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A05353	A treatise concerning the defence of the honour of the right high, mightie and noble Princesse, Marie Queene of Scotland, and Douager of France with a declaration, as wel of her right, title, and interest, to the succession of the croune of England: as that the regiment of women is conformable to the lawe of God and nature. Made by Morgan Philippes, Bachelar of Diuinitie, An. 1570.; Defence of the honour of the right highe, mightye and noble Princesse Marie Quene of Scotlande and dowager of France	Leslie, John, 1527-1596.	1571 (1571)	STC 15506; ESTC S106704	132,510	314

sufficiently serue him for the aduauncement of his cōmendation and praise and for the significatiō of his fine politike head and inuentiō I meane for that before his departure out of Scotland into France with his Matchiauels practises he had so conningly cōtriued the whole matter with his faction that they should procure not only the Earle Bothwel to be acquited of the murther but for his good seruice to be rewarded with the Quenes espousalles intending by this mischieuous policie the vtter vndoing and ouerthrow aswel of him the Earle Bothwel as of the Q. her self also There neuer lacked good wil in them a● it wel appeareth by their vngratious doing to haue long before ouerthrowen their fa●● Maistresse but there euer lacked apparent matter to blinde mens eyes withal and to make her odiouse with the people Now these wily men wel knew that if they migh● once compasse and bring this mariage to passe with the Earle whome they intended then as fast to blase abrode for the murther by him committed as they did suppresse the same before from their good Ladie and Queene vntil they had brought her to the baite it would seeme very probable not only to the eyes and iudgemēt of the rude and cōmon people but also of many sage graue wise and learned men that she was priuie o● her husbands death Whereby they might pretende one execrable acte against her that al men would detest and abhorre to colour and cloke their rebellious treacheries Lucifer him self could not haue fetched a finer and a more mischieuous and diuelish fetche then herein these men haue done As for the Earle Murraies absence it doth nothing releaue or excuse him yea it is ●ingulerly to be noted and marked that his ●ery iourneyes lacke not their fine fetches ●o serue his turne Through his first iorney ●nto France he wan and purchased the high ●ue and fauour of his benigne Maistresse ●e returneth out of England at the very point seruing two turnes at once by th' one thereof to circumuent his good innocent ●adie thinkīg to make her beleue by reason of his absenc ethat he was farre from the societie of that conspiracie by the other to ●ssist the better with his presence the con●ederates and sodenly to ioyne with them as he did I graunt that he was absent bodyly at the facte doing but yet nothing was done the whiche was not by his counsel or agrement concluded The which his deuise was so horrible that it caused the murther of his Souereignes Secretarie her imprisonment by her owne husbande that the Queene being greate with childe was put in suche a feare as might haue tended to the present danger of her life and of her childe Yea the very scope of this diuelish drift was euen to haue ouerthrowē him also whome they made their vnhappie and vnlucky instrument to ouerthrowe and depose his owne louing wife and moste dread Souereigne These mysteries ful stuffed with such mischieuous purposes lo wrought this Earle in this time of his absence Now it is to be considered that about sixtene houres before the Lorde Darley was slayne the better to colour the matter he departed from the court About twoo monethes after he toke his iourney into France leauing the Earle Bothwel as his most entier and trusty frinde recommending al his causes and affaires to him before al other At his second returne from France he intrudeth himselfe into the Scepter Roial vnder the name and shadowe of the yonge Prince The which thing was so imagined inuented and deuised long ere that he departed and in his absence by his trustie frinds remaining in Scotland accordingly accomplished and executed The Queene was afterward apprehended and cast into prison at Lochleuē where his mother and brother dwelleth vnto the which Fortresse she should haue ben sent as we haue said at the first cōspiracie of the said Murray if their malitious mind and intent had not ben disapointed by the prouidence of God. Now what searche when and after what sorte it was made for the said Earle Bothwel we haue already declared If ye alleage farther and say that no man can denie but that the said Earle Murray made also long diligent and narrow search for the murtherers and did seuerely punish them to this we replie and say that he needed not to trauaile muche or farre for the sewing out of this matter For he might at al times haue found the heades of the conspiratours vpon the Earle Murtons and his owne shoulders We say farther that as it is a strange and new kind of deuotion in the Earle Murray so to quarel for lacke of solēnitie at the burial of him for whose said burial he longed and loked for so long so we say likewise that it seemeth wonderful to loue him so tenderly being deceased and dead whome he so depely hated liuing And to seke so seriously and seuerely to punish the murtherers of him whome he would so oft haue murthered him selfe This geare seemeth to vs poore simple and slender witted men vnlikely incredible and halfe repugnant to nature And whatsoeuer the cause be we be of that minde that it is not likely to procede of any feruent zeale or greate affection he beareth to the partie or to the execution of Iustice Ye are good Reader desirous peraduenture to learne what other cause there might be of so strange dealing Wel as strange as it is we lacke not examples of the like craftie and subtile policie as well in holy Scripture and in the monumentes of Antiquitie of diuers other Countries as of Englande and especially of Scotlande it selfe We finde then in Holy Scripture that there was one Onias at Hierusalem the High Priest a man of singuler vertue and perfection and one that meruelousely tendered Gods honour and the honour and wealth of his Countrey There was also at the same time one Simon a very euil disposed and wicked creature whiche went about certaine naughty and wicked deuises But seeing that he could not atchiue his mischieuous purpose by reason this blessed man Onias stayed stopped and preuented him he practiseth this wicked deuise He causeth Kinge Seleucus to be infour●ed of the great and inestimable treasure remaining and reposed in the Temple at Hierusalem Wherevpon the King sent Heliodorus to fetch away by force the said treasure But afterward when this purpose chaunted to be frustrated and voide by reason that this Heliodorus being wonderfully plagued of God was constreined to forbeare and relinquish this enterprise and the people also wonderfully offended and in a great rage to see such a heinous sacrilege attempted what doth now thinke ye this good and honest man Simon Surely he plaieth the same parte that the Earle Murray hath played with his most gratious Queene opēly charging the good innocent Onias with his owne shamefull acte and saying that he solicited and incensed the King to robbe and spoile the Temple We find in the Chronicles of our Realme that albe

Adrianus lib. 8. de gestis Alexā mag Iustinus li. 1 Herod li. 1. Strab. li. 16 Womans regiment in Pandea a countrie in Iudea Queene Semiramis and Nitrochris Queene Thomiris Ioseph lib. 20. 21. Antiq. c. 2. Euseb lib. 2. cap. 12. Ruff lib. 2. Eccle. hist c. 6. Clemens Alex. lib. 1. stromat Iustinus lib. 1. Tacitus lib. 2. Queene ●rato Claudianus lib. 1. in Eutropium Womans Regiment in Aphrica Queene Dido Queene Cleopatra Queene Isis Strabo 12. ●● Iustin 〈◊〉 18. ●● Diodor. Sicul. lib c. 2. 〈◊〉 Damianue● Agoes de side moribus AEthiopū Beda ca. 8 in Acta Apostolorum Euseb lib. 2 Ecclesiast cap. 1. Plinius li 6 c. 29. Strabo lib. 17. Act. Apostolor ca. 8. Dorotheus de uita obitu Prophetarū Apostolorum Hieronym in cap. 52. Esaiae Hilar. in Psalm 61. Euseb lib. 2 cap. 1. Sabel Strabo lib. 16. ●hiopia 〈◊〉 first ●stia●amō 〈◊〉 other ●un●s But ●taine 〈◊〉 first ●ōg the ●ounces Rome 3. Reg. 10. 2. Paral. 9. Math. 12. Luc. 11. Ioseph Iudaicar antiq lib. 8. cap. 12. Salomons ships fet ched gold from Cephalia Stobaeue 4●2 ex Nicolao de moribue gentium Lue●n lib. 10. Womans regiment in Europa Queene Olimpias in Epyre. Olimpias in Macedonia Irene Theodora Eudocia Zonaras Tom. 3. Annalium ●nius lib. ● cap. 6. ●●●ca Womans regiment in Spaine Portingale Burgundie and Flanders Irmelgardis daugh●er of Conrade Duke of Franconie Agnes vvife to Henry Duke of Saxony Agnes vvife to Henry the 3. Emperour Pau. Aemil. lib. 3. Car. lib. 3. Ful. de dict fact memor lib. 8. cap. 16. Crana Nōahs daughter Beros lib. 5 Liui. lib. 1. dēc 1. AEneas Syl nius de Asia c. 20. Lauinia ●●ene ●aples ●la●a ●ias lib. Regum ●an Chronie Palmerij Her. Contrac Mūstuniuers Cosm lib. 4 AEneas Syluius in descript Asiae d. ca. 20. Hect. Boet. lib. 1. Histo Scoti uide la geneal des Rois d● France impre Paris 1561. in Carolo Magno ●omans ●giment 〈◊〉 Lorain ●d Man●a ●n the ●ingdoms of Svvetia Dania and Noruegia Boemia Hungaria Scotland England Martia Proba Helena mo●her to Constātin the great Onuph de Rom Principib Euseb de uita Constantin lib. 1. Eccl. Voadicae In uita Agricolae Henry the second K. by his mothers right Vide Alligeneal cap. 1561. The Frēch make not vvomens Regiment vnnatural Adela K. Philippus mother ād Blanche the mother of S. Levvis See the prefaces of the said alliances The Frēch men hold great prin cipalities by the vvo mās right The conclusion against the Aduersaries touching the lavv of Nature Virgi li. 7. 〈◊〉 he vvife 〈◊〉 some ●ase may b●e head to her husband What absurditie follovveth by the streining this vvord ex fratrib ' Marc. ulti Psal. 1. et 4. L. Luci ' §. quaesitū ff de legat 3. ibi Barto Genes 13. L. 1. ff de uerborum signific L. Tresfra tres ff de pact l. Lucius fa●ni Ercis Dict. l. Lucius §. Quaesitum Quaesitum est an quod baeredes fra tribus rogati ●ssent restituere etiam ad sorores per tinet Respōdit pertinere nist aliud sensisse testatorem probetur Leuit. 9. Deut. 23. Zacha. 7. Math. 18. 2. Thes 3. 1. Ioan. 2. Neither this vvord brother excludeth a sister nor this vvord King a Queene by any Scripture Melech Malcah Anno Mariae 1. c. 2. L fi ff de Legibus the Ievves neuer in terpreted this vvord after the sort as the aduersarie doth Alliances c. Paradin● Fulko and others kīgs of Hierusalem by their vviues right Ioseph lib. antiq Iud. 17. c. 13. Iose lib. 13. c. 19. 20 Egesip de excid Hiero l. 1. c. 12 the vviues of Ioannes Aristobulus and Alexander gouerned the Ievves Genes 2. 3. Women earned Clement Alexand. Stromat lib. 1. Plato in Mene. Socrates in Simposio Platon Albericus l. Qui filiū Vbi pupit Hieron In Praefat. in Sopho. ad Panlum Eustoc Tripart lib. 11 c. 12. Diodor Sicul. lib. 1. 5. Illa Numae coniunx consiliūque fuit Ouid. 3. Fastorū Iustinian and other Princes consulted vvith their vviues in publike affaires Women the occasion that the Kings their husbandes vvere cōuerted to the faith Theodelida Bertha Clothildis Iustinian Authen ut Iudic. sine quo qui suffrag in princip l. bene c. de praescript quadriēna Hero. Hal lic lib. 1. Tripart lib. 9. c. 31. Paulus Diacon de gestis Long. Beda lib. 1. Eccl. Hist Paulus Ae. mil. lib. 1. Plutarc in com Numae Lycurg in uita Aegidis August d● Ciuit. Dei lib. 18. c. 9. Plato and Aristotle do not vtterly reiecte vvomens gouerment Tacitus de moribus Germanor Plato Dialog 5. Repub Polit. lib. 2. c. 7. Debora vvas Gouernesse of the Ievves by Gods special appointmēt Iudic. 4. Homil. 4. in 4. cap. Iudic. Pollio V●pistue in uita Aureliā Herod lib. 8. Iusti lib. 2. Iudic. 4. Ioseph antiq Iud lik 5. c. 6. The great victory of Debora The ceremonies that Kings of Englād vsed in their coronation Vide specu lum Histor Rich. Castrens lib. 3. cap. 3. One onely example in Scripture a sufficient president Iudith 19. It seemeth by the rules and vvordes of holie Scripture that a vvormā may haue Ciuil gouernemēt The Q. of Scotland no stranger to Englād A great cōmoditie that shal come to England and Scotland by the vnion of them in case this Succession chaunce

nor wil not be satisfied vnlesse you may for this and all other doubts be by Scripture persuaded lo then I bring to you one authoritie of Holie Scripture to serue al turnes I bring I say noble Debora to decide and determine all this controuersie and contention who you can not denie was the chief and supreme Magistrate ouer the people of God to Gods wel liking and by his owne special gratious appointment She hearde determined and decided al manner of litigious and doubtful controuersies aswel for bargaines and contractes as for doubtes and ambiguities of the law and that not by other Magistrats intermediant but by her selfe personally Erat autem Prophetissa she was a Prophetesse which wordes Origen singulerly wel doth ●ote saying that holie Scripture doth not vse such phrase of speaking of any other of the Iudges least any man should grudge and repine as this frowarde natured man doth at womans regiment Let no man tel me now of the courageous Amazones Let no man tel me of Zenobia the Queene of the Palmeries and bysides her excellent learning of her noble Chiualrie nor of Artemisias that white liuered and cowarde Perses manly wife nor of our manly Voadica nor of any other the wise politike victorious Queenes that we haue before named or of any such like Our Debora shal serue vs one for al. Iabin the King of the Chananees had kept the people of Israel for their sinnes and offences to God twentie yeares in great misery slauery and bondage He had three hundred thousand footemen tenne thousand horsmen and three thousand charnotes seruing for the exploits of his warres This noble Debora sent for Baracke willing him to muster the people and with tenne thousand men to set vpon Sisara ●abins Capiteine But Barac would not go vnlesse she went also Wel saith she I wil go with the. When they should haue buckled Barac and th'Israelites fearing the huge multitude of th' enemies would haue recoiled backe into some safer and surer places Nay saith Debora depart not plucke vp your harts for al is ours And vpō this they incountred with th'enimie and behold there fel sodainly vppon th' enimies faces so vehement a storme of raine and haile that it toke frō them their sight and did so sore beat them that for very cold and weaknes they were not able to hold their weapons in their hands Thervpon being wonderfully discouraged breaking ther aray they toke them to their fete and in fleeing some were slaine by th'Israelits some by their owne horsmen and Chariotes I speake not this of Debora bycause I think warlike matters properly and so well to apperteine to women as to men I know and do wel allow the saying in Homer of Hector to his wife 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 I speake it to this purpose only to shewe that a woman may not only haue ciuil regiment in other thinges but may intermedle also when the case requireth with warlike matters and be present with the Armie in the field And this also among other ancient and solemne ceremonies the gyrding of a Queene at her Coronation with a sworde the setting of a paire of spurres to her heeles may wel signifie Whiche Ceremonies though they haue ben vsed from the time of King Edward the Confessour at least and frō the noble Alured and that vpon Kings only except our owne time yet the reason and signification of the same may and doth take place in women Princes also to put them in remembrance to chastice al malefactours with conueniēt iustice Yea with speede to pursue not onely by their vnderofficers but in their owne Roial persons if the necessitie of the time require it their inward and outward enemies Wherein they haue a president in this worthie Debora This Barac of whom we haue spoken by the cōsent of the most part of the expositors of holy Scripture was Deboras husband whereby ye may see that the matrimonial duety of the wise to the husband doth nothing repugne to the publike administration and office of the wife Eche without other may frindly and preaceably agree She may serue al turnes to the contentation of God her husband and the Commonwealth For the respect whereof the said husband being but a member and parcel of the same and as subiect to his wife in that respect as any other she may yea and ought to commaund the said husband and as the case may stand seuerely to punishe his outragiouse behauiour and doinges towardes the said Commonwealth This noble Debora therefore cōdemneth your Conclusion as both vnnatural and derogatiue to holy Scripture Neither wil this euasion relieue you that some of your affinitie for the maintenance of this so wrong an opiniō haue vsed that this is but one bare and an extraordinarie priuileged and personal example hauing none other the like in Scripture And therefore not to be drawen to make therof a rule or president for womanly gouernmēt If this your replie be effectual then farewel the Baptisme of yong children whereof it wil be harde to find more then one if that one example may be found in al the holy Scripture Then farewel a numbre of rights Ceremonies customes and orders aswel in ecclesiastical as in political affaires al which haue but one and some no one exāple at al therein Yet it so being that the vse thereof is not repugnant to the said holy Scriptures they haue ben they are and may wel hereafter be kept vsed and obserued And yet I know no cause but that the worthy Iudith may be another example also who though she were not gouernesse of the Commōwealth at that time but others yet plaied she that parte that seemed moste abhorring and strange to woman kind deuising yea and most manfully and meruelously executing in her owne person the renoumed slaughter of the arrogant haughty and proude Tyrant Holofernes As her stomake and courage was manly and stout in that acte so was she not onely a noble vertuous woman but a marueilous wise womā withal and so was taken and iudged to be of al the people Whereby it wil follow by good reason that in case she had ben the Gouernesse of al the people her gouerment would haue ben as wel profitable to the cōmonwealth as cōformable both to nature and the holy Scripture also Which exāple though it may seeme sufficiēt to ouerthrow your answere be it neuer so artificially forged to Debora yet to refute and refel it vtterly not only by exāples but euen by plaine and ful authoritie of holy Scripture let me be so bolde as to demaund your answer to a question or two First whether if a man seased in lands and possessions dye without issue male his daughter by holy Scripture shal inioy the said landes and inheritance or no In case ye say she shal not the plaine wordes of the scripture euidētly do reproue you If you graūt it thē aske I farder what if any