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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A68000	A declaration of the true causes of the great troubles, presupposed to be intended against the realme of England VVherein the indifferent reader shall manifestly perceaue, by whome, and by what means, the realme is broughte into these pretented perills. Seene and allowed.	Verstegan, Richard, ca. 1550-1640.	1592 (1592)	STC 10005; ESTC S101164	40,397	78

Others tell of visions in the ayre which are enterpreted to presage detriment to those of the league Somtymes they are of prophesied victories before they happen and appointed tymes of the death of Princes as that the duke of Parma should die at martinmas 1590. Some are of triumphes of victories before they be obtayned as when the Earle of Essex was to go with his forces into Normandie Some haue bene set foorthe to make losses seeme victories as the discours of the Portugall voyage and the losse of the Reuenge And whereas there was one Caçalla others of his company executed for Heresy and Apostasie at Validolid in Spaine 30. yeares past the manner of this execution is in an English libell newly set foorth and said to be for profession of the Gospell and to be donne but of late In lyke sorte is very perticularly set downe the glorious constant martirdome of an Englishmā not lōg since in the towne of Dunkerck whose torments endured fowre dayes yet there was neuer any such man nor any such matter hard of in the said towne as all the inhabitants will witnesse So was it published that the King of Spaine whome the libeller calleth the Archtyrant of the world was dead And another libell that came foorthe of late entituled A fig for the Spaniard cōtradicteth that lie with another as manifest an vntruthe and saith that Phillip of Spaine is not dead but lyeth bedred In all these and sundry other lyke lybells it seemeth they haue chalenged vnto themselues a kynde of priuilege to raile and raue at Princes and to be-ly and slaunder whome they list and this good dealing is vsed for the aduauncement of the cause of the Gospell but argueth in dede that all the plotts and practizes of the aduetsary as they first were begun so haue they bene contynued and so are they still vpholden and vnderpropped with cogging foisting lying and coosining which equity truthe hathe euer detested and all honorable states and honest myndes do vtterly abhorr Neither is thesame able to continewe the vsurped credit of the newnamed Gospell but must needes in tyme bring it to extreeme hatred and contempt And it seemeth that the exceding malice of some of these libellers hath transported them into such a feruour of folly that they imagyne all Christendome without any question to the cōtraty bothe to knowe acknowledge Iohn Caluyns exposition of the Gospell as it is vnderstood in England to be the very Gospell of Christ in dede els would they neuer so peremptorily raile at other princes and people for not embracing thesame The Sacred Scripture and true Gospell of Christ as it hathe euer bene inuiolably preserued in the Catholike Churche so is it only of that Churche most highly esteemed and folowed And no Caluinists or other Sectaries haue any scripture at all that they haue not had from that Churche And by this true Gospell and woord of God the woord of Caluyne and misnamed Gospell of Protestants is clerely proued to be false and flat heresy And yf the English Gospellers will not stand to the iudgement of Catholikes in this point all the Lutherans of Germany will resolutely offer to prooue the same also out of a supposed Gospell of theirs which they as confidently chalenge to themselues as any Englishe Gospellers cā possibli claime any other And therefore my masters in England must not so run in crie with their peculier Gospell as to chyde others for nor following the same when they belieue it not to be true but do truly belieue it to be false And so leauing this later clause for A fig to the figmonger I wish the reader to suspect the discordant English Gospell of heresy and the Gospellers libells of malitious lies FINIS Much more in a vvoomā Hugenotes Cecill To sovv sedition D. Espernon Horne Iane d Albret Name of Cheuses Some vvrite 800000. A terrible encounter * the some is omitted in the printed copie Of Nouēber 1591. Anno. 1559. In the late proclamatiō Conditiōs of an vniuersall peace In the cōfutation of Brovvnisme At Paules crosse At vvest minster M. Haukins Cecill other his instruments The yeare deuyded into 13. monethes The States As the E. of Darby others The States M. Rauleghes dreame Leicester Hatton These 33. yeares Prosopopoia or mother Hubberds tale Ariosto This keeping of the ●●iue seale hath a mistery in it As Leicester and others The cōclusion Printed by vv Blac vvall Printed by Nelson 1590. Printed by VVoolf 1590. Printed by Allde 1591. Printed 1589. And by ponsonby 1591. Printed by Nelson 1591. Printed at Londō 1590. Printed by Purfoot 1591. Printed by VVoolf 1592. As in the forged cōfession Printed by VVoolf 1590. The figgiuer

none haue beene condēned but for treasō as they say their enditementes do shew in the recordes VVhereas yf they had recorded no more then had beene prooued as in all law and iustice they were bound they should not finde any one priest Ballard only excepted that euer had any imagination of treason prooued against him And notwithstanding all the aforesaid enfarced treasons conspiracies it is cōmonly seene that almost at euery araignment and execution Catholikes are offred their liues liberties yf they will but go to the Churche which doubtlesse can-be no satisfactiō for any temporall treason but only for matters of religiō VVhereofno mā of any vnderstanding can remaine ignorant except such as was the wise gentleman that told a freind of his that he had seene a Priest executed that letted not at the very tyme of his death to cōmitt Highe treason and being asked what it was answered that he began to say his Pater noster in Latin Is it possible quoth the other I assure you quoth this partie it is out of all doute for he begā to say it before a multitude of witnesses and would haue said it vnto the end but that as hap was the hangman was redy to dispatche him before he had half donne This diepe conceited person and such as was his compagnion will without any great scruple belieue the proclamation in saying that none are put to death for religion but for treason And the aduersary in somuch labouring to detaine from Catholikes the deserued honor and glory of the cause for which they suffer dothe thereby proclame his owne iniquitie and iniustice to all the world making that to be new Treason which is nothing els but old faith and religiō A thing as repugnāt vnto common sence as yf the Pope should make murther thefte or extorsion to be Heresy Yet such is his great and absurd impudēce that there is no treason that seemeth greater nor no crime more vnpardonable in England then there to be a Catholike nor yet any offence so seuerely punished There was neuer Scythian nor sauage Tartar that could vse more inhumaine cruelty then to rip vp the bodies of innocent men being perfectly aliue to teare out their entrailes to be consumed with fyre There was neuer Turk nor Barbarian that imposed vpon Christians so great and continuall a tribute as twenty poundes for euery eight-and-twentie dayes absence from their Moskeyes Nor there were neuer Arrians or other ennemyes since the generall persecutions of the Romaine Emperors that more vexed spoiled imprisoned and tortured Catholikes then dothe now the state of England And thus haue I abreuiated vnto the reader a huge volume of the present lamentable state of religion TOuching rhe second point concerning the nūber of exterior enemyes how mighte the case be other with England then now it is seeing that during the continuance of thirtie and three yeares they neuer sent foorth any one soldier nor neuer drew swoord in any iust quarrel or honorable action They neuer sought to endomage the Turk the comon enemy of Christendome nor neuer defended any lawful prince or King in all the world But haue inuented prosecuted the most dishonorable inglorious vniust and tyranicall actions that euer were practized by any Christian state VVhen the Queene of Scotland was in her owne realme and they acknowleged her for the lawful prince of that countrie did they giue aid vnto her or vnto her rebells In the tymes of Frauncis Charles and Henry the late Kinges of Fraunce was their assistance giuē to thē whome they knew to be lawful Kinges or to their rebells and as for the succour they do now giue vnto Nauarr his Huguenotes it is no otherwise then it was before when they acknowledged thē to be rebells In this long rebellion in the low countries whether haue they taken parte with the King their old cōfederate or with Orange the other rebells whē Sebastian king of Portugal warred with the Mahometaines of Africa gaue they ayd vnto the Christiās or vnto the infidells And since in the realme of Portugall gaue they help vnto the lawfull prince or to the bastard his rebell In the warres of Colen did the English succur the lawfull Bishop or the vnlawfull deposed apostata And yf we shal looke into sea matters see who it is that hathe set vp a publike piracie to spare neither freind nor foe Aske the Spanish the Frēch the Scottish the Flemish the Haūce townes yea the Indies and further partes of the earth who they are that do so cōtinually robbe and spoile thē Yf the English had but only procured the king of Spaine to be their enemy they needed not to haue soughte any others for neither England nor any other Christian country els hathe euer had any so great And as they haue made espetiall choise of the enmitie of the greatest so haue they employed the tyme of 33 yeares to deserue it And as for the King of Scotland albeit he do dissemble amōg many lesse iniuries one so great as the cutting of of his owne mothers head yet some of his owne nation being of good intelligence haue said vnto straungers in defence of their Kinges honor that albeit they of England haue cut of the head of his mother he must not therefore by vn-tymely reuenge cut him-self from the possibilitie of that crowne But hauing once obtained thesame he will then fall to the cutting of of the heades of those that assented to that action and to the confiscatiō of their landes and goodes therewith to reward his freindes followers and so demonstrate vnto the world that he could politikely chuse a tyme conueniēt to discharge such duty as is incident vnto the honor and reputation of a King And touching Fraunce albeit that by the death of the three late Kinges the iniuries dōne vnto them cannot be by them remembred yet the people of the realme that were participāt of the wrōges are still lyuing in whome the desyre of reuenge is of late newly reuyued throughe the assisting of the Huguenote of Nauarr their capitall enemy but not their lawfull King And last of all which of al other is the greatest there extreme enmitie with the chief Bishop pastor of Gods Churche VVhereof ensueth their general discord with all the Catholike Christiās of the world Thus the realme of England being brought into breach of amitie not only with the Churche of God but with all their old alies and freindes yf we now consider with whome they are ioyned in true freindship we shal fynde them to be so fewe as none at all since they haue neither spared to offend freind nor foe But yf we looke what new confederates they haue chosen in stede of the old we shall see them to be the great Turk the kinges of Fesse Marocco and Algiers or other Mahometains and Moores of Barbarie all professed enemies to Christ. Against whome some of the most noble and famous kinges of England went