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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A18320	The execution of iustice in England for maintenaunce of publique and Christian peace, against certeine stirrers of sedition, and adherents to the traytors and enemies of the realme, without any persecution of them for questions of religion, as is falsely reported and published by the fautors and fosterers of their treasons xvii. Decemb. 1583.	Burghley, William Cecil, Baron, 1520-1598.	1583 (1583)	STC 4902; ESTC S104905	27,520	41

of such base and vulgare note as those were which of late haue bene executed as in particular some by name are well knowen and not vnfit to bee remembred The first and chiefest by office was D. Heth that was Archbishop of Yorke and lord Chaunceler of England in Queene Maries time who at the first comming of her Maiestie to y e Crowne shewing himself a faithfull quiet subiect continued in both the sayde offices though in religion then manifestly differing and yet was he not restrayned of his libertie nor depriued of his proper lands and goods but leauing willingly both his offices liued in his owne house and inioyed all his purchased lands during all his naturall life vntill by very age he departed this world and then left his house liuing to his friendes an example of gentlenes neuer matched in Queene Maries time The like did one D. Poole that had bene Bishop of Peterborough an auncient graue person and a verie quiet subiect There were also others that had bene Bishoppes and in great estimation as D. Tunstall Bishop of Duresme a person also of very quiet behauiour There were also other D. White and D. Oglethorpe one of Winchester the other of Carlile Bishops and D. Thurleby and D. Watson yet liuing one of Ely the other of Lincolne Bishops not pressed with any capitall payne though they maintayned the Popes authoritie against the lawes of the realme and some Abbots as M. Fecknam yet liuing a person also of quiet courteous behauiour for a great time Some also were Deanes as D. Boxall Deane of Windsore a person of great modestie and knowledge D. Cole Deane of Paules a person more earnest then wise D. Reinolds Deane of Exceter and many such others hauing borne office and dignities in the Church and had made profession against the Pope which they began in Queene Maries time to change yet were they neuer to this day burdened with capitall peanes nor yet depriued of any their goods or proper liueloods but onely remoued from their Ecclesiasticall offices which they would not exercise according to the Lawes And most of them for a great time were retayned in Bishops houses in very ciuill and courteous maner without charge to themselues or their friends vntill the time that the Pope began by his Buls and messages to offer trouble to the realme by stirring of rebellion about which time onely some of these aforenamed being found busier in matters of state tending to stirre troubles then was meete for the common quiet of the Realme were remooued to other more priuate places where such other wanderers as were men knowen to moue sedition might bee restrained from common resorting to them to increase trouble as the Popes Bull gaue manifest occasion and yet without charging them in their consciences or otherwise by any inquisition to bring them into dāger of any capital law so as no one was called to any capitall or bloody question vpon matters of religion but haue all inioyed their life as the course of nature woulde and such of them as yet remayne may if they will not be authors or instruments of rebellion or sedition inioye the time that GOD and nature shall yeelde them without danger of life or member And yet it is worthy to be well marked that the chiefest of all these and the most of them had in the time of King Henrie the eight and King Edward the sixt either by preaching writing reading or arguing taught all people to condemne and abhorre the authoritie of the Pope yea they had many times giuen their othes publiquely against the Popes authoritie and had also yelded to both the said Kings the title of supreame head of the Church of England next vnder Christ which title the aduersaries doe most falsly write and affirme that the Queenes Maiestie doeth nowe vse a manifest lie and vntrueth And for proofe that these foresaide Bishoppes and learned men had so long time disauowed the Popes authoritie many of their bookes sermons against the Popes authoritie remayne printed to be seene in these times to their great shame and reproofe to change so often and specially in persecuting such as themselues haue taught and stablished to holde the contrary There were also and yet be a great nomber of others being lay men of good possessions and lands men of good credite in their countries manifestly of late time seduced to hold contrary opinions in religion for the Popes authoritie and yet none of them haue bene sought hitherto to be impeached in any poynt or quarrel of treason or of losse of life member or inheritance so as it may plainely appeare that it is not nor hath bene for contrarious opinions in religion or for the Popes authoritie as the aduersaries doe boldely and falsly publish that any persons haue suffered death since her Maiesties reigne and yet some of these sort are well knowen to holde opinion that the Pope ought by authoritie of Gods worde to be supreame and only head of the Catholique Church and onely to rule in all causes Ecclesiasticall and that the Queenes Maiestie ought not to be the gouernour ouer all her subiectes in her realme being persons Ecclesiasticall which opinions are neuerthelesse in some part by the laws of the realme punishable in some degrees yet for none of these poyntes haue any persōs bene prosecuted w t the charge of treasō or in danger of life And if thē it be inquired for what cause these others haue of late suffered death it is truely to be answered as afore is often remembred that none at all are impeached for treason to the danger of their life but such as do obstinately maintaine the contents of the Popes Bull afore mentioned which do import that her Maiestie is not the lawfull Queene of England the first and highest poynt of treason that al her subiects are discharged of their othes and obedience mother high poynt of treason and all warranted to disobey her and her laws a third and a very large poynt of treason And thereto is to be added a fourth poynt most manifest in that they would not disalow the Popes hostile proceedings in open warres against her Maiestie in her realme of Ireland where one of their companie D. Sanders a lewde scholler and subiect of England a fugitiue a principall companion and conspirator with the traitors and rebels at Rome was by the Popes speciall commission a commaunder as in forme of a Legate and sometime a treasorer or paymaster for those warres which D. Sanders in his booke of his Church monarchie did afore his passing into Ireland openly by writing gloriously auowe the foresaid Bull of Pius Quintus against her Maiestie to be lawfull and affirmeth that by vertue thereof one D. Mooreton an olde English fugitiue and conspirator was sent from Rome into the North partes of England to stirre vp the first rebellion there whereof Charles Neuill the late Earle of Westmerland

her kingdomes as three or foure popes haue sit in their chayre at Rome fortyfied with so much duetie loue and strength of her subiectes acknowledging no superiour ouer her realmes but the mightie hand of God shall she forbeare or feare to withstand and make frustrate his vnlawful attemptes eyther by her sword or by her lawes or to put his souldiers inuadours of her realme to y e sword martially or to execute her lawes vpon her owne rebellious subiectes ciuilly that are prooued to be his chiefe instruments for rebellion and for his open warre This is sure that howsoeuer either he sitting in his chaire with a triple crowne at Rome or any other his proctors in any part of Christendome shal renewe these vnlawfull attemptes almightie God whome her Maiestie onely honoureth and acknowledgeth to be her onely soueraigne Lord and protectour and whose lawes gospel of his sonne Iesus Christ she seeketh to defend wil no doubt but deliuer sufficient power into his maydens hand his seruant Queene Elizabeth to withstand and confound them all And where the seditious trumpetters of infamies and lies haue sounded forth and entituled certaine that haue suffred for treason to be martyrs for religiō so may they also at this time if they list adde to their forged catalogue the headles bodie of y e late miserable Earle of Desmond who of late secretly wandering without succour as a miserable begger was taken by one of the Irishry in his caben and in an Irish sort after his owne accustomed sauage maner his head cut off from his bodie an end due to such an archrebell And herewith to remember the ende of his chiefe confederates may be noted for example to others the strange maner of the death of D. Sanders the popes Irish legat who also wandring in the mountaines in Ireland without succour died rauing in a phrensey And before him one Iames Fits-Morice the first Traitour of Ireland next to Stukely the rakehel a man not vnknowen in the popes palace for a wicked craftie traytor was slaine at one blow by an Irish noble yong Gētleman in defence of his fathers countrey which the traitor sought to burne A fourth man of singular note was Iohn of Desmonde brother to the Earle a very bloody faithles traitor and a notable murderer of his familiar friendes who also wandring to seeke some pray like a wolfe in the woods was takē beheaded after his own vsage being as he thought sufficiently armed with the popes Buls certaine Agnus dei one notable ring about his necke sent frō the popes finger as it was said but these he saw saued not his life And such were the fatal ends of al these being y e principal heads of y e Irish warre rebelliō so as no one person remaineth at this day in Ireland a knowen traitor To this nōber they may if they seeke nomber also adde a furious yong man of Warwickeshire by name Someruile to increase their Kalender of y e popes martyrs who of late was discouered and taken in his way comming w t a ful intent to haue killed her Maiestie whose life God alwayes haue in his custodie The attempt not denied by y e traitor himselfe but confessed and that he was moued thereto in his wicked spirit by inticements of certaine seditious traiterous persons his kinsmen and allyes and also by often reading of sundry seditious vile books lately published against her Maiestie But as God of his goodnes hath of long time hitherto preserued her Maiestie from these and the like trecheries so hath she no cause to feare being vnder his protection she saying with king Dauid in the Psalme My God is my helper and I will trust in him he is my protection and the strength or the power of my saluation And for the comfort of al good subiects against the shadowes of the popes Bulles it is manifest to the world that from the beginning of her Maiesties reigne by Gods singular goodnes her kingdome hath enioyed more vniuersall peace her people increased in more nombers in more strength and with greater riches the earth of her kingdomes hath yeelded more fruits and generally all kind of worldly felicitie hath more abounded since and during the time of the popes thunders bulles curses and maledictions then in any other long times before when the popes pardons and blessings came yeerely into the Realme so as his curses and maledictions haue turned backe to himself and his fautors that it may be said to the fortunate Queene of Englande her people as was said in Deuteronomy of Balaam The Lord thy God woulde not heare Balaam but did turne his maledictiōs or curses into benedictions or blessings the reason is for because thy God loued thee Although these former reasons are sufficient to perswade all kind of reasonable persons to allow of her Maiesties actions to be good reasonable lawfull and necessarie yet because it may be that such as haue by frequent reading of false artificiall libels and by giuing credite to them vpon a preiudice or foreiudgement afore grounded by their rooted opinions in fauour of the pope will rest vnsatisfied therefore as much as may be to satisfie all persons as farre foorth as common reason may warrant that her Maiesties late action in executing of certaine seditious traitors hath not proceeded for the holding of opinions either for y e popes supremacie or against her Maiesties regalitie but for the very crymes of sedition treason it shal suffice briefly in a manner of a repetition of the former reasons to remember these things following First it cānot be denied but y t her Maiestie did for many yeres suffer quietly the popes buls excommunications without punishment of the fautors thereof accompting of thē but as of words or winde or of writings in parchment wayed downe with leade or as of water bubbles cōmonly called in Latin Bullae and such like but yet after some proofe that courage was taken thereof by some bolde and bad subiectes she coulde not but then esteeme them to be very preambles or as forerunners of greater danger and therefore with what reason coulde any mislike that her Maiestie did for a bare defence against them w tout other action or force vse the helpe of reuiuing of former lawes to prohibit the publication or execution of such kinde of Bulles within her Realme Secondly when notwithstanding y e prohibition by her lawes the same bulles were plentifully but in secret sort brought into y e realme at length arrogantly set vpon the gates of y e Bishop of Londons pallace neere to y e Cathedrall Church of Pauls the principal citie of y e realme by a lewd person vsing y e same like a herald sent frō the pope who can in any cōmon reason mislike y t her Maiestie finding this kinde of denunciatiō of warre as a defiance to be made in her principal citie by one of her