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A17810	The historie of the life and reigne of that famous princesse Elizabeth containing a briefe memoriall of the chiefest affaires of state that haue passed in these kingdomes of England, Scotland, France or Ireland since the yeare of the fatall Spanish invasion to that of her sad and ever to be deplored dissolution : wherevnto also is annexed an appendix of animadversions vpon severall passages, corrections of sundry errours, and additions of some remarkable matters of this history never before imprinted.; Annales rerum Anglicarum et Hibernicarum regnante Elizabetha. English. 1634	Camden, William, 1551-1623.; Browne, Thomas, 1604?-1673.	1634 (1634)	STC 4499; ESTC S2549	301,814	518

Matrimoniall and Testamentary Against these men the Professours of the Ecclesiasticall Law maintained the Queenes Iurisdiction in spirituall matters wherein shee had beene before inuested by act of Parliament alledging that to withstand that was onely to assault the Queenes Maiesty and with the breach of their oathes of Alleageance to insult ouer the sacred Prerogatiue of their Princesse They answered that Ecclesiasticall Courts had authority to take notice of other causes besides Matrimoniall and Testamentary as appeares by the Statute of Circumspecte agatis and by the Articles of the Clergie vnder King Edward the first Concerning the Writ they much suspected the truth of it by the reason of the variety of reading of it and the vncertainty of the time of it's originall being it is sometimes read disiunctiuely To make recognition or to take oath Besides this they answered that to make Recognition did not signifie a deposition of witnesses or answer to the party conuented but onely the confession of the debt or holding plea of debts and chattels concluding that such taking of oaths were exacted time out of minde to auoid Simony Adultery and other workes of darkenesse especially if the Information be as they call it clamorous And although that no man be compelled to betray himselfe with his owne accusation yet that hee is bound to bee accused by a Fame and to shew whether or no hee can purge himselfe and defend his innocency by reason that such penance imposed is not to bee esteemed a Punishment but onely Physicke to cure sinners and to fright others from the like sinne or to take away any generall scandall according to that of the holy Writ Bee not ashamed for thy soules sake to tell the truth for there is a confusion that bringeth sinne and there is ●ne that bringeth grace and gl●ry But wherefore stand I deciding this controuersie which if any man will iudiciously scanne let him consult with the learned Apologie of Doctor Cosins Doctor of Law or of Iohn Morris or Lancelot Andrews whose learned writings in this matter will soone giue the scrupulous conscience of any ●an a speedy resolution By this meanes the Queene easily impeached the aduersaries of her Iurisdictions violence and conserued both in her selfe and in her Clergie the Ecclesiasticall Iurisdiction free from blemish About this time was it when Thomas Howard the second sonne of the D. of Norfolke with six ships of the Queenes and as many Victuallers had expected the Spanish Nauies returne from America this whole six moneths And abou● this time lingring about the Iland Flores amongst those of Azores where most of his Mariners languished as for Souldiers he had none where hee was suddenly ouertaken by Don Alphons● Bazan that was sent out with fifty thr●● ships to conduct the Nauy home in safety in so much th●● he in the Admirall with much adoe escaped into the main● Ocean Captaine Richard Greenuile in the Reare Admirall who was called the Reuenge what by reason partly of stay he made to recall his men aboard from out of the Iland and partly out of a couragious minde as vnhappily in successe as inconsiderately in the enterprize for bad to strike saile by which meanes he became hem'd in betweene the Iland and the Spanish Nauy which was diuided into foure squadrons one whereof while hee endeauoured couragiously to make way thorow he was so ouerburthened with the massie Spanish Admirall S. Philip that it kept all the winde from him on one side and on the other side three more did the like Yet the Spaniards that were diuers times comming on were either faine to recoyle againe or were cast into the Sea and with a continuall succession of fresh men in their places to their great slaughter they still maintained fight against them all the night And now began the English to want powder their Pikes being broken and euery valiant Souldier being slaine or sore wounded the Masts of their fore-Decke and hind●Decke fell downe Their Cables cut the Ship torne with eight hundred shot of great Ordnance Capt. Greeneuill being grieuously wounded euen as he was hauing a plaister was againe wounded in the head and the Surgeon at the same time slaine At the beginning of the dawning of the day the hatches all besmeared with blood and paued with Carkases and men halfe dying afforded but a sad spectacle to all the beholders After this hauing now fought fifteene houres Greenuill seeing his case to be desperate willed them to sinke the ship but the Pilot forbade it and hauing got the maior parts assent thereto he was conueyed in the ship boat and yeelded to the Spanish Admirall vpon condition of safety and freedome from the Gallies but Captaine Greenuill languishing vnder the torments of his deaths wounds being brought into the Spanish Admirall within two daies after d●ed being sufficiently praised for his valour euen of his enemies The ship was yeelded vp but hauing beene board thorow in many places was afterwards swallowed vp in a tempest being man'd with two hundred Spaniards at least so that the Reuenge perished not vnreuenged The Lord Howard 〈◊〉 more on his good courage than ability to 〈…〉 haue put in amongst them bu● the Pilate was so farre from iniuring them with his consent that hee would rather haue tumbled himselfe into the Sea than not to haue hazarded but willingly thrust the Queenes ship vpon so apparant danger and indeed it seemed not good to them all at last to vndergoe a skirmis● without hope of successe to themselues or succour to their distressed companions when they but once considered that to hazard fiue ships against three and fiftie was nothing els● but inconsidera●ely to their owne destruction to thrust th● glory of a victory vpon their enemies Yet notwithstanding both hee and the rest especially Sir Thomas 〈◊〉 who two houres together still succour'd the Re●enge d●d all the seruice that either the courtesie of the winde or the continuance of the day light would suffer them to doe The English abundantly repaired the losse of that one ship with the surprizall of many Spanish in one where●● besides other riches were found about some twenty tho●●sand Popish Indulgences sent from the Pope into America for they compell the ●imple Indians euery yeere to buy 〈◊〉 remission of their sinnes at the Popes market to their 〈◊〉 aduantage and gaine About this time George Riman an excellent Sea-man and Iames Lancaster set forth also for the East Indie voyage 〈◊〉 hauing reach● the Cape of Good Hope at Cab● Corrient●● the Admirall was swallowed vp in a tempest and Riman in it Afterwards the heauens did thunder most fearefully and in the rest of the Ships foure of the Mariners hauing their neckes wreathed aside with the force of the thunder died instantly Ninety more were taken blinde many other● lamed some stretched as it were vpon the racke and yet all of them sooner than their owne expectation could haue cured them

put to flight his Catholique Maiesties forces the most potent Prince in Europe landed in fowre seuerall places marched with banners displayed in the enemies ground seuen dayes together attempted one of their greatest cities with no small forces lodged three nights together in the suburbes thereof chased the enemy to their owne gates tooke two castles by the sea side and vnfurnisht the enemy of great store of warlike prouision Yet wanted there not some discontented detractors who by interposing the losse of six thousand souldiers and mariners which the violence of the disease swept away sought to discredit the true glory of this noble and heroicke enterprize But certainely by it England hath learned not to feare the conceited power of the Spaniard and is now better flesht against the next occasion of the like seruice It hath beene much controuerted concerning the originall cause of this disease amongst th● English whether or no it proceeded from immoderate drinking of wine and excessiue eating of fruit from the naturall disproportion of theirs and our ayre or from all of them And it is an obseruation as worth our wonder as our memory that expeditions from England into Spaine haue beene for the most part euer infortunate to this Nation as was that of Iohn of Gaunt Duke of Lancaster about the yeere of Grace MCCCLXXXVI wherin of twenty thousand Englishmen ten thousand died And that of the Marquesse Dorset in the yeere 1512. wherin of ten thousand English a disease murthered 1000. in a short space and that in the hithermost coasts of Spaine But the obseruation of the learned may giue this wonder a probability of reason For they argue that an army comming from the South into the North is thereby the more hardened according as the Inward heat is either remitted or intended by the outward ayre and that that of Vitruvius is very true They that remooue out of cold countries into h●tter cannot long continue But they that come from hot countreyes into colder in the North doe not impea●h their health by this change of ayre but confirme it When that the tract of small time had acquainted those of the Hanse townes with the vnexpected surprizall of their captiue Hulkes they begin to fashion their discontents into a forme of complaint seasoned with some weake 〈◊〉 which they present to the Queene concerning the violations of their ancient Priuiledges and customes The Queene returnes them this answer That her former admonition to them of not transporting come or any other warlike prouision to the Spaniard had made this surprizall which they complayned of very lawfull and that it could be thought of no otherwise vnlesse that they would haue her preferre their Priuate commodities before the good publique of her owne common wealth That shee ought not to auouch such Priuiledges which are onely Priuate Lawes against the safety of her Dominions whi●h is a Supreme Law And that the same Act with which they vrge the violating of their customes doth annihilate their complaints for that in the Priuiledge granted to them by King Edward the First there is this clause interweaued That they should not transport or conuey any 〈◊〉 or merchandize into the countreyes of manifest and notorious enemies of the Kingdome of England That therefore in the heat of any warre their Traffique was wont to be stayed when they furnished eyther enemy And that not onely the English serued them so but euen Charles the fift the King of Sweden and Denmarke and Poland and not long since the Prince of Orange and all iustly euen according to the Law of Nations wishing them heereafter so to vse the benefit of their neutrality that whilest they a●●isted the one they iniured not the other party And lastly gently admonishing them of their vnseemly threats especially to a Prince who in respect of Ability dreaded not the mightiest Monarch breathing yet in respect of her Honour would imbrace a peace with the meanest and most constantly obserue all lawes of Neighbourhood And of this her constancy the King of Nauarre and France was no small witnesse one whereof shee succoured both with money and munition to the suppressing of a difficult warre and the other she established in quietnesse euen vpon the very point of despayre of it Fo● to digresse yet a little in the way the Duke of Aniou brother to the King dying without issue the King at that time being both without children and the very hope of euer hauing any the kingdome of France was lineally to descend to the King of Nauarre and afterwards to the Prince of Conde both zealous professours of the Reformed Religion Whereupon the Catholike Princes of France not vnknowne either to the Pope or to the Spaniard complotted a diuellish conspiracy wherin they had onely interested the cause of Religion and therefore termed it the Holy League vtterly to ouerthrowe the King by heaping the enuie of the whole land vpon him and so by peruerting the naturall course of succession with that to ruinate also the Reformed Religion They that impiously combined themselues in this conspiracy bound themselues by a strong oath neuer to suffer any one to rule France that eyther had euer or was likely to professe any Religion but the Romane Catholique that they would neuer allow of one that being brought vp and bred in the Reformed Religion should afterwards absolutely forsweare it least hauing once gotten the Kingdome he should change his Religion with his State Who could be so besotted in his iudgement as not to see that this businesse tended onely to excluded Nauarre and the Prince of Conde Yet notwithstanding the mystery of this conspiracy wrought so couertly that it was long ere it could come to ripenesse For first the Duke of Guise the chiefe Head of this villany hauing valiantly defended Poitiers against the Protestants and vanquished the Germane horsemen sent by the Duke of Alenzon and scattered the mighty leauy of Germanes vnder the conduct of Baron D'onawe was so infinitely magnified both by the Laity and the Popish Clergie of France that to the preiudice of the King himselfe he was euery where stiled the Sole defender of the Catholique Religion and the Hammer of the Protestants Vpon but his very 〈◊〉 into Paris at one time there arose such an vproare amongst the inconstant people that the King for the safety of his person was compelled to impeach his owne Honour to retire from Paris and to call a Councell a● Bloys In which Councell his necessities droue him to a forced patience of these inconueniences to consent to this Holy League by his expresse Proclamation in Iulie to root out the Reformed Religion to constitute the Duke of Guise the Great Master of the French Warres and to seale to him the confirmation of these Articles with the receipt of the Sacrament The King himselfe now fearing him whom he himselfe had made thus to be feared and so great that no Law could question him or

ex his Equis nati pulli non amplius tri●nnio vivunt Varro de Re Rustica Nay Pliny comes in with his Constat as if he were very sure of the matter Constat saith he in Lusitania circa Olyssipponem oppidum Tagum amnem Equas Favonio flante obversas animalem concipere spiritum idque partum fieri gigni pernicissimum ita sed triennium vitae non excedere Pag. 21. Lin. 6. Iaques Clement a Monke to murther him This is that murther which gaue the first breath to the damnable doctrine of King-killing which first quickened from the mouth of Antichrist himselfe and after that budded in his subordinate Impes the Iesuites for assoone as this horrible murther was committed and the newes of it flowne to Rome our Lord God Sixtus Quintus could not but bewaile the Kings death in this lamentable Elegy Facinus hoc esse which before he had stiled Rarum Insigne Memorabile Non sine Dei Opt. Max. particulari providentia dispositione spiritus Sancti suggestione designatum longé majus esse quam illud S. Iudith quae Holofernem è medio sustulit This sparke did quickly kindle and what effect it tooke you may easily iudge by this of the Iesuite Franciscus Verona Constantinus in his Apology for Iohn Casteele c. Cum eo tempore intolerabilis factus sit Rex condemnatio Clementis neque de Iure neque de Facto comprobari potuit propter tyrannidem Henrici Regis contra Statum Ecclesiam tàm quoad homicidium Blesis perpetratum quàm hostili impetu hodierno quo ad oppressionem religionis est prolapsus mactando Sacerdotes profanando Sacramenta repudiando censuras fauendo haereticis Quibus de causis totum se priuatum reddidit subjectum utrique Iuri tam Civili quam Canonico Actio igitur Clementis neutiquam Illicita fuit quippe quae perpetrat● contra hostem publicum condemnatum Iuridicè in 〈◊〉 omnis obligatio reverentiae atque debiti sublata fuit● Part. 2. cap. 2. c. I cannot but English it The King being become now absolutely intolerable it was neither lawfull de Iure or de Facto to condemne this act of Clement by reason of the tyranny of this Henry both in the Church and the Common-wealth and not onely by reason of those horrible murthers he caused at ●loys but also by reason of his oppressing Religion murth●ring of Priests prophaning the Sa●raments re●using submission to Ecclesiasticall censures and openly fauouring of Heretiques by which meanes he became onely a priuate man and subiect both to the Ciuill and Canon law And that vpon these considerations this act of ●lement could not be iudged vnlawfull being committed vpon the body of him that was an open enemy and Legally condemned and from whom all obedience and alleagiance of his Subiects was taken away I know that some of their Historians would make the world belieue that his Clement did the deed without any instigation but of his owne Genius and of that opinion is Platina or Cicarella rather adioyned to him and he would make it also the common opinion Communis erat opinio saith he ●um à nemine ad hoc factum subordinatum sed à s●ips● postquam duobus aut tribus mensibus in hoc animi concept● persev●raverat ad hoc ar●uum opus permotum esse instigatum post jejunia longa post orationes ad Deum continuas sese certissimum hoc periculum adijsse c. in vita Sixti Quinti pag. 480. But there Iohannes Mariana a Spanish Iesuite one that hath made the best of this deed that euer any could is not yet of that opinion who in a Narration and prosecution of the Story saith Cognito à Th●ologis quo●●●at sciscitatus Tyrannum iure interi●i posse c. For this Iaques Clement although he had often premeditated the matter with himselfe yet at length he imparted it to some Diuines who concluded that it was lawfull for him to doe it because it is lawfull for any man to kill a King that is a Tyrant Marian. lib. 1. de Rege Regis Institutione cap. 6. pag. 53. So little doe they regard the express● Canon of the Councell of Constance to the contrary of Si quis Tyrannus c. which doth strictly forbid any man either by deceit or policy or open armes to take away the life of his Prince yea though he be a Tyrant Pag. 32. Lin. 6. Which we call Pound-men In the Originall the words are The Pound-men but both the Translation and the Originall are false for the words should be thus which we call the Three-pound men as may appeare in the true Manuscript of Mr. Cambden himselfe as also because that the words may very well be so by reason that no man is a Subsidy man whose goods are valued vnder the rate of Three-pounds at which rate most of the meaner sort valuing their goods and estates gaue occasion of the name to be called Three-pound men Pag. 35. Lin. 29. In the Reigne of Francis the first For indeed Francis the first King of France and the third of that name Duke of Britaine in the right of his wife Claude that was eldest daughter to Lewis the twelfth King of France and Anne in the yeare of our Lord God 1532. with the consents of the States of Britaine inseperably vnited the Dukedome of Britaine to the Crowne of France Pag. 36. Lin. 13. That this businesse concern'd her more then that of Edward the third P●●er de 〈◊〉 in the right of his wife Alice daughter of Constance by the second marriage was the first that being Duke of Britaine made that Dukedome subiect vnto the Soueraignty and homage of the French Kings After him was Iohn the first Sonne to Peter de Dreux after him Iohn the second Sonne to Iohn the first after him Arthur the second Sonne to Iohn the second after him Iohn the third Sonne to Arthur the second This Iohn the third● dying without he●res caused the Right to the said Dukedome to be controuerted betweene Iohn Earle of Montfort the younger Sonne to Arthur the second Charles de Bloys Husband to Ioane la Boi●●use Daughter to Guye second Son to Duke Arthur the second Edward the third King of England aided the first to wit Iohn Earle of Mont●ort and Philip de Valoys King of France aided the other to wit Charles de Bloys to maintaine his warres But neither side yet prenailing it chanced that Iohn of Montfort died whose Sonne Iohn the fourth surnamed the Valiant after the decease of Charles de Bloys who was ouerthrowne by him and the valour of the English that assisted him at the battaile of Auray became sole Duke of Britaine and so the controuersie ceased Pag. 39. Lin. 22. Iohn Basilides Emperour of Russia The familiar Translation of these words in the Language which Merchants and Trauellers in those Countries vse is ●van Vasilowicke Emperour of all Russia although indeed