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A15032	The censure of a loyall subiect upon certaine noted speach & behauiours of those fourteen notable traitors, at the place of their executions, the xx. and xxi. of September, last past. As also, of the Scottish queen, now (thanks be to God) cut off by iustice, as the principal roote of al their treasons. On Wednesday the 8. of Februarie 1586. Wherein is handled matter of necessarie instruction and comfort for al duetiful subiectes: especially, the multitude of ignoraunt people. Feare God: be true to thy Prince: and obey the lawes.	Whetstone, George, 1544?-1587?; Churchyard, Thomas, 1520?-1604, attributed name.; T. C., fl. 1587.	1587 (1587)	STC 25334A; ESTC S113962	29,620	55

with reason that through the onely working of his censcience he published to the world that the violent courses of Subiectes were odious when we doubte n●t but Ballard and other Iesuits had once blowne into his eares that the same was meritorious all maner of violence by which the life of man is taken away is murther except the execution by the sword of iustice which belongeth to the Kinge and his ministers onelie where the gouernemente is Monarchia excepte also the violence done in righteous warres and other slaughters by causualtie And whosoeuer looseth his life by any other violence the same man is murthered whose blood GOD will seuerely punish GOD punished the murther committed by Caine with a moste bytter curse and yet that there might bee no protection in murther GOD saide himselfe That whoesoeuer slewe the reprobate Caine it shoulde be auenged seauen folde GOD requireth the blood of innocents at the handes of Kinges and annointed Princes To punish the faulte of King Dauid in seeking the death of Vrias GOD tooke away the life of the childe which Dauid had by Vrias wife furthermore in the time of King Dauid there was three yeares famine and Dauid demaunded the cause why and the Lorde saide it was for Saule and the house of bloode because he slewe the Gybonites According to the opynion of Erasmus the consenter in murther is as guiltie as the dooer Iudas that betraied Christ and Pilate that adiudged him death onelye to please the Iewes carried the burthen of murther in their consciences and by the horror thereof wrought their owne destructions that either mighte die by the violent hande of the moste wicked personne aliue The heathen men at Milite when they sawe the viper to hange vpon Paules finger euen from the verye hatred of nature they murmured and saide This man must needs be a murtherer whome though hee haue escaped the danger of the ●ea yet vengeance suffereth not to liue Nature taught the Infidels to beleeue that vengeance followeth murther And then reason may perswade Christians to assure themselues that the blood thristie are worse then Infidels and cannot escape the sworde of vengeance seeing then that Kinges if they shead anye bloode otherwise then by the sworde of iustice and Iudges if they adiudge death for hatred feare or gaine by Gods righteousnesse are punished as murtheres What may they expecte that in corners laye violent handes of annointed Kinges or without collour of authoritie murther the innocente If the eies of their vnderstanding were not blinde they mighte see a doubtefull successe in their purpose and the open consution of themselues I haue reade of a number both of good and ●adde Princes and also of other which haue bene bereaued of their liues by the violent handes of secreat traitors but among a hundred you shall hardly read of one murtherer that hath escaped the torture of Gods vengeance Brutus and his partakers murthered Iulius Caesar but not one of them escaped a violent death yea the common people so loued Caesar as to be reuenged they violently ran vpon all the friendes of Caesars enemies and by way of instruction the opinion is generall that if for our sinnes it had pleased God to haue suffered our most excellent queene to haue sallen into the violent handes of these vilde Traitors her maiesties louing subiects being the most of the better sorte and the whole sway of the commons would without respecte of persons haue violently intreated euery knowne Papist as the Romane multitude did the friends of Caesars enemies and to continue this terror to murthering Traitors with latter examples the Archbishop of Pisa together with the kindred of the Saluiatij the famely of Pazzie and other the ancient houses of Florence enuying the popular fauour of Segnior Iulian and Lawrence de Medeces who thē principally gouerned the state of Florence conspired to murther the two Medeces To preuent suspition and to bereaue the brethren of publique succour which in the streetes they were like to finde the conspirators made choice of the church for their slaughter house and vpon a Sonday at mid mas one of the conspirators slew Signior Iulian Laurence de Medeces by Gods prouidēce escaped into the Saccristiar●y ● suddain brute of this assault set al the cittie in an vprore the conspirators cried liberti● and the multitude life to the Medeci vengeance vpon the conspirators to be briefe with in the space of three howers the Archbishop of Pisa was hāged Ieames Saluiatij Ieames de Pazzi Anthony de Volterro and diuers others of the cōspirators were slaine in the furie of the people Barnard Bandyn was led naked into the market place and there hanged the rest of the conspirators their seruants and fauourers were in this sort ouerthrowne and which is moste grieuous their posteritye haue euer since bene subiects to the Monarcall gouernmente of the house of Medeces Galeas the sonne of Frauncis Forze and Duke of Millen for his odious vices and extreame tirranny was generally hated of all the people of the cittie he slew his mother and by fear of force abused the greatest part or the virgins and faire women of Millen so that to redeeme the Citie from this seruitude and tyrannie three yong Gentlemen of anchient howses in Millen conspired the Dukes death their names were Charles viscounte Iohn Andrea and Ierolme Olgiat these gentlemen kept their resolucion as the Duke was attentiuely hearing of mas said by the Bishop of Coma they so violently assailed Galeas as they left him dead in the church God suffered this vengeance to light vpon the tyrant yet in his iustice would not suffer the cōspirators to escape vnpunished Andrea and Viscounte were both slaine in the hurley burley of the people Olgiat was afterward apprehended by the ministers of iustice and albeit he redeemed the Cittie frō a great bondage yet for that the good that they receiued proceeded from an euil action in Olgiat they executed him as a cōmon traitor The late King of Scottes was villanously murthered the greatest fauourers according to published records the greatest procurers of the saide murther were by common iustice drawne to commit almost all the murtherers into the hands of the hangman and such as escaped or were not bounde vnto the censure of law could by no meanes shift themselues from the vēgeance of God Iohn Iarugo that first assailed the godly prince of Orrenge had the cōmon reward of traitors and the most odious Athiest Balthazar Serack that slew him notwithstāding y e blessing of the pope the cōmēdation threatning of the king of Spaine exchanged the pistoll where with he slew the prince for tortures to execute himselfe I could aleadge infinite examples to disswade men from violent murther which Gods prouidence many waies preuenteth whē his iustice neuer leaueth y e murtherer vnpunished It is a special pollicy that the Iesuits vse to draw yong gentlemen to these

they make religion their ground of rebellion and with this holly showe strengthen themselues but when Iustice hath deliuered them to the Hangman death sommōneth their wickednes before their consciences and then the feare of Hell maketh thē openly to confesse the matter to be dānable which they took to be a holly ground of rebelliō West I am well satisfied now good neighbour forward with the rest Wilk Next vnto Babington Sauadge was made ready for the execution west This notable traitor as y e same goeth was y ● mā y t cōferred w t D. Gifford at Paris by the cōfirmatiō of y ● english fugitiues at Rhemes was resolued to kil y ● Queenes Maiestie whose defence the God of hoastes euermore be It is likewise said that vpon the apprehension of Ballard the priest Babington hastened this Sauadge to dispatch his resolution and that he only deferred the matter but for making of a court like sute of apparell Walk God by sundrie examples preserueth the innocent from the violent handes of the wicked euen in the pride and greatest hope of their purposes Hāmon erected a Gallowes for Mardocheus the Iewe and he and his tenne sonnes suffered therupon the false Iudges had got sentence of death against chaste Susanna but by deuine prouidēce the stones dashed out their owne braines but where the practize tendeth to the murder of annointed Princes the odiousnesse of the matter so highly offendeth the Maiestie of God as he miraculously hath defended notable Tyrants from the murthering swordes of traitors Comodus was a wicked Emperor and to kill him the traitor Quintianus waighted at the entring of the Amphiatre his daggar was redy drawne his heart was resolute and his hande was striking the stroke the Traitor cried This the Senate sendeth thee by which fore-warning Quintianus was staied and the Emperor escaped vnhurte The day before Scevinius determined to kill the Archtyrant Nero he put an olde rustie Daggar to grinding he made his testament he franchised his bonde men and got rowlets in a readines to wrappe woundes in by which tokens Milcheu his seruante gathered he wente about some waightie purpose and so accused him to the Emperor Sceuinnius straightwaies confessed that his entent was to haue slaine the Emperor If God plucketh wit and prudence from Traitors that purposed to kill such notable Tyrantes it is constantlye to be beleeued that with the shield of his strength he wil defend righteous princes among whom our most gratious Elizabeth is crowned with the soueraigne renown of vertue in which dignitie the king of kings long continue her Maiestie The murther of a prince is so odious as nature crieth out against it King Craessus had a yong sonne that from his birth was mute and yet when one of king Cyrus Souldiors taking him for a cōmon person was redy to kil him the infant cried out O kill him not for he is the king my father A●iben Ragel in his Iudicials reporteth a stranger matter of a kinges sonne of his Countrey that brake foorth of his mothers intrals to giue his father warning of his enemies presentlie after his birth cried out I am born in an vnfortunate hower to be the messenger of no better tidings then that my father the king is in present danger to loose both his life and Kingdome Which notice signified the infante presently died we hereby perceiue howe the person of an anointed Prince is so sacred as nature maketh a passage for suckling babes and domb personnes to deliuer the same from danger and withall the traito● is ●o open to destruction as the preacher faith to the traitor a birde of the aire shall bewray t●y vo●ce and with her feathers she shall bewray thy wordes Dathan Corath and Abiran they and all that they had went down quicke into hell because of their rebelliō which is a great witnes of the saying of S. Paule who forbiddeth to resist against the Magistrate For he that resisteth receiueth vnto himselfe damnation And certainely whosoeuer marketh the sequel of treason shall find an hundreth examples to one to proueth end of Traitors to be miserable West Upon Gods prouidence in●rustrating the mischieuous purpose of Sauadge the Traitor M. VValker you haue deliuered matter of necessarie instruction for all subiects especially the common multitude to learne whoe are manye times tempted to rebellion with allurementes of godly and honest apparance when it plainely appeareth that there is no warrāt yea that destruction followeth to rebell against tiranous Princes Walk The serpēt inticed Eue and Eue Adam to disobey Gods commaundement in eating the forbidden fruite with this subtill perswasion If you eat of this fruit you shal not dy the death but your eies shall be open and ye shall be as Gods knowing both good euill euen so with subtill perswasions are the simple multitude euer more drawne vnto rebellion When the noble king Henrie the eight banished the Popes imperiall authority out of England the Popes instrumēt Cardinal Poole thought ciuil cōmotiō to be the rediest way to bring y ● same in againe and to bring his purpose to the better effect he perswaded the Northrē men that no man shold eat any dainty meat in his house neither should any one be married but he should pay a tribute for the same vnto the king In king Edward the sixt his daies ther was almost a general rebellion throughout England the papists tempted the commons to rebellion with perswasions to throw down inclosure and for them selues foysted in to haue their olde religion and acte of six articles restored the banishment of straungers hath bene the cause of many cōmotions but my counsail is that my louing brethren the subiects of england opē not their eares to such pleasing perswasiōs lest rebellion enter into their harts and so vengance light vpon their whole bodies vpon the holliest ground of rebellion destructiō of traitors haue euermore growen The Northren men had but a bad proofe of two rebellions when they had the crosse and banner of fiue wounds borne before them God placeth kinges in their kingdomes and he alone wil haue the dissoluing of them If Princes be good let vs be thankfull to God for them if they be tirannous let vs looke into our sinnes for God sendeth Tyrants to punish the sinnes of the wicked whoe saith I will doe vengeance on my enemies by my enemies God saith Iob maketh the H●pocrite to raigne for the sinnes of the people In Osea God speaketh thus I will giue thee a Kinge in my surye And in Esaye Assur is the rod and staffe of my furie Be Princes good or bad let subiects be obedient least for their disobedience God take away the good and double the tyranny of the bad West I would this sound counsell were grafted in all mens hearts then no doubt the rotten branches of rebellion woulde soone be cut off now good neighbour on with

Baiazet the nienth c. but innumerable that haue ben destroyed by the treason of their seruants West I hope these odious attempts wil discouer them and for that they are crept into seruices of accompt by subtilty it shal be the part of euery good subiect to certify their Lords who are perhaps vnacquainted with their religion of such dangerous seruants Wilk The last of these seauen that suffered was Abingtō his father was an officer of good credite in her maiesties house and for many aduauncements was bound to say God saue good Queene Elizabeth but his sonne was a notable Papist an Archtraitor and at his death did all that in him lay to settle a feare in the heartes of the ignorant multitude with a speach that ther could not choose but be a great effution of blood in England very shortly VValk Gods prouidence maketh it apparāt that y ● prophises of traitors proue not euermore scripture Throgmorton the traitor said before one yeare were expired the prosperitie peace of England should be tourned into general callamitie but the date thereof is out and I hope the destiny past No doubt he knewe of a number of mallitious enemies vnto the state and with the spirite of their wickednesse he blundered foorth his prognostication but let all good subiects to their comfort and Traitors to their confusion knowe that the wicked diggeth a pit and falleth therein himselfe and who treadeth down the hedge a serpēt shal bite him ther is no wisedome there is no vnderstāding there is no counsell against the Lord The horse is prepared the day of battaile but the Lord giueth the victory The Iewes had S. Paule in prison yea fortie of thē vowed that they wold nether eat nor drink vntil they had flaine him but God according to the Psalmist in a due time defended him yea in that distresse he came and stode by Paule thus comforted him Be of good cheare Paule for as thou hast testified of mee at Ierusalem so muste thou beare witnesse also at Rome The Angell of the Lorde led Peter foorth of prison the Angell of the Lorde defended Sidrack Mi●aack and Abednago in the burning fire the Angell of the Lorde stopped the Lions mouthes that shoulde haue deuoured Daniell the Angell of the Lorde with a drawne sword tould Io●ua that he was the chiefe of the Lordes hande A comfortable saying and a true experiment that this holie Angell of the Lord with a drawne sworde although not visibly seen stādeth between the godly their enemies and then though the wicked come armed with horses chariots an hoast of men they shal be ouercome with their subtil deuices their twords shall go through their own harts The lord wil haue the p●ide of y ● vncleane Pope abased al the world striue in vain to set him vp again if his friends look into his disgraces since victorious King Henrye the eight first vnmasked his abhominatiō they shal finde no cōfort to take his part he was thē in his strēgth the greatest princes of christēdome his friend yea for the Popes cause they were K. Henries greatest enemies the Pope sent Cardinal Poole ambassadors to moue the French K against the K. of England the French made many braggs but bit little the mighty Emperor Charles the 5. prepared a great Nauie at the Popes request to trouble the peace of england the fauoring of whose inuasion cost the Marques of Exe●ers head but this attempt prospered not but which had likelihood to do more hurt then all the boast of forrain power by the practize of Cardinal Poole 20000 rebels in Lincolne shire for religiōs sake had put themselus in armes but when they vnderstood of the K. power cōming against thē they cried for pardon least their chieftaine D. Mackerel monk called captain cobler to the censure of iustice In february following the Pope by his instrument cōpassed a meer cōmotion in Yorkshire of 40000. rebels but by the prouidēce of God the night before the armies should ioine they were seuered by a mighty fal of water in somuch as vpon a part by the captaines of both sides the rebels were appeased departed w tout blodshed in the 3. yere of K. Eward the 6. the Pope to set vp his authority in Eng. by his seditious instruments moued generall rebellions through Eng. but they were ended w t the destruction of the kings rebellious subiects Q Marie though vnsound in religion had the better hand against her rebels whom no doubt God therin fauoured for her godly father K. Henry the 8. as he did the Idolater Abdias for his greate grandfather Dauids sake But the manifold disgraces which our soueraign lady Q. Elizabeth hath giuen vnto this bloody pope out of whose tirany euē frō her very cradle the Angel of y e lord hath miraculously deliuered her maiesty open the incomparable strength of Gods prouidence and offer cause of admiration to the whole worlde when for our sinnes Queen Mary committed both the word and fworde to the hipocrisie and tyranny of the Cleargie good lady her life was assayled with a thousand publique and priuate practises but the Angel of the Lord stil stode between her and her harmes and from the fetters of aduersitie loosed and crowned her Maiestie with the supreame dignitie of this Realme and as a prognosticatiō of his ruine by her renown the yeare that God placed her royall throne he displaced these christian Princes the Popes great friendes The Emperor Charles the sift the Queene of Hungarie Queene Mary of England two kings of Dēmarke Bona Sferza Queen of Polonia Henrie the third the French king Ierolme Pruoli Duke of Vennice Hercules Daeste Duke of Ferrara and Paule the fourth Pope of Rome that these setled friēds of the Pope being remooued other princes better affected or at lest not so hurtful to the passage of the gospel might occupy their places the Pope and all his fauorers while their strength yet lasted shot to depriue her maiestie of her crowne and dignitie God so strengthned her maiestie as by her power the French were dishonorably driuen out of Scotland and by her wisedome both Realmes were deliuered from forraine bondage yea the King of Scottes is bound to confesse that from God and her Maiesties goodnesse he and his posterity possesse a kingdome this peaceable victorie against the french discomforted the Pope a few yeares in fine Pius Quintus set D. Morton an english fugitiue a worke to raise a commotion in the north parts the Earle of Northumberland the Earl of Westmerland and others entred into open rebellilion the very sound of her Maiesties power dismaed them and happy was he that could run fastest away the principals fled but escaped not the iustice due vnto traitors the Earle of Northūberland was soone broughte vnder the censure of her maiesties lawes and according to his deserte was beheaded at

rewarded of the Pope when those y ● by their outward coūtenance promise not a rebellious spirite are enter●ained neither with the one nor the other West You put me in remembrance of a special difference that I obserued in Rome which wel confirmeth your opinion and is not impertinent to our conference being in Rome Anno dommini 1580 there was presented vnto the Pope a notale English shifter who named himselfe Seamer a one eyed person and such a one as had abused sundry greate estates in Germanie this man being in want and withall vnlearned as he could hardly read English was a suter to the Pope to be entertained into the English Seminary and ther to be instructed in the profession of the Iesuits he soone obtained his purpose and with a blessing of crownes was shortly after commended to Rheames and what there became of him I haue not heard at the same time there came to Rome an English Gentleman wonderfullye dronken with the zeale of the Romishe religion he had sometimes a proper lyuing and good store of mony lefte him by his father which for the most parte he consumed in the fellowship of the Papists in fine he was enioyned by his confessor I thinke vpon pollicye because he hadde little lefte to maynetaine him to resrayne from the drinking of wine and from the eating of all manner of flesh in the execution of which pennance for that in Italie there was smal store of fish and no beere or Ale he was for the moste parte driuen to liue with bread and water this Gentleman was so strickt in obeying pennance and so deuout in the Popes holinesse as of a number of Papists he was derided of some other tickled that he was a very Sainte vpon earth but what woulde Rome and all the Seminaries of Italie doe for this ignorant and deuout Gentleman Unto the shame of all Papists I truly certifie that with many a weary step in the deepe of winter he arriued at Rome he was not without some repining entertained w t eight daies allowance in the English Colledge but one daies succour aboue he could not compasse he laboured to be admitted into the fellowshippe of the Iesuits he was flatly denied and in recompence of al his toile charge zeale he was constrained to leaue Rome with a bare purse to seeke some new blinde aduenture his vsage made me to abhor the hipocrisie of Papists and inwardly to lament the blindnesse of my poore countryman we departed from Rome together my selfe minding to go vnto Vennis and he to Madona Deloreta To showe all the follies of the man in our iorney were tedious and more ridiculous at euery two miles end there was lightlie a Chappel and where he found our Lady or any other Saint fair painted he would there kneel down and pray but if the Images were in bad attire he euermore past them ouer with the salutation of his cap many a mile he stepped foorth of his way to reuerēce some old friers relick at Loreto he turned their lewd lie of our ladyes house into English to purchase the Iesuits fauour he did al the dueties of a Romish Catholique but for all his sure they woulde not admit him into their society thus wandred he al the dead winter from religious house to religious house in Italy yet for al his pennance and straitnes of life the poore Gent. coulde not gette a resting place the reason was as you haue saide and I wel obserued he shewed an apparance of an ignorant● zeale and no signe of a dissentious spirit Walk Wel leaue we these dissembling Iesuits to the iustice of God who visibly punisheth them with shame the most of their instruments with destruction and now neighbor Wilk I pray you showe vs what obserued you in y ● end of y ● last of these traitors Wilk The last that suffered was one of the Bellamies his countenance discouered him to be a setled papist as he could say little to saue his life so at y ● gallowes he said nothing to desēd his death West Although this traitor had but a dul spirit yet it seemeth he had a mallitious heart he and his friēds succoured Babington some of his coemates when feare of the lawe and shame of their odious treasons made them to shrowde themselues like a Fox in the couert it seemeth that they were as resolute to followe the treasons of Babington as they were ready to relieue him from the daunger of the lawe otherwise if this Bellamies brother had had an innocent conscience he woulde neuer with violente handes haue hanged himselfe Wilk God be praised that these rotten branches are thus cutte off but if his prouidence preuent not the mischiefes it is to be feared that of the root there wil grow many other apt to bring foorth the fruite of publique disturbance VValk In very trueth necessitie hath made the bloody deuices of the Scottish Q. so common as no good subiect may iustly be forbidden to deriue the cause both of forraigne and domestike conspiracies from her vnprincely heart our sacred Q. Elizabeths mercy hath many yeares contēded with a number of fearful admonitions to preserue both the life and honor of this most vnkinde queen when the Scottes her own people pursued her life and printed her defame the Queenes Maiesty entertained her as Augustus did his enemye Cinna she gaue her her life that many waies sought her own life and was so carefull of her honour that she forbad the bookes of her faults to be conuersant among her english subiects which almost in euery other nation wer made vulgar but Cinna after three times forgiuenes became none so faithful to Augustus when this Scottish Queen being three times thrise forgiuen remaineth none more bloodily infected to Queene Elizabeth her own hand writings be witnesses During the whole course of her abode in Eng. which may be properly called a protection and no imprisonment ther is nothing more manifest then that her mallice thirsted the death of her own life The currantes of her practises were so general as euery good christian prince know as much and certified her Maiestie no lesse in fine seeing y ● her pretēdings were not only against the person of her Maiestie but that they also reached to the change of christiā religion some zealous members of the Church of God in publique writing did set downe the daunger of her Maiesties mercye and in christian pollicy shewed by many waightie reasons that God deliuered the Scottish Queen vnto the sword of her iustice as he did many Idolatrous Princes into the handes of the Kinges of Israell but our most gratious queen notwithstanding these continual aduertismentes with a magnanimous heart digested all this danger yea she was so farre from reuenge as shee yeelded not to make her subiects partakers of the●e forraine counsels whom next vnder her they principally concerned Lastly when the continual