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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A12677	Nevves from Spayne and Holland conteyning. An information of Inglish affayres in Spayne vvith a conferrence made thereuppon in Amsterdame of Holland. VVritten by a gentleman trauelour borne in the lovv countryes, and brought vp from a child in Ingland, vnto a gentleman his friend and oste in London.; Newes from Spayne and Holland.	Parsons, Robert, 1546-1610.; Walpole, Henry, 1558-1595. aut	1593 (1593)	STC 22994; ESTC S102266	41,764	84

louing brethren of this colledg behold here a most excellent Captaine of this our life and course that we are to follow behold our master behold our forerrunner what spech more valiant what voice more holy what wordes more vvorthy of a Christian prelat what sentence more excellent can be imagined eyther to the glory of god or to the ioy of angels or to the terror of diuels or to the confusion of his enymies or for our imitation or for the example of al posterity or for the edification of the vniuersal world or for the endles triumph of this martyr himselfe I die moste willingly sayeth he for Christ and his Church o holy martyr o blessed Thomas thow hast great reason to die willingly in such a cause for that death suffred for Christ thy master is no death at al but rather a beginning of a lōger life an earnest peny of an euerlasting kingdom a seale of glory a gate of eternity the very complement of al felicity O blood vvel spent that is spent for Christ why should not vve stir vp our selues deare bretheren why should not we be animated and inflamed vvith this example vve haue seene the labores and toyles of this martyr though great yet short and sone ended but his glory is euerlasting And yet the true glory which he hath enioyed novv aboue foure hundreth yeares in heauen which only indeede is to be called glory vve haue not yet seene These shadovves only of glory vvhich on earth are to be seene we haue beheld most wonderfuly multiplied vnto S. Thomas I meane good hearers the glory vppon earth of his infinite miracles the glory of his Sepulcre throughout al Christendom the glory of the vniuersal concourse and deuotion of al nations vnto him but among al other glories and glorious accidents happned vnto him no one thing was euer more glorious or admirable then that soone after his death by vertue from heauen he procured to King Henry his persecutor such grace and humility of repentance as that he came barefooted vvith many sighes and sobbes vnto his tombe and ther prostrating himselfe vppon the ground vvith fluds of teares asked pardō of the blessed martyr and penance of the Bishop for his offences and so after a vvhole night spent in vvatching prayer and beating of him selfe and lying vppon the bare ground he departed leauing al the lokers on most deeply moued with his harty repentance what greater glory what more heauenly force of a Christian martyr then this O Lord Iesu vvhich arte the life and vertue of al martyrs would it might please thy diuine maiestie and infinite mercy to giue this grace also to our Inglish persecutors vvherby they vvould repent and turne vnto thee and that vvhich thow didest graunt vnto king Henry by the only prayer of thy martyr sainct Thomas that his sinnes might be forgiuen thow wouldest graunt the same vnto king Henryes daughter at the intercession of aboue an hundreth of thy glorious martyrs whom she hath slayne that she might not perish O how ioyful should we render thankes vnto thee for this so singuler and desired a benefite oh how chearefull should we singe euery where thy prayses for the same But if perhaps the seuerity of thy iustice do not permitt this yet most humbly we do besech thee to giue vnto vs thy vnworthy children here present so much strenght and heuenly fortitude as to fight manfully and hold out chearfully in this combat which thow hast prepared for vs so as neyther desire of life may stay vs from this batail not feare of death from perill nor slouth from labour in this thy cause but that we bestowing our selues wholy vnto thy glory and to the saluation of our owne selues and of our country we may giue our soules vp also and pay our blood in this holyvvork if need require and therby in some sort be answerable vnto our vocation and to the infinite benifits which of thee we haue receaued for vvhich both praise glory gratulation and thankes giuing be vnto thee for al eternity A men This was the end of his speach by this you may imagine of what tenor the residue vvas The other sermon made after masse in Spanish I vvil not repeat for breuity sake and for that by this you may easely gesse the effect therof for it vvas to giue the people a reason of so many Inglish mens comming forth of Ingland in these dayes what were the true causes and necessities therof what ther vsage was at home what their end abroade and what particuler purpose and profession these youthes that cam for study sake to Siuil had before their eyes In al which as there were many things of edification compassion and tendernes in the behalfe of these youthes so were ther also diuers poyntes though vttered truly with great modestie which pinched to the quick and to heare them ●ould not but giue me exceding grief for the many causes I haue to houour and loue your Country as you know and truly I imagine that if the Queene or some of her counsayl had bine present it would haue moued them much and that perhaps to a far other sense meaning thē you conceaue but now things grow to further breach and exasperation euery day and god only knoweth what wil be the ende of al. I had almost forgotten to tel you of a certaine fayre paper set vp this day in the Inglish Colledge emongst other poemes and lerned deuises of the schollers which paper did represent the antithesis or contrary procedinges of tvvo King Henries of England to witt king Henry the second before mentioned vvho persecuted S. Thomas of Canterbury in his life but after repented as hath bin shewed and king Henry the eight vvho fower hundred yeares after his death cited and condemned him and destroyed his sepulere which the other had built vp and many kinges after him richly adorned The deuise was witty and the paper pleasant to behold being large and fayrely paynted to the eye and it drew many to looke vppon it and to take out coppyes therof and by this tyme I thinck it to be engraued and printed and therfore in this place I wil repeate the same vnto you briefly as it stoode THE REPRESENTAtion of the tvvo persecutions by the tvvo King Henryes of Ingland agaynst S. Thomas of Canterbury IN the topp of the paper vvas vvitten this title Triumphus Sancti Thomae Cantuariensis de duobus Henricis Angliae regibus which is the triumph of S. Thomas of cāterbury ouer tvvo king Henryes ofIngland Vnder the title are placed the tvvo king Henryes to witt king Henry the second on the right hand armed and angry and striking at S. Thomas that was paynted before him flying away and fallyng downe on his knees and ouer the kings head is written Henricus Secundus Angliae Rex and betwene him and S. Thomas was written Persequitur viuum fugieniem he pursueth him in his