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To the nobility of England
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1679
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Marmaduc Lord of Hordene 97 John Lord Kingston 98 Robert Hasting Lord de la Desiree 99 Ralph Lord Grandon William 100 Lord Leyborn John 101 Grastock Lord of Morpath 102 Mathew Son of John Lord of Stockenhame Nicholas 103 Meynill Lord of Wherleton and John 104 Paynell Lord of Otteleye Devoutly Kiss your Holyness 's Feet The Holy Mother Church of Rome by whose Ministry the Catholick Faith is directed doth proceed as we firmely believe and hold with that Maturity of Counsel in her determination that she not prejudice any but like a Tender Mother is willing to preserve the Rights of every particular person inviolable as well in other places as within her own precincts Wherefore a full Parliament being Call'd by our Soveraign Lord Edward by the Grace of God the Renowned King of England at his City of Lincoln He our said Soveraign did cause to be Publickly produc'd and faithfully Interpreted to us certain Apostolical Letters received from You concerning some affairs relating to the Condition and state of the Kingdom of Scotland Which having heard and well understood we found that contained such things as seem'd very strange to us and such as were never heard of before For we know that from the very most Holy Father and 't is well known throughout this Realm of England and not unknown to other places that from the very begining of the Realm of England the Soveraign and Direct Dominion of the Kingdom Scotland has been injoyed by the Kings of England both in the times of the Britains and also of the English And that they have been in the possession or as Good of the Supremacy and direct Dominion of the said Kingdom of Scotland in all succeeding Ages Neither hath the said Kingdom at any time in Temporals belonged or doth belong by any manner of Right unto your Church of Rome aforesaid but in truth the said Kingdom of Scotland hath belonged unto the Ancestors of our aforesaid Soveraign Lord Kings of England and of old time hath been Feudatory to them alone Neither have the King and Kingdom of Scotland been subject or usually under any one else but the Kings of England Neither have the Kings of England given in any Answer or ought to give in any Answer in reference to their Rights in that Kingdom OR ANY OTHER THEIR TEMPORALATIES before any Judge Ecclesastical or Secular by reason of the Boundless Preeminence of their State and Royal Dignity and Custome Irrefragably observed throughout all Ages Wherefore after a serious Debate and Consideration of the Contents of your aforesaid Letters The Common Joynt and Unanimous consent of all and every of us was is and by the help of God shall be Resolutely for ever That our aforesaid Soveraign Lord the King Ought in no wise to give in any Answer in Judgment before you touching His Rights in the Kingdom of Scotland OR ANY OTHER HIS TEMPORALITIES nor by any mean to submit to your Jurisdiction or so much as to yeild that his said Rights be brought into Question or to send any Proctor or Messenger to appear before you in this Business Especially since the doing of the Premisses would manifestly tend to the disinheriting of the Rights of the Crown of the Kingdom of England and of the Royal Prerogative and to the notorious subversion ot the State of this Realm and likewise to the Prejudice of the Liberties Customs and Laws of our Progenitors All which we are bound by Oath duely to Observe and Defend and which we will Maintain with the utmost of our Power and by the help of God with all our Might and Main Defend Moreover we do not Permit or in the least will Permit for 't is not in our power neither ought we that our said Lord the King should do or in the least wise attempt to do any of the premises so strange so unlawful Prejudicial and otherwise unheard of though He would himself Wherefore we with Reverence humbly beseech your Holyness that you would Gratiously permit the said Soveraign Lord our King who is as good a Catholick and as much devoted to the Church of Rome as any Prince of Christiandom Peaceably to Injoy His Rights Liberties Customes and Laws aforesaid without my Trouble or Diminution and so to remain untoucht for the future In Witness whereof we have set our Seals to these presents as well for our selves as for the whole Commonalty of the Kingdom of England aforesaid Dated at Lincoln the 12 day of February in the year of our Lord One Thousand Three Hundred A breif account of 〈◊〉 popes Pretences of a Civl Right to the Crown of England and the Answer thereunto THat the Pope of Rome hath for sume Ages last past pretended to a Soveraign Right over Christan Kings and Princes cannot be unknown to any who are acquainted with the writings of their most approved Authors the Decrees of their Councils or the Instanccs of such usurped authority recorded in Histories for these Five Hundred years The judgment of their Licenced Authors their Councils and their Laws in this Case is excellently published by the Learned Pen of the Right Reverend Bishop of Lincoln and that the same Doctrine hath been by them generally received I can bring no greater proofs than their common practise recorded in History How many Emperours Kings and Soveraign Princes have been de Facto deposed by them how many great Massacres and private Murders have been Encouraged and Defended how many Tortures and unheard of Cruelties how many Treasons and Damnable Conspiracies to the subversion of whole Kingdoms have been contrived and some executed by Jesuits and other Emissaries of Rome would require a large Volumn to relate I shall refer the Reader to a few Authors for his abundant satisfaction herein Thuanus a a Lib. 1. cap. 9. de Repub Bodinus and the Exact Collection of b b Popish Treasons Vsurpaâ— Mr. Fowlis Nor was there any place felt the weight of the Popes Iron Rod more grievous then the Kingdom of England hence was he wont to exact vast summes of money which were as readily paid and of what esteem it was with him â—…y gather from the Character he gives when he calls it * 〈◊〉 Innocent 4. Anno 1214 â—… Puteus inexhaustus And from 〈…〉 from their yoak and burden â—…n neither we nor our Fathers were able to beat what Damning Censures and Violent Excommunications have been sent out against us what Secreâ— and Horrible Plots have been contrived to destroy our Kings and Kingdoms I hope will never be forgot and all this not so much to reestablish here the Religion as the Authority which the Pope hath lost and the right of that Title which he claims to this Kingdom he thinks equal to that pretended from Constantin's Donation And to this purpose his Sub-Collector c c Hist Angl. lib. 4. Polidore Virgil tels us that Ina was the first King who made this Kingdom of England Tributary to the Pope but
he forgets himself pag. 740. where he saith Peter pence was given Pietatis Religionis Causa for Gods sake and therefore not by way of Homage and Subjection This Gift was continued by Offa. Atulphus Canutus and Edward the Confessor who calls it the * Iamb Appendix Edw. de Rome Seat § 10. Kings Almes William the Conqueror alloweth this gift but renounceth all Obedience to the Pope as appears by Lanfranks Epist d Apud Eadiner p. 113 Pope Pascal 2. in a Letter to Hen. d. calls this Donation Beati Petri Eleemosyna and e Resâ— ab Aâ—…l Bellarning pag. 83 Bishop Andrews tells us that it was an Alms given to a Hospital at Rome where they usul to entertain Pilgrims out of England The Second pretended Title is from King John's Resignation of the Crown to Pandulphus the Popes Legate and receiving it again under Fealty and Homage and at the yearly Tribute of a Thousand Marks Which Title upon several accounts will appear invalid First as to matter of Fact f In Supplicat of Soules Pag. 296. Sir Thomas Moor who could not want all advantages of informing himself in affairs of this nature denies it his words are these Some Writers say that King John made England and Ireland Tributary to the Pope by the grant of a thousand Marks we dare surely say again that this is untrue and that all Rome neither can shew such a grant nor ever could and if they could it were right nought worth For never could any King of England give away the Realm to the Pope or make the land Tributary if he would nor no such money is there paid nor never was These are the words of that great States-man who was no enemy to the Popes Authority But granting there was something done to this purpose in the prese 〈…〉 Peers and without the Consent of Any as Mat. Paris a Monk of Saint Albans who lived at that time acquaints us I shall take my Second Argument to invallidate this Title from the words of Sir Thomas Moor before cited for if they could at Rome shew any such grant yet it were right nought worth for never any King of England could give away the Realm to the Pope nor make the Land Tributary if he would And herein agree the Learned Grotius Bodinus and other Lawyers and the Barons of this Realm were obliged by their Oaths g Lambert Apx. p. 170. lib. 50. de obsequiv erga Regem lege 59 p. 171. Terras honores Regis omni fidelitate ubique servare cum co contra inimicos alicnigenas desendere To preserve together with the King the Territories and Honor of the King and to defend them against their Enemies and Forraigners And herewith agrees the Command which the Conqueror laid upon all the Commons Firmiter pracipimus ut omnes liberi homines totius Regni praedicti sint sratres jurati ad Monarchiam nostram proviribus suis sacultatibus contra inimicos pro posse suo desendendum viriliter servandum i. e. We strictly Charge and Command that all Free-holders in all parts of our Kingdom shall be sworn Brethren Sworn to defend our Monarchy with their Persons and Estates to the utmost of their ability and manfully to preserve it by which it appears that the Commons were as well as the Lords bound to defend their Country against Usurpations and Invasions and we doubt not but the same English courage is to be found amongst their posterity which we find h Coll. Posthum pag. 348. which be quoteth è lib. Sancti Albani fol. 207. Recorded about the 44. year of Henry the third For when Pope Alexander the Fourth demanded a revocation of Adomar Bishop of Winchester because he was a Church-man as was urged and not subject to lay Censures who had been Banished by the joynt consent of the King Lords and Commons for his intolerable Insolence the Commons gave this resolute answer to the Popes demand Peter de Monford being Prolocutor Si Dominus Rex Regni Majores noc vellent meaning Adomar's revocation fom Banishment COMMUNITAS tamen ipsius ingressum in Angliam jam nullâ—… sustinorat Though the King and Peers of the Realm should declare for his return yet the Commons would by no meanes endure it Lastly no man can confer a greater Right upon another than what is in himself and that King John was an Usurper is evident from all His tories of that Age for Arthur of Brittain his Elder Brothars Son was Thirteen years or Age when John invaded the Throne but tearing that he might not be long quiet in his Possession whilst the Right Heir was alive he Murder'd his Nephew and imprison'd his Neice Elianor who survived him and his doth utterly make void his Right to dispose of what he had not right to keep And of what small account was this pretended Title not only the Resolutions of the Commons afore mentioned but also this Letter Subseribed by all the Peers of England will abundantly manifest THe Reader may please to take notice that the Exemplar whence this was taken is in Corpus Christi Colladge Library in Oxon and Recorded by Mat. Westminster and Walsingham and mentioned by Parsons in his answer to the Lord Chief Justice Coks Reports but without any Reply Pag. 266. cap. 11. and whereas in that the ames round the Arâ—…ies are in an antient English letter the Graver being being unacquainted with the Characterm for his own ease and more convenient Reading hath put them in the Modern Febr. 8. 1678. Imprimatur JOHN NICHOLAS Vice-Can OXON OXFORD Printed by LEON LICHFIELD for RICHARD DAVIS 1619. And are to be Sold by MOSES PITT at the Angel HENRY MORTLOCK at the Phaenix in St. Pauls Church Yard and at the White Hart in Westminster Hall