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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A07901	The English Romayne lyfe Discouering: the liues of the Englishmen at Roome: the orders of the English semiminarie [sic]: the dissention betweene the Englishmen and the VVelshmen: the banishing of the Englishmen out of Roome: the Popes sending for them againe: a reporte of many of the paltrie reliques in Roome: ther vautes vnder the grounde: their holy pilgrimages: and a number other matters, worthy to be read and regarded of euery one. There vnto is added, the cruell tiranny, vsed on an English man at Roome, his Christian suffering, and notable martirdome, for the Gospell of Iesus Christe, in anno. 1581. VVritten by A.M. sometime the Popes scholler in the seminarie among them. Seene and allovved.	Munday, Anthony, 1553-1633.	1582 (1582)	STC 18272; ESTC S112987	53,560	84

since haue followed it They must denounce that damnable heresie crept in to the Church of England that proude vsurping Iezabell meaning our bread gracious Princesse whom quoth he God reserueth to make her a notable spectacle to the whole world for keeping y e good Queene of Scots frō her lawfull rule but I hope ere long y e Dogs shall teare her flesh those y t be her props vpholders Then drawing a paper out of his pocket he sayd I haue a Bead role of them heere who little knowes what is prouiding for them I hope shall not know till it fall vpon them Then he read their names vnto me which that all may perceiue the villainous trayterous mindes of our owne Countriemen so many of them as I can call to memory I will set down euen in the same manner as he read thē But first I must craue pardon of those honourable personages to whome the words doo offer great abuse and whom I vnfeynedlye reuerence and honour that they would not admit any euill conceite against mee but in the noble nature wherewith they are dayly adorned I béeing but the reporter may be pardoned and not reprooued First quoth he héere is my Lord Keeper the Bacon hogge the Butchers sonne the great guts oh he woulde fry well with a Faggot or his head would make a fayre showe vpon London bridge where I hope shortly it shall stand Next is eloquent Maister Cecill Lorde Treasorer you shall shortly see if he can saue his owne life with all y e wit he hath had it not béen for these two before named England had gon to wracke long since Then heere is the Earle of Leicester the Queenes Ostler his brother Ambrose Dudly a good fat whorson to make Bacon of with other words of my Lorde of Leicester not here to be rehearsed My Lord of Bedforde he forsooth is y e Queenes Coozin we will sée how finely his Coozin he can hang together Sir Fraunces Walsinghā Doctor Wilson they be her Secretaries for euery warrāt they haue suffered to apprehend any of our Priestes our fréends or other by that time they haue coūted their reckoning they shall find they haue a deere payment Sir Christopher Hatton he pleased y e Queene so wel dauncing before her in a Maske y t since y t time he hath risen to be one of y e Counsell with other words which I referre for modestie Sir Fraunces Knowles and other of the Counsell whose names I well remember not he gaue them many a heauy threatning Then opening the paper farder at the end therof was a great many of names of Magistrates other belonging to this Cittie among whome was Maister Recorder Maister Nowell Deane of Paules Maister Foxe Maister Crowlye sundry other whose names I cannot very well remember and therefore am loth to set downe any thing but that whereof I am certainly assured but verye well I remember there was no one named but he had the order of his death appoynted eyther by burning hanging or quartering and such like It is not vnlike but that this vnreuerent matter will offende some in the reading that men of honour and worshippe and those of credite and countenaunce shoulde haue their names published in print in suche sorte I haue had the iudgement of those of worshippe and learning on this behalfe and they haue sayde how it is necessary that theyr owne wicked spéeches should be set downe for an example to all men howe they abuse her Maiestie her honourable Councell and learned and discréete Maiestrates whereby their trayterous dealings may be the better discouered And to them thus vndutifully regarded it can not séeme an offence considering that Christe vnto his chosen vessels hath sayd You shall be mocked scorned and reuiled for my sake but doo you reioyce and be glad for your rewarde is the greater in the kingdome of Heauen and you remaine blessed Then putting vp his Paper agayne he began after this manner As I haue sayd before so now I saye the same such as come to this holy place must faithfully bende his life and conuersasion to honour and reuerence our prouident and holy Father the Pope in all thinges that shall like him to commaund to holde and confesse him the vniuersall supreme heade of Christes church embrace his decrees as the onely ordenance will of God For he is the person of God on earth and he can not sinne because the spirite of diuine grace guideth him continuallie he hath aucthoritie ouer all Kinges and Princes to erect and suppresse whome he pleaseth and that shall England well knowe ere long that he hath such power and aucthoritie To honour and obey him to be a true and faithfull member of his Church and to liue and die in his cause this ought to be the intent of all that commeth héere This long Tale contayning a number of more circumstaunces than I can vnfolde made me studie what aunswer I should make him which after some pause came foorth as thus Credite me Sir I am but a Nouesse in these matters and therefore you might as well haue disputed with me in the déepest Schoole points that is and I should haue censured bothe alike Nay quoth he I thinke not your ignoraunce so great albeit it séemeth great enough though you haue béene looselie brought vp yet you haue béene with me bothe at Masse and at Confession diuers times at such time as I serued my Lady B. Beside there are a great many of Priestes in England as in Warwickshire at Maister I. T. in Staffordshire at Maister G. of C. and at S. T. F. in the same shyre all these be neere your Fathers and not one of them but visiteth your Fathers house three or fowre times euerie yéere as they dyd when I was there for there is no long tariaunce in one place for a Priest but he must shifte styll least he be taken and I am sure your Father would sée you duelie confessed Nowe I was put to so harde a shifte that I knewe not well what to say I knewe none of these men he named but one and he in deede had a Priest who after his long raunging about his Maister the Popes businesse heere in England I thanke God I haue caused to be stayed Likewise I knewe not the Gentleman whome bothe they at Paris and he sayde to be my Father neither where he dwelt nor what he was which made me stand in feare to be disprooued hauing auouched my selfe before to be his Sonne Wherfore referring my case to God who had so prouided for me tyll that time in his name I resolued my selfe on this aunswer not knowing howe it might happen to spéede In déede Sir I can not denie but that I haue oftentimes heard Masse as also béene at Confession but my deuotion thereto hath béene ●ender as you your selfe haue séene knowing me to be so

Countreymen lacke though I am not able any way to reléeue them there be daylie that commeth this way to whome according to my hability I am liberall but they be such as you are not they come not for pleasure but for profite they come not to sée euerie idle toye and to learne a little language but to learne how to saue bothe their owne and their fréendes soules and such I would you were then I could say that to you which as you be I may not Trust me Sir quoth I I hope we haue learned to saue our soules already or else you might estéeme vs in a verie bad case If you haue quoth he it is the better for you but I feare me one day they that teach you to saue your soules after that manner will pay for it déerelie and you with them for company With these wordes he began to wexe somewhat melancholie which I perceiuing and remembring that our necessitie stoode not in case to pleade pointes of controuersie rather sought to please him in hope of some lyberalitie then to contend with him we béeing vnable and so fall into farder daunger Whervpon I desired him not to be offended at any thing we had sayde for we would gladlie learne any thing that might benefite vs and beside would follow his counsaile in any reasonable cause Then he began to be somewhat more gentlie disposed saying he could not greatlie blame vs if we were obstinate in our opinion comming from such a young Hell as we dyd but he had good hope that ere long it would be harrowed Then he willed vs to walke with him and he would bring vs where we should lodge that night at his charges all the way rehearsing vnto vs how beneficiall the Pope was to our Countreymen and howe highlie we might pleasure our selues our fréendes and Countrey if we would followe his councell Beside such horrible and vnnaturall spéeches he vsed against her Maiestie her honourable Councell and other persons that he named as the verie remembraunce maketh me blushe and my heart to bléede To all which we gaue him the hearing but God knowes on my parte with what anguishe of minde for I would haue perswaded my selfe that duety should haue with-helde the Subiect from reuiling his Princesse and nature from slaundering his owne Countrey but it suffiseth where grace is absent good qualities can neuer be present When wée were come to our Lodging he talked with our Hostesse what she should prouide for vs and afterward taking his leaue tolde vs he woulde haue more talke with vs in the morning in the meane time we should thinke on that which he had opened to vs and resolue our selues on a certayne determination for he meant vs more good then we were beware off He béeing departed we fell to such simple chéere as was prepared for vs which was simple in déed scant sufficient to the good stomackes we had to our victualles but because we had soone done we went the sooner to bed sparing as much time as we could in remembraunce of the Préestes woordes tyll the wearinesse of our iourney compelled vs to take our rest In the morning the Préest sent a poore fellow whom he kept to make his bed and r●n about on his errandes to our lodging that we should come vnto his Maister presently because he had occasion to goe into the Town and his returne was vncertaine therefore he would speake with vs before he went Upon these so hasty summons we addressed our selues towards him finding him in his Chamber reading vpon his Poetesse to him we gaue thankes for his courtesie promising to requite it if he came where we might doo it In bréefe among great circumstaunce of talke wherein he manifested the treason toward England he behaued him selfe in spéeches to vs according as I haue already declared in my Discouerie of Campion where you may perceyue the Popes determination our Englishmēs vnnatural consent to be Traitors to their own Princesse to shorten her life ouerthrow their natiue Coūtrey where they were borne When he had mightily besieged vs with a multitude as well threatninges as perswasions to conforme our selues vnder that obedience as well to auoide perill that might otherwise happen as also to gayne somewhat towarde our reléefe we promised him to doo as he would haue vs to goe whether he would appoint vs. Whervpon he presentlie wrote two Letters to Doctor Allen at Rheimes one of them cōcerned our preferment there howe we should be entertayned into the Englishe Seminarie and take the orders of Préesthood because we might doo good in our Countrey an other day The other Letter was of such newes as he heard out of England howe matters went forewarde to their purpose and beside other thinges which I am not to speake of héere because they are not to be read of euerie one These Letters finished and sealed vp with singing Cake he delyuered vnto vs saying I thanke God that I am ordayned the man bothe to saue your Soules and a number of your fréendes héere in England whome I could wishe héere present with you for that I pittie their estate as well that they are in as that which is wurse and I feare mée will fall on them shortlie I put vp the Letters and gaue him to vnderstande that we could hardlie trauell from thence to Rheimes hauing nothing wherwithall we might beare our charges Trust me quoth he I haue done as much for you as I am able for I haue nothing héere but to serue mine owne necessitie Then we offered to sell our Cloakes which the Soldiers against their willes had left vs. In déede quoth he to trauell in your Cloakes will doo nothing but hinder you I will send my man to a fréend of mine as much to saye as his Chest to sée what money he can gette for them The fellowe tooke our Cloakes after his Maister had whispered him in the ear● and went downe the staires returning quicklie with two French Crownes which the Préest deliuered to vs with fow●e or fiue French Soules out of his owne Purse so willing vs to do● his commendations to Doctor Allen and to labour earnestlie in that we went about Maister 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 we parted he into the Towne and we in our iourney When we were about thrée or fowre myles from Amiens we sate downe on the side of a hyll recounting what the Préest had sayde to vs as also the cause why he sen● vs to Rheimes the remembraunce of the true and vndoubted Religion vsed in our owne Countrey and wherein we were trayned vp was of force sufficient to perswade vs from yéelding to that which we iudged rather to be a mummerie and derision of the true Doctrine then otherwise So that notwithstanding many matters my companion alleadged vnto me what daunger we might come vnto if we went not to deliuer the Letters as also the harde penurie we should 〈◊〉 in trauell béeing destitute