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A09610	An aduertisement written to a secretarie of my L. Treasurers of Ingland, by an Inglishe intelligencer as he passed throughe Germanie towardes Italie Concerninge an other booke newly written in Latin, and published in diuerse languages and countreyes, against her Maiesties late proclamation, for searche and apprehension of seminary priestes, and their receauers, also of a letter vvritten by the L. Treasurer in defence of his gentrie, and nobility, intercepted, published, and answered by the papistes.; Elizabethae, Angliae Reginae, haeresim Calvinianam propugnantis saevissimum in Catholicos sui Regnis edictum. English. Abridgments	Parsons, Robert, 1546-1610.; Cresswell, Joseph, 1556-1623, attributed name.; Verstegan, Richard, ca. 1550-1640, attributed name.	1592 (1592)	STC 19885; ESTC S121696	41,247	68

much the awnswerer in effecte replieth to this poynte of the Cardinall An other poynte also he handleth touching father Persons vvhome he saith my L. Treasurer in this proclamation by a certayne calumniation more rediculous then enuious affirmeth to arrogate to himself the name of the King Catholiques confessour vvhich not being so nor likely nor almost possible to be so for that this place and charge requireth a man of the same nation skilfull and practised both in the language and affayres of the country and the saide father not lying or residing in the court but commonly in the Inglish hovvses and colledges either of Vallidolid Ciuil or S. Lucar and no argument or probability offering it self in the vvorld vvhy old Cecil should fall into this so doting an imagination excepte it vvere to scoffe by the vvay at the King of Spaines being called Catholique and hauing of a confessour this defendant taketh occasion hereby to examine these tvvo vvoordes First vvhat this vvord Catholique meaneth hovv it first began euen with the vvord Christian and vvas inuented by the Aposteles themselues and put in to their creed to explicate the other vvord and to restrayne the signification of a Christian or professour of Christe his name in generall vnto a trevv faithfull and obedient Christian for vvhich he alleageth the testimony of an auncient holy Bisshopp named Pacianus that saide Christian is my name but Catholique is my surname by the first I am named but by the second I am knowen proued and distinguisted from all others for which cause also the Aposteles vsed this word Catholique to distinguish the trevv Church of Christe from al other false conuenticles of heretiques and feigned Christians of all vvhich this man inferreth by diuers testimonyes of S. Augustine and other fathers that no name is more glorious in the vvorld then to be called a Catholique and that the Kings of Spaine haue iustly to reioyce and take honour of this tytle geuen them by the sea Apostolique notvvitstanding Maister Cecils scoffe and that it is much more ridiculous apis he in the Ministers of Ingland to geue the tytle of defender of the Catholique faith so solemnely in euery of theire sermons to the Queene of Ingland seing it is a tytle that vvas assigned to her father by Pope Leo the tenth for vvriting only against Luther in defence of papistrie vvhich her Maiestie impugneth and persecuteth to death and therefore to hold the tytle and to deny the faith no man can imagin saith this awnswerer how it can stand together but onely by M. Cecils combinanation that can pach together any thing for his purpose in what kind soeuer For the second vvhy euery Prince should haue a confessour according to the old custome of all Princes this man alleageth many reasons and authorities and namely out of S. Augustine vvho saith that no Christian will refuse to confesse his synnes to a priest that is Gods vicar but onely such as either are cōfounded by shame or beaddy with pryde to their owne damnation vpon this he inferreth what a miserable daungerous state Maister Cecil hath broughte not onely himself but also her Maiestie vnto that whereas other Princes discharge their consciences by confession and receauing absolutiō of the Church appointed by Christe our sauiour euery yeare many tymes her Maiestie hath passed ouer now fower and thirtie yeares without that benefit contrarie to the example of all the Kinges and Queenes of Ingland her noble progenitours that euer were from the firste conuersion of the same vnto her tyme whereof none euer wanted this honour and benefit of a confessour but her self excepte it were perhaps King Edward her brother who being a child and in the handes of others can make no president to the contrary but for King Henry her father he obserued the same also most strictely euen vnto his dying day and made it death vnto him that should contradict the same and so did all his auncestours before him obserue the like moste holy beneficial and Catholique vse in so much that in deed her Maiestie is the very firste of all Inglish Princes that euer hath auentured to caste her soule into that aeternall daunger as to heape fower and thirtie yeares sinnes together without confession or absolution of theChurch and to leaue them to the seuere iudgemēte of almighty God vpon contempte of that spiritual tribunal which he hath assigned in his Church for the remission of the same and all this vpon M Cecils persuasion saith this awnswerer who being oppressed with the multitude of his owne synnes wil not be able to help her Maiestie in that day and for that Cardinall Allen father Persons others of their coate and charitie do pitty her Maiestie in this great danger therefore M. Cecil auoucheth them for traitours VVherefore this Section is concluded vvith a sharpe reprehensiō of my L. Treasurers proceedings woordes and dealings against these two men in special who yet are auouched neuer to haue done him hurt nor to any other protestant that hath passed in Catholique countryes where their credites might haue vvrought them preiudice yf they vvould And in particuler he alleageth how that both these men being in Rome together the yeare 1586. they had vnderstanding of my L. Treasurers grandchild heyre of his howse being secretly there and vvere so farr of from doing him hurte which they mighte haue done as they vsed all curtesie frendship towardes him both in wordes and deedes and procured from the Pope his safe returne which the grandfather that well knoweth thereof and was priuy to the iourney in all law of nobility and ciuilitie were bounde to requite saith this awnswerer yf any seede of the one or the other vertue were in his breste The fifte and last Section THE fifte and laste Section comprehendeth the whole conclusion of the premisses vvith order punishement for the offendors and for that 〈◊〉 this defender affirmeth the said premisses haue bin proued to be moste false forged and malitiously aggrauated by the accuser it is no maruaile though the conclusion be correspondent to the same that is to say moste vniuste and iniurious seing it is inferred and inforced vpon these wordes in the proclamation it self to vvit wherefore considering that these intentions of the King of Spaine are to vs made very manifest vvhich intentions notvvitstāding this awnswerer taketh to be so manifesto by this day vnto all the whole vvorld that there vvere neuer any such as he thinketh that Maister Cecil himself for very shame can not deny it and consequently muste needes confesse in his harte that all this blouddy conclusion of murderinge Catholiques was ouer hastely awarded either vpon vaine feare or vnchristian malice and yet doth the ●…nswerer examine the particuler remedies which 〈◊〉 prescribed in the proclamation against these supposed daungers of the realme and deuised intentions of the King of Spaine And the firste remedie is that the Godly Ministers of

to cause them to renounce their allegeaunce due to the crowne of Ingland vpon hope of a Spanish inuasion that they binde men with othes and Sacramenes to yeilde their obedience to the Pope and Spanish King and that for this they bring indulgences for them that wil yeeld to their persuasions and curses to the contrary all which this defender saith is feigned stuffe false calumniations excepte the firste two points that they come into Ingland in secret manner and that they haue their spiritual authoritie from the Pope which two points he confesseth and saith that the former of them is warranted by Christes owne example which walked not openly some tymes but in secret as the Euangeliste saith at such tymes I meane as the Iewes soughte to kill him and the second he confirmeth by diuers testimonies of the same Christe our Sauior who assigned al principality of spiritual authoritie vnder himself to S. Peter and his successours whereby the Catholique Church hath euer vnderstode that no priest can be made or haue iurisdiction to deale with soules but by authoritie deriued either immediately or mediatly from this supreame and vniuersall pastor largely he declareth the disorders implicatiōs of the protestātical cleargie for want of this subordinatiō among themselues the sea Apostolique These two points onely then granted he denyeth all the reste to wit the intention to moue sedition or rebellion the renouncing of allegeaunce dew vnto the crowne of Ingland the hope of a Spanishe inuasion the binding of men by othes or Sacraments to yeild any temporall obedience to the Pope or King of Spaine or lastly the bringing in of any indulgences or curses to that ende All which points are meere fictions saith he of VVilliam Cecils head and diuelish deuises to make innocente men odious and to shed their blouds and that they vvere neuer yet proued or cōfessed by any can not be presumed but by infinite malice among all other this old murderers abhominations which this man saith are infinite and do cry vengeance at Gods hands none are more impious and damnable or that vvillye more heauily on himself his progenie for euer as the bloud of Christe doth lve vpon the lewes vnto this day then this vvilfull slaundering accusing of men against his knowledge and conscience for seruing only his ovvn turne this is the effecte of this awnsvvers speach to this third parte of the Section though more largely delated in the booke it self The fourth Section THE fourth Section of this proclamation the awnsvverer reduceth to tvvo generall heads the firste concerninge the true causes of priests deathes and other Catholiques suffering in Ingland and the seconde touching certayne particularities layed against Cardinall Allen and father Parsons As touching the firste the proclamatiō auoucheth that none suffer in Ingland for Religion or are impeached in their liues goods landes or liberties for the same except onely in a certaine pecuniary summe as a penaltie for the tyme to those that do refuse to come to church and that the priests such others as are put to death suffer not for any points of Religion but onely for meere treasons as appeareth by their arraignements and condemnations and that is a manifeste course to falsifie the slaunderous speaches and libelles of fugitiues abrode This is the totall summe yea the very wor des themselues of the proclamation in this Section vvhich this avvnsvverer taking to come vvholly from M. Cecils head and penne as he doth also the vvordes to the same effecte vttered in the booke intituled the execution of Iustice in Ingland vvriten some yeares ago published in diuers languages to the same end that this novv is though it vvas euidently refuted out of hand saith this man by the Catholiques he adioyneth here many sentences out of that booke of Cecils to these of the same authour in this proclamation vvhich affirme that no Catholique at all yea not one is troubled in Ingland for his conscience vvhich woordes and sentences after he hath laide together then doeth he shew the plaine contrary contradictory by other vvordes of the Queene and Cecill himself and of the whole parlament in sundry statutes and in this also and other proclamations and by the vvordes of Holingshead and Stow in their chronicles and so maketh sporte and vvoonder of Maister Cecils contradictions against himself and of his shameles impudency in affirming things so euidentlie false as yf a soole saith he vpon a stage shoulde auouch such stuffe in a comedy he would be hissed out and not permitted whereas this man telleth it both as an accuser a witnes and a Iudge in a moste bloudy tragedy in the sighte and hearing of the whole worlde Firste then to beginne withall this awnswerer sheweth out of S. Hilary S. Nazianzene Eusebius and other auncient fathers and vvriters the custome of all diuelish persecutors and especially of heretiques to haue bin euer to enuy the glory of such as they put wrongfully to death to the ende they should not be honoured accomted for martyrs for that reason euer lightly affirmed the causes of their deathes to he seditiō rebellion treason which lying course the Catholique Church notwithstanding would neuer yet vse saith this man for that shee neuer vvould punish heretique vndet other tytle then onely for heresy but that M. Cecill thought good to folow the other vvay so to procure a double crowne to the murdered the one of martyrdome in that they dye for the trew faith and the other of Iustice for that they suffer for supposed false treasons which they neuer imagined After this he passeth on to auouch the matter more in particuler by diuers examples both of men and women martyred in Ingland vvhose causes could not conteyne any shew of trew treason by any law or reason in the vvorld nor that the iudges or accusers did in their arraignements or condemnations alleage any such matter against them but onely of Religion and Acts of the same made crimes by parlament as yf the Burgeses of Ingland should make it adulterie to heare a womans confession or thefte to geue almes and this he proueth by the very recordes of the condemnations yet extant and by the testimony of the Inglishe chronicles printed by allowāce of the present state which haue set downe in print the causes of diuers executed far different frō that which M. Cecil here telleth vs vvhos woordes he citeth He handleth also the peculiar punishements for hearing of masse the 20. L. a moneth for not cōming to Church which are euident peynes for matters of Religion which matters M. Cecil so often and impudently saith he in his foresaide booke of execution of Inglish iustice denieth vtterly to be punished in Ingland and though in this proclamation he confesse that there is a pecuniary payment for such as refuse to come to Church yet he doth it very slyly and vnderhand and vttereth not what

the other and to pull dovvne firste the Queene Dovvager by the Hamiltons and by them the Catholique religion and afterward the Hamiltons againe by others and then to ouerthrovv the true Queene proprietarie vvith her husband and to crowne her ovvne child against her self vvith the slaughters that ensued and affliction of Scotland by the often hostile entrance of the Inglishe souldiours which are recounted with many particulers of greate miserie and compassion their troublesome proceedings also vvith other nations are recou●●ed vvhich compared vvith the calme quiet and iuste proceedings of the Kinge of Spayne doe shevv as this ansvverer saith that my L. Treasurer vvhich he accounteth to be both author counceler and scribe of this proclamation not onely to lacke shame but also vvisedome and consideration in that he maketh her Maiestie to publishe to the vvorld things soo euidently false as these are that the King of Spaine is the onelie cause of the trouble of Christianitie at this day The third point of this section THE thirde member of this Section is about these wordes where it is saide in the proclamation that the King of Spaine now in his declined yeares meetest for peace when he ought to be satisfied with his owne without seekinge of more Kingdomes by violence seing be possesseth at this day more crownes Kingdomes and countreyes then euer any Christian Prince had before that all this notwithstanding he hath begunne a most vniuste warre aganist the present Kinge of France most daungerous to all Christendome which yet is like to be the ruine of himselfe as his enterprise against Inglande gaue him iuste cause to repent c. For answere of all this there are many points touched firste that the King of Spaine not onely in this his olde age but in all his life by testimony of the whole world hath bin euer most desirous and obseruante of peace and the Inglishe quyte contrary secondly that this exprobratiō of the Kinges old age is ridiculous her Maiestie folowinge him so nere in years as she doeth my L. Treasurer farr passing him and nerer to his graue by all likelyhood Thirdly that so greate amplification of the Kinges forces wealth and power being their enemy was inconsiderate and can serue to no other effecte but to terrifie their owne frends and subiects and to animate their contraries and to shew their lack of prouidence in making so vnequalla match fowerthly that this great power of the King of Spaine being so iustely and temperately vsed at it is can not be fearefull to any good man but rather confortable nor is it daungerous to Christendome but rather a great and singuler stay prouidence of almightie God who forseing the tumultes and reuoltes that heresies should bring in these tymes hathe prouided this so potent and opulent a Prince of all ages for the defence of his Catholique church in these troobles Fystly that this warre of the Kinge against Nauarre is not iniuste but moste iuste necessary not for any intereste of the Kings but onely for the good of France it self and consequently that all reasons and circumstances considered and the forces on both partes wayed it can not be like to be the ruine of the King of Spaine but rather of Nauarre and other heretiques depending of him or ioyning with him and albeit the Kings last fleete against Ingland had not the successe which was expected yet it was not for wante of strength or by any valure or praise of the Inglishe but rather by tēpeste lacke of experience in some principall officers and other such casualties that often fall out in warre whereof the Inglishe oughte not to bragg seing there are so many reasons and examples of enterprices that take successe the second or thirde tyme which did not at the firste whereof this awnswerer alleageth many testimonies and authorities both prophane and diuine which in the booke are to be seene After this he entreth to treate at large of Nauarres iniuste pretence to the crowne of France being an open knowen heretique as he saith and refusing to take the othe of mayntayning the Catholique Romaine religiō which all Kings both of Fraunce and Ingland haue taken before this and are bounde to take from the firste institution of Christian Kinges and that her Maiestie tooke also the same othe at her entrance to her crowne of Ingland and that by Cecils councell also by whose councell the same othe was afterwarde violated that the tytle of particuler succession in Kingdoms being founded onely vpon positiue lawes of seuerall countreyes and not vpon law of nature or nations for that Kingdomes and monarchies neither were from the beginning nor are at this day in all realmes a like it muste needes folow that the whole righte of these successions and interests to the same do depend of the particuler ordinances lawes othes and conditions with which each countrey hath ordayned admitted authorized their Kings vvhereof the cheefe condition beinge in the Kingdome of France hat the Kinge shall sweare and geue assurance to defende and mayntaine the olde Catholique Romaine religion and the professors thereof and Nauarre refusing to do the same he can by no law diuine or humaine be admitted to the crowne which is largely proued by many authorities examples and reasons Vpon this he declareth how al Catholique people in France are bounde vnder payne of damnable synne to resiste Nauarrs entrance into that crowne considering the inestimable dāmage that is like to ensew therof vnto that whole realme yf he shoulde preuaile And for the same consideration he proueth that the Catholique partie of French nobilitie that either for hope of honour and commodity or for hatred and emulation against others that are againste Nauarre or for any other passion or pretence whatsoeuer do folow or fauour him in this his pretēce doe offend God highely and are guiltie of al euills miseries of their countrey and that besydes the eternall punishement which they are to expecte at Gods handes excepte they repente they will also be destroied and pulled downe by Gods iuste iudgements in this world as this awnswerer sheweth by as many of the nobilitie both of France Flanders Ingland and Scotland by name as for any pretence whatsoener haue bin the firste ayders of heretiques in their countreyes haue perished and come to naught The III. Section THE third Section conteyneth an other large complaynte no lesse vniuste then the former as though the King of Spaine not onely by himself but by other mens helpes also wente aboute to annoy Inglād and this by three manner of wayes The firste is for that he is saide heere for fortifyinge of his strange violent attempts to haue procured a Milanois a Vassall of his owne to be exalled to the Papacie of Rome and to haue seduced him without consente of the colledge of Cardinalls to exhauste the Treasures of the church there with to leauie forces in Italie which had no sounde of ware in is

auouched that this forme of examination vexing of men for the Catholique faith in Inglād is in no wise contrarie but agreable to the moste auncient lawes and good vsages of our Realme which this man refuteth beginning from the firste Christian King of the Britans named Lucius that tooke his faith frō Rome vnto the laste called Cadwalladar that made himself a monke and died in Rome after that from Ethelbert the firste Inglishe Kinge Christined by S. Augustine a monke sent from Rome vntill the laste Kinge Edward the cōfessor held for a sainte in the same Religion after him from VVilliam Conquerour first King of the Normans vnto King Henrie the eighte father of her Maiestie all which Kinges and Queenes this awnswerer sheweth to haue bin contrarie in Religion to this of M. Cecils consequently to haue made all their lawes and ordinances in fauour of Catholique Religion against that which is now held in Ingland and so their formes of search and Inquisitiō must needes be against this not against that and therefore that it is extreame impudency in M. Cecil to auouch so openly in proclamation that this tyrannicall forme of his inuention against the Catholiques is in no vvise contrary but agreable to the most auncient lawes of Inglande Secondly for M. Cecils folly and lack both of wit consideratiō in pressing a free people with such irking bloudy lawes which driue to desperatiō he alleageth the authoritie of all graue men that euer wrote of gouernemente of commō wealthes who affirme that such proceeding is lacke of wisedome for that violent courses endure not long and feare is no good conseruer of perpetuity and ouermuch rubbing bringeth out bloud and patience abused turneth into furie He noteth also a want of ludgement in Maister Cecil the scribe to put downe in her Maiesties name after recital of so great rigour that she is resolutely determined to suffer no fauour to be vsed for any respect of any persons qualities or degrees which may chance to stirr vp some Matathias and his children and frends one day to do as he hid in his zeale for Gods cause being inforced therevnto by the indiscreet oppression of Antiochus the tyrant to his owne destruction and seing that it is euident that these hard and rigorous woordes could not proceed of her Maiesties owne inclination but were thruste in by Cecil in despite and disgrace of nohility principall peeres of whome he was afeard leaste the Queene mighte haue some respecte in these cases of Religion this awnswerer exhorteth him to looke vnto it and to thincke betymes vpon the end of pierse os Gauerston the Spencers others that haue abused their Princes fauours in Inglād heretofore to the debasing of true nobilitie and pilling of the people he willeth him also to thincke of the endes of wicked leroboā Achab with the death of seuentie children of his in owne day notwithstanding they were as well established and allied for matters of the world as M. Cecils of spring can be Finally he beseecheth also her Maiestie to looke about her betyme not to suffer her self to be caried away or to be made a pray to one mans ambition only who will not be able to remedy the calamities that now he soweth but will leaue them all on his Princes backe when he can wade no further as the pittifull examples of King Ihon King Edward the second Richard the second Henry the sixt and others driuen into miseries by such euill Councellours do wel declare nor is it safe for any Prince to leane to much to one mans councell especially one that seeketh so euidently his owne intereste as in M. Cecil doth moderate courses do indure but this is desperate neither want there meanes to reduce things yet to some cōposition or moderation at least yf her Maiestie would folow her owne Princely disposition and leaue the bloudy humour of this old ambitions serpent Her Maiesties age requireth more loue and peace of her subiects now and to attend rather to securitie then to enter into new odious conflicts the fly hath her splene saith the Philosopher and much more men of courage and free education and so much bloud spent by violence as lately hath bin in Ingland can not but threaten much bloud againe in the end All this much more to purpose saith this awnswerer and in the end concludeth all with certayne effectuall cōsolatiōs vnto Catholiques out of Eusebius Gregorie Nazianzene and Victor Vticensis who recompte the exceeding comforts which God gaue vnto Catholiques that had suffred for him after their persecutours were destroyed confounded He writeth also certayne annotations vpon the instructions annexed to the proclamation for the commissioners how to execute their forme of inquisitions and all he maketh very odious and cruell which I can not set downe here for lacke of tyme but I hope to send yow the booke it self very shortly 1591. Five councelors Sir Nicolas Bacon He VVas chief hynde vnto the Abbot Earle of Lecester Sir Francis VValsinghā Sir Christophor Hatton The L. Treasurer Treason against his Maister Extreme bypocrisie and cosenage His entrāce vvith this Q. M. Cecilesca peth hanging But aboute some 50. offices in all Sir VValter Ravvley The trevv causes of the troubles of Ingland Discord of heretiques among them selues Incertitud of succession Great infelicitie Insufficient prouision K. Philips doings to vvardes th Queene Sir Thomas Stukelyes death Inglishe actions tovvardes Spaine The King of Spaine dealinges vvith his neighbours Inglish proceedinges vvith ther neighbours Diuers fals hodes and folyes of M. Cecil Nauarres iust exclusion from the crovvn of France My L. Treasure ●●●er of his gētry VVicked men are vvarned vvithout ope of amendment Psal. 111. Plin. 1. 23. cap. 10. A story Manisest argumentes He is said to hauebene first an ostler in that Inne and after to haue marie the hostesse In stede of tvvo Forses at a botle of bay Ezech. 9. Prouerb 29. The order and institution of the Seminaries How priests returne to Ingland Great iniquitie Contradictions of M. Cecil Great 〈◊〉 An egregious bloodsucker An impudent tale M. Cecil 〈◊〉 vviseman The vvord Catholique pacianus exempla ad Symp. Nouat Kinges confessors Aug. lib. 2. de visit infirm cap. 4. Matth. 18. Cecils grandchild in Rome The Ministers 〈◊〉 doctrine Feigned pretences of M. Cecis The vayne vaunting of Ghospell Forces of Ingland 〈◊〉 16. The forme of Inquisition M. Cecils folly Councel and exbortation