first that made Seminaries at Doway a severe enemy to the Protestants and as fierce a maintainer of the power of Rome and the King of Spain of both which this one Example may satisfie Queen Elizabeth having sent some aid into the Netherlands against the Spaniard Sir William Stanley was made Governour of Deventer in Over-Issel which he presently betraying his trust deliver'd with himself and Garrison to the Spaniard by which he lost by common consent the reputation of Subject Gentleman and Souldier but Dr. Allain thinking to quell these rumours and to encourage the new Renegado's by a Letter from Rome sends Stanley and his Regiment not onely thanks and Commendations for this their action but as he thought a sufficient vindication too part of which take in his own words Yea I say no more unto you Gentlemen seeing you desire to know Dr. Allain's Letter touching the render of Deventer pag. 27 28. my meaning fully in this point That as all acts of Justice within the Realm done by the Queens authority ever since she was by publick sentence of the Church and see Apostolick declared an Heretick and an enemy of Gods Church and for the same by name excommunicated and deposed from all Regal Dignity as I say ever sithence the publication thereof all is void by the Law of God and Man so likewise no war can be lawfully denounced or waged by her though otherwise in it self it were most just because that is the first Condition required in a just War that it be by one denounced that hath lawful and Supream power to do the same as no Excommunicate person hath especially if he be withal deposed from his Royal Dignity by Christ his Vicar which is the Supream power in Earth and his Subjects not onely absolved and discharged of their Service Oath Homage and Obedience but especially forbidden to serve or obey any such Canonically condemned person And in another place of the same Pamphlet he thus tells them their doom if they had been faithful to their trust and the Queen a Id. pag. 30. Any Excommunicate or Canonically condemn'd Prince whom no man by law can serve nor give aid unto but he falleth into Excommunication Thus we see what small esteem he had of his Soveraign and how easie it is for these men to ease themselves of loyalty and Obedience And that the Pope may thus trample upon Kings observe his Doctrine in another of his Writings b Defence of English Catholicks against the book call'd The execution of justice pag. 143. The Pope may in some cases excommunicate for some causes deprive and in many respects fight and wage War for Religion And gain c Id. p. 207. Plain it is that Kings that have professed the Faith of Christ and the defence of his Church and Gospel may be and have been justly both excommunicated and deposed for injuries done to Gods Church and revolt from the same as sometimes also for other great crimes tending to the Pernition of the whole subject unto him And gain d Id. P. 114. By the fall of the King from the Faith the danger is so evident and inevitable that GOD HAD NOT SUFFICIENTLY PROVIDED FOR OUR SALVATION and the preservation of his Church and holy Laws IF THERE WERE NO WAY TO DEPRIVE or restrain Apostata Kings And then plainly declares to the world thus e Id. P. 115. Therefore let no man marvel that in case of heresie the Soveraign loseth his superiority and right over his people and Kingdom And in these f Id. P. 72 73. Opinions he endeavours to prove that there is no harm And gives the Earl of a Westmerland Id. 48. for his Rebellion great commendations and of his fellow-Traytor gives you this Character The renowned Count of Northumberland dyed a Saint and holy Martyr When the Spanish Armado invaded England he printed a pernicious Admonition to the Catholicks of these Kingdoms stuft with horrid Rebellion and Treason perswading them by all means to take part with the King of Spain and to Root out their own Queen What effect his Doctrine took I know not but 't is well known that the Fleet came to nothing and enough of this Allen who for his zeal to the Spanish Faction and the authority of Rome was made Cardinal de S. Martino by Pope Sixtus the Fifth at the desire of Philip the Second And now let us see what a man with a long name will tell us in this cause Andraeas Eudaemon-joannes a man suspected at first to sculk under a wrong denomination but when we know his Country and temper we shall not think him asham'd to own any thing though never so bad or false he was born in the Island Crete now better known by the name of Candia at Canea by the ancients call'd Cydon or Cydonia but bred up from his youth at Rome and a Jesuite If that be true that in the Island of his birth no venomous or harmful Creature can live 't was well that he was forthwith transplanted to Italy for his native soyl and his malicious humour could never agree His writings are onely stuft with railing and vain repetitions hath impudence to deny any thing and affirm what he pleaseth his whole books are composed of contradictions all along affirming that Kings may be deposed nay and sometimes cut off and yet at the same time vindicating himself and his Order from disloyalty and yet so shie in his affirmations though bald in his hints that his books may be read over to as much purpose and satisfaction as one of the Brethrens preachments or Olivers Speeches so that I should wonder that such a generous Pope as Vrban the Eighth and such a learned Cardinal as Bellarmine should have him in such esteem and favour if interest had no sway in this world And though all along one may know his meaning by his Moping yet sometimes he speaks plain enough and declares that the a Potuit enim non ut dominus sed ut Minister Christi deponere Principes Andr. Eudaem-joan Respons ad Epist Is Casauboni pag. 12. Pope can depose Kings and that this b Id. Parallelus Torti Tortoris cap. 4. pag. 197. ultro concedamus facta à Pontificibus jure atque ordine fieri potuisse ut contumaciam ac Tyrannidem Principum excommunicatione ac depositione ulcisceretur hath been done and may be done sometimes lawfully In the year 1594 one Jehan Chastel intending to stab King Henry the Fourth of France with his Kinfe struck him into his Mouth and though he mist of his aim yet he struck out two of his teeth and wounded him sore For this Treason the Villain is excuted but presently one Franzois de Verone writes an Apology for Chastel affirming that he had done nothing but what became a true Christian and Catholick his reasons being because the King as he said was an Heretick and so might lawfully be kill'd or
sciogliere il vincolo del giuramento al Pont. Rom. come habbiamo dimostrato sopra c. Botero le Relationi Universali Part. 2. lib. 4. pag. 125 126 127. Giovanni Botero the first I may say that undertook prudentially to discover the world runs along in the same error with the rest of his Religion and will not onely allow the Pope to depose Kings but seem vext and angry against any that should deny it and reasons the case with them too as largely as if he had been chosen the sole Champion for his Church and declares himself a profest enemy against those who think that Kings have no Superiour but God in this World g Discussio Decreti Concil Lateran pag. 29. Lessius the Jesuit in behalf of the Pope makes use of Johannes Parisiensis but h A Theolog Dispute concerning the Oath of Allegiance Appendix pag. 402. § 18. Roger Widdrington a Benedictine affirms that Parisiensis and Antonius de Rosellis are rather for the Peoples power to depose Kings than the Popes though be it as it will one is as bad as the other and neither barrel better Herring Johannes de Bromyardo an English Dominican and famous in his time for his many writings is also an assertor of this a Opus Trivium verb. Regimen King-deposing Doctrine nor is it any strange thing amongst our Country Romanists for wherefore else should b Epist ad lectorem praefix Nâ—c Sander de Schismate Aâ—gl Edward Rishton commend Saunders for his Rebellion in Ireland Wherefore else should Watson the Author of the c Pag. 327. Quodlibets desire that the Pope had and would exercise as much power now in England as he did in Henry the Second and Kings Johns time Wherefore else should Everard Hanse the Priest say that he hoped Pius the Fifth did not err in declaring against Queen Elizabeth and absolving her subjects from their Allegiance Wherefore else should John Mundine Concertat Eccles Cathol Edit 1594. fol. 78 140 153 154 163 169 170 171. being asked at his Tryal if he thought that the Pope could depose the Queen or if another Prince should invade England whether he would assist the Queen or the Invador desire to be excused from answering Wherefore else should James Fenn at his Tryal declare that the Pope had power to depose the Queen and other Princes Wherefore else should James Bele declare that he would assist the Pope or any other against the Queen Coppie d'une lettre envoye d' Angleterre an seminaire des Anglois à Dâ—uay contenant l'Hist du Martyre de 4. Prestres An. 1616. pag. 10 18 49 53. Why should John Finch affirm the same or Father Thomas Maxfield that no man under damnation could take the Oath of Allegiance And Nicholas Atkinson refuse to take the said Oath though he was promised his life if he would take it As they promised the same mercy and favour to John Thulis and N. Voren at Lancaster And we are d Vid. O. E. a new chalange made to N. D. p. 116. Mat. Sutcliff's challenge concerning the Romish Church pag. 187. informed from the Records of the Memorials of the Council at Yorke that a House being searched for a Priest stiled David Engleby their own Catalogues mentions one Francis Ingleby who suffer'd there 1586 there were found in the said house these Positions That the Queen before the Popes Bull was not a lawful Queen That Catholicks are not to defend her or fight for her if any come to execute the Popes Bull. That it is lawful to take arms against her and to do what they please with her if they be sure to obtain Victory And the onely reason that Father e Vid. Rob. Abbot Antilogia pag. 156. Garnet had against some insurrection against the King was because they wanted the Popes Authority or approbation And if I mistake not 't is no less man than Father f A letter of a Catholick touching the Oath of Allegiance pag. 47. Parsons who thinks it no small honour for his cause that Robert Drurie Matthew Flathers and George Gervis three Priests would rather dye than take the Oath of Allegiance when life was offer'd them upon that condition But what need I trouble my self with particulars when Abraham Bzovius who thought himself fit to be joyned with Baronius tells us that all the g De Rom. Pont. cap. 46. pag. 621. English Priests who suffer'd in England absolutely maintain'd that the Pope might depose Kings and he h Id. Cap. 45 46. himself is of the same pernicious Principle Of this Opinion also is the great Spanish Lawyer i Emporium â—triusque juris Part. 1. Tit. 2. de jurisdic omnium judicum Quaest 4. § 12. Pet. Augustin Morla and to him it would be no news to add a Souldier of the same Kingdom and one that by the assistance of this Maxime was to prove his Sword could do no wrong by taking away another mans Kingdom and joyning of it to his Masters And this is Fadrique de Toledo Duke of Alva who in a large Speech told the people of Navarre pretty stories of the Popes power in giving away Kingdoms But the conclusion was that by the same Authority the Kingdom of Navarre was given to his Master of Spain and King Albret justly deposed And 't is no great matter whether he or his a Ael Anton Nebrissens de Bello Navarr lib. 1. cap. 6. Historian pen'd the Harangue And no question but that his Grand-childe Don Fernando d'Alvares de Toledo Duke of Alva was altogether of the same judgement when he conquer'd Portugal to the same Crown Nor is the great but none of the best Text-men the Spanish Preaching Jesuite Johannes Osorius of any better Principles For amongst other priviledges granted to the Popes he tells his Auditory that he can b Omnem dare auferre aut moderari jurisdictionem Reges create iterum Regna tollere Concion Tom. 3. Concio in Cathedra St. Petri col 2. appoint and depose Kings And in another of his c preachments he tells the people that by this Text Behold here are two swords is signified the Spiritual and material Swords of the Church whereby she doth assault beat and rob Kings of their Dominions and Authority b Ecce duo gladii hic Duas Ecclesiae potestates quibus in peccatores animadvertit significat Ecclesiasticam saecularem gladium Spirituale materiale quo Ecclesia uti potest cum oportuerit Reges expugnando ac debellando a potestate Regia expoliando Tom. 4. pag. 87. Of the same judgement is the Italian Lawyer and Divine too d Tract de officio S. Inquisit Tit. 1. § 67 68 93. Caesar Carena of so great repute at Cremona and a favorite of the English Overseer Cardinal Francisco Barberino Nephew to Vrban the eighth But of this subject we have been too long and so I shall conclude all with the Dominican
her in Eighty eight than Pope b Guicciard lib. 6. Alexander did several Cardinals by poysoning them to satisfie his Malice and Avarice XI What small authority hath been allowed to Kings concerning the Church in their own Kingdoms may partly appear by Pope c Nic. Harpsfeld Hist Eccles pag. 431. John the Eleventh who interdicted England and declared King John deprived and so perswaded the French to take the Kingdom from him and why all this onely because the King would not admit of Stephen Langton to be Arch-bishop of Canterbury whom the Pope would thrust into that See against the Kings pleasure King John not thinking it fitting that one who was so great with the French should be of such great trust in his Dominions And yet the Emperours and Kings formerly had always a d Dist 63. C. Agatho C. Hadrianus C. In Synodo C. cum longe Gloss power in the Election not onely of Bishops but Popes also and calling of Councils And several instances might be given of the Emperours deposing of Popes but the Imperial Power appears plain enough in the deprivation of John the Thirteenth by Otho the Great the Italian and other Bishops then assisting and commending him who also deposed Benedict the Fifth And if we consult the practice of the Popes we shall finde that it was not so much the peace of Christendom or the good of Religion that obliged them to proceed against Temporal Princes as to maintain their own pride and greatness and to pleasure a friend or Relation with another mans Dominions XII They also affirm that if a King be lawful both by Title and Possession Fean Suarez def fid l. 3. c. ◠§ â— liâ— 6. c. 4. § 15. Jâ— Aâ—â—â— Câ—â—peasiâ—in Epit. Controvers part 2. Qu. 2. p. 180. Feâ—ardent pag. 95. Dlonys Carthus de Regem Polit. art 19. Guil. Estius Com. in sent lib. 2. pag. 444. Abâ—lens in III Reg. cap. 12. Qu. 4. Eman. Sa Aphorism V. Princeps § 2. V. Tyrannus § 2. Lessius de juâ—itia lib. 2. cap. 9. disp 4. § 12. Pet. de Ledesma Theol. Moral Tract 8. cap. 18. pag. 512. Ad. Tanner Theol. scholast Tom. 3. disp 4. Qu. 8. dub 3. num 32 33. Sebast Heâ—ssius Refut Aphorism pag. 158. § 94. pag. 162. § 97. Andr. de Isern Com. in usus Feâ—dorum Tâ—t Qua sint Regalia V. Monctae pag. 743. Greg. Servantio defesa della potesta Eccles p. 76. Dom. Sâ—â—o de jâ—stitia lib. 5. Qu. 1. art 3. Greg. Sayer clavis Regia lib. 7. cap. 10. § 3. Gr. de Valent. Tom. 3. disp 5. Qu. 8. pâ—net â— Bellarmin de Concil lib. 2. cap. 19. Mich. Salon in D. Tho. Tom. 1. col 1157. Rob. â—enalâ—s de utrâ—usque gladii facultate Tom. 2. pag. 291. Hieron de Medicis in 2. 2. D. Thâ— Qu. 12. art 2. conclus 2. Azor. Instit lib. 10. cap. 8. yet if after he turn a Tyrant and oppress the innocent and good people he may then lawfully be deposed and some of them go a step farther and say he may justly be kill'd And yet their own Histories will assure us that there have been as wicked and cruel Popes as ever there was Temporal Prince in the world XIII If a King be an Heretick or a favourer of Hereticks or if he be negligent in driving Heresie out of his Dominions then may he justly as they say be deposed Fr. Feuardent in Est pag. 90. Jo. Azor. Institut Tom. 2. lib. 10. cap. 8. Id. Lib. 11. cap. 5. Mart. Becanus Controvers Angl. pag. 131 132. Lael Zaecchius Tract Theolog. pag. 82. Gabr. Vasquez in 1. 2. D. Tho. Tom. 2. disp 169. § 42 43. Jos Stephanus de potestate coactiva Rom. Pont. cap. 12. § 17. Dom. Baâ—nes in 2. 2. Qu. 12. art 2. col 478. Ant. Santarill de Haeresi cap. 30. pag. 292 293. Tho. Stapleton Tom. 1. Controv. 3. Qu. 5. art 2. § 4. Fr. Suarez defens fid lib. 6. cap. 4. § 22. Petr. Hurtad de Mendoza scholast disp 21. § 304. St. Raymond Summa lib. 1. Tit. de Haeret. § 7. pag. 41. Leon. Coqâ—â—â—s Examen Prafat pag. 102 103. Rutil Benzon Com. in Cant. Magnificat lib. 3. c. 27. dub 6. p. 134. Jo. Mar. Bellettus disquisit Clerical Part. 1. pag. 282. § 109 110. Hostâ—ens summa lib. 5. Tit. de Haeret. § qua poena fereatur § 11. Ant. Corset de potest Regia Qu. 76. Arnold Albertin Repet in C. Quoniam de Haeret. Qu. 15. § 36. Lud. a Paramo de Origine S. Inquisit lib. 1. Qu. 1. Opin 4. § 55 94 145. Alph. a Castro de jâ—sta Haeret. punit lib. 2. cap. 7. Pet. Câ—â—â—rus de Officio Princip cap. 8. pag. 76 77. Jo. Bapt. Boiard addit ad Julii Clari practic Criminalem Qu. 35. § 6. Pet. de Palude art 4. Jo. Driedo de libertat Christian lib. 1. cap. 14. Lupold de Berbenburg de juâ—ib Regni cap. 12. Tiber. Deâ—ianus Tractat. Criminal lib. 5. c. 52. § 8. Rosella Casuum V. Haereticus § 11. Rob. Bellarmin de Pont. Rom. lib. 5. cap. 7. Id. De translat Imp. lib. 1. cap. 12. Alph. Salmeron Tom. 13. in Epist D. Pauli lib. 1. part 3. disp 12. Jac. Menochius Concil 808. § 76. Adolph Schulckenius Apolog. pag. 546. Gr. Nunnius Coronel de Optimo Reipub. statu pag. 511 545. Card. Allen ' s letter touching the render of Daventer pag. 27 28. Id. Defence of English Catholicks against the book call'd The Execution of Justice pag. 115. Julius Ferrettus de re militari pag. 354. § 26. Jac Simanca de Cathol Institut Tit. 9. § 259. Tit. 23. § 11. Tit. 46. § 74 75. Lud. Molina de justitia Tom. 1. Tract 2. disp 29. col 221. Jo. Ant. Delphinus de potest Eccles pag. 154. Greg. Servantio defesa della potesta Eccles pag. 68 76. Petr. de Ledesm Theolog. Moral Tract 1. cap. 7. Conclus 5 6 7. For this supposed crime of Heresie did the Popes endeavour by their Bulls to take the Kingdom from our Henry the Eighth and Queen Elizabeth and from Henry King of Navarre And upon this pretty pretended account was Raymund Earl of Tholouse deprived of his Territories by Innocent the Third Heresie is a common word yet all cannot agree in its application some say Pope * Liberius was an Arrian and Anastatius II was a See Dr. Casaubon's necessity of Reformation pag. 37 38. Vid. Caron Remonstr Hybeâ—norum part 5. cap. 18. p. 18 88 89 c. 98 100 101. held little better John the last of that name amongst other crimes was accused of Heresie by the Council of Constance and that Popes may be Heretical needs no dispute because that their own Writers confess that they may also be deposed for that Crime XIV If a King be either Negligent or Insufficient or Effeminate or Jo. Ant Delphinus de potest Eccles p. 158. Camil. Gallinius de verborum signif l. 10. c. 17. § 24 25. Greg. Servantio defesa
ridiculous shadow without life or soul but as it received a being from Rome But leaving these we might tell you how a little after the English had got the Whim of a conditional Covenant and which is as bad Perjury For though they had sworn Allegiance to Maude Speed § 1 4 30. the Empress yet her they reject and swear a broken conditional subjection to Stephen Yet when they saw him a little downward then they cast him off and play the same conditional knack to the Empress Maude Sect. 2. The troubles of England by the arrogancie and obstinacie of Thomas à Becket against his Soveraign King Henry the Second HOwever waving these though treasonable enough we shall come to the next viz. King Henry the Second of part of whose Reign it will not be amiss to give some hints seeing so great a man as Thomas Becket is concerned in it whom some call Saint and Martyr whilst others allow him no better title than a Traytor But of this with all brevity This Thomas Becket was Son to one Gilbert Becket a Citizen of London and by the favour of Theobald Archbishop of Canterbury was made an Archdeacon in that See and was placed about the person of Henry then but Duke who coming to be King advanced him to be Lord High Chancellor of England and upon the death of the former Theobald made him Archbishop of Canterbury Having thus seen the great rise of Thomas by the Kings love grace and favour let 's now see how he lost the affection of King Henry For some time he thus lived in great repute with the King though Henry was a little troubled at the humour or design of Thomas to throw up his Chancellorship without acquainting him with it After this the Pope call'd a Council at Tours whither went the two Archbishops and several Bishops of England having first procured the Kings a Per missione Regis Matt. Paris an 1164 leave for going thither Where an ancient b Guil. Neubrig lib. 2. c. 16. Historian tells us that Thomas privately surrendred up his Archbishoprick to the Pope as if the Kings Nomination or Investiture had not been sufficient which was restored again by the Pope and so Thomas was cocksure of both Presentations and Authorities And probably this underhand-dealing and nulling of his jurisdiction might somewhat alienate the affection of Henry although c Baronius d An. 1163. § 29. will not allow of any such surrender at this time though for his dissent we must not be content onely with his word neither producing Reason or Authority for his so doing since 't is probable enough being thus back'd with the Testimony of Neubrigensis that Thomas might yeild it up now in his Prosperity for a farther confirmation and in his low condition do it also to procure pity and so make his party there the stronger against his King and Soveraign which was then his main design Add to these the strange Priviledges the Clergy boasted of by exempting themselves from all secular jurisdiction were the crime never so villanous insomuch that a Priest of the Diocess of Sarum having murder'd one Thomas had him deprived and placed in an Abbey that so he might not fall under greater punishment according to his desert by the Kings Justiciaries lest forsooth he should suffer twice for one fault And upon this last pretended Priviledge may we lay the Foundation of the following troubles For the King perceiving no signs of Peace and Tranquillity amongst his Subjects if this exception of the Clergy was permitted the people of that Coat having committed above an hundred Murthers in the short time he had yet Reigned was resolved that all the Clergy who were taken in any Robbery Murder Felony burning of Houses and the like should be tryed in Temporal Courts and suffer as well as Laymen Against this wholesome Law the Archbishop opposeth himself and will onely grant that Speed § 14. all Clergy-men so offending should be tryed in the Spiritual Courts and by men in Orders who if they were found guilty should for the first time onely be deprived of their Office and Benefice yet he granted that for the second time they might lye at the Kings pleasure as some think though d Baron an 1163. § 31. others confess that he would not allow them at any time to be delivered over to the Temporal Authority And for these irrational Priviledges Thomas was so resolute that at Westminster he openly opposed the King and got others to do so too which mightily incensed his Majesty but pleased Pope Alexander the Third to the purpose yet fearing their hearts might fail them he sends his incouraging lines into England commanding them by vertue of their obedience to stand firm for the Exemption of the Clergy nor at all to consent to the King and that if he or Baron an 1163. § 39 40. any of the rest had in these times promised obedience to the King not to keep such promises but all this did not much prevail For the King was resolved to have the Laws and Customs of his Ancestors kept up in full force and carryed his business so well that at last he had not onely the other Bishops of his opinion but Thomas also consenting who faithfully promised and sware to observe them And for their farther ratification and authority the King calls an Assembly at Clarendon in Wiltshire where the Bishops and Nobility meet him and John of Oxford sat as President But here Thomas for all his former promise at first absolutely falls off and denyeth consent to the Constitutions though at last he was so far worked upon one way or another that he there publickly sware that in the word of a Priest and sincerely he would observe them to the King and his Heirs for ever But when the King would have him to Subscribe and Seal to them as the other Bishops had done he absolutely refused and retracted what he had formerly sworn The Constitutions in all were sixteen but those which Thomas opposed were such as these That Priests guilty of Felony Murther c. should be tryed before the Secular Judges That it should not be lawful for any Archbishop or Bishops to depart the Kingdom and go to the Pope upon his summons without the Kings License That no Bishops should Excommunicate any holding of the King in Capite or put any other of his Officers under interdict without the Kings License or information to the Judge That if the Archdeacon cannot decide the Controversie they may go to the Bishop and from him to the Archbishop and lastly â—â— the King so that none shall appeal to the Pope of Rome for any cause whatsoever without the Kings License c. These and suchlike were approved of at Clarendon by all onely Thomas excepted who thought himself to have sinn'd so grievously for the former consenting to them that by way of Penance he suspended himself from his Priestly Function but
from whose modesty the recovery of the Kings favour assailed him afresh and without respect of his Majesty at such time as he led his Armies lately against the Peace-breakers with severe and terrible Letters nothing savoring of fatherly Devotion or Pastoral Patience but most bitterly threatning him with sentence of Excommunication and his Kingdom with an Interdict whereas on the otherside he rather ought with admonition to have mollified him and with merits and meekness overcome him If the Kings humility be so requited what will be determin'd against the stubborn If the ready devotion of obedience be esteem'd so slightly in what manner shall wilful obstiuacie be revenged Nay father to these so grievous threats are added yet matters far more grievous for he Excommunicated some of his Majesties Liegemen most inward with our Lord the King the Principal of his Privy Council who managed the counsels of the King and the affairs of his Kingdom and all this being neither cited nor impleaded neither as they say or call it guilty of any crime nor convicted nor confessing any thing Yea he went farther yet insomuch as he suspended from his Priestly and Episcopal Office our reverend Brother the Bishop of Salisbury being absent undefended neither confest nor convict before ever the cause of his suspension was approved of by the advice of those of the same Province or any others If therefore this course of proceedings in judgements so preposterous we spare to say inordinate be followed concerning the King and Kingdom what will be the end considering the time is evil and yeildeth great occasion of malice but that the band of grace and favour whereby the Kingdom and Priesthood have hitherto been united will be rent asunder c And so they appeal against the Archbishop Thomas The Church being somewhat troubled with these divisions it was the earnest desire of several to procure a peace and this the Pope himself wish'd having work enough to do with the Emperour Frederick To accomplish this upon the desire also of Henry An. 1168. he sends two Legates a Latere viz. Cardinal William and Cardinal Otto and accordingly impowered them with instructions to manage that accommodation in France He writes also to a Bar. anno 1168. § 3 4. Thomas desiring him by all means to give himself to peace and rather than not to have concord to wink at some things and yeild for a while Yet as if Thomas were not great enough before he intended to raise him above all in France to which purpose he resolved to make him Legat also over all those Churches but before he could bestow upon him that Legantine Authority he was to desire the King of France his leave which accordingly he did by b § 7 8 9. Letter As for the manner of the Treaty of Peace between the King and Thomas take the story of it from the Legates themselves to the Pope § 33. To our most blessed Father and Lord Alexander c. William and Oddo by the same Grace Cardinals c. Coming to the c c i. e. in France Dominions of the renowned King of England we found the controversie between him and Canterbury aggravated in far worse sort believe us than willingly we could have wished For the King with the greatest part of his followers affirmed how the Archbishop with great vehemencie d d Speed § 29. This Accusation Thomas denyed incensed the most worthy King of France against him and in like sort induced his Cosin the Earl of Flanders who before did bear him no malice to fall out with him and raise the most powerful war he could against him and this he knew of a certainty and it appear'd so by several evident demonstrations For whereas the said Earl departed from the King very friendly the Archbishop coming into his Province to the very seat of the War incited as much as in him lay as well the King of France as the said Earl to Arms The King affirm'd also that the Informations concerning the ancient Customs of England deliver'd to you were false and not true which also the Bishops there present did witness The King offer'd also that if any Customs since his time were devised contrary to the Ecclesiastical Laws he would submit them to your judgement Calling therefore to us the Archbishops Bishops and Abbots of the Kings Dominions that the King might not deprive us of all hopes of peace but rather suffer himself to be drawn to have a Conference with the Archbishop as well concerning the peace as the judgement Sending therefore Letters unto a a i. e. Thomas him by our Chaplains we appointed a certain and safe place where we might have conference with him on the Feast of St. Martin he nevertheless pretending excuses put off this Conference until the Octaves of that Saint which truely vexed the King more than could be imagined But when we saw that the Archbishop although we offer'd him safe conduct would nevertheless give us no meetings in any part of the Kings Dominions next the French we being willing to yeild to him that there might be nothing wanting in us which might redound to his profit came to a place in the Realm of France which himself appointed Being come to the Conference we began most earnestly to perswade him that he would behave himself to the King who had been his singular Benefactor with such humility as might afford us sufficient matter on which to ground our Petition for peace At which retiring himself aside with his friends after some consultation with them he answer'd that He had sufficiently humbled himself to the King without impeaching the honour of God the liberty of the Church the reputation of his own Person the possessions of the Church and farther the justice due to him and his friends These things so numbred up we seriously perswaded him as it was necessary to descend to particulars but when he would alledge nothing either certain or particular we demanded of him if in the matters specified in your Letters he would submit himself to our judgement as the King and Bishops had already promised to do to which he presently replyed that he had received no Mandat from you to this purpose But if he and all his might first be fully restored he would then proceed according as the Apostolick See should direct him So returning from the Conference since his words neither tended to judgement nor agreement nor yet would he by any means enter into the matter We manifested unto the King some things but concealing other passages as it was convenient and tempering other things what we heard c. Thomas b Bar. § 38 39 c. writes also to the Pope and informs him of the same conference and in a manner confesseth all here set down expecting his instigating the French against King Henry And another c § 53 54. Letter he writes to the Cardinals at Rome pitifully complaining that King
which you wrote to us you set your name before ours whereby you do incur the note of insolencâ—e not to say arrogancie Nor was this all for the b Bar. an 1158. § 11 12 13. Milanois and other Lombards having a little before yeilded themselves as Subjects to the Emperor and given him all their Regalia and Priviledges as their Soveraign Adrian sends several c Id. anno 1159. § 9. Naucler Gen. 39. pag 764. Letters amongst them to incite and perswade them to Rebellion and as another aggravation sends presently to Frederick then in Italy to demand a grant of him to several Articles which Eberard Bishop of Babenberg once greatly d § 14. commended for his Piety and knowledge doth confess were very e Capitula durissima § 16. hard and difficult to desire yet the Emperour offer'd to do the Pope justice in these if he would do the like to him in other matters but this was denyed for Adrian would receive a benefit but do none and all this forsooth because the Pope is not to be judged by any And whatsoever Overtures of Peace were proposed vanished to nothing for the Pope as f § 22. Frederick complains stood upon several new grievous and unheard-of businesses And we may well believe that he opposed the Emperour as much as possible he could seeing he was just now going to excommunicate him being thereto g Dota pecunia â—mmensa Domino Adriano Papae ut Imperatorem excommunicaret Naucler pag. 764. Bar. anno 1160. § 25 30 31. 1159. bribed and hired by moneys as Nauclerus confesseth But this trouble had a little stop by the death of Hadrian at Anagni but whether he was choaked by a Fly or the Squinsey is nothing to my purpose Yet before his death he had so carryed his design that he had brought his favourites to swear not to chuse any after him who wished well to the Emperour Upon this a Schism ariseth two pretending for the Popedom Roland who was one of the Legates that carryed the Popes offensive Letter to the Emperour in Germany was one and called himself Alexander III Octavian was the other who call'd himself Victor IV. Though 't is confest that Alexander had above four suffrages in the Conclave for the others one yet both of them having many followers they made a great hubbub in the World and Excommunicated curs'd and damn'd one another to the Pit of Hell Frederick to end this Controversie h Bar. anno 1159. § 64. anno 1160. § 2. according to the custom of other Emperours in the time of Schism calls a Council at Pavia whither he summous both the Popes Alexander refuseth Victor obeys the Council i Ib. § 2. meets where are from several Kingdoms fifty Archbishops and Bishops with an infinite company of Abbots besides the Ambassadors of many Countries The Emperour withdraws himself from the Council leaving the business wholly to the determination of the Clergy who after VII days consultation declared Victor to be the true Pope for which they declared many k Bar. an 1160. § 3 4 5 6. ad 18 20 21 22 23 c. 33. 35. Reasons too long here to be repeated and so having l Ib. 24. curs'd Alexander ador'd Victor and kiss'd his Toe which also the Emperour did with the addition of the holding his m Ib. 23. Stirrop and n Nauâ—ler pag. 76â— leading his Horse the Council broke up The Emperour by o Ib. § 44. Edict commanding all to acknowledge Victor for Pope yet Alexander again p Ib. § 44. Excommunicated Victor and all his Complices especially the Emperor whose subjects he also absolved from their Oaths of Allegiance But these thunder-bolts made no great noyse a little after another q An. 1161. § 21. Council at Lauden in Franconia confirming Victor Yet Alexander had the Kings of England and France as his favourers and so seeing no safety for him in Italy he sails to France And here give me leave to tell you one story of a queer come off upon the credit of a Gen. 39. p. 767. Mutius p. 169. Nauclerus and others Frederick having a mind to end the quarrel desired Lewes VII to give him a meeting and to bring with him Alexander and he would bring Victor that the business might again be examined the thing is agreed upon and by oath the place appointed was neer Dijon in Burgondy at the River Soane Alexander refuseth to meet though Lewes would to save his promise Yet having no mind to discredit Alexander for his refusal the trick was thus ordered Lewes goeth to the River at the first day appointed betimes washeth his hands in it and hath a Cryer to call the Emperour to the meeting and so saying he had kept his word away he hasts home again The Emperor presently comes with the Kings of Scotland and Bohemia but finding how he had been gul'd returns angry into Germany and sends Victor to Rome And that Alexander thought himself no small man in France we may guess by these following honours done to him where we have our Henry II. going to visit him b Bar. an 1162. 14. kissing his feet and a little after the same King of England and this Lewes of France meeting Alexander at Tossack upon the Loyre very prettily plaid the c Bâ—â— an 1162. § 15 16. â— Bussieres Hist Gal. Tom. 2 pag. 59. Genebrard Tom. 2. pag. 9â—1 Yoemen of his Stiâ—râ—p the one of one side and the other of the other tripping along on foot leading his Holinesses Rosonante by the bridle Baronius at this story is quite over-joy'd and out of his raptured zeale cannot refrain from running to his Bible as if he had a mind to prove it to be of divine right but much good may doe the cockles of his heart with this one story of two Kings since I believe he 's never like to have such another Though the very next year we find the King of France acting d Bar. an § 1. 1163. 1164. the same part of the Comedy and bussing his feet to the purpose The next year Victor dyeth in whose place is elected in opposition to Alexander one Guido who call'd himself Paschal III. But Alexander now began to gain ground whereupon he left France and returned to Italy and was kindly received at Rome year 1165 Though Paschal was acknowledged and confirm'd as a true Pope by a Council or Diet at e 1166. Wortzburg with Fredericks approbation But Alexander is quit with the Emperour not onely excommunicating but f An. 1168. § 69 70 71. depriving him by sentence of all his Dominions and absolving all men from his obedience At last Paschal dyeth and then the Romans chose one John who calls himself g 1170. Calixtus III. But to leave off these wranglings let us come once again to a peace Some say that Alexander by flight stole privately into Venice where under the disguise of
carrying himself so cunningly that at last by his own commendations and flatteries he inveagled himself into the esteem and favour of Pius V Bishop of Rome whom this Stukely had perswaded that with three thousand Italians he would drive the English out of Ireland and fire all their Fleet Things which old Pius greedily wish'd for with the destruction of the Queen But this Pope whom they have almost sanctifyed and made a a Worker of Miracles dying there succeeded to him Gregory XIII who carryed on with the same desires bare the same favour to poor Stukely hoping to get the Kingdom of Ireland for his own son Giacopo de Boncompagno whom a little before he had made Marquess of Vineola and of this Royalty Stukely assured him and made proud the Bastard Thus the Pope and his Son full with hopes of a new Kingdom the better to countenance this their beggerly boasting Factor Gregory as if all Ireland and Authority were his own honours Stukely with the Noble Titles of Baron of Ross Vicount Morough Earl of Wexford and Caterloghe And Marquess of Leinster Thus with a muster of Titles and a Band of eight hundred Italian Foot some say a Jeron Conestaggio 600 others b Cicarella in vita Gregor XIII 6000 with a plenary c Tho. Bell's Motives p. 34. Indulgence for Stukely's soul to avoyd Purgatory he imbark'd in a Genoa Ship at Civita Vecchia In the mean time Sebastian the youthful King of Portugal had rais'd a Potent Army some think to fall upon Ireland But a dissention falling out for the Kingdoms of Morocco and Fez between d Mulei signifieth a Lord 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈…〉 Royal bloud Mulei Moluc some call him Abdala Meluc or Abdelmeluch the Uncle and his Nephew Mulei Mahomet in which it hapned the latter to have the worst and to be beat out of the Kingdom which for some time he had possest as eldest Son to old Abdala Mulei Mahomet the Nephew thus routed addresseth himself by his Agents to Sebastian for assistance The King of Portugal spur'd on as some have fancyed by the Jesuits the better to make way for the Spanish sway over that Kingdom should Sebastian miscarry promiseth to relieve and resettle him and so provides for his passage into Africa Whilst things are preparing Stukely arrives with his Titles and Followers at the mouth of the River Teio in Portugal lands at Oeras whither Sebastian goeth to see him and perswades him and the rest to venture with him in his Mauritanian expedition The King and his Army take Ship and land in Africa the Chieftains more like Courtiers then Souldiers the other liker Pesants then men at Arms Thus under the fickle conduct of a rash King they meet the Moors in the plain of Tamita fight are routed and cut to pieces and this by some is call'd the Battel of the three Kings because here three ended their days but in different fashions I. Don Sebastian King of Portugal was slain valiantly fighting But some would have him to live many years after and appear at Venice to the fobbing up of some Portugals the little trouble to the Spaniard but a certain imprisonment and ruine to the undertaker though he had a minde to King it for a while II. Mulei Meluc came sick to the Field and dyed before his Victory was fully accomplish'd And after the fight and Victory his younger Brother Mulei Hamet who here acted as General of his Horse was saluted King of Morocco and Fez. III. Mulei Mahomet the Nephew and Competitor seeing his friends the Portugals beaten thinking to save himself by flight was drown'd as he thought to pass the River Mucazen And amongst these great ones our Thomas Stukely had the fortune and honour to end his days And thus Ireland escaped a mischief for the carrying on of which Treasons of Stukely Dr. Lewis Archdeacon of Cambray Referendarie to the Pope and afterwards Bishop of Cassano though born a subject to England was very forward and active very much soliciting Gregory XIII in behalf of the said Stukely and his projects against his own Queen and Country About the beginning of King Charles I his Reign I meet with one call'd a James Wadsworth his English-Spanish Pilgrime chap. 7. pag. 64. Edit 2. Sir Thomas Stukely living at Milan as a Pensioner to the Spanish King and him I finde branded as a Traytor and Enemy to his Country but of what relation or kin to the former Stukely I know not Thus this mischief intended against Ireland was for a time cut off For Portugal thus deprived of her King his great Uncle Cardinal Henry was proclaimed who being old the Spaniard after his death resolved for the Crown for the better securing of which he staid and kept his great forces lately levyed in Italy as some think for Ireland to pour upon and win Portugal when occasion served which he afterwards accomplish'd of which see at large b Istoria dell ' Unione del Regno di Portogallo alla Corona di Castiglia Jeronimo Conestaggio an excellent and understanding Genoes Historian though I meet with a c A Book call'd in Spanish Trattade Parenetico and Fuoro Villaco as Dralymont translating it into French la Liberte de Portugal The English bad Translator calls it The Spanish Pilgrime and so the Author subscribes himself in his Dedicatory Epistle to Henry IV of France Portugallized Spaniard very sharp and severe with him which Kingdom the Portugais regain'd again 1640 in the name of Don Juan Duke of Braganza whom they Crown'd and saluted King John the Fourth This storm thus blown over another appears We heard formerly how James Fitz-Morice submitted himself to Sir John Perot but in his pretended loyalty and honesty he could not long continue for he steals into France addresseth himself to Henry III offers him the Kingdom of Ireland but desires a few Forces to beat out the English and so to subdue that Nation to the French obedience Henry having his thoughts at home straitned between the Guisian and Hugonot wisely rejects such idle thoughts Upon which Fitz-Morice hastes to Spain where he makes the same offers to the Catholick King Philip II lends him an ear sends him to Gregory XIII who year 1579 hugs the designe and joyns with him Nicolas Sanders an English-man born in Surrey well known by his writings and one Allan an Irish man both Doctors and Priests The first was by the Pope declared his Nuncio for Ireland and bless'd with a Consecrated Banner to be known by its Cross-Keyes Thus sanctified wâ—â—h an Infallible Authority and a little money in their fists with Letters of Commendation to the Spanish King they haste to Spain thence ship for Ireland and land in Kerry Upon which the English Romanists at Rome a 〈…〉 cap. 11. pag 156 157 158. rejoyce and triumph not quâ—stioning but all would be their own And for a farther reâ—râ—iâ— the Pope orders more Souldiers to be rais'd in his
now beginning he conveys himself and Books to Paris where the English Ambassador complains of him to King Henry III and desires that being born a Subject to the Queen now a Fugitive and one that had so abused her he might be delivered into his hands to be sent to England there to receive his reward And the Ambassador had reason for his request if that be true which is c Guil. Barcla contra Monarchomachos lib 6. cap. 7. pag. 439. reported viz. that Henry III was so much possest with those cruel Pictures and put so much credit in them that he accused Queen Elizabeth of great Cruelty calling her a wicked and cruel woman Yet at the Ambassadors desire Verstegan was imprison'd at which d De justa abâ—icatione Henâ—ici III. pag. 123. Jean Bouchier that active fire-brand of the League is not a little troubled and layeth it as one heretical fault to Henry At last Verstegan is releas'd who quits France and returns to Antwerp where he reprints his Book and lives after an handsome fashion The Jesuits and the Secular-priests falling out in England each party defends it self by Pen in this quarrel Verstegan concerns himself joyning with the Jesuits and writing in their behalf shewing himself as zealous a Railer as the best of them and indeed never was there quarrel compos'd of so many bad words either side consider'd Thus he continued till after the death of Queen Elizabeth where he e 1605. published his Restitution of decayed Intelligence in Antiquities of England Dedicating of it to King James expecting better fortune and favour which f Eâ— Rege cum novo novum assume Fatum Poet. Belg. Vol. 3. p. 364. Justus Lipsius claps to the Nation a good luck in Verse What he got by it I know not nor when he dyed onely towards the latter end of King James his Raign amongst the rest of the English Fugitives who lived in Antwerp under the Notion of Spanish stipendiaries I meet with these words g James Wadsworth the English-Spanish Pilgrime cap. 7. pag. 67. There is also one Mr. Versteagan who did not his wife keep up his credit might be yoakt with the rest That is as I suppose in a mean condition And thus much for Verstegan of whom a Qâ—odlibets pag. 257. Watson the Priest will give you a sharper Character But why must Queen Elizabeth of all other Soveraigns be deprived of this Prerogative of life and death Must Campo Flori in Rome smoak by the burnt bodies of people by the Authority of the Pope in this acting onely as a Secular Prince for Ecclesiasticks excuse themselves from such severities and may not Queen Elizabeth be as great a Monarch in her Dominions Must the King of Spain glory in his Inquisition thereby destroying multitudes of Strangers and Natives and that with such severity and cruelty that their stories either American or Domestick cannot be read without tears and had not Queen Elizabeth as much right to and Authority in England as the intitled Most Catholick hath in his Dominions Hath the French King a Prerogative to burn Anne du Burg and many others of his Subjects for Opinions in Religion and may not Queen Elizabeth having as much â—iâ—nt of Government use her Authority as well as the former Not that I vindicate any such severities but use these comparatives to shew that Queen Elizabeth did no more then the Romanists themselves But to shew what a great thing interest is take this following observation but the bloudy narrative of the story is so long and mournful that the Reader must pardon me if I refer him to other b Thuanus Historians for it Charles IX King of France under the pretence of the Grand Solemnities of the King of Navaâ—'s Marriage invited all the Grandees of the Hugonots of France with c Caâ—bden Eliz. an 1572. Eujeb Phâ—laâ—â—lph â—â—smapol Dialog 1. pag. 30. Leicester and Eurghley out of England and the Sons of the Palatine Elector out of Germany intending by this means to ruine the Protestant Religon The French obey'd and appear'd where they were entertain'd with all manner of Gayeâ—ies and Triumphs but for all this Court holy Water they were by order of the King in d â—â—g 24. â—â— one day as many as could be met withal which came to sâ—vâ—â—a◠〈…〉 slain without respect to Sex age or quality 〈…〉 of whom was old Admiral Coligny whose e 〈…〉 â—b 52. head was 〈…〉 grateful present to Rome Nor did this Massacre end â—erâ— but by the Kings Order was also acted all France over to the unthought of slaughter of many thousand Protestants This Carnage though it made such an impression upon some that several set themselves to work and f U'â—â—ae 15â—3 â—â— 4. publish'd a Book of Verses in Detestation of it yet others imploy'd their wits as much in its Commendation amongst whom I finde g Id. pag. 30. accused Johannes Auratus Regius Professor of the Greek Tongue in Paris and one of the chiefest Poets in his time if so it seems he could weep and bewail more the killing of one h Poet Gall. vol. 1. p. 314. Sparrow by his Cat then of so many thousand Christians As for the Romanists in France they celebrated these slaughters as one of the most glorious actions in the world great rejoycings at Court for it publick thanks render'd to God and as a farther memorial of its Gallantry the King had i Thuan. lib. 53. Cambden Eliz. anno 1572. new Medals or Coyns made with Inscriptions to perpetuate the Fame of that bloudy day And to compleat the triumph a Miracle must be wrought to testifie Gods approbation of it which you must finde in k â—â—uan lib. 52. St. Innocents Church-yard at Paris So here this Church-yard may boast of another Miracle besides its a André du Chesne les Antiquitez deâ— villes de France chap. pag 63. 7 consuming the buryed Carkasses in less then ten days But as for this new flourishing White-thorne-Tree the famous Thuanus doth somewhat mitigate the wonder by affirming that the thing might be as well b Sive sponte quod aliquando contlngit cum natura deficiente in co planta est ut penitus exarescat five aqua tepida ab impostoribus infusa Aug. Thuan. Hist lib. 52. Naral or artificial But the greatest joy of all for this slaughter was at Rome Cardinal Loraine giving the Messenger that brought the first news of it a thousand Crowns the Letter was read in the Conclave publick thanks were given in their Churches the Cannons discharged Thuan. lib. 53. Spondan anno 1572. § 20. Bonfires made a Jubilee publish'd throughout Christendom And a grand Procession was made to the Church of St. Lewis Lewis IX King of France canoniz'd by Pope Boniface VIII his festival day is the XXV of August where was the Nobility Bishops Cardinals the several Ambassadors the Pope under a Canopy his Train being held up
not exempted from the guilt of the offence although he escaped the punishment But let others dispute the Priviledge of Ambassadors and so I leave him as I finde him CHAP. VI. The Spanish Invasion THe greatest Enemies the Queen had were those whose births oblig'd them to obedience but whether their Religion its interest or some bad Principles of the Parties prompted them to such Treasons let others judge 'T is certain the Jesuits and other English Priests were the occasion of the Queen of Scots her ruine they still thrusting her on to so many inconveniences against the Queen and Kingdom that Elizabeth was the sooner perswaded to consult her own safety by taking away that which sought her overthrow As for these people when they saw no hope of restoring the Roman Religion either by Mary of Scotland nor her Son they Camden anno 1586 began to finde out new Masters and none more fit for them then the Spaniard whom they vapour'd to be Heir to the English Crown And concerning this a Vita Vincent Laurei Card. pag. 72. Ruggerius Tritonius Abbot of Pinaro in his life of Cardinal Vincentius Laurens tells us an odd passage viz. that Mary the Queen of Scots the day before she suffer'd death did under her own hand in the French Tongue declare that her Son James should not Inherit England if he remain'd a Protestant but that the right of the Kingdom should be translated to Philip of Spain And these Papers were sent to the said Cardinal Laureus being by Sixtus V. made Protector of Scotland who gave them to Conde Olivares then Ambassador for the King of Spain at Rome with order to send them to his Master Philip and this did Robertus Titius publish though without Tritonius the Authors knowledge and then living in Italy 1599. dedicating it to Cardinal Montalto And this is somewhat agreeable to one of the charges laid against her at her tryal that she sent a Letter to Mendoza the Spanish Ambassador wherein she promis'd to give her right of England to the King of Spain if her Son James would not be of the Romish perswasion The first of these Stories b History of Queen Mary James VI pag. 120. Mr. Sanderson looks upon as a meer trick and fable and whether she was really so concern'd for her Sons Religion as to use any means for his conversion to Popery King James can tell best himself and thus he saith c Monitory Preface to the Apology pag. 34. In all her Letters whereof I received many she never made mention of Religion nor labour'd to perswade me in it so at her last words she commanded her d Viz. Melvyn Master-houshold a Scotish Gentleman my servant and yet a live she commanded him I say to tell me that although she was of another Religion then that wherein I was brought up yet she would not press me to change except my conscience forced me to it For so that I led a good life and were careful to do Justice and govern well she doubted not but that I would be in a good case with the Profession of my own Religion But whether she undertook to give away the Title of England from her Son was no great matter it being against all Law Justice and Reason she having no power to dispose of the Inheritance of England yet the Romanists when all other endeavours fail'd to rob King James of his Kingdoms and life had the confidence about the year 1613. to a Jesuitica per unitas Belgii provincias Negotiatio E 4. publish a book affirming King James to be but a meer cheat or counterfeit and a mock-King denying him to be the Son of the aforesaid Queen Mary But laying aside such Forgeries that the Spaniard hath had a designe not onely to rule these Islands but to be the Universal Monarch hath been the opinion of many men amongst others I finde b Dessein perperuel des Espagnols a la Monarchie Universelle Pâ—inted 1624. in quarte one hath made an Extract from their Original Papers whither I shall refer the Reader But whatever his former attempts have been of late he hath rather lost then gain'd And though Naples Flanders Arragon Catalonia c. might do him some injury if they were in the possession of others yet as they stand divided and in a posture of defence he can never grow rich by their Coyn. But to return home Where we happen in the year which above an hundred years year 1588 before the famous German Astronomer Johannes Regiomontanus had affirm'd would be most wonderful The Prophesie it self Originally in the German Language went about by Tradition and Johannes Schoenerus repeated them to the noted Bohemian Mathematician c Ephemeridum Novum Ec. 10. Cyprianus Leovitius who first publish'd them 1577 which because they have made a great noise in the world though I finde no great matter in them seeing such general predictions may serve almost for any year take thus in the Original Tausent funff hunderâ— achtsig acht Das ist das Jar das ich betracht Geht in dem die Welt nicht under So gschicht doch sunst gross merctlich wunder Often have I been troubled at the fate Of the year fifteen hundred eightie eight And if the world it self don 't end you 'll see For its events most wonderful 't will be In this year I think France was the greatest sufferer the Covenanters or Leaguers there by their Barracado's forcing the King Henry III out of Paris and he to prevent his greater danger cut off the Cardinal and Duke of Guise which occasion'd so much war and his own Murther And besides these two the third party in that Kingdom viz. the Hugonots received a great loss by the Death of the Prince of Conde suppos'd by some to be poysoned England was in some fear and at some charges by the noise of the Invincible Armada but Spains loss was inestimable by its overthrow The Lord Maitland Chancellor of Scotland undertook in short thus to give us the year a Poet. Scot. vol. 2. pag. 138. Papa Dei petit Orbis Iber Dux Guisius Orci Regna annus mirus si potientur erit And b Id. pag. 133. Andrew Melvyn hath a Copy of Verses somewhat to the same purpose Upon this great Navy c Poet. Germ. vol. 6. p. 310. Simon Stenius d Poet. Gall. vol. 3. p. 655. Adeodatus Seba Beza and several other Forreigners bestow'd their Poetry to the no small trouble of the Index Expurgatorius which was forced to take the pains to casheer some of them For some years had this great Fleet been in preparing from several parts in the world but the History of the preparations fight and victory I shall leave to other Writers and follow mine own designe Certain it is the Spaniard scarce doubted of a Conquest which made one thus to despise the Queen Tu qui Romanos voluisti spernere leges Hispano disces subdere colla
Royal Dignity Titles Rights and Pretences to England and Ireland declares her Illegitimate and an Vsurper of the Kingdoms and absolves all her Subjects from their Obedience and Oaths of Allegiance due to her So he expresly commandeth all under pain and penaltie of Gods wrath to yeild her no Obedience Aid or Favour whatsoever but to imploy all their power against her and to joyn themselves with the Spanish Forces who will not hurt the Nation nor alter their Laws or Priviledges onely punish the wicked Hereticks Therefore by these presents We Declare that it is not onely lawful but commendable to lay hands on the said Usurper and other her adherents and for so doing they shall be well Rewarded And lastly to all these Roman assistants is liberally granted a Plenary Indulgence and remission of all their sins Here we have the sum of this Treasonable Libel with which Allen thought to do great matters against his Queen and Country and these were prepared to be spread abroad the Kingdom upon the Spaniards landing yet no sooner is the news known of their defeat but Allen calls in the Impression burning all he could lay his hands on onely some few escaped his Fingers both he and the Printer having before given some Copies to their Friends The Romanists for the most part priz'd it dearly though some more sober disliked it as too severe yet some others we need not Question might be of the Jesuit Currey's opinion viz. That it was a work of thaâ— worth as it would yet bite in time to Quodlibets pag. 240. come This Invasion was very much assisted by the English Romanists though not by all for the Lord Montague and some others were against it In Flanders lay Charles Nevil Earl of Westmerland the Lord Pagit Sir William Stanley with about seven hundred more English ingaged and ready to joyn with the Prince of Parma against their own Country What Company in England would have taken their parts I know not This is certain that Philip Earl of Arundel the unfortunate Eldest Son of Norfolk was unhappily too much Priest ridden which procured his imprisonment and a tryal the cause of all which might be laid to Allen who had such a sway and power over the said Earl that he could make him do any thing And the Earl was over-perswaded to set his affection on the Spanish Fleet rejoycing at its coming praying heartily for its success and grieved beyond measure at its overthrow But he is not the first Nobleman who confided too much in bad counsel and whose Zeal for Religion hurryed him on to inconveniences As for Cardinal Allen he was born in Lancashire of good Parentage was bred up at Oxford in Orial-Colledge where he was Proctor was preferr'd to a Canonship in York in Queen Elizabeth's days quits England becometh Pensioner to the Spaniard to carry on whose designes against his Queen and County he was very industrious for which service Sixtus V. created him a Cardinal 1587. August 7 and he dyed at Rome 1594. October 16. We have formerly shown his seditious and King deposing Principles of which his foresaid Admonition will give a farther Quodlibets pag 240 241 247. proof and who were the Promoters of this Invasion his own words will best tell you The King of Spain at length as well by his Holiness Authoritie and Exhortation as by his own unspeakable Zeal and Piety moved also not a little by My humble and continual suit together with the afflicted and banished Catholicks of our Nation of all and every Degree who have been by his special compassion and Regal Munificencie principallie supported in this our long Exile hath condescended at last to take upon him this so Holy and Glorious an Act c. And then proceeds to incourage nay and threaten too the English to take up Arms against their Queen and to joyn with the Spaniards and the other Invaders If you will avoid the Popes the Kings and other Princes high indignation let no man of what degree soever Obey Abet Aid Defend or Acknowledge her c. Adding That otherwise they should incur the Angels Curse and Malediction and be as deeply Excommunicated as any because that in taking her part they should fight against God against their a How cometh Philip to be lawful King of England Vid. Tho. Bels Anatomy pag. 98 124. lawful King against their Country and notwithstanding all they should do they should but defend her bootless to their own present destruction and eternal shame As for the Secular Priests you shall hear Watson and Bluet the chief of them thus Confess We had some of us greatly approved the said Rebellion highly extol'd the Rebels and pitifully bewail'd their ruine and overthrow Many of our affections were knit to the Spaniards and for our obedience to the Pope we all do profess it The attempt both of Pope and Spaniard failing in England his Holiness as a Temporal Prince displayed his Banner in Ireland the Plot was to deprive her Highness first from that Kingdom if they could and then by degrees to depose her from this In all these Plots none more forward then many of us that were Priests These are the words set down in the Book call'd b Pag. 15. Important Considerations composed by Bluet and Watson two Priests As for the Jesuits but of Parsons I shall treat more particularly hereafter you shall hear what c C. W. A Reply to Father Paâ—sons Libel fol. 64 65. Clark the Priest saith who with Watson suffer'd afterwards for Treason against King James First it is most certain that all the world had very admirable expectance of that Army and the Jesuits more then any Secondly it is plain by the Cardinals Book d They would hint to us as if Parsons were the Compiler of the Admonition but 't is certain that Allen was the Author of it his name being to it and Pitseus with the other Romanists confessing Allen to be the Author if it were his written as a preparative to that action that he was made Cardinal of purpose for that Exploit and to have been sent hither presently upon the Spaniards Conquest But Father Parsons saith that he labour'd to set forward at that time the Cardinals preferment if you will believe him which maketh it evident a primo ad ultimum that Father Parsons was a dealer in that action Thirdly it is certain that the Jesuits in Rome were great with the Spanish Ambassador-Leger there and had great recourse unto him when the matter was on foot doth not this then argue them to be concurrers thereunto Fourthly it is likewise most true that the English Jesuits in Rome appropriated certain Palaces in London to themselves to fall unto their lots when this matter was in handling to wit Burghley-house Bridewel and another which I have forgot making themselves cock-sure of their already-devoured Prey This all the Students that lived in the e Viz. The English Colledge at Rome
Spain and this Antonio But Philip having the longest Sword under the conduct of Alva wan the Kingdom so that Antonio was forced to flee for refuge to our Queen Elizabeth who afforded him some assistance and favour by which means and protection many Portugaise shipt themselves for England where they were received as friends with all respect and honour Amongst the rest was Roderigo Lopez a Jewish Physitian whom the Queen entertain'd in her own Service making him Physitian to her Houshold and Stephano Ferreira de Gama with Emanuel Loisie These three were inticed by the Spaniard to undertake the murther of the Queen for which they were promis'd great rewards but Lopez was to be the main instrument 1. Lopez confess'd that of late years he had been allured to do service secretly to the King of Spain which he did by the means of one Manuel Andrada a Portugal an Agitator under Don Bernardino Mendoza the Spanish Ambassador in France 2. That the said Andrada brought him from Christofero de Mora a Portugaise but a great favourite of King Philips and an especial Instrument for reducing Portugal under the Spanish Crown a rich Jewel and an encouragement from Philip himself 3. That he was informed of the King of Spains hopes of him not onely by Andrada but by Roderique Marques a Portugais also but imployed by the Spaniard on such wicked designes 4. That he the said Lopez did assent to these wicked Counsels 5. That he did secretly advertise the Spaniard divers times of such affairs of the Queens as he could learn 6. That he did also assent to take away the Queens life by poyson upon a reward promised him of fifty thousand Crowns 7. That he sent Andrada to confer with Count Fuentes about it 8. That he directed Stephano Ferreira de Gama to write Letters to Stephano Ibarra the Kings Secretary at Bruxels to assure the said Earl Fuentes and Ibarra that he would undertake as he had promised to destroy the Queen by poyson provided that he might have the said 50000 Crowns 9. That he sent these Letters by one Gomez Davila a Portugal That the reason why the murther was not executed according to promise was because he perceived the delivery of the 50000 Crowns defer'd though promis'd him from day to day 10. That to take away this delay of the Execution Count Fuentez by the King of Spains order did signe and deliver Bills of exchange for the said Money This money or part of it for security to Lopez was delivered Tho. Robinson's Anatomy of the Nunnery of Lisbone p. 9. to the custody of the English Nuns then at Rhoan in France which monies the Plot failing and Lopez executed was given to the said Nuns who carryed it with them to Lisbone in Portugal where they setled themselves in a Nunnery as appears by their Register-book And at the same time by one of the Lords of the Privy-Council through the interception of Letters this designe was discover'd and Lopez seiz'd on he was forward also to a Jo. Speed's Hist in Queen Eliz. § 117. purge old Lord Burghley out of this world All this was also confess'd by Stephano Ferrera and Emanuel Loisie and that Dr. Lopez his Children were to be advanced by the Kiâ—g of Spain and several other circumstances And that the Count de Fuentez and Ibara were privy to all these actions take this following Confession to assure it The Confession of a Manuel Loisie Tinoco by his own b One of great credit with the Spanish Councellors at Bruxels hand-writing the 22 of Febr. 1593 4. I Manuel Loisie Tinoco Gentleman of Portugal confess that the Count de Fuentez and the Secretary Ibarra call'd me into the Cabinet of the Count and both of them together either of them for his own part took my hands putting them within their own and told me that before they would declare unto me a certain business of great Importance Thou must give unto us thy faith and homage to keep it so secret that although thou happen to be taken there of the English thou shalt not discover this secret because it importeth the Quietness of all Christendom And after I had given them my word and faith with all fidelity and service in such an affair they told me Stephen Ferrera de Gama hath written to us how D. Lopez hath offer'd and bound himself to kill the Queen of England with poyson with condition the King of Spain should recompence his services according to the quality of them All which passed in the City of Bruxels in the house of the Count de Fuentez and as far as I can remember it was the 9 day of December past All this I certifie to have passed in great truth and certainty and do affirm it under mine Oath Again I Manuel Loisie Tinoco a Portugal Gentleman do confess that it is true that being in Bruxels in the house of the Count Fuentes he caused me to be call'd for and demanded of me of what Quality and Country Andrada was And after that I had told him all that I knew of him he commanded his Secretary to shew me all the Letters that Andrada had written to him from Calice He shewed me three Letters in the first he signified that he was come from England where he had been prisoner a long time and that he was sent by order of Dr. Lopez who as a man very zealous and friendly to the service of the King of Castile was determined to do the King such a piece of Service as thereby he might with great safety satisfie himself on the English Nation But so as the King should recompence his said services with honours and favours according to the quality thereof For he was old and many ways indebted and would now finde rect for his old age And declaring the quality of the service he told him that Dr. Lopez bound himself to dispatch the Queen with poyson Wherefore it behooved him to advertise the King of Spain thereof with all speed and he would attend at Calice until the answer came from Madril The same designe was also carryed on to murther Don Antonio who then call'd himself King of Portugal Concerning which take part of Stephano Ferrera de Gama's Confession taken the 18 of Febr. 1593 4. He saith that Manuel D' Andrada about a month before he went out of England did declare to him that if the King of Spain would that D. Lopez would poyson the Queen of England and the King Don Antonio also Which speech being afterwards utter'd to D. Lopez by Ferrera the Doctor answer'd As for the King he shall dye with the first sickness that shall happeâ— to him But for the Queen we have no a Meaning that the business was not as then fully concluded on the Doctor being not fully assured of his money without which he declared he would not poyson her answer as yet from the other side In short Lopez Ferrera and Loisie were condemn'd and
in the Dukedom of Bar and in the Diocess of Toul in Lorrain who throwing off his Cowle or Hood and under the disguise of a Beggerly habit being found in the Court upon examination giving no good account and Convict by Testimony was also condemn'd and suffered upon the Wheel Such like murtherous designes of the Friars occasioned many Poems against them amongst the rest upon the stabbing of Henry III. who is said to have loved them most affectionately thus one of them concludeth Jamais il n'y eut Roy par qui la Moinerie Respectee fut plus par qui plus cheria Si les Moins ainsi tuâ—nt leurs grands amis Bon Dieu que ferent ils à leur grand Ennemis Never did King carry more kinde defires Than Henry unto all sorts of Fryers If Monks to friends will give such deadly blows Good God! what will they do unto their Foes Thus much for the French Popish Solemn League and Covenant by Retorting of which is enough to stop their mouths concerning our late Rebellions seeing The Romanists there safely pretended the danger of Religion as well as our Presbyterians did They entred into a Solemu League and Covenant as our Non-conformists did They forced their King to take it and it is not unknown what our villainous Long-Parliament would have done and what the impudent Schismaticks in Scotland did do They spred abroad that their King was an enemie to their Religion and in this were worse then our Puritans who though they slandred our King yet had it rather been a scandal for him to have been of their schismatical perswasion They had their Priests and Jesuits sacrilegiously to abuse the Pulpit and People with their seditious lying and treasonable Discourses as our Rebels had their blasphemous Lecturers ignorant and impudent Tub-Thumpers and 't is hard to tell which of these Covenanters were the greater Villains though I 'le grant ours to be the greater Dunces They falsely gave out that many thousand Huguenots lurk'd in Paris to kill them thereby to incense and inrage the people as our Puritans did of God knows what Cavaliers and Papists mustred under ground and such like tales They had their several Juncto's and Cabal's as ours had their Committees c. They null'd and made void all their Oaths of Allegiance as ours did They declared that Allegiance was but Conditional viz. to a Romanist as ours did to a Covenanter They made many Oaths in behalf of Conditional Subjection and Rebellion as out late Zealots did They had their Doctors or Divines of Sorbonne to countenance and vindicate their wicked Actions and to declare for good whatever they would have them As ours had their Club of Assembly of Divines to prove new Governments and King-opposing to be by Divine Right and Predestination They made Banishment and other Penalties for those who would not take and subscribe their Oaths as our Rebels did for their Covenants and Engagements They had their particular Processions and such like Set-pieces of Devotion to crave Divine Aid and Assistance as ours had their monthly Fasts to desire God to bless their sins and Rebellions as also their Thanksgiving like the old Irish who used to thank God if by Theft or Robbery they had got a good booty They had their Oaths of Abjuration as well as ours had They would pardon and authorize all those who acted for their cause as ours could indempnifie one another some may think with as much right or true Authority as the * Mer. Casubâ—â—'s Necessity of Reform p. 75. French Priest consecrated the Sacrament in the name of the Devil They call'd their League against their King Loyalty and ours thought as well of the Covenant They would have the Council of Trent revived as ours would the Covenant Directory and Presbytery and such like schismatical and treasonable Principles Some of them would have their Chieftain Mayenne to be King as others in England would have had Oliver As their Mayenne would not take upon him when offered to him the Title of King because his Interest was not then sufficient to vindicate it and so would only be Lieutenant of the Crown of France thus Oliver upon the same account refused the Kingship but would be Protector of England They commended Guise and Mayenne as the only Prop of their Church as ours by their Addresses did sacrilegiously magnifie Oliver and his son Richard They had their Rump and secluded Members as well as we but in this the French were worst of the two they turning out honest men whilst ours excluded only Conditional subjects i. e. Traitors so one Knave turn'd out another They sent to the Popish Princes large Complaints against their King as ours with their Schismatical Assembly against King Charles I. to Holland and Geneva They would alter limit put out and in as they pleased their Kings Council as our Puritans desired to do in England They would take away the Kings Negative Vote and make the States superiour to him so would our Roundheads here They sent a Letter to desire Protection and Assistance from Spain an enemie to their King and Countrey as the Scotch Covenanters did from the French King Lewis XIII against their King Charles I. as appears by their Letter subscribed by their Chieftains They in Triumph conducted Guise and his friends into Paris as our Presbyterians did the five Members c. to the affront of King and Government They by their Tumults forced their King to flee from his chief City and Court Paris as our Puritans did King Charles I. from London for his own safety When their King offered them and their General Mayenne Pardon Favour and desired a Peaee they reject both it and him as ours did with King Charles when he offered the same to them and their General Essex They censure all who sided with the King and sat at Tours or Chaalons as ours did those who sat at Oxford as a Parliament They broke the Kings Great Seals making new ones as ours also did They declared it Treason to aid or favour their King as the English did They murthered any who sided with their King as well as our Rebels here They defaced all the Kings Pictures and Statues as the Phanaticks did here They had their Women of all Qualities to promote their Cause by their Love-tricks and Contributions as the Puritans in England had their Wives holy Sisters and zealous Ladies hurried along with as much Chastity and Religion as Honesty Moderation or Loyalty They renounced all obedience to Henry III. and his Queen ordered he should not be prayed for as our wicked Presbyterian Long-Parliament declared the Queen a Traitor renounced the King by their abominable Votes and Declaration of Non-Address and it was afterwards death to pray for him They often attempted the death of Henry IV. contrived and procured the Murther of Henry III. as ours designed King Charles's death in the Isle of Wight and at last murthered him on the
Question For no mortal sin is to be committed although thereby Life or Goods might be saved but these things which further and help to execute an unjust Warr are manifestly deadly sins It is permitted likewise to the Catholiques to perform such kind of Obedience to this Haeretical Queen as doth not oppugn the Catholique Religion Neither ever was it or could it be the meaning of the Pope to allow them to use that Obedience towards the Queen which doth manifestly contradict and oppose the end and scope which he had to promote the Catholick Faith and Religion in Ireland But that this was his meaning and scope his own Letters or Breves do manifestly declare From all which it remaineth sufficiently apparent that the most famous Prince Hugh O-Neil and other Catholiques in Ireland making warr against an Heretical Queen who opposeth her self against the True Faith are by no means Rebels neither do they deny due obedience or unjustly usurp any of the Queens Dominions But on the contrary they do rather vindicate themselves and their Countrey from an impious and wicked Tyranny by a most just Warr and do defend and maintain the holy and Orthodox Faith with all their power as becometh all Christians and Catholicks so to do All and every of which we whose Names are under-written do judg and approve as most certain and true Salananca VII of March 1602. I Juan de Ziguenza Professor of Divinity of the Colledg of the Society of Jesus of this famous City of Salamanca do so judg I Manuel de Rojas Professor of Divinity of the said Colledg do agree in the same I Gaspar de Mena Professor of Divinity and Holy Scripture in the said Colledg do assent to the said Opinions of these Fathers as altogether true I Piedro Osorio Expounder of the Sacred Canons in the same Colledg of the Society of Jesus am altogether of the same Opinions with the foresaid Fathers The same Censure or Declaration I find the very next year after thus dated and subscribed Datum Salmanticae secundo Februarii Anno Domini Millesimo Sexcentesimo Tertio Doctores Salmanticenses Fra. Franciscus Zumel Decanus Salmant Mag. Alphonsus de Curiel Sacrae Theologiae Primatius Professor Fr. Petrus de Herrera Mag. Doctor Franciscus Sancius Fr. Dionysius Juberus Mag. Andreas de Leon. Fr. Petrus de Ledesma Fr. Martinus de Paraza Doctores Theologi Vallisoselani D. Franciscus Sobrino Decanus D. Alfonsus Vacc◠de Santiago D. Johannes Garcia de Coronel Mag. Fr. Johannes Nigron D. Torre Fr. Josephus de Luxan Vallisoleti Octavo Martii Anno Millesimo sexcentesimo tertio Philip Osullevan thinks this Declaration enough to convert all good Hist Cathol Ibern. Compend Tom. 3. lib. 8. cap. 7. fol. 204. Romanists to Rebellion and is not a little proud of its Authority and thus cockered up in his usual vanity he accuseth all of folly and ignorance who sided with the Queen and her Loyallists and to think otherwise he saith is a mad and poysonous Doctrine Tir-Oen as aforesaid having submitted himself the Lord Deputy carried him the next day to Dublin intending to convey him into England and thither he carried him King James being proclaimed and received as the undoubted King who also pardoned Tir-Oen received him honourably at Court and by Proclamation forbidding any to shew him the least disrespect But the Romanists in Ireland shew themselves of another temper for hearing of Queen Elizabeth's death a great comfort to * Three Convers of Eng. part 1. an Addition to the Epist Dedicat Parsons and that James was King of England they rejoyce at the one and despise the other The Citizens of Lymrick with their Priests seized upon all the Churches in the City erecting their Altars resolving to re-settle their Religion again At Wexford they gave out that King James was Fynes Morysont Itinerary p. 285 286 c. a Romanist the better to embolden their Associates Those of Waterford secured the Cathedral Church to themselves defaced the Session-House at Black-Fryers by breaking the Doors pulling down the Benches and Seats of Justice ordering Masses to be celebrated publikely But those of Cork went farther refusing to proclaim the King ran to their Arms forbad the Commissioners to proclaim him upon which the Loyallists and the said Commissioners were forced to proclaim him upon an Hill near the Town They entertained one amongst them who call'd himself a Legat from the Pope went with them in Solemn Procession new hallowed their Churches kept strong Guards took the Sacrament to spend their Lives and Goods in the defence of the Roman Religion fell upon the Kings Forces encouraged a Priest to hearten the people on by preaching to them That James could not be a lawful King because he was not appointed by the Pope and sworn to maintain the Roman Religion They write also to all Towns and Cities to assist them in defence of the Catholick Faith and the better to carry on their Designs seized upon the King's Munition And as for Tir-Oen having staid a little time in England with leave and Reward he return'd for Ireland where after so many Promises and Obligations it was expected he would have lived civilly and obedient But here according to his old wont he falleth a plotting and contriving mischief again but with a great deal of secresie In the mean time Montgomery Lord Bishop of Derry and afterwards of Meath enters Bp. Carlton's Thankful Remembrance cap. 14. p. 168. into suit against Tir Oen for wrongfully keeping some of his Episcopal Lands a great sin but too much in fashion to cheat the Church upon this Tir Oen is summon'd to appear at an appointed time to expect the issue of the Tryal The Earl conscious of his late designs against the State and fearing that his Plots had been discovered prompted by his guilty Conscience he and his Family slipt privately into * 1607. Normandy thence to Flanders where he was entertain'd by Father * Jo. Gee's Foot out of the Snare p. 103. Musket with a Panegyrick Oration upon which King James puts forth a Proclamation against him not a little to the disgust of zealous * An. 1608. § de Sponde From Flanders he goeth to Rome where he lived upon the Pope's Allowance became blind for some years and so * 1616. dyed And his Son ended his days miserably in Bruxels being found strangled in his own Chamber but whether by himself or others as it is not certainly known so is it nothing to my purpose And thus much concerning these Troubles in Ireland whose effects were so lamentable that besides the Miseries and Depopulations by Warr the extremity of Famine grew so great that the very * Arch-bishop Vshers Speech at Dublin April 30. 1627. Vid. his life by Dr. Bernard p. 67. Women in some places by the way-side would surprise the men riding by to feed themselves with the flesh of their Horses And sooner might these Troubles have had an
end if it had not been by the instigation of their zealous Priests and Jesuits though born Subjects such as were Father Archer White Ractor Mulrony Leinagh c. Mahonne O Dullany a Priest Edward Raghter a Dominican A Continuation OF THE HISTORY OF THE Romish Treasons AND USURPATIONS BOOK X. CHAP. I. Divers Plots against Queen Elizabeth and King James Rawleigh's Designs against King James The Life of Father Parsons THIS Century might afford us several dismall Contrivances against the Crown and Prosperity of Great Britain but of some I shall but slightly touch as being commonly known and in others I must not be too critical and open lest I should offend against Sir Walter Rawleigh's Prudential Rule Not to follow Truth too near the heels lest she should kick back and strike out my Teeth And here I might speak at large of the several Designs as well of Puritan as Papist to hinder King James from his true succession to the Crown of England as sometimes endeavouring to make him odious to Queen Elizabeth to prevent her declaring for him as by telling her of the King's intimacy with Clement VIII which they endeavoured to year 1599 make out to her by a Letter of his to the said Bishop a thing had it been true might not have deserved such a Censure as Deprivation seeing the Pope may be as civilly treated with as other Potentates a thing not to be denied by any but an Impertinent Puritan or an Irrational Enthusiastick But they hoped that her Jealousie of Religion augmented by her Age and some Expressions in the Letter might perswade her to make Mountains of Mole-hills and in such a pet to declare some other to the Crown which as some hoped might have brought such troubles upon the Kingdom that in the hurry a Romanist might have slipt himself into the Throne to which so many pretended But she was too wise to be cheated by such Toys presently she perceiving the drift she suspected the cheat And a meer forgery it was in respect of King James though his knavish Secretary Balmerinoch * Propenderet animo ad Religionem Romanam Rob. Johnston Hist Rerum Brit. p. 448. one warping towards Popery had given some ground for such a story For he by the Instigation of his Kinsman Sir Edward Drummond a Romanist had penn'd a Letter to the said Clement VIII in favour of the Bishop of Vaison a Scotch-man for his preferment to a Cardinalship which by shuffling in among other Letters to be signed the King had hastily a dangerous oversight where are knavish Secretaries set his hand to the other sealing it with the Royal Signet entrusted to him by his Office Queen Elizabeth by the by challenged King James with this But he protested his Innocency by denying any such thing so did James Elphingston Lord Balmerinoch who also got Drummond to forswear it Raleigh and other Enemies to the Scotch Title could then proceed no farther though they had used such Interest at Rome as to get a Copy of it which they shew'd to the Queen as the Original and she to Mr. David Foulis the King's Agent who satisfied her Majesty by proving to her by the Testimony of her Stationers that the Date of the Letter was older than the stamp or mark of the Paper whereby it could not be the Original and so might be a Cheat as well as a Copy But afterwards * Mat. Tort. pag. 47. 1608 1609. Bellarmine retorting this Letter to the King Balmerinoch was farther examined and tried who confest all was condemned of Treason and as a Traytor to be beheaded but by Queen Ann's Intercession was pardoned A man he was of good Parts but especially knew how to filch pilfer and embezel Church-Lands and if it should be possible for a covetous man as he was to be honest yet 't is certain that he who robs God and the Church can never be a Friend to the King but for his own Interest Queen Elizabeth is now old and weak cannot live long so 't is needless to attempt any more against her Person whose death they daily expected and it might anticipate their quickest Designs No man's right and succession to the Crown is so much fear'd as that of King James and therefore to prevent Him must be the main Care and Contrivance There was one Francis Mawbray Son to the Laird of Barnebowgall who had lived some while in the Infanta's Court at Bruxels he they year 1601 say undertook to take this rub out out of the way by killing the King to which purpose he intends for Scotland but taketh England in his way At London one Daniel an Italian Fencing-Master discovers the Plot to the Queen she for a further trial hath them both seiz'd on and sent into Scotland Mawbry supposed guilty is cast into Edenburgh Castle whence thinking one night to escape out of a Window by his Bed-sheets which proving too short he fell upon the Rocks and so dyed his Body was hang'd for some time then quartered and fixt upon the Gates and several places of the City This failing another Design is in hand In Italy Ferdinando I. the Grand Duke of Tuscany by the intercepting of some Letters discovereth a Plot to take away King James his Life by Poyson The Duke who had formerly been a Cardinal moved with the Fame of the King's Learning and Virtue and it may be had some hopes of his Conversion upon the former false Letters resolved to discover and prevent it At this time Mr. Henry Wotton sojourned in Florence and was well acquainted year 1602 with Signior Vietta the Duke's Secretary upon whose Commendations Wotton is pitched on to be the Messenger The Letters and excellent Antidotes against Poyson such as were not then known in Scotland were delivered to him who disguised under an Italian Garb and Name of Octavio Baldi hasteth to Scotland cometh to the King discovereth himself and the Conspiracy and after some stay returneth to Florence He was afterwards Knighted by King James and famous for his Learning Languages and Embassies In these Designs against the King's right to the Throne Pope Clement VIII was not wanting who intended the Crown for some of his Friends Card. D'Ossat Let. 191. 268. 272. And perceiving that some in England were tampering to promote the Interest of the Lady Arabella in this case he thought it best to deal warily He had a mind that the Duke of Parma should enjoy the Crown but this upon better thoughts he supposed would not be feasible by reason that Arabella's Interest might be too strong And therefore Parma being married he casts another way about and thinks upon Cardinal Farnese younger Brother to Parma who being unmarried might be wedded to Arabella and so did not question by their joint Forces and Interests to carry the Crown To carry on this business nothing was thought more convenient than to unite all the Romanists in England that their Cause might not suffer by any dissentions amongst
wet with digging under the Parliament-House and other such like stories which might be endless However there are some Romanists would gladly have the world believe all this to be but a meer cheat only to be a Trick of Salisbury the then Secretary and for proof I have had the patience and pleasure to hear a story very gravely told How one lurking under the Council-Table and upon what jealousie came he there conceal'd by the long Carpet heard much of the Contrivance A Tale so ridiculous that to endeavour its confutation would argue one more impertinent than the Tale-teller But though this story might be false yet will they have Cecyl to be the Plotter and to draw these Romanists into it as if supposing this were true they were not guilty and Traytors Can you deny but that they themselves thought the Plot lawful and just That accordingly they really intended it And would have done it if not prevented If Cecyl occasioned it he must use some Means and Instruments and who and what they were is a wonder that they were not discovered and known before now Those who were Executed accused no body and as the Poet saith well He that hangs or beats out 's Brains Hudibras part 2. Cant. 1. The Devil 's in him if he feigns If this were a Cheat and known so to be would not Father Parsons and others have vapoured with it all the World over Would they have been silent in the matter Or would they have concealed any thing that would have vindicated themselves and exposed and shamed the Church of England Were they such Friends to us and such Enemies to their own Credit Cause and Reputation But on the contrary Why doth * Judgment of a Cath. concerning the Oath of Alleg. Parag. 1. § 10. Parsons as if ashamed at it seem troubled at the very naming of it as it were desiring to hear no more of it Why doth Will. Warmington an honest Priest confess That * A Moderate Defence p. 7. none therein were culpable but only Jesuits and Catholicks If the Plot was laid and known before Why doth Spondanus say That the King's Preservation was * An. 1605 §. 8. Divinitus evasit miraculous And why doth a great Jesuit now confess That the discovery of the Plot was very a Patefactis mirabeliter eorum Consiliis Bried An. 1605. wonderful But lastly Why do several of them justifie the Powder-Plot b Co quaeus is so favourable to the Plotters that he alloweth them a good place in Heaven and yet we must not question but that King James is tormented in Hell Hath there not been publikely printed Apologies for the Fact and those who suffered in it declared c Examen Praefat. p. 43. Martyrs Did d Is Casaubon Epist 619. not * Id. Epist 624. Front Ducao John Grant one of the Traytors declare at his Execution That he thought the Fact was so far from being sinful that he rather judged it to be meritorious and enough to blot out or satisfie for all his former offences But enough of this only by the by we are told That the Heads of Catesby and Piercy were set over the House of Lords but were afterward Osborn's Mem. of K. James p. 31. as 't is said removed and others set in their places And a Learned and Honest Pen tells us thus * Peter du Moulin Vindication of the sincerity of the Protestant Relig. pag. 64. I cannot leave unobserved That in the height of the late Tyranny two Heads of the Gunpowder-Traytors that were set up upon the House of Lords were taken down not by the high Winds but by the same Zeal which plotted that Treason and with the leave of Traytors of another Feather We may hear in time that those holy Reliques are shrined up in Gold and are working Miracles To this may be added That the * Their Protestants Plea and Petition for Priests and Papists p. 58. Romanists confess themselves that Catesby Tresham T. Winter the two Wrights and Grant were in Essex his Rebellion That Piercy gave the Pistol to his Master the old Earl of Northumberland in the Tower as also that when they drew up a Petition to the Parliament for Favour or a Toleration Who should be the * Id. pag. 70. Presenters of it but Sir Francis Hastings and Sir Richard Knightly two noted Puritans Whereby it seems that these two Enemies can joyn together against the Church of England But now it is not amiss to say something concerning Father Garnet who made the greatest noise in this Plot. SECT II. The Life of Father Garnet with the story of his Straw HENRY GARNET was born in Nottinghamshire 1555 of Gentile Parents was sent to Winchester School where he was under the Tuition of the Learned Thomas Bilson then School-Master there and afterwards Bishop of Winchester In his Youth he was as bad as his Neighbours yet not behind in Learning was one of the chief Praepositors of the School in which place he began to be a young Conspirator having framed a cruel Plot to fall upon the School-Master and cut off his right hand To which might be added his filthy Sodomy with which he basely abused five or Vid. Rob. Abbot Bishop of Salisbury Antilog in Epist ad Lectorem six of the handsomest Scholars And perceiving that these his Crimes would hinder his promotion to New-Colledg in Oxford from which School that Noble Foundation is supplied he went to London and obtained to be Corrector of the Common-Law Press under Mr. Tottle the Printer Here he staid not long going to Rome where he turn'd Jesuit 1575. In this having employed himself some years he return'd to England 1586 where he was very active against his Queen and Countrey as in the Spanish Invasion and other such like Conspiracies and the better to secure himself alter'd his Name as opportunity served sometimes lurking under these several Names Wallâ—y Darcy Roberts Farmer Philips Very zealous he was in hindring the coming of King James to the Ehglish Crown and his Example was a great encouragement to the Romanists he being the Provincial or Head of the Jesuits in England The better to prevent King James his Succession he had two Bulls or Breves lying by him from the Pope to publish as occasion served And for a farther assistance he sent Thomas Winter into Spain 1601 with whom went also Greenwell alias Tesmond the Jesuit These according to their Instructions resort to Father Creswell the Legier Jesuit there who conducted them to Don Pedro Francese Secretary of State and also to the Duke of Lerma the chief Favourite where they desire that a Spanish Army might presently be sent into England and they should not want aid from the Romanists in that Island The Request is consented to the King promising to employ in it 100000 Crowns wishing them in the mean time to give him notice of the Queen's death whenit should happen Whilst these
Queen Elizabeth 454 455 456 Francis Duke of Anjou his death 502 Suspected by poyson Ibid. Causes the Guisard to rejoyce Ibid. Don Juan d'Aquila lands in Ireland with Spanish forces 658 c. L'Auspespine the French Ambassador in England plots the murder of Queen Elizabeth 450 B BAbington's treasons against Queen Elizabeth 445 446 Baldwin II Emperour of Constantinople deposed 279 Fran. Baroncello his pranks at Rome 306 Cardinal Baronius bad Principles 78 The Barricadoes 523 Pierre Barriere his plots against the King 589 Becket vid. Thomas Cardinal Bellarmines bad Principles 68 69 Berengarius murther'd 192 John of Bilboa his imposture 360 361 Birket constituted Archpriest of England 720 Blois the Assembly of the States-General meet there 527 The D. of Guise rules all there ibid. Boniface VIII Pope his life and actions 282 c. Cardinal Bourbon declar'd King 562 Bow at the name of the Pope and Virgin Mary 40 Richard Bristow's bad Principles 62 66 C CAelestine V Pope 282 283 Alphonso Carillo Archbishop of Toledo chief of the Rebels against Henry IV King of Castile and Leon 337 338 c. Catherine Queen of Navar deprived 343 344 Robert Cecil threatned in a Letter from the Romanists 707 708 Charles III le Gross Emperour depos'd 185 First dated his Letters from the year of Christ 186 Charles III le simple King of France deposed 203 204 Carlos I King of Spain chose Emperor called Charles V 353 His going from Spain into Germany opposed by the Spaniards 353 354 Chastel stabs the King 596 Childerick II King of France and his Queen murdred 160 Childerick III King of France deposed 165 166 His Subjects absolv'd from their Oaths of Allegiance by Pope Zachary Ibid. Clement VIII thanks the Irish for their Rebellion 651 Sends a Letter to Tyrone the Rebel 655 Fryar Clement kills Henry III of France 547 The Prince of Conde poysoned 521 Conradino King of Naples beheaded 281 Constantines Donation a meer cheat 117 118 c. Constantine V Emperour of Constantinople murdred 169 170 The Covenant vid. League Council of Sixteen vid. Paris Culene King of Scotland murther'd 211 D DAndalo in a Chain under the Popes Table 307 Deodato Duke of Venice his eyes put out 183 Desmond ' s Plots against Ireland and Articles with Francis I. King of France 385 386 Proclaim'd Traitour 390 His death 392 Devils abused 27 28 The Devil confess'd his sins and loved the Mass 28 Pray'd for that his sins might be forgiven 136 S. Dominick his lying stories 5 Donald V King of Scotland imprison'd 183 Duffe King of Scotland murder'd 208 209 210 Duncan King of Scotland murder'd 215 E EDict vid. Vnion Edmund King of England murther'd 205 Edmund Ironside King of England murder'd 214 Edward King of England sirnamed the Martyr 206 207 Edward II King of England his deposing and murther 309 310 Edward VI insurrections in the North and West against him 408 409 Queen Elizabeth leaves out the word HEAD and is stiled onely Supreme Governour 400 Her Vindication 410 411 c. to 423 Her commendations by Forraigners 411 Defended from cruelty in putting some Romish Priests to death 413 414 416 Declared in a Bull of Pope Pius V Excommunicated Deprived and Deposed 419 Her mildeness and mercy towards Romish Priests 419 420 421 422 423 Who were put to death for Treasons not for Religion Ibid. Deposed by Pope Paul IV Her murder designed by Pius V 426 Her Subjects absolv'd from their Oath of Allegiance by his Bull 427 to 431 Insurrections in the North against her Government 432 Attempts to kill her 445 446 Several plots against her 675 676 c. Empire its troubles by the Papal arrogancie 303 England not subject to the Papal Power 233 234 Equivocation 190 Exorcisms used by the Romanists to inveigle the ignorant people 446 447 448 449 St. Ericus IX King of Swedland kill'd 252 Erick VI King of Denmark beheaded 279 Erick VII murdred ibid. Ethus King of Scotland imprison'd 183 Exorcisms cheating 27 F FAbritio Duke of Venice his eyes put out 183 Felton condemned for Treason not for Religion 419 Esteemed as a Martyr by the Romanists 433 Florence wicked designs against it by the Pope 331 332 c. Folly of Heathens 1 2 Formosus Pope his troubles 196 197 His body drag'd out of the grave and his fingers cut off 197 198 France the holy League and Covenant there 483 More stirs there upon the deaths of the Guises 529 The people's Declaration 530 S. Francis his childish stories 2 3 4 Frederick I Barbarossa his troubles 254 c. Frederick II Emperour troubled and depos'd 266 G GAlla Duke of Venice his eyes put out 183 Father Garnet his life 696 to 707 The story of his straw 704 705 Gerberg a Nun drown'd in a Wine-vessel 178 Gibbelines their Story 270 Giovanni Duke of Venice banish'd 183 Men held for Gods 1 2 God abused and blasphemed 29 30 Gradenico Duke of Venice murder'd 183 Gregory I against a Vniversal Bishop 154 Commendeth the murther of Mauricius 155 156 Calls himself servant of servants 156 Delivers Trajans soul out of Hell 157 Gregory VII his power 218 219 c. Deposed by a Synod at Worms 220 By another at Brixen 226 Dyeth and is Sainted 227 Gregory XIII his explication of Pius V his Bull against Queen Elizabeth 435 436 Jac. Gretser his bad Principles 69 Guelfs their story 270 Guisards several designes against the House of Navar as the chief of that of Bourbon 488 489 490 Their under-plottings against Henry III of France 494 495 496 to 502 Their designes against the House of Bourbon 502 And to make themselves next Heirs of the Kingdom 502 503 c. Look upon Cardinal Bourbon as first Prince of the Bloud rather then the King of Navar 507 Duke of Guise holds a Treaty or Conventicle with some Spanish Commissioners and others and the agreement at that Cabal 505 Has a meeting of the Chieftains of the House of Lorrain at Nancy 520 Presents several propositions to the King ibid. Comes to Paris has the acclamations of the people 522 The Queen-Mother sent to treat with him 524 His insolent demands 524 Refuses to swear Allegiance to the King and plots to take away his life 528 Is kill'd at Blois ibid. Cardinal of Guise kill'd by the Kings order ibid. Gunpowder-Treason vid. Treason H LOng Hair of great value 167 Hare occasion'd the taking of Rome 187 Harenscaran punishment what 256 257 Heaven abused with lyes 29 30 Henry II King of England his troubles by Thomas a Becket 235 236 c. His grief and penance for Beckets murther 247 248 Henry IV King of Castile and Leon his miseries by his proud rebellious Nobility 337 c. They make a League against him ibid. Designe to kill him 340 Henry IV Emperour his troubles and deposition 218 219 c. Deprived 220 224 225 His strange Humility and Submission 222 Crown'd at Rome 226 Depos'd by his son 228 229 His poverty and death
Civitates evertit destruxit solo adaequavit quot Provincias vastavit quot Regna depredatum est quantum denique innocentis sanguinis prosundere non dubitavit dicat hoc Gallia dicat Belgium dicat Scotia dicat etiam vestra haec Anglia Siquidem omnis illa tyrannis barbarics crudelitas saevitia quae hodie apud vos obtinet aliud nihil sunt quam vestri Evangelii fructuâ— Quibus ita constitutis Evangelium adhue vestrum Deo attribuere ad illum reserre audetis Potestne blasphemia major ista reperiri Pet. Ribad Appendix sive Lib. 4. ad Nicol. Sanders de Schismate Angl. cap 17. You may see the same also in his Spanish Hist Ecclesiastica del Schisma del Reyno de Inglaterra lib. 3. cap. 17. Lying Perjury Deceipt Flattery Hypocrisie Tyranny Sedition Destruction Murther and what not is nothing but the fruit and result of our Religion upon which the man wonders how we dare intitle it to God or Christ but never remembers the treasonable Principles of himself and his Brethren with the Practices of his Church Jacobus Gretser another of the same stamp will have our Religion not onely to be the off spring but also the b Sectam vestram Martis Bellonae esse filiam parentem clarius est quam ut sine impudentia negare possis loquatur Gallia utraque Germania Anglia Scotia Jac. Grets Apol. pro vita Ignat. Loyolae lib. 3. pag. 475. Mother of War and Sedition to deny which he looketh upon as a grand piece of Impudence And c Ubique seditiones tumultus praetextu Religionis movent ubique jugum Principum quantum possunt excutiuâ—t sibi omnem gubernationem vindicant Discussio Decreti Magni Concilii Lateran pag. 129. Leonardus Lessius of the same Order but disguised under the false name of Guilielmus Singletonus is much of the same opinion and we need not doubt but these men speak the sentiment of their whole Order But to come neerer home No sooner was King James setled in the Kingdom here but the English Romanists drew up a d 1604. pag. 7 Supplication to his Majesty and the Parliament in which they do not a little vaunt of the loyalty of their Religion in these words The Catholick Subject is if any other the Glory strength and perpetuity of the Kingdom because he principally seeking Heaven in this world and will not for the world be diverted cannot be treacherous or disloyal or undutiful to your Highness but in every service and distress occurring valiant resolute and most faithful and all these fair words were to the same King and Parliament whose destruction they intended and had at that time contrived it Towards the latter end of the said King James his Reign Prince Charles was sent a wooing into Spain at which time the Romanists were fill'd with hopes though upon no certain grounds of the Conversion of the Prince a Free Toleration of their Religion or rather that the whole Kingdom would be at their Devotion As a preparative to this grand Expectation Father Pateson drew up a Book under the Title of Jerusalem and Babel or The Image of both Churches collected mostly out of the Answers to Anti-coton and Brerely This Treatise he dedicateth to the Prince the main designe being to vindicate the Popish Loyalty and to declare the Protestants to be absolute Rebels For proof of which he boldly affirms a Pag 347. Editionis Lond. 1653. Now it is manifest that in the short space of her Reign viz. of Queen Mary of England which was not much above five years she had more open Rebellions and Insurrections made agâ—inst her from such of her Subjects as were not well-affected unto her Religion then Queen Elizabeth had from Catholicks in full forty and five c. And to testifie farther what loyal people they were to Queen Elizaheth let Pope Spain or any other confederate against her never so much thus the same Penman taketh upon him the confidence to testifie b Pag. 491. Among so many Priests as by that time there were both in England and beyond the Seas and in so long a time as this pretended Confederacie was in framing when Spies and Intelligences were many and well paid by the State was there so much as one Priest nominated and accused to have been so corrupted or induced any way by these Princes or their Ministers to practice ought to the prejudice of their Country was there any one apprehended or convicted of such a Treason was there ever any subject of England call'd in Question for entertaining Priests that were sought after upon that account In a word when the Spanish Armado was under sail for England was there so much as one Priest or Seminary-man found or known to be in it Or at any time since discover'd to have been imploy'd in that service And lastly thus the same man characters the two Religions The c Pag. 560. Catholicks seek onely by way of Petition Supplication Prayer and humble Remonstrating of their sufferances the other viz. Protestants seek chiefly by Fire and Sword and Cannon-Bullet and by thundring of Ordnance With these Arguments or Weapons did Pateson endeavour to force the Prince from his Religion but they were too weak and blunt against such a noble and knowing Champion yet when he was in Spain he is there assaulted again and that by no less man then Zacharias Boverius the old Cappuchine who wrote a Folio Book call'd Orthodoxa Consultatio and dedicated it to the said Prince where he endeavours by might and main to bring a dislikeing in Prince Charles to the Church of England by hinting to him the Divisions of it as if forsooth the Romanists agreed in all things He would also perswade him to turn Romanist one of his encouragements being that the Pope can d Ortho. Coâ—sult part 2. Reg. 6. p. 286. Depose Kings a very excellent complementive Argument to convert a man out of his Rights and Dominions But this e Caeterum si Reges â—e oves esle aegre serent ac luporum more Ecclesiasticum Potestatem invadant sciant profecto eam potestatem Pontifici totius Ecclesiae Pastori à Christo esse collatam quae veâ—o Pâ—stori adveâ—sus Lupos gregâ—s vastatores ipso naturali jure permissa est nimitum ut Lupos à grege arceant Id enim postulat commissa sibi à Christo Dominici gregts cura qua Ecclesiae conservationi sedulo invigilare debet ut Lupos gregem invadences expellat ac modis omnibus Ecclesiasticae Reipub. utilitati atque incolumitati consulaâ— Praestat namque Principem à grege expelli quam gregem totum corruete Zach. Bover Demonstrationes Symbolorum verae falsae Religionis Tom. 2. Art 5. pag. 150. Doctrine Boverius had taught in his former Writings from which his Orthodoxa Consultatio if a man may be a Plagiary to himself is stoln for the nonce Dr. Benjamin Carier having plaid
be bankrupt for rather then fail she will pardon them for ever and ever as may appear in what followeth In the Church of St. John the Lateran is a Chappel call'd Sancta Sanctorum in which there is every day pardon and remission for all sins both from the punishment and the sin also In St. Peters Church in the Vatican by the Font is every day remission of all sins to be had Also in the same Church upon St. Martins day there is to be had full remission of all sins In St. Pauls Church in the Vatican upon the XXIX of January being the day when the Church was consecrated there is then to be had remission of all sins In the Church of St. Croce is a Chappel call'd Hierusalem where is to be granted full remission of all sins both à poena à culpa In the Church St. Maria Maggiore upon All-Saints day there is granted full remission of all sins In the Church St. Maria Rotonda upon the third of May and All-Saints day are pardons for all sins to be had In the Church St. Maria del Popolo on the day of Assumption of the Virgin Mary are granted remission of all sins In the Church of St. Peters ad Vincula are remission of all sins to be had In the Church call'd Ara Coeli or St. Maria Ara Coeli where they say is the first Altar that ever was made in the world at which Altar there is every Sunday and upon the Assumption of the B. Virgin granted full pardon and Remission of all sins These and such other like Indulgences were formerly a Fiscus Papalis sive Caralog is Indulgentiarum c. publish'd in England by Mr. Crashaw from an old Manuscript which he had and I have also seen an old b MS. 196. K Digby in Bibl. Bodl. â—xon Mâ—nuscript to the same purpose But what need we trouble our selves with Manuscripts seeing the same things may be seen in feveral c Indulgentiae Ecclâ—siarum urbis Romane Impressum Romae 1509. Le Cose maravigliose dell ' Alma citta di Roma 1625. Onuphrius de urbis Romae Ecclesiis Le Steâ—r de Villamont ses voyages Vid. Weaveâ—s Funeral-Monuments pag. 160 161 162 c. Books made printed by them and publish'd by their Authority to procure the greater credit and belief for suchlike pardons as these This occasion'd so many Pilgrimages to Rome to the great inriching of that City and the wonder of Johannes or Janus Pannonius the Hungarian Poet and Bishop of Funfkirken or Eutegyhazae in Latine Quinque Ecclesiae who though of the Roman Religion yet could thus jest at the gadding of People from other Countries to Rome for Pardons at their Jubilees Hispani Galli Solavi Teutones Hunni Delit. Poet. Hungar. p. 274. Clavigeri petitis limina Sancta Petri Quo ruitis stulti Latios ditare penates Salvari in patria siccine nemo potest The Spaniard French Pole German and the Hun Vnto St. Peters Chair for Heaven doth run Whither O fools to inrich the Popes do you gad As if salvation can't at home be had Yet Indulgences were also granted to particular places in other Countries amongst the rest England being then free-handed to Rome did not want such pretty Indearments whereby the people were made as free from sin as d Jo. Fox vol. 3. pag 223. Nightingal the Priest in Queen Mary's days and of them might be said as was thus in an old e Thâ— Becon's Relicks of Rome fol. 193. b. printed Pardon John or Joan as free I make thee As heart may think or eye may see And their Power and Prerogative is so great forsooth that they cannot onely pardon past sins but sins to come or what you will commit afterwards of which King f Meditation on the Lords Prayer p. 58. James doth protest that he hath seen two Authentical Bulls with his own eyes And of this the g Gravam Germ. § 3. Princes of Germany at Nurnberg 1523 did publickly complain and that your friends soul should skip out of Purgatory when the cash ratled in the Bason And how liberal they used to be with their Pardons h De Schism lib. 1. cap. 68. Theodorick à Niem who was Secretary to three Popes hath of old hinted and Dr. i Manuduction to Divinity pag. 64 65 c. Thomas James will refer you to some more abuses And though they are willing to be no loosers by these favours yet their prices are cheap enough which probably may the sooner ingage or oblige some trusty son to act any Villany the rates of their Absolutions being so cheap of which take this following Taste as I finde them set down in their Taxa S. Cancellariae Apostolicae Sect. III. Tit. 2. ABsolution for him who lyeth with a Woman in the Church and committed other crimes is rated at 6 a The common value of a grosso is about 4 penny sarthing of English money but some in this occasion will make it about 1 s. 6 d. grossos He that keeps a Concubine if a Priest must pay for his Absolution 7 gros If he be a Lay-man he must pay 8 gros If a Lay-man commit Sacriledge by taking holy things out of holy places he is well used seeing he payeth no more for his Absolution then 7 gros If a man carnally lye with his Mother Sister or other Kinswoman or God-mother he shall have his Absolution paying 5 gros Absolution for him that deflowers a Virgin is dog-cheap at 6 gros If a Priest commit Simony he shall have his Absolution for paying 7 gros Absolution for Perjury is but 6 gros Ib. Tit. 6. If a Lay-man kill an Abbot a Monk a Clerk or other Priest less then a Bishop he shall onely pay for his Absolution according to the Quality 7 8 or 9 gros But if a Lay-man onely kill a Lay-man he shall then onely pay 5 gros If a Woman be with Childe and she willingly and on purpose destroy the said Infant within her she shall have an Absolution for 5 gros And if one kill his Father Mother Brother or Wife he must pay for his Absolution 1 Ducat and 5 b This is sometimes valued at the same with a Grosso Carlins This Book was publish'd by their own Authority it may be the better to let the Romanists see what a kinde loving and indulgent Mother they have But how oft it hath been publish'd I cannot tell It was c W. Crafâ—â—aw's Mittimâ—s to the Jubilee of Rome Epist to the Reader first made and printed at Rome in the time of Pope Leo X and was after printed at Paris 1522 the d Pet. Molin de Monarch Temp. Pont. pag. 355. Kings Priviledge and the Popes Bull being joyned to it 'T was the next year 1523 printed at e Laur. Banck Taxa Epist Colen and afterwards in that Noble Collection call'd Tractatus Illustrium virorum printed by the King of France his Priviledge
a Apologia pag. 24. Opinion of all Divines both Ancient and Modern of all Catholick Lawyers of Oecumenical Councils and Popes and that in this there is no b Id. P. 26. disagreement amongst them this power being c Id. P. 59. given to the Pope by God and he cannot be held a Catholick that is against it For not one d Id. P. 128. Catholick Author can be brought out who expresly denyeth it nor can any e Id. P. 163. Reason be brought against this Authority of the Pope And that Zacharias did not well when he deposed honest Childerick King of France cannot be said f Id. P. 596. without great rashness and Blasphemy Another there is somewhat voluminous in this point and of the more note because a French-man and a great favourite both there and in Italy and this is Leonardus Coquaeus a Mendicant Augustine Fryar who in Opposition to King James saith that the g Hâ—bâ—t authoritatem excommunicandâ— coercendi proscribendi Reges haeâ—eâ—â—cos ovili Christi pernicâ—osos Lâ—m. Coq Examen praefat Monit pag. 103. Pope cannot onely Excommunicate bridle or punish Kings but also turn them out of their Kingdoms And to make this more convincing in another place he h Id. Pag. 142 143. endeavours to prove by Example that this hath been done Nor is this any i Id. P. 49. usurp'd Authority of the Pope but it is properly belonging to him for as Coquaeus saith Christ had not been careful enough of the Church and salvation of Souls if he had not left the Pope a power over Kings And in a larger k Antâ—mernaeus Tom. 1. pag 380 523. Tom. 2. p. 6 17 21 105 128. Book he harps very often in behalf of King-deposing Gregorio Servantio a Dominican and Bishop of Trevico being angry with the Venetians gives the Pope power over them and other Temporal Princes and to Se unâ— di pecorel'a divien Lupo che si mangia iniquamente con tirannide le pecorello de' suoi sudditi ò la scia entrer la peste dell'Heresia ò diventa un cane tanto timido come quel Childerico detto che non val nieâ—e potrà il Papa come vicario di Christo discacciate il Lâ—po overo sostâ—uire un altro Cane valente che custodesca la greggâ—a Escâ—l suâ— precâ—tto qualche volta non fera esseguito questo sara ce facto non de jure secondo il quale noi ragioniamo Defesa della potesta Immunita Eâ—â—â—â—s p. 68. carry on his design the more cleverly he makes a great deal of do with the common allusion that if the King from a Sheep turn Wolf and tyrannize over bis Subjects or let Heresie enter amongst them or become a timerous Dog that then the Pope may turn out the Wolf or put in a more valiant Dog And for more confirmation of this he makes use of the Canon-Law And much to the same Authority is hinted at and imply'd by a Nuova Risposta sopra le Censure di Paolo V. contra la Signoria di Venetia pag. 16. pag. 59. Giovanni Filoteo di Asti to make good the Popes power in the disposing of Kingdoms and Kings Of this humour of King-deposing is the famous Spaniard b Potest talem Principem dominio suo privare Suar. Defensio fid Cathol l. 3. c. 23. Numb 21. Franciscus Suarez And if the Pope do deprive him and give his Kingdom to another the other may c Id. Lib. 6. cap. 4. Numb 19. Si Pontifex aliis Regibus potestatem tribuat invadendi tale Regnum tunc juste fieri potest justly invade and take it And this power of the Pope over Kings he affirms to be as d Id. Lib. 3. c. 23. Numb 16. true and as certain as that the Church is infallible in Faith And to prove this I suppose was one of the main Reasons if not the chief of his e Hic est ut dixi cardo praecipuus scopus praesentis Controversia Id. L. 3. c. 23. Numb 1. writing that Folio wherein he would gladly perswade King James that he was in an f Id. Lib. 6. c. 4. Numb 22. error in denying the Popes power in deposing Kings And what was the sentiment of some of our English Priests in this case you may perceive by these following Remarks August 1. 1581. EDmond Campion being demanded whether he doth at this present acknowledge her Majesty Queen Elizabeth to be a true and lawful Queen or a pretended Queen and deprived and in possession of her Crown onely De facto He answereth That this Question depends upon the fact of Pius the Fifth whereof he is not judge and therefore refuseth further to answer Edmond Campion This was thus answered and subscribed by Edmond Campion the day and year above written in the presence of us Owyn Hopton Jo. Hammond Robert Beal Thomas Norton ALexander Briant He is content to affirm that the Queen is his Soveraign Lady But he will not affirm that she so is lawfully and ought so to be and to be obeyed by him as her Subject if the Pope declare or command the contrary And he saith That that Question is too high and dangerous for him to answer May 6. 1581. Before Owen Hopton Knight John Hammond and Thomas Norton The Examination of Ralphe Sherwin November 1580. Being askt whether the Popes Bull of deprivation of the Queen were a law sentence or no he refuseth to answer Being ask'd whether the Queen be his lawful Soveraign and so ought to continue notwithstanding any sentence that the Pope can give He doth not Answer Being again ask'd whether the Queen be his Soveraign notwithstanding any sentence that the Pope can give He prayeth to be asked no such Question as may touch his life Ralph Sherwin Novemb. 12. 1580. Articles ministred to the Seminary Priests who were in the Tower and were condemned with their Answers to the same May 13. M. D. LXXXII I. WHether the a a It deposed the Queen by Declaration and absolved her subjâ—cts from their obedience due to her Bull of Pius the Fifth against the Queens Majesty be a lawful sentence and ought to be obey'd by the Subjects of England II. Whether the Queens Majesty be a lawful Queen and ought to be obeyed by the Subjects of England notwithstanding the Bull of Pius the Fifth or any other Bull or sentence that the Pope hath pronounced or may pronounce against her Majesty III. Whether the Pope have or had power to authorize the Earls of b b Who upon the score of Religion Rebell'd against her anno 1569. Northumberland and Westmerland and other her Majesties Subjects to rebel or take Arms against her Majesty or to authorize c c Sent into Ireland by Gregory XIII to foment the Rebellion Dr. Saunders or others to invade Ireland or any other Dominions and to bear Arms against her and whether they did therein lawfully or no IV.
was to send them aid of Men Ships and Artillery That if during the said Truce or Peace the said Earls Subjects or Tenants should refuse to pay him such Rents and Duties as anciently they were accâ—stomed that then the said King at his own charge was to send two Ships well appointed to be at his command until the said Subjects or Tenants were reduced to their former obedience and the said Ships to be victualed by the Earl That the King should give unto the Earl of Desmond a convenient Pension during his life and unto David Mac Maurice the Earls Seneschâ—l an yearly Pension of a 500 Livres is about to pound Steâ—ling five hundred Livres during his life But this Treaty and its Conditions were never executed by reason the said French King Francis I was otherwise imployed in the Wars of Italy about the Dukedome of Milan and at the Famous battle of b Fâ—bâ—uaâ—y 24. 15â—â— Pavia was taken prisoner and carryed into Spainâ— and at the said fight was Richard de la Pole call'd Duke of Suâ—â—â—olk and by some also termed the White Rose slain And some years before viz. â—513 was his Brother Edmund Earl of Suffâ—olk beheaded on the Tower-hill in London for Treason Here we might also tell of Thomas Fitz Girald Earl of Kildare who solicited the Emperour Charles V to seise upon Ireland Caâ—â—â—d in Coâ—â—tain â—idar and fell into open acts of Hostility and Treason but leaving these let us haste to Queen Elizabeth's time where we shall finde the Tir-Oens who would intitle themselves O-Neals the greatest sticklers Con O-Neal sirnamed Bacco i. e. the lame was such an enemy to the English though Henry VIII bare him some favour that he left a solemn curse upon his Posterity if they ever sowed Wheat 〈◊〉 pag. â—4 spake English or built houses yet he was by Henry VIII created Earl of c Tyrone and to him his son John i. e. Shan succeeded but not content with that Title would make himself greater by a bâ—rbâ—rous kinde of Election viz. throwing up his shooe over his head took upon him the Title of O-Neal and takes up Arms against the Queen but finding himself too weak he went into d England no question in pomp enough having his Guard of e Gallâ— glasses bare-headed curl'd long hair yellow Frocks 〈…〉 Saffron or Piss long Sleeves short Coats with hairy 〈◊〉 Thus falling down at the Queens feet confess'd 〈…〉 and Rebellion with howling and so obtain'd pardon 〈…〉 continued not long in this obedience and scorning the â—iâ—le of Earl of Tir-Oen Baron of Duncannon conferr'd upon him by Queen Elizabeth he would again on his own head reâ—ssume the great name of O-Neal vaunt himself the King of Vâ—â—â—â—r leavie Forces offer the Kingdom of Ireland to Mary 15â—â— Queen of Scots and so hated the English that he built a Castle in f Lake Eaugh which some also call Logh-Sidney in honour of 〈◊〉 Henry Sidney then Lord Deputy of Ireland which he named â—eâ—ghnegall i. e. Hatred to the English Nay he went so far as to strangle some of his own men because they eat English bread Thus he created some troubles but at last in his Cups was stab'd by those he most confided in Of him 't is Recorded that he was such a Drunkard that to a Camdens Elizab. anno 1567. cool his body when too much inflam'd with Wine and Uskabagh he would cause himself to be buryed in earth up to the chin Shan thus dead a Parliament met at Dublin where 't was b Id. in Britan pag. 776. enacted that for the future none should take upon them the name and title of O-Neal yet Queen Elizabeth wink'd at Turlogh Leinigh of the House of O-Neal when by a popular Election he was saluted by the name of O-Neal thinking to get no disturbance by him being of a quiet spirit but in this she was mistaken so powerfully did his friends work upon him in opposition to her Majesty Now when nothing but peace was expected Edmund and Peter year 1569 Boteler c The M S. life of Sir John Perot saith The Earl of Ormonds three Brethren Brothers to the Earl of Ormond with James Fitz-Morice of the House of Desmond and Mac Cartie-More with others flee into Rebellion thinking with the Assistance of the Pope and Spain to thrust out Elizabeth to inflame this the more Don Juan de Mendoza was sent out of Spain But the Earl of Ormond troubled at his Brothers actions hastes out of England to them perswades them to submit and obtain'd the Queens pardon for them The rest were pursued as obstinate and rebellious As for James Fitz-Morice he was so hunted from place to place by the care and industry of Sir John Perrot Lord President of Munster that at last he was forced to submit himself unto the Queens Mercy so the President being at Church in Kilmalock Fitz-Morice comes to him howling and crying for Pardon Perrot caus'd him to prostrate himself and take the d M S. life of Sir John Perot point of his the Presidents naked Sword next to his heart in token that he had received his life at the Queens hands But waving such as these let us hasten to more dangerous exploits and first it is not amiss to know that there was one Thomas Stukley of an ancient and good Family neer Illfracombe in Devonshire and of him a few words by the by Though his parts were good and quick yet his prodigality soon made an end of his estate which in a younger brother as he was is quickly spent yet having a lofty minde he cast about how to live and command over others At last Florida then newly found out in America came into his thoughts and this forsooth he would people not doubting but in time to make himself Prince thereof as may appear by his bold and ambitious Speeches with Queen Elizabeth upon the desire of her assistance for these his projects Concluding with her Stuk. I prefer rather to be Soveraign of a Mole-hill then the highest Subject to the greatest Monarch in Christendom For I am certain to be a Prince before my death Q. Eliz. I hope I shall hear from you when you are setled in your Kingdom Stuk. I will write unto you Q. Eliz. In what language Stuk. In the stile of Princes To our dear Sister At which the great Queen was so far from indignation that she rather pityed and smiled at his impertinences But this his vain designe for Florida sailing for want of money and having spent all he was forced to flee into Ireland where after some stay the better to support his wants he endeavour'd to obtain the Stewardship of Wexford but being disappointed of it he fell into a rage dapperly venting his passion against the Queen and her Government and in this beggerly fury and discontent ships himself for Italy where according to his nature boasting of his own worth and actions and
adversus Turcas pro recuperanda Terra Sancta bellentes consequuntur de Omnipotentis Dei misericordia 〈◊〉 Beatorum Petri Pauli Apostolorum ejus authoritate confisi tribuimus elargimur praesentibus quoad dicti Johannes Jacobus fratres vixerint duraturis Quoniam autem difficile esset has nostras Litteras ad omnium quorum interest notitiam pervenire volumus ut earum exemplis â—â—â—am impressis manu Notarii Publici subscriptis sigilloque persâ—nae in dignitate Ecclesiastica constitutae obsignatis plena ac certa sides ubique habeatur ac si praesentes essent exhibitae vel ostensae Dâ—tis Romae apud Sanctum Petrum sub Annulo Piscatoris die XIII Maii MD LXXX Pontificatis nostri anno VIII Caes Glorierius 〈◊〉 per D. Generalem S. Cruciata Commissariorum Johannes de la Rumbide As for Desmond the chief of the Fitz-Geralds having run so â—â—r into Treason and so resolved for his wicked cause that he â—wore that He would rather for sake God then for sake his 〈◊〉 And having no where to secure himself he wandred from 〈◊〉 place to place and was at last found out in a poor Cottage by a common Souldier who there shew him cut off his head sent it into England where as the Head of an Arch-Traytor it was set on a Decemb. 13. London-bridge Now was Sir John Perot sent over Lord-Deputy of Ireland having received the Sword according to custom he set himself to bring the Nation wholly unto the Queens obedience he justly prosecuted a Fryar for bringing Letters and Bulls from the Pope M S. life of Sir John Perot to encourage the Rebellion and hunted him out of his Bishoprick which the Fryar foolishly thought he had lawful right to and possession of because the Pope and such Forraign powers had given him a paper-Authority under their fists to enter into and exercise the charge and jurisdiction of the said Bishoprick He also summoned a Parliament at Dublin consisting of the year 1585 three Estates whither to make them more affected with decency and in time to wean them from their rudeness he commanded all to appear in English Habits for the better performance of which Id. M S. he fâ—eely bestowed both Gowns and Cloaks of Velvet and Satten on Turlough Leinigh call'd O-Neal and others the chief of them yet did the Irish think themselves more glorious in their beggerly Mantles or Ruggs then in such Gentile and Civil Habits cufrom weighing more with some men then reason or convenience as Cooree and the rest of his Country men in the Bay of Souldania neer the Cape of Good hope in Africa had rather adorn their heads with Cows-dung their Necks with Guts and Garbage and their bodies with filthy skins then wear Hats Jewels and other comely Attire The Queen to work more upon the Irish wink'd at their Religion and commanded that the Oath of Allegiance should not be offer'd or administrated to any of them and farther restored Hugh O-Neal Baron of Dunganon to the Title of Tyr-Oen and those of his Ancestors yet would not these favours gain them the Chieftains still expecting assistance from Spain to be better informed of which Sir John Perrot kept several spies in that Kingdom Id. M S. four of whom were once taken and put to the Rack by the Marquess Santa la Crusse whereof three of them dyed To name all the Tumults and Rebellions that hapned in the several parts of this Kingdom would be tedious the landings of the Hebredian Scots High landers or Redshanks the rising up of the a Bourghs the Mahones of Brien O-Rork of Hugh O-Donnel of Mac-Guire of O-Madan of Mac-Hugh and several others Nor shall I mention the famous exploits acted against them by Sir Richard Bingham of Dorcetshire and several others to bring them to obedience In short the Arch-Rebel of all was Tir Oen one that had received both pardon and many favours from the Queen and had several times vowed obedience to her He had for some time kept himself outwardly pretty fair but in the mean time perswaded all the rest to Rebellion And at last himself fleeth out too and boldly arrogates to himself the Title of O-Neal a Title that the Irish year 1593 have the highest Reverence for though he had formerly sworn never to do any such thing and by Act of Parliament at Dublin it was declared Treason to take up that Title The next year Tir-Oen submitteth himself on his Knees to Sir year 1594 William Russel youngest son to Bedford then Lord Deputy of Ireland and so he was dismiss'd But this good out-side lasted not long presently flying out to open Rebellion seising on what places he can for which he was proclaimed Traytor by the Name of Hugh O-Neâ—l Son of Matthew a i. e. The Blackâ—â—ith Matthew being supposed to be the son of a Black-smith of Dandalke yet Câ—n was acquainted with his wife Fadareugh Bastard to Con O-Neal c. Tir-Oen with one hand begs assistance from Spain with the other with false Treaties and a dissembling tongue cheats Sir John Norris the famous but in Ireland too credulous Souldier and the Lord Deputy by which he got another pardon But the same month that he got his pardon he fleeth out again to his old trade and carryed his business so cunningly that he got many followers several Provinces and places revolting to him year 1596 nor did there appear any able to oppose him Thus in his pride year 1598 he writes to the Spaniards wherein he magnified his own Victories and withal desired the King that if any should inform him as if he desired to make peace with the English or submit to the Queen not to believe such reports for that he was resolved against all such Treaties or Submission but would constantly keep his faith given to the Spaniard And yet at the mean time the more to amuse the English he did both by Letters and Messengers intercede to be taken into pardon once again But this was upon capitulations where his extravagant demands shew'd the intention of the man The next year Robert d'Eureux Earl of Essex being Lord year 1599 Deputy he and Tir-Oen had too much discourse and familiarity together and clapt up an odd Truce for some time so Essex returns for England is secured tryed condemn'd and executed In which b Protestants Plea and Petition for Priests and â—apists pag. 58. conspiracie were also ingaged M. Catesby Tresham Thomas Winter the two Wrights and Grant who afterwards suffer'd in the Gunpowder-Treason In the mean time Tir-Oen takes opportunity to break the Cessation falls to open war to which he was incouraged by the promises of the Spaniards and the Letter of the Pope and thus puft up he looks upon himself as Monarch of all Ireland and so makes James Fitz-Thomas Earl of Desmond as one who was a profest enemy to the English Government but slave enough to the Spaniard though he hated
his own Queen as appears by his slaunders against her and his respect to Philip both which these following Letters will testifie To the most Mighty Monarch of World the Great King M S. F. 97. Laud. in Bibl. Bâ—dl â—xon fol. 180. of Spain give this at his Princely Palace of Madril Most Mighty Monarch I Humbly salute your Imperial Majesty giving your Highness to understand of our great misery and violent order wherewith we are of long time opprest by the English Nation Their Government is such as Pharaoh himself never used the like for they content not themselves with all Temporal Superiority but by cruelty desire our bloud and perpetual destruction to blot out the whole remembrance of our Posterity as also our old Catholick Religion and to swear that the Queen of England is Supreme of the Cburch I refer the consideration thereof to your Mâ—jesties high judgement the rather for that Nero in his time was far inferiour to this Queen in cruelty Wherefore and for the respects thereof Right Mighty Potentate my self with my followers and retainers and being also requested by the Bishops Prelates and Religious men of my Country have drawn my Sword and proclaimed Wars against them for the recovery first of Christs Catholick Religion and next for the maintenance of my own Right which of long time hath been wrongfully detained from me and my Father who by right succession was lawful heir to the Earldom of Desmond for he was eldest son to James my Grandfather also Earl of Desmond and for that my Vncle Gerald being the younger Brother took part with the wicked proceedings of the Queen of England to farther the unlawful claim of Supremacy usurped the name of Earl of Desmond in my Fathers true Title yet notwithstanding he had not long enjoyed his name of Earl when the wicked English annoyed him and prosecuted Wars that he with the most part of those that held of his side was slain and his Country thereby planted with Englishmen And now by the just judgement and providence of God I have utterly rooted these Malepart a a Boughs bowse out of the Orchard of my Country and have profited so much in my proceedings that my dâ—sterly Enemies dare not shew their faces in any part of my Country but having taken my Towns and Cities for their refuge and strength where they do remain as it were Prisoner for want of means to assail them as Cannon and Powder which my Country cannot yeild Having these wants most noble Potentate I have presumed with all humility to address these my Letters to your High Majesty craving the same of your gracious clemency and goodness to assist me in this godly enterprise with some help of such necessaries for the Wars as your Majesty shall think requisite and after the quiet of my Country satisfaction shall be truely made for the sâ—me and my self in person with all my forces shall be ready to serve your Highness in any Country your Majesty shall command me And if your Majesty will vouchsafe to send me a competent number of Souldiers I will place them in some of my Towns and Cities to remain in your gracious disposition till such time as my ability shall make good what your Majesty shall lend me in money and Munition and also your Majesties high Commission under the Broad Seal for leading and conducting these Souldiers according to the Prescript Order and Articles of martial discipline as your Majestie shall appoint me and as the service of this Land shall require I praise the Almighty God I have done by his goodness more then all my Predecessors for I have reclaim'd all the Nobility of this part of Ireland under the dutiful obedience of Christs Church and mine own Authority and accordingly have taken Pledges and Corporal Oaths never to swerve from the same and would have sent them to your Majestie by this Bearer but that the Ship was not of sufficiencie nor strength to carrie so Noble Personages and will send them whensoever your Highness please So there resteth nothing to quiet this part of the World but your Majesties assistance which I daily expect Thus most Mighty Monarch I humbly take my leave and do kiss your Royal hands beseeching the Almighty of your Majesties health and happiness Your Majesties most humble at all command James Desmond From my Camp the XIV of March MD XCIX Copia vera concordans cum Originali examinat per Tho. White Mayor of Waterford Another Letter of the same date To the most mighty Monarch of the World the Great King of Spain give these at his most Princely Palace at Madrid YOur Majesty shall understand that the Bearer hereof Captain M S. F 97. fol. 188. Andrew Roche hath been always in the service of the Queen of England and hath performed her manifold services at Sea whereby he had great preferment and credit and being of late time conversant with Catholicks and â—eachers of Divine Instructions that were sorry for his lewd life made known unto him the danger wherein his soul was So that by their godly perswasions he was at that time reclaimed and converted to be a good Catholick and to spend the residue of his life in the defence and service of the Church Since which time of reconcilement he was to repair to your Majesty with his Ship and Goods as 't is well known to your Highness Council who consiscated that Ship to your Majesties use himself being at that time strucken with extream sickness that he was not able to proceed in the Voyage and when his company return'd into Ireland they reported that the a a Adelantado or the Spanish Admiral Lantado wished rather his Person then his Ship which made him fearful ever since to repair thâ—ther till he should deserve his freedom by some worthy service to your Majesty The b b Let some Romanist tell us the meaning of this for none was Hâ—â—buâ— King 〈◊〉 Vâ— of 〈…〉 the 〈…〉 England Heir Apparent to the Crown of England had been carryed â—y him to your Highness but that he was bewrayed by some of his own men and thereby was intercepted and himself taken prisoner where he remain'd so long till by the providence of God and the help of good friends he was convey'd into Ireland to me in a small boat â—â—d having thâ—se occasions to your Majesty and being assured of his trust faith and confidence towards me have committed this charge into his hands the rather for that I understand your Royal Fleet is directed for England this year to the end he may be a Leader and Condâ—ctor to them in the Coast of England and Ireland being very expert in the knowledge thereof and in the whole Art of Navigation And thus with all humility I commit your Highness to the Almighty Your Majesties most humble at all command James Desmond From my Camp the XIV or March MD LXXXXIX Copia vera concordans cum Originali examinat
disobedience to these Acts and the other Laws of the Realm And the several designes and plots against her to take away both her Kingdoms and Life might not onely oblige her to look to her self but also move her to a greater severity then she was naturally addicted to Yet hitherto it was not death for Priests or Jesuits to be in England if they did nothing else But some XIV years after this the Queen and Parliament supposed they had Reason to b 27 Eliz. cap. 2. Enact it Treason and Death onely for being found here yet they were so far from catching any one in a Trap or without warning that by the said Act they all had time given to transport themselves freely without any Attachment with liberty to take Ship at what Port they pleas'd the time allotted them being forty days after the ending of that present Session of Parliament Nay farther that if any were sick then upon security they might remain in the Kingdom six Months longer and then to depart And all this was more favourable then the Protestants received from Queen Mary Let us also add that those whom she had in prison she sent over upon her own charges and with kinde usage so far was she from thirsting after bloud as some would have her for confirmation thereof take one Certificate of twenty Jesuits and Priests and one Gentleman sent from the Tower of London Marshalsee and Kings-bench TO all Magistrates Officers and Ministers within the Realm of England or elsewhere to whom it may any wise appertain This may be to give certification that we whose names are here under-written who were imbarked at the Tower-wharfe of London the 21 of January 1584 and there received into the charge of Mr. a a One of the Yeomen Ushers to the Queens Chamber William Bolles and Mr. b b A Skinner of London Antony Hall by Commission from their Lordships and other her Majesties most honourable Privy-Council Have been by them the said William Bolles and Antony Hall very friendly and honestly intreated and with careful diligence safely conducted transported and conveyed to the Province of Normandy and by them left this third day of February according to the English Computation in the year of Christ 1584. Which said Bolles and Hall have in Our presence paid the c c Matthew Sâ—â—uâ—t Master of the d d Call'd the Mary Maâ—tin of Câ—lchâ—ster Bark which Transported us for the whole Fraught and Victuals in the Ship for the time of our remaining aboard And generally so well us'd us in all respects that we cannot but acknowledge our selves much beholden to them and fully satisfied in having been committed to the charge of so courteous Officers sith the case standeth so with us that we are banished our Country contrary to our desires wherein we take no little grief of minde For Testimony whereof we have hereto set our several hands this present third of February 1584. a a The first Jesuite that came into England he was son to the Epigâ—ammatist Jasper Heiwood b b Disputed with Dr. Jo. Rainolds John Hart William Tedder Arthur Pits Richard Slake Richard Norris c c Return'd into England call'd Bishop of Calcedon and wrote William Bishop d d A Jesuit return'd into England and wrote some Books Thomas Stephanson Christopher Tomson John Barnes e e Continued Sanders de Schismate ungrateful to the Queen Edward Rishton James Bosgrave Samuel Coniers f f Return'd into England wrote for the Oath of Allegiance William Warmington William Hartlie g g Return'd and executed at Mile-end Green 1588. William Dean h h Return'd executed at Lancaster 1560. Robert Nutter i i Return'd wrote in behalf of the Secular-Priests John Colleton k k Return'd wrote several Books was the chief man in putting out the Doway Notes on the Old Test Thomas Worthington William Smith Henry Orton Gentleman The next year also the Queen sent over XXXII more Priests and Jesuits and with what civility and kinde usage they were Transported I shall refer you to l Chron. fol. â—10 col 1. Stow or Howe 's for their own Certificate But to proceed we might shew at large even by the Confession of Romanists themselves that the Queen did nothing against the said Romanists but even what she was necessitated to do for the preservation of her self and Kingdom of which two or three instances will not be amiss William Watson a zealous Roman Priest and one who afterwards suffer'd for Treason confesseth how the a Quodlibets pag. 265. Pope plotted her destruction and that as he hinteth by the Instigâ—â—on of some English before which Her Majestie used us kindely for the space of the first ten years of her Highness Raign the State of the Catholicks in England that while was tolerable and after a sort in some good quiet Such as for their conscience were imprisoned or in durance were very mercifully dealt withal the state and change of things then considered some being appointed to remain with such their friends as they themselves made choice of others were placed with Bishops and others with Deans and had their Dyets at their Tables with such convenient Walks and Lodgings as did well content them They that were in ordinary Prisons had all such liberty and commodities as the place and their Estate could afford them Yea even thus much and more doth Parsons confess in his Philopater as also Father Creswell in his Scribe to the like effect b Id. pag. 266. How great quiet the State and Court was in for twelve years space no talk of Treasons or Conspiracies no Jealousies nor Suspicions no Envie nor Supplications no fear of Murtherings nor Massacrings no question of Conscience nor Religigion all lived in quiet content and right good fellowship was amongst them c. and then he confesseth that the Jesuits were the cause of the Laws against them Agnus Dei Medals Holy-grains c. He goeth on thus c Pag. 267. 268. I held directly that both her Majesties Laws and Proceedings against all sorts of Catholicks have been milde and merciful the opinion and judgement of her Highness in Religion one way and their foresaid practices against her another way duly consider'd The same Romanist having almost above measure commended the Queens d Id. pag. 274 276. Wisdom and Government seems to wonder why the Priests should be molested and though he saith their Afflictions have been extraordinary yet he also acknowledgeth so also hath the cause thereof been extraordinary and so far beyond the accustomed occasions of persecution given to any Prince in Christendom or Monarchie that is or ever was in the world to this hour unless the PURITANS of Scotland which P. 277. may in some sort equal the offence here to be set down as rather it is to be wondred at all things duly considered that any one Catholick is left on life in
England then that our persecution hath been so great For name one Nation I know none can under Heaven where the Subject especially if they were Catholicks ever sought the death of their Soveraign though of a different Religion from them The conquest of their Native Land the subversion of the State the depopulation of the Weal publick the alteration and change of all Laws Customs and Orders and in few the utter Devastation Desolation and Destruction of all the Ancient Inhabitants of their Land in so unnatural unchristian uncatholick a manner as the Spanish Faction have sought it in our own flesh and bloud against this Realm c. e Id. pag. 278. which seeing her Princely heart hath forborn as no Soveraign on Earth would ever have suffer'd the like to have past unpunished as she hath I must conclude and end as we began THAT HER LAWS AND PROCEEDINGS HAVE BEEN BOTH MILDE AND MERCIFUL And at a Id. pag. 303 3â—4 last doth confess that she was even bound to do as she did such was their Treasonable Practices and Opinions for deposing of Princes To him we might add Clark the Priest who also suffer'd death with Wâ—tson for Treason against King James he b Reply to a Lybel fol. 43. â— confessing and declaring that the Queens Laws and Government were not to be defamed traduced and cryed out against so much for tyranny seeing their Treasonable Actions were the occasion of them And to them we might add Father c Concert Ecciel Angl. paâ—â— 2. fol. 39. b. Parsons himself when he writes his minde freely to his friend But leaving these single Testimonies take these following confirm'd and subscrib'd by above a Jury of true Sons of the Papal Religion d The Protestation it self you may see at large in Roger Widdâ—ingtons Theological Dispute concerning the Oath of Allegiance part 2. Sect. 1. pag 346 347 348 349. Having first thank'd the Queen for her Clemencie and testified that she desired nothing of them but a true Profession of their Allegiance We whose names are under-written in most humble wise prostrate at her Majesties feet do acknowledge our selves infinitely bound unto her Majesty therefore Whereas for these many years past divers conspiracies against her Majesties Person and Estate and sundry forcible attempts for invading and conquering her Dominions have been made under we know not what pretences and intentments of restoring Catholick Religion with the Sword a course most strange in this world and undertaken peculiarly and solely against her Majestie and her Kingdoms among other Princes departed from the Religion and Obedience of the See Apostolick no less then she by reason of which violent Enterprises her Majesty otherwise of singular Clemencie toward her Suctjects hath been greatly moved to ordain and execute severer Laws against Catholicks which by reason of their Vnion with the See Apostolick in Faith and Religion were easily supposed to favour these Conspiracies and Invasions then perhaps had ever been Enacted or thought upon if such Hostility and Wars had never been undertaken William Bishop All Secâ—lar-Priests John Colleton a a Concern'd in the Quarrels at Wiâ—bich wrote in behalf of the Priests John Mush Robert Charnock John Bossevile Antony Hebborne b b Such an one preach'd and dyed by the fall of the Chamber at Blackfrieâ—s 1623. Robert Drury c c Wrote against Mr. Mason Antony Champney d d I finde two Brothers of that name at the latter end of King James his Raign John Jackson Francis Barneby Oswald Needham e e Translated Theodorets History into English Roger Cadwallader Robert Button November 5. 1602. In short we have it from good a Cambden Eliz. anno 1581. Authority that the Queen used to complain with grief that she was driven by necessity to prosecute such Laws for the preservation of her self and Subjects And an honest b Roger Widdrington's Confutation es the intemperate Reply of Tho. Fitz-Herbert Preface pag. 66. § 81. Benedictan Monk doth assure us that the Queen designed a mitigation upon security of their Allegiance but that this toleration was both talk'd and written against at Rome as very disadvantagious to the Papal Cause If they thus oppose her Favours 't is not her fault If they be angry with her for banishing the Priests she did no more then France and Venice once did with the Jesuits If she did amiss in taking their lives away yet was she not so cruel as the Spanish Inquisition or the French Massacre nor so fiery as her Sister Mary If she be blameable why should the others be commended Her Prudence may be shown by her prosperous Reign Her Courage by overcoming all difficulties and assaults Her Clemencie by her often pardoning her Enemies Her good Government by the Love and Honour her Subjects bare her and the esteem which England yet hath for her And as she was beloved at home so was she indear'd and fear'd abroad and as she was bless'd and happy in all her undertakings here so let her not be vilified and bespattered now she is gone to another world honour'd with many years and triumphs CHAP. III. The Pope undertook to depose Queen Elizabeth which occasioned some troubles in England to the ruine of the undertakers QUeen Mary being dead her Sister Elizabeth succeeded in the Throne though White Bishop of Winchester and Watson Bishop of Lincoln were very forward and eager to have her Excommunicated which they would have undertaken to perform but that others more wary advised them against such rashness For some years of Queen Elizabeth's Reign we hear of no great troubles the Papists themselves privately within their own Houses exercising their own Religion quietly enough without any disturbance and others of them without any scruple but deeply herein charged by a De Schism lib. 3 pag 342 343. Sanders for their dissimulation going to the Reformed Churches there to hear and enjoy Divine-Service Nor could they perceive any thing in the English-Liturgy that might any way offend a wisemans conscience it being judiciously composed of Godly Prayers waving all Disputes and the nicer Points of Controversie And in this peaceable condition they might have long continued if Father Parsons and some such Zealots had not baul'd against such a security and got a beyond-Sea Order against their joyning with the Reformed in any of their Pious Devotions No sooner is Elizabeth acknowledged Queen but we are b Peter Heyliâ—'â— Ecclesia Restaâ—â—ata pag. 102 103. told that she sent to the English Agent at Rome viz. Sir Edward Karn sent thither by Queen Mary to acquaint the Pope Paul IV of her Sisters death of her own Succession desiring that all good Offices might be reciprocally exchanged between them But the Pope Answer'd that the Kingdom of England was held in Fee of the Apostolick See that she being Illegitimate could not succeed and therefore it was great boldness to assume the Name and Government of it without
him Yet if she will renounce her Title and refer her self wholly to him he would do what would stand with the honour of the Apostolick See As for the Queen she never troubled her thoughts to satisfie his Holiness in his demands and for Sir Edward Karn he dyed some c years afterwards at Rome being the last Ambassador d 1561. that went from the English Crown to the Pope This angry Pope dying another succeeded of a milder temper who though he was earnestly prest to thunder out his Bulls against the Queen yet now knowing that Princes were too wise to deliver up their Kingdoms at the noise of such Paper-claps he goeth another way to work He sends Vincentio Parpalia Abbot of St. Saviors with a civil pen'd Letter for the Queen His year 1560 Instructions are said to be That if she would joyn her self to the Romish Church and acknowledge the Primacie of that Chair that he would disanul the sentence against her Mothers Marriage as unjust confirm the English Common-prayer-book by his Authority and grant the use of the Sacraments under both kindes to the English Add farther that several thousand Crowns were promis'd to those who would procure her complyance But this Parpalia went no farther then Bruxels being not suffer'd to enter England Yet the said Pope would not desist here but resolveth to try again and send another Nuncio viz. Abbot Martinego but he also year 1561 is deny'd the Council suspecting he might make some troubles by his presence in England the very noise of his coming having already fob'd up some indiscreet Romanists to vent themselves more boldly then formerly to spread abroad false News of the Queens conversion some by Astrology and other ways to consult the length of her Reign and Life and the Popes Nuncio then in Ireland did not onely joyn himself with the Rebels against her but also by his pretended Authority deprived her of all Right and Title to that Kingdom That which they call the General Council of Trent now sitting Sanders de Schâ—â—m l. 3. pag. 360. the Queen is desired to send some thither but this she thought would be to little purpose seeing the designe of that Convention as the Emperour and the French King b Hist Council of Trent pag. 279 318. call'd it was more of Interest then real honesty Besides it had now continued about XV years and so improbable to alter any thing upon her desire Nor was the Council it self free as appears by the several c Id. pag. 167 168 507 508 530 551 566 569 635 644 659 661 683. complaints put in there against such forcible abuses some things as the d Id. pag 589. Institution of Bishops not being permitted to be discussed the Pope fearing to be the looser Nor was the e Id. pag. 660. Secretary just in taking and setting down the suffrages whereby he turn'd the Votes as he pleas'd Nor would they allow any thing to be concluded on but as they received f Id. pag. 497 703. Instructions from the Pope which occasioned the Proverb That the Holy Ghost was sent from Rome to Trent in a Cloak bag Besides Ambrose Goligna a Dominican publickly g Id. pag. 374. preach'd against the Protestants affirming that Faith and safe-conduct is not to be kept with them And when some of the Reformed Divines went thither the h Id. pag. 374 375. Legat brake off the Debates not lâ—tting the Council proceed and suspended the Council for two years pretending fear of Wars against which action the Spanish Bishops i Id. pag. 366. 367. protested And when the Legats party fears to be out-voted then do they send to the Pope to make more Bishops and convey them to k Id. pag 254 255 256 257. Trent which Legats undertook not onely to direct but command the whole Council which spoil'd its Freedom To these may be added the tricks used to carry on their designes and prevent a baffle either by new making of Bishops the better to out-vote or suspending of all from acting or voting or by removing them to other places so to divide the Council as when they were adjourn'd to l Id. pag 267 268 269 277 278 279 281 282 283 284 285 286 300 301 302 c. Bologna whither those that depended on the Pope went the rest refusing staid still at Trent not submitting to this removal or division And little might here be expected but partiality seeing the Italians were almost three to one of the number there all the Subscribers amounting to no more then 255 of which 187 were Italians so that bating the interested Italians there remains but a poor Catalogue of Bishops in respect of the great number that are in the Christian World yet must this be look'd upon as one of the most famous General Councils in the whole World yet the Romanists cannot agree about its Jurisdiction or Authority for though the a Id. pag. 661 719 French hold the Council to be above the Pope yet his Holiness looks upon himself as no wise b Pag. 818. bound to observe the Canons of Trent In short should the English Clergy have appear'd in this Council they must either have been there as Free-men frankly to Dispute and Debate as others did But thus they could not having been before condemn'd as Hereticks by Julius III. And at Trent here they were so Zealous as to Excommunicate the Archbishop and Elector of c Id. pag. 165 189 259 260. Colen for Heresie before they had determin'd what was Heresie If they could not appear as Free-men then they must under the capacity of Offenders as it were to receive sentence of condemnation but to this they thought they had no reason to submit themselvs and we need not doubt how things would have gone with them For we finde those of Trent so busie and zealous that they were going to throw their d Sanders de Schism lib. 3. pag. 3â—1 Censures against the Qâ—een but that the Emperour Ferdinand I. used his Interest to dâ—sswade them from it thinking by this to ingratiate himself wiâ—h her hoping to marry his Son to her But no more of this seeing that the Learned Bishop Jewel wrote an Apologie for our English Bishâ—ps not going to that Council which may be seen at the latter end of Father Paul's History But leaving these Disputes and passing by the designe of Arthur Pool Antony Fortiscue and some others who contrived to joyn themselves with the Duke of Guise so from France to land year 1562 an Army in Wales to Proclaim the Queen of Scots and make her Queen of England we shall proceed and finde the Pope himself to be the greatest Stickler in the troubles against Elizibeth Pope Pius the Fifth being strongly bent not onely to get Queen Elizabeth deposed but to have her e De medio tâ—â—â—eâ—e câ—gitaba â— Anâ—â—â— Gabutiâ—s vita Pâ—â— vâ— 3. o. Murder'd and in this humour he was pleas'd
to throw his charity upon her by calling of her f Maâ—oâ—uâ—n omnium sentinam flagitiorum servam ib. La sentina di tanti mali Girol Catena vita deâ— Papa Pro V. pag. 113. filthy and base names Thus resolved he procures one Roberto Rodolfo a Rich Florentine year 1568 Gentleman to reside in England under the colour of Merchandise and thus disguis'd to stir up the people against the Queen Then for more strength he works under-hand with the French and Spaniard to assist in the action nor was the Portugal left unsolicited all promising fair But the Spaniard was most vigorous sending Chapine Vitelli Marquess of Cetona under the year 1569 Vizard of an idle Ambassie but the truth was to countenance the Rebellion and command the Forces which the Duke of Alva was to send over on that designe from the Netherlands for more surety of which La Motte the Governour of Dunkirk had come privately in the habit of a common Saylor to sound the Ports In the mean time Rodolpho having his Pockets full of the Popes money spread it abroad by his discretion gaining thereby many Proselytes They endeavour'd to make Thomas Howard Duke of Norfolk Head of their Plot promising him in Marriage Mary the unfortunate Queen of Scots now secured in England And at last they over-perswaded the good-meaning Duke to engage farther then was fitting for a Subject being cheated thereto by some false friends And into the same designe was drawn Thomas Percy Earl of Northumberland Charles Nevil Earl of Westmerland with several others of Quality who at last perceiving the Queen to have discover'd their plot submitted and beg'd pardon Nor was the Pope himself idle but so zealous for this Rebellion that he assured the Spaniards if need be he would go himself in person to assist them and in that service engage all the goods of the Apostolick See as Crosses Chalices and Girolamo Catena vita del Papa Pio V. pag. 116. holy Vestments And the better to encourage the English and make them more ready for such Treason he falls to the old trick dapperly undertaking not onely to vilifie but to deprive her of her Dominions and absolve her Subjects of their Allegiance Before which time as the famous a Frustra astu per Insidias Anglorum Reginam adortus esset Thu. lib. 44. Thuanus tells us he had craftily and treacherously though in vain conspired and attempted against her Which accusation doth so offend the Pope that those words are order'd by the Index Expurgatorius to be dasht out The Bull it self take as followeth S. D. N. Pii Papae V. Sententia Declaratoria contra Elizabetham praetensam Angliae Reginam ei adhaerentes Haereticos Quaetiam declarantur Absoluti omnes Subditi à Juramento Fidelitatis quocunque alio debito deinceps obedientes Anathemate illaqueantur Pius Episcopus servus servorum Dei ad futuram rei Memoriam REgnans in excelsis cui data est omnis in Caelo in terra Potestas unam sanctam Catholicam Apostolicam Ecclesiam extra quam nulla est salus uni soli in terris videlicet Apostolorum Principi Petro Petrique Successori Romano Pontifici in potestatis plenitudine tradidit gubernandam Hunc unum super omnes Gentes omnia Regna Principem constituit Qui a a Jer. 1. 10. Evellat destruat dissipet disperdat plantet aedificet ut fidelem populum mutuae Charitatis nexu constrictum in unitate Spiritus contineat salvumque incolumem suo exhibeat Salvatori Quo quidem munere obeundo Nos ad praedictae Ecclesiae Gubernacula Dei benignitate vocati nullum laborem intermittimus omni opere contendentes ut ipsa unitas Catholica Religio quam illius Auctor ad probandam suorum fidem correctionem nostram tantis procellis conflict are permisit integra conservetur Sed impiorum numerus tantum potentia invaluit ut nullus jam in Orbe locus sit relictus quem illi pessimis doctrinis corrumpere non tentarint Adnitente inter caeteros Flagitiorum Serva Elizabetha praetensa Angliae Regina ad quam veluti ad Asylum omnium infestissimis profugium invenerunt Haec eadem Regina Regno occupato supremi Ecclesiae Capitis locum in omni Anglia ejusque praecipuam authoritatem atque jurisdictionem monstrose sibi usurpans Regnum ipsum jam tum ad fidem Catholicam bonam frugem reductum rursus in miserum exitium revocavit Vsu namque verae Religionis quam ab illius desertore Henrico VIII olim eversam clarae memoriae Maria Regina Legitima hujus sedis praesidio reperaverat potenti manu inhibito secutisque amplexis haereticorum erroribus Regium Confilium ex Anglia Nobilitate confectum diremit illudque obscuris hominibus Haereticis complevit Catholicae fidei cultores oppressit improbas Concionatores atque Impietatum administros reposuit Misse Sacrificium Preces Jejunia Ciborum Delectum Caelibatum Ritusque Catholicos abolevit Libros manifestam Haeresim continentes toto Regno proponi impia Mysteria Instituta ad Calvini praescripta observata etiam à Subditis servari mandavit Episcopos Ecclesiarum Rectores Sacerdotes Catholicos suis Ecclesiis Beneficiis ejicere ac de ill is aliis rebus Ecclesiasticis in Haereticos homines disponere deque Ecclesiae causis decernere ausa Praelatis Clero Populo ne Romanam Eccles agnoscerent neve ejus Praeceptis Sanctionibusque Canonicis obtemperarent interdixit Plerosque in nefarias leges suas venire Romani Pont. Authoritatem atque Obedientiam abjurare seque solam in Temporalibus Spiritualibus Dominam agnoscere jurejurando coegit Paeuas supplicia in eos qui dicto non essent audientes imposuit easdemque ab iis qui in unitate fidei Praedicta Obedientia perseverarunt exegit Catholicos Antistites Ecclesiarum Rectores in vincula conjecit ubi multi diuturno languore tristitia confecti extrenium vitae diem miserè finierunt Quae omnia cum apud omnes Nationes perspicua notoria sint gnavissimo quamplurimorum Testimonio ita comprobata ut nullus omnino locus excusationis defensionis aut tergiversation is relinquatur Nos multiplicantibus aliis atque ali is super alias impietatibus facinoribus praeterea Fidelium persecutione Religionisque afflictione impulsu opera dictae Elizabethae quotidie magis ingravescente quoniam illius animum it a obfirmatum atque induratum intelligimus ut non modo pius Catholicorum Principum de sanitate conversione praeces monitionesque contempserit sed ne bujus quidem sedis ad ipsam hac de causa Nuncios in Angliam trajicere permiserit ad armae Justitiae contra eam de necessitate conversi dolorem lenire non possumus quod adducamur in unam animadvertere cujus Majores de Republica Christiana tantopere meruere Illius itaque Authoritate suffuiti
qui nos in hoc supremo Justitiae Throno licet tanto oneri impares voluit collocare de Apostolica potestatis plenitudine Declaramus praedictam Elizabetham Haereticam Haereticorum Fautricem eique adhaerentes in praedict is Anathematis sententiam incurrisse esseque a Christi Corporis unitate praeeisos Quin etiam ipsam praetenso Regni praedicti jure necnon omni quocunque Dominio Dignitate Privilegioque privatam Et etiam Proceres Subditos Populos dicti Regni ac caeteros omnes qui illi quomodocunque juraverunt a juramento hujusmodi ac omni prorsus Dominii fidelitatis obsequii debito perpetuo absolutos prout Nos illos praesentium Authoritate Absolvimus Privamus eandem Elizabetham praetenso jure Regni aliisque omnibus supra dict is Praecipimusque Interdicimus universis singulis Proceribus Subditis Populi aliis praedict is ne illi ejusve monitis Mandatis legibus audeant obedire qui secus egerint eos simili Anathematis sententia innodamus Quia vero difficile nimis esset Praesentes quocunque illis opus erit perferre Volumus ut eorum Exempla Notarii Publici manu Praelati Ecclesiastici ejusve Curiae Sigillo obsignata eandem illam prorsus fidem in judicio extra illud ubique Gentium faciant quam ipsae praesentes facerent si essent exhibitae Datum Romae apud S. Petrum Anno Incarnationis Dominicae Millesimo Quingentesimo Sexagesimo Nono Quinto Kalend b b Their Bullaâ—ia Edit Rom. 1638. by a mistake hath V K al. Maii but the former Edit viz. Rom. 1617. in this is right enough Martii Pontificatus nostri Anno Quinto Cae. Glorierius H. Cumyn The Sentence declaratory of our Holy Lord Pope Pius V. against Elizabeth the pretended Queen of England and the Hereticks adhering to her Wherein also all her Subjects are declared Absolved from the Oath of Allegiance and whatever else due unto her and those who hereafter obey her are hereby Anathematiz'd Pius Bishop servant of the servants of God for a future Memorial of the matter HE who Raigneth in the Highest to whom is given all power in Heaven and in Earth hath committed one holy Catholick and Apostolick Church out of which there is no Salvation to one alone upon Earth namely to Peter the the chief of the Apostles and to Peters Successor the Bishop of Rome to be govern'd in fulness of power Him alone he made Prince over all People and all Kingdoms with power a To pluck up destroy scatter consume plant and to build that he may continue the Faithful who are knit together with the bond of Charity in the Unity of the Spirit and present them safe and unblameable to their Saviour In discharge of which Function we who are by the goodness of God call'd to the Government of the foresaid Church do spare no pains labouring with all earnestness that Unity and Catholick Religion which the Author thereof hath for the tryal of his Childrens Faith and for our amendment suffer'd to be punish'd with so great afflictions might be preserv'd whole and uncorrupt But the number of the ungodly have gotten such power that there is no place left in the whole World which they have not endeavour'd to corrupt with their most wicked Doctrines Amongst others Elizabeth the Pretended Queen of England and the servant of wickedness hath assisted thereunto in whom as in a Sanctuary the most pernicious of all have found a refuge This very woman having seiz'd on the Kingdom and monstrously usurping the place of Supreme Head of the Church of all England and the chief Authority and jurisdiction thereof hath again brought back the said Kingdom into miserable distraction which was but even then newly reduced to the Catholick faith and an hopeful condition For having by strong hand forbid the Exercise of the true Religion which Mary a lawful Queen of famous Memory had by the assistance of this See restored after it had been overthrown by Henry VIII a Revolter from the Truth She following and imbracing the errors of Hereticks hath removed the Royal Council consisting of the Nobility of England and fill'd it with obscure Heretical fellows hath supprest the embracers of the Catholick Faith setled dishonest Preachers and wicked Ministers abolish'd the Sacrifice of the Mass Prayers Fastings choice of Meats unmarried life and the Catholick Ceremonies commanded all the Kingdom over Books manifestly Heretical to be read and impious Mysteries and Institutions according to the Rules of Calvin which she her self entertains and receiveth to be likewise observed by her Subjects She hath presumed to throw Bishops Parsons and other Catholick Priests out of their Churches and Benefices and to bestow their and other Church-livings upon Hereticks and to determine of Ecclesiastical matters to forbid the Bishops Clergy and People to acknowledge the Church of Rome or to obey the Precepts or Canonical Sanctions thereof Hath compell'd most of them to obey her wicked Laws and to abjure the Authority and Obedience of the Bishop of Rome and by Oath to acknowledge her to be sole Governess as well in Spiritual as Temporal Affairs Hath impos'd penalties and punishments upon those who obey'd not the same hath exacted them of those who persevered in the Unity of Faith and their foresaid Obedience and hath cast the Catholick Prelates and Parsons into Prison where many of them being spent with long languishing and sorrow miserably ended their lives All which things seeing they are manifest and notorious to all men and by the clearest Testimony of very many so sufficiently proved that there is no place at all left either for excuse defence or evasion We seeing that impieties and wicked actions are multiplyed one upon another and moreover that the Persecution of the Faithful and Affliction for Religion groweth every day heavyer and heavyer through the instigation and means of the said Elizabeth We therefore understanding her minde to be so hardned and obdurate that she hath not onely contemn'd the Godly requests and admonitions of Catholick Princes concerning her amendment and conversion but also hath not so much as permitted the a a Abbot Parpalia 〈…〉 Martiningo 1560 1561. Nuncio's of this See to pass into England are necessitated to betake our selves to the weapons of Justice against her not being able to mitigate our sorrow that we are drawn to take Punishment of one to whose Ancestors all Christendom hath been so much beholden Being therefore supported by his Authority who hath placed Us though unable for so great a burthen in the Supreme Throne of Justice We do out of the fulness of our Apostolical power declare the foresaid heretical Elizabeth being the favourer of Hereticks with all her adherents in the matters aforesaid to have incur'd the sentence of Anathema and to be cut off from the unity of Christs body And we also declare her to be deprived of her pretended Title to the Kingdom aforesaid and
of all Dominion Dignity and Priviledge whatsoever And also declare the Nobility Subjects and People of that Kingdom and all others who have in any sort sworn unto her to be for ever absolved from any such Oath and from all manner of Duty of Dominion Allegiance and Obedience to her As We also do by the Authority of these presents Absolve them and Deprive the same Elizabeth of her pretended Title to the Kingdom and all other things abovesaid And We command and forbid all and every the Noblemen Subjects People and others aforesaid that they presume not to obey her or her Monitions Mandats or Laws and those who shall do otherwise then here commanded we do involve them in the same sentence of Anathema And because it would be a matter of too much difficulty to convey these presents to all places wheresoever it should be needful Our will is that the Copies thereof under a publick Notaries hand and seal'd with the Seal of an Ecclesiastical Prelate or of his Court shall carry altogether the same credit with all people judicially and extrajudicially as the a a The Original presents should do if they were exhibited or shew'd Dated at Rome at S. Peters in the year of Christ 1569. 24 of February in the Fifth year of Our Popedom Cae. Glorierius H. Cumyn As I shall not trouble the Reader with the divers Readings and Words though the sence be the same which happens some times in several Copies and Editions of this Bull neither shall I concern my self with the true Date of it as how the fifth year of this mans Popedom cometh to be 1569 which rather falls out 1570 in which year some also Date it but in what I have done I follow the Lord a Reports part 5. Coke Mr. b Eliz. anno 1570. Cambden c De Scotorum fortitud lib. 4. cap. 1. p. 265. David Camerarius d Summa Constituâ—onom pag. 624 625. Peter Matthaeus e De Sâ—hismate Anglicanâ— lib. 3. pag 368 369 c. Nicolas Sanders with some others Though all is not Gospel which drops from the last mans pen his tongue being no slander yet out of his inventions will Spondanus and suchlike Forreigners spoil their Church-stories of England Mr. Cambden saith that the Pope did secretly Anathematize the Queen in 1569 but did not publish it till the year after But lâ—t it be as it will the Learned Juel Bishop of Salisbury writ a Tract a little after Printed against it as coming into England and to his hands 1569. And they themselves confess that this year the Pope sent Dr. Nicolas Morton a Priest from Rome into England to f Anno Dâ—mini 1569. R. D. Nic. Moâ—ton S. T D. In Angliam misit ut ceâ—tâ—s iâ—lust ibus Catholicis vit is Authoritate Apostolica Denunciaret Elizabetham quae tune retum potiâ—batur Hâ— eâ—cam esle ob eamque causam omni Dominio potestate quam in Catholicos usurpabat jure ipso excidiâ—le iâ—puneq â—b illis velut Ethnicam Publicanam haberi posse nec cos illius legibus aut Mandatis deinceps obâ—â—ire cogi Nic. Sanders de visibili Monarch lib. 7. pag. 730. § 2036 2037. declare in his name that the Queen was an Heretick and so had no right to rule and that she ought to be looked upon no otherwise then an Infidel Pagan nor in any thing to be obey'd Accordingly Morton gets into England shews the Papal Curse or Censure Argument enough to authorize a Rebellion the designe is laid every where many are prepared and in a readiness the Plot being thought glorious and g Illorum Nobilium laudanda Consilia Sanders ib. praise-worthy but the main let it seemeth was that the Queens deprivation by the Bull was not spread carefully enough about to let all Romanists know of it But in the North remain'd the greatest resolution Upon which the Queen especially suspecting the Earls of Northumberland and Westmerland sent to them to appear before her but they jealous of their own guilt in this neither obey her nor her Lord-Lieutenant of the North Thomas Radclyffe Earl of Sussex Resident at York So being pusht on by their followers hoping not to want friends and partakers in England to have some help from Scotland and that Succors would not be wanting them from Alva in the Netherlands in behalf of Spain which were appointed to land at Hartilpool in the Bishoprick of Durham the great contriver and carrier on of all these designes being Pius V as Bishop h Answer to Sir Anthony Weldons Court of King James p. 55. a M S. Goodman himself doth confess Thus incourag'd they flee to Arms tear and trample under feet the English Bibles and Common prayer-Books command all people to joyn with them by Proclamation declaring now this now that in some of their Colours being painted the five wounds of Christ in others the Chalice at last they get to Clifford-Moor not far from Wetherby in the West-Riding of Yorkshire where they Muster and found their strength to consist of betwixt four and five thousand Sussex and others making head against i You may see some of their names in the Act 13 Eliz cap. 1â— them they retreat Northwards and at last perceiving their weakness divide flee every man shifting for himself The two Earls get into Scotland thence Westmerland slips into the Netherlands and lived at Lovaine very poorly under the Spanish Pension But Northumberland was delivered up to the English and beheaded at York 1572 and was look'd upon by the Romanists as a glorious and holy a Concertat Eccles Cathol in Anglia part 2. fol. 46 49. Sand. de Schism Angl. l. 3. p. 363. de visib Monarch pag. 732 Martyr and the drops of his bloud as Sanctified Relicks And in many other places of the North several were executed the better to terrifie Posterity who also are reckon'd as renowned Martyrs But here passing by the Insurrections of the Dacres's as coming to no great head I shall return to the foresaid Papal Bull. This Bull being Printed at Rome was by some b Ita divinitus comparatum est Sand. de visib Mon. pag. 374. Heavenly means for so they word it convey'd into the hands of one John Felton who that the good Romanists might have cognizance of such their Rebelling Priviledges boldly sticks it up on the Bishop of Londons Palace-gates in Pauls Church-yard May 25. 1570. and so stout he was that he scorn'd to withdraw himself or flee for his own security upon which he is seiz'd on clapt up in the Tower confesseth what he had done and vindicates the fact being so far from acknowledging the Queen to be his Prince or Soveraign that he only called her the Pretended Queen affirming he had done her no wrong she forsooth having nothing to do in the Throne being justly deprived by the Pope For which he is condemn'd and suffer'd as a Traytor in the said Church-yard August
8 And though he thus denyed his Allegiance and obedience renounced his Soveraign and her Authority and by this action as much as in him lay deprived her of Title Rights and Dominions yet we shall finde no man more commended by the Romanists for this deed then this Felton If the Learned c Lib. 44. Ingenti five audacia five timeritate Thuanus say that it was a very bold or a rash action the Index Expurgatorius will not have those words to stand as if they derogated from the glory of the action and so orders them to be blotted out of his History Father d Respons ad Edict Reginae § 352. Parsons will assure us that he was a glorious Martyr of which Title e De visib Mon. pag. 734. Concertat Eccles Cathol in Anglia part 2. fol 42. Sanders and others declare him abundantly worthy And in this opinion joyns with them no less man then f Anno 1570. § 4. Spondanus Bishop of Pamiers who shews his partiality by his willingness to trust too much to lying Sanders But above all well fare Hilarion de Coste a zealous Fryar as you may suppose for he will have him to out-do all the Worthies and Heroes in the world calls him g Ce Valeureux Soldat brave Champion de Jesus Christ avec une force d'Esprit invincible l'Ardeur de la foy qui le poussoit eut bien le courage l'asseurance d'attacher en plein ville de Londres Certainement cette action fut merveilleusement genereuse Heroique Aussi l'Eglise d' Angleterre met son Martyre parmy les plus glorieux Trophees au range de ses Victoires plus signalees comme celuy par lequel ainsi que j'ay desie dit elle semble avoir triumphé plus glorieusement de l'Heresie avssi ce coup genereux sait par ce brave Gentilhomme Anglois est chanté rechanté par tons les Escrivains qui ont traitté de Schism de la persecution d' Angleterre lequels universellement le lâ—üent extollent comme un acte courageux comparable à ces miracles de valeur ces Prouesses que fiâ—ent jadis un Mutius un Horace one Clodiá vierge Romaine qui mirent leur vie au hazard pour salut de la Patâ—ie de la Republique qui pour cela sont seroâ—t eternellement renommez dans l'Histoire Hil. de Coste Histoire Catholique l. 3 pag. 560. The valiant Souldier and brave Champion of Jesus Christ commends his invincible courage and zeal for the Faith which was sowonderful Noble and Heroick that England doth place his Martyrdom amongst her most glorious Trophees and most signal Victories having thus bravely triumph'd over Heresie whereby his fame is renoun'd in all Writers who for his valour and courage do praise and equal him with Mutius Horatius and Clodis who ventured their lives for the safety of their Country Thus much for the honour of Felton yet when the same Pen cometh to tell us of Elizabeth it will allow her no other commendation then a Cette impie maudite Reine Elizabeth vraye Izabel de nostre temps ib. The impious and wicked Queen the true Jezabel of our Days Thus our late Puritans or Presbyterians and this man seem to have the same School-master who can commend an Oliver and suchlike Rebels but throw all the filth and slanders imaginable upon their Soveraign King Charles the Martyr Another remark there is concerning this Bull the determination whereof shall be left to the judgement of the Reader and for his greater light let him take this following Narrative One John Nichols born in Wales thence went to Oxford staying one year in White-hall since call'd Jesus Colledge then removed to Brazennose Colledge so to his own Country where he taught a Gentlemans Children is Ordain'd turns Curate in Sommersetshire at last gets to London whence he ships himself for Antwerp goeth to Rheimes and at length to Rome where he is admitted year 1579 into the English Colledge Here he staid about a year returns again into England is seiz'd on at Islington and sent to the year 1581 Tower of London where he makes a publick Recantation and in a little time publisheth these following Books for no more are come to my knowledge His Pligrimage A declaration of his Recantation His Oration and Sermon made at Rome with his Answer to an infamous Libel In one of his b Declaration of the Recantation K. VIII Books he hath these words About c 1580. Midsomer 〈…〉 was twelvemonth they renewed these Bulls of Excommunication granted by this Pope d Gregory XIII Gregory under the colour and name of Pius Quintus published There were five hundred Copies printed at Rome as two of you my Brethren can verifie the same and how they were publish'd as I heard at Rome in the English Seminary at Rhâ—ims and were put fast to Pillars in the City Those Bulls of Excommunication were scatter'd throughout all Italy Spain and part of Germany Then a little after he proceedeth thus One of your Readers in Divinity-positive I am certain before two hundred Scholars and not so few as one of you may testifie the same most impudently and devilishly spake that it was lawful for any man of Worship in England to give Authority to the vilest wretch that is to seek the death of our Soveraign Queen But this Nichols stayeth not long in England but slips again year 1582 beyond Seas upon what account I know not though I am not apt to think upon any designe of turning Mahumetan as e Sanders de Schism lib. 3. pag. 415 416. one would hint to us however it was being got as far as Rouen he is seiz'd on clapt up in prison and like to pay for his old Tales he had vented against the Romanists In this perplexity and restraint they tell us how he f De Schism pag. 415 416 4â—7 418 419 c. Card. Allens Answ to the English Justice p. 30 31. recanted all he had formerly utter'd against them protesting that what he had formerly divulged was either through vain-glory envy fear or hopes of Reward That he did recant we onely have from themselves and I can trace him no farther then his imprisonment at Rouen for what they did with him or what became of him afterwards I know not this I am certain that after they say he went out of England that Dudley Fenner an old Puritan publish'd a a Call'd An Answer to the Confutation of John Nichols his Recantion London 1583. In quarto Book in his behalf and it is as true that Nichols himself doth several times protest and call God to witness that he hath publish'd nothing but truth to which purpose he himself did in print answer the objections and imputations laid against him by Father Parsons But however it be I think no great stress is to be laid upon it
or him and so shall not conclude that Gregory XIII renewed this Bull but rather think that Nichols might mistake the reforcing of it for the Popes interpretation or qualification of it Yet might not they forge and falsifie Nichols his Letters as they did afterwards Anthony Tyrrel's b Vid. Concertat Eccles Angl. part 3. at the end Recantion and that in Print For so it was that Pius V in the Bull Anathematizing all people whatever without any distinction that did any way obey the Queen the English-Romanists look'd upon themselves as under that Curse and Censure seeing they were forced to obey her till they had strength enough to Oppose or Depose her Upon this Parsons and Campion then at Rome Petition Gregory XIII who succeeded Pius V in the name of the English to free the Romanists from that Curse by his Papal Authority and a favourable interpretation Which is granted thus Facultates Concessae P P. Roberto Parsonio Edmundo Campiano Pro Anglia die 14 Aprilis 1580. PEtatur à Summo Domino Nostro Explicatio Bullae Declaratoriae per Pium Quintum contra Elizabetham ei adhaerentes quam Catholici cupiunt intelligi hoc modo ut obliget semper illam Haereticos Catholicos vero nullo modo obliget rebus sic stantibus sed tum demum quando publica ejusdem Bullae executio fieri poterit c. Has praedictas Gratias concessit Summus Pontifex Patri Roberto Parsonio Edmundo Campiano in Angliam profecturis die 14 Aprilis 1580. Presente Patre Oliverio Manarco assistente Faculties granted to the two Fathers Robert Parsons and Edmund Campion for England the 14 day of April 1580. LEt it be desired of our most holy Lord the Explication of the Bull Declaratory made by Pius the Fifth against Elizabeth and such as do adhere to or obey her which Bull the Romanists desire to be understood in this manner viz that the same Bull shall always oblige her and the Hereticks but the Romanists it shall by no means binde as affairs now stand but hereafter when the publick execution of the said Bull may be had or made c. The Pope granted these foresaid Graces to Father Robert Parsons and Edmund Campion now to go for England the 14 day of April 1580. being present the Father Oliverius Manarcus assistant And that the Bull it self was thus qualified or better timed as we commonly say appears by the Testimony of Mr. John Hart one of the most Learned of their Priests then in England in these following words The Bull of Pius Quintus for so much as it is against the Queen Lord Burghley's execution of Justice is holden amongst the English Catholicks for a lawful Sentence and a sufficient discharge of her Subjects Fidelity and so remaineth in force but in some points touching the Subjects it is alter'd by the present Pope For where in that Bull all her Subjects are commanded not to obey her and she being Excommunicate and Deposed all that do obey her are likewise Innodate and Accursed which point is perilous to the Catholicks For if they obey her they be in the Popes Curse and if they disobey her they are in the Queens danger Therefore the present Pope to relieve them hath alter'd that part of the Bull and dispensed with them to obey and serve her without peril of Excommunication which Dispensation is to endure but till it please the Pope otherwise to determine Thus the Romanists conclude themselves free and quit of the Papal Curse for their not Rebelling against their Soveraign though this interpretation or qualification doth no way lessen their Treachery seeing it was not so much their loyalty as her strength and prosperity that secured her in her Throne their Obedience being onely a compulsion the want of a sufficient force and opportunity being their onely let and hindrance whilst their prayers hearts and resolutions were for her Deposition such powerful and direful effects have such Papal Bulls over some mens souls and consciences to the anulling of Oaths and Allegiance and the distraction of Kingdoms But enough and it may be too much concerning this Bull. CHAP. IV. William Parry his divers attempts and Treasons against the Queen NOt to trouble the Reader with every small attempt I shall year 1583 pass by the mad fury of Mr. John Sommervil of Elstow in Warwickshire whose hot brain took such fire by their treasonable Doctrines that he resolved to kill the Queen but in this raging intent was seiz'd on carryed to prison where he laid violent hands of himself Nor shall I here trouble my self with Throcmortous tampering with Mendoza year 1584 It seems all their spight laid at the Queen and the better to procure her ruine there was a little Book composed and call'd A Treatise of Schism which amongst other things exhorted the women at Court to act the same against the Queen as Judith had done with commendations against Holofernes The Author of this pernicious Pamphlet was one Gregory Martin formerly of St. Johns Colledge in Oxford and contemporary with Campion The Duke of Norfolk made him Tutor to his eldest Son and indeed his Learning was noted being a good Linguist and one who had read much but in his Writings was very passionate and so sometimes inconsiderate he dyed at Reimes 1582. In London now lived one William Carter who had formerly been Amanuensis to Dr. Harpsfeld and now the chief Printer for the Romanists keeping two Presses at their devotion he gets this Book commended by Allen and prints above a thousand for which he is tryed confesseth his printing it vindicates all contain'd in it is condemn'd and executed and hath the honour to be Register'd amongst their a Concertat Eccles Cathol Angl. part 2. sol 127 c. Ruston de Schism Angl. l. 3. Martyrs But let us go to a more setled contrived Treason and this acted by William Parry for so he call'd himself a Doctor of Law and a sworn servant to the Queen Which take as I gather it out of his own confession letters tryal and examination In the year 1580 having out-lived his incomes he became much indebted to one Mr. Hugh Hare of the Temple who suing him for his debt so incensed Parry that meditating a revenge one night he went to Hares Chamber in the Temple broke open the door assaulted him and left him there for dead though he afterwards recover'd for which offence he was committed to New-gate indicted of Burglary tryed found guilty and condemn'd to be hang'd and so had suffer'd if the Queen through her mercy had not pardon'd him and given him his life But now let us see how he requites the Queens grace and favour In 1582 he gets a License for travel and so passeth beyond Seas goeth to Paris thence to Lyons to Milan and so to Venice where he fell acquainted with Benedicto Palmio a great Jesuit and one received into that Order in the Founders days Parry to him opens his
bosome telling him that he had some desire to relieve the oppressed Romanists in England which he would resolutely undertake if the Pope and other learned Divines would warrant the lawfulness of the Action Old a By him it was resolved that he might lay violent han is upon her Majesty and commended in that resolution and encouraged thereunto These are the words of W. C. that is Clarke the Priest in his Reply to a Libel of Fa. Parsons fol. 60. b. Palmio assures him of the lawfulness of the Enterprise commends his Zeal and incourageth him in it This done he commends him to Campeggio the Popes Nuntio at Venice by whose means he wrote to the Pope Gregory XIII declaring to his Holiness his designe and desiring of him a Pass-port or Safe-conduct to go to Rome to confer with him about it The Safe-conduct is sent him but not ample enough and so desires one more full which is promis'd In the mean time he falls acquainted with Christofero de Salazar Secretary to the Spanish King in Venice to whom he had also open'd somewhat of his intent For the better carrying on of the journey and good will he gets the said Secretary to commend him to the Duke di Nova Terra Governour of Milan and to Conde Olivaris then Spanish Ambassador at Rome which is promis'd Parry having staid at Venice some time returns to Lyons whither was sent to him a sufficient Safe-conduct from Rome assuring him that he might go and come in the b In verbo Pontificis per omnes jurisdictiones Ecclesiasticas absque impedimento word of a Pope through all the Church-Dominions without any let or hindrance But this came too late he being obliged to go to Paris where he meets with c Onâ— that solâ—â—â—ted the Queen of Seâ—s â—ffairs of him see moâ—e in a Book caâ—l'd The Estate of the English Faguâ—ves pag. 51 52 53 printed 1596 Thomas Morgan who told him that it was now expected that he should do some notable service to God and the Catholick Church In short Parry there undertook to kill the Queen if it were warranted to him by some Learned Divines and if his Holiness would grant him a full pardon Aniball à Codretto a noted Jesuit then in Paris and Provincial of Guienne lovingly receives him commends and confesseth him Morgan recommends him to Râ—gazzoni the Popes Nuncio then at Paris who received him kindely sent his Letters to the Pope promised to remember him in his Prayers and wished him good success And the better to incourage him Morgan assured him d Thomas Kaâ— Ã faithful fâ—â—â—nd to the Qâ—â—en of Scoâ—s and so at this time forced to â—ecuâ—e himselâ— in France He was Father â—o Rob. Car Earl of Sommâ—rset 1583. that the Laird b Ferneburst then in Paris should presently go into Scotland and be ready upon the first news of the Queens fall to enter England with 20 or 30000 men in behalf of the Queen of Scots then in England Parry thus incouraged leaves France lands at Rye so goeth to London where he contrives the better to get access to the Queen and credit with her to discover how he had been perswaded to kill her which he doth at White-Hall as cunningly as he can the Queen gave him hearing and began to put some confidence in him In the mean time the Mastership of St. Catherines falls void which thinking he had gain'd the Queens favour he endeavours by Petition to get for himself Whilst he was following this suit Letters came to him from Rome from Cardinal Como wherein he found his enterprise commended and allowed the Paper it self take as followeth Mon Signoâ—e LA Santita di N. S. ha veduto le lettere di V. S. del primo con la fede inclusa non può se non laudare la buona dispositione resolutione che scrive di tenere verso il servitiò beneficio publico nel che la Santita sua essorta di perseverare con ferne riuscire li effetti che V. S. promette Et acchioche tanto maggiormente V. S. sia ajutata da quel buon Spirito che l'ha mosso le concede sua Beneditione plenaria Indulgenza Remissione di tutti li peccati secondo che V. S. ha Chiesto Assicurandosi che oltre il merito che n' ha vera in cielo vuole anco sua Santita constituirsi debitore a rico noscere li meriti di V. S. in ogni miglior modo che potra ciotanto piu quanto che V. S. usa maggior modestia in non pretender niente Metta dunque ad effetto li suoi Santi honorati pensieri attenda a star sano Che per fine io me le offero di cuore le desidero ogni buono felice successo Al piacerdi U. S. N. Cardinale di Como Di Roma il 30di Gennaio MD LXXXIV Sir HIs Holiness hath seen your Letter of the first with the Certificate inclosed And cannot but commend the good disposition and resolution which you write to hold towards the service and common good wherein his Holiness doth exhort you to persevere and to bring to effect that which you have promised And that you may be the more assisted by that good spirit which hath moved you thereunto His Holiness granteth unto you his Blessing Plenary Indulgence and Remission of all your sins according as you have desired Assuring you that besides the Merit which you shall receive for so doing in Heaven His Holiness will farther make himself debtor to acknowledge your deservings in the best manner that he can And the more because you use the greater modesty in not pretending any thing or reward Put therefore to effect your Holy and Honourable purposes and regard your health And to conclude I offer my self unto you heartily and desire you all good and happy success At your service N. Card. di Como Rome January 30. 1584. What was the meaning of this Letter Parry himself shall tell you of which in his Confession thus In March last while I was at Greenwich as I remember suing for S. Katherines came Letters to me from Cardinal Como dated at Rome the last of January before whereby I found The Enterprise commended and allowed and my self absolved in his Holiness name of all my sins and willed to go forward in the name of God It confirm'd my Resolution to KILL her and made it clear in my Conscience that it was LAWFVL AND MERITORIOVS Here we have him a And Bishop Gâ—odman in his answer to Sir Ant. Weldons Court of King James saith that Car. Como incouraged Parry to kill the Queen pag. 85 86. a Manuscript confirm'd in his wickedness and it was no small addition to this the denyal he had of St. Catherines Mastership In this passion he address'd himself to Mr. Edmund Nevil who claimed the Inheritance of the Nevils Earls of Westmerland and the Title of Lord Latimer as next Heir-male
the Church of England Likewise I must confess that the Course we held was so pleasing to such as saw it or were informed of it by those that they trusted as it proved very gainful unto us all that were Priests We had out of Question procured unto our selves very great Favour Credit and Reputation So as it was no marvail if some young Gentlemen as Mr. Babington and the rest were allured to those strange attempts which they took in hand by Mr. Ballard who was an Agent amongst us They saw as they supposed for both Mr. Babington and divers of his Company were oftentimes at the Exorcisings that we had a great commandment over Devils which prevail'd greatly with them as I think It would have been a very strange thing I am perswaded that we could not have wrought men at that time to attempt which was prudently foreseen by Father Edmunds of purpose as I am resolved in my conscience to prepare the hearts and mindes of Catholicks by those practices that when such forces as were intended should have come into England they might have been more readily drawn by him and us to have joyned their forces with them And this is that I can say concerning the occasions or inducements that such matters were taken in hand at the time articulated Now as touching the substance of the general Interrogatory it self I have perused the several Examinations and Confessions of Sara Williams and Friswood her Sister of Anne Smith and of Richard Mainy Gentleman and am fully perswaded that they have deposed the truth in such points whereof they were examined belonging to their pretended Possession and Dispossession The effect whereof is that they were drawn by our cunning carriage of matters to seem as though they had been possess'd when as in truth they were not neither were there any of the Priests ignorant in my conscience of their dissimulation nor the parties themselves as now it appeareth of our dissembled proceeding with them After I had been my self first at one of their Exorcisings it was my chance to lye that night with Mr. Thomson a Priest and a great Actor in those matters at his chamber by the Spittle and falling into some conference about it I used some such words as though I doubted whether the party were actually and really possessed For I my self being not acquainted with any plot devised by Fa. Edmunds or any other spake my minde somewhat more plainlie then I perceive Mr. Thomson well liked of His answer to me was in effect that He being my friend did earnestly wish me to cast forth no such speeches whatsoever I did think For quoth he the matter is judged to be so by Father Edmunds and some others that are Priests Besides such Catholicks as have been present at such fits have received it for a truth that the parties are possess'd And although I for my part will not make it an Article of my Creed yet I think that Godly credulity doth much good for the farthering of the Catholick Cause and for the defacing of our common Enemies and their proceedings Or to this effect Not long after also talking with Mr. Stamp at the Lord Vaux his house in Hackney concerning these matters and demanding of him seriously his opinion what he thought of them his answer was That they were things of such importance as would farther the Catholick Cause more then all the Books that had been written of late years about the controversies in Religion with the Protestants With which answer I seemed to rest contented because I saw thereby he was not willing to enter into any plainer course with me For although both my self as I said before and so I think of the rest did know that all was but counterfeit yet for as much as we perceived that thereby great credit did grow to the Catholick Cause and great discredit to the Protestants we held it lawful to do as we did c. Anth. Tyrrell June 25. 1602. Mr. a Foot out of the snare New shreds to the old snare Hold fast Gee will afford you more hints of their cheats and juglings whither I refer the Reader and the b Pag. 64. F. Author of Father Paulâ— life writes against such Stage-play-Exorcisms or Puppy-Devils But to prosecute our History the Queen was seldom without dishonourable attempts against her Don Bernardin de Mendoza the Spanish Ambassador in England and afterwards a busie blade for the Covenanters in France here he disingeniously forgetting his place falls a plotting against the Queen and incourageth others to it for which he was forbid the Kingdoms and so sneak'd into France But we shall presently meet with another Ambassador more unworthy then the former and this is l'Aubespine the French Ambassador then lying in England one wholly given up to the Guisian faction Nothing will serve him but the murther of the Queen to effect which he tâ—mpers with one Mr. William Stafford a Gentleman of good Relations And at last by his Secretary Trappie deals more openly and plainly with him promiseth him not onely Riches but great Honour and special favour with the Pope the Duke of Guise and with all Catholicks whatever Stafford refuseth so bloudy an enterprise but tells him of one Moody then in Prison as one desperate enough for any designe Moody is talk'd with gladly undertakes it provided he might be freed out of Prison They consult of the manner Moody propoundeth Poyson or a bag of Gun-powder laid under her bed and secretly fired But neither of these pleas'd Trappie who better discover'd his meaning by wishing that such another bold fellow might be found as was that a Bâ—ltazer Gerard who pistosâ—d William Prince of Orange in Delfe anno 1584. 10 of July Some say that he was instigated by some Jesuits to perpetrate this murther However Orange deserved better at Gerards hands having shew'd him some friendship and favour Gerard was taken and suffer'd death without any repentance or signe of grief for his fault Burgundian who had kill'd the Prince of Orange Mr. Stafford having consider'd with himself the heinousness of this Treason goeth and reveals it to the Queens Council whereupon Trappie is seiz'd on just as he thought to have pass'd into France and upon examination confesseth all Upon this the Council sends to speak with the Ambassador he b Jan. 12. 15â—â— waits upon them they tell him the reasons wherefore they secured his Secretary l'Aubespine rants against the Council and pleads the priviledge of his place Stafford and Moody are brought in confess the Treason and positively accuse the Ambassador as the Instigator He on the other hand at first denyeth it then pleads that had he known it yet being an Ambassador he ought not to discover it unless it be to his own Master After some discourse Cecil Lord Burghley gravely admonish'd him to beware how he committed Treason any more or forgot the Duty of an Ambassador and the Queens Clemencie and that he was
jugo Thou who the Pope doth scorn his Laws revoke Shalt yeild thy neck unto the Spanish Yoak And in this hight of idle fancie Mendoza the Spanish Ambassador at Paris in the great Church of Nostre Dame flourish'd his Rapier crying out Victoria but when the contrary News was known the very waggish Pages in the Streets would beg some small Gifts or Preferments in England from his Lordship as such little Villages as London York c. Thus would they jeer the haughtiness of the Spaniard who aim'd at the Government of the whole world and it may be Alexander-like not content with it neither to which purpose I remember this Distich Praeda licet non sit mundus satis ampla Philippo Ampla satis mundo praeda Philippus erit But though the Spaniard thought his Fleet and Forces invincible yet to make all Cock-sure he would have the Royal-Standard belonging to them to be blest and sanctified and that with as great Ceremony and Devotion as heart could invent There was then in Portugal one Maria de la Visitation Prioress of the Monastery De la Anunciada at Lisbone She for some years Vid. Cyprian Valera at the end had so cunningly carryed her self as a great Saint pretending to be so well acquainted with Christ that she used to call him Husband had St. Francis-like his Wounds or Marks imprinted on her undertook to Prophesie and do Miracles insomuch as Pope King and Bishops as well as other credulous Romanists put no small trust and confidence in her Sanctity This is the good wench they pitch'd on to bless the Royal Standard with Victory It was carryed in Procession by Don Francisco de Cordova the tallest blade amongst them there being present the better to honour this grand Ceremony Albert the Arch-duke and then Cardinal and Governour of Portugal the Papal Nuncio the Archbishop Prime Inquisitor the Duke of Medina Sidonia Commander of the great Fleet with many Nobles Prelates Gentry and others that such a concurse of people had scarce been seen Maria the gifted Nun with many Ceremonies giveth it her grave and pretty blessing presents it to the Conde Medina Sidonia pronouncing good success with Victory to him and his Fleet and that he should return a Conqueror At this good and sure Token we may suppose the people mad with joy but the bad Event cool'd their courage and which was to them as great a wonder the latter end of this same year this their Holy Maria proved a meer Cheat and Imposture yet in her predictions concerning the good endeavours of Pope Sixtus V our a Sed supra omnes alias praesumptiones laetasque hominum praesagiones de hac Pontifice illud unum maxime omnium animis inhaeret aâ— spe quadam â—erta replet suturorum bonotum quod FOEMINA ILLA SANCTISSIMA Vâ—siponensis cujus hodie tam evidentia cernuntur evidentia miracula ac per Universum mundum Testimoniis certissimis confiâ—mantur multis diebus priuâ—quam moriretur aut aegrotaret Gregorius XIII praedixit illius mortem revolatam fibi à Domino alteriusque successionem in cujus Pontificatu sua Divina Potestas constituisse dicebat magna quaedam facere ad sâ—um honorem Ecclesiaeque utilitatem c. Crudelitatis Calvinianae Exemplâ— duo recentissima ex Anglia Printed in octavo 1585. English-Romanists put no small confidence And the truth is Sixtus V was as furious against Elizabeth as their hearts could wish and very active in this Spanish Invasion for the carrying on of which he had not onely promised the assistance of his b Ant. Cicarella in vita Sexti V. Treasure but his Papal Curse to boot whereby he undertook to deprive the Queen of her Kingdoms and Dominions Absolving her Subjects from their Allegiance publishing his Crusaido as against Turks and Infidels whereby out of his kinde-heartedness to Rebellion he gave Plenary Indulgences and Pardon of all sins to all who gave their helping hand With this goodly stuff William Allen a little before made a Cardinal is sent into the Netherlands the better to encourage the English Romanists to Rebellion Allen pulls out his Papal Tool which he forgeth into a Pamphlet in the English Language which he prints at Antwerp calling it The Declaration of the Sentence of Sixtus Quintus And as a farther interpretation of the Papal intent and the better to ingage the English to Rebellion he joynes a second Part to it call'd An Admonition to the Nobility and People of England And that the Reader may better understand the honesty of the Paper take the sum of it thus IT begins with calling the Queens Government impious Em. Meteram Hist Belg. lib. 15 p. 473 474. Sam. Purchas Pilgrimes vol. 4. lib. 10. cap. 11. pag. 1895 1896. and unjust her self an Usurper obstinate and impenitent and so no good to be expected unless she be deprived Therefore Pope Sixtus V moved by his own and his Predecessors zeal and the vehement desire of some principal Englishmen hath used great diligence with divers Princes especially with the Spanish King to use all his force that she might be turn'd out of her Dominions and her Adherents punished And all this for good Reasons Because she is an Heretick Schismatick is Exommunicated by former Popes is Contumacious Disobedient to the Roman Bishop and hath taken to her self the Ecclesiastical Jurisdion over the a No such thing souls of men Because she hath against all Law and Right usurped the Kingdom seeing none forsooth must be Monarchs of England but by the leave and consent of the Pope Because she hath committed many Injuries Extortions and other wrongs against her Subjects Because she hath stir'd up Seditions and Rebellions between the Inhabitants of Neighbour-Countries Because she hath entertain'd b What did the Pope and Spaniard do Fugitives and Rebels of other Nations Because she sent and procured the c A slanderous untruth Turk to invade Christendom Because she persecuted the English Romanists cut off the d Though I wish it had not been done as being an Enemy to bloudshed yet the Romanists were the chief Promoters of her death by continually thrusting her on to new designes against Queen Elizabeth But whether is worse Queen Elizabeth to put to death the Queen of Scots no way ingaged to her or the English Romanists to seek and endeavour the Murther of Queen Elizabeth their own Soveraign to whom they owed all Allegiance and Service Nor is this so Bad as the poysoning of the Queen of Navar and the Massacre at Paris 1572. Queen of Scots and abolished the Roman Religion Because she hath rejected and excluded the ancient Nobility and promoted to honour obscure people and also useth Tyranny Wherefore seeing these offences some of them rendring her uncapable of the Kingdom others unworthy to live His Holyness by the power of God and the Apostles Reneweth the Censures of Pius V and Gregory XIII against her Excommunicates and deprives her of all
Colledge at that time will witness with me Now would I demand of you what reasons they might have to be their own Carvers if they had not some interest in that affair Fifthly we know that they were more forward in Rome concerning this matter then the Cardinal or any other Insomuch as at the first news of the Spaniards coming down into the Narrow-Seas they would have had Te Deum sung in the Colledge-Church for joy of Victory if the Cardinal had not stayed it And to conclude doth not the posting of Father Parsons into Spain presently after the overthrow of this Army for farther dealing with the Spaniard for the time to come and his better information in English affairs and Father Holt posting into the Low-Countries for the like purpose to keep the Spaniard still in hope of future times that this mishap might not withdraw him from ever enterprising the like afterwards shew that they were dealers in the former Doubtless all these Circumstances cannot but sufficiently prove it that they were in the judgement of wisemen And many other passages in confirmation of these things might be produced but that they are needless the truth of them being sufficiently known and we shall hint somewhat more in the story of Father Parsons However their goodly pretences were for the propagation of Religion the settlement of the Kingdoms with the security of the Natives yet we are told that as there were severe a Cabala pag. 372 373. punishments appointed for those they were pleas'd to call Hereticks so the Romanists themselves were to expect no b Watsons Quodlibets pag 176 177 242 249. favour from their hands affirming that their conquering Swords should make no distinction between the one and the other their business being more to make way for the Spanish Dominion then his Religion And we need not question the better to carry on this their pretended Holy War but that in Spain Presbyterian-like as the Learned and Ingenious Poet doth word it the Gospel-Trumpeter surrounded Hudibras Canto 1. With Long-ear'd Rout to Battel sounded And Pulpit Drum Ecclesiastick Was beat with fist instead of a stick Their Priests and Fryars to make no small clutter to perswade the people of the glories and rewards of such a Noble Enterprize Amongst the rest I finde Johannes Osorius the Jesuit not a little concerned in this work Two Sermons he makes in justification of the War and in Concionum Tom. 4. pag. 72 73 c. commendation of the Spaniards his Country-men for thus fighting against Hereticks and is so credulous that he falleth a giving c Id. pag. 84. thanks for a supposed Victory But a little after is forced to alter his Note and make d Id. pag. 90 91 c. three Preachments of Humiliation upon the overthrow of the Navy in the second of which the zealous man groweth a little e Pag. 106. Cum ergo poteâ—emus à Deo Daemonium pâ—ssimum ab Anglia pelli pettish and angry What Relation this Castillian was to the Portuguise Hieronimo Osorio I know not but it seemeth that they were both grand Enemies to Queen Elizabeth and were willing enough that the English Romanists should enlarge and quit themselves from all tyes of Loyalty and Obedience though it were to the destruction of their Native Country and Nursing Princess as some observe that formerly one f Antonto de Torquemeda â—aâ—din de â—loâ—es curiosas Colloq 1. pâ—g 26 Diego Osorio was born by the ripping up of his Mothers belly 'T is g Jo. Evelyn's Sylva oâ— Forest-Trees cap. 32. § 4. pag. 108. said that in this Expedition the Spanish Commanders were expresly enjoyn'd that if when landed they should not be able to subdue the Nation and make good their Conquest they should yet be sure not to leave a Tree standing in the Forrest of Dean by which they thought they might in time ruine us or hinder us from harming them by thus weakning us in destroying the means of our Shipping But 't is well they fail'd in all their designs and a shame take those be their pretence or Religion whatever who have since assisted to the destroying those Noble and hearty Oaks And I fear private interest or knavery have too much endamaged our other Nurceries of Shipping But 't is now held modish and in fashion to cheat the Publick though to take a few pence from a private man must be branded with Thievery and very gravely condemn'd to the Gallows CHAP. VII Lopez Squire York and other's Treasons against the Queen THis grand intended Invasion of the Spaniards being ruin'd and brought to nought England might now afford it self some ease her Enemies not being able on a sudden to recruit their great losses this defeat in a manner breaking the back and cracking the credit of Philip. But as by degrees he recovered so by the instigation of the English Fugitives was he perswaded to carry on the same ill will towards the Queen of England And here we cannot forget Richard Hesket who being set on work by Sir William Stanley and other English undertook to perswade Ferdinand Lord Strange a little after by the death of 1592. 1993. his Father Henry became Earl of Darby to depose the Queen and take upon him the Title of the Crown making Pedegrees for him drawing his pretended right from Mary his great Grand-Mother Daughter to Henry VII And for a better encouragement they gave him large promises of assistance of men and money from the Spaniard but withal threatning him with assured destruction unless he would undertake the designe and conceal it But the Earl far contrary to their expectation discovers Hesket who confessing all is executed As for the Earl he presently after ended his life tormented in a strange manner not without John Stâ—w p. 767. suspition of Poyson others say of Witchcraft As for the Treason it self thus confesseth Bluet and Watson two of their chief Priests in their Book call'd Important Considerations Vid. Tho. Bels Anatomy pag. 32. While the Invasion was talk'd of and in preparation in Spain Richard Hesket was set on by the Jesuits 1592 or thereabouts with Father Parsons consent and knowledge to have stir'd up the Earl of Darby to Rebellion against her Highness This failing we have another more dangerous set on by persons of the highest rank but it seems not unworthy the basest actions though any Religion might'be ashamed of them As a Prologue to this we may understand that Don Sebastian the forward King of Portugal having ruined himself in the African Expedition and his great Uncle Cardinal Henry succeeding him in the Kingdom and dying unmarryed several made claim to the Portugal Crown Amongst the rest Don Antonio Prior of Crato natural Son to Lewis brother to Henry To him being a Portugaise many of the people bare an affection so that at last the rest let their Titles sleep and the Quarrel onely remain'd between Philip II of
executed at Tybourn where Lopez thinking to make some Vindication affirmed that he loved the Queen as he loved Jesus Christ at which the spectators could not but smile knowing Lopez to be of the Jewish Profession At the same time that Lopez was dealing withal about the Queens Murther they to make more sure perswaded one Patrick Cullen an Irishman and a Fencer to commit the same villany against her Royal Person In this Treason Stanley was very active who with Sherwood and Holt two Jesuits confirm'd him in the lawfulness of the action giving him thirty pounds towards his journey into England being then in the Low-Countries But he was taken confess'd all and is executed At the same time also lived in the Netherlands one Edmund York Nephew to the Traytor Rowland York This Rowland was a vapouring Londoner the first that brought into England the use of Tucks or Rapiers in single Duels before which the manly Back-sword and Buckler was onely in practice by the greatest Gallants This was that scandalous Rowland York also who basely betray'd his trust and deliver'd Zutphen of which he was Governour with himself unto the Spaniards and perswaded Sir William Stanley to do the same with Deventer both of them for the future fighting under the Spanish Colours against their own Soveraign Queen and Country The English Fugitives beyond Seas perswaded this mans Nephew Edmund York and one Richard Williams with others to kill the Queen And this wicked Treason was agitating the same time that Lopez and Cullen were consulting about theirs But these Traytors were also seised on and suffer'd 1. They confess'd that for an incouragement Hugh Owen a noted Traytor at Bruxels had an assignation subscribed by Ibara the Spanish Secretary of forty thousand Crowns to be given them if they would kill the Queen 2. That the said Assignation was deliver'd to Holt the Jesuit who shew'd also the same to York and produced the Sacrament and kiss'd it swearing that he would pay the said monies when the murther was committed 3. That Stanley did earnestly perswade York to undertake it animating him with the Example of his Uncle Rowland 4. That to forward the plot there were several consultations Holt the Jesuit sitting as President 5. That Holt said if this designe fail'd they would then imploy no more English but Strangers 6. That at these consultations there used several to be present as Thomas Throgmorton Charles Paget Hugh Owen Dr. William Gifford the finisher of Calvino-Turcismus of whose Treasons we have heard formerly Dr. Thomas Worthington the chief promoter of the Doway-Bible adding some notes to it He also turn'd Bristow's Motives into Latine and in his old age turned Jesuit at Rome 7. It was also confess'd that there were designed to come into England to attempt her death one Tipping an Englishman one Edmund Garret an Ensigne with a Wallon and a Burgundian 8. That one Yong had undertaken a Treasonable action too 9. It was also confess'd that these three York Williams and Yong determin'd at their coming into England to have put themselves into the service of some great Noblemen of the Queens Council thereby to have free access to the Court and every one of them to seek their opportunities 10. That Williams through zeal to the Cause had wish'd his sword in the Queens Guts 11. That they had vow'd come what will of it to be the death of her And how furious and abominable James Archer the Irish Jesuit and others were in this Parracide Dr. a Antilogia cap 8. fol 116 117 118 119 120. Robert Abbot and a little after Bishop of Salisbury hath abundantly from their Confessions confuted the Impudent Andraeas Eudaemon-Joannes and satisfied all Forraigners And besides those common rewards of riches and favour with advancement here they were promised the highest of Spiritual Benefits because their Treasonable Actions could be no less then meritorious by which they would be certain to enjoy Heaven and its Glory hereafter For no less rewards and enjoyments did these evil Councellors impudently promise to these bloudy Traytors As if these Casuists were related to the old Hereticks the b Gabr. Pratâ—ol Elench Haeret p. 110. Cainani who reverenced Cain for killing his brother Abel and worshiped Judas for betraying our Innocent Saviour But why might not they promise as much when they knew that the Pope who cannot err had formerly bequeath'd such blessings to the enemies of Queen Elizabeth All these designes failing the Fugitives and other Traytors were at their wits end seeing the Queen raign prosperously and successful and all their attempts against her ruined always discover'd and the main instruments seiz'd on and deservedly executed But at last another opportunity offer'd it self In the year 1595 Sir Francis Drake making his last voyage against the Spaniards in America in which he dyed there was one Edward Squire who was first a Pettifogging Clerk afterwards an under-servant in the Queens Stables and now would try his fortune as a Souldier in this voyage It was his chance to go in a little Pinnace which unluckily straying from the rest on the Coasts of America was taken by five great Spanish Ships By which means much of Drakes designe was discover'd and so a great part of the exploit prevented Squire at last was carryed into Spain as a prisoner Here a There were three Brothers of Norfolk all Jesuits viz. Henry Michael and Richard Walpoole Walpoole a Jesuit meets with him and procures him as an Heretick to be put in the Inquisition where with afflictions and fair speeches he drew him to be a zealous Romanist This done he perswades him to kill the Queen commends the action to him as piouâ— and meritorious offers him large promises And at last Squire is fully perswaded and undertakes the murther At this the Jesuit Walpoole rejoyceth hugs and incourageth him bindes him by several Oaths under pain of Damnation to be secret and perform his promises and not to fear death For saith he what doth it profit a man to gain the whole Rob. Abbot Antilog fol. 122 123. world and loose his own soul Assuring him that if he did but once doubt of the lawfulness and justness of the Action that mistrust would be enough to damn him such a sin being seldom pardon'd This said he imbraceth him then throwing his left Arm about Squires neck so hugging him with his right-hand he makes the signe of the Cross upon Squires forehead thus blessing him God bless thee my son and strengthen thee be of good cheer I will pawn my soul for thine and thou shalt always have the benefit of my prayers and whether thou livest or dyest thou shalt enjoy a full pardon and remission of all thy sins And another time thus incouraged him There is one thing necessary which if thou prefer before all other things and dost fulfill it I have my desire and thou shalt be a glorious Saint in Heaven Squire thus devilishly resolved gets into England
goeth to Greenwich where the Court then was watcheth opportunity and being informed that the Queen was to ride abroad goeth to her Horse holds him according to his place and cunningly puts strong poyson upon the Pummel of the Saddle yet saying with a loud voice as she mounted God save the Queen But such was the providence that her Majesty neither in getting up riding or getting down once touch'd the Pummel yet he doubted not but that in time it would work the intended ruine fully perswaded the Queen had laid her hands on it Presently after this the Earl of Essex set sail for the Island-voyage against the Spaniard And in this Fleet Squire ventured once more as a Souldier with which he return'd into England and lived for some time securely not thinking that he should ever be discover'd But see the luck on 't of this poyson being great expectation amongst some and seeing no signes of any such effect they became incensed against Squire thinking that he had left them and the Cause in the lurch and meerly deluded them Thus jealous and inraged a revenge is resolved on and Squire cunningly accused of some designe against the Queen Squire upon the noise is examined and wondring how any thing should be known against him yet suspecting Walpoole his Confessor and believing year 1598 all was fully discover'd freely confesseth all as abovesaid so as a Traytor is condemn'd and executed Of these late bloudy Treasons Watson and Bluet two Priests thus in Print declare to the world Father Holt the Jesuit and others with him perswaded an See Bels Anatomy p. 22 23. Irishman one Patrick Collen as himself confessed to attempt the laying of his violent and villanous hands upon her Majesty Shortly after 1593 that notable stratagem was plotted for Dr. Lopez the Queens Physitian to have poysoned her This wicked designation being thus prevented by Gods providence the Traiterous Jesuit Holt and others did allure and animate one York and Williams to have accomplish'd that with their bloudy hands that the other purposed to have done with his poyson we mean her Majesties destruction Hereunto we may add the late villanous attempt 1599 of Edward Squire animated and drawn thereunto as he confessed by Walpoole that pernitious Jesuit These words are set down in their Important Considerations pag. 33. And yet Father a Answer to the fiâ—th part of Sir Edw. Cokes Reports Epist Dedicat. v. 2. Parsons doubts whether Squire for all this committed Treason or no such was the loyalty and honesty of this Jesuit Thus in part have we seen the great dangers Queen Elizabeth run through her life being continually sought after both by her own subjects and Forreigners nor did they want incouragements to oppose their own Queen and Country Pope Gregory XIII allowed them a b See the Bull tom 2. p. 319. Colledge at Rome the Guisians in France another aâ— c Sixtus V by Bull desires all to assist it ib. p. 411. Rhemes the Spaniard gave them one at d Clement VIII confirmed this vid Sand. de Schism lib. 4. sive Appendix p. 104. Valladolid in Castile and allowed them e See Thomas Fuller's Church-Hist lib. 9. Cambden anno 1595. others in other places besides allowed the chiefest of them Pensions and maintain'd many hundred English in his Wars though his pay and Pensions were but badly paid to them yet more and better then such Trayterous Fugitives deserved And for all these Pensions private fees for Treason and vast Treasure spent in his attempts against the Queen what did the Spanish King expect for a recompence but the Crown and Kingdom of England for the obtaining of which the nearest that he came was once viz. July 1595. when Diego Brocher with four Callies got very early in a morning unperceived upon the Coâ—sts of Cornwal struck into Mounts Bay by St. Michaels Mount fired Pauls Church standing alone in the Fields Mouseholes Meulin and Pensâ—ns three poor fisher-Towns and presently stole home again without killing one man This beggerly enterprize was all the reward and recompence of his vast Treasure and toyl spent against England And let them never prosper otherwise who attempt any mischief against it and so unworthily foment and maintain Traytors against their respective legal Soveraigns But better had it been for Philip and Spain if he had followed the advice of his Grand-father Charles V that famous Emperour who used often to lay down this for a certain Rule insomuch that it was one of his Proverbs Con todo el mundo guerra Y puse con Inglatierra With all the world make War But with England do not Jar. Whilst these Murtherers were according to their engagements consulting the death of the Queen we must not think the Spanish interest altogether Idle but they had also their other Instruments and preparations on foot the better to secure this Kingdom to them upon her fall As for the Jesuits how active they were for the disturbance of England a Romanist himself shall tell you his words are these We have also certain intelligence that the Jesuits have devised a A. â— Reply to a notorious Libel p. 81 82. means to have had the Tower of London seized into their hands and how they would have it held until the Spaniard came to rescue them Divers of their Letters have been shewed to divers prisoners for proof against them when they have answered in defence of the Jesuits that they thought them free from such stratagems and amongst the rest there is one of the XX of June 1596 wherein there are these words It may be if the Kings faintness and pusillanimity hinder us not as heretofore it hath the Armado will be with you about August or September This is one good help Ireland will be onely for us The Earl of Tyrone and Odonnel would gladly have help from hence and they are well contented to let the Spaniards have certain Holds and Forts for their uses This will greatly pleasure to trouble and disquiet England and in the mean time serve for Harbour for their Ships that shall pass that way c. It were necessary you should make it known aforehand that no Catholick man or woman shall take harm either in body or goods Let every man be quiet till the Spaniards be landed then shall there presently Proclamation be made of all security Of these Proclamations there were two hundred printed in Spain Amongst other contrivances to bring this Kingdom into confusion was the designe of Anthony Rolston an English Fugitive Cambden an 1598. who was sent over into England by the Spanish Agitators and Father Creswell under pretence of procuring a Peace but the truth was as Rolston himself confessed to discover what provisions there were for war to incourage the Romanists and by Bribes and fair promises to corrupt some great Lords about the Queen amongst the rest Essex as the said Earl confess'd himself And the better to make cock-sure and carry
your own pristine Ingenuity and that you may freely profess the Catholique Faith Therefore my most beloved seeing that which you have so many years before desired and begged for with prayers and tears and that now even now the Pope Christ's Vicar on Earth doth command you to take Arms for the defence of your Faith I admonish exhort and beseech you all all I say unto whom these Letters shall come That as soon as possibly you can you come to us with your Friends and Weapons Whosoever shall do this shall find us prepared and we will communicate unto them those things which we possess and whosoever shall despising our wholsome Counsel do otherwise and remain in the obedience of the English we will prosecute him as an Heretick and a hateful Enemy of the Church even unto Death Don Juan de Aguila The Lord Deputy laid siege to Kingsale which continued long in which time both he received supplies from England and Don Juan from Spain both parties standing sufficiently in need of such As for the Irish many of them who had formerly promised obedience to the Queen now revolted delivering themselves and Castles up to the protection of the Dons Amongst the rest Donnel Osulevan Beare freely gave up to the Spaniard his strong Castle of Dunboy which cost the English much cost and time in re-taking Of which he writ this Letter to the King of Spain IT hath been ever most Mighty and Renowned Prince and most Gracious and Catholick King from time to time manifestly proved by daily experience among us Irish That there is nothing worketh more forcibly in our hearts to win and to draw our love and affection than natural inclination to our Progeny and Off-spring and the memorial of the Friendship which sticketh still in our minds chiefly the same renewed cherished and kept in use by mutual affection and by shewing like friendship to us also We the meer Irish long sithence deriving our Root and Original from the famous and most noble Race of the Spaniards viz. from Milecius son to Bile son to Breogwin and from Lwighe son to Lythy son to Breogwin by the Testimony of our old ancient Books of Antiquities our Pedigrees our Histories and our Chronicles Though there were no other matter we came not as natural branches of the famous Tree whereof we grew but bear an hearty love and a natural affection and intire inclination of our hearts and minds to our ancient most loving Kinsfolks and the most noble Race whereof we descended Besides this my Soveraign such is the abundance of your goodness and the bounty or greatness of your liberality now every way undeserved of our parts as tokens of love and affection by your Majesty shewed unto us that it is not fit nor seemly for us but to bestow cur persons our men and our goods in the service of a Prince that dealeth so graciously with us that sendeth Forces of men great Treasure Victuals and Munition for our aid against our Enemies that seek to overwhelm and extinguish the Catholique Faith diabolically put to death our Chieftains tyrannously coveting our Lands and Livings unlawfully For the aforesaid Considerations and for many other commendable causes me moving I bequeath and offer in humbleness of mind and with all my heart my own person with all my forces perpetually to serve your Majesty not only in Ireland but in any other place where it shall please your Highness I commit also my Wife my Children my Mannors Towns Countrey and Lands and my Haven of Dunboy called Biara Haven next under God to the protection keeping and defence or Commerick of your Majesty to be and remain in your hands and at your disposition Also at your pleasure be it my Liege Lord to send defence and strong keeping of the Haven of Dunboy first for your self my Soveraign to receive your Ships and for me also as your loving Servant so that the Queen of England's Ships may not possess the same before you while I follow the Warrs in your Highness behalf I pray Almighty God to give your Majesty a long life and health of Body and Soul with encrease of Grace and Prosperity So I betake you to the keeping of God From the Camp near Kingsale the xxixth of December 1601. Stylo Novo Your most dutiful loving Servant Donnel Osulevan Beare With an intent to raise the Siege Tyrone O Donnel Mac Guire Mac Maghon Burk Tirrell the best Soldier amongst the Rebels and other Irish hasted towards Kingsale and in their March joined with Alonso de O Campo and his Spanish recruits newly landed all which joined together made up towards VII Thousand The Lord Deputy for all this continueth the siege Tir-Oen and the rest of his Relief approach come within two miles of the Town but is fought and beat his followers quite dispersed Tyrone runs into his hiding-holes in Vlster O-Donnell and others escape into Spain and the rest where they thought most convenient And this Battel may be said to confirm the Queen in Ireland and to secure the Protestants there who had been * Dr. Nic. Bernards life 〈◊〉 Aâ—ch-bishop Vsher pag. 30. slaughter'd by the Irish had the Spaniards here prevailed Don Juan de Aguila seeing the Irish thus routed and his own Forces much impaired both in health and number fell to a Capitulation upon which he yeelded the Town He and his Spaniards were to be sent home and what other places they had in the Kingdom under their protection were likewise to be delivered up to the English and amongst the rest was Dunboy Which place being naturally strong and pretty well fortified Osulevan Beare a man given over to Mischief and Rebellion was resolved year 1602 not to part with it so Whereupon one night he surpriseth it but let the Spaniards return to their own Countrey only the Cannoniers he detain'd the better to serve him in the defence of the place against the English and his Queen concerning which he writes this Letter to the King of Spain My Lord and my King OVT of his love to your Kingly Greatness your humble stedfast Servant Donnel O Sulevan Beare enforced through peril and constraint doth make bold to inform unto your Greatness That upon the landing in Castle-Haven in the West of Ireland your General Pedro Zubiar and Pedro Lopez de Soto with a Fleet and Men from your Greatness according to the inward conceit of mind I always held which I manifested in my young years and would have still followed unless disability had constrained me to the contrary finding a happy and good Opportunity as I imagined I came to their presence tendring my Obeysance to them in the Name of your Highness and being with 400 men at my own cost towards your service I yeelded out of my meer love and good will without compulsion or composition into their hands in the Name of your Majesty not only my Castle and Haven called Beer Haven but also my Wife my Children my Countrey
est mortale Permissum est etiam Catholicis Haereticae Reginae id genus obsequii praestare quod Catholicam Religionem non oppugnat Non fuit unquam nec potuit esse Pontificis mens ea Obsequia circa Reginam eis permittere quae aperte cum fine scopo ipsius Pont. de promovenda in Hibernia Catholica fide ac Religione pugnant Hanc autem ejus esse mentem scopum Literae ipsae apertissime declarant Ex quibus omnibus satis manifestum relinquitur illustrissimum Principem Hugonem O-Nellum alios Catholicos Hiberniae bellum gerentes adversus Reginam Haereticam Orthodoxam Fidem oppugnantem nullo modo Rebelles esse neque debitam Obedientiam negare aut Terras Reginae injuste usurpare quin potius illos justissimo bello se terramque suam ab iniqua impia Tyrannide vindicare sacramque Orthodoxam fidem ut Christianos Catholicos decet pro viribus tueri atque defendere Quae omnia singula nos infra-scripti ut certissima ac verissima judicamus approbamus Datum Salamantic VII die Martii An. D. 1602. Sic ego Johannez de Seguensa Professor Theologiae in Collegio Societatis Jesu hujus Almae Salmanticensis censeo Idem Censeo ego Emanuel de Royas Professor Theologiae in eodem Collegio Societatis Jesu Horum Patrum Sententiae tanquam omnino certae assentior et ego Gaspar de Mena Theologiae S. Scripturae in eodem Coll. Professor In eadem sum prorsum cum Praedidictis Pp. Sententia Petrus Osorio in eodem Coll. Societatis Jesu pro Sacris Canonibus In the Name of God Amen THE most Renowned Prince Hugh O Neil doth make warr for the defence of the Catholique Faith with the Queen of England and the English people viz. That it may be lawful for him and the Irish freely to profess the Catholique Religion which liberty the Queen of England doth endeavour to take from them by force and arms There are two matters now in question aâ—â—ut this Warr. I. The one is Whether it be lawful for the Irish Catholiques to favour the foresaid Prince Hugh with Arms and all other means in this Warr II. The other is Whether it be lawful for the same Catholiques to fight against the foresaid Prince without deadly sin and to favour the English in this Warr by Arms or by any other means whatsoever Especially when the case so stands that if they deny this kind of help unto the English they expose themselves to a manifest danger of their lives or the losing of their Temporal goods And furthermore since it is permitted by the Pope that they may obey the foresaid Queen of England and acknowledg her as their lawful Queen by paying Tribute unto her for it seemeth that that may be performed what belongeth unto Subjects to do viz. To fight against the Queen's Rebels who deny their due obedience to her and seem to usurp the Land which is subject to her dominion That both these Questions may be decided we must hold as for certain That the Pope hath power to bridle and suppress those who forsake the Faith and those who fight against the Catholick Faith when by no other means so great a mischief can be hindred And furthermore it must be positively concluded That the Queen of England doth oppugn the Catholique Religion and doth hinder the Irish from the publick enjoyment of the Catholique Faith And that for this cause the foresaid Prince O-Neal and others before him mentioned in the Apostolical Letters of Clement VIII undertook the Warr against her These things thus laid down the first Question is easily resolved For without doubt any Catholick whatsoever may favour the said Prince Hugh O-Neil in the foresaid warr and this with great merit and certain hopes of an Eternal Reward For seeing that the said Prince doth make Warr by the Pope's Authority for the defence of Catholique Religion and that the Pope doth exhort all the faithful by his Letters thereunto as is manifest by his Letters and that he will extend his graces upon the favourers of the Prince in that Warr in as ample manner as if they make warr against the Turks No man in justice can doubt but that the present Warr is lawful and also that to fight for the Catholique Religion which is the greatest good of all others is a matter of great merit And concerning the second question it is most certain that all those Catholiques do sin mortally that take part with the English against the foresaid Prince O-Neil Neither can they obtain Eternal Salvation nor be absolved from their sins by any Priest unless they first repent and forsake the English Army And the same is to be censured of those who in this War favour the English either by Arms or any other means or shall give them any thing of like Condition besides those accustomed Tributes which is lawful for them by virtue of the Pope's Indulgence and Permission to pay unto the Kings of England or their Officers the Catholick Religion flourishing and being amongst them This Assertion is confirm'd by this most manifest Reason Because it is sufficiently proved by the Pope's Letters That the Queen of England and her Forces make unjust Warr against the said Prince O-Neal and those who favour him For seeing that the Pope doth declare That the English do fight against the Catholique Religion and that therefore the said English should be resisted as much as if they were Turks and that he doth bestow the same Graces and Blessings upon those who resist the said English as he doth upon those who fight against the Turks Who doubteth but that the Warr waged by the English against the Catholique Army is altogether unjust But it is not lawful for any to favour an unjust Warr or to be present thereat under the pain of Eternal Damnation Those Catholiques do therefore most grievously offend who bear Arms with the Hereticks against the foresaid Prince in a Warr so apparently impious and unjust And so do all those who assist them in the said Warr with Arms Victuals or by any other means which of themselves do further the proceedings of the Warr and cannot give account of their indifferent obedience Neither doth it any thing avail them to scandal the Apostolical Letters of Surreption or of some underhand procuring For Surreption cannot happen where no Petition of them is declared in whose favour they were dispatched But the Pope doth plainly declare in those Letters that he and his Predecessors had voluntarily exhorted the Irish Princes and all others of the Faithful to undertake this Warr. And the better to incite them to it doth enrich them with great Favours Blessings and Indulgences How can it then be supposed that these Letters were surreptitious which only contain an Exhortation strengthned with many Favours for such as did fulfil them Neither therefore can the Catholiques who assist the English defend themselves by the Reasons alledged in the second
themselves about this Succession And seeing Experience had told them That their Clergy had a great awe and authority over the Laity so it was best then to have all their Clergy to be of the same mind and to prosecute the same Ends and they hoped that their Laity would not then be divided To which purpose they conclude of an Arch-Priest who should have a Jurisdiction over the rest who were to act according to his Rules and Instructions And in these Designs Father Parsons was a main Stickler and Contriver the Pope also had drawn up some Bulls and sent to his Nuncio in the Netherlands to divulge and spread them abroad at convenient time wherein he declared That not any though never so near in * Quantum cunque propinquitate sanguinis niterentur nisi ejusmodi essent qui fidem Catholicam non modo tolerarent sed omni ope ac studio promoverent more Majorum jurejurando se id praestituros susciperent c. Bull. Clement VIII blood should after Q. Elizabeths death be admitted to the Crown but such an one as would not only tolerate the Roman Religion but would swear to promote and resettle it and that in the mean time Cardinal Farnese might in this Island have the greater Vogue the Pope made him Protector of England as he was of other Countreys Nay rather than fail the same Pope had * 1597. D'Ossat Let. 87. formerly exhorted the French and Spaniard to unite invade England and divide it between them Nor did they neglect to instigate the Family of the Pools to have a right Yet for all these Attempts and other Endeavours of the Jesuits Winter Desmond and such like who plotted His Exclusion upon the death of the Virgin Queen Elizabeth he was proclaimed and received as the undoubted King James I. of England but of Scotland VI. However no sooner is he set in the Throne but an odd medley-Plot is agitated against him composed of such variety of Religions and Interests that it seemed to puzzel the World that such a wise man as Raleigh should be in it but that they knew Discontent would thrust a daring Spirit upon any thing to satisfie it self The main Ingredients of this Conspiracy were Henry Brook Lord Cobham seem'd to be Protestants George Brook his Brother Thomas Lord Gray of Wilton a Rank Puritan William Watson the Author of the Quodlibets where he rants dapperly against the Jesuits for their Treasons and Plots Romish Priests William Clark who had writ against Father Parsons for the same Crimes Sir Griffin Markham a Zealous Romanist Sir Walter Raleigh a States-man and Soldier and troubled with no more Religion than would serve his Interest and turn Count Arembergh Ambassador from the Arch-Duke of Austria Zealous Romanists Matthew de Lawrencie a Merchant but an Instrument employed by Arembergh And some other such like Their Designs were To set the Crown on the Lady Arabella or to seize on the King and make him grant their desires and a Pardon To have a Toleration of Religion To procure Aid and Assistance from Forreign Princes To turn out of the Court such as they disliked and place themselves in Offices Watson to be Lord Chancellor George Brook Lord Treasurer Sir Griffin Markham Secretary of State Lord Gray Master of the Horse and Earl-Marshal of England For more security Watson draweth up an Oath of Secrecy But all is discovered they are seiz'd on examined and tryed The two Priests plead James is not King because not then Crown'd But that excuse is declared idle most of them are found guilty and condemned Watson Clark and George Brook were executed the rest reprieved Gray dyed in the Tower the last of his Line Raleigh was beheaded 1618. the rest discharged of Imprisonment but dyed miserably poor Markham and some others abroad but Cobham as we are * Oshorn's Traditional Memoires of K. James p. 12 told in a Room ascended by a Ladder at a poor Womans House in the Minories formerly his Landress dyed rather of Hunger than a natural Disease I need not here speak how their * Respons ad Edictum Reg. § â—6 Card. Allen's Answer to the Execut. of Justice p. 185. Priests endeavoured to amuse the people with what Troubles there would be at the death of Elizabeth nor how to alienate the Crown they published to stir up many Titles and Pretenders divers Pamphlets as Lesley Heghington Creswell Crag a Scotch Jesuit but his Book was burnt and never printed And we are told That the Jesuits were entreated to * Is Casaubon Epist ad Front Ducaum assist in this Plot but they desired to be excused as having another Design in their thoughts which some think was meant of the Gun-powder-Treason And to all these Contrivances Father Parsons was no bad wisher OF this Parsons seeing he then made such a noise in the world and § 11. § is by those of his Order commended as one of the most holy men of his time whilst others though Romanists will look upon him no otherwise than the greatest Villain then living in the world I shall say something here the better to inform Posterity 'T is true the Industrious Dr. Thomas James almost LX. years ago undertook to write his Life and therein to set down nothing but what the Priests and Romanists themselves writ of him which accordingly he did but it containing more of Satyre than History I shall make little or no use of that Collection now so rarely to be met with for they were all bought up by the Jesuits themselves it is call'd THE JESVITS DOWNF ALL. Some Romanists have boldly asserted Parsons to have been a Bastard begotten by the Parson of the Town Stockgursee in Somersetshire and therefore call'd Parsons though they say his right name was * Or Cubhuck A. P. A Reply to a Libel call'd A brief Apol. p. 324. Cowback and this hath been in a manner generally believed But to do him what right I can I shall not be unwilling to allow here some mistakes as to the place and though upon enquiry I am informed that those Parish-Records are now lost whereby I cannot satisfie my self as well as Manifestation of folly f. 89 I would yet I shall in part be guided herein by himself and other Enquiries He was born at Nether-Stowey in Somersetshire a Vicarage in the year 1546. His Father a Blacksmith was once an Enemy to Rome but was as they say reconciled to that Church by Alexander Briant who was executed and his Mother dyed at London in the same perswasion They had XI Children this Father Parsons being the middlemost He was Dr. Sutclyf's Blessing on Mount Gerizzin p. 220 288. instructed in the Latin Tongue by John Hayward or Haywood once a Monk or Canon-Regular of the Abbey of Torr who came out of Devonshire to be Vicar of Stowey he was held a notable Twinger and suspected as kind enough with Parsons Mother lying at her House Thus fitted
which Nevil Parry offer'd to call cozen in him he endeavours to foment a discontent and having as he thought fully brought over discourseth more openly with him At last he opens to him about killing the Queen which he call'd An Act honourable and meritorious to God and the world At several times they consult about it either of killing of her in White-hall Garden and so to escape by water or by St. James's on horse-back But at all this Nevil seem'd staggering Parry to take away all doubts from him lent him a b It was call'd A Defence of English Catholicks against the Book call'd The Execuâ—ion of Justice which Book was made by the Lord Burleigh Book made by Dr. Allen afterwards for his Treasons made Cardinal which had been sent him out of France And now this Book wrought with Parry himself you shall see by his own confession thus It redoubled my former Conceits every word in it was a warrant to a prepared minde it taught that Kings may be Excommunicated Deprived and violently handled It proveth that all Wars Civil or Forregn undertaken for Religion is honourable Nevil also declares himself convinced of the lawfulness and braveness of the action and so they both swear in Parry's lodging secrecie and to kill her of which thus Parry in his Confession He came to me the next morning to my lodging in London offer'd to joyn with me and took his Oath upon a Bible â—o conceal and constantly to pursue the enterprise for the advancement of Religion which I also did and meant to perform THE KILLING OF THE QVEEN WAS THE MATTER The manner and place to be on Horse-back with eight or ten Horses when she should ride abroad about S. James or some other like place All this while Parry carryed himself pretty fair with the Queen several times conferring with her telling her of Cardinal Como's Letter by which discoveries though he did it onely the better to gain opportunity and credit he obtained so much favour of the Queen that she not onely thought him a trusty loyal Subject but intended him a liberal Pension or Allowance Whilst he thus gets esteem with the Queen and at the same time contrives her death Nevil resolves to discover all doth so and is examined by Leycester and Sir Christopher Hatton The Queen wonders at the juggle and contrivance but had it kept secret and the better to finde out the Plot Parry is sent for by the a Sir Fran. Walsingbam Secretary to his house there to see according as the Plot was laid if he would any way confess this who had shew'd himself so ready on his own head to discover the Forraign designes against her Majesty The Secretary entertains him kindely telling him that the Queen had appointed him to deal with him in a matter that highly concerned her Majesty knowing him to be one who bare an extraordinary Devotion to her Having thus begun the Secretary told him that the Queen had been advertiz'd that there was some plot in hand against her own person wherewith she thought he could not but be made acquainted considering the great trust that some of her greatest Enemies reposed in him Of this she desired to understand his knowledge and whether he himself might not some time have let slip some suspitious words not with any real designe against her but to discover the intention of others Parry strongly confiding in Nevil earnestly denyed it again and again with several protestations that he was neither party nor privy to any such motion or enterprise Walsingham dealt fairly with him telling him that there was a Gentleman and his friend who would prove the contrary to his face Yet Parry denyeth all though probably had he confest and these were hints enough and accused Nevil at this first asking he might have saved himself and in this his great cunning was overseen Parry thus obstinate in denyals is not permitted to go home but lodged that night at Mr. Secretaries house within London This puts him in a peck of troubles fills his head full of suspitions and having consulted with his pillow the next morning he desired to speak with the Secretary which granted he confesseth that now he had call'd to remembrance that he once had speech with one Nevil concerning a point of Doctrine contain'd in one of Dr. Allens books where it was maintain'd that it was lawful to take away the life of a Prince to benefit the Roman Religion but protested that he talked nothing of the Queen That night he was examin'd at Leycester-house before several but still he denyed all whereupon Nevil was brought before him who punctually justified every circumstance before his face yet the other as formerly denyed all However he is sent to the Tower where perceiving the exactness of the proof against him he freely and of his own head confess'd all and sent his humble Letter to the Queen which take as followeth YOur Majesty may see by my voluntary confession the dangerous fruits of a discontented minde and how constantly I pursued my first conceived purpose in Venice for the relief of the afflicted Catholicks continued it in Lyons and resolved in Paris to put it in adventure for the restitution of England to the ancient obedience of the Sea Apostolick You may see withal how it is commended allowed and warranted in Conscience Divinity and Policie by the POPE and some great Divines though it be true or likely that most of our English Divines less practised in matters of this weight do utterly mislike and condemn it The enterprise is prevented and conspiracie discover'd by an honourable Gentleman my kinsman and late familiar friend Mr. Edmond Nevil privy and by solemn Oath taken upon the Bible party to the matter whereof I am hardly glad but more sorry in my very soul that ever I conceived or intended it how commendable or meritorious soever I thought it God thank him and forgive me who would not now before God attempt it if I had liberty and opportunity to do it to gain your Kingdom I beseech Christ that my death and example may as well satisfie your Majesty and the world as it shall glad and content me The Queen of Scotland is your prisoner let her be honourably intreated but yet surely guarded The French King is French you know it well enough you will finde him occupied when he should do you good he will not lose a Pilgrimage to save you a Crown I have no more to say at this time but that with my heart and soul I do now honour and love you am inwardly sorry for mine offence and ready to make you amends by my death and patience Discharge me a Culpa but not a Poena good Lady And so fare well most gracious and the best natured and qualified Queen that ever lived in England â—rom the Tower the 14 of February 1584. W. Parry In short Parry is Arraigned and Tryed at Westminster where at first he confesseth
all and that he had a designe to kill the Queen but at last falls into a rage denyeth it layeth his bloud upon the Queen and the Judges and summons the Queen to answer for his bloud before God However he is condemn'd and afterwards b executed in the Palace yard a 2 March 1584 5. And here it will not be amiss to tell what this flaunting and boasting Parry was seeing his impudence pretended great kindred worth and no small favour abroad His Father was call'd Harry ap David who kept an Ale-house in a little Village Northop not far from the River Dee in Flintshire in North-Wales his Mother was a Bastard begot by one Conway the Priest of Haulkin a poor Parish close by Upon the death of his Father his Elder Brother kept the Ale-house and did so after our Parry was executed The Traytor now in hand was one of the younger Sons and was call'd William ap Harry according to the custom of Wales When young he learned a little to write and read went and served one John Fisher of Chester who pretended to the Law with him he continued some years serving as his Clerk in which time he learned the English Tongue and at some spare hours went to the Grammar-School where he got some skill in Latin About the year 1560 he ran away from his Master got up to London where for some time he lived after a shirking fashion all his study being to fill his belly and cover his back at last he found a good Master and by degrees with him and other Masters he got some money in his purse He scorns his old name ap Harry but call'd himself Parry pretending a kin to all of that name and from his Mother Daughter to one Conway a Priest he pretends a kindred to the Family of Sir John Conway and so allyed to the foresaid Edmund Nevil Thus having voted himself a Gentleman he marryeth a rich Widow in South-Wales she dyeth he lives bravely wastes all and runs into debt His chiefest care is for some time to avoid the Serjeants at last he falls in with a rich Widow Mrs. Heywood old enough to be his Mother and her at last he marryeth but lyeth with her Daughter ruines the Estate and runs far in debt to Mr. Hugh Hare of the Temple aforesaid whom in his Chamber he endeavour'd to assassinate and is himself executed for Treason Of this ap Harry or Parry several Couplets were made in those times some of which for diversion take as followeth where you may see his life and Qualities also Epitomized William Parry Was ap Harrie By his name From the Ale-house To the Gallows Grew his fame Gotten Westward On a Bastard As is thought Wherefore one way Kin to Conway Hath he sought Like a Beast With Incest He begun Mother marryed Daughter carryed him a Son Wales did bear him France did swear him To the Pope Venice wrought him London brought him To the Rope Wherewith strangled And then mangled Being dead Poles supporters Of his quarters And his head And thus much for Parry and his Treasons which stuck so close upon the Papal Reputation that their Index Expurgatorius commands the whole story to be dasht out of Thuanus CHAP. V. 1. Babington c.'s Treasons against the Queen 2. The Romanists endeavour to inveâ—gle the more ignorant People to them by their false and cheating Exorcisms Sect. 1. Babington c.'s Treasons against the Queen THe former Treason was scarce ended when another begun which was briefly thus In the English Seminary at Rheimes in France there were some who pin'd their faith so much upon the Popes sleeve that they thought his Authority could do any thing and that the Deposing Bull of Pius V against Queen Elizabeth was dictated by the Holy Ghost thus wickedly perswaded they Cambd. Annals an 1586. thought it meritorious to take away her life and to dye in the attempt would be a glorious Martyrdom Amongst the rest Dr. William Gifford Rector of the Students there and the finisher of the Book call'd Calvino-Turcismus William Reinolds of whom formerly was its first Author He and one Gilbert Gifford and one Hodgson Priests so inculcated this treasonable Doctrine into one John Savage said to be a Bastard that he willingly and solemnly vowed to kill the Queen To make the day more sure John Ballard an English Priest of Rheimes plyeth it about England and Scotland to carry on the Cause and to prepare his Disciples then goeth into France to treat with Don Bernardin de Mendoza the Spanish Ambassador there and some others about the invading of England Having done his errand he returns to England to forward the designe gets to London where in a Souldiers habit under the false name of Captain Foscue he agitates his plots At London he opens the business to one Mr. Anthony Babington of Dethick in Derbyshire a young Gentleman rich well bred and somewhat learned he had a little before gone to France without License and faln in acquaintance with the Archbishop of Glascow Ambassador for the Queen of Scots and Thomas Morgan an English Fugitive but a great stickler for her Babington is against an Invasion as fearing it would not take effect as long as the Queen lived Ballard tells him that that need not trouble him because Savage had sworn to kill her Babington likes the murther but moves that five other resolute Gentlemen might be joyned to Savage This agreed on they carry on the designe for the Invasion In the mean time Babington giveth notice to the Queen of Scots of the designed Murther and desires her that The Heroical Actors in this business might be rewarded or else their Posterities if they perisht in the attempt for so he worded it And in this conspiracie several Gentlemen of Quality were assistants Sir Francis Walsingham that saithful and cunning Secretary by his Spies discovers all and informs the Queen and in this Gilbert Gifford Priâ—st who lurk'd in England under the name of Luson to minde Savage of his Oath was somewhat assistant to Walsingham who had such a liberal hand to intelligence that though he left himself poor yet so trusty he was to his Soveraign that there was scarce a plot against her but some of his Spies were intimate and Actors with the chiefest of them This Plot having run on for some time the Queen thought it dangerous to go too far so Ballard is apprehended Babington jealous of a discovery he with some of the Confederates hide themselves in St. Johns Wood near the City Notice being given of their withdrawing they are proclaimed Traytors at last are found and seized on and the rest of their Fellow-rebels Fourteen of whom were a September 1586. executed in St. Giles's Fields where they used to meet and consult about the Murther and Invasion Sect 2. The Romanists indeavour to inveagle the more ignorant people to them by their false and cheating Exorcisms THe English Romanists about this time had