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A09610	An aduertisement written to a secretarie of my L. Treasurers of Ingland, by an Inglishe intelligencer as he passed throughe Germanie towardes Italie Concerninge an other booke newly written in Latin, and published in diuerse languages and countreyes, against her Maiesties late proclamation, for searche and apprehension of seminary priestes, and their receauers, also of a letter vvritten by the L. Treasurer in defence of his gentrie, and nobility, intercepted, published, and answered by the papistes.; Elizabethae, Angliae Reginae, haeresim Calvinianam propugnantis saevissimum in Catholicos sui Regnis edictum. English. Abridgments	Parsons, Robert, 1546-1610.; Cresswell, Joseph, 1556-1623, attributed name.; Verstegan, Richard, ca. 1550-1640, attributed name.	1592 (1592)	STC 19885; ESTC S121696	41,247	68

to cause them to renounce their allegeaunce due to the crowne of Ingland vpon hope of a Spanish inuasion that they binde men with othes and Sacramenes to yeilde their obedience to the Pope and Spanish King and that for this they bring indulgences for them that wil yeeld to their persuasions and curses to the contrary all which this defender saith is feigned stuffe false calumniations excepte the firste two points that they come into Ingland in secret manner and that they haue their spiritual authoritie from the Pope which two points he confesseth and saith that the former of them is warranted by Christes owne example which walked not openly some tymes but in secret as the Euangeliste saith at such tymes I meane as the Iewes soughte to kill him and the second he confirmeth by diuers testimonies of the same Christe our Sauior who assigned al principality of spiritual authoritie vnder himself to S. Peter and his successours whereby the Catholique Church hath euer vnderstode that no priest can be made or haue iurisdiction to deale with soules but by authoritie deriued either immediately or mediatly from this supreame and vniuersall pastor largely he declareth the disorders implicatiōs of the protestātical cleargie for want of this subordinatiō among themselues the sea Apostolique These two points onely then granted he denyeth all the reste to wit the intention to moue sedition or rebellion the renouncing of allegeaunce dew vnto the crowne of Ingland the hope of a Spanishe inuasion the binding of men by othes or Sacraments to yeild any temporall obedience to the Pope or King of Spaine or lastly the bringing in of any indulgences or curses to that ende All which points are meere fictions saith he of VVilliam Cecils head and diuelish deuises to make innocente men odious and to shed their blouds and that they vvere neuer yet proued or cōfessed by any can not be presumed but by infinite malice among all other this old murderers abhominations which this man saith are infinite and do cry vengeance at Gods hands none are more impious and damnable or that vvillye more heauily on himself his progenie for euer as the bloud of Christe doth lve vpon the lewes vnto this day then this vvilfull slaundering accusing of men against his knowledge and conscience for seruing only his ovvn turne this is the effecte of this awnsvvers speach to this third parte of the Section though more largely delated in the booke it self The fourth Section THE fourth Section of this proclamation the awnsvverer reduceth to tvvo generall heads the firste concerninge the true causes of priests deathes and other Catholiques suffering in Ingland and the seconde touching certayne particularities layed against Cardinall Allen and father Parsons As touching the firste the proclamatiō auoucheth that none suffer in Ingland for Religion or are impeached in their liues goods landes or liberties for the same except onely in a certaine pecuniary summe as a penaltie for the tyme to those that do refuse to come to church and that the priests such others as are put to death suffer not for any points of Religion but onely for meere treasons as appeareth by their arraignements and condemnations and that is a manifeste course to falsifie the slaunderous speaches and libelles of fugitiues abrode This is the totall summe yea the very wor des themselues of the proclamation in this Section vvhich this avvnsvverer taking to come vvholly from M. Cecils head and penne as he doth also the vvordes to the same effecte vttered in the booke intituled the execution of Iustice in Ingland vvriten some yeares ago published in diuers languages to the same end that this novv is though it vvas euidently refuted out of hand saith this man by the Catholiques he adioyneth here many sentences out of that booke of Cecils to these of the same authour in this proclamation vvhich affirme that no Catholique at all yea not one is troubled in Ingland for his conscience vvhich woordes and sentences after he hath laide together then doeth he shew the plaine contrary contradictory by other vvordes of the Queene and Cecill himself and of the whole parlament in sundry statutes and in this also and other proclamations and by the vvordes of Holingshead and Stow in their chronicles and so maketh sporte and vvoonder of Maister Cecils contradictions against himself and of his shameles impudency in affirming things so euidentlie false as yf a soole saith he vpon a stage shoulde auouch such stuffe in a comedy he would be hissed out and not permitted whereas this man telleth it both as an accuser a witnes and a Iudge in a moste bloudy tragedy in the sighte and hearing of the whole worlde Firste then to beginne withall this awnswerer sheweth out of S. Hilary S. Nazianzene Eusebius and other auncient fathers and vvriters the custome of all diuelish persecutors and especially of heretiques to haue bin euer to enuy the glory of such as they put wrongfully to death to the ende they should not be honoured accomted for martyrs for that reason euer lightly affirmed the causes of their deathes to he seditiō rebellion treason which lying course the Catholique Church notwithstanding would neuer yet vse saith this man for that shee neuer vvould punish heretique vndet other tytle then onely for heresy but that M. Cecill thought good to folow the other vvay so to procure a double crowne to the murdered the one of martyrdome in that they dye for the trew faith and the other of Iustice for that they suffer for supposed false treasons which they neuer imagined After this he passeth on to auouch the matter more in particuler by diuers examples both of men and women martyred in Ingland vvhose causes could not conteyne any shew of trew treason by any law or reason in the vvorld nor that the iudges or accusers did in their arraignements or condemnations alleage any such matter against them but onely of Religion and Acts of the same made crimes by parlament as yf the Burgeses of Ingland should make it adulterie to heare a womans confession or thefte to geue almes and this he proueth by the very recordes of the condemnations yet extant and by the testimony of the Inglishe chronicles printed by allowāce of the present state which haue set downe in print the causes of diuers executed far different frō that which M. Cecil here telleth vs vvhos woordes he citeth He handleth also the peculiar punishements for hearing of masse the 20. L. a moneth for not cōming to Church which are euident peynes for matters of Religion which matters M. Cecil so often and impudently saith he in his foresaide booke of execution of Inglish iustice denieth vtterly to be punished in Ingland and though in this proclamation he confesse that there is a pecuniary payment for such as refuse to come to Church yet he doth it very slyly and vnderhand and vttereth not what

the Church do by their diligente teaching and example of life retayne the people stedfast in the protession of the Ghospel here the avvnsvverer handleth diuers points first the ●●●ale credit and authoritie as he saith of the Inglish Ministers doctrine and teaching which partly for lacke of study and learning those few apostatas being dead that at the beginning made some flouris he vvith theire skill gotten in the Catholique schooles and partly by their diuision vvrangling and dislension among themselues the one discouering the others wants and principally by the vvritings and replyes of Catholiques in refutation of their childish nouelties the credit I say and estimation of the Inglish ministerie for matter of learning is come to be so smale among such as haue iudgemente as they are very contemptible especially since they haue refused all disputation writing of bookes other reasonable trial offred of the other part synce they haue brought their māner of preaching to only rayling and to blouddy exaggerating of matters of treasons out of their pulpits where matters of conscience good life of sweete Christian charitie should be handled therefore he cōcludeth that this firste parte of remedy hath no force in the world with the wiser sorte to retayne them in the profession of their new Ghospell but rather to cause men of discretion to run from it so would infinite multitudes do in Inglād were it not for the only Magistrates authoritie which bindeth thē against their wills to be at their Ministers Churches conuenticles to heare their wilde miserable bellowing frō their pulpits And much lesse saith he can theire example of life retayne the people stedfaste in their Ghospell seing they themselues are so variable and changeable in the same in so few yeares are fallen to such mortal warrs among themselues about which and what is their Ghospell seing also that the liues maners of the ministers of Inglād are so scandalous as no kind of people within the land haue so euill opinion among all sortes of men for wickednes loose behauiour as haue the ministers this may be verified snith this man not onely in the baser inferiour sorte of them which ordinarily are the scumme refuce of the Realme but also in moste of the very chief to wit of the Bishops Prelates and other gouernours of the clergie yf the late bookes of the puritanes tell trew and yf the matters printed of lecherie against Sandes late Archbishop of Yorcke of thefte other like crimes against Elmer that presently is Bishop of Londō of al beastlynes against the present Bishop of S. Dauies others his compaignons lately presented to the presse by Norton beare any creditt then much lesse effectual saith he is this parte of remedy then the former To this first remedie pertaineth also that which foloweth in the same proclamatiō that euery man muste pray earnestly to almighty God to assiste this so naturel honorable profitable a sernice being onely for defence of their naturall country their wiues families children 〈◊〉 goods liberties their posterities against ra●●●ing strangers wilfull destroyers of their natille country monstrous traytours All which this awnswerer calleth M. Cecils ridiculous rauing Rhetorique warring in the ayer without an enemy for that this defendāt hauing proued before as he supposeth moste euidently that there is no signe at all of any such attempte or inuasion towards by the King nor of any such intentiō or least cogitatiō of treason or hostility in the priests Iesuits that come into Ingland out of the Seminarles all this crying out of defence of naturall country against strangers traytours is but an artificiall flourish of him that would seeme to be a frend carefull defender who in deed hath bin is the onely tyrante and destroyer of the same and hath broughte it already to that poynte that to treate onely now of restoring the old aunciēte Catholique faith to the same wherein his our forefathers from the beginning of Christianitie haue liued died so Godly and worthely must be accompted to put in hazarde our wiues families childrē lādes goods liberties posterities as though our predecessours in the Catholique faith did not possesse these things farre more aboundātly then we do now synce the bringing in of new religions or as though our naturall country was not as honorably defended mayntayned then when graue noble Catholique men had the menage thereof as synce M. Cecil gat vp to the stearne or as though the intentiō of these feigned troubles now were meant to the good of the wealepublique not to the mayntenāce of a few onely in their ambition or as though finally the frute of this victory now intended ouer good subiects at home should not be that M. Cecil without contradiction may rule all as he liste may put in keepe out of the Councell whome he pleaseth hold vp the puritanes against herMaiestie for his owne peculier purpose keepe downe the Archbishop of Canterbury the reste of the Cleargie as himself seemeth best make his eldest sonne deputie of Ireland yfhe can his secōd crooked cubbe to be also of the Councell his grādchild to aspire by Arbellas tytle to the chiefest garlād his neeces to match with great men of the land for the fortifying of this other his plotts all this muste be contriued vnder shew pretēce of moste honorable naturall defending of the Realme yea of wiues families children landes goods liberties posterities to the end that no mā may looke into these doings at home especially het Maiestie whome moste it concerneth all mens eares are to be filled and held attent vvith clamours and outries of inuasions and daungers from abrod by rauening strangers wilful destroyers of their natiue countrey and mōstrous traytours and for more hypocrisie and deceptfull shew of some good meaning in this poynte all men are exhorted by M. Cecil to haue recourse to God by prayers whereas it is well knowen by testimony of such as liue with him and others and see their liues and haue serued them in their chambers that neither he nor Leicester nor some others that haue bin heads of threatning these buggs do euer lightly vse that exercise of prayer but liue as meere Atheists and laughing at other mens simplicity in that behalf and thus much in effecte is saide to this first remedy But besydes this he addeth somewhat also about the worde Ghospel which M. Cecil in his proclamations so often iterateth and yet saith this awnswerer no man can easely gesse what he meaneth thereby considering his owne Religion in Queene Mary and King Edwardes dayes and his earnest being against the puritans vnder this Qneene vntill of late and now his being for them and yet his complying with her Maiestie on the other side so that by his ghospel he can not seeme to meane any other thing but his