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<HEAD>A declaration of the Queenes Maie&s;ties mo&s;t gratious dealing with William Mar&s;den and Robert Anderton, Seminarie Prie&s;ts, &s;ithence the time of their iu&s;t condemnation, being conuicted according to the Lawes, and of their ob&s;tinacie in re|fu&s;ing to acknowledge their duetie and allegeance to her Maie&s;tie. <DATE>1586.</DATE></HEAD>
<P>_Whereas at the la&s;t Se&s;&s;ion of Parliament among other good and nece&s;&s;ary Lawes and or|dinances e&s;tabli&s;hed for the maintenance, continuence &amp; pre&s;eruation of her Maie&s;ties mo&s;t happy and quiet gouernment, and for the preuenting and auoyding of Trea&s;ons and practi|&s;es traiterou&s;ly attempted by certaine of her Maie&s;ties euill effected Subiectes, being Ie|&s;uites, and Seminarie Prie&s;tes, made and created at Rome and Rhemes, and other places beyonde the Seas, who at the in&s;tigation of the Pope and others, fauouring his pretended tyrannous autoritie ouer the Crowne of England, and enuying the happie and ble&s;&s;ed e&s;tate of her Maie&s;ties &s;ayd gouernment, came dayly into the Realme, to peruert and &s;educe her Maie&s;ties good Subiects vnder colour of Religion, to drawe them from their due and na|turall obedience to wardes her Maie&s;tie and her Crowne, and to prepare their mindes and bodies to a&s;&s;i&s;t &s;uch forraine inua&s;ion, as was certainely di&s;couered to be intended by the &s;aid Pope and his adherents, as by &s;undry effects and proofes hath manife&s;tly appeared, namely by the late Rebellion in the North, the Inua&s;ion attempted in Ireland, and by the di&s;couerie of &s;undry late plottes and purpo&s;es of trea&s;on, a&s;well again&s;t her Maie&s;ties &s;acred per&s;on, as again&s;t the common quiet of the Realme: There was for the&s;e con&s;iderations an Act made again&s;t the &s;ayde Ie&s;uites and Seminarie Prie&s;tes, by the which their acce&s;&s;e into the Realme for the like &s;editions and traiterous purpo&s;es was prohibited and ordered to be puni&s;hed as in ca|&s;es of Trea&s;on. Contrary to which Act of Parliament, one <HI>William Mar&s;den,</HI> and <HI>Robert Anderton,</HI> Seminarie Prie&s;tes, being reconciled at <HI>Do&uuml;ay in Artois,</HI> by a Ie&s;uite called Father <HI>Columbine,</HI> and made Prie&s;tes by the <HI>Cardinal of Guy&s;e</HI> at <HI>Rhemes,</HI> ar|riving &s;ecretly out of Fraunce lately at the I&s;le of Wight, where they were apprehended, haue confe&s;&s;ed their purpo&s;e of com|ming into the Realme, to haue bene to winne &s;oules, (as they terme it) being in effect (as is before mentioned) to per&s;wade her Maie&s;ties Subiectes vnder colour of maintenance of Popery, to Rebellion. For the which, they having bene by the due and orderly cour&s;e of her Maie&s;ties Lawes, tried &amp; convicted at the la&s;t A&s;&s;i&s;es holden at Winche&s;ter in the Countie of Southamp|ton, upon the Statute afore&s;ayde, were neuertheles by the Iudges of that Circuitc (knowing the mercifull minde and gra|cious di&s;po&s;ition of the Queenes Maie&s;tie to wardes all her Subiects:) conferred withall concerning their meaning to wards her Maie&s;ties per&s;on and the Realme, at which time they pretended in wordes and exterior &s;hew to acknowledge her Maie&s;tie to be rightfull Queene of this Realme, and to dowe and prote&s;t that they would at all times aduenture their lives in defence of her Maie&s;tie and her Realmes, again&s;t the Pope or any forraine power what&s;ocuer that &s;hould attempt to inuade the Realme with force, and that they would not meddly or per&s;wade with any in matter of Religion, but onely keepe their owne con&s;ciences to them&s;clues: Whereupon they were &s;tayed from their execution, her Maie&s;ties minding nothing le&s;&s;e, then that any of her Subiects, though di&s;agreeing from her in Religion, &s;hould dye for the &s;ame, as by them and their companions hath bene mo&s;t fal&s;ely and &s;tanderou&s;ly publi&s;hed and affirmed. Upon report whereof made by the &s;ayd Iudges to the Lords and others of her Maie&s;ties mo&s;t honorable Priuie Coun&s;ell, they folowing the milde and temperate cour&s;e of her Maie&s;ties government, cau&s;ed the &s;ayd <HI>Mar&s;den</HI> and <HI>Anderton</HI> to be &s;tayed from exceution, and to be remooucd from Winche&s;ter to London, where they were furder conferred withall, and examined concerning their obedience and duetie towards her Maie&s;tie for Civill cau&s;es, onely to prooue whether they would remaine con&s;tant in their prote&s;tations in that behalfe made to the Iudges at their arraignement and conviction, that her Maie&s;tie might thereupon haue bene moved to extend her mercy towardes them. The &s;ayd <HI>Mar&s;den</HI> and <HI>Anderton</HI> being accordingly examined by two principall per&s;ons thereunto appoynted by her Maie&s;ties &s;ayd priuie Coun|&s;ell, and put in remembrance of their former &s;hewe of dutie made before the Iu&s;tices of A&s;&s;i&s;e, and advi&s;ed to confirme the hope conceaved of their reformation in matters of their alleageance to her Maie&s;tie, to the ende they might thereby mooue her Ma|ie&s;tie to &s;hew mercy unto them: Whereupon fir&s;t the &s;ayd <HI>Anderton</HI> being required to explane his true meaning in his prote&s;ta|tion of her Maie&s;ties right to the Crowne, and of his alleageance, and particularly whether he did acknowledge her Maie&s;tie to be lawfull Queene, notwith&s;tanding any &s;entence which the Pope either had giuen, or could giue again&s;t her: and whether he meant that it was his duetie, and the dueties of all her Maie&s;ties Subjects, to with&s;tand the Pope, not onely if his inua&s;ion were for temporall re&s;pects, as to make conque&s;t of the Realme, but al&s;o if he would attempt &s;uch an inua&s;ion by force to re|duce the Realme to his obedience by colour of Religion: he an&s;wered, that they be que&s;tions wherewith he doeth not deale, and required to be re&s;pited for his an&s;were, vntil &s;uch ca&s;es &s;hould happen, adding by way of abu&s;ion, that in the meane time he may po&s;&s;ibly be a Prote&s;tant, and &s;o then become of other opinion then he is now of.</P>
<P><HI>William Mar&s;den</HI> to the &s;ame que&s;tions before propounded to <HI>Anderton,</HI> au&s;wered, <HI>That he acknowledged her Maie&s;tie to bee lawfull Queene of this Realme, and of other her Dominions: and that he tooke him&s;elfe bounde to obey her Maie&s;tie, &s;o farre as his obe|dience impeached no this duetie to God and to the Church, (meaning the Church of Rome) requiring that he might not be asked his opinion any furder, untill &s;uch ca&s;e of &s;entence given by the Pope &s;hould happen: and furder &s;ayth, that in ca&s;e the Pope would &s;end any forces into the Realme, to reduce the &s;ame to the Catholique Religion, (meaning Poperie) he would then do the duetie of a Prie&s;t, that is, he would pray, that right might take place.</HI></P>
<P>And whereas they had both promi&s;ed before the Iu&s;ties of A&s;&s;i&s;e, that they woulde not meddle in per&s;wading of any per&s;on in matter of Religion, but only keepe their owne cou&s;cience to them&s;clues: they now in this examination denie that euer they promi&s;ed not to deale with her Maie&s;ties Subiectes, to per&s;wade them in matter of Religion: <HI>Anderton</HI> &s;aying, <HI>That he taketh &s;uch as be out of the vnitie of the Church of Rome, to &s;tand in &s;tate of damnation, and that therefore he is bounde in con&s;cience to doe what he can to reclaime them.</HI> And <HI>Mar&s;den</HI> &s;ayth, <HI>He may not promi&s;e not to deale with any of her Maie&s;ties Subiectes in matters of Religion: for that he comming into the Realme to per&s;wade the Catholique Religion, (meaning Poperie) he can not binde him&s;elfe not to doe that duetie.</HI></P>
<P>Hereby may appeare to all her Maie&s;ties loving and true hearted Subiects, the traiterous purpo&s;e of the&s;e two Seminary Prie&s;tes, being borne Subiects of the Realme, who though in generall termes and &s;peaches they &s;eemed and made &s;hew to the Iu&s;tices of A&s;&s;i&s;e, of true and dutifull alleageance to the Queenes Maie&s;tie their naturall Soueraigne: yet when endeuour is v&s;ed to vncover their ma&s;ked and &s;ayned prote&s;tations, they can not hide their malice and trea&s;onable intentions, even to their owne confu&s;ions: which appearing thus manife&s;tly to the Queenes mo&s;t excellent Maie&s;tie, hauing &s;ub&s;cribed the&s;e former an&s;weres with their owne handes, whereas &s;he was much inclined vpon the report of the &s;ayd Iu&s;tices to afford them grace and pardon, if they would haue per&s;i&s;ted in their former prote&s;tations, finding them nowe vnworthy thereof, hath left them to the puni&s;hment appoynted by the Law to be inflicted vpon them for their iu&s;t offence.</P>
<CLOSER>God &s;aue the Queene.</CLOSER>
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<P>&leaf; Imprinted at London by Chri&s;topher Baker, Printer to the Queenes mo&s;t excellent <HI>Maie&s;tie.</HI></P>
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