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A07901	The English Romayne lyfe Discouering: the liues of the Englishmen at Roome: the orders of the English semiminarie [sic]: the dissention betweene the Englishmen and the VVelshmen: the banishing of the Englishmen out of Roome: the Popes sending for them againe: a reporte of many of the paltrie reliques in Roome: ther vautes vnder the grounde: their holy pilgrimages: and a number other matters, worthy to be read and regarded of euery one. There vnto is added, the cruell tiranny, vsed on an English man at Roome, his Christian suffering, and notable martirdome, for the Gospell of Iesus Christe, in anno. 1581. VVritten by A.M. sometime the Popes scholler in the seminarie among them. Seene and allovved.	Munday, Anthony, 1553-1633.	1582 (1582)	STC 18272; ESTC S112987	53,560	84

since haue followed it They must denounce that damnable heresie crept in to the Church of England that proude vsurping Iezabell meaning our bread gracious Princesse whom quoth he God reserueth to make her a notable spectacle to the whole world for keeping y e good Queene of Scots frō her lawfull rule but I hope ere long y e Dogs shall teare her flesh those y t be her props vpholders Then drawing a paper out of his pocket he sayd I haue a Bead role of them heere who little knowes what is prouiding for them I hope shall not know till it fall vpon them Then he read their names vnto me which that all may perceiue the villainous trayterous mindes of our owne Countriemen so many of them as I can call to memory I will set down euen in the same manner as he read thē But first I must craue pardon of those honourable personages to whome the words doo offer great abuse and whom I vnfeynedlye reuerence and honour that they would not admit any euill conceite against mee but in the noble nature wherewith they are dayly adorned I béeing but the reporter may be pardoned and not reprooued First quoth he héere is my Lord Keeper the Bacon hogge the Butchers sonne the great guts oh he woulde fry well with a Faggot or his head would make a fayre showe vpon London bridge where I hope shortly it shall stand Next is eloquent Maister Cecill Lorde Treasorer you shall shortly see if he can saue his owne life with all y e wit he hath had it not béen for these two before named England had gon to wracke long since Then heere is the Earle of Leicester the Queenes Ostler his brother Ambrose Dudly a good fat whorson to make Bacon of with other words of my Lorde of Leicester not here to be rehearsed My Lord of Bedforde he forsooth is y e Queenes Coozin we will sée how finely his Coozin he can hang together Sir Fraunces Walsinghā Doctor Wilson they be her Secretaries for euery warrāt they haue suffered to apprehend any of our Priestes our fréends or other by that time they haue coūted their reckoning they shall find they haue a deere payment Sir Christopher Hatton he pleased y e Queene so wel dauncing before her in a Maske y t since y t time he hath risen to be one of y e Counsell with other words which I referre for modestie Sir Fraunces Knowles and other of the Counsell whose names I well remember not he gaue them many a heauy threatning Then opening the paper farder at the end therof was a great many of names of Magistrates other belonging to this Cittie among whome was Maister Recorder Maister Nowell Deane of Paules Maister Foxe Maister Crowlye sundry other whose names I cannot very well remember and therefore am loth to set downe any thing but that whereof I am certainly assured but verye well I remember there was no one named but he had the order of his death appoynted eyther by burning hanging or quartering and such like It is not vnlike but that this vnreuerent matter will offende some in the reading that men of honour and worshippe and those of credite and countenaunce shoulde haue their names published in print in suche sorte I haue had the iudgement of those of worshippe and learning on this behalfe and they haue sayde how it is necessary that theyr owne wicked spéeches should be set downe for an example to all men howe they abuse her Maiestie her honourable Councell and learned and discréete Maiestrates whereby their trayterous dealings may be the better discouered And to them thus vndutifully regarded it can not séeme an offence considering that Christe vnto his chosen vessels hath sayd You shall be mocked scorned and reuiled for my sake but doo you reioyce and be glad for your rewarde is the greater in the kingdome of Heauen and you remaine blessed Then putting vp his Paper agayne he began after this manner As I haue sayd before so now I saye the same such as come to this holy place must faithfully bende his life and conuersasion to honour and reuerence our prouident and holy Father the Pope in all thinges that shall like him to commaund to holde and confesse him the vniuersall supreme heade of Christes church embrace his decrees as the onely ordenance will of God For he is the person of God on earth and he can not sinne because the spirite of diuine grace guideth him continuallie he hath aucthoritie ouer all Kinges and Princes to erect and suppresse whome he pleaseth and that shall England well knowe ere long that he hath such power and aucthoritie To honour and obey him to be a true and faithfull member of his Church and to liue and die in his cause this ought to be the intent of all that commeth héere This long Tale contayning a number of more circumstaunces than I can vnfolde made me studie what aunswer I should make him which after some pause came foorth as thus Credite me Sir I am but a Nouesse in these matters and therefore you might as well haue disputed with me in the déepest Schoole points that is and I should haue censured bothe alike Nay quoth he I thinke not your ignoraunce so great albeit it séemeth great enough though you haue béene looselie brought vp yet you haue béene with me bothe at Masse and at Confession diuers times at such time as I serued my Lady B. Beside there are a great many of Priestes in England as in Warwickshire at Maister I. T. in Staffordshire at Maister G. of C. and at S. T. F. in the same shyre all these be neere your Fathers and not one of them but visiteth your Fathers house three or fowre times euerie yéere as they dyd when I was there for there is no long tariaunce in one place for a Priest but he must shifte styll least he be taken and I am sure your Father would sée you duelie confessed Nowe I was put to so harde a shifte that I knewe not well what to say I knewe none of these men he named but one and he in deede had a Priest who after his long raunging about his Maister the Popes businesse heere in England I thanke God I haue caused to be stayed Likewise I knewe not the Gentleman whome bothe they at Paris and he sayde to be my Father neither where he dwelt nor what he was which made me stand in feare to be disprooued hauing auouched my selfe before to be his Sonne Wherfore referring my case to God who had so prouided for me tyll that time in his name I resolued my selfe on this aunswer not knowing howe it might happen to spéede In déede Sir I can not denie but that I haue oftentimes heard Masse as also béene at Confession but my deuotion thereto hath béene ●ender as you your selfe haue séene knowing me to be so

chéefest enimie if he can iustlie report otherwise by me for I thanke God albeit I were so far from my Countrey he gaue me the grace to consider I was a Subiect I was bound by duety to regard and honour my Prince so long as I liued And because my aduersaries obiect against me that I went to Masse helped the Préest my selfe to say Masse so that say they who is wurst I am as euill as he I aunswer I did so in déed for he that is in Roome especially in y e Colledge amōg the Schollers must liue as he may not as he will fauour comes by conformitie and death by obstinacie These rash heads béeing in England would doo many goodlie matters at Roome they would tell the Pope of his lasciuious vnchristian life the Cardinals of their Sodomiticall sinnes the Friers of their secret iugling with the Nunnes the Préestes of their painted Purgatorie their wafer God and their counterfeit blood in the Challice all this they would doo nowe they are in England But I doubt if they were at Roome and behelde the mercilesse tiranny executed on the members of Christe God hauing not endued them with the spirit of perseuerannce to suffer and abide the like for what can this frayle carkase endure if God doo not say I will that thou shalt suffer this I feare me they would be as ready to doo any thing for the safegard of their liues as I was You maye note a speciall example in these our Countreymen lately executed that neither their cause was estéemed of God nor perfectlie perswaded in them selues yet they would die in a brauerie to be accoumpted Martyres at Roome and in the middest of their brauerie all the world might note their false and faynt hearts Sherwood he ranne downe the Ladder when death should arest him hauing killed one of his fellowe Papistes Campion their glorious Captaine he looked dead in the face so soone as he sawe the place of Execution and remained quaking trembling vnto the death Shert would haue the people thinke hée feared not death and yet he catched holde on the halter when the Cart was drawne away Kirbie quaking when he felt the Cart goe away looked styll how néere the ende of it was tyl he was quite beside And Cottom dismaying died trembling in great feare These are the Martirs of y e Romish Church not one of them patient penitent nor endued with courage to the extremitie of death but dismaying trembling fearfull as y e eye witnesses can beare me record We may therfore-wel knowe y ● a good cause dooth animate y e Martir which belonging to God let Roome Hell all the deuils set them selues against vs they cā touch vs no farder thē God wil suffer them As Saint Lauraunce béeing broiles on the Gridiren to witnesse the inuincible courage wherewith God indued him he sayde Thou Tiraunt this side is now roasted enough turne the other And Saint Isidore likewise sayde to the Tiraunt I knowe thou hast no further power ouer me then my God will suffer thee from abooue But now to our matter As I haue sayde through the great report they made of this Uaute one of the Préests two of the Schollers and I tooke with vs a line two or three great lights and so we went to this aforesayde Uaute we going a long in farder and farder there we sawe certaine places one aboue an other thrée and thrée on either side during a great way in length and these places they sayde to be some of them the graues of persecuted Saintes and Martires where they hid them selues in the time of the cruell Emperours of Roome and there they died Procéeding on forwarde we came to an olde thing like an Aultar wheron in olde and auncient painting which was then almost cleane worne out was Christ vpon the Crosse and our Lady and Saint Iohn by him there the Préest sayde Saint Peter Saint Paule and many other Saintes had sayde Masse to the Christians that hid them selues there And besides this quoth he there chaunced not many yéeres since a poore man of the Cittie to come into this Uaufe and when he was come so farre as this Aultar the light he caried in his hand suddenlie went out so that he was forced to syt downe and stay héere He béeing thus without any light and ignoraunt of the way to get out againe fell in prayer to our Lady who presentlie appeared to him hauing about her little Angelles holding burning Lampes in their handes where through y e place was illumined verie gloriously And there she questioned with him he with her about many holy and Religious matters then she departing lefte him there accompanied with Angelles so that he remained there ten dayes at the ende whereof he came foorth and went and tolde the Pope what he had séene for which when he died he was canonized a Saint and in this order arise many of our Romish Saints As for the Pilgrimage to Saint Iames in Gallitia it is a thing that is vsuallie frequented all the yéere by such a number of people as you would scantlie iudge among whome diuers of our Englishmen be so holie that they will not stick to beare them company There they saye lyeth the bode of Saint Iames the Apostle and there is the Cocke that crowed when Peter denied Christe some of the heaire of our Ladies head certaine of the Thornes of the Crowne of Thorne the Napkin that was about Christes head in y e graue certayne droppes of his blood a péece of the Crosse wheron he was crucified and a number such lyke Reliques which are honoured and worshipped as if they were God him selfe Then one of the chéefe Pilgrimages is to a place called Santa Maria di Loreto where within is an olde little bricke roome which they name to be the house our Lady dwelt in there is the Image of our Lady all in Golde and Siluer the house round about her beset with Challices of Golde and Siluer which are oblations and offeringes of diuers Pilgrimes that come in whole companies thither And before her is a great barred Chest of iron wherein they throwe money to our Lady by whole goblets full at once Within this little house there is an Aultar made right before our Lady there is sayd euerie day fortie or fiftie Masses whereat the people will throng in great heapes to get into the house for they thinke them selues happie if our Lady haue once séene them And all the Church is likewise hung with pictures Tapers and waxe Candles which are the vowes of the Pilgrimes to our Lady I haue heard of some who by the counsaile of their ghostlie Father haue made money of all their householde stuffe and haue come fiue or six hundred mile bare foote and bare legged to giue it all to our Lady there meane while the holy Father hath had libertie to play