lying cogging slaundering of all his treasons cruell tragedies and most bloodie designements He must forsooth be a Cardinall then the Popes Legate in England and so rule the king and all God saue my Lord Cardinall bastard Cowbucke of Stockgersee for so is his right name as shall be seene hereafter Yea he is termed King Cardinall quodl 5. art 8. hee is said to haue a vile bloodie and bastardly minde quodl 5. art 8. and to be the bastardly vicar of hell quodl 5. art 9. pag. 157. Preamble XIII Of the pompe and pride of our traiterous Iesuites THe Iesuite Heywood kept many men horses and coaches as the Iesuite Garnet doth at this present By meanes whereof the vsuall contributions to the Secular priests were and are greatly diminished These words are set downe in the Discouerie Page 48. Note heere gentle Reader that by this and many other the like proceedings it appeareth eudiently that the Iesuites seeke for nothing else but honour preserment case delicate faire sumptuous apparrell horses coaches and their owne sensuall pleasures To which may be added that both they and the Seminaries haue money and worldly wealth at their pleasures vnlesse the foure score and ten Seculars which of late are bent against the Iesuites be lately by that meanes bereaued of their former golden banks But questionlesse their hauing as yet is farre aboue their deseâ—ts See the tenth Preamble Preamble XIIII Of the dissention amongst the Iesuites THe Iesuite Heywood was against the Iesuite Parsons neither would Parsons be vnder Heywood nor Heywood vnder Parsons Parsons alledged that their generall had appointed him to be the prouinciall all ouer all the Iesuite in England consequently ouer Heywood But Heywood replied that his mission was immediately from the Pope and that he thereby was exempted from all submission to him This quarrel grâ—w to be hote and had many partakers on eyther side In the end the said Heywood loathing and abhorring many enormities amongst the Iesuites wrote sundrie letters to the Pope instantly desiring his hâ—linâ—s that the Iesuites might be reformed affirming that otherwise he should see their ruine he feared in his owne dates These words are to be found in the discouery Pagâ— 48. 46. Behold heere gentle Reader the sweete vnitie betweene these Iesuites marke the arrogancie of them both call to minde their vowes of pouâ—rty and obedience forget not how the priests were deuided touching this Iesuiticall quarrell and putting all together thou shalt easely perceiue and behold as in a glasse of Christall that God who is the author of peace and not of dissention 1. Cor. 14. vers 33. did neuer send them into this land but is highly displeased with their disloyall and treâ—cherous dealing God graunt that all simply seduced papists may in due time consider the same Preamble XV. Of the Duke of Medina IT is knowen right well both from the Duke of Medina his owne mouth and by other certaine intelligence that all the Catholicks in England as well as others and perhaps rather were designed to the slaughter For the said duke beeing told that there were 〈◊〉 Catholikes in England made answere that he cared not I will make quoth hée the best Protestants in England as good Catholickes as they if I haue them once vnder my sword I respect neither the one nor the other I meane to make roome there for my mâ—ster This he hath spoken diuerse times and the Iesuites themselues haue so reported yea the Iesuite Southwell did confesse no lesse at 〈◊〉 in the hearing of diuers priests their prisoners These words are set downe quodl 6. art 10. pag. 177. and the same is affirmed in the important considerations Pag. 25 vers 18. as also in the reply to Parsons libell sol 65. a. vers 24. fol. 29. a. Note heere gentle Reader this important point with me Viz. That if the Spaniards should make a conquest of this land as the Papistes doe disloyally expect whose expectation God of his mercie hath hitherto confounded and will I trust still confound the same then doubtlesse they would make a most tragicall and bloody massacre of all promiscuè neither respecting one nor other for their intendment is to aduance and entich themselues to haue a kingdom not to reforme religion No no neither they nor yet the Iesuites haue any such meaning Preamble XVI Of the title of Isabella the Spanish Ladie THe Iesuite Parsons caused the students in Spaine to subscribe to the Ladie Infantaes title to the Crowne of England and to what else he would hauing gotten their names to three seuerall blanks These words are set down in the hope of peace Page 22. See the next Preamble and note it well Note heere gentle Reader that euerie allegation one after another iumpeth vpon this setled and constant position Viz. that the scope and whole intendment of the Iesuites is flat auowed rebellion and doth nothing at all concerne religion See the fourth Chapter in the sixt Paragraph Preamble XVII Of most notorious and intolerable treason intended against her Maiesties sacred person and the royall Crowne of England THe Iesuites are so desirous to set the Diademe of England vpon the head of the princesse Isabella the Insanta of Spaine that they haue set forth a booke to this purpose and in that booke they giue her such an interest as they make the kings of this land for many yeares to haue beene vsurpers they haue also procured men by indirect means to subscribe to this Ladies soueraigntie ouer vs. Yea offers haue béene made to one of the secular priests that if hee could haue eaten gold and would but haue giuen his countenance and assistance that way he should haue had it In briefe some of the Iesuites haue conspired among themselues and with sundrie other most wicked persons at diuers times to haue laid violent hands vpon the quéene and to haue bereued her of her life It cannot be denied but that they haue done so the circumstances haue shewed it the parties themselues with whom they practised haue confessed it yea sundrie Catholicks beyond the seas doe verie well know it and haue charged in their writings some of them with it These words are set downe in the Discouerie Page 9. see the 16. Preamble Note here gentle reader these important points with me First that the Iesuites labour with tooth and nayle with gold and money with threats and faire promises to cause others both domesticall forraine to ioyne with them in setting the royall diadem of England vpon the Spanish Infantaes head Secondly that they affirme in a most traytorous and execrable booke published for that end that the kinges of England haue beene vsurpers and not lawfull princes for manie yeares together Where I must needes put them in minde of this one thinge that their Cardinall Bellarmine telleth them with their Popes good liking that if the Popes had somtimes beene vsurpers yet prescription would iustifie the Popes title in these dayes So then by
absolution Sequitur Our kings represent the true image of God against whom this yeare there hapned three straunge and vnusuall accidents first the rebellion against the late king which they coloured with the pretext and title of tyranny secondly the parricidie committed vpon his person by a Monke and lastly the continuance of that rebellion against the king that now is for his religion Sequitur their confessions were instructions or rather destructions to teach rebellion refusing to absolue them which eyther were not in their consciences fully confirmed in their reuolt from the two kings or had any inclination to acknowledge them for their soueraignes And which is full of horrour and detestation their ordinarie conrse was before they would absolue them to make them sweare by the holy gospell conteyned in their breuiaries neuer to take these two kings for their lawful soueraignes That which I speake I haue by good information from many that were faine to passe through that strait and I know one amongst the rest more néere me then the rest who rather then he would giue credit to their doctrine departed from his confessour without receiuing absolution These words are set downe by a Catholike papist a French man in the booke called the Iesuites Catechisme Lib. 3. cap. 12. fol. 165. fol. 166. Note heere gentle Reader these important points with me First that not onely our English papists but euen the French also do write the same argument in substance against the Iesuites and their damnable doctrine Secondly that they vse confession as an instrument of patricidie euen of Gods annoynted princes Thirdly that they would absolue none which acknowledged true loyaltie to their soueraignes Fourthly that they caused all those whom they did absolue to sweare by the holy gospell neuer to take the king now regnant nor king Henry his predecessor for their lawfull soueraignes It therefore is high time for all kings to abandon and expell all this cursed crue out of their kingdomes territories and dominions Jesuitisme agréeth with the Anabaptists opinion in two propositions in medling with state matters and in causing princes and kings to be murdered accordingly to the conueniencie of their affaires I will adde that in the carriage of this Iesuiticall warre within France there was some conformitie of names betweene this and that the Anabaptists vndertooke in Germanie the yeare 1535. for they had one Iohn Mathew their chiefe prophet vnder Iohn Leydon their king and one Bernard Rotman and Bernard Cniperdolin principall actors in their faction for the seducing of sâ—mple people euen as our Iesuites had their father Claudius Mathew and Bernard Rouellet I will not héere recite the other particulars of our troubles being contented plainely to haue shewed vnto you that our Iesuites were the first seminaries thereof These words are set downe in the Iesuites Catechisme Lib. 3. cap. 11. fol. 164. Note heere gentle Reader that the French papists write as sharpely against the Iesuites as doe our secular popish priests And consequently the priests assertions and reports of them are of more credit in that behalfe The Iesuites hauing set foote in Portugall sollicited the king Sebastian by all manner of illusions to make an vniuersall law that none might be called to the Crowne vnlesse he were of their societie and moreouer elected by the consent and suffrages of the same Whereunto they could not attaine albeit they met with the most deuout superstitious prince that could be They were the men that kindled the first coales of that accursed league which hath béene the vtter ruine and subuersion of France In fauour of the Spaniard they set on worke to kill the king one Peter Barriere whom they caused to be confessed in their Colledge at Paris afterwards to receiue the Sacrament and hauing confirmed him by an assured promise of Paradise as a true martyr if he died in that quarrell they set forward this valiant champion who was thrise at the verie point to execute his accursed enterprise and God as often miraculously stayed his hand vntil at length being apprehended at Melun he receuied yâ— iust hyre of his traiterous intention in the yeare 1593. I speake nothing but what mine eies can witnesse and what I had from his owne mouth when he was prisoner View and peruse all the iniquities that you will you shall finde none so barbarous as this To perswade an impietie to kill a king and then to couer it with such a seeming maske of pietie In a word to destroy a soule a king paradise and our Church all at a blow to make way for their Spanish and halfe-pagan designments Thus is it written in the Iesuites Catechisme Lib. 3 cap. 18. fol. 185. Note heere gentle Reader these materiall points with me First that the Iesuites labour with might and maine as our Secular priests truly write of them to ouerrule the whole world For they would haue had a generall law made that none should be made king of Portugall vnlesse he were a Iesuite and also elected by their consent and suffrages Secondly that they suborned Peter Barriere to kill his and their liegelord the king of France Thirdly that they abused the Sacrament to that end and purpose Fourthly that they promised him Paradise and to be canonized for a martyr if he should kill his soueraigne and die in that quartell Fiftly that all this was done in the honour and behalfe of the Spanish king Put all these together and see if the same be not the Iesuiticall practise heere in England as the Secular priestes haue told vs. It happened vpon Saint Iohn Enangelists day in the yeare 1594. after the reducing of Paris vnder obedience to their soueraigne that the king going to his chamber accompanied with many princes and lords found himselfe vnlookt for sodainly strokeÌ„ in the mouth with a knife so that neither he nor those that were with him could perceiue it For assoone as Iohn Chastell who was the traytor and but nineteene yeares of age had giuen the stroke he dropped downe the knife and set himselfe in the midst of the prease Euerie one was in a maze and busie to thinke who had done that trayterous déed and it wanted not much but that this young yâ—uth had made an escape Notwithstanding God would not permit that this detestable act should remaine vnpunished By chance it was that some ore casting his eyes vpon him he became as one sore affrighted and appald with feare But as he promised himselfe to haue the paradise of Iesuites if he died one of their martyrs so also he confessed this fact more readily and promptly then was looked for at his hands Whereby by decree of the Court of Parliament in Paris he was condemned to die I haue no greater argument then this to shew that the trade of murthering was lodged within their Colledges For where there was any exercise of good education and studie no scholler would haue vndertaken such a damnable determination but such a one
as was brought vp vnder them In other Colledges they know not what it meant to instruct schollers how to murther kings and specially in ours But in the Iesuits Colledges it is contrarie and preached in their owne assemblies nothing so much as that alone Of the which indéed they were but too prodigall in their sermons These words are set downe in the Iesuites Catechisme Lib. 3. cap. 8. fol. 155. When our Iesuites saw themselues remoued from their princes fauour they began to lay a snare to intrappe him And as their societie is composed of all sorts of people some for the penne others for practise so had they amongst them one father Henry Sammier of Luxenburge a man disposed for all affaires and resolued to any hazard This fellow was sent by them in the yeare 1581. towards diners Catholike princes to sound the fourd And to say truly they could not haue chosen one more fit For he disguised himselfe into as manie formes as obiects one while attired like a souldier an other while like a priest by and by a countrey swaine Dice cards and women were as ordinarie with him as his presired houres of prayer saying he did not thinke he sinned in this because it was done to Gods glory and that he miâ—â—t not be discouered changing his name together with his habite according to the countries where he purposed to negotiate These words are to be read in the Catechisme Lib. 3. cap. 11. Fol 162. William Crichton the Iesuite went into Spaine by the licence of his generall Whither he is no sooner come but he practiseth to infinuate himselfe into the kings fauour And to that effect drawes a tree of the descent and pedegree of the Infanta his daughter shewing therein that the Crownes of England Scotland did by right appertaine to her and so incite him the rather to take armes against the Scottish king hee scattered abroad diffamatorie libels against him Whereunto the king of Spayne giuing no eare Crichton determined with himselfe by letters to sollicite the Catholike Nobilitie of Scotland to the same purpose and to that ende wrote letters in the yeare 1592. to Gourdon and other Iesuites remaining in Scotland whereby hee gaue them to vnderstand in what grace he was with the king who by his incitement was resolued aswell for the inuasion of England as for the restoring of the auncient Religion in Scotland These words are in the Iesuites Catechisme Lib. 3. cap. 16. fol. 173. Certaine young diuines infected with the poyson of the Iesuites loosed the reines to subiects against their king in the yeare 1589. and Commolet the Iesuite with his adherents sounded the trumpet of warre in their pulpets against the king deceased Whereupon insued those outragious disorders which we haue seene in France since that time These words are in yâ— Catechisme Li. 3. c. 14. fol. 169. Walpole the Iesuite in the yeare 1597. deliuered a poysonous confection to Squire therewith to make away the Queene of England his Soueraigne The Iesuites at Doway in the yeare 1598. sent the Cooper of Iper to kill Graue Maurice of Nassaw These wordes are set downe in the Iesuites Catechisme Lib. 3. cap. 13. fol. 168. It is well knowne O Iesuites that your Colledge was the fountaine and seminarie of all those calamities which we endured during the last troubles There was the rebellion plotted and contriued there was it fully and wholy nourished and maintained Your prouincials your rectors your deuout superiours were the first that troade that path they that first and last dealt with this merchandise Your Colledge was the retreat or Randeuous of all such as had vowed and sold themselues aswell to the destruction of the State as to the murther of the king In which your doings you at that time gloried and triumpht both in your sermons and lectures Sequitur this was the houre of Gods wrath who hauing long temporized with your sinnes thought it good to make Chastell a spurre in the hearts of the iudges to incite them to do iustice aswell vpon you as vpon him that you might all serue for an example for posteritie to wonder at To the accomplishment of this worke he permitted that Chastell who had beene nurtured and brought vp in your schoole should assay to put in practise your deuout lectures and exhortations against the king not in the countrey but in the citie of Paris and that his dwelling house should be not in any obscure corner of the towne but in the verie heart of the citie in a house right opposite to the gate of the pallace the ancient habitation of our kings and of the supreame and soueraigne iustice of Fraâ—nce This house belonged to the father who was so infortunate as not to reueale to the Magistrate the damnable intention of his sonne whereof hee had knowledge as himselfe confessed God made speciall choyse of that place of purpose to make the punishment more notorious For which cause this house was râ—â—nated and raced by order and in the place thereof a Pyâ—amis or piller raysed bearing the memoriall not onely of Chastels offence but of the Iesuites also and this to stand in opposite view of this great royall Pallace To the ende that our posteritie may knowe heereafter how highly Fraunce is beholden to this holy societie of Iesus These wordes are set downe in the Iesuites Catechisme Lib. 3. cap. 19. fol. 191. Note here gentle reader with me these important obseruations First that Iohn Chastell but 19. yeares of age went about trayterously with a knife prepared for that purpose to murther his naturall Soueraigne Secondly that hee the said youth was fully perswaded by Iesuiticall education and doctrine that to murther his liege Lord the King was the readie way to heauen Thirdly that nothing was more freely taught in the schooles of the Iesuites then the doctrine of the killing of lawefull kinges Fourthly that their sermons abounded with this kind of maladie Fiftly that the Iesuites imployed in this kind of marchandise one Henrie Sammier a most licentious dissolute villaine giuen to all vices vnder heauen Sixtly that he reputed all his vices for vertues in respect of his godly intents and purpose viz. Of killing Kinges Seuenthly that the Iesuite Crichton sollicited the Spanish King to inuade both England and Scotland affirming that the crownes of both the kingdomes did by right pertaine vnto him Eightly that the Iesuite Commolet and his adherents sounded the trumpet of warre against their king euen out of the pulpets â—s if it had beene an high point of diuinitie and most fit for edification Ninthly that the Iesuite Walpoole endeuoured by poyson to take away the life of his Soueraigne Tenthly that the Iesuites at Doway sent the Cooper of Iper to kill Graue Maurice of Nassaw Eleuently that the colledge of the Iesuites was the fountaine and seminarie of the calamities in France That in their colledge was all rebellion plotted coÌ„triued nourished maintained Twelftly that the prouincials rectors and
court of Rome And yet vnwitingly they condemne themselues in an other place graunting that they may not by worde or writing impugne the parliamentall Lawes of this land Thirdly by not appealing they should haue beene preiudiciall to prince Church and all estates as is in the second obseruation but not to the prince Church or State of England ergo to the prince Church and State of Rome for of force they must so meane the force of trueth hath inforced their penne Fourthly they appealed for her Maiesties securitie as is in the third obseruation where I cannot enough admire the impudent insolencie of these disloyall Seculars who make a treacherous flowrish as if the securitie of their dread Soueraigne did depend vpon their Popes good pleasure and their treacherous appeale vnto him Herein they make hauocke other Maiesties statute-lawes which els where by popish statization and equinocation they say they may not offend A note worthy to be remembred Fifthly they appealed for the quiet of the state which is as disloyally spoken as the former for God auert that the peace of her Maiesties state and her Realmes do at any time stand in neede of the Popes fauour the intreatie of the sedicious Seculars Sixtly they appealed for the auoydance of inuasions and conspiracies as is in the fiâ—th obseruation out of which confession I inferre these two important corollaries First that conspiracies and inuasions are still intended against her sacred person her royall throne her crowne her state and dominions Secondly that the Pope is the principall actor in all plots conspiracies treacheries inuasions and conquests intended against the Queen her realms and faithfull subiects I therefore conclude that the Seculars are this day as dangerous in al treasonable plots bloody practizes and disloyall conspiracies as they haue beene heretofore For albeit they belabour themselues seriously to hide and bolster out all their cursed intendements against their dread soueraigne and natiue Countrey especially when they are occasioned to speake of matters of state as they doe or may concerne their owne persons yet doe they but equiuocate and temporize in so doing and that as scornefully and treacherously as euer did the Iesuites Of which point none can be ignorant that shall seriously peruse and ponder this discourse Wherefore as the Seculars say of the Iesuites so say I of them that though they sweare can yet we not safely beleeue them in state-affairs the reason is euident because they doe not acknowledge any magistrate vnder her Maiestie to be their lawfull and competent iudge If they say write or sweare the contrary yet giue no credite to them therein for euen then doe they seeke to delude the Magistate by their hypocriticall and execrable equiuocations No no it neither doth nor can stand with popish religion to thinke and beleeue that Queen Elizabeth whom God long preserue ouer vs can ordeine any competent iudge ouer them And consequently vntill the Seculars renounce the Pope and his damnable procéedings against Christian kings their royal diademes and sacred regalities they will doubtlesse delude the maiestrates with their fondely inuented equiuocationes This is a graue aduiso which may not beforgotten Aduiso V. Of the opinion affection and true meaning of the seculars in all the treasonable practises bloudie conspiracies and other disloyall intendmentes against their dread soueraigne and natiue countrie THe seculars conspire concurre and iumpe with the Iesuites in opinion affection and inward meaninge touching the Popes authoritie the bloudie conspiracies inuasions conquest other disloyall intendments against most noble Queene Elizabeth and our natiue country this I proue by manie strong weightie and irrefragable reasons The first reason The pretenses of such practises were generall and common to all Catholikes alike all maintaining one the same opinion concerning what might be done by Apostolical power authoritie neuer talking of what was necessarie Thus is it written quodl 8. art 9. pag. 277. but the seculars are papists aswell as the Iesuites Ergo of the same opinion with the Iesuites Heere the reader may see plainely that the seculars iumpe with the opinion of the Iesuits touching the popes authoritie For by apostolicall power they vnderstand the power and authoritie of the Pope To which must be added which is alreadie proued that the Pope hath excommunicated her Maiesty de facta and hath beene the chiefest agent in all treasonable practises bloodie conspiracies inuasions conquests and other execrable intendments against her Maiesties person honour state and dominions To this must likewise be added which is also proued that the Iesuites affirme malepeartly damnablie and disloyally that the Pope hath done nothing in the premisses but that he lawfully might doe The second Reason Among many examples of the deare loue and compassion of the Popes holines towards the inhabitants and princes of this land in times of imminent commonwealths dangers the chiefe since the Norman conquest was shewed in the daies and raignes of king Henrie the second surnamed Fitzempresse and of his sonne king Iohn the third Monarke of England of a Plantagenets royall race Against whom hauing vsed his fatherly correction as pastor vnivniuersall ouer the whole flocke of Christ for their great crueltie and tyrannie vsed towards their naturall subiects yet vpon their repentance mercifully receiuing them into grace and fauour of Gods Church againe his holines on the behalfe of the second did not onely accurse and excommunicate prince Lewis of France with all his adherents forcing him to yeeld vp all the interest right and title that he or his posteritie had or euer should haue to the English crowne but also surrendred vp the said crowne of England franke and free to king Iohn and his heires and successours from of the head of Cardinall Pandulphus hauing sit inthronized three daies therewith in the Popes right And thousands there are in England that desire as much Thus is it written quodl 8. art 9. page 327. Out of these words it is euidently deduced that the Pope taketh vpon him though most iniuriously and tyrannically to translate kingdomes to depose kings Emperours and Monarkes and to bestow their princely Diademes and royall regalities as seemeth best to his good pleasure Yea which is more to be admired the seculars who in outward shew of words by often and earnest protestations affirme themselues to be most loyall subiects approue the Pope in so doing For first where the Pope had excommunicated and deposed king Henry they terme it his fatherly correction Secondly they say he did it by his vniuersall authority ouer the whole Church Thirdly they terme the deposing of prince Lewis and the restoring of king Iohn to the crowne the chiefest fatherly compassion since the Norman coÌ„quest Fourthly they tell vs that Cardinall Pandulphus was three daies enthronized with the crowne of England vpon his head in the right of the Pope which forraine tyrannicall fact they commend approue Fiftly they tell vs that
the Pope enforced king Lewis to yeeld vp his whole title and right that eyther he or his posteritie had or euer should haue to the English crowne This they likewise approue and commend Sixtly they crie and exclayme with open mouthes that thousands in England desire as much to be done Which is all one as I interprete it as if they wished the Pope to send some Cardinall from Rome to be enthronized three daies with the English crowne vpon his head in the right of his holines and then to surrender it vp to Arbella or to some other popish fauorite For so the Spaniard or other foreyner haue it not they haue their desire Me thinke this my glosse swarueth not much from the text The reason is cleare the reader can easily make application thereof The third Reason I know that Iure ecclesiastico and by the authoritie and sentence of the Popes holines much more may be done then heere I will speake of But yet I thinke it will proue in the end the best course for men not to doe so much as they may Many things be lawfull which are not expedient Thus is it written quodl 9. art 3. pag. 293. This reason ab authoritate for better reasons then their owne grants and confessions cannot be had is as strong as the former if it be well noted with the circumstances thereof For first after Watson who speaketh in the name of the seculars had told vs by the doctrine of a learned man that if we goe no further then to the law of nature or to the law of God no king is depriued from his soueraigntie ouer his subiects though it be for the sinne of apostasie from faith forthwith he addeth the words of this present reason affirming peremptorily that the Pope can do more then he will heere set downe Secondly he telleth vs here that kings can neyther by Gods law nor by the law of nature be deposed from their crownes and regalities and consequently when he saith the Pope can doe more hee must perforce affirme both impudently and senselesly that the Popes power is aboue the power of God The latter he dare not say and yet hath Satan so bewitched and besotted him that it followeth necessarily of the former that is of the doctrine which he deliuereth from the penne of a learned writer and putteth it downe for good Now what is it that the Pope can doe more then may be done by the law of nature and of God forsooth he can excommunicate kings depose kings from their royall thrones and put their Diademes vpon the heades of others This is it that Watson will not say heere because it is not expedient Yet vnwittingly the truth enforcing him he telleth vs no lesse in another place For a reuerend priest saith he and ancient gentleman ould master Middleton was content at Parsons his motion to subscribe to the title of Infanta vpon condition that she should be ioyned by marriage to some noble or péere of our land Thus they write peruse the place quoted in the margent Againe in another place it is thus written say then for the present which yet is more then I would willingly put to maintaine the time of our afflicted state considered that his holines and the king of Spayne might lawfully haue taken armes against her Maiestie and this her kingdome our natiue land yet was it a shamefull part of father Parsons and his companions to be the contriuers or instigators of 〈◊〉 These are the expresse words of the place quoted in the margent Out of these two seuerall assertions the confirmations of the third reason generall I gather first that all the difference betweene the Iesuites and the Seculars concerning the inuasion and conquest of this land consisteth in this onely point viz. that the Iesuites would haue the Ladie Infanta of Spayne to be the Queene of England but the seculars will haue an English man to be king of the land They differ not in the thing to be done but in the manner of contriuing the thing that should be done not in the partie to be deposed from the crowne but in the person that should haue the Crowne not about taking the crowne from Queene Elizabeth but about giuing the crown to the Spanish Ladie The reason hereof is euident because our Quodlibetist telleth vs roundly that old Middleton consented willingly to giue his name to the charter of subscription in the behalfe of the Ladie Infanta of Spayne vpon condition that she should be married to some English noble man Which disloyall narration the secular Quodlibetist approoueth and greatly commendeth terming the said Midleton a reuerend priest and ancient gentleman I gather secondly that our Quodlibetist Watson singeth the selfe same song with old trayterous Midleton For he putteth the case that the pope Spanish king should be said to haue taken armes lawfully against her Maiestie and her Realme of England That done forsooth he telleth vs that he would not willingly maintain that doctrine the time circumstances considered Where he vnwittingly auoucheth that the Pope and king of Spayne might lawfully take armes to depose her Maiestie from her royall Diademe Yea he granteth that he would defend the same doctrine but that the time is not correspondent thereunto Let the words be well pondered and this will be the sense The fourth Reason The Quodlibetist and the seculars doe often protest their obedience to the pope and submit themselues and all their writings yea euerie word sillable and title to the censure of the Romane Church One place may suffice where these words are to be read With all humble obedience to the sea Apostolike be it spoken Quodl 8. art 8 pag. 267. This reason doth plainely conuince the contents of this fift aduiso to be true For how is it possible to conceiue that they shall in true meaning say or write any thing against the pope on the behalfe of her Maiestie who protest zealously before God and his Angels that they will yeeld all obedienc◠to the pope therefore do submit themselues and all their writings sentences words and sillables to his censure and iudgement it cannot be they do but temporize in these state matters they vse Iesuiticall equiuocation The fifth Reason The seminaries were willing at the first to colour hide and conceale all making the Iesuites causes attempts intents practises and proceedings their owne in euery thing vntill at last they were intangled by penall lawes iustly made against them equally as against the Iesuites These words are set downe in the preface to the Quodlibets page 6. Againe in another place the priests write thus we had some of vs greatly approued the said rebellion highly extolled the rebels and pitifully bewailed their ruine and ouerthrow Many of our affections were knit to the Spaniards and for our obedience to the pope we all do professe it The attempts both of the pope and Spaniard failing in England