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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

well wishing contry man TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE Court of parlament especially such as therein bee persecutors of Catholicks and to all other such persecutors A Breuiate of the vndoubted truthe of catholick Religion persecuted in England Right honorable and the rest THe penalties and persecutions which in these daies of Protestants haue been heaped vpon and prosecuted against the sacred preists and renowned Catholicks of England haue beene soe heauy and greate by his Maiesties regall sentence in publice parlament that they moued him to these words of commiseration My mynde was euer free from persecution or thrallinge my subiects in matters of conscience I was soe far froÌ„ encreasing their burdens with Roboham as I haue soe much as either tyme occasion or lawe could permitt lightned them Your Courte well knoweth what the case of Roboham was wee neede say noe more and what other heauie burdens haue been since then heaped vpon vs And by your present assemblie now againe to bee inuented and added in his publick speach in his 1. parlam You cannot possibly bee ignorant what an eminent man in your house and companie hath written of the opinion of the christian world of these proceedings The suffrings Syr Edwyne Sandes speaketh vnto you in his booke of the relation of the state of Religion and martyrdomes of English catholicks in these times ar accompted to the height of Neroes and Dioclesians persecutions and the suffrings on their side both in meritts of cause in extremitie of torments and in constancie and patience to the renowned martyrs of that heroicall church age What Nero and Dioclesian were amonge the greatest tyrants and persecutors your place and lawe-makers may not pleade ignorance neyther what the honor and glory of that moste sacred preisthood sacrifice and Religions which soe vehemently and beyonde example you persecute If all catholicks would bee silent your owne protestant Bishops and Antiquaries haue published in Theaters histories to the present world and future posterities that the very same were planted and embraced here in the Apostles tyme and were neuer chaunged in any materiall thinge vntill your pretended reformatioÌ„ Protest Bishops in the Theater of Brit. l. 6. Holinsh. â—ist of Engl. in Claud. Cambden in Britan. Godwyn Conuers Parker antiq Brit. GrymstoÌ„ booke of Estaâ—es in Engl. Scotland Ireland Yf wee appeale to kings and parlaments â— whereon you builde all the auncient parlaments lawes liues of the kings of ScotlaÌ„d â—ry out vnto vs that after 80. Christian kings â—here king Iames is the first and onely proâ—estant kinge The parlaments lawes liues of kings and histories of England and Ireland doe publish vnto vs that of all his primogeniâ—ors kings of these nations hee alone is protestant kinge of them Hee claymeth nothing from king Henry 8. Edward 6. or Q Elizabeth â—ee enioyeth and longe and happily God graunt him to enioy it this Empire by a betâ—er and truer right then they could giue him Hector Boeth Vereca alij hist Scot. all English â—rish hist with their parlam c. Your histories and the laste wills and testaments of those kings ar witnesses against theÌ„ and your Religion that they laboured moste â—niustly against the lawe of God and nature â—o suppresse the vnquestionable right of our soueraigne and his holy mother Edw. Howes preface historial in king Henr. 8. last will of king Henr. 8. All those lawes parlaments and antiquities ar warrant that from our first conuertion to Christ wee had noe other Bishops preists ministers or church seruice which you call communion but Romane catholicke Bishops preists whom you make Traytors and sacrifice of masse for the liuinge and the dead now soe persecuted by you vntill the second parlament of kinge Edward 6. a childe moste childishly began this innouation Parlament 2. Edw. 6. cap. â— an 5. c. 1. Confer at hampt court And in Scotland your ministry and communioÌ„ deuised there by that Traytor to God and prince is of a yonger standinge in the yeares 1560. and 1571. Commun booke c. of the kirke of Scotland by Iohn knoxe 9. of march an 1560. and 1571. Your protestant Antiquaries mustar vnto vs about 1000. approued classicall writers in this kingdome that be renowned in the christian world whoe were such preists said masse preached and proued that Religion they tell vs of many thousand Bishops by continuall succession from our first christianitie of aboue 1000. canonized Saints of diuers thousands of Religious men and woemen liuing in continuall pouertie chastitie and obedience since the tyme of Saint Ioseph of Arimathia that buryed Christ and brought monasticall life into this kingdome wee had 700. Religious howses founded for them which you haue defaced Baleus l. de Scriptor centur 1.2.3.4 Ioh. Leland de script Pitseus de vir illustrib aetate 2.3.4.5 c. Capgrau al. de Sanct. histor Angl. passim Theater of Brit. per tot Stowe hist Holinsh. histor Eng. Scot. Irland Camb. Britan. Our Religion builded those churches which â—ou haue reserued many thowsands which â—ou haue defaced Wee enioyed aboue the â—hird part of England to our Religion 600. â—eares paste and after wee had more kings Queens and princes Saints in this Island and â—reland by your owne historyes and kaleÌ„ders â—hen there euer were since in all the world of â—our Religion Tom. 1.2.3.4 Concil Our Religion had for external warraÌ„t aboue 20. general â—ouncells From the first of nyce in the time of Constantine our Kinge Emperour and conâ—ryman and Sardyce where the popes supreaâ—acy masse and preisthood are confirmed Concil Nic. 1. can 6.7 Sardic concil Theater of Briâ—an in Brit. Stowe hist. Holinsh. ib. Camb. Brit. which our brittist bishops receued vntill the â—aste of Trent in the tyme of Q. Elizabeth to which our catholicke Bishop Pates of worcesâ—er subscribed for England for vs and against you as your protestant Bishop telleth vs. Godwyn Catalog of Bish. in worcester in Rich. Pates wee had consequently all holy fathers and Bishops present in them to warrant vs. wee had and haue as your protestants acknowledge Casaubon respons ad Cardinal Peron pag. 69.70 all Apostolicke seas for vs against you wee had and haue consequently all those true and vndeniable motiues of true ReligioÌ„ which moued the christian world to embrace the lawe of Christ to assure and confirme vâ— in this truthe wee see and knowe that this our holy faith accordinge to the foretelling of Christ his prophets and Apostles is preached and planted in all the worlde Europe Africke Asia and America neuer any Religion in the lawe of nature of Moyses Iewes Turcks Tartares protestants pagans or other is or was at any tyme in any degree dilated as it is Grymston Booke of estates in kâ— of Spaine Europe Asia Africk America And for externall splendor at home it was soe greate when king Henry 8. began to enuie the glory of it that he promised the parlameÌ„t as your protestaÌ„t histories assure vs if it would graunt him power to visitt

oath was enacted and for the fourth assigned Doctor Bishop And to confirme further this relenting disposition in that Queene and the wisest of her counsell besides that which is written before those Priestes whom hee that writeth for the new oath vnder the name of M. Roger Widdrington doeth vntruely challenge for his opinion as both their late Apologie to the contrary the martirdome of some of them for onely refusing it as namely M. Robert Drury and the confession and acknowledgment of that author himselfe vpon certaine knowledge doe testifie they still iustifie that the councell of Q. Elizabeth promised quietnes and tolleration vpon Priests acknowledgement of temporal obedience vnto her which none denyed and this was the motiue as these Priestes haue often protested for I am none of them that they were willing to yeeld so much as their spiritual bond and dutie to the See Apostolik which they except would permit to Queene Elizabeth then their Soueraigne Neither can wee without great aspersion of dishonour and all hope of all kinde of penitencie in that princesse be of other minde For hauing publickly so protested in parlament neuer to vexe or trouble anye Romane Catholike for matter of Religion her case euen by protestants iudgement not to persecute for Religion should be too desperate by their owne proceedings especially if we a little reflect vpoÌ„ that which all the christian world can witnesse both for priests and Catholikes and our protestant histories themselus thus deliuer vnto vs in these wordes Elizabeth succeeded her sister began her raigne with so generall applause as her sister did by reason the Cleargie the Nobilitie and most of the commons were Romane Catholikes who neuerthelesse although they knew her full determination was to alter their setled course in Religion yet they all with one consent being set in the Parlament house when the certaine newes was brought theÌ„ of Queene Maries death they acknowledged her immediate right and presently declared the same by diuers Proclamations and forth-with prepared themselues to performe their homage and fealtie which shee gratiously accepted Howes Historical preface in Queene Elizabeth Stowes Historie anno 1. Elizabeth Cambden in apparal Annal. Thus these Protestant historians and these renowned Bishops Priests and Catholiks were so far from raysing the least resistance against her when as we see they might easily haue kept her from being Queene if they would haue proceeded as Protestants vse to do that those holy Bishops as your greatest Protestant antiquarie writeth Cambden annal pag. 27. though they both thought Queene Elizabeth at that time to deserue the censure of Excommunication and that they had power and authoritie to inflict it on her yet they refrayned to doe it leaste by that meanes the people and subiects of England would take armes against her and so depose her being by them excommunicated And thus tender of this Queenes safety and quiet though after excommunicate and for her birth by our Protestant historians and statutes themselues not in the best estate were all Priests of England after that not onely at that time of the statute against them they were all most free and innocent as is iustified in the petition before confirmed by our Protestant historians which cannot charge any one Priest of those dayes with temporall disobedience but euer after continued in the same dutie and loyaltie not any one accused of the contrarie except they wil instance in M. Ballard for the businesse of the Queene of Scotland and her sonne his Maiestie that now raigneth and long and happely may he raigne amongst vs which we thinke for their dutie they owe to our Soueraigne and King Iames Protestants should not be hastie to vrge and if they should and that matter were as the Protestants then pretended yet but one Priest in 44. yeares seruing for their purpose they may now acknowledge how vnequal and vniust a thing it was to condemne so venerable heigh a function generally for so an heynous offence when they finde none guiltie by their owne proceedings And this innocencie of Priestes was that which in those latter dayes of Q. Elizabeth so inforced that Queene and her councel so cunningly as they could with their politike reputation not to be altogether contrary to themselues and not ingeniously acknowledge the wrongs and iniuries they had offered and done to that sacred vocation to stay the fury and mittigate the rage of their former persecution by occasion whereof and Priestes prooued thus innoceÌ„t diuers religious men which spareingly before as those of the Societie or not at all as the Monkes of the order of S. Benedict had visited England resorted hither in some numbers in those latter dayes of that Queene And thus much of the honor and loyaltie of Priests and vndeniable trueth of the Religion they taught in her time Howe the Priestes and Catholikes of England neuer deserued the least persecution or affliction vnder our Soueraigne King Iames but rather fauour honour and reuerence NOW let vs come to the time of our dread leige and Soueraigne King Iames as the world well knoweth the affection and dutifull loue of the Priests and Catholikes of England toward his Maiesties right and most vndoubted true title to this kingdome in the dayes of Queene Elizabeth yet euer performing due obedience vnto her was not inferiour to the best Protestants of this nation so it pleased his Maiestie without any exception of Priest or Papist generally to speake in publike Parlament of this whole Iland I am the husband and all the whole I le is my lawful wife I am the head and it is my bodie I am the Sheepheard and it is my flocke King Iames parl 1. sess 1. He therefore accounteth vs poore members of this his wife his bodie flocke for being but one husband head and shepheard he hath but one wise body and flocke by that relation And at his entrance hither by his regall testimonie wee that be priestes and Catholikes applauded and embraced it with as great ioy and alacritie as those that were Protestants and of his Religion as they pretende his Maiestie tearmeth it sess 1. supr parl 1. a ioy full and general applause and vnexpected readines of our deserts memorable resolution most wonderfull coniunction and harmonie of our hearts in declaring and embraceing our vndoubted King and gouernour at his first entrie into this kingdome the people of all sortes rid and ran other flew to meete him their eyes flaming nothing but sparkles of affection their mouthes and tongues vttering nothing but sounds of ioye their hearts feete and all the rest of their members in their gestures discouering a passionate longing and earnestnes to meete and embrace their new Soueraigne Thus it pleased him to embrace vs in generall as his most louing and dutifull subiects and in particular thus he pittied our former afflictions and intended to mitigate and relieue them my minde saith he was euer free from persecution or thralling my subiectes in matters

Iane Seymor and then declared the Ladie Elizabeth to be illegitimate Thus word by word this Protestant historian Then by this such like proceedings as first bringing the cleargie into danger of Premunire threats importunities and such practises as these Protestants tel vs Parker Stow Hollinshed Theater vt supr procuring the title of Supremacie to himselfe in matters ecclesiasticall This Protestant antiquarie thus proceedeth in this Kings proceedings The king obtained the Ecclesiasticall supremacie into his particular possession and therewithal had power giuen him by parlament to suruey reforme the abuses of al Religious houses parsons But the King because he would go the next way to worke ouerthrew them and razed them Whereat many the Peeres and common people murmured because they expected that the abuses should haue bene onely reformed and the rest haue still remained The general plausible proiect which caused the Parlaments consent vnto the reformation or alteration of the Monasteries was that the Kings exchequer should for euer be enriched the Kingdome and nobilitie strengthened and encreased and the common subiectes acquitted and freed from all former seruices and taxes to witte that the Abbots Monkes Friers and Nunnes being suppressed that then in their places should be created fourty Earles threescore Barons and three thousand Knights and fourtie thousand souldiers with skilfull captaines and competent maintenance for them for euer out of the antient church-reuenewes so as in so doing the King and his successors should neuer want of treasure of their owne nor haue cause to be beholding to the common subiect neither should the people be any more charged with loanes subsidies and fifteenes since which time there haue bene more statute laws subsidies and fifteenes then in fiue hundred yeares before and not long after that the King had subsidies granted and borrowed great sommes of money and dyed in debt and the forenamed religious houses were vtterly ruinate whereat the cleargy peeres and coÌ„mon people were all sore grieued but could not helpe it He also supprest the knights of the Rhodes and many faire hospitals This was done after the king was diuorced from Catherine of Spaine his first wife He began his raigne prodigally reigned rigorously liued proudly and dyed distemperatly Through feare and terrour he obtained an acte of Parlament to dispose of the right of successioÌ„ in the Crowne and then by his last will and testament contrary to the law of God and nature conueyes it from the lawful heyres of his eldest Sister marryed to the king of Scotland vnto the heires of Charles Brandon and others thereby to haue defeated preuented and suppressed the vnquestionable and immediate right from God of our gratious Soueraigne king Iames. At his death he was much perplexed and spake many things to great purpose but being inconstant in his life none durst trust him at his death Thus your Protestant historian hath described this first protestant supreame head of the church in England They that desire more knowledge of him may resort to his owne statutes the Protestant Theater of Britanie Sir Walter Raleigh his preface to his historie of the world and a booke of the tyrants of the world published by the Protestants of Basile where they may find him a supreame head among them statut Henr. 8. ab an Regni 21. Theater of Brit. in Henr. 8. Walter Ral. histor of the world praef lib. of Tyran Basil And his ghostly father Cranmer his chiefe instrumeÌ„t in those moste execrable sinnes for a Cleargie man was not inferiour vnto him Hee was as your first protestantly ordained Archbishoppe Parker in his life with others witnesseth both the mooued and moouing instrument of this king in this and many other his wicked designements Hee was of all the Religions of King Henry the 8. Edward the 6. He diuers times swore to the Pope and was forsworne Hee swore to King Henry the 8. and was forsworne when he swore otherwise to king Edward his sonne and was publickly prooued a periured man he was a chiefe executor of king Henrie the 8. his will and within 24. houres of his death a chiefe breaker thereof He was a continued felon vnto him in his life married against his lawes making it felony in such men hee was for chastitie to my reading the first last and onely trigamus a Bishoppe husband of three wiues in the world He counterfeited the hands and seales of 50. conuocation men and among the rest of the blessed martyr Bishop Fisher He gaue chiefe consent and swore that Edwarde the 6. a childe of nine yeares old was supreame head of the Church had al iurisdiction spiritual in himselfe Parker antiq Britan. in Cranmer Foxe tom 2. in Cranmer Stow histor in Har. 8. Holinsh. Hist of Engl. ibid. Theater of great Britanie in K. Henr. Godwyne Catalogue of Bishops in Canterburie in Tho. Cranmer Stow Holinsh Theater Foxe and others in Q. Marie and Edw. the 6. Harpesfield in the life of B. Fisher and all that Cranmar had he receaued from him yea your Protestants witnesse by the Protestant Confessions themselues of Heluetia Bohemia Belgia Augusta Wittenberge and Swe that boyes could not take or giue such power Th. Rogers pag. 140. artic 23. Confess Heluet Bohem. Belg. August Wittenb c. If any thing now controuersied defended sworne vnto can make a man an heretike CraÌ„mar professing and swearing vnto them all was an hereticke and traytor to God If conspiracie open hostilitie and rebellion to his true and lawfull prince Queene Marie doth make a man a traytor to his Soueraigne If to be hissed in the publicke schooles of Oxford in publike disputation after all these changes doth conuince a man vndertaking so many matters to be a man vnworthie and ignorant If to recant heresie fall to it againe putteth a man in case of relapse of heresie all these thinges be written of this Archbishop Archactor Architector Arch-hereticke Arch-traytor Arch-periured prophane wretch of your Religion by your owne writers here cited and were publickly to the eternal infamie of that vnhappie and gracelesse man and his followers therein prooued against him Therefore although King Henry the eight did rather differ from the Church of Rome in matter of Iurisdiction spiritual by his claymed Supremacie as your protestants testifie and his lawes are witnesses Stow histor in Henr. 8. Holinsh and Theator ibid. statut of K. Henrie 8. c. theÌ„ any way in matter of doctrine Catholiks cannot in conscience by your Protestants ioyne either with him or you therein beeing the first as they haue assured vs that euer claymed it in this kingdome and procuring it in so vile vnlawful maner as your historians haue declared and practizing it to his wanton and ambitious ende against his owne conscience For al the foundatioÌ„s of our Religious houses being pro remedio animaruÌ„ to say Masse pray for their posteritie for euer For the honor of God the most blessed Virgin and other Saints as all our

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

Saint Ihon Baron of Bletsoe and Sr. Henry Carey Lord Hounsdon Qui singuli Ã pontificia Religione alieni all which were alienated from the popes Religion all which that Queene and her pauculi intimi very fewe that consented vnto her knew by that meanes would giue their voyces in parlament to what shee should desire and not content with this proceeded soe in these indirect courses that as your protestants haue written Cambden Annall pag. 27. plures Ã¨ protestantibus data opera Ã¨ comitatibus tum Ã¨ ciuitatibus burgis fuisse electos Norfolciae ducem Arundeliaeque Comitem inter proceres potentissimos in suam siue rem siue spem Ceciliumque sua solertia suffragia emendicasse The papists complayned that more protestants of sett purpose were chosen out of Countries cyties and burroughts and the Duke of Norfolke and Earle of Arundell moste potent amonge the nobilitie eyther for their owne good or hope by the Queens promises of marriadge or such things and Cecyle by his cunninge had begged voyces And to helpe and further soe bad a cause the Queene herselfe your protestants words openly protested at that tyme in parlament that shee would neuer vexe or trouble the Romane Catholicks concerning any difference in Religion Neyther did this Queene or hir pauculi intimi Cecile and Bacon take this straunge course in hand for dislike of catholick Religion for your Antiquary telleth vs of Q. Elizabeth herselfe ad Romanae Religionis normam sacra audiret saepius confiteretur Missam permisit post mortem Mariae litanias Q. Elizabeth heard masse after the Romane order often went to confession and after Q. Maryes death allowed masse and litanies Cambden in Apparatu pag. 13. The like is as well knowne of those her intimi at that tyme. But they had other little laudable ends by protestant proceedings now thus expressed by your cheifest Antiquary Cambden in Annal. Rer. Anglic in Elizabeth pag. 21.22 Nonnulli ex intimis Consiliarijs in aures assiduÃ¨ insusurrarunt mollissimo ingenio virgini dum timerent ne animus in dubio facillimÃ¨ impelleretur actum de ipsa amicis esse conclamatum de Anglia si pontificiam authoritatem in dispensando aut alia quacunque re agnosceret duos pontifices matrem illegittimÃ¨ Henrico 8. emptam pronuntiasse inde in eorum sententia iam lata Scotorum Reginam ius in Regnum Angliae sibi arrogare pontificem sententiam istam nunquam rescissurum Some of her inward Counsaylors did dayly whisper into her eares beeing a mayden of a moste tractable disposition while they feared least her minde in doubt might most easely bee driuen forward to marry with king Philip of Spayne and soe continue the catholicke Religion that shee and her frendes were vndone if shee should acknowledge the popes authority in dispenseinge or any other matter For two popes had allready pronounced that her mother was vnlawfully marryed to Henry 8. and soe in their sentence denownced the Queene of Scots did challendge right to the kingdome of England And that the pope would neuer recall this sentence And agayne Prospexit huiusmodi matrimonium ex dispensatione contrahendo non posse non agnoscere seipsam iniustis nuptijs natam esse Shee thus perceaued that this marriadge with king Philipp of Spayne her Systers husband to bee by the popes dispensation must needs acknowledge that shee was borne in vnlawfull wedlocke And they knew alsoe that shee remayning a catholicke must seeke for the popes dispensation of this her birth not onely made and declared illegitimate by the pope but by her father himselfe and the whole parlament and Title to the crowne giuen her onely by the will and testament of her father parlament Henr. 8. of Illeg Lady Elizab. against which in this case your protestant hâ—an thus exclaymeth Howes histor preface in Henry 8. through feare and terror Henry 8. obteyned an Act of parlament to dispose of the right of succession to the crowne and then by his last will and testament K. Henry 8. in his last will and Testam contrary to the law of God and nature conuayes it from the lawfull heires of his eldest sister marryed vnto the kinge of Scotland vnto the heires of Charles Brandon and others his daughter Elizabeth and of these others thereby to haue defeated preuented and supprest the vnquestionable and immediate right from God of our gratious soueraigne kinge Iames as if it had beene in the power of his will or of the parlament to disenherite and preuent the diuine free guift and grace of almightie God by which the kings of this land doe hold their crownes Thus your protestant and priuiledged historians by which is euident that this proceedinge by such exorbitant courses concerning ReligioÌ„ was not for loue or likinge of their protestant Religion further then yt gaue them licence and libertie to doe and liue as pleased their sensuall appetites which the church and Religion of Rome would not allowe And yett all these sinistre and prophane proceedings not withstandinge to insist in your protestants words in chaungeing Religion in that her parlament Howes historial preface in Q. Elizabeth In this parlament notwithstandinge the presence of the Queene to countenance their bad cause with the apparant likelyhood of hir longe life and hope of issue to succeede her yett the maior part exceeded the minor but in sixe voyces at which time to wringe out consents the Queene openly pronounced that shee would neuer vexe or trouble the Romane Catholicks concerninge any difference in Religion Which promise of hirs was as well performed as that condition of her fathers before of bestoweinge the church reuenewes for as your protestants haue related her persecutions which soe vnprincely and vnchristianely in her name and power of that straunge claymed supreamacie in a woman and such a woman equaled or exceeded those of Nero and Dioclesian infensiue tyrants and enemyes of Christianitie Syr Edwyn Sandes in Relation of the state of Religion And in that parlament yt selfe where shee spake these words and proceeded to cruell inflicted penalties against those Romane Catholicks as all our holy Bishops were depriued imprisoned or exiled soe were all other ecclesiasticall parsons that would not doe as pleased her Stowe histor an 1. Elizab. Holinshed Theater ibid. Cambd. in Annalib Rerum Anglicarum in Elizab. Parlament 1. Elizabeth greate forfaictures and punishments imposed vppon all that should heare masse or not bee present at her new deuised seruice premunire losse of lands goods and perpetuall imprisonment and losse of life alsoe with note of Treason to them that would not acknowledge that spirituall supreame power in her of which shee was soe far vncapable in the iudgment of her owne protestants that diuers of them wrote and published to the world that a woman could not bee a supreame gouernor in things temporall Knoxe Godman and other protest against the Regim of women and they were soe violent herein both in England and

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