reported that his notorious crimes exceeded the dayes of his age which I ouerpasse as examples necessary for other purposes and vnto this impious parte I will ioyne this following crueltie Upon a day one tolde this naughtie Emperour that his cosen Mamertius Antomenes resembled him in comelynesse of bodie and magnanimitie of minde vpon which report Commodus pronounced death both vpon the reporter and his innocent cousen holding it for reason that it appertained to no man to vaunt lesse to resemble him and in my opinion if Antomenes resembled him in deuilish qualities death was too easie a scourge for so lewde a life Mulla Abdula father of Moley Mahumet commonly called the blacke king in whose cause the mortall battaile betwéene the king of Portugall and Amoley Muluco king of Fees was fought the 5. of August 1578. as in the alteration of the latter common weales by enuy shal be more largely shewen vpon an enuious suggestion that his brethren by the priuity in nature and bloud loked to liue in greater liberty then subiectes by the assistaunce of a noble man of the countrey called Alcatho Alley caused the throates of a eleuen of his brethren to be cut in one morning Now to conclude these particular tyrannies of enuye vnto which millions of notorious examples may be enserted the monstrous murders of king Richard the third a tyrant of our nation is worthy note in whose wretched end yet worthy his wickednes the happines of Englande began againe to florish and enioyed her auncient renowne This tyraunt at such time as he was Duke of Glocester with an enuious eye behelde the soueranity of king Edwarde the 4. his brother and yet inforced by necessity obeyed him For annoynted kinges with weake policies are not depriued but vnable to hold his hand from their throates who for their dignities toke the vpper hand of him against the lawes of honor with his impious handes he stabbed Prince Edward to the hart beeing taken prisoner at the battaile of Tewksbury Next like an Alehouse ruffen with his dagger he slew the infortunate good king Henry the sixt in the tower of London Then heaping murder vppon murder he caused George Duke of Clarence his naturall Brother to be drowned in a Butte of Malmesey And last though not the least to rowle vp a number of noble subiectes endes with the death of king Edward the fift and Richard Duke of Yorke the kinges brother his nephewes whom he caused to be murthered in the Tower and buried without honor to infame the name of king Edward the fourth and his posterity he pronounced his mother like a filthy harpye to be a strumpet and that the sayd king Edward was a Bastard and him selfe onely legitimate as I think sonne of the diuel for it séemeth wonderful that so inhumane a creature should take life of humane séed CHAP. 3. Enuy originall of warre and capitall cause of the destruction of the first Monarchies MAny yéeres after the beginning euery king qui etly enioyed the countries in his own possession vntil Ninus king of the Asserians enuying the soueranity of his neighbour kings put him self in armes vnlawfully to inlarge his owne dominions by deposing other froÌ„ their kingdoms Thus byenuy froÌ„ the bottom of hell came war by war confusion of deuine humaine blessings the aduauncement of thousandes of diuelish iniquities For whereas lawes giue place to armes the honor of God is wounded his word is misprised Iesus Christ is blasphemed and persecuted his Gospell is reiected and his Sacraments are prophaned fire is put to the house of the lord Wolues are thruste into his stéepefolde and wilde Bores among his vines truth and equity is peruerted charity is cold innocents and the iust are oppressed youth bee ill instructed publicke orders are broken discipline and rules of good life are abolished ignoraunce is raysed knowledge is abased proud ambitious and men of leaste estimation doe gouerne the learned wise and vertuous are disofficed as ideots and men of no merite countries bee vnpeopled fayre Cities are burned peaceable citizens are murthered their wiues and daughters are rauished their groundes lye vntilled goods compassed by the trauels of a mans whole life in one hower doe become the spoyle of a riotous souldiour And to conclude though short of a number of other curses which follow warre vice mounted in her chariot of triumph arrogaÌ„tly treadeth pore vertue vnder foot therby they that shold cry out of this outrage against God and man are dumb and the reformers of these enormities deafe these vengeances by war the enuious eye and ambitious hart of Ninus bred in the worlde which died not with the destruction of Th'asserian monarchy Notwithstanding enuy the erecter was the destroyer therof For Arbactus leiftenant of the Meades enuiyng the soueranity of Sardanapalus a man more effeminate then a woman by the assistaunce of other lords gaue battaile vnto the king Sardanapalus discomforted â—…led into his pallas there enuiyng the fortune of Arbactus more to reaue him of the glory of his triumph then moued by sorrow of his own defeat Sardanapalus set fire of his Pallas his wealth him selfe so by the prodigall spoyle of his life recouered the reputation of a man for manhood is most truely tried by constancy in the trembling passage of death The like enuious part was committed by Ariathes king of Capidocia who being ouercome in battail by Perdicas one of Alexanders successors fled into the Citye enuiyng Perdicas good fortune more then he lamented his owne mischance caused the city to be set on fire incouraged his souldiers citizens to slay their wiues children holding it lesse euill to die by the violence of friends then to liue a seruile life vnder the controlment of their enemies And by this means in truth he reaued Perdicas of the spoyle of his victory but did both vnto him selfe and countrey an iniury against nature and reason against nature in committing wilful murder vpon him selfe posterity against reason in that time was able to repaire his ruines of fortune But to kéep an order in discoursing the actions of enuy by the victory which Arbactus had ouer Sardanapalus the empyre of Th'asserians was traÌ„slated into the Meades which corse most conquerors adopted Princes euer since haue taken to crown their natiue countrey with imperiall title to leaue the places conquered or by other meanes gayned to the tyrannye of leifetenants Well this monster enuy which mortifieth the naturall affection of a father robbeth dutifull obedience from the son made the one of these the cause the other the ouerthrow of this second empire For Astiages the last king of the Meades receauing answer of the Oracle that his daughters sonne should gouerne his empire as it were to despight the Gods that had fore destined this honor vnto his daughters sonne vpon an enuious thought first
married her to a meane man of Persia for that following the course of nature the father beeing base the sonne should not haue a generous minde But not so satisfied he be thought him of a common speache that the father may bequeath the sonne his liuinges but not his vertues neither is he sure to ingraft in him his vices And therefore as Astiages imagined to make sure worke he commaunded his familiar seruant Harpagus so soone as his daughter was deliuered to murder the childe But note by this example how vainelye the greatest Princes striue that striue to frustrate the determination of God Harpagus departed with a resolution to do the kinges commaundement and ready to strike the stroke the childe regarded him with such an affable countenance as his hart was not able to strengthen his hand to commit so impious a murder and therefore he left the vengeance of the kinges will to be executed by sauage beastes as an office vnséeming a ciuill creature Thus God by his wonderfull prouidēce to rebate Harpagus sword armed this infants face with the vertues of the two noblē Romanes Marius Crassus who by the assurednes of their countenaunces made the executioners weapons to fall from their handes so that they forsaking their determination the other ouer liued that hard destiny And in aduauntage contrary to kinde he made a shée Wolfe to nourish the child with an affection as great as that where with the Lions intertained Daniell And last Cyrus hauing knowledge of his Grandfathers cruell intent he subiected him to his mery and possessed him selfe in his empyre who being a Persian borne changed the Empire of the Meades into the empire of the Persians During the continuaunce of which gouernement many enuious partes were exercised among thē selues which being the lesse I conclude in the great ouerthrow of their monarchy which happened in the time of Alexander the great who so enuied the glory of the Persians as when their king Darius offered him an honorable accorde with his daughter in mariage Alexander would graunt vnto no peace vnlesse Darius would giue him soueranity and take him selfe the second place Uppon which refusall the armies ioyned Darius was defeated and the Empire translated into Macidonia By which fortunate battaile Alexanders power was great and his enuie greater For he held no countrey sufficiently conquered that the people were not ransomed with the mercy of his swoorde But yet this enuy which gaue him in his life time heate hastened his death And he that tamed the pride of mighty kinges was poisoned to death by the enuie of Antipater his familiar subiect Who as some aucthors affirme enuying his absolute power or rather his seuere iustice for that in heat he put Alexander of Lyncest and other of Antipaters kinse-men and friendes to death And which wrought the greatest impression of hatred for that his owne noble enterprises achieued in Greace were ouer blowne with light regard For some of these causes although all sufficed not to excuse so great an impietie Antipater bribed the Phisicion Theslatus to poyson Alexander who in the traiterous execution of his vnlawfull promise hath left a warning to all Princes of two notable mischiefes the first to beware how in not rewarding or regarding good seruices they kill the louing affection of their subiects for although all the trauelles of a subiect in the seruice of his king be but duty and the least reward of a king is liberalitie Yet is a Prince were he vniust bounde to the one for his safetye as well as the subiect is thraull to the other of dutie For where the subiect onely obeyeth through feare the Prince cannot raigne but in feare and when men are in bondage they will spare no aduantage of libertie which is the cause that few tyrauntes make peaceable endes Uppon which ordinary fortune when the tyraunt Hippias told a Philosopher of Athens that if he liued one yeare to an ende he would make the intrailes of dogs the sepultures of an number of his fellowes Wherevpon the Philosopher boldly prophesied that it would not bee so for hell could not spare Hyppias so long The second regarde that a Prince who alwayes hath mighty enemies intertaine for his Phisition a man that feareth God For if onely for reward he minister medicine it may be feared that for a greater gayne he will giue poyson To which purpose a Gentleman of Vennis one a time supping with a Phisition in Padua marueiled that the Phisitions who in shorte space finde a remedie for the most violent newe disease that raigneth can not cure as well as giue ease to the Gowt an auncient maladie Which doubt the Doctor thus pleasauntly resolued O Sir quoth hée the Gowte is the proper disease of the riche and wée liue not by the poore it maye suffice that they finde ease But to prescribe a cure to begger anye facultye were great follye Well though the Doctor spake merrilye it often times falleth out that the riche mans wealth is moste enemye vnto his health And the better to aucthorise this question Ferdinando the good kinge of Aragon among manye of his weightye preceptes sayde it is greatly requisite that a Prince make choyce of an honest Phisition For quoth hee the strength of a Princes garde can not defende a Phisitions treason And certainlye the negligent couetous or traiterous Phisition is the moste daungerous murtherer of the worlde some one of which faultes are so conuersaunt with moste Phisitions as experience teacheth that exercise cureth the moste parte of poore mens surfettes when Phisicke killeth by small distemperatures as often times the riche And therefore it is necessary for all men to follow the counsell of this olde and approoued Prouerb Honor and vse the Phisition for necessities sake Which importeth extreame daunger and not euery trifling distemperature which nature exercise and orderly dyet will cure But agayne to Alexander who after he had receiued this mortall portion the venime therof tormented him so much aboue his patience that to be eased he often times assayed to murther him selfe Notwithstandinge in his death bedde lying in this extreametie his friendes requiring to know who should be his heyre he stoutly aunsweared the worthiest So great was the courage of his hart as he priuiledged not his sonne Hercules his Brother Arideus nor the infant in his Wife Roxanes wombe before a stranger of better desert But although this bequeste proceeded from the magnanimitie of Alexanders minde yet the incertayne succession in the Empyre coulde not but as it did worke the ruine thereof For wheras this liberty was giuen the one enuyed that another shoulde pryse his vertues at a higher rate then his Hercules claymed as heyer Arideus as Brother and one that coulde beste manadge the affayres of the Empyre Perdicas challenged it by military testament for that the king when he was spéechlesse gaue him a
the 1. 2. daies assault the 3. day the people fed with a vaine hope of mercy set open the gates and with their wiues children cloathed all in white hauing Oliue branches in their handes they humbly beséeched grace but Tamberlaine in place of compassion caused his squadrons of horsemen to tread them vnder their féete and not to leaue a mothers child a liue and afterwardes he leuiled the city with the ground At that time there was a marchaunt of Genowa somewhat fauored of Tamberlaine pittying the cruelty boldly demanded why he shewed such cruelty to those that yéelded and beséeched pardon whō Tamberlaine with a countenance fiered with fury answered thou supposest that I am a mā but thou art deceiued for I am no other then the ire of God and the destruction of the world and therfore sée thou come no more in my sight least I chastē thy ouer proud boldnes The marchant made spéed away was neuer afterwards séene in the campe And in truth Tamberlain although he was endued with many excellencies vertues yet it séemed by his cruelty the God raysed him to chasten the kings proud people of the earth In the ende this great personage without disgrace of fortune after sūdry great victories by the course of nature died left behind him two sons euery way far vnlike their father betwéen whō enuy sowed such dissention that through their incapacities to gouern the conquests of their Father the children of Baiazet whom they kept prisoners stole into Asia so won the people to disobedience as they recouered the goods possessions that their father lost The like did other kings princes whō Tamberlaine had spoyled in so much as in small time this Empire was so abased that many dayes agoe there was no remembrance left either of him or his linage saue that Baptista Ignatius a great searcher of antiquities saith that the successors of Tamberlaines sons possessed the prouinces conquered by him about the riuer of Euphrates vntil the time of king Vsancasan according to the opinion of some writers of the heyres of this Vsancasan was chosen the first Sophy who to this day to the benefit of all christendō maintaineth mortall wars against the great Turk But it séemeth that their empire was cleane ended for as it is set down in the chapter of the great Turke one named Ismaell a false Prophet gathered a multitude of the cōmom people together of whom by continual fauor of time and fortune the Sophy is growne of power to incounter the great Turke And herein although the lightnes inconstancy of the common people be heretofore noted yet occasion here and in sundry places ministreth matter to blame their enuious and froward dispositions there was neuer inuention so fantasticke nor captaine so wicked that they refused to follow they erected the tirannous empires of the Sophy the great Turk Tamberlaine and ouer threw the famous and prudent gouernments of Athens Lacedemonia Rome c. The Swizers enuying the authority of their nobility gentlemen by generall consent slew them al euer since haue bene gouerned by that base gouerment called Democratia where mecanical people haue the only segniorie a gouermēt which resembleth a monster with many heads yet they all haue neither will nor capacitie to cherish vertue learning worthy enterprises the beauties and strength of a good common wealth Neuertheles Iosua simler of zurich in his booke of the Swizers common wealth both for their militarie discipline in war and sound administration of iustice in peace compareth the gouerment of their Cantons vnto the common wealth of the Venetians time and necessity hath much reformed the same from their originall and yet how be it he greatly praiseth their iustice yet his owne report thus much testifieth of their weaknes that to martiall and gouern their wars they haue bene oftentimes driuen to obey and follow the direction of forraine captaines which lamenes in a common wealth can neuer be but an open blemish and a secret daunger For a perfect common wealth resembleth a well proportioned man wherof the military defence resembleth his handes which being maimed or cut off bring misery to the whole body CHAP. 13. The calamitie and seruile bondage of Portugall vnder the gouernment of Phillip king of Castile c. by the aduenturous battaile and death of Sebastian king of Portugal the 5. of August 1578. and especially by the enuious malice of Henry which succeeded in suppressing the lawfull title of Don Anthonio the now reputed king THe renowne of the kingdome of Portugall both for the commodities of the naturall countrey as for the wonderfull riches of the east and west Indies with diuers cities and townes in Africa subiected annexed to the crowne equalled of lateyéeres the fame of most christian gouernments and certainely at this day the calamity and bondage of the people by the conquest and violent rule of the king of Spaine requireth the compassion and reliefe of all true Christian princes the groundes and causes of whose miseries follow By succession of time and lawful decent Sebastian was crowned king of Portugal whose vertues outward giftes promised great honor vnto his kingdom but the inconstancy of worldly dignity is liuelye figured in his much lamented death king Sebastian being about the age of 24. yéeres vpon the earnest labour suite of Mulei Mahumet king as he pretended of Fez and Marocoes who by Mulei Maluco his brother was driuen foorth of the kingdome condescended with a puissant army to passe into Africa to restore this Mulei Mahumet to his kingdome the enterprise agréed with the magnanimity and greatnes of yong king Sebastians mind besides to relieue and restore this expulsed king among indifferent iudges was a matter of great honor and vertue so that resolutely to execute his promise king Sebastian departed with his armye from Lisbone in Iune 1578. and ariued at a port in Castile called el puerto de Sancta Maria where he tried the breach of the king of Spaine his vncles promise which was the ayde of 50. Gallies and 4000. armed souldiours neuertheles the sayd king Sebastian like as he was a magnanimous prince hauing a 1000. sayle of ships in a readines pursued his voyage landed his army in Africa to the number of 15000. fighting men and on the 5. of August in the same yéere in a plaine field called Alcazar there was a most fierce battaile fought betwéen him and the enemy wherin the yong king Sebastian and Mulei Mahumet whose part he tooke were both ouer come and slaine in the field Neither did Mulei Maluco the king their enemy escape for with sicknes wearines he died during the battaile a battaile very vnfortunate wherein neither party gained and most rare and worthy of remembrance that thrée kinges were slaine in the same and aboue 600. of the chiefest nobility and Gentlemen of Portugall After the death of king
Ierusalem so must thou beare witnesse also at Rome God had appointed him the rest waighty charges the execution whereof the malice of men might not withstand examples of great comfort to the godly terror to the wicked The godly may learne by them that his mercy succoureth them in the sharpest aduersitie and the wicked may be assured that his iustice will confound their policies in the chiefest hope of successe Her Maiesty to whom I euery way may apply the former examples beset with death as dangerous as Daniel in the Lions den as after in her own thanks-giuing may be séene comforted her self in the strength of God which always defended her which good God hauing compassion both of her patient suffering the general affliction of his Church mercifully burned the rod of correction by calling away Quéene Mary setting of gratious Elizabeth in the emperiall chaire of England France and Ireland for which excéeding mercie his holy name be praised Amen CHAP. 7. Of the peaceable entrance of Queene Elizabeth our gratious soueraine vnto the crowne diademe of England and other obseruances of Gods especiall fauor mercy IT is commonly séene that vpon the death of princes enuy ambition dissentiō shew their humors that secret discontentment breaketh forth w e publike disturbāce And although in England hereditary succession be a great bridle vnto these passions yet vpō such changes they many times haue foūd the meanes to shew themselues as after the deathes both of king Edward the 4. king Edward the 6. vpō the death of Quéene Mary the difference in religion was a likely cause to sow discord among the people But almighty God that had as it were by especial miracle preserued our gratious Quéene Elizabeth the visible image of himselfe frō the spoile malice of dangerous enimies aforthand prouided that her sacred Maiestie should receiue hir crowne in peace should gouerne hir people in peace my hope doth assure me where she now peaceablie raigneth her maiesty shall long liue and die in peace who the 17. day of Nouember 1558. the very day of Quéene Mary her sisters death with the sound of a trumpet both at Westminster and in the City of London was proclaymed by the name of Elizabeth Quéene of England France Ireland defender of the saith c The newes wherof raised a suddaine ioy amōg the people so harty as their louing affectiō was presently séene by publike feasting banqueting benefiers in the open stréets The 23. of Ianuary following her Maiesty from the Tower passed through the City of London toward her Coronation but before her Chariot set forward her Maiesty lifted her eies vp vnto heauen and acknowledged Gods mercie in this thankes-geuing O Lord almighty euerlasting God I giue thee most harty thanks that thou hast been so mercifull vnto me as to spare me to behold this ioifull day and I knowledge that thou hast dealt as wonderfully with me as thou didst with thy true faithful seruant Daniel the prophet whom thou deliueredst out the den frō the cruelty of the gredy raging lions euē so was I ouerwhelmed only by thee deliuered To thee therefore be only thanks honor and praise for euer Amen Her maiesty by this thanksgiuing published her sure confidēce in God the effects the tyranny of hir enimies and the conclusion a speciall comfort to the godly The Citizens of London to shew thei rzeale in welcome of her Maiesty attyred the Citie with many stately shewes the most whereof they deriued from her proper vertues who was the liuely substance of all their painted bewties The first pageant shewed the long desired vnitie which God her maiesty be thanked is knit betwene vs and the holy Gospell of our Sauiour Christ. The second set foorth the seate of gouernāce which her maiesties liuely vertues bewtified more then their gorgious deuises The third which they applied vnto her maiesty depainted the 8. beatitudes mentioned in the 5. of S. Mathew truly if any earthly creature deserued them they are worthely heaped vpon her maiesty God hath blessed her humble spirit both with a spirituall and temporall kingdome God hath dried vp the teares of her persecution with spiritual tēporal cōfort God hath blessed her méekenes with large possessions on earth God hath blessed her scarcetie for righteousnes sake with abundance God hath blessed her mercy with the fulnes of his mercy God hath blessed her chaste vndefiled hart with the sight of himselfe in the true knowledge of his holy word God hath blessed her trauell for peace as his proper child with the visible image of himselfe God hath blessed her periceution for righteousnes sake in assuring her soule of the inheritance of his heauenly kingdome God hath blessed her to reuenge the reuiling and persecution of the Papists with the disgrace ouerthrow of the Pope The fourth declared the ruinous state of this realme which as they prophesied is by her maiesty restored to the dignity of a florishing common weale Yea in her miraculous procéedings an old by prophesie is effected which was A mayden Queene should do wonders in England The fift compared the expectation which her heroycall vertues promised with the politike gouernement of the worthie Debora Her maiestie was in Cheape side presented with the holy Bible in English which she reuerently kissed and thankefully receiued as hir spirituall comfort her temporall crosse and godly counseller The Maior of London presented her maiesty a thousand marks in a pursse with humble petition that she would cōtinue their good lady she gaue answer that if néed required she would willingly spend her blood in their defence which magnanimious saying all her after actions haue declared Although this most royall entertainement shewed the dutifull loue of her faithfull subiects which zeale God hath requited with many blessings yet Gods wisedome that comprehendeth all knowledge foresawe that her Maiesties clemency compared with Iulius Caesar that would not heare the accusation of his enimies with Augustus who gaue life to Cinna that sought his life with King Frances the first of France who pardoned the commotion of the Rochellers adioyning therevnto that he chiefely reioyced that his seueritie caused no man to weare a moorning gowne clemencie well bestowed that both inlarged the renowne and safetie of these princes for Pompeys friendes were thereby wonne to Cesar Cinna became most faithfull to Augustus and the Rochellers afterwards loyally obeyed King Frances but God I say who knew the greatnesse of her Maiesties compassion would rather bréede presumption then dutie in her dangerous enimies therefore to rid her roiall person realme and good subiects whome he determined to blesse from continuall conspiracies his mercy ioyned with iustice alittle before and after the death of Quéene Mary caused death likewise to attach the bloodie Atheist Steuen Gardener Bishop of Winchester the seditious Cardinall Poole and others whose heads were alwaies occupied with
wicked practises haue compassed the death of a great many with all which procéedinges the Cronicles will largely acquaint the Reader And certainely if outward actions of barbarous crueltie may condemne the blasphemie of the Pope his ministers in Fraunce Flaunders and Scotland haue already sent the same vnto hell haue elected him to be the Archtyrant of the earth For where was there a more sauage crueltie euer coÌ„mitted then the massacre of Paris where by the traine of amitie the celebration of a marriage betweene the King of Nauarre and the Kinges sister which in outward appearaunce promised much peace and honour to the long afflicted realme the peeres of bloud and nobilitie of the religion to honour that wished accorde repaired vnto the Court where the good Admirall was slaine and by that stratageme or rather deuice of the Deuill many a thousand innocent and fearelesse Protestants in Paris and other cities of Fraunce were cruelly murthered which monstrous massacre although many other trecherous murthers in Fraunce reproch the Papistes with the extreamest name of crueltie is remembred with the blame and exclamation of the cruellest Pagans in the worlde This traiterous and butcherly warfare waspractised with the murther of the King and many noble men of Scotland The pretence of the tyrannical gouernment of the Spaniards in the low Countries and contrary to the auncient lawesof priuiledges â—…he said Countries at their first entraunce their killing and destroying of the principall nobilitie and persons most worthie of gouernement was coloured with the maintenance of the Romish religion but what excuse by religion haue they for the destroying and dishonourable murthering of many Romaine Catholiques among whome the right noble County of Egmond was that wayes especially affected euen forsooth some such reason as the theefe had who said he robbed none but Papistes when he spared not any that had a crosse in his pursse which crosse he tooke to be the marke of a Papist so the Spaniardes tooke these noble men for Protestants because they were of honourable dsspositions maintainers of their countries liberties and louers of vertue which are not the ordinarie markes of Papists the riches of these countries by common estimation aunsweared the vallew of the king of Spaines Indias and from this root procéedeth all their ruines The proud Spaniardes enuied the greatnesse of these Lordes and the prosperity of the people and to féed their owne wastefull humours they hungred after absolute dominion and possession of their riches In all matters of obedience that appertayned vnto the king they serued his maiestie with all faithfulnesse so that the Spaniard could pickt no quarrell of disloyaltie They were driuen to square about the Pope though these people obeyed the king they charged them with Catholicke disobedience vpon this cause as they alleadge more then these twenty yéeres the insolent Spaniardes with swoorde famine and many other cruell maners of death haue afflicted and destroyed the naturall people of those countries and haue ransacked spoiled the most of their fayre and rich cities And yet these proud Spaniardes vpon a true account haue neither gayned honor nor profit by the ruines of these most rich countries While the godly Prince of Orange liued the Spaniardes had many foyles and few honorable victories the compassing of whose death with the worthy destruction of their own mur thering instruments testifie the tiranous spirites both of the Pope and the king of Spaine that neither obey the lawes of God honor nor humainitie by working by anye meanes the deathes of their enemies After the good Prince of Orange was traiterouslye slaine the order whereof is vniuersallye knowne and condemned the afflicted people of these countrys by their increasing calamities soone missed the benefite of his graue counsels But God be praised for the life and happines of her sacred maiesty euen good Quéene Elizabeth who with a mercifull eye and a Princely hand hath both beheld and giuen large sucker to their afflictions to the afflictions of these appressed people of the low countries to them I say with royall defence publicke succour and to the persecuted ChristiaÌ„s of all nations as their calamities required her sacred maiesty euen her onely zeale and vertue hath preserued Scotlande from forraine outrage and ciuill destruction the yonge kinge of Scots whom God blesse with deuine and heroicall vertues confesseth her maiesty to be his mother by whom next vnder God he liueth and raigneth she hath giuen him a kingdome in redéeming of it foorth of the tyranny of straungers and disobedience of awelesse subiects Her mediation hath much pacified the furies of Fraunce and her clemencye hath refreshed the woundes of Portugall her mercy is the Phisition of forraine afflictions and her holinesse the sure grounde of Englandes peace and prosperity England at this day and from the first hower of her maiesties blessed raigne the wonder of nations England I say of absolute gouernments onely in peace onely in prosperity onely free from féeling the vengeance of enuy many enemies be thou thankful for this deuine protectioÌ„ Englande or rather Englishe men be you counceled by the ouerthrowes of the fore recited monarchies kingdomes and common weales I haue presented you with these conquestes of enuy that you may be fore warned of your worst enemy euen this monster enuy which euer more contendeth against peace and prosperity you are plentifully blessed with both the blessinges and vniuersally besieged with enuy It is miraculous that you haue escaped the mischiefe of all her stratageames and dangerous war The Athenians were ignoraunt of no pollicy to withstaÌ„d their enemy yet could find no defence against enuye but to tame and kéepe vnder their prosperitye they yéerly banished their noble men not such as had offended the law but those which the common people woulde haue banished their wisedomes made the common weale to florishe but neither their wisedomes nor force could banishe enuy out of the hartes of the people they feared this passion more then Alexanders power and good cause why for her venime poysoned Alexander her pollicy murthered Caesar and quelled most of the worthies We néede not search forraine examples to teach vs the power of enuy she destroyed the house of Brut at whose gouernment we begin our Englishe cronicles for Ferrex his brother Porrex striuing for sole soueranitie sought each others confusion Porrex slew Ferrex and their mother murthered Porrex in his bedde in whose deathes the linage of Brute was ended Enuy was the cause of the chaunges of gouernment by the Saxons Danes Britans and lastely the enuy betwéene Harold and his brother after the death of king Edward the confessor was the meane that crowned William the conqueror with the Diadem of England The mischief which enuy sowed in king Richard the secondes dayes brought forth continuall murders ciuill warres and deadly quarrelles during the raignes of sixe kinges that succéeded him To be short this passion since
weake blocks his secresie was such as he was first desyphered by forraigne intelligence he had Englishe confederates but such as wéere too déepe in to discouer him When he could no longer withstand the accusation of his owne hand-writing and other probabilities but especiallie his giltie conscience he voluntarilie accused hymselfe with manie odious Treasons but hys malitious spirit woulde not bowe to accuse hys confederates whiche could not but be some great personadges his toong going to execution accused him of a hidden secret when he sayd that he was sorie for the miserie that would light vpon the people before one yeare but God be praised the yeare is past another draweth fast one and manie the like I hope will followe that her Maiestie is in safetie and her Realme in peace Mary within the same yeare the Traytor Parry was hanged in Throgmortons equipage and Henry Earle of Northumberland iudged by the giltinesse and accusation of his owne conscience desperately ended his life with a dagge in the Tower with gréefe I set it downe that a man of so great vallor and staiednesse should so much forget the feare of God and duty to her Maiestie to whome he was déepely bounde as to practise such dangerous treason as his owne conscience perswaded him would not abide the triall and therefore to preserue the honour and inheritance of his house he made choise of a desperate death before the tryall of his péeres the most honourable and indifferentest tryall in the world his sonnes haue great cause to consider of this fatherly care that thus wilfully endangered his owne soule to preserue the temporall honour of his house yea the redéeming of it by his voluntarie death when the trespasse of his life had forfeited all hath or ought to haue impressed such a setled zeale in his sonnes euermore to vphold the same as they and their posteritie will no doubt continuallie be remembred thereof as Philip King of Macedon was That he was a mortall man God graunt that her Maiesties good subiects may be alwayes worthy of this diuine prouidence peace abundance of all good things and that those that are not yet sound may so profit in amendment by these examples as they may detest treason as the assured spoile of honour losse of life and in many the damnation of the soule otherwise in séeking to pull downe a Prince whome God hath chosen to raigne ouer his people in their confusion they shall declare their owne folly and Gods excéeding goodnesse in preseruing of those whome he loueth These notable polititians or more properly Atheists if they were simply to deale with men they might many times happily sée the wished effects of their deuises but they striue against God that striue against their soueraigne Princes especially against such a one as God hath annointed to set foorth his glorie yea they shall preuaile no more then he that thinketh to beate down strōg rocks with a knock of his head that striueth against those whome God protecteth God defended his seruant Elias fléeing from the wrathfull displeasure of Iezabell yea he sent an Angell to comfort and to refresh him with foode When Daniell was cast into a den of Lions God sent an Angell to stop the Lions mouth so that they could not hurt him An Angell with a drawne sword told Iosue that he was the chiefe of the Lords band Iudeth had an Angell for her companion when she went to slay Holofernes An Angell was séene to walke and preserue Sidrah Misach and Abednago in the burning ouen I could inlarge the Chapter with many examples to like purpose but to conclude although Angels are not so visibly séene as in the time of the Prophets yet they minister Gods prouidence and all his blessings euen now as they haue done from the beginning of the world by whome our noble Quéene Elizabeth is defended her enimies are confounded and from whome her good subiectes receiue peace and large fruition both of spirituall and temporall riches All which God for his Sonnes sake alwaies continue that when her Maiestie hath liued a long life so long as the longest course of nature may giue leaue that then she may die in peace euen in the place where she liueth and raigned many yeares in peace Amen CHAP. 14. An exhortation to the English fugitiues vagrant in forraine Regions I Place you héere English fugitiues at her Maiesties féete as abiects whome Gods iustice for your sinnes will haue foyled vnder her féete but her excellencie who is slow in doing of vengeance is more readie to succour her enimies with her hand then to spurne them with her foote and among many that least deserue this fauour charitie and commiseration of your dayly ruines moueth me to wish vnto you after vnfained reconciliation both the fruition of this mercie and all your Countrey blessings The errors of your Religion are manifested by many godly Diuines but the blindnesse of your harts will not suffer you to sée them and small is the maruell though you contemne the counsels of men when you vse the visible warnings of God to strengthen your errors The report of the souldiers vnto the high Priests of the glorie of Christes resurrection sufficed to haue conuerted the Iewes but to their condemnation the Diuell and money sealed this slaunder in their harts that his Disciples stole him away in the night Gods iustice stroke Mahomet with the falling sicknesse to make him know and forsake his blasphemie but to strengthen the peoples misbeléefe the Diuell taught him to say that his falling proceeded of the conference with an Angell whose diuine presence his humane shape could not endure Uppon the principall day of the sauadge murther in Parris according to the figure in the Reuelation that the stinging Locusts shoulde not hurt the gréene trée when to shewe that Gods worde should flourish mauger your crueltie a withered trée bare gréene leaues in the Church yard which receiued many a martired carkasse you presently applyed that preaching or prophesying example to the second florishing of your Romish Church time proueth your exposition but an idle suggestion For although God suffered this cruell persecution of his Church yet he presently shewed himselfe as a louing father who burneth the rod when he hath corrected his sonne God shortly sent an vnkindly death to the chiefe scourge in this persecution and with the gallowes confounded the most of the rascally Atheists his executioners if any liue they beare the markes of hys heauie displeasure what honor and to go further what profit haue you gained by this policie of your Church to what purpose hath the Pope painted this persecution about his great hall at Lateran forsooth that it may be a monument of his crueltie and Gods mercie of his crueltie who dayly murthereth and of Gods mercy which dayly increaseth the number of true professors If the hardnesse of your harts had not blinded your vnderstanding you could not but perceiue the
Sebastian Henry a Cardinall and a very old man the fifth issue male of king Emanuell was presented vnto the crowne Don Anthonio being then prisoner in Africa and his right vnknown by reason that he was thought not legitimate Within a few dayes after by Gods prouidence Don Anthonio was both deliuered forth of prison and by probable witnes ses was assured of his legitimation the knowledge whereof so mooued the old and foreworne king Henry his vncle as poysoned with enuy malice he not onely banished him the court but stopped the course of iustice in the pursuite of Don Anthonioes lawfull clayme and not finding his malicious humor satisfied because Don Anthonio had procured the Popes inhibition to disable the sayde king Henrye to attempt anye thing preiudiciall to his right he therefore tooke an other course to disgorge his rancour which was vnder pretence that Don Anthonio disobeyed his commaundement in comming with in sixe miles of the court he commaunded him vppon paine of death within fiftéene dayes to depart out of his realme How iniuriously this old king that by course of nature coulde not liue long dealt with his naturall countrey and kinsman the calamities of the one and oppression of the other largely testifie This old and withered king Henry if enuy and disdaine had not both mortified reason and naturall affection vpon the certaine knowledge of Don Anthonioes right to the kingdom had great cause to thanke God and comfort his affections that when the glory of Portugal lay a dying for want of linall succession of the heyre male that so worthye a personage as Don Anthonio in whom there wanted no commendable vertue a naturall Portugall and of the bloud royall was by deuine prouidence reserued to raigne and receiue the glory of the kingdome I haue read of many aged princes yet more able to gouerne then this king Henry the estate of whose kingdom so hastely required not a sufficient and able king as Portugall that haue voluntarily resigned their gouernment to yong and sufficient men but I haue seldome heard of anye that euen at their entraunce into their graue haue furthered the clayme of a straunger before the right of their naturall kinsman countrey man But whether malice or feare or both were the causes king Henry banished Don Anthonio and suspended his right and shortly after died before anye order taken for the strength and succession of the kingdome after whose decease who in most of all his claimes maketh force his iudge would not tarry the determination of the estates but with fire and swoord made his passage to the crowne The estates of Portugall the Cleargie nobilitie and comminaltie now too late looked about them and foorth with elected and made Don Anthonio their king they annoynted and swore him with all kingly ceremonies but they prouided not a strength to settle him in his kingdome which if king Henries rancour had not banished him his wisedome would haue foreséene they perswaded the king of Spaine to retyre his army vntill that iustice had determined his claime A weake perswasion where the victory was so swéet a kingdome and the king of Spaine a party whose desire coueteth vniuersall rule And as Euripides saith to gaine a kingdome the breach of lawes are halfe priuiledged but so or no he stood in awe of no iudge The munition and Gunpouder by the corruption of the Gouernours of Portugall Sede vacante was conuaied into Castile so that he made an easie conquest of a rich kingdome king Anthonio by Gods prouidence miraculously hath sundry times escaped his cruelty although the kingdome dayly fele his tiranny Out of their calamities of Portugall I speciall obserue this counsell of Gods iustice to admonith semblable traitours to their country Iohn Masquerannas Francis de Sa and Diego lopes de Sosa thrée of the Gouernours of the realm who by bribes and fayre promises of promotion by the king of Spaine solde the munition in effect their country Al which thrée vpō the election of Don Anthonio fledde into Spaine where they all with griefe that they had sold their countrey and melancoly that the king kept not his promises with them soon after died Iristan vazde vegna without any necessity yéelded the strong Castile of S. Iohn by Lisbone to the duke of Alua vppon the promise of a great pension during his life who presently vpon the deliuery without other rewarde then the iust rewarde of traitours vpon a slender quarrell was banished into Aphryca to serue ten yéers against the Mores and truely therein the king did both iustly and honorably for he that will be false to his countrey will be true to no man neither deserueth he to haue any promise kept with him yea as Phalaris made Perillus to be firste executed with his owne torture and tirannicall deuise it is sound counsell to receiue suche traitours seruice and to hang them for their labours or at the least to banishe them for euer For such heades are apt to dammage more then they profite whose mindes seldome leaue groning vntill they clymbe to the Gallowes CHAP. 14. The true report of the chaunge of the gouernment of Florence in the yeare 1478. and the outrages and murthers which followed the enuye which the Archbishop of Pisa they of the howses of Saluiati and Pazzi beare towardes the family of Medices for the authority which they administred in the common wealth SAint Paule declaring the offices of a bishop among manye other duties sayeth that a bishop ought to be no fighter him selfe yea to abhorre fightinges and dissentions in others intending with all that fighters the sustayners of fraies and vnnatural murders were the sworne enemies of charity and publicke prosperity vpon whom bishops are bound to pronounce the curse and vengeaunce of God least the Gospell which they shoulde preach being it selfe true loue peace and charitye rebuke in them selues the sinne they might blame in others But small is the wonder though Frauncis Saluiati archbishop of Pisa contraried this doctrine being the true Disciple of the Pope and S. Paule the faithfull Apostle of our sauiour Iesus Christ betwéene whom there is no vnion neither in life nor doctrine For our sauiour Christ attyred with humilitie preached the vnmeasurable power of God and peace vnto men and the Pope cloathed with the riches of the worlde proudly aduaunceth his owne traditions aboue the glory of the almighty and laboureth to so we sedition in the bowels of mightye Princes This vngratious Archbishop as an earnest follower of the Popes errours or rather wilfull sinnes beholding with an enuious eye the estimation and authoritye of Iulian and Laurence de Medices brethren and of the people of Florence high ly fauoured with a malitious hart desired the ruine of their glorye and to giue successe to his naughty wishe he conspired with the families of Pazzi and his owne of the Saluiati two of the most auntient and famous houses
titles that anye monarch can possesse And more then was due to Alexander Caesar Tāberlaine and others who contrarywise were the rods of Gods ire and quellers of many millions of innocentes Cronicles expose their vertues at large and who so euer shall ioyne regard with his reading in the gouernments of these eight Henries shall find many worthy obseruaunces which degression this place will not beare the summary of whose vertues containing a larger volume then is determined for this subiect so much as concerneth this purpose I am bound to report of the two latter noble Henries the one béeing the root the other the trée which brought foorth the fruites of Gods glorye of the greatest peace plentye and prosperity that euer Nation people or subiects enioyed euen the graue Henrye the seuenth Grandfather and the victorious Henry the eight father of our gracious soueraigne Lady the most good Quéene Elizabeth Upon whose vertues heauen and earth fixeth regard A princesse I say regarded of God with the eies of fauour regarded of the world with the eares of enuy and regarded of good and happy subiects with the harts of true obediēce A Quéene and more the visible image of God as well in respect of the happinesse and deuine giftes which her maiestie possesseth but principally for that mercy is chiefe of her vertues which enuy and her maiesties worst enemies are bound to witnesse in whose royall person the perfection of all good Princes are contained For what may be iustly sayde of all their righteousnesse wisedome and clemency are but wordes of her workes and written examples of her maiesties liuelye vertues the which the godly in their comfort the wicked through selfe destruction and enuie by continuall defeates haue ingraued in the Capitals of the whole world the triumph of whose peaceable victories to Gods glory and vniuersall wonder followeth CHAP. 2. An introduction to the peaceable victories of the Queenes most excellent maiesty against enuy and all her enemies THe nobility and commons of England impatient of the misgouernment of K. Richard the second deposed by maine force the saide Richard and possessed Henry Bolingbroke Duke of Herteford with Emperiall dignity a prince indued with many great vertues And albeit he entered vnlawfullye he gouerned his subiects like a gracious and prudent Prince But this good which followed an euill attempt acquited not the realme from the vengeaunce which God inflicteth vpon disloyall subiects The father which taketh the rod to chasten his sonne if the sonne taketh correction patiently in hope of amendment burneth the rod. But if the sonne stubbornly and violently catcheth at the rod the father dubleth his wrath trebeleth the sonnes punishment euen so God which appointeth tirauntes to be the scourges of his ire conceiued against wicked and vnthankfull people if in patient suffering they acknowledge his wrath to be iustlye imposed vpon their sinnes he dealeth with the tirant as the good father doth with the rod. But if they spurne at his vengeaunce and offer to reuenge the tiranny of their princes he causeth tirauntes to rise like Hydraes heads which shal torment them as in the bitternes of their affliction they shal be driuen to pray for their worst prince as the old Romane did for the prosperity of wicked Nero This Nero was a most cruell emperor he set Rome his emperiall city on fire for seuen dayes together and commaunded that the people should neither saue their goods nor quench the fire He slew his owne mother put to death the husbandes of Octauia and Sabina and tooke them for wiues but shortly after sent them the way of their former husbands And to shew that he passed all other in enuye hearing one to pronounce a Greeke verse which containeth this desire After my death I wishe Heauen and earth to perishe And I quoth he rather wish the same while I liue he so much enuied that so glorious a work should remaine after his death Upon a time Nero passing by a poore old man hartely prayed for the life and prosperitye of Nero Nero which knew by the accusation of his own euill that no man had cause to wish him good demaunded the reason why he contraried all mens desires in wishing his welfare that would nothing but mischiefe to the Romanes The old man boldly aunswered Tiberius thy predecessour was a cruell Emperor and him the people slew After him succéeded Caius Caligula a more cruell and barbarous Emperor and him likewise did the people sley and now thou most inhumaine and sauage Nero raignest for thy life and prosperity I pray least if thou be likewise slaine the diuel him selfe come and raigne ouer vs. Thus heaped God his vengeance vpon the stiff-necked Romanes which would not bow vnto his yoke the more they resisted his chastisement the more sharply he scourged their disobedience The senators of Rome thought the emperiall authority a seuéere bondage and therfore by their mutuall assents Iulius Caesar their first emperor was slaine in the Senate house But when they saw Brutus Cassius that firste sette hande to the swoorde to die likewise by the swoord when they afterwardes saw the bloudy euentes that sprong of the contention betwéen the Triumuirate of Octauius Antonius and Lepidus they most ioyfully receiued imperiall seruitude and afterwardes how wicked so euer their Emperours were the grauer Senators tollerated their gouerment or voluntarily banished them selues so that they for the most part were destroyed by Gods iustice in the common peoples outrage God by a seueere commaundement threatneth that he will visite the sinnes of the parents vpon the children vnto the thirde and fourth generation of those that in their spirituall worship adore any other God or the likenesse of any other creature in heauen or earth The same God annoynteth kinges as the visible images of him with the semblable maiestye concerning temporall worship he calleth them Gods and S. Paule saith he that resisteth the ordinaunce of the kinge resisteth the ordinaunce of God He then that striueth to depose his naturall king and to exalt a straunger committeth earthly idolatry in likewise as the worshippers of false Gods commit spirituall And therefore Princes in all gouernmentes heathen and christian the one by reuelation the other by imitation of holy scriptures haue publike lawes to lay the trespasses of traitours vppon their children the landes and goods of traitours are forfaited and the reputation of their posterity is corrupted The emperor Vespatian commending the vertues of Iosephus vnto his sonne Titus willeth him to trust him as one no wayes corrupted saying further vpon occasion that the son of a traitour ought not to liue To lay violent handes vpon the Lordes annoynted is a damnable thing Saule vniustly persecuted Dauid but Dauid hauing Saules life many times in his power refused to offer him any violēce saying the Lord kéep me from laying my handes of the Lordes annoynted Which prooueth though subiectes may flye from the
in this long disquiet realme in the 24. yéere of his raigne he peaceably called this noble king Henry vnto his heauenly kingdome and as a visible signe that he blessed the ioyninge of these two kingly houses in one hee gaue vnto this noble king by Quéene Elizabeth his wife sundrye goodly children of which as the vndoubted heyre of the kingdome by both titles was crowned the victorious king Henry the eight CHAP. 4. A sommarie of the royall vertues of king Henry the eight THe most victorious king Henry the 8. sonne of king Henry the 7. beganne his triumphaunt raigne the 22. of Aprill 1509. whose inuincible courage was feared and admired through al Europe He was a moste bountefull Prince towardes well descruing subiectes the magnanimity of his countenaunce kept them in a louing obedience In the 5. yéere of his raigne a fore presagement that he should clymbe aboue the Pope of Rome The Emperour Maximilian the Popes lawfull soueraine and all the nobilitie of Holland Braband and Flaunders receaued wages vnder king Henries banner whose puissaunce discomforted and abashed the whole power of Fraunce This royall king besides that he was Alexander in fielde he was a Philosopher in the Uniuersity And in his great learning blessed his subiectes with the fruites of this olde Prouerbe happy are those people whose king is a Philosopher And doubtlesse where the Prince is learned the people are peaceably gouerned Science which containeth all duties with varietie of examples so liberallie instructeth the louers and followers of her lore In the thirtéenth yeare of his raigne the King wrote with his owne hand a booke against Martin Luther for which the Pope named him Defender of the faith but little fore-feared he that God would make him the capitall offender of the Romish superstition Saule breathing out threatnings and slaughter against the disciples of the Lorde receiued a speciall charge from the high Priests for the persecution of all sort of Christians at Damasco but God whose wisedome iudgeth the determinations of men wrought a wonderfull change in Saule for of a persecutor he made him a faithfull Apostle and chiefe strengthener of the Gentiles Euen so gratiousâ—…ie dealed God with this most noble King whereas the Pope imagined to haue by this title made him the sustainer of hys Idolatrie God by his holie spirit moued him to vse the same to the first capitall disgrace of Antichrist the Pope But as the good Father Latimer certified his Maiestie the title Defender of the faith simplie considered was more then was due to any earthly prince wheÌ„ his holy word deliuered by his Ministers both fostered and defended the same But in as much as it was Gods good will that vnder this kings and his offsprings authoritie the same should haue the most visible protection it may be lawfully thought that it was his will that the Pope should so intitle him as foreséeing by his wisedome that this prince in his séed should ouerthrow the Popes vsurped authoritie the most publike enimie of the true auncient and Apostolike faith Many interprete this prophesie of Esdras ecce leo concitatus de sylua rugiens c. loe a Lyon hastely running out of the wood roring who with a maÌ„s voice reprooued the saucie and misproud Eagle to figure thys noble prince Henry the 8. The rauening Eagle that had the victory ouer the foure beasts which God would haue had rained in the world that troubled the méeke c. is likewise interpreted to be Antichrist the Bishop of Rome The Armes of Rome which is the Eagle and the actions of the Pope wel approueth their interpretation Now who is more like to be this Lion that came roring out of the wood and shewed the rauening Eagles villanies to all the princes of the earth then King Henry the eight who euermore stoutly defied the Pope who euermore plainely painted his murthers deceits and abhominations then King Henry the 8. nay who first catched him by the throte but King Henry the 8. When all christian princes stood in awe of his curse he banished all his authoritie out of England when the meanest Bishops in other realmes would checke their Kings in his cause he caused the whole Cleargy by his learned Councell to be iudged in a premunire for mainteining the power legantine of Cardinall Wolsey who being called by processe into the Kings bench were glad by submission to pray pay á hundred thousand pounds for remission When other princes feared to murmur against the Pope secretly King Henry in the name of himselfe and his Nobles wrote a booke against the counsell appointed by the Pope at Mantua signifying to the whole world that the Pope had no more authoritie then an other Bishop and how that the appointment of Counsels only appertained to the Emperour and other Princes of Christendome What Lion was euer so bold with the Eagle of Rome as this Lion of England What Lion is so like to come roring out of the wood as the Lion of England The Lion of Vennice commeth out of the water The Lion of England is proper passant bowes and arrowes which are his strength commeth out of the wood I would the Popes english fauourers would wey this prophelie with the pride enuy outrage both of diuine humane blessings setled in the hart and séene in the actions of this Emperious Pope and then by allegorie they would peraduenture repute him to be this ambitious Eagle signified by the armes of his sea capitol city Rome And on the contrary part if with the like regard they would behold the wonderful disgraces that this noble king by himselfe princely children hath daily giueth this enuious Pope they should haue large cause to beléeue that our Lion signified by the armes of England with his mans voice should set this misproud Eagles head awâ—…y should vanish his wings weaken his kingdome in fine set his whole body of fire If they had any sence they might féele that our Lion in the name of the Lord thus saith hence thou misproud Eagle appeare thou no more neither thy horrible wings thy mischeuous heads thy rauening clawes nor thy hollow body coÌ„pact of vanities The cause straight foloweth that thou once gone the earth may be refreshed that thy kingdome once fallen men may returne to freedom c. I demaÌ„d what reckning they caÌ„ make of the egles 12. wings that ouerspread the earth by Gods appointment since our Lion first shoke him vp or as the text saith since the wind K. Henries thuÌ„dring voice spread abrod his wickednes Sée if EnglaÌ„d be not shronk froÌ„ him ScotlaÌ„d denieth him Hol and Brabant and Flanders delieth him Germany paints him as a moÌ„ster Denmark is parted froÌ„ him France is deuided Polland is indifferent if Spaine Italy be constant they be well paid for their frendship The Eagle the Pope that sometimes was capitalis dominus as well as summus pontifex
kingdome by suffering the bloodie Bishops to misuse her Emperiall sword she in their procéedings outragiouslie tyrannised the true professors of the Gospell which God her noble father and good brother his instruments bée therefore praysed had taken a sound holde in the hart of England whose crueltie and contrarietie in Religion may no wayes slaunder her godlie father and his off-spring We sée the Rose trée that bringeth foorth the swéete Rose lykewise bringeth foorth sharpe prickels but to come more néerer the matter the kyrnell of the best apple will growe to be a crabbe vnlesse some good fruite bee grafted on the stocke and looke what the Sience is suche will be the trée looke what is â—…owen in youth is euer séene in age the following example teacheth a good pollicie to haue an eie vnto Schoolemaisters and the education of Papistes children The séede of Idolatrie superstition and send Ceremonies were sowne in the heart of Ladie Mary béeing a childe which grewe to the disworship of God and the destruction of the godlie Ladie Mary béeing a Quéene But God no doubt suffered thys prickle to growe of thys gréene Rosier and thys irreligion to be grafted of thys religious stocke to chasten the sinnes of England who hauing a righteous Prince peace and plentie both of spirituall and temporall blessings neyther saluted the giuer of thys goodnesse with hartie thankes nor sought the continuance thereof with a dutifull regarde of the Kings Maiestie but in some of her members hauing an eye fixed vppon the Kings tender yéeres and not an hart setled vppon hys firme vertues she began to worke matters hatefull to GOD offensiue to the Prince and most hurtfull to her selfe and therefore God 〈◊〉 Englande of the most milde vertueus godlie and well disposed Prince King EDWARD the sixth and in wrath sente vs euen suche a Prince as the Prophete speaketh of that shoulde oppresse vs with most greeuous bondage that should by taxes great impositions take froÌ„ vs the fruites of the feeld vineyards oliue trees and should giue them to his lords and seruants Euen Quéene Mary that imposed many great summes of money vppon vs to enrich strange Lords that by committing the waightie affaires of the publike weale to Bishops almost wilfully lost Callis an auncient ornament belonging to England which Citie the notorious Atheist Gardener vaunted that he would kéepe with a white wand an vnlikely matter that his courage serued him to defend Callis against the power of a puissant King with a white wand that armed troupes to gard the vnresisting Martyrs to burning but which stained her gouernement with euerlasting crueltie she by her ministers in fyue yéeres tyrannouslie burned fiue times more innocent and quiet Protestants then good Quéene Elizabeth in 27. yéeres raigne by her lawes hath executed notorious Papists that committed treason when my soule durst sweare that there be double the number of the poore Protestants that then constantly professed the holie Gospell that now in their harts wish her Maiesties depriuement both of life and crowne and yet liue This persecution made many to flée the Realme for their consciences sake but they sought not libertie by rebellion they confessed this bondage and persecution to procéed from the Lords heauie displeasure and humblie awaighted his fauour for their deliuerance No one hath more cause to exclaime of this hard gouernement then our gratious Quéene Elizabeth She was not entertained like the daughter of a mightie King and heire apparant of a rich kingdome Good Lady she was emprisoned her attendance small her libertie nothing When her innocencie disprooued publike accusations the Cleargie sought her life by secret tyrannie sought it do I say yea they had wrought it had not God beyond mans expectation wonderfully deliuered her Maiestie her assured friends despaired of her worldly welfare her Maiestie that behelde the bloody knife a sharpning misdoubted not her deliuerance Her friends trembled because there was no measure in the Papists crueltie her Maiestie looked chéerefully because she knew the Diuell had no might but such as God suffered In the holie Bible the louing embracements whereof was her Maiesties persecution her excellencie had learned these pretious comforts and in them reposed The Lord sayeth Who so honoreth me him will I make honorable In another place Dauid sayeth Who so dwelleth vnder the shadow of the almighty him God couereth with his wings and keepeth safe vnder his feathers I know saith he the Lord helpeth his annointed and euen from heauen heareth them Some trust in chariots some in horsses but we in calling vpon the Lord. God can and oft times doth pine man and beast euen in the middest of plentie God where he setteth too his hand worketh wonders and sturdie strength standeth in no stead God thus speaketh to Dauid and yet by a spiritual interpretation maketh like promise to all kings and princes that hartely séeke his glorie Because thou hast set thy loue vpon me I will see thee rid from all thy troubles I will defend thee why so it followeth Thou hast knowen my name thou seekest my glorie and therefore whensoeuer thou callest vpon my name I will heare thee yea I am with thee in all thy calamities and will deliuer thee from them I will set thee higher in honor send thee long life and shew thee thy saluation Her Maiestie builded vpon these comforts her soule desired and hoped to be an instrument of his wonderfull glorie examples of Scripture told her that those whome God had appointed to any speciall seruice euen those he guided through mortall dangers he preserued Ioseph from the murthering enuy of his brethren to saue old Iacob his father his malitious brethren and al Israel from the sharp death of famine Against the tyranous decrée of Pharao which was that the Midwiues should kill all the male children of the Hebrewes his prouidence saued Moses from drowning and made him his instrument to leade the children of Israell out of the bondage of Pharao vnto the land of promise God in the deapth of the sea fetched Ionas the Prophet foorth of the Whales belly to saue Niniuey from destruction God deliuered Peter forth of the prison tirannie of Herod the Iewes that he might open the gates of faith and preach the way of saluation euen vnto his enimies God sundry waies miraculouslie deliuered Paule from the vengeance of death to preach the Gospell of saluation vnto the Gentiles at Philippos in Macedonia he caused him Sylas to be deliuered forth of prison In Lycaonia the Iewes the people stoned him and drew him forth of the City as a dead man God raised and reuiued him againe God againe redéemed him out of the hands of the Iewes when as forty of them swore they would neither eate nor drinke vntill they had slaine Paule yea God in his extremitie stood by him comforted him saying Be of good cheere Paule for as thou hast testified of me at
and others began new Commotions in Yorkeshire which were soone appeased with their confusions the Insurrection of Somerset shire had no better successe but which most daungerouslie touched the kings life and safetie of his good subiectes this vngratious Cardinall Poole this whirlepoole and firebrand of desencion séeing that king Henry with an easie hand appeased many and mightie insurrections at home labored an inuation by the power of Fraunce but all the daunger was not in the french forces he had drawne in the Marques of Exeter his brother the Lord Mountacute and Sir Geffray Poole and with them his kinsman Sir Edward Neuell to be traitors these labored no small matters they sought euen the change and alteration of the kings godly gouernement they were daungerous traytors not so much for their power but for that they were all so bounde vnto the king for many benefits as common reason tooke away all occasion of suspition to condemne whose vnkindnesse and monstrous ingratitude there be many examples of vnreasonable creatures Lysimachus had a dog which he much estéemed and the dog to shew his loue when he saw his maister dead and cast into the fire as the manner of buriall was then he likewise leaped into the fire and died with his maister Plinic sheweth that Hiero King of the Syracusans had a dog which did euen the same but the Romaine histories make mention of a more strange matter when Titus Fabinus and his family were slaine there was a dog that for no stripes would depart from the dead carcase of his maister and when the standers by gaue him meate he ranne and layde it at the mouth of his maister in fine when the bodie was throwne into the flood of Tyber the dog lept in after and as long as he could he kept his maister aboue the water much more might be said to reproche ingratitude a vice which our vulgar worde vnkindnesse sheweth to be against kinde or nature the former examples approoue as much but enuy and ambition the ordinarie passions of Papists are so farre from grace dutie and thankefulnesse as they contend with God and violate the bonds both of nature and frendship The Traytor Parry in his confession sayd that his accusor Neuill vsually sayde that all the aduancement that her Maiestie could giue hym should serue but for her scourge if euer time ministred occasion I knowe not whether he spake of mallice or no but experience teacheth that these persons resemble the frozen Snake which the pitifull husbandman comforted by the fire which in recompence stoong his children The Marques of Exeters father was for treason committed to prison by King Henry the seuenth King Henry the eight discharged him and with great fauour tooke his sonne into his priuie chamber and vsed him alwayes more like a companion then a seruant The King helped the Lord Mountacute from the state of a poore Gentleman to his mothers land being thrée or foure thousand markes by the yeare Sir Edward Neuill was of the Kings priuie chamber and in great fauour The Pooles were of the Kings blood and so bound with princely fauours as when Sir Geffrey Poole was apprehended the rest were not so much as suspected but God will not haue treason lye hid nor Traitors vnpunished though the Diuell and man labour in the behalfe of either The Diuell was héere set a worke but he laboured in vaine against the iustice and mercie of God the giltinesse of Sir Gefferey Pooles conscience condemned him he now only respected the safetie of the Marquesse his bréethren and Cosen Sir Edward Neuill hys conscience was witnesse against them all he feared that torture would wrest out the truth and in this doubtfull perplexitie he resolued desperately to kill himselfe and in this passion vppon oportunitie he stabbed himselfe vpon the brest with a knife the Diuell plaied his part now sée how God as he oft doth turned all the Diuels worke to his glorie and Sir Gefferayes saluation the knife was blunt and as God woulde made the wound not mortall yet the abundance of blood which followed his wound made him to feare God to feare hell and to detest the murther both of his bodie and soule and where as before he woulde haue died to saue his bréethren and Cosen he now desired life for no cause so much as to bring them to that which they worthely deserued Finallie he accused them all and by lawfull tryall the Marquesse the Lord Mountacute and Sir Edward Neuill were adiudged and executed as traytors good King Henry ioyned his mercy to Gods prouidence so pardoned Sir Gefferey whom God appointed to be the instrument of this discouerie the like blessings were heaped vpon the King and confusion vpon his enimies the residue of his triumphāt raigne which continued all the daies of his most blessed sonne King Edward the sixt In the third yéere of his raigne there were almost generall commotions through England The Papists tempted and mooued the commons to rebellion with a perswasion to throw downe inclosier and for themselues foysted in to haue their old religion and Acte of sixe Articles restored but what followed the rebels in euerie countrey were vanquished slaine and vtterly discomforted And to continue with truth in this report Quéene Mary had albeit she was superstitious the like victories against her domesticke enimies but as it is said as God gaue the Idolater Abias victorie against Ieroboam for his great Grandfather Dauids sake so he gaue the like to Quéene Mary for her godly father King Henries sake To come againe vnto the peaceable victories obtained by the Quéenes Maiestie as in the former reports it is manifest although the Diuell gaue her enimies wit to begin treasons he failed to giue them strength to effect them yea the Diuell himselfe lacketh strength where God hath any thing to do as appeareth especially in the preuention of the odious and desperate treasons of Someruile Parry To conclude the ouerthrowe of her last knowne enimies which happinesse I beséech God to continue many yeares and to the last moment of her Maiesties life the wonderfull discouerie of the dangerous treasons of Frances Frogmorton Esquire deserueth a speciall remembrance I meane a remembrance of thanksgiuing vnto almighty God in reuealing of such a couert mischiefe that threatned her Maiestie with a perticular danger and her realme and people with a generall calamitie it was no ordinary conspiracy that Frogmorton labored but an vnnaturall subuersion of his countrey by forraigne inuasion he wrought to haue brought in the Pope the King of Spaine the Duke of Guise and all he purposed her Maiesties death to possesse he knewe not whome with the Crowne perhaps such a one as would all haue béene iealous of him for those by whome they are benefited dare hardly trust a Traitor he was discouered in time but yet more by Gods prouidence then mans policie he was too subtill to lay his head vpon
then anie acte of humane perswasion to conuert a growne Atheist to the feare of God and true obedience towards hys prince yet such as through wicked perswasiens and want of good instructions are but newly fallen from the feare of God into the exercise of the damnable and disloyall practises of Atheists may no doubt be counselled by the examples of the confusion of these vipers to loath and hate they vngratious wayes and of the contrarie parte waighing the sure aduancement with which vertue honoreth her disciples they may which God graunt be encouraged earnestly to follow those courses whereby God may be honored theyr Countrey profited and their owne credite dignified There are two old verses among other precepts printed at the ende of Magna Carta of the old impression which containe a great perswasion to the studie of vertue the right ladder of honor and estimation with which for the vertue they containe I conclude this present Chapter Vt ver dat flores flos fructus fructus odores Sic studium mores mos census census honores In English Euen as the Spring doth flagrant flowers bring Faire flowers fruites and fruites a pleasant tast From studie so doth perfect manners spring From studie lore in lore is honor plast CHAP. 9. A conclusion of morall documents concerning the duties of euery estate THese rites men owe to thee O God which in the heauens art Reuerence honor glory prayse and prayer from the heart The gratious Prince a father is where subiectes liue in awe The good regarding with rewards the lewde with scourge of lawe The subiect true vnto his Prince this homage heere doth owe A faithfull heart a feare through loue an inward Zeale in showe The reuerent Iudge froÌ„ doming right whom no regard may straine Must Aristotles blames forsake loue hate and priuate gaine Th' inferior sort must reu'rence giue vnto the higher power Obay and listen to their lore let fortune laugh or lowre These speciall vertues from a freend still should or do proceede Aduise assistance faithfull loue and constancy in neede The Landlord should so lot his land as his poore Tennant may Both pay his rent sustayne his house and for his Landlord pray All Tennants slaues and bondmen were of youre records do shew Though now not so yet to their Lords they Zeale and fealtie owe. The neighborhood of the neighbor good this neighborhod doth claime Good still for good in casuall harme a charitable blame The Wise man sayeth the child is spilt where parents spare the rod But cherishment with chastment ioyne and see they honor God You children that long life do seeke vnto Gods lawe giue eare Honor Parents sustaine their age that for your youth did care You that a faithfull seruant seeke regard this charge as lawe His wages pay his seruice aske and keepe him still in awe Sometime the Romaines by their law their seruant lewde might slay And by all lawes the maisters will the seruant must obay Fresh youth whose iudgement is but greene aboue each other vice Forsake these three vndoing euils women wine and dice. These properties regard them well to you faire maydes belong A bashfull grace a modest eye ioynd with a silent toong You that haue wealth think others want thus impart your store Lend giue releeue as neede requires for to sustayne the poore You that are poore abase your thoughts for naught agreeth worse Then this foule fault a prowde conceipt ioynd with a beggers purse In euery trade an honest gaine well gotten good men hight And God will surely blesse the hand that wayes and measures right You souldyers both by land and sea Gods woonders still escrie Liue you to dye for fearefull death is alwayes in your eye Assure your selues you Atheists vile that make at him a face That God in vengeance is at hand where he is farre with grace As I began so I conclude let all men feare the Lord And Preachers see that godly workes with holy words accord To the Reader FRiendly Reader I giue thee knowledge that vpon speciall occasion I haue before printed certaine appendants to this booke viz. one Treatise called A mirror for Maiestrates which containeth at large in the graue orations and gouerment of the Emperour Alexander Seuerus what is for the honor of Gentlemen Citizens and diuers other estates and what is the disgrace and vndoing of themselues and their posteritie as also a morall Treatise of the reputation vertues and by abuse dishonors of a souldier whiche I wish thee for thy further pleasure and profite to adioyne to thy generall Mirror to which in right they belong Thus commending vnto thee the fruites of my labour and thee to the tuition of the highest giuing most humble thankes to hys diuine Maiestie by whose goodnes thys worke is brought to an end I end FINIS Errata The defences of pride The defences of ambition The defence of flatterie Infirmities of the body Enuie vvithout cure Originall of Enuie Gen. 3. Enuie the first cause of sinne Enuie vvorse theÌ„ murther c. The â—…tes of Enuie Defâ—…ces of 〈◊〉 Defences of volptuousnes The defences of covvardlines None vvill confesse himselfe to be enuious Necessitie cause of many trespasses Mat. 20. There may be cause of impatiencie but no colour for enuy Blessings which grieue the enuious August contra Donat. lib. 4. cap. 8. Causes which reioyce the enâ—…ous Baâ—… Sermone de â—…dia Enuie likeâ—… to a Panther The nature of a Panther Enuie continueth after death Enuie compared to a â—…per The vnnaturall nature oâ—… a viper The enâ—… 〈◊〉 to 〈◊〉 A â—…ble of Eâ—…pe 〈◊〉 is neuer reconciled Neighbour countreyes enuy others glory Timon of Athens Murther the byrde of enuie Gen. 4. Abell slayne by Câ—… Enuie cause of paâ—…de and in hummane marthers Remas slaine by Romulus Machiuel dis Lib. 1. Romulus and Remâ—…s were fostered by aâ—… woâ—…fe Polinecâ—… Etâ—…ocles brothâ—… The mortall venime of envy A necessary example Enuie caused Neâ—…o to â—…ay â—…s mother Commodus enuyed the remeÌ„brance of his fathers vertues Vice is reproched by the commendation of vertue An other inhumane murder caused by enuy in Commodus A horrible murder by enuy Hâ—…ule Grafton and other English Hâ—…oriographers King Henry the 7. ouercame this tirant and calmed the afflictions of England Prince Edward slaine by Richardes handes K. Henry the 6. slaine by Richardes handes Duke of Clarence drovvned King Edvvard the 5. and his brother slaine â—…st lib. 1. Enuy the originall of warre The miseries of vvar The end of the Assiriâ—…n monarchy by enuy Iust. lib. 1. The tuchstone of manhood The city of Capidocâ—…a burned through enuy Time is able to repayre the ruines of fortune The Asserian empire translated into the Meades Miserable are the countreis gouerned by lieâ—…tenants An impious cruelty Man purposeth and God dispoâ—…h Mâ—…rius and Crâ—…us Ciâ—…us suckled by
a she vvolfe The empire of the Meades chaunged into Persian Iust. lib. 1. The empire â—…nslated into Macidonia The enuy of Alexander Alexander poysoned thorough Enuy. Thessalus a trâ—…i terous Phisition A necessary note for Prâ—…ces Kinges for there owne saâ—… tiâ—…s are bound to fauour their subiects Hippias a tyrant of Atheâ—… VVhere the feare of God stayeth not the loue of mony maketh passaâ—… for any mischief Counsels of K. â—…dinando The misery that follovved the incertainty of Alexanders succession A cruell part of Tamberlaâ—…ne A good counsel reiected The hugenes of Alexanders monarchie The greatnes of the Romane empire The nature of ambition One poyson remedy for an other Ruffâ—… pâ—… 〈◊〉 death Pollisie of Sâ—…licon Stilicons drift discouered Stilicons treason punished Rome sacked by Alaric Rome taken by the vandals Rome taken by Euriles and Toringnes Rome taken againe by the Gothes Rome taken againe by the Gothes Anno 830. Rome vvonne by the Sarizins Rome won by the Duke of Burbon Policies of the Popes to wâ—…nd out of obedâ—… 〈◊〉 and same of Constantinople The Priâ—… eleâ—…tours Apoc. 1â—… Can. si Papa de stâ—…et 42. Apocal. 17. 18. The names of the mountaines where Rome was builded 〈◊〉 2. circâ—… 〈◊〉 Apocal. 17. Thes. 2. 2. Dan. 11. A â—…able moralâ—…zed by the Pope Pro. 8. VVis 6. Psall 144. Dan. 2. 4. 5. Ierem. 25. 27. Rom. 13. Pride and cruelties of the Pope Looke in the Cron. of Germany Apol. of the prince of Orange Epitaph of Boniface the Pope The Popes war â—…ant or letter vvritten in the 2. booke of counsels â—…o 810 Rob. barnes cronicle Euseb Nanc Psal. 19. Lopes de goâ—…or in his hist. of â—…nd A daungerous policie of the pope Anno 1070. Cerimoniae Eccles Rom. lib. tit 〈◊〉 A presumptuons commandement A good â—…ing bound vnto the law A pleasant aunsvvere Anno 740. This taxe vvas peter pence Anno 1181. Apoc. 17. Apoc. 15. Vnâ—…nty of Mâ—…omets linage The vvicked counsel of the monek Seâ—… Mahomet an Athâ—…ist A damnable pollicie A matter is better vnbegun then not effectually followed A pleasing persvvasion of Mahomet Mahomets death Califus and Hali successours of Mahomet He vvas borne in a tovvne of Samarie called Tricon Tâ—…rt de here Lib. 1. cap. â—…0 Act. 8. S. Iustin. martyâ—… in his Apologie Iose. de bel Iud The Popes souldiers The Pope drâ—…ueÌ„ 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Plat. de vita Gâ—…eg 9. Sab. 〈◊〉 par 3. A reâ—…rd for Coâ—…tiers An â—…ous reâ—…ge A proud request Originall of the Turkes Pom. Mel. Lib. de Cosmo 1. cap. 18. The Turkes infected with Mahomets religion Godfrey Bulloyne Ottoman 1. Succession of the Ottomans Orâ—…an 2. â—…at 3. The enuie of the Emperour and nobles first sure foundation of the Turkes Empire Baiazet who slew his elder brother Soâ—… Victorie against the Christians Constaâ—… 〈◊〉 beâ—… 〈◊〉 Christians ouercome Miserie and ouerthrow of Baiazet Calapin Christians ouerthrowne Mahomet 6. Christians ouercome Turkes ouerthrovvne Bassa a 〈◊〉 Lord of 〈◊〉 Christians ourthrovvne Originall of the Ianissaires Mahomet 8. Constantinople conquered Io. Vaiuode Turkes defeated Christians ouercome Determination of the siegniorie of the christians in the East Fraunce the antient refuge of the pope Baiazet 9. Christians ouerthrovvne Beginning of the Sophy his empire Selim 10. Paracide Inhumaine murâ—… This battaile vvas the 24. of August 1514 The Soudan ouercome Soliman 1â—… Soliman his vâ—…tories The Hungâ—…ans slaine Selim 12. Mustafa Bassa cosen to the theâ—… vvhich honge on the left side of Christ. Aâ—…urath 13. murdred 5. of his brethren Camp fâ—…o de his tuâ—… Originall of Tamberlaine Tamberlaines first attempts Enuy 〈◊〉 of Tamberâ—…es kingdome Tamberlaine king of Persia. Tamberlaines conquest Tamberlaines militarie discipline Creatâ—…es of Tamberlaines army Battaile betvveene Baâ—…t and Tamber lâ—…ine Courage of Bâ—…iazet Baiazetâ—… ouer throvv anâ—… misery A notable example Tamberlaines order at assaults A great cruelty Enuy ende of Tamberlainâ—…s kingdome Baptis Ignatius Ios. Simler dâ—… râ—…epub Swiâ—… Henry king of Portugall a Cardinall A senere iudgement of king Henry The king of Spaine his owne iudge Dâ—… Anthonio â—…de king by the 3. estates K of Spaines greedy desire of rule K. Anthonio put to â—…light A good example for traitours Tim. 2. cap. 3. Vertue the cog nizance of a gentleman Policie of the Medices A necessarie counsell to be followed 〈◊〉 Iudas kisse Iuâ—…ian de Medicâ—…â—…ne Assemblie of the Segnewâ—… Fury of the multitude The archbishop hanged Barnard Baudin hanged The ground of the Florentine dukedome Enuy of the Gwyses firste cause of the troubles of Fraunce Deuision of Scotland â—…cre of Parts Murther of the king of Scots Tyrannie of the Spaniards in the â—…ovve countrie A staffe is soone found to strike a dog The prince of Orange diuelishly murthâ—…red Admonition to England and English men Pollicy of the Athenians to â—…dle enuy A pollicie of Demosthenes to get audieÌ„ce Varietie delightfull to the reader A law of Socrates Pitty vvithout charitie Ciuill vvarres of the Romans Honour giuen to peacemakers Octauian Chanius Preter Iohn A speciall honour The benefite of histories All the kinges named Henry of Englande vvere vvorthy kinges An. doâ—… 1400. Henry the 4. A 〈◊〉 for â—…es Enuy of Nâ—…o Rom. 13. Iosep. bel Iude. Reg 1. 26. 1485 Antiquitye a great beauty of vertue A necessarye â—…onsideration King Henry the 7. compared to Alexander Seuerus 1509 1513 1521 Acts Cap. 9. Acts and Monuments Esâ—… 4. cap. â—…2 1530 Vide Chro. of England Cant. Cantico cap. 4. 1546 A vvonderfull victory in Scotland Muskelborrough feeld 1553 A godly poâ—… 〈◊〉 Câ—…p 〈◊〉 1. Sam. Cap. 〈◊〉 The protestants neuer rebelled in England The Papists cruelty without measure Comfortable examples for the godly in time of persecution Her Maiesties thankes-giuing Her Maiestie visibly blessed with the eight beatitudes in the 5. of Matth. A prouidence of God in taking avvay of seditious paâ—…ls Lodo. 〈◊〉 Comment lib. 〈◊〉 Lod. Guic. 〈◊〉 Com. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Lib. 3. The law Voconia in Rome â—…avv 〈◊〉 in Fraunce lib. sec de Aâ—… veâ—…d 10 2â—… The law Mental in Scotland Lib. 3. 1560. Articles of accord betweene Englande and Fraunce taken out of Guicherdines Coment Lib. 3. 1561 Psal. 〈◊〉 Vide in the booke of the execut of Iustice in Engl. The Northerne rebels vanquished 1571 1570 Exod. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 14. The plagues of Aegypt and destruction of Pharao Actes 23. 24. The Queenes death practised by Negromancy Doctor Stories confession Plut. de defeâ—… orat Looke the chapter of herâ—… fol. 61. Psalme 4. 18. Actes 13. Genes 41. Exod. 8. 9. Esay 47. Daniel 2. Doctor Stories confession at his execution Prestall and Phaier deliuered foorth of the kings bench without triall Phaer executed for coyning Prestall condemned for â—…reason but not executed They â—…ors presume of her â—…iesties merâ—… Murther punished Actes 28. Matth. 27. R. cap. 12. Reg. 2. Cap. 21. Genesis 4. Psalme 37. Madder and Barlow Somernile Psalme 64. Doctor Parry Parties letter to the Lord â—…sorer Martiâ—… Psalm 1. 7. 37. 52.