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A08075	Newes from the low-countreyes. Or The anatomy of Caluinisticall calumnyes, manifested in a dialogue betweene a Brabander, and a Hollander Vpon occasion of a placcart, lately published in Holla[n]d, against the Iesuites, priests, friars &c. by those that there assume vnto themselues, the tytle of the high-mighty-lords, the States &c. Translated out of the Netherland language, into English. By D.N.; Anatomie van Calviniste calumnien. English.	Verstegan, Richard, ca. 1550-1640.; D. N., fl. 1622.; Cresswell, Joseph, 1556-1623, attributed name.	1622 (1622)	STC 18443; ESTC S120471	29,088	102

sundry Orders and that a Duke hath byn seene to become a Capuchin in Paris and the Brother of a Duke to become of the same austere order in Bruxelles I was mooued to thinke that it may belōg before we may see a Gewse or Caluinian Duke or Prince become a Minister albeit that condition of life obligeth not to the making and performing of any such vowes or to any austerity at all but to liue with ease in the Ghospell of free liberty There is a prouerbe in the Netherland language that Herman did in tyme get on his dublet after he had byn seauen yeares drawing on of one sleeue but I suppose Hermans dublet might wholy be gotten on and quite worne out before a man might see such persons moued by the great piety they might obserue in Ministers to enter with them into the seruice of the Word But to returne vnto my precedent purpose me thinkes it were not heere impertinent to see and consider what cause there may be found of the great hatred which Caluinists beare vnto Iesuytes and not Caluinists alone but all other Sectaryes for albeit they beare il will and hatred vnto all Catholikes especially vnto all Ecclesiasticall persons yet is it manifest vnto al the world that the Iesuites of all others haue the precedence in the malice of Caluinists And seeing something there may seeme to be that is singular in these religious men more then in others I haue the more endeauored to discerne what this may be and three thinges I haue obserued 1. This first is that there was neuer any Order in the Catholik Church that in so short a space hath dispersed it selfe so farre ouer the world to make the name of Iesus Christ knowne vnto heathen and Pagan people 2. The second is that there was neuer any Order that in so short a tyme hath written so many learned bookes aswel in diuinity as in al other laudable sciences 3. The third is that there was neuer any Order that in so short a tyme hath had so great a number of Martyrs as well by the persecution of Pagans as Apostata Christians As for their exercises of deuotion labour in preaching hearing of confessions instructing and bringing vp of youth in learning without any recompence of their parents making of attonements where there is dissention and discord readines at all houres of the day and night to visit the sicke and to consolate their soules is not now needfull heere to be spoken at large but when I well consider their manifold deedes of Deuotion and Charity I remember the wordes of Christ vnto the Iewes when for his good deedes they would haue stoned him to death I haue wrought many good workes among you for which of those will you stone me Enuy is the deadly enemy of vertue and of wel-prospering The Iesuites thankes be to God do go well forward in al their works of piety and for these Sectaryes will stone them and beeing themselues the actual murtherers of Iesuytes it is no maruell that they seeke to robbe tak away the good name fame of those whose lyues they let not to take away nor is it any wonder that they to coulour their owne tyrannous murthering of Iesuites giue out that Iesuytes are murtherers of Princes Potentates As if themselues did put Iesuites to death therby to saue the lyues of Princes potentates which Iesuites would els bereaue them off But what loue Caluinists and principally Holland-Gewse-Caluinistes do beare vnto Princes themselues doe now adayes the lōger the more make better known vnto the greatest Princes of Christendome then they can make knowne vnto them that Iesuites are murtherers of them and of Potentates The Hollander I must confesse that you haue heere manifested vnto me much more then before I euer knew or heard of But yet notwithstanding that it cannot be perceaued that the Iesuites haue had any hād in the deaths of any of the eight Princes heere by you mentioned it should seeme they haue had knowledge of intentions of murthering Princes as of Queene Elizabeth of England King Henry the fourth of France before he was murthered by Rauaillac his Maiesty that is now King of Great Britayne by the gunpowder Treason his Excellency Prince Maurice in Holland The Brabander For the first concerning Queene Elizabeth of England if we well consider her abandoning of the Catholike Religion which at her coronation she swore to mayntayne and that beeing a woman she tooke vpon her supreame authority in Ecclesiasticall causes which your Caluinian deuines in Holland do affirme to be Idolatry either in man or woman ordayning also by her Statutes that those who should deny to confesse her Ecclesiasticall authority vpon their oathes should suffer death as traytors That she deposed and put from their places the Catholike Bishops and Prelates casting some in prison forcing others to fly the realme That she ordayned a forfayture of twenty poundes a moneth for not comming to her Caluinian-protestant Church-seruice with other lesser forfaytures for Catholikes of lesse meanes who in regard of their consciences absented themselues from the sayd seruice by meanes whereof the prisons euery where became so replenished with Catholikes that new prisons must be made for thē because the old could not conteyne the number Moreouer the putting to death of so many Catholike Priestes as also the putting to death and ruyning of some Gentlemen and others that had harbored them The question now is whether Gewses or Caluinists being to the contrary so treated by any Prince that had sworne to maintayne their Caluinian religion they would with patience endure it Who can belieue this Seeing they haue not letted to rebell agaynst their Princes and Soueraignes that haue intruded no innouation or change in religion vpon them as agaynst the Kings of Spaine France and against Mary Queene of Scotland who I say can belieue this when it is apparent that the very ground-worke and foundation of Caluinian religion is layed setled vpon rebellion as to all the world it is manifest This Queene Elizabeth was so seuere and cruell that she letted not to burne alyue some of our countrey-men beeing Netherlanders not her borne Subiects for their Anabaptisme and caused some Puritans which are directly concurring in religion with the Caluinists of Holland to be hanged and others to fly the realme and lyue in exile because they had sought both by wryting and preaching to bring the religion of England to the iust forme and fashion of that of Geneua Holland Punishing then the Anabaptistes as heretikes and the Puritans as seditious she hath not letted to vse a greater cloke and colour for her persecuting of Catholikes and this was to cause to be giuen out at diuers times that they meant to kill her She imployed among other for one of her spyes sometyme in France somtyme in Italy one William Parry This Parry coming vpon a tyme out of Italy supposing to get more credit