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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A07921	An answer vnto the Catholiques supplication, presented vnto the Kings Maiestie, for a tolleration of popish religion in England wherein is contained a confutation of their vnreasonable petitions, and slaunderous lyes against our late soueraigne Queene Elizabeth ... : together with an information vnto His Maiestie of diuers their wicked and treasonable practises, attempted in the life time of our late Queene ... : wherevnto is annexed the supplication of the papists, word for word as it was presented vnto the Kings Maiestie ... / written by Christopher Muriell the elder.	Muriell, Christopher.	1603 (1603)	STC 18292.2; ESTC S2825	12,904	30

neuer stand in neede of their seruice deuoted seruants the Catholikes of England partly to preuent sinister informations which happily may possesse your sacred eares before our answere bee heard partly almost as men ouerwhelmed with If they be perse cuted themselues are the cause thereof for they are neuer well but when their heads are hatching of rebellion persecutions for our consciences we are enforced to haue speedie recourse in hope of present redresse from your Highnesse and to present these humblelines vnto your royall person to pleade for vs some As you deserue so I pray God you may haue commiseration and fauour 3. What Nay what desperate and vnnaturall designements will they not to their power at the Popes cōmandement attempt against thē for they hold it a matter of great merit at the Popes cōmandemēt to kill and murder their lawfull Princes See Parry his Treasons Squire his treasons Likewise Peter Barricre and Iohn Chastell their desperate attemptes againsts the French King Iesuites Catechisme 3. booke page 148. 155. allegeance or dutie can any temporall Prince desire or exped at his vassalls hands which we are not addressed to performe How many Noble-men and worthy Gentlemen most zealous in the Catholike Religion haue endured some losse of lands and liuings some exile others imprisonment some the effusion of bloud life for the Busie fellowes that would take in hand such treasonable actions before they had acquainted the partie for whom they vndertooke them therewith Iesuites Catechisme 3. booke page 138. aduancement of your blessed Mothers right vnto the scepter of Albion Nay whose singer did euer ake but Catholikes for your Maiesties present title dominions How many Happie is that countrie that is rid of them for it is better haue their roome then their compaine fled to your Court offering themselues as hostages for their friends to liue die in your Graces His Maiestie in publique Print acknowledgeth and euer did that Queene ELIZABETH was lawfull Queene and therefore must those that so offered themselues by the Kings owne testumonie be traytors quarrell if euer Aduersary had opposed himself against the equitie of your cause If this they attempted with their Princes disgrace to obtaine your Maiesties grace what will they do nay what wil they not doe to liue without disgrace in your Graces fauour 4. The maine of this Realme if we respect Religion setting petty sects aside consisteth vpon foure parts Protestants who haue dominiered all the former Queenes dayes Puritanes who haue crept vp apace among them Atheists or Politititans who were bred vpon their brawles and contentions in matters of faith And Catholikes who as they are opposite to all so are they detested of all because Errour was euer an enemie to Truth Hardly all or any of the No thankes to them for if their deseignes could haue beene effected all protestants throates had beene cut long agone call to minde they yeare 1588 and then iudge whether it be so or not first two three can be suppressed and therefore we beseech your Maiestie to yeeld vs as much fauour as others of contrarie religion to that which shall he publikely professed in England shall obtaine at your hands For if our fault be like or lesse or none at all in They pleade miustice against the Kings Maiestie if they may not be permitted freely to vse their Idolatrous religion equitie our punishment ought to bee like or lesse or none at all The Gates Arches and Pyramides of France proclaimed the present King Pater patriae pacis restitutor because that kingdome being well nigh torne in pieces with ciuil warres and made a pray to forraine foes was by his prouident wise dome and valour acquired in it selfe and hostile strangers expelled the which he principally effected by condescending to Hath he beene since that time freed from the danger of Papists search the French Chronicles and you shall finde the contrarie tollerate them of an aduerse religion to that was openly professed Questionlesse dread Soueraigne the kingdome of England by cruell persecution of Catholikes hath bin almost odious to all Christian Nations Trade and traffique is decayed wars and bloud hath seldome ceased Subsidies and taxes neuer so many None or very few discontented but Papists whose heads do alwayes ake but when they are working of treasons and drawing of others into the same state of discontentment with them discontented minds innumerable all which your Maiesties princely conniuencie to your humble Suppliants the afflicted Catholikes will easily redresse especially at your Highnesse ingresse Si loquaris ad eos verba lenia erunt tibi serui cunctis diebus said the sage Counsellors of Salomon to Rehoboham For enlargement after affliction resembleth a pleasant gale after a vehement The Papists haue caused more stormes tempests to arise in this land then all other Sects besides that they can inuent names for Who but Papistes sought meanes induce the late Earle of Essex if he would haue beene atraytour to his Prince to be a Pencioner for the King of Spaine Earle of Essex his owne Apologie Yet had they vnder-hand acquainted therewith the late Lord Treasurer Sir VVilliam Cecill insomuch that if the Earle had consented vnto them presently had he beene entrapped VVatson the Priestin his booke of Quod libetts tempest and a benefit in distresse doubleth the value thereof 5. How gratefull will it be to all Catholike Princes abroad and honourable to your Maiesty to vnderstand how Queene Elizabeths A manifest slander of his Maiestie for she was farre more merciful vnto them then euer they deserued Nay the Priests themselues in their own bookes acknowledge the iustice of his Maiesties lawes against them seuerity is changed into your royall clemencie and that the lenitie of a man reedified that which the misinformed anger of a woman destroyed That the Lion rampant is passant whereas the passant had beene rampant How acceptable shall all your subiects be to all Catholike countries who are now almost abhorred of all when they shall perceiue your Highnesse prepared not and pikes and prisons for the professours of their faith but permitted them Temples and To offer sacrifice vpon vnto their Popish Idols Altars for the vse of their Religion Then shall we see with our eyes and touch with our fingers that happy benediction or Esay in this land that swords are changed into ploughs and launces into sithes And all Nations admiring vs will say Hi sunt semen cui benedixit Dominus Wee request no more fauour at your Graces hands then that wee may securely professe that Catholike religion which al your happy Predecessours professed from Donaldus the first conuerted vnto your Maiesties peerelesse Mother last martyred 6. A Religion venerable for D. Sutcliffe in his challenge vnto N.D. hath prooued the contrary chap. the 2. page 27. antiquity maiesticall for amplitude constant for continuance irreprehensible for doctrine inducing to all kinde of vertue and piety disswading from all sinne and wickednesse A Religion beloued by all primitiue Pastours established by all Occumenicall Councels vpheld by all ancient Doctors maintained by the first and most Christian Emperours recorded almost alone in all Ecclesiasticall Histories sealed with the bloud of millions of Martyrs adorned with the vertues of so many Confessors beautified with the purity of thousands of Virgines so conformable to Therein I thinke they speake more truly then they are aware of natural sence and reafon and finally so agreeable to the sacred text of Gods word and Gospell The free vse of this Religion we request if not in publike Churches at least in priuate houses if not with approbation yet with toleration without molestation 7. Assure your Grace that howsoeuer some Protestants or Puritanes incited by morall honesty of life or innated instinct of nature or for feare of some temporall punishment pretend obedience vnto your Highnesse lawes yet certainely the onely Are the chiefest stirrers vnto rebellion in all Christian common-wealths Catholikes for conscience sake obserue them For they defending that A meere vntrueth for no Protestants maintaine any such position Princes precepts and statutes oblige no subiect vnder the penalty of sinne will little care in conscience to transgresse them which principally are tormented with the guilt of finne But Catholikes confessing merite in obeying and demerit in transgressing cannot but in soule be grieuously tortured at the least preuarication thereof Wherefore most mercifull Soueraigne wee your long afflicted subiects in all dutifull submission protest before the Maiesty of God and all his holy Angels as loyall obedience and as immaculate allegeance vnto your Grace as euer did faithfull subiects in England or Scotland vnto you Highnesse Progenitours and intend as sincerely with our goods and liues to As long as your Maiestie will serue their purposes but no longer Let them all oh Lord if it be thy will be conuerted and agree with vs in one truth Amen serue you as euer did the loyallest Isralites King Dauid or the trusty legions the Romane Emperours And thus expecting your Maiesties customarie fauour and gracious bounty we rest your deuoted Suppliants to him whose hands do manage the harts of Kings and with reciprocate mercie will requite the mercifull Your sacred Maiesties most deuoted Seruants The Catholikes of England