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
sheweth copiously But because Parsons in his Apologie laboureth to purge himselfe thereof I haue thought it good to speake a little to that effect in this place Watson the secular priest hath these words we may not imagine that father Parsons was ignorant of his owne base estate as being a sacrilegious bastard in the worst sense sâ—il à spurius begotten by the parson of the parish where he was borne vpon the bodie of a verie base queane This then being so and he not so senselesse as to thinke but that he will find the Canon law more strict in dispensation with him for his irregularitie then the ciuill or common law will be for dispensation to inherit there is no question to be made of it but that some close statute and prouiso was closely made and couertly foysted into the high councel of reformation for enabling some bastards in the spitefullest sense to be capable of any honour or dignitie eyther in the Church or commonwealth And true it is that this good father Parsons alias Cowbucke filius populi filius peccati or the very fiend himselfe might be chosen to a kingdome by his doctrine if any people would be so madde as to chuse him for their king Thus doth our Quodlibetst write The same Watson in an other place writeth of the same Parsons in this manner O monster of mankind fitter for hell then middle earth If thy profession will not draw thee to consideration of the premisses yet shew some signes of charitie in sparkes of grace if it were but onely in pollicie to moue thee to forbeare thy barbarous crueltie because therby thou giuest occasion for diuers to think thou art not a méere man but some fairies brat or begotten by an Incubus or airish spirit vpon the bodie of a base woman thus doth priest Watson write you haue his owne words Againe in an other place he hath these words diuers of father Parsons bookes letters and treatises we haue and doe from our verie hearts vtterly condemne them as containing many seditious and traytorous points and being very full of slaunderous speaches and impudent caluminiations Andreas Philopater being the fruites of father Parsons and father Creswell we hold to be fraught till it almost burst againe as some of my brethren els where haue noted with all Iesuiticall pride and poyson and as touching the exthortation printed 1588. It is so detestable a treatise as all posteritie cannot choose but condemne father Parsons for a most scurrilous traytor if he had been brought vp amongst all the ruffians and curtizans in christendome he could not haue learned to haue writ more vilely prophainely and heathenishly Moreouer the said father Parsons and his fellow father Creswell doe glorie in the said booke that they haue caused not onely it but also Maister Saunders treatise de schismate to be translated into the spanish tongue and doe reioyce that thereby the Spaniards are brought already into a greater detestation of her Maiestie her gouernment and proceedings then they had before Thus writeth Maister Watson and in an other place he telleth vs plainely that he was a lewde boy in his youth that during his aboade at Oxford his conuersation was seditious wanton and factious and that for his libelling and other misdemeanour he was thrust out of Balyoll colledge Againe in an other place he hath these words I meane the great Emperour illegitimate irregular abstract quintessence of all coynes coggeries and forgeries Parsons the bastarde of Stockgersey beyond Cosinage in Somersethire This is that famous conqueror who hath bathed all England by his seditious libels in priests bloud This is that worthy excellent that lies dissembles and equiuocates at euerie word This is that learned counseller that must rule ruffe and range through euery state This is that same Parsons whome Pope Prince and peere with all true English hearts haue cause to hate This is he of whome Maister Blackewell now his darling said that his turbulent head and lewd life would be a discredite to the catholicke cause and in few the generall conceite of all that haue throughly conuersed with him is this that he is of a furious passionate hote cholericke exorbitant working humour busie headed and full of ambition enuy pride rancour malice and reueng Cursed bee the houre wherein he had the name of a Priest nay of an irreligious parson nay of a temporall lay-man Iesuite nay of a catholike nay of a christian nay of a humane creature but of a beast or a deuill a violater of all lawes a contemner of all authoritie a staine of humanitie and impostume of all corruption a corrupter of all honestie and a monopole of all mischiefe These are the words of William Watson the popish secular priest quodl 8. art 5. page 236. See the fift chapter of the second booke in the first second and third sections By these sections especiallie the fourth and fift euery man may easily see that the Iesuite Parsons is not onely acommon impudent lyar but also a most bloodie and scurrilous traytor the monopole of all mischiefe and the wickedst man vpon the face of the earth The reports recounted of this Iesuite cannot but seeme strange if not incredible to all that shall pervse the same I know it is sinne to lie on the deuill and therefore I will not affirme any lye of this Iesuite nor of any other man That which I haue written of him is most true and sincere in such sort as I haue put in downe I name my authors and their words the tale and the tale-teller the assertions and the places where they are to bee reade I graunt willingly and will it not denie that I haue set downe in this discourse many sharpe obseruations annotations correlaries illations but all are deduced by necessary and euident consequutioÌ„s out of those premises and antecedent propositions which the secular priests and Iesuites haue published in printed bookes to yâ— view of the whole worlde In regard whereof neither my selfe nor any others guided by the prescript of right reason can but giue credit to the same For first the authors thereof are many and the same of iudgement and learning and yet doe they charg the Iesuits with murdering of Kings Secondly they professe euen to death the selfe same religion with the Iesuites Thirdly they all yeeld themselues in all thinges to the censure of the pope at whole tribunall the Iesuite must needes preuaile if his case and cause bée good Fourthly they are subiect to such satisfaction if their accusations should be false as publique pennance must néedes be inioyned them and that worthily so as they shall neuer be permitted to exequute priestly function while there liues shall endure Fiftly they know that if such haynous accusations powred out against their fellow-priests especially against their religious fathers were false and vttred of malice they should thereby heape Gods heauy wrath and vengeance vpon themselues Sixtly they
vers 26. Borromeo reiected the Iesuites pag. 156. vers 12. Bull renewed by Allen. pag. 85. vers 9. Babington See treason Birket the priest pag. 85. vers 24. C CArdinals letter indited by Parsons Page 170. vers 27. Cardinall Allen. See Allen. Cardinall Bellarmine See Bellarmine Cardinall Boromeo See Boromeo Cardinals poysoned by Iesuites pag. 107. vers 19. pag. 37. vers 34. Cardinall Toledo was Parsons boy pag. 159. 27. Cardinall Pandulphus crowned in the Popes right Pag. 120. pag. 20. Capuchenes why they agree with the Iesuites page 80. vers 20. Conquest of England threatned by the Iesuites page 32. vers 22. Coaches vsuall to Iesuites pag. 9. vers 20. pag. 7. vers 17. pag. 25. vers 18. Coozenage practised by Iesuites pag. 59. vers 16. Confession dissliked by Pope Sixtus pag. 134. vers 16. Church of Rome hereticall pag. 134. vers 9. Confession vsed tyrannically by Iesuites pag. 39. vers 12 Constitutions of the Iesuites are mutable pag. 56 Campion his martyrdome pag. 97. vers 11. Chaunge expected by the papists pag. 101. vers 9. Cogging of the Iesuites pag. 29. Crichton the Iesuite a traytor pag. 45. vers 11. pag. 75. vers 28. pag. 181. vers 12. D DEuill brought Iesuites into England pag. 84. vers 22. pag. 86. vers 8. Doctrine of Iesuites is contrarie to the truth pag. 133. vers 21. Duke de Medina threatned to kill all pag. 11. vers 3. Duke of Parma intituled to England pag. 23. p. 79. Duke of Guise should haue inuaded England pag. 75. pag. 84. vers 32. Duke of Alua purposed to inuade this land pag. 83. Deuill brought the Iesuits into England pag. 84. pag. 83. v. 22. Deuill ruleth and raigneth in the Iesuites pag. 68. vers 3. Dissention betweene the priests and Iesuites pag. 19. Day of channge expected pag. 101. vers 9. E EQuiuocation of the Iesuites pag. 29. pag. 35. vers 13. Expences of the Iesuites pag. 34. vers 15. pag. 26. vers 31. Exercise vsed by the Iesuites pag. 29. vers 6. pag. 130. Examination of the Popes dealing pag. 94. vers 16. F FRench Ambassadour pag. 82. vers 5. French king murdered by Iesuites pag. 37. vers 34. pag. 107. vers 34. French king banished the Iesuites pag. 36. vers 3. Firebrands of sedition pag. 36. vers 21. pag. 80. vers 1. Ferdinando Earle of Darbie pag. 22. vers 33. Felton set vp the Popes Bull. pag. 83. vers 38. Figges giuen by Iesuites pag. 107. vers 3. G GErrarde the Iesuite a good hunter for money pag. 29. Grains hallowed for treason pag. 86. vers 28. Gybseys-Iesuites pag. 77. vers 35. H HEsket a messenger for treason pag. 22. vers 33. Haddocke a badde fellow pag. 30. vers 9. pag. 165. vers 8. High councell of reformation pag. 80. vers 8. pag. 81. v. 5. Hallowed grains See grains I IEsuites by secret vowes pag. 78. vers 9. Iesuites are arrant traytors pag. 75. vers 35. pag. 12. pag. 11. pag. 44. vers 5. pag. 22. vers 17. Iesuites are great lyers pag. 53. pag. 35. vers 13. pag. 77. vers 27. pag. 58. Insuites are cruell tyrants pag. 80. pag. 73. vers 6. pag. 132. vers 34. Iesuites make a triple vow pag. 17. vers 35. pag. 46. pag. 47. Iesuites are States-men pag. 2. Iesuites ride like Earles Pag. 24. vers 22. pag. 34. vers 12. Iesuites must haue their chambers perfumed pag. 7. vers 17. Iesuites are murtherers pag. 107. pag. 7. vers 12. pag. 42. pag. 37. vers 34. pag. 23. pag. 107. vers 18. Iesuites are diuels pag 133. vers 8. pag. 8. Iesuites are right Machiuels pag. 21. vers 20. pag. 15. Iesuites will not come at processions Pag. 133. vers 10. Iesuites are theeues pag. 25. vers 3. Iesuites are proud men pag. 24. vers 21. pag. 25. pag. 26. vers 23. vers 32. pag. 33. vers 24 Iesuites ride in coaches pag. 25. vers 18. pag. 7. vers 16 Iesuites are Scribes and Pharisees page 133. vers 14. Iesuites commaund gentlewomen to pull of their bootes pag. 7. vers 19 Iesuites trowle vp and downe from good cheare to good cheare pag. 7. vers 15 Iesuites promise to restore men to their liuings pag. 32. vers 21. Iesuites doe threaten a conquest pag. 32. vers 22 Iesuites are franke gamsters pag. 2. vers 6 Iesuites cannot abide cloysters P. 2. vers 14 Iesuites vse great penance pag. 7 Iesuites are firebrands of sedition pag. 21. vers 7. See firebrands Iesuites how they pray pag. 20. vers 21 Iesuites the wickedst men vpon earth pag. 15 Isabella of Spayne must haue the Crowne pag. 11. pag. 12. pag. 22. pag. 23. K Kinge of France murdered by the Iesuites p. 107. v. 19. p. 37. v. 34. Kinge of France banished the Iesuites p. 36. v. 3. Kinge of Spaine intendeth to conquer England p. 14 King of Spaine is the life of poperie p. 3. v. 4. Kinge of Spaine did resist the Pope p. 66. v. 15. v. 7. Kinges cannot be deposed by the Pope p. 90. v. 13. p. 88. Kinges haue beene deposed by Popes p. 106. v. 19. p. 119. v. 35. p. 120. L LOpez would haue poysoned the Queene pag. 22. vers 38. League made by the nobilitie to Spaine pag. 128. vers 24. Lawes are iustly made against papists pag. 119. page 124. vers 10. Lands promised to be restored in the conquest page 32. vers 21. Leases may not be let to any but by Iesuites page 31. verse 19. M Murders done by Iesuites page 107. vers 19. Page 37. Vers. 34. Page 38. Vers. 30. Medina will kill all afore him pag. 11. vers 4. Mendoza is a Iesuite pag. 84. vers 34. Martyrdome of Iesuites page 97. vers 9. Miracles done by Iesuites pag. 51. vers 14. Mutabilitie in Ies. religion pag. 55. N NOble men in league with the Spaniards Pag 128. Vers. 24. 129. Noble men take part with the Iesuites pag. 128. vers 24 Noble men assist the priests pag. 128. vers 33. v. 30. New religion of the Iesuites page 89. vers 8. p. 179. v. 29. O OLim dicebamur preferred by the Ies. to the Pope Pag. 178. Vers. 14. Order of the Iesuites page 56. Outcries of the secular priests pag. 21. Outcries of the Iesuites pag. 19. P POpe may be iudged of any man Pag. 94. vers 13. Pope Sixtus damned saith our Iesuite pag. 133. vers 38. Pope Sixtus a monster on earth pag. 133. vers 29. Pope may be an ethnicke pag. 134. vers 5. Pope may be an heretike pag. 133. verse 29. Pope obeyed against Kings page 13. vers 17. Pope cannot depose Kinges page 88. Pope can play trickes of fast and loose p. 125. v. 23. pag. 126. Pope cannot erre and how page 125. Pope erreth not but Sathan vnder his pall pag. 127. uers 4. Pope will depose kinges pag. 120. Pope not the lawfull bishoppe of Rome pag. 3. vers 22. Pope deluded by the Iesuites pag. 30. vers 12. Pope is the cause of all rebellion pag. 82. v. 30. pag.
our specall grace and fauour we confirme them Out of this generall constitution they haue drawne one particular which is worthy to be knowne in the 16. part of their constitutions chap. 5. The title beginning thus That the constitutions may not binde any man in conscience sith the societie desires that all their constitutions declarations and order of life should be without euasion conformable to our direction and also neuerthelesse wisheth to be secured or at least succoured that they be not snared in any sinne which may growe by their constitutions or ordinances we haue thought good in the Lord exception taken to the expresse bow wherewith the societie is bound to the Pope for the time being and the thrée other essentiall vowes of pouertie chastitie and obedience that no constitutions declarations or any order of life shall impose any yoake of mortall or veniall sinne vpon them vnlesse their superiour command those things in the name of our Lord Iesus Christ or in the vertue of obedience And againe in stead of feare of offending let loue and desire of all perfection come in place and let the glorie and praise of Christ our Lord maker be the more exalted By the first article it is lawfull for them to change and rechange their constitutions at their owne pleasure for their owne good By the second their constitutions are held in regard of the soule indifferent so that the Iesuite may breake them without committing mortall or veniall sinne A law which their great law-giuer gaue them to the end that to Gods honour and glory there might he fewer sinners in their societie Oh holy soules oh pure consciences who restrayning their inferiours from sinne take themselues the reines committing all manner of sinne vncontrolled Let vs examine these points without passion and let let vs consider the scope of these two propositions By the first no prince shall be assured of his estate and by the second no prince shall be secure of his person in his owne kingdome Concerning the first point call to minde how matters haue béene carried for these 25. or 30. yeares There hath béene no nation where they be fostered but they would be tempering with their affaires of state I thinke they are such honest men as what herein they haue done they haue vndertaken to doe it by vertue of their silent constitutions for if they did it by their owne priuate authoritie the generall were vnworthie of his place should he suffer it Further this was forbiden them in the yeare 1593. when they saw all their plots were frustrate Admitte new troubles should arise these gallants will cassiere and disanull this last ordinance suffering their companions to intermeddle as before But what are their rules in such affaires Marrie that is it lawfull to kill a tyrant that a king breaking the common lawes of the land may be depriued of his Crowne by the people That there are other causes for the which princes and great personages may be slaine In what a miserable condition shall princes liue if the assurance of their estate shall depend vpon these fellowes Let us sée their new constitutions of 1593. I will that they medle not at all in affaires of state in generall termes And that particularly they practise not vpon the person of princes Are they bound to obey this Nothing lesse For their law-giuer chargeth not their consciences but in expresse termes he would otherwise haue charged them by vertue of their blind obedience And this is the cause that Commolet preaching since this new statute that there wanted a new Ehud to kill our king and Walpoole furnishing Squire with poyson and instructions to kill the Quéene of England his mistresse thought they sinned not therein These words are set downe in the Iesuites Catechisme Lib. 3. cap. 26. fol. 234. fol. 236. It is not christian charitie O Iesuites that leads you to that course but Iesuitish charitie Your whole profession is nothing else but a particular coozning of our priuate families and a generall villanie of all the countries where you inhabite These wordes are put downe in the Catechisme Lib. 2. cap. 12. fol. 106. The Iesuites make ostentation of a solemne decree concluded among them that they shall no more intermeddle in matters of estate But let vs see what date this decrée beares They say of an 1593. hath your Maiestie then alreadie forgotten that since that time they haue practised twise against your life Behold the performance of this glorious decree Doe not we know the generall exception of all their statutes vnlesse it be for the good of the Church an exception that extends as farre as they list to straine it The Iesuites neuer harboured in their hearts any other proiect but the subuersion of states disauthorizing of magistrates and seducing of subiectes from their alleageance These words are set downe in the franke discourse Page 98. Ribadiner wrote his historie onely vpon report of the countrey as the further a Iesuite goes the lowder he lies These words are in the Iesuites Catechisme Lib. 2. cap. 17. fol. 61. Such iuglings and shiftings of late haue béene vsed by the Iesuites that not onely protestants but also catholiks yea priests can scarce tell when they speake sincerely when otherwise These words are set downe in the reply to Parsons libell Page 23. 1. vers 2. These are ordinarie iugling tricks which are too too familiar with our good fathers the Iesuites In the reply to Parsons libell Page 19. 2. vers 14. Concerning the imputation of lying so famous and notorious are their equiuo cations and so scandalous that the verie protestants take notice thereof to the great preiudice of our profession alwaies heretofore famous for our truth and sinceritie In the replie to Parsons libell Page 23. 1. vers 1. Note heere gentle Reader these important points with me first that the Iesuites are notorious lyers and that their owne fellowes can not tell when to trust them Secondly that they are notorious coozners and full of iugling tricks Thirdly that the Iesuites acknowledge the Pope to be Lord spirituall and temporall ouer all christian princes Fourthly that the Iesuits are notable temporizers as who account all things lawful that will serue their turne Fiftly that the Iesuites are so perfidious a people as their faith is become Fides panica the Carthagenians faith that is a false and detestable faith Sixtly that the Iesuites will be Spaniards or Frenchmen or whatsoeuer else if opportunitie be offered thereunto Seuenthly that no estate is free from the villanie of the Iesuites Eightly that the Iesuites make hauocke of the Popes Buls and constitutions Ninthly that the Iesuites change and rechange their rules and lawes at their owne good will and pleasure The Iesuites therefore are good fellowes fit for all times all places and all companies Paragraph X. Of the profession and Religion of the Iesuites in generall THe Iesuites neuer harboured in their hearts any other proiect but the subuersion of
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
85. vers 12. Pope is a cruell tyrant pag. 153. pag. 157. page 82. Poperie is annexed with treason pag. 143. vers 29. Priestes die not for religion but for treason pag. 167. pag. 127. vers 12. vers 32. page 145. page 86. Priests expect a change pag. 110. vers 9. Priests are bound in conscience to detect the Iesuites pag. 127 vers 15. Priests confesse that treasons are reuealed miraculously p. 129. vers 29. Priests must adore the deuill pag. 8. vers 4. pag. 86. vers 32. Priests sware to become traytors page 86. vers 33. Papists must depend vpon the deuill pag. 8. vers 4. pag. 68. v. 3. Parsons is an arrant traytor pag. 92. vers 33. pag. 76. vers 8. pag. 73. pag. 162. vers 13. Parsons is a bastard pag. 69. pag. 71. vers 24. Parsons would be a Cardinall pag. 71. vers 8. Parsons a monster of mankind pag. 71. vers 34. Parsons is impudent and will affirme or denie any thing p. 76. vers 23. Parsons is a gypsey p. 77. v. 34. Parsons setteth the english crowne on sale 171. Parsons is the wickedst man vpon earth pag. 174. p. 173. Parsons spendeth fiue or six crownes weekely in Postage pag. 170. vers 32. Parsons is a notorious lyar pag. 77. pag. 76. vers 23. pag. 178. vers 6. pag. 161. vers 15. pag. 168. vers 36. Parsons can rule the Pope page 82. vers 24. Pasquin in Rome talketh of Parsons treasons pag. 171. vers 30. Parsons is an incestuous person pag. 71. vers 24. Parsons an heretike of the familie of loue pag. 71. vers 30. Parsons drunken spunge pag. 71. ver 28. Parsons was begotten of some incubus pag. 71. ver 36. Parsons hath written traytorous bookes p. 173. ver 7. p. 106. P. 80. See bookes Q QVerimonie of Priests against Iesuites pag. 21. Querimone of Iesuites against the Priests pag. 19. Queene of Scots pag. 75. v. 20 pag. 45 v. 11. R REbellion in the North. pag. 83 vers 17. Religion of the Iesuites is of the deuill pag 68. v. 3. pag. 59. pag. 57 v. 17. p. 63. p. 133. pag. 15. v. 8. Religion of Iesuites is new p. 179. v. 29. p. 89. v. 8. Religion of the Iesuites brought from the deuill pag. 84. v. 22. p. 67. v. 21. Religious parsons how they are distinguished p. 4. Recusancie is linked with treason inseperably p 143. v. 28. Religion of the Iesuites is mutable pag. 56. Religion of Iesuits is flat cooznage Pag. 59. Vers. 16. Religion of Iesuites is an hotch potch of Omnigitherum Page 67. pag. 15. vers 8. Richard Hesket sent to the Earle of Darbie pag. 22. vers 30. Riston the Priest pag. 85. vers 24. S SAnders the priest the architect of rebellion p. 84. v. 12. Secular priests sworne to be traytors pag. 75. v. 36. page 86. vers 32. Seculars doe equiuocate page 118. vers 19. Seculars must enter into glorie pag. 165. vers 28. Seculars are traytors pag. 98. vers 10. page 119. Seminaries erected for treason pag. 86. vers 19. Spies made of gentlemen pag. 32. vers 24. Standish a lying fellow page 30. vers 7. T Treason in the north pag. 84. vers 5 Treason of Throckmorton pag. 84. vers 35. Treasons of Parrie Arden and Summeruile pag. 84. pag. 85. Treasons of Northumberland and Babington pag. 85. Treason of Sir William Stanley pag. 85. Treason of Norfolke pag. 83. Treasons of Saunders Webbe and Morton pag. 83. Treasons of Hesket Walpoole c pag. 22. pag. 23. Treasons reuealed miraculously pag. 75. vers 28. p. 146. v. 9. Theft of the Iesuites pag. 25. vers 3. Traytors may eate gold if they will page 12. vers 13. V Vowes of the Iesuites Pag. 46. p. 47. p. 48. p. 49. Verlets with Iesuites are honest men Pag. 77. Vers. 4. W VVealth of Iesuites P. 26. V. 32. P. 34. V. 13. Vebbe see treason Walpoole a traytor page 23. vers 8. Esd. 3. vers 42. Quodl 8. art 9. Page 267. Phil. 3. vers 15. See quodl 7. art 8. page 199. The Duke of Norfolke The duke of Alua. ann 1578. ann 1579. ann 1580. 1581. 1583. The Iesuits sludie nothing but treason 1586. 1587. 1588. 1592. Loe all traytors are welcoÌ„e to our Iesuites 1592. 1592. 1. Cor. 3. â— 6. Primò principaliter Peruse the second booke the fift chapter in the first section note it wel see also the second section and forget it not See the second book fourth chapter sixt Paragraph Quodl 1. art 4. p. â—â— 9. Quodl 9. art 4. p. 304 The Iesuits are courtiers The Iesuits loue nothing worse then a cloyster The Iesuits haue an oare in euery mans boat A notable epithet for the Iesuites See the Second booke and the 4. chapter in the 6. parag The Iesuits are poore monkes by profession but lordly fellowes in all their conuersation See the reply to Parsons libell Fol. 8. b. See the Apologie Page 22. O trayâ—eâ—â—â—s 〈◊〉 cursed broode 〈◊〉 the deuil See the complemeÌ„t of the third booke and note it well 90. prieste do hold against the Iesuites Quod l. 2. art 6. pa. 39. in fine Ergo their number is great in England The Iesuites affirme in their apologie Page 118. That 300. seminarâ—e priests are on their side Irgo the number of all is very great â—ee the â—â—d Preamble of the first booke 〈…〉 Loe the Iesuites are flat hipocrites The Iesuites are charged with theft chap. 3. Behold here 〈◊〉 meÌ„ to guide meÌ„s soules Loe the Iesuites are malitious slandere 15. A godly Iesâ—â—â—â—call prayer The Iesuâ—â—â— seeme to be most worked and hypocritical men Yet they aâ—â— acâ—â—ted of that theft chap. 3. Marke well this lesson The Iesuites are disloyal wretches They are charged with theft chap. 3. Loe the Iesuites are seditious and arrant traitors Oh bloodie 〈◊〉 Iesuite Holt and other Iesuites are traytours euen by the confession of se minarie priests The Iesuites are wholy bent to traiterous practises euerie where The Iesuites are commonly iudged to be great lyar Money taken for dispensations The priests are saints in their owne iudgment Oh braue religious fryers where is the pouertie ye professe The Iesuites are verie honest men and faithfull collectors 500. li. Who will not hang their soules vpon such religious fathers 2200. li. Page 19. 20 My selfe 〈◊〉 able to testifie this to be true O faithfull 〈◊〉 Imprisonment of Iesuites is 〈◊〉 become great libertie This yeare would be looked into Oh poore begging Fryer The Iesuites cannot be but rich though they professe pouertie The Iesuits are good hunters in seeking gold and money See book third aduiso 9. See more therefore in the third booke and 9. aduiso The Iesuits are giuen to lying cogging That they vse equiuocations it is graâ—ted in the Apologie page 205. This Standeth is a Iesuited priest â—oe the Pope 〈◊〉 deceiued by his holy priests What great crueltie or tyrannie can be vsed Loe the Iesuites haue vowed to forsake the world and yet are wholy occupied in