of such base and vulgare note as those were which of late haue bene executed as in particular some by name are well knowen and not vnfit to bee remembred The first and chiefest by office was D. Heth that was Archbishop of Yorke and lord Chaunceler of England in Queene Maries time who at the first comming of her Maiestie to y e Crowne shewing himself a faithfull quiet subiect continued in both the sayde offices though in religion then manifestly differing and yet was he not restrayned of his libertie nor depriued of his proper lands and goods but leauing willingly both his offices liued in his owne house and inioyed all his purchased lands during all his naturall life vntill by very age he departed this world and then left his house liuing to his friendes an example of gentlenes neuer matched in Queene Maries time The like did one D. Poole that had bene Bishop of Peterborough an auncient graue person and a verie quiet subiect There were also others that had bene Bishoppes and in great estimation as D. Tunstall Bishop of Duresme a person also of very quiet behauiour There were also other D. White and D. Oglethorpe one of Winchester the other of Carlile Bishops and D. Thurleby and D. Watson yet liuing one of Ely the other of Lincolne Bishops not pressed with any capitall payne though they maintayned the Popes authoritie against the lawes of the realme and some Abbots as M. Fecknam yet liuing a person also of quiet courteous behauiour for a great time Some also were Deanes as D. Boxall Deane of Windsore a person of great modestie and knowledge D. Cole Deane of Paules a person more earnest then wise D. Reinolds Deane of Exceter and many such others hauing borne office and dignities in the Church and had made profession against the Pope which they began in Queene Maries time to change yet were they neuer to this day burdened with capitall peanes nor yet depriued of any their goods or proper liueloods but onely remoued from their Ecclesiasticall offices which they would not exercise according to the Lawes And most of them for a great time were retayned in Bishops houses in very ciuill and courteous maner without charge to themselues or their friends vntill the time that the Pope began by his Buls and messages to offer trouble to the realme by stirring of rebellion about which time onely some of these aforenamed being found busier in matters of state tending to stirre troubles then was meete for the common quiet of the Realme were remooued to other more priuate places where such other wanderers as were men knowen to moue sedition might bee restrained from common resorting to them to increase trouble as the Popes Bull gaue manifest occasion and yet without charging them in their consciences or otherwise by any inquisition to bring them into dāger of any capital law so as no one was called to any capitall or bloody question vpon matters of religion but haue all inioyed their life as the course of nature woulde and such of them as yet remayne may if they will not be authors or instruments of rebellion or sedition inioye the time that GOD and nature shall yeelde them without danger of life or member And yet it is worthy to be well marked that the chiefest of all these and the most of them had in the time of King Henrie the eight and King Edward the sixt either by preaching writing reading or arguing taught all people to condemne and abhorre the authoritie of the Pope yea they had many times giuen their othes publiquely against the Popes authoritie and had also yelded to both the said Kings the title of supreame head of the Church of England next vnder Christ which title the aduersaries doe most falsly write and affirme that the Queenes Maiestie doeth nowe vse a manifest lie and vntrueth And for proofe that these foresaide Bishoppes and learned men had so long time disauowed the Popes authoritie many of their bookes sermons against the Popes authoritie remayne printed to be seene in these times to their great shame and reproofe to change so often and specially in persecuting such as themselues haue taught and stablished to holde the contrary There were also and yet be a great nomber of others being lay men of good possessions and lands men of good credite in their countries manifestly of late time seduced to hold contrary opinions in religion for the Popes authoritie and yet none of them haue bene sought hitherto to be impeached in any poynt or quarrel of treason or of losse of life member or inheritance so as it may plainely appeare that it is not nor hath bene for contrarious opinions in religion or for the Popes authoritie as the aduersaries doe boldely and falsly publish that any persons haue suffered death since her Maiesties reigne and yet some of these sort are well knowen to holde opinion that the Pope ought by authoritie of Gods worde to be supreame and only head of the Catholique Church and onely to rule in all causes Ecclesiasticall and that the Queenes Maiestie ought not to be the gouernour ouer all her subiectes in her realme being persons Ecclesiasticall which opinions are neuerthelesse in some part by the laws of the realme punishable in some degrees yet for none of these poyntes haue any persōs bene prosecuted w t the charge of treasō or in danger of life And if thē it be inquired for what cause these others haue of late suffered death it is truely to be answered as afore is often remembred that none at all are impeached for treason to the danger of their life but such as do obstinately maintaine the contents of the Popes Bull afore mentioned which do import that her Maiestie is not the lawfull Queene of England the first and highest poynt of treason that al her subiects are discharged of their othes and obedience mother high poynt of treason and all warranted to disobey her and her laws a third and a very large poynt of treason And thereto is to be added a fourth poynt most manifest in that they would not disalow the Popes hostile proceedings in open warres against her Maiestie in her realme of Ireland where one of their companie D. Sanders a lewde scholler and subiect of England a fugitiue a principall companion and conspirator with the traitors and rebels at Rome was by the Popes speciall commission a commaunder as in forme of a Legate and sometime a treasorer or paymaster for those warres which D. Sanders in his booke of his Church monarchie did afore his passing into Ireland openly by writing gloriously auowe the foresaid Bull of Pius Quintus against her Maiestie to be lawfull and affirmeth that by vertue thereof one D. Mooreton an olde English fugitiue and conspirator was sent from Rome into the North partes of England to stirre vp the first rebellion there whereof Charles Neuill the late Earle of Westmerland
was a head captaine And thereby it may manifestly appeare to all men howe this Bull was the grounde of the rebellions both in England and Ireland and howe for maintenaunce thereof and for sowing of sedition by warrant and allowance of the same these persons were iustly condemned of treason and lawfully executed by the auncient lawes temporall of the Realme without any other matter then for their practizes and conspiracies both abroade and at home against the Queene and the realme and for maintaining of the Popes foresaid authoritie and Bull published to depriue her Maiestie of her crowne and for withdrawing and reconciling of her subiects from their naturall allegeaunce due to her Maiestie and to their countrie and for mouing them to sedition for no other causes or questions of religion were these persons condemned although true it is that when they were charged and conuinced of these poyntes of conspiracies and treasons they woulde still in their answeres colourably pretend their actions to haue bene for religion but in deede and trueth they were manifest for the procurement and maintenaunce of the rebellions and warres against her Maiestie and her realme And herein is nowe the manifest diuersitie to be seene and well considered betwixt the trueth of her Maiesties actions and the falshood of the blasphemous aduersaries that where the factious partie of the Pope the principall author of the inuasions of her Maiesties dominions doe falsely alleadge that a nomber of persons whome they terme as Martyrs haue dyed for defence of the catholique religion the same in very trueth may manifestly appeare to haue died if they so wil haue it as martyrs for the Pope and traitors against their soueraigne and Queene in adhering to him being the notable and onely open hostile enemie in all actions of warre against her Maiestie her kingdomes and people and that this is the meaning of all these that haue so obstinately maintayned the authoritie and contents of this Bull the very wordes of the Bull do declare in this sort as D. Sanders reporteth them Plus Quintus Pontifex Maximus de Apostolicae potestatis plenitudine declarauit Elizabetham praetenso Regni iure necnon omni quocunque dominio dignitate priuilegioque priuatam Itemque Proceres subditos populos dicti regni ac caeteros omnes qui illi quomodocunque iurauerunt à iuramento huiusmodi ac omni fidelitatis debito perpetuò absolutos That is to say Pius Quintus the greatest Bishop of the fulnesse of the Apostolique power declared Elizabeth to be bereued or depriued of her pretended right of her kingdome and also of all and whatsoeuer dominion dignitie priuiledge and also the Nobles subiects people of the said kingdome and all others which had sworne to her any maner of wayes to be absolued for euer from such othe and from all debt or duetie of fealtie and so forth with many threatning cursings to al that durst obey her or her lawes And for execution hereof to proue that the effect of the Popes bul message was a flat rebelliō it is not amisse to heare what D. Sanders the Popes firebrād in Ireland also writeth in his visible Church Monarchie which is thus Pius Quintus Pontifex Maximus Anno D. 1569. reuerendum praesbyterum Nicolaum Mortonum Anglum in Angliam misit vt certis illustribus viris authoritate Apostolica denunciaret Elizabetham quae tunc rerum potiebatur haereticam esse ob eamque causam omni Dominio potestate excedisse impuneque ab illis velut ethnicam haberi posse nec eos illius legibus aut mandatis deinceps obedire cogi That is to say Pius Quintus y e greatest Bishop in the yere of our Lord 1569. sent the reuerend priest Nicolas Morto an Englishmā into England y t he shuld denoūce or declare by y e Apostolique authority to certaine noble men Elizabeth who thē was in possessiō to be an heretike for y e cause to haue fallen frō al dominion power that she may be had or reputed of thē as an Ethnike and that they are not to be compelled to obey her lawes or commandements c. Thus you see an Ambassade of rebellion frō the Popes holines the Ambassadour an old doting English Priest a fugitiue and conspirator sent as he saieth to some noble men and those were the two Earles of Northumberland and Westmerland heads of the rebellion And after this he followeth to declare y e successe thereof which I dare say he was sory it was so euil w t these words Qua denuntiatione multinobiles viri adducti sunt vt de fratribus liberandis cogitare auderent ac sperabant illi quidem Catholicos omnes summis viribus affuturos esse verum etsialiter quà m illi expectabant res euenit quià Catholici omnes nondum probè cognouerant Elizabetham hereticam esse declaratam tamen laudanda illorum Nobilium consilia erant that is By which denuntiation many noble men were induced or ledde that they were boldened to thinke of the freeing of their brethren and they hoped certainly that all the Catholiques would haue assisted them with all their strength but although the matter happened otherwise then they hoped for because all the Catholiques knewe not that Elizabeth was declared to be an heritike yet the counsels intentes of those noble men were to be praysed A rebellion and a vanquishing of rebels very smoothly described This noble fact here mencioned was the rebellion in the North the noble mē were the Earles of Westmerland and Northumberland the lacke of the euent or successe was that the traitours were vanquished and the Queenes Maiestie and her subiects had by Gods ordinance the victorie and the cause why the rebels preuayled not was because all the Catholiques had not bene duely informed that the Queenes Maiestie was declared to be as they terme it an heretike which want of information to the intent to make the rebels mightier in nomber and power was diligently and cunningly supplyed by the sending into the realme of a great multitude of the Seminaries Iesuites whose special charge was to informe the people thereof as by their actions hath manifestly appeared And though D. Sanders hath thus written yet it may be said by such as fauoured the two notable Iesuites one named Robert Persons who yet hideth himself in corners to continue his Trayterous practise the other named Edmond Campion that was found out being disguised like a roister and suffered for his Treasons that D. Sanders treason is his proper treason in allowing of the sayde bull but not to be imputed to Persons and Campion Therefore to make it plaine y t these two by speciall authoritie had charge to execute the sentence of this bul these actes in writing following shall make manifest which are not fayned or imagined but are the verie writings taken about one of their complyces immediatly after Campions death Facultates
The Execution of Iustice in England for maintenaunce of publique and Christian peace against certeine stirrers of sedition and adherents to the traytors and enemies of the Realme without any persecution of them for questions of Religion as is falsely reported and published by the fautors and fosterers of their treasons xvii Decemb. 1583. †Imprinted at London 1583. ⧠The Execution of Iustice in England for maintenance of publique and Christian peace c. IT hath bene in all ages and in all countries a common vsage of all offendors for the most part both great and small to make defence of their lewd and vnlawfull facts by vntruthes and by colouring and couering their deedes were they neuer so vile with pretences of some other causes of contrarie operations or effectes to the intent not onely to auoid punishment or shame but to continue vphold prosecute their wicked attempts to y e full satisfaction of their disordered and malicious appetites And though such hath bene the vse of all offendors yet of none with more danger then of Rebels traitours to their lawfull Princes Kings and countries Of which sort of late yeeres are specially to be noted certaine persons naturally borne subiects in the Realme of England and Ireland who hauing for some good time professed outwardly their obedience to their soueraigne Lady Queene Elizabeth haue neuerthelesse afterward bene stirred vp and seduced by wicked spirites first in England sundry yeres past and secondly and of later time in Ireland to enter into open rebellion taking armes and comming into the field against her Maiestie and her Lieutenants with their forces vnder banners displayed inducing by notable vntruthes many simple people to followe assist them in their traiterous actions And though it is very well knowen that both their intentions and manifest actions were bent to haue deposed the Queenes Maiestie from her Crowne and to haue traiterously set in her place some other whom they liked whereby if they had not bene speedily resisted they would haue committed great bloodsheddes and slaughters of her Maiesties faithfull subiects and ruined their natiue countrey Yet by Gods power giuen vnto her Maiestie they were so speedily vanquished as some few of them suffered by order of Lawe according to their deserts many and the greatest part vpon confession of their faultes were pardoned y e rest but they not many of the principall escaped into forreine countries there because in none or few places rebels and traitours to their naturall Princes and countries dare for their treasons chalenge at their first muster open comfort or succour these notable traitors and rebels haue falsely informed many Kings Princes and States and specially the Bishoppe of Rome commonly called the Pope from whome they all had secretely their first comfort to rebell that the cause of their fleeing from their countries was for the religion of Rome and for maintenance of the said Popes authoritie Whereas diuers of them before their rebellion liued so notoriously the most part of their liues out of all good rule either for honest maners or for any sense in religion as they might haue bene rather familiar with Catalyn or fauourers to Sardanapalus then accōpted good subiectes vnder any Christian Princes As for some examples of the heads of these rebellions out of England fled Charles Neuill Earle of Westmerland a person vtterly wasted by loosenesse of life by Gods punishment euen in the time of his rebellion bereaued of his children that should haue succeeded him in the Earledome and how his bodie is nowe eaten with vlcers of lewde causes all his companions do see that no enemie he had can wish him a viler punishment And out of Ireland ranne away one Thomas Stukeley a defamed person almost through all Christendome a faithlesse beast rather then a man fleeing first out of England for notable piracies and out of Ireland for trecheries not pardonable which two were the first ringleaders of the rest of the rebelles the one for England the other for Ireland But notwithstanding the notorious euill and wicked liues of these and others their confederates voide of all Christian religion it liked the Bishop of Rome as in fauour of their treasons not to colour their offences as themselues openly pretend to do for auoyding of common shame of the worlde but flatly to animate them to continue their former wicked purposes that is to take armes against their lawfull Queene to inuade her realme with forreine forces to pursue al her good subiects and their natiue countries with fire sworde for maintenance whereof there had some yeres before at sundrie times proceeded in a thundring sort Bulles excommunications other publique writings denouncing her Maiestie being the lawfull Queene and Gods anoynted seruant not to be the Queene of the realme charging and vpon paines of excommunication commanding all her subiects to depart from their natural alleageances wherto by birth and by othe they were bounde Prouoking also and authorising all persons of al degrees within both the realmes to rebell and vpon this antichristian warrant being contrarie to all the Lawes of God and man nothing agreeable to a pasturall officer not onely all the rabble of the foresaid traitors that were before fled but also all other persons that had forsaken their natiue countries being of diuers conditions and qualities some not able to liue at home but in beggerie some discontented for lacke of preferments which they gaped for vnworthily in Vniuersities other places some banckerupt Marchants some in a sort learned to contentions being not contented to learne to obey the Lawes of the lande haue many yeres running vp and downe from Countrey to countrey practised some in one corner some in an other some with seeking to gather forces and money for forces some with instigation of Princes by vntruethes to make warre vpon their natural countrey some with inwarde practises to murder the GREATEST some with seditious writings and very many of late with publique infamous libels ful of despitefull vile termes and poysoned lyes altogether to vpholde the foresaide antichristian and tyrannous warrant of the Popes Bull. And yet also by some other meanes to furder these intentions because they could not readily preuayle by way of force finding forreine Princes of better consideration and not readily inclined to their wicked purposes it was deuised to erect vp certeine schooles which they called Seminaries to nourish bring vp persons disposed naturally to sedition to continue their race and trade and to become seedmen in their tillage of sedition them to send secretly into these the Q. Maiesties realmes of England Ireland vnder secret Maskes some of Priesthood some of other inferior orders with titles of Seminaries for some of the meaner sort of Iesuites for the stagers and ranker sort such like but yet so warely they crept into the land as none brought the marks of their priesthoode
with them but in diuers corners of her Maiesties Dominions these Seminaries or seedemen and Iesuites bringing with them certeine Romish trash as of their hallowed Waxe their Agnus dei many kinde of Beades and such like haue as tillage men laboured secretly to perswade the people to allowe of the Popes foresaid Bulles and warrantes and of his absolute authoritie ouer all Princes and Countries and striking many with prickes of conscience to obey the same whereby in proces of small time if this wicked and dangerous traiterous and craftie course had not bene by Gods goodnes espied and staied there had followed imminent danger of horrible vprores in the realmes and a manifest blooddy destruction of great multitudes of Christians For it cannot be denied but that so many as shoulde haue bene induced throughly perswaded to haue obeyed that wicked warrant of the Popes and the contents thereof should haue bene forthwith in their hearts and consciences secret traitors and for to be in deede errant and open traitours there shoulde haue wanted nothing but opportunitie to feele their strength and to assemble themselues in such nombers with Armour weapons as they might haue presumed to haue bene the greater part so by open ciuill warre to haue come to their wicked purposes But Gods goodnes by whome Kinges doe rule and by whose blast traitors are commonly wasted and cōfounded hath otherwise giuen to her Maiestie as to his handmayde and deare seruant ruling vnder him the spirit of wisdome and power whereby she hath caused some of these sedicious seedemen and sowers of rebellion to be discouered for all their secret lurkings and to be taken and charged with these former poyntes of high treason not being delt withall vpon questions of religion but iustly condemned as traitors At which times notwithstanding al maner gentle wayes of persuasions vsed to moue them to desist from such manifest traiterous courses and opiniōs yet was the canker of their rebellious humors so deepely entred and grauen into the heartes of many of them as they woulde not be remooued from their traiterous determinations And therefore as manifest traitours in maintayning and adhearing to the capitall enemy of her Maiestie and her Crowne who hath not only bene the cause of two rebellions alreadie passed in England and Ireland but in that of Ireland did manifestly wage and maintaine his owne people Captaines and Souldiours vnder the Banner of Rome against her Maiestie so as no enemy coulde doe more These I say haue iustly suffered death not by force or forme of any newe lawes established either for religion or against the Popes supremacie as the slaunderous libellers would haue it seeme to be but by the auncient temporall lawes of the realme and namely by the lawes of Parliament made in King Edward the thirds time about the yere of our Lorde .1330 which is aboue 200. yeres and moe past when the Bishops of Rome and Popes were suffered to haue their authoritie Ecclesiastical in this realme as they had in many other countries But yet of this kind of offenders as many of them as after their condemnations were contented to renounce their former traiterous assertions so many were spared from execution and doe liue stil at this day such was the vnwillingnes in her Maiestie to haue any blood spilt without this verie vrgent iust and necessary cause proceeding from themselues And yet neuerthelesse such of the rest of the traitors as remayne in forreyne partes continuing still their rebellious myndes and craftily keeping them selues aloofe off from dangers cease not to prouoke sundry other inferiour seditious persons newly to steale secretly into the realme to reuiue the former seditious practises to the execution of the Popes foresaid bulles against her Maiestie and the Realme pretending when they are apprehended that they came onely into the realme by the commandemēt of their superiours the heads of the Iesuites to whome they are bound as they say by othe against either king or countrie and here to informe or reforme mens consciences from errors in some poynts of religiō as they shal thinke meete but yet in very trueth the whole scope of their secret labours is manifestly proued to be secretly to winne all people with whom they dare deale so to allowe of the Popes said bulles and of his authoritie without exception as in obeying thereof they take themselues fully discharged of their alleageance and obedience to their lawfull Prince and countrey yea and to be well warranted to take armes to rebell against her Maiestie when they shall bee thereunto called and to be readie secretly to ioyne with any forreine force that can be procured to inuade the realme whereof also they haue a long time giuen and yet doe for their aduantage no small comfort of successe so consequently the effect of their labours is to bring the Realme not onely into a daungerous warre against the forces of strangers from which it hath bene free aboue xxiii or xxiiii yeres a case very memorable and hard to be matched with an example of the like but into a warre domesticall and ciuill wherein no blood is vsually spared nor mercie yeelded and wherin neither the vanqueror nor the vanquished haue cause of triumph And forasmuch as these are y e most euident perils that necessarily should follow if these kind of vermin were suffered to creepe by stealth into the Realme and to spreade their poyson within the same howsoeuer when they are taken like hipocrites they couloure and counterfeit the same with profession of deuotion in religion it is of all persons to be yeelded in reason that her Maiestie and all her gouernours and magistrates of Iustice hauing care to mantaine the peace of the Realme which God hath giuen in her time to continue longer then euer in any time of her progenitors ought of duetie to almightie God the author of peace and according to the naturall loue and charge due to their countrie and for auoiding of the floods of blood which in Ciuill warres are seene to runne and flowe by all lawful meanes possible aswell by the Sword as by Lawe in their seuerall seasons to impeache and repell these so manifest and daungerous coulourable practises and workes of sedition and rebellion And though there are many subiects knowen in the realme that differ in some opinions of religion from the Church of England and that doe also not forbeare to professe the same yet in that they doe also professe loyaltie and obedience to her Maiestie and offer readily in her Maiesties defence to impugne and resist any forreine force though it should come or be procured frō y e Pope himself none of these sort are for their cōtrary opinions in religiō prosecuted or charged w t any crymes or paines of treasō nor yet willingly searched in their consciences for their contrarie opinions that fauour not of treason And of these sortes there are a number of persons not
will that it belongeth not to a Bishop of Rome as successor of Saint Peter and therein a pastor spirituall or if hee were the Bishop of all Christendome as by the name of Pope he claymeth first by his Bulles or excommunications in this sort at his will in fauour of traytours and rebels to depose any soueraigne Princes being lawfully inuested in their Crownes by succession in blood or by lawfull election and then to arme subiects against their naturall Lordes to make warres and to dispense with them for their othes in so doing or to excommunicate faithful subiects for obeying of their natural Princes and lastly himselfe to make open warre with his owne souldiers against Princes mouing no force against him For if these powers shoulde be permitted to him to exercise then shoulde no Empire no kingdome no countrey no Citie or Towne be possessed by any lawful title longer then one such onely an earthly man sitting as he saith in S. Peters chaire at Rome should for his will and appetite without warrant from God or man thinke meete and determine An authoritie neuer chalenged by the Lorde of lordes the sonne of God Iesus Christ out onely Lord and Sauiour and the onely head of his Church whilest he was in his humanitie vpon the earth nor yet deliuered by any writing or certaine tradition frō Saint Peter from whome the Pope pretendeth to deriue all his authoritie nor yet from Saint Paul the Apostle of y e Gentiles but contrariwise by all preachings preceptes writings conteined in the Gospel and other Scriptures of the Apostles obedience is expresly commaunded to all earthly Princes yea euen to Kings by speciall name and that so generally as no person is excepted from such duetie of obedience as by the sentence of Saint Paul euen to the Romanes appeareth Omnis anima sublimioribus potestatibus sit subdita That is Let euery soule be subiect to the higher powers within the compasse of which law or precept Saint Chrisostome being Bishoppe of Constantinople writeth that euen Apostles Prophets Euangelists and Monkes are comprehended And for proofe of Saint Peters minde herein from whome these Popes claime their authoritie it can not be plainlyer expressed then when he writeth thus Proinde subiecti estote cuiuis humanae ordinationi propter Dominum siue Regi vt qui superemineat siue presidibus ab eo missis That is Therefore be you subiect to euery humane ordinance or creature for the Lorde whether it be to the King as to him that is supereminent or aboue the rest or to his presidents sent by him By which two principall Apostles of Christ these Popes the pretensed successours but chiefely by that which Christ the Sonne of God the onely Master of trueth sayde to Peter and his fellow Apostles Reges gentium dominantur vos autem non sic That is The Kings of the Gentiles haue rule ouer them but you not so may learne to forsake their arrogant and tyrannous authorities in earthly and temporall causes ouer Kings and Princes and exercise their Pastorall office as Saint Peter was charged thrise at one time by his Lorde and Master Pasce oues meas Feede my sheepe and peremptorily forbidden to vse a sworde in saying to him Conuerte gladium tuum in locum suum or mitte gladium tuum in vaginam that is Turne thy sword into his place or Put thy sworde into the scabbard All which precepts of Christ and his Apostles were duely followed and obserued many hundred yeeres after their death by the faithfull and godly Bishops of Rome that duely followed the doctrine and humilitie of the Apostles and the doctrine of Christ thereby dilated the limittes of Christs Church and the fayth more in the compasse of an hundred yeeres then the latter Popes haue done with their swordes and curses these 500 yeeres and so continued vntil the time of one Pope Hildebrand otherwise called Gregory theseuenth about the yeere of our Lorde 1074. who first beganne to vsurpe that kinde of Tyrannie which of late the Pope called Pius Quintus and since that time Gregory nowe the thirteenth hath followed for some example as it seemeth that is Where Gregory the seuenth in the yeere of our Lord 1074. or thereabout presumed to depose Henry y e fourth a noble Emperour then being Gregory the thirteenth nowe at this time would attempt the like against King Henry the eightes daughter heire Queene Elizabeth a soueraigne Queene holding her Crowne immediatly of God And to the ende it may appeare to Princes or to their good Counsellours in one example what was the fortunate successe y t God gaue to this good Christian Emperour Henry against the proud pope Hildebrand it is to be noted that when the pope Gregory attempted to depose this noble Emperour Henry there was one Rodulphe a noble man by some named the Count of Reenfield that by the Popes procurement vsurped the name of the Emperour who was ouercome by the sayde Henry the lawfull Emperour and in fight hauing lost his right hand he the said Rodulphe lamented his case to certayne Bishoppes who in the popes name had erected him vp and to them he said that y e selfe same right hand which he had lost was the same hande wherewith he had before sworne obedience to his Lorde and master the Emperour Henry and that in following their vngodly counselles he had brought vpon him Gods heauy and iust iudgementes And so Henry the Emperour preuailing by Gods power caused Gregory the pope by a Synode in Italy to be deposed as in like times before him his predecessour Otho the Emperour had deposed one pope Iohn for many heynous crymes and so were also within a short time three other popes namely Siluester Bennet and Gregory the sixt vsed by the Emperour Henry the third about the yere of our Lord 1047. for their like presumptuous attemptes in temporall actions against the said Emperours Many other examples might be shewed to the Emperours maiestie and the Princes of the holy Empire nowe being after the time of Henry the fourth as of Henry the fifth and after him of Fredericke the first and Fredericke the second and then of Lewis of Bauar all Emperours cruelly and tyrannously persecuted by the popes and by their bulles curses and by open warres and likewise to many other the great Kings and Monarches of Christendome of their noble progenitors Kinges of their seuerall dominions whereby they may see howe this kind of tyrannous authoritie in popes to make warres vpon Emperors and Kings and to commaund them to be depriued toke holde at the first by pope Hildebrande though the same neuer had any lawefull example or warrant from the Lawes of God of the olde or new Testament but yet the successes of their tyrannies were by Gods goodnesse for the most parte made frustrate as by Gods goodnesse there is no doubt but the like will followe to their confusions at all times to come And