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A04224	The vvorkes of the most high and mightie prince, Iames by the grace of God, King of Great Britaine, France and Ireland, defender of the faith, &c. Published by Iames, Bishop of Winton, and deane of his Maiesties Chappel Royall; Works	James I, King of England, 1566-1625.; Montagu, James, 1568?-1618.; Elstracke, Renold, fl. 1590-1630, engraver.; Pass, Simon van de, 1595?-1647, engraver.	1616 (1616)	STC 14344; ESTC S122229	618,837	614

for the Rectorie of Newchurch And Edward II. following the footsteps of his Father after giuing out a Summons against the Abbot of Walden for citing the Abbot of Saint Albons and others in the Court of Rome gaue out letters for his apprehension And likewise because a certaine Prebend of Banburie had drawen one Beuercoat by a Plea to Rome without the Kings Dominions therefore were letters of Caption sent foorth against the said Prebend And Edward III. following likewise the example of his Predecessours Because a Parson of Liche had summoned the Prior of S. Oswalds before the Pope at Auinion for hauing before the Iudges in England recouered the arrerage of a pension directed a Precept for seasing vpon all the goods both Spirituall and Temporall of the said Parson because hee had done this in preiudice of the King and Crowne The saide King also made one Harwoden to bee declared culpable and worthie to bee punished for procuring the Popes Bulles against a Iudgement that was giuen by the Kings Iudges And likewise Because one entred vpon the Priorie of Barnewell by the Popes Bul the said Intrant was committed to the Tower of London there to remaine during the Kings pleasure So as my Predecessors ye see of this Kingdome euen when the Popes triumphed in their greatnesse spared not to punish any of their Subiects that would preferre the Popes Obedience to theirs euen in Church-matters So farre were they then from either acknowledging the Pope for their temporall Superiour or yet from doubting that their owne Church-men were not their Subiects And now I will close vp all these examples with an Act of Parliament in King Richard II. his time whereby it was prohibited That none should procure a Benefice from Rome vnder paine to be put out of the Kings protection And thus may yee see that what those Kings successiuely one to another by foure generations haue acted in priuate the same was also maintained by a publike Law By these few examples now I hope I haue sufficiently cleered my selfe from the imputation that any ambition or desire of Noueltie in mee should haue stirred mee either to robbe the Pope of any thing due vnto him or to assume vnto my selfe any farther authoritie then that which other Christian Emperours and Kings through the world and my owne Predecessours of England in especiall haue long agone maintained Neither is it enough to say as Parsons doeth in his Answere to the Lord Coke That farre more Kings of this Countrey haue giuen many more examples of acknowledging or not resisting the Popes vsurped Authorities some perchance lacking the occasion and some the abilitie of resisting them for euen by the Ciuill Law in the case of violent intrusion and long and wrongfull possession against mee it is enough if I prooue that I haue made lawfull interruption vpon conuenient occasions But the Cardinall thinkes the Oath not onely vnlawfull for the substance therof but also in regard of the Person whom vnto it is to be sworne For saith he The King is not a Catholique And in two or three other places of his booke he sticketh not to call me by my name very broadly an Heretike as I haue already told But yet before I be publikely declared an Heretike by the Popes owne Law my people ought not to refuse their Obedience vnto me And I trust if I were but a subiect and accused by the Pope in his Conclaue before his Cardinals hee would haue hard prouing mee an Heretike if he iudged me by their owne ancient Orders For first I am no Apostate as the Cardinal would make me not onely hauing euer bene brought vp in that Religion which I presently professe but euen my Father and Grandfather on that side professing the same and so cannot be properly an Heretike by their owne doctrine since I neuer was of their Church And as for the Queene my Mother of worthy memorie although she continued in that Religion wherein shee was nourished yet was she so farre from being superstitious or Iesuited therein that at my Baptisme although I was baptized by a Popish Archbishop she sent him word to forbeare to vse the spettle in my Baptisme which was obeyed being indeed a filthy and an apish tricke rather in scorne then imitation of CHRIST And her owne very words were That she would not haue a pockie priest to spet in her childs mouth As also the Font wherein I was Christened was sent from the late Queene here of famous memory who was my Godmother and what her Religion was Pius V. was not ignorant And for further proofe that that renowmed Queene my Mother was not superstitious as in all her Letters whereof I receiued many she neuer made mention of Religion nor laboured to perswade me in it so at her last words she commanded her Master-houshold a Scottish Gentleman my seruant and yet aliue she commanded him I say to tell me That although she was of another Religion then that wherein I was brought vp yet she would not presse me to change except my owne Conscience forced mee to it For so that I led a good life and were carefull to doe Iustice and gouerne well she doubted not but I would be in a good case with the profession of my owne Religion Thus am I no Apostate nor yet a deborder from that Religion which one part of my Parents professed and an other part gaue mee good allowance of Neither can my Baptisme in the rites of their Religion make me an Apostate or Heretike in respect of my present profession since we all agree in the substance thereof being all Baptized In the Name of the Father the Sonne and the holy Ghost vpon which head there is no variance amongst vs. And now for the point of Heretike I will neuer bee ashamed to render an accompt of my profession and of that hope that is in me as the Apostle prescribeth I am such a CATHOLIKE CHRISTIAN as beleeueth the three Creeds That of the Apostles that of the Councell of Nice and that of Athanasius the two latter being Paraphrases to the former And I beleeue them in that sense as the ancient Fathers and Councels that made them did vnderstand them To which three Creeds all the Ministers of England doe subscribe at their Ordination And I also acknowledge for Orthodoxe all those other formes of Creedes that either were deuised by Councels or particular Fathers against such particular Heresies as most reigned in their times I reuerence and admit the foure first generall Councels as Catholique and Orthodoxe And the said foure generall Councels are acknowledged by our Acts of Parliament and receiued for Orthodoxe by our Church As for the Fathers I reuerence them as much and more then the Ie suites doe and as much as themselues euer craued For what euer the Fathers for the first fiue hundreth yeeres did with an vnanime consent agree vpon to be beleeued as a necessary point of saluation I either will beleeue it

resolued them That either must all the partes of those roumes bee narrowly searched and no possibilitie of danger left vnexamined or else hee and they all must resolue not to meddle in it at all but plainly to goe the next day to the Parliament and leaue the successe to Fortune which he beleeued they would be loth to take vpon their consciences for in such a case as this Agreed that the search should be vnder colour of seeking for Wardrobe stuffe missed by Whynniard an halfe doing was worse then no doing at all Whereupon it was at last concluded That nothing should bee left vnsearched in those Houses And yet for the better colour and stay of rumour in case nothing were found it was thought meet that vpon a pretence of Whyneards missing some of the Kings stuffe or Hangings which he had in keeping all those roumes should be narrowly ripped for them And to this purpose was Sir Thomas Kneuet a Gentleman of his Maiesties priuie Chamber employed being a Iustice of Peace in Westminster and one of whose ancient fidelitie both the late Queene and our now Soueraigne haue had large proofe who according to the trust committed vnto him went about the midnight next after to the Parliament-house accompanied with such a small number as was fit for that errand But before his entry in the house Fawkes found at midnight without the house finding Thomas Percies alleaged man standing without the doores his cloathes and bootes on at so dead a time of the night he resolued to apprehend him as hee did and thereafter went forward to the searching of the house where after he had caused to be ouerturned some of the Billets and Coales he first found one of the small Barrels of Powder and after all the rest to the number of thirty sixe Barrels great and small And thereafter searching the fellow whom he had taken found three matches and all other instruments fit for blowing vp the Powder readie vpon him which made him instantly confesse his owne guiltinesse declaring also vnto him That if hee had happened to be within the house when hee tooke him as he was immediatly before at the ending of his worke hee would not haue failed to haue blowen him vp house and all Thus after Sir Thomas had caused the wretch to bee surely bound and well guarded by the company hee had brought with him hee himselfe returned backe to the Kings Palace and gaue warning of his successe to the Lord Chamberlaine and Earle of Salisburie who immediatly warning the rest of the Councell that lay in the house as soone as they could get themselues ready came with their fellow Counsellers to the Kings Bed-chamber being at that time neere foure of the clocke in the morning And at the first entry of the Kings Chamber doore Vpon Sir Thomas Kneuets returne the Councel warned the Lord Chamberlaine being not any longer able to conceale his ioy for the preuenting of so great a danger told the King in a confused haste that all was found and discouered and the Traitor in hands and fast bound Then order beeing first taken for sending for the rest of the Councell that lay in the Towne The prisoner himselfe was brought into the house where in respect of the strangenes of the accident no man was stayed from the sight or speaking with him And within a while after the Council did examine him Who seeming to put on a Romane resolution did both to the Councill and to euery other person that spake with him that day appeare so constant and setled vpon his grounds as wee all thought wee had found some new Mutius Scaeuola borne in England For notwithstanding the horrour of the fact the guilt of his conscience his sudden surprising the terrour which should haue bene stroken in him by comming into the presence of so graue a Councill and the restlesse and confused questions that euery man all that day did vexe him with Yet was his countenance so farre from being deiected as he often smiled in scornefull maner not onely auowing the Fact but repenting onely with the said Scaeuola his failing in the execution thereof whereof he said the diuel and not God was the discouerer Answering quickly to euery mans obiection scoffing at any idle questions which were propounded vnto him and iesting with such as he thought had no authoritie to examine him All that day could the Councill get nothing out of him touching his Complices refusing to answere to any such questions which hee thought might discouer the plot and laying all the blame vpon himselfe Whereunto he said hee was mooued onely for Religion and conscience sake denying the King to be his lawfull Soueraigne or the Anoynted of God in respect he was an hereticke and giuing himselfe no other name then Iohn Iohnson seruant to Thomas Percie But the next morning being caried to the Tower hee did not there remaine aboue two or three dayes being twise or thrise in that space reexamined and the Racke onely offered and shewed vnto him when the maske of his Romane fortitude did visibly beginne to weare and slide off his face And then did hee beginne to confesse part of the trewth and thereafter to open the whole matter as doeth appeare by his depositions immediatly following THE TREW COPIE OF THE DECLARATION OF GVIDO FAWKES TAKEN IN THE PRESENCE OF THE Counsellers whose names are vnder written I Confesse that a practise in generall was first broken vnto me against his Maiestie for reliefe of the Catholique cause and not inuented or propounded by my selfe And this was first propounded vnto mee about Easter last was twelue moneth beyond the Seas in the Low-Countreys of the Archdukes obeisance by Thomas Winter who came thereupon with mee into England and there wee imparted our purpose to three other Gentlemen more namely Robert Catesby Thomas Percie and Iohn Wright who all fiue consulting together of the meanes how to execute the same and taking a vow among our selues for secrecie Catesby propounded to haue it performed by Gunpowder and by making a Myne vnder the vpper House of Parliament which place wee made choice of the rather because Religion hauing bene vniustly suppressed there it was fittest that Iustice and punishment should be executed there This being resolued amongst vs Thomas Percy hired an house at Westminster for that purpose neere adioyning to the Parliament House and there we begun to make our Myne about the 11. of December 1604. The fiue that first entred into the worke were Thomas Percy Robert Catesby Thomas Winter Iohn Wright and my selfe and soone after wee tooke another vnto vs Christopher Wright hauing sworne him also and taken the Sacrament for secrecie When we came to the very foundation of the wall of the House which was about three yards thicke and found it a matter of great difficultie wee tooke vnto vs another Gentleman Robert Winter in like maner with oath and Sacrament as aforesaid It was about Christmas when we brought

Platina and a number of the Popes owne writers beare witnesse And 3 Lib. de Clericis Bellarmine himselfe in his booke of Controuersies cannot get it handsomely denied Nay the Popes were euen forced then to pay a certaine summe of money to the Emperours for their Confirmation And this lasted almost seuen hundreth yeeres after CHRIST witnesse 4 In Chron. ad ann 680. Sigebert and 5 In vit Agathen Anast. in vit eiusd Agath Herm. Contract ad ann 678. edit poster dist 63. c. Agathe Luitprandus with other Popish Historians And for Emperours deposing of Popes there are likewise diuers examples The Emperour 1 Luitpr Hist lib 6. ca. 10.11 Rhegino ad an 963. Platin. in vit Ioan. 13. Ottho deposed Pope Iohn the twelfth of that name for diuers crimes and vices especially of Lecherie The Emperour 2 Marianus Scot. Sigeb Abbas Vrsp ad ann 1046 Plat in vit Greg. 6. Henry the third in a short time deposed three Popes Benedict the ninth Siluester the third and Gregorie the sixt as well for the sinne of Auarice as for abusing their extraordinarie authoritie against Kings and Princes And as for KINGS that haue denied this Temporall Superioritie of Popes First wee haue the vnanime testimonie of diuers famous HISTORIOGRAPHERS for the generall of many CHRISTIAN Kingdomes As 3 Walthram Naumburz in lib. de inuest Episc Vixit circa ann 1110. Walthram testifieth That the Bishops of Spaine Scotland England Hungarie from ancient institution till this moderne noueltie had their Inuestiture by KINGS with peaceable inioyning of their Temporalities wholly and entirely and whosoeuer sayeth hee is peaceably solicitous let him peruse the liues of the Ancients and reade the Histories and hee shall vnderstand thus much And for verification of this generall Assertion wee will first beginne at the practise of the KINGS of France though not named by Walthram in this his enumeration of Kingdomes amongst whom my first witnesse shall bee that vulgarly knowne letter of 4 See Annales Franciae Nicolai Gillij in Phil. Pulchro Philip le Bel King of France to Pope Boniface the eighth the beginning whereof after a scornefull salutation is Sciat tua maxima fatuitas nos in temporalibus nemini subesse And likewise after that 5 Anno 1268. ex Arrestis Senatus Parifiens Lewes the ninth surnamed Sanctus had by a publique instrument called Pragmatica sanctio forbidden all the exactions of the Popes Court within his Realme Pope Pius 6 Ioan. Maierius lib. de Scismat Concil the second in the beginning of Lewes the eleuenth his time greatly misseliking this Decree so long before made sent his Legate to the saide King Lewes with Letters-patents vrging his promise which hee had made when hee was Dolphin of France to repeale that Sanction if euer hee came to bee King The King referreth the Legate ouer with his Letters-patents to the Councell of Paris where the matter being propounded was impugned by Iohannes Romanus the Kings Atturney with whose opinion the Vniuersitie of Paris concurring an Appeale was made from the attempts of the Pope to the next generall Councell the Cardinall departing with indignation But that the King of France and Church thereof haue euer stoken to their Gallican immunitie in denying the Pope any Temporall power ouer them and in resisting the Popes as oft as euer they prest to meddle with their Temporall power euen in the donation of Benefices the Histories are so full of them as the onely examples thereof would make vp a bigge Volume by it selfe And so farre were the Sorbonistes for the Kings and French Churches priuiledge in this point as they were wont to maintaine That if the Pope fell a quarrelling the King for that cause the Gallican Church might elect a Patriarch of their owne renouncing any obedience to the Pope And Gerson was so farre from giuing the Pope that temporall authority ouer Kings who otherwise was a deuoute Roman Catholike as hee wrote a Booke de Auferibilitate Papae not onely from the power ouer Kings but euen ouer the Church And now pretermitting all further examples of forraigne Kings actions I will onely content me at this time with some of my owne Predecessors examples of this kingdome of England that it may thereby the more clearely appeare that euen in those times when the world was fullest of darkened blindnes and ignorance the Kings of England haue oftentimes not onely repined but euen strongly resisted and withstood this temporall vsurpation and encrochment of ambitious Popes And I will first begin at 1 Matth. Paris in Henr. 1. anno 1100. King Henry the first of that name after the Conquest who after he was crowned gaue the Bishopricke of Winchester to William Gifford and forthwith inuested him into all the possessions belonging to the Bishopricke contrary to the Canons of the new Synod 2 Idem ibid. anno 1113. King Henry also gaue the Archbishopricke of Canterbury to Radulph Bishop of London and gaue him inuestiture by a Ring and a Crosiers staffe Also Pope 3 Idem ibid. anno 1119. Calixtus held a Councell at RHEMES whither King Henry had appointed certaine Bishops of ENGLAND and NORMANDIE to goe Thurstan also elected Archbishop of YORKE got leaue of the King to goe thither giuing his faith that hee would not receiue Consecration of the Pope And comming to the Synode by his liberall gifts as the fashion is wanne the ROMANES fauour and by their meanes obtained to bee consecrated at the Popes hand Which assoone as the King of ENGLAND knewe hee forbade him to come within his Dominions Moreouer King Edward the first prohibited the Abbot of 4 Ex Archiuis Regni Waltham and Deane of Pauls to collect a tenth of euery mans goods for a supply to the holy Land which the Pope by three Bulles had committed to their charge and the said Deane of Pauls compeering before the King and his Councell promised for the reuerence he did beare vnto the King not to meddle any more in that matter without the Kings good leaue and permission Here I hope a Church-man disobeyed the Pope for obedience to his Prince euen in Church matters but this new Iesuited Diuinitie was not then knowen in the world The same Edward I. impleaded the Deane of the Chappell of Vuluerhampton because the said Deane had against the priuiledges of the Kingdome giuen a Prebend of the same Chappell to one at the Popes command whereupon the said Deane compeered and put himselfe in the Kings will for his offence The said Edward I. depriued also the Bishop of Durham of all his liberties for disobeying a prohibition of the Kings So as it appeareth the Kings in those dayes thought the Church-men their Subiects though now we be taught other Seraphicall doctrine For further proofe whereof Iohn of Ibstocke was committed to the goale by the sayde King for hauing a suite in the Court of Rome seuen yeeres

many one to conspire and attempt the like against the late Queene and in my time to attempt the destruction of a whole Kingdome and State by a blast of Powder and hereby to play bankerupt with both the soules mentioned in the Scriptures Animus Anima But notwithstanding of this their great Lamentation they are commanded by a voyce from heauen to doe two things Verse 4. One to flee from Babylon lest they bee partakers of her sinnes and consequently of her punishment Which warning I pray God that yee all my Beloued Brethren and Cousins would take heed vnto in time humbly beseeching him to open your eyes for this purpose The other command is Verse 6. to reward her as shee hath rewarded you yea euen to the double For as she did flie but with your feathers borrowing as well her Titles of greatnesse and formes of honouring her from you as also enioying all her Temporall liuing by your liberalities so if euery man doe but take his owne againe she will stand vp * Cornicula Aesopica Verse 7. naked and the reason is giuen because of her pride For shee glorifieth her selfe liuing in pleasure and in her heart saith shee sitteth as a Queene outward prosperitie being one of their notes of a trew Church and is no Widow for her Spouse CHRIST is bound to her by an inuiolable knot for he hath sworne neuer to forsake her and she shall see no mourning for she cannot erre nor the gates of Hell shall not preuaile against her But though the earth and worldly men lament thus for the fall of Babylon in this eighteenth Chapter yet in the nineteenth Cap. xix Verse 1. Verse 2. Heauen and all the Angels and Saints therein doe sing a triumphall Cantique for ioy of her fall praising God for the fall of that great Whore Great indeed for our * Bellar. in Res ad Gerson confid 11. Cardinall confesseth that it is hard to describe what the Pope is such is his greatnesse Verse 19. Verse 20. And in the end of that Chapter is the obstinacie of that Whore described who euen fought to the vttermost against him that sate on the white Horse and his armie till the Beast or Antichrist was taken and the false Prophet or false Church with him who by Miracles and lying wonders deceiued them that receiued the marke of the Beast and both were cast quicke into the burning lake of fire and brimstone vnde nulla redemptio Like as in the ende of the former Chapter to describe the fulnesse of the Antichristes fall not like to that reparable wound that Ethnicke Rome gate it is first compared to a Milstone cast into the sea that can neuer rise and fleete againe Cap 18.21 Ibidem Vers 22 32. And next it is expressed by a number of ioyfull things that shall neuer bee heard there againe where nothing shall inhabite but desolation But that the patience and constancie of Saints on earth and God his Elected may the better bee strengthened and confirmed their persecution in the latter dayes is shortly prophesied and repeated againe Cap. 11. Verse 2. after that Satan hath beene bound or his furie restrained by the worlds enioying of peace for a thousand yeeres or a great indefinite time their persecuters being named Gog and Magog the secret and reuealed enemies of CHRIST Verse 8. Whether this be meant of the Pope and the Turke or not who both began to rise to their greatnesse about one time I leaue to bee guessed Verse 9. alwayes their vtter confusion is there assuredly promised and it is said that the Dragon the Beast and the false Prophet Verse 10. shall all three bee cast in that lake of fire and brimstone to be tormented for euer Verse 11 12 13. Matth. 24.22 And thereafter is the latter day described againe which must be hastened for the Elects sake and then for the further comfort of the Elect and that they may the more constantly and patiently endure these temporall and finite troubles limited but to a short space in the last two Chapters are the ioyes of the eternall Ierusalem largely described Cap. xxj xxij Thus hath the Cardinals shamelesse wresting of those two places of Scripture Pasce oues meas and Tibi dabo claues for proouing of the Popes supreame Temporall authoritie ouer Princes animated mee to prooue the Pope to bee THE ANTICHRIST out of this foresaid booke of Scripture so to pay him in his owne money againe And this opinion no Pope can euer make me to recant except they first renounce any further medling with Princes in any thing belonging to their Temporall Iurisdiction And my onely wish shall bee that if any man shall haue a fancie to refute this my coniecture of the Antichrist that hee answere mee orderly to euery point of my discourse not contenting him to disprooue my opinion except hee set downe some other Methode after his forme for interpretation of that Booke of the Apocalyps which may not contradict no part of the Text nor conteine no absurdities Otherwise it is an easie thing for Momus to picke quarrels in another mans tale and tell it worse himselfe it being a more easie practise to finde faults then amend them Hauing now made this digression anent the Antichrist which I am sure I can better fasten vpon the Pope then Bellarmine can doe his pretended Temporall Superioritie ouer Kings I will returne againe to speake of this Answerer who as I haue already told you so fitteth his matter with his manner of answering that as his Style is nothing but a Satyre and heape full of iniurious and reprochfull speaches as well against my Person as my Booke so is his matter as full of lyes and falsities indeed as hee vniustly layeth to my charge For three lies hee maketh against the Oath of Alleagiance conteined and maintained in my Booke besides that ordinary repeated lie against my Booke of his omitting to answere my lyes trattles iniurious speaches and blasphemies One grosse lye he maketh euen of the Popes first Breue One lye of the Puritanes whom he would gladly haue to be of his partie And one also of the Powder-Traitours anent the occasion that mooued them to vndertake that treasonable practise Three lies hee makes of that Acte of Parliament wherein this Oath of Alleagiance is conteined Hee also maketh one notable lie against his owne Catholike Writers And two of the causes for which two Iesuites haue beene put to death in England And he either falsifies denies or wrests fiue sundry Histories and a printed Pamphlet besides that impudent lye that hee maketh of my Person that I was a Puritane in Scotland which I haue already refuted And for the better filling vp of his booke with such good stuffe hee hath also fiue so strange and new principles of Diuinitie therein as they are either new or at least allowed by very few of his owne Religion All which lyes with