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A16796	The copie of a letter vvritten by M. Doctor Allen: concerning the yeelding vp of the citie of Dauentrie vnto his Catholike Maiestie, by Sir VVilliam Stanley knight. VVherin is shevved both hovve lavvful, honorable and necessarie that action vvas; and also that al others, especiallie those of the English nation that detayne anie tovvnes, or other places, in the lovve countries from the King Catholike are bound, vpon paine of damnation, to do the like. Before vvhich is also prefixed a gentlemans letter, that gaue occasion, of this discourse.	Allen, William, 1532-1594.; R. A., fl. 1587.; Ashton, Roger, d. 1591, attributed name.	1587 (1587)	STC 370; ESTC S112764	16,431	30

haue folowed that side haue done before them Which I speake of charitie loue compassion of my deare countriemen being assured that if they perish in bodie as it is to be feared they shal do in that seruice they shal lose their soules also euerlastingly shal aeternally curse those that ledde them out of their countrie to so certayne perdition Let not the memorie of the old English notorious battailles and victories vvhich in old time vvere cōparable to vvhat prouinces or peoples vvere most famous nor the esteeme either true or partial of their present streingth courage in Englād make them obstinate in so dangerous and doubtful state of thinges Let them not flatter them selues nor be abused by others it goeth not vvholy nor principally nor oftentimes at al by the streingth or might of mannes arme if they vvere as they pretend but God striketh the stroke and geueth the victorie according to his Diuine disposition to the vvorthie to such as serue him put their trust in him confesse vvith the Prophet That Nec in gladio suo possederūt terrā brachiū eorū nō saluauit eos sed dexteratua brachiū tuū Neither in their owne svvorde haue they possessed the land their owne arme hath not saued them but thy right hād ô God thy arme When our Princes did Praeliari praelia Domini Fight the sightes of our Lord As holie vvritte saith of Dauid being in armes against King Saul then depriued and their subiectes souldiars serued feared God reuerenced his Priestes had their confessours vvith them in campe dayly heard Masse deuoutly adored the Blessed Sacrament called on Christ his holie Angels and Sainctes and the special Patrones of their persons or countrie for their defence liued in martial discipline order obedience religiously according to S. Iohn Baptistes rule geuen to men of that condition abstayning from rape and violence tovvardes the innocent cōbating only for their faith or their countries right thē both amongst the Infidelles Heathen also among their Christian neighboures their fightes vvere famous thier conquestes glorious and the English armes redoubted in al places But novve hauing forsaken God God forsakē them vvhen they take no quarel in hand but for the dishonorable defence of Rebelles Pyrates Infidels vvhen their Princes are become Socij furū quasi lupi rapientes praedam Companions of theeues and rauenous woolues and publike enimies of al true Kinges and lavvful Dominion keeping fidelitie neither vvith Gòd nor man though they vvere as strong and valiant as euer they vvere of provvder conceipt of their ovvne courage cunning then at this day they pretend yeat God vvil confunde them such à feare vvil be put into their hartes that they shal flie vvhen no man persecuteth them à thousand shal runae avvay before the face of one Catholike that fighteth for Gods Church These things my deare countriemē you haue either seene with your ovvne eyes or by assured faithful testimonie of others haue heard to haue fallen in al these vvarres of Flaunders shal dayly proue it by your ovvne experiēce to be most true that no humane streingth or desperation can match God that it neuer fel vvel vvith him that opposeth him selfe to Christ his holie Church To vvhich Church the Prophet playnly saith Gens et regnum quod tibi non seruierit peribit The Nation and Kingdome that serueth not thee shal perish Novve in such euident imminēt dāger of destructiō death as vvel of bodie as soul to al such as folovve these nevv English quarels it vvere bootlesse to put you in mind of the impossibilitie of aduauncement by those vvarres vvhat so euer your successe be your selues hauing dayly experience of the intolerable distresles both there at home hovve shamfully they vvhich vvere the authors of such vvarres novve are the chiefe leaders of the same haue abused al sortes of our countriemen enforcing manie à Gentleman and substantial person to serue of their ovvne charges to spoile them selues at home in hope of their inriching abrode Who novve finding al things cōtrarie to promise expectatiō are so entangled that they neither dare go● home for feare of hanging nor can wel endure these miseries abrode for feare of dying shamfully miserably in forraine countries Nothing being leift for their reliefe indeed in this perplexitie but only to do that if they haue grace vvhich you haue both vvisely godly honorably done praeseruing your soules for life glorie euerlasting your persons for the seruice of our Church and countrie in better times to come In the meane while to occupie the fortitude and forces of your bodie and minde vvhich are Gods special gifts as S. Augustin saith in the seruice of the Almightie and of the greatast iustest Monarch in the vvorld vnder à General so peerles vvho can vvil according to the vvorthines of your courage condition and qualities advaunce you bestowe you in such places of seruice where you may encrease in honour and knovvledge and so be in time vvhē it shal please God to haue mercie of our desolare countrie not only restorers of old militare vertue and discipline in the same but be notable helpers by the valerous arme of your Christiā Knighthoode to reduce our people to the obedience of Christes Church deliuer our Catholike freindes brethrē from the damnable vntolerable yoke of Haeresie and her most impure leaders It is novve some yeares agoe sith à Gentlman Capitaine of my name vvished to say the truth conferred earnestly vvith me about it that as vve had certaine Seminaries and Colledges for praeseruation or restitution of the Cleargie vvhen the time should come to serue God in our countrie so that there vvere some compainies of English souldiars also to be trayned vp in Catholike and old godly militare discipline for the helpe of our said countrie in that kind likevvise Which thing being honorably begune by diuers Noblemen and Gentlemen before so I trust God hath brought to passe in you nowe that it shal be finished to the vniuersal comfort of vs al and the great good and hope of our Nation For redressing the euils vvherof it is as lavvful godly glorious for you to fight as for vs Priestes to suffer and to die Either the one vvay or thother for defence of our fathers faith is alvvais in the sight of God à most precious death and martyrdome And great comfort truly it is to me and hope to our poore coūtrie that in this our desolation our merciful Lord hath leift vs seed in both sortes And that I may truly say to you the vvordes of S. Augustin to Coūtie Boniface Alij pro vobis orando pugnant cōtra inuisibiles inimicos vos pro eis pugnatis cōtra visibiles Barbaros God saith he geueth his giftes

ciuil iustice and moral vertue so they haue their consciences better informed by the rules of Christian Religion for gouernment of their actiōs in al partes of life Such may easely perceiue not only for the causes aforesaid this vvarre on thenglish side to be vniust and that the seruice in the same is sinful dishonorable obnoxious to restitution but principally for that it is vvaged for defēce of Haeresie and Haeretikes and for the euersion of the Catholike faith that is to say directly against God and his holy Church The holy Prophet of God that reprehēded King Iosaphat for geuing succourse of amitie only not of euel meaning in Religion to the vvicked King Achab sayng Impio praebes auxilium ijs qui oderunt Dominum amicitia iungeris idcirco irā Dei merebàris Thou geuest ayde to the wicked art cōfoederate with such as hate our Lord therfore thou deseruedst Gods ire What vvould he haue saide or vvhat may vve deeme of our Princes cōfoederacies only alvvayes vvith Christ his enimies as vvith the Ghevves Ghevves Hugonots Caluinistes in Flaunders Fraunce Scotland vvith most ample succourses cōtinually yeelded to euerie of them for destructiō of christian Religion In vvich not only vnlawful but sacrilegious vvarres al men of conscience must consider that al Coronells Capitaines souldiars that in this case serue the Prince and Haeretikes are partakers of their iniquitie cooperators vvith them in al their sinne executors of the Haeretical Princes sentence against their ovvne Catholike and innocēt bretheren fautors and defenders of Haeretikes and so by the censure of holy Church incurre Excommunication à most pitiful and dangerous state for à christian man to liue or dye in They must marke vvhat an infinite miserie it is for à noble and couragious hart as lightly those men of best seruice be that vvith their svvoorde and armes the vvicked only should be protected the innocent destroyed Churches despoyled Gods Priestes seruantes murthered the blessed Sacramentes profaned yea euen the dread soueraigne holies of Christs ovvne bodie bloud What death should not à true Catholike knight suffer rather then for to see such horrible vvickednes committed Or to be in such base seruitude of Haeresie her dishonorable defenders as vvith their ovvne handes to be ministers of such sacrilegious impietie and vvich is yeat more pittiful that one Catholike man should be brought to destroy an other that in fine euerie one may be the instrument of his ovvne destruction In their ciuil gouuernment at home they cause the Catholike iudge to geue sentence of death against the Priestes vvhose innocēcie they knovve vvhose Religion in hart they beleue to be true They make one Catholike neighbour to accuse an other and one noble man to condemne an other In their vvarres they serue themselues of Catholikes by English Catholikes they destroy Catholikes abrode that forreine Catholikes being ouerthrovven they may more easely ouerthrovve their ovvne at home Alas for my deare bretheren alas for our desolate countrie vvhich no noble hart can novve serue either in Politike or Martial matters but vpō such detestable cōditiōs of assured dānatiō ād in fine to their owne vtter ruine also in this life Of al men in the vvorld the souldiar should most specially attend to his conscience and stand vpon good sure groundes for the iustice of the quarel he hath in hand being hovverly more subiect to death and daunger then any other kinde of men and being assured that if he dye in any knovven euil cause and namely in this fight against God and defence of Haeretikes he is doubtles to be damned for euer As contrarievvise to dye in lavvful vvarres for defence of iustice is euerful of hope And for defence of true Religion Gods honour in most cases plaine martyrdome Let no christian conscience therefore excuse or flatter it selfe in this case vpon the Princes commandemēt or the Superiors authoritie or vpon the daunger of disobeyng the Quenes lavves no mortal creature hauing lavvful povver to commaund nor any subiect bound or permitted to obey in matter directly against God In vvhich case à mā must say to his Prince vvith S. Augustin Tu minaris carcerē Deus Gehennam Thou threatnest prison God threatneth Hel. And as it is vndecent for any Christian for feare of man to offend God so it is most disagreable to the manly courage and constancie of a christian Catholike souldiar for feare of death or daūger vvhat soeuer to enter in to so damnable dishonorable a seruice or to fight or die in à cause cōtrarie to his ovvne conscience Besides al this to serue in an haeretical cause and vnder haeretical capitaines catholikes are inforced to heare continual blasphemies of al Sainctes Sacraments to be present at the vvicked Sermōs profane seruice of the Haeretikes Which is no lesse dānable then it vvas in olde time for such as serued the heathen Emperoures to commit Idolatrie by Sacrificing to Idoles For refusing of vvhich abomination and in particular for disobeying the Emperoure Maximinus his commandement therin the famous Coronel S. Mauritius vvith the legion of Thebs sustayned most glorious martyrdome As diuers others did vnder Iulian the Apostata and the like And many noble souldiars for that they could not exercise their Christian vsages partly vvere driuen to abandon their profession in displeasure of their Princes and partly vvere licensed to depart as may appeare by à Decree in the holy councel of Nice Where it is forbidden to christian souldiars so licēced to returne to those profane vvarres againe For that is the meaning vvhen the Fathers vpon great spiritual paine commanded that none should resumere cingulum militare that is put on the girdle militare againe that for such à cause had leift it once And surely if there vvere nothing els but this that the Catholike souldiar being hovvrely in peril of death can haue no Sacrament nor Sacramētal for his sinnes nor any comfort of conscience nor succour for his soule in the vvorld it must nedes be the most miserable condition that can be thought of Novve to be reliued of this deadlie calamitie distresse of cōscience after à man is once by errour or misfortune entred into the same there is no vvay but to forsake that vniust and irreligious cause and to retire to that part vvhere à mā may serue vvith iustice honour great revvarde in this life and sure hope of saluation And no doubt but most happie be those Gentlemen that haue this occasion commoditie offered them by God to make amendes for their former errour as vvel by seruing of the Church vvich before they impugned as by rendering vp the places vvhich they though not of malice yeat by other mens vniust appointement did from the true Lordes and ovvners detayne Yea I say more to you Gentlemen seing you desire to knovve my meaning fully in