94 . JUDICIAL CHARGE UPON THE 



a competitor and corrival with the king, for the 

 hearts and ohediences of the king s subjects : he 

 stands for it, he sends over his love-tokens and 

 brokers, under colour of conscience, to steal and 

 win away the hearts and allegiances of the people, 

 and to make them as fuel ready to take fire upon 

 any his commandments. 



This is that yoke which this kingdom hath happily 

 cast off, even at such time when the popish religion 

 was nevertheless continued, and that divers states, 

 which are the pope s vassals, do likewise begin to 

 shake off. 



If therefore any person have maintained and ex 

 tolled the usurped authority of the bishop of Rome 

 within the king s dominions, by writing, preaching, 

 or deed, advisedly, directly and maliciously ; or if 

 any person have published or put in use any of the 

 pope s bulls or instruments of absolution ; or if any 

 person have withdrawn, and reconciled, any of the 

 king s subjects from their obedience, or been with 

 drawn and reconciled ; or if any subject have re 

 fused the second time to take the oath of supremacy 

 lawfully tendered ; or if any Jesuit or seminary 

 come and abide within this realm ; these are by se 

 veral statutes made cases of high treason, the law 

 accounting these things as preparatives, and the 

 first wheels and secret motions of seditions and re 

 volts from the king s obedience. Of these you are 

 to inquire, both of the actors and of their abettors, 

 comforters* receivers, maintainers ; and concealers, 

 which in some cases are traitors, as well as the prin- 



