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demum erga Deum, authorem salutis tuæ, tam optimè de BOOK te meritum, quamvis non reipsa (est enim hoc adúvatov,) at animo certe et voluntate, quam gratissimus fuisse indicaveris. Et erunt hæ tibi cogitationes, non honoris hujus seculi, id est, unius diei ludibria, sed sempiterna illius fælicitatis certissima testimonia, quibus et nunc frueris, in isto domicilio, ad magnam et incredibilem animi tranquillitatem ; et post hæc, cum hinc emigraveris, eadem sacrosancta olim consignatura est immortalitas.

O! te multo fæliciorem, ac infinito amplius, quam illo verbo veteri τgis xaì tetgάxıs, si ad istas fortunas tuas, quas habes, amplissimas, etiam illas adjunxeris, quas immensa illa et infinita beavit æternitas. Deus omnis gratiæ, qui vocavit te ad æternam ejus gloriam in Jesu Christo, parumper afflictum, is te confirmet, roboret, stabiliat, ut fide ista vivas in æternum. Vale feliciter in Christo Jesu. Cantabrigiæ, 13io. Septembris, 1569.

Tuæ dignitati oi. obsequio deditissimi,
Edwardus Deringe.
Edouardus Hansbie.

Siquid in his precibus volueris immutari, ut aut longiores sint, aut breviores, plures etiam aut pauciores, postquam rescierimus, pro nostra in Christo facultate, expediemus omnia.

Number XIV.

Five causes shewed against the queen of Scots, anno 1572.

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I. THE first, Claim to the crown of England in posses- Cott. Lision; with refusal and delay to remoue the same. Giving brary, Juthe armes of England without difference, in escutcheons, coat-armes, plate, altar-cloaths: which were openly seen at the triumph. Writing of the stile of England, Scotland, France, and Ireland, in letters patents, during her coverture. And of her pedegree, conveying her three ways to the crown, viz. as descending from the eldest daughter of king Henry VII. Another way, from the duke of Somerset. The third from a daughter of Edmond before the conquest.

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II. The second, Seeking a mariage with the duke of Norfolk: to advance that title and possession. For part of the matters whereof the duke of Norfolk was indicted, arraigned, and condemned. For which was alledged, in proof sufficient, her advice to perform the mariage by force.

III. The procurement of the late rebellion in the north. By messages continually to and from the earl of Northumberland, sent by Thomas Busshop, and his son, and by Hamlin, Oswould Wilkinson, toward the Spanish ambassador : and brought to him by the bishop of Rosse, her ambassador, (to whom he was directed,) to procure aid of men and mony for the rebellion. The fear she had and sorrow, when she heard the earl of Northumberland was taken by the 31 earl of Sussex, for cumbring of friends; as she wrot to the duke of Norfolk.

IV. The relieving the rebells after they fled. She procured 12000 crownes from the pope: whereof 6000 by her order were distributed. Viz. To the earl of Westmerland, 2000. The countess of Northumberland, 2000. And the lord Dacres, Norton, Markenfield, and the rest, 2000. The receiving and entertaining of the rebells in Scotland, at their first flying, by her friends onely.

V. The practising of an invasion by strangers into England and Ireland; and of rebellion in both the realms. Her long letter in cipher to the bishop of Rosse: wherein she discourseth her estate: and shewing many causes, not to trust upon England, Scotland, nor France, resteth at the last upon Spain. Her opinion to send an express messenger to solicit the pope and king of Spain. Her choice of Radolphi, the popes secret agent in England. The going of Radolphi accordingly, first to the duke of Alva: then to the pope and after to Spain with instructions. Whereunto were privy the duke of Norfolk, the Spanish ambassador, and the bishop of Rosse. The sum of his message was to procure 10000 men to arrive in England: and to joyn with the duke and his friends. The port was Harwich in Essex, for neerness to Norfolk. Randolpho returned answer of his message to John duke of Alva. Who did accept the re

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quest, and protested to further the same. This Rydolpho BOOK [alias Radolpho, or Randolpho] wrot three letters in cipher. One to the bishop of Rosse; one to the duke, intituled 40: and one to the lord Lumley, intituled 30: declaring the duke's answer. The pope writ two letters; one to the queen of Scots, and one to the duke of N. in cipher, promising aid. The bishop of Rosse hath confessed all this, and the whole practice, in a letter which he sent to the queen of Scots, sithence he was in the Tower. Her practice with Rolston, sir Thomas Stanley, and sir Thomas Gerrard, for her escape by force. In Rolston's confession of their intent to proclaim her [and Norfolk] after her escape, king and queen of England.

Number XV.

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Whether it be lawful for a protestant to marry with a papist? Which question was occasioned by a motion of a match between the queen and the French king's brother. THE question was by the writer propounded thus, Whe- MSS. Ecther it be lawful for one that professeth the gospel, such an one I mean as do profess it according to the sincerity of the word written, to mary with a papist? That is, such an one as professeth the gospel also; yet not sincerely; viz. after the maner of the church of Rome, very corruptly.

[The answer in this tract is, negatively.]

My answer is very plain, He may not do it. If we consider, how il a match it is in its self: and how evil it is, in respect of those antient formes of idolatry. Which by the word of God made it an unlawful thing for an Israelite to match with those heathens that dwelt among them.

How evil it is in its self, he proved from that one place, Gen. iii. that God did put perpetual enmity between the seed of the woman and the seed of the serpent, &c. So many as profess popery are to be accounted of the seed of the serpent. And out of other places, then by him alledged, (wherein God forbad Israel to mary or have any converse

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BOOK with the heathen people,) thus, said he, we may reason against whom this decree of God doth so flatly oppose, with those we may not have so special friendship, as to couple our selves in mariage with them, &c.

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This tract endeth thus. I am not advised of any objections that are worthy the answering. As for that which is commonly said, that they are Christians by common profession and that they are much better than those other idolatrous people, [i. e. the heathen nations.] And therefore that it should seem, that they are less dangerous in this matter: both these points being the substance of the treaty it self, are already sufficiently answered. So I for my part am fully resolved, that it is directly by the scripture forbidden, that any that professeth religion, according to the word of God, should mary with any that professeth the same after the maner of the church of Rome, being so corrupt, as in these days of ours we find it to be.

This seems to be done by Thomas Cartwright.

MSS. ubi supra.

Number XVI.

A tract of the lawfulness of marying with a papist. THIS writer undertakes to answer the objections of those that asserted the unlawfulness thereof. And first he answereth those places of scripture that were alledged for it. As that of Abraham against the marriage of Isaac his son to the Canaanites, Gen. xxiv. And of Isaac for the mariage of Jacob his son, against taking a wife of the daughters of Canaan, Gen. xxviii. And that assertion of the sons of Jacob to Hemor, that it was not lawful to match their sister with the uncircumcised, Gen. xxxiv. And that peculiar law given by God to the Israelites, not to mingle with the heathen, Exod. xxiii. And lastly, it was urged for this purpose, how unhappy such mariages have often proved: as tokens of God's being offended therewith.

The discourse in answer is somewhat long. Towards the end the answerer argueth thus:

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To fear or hope, to persuade or dissuade by regard of BOOK bad or evil successes of former mariages, is fallible and deceitful. As if one should use this induction, divers of their ancestors maried in Spain, Germany, Italy, and France; and had ill success: therefore beware how you match there. A plain mariner's answer to a justice of peace in Kent may aptly be turned over to such opponents. The justice meeting him in the highway, demanded what he was. He answered, A mariner, miraculously delivered of shipwrack; the son of a mariner; the son also of a mariner. And added, that both his father and grandfather had both perished in the sea. What a mad fellow, quoth the justice, art thou, that canst not be warned, but wilt also go to the sea. I pray you, sir, quoth the mariner, what is become of your father and grandfather? Live they? No, quoth the gentleman; they dyed both in their beds. The mariner answered, Then, sir, if I were as you, I would no more come in bed.

The first seven husbands of Sarah, young Tobias's wife, were murthered one after another by a devil; which, as the bruit ran, possest her. Therefore friends used that manner of argument, before recited, to dissuade the mariage. Nevertheless Tobias shut his ears to man, and openeth his heart to God. And never any mariage succeded better.

What Israelite durst imagine, that of Ruth and Thamar, both heathens, their Messiah should descend?

Many mariages made by man are like to an old anthem, beginning with Christ, and ending with Barabbas. It grieveth me to rehearse one thing, albeit in public notice too true, (but it shall be spoken to the condemnation of the professors, and not of the profession.) A man may find out within this realm as many repentances and wilful divorces (without public order) of protestant matches, as of any other. God amend it. For it was that, and fornication, (for which 24000 perished in one day,) that portend plagues to us; and not lawful mariages.

It is a presumption intolerable and unpardonable, in the 33 censure of matrimonial matches, to seem wiser than the