A TABLE GATHERED OUT OF A BOOK NAMED A Treatise of treasons against Q. Elizabeth, and the Crown of England. lately compiled by a stranger and sent out of France, Printed in the year of our Lord 1572. The didicatorie epistle to her highness. MADAM this table of treasons doth your highness to wit of a book called, A treatise of treasons against you and the Crown of England. That treatise is addressed of grateful affection borne to you, ●…nd discovereth hidden treasons, which ●…each to the danger of your person, of your ●…ate and life. That treatise discovereth the ●…ransposing of the crown, the extincting of your line, and the hazarding of the Re●…lme. It openeth unto you the contrivers of those treasons to be a couple of companions of base parents borne: first called to Court, th'one from book, tother from buttery: which two be now more than Barons by office and dignity, more than Earls by possessions and wealth, more than Dukes in authority: which two be now your cozening Counsaillors, though set up by your good favour in the chiefest places of the Realm, whereby they have made themselves mighty in money, marriages and allies, and be the two captain conspirators, that have in their own power and in the hands of their confederates, all the offices, all the ports, all the fortresses, your treasure, your armour, yea yourself, your succession and the whole realm to dispose at their will: They be the two captain conspirators, that have beset you round about with fears, and dangers prepared by themselves and by sundry fine devices removed from you all defences of faithful friends at home and a broad, divided the realm into factions, abused your authority, employed your treasures to the danger of your state, to the infamy of your person, and to your final overthrow by death or deprivation ●…ere it be long. Thus that treatise discovereth those two traitorous counsellors: who to work more subtly their mischievous intentions, and to keep you from espying their terrible treasons, have misleaden you by a false show of other treasons, which were never intended, and abused you under title of duty, pretence of service, and colour of security to hold them unsuspected. In that treatise also your highness shall see the unbuckling and lifting up of their ●…sardes and veils, that would walk vn●…eene, and still covertly cirumvent you by their fine fetches whiles they freely finish their determined treasons against your person and state. That treatise of treasons is abridged into this table, which showeth forth but in ●…reife manner, what in the same is at full enlarged. It is therefore passing necessary, that ●…auing good regard of your own per●…on, the preservation of the realm and the ●…ightfull succession of the same, you call ●…or that treatise, you read that treatise, ●…s well for the more full and better understanding of the conspirators practices fi●…allie meant: as for their mischievous means ●…sed to bring their practices to pass. And ●…t is more than high time to understand the ●…mpudent falsehood, the fatal malice, the desperate devices of the conspirators against your line, your life and Succession if by speedy means and good advise, they be not prevented. The author of the treatise, and the abridger of the same bear good affection to you and to the realm: and therefore do discover unto you the present perils that now hung over both: which when you shall by survew perceive and understand, God give you grace, to consider and prevent. And Madam for that it cannot be doubted but that those two Conspirators do watchfully care and politicly provide, how to keep from you alletters, books and treatesies, which they fear may let or discover their final purpose: It hath been thought necessary to invent and found out all good means whereby the said treatise or at lest the Table of the same, might by some more faithful servant of yours, be addressed to your own hands: for the which respect it hath been by means conveyed to the sight of your trusty servant Mr. Hatton (and others) who of duty and allegiance hath been thought the most fit instrument to present you the same. wherein he shall show your highness, more love duty and faithful obediece, than those of your Counsaillors, that so many months sithence, have had the treatise itself in their hands and concealed the same, either of doubt their practices might be untimely discovered and prevented, or in deed for lack of love towards your highness person: which standeth in greater peril than you can believe. God give you grace to sorsee and avoid the same. Your highness daily Orator. G. T. A BRIEF TABLE GATHERED OUT of a book, called a treatise of treasons, against Q. Elizabeth, and the Crown of England, etc. Treasons in general. THE conspirators final treasons 〈◊〉. 106. be, to extinct the houses, and lines, of King Henry the 8. and of his Sister, Queen Margarite of Scotl. Thone resting presently in the Q. that now is, and tother, in the Q. of Scotl. and to bring the Crown untimely unto the third house, the house of Suffolk, unto the which themselves are united, and their children incorporated. Treasons in particular against the Queen's person, the realm and right succession. THE conspirators induced the Q. to 〈◊〉. 107. 109. 125. hold herself unmarried: whereby the house of England might consume in itself, and that whole line finish in, and with her person. They have prevented, that none be declared, Fo. 110. nor accepted as heir by law: and by pretence of law have compassed that the Q. have no heir judicially. They mean by pretence of law to impeach Fo. 111. all interests and titles to the crown that the trial thereof may come to the sword, the principal force whereof resteth in the conspirators hands. They have by spetial law provided under Fi. 112. pain of treason that their be no known heir in succession established, and that the known heir be made not known. They have circumvented the Queen Fo. 114. 125. to extinct her own line, and made her an instrument to remove the Queen of Scotl. whose deprivation they have already procured. The keeping of the Queen of Scotland Fo. 115. in prison, is a plain promise of their indemnity, for murdering the Queen herself. They govern tyrannically, whereby to Fo. 163. bring the Q. in hatred, an to kindle in the hearts of the people à weariness of her subjection: that they may be the gladder to embrace such mutation as they intent and will attempt, when they shall think the time ripe by death or deprivation to remove her. They have divided the realm into factions Fo. 167. for the Crown, by preferring untimely the third house before the second. They have made the Q. a ward at Fo. 94. ●…64. 173. 40. years age, and her surety less by the half: and made her an instrument to undo herself, and do lead her to her own destruction. Their last new law taking his effect, leaveth Fi. 167. the Crown without proprietary to claim it. They have compassed the extincting of Fo. 115. the house and line of England, and brought it even to the brin●…k, to be finally ended, when themselves list. Their trait●…rous practices threaten manifestly Fol. 15●…. the Q. speedy ruin. They have made half an execution of Fo. 164. the Q. removing, whiles the Q. of Scotland is in their hands, that rule all. They take from the Q. her principal Fo. 113. defences and faithful friends: The Duke of Northf. faithfully affectioned: the Q. of Scotl. near in blood, and next in law to s●…ccede: Sir Nicolas Throgmorton faithful to his prince, of deep foresight, and of counsel inventive. They abuse the Q. authority, 〈◊〉 forces Fo. 33. and treasures, to the danger of her state, to the dishonours and infamy of her ●…erson. They abuse the Q. name to sow sedi●…on, Fo. 100 to raise rebellion in the provinces ad●…yning. They impoverish the subjects by Fo. 101. ●…onsumption of treasures carried out of the ●…lme, for wageing foreign rebels, deui●…g new exactions, collections and lotte●…s. They make themselves mighty in mo●…y Fo. 96. and armour: they acquire honour, ●…rchasses, offices, titles, styles, and au●…oritie over the nobility: whereby they ●…ue the sweet and the Queen the ●…wer. They unite themselves, and incorporate Fo. 106. ●…eir children to the third house of Suf●…ke, whereunto their final treason is to ●…ing the Crown by prevention. They prevent by their own force, and Fo. 107. ●…ndes, to be able to give the Crown to ●…hom they list. They apply the Q. consent to what Fo. 96. ●…ey list they give, they take, they dispose, ●…ey deny, they place and displace, they 〈◊〉 and destroy whom they list. They abused the name of the Q. to the Fi. 28. ●…ying of sundry exactions over the people, there with to corrupt the noblest subjects of france, Flanders and Scotl. to levy arms against their sovereigns. The chief conspirator aspireth to govern Fo. 129. still, to leave his succession cousins to the crown, annombred among the noblest and what more noman yet knoweth. Particular Treasons of the Conspirators against the Queen of Scotl. the Realm and the Prince. THe Conspirators procured the Q. of Fo. 23. 36. 114. Scotl. deprivation, with the slaughter of her husband and Secretary. They procured, that her person was imprisoned Fo. 117. first among her own traiterous●…ie, and then in England unnaturally. They made new devices to raise rebellions Fo. 117. 23. 36. 69. in Scotl. money and pensions secretly promised, and the rebels succoured: the several slaughters of the secretary and king contrived by the advise of the governor of Barwick, the direction and plot whereof was solicited by some english men, yea directed from some of the Counsel at london. They made sundry attempts unto the Fi. 115. Queen, to cut of the line of Scotland by parliament. They compassed the Q. to extinct Fo. 107. 〈◊〉 own line, and to be the instrument of 〈◊〉 extirpation of her father's line, by re●…ouing the Q. of Scotl. from the crown 〈◊〉 parliament. They keep her prisoner by force and Fo. 107. ●…olence: they remove from her all defen●…s, all faithful friends and servants. Under the cover of the Q. favour, Fo. 155. 〈◊〉 good affection towards her, by degrees ●…ey won her to the state she is now in: whereby they lay on her all possible op●…essions. They prepare that the young Prince of Fo. 114. Scotl. come never to full age, and hope 〈◊〉 make him away. Under their Q. name they used cor●…ptions, Fi. 23. feigned letters, frequent forces, ●…anifest violences towards the nobility of Scotl. to enforce them from the allegiance of their Q. The Conspirators set up james, Lineux, Fo. 30. 23. 79. Marre, and Morton to be Regent's of Scotl. with large pensions and maintaining them with forces. The conspirators do free with favour Fi. 127. and thanks any thing spoken or written in the preference of the house of Suff. and clean bar any saying or writing in the right of the elder house. TREASON TO BOTH the Crowns of England and Scotl. fol. 118. 125. etc. Where you shall find. xi. politic and abondant provisions made for the establishment of the third line, the house of Suff. whereunto the captain conspirators have united themselves, and incorporated their children. The fine fraudulent arts, the plaits practices and polices which the Conspirators used, to compass their treasons with the Queen. FIrst the Q. received the crown with Fo. 88 great security, without colour or shadow of mistrust of pope, prince, or any papistical subject of her own, without mumur grudge or want of satisfaction in the people. Fo. 87. Then Fleck intruding himself, brought in his Mate the most known briber of the isle of britain to sit in the highest place of justice. They then suggested to the Q. that Fo. 90. Card. Poole with divers of the old counsel, had to foretime confe●…red about her deprivation which was never thought. They suggested to the Q. certain false Fo. 87. 91. fears and suspicions against the old coun●…ail, persuading herito hold them all suspected, only to retain a few of the Noblest to countenance themselves. They persuaded her against the advice Fo. 88 of her Nobility and consent of all the Clergy to the change of religion and to the setting up of a party protestant. They persuaded the Q. that the Catho●…icques Fi. 90. 108. were not to be trusted, and that the ●…ing of Spain aspired to her crown. They persuaded her to intrude herself Fol. 91. ●…nto the ecclesiastical government, assuring her that all the princes her neighbours would follow her therein. They persuaded the Q. to ratify a new Fo. 91. form of religion and to establish the Schi●…me by parliament, pretending no constraint of conscience to any Catholicque. They pretended title of duty, service Fo. 85. ●…nd affection. They pretended care and ialozie of the Fo. 31. Q. state and security. They drew the Nobility into suspicion. Fo. 33. They persuaded the Q. that the match Fi. 41. between the Q. of Scot and the Duke was dangerous to her state and to the Realm. They made the Q. beleene, that others Fo. 47. had conspired to do the same thing, which themselves performed. They spread abroad false surmises, forged Fo. 71. fables notorious lies published by authority. Fowl malicious impudent lies against Fo. 13. 55. the Duke of Norf. Shameless, vile, traitorous Fo. 14. 15. 18. 19 21. 14. 54. 56. double, scoganishe, crafty, cunning, loud, lewd, shaunderous lies against the Queen of Scotland, wicked and spiritishe lies against both. Traitorous lies against the Realm. Fo. 18. gross lies against the subjects. Fo. 44. Plain false lies against the king of Spain. Fo. 62. Lies repugnant and contradictory. Fo. 80. 49. 54. Sicilian lies. Fo. 70. Colourlesse lies, seducing from God and Fo. 135. all true religion. Circumventing lies to abuse the Queen Fo. 83. 133. and to blind the people: whiles they work their horrible outrages. Sicilian tricks and policies tending to the conspirators final purposes and treasons. TO speak worst of the honestest sort, Fo. ●…. and best of the worst sort. To hide and oppress truth. Fo. 10. To serve the apperites of the evil disposed. Fo. 10. To charge the Innocent with the deeds Fi. 16. of the guilty. To plant seditions, to create Civil rebel●…ons, Fo. 19 to move a sea of bloody tragedies. To flatter authority, smothlie to dis●…mble, Fo. 10. 31. humbly to crowtche. To use double dealings. Fo. 36. To writ to one purpose openly and Fo. 34. ●…cretlie to an other. To charge and defame Noble persona●…es. Fo. 47. To displace all such persons as be impe●…iments Fo. 84. to his final treasons. To slander Catholicques, to bely Prin●…es Fo. 99 to occupy the people with lies and va●…ities. To cousin the Queen by weeping and Fi. 15●…. ●…hining to her face, by feigning sickness for ●…orrow till she relent to his lusts. With a brazen face to owtface all the Pref. world and his own Prince also with lies ●…pon lies each one louder and lewder ●…en other. Falsely to accuse, subtly to subourne, Pref. hereby wrongfully to condemn Noble ●…d notable personages. To depose Princes, to transpose states, to Pref. ●…urpe kingdoms for the thirst of heresy ●…d ambition. To prefer his ambition before his Prin●…es Pref. honour, his posterity before hers, his fa●…ilie before her kindred, to play the Queen himself in essence and substance of government. To ligue himself with Rebels, to Fi. 104. harborough pirates, and of their thyeverie to share out his partlargelie. To punish honest citizens by pillory Fo. 6. for saying the troth. To set forth piled pamfletes containing Fol. 6. railing reports. To term that treason to the Q. which Fo. 13. impugneth his final treason. To play Scoggan with a Queen. Fol. 1●…. To alienat peoples hearts and affections Fo. 19 from the rightful heir. To fill the Realm with more than forty Fo. 29. 47. thousand strangers rascals under pretence of religion to serve his turn at a day. To make a treason of no trespass. Fo. 65. What detrimentes and preiudices have ensued to the Q. and to the Realm: and what increase of strength and advancement to the Conspirators and their needy faction, by their circumventions tending to their final purpose and treasons. FIrst the separation of the Q. from the Fo. 91. Catholicque Church from the unity and amity of the See Apostolicque. A confusion of the two obediences, Fo. 91. th'one to God, tother to the Queen. A forsaking the service of all the bishops Fo. 92. and principal Clergy. A lack of the service of the greatest of Fo. 92. the Nobility and ancient Gentlemen: with 〈◊〉 supply of officers and justices, greedy and hungry of living. A general change of the whole face of Fo. 93. ●…e comen wealth. A religion that changeth his hue like Fi. 139. he Chameleon, and at xiv. years end, is not yet known which sect shall prevail. A division from all other princes by an Fo. 92. other law, than the Q. progenitors were wont. Infamy, dishonour, reproachful terms, Fo. 93. ●…ermes of Schism and heresy, terms of a ●…he head, a breachlesse head, a dumb head of the Church. The reviving the buried question and Fo. 140. ●…ruple of her mother's marriage which time ●…ad put to silence every where: her father's ●…ife and manners, her mother's marriage and ●…eath, her own birth and conversation made the matter of much secret talk at ●…ome, and more open penning every where abroad. The setting up of a party protestant, Fo. 15●…▪ 94. (the professed poison of kingly regiment) that obey no longer, than their party be of strength: and now show a●… little obedience to the Q. as to the Pope. The Queen for assured foreign friendship, Fo. 147. 94. brought to stand post alone, and constrained to lean wholly to the captain conspirators. Infinite vexations of the subjects for religion: Fo. 94. 168. yet making show in their letters t●… princes that the Catholics may live af●… their conscience, and none impeached ●…, religion or faith. Field preachings, secret lectures, differences Fo. 95. of sects and services of religion, incivility, unbridled looseness of conscienc●… barbarous manners. For ancient entire amity with Catholic Fo. 96. Princes, confederacy with Hugonots, Gues and protestant rebels. Of two Q. the one removed from he●… Fo. 158. seat, tother abiding but the devotion o●… them that in woard and deed repined a●… women's regiment. Suppressing of truth, supporting of falsehood: Fo. 99 a lying and Macheu●…lian regiment▪ A yielding to the Conspirators, th●… Fo. 98. substance and effect of Kingly dominion. The consumption of ancient Nobility Foe 102. the setting up of a base and needy sort that make themselves Noble. The violation of the ancient league between Fo. 101. the Q. and the house of Spain and Bourgundie: the laying hands upon the king of Spain's money for payment of foreign rebels. Great charges lost much care cast away Fol. 159. 160. english blood spilled, dishonour gained, a seed of qwarell sown, a root of revenge planted and laid up in the deck, which willbe demanded when time serveth. The weakening of the Q. strength and Fo. 102. 101. state, the prejudicing her amity with the mightiest and sincerest friend that ●…he had upon earth: so proved by 13. years experience. The refusing of the Q. safety, by contemning Foe 102. sundry frindlie motions of Emperors, and kings, for her reuniting to the Church. England verified to be a harlot the Fi. 104. ●…urce of all evils, accounted the nest and ●…enne of thieves rebels and pirates: in danger to answer the spoils of Nations by restitution, or way of revenge at one time or other. The delivery of the Q. and the Realm Fo. 149. 155. wholly, into the hands of the two conspi●…atours, who be the kings of the Realm 〈◊〉 effect, the Q. only bearing the name ●…f Q. The Q. circumvented, her state endangered, Fo. 84. her honour stained, the Conspirators advanced, the Nobility abased, the people oppressed, the realm impoverished: and the Q. made a companion of 148. an unfortunate fellowship. A declaratory sentence of Excommunication, Fo. 93. 103. a discharge of the subjects obedience: the weight whereof to be pondered by the presidents of time past, even confessed by the startling storming and raging thereat, of those that to her presence seem most to make light of it. Violation of common justice: and private Injustice used to the furtherance of their final purpose. FIrst the Conspirators used a slanderoous Fi. 79. 66. form of proceeding against the Duke and Q. of Scotl. and where they be judges, all is treason that they will have so. They use many ways of corrupt proceading, Fo. 81. and arts to slander and intrapp the guiltless. They save harmless all their own Fo. 105. friends, with the injury of any third, that will not with money buy his just sentence. The justice of the Realm is prostibulated Fi. 149. to be sold or hired for money, by malice or affection. By the ministery of Rob. Beale in the Fo. 126. year 1563. the conspirators have procured that the doubtful wedlock between th'earl of Harford and the lady Cather. in their friends opinions, by the seals and firmes of certain foreign learned men, is cleared again, which the conspirators reserve in secret to serve a turn when the day commithe. They procured that the statute made Fi. 152. for the Oath of the womanish Primacy should bind the inferior multitude unto that, wherein it leaveth the Nobility free. They ordained the penalty of an other Fo. 152. statut to take place from xiv. years before the crime or any offence committed. The Q. is weakened, the Nobility abbased, Fo. 153. the people pillaged, themselves enriched, their confederates strengthened. The B. of Rosse defamed because his Fo. 53. service tended to prevent the conspirators hidden treasons. Charles Bailie a stranger afflicted and Fo. 36. imprisoned without colour of cause other then for seeking to publish a pamflett in the defence of the Q. of Scotl. The Q. of Scotl. could never obtain to Fo. 24. come to the sight, presence, nor speech of the Q. to plead her innocency: could never obtain sentence to be given for her or against her judicially: could never obtain to come to the Parliament, there to acknowledge and confirm the Q. estate, though she importunately laboured the same. The Q. of Scotland's overtures, to wit, that Fo. 25. she would give the person of the young Prince with the persons of iiij. Noble men or their eldest sons as pledges for xiiii. years etc. and to procure the hands and seals of the Kings of Spain and France for the performance etc. could not be admitted. The principal conspirator executed his Fo. 44. 52. private malice and revenge against the Duke, for that he had charged him at Greenwich with robbing the realm, dishonouring the Q. and maintaining rebels: and would have removed him from the Q. A description of the English Sinon. OF base parentage, ambition's mind, Pref. of subtle wit, of smooth tongue, of shameless face, of little honesty, of no conscience: enemy to the old blood Royal: Intolerably insolent in authority: vile and abject in adversity. Sinon's Credo. under King H. catholic, under King E. protestant under Q. M. acreper to the cross. under Qu. E. first a Lutheran, than a Caluenist, than a puritan, not we a Machevelian if not an Anabaptist etc. fol. 97. Sinon's sophistry. Fo. 60. Sinon's falsehood in fellowship. Fo. 31. 38. Sinon's table talk. Fo. 97. Sinon's badgies. Fo. 117. Sinon's similitude. Fo. 101. Sinon's bone to gnaw Fo. 168. upon. Sinon's provisions Fo. 126. Sinon's Tenants to do Fo. 102. him service. Sinon's Text to writ Fo. 64. upon. Sinon's Cockerel. Fo. 106. Sinon's horse. Fo. 149. Dispersed Notes in the book worth the consideration. A Glass presented to the Q. wherein Fo. 131. she may plainly see her own estate present, and by things done and passed, divine what is to come. A true Annatomie of the new Religion. Fo. 141. The great difference between the english Fo. ●…37. Church and all other Churches. At Hanborough is preached publicly, Foe 137. who so lodgeth any man of an english religion, is an Ost to Satan, and lodgith a devil in his house. Impossible to extinct the party Catholic Fo. 168. in England, whiles France, Flanders, Spain, Italy, Ireland and others can not be induced to admit any other religion. King H. 8. after much hanging, hedding Fo. 86. and wasting his Nobility, sought his reconciliation, and had obtained it if death had not prevented him. The Q. of Scotl. seeth the best of her Fo. 130. 115. state as long as the conspirators sit at the stern of the English government: the end of whose life is the beginning of the Q. death. A frindlie Alarm. Beware you Shrowsburie. Derby. Fo. 123. 153. Sussex. Huntingdon. Beford. Leycestre and the rest: you that are yet much made of, lulled and culled in Catelins' arms, some sooner, some later, and the most of you, must drink of the drags, that Norfolk hath left in the cup, and you soon that be accounted wisest, stoutest and least likely to be won to the untimely setting up of the family of Suff. A rabble of names with their several actions Fo. 37. and practices, the copies of many monstrous horrible letters promised shallbe published, which the writers think are not to be seen. The conclusion of the Treatise proponeth. Fo. 172. 7. ways to her highness, whereby to restore herself to her pristinat security, in which she shall find true quietness both foreign and domesticque, true honour before God and man. unfeigned amity abroad. hearty obedience at home. faithful love and reverens of her cousins and heirs▪ and all loyalty of her Nobility. by which she shall joy in her reign, and end it with the quiet that she began it. And so God grant it. G. T. A COPY OF A LETTER ADDRESSED from Antwerp the xxvi. of june to Mr. Hatton and delivered unto him at Spa the 5. of julie. 1573. SIR you may not find strange sith God hath given to each man a charge and care of his Neighbour (as it is in holy writ) if some one that wisheth you 〈◊〉 do give this adventure in few 〈◊〉 to pu●… you in remembrance of God, your ●…oule, your prince and country. The ●…st being mattre that aught to be most dee●…e unto you, is most to be considered: as that you were first baptised in the faith Catholicque, your continuance for many years therein, and the danger in forsaking the same: the weight whereof no worldly treasures or dignities can counteruaille: the one being eternal, the other temporal, brittle and frail, as over many of your condition have tried, finding their experience powdered with bitter repentance. But your Natural good inclination giveth forth better hope that you will in time embrace the best, whereunto itseemeth God moveth you, by laying his heavy hand lovingly upon you, that you might for errors past, endeavour timely satisfaction, and thereto hath brought you to a safe port, if you list therein to repose and quiet yourself▪ where doubtless you shall find more true comfort and peace of conscience, then if you would (delighting still in vanities) return again to the place that floweth and abondeth with the tempests of wordly temptations. And for that you be known to be in the good favour and grace of your Prince and to tender mattress that appertain to her security, and would what in you lieth advance to her knowledge, whatsoever threateneth her peril, her state, and the cutting of, the rightful Succession of the same: as also to be ready to ministre her the occasion whereby her highness may in time repair her dishonours and infamies procured by such as she accounted her most faith full subjects, this enclosed being a table of Treasons collected out of a book lately come out of France is addressed unto you, that you should thereof make speedy convey, in sort that the same may not fail to pass directly to her highness hands. in duty whereof it is hoped you will not fail, for that it is ●…irder intended that the said Table shall also be consigned to others of your quality, and shortly come to print, and be published so, as both her highness and the world may be witness that some one that loveth her and wanteth other ready means for the convey thereof, hath by laying the same upon you and others, discharged his band and duty in that respect. Thus wishing you as much grace and comfort as to myself, do heartily recommend you to the mercies of almighty God. From Antwerp. the 26. of june 1573. By yours to his power. G. T. CERTAIN IMPORTANT POINTS added by the Abridger of the Treatise, after the delivery of the Table to Mr. Hattons' hands, implying vehement demonstrations of the present peril of your Highness' life and person. ALBEIT your Highness great wisdom cannot but easily find in this table and treatise the great danger and peril that imminently dependeth upon your person and life, if the practice of these Conspirators be not prevented before it take their desired end: Time yet (being the truest discoverer of all hidden mischeiffes) having daily more and more revealed the same by sundry new arguments since the treatise was finished (which hath been concealed by the Conspirators from your highness knowledge) your gracious, and benign Nature, will not disdain (I trust) the simple oblation of this my poor mite, added and cast into the copius heap of Tallentes presented unto you by the Author of the book before me: who for my part intend briefly to yield you evident demonstrations of the present peril your person standeth in. FIrst therefore let it like your Heigh. a little I to observe that policy of theirs lately put in ure (since they undrestood by the edition of that treatise, that their mischevons machination was eyed and smelled,) by which they have for a years time almost pretended, and by brute suffered to Sinon tournithe over a new leaf. be given out, that they deem now the Prince of Scotland most fitly and rightfully to be declared by your Heigh. and the Realm, next heir apparent in Success. And mark you how by this sweet bait they have alluered and enamoured (as it were) the Scottish nation to consent to the delivery of this lamb into the wolves hands: Behold I say how lately and sudden this change cometh, even now hotly and warmly, when they have for 12. or ●…▪ years space before, by forging of lies, by falsifying of old laws, by forcing of new, by libels, by preachers in all pulpits and printed books, travailed and laboured by all possible means to deprive and declare both him and his Mother uncapable of that Crown in Success. And look you a little into it, unto what other end this is done, but only by hook or by crook, by one way or other to win and wrest the person of the Infant into their hands. Remember what huge sums of money have been offered for the possession of his person: what dishonourable, attempts by corruption to 'cause his Nobility to consent to his delivery. And why is that so gredelie sought and in such haste, with what cost soever? Let all stories be sought, and one example showed, where an Infant Prince was by such corrupt means violently wrested into the custody of them that held his parents in prison, other then to his bane, ruin, and confusion. The consideration whereof implieth manifestly that they intent by way of prevention to warrant themselves from being called to any account of what soever they have done or shall do, when they have cut of the three impediments that lie between the Crown and the line of Suff. which be, yourself the principal, with the Mother and child. NOw that they have brought both you and II your Realm so deeply into the infamy of the world, by injurying all Catholicque Princes for supporting their own private ambition with heresy and rebellion every where: And finding your nature repugnant to those odious injuries of your neighbours, and your wisdom not flexible The Q. own policy more secure, than Sinon's fine fetches. to consume your treasure and Realm so effuselie as they would pour it out in this quarrel, and their party thereby not so strongly supported in France and Flanders as they desire, they have therefore no better remedy, then to get that Child into their hands, whose name and authority they may use to remove you, for the better advancement of their faction abroad. LIke as the Conspirators policy requireth III your safety whiles the Mother and Son of Scotl. be out of their hands: even so is it above all most necessary for their principal end, having once fingered the Child (as they have already the mother,) to make an end of you and your Cousin the Queen of Scotland, whether the Child shall live or not: since under him they are sure for a time whereas under neither of you both, they find themselves in the security they desire (looking howrelie when you would charge them for staining your honour, endangering your state, intangeling your realm with so many foreign qwarrels of injury and revenge) and not enduring the fear and danger of being charged therewith, do provide for their own security, and find no way assured but your death or deprivation when they have once that Child in their hands. NOw that they have brought to pass, FOUR that the religion is in debate, your person in contempt among the protestants and hated of the puritans, the Crown in question, the people divided, and the realm answerable for infinite injuries done to nations adjoining: they must dispatch your highness by prevention, lest you might in good time charge them, (if God so move you, or your dearest friends advise you) upon so just and important causes. NOw that they have brought to pass by V pretence of parliament, that Titles of succession must no more be questioned, the time is now ripe, by removing the present possessor, to intrude their new Succession, which they cannot establish whiles you survive. WHere as their ambition is to reign, VI and ambition abideth not her due time nor the fear of falling: and they already have for their private advancement not only contrived the diverting of the Crown from that course in which the laws have established it, but also circumvented you, endangered your state, stained your honour, oppressed your people, impoverished your realm, and procured infinite perils to depend over all: who may doubt but that they make their account that it is now timely further to proceed, and to satisfy their ambition by your death or deprivation. Having brought your Highness to this, VII. that neither by Child of your own body, nor by any heir known they stand in The Q. of Scotl. D. of Norf. S. N. Throgm. fear of any Successor: and having also plucked of, your principal feathers by taking from you your trusty defences, and dearest friends, there lieth now nothing in their way, but when they list they may make you away, that by setting up whom they list, they may reign securely. NOw that they see the world doth perceive VIII. the deep discontentation they have in their hearts of the manner of your government, for which they term you wilful, unruly, and in matters of most weight wot not where to have you▪ which by passions blustered out in secret by them to some friends, are now diwlgued to the realm: fearing at your hands due correction for such traitorous ingratitude, they think it high time to assure themselves of you, and account it conscience to banish women's regiment, and a necessary policy to set up a Child, under whom their devices (be they never so wicked) may have more quick and speedy execution. which child is most likely to be first the young Prince of Scotl. though not to reign for any long time, but only that under that colour, the Crown may in the eyes and judgments of the world, descend more colourablely upon that other child the issue of Suff. for, the La. Marg. Lineux just interest, they will not acknowledge. Having under your favour climbed to the IX. top of worldly felicity, attained to infinite treasures by pilling, polling and lottering your subjects and Realm, by bribery, piracy and injustice every way, it can not now possibly stand with their security nor final purpose, to lend you long life or to suffer you to over live themselves. And being they both of good years and the one so owglie and deformed that he hath already one foot in his grave, your Heigh. may easily make account of the short term of life that yourself holdeth by: which may in no condition be longer than theirs, lest their going away before you and the leaving unperfited the final execution of their dessignmentes: the provision for their posterity and the deriving the Crown to the issue of Suff. might by your conversion and reconciliation to the Church and Princes your neighbours (which they fear merueylouslie in your Nature and wisdom) might I say all fall to the ground, and their corrupt gains come to answerre in part, the detriments done to you and your Realm: as of some of their Comperes in France and Flanders, they have seen already come to pass. NOw that they have drawn upon you the X. terrible sentence of Excommunication, brought you to injury all the Princes of the world, and with three of the chiefest to have implacable quarrel: and thereby involved both you and your Realm in manifest danger of foreign invasion: their shrewd heads perceive, you have no better remedy nor readier shift, then to The Q. of Scotl. the principal pillar of the Q. security. reconcile unto your favour the Qu. of Scotl. again: and consequently by a reformation in religion to satisfy your neighbours abroad. which to prevent, they have resolved first her death, and shortly after your own: lest you might be the revenger of hers, whom they can not induce you to hate, so deeply as they would. NOw that they have brought both you and XI. the realm into the perils aforesaid, and so long dallied you forth from bestowing your, self in marriage, and so often mocked the Princes abroad, that such kind of offres be now contemned, they have for themselves no better shift now left, then (when they be sure of the Prince of Scotl.) first to dispatch both you and your Cousin his Mother: and setting the Crown upon one of the children, then by a treaty for marriage with one of the great kings, to make their own peace, and to win them the amity of the one or the other. TO conclude Madam: Now that they have heaped XII. upon you and your Realm those huge heaps of dangers and quarrels, importable for any of both to sustain: they find none so sure nor speedy remedy for their own security, as to work your death or deprivation, that those quarrels may die and be buried with your person, and themselves become free from all deserved punishment, by charging you with their wicked government ●… making their sure reckoning, by sending of you to your grave, they lap up in your shrouding sheet, the principal subject of all foreign quarrels, and by your death to yield satisfaction of all foreign desire of revenge. ABuse not yourself for gods love, with the fallible opinion and deceivable confidence in these men's honesties, because you have made them of nought, but resort you to the examples, yea rather to the experience of the insolency, contempt and odious ingratitude of base persons excessively benefited: and make not yourself to be annombred among the infortunate, whom, others perils could not make wary. This time nor place admitteth not the allegation of many: let these few examples therefore suffice, which our unhappy days have brought to light, and finished with in the time of your own memory. If in France ambition made the late Admiral not only to determine, but by words also to threaten the utter ruin of the whole house of Valloyes (which had so lately exalted his family from nought) for not satisfying his appetite in the support of his faction: if in Scotl. the force of the same did draw the Earl Bothwell, not only from his dutiful fidelity largely testified to the Q. and her Mother in their several distresses, but also so far forced him: as not containing himself within the limits of common crimes, drew him to exceed in such horror of treason, as the heart nor face of any reasonable creature (other then of a very spirit incarnate) could ever have endured to conceive, or once to sustain the dissembled countenance of so vile a mind: if there also, the insatiable appetit of that humour, and the impatient fear of falling: did draw the Earl of murrey from all bonds of nature, honour, and gratuity towards his sovereign and Sister, and to contrive such terrible treasons against her, as time hath now revealed, to have been so deep, and so devilishly compassed, as passed almost all human invention: yea if also the violence of that pestiferus humour hath been such, as in some other place hath drawn the soon, to forget all regard of nature, duty, or other bond towards his own Father: if your Heigh. I say have seen these experiences in every country adioygning with in the late years of your own reign; shall not these suffice to admonish one of your wisdom to beware of that partial and blind affection, wherewith it seemeth you are bewitched (as it were) to hold and account the very contrivers of your confusion, for persons privileged and exempted from the common infection that hath corrupted all their confederates in every country besides? namely where the principal of these. 2. your conspirators smacked so deeply thereof many years ago, that he joined himself full ungratefully with the adversaries, to the overthrow of his own master, his maker and advancer? And where every free and unaffected sight doth already manifestly discover the self qualities and like humours of inordinate ambition, impatient fear of declining, grudging mumur, and mislike of your faint supporting their faction, and a general repininge weariness of your yoke and regiment to have of a good time rancklie possessed the hearts of these Coniurators against you, and your house: how blind must he be that discernith less to depend iminentlie over jow, and to be nigh hand to fall greavouslie upon you, then is already seen by your men's mates to have been contrived and intended against all the Princes of the countries about you. which, if after this Gods gracious admonition, and faith full friends counsel, you shall not yet prevent and provide for, but suffer to fall on you, you shall with the destruction of your body, bury also your fame of all providence and wisdom; and remain condemned among the infortunate, and forsaken by God as wanting all grace, and power to hear, or to see that towards yourself, which every man beheld, and you were forewarned of. Your Heigh. is of deeper consideration then to judge that this so open a detection of their treasons against you and the crown, could lack sufficient proofs, if time did serve to pled their persons guilty. And their wisdoms can smell out, that their secret dealings could not thus far come to light, but by some which some times sit at their elbows, and for fear of personal peril, smothelie soothe their mischievous meanings for the time, and after, for duty to their country, and love to your person, discover them to others that be in safer place to publish the same. If they be not guilty of contrived treasons against your H. why then by such fearful and frawdulent means, keep they from your knowledge the Treatise and Table of treasons which long sithence came to their hands by more ways than one? If they can clear themselves to be true men to the Crown, why then do they by all possible means imbar the coming to sight of such books which set forth to the world the next most lawful and right heir apparent the Queen of Scotl. but because they be guilty of the one, and can not clear themselves in the other, their best security and assurance (as you have herd) must be, to make you sewer, and to get your heirs into their hands: against the policy and presidents of all Prince's security. It is an historical observation that there is no surety in suspected friendship, nor trust in conceived treason. If these traitors lacked either wit, will, or power to bring to pass their devised purposes, you might the less fear their fatale malice. What ungracious wits they have, their former plaits so coninglie cast, declare. And who may think that traitorous minds aspiring to the highest, can want ready wills, to finish their forward attempts? As for power (take away that they be not absolute) it is sufficient to do whatsoever. For be they not mighty in moneys, treasures and allies? sit they not at the stern? be they not in place to pen their own Commissions? have they not all in their own haudes that may advance their intended attempts? what lack they but that they look when time will so temper, as to set forward their terrible tragedies which must end with the Dispatch of 3. Princes, the Q. of Scotl. her Soon, and yourself, to the utter confusion and ruin of a flourishing Realm.