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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

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

so dutiful or obedient be censured for traytours equally with the greatest offendor in the sinne of treason when many guiltlesse soules of that sacred order would not for thousands of worldes once consent to any such or far inferiour offence A thing most strange and beyond all example that men in respect onely of their calling and function and that function so reuerenced by all our forefathers should without further cause be condemned as guiltie of so detestable a crime We defende holy Priesthood to be a Sacrament which being ordained by God cannot be changed by man Pope Prelate or humane power but remaining in all things substance and doctrine the same which in those daies when it was so honorably esteemed of all your Christian progenitors and when our mother church kept her first integritie by your heighnesse iudgement as we are reddie to make defence It is the honour of our King in heauen most mightie Soueraigne for which we continue in combate that religion which the whole catholike world in all generall councels popes doctors and learned men haue euer professed wherein this nation as our Protestants acknowledge was conuerted all our Christian ancestry embraced and which all princes in the schoole of Christ of whom your Maiestie is descended mayntained in theÌ„selues in their subiects That which is so general caÌ„not be surreÌ„dred by a smal number of one kingdome It is not in the power of man to resigne the honour of God if it will please your Maiestie to vouchsafe vs licence to request and grace to obtaine that your owne princely sentence censure may stande that wee ought not to departe further from the Romane Church our mother Church by your iudgement than shee is departed from her selfe when she was in her best and florishing state And that the time of Constantine was incorrupted in religion wee humbly againe offer tryal before your heignesse with equall conditions of schooles against the most selected and chosen protestant Bishops and doctors of your dominions to prooue or defend any or euery substantial article which wee now professe to be agreeable vnto and not dissenting the knowne publike Catholike doctrine of that mother Church in those your mentioned incorrupted dayes of Christianitie And seeing the disfauour and penalties against laye Catholikes are grounded vpon their recusancie to be present at your protestant seruice wee humblie beseech it may be called to memorie howe they haue protested in seuerall supplications one to your Maiestie before the ende of the laste parlament and the other to Queene Elizabeth in the twentie seuenth yeare of her raigne to be builded onely vpon feare of offending God To which their so long and manifolde disgraces losses imprisonments and sufferings are sufficient witnesse And for further triall thereof haue offered to repayre to your Protestant Churches and seruice without further exception if the learned of your Religion can and doe prooue to the learned of their profession that it may be performed without offence to God which is so much in the opinion of all diuines as any Christian subiects can offer in this case Thâ—s if your Protestant Cleargie doe refuse or doe not satisfie so Christian a request we hope your Maiestie beeing wise learned iuditious and gratious will perceaue that the seueritie of the lawes against them for that cause is not to be put in practise These things in most humble manner wee commende to your heighest and mercifull consideration And so desiring of the Almightie to graunt all happinesse and prosperitie to your Maiestie and posteritie wee conclude in all dutifull subiection with that auntient Father Tertullian in Apollget Wee will faithfully serue you in your Pallace we will accompanie other your subiects in the market wee will ioyne with them in the fielde against your nemies onely to you we leaue the Churches These two petitions were printed and presented to his Maiestie in the Parlament when the new oath was enacted and the foure remembred Priests appointed by the Arch-priest then to performe that challenge or petition likewise at the same time was presented to the Parlament by the handes of Sir Francis Hastings and Sir Richard Knightly two Puritanes of that Parlament from the chiefe Catholikes of England with the allowance of the Archpriest and his cleargie this petition following to the same purpose The humble petition of the chiefe Catholike Recusants of England presented to the heigh Court of Parlament in the yeare 1605. by the handes of Sir Francis Hastings and Sir Richard Knightly then of that house of Parlament to both which it was deliuered by the said Catholikes THe proceedings of that heigh Court of Parlament in the daies of our late Queene Elzabeth against the Catholike subiects of this kingdome were for seueritie far beyond example which they hoped for manie most iust reasonable true causes were to receaue their ende when shee should cease to liue and by death determine her personall quarrells and contentions against the Religion and Apostolike power of the Sea of Rome Especially by the ioyful and happie entrance Coronation of our most honoured King Iames most free from those tearmes wherewith she was intangled at temporall peace amitie and vnitie with that holy Sea with the sacred Empyre all Christian Kings and Princes by vndoubted royal discent the most lawful legitimate and rightful King of all these his vnited kingdomes Wee that be Catholiques in England and had euer bene so true and faithfull to the onely vnited true title of him and his blessed Mother and neuer entred into any dissotiation against it assuredly hoped hee would not singularlie drawe his sword of persecution against vs his most dutiful faithful and obedient subiects in whom he could finde nothing to reuenge or punish for he publickly protested in that Court of Parlament his mind was euer free from persecution or enthralling his subiects in matters of conscience and the burthens of Catholikes were rather to be lightned then with Roboam to be encreased king Iames speach in parlament 1. sess 1. But seeing all this notwithstanding your Parlament now assembled contrary to our hopes and otherwise our deseruings as wee hope haue bene doth rather presage an intended increase then either ceasing or mittigation of these our miseries and extreame afflictions we feare least silence in vs might be taken as an interpretatiue yeelding or consente that we are not altogether vnworthely afflicted with so strange calamities for the world cannot otherwise in wisdome censure that such punishment by so heigh a iudgemeÌ„t should be imposed vpon men subiects friends and kinsmen so generally except guiltie of some most heinous or execrable fact or offence against God our King and countrey Wherefore you must giue vs leaue in this perplexed case to contest against you in the humblest best maner we may and leaue it a memoriall to potesteritie that if you persist or proceede in persecution vve protest before God and in our consciences vve shal be vniustly persecuted If

refragati sunt Did stoutly giue their voyces against this innouation They offered publicke defence by disputation of Catholike Religion both for doctrine and iurisdiction Cambden Annal pag. 26. in appart ad annal pag. 36 Mason lib. 3. consecrat pag. 206. cap. 5. Stow hist. an 1. Eliz. Holinsh. ibid. Godwyn Catol But the Protestants knowing how their chiefest champions had bene before so conuinced by them that they were hissed by the auditors durst not come to triall But the Parlament beginning on the 23. day of Ianuary they presently proceeded to make Queene Elizabeth supreme head of the Church and by that title to make a religion what pleased her and her few fauorites which by such indirect meanes as is heere testified by these Protestants they brought to passe in the beginning of that Parlament and in the very first acte and statute thereof Theater of great Brittaine lib. 9. cap. 24. parag 4. Godwyn Catal in the Bish. depriu an 1. Elizab. Parlament 1. an 1. Eliz. cap. And would neuer hearken to any disputation whatsoeuer vntill they had thus obteyned their purpose and vntill the last day of March two moneths after as all Protestant histories giue euidence And when they had by onely 6. voyces of laye-men condemned our learned Bishops and their holy religion the religion of the vniuersall Church of God they would not then allow them though condemned thus vniustly any disputation at all except they would accept of that bable and mockerie of disputation and all religion which I haue from these ProtestaÌ„ts remembred before Cambden in Annal. lib. pag. 27. Therefore let vs passe it ouer in this place and desire your instructing Protestants a little further to instruct and informe vs how shee proceeded and so strangely preuailed in this matter Orbe Christiano mirante to the wonder of all the Christian world for the prophane proceedings then vsed as your Protestants before haue testified Camben annal supra So soone as shee was proclaimed Queene long before her Coronation by proclamation she silenced the Catholike Bishops and Cleargie not to preach and by her Iniunctions gaue warrant to her laye protestant commissioners to giue licence to preach Proclamation of Q. Elizabeth an 1. Stowe histor an 1. Elizab. Iniunctions of Q. Elizabeth an Shee put in practise the oathe of Supremacie amongst many which refused that oath was the Lord Chancellour D. Heath Archbishop of Yorke from whom shee tooke the priuie seale and remitted it to Sr. Nicholas Bacon Stowe histor in Queene Elizabeth an reg 1. shee putt many from the cowncell and tooke new cownsaylers suis adiunxit sayth your best Antiquary Cambden Annal. in Elizabeth pag. 18.19 pro temporum ratione Gulielmum Parrum Marchionem Northamptoniae Franciscum Russellum comitem Bedfordiae Thomam Parrum Edwardum Rogers Ambrosium Cauum Franciscum Knolles Guilielmum Cecilium pauloque post Nicholaum Bacon singulos protestantium doctrinam amplexos nulloque sub Maria loco Quos vt reliquos in eorum locum iam inde suffectos ita temperauit cohibuit vt sibi essent deuotissimi ipsa semper sui iuris nulli obnoxij Shee ioyned to hyrs for the state of the tyme William Parr Marquesse of Northampton Francis Russell Earle of Bedford Thomas Parr Edward Rogers Ambrose Caue Francis Knolles and William Cecile and soone after Nicholas Bacon all become protestants in noe office vnder Q. Mary which as the rest which shee putt in for those shee displaced shee soe tempered and kept them in awe that they were moste seruiceable to her shee allwayes to doe what pleased her none to contradict her Shee concluded cum paruulis intimis Cambden supr pag. 22.23 with a few most inward with her de nobilibus Ã regio consilio amouendis episcopis ecclesiasticis de gradu deijciendis Iudicibus qui pro tribunalibus sederunt hirenanchis per singulos comitatus qui regnante Maria re aestimatione magni erant hos locos deturbandos legum seueritate coercendos nullosque nisi protestantes ad rerum administrationem adhibendos in collegia vtriusque academiae coaptandos censuerunt fimulque pontificios praesides ex academijs scholarchas ex wintoniensi Aetoniensi caeterisque scholis submouendos Q. Elizabeth presently after the death of Q. Mary taketh order with very few of her inward frends how to restore protestant Religion The plott by them was that new coÌ„missions should bee directed to iudges with prouision they should not giue any office new Iustices of peace and sheriffes should bee made in all countries the noble men should bee put from the councell Bishops and ecclesiasticall men displaced all iudges and iustices of peace that were in estimation in the tyme of Q. Mary should bee remoued in all shires and seuerely kept vnder and none but protestants to bee admitted to gouernment in the comon wealth and placed in the colledges of both vniuersities and all popish presidents of howses and scholemasters to bee renewed from Wincester Eton and other scholes And accordinge to this conclusion this Elizabeth neyther beeing crowned Queene as yet nor haueinge by any pretence power to meddle with the Title of Supreamacie because to speake in your protestants words Stowe histor an 1. Eliz ab statut in parlam an 1. Mariae Queene Mary restored all thinges according to the church of Rome reduced all ecclesiasticall iurisdiction vnto the papall obedience yett to write in the same protestants pen and words Stowe histor supr an 1. Eliz. The Queene tooke an exact suruey of all her cleargie and officers of estate and putt in practise the oath of supreamacie and amongst many which refused that oathe was the Lord chauncellor D. Heath Archbishop of yorke shee committed the custody of the greate Seale vnto Sâ— Nicholas Bacon a man moste malicious against papists whoe from that tyme was called Lord keeper Cambden supr annal pag. 27. Haueing thus displaced through the kingdome all catholicke magistrates and dissolued the catholicke parlament continueinge at the death of her Syster Queene Mary and putt new protestant officers in their places with all speed shee sommoned a parlament to begyn in Ianuary followeinge within twoe moneths of her sisters death Stowe supr Holinsh. histor an 1. Elizab. Theater of Britan. 16. Cambd. Annal. ann 1. Elizab. And haueing thus prouided for a fitt company in the lower howse of parlament swearers to the supremacie shee and her pauculi intimi were as prouident to packe some in the vpper howse alsoe Therefore a fewe dayes before the parlament to speake as your protestant Stowe an 1. Elizab. Cambden annal supr the 13. of Ianuary the Queene in the Tower created Sr. William Parr ob laesam maiestatem sub Maria gradu deiectum attainted of treason in Q. Maryes tyme Lord marquesse of Northampton Edward Seymor sonne to the late Duke of Sommersett attainted vicount Beuchamp and Earle of Hertford Tho. Howard second sonne of Tho. Duke of Norfolke vicount Bindon Sr. Oliuer

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