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A15032	The censure of a loyall subiect upon certaine noted speach & behauiours of those fourteen notable traitors, at the place of their executions, the xx. and xxi. of September, last past. As also, of the Scottish queen, now (thanks be to God) cut off by iustice, as the principal roote of al their treasons. On Wednesday the 8. of Februarie 1586. Wherein is handled matter of necessarie instruction and comfort for al duetiful subiectes: especially, the multitude of ignoraunt people. Feare God: be true to thy Prince: and obey the lawes.	Whetstone, George, 1544?-1587?; Churchyard, Thomas, 1520?-1604, attributed name.; T. C., fl. 1587.	1587 (1587)	STC 25334A; ESTC S113962	29,620	55

rewarded of the Pope when those y ● by their outward coūtenance promise not a rebellious spirite are enter●ained neither with the one nor the other West You put me in remembrance of a special difference that I obserued in Rome which wel confirmeth your opinion and is not impertinent to our conference being in Rome Anno dommini 1580 there was presented vnto the Pope a notale English shifter who named himselfe Seamer a one eyed person and such a one as had abused sundry greate estates in Germanie this man being in want and withall vnlearned as he could hardly read English was a suter to the Pope to be entertained into the English Seminary and ther to be instructed in the profession of the Iesuits he soone obtained his purpose and with a blessing of crownes was shortly after commended to Rheames and what there became of him I haue not heard at the same time there came to Rome an English Gentleman wonderfullye dronken with the zeale of the Romishe religion he had sometimes a proper lyuing and good store of mony lefte him by his father which for the most parte he consumed in the fellowship of the Papists in fine he was enioyned by his confessor I thinke vpon pollicye because he hadde little lefte to maynetaine him to resrayne from the drinking of wine and from the eating of all manner of flesh in the execution of which pennance for that in Italie there was smal store of fish and no beere or Ale he was for the moste parte driuen to liue with bread and water this Gentleman was so strickt in obeying pennance and so deuout in the Popes holinesse as of a number of Papists he was derided of some other tickled that he was a very Sainte vpon earth but what woulde Rome and all the Seminaries of Italie doe for this ignorant and deuout Gentleman Unto the shame of all Papists I truly certifie that with many a weary step in the deepe of winter he arriued at Rome he was not without some repining entertained w t eight daies allowance in the English Colledge but one daies succour aboue he could not compasse he laboured to be admitted into the fellowshippe of the Iesuits he was flatly denied and in recompence of al his toile charge zeale he was constrained to leaue Rome with a bare purse to seeke some new blinde aduenture his vsage made me to abhor the hipocrisie of Papists and inwardly to lament the blindnesse of my poore countryman we departed from Rome together my selfe minding to go vnto Vennis and he to Madona Deloreta To showe all the follies of the man in our iorney were tedious and more ridiculous at euery two miles end there was lightlie a Chappel and where he found our Lady or any other Saint fair painted he would there kneel down and pray but if the Images were in bad attire he euermore past them ouer with the salutation of his cap many a mile he stepped foorth of his way to reuerēce some old friers relick at Loreto he turned their lewd lie of our ladyes house into English to purchase the Iesuits fauour he did al the dueties of a Romish Catholique but for all his sure they woulde not admit him into their society thus wandred he al the dead winter from religious house to religious house in Italy yet for al his pennance and straitnes of life the poore Gent. coulde not gette a resting place the reason was as you haue saide and I wel obserued he shewed an apparance of an ignorant● zeale and no signe of a dissentious spirit Walk Wel leaue we these dissembling Iesuits to the iustice of God who visibly punisheth them with shame the most of their instruments with destruction and now neighbor Wilk I pray you showe vs what obserued you in y ● end of y ● last of these traitors Wilk The last that suffered was one of the Bellamies his countenance discouered him to be a setled papist as he could say little to saue his life so at y ● gallowes he said nothing to desēd his death West Although this traitor had but a dul spirit yet it seemeth he had a mallitious heart he and his friēds succoured Babington some of his coemates when feare of the lawe and shame of their odious treasons made them to shrowde themselues like a Fox in the couert it seemeth that they were as resolute to followe the treasons of Babington as they were ready to relieue him from the daunger of the lawe otherwise if this Bellamies brother had had an innocent conscience he woulde neuer with violente handes haue hanged himselfe Wilk God be praised that these rotten branches are thus cutte off but if his prouidence preuent not the mischiefes it is to be feared that of the root there wil grow many other apt to bring foorth the fruite of publique disturbance VValk In very trueth necessitie hath made the bloody deuices of the Scottish Q. so common as no good subiect may iustly be forbidden to deriue the cause both of forraigne and domestike conspiracies from her vnprincely heart our sacred Q. Elizabeths mercy hath many yeares contēded with a number of fearful admonitions to preserue both the life and honor of this most vnkinde queen when the Scottes her own people pursued her life and printed her defame the Queenes Maiesty entertained her as Augustus did his enemye Cinna she gaue her her life that many waies sought her own life and was so carefull of her honour that she forbad the bookes of her faults to be conuersant among her english subiects which almost in euery other nation wer made vulgar but Cinna after three times forgiuenes became none so faithful to Augustus when this Scottish Queen being three times thrise forgiuen remaineth none more bloodily infected to Queene Elizabeth her own hand writings be witnesses During the whole course of her abode in Eng. which may be properly called a protection and no imprisonment ther is nothing more manifest then that her mallice thirsted the death of her own life The currantes of her practises were so general as euery good christian prince know as much and certified her Maiestie no lesse in fine seeing y ● her pretēdings were not only against the person of her Maiestie but that they also reached to the change of christiā religion some zealous members of the Church of God in publique writing did set downe the daunger of her Maiesties mercye and in christian pollicy shewed by many waightie reasons that God deliuered the Scottish Queen vnto the sword of her iustice as he did many Idolatrous Princes into the handes of the Kinges of Israell but our most gratious queen notwithstanding these continual aduertismentes with a magnanimous heart digested all this danger yea she was so farre from reuenge as shee yeelded not to make her subiects partakers of the●e forraine counsels whom next vnder her they principally concerned Lastly when the continual

THE CENSVRE of a loyall Subiect VPON CERTAINE noted Speach behauiours of those fourteen notable Traitors at the place of their executions the xx and xxi of September last past As also of the Scottish Queen now thankes be to God cut off by iustice as the principal Roote of al their treasons On Wednesday the 8. of Februarie 1586. Wherein is handled matter of necessarie instruction and comfort for al duetiful Subiectes especially the multitude of ignoraunt people Feare GOD be true to thy Prince and obey the Lawes At LONDON Printed by Richard Iones dwelling at the signe of the Rose and the Crowne neere Holborne bridge CVrteous Reader my good friend M. G. W. at his departure into the Countrey left this most honest worke to be censured by me being right well assured by the continuance of our true friendshippes that I would not deceiue him with a flattering iudgment and trust me vpon a considerate reading I found it a little book containing a large testimony of his loyalty to his Prince and country a sweet comfort and most sound counsail for good subiectes concludi●g by many fair examples of Traitors ●oule endes that the reward of treason is distruction and after death 〈◊〉 infamie The matter agreeing with the condition of this troublesome time I haue aduentured to possesse thee with the benefite thereof before I made account vnto him of my liking which is that no good subiect can mislike the same and I made the more hast herein because some wicked persons that will not be admonished haue now by new conspiracy desired our publique sorrowe and by their discouery haue brought an vniuersall ioy into the church of God Giue God thankes for his wonderfull presentation of her Maiestie and the confusion of her enemies serue him and read this booke which trulie promiseth thee that 〈◊〉 miscreate persons shall neuer prosper in their deuices No r●ote but feare God and thou shalt fare well Thy louing friend T C. To the right honorable Sir William Cicill Knight Baron of Burleigh Lord high Treasurer of England and one of the Queenes Maiesties most honora●able and prudent priuie counsell a long continuance of honour and prosperous estate RIght honorable and prudent Lord the vngratious Emperor Commodus vpon the accusation of a guilty consciēce caused fourteen or fifteen discreete Roman Gentlemen to be thrown into the riuer of Tyber for no other offence but because they soberly talked of the the vertues of the good Emperor Marcus Aurelius his father alleadging that they could not praise his father without the reprouing of himselfe and certainly although Commodus did euil he spake the trueth for the cōmendation of vertue is euermore a reproch to vice which principall right honorable considered of the one part by your manifold seruices done vnto the Queenes most excellent maiestie to her blessed realm generally to the true church of God and of the other side weyed by the most odious treasons conspired by many rotten subiectes whereof iustice lately hath cut off certaine of the principall whose vile purpose reached to the life of her sacred Maiestie the subuersion of their countrey and generall callamity in the church of God no other conclusion can followe but that the reuerence of your publique seruice will alwayes reuiue the hatred of their treasons and that the reproch of their treasons will neuer suffer the reuerēce of your fidelitie to die Therefore most graue Lord desirous to honour withall duetifull affection your godly vertues as the comforte of all good men and also to acknowledge some especiall fauours shewen vnto my selfe vnder your sound protection I present for the generall instruction of my countreymen the subiects of England my obseruances of certain noted speach and behauiours of those fourteene notable Traitors which lately suffered for their treasons trusting that this censure by the sentence of all good Subiects will merite the acceptance of my former bookes which hetherto haue escaped the disgrace of publique reproofe Protesting in the behalfe of my writing that my desire hath euermore bene to instruct all men and not to iniure the worst of the wicked And now to conclude that vertue may haue her sample by your Lordship and vice her shame by these traitors in the name of experience I aduise all men who●e heades clime aboue the height of their present conditions to make loyall and honest actions the ladders of their aduancement which will commend them with a beloued life or an honorable death whē treason is the hatchet that seuereth life and ioyneth infamie vnto death The Lord be with your Lordshippe in all your affaires for whose health and honorable prosperitie the good subiectes of England continually pray Humbly at your Lordships commandement G. W. A Censure in forme of a Dialogue of certaine noted speach and behauiours of fourteene notable Traitors at the place of their executions c The speakers Walker a godlie deuine VVeston a discreet Gentleman Wilcocks a substantial Clothier West NEighbour Wilkcocks you are well welcome home Wilk I humbly thanke your worshippe VVest What is the best newes at London Wilk The best newes are fourteene of those ranke traitors that sought to bereaue the Queenes most excellent Maiestie of her life which God long preserue haue made their confessiō at the gallowee for my eies saw their traiterous harts burned and bodilesse heads aduanced to the view and comforte of manye thousands of people Walk You sawe a happie sight for the quietnesse and safetie of the Queenes most excellent maiestie and general comfort for al good subiects and a fearefull example to al traitors but for asmuch as they offended in the highest degree of treason as traitors resolued to kil the Queens Ma. whose life almighty God long preserue to spoile he● nauie to cloy the ordinance to kil some of her maiesties honorable priuy counsel to moue a generall rebelliō and what in them lay to procure a forraigne inuasion all which beeing treasons of such danger as the least of them closed vp the doores of mercie it seemeth conueniente that theire executions shoulde be with more seuerity then the common iudgemēt of Traitors Wilk Their iudgements and executions were alike saue that the first seuen were executed with lesse fauour then the latter seauen VValk What difference was there in theire executions VVilk Their iudgements were to be drawn to the place of execution there to be hanged vntil they were halfe dead their bowels to be brente before their faces c. And truly the first seauen as the most mallitious if there be anye difference in treason were executed somewhat neere the seuerity of their iudgement the other seauen were so fauouraby vsed as they hung vntill they were euen altogether dead before y ● rest of their iudgemēt was executed VValk Their treasons were so odious as Perillus Bull or the extreamest crueltie that pollicy may inuent wold be too milde to punish them so that the least fauour that might be showen vnto them

your matter VVilk When Sauadge was executed Barnwell was made readie to die VVest And what of him Wilk He died an obstinate Papist and for his treason he made conscience his best excuse VValk He had had but a rotten conscience that was infected with the murther of a vertuous Queene and since his conscience was so bad I hope but a fewe that heard him but forbad their conscience to pitty him other then charitably to be sorrowful for his error which was damnable Wilk After Barnewel Tichburnes turne was next he was a goodly yong Gentleman and certainly his humilitie and moue moued much compassion he was not setled so much in papistrie as the other but he was so much setled to the proud humor of Babington as his head could no longer settle vpō his shoulders In his mone which I very well marked he compared his state to Adam who said hee was placed in Paradice and ther inioyed all the pleasures of the earth he was onely forbidden to eate of the fruite of one tree but for his trasgression he not onely procured wretchednesse and miserie vpō his owne heade but vpon the heades of all his posteritie So ꝙ he I that wanted nothing but had helth welth and friends and so might long haue liued if I could haue forborn to haue bin vntrue to my prince But alas for my offēce I haue brought my self vnto this miserie by which my good mother my louing wife my four brethren and six sisters yea our whole house neuer before attainted is infamed and our posterity for euer like to be vndone Walk His lack of grace is to be lamented and by his ouerthrowe al men are warned to make choice of good company for the olde prouerbe is beri●ied Euill companie corrupt good manners And truly the iniurie that he hath done vnto his wife his mother and to so many brethren and sistirs and to conclude to his whole posterity is a fearefull example to feare men from treason especially the Nobility and better sort of Gentlemen for they thereby not only lose their life liuing but the honor of their house is corrupted neither seemeth it an iniury against reason that in punishment of treason a number beare the burthen and blot of one mans fault when for the vertue and dutifull seruice of one man a nūber in his posterity receaue both honour and many other temporall blessings further in his confession or comparing his offence to Adams ●t concluded he likened her Maiestie to the pleasaunt and glorious fruite so pretions in Gods eies as he forbad Adam and all other to lay violent handes vpon thus by the mouth of her enemies God causeth her sacred excellencie to be blazed West You put me in remembraunce of a tale that a Gentleman a trau●lor once told me who being at Rome when Pope Gregorie ther liued and finding at the English Colledge ouer the armes of England a Phenix drawn which the Pope did appropiate vnto himselfe the Gentlemā dutifully reuerensing her maiestie as his soueraigne and Phenix of the worlde in scorne of the Pope wrote these verses And reason good the Lion should the Phoenix stand belowe For though the leaues bewray the tree the fruit the goodnesse showe Applying in secreat zeale the construction therto of this sēce The armes of England to leaues as but the generall badge of her kingdome and the Phenix he did propriat to the vertues of her maiestie as her excellent beautie and glorie of the world And of the contrary parte the matter was wel takē I know not by what mistaking Walk It is like enough that the meaning was perceiued for the pollicie of the Pope and his fauourers is to turne all to their honours that in the market place blazeth not their dishonor as for example A pleasant Frier being appointed to preach before the Pope and his Cardinals who marking with what maiestie and pompe they entred into S. Peters church as one rauished w t their brightnes he scoffingly cried out ●y of S. Peter fy of S. Paule sy fy vpon their beggerlye Apostels what reckoning is to bee made of their religion whē the honor therof cōsited in casting forth of deuils clensing of Lepors raising the dead in making the blinde to see the deaf to hear y ● domb to speak the lame to go the good they did was to beggers their liuing was as beggerly bareleg barefoot they wādred from country to cuntry their raiment was simple their diet thin their deaths violēt But honor reuerence be to the Popes holines the glory of his religion is visibly seene he is able to make kings to dispose kindomes his raimēt is of golde his victuals the plētie of the earth he dwelleth dieth in pallaces is buried like a God c. This sermon was so wel liked as the Frier was inuited to dine with the Pope who to relish his good sermon excused himselfe by y ● weaknes of his braine y t could endure no strong sauor when his meaning was de●aunded hee aunswered since Emperors kinges kissed his holines feet he thought his lot would be but to kisse the homeliest part of his holines al which was wel taken yet perceiued to be vnhapelie mēt For if y e Pope shold reuenge euery dry bloe he his Cardinals would soone set Rome in an vprore but if you make no publique professiō of y ● gospel for al other offēces Rome wil beate w t you for a few peterpēce y e pope wil pardō you West God blesse me from such pardons that bring many men to the gallowes Wil. Tilney one of y ● Q maiesties pensioners next vnto Tichburne made worke for the Hangman VVest By statute lawe it is pettie treason for a seruāt to murther his maister or maistris being but a subiect how detestable a treasō is it then for a sworne seruant to lay violent handes on his annointed Prince The offence being in the extreamest degree of sinnes the punishment ought to be according to the seuerest censure of Iustice. Walk Euery mans houshold wel gouerned resembleth a common wealth wherein seruāts ought to liue in the awe and subiection of Subiects and among the Romans there was an ancient lawe that aucthorised the maister to punish the offences of their seruants with death but the wicked pollicy of men hath alwaies bin such as where open power was to weak ambition enuie and money allured the familliar seruants and meaner persons to Emperours Kings men of al estates to lay violent hands of their maisters and to betraye them to death Iudas one of the Apostels betraied our sauiour Iesus into the handes of the Iewes King Alexander was poisoned by his phisition Thessalus the death of the Emperor Commodus was compassed by the practize of his sister Lucilla Many haue had their banes by their wiues as King Candaulus some by their sonnes as the greate Turke

Baiazet the nienth c. but innumerable that haue ben destroyed by the treason of their seruants West I hope these odious attempts wil discouer them and for that they are crept into seruices of accompt by subtilty it shal be the part of euery good subiect to certify their Lords who are perhaps vnacquainted with their religion of such dangerous seruants Wilk The last of these seauen that suffered was Abingtō his father was an officer of good credite in her maiesties house and for many aduauncements was bound to say God saue good Queene Elizabeth but his sonne was a notable Papist an Archtraitor and at his death did all that in him lay to settle a feare in the heartes of the ignorant multitude with a speach that ther could not choose but be a great effution of blood in England very shortly VValk Gods prouidence maketh it apparāt that y ● prophises of traitors proue not euermore scripture Throgmorton the traitor said before one yeare were expired the prosperitie peace of England should be tourned into general callamitie but the date thereof is out and I hope the destiny past No doubt he knewe of a number of mallitious enemies vnto the state and with the spirite of their wickednesse he blundered foorth his prognostication but let all good subiects to their comfort and Traitors to their confusion knowe that the wicked diggeth a pit and falleth therein himselfe and who treadeth down the hedge a serpēt shal bite him ther is no wisedome there is no vnderstāding there is no counsell against the Lord The horse is prepared the day of battaile but the Lord giueth the victory The Iewes had S. Paule in prison yea fortie of thē vowed that they wold nether eat nor drink vntil they had flaine him but God according to the Psalmist in a due time defended him yea in that distresse he came and stode by Paule thus comforted him Be of good cheare Paule for as thou hast testified of mee at Ierusalem so muste thou beare witnesse also at Rome The Angell of the Lorde led Peter foorth of prison the Angell of the Lorde defended Sidrack Mi●aack and Abednago in the burning fire the Angell of the Lorde stopped the Lions mouthes that shoulde haue deuoured Daniell the Angell of the Lorde with a drawne sword tould Io●ua that he was the chiefe of the Lordes hande A comfortable saying and a true experiment that this holie Angell of the Lord with a drawne sworde although not visibly seen stādeth between the godly their enemies and then though the wicked come armed with horses chariots an hoast of men they shal be ouercome with their subtil deuices their twords shall go through their own harts The lord wil haue the p●ide of y ● vncleane Pope abased al the world striue in vain to set him vp again if his friends look into his disgraces since victorious King Henrye the eight first vnmasked his abhominatiō they shal finde no cōfort to take his part he was thē in his strēgth the greatest princes of christēdome his friend yea for the Popes cause they were K. Henries greatest enemies the Pope sent Cardinal Poole ambassadors to moue the French K against the K. of England the French made many braggs but bit little the mighty Emperor Charles the 5. prepared a great Nauie at the Popes request to trouble the peace of england the fauoring of whose inuasion cost the Marques of Exe●ers head but this attempt prospered not but which had likelihood to do more hurt then all the boast of forrain power by the practize of Cardinal Poole 20000 rebels in Lincolne shire for religiōs sake had put themselus in armes but when they vnderstood of the K. power cōming against thē they cried for pardon least their chieftaine D. Mackerel monk called captain cobler to the censure of iustice In february following the Pope by his instrument cōpassed a meer cōmotion in Yorkshire of 40000. rebels but by the prouidēce of God the night before the armies should ioine they were seuered by a mighty fal of water in somuch as vpon a part by the captaines of both sides the rebels were appeased departed w tout blodshed in the 3. yere of K. Eward the 6. the Pope to set vp his authority in Eng. by his seditious instruments moued generall rebellions through Eng. but they were ended w t the destruction of the kings rebellious subiects Q Marie though vnsound in religion had the better hand against her rebels whom no doubt God therin fauoured for her godly father K. Henry the 8. as he did the Idolater Abdias for his greate grandfather Dauids sake But the manifold disgraces which our soueraign lady Q. Elizabeth hath giuen vnto this bloody pope out of whose tirany euē frō her very cradle the Angel of y e lord hath miraculously deliuered her maiesty open the incomparable strength of Gods prouidence and offer cause of admiration to the whole worlde when for our sinnes Queen Mary committed both the word and fworde to the hipocrisie and tyranny of the Cleargie good lady her life was assayled with a thousand publique and priuate practises but the Angel of the Lord stil stode between her and her harmes and from the fetters of aduersitie loosed and crowned her Maiestie with the supreame dignitie of this Realme and as a prognosticatiō of his ruine by her renown the yeare that God placed her royall throne he displaced these christian Princes the Popes great friendes The Emperor Charles the sift the Queene of Hungarie Queene Mary of England two kings of Dēmarke Bona Sferza Queen of Polonia Henrie the third the French king Ierolme Pruoli Duke of Vennice Hercules Daeste Duke of Ferrara and Paule the fourth Pope of Rome that these setled friēds of the Pope being remooued other princes better affected or at lest not so hurtful to the passage of the gospel might occupy their places the Pope and all his fauorers while their strength yet lasted shot to depriue her maiestie of her crowne and dignitie God so strengthned her maiestie as by her power the French were dishonorably driuen out of Scotland and by her wisedome both Realmes were deliuered from forraine bondage yea the King of Scottes is bound to confesse that from God and her Maiesties goodnesse he and his posterity possesse a kingdome this peaceable victorie against the french discomforted the Pope a few yeares in fine Pius Quintus set D. Morton an english fugitiue a worke to raise a commotion in the north parts the Earle of Northumberland the Earl of Westmerland and others entred into open rebellilion the very sound of her Maiesties power dismaed them and happy was he that could run fastest away the principals fled but escaped not the iustice due vnto traitors the Earle of Northūberland was soone broughte vnder the censure of her maiesties lawes and according to his deserte was beheaded at

their credite weared out your reason is probable that the wounded souldier Layola deuised this newe order of Iesuits vnder the habite of holinesse to sustaine his age in the reputation of his youth and at this day there is in Italy a newe order called the fellowship of the Trinitie wherin are Tinkers Tailers Tilers and al mecanicall crafts men and questionles if some notable Nigromancer to worke some false miracles would enter into their ●raternitye the dignitie of their order would soone out way the ●redite of the Iesuits but to our former pupose if the Deuill and al his furies ioyned with the pope his disciples their pollices should take no effect against Gods prouidēce The murthering Iesuits thought y ● they had sped of their purpose when they had ouercome the hairebraine Gentleman Sommeruile to murther her Maiestie whome the Lorde alwaies keepe out of the violent handes of traitors indeede they had picked foorth a dangerous instrument as a man so graceles as he was fearles to lay violent handes vpon him selfe but in his confusion was seene the Prophesie of the Psalmist His owne tongue made him to fall and all that hearde him laughed him to scorne he was first discouered by the suspition of his owne speach and by his ouerthrowe it was perceaued that God shotte at him with a swift arrowe which wounded him he made such haste to his deserued death as this Traitor hanged himselfe the night before the appoynted day of his execution The close Traitor Arden was by Sommeruils discouery brought to confusion The dangerous traitor Throgmorton as cunningly as hee disguised his odious treasōs was intrapped in the snares which he set for his Countries destruction and worthelie died with the sword which he had whetted for the innocent The odious Athiest Par●ie had the rewarde of his fellowe Traitors he had the place and opportunitie which prudence I hope will keepe al other suspitious persons from and yet as graceles as he was the very maiesty of her Maiesties countenance made him loose his resolution with the selfe same vertue that appeared in the faces of the two magnanimous Romanes Marius and Crassus where of the one with the motion of his eies and the other with the stoutnesse of his speach redeemed themselues from death The prouidence of God in bereauing the traitors of so valiant a Captaine as the Earle of Northumberland euery good subiecte to his comfort perceaueth who had so deeply entred into disloyaltie as his owne cōscience condemned him and therfore to saue the honor of his house slew himselfe If the popes instruments had iudgement to way that no one that actually practised her Maiesties death or depriuement hetherto escaped the visible vengeance of God if her Maiesties goodnes and their duty could not moue them to loue yet the assurance of punishmēt and the continuance of shame might feare them to be disloyall but alas those whose hearts are hardned haue their iudgements blinde and their affections swift to run vpon destruction Pharao was warned with diuers plagues that hee should not hinder the departure of the children of Israel forth of Egipt yet he would needs follow them to his vtter destruction The report of the Souldiors concerning the glorie of Christs resurrection suffised to haue conuerted the Iewes but to their condemnation the Deuill money sealed this errour in their harts that his disciples stole him away by night Gods iustice strooke Mahomet with the falling licknesse to make him knowe and repente his blasphemie but to strengthen the peoples misbeleefe the deuil taught him to say that his passion proceeded of the cōference with an angel whose deuine presence his earthly shape could not endure vpon the principal day of the sauage murther in Paris as a token that Gods word should florish in dispite of their crueltie a withered tree bare greene leues in the churchyard that receiued many a murthered carcasse and yet the papistes on the contrary part applied this prophising example to the second florishing of their Romish church thus blinde they are in the successe of their errours and wickednesse as euermore they turn the presage of their ruines to the apparance of their prosperitie with these vaine hopes Babington and his fellowe traitors were ledde vnto the follies and falles of the aboue named vnloyall subiects and therefore howsoeuer they perswade themselues and threaten the multitude with a change of their prosperitie so long as we feare God and be true to her Maiestie our peace wil vndoubtedly last and the disturbers thereof are like to taste their fortunes that bought the horse Seian whose maisters had euermore miserable endes VVest You haue answered a matter which raised much feare and a great deal of speach amongst the common people so comfortably and truly as cannot but be the cause of great ioy and contentmēt vnto the ignorant multitude and no doubt a spectakle of great terror vnto Traitors to punish whose offences no torture can be to violent This Abington was the last of the first seauen that were executed but forasmuch as the common brute was that the other seauen condemned and iudged should be executed the day following I would gladly know if you saw their executiōs what speaches they vttered what behauiour they vsed at their death W●lk I stayed to heare and see the order of their deathes and according to the generall expectation of the whole multitude the daye following being the 21 of September Salsburie was laid alone vpon a hurdel and other six two and two vpon a hurdel were drawne from Tower hill through the cittie of London vnto the former place of execution Salsburie was the first man that suffered and in all points was handled as the seauen that suffered the day before saue that he and the latter sir were executed with this fauour that they were suffered to hang vntill they were fully dead before the rest of their execution was performed West It seemeth by their sauourable handling that although the greatnes of their offences egged the sworde to take away their liues yet the outward signe of their repētance obtained some compassion at their deathes W●lk In very deede albeit that Salsburie was blinded with the superstition of papistrie euen at y ● point of death yet he mildly acknowledged his greeuous offence towards the Queenes maiesty and in his last commendation charged all Catholiques for so he onely accompted the Papistes that they should leaue to attempt to set vp their religion by violent hand and by double and treble repeticion he counselled them to pacience and earnestly forbed them all maner of violence Walk This gentleman by his execution shewed all traiterous papistes the assured reward of treason and by his profitable admonition a more necessarie doctrine for them to followe then the seditious perswasions of al the Iesuits in the world he was a Papist at point to die so that it stādeth

with reason that through the onely working of his censcience he published to the world that the violent courses of Subiectes were odious when we doubte n●t but Ballard and other Iesuits had once blowne into his eares that the same was meritorious all maner of violence by which the life of man is taken away is murther except the execution by the sword of iustice which belongeth to the Kinge and his ministers onelie where the gouernemente is Monarchia excepte also the violence done in righteous warres and other slaughters by causualtie And whosoeuer looseth his life by any other violence the same man is murthered whose blood GOD will seuerely punish GOD punished the murther committed by Caine with a moste bytter curse and yet that there might bee no protection in murther GOD saide himselfe That whoesoeuer slewe the reprobate Caine it shoulde be auenged seauen folde GOD requireth the blood of innocents at the handes of Kinges and annointed Princes To punish the faulte of King Dauid in seeking the death of Vrias GOD tooke away the life of the childe which Dauid had by Vrias wife furthermore in the time of King Dauid there was three yeares famine and Dauid demaunded the cause why and the Lorde saide it was for Saule and the house of bloode because he slewe the Gybonites According to the opynion of Erasmus the consenter in murther is as guiltie as the dooer Iudas that betraied Christ and Pilate that adiudged him death onelye to please the Iewes carried the burthen of murther in their consciences and by the horror thereof wrought their owne destructions that either mighte die by the violent hande of the moste wicked personne aliue The heathen men at Milite when they sawe the viper to hange vpon Paules finger euen from the verye hatred of nature they murmured and saide This man must needs be a murtherer whome though hee haue escaped the danger of the ●ea yet vengeance suffereth not to liue Nature taught the Infidels to beleeue that vengeance followeth murther And then reason may perswade Christians to assure themselues that the blood thristie are worse then Infidels and cannot escape the sworde of vengeance seeing then that Kinges if they shead anye bloode otherwise then by the sworde of iustice and Iudges if they adiudge death for hatred feare or gaine by Gods righteousnesse are punished as murtheres What may they expecte that in corners laye violent handes of annointed Kinges or without collour of authoritie murther the innocente If the eies of their vnderstanding were not blinde they mighte see a doubtefull successe in their purpose and the open consution of themselues I haue reade of a number both of good and ●adde Princes and also of other which haue bene bereaued of their liues by the violent handes of secreat traitors but among a hundred you shall hardly read of one murtherer that hath escaped the torture of Gods vengeance Brutus and his partakers murthered Iulius Caesar but not one of them escaped a violent death yea the common people so loued Caesar as to be reuenged they violently ran vpon all the friendes of Caesars enemies and by way of instruction the opinion is generall that if for our sinnes it had pleased God to haue suffered our most excellent queene to haue sallen into the violent handes of these vilde Traitors her maiesties louing subiects being the most of the better sorte and the whole sway of the commons would without respecte of persons haue violently intreated euery knowne Papist as the Romane multitude did the friends of Caesars enemies and to continue this terror to murthering Traitors with latter examples the Archbishop of Pisa together with the kindred of the Saluiatij the famely of Pazzie and other the ancient houses of Florence enuying the popular fauour of Segnior Iulian and Lawrence de Medeces who thē principally gouerned the state of Florence conspired to murther the two Medeces To preuent suspition and to bereaue the brethren of publique succour which in the streetes they were like to finde the conspirators made choice of the church for their slaughter house and vpon a Sonday at mid mas one of the conspirators slew Signior Iulian Laurence de Medeces by Gods prouidēce escaped into the Saccristiar●y ● suddain brute of this assault set al the cittie in an vprore the conspirators cried liberti● and the multitude life to the Medeci vengeance vpon the conspirators to be briefe with in the space of three howers the Archbishop of Pisa was hāged Ieames Saluiatij Ieames de Pazzi Anthony de Volterro and diuers others of the cōspirators were slaine in the furie of the people Barnard Bandyn was led naked into the market place and there hanged the rest of the conspirators their seruants and fauourers were in this sort ouerthrowne and which is moste grieuous their posteritye haue euer since bene subiects to the Monarcall gouernmente of the house of Medeces Galeas the sonne of Frauncis Forze and Duke of Millen for his odious vices and extreame tirranny was generally hated of all the people of the cittie he slew his mother and by fear of force abused the greatest part or the virgins and faire women of Millen so that to redeeme the Citie from this seruitude and tyrannie three yong Gentlemen of anchient howses in Millen conspired the Dukes death their names were Charles viscounte Iohn Andrea and Ierolme Olgiat these gentlemen kept their resolucion as the Duke was attentiuely hearing of mas said by the Bishop of Coma they so violently assailed Galeas as they left him dead in the church God suffered this vengeance to light vpon the tyrant yet in his iustice would not suffer the cōspirators to escape vnpunished Andrea and Viscounte were both slaine in the hurley burley of the people Olgiat was afterward apprehended by the ministers of iustice and albeit he redeemed the Cittie frō a great bondage yet for that the good that they receiued proceeded from an euil action in Olgiat they executed him as a cōmon traitor The late King of Scottes was villanously murthered the greatest fauourers according to published records the greatest procurers of the saide murther were by common iustice drawne to commit almost all the murtherers into the hands of the hangman and such as escaped or were not bounde vnto the censure of law could by no meanes shift themselues from the vēgeance of God Iohn Iarugo that first assailed the godly prince of Orrenge had the cōmon reward of traitors and the most odious Athiest Balthazar Serack that slew him notwithstāding y e blessing of the pope the cōmēdation threatning of the king of Spaine exchanged the pistoll where with he slew the prince for tortures to execute himselfe I could aleadge infinite examples to disswade men from violent murther which Gods prouidence many waies preuenteth whē his iustice neuer leaueth y e murtherer vnpunished It is a special pollicy that the Iesuits vse to draw yong gentlemen to these