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The history of Romish treasons & usurpations together with a particular account of many gross corruptions and impostures in the Church of Rome, highly dishonourable and injurious to Christian religion : to which is prefixt a large preface to the Romanists / carefully collected out of a great number of their own approved authors by Henry Foulis.
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Foulis, Henry, ca. 1635-1669.
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1671
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by the Emperours Ambossador And the better to retain in Memory this Massacre the Pope had it c George Wheâ—ston's English Mirrour pag. 17â— painted about his great Hall in the Lateran and there Recorded in d Jo. Niâ—hâ—l's Pilgrimage B. 8 Marble And what must be the cause of all these e Catholicorum Apologiis propugnata quae â—t Romae atque in Hispania immensis landibus celebrata Jo. de Bussiers Hist Fran. Vol. 4. pag. 120. De eâ— Laetitia ob vindicatos Haereticos piorum animis concepta non parum est Summar ad Hist Hispan Jo. Mariana anno 1572. Joyes Gaities and Triumphs in France Spain Italy and where not amongst the Romanists but that thirty thousand Protestants were in a small time destroyed by divers sorts of deaths some drown'd some hang'd some starv'd some Pistol'd others had their throats cut their bodies drag'd about streets denyed Christian buryal c. without any consideration of Age Sex Quality or Relations And all this in a supposed time of security and tranquillity a peace being made and the King passing his word and promise for their safety Now here would I ask the Romanists whether ever Queen Elizabeth did such a cruel Action as this If not then why must Charles IX go away with all these Glories and Trophies and our Queen laden with nothing but black accusations of cruelty As if Religon intitled one to more authority over his Vassals then the other The year viz. 1572. of this Massacre some have troubled themselves to lay down in these Numeral Letters Upon Gaspar Coligny the Admiral gVIsano oCCVbV It pIVs ah CoLLIgnIVs astV LVX qVater aVgVst I sena DoLen Da Ven It. Or thus bartho Lo MaeVs fLet qVIa FranCICVs oCCVbat atLas And upon the City of Paris this LVtetI a Mater sVos natos DeVoraVIt And here I cannot but take notice of one pretty cheat the Pope makes use of to shew to the world his great liking of this Massacre viz. that whensoever the famous Catholick Thuanus in his Narrative of this Butchery hints as he doth several times of the cruelty of these Throat-cuttings These expressions sound so harsh in the ears of his good Romanists that in the Index Expurgatorius they are all order'd to be dasht out and to appear no more in print lest good people should be corrupted by them so wo be to them who dare think amiss of this Parisian slaughter But it is not here alone but in many other places that they have endeavour'd to falsifie and corrupt this Learned Thuanus though one of their own Church yet one that hated lying For which Jacobus Gretser Johannes Baptista de Machand or Macaldus under the false name of Jo. Baptista Gallus I. C. with Adam Contzen and other Jesuits cannot pass him by without throwing some dirt upon him But though de Thou's book were a Adam Cantzen Discepâ—atio de Secretis Societat Jesu pag. 40. burnt at Rome yet will it remain as an instructive Monument to future Ages though endeavour'd to be corrupted as appears by the Index Expurgatorius and possibly hath been as is manifest by the late little Thuanus Restitutus But leaving these forraign comparisons let us return home and take a short view of our two Sister-Queens of different perswasisions in Religion Queen Mary whose Piety and Mercie is much commended by Sanders and other Romanists Reigned about five years yet in that short time were put to death for Religion above 260 without any regard to Sex Quality or Age Rich and Poor Learned and Ignorant Old and little Children that knew not the right-hand from the left one springing out of its Mothers Womb whilst burning at the Stake and unhumanely the little infant thrown into the fire to burn with its Heretical Mother as they term'd it In twice this time viz. for the first ten years of Elizabeth not one Romanist suffer'd death for Religion and though she Reigned above 44 years yet in that long Rule there were not so many put to death of the Romanists for Treason or what else the Romanist pleaseth almost by an hundred as there were in the short time of Queen Mary To which we may add as is confest by b In numerabiles Ang licaâ—i Martyres Duâ—em Ed mundum Campianum secuti docuetunt Pontificem Rom. posse quemcunque etiam Regem dig nitaâ—e Regâ—a exuete Abr. bzovius de Rom. Pont. cap. 46. pag. 621. Bzovius their Papal Champion that there was not any that suffer'd in Queen Elizabeth's time but did teach the dangerous Doctrine That the Pope could depose Kings This were enough to testifie that Queen Elizabeth was as happy and merciful to her Subjects as her Sister Queen Mary And to perswade those who throw so many commendations on the latter not to rob the former of her due praise The first that the Romanists pretended Martyrologist puts down to have suffer'd in Queen Elizabeth's days is one John Felton year 1570 and yet this was not till the XII year of her Reign so that they can pretend to no bloud for so many years And what small reason they have to glory in this mans Martyrdom let us judge by the Cause in short thus for I shall have occasion to speak more of him hereafter Queen Elizabeth having triumphantly Raigned above X years in the Nation to the great joy and comfort of her Subjects at last Pope Pius V takes a humour in his head and he forsooth must declare her to be no Queen to which purpose he thunders out a Bull declaring her Heretick Excommunicated Deprived and Deposed from her Dominions Absolves all her Subjects from Allegiance and interdicts any that shall obey her c. Felton gets this Bull hangs it upon the Bishop of Londons Palace-gates scorns to seek an escape boldly vindicates the Pope and himself in what was done defying the Queen and her Authority for which he was arraigned condemn'd and hang'd August 8. neer the same place in St. Pauls Church-yard Now for any thus to contemn and vilifie his Soveraign null her Authority renounce his Allegiance and so far to submit himself to a Forreign jurisdiction even in Temporalities as to declare his own Soveraign deprived and depos'd from her Kingdom I say what punishment this man incur'd let the Reader judge provided he will also consider that had a Protestant thus renounced his Obedience in Queen Mary's days not but that there were some Calvinistical fire-brands then the party should have dyed for it and those who commend Felton would have call'd the other Traytor And yet Felton did it to procure a National Rebellion This and some other Disturbances occasioned the next Parliament to put forth some a 13 Eliz. cap. 1. 2 3. Acts for the preservation of the Queens person and the better quieting and securing her Subjects and Dominions all people having time given them to consult either their own safety or a complyance So that who suffer'd afterwards was for their
the Dominican discovered whereby the Fellow was taken and executed A Gentleman of Normandy in * Jean Bodin de la Republique l. 2. c. 5. p. 387. Confession told a Franciscan That he formerly had a design to kill Francois I. of France for which he was now sorry yet did the Confessor divulge this and the Norman was executed And one Radulphus having designed to murther Pope Innocent IV. he in * Mat. Paris An. 1247. p. 724. Confession told it to a Priest who informed the Pope of it and we need not doubt but that the Pope liked it well enough Nor do we hear that any of these Priests were punish'd or check'd for their Revealings and * Papae fiducialiter intimavit Matthew Paris doth rather commend the latter intimating as if he were bound to do it or did the part of an honest man in discovering it But we need trouble our selves no more about this matter seeing 't is impossible that all the cunning or wit of the whole Order of the Jesuits can quit Father Garnet from having been a Traytor against his Soveraign or Countrey Having of old been a great stickler to procure Troubles in this Kingdom Having been very active in the Invasion of Eighty-Eight Receiving Bulls from Rome to dispose of the Crown against the Laws of the Land Very earnest to hinder King James right Heir to the Crown to obtain it One of the Grand Agitators in this Powder-Treason to destroy the King and Kingdom he himself at last confessing it That Catesby had told him of the Plot not by way of Confession That Greenwell had told him of this not as a Fault for how could they do so that approved of it as Meritorious but as a thing which he had Intelligence of and told it him by way of Consultation That Catesby and Greenwell came together to him to be resolved That Tesmond and he had Conference of the particulars of the Powder-Treason in Essex That Greenwell asked him Who should be Protector Garnet said That was to be referred till the Blow was past That he confest That he ought to have revealed it to the King That nothing deterred him from the discovery so much as his unwillingness to betray Catesby That he had greatly sinn'd against God the King and the Kingdom in not revealing it of whom he heartily begg'd pardon and forgiveness And that the Sentence of Judgment and Death was justly past on him Yet will they tell great things of his Holiness and Saintship which may sufficiently be confuted without any great trouble if we do but consider the Bloodiness and Sodomy of his youth the Seditions and Treasons of his after-after-years with his proneness to Perjury and Lying all which are no signs of Holiness To which might be added his noted familiarity even in his later days with Mrs. Ann Vaux who seldom Vid Bishop Abbot's Antilog cap. 9. fol. 135. parted from his side which occasioned some who knew not that he was in Orders to think that he was married to her Certain it is that sometimes she went under the Name of Anne Garnet and in her Letters writ to him even when in Prison for this last Treason she still subscribed her self Yours and not mine own A. G. And we have it from good Authority that Robert Winter of Hoodington in Warwickshire one of the Traytors did freely and openly testifie That the said Garnet did lye with her in Mr. Abington's House at Henlip in Worcester-shire And yet rather than fail in his Sanctity they can invent a pretty Miracle to witness it As how one John Wilkinson earnestly desiring to be a Spectator of Garnet's Martyrdom not doubting but that God would shew some Miracle or other to demonstrate he Father's Innocency Accordingly he went to the place of Execution Saint Paul's Church-yard setled himself as conveniently as he could staid till all was done got nothing but an ear of Corn tainted with a little of Garnet's blood belonging to the Straw of the Hurdle or Scaffold This he carrieth with him as an holy Relique and after some time Garnet's Face miraculously appeareth as painted on it a Crown on his Head and a Starr and a Cross on the Forehead with a Cherubim hanging over his Chin and Beams about all In short the truth of the story was thus Wilkinson a zealous Romanist and affected to the Jesuits might get a piece of a Straw tainted with Garnet's Blood a Straw or Ear of Corn with some Blood on it he carrieth to the Wife of Hugh Griffith a Traytor and Romanist by Profession This she puts into a Crystal Case and we need not doubt but that it was look'd upon with a great deal of Devotion but as yet nothing of a Face could be seen by any eye At last about the Eighteenth day of September 1606 viz. above six Months after Garnet was executed some of the zealous Romanists looking upon it saw that which they call'd the Face of a man Thus is a Miracle found out and Wilkinson hastes beyond Seas to the Jesuits at St. Omers telling them what a pretty wonder he had discovered for the honour of their Society into which he was presently enter'd But here we may observe that they confess that Wilkinson came from the said St. Omers into England a little before Garnet's Execution and it may be sent upon the cheat Again how cometh the Wonder to be above Four Months or about Nineteen Weeks in doing Or Might it not be done by Art since Francis Bowen to whom it was shewn by Garnet's Friend Mrs. Ann Vaux who had some skill in Painting confest an Artist might make one neater and presently upon the place for a trial one of the Arch-bishop of Canterbury's Gentlemen whose Profession was not Painting drew one which Bowen confest was like that of the Straw but a little better proportion'd and Practise daily teacheth us that Faces may be done in a less Compass As for the thing it self 't was only a few Lines drawn like a Face upon the outward Husk of a Grain of Wheat but without any such Beams or Glories about it as the Jesuits would make simple people believe nor any more like Garnet as Hugh Griffith the Taylor himself confest than any other man that had a Beard They tell us that St. Luke was an excellent Painter and drew * Pet. de Natalibus l. 9. c. 79 several Pictures of the B. Virgin Mary one of which 't is said Pope Gregory the Great * Nonius c. 61 Jo. Eus Nieremb de Mirac l. 1. c. 39. carried in his hand in the Procession he made about Rome to stop the Plague then raging there which very Picture he sent to St. Leander Bishop of Sevil in Spain which is yet kept to work wonders in the Monastery of Santa Mariae or Nuestra Sennora at Guadalupa in Estremadura Yet every Boy at Rome will tell us that this Picture is in a little Chappel built on purpose for it on late