To the queens majesties poor deceived Subjects of the North Country, drawn into rebellion by the Earls of Northumberland and Westmoreland.  
Written by Thomas Norton.  
Seen and allowed according to the queens Injunctions.   

ALbeit I know not by what name well to call you, sithence you have lost the just name of Englishmen by disturbing the common peace of England, with cruel invasion and spoil like enemies: and the queens Subjects ye can not well be named, having thrown away your due submission and obedience: and yet her Subjects still must you be, and cannot enjoy the name of lawful enemies, being under her highness authority of correction, not to be ransomed, nor by the courtesy of Marshal law to be dealt with as just enemies: but to be executed as Traitors and Rebels: Christians I can not term you that have defaced the Communion of Christians, and in destroying the book of Christ's most holy Testament, renounced your parts by his Testament bequeathed unto you: Yet I remember what you have been, by country Englishmen, by nature our kinsmen and allies, by allegiance Subjects, by profession Christian men: I pity what you now are, by cruelty and spoil of the land worse than enemies, by unnatural doings farther from duties of love than extremest strangers, by rebellion Traitors, by blaspheming Christ our Saviour, and destroying the monuments of his Religion, worse than jews and Infidels: Lastly I do not wholly despair, though you be far gone, what by good advise and repentance hereafter you may be, if you shall cease from outrages, assay the daily mercy of our God, and the oft approved clemency of our most gracious Queen, whereby you may become again preserved Englishmen in England, reconciled kinsmen & friends, pardoned subjects, and reformed Christians, who otherwise stand in state to undo yourselves, your wives, children, and posterity for ever, to feel the sharp revenge of her majesties necessary justice and due execution to be most rigorously laid upon you by her invincible power, & by the hands of her true loyal subjects, to lose all that you possess, to die with shame, and (that is most terrible and grievous) to die in state of damnation. The considering of these your perils, with much compassion of you, & with some (though but small) remnant of hope, that being admonished by hearing your friends, and somewhat already touched by feeling your selves, you will be called back to a more gracious & happy way, hath moved me to write unto you, Though it be hard to think, that other men's words and writing can withdraw them, whom their own duty and most evident danger could not with hold, yet because (not excusing your wicked following them) I impute one great part of your most heinous fault to other men's wicked persuasions, so I do not wholly despair of your amendment by better advises. I shall therefore beseech you, for the honour of God, for the quiet of the realm for the safety of yourselves, your lives, possessions, wives & children, for preservation of your poor souls from everlasting death, to bear my poor counsel, as of one that is careful for you and heartily prayeth GOD to give you his grace to have true repentance, to obtain his and the queens majesties merciful pardon, & that your dangerous beginnings may be example to restrain both yourselves and all good Subjects from like mischief hereafter. I know Biles lanced before their ripeness, are not thereby well cured: yet hope I that the rancour and sore of your dysorders hath by this time grown so far and gathered as much ill humour as it can, and the same so rottened with your own pains & calamity, that you are not altogether unripe & unready to receive the means of your healing, rather than to continue till you must of necessity be cut off, as uncurable and despaired members. Call I pray you to remembrance your matter, cause and quarrel, and there with the end whereto it tendeth: the shows and colours wherewith it is cloaked, and therein the likelihood of those successes that you are promised, with the hope of your aids, complices, favourers & succours: the states and qualities of those that have misguided you: how far you be any way bound unto them, and to whom you rather be bound, and for what causes: the manner of your own doings in following them: the power and force of her Majesty, her true Subjects and other bend against you: your own manifest mischief and danger, both bodily and ghostly: almighty Gods infinite mercy, & the queens majesties excessive clemency.  
Your very matter, cause, and quarrel in deed, is not any enterprise for your commodity, 
Their cause and intent.  nor meant for your benefit, no more than if you were set on work to hang yourselves, such good will they bear you that do thus deceive you. The very matter in deed is this, to alter the state and government of the realm: to overthrow her majesties our most gracious sovereign Lady's crown and dignity: to satisfy the need and poverty of such your leaders, as are fallen into lack by their lewd unthriftiness and wasteful spending in most vile things and doings: to set up the ambition of most unworthy persons: to serve the turn of our foreign enemies, by whom intending our general destruction, your misleaders are both with present means & great hope most traitorously corrupted: to advance a feigned and false title, that 
Magnae spes altera Rome.  hath neither foundation of right and law, nor can stand with the safety of the queens Majesty, and can not but most manifestly threaten to the Realm spoil, tyranny, alienation of honour, of sovereignty and of necessary defence, with most grievous bondage to sstrangers unjust power. To which cause who so ever shall by means of alliance, league, confederacy, or other bond of favour 
Confederates.  whatsoever, knit or join himself, can not in right consideration be severed from the society and stain of your treason and rebellion, nor can be any other but a daily dangerous underminer of the queens most excellent majesties Crown and life, whom GOD long preserve, even to your benefit howsoever poor souls you be abused. This is your naked cause, howsoever your seducers have clothed it. Let each of you weigh with himself, (for so it standeth you upon) what he hath heard and understood among you, what form of conditions he knoweth would content your Captains, what change would please them, what success he looketh for if your treasons might prosper, what attempts have been given, for which of the Nobilities destruction they pretend themselves to be careful, what course that Nobility hath taken, what manner leagues, alliances or conjoinings they have entered, what meetings they have had, what faiths and promises, and whereto they have been given, if their own proclamation say true, and do not rather staunder Nobility to deceive you: and so shall you easily decifer and plainly see the matter to be as I have disclosed it. Which course to follow, what were it else than to resist the ordinance of almighty GOD, to reject his most inestimable benefit, a most gracious Queen our most dear mother, nurse and protectrice, to draw upon us the yoke of a cursed and abominable rule, of most vile and cruel example odious to God and man, to shake away a most peaceable government, to pull upon our own heads by Gods just plague most miserable calamity & slavery, and to be partners of his just revenge for the notorious evils of those whose yoke we should so seek to enter? And yet a change 
An ill change.  must be made by our wise leaders great discretions, a noble change forsooth.  
Some of you perhaps, see nothing but the outward show & colour, because you look to nothing else, which yet God wots is full ill favoured. 
Their colours.  Your great Captains (a likely matter) pitying the foul disorder of the realm of England, so impoverished and decayed from 
Ironic  the marvelous wealthy state wherein Queen Marie left it, so far indebted beyond the expenses of infinite treasure that King Philip brought and left in this land, so subjecteth to strangers that had so small likelihood to have ought to do here in Queen Mary's reign, so troubled with foreign wars and invasions as we have been in the. xj. years & more of the queens noble government, so defrauded of due execution of justice, that no subject can have his right by law (where in deed none wanteth his right but they and you that yet want your due execution, but may have it time enough) and that most lamentable is, those good devout men, as your holy Earl of Westmerlande and other, in whom no kind of lewdness lacked, but rebellion, which they have now added to make up their full heap of iniquity that they might be perfectly stark nought, being grieved forsooth to see God ill served in the common order of prayers, preaching, and administration of sacraments, and specially in this, that the book of God lieth open to the people, and that god is served after gods own teaching: to remedy all those mischiefs, these notably well chosen men, like themselves have called a noble Parliament & Convocation, that is, a rout of unlearned rude Rebels, forgetting all duty to God, Prince, Country, Neighbours, and all that ever honest is: and in this deep, wise and godly assembly, by the inspiration of the devils spirit, whom under false name of the holy Ghost, they have 
Mass of the holy Ghost.  in abominable sacrifice called upon, it is at length decreed, enacted and proclaimed, that your two Earls with the rest of their faction, are the queens true and faithful subjects: 
Their proclamation.  that they have a good meaning, that nobility have given their faith to further it: that disordered and evil disposed persons about the Queen, seeking their own advancements, have overthrown true religion, disordered the realm, and seek destruction of the nobility: that these your good Governors will with the help of God and good people, redress things amiss, & restore ancient customs & liberties to the Church and Realm. Finally, they inform of a great purpose of strangers to correct and chasten us to the hazard of the Realm, which they will avoid by hazarding it themselves. And after the end they say, God save the Queen, when in their doings and discourses before, out of all course of duty, they have plainly showed it is not our queen, Queen Elizabeth that 
They mean not our Queen.  they mean.  
Blind men may judge no colours. A man in a dark place without light, or he whose eyes be blindefild or covered with any thing that he can not see through, or he that obstinately winketh, is as unapt to discern colours as he that is stark blind. Wherefore if you will rightly judge of these colours, and see what they be in deed, you must come out of that blind corner of rebellion and error where no truth shineth, you must shake of the veil or covering of wrongful affection and misunderstanding, and you must leave winking at your own faults and follies. And principally you must pray to Almighty God to open your eyes to give you his grace to see truth and find mercy at his hands. And thus prepared, I beseech you descend to confer these gay colours in the broad light.  
Your Earls (say they) are the queens true subjects. Suppose it for the time and for 
They are not true subjects.  the questions sake, as they would have you, but for the time and for their purposes sake to take it, that they understand or mean thereby Queen Elizabeth our most gracious sovereign Lady, & not any other that would bring upon us Mariana tempora, the miserablest days that ever Rome or England 
Marius and Sylla.  felt. far doth the proportion of duty of Subjects to the Prince exceed the duty of Servants to Masters, or Children to Parents, yea or Wives to their Husbands, the very nearest conjoining in humane fellowship, even so far as a Realm exceedeth a private Family. But if one of your own servants, children or wives, should do that without your will, yea against your will and express commandment, that your Captains and you have attempted without and against the queens highness pleasure, would you account them good servants, good children or good wives? If the servant shall depart from his masters service without leave, the child from his father's obedience, the wife from the society of her husband without his contentment or pleasure known, the case being supposed your own, you can not like it. If they shall put on armour and weapon, and become terrible, or threaten force to the Master, Father, Husband, or the rest of the family: if the case (I say) were your own, you would more mislike it. If they shall threaten to pull away, to banish, to destroy those friends or good servants, or the rest of the children whom the master, father or husband dearly esteemeth, by whose good travail, cherishing and dutiful ministery and attendance, the master, father, or husband is served & preserved, & maintaineth the commodities of his countenance: this being your own case, you would yet more disallow it. If they shall misentreate, rob, spoil, mayheme, and murder some of the rest of those other servants, friends & children that the master, father or husband so dearly loveth, & for his benefit comfortably useth: were it in your own case, you would now abhor it. If by no warning, prohibition, request, promise of reconciliation, threatening or otherways, they will cease off prosecuting their enterprise: the case being your own, you would highly stomach it. If notwithstanding all these doings, proceedings, continuing, neglecting of threatenings, rejecting of fair speech and promises, these risers, withstanders, invaders, robbers, murderers, contemners without licence, against the authority, against the open declaration of his own will and means of pacification sought by the master, father, or husband, will still say and maintain that they be true and faithful servants, humble and obedient children, good and loving wives: if the cases were you own, you would not believe it.  
The queens majesty Queen Elizabeth is by all right the sovereign Lady & Mistress of us all, and of you too, & that must ye otherwise acknowledge or otherwise feel, or both, to your terror I speak it. Her grace is the most loving mother and Nurse of all her good subjects, to your shame and reproach of unkindness I say it. Her highness is the Husband of the common weal, married to the Realm, and the same by ceremony of ring as solemnly signified as any common marriage is, to our great comfort and confidence I rehearse it. Shall your captains forsake her service, and tell you they are good servants? Shall they or you resist her authority, & refuse her blessing, & say they or you be her good children? Shall they sever the knot of love and agreement between her and them, and yield their bodies to a notorious adulter, and yet say they break no bond of this sacred wedlock? Call their doings to mind, peruse them, weigh them. They have long ago nourished this treason in their hearts: they have been long providing for it: It was brought to her majesty and her counsel by advertisements: they have been tenderly dealt with, privately admonished of the rumours, the matter so signified unto them, as if her highness where loath to believe it: them selves have for sworn it, with great oaths & detestation, protesting themselves to be free from it. Wherein note I pray you the great indulgence toward them even with the most that any subject in highest place may use in cases touching his Sovereign's safety, where of he ought no to be prodigal. And yet could none of these too great kindnesses move them. Note withal how likely they are to profess a true Religion, that hold this principle to keep to faith, use no loyalty, regard no oaths & promises 
Papists teach to keep no faith.  made with attestation of God, and avowing themselves to renouncing of heaven & to eternal damnation. Note also how likely they are to say true to you, in the things they bear you in hand, or in keeping promise with you for your succour, defence or standing by you in extremity, if themselves might have any hope to escape and leave you to god's mercy, or rather to your own misery & most hard adventure. For surely they do in the while but use you for a buckler, to hold up between them & the strokes for a time, and at length when they be overlaid, they will throw away their buckler that they may run away the lighter, if they and their buckler both be not aforehand beaten down to the ground▪ But these good men well respecting Religion, that respect no faith, nor will keep any with you more than they have kept with the Queen & her Officers, being called at length by order to purge themselves, refuse to appear, being more earnestly called upon to come & declare their innocency, they enter into actual rebellion, raise up you and other to keep themselves from the face of justice, & yet they have put on a viso of great virtue: and where in deed not being able to clear themselves, & answer their traitorous leagues and devices, they use you for the time to stay their apprehension, till they may otherwise provide their escape, they bear you in hand that with all reverence they remain her true & faithful subjects. Is not this a plain conterfait colour? There is no white without whiteness, no good without goodness, none true without truth, none faithful without faithefulnesse, no subject without subjection and obedience: What do they herein else, but as all other traitors and rebels have ever and ordinarily do, pretend themselves to be true subjects, knowing otherwise that simple subjects would not follow them at all?  
These good religious Earls and Captains that so much inveigh against faith which they use not, and brag of the value and merits of good works whereof they have few, now let them if they will prove their colour true, that they be as they pretend, show me their faith by their works, their white by their whiteness, prove themselves true by true dealing with god in their perjuries, with prince in their rebellion, with subject and neighbours in their spoils and robberies, and well paying their debts, yea with yourselves in so foully abusing you. Let them prove themselves faithful subjects in their refusing to come to answer, in their rising without warrant, their resistance with out yielding. All these enormities they still continue, no gentle usage, no good mean restraineth them. Alas the case is to plain.  
They say they have good meaning. If it were so, it would proceed by good doing, and 
Their meaning not good.  tend to good ending. But what good meaning are such good men like to have: Or whatsoever is good meaning, be these likely to light first upon it, or fitly chosen to further it? Somewhat must be said, or nothing can be done, Some show must be made, or no man will follow. How easy is it for the naughtiest person to say he meaneth well? but how plain is it on the other side for every reasonable man to see, that he that doth ungraciously meaneth ill? and he that putteth in execution horrible and ungodly facts, continueth and rejoiceth in them, riscth without his princes warrant, armeth her subjects without authority, employeth their force to her ferror, bendeth all his doings to tumult and uproar, destroyeth the book of God the most comfortable jewel in the world published with the prince's power and commendation, wherein each man is truly taught how to do well in deed, this man I say that doth thus ill, meaneth not well how good soever he say his meaning is. Discern the tree by the fruits, the faith by the works, the saying by proof, the pretended meaning by apparent deeds. These men mean shrewdly or speak▪ very falsely, when they say they mean well, and yet do so ill. If they mean well to the Queen, when they thus resist her, it is possible they will undo you too, and yet bear you in hand they mean you well. They mean to you dangerously evil, and they mean to themselu●s foolishly well, in thrusting your bodies between them and their due danger, while such shift will last, and till they may spy a better. But you shall do well to discern their ill meaning: let them answer their faults, & repent you your faults. Of such a good meaning on your part may rise a good doing, and hap a better spéeding than is yet to be looked for.  
But see in what form and particularities this good meaning is expressed. Nobility 
Nobility slandered.  (say they) and other have given their faith to further this lewd meaning. If any such confederacy be, as it is not so great as you be borne in hand, it shall be good to the parties to purge them of that jealousy in true service against your captains and you. Neither can any be free from the spot thereof, that shall be found to advance, favour, maintain or join himself to any estate or title that imports her majesties danger, or hath impugned her highness safety, right or dignity. No, no, this is but a colour to saunder Nobility, and deceive you with vain hope of desperate succours. You see you find it not, you are destitute and disappointed of it. If such leagues had been, never look that they will keep faith with you that break it with their Prince, or will join with you, being no stronger than you be to bear them harmless. Look sooner that Nobility will the rather employ themselves for her Majesty against you, to cleanse and revenge this great infamy and dishonour, with your just destruction. But be it, that they had so, and were joined together to advance this good meaning, whereof God wot you are foully beguiled. What is it I pray you or what ground hath it? What hath her Majesty or her counsel offended? Wherein is the Realm so dangered and oppressed, that it must have violent remedy, it may abide no delay of counseling, no ordinary mean of reformation: Northumberland, Westmoreland & Swinborn, like Catiline, Lentulus, and Manlius must erect a new 
The rule of three governors.  triumvirate to repair or new melt and fashion the decayed common weal of England? 
Great waist in the melting.  Forsooth disordered and ill disposed persons about the Queen have marred all. Disordered sayeth my Lord of Westmerlande? Ill disposed, saith my Lord of Northumberlande? about the Queen, say goods fellows, wight riders and robbers in the borders of two Realms? O virtuous men. O holy thieves. O well meaning traitors. O likely surmise. Is there any greater disorder than rebellion? Is there any worse disposition than Treason? Is there any greater falsehood than thus to defame the queens most Noble government? Are you so blind not to see the Queen touched, though, to beguile you, her name be spared? Come they, whom you call disordered, to the Queen uncalled? Are they not of her majesties Counsel by 
The queens name forborn, to slander her Counsel.  her wise and good choice? Deal they not in the causes of the realm to such end and with such means as her majesty appointeth? Do they any thing without her authority and good liking, as there is good cause? Make they any laws, require they any Subsidies, do they the greatest things, without assent of the whole Realm, your own assent by your deputies & burgesses, yea your own forsworn captains, in open parliament, whereunto her majesties assent is had? or in cases out of parliament, is aught put in execution without her highness will and pleasure? Do they their things here, trow you, as you do your things there? O impudent beasts to bears you so in hand. O deceived fools you to believe it. But O mad dolts so rashly to hazard your possessions, lives, good names, wives, children, haviour, yea souls, and all upon credit of so false reports. It is her Majesty that doth these good things herself, and honourably avoweth and invincibly will uphold the doing of those things which your captains call misdoings, and will defend the persons of those good and noble counsellors that serve her in so good governance of her estate, with the assistance of almighty God in her right, & the dutiful service of all her true Nobility & her faithful subjects against all Rebels, traitors and enemies, what soever they be, either within this Realm or without. Thus know ye, that her Majesty taketh upon her the justification of her government, and her Counsel's ministery therein. Therefore when your Earls accuse these about the Queen, they accuse the Queen herself. It is but colour to abuse you. They would say the Queen, if they thought ye would well take it. And it G O D were so far angry with us as to give them miraculous victory against all likelihood, yea and in man's eye against all possibility, no doubt her Majesty should feel it with the foulest indignity that ever was seen in earth. And if it lay in them to spoil her majesty and the realm of her good counsellors, their slender courtesy to her person would soon appear. Cease then to be so beguiled, take that shadow away, and take it as truth is, that your Earl's proclamation in deed saith, though not in the self same syllables, that the queens Majesty with her Nobility, Parliament, and Counsel, have done these mischieus that my lord of Westmoreland and his fellows must redress in haste. And these Nobility and counsellors your wise good Rulers call disordered and evil disposed persons. If you know them not, will you believe that so wise, learned, virtuous and 
The Counsel not disordered not ill disposed.  noble a Queen calleth to her counsel disordered & evil disposed persons. Yea more, if you know them not, will you believe that so great weakness and poverty, wherein her majesty found the realm, is (thanks be to God) repaired: so great quietness and peace procured and kept: so good & equal distributing of justice maintained: such amity with neighbours, such love, credit, yea awe of her highness among foreign princes and Potestates, conciled and upholden, so firmly, and so many years: will you believe so great things so well done, so long continued, by disordered & ill disposed persons? If you know them, then need I say no more. You know your proclamation is 
The rebels disorders and ill dispositions.  false, you know they be slandered, you know yourselves be deceived. God give you grace to know how to recover yourselves again. But on the other side, when you remember that which you daily see, the vanities, the doltishness, the borrow without caring to pay, the prostitute abus● without regard of chastity, the lewd unthriftiness without respect of well getting or well spending, the rashness without discretion, the ungodly life without all virtue, the glorious lustiness without fear of God and without all foundation of honesty, the adulteries, fornications, thefts, robberies, spoils, murders, and other mischiefs, in some of your captains professedly open and daily exercised, even with the gay name of a jolly stout Gentleman & lusty courage, and in some of greatest ravenie, yet like Rainard the Fox cloaked with some more hypocrisy: these when you mark and weigh truly, as you see them daily apply the words of disordered and ill disposed persons as you see them deserved. Let every work have his true name. And now see these colours. Rebels are called true subjects, the queens majesty is named with honour, and touched with dishonour: her doings, that they may be more freely slandered, are imputed to other whom they dare more boldly defame: you are led against the Queen, & born in hand against other: Nobility is falsely charged: fowl treason is called good meaning: perjury challengeth to be believed: common robbers and thieves, adulterers, murderers & rebels are well disposed persons: the queens majesties counsel and true nobility are called disordered and ill disposed. Alas these colours are so black, that they will take none other hue. Mark well. If you believe these, you may not say you are deceived otherwise than wilfully, the matter is so plain.  
But what have these disordered and evil disposed counsellors about the Queen done say you? overcome true and Catholic religion, disordered the realm, seek the destruction of Nobility. O shameless falsehoods, O fading false and vain colours. Come out of darkness, open your eyes, carry them into the light, hold them against the sun, try them and judge of them. They have overcome 
Religion.  true religion, say your seducers & false teachers. Is there any alteration of Religion made so rashly as your rebellion? or teacheth it so ungodly doings as you do execute? or is it received from any other than from the word of God himself? If you will have any religion, I trust you will have Christ's 
Tearing the Bible.  religion. If you will have the Religion of Christ, I hope you will best believe himself to tell you what it is. If you will hear himself speak, you may not destroy his word. Even they that would deceive ye most, can not deny that the holy Bible is the word of GOD, what soever is taught therein is truth, what soever is against it is heresy & falsehood. How think you then, do they mean you well that take God's word from you, that destroy the bible, tear and tread under feet the Scripture of the word of God, forbid you to hear or know that whereby only you should hear and know truth, and learn to see their falsehood? can they wish you to see that would take away your light? can they wish you to far well that would deprive you of your food? The blasphemy is heinous, the offence dangerous, this path is not the way to true religion, but to error, which they would not have you see, that persuade you to blindfill yourselves against the truth of god's gospel.  
Besides your destroying of God's book, can ye think that they mean to draw you 
Breaking the Communion table.  to true & catholic religion, that persuade you to destroy the monuments of Christian Communion? Read or hear the whole form of that service, judge of every word and sentence, and then shall you see what comfort your false deceivers have taken from you. Compare what good you find in that, and what edifying in the contrary: what sweetness it is to join with God's congregation in partaking of Christ's body & blood by mean of his Sacraments, and what vanity or rather sorrow it is to gaze upon a thief that robbeth you of that treasure, pretendeth to take it all himself, & holdeth up that which he calleth a Sacrament as it were in insultation and triumph over your silly simplicity. Do but hear, read and know the things that ye yet despise, I doubt not God's grace shall creep into you for your comfort.  
Where thirdly you have raged against the marriage of God's Ministers, behold 
Cruelty to married priests.  your own madness. I hope you be not all popish priests Bastards, thus rebelliously to rise for the honour of your false Fathers. Do you think all your popish priests to have lived chaste? Know you not their old incontinence commonly misnamed lustiness and good fellowship? Remember the examples yourselves. Is marriage worse than whoredom? was it not by themselves taught to be a sacrament? Is it not the holy ordinance of god? Is the marriage of yourselves and your forefathers become uncleanness, or displeasing to God? Think not so ill of yourselves. No, no, there is another matter. You are beguiled poor souls, look home to your own beds, preserve the cleanness & honesty of your houses. This is a quarrel wholly like the old rebels complaint of enclosing of commons. Many of your disordered and evil disposed wives are much aggrieved that Priests which were wont to be common be now made several, Hinc illae lacrimae, there is the grief in deed. And truth it is and so shall you find it: few women storm against the marriage of Priests, calling it unlawful, and incensing men against it, but such as have been Priests harlots or fain would be. Content your wives yourselves, and let Priests have their own. And for whole religion, receive it as GOD hath taught it, read his word: and for the delivery and explication of it, it behoveth you, being no better clerks than you are, to credit the whole Parliament, the learned Clergy of the Realm, and those that teach you by the book of God, & learn it in such sort & places as it is to be taught. Your Camp is no good school of Divinity. Your churches as they were reform, the word of God red in such tongue as you understood it, the Sacraments ministered to your comfort, in such sort as you might feel the sense of them and be edicted by them, the good examples of your Ministers living in holy matrimony with their own wives and abstaining from yours, their teaching you obedience, justice, & charity, be the means to learn truth.  
And yet if errors had been taught, this is not the way to come to amendment. Know of those that complain of the overthrowing of that religion that liketh them, if ever they sought good means to defend it and were denied, if ever they offered conference where it was meet and were refused, if ever they maintained it in place convenient by the word of God and were not fully, truly and charitably answered: Think you her majesty & the wisest of the realm have no care of their own souls, that have charge both of their own and yours? Think you they would have entered into the troubles of changing religion, unless very truth, conscience and zeal for all our souls had enforced them? God wot you are deceived, you are out of the way for true understanding religion, you are out of the way for true seeking it, and ye are very far out of the way in thinking that your captains have any care of it.  
They abuse you in this as in the rest. They regard no religion, that go so irreligiously to work. All is but shows and hypocrisy. They have frequented the service established by common authority, they have received God's Communion with his Church, they have commended it, which if they had had the contrary religion to heart, they would not nor might have done, unless they would confess themselves such as you ought not to believe. But the truth is, they know that for want of sufficient preaching, and especially for want of grace to receive the truth of God preached, and partly also for that long settled errors even in men otherwise good and honest, must have their time of instruction and parsuasion: by these means I say, there be many yet within the realm not well taught: the multitude of which simple men, they hoped by this colour to draw to the fellowship of their rebellion, and that way to have more help to shield themselves from the power of justice, and so to give an adventure by more aid to escape the due punishment for these their treasons that otherwise in peaceable place of justice they could not defend or avoid.  
So still this is but colour, even as is the same that followeth, that her majesties Counsel have disordered the Realm. Well they 
Disordering the realm:  know it is not so, and well they know that they nor their ancestors never knew it so well ordered. But if any would believe such slander, they hoped thereby to win the more complices, and so to hide their own danger in the multitude. Consider the truth of this colour. Wey the times, confer and examine them truly. Let not false persuasions deceive you. Be not so wild and wanton with wealth, to forget whence your wealth cometh, or not to see that the Realm hath it. Had England ever in our memory so long so blessed peace both at home and abroad? Had ever true Nobility more tender indulgence and honourable cherishing? Had ever subjects more true and free administration of law and right? Was England ever better ordered in all degrees, from high to low, till your shameful rebellion hath interrupted the great blessing of God? Or hath all Christendom the like at this day, your lewd tumult only excepted? Hath not her Majesty with the advise and aid of her most honourable Counsel, so ordered us, that we have as it were standing on shore beholden the shipwreck of other nations? Live we not daily so our comfort with the fruits of this good government? It is such, that as the case standeth, he is like to be unhappy that shall overlive it. Is this the thanks due to her Majesty and her Counsel for their care and travail for your preservation? Suppose you that such kindness is the way to keep GOD loving and beneficial unto us? Repent your error, acknowledge with thanks the good order of the realm that you have felt with profit, forsake the disorderers of the common wealth, and yield to such good order as they that have well, wisely, justly and mercifully ordered it can best dispose of you. You see these be still but false colours to deceive more subjects, to draw more adherentes, to help to shroud your seducers in community of peril.  
And of like sort, falsehood and impudency is that they say of seeking to destroy Nobility. 
Destruction of nobility.  Though some of them that so proclaim have been noble, you must remember how Nobility may rise and fall. There is no traitor noble, how notable soever he be, or how noble soever his ancestors were. The advancement for virtue to the most honourable order is no more due to good, valiant and true Gentlemen, than the defacing of the former ensigns of Nobility, and solemn spurning them into a ditch, is a due prejudice to desloyal and untrue subjects, the very stain of whose company, presence or fellowship in the tokens of honour true Nobility can not bear. Pity it is that they have so far forgotten the common wealth and their owh, so to deserve. But so deserving, good example and necessary justice it is, that they bear their extremest infamy. Neither yet hath the queens majesty nor her Counsel sought their destruction, but they themselves have now procured their own, and drawn you in with them. Let themselves say of the benefits they have received of her majesty, her good countenance and supportation, all her Counsels friendly and loving means to do them good: then judge ye what cause they have so to say. As for the rest of the Nobility, as they be most deeply bound to her majesty for her good and gracious tender love and favour to them, which they cease not to acknowledge, and will do, even with the adventure of their lives, honours and possessions, in her majesties defence, against all rebels and traitors, and namely against your Captains and you: so are they full slenderly beholden to your two good Earls for defaming them with the partenership of so fowl and abominable treasons. And for that the slander is general, without particular naming of any, ye must look for the more general revenge of all nobility against you, no one shrinking or withdrawing, but every one most forwardely pressing to purge himself by his good service from so great dishonour, and to show his thankfulness (the natural property of honour) to her majesty for her great kindness and tender love to that whole degree. Some of them to their great praise, you see, already have showed their truth, in repressing your attempts, refusing your societies, & in readiness to overthrow you. Each man is so likeliest to desire a new estate, as he hath most cause to be weary of the old. In what Princes days did ever Nobility live, or can they hope to live in such security, in such (as it were) nearness and convenient familiarity with their prince, so free from unjust backbitings, from vain ielosies & suspicions, from dangers by enemies reports or false accusations, from tumult, war and malice one against another, yea from all unsuerties and unquietnesses, as they have done in her majesties days? It is marvelous and unnaturally miraculous, that there are found such two (I mean your two Earls) to show such unkindness. Think not then that any more of nobility be so ill minded. But be not deceived, take the thing as truth is, this is but a colour, howbeit in deed a lewd malicious subtle & dangerous colour, partly to the intent to raise mistrust between her Majesty and her nobles, if either were not so well known to other as they be, & partly or rather chief to deceive and detain you with hope of that which is not in deed. But as in the one they labour in vain, so in the other learn you to be wiser, & to trust them the worse hereafter. You find it falleth not out so. Her majesty hath ever cherished Nobility, no one of that estate hath by her perished in all her time, they know it and acknowledge it, and you must feel it. You see that they come not to you, for all the promises and faiths supposed in your proclamation. It falleth not out as you are borne in hand: they are all in readiness with their power against you, to clear themselves, & to wreak the dishonour upon you. If this colour deceive you, you wink hard, or be marvelously blinded. If any of nobility for any contempts or other causes have been stayed (whereupon the likelihood is that you are the more led to think this surmise true) themselves acknowledge yet with what clemency they are used, the world knoweth how sorry her majesty is to have any such occasion: but howsoever it be, they have small cause to thank you for aggrieving their case with greater suspicions: and according to that you have so ill deserved of them, you must account that themselves, so far as their liberties and her majesties trust in them will permit, and all their friends for their benefit, will with most sharp revenge upon you, do what they can to persuade their innocence. Neither I trust will her majesty herself, so yet give over the care of her own preservation, as to contemn all advertisements of attempts, and not by good care and head of her counsel, yea & extirpation of the contrary, stand upon her guard against all advancements ●of such titles as you would prefer being dangerous to her safety, and which have already to their uttermost, attempted her highest peril, or yet to leave in danger to their malice her good Subjects that be jealous of her preserving. And God give unto her grace the heart in perils touching her person and estate, not to have too great clemency, remembering that though it be magnifical and noble to contemn treasons to pardon traitors, to reconcile dangerous underminers of her estate: yet the whole realm having interest in her life, by which we all live, and can not live well without her, it is far more honourable to be good Lady to true men than to false, to the whole common wealth of god men that depend upon her, than to any knot of evil men that may practise her danger, by which the whole realm must needs come to such confusion, as your wise guides would fain bring it. But in the mean time you see, they have brought you in a gay case, upon trust of their words, their vain colours in their proclamations, their false promises of great succours. You are in the way of undoing for ever to help them to a little leisure to shift, or (if they abide by it) to give the adventure of their most heinous treasons.  
And hereto they persuade you with promis 
Help of God and good people.  of the help of god and good people, directly against the commandment of God, & to the disturbance of good people. But, I pray you, what people, or what Goodness, look they for to aid them? The late tumults in king Edward's time have taught all the wise people of the Realm, to beware of such follies. The good & honest subjects of the West, 
The west.  that were then seduced, now have learned, and do like good subjects continue in loyal duty, & be ready to employ their force against you, to teach you by smart that which you will not learn by example. The noble & 
Exeter.  well governed city of Exeter hath taught all Cities & towns the honour of faithfulness. All the south, the east, each part, the land, the sea, & heaven itself are joined against you. Each man seeth the horror of the fact, but yourselves alone. Read (I beseech you) the excellent treatis of sir john Cheke Knight, of the 
Sir John Cheeks excellent book.  Hurt of sedition, there see as in a glass, the deformity of your fault, learn to wipe away those spots that have so foully arrayed you, that you look not like Christian people but like monsters in nature & policy, however your captains call you good people, being so rebellious against so good a Sovereign, & banded in hostility against all good subjects. So each thing that they pretend with mere contrariety of truth, bewrayeth their open falsehood, unless they will, to defend themselves to have said in one only thing true, that they rise to redress things amiss, say that they mean not things amiss to be redressed, but things to be amiss redressed.  
In like manner is all the rest. They will (they say) restore ancient customs and liberties 
Custom.  to the church and realm. Are all customs without respect of good or bad, to be restored? are not rather the bad to be reform? and so is it true liberty to be delivered 
Liberites.  from them, and not remain thrall and bound unto them. For he that bindeth least and setteth fréest, offereth most liberty If they mean by liberty lewd licentiousness, and dissolute disordre of life, to have no fear of God Prince, law, or shame, to have no respect or awe of honesty, such liberty I grant they propound unto you, and give you daily examples of. But if the true liberty of Christ's church and flock be, to hear his voice, and no strangers, to be subject or in bondage to no strange power or usurped tyranny that shall sit in the consciences of christian men, captiving them to an implicit & general faith of what so ever they shall teach without the warrant of Christ the true head of the church, than your great Libertines bring but bondage and slavery. Beware therefore lest under name of liberty, you take the heavy yoke of thraldom. When most noble and victorious kings and princes, most grave, valiant and wise counsellors and nobility, most learned, discrete and virtuous prelate's and other of the clergy, have with their great travail, study and adventure, made a conquest of antichrist that kept us in bondage, delivered this Realm to very freedom in deed, set it at liberty from foreign tyrant's yoke: is this to restore the liberty of the Church, to make it bond again? Can you be so mad to think it? Great are the illusions upon those whom God's grace hath forsaken. Pray to God to bring your hearts to liberty of consideration, and you shall plainly see the liberty of the church assailed by your own factious, the liberty of your consciences captived and the true liberty of your lives in lawful things restrained. Sweet in deed is the name of liberty, etc. the treasure of the thing itself beyond all value inestimable: so much the more it behoveth you to take heed that with the sweetness of the name you lose not the value of the thing. You may not think her majesty herself, and her nobility, clergy, and other good subjects, so far thrown down in courage, as they would lose the fuel of liberty. Much less must ye believe your licentious boasters of liberty, that will bring you in deed nothing but bondage. You see the difference of their credit, and the evidence of your peril: judge therefore the falsehood of this colour as well as the rest, and with the fond devise that followeth, to pretend a care for their country, into whose bowels they have thrust their weapon, lest they should be behind strangers in wounding her.  
They say they fear a reformation by 
Strangers.  Strangers, to the hazard of the realm: and therefore forsooth these noble hazarders of their own wealth, estate and honour, and of your sureties, must hazard the realm themselves, lest strangers should: and yet further withal, lest themselves should not suffice to hazard it enough, they directly signify, and it is well known that themselves have sought and used conspiracy of strangers to further the hazard to their uttermost. But note the fraud I pray you, for the meaning is to deceive you, and therefore it behoveth you to note it. They will not say directly, we have practised with strangers to take our parts, for that were too broad and too plain: but it must be penned in such words that you must be given to understand that strangers are of that faction, yea and so far forward, that they are also ready to do that which you have enterprised, though forsooth your captains and they be not of one conspiracy. He is blind that seeth it not. All this is but to encourage you and to put you in hope of aid, either by traitors in England, or enemies abroad: whence it come it makes no matter. But they deceive you, it will not be: weigh it well, feed not yourself with vain hopes.  
First, if strangers were disposed to come, it is a mad saying, let us rise and reform least strangers come & reform, as though strangers having purpose to come, and intending to gain by spoil, would come so much the later for having somuch aid as so many rebels to help them to spoil. Therefore when they come not in deed, you must needs say that you were falsely so borne in hand with a gay hope, to make you the bolder to run to your own destruction.  
An unnatural hope it is, and beastly, to join with any strangers to the spoil of 
Treasons of popish religion  their own country. But such is the nature of that false religion, to regard no country, faith, nature, or common honesty. Remember I pray you, what yielded the realm tributary and the King Uassal, I mean king john, but the treason of Popish Religion? What gave the Crown, to Ludovike the 
King john.  Dolphin of France, that invaded and possessed much of the realm a long time, by the aid of disloyal Barons in England, but the treason of popish religion? What sent Legates and Messengers (yea English traitors) 
Card. Poole.  about Christendom, to foreign Emperors and Kings, to offer them this Realm to pray, spoil, and conquest, to exhort them to turn their prepared powers from invading the Turk, to make war upon the king of England our Sovereign Ladies most noble father, whom they termed worse than any Turk, but treason of popish Religion? What hazarded this Realm with subjection to strangers in our late memory: but treason of popish Religion? What then derived, & yet daily doth, solemn pedigrees to 
Trolop. A. B. & C.  Spaniards & other foreins, yea & wresteth law for dangerous strangers, to make them acceptable to the deceived multitude, as though they were our natural princes, but only treason of popish religion?  
But God hath hitherto preserved this land from being subdued by these horrible treasons, and I trust he will still, and in your poor case is most likely to leave your vain trust disappointed. For consider the likelihood. The example so toucheth the common 
Precedent.  state of all Kings and Princes, as you being rebels may look for no foreign aid, though it were but for precedents sake. Such forens as might come to you by land, are truer 
scotland.  friends to the Queen than you be subjects: where, by the way, look for no retire nor safe refuge, but her majesties mercy. Other strangers, that in deed have uttered more 
Alua.  malice to her Majesty and her realm, & have interrupted the good love and peace, and ancient love, amity and intelligence between her Majesty and those Princes of whom she hath most constantly well deserved: 
K. Philip.  alas, they be neither much terrible to her majesty, nor can be much comfortable to you. Will they, in such season as may serve you● turns, having so few to spare where they be, bring a mean power by Sea, so far, so dangerous a voyage, along the queens highness coast, in such time of year, being neither able to resist her navy by the way, less able when their men be landed, and least able to come again to fetch them when the enterprise is ended? Be they so mad, trow you, to leave their Nobility, Captains and Soldiers in their enemies land, enclosed between enemies of both Realms, without more succour than unlikely Fortune & the trust of a few Rebels. No, no, they be not yet so mad, though you be madder. There must be greater heads and power than you be or have at liberty, that they will join withal. They can be content to give you vain hope perhaps. For if England may be in tumult by their practise, and you come to your deserved end, it contenteth and sufficeth them to have ventured the state at your peril, and to have grieved her Majesty with alienation and destruction of so many poor deceived Subjects. Look unto yourselves well, the great brags are not performed, the promises are not kept, you are betrayed by your own leaders. Call to God for mercy betimes, satisfy her Majesty with returning to duty, and that with all speed, lest though ye scape slaughter by the true subjects hand, you may not with honour be too gently dealt with. Deliver them that betrayed you, that they which in proclamations have published unto you vain and false hopes of treasons, may upon scaffolds preach unto you the right fruits of rebellion and duty of obedience, that their death may do more good in example, than ever their lives did in practice.  
This counsel I hope you will follow, when the light of true consideration shall 
The Rebels leaders described.  shine into your hearts, and chase away all darkness of these erroneous shows and false colours that yet have blinded you: and so much the more when you shall further note all the necessary circumstances that may reduce you to truth. What be your leaders? Your two Earls, you know well, are even of the meanest of all Nobility, in behaviour, credit and power, to conduct you through so great and dangerous an enterprise. The one you see hardly beareth the countenance of his estate with his small portion of that which his ancestors sometime had and lost: his daily sales and shifts for necessity, even then when he had less charge than to maintain an army, both in Sussex and else where are well known: such power as he hath had & used in those parts about you, is to be ascribed to her majesties authority, under whom he served, which now is bend against him: otherwise, neither his policy great to rule or redress a Realm, nor yet to espy the true faults, much less the remedy, an unfit judge of Religion, and a very evil chosen chastiser of disordered life. The other, of no credit, no wisdom nor governance, no ability, no virtue. Who knoweth not the enormities of his life, the indiscretion of ruling his own, the great lacks & debts wherein he is by his own fault endangered, the estimation of him as of a contemned man, none otherwise regarded than for the name sake of honour and some possibility that he might perhaps leave a better son to amend the state of his house? Though his Father were touched with many great faults, much noted in the world, some whereof this Gentleman hath as by inheritance received: yet never did he so hurtful a deed either to the common weal, or to his own name and family, as when he begat so ungracious a son. Even he that never governed well himself nor any thing that he hath, whom no wiseman nor I think any of you (as mad as ye be) would privately trust with ordering of a mean household, now must take in public charge the power of a shire or two, yea of all the Realm, if the rest would adventure as madly as you. For the case of Religion: doth any man know that ever he pretended any religion or conscience at all, till now he makes an Apish counterfeiting of feigned popish devotion? And now yet, by your good judgement, he that knoweth neither religion, faith nor learning, must come to control the judgement, learning & faith of the queens Majesty, her Counsel and all her Clergy. What madabsurdities are you run into, to believe so apparent untruths, dissimulations and bypocrisies? The residue of your doltish Captains, what be they? think you they be men able to bear you out against the power of a Prince, all her Nobilities Cities, Realm, subjects, friends and allies? One with little wit far set, an other in his old age weary of his wealth, an other a runaway with a young wild brain tickled to see fashions. Alas, what be these to carry you through the serious and earnest dangerous enterprise that you have in hand▪ They are rather meeter to fray you from it: meet men surely to follow your ominous fatal or unlucky ensigns, wound and crosses, the apt and due signs of just 
Omen placer.  slaughter, or infamous execution.  
But yet perhaps some of you have this meaning that you own them duty, and for 
Pretence of duty.  duty you will not forsake any danger. If this consideration have place in any duty, it hath it chief in the highest duty which you have despised. A mad excuse it is to say you entered into danger for duty, when the principal duty did bid you sit in quiet without danger at all. Even such a fond doing of duty it is, as if one would kill his Father to please his Master, or rather murder Father, Master and himself to keep promise with a thief. What be these duties that may move you? weigh them and compare them. The name of Percies and Nevilles have long been honourable and well beloved among you, some of you and your for fathers have been advanced by them and their ancestors, some perhaps be knit in kindred, some be tenants, some be servants, some be with like causes allied and bound to the meaner Captains. Great things be these to move love and good neibourhed, and of great importance and efficacy to draw honest, true and kind hearted men to stick by their Lords & friends in all wars against the Prince's enemies, and in all honest quarrels and perils: but small matters they be, yea no causes at all to draw any man to stand with any man in rebellions and treasons. Is Percy and Nevil more ancient, more beloved and dear unto you, than your natural Sovereign Lady, the Queen of England, yea or England itself? Doth one small tenancy move you more than the holding of the whole realm? Is not in all your homages and fealties unto them, saved your faith and allegiance to your sovereign Lady? This is even as untoward a folly, as if a mad fool in a tempest would travail to drown the whole ship to save one of the mariners cabbens. This is not rightly considered of you.  
The common weal is the ship we sail in, no one can be safe if the whole do perish. To god, & then to the realm, to the crown, to the law and government, your leaders and you & we all do owe ourselves and all that we have, in highest degree of duty. All other inferior duties are but means that these may be the better performed. When now your Captains have forsaken faith & duty to God, natural love and duty to the realm, allegiance and duty to the Crown, obedience and duty to law and government: it is no following of duty to follow them against these duties, no though they were your fathers. And that they have done so you may not believe their pretences, you must believe the book of GOD which you have trodden under foot, ye must believe the laws of the Realm which you have contemptuously broken, you must believe the queens Majesty herself speaking in her Proclamations, and by the mouths of her officers, whose gracious voice you have rebelliously contemned.  
Now as I have compared your small duties pretended, with your great duties forsaken, 
Their doings.  compare again your most due duties with your undue doings. You have without warrant fro the Q. Majesty, or any by her authorized, assembled yourselves in forcible manner, adhered to those whom her majesty hath declared traitors & rebels, you have levied war within the realm against the realm, within the queens dominions against the Queen, you have broken the common peace whereby yourselves, your families and possessions have hitherto been preserved, you have in your rebellious outrage committed many heinous and horrible facts, you have destroyed the monuments of Gods most holy Communion, you have torn and defaced the sacred Bible of Gods most holy word, the very pledge of your salvation, you have presumed to alter the form of Christ's Religion, you have in dishonour of Christ's most blessed and only sufficient sacrifice, set up the most abominable and blasphemous sacrifice of wicked Mass, you have committed unnatural and vile cruelty upon God's Ministers and dispensers of God's mysteries and of the health of your Souls, you have defaced Gods holy ordinance, whereby all mankind is preserved in chastity and continued by lawful increase, you have rob your neighbours, spoiled and destroyed the queens true subjects, you have wasted the provision for your wives and children, you have undone yourselves. Trow you, this be your duty, either as Christian men, Englishmen, subjects, tenants, husbands, fathers, neighbours, yea or natural men?  
And when you have thus done, think you to bear it thus away? A piece of the Bishopric of Durhamme and Richmond shire containeth not all England. Your courage may be good, I would it were employed to better causes: your power is but small. You know you are but few, weak, unarmed, unfurnished to hold out, unlawfully called, unskilfully guided, slenderly provided for, falsely abused, fond blinded, your captains not trusty to you, nor bound by any authority so to be, your company not holden together by any just power but that they may slip away as their lust, their weariness, their need, their business, hope of pardon or better advisement may come upon them, your succours fail you within and without, your victuals in a barren place not like long to endure, the season hard, your lodgings incommodious, your households in peril of famine or destruction in your absence, no store of armour, Weapon nor Munition, your number of Horse though not now many, yet daily like to be fewer, those necessaries that you have either for defence, invasion or sustenance being once spent, no way to recover more, one overthrow destroyeth you wholly, you have no mean to repair yours force, you are enclosed round about, no refuge by Land, no escape by Sea. Are not you in a gay taking? And this you know to be true.  
On the other side, behold the dreadful majesty of God the Lord of hosts is displeased with you▪ the Queens highness, sometime your loving Sovereign Lady. now by your lewdness is enforced to be 
The queens power.  the heavy minister of God's wrath against you. The whole nobility for their duty, and the rather for revenge of the dishonourable spots and suspicions sprinkled upon them by your traitorous proclamations, is earnestly bend to overthrow you, the whole number of her highness true subjects ready to die upon you▪ the number is great against you, infinitely exceeding your petit multitude: they be furnished of all things necessary with a prince's store and so great store as never had any of her ancestors, weapon, armure, shot, powder, & all sorts of munition, victual abundance▪ choice of commodious being, strong holds, one knot of just authority from which the power assembled can not start or sever, skilful Captains, wise Governors, orderly proceeding, daily fresh succours at pleasure, power to save and kill by law, a wide and large realm gathered together, the country round about within her obeisance, a strong Navy, good & sure friends even in the next foreign part unto you, the very grounds, colours and foundations of your enterprise be in her majesties power, & in all necessities or misfortunes, army upon army to be new repaired, so as a few victories can not fuffise you: finally all advantages against you infinitely incomparable. Trow you this match be well made: a corner against a Realm, a handful against hundreds of thousands, want 
Their match compared.  against plenty, folly against policy, nakedness against armed force, the succourless against abundance of aid., falfehode against truth, one or two doltish mad heads against whole Nobility, a few rebels against all subjects, the wild field against strong forts, an ungodly, weak, foolish, destitute, misguided, silly, small multitude against the wrath of God and power of a Prince? Is it not time for you to be better advised? See you not your peril? or is it 
Their danger.  not rather so deep that you can not see the bottom? Surely it is as deep as Hell: which though you can not thoroughly measure it, you may justly fear it. Dreadful he is that can send both body and soul into hell fire. Beside all these bodily pains, the state wherein you stand is the state of damnation, if you die in it there is no recovery.  
Remember yourselves therefore betimes. For God's sake, and for your own weal everlastingly, bethink you of the infinite mercy of almighty God, whereof there is no measure. Repent you of your 
God's mercy.  offending him, embrace his true Religion, hear his word, learn his will, and follow it. Again, call to mind how gracious and merciful a Queen he hath placed 
The queens clemency.  over us: think upon the great examples of clemency that she hath used, the tender love that she hath ever showed to the Realm, the care she hath for us all, the grief she beareth to lose so many of you that might be better preserved: flee to that refuge, where is the only hope that 
Wholesome counsel.  is left you: make such amends as you may, yield your captains to justice, yourselves to her mercy, that if for necessary importance of honour, of precedent, and of the safety of her majesties person and realm, you must be some examples of justice, you may recover yet the possession of 
Example.  eternal life: and if her Majesty shall extend the excess of her clemency to your pardon, you may acknowledge it in your truer service hereafter, and whether way soever it shall please GOD and her highness to dispose, you may in life and death teach true obedience, and be examples to restrain yourselves and all other hereafter from so foul spot and danger of rebellion. And to this end, God send you his grace.  
God save our Queen Elizabeth, and confound her enemies.   

Imprinted at London, by Henry Bynneman, for Lucas Harrison.  
ANNO DOMINI. 1569.