concessae pp. Roberto Personio Edmundo Campiano pro Anglia die 14. Aprilis 1580. PEtatur a summo Domino nostro explicatio Bullae declaratoriae per Pium Quintum contra Elizabetham ei adhaerentes quam catholici cupiunt intelligi hoc modo vt obliget semper illam et haereticos catholicos vero nullo modo obliget rebus sic stantibus sed tum demum quando publica eiusdem bullae executio fieri poterit Then followed manie other petitions of faculties for their further authorities which are not needefull for this purpose to be recited but in the end followeth this sentence as an answere of the Popes Has praedictas gratias concessit Summus pontifex patri Roberto Personio Edmundo Campiano in Angliam profecturis die 14. Aprilis 1580. Praesente patre Oliuerio Manarco assistente The english of which latten sentences is as followeth Faculties graunted to the two fathers Robert Persons and Edmond Campion for England the 14. day of April 1580. LEt it be asked or required of our most holy Lorde the explication or meaning of the bul declaratory made by Pius the fifth against Elizabeth and such as doe adheare or obey her which bull the catholiques desire to bee vnderstand in this manner that the same bull shall alwayes binde her and the heritikes but the Catholiques it shall by noe meanes bind as matters or things doe now stande or be but hereafter when the publique execution of that bull may be had or made Then in the end the conclusion was thus added The highest Pontiffe or Bishoppe graunted these foresaid graces to father Robert Persons and Edmonde Campion who are nowe to take their Iourneyes into England the fourteenth day of Aprill in the yere of our Lorde 1580. Being present the father Oliuerius Manarke assistant Hereby is it manifest what authoritie Campion had to impart the contents of the Bul against the Queenes Maiestie howsoeuer he himselfe denyed the same And though it be manifest that these two Iesuites Persons and Campion not only required to haue the Popes minde declared for the Bull but also in their owne petitions shewed howe they and other Catholiques did desire to haue the sayd Bull to be vnderstand against the Queen of Englande yet to make the matter more plaine howe all other Iesuites and Seminaries yea howe al Papists naming themselues Catholiques doe and are warranted to interpret the saide Bull against her Maiestie and her good subiects you shall see what one of their fellowes named Hart who was condemned with Campion did amongst many other thinges declare his knowledge thereof the last of December in the same yeere .1580 in these wordes following The Bull of Pius Quintus for so much as it is against the Queene is holden among the English Catholiques for a lawful sentence and a sufficient discharge of her subiects fidelitie so remayneth in force but in some poynts touching the subiects it is altered by the present Pope For where in that Bull all her subiectes are commanded not to obey her and shee being excommunicate and deposed all that doe obey her are likewise innodate and accursed which point is perillous to the Catholiques for if they obey her they be in the Popes curse and they disobey her they are in the Queenes danger therefore the present Pope to relieue them hath altered that part of the Bull and dispenced with them to obey and serue her without perill of excommunication which dispensation is to endure but till it please the Pope otherwise to determine Wherefore to make some conclusion of the matters before mencioned al persons both within the realme and abroade may playnely perceiue that all the infamous libels lately published abroade in sundrie languages and the slanderous reportes made in other Princes courtes of a multitude of persons to haue bene of late put to tormēts and death onely for profession of the Catholique religion and not for matters of state against the Queenes Maiestie are false and shameles and published to the maintenance of traitours and rebelles And to make the matter seeme more horrible or lamentable they recite y e particular names of all the persons which by their owne Catalogue exceed not for these twentie fiue yeeres space aboue the number of iii. score forgetting or rather with their stonie and sensles heartes not regarding in what cruell sort in the tyme of Queene Marie which litle exceeded the space of fiue yeeres the Queenes Maiesties raigne being fiue times as many there were by imprisonment torments famyne and fire of men women maidens and children almost the number of foure hundred and of that number aboue twenty that had bene Archbishops Bishoppes and principall Prelates or Officers in the Church lamentably destroyed and of women aboue three score and of children aboue fourtie and amongst the women some great with child out of whose bodyes the child by fire was expelled aliue and yet also cruelly burned examples beyond al heathen cruelty And most of y e youth that then suffered cruell death both men women and children which is to be noted were such as had neuer by the Sacrament of baptisme or by confirmation professed nor was euer taught or instructed or euer had hearde of any other kinde of religion but onely of that which by their blood and death in the fire they did as true Martyrs testifie A matter of another sort to be lamented with simplicitie of words and not with puffed eloquence then the execution in this time of a very fewe Traytors who also in their time if they exceeded thirtie yeeres of age had in their baptisme professed and in their youth had learned the same religion which they now so bitterly oppugned And beside that in their opinions they differ much from the Martyrs of Queene Maries tyme for though they continued in the profession of the religion wherin they were christened yet they neuer at their death denied their lawfull Queene nor maintained any of her open and forreine enemies nor procured any rebellion or Ciuill warre nor did sowe any sedition in secret corners nor withdrewe any subiects from their obedience as these sworne seruants of the Pope haue continually done And therefore all these thinges well considered there is no doubt but all good subiects within the realme doe manifestly see and all wauering persons not being led cleane out of the way by the seditious will hereafter perceiue how they haue bene abused to goe astray And all strangers but specially al Christian Potentates as Emperours Kings Princes and such like hauing their soueraigne estates either in succession hereditarie or by consent of their people being acquainted with the very truth of these her Maiesties late iust and necessarie actions only for defence of her selfe her crowne and people against open inuadors and for eschewing of ciuill warres stirred vp by rebellion will allow in their owne like cases for a trueth and rule as it is not to be doubted but they
therefore as there is no doubt but the like violent tyrannous proceedings by any Pope in maintenance of traitors and rebels would be withstoode by euery Soueraigne Prince in Christendome in defence of their persons and Crownes and maintenance of their subiectes in peace so is there at this present a like iust cause that the Emperours Maiestie with the Princes of the holy Empire and all other Soueraigne Kings and Princes in Christendome shoulde iudge the same to be lawfull for her Maiestie being a Queene and holding the very place of a King and a Prince soueraigne ouer diuers kingdomes and nations she being also most lawfully inuested in her Crowne and as for good gouerning of her people with such applause and generall allowance loued and obeyed of them sauing a few ragged Traitours or rebels or persons discontented whereof no other Realme is free as continually for these xxv yeeres past hath bene notably seene and so publiquely marked euen by strangers repairing into this Realme as it were no cause of disgrace to any Monarchie and King in Christendome to haue her Maiesties felicitie compared with any of theirs whatsoeuer and it may be there are many Kings and Princes coulde be well contented with the fruition of some proportion of her felicitie And though the Popes be nowe suffered by the Emperour in the landes of his owne peculiar patrimonie and by the two great Monarches the French King and the King of Spaine in their dominions and territories although by other Kings not so allowed to continue his authoritie in sundrie cases and his glorious title to be the vniuersall Bishop of the worlde which title Gregorie the great aboue nine hundreth yeeres past called a prophane title full of sacrilege and a preamble of Antichrist yet in all their dominions and kingdomes as also in the Realme of Englande most notably by many auncient Lawes it is well knowen howe many wayes the tyrannous power of this his excessiue authoritie hath bene and still is restrained checked and limitted by lawes and pragmatiques both ancient and newe a very large fielde for the Lawyers of those countreyes to walke in and discourse And howsoeuer the Popes Cannonistes being as his Bombarders doe make his excommunications and curses appeare fearefull to the multitude and simple people yet all great Emperours and Kings aforetime in their owne cases of their rightes and royall preeminences though the same concerned but a Citie or a poore Towne and sometime but the not allowance of some vnworthie person to a Bishopricke or to an Abbey neuer refrayned to despise all Popes curses or forces but attempted alwayes eyther by their swordes to compell them to desist from their furious actions or without any feare of them selues in body soule or conscience stoutly to withstande their curses and that sometime by force sometyme by Ordinances and Lawes the auncient hystories whereof are too many to be repeated and of none more frequent and effectual then of the kings of Fraunce But leauing those that are auncient we may remember howe in this our owne present or late age it hath bene manifestly seene howe the army of the late noble Emperour Charles the fift father to King Philippe that nowe reigneth was not afrayde of his curses when in the yeere of our Lorde 1527. Rome it selfe was besieged and sacked and the Pope then called Clement and his Cardinals to the nomber of about 33. in his mount Adrian or Castell S. Angelo taken prisoners and deteined seuen moneths or more and after ransomed by Don Vgo di Moncada a Spaniarde and the Marques of Grasto at aboue foure hundred M. duckates besides the ransomes of his Cardinals which was very great hauing not long before time bene also notwithstanding his curses besieged in the same Castell by the familie of the Colonies and their fautors his next neighbours being then Imperialistes and forced to yeelde to all their demaūds Neither did King Henry the seconde of Fraunce father to Henry nowe King of Fraunce about the yeere 1550. feare or regard y e Pope or his court of Rome whē he made seueral straight edictes against many partes of the Popes claymes in preiudice of the crowne clergie of Fraunce retracting the authoritie of the court of Rome greatly to the hinderance of the Popes former profites Neither was the army of king Philip nowe of Spaine whereof the Duke of Alua was generall stricken with any feare of cursing whē it was brought afore Rome against y e pope in the yeere of our Lord 1555. where great destruction was made by the said army and al the delicate buyldings gardens and orchardes next to Rome walles ouerthrowē wherewith his holinesse was more terrified then he was able to remoue with any his curses Neither was Queene Mary the Queenes Maiesties late sister a person not a litle deuoted to the Romane religion so afraid of the popes cursings but that both she and her whole counsel and that with the assent of all the Iudges of the realme according to the auncient lawes in fauour of Cardinall Poole her kinsman did forbid the entrie of his bulles and of a Cardinall hatte at Callis that was sent from the pope for one Frier peyto whome the pope had assigned to bee a Cardinall in disgrace of Cardinall Poole neither did Cardinall Poole himselfe at the same time obey the popes commandements nor shewed himselfe afraid being assisted by the Queene when the pope did threaten him with paine of excommunication but did still oppose himselfe against the popes commandement for the saide pretended Cardinall Peyto who notwithstanding all the threatninges of the pope was forced to goe vp and downe in the streetes of Londō like a begging Frier a stout resistāce in a Queene for a poore Cardinals hatte wherin she folowed the example of her Grandfather King Henrie the vii for a matter of Allum So as howsoeuer the christian kinges for some respectes in pollicie can indure the pope to commaunde where no harme nor disaduantage groweth to thēselues yet sure it is and the popes are not ignorant but where they shall in any sort attempt to take from christian princes any part of their dominions or shall giue ayde to their enemies or to any other their rebels in those cases their Bulles their curses their excommunications their sentences most solemne Anathematicals no nor their crosse keyes or double edged sword wil serue their turnes to compasse their intentions And now where the pope hath manifestly by his bulles and excommunications attempted asmuch as he could to depriue her Maiestie of her kingdomes to withdraw from her the obedience of her subiectes to procure rebellions in her realmes yea to make both rebellions and open warres with his owne captaines souldiers banners ensignes and all other things belonging to warre shal this pope or any other pope after him thinke y t a soueraigne Queene possessed of the two realmes of England Ireland stablished so many yeeres in
was a head captaine And thereby it may manifestly appeare to all men howe this Bull was the grounde of the rebellions both in England and Ireland and howe for maintenaunce thereof and for sowing of sedition by warrant and allowance of the same these persons were iustly condemned of treason and lawfully executed by the auncient lawes temporall of the Realme without any other matter then for their practizes and conspiracies both abroade and at home against the Queene and the realme and for maintaining of the Popes foresaid authoritie and Bull published to depriue her Maiestie of her crowne and for withdrawing and reconciling of her subiects from their naturall allegeaunce due to her Maiestie and to their countrie and for mouing them to sedition for no other causes or questions of religion were these persons condemned although true it is that when they were charged and conuinced of these poyntes of conspiracies and treasons they woulde still in their answeres colourably pretend their actions to haue bene for religion but in deede and trueth they were manifest for the procurement and maintenaunce of the rebellions and warres against her Maiestie and her realme And herein is nowe the manifest diuersitie to be seene and well considered betwixt the trueth of her Maiesties actions and the falshood of the blasphemous aduersaries that where the factious partie of the Pope the principall author of the inuasions of her Maiesties dominions doe falsely alleadge that a nomber of persons whome they terme as Martyrs haue dyed for defence of the catholique religion the same in very trueth may manifestly appeare to haue died if they so wil haue it as martyrs for the Pope and traitors against their soueraigne and Queene in adhering to him being the notable and onely open hostile enemie in all actions of warre against her Maiestie her kingdomes and people and that this is the meaning of all these that haue so obstinately maintayned the authoritie and contents of this Bull the very wordes of the Bull do declare in this sort as D. Sanders reporteth them Plus Quintus Pontifex Maximus de Apostolicae potestatis plenitudine declarauit Elizabetham praetenso Regni iure necnon omni quocunque dominio dignitate priuilegioque priuatam Itemque Proceres subditos populos dicti regni ac caeteros omnes qui illi quomodocunque iurauerunt à iuramento huiusmodi ac omni fidelitatis debito perpetuò absolutos That is to say Pius Quintus the greatest Bishop of the fulnesse of the Apostolique power declared Elizabeth to be bereued or depriued of her pretended right of her kingdome and also of all and whatsoeuer dominion dignitie priuiledge and also the Nobles subiects people of the said kingdome and all others which had sworne to her any maner of wayes to be absolued for euer from such othe and from all debt or duetie of fealtie and so forth with many threatning cursings to al that durst obey her or her lawes And for execution hereof to proue that the effect of the Popes bul message was a flat rebelliō it is not amisse to heare what D. Sanders the Popes firebrād in Ireland also writeth in his visible Church Monarchie which is thus Pius Quintus Pontifex Maximus Anno D. 1569. reuerendum praesbyterum Nicolaum Mortonum Anglum in Angliam misit vt certis illustribus viris authoritate Apostolica denunciaret Elizabetham quae tunc rerum potiebatur haereticam esse ob eamque causam omni Dominio potestate excedisse impuneque ab illis velut ethnicam haberi posse nec eos illius legibus aut mandatis deinceps obedire cogi That is to say Pius Quintus y e greatest Bishop in the yere of our Lord 1569. sent the reuerend priest Nicolas Morto an Englishmā into England y t he shuld denoūce or declare by y e Apostolique authority to certaine noble men Elizabeth who thē was in possessiō to be an heretike for y e cause to haue fallen frō al dominion power that she may be had or reputed of thē as an Ethnike and that they are not to be compelled to obey her lawes or commandements c. Thus you see an Ambassade of rebellion frō the Popes holines the Ambassadour an old doting English Priest a fugitiue and conspirator sent as he saieth to some noble men and those were the two Earles of Northumberland and Westmerland heads of the rebellion And after this he followeth to declare y e successe thereof which I dare say he was sory it was so euil w t these words Qua denuntiatione multinobiles viri adducti sunt vt de fratribus liberandis cogitare auderent ac sperabant illi quidem Catholicos omnes summis viribus affuturos esse verum etsialiter quà m illi expectabant res euenit quià Catholici omnes nondum probè cognouerant Elizabetham hereticam esse declaratam tamen laudanda illorum Nobilium consilia erant that is By which denuntiation many noble men were induced or ledde that they were boldened to thinke of the freeing of their brethren and they hoped certainly that all the Catholiques would haue assisted them with all their strength but although the matter happened otherwise then they hoped for because all the Catholiques knewe not that Elizabeth was declared to be an heritike yet the counsels intentes of those noble men were to be praysed A rebellion and a vanquishing of rebels very smoothly described This noble fact here mencioned was the rebellion in the North the noble mē were the Earles of Westmerland and Northumberland the lacke of the euent or successe was that the traitours were vanquished and the Queenes Maiestie and her subiects had by Gods ordinance the victorie and the cause why the rebels preuayled not was because all the Catholiques had not bene duely informed that the Queenes Maiestie was declared to be as they terme it an heretike which want of information to the intent to make the rebels mightier in nomber and power was diligently and cunningly supplyed by the sending into the realme of a great multitude of the Seminaries Iesuites whose special charge was to informe the people thereof as by their actions hath manifestly appeared And though D. Sanders hath thus written yet it may be said by such as fauoured the two notable Iesuites one named Robert Persons who yet hideth himself in corners to continue his Trayterous practise the other named Edmond Campion that was found out being disguised like a roister and suffered for his Treasons that D. Sanders treason is his proper treason in allowing of the sayde bull but not to be imputed to Persons and Campion Therefore to make it plaine y t these two by speciall authoritie had charge to execute the sentence of this bul these actes in writing following shall make manifest which are not fayned or imagined but are the verie writings taken about one of their complyces immediatly after Campions death Facultates
left without any further argument to the iudgement of the Almightie God as persons that haue couered their eyes against the sunnes light stopped their eares against the sounde of Iustice and oppressed their heartes against the force of reason and as the Psalmist saith They speake lyes they are as venemous as the poison of a serpent euen like the deafe Adder that stoppeth his eares Wherefore with charitie to conclude if these rebels traitors and their fautors woulde yet take some remorse and compassion of their natural countrey and would consider how vaine their attempts haue bene so many yeres and howe many of their confederates are wasted by miseries and calamities and would desist from their vnnatural practises abroade and if these Seminaries secret wanderers and explorators in the darke woulde imploy their traueiles in the workes of light and doctrine according to the vsage of their schooles and content them selues with their profession and deuotion and that the remnant of the wicked flocke of the seedemen of sedition would cease froÌ„ their rebellious false and infamous railings libellings there is no doubt by Gods grace her Maiestie being so much giuen to mercie and deuoted to peace but al colour and occasion of shedding the blood of any more of her naturall subiectes of this sand should vtterly cease Against whose malices if they shall not desist Almighty God continue her Maiestie with his spirit power long to reigne and liue in his feare and to be able to vanquish them and all Gods enemies and her rebels traitors both at home and abroad and to maintaine and preserue all her naturall good louing subiectes to the true seruice of the same Almightie God according to his holy worde and will Many other things might be remembred for defence of other her Maiesties princely honourable and godly actions in sundry other things wherein also these the like seditious railors haue of late time without all shame by fained and false libels sought to discredit her Maiestie her gouernement but at this time these former causes and reasons alleadged by way of aduertisements are sufficient to iustifie her Maiesties actions to y e whole worlde in the cases remembred FINIS All offenders couer their faults with contrary causes Rebels doe most dangerously couer their faults Rebellion in EnglaÌ„d Ireland The rebels vaÌ„quished by the Q. power Some of the Rebels fled into forreine countries Rebels pretend religion for their defence Ringleaders of Rebels Charles Neuill Earle of Westmerland and Thomas Stukeley The effect of y e popes but against y e Queene of EnglaÌ„d The practises of the traitors Rebels fugitiues to execute the Bull. Seminaries erected to nurse seditious fugitiues The Seminary fugitiues come secretly into the realme to induce the people to obey the Popes Bull. Sowers of sedition taken conueÌ„ted executed for treason The seditious traitors condeÌ„ned by the auncient lawes of the realme made 200. yeres past Persons coÌ„demned spared froÌ„ execution vpon refusall of their treasonable opinions The forrein Traitors continue sending of persons to moue sedition in the realme The seditious fugitiues labor to bring the Realme into a warre externall domestical The duetie of y e Queen and all her gouernors to God their countrie is to repel practises of rebellion None charged with capitall crimes being of a cuÌ„â—â—arte religion and professing to withstaÌ„d forreyne forces Names of diuers Ecclesiasticall persoÌ„s professing contrarie religion neuer charged w t capitall crunes 〈…〉 sâ—râ—â—s oâ—â— same 〈…〉 and writinges A great nomber of lay persoÌ„s of liuelood being of a contrary religion neuer charged with capitall crime No person charged w t capitall crime for the onely inâ—â—â—â—enance of y e Popes supremacie Such condeÌ„ned onely for treason as mainteine the effects of y e Popes bul against her Maiestie and the realme D. SaÌ„ders maintenance of the Popes Bull. The persons that suffered death were condeÌ„ned for Treason not for Religion A full full proofe that the mainteiners of the bull are directly guilty of treason D. MortoÌ„s secret Ambassage froÌ„ Rome to stirre y e rebellioÌ„ in the North. Persons Campion are offenders as D. Sanders is for allowance of the Bull. Faculties graunted to PersoÌ„s CampioÌ„ by Pope Gregory 13. anno 1580. Harts coÌ„fession of the interpretation of the Bul of Pius Quintus A conclusion that all the infamous bookes against the Queene the realme are false Difference of the smal numbers that haue bene executed in the space of xxv yeres from the great numbers in v. yeres of Queene Maries saigne An aduertisement to al Princes of couÌ„tries abroad The authoritie claymed by y e Pope not warranted by Christ or by the two Apostles Peter and Paul Pope Hildebrand the first y t made warre against the Emperour An. Do. 1074. The iudgement of God against the Popes false erected Emperour Pope Gregorie the vii deposed by Henry y e 4. Henry 5. Fredrick 1 Fredrick 2 Lewes of Bauar Emperors Whatsoeuer is lawful for other princes Soueraignes is lawfull for y e Queene crowne of EnglaÌ„d The title of vniuersal Bishop is a preamble of Antichrist 1527. Rome sacked and the Pope Clement taken prisoner by the Emperours army 1550. King Henry the second of Fraunce his Edicts against the Pope and his courts of Rome The besieging of Rome and the Pope by the D. of Alua with King Philips army D. Peyto a begging Fryer The kings of ChristeÌ„dome neuer suffer the Popes to abridge their titles or rights though they suffer them to haue rule ouer their people The Queene or England may not suffer the Pope by any means to make Rebellions in her Realme Additaments to y e Popes martyrologe The ferang endes of Iames Erle of Desmond D. Saunders Iames Fitzmorice Iohn of Desmond Iohn Someruile The prosperitie or England during the Popes curses Reasons to persuade by reason y e fauorers of y e Pope that none hath bene executed for religion but for treason The first reason The second reason The Bul of Pius Quintus let vp at Pauls The first punishmeÌ„t for y e Bull. The third reason Rebellion in the North. The fourth reason The inuasion of Ireland by the Pope The Popes forces vanquished in Ireland The politique aduersaries satisfied Obiection of the papists that the persons executed are but schollers and vnarmed Many are traytors though they haue no armour nor weapon The application of the scholasticall traitors to others y t are traitors without armour Six Questions to trye traytours froÌ„ schollers The offendours executed for treason not for religion Vnreasonable obstinate persons are left to Gods iudgemeÌ„t