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england_n	bishop_n	church_n	succession_n	2,569	5	10.4652	5	false

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

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

way to auoyde all reuenges of iniuries donne to the king of Spaine And that his vniust accusing of innocent mē of treason could colour his owne exceeding treasons that hathe broughte the realme into such present misery and deliuered it vnto so-many ensuing perills and dangers as it now dothe attend For it is he that neither of conscyence nor any other cause but meerly for his owne ambitiō hathe wrought the mutation and change of religion where of such wonderfull inconueniēces haue followed It is he that hathe procured the enmytie which Englād hathe at this present with so-many Christian Princes and states chiefly with the most potent King of the world It is he that for the prosecuting of his impious intentions hathe sent foorthe so-many thousandes of the naturall people of the realme to be cōsumed in forreyne countries It is he that hathe caused so-many great and generall exactions and that hathe exhausted the treasure of the Queene realme for the maintenāce of rebells and purchasing of enemyes to his naturall country It is he that hathe bene the occasion that the Queene contrary to her owne honor and the well lyking of her other counselors which she most affected hathe made so many offers of mariage to forreyne princes and yet notwithstanding hathe euer vtterly perswaded her from mariage thereby to bury her posteritie in her owne body It is he that was one of the most principall contriuers of the deuysed plott for the trecherous slaughter of the Scottish Queene which will redownde vnto the eternall infamy of England and dothe threaten a continuall reuenge It his he that because he could not somtyme establish such heyr apparent as he listed hathe lefte the succession of the crowne so confusedly among somany competitors bothe within and without the realme which tendeth vnto the effusiō of the blood of infynite thowsandes more then alredy he hathe brought to distruction It is he that hathe bene the causer of al the inconueniences troobles and daungers that the realme hathe alredy past or dothe presently sustaine or hereafter may suffer being now brought into such a labyrinth of calamities as neuer the same nor any other can be remēbred to haue bene brought vnto And as this hathe bene wrought by himself and not by Catholykes so himself and not Catholykes is iustly therefore to be accused and blamed And howsoeuer he do now in supreame aucthoritie falsly impute vnto others the crymes of treasons and trecheries yf the matter might come to any equall hearing before indifferēt iudges it should cleerely be prooued that he which wisheth the reformation of his country cannot be a traitor to his country but that Cecill being the causer of the most enormious euills thereof is a traitor himself and the greatest that euer England nowrished and farr more noysome and pernitious to the realme then euer were the Spencers Peeter of Gauerstone or any other that euer abused either Prince or people And because no man dare frame an endytement against him I will heere omit many other articles of highe treasō but yf any will vndertake to iustifie his actions in his course of gouernment let him know that there is sufficiēt matter of reply reserued for him which is not extracted out of Mother Hubberds tale of the false fox and his crooked cubbes but is to be vttred in plaine prose and shal lay open to the world his birth his lyf and perhaps his death seing his detestable actions are such as do aske vengeance of heauen and earth It is a lamentable grief to consider that the manifold harmes which comonly the afflicted subiects do suffer the Princes themselues do neuer feele and that the perills dangers wherein they do stand are kept from their sight and knowlege by such as in whome they repose ouermuch trust and confidence vntill with violence they do fall vpon their owne heades and comonly when all remedy is past to auoyde thē And thus the great euills which are caused by one man do redownde vnto the vniuersall harme both of the Prince and people How greatly dangerous is it then for any Prince to be wholy led and conducted by the perswasiō of one man and to deliuer the possessiō of his or her eares vnto the deceitfull tonge of a flatterer By such meanes was the puisant Emperor Charlemaigne misguyded whose ouer-great affyance in the wicked counsell of one only Gano was the occasion of wōderfull harmes that fell bothe vpon himself and his people which great inconuenience is by a moderne Poet greatly lamēted who amōg other his verses to the same purpose hathe these ensuing Ben saria il dritto che tornasse il danno Solamente sù quei che l'error fanno And happy were it for the Queene realme of England yf all the sustayned or expected harmes of that Prince or people being directly caused by one man might iustly redownd vpon the causer himself But more happy had it bene to haue sought in tyme by iust satisfaction of iniuries to haue auoided the deserued reuēges of thē But most infortunate is it that he which hathe bene the beginner of these mischieues hathe no meaning to redresse them is yet permitted to plunge the realme into what further calamities himself listeth and to hazard the shedding of the best bloud of the Nobilitie and People for the only establishing of his owne house and posteritie to make the ruinated families of the one the dead bodies of the other the steppes to moūt vnto his entended height He commaundeth bothe England and Scotland he laboureth incessantly with the Queene to make his eldest sonne deputy of Ireland and as it is aforesaid entendeth to match his grandchild with the Lady Arbella so to put in for a kingdome yf not for the Monarchie of Albion And for the better contriuing of the whole domination to himself he hathe lately brought in his second sonne to be of the Queenes councell and keper of her priuy seale the which of wyse-men is much maruailed at and the rather for that the Queene is reputed learned and therefore seemeth to be the more ouerseene in the choise of so il shapen and crooked a counselor hauing neither wisdome nor experience to forgett the precept of the graue Philosopher who giueth espetial warning of such so marked by nature in these woordes Caue ab his quos natura signauit And albeit she had forgotten such wise aduice of so aunciēt an author I wish she had called to mynde the woordes of a later thoughe of lesse aucthoritie which perhaps for her recreation she may somtyme haue red who in his Macaronicall verses giueth good notes to beware of such deformed creatures saying in admiration O Deus a guerzis Zoppis gobbisque cauendum est Nulla fides gobbis mancum mihi credite Zoppis Si sguersus bonus est inter miracula scribam And yf her Ma tie had bene disposed to prefer him it seemeth vnto me that to haue made