Advices and Motives for Soliciting Catholics Noah Millstone Principal Investigator MPESE Sebastiaan Verweij Co-Investigator MPESE Richard Bell Research Associate Victoria Anker BRIHC Research Impact Fellow Mike Jones Research Software Engineer Howard Barlow BRIHC Research Assistant Tim Wales Research Assistant Manuscript Pamphleteering in Early Stuart England (MPESE) 2017 United Kingdom London British Library Harley MS 4931

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4 April 1639 English advice instructions Catholics state finance revenue

Anno 1638 et 1639 Advices, and Motiues for the Noblemen, Knights, and Gentlemen, that shall imploy themselues in the Country in sollicitting Catholiques for a Contribution to his Majesty, upon occasion of his present Northern Iorney.

1It is fitt you represent to thos we treate with, the extraordinary graces, & protections wee owe to the Queenes Majesty, And that to her favourable inter- cessions meeting with the Kings Clemency, we must ascribe the happy modera- tion we liue in under him. Thereby to make them apprehend How fitt, or rather How iust, and necessary a duty it is in us to lay hold on the first occasion, thereby to express our bounden gratitude to both their Majestyes.

2Then you may bring into your consideracion how much is importeth the Kings ser- vice to be assisted with extraordinary contribucions of Moneyes upon this extraor- dinary, & chargable occasion of going into the Northerne parts with an Army. And that accordingly all well-affected Persons doe so, as is euident by the contributions of many particular Persons. Besides thos of the body of the Lawyers, of the Iudges, of the City, and severall other parts.

3You may tell that besides the generall Motiues that perswade every well-affected person to giue liberally upon this occasion, Catholiques haue other particular pressing ones, as Their owne private Interest, And likewise the Queenes earnest recommendacion of this action in general to all Catholiques throughout England; which to make them rightly to conceiue, it will be necessary that you informe them Of the particulars of her Majestyes recommendacions, which are,

That her Majesty hath so much taken to heart to haue a considerable Summe raised by this contribution, as shee hath beene graciously pleased to recommend it efficaciously to all the Catholick Lords about London, & to the chiefe persons of eminency that her express Commands could find out both to be Contributers, & Sollicitors in it, And to the several Superiors of the Cleargy, & Religious Or- ders to promote it all they can, both by their owne negociacions, & perswasions, & by the like Offices of all thos who do depend on them. And lastly that her Majesty hath commanded all thos, that by their aboads about this Towne haue had the honor to receive her gracious directions immediatly from herselfe, to signify with all speede to the eminentest persons in every Country, that they may then doe the like to all the particular Catholiques within their Neighbourhood, & knowledge.

4That in the pursuance of this command from her Majesty, all the persons mett to- gether here in London, scilicet the Lords, Superiors of the Cleargy, & Religious Orders, & the Knights, & Gentlemen have all of them agreed upon those Motiues, & Advices, & upon the persons to whom they shalbe sent, And that the Superiors of the Cleargy, & Religious Orders haue charged themselues with the conveying them to thos particular persons, & accompanying them with effectual letters from themselues, to assure That these are the Act of all the persons so mett together, And haue promised every one of them by themselues, & by the Priests that depend on them, to negociate sincerely, to promote, & aduance this business effectually as a thing mainly importing the Kings service, & our duty, & good.

5 You are to lett thos know, whom you imploy to assist you in this work, (& we conceiue it wilbe noe small encouragement to yourselues to labor effectu- ally in the business) that her Majesty undertakes to secure all those that shall im- ploy themselues in these affaires from any inconvenience that may be apprehended by them, by reason of their forwardness, & declaracion in this service.

6To make them apprehend of one Instance,how much it importeth them upon this occasion to meritt at the Kings, and Queenes hands, you may let them know, There hath beene lately granted to one Pulford, a Commission to indite, & Convict such Catholiques as yet are not, & to question Composicions allready made upon pretence Of their having passed at too low a rate, And to prosecute the rest of the Lawes against them, And that therupon he hath sett on in work many A- gents in severall parts, And hath erected an Office for that Service; But by the Queenes mediacion to the King, his Majesty hath beene graciously pleased To direct the Suspending of the execucion of this Commission, & to stay all pro- ceedings upon it; so as our behaviour in this contribucion will assuredly much altere our Condicion generally, either to the Better, or to the Worse, according as we shall expresse ourselvus affectionate, or cold to his Majestyes Service, & upon this pre- sent occasions.

7To the end that all persons of what degree soeuer be spoken to, & Solicited for this contribucion, It wilbe fitt that you speake to all subordinate Superiors of the Country where you liue, That they recommend effectually to all the Priests within their Provinces to give you all the Assistance in their power for the advance- ment of this business.

8Though we will not presume to prescribe limits to the/ Devocion, & liberality of any others, yet we think it not amiss to lett you know, that upon this occasion we find here about London so great a cheerfullness in Catholiques to advance this business, & to bring the contribucion to a considerable summe, as that we confi- dently hope noe man will giue lesse than 8, 9 or 10 parts of his Annuall revenue (as the iust, & true values) And hither to we haue mett with none that haue gone under, but with many that doe farre exceed that proporcion, which we conceiue the most will imitate, Considering that the Action is such, as that no duti full subject ought to be backward in these times, wherein the safety of the king dome is so nearly concerned, & for that it hath beene so effectually recommended by us unto us by the Queenes Majesty, who hath beene so tender in matters of this nature, as never to haue recommended the like before, & unto whom we haue so great obligacions (as that what is but for her sake) ther is noe man (we per- swade ourselues) but wold be content to sufferr some Inconvenience in his own estate to comply with such a desire from so gracious, & deseruing a Princesse Into unto which severall consideracions all hereabout haue had so zealous a regard : that Even such who are much encumbred with debts, & distracted in their estates (which may also happen to many others in the country) haue beene so farre from offerring the same as an excuse, as that they haue borrowed monyes to giue upon this occasion, in so large a proporcion, as if their estates wer free, & they be- fore hand in the world. And no man need to apprehend That this gift upon this occasion occasion may discover the value of his estate (which for sundry reasons he may desire to keepe private) for what he giues, being voluntary, & what we haue said, being only to informe them how others comport themselues about London, whatsoever he contributeth, will not discover any certeine value of his estate, but the proporcion of his zeale, & good will, And this is the unanimous con sense of almost all the as well of the Ecclesiasticall persons, as well as the noblemen, & Gentlemen mett here together.

9Although we are well assured that the chiefe motiues which will induce men to straine themselues to giue as largely as their estates will permitt, are the Honor, & glory of god, & his Majestyes Service. Yet to the end that every one may likewise receiue such advantage as may be iustly expected from his forwardnes, & piety, Vpon this oc- casion we desire that the Collectors wold giue Receipts under their Hands for such monyes as shalbe paid in to them, to the end that the persons may upon occasions shew the same, & make use therof as a faire Motiue to procure them reasonable favors, & graces, as hereafter they may stand in need of.

The Forme of the Receipt that the Collectors doe giue, is this. I A. B. doe acknowledge to haue received of N. N. the day & yeare abouewritten, the Summe of ----- as his free, & volun- tary gift, & for his Majestyes Service recommended to us by our gra- cious Queene, upon occasion of his present iorny with an Army into the Northerne parts.

10 Because no circumstance is so important in this service as EXPEDITION, wee desire that thos persons in London, & neare about it, and in the Southerne Countreyes who wilbe Contributers, will pay in their monies betweene this, & the end of Easter Terme, And that they who are in Countries more remote, will pay in theirs by the end of Mid-summer Terme.

11If any that are allready convicted, & do pay Composicions for their Recusancy, doe pretend to be therfore eased in this contribucion, you may tell them, that what they pay upon these termes, Is an Annuall certainty, & so settled into the substance of their estates, as ought not at all to divert this extraordinary Accion, which is to receive its alottment, & proporcion out of what remaineth therafter the composicion is deducted.

12If any pretend any other charges, as Noblemen that they haue allready contributed to this expedicion upon the Kings Letters to them, or if others pretend any other great paiments, or extraordinary charges, you may also tell them, thatt thos consideracions ought not at all to lessen their contribucion upon this occasion, for this concerneth them only as Catho- liques, abstracting from all other regards whatsoever; but these other are as common as well to protestants, & all sorts of people as to them.

13If you perceiue any shalbe cold in this worke by not being so sensible as they ought to be of the publick good, & presuming they are secured in their particular by some priviledges which they may happily haue obtained by powerfull mediacion, or hope otherwise to excuse, or exempt themselues, you may assure them that as the good success of this Contribucion is likely to better all our condicions in generall, so their priviledges may proue lesse availeable to them if themselues be defective upon this occasion. And accordingly you are desired to returne the Names of all thos who shall forbeare to giue (the which we conceiue none will doe) or shall give inconsiderably.

14 You may do well likewise to solicit those that though they be no Catholiques, yet yet are well affected, & haue their Wiues & Children Catholiques; for besides the generall, every one in his owne particular is like to fare the better, or worse, according as he demeaneth himself in this contribucion. And where ther are no particular meritts to exempt, it may be feared the rigour of the lawes may be putt into execucion against thos (upon particular notice taken of them) which will fall upon them, if throughly looked into, as well as for their wiues being Catholiques, & such other lapses, as by their being declared Catholiques themselues.

15You may represent to such persons to consider what a great Charity their contribucion wilbe to the poorer sort of Catholiques, who will also be utterly ruined, if the course of informers goe on, as it is to be feared it will do, if the contribucion a- mount not to a considerable matter, which it cannot be unles all hands putt it forward.

16You are desired to receiue all such monies as shall come in by this contri- bucion giving the Receipts for it, & then to pay it to such person, or persons, as the Queene shalbe pleased to direct for the Service aforesaid.

17And Lastly. You are desired to returne unto the Superiors of the Cleargy, & Re- ligious Orders (that shall send you these from us) assoone as you can, an Informacion of what progresse you make in this business, And how you find Catholicks affected in it, that we may accordingly ioyne with them, & you, in giving her Majesty that account of all our labors therin, as is expected at our hands. Which we doubt not, but will in effect proue answearable to the faire hopes given severally by the said Supe- riors, upon the returne they receivedd of their 1st letters into the Country as prepare Catholiques for this contribucion, And to gods honor, & glory, & a good service to his Majesty, and a complying duty to the Queene, & benefitt to Catholiques, For which ends we shall imploy both our prayers, & all our best endeavors.

Finis./.

The Queenes Letter. To our Trusty, & well-beloved Councellor Sir John Winton Knight, our Principall Secretary, & Master of Requests

Henriette Marie Regina,

Wee haue so good a beliefe of the loyaltie, & affection of his Majestyes Subiects, as we doubt not but that upon this occasion, that hath called his Majesty into the Northerne parts, for the defense of his honor, & dominions, they will expresse themselues so affected, as we haue allwaies represented them to his Majesty, so in this common consent which hath appeared in the Nobility, Iudges, Gentry & others to forward his Majestyes Service by their persons & estates, we haue made no difficulty to answeare for the same correspondency in the his Catholique Subiects as Catholiques, not withstanding that they haue concurred to his Majestyes Service, according to the qualityes wherof they are, when o- thers of the same quality wer called upon; For we believed, that it became us, who haue beene so en often interessed in the solicitacion of their benefitts, to shew ourselues now the perswasers of their gratitude. Therefore having allready by other meanes recommended to them this earnest desire of ours to assist, & secure his Majesty by

Majesty by some considerable summe of mony freely, & cheerfully presented, we haue haue thought fitt to the end that this our desire may be the more publick, & the more au- theorised hereby to giue you a Commission, & direction to distribute Copies under your hand of our certificacion thereof, unto them who haue mett at London by our directions about this business; And unto the severall Collecters of every county. And as we presume the summe they will raise, will not be unworthy of our presenting to that King. So shall we be very sensible of it as particular respects to ourselues, & will endeavor in the most efficaci- ous manner we can, to improue the merit of it, & remoue any apprehension of preiudice that any who imploy themselues towards the successe of this business, by this they may be assured that we will secure them from all such obiected inconveniencies. And we are confident that this our 1st recommendacion wilbe so complied withall, as it may not only affoord not only us satisfaccion, but also facilitation towards their owne Advantages.

A Coppy of the Letter sent from the Superiours tou- ching the Contribution money to be collected of Catholiques towards his Majestyes Northerne Iorney.

The enclosed advices, & motiues being so ample as you will perceiue by perusing of them, that it will not be needfull for us to enlarge ourselues upon any particular concer- ning the conduct of the business, which they direct the way in. This therfore serveth only for to convey them to you, as we are entreated by thos who haue mett here, & haue undertaken to do, & to desire you to repaire immediatly unto the Collector to whom the enclosed motiues are directed, & to deliver the same unto him in the name of all the Noblemen, & Gentlemen, together with ourselues assembied here in London by the Queens commandment, to sett forward the work. And we pray you assure him in the most effi- cacious manner you can (engaging all our creditts for the truth therof) that it is the sense of us all both Ecclesiasticall, & Lay-persons, that (besides the discharging of their, and our duties to god, & the King) it mainly importeth the good of Catholiques to have the business take good success. Therfore entreate him to deale very actiuely, efficaciously, & speedily according to these advices, & motiues. We are so well perswaded of his devocion to putt forward so pious a worke, as that we doubt not but he wilbe well satisfied in the needfullness of the thing; & are as ready to imply himself in it (receiving the assurance therof, & the perswasions therunto only from our hands) as if they came by all the most-formall waies that can be imagined, which in a business of this nature cannot be expected. And although the advices, & motiues be di- rected only to Lay Gentlemen, yet we desire you, & we haue answeared for you, that you will imploy yourselfe, & all thos that depend on you, sincerely to solicite, & dispose all their minds, whom you haue relacion unto, as powerfully as you can, to contribute cheerfully, & bountifully on this occa- sion, which as it is the 1st, that we ever laboured in, in this kind, so we hope in God it will be the last, ther being noe probability of so pressing, & urgent a necessity to occurred any more./.

Yours &c

London April 4. 1638 /.