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Extract 3. Draft government proclamation, 1588 (SP 12/211)

This extract has been translated into modern English with line numbers added.

Line 21 ... whose profession is certainly known in favour of the
  Pope whom they make their God on the earth, to deny their
  allegiance to her Majesty their sovereign natural Lady and Queen,
  and to change and subvert the happy state of the realm, and
Line 25 to make the same subject to the Popes will, and the Crown to be
translated to such a foreign potentate as he shall thereto name
  to usurp the same, for so by therein writing they do directly
  pronounce the intentions of the Pope to be, in procuring of the
   
   
King of Spain, and other potentates vasselled to the Pope, to invade
Line 30 this Realm, and to gain the Crown and the realm with the
wealth thereof to therein devours, which cannot be imagined to be done
without a full tyrannical conquest of the same, by depriving of her
Majesty, and by slaughter of all such her subjects of all degrees both
noble and others, as shall for their conscience towards Almighty
Line 35 God, persist in the true profession of Christian Religion, and for their
allegiance towards her Majesty (according to their bond of nature, being
naturally born her subjects: (shall hazard their lives, both in defence
of her Majesty's person, and to the maintenance of this Crown, Kingdom
Country, and people, in the Kingly honour, and ancient liberty wherein
Line 40 it hath remained and been inhabited with kings and people of mean
Line 41 English blood, more than this five hundred years: ...

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