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A09610 An aduertisement written to a secretarie of my L. Treasurers of Ingland, by an Inglishe intelligencer as he passed throughe Germanie towardes Italie Concerninge an other booke newly written in Latin, and published in diuerse languages and countreyes, against her Maiesties late proclamation, for searche and apprehension of seminary priestes, and their receauers, also of a letter vvritten by the L. Treasurer in defence of his gentrie, and nobility, intercepted, published, and answered by the papistes.; Elizabethae, Angliae Reginae, haeresim Calvinianam propugnantis saevissimum in Catholicos sui Regnis edictum. English. Abridgments Parsons, Robert, 1546-1610.; Cresswell, Joseph, 1556-1623, attributed name.; Verstegan, Richard, ca. 1550-1640, attributed name. 1592 (1592) STC 19885; ESTC S121696 41,247 68

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vntill this booke come forth that I may sende you a copie VVhich yf you thinke good you may present to our good Lord and master in my name as you may doe also the exstract thereof that now I send though in trueth the tooth and stomack of the writer seemeth to be so specially great against his lordship aboue all others and toucheth him so bitterly in so many places esteeming him the principall cause of al the bloudshedd of his partie that I am ashamed and half afraide also that it sholde be given vnto his honour in my behalf yet could I not with my dewtie and allegeance but aduertise the matter as I finde it and so haue I done in the abbreuiation taking out euery thinge as neer as I cā in sense though not in wordes as in the booke it lieth and that in more sweete and temperate manner also diuers tymes then there it is sett downe culling out onely the heades of the most principal matters and leauing vtterly the discourses declarations and proofes of the same wich are in truth more pearcing plausible and popular then will easily be imagined but by reading the whole and in one word beleeue yow Sir that it is a very pestilent booke and so I pray you aduertise his lordship and commend my seruice with continuing me in his honors good grace and fauour which I euer desire to deserue as I may and so to the lord I commyt you from Augusta this first of August 1592. Your most affectionate THE EXTRACT AND ABBREVIATION OF THE BOOKE OF IHON PHILOPATRIS AGAINST her Maiesties proclamation The preface of the Author FIRST in the preface he taketh vpon him to discouer the trew causes of this proclamation which he saith to be the feare of the new Seminaries lately begunne in Spayne with the cōtinuance flourishing of the others in Rome and Rheims feare of the Pope and king of Spaines preparations of warr againste France the lacke of mony in Inglande to helpe the K. of Navarre and to prosecute other designementes and the arte to get it this way by feigning terrours and troubles at home Secondly he sheweth what modestie and humility the Catholiques for his wordes I will vse hereafter in all this extract haue vsed hitherto in their owne defence alleaging for this the example of two Apologies wrytten by 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 other bookes vpon hope that some clement gentler way would be taken by her Maiestie and her Councell but seing as he saith that by all theire submilsiō they haue profited nothing he taketh leaue by the president and example of many aunciēte fathers that wrote sharpely against the persecutours of their times but namely and chiefely of S. Hilarie whose wordes he alleageth against Cōstātinus the Arrian Emperour to deale more plainely in this his awnswere then others haue donne heretofore promisinge notwithstandinge the modestie that shal be conuenient for the tyme persons and matter he handleth THE FIRST SECTION OF THE PROCLAMATION AND ANSWER The first Section conteyneth onely the title of the proclamation and is deuided in to three principal heades THE firste head concerneth those first wordes By the Queene about the which he examineth whether these so many fierce cruell lawes and proclamatiōs as he cal leth them which come out dayly against Catholiques do proceede of her Maiesties owne inclination and propension or no or whether by the instigation of others for theire owne commodities abusing her Maiesties sexe and age at the beginning where vnto he rather yeildeth and nameth fiue or six principall men who haue bin the causes and instrumentes of all miserie to Ingland as he tearmeth it and of the perdition of the realme by theire especiall authority with her Maiestie These men he affirmeth to haue bin Sir Nicolas Bacon and my L. Treasurer the Earle of Leicester Sir Francis VValsingham and Sir Christophor Hatton of whome he saith he will tell their beginninges their entrance with the Queene their manner of proceeding their actions and their endinges obseruing the order rather of their deathes and falling then of their rising to honours for that he saieth the remembrance of this day is more ioyfull to good men then that of the other and so for that my L. Treasurer is the onely mā of all the five that now liueth he reserueth his story for the laste place of all Of Sir Nicolas Bacon he sheweth how he rose and how my L. Treasurer and he the one helping the other by the assistance of Sir Antony Cooke theire father in law and Sir Ihon Cheeke King Edwardes schoole-maister came both first in fauor That Sir Nicolas Bacons father beinge seruant to the Abbote of Bery and keeper of his sheepe and cattell put his sonne to Greyes Inne where first he was vnder-butler aud afterward grew vp higher vntill by the augmentation court and atturneship of the VVardes he came to be lord keeper wherein this man saith he shewed himself so corrupt and partiall for bribery as neuer man before or since in that place for which he allegeth a protestation also of Plowdē the famous lawier made at the Chauncery barr Bacon beinge present that he woulde neuer returne thither so long as so cortupte a iudge should sitt in that place which he performed here vnto he addeth diuers other perticularities touchinge the life and death of Sir Nicolas Bacon Of my L. of Leicester and the varietie of fortune which he saw and proued in his life how he was borne and brought vp in all aboundāce and felicitie and after saw himself againe in extreame calamity his father and bretheren being put to death and himfelf condemned to the same lotte but that fortune turning againe lifted him vp higher then euer before but all to the worse for that he had neuer bin so wicked yf he had not byn so potent How he was the sonne of a Duke brother of a Kinge nephew of an esquier and great grandchild of a Carpenter as the common fame runneth which yf it be trew the Carpenter by all likelyhoode was the happiest man of all the generation for that perhaps he was an honeste man and died in his bedd whereas all the other perished by violent deathes for theire wickednes c. Of Lecesters entrāce in to fauour with her Maiestie of the begininge of his greatnes how he firste lefte the Catholique faith which at the beginning for diuers yeares he fauoured of the murdering of his wife at Cūner of his adulteries murders and rapines after of his dealings in flanders and miserable death without heyre or frind and of the quicke mariage of lady Lettece after his dispatch Of Sir Francis VValsinghams seruing of Leicesters turne in all thinges how he was Embassador in France and how he came to be of the Councell how he helde a faction againste my L. Treasurer was a man of hastie fiery and cruell nature especially againste catholiques spente infinitely vpon spyery and when matter wanted filled her