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A18700	An exhortation to all menne to take hede and beware of rebellion wherein are set forth the causes, that commonlye moue men to rebellion, and that no cause is there, that ought to moue any man there vnto. With a discourse of the miserable effectes, that ensue thereof, and of the wretched ende, that all rebelles comme to, moste necessary to be redde in this seditiouse [and] troublesome tyme, made by Iohn Christoferson. At the ende whereof are ioyned two godlye prayers, one for the Quenes highnes, verye conuenient to be sayd dayly of all her louing and faythfull subiectes, and an other for the good [and] quiete estate of the whole realme. Read the whole, and then iudge.	Christopherson, John, d. 1558.	1554 (1554)	STC 5207; ESTC S117507	113,228	472

An exhortation to all menne to take hede and beware of rebellion wherein are set forth the causes that commonlye moue men to rebellion and that no cause is there that ought to moue any man therevnto with a discourse of the miserable effectes that ensue thereof and of the wretched ende that all rebelles comme to moste necessary to be redde in this seditiouse troublesome tyme made by Iohn Christoferson ¶ At the ende whereof are ioyned two godlye Prayers one for the Quenes highnes verye conuenient to be sayd dayly of all her louing and faythfull Subiectes and an other for the good quiete estate of the whole realme ¶ Reade the whole and then Iudge ¶ To the mooste excellent and vertuouse Queene Marye by the grace of GOD Quene of England Fraunce and Irelande and defendour of the fayth Iohn Christoferson her graces Chapleyne dayly oratour wisheth a long a quiete and a prosperous reygne with the daylye encrease of al godly vertue LYke as there be manye and sondrye diseases most gratious Soueraigne which chaunsing to a mans body so sore manye times trouble and vexe the same that they not onlye put it in great perill and daunger of death but also at lengthe kill and destroye it altogether So in a realme or common welth whiche maye well be compared to a mans bodye there are manye sore sicknesses that oftentimes so greuously noye the same that yf remedye be not founde out betime they not only put it in great daunger of perishynge but also in conclusion worke the vtter ruine and destruction thereof And as when the bodye is sicke Phisitions by frendes are diligently sought for and medicines to cure the sicknes be with all spede prepared So in a realme or common welth that is with anye sore sicknes infected euerye one that fauoureth the same is bounden to seke remedye therfore For yf frendes for a priuate mans sake wil when his bodye is diseased gladlye take paynes bothe to learne what disease he is troubled with and also to gette ●ome good Physycke for him to thintent he may be deliuered from his disease and restored to his helth agayne muche more all those that loue their countrye the cōmon welthe thereof whensoeuer it is with anye troublesome sicknesse anoyed ought earnestly to trauayle first to know what the sicknes is and then to prouide some holsome medicines to put it away yea and to seke al meanes possible clearely to del●uer their countrye from all perill daunger thereof We reade in the excellent Historiographer Herodotus howe that the Babilonians made a lawe that whensoeuer anye man fell sicke amonges them he shuld be caried into y e market place and there lye to thintent that he might demaunde of euerye one that repayred thither whether they hadde bene troubled with the like disease how they were cured made hole so that the sicke man lying there might by the same meanes that they had vsed be deliuered frō his sicknesse and recouer his helth agayne And by that lawe also euery man that came thither was bounde bothe to aske the man what sicknes he had and also to shewe him yf he knewe any remedye that were good for it By the example whereof euery one that hartelye loueth his countrie earnestly tendereth the helth welthe of the same whensoeuer he seeth the body thereof which lieth open before al mens eyes with any kind of disease infected ▪ hathe learned what the sicknesse is and eyther by experience or otherwise can tel what is good for it is bound in conscience to declare it to thende that his coūtry which is so vexed may find some reliefe and fare the better by it For he muste consider that in relieuing the whole bodye he relieueth him selfe to beyng a membre thereof For lyke as when the body is sicke all the members be partakers of the griefe and payne that it suffreth So agayne when the body findeth any ease the mēbres to find great reliefe therin Wherfore I for my parte because I playnlye se that the bodye of my countrye which I do greatlye lamente hathe bene lately sore troubled with y e greu●us sicknes of rebelliō and as yet perhappes hathe some seditiouse folkes in it thought it my moste bounden duetie to set forth in writynge suche a poore medicine for the relieuing of the same disease as I iudged mete cōuenient therefore And albeit there be many remedies ▪ which be noted of learned men good writers whereby this grieuouse disease is wont to be cured as diligent inquisition that no vnlawful assembles be gathered as graue and wise counseile that when such are made they may be shortly by policie dissolued as reasonable cōditions for the dissoluing therof to be offred as force of armes when as no other meanes wil serue as due execution of iustice vpon all such as be offenders therin as taking awaye of the causes whereof rebellion commonlye groweth and as that al suche as haue rebelled be spoyled of theyr harnesse wherewith they defended themselfes in the time of rebellion with diuerse other suche lyke remedies yet in mine opinion no more fitter remedye can there be founde then that seditiouse mens hartes by gentle exhortatiō maye be throughly persuaded firste that in rebellyng they mooste grieuously offende their lord God so putte their soules in ieopardie secondarely y t they go aboute thereby to destroye theyr bodies which shal therfore be put to a moste vyle and shamefull death thirdly that they shall loose al y t they haue by meanes therof vndo theyr wiues and children disfame all their posteritie laste of all that they shal be occasion that their countrie shalbe most miserablye spoyled and come to vtter ruine For no man is so farre from al reason I truste or so blinded with malice that will not eyther with the feare of Gods plages or with the daunger of his soule or wyth the death of his body or wyth the care that he taketh for his wyfe and children or with the losse of his goodes his good name to or with the destruction of his countrie be moued to take hede alwaye and be well ware that he neuer auenture for any cause at all to rebell agaynste his prince whome he is by God cōmaunded mooste hūbly to obeye And we reade in good writers that many rebelliōs haue bene appeased by the good discrete exhortations of wise and learned men For the people of Rome whē they were gathered together in a hyll called the holye hyll neare vnto y e riuer of Aniene thre myle frō the citie were fully minded to make rebellion agaynst their rulers Marcus Valerius by a wise an eloquent oration that he made brought so to passe that theyr heartes were by by so well pacified that they quietly departed euerye one home to theyr houses The lyke dyd Lucius Valerius Potitus at such tyme as the people of Rome had cōspired

were infected wyth it and because they minded to rule the whole countrie and to subdue destroye all that were contrary to thē in religion founde they oute a cruell capitayne very mete for their pestilent purpose whose name was Ziska vnder whom they wrought much mischiefe to that goodly countrie And first buylded they them selfes a citie and named it Thabor after the hylles name where oure sauioure was transfigured because they thoughte y t in that citie all truth shulde be reuealed and opened And after wold they no more be called Hussites but Thaborites Then pulled they downe churches and monasteries most miserably persecuted all catholike folke and speciallye priestes Of whome some Ziska theyr Capitayne caused to be burned quicke and some to be murdered with other tormentrye and the preuie members of some to be cutte of to thintent that they shuld be a mockyng stocke to the people Whyche cruell and detestable monstre for so Aeneas Siluius calleth him because no mens power coulde vanquyshe hym ▪ God wyth hys myghtie hand at lengthe for hys manifolde rebellion ouerthrewe hym For as he was goyng to Priscouia to mete Sigismundus themperoure he was by the waye sodenlye taken wyth the pestilence and so made he an ende of hys cursed life After whose death the Thaborites gotte them a new captayne named Procopius whose cruelty spoyle and oppression the Lordes barrons of Boheme well perceauyng and greatlye lamentyng thought suche wyckednesse no longer to be suffred but to putte in aduenture all that they had and their liues to rather then they wolde see theyr countrye by such rebels so miserablye spoyled and wasted Wherevpon gettynge a great armye together mette wyth them betwixt Broda Buris and sette vpon them sodenly insomuch that the Thaborytes fledde awaye apace Wherfore Procopius theyr Captayne when he coulde by no persuasion kepe them from flyght lyke a desperate wretche ronne headlynge into the thycke of hys enemies where fyghtynge a whyle and sore vexynge hys enemyes at last with an arowe was shotte through And when the ba●tayle was ended an infinite numbre of the Thaborites were taken prisoners and after putte in great barnes the dores shutte vp And because that countrye shulde no longer be troubled wyth suche wretched people the barnes were set on fyre and they and the barnes were burned vppe altogether Thys woful ende had these seditiouse and cruel heretykes the maynteyners of Wicliffes and Hussis doctrine by whose meanes the noble countrye of Boheme was brought from a moste honorable state to very slauery from great ryches to very beggerye from good ordre to vtter confusion from noble libertye to vyle bondage and from a royall kyngedome to a wretched tyranny We reade likewyse of the greate rebellion that was made in Germanye by the Lutheranes called Bellum rusticum whiche intended to haue destroyed Christes catholike fayth all the clergye and all the nobilitie of Germanye and neuer to haue bene vnder anye rulers or gouernours any longer For the deuill and Luther together had taught them that the libertie of the Gospel shuld not be subiect to such tyrauntes ▪ as thēperoure was and Luther in hys sermons called themperoure a sacke of wormes and sayde that the greate Turke was a wyser prince and a better then the gouernours of our Christen commen welth and vsed commonlye to saye Lord delyuer vs from suche tyrauntes Where wythal the people beyng prouoked to sedition gathered together a greate armye and yf they had not bene resisted betyme they had destroyed al Germanye And when they came to the fielde and were compelled to make battayle they fought wonderfull fearslye so that there were slayne at sondrye conflictes aboue an hundreth thousande men And both the authors of al this mischiefe in the same battayles were kylled and all the rebelles beside were eyther slayne or taken prisoners Such cruel bloudshed and suche manslaughter broughte for the thys cursed enterpryse What shuld I speake of a citie in Germany called Munstere which before it was with the perillouse plage of heresye infected was a very riche and a welthy citye and meruelouslye dyd flouryshe both for y e prosperouse estate that it was in and also for the honest behauiour and ciuyll maners of the people But after that heresye was cropen into it and that the people had receaued it and a greate numbre of them became Anabaptistes then would they no longer obey their prince but become a fre citye Then false prophetes arose amonges them and all good men were thrust out of the cytye and spoyled of all that they had After that made they a kynge amonges them selfes who most cruelly tormented all y t wold not obey his denelish intentes purposes hanged a great meany vpon trees But consyder thende of this rebellion By and by after this the cytye was beseged and with in a shorte space taken to In the tyme of the beseginge wherof they that were with in the cytye were so famished that many of them were glad to eate y ● coueringes of greate bokes that were couered wyth leather some of them eate their owne children And yet notwithstandynge al this misery some desperate wretches would not let to daunce in the streates and set forth spectacles and showes openly As for to pull downe churches and chappels they counted it a good pastime And they were sore agreued with images that if they se any picture eyther in walles or in glase windowes they wold vtterly deface it But at lengthe when the citye was taken both the lewde king that they had made and all his adherentes were taken withal and burned at a stacke and so receaued the reward of their wicked rebellion If any man be desyrous to know more of this story let him reade an epistle of one Antony Coruine which he wrote to George Spalatine What was the speciall cause I praye you of the great rebellion that was made by y e princes of Germanye agaynst themperours maiestye Charles the .v. that now reygneth but only the maynteynaunce of Luthers doctrine For albeit they pretended many other causes to cloke the matter yet in very dede as Lodouicus ab Auila telleth by whom the storye is wrytten the princypall cause was Luthers heresye that they so muche estemed But suche as their cause was such lucke ●ad they For albeit that thēperours armye was but smal and nothing to be compared in force and power with the Lutherans armye yet themperor putting his whole affiaunce in god and trustynge that he woulde assiste hym in maynteynaunce of his church and catholike fayth gotte by goddes helpe a very notable and merueylouse victorye For bothe was Iohn Federike Duke of Saxonye taken in the fielde and Philippe the Landgraue of Hesse yelded hym ●elfe which be two of the chiefe Princes of all Germanye And as for the rest of the rebelles some were taken some were slaine som put to flyght By these examples all men

may euidently perceaue that suche as haue made rebellion for this noughty doctrine haue euer bene miserably plaged at the ende But to let passe thexamples of foreyne realmes and to come home to our owne as sone as the fauorers of Wicliffes wicked heresye heard that Hus and Hierome of Prage two of Wiclifs chief scholers were condemned at Constance and there burned for their heresie they fell therfore into a ●uryouse rage And first conspired agaynste the byshoppes and priestes then like vile traytours agaynst their liege lord and soueraygne kyng Henry the .v. because he was a catholike Prince and a vertuouse And streyght way made they open assembles and determined to maynteine their cursed doctrine by force of armes Then gotte they them two mete Capitaynes for suche a purpose Iohn Oldcastell and Roger Acton and wyth a desperate company which were assembled wyth them made they hast to London to thintent they myghte take the citie and so there encrease their army with men much like thēselfes and in cōclusion by that meanes put downe the kyng But the kyng being certified of the matter thoughte it necessary to preuente them and to be readye to set vpon them before they shoulde enter into the citie Who when he was well prepared for them pytched hys tētes in a place mete for the purpose and taried for their comming But the wretches assone as they hearde of the kynges cōmyng streyght waye as thoughe they hadde lost the fielde ronne away as fast ▪ as their fete wolde beare them Of whome some were taken in the flight and by and by committed to the fyre and burned Anone after their two captaynes were taken cast in prison Beside this the tragicall ende of our last rebellion made by captayne Wiat hys complices for the same religion may be a sufficient warnyng for all men as longe as the worlde continueth to beware both of such a detestable and deuelishe enterprise and also of the peruerse doctrine that droue them vnto it And let euerye man that is infected wyth the same doctrine loketh for a daye as a great meanye do be well assured that whensoeuer he aduentureth the like acte he shal haue a lyke daye that is to saye a daye of his vtter confusion For God is al one and fayleth not to defende all those that put their sure trust in him as our most gratious soueraigne Ladye the Queene doth and punisheth all such as fighteth agaynste his churche and agaynst princes whiche be hys ministers And whatsoeuer the matter be that moueth hym to rebelliō let him thinke surely that the deuyll that seketh to destroye him both bodye and soule hath putte it in his mynde And let him waxe wise betime thoroughe other mens harmes And yf he wyl call to memorye the wordes that certayne of our rebelles sayde at their death he shall haue good cause to beware by theyr example For diuerse of them as it is reported said to the people that were presente when they were putte to execution after this sort Good people seyng that god for my most greuouse offence commytted agaynst the Quenes highnes hath thus worthely plaged me and punished me with this vile and shamefull death I beseche you al for your owne sauegarde learne by myne example euermore to beware of rebellion And specially agaynste your moste vertuouse most gratiouse soueraygne Lady y t now reygneth ouer you whom god as it wel appeareth hath elected and chosen to gouerne you whom he ceaseth not dayly w t his myghty hand to defend agaynst al her enemyes Wherfore all they that goeth about to resiste her or to worke any treason agaynst her noble person wittingly worketh their owne destructiō For there is no deceyptful driftes or force of armes that can preuayle agaynst the faythful seruaūtes of god Therfore may I most miserably bewayle my misfortune that it was my chaunce to be one of that number that contrary to Goddes wyll and pleasure dyd rebell agaynste suche a gracious prince And well maye I saye wyth a sighinge hearte alas that euer I was so madde as to folow the pestilent persuasion of such as moued me thereto But nowe the acte is paste and it is not possible to call agayne yesterdaye But notwythstandyng that to late it is to amend the matter yet it is not to late to repent And remedy fynde I none but only to be sory for it and hartely to beseche both almyghtye God to be mercifull vnto me and the Queenes hyghnes of her goodnesse to pardon me And I exhorte all you that be present to beware by me and that my plage may be a plaster for all them whose heartes be wounded wyth wycked rebellion And I praye God that all Englyshe menne maye take hede by me ▪ and learne to obeye theyr Prince by mine example and waxe wise throughe my folie Suche like wordes sayde diuerse of the late rebelles at theyr death But to be shorte there was neuer rebellion yet for what cause soeuer it was made that euer hadde prosperouse ende And yf a manne woulde recite foreyne rebellions that haue bene done in other realmes he shoulde be very longe in the matter But lette vs at thys presente go no further but to oure owne countrye and we shall fynde thys that I haue sayde to be vndoubtedlye true For Iacke Strawe Watt Tyler Captaines of the commotion that was in Kente in kynge Richarde the secondes dayes when they had taken South warke spoyled it broken vp the prysons lette out the prisoners and after robbed the whole citye of London and kylled meanye both straungers and citezins and ioyned to them all ruffians theues slaues and vile velaynes that were within the citie at laste the Lord Maior whose name was William Walworth and all the Aldermen of the citye sore moued wyth the matter gathered a cōpanye together well armed and the sayd lord Maior whyle all men prepared them selfes to go agaynst these rebelles hauyng a companye wyth hym at the kynges commaundement wente into Smithfielde where the rebelles were At whose comming the rebelles being some what abashed ●uffred hym to entre in amonges thē wythout any harme Then the lord Maior toke aparte Iacke Strawe pretendyng that he woulde be glad to make peace wyth hym But assone as he had gotte him aside in a great rage drewe he hys dagger kylled hym out of hande Whych when the rebels ones perceaued they fledde awaye apace and in the flight many were taken and manye were slayne and so for their outragious acte receaued they worthy punishment The lyke ende had the great captayne of the Kentyshe rebelles called Iacke Cade Whyche Iacke in the reygne of kynge Henrye the .vj. toke Southwarke and when he was assaulted of one Mathew Goth at mydnyght stoutly resisted him and droue him back to the bridge and so hard pursued hym that he fledde into the citie agayne Then Iacke wyth hys men sette fire vpon the houses