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A09610	An aduertisement written to a secretarie of my L. Treasurers of Ingland, by an Inglishe intelligencer as he passed throughe Germanie towardes Italie Concerninge an other booke newly written in Latin, and published in diuerse languages and countreyes, against her Maiesties late proclamation, for searche and apprehension of seminary priestes, and their receauers, also of a letter vvritten by the L. Treasurer in defence of his gentrie, and nobility, intercepted, published, and answered by the papistes.; Elizabethae, Angliae Reginae, haeresim Calvinianam propugnantis saevissimum in Catholicos sui Regnis edictum. English. Abridgments	Parsons, Robert, 1546-1610.; Cresswell, Joseph, 1556-1623, attributed name.; Verstegan, Richard, ca. 1550-1640, attributed name.	1592 (1592)	STC 19885; ESTC S121696	41,247	68

the other and to pull dovvne firste the Queene Dovvager by the Hamiltons and by them the Catholique religion and afterward the Hamiltons againe by others and then to ouerthrovv the true Queene proprietarie vvith her husband and to crowne her ovvne child against her self vvith the slaughters that ensued and affliction of Scotland by the often hostile entrance of the Inglishe souldiours which are recounted with many particulers of greate miserie and compassion their troublesome proceedings also vvith other nations are recou●●ed vvhich compared vvith the calme quiet and iuste proceedings of the Kinge of Spayne doe shevv as this ansvverer saith that my L. Treasurer vvhich he accounteth to be both author counceler and scribe of this proclamation not onely to lacke shame but also vvisedome and consideration in that he maketh her Maiestie to publishe to the vvorld things soo euidently false as these are that the King of Spaine is the onelie cause of the trouble of Christianitie at this day The third point of this section THE thirde member of this Section is about these wordes where it is saide in the proclamation that the King of Spaine now in his declined yeares meetest for peace when he ought to be satisfied with his owne without seekinge of more Kingdomes by violence seing be possesseth at this day more crownes Kingdomes and countreyes then euer any Christian Prince had before that all this notwithstanding he hath begunne a most vniuste warre aganist the present Kinge of France most daungerous to all Christendome which yet is like to be the ruine of himselfe as his enterprise against Inglande gaue him iuste cause to repent c. For answere of all this there are many points touched firste that the King of Spaine not onely in this his olde age but in all his life by testimony of the whole world hath bin euer most desirous and obseruante of peace and the Inglishe quyte contrary secondly that this exprobratiō of the Kinges old age is ridiculous her Maiestie folowinge him so nere in years as she doeth my L. Treasurer farr passing him and nerer to his graue by all likelyhood Thirdly that so greate amplification of the Kinges forces wealth and power being their enemy was inconsiderate and can serue to no other effecte but to terrifie their owne frends and subiects and to animate their contraries and to shew their lack of prouidence in making so vnequalla match fowerthly that this great power of the King of Spaine being so iustely and temperately vsed at it is can not be fearefull to any good man but rather confortable nor is it daungerous to Christendome but rather a great and singuler stay prouidence of almightie God who forseing the tumultes and reuoltes that heresies should bring in these tymes hathe prouided this so potent and opulent a Prince of all ages for the defence of his Catholique church in these troobles Fystly that this warre of the Kinge against Nauarre is not iniuste but moste iuste necessary not for any intereste of the Kings but onely for the good of France it self and consequently that all reasons and circumstances considered and the forces on both partes wayed it can not be like to be the ruine of the King of Spaine but rather of Nauarre and other heretiques depending of him or ioyning with him and albeit the Kings last fleete against Ingland had not the successe which was expected yet it was not for wante of strength or by any valure or praise of the Inglishe but rather by tēpeste lacke of experience in some principall officers and other such casualties that often fall out in warre whereof the Inglishe oughte not to bragg seing there are so many reasons and examples of enterprices that take successe the second or thirde tyme which did not at the firste whereof this awnswerer alleageth many testimonies and authorities both prophane and diuine which in the booke are to be seene After this he entreth to treate at large of Nauarres iniuste pretence to the crowne of France being an open knowen heretique as he saith and refusing to take the othe of mayntayning the Catholique Romaine religiō which all Kings both of Fraunce and Ingland haue taken before this and are bounde to take from the firste institution of Christian Kinges and that her Maiestie tooke also the same othe at her entrance to her crowne of Ingland and that by Cecils councell also by whose councell the same othe was afterwarde violated that the tytle of particuler succession in Kingdoms being founded onely vpon positiue lawes of seuerall countreyes and not vpon law of nature or nations for that Kingdomes and monarchies neither were from the beginning nor are at this day in all realmes a like it muste needes folow that the whole righte of these successions and interests to the same do depend of the particuler ordinances lawes othes and conditions with which each countrey hath ordayned admitted authorized their Kings vvhereof the cheefe condition beinge in the Kingdome of France hat the Kinge shall sweare and geue assurance to defende and mayntaine the olde Catholique Romaine religion and the professors thereof and Nauarre refusing to do the same he can by no law diuine or humaine be admitted to the crowne which is largely proued by many authorities examples and reasons Vpon this he declareth how al Catholique people in France are bounde vnder payne of damnable synne to resiste Nauarrs entrance into that crowne considering the inestimable dāmage that is like to ensew therof vnto that whole realme yf he shoulde preuaile And for the same consideration he proueth that the Catholique partie of French nobilitie that either for hope of honour and commodity or for hatred and emulation against others that are againste Nauarre or for any other passion or pretence whatsoeuer do folow or fauour him in this his pretēce doe offend God highely and are guiltie of al euills miseries of their countrey and that besydes the eternall punishement which they are to expecte at Gods handes excepte they repente they will also be destroied and pulled downe by Gods iuste iudgements in this world as this awnswerer sheweth by as many of the nobilitie both of France Flanders Ingland and Scotland by name as for any pretence whatsoener haue bin the firste ayders of heretiques in their countreyes haue perished and come to naught The III. Section THE third Section conteyneth an other large complaynte no lesse vniuste then the former as though the King of Spaine not onely by himself but by other mens helpes also wente aboute to annoy Inglād and this by three manner of wayes The firste is for that he is saide heere for fortifyinge of his strange violent attempts to haue procured a Milanois a Vassall of his owne to be exalled to the Papacie of Rome and to haue seduced him without consente of the colledge of Cardinalls to exhauste the Treasures of the church there with to leauie forces in Italie which had no sounde of ware in is

saide she I know not vvhome it shoulde meane excepte it were M. Cecil who being out of credit at this present and neuer like to come in againe I hope shall neuer be able to bring that to passe This doe reporte such as haue hard it of the Countesse owne mouth and perhaps her sonne may yet remember it though he vvil not dare to speake it neither remembred M. Cecil at that tyme to vvrite himself Sitsilt to euacuate that prophecie as he mighte haue done had he knowen himself then to haue descended of that howse which now he pretendeth Moreouer this awnswerer asketh how yf it be trevv that Dauid Cecil my lordes grandfather descended of the nobles Princes of wales was so greatly in creditt with K. Henry the 7. as to be squyer for the body as well to him as to his sonne K. Henry the eighte hovv then is it lykely that he would keepe an Inne in Stāford as diuers vvorshipfull yet aliue or lately dead haue affirmed to haue layen in the same also how it is possible that his sonne the Treasures father named also Dauid Cecil if I forget not should be onely groome of the vvardrobe so plaine and meane a man as thousandes yet can testifie that he was how finally VVilliam Cecil their child now Treasurer could be so poore and meanely brought vp as to get parte of his mayntenance by ringing the morning bel at his beginning in S. Ihons colledge in Cambridge as commonly yet in that vniuersitie is reported And lastly this awnswerer taketh this for an euidente argumente of M. Cecills cogging and coseninge in this behalf that for diuers yeares he tooke himself farr different armes frō these vvhich of late he hath taken vp of the Sitsiltes for his former armes yf I be not deceaued vvere twoo Lyons eating of a wheaten sheafe betwene them as it is to be seene in diuers of his howses vvhere they are yet engrauen aftervvard seing the Armes of the Sitsiltes an auncient howse greatly decayed yf not extinguished to be six Lyons he hath taken them also to himself as it is here reported to terrifie the vvorld perhaps vvithal and to liken himself thereby to Princes that commonly haue Lyons in their armes where as a good fatt capon or a rosted pigg seemeth a fitter cognisaunce for an Inneholders grandchild as this man affirmeth seing that those things are more commonly to be founde in Innes and Osteries then are Lyons and thus much in effecte he avvnsvvereth to the contents of my L. Treasurers letter touching his gentry which this defender taketh either vvholy to be feigned or moste vainely to be delated by the old mans ambition After this he commeth to avvnsvvere those wordes of the proclamation vvherin is is saide that my Lord Cardinall and father Parsons do gather together with greate labours a multitude of dissolute yonge men who haue partly for lack of liuing and partly for crimes committed become fugitiues rebelles and traitours for whome there are in Rome and Spaine and other places certaine receptacles made to liue in there to be instructed in schoole points of sedition c. All vvhich vvordes this avvnsvverer examineth and firste vvhat difference there is in holy vvryt betvvene dispersers and gatherers and vvhat curse there is laide vpon the one blessing vpon the other by Gods ovvne mouth and that seing M. Cecill and other persecutours at the instigation of the devil do so attend to disperse their countreymen good reason some others should serue God in gatheringe and nourishing the dispersed for his cause Secondly he sheweth that these two men haue no need to vse greate labours in gathering together these youthes as the proclamation feigneth for that God himself gathereth them aboundantely from al partes of the Realme and the euidente truth of the Catholique faith stireth them to seeke meanes abreode for the saluation of their soules seing they can not be permitted to haue them at home and whereas many were letted before from comming out of Ingland for that they knew not where to goe to be receaued mayntayned and instructed now being informed thereof by this indiscrete proclamation of M. Cecils penning which admonis heth all men that besydes the former colledges and Seminaries in France and Rome there are other also newly erected in Spaine many haue resolued to come ouer which otherwise had stayed in Ingland so them selues at theire comming haue professed and the King of Spayne among other Princes hauing seene so barbarous an edicte and considered the conscienceles causes of their distresses hath greatly enlarged his fauours towardes the saide Inglishe Seminaries in his dominions both by his personall visiting of that in validolid and larger allowance tovvardes the mayntenance of the same and thus doeth M. Cecil profit by his new diuises Thirdly he sheweth that these students come not out of Ingland neither for lacke of liuing nor for crimes committed as the proclamation moste vnjustly doth slaunder them Not for the firste for that they being commonly gentlemen or vvealthie peoples children and as good witts as any lefte behynd them they might casely haue preserrmente yf they vvould apply themselues to the protestant proceedings and here he sheweth at large the great multitude of gentlemens sonnes vvhich leauing their inheritances and other hopes of vvorldly possibilities at home do come ouer dayly to study and be made priests vvith infinite desire to returne againe quickly to Ingland vvhere priesthoode is more hated infamed and pursued then any cryme or vvickednes in the vvorld and that no such desire vvas seene in gentry and nobilitie to priesthood in Catholique tyme vvhen is vvas honorable and commodious to be a prieste vvhich muste needes procede of Gods owne hande and that there are more gentlemen this day in the Inglishe Seminaries of France Rome Spaine then in all the Clergy of Ingland tvvise told to vvhich no gentleman commonly will affoord his sonne to be a Minister and much lesse his daughter to be a Ministers vvyf vvith diuers examples of the basenes of their chiefe Prelates as among others of Pierse Cooper Archbisshop Bisshop of yorke and winchester both borne at Oxford as this felow saith the one the sonne of a labourer and the other of a cobler and diuers others like vnto them vvhich yet M. Cecil toucheth not with basenes nor that they went to their ministerie for neede And that these students come not ouer for crymes committed he saith is much more plaine by the desire the Magistrates of Ingland haue to receaue them backe againe with all grace and fauor yf they vvould returne and he noteth for a very markable thing that in these twentie yeares vvherein aboue a hundred of the Seminaries haue bin put to death publiquely and vvillingly for their religion and many hundreds haue liued in Ingland in common attire of other men the more thereby to dissemble their calling neuer yet any one of them in so many

writ preached that no woman oughte to reigne with a comparison of the Catholique cōtrary doctrine and doctors in this behalf and of theire modestie constancy and certayne rule of conscience far different frō heretiques in these affaires And finally he cōcludeth this head with a large proof and declaration that by no law of Christian conscience nor by any reasonable consequence or illation can this coming in of priests in so peaceable and apostolicall sorte as they do come be accompted treason and that the Turke More or Persian doeth not make this consequence against the lewesior Christians that liue vnder them that of all other infelicities this is the greatest that her Maiestie shoulde be brought to accompte such men so borne and so brought vp so learned wise vertuous and modest and so determined to dy in Gods and her Maiesties seruice yf she would accepte it to be her mortal enemies and of this he saith much The third head of this Section THE third head of this Section is about these wordes in the tytle of the proclamation with a prouision very necessary for remedie thereof c. Shewing that this prouision sett downe by my L. Treasurers witt in this proclamation is moste insufficient for the remedie pretented but rather to make the sore farr worses for seing it is the very same prouision and no other then Antiochus Herod Nero Decius Diocletian and other tyrantes and persecutours inuented against gods seruants in olde tymes to wit founded onely vpon crueltie tyrannie and false surmysed crimes it can haue no other ende or effecte then theirs had which was the destructiō of the deuisers and happines of the sufferers That the old persecutours edicts against Christians though they pretended treasons as this doeth yet were they more moderate and discreet in willing onely such to be punished as were accused or knowen publiquely to offend not to turne vpsid-downe their estates Kingdomes with such searching and reuoluing both of towne citie countrie as this proclamatiō prescribeth leauing neither village howse nor cōmō Inne vntossed which to all the world must needes seeme extreame barbarous and to the very protestants themselues at home intolerable who must needs also be sought examined as well as others excepte they alwayes cary their pasportes with them in their pocketts ride vp downe Ingland as they would passe thorough Turky Of the miserable endes of all common wealthes and gouernours that haue growen to these extremities in gouernment and that it is impossible for Ingland and her Maiestie to auoide the same yf this violente course be vsed to driue men to desperation That all the solicitude vsed to extinguish Catholique Religion by persecution is meere follie and that all is very poison to the vvounde which my L. Treasurer vseth for medicine that a little time vvil proue this to be true with an exhortation to her Maiestie to take some other course both for sauing the Realme and those that stand at the gouernmente thereof The second Section THIS second section awnswereth the firste parte of the preface to the proclamatiō vvherin her Maiestie complaineth of the King of Spaines proceeding towardes her other Princes namely towardes Nauarr named King of France it is reduced to three principal partes or branches according to the matters therein conteyned For firste her Maiestie is made by M. Cecil to complaine that the King of Spaine for the space now almoste of 33. years had alwayes sought to moleste trouble her dominiōs without any iuste cause on her parte giuē c. To this before this awnswerer commeth to say any thing in perticuler he maketh a large cōplainte against my L. Treasurer and such other like politiques men of no conscience or religion as he imagineth them vvho from the beginning of this Queenes raigne to make matters of the Catholique faith more odious punish able haue sought to entangle them euer vvith matter of estate and vvith forged cōspiracies vvith forraine Princes as Gensericus and Hunricus Arian Kings did vvith the Catholiques of Africa vnder pretēce they dealte vvith the Pope of Rome and so he saith that our gouernours of Ingland haue not pursued matters of Religion as points of Religion in this Queenes gouernemente according as the Catholique Church doth vse to doe vvith heresies but rather haue chosen to punish them as forged matters of estate vvhich this awnswerer sheweth to be true by diuerse former proclamations sett forth against the Seminaries of Doway Rheims and Rome in vvhich diuerse feigned conspiracies were put to be cōtriued by the studēts vvith the Pope the Duke of Florence other Princes all vvhich tyme had proued to be as vaine and false as he saith this is of their cōspiracie now vvith the King of Spaine After this he commeth to avvnsvvere M. Cecils cōplainte as he calleth it against the King of Spaine for his proceedings against her Maiestie and for more equall triall as he saith he layeth downe eche Prince his doings tovvardes the other for the space of more then thirtie years firste for the King of Spaine he declareth hovv that cōming into Inglād the yeare 1554. by the cōsent inuitatiō of the realme to marry Queene Mary he foūde lady Elizabeth after she had bin some space prisoner in the tovver for Sir Thomas vviates rebellion cōmitted novv to vvoodstoke vnder the custodie of Sir Henry Benengfild in extreame great daunger of her life for that both Queene Mary the Inglish Councell vpon euidente confessions of Sir Thomas VViat himself and others of that conspiracie vvere resolued to haue caused her to be araigned and executed How the King deliuered her Maiestie out of this dāger of her life and of two the like afterwards to wit vpon the conspiracies detected of Sir Antonie Kingston Vdal and his cōpagnions and of Thomas Stafford that tooke Scarbrough and was beheaded at London in all which her Maiestie was againe touched and had bin executed but for the special fauour of the King and his Spanis he Councell Of many other fauours of the King to her Maiestie whiles he was in Ingland and after how he gaue her freely al Queene Maryes lewells and other riches that she had of his how the to wne of Calis being loste and betraied by cōspiracie of Inglishe heretiques that were within it and specially of the Lord wentwoorth without any faulte in the world of the Kinge yet that after his great victorie had against the French at S. Quintins he would admitt no peace at all with them but with restoring of Calis vntill the Inglish themselues without him had made their peace with them and renounced Calis vnto the French for euer Of the Kings proceedings towardes her Maiestie after he retorned into Spaine and how constantly he euer mayntained his league with her for thirtie yeares together notwithstanding the manifold iniuries that on the other side he receaued of the Inglishe diuers wayes

auouched that this forme of examination vexing of men for the Catholique faith in Inglād is in no wise contrarie but agreable to the moste auncient lawes and good vsages of our Realme which this man refuteth beginning from the firste Christian King of the Britans named Lucius that tooke his faith frō Rome vnto the laste called Cadwalladar that made himself a monke and died in Rome after that from Ethelbert the firste Inglishe Kinge Christined by S. Augustine a monke sent from Rome vntill the laste Kinge Edward the cōfessor held for a sainte in the same Religion after him from VVilliam Conquerour first King of the Normans vnto King Henrie the eighte father of her Maiestie all which Kinges and Queenes this awnswerer sheweth to haue bin contrarie in Religion to this of M. Cecils consequently to haue made all their lawes and ordinances in fauour of Catholique Religion against that which is now held in Ingland and so their formes of search and Inquisitiō must needes be against this not against that and therefore that it is extreame impudency in M. Cecil to auouch so openly in proclamation that this tyrannicall forme of his inuention against the Catholiques is in no vvise contrary but agreable to the most auncient lawes of Inglande Secondly for M. Cecils folly and lack both of wit consideratiō in pressing a free people with such irking bloudy lawes which driue to desperatiō he alleageth the authoritie of all graue men that euer wrote of gouernemente of commō wealthes who affirme that such proceeding is lacke of wisedome for that violent courses endure not long and feare is no good conseruer of perpetuity and ouermuch rubbing bringeth out bloud and patience abused turneth into furie He noteth also a want of ludgement in Maister Cecil the scribe to put downe in her Maiesties name after recital of so great rigour that she is resolutely determined to suffer no fauour to be vsed for any respect of any persons qualities or degrees which may chance to stirr vp some Matathias and his children and frends one day to do as he hid in his zeale for Gods cause being inforced therevnto by the indiscreet oppression of Antiochus the tyrant to his owne destruction and seing that it is euident that these hard and rigorous woordes could not proceed of her Maiesties owne inclination but were thruste in by Cecil in despite and disgrace of nohility principall peeres of whome he was afeard leaste the Queene mighte haue some respecte in these cases of Religion this awnswerer exhorteth him to looke vnto it and to thincke betymes vpon the end of pierse os Gauerston the Spencers others that haue abused their Princes fauours in Inglād heretofore to the debasing of true nobilitie and pilling of the people he willeth him also to thincke of the endes of wicked leroboā Achab with the death of seuentie children of his in owne day notwithstanding they were as well established and allied for matters of the world as M. Cecils of spring can be Finally he beseecheth also her Maiestie to looke about her betyme not to suffer her self to be caried away or to be made a pray to one mans ambition only who will not be able to remedy the calamities that now he soweth but will leaue them all on his Princes backe when he can wade no further as the pittifull examples of King Ihon King Edward the second Richard the second Henry the sixt and others driuen into miseries by such euill Councellours do wel declare nor is it safe for any Prince to leane to much to one mans councell especially one that seeketh so euidently his owne intereste as in M. Cecil doth moderate courses do indure but this is desperate neither want there meanes to reduce things yet to some cōposition or moderation at least yf her Maiestie would folow her owne Princely disposition and leaue the bloudy humour of this old ambitions serpent Her Maiesties age requireth more loue and peace of her subiects now and to attend rather to securitie then to enter into new odious conflicts the fly hath her splene saith the Philosopher and much more men of courage and free education and so much bloud spent by violence as lately hath bin in Ingland can not but threaten much bloud againe in the end All this much more to purpose saith this awnswerer and in the end concludeth all with certayne effectuall cōsolatiōs vnto Catholiques out of Eusebius Gregorie Nazianzene and Victor Vticensis who recompte the exceeding comforts which God gaue vnto Catholiques that had suffred for him after their persecutours were destroyed confounded He writeth also certayne annotations vpon the instructions annexed to the proclamation for the commissioners how to execute their forme of inquisitions and all he maketh very odious and cruell which I can not set downe here for lacke of tyme but I hope to send yow the booke it self very shortly 1591. Five councelors Sir Nicolas Bacon He VVas chief hynde vnto the Abbot Earle of Lecester Sir Francis VValsinghā Sir Christophor Hatton The L. Treasurer Treason against his Maister Extreme bypocrisie and cosenage His entrāce vvith this Q. M. Cecilesca peth hanging But aboute some 50. offices in all Sir VValter Ravvley The trevv causes of the troubles of Ingland Discord of heretiques among them selues Incertitud of succession Great infelicitie Insufficient prouision K. Philips doings to vvardes th Queene Sir Thomas Stukelyes death Inglishe actions tovvardes Spaine The King of Spaine dealinges vvith his neighbours Inglish proceedinges vvith ther neighbours Diuers fals hodes and folyes of M. Cecil Nauarres iust exclusion from the crovvn of France My L. Treasure ●●●er of his gētry VVicked men are vvarned vvithout ope of amendment Psal. 111. Plin. 1. 23. cap. 10. A story Manisest argumentes He is said to hauebene first an ostler in that Inne and after to haue marie the hostesse In stede of tvvo Forses at a botle of bay Ezech. 9. Prouerb 29. The order and institution of the Seminaries How priests returne to Ingland Great iniquitie Contradictions of M. Cecil Great 〈◊〉 An egregious bloodsucker An impudent tale M. Cecil 〈◊〉 vviseman The vvord Catholique pacianus exempla ad Symp. Nouat Kinges confessors Aug. lib. 2. de visit infirm cap. 4. Matth. 18. Cecils grandchild in Rome The Ministers 〈◊〉 doctrine Feigned pretences of M. Cecis The vayne vaunting of Ghospell Forces of Ingland 〈◊〉 16. The forme of Inquisition M. Cecils folly Councel and exbortation