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A01507	A newyeares gifte dedicated to the Popes Holinesse, and all Catholikes addicted to the Sea of Rome: preferred the first day of Ianuarie, in the yeare of our Lorde God, after the course and computation of the Romanistes, one thousand, fiue hundreth, seauentie and nine, by B.G. citizen of London: in recompence of diuers singular and inestimable reliques, of late sent by the said Popes Holinesse into England, the true figures and representations whereof, are heereafter in their places dilated.	B. G. (Bernard Garter); Tunstall, Cuthbert, 1474-1559. Letter written by Cutbert Tunstall late Byshop of Duresme, and Iohn Stokesley somtime Byshop of London.; Stokesley, John, 1475?-1539.; Googe, Barnabe, 1540-1594.	1579 (1579)	STC 11629; ESTC S102867	65,066	113

aucthoritie of both the swordes c. By this sayde Pope Boniface diuerse constitutions extrauagants of his predecessors were collected togither wyth many of his owne newly added thereto and so made the booke called Sextus decretalium c. By whome also firste sprang vp pardons and indulgences from Rome These things thus premised of Boniface the Pope nowe will I come to the cause of the strife betwéene him and the French King concerning which matter first I finde in the historie of Nicholas Triuet that in the yeare of our Lord. 13●1 the Bishop of Oppanaham being accused for a conspiracie against the French King was brought vp to his Course and so committed to prison The Pope hearing this sendeth worde to the king by his Legate to set him at libertie The Frenche king not daring to the contrarie looseth the Bishop but when he had done he discharged both the Bishoppe and the Legate commaunding them to auoyde his realme Wherevpon Pope Boniface reuoketh al the graces priuileges graūted either by him or his predecessours before to the kingdome of Frāce also not long after thundreth out the sentence of his curse against him And moreouer he citeth al the prelates al diuines and lawyers both ciuil common to appeare personally before him at Rome at a certaine day which was the firste of Nouember Against thys citation the king againe prouideth and commaundeth by streyght proclamation that no manner of person should export out of the realme of Fraunce eyther golde or siluer or any other maner of ware or Merchandise vpon forfeyting all their goods and their bodies at the kings pleasure prouiding withall that the wayes and passages were so diligently kept that none might passe vnsearched Ouer and besides that the sayd French king did defeyte the Pope in giuing and bestowing prebends and benefices and other ecclesiasticall liuings otherwayes than stoode with the Popes profite For the which cause the Pope writeth to the foresayd king in forme and effect as followeth Boniface Bishop and seruant to Gods seruants to his vvelbeloued sonne Philip by the grace of God King of Fraunce greeting and Apostolicall blessing BOniface the seruaunt of Gods seruaunts c. Feare God obserue his commandements We will thée to vnderstande that thou arte subiecte to vs both in spirituall and temporall things and that no gift of benefices or prebends belongeth vnto thée and if thou haue the kéeping of any being vacant that thou reserue the profites of them to the successors But if thou haste giuen any we iudge the gifte to be voide and call backe howe farre soeuer thou haste gone forwarde And whosoeuer beléeueth otherwise we iudge them Heretikes Vnto which letter of the Pope King Philip maketh aunsvvere againe in manner and order as followeth which is thus Phillip by the grace of God King of Fraunce to Boniface not in deedes behauing himselfe for Pope little friendshippe or none TO Boniface bearing himselfe for chiefe Bishop little health or none Let thy foolishnesse know that in temporall things we are subiect to no man that the giftes of prebendes many benefices made and to be made by vs were and shall be good both in time past and to come And that we wil defend manfully the possessors of the said benefices and we thinke them that beléeue or thinke otherwise fooles and mad men Giuen at Paris this Wednesdaye after Candlemasse Anno ▪ 1301. ¶ Thus muche for Fraunce I haue thoughte sufficient to expresse althoughe there are more to finde and common to euerye viewe And nowe for SCOTLANDE I will only set downe an Oration made by a Scottishe Byshop to the King of Scottes 373. yeares since in these wordes HOwe be it sundrie things presentely occurreth which affrayeth me to shew such maters as are preiudial to the common wealth yet most noble Prince when I consider thy humanitie fayth constancie giuen to nothing more than defence and welth of thy lieges I cannot ceasse for the action of common libertie to shewe the sooth For sithens the tyrannie is intollerable which is exercised by Kings or Princes descending of lineal succession to their kinglie heritage much more is the tyrannie insufferable when it is exercised on vs by men of vile and obscure linage Therfore if the sundry and manifest wrongs done to vs these many yéeres by-gon had come by the Popes mind they were to be suffred in some maner But sithens līmers of vile obscure linage which are promoted to benefices for their horrible vices haue not only interdicted our realme without any cōmission but haue spēded in their corrupt vices the money that they gathered in our countrey by the Popes authoritie for raysing of armies against the Turks I think their cursed auarice should haue no further place amongst true people specially amongst vs bicause they haue our simplicities and méeknesse in conteption Thrée yeares passed ye complained the iniuries done by Cardinal Guallo when he held your realme interdicted and many of all your Prelates vnder curssing bicause they woulde not aunswere him money to susteyne his lustes Moreouer this Guallo was so perillous a fountaine of all iniquitie and vice that howe be it he was sente to treate concorde betwixt Englishmen and Scottes yet by his ●uarice he gaue such occasion of battayle as both the realmes had not their hatred bene the more hastily pacifie 〈◊〉 inuaded ech other to their vtter destruction And sith 〈◊〉 these things be apparant what néedeth them to be remembred to your displesure Moreouer after we wer exonerate of Guallo came in his place another Legate of no better life but rather worse For when he had gotten large money for redemption of prisoners and raysing of newe armies againste the Turkes he spendeth it all in his insolence and fayned that it was stolne by théeues and briggens Therefore sithence we haue experience of so many wicked and heauye damagies done to vs by these two Legates afore rehearsed we shal be reputed miscreant fooles to admitte the third For it is not to be beléeued that this newe Legate shal be of better conditions than his fellowes were before And if anye man shal demaunde me what is to be done in this matter I say neyther this Legate nor yet any other Legate in time comming shoulde be receyued within this realme bycause the same is heriot and wasted of money by their continuall exactions If any of you haue superfluous money you maye rather dispose it to poore folke ▪ than to such corrupted vse of vicious Legats Finally these wordes are so apprysed by the counsell that this Legate was not admitted to come within the realme of Scotlande King Alexander the thirde woulde not receiue the Legate of Pope Clement the fourth within his realme but commaunded to shew his message on the borders He would not receiue certaine statutes made by him in his voyage right profitable for the gouernance of the Scots to whome king Alexander aunswered The Scots would not receiue any statutes

to obey his Prince by the doctrine of Saint Peter in hys first Epistle saying Subiecti estote omni humanae creaturae propter Deum siue regi quasi praecellenti siue ducibus tanquam ab eo missis ad vindictam malefactorum laudem vero bonorum Be ye subiect to euery mans ordinaunce for the Lords sake whether to the king as to the chiefe whether to the dukes as sent of him to the punishment of the euill doers to the prayse of the good Againe Saint Paul. Omnis omnia potestatibus sublimioribus subdita sit with other things before alleaged So that this his pretended vsurpation to be aboue all kings is directly againste the Scriptures giuen to the Churche by the Apostles whose doctrine whosoeuer ouerturneth can be neyther Caput nor Infimum membrum Ecclesiae Wherefore albeit ye haue héeretofore sticked to the said wrongfully vsurped power moued therto as ye write by your conscience yet sithens now ye sée further if ye list regard the méere truth and such auncient authours as you haue bene written to off in times past we would exhort you for the wealth of your soule to surrender into the Bishop of Romes handes your red hat by which he seduced you trusting to haue of you béeing come of a noble bloode an instrument to aduaunce his vayne glory wherof by the sayd hat he made you participant to allure you thereby the more to his purpose In which doing yée shall retourne to the truthe from which you haue erred doe your duetie to your souereigne Lord from whom ye haue declined and please thereby almightie God whose lawes ye haue transgressed And in not so doing ye shall remaine in errour offending both almightie God and your naturall souereigne Lorde whome chiefely ye ought to search to please Which thing for the good minde that we héeretofore haue borne you we pray almightie God of his infinite mercy that you do not Amen AT LONDON Imprinted by H. B. ¶ The maner and meanes of the Popes beginning Like as THe Iuie budde which from the beake of Iay Falles to the ground a thing of moment small By some kinde meanes at first is clad in clay Then taketh roote and after ginnes to scrall In groueling wise vpon the slipprie grounde And smoothly so with leaues and tenders softe Holdes on the course till some strong tree bee founde Through whose stoute helpe it may climbe vppe alofte Thereto it commes and at the lowest foote Takes holde of barke and body doth embrace And feeling then increase of sappe and root Doth still climbe vppe and windeth to the face Of that same tree and girds it in so faste As Iuie lyues but tree is killde at laste Euen so the Pope By warrant small or none at all to find In sacred writte in humble flattring wise At firste did seeke to please the hawtie minde Of Christian Kings by whome he sought t'arise And cleauing so vnto that mightie stay Lifte vppe himselfe into his stately throne And by degrees hath got the rule and sway Of al the world and subiect is to none Not so content doth counterchecke the Lord Whose Vicar sole on earth he claymes to be To Christian Kings no rule he will afforde For all is his and none must rule but he And so the prop whereby he got his strength He would confound and ouerthrow at length Euen like a Pope How proue you that Thus COnstantinus which the Monarchie did holde Of Christendome an Emperoure full good Gaue to the Pope who then might be controlde A sorte of lands which did exalt his bloude But warely yet preuenting Prelates pride Did call his gifte the patrimon of Church Till afterwardes the Papistes do decide That title and to giue the troth a lurche They by that sparke do kindle first their fire Whereby they claime dominion of the Weast And then likewise to place the Pope the higher They seeke which way to breed the Prince vnrest And Iuie like would wrap in homage bande The mightie Prince which gaue him first that lande In subtile wise For Steuchus writes in flattry of the Pope Gainst Valla that th'Emperour did giue To Rome the landes of all the Westerne scope And he himselfe euen whiles that Pope did liue Did graunt the Pope to be the greater state And therevpon is ordred by decree Rome to be chiefe and haue no earthly mate And that the Pope must rule and none but hee In matters of Religion forsooth Nor other King hee will not there vouchsafe Bicause his sacred sword eache wrong must smooth And thus both swordes you see the Pope will haue And Iuie like paste shame doth pull adowne Th' empire great that gaue to him renowne In wonted guise Once is no custome Then another touching the Charitie of the Pope ALexander the thirde of that same name Succeeded Adrian that was callde the fourth Whome Fredrike erst that Emperour of fame Lovde well and gaue him gifts of greatest worth But Wealth made Pride and Pride did cause the beast To swell in minde and beare himselfe so high As of the reste hee made the Emprour leaste And thought himselfe an ace aboue the skie Good Fredrike then repenting of his deede Thought good t' abase a beast that so coulde rage And thrust him out of Germany with speede The Prelates pride and peoples wrath t' asswage The Priest doth storme and sweares he will requite Th'Emprours acte with sword and cruell spight If he were Pope And Pope hee was and then immediatly The smothring heat thrust forth a frantike fire His cursed Buls against this Prince doe fly With roughest rage to quenche the Popes desire The Pope doth cause th' Italians to rebell And for to builde the Citie of great fame Of Alexandrîa bycause he would expell The Prince himselfe and tooke the Cities name Not so content at Venice afterwarde Th'Emprour is where Pope through passing pride Alonely not vilependes the Prince nor sparde In worde and deede from modestie to slide But caused him full humblie to kneele downe And with his foote stroke off the Royall Crowne VVhen he was Pope The vvorst is saide ¶ The liues of .ij. Popes vz. Alexander the second and Gregorie the seauenth THen hearken to the best which I wil wright plainely bycause the fewer exceptions shall be taken and also bycause in one Glasse thou maiste sée the liues of many Popes or at least the mischiefes which abound in manye of them And yet I wil but briefly touch the blacke vertues of one Pope to witte Gregorie the seauenth which before was called Hildebrandus by his nation an Hetruscan by his Countrey of Senensis by his sect a Monk of Cluniacensis But to shew him the playner I muste begin with his Predecessor Alexander the second whom the same Hildebrand did both electe and ouerthrow thereby to make himselfe Pope THis Alexander the seconde Pope of that name by his countrey a Millionese and Bishop of Lucensis was named before he came

strawe and as the flame consumeth the stubble euen so their roote shall bee as corruption and their blossome shall vanishe awaye like duste for they haue caste awaye the Lawe of the Lorde of hostes and blasphemed the worde of the holy maker of Israel Therefore is the wrathe of the Lord kindled c. IF these exceptions and euerye other in the saide fifthe Chapter of the Prophesie of Esay touche not Rome directly and the Popes holynesse properly I am farre from my purpose but comparing the Pope and his doings with our vndoubted sauioure Christe we shall finde the one directlye repugnaunte vnto the other and then finding them contraryes it muste néedes followe that if Christe be Christe then the Pope hymselfe is Antichriste For CHRIST in hys death and passion assureth to vs Saluation Whereas the Pope alludeth the cause of our saluation to consist in his Masses pardons pilgrimages beades and baggages Two absolute contraries and therefore as the one is most excellente and sufficient to saluation so the other is execrable and the direct passage to damnation For thy greter comfort therefore compare them togither in this sort and let the infallible troth of Gods eternal word be vmpire in the cause Viz. IF that be true which can nor will not lye If that be false which was nor can be true If cone for tother tane do leade awry The mindes of men make these mischiefes new If troth bring blisse and falshood carke and care Is it not good to know them as they are Let troth haue then a blamelesse passage frée And let Gods word be ballaunce of the cause This little booke wil then declare to thée How farre the Pope dissenteth from the lawes Of God and séeking honor gold and gayne Nought dreadeth God nor feares eternal payne A florish fayre alone he séekes to make And vnder white to shrowde his colour blacke And then by craft and for his profit sake The sincere word of God by force to racke So as the simple may not therof déeme But be deceiude and thinke them as they séeme As Zeuxis worke the liuely birds deceivd Which peckt for grapes vpon a painted wall Euen so the Pope if he be once receivde Wil leade awry the wisest wit of al For Zeuxis skill in paynting was not such But that in craft the Pope hath twice so much That so let sequele shorte expresse the cace Let Truth be Tutche to trie the golde from drosse Take nowe a time his farthell to vnlace Great is the gaine and none at all the losse For treasons so shal die or not increase Cut off the cause and then th' effect wil cease Compare the Pope which chalengeth to be Christs Uicar here and ouer all the earth With Christ our Lord and they so well agrée As light with darke and blisfull life with death Then if from Christe directly he doe ierre Lette Christ be Christe and giue him leaue to erre The wordes of Christe IOHN 14. I Am the way to Heauen by path direct Why séekst thou then to Heauen an other waye I am the truth my word without suspect Why then in vaine goste thou more vaine astray I am the life to myne most certaine sure That neuer failes why puttst thou more in vre Math. 12. Come hither all that sinned haue to mée My bloudy wounds are in my fathers sight Discharge youre loades youre burthens lay on mée The lawe is dashte and you are claymed quite What man of flint from suche a Lorde will starte As buyes his foe by bléeding at the harte And true it is sith he is Truth alone And none could quench the fathers wrath but hée And clayming all he willes the death of none But by his death from death hath set vs frée Oh hearken then and come when he doth call No Popish pelfe but Christ hath bought vs all Yet heare one of the Popes vvayes to safegard for he hath a great many Whiche I will not marre by making into Metre but set it downe in playne Englishe as I founde it the thing it selfe is extant at this Printers house and thus it is and yet I find it not in any of the thrée Créedes Viz. This is the true Copie of the holy writing that came downe from Heauen by an Angell to Sainct Leo Pope of Rome and he bad him take it to King Charles what tyme he went to the battell of Roncewall and he sayde what man or woman that beareth this wrighting vppon them wyth good deuotion and sayth euery day thrée Pater Nosters and thrée Aues and one Creede that day he shall not be ouercome with his enimies neyther bodily nor ghostly nor with Théeues be robbed nor slayne nor with no pestilence be vexed nor with no thunder be slayne nor with no lightning be brent nor with no fire be troubled nor with water be drowned nor with no wicked Sprightes be combred nor he shall haue no wrath with Lords nor Ladyes nor falsely be damned with no false witnesse nor taken wyth no Fayries nor with no maner of Axies nor with no Falling euill be smitten Also if a woman trauell with childe lay this wrighting vppon hir she shall haue easie delyuerance and the childe right shape and Christendome and the Mother purification of holy Churche through the vertue of these holy names of oure Lorde Iesus Christe And these be the names A notable medicin both for body soule health life and goodes ✚ Iesus Christus ✚ Messias ✚ Sothor ✚ Emanuel Sabaoth Adonay Vnigenitus Maiestas Paraclitus Saluator noster ✚ Agios iskiros ✚ Agios Adonatos ✚ Iasper ✚ Melchior ✚ Baltazar ✚ Marcus ✚ Mattheus ✚ Lucas ✚ Iohēs ✚ Also this wryting saues a man from wicked cumbrance of euill fellowship and from byting of any woodde Dogge Sancte Michael S. Gabriel S. Raphael orate vt illa me protegant defendant à morte perpetua liberemur Amen Quare fremuerunt gentes c. This tale I trowe doth somwhat touch the quicke And as it came from Heauen so is it true For wrytings come from thence you know as thicke As men make nuttes this matter is not newe And more is done in Heauen than we may know Beléeue the Pope and reade another scrowe Haec est epistola Sancti Saluatoris quam Leo Papa transmisit Carolo Regi dicens quòd quandocunque aliquis eam super se portauerit in die vel etiam qua eam legerit vel viderit non occidetur ferro nec igne comburetur nec aqua submergetur nec malus homo nec alia creatura ei nocere poterit Haec sunt verba Crux ✚ Christi est armae mirabilis ✚ Crux Christi sit semper mecū ✚ Crux est quem semper adoro ✚ Crux Christi est vera salus ✚ Crux Christi superat gladium ✚ Crux Christi soluit vincula mortis ✚ Crux Christi est veritas via ✚ Super Crucem Dominicam aggrediar iter meum ✚ Crux

beare or readeth that No foe nor fire haue force to make him faint No water drowne no launce nor sharpest knife Nor Iron toole haue power to hurt his life The third a charme should séeme of great effect Preseruing aye both man and child and wife From naughtie théeues and persons to suspect That would impaire their bodies goods or life Such strength it hath thou néedst not it to réede But beare the same it will perfourme the déede The fourth thou séest the place wher it was foūd By whom and when and what the vertue is A place of life a place that doth abound With streames of grace of ioyes perfecte blysse That writing to as suredly was there As now the Pope himselfe is present here If then thou wilt be cleare from force of warre If fires flame nor waters rage shall dreade If neyther théef nor Iron toole shall scarre Thy iourney once Then sticke not this to reade For sure they must be perfect strong and true Or else the Pope is worse than Turke or Iew. A Turke nay worse A Iew a helhounde sure That thus would wash the bloud of Christ away The Diuel himselfe durst neuer put in vre The flocke of Christ so fouly to betray As to deface the merites of his death And make vs trust in trifling things on earth If Christ affirme that he is life alone If other way to heauen there cannot be If other truth besides his truth be none What is he then but may this mischiefe sée A franticke man with pride bewitched still For money sake the Saints of God will kill And yet for that I would not credite craue Without iust cause note what this Leo was Iaphetus writes my wordes you shal not haue A thing right straunge and how it came to pas A noble childe brought vp in vertuous hope Was made a wicked man by being Pope These are the vvords of Iaphetus LEo the tenth by his Countrey a Florentine of the most noble stocke of Medices and called before he was Pope Iohn de Medices was sometime of Saint Maries in Dominica He was placed by the Cardinals beyonde all expectation in the place of Iulius deceassed He was from his infancie diligently broughte vp and instructed in learning had most learned teachers chiefely Angelus Politianus a man right skilfull both in the Gréeke and Latin tongs did afterwards loue learned mē aboue all measure In the thirtenth yeare of his age he was made Cardinall by Innocentius the eyght and the eyght and thirtith yeare hée was made Bishop of Rome This Leo of his owne nature was quiet and milde but for the most part ruled by troublesome and cruell persons at whose pleasure he arrogantly suffered many things to be done And being giuen to the delicious ease of his body he pampred his fleshe in sundrye delightes and desires of voluptuous pleasures In his delicate banquets to make him more pleasant at the table he greatly respected Musitions and Wine but he persecuted the Kingdome of God in Luther and others like a seconde Caiphas with continuall hatred For at a time when Cardinall Bembos proponed a certaine question of that ioyfull message of God he wretchedly aunswered Howe greately that fable of Christe hathe bin beneficiall to vs and oure coate it is euident ynough to all the Worlde The most wicked verlet did héere most playnely expresse himselfe to be that Antechrist which Paule calleth the man of Sinne and child of perdition He sent forth pardons no lesse large than foolish to extorte money at his pleasure for the maintenance of his Harlots and Bastards and dispersed an innumerable number of prolling Friers to carrie his trashe through all Christian Realmes Did Peter thus is this the way to féede Christs little flocke whereof he tooke suche care No no God wot this rauening Wolfe in déede Will rend them quicke and eate them as they are A Tigre fierce a lumpe of raging sinne That séekes to spoyle that Christe by death did winne What man or beast what féend of Hell coulde say The Gospell pure a fable but to be But that the Lorde would by his mouth bewray This Antichrist that al the worlde might sée A Diuel in fleshe which would for money sake Himselfe and al the worlde to Hel betake But since of monstrous things we speake procéede A monster foule begets as foule a whelpe A monstrous worde at first and now a déede In monstrous sorte doth spring to be his helpe He prolles and pries stil farther gaine to winne And gets him mates to helpe his marte therein VVherevpon Conradus Grebelius vvriteth against Caietanus in this sorte Germanos decimas tunc cùm extorquere pararet Qualem Oratorem iussit adire Leo Demisit quendam labor esset dicere qualem Nimirum verbum est dicere sat Monachum Thus in English When Leo did purpose t'extorte the tithes of Germany What Oratour did he command into that place thinke ye One did he sēd but paine it were what one for to expresse Yet at a worde I will declare forsooth a Monke no lesse And further Conradus sayth Tot aureorum nummorum millia Sampson Franciscanus ille Mediolanēsis per eas in varijs terris collegit vt mūdus super eo prodigio valde admiraretur Supra 1200000. enim ducat orum summā erat quos vno die pro Papatu emendo obtulit In english Sampson that Monke of Saint Fraunces of Millaine gathered by those trumperies so many thousandes of golde in diuers Countries as al the world greatly wondred at that monster for he profered aboue the summe of twelue hundred thousand Duckets in one daye to buy the Popedome A masse of mony here was lewdly gote And yet more lewdly would haue bin imployde A myching Monke and eke a myser hote Which many soules through falshood had destroyd Would nowe be Pope through Simonie you sée As suche there haue bin manye moe than hée Leo sayth Conradus did make one and thirtie Cardinalles in one day by the which he scraped vp a huge summe of money and fore-tokens of most horrible thinges to followe were séene in the selfe same day In the yeare of oure Lorde .1520 when Solimon conquered the Rhodes by force of Armes euen vppon Christemasse day when Leo shoulde goe oute of his priuie Chamber to saye his firste Masse in the morning a certaine house builded moste beautifully of Marble fell sodainely down at his backe and slew a number of his guarde By this foretoken God signified to the Pope that he shoulde shortly perishe for his cruel and wicked offences For he had wōderfully enriched his bastards and exalted them by doing manifest iniuries to others to most high promotiōs spiritual tēporal For he made Iulianus who was accompted but his Nephew by the Sister side Duke of Mutius and Laurentianus Duke of Vrbyn and marryed the one of them with the Sister of Carolus Sabaudus and the other with the Dutchesse of ●olon And he depriued