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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

AN ADVERTISEMENT WRITTEN TO A SECRETARIE OF MY L. TREASVRERS OF INGLAND BYAN 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 written by the L. Treasurer in defence of his gentrie and nobility intercepted published and answered by the papistes Anno Domini 1592. TO MY LOVING GOOD FRIND N. SECRETARY TO THE right honorable the L. Treasurer of Inglande LOVING Sir yf my former letters written to you from Midleburg Colen Heid leberg Franckford as I passed by those places haue come safely vnto your handes then haue you vnderstood by thē the estate of affayres as I coulde learne thē in so shorte a stay as the continuance of my iourney permitted me to make in euery of these cityes especially I wrote vnto you in all my former of the great variety of bookes both in Inglishe and Latyn and other languages already come forth or in makinge as by good meanes I vnderstoode against the laste proclamation of her Maiestie published in Nouember for searching out apprehendinge and punishing of Seminarie priestes and Iesuites and such as receaue or fauoure them in Ingland which proclamation seemeth to haue so netled the papistes which we call here Catholiques and so muste I in the reste of my letters especially those that shal come from Italie that there is no other talke almoste now in these partes nor of any other matters but of this combate of Englande and in this countrie here of Germanie where both parties liue in peace together our course of Ingland hath diuerse that approue it not though otherwise no papistes for that they thincke it both troublesome and daungerous whereof at an other time I shal write more vnto you yf I may perceaue that my letters doe come vnto your handes safely whereof I haue greate feare and doubt consideringe the difficulties of passages and manifolde interception of letters whereof I vnderstande daily by reason of warres But to come to the matter I sent you with my former letters while I was in flandres two or three diuers kindes of answers made and printed in Inglishe without name of authours against the said late proclamation and some others I was told were in coming foorth though I could not learne by whome Afterward frō Colen I sente you one written in Latine by Ihon Perne Inglis he man as he nameth himself it goeth by way of a letter or discourse written to a frinde of his that desired his opinion and judgemente aboute the saide proclamatiō and it is directed to my L. Treasurer himself But now comming to Augusta I haue learned of an other booke also written in Latin and lately sent hither to be printed againe is now in hande some sheetes already drawen of which booke though I can neyther hynder the printinge thereof for I haue assayed nor yet get any whole copy into my handes to sende vnto you for I vnderstande there is but one onely as yet in this citie and this is that which serueth for the printer sent hither by a certaine principall person to be reprinted as soone as euer it had passed the presse in an other place yet haue I so wrought as yesterday beinge sunday and the print standinge still I gat for mony the sighte of the booke and in some few nightes I tooke out all the summe and chiefe effecte thereof doe sende it herewith vnto you promisinge further to send also the whole woorke as soone as euer it shal come forthe albeit yf the haste and greedinesse of printinge it in so many places and countreys at one time be such as here some woulde make me beleeue it is like yow shal haue it otherwise there in Inglande before I can send it from hence but yet this shall not lett me from doinge my dewtie also in sending it from hence as sone as I can get it And in truthe yf I shal tell you myne opiniō about the hastie spredding of this booke which I suppose you will also thinke when you shal haue seene the extracte that herewith I do sende you there are so many poynts of curiositie and hidden histories touching our estate discouered in the same and so many personall causes conditions of men and secret affaires vnfolded whereof mans nature partly by desire of nouelties partly by corrupt inclination to heare willingly other mens defects is greedy to vnderstande as I maruaile not though printers to gaine thereby doe striue in many places to diuulgate the same with all celerity and the like I finde by experience in the late historie of D. Sanders in Latin de schisimate Anglicano which for that it conteyned matter of such curiositie and noueltie in personall affayres I find it printed againe in Latin almost in euery state ●●●ydes the translations that go in other languages which I am tolde are many But for this booke againste the proclamation I do assure you it is the moste sharpe bitter and odious thing that euer I thinck was written by the papistes though the writer pretende great modestie and doeth not in deede vse open raylinge tearmes but by a close fluente and cutting stile and by discussing as I haue saide of many and curious perticularities and by pretending to proue all he saith by our owne bookes lawes cronicles and recordes he filleth his reader with infinite desire to reade al through out More ouer he putteth downe the whole proclamatiō turned in to latin by partes or Sections which is an other curiositie that other bookes come out before obserued not and after he awswereth the same by seuerall 〈◊〉 ●eades distinstely and in the ende he putteth also in Latyn the articles annexed to the commission for instruction to the commissioners How to proceede in the execution thereof with his iudgemēte and censure vpon the same He put●eth downe also in his awnswere a lettre of my L. Treasurers writte with his owne hande as this fellow anoucheth from westminster the tenth of lanuarie laste paste vnto one in the love countries as by the extracte you shall see The writer nameth himself Ihon Philopatris prieste and divine that hath studied at Rome and descended in tymes paste of the English blood but he that shall see and reade the booke which is some xviij or twentie leaues of printed paper or more will easily see that he hath lined lately in Inglande or is very extraordinarily instructed in the affayres thereof and when I consider that Philopatris in greeke signifieth a louer or a frinde of his country I easily see that the name is but borowed and may be taken vp in theire sense by any of our Inglish papistes that live here abrode and so make your accompte that it is More I shal write vnto you from Italie and namely from Venice or Padua for here I will stay onely

owne fancie and designements for the tyme present to serue his turne And by this occasion this awnswerer declareth how the old fathers and doctours did not vse this name of Ghospell commonly but only for the sacred writings of the fower Euangelists to whome the priuilege of this highe word was peculiarly attributed for that nothing in the said writing could be false or erroneous that the Religions of Christians founded thereon especially against heretiques was vsually called the Catholique faith and doctrine vntill these our dayes when euery man that deuised new opinions or wayes would needes cal it the very ghospell it self so began Luther and after him folowed Oecolampadius and Zwinglius though different from him and after them both Ihon Caluine and about the same tyme the Anabaptistes Trinitaries and new Arrians in Transiluania and synce that in Ingland both protestants puritanes and family of loue of vvhich no one will admit worse name to his sect then the sacred name of the holy Ghospel it self vvhich being but one and a simple truth and these men different and repugnant to them selues can not possibly be posiessed by them all though all pretend it and therefore saith this awnswerer as in a cittie where one onely pretious stone is knowen to be yf a man should fynd the streets ful of diuers cryers that sweare and protest euery one of them to haue this iewell to himself alone it vvere able to make a wise man thincke rather that none of them had it then that all could haue it euen so saith he in this case of pretending the Ghospell Moreouer he sheweth that of all these sects which at this day professe the name of Gospell abroad in the world no one eyther within or without the realme will confesse that the Religion generally held in Ingland at this day is the pure Ghospell exept perhaps some at home that dare not say the contrary or esteeme little of any Religion for abroade he sheweth first out of Luther himself how he condemned to hell the heresy of Zwinglius Caluin now held in Inglād which VVestphalus Illiricus and all other Lutherans haue followed synce as appeareth by their brokes yet in printe the decrees are extant of the Earles of Mansfild in the yeare 1559. and of the Lutheran cities of VVittenberg Hamberg and others the yeare 1560. and of al the reste of Saxonie the yeare 1562. which condemned the Religiō of Caluin now held in Ingland for damnable heresie The like did the Zwinglians as appeareth by the doings and writings of Andreas Zebedaeus and loannes Angelus Zwinglian Ministers against Caluin himself being yet aliue when they accused him to the Magistrates of Berna in Zuicerlād for an Archiheretique by the publique decree of the same citty and Magistrate yet extāt published in the yeare 1555. Is commaunded that Caluius institutions such other bookes of his as in the assertions impugned by these Ministers were found should be burned and prohibited as hereticall for euer At home also the determination of King Henry the eighte and his parlament for his six Articles against this Religion the difference of the communiō booke in King Edwardes tyme from this that now is the exclamation of Caluin and Beza against the supremacie of a woman or lay Prince whereof dependeth the hart of Inglishe Religion lastly the multitude of erors heresies abominatiōs gathered out of late by the puritans now defended by M. Cecil in their late bookes against the protestants whome M. Cecil also muste needs admit all these things saith this awnswerer do wel shew what ground or certaintie there is in M. Cecils Ghospell and how little it oughte to moue a discreete man his often repeating of the same This therefore passed ouer he commeth to handle the secōd remedy appoynted in the proclamatiō which is of the forces and preparations of her Maiestie hy sea and land to withstand this imaginarie inuasion wherevnto M. cecil exhortethal good subiectes to geue assistāce with their handes purses and aduises of which three things this awnswerer saith that he nothing doubteth but that M. Cecil wil easely admitt the former two to wit that men do assiste with their handes and purses for that in the firste which is to fight or put handes to woorke M. Cecil hath no skill nor wil to entermeddle himself but only to set men on whiles he and his do looke vpon them In the second of their purses seing he is Treasurer it serueth for his purpose to pull them on as many waies as he can deuise and perhaps it was the greatest motiue of all this tragedie to fill his coffers by this deuise but for the third which is to assiste with their aduises it is spoken onely for courtesies sake for in matters of moste weighte in gouernemēte state M. Cecil admitteth few but himself and his owne peculier instruments and in this I reporte me saith this awnswerer to the reste of her Maiesties priuie Councell how truely I speake in this behalf After this saith this awnswerer that notwithstanding M. Cecils great bragg of forces whereof the poore people of the Realme do beare the burdē yet yf all things be indifferently and wisely considered it may be saide of M. Cecil as it was of Moab by the Prophet VVe haue beard of the pride and arrogancy of Moab his pride land his arrogancie and his wrath is greater then his strength which this man applieth to M. Cecils arrogancie exceeding foolish and furious wrath in breaking so openly and arrogantly with all the old Allies of the crowne of Ingland in prouoking so many and so potent Princes abroad to reuenge their iniuries in attempting so great and dangerous changes and innouations and exasperatiōs at home as muste needs at lengh bring al the whole howse about his owne eares and other mens to and can not possibly endure by all which and many other things that he alleageth this defendant wil needes haue mēbeleue that my L. Treasurer is vnaduised not only wanteth conscience and Religion but also wisedome circumspection in the greatest of his doings and that in very truth laying Godes cause aside whereof his care is least he is also for ciuil gouernement a very insufficient man Thirdly and lastly he commeth to the forme of inquisition appointed in the proclamation for the finding out of the Seminarie priests and punishement as vvel of them as of all such as shall receaue harbour or comforte them about vvhich poynt after this awnswerer hath shewed that this forme of search punishement is more rigorous cruell considering all circumstances then euer vvas any search in former tymes of any old persecutours or tyrants he sheweth himself to wonder more at the impudencie and follie of M. Cecil in setting downe this saide forme of Inquisitiō then at any thinge touched in this awnswere before And for his impudency he alleageth these vvordes of the proclamation vvherein it is

vntill this booke come forth that I may sende you a copie VVhich yf you thinke good you may present to our good Lord and master in my name as you may doe also the exstract thereof that now I send though in trueth the tooth and stomack of the writer seemeth to be so specially great against his lordship aboue all others and toucheth him so bitterly in so many places esteeming him the principall cause of al the bloudshedd of his partie that I am ashamed and half afraide also that it sholde be given vnto his honour in my behalf yet could I not with my dewtie and allegeance but aduertise the matter as I finde it and so haue I done in the abbreuiation taking out euery thinge as neer as I cā in sense though not in wordes as in the booke it lieth and that in more sweete and temperate manner also diuers tymes then there it is sett downe culling out onely the heades of the most principal matters and leauing vtterly the discourses declarations and proofes of the same wich are in truth more pearcing plausible and popular then will easily be imagined but by reading the whole and in one word beleeue yow Sir that it is a very pestilent booke and so I pray you aduertise his lordship and commend my seruice with continuing me in his honors good grace and fauour which I euer desire to deserue as I may and so to the lord I commyt you from Augusta this first of August 1592. Your most affectionate THE EXTRACT AND ABBREVIATION OF THE BOOKE OF IHON PHILOPATRIS AGAINST her Maiesties proclamation The preface of the Author FIRST in the preface he taketh vpon him to discouer the trew causes of this proclamation which he saith to be the feare of the new Seminaries lately begunne in Spayne with the cōtinuance flourishing of the others in Rome and Rheims feare of the Pope and king of Spaines preparations of warr againste France the lacke of mony in Inglande to helpe the K. of Navarre and to prosecute other designementes and the arte to get it this way by feigning terrours and troubles at home Secondly he sheweth what modestie and humility the Catholiques for his wordes I will vse hereafter in all this extract haue vsed hitherto in their owne defence alleaging for this the example of two Apologies wrytten by 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 other bookes vpon hope that some clement gentler way would be taken by her Maiestie and her Councell but seing as he saith that by all theire submilsiō they haue profited nothing he taketh leaue by the president and example of many aunciēte fathers that wrote sharpely against the persecutours of their times but namely and chiefely of S. Hilarie whose wordes he alleageth against Cōstātinus the Arrian Emperour to deale more plainely in this his awnswere then others haue donne heretofore promisinge notwithstandinge the modestie that shal be conuenient for the tyme persons and matter he handleth THE FIRST SECTION OF THE PROCLAMATION AND ANSWER The first Section conteyneth onely the title of the proclamation and is deuided in to three principal heades THE firste head concerneth those first wordes By the Queene about the which he examineth whether these so many fierce cruell lawes and proclamatiōs as he cal leth them which come out dayly against Catholiques do proceede of her Maiesties owne inclination and propension or no or whether by the instigation of others for theire owne commodities abusing her Maiesties sexe and age at the beginning where vnto he rather yeildeth and nameth fiue or six principall men who haue bin the causes and instrumentes of all miserie to Ingland as he tearmeth it and of the perdition of the realme by theire especiall authority with her Maiestie These men he affirmeth to haue bin Sir Nicolas Bacon and my L. Treasurer the Earle of Leicester Sir Francis VValsingham and Sir Christophor Hatton of whome he saith he will tell their beginninges their entrance with the Queene their manner of proceeding their actions and their endinges obseruing the order rather of their deathes and falling then of their rising to honours for that he saieth the remembrance of this day is more ioyfull to good men then that of the other and so for that my L. Treasurer is the onely mā of all the five that now liueth he reserueth his story for the laste place of all Of Sir Nicolas Bacon he sheweth how he rose and how my L. Treasurer and he the one helping the other by the assistance of Sir Antony Cooke theire father in law and Sir Ihon Cheeke King Edwardes schoole-maister came both first in fauor That Sir Nicolas Bacons father beinge seruant to the Abbote of Bery and keeper of his sheepe and cattell put his sonne to Greyes Inne where first he was vnder-butler aud afterward grew vp higher vntill by the augmentation court and atturneship of the VVardes he came to be lord keeper wherein this man saith he shewed himself so corrupt and partiall for bribery as neuer man before or since in that place for which he allegeth a protestation also of Plowdē the famous lawier made at the Chauncery barr Bacon beinge present that he woulde neuer returne thither so long as so cortupte a iudge should sitt in that place which he performed here vnto he addeth diuers other perticularities touchinge the life and death of Sir Nicolas Bacon Of my L. of Leicester and the varietie of fortune which he saw and proued in his life how he was borne and brought vp in all aboundāce and felicitie and after saw himself againe in extreame calamity his father and bretheren being put to death and himfelf condemned to the same lotte but that fortune turning againe lifted him vp higher then euer before but all to the worse for that he had neuer bin so wicked yf he had not byn so potent How he was the sonne of a Duke brother of a Kinge nephew of an esquier and great grandchild of a Carpenter as the common fame runneth which yf it be trew the Carpenter by all likelyhoode was the happiest man of all the generation for that perhaps he was an honeste man and died in his bedd whereas all the other perished by violent deathes for theire wickednes c. Of Lecesters entrāce in to fauour with her Maiestie of the begininge of his greatnes how he firste lefte the Catholique faith which at the beginning for diuers yeares he fauoured of the murdering of his wife at Cūner of his adulteries murders and rapines after of his dealings in flanders and miserable death without heyre or frind and of the quicke mariage of lady Lettece after his dispatch Of Sir Francis VValsinghams seruing of Leicesters turne in all thinges how he was Embassador in France and how he came to be of the Councell how he helde a faction againste my L. Treasurer was a man of hastie fiery and cruell nature especially againste catholiques spente infinitely vpon spyery and when matter wanted filled her