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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A03321	Daungerous positions and proceedings published and practised within the iland of Brytaine, vnder pretence of reformation, and for the presbiteriall discipline.	Bancroft, Richard, 1544-1610.	1593 (1593)	STC 1344.5; ESTC S100666	124,113	192

it is verified most properly in her most excellent Maiestie Whether you respect the Reformation of Religion which her Highnesse hath made in this Church of England according to the noble examples of Moses Iosua Dauid Salomon Iosaphat Ezechias Iosias c. or whether you respect not onely the reliefe which strangers persecuted at home for the profession of the Gospell haue here receiued or her Maiesties great and vnspeakeable charges for the ayding and assisting of other Christian States Princes and countries that for their profession of the same right Religion are mightily afflicted by certaine Gyantes of the earth the souldiers and members of that Antichrist of Rome So as in these and many other respects which do concurre with them I neither doubt that her Maiesty whom the Lord protect with his mighty hande long to raigne ouer vs shall bee for euer renowned amongst the most famous Queenes that euer liued in the worlde or that the Church of England so refourmed by her Highnesse is presently at this day the most Apostolike and flourishinge Church simply that is in all Christendome Howbeit let a Church be as richly planted as euer any was before or in the Apostles times Let either Moses with his Aaron or Dauid with all his Councellors gouerne both the Church and Common-wealth as godly as euer any was gouerned yet such is and euer hath been the malice and cunning of Sathan as that he wanteth not at any time either will or meanes to slaunder to depraue and to endanger the same He hath his Core Dathan and Abiram that if need bee dare presume to tell both Moses and Aaron they take too much vpon them Hee is able to set the children of one father the seruants of one master the subiects of one Prince and the members of one Church at dissention at deadly hatred amongst themselues As occasion serueth hee hath his Shemeis to curse King Dauid also his murmurers complayners mockers makers of sectes such as despise gouernement which are presumptuous men that stand in their lewde conceits such as feare not to speak euill of those things they know not and of them that are in dignity that is of Princes and great men be they neuer so high in authority The experience which wee haue hereof at this day in the Church of England is more then pregnant partly through the diuelish and traiterous practises of the Seminary Priests and Iesuites and partly by reason of the lewd and obstinate course held by our pretended refourmers the Consistorian Puritanes both of them labouring with all their might by rayling libelling and lying to steale away the peoples harts from their gouernours to bringe them to a dislike of the present state of our Church and to drawe them into parts-taking the one sort for the embracing of such directiōs as should come vnto them from Rome the other for the establishing of that counterfeit and false Hierarchie which they would obtrude vppon vs by the countenance and name of the Church at Geneua The which proceedings of both the sorts of disturbers are so much the more dangerous in that they deale so secretely and haue combined themselues together with their Proselites into such a league aud confederacy as get out what you can your felfe by meere chance as they say for the discouery of their actions and attempts you shall bee sure that neither the one sort nor the other will detect any thing Nay matters beeing detected in some sort to their handes they will vtterly refuse to bee examined as law prescribeth or if they take any oathe it is as good neuer a whit as neuer the better they dally so exceedingly with it For vnder pretence of not accusing themselues if they finde any thing to be come to light which may any waies touch them they will vtterly refuse for the most part to answere it either vpon oath or without oath saying that neither by the Lawes of God nor man they are bound so to answere Vnder colour whereof they exempt themselues from the ordinary course helde in iustice for criminall causes throughout all the world which is that before witnesses be produced against any supposed offender the party accused shall first answere to the accusation yea or nay c. as wee vse in England and that in matters of life and death but in these without an oathe hee must first pleade guilty or not guilty And as they deale for themselues so doo they for their confederates their fauourers relieuers abetters and receiuers affirming it to be against the rules of charity to bring their Christian brethren and frends into any daunger for doing of those things which both the sorts of these seducers haue drawne them into and doo themselues iudge to be religious and iust From these points all the Iudges of the land and diuers Diuines that haue dealte with them as yet cannot bringe them both the sorts are so setled in this seditious doctrine of Rhemes which is as followeth vz. If thou be put to an oath to accuse Catholikes for seruing God as they ought to doo or to vtter any innocent man to Gods enemies and his thou oughtest first to refuse such vnlawfull oathes but if thou haue not constancie and courage so to doo yet know thou that such oathes binde not at all in conscience and law of God but may and must be broken vnder paine of damnation Now in these confederacies what course should be taken for the preuenting of such daungers as may thereby ensue I referre it to be throughly considered by those that haue the gouernement both of the Church and Common-weale committed vnto them But before they can be preuented they must be vnderstood Concerning the Seminary Priests and Iesuites their very comming into the land doth declare their traiterous intentions What alleageance and loue soeuer they pretend vppon their apprehension to her Maiesty and their countrey it is very well knowne they doo it but for the time rebus sic stantibus that their comming hether is to no other purpose but to make away for the Pope and the Spaniardes the sworne and mortall enemies both to this state and to all other that doo professe the right refourmed religion of Christ. But for the other sort of practitioners their proceedings and designements are not so well as yet discouered Their pretences doo carry a greater shew of good meanings many that are indeede truely zealous little suspecting what hookes doo lie hidde vnder such faire baites are dayly carried as we see headlong with them In respect whereof you are to be aduertised that as it is an easie matter by looking to the said Popish and Spanish practises to knowe in generality their Seminaries dealinges here amongst vs be they in particularity neuer so secrete so are there certaine men in other countries of the same humors with our pretended refourmers whose courses and proceedings as wel for the matters they desire as for the manner of attaining

and all in effect that was laid to their charges was discouered His Letters were intercepted wherein he writeth after this sort Reuerend and beloued this day Aprill the 7. I haue beene againe before the Commissioners After much adoo I obtained to see and peruse the Articles against mee but briefly and in their presence onely they are many 36. 37. besides those vnder mine owne hand and very large some twelue some twenty lines long consisting of many branches As far as I could for the time conceaue and remember they may be referred to these two heads some concerning may selfe together with others and some touching my selfe alone The former sort are touching Classes and Synodes wherein there are mentioned particular places London Oxford Cambridge times Act Commencement Sturbridge fayre Tearme persons Cartwright Perkins Trauers Charke Egerton Barbon Stone Snape Knewstub Allin Dike diuers others c. and some things dealt in and agreed vpon c. By all which besides many other thinges specified it is most euident that they haue manifest and certaine knowledge not onely of generals but also of specials and particulars Beloued I haue twise appeared before the high Commissioners the first time the issue was prison the second close prison This is my state now the causes of both and the proceedings in both you stall receaue of Maister Knightlye the former more large in a Dialogue the latter more briefly in a Letter both vnperfect both vnperused reade them and returne them with what speede you may for I haue now no coppy of them let them be wisely kept lest they breede more anger I haue procured another coppy to be sent to Master Stone that in both places you might be forewarned forearmed Touching the conferences those of our Countrey are yet more particularly discouered persons besides those there named Kinge of Coleworth Prowdloe of Weeden c. Spicer of Cogenho Edwardes of Cortenhall c. places Sharpes house at Fawseley Snapes chamber at Northampton c. Si quis coniecturae sit locus I would iudge Iohn Iohnson to haue beene the man because to my remembrance persons and thinges of his time beeing mentioned hee onely is not named Whosoeuer and howsoeuer wee see the Lord calleth vs to be more resolute They will not they cannot be any longer concealed now whether it were better and more safe that one man with the consent of the rest should boldly freely and wisely confesse and lay open c. or that some weake or wicked man shoulde without consent and in euill sort acknowledge c. Iudge you the thing they ayme-at is A conuenticle It must come to tryall In the cause of murther c. it is wont to be enquired whether the party fled vpon it consider and apply to this matter and the Lord giue vs wisedome in all things It were good you sent to T. C. with speede CHAP. IX Cartwright is called for by authority a Synode is held in London it is there resolued that he shall refuse to be examined vppon his othe AFterwarde the same yeare before mentioned 1590. in September as I take it Maister Cartwright vpon occasion was sent for by the sayd Commissioners Now about a weeke or a fortnight before Cartwright was committed sayth Maister Stone whereas the question mentioned by Snape to Barbon the brethren which as it seemeth troubled them all vz. whether it were not fit that one man with the consent of the rest should boldly freely and wisely confesse and lay open c. came to be disputed in London There was a Synode or meeting held at Maister Gardiners by these brethren Maister Cartwright Maister Charke Maister Trauerse Maister Egerton Maister Cardiner Maister Barbon Maister Barber maister Oxenbridge maister Gelibrand master Culuerwel my selfe and certaine other Ministers and they did then and there debate and consider amongst themselues whether it were fit or conuenient that the said maister Cartwright after his commitment to prison should discouer or reueale all or any the matters which passed in conference and disputation in any of their former assemblies or not What the resolution hereof was whether through the examiners ouersight or Maister Stones peruersenesse I know not but it is not set downe Howbeit the effects which followed do make it manifest For maister Cartwright about the time before limited being conuented and moued in the Consistory at Paules by the Bishop of London the then two Lordes chiefe Iustices maister Iustice Gawdy maister Sergeant Puckering now Lord Keeper of the great Scale of England maister Attorney Generall now Lorde Chiefe Iustice of England and diuers others her Maiesties Commissioners then present to take his oth to answere to certaine Interrogatories yet notwithstanding that the chiefe points of them were then deliuered in generall tearmes vnto him that the said both honourable and graue persons did euery man seuerally assure him vpon their credits that by the lawes of the Realme he was bound to take his oath therevpon to answere as he was required he desired to be borne withall and said that hee thought he was not bound by the lawes of God so to do CHAP. X. Further proofe for their practise of their Discipline collected out of the rules of their subscribed booke IF hitherto as yet the point I haue in hand be not sufficiently prooued vz. that our English reformers haue attempted after the Scottish Ministers fashion to bring into the Church of England their pretended Disciplinarian gouernement of themselues and by their owne authority without any further staying as they had done for the ciuill Magistrate albeit they pretende now the contrary then it is fit that I produce some further matter to this purpose Amongst sundry things in the said booke of Discipline let these few be well considered of weighed It is there sayd Presbyterium in singulis ecclesiis constituendum est there ought to be erected in euery Church a Presbyterie Now if they had meant as it is pretended not to haue put their book or at the least some chiefe parts thereof in practise vntill it should haue beene established by Act of Parliament they would haue sayde for constituendum est there ought to bee erected constituatur let there bee erected in euery parish a Presbyterie Againe in all their assemblies prescribed in the booke this was one point to be still inquired of vtrum disciplina vigeat whether the Discipline had any life in it or were esteemed or continued which question had beene friuolous and very vnmeete to haue beene continued as prescribed by Law if the Discipline it selfe had beene allowed by Act of Parliament before that question should haue beene moued Furthermore saith the booke in funeribus desuescendum est commodè ab habendis concionibus quod periculum sit ne superstitionem quorundam foueant aut vanitati inseruiant The Preachers must leaue-of by little and little as they may conueniently to preach at burials least thereby they