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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

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

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

most vnwoorthy to possesse land and office that will not serue her Maiestie by whose fauour and clemency they enioy their lands and offices against the Spaniard or other forren enemy that séeketh to depriue both vs and them percase of lands liuing and life It may be that some papists will not beléeue this to be true of the masse priests and their adherents but if they list to read and sée what the secular priests confesse in their treatise of important considerations they will change their opinions argument 5 Howsoeuer they iudge of this point yet they will not deny that it is treason to adhere to forren enemies In the statute of 25. of Edward the third chap. 2. those that adhere to the kings enemies are adiudged traitors By the u El fuero real tit de la guarda del rey lawes of Spaine likewise it is made treason to ioine with the enemie and to yeeld him succour or helpe by any meanes and the like we may gather out of the Roman lawes ad legem Iuliam maiestatis l. 1. Finally reason may teach vs that they can not be our friends that adhere to our enemies and ioine with them but the masse priests and all that haue dealt hitherto in the popes and Spaniards cause haue adhered to forren foes and to the publike and professed enemies of her Maiesty and this state for first it is apparent that the Pope and Spaniard are publike enemies of the prince state Hostes ij sunt saith x ff de verborum signific l. hostes Pomponius qui nobis aut quibus nos publicè bellum decreuimus that is they are publike enemies either which make warres on vs or vpon whom we make warres The Gréeks of the word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that signifieth warre doe call enemies 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which sheweth them to be enemies properly that make warres vpon vs. But the Pope and Spaniard from the yéere 1569. haue not ceased to make warres against the English nation Pope Pius the fift hauing a determination to recouer his authority in England and that rather by the sword than as Peter did gaine men by the word stirred vp Philip king of Spaine to ioine with him against our nation both of them sent money to aide the Northren rebels anno 1569. and were determined to haue sent an army into England vnder the conduct of the duke of Alua had not the practise of the rebels béene discouered and had not the rebellion béene suppressed before the succors came to them y Manolessa The Pope also afterward set vp the duke of Norfolke and sent him mony and encouraged him with great promises to execute his sentence and both these points are prooued not onely by the testimony of the letters of Pius Quintus as they are recorded by him that set out the report of his life but also by the testimony of the secular priests in their treatise called important considerations About the yeere 1578. Stukelcy was by the Pope furnished with money and souldiers to make some enterprise in Ireland and had done somewhat if Gods iudgements had not turned him into Barbarie where he made his end correspondent to his life That string being broken Sanders was sent as agent for the Pope to raise a rebellion in Ireland and not long after the Pope sent certeine forces into the same countrey that openly z Let Parsons shew that euer S. Peter did the like displaied his banners against her Maiestie and the English nation Anno 1588. both the Spaniards and Popes fléet came with fire and sword against England The duke of Parma likewise prouided great land forces against vs in the Low-countreys An. 1597. 1598. the Adelantado of Spaine set foorth twise or thrise from Corona with an intention to descend in the port of Falmouth and to take that countrey And lately Don Juan d'Aquila was sent with diuers regiments for the conquest of Ireland Likewise we for our defence haue since made some attempts against the Spaniard in Spaine in the Indiaes and in the Low-countreys And most of these matters are publikely knowen and can not be denied by the aduersarses themselues The secular priests confesse most of these things in their treatise of important considerations It can not therefore be denied but that both the Pope and the Spaniard are publike enemies of her Maiestie and the state The like may be said of Henry the 2. the French king during the warres in Scotland in the beginning of her Maiesties reigne and of the duke of Guise the duke of Alua the prince of Parma and others that at seuerall times haue done hostile acts against her Maiesty and the English nation Likewise it is a thing very manifest that all our masse-priests and their partakers and consorts haue adhered to the king of Spaine to the pope and to other forren enemies Vpon the first comming of the Quéene to the crowne diuers fled to the French king who pretending a right to the crowne of England for his daughter in law the Quéene of Scots proclaimed her in Paris Queene of England and Ireland not without the consent of some traitorous English as it séemeth Mortua Maria saith a De schi● li. 3. Sanders Henricus Galliarum rex c. nurum suam Scotorum reginam Henrici octaui proneptim parisijs pro concione Angliae Hiberniae reginam declarandam curauit he sent also forces into Scotland to second his claime which no man may surmise he would haue done but that he was promised a party in England that the seminaries of Doway and Rome adhere to the pope and Spaniard it cannot be denied for of them they haue their maintenance and when the priests of the seminaries are déepely rooted in the grounds of vnnaturall disloialty and treason abroad they come with commission and meanes from them two home into England thirdly Sanders was sent by the pope as his legat into Ireland and both he and his consorts that were sent vpon that businesse were furnished with meanes from the pope and did wholly depend vpon him and on the king of Spaine fourthly it appeareth that the priests held the pope for the chiefe lord and did not so much as vouchsafe to call Elizabeth the Queene of England their Quéene petatur à summo domino nostro say Parsons and Campian in their faculties explicatio bullae declaratoriae contra Elizabetham ei adhaerentes let vs beseech say they our most high lord the pope to make an exposition of the bull against Elizaberh and all that adhere vnto her so it appeareth that they declare themselues opposite to the Quéene and all her true subiects and that they adhere to the pope it may out of that facultie also be gathered that all papists adhere to the pope for that these two prouide for them onely and exclude all the Quéenes subiects for the papists whom those two traitors call catholikes desire that the popes bull may binde

seuerity of the punnishment by law inflicted vpon such persons transfugae ad hostes saith the g L. si quis §. transfugae ff de paenis law aut viui exurantur aut furca suspendantur by this law it appeareth that our rinegued english Iesuits and priests haue great fauour that hitherto haue escaped the penalty of the law that adiudgeth men in their cases woorthy of such grieuous punnishment and certes séeing our aduersaries thinke it lawfull to burne men for transgressing the vaine traditions of men as for example for reading of an english testament for eating flesh in lent and such like they cannot say but such as seeke the destruction of their country and runne to forrain enemies deserue with all seuerity to be punnished that our masse-priests haue forsaken their countrey to flie to the enemies it cannot be denied nay in the cases of conscience resolued by Allen and Parsons cap. 1. cas 1. cap. 3. they are taught by prety equiuocations to deny their country argument 10 The Roman lawes adiudge him a traitor which fraudulently enforceth a man to to take an oth to doe an act against the state h L. cuiusque ff ad l. Iuliam maiest cuius dolo malo saith Sceuola iureiurando quis adactus est quo aduersus remp faciat likewise i L. quisquis c. ad legem Iuliam maiestatis Arcadius and Honorius pronounce him a traitor qui scelestam cum militibus vel priuatis vel barbaris inierit factionem aut factionis eius sacramentum susceperit vel dederit that is which shall enter into a wicked faction with soldiers with priuate men or barbarous nations or shall either giue or take an othe to maintaine that faction the Romans did therefore call conspirators Coniuratos because those that entended treason against the state did binde themselues one to another by an oth not onely to kéepe matters secret but also to prosecute the intended treason with effect If then the Iebusits and seminary men take an oth to their superior of blinde obedience as they call it to the Pope that they shall goe whether he will send them to the Spaniard to serue him faithfully to Robert Parsons to maintaine the title of the Infanta of Spaine how can they excuse themselues from treason in this point if they deny that they take such othe not onely their owne conscience but also the testimony of Nauarrus consil lib. 3. de regularib cons 1. and Ribadineira lib. 3. de schism c. 21. and the confession of diuers seculer priests in diuers treatises published against the Iesuits and their faction will plainly conuince them argument 11 Likewise as in warre enemies are discerned from friends by the word and some priuy note so traitors in ciuill dissention are knowen from true subiects by this that those haue their words and notes of faction whereby one of them knoweth another and as in warres those are taken for enemies that cary the enemies signal so in ciuill gouernment those are vndoubtedly traitors and enemies that are marked with the priuy signes of traitors and enemies the papists therefore that carie about with them their agnus dei their graines their consecrated beades and such other trash and are shorne and greased for the popes shéepe and Spanish seruants are vndoubtedly by all reason to be taken for traitors And if any reply that it is a ridiculous and strange law that men should be reputed traitors for bringing in or hauing the popes bulles and an agnus dei and blessed graines medalles and such toies it may be answered that not to haue these things simply is treason but to haue them as markes of faction and signes to discerne the heard of anthichrist from others and that doe the papists well know Allen also and Parsons in their hellish resolutions of cases of conscience affirme that such medalles and graines binde men in deuotion to the popes see which they call apostolike haec grana metalla benedicta say k Resolut c. 1. cas 2. they multum conferre possunt ad afficiendos populos erga apostolicam sedem againe to be shorne a priest and greased after the popish maner in it selfe is not so much treason as superstition and false religion but when it is knowen that such greased goates are signed for the popes and Spaniards agents in England to set forward the Spanish inuasion or the Popes cause he is very simple that doeth not vnderstand him to be a traitor whose pole is shorne by the pope and his faction and who carieth with him the marks of the Spanish faction argument 12 It is treason also to conspire the death and destruction of principall men about the prince that are his principall agents in the gouernment of the state and this is not only according to the lawes of England but also according to the Romane lawes l L. quisquis Cod. ad l. Iuliam maiestatis Arcadius and Honorius pronounce them guiltie of treason which shal by faction attempt to murder their principal counsellors or officers and the reason is for that they in doing iustice are but the princes lieutenants and doe nothing but his commandement in this point therefore the Iesuites and priests are no lesse guilty then in the rest the pope he excommunicateth not onely the Quéene but all that doe adhere vnto her and doe her seruice being therefore to execute the popes bull as calues begotten by the bull of Bashan the pope the priests and Iesuites must néeds séeke first the destruction of these principall men then of the rest furthermore we are giuen to vnderstand that one principall point of Parsons and other Iesuites consultations is how to procure certeine principall men to be either made away or disgraced in the meane while being not able to doe worse Parsons and Creswell vnder the title of Andreas Philopater and others haue set out most vilanous libels against her Maiesties principall counsellers officers and agents argument 13 It is also treason to betray her Maiesties armie or any part of her forces into her enemies hands or for a captaine or soldier to yéeld vp any towne deliuered vnto him to kéepe héerein therefore Stanley and Yorke and their followers shewed themselues to be notable traitors to deliuer vp Deuenter and their soldiers into the Quéenes enemies hands Allen also and all his schollars and followers that allowed that fact shewed themselues to be traitors in applauding to their disloialty and wickednesse argument 14 The latter Romane m Extr. feud c. qui sunt rebaelles emperors doe declare them to be rebels and disloiall traitors which either openly or conuertly doe the works of rebels or practise against the prosperity of the state in this case therefore are they that either oppugne or deny the princes right and title or else aduance the right of forrain potentates to dispose of the crowne or els which practise against the person of their soueraigne lord as saith Socinus the yonger lib.

conuinced by actes of the councell sent from diuers places to haue foisted in a false canon into the actes of the councell of Nice His agents auerred that the councell of Nice had decréed vt si episcopus accusatus fuerit iudicauerint episcopi regionis ipsius de gradu suo deiecerint eum appellasse episcopus videatur confugerit ad beatissimum ecclesiae Rom. episcopum voluerit audiri c. That the appeale should be receiued but the whole councel did take him in the very act of forgerie The same also may be proued by the true actes of the councel and by all authenticall writers that report the actes of that councel truely falsification 14 Paschasius one of the Popes agents in the 16. action of the councel of Chalcedon according to instructions giuen him alleadged a piece of a counterfeit canon of the councel of Nice beginning thus Ecclesia Rom. semper habuit primatum That these words are foisted into the sixth canon of the coūcel it appeareth by the view of the canons themselues as they are set downe not onely by Ruffinus in his ecclesiastical history but also by Peter Crabbe Surius Carranza and other Romanists falsification 15 The 36. canon of the sixt synode is thus reported in the ●omes of councels and in Carranza Renouantes quae à sanctis patribus 153. qui in hac regia vrbe conuenerunt 630. qui Chalcedone conuenerunt dece●nimus vt thronus constantinopolitanus aequalia priuilegia cum antiquae Romae throno obtineat in ecclesiasticis negotijs vt illa emineat secundus post illam existens post quem Alexandrinorum metropolis numeretur deinde Antiochiae post eum Hierosolymitanae ciuitatis But this canon is diuersly falsified by the Romanists for first they cut out certaine wordes as they are found in the 18. canon of the greeke copies of the actes of the councell of Chalcedon and this canon of the sixth synode they turne contrarie to the meaning of the Fathers setting it downe in these termes C. Renouantes dist 22. Renouantes sancti constantinopolitani decreta concilij petimus vt constantinopolitana sedes similia priuilegia quae superior Roma habet accipiat nec non in ecclesiasticis rebus magnificetur vt illa sed haec secunda post illam existens prius quam Alexandrina sedes numeretur deinde Antiochena post eam Hierosolymitana Thus is it set downe in the canon lawe corrected by Gregory the thirteenth and yet differeth much from the originall but in all auncient copies we reade non tamen in ecclesiasticis rebus magnificetur vt illa which is a farre greater corruption then the other falsification 16 The fift councell of Carthage c. 3. determineth that bishops and priests and deacons should abstaine from their owne wiues 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that is as Balsamon interpreteth it tēpore vicis suae or during the time of their turne of seruice to make the best of it yet can it not signifie propria aut priora statuta Yet the Romanistes dist 33. c. placuit haue falsiffed the canon adding subdeacons that were left out of the canon and making this canon absolutely to exclude Bishoppes Priestes and Deacons from their wiues at all times falsification 17 In the councell of Mil●uis c. 22. African priests deacons and inferiour clerkes are forbidden absolutely to appeale beyond the seas But Gratian like a falsary hath added to the canon nisi forte sedem Romanam appellauerint that is vnlesse they appeale to the fee of Rome which is quite contrary to the meaning of the canon And therefore Gregory the thirteenth in his bookes of the canon lawe hath set downe these wordes in an other letter but he rather hurteth then helpeth the matter testifying that all the Romanists that alleadged or vsed the canon thus before his late correction were falsaries falsification 18 In the councell of Laodicea the Fathers can ●5 forbid Christians idolatrously to worship angels ad angelos idololatriae abominandae congregationes facere But the Romanists being guilty in their owne conscience of the idolatrous worship of angels for angelos haue set downe angulos as appeareth by Surius Carranza and diuers late editions of councels Now that this is a falshood it is to be proued by the testimony of Chrysostomes homilies and Theodorets commentaries vpon the Epistle to the Colossians and Bellarmine in his first booke de cultu sanctorum cap. 20. falsification 19 Pius the fift in a certaine contention betwixt him and the Emperor Vita di Pio. 5. in literis to helpe his owne cause doth most falsely alleadge a canon of the councell of Nice whereby he would prooue that by the determination of that councell the Pope of Rome was made Lord and gouernour of all Princes that bore the name of Christians and that the councell did anathematise all that dare say contrary E sentenza saith he di tutti theologi è canonisti è determinatione de concilij massimamente del Niceno Ch' il succcessor di san pietro sia signore è rettore di tutti i principi del nome christiano de tutte le prouincie tutte le genti anathematizando chiunque cio ardisse contradire A wonderfull great principalitie certes if he should he made gouernour of all christian Princes of all prouinces and nations But this principality is grounded vpon no other foundation then lewd lies and forgeries For in the actes of the Nicene councell there is no such matter as may appeare both by the testimony of Ruffin and confession of Surius Carranza Bellarmine and Baronius that are not able to shew vs any such act in the Nicene councell We must therefore pray Robert Parsons otherwise Howlet and his disciple Owlyglasse to shewe vs this noble canon alleadged by Pius their holy Father vnlesse they meane that the world shall be made acquainted with the impostures and falsifications of the Romish church For as lawes determine they are falsaries that shall adde to lawes constitutions and canons and are as falsaries to be punished L. si quis falsis ff ad l. cornel de falsis Si quis saith Modestinus falsis constitutionibus nullo authore habito vtitur lege cornelia aqua igni interdicitur falsification 20 But it nothing els were yet the counterfeit donation which the Popes of Rome pretend to haue béene made by Constantine is sufficient to conuince them of falsification for therein by a tricke of forgery they claime not onely a souerainty ouer the whole cleargy but also a great part of the Westerne empire And so stifly doe they stand in the maintenance of this grant that they will hardly bee induced to heare the contrary Augustine Steuchus in a large volume goeth about to defend it But notwithstanding all his pleading he is a simple fellow that doth not sée this grant to be counterfeit and very bolde if not impudent that will defend it as doth the glosse set out by Gregory the thirtéenth

the images of our lady of Loreto of the crosse and such like If they say that the image of Christ is to be worshipped with the honour due to Christ improperly as Bellarmine teacheth lib. 2. de imaginib c. 23. It may be replied that the Gentiles were neuer so stupid as to say that properly as much honor is due to the image as to the originall Finally if you méet with any of Bellarmines opinion lib. de imaginibus c. 6. that thought Xenaias to be the first that found fault with the worship of images you may boldely reproue him by the testimony of Lactantius Hierome Epiphanius Augustine and other fathers before cited Vnlesse therefore Robert Parsons and his consorts can well answere our arguments and fortifie their owne simple excuses shifts and distinctions it will appeare both by testimony of scriptures and fathers and also by diuers good arguments that the papists are idolaters nay it will appeare they can no better answere for themselues then the heathen idolaters in ancient time is it not then maruell that such grosse idolatry should créepe in among Christians it is so certes but much more is it to be maruelled that so grosse an abuse being detected should either be defended or tolerated CHAP. VI. That such papists as within the compasse of her maiesties reigne haue bene executed to death haue died for treason and other capitall crimes and not for religion and therefore are to be detested as malefactors and not honored as martyrs HItherto we haue discoursed of matters of religion and I hope so as it may appeare to euery man not altogether either irreligious or possessed with preiudice that the papists are neither true catholicks nor good Christians I haue therein also discouered not only the vanity of Parsons his pleading in his Ward-word that taketh that as granted which is the principall question but also the simplicity of this wooden Oulyglasses dealing that not daring to answere our arguments doth notwithstanding still in his exceptions vsurpe the name of Catholicks Catholicke religion as due to himselfe and his consorts being nothing lesse then either catholicke or Christian now therefore to fill vp this discourse it followeth that we consider a litle the ou●ward ciuill cariage of this faction and what we are to thinke either of those that heretofore haue broken their necks in the Popes seruice or else yet continue well affected toward his cause and generally what all true subiects are to looke for either at their hands or the hands of their partakers and adherents and this for that Robert Parsons in the first chapter or incounter of his Ward-word doubteth not most impudently to affirme that many honorable and worshipfull gentlemen haue indured continuall and intolerable affliction for perseuering in their fathers faith and that aboue a hundred priests haue bene tortured hanged and quartered for the same cause the same man also in the conclusion of his encounters doth insinuat that albeit they were charged with treason yet they died as martyrs Allen likewise that perfidious traitor to his prince and country in his a Ad p●rsequutores Anglos treatise against the execution of iustice doone vpon diuers priests and friers and their adherents taken in notorious treasons doth exclaime against the state and charge our gouernors with persecution iniustice tyranny and extreme cruelty as for his clients he beareth vs in hand that they were cleare of treason and without all iust cause died for matter of religion and conscience onely and not for treason or practises against the state and concludeth that therefore they are to be esteemed as holy martyrs and not as leud traitors the detector also in his disiointed exceptions is talking of crosses and persecutions where he and most of his consorts liue at ease and in all security in good houses and haue laisure to write and opportunity to print such pamphlets and idle toies as that which he hath of late published argument 1 First then I say that albeit late lawes gaue occasion to detect the Popes agents that of late haue bene executed to death in England yet they deserued death as offending in cases of treason both so adiudged by the ancient lawes of this land and also for the most part by the lawes of all nations for first it is treason to stirre vp forrain enemies against the prince or state the statute of 25. Edward the 3. c. 2. doth so account it condemning all of treason that shall goe about to leuy warre against the kings and queenes of this land Likewise it was adiudged by the Romane lawes Maiestatis crimine tenetur saith Vlpian ad legem Iuliam maiest l. 1. cujus opera consilio dolo malo consilium initum fuerit c. quo quis contra remp arma ferat The same course is now taken in Spaine with such as attempt to leuie warre against the king either within or without the realme as is apparent by the booke called El fuero real Tit. de la guarda del rey those also that counsell or abet such as attempt any such matter are by that law condemned as traitors Neither is the practise of France diuers from other nations in this point Finally no Romane may so much as once attempt to raise warre against the pope albeit he hold nothing but by vsurpation but the popes sergeants and officers seize vpon him as a traitor neither will any pretence or allegation of conscience serue to excuse his treason or to exempt him from punishment But such agents of the pope as haue beene executed hitherto in England for his cause either haue themselues béene persuaders of the pope and Spanish king and others to make warre vpon her Maiesty and their countrey or els haue ioined with Englefield Allen Parsons Holt Owen Morgan and other principall moouers and stirrers for an inuasion and were directed by them and sent into England and other places for that purpose and this may be proued first by the Bull of Pius Quintus procured at the instance of diuers English fugitiues and by them sent abroad into England and sent into the king of Spaines countrey as a motiue for him to inuade England and as it were a trumpet that sounded fire and sword against vs. secondly all the practises and exercises of the seditious seminaries in the Low-countreys Spaine and Rome haue tended to the stirring vp of forren nations against vs as is confessed by diuers priests and testified by scholars and may be prooued by some notes of their exercises which we haue to shew Thirdly Sixtus Quintus anno 1588. in his sentence declaratory or rather declamatory against the Quéene doeth say that at the earnest solicitation of certeine principall English men which he calleth catholikes he had proceeded against her Maiesty and had enioyned the Spanish king to execute his Bull of excommunication and deposition against her and to come with great forces against England fourthly Allen in his traitorous letters to the nobility

ignorantia contrahuntur coercitio u Ibidem l. legis virtus Modestinus teacheth vs that the life and efficacy of the law consisteth in commanding forbidding permitting and punishing take away execution and punishment and you not only ouerthrow the law but the state also Now if any offence deserue punishment then sure traitors may not thinke to escape that séeke to dissolue both lawes and state Treason saith x Rerum Graec. lib. 2. Xenophon is so much more dangerous by how much it is more difficult to take heed of traitors than of enemies with our enemies we may be reconciled but traitors are neuer to be trusted the offence being so great many extraordinary courses are taken in the repressing of treasons In hoc atrocissimo delicto saith a certeine y Clarus sententiar lib. 5. §. laesae maiest lawyer lex nonnulla specialia introduxit and commonly such persons are most hatefull I haue learned saith z In prometheo Aeschylus to hate traitors neither is any villany more hatefull than treason Traitors are common enemies to all men that loue the state or their liege Souereigne Omnium communis est hostis saith a Lib. 1. accusat in Verrem Tully qui hostis est suorum Who then would not hate them that wickedly consort themselues with the Pope and Spaniard against the state The prince hath principall reason to represse this faction for she carieth not the sword for nothing and if she should neglect the danger in regard of her owne particular yet will shée not neglect their safetie whose estate dependeth so much vpon the saftie of her person further she hath little cause giuen her to extend her clemency to this viperous generation and their adherents that shew extreme malice in séeking the destruction of her kingdome by bringing in forren enemies they haue also slandered her Maiesties noble father herselfe her friends her seruants and the whole state as appeareth by Sanders his booke of schisme by Andreas Philopater Didimus Veridicus and diuers other infamous libels set out by Parsons and other wicked Iesuites Finally no prince can endure such to haue the benefit of subiects that will neither acknowledge his souereignty nor submit themselues to lawes The ecclesiasticall state may not endure either Baals priests to set vp idolatry or false teachers to broch false doctrine and priuily to bring in superstition and heresie Her Maiesties councell assuredly will not winke at any practise or complot against their prince and country but with all seuerity will procéede against the authors of them and all their factious partakers The chiefe officers and nobility of the relme haue no reason to beare with them which by alteration of state séeke to depriue them of their honors and to dispose of their lands and goods at their pleasure neither is it the part of a generous and noble english minde to suffer themselues to be disgraced and ouerruled if not tirannized by Parsons his councell of reformation by Italians and Spaniards and the very scumme of all villany The reuerend iudges will neuer suffer such to escape vnpunished as séeke the subuersion of iustice neither may lawiers endure those that goe about to ouerthrow their countrey lawes and to bring in strange lawes and to rule all by force and violence as may appeare by Parsons trecherous plots and his most infamous councell of reformation All true subiects I suppose will rather die then suffer the tyranny of strangers and therefore I néed not animate either her Maiestie or the ecclesiasticall state or her councell or her chiefe agents or her nobility or iudges or the lawiers or the rest of her subiects to encounter and to resist the plots of these Iebusits and traiterous massepriests that séeke for the establishment of their massing ceremonies and most wicked religion to bring in strangers to cut their owne countrymens throtes to abuse their wiues and daughters and finally to destroy this flourishing kingdome and their owne most deare country the safety of the common welth as all politicks know and b Arist polit lib. 3. c. 3. teach is the common worke of all true citizens and well minded subiects and I doubt not but as all men detest such as oppugne the state so they will all ioine together and haue a vigilant eie to looke to their execrable plots entended against the state Finally reason and experience may teach the papists that howsoeuer some of them hope to win by shuffling of matters of state yet that most of them shall rather loose then winne they may also see that many haue lost their liues and liuings that haue bene practisers in rebellion and treason and forrain aides doe commonly first oppresse those that vse them and finally forsake them examples hereof they may sée in the rebellion of the north and of Ireland if they be not blinde and consider them they may if they will be led with reason Wherefore I doubt not but as all men may sée the treasons of priests and Iesuits and their adherents to be made manifest so they shall shortly sée the execution of lawes against them that such as haue bene executed for practising in the popes cause are no martyrs as papists giue out it may easily be proued for euen the aduersaries themselues will confesse that traitors against the prince and state are no martyrs vnlesse therefore Parsons can cleare his consorts of those points of treason which I haue declared and obiected and shew that they adhered not to forrain enemies nor had intelligence with traitors that sought the destructoon of the prince and state nor offended in any other points of treason before rehearsed he must néeds confesse himselfe and his consorts to be rather in state of treason then martyrdome Secondly martyrs died in time past for the testimony of Christ Iesus but such papists as haue bene executed in England of late yeares haue died for the maintenance of antichrists tyranny and packing with forren enemies and matter of treason against the prince and state and for other offences deseruing death and this is manifestly proued by the enditements framed against them by the depositions of witnesses confessions of the parties and the whole forme of their triall iudgement and execution neither is it materiall that some were accused for bringing in or hauing of medalles or graines others for being made priests by the popes faction others for reconciling men to the pope which are points as the papists say of their popish religion for albeit medalles and graines are not simply of themselues notes of treason yet seeing the pope doeth vse them as marks of his faction it were simplicity not to vnderstand that such as vse them are of his adherents Againe to be a priest simply in it selfe is no treason but if priests that are ordred by the popes faction take an oth of obedience to him that is our enimie and are bound to set foorth his cause for the regaining of England to his

those that haue beene destroyed by this change of religion A most shamelesse and palpable vntruth For not religion or any alteration therein but the malice of the Pope and wicked practises of Iesuites and there consorts haue caused most of these troubles The rest haue happened vpon other accidentes By the Popes secret practises and Charles the 9. his great disloyalty many thousandes of innocentes were massacred in France the yeare of our Lord 1572. by the working of Claude Matthieu a Iesuite and others his consortes that league was made which brought infinit calamities to the people and kingedome of France Paule the third stirred vp warres against the princes of Germany P●us the fift was the firebrand that inflamed the Northren rebellion in England Sanders the Popes legat was the originall cause of the destruction of the earle of Desmond And happie had the late Quéene of Scots beene if shée had not béene to credulous to beléeue Sammier and other seditions Iesuites entisinge words and promises the attempt of Spaniardes against England anno 1588 was set forward by Frier Sixtus quintus at the solicitation of Robert Parsons and his fellowes albeit here he would gladly discharge himselfe and lay the fault vpon others the Iesuites were the causes of the destruction of the Duke of Guise of Henry the french King that was murdered by Iames Clement of the Duke of Parma of the discontentment of the Prince of Transiluania neither was the losse of Sebastian King of Portugal of his whole army his estate to be ascribed to any other thē to the wicked counsaile of the Iesuites which gouerned him wholy and drue him into that action they haue also brought the King to Poland in danger to loose his kingdome of Suethland and caused the ouerthrow of Ferdinand of Croatia by the Turkes and finally both haue they ruined as many as haue harkened to their turbulent counsels and will they ruine as many as will be guided by them And this is not only proued by experience but also testified by diuers records and bookes in England and France of late set out by men of their owne religion The diuisions certes which they haue caused in the emperors army in Hungary haue wrought many calamities to christendome falsification 5 In the same encounter he saith that before the late alteration of religion there was one forme of seruice one number of Sacraments one tongue one Sacrifice one heade of the Church throughout all christendome but in my reply pag. 19. I haue shewed that this shorte sentence containeth the truth haue respected temporal commodity or as if we did not vrge them with the truth of apostolicall doctrine and the ancient christian faith falsification 38 In the preface of his directory fol. 13. p. 2 he saith that S. Ambrose S. Augustine S. Gregory S. Bernard perswade men by their examples to be afraid of purgatory A fourfold lye for neither did S. Ambrose nor any of the rest speake of a purgatory wherein christians did satisfie for the temporall punishment of sins remitted in earth nor did they beléeue any such purgatory Whatsoeuer they held of another purgatory viz. for veniall sinnes yet false it is that they perswaded men to be afraid of it by their examples falsification 39 In his directory lib. 1. p. 42. he saith that the world knoweth that Socrates was put to death for i●sting at the multitude of gods among the gentiles a matter which the world knoweth to be a lie and is refuted by Plato al that write of his death falsification 40 In the same place he saith Plato was wont to report of Zeno the stoike that he should say that either there was one God or no God but the record of the report will not be found Further if Plato liued before Zeno it was not like that he should prophecy what Zeno would say These lyes certes being the grounds of Parsons proofes where he goeth about to shew that there is a God are rather like to make a gentile or heathen mā obstinate then to make him beléeue in one God falsification 41 Pag. 174. he telleth that the number of infants slaine at Bethlehem was 14. thousand and this he goeth about to proue by the greeke calendar and the liturgy of the Aethiopians but such fables as he bringeth doe rather discredit christian religion then prooue it We beléeue that Herod killed the yoong children in Bethlehem and thereabouts but so many as 14. M. could not be found in that quarter as is very likely falsification 42 Pag. 269. he saith that Philo the Iew doth set forth strange things in the life and exercises of S. Marke and of his disciples that liued in Alexandria But if Philo in his booke de vit contēplat do neither speake of S. Marke nor his disciples in Alexandria I hope that Parsons disciples will be ashamed of their masters ignorance and confesse that he hath lyed It were an easie matter to set downe infinit lyes of this lying compagnion whoe without lying is not able to speak any thing as his consorts the seculer priests say but when he hath cleared himselfe of these he shall haue twise so many more obiected against him and drawne out of his simple writings In the meane while it may appeare that neither he nor his disciple Owlyglasse had any great reason to challenge the combat of vs for falsifications and lyes CHAP. XI That Owlyglasse himselfe hath falsified diuers authors and allegations in his little lewd Pamplet wherein he chargeth others with falsifications IS it possible thinke you to worke somewhat out of nothing certes no. Strange therefore it may seeme vnto you that I endeuour out of this small Pamphlet that is as nothing to make something Yet if you please to consider the particulers ensuing you shall finde that in this trifling discourse of the woodden detector wherein he hath shewed neither witte learning nor honesty nor any good thing that there are diuers points contained that may conuince him both to bee a falsary and a false lying compagnion falsification 1 Out of Origen pag. 11. c. 2. he citeth these words qui renascitur debet sale saliri Homil. 6. in Ezech. But the fathers words are these oportet ergo eum qui renascitur vtique in Christo renascentem rationabile sincerum lac desiderare prius quam rationabile sine dolo lac desideret debet sale saliri pannorum inuolucris colligari ne dicatur ad eum sale non es salitus pannis non es inuolutus So then by this it appeareth that he cutteth away the words in the midst and leaueth out the words in the end of the sentence and the maliciously to serue his purpose for otherwise it would haue appeared that Oregin spoke allegorically or that al children and others that are to be baptized must as well drinke milke and be lapped in cloutes as salted or touched with salt falsification 2 In his preface he abuseth