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A17013	English protestants plea, and petition, for English preists [sic] and papists to the present court of Parlament, and all persecutors of them: diuided into two parts. In the first is proued by the learned protestants of England, that these preists and Catholicks, haue hitherto been vniustly persecuted, though they haue often and publickly offered soe much, as any Christians in conscience might doe. In the second part, is proued by the same protestants, that the same preistly sacrificinge function, acknowledgeing and practize of the same supreame spirituall iurisdiction of the apostolick see of Rome, and other Catholick doctrines, in the same sence wee now defend them, and for which wee ar at this present persecuted, continued and were practized in this Iland without interruption in al ages, from S. Peter the Apostle, to these our tymes.	Broughton, Richard.	1621 (1621)	STC 3895.5; ESTC S114391	56,926	128

antiquities giue warrant to write he in all his life time coÌ„tinued in these doctrines and at his death in his last will and testament protested himselfe to continue in that opinion Bed Henric. Hunt Guliel Malmesb. Roger. Houeden Matth. West Flor. Wigor Camb. Stow. Holinsq Theator c. And for the supremacie it selfe as hath bene prooued in the time of Queene Elizabeth and your protestant historian hath sufficiently insinuated he recanted it Booke intituled Lesters common wealth your Protestants wordes of him these be At his death he was much perplexed spake many things to great purpose but being vnconstant in his life none durst trust him at his death Howes super hist. preface in Henry 8. which relation from a protestant writer can carrie no other construction And I take God to witnesse I haue heard my father then liuing in Courte often make relation that this king Henry the 8. at his death was sorie for his taking that title of supremacie vppon him was willing to relinquish it and laboured to be reconciled to the Church of Rome promising if he liued so far as he could to make restitution But being demanded of him presently to take order therein he was preuented by death and dyed with such burthen and horror of coÌ„science as chanceth in such cases which this Protestant before aymeth at when he saith he was much perplexed and spake many thinges to great purpose Therefore the Catholikes of England are rather confirmed by this king then weakned by him in profession of their holie faith And though in his life he persecuted and put to death many renowned Catholikes for deniall of his supremacie and sacramentary Protestants such as those in England now are for heretikes yet he neuer recalled this second as he did the first neither made any new lawe by which they were put to death but left their triall to the auntient Canons of the Catholike Church yet put those Catholikes to death only by pretence of his new inacted Edict of his supremacie neuer heard of in England before as Protestant antiquaries haue tolde vs. Therefore this first supreame head of religion in England in all things confirmeth the religion of Catholikes and condemneth that of Protestants and this the more if we adde from your Protestant historians how fraudulently or rather forcebly he obtained his first colourable tytle to that his spirituall supremacie by which he kept such turbuleÌ„t sturres in this kingdome A Protestant historian and an Esquire by state as he stileth himselfe thus relateth it William Martine Esq in histor of Henr. 8. pag. 388.389 Cardinal Wolsey being dead the King by his Councel was informed that all the cleargie of England was guiltie of premunire because in al things they supported and maintained the authoritie and power legatine of the Cardinal wherefore to preuent mischiefe before it fell vpon them they gaue to the King for their redemption and for their pardon the somme of one hundreth thousand pounds and by a publicke instrument in writing subscribed and sealed by the Bishops and fathers of the Church they acknowledged the King within his owne kingdomes and dominions to be supreame head of the Church Thus vniustly he procured that vnlawful prerogatiue more vniustly as before made his wicked vse therof I neede proceede no further in his proceedings for they ar dead with him the present protestant state as his owne childreÌ„ before by lawes and Parlaments condemne them all Protestants in the worlde reiect them and hee himselfe before his death by the most manerly fashion he could refused his title of supremacie in which he most differed from the church of Rome as I haue brought Protestant witnesses before therefore Catholiks are rather confirmed then weakned in their religion by the proceedings of this King That English catholikes cannot be perswaded vnto but much disswaded from Protestant Religion by the Protestant proceedings in the time of King Edward the 6. NOW let vs come to the next temporall rule that claymed supremacie in spiritual matters in England King Edward the 6. he was but 9. yeares olde when this charge was layed vpon him yet he was elleuen yeares olde wheÌ„ your religion was first borne in this nation in the second or third yeare of his raigne as all lawes and histories of that time giue recorde Parl. 2. 3. Edw. 6. Stow hist in Edw. 6. Holinsh. Theater and others ibid. So this childe begot it and his sister Q Elizabeth nursed it We knowe for shame you will not tye vs to the censure of an infant king then you must appeale to those that instructed and directed him in so great a businesse These were temporall and spirituall and chiefly those that were of councell and had sworne otherwise to King Henry the 8. during his life liued in his Religion and after his death continued the same vnder this yong king in his beginning and first Parlament Parl. 1. of Edw. 6. Stow. Holinsh. in k. Edw. 6. were executors of the last will and testament of king Henry the eight in which concerning matters of trust in religion they truely executed nothing at all but in the exheredation of his Maiesties holy Mother and himselfe as much as they could they executed it Howe 's historial preface supr Stow Holinsh. Theater in Q. Marie Edward 6. The chiefest of these for spiritual men was Cranmer their Archbishop and the rest of the Bishops of that time that were not Catholikes of which we finde but two onely Hooper and Ferrar put to death for their ReligioÌ„ by Queene Marie For Cranmer Ridlie and Latimer were condemned for treason Foxe tome 2. Monumen in Q. Marie Godwyne Catalogue of Bishops of K. Edwards time and what can we accompt of the religion of these two changing their profession so often with king Henry and K. Edward and Ferrar to vse your Bishops wordes was thrust out of the Bishoppricke in the beginning of Queene Marie for being married and ended his life in the fyer more for being desperate how to liue then for loue of Religion so far as we can gather Godwyn in S. Daudis 79. Robert Ferrar The other Hooper Godwyn in Worcester 75. Glocester 2. Iohn Hooper a man of such conscience as your Bishop writeth that being made Bishop by the childe king anno 1550. Bishop of Glocester held also the Bishopricke of Worcester in commendam by licence of King Edward the sixt this is his commendation The rest that fled not the Realme for treason which were not of your Protestant religion but Puritanes in forraine countries were depriued in England for being married which by no Religion Bishops might doe such were Bush of Bristow Harley of Hereford Holgate of Yorke and others that became Catholikes Godwyn in Brist Heref. Yorke c. Couerdale was set at libertie by Q. Marie and of so small esteeme with you in the beginning of Q. Elizabeth her raigne that no Bishopricke was allowed him Now let vs come to your chiefe

the Religious howses Hee would create your protestants words and mayntayne 40. Earles 60. Barons 3000. knights and 40. thowsand souldiers with skilfull captaines and competent mayntenance for them all for euer out of the auntient church reueneues and the people should bee noe more charged with loanes subsidies and fifteens Of all these blessings and benefites wee are spoyled and by your Religion depriued And not onely wee that now bee catholicks in England but all faythfull soules allready departed out of this world and those that ar not yet borne if they shall bee of the posteritie of those holy founders to bee prayed for to the end of the world by those Religious fowndations and al pore hungry bodyes â—ere releiued with those donations which â—otestant tymes haue conuerted to vanities â—d that which is vnchristian to persecute the â—eligion which fownded these holy howses â—nd with such vehemency and cruelty wee ar â—ersecuted as you haue before acknowledged our lawes records registers our miseries â—alamities and martyrdomes haue published â—o all the world Edw. howe 's in his historial preâ—reface in kinge Henry 8. All this you doe vnto vs vnder pretence â—hat wee will not forsake our holy Religion â—oe firmely and vndoubtedly proued by soe â—any vndeniable testimonies in your owne â—udgments that wee cannot bee deceaued exâ—ept God which is vnpossible can deceaue â—s And in remayninge and persisting wherein â—nd following and frequentinge that order which it prescribeth the sacrifice and Sacraments which it vseth wee shall by your best â—earned protestants writing with your publick â—riuiledge bee sure to bee saued when contraâ—ywise if wee should bee soe gracelesse as for â—eare of torments and afflictions to harken vnto you in matters of Religion the same your â—est learned protestant Bishops and others asâ—ure vs agayne wee shall come into a fallible â—eceaueable and actually erroneus Religion â—nd consequently shall bee damned for euer â—oue prot Bish. persuas Feild l. of the church pag. â—7 182 Couel def of Hooker pag. 68.73.76 Feild pag. 69. willet Antilog pag. 144. Theater of greaâ— Brit. Saxons Sam. Daniel hist. c. Feild pag. 20â— Isaac Casaub praef respons ad Gard. Peron Doâ— persuas Morton Apolog. part 2. pag. 315. willâ— Antilog praef to the Read vniuersities answeare ã€ˆâ—Šã€‰ the mill pet Confer at Hampt pag. 47. Protest Râ— lat of that conference printed by Ioh. windet in thrâ— seuerall copies 1.2.3 And if God and the truth of his holy causâ— mayntayned in our bookes against you haâ— not inforced and necessitated these your publicke writers thus publickly to condemnâ— you and forwarne vs from communicatingâ— with you in these affaires yett the lamentable and desolate experience it selfe in your parlaments of king Henry 8. k. Edward 6. Q. Elizabeth c. crieth out vnto the world that all the parlaments and princes supreame heads of Religion by you haue beene deceaued and deceaued all that followed them in these things Kinge Henry 8. was the first parlament of k. Henr. 8. after an Reg. 22. and was herein contrary to all antiquitie contrary to k. Edward his sonne parlam Edw. 6.1.2.3 daughter Elizabeth parlam 1. Elizab. iniunctionis of Q. Eliz. an 1. and kinge Iames. Articles of Relig. ann 1562 and to himselfe by diuers parlaments and his Religion dead with him and condemned by you Kinge Edward was contrary to his father his sister to you and to himselfe in diuers publicke parlaments and his publick iniunctions Queen Elizabeth was in the same â—se of contradiction to her father brother to â—u and herselfe by publicke practice parlaâ—ent proclamations and iniunctions in lesse â—me then three quarters of one yeare And â—uchinge that peece of her first parlament â—herein shee condemned the masse there was â—ot one diuine Bishop or other that gaue coÌ„â—ent or could giue it vnto her but all against â—nd their extrauagant proceedings therein were such as they bee related by your owne â—ntiquaries Cambden Howes and others â—hat Paganisme Turcisme Epicurisme Iudaisâ—ne Atheisme or any other heresie might as â—asely haue beene settled here as protestaÌ„tisme was which is not here to bee entreated King â—ames our present soueraigne is generally taâ—en to bee to too wise and learned to learne Religion of such Tutors Cambden in Apparat. â—d Annal. in Annal. in Elizabeth Howe 's histoâ—iall preface in Q. Elizabeth and others Kinge Henry the 8. desired at his death as â—rotestant histories sufficiently insinuate and â—iuers then liueing in his Court haue testified â—o bee reconciled to the church of Rome and â—n one of his laste Acts the inscription of his Tombe doth playnely omitt and relinquish â—or euer his pretended supreamacie And in his â—ast will and testament Howes supr in k. Henr. 8. â—towe an vlt. Henr. 8. in his laste will testameÌ„t â—rdeyned preists masses soe odious now and cheifest cause pretended of our perfection to continue in England to the end of the world willinge and chardgeinge the words of his will prince Edward his sonne all his executors all his heires and successors that should bee kings of this Realme as they will answeare before almightie God at the dreadfull day of iudgment that they euerie of them doe see it performed Exempl an 1. Edw. 6. die 14. Februar Kinge Edward 6. was but a child but both hee and his protectors by which hee was ruled should haue beene ruled by this will yet as protestants vle to doe presently breaking it for their worldly ends and breingeing in the protestant Religion Foxe to 2. Acts and monum in k. Henr. 8. and an 1. Edw. 6. The cheife Actor and Author of those proceedings the Duke of Northumberland Lord protector when hee came to dy renownced protestant Religion for heresie and as your protestant histories tell vs Stowe histor an 1. of Queen Mary and others was reconciled vnto and dyed in the vnitie and faith of the Romane church For Queene Elizabeth shee as some noble men and diuers ladyes of honor can informe you and some haue soe testified died noe good protestant neither could endure the sight of her protestant Bishops at that time protested in her life to the lady Saint-Iohn widowe to the Lord Oliuer Saint-Iohn of Bleâ—soe Deus testis soe shee confidently related and said see could shew that Queenes letters to that purpose that she would haue liued a Catholike but for her ouer-ruling Protestant Counsaile naminge some of them no happie members of this kingdome which your Proteâ—tant historians giue way vnto that she did very often before such men by politick deuises withâ—rew her from it frequent the Sacraments of Confession of the blessed bodie of Christ Masse â—nd the rites of Catholike Religion Edw. Howes historicall preface in Queene Elizabeth and proâ—ested in publicke Parlament neuer to vexe or â—rouble the Romane Catholikes concerning any difference in Religion Like was the case of William Cecile Lord Burleigh hir great Counsailor both â—or his Religion in that time and at his death charged his

power Ormerod protest Assert an 1604. pag. 218. Then much lesse of that supreame power And if shee had been a man yett in that case your protestant historians before haue told vs made illegitimate by publicke parlament the Kinge Lords spirituall and temporall with the rest there must haue beene as greate a power to recall yt which was not in that her first parlament for the Lords spirituall whoe onely haue power in such cases did vtterly dissent to yeeld her any such priuiledge soe that noe man or company that had power of dispensations in such things dispensed with her but contrary Againe it is a maxime in the Lawes as you Lord Cooke writeth l. 4. fol 23. nemo potest plus iuris in alium transferre qnÃ m ipse habet None can giue more power to an other then they haue to giue and the contrarie is vnpossible Therefore seeing no Parlament that euer was in England when all the Bishops and Abbots and chiefe spirituall men it euer had were assembled had at any time either for themselues or to giue vnto any other that supreame spirituall power but as your Bishops haue told vs before it was wholly in the Pope of Rome euer from our conuersion and so could neuer be deriued to King Henry the eight or Edward the six Parker antiquit Britan. in Cranmer Polydor. Virg. in Henr. 8. l. vlt. histor c. it is much more stronge against Q. Elizabeth both for her sexe and the other incapabilitie as Protestants assure vs. And for her or any to clayme it by that Parlament wherein shee tooke it vpon her is a thing more then to be wondred at for all men of that Parlament which had any spiritual iurisdiction as the Catholike Bishops did by all meanes resist and contradict it and the words of the statute as your Protestants haue published it by which shee tooke vpon her to exercise it and persecute Catholikes onely by pretence of this power there giuen vnto her are these Most humbly beseech your most excellent Maiestie your faithful and obedient subiects the Lordes Spiritual and Temporal and the vvhole commons in this your present Parlament assembled That the supreame power spirituall should be in that Queene when it is euident by all our ProtestaÌ„t histories that not one Lord Spirituall either desired it or consented vnto it but all repugned and gaine-said it and for that cause were committed to prison or otherwise most grieuously afflicted Stow histor an 1. Elizab. Holinsh. Theater an 1. Eliz. Cambd. annal rerum Anglic. in 1. Elizab. c. And yet there was not any man in that Parlament that could giue vnto her if she had bene capable as she was not the least spiritual iurisdiction ouer the least parish in England And if she had not insisted in her fathers steppes of flatterie terrors dissimulatioÌ„ promises of great matters without performaÌ„ce in some degrees by the cunning of some about her without conscience exceeded him shee might haue founde as little applause and consent in the Lords temporall and others For vsing all meanes she could to further her strange proceedings partly to be hereafter from her Protestant writers remembred yet shee found such and so manifest reasons opposed against her that the scarres of those wounds then giuen to your religion will neuer be recouered A principall antiquarie among you writeth Cambden Annal. in Eliz. pag. 26. that the Lord Vicount Mountague which a little before had bene Ambassadour at Rome with Bishop Thursby of Ely for the reconciling of England to the Church of Rome in Queene Maries time publickly in parlament these opposed Hic ex Religionis ardore honoris ratione acriter instabat magno Angliae dedecori esse si ab Apostolica sede cui nuper se submisse reconciliarat mox deficeret Hee out of loue of religion and care of honour did earnestly vrge how great a shame it would be to England if it should so soone reuoult from the Sea Apostolike to which it had lately submissiuelie reconciled it selfe and would turne to greater danger if excommunicated it by such defection be exposed to the rage of neighboring enemies Hee in the name of the nobilitie and all degrees in England in their name had done obedience to the Pope of Rome and must needes performe it Therefore he vrgently besought them that they would not depart from the Romane Sea to which they were indebted both for first receauing the faith from thence and from thence hauing it continually preserued This was sufficiently prooued at that time of the reconciliation of England to the Church of Rome in open Parlament also by Cardinall Pole as your first protestantly ordeyned Archbish in these wordes affirmeth Parkerant Brit. in Reginald Polo HaÌ„c in sulae nobilitatem atque gloriam Dei prouidentiae atque beneficientiae soli accepta ferendam sed tamen viam ipsam atque rationem qua hac nobilitas atque gloria parta est sede Romana nobis prima semperque monstratam patefactam fuisse In Romana exinde fidei vnitate nos semper perseuerasse fuisseque nostram antiquissimam Romanae ecclesiae subiectionem The noblenes of this Iland for being the first of all the Prouinces of the worlde that receaued the Christian faith and the glorie thereof is to be acknowledged to haue proceeded from the prouidence and goodnesse of God yet the way it selfe and meanes by which this nobilitie glory was wonne vnto it was first alwaies shewed and layde open vnto vs from the Sea of Rome wee haue alwaies from that time perseuered in the vnity of the Romane faith and our subiection to the Romane Church is most auntient And this reconciling of England then to the Romane Church was so ioyful and honorable a thing to this natioÌ„ that to vse your Protestant Archbishops wordes Parker antiquit Britan. in Polo In Synodo decretum est vt dies ille quo pontifici Romano authoritas restituta fuerit quotannis festus dies celebraretur atque Anglicanae ecclesiae reconciliatio diceretur It was decreede in a Synode that the daye on which authoritie was restored to the Pope of Rome should yeerely be kept holie daie and called the Reconciliation of the Church of England Abbot Fecknham in Parlm Elizab. in his oration to that Parlament of Q. Elizabeth hath thus Damianus and Fugatianus as Ambassadours from the Sea Apostolike of Rome did bring into this Realme 1400. yeares past the very same religion whereof wee are now in possession and that in the latine tongue as the auntient historiographer Dominus Gylduas witnesseth in the prologue and beginning of his booke of the Britaine histories which he would not haue dared to vtter in that time and place but that then he could produce that antiquitie to be his warrant which with many others condemning the new religion of Protestants are by them suppressed All the Bishops of whom more hereafter and whom tearmeth your Protestant glorious renowned men obfirmate

Scotland against those two blessed Queene Maryes that Q. Mary of England was inforced to make a statute in parlameÌ„t to suppresse yt the Abridgement thereof is thus parlament 2. an 1. Mar. 20. die April 1554. cap. 2. The Regall and kingely power of this realme and all the dignities and prerogatiues of the same shall bee as wel in a Queene as in a kinge How the protestants in England vpon such good doctrine rebelled against that Q. Mary all knowe And in Scotland they rather chosed to crowne our Soueraigne in his cradle then the true Queene his mother should raigne haue any power spirituall or temporall at all in her owne hereditary kingdome Holinsh. histor of Scotland Stowe hist an 1. Iacob but by the violence of those Scottish protestants to bee driuert from thence And landeinge in this kingdome of England Cambden in Annal. in the life of Q. Mary of Scotland Where by these protestants before shee had such iust right of succession as they haue declared left that most vndeniable Title and interest by which moste truely lawfully and vndoubtedly her sonne our soueraigne kinge Iames now enioyeth both this whole kingdome of Britanie Ireland and all the adiacent Ilands by hereditary right from her shee fownde noe further fauour here of the English protestants but to bee a perpetual prisoner in her life and to her eternall glory and english protestants soe longe endureinge shame murthered and martyred at her death Stowe Holinsh. Theater of Britanie in Q. Eliz. c. Moreouer in this soe termed parlament besides the takeinge of this greate and supreame spirituall chardge and office vnto a woman neuer heard of in the world before and suppressinge of the holy sacrifice of the masse euer since Saint Peters tyme as before is proued excepting three yeares of kinge Edward the 6. a child and in place thereof admittinge a forme of communion and common prayer neuer vsed by any people catholicks or protestants but in that shorte tyme alsoe of that yonge kinge in England not any one Article of protestant Religion eyther against the 7. Sacraments of the church inuocatioÌ„ of Saints prayer for the dead purgatorie validitie of good workes merit iustification or whatsoeuer els now contradicted by these protestaÌ„ts was theÌ„ or vntil the fourth yeare of Q. Elizabeth concluded by any parlament protestant Authoritie in England but left arbitrary for euery man to beleeue and practize as his fantasie serued without any rule at all Booke of Articles and Conuocation an 1562. And for the communion Booke yt selfe it had not any approbation of any one parlament maÌ„ diuine or other as your protestants assure vs but the chardge of making or mareing that was onely committed sayth your prime protestant Antiquary with others Cambden annal pag. 23. Parkero Billo Maio Copo Grindallo whitheado Pilkingtono Theologis Thomaeque Smitho Equiti To Parker Bill May Cope Grindall Whithead and Pilkington diuines and Thomas Smyth a knight The first and cheifest of these seuen beeing Mathew Parker had beene of seuen Religions vnder kinge Henry 8. Edward 6. Q. Mary and Q. Elizabeth chaunging in euery one of those chaunges as before is proued Godwyne Catalog of Bish. in Canterbury Matth. Parkr Foxe to 2. in k. Henr. 8. Edw. 6. Q. Mar. c. and al Q. Maries tyme professinge the catholicke Romane Religion in England both before and after his depriuation of his liuings in the second yeare of Q. Mary for being marryed For the rest of these protestant diuines they were fugitiues for mariadge against the canons of the church and conspiracy against Q. Mary before which time they were in the same disease of chaungeing Religion with the former princes and after their going forth of England professed the religion discipline also of the puritane churches where they liued namely to exemplyfie in the liturgie or common booke of prayer of the protestants of Franckfort published an 1554. in Q. Maryes tyme denyinge both the supreamacy of temporall princes and other matters of english protestant Religion this is the subscription of the english protestants then in all their names Liturgia seu ritus ministerij in Ecclesia peregrinorum Francofordiae an 1544. per Petrum Brubachium in fine in subscript Subscribunt Angli ob Euangelium profugi totius Ecclesiae suae nomine Iohannes Mackbraeus c. The protestants of England that were fled for the Ghospell subscribe in the name of their whole church Ihon Mackbree minister Ihon Stanton William Hamon Ihon Bendall William whithingham and to assure vs that these men in particular before named bee Authors or correctors of yt neyther did nor in their owne iudgment could allowe yt it is euident first both because they were of this protestant Franckford congregation secondly because The first protestants of this kingdome your protestants words Couel in examin pag. 72. in a letter subscribed with eleuen of their hands whereof Knoxe Gilby whithinghame and Godman were foure moste of them hauing iudgement and learninge vtterly condemned yt Couel against Burges pag. 69.122.47.185 Soe did Caluine at Geneua Ridley your protestant Bishopp and supposed martyr in a letter to Grindal himselfe a cheife agent in it all the Caluinists in the world abrode in their publick confessions and at home haue likewise euer and doe still condemne it as alsoe all Lutherans that euer were and all those writers or correctors of it themselus and all the protestants in that first parlament in all probable iudgment except fowre new cownsaylers of Q. Elizabeth the Marquesse of Northampton Earle of Bedford Ihon Grey of Pyrge and Cecile her pauculi intimi to whome onely as sayth your historian CaÌ„bden supr in Annal. in Elizab. this matter was communicated vnto re nemini communicata nisi Marchioni Northamptoniae Comiti Bedfordiae Iohanni Greio de Pyrgo Cecilio And this matter was sufficiently proued by some of your late Bishops in the Conference at Hampton Court publickly betweene the protestant Bishops and puritans before our kinge himsemselfe where Barlowe your Bishop in relating of that disputation Barlowe Conference at Hampton Court pag. 14. 15. bringeth in Babington a protestant Bishop of yours openly to acknowledge that in the beginninge your protestants religion and communion booke thereof was proposed and approued in that first parlament by ambiguous and indirect dealeinge of the composers of that communion booke and citeth the Archbishop of yorke to that purpose And if wee may beleeue your protestant Relations of that dispute printed with priuiledge Their protestant Relations of that Confer printed by Ihon windet cap. 1.2.3 all annexed to Barlows Relation wee ar told that your protestant Archbishop of Canterbury Bishop of London Bishop of Wynchester did here vpon their knees before his maiesty confesse as much of the errors of that booke and their Religion thus wee haue from them in three seuerall relations and from the fourth by your Bishop Barlowe as before Finallie thus wee pore catholicke preists and catholicks haue toyled ourselues in searching seeking and preaching all protestants proceedings parlaments lawes writings liues dealeings of these pretended reformers and the further wee wade the deeper wee ar in error if Catholick Religion could possibly bee error for as is euident before wee can finde nothing in any of these protestant patterns and examples but such as confirme vs in that faith wee professe with the catholicke christian world in all ages To which God of his mercy conuert them that bee in error And soe much for this first part of this protestant Plea and petition But seeing wee cannot finde any comforte by your owne writers and relators of these thinges to ioyne with you in your New Religion wee will next proue vnto you by your owne doctors and Antiquaries that holy Religion which wee embrace for which you persecute vs to be the same which was first preached here by Saint Peter and his holy disciples and soe consequently deliuered by Christ himselfe and continued in this nation in all ages euen since then vntill these tymes FINIS APPROBATIO Ego infrascriptus legi libellum Anglicanum cui Titulus praefigitur Protestants plea and petition for Priests and Papists nihil in eo reperi fidei Catholicae vel bonis moribus aduersum quin potius eundem vtilem futurum iudico dignum qui in lucem prodeat Datum Duaci 19. Septemb. 1621. MATTHAEVS KELLISONVS

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