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<P>ARTICLES DEVI|SID by the holle con&s;ent of the kynges mo&s;te honourable coun&s;ayle, his gracis licence optei|ned therto, not on|ly to exhorte, but al&s;o to enfourme his louynge &s;ubiectis of the trouthe.</P>
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<DIV1 TYPE="introduction">
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<HEAD>&para; The kynges mo&s;te honourable coun&s;eylle to the re&s;idue of his louynge &s;ubiectes.</HEAD>
<P>_SIns it is the parte of all honourable and elect per+&s;ons cho&s;en by the prince, when they do declare and vtter matters of weighte, to ob&s;erue an equitie and trouth in vtteryng of them, and to &s;hew beneuolence to the people, whiche be vnder their prince, in admony&s;hynge them of thynges, which are nece&s;&s;ary for the~ to know: We therfore the king our &s;ouerayns mo&s;t faithful coun&s;aylours and &s;ub|iectes, with hole a&s;&s;ent and by his li|cence haue thought mo&s;t conuenient and nece&s;&s;arie, to intimate vnto you (the re&s;te of his &s;ubiectes) the&s;e ar|ticles folowynge, for your better eru|dition and knowledge, and to open vnto you truly the manifold iniuries done vnto our kynge and &s;ouerayne,
<PB REF="4"> whiche (we beinge his true and feith|ful &s;ubiectes) may in no wy&s;e &s;u&s;teine or &s;uffre: But &s;tudy and endeuoir our &s;elfes by all wayes to vs po&s;&s;ible, to redoube and requite the &s;ame, and to take the iniuries and wronges done to his per&s;one (in whome is all our wealthe and ioye) more erne&s;tly, then if it were done to vs alone. And &s;o &s;hall we do accordyng to our duties, and therby de&s;erue merite of god, to whom mo&s;te humbly we praye, that he wyll vouche&s;afe to haue, &s;upport, defende and kepe vnder his wynge and tuicyon our mo&s;te noble prince, the quene, now beinge his wyfe, with theyr i&s;&s;ue, and all vs his true and louynge &s;ubiectes.</P>
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<Q LANG="lat">Quia in te domine &s;peramus.</Q>
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<DIV1 TYPE="compilation of articles">
<PB N="3" REF="4">
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<P>_FIr&s;te the mere truthe is, that no lyuinge creature, of what a&s;tate, degree, or dignytie &s;oo euer he be, hathe power gyuen hym by god, to di&s;pen&s;e with goddes la|wes, or lawe of nature. Which thing is confirmed and determyned in our princis ca&s;e, by an infinite nombre of well lerned men &s;traungiers, by the mo&s;t part al&s;o of all the mo&s;t famous vniuer&s;ities of Chri&s;tendome: And &s;peciallye, and aboue all (to our e&s;ti|mations) the holle clergie of this re|alme. Whervpon and in di&s;charge al&s;o of his con&s;cience, beinge aucto|ry&s;ed by acte of parlyament our Me|tropolytane Archeby&s;hoppe of Can|turbury, hath adiudged the fyr&s;t ma|trimonye, to be contrarye to goddis lawes, &amp; therby not laufull, &amp; this pre+&s;ent matrimonie nowe enioyed, lau|fulle and perfyte. Wherfore we all (that be our princis trewe &s;ubiectes)
<PB REF="5"> oughte in this his iu&s;te &amp; true matri|monie, to lyue and dye with him, and his, of this venter come, or co~myng.</P>
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<DIV2 N="2" TYPE="article">
<HEAD>The .ij. Article.</HEAD>
<P>SEcondly, the coun&s;ailes of Nyce, Melyuence, and Aphricane, with others al&s;o, haue determyned, that cau&s;es of &s;trife or controuer&s;ie, being ons begon in any region, al&s;o there, and in the &s;ayde region, be finally de|termined, and none other where, ex|pre&s;&s;ely denienge the courtes of be|yonde the &s;ee, to oblige any manne to appere at them for diuers weightie co~&s;iderations in them expre&s;&s;ed, whi|che not with&s;tandinge the by&s;hop of Rome by &s;ome men called Pope, the v&s;urper of goodis lawe, and infrin|ger of general coun&s;els, hath hither|to wrongfully deteined at Rome, and wolde do &s;tylle, except otherwi&s;e our prince and his parlyament had proui+ded his gret and weightie cau&s;e, con|trarye to ryghte and con&s;cience, to
<PB N="4" REF="5"> the vtter vndoinge of this realme.</P>
<P>Whiche thynges the prince and his holle parlyament con&s;iderynge, and takynge &s;ome lyght vpon the for&s;aid general coun&s;ailes, and waying al&s;o other wy&s;e and politike rea&s;ons, thin+kinge verily this amonge&s;t other co~|&s;ideratio~s, that it were not mete that the inheritance of this realme &s;hulde depende vppon the by&s;hop of Rome, or any other &s;traungiers wyll &amp; ple|&s;ure, whiche other by affection, mede or feare, might and wold ordre it af|ter his worldly affections and appe|tites, as it wel appereth this holy by+&s;hoppe of Rome wolde: haue made a commodious and welthy law lately, both for vs &amp; him, By which, good pe+ple (liuing within the limites of true matrimonie within this realme) &s;hal not by malice, or euil wyl be &s;o longe deteyned and interrupted from their righte, as in tymes pa&s;&s;ed they haue bene, Nor iniu&s;te matrimonie &s;hall
<PB REF="6"> haue his vnlauful and ince&s;tuous de+moure, as by delays to Rome, it was wont to haue, whiche may euidently appere now, by that, that our princis weightie and longe protracted cau&s;e of Matrimonie, hath nowe here his final and pro&s;perous ende, with brefe &s;ucce&s;&s;e of i&s;&s;ue all redy hadde, and o|ther lyke to folowe, laudes be vnto god, thonly werker of the &s;ame: with whiche i&s;&s;ue bothe you and we, mu&s;te bothe lyue and dye, accordyng to our allegeance.</P>
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<DIV2 N="3" TYPE="article">
<HEAD>The .iij. Article.</HEAD>
<P>THirdly it is to be take~ for a truth &amp; equitie agreing with lernyng, that an excu&s;atour in any by&s;hoppes court of the worlde, the partie eyther not beinge bounde per&s;onally to ap|pere there (as bi al lerning our prince is not at Rome) or being impedite by any other lauful cau&s;es, whiche they by theyr own law haue limited, &s;huld be admitted to an&s;were for the parte,
<PB N="5" REF="6"> agein&s;te whiche equitie the by&s;hop of Rome hath al&s;o reiected our princis excu&s;atour, whiche iniurie although it be not yet put in execution agein&s;te any other per&s;one (&s;auyng our prince and kyng) yet that example &s;hall re|mayne for a pre&s;ident, in preiudice of al princis and pote&s;tates. Wherfore, we wolde aduy&s;e them briefly to loke vpon it, and we and ye the re&s;t of his &s;ubiectes, &s;o to dete&s;te this great in|iurie done to our prince, and con&s;e|quently to vs, that the by&s;&s;hoppe of Rome, and all his, &s;hall &s;e, that ex|cepte it and all other iniuries done to our prince and &s;ouerayne, be &s;hortly redoubed, we wyll reuenge it to the vttermo&s;t of our power, and in &s;o do|inge, we do but our duetie, yet &s;urely we doubte not but it &s;hall be very ac|ceptably take~ bi our prince and king.</P>
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<HEAD>The fourth Article.</HEAD>
<P>FOurthely the righte beleue of all true Chri&s;tien people is, that the
<PB REF="7"> general coun&s;el (laufully gatherid) is &s;uperiour and hath power ouer al by &s;hoppes and &s;piritualle powers, not exceptynge the by&s;&s;hoppe of Rome. In confirmation of whiche opinion the approbate cou~&s;ell of Ba&s;il &s;eyth the&s;e wordes: who &s;o euer opponeth him &s;elf ob&s;tinatli agein&s;t this truth, is to be taken by al true chri&s;ten peo|ple, as an heritike. Wherfore, louing frendes, lette vs &s;o handell our &s;elfe bothe in wordis &amp; dedes, that we be not taken for any fo~de &s;cruple in this trap, and let not herin our eies be &s;o blynded, nor oure eares made &s;o defe with the &s;ayinges or prechinges of a|ny papi&s;tes, that we ru~ne heedlonge ageyn&s;te the true beleue of all ryght Chri&s;ten people.</P>
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<HEAD>The fyfte Article.</HEAD>
<P>FIftly, by the lawe of nature it is granted and admitted for lauful, that a man beinge greued, vexed, or troubled iniu&s;tely, may appele from
<PB N="6" REF="7"> the by&s;&s;hop of Rome, to the generall coun&s;el, whiche &s;o beinge, then &s;peci|allye &s;uche libertie is mo&s;te conueni|ent for princis, and they not to be re|iected therfro, nor it is not a thynge by them to be neglected or omytted, whiche haue but two wayes princi|pally where none other can preuayle, to atteyne ryght the one ageyn&s;te the other, that is to &s;ey, in cau&s;es concer+nynge the &s;aule and mere &s;pirituall, appellation to the general coun&s;eyle, In temporall, the &s;word only, except by meditation of frendes, the maters may de compounded, &s;o that who &s;o euer wolde go about to take away a|ny of the&s;e naturelle defences frome them, is to be manly with&s;tande both by the prince and his &s;ubiectes. And therto, we be animate by oure ryght father whiche redemed vs, our lorde Ie&s;u Chri&s;te in that he &s;ayth, Obeye ye princis aboue all, and then theyr deputies, not gyuynge power to any
<PB REF="8"> other within theyr reules and domi|nions.</P>
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<DIV2 N="6" TYPE="article">
<HEAD>The .vi. Article.</HEAD>
<P>SIxtly after y^t appellations be lau|fully made fro~ the bi&s;hop of Rome (whiche calleth hym &s;elfe pope) vnto the generall coun&s;ell, he is bounde by the lawe neither to do, ne attempte a|ny further proces, in preiudice of the appellante, whiche yf he do, by the for&s;ayde lawes, his doinges can not preiudice the appellante, and al&s;o it &s;tandeth voyde, The effecte of whi|the lawe mu&s;t now take his &s;trength in the benefite of our prince, except to great iniurie be mini&s;tred vnto him. For our prince and kynge, accordyng to the libertie of nature and con&s;ti|tutions of generalle coun&s;ayles (as afore) hath both prouoked and appe+led to the general coun&s;ayle next en|&s;uinge, rightfully congregate, from the v&s;urper of goddis lawes, and in|fringer of generall coun&s;ayles, whi|che
<PB N="7" REF="8"> calleth hym &s;elfe Pope. In the whiche our princis doinges, all iu&s;te and true chri&s;ten men, I doubte not, wylle &s;upporte and meynteyne hym, whiche prouocations &amp; appellations al&s;o &s;tandynge in force, and being in|timate to the per&s;on of the &s;aid v&s;ur|per (as in dede they be) &s;eque&s;trethe hym rightfully from al maner of pro+ces belongyng or in any wi&s;e apper|teynyng to our princis facte and ma|ter, in any of his courtis. Other dia|bolike actis &amp; &s;tatutes by &s;ome of his predece&s;&s;ours made, as herafter &s;hal appere, not with&s;tandynge. Wher|fore, what cen&s;ures, interdictions, or other his cur&s;ed inuentions, what &s;o euer they be, ought to be di&s;pi&s;ed and mannefullye with&s;tande, for they be noughte in dede, and we (&s;o doinge) &s;hall haue for our buckeler, the latter &amp; better parte of this ver&s;e en&s;uinge, And the maligners,<NOTE PLACE="marg">P&s;al 36.</NOTE> the fore part of the &s;ame, whiche is, <HI>Quoniam qui
<PB REF="9"> malignantur exterminabuntur, &s;u&s;ti|ne~tes aute~ dominu~, ip&s;i here ditabunt terram.</HI></P>
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<HEAD>The .vii. Article.</HEAD>
<P>SEuenthely the &s;entence of excom|munication, oughte not to be exe|cuted by anye mini&s;ter of Chri&s;tes churche, agayn&s;t any creature, except it be for deedly &s;yn prohibite by god|des lawe and &s;cripture, nor yet then, excepte the partye &s;tande in contu|macye or be heddye: howe &s;klender|ly &s;huld we then e&s;teme his cen&s;ures and cur&s;es, which extendeth them v|pon vs chefly, bicau&s;e we haue made hol&s;ome lawes, for the commoditie and welthe of our prince and realme &s;econdly, bycau&s;e they do preiudicate his wordly appetites and profyte,</P>
<P>Thirdly by cau&s;e our prince wyl not (contrarie to his con&s;cience, derected by goddis lawe, and thoppinions of the mo&s;te parte of all the be&s;te lerned men in chri&s;tendome, as afore is re|her&s;ed)
<PB N="8" REF="9"> lyue an ince&s;tuous lyfe &amp; ab|homynable? The&s;e thinges be &s;o con+trarious to equitie, re&s;on, and iu&s;tice, that by his doinges it maye appere, what maner a man he is, accordynge to a texte of &s;cripture, whiche &s;aith: <HI>Ex operibus eorum cogno&s;cetis eos.</HI> Wher|fore, we al (our princis true &s;ubiectis) oughte to recken, as rea&s;on and ler|nynge leadeth vs, be&s;ides the due o|bedience to our prince, that the cur&s;e of hym, whiche mini&s;trethe hit in|iu&s;tly, as this is mini&s;tred, thoughe it were within his iurisdiction, as it is not: &s;hall redounde to hym &s;elfe, and hurte no man elles. Wherfore in this, lette vs al &s;hewe our &s;elfes lyke true and obedient &s;ubiectes, not e&s;te|myng or hangynge vpon any lyuing creature, &s;aue onely oure prince and king, accordyng to an olde prouerbe here in Englande, of olde tyme pa&s;t, moche wont to be &s;et by, &amp; ofte tymes by true men reher&s;ed, whiche is, One
<PB REF="10"> god and one kyng, myndyng therby, that all other folkes doinges &s;hulde be de&s;pi&s;ed, whiche in any poynt may be contrary to them, in confirmation wherof the prophete Dauid &s;ayeth the&s;e wordes, <HI>Inimici uero domini mox honorificati fuerint et exaltati,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">&s;al. 56.</NOTE> <HI>deficientes quemadmodum fumus deficient.</HI></P>
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<HEAD>The .viij. article.</HEAD>
<P>EIghtly, it is the office of all ma|ner of by&s;hoppes, and a graunte al&s;o indifferentely made to theym all by God, that they &s;houlde fyr&s;te frendely admony&s;&s;he, and &s;ecretelye reproue. Secondely, afore recorde charitably to refourme (if they can) all maner of offenders of goddis la|wes within their dioces, not v&s;ynge any compul&s;ories, except the parties per&s;i&s;te ob&s;tinate and in contumacie, whiche happenyng, then is it laufull for them to v&s;e cen&s;ures and excom|munications.
<PB N="5" REF="10"> And this manier of wayes onely, ought euery by&s;hoppe to v&s;e, althoughe the by&s;&s;hoppe of Rome, wolde them to do neuer &s;o mo+che to the contrary, for they be bou~de more to obey god then man, whiche office and wayes, (accordynge to his duetie) our good by&s;&s;hoppe of Caun|turbury (nowe lyuynge) hath begon to &s;hewe and folowe. For fyr&s;t he ap|perceyuyng, when he came to his di|gnitie, that his prince and &s;ouerayne lyued in vnlaufull and vn&s;ittyng ma+trimonie (accordynge to his duetie) mekely dydde admony&s;he hym, and therin al&s;o reproued hym, exhortynge hym to leaue it, or els he wolde do fur+ther his duetie in it, So that at the la&s;te, accordynge to goddis lawes, he did &s;eparate his prince from that vn|laufull matrimonie. In whiche do|ing, we thinke that euerye trewe &s;ub|iecte &s;hulde moche the better e&s;teme hym, bycau&s;e he wold execute goddis
<PB REF="11"> commaundement, and &s;ette this re|alme in the waye of true heyres. And howe God herewith is plea&s;ed, we thinke it doeth euidentlye appere by many thynges. Fir&s;t &s;o brefely vpon this latter and lawfull matrimonie, &s;o &s;oone i&s;&s;ue hadde: Secondely, &s;o fayre wether, with greatte plentie of corne and cattal: Thirdly peace and amitie lately &s;ought by diuers prin|cis and potentates, of oure Prince: Fourthely the purenes of ayre with|out anye pe&s;tilenciall or contagious di&s;ea&s;e, by &s;o longe tyme during, whi+che thynges we ought to thanke god for, and to take them for demon&s;tra|cions that he is plea&s;ed, bothe with our prince and his doinges. Wher|fore, let vs all that be his true &s;ubie|ctes, bothe reioyce in hit, and applye vs accordynglye to &s;erue bothe god, hym and his in it, accordynge to our bounden dueties.</P>
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<HEAD>The .ix. article.</HEAD>
<PB N="3" REF="11">
<P>NInthely, that where in dede by &s;cripture, there is none auctori|tie ne iurisdiction graunted more to the by&s;hoppe of Rome, than to any o|ther, <HI>Extra prouinciam,</HI> yet bycau&s;e that &s;ufferance of people, and blyndenes of Princis, with their &s;upportation hitherto, hath &s;u&s;teined the &s;ame, do|inge them &s;elfes therby to greate in|iurie, it is thought nowe conuenient, and more then nece&s;&s;arie, to open the &s;ame to the worlde, to the intente it e&s;teme not, ne honour hym as a god, for feare of idolatrie, he beinge but a man, and what maner a man, a man neyther in lyfe nor lernynge, Chri|&s;tis di&s;ciple, a man al&s;o, though the &s;ee apo&s;tolike were of neuer &s;o highe auctoritie, contrarious, vnlaufulle al&s;o by their owne decrees, to occupie and enioye his v&s;urped place. For fyr&s;t he is bothe ba&s;te and cam to his dignitie by Simony, and now in de|nieng the prouocation and appele of
<PB REF="12"> our &s;oueraygne lorde the kynge, and &s;upportinge the diabolike decree of his predece&s;&s;our Pius, is determined by a generall coun&s;aile <HI>Vere haereticus.</HI> that is to &s;ay, an Herityke.</P>
<P>Wherfore, all we (beinge trewe chri|&s;ten people, he thus contynuynge) oughte to di&s;pice bothe hym and his factes, and be no lenger blinded with hym, but gyue our &s;elfes holly to the ob&s;eruance of Chri&s;tis lawe, in whi|che is all &s;wetnes and truthe, adioy|ninge with hit the lawes of this re|alme, vtterlye relyngqui&s;hynge the o|ther, in whiche is nothinge elles, but pompe, pride, ambition, and wayes to make them &s;elfes ryche, whiche is moche contrarious to his profe&s;&s;ion, our lorde amende hym, and giue vs grace no lenger to be blynded with hym. Amen.</P>
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<P>LONDINI IN AEDIBVS THO. BERTHELETI. AN. M.D.XXXIIII.</P>
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<P>CVM PRIVILEGIO.</P>
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