and whose issue were in all right to haue beene preferred before her younger sister Grand-mother to the vsurping Protestant Queene Iane who so deposed by that renowned pious Catholike Queene Mary the Crowne by her royall prouidence was reserued to the rightfull and lawfull heires thereof consequently descended nowe to your Maiestie conformable to the lawe of God Nature and Nations The serpentine inuectiue made by Hales and other Protestants in the beginning of Queene Elizabethes raigne directly against your Maiesties Title thereby intending b Hales inuectiue against the Title of Scotland the aduauncement of a pretender potently in those daies possessed in the breastes of no meane multitudes was vpon the setting forth thereof in the time of Queene Elizabeth indelayedly vndertaken fully answered learnedly confuted by c Hales ansvvered by Iustice Brovvne M. Ployden both Catholikes Sir Anthony Browne then one of the Iustices of the common Pleas and lately before in Queene Maries raigne had beene chiefe Iustice of the same Court and M. Edmund Ployden famous Lawyers with the assent of other Catholike Diuines ciuill Lawyers and Gentlemen of good worth judgement and experience Howe many d Havvardes Persies Pagets Vaux Treshams Throghmortons Salisburies Abington families of Catholikes haue endured great damages and detrimentes in renowne and state for desire they had to maintaine the right of your most blessed Mothers Title in remainder and aduentures made to relieue her and deliuer the afflicted Princesse out of her captiuity with much abundant loue teares and affection your sacred mother testified publiquely at the end of her life Since your Mothers death we remayned euer e Catholikes behauiour after the martirdome of his Maiesties Mother constant to your Maiesties right to the succession of this Crowne not ebbing and flowing in our affections but resolute euer to liue or die with your Maiestie in that most just pretence but if any particular person in forraigne countries hath spoken or written to the contrary for his priuate and particular pretentions he is to answere for himselfe and his owne fact for therein we disclaime which party as we are credibly enformed hath both before and sithence the Queenes death done great diligence to giue your Maiesty satisfaction And your Maiesty is not ignorant we are assured what hath beene the carriage opinion and opposition of vs and our friendes euen in that particuler in the fauour and defence of your Maiesties right both within and without the Realme what a The daungers damages and disgraces vvhich M. Charles Paget Cap. Tresham M. Iohn Stonor of Stonor and diuers others suffred therefore are notorious dangers we haue passed at home and what slaunders and damages very many of our Catholike brethren haue suffered abroade for shewing themselues Scotish in faction as we were tearmed that b Scotish infaction vvhat is firmely immoueably affected to your Maiesties right of succession to this Crowne your Maiesty haue heard and we haue felt and shall feele our honours and estates thereby being extreamely diminished and eclipsed whiles we liue vnlesse your Maiesties pious royall hart vouchsafe to repaire and relieue the same Neither did your Maiesties c His Maiesties zeale in the Protestants Religion did nothing diminish the Catholikes forvvardnesse tovvardes his right and iustice zeale in the Protestant religion any way alter or diminish the just conceit and dutifull consideration we carried to that justice and right which God and nature had prepared for you from your cradell If then our carriage and affection to your Maiesty was such when your Religion was to ours so different your Person to vs vnknowne your fortune doubtfull the factions diuers the oppositions in all likelyhood very great and the euent of your affaires very vncertaine what may your Maiesty presume of vs nowe or rather what may you not

Maiesty are taken from vs and yet your Maiesties coffers little the better therefore Our desire then is most gratious Prince to become your Maiesties whole subjectes and your Maiesty may so make vs in the twinckling of your eye or stampe of your foote wherewith you are able to raise vp more armies then euer Pompey the great could doe from whom the metaphor is borrowed in all his pompe and presumtious pride Vouchsafe then DREAD SOVERAIGNE to make vs as other your subjectes are of all professions intire and absolute English-men The conclusion vvith an Apostrophe to his Maiestie for nothing by Gods holy assistance can or euer shall deuide vs from our subjection and dutifull affection to your Maiesty but death which is vltima linea rerum the last period of all thinges for all other deuisions wee renounce from all other seruices we disclaime but that only which is due to God in the supernaturall course of our saluation which being gouerned by secret influences and supernaturall concurrences of his grace we alotte to God without diparagement to your Maiesty assuring our selues that your Maiesty so conuersant in all good writers and perfect Theologie is well assured that there is no diuision so honourable for a Prince as that which was attributed long sithence to Caesar and nowe is not improperly applied to your Maiestie Iupiter in coelis Caesar regit omnia terris Diuisum imperum cum Ioue Caesar habet Whiles this Apologie or Petition was a printing there came to my hands the copie of a letter written by the late banished Priests to the Lordes of his Maiesties most honourable priuie Councell which for the coherence of the argument I thought good to annexe hereunto THE COPPIE OF THE BANISHED PRIESTES LETTER TO THE LORDES OF HIS MAIESTIES MOST HONOVRABLE priuy Councell TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE OVR VERY GOOD LORDES THE LORDES OF HIS MAIESTIES MOST HONOVrable priuy Councell RIGHT HONOVRABLE As we haue suffered for Christ his sake and the profession of the true Catholike religion which he planted with his pretious bloud many yeares imprisonment and depriuation of all worldly comfortes and commodities so doe we with the like patience and humilitie endure this hard and heauy sentence of exile which is a certaine kinde of ciuill death or rather a languishing and continuall dying especially to them that haue the honour and safety of their Prince and Country in that recommendation as we euer both haue had and haue Notwithstanding least it might be imputed vnto to vs hereafter that this banishment was rather an extraordinary fauour and grace then an vndeserued punishment or penalty we thought it our dutie to let your Honours vnderstand that as we are content with patience and humility to suffer and support whatsoeuer you should impose vpon vs for our Religion so are we bound with all to make protestation af our innocencie according to that of S. Peter Nemo vestrum patiatur vt fur aut latro aut maledicus aut alienorum appetitor si autem vt Christianus non erubescat glorificet autem Deum in isto nomine May it please your Lordships therefore to vnderstand that the quality and condition of those that are comprehended vnder the selfe same sentence of banishmēt is very different and considerable both in honour and conscience among the which some there are that came voluntarily into prison vpon a proclamation set out by your Lordships in the late Queenes dayes and name with assurance of fauour vpon such their submission some came neither voluntarily into the prison nor into the Realme therefore not subiect to any censure all of them haue beene euer most faithfull seruantes and affectionate well-willers of his Majesty and haue to shewe vnder the great zeale of England his Majesties gratious generall pardon by which they are restored vnto the peace of his Majesty and place of true subiectes since which time they haue committed nothing against his Majesties quiet Crowne and dignity as being euer since in captiuitie and therefore in the rigour and extreamities of those lawes which in their best sence and nature were euer held both extreame and rigorous cannot be punished by any forme or course of lawe with so seuere a correction as aqua igne interdici to be depriued of the benefit of the common Ayre and Elementes of our most naturall and deare Country Yet sithence it is your Lordshippes pleasure we should be transported we are content in signe of obedience and conformity to that we see is your order for this time to forbeare the Realme for a while and to absent ourselues reputing our selues notwithstanding as men free from all danger or penalty of lawes and neither by this fact of banishment nor by any other act of our necessary retourne into our Country hereafter in worse estate then your Lordships found vs in the prison when your Lordshippes warrant came for the carrying vs out of the Realme And so hoping your honours will conceiue of vs as of men that haue the feare grace of God before our eyes and the sincere loue of our Prince Country in our hartes and dutifull reuerence and respect to your Lordshippes in all actions we humbly beseech your honours that if we happen for want of health or other helpes necessary for our reliefe to retourne hereafter into the Realme this banishment may not any way aggrauate our case or make vs lesse capable of fauour and grace then we were the xxj of September when your Lordshippes order came to remoue vs from post to piller from prison to exile so desiring God to inspire your Lordshippes vpon whose resolutions dependes the repose of the Realme and the saluation or perdition of many thousand soules with his holy grace and assistance in all your most graue and waightie determinations in most humble and dutifull manner we take our leaue from the Sea side this 24. of SEPTEMBER 1604. His Majesties true and loyall subjectes and your honours most humble seruantes The late banished Priestes