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A05354	A treatise tovvching the right, title, and interest of the most excellent Princess Marie, Queene of Scotland, and of the most noble king Iames, her Graces sonne, to the succession of the croune of England VVherein is conteined asvvell a genealogie of the competitors pretending title to the same croune: as a resolution of their obiections. Compiled and published before in latin, and after in Englishe, by the right reuerend father in God, Iohn Lesley, Byshop of Rosse. VVith an exhortation to the English and Scottish nations, for vniting of them selues in a true league of amitie.; Defence of the honour of the right highe, mightye and noble Princesse Marie Quene of Scotlande and dowager of France. Selections	Leslie, John, 1527-1596.	1584 (1584)	STC 15507; ESTC S108494	94,307	147

obiections whiche your aduersaries pretend to the contrarie And this trauaille longe agoe whiles I was Ambassadour in England I dyd willynglye take in hand aswell thereby to wynne the good willes of many vnto you as for the honour and generall commoditie of your Countrie VVherein at that time I had muche conference with some of the most expert and skillfullest Iudges best practized counseilers towardes the lawes of that land and after many discourses and muche debatinge I clearly sifted owt their opinions and Iudgementes touching this matter And not longe after vpon mature deliberation whē I had well reuolued these thinges in my mind I thought it euery waye agreable to my deutie towarde your Maiesties your Countrie to contriue in some litle volume what I had learned in so longe tyme being also hereunto induced by the persuasion of diuerse Christian Princes whome after my departure out of England coming to visit them I had made acquainted with this matter whiche they were glad to hear and for their better instruction desirous to be infourmed therof at more length by writing VVherevpon first to satisfie the honorable meanynge of those noble personages I compiled and published a Treatise of this matter in latin And now further to accomplishe my deutie in defence of your Royall Dignities and to setle the myndes of the wauering communaltie and for the generall commoditie of all suche as haue any interest in this matter I haue sett forthe this Treatise in English And I verilye hope suche is your princelie good meanyng my most vndoubted Soueraignes that you will accept in good parte this my trauaile as a testimonie of my duetifull good will reuerence seruice to your Maiesties and that you will construe my intention and aduise to this attempte as in your iudgement agreable to the weight of so great a cause and allowe thereof for the manyfold commodities that therehence may arise Now then as a right and laufull combination of manye Regions by iust title of succession belongyng to you most manifestlie argueth and conuinceth a Regall Soueraigntie deriued vnto you by many famouse kynges your Maiesties Auncestors so doeth the same require and exact of you an vnion and coniunction of mindes and a full consent in the vertue and religion of your forefathers For nothinge can be more agreable with the name and title of a king and with the honour and renoume of so noble a successiō as so fortunatly procedeth from suche a mother to suche a sonne than that with suche an vndoubted title right to rule a kyngdome there be annexed an vniforme profession in sincere Religion To whiche ende as the mother hitherto most religiouslie foloweinge the vertue faith and pietie of her noble progenitoures hathe euermore showed suche constancie as that Sexe scarsely beareth so the yong kyng her sonne in succession goeng with her must diligently foresee that in a sincere profession of one selfe same Catholik religion he be not behynd her but that as he hath truely imitated all her other vertues wherein she woonderfully excelleth her own selfe so he resemble her in true faith and in vniformitie of the Catholique Religion And thus the mother can haue no occasion offered her to remitt any part of her true loue and affection towardes her sonne but by daily encrease of naturall affectiōs betwene them she will so answer hym in courteouse kyndnesse as thoughe she be forestalled of his presence yet shall she enioye great comfort of hym in his absence in so muche as all the world at home and abrode shall admire and wonder at their laudable emulation in offices of naturall zeale and pietie Yea thus it will fall out that your own people moued by your example will induce one an other to peace and amitie and freely of their own accorde without any contention will offer vppe vnto you suche kyngdomes regions prouinces as are or shal be due vnto you by right and desire nothinge more than to be vnder the dominion of them whome they see in one mynde faythe and religion with good lawes and true Iustice moderate their common wealthe VVhiche kyngdomes and the Subiectes thereof God the kynge of all kynges which ruleth the hartes of all Princes graunt you grace well to gouerne to the glorye of his holy name to the propagation of his holy churche and to the maintenance of common peace and tranquillitie Amen A PREFACE CONTEYNING THE ARGVMENT OF THIS TREATISE VVITH THE CAVSES mouyng the Author to wryte the same THE deepe prouidence of Almightie God who of nothinge created all thinges most euidently in this poynt showeth it selfe that by his power ineffable he hath not onlye created all thinges but by the same power hath also endewed euery liuyng creature with a speciall guyft grace to continue to renewe and to preserue eache his owne kynde But in this consideration the condition of man kynde amonge and aboue all earthly thinges hath a pearlesse prerogatiue of witt and reason wherewith he onlye is of God graciously indued and adourned Man by the guyft of vvitt reasō hath a greate fresight of thinges to come For by theese excellent guiftes and graces of witt and reason he doeth not onlye prouide for his present necessitie and sauegarde as doe naturally after their sort all brute beastes and euery other thinge voide of reason but also pregnantlie discoursinge from cause to cause and prudentlie applyeng their seuerall courses euentes he gayneth a greate foresight of the daungers and perilles that many yeres after may happen either to him selfe or to his Countrey and then by diligence and carefull prouision doeth inuent some apt and meete remedies for the eschewinge of suche mischiefes as might outragyously afterward occurre And the greater the fear is of more imminent mischief so muche more care and speedier diligence is vsed to preuent and cutt of the same And it is most certaine by the confession of all the world that this care whiche I speake of ought principally to be imployed of euerie man as oportunitie serueth to this ende that therby the Authoritie of the Prince may be kept whole and sound the publik weal of his countrey assured and the cōmon peace tranquillitie of bothe preserued Subiects ought to loue their kinge and to knovv the heyr apparent to the Croune For the obteining whereof as there are many braunches of policie to be desired so one special parte is for subiectes louinglye and reuerentlye to honour and obedientlie to serue their Soueraigne which for the time hath the rule and gouernement the next to foreknowe to whome they owe their alleageāce after the deceasse of their present prince and Gouernour VVhiche being once certain and assuredly knowen procureth when tyme doeth come readie and seruiceable obedience with great comfort in the mean while and afterwarde vniuersal reast and quietnesse of all good Subiectes as on the contrary part throughe discord variance and diuersitie of mindes and opinions about a Successour the

and whiche is more allmightie God doeth so charge and commaunde vs all to doe Now then who so euer repyneth against these thinges is not to be called the childe of God for he loueth not peace neither ought good men to accompanie any suche persones but rather to banishe them and all their Scholemasters as most cruell enemyes to the Citie of God For their doctrine destroyeth the foundations of the societie of mankynde aduaunceth Tyrannie Among these men there is no regarde to the safetye of Citezens nor loue to their natiue countrey no care of religion nor of true seruice obedience to God but suche an in ordinate desyre to rule and raigne they haue as will vsurpe all things take away the Lyues of honest Citizens destroye their Countrie and contemne all Religion As that fowle monstrer Caesar Borgias dyd whome a certein Atheist greatly extolleth as a most perfecte pattern for Princes to folowe But for the auoyding of these enemyes to God and man we haue a very wyse admonition of the Christian philosophor Sainct Bernard Fear not sayeth he that it is against Charitie yf by offending one thou cannest make peace for many And Tullie gyueth a good lesson for all true Princes to take hold of That Loftinesse of couraige saith he vvhiche is tryed in perills and hard aduentures if it vvant Iustice feighte not for the publick commoditie but for priuate gayne is not onlye no vertue but rather a beastlie furye raging against all humanitie VVe vvill therfore sayeth he accompt them only to be stout and valiant men vvhiche are good men freendes to trueth not deceytfull but playne dealers Of whiche opinion Edvvard king of England semed to be For in his banishement he vsed oftentymes to saye that he had rather allvvaies liue a priuate lyfe than to recouer his kingdome by the slaughter of men A verie excellent sayeing truellye and wel beseming so noble a King Let vs therfore roote out of our publick weall these disturbers of common peace that it maye more easily be conioyned and fastned in an assured amitie and agreement VVhich thing the better to obteyne we must vse the aduise and counsaile of a certein philosophor VVe affirme sayeth he that Cities are in peace and good concorde when in publique necessarie affaires they are all of one mynde take all one aduise and execute that whiche by common consent is allowed and agreed vpon As for example when it pleaseth the Citizens to appoint certeine officers or onlye Pittacus to haue the rule ouer all but when bothe couet to enioye the Gouernement as Oteocles Polynices did in Phaenicia then ariseth sedition For that ciuil concorde is in deed termed freendshipe whiche can not be reteyned but onely amōg honeste men Bycause such as are honest are at peace within them selues and with others also by reason that their willes abyde allwayes firme and steadfast not ebbyng and flowenig lyke the ryuer Euripus It happeneth otherwise among the wicked for they can not long agree together bycause in their manner of gouerning the cōmon welthe they seke all their own Priuate commoditie and bestow as litle paynes expenses charges as they can whervpon foloweth priuie grudges and seditions whiles they endomage and hurt one an other euery man neglecteth his owne dutie and so the commō state perisheth when none goeth about to protecte it Thus muche the Philosopher But touching the frendship whiche we speake of it is muche more easelye to be procured compact ratyfied among you bycause all those thinges concurre in you that are requisitie and commodions to the vnion of mennes myndes and cōsent in firme loue amitie For there is among you one stock and kynred one allyance and affinitie one language and almost one and the same course in manners cōditiōs customes lawes one and the same fauoure in countenance lyke attyre lyke behauiour in bodye and lykenesse in personage Yea all thinges else what soeuer tending to the creation and preseruation of a perpetuall peace and concorde concurre and mete together among you more fitlye than among other nations whiche in olde tyme differed muche among them selfes aswell in their natiue soile customes and lawes as in their language affinitie and alliance and yet at this daye neuerthelesse are reconciled accorded and vnited in a ciuil consent and agrement vnder the regiment of one Prince Yet some of you perchaunce will thinke it vnpossible for that people long to continue in perfect amitie whiche in so many yeres and aiges haue practized them selues one agaynst an other with fyre and swoord turning the worlde vpside down in trouble and confusion by mutuall warres spoyles mallice deadlie fede morders and all Kindes of hostilitie sithe generallie mannes nature can not suffer so great iniuries to be forgotten sithe the naturall conditions of bothe those nations seeme to be suche as either of them had rather suffer tenne thousand deathes than to be subiecte to a Prince borne in the others prouince bycause they woulde not seeme to be vnder subiection of their auncient enemye after so long contention for the Soueraigntie and so therfore the Englishe nation will by no meanes be subiect to a Scottishe Prince nor yet the Scottishe nation to an Englishe And it may be that some wicked Atheist preferring his vaine glorie ambitiō and proud haughtie mynde before the good state and safetye of a publicke weaie woulde subscribe perhapes and Yeeld to this opinion and yet is it a verye absurde opinion and contrary to all witt and reason euen as if one of your marriners in a great stormye tempest woulde saye that he had rather be drowned with the shyppe than suffer it to be gouerned by any of his mates But perhappes this felow will vrge further and aske how it can be that the Englishe Scottishe will agree together sithe the Scottish haue euer preferred their league of alliance with the frenche nation before the neyghbourhoode and frendshipp of the Englyshe For in despite of the Englishe they entred in a league of frendshipp with the Frenche seuen hundred yeres a goe and more whiche they haue kept inuiolable to this daye And in our dayes when there was great hope that the whole Yland wolde haue bene induced to the regiment of one Prince by the mariage of kynge Edward the sixt and the nowe Queene Marie of Scotland The Scottes though they had before assured her to King Edward by a common promisse deliuered her ouer neuerthelesse to the Kyng of Fraunce Therfore it was their fault not the fault of the Englishe that the amitie so muche expected betwene them was hymdred But touching that league which was made with the french it was greatlye desyred bothe by the frenche and by the Scottish as I sayd before not in despite of the Englishe but for theyr own safetye For yf they had not doone so the Scottes aswell as the other Britaines had bene driuen out of their countrye by that