euer deemed him to be of all religions that it to say of none at all and so the euent did declare He could temporize egregiously and frame his religion in all places after the humours of the companie In the end his creditors came so roundly vpon him for his manifold and huge debts that he was in forced secretly to depart and to take England on his backe Not long after he became so deeply Iesuited that he must needs be a glorious popish martyr viz. an arrant and most bloudie traytour he thought sought by murdering his naturall soueraigne to haue gotten gold money large possessions and so perhaps to haue paid his creditors or at the least to haue cut them short at his pleasure But in steade of a popish imaginarie charter hee found an english reall halter according to his cōdigne deserts Twelftly they grant that shortly after this stratageme the Iesuite Holt and others with him perswaded one Patricke Collen an Irish-man to attempt the laying of his violent and villanous hands vpon her maiesties person Thirteenthly they freely confesse that doctor Lopez the Queenes phisition was stirred vp to haue poysoned her Maiestie and the like they affirme of Yorke VVilliams and Edward Squire animated and drawne thereunto by VValpole that pernitious Iesuite All these notorious treasons right reuerend father damnable in nature intollerable in state and almost incredible in relation are plainly confessed of the Secular-priests and the same together with many other bad licentious barbarous sauage and plaine brutish practises of Iesuited papists are compendiously comprised in this small volume Which I haue therefore endeuoured to reduce to certaine heads distinct bookes and chapters with some profitable annotations annexed to the same because I am verily perswaded that whosoeuer shall seriously pervse them with indifferencie cannot but loath and detest cursed Iesuitisme and all popish Iesuited faction For though it be necessarie to all true hearted English subiects to know throughly the matters discouered by the Secular Priests yet because many for lacke of money are not able to buy the bookes and others because they are tedious and confusely written will either abstaine wholy from the reading thereof or lightly and slenderly runne them ouer and so neuer attaine to the full knowledge thereof I haue imployed my industrie my wits to couch in a small volume and portable manuall the summe effect of all their bookes pamphelets libells edicts and letters so as euery one may easily compasse the price and no one bee wearied in pervsing the discourse My desire was to profit all to confirme the strong to strenghthen the weake to stay the staggerer to rowze vp the drowsie to instruct the ignorant to gratifie the thankefull to perswade the doubtfull and to confound the proud malepeart and disloyall hearts Paule planted Apollo watred but God gaue the increase If therefore any good be wrought by these my labours let such as shall reape that good be thankfull to God for the same The disloyall papists bloud thirstie Iesuites haue alreadie kicked against my former labours and whet their malicious tongues against me Their holy father the bishoppe of Rome whome they tearme the Pope hath thundred out his curse against me But neither secular priests nor religious Iesuites will or can make any sound answere to any of my bookes They haue often beene buzzing about the matter yet neuer durst they publish so much as but one colourable answere either to all or to any one of my bookes so as I must needs thinke that maledictiō cursing rayling will be their morning and euening song against me by reason of this my friendly posie which I present as a most redolent odour to their noses-grauitie so often as they shall kisse the shoe of their Pope and with him commit idolatrie the vsuall manner most reuerend and worthy prelate in all such kind of exercises both is and alwaies hath beene to make choise of some worthy and mightie personage to protect defend and patronize the cause and doubtles neuer did any booke or pamphlet stande in more neede of a stout and resolute patron then this present volume For the traytorous Iesuites and Iesuited papists that cannot endure their owne brethren the secular priests to publish in their honest defence their knowne practises and imperfections will no doubt become starke madde fetch al their Romish friscols against me poore soule who haue as it were anatomized and painted them out in their best beseeming colours After mature deliberation had herein most christian patron of learning and learned men I haue resolued to dedicate this worke to your most reuerend name as to that vertuous Tobi◠who is able with the perfumes of the heart and liuer of a fish that is to say with the redolent harmonie of christian diuinitie which continually floweth most pleasantly form his mouth to vanquish all the Asmodean-Iesuites vpon earth to strike such terrours into their harts as they shall not once dare to grunt or barke against my true dealing and sincere proceeding in this behalfe Sundry other motiues do occurre which might most iustly incite me to this dedication of these my late studies if they were better then in deed they are amongst which many large bounties from time to time receiued at your Lordships hand doe well deserue to haue a place So praying the almightie to increase your godly zeale against all traytorous Iesuites disloyall popish vassales and to blesse your good Lordshippe with many happie yeeres to his glorie your owne soules health and the common good of his Church I humbly take my leaue From my studie this 23. of Ianuarie 1602. Your Lordships most bounden Thomas Bell. The Elogie of the author in signe of his loyall affection both toward his late Soueraigne and now regnant The cursed crew of Iesuites A change did long desire A change they haue but to their griefe Both Pope and Spaine admire Our noble Queene Elizabeth From hence to heauen is gone King Iames the first giuen vs of God By right sits in her throne Shee fourtie yeeres and foure complete did Pope and Spaine withstand And maugree all their bloudie plots In peace did rule this land Gods word and his true worshippe euer VVith zeale shee did defend For which cause God did her protect Vntill her life did end Her death perforce we must lament VVho dearely lou'd vs all Her bountie great her mercie rare The world to witnesse call Yet English hearts be not dismaide King Iames is our regent Hence Poperie certes he will supplant All falshood must relent He will doe iustice euery where And poore mens cause respect The mightie must not them annoy He will their right protect Poore men to him must haue accesse Their owne cause there to tell No bribes can haue place in his court Thence vice he will expell The richer sort with lingringe suites Must not the poore oppresse Our noble King the man of God Their
must end vpon the ninth day of October at which time Parsons wrote his letter and so perforce he is farre short of his halfe yeare and consequently a lyar Thirdly that when Parsons saith from May to Nouember is more then halfe a yeare in which time no letter was come from them he both contradicteth himselfe and is an impudent lyar I proue it because euerie child knoweth that betweene may and Nouember intercéedeth the moneth of October and yet as Parsons confesseth liberally he wrote his letter to master Bishop the ninth of that moneth and the same weeke receiued a stale letter firm the same Bishop So then it is true that Parsons receiued a letter from master Bishop in the moneth of October and consequently it is false that he receiued no letter from May to nouember Fourthly that the word now in Parsons his letter doth connotate the time present that is the time of the date of his letter to wit the ninth of October at which time as he saith in one place he had receiued no letter but as he saith in another place he had that weeke receiued a stale letter Ergo Parsons is a stale lyar This lye is confirmed in perpetuam res memoriam by the word yet for when he saith no one letter appearing from you yet he doth flatly contradict himselfe when he saith by a stale letter which I receiued this weeke from you Fiftly that when Parsons saith the reports of the hard and iniurious dealing vsed to the messengers in Rome is contrarie to all truth the falshood proceedeth from his lying lips as I haue alreadie proued Sixtly that master Bishop I know the man right well is of better credit then twentie Iesuited Standishes 70. Iesuited Haddockes 100. Iesuited Personians Sect. III. Of the Secular priests and their writings PArsons in the preface of his Apologie telleth vs that these bookes must needes be presumed to haue beene published eyther by some one or few discomposed passionate people or by some heretike or other enemie to dishonour them all and to discredit their cause and nation and so as to such he will answere and not against his brethren whom he loueth most intirely but in many other places he singeth an other song For page 63. he affirmeth it to be probable by many euident arguments that a long and slanderous narration was written by the proper pen of the chiefe authors of all these broyles Againe page 8. he confesseth that two priests whom he termeth the ambassadours of the secular priests came to Rome about the controuersie Againe page 9. he confesseth that in Nouember last 1600. diuers of the discontented made a generall appeale from the Archpriests iurisdictien Againe page 24. he saith that his brethren doe vse so fonde a calumniation against the Iesuites as no man can but wonder thereat Againe page 105. he termeth the authors of the bookes his discontented brethren To be briefe in maine other places he confesseth that master Bishoppe master Charnocke master Mush master Bagshaw master Champney master Collington master Warson and others haue written against the Iesuites so as contradictions may be deemed a thing verie common with our graue and holy Iesuite Robert Parsons who knew right well that the declaration sent to his holinesse was subscribed with the hands of thirtie priests whose names I would here put downe but that I studie to tbe briefe Sect. IIII. Of the elegant Epithetons ascribed to the Iesuite Parsons by Iohn Collington the Secular priest in his booke of Defence IOhn Collington hath lately published a large volume in defence of the seculars for their appeale to the Pope against tyrannizing Blackwel which book came lately to my hand but doth so euidently conuince the Arch-priest and the Iesuites specially that notorious traytor Robert Parsons as I cannot omit to make briefe recitall of some parts therof for the common peace of this our natiue countrey In the page 30. He hath these words whose busie head he speaketh of Parsons actions haue béene the cause and increase of much trouble and persecution in our Church and Realme And who being a member of an other bodie and professing also a mortified state and to haue relinquished the world seeketh neuerthelesse to be our great master and to rule all or to tyrannize rather Againe pag. 31. He saith they haue most pregnant grounds to proue that Parsons was the inditer of the Cardinals letter constitutiue for the archpriests iurisdiction Againe page 296. He affirmeth that Parsons writeth no booke discourse nor scarse any letter of these stirres wherein he doth not recount some good act of his owne Againe page 297. he telleth vs that Parsons by managing of the Colledge hath gotten such store of money as he spendeth fiue or sixe crownes a weeke in postage for letters onely Againe page 253. hee affirmeth boldly that Parsons appointed the Arch-priest Againe page 255. he termeth Parsons the Arch-deuiser in getting the Cardinals hand subscription and seale Againe page 206. hee chargeth Parsons with many vntruthes and to haue as little synceritie in his actions as truth in his writings Againe page 256. he hath these words it would make to the praâ—se of father Parsons if religion were lesse worldlisted in him and state matter and the designing of kingdomes had not so great a part in his studies Againe page 170. he hath these words we assure our selâ—es father Parsons that your restlesse spirit and pen your enterprising and busie actions haue turned heretofore our Catholike professants to infinit preiudice for to no knowne cause can we impute so much the making of the seuere lawes of our countrey as to your edging attempts and vocations Againe page 240. hee telleth vs plainely that Parsons hath proferred and reprofered the Crowne of England to seuerall princes now to one now to another as opportunities best serued to entertaine the personage with the hope thereof And to omit many testimonies because I would not be tedious I will heere recount one for all which master Colleton setteth downe in these words Neyther is father Parsons holden onely of our magistrate for a statist or marchandizer of the Crowne Diademe though this were enough to estrange vs from hauing any partaking in ought with him but his trauels and negotiations this way are become so notoriously knowne that euen Pasquine in Rome as intelligence is sent vs speaketh in this manner of him if there be any man that will buy the Kingdome of England let him repayre to a marchant in a blacke square cappe in the Citie and hee shall haue a verie good penny worth thereof Thus writeth Colleton of Parsons who both are deuoted to the Pope alike Sect. V. Of Parsons his birth and expulsion out of Balioll Colledge in Oxford THat Robert Parsons the Iesuite and marchandizer of the Crowne of England as in the former Section is a bastard and a man of bad demeanour the fift chapter of the second booke
reside and the walkes which they frequent That so her maiesties person may be secured and their natiue countrie preserued form the treasonable practises of those trayterous villaines For if they say they may not this doe least so they become the cause of their imprisonment exile or death that cannot serue there turne nor be a sufficient excuse for them in this behalfe I proue it First for that they shal no otherwise become such a cause thē they haue beene the same alreadie by reuealing their tresonable plots and bloudie treacheries Secondly because thereby they shall doe nothing els then that which as themselues write they are bound in conscience to performe Thirdly because in so doing they shall onely effect that which the law of iustice requireth at their handes as themselues doe graunt Fourthly because how often soeuer two euils doe so concurre that both can not be auoyded but that of necessitie the one must happen then it is not onely charitie but euerie man is also bound to preuent the greater euill with the permission of the lesse For the clearing hereof I will here recount the priestes their owne expresse words which though they be longe yet doe I with the reader to marke them attentiuely because they are verie important plainly conuince so much as I intend First you know say the Priestes it is a generall receiued ground by all that when the actions of any particular man or men be they of what degree they will be secular or religious ecclesiasticall or lay doe tende to anie generall or common huit of a communitie as for example the actions of some particular seruant in a familie to the ruine or ouerthrow of the familie the actions of some particuler scholers in a colledge to the subuersion of the colledge or the actions of some particuler men in a common weale to the destruction of a common weale It is then not onely lawfull to disclose these particuler men and their particuler actions though otherwise priuate diffamatorie to the said particuler parties as all such actions of their owne nature must needes be but also euerie honest seruant euerie faithfull seruant euerie true scholler and loyall subiect is bound in conscience vpon his dutie to his master faith to his colledge loyaltie to his Prince and loue to his countrie to disclose such persons and their facts or intentions without regarde or respect vnto the hurt or damage that may redound to the said particuler parties so offending The reason hereof is this because a generall good is alwaies to be preferred before a particuler and a greater hurt to be eschewed before the lesse As for example when two euils concurre so that both cannot be auoyded but that necessarily the one must happen it is not onely charitie but euerie man is also bound to preuent the greater euill with permission of the lesse rather then the contrarie These words are set downe at large in this manner in the replie to Parsons libell Fol. 28. a. This is a goodly foundation which the Priests haue laid as which indeede is grounded vppon the verie law of nature And out of this grounde may so much fitly be deduced as is sufficient to conclude my scope and purpose If therefore the secular priestes doe in deede meane truly to their Prince and countrie as they pretend in outward shew of words then no doubt they will doe as is alreadie said But if they refuse thus to deale against the traytorous crew of Iesuites for the common good of their natiue countrie then doe they but dissemble and equiuocate when they tell vs they will take part with our Queene and countrie against the Pope and king of Spaine Thus much I thought good to set downe for a caueat to the reader For these obseruations being well remembred the reader shall be more able to iudge of the discourse following This caueat must be well pervsed throughly vnderstood and faithfully remembred or els the reader cannot possibly be able to yeelde a sounde censure vpon the whole worke First therfore reade it then vnderstande it that donne giue thy iudgement as indifferencie and right reason shall prescribe An admonition to the Reader MAnie bookes are lately written by the Iesuites and secular Priests viz the Relation the Sparing discouerie the Important cōsiderations the Hope of peace the Copies of discourse the Quodlibets the Dialogue the answer to the Iesuited gentlemā the Letters of A. C the Apologie the reply to the libell of Parsons the Iesuite the aunswer to the Apologie compiled by Master D. Ely M. Colletons defence the manifestation of folly the Replie to the Apologie the Franke discourse the Iesuites catechisme Which two last bookes the learned Papistes of France haue lately published All these bookes I haue pervsed verie seriously and drawen the summarie and chiefe points of them all vnto certaine heads distincte bookes and chapters So as the indifferent reader may in a few houres vnderstand the effect of the whole proceeding betweene the Iesuites and the secular priestes I haue like wise compiled an Alphabeticall table in which the reader may easilie finde out at his pleasure any principall matter handled in this discourse To read all the said bookes is a labour both tedious and painefull To buy them is too chargeable for manie To vnderstand them as they are cōfusely published is a thing not easie for the greater part The defect herein my annotations and compendious obseruations will supplie The argument of the booke is so necessary for all true hearted English subiects that I wish euerie one to be well acquainted therewith The reader may at his pleasure and that with all facilitie turne to the originall in euerie booke by me named and by the helpe of my quotations finde out roundly the verie wordes which I put downe For I alwaies name both the booke and the page and doe euer alledge their owne words That done I haue inserted some speciall notes obseruatiōs as I deemed it expediēt for the good of the reader Paule planted Apollo watred but the God of heauen gaue the increase The same God I most humblie desire so to water the hearts of the readers with the dewe of his heauenly blessing that they may thereby learne to detest all Iesuiticall treasons and seditious Popish factions Fare-well The first Booke contayning certaine Preambles for the better instruction of the Reader as also that the bookes following may be read more seriously and with greater perspicuitie Preamble I. Of the syncere and true dealing of the Author throughout this discourse THe Iesuits are thought of the simply seduced Papists to be holy men to haue familiaritie with God to haue receiued extraordinary graces from heauen and to be saints vpon earth So then if my selfe should of my selfe speake any thing against them I might perhaps get smal or no credite on that behalfe But when I shal write nothing of them but euen that which their owne brethren in Religion their
prudent a counsell as her Maiesties is if not for a toleration of our rites at least for a mitigation of our aggriefes in the meane time Thus write the priestes out of these words I note first that the papists expect a day viz. the death of her Maiestie eyther naturall or violent whose happie life and victoirous raigne God blesse with Nestors yeares and defend her sacred person her honour crowne and royall scepter from all trayterous attempts and bloody designements of the Pope Spaniard Iesuite and other disloyall papists now and euer I note secondly that the priests expect trouble rather then peace in their long wished change and conquest I note thirdly that the priests boldly anouch that her Maiesties graue counsellers cannot preuent the mischiefe that the disloyall papists are able to worke in this land I note fourthly that they proudly and malepeartly like saucie malcontents auaunt their partie to be so great after fortie yeares persecution that the Queenes power must stand in feare thereof I note fiftly that they seeme to haue conceiued an hope that they shall as it were with bigge words and threats enforce a toleration to be granted them Where me thâ—â—ke they should rather feare to procure sharper measure to them selues in time to come then to liue in hope of any toleration My reasons are these First because where they would haue rendred humble thanks for her Maiesties great clemencie they contrariwise bragge of their great partie which her Maiestie might haue cut short before this day Secondly because if their partie be great and strong as they auaunt it is there is greater cause to keepe them vnder and suppresse then to giue them more scope by granting a toleration Paragraph V. Of the popish Catholike religion of Secular priests and why it is called Catholike THus write the Catholike secular priests of their popish Catholike religion Is there any sinne deare Catholikes rising vpon infirmitie and frailtie of man committed by an apostate an infidell an heretike an atheist cast out of the fauour of God and accursed out of his Church but a Catholike may often hath fallen into the saire and yet remained constant in his religion to death questionlesse there is not As innumerable examples of treasons of murthers of adulteries of incests of drunkennes of cusnage of what not vice doth verifie it in all nations in all times sexes and sorts of people These words are set down in their preface to their important considerations a little from the beginning thereof Note heere gentle reader many most excellent epithites which the secular Romish priests ascribe to themselues and to their Romish or popish Catholikes Viz. That they may be traytors murtherers adulterers incestuous persons drunkerds coâ—seners and all manner malefactors and yet be popish catholiks good enough constant in the popish religion vnto death If the papists theÌ„selues had not written thus who would haue beleeued me none at all But Gods spirit hath enforced their owne pennes to testifie the truth against themselues Out of this their plaine doctrine and open confession these golden corollaries are deduced euidently First that the popish religion may fitly be termed Catholike that is to say generall or vniuerall and the professors of the same religion Catholikes that is generalls For in good sooth if they speake truly of themselues all vices generally are in themselues and they are generally vitious as their letters patents tels vs. Secondly that where they imagine there is a purgatorie after this life it may seeme that such their opinatiue doctrine proceeded of their most beastly liuing For treasons murthers adulteries incests drunkennes couâ—enage and al vices that can be must needs haue a purgation doubtlesse And consequently these notorious vices remayning in popish Catholikes vnto death no maruell if they dreamed of a popish new no purgatorie after this life Thirdly that the popish religion cannot be good For as Saint Iames saith cap. 1. pure and sound religion is this to keepe our selues vnspotted of this world And therefore seeing popish religion may stand with such vices it cannot be good Paragraph VI. Of the Romish late English Archpriest and the excellencie of his creation IN good sooth we thinke his mastership as farre to blame as eyther of them or more in that being a secular priest he doth so tyrannize ouer his owne brethren by calling and hath not the wit to see how he is abused and made a puppie to dance after their pipe and to execute what they doe commaund him These words are set downe in the preface to their relation In another place thus Because none are iudged vertuous that oppose themselues selues against the Iesuites or refuse to worship their Iesuiticall idoll our Arch-priest But in good sooth master Blackwell speake truly man doth not that contention in some sort touch your high authoritie Was it not the ground of it Did not our garboyles beget your greatnes If master Weston had preuailed with vs master Garnet would haue wiued your nose for dealing like a young prince abroad as you doe And therefore indeed in a right goodsense wee are your good masters and so you ought to esteeme vs. These words are set downe in the same preface to their relation Note heere gentle reader these important points with me First that the popish priests in this Realme are so multiplied and become so strong and mightie and haue conceiued so firme and constant hope of their abilitie shortly to accomplish their long wished conquest that they haue desired their Pope to appoint presently some bishoppe or bishoppes ouer them What would these boysterous Nimrods doe if a toleration were granted them if they be so sawcie malepeart and peremptorie when they are in some sort by law kept vnder and supprest what troubles what garboyles what sedition and treacherie would they stirre vp thinke you If the magistrates should fauour them in such sort as they desire I doubt not but her Maiesties wise and graue counsellers doe sufficiently see what marke these good fellowes ayme at Secondly that the Iesuites labour with tooth and nayle that they may haue all and ouerrule all And when they could not preuaile therein as they wished directly their solemne vowe withstanding it they brought to passe by indirect meanes that an Arch-priest to their liking is appointed ouer all This Lordly Arch-priest is George Blackwell forsooth I know the man right well He is made a puppie to daunce as the Iesuites pipe vnto him For he is the Iesuiticall idoll as the priests write and dareth to doe nothing but as they commaund him neyther may hee refuse to execute whatsoeuer they will haue done Thirdly that it is true which I probably foretolde long since in my booke of motiues viz. That as the Romish English seminarie beganne with an vngodly oath and dissention so it would continue vnto the end And I pray you is it not this day apparant to the world You see it it can not bee
the Pope enforced king Lewis to yeeld vp his whole title and right that eyther he or his posteritie had or euer should haue to the English crowne This they likewise approue and commend Sixtly they crie and exclayme with open mouthes that thousands in England desire as much to be done Which is all one as I interprete it as if they wished the Pope to send some Cardinall from Rome to be enthronized three daies with the English crowne vpon his head in the right of his holines and then to surrender it vp to Arbella or to some other popish fauorite For so the Spaniard or other foreyner haue it not they haue their desire Me thinke this my glosse swarueth not much from the text The reason is cleare the reader can easily make application thereof The third Reason I know that Iure ecclesiastico and by the authoritie and sentence of the Popes holines much more may be done then heere I will speake of But yet I thinke it will proue in the end the best course for men not to doe so much as they may Many things be lawfull which are not expedient Thus is it written quodl 9. art 3. pag. 293. This reason ab authoritate for better reasons then their owne grants and confessions cannot be had is as strong as the former if it be well noted with the circumstances thereof For first after Watson who speaketh in the name of the seculars had told vs by the doctrine of a learned man that if we goe no further then to the law of nature or to the law of God no king is depriued from his soueraigntie ouer his subiects though it be for the sinne of apostasie from faith forthwith he addeth the words of this present reason affirming peremptorily that the Pope can do more then he will heere set downe Secondly he telleth vs here that kings can neyther by Gods law nor by the law of nature be deposed from their crownes and regalities and consequently when he saith the Pope can doe more hee must perforce affirme both impudently and senselesly that the Popes power is aboue the power of God The latter he dare not say and yet hath Satan so bewitched and besotted him that it followeth necessarily of the former that is of the doctrine which he deliuereth from the penne of a learned writer and putteth it downe for good Now what is it that the Pope can doe more then may be done by the law of nature and of God forsooth he can excommunicate kings depose kings from their royall thrones and put their Diademes vpon the heades of others This is it that Watson will not say heere because it is not expedient Yet vnwittingly the truth enforcing him he telleth vs no lesse in another place For a reuerend priest saith he and ancient gentleman ould master Middleton was content at Parsons his motion to subscribe to the title of Infanta vpon condition that she should be ioyned by marriage to some noble or péere of our land Thus they write peruse the place quoted in the margent Againe in another place it is thus written say then for the present which yet is more then I would willingly put to maintaine the time of our afflicted state considered that his holines and the king of Spayne might lawfully haue taken armes against her Maiestie and this her kingdome our natiue land yet was it a shamefull part of father Parsons and his companions to be the contriuers or instigators of 〈◊〉 These are the expresse words of the place quoted in the margent Out of these two seuerall assertions the confirmations of the third reason generall I gather first that all the difference betweene the Iesuites and the Seculars concerning the inuasion and conquest of this land consisteth in this onely point viz. that the Iesuites would haue the Ladie Infanta of Spayne to be the Queene of England but the seculars will haue an English man to be king of the land They differ not in the thing to be done but in the manner of contriuing the thing that should be done not in the partie to be deposed from the crowne but in the person that should haue the Crowne not about taking the crowne from Queene Elizabeth but about giuing the crown to the Spanish Ladie The reason hereof is euident because our Quodlibetist telleth vs roundly that old Middleton consented willingly to giue his name to the charter of subscription in the behalfe of the Ladie Infanta of Spayne vpon condition that she should be married to some English noble man Which disloyall narration the secular Quodlibetist approoueth and greatly commendeth terming the said Midleton a reuerend priest and ancient gentleman I gather secondly that our Quodlibetist Watson singeth the selfe same song with old trayterous Midleton For he putteth the case that the pope Spanish king should be said to haue taken armes lawfully against her Maiestie and her Realme of England That done forsooth he telleth vs that he would not willingly maintain that doctrine the time circumstances considered Where he vnwittingly auoucheth that the Pope and king of Spayne might lawfully take armes to depose her Maiestie from her royall Diademe Yea he granteth that he would defend the same doctrine but that the time is not correspondent thereunto Let the words be well pondered and this will be the sense The fourth Reason The Quodlibetist and the seculars doe often protest their obedience to the pope and submit themselues and all their writings yea euerie word sillable and title to the censure of the Romane Church One place may suffice where these words are to be read With all humble obedience to the sea Apostolike be it spoken Quodl 8. art 8 pag. 267. This reason doth plainely conuince the contents of this fift aduiso to be true For how is it possible to conceiue that they shall in true meaning say or write any thing against the pope on the behalfe of her Maiestie who protest zealously before God and his Angels that they will yeeld all obedienc◠to the pope therefore do submit themselues and all their writings sentences words and sillables to his censure and iudgement it cannot be they do but temporize in these state matters they vse Iesuiticall equiuocation The fifth Reason The seminaries were willing at the first to colour hide and conceale all making the Iesuites causes attempts intents practises and proceedings their owne in euery thing vntill at last they were intangled by penall lawes iustly made against them equally as against the Iesuites These words are set downe in the preface to the Quodlibets page 6. Againe in another place the priests write thus we had some of vs greatly approued the said rebellion highly extolled the rebels and pitifully bewailed their ruine and ouerthrow Many of our affections were knit to the Spaniards and for our obedience to the pope we all do professe it The attempts both of the pope and Spaniard failing in England
Reason All that come out of Spaine must sweare to be rancke traytors against Quéene Elizabeth This is proued in the second booke chapt 4. page 6. Ergo. c. The eight Reason The seminaries in Spaine were intended and erected of purpose to cause a conquest and to bring England into the slauery of the Spaniard This is proued quodlibet 8. art 10. page 278. Ergo. c. The ninth Reason The seculars in their answere to the Iesuited gentlemaÌ„ doe prowdly vaunt of their great power and forces in the 68 page Ergo. The 10 Reason In all the blondie attempts and treasonable practises of the Pope and Spaniards none were more forward then the secular priests This is proued in the important considerations page 15. Ergo. The 11. Reason The seminaries were willing to colour hide and conceale all the attempts intents practises and proceedinges of the Iesuites vntill they were intangled by penall lawes these words are set downe in the preface to the quodlibets Ergo. The 12. Reason All papists seculars and Iesuites maintained one and the same opinion in all the practises and bloudie complots concerning England This is proued quodli 8. art 9. page 277. But some seculars were as forward against Quéene Elizabeth as the bloudie Spaniards as is proued in the 10. Reason Ergo vnfit men to haue a tolleration The 13. Reason The seculers granut fréely as is allready proued at large that they haue many friends both of the nobility and of the gentrie who loue them dearely are deuoted to the Pope Ergo. many other reasons may be gathered to this effect out of this precedent discourse but I will not stande vpon the matter Her Maiesties graue and wise counsellours know best what is to be done herein onely this I wish to be remembred which is already made manifest in the second booke chapter 4. paragraph 1. that the Iesuites are banished out of the kingdome of France for their seditious dealing there For doubtlesse if they be vnfit persons to dwell in that Realme where popery is openly professed and therefore are banished from thence it séemeth not to stand with christian pollicy to grant them a tolleration to liue as they list in England And séeing the seculars were as deepe as forward in all bloudie practises as yâ— Iesuites or spaniards as is alreadie proued seeing with all they doe still professe their obedience to the Pope her Maiesties professed mortall enemie they seeme as dangerous and as vnfit to enioy a tolleration as doe the Iesuites What say I of a tolleratioÌ„ seeing the seculars coÌ„fesse as I haue proued that the penall lawes are iustly made against them it were not a misse thinke I if this their generall maxime were put in execution viz. fiat iustitia ruant coeli For as our quodlibetist telleth vs the execution of priest-hood and treason are now so linked together by the Iesuites in England as they cannot exhort any to the catholike faith but dogmaâ—â—zando in so doing they draw him in effect to rebellion quodl 9. art 4. page 304. note the next reason The 14. Reason The Pope will not suffer nor permit the Iewes to dwell in Rome vnles they will orderly and dutifully heare the popish sermons in their popish Churches and yet are the popish sermons as much against the conscience of the Iew as are the English sermons against the conscience of the papist Againe the Iewes are not the Popes subiects and so doe they owe lesse dutie to the Pope theÌ„ our english papists owe to Quéene Elizabeth And consequently if the Popes practise with the Iewes be made a rule to square and measure the actions of his popish English vassals they must haue no toleration to abide in England vnles they will come to the Church to heare godly sermons To which I must néedes adde that the Iewes liue peaceably in Rome and doe not any way meddle in seditious and treasonable practises which for all that is a thing very common and vsuall with our English papists as is alreadie proued If therefore the execution of popish priesthood be lincked inseperably with treason as is alreadie proued I hope popery will bee so farre from a tolleration as no disloyall papist shall be permitted to haue any footinge within this land The complement of the three former bookes Paragraph I. Containing a golden redolent posie for the Iesuites and their Iesuited familie presented by the secular Priests to signifie their amitie THe Iesuites and their arch-priesbyteran or Spanish faction inueighing against the secular priests for appealing to the Sea apostolike for iustice in spiritualibus and to the regall throne of sacred maiestie in defence apologiticall of their innocencie in temporalibus do peruert all laws customes and orders and arrogate to theÌ„selues a dignitie preheminence authoritie aboue the Pope and Prince are therebie guiltie of high treason These words are set downe in the preface to their dialogue Note heere gentle reader these important points first that by the flat testimonie of the seculars the Iesuites are censured to be guiltie of high treason and consequently that they are worthily condemned by the lawes of this land for the same secondly that these good fellowes the secular priests do make themselues guiltie of the same treason though not in the same degree For their appeale to the Pope in spiritualibus implyeth high treason against their naturall soueraigne Which to be so themselues confesse els where as shall appeare in the next paragraph Paragraph II. Shewing that the secular priests vnawares condemne themselues in their owne publike writings THe seminaries were willing at the first to colour hide and conceale all making the Iesuites causes attempts intents practises and procéedings their owne in euery thing and yéelding to them the preheminence fame honor and renowne in euery action acted by them vntill at last they were intangled by penall lawes iustly made against them equally as against the Iesuits These words are set downe in the preface to the quodlibets Note heere gentle reader these important points with me first that by the free confession of the seminarie priests the penall statutes are iustly made against them and consequently that the seminaries are iustly condemned for treason Secondly that the penal lawes were made as iustly against the seminaries as they were made against the Iesuites and consequently seeing the notorious treasons of the Iesuites were the cause of the said penall lawes it followeth by necessarie consequution that the seminaries are guiltie either of the same or at the least of other like treasons Thirdly that the seminaries for a longe time made all the bloudie intents and treasonable practises of the Iesuites their owne in euerie respect Fourthly that they honoured the Iesuites euen in their bloudie attempts and cuâ—sed treasons Fiftly that the seminaries did hide and conceale the treasons of the Iesuits for the space of twenty yeares together For the Iesuites began their treasons in the yeare 1580.
the principall English in Rome And I pray you who were these Parsons himselfe forsooth and his brother Iesuite Baldwin lately come for that intent out of England Haddocke also Martin Array and Allen all Iesuited vassals and at his commaund Thirdly diuers other principall men wrote out of Spayne to signifie the sufficiencie of Blackwel for his Arch-presbiteran office and that he should be the gouernour This doth Parsons or his flattering vassals at his designement set downe in expresse termes in their Apologie Now I beseech the gentle reader who is so blind as cannot see this malitious treacherie Parsons seeketh by hooke and by crooke to hide his false dealing and yet doth he vnwittingly bewray his owne villanie Men forsooth in Spayne must please Parsons for their owne gaine and they must write to the Protector at Rome that Blackwell whose sufficiencie they know not is a most sufficient man Hee and none but he must gouerne all the priests in England Will ye know the reason this Blackwell is Iesuited if not a close and secret Iesuite and consequently he being the gouernour Parsons may rule at his pleasure and banish all that will not subscribe to his treasons For not onely the prests but the Cardinall also yea the Pope himselfe must conclude and agrée to the Iesuites their designements Who so will read the instructions which the Arch-priest is inioyned to follow can not possibly but be of my opinion CHAP. IIII Of the fashoods leasings and vntruthes conteyned in the Iesuiticall Apologie published to the world Paragraph I. Concerning Boromoeo the late Cardinall of Millan ANd as for that which our discontented brethren do cite in diuers places of their bookes of Cardinall Boromaeo of holy memorie that he tooke the gouernement of one of his seminaries in Millan from the fathers we haue informed our selues of the trueth that the fathers of their owne will and vpon their owne earnest suite left the said gouernment of the great labour and trouble thereof as also some little difference in opinion about the schollers education which the good Cardinall would haue had somewhat more bare in their diet and apparrel then the fathers order in their seminaries did permit For which the holy Cardinall alledged no euill reason saying that seeing they were to be sent afterwards abroad to poore benefices among countrey people where they must faire hardly they would refuse to goe beeing brought vppe after the diet of other seminaries But the fathers thought it easier for them to leaue this gouerment then to admit this difference and so they left it And the good Cardinall did vse all the meanes possibly he could both there in Rome to stay it in their hands These are the expresse words of Parsons his Iesuited vassals or rather of Parsons himselfe in the said Aplogie By these words two things are cleare The one that the Iesuites had once the gouernment of one of the seminaries in Millan vnder the iurisdiction of the Cardinall Boromaeo the other that the said Cardinall was a good man and of holy memorie Now the controuersie is this whether the good Cardinall disliked of their gouernment and therefore displaced them or that the Iesuites were wearie of the place and therefore did voluntarily leaue it The seculars say that the Cardinall◠〈◊〉 them the Iesuites denie it But why would the Iesuites giue ouer that gouernment which they had once taken vpon them because forsooth the good Cardinall would haue had the schollers to bee brought vp more barely in their diet and apparrell Thus they say but the contrarie is the truth For first eyther the Cardinals allowance was sufficient or not sufficient If it were not sufficient then was he not so good a man nor of so holy memorie as the priests do affirme If it were sufficient then was that excessiue and consequently vitious which the Iesuites did require then was their gouernment iustly disliked then did they shew themselues to be a prude and arrogant kinde of people that would not condescend to the Cardinall in his most lawfull demaund Secondly Doctor Lewis the late bishop of Cassana a man of great credit and renowne and who had great familiaritie with the said Cardinall did often affirme to his friends that the Cardinall could not endure them nor like of their gouernment Master Hugh Griffeth master Morgâ—n and master Meredith all priests this day liuing can and will testifie this to be so Thirdly my selfe admiring that the Iesuites kept not that place which sometime they had in Millar enquired diligently what should be the cause for that I thought well of the Iesuites at that time indeed And one of their owne order being then a Prefect in the English Colledge to say nothing of the common report of others confessed fréely that the Cardinall could not brooke well their fathers but he would not in any case shew the cause thereof This to be true I protest before God and his holy Angels Fourthly they alledge a reason which they would haue to be the Cardinals but both it is from themselues and doth consute themselues The reason is this viz. because they were to be sent afterward abroad to poore benefices where they must fare hardly But this reason is their owne and neuer framed by the Cardinall and it is confuted many waies For first they grant marke their words alreadie cited that the cardinals reason was good and consequently that the Iesuites were bad and without all reason when they refused to yeeld vnto reason Secondly where shall those benefices be found and in what country which are not sufficient to fill the priests belly No where doubtles for the mainteynance of Popish priests is too great euery where Yea by the setled law of poperie would God it were so in our english ministery euery priest at the houre of his consecration hath some title for his sufficient maintenance to say nothing of the huge commodities that doe dayly insue vpon his priestly function And for this cause the papists that now come into England where they haue no titles are created ad titulum sanctissimi and so may iustly chalenge necessary maintenance of the Pope howsoeuer he hath imprisoned the messengers but bestowed no viaticum on them at all neither great nor small Fiftly it followeth of the Iesuites their owne procéedinge that they are vnfit men for gouernance For it is against all reason to allow larger commons and more liberall diet to those that must be sent where no certaine maintenance is so be had and more bare and sparing diet to such as must haue well setled liuings And yet doth the case thus stand by Iesuiticall precéedings in the seminaries For they grant as you see that the Cardinals reason was good but it is their owne indeed in regard of the poore benefices which are farre larger and better a wiseman would thinke then the vncertaine and accidentiall maintenance of the Seminaries in this lande But this happely
may bee gainesaide in respect of the euerie daye expected conquest for other reason none can be yeelded and yet this perforce must be reiected Paragraph II. Of the Iesuite Bellarmine now Cardinall of the sea of Rome To proue the Iesuite Parsons an impudent and a most notorious lyer it is sufficient to pervse to remember what is already said thereof in the third chapter of this booke for after that Parsons hath set downe the narration of the seculars and freely granted the greater part thereof to be true yea the whole in effect as there it is proued and so needeth not here to be recounted he forthwith like a desperate ruffian and as one vnmindfull what he had immediately written affirmeth with shamelesse lippes and rayling tongue that the whole narration is false Which doubtles is such a notorious vntruth as nothing is worthy to be of credite that shall heare after procéede from his penne Paragraph III. Of the students in the English Colledge Parsons that arrogant Iesuite for his owne credite if it would be telleth vs in the apologie in the 184. page that vpon a certaine falling out betweene Maister Doctor Lewes then arch-deacon of Cambray and after bishop of Cassane and the English youthes then students in the English Colledge the said youthes aboue 30. in number were all dismissed thence and yet brought againe and placed in the colledge by his good meanes Thus doth this good fellow boast of his rare fauours towards the english students and his deserts in this behalfe are excéeding great if we will beleeue him But I assure thee gentle reader whosouer thou art and I speake vpon mine owne knowledge as who was at the same time one of the same number that this is to be enrolled among his other notorious vntruthes For first there was no disagreement at all betwéene the late Bishop of Cassana and the students Againe the contention was indeed betweene the Cardinal Morone then the protector of the English and the students or rather the Iesuites who like wilie foxes did all in all couertly and yet would séeme openly to be most vnwilling to haue the gouerment of the colledge Thirdly Parsons was at that time a man of no reckening among the Iesuits neither did he or could hee doe anie thing in that behalfe The reason hereof is euident because he confesseth in the said apologie that the colledge was erected in the yeare 1579. And that himselfe entered into the societie in the yeere 1574. so that he had then béene Iesuite scantly foure yeeres whereof one must be allotted for his probation now if any wise man wil beléeue him that he could be of such credite with them vpon so short a tryall he may but my selfe know the contrarie and so doe many moe yet liuing viz. Maister Meredith Maister Griffeth Maister Morgan M. Elize and sundrie others but none better then Maister Mush if he list to speake the truth therein Fourthly there were at that time Iesuited English men of long continuance in that societie who should rather haue done that exploit then this good father if it had béene but for comely order sake but as I said afore the Iesuites would not be knowen to deale in the matter Fiftly this good fellowe this good father I would say will needes bee the only man that procured the schollers to stay and a thing to bee laughed at the graue and learned father Toledo afterward Cardinall was but an instrument to helpe the said Parsons in his imployment A shame it is for this fellow to tell of himselfe such a shamelesse lye The truth is this the generall of the Iesuites was desirous indeed to haue the gouernment of the colledge committed to his societie as who knew right well that it would tend both to his credit and to his commoditie But for feare of the displeasure of Cardinall Morone who tooke part with Maister Morice the welch-man whome he had designed to be the Rector of the colledge he neither would deale openly for the schollers neither suffer any of the societie to concurre with theÌ„ in that behalfe yet he did that secretly which was the vpshot and end of all viz. he commanded by a secret message the reuerend father Toledo a great learned man and one of great reckening with the Pope at that time that he would instantly beseeth the Pope prostrate on his knees before his holinesse and to make a most pitifull lamentation for the ouethrow of England that is forsooth that now were reiected the finest wits the most toward youthes the seede of poperie and the only hope of the English nation who now exiled for zeale in religion and come to be his popish vassals must either be trained vp in papistry after the Iesuiticall manner or els should England neuer be reclamed world without end this swéet narration noe sooner sounded in the Popes eares but the commanded the schollers to be receiued into the colledge againe Where note by the way what politicians the Iesuites bee This Toledo was a Iesuite then remaining in the Popes house with the Pope and was the Popes chiefest aduiser in all ecclesiasticall causes He then being a Iesuite must needs doe the designement of his generall the maister Iesuite of all the rest For his profession was to obey at a beck And for that he was present with the Pope in his pallace Bel-vâ—dére he was free to deale without suspition in this great and weightie matter Lastly being in high esteeme with the Pope and speaking in a cause so plausible and profitable for his holinesse he was most likely to preuaile in his suite which I protest to the reader the Iesuits did more then once promise to the schollers before it came to passe Thus it is most apparant to euerie indifferent reader that the goodly story which Parsons telleth for his owne vaine glory is a lye with a witnesse For the first credite that euer he got was wrought by his treacheries treasons against his natiue country most noble England By reason whereof he crept into such credite with the King of Spaine that now he is able to doe all in all both with that Kinge and the Pope himselfe Wherefore my opinion is this that the seculars are ouer matched and that howsouer they bragge that they will haue audience or els dye for it one after another yet are they more like many of them if they goe to Rome to be cast into their holy most holy inquisition for Parsons hath now by the reason of their writings matter enough to worke vpon and therefore their best course is to submitte themselues to Queene Elizabeth and to bid the Pope faire well with all his traytorous Iesuites Paragraph IIII. Of the dealing of the Iesuite Parsons during his aboad in England THe seculars write that Parsons being in England did so exasperate the minds both of the Prince and magistrates by his doings as then first of all by that occasion capitall lawes were appointed against
priests and their receiuers Parsons answeareth that this is a calumniation which hath diuerse euident falshoods reproueable by the witnesse of all that liued at that time in England both catholikes and heretikes But I reply yâ— this aunsweare of Parsons containeth a lye so palpable and so notorious as I wonder how he could vtter it without blushing For first diuers of the seculars in England at that time refuse to witnes this false narration Secondly many good christians whome it pleased this good fellowe to terme heretikes will witnes against him Thirdly if all must witnes with him then doubtles none will witnes against him which is most absurd to say or hold Fourthly his owne disputation will confute it selfe For after hee hath told vs of his great paines in preaching teaching and writing and namely in setting forth the reasons of refusall of going to the protestants Churches hee forthwith addeth these words vpon which preaching and writing when many chiefe men refused to goe to hereticall seruice there was called a parliament in the end of the same yeere and the law of twentie pound a moneth for recusancie was ordained but no capitall law made against priests or their receiuers vntill diuers yeeres after father Parsons was gone forth of England This is that goodly narratioÌ„ which father Wiseman maketh for his honest purgation if it may stand good either in law or with right reason let vs examin it to know the truth therof First he granteth fréely that by reason of his godly preaching and writing the penall statutes of 20. pound the month was imposed for recusancie Secondly he granteth fréely yâ— by his traytorous preaching and writing many chiefe men refused to goe to hereticall seruice Thirdly he granteth fréely that he wrote against going to the protestant Churches Fourthly he granteth likewise that he termed the godly prayers vsed in the churches of England hereticall seruice and consequenly hee termed her maiestie an heretike like an arrant traytour as he is And yet forsooth we must beléeue him yâ— he did not exasperate he Maiestie and her magistrates to make capital lawes against Iesuites and seminaries who can thinke that this fellow hath any witte Who is so blind as hee seeth not his contradictions Who seeth not how the deuill hath bewitched him For what was the cause of capitall lawes against Iesuites and seminaries Doubtles the deniall in English subjects of their due allegeance to their naturall soueraigne the profession of that same to the Pope her mortall enemie And yet is this consequent necessarilie inferred of the premisses which this fellow fréely hath admitted I cannot but admire the folly of the man that doth not see it for euery recusant is reconciled to the Pope and must perforce take parte with the Pope against the Queene as is already proued And to this recusancie must be ascribed as to the principall cause the enacting of all capitall lawes and other penall mulcts whatsoeuer I say to this recusancie that is to that recusancie to which treason is annexed as an inseperable accident therof For vntill recusancie was so linked with popish treason that disloyaltie was thereby set a broach in euery corner recusants did iâ—ioy all curtesie libertie freedome Wherof this is a sufficient argument because all the capitall and other sharpe penall statutes did nothing at all touch the old popish recusants Albeit we sée this day which is to be imputed to the traytorous Iesuites that other priests together with the lay-people are as deepely drowned in treasonable practises as the seminarie-priests But what Can Parsons say nothing for him selfe Yes forsooth he telleth vs first that he was gon forth of England before capitall lawes were made against priests or their receiuers Alas alas what a poore shift is this Nay what a foolish man is this Parsons committed treason vpon treason and then ran away for feare of the halter Ergo the capitall lawes ensuing were not made to preuent his and the like future treasons Euery child I weene will sée the absurdity of this consequution He telleth vs secondly that in CaÌ„pions arraignment which was after Parsons his departure there was no one action of Parsons objected in particular against the state though he were known to haue béene the superiour in that mission To this I reply that the silence of Parsons in Campions arraignment cannot discharge Parsons of the same or like treasons Besides it may be that the state was aduertised how dastardly Parsons ran away and that they thought that their conniuence and silence in the matter would be an occasion of his returne and then they would talke with the good fellow He telleth vs thirdly that Parsons was the chiefe in the Iesuiticall mission which assertion doubtlesse doth vtterly confound the man For séeing all the capitall lawes were enacted onely and solely against the Iesuites and their fauorites it must needes bée granted it cannot be denied that they were principally intended against the principall Iesuite that is to say against Parsons who will needes be the chiefe I therefore conclude that the Iesuite Parsons is a notorious lyar and that the lye which he would bestowe vpon others is iustly and fitly retorted against himselfe See the fift chapter in the second section Paragraph V. Of Haddockes life and conuersacion Richard Haddocke now doctor as Parsons termeth him is charged by the secular priests to haue béene of no edification in England in his life and conuersation But Parsons because he resisted the messengers sent to Rome and was readie at a becke to doe his designements desperatly affâ—rmeth with a brasen face the contrary in these words as for his libertie of life as they call it while he was in England it is false that it was of any euill edification and some of vs knew him better then these libellers these are the words of our graue Apologians To which I aunswere breifely that these wordes of the Prophet are truely verified of Parsons who was the author of this Apologie indeede There is no faithfulnes in his mouth there inward parts are verie wickednesse their throats an open sepulchre they flatter with their tongues For my selfe knew the man and his life right well and I will onely say that in few words of him which I thinke himselfe will not deny If he doe it shall God willing be proued heareafter by a multitude of honest witnesses and by such particular knowne circumstances of times places and parsons as no possible deniall can be made thereof for it shall neuer be proued God willing that I write any vntruth of any man liuing God is my witnesse that is farre from my meanining But I wonder that the earth doth not open her mouth to swallow vp quicke the Author of this Apologie for his manifolde notorious slanders impudent leasings and most excerable caluminations And Parsons is the man as I haue proued in the first chapter The phrase stile and methode
worldly affaires Behold here tyran ny ambition in Iesuiticall proceedinge O cruell tyrannie o tyranous crueltie Loe the Iesuites proudly do promise a conquest Iohn Gerard the Iesuite said to the Ladie MarkhaÌ„ of Notinghame shire that the Iesuits would make the seculars leape at a crust ere it be longe quodlib 3. art 10. p. 83. What a malepeart â—aucinesse is this what greater pride can be found 〈…〉 O braue gallanâ—â— O humble le Iesuits â— O poore 〈◊〉 O Iesuits where is your vow 〈◊〉 pouerty Loe I pray you the Iesuites caÌ„ steale The Iesuites surpasse the false steward in the gospel Loe the Iesuits are men of good credit All is fish that come to the Iesuites haÌ„ds see the next paragraph The Iesuites are seditious All religious men hate the Iesuites The Iesuites are banished out of â—â—ance for their seditious dealing O what a cursed crew is this O deepe gulfe of sedition Iohn Chasteâ—'l â—as brought vp in the Iesuites schoole O wâ—he Foxe O religious Iesuits What a 〈◊〉 is here Zauier or Xauier The Iesuites are iuglers maâ—ke well my discourse See the 〈◊〉 and 〈…〉 and note them well Loe the Pope cannot depose kinges nor translate their kingdomes The Pope is readie to curse slow to blesse Loe the bearers of the Pope bull were set vpon the pillory Pervse the fiâ—t chapter in the first section â— note it well Lo the Iesuites vse to preferre factious heads The Archpriest must be a witnes against his good master Parsons the author of the trayterous booke of titles See more of this fellowes treasons in the next chapter Loe Parsons hath the trade of lying Remember the memorable caueâ—â— The high counsell of reformatioÌ„ Loe the Pope purposely intended rebellion The Duke of Norfolke a traytour King Philip appointed the Duke of Alua to aide the Duke of Norfolke Ergo the Pope may erre Rebellion in the North. 1569. Loe euery thing tendeth to rebellion The priest Saunders was the Ringleader â—â—â—bellion Loe the deuill brought the Iesuits into England Ano. 1580. Mendoza is a Iesuite See impors coÌ„sid p. 22. 24. P. 23. 18. Important considerat p. 22 24. p. 23. 18. Gregory 13. See the 16. Preamble See the fourth chapter in the 11. Paragraph See the 4. chapter the 6. Paragraph The Pope is the cause of all rebellion Read the 4. chapter in the 10. 11. Paragraph See the 4. and 5 chapters and note then wâ—ll This doth confound the secular priests O gracelesse Cardinall O most cruell and bloodie villaine See the third booke in the third aduito Fie sâ—e shal the 〈◊〉 depend vpon the courtisie of the Spaniardâ—â— goodly new no recompence to all It is lawfull for euerie christiaÌ„ to judge of the Popes doâ—trine See the sixt quodlibet art to infine and the apologie page 17. For the proofe see the fift aduiso in the third realâ— and note it well See the fourth booke and fourth chapter in the .5 section See the fourth aduiso in the answere to the sixt reason See the preface to the discouerie in the end Campion is canonized for a Saint The Seculâ—â— are either traytors or not sound papistes This worthy man was Cardinall 〈◊〉 Quadl S. art 5. page 223. See quodl 8. art 6. page 243. â—ehould how God inforceth the Papists to disclose the very truthâ— truth will euer preuaile in time See quodl 9. art 8. pag 8. pag. 27. et quodâ— 8. art 9. pag. 277. The Secular priests in matters of treason and state seeme to equiuocate The authors booke 〈◊〉 iustifid by the priests See more hereof in the third booke in the fourth aduiso in the latter end Page 68. It is good and necessarie to keepe the papists vnder See quodl 8. art 9. Page 270. Loe the papists expect a day as Esau did when be meant to kil his brother Gen. 27. 41. Loc their Popish Archpriest is an idol The king of France murdered by the Iesuits Loe the Iesuites are most skilfull Phisitions PreaÌ„bles 7 and 8. Deut. 32. v. 35. Rom. 15. 19 Psal. 82. 6. Iohn 13. 1. Rom. 13. 1. Mat. 26. v. 52. If a like ergo treasonablie Quod. 8. art 1. pag. 223. See the answere to the 〈◊〉 gentleman page 24. quodlib 8. art 1. page 223. The seculars are insolent fellowes Corall 1. Corall 2. See the 10. chapter in the 3. Paragraph in the second booke In the second booke chap 3. 〈…〉 Quodl 8. art 9. pag. 277. Loe thousands are bent and wish disloyaltie The Pope hath greater power then God Quod. 9. art 5. pag. 306. Quod. 8. art 6. page 24â— Marke this well that ye may vnderstand it aright Loe the secular priests are as traytorou as the Iesuites See the fiâ—t reason Imp. consid p. 43. quodlib 342 p 267. p. 361. Loe the penall lawes are iustly made against the seminaries Loe the seminarie priests are traitors See the 3. reason See the 4. booke and 7. chapter This is a maxime in the RomaÌ„ church see D. Elyes notes vpon the Apologie p 93. 31. et p. 103 6. The Pope may be iudged euen by Popish doctrine See booke 2. cap. 9. â—euel 3. How the Pope cannot erre but the diuell in his coate Note this word iustly for it is of great importaÌ„ce The Priests are bound to detect the Iesuits Loe here the Priests confesse freely that they are traytors Note this point well it is to be admited and to bee sought into carefully Note this point well Marke well for Christs sake See the replie to Parsons libell fol. 68. 3500. pounds 100. pounds 1008. Markes 400. pounds 1000. pounds See the sixt Aduiso and note it well King Henry now regnant Gerson pri part de examin doctrinar confider 2. Gerson vbi supra Gerson pripart in serm pro. viagio regis Roman part 3. direct 1. Gerson in pri part in serm pro â—agio regis Rom. direct 2. Gerson pri part dâ—â—statiâ—us ecclesiastic consider 3. Gerson in serm coâ—â— concil Constan K. prim part Gerson ibidem Gerson in serm pro viagio regis Romanorii direct 1. prim part Gerson pâ— parte in tractatu de appellatione à papa circa medium Gerson vbi 〈◊〉 in 2. propâ—it See the Apologie page 172. and note it well Loe the like treason was neuer hard of to this day These words are set downe quodl 8. art 7. page 247. This my selfe know to be so Quodl 7. art 7 p 196. I speake this of my owne knowledge See the â— chapter the seconâ— section Apologie page 2. See Collingâ—ons defence page 123. p. 124. p. 126. Apologie page 211. Apologie page 162. page 10. Apologie page 194. It is not Parsons manner to put his name to his bookes See the apologie page 172. O tyrannie of all tyrannies in world See D. Elies notes vpon the Apologie p. 108. p. 111. p. 112 vers 20. Apologie Page 139. Page 154. How would these Iesuites intreat others that deale so cruelly with the popes friends Aske my brother if I bea a these Apologie page 193. Iohn 8. vers 44. O blessed Iesuitical Cardinall seruant of the diuell Page 199. Note this dilemna The Pope is a most cruell tyrant Apologie Page 193. Page 191. Apologie Page 99. Apologie page 99. See Collington Page 126. Page 127. and note them well Apologie page 4â— Note this 〈…〉 See the râ—pâ—â—e to 〈…〉 See Colleton page 224. See the Second booke in the fift chapter Apologie p. 184. 1579. 1574. Parsons would very gladly haue credite but it will not be Apologie page 183. Apologie page 183. Parsons hath lost his wiâ— Note this point well Apologie page 183. Apologie page 167. Psal. 5. v. 9. See Colleton page 126. See also the 5 6. chapter follow See the second booke and third chapter in the 〈◊〉 paragraph See the â—eply to Parsons libell fol. 96. a. See Colleton page 1â—â— Apologie page 172. See Colleton page 126. See also the fift and sixt chapters following See Colleton page 294. Apologie Page 221. 222. Apologie Page 22. Apologie page 172. See the second booke and ninth chapter in the sixt obseruation Note here that the secular priests dostil commend Cardinal Allen in al things See Colleton p. 282. Apologie page 177. Apologie page 176. See the third chapter Parsons loueth the priestes dearly as appeareth by the intâ—â—atiâ— of then messengers sent to Rome See Apolog pag. 〈…〉 Parsons spendeth 5 or 6. crowns a weeke in 〈…〉 Loe Parsons studideth deepe diuinitie Parsons the cause of sharp lawes See note page 297. Loe the Crowne of England is set on sale Quodl 4. art 2. page 109. Quodl 8. art 5. page 238. Quodli 7. art 10. page 184. Quoâ—l 7. art 10. page 217. Quodl 8. art 5. page 236. Loe Parsons is purtrayed in his best be seeming colours Of the vttered by Parsons see ColletoÌ„ page 126. Colleton page 179. CollingtoÌ„ page 194. page 281. Colleton pag. 163. CollingtoÌ„ page 180. CollingtoÌ„ pag. 272. Marke wel all Iesuites Iesuited persons do depend â—pon the diuell Parsons is a great lyar well worthey of the wet-stone Behold deceitfull dealing Colleion page 126. page 127. Collington page 147. Quodli 2. art 8. page 43. Apologie page 212. They sent Watson with others â—ge the seculars are traitors like the Iesuites When theues begin to reckon then true men shall come to their owne See the 4. chapter towards the end Let this be well marked 2. Reg. 18. 2. Par. 19. 2. Reg. 23. 2. 34. Victor de potest Papae concil relect 4. pag. 139. Couarr 10. 1. cap. 20. par 11. in med
that they neuer had such a meaning neither did the arch-priest practise any such matter meddle no way in any thinges by their appeale whereby a Premunire can be incurred no not so much as interpretatiuely The Answere I say first that the seculars haue an huge multitude of popish fauourites aswell counsellers skilfull in our municipall lawes as others both of the nobilitie and gentry as they confesse els where This former I gather hence for that they make a flourish of these words premunire and premunireall wherein I confesse I haue no skill as being noe parte of my profession Secondly that albeit I am ignorant what the lawe word premunire meaneth yet doe I constantly auouch that if the Iesuites haue incurred the premunire for their dealing in the arch-priests case and cause as they affirme and I willingly admit then haue the seculars likewise incurred the same pemunire by reason of their appeale to the bishope of Rome In which dispute I am content to encounter with them when they shall challenge me for the same Thirdly that the seculars aswell as the Iesuites notwithstanding their contrarie pretence in outward shew of bare words did by their appeale to yâ— romish tyrant repute hermaiesties parliaments of no authority her statutelawes of no validity her royall prerogatiue of no soueraigne excellencie but ascribed all wholy and soly without respect of English regalitie to their professed papall vsurpate primacie All which shall God willingly be made more plaine cleare and euident before the end of this aduiso The fourth reason The Iesuites bolster out and build aswell the intended vsurpate authority of the arch priest as also their owne treasonable attempts ploâ—s and practises vpon the saide bull and his holinesse authority Ergo none other to appeale vnto for iustice against them The Aunswere I say first that this reason doth ouerthrow abandon and turne it selfe vpside downe for seeing the Iesuites doe builde all their treasonable plots and practises vpon the Popes Bull and authoritie it had beene expedient and agreeable to all right and reason that the seculars if they doe or will acknowledge any true loyalty and faithfull allegeance to Queene Elizabeth should not haue appealed to the Pope the mortaâ—l knowen enemie of the said allegeance but from the Pope to her Maiestie or to some in authority vnder her But the seculars haue no such meaning because forsooth they will acknowledge no such allegiance Secondly that seeing the seculars doe resolutely affirme that there is none other to appeale vnto but the Pope alone they desperately appeach them selues of high treason The reason is euident because they peremptorily auouch a forein potentate yea a foraine knowen enemie to be the competent iudge ouer her maiesties subiects euen within her Maiesties Realmes and dominions Which themselues els where graunt to be vnlawfull The fift reason The seculars by their appeale clearely exempt redeeme and keepe out themselues from acknowledging any obedience to that alreadie premunirized arch-priest by consequent from all daunger of incurring a premunire The Aunswere I say first that though the seculars doe not now acknowledge any obedience to the arch-priest yet doe they acknowledge obedience to the Pope which is an offence of like qualitie and greater deformitie and by consequent they neither enioy immunitie from the premunire neither from treason in the highest degree Secondly that the seculars did once acknowledge de facto the arch priests authoritie and humbly yeelded their obedience to him viz. when they vnder stood by the Popes Breue his holinesse holy pleasure therin And that they now reuoke and denie the said obedience to the arch priest such deniall procéedeth of méere malice against the Iesuites and Iesuited crew and not of loyall dutie to Queene Elizabeth whome they outwardly pretend to loue for seruile feare The sixt Reason They labour by their appeale for securitie to her maiesties person for quiet to the state for auoydance of all inuasions for cutting of all conspiracies state-taÌ„perings erasperating libels c. And for assuraÌ„ce of relaxation and fréedom from their heauie persecution procured by the Iesuites against them aswell by false suggestions to his holinesse as also by stirring vp other princes against our soueraigne and nation thereby bringing warres and feares vpon all and heart breaking frownes to be cast vpon the innocent ergo so cleare and farre from all danger of any offence committed by appealing from the arch-preist to the sea of Rome as most daungerous vniust vnnaturall indiscâ—â—t irreligious and prediuciall to all both Pope prince Church common-wealth and allestates if they had not appealed but let the matter he dead in discontent obloquie and daunger of sorest trialles The Answere For the better vnderstanding of this reason and full answere to the same I obserue first in the contents thereof the seculars are freede and made cleare from all offence by their appeale to the Pope Secondly that if the secular priests had not appealed to the Pope they should thereby haue béene made vniust vnnatural indiscrete irreligious preiudiciall to Pope Prince Church and all estates These two obseruations are contained in the words followinge the seculars their Ergo. Thirdly that this appeale was taken in hand for her Maiesties security which I gather out of the first line of the reason Fourthly that the said appeale was for the quiet of the state Fiftly that it was also for auoidance of inuasions and cutting of conspiracies These obseruations well remembred the argument will be aunswered with all facilitie but to the cold comfort of the seculars For first they appealed to the Pope as is in the first obseruation and so they are traytors to Queene Elizabeth by the lawes of Englande For as the seculars write els where euerie appeale is an acknowledging of highest authoritie in the partie appealed vnto And this answere is confirmed by their fourth reason where they flatly denie her Maiesties royall prerogatiue ouer them while they affirme disloyally peremptorily saucily and tootoo arrogantly that there is no other to appeale vnto but onely the bishoppe of Rome whom they know as is alreadie proued to be her Maiesties mortall enemie and the chiefe agent in all conquests inuasions plots conspiracies treasons bloodie intendments whatsoeuer against Queene Elizabeth her sacred person her Realmes her royall honour her princely Diademe and most noble peerelesse regalitie Secondly by not appealing seculars should haue beene vniust and vnnaturall as is in the second obseruation but to the Pope not to Queene Elizabeth To her they are thereby in deed vniust for that they withhold thereby their homage due vnto her to her they are indeed vnnnaturall because they deny that loyalty which by nature they owne vnto her and they are in a sort naturalized to his disholie holines by the said appeale For they say flatly in the next article of the same quodlibet that they may not yeeld to the Iesuites vntill his holines haue decided the cause in the
court of Rome And yet vnwitingly they condemne themselues in an other place graunting that they may not by worde or writing impugne the parliamentall Lawes of this land Thirdly by not appealing they should haue beene preiudiciall to prince Church and all estates as is in the second obseruation but not to the prince Church or State of England ergo to the prince Church and State of Rome for of force they must so meane the force of trueth hath inforced their penne Fourthly they appealed for her Maiesties securitie as is in the third obseruation where I cannot enough admire the impudent insolencie of these disloyall Seculars who make a treacherous flowrish as if the securitie of their dread Soueraigne did depend vpon their Popes good pleasure and their treacherous appeale vnto him Herein they make hauocke other Maiesties statute-lawes which els where by popish statization and equinocation they say they may not offend A note worthy to be remembred Fifthly they appealed for the quiet of the state which is as disloyally spoken as the former for God auert that the peace of her Maiesties state and her Realmes do at any time stand in neede of the Popes fauour the intreatie of the sedicious Seculars Sixtly they appealed for the auoydance of inuasions and conspiracies as is in the fiâ—th obseruation out of which confession I inferre these two important corollaries First that conspiracies and inuasions are still intended against her sacred person her royall throne her crowne her state and dominions Secondly that the Pope is the principall actor in all plots conspiracies treacheries inuasions and conquests intended against the Queen her realms and faithfull subiects I therefore conclude that the Seculars are this day as dangerous in al treasonable plots bloody practizes and disloyall conspiracies as they haue beene heretofore For albeit they belabour themselues seriously to hide and bolster out all their cursed intendements against their dread soueraigne and natiue Countrey especially when they are occasioned to speake of matters of state as they doe or may concerne their owne persons yet doe they but equiuocate and temporize in so doing and that as scornefully and treacherously as euer did the Iesuites Of which point none can be ignorant that shall seriously peruse and ponder this discourse Wherefore as the Seculars say of the Iesuites so say I of them that though they sweare can yet we not safely beleeue them in state-affairs the reason is euident because they doe not acknowledge any magistrate vnder her Maiestie to be their lawfull and competent iudge If they say write or sweare the contrary yet giue no credite to them therein for euen then doe they seeke to delude the Magistate by their hypocriticall and execrable equiuocations No no it neither doth nor can stand with popish religion to thinke and beleeue that Queen Elizabeth whom God long preserue ouer vs can ordeine any competent iudge ouer them And consequently vntill the Seculars renounce the Pope and his damnable procéedings against Christian kings their royal diademes and sacred regalities they will doubtlesse delude the maiestrates with their fondely inuented equiuocationes This is a graue aduiso which may not beforgotten Aduiso V. Of the opinion affection and true meaning of the seculars in all the treasonable practises bloudie conspiracies and other disloyall intendmentes against their dread soueraigne and natiue countrie THe seculars conspire concurre and iumpe with the Iesuites in opinion affection and inward meaninge touching the Popes authoritie the bloudie conspiracies inuasions conquest other disloyall intendments against most noble Queene Elizabeth and our natiue country this I proue by manie strong weightie and irrefragable reasons The first reason The pretenses of such practises were generall and common to all Catholikes alike all maintaining one the same opinion concerning what might be done by Apostolical power authoritie neuer talking of what was necessarie Thus is it written quodl 8. art 9. pag. 277. but the seculars are papists aswell as the Iesuites Ergo of the same opinion with the Iesuites Heere the reader may see plainely that the seculars iumpe with the opinion of the Iesuits touching the popes authoritie For by apostolicall power they vnderstand the power and authoritie of the Pope To which must be added which is alreadie proued that the Pope hath excommunicated her Maiesty de facta and hath beene the chiefest agent in all treasonable practises bloodie conspiracies inuasions conquests and other execrable intendments against her Maiesties person honour state and dominions To this must likewise be added which is also proued that the Iesuites affirme malepeartly damnablie and disloyally that the Pope hath done nothing in the premisses but that he lawfully might doe The second Reason Among many examples of the deare loue and compassion of the Popes holines towards the inhabitants and princes of this land in times of imminent commonwealths dangers the chiefe since the Norman conquest was shewed in the daies and raignes of king Henrie the second surnamed Fitzempresse and of his sonne king Iohn the third Monarke of England of a Plantagenets royall race Against whom hauing vsed his fatherly correction as pastor vnivniuersall ouer the whole flocke of Christ for their great crueltie and tyrannie vsed towards their naturall subiects yet vpon their repentance mercifully receiuing them into grace and fauour of Gods Church againe his holines on the behalfe of the second did not onely accurse and excommunicate prince Lewis of France with all his adherents forcing him to yeeld vp all the interest right and title that he or his posteritie had or euer should haue to the English crowne but also surrendred vp the said crowne of England franke and free to king Iohn and his heires and successours from of the head of Cardinall Pandulphus hauing sit inthronized three daies therewith in the Popes right And thousands there are in England that desire as much Thus is it written quodl 8. art 9. page 327. Out of these words it is euidently deduced that the Pope taketh vpon him though most iniuriously and tyrannically to translate kingdomes to depose kings Emperours and Monarkes and to bestow their princely Diademes and royall regalities as seemeth best to his good pleasure Yea which is more to be admired the seculars who in outward shew of words by often and earnest protestations affirme themselues to be most loyall subiects approue the Pope in so doing For first where the Pope had excommunicated and deposed king Henry they terme it his fatherly correction Secondly they say he did it by his vniuersall authority ouer the whole Church Thirdly they terme the deposing of prince Lewis and the restoring of king Iohn to the crowne the chiefest fatherly compassion since the Norman coÌ„quest Fourthly they tell vs that Cardinall Pandulphus was three daies enthronized with the crowne of England vpon his head in the right of the Pope which forraine tyrannicall fact they commend approue Fiftly they tell vs that