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A20671	An humble appeale to the Kings most excellent Maiestie Wherein is proued, that our Lord and Sauiour Iesus Christ, was authour of the Catholike Roman faith, which Protestants call Papistrie. Written by Iohn Hunt, a Roman Catholike, in defence of his religion against the calumniations and persecutions of Protestant ministers.	Doughty, Thomas, fl. 1618-1638.	1620 (1620)	STC 7072.3; ESTC S116238	58,171	97

to moue your Highnesse to dispence with the said Statutes are as many and as weightie as in any case can be giuen whereof I will repeate onely some few out of which others may be collected First for that the said Statutes are contrary to the honor of God his oathes words and Law as we haue abundantly prooued throughout this booke and as your Maiesty well affirmeth in your Speech in the Star-chamber printed 1616. There is another Law of all Lawes free and Supreame which is Gods Law And by this all common and municipall Lawes must be gouerned And except they haue dependance vpon this Law they are vniust and vnlawful Secondly they defame Christ Iesus and all Christian men who euer were before the time of King Henry the eight knowne and reputed Heretikes by both parties onely excepted For that they all eyther committed or helped or assisted or gaue counsell to commit these actions which are by the said Statutes made Treason Fellony or Criminall as we haue proued in the first second and third Chapters Thirdly they are contrary to the solemne oathes of the Kings of England taken at their Coronation according to the ancient Lawes and Customes of this Land as in the Saxon Law left by King Engward the Lex Sancti Edwardi 7. Confessor it is said That the King because he is Gods Vicegerent vpon earth is ordained to gouerne his earthly kingdome and people of God and aboue all things that hereuerence the holy Church which is our Catholike Romane Church as I haue abundantly proued defend her from the iniurious pull the euil doers from her and vtterly disperse them Againe The King ought to feare God aboue al things and keepe his Commandements through-out the Land he ought to preserue the Lands Honors Rights Dignities and Liberties of the Crowne and the Rights of the Realme such as is especially the Catholike Roman Faith planted in this Land by the Apostles lost dispersed and wasted to recall with all his power to their ancient and due estate He ought to set vp good Lawes and approued Customes and euill Lawes destroy and put from his kingdome c. All which to do the King in proper person ought to giue an oath vpon the holy Gospell and vpon the blessed Reliques in the presence of the whole kingdome the Priest-hood and the Laytie So likewise Bracton an Bracton l. 3. c. 9. ancient Lawyer saith The King at his Coronation vnder an oath in the name of Iesus Christ ought to promise these three to his Subiects First That he will command and to his power doe his endeauour that true peace be alwayes obserued to the Church of God and to all Christian people Secondly That he should forbid rapine such as is the Purseuants taking away of Catholikes goods without forme or order of Law and all iniquities to all sorts of people Thirdly That in all maner of iudgements he command equity and mercy to be vsed as he would that our benigne and merciful God should shew mercy vnto him According to which Law the Kings of England at their Coronations haue alwaies bin solemnely sworne to defend the Church of God and her liberties to set vp good Lawes and destroy euill and doe justice c. So William the Conqueror at his Coronation tooke an Stow in his life oath on the Altar of S. Peter where he promised before the Clergie and all the people to defend the holy Church of God the Pastors thereof and all the people subiect vnto him he should iustly gouerne he would ordaine good Laws and obserue true iustice and to the vttermost of his power to withstand all rapines and false iudgements MALMESBVRY maketh mention of the oath of King Stephen to this effect In the Records of the Tower in the first yeare of Edward the second and first yeare of Edward the third are set downe their seuerall oathes to this effect And your Maiesty maketh mention of your oath in your Speech in the Star-chamber 1616. saying I protest in Gods presence my care hath euer been to keepe my conscience cleare in all points of my oath taken at my Coronation Againe in the same booke and leafe I haue resolued to renue my promise and oath made at my Coronation Herein your Maiesty may bee like Asa the good King of Iuda who at the words of Azarias the Prophet 2. Parel 15. Tooke away the Idols out of the Land of Iuda and Beniamin and gathered together all Iuda and Beniamin and when they were come into Ierusalem he went in after the maner to establish the couenant that they should seeke our Lord the God of their Fathers in all their heart and in all their soule And if any man quoth he shal not seeke our Lord the God of Israel let him die from the least to the greatest from man vnto woman And they sware to our Lord witb a loud voice in iubilation and in noyse of Trumpet and sound of Shalmes all that were in Iuda with execration for in all their heart did they sweare the King and all the people to seeke our Lord the God of Israel his Law Religion and Commandements Fourthly if we will beleeue the Scriptures they will be the destruction of your Kingdome and Posteritie and therefore oblige all those who sincerely loue your Maiesty and your Posterity to desire their abrogation or dispensation Samuel said to the Children of Israel which now we Christians are I will teach you 1. King 12. 23. the good and right way Feare our Lord and serue him in truth and from your whole heart But if you shal perseuere in malice both you and your King shal perish together Againe Samuel said to SAVL Thou hast not kept the 1. King 13. 31. Commandements of our Lord thy God which he commanded thee which if thou haddest done euen now had our Lord prepared thy kingdome ouer Israel for euer but thy kingdome shall no further arise So MOYSES saith Deut. 29. 19. When he shall heare the words of this oath of the Couenant betweene God and man he blessed himselfe in his heart saying I shal haue place and walke in the priuity of my heart c. then shall Gods fury most specially fume and his zeale against that man and all the curses sit vpon him that be written in Deutronomie and our Lord will abolish his name vnder heauen Which we see by experience to haue beene verified of late yeares vpon two of the greatest Monarkes that were in Christendome Henry the eight King of England Henry the second King of France Henry the eight was the first beginner of these Statutes Henry the second went in person with thirtie thousand men to ayde the Protestants of Germany as witnesseth Serres in his life Henry the eight had fiue or sixe wiues and fiue or sixe children and Henry the second had fiue sonnes yet we see that both their names are abolished from vnder heauen their Kingdomes or Reignes ended

Supreame-headship in all things might extend shee made another Law to make it as large as euer was the authoritie of our Lord or his Apostles vpon earth saying in the aforesaid Parliament Be it enacted by the authoritie aforesaid That such iurisdictions Stat. An. 1. El. cap. 1. priuiledges superiorities and preheminences Spiritual and Ecclesiastical as by any Spiritual or Ecclesiastical power or authoritie hath heretofore been or may lawfully be exercised or vsed for the Visitation of the Ecclesiastical State and persons and for reformation order correction of the same and of al manner errors heresies schismes abuses offences contempts and enormities shal for euer by authority of this present Parliament be vnited and annexed to the Imperial Crowne of this Realme That being crowned Queene though a woman and a Bastard yet now shee might haue as large Spirituall authoritie as any man euer had or might haue And so shee translated the Spirituall authoritie of Priesthood not only from Spirituall to Temporall but also from male vnto female that whatsoeuer Spirituall or Ecclesiasticall power or authoritie hath heretofore been or may be lawfully vsed or exercised for the visitation of the Ecclesiasticall State and persons and reformation and giuing of orders and for the correcting them and all manner of errors heresies schismes abuses offences was by this law supposed to be wholy in her a woman And executing her Supreame Spirituall Function in the first yeares of her raigne shee set out two and fiftie Injunctions vnder title of the Queenes Injunctions with this Conclusion annexed to them All which and singular Iniunctions the Queenes Maiestie ministreth vnto her Clergie and to al her louing Subiects straitly charging and commanding them to obserue and keepe the same vnder paine of deprauation sequestration of fruits and Benefices suspension excommunication and other such cohersion of Ecclesiasticall Iurisdiction And by this meanes shee had all the Clergie at her command both the enjoying of their Temporall Benefices and Spirituall Offices depending wholly vpon her feminine authoritie In so much as in the first yeare of her raigne there arising some doubts about the lawfull making of her Archbishops and Bishops she by her effeminate authoritie dispensed with all their disabilities in these words Her Highnesse by her Supreame Stat. An. 5. El. cap. 1. power hath dispensed with all causes or doubts of any disability c. about the making of the said Archbishops and Bishops c. that no cause or scruple ambiguitie or doubt can or may be iustly obiected against the said Elections Confirmations or Consecration And in the eight yeare of her raigne doubts arising againe about the Consecration and making of her Archbishops and Bishops she signifieth her former dispensation saying For as much as diuers questions hath lately growen about Stat. An. 8. El. cap. 1. the making and consecrating of Archbishops and Bishops within this Realme c. Her Highnesse by her Supreame power and authoritie hath dispensed with al causes or doubts of any imperfection or disabilitie that can or may any wise be obiected against the same And in the nine and thirtith yeare of her reigne yet some doubts remaining amongst her Subiects that the Catholike Bishops whom shee out of her effeminate authority had depriued were lawfull Bishops and hers false shee depriued the Catholike Bishoppes againe and made their authoritie void to all intents and purposes establishing by her Law That al and euery depriuation and Stat. An. 39. El. Cap. 8. depriuations and al euery sentence and sentences of depriuation whatsoeuer had pronounced or giuen at any time betweene the beginning of the reigne of the Queenes most excellent Maiesty that now is and the tenth of Nouember in the fourth yeare of the same against any person or persons which was or tooke vpon him to be Archbishop or Bishop of any Sea or Bishopricke or Deane of any Deanery within this Realme or any the Dominion thereof in the reigne of the said late Queene Mary from such Sea or Bishopricke be adiudged deemed and taken good and sufficient in Law to all intents and purposes and so shal remaine and continue any appeale exception or other matter or thing whatsoeuer to the contrary thereof in any wise notwithstanding And that al such Archbishops and Bishops Note and Deanes as were ordained or made by the authority or licence of the Queenes Maiesty that now is at any time betweene the beginning of her reigne and the said tenth day of Nouember in the fourth yeare of her Maiesties reigne shal be taken and adiudged to be lawful Archbishop or Bishop of the Sea or Bishopricke and Deane of the Deanery vnto the which he was so preferred assigned or appointed And that the same Sea of Archbishop or Bishopricke and Deanery vnto the which he was so preferred assigned or appointed though there were in it a Catholike Bishop as they were all in the beginning of her reigne yet it shal be deemed and adiudged to be meerely void to all respects and purposes c. And by this means as much as lay in her shee depriued all the ancient Archbishops and Bishops both of their Spirituall authorities and Temporall Bishoprickes to all intents and purposes and admitted and established these onely who whereas the Statute saith ordained or made by the authority of the Queene and allowed and admitted of no authoritie Spirituall or Ecclesiasticall but in her and from her deriued to them In so much as Fulke glorying in the Spirituall influence he receiued from this Illigitimate Lady in his Answere to a Counterfeit Catholike pag. 50. saith to Catholikes You are vtterly deceiued if you thinke your Offices of Bishops Priests and Deacons any better then Lay-men and you presume too much to thinke that we receiue your ordaining to be lawfull And in his Retentiue Motiues pag. 67. he saith With all our hearts we defie abhorre detest and spit at your stinking greasie Antichristian Orders And WHITAKER cont Durem lib. 9. p. 821. saith I would not haue you to thinke we make such reckoning of your Orders as to make our owne vocation vnlawfull without them and therefore keepe them to your selfe And all the Spirituall or Ecclesiasticall power which any Archbishop Bishop or Minister hath either to teach preach administer Sacraments or ordaine Ministers together with any right which they can pretend to any Archbishopricke Bishopricke Parsonage c. doth so fully and wholly depend vpon Queen Elizabeth her womanly authoritie and Statutes made by her that her femall Supreme Spirituall authority and Statutes repealed all the Archbishoprickes Bishopricks and Parsonages within this Realme together with their Offices are voyde in Law and as void rest to be disposed So that no other can or may bee justly said to be the Author and Founder of that Faith and Religion which is now by publike authority professed in England but onely Queene Elizabeth for that from her the English Protestant Archbishops Bishops and Ministers had whatsoeuer Priesthood or Spirituall