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<DATE>2011-12-05</DATE>
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<NAME>Pip Willcox</NAME>
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<HEAD>&leaf; A Proclamation &s;et foorth by Therle <HI>of Su&s;&s;es, the Queenes Maie&s;ties Lieuetenaunt generall in</HI> the North, declaring truely the fal&s;ebodes and vayne delu&s;ions vvherby Therles of Northumberlande and VVe&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">mer<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">a<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">de, and their confederate<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">, do abu&s;e the Queenes Maie&s;ties &s;ubiectes, to mayntayn<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter"> their rebellious enterpri&s;es, the .xxviii. of No<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">ember 1569.</HEAD>
<P>_WHere Cherles of Northumberlande and We&s;tmerlande, with their confe|derates haue mo&s;t vndutifully and vnnaturally con&s;pired to leuie warre again&s;t their and our mo&s;t gratious &s;oueraine Lady the Queenes Maie&s;tie, and thervpon haue entred into open and actuall rebellion, and to couer their wicked and dete&s;table attemptes, haue abu&s;ed and deluded many of her Maie&s;ties &s;ubiectes in the&s;e partes, &s;ometymes commaun|ding them in her highne&s;&s;e name to repayre to them in warlike maner for the defence and &s;uretie of her Maie&s;ties per&s;on, when their intent of calling them was in deede to mainteine their horrible trea&s;ons, and ther|by to put in perill her mo&s;t royall per&s;on, whom God long pre&s;erue, &s;ometymes affirming their do|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">nges to be with thadui&s;e and con&s;ent of the nobilitie of this Realme, who in deede be wholly bent (as manife&s;tly doth appeare) to &s;pende their lyues in dutifull obedience again&s;t them and all other tray|tours, &s;omtimes pretending for con&s;cience &s;ake to &s;eeke to refourme religion, where in deede it is mani|fe&s;tly knowen many of them neuer had care of con&s;cience, or euer re&s;pected any religion, but continued a di&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">olute lyfe, vntyll at this pre&s;ent they were driuen to pretende a popi&s;he holyne&s;&s;e, to put &s;ome fal&s;e colour vpon their manife&s;t trea&s;ons, directly again&s;t the commaundement of God in holy &s;cripture, the lawes of this Realme, and the auncient prerogatiue of the imperiall crowne of Englande, &s;ometymes declaring that they be driuen to take this matter in hande, left otherwy&s;e forraine princes myght take it vpon them, to the great perill of this Realme: where in deede they not contented with the good quiet and publique admini&s;tration of iu&s;tice, &s;o long continued vnder the Queenes Maie&s;tie, as the lyke was neuer before in any princes tyme, haue by all the wicked meanes they could, practi&s;ed with forrayne princes to ayde them in this wicked enterpri&s;e, and thereby &s;ought not only the manife&s;t pe|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="4 letters"> of our mo&s;t gratious &s;oueraigne <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 span">, but al&s;o to bryng the whole Realme to perpetuall thraldome and mi&s;erie, vnder the &s;ubiection and &s;lauerie of forrayne pow|ers and potentates, hoping therby to &s;ati&s;fie &s;ome part of their licentious and di&s;&s;olute myndes, and &s;ometymes couering their naughtie intentes with a &s;hewe of de&s;ire to pre&s;erue the &s;tate of the auncient nobilitie from de&s;truction, prepared (as they &s;ay) again&s;t them: where in deede it manife&s;tly appea|reth, that in whole twelue yeres pa&s;t the Queenes Maie&s;tie hath had &s;uch care of the pre&s;eruing of that &s;tate, as from the beginning of her raigne to this houre there hath not peri&s;hed one of that flocke, and they them &s;elues who abu&s;e the people with the&s;e &s;launderous deui&s;es, haue mo&s;t gratiou&s;ly and libe|rally ta&s;ted of her Maie&s;ties fauour, good countenaunce, bountie, and familier v&s;age, more then others dyd of their equalles, and farre aboue their de&s;ertes, and of whom her Maie&s;tie had conceaued &s;o good opinion, as hardly coulde &s;he of long tyme be induced to thinke that either &s;uch lacke of duetie coulde enter into their heartes agayn&s;t their &s;oueraigne, or &s;uch ingratitude again&s;t her that had &s;o liberally dealt with them, and &s;o louingly v&s;ed them, although &s;he manife&s;tly knewe that &s;ome of them liued in daunger of her lawes, whereof &s;he gaue them to vnder&s;tande &s;he had good knowledge, and dyd tollerate with them in hope of their loyalties otherwa<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">es.</P>
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<P>In con&s;ideration whereof, we <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">ho<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">as <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">a<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="2 letters">e of Su&s;&s;ex, her Maie&s;ties Lieutenaunt generall in the north partes, &s;eeyng howe the ignora<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="2 letters">t people be abu&s;ed by the&s;e delu&s;ions, and knowyng what con|&s;taunt promi&s;es, a&s;&s;ertions, &amp; othes they haue heretofore made by theyr owne mouthes to the Queenes Maie&s;tie, as al&s;o of late by her Maie&s;ties direction to vs to be reported to her highne&s;&s;e for the continu|ounce of their truethes a loyalties to her Maie&s;tie: &amp; &s;eing by the &s;equel that all which heretofore they haue done, or pre&s;ently do, or hereafter intende to do, be but fore pretended fal&s;hodes, to delude all &s;tates&punc; degrees, and per&s;ons to &s;erue their wicked purpo&s;es: haue thought it conuenient hereby to notifie to al her Maie&s;ties &s;ubiectes their maner of dealinges&punc; wherby they may manife&s;tly &s;ee, that their principal intentes be to put in perill the per&s;on of our mo&s;t gracious &s;oueraigne, whom God long pre&s;erue, to &s;owe &s;edition and rebellion by all the fal&s;e meanes they may, to do their vttermo&s;t to put her Maie&s;tie in daunger of her mo&s;t lawfull royall crowne and dignitie, to drawe foreyne nations into this Realme, to the vtter &s;ubuertion and perpetuall bondage of this auncient free common wealth, to &s;poyle al kind of people, wherof the who&s;e countrey feeleth the pre&s;ent &s;mart, and to mainteyne &amp; continue their li|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="2 letters"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 span"> to a|bu&s;e all kinde of &s;tates, for the furthering of their wicked intentes, and prolonging of their dete&s;table doinges, which God of his iu&s;tice can not long<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">u<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="2 letters">er to continue.</P>
<P>Ill whiche matters euidently appearing to the whole worlde, be &s;ufficient to induce all men that haue either rea&s;on, duetie to their &s;oueraigne Ladie, or loue to their natiue countrey, and haue ben by the&s;e delu&s;ions abu&s;ed, vtterly to for&s;ake and dete&s;t them and their wicked doinges, and al &s;uch as haue not hitherto ben abu&s;ed to forbeare to repayre to them, or any wayes to ayde or &s;uccour them or any of theirs in the&s;e traiterous enterpri&s;es, abhominable before God, vndutifull to their &s;oueraine Ladie, and mo&s;t perilous to the quiet and pro&s;perous &s;tate of this Realme, wherein all hone&s;t per&s;ons haue ly|ued from the beginning of her Maie&s;ties raigne in freedome of their per&s;ons, with &s;uertie of lyfe, landes, and goodes, which God long continue.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>T. Su&s;&s;ex.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
<CLOSER>God &s;aue the Queene.</CLOSER>
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