gets hastily a company of men and makes towards the Isle Most of Barklays men were otherwise imploy'd dreaming of no such thing and himself not thinking that his plot was known did not take Knox his men though he saw them coming for enemies thus careless Knox lands and encounters him on the very shore upon which Barklay resolved not to be taken runs into the Sea and drowns himself and so there is an end of him and the Popish troubles in Scotland for this time CHAP. IV. The troubles in Ireland against Queen Elizabeth TO run through all the Rebellions of Ireland would be troublesome both to my self and Reader their whole stories and life being but an heap or chain of Troubles Riots Misdemeanors Murthers Treasons and suchlike enormities whereby they have not onely vext and molested their Governours but in the end brought ruine to the disturbers and such undertakers of disobedience Nor could any thing else be expected from the ancient Irish to whom civility and discretion were strangers but the Robbery of Cambden Britan pag. 790 791 792. others held a piece of Devotion insomuch that they never undertook such mischief without first sending up their prayers and after to give God thanks for such a good booty Though they profest themselves good Catholicks yet they supposed no small holiness to remain in Horses Hoofes and that the Lords prayer mumbled into the right ear of a sick beast was cure enough for its distemper and any man was held past living in this world if he desired to receive the Sacrament Nor need we look for many cures amongst them when to a Ric. Stanihuâ—st de â—ebus Hibeâ—n lib. 1. pag. 44. beat Eggs together to squeeze out with ones fingers the juyce of shred herbs to probe and finde out a wound were signes of an able Physitian and thus qualified he may go for an Hippocrates And no doubt but others of them were much of the discreet hardiness of b Id pag. 42. him who having received four desperate wounds and seeing his sword not hurâ— gave thanks to God that these wounds were given to his body and not to his sword And what else might be expected from those of former times when even within these few years they c Sir John Temples Hist of Iâ—ish Rebeâ—lion the Prefaâ—e ld pag. 84 threatned to burn and ruine Dublin to destroy all Records and Monuments of English Government make Laws against speaking English and have all English names changed Nay to put their thoughts into practice they endeavour'd to destroy all the goodly breed of English Cattle by killing many thousand Sheep and Cows meerly because they were of English breed and so to leave them lye stinking in the Fields and as others testifie to destroy the very Corn ' cause sown by English men And yet 't is known they had not only Government Civility and what else is praise worthy spred amongst them by the English but stately Buildings and other Ornaments of the Country whereas Dublin it self could not afford a place sit for King Henry II to lye in so that he was there forced to set up a long house composed of d Id pag. 4. Wattles after the manner of the Country therein to keep his f Riâ—h Stanibuâ—st lib 3. pag. 129. splendid Christmas But these glories and advantages some of them may think a discredit if not a ruine to their Nation and may fancie it as good to have their Kings as a Speeds Theater of Great Britain in Ireland in Vlster § 6. formerly to lap up their Coronation-sustenance without the assistance of Spoons or Hands and to sit in state naked within the bottom of a â—aldron at his Inauguration as to have Decencie and Manners Thrones or Magnificence amongst them However that which they supposed to ruine all you may guess at by this their complaint as old at least as King Edward the Thirds time as b Discovery of Ireland pag. 184. Sir John Davies supposeth c M S. F. 99 Laud p. 332. in Bibl. Bodl. Oxon. ex albo libro scaccarii Dublin By granting Charters of peace To falce Englishe withouten lesse This land shall be much undoe But d Gossipred a custom amongst them of trusting too much to God-fathers as they thought their Nurces and Forster-Children akin to them as Mother and Sister Gosipride and alterage And leesing of our Language Have mickley holpe thereto The truth is above all people they hated the English being willing that French Spaniard or any body else should rule them but those who do But of their Combinations and Overtures I shall go no higher then Queen Elizabeth though this following note by the way will not be amiss a M S. F. 99. fol. 185. Land in Bibl. Bodl. Oxon. Jehan du Tillet Recuil des Guerres Traitez d'entâ—e les Roys de France d' Angleterre fol. 157. Articles agreed upon between Francis I. King of France and James Fitzjohn Earl of Desmond Extracted by Tillet out of the Records in Paris Anno 1523. Francis I. King of France in a Treaty with James Fitzjohn Earl of b The French Copy calls him Jaques Conte de Cymonie Prince â—n Hybernie Desmond wherein he is stiled a Prince in Ireland It was accorded That as soon as the Kings Ships should land in Ireland the said Earl in person and at his own charge should take Armes against his Soveraign King Henry VIII not onely to conquer that part of the Kingdom wherein he lived which should be to the proper use and benefit of the said Earl except onely one Port which should be reserved for the French King for ever for to harbour his Ships in and that Port to be left at the Election of the King out of one of these three viz. d The French Copy reads thus Quinquesalle Core ou Drudal Kinsale Cork or Yoghal but also for to e As if he ever had it but no such matter restore the Duke of Suffolk to the Crown of England from whence he was banished and at the present living in France The Earl of Desmond for this War was to raise 400 Horse and 10000 Foot and if need required to increase them into 15000 or more The King Covenanted to entertain them at the rate of two Angels â—e peece for every man armed with Corsselets and Mayle for three months and for every man furnished onely with Swords and Halberts at one Angel le peece for the like time That for the draught of the Artillery which should be sent into that land by the King and the Duke of Suffolk the Earl should provide horses sufficient That after the War was begun the French King should not at any time make Truce or peace with the King of England without comprehending therein the said Earl and Turloghe O Brian with his Nephews That if King Henry VIII should after a Truce or Peace accorded make War upon the said Earl the French King
him preach That another time the said St. Francis though very weak and sick of a Quartain Feaver and in the midst of a very cold Winter yet put off all his Cloaths his Breeches excepted commanded one Peter Catanai to tye a p Id. l. 2. p. 320. Rope about his neck and so to drag him to the place where Malefactors used to suffer which accordingly was done and all this ado because he had eat a little flesh and sup'd some flesh-broth And suchlike Marks of Holiness are these Fryar q Id. l. 1. p. 69 John would do every thing that he saw St. Francis do whether it were kneeling spitting c. And indeed this Father of the Minorites would have all his Flock obedient to him were it never so ridiculous Thus he turned off one because he did not plant or set his r Id. pag. 241 242. Coleworts with their Roots upwards and the Leaves in the ground as he had done Another time he bad one of them Å¿ Ibid. strip himself stark-naked to dig a deep hole and to put himself into it which being done St. Francis cover'd him all over with Earth even to the very beard Then he asked him if he were not dead Yes quoth the poor Fryar I am dead Then saith Francis Rise up for though thou be'st dead yet thou ought in every thing to obey me To these we might adde many other of their tokens and sure signs of Christianity as how a Fryar going t Id. p. 83 84. naked to his Covent for which being check'd vindicated himself with this saying As he came naked so he must return How the said Fryar is call'd a Tam Sanctus fuit iste Fratricellus Holy for putting off his Cloaths and going naked into Viterbo How Fryar b Id. l. 2. p. 163. Egidius is commended for having got more Nuts than he could carry in his lap put off all his Cloaths filling them with Nuts and so he went naked into the City And another time he went into a Wood c Id. l. 2. p. 166 167. put off his Cloaths tyed a Cord about his neck bidding another Fryar so to lead him to the Covent which was done where he baul'd out like a great Booby And why might not all these primitive postures be convenient seeing d Id. l. 1. p. 195. St. Francis once told a Fryar that if he would go naked and preach so he should be saved And so I suppose Fryar Juniper so great a friend and familiar with St. Francis bended all his thoughts for the best and speediest way to Heaven when he earnestly desired that he might e Id. l. 1. p. 92 93. stink so that none should be able to come neer him and that he might be thrown into a Ditch there to dye and be eaten up of Dogs Another time they tell us being to dress the Victuals for the other Fryars he f Id. pag. 90. boil'd the Chickens and other Meat together without either washing them or pulling off the Feathers and that this Fryar was cleanly enough we need not question seeing they brag of him that being once nobly entertain'd and laid in a very brave bed he very mannerly and religiously g Id. pag. 88. bewray'd it and stole away next morning without thanking his Landlord which trick had more of a Beast than a Wag in it though they think they do not a little commend him when they call him h Christi jaculatorem Id. l. 2. p. 199. Christs Jeaster or Bouffon an Expression of so much boldness to say no worse that they neither honour their Religion nor their St. Clare by fathering it upon her But besides all this as Poets and the Authors of Romances have the liberty SECT II. Many false Saints that never had being granted them not onely to invent the Tale but also to give what names they please as well to the great lubberly Gyants as the always-conquering valiant Knights with the lovely and inchanted Ladies So here the Romanists making themselves to be of the same Profession take to themselves the same freedom suspecting the number of their true Saints not to be enough or sufficient to compleat the honour of their Church And for a proof of this I shall onely give two or three Instances and that of our own Island Thus they tell us of the Martyrdom of one i Vsuaâ—d Martyrol 9. Febr. and Philip Feâ—rarius Catalog Generaliâ— Sanctorum 8. Fâ—â—r St. Maingoldus a Duke and Son to one Hugh King of England Though I think it would puzzle their best Historians to finde out an English Monarch of that name Yet will they not let this King go by himself but give us another to keep him company and him they call by the name of k Rob. Parsons Calendar Caes Bâ—ron Martyrol Sâ—â—ius Hist Sanctor Guâ—â— Gazet Hist des Saints VII Feb. St. Richard King of England and Nephew to Offa King of the East-Saxons almost a thousand years ago by which means without the help of a Cromwel they have found out a fourth Richard which our Chronicles never dream'd of But to leave off single Testimonies since an Army of no less than eleven thousand invented Saints offer themselves at one view viz. S. Vrsole and her Virgins a story made up of so many contradictions improbabilities not to say impossibilities and abominable lyes that l An. 383. Baronius is at a loss about it and our Country-man m Hist Eccles pag. 35 36. Harpsfeld resolves bravely to believe it though he confesseth he knoweth not how to prove it and yet 't is pretty to observe how England and Scotland both strive to make her theirs But let the story Coryats p. 61â— seem never so improbable the good Catholicks of Colen will not loose the place nor memory of her Martyrdom to perpetuate which they have a large Church built to her bearing her name in which that they also might not want the benefit of her Intercession they in the year 1607. 17. April permitted a Prayer to be printed to her and there hung up in a Table and why not having got a name in the a 21 Octob. Da. Camerar de Regn. Scot. Tho. Demster Roman Calendar And with her they tell us dyed also by Martyrdom one b Pet. de Natal lib. 9. cap. 87. Jac. de Voragine Hist 153. Petr. Merssaeus Catalog Elect Ecclesiast Annal. Archiepisc Colen Sect. 4. Jo. Gault Chron. Chronicor Tom. 1. pag. 1259. Cyriacus of British Extraction and one that was Pope of Rome But Baronius himself is altogether silent concerning him nor do their Pontifick Histories afford us any Pope neer such a name unless we allow of Siricius which could not be the same with the other because a Roman by Birth and no Martyr And thus when their hands are in they scorn to give out lest you SECT III. Many lying Stories and Wonders should fancy their Invention to be so
sometimes is not onely tyrannical wicked and debauched but a simple Boy too and some think also a whorish b See Alexand Cook 's Pope Joan and les sieur Congnard traite contre Bâ—ondel Woman to boot So that it is no wonder that there is such striving canvassing bribery and underhand-dealing to be made Pope if their so being instantly invest them with such an unlimited Authority over all the world and that by Divine right too but of such a Nature that none can see into this Milstone but themselves or favourites And that there may not be any objection against this Authority of the Pope Bozius undertakes to demonstrate it by Examples which you shall have as he gives us them and then judge either of the Heresie or Authority of the Popes Thus he tells us that Baldwin II was lawful Successor to the Eastern Empire yet Michael Palaeologus by force of Arms and wickedness took the Empire from him However for all this injury as he saith did Pope Gregory X allow so much of it that he gave the Empire to the Invador and excluded the lawful Inheritor Another instance he giveth concerning the Western Empire viz. that Richard Duke of Cornwal Son to King John and Brother to Henry III of England being by one part of the Electors of Germany viz. by the Bishops of Mentz Colen and the Palsgrave chosen Emperour And Alonso X King of Castile being by another part viz. Archbishop of Trevers King of Bohemia Duke of Saxony and Marquiss of Brandeburg also chosen Emperour And so by consequence as he saith it must of necessity belong to one of these two Yet such was the pleasure of the aforesaid Gregory X that he threw them both by and commanded the Electors to pitch upon another by which means Rodulph Earl of Habspurgh and Hessia came to be Emperour And the same power Bozius saith the Pope hath over Infidels and to prove this by Example he hints to us the Donation of America by Alexander VI and his huge Authority divided between the Castilian and Portugal And I wonder that before this time he hath not given the World in the Moon to some of his Favourites And as Pope a H. Estiene Apol. pour Herodot p. 465 466. Clement VI commanded the Angels to carry such Souls into Paradise so might some of his Successors command some pretty vehicles or other to carry his friends beyond the Earths attraction and so into the Dominions of the Lunary World where by a zealous Croisade and a furious Inquisition those pretty people might be taught Rebellion THE REBELLIOUS AND Treasonable Practises Of the ROMANISTS From the Year DC to the Year M. With a Blow at Constantines Donation The Popes absolute Temporal Authority and Legality of his Being BOOK III. CHAP. I. The Tale of Constantines Donation proved a meer Cheat and Forgery I Shall not here ingage my self in the Dispute whether S. Peter was ever Bishop of Rome or no nor with the time of his presiding there a De Rom. Pont. l. 1. c. 6. Bellarmine their famous b Addit ad Platin. viz. S. Petri. Onuphrius and some others not agreeing about the manner and several Learned Men have imployed themselves on both parties in this Controversie Nor by what means the Popes came to that greatness they are now in and pretend of right to have Christ said c Joh. 18. 36. his Kingdom was not of this world nor did S. Peter or any of the rest of the Apostles endeavour to obtain either any such Temporal Government or upon the account of their Spiritual to lord it with a coercive Power over Secular Authority And if any of their Successors plead such Prerogatives they can draw no Arguments either from the Precept or Example of the Apostles Not but that the Clergy are as capable of Temporal Imployments as any if the Supreme Magistrate so order it without whose appointment the Lay-man himself cannot pretend to Office What jurisdiction the Bishops of Rome exercised over Princes for the first Ages as History is altogether silent so cannot we imagine that they did considering in what Persecutions they themselves lived being for their own preservation forced to sculk and lurk about here and there and that in poverty too insomuch that if we consult their own Histories we shall finde that the first XXXIII Bishops of Rome suffer'd Martyrdom till a An. 314. Sylvester in the days of Constantine the Great In whose time by the Emperours declaring himself a Christian Christianity began to appear more publick being thus countenanced by Authority whereby those who formerly lurk'd in Caves and Forrests wandred about Mountains and dissembled their Profession for fear of persecution now boldly shewed and declared themselves and had places of Trust and Authority conferred upon them whereby they became more formidable to the Pagans and Religion daily gained more Proselytes Splendour and Jurisdiction By this Emperour Constantine they say that the Popes of Rome had not onely many Priviledges but God knows how much Land too given them viz. not onely Rome it self but also all the Provinces Places and Cities of all Italy and the Western Region and that he might be more glorious and powerful in all the World than the Emperour himself And thus we see them set on Cock horse and whence many of them plead a Prerogative And for proof of this they not onely say that they can shew you the Decree it self but from it and other Authors tell the Reason of such a Donation which because the Storie is pretty and miraculous take as followeth in short Constance they say being a wicked Tyrant and an Heathen murthering his own Son Crispus the Consul c. at last was sorry Baron anno 324. § 16 17. for his own wickedness and desired to be clensed therefrom but his Pagan Priests told him That they had no means of purging such heinous Offences In the mean time one Aegyptius supposed by b Anno 324. § 27. Baronius to be Osius Bishop of Corduba a Christian told the Emperour That the Christians had a way to clense a man from any guilt To which Constantine lent a willing ear though upon that did not forsake his Idolatry but persecuted the Christians insomuch that Pope Slyvester with some others for their own safety stole from Rome and hid themselvs in the Mountain Soractes now call'd c Or M. St. Oresto Baron § 33. Monte S. Tresto corrupted as they say from Monte di S. Silvestro North from Rome upon the Westside of Tiber. For these crimes and oppressions they say he was as by a judgement strangely infected with the Leprosie or Meselry according to the old Translation of d Translat of Ranulphus of Chesters Polycron fol. 212. John Trevisa Vicar of Barckley almost CCC years ago to be cured of this disease he applyeth himself to his Physitians but with no benefit then the Pagan Priests of the Capitol advised him
England 2. The Murther of Malcolme the Second and of Duncan Kings of Scotland 3. The clashing of Popes and the Emperours power over them at Elections Sect. 1. The Murther of Edmund Ironside King of England HAving now past over the Millenary year we shall proceed and with grief begin at home where we shall finde a Noble Kingdom ruined by Treachery and betray'd to Forraigners by an abominable Murder And for the better understanding of which sad story we may know that the Danes for some time made it their business to possess these flourishing Nations and what by dissentions at home and their multitudes joyn'd with the terrour of their Cruelty and Heathenism they bid fair for the carrying of the whole but were still manfully opposed and might for ever have lost their designs if Treason had not been a better gamester than Valour Here lived in England one Edrike Son to Egilricus a man of a low Kindred but what he wanted in birth he supplyed by knavery and a fluent tongue a Pag 90. Stow calls him Edrike of Straton b L. 7. c. 44. § 17. § 49. Speed saith he was sirnâ—med Streton or Streattane or c Holâ—nshed l. 7. c. 10 11. Streona for his covetousness This fellow by his cunning rais'd himself to such an esteem that King d Oâ— Egelred or Etheldred Ethelred created him Duke of Mercia and gave him his second Daughter Edgith in Marriage yet could not all his favours keep him from Treachery but perceiving the Daenes to be very powerful in England to raise himself also by them he betray'd not onely the Kings Council but his Armies and Country to those Danish Invadors But here passing by his many Treasons and his as oftentimes receiving again into favour I shall hasten to his murthering of his Soveraign Edmund This Edmund was Son to King Ethelred and for his strength valour and hardness was sirnamed Ironside He had pardoned this Edrike Duke of Mercia many faults and winked at several of his treacherous actions still receiving him into favour and this too much lenity they say proved his own ruine for this Edrike thinking to make himself more beloved and trusted by the Danes took An 1017. the opportuuity and one time when King Edmund was e Thus also was slain Godfrey Dâ—ke of Lâ—rraâ—ne Baron an 1076. § 38. easing himself he procured him to be thrust from underneath into his body with a Spear or Spit which being done Edrike de Streona cut off his head and presented it to Canute King of the Danes with this fawing salutation All hail thou now sole Monarch of England for here behold the head of thy Copartner which for thy sake I have adventured to cut off Canute amazed at this so disloyal an action and thinking that he who had thus murder'd his own Soveraign might in time betray him dissembling his intent replyed and vowed That in reward of that service the bringers own head should be advanced above all the Peers of his Kingdom Which words hugely contented Edrike who for some time thought himself in great favour but at last Kanute made his words good by commanding Edrike's head to be cut off and placed upon the highest gate in London I shall not here enter into a dispute with those who question the manner of the death both of King Edmund and the Traytor Edrike seeing Authors will not in this case exactly agree amongst themselves but be it as it will I shall look a little farther North. Sect. 2. The Murther of Malcolme the Second and of Duncan Kings of Scotland IN Scotland we shall finde ruling Malcolme the Second famous for his several Victories against the Danes and his other excellent Vertues and Laws for the benefit of his Dominions And having raigned several years with great prudence and liberality at last in his old age he grew very covetous a vice commonly incident to such doting years upon which several conspired against him and being at Glammys in Anguis several of the Plotters were convey'd into his Lodging by his own faithless servants where they murder'd him Then thinking to escape on good Horses laid for Anno 1034. them the Snow then covering the earth they miss'd their way rid to the Lough of Forfair then frozen over which having rid some part the Ice broke and they were all drowned and upon the thaw their bodies found This is the common opinion others tell it another way yet all agree that he was Murther'd The next that succeeded in Scotland was Duncan who having raigned a few years was a An. 1040. murder'd at Ennerness by one Mackbeth who seised upon the Kingdom and was Crown'd at Scone and having Governed seventeen years was also b An. 1057. slain by one Mackduff Here I might recreate the Reader with some pretty stories about these times As how three Weirds Witches or Fairies told Mackbeth as he was going to Forres c Buchan p. 200. others say 't was a Vision or Dream by night that he should be King but be slain And Banquho or Bancho that though he should not be King himself yet that from him should proceed those who should continue Kings And that Mackbeth was told that he should not be slain till Birname-Wood should be brought to Dunsinan Castle in Perth shire nor by a man that was born of a woman And how that King Malcolme the Third fulfill'd the first by making every one of his Souldiers carry a bough of that Wood to the Castle and how Makduff accomplished the latter by being ript out of his Mothers belly and killing of Mackbeth But I shall leave such Tales as these to the Miracle-mongers which being as pretty as most they make use of I marvel Baronius who upon every occasion stuffs up his Voluminous Annals with such thwacking wonders passeth by this jest in silence But possibly the Cardinal was not skill'd enough in the Caledonian Histories for had he been as diligent in it as he was in idle Miracles he would never have so much inlarged himself upon Marianus Scotus as to make us believe that at this time a King of Scotland Anno 1050. § 15. should go in Devotion to Rome the name of the King being d Machethad Mar. Scot. MS. in Bâ—bl Bodl. Oxon. Machetad whereas 't is well known there was never any such King unless by mistake we may take Mackbeth who ruled in Scotland at the same time but never went so far for Devotion Be it as 't will it served his turn to promote a greatness and reverence in Rome yet e Pag. 207. Leslaeus hath a fancie that Marianus meant Malcolme the Third though Scotus his words may well enough be understood that the King had his liberality distributed by others and not himself at Rome and so the knot is untyed As for the stories of these Elves Witches or Hobgoblins they may consult f Hist Scot. lib. 12. Hect or Boetius or
ridiculous shadow without life or soul but as it received a being from Rome But leaving these we might tell you how a little after the English had got the Whim of a conditional Covenant and which is as bad Perjury For though they had sworn Allegiance to Maude Speed § 1 4 30. the Empress yet her they reject and swear a broken conditional subjection to Stephen Yet when they saw him a little downward then they cast him off and play the same conditional knack to the Empress Maude Sect. 2. The troubles of England by the arrogancie and obstinacie of Thomas à Becket against his Soveraign King Henry the Second HOwever waving these though treasonable enough we shall come to the next viz. King Henry the Second of part of whose Reign it will not be amiss to give some hints seeing so great a man as Thomas Becket is concerned in it whom some call Saint and Martyr whilst others allow him no better title than a Traytor But of this with all brevity This Thomas Becket was Son to one Gilbert Becket a Citizen of London and by the favour of Theobald Archbishop of Canterbury was made an Archdeacon in that See and was placed about the person of Henry then but Duke who coming to be King advanced him to be Lord High Chancellor of England and upon the death of the former Theobald made him Archbishop of Canterbury Having thus seen the great rise of Thomas by the Kings love grace and favour let 's now see how he lost the affection of King Henry For some time he thus lived in great repute with the King though Henry was a little troubled at the humour or design of Thomas to throw up his Chancellorship without acquainting him with it After this the Pope call'd a Council at Tours whither went the two Archbishops and several Bishops of England having first procured the Kings a Per missione Regis Matt. Paris an 1164 leave for going thither Where an ancient b Guil. Neubrig lib. 2. c. 16. Historian tells us that Thomas privately surrendred up his Archbishoprick to the Pope as if the Kings Nomination or Investiture had not been sufficient which was restored again by the Pope and so Thomas was cocksure of both Presentations and Authorities And probably this underhand-dealing and nulling of his jurisdiction might somewhat alienate the affection of Henry although c Baronius d An. 1163. § 29. will not allow of any such surrender at this time though for his dissent we must not be content onely with his word neither producing Reason or Authority for his so doing since 't is probable enough being thus back'd with the Testimony of Neubrigensis that Thomas might yeild it up now in his Prosperity for a farther confirmation and in his low condition do it also to procure pity and so make his party there the stronger against his King and Soveraign which was then his main design Add to these the strange Priviledges the Clergy boasted of by exempting themselves from all secular jurisdiction were the crime never so villanous insomuch that a Priest of the Diocess of Sarum having murder'd one Thomas had him deprived and placed in an Abbey that so he might not fall under greater punishment according to his desert by the Kings Justiciaries lest forsooth he should suffer twice for one fault And upon this last pretended Priviledge may we lay the Foundation of the following troubles For the King perceiving no signs of Peace and Tranquillity amongst his Subjects if this exception of the Clergy was permitted the people of that Coat having committed above an hundred Murthers in the short time he had yet Reigned was resolved that all the Clergy who were taken in any Robbery Murder Felony burning of Houses and the like should be tryed in Temporal Courts and suffer as well as Laymen Against this wholesome Law the Archbishop opposeth himself and will onely grant that Speed § 14. all Clergy-men so offending should be tryed in the Spiritual Courts and by men in Orders who if they were found guilty should for the first time onely be deprived of their Office and Benefice yet he granted that for the second time they might lye at the Kings pleasure as some think though d Baron an 1163. § 31. others confess that he would not allow them at any time to be delivered over to the Temporal Authority And for these irrational Priviledges Thomas was so resolute that at Westminster he openly opposed the King and got others to do so too which mightily incensed his Majesty but pleased Pope Alexander the Third to the purpose yet fearing their hearts might fail them he sends his incouraging lines into England commanding them by vertue of their obedience to stand firm for the Exemption of the Clergy nor at all to consent to the King and that if he or Baron an 1163. § 39 40. any of the rest had in these times promised obedience to the King not to keep such promises but all this did not much prevail For the King was resolved to have the Laws and Customs of his Ancestors kept up in full force and carryed his business so well that at last he had not onely the other Bishops of his opinion but Thomas also consenting who faithfully promised and sware to observe them And for their farther ratification and authority the King calls an Assembly at Clarendon in Wiltshire where the Bishops and Nobility meet him and John of Oxford sat as President But here Thomas for all his former promise at first absolutely falls off and denyeth consent to the Constitutions though at last he was so far worked upon one way or another that he there publickly sware that in the word of a Priest and sincerely he would observe them to the King and his Heirs for ever But when the King would have him to Subscribe and Seal to them as the other Bishops had done he absolutely refused and retracted what he had formerly sworn The Constitutions in all were sixteen but those which Thomas opposed were such as these That Priests guilty of Felony Murther c. should be tryed before the Secular Judges That it should not be lawful for any Archbishop or Bishops to depart the Kingdom and go to the Pope upon his summons without the Kings License That no Bishops should Excommunicate any holding of the King in Capite or put any other of his Officers under interdict without the Kings License or information to the Judge That if the Archdeacon cannot decide the Controversie they may go to the Bishop and from him to the Archbishop and lastly â—â— the King so that none shall appeal to the Pope of Rome for any cause whatsoever without the Kings License c. These and suchlike were approved of at Clarendon by all onely Thomas excepted who thought himself to have sinn'd so grievously for the former consenting to them that by way of Penance he suspended himself from his Priestly Function but
her King and elder Brother Henry and conjures them also to loyalty to throw away all private Interests and Factions and conclude in a firm peace and union The Confederates perceiving that they wanted an Head and so a main pretence to countenance their Arms to the people and that whatever they had hitherto gained was more by their dissembling then strength that also the Pope Paul II had censured them if they continued in open wars For King Henry was held an obedient son to the Bishops of Rome for which Calixtus III had sent him formerly an Hat and a consecrated Sword which they use to bless upon Christmas-Eve at night laying them upon the Altar where they say Mass And farther they recollected that upon Henries death Isabella was like to be Queen whereby they could procure no favour or benefit to themselves by opposing her peaceable desires Upon these considerations they consented to an Agreement so Articles are drawn up a Peace concluded on Donna Isabella is declared Princess of the c Las Asturias formerly of a larger extent is now â— little Province between Galicia Leon and Biscay lying upon the Cantabrian sea 'T is twofold Asturia de Oâ—iedo and Astur de Santillana As the Heirs of England are called Princes of Wales and those of France les Dauphins so are those to the Crown of Castile call'd Princes of the Asturias Upon what occasion this â—hort Scheme may shew Alphonso XI had amongst other Children Henry a Bastard Earl of Transâ—amara took the Kingdom from the Tyrant Pedro and stab'd him with his dagger he had John I. who had Henry III. Don Pedro el Cruel had amongst others a bastard call'd Constancia she was marryed to John of Gant Duke of Lancaster son to Edward III King of England Upon the death of Don Pedro sirnamed the Cruel though his bastard-Brother Henry II. seised upon the Crown and was acknowledged for King yet John of Gant Duke of Lancaster pretended the right to lye in him by reason of his Wife Constance and made some bustle about it Henry dying there succeeded his son John I. with whom and Lancaster a peace was concluded Lancaster to renounce all his Title to Castile and King John to marry his son Henry to Lancaster's Daughter Catherine which accordingly was accompish'd so both their pretensions united And for more honour Don Henry the young son was to be call'd Prince of the Asturias since which time the eldest sons of Castile were call'd Princes and the younger are titled Infantas This hapned about the year 1388. And so much by the way concerning the Title of Prince of Asturias yet do I finde Jehan Froissart who lived at this time to tell us that Henry was call'd Prince of Gallicia in his French Edition 1530. vol. 3. fol. 96. and fol. 143. In the old English Edition vol. 2. cap. 154. fol. 170. and cap. 176. fol. 214. Asturias and lawful Heir to the Kingdoms of Castile and Leon with their dependants What troubles hapned in Castile after this treaty being not considerable I shall pass over Donna Isabella now declared Heir several matches were consulted of but she secretly joyned her self with Don Fernando Prince of Girona and the eldest son living to John II King of Arragon At this marriage King Henry was greatly vext as being contrary to his desire and without his knowledge But at the long run the King becomes more pacified and at last a 1474. dying she succeeds as Queen of Castile and Leon although some busled for Joane the supposed Daughter of King Henry but she is generally thrown by as a bastard being begot of his Queen Joane by one Don Bertrand de la Cueva afterwards prefer'd for his kindness being created Earl of Ledesma Master of Santiago and Duke of Albuquerque As for Henry himself he is by all esteem'd as frigid and uncapable of such loves Not long after John II King of Arragon b 1479. dying that Kingdom was united to Castile by the fortunate former marriage of Ferdinand and Isabella Here might I descend into the troubles of Navar and tell how Don Carlos Prince of Viana took up Arms against his Father John King of Navar and Arragon Upon which quarrel began the great Factions of those of Beaumont and Grammont the first adhering to the Prince and the latter to the King and the feuds of these two potent Families was one of the main causes of the loss of Navar to the Spaniard those of Beaumont assisting Don Ferdinand in the conquest against their own King and Country Of which more hereafter In short the Prince being not able to keep the field withdrew himself to Naples for sometime thence returns endeavours new troubles upon which he is taken and secuâ—ed Upon this the Catalonians rebel and though Prince Carlos was set at liberty and c Some say he was poyson'd by his Step mother D. Joane to make way for heâ—â—â—son Ferdinando to the Crown of Arragon dyed presently after yet they continue their Treasons The people of Barcelona publickly declare King John an Enemy to his Country and so they would withdraw themselves from his obedience And the Catalonians sent to Henry IV. of Castile to desire him to take them under his protection they being resolved no more to obey the Crown of Arragon Don Henry accepts them so they set up the Banners of Castile At last after a tedious War they are vanquish'd forced to submit and King John giveth them all freely a pardon But of Spain more in the next Century A CONTINUATION OF THE REBELLIONS AND Treasonablepractices OF THE ROMANISTS Particularly in Spain Scotland and Ireland From the year MD. to MDC BOOK VI. CHAP. I. 1. John and Catherine King and Queen of Navar deprived 2. Pope Julius II. Sect. 1. John and Catherine King and Queen of Navar deprived THe Conquest of Navar being acted suddenly we year 1500 shall make the story of it but very short At the beginning of this Century we finde John d'Albret or Don Juan de la Brit and Donna Catherina King and Queen of Navar which had boasted it self a Kingdom almost DCCC years Ferdinand II King of Arragon having by his marrying with Isabella Queen of Castile enlarged his Authority and Dominions as also by his banishing the Jews and subduing the Moores to him in Granado made his Government more secure cast many a greedy a Jo. de Bussieres lib. 15. § 16. Spondan an 1512. § 21. thought upon the seising the Kingdom of Navar and then all of Spain Portugal excepted would be his own At last opportunity good enough as he thought offer'd it self which was thus Pope Julius II. a zealous Hotspur falling out with Lewis XII King of France Fernando sides with the Pope and having rais'd an Army not onely demands passage for it through Albrets Territories but the command of his strongest Castles and Fortifications and which was most the possession and custody of Prince Henry eldest son to Navar
Guise kill'd at Bloys 1588. Catherine second Wife to the Duke of Montpensier She died 1596. Charles Cardinal of Lorrain a Legat in the Council of Trent Of him François d'Isle makes his Legend He died 1573. Lewis de Guise made Card. by Julius III. He died 1578 Claude Duke of Aumale slain at the siege of Rochel 1573. Charles René Marquess of Elboeuf died 1566. Charles Duke of Elboeuf Charles Duke of Elboeuf and Count de Harcourt François call'd the Grand Prior died 1562. Jean Cardinal of Lorrain lived in the French Court a great Favorite with King François I. He died 1550. GUISE a little strong Town in Picardy which King Francis I. raised to a Dukedom and honoured Claude one of the sons of Rene Duke of Lorrain with thit Title BAR a little Dukedom in Lorrain the chiefest Town of it is now call'd Bar-le-Duc so call'd to distinguish it from other Bars upon the Seine the Aube c. it was erected into a Dukedom by Philippes de Valois VI. 1329. The eldest son of Lorrain if married hath this Title PONT now better known by the name of PONT-A-MOUSSON a Marquesset and Title of the eldest son if unmarried of the Duke of Lorrain VAUDEMONT or Vauldemont a Town in Lorrain being the Title of an Earldom JOINVILLE a little Town on the borders of Champaigne towards Lorrain a Principality of the Guises MERCOEUR a Town in Languedoc raised to a Dukedom by Charles IX 1569. for Nicolas Nephew to the Duke of Guise MAYENNE in Beausse in the little Territory Le Maine Coenomanensis Ager erected to a Dukedom by Charles IX 1573. for Charles brother to Guise ELBOEUF in higher Normandy from a Marquesset raised to a Dutchy by Henry II. 1581. and given to Charles Granchild to Claude Duke of Guise AUMALLE Aubmalle Aumarle Albemarle in Latin Alba Mala Arturus du Monstier Neustria Pia p. 731 732 c. for thus and more variously hath it formerly been writ a Town in higher Normandy anciently an Earldom with which Titles the Kings of England as Dukes of Normandy used to honour some of their Subjects and the French Kings having the possession of it have used the same liberty Charles VII made it a Peerdom of France 1458. and Henry II. raised it to a Dukedom for one of Guises sons 1547. but it is now honoured by George Monck Duke of Albemarle By this the common sort of Readers may the better distinguish and understand the variety of Cardinals to be met withall in the Histories of the French Troubles and may also see to what Greatness and Honours the Guisian Family hath in a short time been raised to in France but whether they were answerably grateful to that Crown let others judge Some are apt to tell us that Claude de Vaudemont afterwards the first Ant. Colynet p. 1 and le Contre-Guiâ—e Duke of Guise came into France in the Reign of Lewis XII Predecessor to Francis I. in no splendent condition but by wheedling himself into the Favour of King François I. obtained to be the Kings Falconer whence by degrees he rais'd himself and his Posterity above the Princes of the Bloud Royal. And they also tell us that Francis I. was so sensible of the Aspiring humour of that Family that upon his death-bed he advised his son Henry to have a care of them otherwise * Mon fils j'ay bien apperçeu cognois pur vray que la Race n'en vaut rien que si vous faites le contraire ils vous mettront en pourpoint vostre peuple en chemise François de l'Isle fol. 6. b. They will turn you into your doublet and your subjects into their shirts Some may look upon Lewis XI of France as a cunning King being Jean Bodin de la Râ—publâ—que l. 6. c. 2 p 952 953. Master of Hypocrisie others may conclude him rich when they see his Account run so thriftily if not beggarly as * 20 Sols Two shillings for two new sleeves for the Kings old doublet †15 Deniers One peny half-peny for a box of grease to grease his boots But certainly he was none of the wisest for turning away his Fathers old Faithful Counsellers and Servants for neglecting and despising the old Nobility and pleasing and sorting himself with the Plebeans and those of the meanest rank insomuch that his Taylor was his Herald and his Barber his Embassadour This way of meanness and negligence is seldom without a mischief attending it and this Family of Valois now growing towards its end wanted the vigour and prudence of her former Kings now were they Sardanapalus like more apt and fit to accompany the worst of Women and hold a Distaff then to manage a Sceptre or protect a People Pleasures were all their study and to neglect business all their care they were only the picture of Kings having neither life nor action to Government or Majesty leaving affairs to be managed by any that could thrust themselves uppermost By which easiness they had the honour to be commended by some hated by others pitied by most as good-natur'd Kings born to enrich a few Favourites but ruine the whole Kingdom besides Though some cunning Minister of State can throw all their own Extortions Cheats and Villanies upon the King thereby making a double Cheat abusing both the King and People And thus it happened with these of France to whose very Name and Family I find some to have such a spite and hatred that I meet with a Cordelier called Melchier publickly in the Pulpit to have told the People 1559. that As long as any of the Line of Valois reigned the people could Guil. Ribier Leâ—tres Memoires d'Estat tom 2. p. 799 800. not be free from oppression all that Family being so highly addicted to tyranny And another time he affirmed to his Auditors that It was very convenient that four of the greatest in the Kingdom ought to be rooted out for the easment and comfort of the people That this Gray Frier meant the King then in being viz. Henry II. I cannot say but for number sake it is not unworth the observation that besides the King there were but Four men viz. his Four sons living then in the whole world of that Family after whose deaths it ended and the Crown fell to that of Bourbon Nor is it unworth the notice that the people were then so apt to Sedition that Antoine King of Navarre who under his own hand gave the King notice of these expressions was pussled or at a stand how to behave himself in this affair fearing the rage of the people should he forthwith call the Frier to an account But it is not only the House of Valois that is aimed at but that of Bourbon too as being next Heirs to the Crown of France And this design is heavily laid in the dish of the House of Guise who as they say had for many years consulted
Queen Elizabeth 454 455 456 Francis Duke of Anjou his death 502 Suspected by poyson Ibid. Causes the Guisard to rejoyce Ibid. Don Juan d'Aquila lands in Ireland with Spanish forces 658 c. L'Auspespine the French Ambassador in England plots the murder of Queen Elizabeth 450 B BAbington's treasons against Queen Elizabeth 445 446 Baldwin II Emperour of Constantinople deposed 279 Fran. Baroncello his pranks at Rome 306 Cardinal Baronius bad Principles 78 The Barricadoes 523 Pierre Barriere his plots against the King 589 Becket vid. Thomas Cardinal Bellarmines bad Principles 68 69 Berengarius murther'd 192 John of Bilboa his imposture 360 361 Birket constituted Archpriest of England 720 Blois the Assembly of the States-General meet there 527 The D. of Guise rules all there ibid. Boniface VIII Pope his life and actions 282 c. Cardinal Bourbon declar'd King 562 Bow at the name of the Pope and Virgin Mary 40 Richard Bristow's bad Principles 62 66 C CAelestine V Pope 282 283 Alphonso Carillo Archbishop of Toledo chief of the Rebels against Henry IV King of Castile and Leon 337 338 c. Catherine Queen of Navar deprived 343 344 Robert Cecil threatned in a Letter from the Romanists 707 708 Charles III le Gross Emperour depos'd 185 First dated his Letters from the year of Christ 186 Charles III le simple King of France deposed 203 204 Carlos I King of Spain chose Emperor called Charles V 353 His going from Spain into Germany opposed by the Spaniards 353 354 Chastel stabs the King 596 Childerick II King of France and his Queen murdred 160 Childerick III King of France deposed 165 166 His Subjects absolv'd from their Oaths of Allegiance by Pope Zachary Ibid. Clement VIII thanks the Irish for their Rebellion 651 Sends a Letter to Tyrone the Rebel 655 Fryar Clement kills Henry III of France 547 The Prince of Conde poysoned 521 Conradino King of Naples beheaded 281 Constantines Donation a meer cheat 117 118 c. Constantine V Emperour of Constantinople murdred 169 170 The Covenant vid. League Council of Sixteen vid. Paris Culene King of Scotland murther'd 211 D DAndalo in a Chain under the Popes Table 307 Deodato Duke of Venice his eyes put out 183 Desmond ' s Plots against Ireland and Articles with Francis I. King of France 385 386 Proclaim'd Traitour 390 His death 392 Devils abused 27 28 The Devil confess'd his sins and loved the Mass 28 Pray'd for that his sins might be forgiven 136 S. Dominick his lying stories 5 Donald V King of Scotland imprison'd 183 Duffe King of Scotland murder'd 208 209 210 Duncan King of Scotland murder'd 215 E EDict vid. Vnion Edmund King of England murther'd 205 Edmund Ironside King of England murder'd 214 Edward King of England sirnamed the Martyr 206 207 Edward II King of England his deposing and murther 309 310 Edward VI insurrections in the North and West against him 408 409 Queen Elizabeth leaves out the word HEAD and is stiled onely Supreme Governour 400 Her Vindication 410 411 c. to 423 Her commendations by Forraigners 411 Defended from cruelty in putting some Romish Priests to death 413 414 416 Declared in a Bull of Pope Pius V Excommunicated Deprived and Deposed 419 Her mildeness and mercy towards Romish Priests 419 420 421 422 423 Who were put to death for Treasons not for Religion Ibid. Deposed by Pope Paul IV Her murder designed by Pius V 426 Her Subjects absolv'd from their Oath of Allegiance by his Bull 427 to 431 Insurrections in the North against her Government 432 Attempts to kill her 445 446 Several plots against her 675 676 c. Empire its troubles by the Papal arrogancie 303 England not subject to the Papal Power 233 234 Equivocation 190 Exorcisms used by the Romanists to inveigle the ignorant people 446 447 448 449 St. Ericus IX King of Swedland kill'd 252 Erick VI King of Denmark beheaded 279 Erick VII murdred ibid. Ethus King of Scotland imprison'd 183 Exorcisms cheating 27 F FAbritio Duke of Venice his eyes put out 183 Felton condemned for Treason not for Religion 419 Esteemed as a Martyr by the Romanists 433 Florence wicked designs against it by the Pope 331 332 c. Folly of Heathens 1 2 Formosus Pope his troubles 196 197 His body drag'd out of the grave and his fingers cut off 197 198 France the holy League and Covenant there 483 More stirs there upon the deaths of the Guises 529 The people's Declaration 530 S. Francis his childish stories 2 3 4 Frederick I Barbarossa his troubles 254 c. Frederick II Emperour troubled and depos'd 266 G GAlla Duke of Venice his eyes put out 183 Father Garnet his life 696 to 707 The story of his straw 704 705 Gerberg a Nun drown'd in a Wine-vessel 178 Gibbelines their Story 270 Giovanni Duke of Venice banish'd 183 Men held for Gods 1 2 God abused and blasphemed 29 30 Gradenico Duke of Venice murder'd 183 Gregory I against a Vniversal Bishop 154 Commendeth the murther of Mauricius 155 156 Calls himself servant of servants 156 Delivers Trajans soul out of Hell 157 Gregory VII his power 218 219 c. Deposed by a Synod at Worms 220 By another at Brixen 226 Dyeth and is Sainted 227 Gregory XIII his explication of Pius V his Bull against Queen Elizabeth 435 436 Jac. Gretser his bad Principles 69 Guelfs their story 270 Guisards several designes against the House of Navar as the chief of that of Bourbon 488 489 490 Their under-plottings against Henry III of France 494 495 496 to 502 Their designes against the House of Bourbon 502 And to make themselves next Heirs of the Kingdom 502 503 c. Look upon Cardinal Bourbon as first Prince of the Bloud rather then the King of Navar 507 Duke of Guise holds a Treaty or Conventicle with some Spanish Commissioners and others and the agreement at that Cabal 505 Has a meeting of the Chieftains of the House of Lorrain at Nancy 520 Presents several propositions to the King ibid. Comes to Paris has the acclamations of the people 522 The Queen-Mother sent to treat with him 524 His insolent demands 524 Refuses to swear Allegiance to the King and plots to take away his life 528 Is kill'd at Blois ibid. Cardinal of Guise kill'd by the Kings order ibid. Gunpowder-Treason vid. Treason H LOng Hair of great value 167 Hare occasion'd the taking of Rome 187 Harenscaran punishment what 256 257 Heaven abused with lyes 29 30 Henry II King of England his troubles by Thomas a Becket 235 236 c. His grief and penance for Beckets murther 247 248 Henry IV King of Castile and Leon his miseries by his proud rebellious Nobility 337 c. They make a League against him ibid. Designe to kill him 340 Henry IV Emperour his troubles and deposition 218 219 c. Deprived 220 224 225 His strange Humility and Submission 222 Crown'd at Rome 226 Depos'd by his son 228 229 His poverty and death
him Yet if she will renounce her Title and refer her self wholly to him he would do what would stand with the honour of the Apostolick See As for the Queen she never troubled her thoughts to satisfie his Holiness in his demands and for Sir Edward Karn he dyed some c years afterwards at Rome being the last Ambassador d 1561. that went from the English Crown to the Pope This angry Pope dying another succeeded of a milder temper who though he was earnestly prest to thunder out his Bulls against the Queen yet now knowing that Princes were too wise to deliver up their Kingdoms at the noise of such Paper-claps he goeth another way to work He sends Vincentio Parpalia Abbot of St. Saviors with a civil pen'd Letter for the Queen His year 1560 Instructions are said to be That if she would joyn her self to the Romish Church and acknowledge the Primacie of that Chair that he would disanul the sentence against her Mothers Marriage as unjust confirm the English Common-prayer-book by his Authority and grant the use of the Sacraments under both kindes to the English Add farther that several thousand Crowns were promis'd to those who would procure her complyance But this Parpalia went no farther then Bruxels being not suffer'd to enter England Yet the said Pope would not desist here but resolveth to try again and send another Nuncio viz. Abbot Martinego but he also year 1561 is deny'd the Council suspecting he might make some troubles by his presence in England the very noise of his coming having already fob'd up some indiscreet Romanists to vent themselves more boldly then formerly to spread abroad false News of the Queens conversion some by Astrology and other ways to consult the length of her Reign and Life and the Popes Nuncio then in Ireland did not onely joyn himself with the Rebels against her but also by his pretended Authority deprived her of all Right and Title to that Kingdom That which they call the General Council of Trent now sitting Sanders de Schâ—â—m l. 3. pag. 360. the Queen is desired to send some thither but this she thought would be to little purpose seeing the designe of that Convention as the Emperour and the French King b Hist Council of Trent pag. 279 318. call'd it was more of Interest then real honesty Besides it had now continued about XV years and so improbable to alter any thing upon her desire Nor was the Council it self free as appears by the several c Id. pag. 167 168 507 508 530 551 566 569 635 644 659 661 683. complaints put in there against such forcible abuses some things as the d Id. pag 589. Institution of Bishops not being permitted to be discussed the Pope fearing to be the looser Nor was the e Id. pag. 660. Secretary just in taking and setting down the suffrages whereby he turn'd the Votes as he pleas'd Nor would they allow any thing to be concluded on but as they received f Id. pag. 497 703. Instructions from the Pope which occasioned the Proverb That the Holy Ghost was sent from Rome to Trent in a Cloak bag Besides Ambrose Goligna a Dominican publickly g Id. pag. 374. preach'd against the Protestants affirming that Faith and safe-conduct is not to be kept with them And when some of the Reformed Divines went thither the h Id. pag. 374 375. Legat brake off the Debates not lâ—tting the Council proceed and suspended the Council for two years pretending fear of Wars against which action the Spanish Bishops i Id. pag. 366. 367. protested And when the Legats party fears to be out-voted then do they send to the Pope to make more Bishops and convey them to k Id. pag 254 255 256 257. Trent which Legats undertook not onely to direct but command the whole Council which spoil'd its Freedom To these may be added the tricks used to carry on their designes and prevent a baffle either by new making of Bishops the better to out-vote or suspending of all from acting or voting or by removing them to other places so to divide the Council as when they were adjourn'd to l Id. pag 267 268 269 277 278 279 281 282 283 284 285 286 300 301 302 c. Bologna whither those that depended on the Pope went the rest refusing staid still at Trent not submitting to this removal or division And little might here be expected but partiality seeing the Italians were almost three to one of the number there all the Subscribers amounting to no more then 255 of which 187 were Italians so that bating the interested Italians there remains but a poor Catalogue of Bishops in respect of the great number that are in the Christian World yet must this be look'd upon as one of the most famous General Councils in the whole World yet the Romanists cannot agree about its Jurisdiction or Authority for though the a Id. pag. 661 719 French hold the Council to be above the Pope yet his Holiness looks upon himself as no wise b Pag. 818. bound to observe the Canons of Trent In short should the English Clergy have appear'd in this Council they must either have been there as Free-men frankly to Dispute and Debate as others did But thus they could not having been before condemn'd as Hereticks by Julius III. And at Trent here they were so Zealous as to Excommunicate the Archbishop and Elector of c Id. pag. 165 189 259 260. Colen for Heresie before they had determin'd what was Heresie If they could not appear as Free-men then they must under the capacity of Offenders as it were to receive sentence of condemnation but to this they thought they had no reason to submit themselvs and we need not doubt how things would have gone with them For we finde those of Trent so busie and zealous that they were going to throw their d Sanders de Schism lib. 3. pag. 3â—1 Censures against the Qâ—een but that the Emperour Ferdinand I. used his Interest to dâ—sswade them from it thinking by this to ingratiate himself wiâ—h her hoping to marry his Son to her But no more of this seeing that the Learned Bishop Jewel wrote an Apologie for our English Bishâ—ps not going to that Council which may be seen at the latter end of Father Paul's History But leaving these Disputes and passing by the designe of Arthur Pool Antony Fortiscue and some others who contrived to joyn themselves with the Duke of Guise so from France to land year 1562 an Army in Wales to Proclaim the Queen of Scots and make her Queen of England we shall proceed and finde the Pope himself to be the greatest Stickler in the troubles against Elizibeth Pope Pius the Fifth being strongly bent not onely to get Queen Elizabeth deposed but to have her e De medio tâ—â—â—eâ—e câ—gitaba â— Anâ—â—â— Gabutiâ—s vita Pâ—â— vâ— 3. o. Murder'd and in this humour he was pleas'd
to throw his charity upon her by calling of her f Maâ—oâ—uâ—n omnium sentinam flagitiorum servam ib. La sentina di tanti mali Girol Catena vita deâ— Papa Pro V. pag. 113. filthy and base names Thus resolved he procures one Roberto Rodolfo a Rich Florentine year 1568 Gentleman to reside in England under the colour of Merchandise and thus disguis'd to stir up the people against the Queen Then for more strength he works under-hand with the French and Spaniard to assist in the action nor was the Portugal left unsolicited all promising fair But the Spaniard was most vigorous sending Chapine Vitelli Marquess of Cetona under the year 1569 Vizard of an idle Ambassie but the truth was to countenance the Rebellion and command the Forces which the Duke of Alva was to send over on that designe from the Netherlands for more surety of which La Motte the Governour of Dunkirk had come privately in the habit of a common Saylor to sound the Ports In the mean time Rodolpho having his Pockets full of the Popes money spread it abroad by his discretion gaining thereby many Proselytes They endeavour'd to make Thomas Howard Duke of Norfolk Head of their Plot promising him in Marriage Mary the unfortunate Queen of Scots now secured in England And at last they over-perswaded the good-meaning Duke to engage farther then was fitting for a Subject being cheated thereto by some false friends And into the same designe was drawn Thomas Percy Earl of Northumberland Charles Nevil Earl of Westmerland with several others of Quality who at last perceiving the Queen to have discover'd their plot submitted and beg'd pardon Nor was the Pope himself idle but so zealous for this Rebellion that he assured the Spaniards if need be he would go himself in person to assist them and in that service engage all the goods of the Apostolick See as Crosses Chalices and Girolamo Catena vita del Papa Pio V. pag. 116. holy Vestments And the better to encourage the English and make them more ready for such Treason he falls to the old trick dapperly undertaking not onely to vilifie but to deprive her of her Dominions and absolve her Subjects of their Allegiance Before which time as the famous a Frustra astu per Insidias Anglorum Reginam adortus esset Thu. lib. 44. Thuanus tells us he had craftily and treacherously though in vain conspired and attempted against her Which accusation doth so offend the Pope that those words are order'd by the Index Expurgatorius to be dasht out The Bull it self take as followeth S. D. N. Pii Papae V. Sententia Declaratoria contra Elizabetham praetensam Angliae Reginam ei adhaerentes Haereticos Quaetiam declarantur Absoluti omnes Subditi à Juramento Fidelitatis quocunque alio debito deinceps obedientes Anathemate illaqueantur Pius Episcopus servus servorum Dei ad futuram rei Memoriam REgnans in excelsis cui data est omnis in Caelo in terra Potestas unam sanctam Catholicam Apostolicam Ecclesiam extra quam nulla est salus uni soli in terris videlicet Apostolorum Principi Petro Petrique Successori Romano Pontifici in potestatis plenitudine tradidit gubernandam Hunc unum super omnes Gentes omnia Regna Principem constituit Qui a a Jer. 1. 10. Evellat destruat dissipet disperdat plantet aedificet ut fidelem populum mutuae Charitatis nexu constrictum in unitate Spiritus contineat salvumque incolumem suo exhibeat Salvatori Quo quidem munere obeundo Nos ad praedictae Ecclesiae Gubernacula Dei benignitate vocati nullum laborem intermittimus omni opere contendentes ut ipsa unitas Catholica Religio quam illius Auctor ad probandam suorum fidem correctionem nostram tantis procellis conflict are permisit integra conservetur Sed impiorum numerus tantum potentia invaluit ut nullus jam in Orbe locus sit relictus quem illi pessimis doctrinis corrumpere non tentarint Adnitente inter caeteros Flagitiorum Serva Elizabetha praetensa Angliae Regina ad quam veluti ad Asylum omnium infestissimis profugium invenerunt Haec eadem Regina Regno occupato supremi Ecclesiae Capitis locum in omni Anglia ejusque praecipuam authoritatem atque jurisdictionem monstrose sibi usurpans Regnum ipsum jam tum ad fidem Catholicam bonam frugem reductum rursus in miserum exitium revocavit Vsu namque verae Religionis quam ab illius desertore Henrico VIII olim eversam clarae memoriae Maria Regina Legitima hujus sedis praesidio reperaverat potenti manu inhibito secutisque amplexis haereticorum erroribus Regium Confilium ex Anglia Nobilitate confectum diremit illudque obscuris hominibus Haereticis complevit Catholicae fidei cultores oppressit improbas Concionatores atque Impietatum administros reposuit Misse Sacrificium Preces Jejunia Ciborum Delectum Caelibatum Ritusque Catholicos abolevit Libros manifestam Haeresim continentes toto Regno proponi impia Mysteria Instituta ad Calvini praescripta observata etiam à Subditis servari mandavit Episcopos Ecclesiarum Rectores Sacerdotes Catholicos suis Ecclesiis Beneficiis ejicere ac de ill is aliis rebus Ecclesiasticis in Haereticos homines disponere deque Ecclesiae causis decernere ausa Praelatis Clero Populo ne Romanam Eccles agnoscerent neve ejus Praeceptis Sanctionibusque Canonicis obtemperarent interdixit Plerosque in nefarias leges suas venire Romani Pont. Authoritatem atque Obedientiam abjurare seque solam in Temporalibus Spiritualibus Dominam agnoscere jurejurando coegit Paeuas supplicia in eos qui dicto non essent audientes imposuit easdemque ab iis qui in unitate fidei Praedicta Obedientia perseverarunt exegit Catholicos Antistites Ecclesiarum Rectores in vincula conjecit ubi multi diuturno languore tristitia confecti extrenium vitae diem miserè finierunt Quae omnia cum apud omnes Nationes perspicua notoria sint gnavissimo quamplurimorum Testimonio ita comprobata ut nullus omnino locus excusationis defensionis aut tergiversation is relinquatur Nos multiplicantibus aliis atque ali is super alias impietatibus facinoribus praeterea Fidelium persecutione Religionisque afflictione impulsu opera dictae Elizabethae quotidie magis ingravescente quoniam illius animum it a obfirmatum atque induratum intelligimus ut non modo pius Catholicorum Principum de sanitate conversione praeces monitionesque contempserit sed ne bujus quidem sedis ad ipsam hac de causa Nuncios in Angliam trajicere permiserit ad armae Justitiae contra eam de necessitate conversi dolorem lenire non possumus quod adducamur in unam animadvertere cujus Majores de Republica Christiana tantopere meruere Illius itaque Authoritate suffuiti
great hopes of their deliverance from their Queen by reason of the great helps and forces they expected from beyond Seas And the better to strengthen their own party and gain Proselytes in England they fell a conjuring and playing the fool with the Devil perswading some simple people that they were possest and then forsooth they must be Exorcised and to carry on the designe what abominable cheating and ridiculous tricks they used may be seen by the b See a Book callâ—d A â—â—eclaraâ—ion of Egrâ—â—â— us Popish Impostutes in casting out of Devils The Author of â—â— was D Som. â—a sâ—et after Bishop oâ— Norwâ—â—h and at last Archbishâ—p of York Examinations of the parties themselves And yet to this day do we finde many fond people deluded by these Exorcising Stage-playes by which cheats these Gypsies in Divinity gain to themselves the favour of good lodging and dyet and the disposal and impoverishing sometimes of the Estates of their too credulous Patrons And to these Hobgoblin-Mountebanks we may add such Miracle-Mongers as the simple Irish Priest who in 1663 pretended to do pretty feats in England and in the latter end of July the same year was so confident as to appear at Oxford where several Diseases crouded to him all which he undertook to cure with half a dozen words of false Latine but to little purpose God-wot yet had he the formality of a Scribe to write down the names places of abode Trades and Diseases of the Patients which for ought that I know may hereafter when the storie 's forgot and the parties dead be publish'd as an excellent preservative against Heresie and a confirmation of their Cause That in these sort of Exorcisms there lurks also a Rebellious Devil may appear by the Confession of one of their own Priests Anthony Tyrrel written with his own hand and avouched upon his Oath 25 of June 1602 part of which take as followeth In the year 1584 I and John Ballard Priest since executed with Mr Babington and the rest coming together from Rome through Burgundy found there a great press of Souldiers and were advertised that they were to serve under the Duke of Guise When we came to Râ—an we heard then directlie that the said Preparations were against England The same year as I remember Mr. Creighton a Scotish Jesuit was taken at the Sea and after brought into England who by the occasion of certain a a This William Creichton is the same who acted in Spain for the Invasion of Scotland and at his return into Scotland was taken by the Dutch the Papers which he had he tore and threw over-board but the winde blew them back again into the Ship Sir William Wade with a great deal of pains laid them together again whereby he found out the dâ—signe of the Pope Spaniaâ—d and the Guiset to invade England Writings which he had was driven to confess at large as I have been informed what the whole Plot was and how far both the Pope and the King of Spain had ingaged themselves in it Here of I doubt not but that sundrie Catholicks in England had sufficient notice from beyond the Seas and especiallie Mr. Edmunds alias Weston the Jesuit who was then the chief as Mr. b b He was afterwards executed as a Traytor in the Gun-powder-treason Garnet as I take it is at this present and therefore could not be ignorant of such important matters wherein principal men of his own societie was ingaged Not long after my coming into England in the year 1585 Mr. Martin Aray a Priest meeting me at the end of Cheapside as I was turning to enter into Pauls Churchyard took me by the hand and whispering me in the ear bad me Be of good cheer for that all things went now very well forward The King of Spain quoth he is now almost ready with his Forces to come into England and we shall be sure to hear some good news thereof very shortly Wherefore it standeth us now in hand that be Priests to further the Catholick Cause as much as possibly in us lyeth or to this effect And this was the State of that time nourished as I well perceived with great hope of some great alteration by the means before express'd About the time of Mr. Arayes aforesaid Communication with me Mr. Edmunds alias Weston had latelie as it was reported cast a Devil out of one Marwood Whereupon he the said Mr. Aray at the time before mentioned did highlie commend unto me the Exorcisms of Fa. Edmunds saying that he the said Edmunds would make the Devils themselves now confess that their Kingdom was neer at an end Vpon the pretended dispossession of the said Marwood sundry other Priests moved thereunto I am perswaded by the instigation of Mr. Edmunds or for that they meant to shew their zeal in imitating of him did take upon them to Exorcise and cast Devils out of divers persons viz. a a These viz. Sara and â—â—â—swr a Williams â—rne Smith â—nd Richard Mainy confess'd all the Pâ—â—â—sts legel â—e main with them Sara and a Friswood Williams William Trayford a Anne Smith a Richard Mainy and Elizabeth Calthrop whose Neck was found broken at the bottom of a pair of Stairs as the brute went then amongst us When I saw this Course I liked it well and was my self an Actor in it and did well perceive that it was the matter whereat Mr. Aray had aim'd when he told me that It stood us Priests in hand to further the Catholick Cause as much as possibly we could And indeed our proceedings therein had for a time wonderful success I cannot in my Conscience esteem the number fewer that in the compass of half a year were by that means reconciled to the Church of Rome then five hundred persons some have said three or four thousand As touching the several manners of dispossessing the said Parties and of their fits trances and visions divers discourses were penned amongst the which I my self did pen one Mr. Edmunds likewise writ I am perswaded a quire of paper of Mr. b b This Mr. Richard Mainy did under his own hand â—nd upon â—â—th confest at larg all their â—â—gâ—ing and cheaâ—ing tricks with him Mainy's pretended Visions for he thought as it seemed to have wrought some great matter by him but was disappointed very ridiculously c. We omitted not the Relicks and Bones of Mr. Campian Mr. Sherwiâ— Mr. Brian and Mr. Cottam to have some little Testimony by implication from the Devil to prove them holy Martyrs We that were Priests were thereby greatly magnified by Catholicks Schismaticks and weak Protestants the two former being confirmed in the Roman Catholick faith and the third sort thereunto reconciled as hath been before mentioned And that cannot be denyed but that in the Course which we held with the said pretended Demoniacks many occasions were given and aptly taken to scorn and deride the Orders and Service now established by her Majesties Laws in
not exempted from the guilt of the offence although he escaped the punishment But let others dispute the Priviledge of Ambassadors and so I leave him as I finde him CHAP. VI. The Spanish Invasion THe greatest Enemies the Queen had were those whose births oblig'd them to obedience but whether their Religion its interest or some bad Principles of the Parties prompted them to such Treasons let others judge 'T is certain the Jesuits and other English Priests were the occasion of the Queen of Scots her ruine they still thrusting her on to so many inconveniences against the Queen and Kingdom that Elizabeth was the sooner perswaded to consult her own safety by taking away that which sought her overthrow As for these people when they saw no hope of restoring the Roman Religion either by Mary of Scotland nor her Son they Camden anno 1586 began to finde out new Masters and none more fit for them then the Spaniard whom they vapour'd to be Heir to the English Crown And concerning this a Vita Vincent Laurei Card. pag. 72. Ruggerius Tritonius Abbot of Pinaro in his life of Cardinal Vincentius Laurens tells us an odd passage viz. that Mary the Queen of Scots the day before she suffer'd death did under her own hand in the French Tongue declare that her Son James should not Inherit England if he remain'd a Protestant but that the right of the Kingdom should be translated to Philip of Spain And these Papers were sent to the said Cardinal Laureus being by Sixtus V. made Protector of Scotland who gave them to Conde Olivares then Ambassador for the King of Spain at Rome with order to send them to his Master Philip and this did Robertus Titius publish though without Tritonius the Authors knowledge and then living in Italy 1599. dedicating it to Cardinal Montalto And this is somewhat agreeable to one of the charges laid against her at her tryal that she sent a Letter to Mendoza the Spanish Ambassador wherein she promis'd to give her right of England to the King of Spain if her Son James would not be of the Romish perswasion The first of these Stories b History of Queen Mary James VI pag. 120. Mr. Sanderson looks upon as a meer trick and fable and whether she was really so concern'd for her Sons Religion as to use any means for his conversion to Popery King James can tell best himself and thus he saith c Monitory Preface to the Apology pag. 34. In all her Letters whereof I received many she never made mention of Religion nor labour'd to perswade me in it so at her last words she commanded her d Viz. Melvyn Master-houshold a Scotish Gentleman my servant and yet a live she commanded him I say to tell me that although she was of another Religion then that wherein I was brought up yet she would not press me to change except my conscience forced me to it For so that I led a good life and were careful to do Justice and govern well she doubted not but that I would be in a good case with the Profession of my own Religion But whether she undertook to give away the Title of England from her Son was no great matter it being against all Law Justice and Reason she having no power to dispose of the Inheritance of England yet the Romanists when all other endeavours fail'd to rob King James of his Kingdoms and life had the confidence about the year 1613. to a Jesuitica per unitas Belgii provincias Negotiatio E 4. publish a book affirming King James to be but a meer cheat or counterfeit and a mock-King denying him to be the Son of the aforesaid Queen Mary But laying aside such Forgeries that the Spaniard hath had a designe not onely to rule these Islands but to be the Universal Monarch hath been the opinion of many men amongst others I finde b Dessein perperuel des Espagnols a la Monarchie Universelle Pâ—inted 1624. in quarte one hath made an Extract from their Original Papers whither I shall refer the Reader But whatever his former attempts have been of late he hath rather lost then gain'd And though Naples Flanders Arragon Catalonia c. might do him some injury if they were in the possession of others yet as they stand divided and in a posture of defence he can never grow rich by their Coyn. But to return home Where we happen in the year which above an hundred years year 1588 before the famous German Astronomer Johannes Regiomontanus had affirm'd would be most wonderful The Prophesie it self Originally in the German Language went about by Tradition and Johannes Schoenerus repeated them to the noted Bohemian Mathematician c Ephemeridum Novum Ec. 10. Cyprianus Leovitius who first publish'd them 1577 which because they have made a great noise in the world though I finde no great matter in them seeing such general predictions may serve almost for any year take thus in the Original Tausent funff hunderâ— achtsig acht Das ist das Jar das ich betracht Geht in dem die Welt nicht under So gschicht doch sunst gross merctlich wunder Often have I been troubled at the fate Of the year fifteen hundred eightie eight And if the world it self don 't end you 'll see For its events most wonderful 't will be In this year I think France was the greatest sufferer the Covenanters or Leaguers there by their Barracado's forcing the King Henry III out of Paris and he to prevent his greater danger cut off the Cardinal and Duke of Guise which occasion'd so much war and his own Murther And besides these two the third party in that Kingdom viz. the Hugonots received a great loss by the Death of the Prince of Conde suppos'd by some to be poysoned England was in some fear and at some charges by the noise of the Invincible Armada but Spains loss was inestimable by its overthrow The Lord Maitland Chancellor of Scotland undertook in short thus to give us the year a Poet. Scot. vol. 2. pag. 138. Papa Dei petit Orbis Iber Dux Guisius Orci Regna annus mirus si potientur erit And b Id. pag. 133. Andrew Melvyn hath a Copy of Verses somewhat to the same purpose Upon this great Navy c Poet. Germ. vol. 6. p. 310. Simon Stenius d Poet. Gall. vol. 3. p. 655. Adeodatus Seba Beza and several other Forreigners bestow'd their Poetry to the no small trouble of the Index Expurgatorius which was forced to take the pains to casheer some of them For some years had this great Fleet been in preparing from several parts in the world but the History of the preparations fight and victory I shall leave to other Writers and follow mine own designe Certain it is the Spaniard scarce doubted of a Conquest which made one thus to despise the Queen Tu qui Romanos voluisti spernere leges Hispano disces subdere colla
That the King of Navarre with the other Princes of Bourbon his Adherents should be declared to have forfeited their Right and Title to the Crown That a Form of Government should be made which the King should not have power to alter That such of the Kings Favourites should be banish'd the Court and turn'd out of all Offices and Places That War should be made against the Huguenots and the absolute Command of it committed unto him That the King should have no extraordinary Guards about his Person and so dismiss his Guard 45 Gentlemen That the Dukes of Aumale Elboeuf and Nemours should have the Government of Picardy Normandy and Lyons and that the Leaguers should have six other Towns as they should name That the Duke of Mayenne should be Admiral and his Creature De la Chastre be Mareschal instead of Byrâ—n That Brissac an active Leaguer should be Governour of Paris And at last concluded That he was resolved either to lose his life or secure Religion and the Estate of his Family The Queen-mother returneth and the King finding no mâ—ans by staying there to escape his snarâ—s of the Enemies who were now forming 13 May. a Siege against him resâ—lved to withdraw himself so stealing through the * So calâ—'d from the 〈…〉 of Tâ—les theâ—e formâ—rly Tuilleries the Gardens by the Louvre he took horse with a dozen Gentlemen posted to Trapes and the next day to Chartres where he was receiv'd with great demonstrations of joy 'T is said that the people were so bewitch'd with this Solemn League and Covenant that seeing him thus fly for his safety they * Jo. de â—â—â—ssieres tol 4. l. 21. p. 259. shot at him cross the River calling him all the Contumelious names that malice could invent And that the King was so troubled at these Villanies and Indignities that having got a little from Paris he turn'd him about uttering some threats and menaces against that ingrateful City The Courtiers hasted after the King with what speed they coâ—ld make most trudging afoot for in this burly-burly happy was he that could procure an horse though never so bad many Persons of Quality being content to make use of their own legs â—â— preserve themselves and amongst those who fled to the King was Niâ—â—las Poulain not daring to stay in Paris suspecting himself discover'd and well was it for him that he so escaped for the Leaguers were so mad against him for his Loyalty that they imprison'd his Wife threatned his Children rifled his house and as for himself he got to Chartres and the King without ever a Peny of mony nor do I hear of any reward excepting Promises that he received for his faithful service in so often saving the Kings life it being the custom for such good-natur'd or negligent Princes not to understand worth and vertue and so to be Misers in rewarding of such but Prodigals in heaping Riches and Honours upon their phantastical and flattering Minions or Favourites and it may be Poulain was too grave and serious for such a wanton and frolicksom Court as Henry III's was And here the Skill or Policy of Guise hath been much call'd in question for not speedily following his blow having all the advantages that possibly could be expected his great neglect being his letting the King escape the seizing of whose Person might have compleated his Triumphs and by his Enemies so wanting an Head might have brought France to submit to his pleasure all which might with ease have been accomplish'd had he but forthwith begirt the Louvre by which he might have taken the King but this nelect he remembred too late and afterwards repented of so grand an oversight Though here he had fail'd yet he resolveth to secure himself to which purpose having gain'd all the strong places in Paris put out and imprison'd the * Like the Lord Maâ—or of London Prevost des Marchands and others whom he suspected to favour the King and settled his own Creatures in their Places he surpriseth all the Neighbouring places and presently Orleans Bourges Amiens Abbeville Montrovil Rouen Rheims Chaalons and above twenty other considerable places submitted to him the mad people every-where crying out Long live Guise long live the Protector of the Faith And his Sister the Dutchess Dowager of Montpensier was so zealous against the King and Peace that she would brag how the King should be * Jo. de Buss vol. 4. p. 261. shorn for a Monk and shew the Scisars which should do the feat And for a good encouragement the Spaniard sendeth 600000 Crowns supposing that the League would make rare work for him And thus D'A bigne tom 3 l. 1. ch 23. Guise commanding all the King can find no safety for himself but by Peace though upon never so bad Conditions and that which was no small argument of his Compliance was the approach of the Spanish Armado by them call'd the Invincible and the vast Preparations of the Duke of Parma in Flanders which though in the main design'd against England yet he understood not what if Conquerours as most suppos'd they would they might act against him and France knowing full well the Catholik King to have all along assisted the Covenanters In short The King thus forc'd to shackle himself lest the Mischief and Rebellion should run too far he submits to Guise granting him and his Faction all the Proposals they desir'd and so by a Decree call'd the Edict of Union or July a Peace is hudled up between them The Edict it self being somewhat long take here the Heads of it HENRY by the Grace of God King of France and Poland c. We ordain and decree these following Articles as an unalterable and fundamental Law in our Kingdom We swear and renew the Oath made by us at our Coronation to live and die in the Roman Religion We ordain and would have all our Subjects to swear as we do and to joyn themselves with us in the extirpation of Hereticks We swear that we shall never favour or advance them and command all our Subjects to swear never to admit of an Heretical King or one that favoureth Heresie to reign over them We promise never to promote or imploy any but of the Roman Religion and expresly forbid any to be receiv'd into any Place or Imployment but who have proved themselves of the said Religion We swear and promise to protect and use our Subjects who joyn with us in these our undertakings as becometh a good King We would have our said united Subjects to swear to assist one another against the Hereticks And that our said Subjects swear to live and die in their Allegeance to us And that they swear to depart from all Practices and Leagues contrary to the said Union our Person and Authority We declare all to be Rebells who will not sign this said Union and all Towns who will not admit it shall be deprived of all their Privileges and Franchises And to
him Yet by these was the King brought so low that he borroweth aid from England Holland and the German Princes and Mayenne sendeth to desire the like from the Pope and King of Spain By this time Barnaby Brisson chief President of the Covenanting year 1591 Parliament at Paris for fome reason or other was more agreeable to the King then formerly and several in the City began to wish a Reconciliation with him The King himself knew that he had some friends in the City by whose assistance he had a design to surprize it by having several of his Captains disguised in Countrey habits pretending to carry Horse-loads of corn or meal into it by night the usual time so to steal in by reason of the Kings Forces scouring the ways and Countrey But this plot being discovered it fail'd and is yet call'd the * 20 Jan. Journee des farines Farinarum dies or Nox farinarum Day of Flour or Meal These caused the Parisians for the more strengthning themselves against any such like attempts to receive into their City Four thousand Spaniards to the displeasure of Mayenne who feared that Nation and Faction might in time be too strong for him there But he was very male-contented with the forwardness of the new Pope Gregory XIV who espoused the quarrel of the League with a great deal of earnestness sendeth Marsilio Landriano of Milan Nuncio into France with two * They may be seen at large in a Book calld de Christianissimi Regis pericuâ—â—s or de periculi Henrici IV. Printed 1591. Monitory Bulls I. One relating to the Clergie whom he interdicted if within 15 days they forsook not the obedience and part of the King And further if within 15 days more they departed not from him then to be deprived of their Livings Benefices and Functions II. The second concerned the Princes Nobility and the rest of the Laity wherein under great pains he also warned them to depart from the King whom he call'd Heretick Persecutor of the Church an Excommunicated Person and therefore depriv'd of all his Dominions and Possessions To these the Pope addeth Arms and Money sending his Nephew Hercole Sfondrato newly for Honours sake made by him Duke of Montemarciano with an Army which he will maintain with the moneys gathered up by Sixtus V. and kept in Castel St. Angelo and besides this he alloweth 15000 Crowns a moneth to the Leaguers The Royallists are greatly offended at these Papers and Proceedings Those of the Soverein Court for conveniency then sitting at Chaalons by Decree declare that the former Bulls and actings against Henry III. as also these against the present Henry IV. to be odious seditious false impostures contrary to all holy Decrees Canons Constitutions Councils the Rights and Liberties of the Gallican Church and so to be idle vain null and void and to be burnt by the hands of the Hangman Ordain also that Landriano calling himself Nuncio to be seiz'd on and suffer according to Law forbid any to entertain him declare that all Cardinals Prelates and other Ecclesiasticks who any way promote a Consent to these Bulls or approve of the late Murther of Henry III. shall be deprived of all their Benefices in this Kingdome and that none hereafter carry any money to Rome or procure any Benefices thence c. * Yet I have a Copy of it that year printed bearing date 29 Aug. 10 June 1599. The same in effect was decreed by the Parliament then sitting at Tours but with this addition prohibiting any upon pain of Nigh Treason to publish and obey any of the aforesaid Bulls And which was best of all * A declare declare Gregoire se disant Pape quatoriesme de ce nom ennemie de la pâ—ix de l'union de l'Eglise Catholique Apostolique Romaine du Roy de son Estat adheâ—ant a la Conjuration d'Espagne fauteur des Rebelles coulpable du tres cruel tres cruel tres inhumain tres detestabable parricide proditoiremenâ— commis en la personne de Henry III. Roy de tres henreuse memoire tres Christen tres Catholique Hath declared and doth declare Gregory calling himself Pope the XIV of that name an Enemy to the Peace to the Union of the Chatholick-Apostolick-Roman Church to the the King and his Estate a Partaker of the Spanish Conspiracy a favourer of Rebels guilty of the most cruel most inhumane and most detestable Parricide Trayterously committed on the Person of the most Christian King and most Catholick King Henry III. of most happy memory 5 August 1591. The same Language was used by the Parliament sitting at * 3 Aug. Caen on the contrary the Parliament at Paris thunder out their Decrees commanding the Nuncio and Monitory Bulls to be received and obeyed as proceeding from an Authentick Authority threatning severe punishments to all those who submit not to them And here having mentioned several Parliaments the common Reader may understand once for all that France had then and hath now several Seats of Parliament or rather Courts Judicature having command within their respective Precincts and instituted by several Kings as this following Scheme will shew Order Where Settled by Anno I. Paris Philippe IV. le Bel. 1302. II. Tholouse Charles VII 1443. III. Grenoble Charles VII 1453. IV. * Was constituted 1447 and so it was then tâ—e thâ—rd Parlâ—ment â—uâ— it lâ—st thâ—t â—ank and â—dâ—râ—â—y a rebelliâ—n Bourdeaux Louis XI 1462. V. Dijon Louis XI 1476. VI. Rouen Louis XII 1499. some say 1503. VII Aix Louis XII 1501. VIII Rennes Henry II. 1553. IX Pau said first to be instituted afterwards confirmed Louis XIII 1620. X. Mets Louis XIII 1633. I order and time these as they were made fixed or sedentary otherwise we might say that Parlements were had at Paris 577 at Tholouse 1302 and at Rouen 1443. In the time of this League Paris and Rouen being in the hands of the Covenanters King Henry III. removed the Sessions of those Parlements to Tours Caen c. whither accordingly as many of the Royal Members as could go went and sate acting for their Kings whilest those of the other persuasion staid and were as busie and zelous for the Leaguers But to return the Nuncio the Embassadours of Spain and Savoy the Lords of the House of Lorrain Nicolas de Pellevé then Archbishop of Sens and not of * Card. de Lenoncourt was now livâ—â—g and Archbishop of Rheims Rheims till the year after as †Pag. 1014. Davila mistakes with some others meet at Rheims where every man seeming for the League yet under that vizard to carry on their own designs and Interest their Consultations broke up without any determinations In the mean time spang up a third Party which had like to have foil'd both King and League Charles Cardinal of Bourbon who whilst the old Kingling Cardinal Bourbon lived was called Cardinal of Vendosm he seeing the Pope Spaniard and Covenanters and all
wet with digging under the Parliament-House and other such like stories which might be endless However there are some Romanists would gladly have the world believe all this to be but a meer cheat only to be a Trick of Salisbury the then Secretary and for proof I have had the patience and pleasure to hear a story very gravely told How one lurking under the Council-Table and upon what jealousie came he there conceal'd by the long Carpet heard much of the Contrivance A Tale so ridiculous that to endeavour its confutation would argue one more impertinent than the Tale-teller But though this story might be false yet will they have Cecyl to be the Plotter and to draw these Romanists into it as if supposing this were true they were not guilty and Traytors Can you deny but that they themselves thought the Plot lawful and just That accordingly they really intended it And would have done it if not prevented If Cecyl occasioned it he must use some Means and Instruments and who and what they were is a wonder that they were not discovered and known before now Those who were Executed accused no body and as the Poet saith well He that hangs or beats out 's Brains Hudibras part 2. Cant. 1. The Devil 's in him if he feigns If this were a Cheat and known so to be would not Father Parsons and others have vapoured with it all the World over Would they have been silent in the matter Or would they have concealed any thing that would have vindicated themselves and exposed and shamed the Church of England Were they such Friends to us and such Enemies to their own Credit Cause and Reputation But on the contrary Why doth * Judgment of a Cath. concerning the Oath of Alleg. Parag. 1. § 10. Parsons as if ashamed at it seem troubled at the very naming of it as it were desiring to hear no more of it Why doth Will. Warmington an honest Priest confess That * A Moderate Defence p. 7. none therein were culpable but only Jesuits and Catholicks If the Plot was laid and known before Why doth Spondanus say That the King's Preservation was * An. 1605 §. 8. Divinitus evasit miraculous And why doth a great Jesuit now confess That the discovery of the Plot was very a Patefactis mirabeliter eorum Consiliis Bried An. 1605. wonderful But lastly Why do several of them justifie the Powder-Plot b Co quaeus is so favourable to the Plotters that he alloweth them a good place in Heaven and yet we must not question but that King James is tormented in Hell Hath there not been publikely printed Apologies for the Fact and those who suffered in it declared c Examen Praefat. p. 43. Martyrs Did d Is Casaubon Epist 619. not * Id. Epist 624. Front Ducao John Grant one of the Traytors declare at his Execution That he thought the Fact was so far from being sinful that he rather judged it to be meritorious and enough to blot out or satisfie for all his former offences But enough of this only by the by we are told That the Heads of Catesby and Piercy were set over the House of Lords but were afterward Osborn's Mem. of K. James p. 31. as 't is said removed and others set in their places And a Learned and Honest Pen tells us thus * Peter du Moulin Vindication of the sincerity of the Protestant Relig. pag. 64. I cannot leave unobserved That in the height of the late Tyranny two Heads of the Gunpowder-Traytors that were set up upon the House of Lords were taken down not by the high Winds but by the same Zeal which plotted that Treason and with the leave of Traytors of another Feather We may hear in time that those holy Reliques are shrined up in Gold and are working Miracles To this may be added That the * Their Protestants Plea and Petition for Priests and Papists p. 58. Romanists confess themselves that Catesby Tresham T. Winter the two Wrights and Grant were in Essex his Rebellion That Piercy gave the Pistol to his Master the old Earl of Northumberland in the Tower as also that when they drew up a Petition to the Parliament for Favour or a Toleration Who should be the * Id. pag. 70. Presenters of it but Sir Francis Hastings and Sir Richard Knightly two noted Puritans Whereby it seems that these two Enemies can joyn together against the Church of England But now it is not amiss to say something concerning Father Garnet who made the greatest noise in this Plot. SECT II. The Life of Father Garnet with the story of his Straw HENRY GARNET was born in Nottinghamshire 1555 of Gentile Parents was sent to Winchester School where he was under the Tuition of the Learned Thomas Bilson then School-Master there and afterwards Bishop of Winchester In his Youth he was as bad as his Neighbours yet not behind in Learning was one of the chief Praepositors of the School in which place he began to be a young Conspirator having framed a cruel Plot to fall upon the School-Master and cut off his right hand To which might be added his filthy Sodomy with which he basely abused five or Vid. Rob. Abbot Bishop of Salisbury Antilog in Epist ad Lectorem six of the handsomest Scholars And perceiving that these his Crimes would hinder his promotion to New-Colledg in Oxford from which School that Noble Foundation is supplied he went to London and obtained to be Corrector of the Common-Law Press under Mr. Tottle the Printer Here he staid not long going to Rome where he turn'd Jesuit 1575. In this having employed himself some years he return'd to England 1586 where he was very active against his Queen and Countrey as in the Spanish Invasion and other such like Conspiracies and the better to secure himself alter'd his Name as opportunity served sometimes lurking under these several Names Wallâ—y Darcy Roberts Farmer Philips Very zealous he was in hindring the coming of King James to the Ehglish Crown and his Example was a great encouragement to the Romanists he being the Provincial or Head of the Jesuits in England The better to prevent King James his Succession he had two Bulls or Breves lying by him from the Pope to publish as occasion served And for a farther assistance he sent Thomas Winter into Spain 1601 with whom went also Greenwell alias Tesmond the Jesuit These according to their Instructions resort to Father Creswell the Legier Jesuit there who conducted them to Don Pedro Francese Secretary of State and also to the Duke of Lerma the chief Favourite where they desire that a Spanish Army might presently be sent into England and they should not want aid from the Romanists in that Island The Request is consented to the King promising to employ in it 100000 Crowns wishing them in the mean time to give him notice of the Queen's death whenit should happen Whilst these
229 His body denyed burial 229 230 Henrician Heresie what 230 Henry V Emperour kisseth the Popes Toe ibid. Henry VI Emperour how Crown'd 262 Henry VII Emperour his death 301 302 Henry Son to John d'Albret King of Navar Excommunicated and declared Deprived by Pope Leo X 346 Henry King of Navar protests against the Declaration and Excommunication of Pope Sixtus V 512 513 Hen. VIII King of England Supreme Head of the Church declar'd deprived of his Dominions 399 400 401 402 c. Paul III ' s Bull against him 404 405 Rebellions in the North against him 406 His Apology undertook by William Thomas 407 Hen. III K. of France his troubles from the Leaguers Book the 8th He steals privately out of Paris 524 Submits to the D. of Guise 525 Closes in with the King of Navar 540 His Name dash'd out of all Prayer books ibid. A Monitory Bull sent out against him by Sixtus V 540 541 542 543 Is murdred by Fryar Clem. 547 The Action rejoyced at and vindicated by the Covenanters 548 and the Chieftains of Rome 549 550 551 c. Henry IV King of France his troubles lib. 8. cap. 7. Declared Heretick and deprived of his Dominions by Gregory XIV 577 Murdred by Ravaillac 640 to 648 Hildebrand vid. Gregory VII Hugonots the Grandees of them massacred in one day 416 The action commended and applauded publickly 416 417 Hungary bloudy actions there 308 Ors Hypato Duke of Venice slain 183 I JAmes VI K of Scotland plots against him by the Romanists 366 367 368 369 370 c. Designes against his taking the Crown of England 676 677 678 Imposes the Oath of Allegiance defends it 709 710 711 c. Jesuits foolish stories of their Founder and Order 5 6 They have two Consciences 45 Jesus Christ childish stories of him 16 c. 29 Marryed to several 16 22 Not so much worship'd as were others 17 Ignatius Loyola his lying stories 5 6 Images troubles about them 163 164 Ingratitude 229 The Spanish Invasion 451 to 459 The Spanish Royal Standard blest 453 454 Joane Pope 180 John King of England his troubles 274 Joh. K. of Navar deprived 343 344 Ireland troubles there against Q. Elizabeth 384 385 386 387 to 397 Articles between Francis I K. of France the Earl of Desmond for the conquering it 385 386 A Rebellion raised there by Tir-Oen 648 649 The Irish send a slanderous Letter to the Pope against Queen Elizabeth 649 They are thanked for their Rebellion by the Pope 651 Defended by the Divines of Salamanca and Valladolid 667 668 c. Irene murthers her son Constantine 169 Donna Isabella Sister to Hen. IV K. of Castile invited to accept the Government refuses declared Princess of the Asturias and lawful Heir to the Kingdom of Castile and Leon 341 Succeeds in the Kingdom 342 Julio II Pope deprives John d'Albret K. of Navar and gives his Kingdom and Dominions to Ferdinand II K. of Arragon 344 Of a Warlike disposition 347 348 Interdicts Lewis XII absolves his Subjects gives his Kingdom to any that will take it takes away the Title of MOST CHRISTIAN from the French and confers it on the King of England ibid. the first Pope that wore a long beard 350 Holy Junta of Spain against Charles V 357 358 361 c. Justinian II Emperor of Constantinople his troubles 161 162 His Nose 162 K Kennith III King of Scotland murder'd 211 Kings are but Asses 38 Must kiss the Popes Feet ibid. Lead the Popes Horse ibid. Hold his Stirrop ibid. Carry up water for the Popes hands ibid. Carry up his meat ibid. Carry the Pope on their shoulders ibid. May be deposed by the Pope 41 42 c. May be deposed by Bishops though poor 53 Compar'd to Asses 38 to Dogs 43 May be deposed by their Subjects 86 87 c. May be kill'd by their Subjects 95 96 c. For how many Causes Kings may be depos'd 107 108 c. Their murder defended by a B. D. of the Sorbonne 503 L Lambert Emperour slain 190 Holy League and Covenant in France the introduction to it 483 484 485 486 to 494 The Articles of the Holy League 494 495 496 497 The Leaguers sollicite their cause at Rome with Pope Gregory XIII 506 Their Declaration drawn up in the name of Cardinal Bourbon whom they call first Prince of the Bloud 507 508 Their Council of Sixteen at Paris vid. Paris Some Preachers set on work by them to bespatter the King and his actions 518 519 Their insolences against King Henry III after the death of the Guises 529 534 Their Holy Vnion 535 They send Messengers to the Pope with private instructions to act 536 Card. Bourbon declared King by the Leaguers 562 563 c. Leo III Emperour troubled about images 163 264 L. Lessius bad Principles 74 75 Lewis le Debonnaire Emperour depos'd 170 171 c. 177 Lewis IV his eyespull'd out 189 Lewis VII of France Interdicted 254 Lewis IV Emperour his troubles 303 304 Lewis XII of France Interdicted 347 Calls a Council at Pisa to depose Pope Julio 349 Roderigo Lopez his treasons against Queen Elizabeth 461 462 463 Designes to poyson her ibid. Loretto's Chappel and flying story 23 Luidolph his humble submission 194 Those of Lyons joyn with the Leaguers 537 Their Declaration ibid. The form of their Oath 533 M THe Office of Majordom Maire du Palais first set up by Clotaire the I 165 One Landregesile first chosen to that Office ibid. Ebroin the first that advanc'd that Office ibid. Malcolme King of Scotland murdred 208 Malcolme II King of Scotland murdred 214 Gregory Martin's Pamphlet against Queen Elizabeth 437 Virgin Mary abused with lying stories 4 5 7 8 c. 21 29 Her kissing and marrying 8 9 Her kindness to whores 9 Equal to Christ himself 11 12 Her bloud better then Christs bloud 13 How hurried into Heaven 14 We must bow at the Name of the Virgin Mary 40 Queen Mary of England in her 5 years Raign put above 260 to death for Religion 418 Mauritius Emp. murther'd 153 c. The D. of Mayenne goes to Paris is made Head of the Leaguers 538 539 Refuses peace is proclaimed Traitor all his adherents 539 Medici the wicked designs of the Pope upon that Family 331 Giuliano murdred by Bandini de Pazzi 332 Lorenzo wounded but escapes ibid. Michael Emperour of Constantinople murdred 182 Miracles lying and forged 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 c. 21 22 23 24 25 c. 134 135 184 199 207 247 266 Monegario Duke of Venice his eyes put out 183 Cardinal Montalto his Letter to the General Council of the holy Vnion about the murther of Hen. III 549 550 551 c. N NAples its troubles 330 John Nichols an account of him 434 O OAths of Allegiance 60 Endeavour'd to be in France 57 58 59 Opposed in England 73 74 75 76 77 First framed 709 710 The Pope sends out two Breves against the taking
purge and discharge our selves before God his Angels and the World not to have forgotten our duties in time of persecution but constantly to have confest the name of Christ It therefore concerneth your Wisdom most Holy Father to foresee seeing we are now in these dangerous days whereout we cannot escape without great miracle that this evil turn not to the destruction of your Holiness and the utter overthrow of the Apostolick See and that the judgment of God as S. Peter saith and the continual and known threatnings of Navarre seem to confirm begin not at his house and that that Serpent which hath till now been nourished defended and by those unto whom it did not become most courteously used spit and cast not his poison and venom upon him by whom it was expedient his head should have been broken and bruised to the perpetual reproach and shame of Sixtus V. but notwithstanding by a just revengement and secret judgment of God And while there is any hope remaining that with all speed your Holiness linger not to draw the two-edged sword although too late we fear but who knoweth if God will be appeased and forgive us our offences upon this noisom beast and display all force and power against it For it is now long enough nay we fear too long tarried delayed lingered and loitered And this is that we crave of your Holiness for the tender love and mercy of God if there be left any regard of duty same and estimation or any care of the publick or the particular health and welfare deeply to think and consider that it concerneth the uttermost danger of the Church and the safety of Christ his flock so dearly bought and committed unto our charge and whiles you are able to slay this wilde Boar that consumeth the Vineyard of the Lord and drive away bridle and repress with thy double Sword all the small Foxes breaking and throwing down the same for fear this being wilfully neglected his anger be not ready to punish and chasten us who will reproach us the hardness of our hearts and require at our hands the innocent bloud-shedding and the great quantity of souls lost for ever who because his flock is become a prey and his sheep a spoil unto the wilde beasts and his Vineyard trodden under foot and made waste will grievously complain and we be not snared and wrapt in his just but most fearful and terrible judgement eternally to be lamented and bewailed Wherein we protest before the same Almighty and High God and his Angels that herein we have performed our charge and duty and therefore if here be written any thing somewhat bitterly we pray your Holiness to take it in good part as coming from a burning zeal towards the Church now periclitating and ready to fall and therefore the rather because it behoveth that all our thoughts be fixed in the defence of Sion whose duties we judge it to be to leave nothing undon whereby we might by all means possibly both things above and beneath and all that is in Heaven and Earth move and provoke for to pity her distressed estate because it is more then full time so to do Farewel And as your Holiness pitieth the French nay the Universal Church ready to fall so God be favourable and merciful unto you In Paris from your Holiness Colledge of Sorbonne 1590. 29 July Your Holiness Affectionate Orators and most Humble Servants the Dean and the rest of the Sorbonne at Paris The Duke of Mayenne intent as aforesaid upon the relief of Paris at last joyneth with Alessandro Farnese Duke of Parma and marcheth towards the City the King wirh a Resolution to fight them raiseth the Siege but Parma carried his designes so cunningly that in spight of all opposition he conveyed great store of Provisions into the City nor could the King force or oblige him to a Battel yet the King resolved to give one lusty storm to the City to which purpose Ladders being provided and silently be in the night set to the walls the City had been won if by chance a Jesuit as * Pag. 958. Davila saith or a few Jesuits as * Pag 343. de Bussieres saith who stood Centinel without the Corps du Garde which was kept by those Fathers and Nicholas Nivelle the Covenanting Bookseller all the rest being asleep and negligent had not discovered them given the Alarum and fought stoutly against them upon the walls The King seeing himself disappointed by Parma the Parisians well stored with Victuals and a Sickness in his Army raiseth the Siege disposeth his Forces into Quarters the Duke of Parma returning also to his Government in the Low-Countreys Many Stories are we told of some mens foolish contempt and scorn over their supposed Superiors some whipping their Gods if not agreeable to them Augustus Caesar could defie Neptune The Thracians would rant against the Heavens if Thundred Xerxes would shackle the Hellespont and though the Ancient Poets and Lucian villifyed their Gods it may be upon good reason by making them guilty of all the villanies in the world yet none could be so extravagant as that which the Ingenious †Leâ— Eâ—saâ—s â— 1. c 3. Montaigne tells us of one of the late Kings neighbouring to France of Spain as some think who having his Expectations disappointed by Heaven swore to be revenged on God himself and if the story be true be commanded his subjects not to pray to God for ten years nor to speak of or believe in him I shall not say that these Covenanters proceeded so far but may justly affirm that never any people acted more against Gods Vice-gerent then they Their stubbornness may here be seen by their miseries and thus their contempt of favour law life duty and obedience doth shew their disrespect to the Divine Oracles and God himself CHAP. VIII The Thirdlings Young Guise escapes out of Prison Barnaby Brisson Strangled The Duke of Mayenne overaw'd the Sixteen The Mock State General meet at Paris King Henry the Fourth declares himself a Romanist and received absolution at St. Dennis VVHilest Parma is returning to the Netherlands Pope Sixtus the 27 Augâ—st Fifth dyeth upon which the Cardinal Legat departeth France leaving behind him in Paris Filippo Sega Bishop of Piacenza he came from Italy with him and was also a Cardinal to act as Vice-Legat Urban VII is elected Pope who dying thirteen days after Cregory XIV is * chosen to sit in the Chair â— Dâ—â—â—mb In the mean time the King is pinched on all hands the Parisians vapour â—s Conquerors Emanuel de Loraine Duke of Mercoeur carryeth all for the League in Brittain with whom above four thousand Spaniards joyn the Duke of Savoy conquereth in Provence and by the Parliament of Aix is Declared Head of their Government having also some Intentions for the Crown nor was the Duke of Lorraine idle But these prosperous proceedings did not altogether please Mayenne fearing their greatness would Eclipse