to religion whom they had reconciled where they said Masse who harboured relieued them They racke Catholikes for triffeling causes vnvvoūtedly what they heard in confession a barbarouse impietie and such like for we may not thinke that they vse torments only for disclosing of great treasons or other crimes as they had wont to do and that not without great occasion but tovvards Catholikes and specially Gods annointed Priests they sticke not novv without pitie to vse al kind of torture often rather for a punishment of them or to make them by paines to forsake their faith or of malice and despite of the Catholike faith then for any matter they looke to be opened by them So they laid M. Tomson a learned graue Priest vpon the racke before they euer examined him M. T. bacheler of Diuinitie a thing most cruel and disorderly hauing nothing to charge him withal but onely to what end he kept certaine superaltares which were found in his chamber As for religion onely hauing no other pretence in the world they thrust him as is said v weekes together after the Lieutenant had spoiled him of v poundes and Thomas Burschoaghe Thomas Burschoagh a Catholike yong man and learned a quarter of a yere together into a grisely dongeon called Vvhalesboure without candel light and water til by the priuie there they were vvel neere pestred to death So did they afflict Iohn Hemslovv Iohn Hemslovv onely for burying his Catholike mother in the Church yard being cast out of their heretical synagogue for her faith thrusting him into a filthie vile hole after they had discharged him of his money for that is medius terminus euer al a lent long vvithout light fire or place to ease nature in til by his ovvne excrements discharged into a dongeon vnder him he had like to haue been stiffiled vvith stinch They racke Priests on sundaies holydaies specially And vvhich is vvorth the marking or rather lamenting of al Christian harts that for our more affliction they prophanely make choise to giue the torture to our brethren vpon sundaies and hie holydaies in Gods Church after the old maner of the heathen persecutors rather then vpon vvorken daies And to feede them selues vvith our calamities By vvhat cruel meanes they terrifie the Catholike prisoners and eftsons to terrifie other confessors the rather to enforce them from their faith they bring some nevv racked vnder their fellovv prisoners vvindovves and to their dores that by hering their pitiful sighes grones and complaints proceding of infinite paines they may be moued to relent in religon yea vvhich is more inhumanitie they set some of the confessors in bye darke corners vvhen other their brethren are in tormenting And no lesse torment both of body and minde is it to be haled and forced against their vvilles to their heretical church and sermons vvhere they must heare blasphemie and vvickednes and if they say nothing be rated of the Puritans and called dombe dogges if they reproue their Ministers they be offered violence and strokes As namely once a spiteful puritane laying his hand vpon his dagger A puritans spirit his teeth grinning in his head his face enflammed vvith malice came to one of the reuerend Priests and said thus Before God if it vvere not for feare of lavves I vvould presently stabbe my dagger to thy hart smale euidence would serue a Ieurie of such fellowes to cast away a thousand honest men and many dozens of these you may haue good cheape in England and this is our miserie novv that vve haue not onely the coulor of lavv against vs but al the vvicked of the realme our ennemies M. Hart miserably handeled for his conscience And al these pitiful vexations are they done vnto them for any thing but religion vvhen after M. Harts that learned reuerent Bachiler of Diuinities condemnation yet they vvould not let him rest but caused him to be conferred vvith al by Rainolds and others and vvhen he would not yeld miserably afflicted him by dongeon famine and other miseries Had they any cause then but religion or vvas it euer heard of in our realme that one alreddy hauing his iudgement should be aftervvards so manifoldly tormented M. Lieutenants courtesie For vvhat crime vvas it that the Lieutenant made a motion to D. Hammon his fellovv commissioner that the Priests last cōmitted to the Tovver might be sent to Bride-vvel to be vvhipt ô prophane irreligious and malicious Athiest That vvas a trike of Nortons spirit vvho could find in his hart to haue Norton his counsel sent the honorable confessor M. Povvnd to Bedlem to be treated like a mad man and had brought the Lieutenant to promise it befor a hal al most ful at his ovvne hovvse but as Gods prouidence hath directed matters sithence that diet is more fit for Nortons wife They say the Epistle of persecution hath rethorically amplified the Catholikes calamities in England So doth D. Humphrey in his vnlerned pamphlet against the Iesuists but our Lord IESVS vvho onely seeth through our miseries knovveth it hath not vttered the least parte of our daily distresses And how great or greuous so euer they be for religiō onely for no other treasons they are no other causes at the first pretended nor after any thing generally pursued but how to make them relēt in faith releasing euery body vvhat treason soeuer pretended if they would condescend vnto them in matter of religion Yea such as so did though they were these mens companions at Rome when and where these conspiracies were pretended to be wrought and some of them sent dovvne in their company and for the same ende yet vvere they neuer questioned vvithal of any such matter if they once vvould take the othe of the Q. supremacie ouer the church of England as Paschal Nicolls Osborne Caddey and such like as either of feare or for preferment then or aftervvard yelded Vvho should neuer haue eskaped so if they had been acquainted with such horrible treason the mistrust or pretence vvhereof vvas not as then skarcely formed in the Counsels intention nor resolued vpon vntil a good vvhile after they had apprehended examined and racked F. Campion The great desire they had to make a vvay F. Campiō vvas the cause of al this actiō vvhom they vvere exceding desirous to put away by some coulorable meanes thereby to extinguishe this spiritual practise in cases of religion in our countrey Diuers had been racked before that and nothing found or much mistrusted concerning this pretended conspiracie but to see their constancie in religion and pacience in their extremest torments that appalled the commissioners excedingly in so much that D. Hammon vpon the racking of M. Brian D. Hammons speach at M. Brians tormenting vttered in great terror of his conscience That if one vvere not very vvel grounded in his faith this geare might shake him And when M. Hart vvas taken from the
A BRIEFE HISTORIE OF THE GLORIOVS MARTYRDOM OF XII REVEREND Priests executed vvithin these tvvelue monethes for confession and defence of the CATHOLIKE FAITH But vnder the false pretence of TREASON Vvith a note of sundrie things that befel them in their life and imprisonment and a preface declaring their innocencie Set furth by such as were much conuersant vvith them in their life and present at their arraignement and death Occidistis sed non possedistis that is You haue slaine them but you haue not gotten possession 1582. THE NAMES OF THESE GLORIOVS MARTYRES VVITH the day and yere of their suffering FATHER Edmund Campion of the societie of IESVS the j. of Decemb. 1581. M. Raph Shervvine the same day M. Alexander Bryan the same day M. Thomas Ford. the xxviij of May 1582. M. Iohn Sherte the same day M. Robert Iohnson the same day M. Vvilliam Philbee the xxx of May 1582. M. Luke Kirbie the same day M. Lavvrence Richardson aliâs Iohnson the same day M. Thomas Cottam the same day M. Iohn Paine the ij of April 1582. M. Euerard Haunse the last of Iuly 1581. THE PREFACE TO the Reader IT vvas euer the fashion of the heathen but much more of Apostatats and Heretikes reuoulted from the Church when they deadly hated and persecuted the CATHOLIKE CHRISTIANS and specially GODS PRIESTS being the guides and Pastors of that flocke they seeke to destroy yet of purpose and pollicie pretend other causes of their punishement more hateful to the world then matter of faith and conscience So did the Arrian Emperors and their Bishops accuse Holy Athanasius of Nigromancie Ruffin histo aduolterie and conspiracie So did the president of Pontus an officer of Valens the heretical prince Naz. orat De Basilio persecut S. Basil for his religion but vnder pretence of an other crime in so much that to the wonder of the world he caused his chambre which the Angels of God as S. Gregorie Nazianzen writeth did reuerence for puritie to be sought by his officers for a vvoman So did Iulianus the Apostata Tripart lib. 6. c. 27. endeuoring to extinguishe the Christian faith and to preferre Paganisme cōdemne the Clergie to death and exile vnder pretense of diuers crimes and namely of sedition falsely forged against them So did the Vandals being Heretikes also Victor de persecut Vandalic extremely plage the Catholikes in Aphrike accusing them that they had secret conference by messengers and letters vvith the Romans against them So did the Emperesse Theodora a vvomā of the Eutichian heresie cruelly persecut Pope Siluerius and the Clergie saying that her coūsel had intercepted their letters vvhereby they called in the Goths and forraine povver to inuade the Citie of Rome the Empire So thy now faine interception of letters for the condemnation of holy men when al the world knevv she persecuted them for their religion and that they were neue◠guiltie of any such offences This shamful sutteltie and too foule and brode deceipt vvas neuer so notoriously vsed as in the late persecutions and practises of protestants specially in England against the CATHOLIKES in vvhich such as are not skilful in the old histories of the Church may as in a glasse behold at once al the miseries that she hath suffered in this kinde of calumniation by the Arians the Gothes the Vandals the Lumbards the Donatistes Eutichians Mahometists Hussists Hugonots and by what other sort in times past or present so euer I neede not put you in minde ho◠not many yeres sithence they arraigned to the great shame and confusion the most Reuerend father and Confessor The arraignement of the Archbishop of Armakan See the storie of his death the Arch-bishop of Armakan for rape or hovv the Ministers of Satan charged of late the blessed Martyr Priest of God M. Thomas Cottam at his execution with adulterie committed in Fish-streat or such like damnable fictions which without al free of God or shame of men the protestants print preach and geue out wittingly against Priests religious and Catholikes to beguile the poore people most subiect to such trumperie through their simplicitie The meanīg of the author in this treatise My meaning is specially by Gods helpe to set furth in English lay befor the eyes of al thos of our realme that were not present at the deathes or arraignement of the late famous men and Martyrs M. Campion and his happie fellovves and in latine and other langages to the vvhole Christian world for a spectacle of heretical crueltie and Macheuillian practises hovv by coulor of contriued treason and conspiracie the cause in dede-being religion the ennemies of the Christian faith haue shed their innocent blood to the infinite shame of our Nation befor men and no lesse peril of destruction of our vvhole common wealthe by Gods iust iudgement who euer reuengeth such publike iniquitie by inducing some great and common calamitie NOTE from which CHRIST of his mercie saue our countrie for their sake which are innumerable that haue not consented to this iniquitie hovv soeuer it seeme othervvise to proceed frō publike authoritie But to the matter after that it vvas agreed vpon by such as God hath geuen povver ouer vs that the holy Confessors whom they had in their hands should be made away because diuers of thē were farre better lerned then any of their sect could withstand and al so zelous as none could sturre them from their faith and fellovvship of the CATHOLIKE AND ROMAIN CHVRCH thinking it not good to kil them for their religiō they sought out vvith al arte and diligence hovv to find or faine handsomely any matter that coulorably might be dravven to treason or any capital crime in the old sense of our lavves The causes why they would not put them directly for their faith and conscience to death Notvvithstanding they had not long before made diuers lavves forcible inough for that purpose The causes vvhy they rather executed them for pretēded treason thē true religiō whereby sundrie principles and exercises of CHRISTIAN FAITH were made HIGH TREASON a lamentable case that our countrey is fallen to were these partely common to al old heretikes partely peculier to our countrey and present state First the cases of religion are diuers according as euery mans conscience is informed where other crimes of what sort so euer are agreed vpon of al hands to be punishable Secondly religion to wordly men specially to many Athiests novv a daies whom men cal honestly politikes seemeth not material any farther then as it pertaineth to the preseruation or destruction of the ciuil state Thirdly for that it is impossible or exceding hard to persvvad men of any wit or capacitie that to professe that religion should be an offence worthie death which al our ovvne auncesters and al nations round about vs so many hundereth yeres together vvere christened in and haue liued died and been saued in and is defended at
conceit of that prophane degree til he entered into religion by penance and holy profession to wipe a way the same So making his choise of the societie of the name of IESVS he vvent to Rome He vvent to Rome and there entered into religion where by the superior of that order he vvas admitted and so not remaining in the Citie much more then a moneth he was sent into Beameland He is sent into Beamland where he abode viij yeres and vvas made Priest in Prage continually teaching preaching catechizing writing and trauailing for the Church of God Made priest Vvhereby he became so famous that not onely other principal states He preacheth befor the Emperour but the Imperial Maiestie was contented often to heare him preach Til at lenght by the sute of such as knevve his great graces in dealing with heretikes for their conuersion his General called him thence to be bestovved vpon his ovvne natiue countrey Vvhithervvarde by longe and great trauail he came going about by Rome because his superiors knevve him not He is sent home againe by his superiors nor would not send him before they savve him and by Remes vvhere besides other communication parteining to the reduction of our countrey to the Catholike faith he demaunded of D. Allen whether he thought that any seruice he could do in England the time being as it is His cōmunicatiō with D. Allen. were like to be vvorth al these long labours and hazardes past and to come or might counteruaile the lackes that those should seeme to haue by his absence from whence he came To which D. Allen ansvvered Father quoth he first vvhatsoeuer you did there D. Allens ansvver may be done by others one or mo of your order Secondly you ovve more duetie to England then to Beamland and to London then to Prage though it liketh me vvel that you haue made some recompence to that countrey for the old wounde it receiued by vs. In vvicliffes time of vvhom they lerned their heresies Thirdly the recouerie of one soule from heresie is vvorth al your paines as I hope you shal gaine a great many because the haruest is both more plentiful and more ripe with vs then in those partes Finally the revvard may be greater for you may be martyred for it at home vvhich you can not obtaine lightely there So he vvas satisfied and of this communication I haue heard him often speake And at last he happely landed at Douer vpon the morrovv afser Midsomer-day The day of his arriual in England the yere 1580. being by Gods great goodnes deliuered out of the searchers and officers handes who held him with them vpon suspicion for certane houres He vvas staied at Douer vpon deliberation to haue sent him to the Councel That vvas Christes special vvorke and prouidence to be glorified booth in his preaching a vvhole yere to the inspeakable good of innumerable deceiued soules and also in his precious death aftervvard Comming therefore to London he preached there his first sermon vpon SS Peter and Paules day which I vvas at my selfe His first Sermon hauing a ful audience and very vvorshipful but aftervvard booth there and in sundry partes of the realme far greater through the fame and experience of his manifold vertues great eloquence and lerning many Protestantes of good nature at sundry times admitted also to the same vvho euer aftervvard contemned their vulgar pulpit men in comparison of him The first man of calling to whose hovvse he vvas conducted in the countrey The speaches bewixt him and the gentilman in vvhose house he first preached in the countrey demaunded of the person that brought him thither being him selfe of good worship what he vvas and from vvhence he came and lerning that he vvas a religious man and one that had bene long in foraine partes before he would admitte him toke him aside and asked the causes of his retorne home and repaire to him and whether he meant not vnder coulor of religion to withdravv her M. subiectes from their obedience To which he ansvvered protesting befor God that he had neither other commission of his superiors nor intētion of him self then to minister the holy Sacraments preach and teach the people to saluation and that he neither could nor vvould medle with matter of state Vvherevpon the partie embraced him and bid him hartely welcome to his hovvse Finding aftervvard by a littel further acquaintance which al the world might see that he vvas no man for worldly matters but only for the schole Church and pulpit wherein his giftes vvere excellent in the highest degree And from that day til his apprehension he preached once a day at the least He preached daily and often He conuerted many of the best sort often tvvise and sometimes thrise whereby through Gods goodnes he conuerted sundry in most shires of the Realme of most wisdome and vvorshipe besides yong Gentilmen studentes and others of al sortes At his first entrance he made his proffer of disputation for such causes as he alleaged in the same His chalēdg and his booke vvritten to the vniuersities and more at large aftervvard in his eloquent and lerned booke to both the vniuersities Vvhereby the Protestant Preachers and Prelates found them selues so deeply wounded in their doctrine and credite notvvithstanding they had patched vp a fevv pamphletes without al grace against him that they pricked her M. Councel to alter the question from controuersie in religion The protestants deuise to ouerthrovv him to the cause of the Prince and matter of state that so they might defende that by force authoritie which they could not do by all their lerning and diuinitie Therevpon it was geuen out by diuers speaches and proclamations that great consederacies of POPE and foraine Princes vvere made for the inuasion of the Lande and that the Iesuistes and Seminary Priestes were sent in forsoth to prepare their waies and such like trumperie to beguile and incense the simple against them Then al exquisite diligence was vsed for the apprehension of others but specially of F. Campion vvhom being but one among thousandes of the Churches children The follie of the aduersarie nor the cheefe in England of his order yet they called the Popes Champian and right hand At length after he had laboured in Gods haruest wel nere xiij Monethes by the notorious wickednes of on George Eliote a forelorne fellovv Eliot the traditor such as for affliction of holy men this vvorld commonly vseth after long search and much a doe by Gods permission he fel into the persecutors hands the xvij His apprehension of Iuly 1581. being found in a secret closset in a Catholike Gentilman and confessors house called M. Yates of Lyford And in what sort tvvoe Godly Priests M. Forde and M. Collington being with him al lying vvhen the ennemy discouered them vpon a bed their faces handes lifted vp to heauen
name of Richardson and the ij of August the same yere He vvent to Rome he vvas sent to Rome in cōpany vvith M. Rishton vvho vvas cōdemned vvith him also vvhere he studied in the Seminarie til the yere M.D.LXXX at vvhat time he retorned homevvard and came to Remes vvhere he staied certaine daies after his fellovves vvho then by diuers vvaies and portes vvere entered into the Realme vpon this occasion A motion made to the Pope of a Suffragane for Englād There vvas not long before special sute made to his Holines that as vve had of priests to al spiritual purposes good store for our countrey so vve might haue at least one Suffragane or Bishop to supplie diuers necessarie functions that could not be done by the inferior cleargie as amongest other things the sacrament of Cōfirmation Great lacke of Confirmation which being specially ordained of our Sauiour to geue strength and constancie to stand in defence of the faith in such times of persecution as this is vvas much necessarie for our countrey and could not be had by reason al our true Bishops vvere either dead in prison or so restrained that they could not exercise that or other their holy Ministeries The POPE though he deliberated therevpon some daies Causes vvhy the Pope vvould not graunt it yet in the end vpon very many vvise considerations and specially for that he would not haue any of that high calling to fal into the hands of the ennemy not doubting but that they would vse such an one as barbarously as any other Priest or Catholike did not thinke it good at that time to create any such But aftervvard the right Reuerend in God Thomas Goldvvel Bishop of S. Assaph The cause vvhy the Bishop of S. Assaph came out of Italy a most Venerable and auncient Confessor that hath suffered banishment for his conscience halfe his life though he be vvel nere lxxx yeres of age hearing the maruelous zeale of so many Godly Priests and their heroical endeuours for the saluation of their countrey vvas sturred in spirit and much desired to end the remnant of his old yeres in the seruice of his countrey vvent to his Holines to desire his leaue and benediction in that behalfe and with much adoe for that great respect was had of his dignitie and old age it vvas graunted him Vvherevpon the old honorable Father aduentured dovvne as fare as Rhemes in al the heate where he gaue to the Seminarie the greatest comfort and the same yelded to him al the contentement in the vvorld Cōsulting there hovv to gaine our countrey to saluation by any office of life or by glad suffering of death it self Vvhich meeting Vvhat the Coūsel imagined of his and others comming dovvne and specially that old and Reuerend Confessors comming dovvne for England as they al deemed put maruelous concepts into the Counsels heads that there was some great and nevve attempt or inuasion tovvard for worldly men standing only at the vvatch of the temporal state could not imagine that for gaining of a soule or tvvo or for conuersion of a kingdom either such men would be so diligēt and venturous as to come vpon their pickes and roopes vvithout some vvorldly succours The cause of the Bishops stay and retorne Novv it so chanced by Gods prouidence that the said Lord of S. Assaph for other causes and specially for that he fel into a very daungerous ague vvith the contagious cough vvhich then raigned in Rhemes he could not passe on in his iorney so spedely as other of the Societie and Priests did and therfore for his more honor comfort some other specially this man of God M. Shervvine offered to tarie vvith his Lordship during his sicknes and then vvhen God should send him strength to be one of his chapliens and conductors into his countrey but it vvas resolued at length that for the vncertentie of his recouery M. Shervvine should passe forvvard tovvard Roan and there rather to expect him as he did But the good Father novv much vveakened by his sickenes and othervvise not vvel appointed nor in deed fit for to take the paines nor any waies by reason of his markeable person very great age and feeblenes long like to escape the persecutors hands was in fine altered from that purpose and after his recouery he thought good rather to retorne into Italie againe as he did His apprehension And M. Shervvine vvent forvvard tovvards England vvhere after his arriual he occupied him self in al functions belonging to Priesthod vvith great zeale and charitie and sone after he vvas taken in M. Roscarrokes chamber in London Hovv he vvas vsed in prison and committed to the Marshalsey vvhere he lay night and day in a great paire of shakles for the space of a moneth In Nouember after his emprisonement there came vvord from the Knight Marshal to the keeper of the Marshalsey to vnderstand of him vvhether there vvere any Papists in his prison that durst or vvould maintaine their cause by disputation A motion of disputatiōs and if there were any such that then they should send him such questions as they would defend subscribed vvith their handes and make them ready to dispute for they should vnderstād from him shortely of the maner time and place hovv and vvhere to dispute This motion vvas so vvel liked of the Catholikes Accepted by the Catholikes that this M. Shervvine and tvvo other Priests that vvere condemned vvith him aftervvard M. Hart M. Bosgraue offered them selues to the combat drevve out questions subscribed their names and sent them to the said K Marshal But their questions pleasing him not they do accept and allovve of other questions sent vnto them from the said K. Marshal and do expect with ioyful minde the day appointed to dispute But loe He is remoued to the Tovver euen the day before they should haue disputed M. Shervvine was remoued to the Tovver vvhere he vvas at sundrie seueral times examined and racked In his first racking he was asked vvhere F. Campion and F. Parsons vvere His racking and the interrogatories vvhy he and they came ouer into England vvhat acquaintance he had here in England vvhether he had said Masse in M. Roskarokes chamber and vvhether he had of him at any time money His conferences vvith the Ministers did much good He was close prisoner almost a whole yere in which time he had diuers conferences with Ministers both priuately and in some open audience both of honorable and worshipful to the honor of God the benefit of his afflicted Church and to the admiration of most of the hearers He vvas after his first racking fet out in a great snovv and laid vpon the racke Great crueltie and the Gentilman in whose chamber he was taken was kept in a bye darck corner to heare his pitiful grones and complaints On Midsomer-day in the yere 1581 He vvas delt
haeret imago Primatui cordi non abolenda meos Doctus eras facundus eras gratissimus vnus Omnibus ob mores ingeniumque tuum Per quoscunque gradus ires Seu laurea hacca Siue Magisterij te decoraret honor Primus eras princepsque gregis cessere priores Partes palmam caetera turba tibi Post vbi maturis fieres prouectior annis Procurator eras hic honor amplus erat Multorum interea prudens pius atque peritus Nobilium doctor Caetera quid memorem Omnia pro Christo reputas quasi stercorâ— nâ—uem Scandis angustas traijcis exul aquas Moxque Duacena consistis in vrbe doÌ„moque Anglorum cuius Praeses Alanus erat Totus es in studijs suoris quorum anteâ—semper Pene tibi puero mirits inhaesit amor Timotheo similis didicisti valde adolescens Quae peritura foreâ—t non aliquando bona Accessit sacris studijs sacer gradus illum Sacra Duacenae iura dedere scholae Pergis ascendis caelestia versus honores Nec petis humanos aemplius alta magis Et diuina petis Domus est celeberrima IESV Nomine dicta illi te sociare cupis Is Romam factus socius de nomine IESV Iussus es Arctoas mox peragrare plagas Bruna tibi primùm post est habitata Vienna Tertia pâ—stremò mansio â—â—â—ga fuit Hic tibi creuit honor creuit nomenque decusque Famaque Teutonico grandis in orbe tua est Multa doces scribis loqueris Rectore iubente Omnia tam facÃlè quà m iubet ille facis Siue perorares rhetor facundia qualis Seu metra conficeres quis meliora dedit AMBROSIA est testis sic dicta tragaedia cuius Applausum incessit tota theatra tremor Sed tamen excellens inter tua talia multa Festo quoque die Sermo latinus erat Obstupuere homines docti quae maxima turba Adfuit attonitus Caesar ipse fuit Os tibi mellifluum faciâ—i gratâ— venustas Vox dulcis lenis plena sâ—nora grauis Res sacrae eloquium sanctum diuina loquelâ—â— Spiritus accensus totus amore Dei. Haesere astantes in te vultúque manúque Inque tuas voces pendula turba fuit Quid multis multas animas lucraris ab orco Hussum Lutherum saepe valere iubent Hos inter varios conatus atque labores Iussus es ad patrios ire repente lares Anglia mox repetenda tibi est quae relligionis Causa iam pridem terra relicta tibi est Longum iter ingressus pedibus latéque patentes Permensus terras ad tua vota venis Saluus incolumis Christo duce littorae prensaâ— Formidanda alijs sed tibi tuta satis Haeresis hic regnat non vna aut altera multos Multorum errores insulae parua colit Hanc syluam ingressus variaruÌ„ hinc inde feraruÌ„ Te pugnae contra tot fera monstrá paras Immo vltrò inuitas sed nemo restipulatur Horror erat tecum disseruisse palam Scribis adhuc modicum sed magno pondere librum Ecce nouus metus maior in hoste furor Interea peragrans regionem vltróque citróque Atque docens veram Câ—â—â—olicamque fideâ—â— Omnia trâ—xisti tecum liquefacta fluebant Ligna Petrà montes ignibus icta tuis Magnatum ipsorum mollescunt corda tuâ—rum Fulmine verbâ—rum caetera turba magis Poenituit vitae pariter fideique prioris Et se tam miseros ante fuisse pudet Ardor inest animis deuotio pectora complet Iamque colunt mira relligione Deum Post annum captus vinctus ductúsque triumphâ— Tortus in mortem iudicis oâ—e datus Denique perpossus quacunque habet iste libellus Inter tot fratres MARTYâ— ad astra migras O foelix vitae cursus finisque beatus Fortiter in domino pro Dominoque mori Sis mihi quasò tuo facilis patronus alumno Nec cesses pro me saepe rogare Deum Thus far of the three first vvhich only of the xiiij condemned the xx and xxi of Nouember 1580 vvere as you haue heard together executed Novv hovv after long tract of time straite handeling and much arte vsed to make them either confesse the fained fact or deny their faith Seuen moe of them vvere Martyred after their examinanation in these articles folovving their seueral ansvvers subscribed vvith their ovvne handes and with the iiij commissionâ—rs attestation of the truth of the act vve vvil briefly report THE ARTICLES MINISTRED TO THE 7 PRIESTES AND OTHERS CONDEMNED VVITH THEM VVITH the ansvveres of these 7 to the same 13. Maij. 1582. WHETHER the Bull of Pius quintus against the Queenes Maiestie be a lavvfull sentence and ought to be obeyed by the subiects of England 2 Whether the Queenes Maiestie be a lavvfull Queene and ought to be obeyed by the subiects of England notvvithstanding the Bul of Pius quintus or any other Bul or sentence that the Pope hath pronounced or may pronounce against her Maiestie 3 Vvhether the Pope haue or had povver to authorize the Earles of Northumberlande and Vvestmerland and other her Maiesties subiects to rebell or take armes against her Maiestie or to authorize Doctour Saunders or others to inuade Irelande or any other her dominions and to beare armes against her and vvhether they did therein lavvfully or no 4 Vvhether the Pope haue povver to discharge any of her highnes subiects or the subiects of any Christian prince from their allegiance or othe of obedience to her Maiestie or to their prince for any cause 5 Vvhether the said Doctour Saunders in his booke of the visible monarchie of the Church and Doctour Bristovve in his booke of Motiues vvriting in allovvance commendation and confirmation of the saide Bul of Pius quintus haue therein taught testified or mainteined a truth or a falsehood 6 If the Pope doe by his Bull or sentence pronounce her Maiestie to be depriued and no lavvful Queene and her subiects to be discharged of their allegiance and obedience vnto her and after the Pope or any other by his appointment and authoritie doe inuade this Realme vvhich part vvoulde you take or vvhich part ought a good subiect of England to take Luke Kirbyes Ansvvere LVKE KIRBY To the first he saith that the resolutioÌ„ of this article depeÌ„deth vpon the general question whether the Pope may for any cause depose a prince vvherein his opinion is that for some causes he may lavvfully depose a prince that such a sentence ought to be obeyed To the second he thinketh that in some cases as infidelitie or such like her Maiestie is not to be obeyed against the Popes Bul and sentence for so hee saith he hath read that the Pope hath so done de facto against other princes To the third he saith he cannot ansvvere it To the fourth that the Pope for infidelitie hath such povver as is mentioned is this article To the fifth he thinketh that both Doctor Saunders and Doctour Bristovve might