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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A08357	To the Quenes Maiesties poore deceyued subiectes of the north countrey, drawen into rebellion by the Earles of Northumberland and Westmerland. Written by Thomas Norton. Seen and allowed according to the Quenes iniunctions	Norton, Thomas, 1532-1584.	1569 (1569)	STC 18680; ESTC S113359	23,488	60

cary them into the light hold them against the sunne trie them and iudge of them They haue ouercome true religion say your seducers false teachers Is there any alteration of Religion made so rashly as your rebellion or teacheth it so vngodly doings as you do execute or is it receyued from any other than from the word of God himselfe If you will haue any religion I truste you will haue Christes religion If you will haue the Religion of Christ I hope you will best beleue himselfe to tell you what it is If you will heare him selfe speke you may not destroy his worde Euen they that would deceiue ye most can not deny that the holy Bible is the worde of GOD what soeuer is taught therin is truth what soeuer is against it is heresie falshode How thinke you then doe they meane you wel that take Gods word from you that destroy the bible teare and tread vnder féete the Scripture of the worde of God forbidde you to heare or knowe that wherby only you should heare and knowe truth and learne to sée their falshode can they wish you to see that would take away your light can they wish you to fare well that would depriue you of your foode The blasphemie is haynous the offence dangerous this path is not the way to true religion but to error which they would not haue you see that persuade you to blindfill your selfs against the truth of gods gospel Besides your destroying of Gods boke can ye think that they meane to draw you to true catholike religion that persuade you to destroy the monuments of Christian Communion Read or heare the whole forme of that seruice iudge of euery word and sentence and then shall you sée what comforte your false deceyuers haue taken from you Compare what good you find in that and what edifying in the contrarie what swéetenesse it is to ioyne with Gods congregation in partaking of Christes body bloud by meane of his Sacramentes and what vanitie or rather sorrow it is to gaze vpon a théefe that robbeth you of that treasure pretendeth to take it al himselfe holdeth vp that which he calleth a Sacrament as it were in insultation and triumphe ouer your silly simplicitie Do but heare reade and knowe the thinges that ye yet despise I dout not Gods grace shall crepe into you for your comfort Where thirdly you haue raged against the mariage of Gods Ministers beholde your owne madnesse I hope you be not all popish Priestes Bastardes thus rebelliously to rise for the honor of your false Fathers Do you think al your popish priests to haue liued chast Knowe you not their olde incontinence commonly misnamed lustinesse and good fellowship Remember the examples your selues Is mariage worsse than horedom was it not by themselues taught to be a sacrament Is it not the holy ordinance of god Is the mariage of your selues and youre forefathers become vnclennesse or displeasing to God Thinke not so yll of your selues No no there is another matter You are begyled poore soules loke home to your own beds preserue the cleanenesse honestie of your houses This is a quarell wholly like the old rebelles cōplaint of enclosing of commons Many of your disordered and euill disposed wiues are muche agréeued that Priestes which were wont to be common be nowe made seuerall Hinc illae lacrimae there is the griefe in déede And truth it is and so shall you finde it fewe women storme againste the mariage of Priestes calling it vnlawfull and incensing men against it but suche as haue bene Priestes harlots or fayne would be Content youre wiues your selues and let Priestes haue their owne And for whole religion receiue it as GOD hath taught it reade his worde and for the deliuerie and explication of it it behoueth you being no better clerkes than you are to credite the whole Parliament the learned Clergie of the Realme and those that teache you by the boke of God learne it in such sorte places as it is to be taught Your Camp is no good schole of Diuinitie Your churches as they were reformed the worde of God red in such tong as you vnderstode it the Sacraments ministred to your comforte in suche sorte as you might féele the sense of them and be edicted by them the good examples of youre Ministers liuing in holy matrimonie with their owne wyues and abstayning from yours their teaching you obedience iustice charitie be the means to learne truth And yet if errors had ben taught this is not the way to come to amendement Know of those that complain of the ouerthrowing of that religiō that liketh them if euer they sought good meanes to defend it and were denied if euer they offred conference where it was méete and were refused if euer they maynteined it in place conuenient by the word of God and were not fully truly and charitably answered Think you hir maiestie the wisest of the realme haue no care of their owne soules that haue charge bothe of their owne and youres Thinke you they would haue entred into the troubles of changing religion vnlesse very truth conscience and zele for all our soules had enforced them God wote you are deceyued you are out of the way for true vnderstanding religion you are out of the way for true seking it and ye are very far out of the way in thinking that your captaynes haue any care of it They abuse you in this as in the rest They regarde no religion that goe so irreligiously to work All is but shewes and hipocrisie They haue frequented the seruice established by cōmon authority they haue receyued Goddes Communion with hys Churche they haue commended it which if they had had the contrarie religion to hart they would not nor might haue done vnlesse they woulde confesse them selues such as you ought not to beleue But the truth is they knowe that for want of sufficient preachyng and especially for want of grace to receyue the truth of God preached and partly also for that long settled errours euen in men otherwyse good and honest must haue theyr time of instruction and parsuasion by these meanes I say there be many yet within the realme not well taught the multitude of which simple men they hoped by this colour to draw to the felowship of their rebellion and that way to haue more helpe to shelde them selues from the power of Iustice and so to gyue an aduenture by more ayde to escape the due punishement for these their treasons that otherwise in peasable place of iustice they could not defend or auoyde So still this is but colour euen as is the same y t foloweth that her Maiesties Coūsell haue disordered the Realme Well they knowe it is not so and well they know that they nor their auncesters neuer knewe it so well ordered But if any would beléeue such sclander they hoped thereby to winne the moe

complices and so to hide their owne daunger in the multitude Consider the truthe of this colour Wey the times conferre and examine them truly Let not false persuasions deceyue you Be not so wild and wanton with welth to forget whence your wealth commeth or not to sée that the Realme hath it Hadde Englande euer in our memorie so long so blissed peace bothe at home and abroad Had euer true Nobilitie more tender indulgence and honorable cherishing Had euer subiectes more true and frée administration of law and right Was England euer better ordered in all degrées from hye to lowe till your shamefull rebellion hath interrupted the great blessing of God Or hath all Christendome the like at this day your lewde tumult onely excepted Hath not her Maiestie with the aduise and ayde of her most honorable Counsell so ordered vs that we haue as it were standing on shore beholden the shipwrackes of other nations Liue we not dayly so our comfort with the fruites of this good gouernement It is suche that as the case standeth he is lyke to be vnhappy that shall ouerliue it Is this the thankes due to her Maiestie and her Counsell for their care and trauayle for your preseruation Suppose you that such kindnesse is the way to kepe GOD louing and beneficiall vnto vs Repent your error acknowledge with thankes the good order of the realme that you haue felt with profite forsake the disorderers of the cōmon welth and yelde to suche good order as they that haue wel wisely iustly and mercifully ordered it can best dispose of you You sée these be stil but false colours to deceiue moe subiects to drawe moe adherentes to helpe to shroud your seducers in communitie of perill And of like sort falshode and impudencie is that they say of seeking to destroy Nobilitie Though some of them that so proclaime haue bene noble you must remember howe Nobilitie may rise and fal There is no traytor noble how notable soeuer he be or how noble soeuer his auncesters were The aduauncement for vertue to the most honorable order is no more due to good valiant and true Gentlemen than the defacing of the former ensignes of Nobilitie and solemne spurning them into a ditch is a due preiudice to desloyal and vntrue subiects the very stayne of whose companie presence or felloship in the tokens of honoure true Nobilitie can not beare Pitie it is that they haue so far forgotten the common wealth and their owh so to deserue But so deseruing good example and necessarie iustice it is that they beare their extremest infamie Neither yet hath the Quenes maiestie nor her Counsell soughte their destruction but they themselues haue now procured their owne and drawen you in with them Let themselues say of the benefites they haue receyued of her maiestie her good coūtenance and supportation all her Counselles frendly and louing meanes to do them good then iudge ye what cause they haue so to saye As for the rest of the Nobilitie as they be moste déepely bound to her maiestie for her good and gracious tender loue and fauoure to them which they ceasse not to acknowledge and will do euen with the aduenture of their liues honours and possessions in her Maiesties defense against all rebels and traytoures and namely ageinst your Captaines and you so are they full slenderly beholden to your two good Erles for defaming them with the partenership of so fowle and abhominable treasons And for that the slaunder is generall without particular naming of any ye must loke for the more general reuenge of all nobilitie ageinst you no one shrinking or withdrawing but euery one moste forwardely pressing to purge himselfe by his good seruice from so great dishonoure and to shewe hys thankfulnesse the naturall propertie of honour to her maiestie for her great kindnesse and tender loue to that whole degrée Some of them to their great prayse you sée alredy haue shewed their truthe in repressing your attempts refusing your societies in readinesse to ouerthrow you Eche man is so likeliest to desire a newe estate as he hath most cause to be wery of the olde In what Princes dayes did euer Nobilitie liue or can they hope to liue in suche securitie in suche as it were nerenesse and conuenient familiarity with their prince so frée from vniust backbitings from vaine ielosies suspitions from dangers by enimies reports or false accusations from tumulte war and malice one against another yea from all vnsuerties and vnquietnesses as they haue done in her maiesties dayes It is maruellous and vnnaturally miraculous that there are founde such two I meane your two Erles to shew such vnkindnesse Thinke not then that any moe of nobilitie be so ill minded But be not deceyued take the thing as truth is this is but a color howbeit in dede a leud malicious suttle dangerous color partly to the intent to rayse mistrust betwene her Maiestie and her nobles if either were not so wel known to other as they be partly or rather chiefly to deceiue and deteine you with hope of that whiche is not in déede But as in the one they laboure in vayne so in the other learne you to be wiser to trust them the worse hereafter You finde it falleth not out so Hir maiestie hath euer cherished Nobilitie no one of that estate hath by her perished in all her time they know it and acknowledge it and you must féele it You sée that they come not to you for all the promises and faithes supposed in your proclamation It falleth not out as you are borne in hand they are al in readinesse with their power ageinst you to clere thēselues to wreke the dishonor vpon you If this color deceiue you you winke hard or be maruelously blinded If any of nobilitie for any contempts or other causes haue ben stayed whereupon the likelyhode is that you are the more led to thinke this surmise true themselues acknowledge yet with what clemency they are vsed the world knoweth how sory hir maiestie is to haue any such occasion but howsoeuer it be they haue smal cause to thank you for agréeuing their case with greater suspitions and according to that you haue so ill deserued of them you must accompt that themselues so farre as their liberties and her Maiesties trust in them will permitte and all their friends for their benefite will with moste sharpe reuenge vpon you do what they can to persuade their innocence Neither I trust will her maiestie hir selfe so yet giue ouer the care of her owne preseruation as to contemne all aduertisements of attempts and not by good care and hed of hir counsel yea extirpation of the contrarie stand vpon her gard against all aduauncements ●of suche titles as you would preferre being dangerous to hir safetie and which haue alredy to their vttermost attempted her hiest perill or yet to leaue in danger to their malice hir good Subiects that be ielous