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A07892	A breefe aunswer made vnto two seditious pamphlets, the one printed in French, and the other in English Contayning a defence of Edmund Campion and his complices, their moste horrible and vnnaturall treasons, against her Maiestie and the realme. By A.M.	Munday, Anthony, 1553-1633.	1582 (1582)	STC 18262; ESTC S112998	24,614	78

so His triumphe Englands ruine and decay The Pope his Captaine thirsting for it aye From ease to paine from honour to disgrace From looue to hate to daunger béeing well Thus dyd he fall flying his natiue place and Countrey where by duty he should dwell Our no Apostle comming to restore The bloody sway was sometime héere before His natures flowers were mixt with hūny gall His lewd behauiour enimie to skill A climing minde reiecting wisedomes call A sugred tongue to shrowde a vicious will A Saintlyke face yet such a deuillish hart As sparde no trauaile for his coūtries smart With tongue and pen the trueth he did suppres Stopping the way that Christians did desire Which pleased God for his great wickednes To stay his race wherein he dyd aspire Then his behauiour witnessed the more What he was then as also long before His fare was good yet he a scornefull cheare His prison fayre yet he a froward minde His councell good yet deafned was his eare Perswasions large he obstinate and blinde Oh stubborne mā oh minde nature straūge Whome wisdom pittie grace nor looue could chaunge After great pause they brought him to dispute With Bookes as many as he could demaund His chéefest cause they quickly did confute His proofe layd downe reprooued out of hand So that the simplest present there could say That Campions cause did beare the shame away After his foyles so often to his face It was thought good Iustice his déedes should trie Upon appearaunce of so fowle a case Nature her selfe wild doome deseruedlie Traitour he was by prooues sufficient foūd The Iewrie sawe his Treasons so abound Her Maiestie to be depriu'd of lyfe A forraine power to enter in our Land Secrete rebellion must at home be rife Seducing Préests receiu'd that charge in hād All this was cloaked with Religious showe But Iustice tried and found it was not so Then rightfull doome bequeathed them to dye Whose treasons put her Maiestie in feare Out on the fiend whose mallice wrought so slie Hath wun a number part with him to beare But thinketh he his enuie can preuaile No little Dauid did the Giaunt quaile My gratious Princesse sée your Subiects mone Such secret foes among them should be found Who serue your Grace in duety euery one though treasō séek to make their harts vnsoūd The bloody woolf prayes on y e harmles shéepe So treason séekes in loyall harts to créepe England looke vp thy Children doo rebell Unreuerent actes haue entred in their minde The subiect séekes his rightfull Prince to quell Yea to his natiue Countrey prooues vnkinde Campiō who somtime y u didst swéetly sourse Prepares his venome to destroy his Nourse Eliot reioyce that God prolonged thée To take the man who meant vs all such yll As for thy slaunders take them patiently Enuie drawes blood and yet hée can not kyll Those who by words he séemde to put in feare Haue washt their hāds in iudgement soūd and cleare My selfe as witnesse Sled and all the rest who had their treasons noted in our Booke Account our selues of God most highly blest who gaue vs grace to such attempts to looke And hauing giuen our witnes sound plaine We feare not mallice nor his spightful train The well aduised Iewrie on this cause Who with discretion pondred euerie thing Behelde their treasons with such héedfull pause That they foūd out the depth of Enuies sting Whereby they saw the stirrers of this strife Were farre vnwoorthy any longer life Yea Elderton dooth deskant in his rime The high offences of such gracelesse men Which causeth him to yrke at euerie crime And gainst their treasons to prouide his pen. Yet not without wisedome and modestie To warne all other that liue wickedlie Remember you that would oppresse the cause Our Church is Christes his honour cānot die Though hell him selfe reuest his griefly iawes And ioyne in league with treason poperie Though craft deuise and cruel rage oppresse Christe will his chosen styll in safetie blesse You thought perhaps presūptious Cāpiō could disseuer those whom Christ hath ioynd in one And that our gratious louing shéepheard would Before the woolfe forsake his flock alone No he preserues his Shéepe for greater good And drownes y e rauener in his enuious blood We knowe that Campion liuing did intreate The Subiect from his vowde humilitie Nowe therefore shame his dealings dooth repeate Throughout the world to his great infamie The skies thēselues with lowring angry face Adiudge his déedes woorthy of all disgrace All Europe woonders at this shamelesse man England is fild with rumor of his race London must néedes for it was present than whē Iustice did thrée Traiterous minds deface The stréets y e stones y e steps they halde thē by Pronounst these Traitours woorthy for to die The Tower sayeth he Treason did defend The Barre beares witnesse of his guilty minde Tiborne dooth tell he made a Traitours ende On euery gate example we may finde In vaine they work to laude him w t such fame For heauen earth beares witnes of his shame The rightful sentence giuen of him héere Will charge his conscience in the time to come Although they say he is excused there And shall not taste Gods iudgemēt his doome Saint Paul dooth say in reuerence of y e highest We all shall come before the seate of Christ. There to make aunswer vnto euerie thing And to receyue reward accordinglie If well the Cittie of our heauenlie king Shall recompence our former miserie Where we with Angels voice continuallie Shall laude the gaine we haue so happilie Then blinded mallice shall perceyue and sée His owne deuises Author of his rueth And how true Subiects haue felicitie In recompence of their assured trueth The one condemnd for his disloyaltie The other crownd for his fidelitie Can Treason then preuent our happy peace Or blustring winds assayle our sprouting Trée No soueraine Faith sends down her due encrease And shroudes her Plant in swéete tranquilitie So that the foe presuming on his might Is forste to know Faith can preuent him quite Let vs not feare a mortall Tirant then Séeing Faith Trueth dooth eleuate our harts God hath reserued one to conquer ten Let vs then learne to play true Christiās parts The head of him that sought our Coūtries wo Dooth witnesse shame to all that seeke it so His youth dooth byd vs bannish filthy pride his fleeting hēce to serue our Prince in trueth His lew● profession dooth lay open wide To fall from God how gréeuous is the rueth His home returne his Challenge deface Saith Subiects keep true harts in euery place His Hardle drawes his sect vnto like ende His spéeches there vnfolde their tretcherie His death dooth say Who so his life dooth spēd In faith and trueth reapes ioy eternallie His first and last and all agrée in one Ther's none to helpe vs but our God alone Blessed be God who cut him off so soone Thāked be Christ which blest his

of Traytours from all motions of mischaunce that may any way annoy it and that as God hath blessed it hither to with the glorious beames of his sacred Gospell through her who is the mother and maynetainer of our ioy by the same euen so that he wyll long lend vs her to increase it long blesse the Realme to enioy it and vs all faithfully to looue it and her Maiestie And whereas he sayth they were all fables and no trueth not able to bee prooued any way notable testimony remaineth how theyr treasons were manifestly prooued bothe by their owne confessions and writings vncorrupted witnesses and euident proofe of euery thing that was obiected against them and not that they were condemned for their religion as this false reporter saythe but for high Treason intended practised and conspired against her Maiestie and the Realme the summe whereof is so odious that any good minde loatheth to heare it Agayne he sayth That when the witnesses where produced and sworne to witte Munday Cradocke Sled and Hill all of very base condition who were so well seene in lyes that they seemed to be borne and nourished therein they had the foule ouerthwart albeit with shamelesnes and vehemencie they mainetayned theyr accusation against these good and innocent men As for our basenes or simplenes we will not stande to contend with him though wee knowe we haue all one father and that we are all made of one mettall Againe we know God hath chosen the despised of the world to confoūd them that thinke themselues moste mighty But where he saith We were so well seene in lyes that we seemed to be borne and nourished therein I can leuell at his meaning How that bothe he and they beléeuing in lyes obeying the Author of lyes and dayly fed and nourished with lyes hate nothing so much as the trueth so that when they are truely and faithfully reprooued of their owne wicked and naughtie dealings then they storme and keepe a coyle exclayme defame and vse vnreuerent spéeches so that what toucheth them with moste trueth is starke false and nothing but lyes If this be not his meaning I take it so and can prooue it so for that bothe impudentlie and shameleslie they denied all manifest truethes brought and prooued against them and neither had we a fowle ouerthwart or any motion of a disproofe but in déede Maister Campion oftentimes would offer to trippe me in my tale and would question with the other subtillie according to his vsuall wunt and if this was a fowle ouerthwart when no reason was made or showen of any such occasion let the learned iudge who can discerne trueth from falsehood and traytours from true and loyall Subiects but we must suffer him to kéepe his ordinarie course of vntrueth least perhaps he shoulde chaunce to forget it Then he setteth downe y e Euidēces giuen which you may sée in my other Booke with more trueth then he vseth the matter reporting that which Sled neuer spake nor thought wherfore we let it passe among the number of vntruethes And then vnreuerentlie he cōmeth to Maister Seriant Anderson and Maister Popham the Quéenes Maiesties Attorneye generall wherein our Historian aptlie discouereth him selfe but as Enuie braggeth and draweth no blood so he thinking to iniure others sheateth his venemous blade in his own brest And all this whyle sayth he the good religious Campion shewed him selfe so prudent and aunswered with such pietie and modestie that he not onely astonied the people there present but also brought the Iudges into admiration of him he was so present to him selfe and defended with so great equitie bothe his owne and his companions cause that it was esteemed they should be declared guiltlesse In deede I wyll not denie but this good irreligious Campion handled euerie cause with a smoothe and cullorable countenaunce béeing verie present and quick to him selfe in Sophistical conueyances and farre fet déepe pointes of Logique and indéede he did it with such a modest showe as Iudas when with a kisse he betrayed his Maister And I am perswaded that the people there present were astonied to heare and perceyue that so modest a countenaunce coulde harbour such a false and trayterous heart to God his Princesse and Countrey yea the Iudges dyd admire that a man as he was professing learning and looue in outwarde appearaunce shoulde be so ouercome by the Deuil as to séeke the spoyle and ruine of his Princesse and Countrey Good cause had the people to be astonied that so wicked members as they should be found among them who were true and faith full Subiectes and more cause had the Iudges of admiration to sée their owne Countreymen in a matter so horrible to appeare before them little dyd any there thinke to heare them declared guiltlesse their treasons so apparant and the proofe so euident but rather thought no torment sufficient to reward them who were so haynous offendours and therefore woorthilie and according to desart they were giuen vp guiltie And whereas he sayth It was since reproched to one of the twelue for the yll aduise vsed in searching their cause and that he should make aunswer he could doo no otherwise least he should not be thought a freend to Caesar We adde this to the trothlesse number lykewise the men béeing all knowne to be no one of them such as woulde make any such aunswere but as they sayd then they thāked God that they had liued to doo their Princesse such seruice as to cut off such rotten braunches from such a quiet common wealth so they saye styll and wyll continue therein let the aduersarie report what he can And héere he bringeth in That the next day Collington was found not to be at Rheimes in the specified time for that Maister Lankaster of Grayes Inne witnessed him then to be there with him by which meanes sayth he he delyuered this innocent man from death whereto he was already condempned Howe false this is it is sufficientlie knowne for so soone as the question was mooued Maister Lankaster béeing by made aunswer and neither was Collington condemned nor any of them there that was as then condemned for that all the matters were not heard neither had the Iewrie determined vppon any thing wherefore you maye sée howe he kéepeth his hande in vre with his accustomed vntruethes Vppon this sayth he one William Nicholson Preest standing by and knowing well that Foorde one of the prisoners was as wrongfullie accused as this other earnestly moued with a cōsciēce of veritie would as wel defend the innocencie of Foorde as the other before had done of Collington but it would not fadge with him for he was takē sent to prison Now shal you perceiue what trueth can be gathered of this place which if he were not so confounded in shame he would haue showen some signe of more discretiō rather then to set it so falsely downe after this manner When as Alexander

A breefe Aunswer made vnto two seditious Pamphlets the one printed in French and the other in English Contayning a defence of Edmund Campion and his complices their moste horrible and vnnaturall Treasons against her Maiestie and the Realme By A. M. Honos alit Artes. ¶ Imprinted at London by Iohn Charlewood dwelling in Barbican at the signe of the halfe Eagle and Key 1582. ¶ TO THE RIGHT Honourable Sir Fraunces Walsingham Knight principall Secretarie to her Maiestie and one of her Highnesse moste Honourable priuie Councell Antony Munday vvisheth the happie continaunce of earthly Honour as also to be partaker of the endlesse ioy in the life to come COMPARING THE passed course of time Right Honourable with the succeding continuance I fynde that neither state Prince or people which might with moste authoritie make boast either for royaltie of Gouernement or tranquilitie of yeeres but at one time or other they haue felt the maligne stroke of Fortune either by enuye of princely rule ambitious desire of vnstable prefermēt or some tragicall and wicked intent issuing from the roote of all disloyaltie Treason In vaine it were to spend time in repetition of circumstaūces to make proofe either of the one or the other our eyes are filled with the registred reportes heereof and our eares made acquainted with a multitude of vnhappy accidents yea the more my greefe to thinke thereon our natiue Countrey hath lately witnessed a Stratagem according with former infortunes But although mallice in diuers of these vngracious acts had purposed and appointed a wished end of his bloody desire yet notwithstanding his extremest occasions some one or other haue beene reserued to giue warning of such mischeeuous and iminent daungers where through the Prince and People haue beene happily deliuered and mallice altogether vtterly disappointed In recompence of which true and loyall seruice the faithfull perfourmers thereof haue not onely attained the worthy fauour of their Soueraigne but also haue beene enritched with the continuall looue and amitie of the Subiectes These things right Honourable ioyntlye considered together with the late occasions so happily preuented to see time growne to such an iron and reprobate nature contrarie to that it hath beene in the aforenamed dayes I am not onely confounded in a number of dismaying thoughts but also account my selfe as altogether vnhappy It is not vnkowen to your Honour in what occasions passed foretelling an vnlooked for cause of daunger to my gracious Soueraigne and her Realme how not I alone but I cheefely as one gaue foorth such vnreprooueable notice of ensuing harmes as bewrayed their secret trayterous intent and also notably conuicted the aduersary For which seruice beyond my desert I haue found the plentifull measure of my Princesse fauoure and goodnes as also the noble goodwill of her Honourable Counsell of which high calling as God and her Maiesty hath created you one so am I in dutie to pray for your continuall welfare whose Honourable freendship hath exceeded my poore demerit But when I thinke on the vndeserued ingratitude wherewith mine owne Countreymen vnkindely rewarde me I am forced to say as one sometime sayd A man is no where wurse esteemed then in his owne Countrey If I had come as their aduersaryes did for the subuersion of their peaceable estate and bloody ouerthrowe then might I well haue contented my selfe to be condemned with reproche and thrust foorth into infamy But comming as I did to open the gap of trouble secretly ment vnto them I finde not so much as I haue deserued but yet a great deale more then I am able to suffer Euery man will deskant on matters after his owne imagination cōmend condemn as pleaseth his humor but that which is more diuers prating Boyes wherof I cā name some wil take vpon thē to defēd their cause who haue beene found such hainous offenders if some of them were publiquely chastened it would charme the tongues of a number more who because they perceiue them to be suffered ioyne with them in euill speeches together for company My desire is therefore to your Honor that some good order may be appointed for such lewde and talkatiue companions and that they who are innocent of such wicked crimes whereby by them they are maliciously slaundered may not be dealt withall after this manner for the enemy dooth very well perceiue it and smileth to see vs so shamefullie handled besyde the lyes and fables by such idle fellowes imagined maketh them more bolde in theyr Libelles to exclaime and defame euen as pleaseth them To approoue my woordes true two seditious and Traiterous Pamphlets haue lately beene printed and dispersed abroad the one in French the other in English contayning such horrible and detestable slaunders bothe against Honorable worshipfull learned and godly persons as themselues who are the Authors thereof if they were not altogether giuen ouer as reprobate might be ashamed to publish abroade And yet will they say they vse such modestie pietie and grauitie in all their actions as no men are able to doo the like how voyde they are of such vertuous gifts I will not reason my selfe but appeale to your Honor and a number godlie and learned men who I knowe haue seene their vnchristian like behauiour not onely in their dayly deedes and gesture but also in their mallicious and slaunderous Libelles These two aforenamed Bookes right Honourable comming to my handes and the famous vntruethes therein with aduise considered I prepared my selfe to write this breefe Aunswer which in dutie and humilitie I commend to your Honourable view How it shall please you to like thereof I am not to enter into oppinion neuerthelesse I haue good hope that according as I meant it your Honour will accept it which was and is to displease none but to pleasure and profit all men if I might especially your Honor to whom I wish more then heere I can vnfold bothe of earthly honor and heauenly happines Your Honours during life Antony Munday ¶ To the Courteous and freendly Reader I Commend to thy freendly iudgement gentle reader this lyttle Booke made in answere of two seditious and Traiterous Pamphlets the one printed in French and the other in English wherein if in their writings thou findest any thing that may seeme offensiue to thy ciuill and well ordered nature let this be thy perswasion such as the Tree is such is the fruit and such as the matter is such are those kind of mē Thou hast already read in my former booke a breefe setting downe of their wicked vnnatural tresons but shortly thou shalt haue such matter come foorth as shall paint them foorth in their right coullours yet not all that I knowe for my dutie wyll not suffer me to shewe it nor thy modestie endure to reade it And by way of curtesie let me desyre of thee that although at sundrye times thou shalt heare such lewde speeches of me as I were not woorthy life if I were so euill as to