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A02797	An apologie or defence of the watch-vvord, against the virulent and seditious ward-vvord published by an English-Spaniard, lurking vnder the title of N.D. Devided into eight seuerall resistances according to his so many encounters, written by Sir Francis Hastings Knight	Hastings, Francis, Sir, d. 1610.	1600 (1600)	STC 12928; ESTC S119773	131,190	226

durst protect felons and murtherers against the King and Iustice of the land neither reuerencing King nor obeying his lawes passed ouer without licence to the King of France Further being adiudged to prison by the King for refusing to giue accounts of great summes of money receiued by him and Reignold Earle of Cornewall and Robert Earle of Leicester being sent to him to tell him of the iudgement set downe against him this meeke Martyr and holy Saint was so farre from the obedience of a subiect that he told the earle of Leicester in these words That how much more precious the soule is then the bodie so much more ought he to obey Becket then his terreine King So notorious and euident was the rebellious opposition of this Popish Prelate against his lawfull Prince that he was openly by the king and his Nobles called Traitor in that he refused to giue earthly honour to his King as he had sworne to do and therefore they generally agreed that he was wel worthy to be handled as a periured Traitor and rebell and therefore most impudent is this Ward-worders assertion that neyther the King nor his Officers did charge him with treason If you please to adde hereunto the arbitrement of this controuersie put into the French kings handes with king Henries large offer and Beckets proud refusall there is no man I hope that knoweth what it is to be an obedient subiect but will condemne him for a rebellious Traitour The kings offer in that arbitrement was this There haue been saith he Kings of England before me both of greater and lesse puissance then I am likewise there haue been many Bishoppes of Canturburie both great and holy men what the greatest and most holy of all his predecessours before him hath done to the least of my predecessors before me let him doe the same to me and I am content Which offer though it were in it selfe and so deemed by all that stood by not onely reasonable but more then reasonable so that they all cried with one voice the king hath debased himselfe enough to the Bishop yet the rebellious spirit of this Archbishop would not yeelde vnto it nor accept peace with his King vpon so fauourable a condition What a Giant-like pride traiterous presumption is this to refuse to yeelde so much obedience to his Prince and Soueraigne as the greatest and holiest of his place haue alwaies yeelded to the meanest kinges of this land what needeth any further proofe of Beckets treason Yet if you will you may remember the letter of Maud the Empresse to him Wherin she chargeth him that in as much as in him lay he went about to disinherit the king to depriue him of his crown and if the Empresse might be thought to speake partially on the King her sonnes behalfe yet the two Cardinals sent by the Pope to heare all this controuersie out of question will not condemne him without iust cause And yet in a letter sent from them to the Pope they do condemne him of exciting stirring vp forraine Potentates to make warre against his naturall liege Lord the words of which letter were these William and Otho Cardinals of the Church of Rome to Alexander the Pope c. comming to the land of the king of England we found the controuersie betwixt him and the Archbishop of Canterburie more sharpe and vehement then we would for the King and the greater part about him said that the Archbishop had stirred vp the French King grieuouslie against him as also the Earle of Flaunders his kinsman who was verie louing and kind to him before he made his open aduersarie readie to wage warre against him as is by diuers euidences most certain c. Now for a subiect to stirre vp forraine States to make warre vpon his Soueraigne and countrie was at all times high treason but that Becket did so by the Cardinals confession was by diuers euidences most certaine therefore Becket not now his enemies but his bre●hren the sonnes of his owne mother being Iudges was a traitor Who then but such a one as hath sold himselfe to all impudencie and shamelesse gainsaying the truth would seeke to couer Beckets rebellions by the facts of Iohn Baptist Ambrose Hillarie of Athanasius Chrysostome which haue as much agreement with the cause of Becket as hath light with darkenes good with euill sweet with sower concerning whose Saint-being I will say nothing sith my purpose is not to search what he is with God after his death but what he was towards his Prince in his life neither am I priuie to his repentance which might be secret at the last gaspe or to Gods iudgements into which I presume not to presse Yet you may remember that long since it was a generall Prouerbe of your Pope-made Saints That many are worshipped for Saints in heauen whose soules are burning in Hell and that in particular concerning Becket great doubt was moued as is by writers alleadged out of Caesarius the Monke whose words are these Quaestio Parisijs inter magistros ventilata fuit vtrum damnatus an saluatus esset ille Thomas c. There was a question debated amongst the masters at Paris whether Thomas Becket was saued or damned To this question answereth Roger a Norman that he was worthie death and damnation because he was so obstinate against Gods minister the king Peter Cantar a Parisien disputed on the contrarie that his miracles were great signes and tokens of saluation and of great holines in him c. Which argument this Encounterer likewise vrgeth But behold what strength is in it For one of these we shall find to be true that either they seemed only and were no miracles indeed such as many by the craft and conueiance of idle Monks haue been shewed to the people as namely those miracles of the Dominicke Friers in their hot contentions with the Franciscans about the conception of our Ladie who thinking by sleight to worke in the peoples heads that which by open preaching they durst not now attempt deuised a certaine Image of the Virgin so artificially wrought that the Friers by priuie gynnes made it to stirre to make gestures to lament to complaine to weepe to grone and to giue answeres to them that asked c. vntill the Franciscans seeing by this meanes their credits to decay and all the almes to be conueyed to the Dominickes boxe and not being vnacquainted with such cousening practises espied their iugling and discouered their feined fraudulent miracles For which cause foure of the chiefest actors in this iugling miracle were burned at Bern● Or secondly if they were not counterfeite but done in deed they were not wrought by God but by the power of Sathan to draw men from Christ to Antichrist Of these the Apostle foretelleth vs that whensoeuer it commeth to passe it might not trouble vs That the comming

vnder his Father and Grand-father and for their affections declining to Idolatrie and not truly esteeming the blessings in Iosiah their king powred vpon them the Lord threatneth to bring euill vpon that place and the Inhabitants thereof Which he did by suffering Iosiah to be slaine by the souldiours of the king of Egypt and within few yeares after his death selling his owne people into the hands of the idolatrous Babilonians For as darknesse naturally followeth light and night the day so do great punishments accompanie rare blessings when they are not duely esteemed as they ought Blessed was Ierusalem by the testimonie of the Lords owne mouth when he said My beloued had a Vineyard in a very fruitfull hill and he hedged it gathered out the stones of it and he planted it with the best plants and built a Tower in the middest thereof and made a wine-presse therein But when he looked for grapes and it brought forth wild-grapes the Lord threatned from the height of this blessed estate to cast them into the gulfe of miserie to take away the hedge from his Vineyard that it might be eaten vp and breake downe the wall thereof that it might be troden downe c. The Lord hath not therefore been lesse beneficiall to vs in placing so gracious an head vpon the bodie of this Realme because you and some such as your selfe are doe yet remaine to God ingrate and to your Prince and Countrey vnnaturall Onely I beseech God that whereas by his appointment the Oliue is yet ouer vs with her fatnes and the Figge with her sweetnes and the Vine with her fruitfulries that amongst many other sinnes of our land for our vngratefull contempt of so great a blessing a Bramble be not set ouer vs which is good for nothing but to burne and consume vs and so much concerning my supposed contradiction Now Sir N. D. it is your pleasure to heare my manner of speech in these words If I should take vpon me to enter into the enumeration of all the benefits and blessings that from the Almightie haue beene powred vpon this little Iland of England c. And hauing thus vnperfectly repeated them you passe the ouer with this sleight exception saying That in mentioning our little Iland I must take Scotland with me else I erre in Cosmographie as though England were not deuided in gouernment from Scotland though both rest vpon one continent and as though your selfe did not tearme this Realme an Iland euen where you do distinguish it from Scotland Therefore Nodum in scirpo quaeris and to this shift you are put very often for want of matter But if seemeth that Scotland was named here by you chiefly to make way for your purpose to giue a glaunce at battels murders destruction of Countries Prouinces Townes Cities Houses and particular men that haue beene in Scotland within these fortie yeares as though Scotland had neuer tasted these or any of these before and then you come in with Ireland wherein you seeme to bewaile the death of the noble Desmons whose treasons yet liue by succession in one of the same name who it is said wrote ● treason full letter stuffed with most intolerable opprobries and slaunders against her Maiestie and the state to the King of Spaine And this I hope is no great proofe of your son●dnes to Queen or State France and Flaunders follow to fill vp the number But had you any respect of truth or care of modestie you would neuer haue made the true Religion wee professe the cause of murders tumults and garboyles which teacheth dutifull obedience and condemneth all mutinies seditions and rebellions You should do well to haue told vs who murdered the King the Lord Iames the Lord Russell in Scotland In France who murdered the Prince of Conde after he was taken prisoner which I thinke the law of Armes will not well beare Likewise who they were that laid● bloudy hands vpon the Admiral Chattilion being first shot in with a Pistoll with three bullets in the streetes and afterwards slaine in his chamber And so of Marl●ret slaine in his garden and of the famous learned man Ramus who hauing paid monie to ransome his life was beyond all humanit●e most cruelly quelled And generally who were the Authors not onely of the bloudie massacre in Paris but also of the like vprores in other Cities and quarters of the Realme principally at Lyons Orleans Roan Tolouse in which Cities within the space of one moneth there are numbred at the least thirtie thousand godly Protestants to be slaine your holy father at Rome to shew with what spirit he is led and with what meanes he sticketh to maintaine his Religion which otherwise would fall to the ground so soone as he heard of this bloudie tragedie maketh great ioy with his Cardinals with their procession with their gunshot and singing Te Deum Yea in honour of that Act proclayming a Iubile with great indulgence and solemnitie For Flaunders tell vs who murdered the noble Prince of Orange against whom it was proclaimed that who soeuer could bring him aliue or dead or slaie him should haue fiue and twentie thousand crownes You shall finde that such a Catholike-faith as yours is hath still sought to maintaine it selfe by such Catholike means as these are treasons tumults seditions secret murders and such like As for our true Christian Religion it is so cause of tumults garboyles and murders as Christes birth was of the murther of the poore infants in which neither Christ nor the infants ought offended the madnes was in Herod and all Ierusalem to be for this cause in an vprore In a word it is Herods Religion which seeketh to murther Christ and the Christes and annoynted of the Lord. I proceed to your aduertisement for a better direction to mens iudgements that all blessings of a Common-wealth may be reduced to two heades the one spirituall belonging to the soule and conscience the other temporall concerning the bodie and weale publike and that the Lord hath richly blessed this land since her Maiesties Raigne I doubt not to proue to all that haue iudgement and indifferency following your owne methode And first there hath beene in England since this happie alteration change from popish superstition to Christian veritie One God worshipped in spirit and truth one faith one belief one forme of seruice in praier and praises to God one number of Sacraments which are onely two by the word of God one head of the Church which is Christ the Lord as the holy Ghost testifieth by the Apostle Him hath God appointed to be the head of the Church And his substitute annointed appointed ouer vs is our Soueraigne and Queene who is to commaund and be obeyed in Christ and for Christ in all causes aswell ecclesiasticall as ciuill and not your proud vsurping Priest at Rome and if you can like to looke vpon the harmonie of confessions you shall find all the

in Pharaoh to kill him How was Dauid preserued from Saule or the Prophets from Ierob●●● or the Israelites from Ham●●s malice Peter from Herods crueltie or our Sauiour Christ for a time from the conspiracie of the chiefe Iewes For in all these there was will ioyned with outward power for a time and yet the things desired not effected Cicero his argument holdeth where there is nothing supposed to hinder and where the will is fully bent to doe a thing but in all Soueraigntie and inclination of the will it holdeth not because there may want strength and continuance of the partie and the will may not be throughly setled as that of the Iewes they would faine haue put Christ to death but they feared the people God no doubt did strangely keepe Queene Marie from consenting to the bloodie practise of the Romish Cleargie against her Sister and though some of the Cleargie did seeke her death yet it might bee hindered by others and their desires by some considerations so crossed that though they did desire her death yet they could not effect it for which the Lord of Heauen onely is to be praised But what a shameles forehead hath this Encounterer who against so manifest a truth so plainely and sensiblie to bee proued doth not blush to denie that her Maiesties life was at that day earnestlie and maliciouslie sought after Why was sh●e so hastelie sent for when shee was sicke to bee brought vp to the Court either aliue or dead presently vpon Wyats rising why was she falsly accused and burdened with Wyats insurrection yea so far that he was brought against truth and conscience to accuse her Why was she committed to the Tower to be a close prisoner Why did she say Tanquam ouis when she remoued from the Tower to Woodstocke Why was she in many feares and so often enforced to bewaile her estate and to pray to the mightie God to preserue her Was there not a report that there was a warrant out for her execution and did not M. Bridges Lieutenant of the Tower go in haste to Queene Marie and so by certifying her preuent the bloodie execution When the sword of iustice could not by any meanes be drawne forth against her what extreame dealings were vsed and what secret conspiracies plotted for the bringing of her to an vntimely death and the shedding of her innocent bloud I spare to write more in so plaine a matter that reuerent learned man Master Foxe hath at large in his Monuments of the Church set downe the miraculous preseruation of her Maiestie at that time from extreame calamitie and danger of life which who so readeth shall with inward compassion and watrie eyes rather lament her pitifull estate then with a hard heart and shameles face deny so manifest a truth as this Encounterer doth As for the causes which he alleageth did concurre to the preseruation of her Highnes it is not denied but that some of those by him alleaged and many others which in probable reason might be imagined might well concurre for the working of her Maiesties securitie at that time but that any of thofe was so potent and mightie as of necessitie to make her safe from daunger or that they or any other can bee certainely alleaged to be necessarie causes and procurers of her deliuerance with all his wit and insight into matters of State of which he seemeth much to brag he will neuer be able to shew Certaine it is that her Maiestie when she was in that trouble and daunger vsed these words when shee protested her innocencie at her landing at the Tower Before thee O God I speake it hauing none other friends but thee alone and as certaine it is that neither wise States-man nor any other can definitelie say of these or any other supposed causes in these respects or for these causes chiefly shee was preserued what though shee were gracious amiable and vertuous and much fauoured of the Spanish King who in policie it may be did by that meanes seeke to win the peoples hearts vnto him must it needs follow hereupon that therefore her innocent behauiour could not bee called into question nor her bloud shed by any wicked conspiracie The King of Spaine was farre from her in her greatest trouble and neither you nor any other can say that hee pleaded her cause or stoode openly for her freedome at any time If hee sent the Duke of Feria to visite her or secretly did speake for her to Queene Marie as Master Foxe seemeth to confesse he did that which was seemely and honorable in a King and that which her place and innocencie iustly deserued As for the generall hope which you say most men had of her Maiesties being a Catholike if it had been either so vniuersally conceiued as you imagine or by such outward tokens had appeared as you haue set downe how can it be true that she was presumed by many to be inclined to a different Religion from yours as you a little before in this Encounter doe confesse If shee had been deuoted so earnestly to Popish Religion why needed commaundement to be giuen that shee should haue Masse within her house within two daies after her committing to the Tower and how happened it that her men were so vnskilfull to helpe the Priest that the first day there could be no Masse for want of a Clerke and the next day one of her yeomen at Kyrieleson made a stop and set the Priest being not able or not willing to proceede any further Her sound affection to true Religion was the cause of all her trouble and danger in her Sisters daies and her willing and ioyfull embracing of the true Christian faith and of God his true worship and seruice hath so sufficiently been witnessed euer since the beginning of her Raigne that no man of common sense or Christian charitie hath the least cause to suspect that her heart should bee vnsound in the present profession of God his true Religion and Gospell The last cause which you alleage to concurre to the preseruation of her Maiestie is but a thing imagined by you seeing the matter of depriuing her Maiestie of life neuer came to any such stately consultation as you your selfe in handling this point doe plainelie graunt and seeing also that in such a case they could haue found out other meanes for preuenting such a potent pretender whatsoeuer you say of the Spaniards affection to the Queene of Scots at that time I am sure all England had like to haue tasted by so lamentable an experience that this Lady of Scotland was so affected by Spaine and sundrie of our English Espagniolized traitours as if through Gods goodnes shee had not been cut-off in time hardly could our Soueraigne haue escaped with life long being almost daily in daunger whilest that Scottish Queene liued through the practise of Rome Spaine and our home Traytors Thus notwithstanding all your flourishes and deuises your potent causes are too