her kingdomes as three or foure popes haue sit in their chayre at Rome fortyfied with so much duetie loue and strength of her subiectes acknowledging no superiour ouer her realmes but the mightie hand of God shall she forbeare or feare to withstand and make frustrate his vnlawful attemptes eyther by her sword or by her lawes or to put his souldiers inuadours of her realme to y e sword martially or to execute her lawes vpon her owne rebellious subiectes ciuilly that are prooued to be his chiefe instruments for rebellion and for his open warre This is sure that howsoeuer either he sitting in his chaire with a triple crowne at Rome or any other his proctors in any part of Christendome shal renewe these vnlawfull attemptes almightie God whome her Maiestie onely honoureth and acknowledgeth to be her onely soueraigne Lord and protectour and whose lawes gospel of his sonne Iesus Christ she seeketh to defend wil no doubt but deliuer sufficient power into his maydens hand his seruant Queene Elizabeth to withstand and confound them all And where the seditious trumpetters of infamies and lies haue sounded forth and entituled certaine that haue suffred for treason to be martyrs for religiō so may they also at this time if they list adde to their forged catalogue the headles bodie of y e late miserable Earle of Desmond who of late secretly wandering without succour as a miserable begger was taken by one of the Irishry in his caben and in an Irish sort after his owne accustomed sauage maner his head cut off from his bodie an end due to such an archrebell And herewith to remember the ende of his chiefe confederates may be noted for example to others the strange maner of the death of D. Sanders the popes Irish legat who also wandring in the mountaines in Ireland without succour died rauing in a phrensey And before him one Iames Fits-Morice the first Traitour of Ireland next to Stukely the rakehel a man not vnknowen in the popes palace for a wicked craftie traytor was slaine at one blow by an Irish noble yong Gētleman in defence of his fathers countrey which the traitor sought to burne A fourth man of singular note was Iohn of Desmonde brother to the Earle a very bloody faithles traitor and a notable murderer of his familiar friendes who also wandring to seeke some pray like a wolfe in the woods was takē beheaded after his own vsage being as he thought sufficiently armed with the popes Buls certaine Agnus dei one notable ring about his necke sent frō the popes finger as it was said but these he saw saued not his life And such were the fatal ends of al these being y e principal heads of y e Irish warre rebelliō so as no one person remaineth at this day in Ireland a knowen traitor To this nōber they may if they seeke nomber also adde a furious yong man of Warwickeshire by name Someruile to increase their Kalender of y e popes martyrs who of late was discouered and taken in his way comming w t a ful intent to haue killed her Maiestie whose life God alwayes haue in his custodie The attempt not denied by y e traitor himselfe but confessed and that he was moued thereto in his wicked spirit by inticements of certaine seditious traiterous persons his kinsmen and allyes and also by often reading of sundry seditious vile books lately published against her Maiestie But as God of his goodnes hath of long time hitherto preserued her Maiestie from these and the like trecheries so hath she no cause to feare being vnder his protection she saying with king Dauid in the Psalme My God is my helper and I will trust in him he is my protection and the strength or the power of my saluation And for the comfort of al good subiects against the shadowes of the popes Bulles it is manifest to the world that from the beginning of her Maiesties reigne by Gods singular goodnes her kingdome hath enioyed more vniuersall peace her people increased in more nombers in more strength and with greater riches the earth of her kingdomes hath yeelded more fruits and generally all kind of worldly felicitie hath more abounded since and during the time of the popes thunders bulles curses and maledictions then in any other long times before when the popes pardons and blessings came yeerely into the Realme so as his curses and maledictions haue turned backe to himself and his fautors that it may be said to the fortunate Queene of Englande her people as was said in Deuteronomy of Balaam The Lord thy God woulde not heare Balaam but did turne his maledictiōs or curses into benedictions or blessings the reason is for because thy God loued thee Although these former reasons are sufficient to perswade all kind of reasonable persons to allow of her Maiesties actions to be good reasonable lawfull and necessarie yet because it may be that such as haue by frequent reading of false artificiall libels and by giuing credite to them vpon a preiudice or foreiudgement afore grounded by their rooted opinions in fauour of the pope will rest vnsatisfied therefore as much as may be to satisfie all persons as farre foorth as common reason may warrant that her Maiesties late action in executing of certaine seditious traitors hath not proceeded for the holding of opinions either for y e popes supremacie or against her Maiesties regalitie but for the very crymes of sedition treason it shal suffice briefly in a manner of a repetition of the former reasons to remember these things following First it cānot be denied but y t her Maiestie did for many yeres suffer quietly the popes buls excommunications without punishment of the fautors thereof accompting of thē but as of words or winde or of writings in parchment wayed downe with leade or as of water bubbles cōmonly called in Latin Bullae and such like but yet after some proofe that courage was taken thereof by some bolde and bad subiectes she coulde not but then esteeme them to be very preambles or as forerunners of greater danger and therefore with what reason coulde any mislike that her Maiestie did for a bare defence against them w tout other action or force vse the helpe of reuiuing of former lawes to prohibit the publication or execution of such kinde of Bulles within her Realme Secondly when notwithstanding y e prohibition by her lawes the same bulles were plentifully but in secret sort brought into y e realme at length arrogantly set vpon the gates of y e Bishop of Londons pallace neere to y e Cathedrall Church of Pauls the principal citie of y e realme by a lewd person vsing y e same like a herald sent frō the pope who can in any cōmon reason mislike y t her Maiestie finding this kinde of denunciatiō of warre as a defiance to be made in her principal citie by one of her
The Execution of Iustice in England for maintenaunce of publique and Christian peace against certeine stirrers of sedition and adherents to the traytors and enemies of the Realme without any persecution of them for questions of Religion as is falsely reported and published by the fautors and fosterers of their treasons xvii Decemb. 1583. †Imprinted at London 1583. ⧠The Execution of Iustice in England for maintenance of publique and Christian peace c. IT hath bene in all ages and in all countries a common vsage of all offendors for the most part both great and small to make defence of their lewd and vnlawfull facts by vntruthes and by colouring and couering their deedes were they neuer so vile with pretences of some other causes of contrarie operations or effectes to the intent not onely to auoid punishment or shame but to continue vphold prosecute their wicked attempts to y e full satisfaction of their disordered and malicious appetites And though such hath bene the vse of all offendors yet of none with more danger then of Rebels traitours to their lawfull Princes Kings and countries Of which sort of late yeeres are specially to be noted certaine persons naturally borne subiects in the Realme of England and Ireland who hauing for some good time professed outwardly their obedience to their soueraigne Lady Queene Elizabeth haue neuerthelesse afterward bene stirred vp and seduced by wicked spirites first in England sundry yeres past and secondly and of later time in Ireland to enter into open rebellion taking armes and comming into the field against her Maiestie and her Lieutenants with their forces vnder banners displayed inducing by notable vntruthes many simple people to followe assist them in their traiterous actions And though it is very well knowen that both their intentions and manifest actions were bent to haue deposed the Queenes Maiestie from her Crowne and to haue traiterously set in her place some other whom they liked whereby if they had not bene speedily resisted they would haue committed great bloodsheddes and slaughters of her Maiesties faithfull subiects and ruined their natiue countrey Yet by Gods power giuen vnto her Maiestie they were so speedily vanquished as some few of them suffered by order of Lawe according to their deserts many and the greatest part vpon confession of their faultes were pardoned y e rest but they not many of the principall escaped into forreine countries there because in none or few places rebels and traitours to their naturall Princes and countries dare for their treasons chalenge at their first muster open comfort or succour these notable traitors and rebels haue falsely informed many Kings Princes and States and specially the Bishoppe of Rome commonly called the Pope from whome they all had secretely their first comfort to rebell that the cause of their fleeing from their countries was for the religion of Rome and for maintenance of the said Popes authoritie Whereas diuers of them before their rebellion liued so notoriously the most part of their liues out of all good rule either for honest maners or for any sense in religion as they might haue bene rather familiar with Catalyn or fauourers to Sardanapalus then accōpted good subiectes vnder any Christian Princes As for some examples of the heads of these rebellions out of England fled Charles Neuill Earle of Westmerland a person vtterly wasted by loosenesse of life by Gods punishment euen in the time of his rebellion bereaued of his children that should haue succeeded him in the Earledome and how his bodie is nowe eaten with vlcers of lewde causes all his companions do see that no enemie he had can wish him a viler punishment And out of Ireland ranne away one Thomas Stukeley a defamed person almost through all Christendome a faithlesse beast rather then a man fleeing first out of England for notable piracies and out of Ireland for trecheries not pardonable which two were the first ringleaders of the rest of the rebelles the one for England the other for Ireland But notwithstanding the notorious euill and wicked liues of these and others their confederates voide of all Christian religion it liked the Bishop of Rome as in fauour of their treasons not to colour their offences as themselues openly pretend to do for auoyding of common shame of the worlde but flatly to animate them to continue their former wicked purposes that is to take armes against their lawfull Queene to inuade her realme with forreine forces to pursue al her good subiects and their natiue countries with fire sworde for maintenance whereof there had some yeres before at sundrie times proceeded in a thundring sort Bulles excommunications other publique writings denouncing her Maiestie being the lawfull Queene and Gods anoynted seruant not to be the Queene of the realme charging and vpon paines of excommunication commanding all her subiects to depart from their natural alleageances wherto by birth and by othe they were bounde Prouoking also and authorising all persons of al degrees within both the realmes to rebell and vpon this antichristian warrant being contrarie to all the Lawes of God and man nothing agreeable to a pasturall officer not onely all the rabble of the foresaid traitors that were before fled but also all other persons that had forsaken their natiue countries being of diuers conditions and qualities some not able to liue at home but in beggerie some discontented for lacke of preferments which they gaped for vnworthily in Vniuersities other places some banckerupt Marchants some in a sort learned to contentions being not contented to learne to obey the Lawes of the lande haue many yeres running vp and downe from Countrey to countrey practised some in one corner some in an other some with seeking to gather forces and money for forces some with instigation of Princes by vntruethes to make warre vpon their natural countrey some with inwarde practises to murder the GREATEST some with seditious writings and very many of late with publique infamous libels ful of despitefull vile termes and poysoned lyes altogether to vpholde the foresaide antichristian and tyrannous warrant of the Popes Bull. And yet also by some other meanes to furder these intentions because they could not readily preuayle by way of force finding forreine Princes of better consideration and not readily inclined to their wicked purposes it was deuised to erect vp certeine schooles which they called Seminaries to nourish bring vp persons disposed naturally to sedition to continue their race and trade and to become seedmen in their tillage of sedition them to send secretly into these the Q. Maiesties realmes of England Ireland vnder secret Maskes some of Priesthood some of other inferior orders with titles of Seminaries for some of the meaner sort of Iesuites for the stagers and ranker sort such like but yet so warely they crept into the land as none brought the marks of their priesthoode
was a head captaine And thereby it may manifestly appeare to all men howe this Bull was the grounde of the rebellions both in England and Ireland and howe for maintenaunce thereof and for sowing of sedition by warrant and allowance of the same these persons were iustly condemned of treason and lawfully executed by the auncient lawes temporall of the Realme without any other matter then for their practizes and conspiracies both abroade and at home against the Queene and the realme and for maintaining of the Popes foresaid authoritie and Bull published to depriue her Maiestie of her crowne and for withdrawing and reconciling of her subiects from their naturall allegeaunce due to her Maiestie and to their countrie and for mouing them to sedition for no other causes or questions of religion were these persons condemned although true it is that when they were charged and conuinced of these poyntes of conspiracies and treasons they woulde still in their answeres colourably pretend their actions to haue bene for religion but in deede and trueth they were manifest for the procurement and maintenaunce of the rebellions and warres against her Maiestie and her realme And herein is nowe the manifest diuersitie to be seene and well considered betwixt the trueth of her Maiesties actions and the falshood of the blasphemous aduersaries that where the factious partie of the Pope the principall author of the inuasions of her Maiesties dominions doe falsely alleadge that a nomber of persons whome they terme as Martyrs haue dyed for defence of the catholique religion the same in very trueth may manifestly appeare to haue died if they so wil haue it as martyrs for the Pope and traitors against their soueraigne and Queene in adhering to him being the notable and onely open hostile enemie in all actions of warre against her Maiestie her kingdomes and people and that this is the meaning of all these that haue so obstinately maintayned the authoritie and contents of this Bull the very wordes of the Bull do declare in this sort as D. Sanders reporteth them Plus Quintus Pontifex Maximus de Apostolicae potestatis plenitudine declarauit Elizabetham praetenso Regni iure necnon omni quocunque dominio dignitate priuilegioque priuatam Itemque Proceres subditos populos dicti regni ac caeteros omnes qui illi quomodocunque iurauerunt à iuramento huiusmodi ac omni fidelitatis debito perpetuò absolutos That is to say Pius Quintus the greatest Bishop of the fulnesse of the Apostolique power declared Elizabeth to be bereued or depriued of her pretended right of her kingdome and also of all and whatsoeuer dominion dignitie priuiledge and also the Nobles subiects people of the said kingdome and all others which had sworne to her any maner of wayes to be absolued for euer from such othe and from all debt or duetie of fealtie and so forth with many threatning cursings to al that durst obey her or her lawes And for execution hereof to proue that the effect of the Popes bul message was a flat rebelliō it is not amisse to heare what D. Sanders the Popes firebrād in Ireland also writeth in his visible Church Monarchie which is thus Pius Quintus Pontifex Maximus Anno D. 1569. reuerendum praesbyterum Nicolaum Mortonum Anglum in Angliam misit vt certis illustribus viris authoritate Apostolica denunciaret Elizabetham quae tunc rerum potiebatur haereticam esse ob eamque causam omni Dominio potestate excedisse impuneque ab illis velut ethnicam haberi posse nec eos illius legibus aut mandatis deinceps obedire cogi That is to say Pius Quintus y e greatest Bishop in the yere of our Lord 1569. sent the reuerend priest Nicolas Morto an Englishmā into England y t he shuld denoūce or declare by y e Apostolique authority to certaine noble men Elizabeth who thē was in possessiō to be an heretike for y e cause to haue fallen frō al dominion power that she may be had or reputed of thē as an Ethnike and that they are not to be compelled to obey her lawes or commandements c. Thus you see an Ambassade of rebellion frō the Popes holines the Ambassadour an old doting English Priest a fugitiue and conspirator sent as he saieth to some noble men and those were the two Earles of Northumberland and Westmerland heads of the rebellion And after this he followeth to declare y e successe thereof which I dare say he was sory it was so euil w t these words Qua denuntiatione multinobiles viri adducti sunt vt de fratribus liberandis cogitare auderent ac sperabant illi quidem Catholicos omnes summis viribus affuturos esse verum etsialiter quà m illi expectabant res euenit quià Catholici omnes nondum probè cognouerant Elizabetham hereticam esse declaratam tamen laudanda illorum Nobilium consilia erant that is By which denuntiation many noble men were induced or ledde that they were boldened to thinke of the freeing of their brethren and they hoped certainly that all the Catholiques would haue assisted them with all their strength but although the matter happened otherwise then they hoped for because all the Catholiques knewe not that Elizabeth was declared to be an heritike yet the counsels intentes of those noble men were to be praysed A rebellion and a vanquishing of rebels very smoothly described This noble fact here mencioned was the rebellion in the North the noble mē were the Earles of Westmerland and Northumberland the lacke of the euent or successe was that the traitours were vanquished and the Queenes Maiestie and her subiects had by Gods ordinance the victorie and the cause why the rebels preuayled not was because all the Catholiques had not bene duely informed that the Queenes Maiestie was declared to be as they terme it an heretike which want of information to the intent to make the rebels mightier in nomber and power was diligently and cunningly supplyed by the sending into the realme of a great multitude of the Seminaries Iesuites whose special charge was to informe the people thereof as by their actions hath manifestly appeared And though D. Sanders hath thus written yet it may be said by such as fauoured the two notable Iesuites one named Robert Persons who yet hideth himself in corners to continue his Trayterous practise the other named Edmond Campion that was found out being disguised like a roister and suffered for his Treasons that D. Sanders treason is his proper treason in allowing of the sayde bull but not to be imputed to Persons and Campion Therefore to make it plaine y t these two by speciall authoritie had charge to execute the sentence of this bul these actes in writing following shall make manifest which are not fayned or imagined but are the verie writings taken about one of their complyces immediatly after Campions death Facultates
left without any further argument to the iudgement of the Almightie God as persons that haue couered their eyes against the sunnes light stopped their eares against the sounde of Iustice and oppressed their heartes against the force of reason and as the Psalmist saith They speake lyes they are as venemous as the poison of a serpent euen like the deafe Adder that stoppeth his eares Wherefore with charitie to conclude if these rebels traitors and their fautors woulde yet take some remorse and compassion of their natural countrey and would consider how vaine their attempts haue bene so many yeres and howe many of their confederates are wasted by miseries and calamities and would desist from their vnnatural practises abroade and if these Seminaries secret wanderers and explorators in the darke woulde imploy their traueiles in the workes of light and doctrine according to the vsage of their schooles and content them selues with their profession and deuotion and that the remnant of the wicked flocke of the seedemen of sedition would cease froÌ„ their rebellious false and infamous railings libellings there is no doubt by Gods grace her Maiestie being so much giuen to mercie and deuoted to peace but al colour and occasion of shedding the blood of any more of her naturall subiectes of this sand should vtterly cease Against whose malices if they shall not desist Almighty God continue her Maiestie with his spirit power long to reigne and liue in his feare and to be able to vanquish them and all Gods enemies and her rebels traitors both at home and abroad and to maintaine and preserue all her naturall good louing subiectes to the true seruice of the same Almightie God according to his holy worde and will Many other things might be remembred for defence of other her Maiesties princely honourable and godly actions in sundry other things wherein also these the like seditious railors haue of late time without all shame by fained and false libels sought to discredit her Maiestie her gouernement but at this time these former causes and reasons alleadged by way of aduertisements are sufficient to iustifie her Maiesties actions to y e whole worlde in the cases remembred FINIS All offenders couer their faults with contrary causes Rebels doe most dangerously couer their faults Rebellion in EnglaÌ„d Ireland The rebels vaÌ„quished by the Q. power Some of the Rebels fled into forreine countries Rebels pretend religion for their defence Ringleaders of Rebels Charles Neuill Earle of Westmerland and Thomas Stukeley The effect of y e popes but against y e Queene of EnglaÌ„d The practises of the traitors Rebels fugitiues to execute the Bull. Seminaries erected to nurse seditious fugitiues The Seminary fugitiues come secretly into the realme to induce the people to obey the Popes Bull. Sowers of sedition taken conueÌ„ted executed for treason The seditious traitors condeÌ„ned by the auncient lawes of the realme made 200. yeres past Persons coÌ„demned spared froÌ„ execution vpon refusall of their treasonable opinions The forrein Traitors continue sending of persons to moue sedition in the realme The seditious fugitiues labor to bring the Realme into a warre externall domestical The duetie of y e Queen and all her gouernors to God their countrie is to repel practises of rebellion None charged with capitall crimes being of a cuÌ„â—â—arte religion and professing to withstaÌ„d forreyne forces Names of diuers Ecclesiasticall persoÌ„s professing contrarie religion neuer charged w t capitall crunes 〈…〉 sâ—râ—â—s oâ—â— same 〈…〉 and writinges A great nomber of lay persoÌ„s of liuelood being of a contrary religion neuer charged with capitall crime No person charged w t capitall crime for the onely inâ—â—â—â—enance of y e Popes supremacie Such condeÌ„ned onely for treason as mainteine the effects of y e Popes bul against her Maiestie and the realme D. SaÌ„ders maintenance of the Popes Bull. The persons that suffered death were condeÌ„ned for Treason not for Religion A full full proofe that the mainteiners of the bull are directly guilty of treason D. MortoÌ„s secret Ambassage froÌ„ Rome to stirre y e rebellioÌ„ in the North. Persons Campion are offenders as D. Sanders is for allowance of the Bull. Faculties graunted to PersoÌ„s CampioÌ„ by Pope Gregory 13. anno 1580. Harts coÌ„fession of the interpretation of the Bul of Pius Quintus A conclusion that all the infamous bookes against the Queene the realme are false Difference of the smal numbers that haue bene executed in the space of xxv yeres from the great numbers in v. yeres of Queene Maries saigne An aduertisement to al Princes of couÌ„tries abroad The authoritie claymed by y e Pope not warranted by Christ or by the two Apostles Peter and Paul Pope Hildebrand the first y t made warre against the Emperour An. Do. 1074. The iudgement of God against the Popes false erected Emperour Pope Gregorie the vii deposed by Henry y e 4. Henry 5. Fredrick 1 Fredrick 2 Lewes of Bauar Emperors Whatsoeuer is lawful for other princes Soueraignes is lawfull for y e Queene crowne of EnglaÌ„d The title of vniuersal Bishop is a preamble of Antichrist 1527. Rome sacked and the Pope Clement taken prisoner by the Emperours army 1550. King Henry the second of Fraunce his Edicts against the Pope and his courts of Rome The besieging of Rome and the Pope by the D. of Alua with King Philips army D. Peyto a begging Fryer The kings of ChristeÌ„dome neuer suffer the Popes to abridge their titles or rights though they suffer them to haue rule ouer their people The Queene or England may not suffer the Pope by any means to make Rebellions in her Realme Additaments to y e Popes martyrologe The ferang endes of Iames Erle of Desmond D. Saunders Iames Fitzmorice Iohn of Desmond Iohn Someruile The prosperitie or England during the Popes curses Reasons to persuade by reason y e fauorers of y e Pope that none hath bene executed for religion but for treason The first reason The second reason The Bul of Pius Quintus let vp at Pauls The first punishmeÌ„t for y e Bull. The third reason Rebellion in the North. The fourth reason The inuasion of Ireland by the Pope The Popes forces vanquished in Ireland The politique aduersaries satisfied Obiection of the papists that the persons executed are but schollers and vnarmed Many are traytors though they haue no armour nor weapon The application of the scholasticall traitors to others y t are traitors without armour Six Questions to trye traytours froÌ„ schollers The offendours executed for treason not for religion Vnreasonable obstinate persons are left to Gods iudgemeÌ„t
will that it belongeth not to a Bishop of Rome as successor of Saint Peter and therein a pastor spirituall or if hee were the Bishop of all Christendome as by the name of Pope he claymeth first by his Bulles or excommunications in this sort at his will in fauour of traytours and rebels to depose any soueraigne Princes being lawfully inuested in their Crownes by succession in blood or by lawfull election and then to arme subiects against their naturall Lordes to make warres and to dispense with them for their othes in so doing or to excommunicate faithful subiects for obeying of their natural Princes and lastly himselfe to make open warre with his owne souldiers against Princes mouing no force against him For if these powers shoulde be permitted to him to exercise then shoulde no Empire no kingdome no countrey no Citie or Towne be possessed by any lawful title longer then one such onely an earthly man sitting as he saith in S. Peters chaire at Rome should for his will and appetite without warrant from God or man thinke meete and determine An authoritie neuer chalenged by the Lorde of lordes the sonne of God Iesus Christ out onely Lord and Sauiour and the onely head of his Church whilest he was in his humanitie vpon the earth nor yet deliuered by any writing or certaine tradition frō Saint Peter from whome the Pope pretendeth to deriue all his authoritie nor yet from Saint Paul the Apostle of y e Gentiles but contrariwise by all preachings preceptes writings conteined in the Gospel and other Scriptures of the Apostles obedience is expresly commaunded to all earthly Princes yea euen to Kings by speciall name and that so generally as no person is excepted from such duetie of obedience as by the sentence of Saint Paul euen to the Romanes appeareth Omnis anima sublimioribus potestatibus sit subdita That is Let euery soule be subiect to the higher powers within the compasse of which law or precept Saint Chrisostome being Bishoppe of Constantinople writeth that euen Apostles Prophets Euangelists and Monkes are comprehended And for proofe of Saint Peters minde herein from whome these Popes claime their authoritie it can not be plainlyer expressed then when he writeth thus Proinde subiecti estote cuiuis humanae ordinationi propter Dominum siue Regi vt qui superemineat siue presidibus ab eo missis That is Therefore be you subiect to euery humane ordinance or creature for the Lorde whether it be to the King as to him that is supereminent or aboue the rest or to his presidents sent by him By which two principall Apostles of Christ these Popes the pretensed successours but chiefely by that which Christ the Sonne of God the onely Master of trueth sayde to Peter and his fellow Apostles Reges gentium dominantur vos autem non sic That is The Kings of the Gentiles haue rule ouer them but you not so may learne to forsake their arrogant and tyrannous authorities in earthly and temporall causes ouer Kings and Princes and exercise their Pastorall office as Saint Peter was charged thrise at one time by his Lorde and Master Pasce oues meas Feede my sheepe and peremptorily forbidden to vse a sworde in saying to him Conuerte gladium tuum in locum suum or mitte gladium tuum in vaginam that is Turne thy sword into his place or Put thy sworde into the scabbard All which precepts of Christ and his Apostles were duely followed and obserued many hundred yeeres after their death by the faithfull and godly Bishops of Rome that duely followed the doctrine and humilitie of the Apostles and the doctrine of Christ thereby dilated the limittes of Christs Church and the fayth more in the compasse of an hundred yeeres then the latter Popes haue done with their swordes and curses these 500 yeeres and so continued vntil the time of one Pope Hildebrand otherwise called Gregory theseuenth about the yeere of our Lorde 1074. who first beganne to vsurpe that kinde of Tyrannie which of late the Pope called Pius Quintus and since that time Gregory nowe the thirteenth hath followed for some example as it seemeth that is Where Gregory the seuenth in the yeere of our Lord 1074. or thereabout presumed to depose Henry y e fourth a noble Emperour then being Gregory the thirteenth nowe at this time would attempt the like against King Henry the eightes daughter heire Queene Elizabeth a soueraigne Queene holding her Crowne immediatly of God And to the ende it may appeare to Princes or to their good Counsellours in one example what was the fortunate successe y t God gaue to this good Christian Emperour Henry against the proud pope Hildebrand it is to be noted that when the pope Gregory attempted to depose this noble Emperour Henry there was one Rodulphe a noble man by some named the Count of Reenfield that by the Popes procurement vsurped the name of the Emperour who was ouercome by the sayde Henry the lawfull Emperour and in fight hauing lost his right hand he the said Rodulphe lamented his case to certayne Bishoppes who in the popes name had erected him vp and to them he said that y e selfe same right hand which he had lost was the same hande wherewith he had before sworne obedience to his Lorde and master the Emperour Henry and that in following their vngodly counselles he had brought vpon him Gods heauy and iust iudgementes And so Henry the Emperour preuailing by Gods power caused Gregory the pope by a Synode in Italy to be deposed as in like times before him his predecessour Otho the Emperour had deposed one pope Iohn for many heynous crymes and so were also within a short time three other popes namely Siluester Bennet and Gregory the sixt vsed by the Emperour Henry the third about the yere of our Lord 1047. for their like presumptuous attemptes in temporall actions against the said Emperours Many other examples might be shewed to the Emperours maiestie and the Princes of the holy Empire nowe being after the time of Henry the fourth as of Henry the fifth and after him of Fredericke the first and Fredericke the second and then of Lewis of Bauar all Emperours cruelly and tyrannously persecuted by the popes and by their bulles curses and by open warres and likewise to many other the great Kings and Monarches of Christendome of their noble progenitors Kinges of their seuerall dominions whereby they may see howe this kind of tyrannous authoritie in popes to make warres vpon Emperors and Kings and to commaund them to be depriued toke holde at the first by pope Hildebrande though the same neuer had any lawefull example or warrant from the Lawes of God of the olde or new Testament but yet the successes of their tyrannies were by Gods goodnesse for the most parte made frustrate as by Gods goodnesse there is no doubt but the like will followe to their confusions at all times to come And