are much troubled but in the end their fraud will appeare whē these hot Ladies shall lay their hands a little heavier on their hearts with mea maxima culpa The 85. Proposition Do all for gaine IT was a graue censure of Cardinall Allen concerning the Iesuits that they sought more their owne commodity than the students weale or Gods glorie For they are much moved with temporall commodity seeke their owne good and their kingdome is wholly of this world e In their worldly wealth they settle like bees in soile and by reason of such their riches they neglect Gods honour by preferring their owne before it Thus do they dispose of last wils of the sicke thus loue they to intermeddle with the marriages of many with their temporall goods and indeed with al things Alwaies taking that course with all men that something happen vnto their share having mindes indeede of nothing but of their owne gaine and accordingly all mens fortunes graces favours and actions whatsoever shal be evil thought of which are beneficial to any with out a commodity to their Societie and yet neverthelesse there is no enquiring after their lands if they doe this shall be their answere mirantur superiores The 86. Proposition They get great summes of mony into their hands NOw let vs consider what huge masses of mony infinit treasures the Iesuits haue every where in England and other Countries even from the Indies Some one of them hath receaued many thousand pounds A french Iesuit reported that the King of France gained three millions of gold at their expulsion thence so that it cannot be but they daily and nightly encreasing their riches and enriching their Cofers haue infinit treasure in store for an exploit in time to come expecting a time no doubt when to drawe it forth to their most advantage Thus whiles other Orders want the Iesuits abound they vow and others feele povertie They may truly say Domine quinque talenta dedisti mihi ecce alia quinque suffuratus sum Now if it appeare to all men that by meanes of such their wealth they trouble all Europe by setting kingdomes at odds by sowing of factions wheresoever they come by ambitioning aboue all Religious Orders in holy Church questionlesse this will in the end be their destruction The 87.88 Propositions Resort only to rich mens houses and there domineere NO man Master of his house where they may beare swaie and be admitted of but they neglect the poore and hant only rich mens houses For they skorne to come to any but where they may be daintily and costly entertained they looke not after the Cottages of the poore nor minister their helpe to them be there never so much need but all their resort as I haue said is to Noblemen and Gentlemens houses where they domineere over Tenants children servants and all The 89. Proposition Build and governe Seminaries THere are certaine Seminaries in Spaine built by the Iesuits which would be better employed in the reliefe of the poore And the king of Spain hath ever since the yeare 1583 given thē 2000 crowns by the yeare the payment procured by Father Parsons so that all the Colleges beyond sea are now vnder the Iesuits tyrannie as may be seene by the most egregious tyrannicall vsurpate intrusiue auctoritie of the Iesuits gotten over all the Seminaries at Rome at S. Omers in Spaine and at Doway The 90. Proposition Take all into their hands THe Iesuits seeke to rule the rost to haue all men at their becke and commandment and so miserais the state of Catholiks in England that all must depend on them As though the fee simple of all mens acts words and thoughts were in their gift to raise and let fall the price of all at their devotion And therefore of all Orders the Capuchins liue best with the Iesuits because the Iesuits would willingly haue all and the Capuchins would willingly haue nothing but even to keepe soule life together The 91. Proposition Enterdeale with the Civill Magistrate THe Iesuits haue continuall enterdeale with the Civill Magistrates with Heretickes and men of a suspected Religion The 92. Proposition Betraying some vnto the Enimie IT is feared they doe indirectly betray some vnto the enimies The 93. Proposition Bring others vnto their ends and afterwards slaunder them THe Iesuits are so cruell as that they haue not only brought many excellent men to a miserable end by driving them into desperation and to take some miserable course but haue reproched them after death The 94. Proposition Laying a foule imputation on those that leaue them WHen any one leaues their Religion for the better they blaze abroad that the party was once long agoe reiected and never accounted of amongst them but let alone for that they knewe what end he would make before hand The 95. Proposition All for a Monarchie THe Iesuits fish for a Monarchie haue at all Christendome for both states Ecclesiastical and Temporall but especially they challenge a spiritual Monarchy over all England by right or wrong seeking it so that all the Iesuits aime at one marke and one course and conceaue one and the same generall hope to haue England a Iaponian Monarchie as once one tearmed it or an Apish Island of Iesuits The 96. Proposition Hated of all Orders THeir Order is mightilie impugned al Orders being against them The 97. Proposition Their spirituall exercise THey vse their exercise as a chiefe meanes to catch the Schollers some of their owne Societie much condemning them for it and by the abuse of this false kind of spirituall Exercise they make boot havocke of Catholicke Estates for therefore was it devised by the Jesuits thereby to fleece charitable people Father Parsons and Father Creswell are most zealous in this point these are noted for Fishers Piscatores Patris Generalis that emploied their wits and labours to draw vnto them the best they could finde every where The 98. Proposition Their Discipline in their Colleges THeir Discipline is with great severity many are discouraged therewith Two cannot speake togither without a third nor the students of one chamber recreat their fellowes of an other For they must recreat with none but such as they are appointed vnto And in everie companie of Schollars the Iesuits haue their Spies which they call Angeli Custodes which lie in wait what they cā heare said or see done by any Schollar and forthwith carry it to the Superior No Scholler can write letters abroad or receiue any without license and surview of the Iesuits their governours no not to the fellowes of the same College There are many like Turkish cruelties especially in enioyning there Schollars penances some for breaking their fasts
The Iesuits Downefall THREATNED AGAINST THEM BY THE SECVLAR Priests for their wicked liues accursed manners Hereticall doctrine and more then Matchiavillian Policie TOGETHER WITH THE LIFE OF FATHER PARSONS AN ENGLISH IESVITE Good God that such a Societie of men after so many scandals and foule deserts of theirs in France and elsswhere for Prince-killing Sedition c. can thus be of credit in England A. C. to his disiesuited kinsman Pag 72. AT OXFORD Printed by Ioseph Barnes and are to bee sold by John Barnes dwelling neere Holborne Conduit 1612. TO THE RIGHT VVORTHY OF ALL HONOVR FOR RELIGIon Pietie and Iustice the Reverend Iudges and Iustices of Peace for the Countie of Oxon. TRue Religion the only badg of a Christian hath two marks whereby it is certainely knowne to wit Zeale and Constancie Zeale for it must not be cold nor luke warm but fervent and hot Constancie because it endureth not for a season and continueth but a while but abideth vnto the end vnto the death for ever This zeale which is so necessarily required in all men but more properly in Magistrates and Governours hath appeared Right Honourable and Right VVorshipfull most evidently in your late proceedings against Popish Recusants at and before the last Sessions holden for this Countie at an vnvsuall time and with very extraordinary care provision for the searching finding fining and restraining of the most dangerous persons of either sexe Of your Constancie likewise perseverance in prosecuting so good beginnings smal cause haue we to doubt considering the goodnes of the cause and the greatnes of autority wherewith both your hands and hearts are strengthned from aboue to the great ioy of all his Maiesties loyall subiects Gods faithfull servants What remaineth now but that we of the Cleargie for our parts should second these happy beginnings with our vttermost indeavors by adding the word vnto the sword perswasions cōferences vnto those sharper means corrosiues which are applied shewing our selues ready to offer vp not only our labors but our selues also for the good of such as haue bin seduced by the Priests Iesuits but rather by the Iesuits then by the Priests for which cause knowing the danger being most willing if it bee possible to prevent it I haue taken paines to compile this smal Treatise that if God shall be pleased in mercy to open their eies they may see the wicked liues accursed manners hereticall doctrine more then Matchiavillian policy of that Society which they do so devoutly follow with perill both of soule and body This worke I hope will finde the better entertainement with them because it is taken wholly and soly from the writings of sundrie learned Priests who spake as they were moved vpon consideration of their wicked liues and maners so that theirs are the proofs mine the collection method only as the Quotations in the Margent wil sufficiētly declare I admit that both Priests Iesuits are to be feared more and lesse as dangerous enimies vnto his Maiesty the State but chiefly the Iesuits who hold their disciples in such servitude or rather slavery that whatsoever they say is a law that law must be obayed though God man reason or authoritie King or Kaisar say to the contrary Frō such followers as are once wholly devoted to their company it wil bee a hard matter for the Magistrate you find it by too lamentable experience to draw either the Oath of Allegiance or obedience to the Magistrat in things Temporal much lesse conference and conformity in matters spirituall For the Iesuits like the Centurion in the Gospell haue that command Iurisdictiō over their inferiors that if they bid them goe they goe if they bid them doe this they doe it without asking any question whether it be right or wrong iust or vniust which is commanded the reasō is plaine because they relie altogether vpon the Iesuit and the Iesuit vpon the Pope who is the only vnerring person vpon earth A most absurd doctrine as any is in all Popery wherewith notwithstanding they haue bewitched the soules of I knowe not how many men women otherwise very vertuously and religiously inclined and what pittie is it for vs to consider what Cimmerian more then Egyptian darknesse they doe liue in that are thus taught by their ignorāt teachers that do vow themselues blind obedience VVhen the blinde lead the blind how can it be but that both of thē should fall into the ditch Now this which is spoken against the Iesuits doth not acquit the Secular Priests nor their followers For as long as they goe about to recōcile men from their true and naturall Prince vnto the Pope and to withdraw their mindes from religion vnto superstition from Gods word vnto fables from God himselfe vnto Mammon causing them that are reconciled not only to professe all Popish points according to the doctrine of the Councell of Trent as vnwritten Traditions Transubstantiation Purgatory Indulgences worshipping of Images Reliques Iustification by workes the truth of seaven Sacraments obedience to one only Pope c. but to make them Articles of the Creed and to take a solemne Oath that they will continue in the profession of all every of them vnto the death and farthermore perswade as much as in them lyeth all others that are vnder thē to doe the like we haue iust cause to suspect both their dealings to oppose our selues against their proceedings The which thing you haue begun to doe Right Honorable and Right VVorshipfull to your eternall praise commendation and to the example and encouragement of others You haue begun well who shal be able to hinder you if God be on your side Goe forward then I beseech you in Gods name both cheerefully and couragiously you haue our earnest prayers shal be sure to haue our best endeavors if need require I knowe the readines of many learned and graue Divines to further this religious service amongst which my selfe being one of the meanest in Gods Church scarse worthy to be called a Divine doe most earnestly desire to contribute my paines and service to make knowne vnto the world the great affection which I beare vnto all sorts of people thus by the Iesuits miserably seduced whose conversion as I haue alwaies sought by good and faire meanes such as the most wayward peevishest adversaries cānot iustly except against so is it my purpose God willing so to continue vnto my liues end both by speech writing propagating that faith whereof his Maiestie of al Princes Christian may truly be said to be the Defendor and because the Iesuits are his our chiefest enimies accept I beseech you these few lines concerning their liues and maners in generall one of the chiefest of them in particular the matter was ministred vnto me by certaine Secular Priests the method in disposing and digesting of it was mine to God bee ascribed the
as also by countermined platformes in practicall conspiracies for else whereto tended a Blanke importing treason wherevnto many were requested to subscribe their new Spanish Doleman to which day for the delay of it they giue the daily pox their treasonable plots for surprizing the Lady Arbella for solliciting Earle Ferdinando to rise against her Maiestie for entertaining Yorke and Yong in the plot for firing her Maiesties storehouses and to flie with ships and all into Spaine c. And the like in Scotland For by their doctrine of Prince-killing haue they not enioined one for penance to murder his Soveraigne and doe they not hold it for sound doctrine that if one of them be commanded to murther an annointed Prince he must doe his endeavour and none hath beene wanting as lately enough in the murther of the last French king and latelier might haue beene seene in the now regnant in our own deare Soveraigne sundry times by the Iesuiticall hand had not Gods hand beene the stronger Three or foure of them were esteemed Martyrs in Englād but they died rather to their shames for their sinnes than to Gods glory if her Maiestie and the State would take them at the worst they might all bee iustly condemned for erroneous and traiterous persons For out of the Jesuits docttrine certainely there is nothing else but treacheries treason and conspiracies and hence it must needes followe that there is not a Iesuit in all England but hath a smacke of impietie irreligiositie treacherie treason and Machiavillian Atheisme and it cannot be but as long as there is one Iesuit left in England there wil be mutinies treason conspiracies and factions do what Pope or Prince or any other is able to do or say to the contrary All their plots and conspiracies wherof I am fully perswaded there are a great many yet lie hidden and vnknowne tend herevnto this is it that makes their bookes so full of plots exasperations and conspiracies against the Church and common weale that causes their mony to fly so fast over the Ocean two thousand pounds intercepted in one yeare going over to prepare for an invasion for an exploit in time to come But how hath God favored these prevaricators Pharisees and Conspirators against God and their country these massacring butcherlie buyers and sellers of their deare countrymens bloud Their hopes of the English Nation were vaine and their Catilinian coniurations and conspiracies were not sanctified nor blessed by the hand of God Gods hand was ever the stronger and to conclude their evill successe shewes that God was not pleased with them The 61. Proposition Murderers of Kings Popes Cardinals c. THe Iesuits and their seditious faction do broach publish such a kinde of doctrine that subiects are no longer bound to obey wicked Princes in their temporall Lawes and commandements but till they be able by force of armes to resist them A most dangerous doctrine most vnfit to be published in this age By this doctrine the Iesuits murdered Henry the third and writ a discourse against him de iusta abdicatione H 3. as if it had beene hatched in hell practised against divers kings in France defeated the Polonian of his kingdom and here in England haue sought to compasse their wicked purposes by Norfolke Stukely Saunders For all which and many mo traiterous practises the Iesuits are at this day an odious detestable Generation But though they seeke to murder wicked Princes and propose rewards to such as kill tyrants yet it may be they will spare Popes Cardinals Bishops surely no they grow as bad as bad may be namely to the outraging of that which is most holy and if there be as there are shrewd suspitions in Rome cōcerning the death of two Popes two Cardinals and one Bishop already I make no question at all but that if hereafter any Pope shall crosse their plots and purposes the Iesuits wil haue such a figge in store for his Holines that shall do so as no Rubarbe Angelica Mithridate or other medicine or Antidote shall expell the venim poison and infection from his heart nor any bezar perle gold or vnicornes horne long preserue his life after it The 62. Proposition In Doctrine they turne all topsie turuie THey plunge themselues over head eares into Ecclesiasticall affaires with such audacity and obstinacie as they haue turned all topsie turvy The 63. Proposition By hereticall Positions OVt of the Iesuits doctrine certainely therein is nothing els but fallacie vpon fallacie errour vpon errour one contradiction encountring an other all nothing A Iesuit mainetained this most vile Atheall and heathenish assertion that one that is not a Christian may be Pope of Rome and an other Iesuit openly and for sound doctrine maintained it first to his Auditors in the Schoole at this instant openly in the Inquisition doth viz non est de fide credere hunc Romanum Pontificem esse Christi vicarium that it is no matter of faith to beleeue that this or that Pope of Rome is Christs Vicar To let passe their erroneous doctrin concerning their Generals infallibilitie of truth for deciding of matters their absurd Paradoxes of Equivocation The Iesuits every way in printed Books in writen copies or Manuscripts and most of all in privat conference haue taught contrarie to the beliefe of the Romane Church and therefore it is no marvell if in materiall points of catholike faith they oppose against the Angelicall Doctour and be therefore at this present in dighted before his Holinesse by the Dominicans in Spaine for Pelagians and sundry other kindes of Hereticks as also for impostors by the Sorbonists of Paris and all other French cleargie as we credibly heare The 64. Proposition By extravagant opinions NEver was there any religious order that tooke their course that held such phantastical extravagant exorbitant irregular opinions as they do The 65. Proposition Approving of the Stewes Fa Weston and Archer charged by Doctor Norden for defending the Stewes to be lawfull and very necessarie to be as lawfull as the Pope himselfe as if they had made as it seemeth a verie league with Hell against truth The 66. Proposition Abuse of Confession THEY abuse this sacred seale for the managing of worldly businesses herevpon it is reported that the Pope sent a precept or a decree to the Religious houses in Rome thereby prohibiting vnder great penalties that any should vse the knowledge of a mans estate in the Sacrament of confession to any Politicke ende or matter in any external affaire whatsoever but the Iesuits delayed their obedience herevnto and so they make confession a cony-catching or cousening tricke or slight to picke a man or womans purse nay to get all their lands by it and yet
now to speake of the person Father Robert Parsons The life of Father ROB. PARSONS an English Iesuit THis famous Father Rob. Parsons was borne of meane parentage infamous from the time that hee was first borne vnhonestly begot and basely borne vpon the body of a very base queane his supposed father of gentry no better then a Black-Smith his right father indeed the Parish Priest by meanes whereof hee was binominous some times called Rob. Parsons sometimes Rob. Cowbucke should not being base borne haue beene a Priest as altogether illegitimate and irregular the place where he was borne was called Stockersey in Somersetshire wherevpon he was called the Bastard of Stockersey a knowne bastard for the disparages of his birth not his baptisme could wash away his parents were so poore that his mother and sister had an annuall almes bestowed on them towards their sustenance who else had gon a begging after his supposed fathers death But how meane soever his Fathers estate was sure it is that he was brought vp in his tender yeares vnto the study of learning and the Arts and in processe of time his towardly inclinatiō being more generally known he was preferred vnto Oxford and there chosen fellow of Baliol College where he spent his time partly well partly ill Well for he professed himselfe a Protestant that with such affectation as he dealt with Mr Squire for direction in the study of Divinitie and conferred ordinarily in the reading of Calvin with Mr Hide a fellow in the house a knowne Calvinist but otherwise learned and a very morall gentleman and he was so eagar in promoting the Religion then professed that being Bursar he disfurnished the College Librarie of many ancient bookes and rare Manuscripts in their steed brought in a number of Protestant Books the first that were ever there and lastly his resolution was such for his constancie in this Religion that hee protested to one Iames Clarke his old schoolefellow then abiding in the Inner Temple who doubted his Religion that hee neither then was neither ever ment to be a Papist and offered to take an oath for assurance of the same Furthermore his Morall conversation and discipline was such and so strict that hee would haue punished one of his owne Pupils and Schollars whereof being the ancientest fellow of the College saue one of Noblemen and Gentlemens Sonnes and kinsmen he had aboue 20 at one time to this day both very vertuous learned for going to a play In like sort he wēt about to bring seven or eight in danger for taking after the fashion of schollars certaine puddings from a Pupill of his Hetherto he behaved himselfe very well but marke what followed This his too great severitie was remitted and his dealing in Oxford in the end proved lewd seditious and wanton and so infamous was hee there being then Master of Arts that hee was hissed out the College with whouts and hobubs and ringing with bels and the resolutenesse of the fellowes was such to hee rid of him that they had provided the toling of the Bell for him as the manner is for one which is to depart the world Thus was he banished Oxford with the great ioy of all men not for Religions sake but for libelling siding and other lewdnes True it is he had the favour to resigne being first lawfully expelled tendring his submission with teares and promise that he would ever after carry himselfe in good sort Now is Mr Parsons put to his shifts and the griefe of this expulsion did so farre prevaile with him that he notwithstanding his solemne protestation vnto the fellowes of the College and his old friend of the Temple packs the next yeare after over the Sea to studie in Padua and the yeare after that to wit in the yeare of our Lord 1575. he hies him to Rome and there enters the Societie of Iesus but now see what a thing it is to be a Iesuit he staies not long there but like a forward child putting himselfe out he obtaines of Pope Gregory the 13. to be sent together with F. Campian into England at the sute of D. Allen as was said in name of all English Cartholiks who desired greatly the assistance of the Iesuits in that mission where for the furtherance of the Popish cause hee was appointed Superiour this happened in the yeare 1580. These two holy Fathers being safely and secretly arrived here in England cease not to doe that for which they came to withdraw men from their allegiance to their true and lawfull Prince to side with the Pope and the king of Spaine but their employments were diverse according to their severall gifts Campian excelled in speech Parsons best was in writing the one therefore travelled vp and downe the Country making his chiefe abode in about London the other kept more about the Sea coasts and especially about the parts of Sussex from whence being discovered he might the more easily get into France saue one For he had well learned our Saviours words when you are persecuted in one Citty fly vnto another This precept of our B. Saviour he quickly put in practise for as secret as he lay and as cunning as hee was in casting his plots by letters written and bookes printed to exasperate the State yet the Fox was vncased his Letters intercepted and the Print and Printers which hee had procured for divulging of his Popish books so that the next yeare after his first arrivall he was constrained to flie into France leaving his fellow labourer to the mercy of the Magistrates into whose hands shortly after he fell and by the hands of iustice was as he well deserved soone cut of Thus hath our cunning Polititian that learned coūseller forsaken our Campe and rescued himselfe from our Country perils and now he begins to cry quit with the State as well as he could minding nothing but revenge His first approaches are verball by seditious books or rather enormous Libels for example Greencoate Philopater his Bookes of Reformation Admonition and of Titles His second attempts Real by plotting secret Treasons open invasions and lastly by vrging both Pius 5. and Sixtus 5. to excommunicate the Late Queene whome not long before as is to bee seene in a certaine Supplication made to the Queene by one Iesuit for all the rest hee tearmes most mighty most mercifull most feared best beloved Princesse the shot-anchor of all their iust hopes perfect in all Princely duty Sacred Maiestie and what not with protestation made vnto her that hee will yeeld and perswade in conscience all Temporall obedience and take her part even against the Popes Armie Thus wee see our Iesuiticall or rather Ignatian Apostle Father Cowbuc beginning to play his prises and bathing his hands in bloud sitting at the sterne
which I willingly let passe and come to the rest of his seditious Bookes as his Admonition and Appendix For the former of these Don Lucifer the wittiest Fiend in Hel could not haue written more spitefully so that all posteritie cannot choose but condemne him for a most scurrilous Traitour and had he beene brought vp amongst all the Ruffians and Curtizans in Christendome he could not haue learned to haue writ more vilely prophanely and heathenishly for the later to wit his Appendix the booke was impudentlie fathered on Cardinall Allen after his death being hatched by the vnnatural heat of his ambitious hart wherin the Arch-Statist presumes to cal his learned Maiestie that now is king of great Brittaine and then was of Scotland obstinate Hereticke Who so bold they say as blind Bayard he feares no colours hath no shame or conscience what he writes so he write with an invectiue humour as hath beene largely proved already Wherefore having viewed examined and reexamined his Bookes and Writings we will now enquire farther after his life and conversation for as the Poet said a man may chance to write a lewd Booke which is a sober honest man But was he so so was Don Lucifer and al the Fiends in Hell from whom this man seemed to be descended in the right line giving occasion to diverse by his soule enormous and divelish life to think that he was not a meere man but some Fairies brat or begotten by an Incubus or aerish spirit vpon the bodie of a base woman Shew me that Treason treacherie or noted villanie wherein Parsons had not a hand a heart and a head name that vice whatsoever it be lying coosening forgerie periurie craft hypocrisie dissimulation envie pride covetousnes vaine-glory backebiting selfe-loue crueltie murders and oppressions ambition heresie Atheisme whereof he was not guilty in the highest degree Speake you holy Priests of a sacred function that knew him best and lived longest with him speake boldly and shame not to tel him roundly of his faults We wil descend vnto some few particulars in order as they shal lie most convenient for our purpose and first of his foule conspiracies treasonable plots plottings of Treason You wil say perhaps it is not good rubbing that sore any more it hath beene touched alreadie to the quicke I confesse it hath beene so but in a different kinde For it is one thing to write an other to act treasons Parsons is guilty of both of the former there is little doubt by that which is spoken and of the later lesse by that which now followeth by way of evident demonstration To proue that Father Parsons was no lesse a traitour in action then in writing first we shew and can proue that we say with a wet finger that he gaue his concurrence furtherance to a forraine invasiō here in England sought to indanger his Maiesties person by the Scots set his rest vpon the hopes of Spaine procured himselfe to be the kings servant practised with the students there and diverse others to giue their names to a Charter of subscription first prophecied and promised vnto himselfe good successe and then tooke vpon him with his Iesuiticall Plotcasters to be an Actor an orator or a broker in labouring to bring that prophecie to an effect and rather then it should faile to be the bloudie instrument to worke it of his owne head Againe who is it that caused the Seminaries in Spaine and S. Omers to be erected and that alone procured 2000 crownes a yeare pension more for the College at Doway though he deserved small thanks for his labour considering the decay of Students at Rhemes and Lovaine Father Parsons Who was it that procured that the first forme of oath now vsed was brought into the Roman Seminarie and after that example by himselfe into the Seminaries of Spaine whereby al promised to take holy orders and returne into England when they should be appointed by their Superiors Father Parsons Who was it that vsed perswasion at Rome to the Students there that they should haue at State and al for which State-medling they could but die and dy they should if they were taken without State-medling Father Parsons Who is it that vpon a Luciferian pride durst presume to cal the king of Scots an obstinate hereticke and the French king a reprobate of God forsaken Father Parsons Who is it that chopped and changed the crowne of England 8. or 9. several times as it pleased him playing with it as little boies sport themselues with king by your leaue the great ones every hand while crying a New King a new and in the end set it to sale wherevpon a certaine Romish gentleman affixed a briefe Libell vpon Pasquines buttock in dirision and scorne of him If there bee any man that will buy the kingdome of England let him repaire to a Merchant in a blacke square cap in the Citty and hee shall haue a very good penny-worth thereof Was not this F. Parsons so then the premises duly considered we may safely conclude that this is that same Parsons whome all the Realme Prince and Peeres with all true English hearts haue cause to curse hate spit at and so an end of that matter Now as his predominant and most exorbitant qualitie was Treason so was he deepely learned and in a short time a great proficient in sundry other qualities belonging to the Divels craft as first for truth in him there was none Qui posuit mendacium spem suam professing the Art of lying and vsing tricks as in adding diminishing equivocating and subintelligiturs to serue his turne for you must note by the way that Equivocation is the Divels Sophistrie and the common principle of the Iesuits and he is not scarsely to be accounted a Iesuit that cannot lie dissemble and equivocate at every word these be the Aphricanian Phalanges and Iesuiticall forces Hence it is that Cameleon like he hath banded of and on with time like Protheus and in truth neither Protheus in his complements nor the Sea Euripus in his Crosse tide Ebbes and flowes for his inconstancy of old hath beene held more infamous then E. Parsons Yet he had a worse fault then all these and that is he incurred the hateful crime of forgerie taking vpon him to thrust in and out for his purpose as if hee had had a dispensation granted to forge at his pleasure Hee was shrewdly mistrusted to haue added or altered somwhat in Bellarmines Letter hee did alter the sentence of the two Cardinals Caietan and Burghesio Corrupted the Registers and Records at Rome and hee was charged in Oxon amongst very many things with forgerie by one Stancliff his fellow Bursar these wee thought good to note by the way for a tast of some of his forgeries in lesser matters but hee