sometimes is not onely tyrannical wicked and debauched but a simple Boy too and some think also a whorish b See Alexand Cook 's Pope Joan and les sieur Congnard traite contre Bâ—ondel Woman to boot So that it is no wonder that there is such striving canvassing bribery and underhand-dealing to be made Pope if their so being instantly invest them with such an unlimited Authority over all the world and that by Divine right too but of such a Nature that none can see into this Milstone but themselves or favourites And that there may not be any objection against this Authority of the Pope Bozius undertakes to demonstrate it by Examples which you shall have as he gives us them and then judge either of the Heresie or Authority of the Popes Thus he tells us that Baldwin II was lawful Successor to the Eastern Empire yet Michael Palaeologus by force of Arms and wickedness took the Empire from him However for all this injury as he saith did Pope Gregory X allow so much of it that he gave the Empire to the Invador and excluded the lawful Inheritor Another instance he giveth concerning the Western Empire viz. that Richard Duke of Cornwal Son to King John and Brother to Henry III of England being by one part of the Electors of Germany viz. by the Bishops of Mentz Colen and the Palsgrave chosen Emperour And Alonso X King of Castile being by another part viz. Archbishop of Trevers King of Bohemia Duke of Saxony and Marquiss of Brandeburg also chosen Emperour And so by consequence as he saith it must of necessity belong to one of these two Yet such was the pleasure of the aforesaid Gregory X that he threw them both by and commanded the Electors to pitch upon another by which means Rodulph Earl of Habspurgh and Hessia came to be Emperour And the same power Bozius saith the Pope hath over Infidels and to prove this by Example he hints to us the Donation of America by Alexander VI and his huge Authority divided between the Castilian and Portugal And I wonder that before this time he hath not given the World in the Moon to some of his Favourites And as Pope a H. Estiene Apol. pour Herodot p. 465 466. Clement VI commanded the Angels to carry such Souls into Paradise so might some of his Successors command some pretty vehicles or other to carry his friends beyond the Earths attraction and so into the Dominions of the Lunary World where by a zealous Croisade and a furious Inquisition those pretty people might be taught Rebellion THE REBELLIOUS AND Treasonable Practises Of the ROMANISTS From the Year DC to the Year M. With a Blow at Constantines Donation The Popes absolute Temporal Authority and Legality of his Being BOOK III. CHAP. I. The Tale of Constantines Donation proved a meer Cheat and Forgery I Shall not here ingage my self in the Dispute whether S. Peter was ever Bishop of Rome or no nor with the time of his presiding there a De Rom. Pont. l. 1. c. 6. Bellarmine their famous b Addit ad Platin. viz. S. Petri. Onuphrius and some others not agreeing about the manner and several Learned Men have imployed themselves on both parties in this Controversie Nor by what means the Popes came to that greatness they are now in and pretend of right to have Christ said c Joh. 18. 36. his Kingdom was not of this world nor did S. Peter or any of the rest of the Apostles endeavour to obtain either any such Temporal Government or upon the account of their Spiritual to lord it with a coercive Power over Secular Authority And if any of their Successors plead such Prerogatives they can draw no Arguments either from the Precept or Example of the Apostles Not but that the Clergy are as capable of Temporal Imployments as any if the Supreme Magistrate so order it without whose appointment the Lay-man himself cannot pretend to Office What jurisdiction the Bishops of Rome exercised over Princes for the first Ages as History is altogether silent so cannot we imagine that they did considering in what Persecutions they themselves lived being for their own preservation forced to sculk and lurk about here and there and that in poverty too insomuch that if we consult their own Histories we shall finde that the first XXXIII Bishops of Rome suffer'd Martyrdom till a An. 314. Sylvester in the days of Constantine the Great In whose time by the Emperours declaring himself a Christian Christianity began to appear more publick being thus countenanced by Authority whereby those who formerly lurk'd in Caves and Forrests wandred about Mountains and dissembled their Profession for fear of persecution now boldly shewed and declared themselves and had places of Trust and Authority conferred upon them whereby they became more formidable to the Pagans and Religion daily gained more Proselytes Splendour and Jurisdiction By this Emperour Constantine they say that the Popes of Rome had not onely many Priviledges but God knows how much Land too given them viz. not onely Rome it self but also all the Provinces Places and Cities of all Italy and the Western Region and that he might be more glorious and powerful in all the World than the Emperour himself And thus we see them set on Cock horse and whence many of them plead a Prerogative And for proof of this they not onely say that they can shew you the Decree it self but from it and other Authors tell the Reason of such a Donation which because the Storie is pretty and miraculous take as followeth in short Constance they say being a wicked Tyrant and an Heathen murthering his own Son Crispus the Consul c. at last was sorry Baron anno 324. § 16 17. for his own wickedness and desired to be clensed therefrom but his Pagan Priests told him That they had no means of purging such heinous Offences In the mean time one Aegyptius supposed by b Anno 324. § 27. Baronius to be Osius Bishop of Corduba a Christian told the Emperour That the Christians had a way to clense a man from any guilt To which Constantine lent a willing ear though upon that did not forsake his Idolatry but persecuted the Christians insomuch that Pope Slyvester with some others for their own safety stole from Rome and hid themselvs in the Mountain Soractes now call'd c Or M. St. Oresto Baron § 33. Monte S. Tresto corrupted as they say from Monte di S. Silvestro North from Rome upon the Westside of Tiber. For these crimes and oppressions they say he was as by a judgement strangely infected with the Leprosie or Meselry according to the old Translation of d Translat of Ranulphus of Chesters Polycron fol. 212. John Trevisa Vicar of Barckley almost CCC years ago to be cured of this disease he applyeth himself to his Physitians but with no benefit then the Pagan Priests of the Capitol advised him
Abbots Priors and Lady Abbesses and the whole number of these Roman-Nonconformists would not amount to 200. But waving her Religion I finde the greatest crime objected to her is her cruelty against others for their opinions in Religion and with this her Adversaries have made no little noise in the world To this I shall return some satisfaction with as much brevity as can be all this being but a digression and by the by As for several years of her Reign not one Priest had suffered death so when they did as afterwards I fear many of them are yet held for blessed Martyrs who justly dyed as wicked Traytors And in this I would have the unbyass'd Romanists but to consider That even long before the Reformation a 25 Edw. 3. cap. 2. IT was Treason to compass or imagine the death of the King the Queen or their eldest Son and Heir b Ib. It was â—reason to Leavie war against the King or to adhere to the Kings enemies or to give to the said Enemies aid or comfort c Cokes Institut part 3. chap. 36. 13 Rich. 2. Stat. 2. cap. 2. It was Felony to bring or send into the Kingdom any Summons Sentence or Excommunication against any person of what condition soever d 16 Rich. 2. cap. 5. He incur'd a Praemunire that got such Bulls or Excommunications from the Pope e Coke part 3. chap. 84. None was to go out of the Realm or beyond seas without the Kings leave or license f Of these things see more at large in Coke's Institut part 3. cap 36. and his Reports part 5. fol. 12 15 17 21 22 23 27 28. and Bishop Bramhals just vindication of the Church of England from Schism cap. 4. It was of old expresly against the Law of the Land to procure or bring in any Bull of Excommunication against any subject much more in all reason against the Soveraign in respect it gave way to Forreign Authority the Popes Excommunications according to our old Laws being of no force in England g Coke Institut part 3. cap. 67. It was not lawful for any Subject of England to take a Pension c. of any forreign King Prince or State without the Kings license although the said Princes or States be in Peace or League with England Let the honest Romanist farther consider that before any Priest did suffer death it was Enacted that a 28 Hen 8. cap. 10. and 5 Eliz. c. 1. THey should incur a Praemunire who did any ways assert or teach the Pope to have jurisdiction over or in this Kingdom b 26 Hen. 8. c. 13. It was Treason for any to write or affirm the King to be an Heretick Infidel Schismatick Tyrant or Vsurper c 13 Eliz. c. 2. It was Treason to bring procure or publish any Bull from Rome d 13 Eliz. c. 2. It was a Praemunire so to acknowledge the Popes jurisdiction as to bring or procure from him any Agnus Dei Crosses Beads or Pardons being trinkets and trifles of themselves not worth a Rush but as they are held privy Tokens of Papal Obedience or Allegiance Here we see a fair way of Caution and he is a madman and no Martyr who will needs hasten his own death when neither God nor man requires any such indiscreet Zeal at his hands Christianity and Salvation being not destroy'd by these Laws the substance of them being in force when the Romanists themselves confess England was of their side and the Law-givers declare as appears by the Prefaces to the Acts that these Regalities and Laws tended for the better Government Constitution Peace and happiness of the Kingdom of which we are to suppose them to be best Judges seeing no Article of Faith confirm'd either by the Holy Scriptures or the Primitive Church were null'd or made void by these Statutes Yet the better to expose the Queen and render her actions odious all the world over they were very careful to publish what lyes they could of her pretended cruelties amongst whom we may account John Gibbins Robert Parsons Jesuits and John Fen Priest who were the chief Authors of that Pamphlet call'd Concertatio Ecclesiae in Anglia Add to them the Book call'd Ecclesiâ—e Anglicanae Trophaea drawn in Pictures in the English Collâ—â—ge at Rome by Nicholao Circini ingraven by Jo. Bapt. de Cavalleriis and publish'd by Gregory XIII his Approbation anno 1584. where people are said to be worryed in Bears skins c. and printed by Bartolomeo Grasso To vindicate the English-Romanists from the false Aspersions and falsities against their Soveraign and Country mention'd in this Book I finde a e Over throw of the Protestants Pulpit-â—abels against Mr. â—â—â—shaâ— pag. 10. Romanist I. R. whether May the Priest I know not though I am f Tho. James corrupt â—â— Fathers in the Appendix to the Reader told that such an one wrote against Mr. Crashaw as this also diâ— to offer something by affirming that there was never any such Book printed in the English Colledge at Rome But nothing is got by this since it cannot be deny'd but that the foresaid Book was printed at Rome and publish'd by the Popes express Authority as appears by his Breve prefixt And farther the foresaid supposed cruelties were painted upon the Colledge-Walls by Nich. Circini by order and appointment of the English there Nor need we trouble our selves to shew the disaffection of the English of that Colledge to their Queen and Country seeing Histories do testifie their Actions and a A. Mundy the English Roman liâ—e Travelers their railing and bitter words To these we may add Richard Verstegan who put forth a Book call'd Theatrum Crudelitatum Haereticorum Nostri Temporis where in his Pictures he offers to view the former lying Bear-skin Tales Of this man because he afterwards afforded some light to Antiquities and our Historians are silent of his life and extraction a word or two by the by His Grand-father was call'd Theodore Rowland Verstegan born in Gelder-landt came into England about the latter end of King Henry VII marryed here and presently after dyed leaving a Son nine months old who afterwards to get a livelihood took upon him the profession of a Cooper in London Nor is this any discredit Wolfangus Musculus his Father being of that Trade This Cooper was Father to our Richard Verstegan which Richard was born in the Parish of St. Catherines in London he gave himself to the study of good Letters and imployed himself in Painting which makes me think that he engraved the Cuts in his own Books as the Learned Hevelius doth now Being a Zealous Romanist he left England went into the Spanish Netherlands where he compos'd the foresaid Theatrum Crudelitatum the Verses were made by b Vid. Delic Poet. Belg. vol 1. pag. 760 761 762 c. Johannes Bochius born at Bruxels but if I mistake not Register to Antwerp Afterwards the Rebellious League
the Turn-coat would gladly perswade King James to change too undertaking to make him believe that true Policie would really oblige his Majestie to it thus a Letter to King James vid. Dr. George Hakewell's Answer to it pag. 94. B. C. The first reason of my hope that Catholick Religion should be most available for the honour and securitie of your Majestie and your Children is taken from the consideration of your Subjects which can be kept in obedience to God and to their King by no other Religion i. e. then Popery But somewhat after he confesseth that there may be some few Romish Traytors but with this difference b Ib. pag. 102 103. It is certain there be Traytors against God and Man of all Religions and Catholicks as they are the best Subjects so when they fall to it they are the worst Traytors But if we look upon Examples or consider Reasons the Catholick is the onelie Religion which as it doth duely subordinate Kings unto God so doth it effectually binde subjects to perform all lawful obedience unto their Kings Another Runaway viz. Dr. Thomas Baily is very zealous for the loyalty of the Romanists and yet at the same time bravely tells us what good Subjects the Romanists were to Oliver Cromwell whereas the other people of England were against him but take his own words c Dâ— Baily's life of Bishop Fisher p. 179. Where should a man finde better Subjects i e. then Romanists and yet these are the men who have been traduced all along as inconsistant with politick Government And why should the same loyaltie be suspected at any time still to remain within the same breasts since that their Religion Laws both Civil and Ecclesiastical Custom Provision for the future present Practice Oaths and Protestations all along evermore obliging them to such Obedience especiallie whereas at this present all other Sorts and Sects of Christian Religion excepting those who are for all Sorts and Sects appear against this d 1655. present Government like Aries Scorpio Leo Sagittarius c. as if they would all and everie one of them wound each part and member of this bodie politick the Roman Catholicks like Pisces the emblem of the Fisherman are contented to remain quiet under foot A little after he renews the former comparison betwixt Queen Mary's and Queen Elizabeth's Reign thus e Id. pag. 183. 184. It is most notoriouslie evident that there were more open Rebellions during the five years of her short Government then during the four and fortie years of her late Majesties after Reign But Bailie need not talk much of Loyalty either to Kings or Queens since nothing liketh him so much as a Protector whom he hopes considering his vertuous actions will be no small friend to the Loyal Romanists and so alluding to Henry VIII his Cromwell he goeth on and tells us of his hopeful Oliver f Id. pag. 260. And who knows but that it i e. the Restoration of the Roman Religion may be effected by the same NAME And then observing that the then Pope Innocent X had as part of his Arms a Dove with an Olive-branch in her mouth he thus proceeds with his Worshipful hopes and comparisons between that Olive and his Oliver g Id. pag. 260 261. Oliva vera is not so hard to be Constru'd Oliverus as that it may not be believed that a Prophet rather then a Herald gave the Common Father of Christendom the now Pope of Rome Innocent the Tenth such Ensignes of his Nobilitie viz. a Dove holding an Olive-branch in her mouth since it falls short in nothing of being both a Prophesie and fulfilled but onely his h Oliver Cromwell Highness running into her Arms whose Emblem of Innocence bears him alreadie in her mouth Thus you see his hopes of Cromwell yet the same man can a His end to Controversie in his Epistle or Preface tell the world that the Beheading Banishment and other Miseries of our late Kings was a just judgement of God upon them because they were not of the Popes Religion But a great deal more might be said of this man but enough at this time if not too much One tells us that the effects of Protestant Religion in all Countries is b W. W. The Catholick Doctrine of Transubsiant pag 115. Licentious Libertie Rebellion and other horrid Vices and this is argued to the Lady to have a care of our Religion and to imbrace that of Rome as if they were all good people and never taught Rebellion yet it may be he will not allow the deposing of Kings to be Rebellion or Treason Another desiring of the bloudy and murdering Rump or the Remnant of the wicked long Parliament that the Papists might have a freedom or liberty for their Religion amongst others is pleas'd to give this encouraging Reason c The Christian Moderator part 2. p. 7 I am confident they will neither be such fools as to forfeit their Libertie nor so ungrateful to forget them that gave it since out of all our Histories not one Example can be assigned that they ever offer'd to move the least sedition in a time when they enjoyed but half the Liberties of Free born Englishmen And it is a wonder to see how this man doth magnifie the Rump and d Id. p. 12 29. declareth that most of the Romanists who seem'd to be of the old Kings side onely fled to his Garrisons for shelter and not to take up Arms to offend the Parliament I shall here say no more of him but that he calls the Rump the e Id. pag. 38. Renowned Parliament for delivering us from the Tyranny and Oppression of the Prelates And indeed our Reverend Bishops and their Clergy were the onely men that the Romanists stood in aw of the Ignorant Phanatick wanting Learning to cope with such penmen But to come yet neerer our present time since the happy Restauration of his Majesty there came into the World a Book under the Title of Philanax Anglicus who was the Author of it I know not but this I can tell the Reader that be who he will he was an arrant Plagiary it being all stoln out of Pateson's Image of both Churches The Publisher calls himself Thomas Bellamy but upon enquiry there is no such man found but f Annal. anno 1586. Cambden will tell him of two of that name Jerome Bellamy hang'd for Treason and his Brother hang'd himself to avoid publick Execution This pretended Fair-friend would make the world believe that g Phil. Angl. pag. 71. It is plain that in the poor five years of her viz. Queen Maries Reign there was de facto more open and violent Opposition and Rebellion made by her own Subjects then Queen Elizabeth had in fortie five years or any Prince before or since the Wickliffian Doctrine Thus what one boldly affirmeth others as ignorantly believe which is too common with such people whose designe is not
or restrain Apostata Princes The foresaid Coquaeus saith that otherwise Christ had not sufficiently provided for the safety either of the Common-wealth or of our Souls And Petrus Bertrandus positively declareth for the former Principle that if such a deposing Authority had not been that then Christ Jesus had not shewn himself wise or discreet or as Father Parsons saith Gods providence had been defectuous And when Johannes Mariana the so noted Spanish Jesuit had in one of his Books so expresly maintain'd the lawfulness of killing bad Kings upon which the said Book was censured I meet with an English Romanist thus to vindicate or justifie the said Book They are enemies to that holy Name i. e. of Jesus that condemn'd Mariana for any such Doctrine Nay so zealous are some for this King-deposing Doctrine that with a De Politia Immunitat Eccles part 4. cap. 50. Laurentius Ortiz de Iberrola they will assure it the onely safety and preservation for Princes But King James who thought himself not a little concern'd and therefore thus deliver'd his opinion to his Parliament b Speech in Parliament 1605. Vid. his works pag. 504. As on the one part many honest men seduced with some errors of Popery may yet remain good and faithful Subjects so on the other part none of those that truely know and believe the whole grounds and School-conclusions of their Doctrines can either prove good Christians or good Subjects And yet if for all these grand Testimonies they should plead their Allegiance and their respect to Princes I could ask why all Books writ against this King-deposing Doctrine are censured and prohibited by their Indices Expurgatorii whilst on the contrary those who affirm it are publish'd with honour as true and authentick and if Agapetus above a thousand years ago speak honourably of the Imperial Authority the c V. Bibliotheca Patrum Expurgatorian Index must stifle it with some worshipful gloss or other And if any should deny this to be the Doctrine of the Roman Church I should gladly know where is the judge whether the Popes themselves the Cardinals their greatest and most famous Writers as Bellarmine Baronius ' Perron c. do not understand what are the Tenents and the meaning of the Roman Church as well as some private Englishman here and whether we are not to believe the Popes Cardinals and their learned Doctors before the said private person Thus are the Romanists as stout and zealous for this King-deposing Doctrine as the d Mart. Martin de bello Tartar pag. 45 107 121 157. Chineses were for their Beards and do adore and worship this destructive Tenet as the old Cainites did Cain because he was the first man-killer or the Ophitae who worshipt the Serpent because he was the first deceiver and as they say the Author of good and evil Thus the Romanist may perceive what danger he runneth himself into if he dare but offer to oppose this Treasonable Principle seeing to deny it is madness flat Heresie nay Paganism contrary to the judgements of Popes Councils and the whole Church nay the Gospel of Christ a more intolerable Heresie then to erre concerning some of the Sacraments nay so gross an one that it doth destroy the very Church and Gospel it self wherefore they perswade us that all good and sound Catholicks must believe that Kings may be deposed seeing all who are truely Romanists and Sons of that Church do and must believe so Thus these men are like Polychronius who would rather erre with Macarius then be in the right with others and this Doctrine must be the Shibboleth to distinguish them from other Christians There is a Sect in Spain call'd a Anton. de Torquâ—meaa Diaâ—og 3 Saludadores who are known by a knack of curing many Diseases as a gift peculiarly belonging to them those of the House of b Luis Du-May Estate of the Empire p. 73. Austria are known by their long chins and thick lips and as they say are particularly blest with other Graces as to cure Wens by giving onely a Glass of Water and to unloose the Tongue of him that cannot speak plain onely by kissing Thus the Monarchs of England do the Kings-Evil and in Brecknockshire within two Miles of Brecknock there is a Lake call'd Lhyn Savathan or Linsavethan or Brecknock mere of which c Itiner Cambr. lib. 1. cap. 2. Giraldus Cambrensis tells us that the birds there will sing at the desire of the Prince of Wales but no man else so that it is the best Rule to know the true Prince of which matter d Polychron lib. 1. Ranulph Higden Monk of Chester thus Poetizeth Si Terrae Princeps venerit Aves cantare jusserit Statim deproment modulos Nil concinunt ad caeteros Which I finde thus translated to my hand by John Trevisa the old Vicar of Barkley almost three hundred years ago Yf the Prynce of the Londe hoote Briddes singe well mery noot As merily as they can And singe for none other man And so this King-deposing Principle they will have to be the Characteristical note whereby a through-paced or true Romanist maâ— be known who must answer to none but their Prince at Rome and whose commands they must not disobey And should any one now begin to teach them Allegiance and the pernicious consequences of this Doctrine which by length of time hath had such a sway with them probably it might be as great a novelty and strange to them as the e people who after a long Interdiction d Sextus de Seâ—tent Excotâ—â—c Alma Mater Gloss v. Insurgunt were so unused to Devotion that they laugh'd at the Priests when they came again to say Mass and pray with them for some will not leave an old Mumpsimus for a new though better Sumpsimus As for the Romanist's distinctions the better to maintain these Treasonable Assertions of Directe Indirecte Propriè Improprie simpliciter secundum Quid Absolute in Ordine ad Spiritualia and suchlike whimsical Save-alls they have not onely been derided by those of the a Pet. Molin de Monarch Temporal Pont. pag. 87. Jo. Buckeridge Episc Roffens lib. 2. cap. 5. Reformed Church but also by several Romanists themselves especially of the b Caron Remonst Hybern p. 236 237. latter stamp and of such cheats as these thus saith Father c More ample accompt pag. 28. Welsh In Ordine ad Spiritualia and the cheat of a verbal distinction the trick of abusing two other words Direct and Indirect and these two very new altogether unheard-of in this matter till some Caprichious heads brought them unfortunately to the Schools of meer designe to make people loose themselves in words by confounding right and wrong together and the fignification of both And so nothing need be said against such childish inventions being nothing to the true and real designe of the positive Doctrine of King-deposing which is the thing we treat of without any
Erfordt who was so zealous in Oth. Meland pag. 521. § 428. his commendations of Boniface Dorneman the little Priest of Hallandorp that he told his Auditors that he was more learned then St. Paul more holy then the Angels and more chaste then the Virgin Mary Or like the German Boor who at Marpurg in Hessia thus saluted and desired the assistance and favour of Judge Burckhard O Eternal and Omnipotent Lord Vicegerent I have heard Id. § 572. that you are the very Devil and all in this Court therefore for Gods sake put an end to my Tryal But now some Princes begin to see their own Rights and Prerogatives are sensible how unworthy their Predecessors have been abused and begin to understand that their Power is Independent neither receiving their Rights from Rome or her Popes but that their Crowns were given them from Heaven and that rather the Popes have been like that Bird in the Fable and made use of of old by the Franciscan Fryar Jehan de Rochetaillade by some Jehan Froissard Chron. Tom. 2. fol. 182 183. Edit 1530. call'd de Rupescissa which Bird being born without Feathers was through Charity relieved and made gay by other Birds and thus perk'd up despis'd her Benefactors who at last not able any longer to suffer her pride and tyranny every Bird pluckt back again their own Feathers leaving her as naked as she was at first And the truth is the Popes have done with the Empire as the Snake in the Fable did with the Husbandman who finding it almost frozen to death in pitty brought it to the fire-side where by the warmth having recover'd strength and vigor all the thanks it return'd was the stinging of the Goodmans Children And for these ungrateful actions many have undertaken to foretel strange Judgements and Calamities to happen upon the Popes But though for mine own part I am no great admirer of our later Prophets and trouble my self with their odd Predictions no farther then for recreation yet seeing the Romanists have put such a strange confidence in those Relations of their Swedish St. Brigit or Birgit as to declare that they were all immediately inspired by God himself and not onely canoniz'd the Lady but by several Bulls and Authorities so confirm'd the truth of her Book that it must not be contradicted yet if they will but seriously look into her Revelations they will finde little reason to boast so much of them seeing they will finde few so Revelat. S. Brigit lib. 1. cap. 41. Zealous as this Saint against the Pope and his Assistants prophesying with bitterness their ruine and destruction That his assumed grand Authority hath of late sensibly decay'd and lost ground is manifest and this Conquest hath been not so much by the Sword as the Pen so that as Adeodate Seba formerly Delit. Poet. Gall. Tom. 3. pag. 678. writ of Luther one against whom many lyes have been publish'd as other men having his passions and failings may also be said of many other learned Pen-men Roma Orbem domuit Romam sibi Papa subegit Viribus illa suis fraudibus iste suis Quantò isto major Lutherus major illa Illum illamque uno qui domuit calamo I nunc Alcidem memorato Graecia mendax Lutheri ad Calamum ferrea clava nihil Rome tam'd the World the Pope Rome Conquer'd tyes She by her force He by deceipts and lyes How greater far then they was Luther when Both him and her he conquer'd with one Pen Go lying Greece vaunt thine Alcides tho' His Club compared with Luthers Pen's a straw But amongst these Learned Worthies I have nothing to do And am apt to think that all this time hath been bestow'd to little purpose either because of mine own insufficiencie or the too much resoluteness of some other people However I might have made better use of my time in regar'd of mine own advantage had I soon enough call'd to minde Juvenal's observation Vester porro labor foecundior Historiarum Sâ—t 7. Scriptores petit hic plus temporis atque olei plus ***** Quae tamen inde seges terrae quis fructus apertae Quis dabit Historico quantum daret act a legenti Do you Historians more then Poets get Although more time and charge your works befit No no what gain you by your toyl where 's he Will give th' Historians an Atturnie Fee In the compiling of this History such as it is I have not dealt with the Romanists as the Hot-headed Puritans us'd to do whose strength of Arguments lye chiefly in canting misapplying Scripture confidence and railing and if they can but make a noise with the Whore of Babylon Antichrist the Beasts Horns c. they suppose the Pope is confuted sure enough at least the good Wives and Children are frighted out of their little wits and take him to be the strangest Monster in the World with so many Heads and Horns insomuch that Pope Vrban VIII did not amiss when he desired some English Gentlemen to do him onely one courtesie viz. to assure their Country-men that he was a man as much as themselves And had he said a better Christian then the Puritan I should not therein have troubled my self to contradict his Infallibility for I think them to be the worst people of all mankinde A Sect that will agree with you in the Fundamentals of Religion but will take miâ—â— and destroy all for a trifle and rather then submit to an innocenâ— Ceremony though impos'd by lawful Authority will ruine Kingdoms Murther Bishops Rebel against their Soveraigâ—â— Banish Queens declare them Traytors Imprison and depose then Kings and make the way as plain as can be for their murâ—â—â— A Sect that will cry down Bishops to possess their lands 〈◊〉 the Kings Great-seal imprison him renounce his Authority and murther his best Subjects and yet cry out they cannot commit Treason In short a Sect that would hate Christ but that he said he came not to bring peace but war As for the Roman Catholick I must needs have a greater kindeness for him then the former fire-brands as being an Adversary more Learned and so to be expected more Civil and Gentile and wherein they differ from us they look upon as Fundamental and so have a greater reason for their dissent then our Phanatical Presbyterians a people not capable of a Commendation nor to be obliged by any Favours their very Constitution being ingratitude as Histories do testifie and King James himself doth acknowledge as much In this Treatise I hope I have behaved my self civilly with the Romanists having forborn all bitterness and railing though the many bloudy and unwarrantable actions that I here meet with might prompt a milder man then my self to some indignation which may somewhat Apologize for me if by chance any do either meet with or fancie a stricture or retort tending to dislike And yet I dare boldly say that they shall not finde any such heavy Censures
murther of the King When Parry read in Cardinal Allans Book that Queen Elizabeth had no right to the Crown being an Heretick it incouraged him to endeavour her Murther And the two Henry's the Thâ—rd and Fourth of France upon the same zealous account got their deaths by the assassinating hands of Clement and Ravallaiâ— 'T is but a poor plea that Andraeas Eudaemon-joannes makes in behalf Confutat Anticoâ— cap. 1. pag. 12. of the Jesuits when to quit them from Anticotons accusation viz. that they allow that Kings may be killed replyeth that Jesuits never writ that a private man might murther a King since those who onely except against the actions of private men do thereby allow the same wickedness to be done by the Magistrates or those in Authority And he 's as much a Villain and as far from Christianity who allows that a Rump or Parliament may judge and kill their Soveraign as he that commends the same fact in a private person be it a Jacobin or any other Many we have and some I dare say who speak cordially and with grief who rant bravely against the wickedness of the late Murder of King Charles the First and do lay it as a guilt too upon our Church and yet a Jury might be call'd of some of the chief Doctors of Rome who would have eas'd the Rump of their labour and iniquity and would themselves have brought in the innocent King guilty What shall we think of Leonardus Lessius a Belgick Jesuit of as great repute as most of that Order However take his judgement in short if a King do not Rule but for the harm of his People what must be done with him He tells you That a Secundo potest quis esse Tyrannus ratione duntaxat â—dministrationis ut si is qui est verus Princeâ—s Regni administrationem flectat non ad bonum publicum sed ad sua privata compendia onerando illud injustis exactionibus vendendo Ossâ—cio judicum câ—ndendo leges sibi commodas â—ubâ—ico parum utiles Talis non potest à Privatis interunis 〈…〉 Leon. Lâ—ss de justitia lib. 2. cap. 9. dub 4. § 10. such a King cannot be slain by private men as long as he remains a Prince Yet let us see this a little explained by the same Pen. b Ib. § 1â— Adde si tanâ—uâ— exerescat Tyrannis ut non videatur amâ—lius toletabilis nec ullum aliud remâ—â—â—m supâ—rsit primum à Râ—pub vel Comitus Regni vel alâ—o habenâ—e authorâ—tatem esse deponendum 〈…〉 siem declarandum ut iâ— IPSâ—US PERSONAM LICEAT QUICQUID ATTENTARE TUM â—â—IM DESINIT ESSE PRINCEPS But if saith he his Tyranny grow to such an height that he seems intolerable and no other remedy remaining then the People Parliament or any other having Authority may depose him and declare him an Enemy whereby ANY THING MAY BE ATTEMPTED AGAINST HIS PERSON because HE THEN ceaseth to be a KING Here we have enough to ease Lessius of some Loyalty and honesty viz. that Kings may be deposed and then are not Kings so that they may be kill'd as private persons But had he weigh'd his Doctrine as he did his meat in this he would either have been silent or appear'd in another Opinion or had he been as temperate in one as the other his Politicks would not have thus much out-swell'd his meager Carkas As he had no Tutor for his Greek it had been well if he had had no Church or Example to have instructed him in such pernicious Principles If in his other writings he affordeth no honester Doctrines than such as these for ought that I know he might have been more advantagious to Christendom had he followed the first advice of his Parents and imploy'd himself in a Trade And he who publickly repented for the breaking of a foolish glass might in true reason be more troubled for his divulging such wicked Principles but this it may be he thought would have made him an Heretick though 't would have proved him more honest and a better subject Another Jesuit Gregorius de Valentia speaks somewhat to the former purpose though a little mincingly yet plain enough to understand his meaning For though he saith that a private Person may Nulli particulari licet eum occidere Nam id pertinet ad Rempub. quae posset jure oppugnare illum vocare in subsidium cives Valent. Tom. 3. disp 5. q. 8. punct 3. not kill a King yet observe his Reason Because saith he that belongs to the Common-wealth which may oppose him and call the people in to their assistance But Ludovicus Molina another Spanish Jesuite and of as great repute as any speaks a little more plainly first he saith that any body may kill a King in his own defence Upon which account a man may frame what silly pretences he will 't is true he affirms that otherwise it is not lawful for a private man to kill him but then let us observe what comes after The people saith he may depose their King and punish him when he is deposed But because he names not Posset ita Respub ipsa quo ad Capita convenire eique resistere lataque sententia deponereillum ab administratione atque illum depositum PUNIRE Ante latam tamen sententiam nefas privatis esset eum interficere Molina de justitia Tom. 4. Tract 3. disp 6. § 2. exactly the way of his Punishment let us take it by a consequence in these words 'T is not lawful for private men to kill the King before he be declared deposed which plainly intimates that after his deposition it may be done And a little plainer than him doth another Spanish Jesuit speak viz. Franciscus Toletus a Cardinal and the first that was of his Order and held to be the most famous of his time for Piety and Judgement But let them be never so wise or vertuous something or other is in the wind that over-perswades them to maintain such abominable Principles as these Tolets Rule is this that a wicked King a Tyrannum administratione qui habet verum titulum sed Tyrannice tractat subdiditos hunc non licet absque publica auctoritate occidere Tolet Instruct Sacerdot lib. 5. c. 6. § 10. cannot be slain without publick Authority For which good Doctrine the Rump may rejoyce to see their actions vindicated if they supposed Virtue to be Vice and themselves a Parliament by a man of such declared prudence and honesty one of great repute with several Popes and Henry the Fourth of France who tasted to the purpose of the mischief of these Doctrines and one so hugely valued for his learning and discretion that Gregory the Thirteenth thought it not fit that his writings should lye under the censure of any man but might be Printed without license But here I dare say the Cardinal hath been wide from Truth yet hath this Opinion of Tolet been several times
incourage their attendance and pains as also for Factors in Forreign paâ—ts to buy up Books but all these things being vanish'd by the death of that famous Prince it would be well if some Noble Benefactors in this covetous Age would think upon and raise to themselves a famous remembrance by their liberality this way to the publick Library in Oxford which though already it exceeds any yet in the World for number of Books and free access I wish never abused yet it may want some thousands of Books for having no fit stipend to make yearly recruites from Franckfort and other places To this I could wish that we were as busie in printing all the Councils the better to discover the fraud in some Editions as the Romanists beyond Seas are it being a hard case that otherwise we must relye upon their Editions and we are not ignorant of unhandsome dealings amongst them in this very business Binius we know takes some of his counsels verbatim out of Baronius one very partial and hath left several necessary things out in his Volumns because against the Church of Rome which were set down by Crabbe now two hard to be got and several Councils especially of our own Nation are not completed in the late Parisian Edition in 36 Tomes besides L' Abbe the Publisher of them is thought and a See the pernicious consequences of the new Heresie of the Jesuits printed 1666 p. 102 103 104 105 c. judged to be very partial To these I could wish a careful review and reprinting of the Fathers since we finde our selves at a loss in their Antwerp Colen and some other Editions and those of Erasmus by Froben at Basil and other old Editions are hard to be got b Praefat. in Indicem Expurg Lovaniensem Junius tells a story of a notorious cheat done by them upon St. Ambrose and Dr. James at large tells you how they have abused St. Cyprian to which I can speak the more boldly having my self compared several places of him with some old Manuscripts especially that c De simplicitate Prae atorum or de unitate Ecclesiae Book which they make so much use of to prove the Popes Supremacie in which Manuscripts I find not the expressions they brag most of and father upon St. Cyprian which may allow us to suspect some strange dealings by addition from their own heads Dr. James once in a Convocation at Westminster moved strongly for these reviews and reprinting of the Fathers c. but private interest and faction was too strong either to bestow so much cost or time upon such a noble and publick design And to these I could wish that there were some care taken to reprint some of the Ancient Historians of Church and State the want of which in time may put us to a loss in dealing with our Adversaries the old Editions being very hard to come by we must then if care be not taken to the contrary be content to make use of such false and spurious ware as our Enemies will thurst upon us And that this complaint is not without good reason many instances might be brought of their abusing us in this sort But at this time for Example sake I shall onely make use of one viz. Aubertus Miraeus of Brabant a great Antiquary and a famous Schollar and one that hath been much read in Church-History for which things he hath got a fame amongst the Learned his several works having been greedily read of all sorts and that with some repute to the Author This great and noted man nay and a Church-man too being Canon of Antwerp can we think that his study was to deceive Posterity and publickly endeavour to cheat the world with his or the inventions of others Well do but peruse his Edition of Sigebertus that ancient Historian of above 500 years standing and amongst other places look upon him in the years 773 and 4 compare them with other old Editions and see how he hath sometimes cut off sometimes added and other times perverted the true sence and all this to take away some authority from the Emperour But to this may be objected that he followed some ancient Manuscripts or other 't is true 't is an objection with himself soon made but what small reason we have to believe this onely saying so shall be left to the judgement of any man by this following story This Miraeus also set forth a d Notitia Episcopatuum Register or Breviary of Bishopricks with some small Annotations of his own and because formerly there hath been some dispute of these things that this Tract of his may carry the more Authority with it In his very Title Page he assures all the world that this his Notitia is printed a Ex vetusto Codice ante annos fere quingentosscripto according to an Manuscript almost 500 years old And why may we not believe this good man of Bruxels for if Antiquity study to cheat the world with false Copies well may others who are apt to take things upon trust run into errors and I fear this dealing hath too much power upon Faith and Religion But to shew this to be a villanous forgery I shall pass by other Countries and onely come to our own of England though methinks 't is odd if this Manuscript be so ancient that he should not put down Dunkeld in Scotland as well as Ross Brechin and Dunblane since they were all founded by one and the same King viz. that pious and vertuous King David who gave so much to the Church from his own Crown-lands But to make the knavery more visible le ts see his dealing and ignorance of England In which I shall not trouble my self with his naming Chester or Glocester amongst our Bishopricks because formerly some of the Bishops of Liechfield were ignorantly call'd Bishops of Chester because one or two of them once lived there and some think that Glocester was an Episcopal See in or before the Saxons time but not under that name but Cluviensis But waving these though good enough to discover the cheat I desire the Reader to consider this following against which there can be no exception viz. if this Manuscript was almost 500 years old how comes it to fet down fâ—r Bishopricks in England Peterburgh Oxford and Bristol when none of them were made Episcopal Sees till Henry the Eighth's time little above sixty years before Miraeus set out this false Notitia These cheats should oblige us to study prevention in time otherwise hereafter they may run us down by their false Fathers and other Authorities and when they have thus forced us onely to the protection of Scriptures an endless dispute may begin about the variae lectiones by which means the poor people and truth may be abused by both parties But since they stand most upon Authority and Quotations 't is fitting we should be more careful that they do not cheat us with false play But
Dominiâ—â—â— and had got 3000 Calivers in a readiness to be shipt at Legorne but the news of their Friends over-throw stopt the rejoycings of the one and the preparations of the other In the mean time the Irish informed of the coming of these Papal and Spanish Friends by little and little rise up in Rebellion in which Desmond was not the least though he had sworn Allâ—giâ—nce to the Queen And thus carryed on to wickedness he 〈◊〉 â—â—â—rther'd or rather butcher'd Henry Davils an English â—â—d Gâ—nâ—â—eman and brave Souldier and his intimate acquaintance 〈◊〉 to call him Father and after the same unmanly fashion â—e â—â—â—w Davils servants they and their Master in bed dreaming of 〈…〉 and this Sanders commended as a sweet sacrifice 〈◊〉 the â—â—ght of God As 〈◊〉 â—itz-Morice he thinking to raise the Rebels in other parts 〈◊〉 his hâ—lp his Hâ—râ—â—â—tyring plundred some fresh ones from Wilâ—â—â—â— a Burgh's Ploughs a Burgh's sons follow for rescue charge â—â—â—z-Morice kill him but to the loss of some of their own lives 〈◊〉 whiâ—â— Queen Elizabeth comforts up old a Burgh honours him with the Title of Baron of Castle Conell and gives him a yearly 〈◊〉 Fitz-Morice thus slain John Desmond brother to the 〈…〉 Earl hath his place given him fights the English 〈◊〉 with the Popes hallowed Banner but is routed and in 〈…〉 Allan the Priest who had assured them of Victory is 〈◊〉 And now was the Earl of Desmond proclaim'd Traytor 〈…〉 dealt with Forraign Princes for the Conquest and de 〈…〉 of Ireland for relieving Sanders Fitz-Morice and other Râ—bâ—â—â— for harbouring the Spaniards for hanging the Queens faithful 〈…〉 and for displaying the Popes Banner against the Queen The Italians and Spaniards who had landed at b Smerwick in Berry under the command of San-Josepho an Italian build there and strengthen themselves and call it Fort del Or. Against â—5â—â— them Arthur Lord Grey Lord Deputy of Ireland the Earl of Ormond and others march and by Trumpet sends to demand what they were and what was their business they return'd answer That they were sent from the Pope and the King of Spain to whom the Pope had given Ireland for that Elizabeth had justly forfeited her title to the Kingdom by her heresie that they would keep what they had got and get more if they could But a few days cool'd their courage they being forced to yeild upon mercy the Chiestains are saved but the rest suffer death which the Queen her self thought too severe though the Lord Grey offer'd some reasons for it As for Nicolas Sanders seeing that neither the Popes blessing nor his consecrated Banner nor his Legatine power nor his forraign Associates nor the Native Rebels could prevail against the Queen and her Subjects he rambled up and down for his own security in Mountains and Woods loosing himself and his sences too for some say he fell a Cambd. Annales an 1583. Bishop Charltons thankful Remembrance cap. 5. pag. 49. The execution of justice D. III. mad thus finding no comfort dyed miserably When he was dead there was found in his Scrip some Prayers and Epistles written to confirm the Rebels stuft up with great promises of the Pope and Spaniard b Hist Cathol Iberniae Tom. 2. lib. 4. cap. 16. Philip Osullevan tells us of his death and how it was suddain and that he was privately buryed and of one Cornelius whom he calls a Bishop to all which I shall object nothing but that it is no honour for Sanders to be commended by Osullevan which Irish Story-teller is as bold as ignorant falls as impertinent a Scribler as ever yet hath seriously troubled the world with the Irish Purgatory or a defence of their Rebellions To conclude with Sanders c Epist ad Lectorem before Sander ' s his book de Origine progressu Schismatis Anglicant Edward Rishton the Priest will confess to you what straits and poverty he was reduced to before his death which methinks Osullevan's Father and other men of note would not have permitted had they fully known of his haunts As for Pope Gregory XIII he was not wanting on his part to promote and patronize the Rebellion as appears by his Breves to them wherein he exhorts the Fitz-Geralds and the rest of the Irish Romanists to war stoutly against the Queen and her Subjects and the better to encourage them in so doing he grants them as plenary a pardon and remission of all their sins as formerly used to be granted to those who fought against the Turks or ventured in the recovery of the Holy land One of the Papers takes as followeth as I find it Gregorius Papa XIII Universis singulis Achiepiscopis Episcopis Phil. Osullevan ib. cap. 17. fol. 100. 101. caeterisq Prelatis nec non Principibus Comitibus Baronibus Clero Nobilibus Populis Regni Iberniae Salutem Apostolicam Benedictionem CVm proximis superioribus annis per nostras Litteras vos hortati fuerimus ut ad vestram libertatem recuperandam eamque adversus Haereticos tuendam ac conservandam bonae memoriae Jacobo Geraldino qui durum servitutis jugus vobis ab Anglis Sanctae Rom. Eccles desertoribus impositum depellere summo animi ardore cogitabat provirili nostra adesse eumque contra Dei vestros hostes ire parantem prompte ac strenue adjuvare velletis quo â—d â—â—â—crius effeceretis omnibus contritis confessis qui ipsum Jacobum Ducem ejusque exercitum Catholicae fidei assertorem propugnatorem secuti fuissent se illi adjunxissent aut concilio â—â—â—â—re commeatibus armis aliisque bellicis rebus seu quacunque ratiâ—â—â— in hac expeditione opem dedissent Plenariam omnium Peccaâ—â—â—um suotum Veniam Remissionem eandem quae profiâ—â—â—â—â—â—tibus ad bellum contra Turcas ad recuperationem Terrae 〈◊〉 per Romanos Pontifices impertiri solita est concessiâ—â—us Nuper autem non sine gravi animi nostri dolore per nos excepto psum Jacobum fortiter cum hostibus dimicando sicut Domino 〈◊〉 â—â—â—ubâ—isse Dilectum vero filium Johannem Geraldinum â—jus Consobrinum in expeditione hujusmodi eximia pietate aniâ—â—â—â—gnitudine authore Deo cujus causa agitur successisse complâ—◠〈◊〉 â—gregia facinora de Catholica fide bene merendo jam ediâ—â—sse 〈…〉 vos omnes singulos majori quo possumus affect is â—â—rtâ—mus requirimus urgemus in Domino ut eundem Johannem â—â—â—â—m ejusque exercitum omni ope quemadmodum dictum Jacobum â—â—â—ntem ut faceretis vos admonuimus contra dictos Haereticos adâ—â—â—are siudeatis Nâ—â— enim vobis omnibus confessis Communicatis vestrum singulis in dictis litteris contenta pro ipso Johaune ejus exercitu â—â—â—â—â—ntibus post ipsius obitum si forsitan contigerit quod Deus averâ—ere dignetur Jacobo ejus fratri adhaerentibus atque faventibus â—andem Plenariam Peccatorum vestrorum Indulgentiam Remissionem quam
now beginning he conveys himself and Books to Paris where the English Ambassador complains of him to King Henry III and desires that being born a Subject to the Queen now a Fugitive and one that had so abused her he might be delivered into his hands to be sent to England there to receive his reward And the Ambassador had reason for his request if that be true which is c Guil. Barcla contra Monarchomachos lib 6. cap. 7. pag. 439. reported viz. that Henry III was so much possest with those cruel Pictures and put so much credit in them that he accused Queen Elizabeth of great Cruelty calling her a wicked and cruel woman Yet at the Ambassadors desire Verstegan was imprison'd at which d De justa abâ—icatione Henâ—ici III. pag. 123. Jean Bouchier that active fire-brand of the League is not a little troubled and layeth it as one heretical fault to Henry At last Verstegan is releas'd who quits France and returns to Antwerp where he reprints his Book and lives after an handsome fashion The Jesuits and the Secular-priests falling out in England each party defends it self by Pen in this quarrel Verstegan concerns himself joyning with the Jesuits and writing in their behalf shewing himself as zealous a Railer as the best of them and indeed never was there quarrel compos'd of so many bad words either side consider'd Thus he continued till after the death of Queen Elizabeth where he e 1605. published his Restitution of decayed Intelligence in Antiquities of England Dedicating of it to King James expecting better fortune and favour which f Eâ— Rege cum novo novum assume Fatum Poet. Belg. Vol. 3. p. 364. Justus Lipsius claps to the Nation a good luck in Verse What he got by it I know not nor when he dyed onely towards the latter end of King James his Raign amongst the rest of the English Fugitives who lived in Antwerp under the Notion of Spanish stipendiaries I meet with these words g James Wadsworth the English-Spanish Pilgrime cap. 7. pag. 67. There is also one Mr. Versteagan who did not his wife keep up his credit might be yoakt with the rest That is as I suppose in a mean condition And thus much for Verstegan of whom a Qâ—odlibets pag. 257. Watson the Priest will give you a sharper Character But why must Queen Elizabeth of all other Soveraigns be deprived of this Prerogative of life and death Must Campo Flori in Rome smoak by the burnt bodies of people by the Authority of the Pope in this acting onely as a Secular Prince for Ecclesiasticks excuse themselves from such severities and may not Queen Elizabeth be as great a Monarch in her Dominions Must the King of Spain glory in his Inquisition thereby destroying multitudes of Strangers and Natives and that with such severity and cruelty that their stories either American or Domestick cannot be read without tears and had not Queen Elizabeth as much right to and Authority in England as the intitled Most Catholick hath in his Dominions Hath the French King a Prerogative to burn Anne du Burg and many others of his Subjects for Opinions in Religion and may not Queen Elizabeth having as much â—iâ—nt of Government use her Authority as well as the former Not that I vindicate any such severities but use these comparatives to shew that Queen Elizabeth did no more then the Romanists themselves But to shew what a great thing interest is take this following observation but the bloudy narrative of the story is so long and mournful that the Reader must pardon me if I refer him to other b Thuanus Historians for it Charles IX King of France under the pretence of the Grand Solemnities of the King of Navaâ—'s Marriage invited all the Grandees of the Hugonots of France with c Caâ—bden Eliz. an 1572. Eujeb Phâ—laâ—â—lph â—â—smapol Dialog 1. pag. 30. Leicester and Eurghley out of England and the Sons of the Palatine Elector out of Germany intending by this means to ruine the Protestant Religon The French obey'd and appear'd where they were entertain'd with all manner of Gayeâ—ies and Triumphs but for all this Court holy Water they were by order of the King in d â—â—g 24. â—â— one day as many as could be met withal which came to sâ—vâ—â—a◠〈…〉 slain without respect to Sex age or quality 〈…〉 of whom was old Admiral Coligny whose e 〈…〉 â—b 52. head was 〈…〉 grateful present to Rome Nor did this Massacre end â—erâ— but by the Kings Order was also acted all France over to the unthought of slaughter of many thousand Protestants This Carnage though it made such an impression upon some that several set themselves to work and f U'â—â—ae 15â—3 â—â— 4. publish'd a Book of Verses in Detestation of it yet others imploy'd their wits as much in its Commendation amongst whom I finde g Id. pag. 30. accused Johannes Auratus Regius Professor of the Greek Tongue in Paris and one of the chiefest Poets in his time if so it seems he could weep and bewail more the killing of one h Poet Gall. vol. 1. p. 314. Sparrow by his Cat then of so many thousand Christians As for the Romanists in France they celebrated these slaughters as one of the most glorious actions in the world great rejoycings at Court for it publick thanks render'd to God and as a farther memorial of its Gallantry the King had i Thuan. lib. 53. Cambden Eliz. anno 1572. new Medals or Coyns made with Inscriptions to perpetuate the Fame of that bloudy day And to compleat the triumph a Miracle must be wrought to testifie Gods approbation of it which you must finde in k â—â—uan lib. 52. St. Innocents Church-yard at Paris So here this Church-yard may boast of another Miracle besides its a André du Chesne les Antiquitez deâ— villes de France chap. pag 63. 7 consuming the buryed Carkasses in less then ten days But as for this new flourishing White-thorne-Tree the famous Thuanus doth somewhat mitigate the wonder by affirming that the thing might be as well b Sive sponte quod aliquando contlngit cum natura deficiente in co planta est ut penitus exarescat five aqua tepida ab impostoribus infusa Aug. Thuan. Hist lib. 52. Naral or artificial But the greatest joy of all for this slaughter was at Rome Cardinal Loraine giving the Messenger that brought the first news of it a thousand Crowns the Letter was read in the Conclave publick thanks were given in their Churches the Cannons discharged Thuan. lib. 53. Spondan anno 1572. § 20. Bonfires made a Jubilee publish'd throughout Christendom And a grand Procession was made to the Church of St. Lewis Lewis IX King of France canoniz'd by Pope Boniface VIII his festival day is the XXV of August where was the Nobility Bishops Cardinals the several Ambassadors the Pope under a Canopy his Train being held up
Royal Dignity Titles Rights and Pretences to England and Ireland declares her Illegitimate and an Vsurper of the Kingdoms and absolves all her Subjects from their Obedience and Oaths of Allegiance due to her So he expresly commandeth all under pain and penaltie of Gods wrath to yeild her no Obedience Aid or Favour whatsoever but to imploy all their power against her and to joyn themselves with the Spanish Forces who will not hurt the Nation nor alter their Laws or Priviledges onely punish the wicked Hereticks Therefore by these presents We Declare that it is not onely lawful but commendable to lay hands on the said Usurper and other her adherents and for so doing they shall be well Rewarded And lastly to all these Roman assistants is liberally granted a Plenary Indulgence and remission of all their sins Here we have the sum of this Treasonable Libel with which Allen thought to do great matters against his Queen and Country and these were prepared to be spread abroad the Kingdom upon the Spaniards landing yet no sooner is the news known of their defeat but Allen calls in the Impression burning all he could lay his hands on onely some few escaped his Fingers both he and the Printer having before given some Copies to their Friends The Romanists for the most part priz'd it dearly though some more sober disliked it as too severe yet some others we need not Question might be of the Jesuit Currey's opinion viz. That it was a work of thaâ— worth as it would yet bite in time to Quodlibets pag. 240. come This Invasion was very much assisted by the English Romanists though not by all for the Lord Montague and some others were against it In Flanders lay Charles Nevil Earl of Westmerland the Lord Pagit Sir William Stanley with about seven hundred more English ingaged and ready to joyn with the Prince of Parma against their own Country What Company in England would have taken their parts I know not This is certain that Philip Earl of Arundel the unfortunate Eldest Son of Norfolk was unhappily too much Priest ridden which procured his imprisonment and a tryal the cause of all which might be laid to Allen who had such a sway and power over the said Earl that he could make him do any thing And the Earl was over-perswaded to set his affection on the Spanish Fleet rejoycing at its coming praying heartily for its success and grieved beyond measure at its overthrow But he is not the first Nobleman who confided too much in bad counsel and whose Zeal for Religion hurryed him on to inconveniences As for Cardinal Allen he was born in Lancashire of good Parentage was bred up at Oxford in Orial-Colledge where he was Proctor was preferr'd to a Canonship in York in Queen Elizabeth's days quits England becometh Pensioner to the Spaniard to carry on whose designes against his Queen and County he was very industrious for which service Sixtus V. created him a Cardinal 1587. August 7 and he dyed at Rome 1594. October 16. We have formerly shown his seditious and King deposing Principles of which his foresaid Admonition will give a farther Quodlibets pag 240 241 247. proof and who were the Promoters of this Invasion his own words will best tell you The King of Spain at length as well by his Holiness Authoritie and Exhortation as by his own unspeakable Zeal and Piety moved also not a little by My humble and continual suit together with the afflicted and banished Catholicks of our Nation of all and every Degree who have been by his special compassion and Regal Munificencie principallie supported in this our long Exile hath condescended at last to take upon him this so Holy and Glorious an Act c. And then proceeds to incourage nay and threaten too the English to take up Arms against their Queen and to joyn with the Spaniards and the other Invaders If you will avoid the Popes the Kings and other Princes high indignation let no man of what degree soever Obey Abet Aid Defend or Acknowledge her c. Adding That otherwise they should incur the Angels Curse and Malediction and be as deeply Excommunicated as any because that in taking her part they should fight against God against their a How cometh Philip to be lawful King of England Vid. Tho. Bels Anatomy pag. 98 124. lawful King against their Country and notwithstanding all they should do they should but defend her bootless to their own present destruction and eternal shame As for the Secular Priests you shall hear Watson and Bluet the chief of them thus Confess We had some of us greatly approved the said Rebellion highly extol'd the Rebels and pitifully bewail'd their ruine and overthrow Many of our affections were knit to the Spaniards and for our obedience to the Pope we all do profess it The attempt both of Pope and Spaniard failing in England his Holiness as a Temporal Prince displayed his Banner in Ireland the Plot was to deprive her Highness first from that Kingdom if they could and then by degrees to depose her from this In all these Plots none more forward then many of us that were Priests These are the words set down in the Book call'd b Pag. 15. Important Considerations composed by Bluet and Watson two Priests As for the Jesuits but of Parsons I shall treat more particularly hereafter you shall hear what c C. W. A Reply to Father Paâ—sons Libel fol. 64 65. Clark the Priest saith who with Watson suffer'd afterwards for Treason against King James First it is most certain that all the world had very admirable expectance of that Army and the Jesuits more then any Secondly it is plain by the Cardinals Book d They would hint to us as if Parsons were the Compiler of the Admonition but 't is certain that Allen was the Author of it his name being to it and Pitseus with the other Romanists confessing Allen to be the Author if it were his written as a preparative to that action that he was made Cardinal of purpose for that Exploit and to have been sent hither presently upon the Spaniards Conquest But Father Parsons saith that he labour'd to set forward at that time the Cardinals preferment if you will believe him which maketh it evident a primo ad ultimum that Father Parsons was a dealer in that action Thirdly it is certain that the Jesuits in Rome were great with the Spanish Ambassador-Leger there and had great recourse unto him when the matter was on foot doth not this then argue them to be concurrers thereunto Fourthly it is likewise most true that the English Jesuits in Rome appropriated certain Palaces in London to themselves to fall unto their lots when this matter was in handling to wit Burghley-house Bridewel and another which I have forgot making themselves cock-sure of their already-devoured Prey This all the Students that lived in the e Viz. The English Colledge at Rome
of their Order I think Alegambe commendeth all his Bead-Roll but Interest hath made it a duty for such Catalogue-Makers to flatter and applaud the most wicked but be as bad as they will they tell us that it is impossible for a * Jungantur in unum dies cum nocte tenebrae cum Luce calidum cum frigido sanitas cum morbo vita cum morte erit tum spes aliqua posse in caput Jesuitae Haeresin cadere Vid. Epist Is Casaubon viz. Epist 624. ad Front Duc. Jesuit to be an Heretick Amongst the rest of the Learned Pen-men who undertook to testifie to the world the Treasons of Garnet and his Accomplices was the famed French-man Isaac Casaubon more especially in an * Epist 624. Epistle or rather Book to Fronton Le Duc a Jesuit and his old Friend for the better accomplishing his Design he had delivered to him all the * Epist 620. Original Writing Tryals and Letters of Garnet This action of Casaubon so netled that Order that they drew their whole force of Invention and Malice against him endeavouring by their lyes and slanders not only to render him odious to the whole world but his Father and whole Family we may except his Son John because he turn'd a Capuchin nay so zealously indiscreet were some against him that they * Epist 64â— 679. declared him to be no Scholar a Fellow of no Judgment that he could not write Latin or scarce understand it which was enough to testifie the truth of all the rest yet with such Indignities Isaac would sometimes be forced to a passion Those who have undertaken the justification of this Garnet have thought to arm themselves and secure him with the power and virtue of these following Arguments 1. His Denials 2. The Honesty of Aequivocation 3. The Bond of Auricular Confession 4. His Sanctity or Saintship which is confirm'd by 5. His Miracle of the Straw As for his Denials they are so far from quitting him from the crime that they rather render him the greater Malefactor if profest Lyes and Perjury can advance a man's guilt 'T is true he was bold to a wonder in protesting and calling Heaven and Earth to witness his Innocency but at last when he saw such exact Proof and Testimony against him he confest his Dissimulation pleading That he thought they could not have produced such clear proofs against him The Jesuits being not a little offended that he should any way confess himself guilty which with some might be a blot both to himself and their Order Garnet to vindicate himself to them and to shew the folly of denying any longer thus writes to them What should I do First all the rest of the Confederates have accused me Secondly Catesby always made use of my Authority amongst them whereby most of them were perswaded to have a good opinion of the Interprise so that all knew I was in it Thirdly Two set on purpose heard me discourse the whole business with Oldcorn and to tell him how I thought to answer to all Objections Fourthly My Letters writ with the Juyce of Oranges to * Anne Vaux Mrs. Ann are I know not how faln into their hands whereby I plainly enough discovered my knowledg of it For all his strong denials at first this is enough to prove him guilty Tort. Torti pag. 286. And besides if he were not so Why did he himself confess That he had often vowed both by words and writing to the Lay-Conspirators That he would never discover or betray any of them To this might be added how he did acknowledg his offence wishing it were in his power to undo that which was done and that if the whole world were his he would willingly give it to quit himself from the guilt of Treason which now troubled his Conscience He also writ to his Favourite Mrs. Vaux his sorrow that he could not dye for Religion but for Treason And many more Instances might be collected out of his Tryal but this is enough to satisfie an honest man Yet he was very willing and earnest to vindicate and clear himself from this Treason in which he made a great deal of work with the Trick of Equivocation of which he was a cunning and exquisite Master and as confident as ever man was for this one instance or two may serve Being asked Whether he had any discourse with the Jesuit Oldcorn since his Imprisonment Garnet swearing upon his Salvation with Epist Is Casaub ad Front Duc. many other horrid Imprecations denied again and again that he had any discourse Which being presently proved against him he confest it begg'd pardon affirming that his former Denial was by virtue of Equivocation Another time being asked Whether he did well to swear upon the Holy Evangelist That he had neither writ or sent to the Jesuit Tesmond which he knew to be false He replied That he sware so lawfully enough because then he did not think that his Letters were intercepted and so they could not have disproved him A little before the Queen's death when they were busie in their Plots to keep out King James in vindication of this Jugling Faculty there was composed a little Book entituled A TREATISE of EQVIVOCATION But this Title it seems not pleasing Father Garnet he with his own MS. in Bibl. Bodl. Oxon. hand had dash'd it out and bestowed upon it this Name writ also with his own hand A Treatise against Lying and Fraudulent Dissimulation Yet for all this goodly and specious shew of honesty it alloweth all manner of Dissimulation and to swear positive untruths by their Law of Directing the Intention As for example In time of Plague a man cometh to Coventry at the Gates by the Officers is examined upon his Cap. 8. pag. 43 44. â— Oath Whether he came from London or no The Traveller though he did directly come from London yet may swear positively That he did not come from London His reason is Because he knoweth himself not infected to endanger Coventry by his entrance which he supposed answer'd to the final intent of the Demand although their immediate Intention were to know from him upon his Oath only whether he came from London or no. And this man saith the Book the very Light of Nature would clear from Perjury And he tells us of one Pag. 39. Mr. Southwell who taught a young Gentlewoman that if she were examin'd If the said Southwell were at her Father's House She might swear No with this intention to her self That he was not there so that she was bound to tell them At the end of this Book I find Blackwell their Arch-Priest of England thus commend and allow it under his own hand Tractatus iste valde Doctus vere Pius Catholicus est Certe Sa Scripturarum Patrum Doctorum Scholasticorum Canonistarum Optimarum Rationum praesidiis plenissime firmat aequitatem Equivocationis Ideoque dignissimus est qui typis