euer deemed him to be of all religions that it to say of none at all and so the euent did declare He could temporize egregiously and frame his religion in all places after the humours of the companie In the end his creditors came so roundly vpon him for his manifold and huge debts that he was in forced secretly to depart and to take England on his backe Not long after he became so deeply Iesuited that he must needs be a glorious popish martyr viz. an arrant and most bloudie traytour he thought sought by murdering his naturall soueraigne to haue gotten gold money large possessions and so perhaps to haue paid his creditors or at the least to haue cut them short at his pleasure But in steade of a popish imaginarie charter hee found an english reall halter according to his cōdigne deserts Twelftly they grant that shortly after this stratageme the Iesuite Holt and others with him perswaded one Patricke Collen an Irish-man to attempt the laying of his violent and villanous hands vpon her maiesties person Thirteenthly they freely confesse that doctor Lopez the Queenes phisition was stirred vp to haue poysoned her Maiestie and the like they affirme of Yorke VVilliams and Edward Squire animated and drawne thereunto by VValpole that pernitious Iesuite All these notorious treasons right reuerend father damnable in nature intollerable in state and almost incredible in relation are plainly confessed of the Secular-priests and the same together with many other bad licentious barbarous sauage and plaine brutish practises of Iesuited papists are compendiously comprised in this small volume Which I haue therefore endeuoured to reduce to certaine heads distinct bookes and chapters with some profitable annotations annexed to the same because I am verily perswaded that whosoeuer shall seriously pervse them with indifferencie cannot but loath and detest cursed Iesuitisme and all popish Iesuited faction For though it be necessarie to all true hearted English subiects to know throughly the matters discouered by the Secular Priests yet because many for lacke of money are not able to buy the bookes and others because they are tedious and confusely written will either abstaine wholy from the reading thereof or lightly and slenderly runne them ouer and so neuer attaine to the full knowledge thereof I haue imployed my industrie my wits to couch in a small volume and portable manuall the summe effect of all their bookes pamphelets libells edicts and letters so as euery one may easily compasse the price and no one bee wearied in pervsing the discourse My desire was to profit all to confirme the strong to strenghthen the weake to stay the staggerer to rowze vp the drowsie to instruct the ignorant to gratifie the thankefull to perswade the doubtfull and to confound the proud malepeart and disloyall hearts Paule planted Apollo watred but God gaue the increase If therefore any good be wrought by these my labours let such as shall reape that good be thankfull to God for the same The disloyall papists bloud thirstie Iesuites haue alreadie kicked against my former labours and whet their malicious tongues against me Their holy father the bishoppe of Rome whome they tearme the Pope hath thundred out his curse against me But neither secular priests nor religious Iesuites will or can make any sound answere to any of my bookes They haue often beene buzzing about the matter yet neuer durst they publish so much as but one colourable answere either to all or to any one of my bookes so as I must needs thinke that maledictiō cursing rayling will be their morning and euening song against me by reason of this my friendly posie which I present as a most redolent odour to their noses-grauitie so often as they shall kisse the shoe of their Pope and with him commit idolatrie the vsuall manner most reuerend and worthy prelate in all such kind of exercises both is and alwaies hath beene to make choise of some worthy and mightie personage to protect defend and patronize the cause and doubtles neuer did any booke or pamphlet stande in more neede of a stout and resolute patron then this present volume For the traytorous Iesuites and Iesuited papists that cannot endure their owne brethren the secular priests to publish in their honest defence their knowne practises and imperfections will no doubt become starke madde fetch al their Romish friscols against me poore soule who haue as it were anatomized and painted them out in their best beseeming colours After mature deliberation had herein most christian patron of learning and learned men I haue resolued to dedicate this worke to your most reuerend name as to that vertuous Tobi◠who is able with the perfumes of the heart and liuer of a fish that is to say with the redolent harmonie of christian diuinitie which continually floweth most pleasantly form his mouth to vanquish all the Asmodean-Iesuites vpon earth to strike such terrours into their harts as they shall not once dare to grunt or barke against my true dealing and sincere proceeding in this behalfe Sundry other motiues do occurre which might most iustly incite me to this dedication of these my late studies if they were better then in deed they are amongst which many large bounties from time to time receiued at your Lordships hand doe well deserue to haue a place So praying the almightie to increase your godly zeale against all traytorous Iesuites disloyall popish vassales and to blesse your good Lordshippe with many happie yeeres to his glorie your owne soules health and the common good of his Church I humbly take my leaue From my studie this 23. of Ianuarie 1602. Your Lordships most bounden Thomas Bell. The Elogie of the author in signe of his loyall affection both toward his late Soueraigne and now regnant The cursed crew of Iesuites A change did long desire A change they haue but to their griefe Both Pope and Spaine admire Our noble Queene Elizabeth From hence to heauen is gone King Iames the first giuen vs of God By right sits in her throne Shee fourtie yeeres and foure complete did Pope and Spaine withstand And maugree all their bloudie plots In peace did rule this land Gods word and his true worshippe euer VVith zeale shee did defend For which cause God did her protect Vntill her life did end Her death perforce we must lament VVho dearely lou'd vs all Her bountie great her mercie rare The world to witnesse call Yet English hearts be not dismaide King Iames is our regent Hence Poperie certes he will supplant All falshood must relent He will doe iustice euery where And poore mens cause respect The mightie must not them annoy He will their right protect Poore men to him must haue accesse Their owne cause there to tell No bribes can haue place in his court Thence vice he will expell The richer sort with lingringe suites Must not the poore oppresse Our noble King the man of God Their
reside and the walkes which they frequent That so her maiesties person may be secured and their natiue countrie preserued form the treasonable practises of those trayterous villaines For if they say they may not this doe least so they become the cause of their imprisonment exile or death that cannot serue there turne nor be a sufficient excuse for them in this behalfe I proue it First for that they shal no otherwise become such a cause thē they haue beene the same alreadie by reuealing their tresonable plots and bloudie treacheries Secondly because thereby they shall doe nothing els then that which as themselues write they are bound in conscience to performe Thirdly because in so doing they shall onely effect that which the law of iustice requireth at their handes as themselues doe graunt Fourthly because how often soeuer two euils doe so concurre that both can not be auoyded but that of necessitie the one must happen then it is not onely charitie but euerie man is also bound to preuent the greater euill with the permission of the lesse For the clearing hereof I will here recount the priestes their owne expresse words which though they be longe yet doe I with the reader to marke them attentiuely because they are verie important plainly conuince so much as I intend First you know say the Priestes it is a generall receiued ground by all that when the actions of any particular man or men be they of what degree they will be secular or religious ecclesiasticall or lay doe tende to anie generall or common huit of a communitie as for example the actions of some particular seruant in a familie to the ruine or ouerthrow of the familie the actions of some particuler scholers in a colledge to the subuersion of the colledge or the actions of some particuler men in a common weale to the destruction of a common weale It is then not onely lawfull to disclose these particuler men and their particuler actions though otherwise priuate diffamatorie to the said particuler parties as all such actions of their owne nature must needes be but also euerie honest seruant euerie faithfull seruant euerie true scholler and loyall subiect is bound in conscience vpon his dutie to his master faith to his colledge loyaltie to his Prince and loue to his countrie to disclose such persons and their facts or intentions without regarde or respect vnto the hurt or damage that may redound to the said particuler parties so offending The reason hereof is this because a generall good is alwaies to be preferred before a particuler and a greater hurt to be eschewed before the lesse As for example when two euils concurre so that both cannot be auoyded but that necessarily the one must happen it is not onely charitie but euerie man is also bound to preuent the greater euill with permission of the lesse rather then the contrarie These words are set downe at large in this manner in the replie to Parsons libell Fol. 28. a. This is a goodly foundation which the Priests haue laid as which indeede is grounded vppon the verie law of nature And out of this grounde may so much fitly be deduced as is sufficient to conclude my scope and purpose If therefore the secular priestes doe in deede meane truly to their Prince and countrie as they pretend in outward shew of words then no doubt they will doe as is alreadie said But if they refuse thus to deale against the traytorous crew of Iesuites for the common good of their natiue countrie then doe they but dissemble and equiuocate when they tell vs they will take part with our Queene and countrie against the Pope and king of Spaine Thus much I thought good to set downe for a caueat to the reader For these obseruations being well remembred the reader shall be more able to iudge of the discourse following This caueat must be well pervsed throughly vnderstood and faithfully remembred or els the reader cannot possibly be able to yeelde a sounde censure vpon the whole worke First therfore reade it then vnderstande it that donne giue thy iudgement as indifferencie and right reason shall prescribe An admonition to the Reader MAnie bookes are lately written by the Iesuites and secular Priests viz the Relation the Sparing discouerie the Important cōsiderations the Hope of peace the Copies of discourse the Quodlibets the Dialogue the answer to the Iesuited gentlemā the Letters of A. C the Apologie the reply to the libell of Parsons the Iesuite the aunswer to the Apologie compiled by Master D. Ely M. Colletons defence the manifestation of folly the Replie to the Apologie the Franke discourse the Iesuites catechisme Which two last bookes the learned Papistes of France haue lately published All these bookes I haue pervsed verie seriously and drawen the summarie and chiefe points of them all vnto certaine heads distincte bookes and chapters So as the indifferent reader may in a few houres vnderstand the effect of the whole proceeding betweene the Iesuites and the secular priestes I haue like wise compiled an Alphabeticall table in which the reader may easilie finde out at his pleasure any principall matter handled in this discourse To read all the said bookes is a labour both tedious and painefull To buy them is too chargeable for manie To vnderstand them as they are cōfusely published is a thing not easie for the greater part The defect herein my annotations and compendious obseruations will supplie The argument of the booke is so necessary for all true hearted English subiects that I wish euerie one to be well acquainted therewith The reader may at his pleasure and that with all facilitie turne to the originall in euerie booke by me named and by the helpe of my quotations finde out roundly the verie wordes which I put downe For I alwaies name both the booke and the page and doe euer alledge their owne words That done I haue inserted some speciall notes obseruatiōs as I deemed it expediēt for the good of the reader Paule planted Apollo watred but the God of heauen gaue the increase The same God I most humblie desire so to water the hearts of the readers with the dewe of his heauenly blessing that they may thereby learne to detest all Iesuiticall treasons and seditious Popish factions Fare-well The first Booke contayning certaine Preambles for the better instruction of the Reader as also that the bookes following may be read more seriously and with greater perspicuitie Preamble I. Of the syncere and true dealing of the Author throughout this discourse THe Iesuits are thought of the simply seduced Papists to be holy men to haue familiaritie with God to haue receiued extraordinary graces from heauen and to be saints vpon earth So then if my selfe should of my selfe speake any thing against them I might perhaps get smal or no credite on that behalfe But when I shal write nothing of them but euen that which their owne brethren in Religion their
our specall grace and fauour we confirme them Out of this generall constitution they haue drawne one particular which is worthy to be knowne in the 16. part of their constitutions chap. 5. The title beginning thus That the constitutions may not binde any man in conscience sith the societie desires that all their constitutions declarations and order of life should be without euasion conformable to our direction and also neuerthelesse wisheth to be secured or at least succoured that they be not snared in any sinne which may growe by their constitutions or ordinances we haue thought good in the Lord exception taken to the expresse bow wherewith the societie is bound to the Pope for the time being and the thrée other essentiall vowes of pouertie chastitie and obedience that no constitutions declarations or any order of life shall impose any yoake of mortall or veniall sinne vpon them vnlesse their superiour command those things in the name of our Lord Iesus Christ or in the vertue of obedience And againe in stead of feare of offending let loue and desire of all perfection come in place and let the glorie and praise of Christ our Lord maker be the more exalted By the first article it is lawfull for them to change and rechange their constitutions at their owne pleasure for their owne good By the second their constitutions are held in regard of the soule indifferent so that the Iesuite may breake them without committing mortall or veniall sinne A law which their great law-giuer gaue them to the end that to Gods honour and glory there might he fewer sinners in their societie Oh holy soules oh pure consciences who restrayning their inferiours from sinne take themselues the reines committing all manner of sinne vncontrolled Let vs examine these points without passion and let let vs consider the scope of these two propositions By the first no prince shall be assured of his estate and by the second no prince shall be secure of his person in his owne kingdome Concerning the first point call to minde how matters haue béene carried for these 25. or 30. yeares There hath béene no nation where they be fostered but they would be tempering with their affaires of state I thinke they are such honest men as what herein they haue done they haue vndertaken to doe it by vertue of their silent constitutions for if they did it by their owne priuate authoritie the generall were vnworthie of his place should he suffer it Further this was forbiden them in the yeare 1593. when they saw all their plots were frustrate Admitte new troubles should arise these gallants will cassiere and disanull this last ordinance suffering their companions to intermeddle as before But what are their rules in such affaires Marrie that is it lawfull to kill a tyrant that a king breaking the common lawes of the land may be depriued of his Crowne by the people That there are other causes for the which princes and great personages may be slaine In what a miserable condition shall princes liue if the assurance of their estate shall depend vpon these fellowes Let us sée their new constitutions of 1593. I will that they medle not at all in affaires of state in generall termes And that particularly they practise not vpon the person of princes Are they bound to obey this Nothing lesse For their law-giuer chargeth not their consciences but in expresse termes he would otherwise haue charged them by vertue of their blind obedience And this is the cause that Commolet preaching since this new statute that there wanted a new Ehud to kill our king and Walpoole furnishing Squire with poyson and instructions to kill the Quéene of England his mistresse thought they sinned not therein These words are set downe in the Iesuites Catechisme Lib. 3. cap. 26. fol. 234. fol. 236. It is not christian charitie O Iesuites that leads you to that course but Iesuitish charitie Your whole profession is nothing else but a particular coozning of our priuate families and a generall villanie of all the countries where you inhabite These wordes are put downe in the Catechisme Lib. 2. cap. 12. fol. 106. The Iesuites make ostentation of a solemne decree concluded among them that they shall no more intermeddle in matters of estate But let vs see what date this decrée beares They say of an 1593. hath your Maiestie then alreadie forgotten that since that time they haue practised twise against your life Behold the performance of this glorious decree Doe not we know the generall exception of all their statutes vnlesse it be for the good of the Church an exception that extends as farre as they list to straine it The Iesuites neuer harboured in their hearts any other proiect but the subuersion of states disauthorizing of magistrates and seducing of subiectes from their alleageance These words are set downe in the franke discourse Page 98. Ribadiner wrote his historie onely vpon report of the countrey as the further a Iesuite goes the lowder he lies These words are in the Iesuites Catechisme Lib. 2. cap. 17. fol. 61. Such iuglings and shiftings of late haue béene vsed by the Iesuites that not onely protestants but also catholiks yea priests can scarce tell when they speake sincerely when otherwise These words are set downe in the reply to Parsons libell Page 23. 1. vers 2. These are ordinarie iugling tricks which are too too familiar with our good fathers the Iesuites In the reply to Parsons libell Page 19. 2. vers 14. Concerning the imputation of lying so famous and notorious are their equiuo cations and so scandalous that the verie protestants take notice thereof to the great preiudice of our profession alwaies heretofore famous for our truth and sinceritie In the replie to Parsons libell Page 23. 1. vers 1. Note heere gentle Reader these important points with me first that the Iesuites are notorious lyers and that their owne fellowes can not tell when to trust them Secondly that they are notorious coozners and full of iugling tricks Thirdly that the Iesuites acknowledge the Pope to be Lord spirituall and temporall ouer all christian princes Fourthly that the Iesuits are notable temporizers as who account all things lawful that will serue their turne Fiftly that the Iesuites are so perfidious a people as their faith is become Fides panica the Carthagenians faith that is a false and detestable faith Sixtly that the Iesuites will be Spaniards or Frenchmen or whatsoeuer else if opportunitie be offered thereunto Seuenthly that no estate is free from the villanie of the Iesuites Eightly that the Iesuites make hauocke of the Popes Buls and constitutions Ninthly that the Iesuites change and rechange their rules and lawes at their owne good will and pleasure The Iesuites therefore are good fellowes fit for all times all places and all companies Paragraph X. Of the profession and Religion of the Iesuites in generall THe Iesuites neuer harboured in their hearts any other proiect but the subuersion of
the contradiction or imperfection of that which man requireth to be done For this cause God cannot bring to passe that Lazarus was not once dead albeit he could and de facto did raise him vp from death to life againe For this cause God cannot make another God equall to himselfe For this cause God cannot sinne Yet whatsoever neither implyeth contradiction nor imperfection that God can doe without all peraduenture because hee is omnipotent Now then the malefactor that hath killed a man and is by a popish priest absolued from the guilt of that fact must perforce tell a leasing to the iudge when he saith he killed not the man though we suppose it true that at that time hee be freed from the sinne For it is one thing to haue killed the man an other thing to be freede from the crime euen as it was one thinge for Lazarus to be restored to life an other thing to haue beene dead And as it can neuer be true to say Lazarus was not once dead so can it neuer be true to say the malefactor did not once kill the man Againe the papists teach generally and vniformely that none without a speciall reuelation from heauen can know that he is in the state of saluation and fréede from his mortall sinnes The malefactor therefore cannot assure himselfe that he is purged from the murder by vertue of his absolution And so we sée or at lest may sée the fondnes of Iesuiticall doctrine Fie vpon it See the end of yâ— fifth chapter how they bind men womeÌ„ vnto theÌ„ Fourthly the Iesuites in Rome acknowledge the Pope to be Lord spirituall temporall ouer all christian princes All the extrauagant decretals impose the same vpon all monarchies it is a proposition verie familiar in the court of Rome and in the buls appointed for the publication of the Iubily in the yeare 1600. Saint Peter and Saint Paule are called princes of the earth These words are set downe in the Iesuites catechisme Libr. 3. cap. 26. fol. 233. The Iesuites teach that the Pope hath authoritie to excommunicate Kinges and to transferre their kingdomes to others as also to free subiects from their allegance to their soueraignes this is proued as well in my Suruey as in sundry places of this discourse yet the absurditie hereof both the English priests and French Papists do acknowledge and most euidently confute the same marke their proofes which now follow in order Againe where Master A. C. saith that power was not giuen to Saint Peter by Christ to transferre gentem in gentem it is both catholike and true doctrine and in vaine shall father Parsons goe about to infring it These wordes are set downe in the replie to Parsons libell Fol. 97. b. 17. Neither can any lawe or necessitie in the world contradict or impeach the law of nature borne with man and alwaies remaining in himselfe Thus it is written in the replie to Parsons libell Fol. 42. b. 18. And in an other place of the said replie viz. fol. 35. b. It is plainly and flatly auouched that the law of Premunire against the Pope and Romish mischiefes was enacted and published with the frée and full consent of all the clergie and temporaltie This we haue said doe say yâ— religious men priests haue not to doe with kingdomes and those of our owne nation which haue delt in such affaires against their Prince and countrie we doe therein condemne their actions and disclaime from them as vndutifull and vnpleasant to all true English natures these words are in the reply to Parsons libell fol. 38. b. Jesuite learne this lesson of me for I will not suffer either our countrie-men to be infected with thy poysonous propositions or strangers that shall reade this booke of thine to conceiue that the maiesty of our King is by thy comming anie whit empayred First we maintaine and vphold it for an article inuiolable in France that the Pope hath no authoritie to bee liberall of our Realme for any mans aduantage whatsoeuer what fault soeuer our King shall be found capable of none excepted the Pope hath no power but what is giuen him by commission from God He is neither that Samuel nor that Iehoiada who were commanded by God to doe what they did vnder the old law For vnder the new which we call the new testament there is no mention of any such matter The Pope cannot by the power of his spirituall sword controll the temporall We hold it for an article firme and indubitable in this Realme of France that our kinges are not subiect to the Popes excommunication A thinge which wee haue receiued from all antiquitie Lothaire king of Austracia deceaâ—â—â— lest Lewes his brother who was Emperour King of 〈◊〉 to be his successour king Charles the Balde vncle to them both seazed on it by right of occupation as lying fit for his hand Lewes had recourse to Pope Adrian whoe vndertooke the quarrell for him and summoned Charles to do his nephew right But Charles gaue no eare to him So the Pope went on to interpose his censures with bitter curses and comminations He enioyned Hingmare arch bishop of Rhemcs not to admitte the King to communicate with him vpon paine himselfe to be depriued of his holinesse his communion â—â—gmare aduised by diuers prelats barons of France wrot backe to the Pope that all of them were ofâ—ended and grieued with his decree and would not obey him These words are set downe in the Iesuites catechisme libr. 3. cap. 17. fol. 179. Boniface the eight felling at variance with king Phillippe The faire would needes excommunicate him but there was neuer excommunication cost pope so deare as that did him For his Nancios were committed prisoners his Buls burnt and Boniface himselfe being taken by Nangeret chancelor of France presently after died for very sorrow and despight that hee had receiued so foule a disgrace at the hands of his enemie Wherein King Phillippe did nothing but by the counsell and consent of the whole clergie of France So farre was his excommunication from â—alling to the preiudice of the king and his Realme that contrariwise it turned to his shame and confusion by whome it was decreed Bennet the 13. Otherwise called Peter De luna interdicted Charles the sixt and his Realme The King sitting in the throne of iustice in the parliament or high court of Paris the 21. of May 1408. gaue sentence that the bull should be rent in peeces and that Gonsalue and Conseloux the bearers thereof should be set vpon a pillorie and publiquely notified and traduced in the Pulpit The meaning whereof was that the people should be taught and informed that the king was not liable to any excommunication Which decree was accordingly put in execution in the month of August with the greatest scorne that could be deuised the two nuncios or legats hauing this inscription vpon their miters these men are disloyall to
to assist the Duke of Norfolke Are all these things true were they not then in hand whilest her maiestie dealt so mercifully with you how can you excuse these desâ—gnements so vnchristian so vnpriestly so treacherous when we first heard these particulars we did not beleeue them but when we saw the booke and found them there God is our witnes we were much amazed and can say no more but that his holines was misformed indirectly drawen to these courses To proceed the Catholikes continued as before till the said rebellion brake forth in the North 1569. a little before Christmasse and that it was knowne that the Pope had excommunicated the Queene and thereby freed her subiects as the bull importeth from their subiection TheÌ„ followed a restraint but the sword was only drawne against such Catholikes as had risen vp actually into open rebellion Well the sentence was procured by surreption and the Pope was deceiued as hee is often in matters of fact These wordes are set downe in the important considerations page 10. 11. Maister Sanders also telleth vs that Maister Morton and Maister Webbe two secular priests were sent by the pope before the said rebellion to the Lords and gentlemen in the North to excite them with their followers to take vp armes against their soueraigne And the rather to perswade them thereunto they signified to them by the Popes commandement that her maiestie was excommunicated and her subiects released from their obedience And the said Maister Saunders doth iustifie the commotion and ascribeth the euill successe it had to the ouerlate publishing of the Bull it being not generally knowne of till the yeare after when Felton had set it vp vpon the Bishoppe of Londons gate These words are set downe in the discouerie afore said Pag. 12 in the said important considerations page 12. The Priests confesse that Maister Saunders doth to much extoll the said rebels because say they they were men arraigned and executed by the auncient lawes of our country for high treason In the place alleaged the Priests confesse that Parsons and others of his coate haue since followed the former intollerable and vncatholike course They confesse also that with in foure or fiue yeeres it was commonly knowne to the Realme what attempts were in hande by Maister 〈…〉 Maister Saunders for an interprise by force in 〈◊〉 in which action Maister Saunders being to much Iesuited did thrust himselfe in person as a chiefe ringleader for the better assisting of the rebells and whilst these practises were in hand in Ireland Gregorie the 13. reneweth the said Buâ—â— of Pâ—us quintns and denounceth hir maiestie to be excommunicate with intimation of all other particulars in the former Bull mentioned which was procured no doubt by surâ—â—ption the false Iesuites daring to attempt any thing by vntrue suggestion and lewd surmises which Iesuites as the diuell would haue it came into England and intruded themselues into our haruest being the chiefe instruments of all the mischiefes that haue beene intended against her maiestie since the beginning of her raigne Their first comming was in the yeare 1580. Campion the 〈◊〉 and Paâ—sons the prouinciall Alias bastard Cardinall Cowbucke as you haue heard alreadie In the said important considerations pag. 22. it is set downe how the Pope by the insâ—â—gations of the Iesuits plotted with the King of Spaine for the assistance of the Duke of Guise against the Queene of England For the better effecting whereof Mendoza the Iesuite and ledger for the King of Spaine in England set on worke Fraunces Throckmorton and diuers others two others also about the same time viz. ann 1583. Arden and Sommervile were purposed and had contriued how they might lay violent hands vpon her Maiesties sacred person And Doctor Party the same yeare was plotting with Iesuites beyond the seas how he might haue effected the like villanie About the same time the Earle of Northumberland was brought into the plot of the Duke of Guise Hereunto may be added the notable treasons of Anthonie Babington and his complices in the yeare 1586. the treacherie also of Sir William Stanley the yeare following 1587. in the page 40. it is confessed that Cardinall Allen and Parsons published the renouation of the Bull by Sixtus Quintus so as the Pope must needes be condemned to haue dealt in matters of treason and to haue beene the chiefest author thereof For in his name and vpon his pretensed authoritie the others did all that was done and without him they durst not haue done any thing as is euident by this discourse Paragraph III. Of the Popes Seminaries THat the Pope did erect his seminaries for to withdraw English subiects from their due obedience and allegeance to their naturall soueraigne it may and doth appeare most euidently by his first mission of his seminarists into the Realme of England For I pray you when Sherwin Râ—ston and Birket were sent into this land from Rome who were the first that came from thence did not the Pope send with them at the same time the Iesuites Câ—mpion and Parsons that priestly bastard I wote he did my selfe was â—estis oculatus being then one of that Colledge And how did he send them Mush one of these secular priests which now stand against these Iesuites can tell as well as my selfe because he was then of the same colledge at Rome I know and he knoweth that the excommunication was then renewed in fresh print and common in euerie mans hands my selfe had one of them at the same time In which Bull her Maiestie was denounced to be excommunicate to be an vsurper and pretensed Queene of England and all her subiects were thereby absolued freed and discharged of their allegiance to her In this manner furnished these good fellowes receiue the Popes blessing and their viaticum which was a good one I warrant you and so they march towards England Who forthwith after their arriuall as you may read in the important considerations Page 14. bestirred themselues as the diuell would haue them for these are the verie wordes of the priests like a tempest with great brags and challenges and Parsons forthwith fell to his Iesuiticall courses of which you haue heard copiously in the chapter next afore going Touching the erection of popish seminaries who so listeth may read at large in my booke of motiues in the chapter of dissention CHAP. VII Of the English hispanized Seminaries and the intent of their erection IT is apparant that the seminaries in Spaine were intended by father Parsons of purpose to cause a conquest and to bring this land into the bondage and slauerie of the Spaniard quodl 8. art 10. pag. 278. The Iesuites haue beene plotting about this Monarchie these twentie yeares together That is to say how to bring both states ecclesiasticall and temporall vnder their subiection For this cause it is that father Parsons so speedily obtained of the king of Spayne there
sheweth copiously But because Parsons in his Apologie laboureth to purge himselfe thereof I haue thought it good to speake a little to that effect in this place Watson the secular priest hath these words we may not imagine that father Parsons was ignorant of his owne base estate as being a sacrilegious bastard in the worst sense sâ—il à spurius begotten by the parson of the parish where he was borne vpon the bodie of a verie base queane This then being so and he not so senselesse as to thinke but that he will find the Canon law more strict in dispensation with him for his irregularitie then the ciuill or common law will be for dispensation to inherit there is no question to be made of it but that some close statute and prouiso was closely made and couertly foysted into the high councel of reformation for enabling some bastards in the spitefullest sense to be capable of any honour or dignitie eyther in the Church or commonwealth And true it is that this good father Parsons alias Cowbucke filius populi filius peccati or the very fiend himselfe might be chosen to a kingdome by his doctrine if any people would be so madde as to chuse him for their king Thus doth our Quodlibetst write The same Watson in an other place writeth of the same Parsons in this manner O monster of mankind fitter for hell then middle earth If thy profession will not draw thee to consideration of the premisses yet shew some signes of charitie in sparkes of grace if it were but onely in pollicie to moue thee to forbeare thy barbarous crueltie because therby thou giuest occasion for diuers to think thou art not a méere man but some fairies brat or begotten by an Incubus or airish spirit vpon the bodie of a base woman thus doth priest Watson write you haue his owne words Againe in an other place he hath these words diuers of father Parsons bookes letters and treatises we haue and doe from our verie hearts vtterly condemne them as containing many seditious and traytorous points and being very full of slaunderous speaches and impudent caluminiations Andreas Philopater being the fruites of father Parsons and father Creswell we hold to be fraught till it almost burst againe as some of my brethren els where haue noted with all Iesuiticall pride and poyson and as touching the exthortation printed 1588. It is so detestable a treatise as all posteritie cannot choose but condemne father Parsons for a most scurrilous traytor if he had been brought vp amongst all the ruffians and curtizans in christendome he could not haue learned to haue writ more vilely prophainely and heathenishly Moreouer the said father Parsons and his fellow father Creswell doe glorie in the said booke that they haue caused not onely it but also Maister Saunders treatise de schismate to be translated into the spanish tongue and doe reioyce that thereby the Spaniards are brought already into a greater detestation of her Maiestie her gouernment and proceedings then they had before Thus writeth Maister Watson and in an other place he telleth vs plainely that he was a lewde boy in his youth that during his aboade at Oxford his conuersation was seditious wanton and factious and that for his libelling and other misdemeanour he was thrust out of Balyoll colledge Againe in an other place he hath these words I meane the great Emperour illegitimate irregular abstract quintessence of all coynes coggeries and forgeries Parsons the bastarde of Stockgersey beyond Cosinage in Somersethire This is that famous conqueror who hath bathed all England by his seditious libels in priests bloud This is that worthy excellent that lies dissembles and equiuocates at euerie word This is that learned counseller that must rule ruffe and range through euery state This is that same Parsons whome Pope Prince and peere with all true English hearts haue cause to hate This is he of whome Maister Blackewell now his darling said that his turbulent head and lewd life would be a discredite to the catholicke cause and in few the generall conceite of all that haue throughly conuersed with him is this that he is of a furious passionate hote cholericke exorbitant working humour busie headed and full of ambition enuy pride rancour malice and reueng Cursed bee the houre wherein he had the name of a Priest nay of an irreligious parson nay of a temporall lay-man Iesuite nay of a catholike nay of a christian nay of a humane creature but of a beast or a deuill a violater of all lawes a contemner of all authoritie a staine of humanitie and impostume of all corruption a corrupter of all honestie and a monopole of all mischiefe These are the words of William Watson the popish secular priest quodl 8. art 5. page 236. See the fift chapter of the second booke in the first second and third sections By these sections especiallie the fourth and fift euery man may easily see that the Iesuite Parsons is not onely acommon impudent lyar but also a most bloodie and scurrilous traytor the monopole of all mischiefe and the wickedst man vpon the face of the earth The reports recounted of this Iesuite cannot but seeme strange if not incredible to all that shall pervse the same I know it is sinne to lie on the deuill and therefore I will not affirme any lye of this Iesuite nor of any other man That which I haue written of him is most true and sincere in such sort as I haue put in downe I name my authors and their words the tale and the tale-teller the assertions and the places where they are to bee reade I graunt willingly and will it not denie that I haue set downe in this discourse many sharpe obseruations annotations correlaries illations but all are deduced by necessary and euident consequutioÌ„s out of those premises and antecedent propositions which the secular priests and Iesuites haue published in printed bookes to yâ— view of the whole worlde In regard whereof neither my selfe nor any others guided by the prescript of right reason can but giue credit to the same For first the authors thereof are many and the same of iudgement and learning and yet doe they charg the Iesuits with murdering of Kings Secondly they professe euen to death the selfe same religion with the Iesuites Thirdly they all yeeld themselues in all thinges to the censure of the pope at whole tribunall the Iesuite must needes preuaile if his case and cause bée good Fourthly they are subiect to such satisfaction if their accusations should be false as publique pennance must néedes be inioyned them and that worthily so as they shall neuer be permitted to exequute priestly function while there liues shall endure Fiftly they know that if such haynous accusations powred out against their fellow-priests especially against their religious fathers were false and vttred of malice they should thereby heape Gods heauy wrath and vengeance vpon themselues Sixtly they