❧
A
Declaration
of
the
ende
of
Traytors
,
and
false
Conspirators
agaynst
the
state
,
and
of
the
duties
of
Subiects
to
theyr
Prynce
and
soueraigne
Gouernour
.
&c.
IF
euer
Kingdome
were
blessed
,
if
euer
Nation
enioyed
happy
dayes
,
if
euer
people
liued
in
a
golden
age
,
Happy
is
that
kingdome
,
where
there
are
many
that
can
giue
good
counsell
.
And
Iesus
the
sonne
of
Syrack
saith
:
Where
they
that
are
in
authoritie
are
men
of
vnderstanding
,
there
the
citty
doth
prosper
.
And
again
Salomon
sayth
:
Where
no
counsell
is
,
there
the
people
decay
.
But
where
many
are
that
giue
good
counsel
,
there
is
wealth
.
If
you
well
consider
,
and
looke
into
the
ciuill
warres
and
discention
,
into
the
horrible
murders
of
What
good
Subiect
will
not
hartilie
lament
to
thinke
what
sorrow
her
Maiestie
dooth
make
,
what
inwarde
gréefe
shée
hath
conceiued
,
what
déepe
sighes
procéede
But
most
gracious
soueraigne
Lady
,
let
not
these
theyr
wicked
and
trayterous
conspiracies
dismay
you
,
let
them
not
discourage
you
,
but
be
of
good
comfort
,
and
doubt
not
,
but
as
almighty
GOD
hath
hetherto
most
Comfort
your selfe
also
in
this
,
that
they
(
euen
they
I
say
)
which
haue
thus
conspired
to
take
your
Maiesty
from
vs
,
when
they
haue
come
into
your
presence
,
meaning
then
to
haue
accomplished
theyr
most
trayterous
purpose
,
haue
béene
so
diswayed
vpon
the
sight
of
your
princely
person
,
and
in
beholding
your
most
gracious
countenaunce
,
that
they
hadde
no
power
to
performe
the
thing
,
which
they
had
before
determined
vppon
.
A
most
certaine
token
of
the
great
mercie
and
fauour
of
God
towardes
your
Maiestie
,
and
to
vs
all
.
If
It
is
trowe
you
,
because
they
thought
that
her
Maiestie
Is
it
trowe
you
,
because
they
thought
that
her
Maiestie
is
not
mercifull
to
such
as
are
transgressors
and
Is
it
trowe
you
,
because
they
thought
that
her
What
is
there
then
that
shoulde
mooue
these
sortes
of
men
,
thus
most
wickedlie
,
and
thus
most
trayterouslie
to
conspire
the
death
and
destruction
of
so
gracious
a
soueraigne
Ladie
and
Queene
.
Is
it
trow
you
,
because
they
would
haue
alteration
of
this
most
godly
Religion
But
what
then
,
is
it
therefore
lawfull
for
the
Subiect
The
famous
Clerke
Erasmus
,
in
his
Paraphrase
vppon
If
a
Prince
should
sette
forth
a
Lawe
,
touching
the
worshipping
of
God
,
or
matter
of
conscience
against
the
word
of
God
,
and
limit
a
paine
to
the
infringers
therof
,
though
the
Subiect
be
not
indéede
bounde
in
conscience
to
obserue
the
same
law
,
yet
he
may
not
resist
or
oppose
himselfe
against
his
Soueraigne
,
but
must
rather
submitte
himselfe
to
the
punishment
of
Lawe
,
as
S.
Peter
sayth
:
Submitt
your selfe
vnto
euery
ordenaunce
of
man
for
the
Lordes
sake
,
whether
it
be
vnto
the
king
as
to
the
cheefe
,
or
to
them
that
are
in
authority
vnder
him
.
Then
if
he
must
submitte
himselfe
vnto
euerye
ordenaunce
of
man
,
it
followeth
that
hee
may
not
withstand
the
same
in
any
case
.
Nowe
let
vs
sée
by
some
examples
,
what
hath
happened
within
our
memory
amongst
vs
,
to
such
as
haue
conspired
the
death
of
theyr
soueraigne
Gouernour
,
or
forciblie
opposed
themselues
against
her
:
whether
it
hath
béene
for
Religion
or
any
other
cause
whatsoeuer
,
&
what
successe
they
haue
had
,
I
find
in
the
twentie
eyght
yéere
of
King
Henry
the
eyght
,
when
he
went
about
to
suppresse
certaine
houses
of
Religion
,
that
there
assembled
in
Lincolneshyre
,
Humfrey
Arundell
knight
,
and
others
of
the
Mary
,
which
was
to
the
ende
to
haue
withstoode
her
marriage
with
the
Spanish
King
,
and
that
the
Religion
nowe
professed
(
which
was
also
professed
,
when
she
came
to
her
Crowne
)
shoulde
haue
béene
continued
,
which
notwithstanding
was
suppressed
by
her
.
Was
not
the
saide
Wiat
and
dyuers
other
executed
for
the
same
Rebellion
.
Looke
into
the
same
Booke
,
and
there
it
is
plainely
sette
downe
.
Did
not
the
Earles
Consider
of
Arden
,
which
about
the
25.
yéere
of
her
Paget
,
and
Charles
his
Brother
,
with
Shelley
and
Throgmorton
,
to
haue
suppressed
this
Religion
,
to
haue
aduaunced
the
Romish
Religion
,
and
by
forraine
inuasion
into
this
Lande
,
to
haue
vtterly
subuerted
this
noble
state
,
and
to
haue
aduaunced
to
the
Crowne
the
S.
Quéene
.
In
which
their
treasons
was
also
imployed
,
the
destruction
of
our
most
gracious
soueraigne
Ladie
.
So
it
appeareth
by
a
small
Treatise
,
wherein
these
treasons
are
particularly
sette
forth
.
Was
not
the
saide
Throgmorton
,
about
two
yéeres
last
past
executed
as
a
Traytor
for
that
cause
.
Did
not
the
said
Earle
,
knowing
himselfe
guiltye
of
Was
not
Babington
and
thirteene
other
,
also
executed
in
the
xxviii
.
yéere
of
her
highnes
raigne
,
as
Traitors
for
the
like
crimes
.
And
lastly
,
haue
not
fourtéene
By
these
notable
and
memorable
examples
,
you
may
plainelie
see
,
the
shamefull
and
miserable
end
of
Traytors
,
false
conspirators
,
and
Rebelles
against
theyr
Prince
and
soueraigne
Gouernour
,
what
soeuer
theyr
pretences
of
Religion
hath
béene
.
And
these
examples
are
héere
sette
downe
for
warnings
to
other
,
and
happy
is
he
that
can
take
heede
by
an
others
danger
,
and
mishappe
,
as
the
wise
Cato
sayth
,
Faelix
quem
faciunt
aliena
Babington
,
and
diuers
desperate
persons
,
that
had
combined
and
confederated
themselues
by
vowe
&
oath
in
a
most
horrible
enterprise
,
by
murther
to
take
away
the
life
of
her
Maiestie
:
where
in
the
Scottish
Quéene
did
not
onely
aduise
them
,
but
also
direct
,
comfort
,
and
abette
them
,
with
perswasion
,
counsell
,
promise
of
reward
,
and
earnest
obtestation
.
Wherevpon
,
her
Maiestie
,
at
the
earnest
request
of
such
as
tendered
the
safety
of
her
royall
personne
,
and
the
quiet
of
the
Realme
,
did
direct
her
Commission
vnder
the
great
seale
to
sundrye
Lordes
and
others
of
her
Maiesties
priuie
Counseil
,
and
a
great
number
of
Lords
of
Parliament
,
of
the
greatest
and
most
auncient
degree
,
assisted
with
some
of
the
principall
Iudges
of
the
Realme
,
to
heare
,
examine
and
determine
the
same
,
according
to
a
Statute
in
that
behalfe
made
in
the
xxvii
.
yéere
of
her
raigne
.
Who
to
the
number
of
thirty
sixe
,
hauing
artended
the
execution
of
the
said
Commission
,
and
diuers
dayes
and
times
,
heard
the
allegations
against
the
said
Scottish
Quéene
in
her
owne
presence
and
hearing
,
(
she
béeing
permitted
to
say
what
she
woulde
in
her
owne
execuse
,
)
dyd
wyth
one
assent
,
finde
her
culpable
both
in
priuitie
,
and
consent
to
the
sayd
crimes
obiected
,
and
also
in
compassing
the
Quéenes
Maiesties
death
.
Which
sentence
,
by
her
owne
directions
,
vpon
the
hearing
of
the
prooues
and
processe
in
Parliament
,
was
iudged
to
haue
béene
most
honourable
and
iust
.
And
for
asmuch
as
the
said
Quéene
of
Scots
,
was
the
very
ground
and
onely
subiect
,
whervpon
such
daungerous
practises
and
complots
,
had
béen
founded
against
her
Maiesties
most
royall
person
,
and
the
estate
of
this
Realme
for
these
many
yéenes
,
to
the
ouerthrowe
of
sundry
of
the
Nobilitie
of
the
lande
;
and
daunger
of
Christian
Religion
,
and
that
they
could
see
no
hope
of
her
,
desisting
,
and
her
adherents
but
that
still
her
Maiesties
safetie
must
be
hazarded
,
and
stand
to
the
euent
of
the
like
miraculous
discoueries
:
Therefore
,
as
most
humble
and
instant
suppliants
,
they
did
vpon
theyr
knées
at
her
most
gracious
féete
,
beséeche
and
request
in
most
earnest
manner
,
that
aswell
for
the
continuaunce
of
Gods
Religion
,
the
quiet
of
this
Kingdome
,
preseruation
of
her
person
,
and
defence
of
them
and
theyr
posterities
,
that
it
woulde
please
her
highnes
to
take
order
,
that
the
sayd
sentence
might
bee
published
,
and
such
further
direction
giuen
,
as
was
requisite
in
this
so
waighty
a
cause
,
according
to
the
purport
and
intent
of
the
sayd
Statute
,
touching
the
daungers
that
her
Maiesties
person
was
in
,
by
the
practises
of
the
Scottish
Quéene
,
and
her
fauourers
they
appeare
in
that
they
did
thinke
that
she
had
right
,
not
to
succéede
her
Maiestie
,
but
to
enioy
her
Crowne
in
possession
,
and
therefore
as
she
was
a
most
impatient
competitor
thereof
,
so
she
would
haue
spared
no
meanes
whatsouer
,
that
might
haue
bereft
vs
of
her
Maiestie
,
the
onelie
impediment
that
shee
could
not
enioy
her
desire
.
Shee
was
obdurate
in
malice
against
her
royall
person
,
notwithstanding
her
Maiestie
had
shewed
her
all
fauour
and
mercie
,
as
well
in
preseruing
her
hingdome
,
as
sauing
her
life
,
and
saluing
her
henour
.
And
therefore
there
was
no
place
for
mercie
,
since
there
was
no
hope
that
shee
would
haue
desisted
from
her
most
wicked
attempts
.
Shee
boldly
and
openly
professed
,
that
it
was
lawfull
for
her
to
mooue
inuasion
vppon
her
Maiestie
,
and
therefore
,
as
of
inuasion
victory
might
ensue
,
and
of
victorie
,
the
death
of
the
vanquished
:
so
did
she
therby
not
obscurely
bewraie
,
that
she
thought
it
lawfull
,
for
her
to
destroy
her
Maiesties
sacred
personne
.
She
did
thinke
it
not
onely
lawfull
,
but
honorable
also
and
meritorious
to
take
her
Maiesties
life
from
her
,
as
béeing
all
ready
depriued
of
her
Crowne
,
by
the
excommunication
of
the
holy
Father
.
And
therefore
it
was
like
she
would
(
as
she
had
doone
)
continually
séeke
it
by
whatsoeuer
meanes
.
That
she
was
gréedie
of
her
Maiesties
death
,
and
preferred
it
before
her
owne
life
and
safetie
,
appeareth
,
for
in
her
direction
to
one
of
her
late
Complices
,
she
aduised
(
vnder
couert
termes
,
)
that
whatsoeuer
shoulde
become
of
her
,
that
tragicall
execution
should
bee
performed
,
vpon
our
most
gracious
soueraigne
Lady
,
namely
,
the
destruction
of
her
royall
personne
.
She
was
the
onely
hope
of
all
discontented
subiects
,
she
was
the
foundation
,
whereon
all
the
euill
disposed
did
builde
,
she
was
the
roote
from
whence
all
rebellions
and
trecheries
did
spring
:
And
therefore
,
while
this
hope
lasted
,
this
foundation
stoode
,
and
thys
roote
liued
,
they
would
haue
retained
hart
,
and
set
on
foote
whatsoeuer
theyr
deuises
against
this
Realme
,
which
otherwise
will
fall
away
,
die
,
and
come
to
nothing
.
All
these
matters
her
Maiestie
did
most
déepelye
consider
of
,
and
yet
to
the
ende
it
might
euidently
appeare
,
howe
vnwylling
she
was
to
take
away
the
Quéene
of
Scots
life
,
she
required
to
vnderstand
by
the
consideration
and
resolution
of
the
high
Court
of
Parliament
,
whether
any
other
meanes
could
be
thought
of
,
or
sound
by
anie
of
them
,
how
the
Scottish
Queenes
life
might
be
spared
,
and
yet
her
Maiesties
personne
saued
out
of
perill
,
and
the
state
of
the
Realme
preserued
in
quiet
:
For
her
Maiesties
further
satisfaction
,
they
enteredinto
a
new
consultation
,
&
for
that
prupose
,
selected
a
great
number
of
the
choysest
persons
of
the
higher
house
of
Parliament
,
to
conferre
thereof
,
eyther
prinately
,
or
together
with
the
lower
house
:
and
vppon
sundry
conferences
had
in
that
behalfe
at
seueral
times
,
it
was
concluded
by
the
whole
assemblic
of
both
houses
,
that
there
could
be
no
other
assured
meanes
for
the
preseruation
of
her
Maiesties
life
,
continuance
of
Gods
Religion
,
and
quiet
of
this
state
,
then
by
the
full
execution
of
the
sayd
sentence
.
That
if
her
Maiestie
should
be
safe
without
taking
away
the
life
of
the
Scottish
Queene
,
the
same
were
most
likely
and
probably
to
grow
by
one
of
these
means
following
.
First
,
that
happilie
she
myght
haue
béene
reclaimed
and
become
&
repentaunt
conuert
,
agnising
her
Maiesties
great
mercie
and
fauour
,
in
remitting
her
heynous
offence
,
and
by
her
loyaltic
haue
performed
the
fruites
of
such
conuersion
.
2.
Or
els
,
by
a
more
straight
guarde
might
haue
béen
so
kept
as
there
should
haue
béene
no
feare
of
the
like
at
tempts
after
.
3.
Or
,
that
good
assuraunce
might
haue
béene
gyuen
by
O
the
,
Bondes
or
Hostages
,
as
cautions
for
her
good
and
loyall
demeanour
from
thenceforth
.
4.
Or
lastlie
,
by
Banishment
,
the
Realme
might
haue
béene
boyded
of
her
personne
,
and
thereby
the
perils
further
remooued
,
that
might
growe
to
her
Maiesty
by
her
presence
.
All
which
matters
béeing
duely
pondered
,
it
did
yet
appeare
in
all
theyr
iudgments
,
that
they
durst
not
aduise
anie
securitie
to
rest
in
any
,
no
,
not
in
all
of
them
.
For
touching
her
Conuersion
,
it
was
considered
,
that
if
pietie
or
duety
could
haue
restrained
her
from
such
haynous
attempts
,
there
was
cause
aboundantlye
ministred
to
her
on
her
Maiesties
behalfe
,
when
she
not
onelie
protected
her
against
the
violence
of
her
owne
Subiectes
,
who
pursued
her
to
death
by
Iustice
,
but
couered
her
honour
,
when
that
same
by
publique
fame
was
touched
,
and
by
verie
heynous
and
capitall
crimes
obiected
and
prooued
against
her
,
before
certaine
Commissarie
delegates
assigned
to
examine
the
same
,
more
then
blemished
and
spared
her
life
,
when
for
her
former
conspiracies
and
confederacies
with
the
Northren
Rebels
,
her
highnes
was
with
great
instance
pressed
by
bothe
the
houses
in
the
fouretéene
yéere
of
her
Maiesties
raigne
,
to
do
like
Iustice
vpon
her
as
now
was
desired
,
and
as
her
treasonable
practises
then
,
hadde
most
iustly
deserued
.
And
where
the
penaltie
of
thys
Acte
sufficientlye
notified
vnto
her
,
should
haue
terrified
her
from
so
wicked
attempts
,
she
did
neuerthelesse
insist
in
her
former
practises
,
as
a
personne
obdurate
in
malice
against
her
Maiestie
,
and
irrecouerable
:
so
as
there
was
no
probable
hope
of
anie
conuersion
,
but
rather
great
doubt
and
feare
of
relaps
,
forasmuch
as
she
stoode
obstinatly
in
the
deniall
of
matter
most
euivently
prooued
,
and
moste
iustly
sentenced
against
her
,
and
was
not
entered
into
the
first
parte
of
repentaunce
.
The
recognition
of
her
offence
,
and
so
much
the
farther
off
from
the
true
fruits
that
shoulde
accompanie
the
same
.
As
for
a
surer
guarde
,
and
more
straite
imprisonment
,
it
was
resolued
,
that
there
was
no
security
therin
,
nor
yet
in
the
other
two
meanes
propounded
of
Bondes
and
Hostages
.
forasmuch
as
the
same
meanes
that
should
be
practised
to
take
her
Maiesties
life
away
(
which
God
forbid
)
would
aptly
serue
,
bothe
for
the
deliuerie
of
her
person
,
and
release
of
the
Bondes
&
Hostages
,
that
should
be
giuen
for
cautions
in
that
behalfe
:
which
béeing
vnaptlie
atchiued
,
and
to
our
irreparable
lesse
,
who
should
sue
the
Bondes
,
or
detaine
the
Hostages
?
or
béeing
detained
,
what
proportion
was
there
in
bonds
or
hostages
whatsoeuer
,
to
counteruaile
the
value
of
so
precious
and
inestimable
a
Iewell
,
as
her
Maiestie
is
to
this
Realme
,
and
to
vs
all
?
That
shée
would
solemnly
haue
vowed
and
taken
an
othe
,
that
she
would
not
haue
attempted
any
thing
to
the
hurt
of
her
Maiesties
person
:
Shée
had
already
sundry
time
falsifyed
her
word
,
her
writing
&
her
othe
,
and
held
it
for
an
Article
of
Religion
.
That
faith
was
not
to
be
holden
with
Heretickes
,
of
which
sorte
shee
accounted
her
Maiestie
,
and
all
the
professors
of
the
Gospell
to
be
:
And
therfore
there
was
little
reason
to
trust
her
in
that
,
whereof
she
made
so
small
a
conscience
.
As
for
banishment
,
that
was
a
step
de
malo
in
pei●…s
to
sette
her
at
libertie
,
béeing
a
thing
so
greatly
desired
and
thirsted
for
by
her
adherents
,
and
by
some
Princes
her
Allies
,
who
sought
her
enlargement
chiefly
,
tomake
her
a
head
to
be
sette
vp
against
her
Maiesty
,
in
time
of
inuasion
.
Upon
all
which
reasons
and
matters
opened
,
and
petitiones
made
to
her
Maiestie
as
is
aforesayd
,
she
not
withstanding
thought
good
&
very
necessary
in
so
great
a
cause
to
deliberate
,
as
by
her
most
wise
and
graue
answers
to
the
premisses
,
in
the
sayd
Treatise
,
set
downe
among
other
things
,
plainely
appeareth
:
and
afterward
the
sayd
Scottish
Quéene
was
executed
in
the
Castle
of
Fodringham
in
the
County
of
North-hampton
,
(
where
she
was
most
carefully
kept
,
vnder
the
charge
of
that
right
honourable
,
trusty
and
right
faythfull
Counseller
to
her
Maiesty
,
Sir
Amyas
Pawlett
Knight
)
on
Wednesday
,
the
8
,
of
Feburary
.
1586.
And
the
next
day
after
,
there
were
Bonfiers
,
ringing
of
Belles
,
and
singing
of
Psalmes
,
by
children
and
many
others
at
the
sayd
fiers
,
in
the
Cittie
of
London
,
whereby
appeareth
that
the
people
were
ioyfull
that
so
daungerous
an
enemie
to
this
Common
wealth
was
taken
away
.
Let
me
Remember
the
most
vnnaturall
and
horible
Richmond
,
who
succéeded
him
in
the
crowne
by
iust
title
,
whose
deade
corpes
was
layd
crosse
vpon
an
horse
,
and
so
brought
to
Leycester
,
his
legges
and
armes
,
hanging
downe
all
naked
,
be
sprinckled
(
with
turt
,
and
blody
with
such
woundes
as
he
receiued
in
the
fielde
)
and
there
buryed
basely
without
any
manner
of
solemnity
,
And
because
some
will
perhaps
say
,
that
the
Quéenes
Maiestie
could
not
procéede
against
the
sayde
Scottishe
Quéene
,
as
is
aboue
mencioned
in
respect
of
the
dignity
of
her
person
,
therefore
(
although
the
sayd
tryall
by
the
sayd
Commission
and
Estatute
,
and
resolution
of
the
reuerend
Charles
Gauare
a
Spaniarde
,
for
murthering
of
one
Gambo
in
England
,
was
attainted
and
executed
for
the
same
in
Smithfield
.
And
for
example
of
treason
it
appeareth
,
by
a
Recorde
in
the
third
and
fourth
Mary
,
that
one
Iohn
Sharles
a
Frenchman
,
in
the
time
of
peace
betwixt
the
sayd
Phillip
Mary
,
and
the
French
King
,
with
one
Stafford
an
Englishman
,
dyd
rebelliously
take
the
Castle
of
Scarborough
,
in
the
North
partes
of
thys
Realme
,
and
the
same
detayned
certayne
dayes
,
for
which
they
bothe
were
arraigned
and
attainted
of
treason
(
for
such
taking
or
detayning
,
is
a
leuying
of
warre
against
the
Prince
)
and
therefore
it
is
treason
,
and
the
inditement
contra
legianciae
suae
debitum
,
that
is
,
against
the
duetie
of
their
allegiaunce
,
but
if
it
had
béene
in
the
time
of
warre
betwixt
the
sayd
Princes
,
then
it
had
béene
treason
only
in
Stafford
,
and
the
other
should
haue
béene
counted
but
an
enemy
to
bée
raunsemed
according
to
the
law
of
Armes
.
But
it
may
be
that
some
wyll
say
,
that
the
sayd
examples
proue
nothing
in
this
case
,
for
that
she
was
a
Quéene
.
Dauid
Touch
not
mine
annointed
,
did
not
exempt
the
sayde
Scottish
Quéene
,
but
she
was
to
bee
taken
of
necessitie
as
a
Subiect
,
and
ordered
by
the
Lawes
of
thys
Lands
so
long
as
she
was
resident
héere
,
sith
she
had
not
anye
tytle
to
the
Crowne
of
thys
Land
,
for
otherwise
,
if
any
forraine
Prince
in
the
time
of
peace
,
shoulde
come
into
an
others
Kingdome
,
and
should
enter
into
any
offence
against
the
Crowne
,
as
ioyne
with
the
Subiect
to
leauy
warre
against
that
Prince
,
or
conspyre
hys
death
,
and
should
not
therefore
be
punished
by
the
Lawe
of
that
Land
,
euery
Prince
might
be
destroyed
and
state
subuerted
.
And
nowe
to
returne
againe
to
the
matter
,
touching
the
duety
of
Subiects
to
theyr
Prince
.
There
is
a
saying
in
the
tenth
of
Ecclesiastes
,
verye
notable
,
where
it
is
written
thus
.
Wish
no
euill
to
the
King
in
thy
thought
,
nor
speake
any
hurt
of
him
in
thy
priuie
Chamber
,
for
the
byrdes
of
the
ayre
shall
betray
thee
,
and
wyth
theyr
winges
shall
bewray
thy
voyce
.
And
surely
it
is
most
true
,
for
though
theyr
conspyracies
be
neuer
so
secrete
,
theyr
treasons
neuer
so
cunninglie
contriued
,
yet
God
doth
in
tymes
alwayes
reueale
them
,
to
the
destruction
of
the
parties
to
the
same
,
as
by
the
sayde
examples
may
appeare
.
Nowe
for
proofe
by
the
word
of
God
,
that
it
is
not
lawfull
for
the
Subiect
to
touch
the
Princes
person
.
Howe
often
doth
almighty
God
by
hys
Prophet
Dauid
,
say
(
as
is
aboue
sayd
)
Touch
not
mine
annoynted
,
as
though
he
should
say
,
Forasmuch
as
I
haue
placed
her
in
the
kynglye
throne
of
thys
Realme
,
and
haue
appoynted
her
to
rule
and
gouerne
my
people
,
looke
thou
touch
her
not
,
lay
no
handes
on
her
,
offer
no
violence
vnto
her
personne
,
for
I
haue
annoynted
and
consecrated
her
to
that
office
and
function
.
I
finde
in
the
first
Booke
of
Samuell
,
where
Dauid
was
vrged
by
hys
men
to
haue
kylled
Saule
,
a
great
Dauid
,
of
whom
almighty
God
so
often
sayth
:
I
haue
found
Dauid
,
a
man
euen
according
to
my
hartes
desire
:
but
what
did
Dauid
,
dyd
hee
laye
hys
handes
on
hym
,
no
,
he
made
his
prayers
to
almighty
Lord
keepe
me
that
I
lay
not
my
hands
vpon
my
master
,
the
Lordes
annoynted
,
for
as
surely
as
the
Lord
lyueth
,
except
he
discende
into
the
battayle
and
there
perish
,
or
that
hys
day
become
to
dye
,
or
that
the
Lord
doo
smyte
hym
,
the
Lord
bee
mercifull
to
me
that
I
lay
not
my
handes
vppon
the
Lordes
annointed
,
and
so
they
departed
without
dooing
any
hurt
to
Saule
.
I
find
also
in
the
same
Booke
,
that
Dauid
and
Abysay
hys
seruaunt
,
at
an
other
time
came
into
the
Tent
where
Saule
was
fast
a
sléepe
,
and
Abysay
sayde
vnto
Dauid
,
Forasmuch
as
the
Lord
hath
deliuered
thy
enemy
Saule
into
thy
handes
at
thys
time
,
suffer
me
to
strike
him
but
once
with
my
speare
,
and
I
wyll
not
smite
him
the
second
time
.
Meaning
to
haue
kylled
hym
euen
at
the
first
blowe
,
but
Dauid
sayde
,
destroy
him
not
,
for
who
can
lay
his
hands
vppon
the
Lordes
annointed
,
and
be
guiltles
,
for
as
sure
as
the
Lorde
lyueth
,
except
he
discend
into
the
battaile
,
and
there
perish
,
or
that
the
Lord
doth
smyte
him
,
or
that
hys
day
become
,
God
forbidd
that
thou
shouldest
lay
thy
hande
vpon
the
Lords
annoynted
,
and
so
they
departed
without
dooing
any
hurt
to
him
.
I
finde
also
in
the
History
of
Kynges
,
that
an
Amelekite
Dauid
,
because
he
thought
thereby
the
rather
to
perswade
Dauid
,
that
hee
was
the
man
that
had
slayne
Saule
,
and
hoped
to
haue
had
some
great
rewad
for
hys
labour
,
when
Dauid
did
sée
the
Crowne
,
and
did
knowe
that
it
was
Saules
Crowne
,
he
rent
his
clothes
and
wept
,
saying
to
thys
Amalekite
,
How
is
it
that
thou
wast
not
afrayd
to
laye
thy
hand
vppon
the
annointed
of
the
Lord
,
to
destroy
him
,
as
truely
as
the
Lord
lyueth
,
forasmuch
as
thy
owne
mouth
doth
witnes
against
thee
,
thou
shalt
dye
the
death
,
and
so
he
commaunded
his
seruauntes
,
and
Nu
,
11
,
12
,
were
striken
with
foule
leprosie
,
many
burned
wyth
fire
suddainlie
sent
from
God
,
sometime
a
great
many
of
thousandes
were
consumed
with
the
pestilence
,
some
times
they
were
stinged
to
death
,
with
fierie
Serpents
of
straunge
kind
,
sometime
the
earth
opened
and
swallowed
vp
quicke
into
hell
,
their
Captaynes
and
bandes
of
murmurers
,
and
their
wiues
,
children
and
familie
.
Thus
you
sée
what
straunge
and
horrible
plagues
hath
Absolon
,
though
he
were
most
goodly
of
personne
,
of
great
nobility
béeing
the
Kinges
sonne
,
in
great
fauour
of
the
people
,
and
so
déerely
beloued
of
the
King
himself
,
so
much
that
he
gaue
commandement
notwithstanding
hys
rebellion
,
his
life
should
be
saued
.
When
for
these
considerations
most
men
were
afraid
to
lay
their
hands
vpon
him
,
a
great
Trée
stretching
forth
her
arme
(
as
it
were
for
that
purpose
)
caught
him
by
the
great
&
long
bush
of
his
goodly
haire
,
lapping
about
it
,
as
he
fled
hastilie
Achitophell
,
Pro.
1.
6
2.
Para.
2.
Iob
,
34
,
Osee
.
13.
Prou
,
21
,
Esdras
,
7.
Subiects
must
be
obedient
.
Rom
,
13
,
Wisdom
.
6.
Damnation
No
difference
betwyxt
the
christian
prince
&
the
heathen
touching
submission
to
higher
powers
.
Ioh.
19.
6
,
10
of
gouernment
,
either
for
the
comfort
of
good
people
,
or
for
the
punishment
of
the
bad
,
if
ought
be
to
be
reformed
touching
gouernment
in
the
king
,
it
dooth
not
belong
to
the
Subiect
to
redresse
the
same
,
but
he
must
refer
the
matter
to
God
onely
,
who
hath
the
hartes
of
Kinges
in
his
order
,
and
disposeth
them
as
it
séemeth
best
to
hys
godlie
wisedome
.
The
duety
of
the
Subiect
is
alwayes
to
be
obedient
,
as
S.
Paule
saith
,
Submitte
your selues
vnto
the
higher
powers
,
for
there
is
no
power
but
of
God
,
&
all
powers
that
be
,
are
ordeyned
of
God
,
who
that
resisteth
powers
,
resisteth
the
ordenaunce
of
God
,
and
procureth
vnto
himselfe
damnation
.
Héere
is
no
exception
of
Turke
nor
Infidell
,
of
the
wicked
and
vngodlie
Prince
,
more
then
of
the
Christian
and
vertuous
King
,
for
his
wordes
be
generall
,
there
is
no
power
but
of
God
,
and
all
powers
that
are
be
ordeyned
of
God
.
When
pilate
said
to
Christ
,
Knowest
not
thou
that
I
haue
power
to
loose
thee
,
and
also
to
crucifie
thee
?
hée
aunswered
,
thou
couldest
haue
no
power
at
all
ouer
me
except
it
were
giuen
thee
from
aboue
.
As
he
confessed
his
authoritie
to
be
from
aboue
,
so
he
submitted
himself
vnto
the
same
,
though
he
were
an
heathen
Gouernour
,
to
giue
vs
an
example
so
to
doo
,
whether
they
he
Christian
I
exhort
you
aboue
all
thinges
,
that
prayers
and
supplications
,
intercessions
and
giuing
of
thankes
bee
had
for
all
men
,
for
Kinges
and
all
other
that
are
in
authoritie
,
that
wee
may
liue
a
quiet
and
a
peaceable
life
,
withall
godlines
,
for
that
is
good
and
acceptable
in
the
sight
of
God
our
Sauiour
.
When
Gods
holy
spirite
by
S.
Paul
gaue
this
Lesson
to
the
Christians
,
they
liued
for
the
most
part
vnder
Calygula
,
Clodius
,
and
Nero
,
who
were
heathen
Princes
,
Pagans
,
and
such
as
Nabuchodonasor
,
king
of
Babilon
,
had
slayne
the
king
and
manie
nobles
of
the
Iewes
with
a
great
number
of
their
Children
and
kins-folkes
,
burned
their
Country
,
and
Citties
yea
,
and
Ierusalem
it selfe
,
and
the
holy
Temple
,
and
had
caryed
to
Babilon
the
rest
of
them
captiues
.
The
Prophet
Barucke
Nabuchodonasor
,
king
Cicero
de
legib'
.
li.
3.
kind
,
that
can
continue
,
where
there
is
not
superiority
or
preheminence
in
gouernment
,
according
to
their
kinde
and
quallity
,
as
Tully
the
famous
Orator
,
in
his
booke
de
legibus
,
intreating
of
gouernment
(
euen
by
the
law
of
nature
)
saith
.
Nihil
tam
aptum
est
ad
legem
condicionemque
naturae
,
quam
imperium
sine
quo
nec
domus
vlla
,
nec
ciuitas
,
nec
gens
,
nec
hominum
vniuersum
genus
,
nec
rerum
natura
,
nec
ipse
mundus
stare
possit
,
nam
et
hic
deo
paret
,
et
huic
obediunt
maria
,
terraeque
et
hominum
vita
iussis
supreme
legis
obtemperat
.
That
is
to
say
,
nothing
is
so
apt
to
the
Law
and
condition
of
nature
,
as
authoritie
and
Gouernment
,
without
which
,
no
house
,
no
Cittie
,
no
nation
nor
mankind
,
nor
the
nature
of
thinges
.
nor
the
worlde
it selfe
can
stand
,
for
the
world
obeyeth
God
,
and
to
him
the
Seas
and
landes
are
subiect
,
and
the
life
of
man
to
the
commaundement
of
the
hyghest
Lawe
doth
obey
,
as
superiority
then
must
be
in
gouernment
,
so
must
there
As
by
the
sinnowes
the
body
is
made
strong
,
so
the
Sinay
,
wherein
is
first
contained
Through
me
Kinges
raigne
,
and
Princes
make
iust
Lawes
:
which
Lawes
must
bee
consonant
and
agréeing
,
or
at
the
least
not
contrarie
to
the
Lawe
of
God
.
For
woe
is
threatned
in
the
Scriptures
to
them
that
make
vnrighteous
Lawes
,
too
harde
for
people
to
kéepe
,
and
withall
,
did
giue
speciall
commaundement
to
the
subiects
,
to
submitte
themselues
to
theyr
Lawes
and
ordenaunces
,
as
S.
Peter
doth
tetifie
,
as
is
afore
remembred
.
Now
touching
what
thing
lawe
is
,
some
define
it
thus
,
Lex
est
summa
ratio
intua
in
natura
que
iubet
que
faciendo
sunt
prohibetque
contraria
,
that
is
.
The
Lawe
is
de
legibus
,
affirmeth
,
Legem
neque
sapientissimorum
fuisse
sententiam
,
Osorius
.
Iusticia
est
constans
et
Cicero
.
Commodities
of
law
.
ciuitatum
sunt
humani
generis
praesidium
atque
regimen
,
quibus
homines
astricti
abstinent
iniurijs
et
faciunt
hōmines
mitiores
ac
valde
exultantes
repremunt
legum
habene
.
That
is
,
the
lawes
are
the
foundations
of
Citties
,
the
safegard
and
gouernours
of
mankind
,
by
which
men
being
bound
,
abstaine
from
iniuries
,
they
make
men
gentle
,
the
reignes
of
law
,
doo
greatly
bridle
and
restraine
the
proude
and
haughty
persons
.
And
yet
Anacharsis
Aristotel
)
then
good
and
holesome
lawes
are
for
the
preseruation
of
Rom.
ca.
13
Lawes
are
terrible
to
offenders
but
comfortable
to
wel
dooers
as
S.
Paule
sayth
:
The
Magistrate
is
not
fearefull
to
them
that
doo
well
,
but
to
them
that
do
euill
.
Wylt
thou
be
without
feare
of
the
power
(
saith
S.
Paule
)
doo
well
then
,
and
so
shalt
thou
bee
praysed
of
him
,
for
hee
is
the
minister
of
God
ordayned
for
thy
wealth
,
but
if
thou
doo
euill
,
then
feare
,
for
he
beareth
not
the
sword
in
vaine
,
for
he
is
the
minister
of
God
to
take
vengeance
on
them
that
doo
euil
,
which
is
meant
by
Law
and
Iustice
.
The
lawe
that
yéeldeth
such
good
viuat
Rex
et
currat
lex
.
God
graunt
the
Prince
long
life
,
and
the
Law
to
haue
his
course
.
If
you
wyl
consider
the
miserable
estate
of
such
people
as
liue
vnder
heathen
Princes
,
quorum
arbitria
pro
legibus
extant
,
whose
iudgments
are
holden
for
Lawes
,
and
where
the
King
saith
,
Sic
volo
sic
iubeo
,
stat
pro
ratione
voluntas
,
so
I
will
,
so
I
commaund
,
my
pleasure
doth
stand
for
reason
.
And
compare
the
same
with
the
most
happy
condition
of
such
Nations
as
liue
vnder
the
Christian
Princes
,
and
Monarks
of
the
world
,
yée
shall
soone
sée
the
great
bendage
of
the
one
,
and
the
most
happy
condition
and
liberty
of
the
other
,
and
among
other
Christian
Nations
,
howe
much
are
we
bound
to
the
goodnes
of
almighty
God
,
that
liue
vnder
so
gracious
,
and
so
christian
a
Prince
,
that
dooth
not
onelie
make
holesome
lawes
,
but
also
dooth
maintaine
H.
3.
ca.
28.
The
honorable
law
of
Henry
the
thyrd
homo
capietur
seu
imprisonetur
aut
disseisietur
de
libero
tento
suo
,
nec
de
libertatibus
aut
liberis
consuetudinibus
suis
nec
vtlagetur
aut
expuletur
,
vel
aliquo
alio
modo
destruetur
,
nec
super
ipsum
ibimus
nec
super
ipsum
mittemus
nisi
ꝑ
legale
iudicium
parium
suorum
,
vel
per
legem
terrae
,
nulls
vendemus
,
nulli
negabimus
,
nulli
differemus
iustitiam
sine
rectum
.
That
is
to
say
,
no
man
shal
be
taken
or
imprisoned
,
nor
disseised
of
his
fréehold
,
nor
put
out
of
his
liberties
or
frée
customes
,
or
shal
be
outlawed
,
or
exiled
,
or
by
any
means
destroyed
,
neither
shal
we
goe
or
passe
vpon
him
but
by
the
lawful
iudgment
of
hys
Péeres
,
or
by
the
Lawes
of
this
land
,
we
shall
sell
,
deny
or
defer
iustice
or
right
to
anie
.
I
find
in
the
xlii
.
yéere
of
Edwarde
the
E.
3.
statuto
tertio
,
that
it
shal
be
part
of
theyr
othe
,
when
they
are
made
Iustices
(
and
so
it
is
indéede
)
so
as
they
are
bound
as
well
by
that
statute
,
as
in
respect
of
their
othe
to
doo
iustice
to
all
men
:
and
euerye
P●●nce
of
this
Realme
,
doth
take
a
solemne
othe
in
the
day
of
their
Corronation
,
to
maintaine
,
and
to
cause
to
bee
obserued
,
the
lawes
,
statutes
,
and
customes
of
thys
Realme
,
and
her
Maiestie
is
also
well
pleased
,
(
albeit
shee
be
aboue
her
lawes
in
some
respect
)
yet
to
be
ordered
and
yeelde
to
the
same
,
as
other
her
noble
progenitors
E.
3.
ca
,
16
,
What
men
may
not
be
Iustices
.
in
the
Countrie
,
but
shal
be
such
as
Bracton
writeth
of
:
Viri
sapientes
et
timentes
Deum
,
in
quibus
est
veritas
eloquiorum
,
et
qui
oderunt
auaritiam
quae
inducit
cupiditatem
,
Bracton
,
though
it
bee
spoken
chiefely
of
Iustice
of
the
Cammon
lawes
,
for
that
Iustices
of
Peace
,
were
not
til
long
after
this
time
ordeyned
,
yet
in
the
choyse
of
them
his
opinion
is
so
conuenient
to
be
vsed
.
A
Iustice
must
be
also
milde
,
patient
Si
fueris
Iudex
mitisis
corde
momento
,
dicito
quae
possunt
dicta
decere
senem
,
He
must
also
remember
that
which
Perenesis
Isocrates
wryteth
:
Ad
demonicum
,
quicquid
Quodcumque
metieritis
et
vobis
metietur
,
Whatsoeuer
you
measure
to
others
,
it
shall
be
measured
to
you
againe
.
And
almighty
God
saith
to
the
Iudges
,
Audite
illos
,
et
ꝙ
iustum
est
iudicate
siue
sit
ille
ciuis
siue
per
egrinus
,
nulla
erit
Pro
,
17.
He
maye
not
saue
the
wicked
nor
condenme
the
Iuste
héede
thou
iustifie
not
the
wicked
,
nor
condemne
the
iust
,
for
both
are
abhomination
to
the
Lord
,
let
it
not
be
sayd
of
you
as
it
is
written
,
Christus
crucifigitur
,
Barrabas
autem
demittitur
.
That
is
,
Christ
is
crucified
,
and
Barrabas
(
which
was
a
notable
théefe
)
is
let
goe
,
for
then
it
may
be
rightly
sayd
of
you
.
Dat
veniam
coruis
,
damnat
Lib
,
primo
in
fine
Th
office
of
the
Iustice
in
causes
brought
a
fore
him
in
iudgment
.
Deu
,
16
,
Censura
columbas
.
That
is
,
he
pardoneth
the
Rauen
which
is
a
rauening
foule
,
and
condemneth
the
Doue
,
which
is
a
simple
Byrde
.
The
office
of
the
Iudge
(
as
Bracton
sayth
)
is
also
diligenter
examinare
et
cuncta
rimari
.
That
is
,
dilligently
to
examine
,
and
all
thinges
to
open
and
make
plaine
,
he
must
make
doubtfull
thinges
certaine
,
and
that
which
carieth
likelihoode
of
trueth
,
he
must
serch
out
.
Almighty
God
further
sayth
to
the
Iudge
,
quod
iustum
est
persequeris
vt
viuas
,
et
possedeas
terram
Quia
viuit
post
funera
virtus
.
for
a
mans
good
déedes
liue
when
he
is
dead
,
and
what
better
fame
or
commendation
can
a
Iudge
leaue
after
him
then
that
he
was
a
righteous
Iudge
,
a
graue
,
discrete
and
sage
man
in
his
dooings
touching
iustice
,
that
he
regarded
alwaies
the
trueth
and
right
of
the
cause
brought
before
him
,
and
not
the
person
,
and
that
he
would
patiently
and
quietly
beare
both
parties
,
and
not
vnaduisedly
credite
the
one
,
before
he
hath
heard
the
other
,
for
which
cause
,
almighty
God
hath
giuen
a
man
two
eares
,
one
on
the
one
side
,
and
the
other
on
the
other
side
of
his
head
,
and
reason
,
sence
and
vnder
standing
hath
placed
betwixt
both
,
to
conceiue
and
decerne
the
cause
,
and
a
tongue
to
vtter
that
which
is
right
.
And
forasmuch
as
the
Iustice
cannot
by
course
of
law
procéede
in
the
era
▪
execution
of
iustice
without
information
of
others
therefore
the
Iurors
which
are
called
and
charged
to
inquire
and
present
offences
before
them
inquirable
,
or
to
I
wyll
come
to
you
in
iudgment
,
and
I
wyll
be
a
swyft
wytnes
,
and
a
sharpe
iudge
vpon
sorcerers
,
adulterers
,
and
periured
persons
.
Which
thing
to
the
Prophet
Zacherie
,
almightye
FINIS
.