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A16828	A true, sincere and modest defence, of English Catholiques that suffer for their faith both at home and abrode against a false, seditious and slanderous libel intituled; The exectuion of iustice in England. VVherein is declared, hovv vniustlie the Protestants doe charge Catholiques vvith treason ...	Allen, William, 1532-1594.	1584 (1584)	STC 373; ESTC S100110	150,813	230

her special othe and obligation she is bound more to defend and protect the Church then her subiects be And finallie vpon al the proofes reasons and authorities that haue gone before we auouch that besides God almightie euerie tēporal Prince Christened hath his pastor also and speciallie the general gouernour of the whole Church for his superiour in earth in al causes of soule conscience to whos orders in matter of religion he is bound to obey vnder paine of damnation and that Gods iust iudgements are nere the Princes and countries what soeuer that wil not obey him but violentlie resist his ordinance and by Antichristian pride doe chalenge power not lauful to be yeelded vnto them THE CONCLVSION CONTEINING A CHARITABLE MOTION AND A ioinder vvith the Libeller touching some meanes of tolleration in Religion and ceasing or mitigating this cruel Persecution CAP. IX AND now though in the deepe conceauing of this our Countries incōparable offence our hartes be wholie oppressed with feare and heauines yet ether the force of our peculiar affectiō towardes our flesh and blood driuing vs to hope for better then is deserued or the largenes of Gods immesurable mercies yeelding contrarie to mans demerits pardō vpon repentance doe cause vs often-times to expect grace mercie rather then extreme rigour and iudgement In which cogitatiō it cometh often to our mindes Causes of feares and hope tovvardes our Countrie that if anie thing auert Gods ire from our Prince and Countrie it is the abundance of holie blood shed thes late yeares euer sith the first reuolt Which though by iustice it might crie rather to God for vengeance and so it doth in respect of the impenitent and the clamor therof shal neuer be void yet we trust it sueth for mercie speciallie in respect of the infinite number of al estates that neuer consented to this iniquitie It is the heroical endeuour of a great-manie zealous Priestes and worthie gentlemen that continuallie offer not onelie their praiers and other deuout and religious offices but them selues in sacrifice for the saluation of their best beloued Countrie It is the ardent and incessant care of his Holines seeking our reconcilement with charitie vnspeakable It is the general coniunctiō of al Christiā mindes in the whole world towardes our recouerie No Church no Companie Monasterie or College of name in Christēdome that with earnest deuotiō and publique fastes and praiers laboreth not to God for mercie towardes vs. Finallie euen thos thinges and persons that the aduersaries accompt to be the cause of al their troubles feares are indeed the onely hope of Gods mercy their owne pardon and our Countries saluation In which case to deale as freelie for a farewel and as charitablie with the Libeller as he would seeme to conclude with vs we wishe no more for performance of that he proposeth and partlie promiseth The Libellers offer in the ende of his booke Fol. 18. but that he were assured of her Maiesties and the Councels mind therin or were of such credit with them that he could bring that to good effect which ī couert wordes he pretendeth towardes vs which is that he doubteth not but her Maiesty would shed no more the blood of her natural subiectes nor vse any more bodilie punishmēts at al if they would desist from their practises abrode from their writing of railīg bookes and from wandering in disguised apparel within the Realme would imploy their trauail in the workes of light and doctrine according to the vsage of their schooles and content them selues with their profession and deuotion So the man speaketh how soeuer he meaneth But Alas if anie mercie iust or tollerable treatie were meant The vrgent distresses of English Catholiques or euer had bene offred to Catholiques vpon anie reasonable conditions what so euer our aduersaries had neuer needed to haue fallen to such extreme proceedinges with their owne flesh and blood nor euer had anie such troubles fears or dāgers bene thought vpon wherof now they haue so deepe apprehension If anie pitiful eare had euer bene giuen by the superiours to the incessant grones cries teares and supplications of their Catholique subiects desiring but releefe of their infinitlie distressed consciences tormented by damnable othes articles and exercises of Caluinisme that were forced vpon them if they might haue had ether by licence or conniuēce in neuer so few places of the Realme neuer so secretlie neuer so inoffensiuelie the exercise of that faith religiō which al their forefathers since our Countrie was conuerted liued and died in and in which them selues were baptised and from which by no lawe of God nor man they can be compelled to anie sect or rite of religion which they nor their forefathers euer voluntarilie accepted or admitted if of al the noble Churches Colleges and other inestimable prouisiōs of the Realme founded and made onelie by Catholiques and for Catholiques and for no protestants nor anie their sacrilegious ministeries at al some few had bene permitted to the true owners and to that true worship of God for which they were instituted if they might haue obteined anie peece of that libertie which Catholiques enioy in Germanie Zuicherland or other places among protestāts or half the freedome that the Hugonots haue in Fraunce and other countries yea or but so much courtesie as the Christians find among the verie Turks or verie Ievves among Christians vpon anie reasonable or vnreasonable tribute which hath bene often in most humble and lamentable sort offered and vrged or to be short if anie respect care or compassiō in the world had bene had ether of Catholique mens soules bodies or goods our aduersaries should neuer haue bene troubled nor put in ielousie of so manie mens malcontentment at home nor stand in doubt of the departure absence of so great a number of Nobilitie and principal gētlemen abrode they should neuer haue had such Colleges and Seminaries in other Princes dominions erected and furnished with English youthes the issue wherof is now and perhaps wil be hereafter more more wonderful to the world they should not haue bene controlled in their Heresie so zealouslie and effectuallie by the Priestes created at home of old or latelie ordeined and sacred abrode ther should haue bene no cause of writing so manie bookes for defence of our innocencie and the Faith of our forefathers and for our iust complaint to the Christian world of the intollerable rigour or crueltie vsed against vs. In al which bookes no protestant in England is able to reproue the writers of anie vntruth or slaunder railing immodestie or misbehauiour towardes our secular Princesse or persecutours what so euer the Libeller without proof affirmeth here Wherin I auow him to be so much destitute of truth as he is not able to alleage one line or sentence or anie one example out of our writinges to the contrarie as on the other side nether he nor any els can cleare our aduersaries the

inhumane dealing we wil not impeach the superiour magistrate much lesse the Soueraigne but surelie the inferior ministers of that pretended Iustice cannot be excused of most cruel and sacrilegions dealing towardes Godes Priestes and other innocent persons And as for the particular handling of father Campion and M. Briant whom the libellers make examples of their milde and gentle intertainment vpon the torture we refer al indifferent readers to the said Briants owne latine epistle of that matter In the end of the booke of the persecution in England And for th' other they say true indeed that after his first racking and at the tyme of the protestantes disputes with him in the Tower he was not so bereaued of his handes but he might with paine write or subscribe his name But afterward vpon his second or third racking he was so benommed that he could neither take the cuppe and lifte it to his mouth nor drawe of his cuffe at the barre nor streight after his last torment nor manie dayes following had he anie feeling or vse of his lymmes as he confessed to his keeper asking him how he felt his handes Not euil quoth he for I feele them not at all The like we could prooue of M. Paine M. Paine the Priestes tormenting and diuers others but this is inough to controlle thes shameles vntruthes of the libeller and to make demonstration of the pitiful violēces Slaunders and tribulations which our brethren haue constantlie borne and yet doe beare for professiō of their Faith which to some rebuke of our nation we wold neuer so particularlie vtter here and els where yf our blamelesse defence droue vs not therunto And speciallie for that we wold christianelie giue warning to al Princes and Prouinces that yet happilie enioye the Catholique religion and the onelie true libertie of conscience in the same A vvarning to other contries yet Catholique to take heed by our miseries how they let this pernicious sect put foote into ther states which by promis of libertie and sweetnes at the beginning entereth deceiptfullie but when she is once in and getteth the maistery as she often doth wher she is not in season cōstantlie resisted she bringeth al to most cruel and barbarous thraldome procuring her followers to hate and persecute the Church their owne onelie true and olde mother far more deadlie then the Heathens them selues doe and turneth al the lawes made by godlie Popes and Princes for punishment of Heretiques and malefactors to the spoile and destruction of innocēt men and Catholiques for whos defence they were made Into which miserie our countrie to vs most deare being fallen and hauing no other humane helpes to recouer it and our Prince and Peres excepting this case of heresie of excellent good nature and clemencie with millions of soules that ther doe perishe we wil not feare nor faile to pray and aske it of God with teares and blood as we haue begonne donec misereatur nostri til he be merciful both to vs and to our persecutors Our dayes of affliction cannot be long their felicitie wil haue an end bothe sides shal shortlie haue their doome wher the dealinges of vs al shal be trulie discussed and the iust shal stand with great constancie against them that vexed them Interim in the testimonie of a guiltlesse conscience in al thinges wherof we be accused by our aduersaries and in ioyful expectation of that day we wil continew stil this worke of God to our owne and our countries saluation Per infamiam bonam famam as the Apostle willeth vs and through other miseries what so euer mans mortalitie is subiect vnto THAT F. CAMPIAN AND THE REST OF THE PRIESTES AND Catholiques endited condemned and executed vpon pretence of treason and vpon statutes made of old against treasons vvere neuer yet guiltie of anie such crimes but vniustly made avvay CAP. II. HItherto we haue made it cleare that diuers contrarie to the drift of this Libel haue bene cōdemned and put to death ether without al lawe or els onelie vpon new lawes by which matter of religion is made treason Now it foloweth and is next to be considered whither such other as were accused and appeached of old treasons vppō a statute made in the dayes of Edward the third in the 25. yeare of his reigne were indeed guiltie of anie such crimes The intent of that lawe is to register diuers cases that were to be deemed treason in which the first and cheef is to conspire or compasse the death of the Soueraine or to leuie men of armes against him and therof can be by open fact conuinced Vpon which special clause father Campian good man and his fellowe Priestes and Catholique brethren were to the wonder of the world The enditement of F. Campiā and the rest arreigned Namelie endited that at Rome and Rhemes the last daye of March and May in the 22. yeare of her maiesties reigne they cōpassed the Q. death the subuersion of the state and inuasion of the Realme feigning for better coloring of the collusion the forsaid places dayes and tymes when this conspiracie should be contriued Which forgerie and false accusatiō is now so clearlie discouered to al Englishmen of anie cōsideration protestantes and others that for excuse of that soule sinful practise they haue set out at length to strangers as they did with like lucke before at home this late Libel by which God almightie the protector of his Saintes and our innocēcie hath marueilouslie confounded them selues and iustified the cause and conscience of his holie Martyrs as by the declaration folowing shal appeare When the Politiques of our countrie The intent and drift of Politiques in England pretending to be protestantes sawe the Catholique religion contrarie to their worldlie wise counsels and determinations and against their exquisite diligence and discipline twentie years endeuour in which tyme they thought verelie to haue extinguished the memorie of our Fathers faith to be reuiued in the hartes of the greatest number noblest and honestest sort of the Realme and that neither their strange violent and capital lawes for the Q. spiritual superioritie against the Popes preeminence the power of Priesthood in absoluing penitents the saying and hearing of Masse hauing or wearing of Agnus-deis or other external signes of our societie with the Catholique Church of al tymes and nations nor th' execution of manie by death and other penalties and punishment according to the said lawes wold serue nor were of force to hold out of England the Priestes of the Societie and Seminaries to whom Christ had giuen more Apostolike spirite courage zeale and successe then of so smal a beginning was looked for by whom the protestantes began to feare lest great alteratiō in religion wheron they thinke their new state that is to say the weale of a verie few in comparison dependeth might ensue they thought good by their long exercised wisdom to alter the whole accusation from question of faith and

ought to be obeyed by the subiects of England notwithstanding the Bul of Pius Quintus or anie other Bul or sentence that the Pope hath pronounced or may pronounce against her Maiesty Whether the Pope haue or had power to authorize her subiects to rebel or take armes against her or to inuade her dominions and whether such subiects so doing doe laufullie therin Whether the Pope haue power to discharge anie of her Maiesties subiects or the subiects of anie Christian Prince from their alleageance or othe of obediēce to her Maiesty or to their Prince for anie cause Whether D. Sanders in his booke of the visible Monarchie of the Church and D. Bristow in his booke of Motiues writing in allowance commendation and confirmation of the said Bul of Pius Quintus haue therin taught testified or mainteined a truth or a falsehood Yf the Pope doe by his Bul or sentence pronounce her Maiesty to be depriued and no lauful Q. and her subiects to be discharged of their allegeance and obedience vnto her and after the Pope or anie other by his appointment and authoritie doe inuade this Realme which part would you take or which part ought a good subiect of England to take Wherin if you say nothing or refuse to answere somewhat in contempt or derogation of the sea Apostolique then are you iudged no good subiect but a traytor wherby let al Princes and People Christian beare witnes of our miseries and iniust afflictions who are inforced to suffer death for our onelie cogitations and inward opinions vnduelie sought owt by force and feare yet not condemned by anie Christian schoole in the world nor vttered by vs but vpon forcing interrogatories we hauing committed nothing by word or deed against our Prince or lawes but doing al actes of honour and homage vnto her suffering meekelie what punishement so euer she would lay vpon vs for our Religion The behaueour of English Catholikes since the Bul of Pius Quintus for so most part of al sortes of Catholiques haue done both in Englād and Ireland for this twentie fiue years space onelie a verie few Nobles of both countries taking once armes for their defence in al this long time of intollerable affliction the like patience you shal hardlie find in Protestātes as their furious rebellions against their Soueraignes in France Flandres and Scotland doe testifie our Nobles gentlemen hauing borne al thos anguishes of bodie and mind with losse of honours countrie landes libertie for so long time haue both at home and abrod obeyed her with such loialtie as subiects ought to doe their Soueraine neuer tooke armes in al Englād vpō the Bul of Pius Quintus nor anie time since the publication therof contrarie to the deceiptful diuisiō of thos times things actions set doune by the Libeller placing that after which was done before the Bul was published but haue shewed them selues in al cases as seruiceable as before The Clergie men also whether religious Priestes The proceeding of Cleargie-men concerning the Bul. or students of the two colledges in Rome and Rhemes whether they were in the seruice of their countrie at home or in the schooles absent did al in maner notwithstāding the said Cēsure of his Holines vse al due reuerēce respect vtterīg in no preachīg speech or booke no nor at the houre of their death Martirdome nor euer before in anie their confessions to the Magistrate anie disloyal worde against her Maiesty No which we further auouch not anie one Priest of the Societie or Seminaries can be prooued by the aduersarie to haue absolued in secret Confession anie one man liuing from his allegeance or to haue euer ether in publique or priuate disswaded anie one person in the Realme from his obedience in Ciuil causes to the Q. Furthermore it is certaine that neuer Priest had anie such Commission giuen hitherto by ether the Popes Holines Priests Commissions or such other superiours in Religion or college to deale in anie such matters touching the Q. nether is ther anie such thing implyed in ether the authoritie or act of reconcilement how so euer the ielous enimie hath found knots in thos rushes that of thē selues are smooth As the contrarie is doubtles most true the Gouernours of the students alwayes of purpose prohibiting and as much as in such numbers of al sortes not al euer hauing discretion to season their zeale could be prouiding that in the cours of our schoole questions and controuersies concerning the Popes preeminence no matter of depriuing or excommunicating Princes should be disputed no not so much as in generalities and much lesse the particularizing of anie point in our Q. case Which matter notwithstanding it be determinable by Diuinitie and doe come in cours to be handled in schooles as other questiōs doe yet because it is incident to matter of state as now our countrie most vnfortunatly standeth and consequently might be interpreted by the suspitious to be ment of her whos case men liked lest to deale in it was thought best to passe ouer al with silence The particuler doinges of D. Sanders of D. Bristoe Which moderation was kept in al places and persons of our Nation two onelie learned men of great zeale excellencie indeed D. Saunders and D. Bristowe excepted who had their special reas●ns to doe as they did which we wil neither defend nor reproue but manie Catholiques were sorie therfore and wished the matter so offensiue had neuer bene touched but committed onelie to higher powers and especiallie to Gods iudgement that he might ether in this world or the next wher both Popes Princes must come to their accomptes discerne of the cōtrouersie betwixt our two superiours th' one being our spiritual Head and Soueraigne who is the higher and in matter of Religion rather to be obyed th' other our temporal Prince to whom likewise in such sort and matter as the Holie Scriptures appoint vs we owe al dutie and obeisance Wherupō afterwardes not onely D. Bristow omitted in his second edition or abridgement of his booke that odious point not fit at that time to be handled but D. Saunders also though his former treatise was not of anie stranger Catholique and learned in anie nation misliked being more free therin because they be not entangled by authoritie and sway of lawes as we are yet called he in and suppressed to his liues end a verie learned booke made in defence of Pius Quintus his sentence and printed aboue fortene years since no copie therof that is knowen being now extant Which cours of moderation al Catholiques of al sortes both spiritual and temporal haue followed euer since restraining as much as in them lay the rigour of that sentence And the blessed Martyr F. Campian him self as is recited in the storie of his arraignemēt The speech of Father Campiā at Rome falling in talke with a certaine principal Cardinal in Rome at his first arriual ther