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A56725	The life of John Whitgift, Archbishop of Canterbury, in the times of Q. Elizabeth and K. James I written by Sir George Paule ; to which is added a treatise intituled, Conspiracy for pretended reformation, written in the year 1591, by Richard Cosin ...; Life of Archbishop Whitgift	Paule, George, Sir, 1563?-1637.; Cosin, Richard, 1549?-1597. Conspiracy for pretended reformation.	1699 (1699)	Wing P878_ENTIRE; ESTC R1659	167,057	342

Peace of the Church and often offered him to enter a quieter course for trial of the truth of Offers him a Conference which Cartwright refuseth his Cause by Conference and Writing which he always refused to accept as may appear by an Act recorded in the Registry Book of the University of Cambridge under the Testimony and Subscription of the chief Heads bearing date the 18th of March 1570. in these words WHereas it is reported that Master This Recorded in the Register of the University Cartwright offering Disputations and Conference touching the Assertions uttered by him and subscribed with his Hand and that he could not obtain his request therein This is to testify that in the presence of Us whose Names are here-under written and in our hearing the said Master Cartwright was offered conference of divers and namely of M. Doctor Whitgift who offered that if the said Master Cartwright would set down his Assertions in writing and his Reasons unto them he would answer the same in writing also The which Master Cartwright refused to do Further the said Doctor Whitgift at such time as Master Cartwright was deprived of his Lecture did in our presence ask the said Master Cartwright whether he had both publickly and privately divers times offered the same Conference unto him by writing or not To which Master Cartwright answered that he had been so offered and that he refused the same Moreover the said Master Cartwright did never offer any Disputation but upon these Conditions viz. That he might know who should be his Adversaries and who should be his Judges meaning such Judges as he himself could best like of Neither was this kind of Disputation denied unto him but only he was required to obtain licence of the Queen's Majesty or the Counsel because his Assertions be repugnant to the state of the Commonwealth which may not be called into question by publick disputation without licence of the Prince or her Highness's Counsel John Whitgift Vice-Chancellour Andrew Pearne John Mey Edward Hawford William Chadderton Henry Harvy Thomas Ithell Thomas Bing ET ego Matthaeus Stokis Sarum Dioces in Artibus Magister publicus Authoritate legitima Notarius quia interfui deprivationi dicti Cartwright factae undecimo die Decembris Anno 1570. tunc ibidem audivi Doctorem Whitgift interrogantem eum Cartwright de praemissis allegatis M. Cartwright eadem confitentem Ideo in fidem testimonium praemissorum nomen meum requisitus superscripsi Anno Domini 1570. 28. Not long after at which time her Highness had summoned a Parliament some of principal note amongst these Disciplinarians thought that the fittest time either to effect their desires by some Abettors in that high Assembly or at least to disperse their Opinions into all the parts of the Kingdom To which end they then published a Seditious Treatise entituled An Admonition The Disciplinarians publish An Admonition to the Parliament to the Parliament being indeed the very Summary both of their Opinions touching Church matters and of their shameless Slanders against the Governors thereof 29. And albeit Doctor Whitgift considered that this Libel was unworthy any serious confutation yet in regard of the great applause it found among the green Heads of the University who were greedy of Novelties and to stop the current of so dangerous Positions he spared not his pains in writing a learned Whitgift answers it 1572. Answer therein laying open the weakness of that Cause and the strength of their Malice who so hotly pursued the same which being published upon the Year 1572. won him no less reputation with the learneder sort than the former had with the young and weaker Brains yea even those who had formerly thought the Admonition unanswerable found the rashness of their Censures by the soundness of that Refutation 30. Whereupon Master Cartwright notwithstanding his former refusal to enter into the list with Doctor Whitgift as is aforesaid seeing both the walls and foundation of his new-founded Church-government already shaken and tottering endeavoured to underprop the same with a Reply The weakness Cartwright replies Whitgift defends his Answer whereof Doctor Whitgift displayed in his Defence of the Answer to the Admonition against the Reply 30. But Master Cartwright glorying belike to have the last word published a second Reply fraught with no other Cartwright's Second Reply stuff than had been before refuted yet Doctor Whitgift addressing himself to answer it was by the advice of some whose Judgments he much esteemed dissuaded from troubling himself in refuting that which he had already overthrown Amongst others who dissuaded him the learned Doctor Whitaker was one against whose Judgment the Adversary can no way justly except His words in his Letter to Doctor Whitgift are these Quem Cartwright us Mr. Whitaker's Letters concerning Mr. Cartwright's Reply and his censure of him nuper emisit libellum ejus magnam partem perlegi Ne vivam si quid unquam viderim dissolutius ac penè puerilius Verborum satis ille quidem lautam ac novam supellectilem habet rerum omnino nullam quantum ego judicare possum Deinde non modò perversè de Principis in rebus sacris atque Ecclesiasticis aucthoritate sentit sed in Papistarum etiam castra transfugit à quibus tamen videri vult odio capitali dissidere Verum nec in hac causa ferendus aliis etiam in partibus tela à Papistis mutuatur Denique ut de Ambrosio dixit Hieronimus verbis ludit sententiis dormitat planè indignus est qui à quopiam docto refutetur I have read over saith he a great part of the Book which Master Cartwright hath lately set forth Let me not live if I ever saw any thing more loose and almost more childish As for words indeed he hath store of them both trim and fresh enough but as for matter he hath none at all Besides this he hath not only peevish Assertions touching the Princes Authority in matters Sacred and Ecclesiastical but he also flatly revolteth from us to the Camp of the Papists from whom he would seem to fly with deadly hatred And not in this Cause only is he unsufferable but in other Points also he borroweth his Weapons and Arguments from the Papists And in a word as Hierome sometime said of Ambrose he is in his words but a trifler and for his matter but a dreamer and altogether unworthy to be refuted by any man of Learning 32. Master Cartwright after these Controversies thus begun and continued by himself as you see lived sometimes beyond the Seas now in one place and then in another without attaining any eminent or certain Place in the Commonwealth save only the Mastership of an Hospital in Warwick 33. But Doctor Whitgift having continued Master of Trinity College ten years and being twice Vice-chancellor was by her Majesty preferred also to the Deanry of Lincoln which he held for Whitgift made Dean of

Majesty's Commandment had notwithstanding much ado and many conflicts with them For they had gotten such strength by his Predecessor's connivency that many of them were then planted both within his Province and particular Diocess In whose favour sundry Gentlemen of the chiefest account there came to entreat the Archbishop and some of the younger sort would needs argue and dispute matters in controversy on their behalf But he gave so good satisfaction unto them all by his mild and temperate Answers albeit he yielded not unto their Requests that they loved him after some of the chiefest of them preferring their Sons unto him and the rest performing many kind Offices and Services towards him 55. The next Year following for Decem. 1584. For satisfaction of some great Persons he with two other Bishops receive the Reasons of some Ministers for their Non-conformity They sufficiently answer the same farther satisfaction of some of the greatest and most honourable Counsellors of State in these Points the two Archbishops and the Bishop of Winchester were pleased to hear the Reasons of some Ministers that refused to conform themselves unto the Orders of the Church established At which time albeit the said learned Prelates sufficiently cleared all their Doubts and Exceptions yet after this these honourable Personages affying much in the Sufficiency and Scholarship of some others not yet dealt withal and supposing that they had been able to have said much more in defence of themselves and the impeaching of the Ecclesiastical Government established for so they were born in hand were desirous to hear at Lambeth the Controversies A Conference at Lambeth and a further debate of the Controversy to the seeming satisfaction of those Great Personages further debated on both Sides Whereunto the Archbishop for their satisfaction yielded and after four hours Conference spent these Honourable Personages professed that they would not have believed that the Archbishops Grounds and Reasons had been so good and strong and the Others so weak and trivial but that they heard them once and again with their own Ears and so they said they would inform her Majesty seeming to be there well resolved and also persuaded the Ministers to Conformity 56. Howbeit afterwards when those Honourable Personages saw that they might not sway as formerly in the restraint of Archibishop Grindall and prefer The Archbishop perplexed with Oppositions is grieved whom they listed unto Ecclesiastical Promotions they with some others linked themselves against the Archbishop and gave him being yet no Counsellor of State many thwarts at the Council board wherewith he was so much perplexed and grieved to see things thus carried as thereupon advising with some of his Honourable Friends whose assistance he knew might avail him if their Affections were not otherwise overswayed by the potency of so great Personages he thus imparted his mind in several Letters Writes his mind as followeth GOD knoweth how desirous I have been from time to time to have my Doings approved by my ancient and honourable Friends For which cause since my coming to this Place I have done nothing of importance against these Sectaries without good Advice I have risen up early and sate up late to yield Reasons and make answer to their Contentions and their Seditious Objections And shall I now say I have lost my labour Or shall my just dealing with disobedient and irregular Persons cause my former professed and ancient Friends to hinder my just Proceedings and make them speak of my Doings yea and of my Self what they list Solomon saith that an old Friend is better than a new I trust those that love me indeed will not so lightly cast off their old Friends for any of these new fangled and Factious Sectaries whose fruits are to make division and to separate old and assured Friends In mine own private Affairs I know I shall stand in need of Friends but in these publick Actions I see no cause why I should seek Friends seeing they to whom the care of the Common-wealth is committed ought of duty therein to join with me And if my honourable Friends should for sake me especially in so good a Cause and not put their helping hand to the redress of these Enormities being indeed a matter of State and not of the least moment I shall think my coming unto this Place to have been for my punishment and my hap very hard that when I think to deserve best and in a manner consume my self to satisfy that which God her Majesty and the Church requireth of me I should be evilly rewarded Sed meliora spero It is objected by some that my desire of Uniformity by way of Subscription is for the better maintenance of my Book They are mine Enemies that say so but I trust my Friends have a better opinion of me Why should I seek for any confirmation of my Book after twelve years approbation or what shall I get thereby more than already I have And yet if Subscription may confirm it it is confirmed long ago by the Subscription almost of all the Clergy of England before my time Mine Enemies likewise and the slanderous Tongues of this uncharitable Sect report that I am revolted become a Papist and I know not what But it proceedeth from their lewdness and not from any desert of mine I am further burthened with Wilfulness I hope my Friends are better persuaded of me to whose Consciences I appeal It is strange that a man of my Place dealing by so good warrant as I do should be so encountred and for not yielding be counted wilful But I must be content Vincit qui patitur There is a difference betwixt Wilfulness and Constancy I have taken upon me by the Place which I hold under her Majesty the defence of the Religion and the Rites of the Church of England to appease the Schisms and Sects therein to reduce all the Ministers thereof to Uniformity and to due obedience and not to waver with every wind which also my Place my Person my Duty the Laws her Majesty and the goodness of the Cause do require of me and wherein the Lords of her Highness's most Honourable Privy Council all things considered ought in duty to assist and countenance me But how is it possible that I should perform the Charge which I have undertaken after so long liberty and lack of Discipline if a few Persons so meanly qualified as most of these Factions Sectaries are should be countenanced against the whole State of the Clergy of greatest account both for Learning Years Staidness Wisdom Religion and Honesty and open Breakers and Impugners of the Law young in Years proud in Conceipt contentious in Disposition should be maintained against their Governors seeking to reduce them to Order and to Obedience Haec sunt initia Haereticorum ortus atque conatus Schismaticorum malè cogitantium ut sibi placeant ut praepositum superbo tumore contemnat Sic de Ecclesia receditur sic Altare profanum

direct themselves by the Rule of Geneva would learn thus to discipline their Tongues with him and imitate his Modesty 91. The Archbishop as from Master Beza so from other famous Men beyond the Seas received many Letters arguing their great love and due respect of him At their request and recommendation he relieved and entertained into his House for many years The Archbishop's kindness and charity to Foreign Divines of the Reformation together divers distressed Ministers out of Germany and France who were enforced to forsake their own Countries some by Banishment others by reason of Wars and extremity which they were put unto And at their departure he dealt bountifully with them as namely Drusius Renicherus Frigevill and Monsieur Buse a French Minister who read weekly a Lecture in Latin in his Chappel And although his French pronunciation and want of good delivery did somewhat blemish the goodness of the matter which he handled yet the Archbishop's property ever was to cherish and encourage him and all others that preached before him and was never heard to give the Preacher distaste but rather would commend or excuse him against other mens Censures saying If he were young better experience would correct his defaults and if he were in years he was in that respect to be born withal alledging for both that some would take exceptions sometimes rather to satisfy their own too much curiosity than for any just cause of dislike in the Preacher 92. Wherein he shewed a Disposition very rarely to be found in that having himself an excellent gift in that Faculty his modesty in prizing himself and his mildness in censuring others was extraordinary and very singular His backwardness to censure other mens Gifts and Performances so that thereby he gave great encouragement unto some whom otherwise his exquisite Judgment might have daunted 93. Neither herein did he as in service of War the Trumpeters use to do who encourage others to fight never taking Weapon in hand themselves or as Plutarch noteth in Aristogiton who Plutarch in vita Phocionis animated others to take Arms but himself in excuse pleaded lameness and came halting to the Musters in pretence thereof But as his continual Endeavours were to reward those of best Gifts and to encourage those of meaner so as often as Church and State-affairs gave him leave he was industrious in propounding wholesome Doctrine unto the People and a worthy Pattern of true Divinity and Diligence unto all others of the Clergy to follow him therein When he was Bishop of Worcester unless The Archbishop a constant Preacher when publick Affairs would admit extraordinary businesses of the Marches of Wales hindred him he never failed to preach upon every Sabbath-day many times riding five or six Miles to a Parish Church and after Sermon came home to Dinner The like he did also when he was Archbishop and lay at Croydon the Queen being in her Progress No Sunday escaped him in Kent as the Gentlemen there can well witness who would exceedingly resort unto him And he would oftentimes preach so early in the Morning in some Parish-Church both in Worcester and Canterbury that he came afterwards to the Sermon in the Cathedral Church 94. His Gift that way was excellent Had an excellent Tallent in Preaching Learned eloquent and judicious His Gesture grave and decent without affectation as if you had heard Saint Augustin himself or some of the ancient Bishops in the Primitive Church His Gesture and Action in the Pulpit so grave and decent his words coming from him so fatherly and comely and though plainly for the most part and without affectation yet always elegantly with special choice and substantial matter full of good and sound Learning plentiful in Authorities out of Scripture Fathers and School-men so singularly applied that he much affected his Auditory therewith Thus he oftentimes stirred and moved mens minds and affections and that not by the force of Eloquence only but by his pious Life answerable to his religious Sentences the opinion and confidence which the People had of his Integrity being very Of great Integrity and unspotted Life great because he did live unspotted of the world and would not any way be corrupted 95. He never preached but he first He wrote the Notes of his Sermons wrote his Notes in Latin and afterwards kept them during his life For he would say That whosoever took that pains before his preaching the elder he waxed the better he should discharge that Duty but if he trusted only to his memory his preaching in time Disapproved trusting only to Memory would become pratling Wherein out of a true religious care and divine wisdom he did express the grave and prudent Counsel that Demosthenes held in his Orations and pleadings in the Court. For as Plutarch saith He would never Plutarch in vit Demosth offer to speak unto the People before he had made briefs of that which he had to deliver alledging that he loved the People well that would be careful before-hand what to say unto them And this preparation saith he doth shew that a man honoureth and reverenceth them too Contrariwise he that passeth not how the People taketh his words it is a plain token that he despiseth them and their Authority and that he lacketh no good-will to use force against them if he could rather than reason or persuasion 96. When he was Bishop of Worcester When at Worcester he treated the Recusants mildly and won many of them over and Vice-president of the Marches he did exceeding good by that his continual preaching as also by his often conference and conventing of the Papists whom he used with mild and temperate speeches and thereby got many of them to conform themselves both Gentlemen and others whereby as at his first coming unto the See of Worcester he found many Recusants so he left very few at his coming thence 97. Immediately after he came to be When he came to be Archbishop he dealt with the Learnedst of them by Authority Ecclesiastical Archbishop he convented before him the chiefest and most learned Recusants throughout all England He also wrote Letters to the Bishops his Brethren within the Province of Canterbury to proceed with the Recusants by their Authority Ecclesiastical and Censures of the Church and called yearly upon them for an account of their doings He sent forth also many Warrants by vertue of her Highness's Commission for Causes Ecclesiastical and thereby had daily brought before him both Recusants and Priests who according to the quality of their Offences were restrained and proceeded against or delivered over unto the Civil Magistrate to be dealt withal as to Justice appertained after the Laws were enacted against Recusants and Seminary Priests 98. Thus this grave and prudent He kept a straight hand over the Seminary Priests and subtle Papists Archbishop always carried a most vigilant eye and straight hand over the subtle-headed

the lawful and perfect Calling of a Minister or no To these I find Wigginton's Resolution Wigginton's Resolutions of Coppinger's Questions in the affirmastive made under his own hand to this effect briefly viz. That God hath doth and will from time to time raise up extraordinary Workers and Helpers to his Church a Apostles Evangelists and Prophets where need requireth and as Nazarites Healers Admonishers in special sort and such like that these cannot be known to themselves but by God's Spirit nor to others but by godly effects That he who is so called need not to ask many Questions of mortal men for his Calling yet must be approved godly before he enterprize his Work especially if he have been a known wicked Person before That where the chief Rulers of any House or Country or the most part of any House or Country be ignorant and untaught there it may be truly said that House or Country is out of frame desolate or waste much more then when one part of Thirty or Forty is not well framed rightly taught or guided c. in that House or Country And in another Paper of his own Hand he avoucheth such extraordinary Callings by Such extraordinary Callings justified by two Examples example of one that cried up and down the Streets in Jerusalem before it was besieged and by another which he saith the last Parliament came forth of Yorkshire to London saying he was charged from God by an Angel in a Vision to signify great Vengeance from God upon the whole Realm for certain great Enormities by himself in another man's person untruly and seditiously surmised So that hereby it appeareth that Wigginton is the silenced Preacher meant by Coppinger in the former Letter who resolved him of extraordinary Callings in those days who consented to fast and pray with him and others for a Seal c. of such Calling and who as he afterward affirmed to Hacket would not discourage Coppinger in his Purposes This Conceit hereupon waxing stronger Coppinger waxeth stronger in his Conceit and stronger in Coppinger he often came to Lancaster's House where also Arthington then lay to confer with them specially to know the certainty whether there were any extraordinary Calling in this last Age and how the same might be tried They both told him as is now said that they were meer ordinary men not able to resolve him much less to take trial of his Gifts and therefore willed him to keep his Secrets to himself or else to go to others that could better judge of them Whereupon Coppinger Seeks direction from Divers Puritanical Preachers is assisted by Penry sought for direction to divers Preachers and others in London and elsewhere of what setled disposition may easily be conjectured For resolution also herein by the help of his diligent Fellow-labourer in this business John ap Henry aliâs a Penry he sollicited the Reformed Preachers so these Fellows term them of some Foreign Parts It may also be gathered by some Letters written by him to a Gentleman near about a great Counsellor that he bare the said Gentleman in hand as if he had intelligence touching some matter of great service to her Majesty and the Commonwealth to be imparted to the said Counsellor For in the Copy of a Letter of his of the 28th of January last he thus writeth Your signification Coppinger ' s Letters to a Counsellor pretending some service to the Queen of some service which you heard I was desirous to do in discharge of my duty to her Majesty may give his Lordship cause to suspect that I honour him not so much as I do Your revealing thereof to his Lordship I do assure you doth much trouble me because I am not furnished with such matter as I wish My meaning was therefore to have forborn his Lordship's trouble until I had learned out that which my heart desireth to do c. And in another Letter of his written to the same Gentleman the 1st of February after in this sort If you think he looketh to have me come to his Lordship about any thing which you have put into his head let me understand from you when I may attend his Lordship's pleasure which being known I will according to my duty do it though I wish my self to be freed until I may know that which may give his Lordship cause to think of me as I do desire to deserve c. Now that this matter was the same whereof he desired such resolution may be gathered by a Note of his own Hand set upon the back of these two Copies thus viz. By these Letters it may appear what care I had In his Letters to the Preachers pretends some service to God and his Church meaning in both the same matter to carry my self in this Action But in his Letters about this matter written unto Preachers and others of his own humour he goeth more plainly to work and declareth another purpose and that it is a special service by him to be done to God and his Church and so no Civil Matter as he elsewhere pretendeth For I find by a Letter of another Gentleman P. W. a Lay Gentleman his Letter to Coppinger incouraging him to go on in his Work of the Laity dated the 25th of January last and written unto Coppinger in answer that Coppinger had sent for him up to receive advice of him in some matters of importance tending to the true Service of God wherein he was labouring In the end whereof are these words viz. You are in a plentiful Soil where you may use the advice of many godly wise Use the benefit thereof And then as Joshua said be bold and of a good courage Fear not to be discouraged for God even the mighty God will protect and defend you In his solliciting the Preachers to take trial of his Gifts and extraordinary Calling it appeareth he used some more plainness without much disguising of the quality of the Action which he intended and likewise how faintly he was discouraged from it by them For in a Letter of his unto T. L. written the 29th of January last he reporteth that M. E. a Preacher most Christianly The Preachers advise him to Caution but do not discourage nor reprove him wisely and lovingly persuaded him to be careful and circumspect over himself To take heed lest he were deceived by the subtilty of Satan and so misled whereby he might endanger himself both for his Liberty Estate and Credit and also be an hinderance to the great Cause which he would seem to be most desirous to further but Note withal the said M. E. concluded that he would be loath to quench the Spirit of God in him or to hinder his Zeal About this time and matter Coppinger writ also another Letter to T. C. which thing besides the Letter it self appeareth also by a Letter of his written the 24th of February last to one M. H. The whole tenor

of to bring them to pass which they hoped to stir up by their pretence of so great holiness with calling the Realm to repentance in the open Streets of London by offering joys and mercy to the Penitent and by their Proclamation also then made in Cheapside as hereafter cometh to be declared Now that these their two last Purposes were indeed the principal and main ends which they propounded to themselves besides that which by the way is noted already and that which comes hereafter to be mentioned let these few Proofs ensuing suffice First for the alteration of the whole Government Ecclesiastical and erecting of the new Discipline It is confessed that Coppinger Coppinger and Arthington two false Prophets their words to Wigginton the day before the Insurrection and Arthington the two Counterseit Prophets on the 16th of July last being Friday and the self-same day that they arose in Cheapside told Wigginton in the morning these words amongst many others viz. That Reformation and the Lord's Discipline should now forthwith be established and therefore charged Wigginton in the Lord's name to put all Christians in comfort that they should see a joyful alteration in the state of Church-Government shortly To which words Wigginton made no reply nor further demand as of any matter strange unto him how it was so shortly to be compassed Wherein may also be observed that these kind of Persons do reckon and term only those Christians that will take comfort and joy at such an Alteration So that by their Opinions it skilleth not what be attempted or done against all others being but as Heathens and Paynims or at least Idolaters Thus much with their seditious Purposes Their Seditious Purposes appear in Coppinger's Letter to Udal then condemned for writing the Demonstration of Discipline also is plainly implied in a dangerous Letter written by the said Coppinger since Easter last unto one John Udal a condemned man for Felony in the White Lyon in Surrey for writing of the Book termed the Demonstration of Discipline That Letter beginneth thus Right Reverend Sir my forbearing to visit you and the rest of the Saints who suffer for Righteousness sake do give you all cause to think that I have forsaken my first Love and have embraced the God of this World But my Conscience beareth me witness of the contrary The Reasons of my absence being so great and so weighty that hereafter when they shall be examined by your selves who are endued with the spirit of wisdom and discerning of Spirits I doubt not but Note you will allow of my not coming which might bring you into more trouble and danger than it would do me good or breed me comfort And afterward thus You have care and conscience to further the building of the Lord's House which lieth waste and to seek the final overthrow of Antichrist's Kingdom which being the Lord 's own work he will bless it and all the Actors in it And this I dare be bold of mine own knowledge to report that in this great Work he hath divers that lie hid and are yet at liberty who are hammering their heads busying their brains and spending their spirits in prayers to God as much as you or any of you that are in Prison Note and hope in short time to be brought forth into the sight of their and your Enemies to defend the Cause you stand for And again afterward in this wise I beseech you cheer up your selves in the Lord for the day of our Redemption is at hand and pray that the Hand of the Lord may be strengthened Note in them whom he hath appointed to take part with you in this Cause and beseech him that blessing may be upon Sion and confusion upon Babel Pardon my long Letter I beseech you and impart mine humble suit to all the rest to whom I neither dare write nor offer to see I neither put to my Name nor make Subscription The Bringer can report who sendeth the Letter and let that suffice Furthermore that they hated deadly and maligned her Majesty as a principal Obstacle to their Innovation and Kingdom and therefore sought to deprive her Highness of her Sovereignty and Life may be gathered by their own Words and Actions For Hacket confessed before the other two that They usually attend Egerton a Preacher in Black-Frairs at a Sermon of one Egerton's preach'd in the Black-Fryars whither they usually resort he the said Hacket remained uncovered all the Sermon time until the Preacher came to pray for her Majesty but then he said that he put on his Hat And when Arthington demanded why he did so Coppinger streightway answered thus There is a matter in that Likewise when as in their private Prayers amongst themselves Arthington used to pray for the Queen Coppinger Coppinger and Hacket forbear to pray for the Queen would sundry times tell him that his so doing did much grieve Hacket adding that in the beginning himself did also pray for her but Hacket had now drawn him from it saying there was a cause why which Arthington knew not but should know hereafter For saith he you do not know this man meaning Hacket who is a greater Person than she and indeed above all the Princes in the World And whenas on the very Sunday before their rising for so themselves have since termed that Action it happened that Arthington prayed again for the preservation of the Queen's Majesty Hacket not digesting this suddenly with indignation turned his face away from him but when he prayed for other matters then Hacket cast his countenance towards him again which he perceiving that Arthington also marked by him and purposing as it seemeth to salve up this matter again left Arthington happily might yet have fallen from them therefore when they had ended their Prayers Hacket took him with his Arms about the middle in very kind sort affirming that he loved the Queen as well as either of them and desired him not to be offended for the Lord had commanded it Adding further that there was a matter in it that Arthington as yet knew not Hereupon Coppinger being in hearing thereof said that she might be prayed for in general terms but not so specially as Arthington did whereby Hacket was grieved nor yet to be prayed for as a Sovereign For said he she may not reign as Note Sovereign but this man Hacket and yet saith he she shall live better than ever she did albeit she must be governed by another thereby also meaning Hacket And to the intent they might the more assuredly retain Arthington without suspicion of their poisonful malice wherein they boiled against the Queen's Highness Hacket himself once after this time very subtilly prayed for her Majesty For proof that they also meant to deprive her of life the several Confessions of Arthington Arthington confesseth that Hacket and Coppinger design'd the Queen's deprivation of Government and Life at sundry Examinations may be

to I. T. and others and to them of forreign Churches were for that matter well and advisedly endited His cunning was not small to keep the very particular way of effecting that which he desired from those he dealt with because himself knew it a dangerous secret and a course not justifiable unless it came by extraordinary motion and special oeconomy from God and therefore he desired to have it allowed so to be His pretence of entertaining intelligence touching some important service to the State of the Realm whereof he pretended to have an inlking but no full and particular knowledg was none unadvised or simple reach of policy in him For if in platting of his purposes and dealing in the principal action any thing of doubtful acceptance should happen to have been after discovered then might he well and with good colour have pretended that he did it but in way of attaining to intelligence of those dangers whereof the generality as it were in the Clouds he had afore delivered to a Counsellor For he might not seem a man to be suspected of any disloyal purpose who shewed himself so careful for his Sovereign's safety Add to these his cunning petition to have prisoners for treason c. to be examined by himself and execution of condemn'd persons to be stai'd at his beck whereby he might more easily have induced them to appeach whom he list to have overthrown and whom he principally aimed at His subtilty also doth notably appear in his petitions to her Majesty where he makes shew of great secrets to be delivered only in her presence and prayeth to be pardoned if in overmuch fear of her safety he had attempted to prove that which he could not which argueth that he had indeed not so much as any colourable intelligence delivered unto him of Treason intended by such great men as he pretended but used this as a means to have access for himself and the others unto her Highness's presence for some further intended mischief Then his allowance and commendation of sound and good counsel given him by Eg. a preacher and by others his sparing to reveal the great and dangerous secret unto Hacket upon their first acquaintance his razing out of Hacket's and the Town 's Name out of the Letter sent by him to a Noble personage to give inkling of Treasons intended against her Majesty lest the quality and unlikelyhood of the man being enquired after that that plot should be dashed his not subscribing of his name to sundry Letters his directing of Hacket neither to subscribe nor endorse but in that sort as he prescribed for fear of discovery his desire to have all the Letters again that he had written to Eg. about that matter his wary and diligent keeping of copies of every Letter that he writ in that cause and when leasure served not so to do his great care to have the very Letters again his offence with one Hoc for keeping a Letter from him which he had sent unto him his cunning excuse of Hacket's defacing of the Queen's Arms his counterfeit revelation to bring Arthington further in his device to make Arthington resolute by saying it was revealed to him that they had Angelical spirits not subject to hurt by any mortal power his willing choice to withdraw himself into an house when after their proclamation things fell not out as was expected and from thence afterward to go to his place of abode through by-lanes his and Hacket's putting off the matter from knowledg of Arthington for a time though afterward happely to be opened why the Queen might not be pray'd for in particular their pretence of the Lords commandment to keep the means secret how the Queen's Majesty and the Counsel were to be brought to repentance and unto their pretended Reformation the sensible and coherent manner of report unto Wigginton touching Hacket's and their own callings and offices by Coppinger and Arthington their temperate and pertinent answers unto Wigginton's speeches and all their consulting sundry times together about their business namely the night afore and the day of their proclamation do plainly argue that Coppinger albeit he were greatly misled by a false and spightful zeal and by much hyprocrisie yet was he far enough from any distracting of his wits in every part of this action And concerning Hacket whose terrible blasphemies at the last do argue either a villanous dissimulation to have his execution respited or a desperate intemperancy against God for frustrating his expectation there can no fury or madness be justly noted in him by the whole managing of this action but rather notable hypocricy craft and dissembled holiness First in that he seem'd a man most zealous for the pretended Reformation of the Church by erecting the Discipline and afterwards also for reforming of the Common-wealth That he used in outward appearance a most servent and devout manner of praying that in his prayers he did execrate himself most deeply if he sought not the glory of God only in this action thereby the better to be credited and to cover his villanies that he took a day's deliberation to answer the great matter after it was first propounded by Coppinger that he sought to get credit to himself and to terrify her Majesty by telling in generalities of strange judgments of God imminent over her that were revealed unto him that foreseeing it not unlikely to rain after a long time of drought he prayed in Coppinger's presence for rain whereby it might seem to be sent by God at his only prayer and mediation that he bare them in hand he could tell things to come being merely contingent that he could fain such kind of Revelations as if they were shewed to him in the midst of his torments which if they be marked tended only to have himself magnified as a man placed most highly in God's favour that when the one of his followers seemed offended he craftely excused the mislike which he had shewed to hear her Majesty prayed for that the better to colour his hatred and malice he afterwards prayed for her himself that he cunningly induced Coppinger either to fain or to fancy a Revelation that he and Arthington must obey him the said Hacket in all things that he pretended to dispence with Arthington for honouring him as King of Europe until he should do it before others where it might stand him in better sted that he craftily put off his intended anointing by Coppinger as being already done in heaven left some unlooked for accident happely falling forth the whole pageant might have been marr'd that his pretended greatest office of severing in Christ's behalf the good from the bad with his Fan in his hand was concealed from Arthington until the very time that the message was to be done by them when as it was too late to consider of it and unlawful to be disobeied that this office he proclamed unto them after his two solemn prayers for direction of them by