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A17810	The historie of the life and reigne of that famous princesse Elizabeth containing a briefe memoriall of the chiefest affaires of state that haue passed in these kingdomes of England, Scotland, France or Ireland since the yeare of the fatall Spanish invasion to that of her sad and ever to be deplored dissolution : wherevnto also is annexed an appendix of animadversions vpon severall passages, corrections of sundry errours, and additions of some remarkable matters of this history never before imprinted.; Annales rerum Anglicarum et Hibernicarum regnante Elizabetha. English. 1634	Camden, William, 1551-1623.; Browne, Thomas, 1604?-1673.	1634 (1634)	STC 4499; ESTC S2549	301,814	518

Matrimoniall and Testamentary Against these men the Professours of the Ecclesiasticall Law maintained the Queenes Iurisdiction in spirituall matters wherein shee had beene before inuested by act of Parliament alledging that to withstand that was onely to assault the Queenes Maiesty and with the breach of their oathes of Alleageance to insult ouer the sacred Prerogatiue of their Princesse They answered that Ecclesiasticall Courts had authority to take notice of other causes besides Matrimoniall and Testamentary as appeares by the Statute of Circumspecte agatis and by the Articles of the Clergie vnder King Edward the first Concerning the Writ they much suspected the truth of it by the reason of the variety of reading of it and the vncertainty of the time of it's originall being it is sometimes read disiunctiuely To make recognition or to take oath Besides this they answered that to make Recognition did not signifie a deposition of witnesses or answer to the party conuented but onely the confession of the debt or holding plea of debts and chattels concluding that such taking of oaths were exacted time out of minde to auoid Simony Adultery and other workes of darkenesse especially if the Information be as they call it clamorous And although that no man be compelled to betray himselfe with his owne accusation yet that hee is bound to bee accused by a Fame and to shew whether or no hee can purge himselfe and defend his innocency by reason that such penance imposed is not to bee esteemed a Punishment but onely Physicke to cure sinners and to fright others from the like sinne or to take away any generall scandall according to that of the holy Writ Bee not ashamed for thy soules sake to tell the truth for there is a confusion that bringeth sinne and there is ●ne that bringeth grace and gl●ry But wherefore stand I deciding this controuersie which if any man will iudiciously scanne let him consult with the learned Apologie of Doctor Cosins Doctor of Law or of Iohn Morris or Lancelot Andrews whose learned writings in this matter will soone giue the scrupulous conscience of any ●an a speedy resolution By this meanes the Queene easily impeached the aduersaries of her Iurisdictions violence and conserued both in her selfe and in her Clergie the Ecclesiasticall Iurisdiction free from blemish About this time was it when Thomas Howard the second sonne of the D. of Norfolke with six ships of the Queenes and as many Victuallers had expected the Spanish Nauies returne from America this whole six moneths And abou● this time lingring about the Iland Flores amongst those of Azores where most of his Mariners languished as for Souldiers he had none where hee was suddenly ouertaken by Don Alphons● Bazan that was sent out with fifty thr●● ships to conduct the Nauy home in safety in so much th●● he in the Admirall with much adoe escaped into the main● Ocean Captaine Richard Greenuile in the Reare Admirall who was called the Reuenge what by reason partly of stay he made to recall his men aboard from out of the Iland and partly out of a couragious minde as vnhappily in successe as inconsiderately in the enterprize for bad to strike saile by which meanes he became hem'd in betweene the Iland and the Spanish Nauy which was diuided into foure squadrons one whereof while hee endeauoured couragiously to make way thorow he was so ouerburthened with the massie Spanish Admirall S. Philip that it kept all the winde from him on one side and on the other side three more did the like Yet the Spaniards that were diuers times comming on were either faine to recoyle againe or were cast into the Sea and with a continuall succession of fresh men in their places to their great slaughter they still maintained fight against them all the night And now began the English to want powder their Pikes being broken and euery valiant Souldier being slaine or sore wounded the Masts of their fore-Decke and hind●Decke fell downe Their Cables cut the Ship torne with eight hundred shot of great Ordnance Capt. Greeneuill being grieuously wounded euen as he was hauing a plaister was againe wounded in the head and the Surgeon at the same time slaine At the beginning of the dawning of the day the hatches all besmeared with blood and paued with Carkases and men halfe dying afforded but a sad spectacle to all the beholders After this hauing now fought fifteene houres Greenuill seeing his case to be desperate willed them to sinke the ship but the Pilot forbade it and hauing got the maior parts assent thereto he was conueyed in the ship boat and yeelded to the Spanish Admirall vpon condition of safety and freedome from the Gallies but Captaine Greenuill languishing vnder the torments of his deaths wounds being brought into the Spanish Admirall within two daies after d●ed being sufficiently praised for his valour euen of his enemies The ship was yeelded vp but hauing beene board thorow in many places was afterwards swallowed vp in a tempest being man'd with two hundred Spaniards at least so that the Reuenge perished not vnreuenged The Lord Howard 〈◊〉 more on his good courage than ability to 〈…〉 haue put in amongst them bu● the Pilate was so farre from iniuring them with his consent that hee would rather haue tumbled himselfe into the Sea than not to haue hazarded but willingly thrust the Queenes ship vpon so apparant danger and indeed it seemed not good to them all at last to vndergoe a skirmis● without hope of successe to themselues or succour to their distressed companions when they but once considered that to hazard fiue ships against three and fiftie was nothing els● but inconsidera●ely to their owne destruction to thrust th● glory of a victory vpon their enemies Yet notwithstanding both hee and the rest especially Sir Thomas 〈◊〉 who two houres together still succour'd the Re●enge d●d all the seruice that either the courtesie of the winde or the continuance of the day light would suffer them to doe The English abundantly repaired the losse of that one ship with the surprizall of many Spanish in one where●● besides other riches were found about some twenty tho●●sand Popish Indulgences sent from the Pope into America for they compell the ●imple Indians euery yeere to buy 〈◊〉 remission of their sinnes at the Popes market to their 〈◊〉 aduantage and gaine About this time George Riman an excellent Sea-man and Iames Lancaster set forth also for the East Indie voyage 〈◊〉 hauing reach● the Cape of Good Hope at Cab● Corrient●● the Admirall was swallowed vp in a tempest and Riman in it Afterwards the heauens did thunder most fearefully and in the rest of the Ships foure of the Mariners hauing their neckes wreathed aside with the force of the thunder died instantly Ninety more were taken blinde many other● lamed some stretched as it were vpon the racke and yet all of them sooner than their owne expectation could haue cured them

concerne the detriment of his owne estate That all agreements although they be sworne to yet are they to be vnderstood Things being in the same cases as they then were and not altered as they now are That the obligation of a Prince to the good of his Countrey Commonwealth is of greater force and vertue to binde him then any outward contract vrging besides the authority of Seneca the Philosopher A wise man changeth not his determination all things continuing in the same state they were when he first determined and therefore he neuer doth repent for it because at that time nothing could be done better then that which was done and nothing better appointed then that which was so appointed So concerning this matter there were great disputations and controuersies as also if the States were liable to the payment to the Queenes successour in case of mortality since that by vertue of the contract neither one was bound to helpe them in the like distresses neither was the other bound to repay the monies to them Also whether that the monies borrowed of Palla●icine at vse sho●ld not as well be exacted of the Brabanders and the Flemmings and Artesians since that agreement was made when they were confederates too and before the confederacy of the now vnited Prouinces But Sir Thomas Bodley brought these controuersies to such a good temper that the States fearing the anger of so mighty a Princesse propounded these conditions which they would oblige themselues vnto First That assoone as they could they would case the Queene of all her charges for auxiliary forces of the English which came to forty thousand pounds a yeare Secondly That within some yeares they would pay her 20000. pounds sterling and helpe her with a certaine company of ships Thirdly That they would not enter into League with any without her consent Fourthly That after a Peace concluded they would pay her for foure yeares euery yeare 100000. pounds But vpon these conditions that they may be permitted 4000. Souldiers out of England and all their debts raced out of her her accounts Humbly entreating her to admit of these things for the reasons fore-mentioned Moreouer they protested their estates were built vpon very fickle foundations that the people was euen astonished at the rumour of those forces the enemies keepe that the Prouinces were at discord about a rule concerning Lone-money that the chiefest of them were at discord one against another that many had relapsed from the Religion which they lately professed with them That the Emperour by his Embassadours had entised the people to a peace inasmuch as that if this ten yeares debt should be now rigorously exacted it would iustly be feared that a sad Catastrophe and lamentable period would finish all the former endeauours of the confederate Prouinces And then the necessity and the mercy of the Queene began a new controuersie for although the proportion of her necessity admitted not any excuse or delay of payment yet her mercy rests satisfied for although she wanted monies she neuer wanted that And indeed she was the willinger to commiserate their necessities for feare lest otherwise shee should disioynt the Confederacie bring them to dispaire or giue their enemies occasion of reioycing onely vpon conditions that they furnish thirty ships and ioyne them with her Nauy which was a rigging for Spaine and that they pay the monethly payments awhile to the aux●liary forces of the English And so these matters of controuersie ended in a quiet peace at this time In the meane time there was sore complaints made to the Emperour of Germany and the States of the Empire by the Inhabitants of the Hanse-Townes about their Customes that their ancient priuiledges and customes granted by the former Kings of England were now quite abolished that in the expedition against Portugall their goods were taken by the English and that Monopolies were instituted in Germany by the English Merchants To these things the Queene made answere by Christopher Perkins THat those antient Priuiledges by reason of some abuses and for other good motiues and reasonable causes were abrogated by the Court of Parliament in the raigne of Edward the sixt and that from thence there is no appealing One reason was that the said Priuiledges were not necessary for those times and that therefore they were quite inhibited by Queene Mary But yet that the Queene doth not now desire an absolute annihilation of these the said priuiledges which indeed she could doe by the act of Parliament but had in the former yeares of her raigne beene very indulgent to them as the times then went till such time that they hauing no regard of the league and friendship disturbed the English in Hamborough neither giuing them any warning of their the like vsage and yet that for all this she granted to them the same order of negotiation and trade as the English vsed but they refused it except they might haue it by better right That indeed this was in custome nowhere neither was it to be suffered that strangers should be preferred before home-bred Citizens in the traffique for those things that are peculiar to euery Region which indeed they would challenge by vertue of their Priuiledges Besides this that it could in no case stand with the good of the Common-wealth if so be they should pay no more custome thē that which was imposed vpon them 300. yeares ago that Priuiledges that haue been granted afterward occasion the Damage of the Commonwealth are not to be admitted of and being once abrogated vpon iust occasions should not be renued at any mans will or pleasure Yet notwithstanding that she euen esteemed of them almost as English in that she willed that they should pay no more custome for the carriage of Cloth hence or the bringing of Merchandises hither then her naturall Subiects vpon conditions that their Merchandise come from the Hanse-Townes But if so be that they bring in any commodity either from Spaine the Low-Countries or any other place that then also it shall be lawfull for them to bring them into England but with paiment of one penny in the pound lesse then any Forrainer onely excepting Cloath which it shall not be lawfull for those of the Hanse-Townes to transport any whither but to their owne Cities and Townes beyond the Riuer of Elbe the City Embden towards the East and the Baltique Sea That she had permitted to them houses at London and other places in England for them to retaine and in any honest manner of society to gouerne their affaires by their Alder●a● ●●●ly vpon condition that nothing be done preiudiciall 〈◊〉 the Queenes Maiesty or the lawes of the Realme although the extremities of their granted Priuiledges neuer allowed them so much as to constitute to themselues an Alderman or exercise any Iurisdiction in anothers Kingdome as she hath giuen them leaue to doe c. Withall answering that those goods which they complained were taken away were onely

enthron'd in heauen but Spiritually by possessing Hacket in the spirit more than any of the rest that Hacket was that Angell that was to come before the day of iudgement with his Fanne and his Hooke to separate the Sheepe from the Goates and that hee should tread downe Sathan and the Kingdome of Antichrist Afterwards from Wiginton they betake themselues to Hacket againe by whose side as he lay downe vpon his bed they prostrated themselues in very earnest prayer Hacket rysing vp ioyned with them in praier oftentimes zealously requesting the Spirit to direct them to Gods glory and then went to bed againe Not long after Arthington willed Copinger in the name of Iesus Christ to annoint Hacket with the Holy Ghost make him King So Copinger hauing thrice humbly kissed the pauement and bowed the knee with great reuerence approached towards Hacket but he droue him backe with his hand saying It is needlesse for you to annoint me for I am already annointed by the Holy Ghost goe ye onely and doe as I command you Goe and preach through the City that Iesus Christ is come with his fanne in his hand to iudge the world if any man aske you where he is direct him hither if they will not beleeue let them come and if they can let them kill mee for as sure as God is in heauen so no lesse sure is it that Christ is now come to iudgment Scarce had hee ended this commandement but they pr●sently flye vpon the execution of it and running out of doores cry vp and downe the streetes that Christ is come redoubling with a loud voice that and many other things which Hacket had told them crying Repent repent c. throughout the City till they came to Cheapside and when they were much pestered there with a throng of people they got vp into a Cart and there partly without booke and partly by the helpe of some notes they had they openly cryed out that Hacket had participated of Christ by his more peculiar Spirit a body truly glorified and that he was now come with his Fanne to propagate the Gospel through Eurpoe and to constitute a new discipline and Common-wealth in England intimating withall vnto them the place where he lodged declaring themselues to bee two Prophets the one of Mercy and the other of Iudgement that were allotted to him for facilitating this so difficult an enterprise vowing protesting and swearing that as they hoped to b● saued all this was true Then they added that Hacket was a supreame and sole Monarch and that all the Kings and Princes of Europe were but his Vassals that therefore hee must onely be obeyed and the Queene deposed Lastly they railed at bitterly and cursed the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury and the Lord Chancellour as the sole oppugners of the true and sincere Religion which they would haue brought in and then hauing endeauoured to haue crowded into other quarters of the City with like proclamations but being hindred with the presse of the people and the perswasion of some of their friends they returned home to Hackets lodging Shortly after being apprehended and brought before some of the Priuy Councell and other Magistrates to bee examined they behaued themselues with such contempt before them that they would not so much as stand bare but peremptorily answer'd those that reproued them that they were aboue all Magistrates Shortly after this Hacket was accused of treason who acknowledged himselfe guilty whereupon he was condemned at which time he vsed many blasphemous speeches euen to the terrour of those that heard him cunningly as much thought to bring the Iudges to thinke that hee was distracted in his wits but yet in all his other gestures and behauiours there was no signe of any such matter for they relished more of a well setled grauity than any such distemper afterwards was he drawne vpon a hurdle into Cheap-side incessantly crying all the way with a fearefull voice Iehoua Messias Iehoua Messias Beh●ld the heauens open beh●ld the Son of the most high comming downe to deliuer me When hee was brought to the Gallowes and wished to confesse his sinnes against God and the Queene he vsed many contumelious speeches against the Queene But for God he cryed out to him with a Stentors voice O heauenly God Almighty Iehoua Alpha and Omega Lord of Lords and King of Kings O eternall God thou knowest that I am the true Iehouah whom thou hast sent now shew some miracle from the cl●●des 〈◊〉 conuert all these infidels and deliuer 〈◊〉 from mine enemies If thou wilt n●t O how I tremble 〈◊〉 the repetition I will fire the heauens and with these hands p●ll thee from thy throne vsing sometimes speeches if it were possible worse than these Then turning about 〈◊〉 the Hang● man that was ●itting the rope to his necke 〈◊〉 Bastard said he wilt thou hang thy King Hacket and after that being haltred hee lift vp his eies to heauen saying I● this my reward for my kingdome bestowed behold I come and will reuenge it The rope stopt his mouth at this blasphemy but not all his punishment for being immediately cut downe according to his sentence hee was streight way quartered And thus we see how the enemy of mankinde besots those whom he findes affecting a counterfeit holinesse and not contented with sobriety in knowledge C●pi●ger shortly after hauing voluntarily s●●ru'd himselfe died in prison but Arthington growing wiser to repentance acquitted himselfe of this folly in a serious booke which was set out to the same purpose by him not long after And indeed not onely these but many others who hauing condemned the receiued discipline of the Church of England and reprooued the calling of Bishops had in vaine● with many contumelious speeches hitherto opposed th● Prelates had now drawne into their faction many of th● Lawyers of the Realme who sharpened both their tongu●● and pens against the Queenes iurisdiction in Ecclesiastica●● matters and consequently against her delegating the same to the Clergie as being a thing most vniust publishing 〈◊〉 print that against the law of the Realme men were vniust●ly oppressed in our Courts Ecclesiasticall that the Quee●● had no right residing in her selfe of such Iurisdiction and that others therefore could not iustly exercise the same being delegated to them from her alledging that those 〈◊〉 Ecclesiasticall ought not to impose vpon a guilty man an oath of Dutie which they call Insuriandum ex officio by reason that no man is compelled to be his owne accuser and by reason that thereby a man must either wilfully condemne himselfe or by forswearing himselfe for the safety of life and goods ruine his owne soule Besides this they vrged the forme of the ancient Writ running in this manner Wee will and command the Sheriffe of our Counties S. N. c. that they permit not any within their Bailife-ship to make recognizance by oath but onely in cause of