A Declaration of the Causes, which mooved the chiefe Commanders of the Nauie of her most excellent Maiestie the Queene of England, in their voyage and expedition for Portingal, to take and arrest in the mouth of the Riuer of Lisbone, certaine Shippes of corne and other prouisions of warre bound for the said Citie: Prepared for the seruices of the King of Spaine, in the Ports and Prouinces within and about the Sownde, the 30. day of Iune, in the yeere of our Lord 1589. and of her Maiesties raigneEngland and Wales. Sovereign (1558-1603 : Elizabeth I)
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A Declaration of the Causes, which mooved the chiefe Commanders of the Nauie of her most excellent Maiestie the Queene of England, in their voyage and expedition for Portingal, to take and arrest in the mouth of the Riuer of Lisbone, certaine Shippes of corne and other prouisions of warre bound for the said Citie: Prepared for the seruices of the King of Spaine, in the Ports and Prouinces within and about the Sownde, the 30. day of Iune, in the yeere of our Lord 1589. and of her Maiesties raigne
England and Wales. Sovereign (1558-1603 : Elizabeth I)
Great Britain -- History -- Elizabeth, 1558-1603 -- Sources; Philip II, King of Spain, 1527-1598
But nowe hauing hitherto spoken of the open violence of the Spanish
King, and the Bishop of Rome, giue vs leaue to vse a fewe wordes also of
another matter not lesse odious then the former, consisting in the
subtiltie of the litle foxe: which is a thing so much the more
diligently to be lookt vnto, by how much the more close and secret it
is, and a thing that creepes farre without many mens knowledge. It is
that same priuie legation and sending as it were in corners of certaine
falsly termed Iesuites and Seminaries into this kingdome, to withdrawe
the mindes of the simple and ignorant people, from their duetifull
obedience to the Queenes Maiestie and the Realme. But as these kind of
men doe spring of certaine runnagates, and fugitiues naturally borne
Subiects, who at home, either for pouertie growe desperate, or by reason
of their vicious liues, could not long lie hid: so being nowe sent home
againe by the Pope, cease not vnder the habite of their superstitious
profession to runne from house to house, from Towne to Towne, stirring
vp the people by their whisperings to rebellion, and scattering certaine
popish Buls, made and sent for that purpose, teaching the people out of
them, vnder the paine of excommunication, and of a curse, that there
is no hope of saluation remaining them, except they change their
affections, and cast off their due obedience to her Maiestie.
[Sidenote: The manifest treason of the Iesuites, against the Queenes
Maiestie, & the kingdome of England.]
Those of her Maiesties Subiects, which being taken with these Buls, and
called in question for the same, haue reuealed their practises: and
being moued with a conscience of their offence, doe returne to a better
minde, and doe forsake that filthie sinke or dunghill of the companie
and opinions of Iesuites and Seminaries: are pardoned of their former
transgressions, and passe without punishment: but as for those that are
rooted in their wickednesse, and remaine stifnecked in their offence,
they being demaunded, whether if an inuasion of the kingdome should be
made by the Bishop of Rome or the Spanish King, they would (as good
Subiects ought to do) stand for the Queene or no, they answere stoutly
and proudly, that they are bound whensoeuer it should seeme good to the
said Bishop of Rome, to make any such inuasion of the Kingdome, and
Dominions of her Maiestie, to assist and further the said inuasion, by
al the wayes and meanes they can.
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