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... They are certainly known to be in favour of the |
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Pope whom they make their God on the earth, denying their |
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loyalty to Her Majesty their natural sovereign Lady and Queen, |
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and changing and threatening the happy state of the realm, |
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making it subject to the Pope's will, with the Crown |
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given to a foreign ruler named by him |
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to take over. In writing they openly |
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say the intentions of the Pope are, in getting hold of the |
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King of Spain and other rulers who are the Pope's vassals, to invade |
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this realm, and to gain the Crown and the realm with its |
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wealth to devour it. This cannot be done |
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without a full and cruel takeover of the country, depriving Her |
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Majesty, and the murder of all her subjects of all levels, both |
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noble and others, who for their conscience towards Almighty |
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God continue in the true Christian Religion, and for their |
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loyalty towards Her Majesty (according to their bond of nature, being |
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naturally born her subjects) risk their lives, both in defence |
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of Her Majesty's person, and in keeping this Crown, kingdom |
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country, and people in the kingly honour and ancient liberty in which |
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it has remained, and been inhabited with kings and people of ordinary |
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English blood, for more than 500 years: ... |