and storme at her enioying of the Crowne as at her Christian and Religious gouernment Buls are not hastelie procured your Pope must be sued vnto and false informations must be giuen and it might be as they had vaine hopes for a time to feede themselues with so those hopes fayling the fittest season for publishing of the Bull was thought to be when others were prepared to raise rebellion The second point is a matter of as deepe consideration as the former wherein hee telleth vs by enumeration of diuers hard vsages offered by her Maiestie and the Protestants against the Pope and Popish Catholicks that it must needs be that not malignitie of the Pope and his adherents against her but diuers iniuries and cruelties offered inforced the publication of the Bull. I will not vouchsafe to make an Apologie for defence of those things which you Sir Encounterer recken vp as wrongs and iniuries offered to your Pope and Pope-worshippers this onely I say for answere that as her Maiestie hath done nothing in the reformation of Religion in requiring an oath of her people for acknowledgement of her authoritie in inforcing her Subiects to the true seruice of God in punishing offenders and obstinate persons and such like proceedings but that which God commaunded her and the godlie zealous Princes haue done before her so it doth not necessarilie follow that notwithstanding all those things haue been done in godlie zeale and louing care for the saluation of the soules of her people therefore you are free from malignitie your faultines wherein I haue euidentlie proued before though in your deepe and cunning flatterie you would gladlie denie it you fawne vpon her Maiestie and yet accuse her most falselie of breach of promise in altering Religion you seeme to free her from a desire to publish Gods Gospell and yet affirme that your Pope had great cause to proceede against her Other Princes as Edward the first Richard the second Henrie the fourth haue made lawes against the Bishop of Rome his authoritie and vsurped iurisdiction and yet haue not tasted so much of his malice which sheweth the malignitie of your Pope and his adherents against her Maiestie As for your Poperie and superstition rooted out of this land it was not of so long continuance as you boast for but little before William the Conqueror Kings were Gods Vicars for gouerning his Church Ecclesiasticall liuings were bestowed by the Princes they made Ecclesiasticall lawes Priests were married and your Transubstantiation was not then knowne You blasphemouslie scoffe at the Sacrament of the Lords Supper and ye glorie in the dissention betweene vs and the Lutherans but as the Lord is of will and power to mocke mockers so can hee make the infirmitie of his seruants worke to his glorie and their good I passe ouer many things willinglie in this your Rhetoricall flourishing contenting my selfe to haue shewed the non sequitur of your allegation The third point which you would haue considered is that it was an acte of iurisdiction from an Ecclesiasticall superiour as also an auncient kinde of proceeding against Princes in our land as well as in other places without any trouble to the people for the same and therefore you would not haue your Catholikes to be charged with it or troubled for it For answere thereunto this I affirme that as wee acknowledge not your Popes superioritie or Ecclesiasticall iurisdiction ouer vs he playing the vsurping Tirant in censuring our Prince so we neither yeelde that this his proude and malicious cursing and excommunication of Princes hath been of long continuance or that those his adherents who iustifie his proceedings are to bee freed from blame We acknowledge that Princes the annointed of the Lord are the higher powers ordained to execute Iustice and Iudgement ouer the good and euill We knowe no other Superiour in nations and kingdomes next and immediatelie vnder God but such as the Apostle Peter willeth vs to be subiect vnto when he saith Submit your selues vnto all manner ordinance of man for the Lords sake whether it be vnto the King as to the Superiour c. he speaketh of one not of many superiours where a Monarchie is established The time was when your Bishop of Rome was far from hauing a superioritie euen in Rome and his dominions for both Charles the great and Otho the great had right soueraigntie and royaltie of the Countries giuen to your Popes with acknowledgement to bee their Soueraigne Lordes in regarde of which they yeelded tributes and other seruices vnto them as also in former times the Emperours had their Lieutenants and deputies in Rome euen to Gregorie the seuenths time and your Popes obtained not the Soueraigntie which now they challenge till it was almost 1200. yeares after Christ in the daies of Alexander the third and Innocentius the third both Bishops of Rome Your vsuall engine of excommunication and depriuing of Princes of their Crownes is likewise far short of that antiquitie by which you would seeme to mitigate the rigour and crueltie thereof For as there was neuer any Romane King or Emperor excommunicated and depriued of his kingdom by any Bishop of Rome before Henry the fourth Emperour of Rome who was excommunicated cursed by Gregory the seuenth the brand of hel who being a Necromancer a periured person and a most wicked man confessed at his death to a Cardinall that he was set on by the Diuell to raise vp discord and warres in Christendome so in England from the conquest vnto King Henrie the eight there was no Prince of this land deposed by your pope but onely King Iohn It is a noueltie Sir N.D. and not a matter of antiquitie as Sigebert telleth you to teach that people owe no subiection to euill kings c. As for that you say that Subiects heretofore in our land haue not beene troubled or forced to alter their beliefe concerning the Popes power notwithstanding his cursing and depriuing of Princes is more then you know and it maketh no great matter whether it were so or no seeing that your vse of excommunication hath not been so frequent in our land and your dealings were neuer so treacherous and desperate as they haue been of late Our English Nation did neuer at any time since the first receiuing of the faith vnto this day acknowledge the vsurped power of your Pope to depose Princes much lesse hath it been anie matter of our faith your Pope Nicholas and Boniface the eight may put in transubstantiation to be an Article of our beliefe and make your popes supremacie of the necessitie of saluation but wee haue learned to ground our faith vpon the Scriptures of God which teacheth no such absurd and diuellish points The lawes of our land haue heretofore in King Richard the seconds time and Edward the thirds time made it treason to bring in any excommunication from Rome to impugne the lawes of the Realme for benefices and patronages to compasse or imagine the
durst protect felons and murtherers against the King and Iustice of the land neither reuerencing King nor obeying his lawes passed ouer without licence to the King of France Further being adiudged to prison by the King for refusing to giue accounts of great summes of money receiued by him and Reignold Earle of Cornewall and Robert Earle of Leicester being sent to him to tell him of the iudgement set downe against him this meeke Martyr and holy Saint was so farre from the obedience of a subiect that he told the earle of Leicester in these words That how much more precious the soule is then the bodie so much more ought he to obey Becket then his terreine King So notorious and euident was the rebellious opposition of this Popish Prelate against his lawfull Prince that he was openly by the king and his Nobles called Traitor in that he refused to giue earthly honour to his King as he had sworne to do and therefore they generally agreed that he was wel worthy to be handled as a periured Traitor and rebell and therefore most impudent is this Ward-worders assertion that neyther the King nor his Officers did charge him with treason If you please to adde hereunto the arbitrement of this controuersie put into the French kings handes with king Henries large offer and Beckets proud refusall there is no man I hope that knoweth what it is to be an obedient subiect but will condemne him for a rebellious Traitour The kings offer in that arbitrement was this There haue been saith he Kings of England before me both of greater and lesse puissance then I am likewise there haue been many Bishoppes of Canturburie both great and holy men what the greatest and most holy of all his predecessours before him hath done to the least of my predecessors before me let him doe the same to me and I am content Which offer though it were in it selfe and so deemed by all that stood by not onely reasonable but more then reasonable so that they all cried with one voice the king hath debased himselfe enough to the Bishop yet the rebellious spirit of this Archbishop would not yeelde vnto it nor accept peace with his King vpon so fauourable a condition What a Giant-like pride traiterous presumption is this to refuse to yeelde so much obedience to his Prince and Soueraigne as the greatest and holiest of his place haue alwaies yeelded to the meanest kinges of this land what needeth any further proofe of Beckets treason Yet if you will you may remember the letter of Maud the Empresse to him Wherin she chargeth him that in as much as in him lay he went about to disinherit the king to depriue him of his crown and if the Empresse might be thought to speake partially on the King her sonnes behalfe yet the two Cardinals sent by the Pope to heare all this controuersie out of question will not condemne him without iust cause And yet in a letter sent from them to the Pope they do condemne him of exciting stirring vp forraine Potentates to make warre against his naturall liege Lord the words of which letter were these William and Otho Cardinals of the Church of Rome to Alexander the Pope c. comming to the land of the king of England we found the controuersie betwixt him and the Archbishop of Canterburie more sharpe and vehement then we would for the King and the greater part about him said that the Archbishop had stirred vp the French King grieuouslie against him as also the Earle of Flaunders his kinsman who was verie louing and kind to him before he made his open aduersarie readie to wage warre against him as is by diuers euidences most certain c. Now for a subiect to stirre vp forraine States to make warre vpon his Soueraigne and countrie was at all times high treason but that Becket did so by the Cardinals confession was by diuers euidences most certaine therefore Becket not now his enemies but his breâ—hren the sonnes of his owne mother being Iudges was a traitor Who then but such a one as hath sold himselfe to all impudencie and shamelesse gainsaying the truth would seeke to couer Beckets rebellions by the facts of Iohn Baptist Ambrose Hillarie of Athanasius Chrysostome which haue as much agreement with the cause of Becket as hath light with darkenes good with euill sweet with sower concerning whose Saint-being I will say nothing sith my purpose is not to search what he is with God after his death but what he was towards his Prince in his life neither am I priuie to his repentance which might be secret at the last gaspe or to Gods iudgements into which I presume not to presse Yet you may remember that long since it was a generall Prouerbe of your Pope-made Saints That many are worshipped for Saints in heauen whose soules are burning in Hell and that in particular concerning Becket great doubt was moued as is by writers alleadged out of Caesarius the Monke whose words are these Quaestio Parisijs inter magistros ventilata fuit vtrum damnatus an saluatus esset ille Thomas c. There was a question debated amongst the masters at Paris whether Thomas Becket was saued or damned To this question answereth Roger a Norman that he was worthie death and damnation because he was so obstinate against Gods minister the king Peter Cantar a Parisien disputed on the contrarie that his miracles were great signes and tokens of saluation and of great holines in him c. Which argument this Encounterer likewise vrgeth But behold what strength is in it For one of these we shall find to be true that either they seemed only and were no miracles indeed such as many by the craft and conueiance of idle Monks haue been shewed to the people as namely those miracles of the Dominicke Friers in their hot contentions with the Franciscans about the conception of our Ladie who thinking by sleight to worke in the peoples heads that which by open preaching they durst not now attempt deuised a certaine Image of the Virgin so artificially wrought that the Friers by priuie gynnes made it to stirre to make gestures to lament to complaine to weepe to grone and to giue answeres to them that asked c. vntill the Franciscans seeing by this meanes their credits to decay and all the almes to be conueyed to the Dominickes boxe and not being vnacquainted with such cousening practises espied their iugling and discouered their feined fraudulent miracles For which cause foure of the chiefest actors in this iugling miracle were burned at Bernâ— Or secondly if they were not counterfeite but done in deed they were not wrought by God but by the power of Sathan to draw men from Christ to Antichrist Of these the Apostle foretelleth vs that whensoeuer it commeth to passe it might not trouble vs That the comming
which in that letter of Boners to the Lord Cromwell are to be found And this I hope is sufficient to cleare me from malignitie and sycophancie for calling so vnworthie a man a bloudie monster After this flourish to make shew in generall of the Bishops milde mature whereof by these fewe particulars the reader may more soundly iudge this his Proctor proceedeth to cleere him of seeking her Maiesties life in the raigne of her sister but it seemeth his conscience gaue him a secret checke when he set pen to paper about this defence For how weake an Apologie doth make for so haynous an accusation the lines are few in which he wrappeth vp the handling of this weightie case and the reasons as weake as water that he alleadgeth for the Bishops clearing It was so farre off from Gardiners condition and nature saith this forward Proctor that he dareth say I doe him apparent and wilfull wrong What Sir if for malice he might be compared to the diuell as Boner witnesseth what could be more agreeable to his nature then to seeke the bloud of so gracious and innocent a Ladie And seemeth not trow ye his case to be verie good which so wooddie yea so hot and fierie a Patrone seekes to maintaine with so slender and cold a defence as I dare say he doth him apparunt and wilfull wrong But he addeth she was an obiect rather of loue and compassion then of enuie and hatred But what loue could proceede from him that was of an hard heart and cancred malicious stomacke what compassion could he shewe whose verie bowels were cruell As for the misterious bracelet of which this brabler talketh in which all the secrecie of Wyats conspiracie was said to lie hidden which Gardiner farther pierced then any other but neuer vsed or vrged the knowledge gotten thereof to the Ladies perill I answere that the misterie of this Shemeis treacherie against that innocent Ladie his now Soueraigne may hereby appeare to all men who to grace his client with the commendation of a deepe politike to pearse further into the misterie of that conspiracie then anie other and of a tender harted man in not vsing nor vrging his knowledge gotten thereof to the Ladies perill layeth the highest disgrace vpon his Soueraigne that can be imagined as if she had been secretly confederate with Wyat in his rebellion against her sister and that this Eagle-eyed Bishop had spied so much in a misterious bracelet but of pure good will did neuer vrge it to her perill Whereas for euer finding any suspition against her through so manie hard and earnest siftings his owne mouth is a witnesse against him who kneeling downe to her Grace after long triall had of her loyaltie and integritie said Then hath your Grace the aduantage of me and other of the Lords for your long and wrong Imprisonment As for his concealing of any thing that hee might finde against her or desire to free her from daunger who knoweth not how farre both hee and the rest of the Clergie were from any such inclination For when Wyat at his death cleered the Ladie Elizabeth Doctor Weston cried Beleeue him not good People c. Which being related to Sir Thomas White then Lord Maior he was moued at the bloudie humour of this Popish Doctor and said of him with indignation In sooth I neuer tooke him but for a knaue But was your Bishop more mildlie affected then the Doctor Nay hee was so vnwilling to haue her cleered as hee chafed exceedinglie at a poore Apprentise in London for saying that Wyat had cleered her and the Lord Courtney and caused the Lord Maior to bring this poore youth to the Starre Chamber where hee vttered a speech vpon that occasion and pronounced the innocent Ladie guiltie and commaunded the Apprentise should be punished And if Master Bridges then Lieutenant of the Tower had not as is reported most honestly aduentured to Queene Marie to informe her of a warrant that was out for the execution of this her worthie Sister the innocent Ladie had lost her life poore England had been depriued of so gracious a Soueraigne and the light of our Candlesticke had been put out But blessed bee the Lorde who gaue not the Soule of his Turtle Doue to the beasts nor his darling to the power of the dogges With this for good fellowship may walke hand in hand his plea for the Bishops freedome concerning the bringing in of the Spaniard of which I affirme that Gardiner and his complices neuer rested vntill they had brought in the Spaniard and matched him with Queene Marie by which they betraied God her and the whole Realme from which this Proctor first would cleare him by imagining in him a partiall affection to the Earle of Deuonshire whom he would haue married to the Queene But it were strange that in a man of Gardiners place there should bee so great ficklenes and mutabilitie that in so short a space so great loue should bee turned into such extreame hatred a little before in his loue he would haue made him as you say as a King by matching him to Queene Marie within a while after he would haue made him worse then a caitife and to suffer as a Traitour accusing him earnestlie in the Starre Chamber when as Wyat had cleered him Secondlie hee demaundeth if this had been so as hee saith it was not why did they betraie therein both God their Queene and their Countrie To which his demaunde I briefelie answere God was betraied because his true Religion was exiled which Queene Marie before her obtaining the Crowne promised to the Suffolke men to maintaine and in steede thereof Idolatrie was established The Queene they betraied because they matched her to an vnhusband-like husband who estranged both his affection and companie from her which was thought to be a great cause of the shortning of her daies for when the cause of her often sighing a little before her death was asked of her selfe she confessed this to bee one though not the onelie cause that she could not enioie the companie of her husband The Realme they betraied because they sought to make it subiect to a stranger though yet blessed bee God doe all they what they could or the Queene herselfe they could neuer set the Crowne of England vpon King Phillips head And that the temporall inconueniences by that match were not more fullie felt God is to bee praised who gaue him here so short an aboade Further by this match they bringing in the Pope and resigning the Supremacie to him did wrong to the Crowne for by the Lawe of God the King in his owne Realme is chiefe gouernour both in causes Ecclesiasticall and Ciuill the Pope contrariwise will not onelie be aboue the King in all causes Ecclesiasticall but also in some Ciuill challenging all Bishops and Cleargie men for his subiects exempting them in things Ciuill from the Kings authoritie whereby he robbeth the
spirituall and temporall Supremacie as it may seeme with small reuerence Philip by the grace of God c. To Boniface bearing himselfe for chiefe Bishop little health or none at all Let thy foolishnes know that in temporall things we are subiect to no man and that the giftes of Prebends and Benefices made and to be made by vs were and shal be good both in time past and to come And that we will defend manfully the possessours of the said Benefices and we thinke them that beleeue or thinke otherwise to be fooles or madmen Charles the 5. Father to King Philip of Spayne for a lesse matter then withdrawing his subiectes from loyaltie or attempting to depose him and make him no King rang an hot Alarum at Rome gates by his Souldiours and did take the Pope himselfe prisoner And for all his claime of Monarchie let him offer to thrust the King of Spaine from his throane and see if as Catholike as he is he will acknowledge this his Supremacie or rather will not seeke by all meanes to bridle his furie Therefore gentle Sir I must make bold to returne your imputation of lunacy vpon your selfe and your colleagues Thrasilaus a frenticke person who poore man was not in anie proportion worth one ship yet thought all the ships that arriued in the hauen of Athens to be his he would tell them suruey them and set downe accounts of them In like sort a melancholike impression hath so deepely setled it selfe in these mens braines that though indeed they be destitute of the testimonie of Antiquitie yet they boast that the fathers make with them and that all antiquitie is on their side forsooth euen as all the ships of Athens belonged to poore Thrasilaus From his Archprelacie let vs briefely come to his pride which we shall not need to seeke in his inward disposition as this Popeling imagineth it sheweth it selfe apparantlie in outward actions Neither in iudging by the external shew may I as wel cōdemne all other Princes and great men in the world for admitting honour according to their degrees as hee would perswade there being great difference betwixt the outward honour due to Priestes and that which appertaineth to Princes and this Luciferian Priest challenging such honour as no prince or monarch the like The Pope will haue the Emperour to holde his stirrope whilest he mounteth on horsebacke and Pope Adrian was angrie with the Emperour Frederike for holding his stirrope on the wrong side when he is mounted the Emperour must lead his horse by the bridle and Kings walke along before yea when he is carried on mens shoulders the Emperour they say must helpe to carrie him for a space Pope Caelestine the 4. Crowned Henrie the 6. Emperour lying prostrate before him with his feet Gregorie the 7. made Henrie the 4. Emperor with his wife and young child to waite at his gate three diaes bare foot barelegd to sue for absolution and at the length made him to surrender his Crowne into his hands Franciscus Dandalùs the Embassadour of the Noble State of Venice was faine with a chaine about his necke to lie vnder the Popes table like a Dog to pacifie his indignation conceiued against the Venetians What should I speake of his blessed feete which hee maketh Kings and Emperours to kisse What speake I of kissing his feete which barbarous pride yet scarce any heathen Emperour is read to haue shewed towards inferiour persons but towards Kings I thinke none Alexander the third did treade on the necke of Fredericke Barbarossa the Emperour and caused that verse of the Psalme to be song Thou shalt walke vpon the Adder and Cockatrice and shalt tread the Lyon and Dragon vnder thy feete These I take it are sufficient euidences of Pride intolerable and more then heathenish Leauing to set downe further proofes of his pride we will now shew how iustlie hee is tearmed a bloudie Monster Cyrus whose head Queene Tomyris cut off and cast into a bole of bloud with this reproach Satia te sanguine quem sitijsti i. Glut thy selfe with bloud after which thou hast thirsted was but a milke soppe to the bloud sucker of Rome Valla professeth of the Popes in his time that they were called Fathers in name but in deede were murtherers that the Pope maketh warre vpon people that liued in peace and soweth discord amongst Christian Princes Iulius the second plaied the gallant warriour in his owne person and casting aside Peters keyes did betake himselfe to Paules sworde Sundrie Popes haue sent their Cardinals to be generall of their Armies and to shed Christian bloud Pope Adrian set Pipine and Charles Kings of France against them of Lombardie Boniface setteth the King of England against the French King and another time they haue set the French against the English The examples of this bloudie humour in sowing dissention betwixt Kingdomes are so many that the Popes owne Secretarie Platina confesseth Pontifices Romanos inimicitias non secus ac saeuissimos Tirannos exercuisse i. That the Popes of Rome did exercise hostilitie and hatred no lesse then the most cruell Tirants What should I speake of his bloudie trecheries The Emperour Fredericke being in warre against the Turke the Pope did take from him his lands in Apulia and Lombardie perswadeth the Turke by letters not to yeelde vp the holy land to him but to kill him gaue a pardon to whosoeuer would fight against him The Hospitalers and Templaries by letters shewed the Turke how Fredericke might be betrayed which treason the naturall honest Turke detested in this point honester then the Pope sent the letters to the Emperour and said in contempt of Christ and Religion Eccefidelitas Christianorum i. Beholde the fidelitie of Christians Gregorie the seuenth how many waies sought hee to destroy Henrie the fourth Emperour and namelie once when the Emperour was at his Prayers at Saint Maries Church in Rome hee appoynted by a Nouice hired to that purpose to haue the Emperour murthered by throwing downe a great stone vpon him Henrie the sixt Emperour was by a Frier hyred thereto poysoned in the Sacrament how barbarouslie Stephanus dealt with his predecessor Formosus after his death how many Popes Gregorie the seuenth poysoned to get the Popedome how Vrban the sixt sowed diuers Cardinals in sackes and drowned them in the Sea generallie of how many massacres the Popes haue been authors and how they haue reioyced at the effussion of Christian bloud these things to set downe were either to write Iliades after Homer or at the least chiliades after Erasmus In a word Alexander the sixt the Papists themselues condemne for a bloudie monster of whome after his death these verses were publikely scattered Mirum cur vomuit nigrum post fata cruorem Borgia quem biberat concoquere haud poterat Borgia dead much bloud did vomit from his brest What maruaile that the store he dranke could not digest But these happilie were the faultes of olde times
also but euer with due reuerence to both parents c. All which by way of similitude you apply to our Queene as a mother and your Pope as a father and to your Saundrs Allen Bristow Stapleton c. as elder brethren and to the Priestes and lay men in England as yonger brethren c. which similitude consisteth of nothing but dissimilitudes For first the Pope is no way our father and therfore our obedience reuerence loue not to be deuided betwixt the Queene and him as the childrens betwixt the father and mother the Queene is our mother both nourishing vs as a tender parent in things temporall as also in taking care for the Church of Christ in this land in things spiritual according to the Lords promise by the Prophet to his Church Kings shall be thy nursing fathers and Queenes thy nurses So did Iehosaphat Ezechias Iosias amongest the Iewes Constantine Iustinian Charles the great with other like Princes amongst the Christians commaund and make lawes in causes ecclesiasticall and acknowledged no vniuersal father-hood of your Pope I wish he did discharge the dutie of a true spirituall father within his owne Diocesse and Bishopricke but it is an hard testimonie that Laurentius Valla giueth him Papas dici nomine Patres re Parricidas that the Popes are called fathers in name but in deed they are Parricides Againe if the elder brethren interpose their iudgement betwixt their Parents by your own confession it must euer be with due reuerence to both partes this reuerence your elder brethren haue not shewed towards the Queene too good a mother for so vngracious Impes whom they not onely call heretike pretended Queene vsurper c. but haue by all meanes sought the murthering of her sacred person Thirdly the yonger children you say must holde their peace and mourne for the contentions but not intermeddle But Sir your elder brethren whom you allow to speake are farre enough from reach they may safely define what they will against the Queene and cast abroad their iudgements in railing bookes to yonger brethren to settle in them a consent therto Which being done they must yet make shew not to intermeddle to the end they may the better auoide perill to their persons secretly hearten the people against her Maiestie Take an instance hereof from one of your yonger brethren one Paine a Priest who walked no lesse closely for his safetie then he was directed nor lesse cunningly to corrupt the peoples hearts then he was commanded who from his owne mouth discouered to one Eliot a bloudy platforme laid to destroy her iestie and diuers of her Honorable Councell with armed men the effecting whereof stayed onely the comming ouer of certaine Priests which were expected in the meane time through Gods goodnes this horrible treason was discouered and preuented And Paine being asked how they durst practise or attempt any such mischieuous action his answere was that to kill the Queene or to vse anie crueltie against her or any that would take her part was no offence to God and that they might doe it as lawfully as to a brute beast and to approue himselfe a fit messenger to be sent on such a bloudie errant he affirmed that himselfe would be one of the first that should execute the same here is one of your yonger brothers whom all the world must confesse to be a fit son for such a father as your Pope is Besides this your Cardinall Allen Doctor Worthington and others as elder brethren sent Richard Hesketh a Gentleman of Lancashire and a younger brother to induce the Lord Strange late Earle of Derbie to make a suddaine rebellion in England and to take vpon him the title of the Crowne assuring him from them and others of treasure and forraine forces to maintaine the same which treason the Honorable Earle dutifully detected Hesketh himselfe confessed and bitterly cursed his elder brethren to make him a yonger brother to aduenture the danger of the treason that they as elder brethren doe teach and deuise farre enough from reach Is this the weeping of your yonger brethren without intermedling are these the teares then are they of a right Crocodiles brood which seemeth to weeepe but it is to this end that they may sooner kill and destroy Nay further then this these elder brethren commend to their yongers treason against her Maiestie for a point of their faith namely that if the Pope say the worde none of the Papistes ought to obey her Maiestie nor to account her Queene of England for in the cases of conscience as Doctor Bilson now Bishop of Winchester noteth wherewith the Iesuites that came into England were furnished to the 55. Article when they be asked whether the Bull of Pius Quintus that was giuen out or any Bul that the Bishop of Rome can hereafter giue out all Catholikes be bound to yeeld obedience faith and loyaltie to Queene Elizabeth as to their lawfull Prince and Soueraigne the resolution is he that demaundeth this question asketh in effect whether the Pope might doe it or no to which demaund what a Catholike should answere it is playner then I need here to explicate If therefore a Catholike be asked do you beleeue that the Bishop of Rome may depriue Queen Elizabeth of her crown he must answer not regarding any danger of death I beleeue he may for this questiō is a point of faith and requireth a confessiō of our faith Do not these elder brethrē think you dutifully put in their iudgements between these two imagined Parēts the Queen the Pope when they teach their yonger brethrē treason against the Queen for an article point of their faith To ende with this Cardinall who thanks be to God ended his life before he could attaine the expected end of his traiterous dessignments doth he not perswade that it is not onely lawfull but honorable to murther Princes for Religion for saith hee There is no warre in the world so iust or honorable be it ciuill or forraine as that which is waged for Religion Now if it be true that ciuill warre which is the warre of Subiects against the Prince be iust and honourable then is it an honourable act for Subiectes to kill the Prince for the ende proposed in warre is victorie and the way to victorie is bloudshed and slaughter not so much of the people who are not impugned but for partaking with the Prince as of the Prince himselfe whom you seeke to depose and place an other in his steed And this doctrine of your Cardinals Parrie himselfe confesseth vnder his owne hand writing did throughly resolue confirme and strengthen him in his diuellish purpose to kill the Queene Doctor Allens booke saith he was sent me out of France it redoubled my former conceipts euerie word in it was a warrant to a prepared mind It taught that Kings may be excommunicated depriued and violently handled It proueth that all warre
doctrine and institute of life these places might haue seemed to serue some turne but to seeke to raise vp a building without a sure and sound foundation is to climbe high for a certaine and dangerous downefall Therefore vnles you can fetch their foundation from the word of truth these places of Scripture shall neuer be proued to concerne them any thing at all A worthie sect it must needes be that was so lately sounded by Ignatius Loiola a lame Souldiour who when hee would tricke vp these Nouices as the Beare licketh her deformed whelpes and send them abroade into the world offered by himselfe and his friends 3000. hoastes or propitiatorie sacrifices to God so many horrible blasphemies against that alone true propitiatorie sacrifice of Christ Iesus which was offered once and onely once for our sinnes thereby to obtaine grace and fauour to his new erected societie Concerning the profession of these Iesuites their doctrine their life name and conuersation what is to be obiected against them whether they be seditious troublers of Common-wealths and seekers of Princes deaths I neede not say any thing since they are by so many so plainelie handled and laide open and almost all the Christian world seeth and abhorreth their treacheries The Sorbonists of Paris will tell you that their name is vsurped without warrant for in deede what presumption is it that not being content with the auncient and honorable name of Christians which was first giuen to the saithfull at Antioch drawne from Christ the name of our Sauiours office who hath made vs Kings and Priests to God his father they will speciallie bee called Iesuites of Iesus which is our Sauiours name of nature and so as much as in them is diuide Iesus from Christ or ouer presumptuouslie by a speciall priuiledge intrude vpon that name their profession they shew to be different from all others consisting in practising as deepe politikes against Princes and States their doctrine that it is lawfull in some cases for Subiects to kill their Princes labouring by stirring vp seditions and authorising treasons to holde vp and strengthen the tyrannie of Spaine This hath been by the way proued in part in my Resistance to the fourth Encounter by the example of Cardinall Allen who publikelie teacheth that there is no warre whether forraine or Ciuill so honorable as that which is vndertaken for Religion By whose perswasions Parrie confessed that hee was animated and encouraged to kill the Queene as also by the cases of conscience which the Iesuites brought with them into England in which they teach that it is a point of faith that if the Pope depose her Maiestie she is no longer to bee obeyed nor acknowledge for our Queene To which may be added that Parrie was hartened and resolued likewise by Iulio Palmio a Iesuite to put in execution his intended treason against her Maiestie And besides this Edmund Yorke and Richard Williams who being apprehended confessed the same were by Iberra the King of Spaines Secretarie hired to murther the Queene the assignation for the payment of 40000. Crownes for the performance of this notable exploite was deliuered as in deposito to one Holte a Iesuite an olde English Rebell Many were the conferences held about this villanie in which Holte the Iesuite did sit in a sort as a President or head of all these conspiracies and did vehemently perswaded Yorke and Williams to enterprise the matter not onelie receiuing of them both an oath to performe it but also ministring to them the Sacrament thereupon himselfe kissing it and swearing to them solemnly for the assurance of their reward shewing also to them the bill of assignation signed with the King of Spaine his Secretaries hand for the more assurance of the payment Yea further that the insatiable thirst in this Iesuite after her Maiesties bloud may be more manifest he tolde Yorke that seeing the English had often failed to perfourme this enterprise if now it should not be perfourmed by Yorke and his Companie he would afterwards imploie Strangers in it Which in deede before this he attempted by perswading one Patricke Cullin an Irishman and a Pencioner of the King of Spaine to come secretly into England to kill her Maiestie and being his ghostlie Father gaue him absolution to this purpose which Cullin being at his comming apprehended and examined confessed the whole and was accordinglie condemned and executed Whether Doctor Guifford be a Father amongst the Iesuites or a simple Priest I cannot affirme sure it is by Sauage his owne confession that hee perswaded this Sauage to vndertake that most barbarous and sauage acte of shedding the innocent bloud of our gracious Soueraigne The famous Iesuite Posseuine exhorteth the Souldiours of Pius Quintus sent into France against those of the Religion that it is their dutie to kill all Protestants otherwise they breake their faith and lose their saluation And to leaue forraine matters and to ende with our owne because to prosecute all particulars in this kinde were infinite Wal-poole a Iesuite did by oath latelie binde Squyre Stanley and others either by poyson or stabbing to kill her Maiestie By which and sundrie other examples it is euident that this Iesuiticall broode is of Caines humour who had a bloudie heart and hand to shed his brothers bloud and that they follow nay runne farre before Chore in conspiracie For farther insight into this new foundation I referre the Reader at his leasure to the Bishop of Winchesters booke before named to Doctor Humfreyes Iesuitismus to Kemnicius c. The profession practise and vertues of this sect was so fully sifted and tried by the Catholikes of France that it may not be thought to be done by enemies that the vniuersity of Paris wholy opposed it selfe against them and by the mouth of their aduocate pronounced thē worthy of Banishment and after that vpon farther search into them the Parliament of Paris by a publike decree condemned them and cast them out of the whole Kingdome of France into perpetuall Banishment A worthy example of the wise and politike Kingdome of France to try out their treacheries which I wish all Christian Kingdomes would follow that so all Iesuites might be perpetually banished into Terra Virginea or Terra Florida with which this fellow in the entrie of his libell disporteth himselfe from whence no daunger of them might redound to any Christian Monarch Whereto the consideration of the principall vow of this new-found sect might serue to perswade Their principall vow is as a Catholike Frenchman setteth it downe to obey their generall or superiour who is alwaies a Spaniard or one of the King of Spaynes Dominions the words of which vow are set downe to be these That in him they must acknowledge Christ to be present as it were and if Iesus Christ should commaund to goe kill they must doe so In which vow to omit the intollerable blasphemie that they make a