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A01507	A newyeares gifte dedicated to the Popes Holinesse, and all Catholikes addicted to the Sea of Rome: preferred the first day of Ianuarie, in the yeare of our Lorde God, after the course and computation of the Romanistes, one thousand, fiue hundreth, seauentie and nine, by B.G. citizen of London: in recompence of diuers singular and inestimable reliques, of late sent by the said Popes Holinesse into England, the true figures and representations whereof, are heereafter in their places dilated.	B. G. (Bernard Garter); Tunstall, Cuthbert, 1474-1559. Letter written by Cutbert Tunstall late Byshop of Duresme, and Iohn Stokesley somtime Byshop of London.; Stokesley, John, 1475?-1539.; Googe, Barnabe, 1540-1594.	1579 (1579)	STC 11629; ESTC S102867	65,066	113

auntiente house of Westmerlande and the deathe of the Earle of Northumberlande and manye other as Norton Markamvielde and others whyche haue steyned themselues with Treason and vndone their houses for euer There were also at that time many Bayliffes and Constables to the number of thrée hundred or vpwarde hanged whiche well deserued it in that they commaunded menne in the Quéenes name to goe to that Campe the Camp where the Rebels lay But Northerne men may say that euill is that camping where the Gallowes winnes the Goale These thyngs will not be forgotten in the North partes these hundreth yeares And therefore take héede Papistes and thinke that Northerne men will not Rebell for they haue payde for their learning You maye not vaunt as you were wont to doe saying you were sure that all the North would take your partes for if you make your reckning so you recken without your hoste for neyther Lordes nor Lurdeynes can rayse them withoute commaundemente from the Prince Therefore good Subiectes vouchsafe to reade this little Booke whereby you may learne to obey the Quéenes Highnesse truely and to detest the Popes fayned holynesse vtterly Thys little Booke or Letter was written in Anno 1537. and in the thirtith yeare of the Raigne of our late Soueraigne Lorde of famous memorie Kyng HENRYE the eyght at what time Reginalde Poole was made Cardinall for Cosma and Damian by Paule the third Bishop of Rome so as the Papistes can not mislike it for the noueltie for it carieth some antiquitie and was written aboue fortie yeares sithence Thus for my part I fare like hym whiche hathe founde a Purse or Capcace of another mans and then like a playne true dealing man maketh enquirie who is the owner of it Euen so doe I cause thys little Booke to bée newe Printed that the right owners may be knowen And sithence they be dead long agoe that the Quéenes good Subiectes maye haue it amongst them as the authoures meante it in their lyfe time And thus I ende praying God to endue hir Maiestie with perfecte health and all felicitie long and triumphantly to raigne and rule ouer vs and to turne the heartes of Papistes and to make them all good Subiects to the glorie of God and strength of the Realme Amen w. w. The Argument of the foresayde Booke or Letter commended vnto thee TH' aspiring mind causd Reynold Poole to swarue And to become a Traytor to the King Troth tryes it out and law and iustice bring Vnto his mates such death as they deserue He quakes for feare and through the Seas doth carue To Rome and there is by the holy Pope Made Cardnall and obteynes a larger scope With might and mayne Poole then the Pope doth serue And sayth the King may not be supreme head Two learned men which do lament his fall Send him this Booke that follie to forbid Yet he God wot regards it not at all But like an Asse doth for a Scarlet hatte Forsake his God his King and Countrey flatte B.G. B. G. To the Reader THou séest right gentle Reader in the fourtéene short lines last before written the argumente of the Booke or Letter whiche was written to Cardinall Poole which my right Worshipfull and approued good friend when he had perused and ioyed to sée and reade desired greately to perticipate his benefite vnto thée chiefly bycause the wéede whiche at that time choked the minds of the subiects of the triumphant King of immortal memorie Henry the eyght our late Soueraigne Lorde touching the Supremacie now eftsoones breaketh forth to the intollerable annoy of the déere and louing subiects of our most dread naturall and soueraigne Lady Elizabeth by the grace of God Quéene of Englande France and Irelande defendor of the faith and in earthe of the Church of England and Ireland next and immediately vnder Christ the sole and alonely supreme head the daughter and vndoubted heire of hir saide late father King Henry the eyght But what haue I said Supreme head in earth of the Church of England and Ireland next vnder Christ Yea forsooth what make you then of the Popes holynesse may be your demaund I aunswere that I make of the Bishop of Rome so farre forthe as he be a Christian and the seruaunt of God the like and as large accompt for his circuit though not with so great dutie bycause I am an Englishman and not of his Dioces as I make of any Bishop in Englande within his iurisdictiō vnder oure sayde Soueraigne Lady so long as the same Bishop of Rome kéepeth him within his compasse and acknowledgeth himselfe subiect to the King of that Territorie but so farre forth as he standeth harlot like vpon the type of hys worldly pompe I take him to be that Antechrist whiche Paule calleth the man of Sinne and child of perditiō You may further aske me howe if the Pope himselfe be King there I answere that how if with how if not for if Christ whose Uicar on earth the Pope claymeth to be sayth Iohn 18. My Kingdome is not of this world the Pope if he be not Antechrist can not haue kingdome in this world Me thinkes I sée the Papist smile in his sléeue for in déede he is a smooth faced fellowe at this my simple conuersion saying that I haue framed a goodly argument that is bycause the Kingdome of Christ is not of the world therefore the Popes holynesse may not be a King in Christendome as if it should be said bycause the Kingdome of HENRYE the eyght reached not ouer Europe therfore ELIZABETH his right heire may not be Quéene of England and Ireland Let me smile wyth him againe I pray you for I will yéelde him that Kingdome in Christendome which Christ did weare the earthlie Crowne of let him likewise yéelde to euery King royaltie in his owne Kingdome That I will yéelde it the Papist laugheth agayne and so must I to for in déede for me to yéeld to the Pope a terrestiall Crowne in earth and for the Pope to yéeld vnto me a celestiall Crowne in Heauen haue both like warrant and like follie and may be equally laughed at if damnable things include iest for I without treason to my Prince can not thinke the one nor he without Treason to Christ grant the other for Christ hathe reserued the Spirituall Supremacie of his vniuersall Churche vnto himselfe and the terrestiall gouernement of his people to earthly Princes vnder whome they are gouerned and tryed as golde in the furnace and happie is that lande and people whyche haue a godly Prince on earthe to beare the sway and haue Supremacie héere nexte vnder God and amongst the happyest we Englishmen most happie in our gracious Quéene ELIZABETH whose lyfe and Supreme gouernemente I beséeche the almighty Lorde long to continue ouer vs And the same God for hys Chrystes sake hathe bestowed that supremacie on oure Quéene within hyr owne Realmes whiche the Pope falsely chalengeth through all Christian Regions For there is no

power but of God and therevppon Sainte Peter sayeth in hys firste Epistle to the Romanes the seconde Chapter as in the former Preface is alleadged Be yee subiect to all humane ordinance for the Lords sake whether it be vnto the King as to the most excellente c. Nowe if the Kyng bée most excellente who maye bée hys supreme If Peter whose successoure the Pope claymeth to bée dothe putte it from hymselfe to the Kyng howe then can the Pope wythout shame challenge it sithence in the spirite of truth Peter foreséeyng the Pryde of the Pope séemed before any Pope was to forewarne of the incomprehensible Pryde of the same Pope Thou mayest aske of me by what authoritie the Kings of the earthe holde thys supremacie I saye the wordes of Saincte Peter graunte it Thou sayest agayne that texte is often alleadged I aunswere thys little Booke following wyll shewe thée manye other authorities and to that purpose it is imprinted agayne But bycause thou shalte not runne emptie so farre lette mée demaunde of thée a question or two Who delyuered to the Israelites the Lawe of God Aaron the Prieste thou wilte saye and true Of whome dyd Aaron receyue it of Moyses thou knowest And of whome dyd Moyses take it euen from the holy hande of Almightie god When Idolatrie fell amongst the Israelites who redressed it not Aaron I warrante you but Moyses who directed the Arke of God I pray you no Priest of them all I assure thée but Kyng Dauid hymselfe And thus from tyme to tyme and at all tymes the Kyng from the hande of God and the Priest from the King receyueth authoritie Vnus est enim Legislator Iudex qui potest perdere liberare For there is one Lawgiuer which can destroy and saue He wil not varie his word is permanēt He hath appointed al earthly power to the Kings of the earth their hearts are in his hande Then reade this little booke and be fully satisfied in the premises But bycause the grauity of the Authors only admonish an Archtraytor to renoūce his follie againe to become subiect to his liege soueraigne Lorde whose bounty the traytour had largely felte and whose liberalitye he had with treacherie requited I summon thy déepe iudgement perfectly to ponder both the one and the other and to satisfie thy selfe in that whiche the touchstone of truth the sincere word of God shall be thy warrant in and giue me leaue sithence my calling claymeth not so sage direction to touche his Papacie and the paltrie thereof in playner tearmes without Premunire for I promise thée I wil obserue the lymits of humanitie to my vttermost endeuor wil not be long in that I will write reade them as thou likest way thē as thou wilt always remembring that the marke thou must hit is set and fully expressed in thys booke the reste is but a worke gathered by a lesse skilfull workeman only set down bycause an olde matter shal not come out without some new addition I make no argumēt of my worke bycause I will not stande long vpon any one thing neither doe I will thée to reade more than thou well likest of bycause the old worke is it which only is cōmended to thée But if thy grauitie will permit thée thou shalte finde in some of my pamphlets matter to delight thée yet not digressing frō the pretended purpose If frō the same y falshood of the Pope be any thing at al detected my laboure is not lost If Christ be at all glorified I haue wonne a cōquest If thou accept it I haue to thanke thée and am hereafter at thy request to do for thée what I can In the meane space I commend thée to the almightie and praye thée and all men to rest humble peticioners to the euerlasting God to length the prosperous raigne of our most merciful Quéene his seruaunt and our supreame soueraigne on earth in perfect health of bodie and Soule twice natures course to rule and raigne ouer vs AMEN ❧ A LETTER WRITten by Cutbert Tunstall late Bishop of Duresme and Iohn Stokesley sometime Bishop of London so acknowledged confessed by the said Cutbert about 14. dayes before his departure out of this his naturall life in presence of the most Reuerend Father in God Matthew thē Archbishop of Caunterbury others which letter was sent by the same two Bishops to Reginald Pole Cardinall beeing then at Rome and sometime Archbishop of Caunterbury FOR the good will that wée haue borne vnto you in times past as long as you continued the kings true subiect wée cannot a little lament and mourne that ye neither regarding the inestimable kindenesse of the Kings highnesse héeretofore shewed vnto you in your bringing vp nor the honour of the house that ye bée come off nor the wealth of the Country that ye bée borne in should so decline from your duety to your Prince that yée should bée seduced by faire woordes and vaine promises of the Bishop of Rome to winde with him going about by all meanes to him possible to pull downe and put vnderfoote your naturall Prince and Maister to the destruction of the Country that hath brought you vp and for a vaine glorie of a red Hat to make your selfe an instrument to sette foorth his malice who hath styrred by all meanes that hée could all such Christian Princes as would giue eare vnto him to depose the Kinges highnesse from his kingdome and to offer it as a pray to them that should execute his malice and to stirre if hée could his subiects against him in stirring nourishing rebellions in his realme where the office and duetie of all good Christian men and namely of vs that be Priests should be to bring al cōmotion to tranquilitie all trouble to quietnesse all discord to concord in dooing the contrarie we shew our selues to be but the ministers of Sathan not of Christ who ordeined al vs that be Priests to vse in all places the legation of peace not of discord But since that cannot be vndone that is done second it is to make amends to follow the doing of the prodigal sonne spoken off in the Gospell who retourned home to his father was well accepted as no doubt ye might bée if ye will say as he said in knowledging your folly do as hee did in retourning home again frō your wādering abroad in seruice of them who little care what come of you so that their purpose by you be serued And if you be moued by your conscience that you cannot take the king our Master as Supreme head of the Church of England bicause the Bishop of Rome hath heretofore many years vsurped the name vniuersally ouer all the Church vnder pretence of the Gospell of Mathew saying Tu es Petrus super hanc petram aedificabo Ecclesiam meam Thou art Peter vpon this rocke I wil builde my Church Surely that text many of the

Patriarches yea the bishops of Rome all other And it is written in the Cronicles Dixit Dauid Salamoni Ecce diuisiones Sacerdotum Leuitarum in omne ministeriū domus Domini assistent tibi parati erunt Et Dauid constituit principem ad confitendū Domino Asaph fratres eius Et Constituit Iosaphat in Ierusalem Leuitas Sacerdotes principes familiarum ex Israëll vt iudicium causam Domini iudicarent habitatoribus eius praecepitque eis dicens Sic agetis in timore Domini fideliter corde perfecto c. Dauid saith to Salomon Behold the Priests and Leuits deuided in companies to do all manner of seruice that perteineth to the house of God shal assist thée and be ready And in the xvj Chapter Dauid dyd appoint chiefly to thanke the Lord Asaph and his brethren c. And Iosaphat the king did constitute Leuits and Priests the auncient heades of Israel that they should iudge the iudgement the causes of the Lord towards all the inhabitants of the earth And he charged them saying Thus shall ye doe in the feare of the Lord faithfully in a perfect heart Rex constituit turmas Sacerdotales Leuiticas vnumquēque in officio suo Et sequitur Ezechias praecepit populo vt darent part●s Sacerdotibus qui dedit consequenter decimas Et sequitur quod ad regem cum Azaria Sacerdote pertinet omnis dispensatio domus Domini eorum qui ad eam attinent Et in fine Fecit ergo Ezechias vniuersa quae diximus in omni Iuda operatusque est bonum rectum verum coram Domino Deo suo in vniuersa cultura ministerij domus Domini iuxta legem ceremonias volens requirere deum suum in toto corde suo fecitque prosperatus est Iosias quoque constituit Sacerdotes in officijs suis mandauitque plurima c. Furthermore Ezechias did appoint the Priests the Leuites in their order to waite by course euery man according to his office whether Priest or Leuit for the burnt offerings peace offerings to minister to thank to pray in the gates of the lodge of the lord And Ezechias gaue commaundement to the people dwelling in Hierusalem that they should giue their portions to the Priestes and Leuites that they might attende on the lawe of the lord And that by the precepte of Ezechias the king and of Azarias the Bishop of the house of the Lord all things were done to whom perteined all the dispensation of the house of the lord And in the ende it is said Ezechias did all those things in all Iury he wrought that which was good right and true before his Lord God in all the furniture of the ministerie of the house of the Lord according to the lawe and ceremonies desirous to séeke his Lord God withall his heart as he did and prospered therein Iosias also did ordeine Priestes in their offices and commaunded many things By al which it may appeare that Christian Kings be souereigns ouer the Priestes as ouer all other their subiects and maye commaund the Priestes to doe their offices as well as they doe other And ought by their supreme office to sée that all men of all degrées doe their dueties wherevnto they he called either by God or by the king And those kings that so doe chiefly doe execute well their office So that the kings highnesse taking vpon him as supreme head of the Church of England to sée that as well spirituall men as temporal do their duties doth neither make innouation in the Churche nor yet trouble the order thereoff But doth as the chiefe and the best of the kinges of Israll did and as all good Christian kings ought to doe Which office good Christian Emperours alwaies tooke vpon them in calling the vniuersall counsels of all countries in one place and at one time to assemble to the intent all heresies troubling the Church might be there extyrped calling commaunding as well the Byshop of Rome as other Patriarches and all Primats aswel of the East as of the West of the South and of the North to come to the sayde counsels As Marlianus the Emperour did in calling the great counsaile of Calcedon one of the foure chiefe and first generall counsailes commaunding Leo then Bishoppe of Rome to come thereto And albeit Leo neither lyked the time whiche hée woulde for a season shoulde haue bene deferred nor yet the place which he woulde haue had in Italy where the Emperour by his owne commaundement had called it to Calchis in Asia yet he aunswered the Emperour that he would gladly obey his commaundement and sent thether his agents to appeare ther for him As doth appeare in the Epistles of Leo to Martian the Emperor xli.xlvii.xlviii and in the xlix epistle to Pulcheria Empresse And lykewise desireth Theodosius the Emperour to commaund a councel of Bishops to be called in Italy for taking away such contentions and troubles as at that time troubled the quietnesse of the Churches And in many moe Epistles of the same Leo it doth manifestly appeare that the Emperours alwayes assembled generall councells by their commaundements And in the sixte councell generall it appeareth very playnly that at that time the Bishops of Rome made no clayme nor vsed title to cal them selfe heads vniuersal ouer all the Catholique church as ther doth apere In subscriptione seu saluatione synodica suggestionis antedictae which is thus ad verbum Pijssimis Dominis serenissimis victoribus triūphatoribus dilectis filijs Dei Domini nostri Iesu Christi Constantino Magno Imperatori Heraclio Tiberio Augustis Agatho Episcopus seruus seruorum Dei cum vniuersis synodis subiacentibus concilio Apostolicae sedis In the superscription or salutacion of the aforesayd synodicall preamble which is thus word for word To the most godly Lords most noble victors conquerours the welbeloued children of God and of our Lord Iesu Christ to Constantine the great Emperour to Eraclius and Tiberius Caesars Bishop Agatho the seruaunt of the seruauntes of God with all the conuocations subiect to the counsell of the Sea Apostolique sendeth gréetings and sayth expressing what countries he reckned and comprehended in that superscription or salutacion It followeth that these were vnder his assembly which were in the North and East parts So that at that time the Bishop of Rome made no suche pretence to be ouer and aboue all as hée now doth by vsurpation vendicating to himselfe the spirituall kingdome of Christ by which he reigneth in the hearts of all faythfull people and then chaungeth it to a temporall kingdome ouer and aboue all kings to depose them for his pleasure preaching therby Carnē pro spiritu terrenum regnum pro coelesti in damnationem nisi resipiscat suam The flesh for the spirite an earthly kingdome for an heauenly to his owne damnation if he repent not Where he ought

to obey his Prince by the doctrine of Saint Peter in hys first Epistle saying Subiecti estote omni humanae creaturae propter Deum siue regi quasi praecellenti siue ducibus tanquam ab eo missis ad vindictam malefactorum laudem vero bonorum Be ye subiect to euery mans ordinaunce for the Lords sake whether to the king as to the chiefe whether to the dukes as sent of him to the punishment of the euill doers to the prayse of the good Againe Saint Paul. Omnis omnia potestatibus sublimioribus subdita sit with other things before alleaged So that this his pretended vsurpation to be aboue all kings is directly againste the Scriptures giuen to the Churche by the Apostles whose doctrine whosoeuer ouerturneth can be neyther Caput nor Infimum membrum Ecclesiae Wherefore albeit ye haue héeretofore sticked to the said wrongfully vsurped power moued therto as ye write by your conscience yet sithens now ye sée further if ye list regard the méere truth and such auncient authours as you haue bene written to off in times past we would exhort you for the wealth of your soule to surrender into the Bishop of Romes handes your red hat by which he seduced you trusting to haue of you béeing come of a noble bloode an instrument to aduaunce his vayne glory wherof by the sayd hat he made you participant to allure you thereby the more to his purpose In which doing yée shall retourne to the truthe from which you haue erred doe your duetie to your souereigne Lord from whom ye haue declined and please thereby almightie God whose lawes ye haue transgressed And in not so doing ye shall remaine in errour offending both almightie God and your naturall souereigne Lorde whome chiefely ye ought to search to please Which thing for the good minde that we héeretofore haue borne you we pray almightie God of his infinite mercy that you do not Amen AT LONDON Imprinted by H. B. ¶ The maner and meanes of the Popes beginning Like as THe Iuie budde which from the beake of Iay Falles to the ground a thing of moment small By some kinde meanes at first is clad in clay Then taketh roote and after ginnes to scrall In groueling wise vpon the slipprie grounde And smoothly so with leaues and tenders softe Holdes on the course till some strong tree bee founde Through whose stoute helpe it may climbe vppe alofte Thereto it commes and at the lowest foote Takes holde of barke and body doth embrace And feeling then increase of sappe and root Doth still climbe vppe and windeth to the face Of that same tree and girds it in so faste As Iuie lyues but tree is killde at laste Euen so the Pope By warrant small or none at all to find In sacred writte in humble flattring wise At firste did seeke to please the hawtie minde Of Christian Kings by whome he sought t'arise And cleauing so vnto that mightie stay Lifte vppe himselfe into his stately throne And by degrees hath got the rule and sway Of al the world and subiect is to none Not so content doth counterchecke the Lord Whose Vicar sole on earth he claymes to be To Christian Kings no rule he will afforde For all is his and none must rule but he And so the prop whereby he got his strength He would confound and ouerthrow at length Euen like a Pope How proue you that Thus COnstantinus which the Monarchie did holde Of Christendome an Emperoure full good Gaue to the Pope who then might be controlde A sorte of lands which did exalt his bloude But warely yet preuenting Prelates pride Did call his gifte the patrimon of Church Till afterwardes the Papistes do decide That title and to giue the troth a lurche They by that sparke do kindle first their fire Whereby they claime dominion of the Weast And then likewise to place the Pope the higher They seeke which way to breed the Prince vnrest And Iuie like would wrap in homage bande The mightie Prince which gaue him first that lande In subtile wise For Steuchus writes in flattry of the Pope Gainst Valla that th'Emperour did giue To Rome the landes of all the Westerne scope And he himselfe euen whiles that Pope did liue Did graunt the Pope to be the greater state And therevpon is ordred by decree Rome to be chiefe and haue no earthly mate And that the Pope must rule and none but hee In matters of Religion forsooth Nor other King hee will not there vouchsafe Bicause his sacred sword eache wrong must smooth And thus both swordes you see the Pope will haue And Iuie like paste shame doth pull adowne Th' empire great that gaue to him renowne In wonted guise Once is no custome Then another touching the Charitie of the Pope ALexander the thirde of that same name Succeeded Adrian that was callde the fourth Whome Fredrike erst that Emperour of fame Lovde well and gaue him gifts of greatest worth But Wealth made Pride and Pride did cause the beast To swell in minde and beare himselfe so high As of the reste hee made the Emprour leaste And thought himselfe an ace aboue the skie Good Fredrike then repenting of his deede Thought good t' abase a beast that so coulde rage And thrust him out of Germany with speede The Prelates pride and peoples wrath t' asswage The Priest doth storme and sweares he will requite Th'Emprours acte with sword and cruell spight If he were Pope And Pope hee was and then immediatly The smothring heat thrust forth a frantike fire His cursed Buls against this Prince doe fly With roughest rage to quenche the Popes desire The Pope doth cause th' Italians to rebell And for to builde the Citie of great fame Of Alexandrîa bycause he would expell The Prince himselfe and tooke the Cities name Not so content at Venice afterwarde Th'Emprour is where Pope through passing pride Alonely not vilependes the Prince nor sparde In worde and deede from modestie to slide But caused him full humblie to kneele downe And with his foote stroke off the Royall Crowne VVhen he was Pope The vvorst is saide ¶ The liues of .ij. Popes vz. Alexander the second and Gregorie the seauenth THen hearken to the best which I wil wright plainely bycause the fewer exceptions shall be taken and also bycause in one Glasse thou maiste sée the liues of many Popes or at least the mischiefes which abound in manye of them And yet I wil but briefly touch the blacke vertues of one Pope to witte Gregorie the seauenth which before was called Hildebrandus by his nation an Hetruscan by his Countrey of Senensis by his sect a Monk of Cluniacensis But to shew him the playner I muste begin with his Predecessor Alexander the second whom the same Hildebrand did both electe and ouerthrow thereby to make himselfe Pope THis Alexander the seconde Pope of that name by his countrey a Millionese and Bishop of Lucensis was named before he came