gentle reader the wealth pride and saucie deceitfull dealing of the Iesuites to be such and so great that if they remaine a while vnpunished they will not onely ouerrule the priests but our noble Queene and all Paragraph V. Of the peremptorie and seditious dealing of Iesuites THe Iesuits by cunning haue gotten into their hands all authoritie good estimation and all the treasure of money and so doe what they list at home and abroade They thrust out and let in hire and buy and maintaine factions at their pleasure These words are to be found in the memoriall page 75. The Iesuits haue purchased them an hard opinion of all religious orders euen so farre forth as to bee written against by some of them in most parts of christendome ex professo and in particular are banished for such out of all the most christian kingdome of FraÌ„ce as also for their Spanish faction there where for all their great meanes and flattering ballads of late made and exhibited to the king they are not like to get in againe this yeare nor yet the next onely they hold in heere and there with the good Capuchines which they may easily doe for that as one of those good Friers on a time confessed they couet to haue all and these couet nothing Vpon this ground the excellent good bishop of Bamberge in Germany when hee was laboured for their admittance into his reformed diocesse answered thus no I brooke no such Quiddits These words are to be found in the aunswere to the Iesuited gentleman page 16. If any priest haue a conuenient place of residence the Iesuits will not cease vntill they haue cast him out and that by wicked meanes by defaming him and bringing him into suspition These words are set downe in the abstract of the memoriall Page 74. The Iesuites are the firebrands of all seditions The Iesuites by right or wrong â—â—eke simplie and absolutely the monarchie of all England These words are set downe in the memoriall page 74. The ambition of Iesuites hath taken footing not only in prouinces and cities but also in priuat families it seperateth breathren one from an other and the husband from the wife inflaming them with rancour and enuie one against an other These words are to be seene in the abstract of the memoriall page 76. Note heere gentle reader that whosoeuer loue charitie christian peace and vnitie they must abhorre detest eschew all Iesuiticall societie For the end as you see which that cursed broade aymeth at is nothing els but to dissolue peace and vnitie and to maintaine sedition and rebellion euerie where Paragraph VI. Of the murders committed by Iesuites IKnow there be diuerse that will thinke this historie straunge and incredible but if it chaunce that master Charles Paget doe but set downe the actions of father Holt especially concerning master Godfrey Foulgeam the verie cause of whose death he was you shall see more straunge matters then this These words are in the reply vnto Parsons libell Fol. 70. pag. 1. in fine Sée the fift chapter the first and second sections and note them well Note heere gentle reader that the Iesuite Holt is flatly charged to haue beene the cause of the death of master Godfrey Foulgeam Note also that the Rector of the Colledge of the Iesuites in Vallidolid with some of his complices dealt most cruelly with one Barkworth a priest then student in the English Colledge there after that the minister of the Colledge had deceitfully enticed him being sick in his bed to go abroad to shake off his feauer They conueyed the said Barkworth into the Colledge of the Iesuites and there commaunded him to put of his scholers robes and to put on a sute of ragges which they offered him And because he refused so to doe the Rector called in certaine of his lay brethren strong fellowes to deale with him by violence Wherof two comming to him catched him by the legs and pulling them from vnder him vpon a sodaine threw him backward flat vpon the pauement with such violence being then sicke and weake with a feauer that he was much brused therewith The rest of the lay brethren apprehended some a legge some an arme haling and beating him most outragiously and would as it seemed haue murdered him in his bed if a casuall good hap had not hindred them The storie is long and therefore I referre the reader to the place They procured Henry the third to be excommunicated and then by degrées they murdered him These words are set downe quodl 8. art 8. pag. 261. Perhaps they will pretend that this fruitlesse encrease of of their number is an argument of Gods blessing vpon their societie but this were both a daungerous and an absurd consequence For it will be a long time ere they come to equall the number of the Arsacides who were sent into France by their king a Pagan to murther S. Lewes or Assasins murtherers men of their owne stampe These words are to be found in the franke discourse Page 88. Let not A Iesuite become a censor of other mens writings or doing as temerarius till he haue amended and satisfied for his owne temeritie both in his doctrine of prince-killing and other disloyaltie to ones prince and countrey A. C. in his second letter Page 8. in fine If your maiestie please â—o reade but the oration of the Polonian gentleman made in their senate there you shall sée an Iliade of tumults and ciuill warres amongst the Christians which inhabite those large and wast countries stirred and excited by the onely meanes of the Iesuites who haue there caused of late more battels to be fought then had béene in fiue hundred yeares before These words are put downe in the franke discourse Page 89. This is wonderfull that in the whole troupe of the Iesuites there was not one found one is a small number and yet I say againe there was not one that from 89. to 94. was heard to let fall one word that might be strained to the good of his prince or countrey but euermore vehement in behalfe of the Spaniard and to qualifie the hard conceit of his gouernment These words are in the franke discourse Page 95. vers 17. A due religion of the Iesuites for to speake truth to deale in State-matters and to practise the death of princes are as essentiall parts of their function as their confession it selfe These words are set downe in the Iesuites Catechisme Liber 3. cap. 13. fol. 168. Loe heere gentle Reader it is an essentiall point of Iesuiticall function to cause sedition and to murder princes From such religious men good Lord deliuer vs. The first breaking out of our troubles was in the yeare 1585. at which time all that resorted to the Iesuites to be confessed if they affirmed themselues to be good subiects and loyal seruitors to the king for they were questioned vpon that article they were sent backe by the Iesuites without receiuing
be intermedling a little therewithall shall 〈…〉 I say for distinction sake beâ—â—â—â—â— the word secular both fitly distinguish them from the Dominicans Carthusians Benedictines Carmelites Iesuites and the rest All which are called religious because they make a more strict profession of religion then other Christians doe howsoeuer they keepe the same The seminarie priests are méere secular as well as they that neuer were out of this land They are called seminaries because they studie and are maintained in the Colledges or seminaries and some of them neuer are made priests at all I say some because verie few are in that predicament CHAP. II. Of the vnspeakable dissention betweene the Iesuites and Secular priests THe malice of the new vpstart Iesuites is exceeding great and the wâ—th plainely that they are badde fellâ—â—â—s licentâ—â—â—s proud hautie cruell couetous ambitious 〈◊〉 deceitfull irreligious nothing lesse then that which they would seeme and professe to bee All this to be tree shall euidently appeare out of printed bookes 〈◊〉 euen by the Iesuites themselues and the secular priests to the iudgement of all the world yea the Pope himselfe in his sacred Pallaâ—◠〈◊〉 For of Weston the Iesuite thâ—s write the priests a man as impatient as some of his fellowes and of as hautie a spirit as any man can be It was wonderfull to consider what humblenes simplicitie he would pretend in the time of his prouincialship His sighes and zeale seemed to be extraordinarie as though the perteetion of true mortification had béene the onely thing he aymed at Marrie with all his hypocrisie he deceiued none but such as did not looke narrowly into his proceedings A righter Pharisee cannot easily be found In the most of his humility nothing did trouble him more then that Master Bagshaw being a Doctor of Diuinitie should haue place before him at the table insomuch as the better to content him we were driuen to place him at the tables end with him Thus write the secular priests in their relation Page 5. Paragraph I. Of the outcries of the Iesuites against the secular priests LIster the Iesuite hath written a booke in which he chargeth all the priestes that appealed to the Pope to be flat schismatikes To which booke Blackwell the Archpriest and Garnet the prouinciall in England did both subscribe In this booke the Iesuites charge the priests to haue fallen from the Church and the spouse of Christ to haue troden vnder their féete their obedience due to the Pope to haue lost their faculties authoritie to be irregular to haue incurred the sentence of excommunication to be in all mens mouthes as infamous persons To be as publicans and sinners and to be nothing better thou are soothsayers and idolaters These words are set downe in their relation Page 60. The Archpriest by Iesuiticall appointment affirmed audaciouslie that he had receiued a resolution from the mother Citie of Rome that the refusers of his authoritie were schismatikes and that he would not giue absolution to any who should make no conscience thereof and gaue direction that they should make account thereof and make satisfaction before they receiued absolution Hee denied to giue any faculties to Master Benson vnlesse he would renounce the schismaticall conuenticle of the secular priests Hee declared also that M. Moore had written in preiudice of the faith when he wrote in the behalfe of the priests concerning the matter of schisme whereupon neither his ordinarie ghostly father would administer the sacraments to him nor his ghostly children receiue any of him or be present when he said masse These words are set downe in the hope of peace Page 31. Our Arch-priest chafeth the prouinciall his good master clappes him on the backe and egges him forward the rest of the Iesuites what their tongues and prepare their pens to speake and write what they can falsely deuise to make vs odious so as presently we are become a by-word in their mouthes and are nothing with them but rebels Apostates and what they list to report of vs. These wordâ— are set downe in the relation Page 60. The Iesuites caused a libell to be cast out against doctor Lewis a secular priest and for that they loued the man in the course of their hote charitie they made this deuout prayer for him vel Turca velmors vel demon euen eripiat à nobis Eyther the Turke or death or the diuell take him away from vs. And indeed not long after he died we leaue it to Gods iudgement whether they were the causers of it or not Thus write the priests in their discouerie Page 32. quodl 4. art 2. pag. 97. The Iesuites triumphed openly vpon the death of an other English priest Cardinall Allen by name and amongst other their calumniations against him they said that God had taken him away in good time for if he had lâ—â—ed longer he would haue disgraced himselfe and lost the credit which he had got These men haue the best fortune in the world for no man if once they begin to hate him doth liue any long time after it These words are set downe in the discouerie Page 34. In the same place the priests write that the said Cardinall was thought to be poysoned by Iesuiticall meanes and procurement Paragraph II. Of the outcries which the Secular priests make against the Iesuites THe priests exclaime against the Iesuites for their Machiuilian practises diabolicall plots in their concurrence incitements and execrable perswasions which they vsed and practised with the Spaniards and with other forraine and domesticall powers for the inuasion conquest and vtter subucrsion of most noble England of her sacred Maiestie and of all her loyall and faithfull subiects This is true Catholike religion in this case and true English nature and valure true faith and true charitie and what the Iesuits perswade vs toward a conquest of our deare countrey vpon pretence of neuer so much pietie were abhominable disloyaltie in vs to our prince These words are set downe in the answere to the Iesuited gentleman Page 70. The Iesuites affect rule ouer the secular cleargie so to bring armes and conquest into the Church contrarie to all scriptures and to that end they doe manage matters of state more machiuilianly then Machiuell himselfe as appeares by their erection of the Arch-priest and all his carriages according to them and it These words are set downe in the aunswere to the Iesuited gentleman Page 79. Wee all of the Secular Cleargie vna voce doe vtterly disclayme and renounce from our hearts both Arch-priest and Iesuites as arrant traitors vnto their prince and countrey whom to death we will neuer obey no if the Popes holines should charge vs to obey in this sense to aduance an enemie to the English Crowne we would neuer yeeld to it as by no law of nature of nations or of man to be compelled therevnto These words with many moe to the like effect are
to institute three seminaries on his Maiesties costes and charges that graines and indulgences must be published in England on the Spanish behalfe for all that take his part that all who come out of Spayne must sweare vow professe or at least acknowledge an obedieÌ„ce to master Blackwell in all things Yea euen to become ranke traytors against their prince and country for that is principally intended These words are set downe in the end of the preface which is annexed to the sparing discouerie Parsons caused diuers by fayre meanes and threats to subscribe that in all conferences they should when they came into England aduance the Infantaes title not intending therby to expect her Maiesties death but by all means to remoue her from the present possession of her royall estate These words are set downe in the discouerie Pag. 57. as also in the important considerations Page 34. By these testimonies gentle reader two things are cleared the one that Parsons the Iesuite aliâs bastard Cowbucke taketh vpon him as roundly as traiterously to place and displace to put on and take of royall Diademes at his good will and pleasure The other that the three English hispanized semiminaries erected in Saint Lucars Siuill and Valledolid are and must be mainteyned to further ayde and assist the Spanish bloodie intendments against their vndoubted soueraigne and natiue countrey CHAP. VIII Of the Popes authoritie I Haue discoursed at large of this theame in my booke of motiues I meane heere to speake thereof onely as the printed bookes published by the secular priests haue ministred â—t occasion to me Where I wish the indifferent reader to marke well what I shall by Gods helpe deliuer in this behalfe In which my dispute I will for perspicuitie sake proceede by way of sections Sect. I. Of the Popes fact in assoyling her Maiesties subiects from their homage to her TOuching the Bull of Pious Quintus and the same since confirmed by Gregorie 13. against her Maiestie as neither the Spaniard nor any other forraine power is eyther by expresse or implied termes thereof incited to dominion ouer this land as little are English hearts therby disallegeanced so from her Maiestie as to concurre with any forraine inuadour For though the said Buls vpon her Maiesties excommunication therein promulged doe de facto assoyle the subiects of this Realme from their homage to her it therfore followes not that they must and ought to be parties against her Maiestie and their country to a forraine power howsoeuer pretending euen Religion or the ciuill good thereunto For that were to conster the Popes act so ouermuch in religion and grace as to the destruction of nature which were against the marime aforesaid These words are taken out of the answere to the Iesuited gentleman Page 39. Sect. II. Of power granted to Saint Peter A Man to goe against his owne countrey is and euer was holden in the ciuill part of the world an act contraius gentum also vnnaturall yea against all grace Besides that Christ neuer did delegate any such power to S. Peter as tradere gentem in gentem that being a meere temporall reuenge and he but his vicar spirituall Sect. III. Of the confirmation of the power named in the former Section SAint Peters commission against transgressing kings and kingdomes is no more then onely to denounce by excommunication and other the like ecclesiasticall censures Gods displeasure against them for their transgression and not to exercise the secular sword at all These words conteyned in the third and second sections are set downe in the answere to the Iesuiticall gentleman Page 40. Sect. IIII. Of the explication of the former confirmation I Say againe I doe not see howe that chaire and those keyes to be imbrued in blood and to atchieue conquests especially such a tradition as of England to Spaine by the sword can any wayes stand eyther with Christs or his said vicars honour These words are set downe in the answere to the Iesuited gentleman Page 42. Sect. V. Of the obeysance to the Popes comamundement WE all of the secular cleargie doe with one assent vtterly renounce both Archpriest and Iesuites as arrant traytors to their prince and countrey whom to death we will neuer obey no if the Popes holinesse should charge vs to obey in this sense to aduance an enemie to the English crowne we would neuer yeeld to it as by no law of nature of nations or of man to be compelled thervnto These words are set downe in the preface to the important considerations Fol. 9. pag. 2. Sect. VI. Of the Popes stat commaundement in matters of treason THe secular priests hauâ—ng told vs that the Pope denounced his â—ul against her Maiesty purposely to suffer the intended rebellion that he gaue order to Ridolphi the Florentine to take 150000. crownes to set forward the said attempt and much other matter to the like effect wherof I haue spoken at large in the sixt chapter doe adde thervnto these expresse words when we first heard these particulars â—e did not beleeue them but would haue laid our liues they had beene false but when we saw the booke and found them there God is our witnesse we were much amazed and can say no more but that his holines was misinformed and directly drawn to these courses These words are set downe in the important considerations Page 10. Now out of these waightie and important points conteyned in these Sections certaine conclusions are necessarily inferred for which I haue reserued the next chapter wishing the reader seriously to obserue the same CHAP. IX Of certaine memorable conclusions worthie to be kept in perpetuall remembrance The first conclusion THe bishop of Rome hath no authoritie deriued from Christ or S. Peter by which he may lawfully depriue and dispossesse her Maiestie that now most happily raigneth ouer vs from her royall Diademe and regalitie and giue the same to the king of Spayne to Isabella his sister or to any other forraine potentate whosoeuer This conclusion is effectually proued by all the sections of the former chapter For in the first section this authoritie is said to tend to the destruction of nature which power is denied to the Pope In the second section it is flatly affirmed that Christ neuer gaue any such power to Saint Peter whom all papists will grant to haue had as great power as their Pope hath I am sure In the third section it is said plainly that Saint Peters commission was onely to denounce by excommunication Gods displeasure against trangressors of his lawes In the fourth section it is auouched that this kinde of proceeding doth neither stand with Christs honour nor with his vicars In the fift section it is affirmed in plaine termes that subiects can not be charged to obey such a commaundement and the reason is yeelded to be this because it is against the law of nature of nations and of man In the sixt section the priests
behoues for their aduantages do dayly sollicite a conquest thereof from Spaine and withall they labor to perswade vs that it is both vtill and honorable These words are put downe in the answeare to the Iesuited gentleman page 93. Note here gentle reader that nothing can please these bloud-thirstie traytors the Iesuites saue onely the conquest of this their natiue countrie Preamble VII Of going to the Church in time of common prayer THe wise Iesuits preuented all daungers they freely permitted Catholikes to goe to Church with protestants and made no sinne nor scruple thereof Yea the Iesuites father Bosgraue and father Langdale went to the Church themselues These words are in the Dialogue Page 97. 98. Note heere gentle Reader that by Iesuiticall both grant and practise the Papists may freely goe to the Church with the Protestants and thereby not sinne at all This is a poynte worthie to be remembred Preamble VIII Of eating of flesh in time of Lent A Famous Iesuite now in England made offer to a Gentleman that if he would become Catholike hée should haue licence to eate flesh in Lent and on all fasting daies among Lollards and Protestants that by so doing he might liue without suspition and escape daunger of the lawes Thus it is written in their Dialogue Page 99. Note heere gentle Reader these important points with me First that the Iesuites are right Machiuels and make Religion a nose of waxe which they vse as a seruile instrument to bring to passe all their bloudie tragicall and traiterous attempts Secondly that those trayterous persons in high authoritie vnder her Maiestie whereof I haue spoken in the third booke in the second reason of the 12. aduise who haue entered closely into league with the Spaniard do as it may seeme enioy these kinds of popish dispensation Thirdly that Iesuits and Seminaries are both most dangerous to the state and vnfit persons to liue in this land vnlesse they will ioyne in Sacraments and common prayer with the rest of her Maiesties faithfull subiects For to no other symbole or signe can credit bee safely giuen Preamble IX Of winning and redeeming of time THe Iesuites haue an axiome of winning of redeeming of time which is in effect to runne with the time in altering their positions so as they may best serue to win their desires The practise of which ground is in no one of their affaires so manifest as in labouring to set vp now this man now that man to attempt the Crowne furnishing euerie one with sufficient authoritie that of right it belongeth vnto him And true it is that rather then they faile they care not who he is or of what rase nor of what nation that will step in for the kingdome so he bee a Catholike These words are set downe in the discouery Page 64. quodl 2. art 8. pag. 43. quodl 9. art 3. pag. 293. Note heere with me that the Iesuites are most errant traitours as who desire so vehemently the conquest of this land that they care not who haue it so he bee a papist Preamble X. Of the fasting and penance which the Iesuites vse THe Iesuites haue a merrie life in not being tyed to rising vp to the quire at midnight but to lie in bed after the sunne to faire well to be well clad and all this exprofesso not to fast so much as the Frydaies to be a lyar when they will and yet be beleeued a detractor a cheater a courtier a souldier a kil-prince and what not And all without controll nay with allowance and commendation Briefe it is a merrie life for a Iesuite to trowle vp and downe the countrey from house to house from good cheare to good cheare in a gallant coach accompanied with fayre gentlewomen attended with neat seruing men his chamber to be deckt and perfumed against his comming yea a gentlewoman to plucke of his bootes by his iniunction forsooth for mortification sake Oh monstrous irreligion so to forget good manners and so to make the lay religious and themselues lay These words are let downe in the answere to the Iesuited gentleman Page 93. 94. See the second booke and third Chapter Now I beseech thee gentle reader are not those men and women voide of all sense and reason that doe so admire these Iesuites and so depend vpon them that rather then they doe not all their dissignements they will be at defiance with their soueraigne and natiue countrey Let wise men iudge and giue their indifferent censure herein Not I but their fellow-laborers the Secular priests who with tooth and nayle labour to defend the Pope and popish religion doe bitterly exclaime against them as you see I put downe their owne wordes I adde nothing I substract nothing alter nothing Let the reader therefore remember wel what I write and ponder deepely the whole discourse Preamble XI Of the dependance of the Iesuites and Iesuited persons vpon the foule fiend the diuell BY Parsons platformes Secular priests must depend vpon Blackwell and Blackwell vpon Garnet and Garnet vpon Parsons and Parsons the priests bastard vpon the Diuell and therfore doe the Secular priests pray thus when they say the Letanie a machinationibus Parsoni libera not domine These words are set downe in the Discouerie Pag. 70. quodl 5. art 8. pag. 151. Sée the second booke and fourth Chapter Note heere gentle reader that to depend vpon the Iesuites is to depend vpon the diuell and consequently that to follow the Iesuites and their bloodie tragicall and traiterous designments is nothing else indeed but to forsake God to abandon his true feare and worship to be traitours to your prince to be enemies to your natiue countrey and to make shipwracke of your owne soules I say not so If I should haue said so none would haue beleeued me But the Seminarie priests the Popes owne darlings say so and therefore it must needes be so the truth cannot but preuaile Preamble XII Of the Cardinalship of the traitorous Iesuite Robert Parsons THe Iesuite Hole Doctor Worthington drewe aformal letter supplicatiue in the names of all the English souldiers labourers artizans pensioners aswell men as women yea very seruing maids and laundresses were not omiâ—ted the same to be presented to the king of Spaine most humbly beseeching his Maiesty in regard of his great affection and care of England and the afflicted English that he would deale earnestly with the Pope to preferre the worthie Father and Prelate Father Parsons to the dignitie of a Cardinall affirming it to be the onely way to bind and vnite the English to his Maiestie These words are set downe in the discouerie Page 61. quodlib 4. art 6. pag. 121. Note heere gentle Reader that this arrogant Iesuite hath quite forgotten his vow of pouertie and obedience and must needs be a Cardinall For we may be assured that this motion was neuer made to the King without his knowledge Behold heere the final end scope and intendment of all his trauel
put downe in the Preface to the important considerations Fol. 9. page 2. Note heere gentle Reader that this sweete harmonie betweene the Pope the Iesuites and the Secular priests were able to make an horse to breake his halter And doubtlesse the Pope yea many Popes successiuely haue thus commaunded them as shall appeare in the due place of this discourse The Iesuites holde this position for a constant doctrine that the people may depose their princes and choose others at their pleasures haue they any or no right to the Crown that is not materiall so it be done ad Deum that is by our interpretation as the Iesuites shall appoint it Héere we would haue you to note an other rule of our english Iesuites which must concurre with that of ordine ad Deâ—m and it is this that all things must be wrought and framed as the times and occasions require For example if the king of Spayne or the Infanta can by no other practise obtaine the Crowne of England then in that case the people are to haue a right to doe what they list so they will choose one of them for their soueraigne These expresse words are set downe by the priests in their sparing Discouerie Page 14. 15. quodl 3. art 4. pag. 68. Note heere gentle reader that the Iesuites and their complicies are not imprisoned or put to death for religion as they would leaue the world to thinke but for â—â—at treason and purposely intended rebellion For so much their owne pennes by Gods prouidence doe here testifie as you see And consequently politicke godly and very necessarie are the 〈…〉 in that case prouided While the inuasion was talked of and in preparation in Spayne Richard Hesket was set on by the Iesuites 1592. or there abouts with father Parsons consent knowledge to haue stirred vp the Earle of Darbie to rebellion against her highnesse Not long after father Holt the Iesuite and others with him perswaded an Irish man one Patriâ—cke Collen as he himselfe confessed to attempt the laying of his violent and villanous hands vpon her Maiestie Shortly after 1593. that notable stratagâ—me was plotted for Doctor Lopez the Queenes phisition to haue poysoned her This wicked designement being thus preuented by Gods prouidence the said traiterous Iesuite Holt and others did allure and animate one Yorke and Williams to haue accomplished that with their bloodie hands that the other purposed to haue done with his poyson we meane her Maiesties destruction Heereunto we may adde the late villanous attempt 1599. of Edward Squire animated and drawen thereunto as he confessed by Walpole that pernitious Iesuite These words are set downe in the important considerations Page 33 see chap. 4. paragraph 6. of Walpoole the Iesuite The Iesuites laboured in Fraunce euen the french Iesuites themselues to haue lifted the Spaniard into the throne of that kingdome with the consequent ouerthrow of their owne natiue countrey All Christendome to their perpetuall shame ring loudly of it They made great stirre in Spayne to perswade the king to inuade England yeelding to him many reasons why he was bound to vndertake that enterprise and assuring him of great assistance if once his forces were landed Hereunto may be added how many they haue intituled to the Crowne of England as the Duke of Parma the Earle of Darbie and others exciting some of them by force of armes to assaile her Maiestie and buzzing into their eares how easily the scepter might be wrung out of her hands and they obtaine it But most pertinent to the purpose is that their plotting and compassing how to set the Diademe of this Realme vpon the head of the princesse Isabella the Infanta of Spayne To this purpose they haue written a booke wherein they gaue her such an interest as they make the kings of this land for many yeares to haue béene vsurpers These words are to be read in their discouerie Page 8. quodl 9. art 2. pag. 288. The Iesuites take pleasure to scatter rumors and to suggest certaine nouelties in the eares of Catholikes yea to forge and inuent things that are not insomuch as they are commonly held now a daies great lyars and it is come to passe that though they sweare men wil not beléeue them These words are set downe in the Relation Page 73. quodlibet 2. art 6. pag. 39. CHAP. III. Of the excessiue expences and great gallantrie of the Iesuites THe Iesuites endeuour by all meanes possible that both those almes which are giuen for the relief of them that are in prison or any other poore afflicted whatsoeuer as also whatsoeuer is paid in cases of dispensation may come to their hands Now what is done with this money we know not Prisons and Colledges are depriued of the great summes the banished haue them not the priests sée them not but there are hired here with seditious persons deuisers of fables slaunderers of their brethren and scorners of the saints are herewith enriched these and such as these receiue large stipends of their labours And yet so great a masse of monies cannot be consumed but that the fathers bestow much vpon themselues For they goe in déed in great gallantrie no Iesuite goeth to visit any one or trauelleth from one place to another but he is richly apparrelled and is attended on with a great traine of seruants as if he were a Baron or an Earle They wrangle and reprooue the priests garments and spendings whereas the expences of one Iesuite were able to maintaine twentie priests richly Neither by this meanes also could so great a quantitie of almes be wasted but that as the report goes much treasure is conueyed beyond the seas but to what purpose we know not vnlesse it be bestowed vpon their bodie their corporation or societie These words are to be found in the Relation Page 70. See the tenth Preamble and note it well The Iesuites became our collectors or rather not ours but their owne to whom for their accounts the false Steward in the gospell may giue place One Iesuite hath taken at times aboue 500 pound that was giuen to the imprisoned priests then at Wâ—â—â—â— and imployed the same at his owne pleasure Percie the Iesuite escaping from Wisbish tooke fraudulently from benefactors abroad 57. pound 17. shillings and the yeare after stole 27. pound of the common money by the consent of the other his fellow Iesuites They haue so fleeced their fauorers as ouer aboue their owne expences which are excéeding great they haue beene able to send out long since 2200. pound towards the Low countries To scrape together so much money they haue many sleights besides their apparant consenages frauds and thefts before mentioned Thus they write in their discouerie Page 19. First I will but referre you vnto all the priests and Catholikes that liued in England in father Haywoods time of libertie and knew him his manners and fashions well and if they
and they haue laboured by all meanes vtterly to dissolue the colledge at Doway They also challeng to themselues a spirituall monarchie ouer all EnglaÌ„d Thus I find written in the relation pag. 71. A famous Father of the Iesuits said in plaine words to a gentlewoman of good calling which was charitablie affected to the disgraced priests in this manner now is the time of tryall they that are not with vs are against vs. If you forsake them not now you will ouerthrow your selfe and all your posteritie for euer This he said to affright the charitable gentlewoman as though the state of her posteritie should be vtterly ouerthrowne vnlesse shee adhered to the Iesuite What more was it not an other Iesuite with his assistant which caused a gentle-man either to promise or to sweare that he should stand fast vnto them and informe whatsoeuer he sawe or heard by priests and others done against them and the arch-priest his procéedings they made the lay gentle man their spie as they haue euery where many such as well lay-men as women and priests vpon promise on their side againe to him that he should be restored to al his lands forfeited by his auncestors in a conuictioÌ„ by an attainder wheÌ„ the world should fall on their side The silly GentlemaÌ„ mooued with this hope vndertooke yâ— disgracefull office and said to his friends that he wrought a good daies worke when he entred this couenant These words are set downe in the dialogue betweene the secular priest and lay-gentleman page 66. page 66. Note heare gentle reader what traytorous and dangerous people our Romish Iesuites bee They doe not only confidently expect a conquest of this noble land but they also proudly and malapertly promise the same to others and besides this they vse all cogging and lying to allure and stirre vp her maiesties subiects to armes and open rebellion Let the worlde iudge vpon how iust and necessarie cause capitall penall statutes are made to abandon and bridle the proud and disloyall attempts of these traytorous Iesuites these most damnable villaines If their power were correspondent to their willes they would most cruelly murder her sacred and louing person together with all their nobles and faithful subiects God no doubt who hitherto hath so miraculously protected her most excelleÌ„t maiestie froÌ„ their villanous and bloodie haÌ„ds hath also caused many of their owne coate the secular priests I meane to contest and publish to the world in there printed bookes their bad demeanor their hypocriticall dealing their contentious garboyles their seditious conspiracies their disloyall confederacies their tumultuous courses their vnnaturall practises and most bloodie complottes yea their vehement and continuall perswasions their allurements and almost compulsions to lay violent and bloodie hands vpon their naturall and vndoubted soueraigne most noble Queene Elizabeth So that hence forth there can be no dâ—niall made either by themselues or by their fauourites of their profane and mere brutish proceedings of their cursed and diabolicall purposes of their horrible and bloodie attempts and their long desired conquest of this land Paragraph III. Of the malepeart saucinesse and intollerable pride of the Iesuites THe Iesuites that are in England desirous either to bring vnder bondage or vtterly to beare downe the cleargie of England haue attempted the same by a wonderfull stratageme First their will is that in euery catholikes house which houses are insteede of the Church either themselues may be pastors or others deputed by them in their roomes And if happily their be any that do denie the faculties granted by them or will not take notice that such assemblies or coÌ„panies of catholikes depeÌ„d on them or will not obediently as it were at a becke execute those thinges yâ— they haue commanded such shall be censured either as apostataes or heretikes or tainted at least with some infection of heresie so holy so godly so religious would they seeme to be as nothing is holy that they haue not sanctified no doctrine catholike and sounde that commeth not from them no dispensation auaileable that is not granted by them and which is worse they haue beaâ—eÌ„ into the heads of the most that the masse is not rightly and orderly celebrated of any but of the Iesuite These words are set downe in the abstracte of the memorial in the end of the declaration page 69. The Iesuites scorne to come to any one but where they may be vaintily intertained they looke not after the cottages of the poore nor minister their helpe to them be there neuer so much neede Thus it is set downe in the memoriall page 72. No Iesuite goeth to visit any one or trauelleth from one place to another but he is richly apparrelled and attended on with a great traine of seruants as if he were a baron or an Earle They wrangle and reproue the priestes garments spendings and yet yâ— expences of one Iesuite is able to maintaine twentie priests plentifully and richly These wordes are to bee found in the abstract page 70. Note here gentle reader that it is more then time to cut short these bad fellowes these trayterous new vpstart Iesuits For otherwise as you may see they will raigne as tyrants ouer this land Paragraph IIII. Of the couetousnesse and deceitfull dealing of the Iesuites THe Iesuite Holt and his companions gathered such an infinite masse of money from the catholikes in England for dispensations or vnder colour of expending it to their vses as many crediblie affirmed it to exceede the summe of 50000. poundes English which make two hundreth millions of Italian scutes These words are set downe in the abstract page 75. See thee thirde chapter The Iesuite Percie when he escaped from Wisbish tooke fraâ—dulently from benefactors abroade 57. poundes 17. shillings and yâ— yeare after he stole 27. pound of the coÌ„mon money euen by the consent of the other his fellow Iesuites These words are set downe in the discouerie page 19. quodlibet 3. art 4. page 7. Another Iesuite tooke at times aboue 500. pounds that was giuen to the priests imprisoned then at Wisbish and imployed the same at his owne pleasure They haue so fléeced there fauourers that they haue beene able to sende not long since 2200. poundes towards the low countries These words are to bee found in the discouerie page 20. quodlibet 3. art 4. page 70. The Iesuites take pleasure to forge and inuent thinges that are not so yâ— now a dayes they are coÌ„monly holden for great lyars it is come to passe that though they sweare men will not beleeue them These words are set downe in the abstract Page 73. quodlibet 2. art 6. page 39. The Iesuites of Rome doe vse to intercept all manner of letters of all men whosoeuer not forbearing the packets neither of the Cardinals nor of Princes These words are to be seene in the abstract of the memoriall page 77. See booke 3. aduiso 9. Note here
states disauthorizing of Magistrates and seducing of subiectes from their allegeance These wordes are set downe in the franke discourse Page 98. 1. Vanitas vanitatum that religious men who should spend their time in studie and contemplation doe take their greatest pleasure delight and contentment in writing and receiuing packets of newes from all coastes and countries making that their whole studie and trauaile These words are set downe in D. Elies notes vpon the Apologie Page 264. vers 20. The whole profession of the Iesuites is nothing else but a particular coozning of our priuate families and a generall villanie of all the countries where they make their aboade Thus it is written in the Iesuites Catechisme Lib. 2. cap. 12. fol. 106. This is not to stand long hammering about the matter this is to make short worke and to tell you in a word that looke how many cleargie men your Maiestie hath so many subiects hath the Pope in France and so kings concerning the cleargie are not soueraigne princes This is my liege in good french to erect another state within your state and another kingdome within your kingdome These words are in the franke discourse Page 24. vers 1. If it please you to consider what is now in practise among our Iesuites you shall find they follow the same steps in christianisme which Ismael first trode in Mahumetisme Their Prophet Ismael is the great Ignatius who with his fabulous visions would beare the world in hand that sometimes he spoke with God somtimes with Christ somtimes with our Ladie or S. Peter And as Ismael fetched out of Hali the pretended brother of Mahomet a new branch of religion taken from the old stocke so Ignatius christening himselfe with the new name of a Iesuit in steed of the name of a Christian authorized from the Apostles builded vp a religion neuer anciently obserued by our Church Ismael vnder a new vow changed the ancient Turban Ignatius inducing a new monachisme amongst vs yet retaineth not the anciēt habit of munks Ismael first assembled a handfull of people after raised millions Ignatius doth the like Ismael to make himselfe great mingled pollicie and religion together Ignatius followed him Ismael and his successors were adorned and magnified by their followers Ignatius hath beene so idolatrized and the rest of the successours in the generalship Ismael made himselfe be called the Prophet of God the generall of the Iesuits termeth himselfe Gods Vicar In these proceedings and practises Ismael troubled and turmoyled the Mahometicall state and shall not we mistrust in Rome this same new Iesuited Sophi whosoeuer suspecteth them not is no true and legitimate child of the holy sea These words are set downe in the Iesuites catechisme Lib. 3. cap. fol. 230. Note heee Gentle Reader these points of great momēt with me First that the Iesuites harbour no other proiect in their hearts but the subuersion of kingdomes and the withdrawing of subiects from their alleageance Secondly that they imploy their whole time study in hunting after newes Thirdly that their profession is nothing else indeed but a particular coozning of your families and a plaine villany of all countries Fourthly that Iesuiticall religion is a semimonarchicall dominion and a flat diminution of all royall regiment Fiftly that Iesu itisme is a new late vpstart Mahumetisme And thus much of Iesuiticall religion in generall let vs now see what it is in speciall Paragraph XI Of the religion and profession of Iesuites in speciall FIrst the Iesuites hold and defend this proposition hominem non christian̄ posse esse Romanum pontificem Thus in English one that is not a christian may be the Bishop of Rome Thus it is written in the discouery pag. 37. quodl 4. art 2. page 100. Let us admit this proposition gentle reader with our Iesuites perswading our selues that the holy Ghost who made Balaams asse to speake hath enforced them to speake the truth vnawares against themselues For. as I haue proued at large in my Suruey of poperie Their owne renowmed popish writers freely graunt that dame Iohan a woman not a man was once Pope of Rome And certes if a woman may be Pope who by Saint Paules doctrine may not be permitted to speake in the Church a Fortiori an Ethnicke Pagan Turke or Iew who is no christian may well bee the Bishoppe of Rome Secondly Archer the Iesuite defended this proposition the Stewes are as lawfull at Rome as the Pope himselfe or any order of religious men the Iesuite Weston also did defend the same against D. Bagshaw These words are set downe in the relation pag. 47. Note here gentle reader that the force of truth and true christian religion is such that the verie enemies thereof doe often vnwittingly and vnwillingly acknowledge the same for by this Iesuiticall doctrine it followeth of necessitie that the Popes authoritie and his being at Rome is altogether vnalwfull as also that all the religious there that is munkes Friers Iesuites and Nunnes are vnlawfull wicked and most execrable which conclusion by Gods assistance shall be made more euident when I come to speake of the Pope and his authoritie in particular Thirdly the Iesuites hold teach and practise this doctrine that a malefactor being condemned so die after hée hath once made confession of his sinnes to his ghostly Father is not tied to reueale it to his iudge nay it is lawfull for him to stand in stiff deniall thereof at the time of his execution as being cleare before God after hee hath discharged the depth of his conscience to his confessour Thus is it writen in the Iesuites catechisme libr. 3. cap. 12. fol. 166. Note here gentle reader with what strange docrine our Iesuites vse to feed the humours of their deuoted vassals And for the better clearing of the falshood thereof thou must duly obserue with me that if it were true as the Iesuites suppose take pro confesso that the malefactor were washed wholy purged frō his offence by his confession and absolution receiued at the priests hands yet would it not follow by good consequution that he might lawfully denie his former committed offences to the iudge and that for these two insoluble reasons First because he doth formallietell a lie which hee ought not to doe as Saint Austine affirmeth if he might therby saue the whole world For to lie is euer a sinne as all learned diuines doe teach But that he lyeth in saying he did not commit such a fact all the world knoweth The reason hereof is euident because a murder committed not to haue beene committed is a thing so impossible that God himselfe cannot performe it Neither doth this argue anie imperfection in God but contradiction in the thing that should be done God is truly called omnipotent because he can doe indeed whatsouer is dowable or can be done Yet whatsoeuer implieth imperfection or contradiction that can he not doe not for anie defect or impotencie in himselfe God forbid But for
the Church and to the king These words are put downe in the Iesuites catechisme lib. 3. cap. 17. fol. 182. He hath forgot belike the notorious fact at Louain where the Iesuites by the power and authority of the Kinge of Spaine forbad the publishing of the Popes order for the vniuersitie against the Iesuites This facte belike this good father thought to haue beene so secret as it was vnknowne to the world or at the least forgotteÌ„ These words are in yâ— reply to Parlons libell fol. 20. b. 21. In an other place of the said reply viz. fol. 42. b. 5. it is flatly set downe that Pope Paule the fourth sent Caraffe with force of armes to inuade Naples to whom the King of Spaine would not yeeld albeit as it is there affirmed the Pope hath more right thereto then the Spaniard Note heere gentle reader these points of great importance with me first that by Iesuiticall doctrine a Pagan or Iew may be the Pope of Rome Secondly that neither Pope Munke Iesuite or Nunne are or can be lawfull at Rome vnlesse the Stewes be also lawfull there Thirdly that one may denie the fact which he hath done and that before a competent iudge and yet neither sinne nor lye at all Fourthlie that both the Iesuites and the Pope himselfe tell vs that the Pope is both Lord spirituall and temporall ouer all christian princes as also that he can depriue christian princes of their royall scepters and regalities But withall forget not that not onely the english priests but the French Papists also tell vs the flat contrarie viz. That the Pope hath no authoritie to depose Kinges or to translate their kingdomes that the Pope cannot excommunicate kinges that Charles the Bald contemned Pope Adrian and derided his curses and comminations that Kinge Philip the faire resisted Boniface the eight burnt his buls and imprisoned his legates and that all this was done by the counsell and consent of the whole clergie of France that Charles the sixt despised pope Benedicts interdict burnt his Buls caused the bringers thereof to be set on the pillorie and that to be done in most reprochfull manner that could be deuised by the wit of man Fiftly that the King of Spaine doth withstand the Pope and his forces and will not yeeld Naples which his righte as the Priestes write vnto him The secular priests giue this commendation to the religion of the Iesuites We desire you say they by the mercies of God to take heede of nâ—uelties and Iesuitisme for it is nothing but treachery dissimulation ambition and a very vizard of most déepe hypocrisie When other kingdomes begin to loath them why should you so farre debate your selues as to admire them giue vs not occasion to say with the blessed Apostle yee foolish Galathians who hath bewitched you These words are set downe in the important considerations pag. 39. see quodl 8. art 7. pag. 247. Loe gentle reader the religion of our Iesuites is nothing els in deed but treacherie ambition dissimulation and flat hypocrisie The Iesuites haue prouided that all who come out of Spaine must sweare vow professe or at least acknowledge an obedience to M. Blackwell in all thinges yea euen to become ranke traytours against their Prince and country for that is principally intended These words are to bée found in the sparing discouerie in the end almost of the epiâ—â—le in the last page saue one Now then the actions of the Iesuites tending so euidenly as they doe and haue done to the ruine subuersion and ouerthrow of our Prince and country both by secret practises and open incursions of Spanish inuasions as is manifest both by their owne bookes letters and other dealinges aswell in Ireland as England what good subiect or true hearted English man can doe lesse theÌ„ disclame with his mouth resist with his bloud and open with his tongue all such vnnaturall and treacherous attempts Wée are too much acquainted therewith and therefore bound to reueale what we know therein when it shall be necessarie for the preseruation of our Prince and contry These words are to be found in the reply to Parsons libell fol. 28. b. All Catholikes must hereafter depend vpon Blackwell and Blackewell vpon Garnet and Garnet vpon Parsons and Parsons vpon the Diuell These words are set downe in the discouery Page 70. quodlibet 6. arte 7. page 173. But for the Iesuites they are so headlong and violent in these courses that they seeme no more to regard the good of our countrie or estate thereof then the Spaniardes themselues For notwithstanding the manifest intentions of conquest and subuersion by the Spaniards intended yet do they so concurre with them as where as the Spaniard of himselfe seemeth slow they pricke him on continually with plots and suggestions Witnesse father Parsons actions concerning two seuerall nauies which miscaried in one of which Maister Doctor Stillington tooke his death of the other he speaketh since in a letter writte from Rome to Maister Thomas Fitzherbert Witnesse this the late attempt in Irelande in which father Archer an Irish Iesuite was a great actor These wordes are set downe in the reply to Parsons libell fol. 33. b. The Iesuites dispose of the last wils of the sicke they loue to intermedle with the mariages of many with their temporall goods and in deede with all thinges they alwaies take that course with all men that some thinge happen to their owne share hauing mind indeede of nothing but their own gaine These words are set downe in the abstract pag. 75. Note heere Gentle reader these important obseruations First that all Iesuited persons must vow to become traytors Secondly that all Iesuites seeke nothing els indeede out their owne lucre and gaine Thirdlie that all Iesuited persons must depend vpon the deuill who as you see heere inspireth guideth directeth and ruleth the Iesuites From such religion good Lord deliuer vs. Amen CHAP. V. Of the birth parentage qualitie disposition and demeanour of Robert Parsons the Iesuite The first Section of his birth and bastardie RObert Parsons the Iesuite is by birth a bastard begotten vpon the bodie of a verie base woman by the Parson of the parish where he was borne to wit at Stockgersée and his right name is not Parsons but Cowbucke The said Parson of Stockgersée which begat him did afterwards foster him and hauing brought him vp at the schoole sent him to Oxford and placed him in Balioll Colledge From whence being master of artes he was expelled not for religion as he hath vanted but for his basterdie factious conuersation libelling and other misdemeanors But thereof ye need no further information then the said declaration where you shall finde that there was such lamentation at his departure from the Colledge as for ioy he was rung thence with bels Doctor Bagshaw being then fellow of the said Colledge was his stifle aduersarie in his matters obiected against him which the good father of his Iesuiticall charity doth not
required It is not vnknowne what a villanous attempt the traytor Parrie vndertooke against the life of hir Maiestie ann 1583. With which outragious plot sundrie of the Iesuites were acquainted and namely this arrant traytor Parsons who also intituled Alexander the Duke of Parma to hir Maiesties crowne and indeuoured with all his skill to perswade the Duke in the right of his sonne Ranutius to set vpon this Realme with all his force But the attempt of anno 1588. By the King of Spaine against hir Maiesty and this whole kingdome is to be abhorred aboue all the rest and to be had in perpetuall detestation And yet in that cruell attempt this our Iesuite was a chiefe firebrand and had his hand in that pernitious booke that was then printed for the stirring vp of her Maiesties subiects to haue taken part with the Spaniard if he could haue arriued These words are to be found in the sparing discouery pag. 49. page 51. pag. 52. A large volumne is set forth by this Parsons and his generall called the high counsell of reformation for England to take place and to be of force when the catholike conquerour shall be established in great Brytaine First no religious order will that famous volumne permitte in great Brytain but Iesuites and Capuchines Neither Benedictines nor Carthusians nor Dominicans must enter heere sicut placuit Iesuitis for the holy Ghost hath forsaken all other religious orders and is onely in the Capuchenes and Iesuites If you aske vs why they make choise of the Capuchenes onely we answere you as a good Capuchene did to the like question we sute best quoth he with the humor of the Iesuits for their drift is to haue all and to rule all and on the contrarie our orders are such as we must neitheir rule at all neither haue any thing at all Secondly all bishoprickes great and small all parsonages vicarages and monasteries must be no more in the hands of bishops Abbots parsoÌ„s the rest as heretofore it was accustomed They all must bee put to their pensions and the father prouinciall must â—ull out foure Iesuites and two secular Priests which must be demiâ— Iesuits These six vicars these mightie great Lords shall haue lands mannors Lordships parsonages monasteries and whatsoeuer els into their owne hands allowing the Bishoppes and the rest pensions or stipends at their good pleasures Thirdly no parson no vicar no bishop no fellow of any colledge must be so hardy as once to demaund an accompte what is become of their reuenewes lands and lordships Fourthly the nobilitie must be limited also what retinewe they shall keepe what they shall haue to spende yeerely and what diet they shall keepe at their tables Lastly the common lawes of our contrie must be abolished and the ciuill beare the sway happie is hee that can see and read this booke called the counsell of reformation These words are to be found both in the sparing discouerie pag. 28. 29. and in the dialogue also page 95. as also quodlibet 4. art 2. page 93. quodlibet 9. art 2. pag. 289. Note heere gentle reader these important points with me First that the Iesuites doe perswade themselues confidently and would perswade all others in like manner that they can procure a conquest of England at their pleasure Secondly that themselues are the onely wise men in all Europe at least in their owne conceits and consequently that all people or all estates and condition whatsoeuer must in reason yeelde to their counsell of reformation Thirdly that all bishops parsons and vicars must depend vpon the Iesuiticall munks those irreligious and trayterous fryers a thing neuer heard of since the world began Fourthly that not onely the ancient lawes of the Church but also of the Realme must be altered by Iesuiticall profested fryers Fiftly that munks the hautie and arrogant Iesuites I meane must be the high treasurers of the land Sixtly that all the nobilitie of the land must be censured and limited by the said Friers what retinew they shall keepe what summes of money they shall spend and what diet they shall vse Seuenthly and lastly that these Iesuits these Lordly Friers these noble treasurers of England are lawles and independent aboue all and vnder none no man may call them to accoumpt no man may once aske them what is become of the common treasure Two Priests Maister Bishoppe Maister Charnocke being messengers to Rome sent in the name of all the rest were imprisoned at Rome before their message was deliuered The French Ambassadour came to the Pope and told him that in imprisoning those two men he had done that whereof no example could begiuen in any age And therefore beseeched the Pope to giue them audience After the Ambassadours departure forthwith commeth the Spanish Ambassadour suborned by Parsons and disswadeth the Pope from that which he had promised The French Ambassadour commeth againe the second time and vrgeth as before and againe audience was granted to the Priestes This being knowne to the Iesuites they procured the said Spanish Ambassadour to come againe to disswade the Pope at whole motion audience againe was denied and the Priests cast into prison These words are set downe in the preface to the important considerations fol. 8. page 2. See also Maister Elies notes vpon the Apologie pag. 108. for there the same is auouched Note here gentle reader these points with me First that the Iesuites are men which respect neither religion nor conscience nor honest morall dealing Againe that the Pope is an vnfit man to gouerne any one nation and much lesse fit to gouerne all the christian world But all is well his traytorous Iesuites can doe it for him Yea they can rule the Pope himselfe For so themselues affirme These are their words in the notes vpon the Apologie page 267. Parsons for his credit you say in the Romaine court doth greatly let hinder their designements And this their saying was not manie monethes since confirmed by one of his owne coate passing by this way who said Father Parsons could doe what he would with the Pope Paragraph II. Of the Popes dealing in matters of treason Piâ—s quintus practised hir maiesties subuersioÌ„ he sent into England one Ridolphi a gentleman of Florence vnder colour of marchandize to sollicite a rebellion He moued the King of Spaine to ioyne in this exploite for the better securing of his owne dominions in the lowe countries He denounced his bull against hir maiestie purposely to further the intended rebellion and to depriue hir from hir kingdome The Pope and king of Spaine assigned the Duke of Norfolke to be the head of this rebellion The Pope gaue order to the said Ridolphi to take 150000. crownes to set forward his attempt some of which mony was sent for Scotland and some deliuered to the said Duke King Philippe at the Popes instance determined to send the Duke of Alua into England with all his forces into the low countries
either not perfect papists or els arrant traytours like the Iesuites Paragraph II. Of the staggering of the Secular Priests in their asseueracions THe priests write that they cannot be iustly charged to stagger in any point Let therefore the indifferent reader be an indifferent iudge in this behalfe Marke the discourse The secular priestes tell vs in their important considerations page 24. that a worthy man hath laid down this for a ground that euery catholike is bound in conscience to employ his person and forces by the popes direction and at his becke to breake with his soueraigne This ground worke you sée is flat treason and yet the priestes tearme him a worthy man that laid the same But how they can this doe and not stagger in their affirmance let others iudge The priests likewise write in their important considerations page 26. that Allan confessed openly that the pope had made him Cardinall for the sweeter managing of the Spanish forces and yet with all they tearme him the good Cardinall on the one side they condemne the Spanish forces on the other side they commend the chiefest agent in that most bloodie and traytorous complot Againe in one place they say they professe their obedience to yâ— pope in an other place quodl 8. art 1. They graunt they may not doe ought against parliament statuets Loe how they stagger The priests say further in their important considerations page 15. and put downe these expresse words we had some of vs greatly approued the said rebellion highly extolled the rebels and pitifully bewayled their ruine and ouerthrow Many of our affections were knit to the Spaniardes and for our obedience to the Pope we all doe professe it The attempt both of the Pope and Spaniards failing in England hâ—s holinesse as a temporall prince displaied his banner in Ireland The plot was to depriue hir highnesse first from the kingdome if they could and then by decrâ—es so depose her from this In all these plots none were more forward then many of vs that were priestes These are their owne wordes Out of which I note first that both the Pope and Spaniards wherefully bent to depose our gratious Queene Elizabeth from Ireland and England by degrees Secondly that the priestes greatly approued this rebellioâ—s course Thirdly that the priests highly extolled the rebels Fourthly that their hearts were knit to the Spaniards Fiftly that the priests did and still doe professe their obedience to the Pope Sixtly that in all these plots none were more forward then the Priestes This notwithstanding they tearme the said attempts rebellion and the agents and dealers therein traytors they put the Pope himselfe in the predicament with the Spaniards and they â—reely confesse that they themselues were as deepe in all these plots and as forward as any others were And yet forsooth they would qualifie the matter so as the state must needs beleeue them and acknowledge theÌ„ for true hearted subiects Hir maiesties honourable counsellors are so wise and carefull of their places and charge committed to them for the peaceable and godly managing of hir dominions as I nothing doubt thereof but they will looke narrowly into yâ— practises of these good fellowes and trâ—e them throughly before they trust them They stagger you see in there assertions and what they say in one place that they gainesay in an other They contemne equiuocations in the Iesuites and I scare me that in matters of state they doe no leise equiuocate themselues they labour to haue a tolleration to liue as they list and they are offended with the reuerend wâ—â—e graue and learned father the good bishop of Durham for that in a sermon at Paules crosse he spoke against the said tolleration But God of his mercie forbid that euer any such tolleration be granted to them for if it be true whâ—ch Christ himselfe telleth vs Mat. 6. that no man can serue two maisters viz. which are opposite and not subordinate th one to the other as it is most true indeede then doubtles cannot these Preistes be true to her maiestie who professe obedience to the Pope her knowen professed enemie But if they shall once ioyne with her good subiects in prayer sacraments openly in the Church which God graunt then may they be thought indeed to be true and faithfull to her sacred person to her honour crowne and royall scepter But in the inâ—erim let vs I pray you beleeue them at leasure Paragraph III. Of the dissimulation which the priests seeme to vse in their bookes THe priests seeme to deliuer plainely and without all equiuocation their great enmitie and hatred against the Iesuites as who say almost nothing of them which my selfe haue not ineffecte published afore both in my booke of motiues and also in my booke of suruey Where I wish the reader to note by the way that my aduersaries haue therein iustified my writings and are not able to charge me with any vntruth in that behalfe The substance likewise of all and euerie thing and thinges contained in their seuerall bookes and treatises which I haue seene viz. There hope of peace their important considerations their sparing discouery their dialogue their relation their quodlibets and sundrie other of their bookes my selfe vpon my owne knowledge am able to contest with them to be a meere truth But when they write that they will stand to hir maiestie against her enemies be their pretences neuer so faire for their country for religion or what els soeuer can bee deuised they must pardon me if I cannot yet giue credite to their pennes that for sundrie reasons First because equiuocation is demed very lawfull euen with the best papistes three circumstances concurring which I haue set downe in my booke of Suruey Secondly because the priests being as yet papists and so not acknowledging her maiestie nor her maiestrates to bee their competent iudges may iustly be suspected in the premises Thirdly because the priests doe still write resolutely that they will performe their obedience to the Pope Paragraph IIII. How the priests doe proudly vant and bragge of their mightie strength and forces HEr Maiestie as write the priests in their answere to the Iesuited gentleman Page 68. hath a wise counsell which cannot but see that though for the present time the estates ecclesiasticall and ciuill both of our countrey being so throughly setled as they are it is méete they thinke and easie we know to keepe the Catholike vnder and supprest yet what hereafter in a chaunge and in a troubled state our partie may worke it selfe they may rather perhaps gesse then preuent Sure I am we are not so ignoble a partie in the land for all the persecution of these fortie yeares but that the vnity thereof with the rest at such a day will perhaps be as requisite for our common-weale as any other The consideration whereof together with other no lesse important may somewhat preuaile with so
must end vpon the ninth day of October at which time Parsons wrote his letter and so perforce he is farre short of his halfe yeare and consequently a lyar Thirdly that when Parsons saith from May to Nouember is more then halfe a yeare in which time no letter was come from them he both contradicteth himselfe and is an impudent lyar I proue it because euerie child knoweth that betweene may and Nouember intercéedeth the moneth of October and yet as Parsons confesseth liberally he wrote his letter to master Bishop the ninth of that moneth and the same weeke receiued a stale letter firm the same Bishop So then it is true that Parsons receiued a letter from master Bishop in the moneth of October and consequently it is false that he receiued no letter from May to nouember Fourthly that the word now in Parsons his letter doth connotate the time present that is the time of the date of his letter to wit the ninth of October at which time as he saith in one place he had receiued no letter but as he saith in another place he had that weeke receiued a stale letter Ergo Parsons is a stale lyar This lye is confirmed in perpetuam res memoriam by the word yet for when he saith no one letter appearing from you yet he doth flatly contradict himselfe when he saith by a stale letter which I receiued this weeke from you Fiftly that when Parsons saith the reports of the hard and iniurious dealing vsed to the messengers in Rome is contrarie to all truth the falshood proceedeth from his lying lips as I haue alreadie proued Sixtly that master Bishop I know the man right well is of better credit then twentie Iesuited Standishes 70. Iesuited Haddockes 100. Iesuited Personians Sect. III. Of the Secular priests and their writings PArsons in the preface of his Apologie telleth vs that these bookes must needes be presumed to haue beene published eyther by some one or few discomposed passionate people or by some heretike or other enemie to dishonour them all and to discredit their cause and nation and so as to such he will answere and not against his brethren whom he loueth most intirely but in many other places he singeth an other song For page 63. he affirmeth it to be probable by many euident arguments that a long and slanderous narration was written by the proper pen of the chiefe authors of all these broyles Againe page 8. he confesseth that two priests whom he termeth the ambassadours of the secular priests came to Rome about the controuersie Againe page 9. he confesseth that in Nouember last 1600. diuers of the discontented made a generall appeale from the Archpriests iurisdictien Againe page 24. he saith that his brethren doe vse so fonde a calumniation against the Iesuites as no man can but wonder thereat Againe page 105. he termeth the authors of the bookes his discontented brethren To be briefe in maine other places he confesseth that master Bishoppe master Charnocke master Mush master Bagshaw master Champney master Collington master Warson and others haue written against the Iesuites so as contradictions may be deemed a thing verie common with our graue and holy Iesuite Robert Parsons who knew right well that the declaration sent to his holinesse was subscribed with the hands of thirtie priests whose names I would here put downe but that I studie to tbe briefe Sect. IIII. Of the elegant Epithetons ascribed to the Iesuite Parsons by Iohn Collington the Secular priest in his booke of Defence IOhn Collington hath lately published a large volume in defence of the seculars for their appeale to the Pope against tyrannizing Blackwel which book came lately to my hand but doth so euidently conuince the Arch-priest and the Iesuites specially that notorious traytor Robert Parsons as I cannot omit to make briefe recitall of some parts therof for the common peace of this our natiue countrey In the page 30. He hath these words whose busie head he speaketh of Parsons actions haue béene the cause and increase of much trouble and persecution in our Church and Realme And who being a member of an other bodie and professing also a mortified state and to haue relinquished the world seeketh neuerthelesse to be our great master and to rule all or to tyrannize rather Againe pag. 31. He saith they haue most pregnant grounds to proue that Parsons was the inditer of the Cardinals letter constitutiue for the archpriests iurisdiction Againe page 296. He affirmeth that Parsons writeth no booke discourse nor scarse any letter of these stirres wherein he doth not recount some good act of his owne Againe page 297. he telleth vs that Parsons by managing of the Colledge hath gotten such store of money as he spendeth fiue or sixe crownes a weeke in postage for letters onely Againe page 253. hee affirmeth boldly that Parsons appointed the Arch-priest Againe page 255. he termeth Parsons the Arch-deuiser in getting the Cardinals hand subscription and seale Againe page 206. hee chargeth Parsons with many vntruthes and to haue as little synceritie in his actions as truth in his writings Againe page 256. he hath these words it would make to the praâ—se of father Parsons if religion were lesse worldlisted in him and state matter and the designing of kingdomes had not so great a part in his studies Againe page 170. he hath these words we assure our selâ—es father Parsons that your restlesse spirit and pen your enterprising and busie actions haue turned heretofore our Catholike professants to infinit preiudice for to no knowne cause can we impute so much the making of the seuere lawes of our countrey as to your edging attempts and vocations Againe page 240. hee telleth vs plainely that Parsons hath proferred and reprofered the Crowne of England to seuerall princes now to one now to another as opportunities best serued to entertaine the personage with the hope thereof And to omit many testimonies because I would not be tedious I will heere recount one for all which master Colleton setteth downe in these words Neyther is father Parsons holden onely of our magistrate for a statist or marchandizer of the Crowne Diademe though this were enough to estrange vs from hauing any partaking in ought with him but his trauels and negotiations this way are become so notoriously knowne that euen Pasquine in Rome as intelligence is sent vs speaketh in this manner of him if there be any man that will buy the Kingdome of England let him repayre to a marchant in a blacke square cappe in the Citie and hee shall haue a verie good penny worth thereof Thus writeth Colleton of Parsons who both are deuoted to the Pope alike Sect. V. Of Parsons his birth and expulsion out of Balioll Colledge in Oxford THat Robert Parsons the Iesuite and marchandizer of the Crowne of England as in the former Section is a bastard and a man of bad demeanour the fift chapter of the second booke