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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A22559	The discouerie and confutation of a tragical fiction deuysed and played by Edward Squyer yeoman soldiar, hanged at Tyburne the 23. of Nouemb. 1598. Wherein the argument and fable is, that he should be sent from Spaine by William Walpole Iesuit, to poyson the Queen and Earle of Essex, but the meaning and moralization therof was, to make odious the Iesuites, and by them all Catholiques. ... VVritten for the only loue and zeale of truth against forgerie, by M.A. preest, that knew and dealt with Squyer in Spayne.	Aray, Martin.; Walpole, Richard, 1564-1607, attributed name.	1599 (1599)	STC 9; ESTC S114414	19,365	32

he was sayd to deale with Peter Panne in Doway that Peter Panne had neuer to deale with him in his lyfe nor had any doing with the Iesuites and that he was an heretiqoe and had neuer receyued penny of money of Iesuites nor by their meanes as was forged in his pretended confessions And many other most euident falshoodes are declared in diuers bookes written about this matter and approued by the asseuerations of publique magistrates in diuers townes and prouinces since that tyme. So as the impudence of this heretical deuise is made notorious to all the world And yet now least England should be behinde France and Holland and other places in deuysing some notable practise of Iesuites wherby not only to auert mēnes hartes from them but euen to rayse the hayre of mens heades against them there hath byn brought in of late the tragical comedie of one Edward Squyer soldiar sent from Spayne as is pretended by one William Walpole a Iesuit to poyson the Queen and Earle of Essex with poyson in a dooble blader deliuered him by the sayd William and diuers imbrasinges at his departure as also sondry exhortations sayd to be made out of holy scriptures to the sayd poysoner by William Walpole for prosecuting of his purpose All which circumstances we shall examin afterwardes to discouer therby the fashood of this fiction For albeit I meane not in this place to take vpon me to auerre that all the whole narration touching Squyer is faygned or that Squyer was innocent in all poyntes that he was accused of or hanged for notwithstanding his denyals at his death yet dout I not but to shew most euidently that all and euery thing that concerneth the Iesuites and William Walpole by name condemned in this action by a wrong name for his true name is Richard is a meer fable malitious deuise of Squyer or those that set him a worke to make Spayne odious and to slander the Iesuites Well it may be that Squyer after his returne from Spayne whence he escaped by flight and not by mission as shalbe proued hauing gone abrode with my L. of Essex to sea and that in his owne shippe vnder pretence to discouer great matters of Spayne not fynding such comeditie or preferment afterwardes as he looked for might begin to cast out some wordes of discontentmēt and say for his better credit not fore seeing the danger that might insew therof that in Spayne he might haue byn imployed by principal men in great matters and in this speech it may be also that father Walpole being a Iesuit and the man that was best knowen vnto him and had done most for him for relief of his miseries after father Persons departure from Seuil he might I say perhaps make mention of his name though he knew it not aright as hath byn sayd and that therin being taken at the aduantage and pressed to go forward partly by fayre promisses partly by torture as at the barre he affirmed that he had byn fyue houres vpon the torture he might happen standing thus between feares of condemnation if he drew back and hopes of pardon if he accused others to begin to frame the tale that in his confession is set downe And when he would haue denyed it agayne as he did at his arraynment it would not be taken or admitted It may be also that Munday and Stanley or other some such compaignions for I know or remember them not coming after him out of Spayne into England and desirous to get creditt might as the fashion of such folke is being poore and beggarly begin vpon emulation to appeach and call Squyer in question as was obiected in the arraynement that they did and as it fell out diuers yeares past between Doctor Parry and Mayster Neuil that called himself Lord Latimer The storie of which two frendes and compaignions for that it seemeth not much vnlyke to this both in the matter it self and in some particular circumstances I shall heare repeate with great breuitie William Parry after he had serued the state of England some six or seauen yeares by spierie in Italie and other places as himself confessed he waxed weary and to repayre his credit againe on the catholique syde he went to confession in Lions to a Scottish Iesuit named father Critton and then hearing that the Lord Paget was comen out of England to Paris for his conscience and that Doctor Allen afterward Cardinal and father Persons were come also to Paris to see him he came thither in the yeare 84. and vsed all meanes possible both by himself and his frendes in that place to enter into credit with the sayd Doctor and father and when he saw that in no case they would deale with him in matter of secresie or moment though otherwise they vsed hun courteously and were glad of his conuersion to be a catholique he was greatly offended therat and one euening being led by a certayne frend and countriman of his to the bishop of Rimini Nuntius at that tyme for Pope Gregorie the thirteenth in France he deliuered him a letter written by himself in Italian to the Pope wherin he shewed first and confessed that he had done great hurtes to the catholique cause and churche by his former seruices of the state of England and that now he was to go thither to make recompence for the same and to do great seruices in fauour of the sea Apostolique desiring his Holines approbation and benediction without specifying any particularitie what he meant to do as by the said letter of his yet heer in Rome to be seen is manifest And to this letter did Cardinal Como answere and his answere was deliuered by Parry himself to the Queen and the same produced against him afterward at his araygnment but to go forward The Doctor hauing donn this act with the Nuntius he got himself away secretly from Paris towards England without taking his leaue either of Doctor Allen or father Persons and passing by Roan towards Diep in Normandy he tolde on maister Wattes a Priest there that his dissignement was in England to raise a faction against the Iesuites from which maister Wattes dissuaded him but he passed on and as soon as he came to Diep before he would imbarque he wrote a letter to the Lord Burleigh for a passeporte and order to speak with the Queen at his first ariual in England for that he had great matters to vtter and so the order came and he by secret wayes was brought to her Maiestie and had long talke with her and told her among other pointes that he was sent by Iesuites and their frendes to kil her And to confirme this the more he shewed her also the answere of Cardinal Como when it came as I haue sayd and well knowing that it was no treason when himself vttered the same he inlarged himself in many particulers about the manner and order how it should be donne as her maiestie can remember hoping therby

and absurd circumstances But aboue all other that F. Walpole should imploy diuers men at once about this foule acte and lyke a right Macheuillian or impious atheist send in Stanley and Munday after Squyer to discouer him to the Councel for that himself had perswaded him to this attempt which were scarse credible to some of Toplife himself or any other as bloody and conscienceles as he and if Stanley and Munday were of Squyer and Rolles their first company taken with them by sea they neuer spoke then with F. Walpole but were gone from Seuil before Squyer Rolles came in trouble or knew also the sayd father But for the scriptures mentioned vnum est necessarium one thing is necessarie and quid prodest homini si vniuersum mundum lucretur animae verò suae detrimentum patiatur What profiteth it a man if he gayne the whole world and leese his owne soule It is very lykly that F. Walpole vsed sometymes those woordes of Christ among others to Squyer For I well remember that they were often in his mouth to such as Squyer was of our nation who dealing about matters of religion concerning his soule and eternal saluation would often alleage humane and worldly respectes for impedimentes as his wyfe and children in England how he should lyue if he became a catholique that all his frendes at home would forsake him that he durst not shew his face any more among them that his enemies would laugh at him triumph ouer him lay him in prison and the lyke for moderating of which wordly respects in so great a cause as is religion it is probable that F. Walpole vsed diuers tymes the former speeches of scripture to him Which Squyer remembring in England when he was to make his tale applyed them as spoken to the other effect of poysoning wherwith as euery man seeth they haue no coherence at all If F. Walpole had byn disposed to haue treated vpon any such theme he was not so simple or vnlearned but that he could haue alleaged other places and examples of scripture far more fit and effectual to such a purpose seing that the question in general is handled largely by many learned men to and fro how it may be lawfull or vnlawful in certayne cases for particular men to offer violence to princes by priuate authoritie Where yet no man maketh it either so necessarie to saluation or so safe or meritorious as Squyers fiction conteyneth And if vpon those groundes or other F. Walpole would haue byn so idle or euil disposed as to enter into the cogitation or treatie of any such enterpryse from which in my conscience I hold him most free yet would he neuer haue made choise of Squyer whome he thought still inwardly to be a Protestant and so he dyed notwithstanding some tymes he would make shew in Spayne of his conuersion F. Walpole knew him also to be a poor hungrie soldiar desirous to liue and to get something in the world which was far from him that should enterpryse such a matter who must be content to aduenture both lyfe all that therof dependeth which no man will do but either of pure zeale in religion or of hope of gayne and preferment As for zeale it is knowne Squyer had none to the catholique religion as hath byn noted but rather the contrarie And as for gayne and preferment F. Walpole had none to geue him nor did Squyer say that he was promissed any from any other partie What then should moue him to take so dangerous and difficult an enterpryse vpon him or the other to trust him therein Of lyke improbabilitie is it or rather much more that the same father should remit Squyer for his directions in these affayres to Doctor Bagshaw prisoner in Wisbich castle and to no more as was read out of Squyers confession at his arraygnment which euery man that knoweth the persons will see euidently to be most absurdly faigned for that F. Walpole neuer had any frendship familiaritie or acquayntance with Doctor Bagshaw the Doctor hauing lefte the Roman College before the other came to studie there nor euer had they letter or message between them in their lyues nor had the direction of Doctor Bagshaw that was prisoner so far of from London where this attempt was to be made byn any way fit for this effect seing it was not a matter to be treated by letters and some other causes also are well knowen to diuers men why the sayd Doctors concurrence in matters of such moment with F. Walpole can no wayes be thought probable Wherefore this fiction hath no shew or shadow of probabilitie at all And truly it seemeth to wyse men in these partes here that if it had byn thought expedient for the present tyme in England that some such tragedie as this should be moued about killing her Maiestie for holding catholiques in hatred and suspition and for better continuing of our breache with Spayne for it is obserued that still within certayne distances of tyme this affayre of killing the Queen hath byn renewed and more men executed or called in question therabout then for all other Princes in Christendome besydes and if for the same or other lyke considerations it were iudged also expedient that some Iesuite must enter in lyke manner into some part of the pageant for that lightly none goeth without them in these dayes yet might the matter more fitly haue byn layed vpon some other of that order as F. Creswel F. Holt or F. Persons who for their yeares and experience should haue had more authoritie to perswade such an action then vpon F. Walpole who being their punee and attending only to matters of study is very vnprobably brought into this treatie But as for F. Persons it is well knowen that he hath had many occasions to imploy much more fitter and resolute men in such affaires then Squyer if he had lysted or byn of that iudgement or humor For he hath caused many English to be deliuered out of diuers portes and prisons in Spayne and to returne home free And at one tyme almost a hundreth out of the porte and gallies of S. Marie in Andaluzia and this last yeare aboue thirtie out of the porte and gallies of Naples which were taken in the ship of Paulo Gundelo the Ragusean and I saw them my self in chaynes at the oare and were only deliuered by the earnest sute and credit of the sayd father And all these being obliged to him both by the benefyt of their libertie and the loue of religion for that all or many are commonly wont to returne well affected to the catholique fayth by that they haue seen and heard in forayne nations and in so good a schoole as tribulation is wont to be of these men I say he might haue made choise of far fitter instruments then Edward Squyer in so many yeares to haue effectuated such an enterpryse if he had lyked therof which yet hitherto hath neuer byn found And