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