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A93674 Englands warning-peece or the history of the gun-powder treason: inlarged with some notable passages not heretofore published. Whereunto is annexed The Act of Parliament for publick thanksgiving upon the fifth day of November yearly. / By T.S. Spencer, Thomas, fl. 1658.; England and Wales. Parliament. 1658 (1658) Wing S4961; Thomason E2255_2; ESTC R210140 32,617 87

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ENGLANDS Warning-Peece OR The HISTORY of THE Gun-powder Treason Inlarged with some Notable Passages not heretofore Published Whereunto is Annexed The ACT of PARLIAMENT for Publick Thanksgiving upon the Fifth day of November yearly By T. S. They conceive mischeif and bring forth vanity Job 15.35 Who so is wise and will observe these things even they shall understand the loving kindness of the Lord Psal 107 43. London Printed by T. N. for Tho. Pierrepont at the Sun in Pauls Churchyard 1659. TO The Courteous Reader AS time doth weare out the remembrance of actions most famous and worthy of marke so Historie the message of antiquitie doth bring back time with the wonderfull workes thereof to the knowledge of Posterity both for delight and benefit The memorial of this most prodigious Conspiracie which never had any fellow being almost obliterated and forgotten in many places of the land may be renewed revived and presented to succeeding generations by the use of this little Storie Little Books are fittest for little purses Such a one as this whose price I hope will never give just cause of repentance to the discreet buyer All that I desire by it is that the great preserver of man may have everlasting glory and our Nation his everlasting Protection Farewell Your Friend Tho. Spencer Englands Warning-peece OR The Historie of the Gunpowder Treason enlarged with some notable passages not heretofore published MAny and sundry were the Plots and Attempts of Treason against our most gracious Soveraign Queen Elizabeth of famous and ever blessed memorie Pope Pius the sifth cursed her and therefore Parrie and Savage would have stabbed her Somervil and Arderne would have killed her Squire Lopez the Jew would have poysoned her but they did all faile of their purposes for God Almighty blessed her and made her raign long and prosperous maugre the malice of all her Enemies both at home and abroad When the Pope and his welbeloved Sons falsely called Catholicks but truly Papists saw that no sorcerie could prevaile against her they did then cast about how they might serve their own turne and promote their own cause by her Majesties immediate Successor To this end Pope Clement the eight a little before her death sent two Bulls or Letters into England one after another wherein he did forbid any man to claim the Crown and take upon him the Rule and Government of the English Nation that would not conforme himself to the Church of Rome acknowledge the Supremacie of her head the Pope and stoop to his lure yea death was to be endured by his beloved Sons rather then such a one should be admitted that would tolerate any of the Protestant Religion And to debarr the King of Scotland of his right of succession he did liberally bestow upon him the disgraceful names of a Heretick a Schismatick an Apostate another Julian Such were the terrible words of his thunder Much about this time Robert Parsons the Jesuit wrote a Book of honorable descents and put it forth under the name of Dolmax wherein he did intitle the King of Spain to the Crown of England as being descended from Katharine the Daughter of John of Caunt Duke of Lancaster the fourth Son of our King Edward the third who was married to Henry the third King of Castile and Leon. And in another book he saith His Philopater Sect. 2 That it is the opinion both of Divines Lawyers That if any Christian Prince shal fall from the Catholick Religion and seek to draw others from the same he doth presently fall from all princely power and dignity Visib Monar lib. 2. cap. 4 And Sanders another bird of the same wing saith That the King that wil not submit himself to the authority of the Pope ought not to be tolerated but his Subjects ought to chuse another in his place assoon as may be These diplomatical and Jesuitical writings gave life and beginning to the greatest the rarest the vilest Treason that ever was invented plotted attempted against Prince and People famous throughout the world for the horrible infamy thereof the eternal shame of Poperie as shal be shewed in the course of our Historie Upon the soure and twentieth day of March in the year of our Lord One Thousand six hundred and two Queen Elizabeth a Princess full of happy daies but fuller of immortal Trophees of honor did change her corruptible Crown in this World for an incorruptible in Heaven and within four hours after her decease by the grave and wise Councel that she left behind her James the sixt of Scotland was Proclaimed King of England and Ireland at the Court-gate at Richmond which did much rejoyce the hearts of the godly people in England when they heard of it And in the sweet and pleasant moneth of May his Majesty made a safe arrival at London where he was received with great joy and acclamation The Princes of Europe did stand amazed and wondred when they heard that his Majesty had gotten the possession of two Kingdoms without the shedding of a drop of blood Many of them sent their Ambassadors and the King of Denmark who was brother to his Wife the Queen came in his own person to congratulate the greatness of his fortunes It was now a rare sight in London to see two Kings walke peaceably together in the streets His Majesty for some reasons did deferr his Coronation untill the twenty fifth of July In the meane while some turbulent and discontented spirits plotted a conspiracy and purposed to surprise the King and Prince Henry his eldest Son being instigated and perswaded thereunto by Watson and Clarke two Popish Priests who told them that the Act was lawfull for that the King was no King before he was Crowned The other persons of note involved in this Treason were Thomas Lord Grey of Wilton Henry Brooke Lord Cobham Sir Griffin Markham Sir Walter Rawleigh Sir Edward Parham George Bro●ke Brother to the Lord Cobham Bartholomew Brookesly and Anthony Copley All which were indited Sir Edward Parham was acquitted by the Jury the rest were found guilty and condemned George Brooke and Watson and Clarke the two Priests were executed All the rest were graciously pardoned by his Majesty at which example of mercy the condemned wished that they might sacrifice their lives to gain the love and favor of so merciful a Prince But clemency to offenders makes men bold to offend One Treason is past and a greater follows at the heeles thereof For in the same yeer the old Serpent the Devil doth put it into the heart of Robert Catesby of Ashby in the County of Leicester Esquire to destroy the King with Gunpowder by blowing up the Parliament house when his Majesty the Queen the Prince the Duke the choycest of the Nobility and Gentry were there assembled for doing the turne most proper to their places and degrees And this damnable device he did maintain to be holy and lawful upon this ground of reason That if
by the two Bulls or Letters of Pope Clement the eight See the Hist of France P. 1196. they ought not to have received the King into the Kingdome then by a greater reason being received the Pope would have him made away as if Kings Free Princes and States were to live but at the pleasure of the Pope The proditorious doctrine of the Josuits did likewise add much fuel to this fiery enterprize which was first made known and revealed by Cateshy to Thomas Winter of Huddington in the County of Worcester when they met together at London who gave his consent and approbation thereunto And shortly after went into Flanders to negotiate with Baldwine the Jesuite with the Constable with Owen with Faewkes and also with Sir William Stanley who for many yeers together did lurk in those parts of the Netherlands that were under the obedience of Albertus Archduke of Austria and Clara Isabella his Wife the Daughter of the King of Spaine and durst not come into England For this was that Sir William Stanley who contrary to his Oath did treacherously deliver up D●venter a rich Town in Oven Yssell to the King of Spaine which had bin gotten a little before by Robert Dudley Earl of Leicester sent into the low Countries with some considerable Forces by Queen Elizabeth to aid the Dutch against the Spaniard but the Town was regained shortly after by the States of Holland He that is false to God will be false to Man and when opportunity serves will keep no faith with them that are no better then Heretikes in his account When Winter had conferred with the parties aforesaid and had imparted to them so much of his minde as he thought convenient at this time he returned back into England and brought with him Guide Fawks a very desperate Souldier and a monstrous instrument of mercilese cruelty And when they came to London they met with Robert Catesby Thomas Percy and John Wright at a house behinde St. Clements Church without Temple Bar where they spake of doing some thing but first they thought it fit to take an Cath of secrecie which they gave to each other upon a Primer the contents whereof here followeth YOu shall swear by the blessed Trinity and by the Sacrament you now purpose to receive never to disclose directly nor indirectly by word or circumstance the matter that shall be proposed to you to keep secret nor desist from the Execution thereof untill the rest shall give you leave And for their further confirmation they went into a more private chamber and there heard Mass and received the blessed Sacrament at the hands of William Gerrard a Priest who told them that it was better that some Innocents did perish with the nocent for the advantage of the Catholicks rather then the service should quaile the necessitie of time and occasion so requiring it And now did Catesby and Winter disclose the business to the rest wherefore they took the Oath which they all approved And Percy by the Authority of the rest was sent to take some house or lower roome either under or near the Parliament house to lay in the Powder which was to be bought by Winter and Fawkes Now while this Cockatrices Egge horrible Treason was hatching to the end that it might succeed well and breake forth into a Basiliske a flying and fire-breathing Serpent whose deadly eye might destroy both Prince and People in a moment in the twinkling of an eye the Papists gave themselves to their devotions and Prayers both at home and abroad For although the vulgar sort knew not of the particulars of the damnable design yet they had a general notion and confused knowledge of some thing to be done in the Parliament for the good of their Church And the Priests and Jesuits themselves did usually conclude their Masses and oblatory Sacrifices with these verses made by Henry Garnet Provincial over the Jesuits here in England Gentem auferte perfidam credentium de finibus Vt Christo laudes debitas persolvamus alacriter Which I English thus Even from the Coasts of faithfull men A faithless Nation take That chearfully to Christ our Lord We may due praises make And others prayed See Speed his Chron. as they were taught thus Prosper Lord their paines that labour in thy cause day and night let Heresie vanish away like smoake let the memory of it perish with a crack like the ruine and fall of a broken house Hereby alluding to their working in the Myne the mounting smoak of the Powder and the violent fall of the Parliament house In Flanders Baldwine was not slack to improve his Interest in Heaven for the speeding of their great errand At Rome Parsons the Jesuite being Governor of that Colledge which was founded by Pope Gregorie the thirteenth for English Fugitives and discontented malignants did give order to the Students of the house after their ordinary devotions were ended to pray for some extraordinary thing Orate proconversione Turcae One while they must pray for the conversion of the Turke some two or three daies together Another while they must pray as long for the Captives in England meaning the Papists that were in Prison But for two moneths together before the day appointed for the execution of their bloodie design Orate pro Captivis in Anglia Parsons commanded them to pray for the intention of their Father Rector which made the Students of the house wonder what their Father Rectors intention should be Orate pro intentione Patris Rectoris They had set formes of Prayer for these things made by Parsons But when they heard of a Barbarous Treason discovered in England sixteen of them forsook the Colledge and came over the Alpes down into France waiting for a better season to return home with some of which who forsook the Church of Rome and embraced the reformed Religion I had some conference The King began his Raign as we have shewed upon the foure and twentieth day of March the last day of the year according to the date of the Lawyers in the yeer of our Lord God one thousand six hundred and two And in the Summer Quarter following and in part of the Autumnal the Plague in London made a lamentable ravage upon mankind the weekly Bills of mortalitie I very well remember were exceeding great But when it pleased God to lighten his hand and relent the violence of his devouring Angel against the people of that City giving good hope that the infection was come to a period then did his Majesty call his Parliament upon the nineteenth day of the next March and upon the seventh of Iuly concluded the first Sessions thereof and adjourned it to the seventh of February in the second yeer of his raign And before that time came he did adjourne it again to the sift of November in the third yeer of his raign and in the yeer of our Lord one thousand six hundred and five which proves a most