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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

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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
Maiesties eares with matters feigned of himself how God plagued him for his furious crueltie againste catholiques how he died in debt depriued of his greate Idol Sir Philipp Sidney his sonne in law and strooken in the secret partes of his body as Eusebius reporteth of Maximus the Tyrant After Sir Francis VValsingham he bringeth vnto the stage Sir Christophor Hatton whose good nature he cōmendeth aboue all the rest and saith that yf he had any feeling of any religion he thought the catholique to be the trewer and that so he had signified diuerse wayes in his life time and that he had vpon sundrie occasions protested moste earnestly in secret to his frendes and namely to father VVilliam Crighton the Scottishe Iesuite at his deliuerie out of the Tower that his hand had neuer subscribed to the death of any one catholique nor neuer should which yet this awnsweret thincketh not to be trew considering his authoritie and place he had in the Councell and the bitter speeches which he openly vsed often times in the starre chamber and other places against catholiques for maintenance of his creditt And here by this answerer frameth a certaine consideration how wicked a course this is of the Councell to sett forward in common a thing so hoatly for the murdering and persecuting of Catholiques which most of them in priuate will deny to their frendes to haue their fingers in which he sheweth also in other Councellers at this day besides Hatton and namely and aboue the reste in my L. Treasurer who euer secretly feigned him self to be a moderator and mollefyer of Catholiques afflictions vntill of late he saith his lordship hath byn inforced to shewe himself openly theire vnmasked enemy The like also he sheweth to haue bin in the Councell of King Edward the sixt when the Duke of Northumberland the Earle of Arundell the Earle of Penbrooke the L. Pagett Sir VVilliam Peter and others sate dayly vpon orders to punishe and extinguishe Catholiques whose religion notwith stāding at that time both they knew to be trew and after chose the same to die therin when they found themselues more free of the bondage of ambition wherin before they liued VVherefore he thincketh Sir Christofer Hatton to haue bin most vnhappie euen in these thinges wherein other men doe thinck him fortunate which are the fauours had with her Maiestie the causes begininges and increase whereof this awnswerer declareth and finally his death much subiecte as he saith to suspicion of poyson and how the very next day after his death my L. Treasurer triumphed and gat forth this 〈◊〉 nation againste Catholiques which he neuer had done yf the other had liued and the causes why In the fifte and laste place he commeth to treate of my L. Treasurer and that much more largely then of any of the reste for that he yet liueth and for that as this man saith he more then all the reste together hath and doeth in deede seeke the destruction of the Catholiques by couert meanes though whiles the others liued that were more open he shrowded himself and his doings now vnder VValsingham and now vnder Lecester signifyinge in secrett vnto Catholiques when they sued vnto him that they onely were the causes which since hath bin knowen to haue bin quite contrary c. Of my L. Treasurers pedegrie and how Cecil his father was grome of the wardrop and was neuer called maister in all his life vnles it were in iest how his mother would neuer suffer her self to be called Mistresse but after her sonne was made Baron of Burlegh how my L. Treasurers grandfather was one of the kinges guard and kept the best Inne in Stamford how my L. Treasurer himself is said to haue bene first of al belringer in S. Ihons Colledge in Cambridge and after grew by learning and cunninge and by the helpes and fauoures of Sir Ihon Cheeke and Sir Antony Cooke to be secretary to the Duke of Somersett that was protector to whome he was a stickler to sett him against his owne brother the Admirall for pleasinge the Duches and to cutt of his head as he did and that he is thoughte to haue bin the principall instrumente to bring in father Latimer that fond and hypocriticall preacher to be an agent as he was in that barbarous tragedie and that for this seruice chiefely by the Duches of Somersets procurement to her husbād M. Cecile was made Secretarie to king Edward the sixt How afterward he seing Dudley the Earle of warwick to be more cunning and potent then the duke of Somersett his maister he secretly forsooke and betraied him and gaue matter of ouerthrow to warwicke againste him for which seruice when the Duke and his trustie frendes were pulled downe and cut of maister Cecil was set vp by warwick and brought in to the kinges fauour and counsaile againe so he folowed that mans fortune euer after so long as he stoode in prosperitie euen to the consenting to the depriuation and deposition of all king Henry the 8. his children and nanamely of Queene Mary and this Queene against whome this awnswerer saith that Sir VVilliam Cecill wrote and penned the proclamatiōs and othes that the Dukes of Northumberland and Suffolke sett forth against them and woulde haue bene content to haue byn the headsman also himself to haue dispatched them both with his owne handes at that tyme rather then they should haue escaped to his losse or disgrace yf Northumberland would haue putt him to it How Queene Mary being established in the crowne and the Duke of Northumberland beheaded my L. Treasurer bestirred himself to gett creditt with the Catholiques frequented Masses said the Litanies with the prieste laboured a paire of greate beades which he continually caried preached to his parishioners in Stamford and asked pardon of his errours in king Edwardes tyme what he said and protested to diuers and namely to Sir Francis Inglefeild then of the Councel about his beleef of all pointes of the Catholique Roman faith How he deceaued Cardinal Poole and persuaded Sir VVilliam Peter to resigne vp his office of the Secretariship vnto him yf Queene Mary would haue admitted the same who neuer could be persuaded to beleue him How M. Cecil being reiected by Queene Mary he gat to serue the lady Elizabeth and how he entered with her afterward when she came to the crowne to persuade her to the change of Religion for his owne interest against the opiniō of other councelors VVhat reasons he laid for the same and what great difficulties he founde in the Queene and otherwise and by what crafte he ouercame them and how yf he had by byn admitted secretary in Queene Maries tyme he had neuer sought the change of Religiō in this Queenes dayes VVhat shiftes and deceites were vsed by him and M. Bacon in the change of Religion how the Earle of Arundell was cosened by them with hope of hauing the Queene in mariage and thereby his sonne
in law the Duke of Norfolke gotten to their parte How other noble men were persuaded either to giue their consents or els to absent themselues from the parlament or els to leaue their voices in the handes of heretiques and what fraude breach of order and aunciente lawes was vsed in choosing these firste burgeses of parlament and knightes of the shires and the open violence vsed againste the Bishops by which meanes this answerer holdeth that this first parlament could haue no validitie or force at all and yet that al foundations of future treasons in matters of religiō were layed in the same and al other parlaments synce haue depended therof How the proceedings of Cecil and Bacon seeming at length intolerable vnto the auncient nobilitie of the Realme they ioyned together in the olde L. Treasurers howse and concluded to pull them both from her Maiestie by violence to hang them at the Coure gate what the old Earle of Penbrok said in that meeting and how Leicester was also present and consenting to this conclusion and reuealed all afterward and how Sir VVilliam Cecill escaped the dāger by flattering and abusing the Duke of Northfolke with weepinge fayr promisses and paide him for it afterwad with cutting of of his heade and how from that day foreward he tooke sure order for pulling downe disgracing the olde nobility How my L. Treasurer hath gotten in to his owne power al the greate offices almoste of the courte and countrey and how he playing the Aman as he doeth with the Catholiques may iustly feare the greate and high galowes prepared by himself for Mardocheus and the children of Israel for that God is as iuste now as he was then and as potent Of Sir VValter Rauleys schoole of Atheisme by the waye and of the Coniurer that is M. thereof and of the diligēce vsed to get young gentlemē to this schoole where in both Moyses and our Sauior the olde and new Testamente are iested at and the schollers taught amonge other thinges to spell God backwarde How miserable a thing it is that her Maiestie descending of so noble progenitours should be brought to make lawes and proclamations in matters of Religion according to these mens senses and opinions leauing all her olde nobility and the auncient vvisedome grauitie and learning which Ingland vvas wonte to haue should rule her self by these new vpstarts and publish edicts so contrary and opposite to all the lawes edicts of al the Kings and Queenes that haue bin in Ingland from the firste cōuersion thereof vnto this day as euidently he presumeth to shew and with this he endeth this first head of this section The second head of this first section THE seconde head of this firste Section is about these first wordes in the tytle of the proclamation to wit A declaration of great troubles pretended against the realme by a number of Seminary priests and Iesuits c. about which reseruing the peculier defence of the priests and Iesuits comming into the Realme vnto the fourth Section where at large he handleth the same in this place he taketh vpon him to shew how that the true causes of troubles feares and perils towards Ingland doe not proceede of the comming in of Seminarie priests and Iesuits that come peaceably to yeild their liues and without intention to hurt any body but that they come of their accusers to which purpose he alleageth the fable of the wolf who drinking at the fountaine desiring to haue a quarell against the lambe that drunke at a brooke farre beneth him said that he troubled his water also he alleageth the example of Nero that punished the Christians for burninge of Rome which himself for his pleasure had sett a fire al which this man applieth saying that these which now gouerne finding Inglād quiet peaceable strong rich fortified with frinds both abroad at home at their entrāce haue by change of Religion by troubling vexing killing subiects at home and by dryuing others to flye abrode by breaking all leagues with auncient allies by other vnquiet meanes turned all vpsidowne and brought al about their owne eares now being a fraide of that which the murderers of Christe suspected when they said wil you bring this mans blood vpon vs They would gladly lay it vpon moste innocente Catholique priests which haue no part therein After this he gathereth together diuers particuler speciall causes of the troubles and dangers of her Maiestie and Ingland whereof the first and principall and roote of al the reste is as he saith the greate and irreconciliable differences and warres in Religion not onely with the Catholiques but especially betwene the protestants and puritanes them selues who he saith are mortall enemy and would haue bin longe agoe by the cares to to●●●●er had not the feare of the Catholique helde them both in awe He touchetlt diuers of their bookes written one against the other as Martin Marprelate Mar Martin The worke for the Cooper The Countercuffe to Martin iunior The Owles Almanack The Pap with a batchet or countrycuffe The Epistle to Huffe Ruffe and snuffe in which among other things is affirmed that the Martinistes or Puritans are much more dangerous for domisticalbroyles then the Spaniardes for open warres which this awnswerer also confirineth for that they muste needes as he saith hate her Maiestie the protestante Councell most deadly as both by reason and by their bookes and by their propositions gathered by R. Alison and dedicated of late to Sir Thomas Henedge that no hope remayninge more now of reformation of the Antichristian Church of Ingland which they cal Babel all are bounde to forsake it though the prince do inhibit them An other danger and ineuitable peril both of her Maiestie and the Realme he saith to be the incertitude of the succession which he saith my L. Treasurer and others haue especially procured by keeping her Maiestie frō mariage against the example of her auncestours and other princes of Christianitie and that for their owne interests thereby to be able to gouerne her Maiestie the better and to haue her still in their power as also to be able to shufle the better for the crowne to theire owne frendes when occasion shall be offered which he proueth at large Of the pestilent and dangerous doctrine of Hacket the late new Christe and his Prophetes against her Maiestie of the vncertaine assurāce of Princes estates vpon hereticall doctrine which theire authors doe varye according to tymes fancies cōmodities as he sheweth by diuers examples of later dayes in Ingland by Latimer in K. Edwardes reigne that could applye his conscience and preachingest the ouerthrow of the L. Admiral Seymer without any cause at all Also by Cranmer Sandes and Iewell that were content vnder the Duke of Northumberland to bolster vp Queene lanes tytle and disinherite her Maiestie that now is and by Goodman who in Queene Maryes time both