take vpon him to extend hys curse to the prince of our countrey and all the people thereof and that he hath power to discharge the subiectes of the realme from their fayth and allegeance and hath authoritie to binde theyr obedience to whome he will and is able to geue heauen to rebelles that shall venture theyr liues in wasting and destroying our countrey he I say that can yelde hys consent to these doinges thinkinges must néedes be a traitor to hys countrey And such a one is euery such English Papist as I haue described and can be none other if he hold the Pope for a true teacher and haue good opinion of of the Popes doctrine and examples And to defend that we ought to yelde our saythes or submission to the Pope is in generalitie to affirme all these mischiefes and treasons And such as be of that minde as all such Papistes bée can not in true iudgement be seuered from traitorous watchers to put the same in execution when so euer they may haue times and meanes to beare them harmelesse Let be called to minde the treasons of the clergie agaynst Henrie the second and specially the vile practises of the two traitorous byshops of Lincolne and Heresord agaynst Edward the second But principally how as I haue aforesayd the Dolphin of Fraunce by color of title geuen him from the Pope for King Iohns disobedience to that apostaticall seate inuaded and long possessed a great part of England how the deceaued barons of England both at that time specially at some other times seuerally at the Popes will and vpon pronouncing of his curse against the king forsooke their allegeance looke part with the frenchmen spoyled their owne countrey and like most vnnaturall children at an adulterous stop fathers bidding did thrust theyr swordes into their mothers bellie Remember Cardinall Poles message to the Emperor the rebellions raysed in that time and since the late practises in Queene Maries dayes to bring the realme in thraldome to the most insolent and intolerable nation and to transfer the inheritance of the crowne with not onely disheriting but also destroying the true and naturall heire their great sorrow that it was not performed the great trust that our Papistes in all their countenances and speches shewed them selues to haue of the good successe of Henrie the french king whome God tooke away before his accomplishment of thretened enterprises against this realme Let not be forgotten their glorienges in their champion of Guise It is yet fresh and raw in remembrance how openly they vttered their as it were applaudinges gratulations and cherefull significations of fauor to that side euen then when as it is well knowen the same familie of Guise sought vnder color of his kinswomans title and by that foren title which was made the title and fundation of this last rebellion to inuade this land to ouerthrow the Quéenes maiesties estate and to transport the crowne of our countrey to strangers Let it be considered what good practises these late Rebels haue had with strangers to the hazard of their countrie euen so far forth as they feared not in their proclamations with a litle colorable forme of pennyng to brag and put their confederates in hope of strangers coming to inuade and destroy the realme which by a prety gentle false terme they call reforming the realme Let it be well weyed what they meane to the realme that vnder colour of succeding do so far vndermine the head of our country that by raysing some to a hope of the next succeding they conuey the countenance fauour and supportation of a great corrupt nomber of suche as may frame them selues any hope of gaine that way to other persones that by such kindled ambition may be the more hastely enboldned Such mad hopes made lewd bokes to be published in print to entitle strangers to our crowne and to geue aduise to cherishe the amitie of Fraunce to this ende that the rebellious nation of England as they terme vs may by that meanes be tamed if we wyll not contentedly yeld to such subiection It is not nothing that the same bookes were ambiciously published in Paris and set vp vpon euery post and piller and by men of great place and charge most earnestly defended when on our Quéenes Maiesties behalfe they were required to be suppressed I speake not yet of the worst bookes well knowen to the best persons This to doo is to shew vs a Sunne rysing to whose worship they would faine draw vs from our Sunne declinyng as they suppose No no our Quéene is our true Sunne and what soeuer shinyng thyng they wold set vp in her tyme it is no right Sunne but an vnlucky Comete And it is not yet noone I trust with our Sunne or if it be I hope yet God will lengthen the day to our Sunne for his honors sake as he dyd to Iosua and the rather shall all good subiectes haue cause so to hope it if the residue of the day may be so spent as Iosua spent it and for which purpose God dyd prolong it to rid the world of Gods enemies Let it be suspected what hopes of preuention anticipation most dreadfull mischief which I feare and abhorre to name the encouragement of such succedyng which is the worke of Papistes may minister where the onely person of our most deare and precious soueraigne Ladie standeth without any moe meane stayes of her most honorable and ioyfull issue betwene them and their desired effect the vtter vndoing of vs all and specially where the power of reuenge may by possibilitie fall into their handes for whose sake it should be attempted It is no small mischiefe danger and apallyng of fayth and courage when our prince must be defended agaynst those that by possibilitie may aspire to hope to haue colour to be our Princes them selues and to wreke it vpon good subiectes that serue our Quéene truely What kindnesse or naturalnesse will doo hath béen abundantly shewed already diuerse wayes And in the late murderous mischief a most foule president but a most perfect lesson this one thyng is much to be noted that it was here by rumor reported as done before it were done there which argueth that the conspiracie extended hither and how farre further or rather nerer is good to be quickly and earnestly searched and by the same example to be remembred what harme the losse of vsyng occasion hath bredde when it might haue so béen preuented that neither he had bene murdered nor the Quéene encombred I dispute no titles I haue no reache beyond our Quéene I can sée nothyng beyond our Quéene but a Chaos of miserie therfore I am lothe to looke so farr My onely care is as my prayer is all good subiectes ought to be for our Q. Maiesties preseruation What other title so euer be pretended be it good or bad if it shall once threaten danger to the Q. Maiestie whose title and
be a very beneficiall and mercyfull sharpnesse But now let vs come to that part that toucheth men more nerely than any loue of God Let vs sée how they be traitors to kinges and kingdomes If we haue minde to sée that Papistes which holde all the Popes doctrine to be true are traitors in déede to kinges and kingdomes it behoueth to call to minde what be the Popes doctrines doinges practises concerning the crownes of kinges and states of kingdomes Popes haue chalenged and Papistes that affirme the Popes to be frée from errour their doctrine to be true and their authoritie to be lawfull do also holde that it is their due which they chalenge that is to haue the authoritie of both swordes spirituall and temporall the one in exercise the other in power to haue the disposition of all the crownes of Christian Princes to haue the iudgement of deciding to whom the right of any kingdome belongeth to haue power for disobedience to him or by hys discretion to transferre the crownes of kings to whom he will to haue lawfull power to geue kingdomes to prey spoyle and conquest to such as can inuade and possesse them to haue power to assoile and discharge Christian subiectes from fayth and allegeance to their lawfull and naturall soueraigne Lordes Kinges and Princes to haue power to geue leaue yea commaundement blessing reward forgeuenesse of sinnes and heauen it selfe to subiectes to rebell against the Prince to depose the Prince disherite and destroy him that there is of common right and by the mere lawe of God reserued to the Pope a speciall subiection resort appellation and obedience of one great part of all Princes subiectes yea and of all subiectes of all Princes in one great part of their causes Be not these hainous treasons And these can not be denied to be the naturall and very treasons of all Papistes that is to say of all that depend vpon credit of the Pope that holde hym for Gods vicar for Peters successor for whom Christ prayed that hys fayth should not faile that applie to him this title ad quem persidia non potest accedere to whom falshode can not reach that holde hym for a constant rocke an assured preacher of truth an apostolicall man if he be not some other thing than a man to whom our belefe is bounden with such other false titles wherewith Popes them selues haue garnished them selues and their parasites haue ouerloden them Consider the ordinarie practise of Popes and Papistes accordyng to these doctrines and than shall you sée that from the most hye treason which the Pope committed against hys soueraigne Lorde the Emperour the renting and destruction of the Empire all the victories and successes of the Saracens Turkes against Christendome all the tearyng away of most noble and large kingdomes and prouinces from the body of Christianitie all the subduing and thrallyng of infinite Christian soules to Mahomete and the deuill all the deposinges murderinges turmoyllinges ciuile warres debates betwene Christian Princes shedinges of Christian bloud indignities and oppressions of Christian kinges and Emperours conquestes rebellions and mischiefes for these v. C. yeares and aboue are wholly or chiefly to be imputed to the treasons of Popes and Papistes All sometime most learned and noble Grecia yet lamentably rueth it All Africa the mother of most constant Martyrs féeleth it The Germane Emperours with most hainous reproches and foule treading in their neckes may not forget it The kinges of Fraunce and Spaine bothe at home in their natiue kingdomes and abrode as well in Naples Sicile Lombardie as in other territories of Italie and of the Empire haue sharply felt it The Lordes and states of Italie haue bene daily and long shaken with it The kinges of England haue bene poisoned whipped beaten with roddes murdered deposed the land geuen in conquest enterdited made tributarie robbed pilled scraped of their treasure brought into slauishe subiection depriued of honour and estimation euery way most villanously abused To let passe the elder times and further realmes let vs speake nothing of deposing of olde Emperours erecting of new setting the sonne against the father the subiect against his Lord making them come barefooted them selues with theyr wiues and children long wayting with submission in colde frostes treading in their neckes spurning of their crownes and a thousand such abhominable prides of Popes and slaueries of Princes Let vs deale but with our selues and with our owne féeling knowledge and memorie The accursing of king Iohn the receauing him vassall the making his Realme subiecte and feudatarie to the Pope the arming his subiectes against him the poysoning of him at length the geuing the land to the French Kinges sonne the inuading thereof by the Dolphine of Fraunce his so long possessing a great part of it the rebellion of the Barons to take the Frenchmens part all the mischiefes that fell in all this while were they not the good workes of Popes and Papistes The great diuision of the two noble houses of Yorke and Lancaster which cost so much English bloud that there remaineth no house of hie or meane nobilitie that hath not smarted for it so many foughten fieldes within the Realme so long and so great vncertaintie which side were true men and which were traitors and for how many daies or houres they should be so estéemed such desolation and miseries to whom are they to be imputed but to the Popish Clergie and Papistes and among other to Thomas Arundell Archebishop of Canterburie that traitorously practised the deposing of his lawfull soueraigne Lord king Richard the second But come yet to later times How was the Quéenes maiesties most noble father assalted by the Pope and Papistes His Realme was interdited and geuen away to him that could catch it Legates and one notable Englishe traitor were sent about to persuade Christian Princes to inuade England to destroy and depose King Henrie and to take the Realme in reward for their labour When Charles the late Emperour was setting forward against the Turke Cardinall Pole being sent by the Pope made a solemne Oration to him which is yet extant in Print to persuade the Emperour to turne his prepared power from inuading the Turke and to bend it against King Henrie the viij as one worse then any Turke What turmoile was raised then by the Northren rebells against him whereof some by his elemencie a good example haue liued to this day to raise a new rebellion How troubled they her maiesties most excellent brother with vnhappie seditions How vexed they and how endangered they the Realme and the Quéenes owne person in her sisters time What might Charles the Emperour haue done for recouerie and enlarging of Christendome if his force that way entended had not by Popish practise bene peruerted sundry waies and times to the sheding of Christian bloud and wasting of Christendome and to the ouerthrow of his victorious course What tempestes hath the late conspiracie of Trent
blowen vp in Christendome that can not yet be quieted and all because the Pope hath instilled an opinion into his Papistes that Princes if he dispense with them are not bound to kéepe fayth and promise no not the word of a king wherby no peace can yet be assured Whereof yet riseth one good admonition to trust them no more and to be well ware of them and specially to thinke of this one particular that wicked persons which haue geuen occasion of dangerous rebellions against the Quéenes maiestie their chiefe and onely succour and refuge will neuer be witholden by any respecte from attempting or procuring to be attempted any most hie and hainous treason and mischiefes against our soueraigne Ladies safetie if auantageable opportunitie may serue them so long as such persons are infected with Papistrie and can thinke the Pope hable to pardon or rather willing to reward them yea so farre as they shall suppose them selues not onely to winne the kingdome of England therby but also the kingdome of heauen It is perilous to thinke what traitorous rage may do being armed with dronken superstition It is a sore thing to consider the impotentie of ambition specially when it is ioyned with the furie of reasonlesse loue The common experience is how dangerous those knottes of théeues be where there is a woman in the companie Thus is it plaine that for as much as the Pope claimeth such wrongfull vsurpation and tyrannie ouer kinges and realmes and sith Papistes holde that he saith true and claimeth but his right and can not erre in discerning it all such Papistes are traitors to all kinges and kingdomes As for the second conclusion which accuseth English Papistes of treason to the Quéenes maiestie it is sufficiently proued for that it is as a particular within a generall included in the former Yet for the speciall confirmation of it it hath certaine priuate and seuerall reasons It is well knowen how they sought her graces death in her sisters time what practises what fetches were vsed for it what examinations what searchinges were to finde color of her destruction yea if it be true which is credibly sayd how farre without color they proceded if God had not miraculously kept her to the preseruation of this Realme and the comfort of whole Christendome But to make some demonstration of their hatred to her maiestie by reason and after to descend to the examples and practises let vs examine the causes Whereas the Papistes holde that the Pope is head of Gods vniuersall Church and that such authoritie as the Quéene claimeth in England ouer ecclesiasticall persons and in ecclesiasticall causes as due to her highnesse in right of her crowne is not due to her but belonging to the Pope in so saying they must say that her maiestie claimeth an vniust tyrannicall power And whosoeuer shall so say though not in the same sillables is an vniust and an errant traitor and can not loue her that hath pulled downe him whom they call head of their Church Also where Papistes affirme the Chirch of Rome to be the true Catholicke Chirch of God and that as out of Noes Arke there was no safetie from drowning so out of the Romane Church there is no escape of damnation is there any hope that they so thinking can or do loue her highnesse that hath dismembred them from the body of that Chirch and plucked them out of that Cocklorelles boate Where Papistes holde the heresie of transubstantiation and the bread to be Christes naturall bodie the blasphemie of Popishe Masse to be an auailing sacrifice for quicke and dead the Popes pardons to be hable to deliuer them from hell and damnation is it likely that they loue her whom they thinke to depriue them of so great treasures Where the Papistes holde our whole forme of seruing of God which forme the Quéenes maiestie hath prescribed and deliuered to her subiectes to be schismaticall our lawes in spirituall thynges no lawes our sacramentes no sacramentes our Bishops no Bishops our Clergie no Clergie surely they thinke our Coronations no Coronations our Quéene no Quéene or at least they are sory she is so Where Papistes beleue a Purgatorie and that Masses Diriges and such other gainfull marchandise of the Popish Clergie be beneficiall for their frendes soules and their owne and do in the meane time imagine that theyr fathers grandsires grandames wiues and other frendes soules lie frying in vnexplicable tormentes and the Quéenes maiestie holdeth from them the onely meane to release them thinke you such persons grudge not at her excéedingly Where the Pope hath accursed the Quenes maiestie as an heretike and schismatike all those Papistes which suppose that the Pope hauing the disposition of Gods sentence and the thunderbolt of excommunication in his hand can not erre do also suppose that the Quenes highnesse our Quene Elizabeth I meane is not lawfull Quene of England for so must all Papistes hold that hold the Pope to say true for the Pope doth not so accept her And true it is that the refusall of the othe for the acknowledging her Maiesties supremacie ouer ecclesiasticall persones and in ecclesiasticall causes is for very good reasons to be suspected that for the most part it is but coloured with pretense of conscience for ecclesiasticall causes and to be thought that in very deede it dependeth chefely vpon this poynt that sith her Maiestie hath bene suspended excommunicated and declared out of the church by the Pope they thinke her Maiestie not lawfull Quene of England For the like example or preiudice haue the like Papistes geuen heretofore at many times and namely when Elizabeth Barton that hipocriticall harlot sometime called the holy mayde of Kent with whose false traitorous practises were fowly spotted and entangled More and Fisher the new Romishe Saintes published as a reuelation from God a traytorous article suggested vnto her by popishe Priestes and Monkes with whom she carnally and filthily liued that the Queenes Maiesties most noble father after a time by them limited was not King of England one houre in the sight of God The like interpretation did Papistes make of king Iohn And Papistes haue published that Gospellers whom they call heretikes ought not to haue any office among Gods people much lesse a kingdome And this poynt is well to be considered that they which take from the Quéenes maiestie the supremacie ouer ecclesiastical persones and causes do transferre the same iurisdiction to the Pope for they neuer yet bouch saued to geue it to any other ▪ and I am sure that after so many parables and examples of bées and beastes and other thynges they will not now haue any particular church hedlesse and destitute of a supreme gouernor either vniuersall like a monarch as they wold haue it or speciall vnder God of eche kingdome or dominion as Gods good disposition hath sorted it If then the Pope haue in theyr opinion any ecclesiasticall iurisdiction in
Flaunders with the soonest God knoweth what they send thether and with what reciprocation they requite suche newes againe how they had newes of the late horrible murder ere it were done as if they had ben accessaries before the fact how they write letters at home directed to them selues how with these prety letters while they be fresh bléeding that is so scarcely drie that the ink blotteth with their great countenaunces with their taking vpon them wonderous intelligence and great insightes in secretes of Princes as if they were Kinges cousines and with their offringes of wagers and such other braggeries they deface as men say all that can be brought or reported neuer so truly of any good successe to the Queene or her frendes And other sort there is like kestrelles or troutes they euer flye agaynst the wynde or swimme agaynst the streame in quéene Maryes time great Gospellers now great Papistes men that would euer séeme wyser than the present world and wold faine be noted to sée some singular thing when for the most part themselues are the most vayne and singular fooles that liue No gouernement pleaseth them as they be content with no world so are they mete to liue in none But let them beware the sinne against the holy ghost it is a perilous thing God graunt them to see the horror of it so farre as it may auayle to their tymely repentance before that mere apostasie bring them into it There is feared to be an other suttle sort that are in déede of no religion and yet at sundry tymes and places to some secretly to some openly to some one where to some an other much like the deuided counselles in Edwarde the fifthes tyme would séeme of all religions These be most enclined to papistry eyther because God will not vouchsafe that such dissemblers féele true religion or that they be rancke papistes in déede howsoeuer they abuse men wyth other shew for purposes or which I rathest thinke for that they are persuaded that the Popish faction eyther for multitude for welth for foreine alliances or for hatred to the Quéene and her gouernement which they perhaps would wishe to be ouerthrowen as all perfect papistes would or for other respectes is more commodious for their desire and ambition or for the toyes in their heades to rise to vātage in an other world Such belike haue a good mynde to the aduise that Lentulus wrote to Catiline Auxilium petas ab omnibus etiam ab infimis séeke helpe of all sortes yea euen of the meanest they make much of al sides Such can I compare to notable pyrates that wil euer haue within boorde men of all nations and flagges of all Princes and countryes If he méete with Englishmen stronger than himselfe out goeth a flagge of England and Englishmen aboue hatches that he may passe in peace likewise he doth with the Frenchman Scot Flemming Spanyarde or other and many tymes he doth this not to much to passe peaceably himselfe as that he may the more vnprouidedly set vpon hym whom he desireth to spoyle So happeneth it sometymes that such a counterfait papist as my Lorde of Westmerland and other finding the plain shew of papistry not so commodious profitable or safe for hym by reason of many occurrentes that may happe to haue ouertaken hym till he were ready for his purpose hangeth out a flagge of Christianitie dealeth with the Bible other good bookes as the decayed knight did to whom Bishop Cranmer vpō a good hope gaue fifty pound yearely pension to cherishe his towardnesse he setteth hys men of that nation aboue hatches he deceaueth good men that be not filij huius seculi no children of this world those he abuseth with protestations and God wote with the same fayth that teacheth to kéepe no faith while in the meane tyme for all this of their certayne purpose of pyracie of their prouision preparation and furniture of their former deuises nothing is chaunged their other company though vnder hatches yet still be ready till the opportunitie of mischiefe biddes them start vp sodenly like the children of the earth that rose by miracle of the serpentes téeth that Cadmus had sowen These be watchers and reach euer to an other world they prouide for succeding of tymes to come imagining what day shall follow the dreadfull night They woulde be looked vnto by the present day light before the night come These to speake plainly be they if any such be as of such mind al perfect papistes be that are weary of her maiesties gouernment fal to deuising by planting a hope of strange titels to vndermyne her maiesties estate such as hang vpon the hope of Rome after her decesse which hope they know can not haue effect while her highnesse lyueth and reigneth to whome almighty God graunt to lyue reigne while the world lasteth in person or in succession of her owne most royall body Of this sort was Gardiner that abused K. Henry with a false flagge of religion when he made hys booke of true obedience Of this sort was Boner when he fauned vpon the L. Cromwell made a notable preface to Gardiners booke Of this sort was Tonstall and the rest that wrote against the Pope Pole and all papistry Of this sort are all those Catilines companions Papistes that beare a glosing shew of obedience and waite for a tyme to vtter their malice till they droppe away into Manlius campe or tary with Lentulus Cethegus Ceparius and the rest to murder the Consul Cicero or set the Citie I meane the Realme on fire An other leud sort eyther depraue whatsoeuer the Quéenes Maiestie and her most honorable Counsell doth for the safegarde and commoditie of the realme or of things which they can not deface they transferre the praise to other being desirous as it were by false flattery to créepe into ambitions bosome to raise vp a faction against her highnesse as if her Maiestie do any popular or beneficiall act to the commonaltie by and by they imagine some one or other whom they would make an Absolon whether he will or no to embesell the peoples loue seyng full well but not caring at all how they burden with great suspicious those whom they lode with false praises perhaps draw into vniust harmes those whom they claw with vntrue flatterie Howbeit I trust all men of credit and greatnesse haue taken héede and will beware that wrongfull praises and imputations raise not their mynde to a wrong way of climing for surely such popularities and hanginges by the vayne ayre are not auancementes but precipitations But such is the corne pouder of treason wherewith these popish rumor spreaders hartes be double charged that it must nedes breake forth and commonly to his destruction or great danger of singeing that ministreth the fire An other sort exercise their rayling tonges which by great vse at tables and other places they haue made very slippery voluble
bene attempted for restitution of the Popes primacie in England wherein he diuers wayes falsely defamed King Henrie with intentes of submission such was the byshops impudence He named the rebellions in the North in King Henries tyme and in the West in King Edwardes time which he clothed with cleanly names as enterprises and assemblies as our late rebells doo in both their first and second proclamations But sayth he the houre was not yet come He by way of obiection wondered how the people could without rebelling beare such iniuries oppressions and robberies which they susteined as he sayd in the fall of money and otherwise in King Edwardes reigne He answered him selfe that the houre was not yet come But now sayth he the houre is come now is the time for vs to wake from slepe as who should say Long haue we slept or long haue we winked long haue we bene holden in awe glad to dissemble our treasons and to semble good subiects long haue we borne our soueraigne Lord a faire face as if we acknowledged his due authoritie and detested the enimie to him and to all Kinges the Pope long haue we cloked and hidden our zeale wayting for a good houre Now the dreadfull King Henrie is dead the hopefull King Edward is taken away the Christian nobilitie entangled in snares of law specially if it may be partially and violently vsed the prince and tyme fauoreth our side a mightie foren match is made for the vantage of our part now the sonne of our victorie and the day of our triumph shineth vpon vs now is it tyme for vs to wake from sléepe Though the time once were specially in the L. Cromwelles dayes when we in shew abhord the name of Papistes and would commonly say we had as leue be called traitor as Papist and bring actions of the case for our purgation yet now is the time that we glorie in these titles either of Papist in respect of these tymes or of traytor in respect of those tymes Let vs not now lese our occasion for we shall neuer haue the like agayne specially for that so much of the nobilitie snared with treason are yelded to our 〈◊〉 Note this geare well for Papistes did neuer beare her maiestie greater countenaunce of loyaltie neuer serued her with greater shew of faythfulnesse neuer protested more truth and good meaning than those did to King Henrie the eight and to King Edward which afterward yet openly shewed what secret disloyaltie vnfaythfulnesse and vntruth had so long lurked in their bosomes Geue once the like opportunities and be bold that you shall haue the like speches for they haue still the like hartes and like expectations They comfort them selues with this that the remembrance of these thinges will one day be pleasant vnto them and in the meane tyme as Cicero sayth oculis designant ad caedem vnumquemque nostrum they note euery one of vs with theyr eyes and register vs to be destroyed Let vs therefore take the contrarie course to them Where they looke for an other tyme let vs doo our endeuour to mainteine this tyme where they reach with expectation to altering of gouernement let vs bend all our force policie and meanes of seruice to the defense of thys estate Where they pray for change specially of Quéenes let vs pray for continuance of her highnesses reigne Where they hyde rebellious stomakes let vs shew true and faythfull hartes Where they desire that her maiestie and her Counsel may be deceiued with flattering and erronious pretense of policie pacification and colour of clemencie that vnder that shadow they may lurke and be norished as serpent in bosome let vs praie to God to geue iudgement to discerne them to search the bottome of the late treasons that they may be shaken out and vsed as dangerous vipers Where their trust is in their Pope and Popishe treasons and conspiracies let our confidence be in God and his prouidence not shrinking from the same with our best courage and prudence Where they will not sticke to vse all suttle vndermyninges and will not lose the vantage of times that they may one day triumph in cruel violence let vs pray that on this part be vsed all good policies that Gods offred meanes good opportunites be not refused or ouerslipped that God rent not the kingdome from his anoynted for sparing his enemies but that it may long flourishe in the handes of his most noble and vertuous handmayde our most excellent gratious Soueraigne Ladie Thus is it euident by reasons and examples what hartes Papistes beare to her maiestie The third conclusion that such English Papistes are traytors to the realme of England c. hath receaued two proues already the one in the generall treasons of all Papistes to all realmes wherein England and English Papistes are included the other in their traitorous mindes to the Quéenes maiesties person and dignitie which is the hyest treason that can be to the realme of England Yet are there some other particular doinges more specially to enforce it namely the experience that hath bene of theyr casting away the care of their countrie no all other naturall affections to the end with all immanitie outragious vnnaturall crueltie to torment Englishe Christians and to subiect the realme to foren power for their false religions sake I am sure there are enow and to many that can remember both that they haue red in credible histories and séene in lamentable experience how the Papistes haue shewed them selues so addicted to their supersticion and so captiued to an vndue reuerence of their tyrānous Pope that they haue for it reiected the care of country and of those to whome naturall dutie bound them It is certayne that that Englishe man which can be contented for Papistrie to rayse or fauor rebellion in our countrey to ioyne in conspiracie with strangers to helpe to inuade and spoyle our countrey to conuey the crowne of our countrey to a forener to agrée with them in faction that offer our countrey to prey spoyle and conquest to colour foren subiections of our countrey with false titles of wrested law to submit his fayth to that potentate that hath accursed and geuen our countrey theyr soules to the diuell their bodyes landes and possessions to them that can catch them to beleue or fauor them that spred all vile dishoners agaynst our countrey to take his part as the most holy one that claymeth to him selfe from our naturall prince the obeysance of one great part of her subiectes yea of all her subiectes in a great part of theyr affaires to assent that a foren vsurper shall by deceaueable shewes of false religion haue ordinarie meanes by colors of sutes resortes annates frutes pensions inuestitures and other infinite craftes to robbe our countrey of treasure to like wel of his doinges and to hold that he doth no more than he lawfully may doo which beyng an alien a foren byshop shall