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A07040	Theses Martinianae that is, certaine demonstratiue conclusions, sette downe and collected (as it should seeme) by that famous and renowmed clarke, the reuerend Martin Marprelate the great: seruing as a manifest and sufficient confutation of al that euer the Colledge of Catercaps with their whole band of clergie-priests, haue, or canbring [sic] for the defence of their ambitious and antichristian prelacie. Published and set foorthe as an after-birth of the noble gentleman himselfe, by a prety stripling of his, Martin Iunior, and dedicated by him to his good neame and nuncka, Maister Iohn Kankerbury: hovv the yongman [sic] came by them, the reader shall vunderstande sufficiently in the epilogue. In the meane time, vvhosoeuer can bring mee acquainted vvith my father, Ile bee bounde hee shall not loose his labour.	Marprelate, Martin, pseud.; Throckmorton, Job, 1545-1601, attributed name.; Penry, John, 1559-1593, attributed name.	1589 (1589)	STC 17457; ESTC S112312	15,688	32

her Maiestie or the state I think shee hath little cause to thanke you for your wisedome in seeking the quietnesse of this common-wealth by-winking at the sinne of the pompous ministerie And me thinkes you are bounde vnto her and her people to make so much at the least knowen as shee mainteineth publikelie in bookes by her statutes and priuiledges to be the doctrine of this our church vnder her gouernement Therefore looke vnto these thinges for certainelie if euer the Lorde shall make the proceedings of our wicked bishoppes knowen vnto her Maiestie to bee so contrarie to worde of God the profession of holie Martyres and the doctrine of our church mainteined both by our statutes and priuiledges as in these Theses they are sette downe assure your selfe that she will then enquire whether she had not any faithfull preachers in her kingdome that would stand to the defence of the trueth vntill shee sawe further into it As for the bishops they may herein see to their woe what wicked caytiffes they are in maintaining themselues their thrice curssed popedome against such cleare light But the beastes I feare were borne to no other end then to be the Lords scourge to chastice his church and then to bee burnt in hell And out vppon them they are as vnlike Christ his Apostles and holy Martyres which were the planters of our Churche as the wretches are like vnto themselues A man would haue thought if they had not beene desperate in their wickednesse that by the warning which Martin gaue them they woulde haue beene restrained from their villanie in some sort But as though their very reason had bene cleane gone the more they are threatned to haue their proceedings displayed the more wicked doe they manifest themselues As if they woulde declare vnto the worlde that they will not bee made knowen vnto posteritie but vppon the condition that they may bee the most wicked that euer were in the church of God They will be so many Iudases so many Diotrepheses so many Simon Maguses as nowe they are wicked bishoppes of Englande or else they thinke not themselues well dealte with Wherefore reuerend father if you bee as yet on your feete and haue escaped out of the danger of gunne shotte beginne againe to play the man Feare none of these beastes these pursuvants these Mar-Martins these stage-players these prelates these popes these diuels and al they can do Quit your selfe but as like a man as you haue doone in Hai any worke and I doubt not but you will make these rogish priests lie in the kenell The reporte abroad goeth that you are drawen drie and can say no more They are fooles that so thinke I say Let these Conclusions bee iudge whereby I tell you true I hope you shall be able to emprie euerie bishopricke in Englande if waight of tructh can doe it There bee that affirme the rimers and stage-players to haue cleane putte you out of countenaunce that you dare not againe shew your face Alas poore haglers their fathers are too yoong to outface the least of your sonnes And I doe thinke that lay aside their tyrannie all the bishops of Englande are too weake to deale with a scarre-crowe that hath but the name of reuerend Martin written vppon it And therefore I perswade my selfe that they their selues are thorowlie so perswaded ka my nuncka Bridges that you contemne such kenell rakers and scullions as to their shame in the time of your silence haue solde them selues for pence a peece to be derided of come who so will to see a companie of disguised asses Concerning Mar-martin if he be a Londoner or an vniuersitie man tenne to one but you shall see him one of these odde dayes carted out of the towne for his honestie of life Why that time of his sheweth that hee had no other bringing vppe then in a brothel-house And heerein I woulde craue pardon of the vniuersities and the famous citie of London if I shoulde bee thought to giue out that such a ribaulder as this is were there maintained To speake what I doe thinke of the youth I can not bee induced to thinke that hee hath had his bringing vp at any other trade then in carryeng long Meg of Westminsters hand-basket and in attending vppon some other of his auntes at her appointment while shee liued After her death it may be he hath beene promoted vnto the seruice of some laundresse in a bishoppes house where in hope to bee preferred by his good lordes he hath vndertaken to mar-rimes in publishing bawdery and filthinesse for the defence of these honest bishops The stage-players poore seelie hunger-starued wretches they haue not so much as an honest calling to liue in the common-wealth And they poore varlets are so base minded as at the pleasure of the veryest rogue in England for one poore pennie they will be glad on open stage to play the ignominious fooles for an houre or two together And therfore poore rogues they are not so much to be blamed if being stage-players that is plaine rogues saue onely for their liueries they in the action of dealing against Maister Martin haue gotten them many thousande eie-witnesses of their wittelesse and pittifull conceites And in deede they are marueilous fitte vpholders of Lambehith palace and the crowne of Canturburie And therefore menne shoulde not thinke of all other things that they should any wayes make Maister Martin or his sonnes to alter their course And heereof good Maister Canturburie assure your selfe Well to growe to a point with you if you haue any of your side eyther in the Vniuersities or in your cathedrall Churches or any where within the compasse of all the bishopdomes you haue that dare write or dispute against anie of these pointes sette downe by my father heere I do by these my writinges cast you downe the Gloue in my fathers name and the names of the rest of his sonnes If my father be gone and none else of my brethren will vpholde the controuersie against you I my selfe will doe it And take my challenge if you dare By writing you may do it qand be sure to be answered By disputations if you will appoint the place with promise that you will not deale vi armis you shall be taken also by me if I thinke I may trust you Otherwise the Puritanes will I doubt not maintaine the chalenge against you But heere by the way Iohn Canturbury take an odde aduice of your poore nephew and that is this First in regard of your selfe play not the tyrant as you doe in Gods Church if you goe on forward in this course the ende will bee a wofull reckoning Thou hast beene raised vp out of the dust and euen from the very dounghill to bee president of her Maiesties counsell being of thy selfe a man altogether vnmeet for any such preheminence as neyther endued with any excellent naturall witte nor yet with any great portion of learning The Lorde hath passed by many thousands in this land farre meeter for the place then is poore Iohn Whitgift Well then what if thou hauing receiued so great blessings at the Lordes hand beeing of all others in no comparison anye thing neere the fittest for it or the likeliest to obraine it shalt now shew thy selfe vngratefull vnto thy mercifull Lorde God or become a cruell persecutour and a tyrant in his church a cruell oppressour of his children shall not all that thou hast receiued be tourned vnto a cursse vnto thee euen into thine owne bosome Yea verely For the Lorde in one day is able to bring more shame vpon thee and that in this life then he hath heaped blessings vpon thee now for the space of thirtie yeeres and vpward But when I doe consider thy preheminence and promotion I do sensiblie acknowledge it to be ioyned with a rare cursse of God euen such a cursse as very fewe I will not say none in Gods Church doe sustaine And that is thy wicked and Antichristian Prelacie The consideration of which popedome of thine maketh me thinke that thy other place in the ciuill magistracie being in it selfe a godly and a lawfull calling is so become infectious that it will be thy bane both in this life and in the life to come And I am almost fully perswaded that that archbishopricke of thine together with thy practises therein shew verely that the Lorde hath no part nor portion in that miserabble and desperat caytiffe wicked Iohn Whitgift the Pope of Lambehith Leaue therefore both thy popedome and thy vngodly proceedings or looke for a fearefull ende My second and last aduise is this in a word Suffer no more of these haggling and profane pamphlets to be published against Martin and in defence of thy hierarchie Otherwise thou shalt but commend thy follie and ignorance vnto the world to be notorious Mar-martin Leonard Wright Fregneuile Dick Bancroft Tom Blan. o Bedford Kemp Vnderhil serue thee for no other vse but to worke thy ruine and to bewray their owne shame miserable ignorance Thus far of these matters And mee thinkes you see nunckle Canturburie that though I bee but young yet I beginne prettily well to followe my fathers steppes for I promise you I am deceiued vnlesse I haue a prety smattering gift in this Pistle-making and I feare in a while I shall take a pride in it I pray you if you can now I haue shewed you my minde that you woulde be a meanes that my vather or my brethren be not offended with me for my presuming this of mine owne head I did all of a good meaning to saue my fathers papers and it would haue pitied your heart to see how the poore papers were raine and weather-beaten euen truely in such a sort as they coulde scant bee read to bee printed There was neuer a drie threede in them These sea-iourneys are pittifull I perceiue One thing me thinkes my father should like in me and that is my modestie for I haue not presumed to publishe mine in as large a print or volume as my father doth his Nay I thinke it well if I can drible out a Pistle in octauo nowe and then Farewell good nuncle and pay this bearer for the cariage Iuly 22. 1589. With as great speede as I might Your worships nephew MARTIN IVNIOR