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A13160	A challenge concerning the Romish Church, her doctrine & practises, published first against Rob. Parsons, and now againe reuiewed, enlarged, and fortified, and directed to him, to Frier Garnet, to the archpriest Blackevvell and all their adhærents, by Matth. Sutcliffe. Thereunto also is annexed an answere vnto certeine vaine, and friuolous exceptions, taken to his former challenge, and to a certeine worthlesse pamphlet lately set out by some poore disciple of Antichrist, and entituled, A detection of diuers notable vntrueths, contradictions, corruptions, and falsifications gathered out of M. Sutcliffes new challenge, &c.	Sutcliffe, Matthew, 1550?-1629.; Sutcliffe, Matthew, 1550?-1629. Briefe replie to a certaine odious and slanderous libel.	1602 (1602)	STC 23454; ESTC S117867	337,059	440

cause how is it then possible that either they should draw their swords against her Maiestie or allow them that do it and not be guilty of attempting against her person Thirdly Holt the Iesuit Worthington and other priests perswaded first a certeine Irish man called Patricke Collen afterward one Yorke Williams to murder her Maiestie and this the secular priests in Holt his consorts in a certeine treatise intitled important considerations n Pag. 33. doe confesse to be true they do also o Ibidem cōfesse that Edmund Squire was drawen by the perswasion of Walpoole a Iesuite to a like vilanous attempt against her Maiesties owne person Parsons in his Wardword likewise confesseth that he was acquainted with the resolution of a certaine gentelman as he calleth him that came ouer to kill the Queene neither néed we to make any question but that diuers priests and Iesuits and others either p One Bifley a priest confessed that it was lawfull to kill the Queene being excommunicate by the pope and denied not that he himselfe would doe the act if he could his confession is extant to be seene allowed or were acquainted with the most execrable treasons of Parry Sauage Lopez Squire Babington and such like vnnaturall monsters that attempted and intended most cruelly to murder empoison and destroy their liege Souereigne the rest they are scholars and agents of the pope and his wicked consistory and of Parsons and other Iesuits and traitorous priests and combined with them and therefore guiltie as farre as the others in this point of treason Allen in his wicked letters to the nobilitie and people of England and Ireland declareth that there were diuers English priests in the Spanish army ready to serue euery mans spirituall necessitie by confession counsell and all consolation in Christ Iesus and the same is confessed also in diuers treatises set out by secular priests but how could they be in the army of publike enemies and not attempt against her Maiesties person if occasion serued or how can any allow or like of such fellowes or such attempts that wish not the destruction of her Maiesty fourthly cardinall Allen in his most slandrous libel directed to the nobility and people of England and Ireland doth by all his best retoricke endeuour to perswade all papists to take armes against her Maiesty to lay hands on her and to deliuer her into the hands of her enemies but what priest or papist in England did not much depend on him while he liued nay most of them were his scholars and the rest conuersed with him and receiued diuers letters and instructions from him fiftly it is confessed that diuers priests now in England were either in the Spanish army or in their ships or appointed to follow the army anno 1588. and that diuers others were put aboord the Adelantadoes ships that came for Falmouth anno 1597. and 1598. If then they came with forren enemies and were in their troupes it is no question but they meant to attempt against her Maiesties person it is also apparent that all their receiters and abetters and such also as allow their act and this opinion are likewise guiltie of this point of treason Finally in a certeine house where Dauid Engleby a traitourous priest was taken these q They are to be seene in the memorials of the councell of Yorke resolutions were also found that it is lawfull for papists to take armes against the Queene and further that they might doe with her person whatsoeuer pleased them they also resolue in flat termes that it is lawfull to kill the Queene but say the priests as matters now stand it is best not so much as once to speake of that matter so then all that are not blinde may sée the malice of this generation and no question but their followers in their superstitious opinions would not be farre behinde them in their leud and trecherous actions if occasion were offered neither can they otherwise do when the pope vpon whom they build their faith doth r Bulla Pij 5. aduersus Elizabetham excommunicate all that will not fight against the Queene argument 4 Fourthly it is treason in danger of forren inuasion or el● in the midst of the battell to forsake the prince or not to defend or mainteine his right ſ Li●ij lib. 1. decad 1. Metius Suffetius standing aloofe when Romulus encountred the enemy was seased vpon as a traitor and drawen in pieces with horses By the lawes of fees hée that forsaketh his lord in the battell t Lib 2. de feudis de caufis benefic amittendi as a traitor is depriued of his lands qui dominum suum saith the law cum quo ad praelium iuerit in acie periclitantem dimiserit beneficio se indignum indicauit Likewise it is adiudged treason not to declare any harme intended against our lord By the common lawes of England also and lawes of nations it hath béene alwaies accounted treason not only to oppugne the right of the king but also being required not to acknowledge it Suppose then all priests and papists were not actors either in op●n rebellions or in attempts made by forren enemies yet all of them denying the Quéenes authority being excommunicat by the pope and that refuse to acknowledge her lawfull title or to take her part against the pope who is now become an enemy and an inuader consorted with the Spaniard are notorious traitors But this is the case of the best of those that haue died for the popes cause Campian and his consorts being demanded whether they tooke the Queene to be lawfull Queene notwithstanding the popes sentence of excommunication and likewise whether Sanders and Bristow that mainteined the popes authoritie and the Queenes deposition to be lawfull was sound or not refused to answere directly and neither would they acknowledge her Maiesty to be their lawfull Queene nor promise to take her part if occasion serued nor would they condemne the popes fact nor disallow the traitorous doctrine of Sanders and Bristow and I do beléeue if our recusants in England were put to the question they would either accord with the priests or make very doubtfull answeres for the Queenes authority in ecclesiasticall causes they vtterly condemne and from the pope that is our enemy and hath displaied his banner i● open field against her Maiesty they will not be drawen Sherwin and some others did so answere as euery man might iudge that they meane to the vttermost of their power to defend the popes cause and to oppugne her Maiesties authority In Ireland we finde that papists are the men that vphold the rebellion and that serue her Maiesty very coldly though sometime enterteined in her seruice Were it then nothing els but this that the masse priests and their adherents refuse to acknowledge her Maiesties title and to serue her against forren enemies yet is that sufficient to shew them to be traitors

and people of England and Ireland doeth confesse that the pope and Spaniard were solicited by himselfe and diuers other English men to inuade this land and this is also knowen by the negotiation of Englefield Parsons and other English both with the Spanish king and also with other princes to this purpose fiftly Parsons to draw on the king of Spaine to enterprise this warre told him that his name being Philip Norway he could not chuse but haue good successe his reason was for that our countrey had a prophecie that betwixt Bostons Bay and the pile of Foudray should be seene the blacke nauy of Norway which as he perswaded the king should returne victorious The same man also in a letter to a certeine noble man of Scotland declareth that he had béene with most princes in Europe to moue inuasions and warres against vs. sixtly the emperor that now is vpon their informations hath professed himselfe our enemie and set out diuers prolamations against our nation by means whereof our merchants in his dominions haue susteined great losses seuenthly Allen and diuers fugitiue English were busie anno Domini 1586. and 1587. with the duke of Guise and other Frenchmen to induce them to concurre with the Pope and Spaniards in the warre against England The English papists at that time in a certeine treatise called Vn aduertissement des catholiques Anglois aux catholiques Francois doe endeuor to stirre them vp against vs charging them with this slacknesse and imputing their euill successe thereunto Le crime d'endurer Iesabel ta voisine say they Plonger an sang Chrestien te destruit peu a peu They confesse also that themselues are scorned of all nations for suffering an hereticall Queene as these hereticall traitors call her to reigne An eight argument to prooue this point may be drawen from the infamous libels set out against our nation partly by Parsons and Creswell and partly by Worthington Gifford other fugitiues tending to no other end than to stirre the whole world to take armes vp against vs. finally the practise of D. Story with the duke of Alua the oration of Allen made to Gregory the 13. Sanders his negotiation with the same pope Parsons his running vp and downe these twentie yeeres and vpward from nation to nation the agencies of Holt and other Iesuites and priests with the duke of Parma the plots taken about Crighton a Iesuite concerning the inuasion of England and the clamours of English fugitiues from time to time in the eares of all Christian princes and now lately the attempt of D. Juan d' Aquila in Ireland onely set forward by English and Irish priests and fugitiues against her Maiesty doe all plainly declare that these fugitiues from time to time haue bene the firebrands to set their owne natiue countrey on a flame if any would haue hearkened to their promises and this point albeit the same touch not all that haue béene executed or are yet aliue in England of the popes faction principally yet it toucheth either all or most of them as being a betters counsellers scholars slaues or companions of these principall stirrers all of them comming from Allen and Parsons and other principall agents in this businesse and so cléere it is that English fugitiues were the principall motiues of the inuasion anno 1588. and of D. Juan d' Aquila his attempt that the Spaniards impute most of their euill successe to their lies and false informations of our weaknesse and it is said that diuers of them begin to be hatefull to most Spaniards for this cause argument 2 Secondly it is treason to stirre vp sedition or rebellion against the prince or state or to concurre with those that goe about to mooue rebellion or stir vp sedition The words of the Romane lawes are cleere Maiestatis crimine b L. 1. ff ad l. Iulian maiestatis saith Vlpian tenetur is cuius consilio doloue malo factum est vt armati homines cum telis lapidibusue in vrbe sint conueniántue aduersus remp locáque occupantur vel templa quóue coetus conuentúsue fiant hominésque ad seditionem connocentur He is guilty of treason saith Vlpian by whose counsell or cunning procurement armed men with weapons come together against the state and sease places of aduantage or that causeth metings and and assemblies to raise vp sedition By this law those are also condemned qui milites solicitauerint concitaueríntue quo seditio tumultúsue aduersus rempub fiat that is which shall solicite or cause souldiers to mutine or reuolt or stirre against the state as for example the traitour Allen did with Sir W. Stanley and the souldiers of Deuenter Likewise by the statute of the 25. Edward the 3. c. 2. those are adiuged traitors that shall take armes against their prince or countrey either within the realme or without in which case also are all rebels and seditions persons that shall rebell against their gouernors or that shall be aiding or consenting thereunto And in the Spanish lawes del fuero real tit de la guarda del rey it is enacted that none be so hardy by word deed or aduice to oppose himselfe against the king or his state or to make an insurrection or practise of rebellion against him or his kingdom either within the realme or without Que ninguno no sea osado por fecho ni per dicho ni por conseio de yr contra el rey ni contra su sennorio ni hazer alleuamiento ni bollicio contra el ni contra seu reyno en su tierra ni fuera su tierra This is also law both in France Germany and all countreys neither will the pope suffer any of his dominions notwithstanding that hée holdeth them by vsurpation and without lawfull title to consult against him or mutinously to stirre vp such as liue vnder him to rebellion but he presently chastiseth them as traitours Innocent the seuenth who succéeded Boniface the ninth that not yet three hundred yéeres agone first vsurped the temporall gouernment of Rome as c In lib. de schism Theodoricke a Niem and other d Paulus Langius in Chronic. Citizensi stories testifie caused diuers citizens most cruelly to be murdered albeit they did but againe redemand the authority that was committed to the popes in trust Platina he maketh mention of this murder writing of Innocent the seuenth though concealing the true cause he saieth they were executed for sedition Vndecim ciues saith Platina reip suae labenti in negligentia pontificis consulturi statim necantur è fenestrísque deijciuntur quod diceret eo modo tolli seditiones If then a pretence of sedition be cause sufficient for the Pope to procéed against his subiects with what face can he or his adherents blame her Maiestie if shee doe chastice her mutinous seditions and rebellious subiects shall it not be lawfull for her and for this state to doe that which all princes and states doe practise and take to be