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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A08200	A true report of the late apprehension and imprisonnement of Iohn Nichols minister at Roan and his confession and ansvvers made in the time of his durance there. VVherevnto is added the satisfaction of certaine, that of feare or frailtie haue latly fallen in England.; True report of the late apprehension and imprisonnement of John Nichols minister at Roan.	Allen, William, 1532-1594.	1583 (1583)	STC 18537; ESTC S105146	45,115	86

harpiarum more immundo contactu conspurcarent that is to say lest they should diminish and abase the reuereÌ„d maiestie of philosophie by their foolish and doting expositions How soeuer it is in that facultie of Philosophie sure it is that the written vvord of God is full of profound mysteries yet is confidently bouldly and malepertly expounded now in England as vvel priuatly at euery table and tauerne as in the pulpits and common assemblies of simple and vnlearned artificers so that the lay people prentises especially and yong schollers assone as they can bid Caesar good morrow in Greeke or reade th' English TestameÌ„t yea the women dare presume to dispute with the Clergie of the cheefest points of Religion and bouldly condemne the cheefest clercks in the vvorld Is not this I pray you a great abasing of th'excelleÌ„cie of the vvord of God surely if I had fauored heresies this would haue ben a sufficieÌ„t motiue to haue reuoked me I could bring many moe strong reasons to this purpose but because I am a yong nouice in learning and because I thinke this vvhich I haue brought will suffice to proue that there vvas no cause of my invvard defection in respect of my particular knowledge I vvil here end this first point For the second that I had no cause to seperate my self from the Catholick church for the euel life of the Catholicks and to come to be a Protestant for their holynes I vvil shew it manifestly and yet no great profe vvil be loked for at my hands therein First suppose the Catholicks liued very euel as ill as their aduersaries purposely to deceiue the people faine them to do if I thinke the Religion to be good their euel life should neuer cause me to for sake it if a man should measure truth faith by the elle of vertu and innocencie in the professors follovvers of any sort in mans frailtie miserie of this life God should haue no people nor part in this world al being subiect to sin and danger in this mortal state But surely if wee should docide the matter by the difference of life behauiour and conuersation of both sides I vvere vvorse then an asse to determine for the Protestants against the Catholicks amongest whom the first Professors vvere Saincts and the cheef leaders and teachers aftervvard most holy and al these follovvers though fraile and sinfull men yet finding remedy by the medicinable Sacraments penaunce and discipline of the Church for their daily offences Where contrary vvise the very first authors of this Protestancy Luther Caluin Beza and the like or as them selues call them the restorers reformers of Religion vvere not onely vulgarly nought but of notorious infamous wicked life as their Ministers be in al couÌ„treies and their zelous followers not good in any place specially in EnglaÌ„d where they haue notoriously betraied their false faith by their foule fruicts Yea and vvhere it is knowne that their doctrine it self hath sÃ³ altered to the vvorse al kinde of States and that their pulpits are nothing els but a schoole of sinne licentiousnes lust and liberty that al wisemen wonder at it and good men lament the case Who knoweth not that vertue deuotion godly life it self is bourthenous and hateful to the Protestants so far surely that they seeke as I haue seene not onely to abolish deface and destroy the bookes now or of ould written for defence and proofe of the Catholick faith which they may do vpon some pretence of errors conteined in the same but they burne vp al godly treatises and bookes of contemplation meditation and instruction of Christian life and manners conteining no dispute of religion at al as long sith they vsed a deuout treatise of the life and Immitation of Christ and now of late they openly burned a number of the bookes of prayer and meditation of prayer made by Levves of Granado together with the new Testament Assure your selues that they caÌ„not abide such bookes of al others knowing that deuout praier onely penaunce and amendement of life vvill easily bring men from their preteÌ„ded Religion in which no such deuotions are found Neither if you marke vvell shall you euer finde that the learned of the Protestants writ or treat of any such argument al their doings are in pugnis verborum in strife emulation contention contradiction destruction They stand vpon quick dispatch and attribute al to Christ his passion without ether much meditation of it or conforming them selues vnto it Finally they haue turned the grace of Christ into carnal lust and licence To see these things which in England are so open and euident not so much profound learning is requisite as due consideration and some experience of other places vvhich if our Gentlemen students and others ether of the ynnes of Court or vniuersities or of what other place or calling soeuer might haue as diuers by trauelling ouer the seas to ether of the Seminaries or other Catholick schooles haue happely proued they should see vvhat difference of life manners education and behauiour there is betwixt the one and th' other This one thing I dare be bould to say for the Seminary of Rome where I most liued in mine absence from my countrey which therefore I knew best and vvhich the vvicked calumniators haue most sought to slauÌ„der the youthes and students al there be as vertuous as any be in Christendome And let both Oxford and Cambrige giue me one such for hollynes of life and conuersation so long as they be there vnder the Protestants regiment as there be a number in the said Seminary and I promis you I vvill say in S. Peters in Rome al that I said at Paules crosse in London Not vvithstanding as I said al euel life maketh not nor proueth one to be an heretick for I am an offendor as other men and perhaps the cheef of many sinners but I haue found remedy mercie saluation in the Church in vvhich onely the holie Passion of Christ the cause of al remission is profitable and out of the same nothing but damnation though mans life seeme neuer so iuste and holy For this his blessed passions sake I trust he vvill nether now remember the sinnes of my youth nor this my exterior reuolt from his holy Church vvhich I professe as before to haue ben of frailtie against mine owne conscience and knowlege God that knoweth al things knoweth that I did it not for any liking I had of the Protestants either life or religion knowing both to be starke nought onely the Diuel by false and subtil persuasions vvas the cause of my outward defection First I had a seruent desire to see my parents and freends and because I vvas afraid they neither durst nor vvould receiue me for seare of the statuts I thought it good to play the hypocrite if that may be called hypocrisie to put on the habit and resemblance of wickednes with the Bishop of London that is to faine

The cause why I came not to Rhemes was because I was ashamed of my self Your Pacience is greater then my mallice Your wordes proceeding from brotherly charitie do declare with what spirit you are endewed Laurence Caddey vvho deliuered my former letter vnto you hath affirmed the fore said things to be true and that with an other he also can witnes into what speaches I burst forth vvhen I vnderstood this your charitie If it be true M.D. Allen that you haue so great care of my soule that your Reuerence vvould not sticke to trauaile to what place soeuer to saue it do you your endeuour then to saue it For if my soule be saued by your meanes you shall saue your owne soule also as holy writ saith but if I doo perish bodie and soule by your carelessnes and negligence you are to render accompt thereof at the daie of Iudgement I am emprisoned and that worthely and am fedd hitherto more delicatly then I haue deserued I do appeale to your worship and not to the Popes Nunce And if you will promis me by your letters that the faults vvhich I haue by any meanes whatsoeuer committed against any man shal be forgiuen me and that no man shal pursue me to death for the crimes that I haue committed I will come to Rhemes yeld my self into your hands if you deny me this my bloud shal be required at your hands and you shal be the cause of the losse of my soule I esteeme not this transitorie life I am content to dye and that euery daie Oh if I felt once my soule to be endewed with vertue religion staied vpon Gods holie word no man vvould be more glad then I should be Many report that I haue no religion in me and they saie truely in respect of my vvorks for I am ouerwhelmed with many abhominable vices I say thus much haue often said it out of the pulpit That I doo firmely beleeue whatsoeuer is vvritten in the old and new Testament If the Sergants were drawing me to the fire or gallowes I would not beleeue any other thing My life is like a shadowe I crie to you worshipfull Sir and full of charitie out of the prison of Roan to assist me whiles yet I liue If you complaine of my books I will retract that which is false I will shewe the cause vvhy I wrot so I vvill open my mind aboundantly so far as the limites of truth will permit M.D. Allen albeit I haue greuously offended that notwithstanding I commit the care of my soule vnto you I know not vvhat the Pope Cardinals and others in authoritie ar determined to do with me if they thinke it best to take vengeance on me for the iniuries vvhich I haue vniustly donne vnto them the lords will be donne they know where to finde me let them put their designes in execution hardly but for all that I hope better of their charitie Being brought into these distresses I beseech you D. Allen to assist me with counsel and al other works of charitie and you shal thereby heape to your self a treasure in heauen and shall binde me to be yours foreuer I am not obstinate God grauÌ„t I may be sauued after this life I haue written Fare you well and pray for me a greuous sinner for as long as I liue I will hope M.D. Allen render good for euil and by so doing you shal be Christe his disciple For so Christ did so he taught By me Iohn Nichols Englisman your louer POst scriptum The spirit doth fight against the flesh and the flesh against the spirit and for a time the spirit being ouer whelmed with the flood of sinnes doth yeeld vnto the flesh but I hope that the spirit will get the victorie and weaken the force of the flesh God be merciful vnto me Imprisonment is a meanes by which I may finde the way to heauen M. D. Allen helpe me vvith your aduice whiles time is partely because you are a Christian man partly also because you are my country man I reade your bookes and am not weary of reading I haue gained great comfort consolation by reading them I will reade still and will refuse no conference with any Roman Catholik I haue written and novv expecte your fauorable answere as I hope to my saluation 18. Feb. 1583. By me most greuous sinner Iohn Nicols vnvvorthy to liue DOctor Alane contra Papam Cardinales Episcopos quaecunque scripsi scripsi ambitionis causa quae audiueram in Italia de moribus Papae Cardinalium Episcoporum aliorÃºmque inter agrestes inopes homines literis in Anglia mandaui nullum librum aedidissem Deus est mihi testis nisi Praeses Castri Londinensis me ad scribendum prouocasset Partim tunc temporis grandipromissione delusus partim appetens interituram gloriam a me publicÃ¨ scripta sunt ea praesertim de moribus Papae Cardinalium Episcoporum totiusque ecclesiastici ordinis quae fama acceperam Ã viris non fide dignis libertate mihi eo tempore concessa paulo post resipui me nequiter scripsisse Domino Lucae Kirbeoâ—am vita defuncto cum in carceribus detentus fuerat confessus sum Multa scripsi multa feci quae scribere aut facere negaui prorsus antequam Praeses Turris Londinensis saepe minatus sit Grauissimum torquaris tormentum quam acerbam poenam pati meafragilis caro abhorruit Illius igitur inuentionem atque voluntatem executus sum quod imperabat scripsi feci sic locutus sum non ex malitia sed ex impulsu non ex praua voluntate sed ex satanica suggestione Multa scripsi falsÃ² quae scripsisse poenituit me antequam ex Anglia tanquam profugus ob enormia peccata mea quae conscientiae meae magnam inquietem diu noctu iniecerunt discesseram Nun quam in Anglia steti coram Iudice aut alio quouis magistratu taÌ„quam testis coÌ„tra quemuis Catholicum Romanum quando in iudicium vocati sunt ex proposito abfui Londino Papa Cardinales Episcopi alij Catholici Romani in me multa contulerunt beneficia quae ingratitudine recompensaui sed causa ostenditur metus grauissimi supplicij magnifica promissa me Ã Deo auocauerunt si vos viri dignissimi in eodem periculo versaremini nescio quid faceretis Nihil aliud audire potui in carceribus quam has minas Fac sic aut satellites te ducent torqueri maluissem si dixisset suspendi Non bona res est corpus isto cruciatu longius fieri per duos fere pedes quam natura concedit Narratum est mihi modus torquendi cum audiueram timor horror istiusmodi supplicij me omnino vicit in meaexaminatione Quorum voluit ille Praeses aut sernus illius nomina scribi scripsi Georgius Peccam aeques auratus in Catalogo fuit Papistarum Iudex Southcotus alij multi mihi ignoti ad nomen ad

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