with many other circumstances concurring doe euidently conuince it to be see For to say that it hath not his name is too too vaine and friuolous for by that reason no man should be the author thereof because it hath no mans name To which I adde that it is not the wonted manner of Parsons to put his name to his bookes The secular priests haue truly vnfolded that secresie in their publike writings And Parsons himselfe vnawares reporteth no lesse in effect in this Apologie Well what doth Parsons call euill edification Richard Hadocke I am well assured spent his whole time or the greater part thereof subtracting time for sleeping eating and drinking in hawking hunting carding dicing and licentious liuing to say nothing of other more homely but lesse comely qualities Of which manner of liuing he was sufficiently admonished I know when where and by whom and can so decipher all the particulars thereof as himselfe shall neuer be able to denie the same I therefore conclude that when Parsons saith it is false c. The falshood proceedeth from his owne stinking mouth He indeed is the libeller though it please him to bestow that name on the seculars But such good fellowes as Haddocke must be maintained to bolster out master Parsons and his detestable treacheries For by his plotting to set the English Crowne on the Spanish Infantaes head he is become so familiar with the Spanish king and the Arch-dutchesse Isabella his sister that he is able with his word to set vp or pull downe all disloyall kil-princes in the world Who then dare write against him the seculars haue entered the combat and if they faile in the conflict a halter will be the end He séeketh by flatterie to make them yeeld and to bring them to submssion but if that be once done actum est de illis they must enter into glorie that is to say into the holy inquisition where there they must eyther remaine perpetuo or be bondslaues to Parsons and his Iesuited familie I might enlarge my selfe in discoursing vpon many other vntruâ—hs leasings falshoods and caluminiations published for truths in this scandalous and most disloyall Apologie But by these falshoods alreadie discoured it is apparant to all the world that no credite can be giuen to the words or writings of the notorious traytor Robert Parsons that bloodie Iesuite CHAP. V. Of Parsons his contradictions peremptorily vttered in his lewde Apologie Sect. I. Concerning traytors like himselfe and his confederates PArsons in one place of the Apologie hath these words for as the common saying is howsoeuer the treason be embraced yet the traytor is hated and contemned But in another place he hath these words what say you of my Lord Cardinall Allen his answere to the English iustice his defence of the twelue martyrs in one yeare his epistle for allowance of sir William Stanleyes rendring vp of Dauentry his declaration against her Maiestie and the present state in the yeare 1588. when the Armado was on the seas were these exasperating treatises or no and how then is father Parsons onely named by this man as though his writings onely were the cause of all exasperation Nay was there any man euer knowen to be particularly troubled hitherto for any booke written by father Pasons by name we are sure that neyther master Mush nor any of his can euer proue it These are the verie expresse words set downe in the Iesuiticall Apologie in the places quoted in the margent Out of which words the indifferent reader may obserue these important poyntes with me First a notable contradiction in wordes of the Iesuite Parsons who seemeth to repute himselfe the onely wiseman in the world For in the former place he telleth vs that howsoeuer the treason be embraced yet the traytor is hated and contemned But in the second place he singeth another song for he commendeth the notorious treason of sir William Stanley and defendeth him therein Secondly that all traytors which take part with the Pope and king of Spayne are well thought of and deemed right honest men It is euident in Sir William Stanley a man in great esteeme with them Thirdly that Cardinall Allen was a notorious traytor euen by the testimonie of the Iesuits though they will not grant so much in plaine termes For of the said Cardinall this Apologie affirmeth foure things as you haue heard First that he wrote against English iustice done vpon the seminaries Secondly that hee wrote in defence of the seminaries that were executed and affirmed them to be martyrs Thirdly that he iustified sir William Stanleys treasons and highly extolled him for the same Fourthly that he published a most traytorous booke against her Maiestie and the State in the yeare 1588. when the kings Armado was on the seas Adde hereunto for the complement that the seminaries who euer to this houre speake most reuerently of that Cardinall and did obey him during life at a becke could not but be vp to the eares in deepe treasons seeing the Cardinal himselfe was so forward in all the bloodie treacheries Sect. II. Of Parsons his letters written to Master Bishop THe Iesuite Parsons wrote a letter the ninth of October 1599. to master Bishop in Paris for answere as Persons pretendeth to certaine grieuous calumniations which master Bishop and master Charnocke had spread abroad the world of the hard and iniurious dealing vsed to them in Rome which were contrarie to all truth if the good Iesuites words were of any credit In one place of the said letter he hath these words Master Bishop it beeing now diuers moneths since you departed from hence and no one letter appearing yet from you nor from your friend master Charnocke it made vs maruell considering your promise at your departure In another place of the same letter he hath these words by a state letter which I receiued this weeke from you I perceiue c. These are the words of the Apologie In which words any man may easily behold a flat contradiction For in the former place he denieth the receit of any one letter but in the latter he granteth that he had receiued one stale letter The seculars haue charged him with this contradiction and he answereth that from May to Nouember is more then halfe a yeare in which time no letter was come from them contrarie to their promises vntill this present weeke This is the answere To which answere I reply in this manner I say first that when Parsons saith it is more then halfe a yeare from May to Nouember he is a lyar For from May to Nouember are onely fiue moneths and yet do 12. moneths concurre to the complement of one yeare Againe if he begin his supputation the first day of May which is to reckon from Aprill rather then from May yet is it but iust halfe a yeare and consequently Parsons affirming it to be more is still a lyar Secondly that his reckoning
must end vpon the ninth day of October at which time Parsons wrote his letter and so perforce he is farre short of his halfe yeare and consequently a lyar Thirdly that when Parsons saith from May to Nouember is more then halfe a yeare in which time no letter was come from them he both contradicteth himselfe and is an impudent lyar I proue it because euerie child knoweth that betweene may and Nouember intercéedeth the moneth of October and yet as Parsons confesseth liberally he wrote his letter to master Bishop the ninth of that moneth and the same weeke receiued a stale letter firm the same Bishop So then it is true that Parsons receiued a letter from master Bishop in the moneth of October and consequently it is false that he receiued no letter from May to nouember Fourthly that the word now in Parsons his letter doth connotate the time present that is the time of the date of his letter to wit the ninth of October at which time as he saith in one place he had receiued no letter but as he saith in another place he had that weeke receiued a stale letter Ergo Parsons is a stale lyar This lye is confirmed in perpetuam res memoriam by the word yet for when he saith no one letter appearing from you yet he doth flatly contradict himselfe when he saith by a stale letter which I receiued this weeke from you Fiftly that when Parsons saith the reports of the hard and iniurious dealing vsed to the messengers in Rome is contrarie to all truth the falshood proceedeth from his lying lips as I haue alreadie proued Sixtly that master Bishop I know the man right well is of better credit then twentie Iesuited Standishes 70. Iesuited Haddockes 100. Iesuited Personians Sect. III. Of the Secular priests and their writings PArsons in the preface of his Apologie telleth vs that these bookes must needes be presumed to haue beene published eyther by some one or few discomposed passionate people or by some heretike or other enemie to dishonour them all and to discredit their cause and nation and so as to such he will answere and not against his brethren whom he loueth most intirely but in many other places he singeth an other song For page 63. he affirmeth it to be probable by many euident arguments that a long and slanderous narration was written by the proper pen of the chiefe authors of all these broyles Againe page 8. he confesseth that two priests whom he termeth the ambassadours of the secular priests came to Rome about the controuersie Againe page 9. he confesseth that in Nouember last 1600. diuers of the discontented made a generall appeale from the Archpriests iurisdictien Againe page 24. he saith that his brethren doe vse so fonde a calumniation against the Iesuites as no man can but wonder thereat Againe page 105. he termeth the authors of the bookes his discontented brethren To be briefe in maine other places he confesseth that master Bishoppe master Charnocke master Mush master Bagshaw master Champney master Collington master Warson and others haue written against the Iesuites so as contradictions may be deemed a thing verie common with our graue and holy Iesuite Robert Parsons who knew right well that the declaration sent to his holinesse was subscribed with the hands of thirtie priests whose names I would here put downe but that I studie to tbe briefe Sect. IIII. Of the elegant Epithetons ascribed to the Iesuite Parsons by Iohn Collington the Secular priest in his booke of Defence IOhn Collington hath lately published a large volume in defence of the seculars for their appeale to the Pope against tyrannizing Blackwel which book came lately to my hand but doth so euidently conuince the Arch-priest and the Iesuites specially that notorious traytor Robert Parsons as I cannot omit to make briefe recitall of some parts therof for the common peace of this our natiue countrey In the page 30. He hath these words whose busie head he speaketh of Parsons actions haue béene the cause and increase of much trouble and persecution in our Church and Realme And who being a member of an other bodie and professing also a mortified state and to haue relinquished the world seeketh neuerthelesse to be our great master and to rule all or to tyrannize rather Againe pag. 31. He saith they haue most pregnant grounds to proue that Parsons was the inditer of the Cardinals letter constitutiue for the archpriests iurisdiction Againe page 296. He affirmeth that Parsons writeth no booke discourse nor scarse any letter of these stirres wherein he doth not recount some good act of his owne Againe page 297. he telleth vs that Parsons by managing of the Colledge hath gotten such store of money as he spendeth fiue or sixe crownes a weeke in postage for letters onely Againe page 253. hee affirmeth boldly that Parsons appointed the Arch-priest Againe page 255. he termeth Parsons the Arch-deuiser in getting the Cardinals hand subscription and seale Againe page 206. hee chargeth Parsons with many vntruthes and to haue as little synceritie in his actions as truth in his writings Againe page 256. he hath these words it would make to the praâ—se of father Parsons if religion were lesse worldlisted in him and state matter and the designing of kingdomes had not so great a part in his studies Againe page 170. he hath these words we assure our selâ—es father Parsons that your restlesse spirit and pen your enterprising and busie actions haue turned heretofore our Catholike professants to infinit preiudice for to no knowne cause can we impute so much the making of the seuere lawes of our countrey as to your edging attempts and vocations Againe page 240. hee telleth vs plainely that Parsons hath proferred and reprofered the Crowne of England to seuerall princes now to one now to another as opportunities best serued to entertaine the personage with the hope thereof And to omit many testimonies because I would not be tedious I will heere recount one for all which master Colleton setteth downe in these words Neyther is father Parsons holden onely of our magistrate for a statist or marchandizer of the Crowne Diademe though this were enough to estrange vs from hauing any partaking in ought with him but his trauels and negotiations this way are become so notoriously knowne that euen Pasquine in Rome as intelligence is sent vs speaketh in this manner of him if there be any man that will buy the Kingdome of England let him repayre to a marchant in a blacke square cappe in the Citie and hee shall haue a verie good penny worth thereof Thus writeth Colleton of Parsons who both are deuoted to the Pope alike Sect. V. Of Parsons his birth and expulsion out of Balioll Colledge in Oxford THat Robert Parsons the Iesuite and marchandizer of the Crowne of England as in the former Section is a bastard and a man of bad demeanour the fift chapter of the second booke
euer deemed him to be of all religions that it to say of none at all and so the euent did declare He could temporize egregiously and frame his religion in all places after the humours of the companie In the end his creditors came so roundly vpon him for his manifold and huge debts that he was in forced secretly to depart and to take England on his backe Not long after he became so deeply Iesuited that he must needs be a glorious popish martyr viz. an arrant and most bloudie traytour he thought sought by murdering his naturall soueraigne to haue gotten gold money large possessions and so perhaps to haue paid his creditors or at the least to haue cut them short at his pleasure But in steade of a popish imaginarie charter hee found an english reall halter according to his cōdigne deserts Twelftly they grant that shortly after this stratageme the Iesuite Holt and others with him perswaded one Patricke Collen an Irish-man to attempt the laying of his violent and villanous hands vpon her maiesties person Thirteenthly they freely confesse that doctor Lopez the Queenes phisition was stirred vp to haue poysoned her Maiestie and the like they affirme of Yorke VVilliams and Edward Squire animated and drawne thereunto by VValpole that pernitious Iesuite All these notorious treasons right reuerend father damnable in nature intollerable in state and almost incredible in relation are plainly confessed of the Secular-priests and the same together with many other bad licentious barbarous sauage and plaine brutish practises of Iesuited papists are compendiously comprised in this small volume Which I haue therefore endeuoured to reduce to certaine heads distinct bookes and chapters with some profitable annotations annexed to the same because I am verily perswaded that whosoeuer shall seriously pervse them with indifferencie cannot but loath and detest cursed Iesuitisme and all popish Iesuited faction For though it be necessarie to all true hearted English subiects to know throughly the matters discouered by the Secular Priests yet because many for lacke of money are not able to buy the bookes and others because they are tedious and confusely written will either abstaine wholy from the reading thereof or lightly and slenderly runne them ouer and so neuer attaine to the full knowledge thereof I haue imployed my industrie my wits to couch in a small volume and portable manuall the summe effect of all their bookes pamphelets libells edicts and letters so as euery one may easily compasse the price and no one bee wearied in pervsing the discourse My desire was to profit all to confirme the strong to strenghthen the weake to stay the staggerer to rowze vp the drowsie to instruct the ignorant to gratifie the thankefull to perswade the doubtfull and to confound the proud malepeart and disloyall hearts Paule planted Apollo watred but God gaue the increase If therefore any good be wrought by these my labours let such as shall reape that good be thankfull to God for the same The disloyall papists bloud thirstie Iesuites haue alreadie kicked against my former labours and whet their malicious tongues against me Their holy father the bishoppe of Rome whome they tearme the Pope hath thundred out his curse against me But neither secular priests nor religious Iesuites will or can make any sound answere to any of my bookes They haue often beene buzzing about the matter yet neuer durst they publish so much as but one colourable answere either to all or to any one of my bookes so as I must needs thinke that maledictiō cursing rayling will be their morning and euening song against me by reason of this my friendly posie which I present as a most redolent odour to their noses-grauitie so often as they shall kisse the shoe of their Pope and with him commit idolatrie the vsuall manner most reuerend and worthy prelate in all such kind of exercises both is and alwaies hath beene to make choise of some worthy and mightie personage to protect defend and patronize the cause and doubtles neuer did any booke or pamphlet stande in more neede of a stout and resolute patron then this present volume For the traytorous Iesuites and Iesuited papists that cannot endure their owne brethren the secular priests to publish in their honest defence their knowne practises and imperfections will no doubt become starke madde fetch al their Romish friscols against me poore soule who haue as it were anatomized and painted them out in their best beseeming colours After mature deliberation had herein most christian patron of learning and learned men I haue resolued to dedicate this worke to your most reuerend name as to that vertuous Tobi◠who is able with the perfumes of the heart and liuer of a fish that is to say with the redolent harmonie of christian diuinitie which continually floweth most pleasantly form his mouth to vanquish all the Asmodean-Iesuites vpon earth to strike such terrours into their harts as they shall not once dare to grunt or barke against my true dealing and sincere proceeding in this behalfe Sundry other motiues do occurre which might most iustly incite me to this dedication of these my late studies if they were better then in deed they are amongst which many large bounties from time to time receiued at your Lordships hand doe well deserue to haue a place So praying the almightie to increase your godly zeale against all traytorous Iesuites disloyall popish vassales and to blesse your good Lordshippe with many happie yeeres to his glorie your owne soules health and the common good of his Church I humbly take my leaue From my studie this 23. of Ianuarie 1602. Your Lordships most bounden Thomas Bell. The Elogie of the author in signe of his loyall affection both toward his late Soueraigne and now regnant The cursed crew of Iesuites A change did long desire A change they haue but to their griefe Both Pope and Spaine admire Our noble Queene Elizabeth From hence to heauen is gone King Iames the first giuen vs of God By right sits in her throne Shee fourtie yeeres and foure complete did Pope and Spaine withstand And maugree all their bloudie plots In peace did rule this land Gods word and his true worshippe euer VVith zeale shee did defend For which cause God did her protect Vntill her life did end Her death perforce we must lament VVho dearely lou'd vs all Her bountie great her mercie rare The world to witnesse call Yet English hearts be not dismaide King Iames is our regent Hence Poperie certes he will supplant All falshood must relent He will doe iustice euery where And poore mens cause respect The mightie must not them annoy He will their right protect Poore men to him must haue accesse Their owne cause there to tell No bribes can haue place in his court Thence vice he will expell The richer sort with lingringe suites Must not the poore oppresse Our noble King the man of God Their
absolution Sequitur Our kings represent the true image of God against whom this yeare there hapned three straunge and vnusuall accidents first the rebellion against the late king which they coloured with the pretext and title of tyranny secondly the parricidie committed vpon his person by a Monke and lastly the continuance of that rebellion against the king that now is for his religion Sequitur their confessions were instructions or rather destructions to teach rebellion refusing to absolue them which eyther were not in their consciences fully confirmed in their reuolt from the two kings or had any inclination to acknowledge them for their soueraignes And which is full of horrour and detestation their ordinarie conrse was before they would absolue them to make them sweare by the holy gospell conteyned in their breuiaries neuer to take these two kings for their lawful soueraignes That which I speake I haue by good information from many that were faine to passe through that strait and I know one amongst the rest more néere me then the rest who rather then he would giue credit to their doctrine departed from his confessour without receiuing absolution These words are set downe by a Catholike papist a French man in the booke called the Iesuites Catechisme Lib. 3. cap. 12. fol. 165. fol. 166. Note heere gentle Reader these important points with me First that not onely our English papists but euen the French also do write the same argument in substance against the Iesuites and their damnable doctrine Secondly that they vse confession as an instrument of patricidie euen of Gods annoynted princes Thirdly that they would absolue none which acknowledged true loyaltie to their soueraignes Fourthly that they caused all those whom they did absolue to sweare by the holy gospell neuer to take the king now regnant nor king Henry his predecessor for their lawfull soueraignes It therefore is high time for all kings to abandon and expell all this cursed crue out of their kingdomes territories and dominions Jesuitisme agréeth with the Anabaptists opinion in two propositions in medling with state matters and in causing princes and kings to be murdered accordingly to the conueniencie of their affaires I will adde that in the carriage of this Iesuiticall warre within France there was some conformitie of names betweene this and that the Anabaptists vndertooke in Germanie the yeare 1535. for they had one Iohn Mathew their chiefe prophet vnder Iohn Leydon their king and one Bernard Rotman and Bernard Cniperdolin principall actors in their faction for the seducing of sâ—mple people euen as our Iesuites had their father Claudius Mathew and Bernard Rouellet I will not héere recite the other particulars of our troubles being contented plainely to haue shewed vnto you that our Iesuites were the first seminaries thereof These words are set downe in the Iesuites Catechisme Lib. 3. cap. 11. fol. 164. Note heere gentle Reader that the French papists write as sharpely against the Iesuites as doe our secular popish priests And consequently the priests assertions and reports of them are of more credit in that behalfe The Iesuites hauing set foote in Portugall sollicited the king Sebastian by all manner of illusions to make an vniuersall law that none might be called to the Crowne vnlesse he were of their societie and moreouer elected by the consent and suffrages of the same Whereunto they could not attaine albeit they met with the most deuout superstitious prince that could be They were the men that kindled the first coales of that accursed league which hath béene the vtter ruine and subuersion of France In fauour of the Spaniard they set on worke to kill the king one Peter Barriere whom they caused to be confessed in their Colledge at Paris afterwards to receiue the Sacrament and hauing confirmed him by an assured promise of Paradise as a true martyr if he died in that quarrell they set forward this valiant champion who was thrise at the verie point to execute his accursed enterprise and God as often miraculously stayed his hand vntil at length being apprehended at Melun he receuied yâ— iust hyre of his traiterous intention in the yeare 1593. I speake nothing but what mine eies can witnesse and what I had from his owne mouth when he was prisoner View and peruse all the iniquities that you will you shall finde none so barbarous as this To perswade an impietie to kill a king and then to couer it with such a seeming maske of pietie In a word to destroy a soule a king paradise and our Church all at a blow to make way for their Spanish and halfe-pagan designments Thus is it written in the Iesuites Catechisme Lib. 3 cap. 18. fol. 185. Note heere gentle Reader these materiall points with me First that the Iesuites labour with might and maine as our Secular priests truly write of them to ouerrule the whole world For they would haue had a generall law made that none should be made king of Portugall vnlesse he were a Iesuite and also elected by their consent and suffrages Secondly that they suborned Peter Barriere to kill his and their liegelord the king of France Thirdly that they abused the Sacrament to that end and purpose Fourthly that they promised him Paradise and to be canonized for a martyr if he should kill his soueraigne and die in that quartell Fiftly that all this was done in the honour and behalfe of the Spanish king Put all these together and see if the same be not the Iesuiticall practise heere in England as the Secular priestes haue told vs. It happened vpon Saint Iohn Enangelists day in the yeare 1594. after the reducing of Paris vnder obedience to their soueraigne that the king going to his chamber accompanied with many princes and lords found himselfe vnlookt for sodainly strokeÌ„ in the mouth with a knife so that neither he nor those that were with him could perceiue it For assoone as Iohn Chastell who was the traytor and but nineteene yeares of age had giuen the stroke he dropped downe the knife and set himselfe in the midst of the prease Euerie one was in a maze and busie to thinke who had done that trayterous déed and it wanted not much but that this young yâ—uth had made an escape Notwithstanding God would not permit that this detestable act should remaine vnpunished By chance it was that some ore casting his eyes vpon him he became as one sore affrighted and appald with feare But as he promised himselfe to haue the paradise of Iesuites if he died one of their martyrs so also he confessed this fact more readily and promptly then was looked for at his hands Whereby by decree of the Court of Parliament in Paris he was condemned to die I haue no greater argument then this to shew that the trade of murthering was lodged within their Colledges For where there was any exercise of good education and studie no scholler would haue vndertaken such a damnable determination but such a one
THE ANATOMIE OF POPISH TYRANNIE Wherein is conteyned a plaine declaration and Christian censure of all the principall parts of the Libels Letters Edictes Pamphlets and Bookes lately published by the Secular priests and English hispanized Iesuites with their Iesuited Arch-priest both pleasant and profitable to all well affected readers Esdr. vers 42. Magna est veritas praeualet LONDON Printed by Iohn Harison for Richard Bankworth dwelling in Paules Churchyard at the signe of the Sunne 1603. To the Reuerend father the ornament of learning and religion TOBIE the wise graue zealous and worthie Bishop of Durham THat excellent sentence worthie to be written in golden letters Right Reuerend father which the good Iew man of God Zorobabel pronounced confidently before the mightie king Darius viz. Magna est veritas praeualet is this day verified God be blessed for it euen in the publike writings of the Iesuites against the secular priests their owne deare Popish brethren And reciprocally of the secular priestes against the Iesuites their religious fathers and holy fryers The deepe and serious consideration whereof hath possessed mine heart with such vnspeakable solace as I can not easily with penne and ynke expresse the same Such is the force of truth my good Lord that it hath enforced the professed enemies of truth a thing verie rare and to be admired to testifie the truth against themselues and to publish the same in printed books to the view of the whole world God say the popish priests hath most straungely and in verie deed as it may be termed miraculously reuealed the truth which long hath beene hidden Thus them selues write of themselues Hence proceedeth that rare conceiued ioy which hath enuironed me on euerie side And which I am well assured cannot but bring great contentment to your Lordship and to all true hearted English subiects For as the Apostle saith Some preach Christ through enuie and strife and some of good will The one sort preacheth Christ of contention and not purely but the others preach him of loue What then yet Christ is preached all manner waies whether it be vnder pretence or syncerely and I therein ioy yea and will ioy Thus wrteth the chosen vessell of our Lord Iesus The Iesuites puffed vp with enuie and malice against the secular priests doe vnwittingly and vnwillingly bolt out many important truthes not onely against themselues and to their owne great preiudice but also to the euerlasting scandall and vtter ruine of theit patched hotch-potch late Romish religion The Secular priests turmoyled with the vniust vexations of the cruell Iesuites seeke by all aswell indirect as direct meanes to redeeeme their iniust molestations and to defend themselues from their villanous and diabolicall dealing The while they are thus busied they cannot inuent or deuise how to find out any end of their miseries but by laying open to the world the badde and irreligious conuersation of the Iesuites and by imputing to them those disloyall treacheries and most bloodie complots wherewith their owne hearts and hands had sometime beene imbrewed And consequently while they are encombred to disgrace and gall the malepeart and trayterous Iesuites they doe vnawares grieuously wound themselues euen with their owne chosen weapons They freely grant and can it not denie that all papists were kindly dealt withall vntill such time as themselues gaue iust cause by their disloyall plots and bloudie practises against her Maiestie of greater restraint and sharper proceeding against them For first they grant that the Earles of Northūberland Westmerlād with their adherēts were rebels their insurrectiō flat treasō that the pope ioyned with thē that he excōmunicated her Maiestie that he assoyled her subiects from their allegeance to her that he sent two popish priests Morton and VVebbe my selfe knew them both right well to bring the excommunication into England which they effected accordingly that the Pope assigned the Duke of Norfolke to be the head of the rebellion that he gaue order to Ridolphi the Florentine to take 150000 crownes to set forwarde the saide rebellion That the King of Spaine at the Popes instance determined to send the Duke of Alua into England that with all his forces he might assist the Duke of Norfolke Secondly they grant that the pope plotted with Stuckeley Fitzmo rize and others both English Irish and Italian my selfe was euen then in Rome for enterprise by force into Ireland vnder pretence of religion to further which cruell attempt Sanders did afterward thrust himselfe personally into the like action Thirdly they confesse that Parsons Campian Sherwin and others were sent disloyally into this land from pope Gregory the 13. my selfe was then in Rome and that Parsons presently vpon their arriuall fell to his trayterous Iesuiticall courses and bestirred himselfe with tooth and naile how he might set her maiesties crowne vpon an others heade Fourthly they confesse that the Iesuite Heywood was sent into Englād from the Pope that he tooke vpon him to call a synode and to abrogate auncient customes to the great scandall of many Fiftly they confesse that the Pope plotted with the King of Spaine for the assistance of the Duke of Guise to enter vpon the sodaine and to aduance the Queene of Scotland to the crowne of England For the better effecting whereof Mendoza a Iesuite as they write then ledger in this land for the king of Spaine set on worke Frances Throcmorton and many others They adde there vnto that about the same time Arden and Somervile had conspired how they might lay violent hands vpon her Maiesties sacred person Sixtly they write that about the same time Parrie was also plotting with the Iesuites beyond the sea how he might haue effected the like villanie Seuenthly they confesse freely that the earle of Northumberland was drawne into the plot of the Duke of Guise and that Parsons the bloudie Iesuite was him selfe an actor therein Eightly they write plainely that Babington and his complices committed such notorious treason against her maiestie as it was shameles boldnesse to deny or qualifie the same Ninthly they confesse roundly that Sir William Stanley committed notable treacherie falsified his faith to her maiesty Tenthly they write plainly that in the yeare 1588. the King of Spaine made a most cruell bloudie attempt not only against her Maiesty to vse the priests-words and their commō enemies but also against themselues all catholikes and their owne natiue countrey The memorie of which attempt as the priests write will be an euerlasting monument of Iesuiticall treason and brutish crueltie Eleuenthly they grant that Richard Hesket was set on by the Iesuites in the yeere 1592. or their abouts to haue stirred vp the Earle of Darbye to rebell against her maiestie Where I may not omit to deliuer mine owne knowledge in this behalfe This Hesket I knew very well in his life conuersation and professiō I
reside and the walkes which they frequent That so her maiesties person may be secured and their natiue countrie preserued form the treasonable practises of those trayterous villaines For if they say they may not this doe least so they become the cause of their imprisonment exile or death that cannot serue there turne nor be a sufficient excuse for them in this behalfe I proue it First for that they shal no otherwise become such a cause thē they haue beene the same alreadie by reuealing their tresonable plots and bloudie treacheries Secondly because thereby they shall doe nothing els then that which as themselues write they are bound in conscience to performe Thirdly because in so doing they shall onely effect that which the law of iustice requireth at their handes as themselues doe graunt Fourthly because how often soeuer two euils doe so concurre that both can not be auoyded but that of necessitie the one must happen then it is not onely charitie but euerie man is also bound to preuent the greater euill with the permission of the lesse For the clearing hereof I will here recount the priestes their owne expresse words which though they be longe yet doe I with the reader to marke them attentiuely because they are verie important plainly conuince so much as I intend First you know say the Priestes it is a generall receiued ground by all that when the actions of any particular man or men be they of what degree they will be secular or religious ecclesiasticall or lay doe tende to anie generall or common huit of a communitie as for example the actions of some particular seruant in a familie to the ruine or ouerthrow of the familie the actions of some particuler scholers in a colledge to the subuersion of the colledge or the actions of some particuler men in a common weale to the destruction of a common weale It is then not onely lawfull to disclose these particuler men and their particuler actions though otherwise priuate diffamatorie to the said particuler parties as all such actions of their owne nature must needes be but also euerie honest seruant euerie faithfull seruant euerie true scholler and loyall subiect is bound in conscience vpon his dutie to his master faith to his colledge loyaltie to his Prince and loue to his countrie to disclose such persons and their facts or intentions without regarde or respect vnto the hurt or damage that may redound to the said particuler parties so offending The reason hereof is this because a generall good is alwaies to be preferred before a particuler and a greater hurt to be eschewed before the lesse As for example when two euils concurre so that both cannot be auoyded but that necessarily the one must happen it is not onely charitie but euerie man is also bound to preuent the greater euill with permission of the lesse rather then the contrarie These words are set downe at large in this manner in the replie to Parsons libell Fol. 28. a. This is a goodly foundation which the Priests haue laid as which indeede is grounded vppon the verie law of nature And out of this grounde may so much fitly be deduced as is sufficient to conclude my scope and purpose If therefore the secular priestes doe in deede meane truly to their Prince and countrie as they pretend in outward shew of words then no doubt they will doe as is alreadie said But if they refuse thus to deale against the traytorous crew of Iesuites for the common good of their natiue countrie then doe they but dissemble and equiuocate when they tell vs they will take part with our Queene and countrie against the Pope and king of Spaine Thus much I thought good to set downe for a caueat to the reader For these obseruations being well remembred the reader shall be more able to iudge of the discourse following This caueat must be well pervsed throughly vnderstood and faithfully remembred or els the reader cannot possibly be able to yeelde a sounde censure vpon the whole worke First therfore reade it then vnderstande it that donne giue thy iudgement as indifferencie and right reason shall prescribe An admonition to the Reader MAnie bookes are lately written by the Iesuites and secular Priests viz the Relation the Sparing discouerie the Important cōsiderations the Hope of peace the Copies of discourse the Quodlibets the Dialogue the answer to the Iesuited gentlemā the Letters of A. C the Apologie the reply to the libell of Parsons the Iesuite the aunswer to the Apologie compiled by Master D. Ely M. Colletons defence the manifestation of folly the Replie to the Apologie the Franke discourse the Iesuites catechisme Which two last bookes the learned Papistes of France haue lately published All these bookes I haue pervsed verie seriously and drawen the summarie and chiefe points of them all vnto certaine heads distincte bookes and chapters So as the indifferent reader may in a few houres vnderstand the effect of the whole proceeding betweene the Iesuites and the secular priestes I haue like wise compiled an Alphabeticall table in which the reader may easilie finde out at his pleasure any principall matter handled in this discourse To read all the said bookes is a labour both tedious and painefull To buy them is too chargeable for manie To vnderstand them as they are cōfusely published is a thing not easie for the greater part The defect herein my annotations and compendious obseruations will supplie The argument of the booke is so necessary for all true hearted English subiects that I wish euerie one to be well acquainted therewith The reader may at his pleasure and that with all facilitie turne to the originall in euerie booke by me named and by the helpe of my quotations finde out roundly the verie wordes which I put downe For I alwaies name both the booke and the page and doe euer alledge their owne words That done I haue inserted some speciall notes obseruatiōs as I deemed it expediēt for the good of the reader Paule planted Apollo watred but the God of heauen gaue the increase The same God I most humblie desire so to water the hearts of the readers with the dewe of his heauenly blessing that they may thereby learne to detest all Iesuiticall treasons and seditious Popish factions Fare-well The first Booke contayning certaine Preambles for the better instruction of the Reader as also that the bookes following may be read more seriously and with greater perspicuitie Preamble I. Of the syncere and true dealing of the Author throughout this discourse THe Iesuits are thought of the simply seduced Papists to be holy men to haue familiaritie with God to haue receiued extraordinary graces from heauen and to be saints vpon earth So then if my selfe should of my selfe speake any thing against them I might perhaps get smal or no credite on that behalfe But when I shal write nothing of them but euen that which their owne brethren in Religion their
their owne doctrine if their supposall were graunted Which they disloyally auouch like arrant traytors as their fellow priests rightlie terme them yet were prescription sufficient in that behalfe Thirdly that they haue offered huge masses of gold and money so to allure men domestical or forraine to the cruel murder and bloudie massacre of our gracious soueraigne most noble Queene Elizabeth If papists themselues had not thus written my selfe could hardly haue beleeued it Preamble XVIII Of Obedience which must be giuen to the Pope against all kinges Princes and monarches of the world IN all warres which may happen for religion euery Catholike man is bound in conscience to imploy his person and forces by the Popes direction viz. how farre when and where eyther at home or abroad he may and must breake with his temporall soueraigne This doctrine was laid downe for a ground in iustifying Sir William Stanleyes disloyall treacherie against his naturall and annointed Soueraigne in the yeare 1587. These words are set downe in the important considerations Page 23. 24. and they are granted of the Iesuites Apol. 172. Sée the fourth booke and fift chapter and note the words Note heere gentle Reader these important points with me First that all Kings Queenes and Monarches of the Christian world are by this popish Maxime and Iesuiticall ground brought into the bondage and slauery of the Bishop of Rome and must be his slaues and vnderlings to doe what pleaseth him Secondly that the Secular priests who vnwittingly haue deliuered this doctrine against themselues are guiltie of the same treacherie with the Iesuites though not perhaps in the same degree For seeing the seculars doe professe their obedience to the Pope in euerie thing and do withall submit both themselues and all their writings to his holy censure as is to be seene at large in this discourse they must needes approoue and like well of this most traiterous doctrine because the Pope liketh and approoueth the same Thirdly that all the Papist in England which ioyne with the Iesuites who are verie many doe obstinâ—tely embrace this Iesuiticall doctrine and so are guiltie of high treason Preamble XIX Of the King of Spayne his purpose and intent against England THat the new king regnant in Spaine plotteth by Iesuiticall faction and resolueth to proceed where his father left against England it is most apparant by the present action in Ireland as also by sundrie of father Parsons subiects sent hither to be agents on the Spanish behalfe for that purpose All which doe conuince the Iesuiticall hispanized faction of falshoode hypocrisie sedition and treason and that it is not religion which the king present careth for more then his father did before him but maketh that onely a pretence to seduce all Catholikes and to draw them to rebellion hoping thereby to haue their spéedier aide and assistance making them and you all deare Catholiks to cut one anothers throate These words are set downe in the preface to the important considerations in the fourth leafe therof Note heere gentle Reader that the Iesuites bend all their thoughts words and actions to stirre vp rebellion and bloodie trecherie euerie where as also that the king of Spayne now regnant is as readie as was his father afore him to effect both in Ireland and in England all bloodie practises which the high counsell of Iesuiticall reformation shall designe and appoint to be done Preamble XX. Of the Iesuiticall hotch-potch Religion IT is a plaine testimonie of no religion in the Iesuites but flat Atheisme making religious pietie but onely amutter of meere pollicie by sending forth trumpetters to sound out their and Blackwels vertues quodl 6. art 4. pag. 168. The Iesuites haue made religion but an art of such as liue by their wits and a verie hotch-potch of emâ—â—m gâ—â—herum quodlibet 2. art 8. pag. 42. The Iesuites are to be marked out for the most malitious traiterous and irreligious calumniators that euer liued on earth vnworthie that euer the earth should heare them and it is an intollerable indignitie to the whole Church of GOD that euer such wicked members should liue vnpunished in her as they doe Quodlibet 4. art 2. page 99. Note heere gentle Reader these important points with me First that these good fellowes who pretend to bee sent of God from Heauen to reforme the English Church and State are men of no religion but men that make religion a matter of meere policie Secondly that they are so wicked so irreligious and so trayterous as the like were neuer heard of Thirdly that it is a great shame for the whole Church of God that such badde fellowes doe liue vnpunished These things well considered hee that will thinke them or the Seculars to be Gods ambassadours may iustly be deemed as wise as hee that hath no witt at all For God is so highly offended with their trayterous dealings and damnable practises that hee hath enforced themselues to discouer their owne bad proceedings against themselues that so all the worlde may knowe their abhominations and detest them with all their traiterous and cursed machinations The second Booke contayning the treacheries and tyrannie of the Pope and his Iesuiticall faction breathed out against the sacred Maiestie of Gods annoynted CHAP. I. Of the swarmes of Iesuites and Seminaries or Secular priests in this Realme of England THe number of Iesuites and secular priests in England is excéeding great as by this discourse will be made apparant and the said cursed brood is increased euery day Thrée hundred seminarie priests besides the Iesuites haue béene sent from the Pope into England And because many doe not vnderstand fully the difference betwéene Iesuites Seminaries and Secular priests it shall not be amisse briefely to instruct them in that behalfe Euerie Iesuite euen he that is but a lay-brother maketh a solemne vow of three speciall and important points whereof many of them I dare not say the greater part séeme not truly to kéepe any one And I doe not barely say it but the Seminarists shall contest the same with me The three essentiall points of Iesuiticall professioÌ„ are these in expresse termes viz. pouertie chastity and obedience Which triple vowe is common to the Iesuites with all their popish sects And for this triple vow it is that they are called religious But how truly they enioy and deserue that name let the indifferent reader iudge when he shall haue perused this discourse For albeit religious profession be a separating of men from the actions of the world yet doe they deale altogether with the world The Secular priests are all manner of priests which make not the said triple vow viz. All priests which are not 〈◊〉 or fryers For our lordly Iesuites are by profession and solemne vow poore munkes and lowly fryers They are called secular for distinction sake because they 〈◊〉 haue proprietie in secular prossessions of the world 〈◊〉 which the others are by vow abandoned but will by 〈…〉 now and then
be intermedling a little therewithall shall 〈…〉 I say for distinction sake beâ—â—â—â—â— the word secular both fitly distinguish them from the Dominicans Carthusians Benedictines Carmelites Iesuites and the rest All which are called religious because they make a more strict profession of religion then other Christians doe howsoeuer they keepe the same The seminarie priests are méere secular as well as they that neuer were out of this land They are called seminaries because they studie and are maintained in the Colledges or seminaries and some of them neuer are made priests at all I say some because verie few are in that predicament CHAP. II. Of the vnspeakable dissention betweene the Iesuites and Secular priests THe malice of the new vpstart Iesuites is exceeding great and the wâ—th plainely that they are badde fellâ—â—â—s licentâ—â—â—s proud hautie cruell couetous ambitious 〈◊〉 deceitfull irreligious nothing lesse then that which they would seeme and professe to bee All this to be tree shall euidently appeare out of printed bookes 〈◊〉 euen by the Iesuites themselues and the secular priests to the iudgement of all the world yea the Pope himselfe in his sacred Pallaâ—◠〈◊〉 For of Weston the Iesuite thâ—s write the priests a man as impatient as some of his fellowes and of as hautie a spirit as any man can be It was wonderfull to consider what humblenes simplicitie he would pretend in the time of his prouincialship His sighes and zeale seemed to be extraordinarie as though the perteetion of true mortification had béene the onely thing he aymed at Marrie with all his hypocrisie he deceiued none but such as did not looke narrowly into his proceedings A righter Pharisee cannot easily be found In the most of his humility nothing did trouble him more then that Master Bagshaw being a Doctor of Diuinitie should haue place before him at the table insomuch as the better to content him we were driuen to place him at the tables end with him Thus write the secular priests in their relation Page 5. Paragraph I. Of the outcries of the Iesuites against the secular priests LIster the Iesuite hath written a booke in which he chargeth all the priestes that appealed to the Pope to be flat schismatikes To which booke Blackwell the Archpriest and Garnet the prouinciall in England did both subscribe In this booke the Iesuites charge the priests to haue fallen from the Church and the spouse of Christ to haue troden vnder their féete their obedience due to the Pope to haue lost their faculties authoritie to be irregular to haue incurred the sentence of excommunication to be in all mens mouthes as infamous persons To be as publicans and sinners and to be nothing better thou are soothsayers and idolaters These words are set downe in their relation Page 60. The Archpriest by Iesuiticall appointment affirmed audaciouslie that he had receiued a resolution from the mother Citie of Rome that the refusers of his authoritie were schismatikes and that he would not giue absolution to any who should make no conscience thereof and gaue direction that they should make account thereof and make satisfaction before they receiued absolution Hee denied to giue any faculties to Master Benson vnlesse he would renounce the schismaticall conuenticle of the secular priests Hee declared also that M. Moore had written in preiudice of the faith when he wrote in the behalfe of the priests concerning the matter of schisme whereupon neither his ordinarie ghostly father would administer the sacraments to him nor his ghostly children receiue any of him or be present when he said masse These words are set downe in the hope of peace Page 31. Our Arch-priest chafeth the prouinciall his good master clappes him on the backe and egges him forward the rest of the Iesuites what their tongues and prepare their pens to speake and write what they can falsely deuise to make vs odious so as presently we are become a by-word in their mouthes and are nothing with them but rebels Apostates and what they list to report of vs. These wordâ— are set downe in the relation Page 60. The Iesuites caused a libell to be cast out against doctor Lewis a secular priest and for that they loued the man in the course of their hote charitie they made this deuout prayer for him vel Turca velmors vel demon euen eripiat à nobis Eyther the Turke or death or the diuell take him away from vs. And indeed not long after he died we leaue it to Gods iudgement whether they were the causers of it or not Thus write the priests in their discouerie Page 32. quodl 4. art 2. pag. 97. The Iesuites triumphed openly vpon the death of an other English priest Cardinall Allen by name and amongst other their calumniations against him they said that God had taken him away in good time for if he had lâ—â—ed longer he would haue disgraced himselfe and lost the credit which he had got These men haue the best fortune in the world for no man if once they begin to hate him doth liue any long time after it These words are set downe in the discouerie Page 34. In the same place the priests write that the said Cardinall was thought to be poysoned by Iesuiticall meanes and procurement Paragraph II. Of the outcries which the Secular priests make against the Iesuites THe priests exclaime against the Iesuites for their Machiuilian practises diabolicall plots in their concurrence incitements and execrable perswasions which they vsed and practised with the Spaniards and with other forraine and domesticall powers for the inuasion conquest and vtter subucrsion of most noble England of her sacred Maiestie and of all her loyall and faithfull subiects This is true Catholike religion in this case and true English nature and valure true faith and true charitie and what the Iesuits perswade vs toward a conquest of our deare countrey vpon pretence of neuer so much pietie were abhominable disloyaltie in vs to our prince These words are set downe in the answere to the Iesuited gentleman Page 70. The Iesuites affect rule ouer the secular cleargie so to bring armes and conquest into the Church contrarie to all scriptures and to that end they doe manage matters of state more machiuilianly then Machiuell himselfe as appeares by their erection of the Arch-priest and all his carriages according to them and it These words are set downe in the aunswere to the Iesuited gentleman Page 79. Wee all of the Secular Cleargie vna voce doe vtterly disclayme and renounce from our hearts both Arch-priest and Iesuites as arrant traitors vnto their prince and countrey whom to death we will neuer obey no if the Popes holines should charge vs to obey in this sense to aduance an enemie to the English Crowne we would neuer yeeld to it as by no law of nature of nations or of man to be compelled therevnto These words with many moe to the like effect are
other superiours of the Iesuites gloried and triumphed in their rebellious dealing Thirteenthly that a Pyaâ—it is set vp in Paris bearing the euerlasting memoriall not onely of the traytor Chastell but of the Iesuites also that all posterities may know what a kind of seditious and trayterous people they are I might here adde manie other most cruell and trayterous murders plotted and contriued by the Iesuites But in regard of breuitie I referre the reader that shall desire more of this kind of their hellish diuinitie to that worthie booke which the French papistes haue put forth intituled the Iesuites catechisme A golden booke indeede Paragraph VII Of the vowes of the Iesuites Touching the vowes of the Iesuites it is not amisse to put downe this corrolarie as a fit preamble to the discourse following To conclude as long as we mingle the bringing vp of our youth with this munkerie of Iesuits we shall neuer be able to saue our selues from this vnhappie confusion whereof the citie of Paris thankes be to God is at this day discharged But I speake to them who being coozened protecte as yet this new monster with their authoritie These words are put downe in the Iesuites catechisme libr. 2. cap. 8. fol. 97. I will begin with the simple vow of Iesuiticall order which I may say is new and monstrous and which can not be tollerated in our Church without the ouerthrowing thereof at the least in regard of religious orders and monasteries The first vow of their order is that which they call the simple vow by which he that will vow himselfe to their societie makes at the first the three ordinarie vowes of all other religious orders namely of chastitie pouertie and obedience And although in respect of himselfe he may not after this vow giue ouer his profession yet it is in the power of the generall to dismisse him when he will though he haue beene a Iesuite .25 yeares And which is more as longe as he goes no farder then this simple vowe he is capable of all inheritances direct and collaterall notwithstanding the vowe of pouertie which he hath made These words are set downe in the Iesuites catechisme lib. 5. cap. 9. fol. 97. It is a new law as also the simple vow of chastitie is which this societie makes which hinders mariage to bee contracted and disannuls it after it is contracted Ibid. fol. 98. What new monster then is that which our Iesuites bring from the Church that he which becomes one of their order may breake of his marriage without sinning thereby against his wife So that vpon a bare discontentment of the husband the poore desolate wife shall remaine vnmaried according to the lawes of Iesuitisme and yet may not marry an other husband because the lawes of christianity forbids it These words are put down in the Iesuites catechisme lib. 2. cap. 15. fol. 113. Note here gentle reader that the religion of Iesuites is nothing els in deede but an hotch-potch of omnium githerum as the seculars rightly terme it For first they vow pouertie and so they abandon all wordly possessions and yet are they capable of all inheritances direct and collaterall after the making of their simple vow Secondly though gods Lawe forbid the seperation of husband and wife sauing the case of fornication yet they roundly dissolue wedlocke vpon the sole and only making of their simple vow So as wee may truely say of these Iesuites as doe the french papistes els where in these words the Iesuites would say that their simple vow is a vow of a pettie dissimulation and that they thinke to deceiue God by the same sophistrie which the old pagan vsed wheÌ„ he said iuraui lingua mentem iniuratam habeo which protestatioÌ„ was condemned by theÌ„ of the time though they were not christians So saith the Iesuite I vowed pouertie with my tongue but in my mind I had a bird that sung an other songe And thinking by this shift to make vs like to their new doctrine he plaies three partes at once the Iesuite the heretique and the Machiuelist These words are put downe in the Iesuites catechisme libr. 2. cap. 10. fol. 100. This reseruing of the goods say the Iesuites is not for them who haue renounced this right but to helpe them afterward if happily they should be dismissed Therefore if they be not dismist these goods appertaine to their order Was there euer more notorious coozenage then this Alas I wonder not indeede that they very seldome dismisse their disorderly Iesuite for in so doing this fat morsell would fall out of their mouth But why is that Iesuite during this simple vow kept away from his kinâ—ed Why is he sent out of one country into another But to the end that if any new inheritance should fall vnto him no man might certainly know what his condition is nor know howe to call in question the right he pretends Well in the end he is freed from his vow that he may be out of daunger of all impeachments and hinderances Which done hee shall proue himselfe to be the right heire and yet by a watch-word betwixt him and them he shall returne afterward to the Iesuites to bestow his goods in almes vpon them Adde herevnto that this is a point that toucheth the estate that by this meanes it is easie for the Iesuite to make him selfe in time maister and head of many cities townes villages and castles according to the qualitie of them whom he hath drawen vnto him Let vs put the case that their are a doozen gentlemen of good houses for such they labour to bring into their societie that haue made theÌ„selues Iesuites and that some ciuill or forraine warres hath taken away all their brethren who now but the Iesuites of the simple vow shall succeede in their inheritance and so being admitted to thier first solemne vow shall enrich their order there with all And in time they will become monarches These words are set downe in the catichisme libr. 5. cap. 15. fol. 9. The Iesuites after their simple vow make a solemne vow by which they adde nothing to the former but only that by making this second they cannot any more inherit nor be dismist by their generall There remaines now the third which is the vow of three steps by which besides pouertie chastitie and obedience vowed by them they make a particular vow of mission to our holy father the Pope which is to goe to the Indies Turkie for yâ— winning of the soules if they be commanded by his holiâ—sse But aboue all I make great account of that precise pouertie which is inioyned them by their constitutions runne through all the orders of religion there is not one of them in which pouertie is so recommended as among the Capuchâ—nes which liue from hand to mouth and put ouer the care for to morrow to the onely goodnes of God The foundation of the profest which are the Iesuites of the great vow is to vow
Of his notortous treasons and bloodie trecheries THe next point brought in by father Parsons is the last Irish attempt but before we say any thing to that we must put his fatherhood in minde of his practises concerning two other preparations wherein he cannot denie himselfe to haue beene not onely a dealer but also the verie chiefe and principall actor The first was that wheâ—in Doctor Stillington and some others got their death which miscarried by reason of the ignorance of their pilotes or rather by the prouision of God thirtie foure ships being shiuered vpon their owne bayes If he denie this wee haue master Thomas Leake a reuerend priest and others witnes thereto with whom he dealt to goe in that armie And because master Leake refused he intreated him accordingly This preparation was intended as then was thought for Ireland The second preparation was some thrée or foure yeares after if I be not deceiued of which father Parsons maketh mention in a letter written to master Thomas fitzharbert from Rome into Spayne desiring to heare of the successe thereof saying withall that they had little hope of that attempt at Rome This preparation as I remember was in the same yeare that the Earle of Essex went into the Ilands and it miscaried also by tempests These two preparations are so euident to haue procéeded with his concurreÌ„ce cooperation as he no way can denie it without the note of impudencie so many witnesse and his owne letters being in testimonie against him What wise man will not laugh at father Parsons to heare him in such sober protestation affirme that he neuer intended that the king of Spaine should haue any temporall interest to the Crowne of England and yet by all his might and power seeke to make him master thereof by inuasion and force of armes Was the booke of titles wherein the kings daughter the Ladie Infanta was intituled to all her Maiesties dominions writ to no purpose but to exercise father Parsons wit was it a vaine speculation in the ayre without relation to effect or end there is a most trayterous letter of his extant which in time may come to light But should I labour to light a candle at noone tide whose positions good father are these the Catholikes in England may fauour Tyrone in his warres and that with great merit and hope of eternall reward as though they warred against the Turkes All Catholikes do sinne mortally that take part with the English against Tyrone can neyther be saued nor absolued from their sinnes by any priest vnlesse they repent and leaue the English They are in the same case that shall helpe the English with any victuals or any such like thing The most worthie prince Hugh ô Neale and other Catholikes of Ireland that fight against the Queene are by no construction rebels How say you fryer Robert out of what forge came these warlike engins they were hammered in Salamanca the seuenth day of March 1602. and are as you see read hote But what Vulcan was the workeman of them you shall heare euerie one of them speake for themselues So I Iohn de Sequenza professour of Diuinitie in the Colledge of the societie of Iesus in the famous Vniuersitie of Salamanca do thinke I Emanuel de Royas professor of Diuinitie in the same Colledge of the societie of Iesus am of the same opinion I Iasper de Mena professor of diuinitie and of the sacred scripture in the same Colledge doe assent to these fathers sentence as to an assured truth I Peter Osorio preacher in the Colledge of the societie of Iesus at Tire ain altogether in iudgement with these fathers Now father Parsons speake out man haue any of your company beene practicioners in the treasons of Ireland the Catholike author of the Iesuites Catechisme telleth vs that all the late rebellious treacheries and murthers hée there mentioneth were plotted and contriued in the colledges of the Iesuites in France and doe not these Iesuiticall professors tell vs as much of their owne procéedings in their colledges in Spaynt for our treasons rebellions and murthers in Ireland I can be but sorie that the auncient Christian faith and rebellion of Christ should thus be scandalized by Machiuilians vnder pretence of the blessed name of Iesus We can alledge his letter written to the Earle of Angus the 24. of Ianuarie 1600. wherein he confesseth that he had laboured eight or tenne yeares for his Maiesty of Scotland and the preferment of his title with the summe of twentie hundred crownes a yeare for two yeares together from Spayne which were as hee saith disbursed in the yeare 1583. and 84. as also 4000. crowns procured to yâ— same effect from Pope Gregory the 13. by bil of exchange which he confesseth he brought to Paris and there deliuered it And he saith the same had continued it any correspondencie of gratitude or hope had continued from Scotland with no small assurance of farre greater matters and aduauncement to the kings person if the enemies since of both our Realmes as hée saith had not ouer throwne and altered that course This he hath in that letter and much more Whereby you may perceiue what his practises haue béene from time to time against her Maiestie and State séeking first as you see by large pensions from Spayne to worke with the Scots and others for the vntimely aduancement of his title which must haue beene with the ouerthrow of her Maiestie or otherwise you know it could not haue beene And heere I request the reader to note these labours of father Parsons for the affayres of Scotland to haue beene in the yeares 1583. and 1584. in which selfe same yeare happened the trayterous plots of Patry Frances Throgmorton and the Earle of Northumberland and the practises with the Duke of Guise Spayniard and other English abroade about the deliuerie of the Queene of Scots and ouerthrow of her Maiestie and shortly after the treasons of Babington and his complices Which I note that you may see how father Parsons courses concurred at the same instant with their attempts and by this you may gesse whether it be not more then probable that he was inward with all those deuises and perhaps some of that money was imployed to the setting forward of those attempts though he would seeme cleare in all things But it is Gods will that his owne letters and writings should discouer his dealings There want not other letters of his and his complices which shew his good will towards our soueraigne and countrey but these shall be sufficient at this time These words are set downe in the reply to Parsons libell Fol. 65. fol. 66. fol. 67. fol. 68. The Iesuite Parsons caused the students in Spayne to subscribe to the Ladie Infantaes title to the crowne of England and to what else he would hauing gotten their names to three seuerall blankes These wordes are set downe in the hope of peace page 22. and they are defended to be true in
lawfull and a matter of conscience to obey his wicked and most execrable sentence when hee appointed the English preiests and others to take part with the Spanish powers against their soueraigne And heere by the way the gentle reader may note this excellent and golden corollary viz that though the priests and all Papists hold if for a coÌ„stant maxime that the pope is the onely iudg in controuersies yet doe the priests now when the case toucheth themselues take vpon them to censure the Pope and to say bouldly that they will not because they are not bound in such and such cases to obey him Marke well for Christs sake it is not my doctrine but the doctrie of the secular Priests and so of greatest force against them and all other papists The fourth conclusion THe Pope hath no authoritie to assoyle or exempt the subieces of this Realme from the homage to her maiestie This conclusion is cleare and plaine by the free graÌ„t and open confession of the secular Priests where and when they write in expresse tearmes as you haue heard in the chapters a foregoing more then once that the Pope hath no power ouer yâ— law of nature which is indeed the law of God therfore he is no more to be obeyed therein theÌ„ if he should command to commit adulterie incest or to murder our selues or our parents that I may vse the priests their owne words And the case is euident to euery childe for who knoweth not that no inferiour hath power to chaung or alter the law of his superiour And yet is it cleare I weene enen in the opinion of euery papist that God is the Popes superiour and so the Pope hath not to chaunge or alter his law How the difficultie is this if there be any difficultie at all whether the Popes fact in assoylinge subiects from their loyaltie be against the law of nature or nor To which I aunswere briefly that it is so And I proue it because our allegeance to our soueraigne is coÌ„prised in the first precept of the decalogue which is morall and of the law of nature under the name of parents For in the name of parents are contained and vnderstood al superiours by what title or name soeuer they be termed all both old and late writers without exception doe so hold write and beleeue If any papist can this denie let him put downe his reasons I am readie to reply vpon him But I suppose none of theÌ„ will oppose himselfe against this vndoubted truth I therefore conclude that the late bishops of Rome shew who and what they are when they proudly take vpon them to assoyle subiects from their allegeance and naturall obedience to their Prince CHAP. X. Of the secular Priests and there late Printed Bookes Paragraph I. Of there religion in matters of state THe secular priests professe themselues to hould constantly euery point and article of the Romish faith For thus doe they write name that article or one point of the catholike Romish faith wherein the secular priests doe either stagger in themselues or seeke to seduce you These words are set downe in the preface to the important considerations fol. 4. page 2. Touching this demande I haue thought it worth the labour to make a syncere answeare vnto the priests out of their owne papers and writinges published to the iudgement of the world Partly that they themselues may see if they will not continue obstinate their owne folly in religion as also the great absurdities which thereby they do vnwittingly and vnwillingly admit and defend Partly also that others may dislike their religion and more zealously embrace the truth First therefore the bishoppe of Rome holdeth that he may and can assoyle subiects from their allegeance and depriue her maiestie from her royall dâ—ademe The Iesuites affirme it Cardinall Allanâ— approued it and your selues haue granted the same as I haue alreadie shewed How either you the secular priestes I meane hold the same opinion or not If ye doe not then are yee not such perfect papists as you write If ye doe so hould then are you traytors against your soueraigne aswell as the Iesuites whome yet your selues tearme arraÌ„t traytors as they are indeede Secondly the Pope houldeth That Queene Elizabeth is not the lawfull Queene of England but an vsurper and pretensed Queene you know it you write so How if you hold not so you are not perfect papists If you hold so you are arrant traytors Beare with mee for my wordes youre selues haue prouoked mee therevnvnto Thirdly the Pope holdes that her maiesties subiects may and ought to take part with the king of Spain against her If you hold not so you are not perfect papists If you hold so you are ranke traytors Fourthly the Pope holds that he may consecrat grains and â—gnus deis and grant pardon to all them that will take parte with him against our soueraigne and vse them as signes and seales of that couenant If you hold not so you are not perfect papists If you hold so you are traytors Fiftly the pope holds and his papists with him as I haue the wed that subictes must in conscience follow his direction in all warres for religion If you hold not so you are not sound Romish catholikes or papiste If you hold so you are traytours Master Saunders a secular priest iustifieth the rebellion in the North and holdeth the Earles with their adherents to be glorious martyrs Morton and Webbe doe hold the same opinion who are likewise secular priests the Iesuites at Rome are of the same stampe and defend the same treason in the highest degrée for Alphonsus the Iesuite then rector of the English colledge in Rome caused the Organs to be sounded in the English chappell all the students to come to the chappell of which number my selfe was one and then and there hee himselfe putting on his backe a white surplesse to signifie for sooth the puritie of the matyrdome and the stole about his necke sange a collect of marrtyrs so after his manner canonizing Campion the rebell for a saint This to be so Iohn Mush one of these secular priests knoweth right well and cannot denie the same seing himselfe was then present in the colledge at Rome which publique solemnitie for a traytorous Iesuite Campion I meane Alphonsus durst not haue attempted doubtles vnlesse he had first obtained the consent of his generall neither yet would yâ— generall for he durst not so haue done haue approued the fact if he had not had the consent of the Pope whose consent is the consent of all the popish Church To which I must needes adde that it is vsuall amonge the English papists to keepe the relikes of Campion Sherewin and the rest and to pray vnto them as vnto the saints of God How if you secular priestes hold not thus you are not sound papists If you hold so you are arrant traytours So then the seculars are
either not perfect papists or els arrant traytours like the Iesuites Paragraph II. Of the staggering of the Secular Priests in their asseueracions THe priests write that they cannot be iustly charged to stagger in any point Let therefore the indifferent reader be an indifferent iudge in this behalfe Marke the discourse The secular priestes tell vs in their important considerations page 24. that a worthy man hath laid down this for a ground that euery catholike is bound in conscience to employ his person and forces by the popes direction and at his becke to breake with his soueraigne This ground worke you sée is flat treason and yet the priestes tearme him a worthy man that laid the same But how they can this doe and not stagger in their affirmance let others iudge The priests likewise write in their important considerations page 26. that Allan confessed openly that the pope had made him Cardinall for the sweeter managing of the Spanish forces and yet with all they tearme him the good Cardinall on the one side they condemne the Spanish forces on the other side they commend the chiefest agent in that most bloodie and traytorous complot Againe in one place they say they professe their obedience to yâ— pope in an other place quodl 8. art 1. They graunt they may not doe ought against parliament statuets Loe how they stagger The priests say further in their important considerations page 15. and put downe these expresse words we had some of vs greatly approued the said rebellion highly extolled the rebels and pitifully bewayled their ruine and ouerthrow Many of our affections were knit to the Spaniardes and for our obedience to the Pope we all doe professe it The attempt both of the Pope and Spaniards failing in England hâ—s holinesse as a temporall prince displaied his banner in Ireland The plot was to depriue hir highnesse first from the kingdome if they could and then by decrâ—es so depose her from this In all these plots none were more forward then many of vs that were priestes These are their owne wordes Out of which I note first that both the Pope and Spaniards wherefully bent to depose our gratious Queene Elizabeth from Ireland and England by degrees Secondly that the priestes greatly approued this rebellioâ—s course Thirdly that the priests highly extolled the rebels Fourthly that their hearts were knit to the Spaniards Fiftly that the priests did and still doe professe their obedience to the Pope Sixtly that in all these plots none were more forward then the Priestes This notwithstanding they tearme the said attempts rebellion and the agents and dealers therein traytors they put the Pope himselfe in the predicament with the Spaniards and they â—reely confesse that they themselues were as deepe in all these plots and as forward as any others were And yet forsooth they would qualifie the matter so as the state must needs beleeue them and acknowledge theÌ„ for true hearted subiects Hir maiesties honourable counsellors are so wise and carefull of their places and charge committed to them for the peaceable and godly managing of hir dominions as I nothing doubt thereof but they will looke narrowly into yâ— practises of these good fellowes and trâ—e them throughly before they trust them They stagger you see in there assertions and what they say in one place that they gainesay in an other They contemne equiuocations in the Iesuites and I scare me that in matters of state they doe no leise equiuocate themselues they labour to haue a tolleration to liue as they list and they are offended with the reuerend wâ—â—e graue and learned father the good bishop of Durham for that in a sermon at Paules crosse he spoke against the said tolleration But God of his mercie forbid that euer any such tolleration be granted to them for if it be true whâ—ch Christ himselfe telleth vs Mat. 6. that no man can serue two maisters viz. which are opposite and not subordinate th one to the other as it is most true indeede then doubtles cannot these Preistes be true to her maiestie who professe obedience to the Pope her knowen professed enemie But if they shall once ioyne with her good subiects in prayer sacraments openly in the Church which God graunt then may they be thought indeed to be true and faithfull to her sacred person to her honour crowne and royall scepter But in the inâ—erim let vs I pray you beleeue them at leasure Paragraph III. Of the dissimulation which the priests seeme to vse in their bookes THe priests seeme to deliuer plainely and without all equiuocation their great enmitie and hatred against the Iesuites as who say almost nothing of them which my selfe haue not ineffecte published afore both in my booke of motiues and also in my booke of suruey Where I wish the reader to note by the way that my aduersaries haue therein iustified my writings and are not able to charge me with any vntruth in that behalfe The substance likewise of all and euerie thing and thinges contained in their seuerall bookes and treatises which I haue seene viz. There hope of peace their important considerations their sparing discouery their dialogue their relation their quodlibets and sundrie other of their bookes my selfe vpon my owne knowledge am able to contest with them to be a meere truth But when they write that they will stand to hir maiestie against her enemies be their pretences neuer so faire for their country for religion or what els soeuer can bee deuised they must pardon me if I cannot yet giue credite to their pennes that for sundrie reasons First because equiuocation is demed very lawfull euen with the best papistes three circumstances concurring which I haue set downe in my booke of Suruey Secondly because the priests being as yet papists and so not acknowledging her maiestie nor her maiestrates to bee their competent iudges may iustly be suspected in the premises Thirdly because the priests doe still write resolutely that they will performe their obedience to the Pope Paragraph IIII. How the priests doe proudly vant and bragge of their mightie strength and forces HEr Maiestie as write the priests in their answere to the Iesuited gentleman Page 68. hath a wise counsell which cannot but see that though for the present time the estates ecclesiasticall and ciuill both of our countrey being so throughly setled as they are it is méete they thinke and easie we know to keepe the Catholike vnder and supprest yet what hereafter in a chaunge and in a troubled state our partie may worke it selfe they may rather perhaps gesse then preuent Sure I am we are not so ignoble a partie in the land for all the persecution of these fortie yeares but that the vnity thereof with the rest at such a day will perhaps be as requisite for our common-weale as any other The consideration whereof together with other no lesse important may somewhat preuaile with so
Reason All that come out of Spaine must sweare to be rancke traytors against Quéene Elizabeth This is proued in the second booke chapt 4. page 6. Ergo. c. The eight Reason The seminaries in Spaine were intended and erected of purpose to cause a conquest and to bring England into the slauery of the Spaniard This is proued quodlibet 8. art 10. page 278. Ergo. c. The ninth Reason The seculars in their answere to the Iesuited gentlemaÌ„ doe prowdly vaunt of their great power and forces in the 68 page Ergo. The 10 Reason In all the blondie attempts and treasonable practises of the Pope and Spaniards none were more forward then the secular priests This is proued in the important considerations page 15. Ergo. The 11. Reason The seminaries were willing to colour hide and conceale all the attempts intents practises and proceedinges of the Iesuites vntill they were intangled by penall lawes these words are set downe in the preface to the quodlibets Ergo. The 12. Reason All papists seculars and Iesuites maintained one and the same opinion in all the practises and bloudie complots concerning England This is proued quodli 8. art 9. page 277. But some seculars were as forward against Quéene Elizabeth as the bloudie Spaniards as is proued in the 10. Reason Ergo vnfit men to haue a tolleration The 13. Reason The seculers granut fréely as is allready proued at large that they haue many friends both of the nobility and of the gentrie who loue them dearely are deuoted to the Pope Ergo. many other reasons may be gathered to this effect out of this precedent discourse but I will not stande vpon the matter Her Maiesties graue and wise counsellours know best what is to be done herein onely this I wish to be remembred which is already made manifest in the second booke chapter 4. paragraph 1. that the Iesuites are banished out of the kingdome of France for their seditious dealing there For doubtlesse if they be vnfit persons to dwell in that Realme where popery is openly professed and therefore are banished from thence it séemeth not to stand with christian pollicy to grant them a tolleration to liue as they list in England And séeing the seculars were as deepe as forward in all bloudie practises as yâ— Iesuites or spaniards as is alreadie proued seeing with all they doe still professe their obedience to the Pope her Maiesties professed mortall enemie they seeme as dangerous and as vnfit to enioy a tolleration as doe the Iesuites What say I of a tolleratioÌ„ seeing the seculars coÌ„fesse as I haue proued that the penall lawes are iustly made against them it were not a misse thinke I if this their generall maxime were put in execution viz. fiat iustitia ruant coeli For as our quodlibetist telleth vs the execution of priest-hood and treason are now so linked together by the Iesuites in England as they cannot exhort any to the catholike faith but dogmaâ—â—zando in so doing they draw him in effect to rebellion quodl 9. art 4. page 304. note the next reason The 14. Reason The Pope will not suffer nor permit the Iewes to dwell in Rome vnles they will orderly and dutifully heare the popish sermons in their popish Churches and yet are the popish sermons as much against the conscience of the Iew as are the English sermons against the conscience of the papist Againe the Iewes are not the Popes subiects and so doe they owe lesse dutie to the Pope theÌ„ our english papists owe to Quéene Elizabeth And consequently if the Popes practise with the Iewes be made a rule to square and measure the actions of his popish English vassals they must haue no toleration to abide in England vnles they will come to the Church to heare godly sermons To which I must néedes adde that the Iewes liue peaceably in Rome and doe not any way meddle in seditious and treasonable practises which for all that is a thing very common and vsuall with our English papists as is alreadie proued If therefore the execution of popish priesthood be lincked inseperably with treason as is alreadie proued I hope popery will bee so farre from a tolleration as no disloyall papist shall be permitted to haue any footinge within this land The complement of the three former bookes Paragraph I. Containing a golden redolent posie for the Iesuites and their Iesuited familie presented by the secular Priests to signifie their amitie THe Iesuites and their arch-priesbyteran or Spanish faction inueighing against the secular priests for appealing to the Sea apostolike for iustice in spiritualibus and to the regall throne of sacred maiestie in defence apologiticall of their innocencie in temporalibus do peruert all laws customes and orders and arrogate to theÌ„selues a dignitie preheminence authoritie aboue the Pope and Prince are therebie guiltie of high treason These words are set downe in the preface to their dialogue Note heere gentle reader these important points first that by the flat testimonie of the seculars the Iesuites are censured to be guiltie of high treason and consequently that they are worthily condemned by the lawes of this land for the same secondly that these good fellowes the secular priests do make themselues guiltie of the same treason though not in the same degree For their appeale to the Pope in spiritualibus implyeth high treason against their naturall soueraigne Which to be so themselues confesse els where as shall appeare in the next paragraph Paragraph II. Shewing that the secular priests vnawares condemne themselues in their owne publike writings THe seminaries were willing at the first to colour hide and conceale all making the Iesuites causes attempts intents practises and procéedings their owne in euery thing and yéelding to them the preheminence fame honor and renowne in euery action acted by them vntill at last they were intangled by penall lawes iustly made against them equally as against the Iesuits These words are set downe in the preface to the quodlibets Note heere gentle reader these important points with me first that by the free confession of the seminarie priests the penall statutes are iustly made against them and consequently that the seminaries are iustly condemned for treason Secondly that the penal lawes were made as iustly against the seminaries as they were made against the Iesuites and consequently seeing the notorious treasons of the Iesuites were the cause of the said penall lawes it followeth by necessarie consequution that the seminaries are guiltie either of the same or at the least of other like treasons Thirdly that the seminaries for a longe time made all the bloudie intents and treasonable practises of the Iesuites their owne in euerie respect Fourthly that they honoured the Iesuites euen in their bloudie attempts and cuâ—sed treasons Fiftly that the seminaries did hide and conceale the treasons of the Iesuits for the space of twenty yeares together For the Iesuites began their treasons in the yeare 1580.
sheweth copiously But because Parsons in his Apologie laboureth to purge himselfe thereof I haue thought it good to speake a little to that effect in this place Watson the secular priest hath these words we may not imagine that father Parsons was ignorant of his owne base estate as being a sacrilegious bastard in the worst sense sâ—il à spurius begotten by the parson of the parish where he was borne vpon the bodie of a verie base queane This then being so and he not so senselesse as to thinke but that he will find the Canon law more strict in dispensation with him for his irregularitie then the ciuill or common law will be for dispensation to inherit there is no question to be made of it but that some close statute and prouiso was closely made and couertly foysted into the high councel of reformation for enabling some bastards in the spitefullest sense to be capable of any honour or dignitie eyther in the Church or commonwealth And true it is that this good father Parsons alias Cowbucke filius populi filius peccati or the very fiend himselfe might be chosen to a kingdome by his doctrine if any people would be so madde as to chuse him for their king Thus doth our Quodlibetst write The same Watson in an other place writeth of the same Parsons in this manner O monster of mankind fitter for hell then middle earth If thy profession will not draw thee to consideration of the premisses yet shew some signes of charitie in sparkes of grace if it were but onely in pollicie to moue thee to forbeare thy barbarous crueltie because therby thou giuest occasion for diuers to think thou art not a méere man but some fairies brat or begotten by an Incubus or airish spirit vpon the bodie of a base woman thus doth priest Watson write you haue his owne words Againe in an other place he hath these words diuers of father Parsons bookes letters and treatises we haue and doe from our verie hearts vtterly condemne them as containing many seditious and traytorous points and being very full of slaunderous speaches and impudent caluminiations Andreas Philopater being the fruites of father Parsons and father Creswell we hold to be fraught till it almost burst againe as some of my brethren els where haue noted with all Iesuiticall pride and poyson and as touching the exthortation printed 1588. It is so detestable a treatise as all posteritie cannot choose but condemne father Parsons for a most scurrilous traytor if he had been brought vp amongst all the ruffians and curtizans in christendome he could not haue learned to haue writ more vilely prophainely and heathenishly Moreouer the said father Parsons and his fellow father Creswell doe glorie in the said booke that they haue caused not onely it but also Maister Saunders treatise de schismate to be translated into the spanish tongue and doe reioyce that thereby the Spaniards are brought already into a greater detestation of her Maiestie her gouernment and proceedings then they had before Thus writeth Maister Watson and in an other place he telleth vs plainely that he was a lewde boy in his youth that during his aboade at Oxford his conuersation was seditious wanton and factious and that for his libelling and other misdemeanour he was thrust out of Balyoll colledge Againe in an other place he hath these words I meane the great Emperour illegitimate irregular abstract quintessence of all coynes coggeries and forgeries Parsons the bastarde of Stockgersey beyond Cosinage in Somersethire This is that famous conqueror who hath bathed all England by his seditious libels in priests bloud This is that worthy excellent that lies dissembles and equiuocates at euerie word This is that learned counseller that must rule ruffe and range through euery state This is that same Parsons whome Pope Prince and peere with all true English hearts haue cause to hate This is he of whome Maister Blackewell now his darling said that his turbulent head and lewd life would be a discredite to the catholicke cause and in few the generall conceite of all that haue throughly conuersed with him is this that he is of a furious passionate hote cholericke exorbitant working humour busie headed and full of ambition enuy pride rancour malice and reueng Cursed bee the houre wherein he had the name of a Priest nay of an irreligious parson nay of a temporall lay-man Iesuite nay of a catholike nay of a christian nay of a humane creature but of a beast or a deuill a violater of all lawes a contemner of all authoritie a staine of humanitie and impostume of all corruption a corrupter of all honestie and a monopole of all mischiefe These are the words of William Watson the popish secular priest quodl 8. art 5. page 236. See the fift chapter of the second booke in the first second and third sections By these sections especiallie the fourth and fift euery man may easily see that the Iesuite Parsons is not onely acommon impudent lyar but also a most bloodie and scurrilous traytor the monopole of all mischiefe and the wickedst man vpon the face of the earth The reports recounted of this Iesuite cannot but seeme strange if not incredible to all that shall pervse the same I know it is sinne to lie on the deuill and therefore I will not affirme any lye of this Iesuite nor of any other man That which I haue written of him is most true and sincere in such sort as I haue put in downe I name my authors and their words the tale and the tale-teller the assertions and the places where they are to bee reade I graunt willingly and will it not denie that I haue set downe in this discourse many sharpe obseruations annotations correlaries illations but all are deduced by necessary and euident consequutioÌ„s out of those premises and antecedent propositions which the secular priests and Iesuites haue published in printed bookes to yâ— view of the whole worlde In regard whereof neither my selfe nor any others guided by the prescript of right reason can but giue credit to the same For first the authors thereof are many and the same of iudgement and learning and yet doe they charg the Iesuits with murdering of Kings Secondly they professe euen to death the selfe same religion with the Iesuites Thirdly they all yeeld themselues in all thinges to the censure of the pope at whole tribunall the Iesuite must needes preuaile if his case and cause bée good Fourthly they are subiect to such satisfaction if their accusations should be false as publique pennance must néedes be inioyned them and that worthily so as they shall neuer be permitted to exequute priestly function while there liues shall endure Fiftly they know that if such haynous accusations powred out against their fellow-priests especially against their religious fathers were false and vttred of malice they should thereby heape Gods heauy wrath and vengeance vpon themselues Sixtly they
Pope their popish faction From which and all treasonable practises good Lord deliuer vs Amen A profitable and compendious appendice for the better confirmation of the Reader VVHosoeuer can and will seriously peruse the printed volumes of many famous writers of great account and high estéeme euen in the Church of Rome cannot but behold as in a glasse of Christall that the late Romish religion commonly called of the people the olde religion is but a newly coyned religion and by piece-meale crept into the Church I say the late Romish religion because the ancient Roman religion was in déed sincere and agréeable to the holy scripture but the late Romish religion is quite contrary to the same This I proue by two means first by late practicall experience for that the institution or papall Bull by which an Arch-priest is designed the gouernour ouer the Cleargie and laitie ouer all England is a thing neuer hard of before in the Church of God as the priests themselues do willingly truly grant this is confirmed by the late order of the Capuchenes who affirme theÌ„selues to be nothing else but only reformed Franciscans as the secular priests doe know and can it not denie For as the Francans did by little and little neglect and abolish the ancient rules of their order and brought into their societie nouelties and new deuises in stead therof and therefore were reformed by the Capuchenes and called home again to their old setled rules euen so the late bishops of Rome haue neglected and swarued from the ancient doctrine of the primitiue Church and brought into the Church nouelties new deuises of their owne inuention in stead thereof and therfore godly and zealous princes endeuour to reforme the Church and to abolish such superstitious nouelties after the examples of Iosaphat Ezechias and other godly kings of Iuda Wherof I haue discoursed more at large in my booke intituled the golden ballance Secondly by the flat testimonies of best approued popish writers The great learned popish scholeman Spanish fryer Victoria writetth in this maner paulatim ad hanc c. By little little we are brought to these inordinate dispensations to this so miserable state where we are neither able to endure our owne griefs nor remedie assigned for the same And therefore must we perforce inuent some other way for conseruation of the lawes Giue me Clements Lines Siluesters and I will commit all things to their charge But to speake nothing grieuously against these latter Popes they are doubtles inferiour to Popes of old time by many degrées Loe heere gentle reader the Popes owne renowned doctor and professed frier telleth vs plainly that the bishops of Rome in his time were not like the bishops of â—oâ—â—er ages but did degenerate from the ancient doctrine and discipline of the Church He telleth vs in like manner that this deflection from the truth was not done all at once but was brought by little and little into the Church Thus you see or may see that the doctrine I teach is the selfesame which I receiued from the best learned papists The Popes famous Canonist Covaruvias writeth to the same effect in these words neâ— me latet c. neither am I ignorant that S. Thomas affirmeth after great deliberation that the bishop of Rome cannot with his dispensation take away from monks their solemne vow of chastitie This notwithstanding we must defend the first opinion least those things which are practised euery where be turned vp side downe Thus writeth Coueruvias out of whose doctrine many godly profitable lessons may be learned First that the papists cannot agree about the Popes authority Secondly that great learned papists among whom Thomas Aquinas is one whose doctrine sundry Popes haue confirmed to be sound do denie the Popes authoritie in the premisses Thirdly that the contrarie opinioÌ„ must be defended for the honesty safegard of the Popes pretensed soueraigntie Fourthly that most miserable is the Popes religion which stand in need of such poore and beggerly shifts for the vpholding maintenance therof Fiftly that the papists haue no cause to exclaime against the mariage of priests seeing the Pope dispenseth with his owne munks to marry at their pleasure Sixtly that the doctrine of Aquinas which the Pope himselfe hath approued doth vtterly ruinate and batter to the ground the lately inuested religion of the Church of Rome Now for the better satisfaction of the ignorant I will heere briefely recount the originall of the chiefest points and articles in the late Romish religion First the Church-seruice was made in the vulgar tongue euery where in the old ancient and primitiue Church Secondly popish primacie began in the yeare 607. and that by the tyrannie of the Emperour Phocas at the earnest suit of Boniface then bishop of Rome third of that name Thirdly the Popes pardons were neuer heard of vntill the yeare 1300. Fourthly the mariage of priests was not prohibited till the yeare 385. at which time Siritius then bishop of Rome made a wicked law in that behalfe Fiftly popish â—urgatory tooke not root in the Romish Church till the yeare 250. Sixtly popish pilgrimage began in the yeare 420. SeueÌ„thly the merit of works de condigno was disputable about the yeare 1081. Eightly the popish inuocation of Saints adoration was not known or heard of til the yeare 350. Ninthly the communion vnder both kinds was neuer thought vnlawful till the yere 1414. Tenthly the Popes Buls were not authenticall till the yeare 772. Eleuenthly auricular confessioÌ„ was not established till the yeare 1215. Twelftly generall coâ—ncels were euer summoned by the Emperours Thirteenthly the popish English Archpriest began his new no religion in the yeare 1006. and that by the tyranny treasons of the Iesuites All these important points are soundly proued in my booke of Suruey whither I referre the gentle reader for better satisfaction in that behalfe God grant that these my painfull studies may tend to his glory and the common good of his Church 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 A Table Alphabeticall conteyning the principall matters handled in this worke The letter P. signifieth the Page and the letter V. noteth the verse A ALlen the Cardinall was a traytour Page 93. Vers. 7. p. 92 vers 28. Allen set forth a trayterous booke pag. 108. vers 5. Allen iustified Sir William Stanleyes treason pag. 13. vers 19. pag. 166. p. 167. Arch-priest setteth vp a new religion pag. 89. v. 8. p. 179. v. 30. Arch-priest a traytor pag. 89. vers 8. Arch-priest is an Idoll pag. 104. vers 2. Arden and Someruile See treason Authors true dealing in this discourse pag. 1. vers 7. B BLackwell raigneth as a prince Page 104. vers 7. Bookes written by Parsons are traytorous pag. 173. ve 7. pag. 80. vers 7. pag. 106. vers 9. Bishop of Cassana prayed for by the Iesuites pag. 20. ver 21. Bellarmine against the messengers pag. 152.