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A15033	The English myrror A regard wherein al estates may behold the conquests of enuy: containing ruine of common weales, murther of princes, cause of heresies, and in all ages, spoile of deuine and humane blessings, vnto which is adioyned, enuy conquered by vertues. Publishing the peaceable victories obtained by the Queenes most excellent Maiesty, against this mortall enimie of publike peace and prosperitie, and lastly a fortris against enuy, builded vpon the counsels of sacred Scripture, lawes of sage philosophers, and pollicies of well gouerned common weales: wherein euery estate may see the dignities, the true office and cause of disgrace of his vocation. A worke safely, and necessarie to be read of euerie good subiect. By George Whetstones Gent. Seene and allowed.	Whetstone, George, 1544?-1587?	1586 (1586)	STC 25336; ESTC S111678	158,442	230

seruices The prince created theyr Auncesters Earles Barons or as their callings are and for their vertues suffered the honor to descend vnto their heires then they that will worke Treason and forget God the kindnesse of their Prince the vertues of their Parents and loue to theyr Countrey it is not ynough that they themselues die the death but the Emperour Vespasian in a letter to his sonne Titus sayeth the sonne of such a Traytor ought not to lyue God thought no temporall punishment sufficient to chasten the rebellion of Corath Dathan and Abiram he caused the earth to open her mouth and to swallow them vp and their houses and all the men that were with Corath and all theyr goodes and they and all that they had went downe alyue vnto Hell these be the words of the text and certainely the vengeance of God continually raigneth vppon Traytors Chronicles make mention of millions of Treasons that haue béene punished and of a few that haue had successe Almost in euerie nation most of the auncient Nobilitie are eaten vp with Treason and noui homines as the Romaines tearme them occupie their places through vertue The learned Gentleman Mayster Morrisine in his inuectiue against Treason sayeth that the Treasons of great men ought to be set foorth in theyr colours because that blood is distained in Treason he might also haue added because a great deale of giltlesse blood is shead through theyr Treasons I haue in other places sufficiently showne the falles of Traitors and therefore to withstand the temptation of ambition and enuie the enemies of theyr Countreys peace and prosperitie and vtter ouerthrowe of themselues and familie this discouery with praier for the assistance of Gods spirit may suffice CHAP. 3. Of the reuerende calling of the Cleargie the holinesse that is required in theyr liues and the lamentable miseries that proceede of disvnion in Religion BOth among the Iewes and Gentiles and generallye through the whole worlde from the beginning vnto this day the chiefe Priests Bishops and generally the professors of Religion were much reuerenced and in hye estimation among the people The office of Aaron the Priest was of such credite among the Iewes as enuie and desire to occupie the roome was the principall cause of the Rebellion of Corath Dathan and Abyram yea Gods owne words greatly honored Aarons Priesthood when he sayd The sonnes of Leuy should waight vpon him and the Tabernacle Among the Heathen Romaines the office of the chiefe Byshop was of such account as Iulius Caesar when he began to aspire only laboured for that dignitie And yet before the ambitious climing of the Pope Chronicles make no mention that they were the head rulers of any gouerment Among the Iewes the Prophets were priuiledged to reprehende the faultes of the Prince but both the Prophets and Priestes were subiect vnto the sword and commaundemente of the Prince King Iehoas appoynted Iehoiada the Bishop and the Priestes how they shoulde imploy the money that was brought into the house of the Lord and when they fulfylled not hys commandement he sharpely reprehended them Iehu put all the Priestes of Baal to the sworde The Emperour Tyberius put the Priests of the Idoll Anubis to the sworde because they were the instruments for the wanton Knight Mundus to commit adultrey by theyr deceipt with the chaste Romaine Ladie Paulina Yea from the beginning and to be short at thys daye it can not be denyed but that the reuerence which is giuen vnto the Cleargie is due vnto theyr profession and not vnto theyr person and when theyr pompe was at the highest the greatest Archbishop that offended in treason had the tryall of a common subiect Since then the holinesse of theyr profession priuiledgeth the Cleargie to reprooue the faultes of Princes and giueth them place among the chiefe Pieres they are bound and holie Scripture commandeth them to glorifie God with theyr holie lyues that theyr holy words may the better edifie men Sainct Paule setting downe the office of a Bishop and in that dignitie containeth the duetie of the whole Cleargie sayeth that he must be blamelesse and so goeth on with many honest vertues which are well knowne and I pray God they may be as well followed of the Cleargie Sainct Peter commandeth them to be of so honest conuersation among the Gentiles that where as they backbited them as euill doers they might sée their good workes and praise God in the day of visitation A great many that would faine haue an excuse for wickednes say that the word of God is the life of the soule and not the works of the Preacher so that if the doctrine be pure it skilleth not if the Diuell preach the same The word I graunt remaineth pure but the working will be to little purpose if it be deliuered by such a Minister for the holy Ghost loueth not to accompanie the Diuell I hope this small note shall worke no offence whiche is not meant to instruct the Cleargie which amply knowe theyr dutyes but reuerently to shewe theyr error that are forgetfull of theyr duties King Phillip of Macedon helde no skorne to be dayly remembred by a Page of his chamber that he was a mortall man Pope Sixtus the fourth that vaunted how he passed Sainct Peter bécause he had golde siluer and pretious stones was not wroath with the beggerlie Frier that aunswered hym he lacked notwithstanding much of Sainct Peters holynesse for hée coulde not saie vnto the lame and impotent arise and walke and certainely although the Pope were bluntly crossed yet he was thereby charitably counselled to labour rather to become holie then riche whiche is a speciall dutie in the Cleargie for by theyr godlinesse they please God and instruct men when by the abuse of riches they may dishonor the one and be an euill example to the other With this admonition of the Frier the blowe that a Countrey peisant gaue the Archbishop of Cullen ought to be as patiently receiued of the Cleargie as the hol●…e tale of the saluage Mylo was of the Senate of Rome Upon a daye as the Archbyshop trauelled accompanied according to the custome of Germanie with an armed troupe a Countrey fellow encountred hym with a rude laughter whiche the Archbishop noting demaunded what mooued him to laugh so the fellowe aunswered to sée Sainct Peter prince of the Prelates who lyued and dyed poorely to leaue suche wonderfull pompe and riches to hys successors the Archbishop that was a little galled to excuse himselfe said my friends I goe with thys companie because I am a Duke as well as a Byshop wherevppon the loute doubled his laughter and boldly sayde my Lord I beséech you if the Duke which you speake of were in Hell where shoulde then be the Archbishop as who woulde haue sayde that two professions become not one man for sinning in the one he cannot be iustified by the other King Richard the first laughed when he had

towards the Pallace where all the Archbishop of Pisas people were taken and without respect of persons were in the place put to the sword touching the Archbishop himselfe he was hanged as a fearfull example to others Iames de Pazzi and the rest of the conspiratours rode vp and downe the Citie crying Libertie libertie but perceyuing that none multiplied the crye and that all in a maner in their countenaunces discouered an affection toward Seignior Lawrence de medicis sought to saue himselfe and his people except Barnard Baudin who lay sore sicke in his bed of a wound which he gaue himselfe The Citie in armes in the behalfe of Seignior Lawrence de medicis who as one very sory for the lamentable death of Segnior Iulian his brother made great pursuite after those of this conspiracie insomuch that an number which were but suspected of this trespasse passed the course of their fellowes The yong Cardinall nephew of the Pope was long detained prisoner in the end through his innocencie was deliuered Barnard Baudin was naked lead vnto the Pallace and in this Equipage was hanged by the Archbishop Anthony de Volterro and Steuen Preast which would haue slaine Segnior Lawrence were themselues slaine in the furie of the people which cryed in euery corner of the citie Medici medici slaying and sacking all their houses that were aduersaries to those of Medicis to be briefe it were too much to set downe in writing the cruelties and inhumane murders committed in this furie Iames de Pazzi was taken as he was flying and conuayed to Florence where he was hanged and after torne in pieces and vnchristianly buried all his goods and reuennues were ceased and confiscated vnto the Segniorie after the malefactours were thus punished the body of Segnior Iulian was with great pompe interred Behold the issue of this conspiracie of the Pazzies in lesse then three houres the Lord Iulian de Medici was slaine the Archbishop of Pisa was hanged with many of the conspiratours together with the sacke and ouerthrowe of their houses Pope Sixtus and Ferdinando King of Arigon so stomacked this act of Florence as they sent a great armie against the Florentines who with the ayde of their friendes maintained long and cruell warres to the small aduanntage both of the King and the Pope foule fall enuie the beginner of this fraye the conspiratours that thought by this outrage to haue acquired honour and promotion lost their liues set their countrey in an vproare and made their enemies more strong for the Lord Lawrence de medici was chosen to be sole gouernour of Florence and by the wisedome of his ofspring the saide gouernement is become the hereditorie dignitie of the Medici which before was Oligarchie where a fewe of the mightiest bare the swaye so that the posteritie of the Saluiati and Pazzi the auncient gentlemen of Florence haue not onely by the enuie of their auncestours lost their places of authoritie but are the subiects and abiects in fauour of the medici who by al possible meanes will keepe them vnder CHAP. 15. A briefe report of the calamities of Fraunce Flaunders and Scotland hatched by enuie and ambition vnder the quarrell of Religion relieued by the compassion of Queene Elizabeth and prosperitie of England THe diligent Readers and searchers of histories shall find in the Cronicles of all Gouernmentes since the comming of Christ and that the knowledge of the true God was published and receiued among the Gentiles that the enuious and ambitious or more properly rebellious people of all nations haue made for the most part religion the colour of their vnlawfull quarrels neither vntill this generall warre betwéene the Papistes and Protestants there was almoste in anye gouernment any ciuill insurrection but that some Monke Friar false Prophet or heretique was a ring leader and at this daye all Christendome is so deuided about the maintenance of the Pope and the defence of the Gospell that if hell gates were set open and all the Diuels had liberty to weare visible armour they should be intertained to fight vnder the standard of some religion vnder the protection and banner of the Pope al theiues murtherers traitours enuious ambitious and discontented persons arme them selues againste their Prince and peace of their countrey The lamentable estate of Fraunce Flaunders and Scotland our bordering neighbours in all which countries there hath béene no setled peace this twenty yéeres and odd coloure all their calamities with this quarrell of religion when the true causes procéeded from ambition enuy and priuate discontentment The true reportes of the troubles of Fraunce testifie that long before the Catholicke wars as the Papistes tearme it in Fraunce where of the Popes side the Duke of Gwyse their friendes haue béene the chiefest Captaines the sayde family of the Gwyses mortally hated the Constable of Fraunce and the Admirall Chatillion The causes were that the Constable and Admirall were high both in authoritie and fauour while Frauncis the firste and Henrye his sonne raigned in Fraunce who hauing care of the honor and prosperitie of Fraunce were as the Gwyses thought some lets of their ambitious clyming but especially for that the Admirall satisfied not the expectation of the Earle of Aumale about the furtheraunce of a marriage for the Marquis du Maine with the Dalphines Curtesan the Senescales Daughter Their enuie and malice brake foorth into open fury when Frauncis the second came to the crowne who béeing both very young and with also married to the Quéene of Scots their Niece they gouerned both the king and affayres of the realme as they listed who now by all meanes possible not onelye sought the disgrace of the Constable and the Admirall and their fauourers but also their liues and the trouble of all Fraunce The Cardinall of Lorraine complained of the disobedience and many misde meanours of those of the religion and made the Admirall and the chiefe Péeres of Fraunce to be touched with fauouring of them To be briefe the Cardinall and the Duke of Gwyse then being neuer ceased their practises vntill the Papistes and protestauntes were in armes and that ciuill warre had set all Fraunce in an vprore which from the beginning of her trouble hath neuer entertained assured peace vntill this day when there was no open hostilitye there was neuerthelesse dayly newes of inhumaine massacres murders and pollicies of barbarous cruelties executed by the Papistes and there professed Captaines The deuision of Scotland first grew from the sayd Gwyses who sent the Bishop of Amians and other confederates into Scotland who to compasse their purpose practised the deathes of the nobility of the religion but God that iudgeth the counselles of men frustrated their wicked purposes and hath hitherto giuen the vpper hand to those of the religion albeit since the first landing of the Frenchmen in Scotlande in Frauncis the secondes time the Papistes haue sundrie times attempted warre against the Lordes of the religion and by