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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A05463	The complaint of England Wherein it is clearely prooued that the practises of traitrous papists against the state of this realme, and the person of her Maiestie, are in diuinitie vnlawfull, odious in nature, and ridiculous in pollicie. In the which they are reprooued of wilfull blindnes, in that they see not the filthines of the Romish gouernment: and conuinced of desperate madnesse, in that they feare not the mischiefe of Spanish inuasion: the former whereof is exemplified by the Popes practises both here in England, and abroad in other countries: the later by the Spaniards outrages, in his exactions raised vpon Naples, and his tyrannies executed in the Indies. Lastly the necessitie, equitie, and benefits of the late proceeding in iustice are set downe; with a friendly warning to seditious papists for their amendment; and an effectuall consolation to faithfull subiectes for their incouragement. Seene and allowed.	[Lightfoot, William].	1587 (1587)	STC 15595; ESTC S108556	45,440	70

reuertêris That is Remember man that thou art ashes and into ashes thou shalt returne Here was a hote stomacke and colde deuotion a sodaine fit of cheler boiling in his stomack caused him to forget the depth of his deuotion and alter the forme of his speeche so that throwing the ashes into the Archbishops face hee blustred out in these terms Memento homo quod Gibellinus es cum Gibellinis moriêre Remember fellowe that thou art a Gibelline and with the Gibellines thou shalt to the pot Deus bone tantaenè animis coelestibus irae Good God can holie heades harbour such rancorous hatred How mischieuously did Gregorie the seuenth conspire with the states of Saxonie against Henrie the fourthe Emperour of Germanie when commencing quarrell against him he cōuented him of heresie for bestowing ecclesiasticall promotions vpon persons both insufficient for theyr giftes and defamed for theyr behauiours and sentencing against hym hee adiudged him to doe dayly penaunce at the Churche-dore of Peter and Paule for the space of one whole yeare Moreouer he inforced hym barefooted and barelegged to creepe to kisse his feete And during this turmoyle hee suborned Rodolphe Duke of Saxonie to inuade the Empire wherof the Emperour beeing aduertised thought it was nowe high tyme to resiste so daungerous a practise and hasting into Germanie hee encountred Rodolphe A guiltie conscience is a biting corrosiue and in fiue seuerall battayles discomfited him Rodolphe shortlie after lying on his deathe bed was presented with hys owne hand that had beene smitten off in fight Whiche when he behelde turning hys face to the Bishoppes that stoode about hym hee sayd This is the right hand wherewith I vowed my fayth to the Emperor now is the same become a witnesse of my breach of fidelitie and traiterous attemptes against my soueraign chiefly by your euen by your instigation and procurement my Lords If I might without offence spurre the Pope a question I would faine know whether S. Peters keyes hang as he saith at his girdle for that end to barre the gates of vnitie and open the doores of dissension If there be a blessing laide vp in store for the peacemakers let him tell me what shal be the reward of such as kindle coles of mutinie and sedition Especially séeing he is in double fault that giueth offence by his example Was not the presumption of Alexander the third vnmeasurable and the pride Lucifer-like that he exercised against the Emperour Fredericke surnamed Barbarossa vpon whose backe when he had set the states of Italie and Venice and also captiuated Otto the Emperours sonne working vpon this aduantage he constrained him to yéeld to such vnreasonable condicions as better agréed with his impudent and vaineglorious nature to demaund then with Frederickes magnanimitie to condescend vnto So that he was driuen to prostrate himselfe in Venice at the Popes féete and yet he not contented with this more then humble submission contumeliously trode vpō his necke abusing that text of scripture Psalme 91. Super Aspidem Basiliscum c. Thou shalt walke vpon the Adder and the Basiliske the yong Lion and the Dragon shalt thou tread vnder thy feet The Emperor séeing himselfe so disdainefully ouercrowed by a dunghill crauen could not suppresse his heroicall stomacke but answered againe Non tibi sed Petro I doe this in reuerence of Peter and not for feare of thée Whereat the Pope rauing with open mouth intercepted his wordes exclaming Et mihi Petro thou shalt dos this reuerence both to Peter and me This ruffling champion was no doubt profoundly instructed in the schoole of Christ Mat. 12. whose lowlinesse was such that he brake not the bruised reede nor quenched the smoking flaxe he reproued his Disciples when they would haue had fire to come down from heauen and consume the Samaritans Luc. 11. Mat. 11. Christes schoole is of humilitie but the Pope may be turned out for a non profi●ient saying Ye know not of what spirite ye are He willed them to learne of him For I am saith he lowlie and meeke and so shall ye find rest to your soules What should I rehearse the broiles wherewith Gregorie the ninth pestered Frederike the second who for that in a cause which admitted no dilatorie circumstance but as it imported matter of singuler consequence so it required meanes of present expedition for that I say he departed without taking solemne farewell humble leaue of the Popes holines hauing leuied a supply of souldiours to passe into Asia for reskuing of the distressed Christians in their wars against the Sarasens he was retracted by the Popes countermaund that he sent to the Christian armie straightly interdicting them to follow the Emperous conduct neither could he by any intercession obtaine release vntil he had throwne a honie sop into Corberus iawes and stopt the Popes mouth with paiment of an hundred and twentie thousand ounces of gold These things being so plaine that they can not be ouershadowed with anie pretence me thinkes the painters answere was reasonably framed that he made in defence of his workemanship who being checkt because he dad drawne the counterfeit of S. Peter too high coloured whome they affirmed to haue béene of pale countenance foreworne with carefull vigilancie and paineful trauaile which he alwaies tooke about his pastorall affaires Apostolicall negotiations I haue said he made him not as he was on earth but as he is now in heauē from whence looking down into the liues of his successors he blusheth for shame to sée their shamelesse misdemeanure And as the Pope hath in other countries plaide his vagaries to the disturbance of publike vnitie and racking of common wealthes by pillage extortiō so hath he vexed me with violēt turmoiles chargeable impositions to my no small griefe and no lesse detriment I can not yet forget the dealing of that gréedie cormorant and sweating Bull of Basan A last of the Popes practise here in England whom I lastly recited who in the raigne of king Henry the third sent ouer his Legate rentgatherer or caterpiller to purloine from mee of euerie Church throughout the Realme a yearely reuenue of foure markes the which to what summe it amounteth I refer to your consideration His letters mandatorie were deliuered into the hands of the Archbishops Bishops for assisting of the Legate in his collection enioining them withall to prouide thrée hundred of the best benefices to be imploied vpon thrée hundred Italians at his appointment Was not this to charge them to rend the fléeces from off their own backes for the couering of his filthinesse The king being certified of the matter calleth a Synode of Bishops and causing conference to be had in their conuocation house The king of Englands care for the welfare of his Realme and subiects he thereupon addresseth his letters to the Pope in his owne name and in the behalfe of his subiects But when he saw his trauell

bestowed this way to be frustrate he imparted the matter to his Lords assembled in Parlement discoursing what inconueniences must of necessitie ensue if they obeyed the Popes precept and in most earnest and discrete maner he debateth the cause seuerally with euerie particular Bishop willing them to weane their affection from straungers and not practise the vndoing of their natiue countrie for gratifying of the Pope But finding them peruerse he mingleth his intreatie with menaces denouncing openlie against them the penalties of the lawes and auncient statutes of his Realme charging them further vpon their allegeance to deliuer no money out of the Realme to the beggering of the State They as best became them yéelded at the last obedience to their Liege Lorde But Gregorie thus defeated of his purpose and crost with a contrarie cue cleane beside his expectation began to make batterie with his gunshot of excommunication directed to the Bishop of Worcester of whose inclinatiō he was best perswaded with cōmand to prosecute it in most vehement sort that no possible furtherance should be omitted for the effectuating thereof against a certaine day prescribed wherein the Audit of this sacred receipte must bee giuen vp The matter was so diligentlie trauersed what with the kinges Embassadors on the one side to appease the Pope what with the insatiable couetousnesse of the Pope on the otherside to impouerish the Realme that notwithstanding all importunitie submission and reasonable proffers that the king could make no spéeche of reconcilement would be harkened vnto vntill he had graunted the Pope a tenth of all goods moueable in England and Scotland The king in his owne Realme ouer-waighed by the vsurped authoritie of the Pope and then to vse Matthaeus Parisiensis his own words Our Lord the Pope being before inwardlie inflamed aboue all thinges to suppresse the hautinesse of the king recomforted with these promises was made to consent The which how pernicious it became to the state of this Realme can hardly by anie estimate be comprehended For irregular custome hauing once set in his foot would not for many yeares after take the repulse So that the Church of Rome hath to her shame approued the veritie of this saying Religio peperit Diuitias sed Filia deuorauit Matrem Religion brought forth Riches but the Daughter swalowed vp the Mother like the Vipers brood Such gourmandisers as praie vpon Princes whereas they ought of duetie to pray for them will be found to haue runne farre into arrerages when it shall be said vnto them Giue account of thy stewardship for thou maist be no longer Stewarde Of such it may bee saide as Alcibiades said to Pericles when he perceiued him very carefull to make vp his reckonings to the Athenians O how much better were it for thee if thou couldest deuise to giue no accounts at all The king of Englands Exchecquer disfurnished vnder pretence of ransoming the Pope It is not vnknowne howe the treasure of this realme was of late yeares transported when that ambitious Prelate Cardinall Woolsey conueied at one time out of the Kinges Exchecker two hundred and fourtie thousand poundes sterling for relieuing of Pope Clement whom the Duke of Bourbon after the sacking of Rome drew foorth of the Castle of Saint Angelo and detained him prisoner in the Emperours armie The which summes of monie he conuerted to furnish the french King with necessaries to make warre vpon the Emperour who was then in league with King Henrie of England What should I speake of pardons Peter-pence with a number such polling pedling deuises of oppression wheref the manifestation of the Gospel hath clearly disburdened you What should I declare how licentiously he hath presumed to cōtroll the mightie kings of England infringing their liberties abrogating their ordinances repealing their statutes and ingrating vpon their prerogatiues Wherein if hee were at any time gainsaid or ouerthwarted he then cast about to depose them As Henry the seconde was suspended from his Crowne by the space of foure daies went barefoote to Thomas Beckets Tombe dying the rough stones with his blood and most vnkingly deiecting himself to be discipled with the rod of the Monkes of Canterburie King Iohn was miserably vexed by Innocent the third forced at last to resigne his Crowne with all title of soueraintie both in England and Ireland into Pandulphus hand who detaining it fiue daies then restored it This infortunate King after a troublesome and litigious raigne was in the ende poisoned by a traitorous Moonke as also Henry the seuenth Emperour of Germany was by a Dominicane Frier who ministring the sacrament vnto him had before dipped the oste in poison I must néedes highly commend the courage of king Henry the first The magnanimity of king Henrie the first in withstanding the Hope who beeing in contention with Anselme about inuestitures pleaded the sufficiencie of his owne authoritie within his proper territories saying There is an ancient custome of my kingdome ordained by my Father that no person shal sue anie appeale from vs to the Pope whosoeuer will attempt to violate this custome doeth offend against our Maiestie and the Crowne of Englande hee that will seeke to despoile vs of our Crowne is an enemie and a Traitor to our person And againe when Anselme would haue had him follow the Popes Letters what haue I to doe with the Popes Letters I will not breake the lawes of my Realme for the pleasure of anie Pope As touching his market-making and whole sale of spirituall promotions to rawe and bankerout chapmen it was truely said that the state of Asses was much better then of Horses because the Horses were faine to post to Rome for benefices but the Asses obtained them Of his ordinarie absolution for mony without respect of crime he descanted pretily that said Friers were fed fat with mens sinnes Of the scismes in his Sea he spake rightly the being asked why in their suffrages they praied not for Cardinals Bishops that is quoth he vnderstood where we say Oremus pro scismaticis haereticis let vs praie for scismatikes heretikes I omit his beastly gaine raked out of the sinkhole of brothel-houses I loth to think vpon his tolerating of the most stinking sin of abhominable Sodomitrie in commendation whereof Iohn Casus Archbishop of Beneuentane the Popes Legat to the Venetians wrote a booke O detestable impudencie to magnifie that in words yea in writing the onely thought wherof woundeth the heart with horror Indéed Sinesius wrote a pamphlet in praise of Baldnes Fauorinus commended the quartane ague Apuleus the Asse Erasmus not vnwittily blazed the praise of Follie one of late painted out the praise of nothing yet to some purpose but what age euer hatched such a forlorne monster as this Yet was he a deuout Catholike a Romish Prelate and one of speciall account with his holinesse therefore I mate well thinke like maister like man But roome now els shall we bring all Rome on