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 ANATOMIE OF POPISH TYRANNIE Wherein is conteyned a plaine declaration and Christian censure of all the principall parts of the Libels Letters Edictes Pamphlets and Bookes lately published by the Secular priests and English hispanized Iesuites with their Iesuited Arch-priest both pleasant and profitable to all well affected readers Esdr. vers 42. Magna est veritas praeualet LONDON Printed by Iohn Harison for Richard Bankworth dwelling in Paules Churchyard at the signe of the Sunne 1603. To the Reuerend father the ornament of learning and religion TOBIE the wise graue zealous and worthie Bishop of Durham THat excellent sentence worthie to be written in golden letters Right Reuerend father which the good Iew man of God Zorobabel pronounced confidently before the mightie king Darius viz. Magna est veritas praeualet is this day verified God be blessed for it euen in the publike writings of the Iesuites against the secular priests their owne deare Popish brethren And reciprocally of the secular priestes against the Iesuites their religious fathers and holy fryers The deepe and serious consideration whereof hath possessed mine heart with such vnspeakable solace as I can not easily with penne and ynke expresse the same Such is the force of truth my good Lord that it hath enforced the professed enemies of truth a thing verie rare and to be admired to testifie the truth against themselues and to publish the same in printed books to the view of the whole world God say the popish priests hath most straungely and in verie deed as it may be termed miraculously reuealed the truth which long hath beene hidden Thus them selues write of themselues Hence proceedeth that rare conceiued ioy which hath enuironed me on euerie side And which I am well assured cannot but bring great contentment to your Lordship and to all true hearted English subiects For as the Apostle saith Some preach Christ through enuie and strife and some of good will The one sort preacheth Christ of contention and not purely but the others preach him of loue What then yet Christ is preached all manner waies whether it be vnder pretence or syncerely and I therein ioy yea and will ioy Thus wrteth the chosen vessell of our Lord Iesus The Iesuites puffed vp with enuie and malice against the secular priests doe vnwittingly and vnwillingly bolt out many important truthes not onely against themselues and to their owne great preiudice but also to the euerlasting scandall and vtter ruine of theit patched hotch-potch late Romish religion The Secular priests turmoyled with the vniust vexations of the cruell Iesuites seeke by all aswell indirect as direct meanes to redeeeme their iniust molestations and to defend themselues from their villanous and diabolicall dealing The while they are thus busied they cannot inuent or deuise how to find out any end of their miseries but by laying open to the world the badde and irreligious conuersation of the Iesuites and by imputing to them those disloyall treacheries and most bloodie complots wherewith their owne hearts and hands had sometime beene imbrewed And consequently while they are encombred to disgrace and gall the malepeart and trayterous Iesuites they doe vnawares grieuously wound themselues euen with their owne chosen weapons They freely grant and can it not denie that all papists were kindly dealt withall vntill such time as themselues gaue iust cause by their disloyall plots and bloudie practises against her Maiestie of greater restraint and sharper proceeding against them For first they grant that the Earles of Northūberland Westmerlād with their adherēts were rebels their insurrectiō flat treasō that the pope ioyned with thē that he excōmunicated her Maiestie that he assoyled her subiects from their allegeance to her that he sent two popish priests Morton and VVebbe my selfe knew them both right well to bring the excommunication into England which they effected accordingly that the Pope assigned the Duke of Norfolke to be the head of the rebellion that he gaue order to Ridolphi the Florentine to take 150000 crownes to set forwarde the saide rebellion That the King of Spaine at the Popes instance determined to send the Duke of Alua into England that with all his forces he might assist the Duke of Norfolke Secondly they grant that the pope plotted with Stuckeley Fitzmo rize and others both English Irish and Italian my selfe was euen then in Rome for enterprise by force into Ireland vnder pretence of religion to further which cruell attempt Sanders did afterward thrust himselfe personally into the like action Thirdly they confesse that Parsons Campian Sherwin and others were sent disloyally into this land from pope Gregory the 13. my selfe was then in Rome and that Parsons presently vpon their arriuall fell to his trayterous Iesuiticall courses and bestirred himselfe with tooth and naile how he might set her maiesties crowne vpon an others heade Fourthly they confesse that the Iesuite Heywood was sent into Englād from the Pope that he tooke vpon him to call a synode and to abrogate auncient customes to the great scandall of many Fiftly they confesse that the Pope plotted with the King of Spaine for the assistance of the Duke of Guise to enter vpon the sodaine and to aduance the Queene of Scotland to the crowne of England For the better effecting whereof Mendoza a Iesuite as they write then ledger in this land for the king of Spaine set on worke Frances Throcmorton and many others They adde there vnto that about the same time Arden and Somervile had conspired how they might lay violent hands vpon her Maiesties sacred person Sixtly they write that about the same time Parrie was also plotting with the Iesuites beyond the sea how he might haue effected the like villanie Seuenthly they confesse freely that the earle of Northumberland was drawne into the plot of the Duke of Guise and that Parsons the bloudie Iesuite was him selfe an actor therein Eightly they write plainely that Babington and his complices committed such notorious treason against her maiestie as it was shameles boldnesse to deny or qualifie the same Ninthly they confesse roundly that Sir William Stanley committed notable treacherie falsified his faith to her maiesty Tenthly they write plainly that in the yeare 1588. the King of Spaine made a most cruell bloudie attempt not only against her Maiesty to vse the priests-words and their commō enemies but also against themselues all catholikes and their owne natiue countrey The memorie of which attempt as the priests write will be an euerlasting monument of Iesuiticall treason and brutish crueltie Eleuenthly they grant that Richard Hesket was set on by the Iesuites in the yeere 1592. or their abouts to haue stirred vp the Earle of Darbye to rebell against her maiestie Where I may not omit to deliuer mine owne knowledge in this behalfe This Hesket I knew very well in his life conuersation and professiō I
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
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
may bee gainesaide in respect of the euerie daye expected conquest for other reason none can be yeelded and yet this perforce must be reiected Paragraph II. Of the Iesuite Bellarmine now Cardinall of the sea of Rome To proue the Iesuite Parsons an impudent and a most notorious lyer it is sufficient to pervse to remember what is already said thereof in the third chapter of this booke for after that Parsons hath set downe the narration of the seculars and freely granted the greater part thereof to be true yea the whole in effect as there it is proued and so needeth not here to be recounted he forthwith like a desperate ruffian and as one vnmindfull what he had immediately written affirmeth with shamelesse lippes and rayling tongue that the whole narration is false Which doubtles is such a notorious vntruth as nothing is worthy to be of credite that shall heare after procéede from his penne Paragraph III. Of the students in the English Colledge Parsons that arrogant Iesuite for his owne credite if it would be telleth vs in the apologie in the 184. page that vpon a certaine falling out betweene Maister Doctor Lewes then arch-deacon of Cambray and after bishop of Cassane and the English youthes then students in the English Colledge the said youthes aboue 30. in number were all dismissed thence and yet brought againe and placed in the colledge by his good meanes Thus doth this good fellow boast of his rare fauours towards the english students and his deserts in this behalfe are excéeding great if we will beleeue him But I assure thee gentle reader whosouer thou art and I speake vpon mine owne knowledge as who was at the same time one of the same number that this is to be enrolled among his other notorious vntruthes For first there was no disagreement at all betwéene the late Bishop of Cassana and the students Againe the contention was indeed betweene the Cardinal Morone then the protector of the English and the students or rather the Iesuites who like wilie foxes did all in all couertly and yet would séeme openly to be most vnwilling to haue the gouerment of the colledge Thirdly Parsons was at that time a man of no reckening among the Iesuits neither did he or could hee doe anie thing in that behalfe The reason hereof is euident because he confesseth in the said apologie that the colledge was erected in the yeare 1579. And that himselfe entered into the societie in the yeere 1574. so that he had then béene Iesuite scantly foure yeeres whereof one must be allotted for his probation now if any wise man wil beléeue him that he could be of such credite with them vpon so short a tryall he may but my selfe know the contrarie and so doe many moe yet liuing viz. Maister Meredith Maister Griffeth Maister Morgan M. Elize and sundrie others but none better then Maister Mush if he list to speake the truth therein Fourthly there were at that time Iesuited English men of long continuance in that societie who should rather haue done that exploit then this good father if it had béene but for comely order sake but as I said afore the Iesuites would not be knowen to deale in the matter Fiftly this good fellowe this good father I would say will needes bee the only man that procured the schollers to stay and a thing to bee laughed at the graue and learned father Toledo afterward Cardinall was but an instrument to helpe the said Parsons in his imployment A shame it is for this fellow to tell of himselfe such a shamelesse lye The truth is this the generall of the Iesuites was desirous indeed to haue the gouernment of the colledge committed to his societie as who knew right well that it would tend both to his credit and to his commoditie But for feare of the displeasure of Cardinall Morone who tooke part with Maister Morice the welch-man whome he had designed to be the Rector of the colledge he neither would deale openly for the schollers neither suffer any of the societie to concurre with theÌ„ in that behalfe yet he did that secretly which was the vpshot and end of all viz. he commanded by a secret message the reuerend father Toledo a great learned man and one of great reckening with the Pope at that time that he would instantly beseeth the Pope prostrate on his knees before his holinesse and to make a most pitifull lamentation for the ouethrow of England that is forsooth that now were reiected the finest wits the most toward youthes the seede of poperie and the only hope of the English nation who now exiled for zeale in religion and come to be his popish vassals must either be trained vp in papistry after the Iesuiticall manner or els should England neuer be reclamed world without end this swéet narration noe sooner sounded in the Popes eares but the commanded the schollers to be receiued into the colledge againe Where note by the way what politicians the Iesuites bee This Toledo was a Iesuite then remaining in the Popes house with the Pope and was the Popes chiefest aduiser in all ecclesiasticall causes He then being a Iesuite must needs doe the designement of his generall the maister Iesuite of all the rest For his profession was to obey at a beck And for that he was present with the Pope in his pallace Bel-vâ—dére he was free to deale without suspition in this great and weightie matter Lastly being in high esteeme with the Pope and speaking in a cause so plausible and profitable for his holinesse he was most likely to preuaile in his suite which I protest to the reader the Iesuits did more then once promise to the schollers before it came to passe Thus it is most apparant to euerie indifferent reader that the goodly story which Parsons telleth for his owne vaine glory is a lye with a witnesse For the first credite that euer he got was wrought by his treacheries treasons against his natiue country most noble England By reason whereof he crept into such credite with the King of Spaine that now he is able to doe all in all both with that Kinge and the Pope himselfe Wherefore my opinion is this that the seculars are ouer matched and that howsouer they bragge that they will haue audience or els dye for it one after another yet are they more like many of them if they goe to Rome to be cast into their holy most holy inquisition for Parsons hath now by the reason of their writings matter enough to worke vpon and therefore their best course is to submitte themselues to Queene Elizabeth and to bid the Pope faire well with all his traytorous Iesuites Paragraph IIII. Of the dealing of the Iesuite Parsons during his aboad in England THe seculars write that Parsons being in England did so exasperate the minds both of the Prince and magistrates by his doings as then first of all by that occasion capitall lawes were appointed against
vers 26. Borromeo reiected the Iesuites pag. 156. vers 12. Bull renewed by Allen. pag. 85. vers 9. Babington See treason Birket the priest pag. 85. vers 24. C CArdinals letter indited by Parsons Page 170. vers 27. Cardinall Allen. See Allen. Cardinall Bellarmine See Bellarmine Cardinall Boromeo See Boromeo Cardinals poysoned by Iesuites pag. 107. vers 19. pag. 37. vers 34. Cardinall Toledo was Parsons boy pag. 159. 27. Cardinall Pandulphus crowned in the Popes right Pag. 120. pag. 20. Capuchenes why they agree with the Iesuites page 80. vers 20. Conquest of England threatned by the Iesuites page 32. vers 22. Coaches vsuall to Iesuites pag. 9. vers 20. pag. 7. vers 17. pag. 25. vers 18. Coozenage practised by Iesuites pag. 59. vers 16. Confession dissliked by Pope Sixtus pag. 134. vers 16. Church of Rome hereticall pag. 134. vers 9. Confession vsed tyrannically by Iesuites pag. 39. vers 12 Constitutions of the Iesuites are mutable pag. 56 Campion his martyrdome pag. 97. vers 11. Chaunge expected by the papists pag. 101. vers 9. Cogging of the Iesuites pag. 29. Crichton the Iesuite a traytor pag. 45. vers 11. pag. 75. vers 28. pag. 181. vers 12. D DEuill brought Iesuites into England pag. 84. vers 22. pag. 86. vers 8. Doctrine of Iesuites is contrarie to the truth pag. 133. vers 21. Duke de Medina threatned to kill all pag. 11. vers 3. Duke of Parma intituled to England pag. 23. p. 79. Duke of Guise should haue inuaded England pag. 75. pag. 84. vers 32. Duke of Alua purposed to inuade this land pag. 83. Deuill brought the Iesuits into England pag. 84. pag. 83. v. 22. Deuill ruleth and raigneth in the Iesuites pag. 68. vers 3. Dissention betweene the priests and Iesuites pag. 19. Day of channge expected pag. 101. vers 9. E EQuiuocation of the Iesuites pag. 29. pag. 35. vers 13. Expences of the Iesuites pag. 34. vers 15. pag. 26. vers 31. Exercise vsed by the Iesuites pag. 29. vers 6. pag. 130. Examination of the Popes dealing pag. 94. vers 16. F FRench Ambassadour pag. 82. vers 5. French king murdered by Iesuites pag. 37. vers 34. pag. 107. vers 34. French king banished the Iesuites pag. 36. vers 3. Firebrands of sedition pag. 36. vers 21. pag. 80. vers 1. Ferdinando Earle of Darbie pag. 22. vers 33. Felton set vp the Popes Bull. pag. 83. vers 38. Figges giuen by Iesuites pag. 107. vers 3. G GErrarde the Iesuite a good hunter for money pag. 29. Grains hallowed for treason pag. 86. vers 28. Gybseys-Iesuites pag. 77. vers 35. H HEsket a messenger for treason pag. 22. vers 33. Haddocke a badde fellow pag. 30. vers 9. pag. 165. vers 8. High councell of reformation pag. 80. vers 8. pag. 81. v. 5. Hallowed grains See grains I IEsuites by secret vowes pag. 78. vers 9. Iesuites are arrant traytors pag. 75. vers 35. pag. 12. pag. 11. pag. 44. vers 5. pag. 22. vers 17. Iesuites are great lyers pag. 53. pag. 35. vers 13. pag. 77. vers 27. pag. 58. Insuites are cruell tyrants pag. 80. pag. 73. vers 6. pag. 132. vers 34. Iesuites make a triple vow pag. 17. vers 35. pag. 46. pag. 47. Iesuites are States-men pag. 2. Iesuites ride like Earles Pag. 24. vers 22. pag. 34. vers 12. Iesuites must haue their chambers perfumed pag. 7. vers 17. Iesuites are murtherers pag. 107. pag. 7. vers 12. pag. 42. pag. 37. vers 34. pag. 23. pag. 107. vers 18. Iesuites are diuels pag 133. vers 8. pag. 8. Iesuites are right Machiuels pag. 21. vers 20. pag. 15. Iesuites will not come at processions Pag. 133. vers 10. Iesuites are theeues pag. 25. vers 3. Iesuites are proud men pag. 24. vers 21. pag. 25. pag. 26. vers 23. vers 32. pag. 33. vers 24 Iesuites ride in coaches pag. 25. vers 18. pag. 7. vers 16 Iesuites are Scribes and Pharisees page 133. vers 14. Iesuites commaund gentlewomen to pull of their bootes pag. 7. vers 19 Iesuites trowle vp and downe from good cheare to good cheare pag. 7. vers 15 Iesuites promise to restore men to their liuings pag. 32. vers 21. Iesuites doe threaten a conquest pag. 32. vers 22 Iesuites are franke gamsters pag. 2. vers 6 Iesuites cannot abide cloysters P. 2. vers 14 Iesuites vse great penance pag. 7 Iesuites are firebrands of sedition pag. 21. vers 7. See firebrands Iesuites how they pray pag. 20. vers 21 Iesuites the wickedst men vpon earth pag. 15 Isabella of Spayne must haue the Crowne pag. 11. pag. 12. pag. 22. pag. 23. K Kinge of France murdered by the Iesuites p. 107. v. 19. p. 37. v. 34. Kinge of France banished the Iesuites p. 36. v. 3. Kinge of Spaine intendeth to conquer England p. 14 King of Spaine is the life of poperie p. 3. v. 4. Kinge of Spaine did resist the Pope p. 66. v. 15. v. 7. Kinges cannot be deposed by the Pope p. 90. v. 13. p. 88. Kinges haue beene deposed by Popes p. 106. v. 19. p. 119. v. 35. p. 120. L LOpez would haue poysoned the Queene pag. 22. vers 38. League made by the nobilitie to Spaine pag. 128. vers 24. Lawes are iustly made against papists pag. 119. page 124. vers 10. Lands promised to be restored in the conquest page 32. vers 21. Leases may not be let to any but by Iesuites page 31. verse 19. M Murders done by Iesuites page 107. vers 19. Page 37. Vers. 34. Page 38. Vers. 30. Medina will kill all afore him pag. 11. vers 4. Mendoza is a Iesuite pag. 84. vers 34. Martyrdome of Iesuites page 97. vers 9. Miracles done by Iesuites pag. 51. vers 14. Mutabilitie in Ies. religion pag. 55. N NOble men in league with the Spaniards Pag 128. Vers. 24. 129. Noble men take part with the Iesuites pag. 128. vers 24 Noble men assist the priests pag. 128. vers 33. v. 30. New religion of the Iesuites page 89. vers 8. p. 179. v. 29. O OLim dicebamur preferred by the Ies. to the Pope Pag. 178. Vers. 14. Order of the Iesuites page 56. Outcries of the secular priests pag. 21. Outcries of the Iesuites pag. 19. P POpe may be iudged of any man Pag. 94. vers 13. Pope Sixtus damned saith our Iesuite pag. 133. vers 38. Pope Sixtus a monster on earth pag. 133. vers 29. Pope may be an ethnicke pag. 134. vers 5. Pope may be an heretike pag. 133. verse 29. Pope obeyed against Kings page 13. vers 17. Pope cannot depose Kinges page 88. Pope can play trickes of fast and loose p. 125. v. 23. pag. 126. Pope cannot erre and how page 125. Pope erreth not but Sathan vnder his pall pag. 127. uers 4. Pope will depose kinges pag. 120. Pope not the lawfull bishoppe of Rome pag. 3. vers 22. Pope deluded by the Iesuites pag. 30. vers 12. Pope is the cause of all rebellion pag. 82. v. 30. pag.
wronges will soone redresse Christs Gospell still he will maintaine Our true peace to prolonge Both Spaniard Pope and Iesuite May sing a doolefull songe They sought by treason Scotlands crowne On Spanish head to bind Crichton was actor chiefe who may in then'd an halter find Most traytorous parts and bloudie plots To Iesuites are deare To all that will this booke peruse This truth must needs appeare Disloyall papists still presume A tollerate to craue But God preserue our gracious King No such sport must they haue Their combes are cut their crests are falne They stand amaz'd with feare Their spirits rampant are made couchant Their doome will soone appeare For this rare blessing yeelde him thankes That sits in heauen aboue And let our faith and Godly life Make knowne to him our loue The Preface to the gentle Reader THis Anatomie of popish Tyrannie gentle Reader was compiled and made readie for the presse before the tenth of October in the yeare of our lord God 1602. but by reason of casuall accidents and other circumstances concurring it was not printed vntill this present yeare 1603. before which time it pleased the Almightie to call hence to his mercie our most gratious Soueraigne the mightie Princesse Elizabeth late Queene of England France and Ireland Against whose sacred person the Pope the Spaniards and Englist Spaniolized Iesuites with all Iesuited popelings deuised contriued and practised many most cruell stratagems and bloodie complottes All which were effected for this sole and onely purpose because forsooth her most excellent Maiesty of holy memorie did euer with singular Christian zeale and rare magnanimitie protect patronize and stoutly maintaine Christs holy gospell and his diuine worship throughout her Realmes and Dominions These treacheries and most villanous conspiracies against her royall person with innumerable indignities against her Realmes most louing subiects contriued and put into actuall execution by the cursed crew of English Iesuites and Iesuited papists are compendiously distinctly and pithily comprised in this present volume By reason whereof it commeth that though this present worke be published after that the imperiall Diademe of the Realmes afore named came and descended wholy and lawfully to the high and renowmed prince now our vndoubted Soueraigne lord Iames the first King of England Scotland Fraunce and Ireland yet must all the chiefest parts thereof be referred principally to our late Soueraigne ladie Queene Elizabeth I say principally for that the same doe in some sort concerne his royall person regall prerogatiues who this day most happily raigneth ouer vs. For the cursed and trayterous Iesuites who for their manifold treasons against their Soueraigne lords the late king of France the king now regnant are iustly banished out of the whole kingdome of Fraunce euen by publike decree of Parliament as the French papists tell vs and who also as the Secular priests their owne brethren write of them haue endeuoured with tooth and nayle to stirre vp sedition in the kingdome of Scotland so to set the imperiall Crowne thereof vpon a Spaniards head will not now doubtlesse surcease from their inueterate and wonted bloodie treacheries seeing their profession is linked inseperably with treason as the priests affirme against them if our liege lord king Iames the first shall graunt them any footing and resting place within any of his kingdomes territories or dominions God for his mercie sake which hath no end eyther conuert them soundly or confound them vtterly for the peace of his Church the safetie of our gracious King and the comfort of all his true hearted subiects English Scottish and Irish. Amen The names of the Secular priests that subscribed to the supplication sent to the Pope Thomas Bluet Christopher Bagshaw Christopher Thules Iames Tayler Iohn Thules Edward Caluerley William Coxe Iames Cope Iohn Collington George Potter Iohn Mush William Watson William Clarke Iohn Clinsh Oswald Nedeme Roger Strickland Robert Drurie Francis Munford Anthonie Heburne Anthonie Champney Iohn Lingley Iohn Boswell Robert Thules Edward Bennet Robert Benson Cuthbert Trolope Iohn Bennet William Mush Richard Button Francis Foster Note heere gentle Reader that though these thirtie onely who make a number sufficient did subscribe to the appeale and to the petition sent to the Pope yet were there and are there many others as the priestes write which would willingly haue set to their hands but that they were in feare to deale against the proud tyrannizing Iesuites Yea as the Iesuites write there are this day in England 300. priests God eyther conuert them speedily or confound them vtterly Amen A memorable caueat to the gentle Reader I Haue imployed my whole industrie and best indeuour gentle Reader to doe thee good and to confirme thee in the truth of Christs gospell who if I shall vnderstand that my paineful labours for thy sake shall be accepted in good part and be an instrument vnder God to direct thee the readie way to eternall life shall doubtlesse attaine my desire and hold my selfe fully satisfied for my paines Now for the better accomplishment of mine expectation herein I haue thought very expedient and necessarie to instruct thee in some generall points without the knowledge whereof neither canst thou fruitfully read this discourse nor fully and perfectly vnderstand the same First therefore the gentle Reader must obserue seriously though some otherwise learned be of an other opinion that the discontented secular Priests are in truth and without all doubt at vtter defiance with the Arch-Priest and the Iesuites that they condemne the proceeding and dealing of the Arch-Priest that they vtterly abhorre and derest the licentious liuing the vnchristian coozening and the treacherous practises with infinite other badde dealing of the Iesuites as also that they write nothing of or against the Arch-Priest or the Iesuites but that onely which they thinke themselues bound in conscience to write and to make the same knowne vnto the world I my selfe am thus perswaded of them doubtlesse and I prooue the same many waies First because the Secular Priests haue a long time suffered intollerable iniuries at the hands of the Iesuites because they haue often insinuated so much one to another because they haue often complained of the hard vsage of the Iesuits against them because they haue often repined at their partiall dealing with their fauorites and rough dealing against such as would not bow and bend to their designes at a becke this my selfe know to be so as also that it hath euer beene their vsuall practise euerie where Secondly because the Secular priests were most vnwilling to reueale the turpitude and the villanous dealing of their religious fathers the Iesuits as who professe one and the same religion with the Iesuits saw rightwel that it could not but tend to the great scandall vtter disparagement of their Romish religion vntill necessitie it selfe enforced them therunto Thirdly because their Seculars write nothing of our English Iesuits in deed but the French papists haue in effect and
behoues for their aduantages do dayly sollicite a conquest thereof from Spaine and withall they labor to perswade vs that it is both vtill and honorable These words are put downe in the answeare to the Iesuited gentleman page 93. Note here gentle reader that nothing can please these bloud-thirstie traytors the Iesuites saue onely the conquest of this their natiue countrie Preamble VII Of going to the Church in time of common prayer THe wise Iesuits preuented all daungers they freely permitted Catholikes to goe to Church with protestants and made no sinne nor scruple thereof Yea the Iesuites father Bosgraue and father Langdale went to the Church themselues These words are in the Dialogue Page 97. 98. Note heere gentle Reader that by Iesuiticall both grant and practise the Papists may freely goe to the Church with the Protestants and thereby not sinne at all This is a poynte worthie to be remembred Preamble VIII Of eating of flesh in time of Lent A Famous Iesuite now in England made offer to a Gentleman that if he would become Catholike hée should haue licence to eate flesh in Lent and on all fasting daies among Lollards and Protestants that by so doing he might liue without suspition and escape daunger of the lawes Thus it is written in their Dialogue Page 99. Note heere gentle Reader these important points with me First that the Iesuites are right Machiuels and make Religion a nose of waxe which they vse as a seruile instrument to bring to passe all their bloudie tragicall and traiterous attempts Secondly that those trayterous persons in high authoritie vnder her Maiestie whereof I haue spoken in the third booke in the second reason of the 12. aduise who haue entered closely into league with the Spaniard do as it may seeme enioy these kinds of popish dispensation Thirdly that Iesuits and Seminaries are both most dangerous to the state and vnfit persons to liue in this land vnlesse they will ioyne in Sacraments and common prayer with the rest of her Maiesties faithfull subiects For to no other symbole or signe can credit bee safely giuen Preamble IX Of winning and redeeming of time THe Iesuites haue an axiome of winning of redeeming of time which is in effect to runne with the time in altering their positions so as they may best serue to win their desires The practise of which ground is in no one of their affaires so manifest as in labouring to set vp now this man now that man to attempt the Crowne furnishing euerie one with sufficient authoritie that of right it belongeth vnto him And true it is that rather then they faile they care not who he is or of what rase nor of what nation that will step in for the kingdome so he bee a Catholike These words are set downe in the discouery Page 64. quodl 2. art 8. pag. 43. quodl 9. art 3. pag. 293. Note heere with me that the Iesuites are most errant traitours as who desire so vehemently the conquest of this land that they care not who haue it so he bee a papist Preamble X. Of the fasting and penance which the Iesuites vse THe Iesuites haue a merrie life in not being tyed to rising vp to the quire at midnight but to lie in bed after the sunne to faire well to be well clad and all this exprofesso not to fast so much as the Frydaies to be a lyar when they will and yet be beleeued a detractor a cheater a courtier a souldier a kil-prince and what not And all without controll nay with allowance and commendation Briefe it is a merrie life for a Iesuite to trowle vp and downe the countrey from house to house from good cheare to good cheare in a gallant coach accompanied with fayre gentlewomen attended with neat seruing men his chamber to be deckt and perfumed against his comming yea a gentlewoman to plucke of his bootes by his iniunction forsooth for mortification sake Oh monstrous irreligion so to forget good manners and so to make the lay religious and themselues lay These words are let downe in the answere to the Iesuited gentleman Page 93. 94. See the second booke and third Chapter Now I beseech thee gentle reader are not those men and women voide of all sense and reason that doe so admire these Iesuites and so depend vpon them that rather then they doe not all their dissignements they will be at defiance with their soueraigne and natiue countrey Let wise men iudge and giue their indifferent censure herein Not I but their fellow-laborers the Secular priests who with tooth and nayle labour to defend the Pope and popish religion doe bitterly exclaime against them as you see I put downe their owne wordes I adde nothing I substract nothing alter nothing Let the reader therefore remember wel what I write and ponder deepely the whole discourse Preamble XI Of the dependance of the Iesuites and Iesuited persons vpon the foule fiend the diuell BY Parsons platformes Secular priests must depend vpon Blackwell and Blackwell vpon Garnet and Garnet vpon Parsons and Parsons the priests bastard vpon the Diuell and therfore doe the Secular priests pray thus when they say the Letanie a machinationibus Parsoni libera not domine These words are set downe in the Discouerie Pag. 70. quodl 5. art 8. pag. 151. Sée the second booke and fourth Chapter Note heere gentle reader that to depend vpon the Iesuites is to depend vpon the diuell and consequently that to follow the Iesuites and their bloodie tragicall and traiterous designments is nothing else indeed but to forsake God to abandon his true feare and worship to be traitours to your prince to be enemies to your natiue countrey and to make shipwracke of your owne soules I say not so If I should haue said so none would haue beleeued me But the Seminarie priests the Popes owne darlings say so and therefore it must needes be so the truth cannot but preuaile Preamble XII Of the Cardinalship of the traitorous Iesuite Robert Parsons THe Iesuite Hole Doctor Worthington drewe aformal letter supplicatiue in the names of all the English souldiers labourers artizans pensioners aswell men as women yea very seruing maids and laundresses were not omiâ—ted the same to be presented to the king of Spaine most humbly beseeching his Maiesty in regard of his great affection and care of England and the afflicted English that he would deale earnestly with the Pope to preferre the worthie Father and Prelate Father Parsons to the dignitie of a Cardinall affirming it to be the onely way to bind and vnite the English to his Maiestie These words are set downe in the discouerie Page 61. quodlib 4. art 6. pag. 121. Note heere gentle Reader that this arrogant Iesuite hath quite forgotten his vow of pouertie and obedience and must needs be a Cardinall For we may be assured that this motion was neuer made to the King without his knowledge Behold heere the final end scope and intendment of all his trauel
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
their owne doctrine if their supposall were graunted Which they disloyally auouch like arrant traytors as their fellow priests rightlie terme them yet were prescription sufficient in that behalfe Thirdly that they haue offered huge masses of gold and money so to allure men domestical or forraine to the cruel murder and bloudie massacre of our gracious soueraigne most noble Queene Elizabeth If papists themselues had not thus written my selfe could hardly haue beleeued it Preamble XVIII Of Obedience which must be giuen to the Pope against all kinges Princes and monarches of the world IN all warres which may happen for religion euery Catholike man is bound in conscience to imploy his person and forces by the Popes direction viz. how farre when and where eyther at home or abroad he may and must breake with his temporall soueraigne This doctrine was laid downe for a ground in iustifying Sir William Stanleyes disloyall treacherie against his naturall and annointed Soueraigne in the yeare 1587. These words are set downe in the important considerations Page 23. 24. and they are granted of the Iesuites Apol. 172. Sée the fourth booke and fift chapter and note the words Note heere gentle Reader these important points with me First that all Kings Queenes and Monarches of the Christian world are by this popish Maxime and Iesuiticall ground brought into the bondage and slauery of the Bishop of Rome and must be his slaues and vnderlings to doe what pleaseth him Secondly that the Secular priests who vnwittingly haue deliuered this doctrine against themselues are guiltie of the same treacherie with the Iesuites though not perhaps in the same degree For seeing the seculars doe professe their obedience to the Pope in euerie thing and do withall submit both themselues and all their writings to his holy censure as is to be seene at large in this discourse they must needes approoue and like well of this most traiterous doctrine because the Pope liketh and approoueth the same Thirdly that all the Papist in England which ioyne with the Iesuites who are verie many doe obstinâ—tely embrace this Iesuiticall doctrine and so are guiltie of high treason Preamble XIX Of the King of Spayne his purpose and intent against England THat the new king regnant in Spaine plotteth by Iesuiticall faction and resolueth to proceed where his father left against England it is most apparant by the present action in Ireland as also by sundrie of father Parsons subiects sent hither to be agents on the Spanish behalfe for that purpose All which doe conuince the Iesuiticall hispanized faction of falshoode hypocrisie sedition and treason and that it is not religion which the king present careth for more then his father did before him but maketh that onely a pretence to seduce all Catholikes and to draw them to rebellion hoping thereby to haue their spéedier aide and assistance making them and you all deare Catholiks to cut one anothers throate These words are set downe in the preface to the important considerations in the fourth leafe therof Note heere gentle Reader that the Iesuites bend all their thoughts words and actions to stirre vp rebellion and bloodie trecherie euerie where as also that the king of Spayne now regnant is as readie as was his father afore him to effect both in Ireland and in England all bloodie practises which the high counsell of Iesuiticall reformation shall designe and appoint to be done Preamble XX. Of the Iesuiticall hotch-potch Religion IT is a plaine testimonie of no religion in the Iesuites but flat Atheisme making religious pietie but onely amutter of meere pollicie by sending forth trumpetters to sound out their and Blackwels vertues quodl 6. art 4. pag. 168. The Iesuites haue made religion but an art of such as liue by their wits and a verie hotch-potch of emâ—â—m gâ—â—herum quodlibet 2. art 8. pag. 42. The Iesuites are to be marked out for the most malitious traiterous and irreligious calumniators that euer liued on earth vnworthie that euer the earth should heare them and it is an intollerable indignitie to the whole Church of GOD that euer such wicked members should liue vnpunished in her as they doe Quodlibet 4. art 2. page 99. Note heere gentle Reader these important points with me First that these good fellowes who pretend to bee sent of God from Heauen to reforme the English Church and State are men of no religion but men that make religion a matter of meere policie Secondly that they are so wicked so irreligious and so trayterous as the like were neuer heard of Thirdly that it is a great shame for the whole Church of God that such badde fellowes doe liue vnpunished These things well considered hee that will thinke them or the Seculars to be Gods ambassadours may iustly be deemed as wise as hee that hath no witt at all For God is so highly offended with their trayterous dealings and damnable practises that hee hath enforced themselues to discouer their owne bad proceedings against themselues that so all the worlde may knowe their abhominations and detest them with all their traiterous and cursed machinations The second Booke contayning the treacheries and tyrannie of the Pope and his Iesuiticall faction breathed out against the sacred Maiestie of Gods annoynted CHAP. I. Of the swarmes of Iesuites and Seminaries or Secular priests in this Realme of England THe number of Iesuites and secular priests in England is excéeding great as by this discourse will be made apparant and the said cursed brood is increased euery day Thrée hundred seminarie priests besides the Iesuites haue béene sent from the Pope into England And because many doe not vnderstand fully the difference betwéene Iesuites Seminaries and Secular priests it shall not be amisse briefely to instruct them in that behalfe Euerie Iesuite euen he that is but a lay-brother maketh a solemne vow of three speciall and important points whereof many of them I dare not say the greater part séeme not truly to kéepe any one And I doe not barely say it but the Seminarists shall contest the same with me The three essentiall points of Iesuiticall professioÌ„ are these in expresse termes viz. pouertie chastity and obedience Which triple vowe is common to the Iesuites with all their popish sects And for this triple vow it is that they are called religious But how truly they enioy and deserue that name let the indifferent reader iudge when he shall haue perused this discourse For albeit religious profession be a separating of men from the actions of the world yet doe they deale altogether with the world The Secular priests are all manner of priests which make not the said triple vow viz. All priests which are not 〈◊〉 or fryers For our lordly Iesuites are by profession and solemne vow poore munkes and lowly fryers They are called secular for distinction sake because they 〈◊〉 haue proprietie in secular prossessions of the world 〈◊〉 which the others are by vow abandoned but will by 〈…〉 now and then
be intermedling a little therewithall shall 〈…〉 I say for distinction sake beâ—â—â—â—â— the word secular both fitly distinguish them from the Dominicans Carthusians Benedictines Carmelites Iesuites and the rest All which are called religious because they make a more strict profession of religion then other Christians doe howsoeuer they keepe the same The seminarie priests are méere secular as well as they that neuer were out of this land They are called seminaries because they studie and are maintained in the Colledges or seminaries and some of them neuer are made priests at all I say some because verie few are in that predicament CHAP. II. Of the vnspeakable dissention betweene the Iesuites and Secular priests THe malice of the new vpstart Iesuites is exceeding great and the wâ—th plainely that they are badde fellâ—â—â—s licentâ—â—â—s proud hautie cruell couetous ambitious 〈◊〉 deceitfull irreligious nothing lesse then that which they would seeme and professe to bee All this to be tree shall euidently appeare out of printed bookes 〈◊〉 euen by the Iesuites themselues and the secular priests to the iudgement of all the world yea the Pope himselfe in his sacred Pallaâ—◠〈◊〉 For of Weston the Iesuite thâ—s write the priests a man as impatient as some of his fellowes and of as hautie a spirit as any man can be It was wonderfull to consider what humblenes simplicitie he would pretend in the time of his prouincialship His sighes and zeale seemed to be extraordinarie as though the perteetion of true mortification had béene the onely thing he aymed at Marrie with all his hypocrisie he deceiued none but such as did not looke narrowly into his proceedings A righter Pharisee cannot easily be found In the most of his humility nothing did trouble him more then that Master Bagshaw being a Doctor of Diuinitie should haue place before him at the table insomuch as the better to content him we were driuen to place him at the tables end with him Thus write the secular priests in their relation Page 5. Paragraph I. Of the outcries of the Iesuites against the secular priests LIster the Iesuite hath written a booke in which he chargeth all the priestes that appealed to the Pope to be flat schismatikes To which booke Blackwell the Archpriest and Garnet the prouinciall in England did both subscribe In this booke the Iesuites charge the priests to haue fallen from the Church and the spouse of Christ to haue troden vnder their féete their obedience due to the Pope to haue lost their faculties authoritie to be irregular to haue incurred the sentence of excommunication to be in all mens mouthes as infamous persons To be as publicans and sinners and to be nothing better thou are soothsayers and idolaters These words are set downe in their relation Page 60. The Archpriest by Iesuiticall appointment affirmed audaciouslie that he had receiued a resolution from the mother Citie of Rome that the refusers of his authoritie were schismatikes and that he would not giue absolution to any who should make no conscience thereof and gaue direction that they should make account thereof and make satisfaction before they receiued absolution Hee denied to giue any faculties to Master Benson vnlesse he would renounce the schismaticall conuenticle of the secular priests Hee declared also that M. Moore had written in preiudice of the faith when he wrote in the behalfe of the priests concerning the matter of schisme whereupon neither his ordinarie ghostly father would administer the sacraments to him nor his ghostly children receiue any of him or be present when he said masse These words are set downe in the hope of peace Page 31. Our Arch-priest chafeth the prouinciall his good master clappes him on the backe and egges him forward the rest of the Iesuites what their tongues and prepare their pens to speake and write what they can falsely deuise to make vs odious so as presently we are become a by-word in their mouthes and are nothing with them but rebels Apostates and what they list to report of vs. These wordâ— are set downe in the relation Page 60. The Iesuites caused a libell to be cast out against doctor Lewis a secular priest and for that they loued the man in the course of their hote charitie they made this deuout prayer for him vel Turca velmors vel demon euen eripiat à nobis Eyther the Turke or death or the diuell take him away from vs. And indeed not long after he died we leaue it to Gods iudgement whether they were the causers of it or not Thus write the priests in their discouerie Page 32. quodl 4. art 2. pag. 97. The Iesuites triumphed openly vpon the death of an other English priest Cardinall Allen by name and amongst other their calumniations against him they said that God had taken him away in good time for if he had lâ—â—ed longer he would haue disgraced himselfe and lost the credit which he had got These men haue the best fortune in the world for no man if once they begin to hate him doth liue any long time after it These words are set downe in the discouerie Page 34. In the same place the priests write that the said Cardinall was thought to be poysoned by Iesuiticall meanes and procurement Paragraph II. Of the outcries which the Secular priests make against the Iesuites THe priests exclaime against the Iesuites for their Machiuilian practises diabolicall plots in their concurrence incitements and execrable perswasions which they vsed and practised with the Spaniards and with other forraine and domesticall powers for the inuasion conquest and vtter subucrsion of most noble England of her sacred Maiestie and of all her loyall and faithfull subiects This is true Catholike religion in this case and true English nature and valure true faith and true charitie and what the Iesuits perswade vs toward a conquest of our deare countrey vpon pretence of neuer so much pietie were abhominable disloyaltie in vs to our prince These words are set downe in the answere to the Iesuited gentleman Page 70. The Iesuites affect rule ouer the secular cleargie so to bring armes and conquest into the Church contrarie to all scriptures and to that end they doe manage matters of state more machiuilianly then Machiuell himselfe as appeares by their erection of the Arch-priest and all his carriages according to them and it These words are set downe in the aunswere to the Iesuited gentleman Page 79. Wee all of the Secular Cleargie vna voce doe vtterly disclayme and renounce from our hearts both Arch-priest and Iesuites as arrant traitors vnto their prince and countrey whom to death we will neuer obey no if the Popes holines should charge vs to obey in this sense to aduance an enemie to the English Crowne we would neuer yeeld to it as by no law of nature of nations or of man to be compelled therevnto These words with many moe to the like effect are
when occasion serueth forget These words are set down in the discouerie Pag. 42. pag. 29. quodlibet 7. art 10. pag. 217. quodl 4. art 2. in fine Concerning father Parsons illegitimation I haue oft wished it had not beene vrged being not much to the purpose But sith it haue béene vrged that he denieth it I will but aske him why he was expelled Balioll Colledge in Oxford and whether the chiefest matter obiected was not periurie in taking the oath of the house to the statutes amongst the which this was one Volumus vt omnes huius collegij alumni sint legitimo thoro nati which was vrged against him and offered to be proued openly For the auoyding of which publike infamie he made his owne resignation writing it with his owne hand as is yet to be séene This is more then I ment to haue said in this matter being a personall touch had no father Parsons ouer much vrged the obiection not onely as an vntruth but also inuented and framed by vs. Heereby you may see that the matter was not coyned by any of vs nor so void of verity as he affirmeth These words are let downe in the reply to Parsons libell Fol. 91. b. 6. Now then for our credits with father Parsons for his rising by practises or factious disposition I will say no more but what is iustiâ—able à parte rei viz. that the most stirring medling and practising heads amongst all of our English nation to goe no further haue alwaies come to credite and preheminence amongst them Witnes this per inductionem father Parsons whose factious dispesition hath béene euerie where sufficiently displayed with proofes sufâ—cient Witnes father Heywood and his busie inclination at his comming into England of which father Parsons can beare witnes being at variance with him and many other priests yet liuing in England some of them hauing beene present at his synodes where he made himselfe president in the Popes name Witnes father Holt of whose disposition you may read in master Charles Pagets answere to the Apologie Witnes father Creswell as you may see in Doctor Elies answere to the Apologie Witnes father Garnet the onely chiefe actor in all our stirres héere in England I might adde father Crichton the Scot with therest and father Holt if he were aliue would take my part These then are pretie inducements to thinke father Parsons rose in his order by his factious disposition But for the other point concerning master Blackwell let him be examined vpon his oath whether he came not to master Bluet then prisoner in the Marshalsies vsing these or the like words what meant Doctor Allen to send this man ouer he will vndoe vs all And being asked why he answered that his expulsioÌ„â—ut of Oxford was so infamous that it would be obiected by the protestants to the disgrace of the cause Let master Blackwell I say be vrged with this and I adiure him as he will answere it before almightie God at the latter day to say the truth then father Parsons shall see we haue won our credits euen in both these points besides an hundred more alreadie proued These words are put downe in the reply to Parsons libell Fol. 93. a. 30. Out of this spirit it is that father Cowbucke alias Parsons for all the disparage of his birth which not his baptisme could wash away and other his scandalous carriages aswell since his Iesuitisme as formerly when he was an heretike in Oxford ambitioneth the Cardinalate forgetting how that to be a bare priest though no such peere he being a known bastard is against the canons of yâ— Church although to be a Iesuite being such well and good he may These words are put downe in master A. C. his second letter page 23. and more at large pag. 38. What name of his he speaketh of the Iesuite Robert Parsons or but two letters of his name find ye to this his manifestation of folly and bad spirit whereby he not to deserue to be burned in the hand for a vagabond not any No nor any durst he shew manifesting so badde spirit and so much folly in that censure of his as he hath done He is discouered for such as he is viz. a man who being the misbegotten of a ploughman and he a cuckwold too vpon the bodie of a plough-man hath accordingly demeaned himselfe first in begetting two bastards male and female vpon the bodie of his owne sister betweene his age of seuenteene and three and twentie which was the cause he ranne away as fearing the sheet c. And so became a Iesuite secondly or rather formerly and continually by being a common alehouse-squire and the drunkennest spunge in all the parish where he liued thirdly for being an heretike of the family of loue all his life till he became a Iesuite These words are set downe in master A.C. his third letter pag. 50. and more at large pag. 78. O Parsons monster of mankind fitter for hell then middle earth Thou giuest occasion to thinke that thou art not a meere man but some fairies brat begotten of some Incubus or aerish spirit vpon the bodie of a base woman These words are set downe expressely by the author of the quodlibets quodl 8. art 5. pag. 238. and quodl 4. art 5. he is termed a sacrilegious bastard borne of a base queane Not heere gentle Reader two things of great moment First that when the Pope abandoned lawfull and honest wedlocke to priests which was euer deemed lawfull vntill Syricius was aduanced to the Popedome in the yeare 385. as I haue prooued in my booke of Surucy then the priests had good store of bastards one of which as the priests heere confesse was expelled from Balioll Colledge for his bastardie seditious dealing is this day euen by the free confession of the secular priests an arrant traitor to his prince and natiue countrey Secondly that this holy father who must forsooth reforme the Church of England and manage euerie thing in that high and heauenly function was to be sent from heauen with heauenly and extraordinarie gifts viz. he must first be a priests sacrilegious bastard Then hee must be a common drunkard Thirdly he must be polluted with the execrable sinne of incest and beget male and female vpon the bodie of his owne sister Fourthly he must be giuen to sedition and libelling Fiftly he must be a ranke traytor to his naturall soueraigne At the length being thus qualified with supernaturall gifts and extraordinarie graces proceeding from Beelzâ—bub that notable Machiuell he must depriue noble Queene Elizabeth of her royall and princely Diademe and set the same vpon the Spaniards head he must make a bloodie massacre of all the nobles and other her louing subiects he must abolish abandon and make hauocke of all the ancient lawes of this Church and Realme and so forsooth si dijs placet set vp his newly deuised Monarchie his holy so falsely named reformation Sect. II.
to assist the Duke of Norfolke Are all these things true were they not then in hand whilest her maiestie dealt so mercifully with you how can you excuse these desâ—gnements so vnchristian so vnpriestly so treacherous when we first heard these particulars we did not beleeue them but when we saw the booke and found them there God is our witnes we were much amazed and can say no more but that his holines was misformed indirectly drawen to these courses To proceed the Catholikes continued as before till the said rebellion brake forth in the North 1569. a little before Christmasse and that it was knowne that the Pope had excommunicated the Queene and thereby freed her subiects as the bull importeth from their subiection TheÌ„ followed a restraint but the sword was only drawne against such Catholikes as had risen vp actually into open rebellion Well the sentence was procured by surreption and the Pope was deceiued as hee is often in matters of fact These wordes are set downe in the important considerations page 10. 11. Maister Sanders also telleth vs that Maister Morton and Maister Webbe two secular priests were sent by the pope before the said rebellion to the Lords and gentlemen in the North to excite them with their followers to take vp armes against their soueraigne And the rather to perswade them thereunto they signified to them by the Popes commandement that her maiestie was excommunicated and her subiects released from their obedience And the said Maister Saunders doth iustifie the commotion and ascribeth the euill successe it had to the ouerlate publishing of the Bull it being not generally knowne of till the yeare after when Felton had set it vp vpon the Bishoppe of Londons gate These words are set downe in the discouerie afore said Pag. 12 in the said important considerations page 12. The Priests confesse that Maister Saunders doth to much extoll the said rebels because say they they were men arraigned and executed by the auncient lawes of our country for high treason In the place alleaged the Priests confesse that Parsons and others of his coate haue since followed the former intollerable and vncatholike course They confesse also that with in foure or fiue yeeres it was commonly knowne to the Realme what attempts were in hande by Maister 〈…〉 Maister Saunders for an interprise by force in 〈◊〉 in which action Maister Saunders being to much Iesuited did thrust himselfe in person as a chiefe ringleader for the better assisting of the rebells and whilst these practises were in hand in Ireland Gregorie the 13. reneweth the said Buâ—â— of Pâ—us quintns and denounceth hir maiestie to be excommunicate with intimation of all other particulars in the former Bull mentioned which was procured no doubt by surâ—â—ption the false Iesuites daring to attempt any thing by vntrue suggestion and lewd surmises which Iesuites as the diuell would haue it came into England and intruded themselues into our haruest being the chiefe instruments of all the mischiefes that haue beene intended against her maiestie since the beginning of her raigne Their first comming was in the yeare 1580. Campion the 〈◊〉 and Paâ—sons the prouinciall Alias bastard Cardinall Cowbucke as you haue heard alreadie In the said important considerations pag. 22. it is set downe how the Pope by the insâ—â—gations of the Iesuits plotted with the King of Spaine for the assistance of the Duke of Guise against the Queene of England For the better effecting whereof Mendoza the Iesuite and ledger for the King of Spaine in England set on worke Fraunces Throckmorton and diuers others two others also about the same time viz. ann 1583. Arden and Sommervile were purposed and had contriued how they might lay violent hands vpon her Maiesties sacred person And Doctor Party the same yeare was plotting with Iesuites beyond the seas how he might haue effected the like villanie About the same time the Earle of Northumberland was brought into the plot of the Duke of Guise Hereunto may be added the notable treasons of Anthonie Babington and his complices in the yeare 1586. the treacherie also of Sir William Stanley the yeare following 1587. in the page 40. it is confessed that Cardinall Allen and Parsons published the renouation of the Bull by Sixtus Quintus so as the Pope must needes be condemned to haue dealt in matters of treason and to haue beene the chiefest author thereof For in his name and vpon his pretensed authoritie the others did all that was done and without him they durst not haue done any thing as is euident by this discourse Paragraph III. Of the Popes Seminaries THat the Pope did erect his seminaries for to withdraw English subiects from their due obedience and allegeance to their naturall soueraigne it may and doth appeare most euidently by his first mission of his seminarists into the Realme of England For I pray you when Sherwin Râ—ston and Birket were sent into this land from Rome who were the first that came from thence did not the Pope send with them at the same time the Iesuites Câ—mpion and Parsons that priestly bastard I wote he did my selfe was â—estis oculatus being then one of that Colledge And how did he send them Mush one of these secular priests which now stand against these Iesuites can tell as well as my selfe because he was then of the same colledge at Rome I know and he knoweth that the excommunication was then renewed in fresh print and common in euerie mans hands my selfe had one of them at the same time In which Bull her Maiestie was denounced to be excommunicate to be an vsurper and pretensed Queene of England and all her subiects were thereby absolued freed and discharged of their allegiance to her In this manner furnished these good fellowes receiue the Popes blessing and their viaticum which was a good one I warrant you and so they march towards England Who forthwith after their arriuall as you may read in the important considerations Page 14. bestirred themselues as the diuell would haue them for these are the verie wordes of the priests like a tempest with great brags and challenges and Parsons forthwith fell to his Iesuiticall courses of which you haue heard copiously in the chapter next afore going Touching the erection of popish seminaries who so listeth may read at large in my booke of motiues in the chapter of dissention CHAP. VII Of the English hispanized Seminaries and the intent of their erection IT is apparant that the seminaries in Spaine were intended by father Parsons of purpose to cause a conquest and to bring this land into the bondage and slauerie of the Spaniard quodl 8. art 10. pag. 278. The Iesuites haue beene plotting about this Monarchie these twentie yeares together That is to say how to bring both states ecclesiasticall and temporall vnder their subiection For this cause it is that father Parsons so speedily obtained of the king of Spayne there
to institute three seminaries on his Maiesties costes and charges that graines and indulgences must be published in England on the Spanish behalfe for all that take his part that all who come out of Spayne must sweare vow professe or at least acknowledge an obedieÌ„ce to master Blackwell in all things Yea euen to become ranke traytors against their prince and country for that is principally intended These words are set downe in the end of the preface which is annexed to the sparing discouerie Parsons caused diuers by fayre meanes and threats to subscribe that in all conferences they should when they came into England aduance the Infantaes title not intending therby to expect her Maiesties death but by all means to remoue her from the present possession of her royall estate These words are set downe in the discouerie Pag. 57. as also in the important considerations Page 34. By these testimonies gentle reader two things are cleared the one that Parsons the Iesuite aliâs bastard Cowbucke taketh vpon him as roundly as traiterously to place and displace to put on and take of royall Diademes at his good will and pleasure The other that the three English hispanized semiminaries erected in Saint Lucars Siuill and Valledolid are and must be mainteyned to further ayde and assist the Spanish bloodie intendments against their vndoubted soueraigne and natiue countrey CHAP. VIII Of the Popes authoritie I Haue discoursed at large of this theame in my booke of motiues I meane heere to speake thereof onely as the printed bookes published by the secular priests haue ministred â—t occasion to me Where I wish the indifferent reader to marke well what I shall by Gods helpe deliuer in this behalfe In which my dispute I will for perspicuitie sake proceede by way of sections Sect. I. Of the Popes fact in assoyling her Maiesties subiects from their homage to her TOuching the Bull of Pious Quintus and the same since confirmed by Gregorie 13. against her Maiestie as neither the Spaniard nor any other forraine power is eyther by expresse or implied termes thereof incited to dominion ouer this land as little are English hearts therby disallegeanced so from her Maiestie as to concurre with any forraine inuadour For though the said Buls vpon her Maiesties excommunication therein promulged doe de facto assoyle the subiects of this Realme from their homage to her it therfore followes not that they must and ought to be parties against her Maiestie and their country to a forraine power howsoeuer pretending euen Religion or the ciuill good thereunto For that were to conster the Popes act so ouermuch in religion and grace as to the destruction of nature which were against the marime aforesaid These words are taken out of the answere to the Iesuited gentleman Page 39. Sect. II. Of power granted to Saint Peter A Man to goe against his owne countrey is and euer was holden in the ciuill part of the world an act contraius gentum also vnnaturall yea against all grace Besides that Christ neuer did delegate any such power to S. Peter as tradere gentem in gentem that being a meere temporall reuenge and he but his vicar spirituall Sect. III. Of the confirmation of the power named in the former Section SAint Peters commission against transgressing kings and kingdomes is no more then onely to denounce by excommunication and other the like ecclesiasticall censures Gods displeasure against them for their transgression and not to exercise the secular sword at all These words conteyned in the third and second sections are set downe in the answere to the Iesuiticall gentleman Page 40. Sect. IIII. Of the explication of the former confirmation I Say againe I doe not see howe that chaire and those keyes to be imbrued in blood and to atchieue conquests especially such a tradition as of England to Spaine by the sword can any wayes stand eyther with Christs or his said vicars honour These words are set downe in the answere to the Iesuited gentleman Page 42. Sect. V. Of the obeysance to the Popes comamundement WE all of the secular cleargie doe with one assent vtterly renounce both Archpriest and Iesuites as arrant traytors to their prince and countrey whom to death we will neuer obey no if the Popes holinesse should charge vs to obey in this sense to aduance an enemie to the English crowne we would neuer yeeld to it as by no law of nature of nations or of man to be compelled thervnto These words are set downe in the preface to the important considerations Fol. 9. pag. 2. Sect. VI. Of the Popes stat commaundement in matters of treason THe secular priests hauâ—ng told vs that the Pope denounced his â—ul against her Maiesty purposely to suffer the intended rebellion that he gaue order to Ridolphi the Florentine to take 150000. crownes to set forward the said attempt and much other matter to the like effect wherof I haue spoken at large in the sixt chapter doe adde thervnto these expresse words when we first heard these particulars â—e did not beleeue them but would haue laid our liues they had beene false but when we saw the booke and found them there God is our witnesse we were much amazed and can say no more but that his holines was misinformed and directly drawn to these courses These words are set downe in the important considerations Page 10. Now out of these waightie and important points conteyned in these Sections certaine conclusions are necessarily inferred for which I haue reserued the next chapter wishing the reader seriously to obserue the same CHAP. IX Of certaine memorable conclusions worthie to be kept in perpetuall remembrance The first conclusion THe bishop of Rome hath no authoritie deriued from Christ or S. Peter by which he may lawfully depriue and dispossesse her Maiestie that now most happily raigneth ouer vs from her royall Diademe and regalitie and giue the same to the king of Spayne to Isabella his sister or to any other forraine potentate whosoeuer This conclusion is effectually proued by all the sections of the former chapter For in the first section this authoritie is said to tend to the destruction of nature which power is denied to the Pope In the second section it is flatly affirmed that Christ neuer gaue any such power to Saint Peter whom all papists will grant to haue had as great power as their Pope hath I am sure In the third section it is said plainly that Saint Peters commission was onely to denounce by excommunication Gods displeasure against trangressors of his lawes In the fourth section it is auouched that this kinde of proceeding doth neither stand with Christs honour nor with his vicars In the fift section it is affirmed in plaine termes that subiects can not be charged to obey such a commaundement and the reason is yeelded to be this because it is against the law of nature of nations and of man In the sixt section the priests
grant the fact and know not how to excuse the same Yet they seeme to haue a great desire to excuse the Pope if possibly they could tell how And therefore they say he was misinformed and indirectly drawen to these courses For which respect I will put downe the next conclusion The second conclusion THe pope was neither misinformed nor indirectly drawn to deale as he did in the matters of treason I proue it many waies First because he knew that our gracious Ladie Queene Elizabeth was heire to the crowne of England by succession in blood royall that she was opposite to his disholy holines in religion and that the crowne was set vpon her head by Oglethorpe the bishop of Carlett a papist to his owne liking 2. Because he knew his owne plottings in that matter viz. that he did excommunicate her Maiestie that he did depriue her from her kingdome by his Bull that he did pronounce her an vsurper and that he discharged absolued and freed all her subiects from their allegeaÌ„ce to her 3. Because he knew Ridolphi the Florentine the king of Spayne the Duke of Guise and Stukeley to say nothing of the rest 4. Because he denounced his Bull as theÌ„selues grant purposely to further the intended rebellion 5. Because he designed Ridolphi as the priests also grant to take 150000. crownes to set forward the said attempt So then it is verie ridiculous to say the Pope was misinformed For euerie thing was truly related to him and he was ignorant of no important point No no he will not say as the priests doe that hee hath no such authoritie For the Iesuite Bellarmine ascribeth the saide authoritie to the Pope and defendeth it in that verie booke which hee dedicated to the Pope himselfe which booke is this day in pâ—int in all or most parts of Europe If the priests doe not recant this point and submit themselues to his holinesse I am well assured they must smart for the same I would therefore aduise them that as they haue wisely renounced the Iesuites and the Archpriest so they will also as I haue conceiued some hope therein renounce the vsurped and diabolicall authoritie which the bishop of Rome falsely chalengeth to himselfe The third conclusion THe Pope euen by the doctrine of the secular priests hath erred iudicially in a matter of faith For the proofe whereof we must oâ— serue first that the Pope hath no authoritie neither from Chirst nor from Saint Peter to translate kingdomes tradere gentem in gentem or to giue the 〈◊〉 of one prince to an other He hath no such powe granted him vpon the face of the earth Thus much â— freely granted in expresse termes by the testimonie of th secular priests Their words are set downe in the chapte next aforegoing Sect. 2. Secondly that the Popes power is wholy spirituall and that hee can no way proceede against transgressing kings and kingdomes but onely in denouncing Gods displeasure against them by ecclesiasticall censures Thus much the priests grant Cap. 8. sect 3. Thirdly that such a tradition as of England to Spaine by the sword can no way stand eyther with Christs honour or his vicars Thus much the priests graunt Cap. 8. sect 4. Fourthly that to obey the pope in that he seeketh to aduance an enemy to the crown is against the law of nature of nations and of man And consequently that such a uommaundement ought not to be obeyed neyther will the priests obey the same Thus much the priests confesse freely Cap. 8. sect 5. Fiftly that the pope hath de facto thus commaunded This I prooue by two strong reasons First because the Iesuite Parsons did charge the English priests vnder paine of excommunication to ioyne themselues foorthwith with all their forces to the Spaniards against our most gracious Ladie Queene Elizabeth Secondly because Cardinall Alien did affirme openly that the pope had made him cardinall with intent to send him as his Legate for the sweeter managing of the said great affayre I will heere alleage their expresse words as the secular priests haue published them in print Thus they write Father Pâ—rsons ascribeth it to error of conscience and want of couraâ—e terming the same an effeminate dastardy that we had then suffered her maiestie almost 30. years o raigne ouer vs. He threatned vs with excommunication and vtter ruine both of our selues and all our posteritie if we did then any longer obay or aide defend or acknowledg her highnesse to be our Queene or superiour and did not forthwith ioyne our selues with all our forces to the Spaniards The good Cardinall Allen by Parsons meanes is drawne to say that the Pope had made him Cardinall intending to send him as his legate for the sweeter managing of this forâ—oth godly and great affaire and to affirme vpon his honor and in the word of a Cardinall that in the fury of the Spaniards intended conquest there should beeas great care had of euery câ—tholike and penitent person as possiblie could be And to allure the nobilitâ—e of his Realme he promised them to become an humble suter on their behalfes that so as they shew themselues valiant in assisting the King of Spaine his forces they may continue their noble name and families These words are set downe in the important considerations page 25. 26. quodl 8. art 7. page 247. See the fourth booke and the fift chapter in the first section and note it well Sixtly that by popish doctrine euery papist is bound in conscience to employ his person and forces by the popes direction For in iustifying the disloyalty of Sir William Standley a worthy papist laid downe this ground viz. that in all warres which may happen for religion euery Catholike man is bound in conscience to imploy his person forces by the Popes direction viz Now farre when and wher either at home or abroad he may and must breake with his temporall soueraigne These wordes are sette downe in the important considerations page 24. See the fourth booke and fift chapter and note it well in the first section Out of these obseruations well marked and throughly pondered the verity of my third conclusion is inferred of necessitie For first seeing it is a matter of conscience faith and religion to follow the Popes direction in all warres concerning religion as is proued in the sixt obseruation Secondly seeing the Pope hath intended willed directed and commanded his english Priests other his popish vassals to â—oyne themselues with the Spaniard and to assist them with all their forces as is proued in the first obseruation Thirdly seeing the Pope hath no such power and authoritie as he may or can lawfully so will direct or command as appeareth by the first Second third and fourth obseruations it is so euident as none hauing but common sence can denie the same that the Pope hath erred de facto euen iudicially and in a matter of faith when he affirmed it to be
lawfull and a matter of conscience to obey his wicked and most execrable sentence when hee appointed the English preiests and others to take part with the Spanish powers against their soueraigne And heere by the way the gentle reader may note this excellent and golden corollary viz that though the priests and all Papists hold if for a coÌ„stant maxime that the pope is the onely iudg in controuersies yet doe the priests now when the case toucheth themselues take vpon them to censure the Pope and to say bouldly that they will not because they are not bound in such and such cases to obey him Marke well for Christs sake it is not my doctrine but the doctrie of the secular Priests and so of greatest force against them and all other papists The fourth conclusion THe Pope hath no authoritie to assoyle or exempt the subieces of this Realme from the homage to her maiestie This conclusion is cleare and plaine by the free graÌ„t and open confession of the secular Priests where and when they write in expresse tearmes as you haue heard in the chapters a foregoing more then once that the Pope hath no power ouer yâ— law of nature which is indeed the law of God therfore he is no more to be obeyed therein theÌ„ if he should command to commit adulterie incest or to murder our selues or our parents that I may vse the priests their owne words And the case is euident to euery childe for who knoweth not that no inferiour hath power to chaung or alter the law of his superiour And yet is it cleare I weene enen in the opinion of euery papist that God is the Popes superiour and so the Pope hath not to chaunge or alter his law How the difficultie is this if there be any difficultie at all whether the Popes fact in assoylinge subiects from their loyaltie be against the law of nature or nor To which I aunswere briefly that it is so And I proue it because our allegeance to our soueraigne is coÌ„prised in the first precept of the decalogue which is morall and of the law of nature under the name of parents For in the name of parents are contained and vnderstood al superiours by what title or name soeuer they be termed all both old and late writers without exception doe so hold write and beleeue If any papist can this denie let him put downe his reasons I am readie to reply vpon him But I suppose none of theÌ„ will oppose himselfe against this vndoubted truth I therefore conclude that the late bishops of Rome shew who and what they are when they proudly take vpon them to assoyle subiects from their allegeance and naturall obedience to their Prince CHAP. X. Of the secular Priests and there late Printed Bookes Paragraph I. Of there religion in matters of state THe secular priests professe themselues to hould constantly euery point and article of the Romish faith For thus doe they write name that article or one point of the catholike Romish faith wherein the secular priests doe either stagger in themselues or seeke to seduce you These words are set downe in the preface to the important considerations fol. 4. page 2. Touching this demande I haue thought it worth the labour to make a syncere answeare vnto the priests out of their owne papers and writinges published to the iudgement of the world Partly that they themselues may see if they will not continue obstinate their owne folly in religion as also the great absurdities which thereby they do vnwittingly and vnwillingly admit and defend Partly also that others may dislike their religion and more zealously embrace the truth First therefore the bishoppe of Rome holdeth that he may and can assoyle subiects from their allegeance and depriue her maiestie from her royall dâ—ademe The Iesuites affirme it Cardinall Allanâ— approued it and your selues haue granted the same as I haue alreadie shewed How either you the secular priestes I meane hold the same opinion or not If ye doe not then are yee not such perfect papists as you write If ye doe so hould then are you traytors against your soueraigne aswell as the Iesuites whome yet your selues tearme arraÌ„t traytors as they are indeede Secondly the Pope houldeth That Queene Elizabeth is not the lawfull Queene of England but an vsurper and pretensed Queene you know it you write so How if you hold not so you are not perfect papists If you hold so you are arrant traytors Beare with mee for my wordes youre selues haue prouoked mee therevnvnto Thirdly the Pope holdes that her maiesties subiects may and ought to take part with the king of Spain against her If you hold not so you are not perfect papists If you hold so you are ranke traytors Fourthly the Pope holds that he may consecrat grains and â—gnus deis and grant pardon to all them that will take parte with him against our soueraigne and vse them as signes and seales of that couenant If you hold not so you are not perfect papists If you hold so you are traytors Fiftly the pope holds and his papists with him as I haue the wed that subictes must in conscience follow his direction in all warres for religion If you hold not so you are not sound Romish catholikes or papiste If you hold so you are traytours Master Saunders a secular priest iustifieth the rebellion in the North and holdeth the Earles with their adherents to be glorious martyrs Morton and Webbe doe hold the same opinion who are likewise secular priests the Iesuites at Rome are of the same stampe and defend the same treason in the highest degrée for Alphonsus the Iesuite then rector of the English colledge in Rome caused the Organs to be sounded in the English chappell all the students to come to the chappell of which number my selfe was one and then and there hee himselfe putting on his backe a white surplesse to signifie for sooth the puritie of the matyrdome and the stole about his necke sange a collect of marrtyrs so after his manner canonizing Campion the rebell for a saint This to be so Iohn Mush one of these secular priests knoweth right well and cannot denie the same seing himselfe was then present in the colledge at Rome which publique solemnitie for a traytorous Iesuite Campion I meane Alphonsus durst not haue attempted doubtles vnlesse he had first obtained the consent of his generall neither yet would yâ— generall for he durst not so haue done haue approued the fact if he had not had the consent of the Pope whose consent is the consent of all the popish Church To which I must needes adde that it is vsuall amonge the English papists to keepe the relikes of Campion Sherewin and the rest and to pray vnto them as vnto the saints of God How if you secular priestes hold not thus you are not sound papists If you hold so you are arrant traytours So then the seculars are
either not perfect papists or els arrant traytours like the Iesuites Paragraph II. Of the staggering of the Secular Priests in their asseueracions THe priests write that they cannot be iustly charged to stagger in any point Let therefore the indifferent reader be an indifferent iudge in this behalfe Marke the discourse The secular priestes tell vs in their important considerations page 24. that a worthy man hath laid down this for a ground that euery catholike is bound in conscience to employ his person and forces by the popes direction and at his becke to breake with his soueraigne This ground worke you sée is flat treason and yet the priestes tearme him a worthy man that laid the same But how they can this doe and not stagger in their affirmance let others iudge The priests likewise write in their important considerations page 26. that Allan confessed openly that the pope had made him Cardinall for the sweeter managing of the Spanish forces and yet with all they tearme him the good Cardinall on the one side they condemne the Spanish forces on the other side they commend the chiefest agent in that most bloodie and traytorous complot Againe in one place they say they professe their obedience to yâ— pope in an other place quodl 8. art 1. They graunt they may not doe ought against parliament statuets Loe how they stagger The priests say further in their important considerations page 15. and put downe these expresse words we had some of vs greatly approued the said rebellion highly extolled the rebels and pitifully bewayled their ruine and ouerthrow Many of our affections were knit to the Spaniardes and for our obedience to the Pope we all doe professe it The attempt both of the Pope and Spaniards failing in England hâ—s holinesse as a temporall prince displaied his banner in Ireland The plot was to depriue hir highnesse first from the kingdome if they could and then by decrâ—es so depose her from this In all these plots none were more forward then many of vs that were priestes These are their owne wordes Out of which I note first that both the Pope and Spaniards wherefully bent to depose our gratious Queene Elizabeth from Ireland and England by degrees Secondly that the priestes greatly approued this rebellioâ—s course Thirdly that the priests highly extolled the rebels Fourthly that their hearts were knit to the Spaniards Fiftly that the priests did and still doe professe their obedience to the Pope Sixtly that in all these plots none were more forward then the Priestes This notwithstanding they tearme the said attempts rebellion and the agents and dealers therein traytors they put the Pope himselfe in the predicament with the Spaniards and they â—reely confesse that they themselues were as deepe in all these plots and as forward as any others were And yet forsooth they would qualifie the matter so as the state must needs beleeue them and acknowledge theÌ„ for true hearted subiects Hir maiesties honourable counsellors are so wise and carefull of their places and charge committed to them for the peaceable and godly managing of hir dominions as I nothing doubt thereof but they will looke narrowly into yâ— practises of these good fellowes and trâ—e them throughly before they trust them They stagger you see in there assertions and what they say in one place that they gainesay in an other They contemne equiuocations in the Iesuites and I scare me that in matters of state they doe no leise equiuocate themselues they labour to haue a tolleration to liue as they list and they are offended with the reuerend wâ—â—e graue and learned father the good bishop of Durham for that in a sermon at Paules crosse he spoke against the said tolleration But God of his mercie forbid that euer any such tolleration be granted to them for if it be true whâ—ch Christ himselfe telleth vs Mat. 6. that no man can serue two maisters viz. which are opposite and not subordinate th one to the other as it is most true indeede then doubtles cannot these Preistes be true to her maiestie who professe obedience to the Pope her knowen professed enemie But if they shall once ioyne with her good subiects in prayer sacraments openly in the Church which God graunt then may they be thought indeed to be true and faithfull to her sacred person to her honour crowne and royall scepter But in the inâ—erim let vs I pray you beleeue them at leasure Paragraph III. Of the dissimulation which the priests seeme to vse in their bookes THe priests seeme to deliuer plainely and without all equiuocation their great enmitie and hatred against the Iesuites as who say almost nothing of them which my selfe haue not ineffecte published afore both in my booke of motiues and also in my booke of suruey Where I wish the reader to note by the way that my aduersaries haue therein iustified my writings and are not able to charge me with any vntruth in that behalfe The substance likewise of all and euerie thing and thinges contained in their seuerall bookes and treatises which I haue seene viz. There hope of peace their important considerations their sparing discouery their dialogue their relation their quodlibets and sundrie other of their bookes my selfe vpon my owne knowledge am able to contest with them to be a meere truth But when they write that they will stand to hir maiestie against her enemies be their pretences neuer so faire for their country for religion or what els soeuer can bee deuised they must pardon me if I cannot yet giue credite to their pennes that for sundrie reasons First because equiuocation is demed very lawfull euen with the best papistes three circumstances concurring which I haue set downe in my booke of Suruey Secondly because the priests being as yet papists and so not acknowledging her maiestie nor her maiestrates to bee their competent iudges may iustly be suspected in the premises Thirdly because the priests doe still write resolutely that they will performe their obedience to the Pope Paragraph IIII. How the priests doe proudly vant and bragge of their mightie strength and forces HEr Maiestie as write the priests in their answere to the Iesuited gentleman Page 68. hath a wise counsell which cannot but see that though for the present time the estates ecclesiasticall and ciuill both of our countrey being so throughly setled as they are it is méete they thinke and easie we know to keepe the Catholike vnder and supprest yet what hereafter in a chaunge and in a troubled state our partie may worke it selfe they may rather perhaps gesse then preuent Sure I am we are not so ignoble a partie in the land for all the persecution of these fortie yeares but that the vnity thereof with the rest at such a day will perhaps be as requisite for our common-weale as any other The consideration whereof together with other no lesse important may somewhat preuaile with so
denyed The priestes confesse as you heare that their contention was the ground of the Archpriestes authoritie that their garboyles did beget his greatnesse and therefore that they are his good masters Fourthly that the secular priests the Romish seminarists repute it no shame to publish in printed bookes that the superioritie among them proceedeth of sedition and factious dealing Happie are they forsooth that are guided by such rulers The third Booke containing sundry graue aduisoes set downe for the good of all true-hearted Subiects least they be hereafter seduced with Iesuiticall hypocrisie and treacherous Poperie Aduiso I. Of Popish proceedings against Kinges Potentates and Monarkes of this world THE Iesuite Parsons in his booke Philopater is verie peremptorie slie and saucie verie boldly affirming that when kings deflect from the Catholike religion and draw others with theÌ„ then their subiects are frée and both may and ought if they be able to cast such a man out of his dominions An other Iesuite giueth vs this lesson the quarrel for Religion saith he and defence of innocencie is so iust that Heathen princes not at all subiect to the Churches lawes may in that case by the Christian armes be resisted An other Iesuite saith thus that Christians in times past did not depose Nero and Dioclesian and Iulian the Apostata and Vâ—lens the Arrian and others it was because Christians did then want temporall forces for otherwise they might lawfully haue dealt so with them Thus it is written quodl 9. art 4. q. 296. Note here gentle Reader that most vnnaturall rebellion is as a naturall or proper passion to all seditious Popish religion which doubtlesse is a graue aduiso seriously to be thought vpon Aduiso II. Of the charitable physicke of the Iesuites IF hereafter any Pope shall crosse the Spaniards plots and purposes the Iesuites will haue such a figge in store or his paines that shall doe so as no Ruebarbe Angelica Mithridate or other medicine or antidote shall expell the venime poyson or infection from his heart nor any Bezar Pearle gold or Vnicornes horne long preserue his life after it And if there be as there are shrewde suspitions in Rome concerning the death of two Popes two Cardinals and one Byshop alreadie and that but for breaking or rather intending to breke the Iesuites a little of their will and vnbridled insolencie and onely to reforme them in their order then no maruell at their disignments for England and much lesse doubt to bee made what they would doe in such a case if it came to canuasing for a kingdome Thus is it written quodl 8. art 6. p. 245. It is true that in France there are publike monuments of Isuiticall tyrannie For first they procured Henrie the third to be excommunicated and then by degrees they murderd him quod 8. art 8. p. 261. see the 2. Booke chap. 2. and 2. Parag. Note here gentle Reader three important points with me first that our holy fathers the late vpstart Iesuites are not religious fathers as they professe to be but disordered dissolute and blood-thirstie companions Secondly that they are charged with wilfull murder and that of no meane personages but euen of Byshops euen of Kings euen of Cardinals yea euen of Popes themselues Thirdly that murder is a thing so common or rather so connaturall to Iesuiticall faction that if their purposes and plots bee but a little crossed not onely by Barons Earles or Dukes but euen by Kings Emperours and monarkes nay euen by the Pope himselfe whom they would be thought to honour aboue the rest then doubtlesse that Barton Earle duke King Emperour or Pope shall haue such a fig giueÌ„ him by these skilful Phisitions for his restoratiue Catholike anâ—tpast as he shall neuer after it be in neede of any Christian preseruatiue post-past this is a graue Aduiso it doth pourtray our Iesuites gallantly in their deserued and well beseeming colours Aduiso III. Of Cardinal Allens intendment against his prince and natiue Countrey IT can not be denied but that in the yere 1588. Cardinall Allen compiled a booke to be published when the Spaniards should haue arriued to haue stirred vp all English papists to take armes against their Soueraigne for the speedy conquest of their natiue Countrey The first part of which booke was intituled a declaration of the sentence The second part An admonition to the Nobilitie and people of England but presently vpon the ouerthrow of the great invincible Armado vnder their heroical Adlantado for shame of the world they procured the whole Impression to be burnt sauing some fewe that had beene sent abroad beforehand to frindes such as had otherwise béene conueyed away by the Printer and others in secret wise Thus it is written quodl 8. art 6. p 240. Note here gentle Reader that Cardinall Allen the chiefe gouernour vnder the Pope in all popish English affaires did further the Spaniards intended conquest of England with all his might strength power and force and that hee published a most trayterous booke in his own name for the speedy complement of that most cruell and bloody attempt to which adde with mee that the sayd Allen was sent by the Pope to manage that great affaire and was also made Cardinall for that onely ende and purpose as I haue proued in the second Booke ninth chapter and third conclusion now then seeing the Pope the Cardinall and the Iesuits did all wholy intend the inuasion and conquest did at all times bend their Buls bils libels and all their forces to depose her Maiestie from her Crowne and royall Scepter and seeing also that the Secular priests confesse freely as is already proued in the second book tenth chapiter and second Paragraph that many of their affections were knit to the Spaniards and that none were more forward then they in those bloodie treacheries and seeing thirdly that the said priests do still professe their obedience to the Pope in euerie thing and humblie submit themselues and all that they haue written to be decided iudged and censured as shall seeme good to his holinesse for so they write in their important considerations pag. 43. quodlibet 10. p. 342 et p. 361. let them the secular priests I meane say and write what they list and like of their true and loyall hearts towarde her maiestie I for my owne parte will neuer giue credite to them vnlesse they will ioyne with vs in sacrament and commoÌ„ prayer And I verely thinke that whosoeuer shal marke this discourse seriously will be of mine opinion For concerning equiuocating and temporizing instate affaires they are nothing inferiours to the false cogging Iesuites They vtter in deed many truthes but they doe it of necessitie so to be auenged of the Iesuites and to be deliuered from their tyrannie The Iesuites they spare in no respect But Cardinall Allan they highly commend and the Pope they dare not in any case oâ—tend Which two the Pope and the Cardinall while they doe commend
Reason All that come out of Spaine must sweare to be rancke traytors against Quéene Elizabeth This is proued in the second booke chapt 4. page 6. Ergo. c. The eight Reason The seminaries in Spaine were intended and erected of purpose to cause a conquest and to bring England into the slauery of the Spaniard This is proued quodlibet 8. art 10. page 278. Ergo. c. The ninth Reason The seculars in their answere to the Iesuited gentlemaÌ„ doe prowdly vaunt of their great power and forces in the 68 page Ergo. The 10 Reason In all the blondie attempts and treasonable practises of the Pope and Spaniards none were more forward then the secular priests This is proued in the important considerations page 15. Ergo. The 11. Reason The seminaries were willing to colour hide and conceale all the attempts intents practises and proceedinges of the Iesuites vntill they were intangled by penall lawes these words are set downe in the preface to the quodlibets Ergo. The 12. Reason All papists seculars and Iesuites maintained one and the same opinion in all the practises and bloudie complots concerning England This is proued quodli 8. art 9. page 277. But some seculars were as forward against Quéene Elizabeth as the bloudie Spaniards as is proued in the 10. Reason Ergo vnfit men to haue a tolleration The 13. Reason The seculers granut fréely as is allready proued at large that they haue many friends both of the nobility and of the gentrie who loue them dearely are deuoted to the Pope Ergo. many other reasons may be gathered to this effect out of this precedent discourse but I will not stande vpon the matter Her Maiesties graue and wise counsellours know best what is to be done herein onely this I wish to be remembred which is already made manifest in the second booke chapter 4. paragraph 1. that the Iesuites are banished out of the kingdome of France for their seditious dealing there For doubtlesse if they be vnfit persons to dwell in that Realme where popery is openly professed and therefore are banished from thence it séemeth not to stand with christian pollicy to grant them a tolleration to liue as they list in England And séeing the seculars were as deepe as forward in all bloudie practises as yâ— Iesuites or spaniards as is alreadie proued seeing with all they doe still professe their obedience to the Pope her Maiesties professed mortall enemie they seeme as dangerous and as vnfit to enioy a tolleration as doe the Iesuites What say I of a tolleratioÌ„ seeing the seculars coÌ„fesse as I haue proued that the penall lawes are iustly made against them it were not a misse thinke I if this their generall maxime were put in execution viz. fiat iustitia ruant coeli For as our quodlibetist telleth vs the execution of priest-hood and treason are now so linked together by the Iesuites in England as they cannot exhort any to the catholike faith but dogmaâ—â—zando in so doing they draw him in effect to rebellion quodl 9. art 4. page 304. note the next reason The 14. Reason The Pope will not suffer nor permit the Iewes to dwell in Rome vnles they will orderly and dutifully heare the popish sermons in their popish Churches and yet are the popish sermons as much against the conscience of the Iew as are the English sermons against the conscience of the papist Againe the Iewes are not the Popes subiects and so doe they owe lesse dutie to the Pope theÌ„ our english papists owe to Quéene Elizabeth And consequently if the Popes practise with the Iewes be made a rule to square and measure the actions of his popish English vassals they must haue no toleration to abide in England vnles they will come to the Church to heare godly sermons To which I must néedes adde that the Iewes liue peaceably in Rome and doe not any way meddle in seditious and treasonable practises which for all that is a thing very common and vsuall with our English papists as is alreadie proued If therefore the execution of popish priesthood be lincked inseperably with treason as is alreadie proued I hope popery will bee so farre from a tolleration as no disloyall papist shall be permitted to haue any footinge within this land The complement of the three former bookes Paragraph I. Containing a golden redolent posie for the Iesuites and their Iesuited familie presented by the secular Priests to signifie their amitie THe Iesuites and their arch-priesbyteran or Spanish faction inueighing against the secular priests for appealing to the Sea apostolike for iustice in spiritualibus and to the regall throne of sacred maiestie in defence apologiticall of their innocencie in temporalibus do peruert all laws customes and orders and arrogate to theÌ„selues a dignitie preheminence authoritie aboue the Pope and Prince are therebie guiltie of high treason These words are set downe in the preface to their dialogue Note heere gentle reader these important points first that by the flat testimonie of the seculars the Iesuites are censured to be guiltie of high treason and consequently that they are worthily condemned by the lawes of this land for the same secondly that these good fellowes the secular priests do make themselues guiltie of the same treason though not in the same degree For their appeale to the Pope in spiritualibus implyeth high treason against their naturall soueraigne Which to be so themselues confesse els where as shall appeare in the next paragraph Paragraph II. Shewing that the secular priests vnawares condemne themselues in their owne publike writings THe seminaries were willing at the first to colour hide and conceale all making the Iesuites causes attempts intents practises and procéedings their owne in euery thing and yéelding to them the preheminence fame honor and renowne in euery action acted by them vntill at last they were intangled by penall lawes iustly made against them equally as against the Iesuits These words are set downe in the preface to the quodlibets Note heere gentle reader these important points with me first that by the free confession of the seminarie priests the penall statutes are iustly made against them and consequently that the seminaries are iustly condemned for treason Secondly that the penal lawes were made as iustly against the seminaries as they were made against the Iesuites and consequently seeing the notorious treasons of the Iesuites were the cause of the said penall lawes it followeth by necessarie consequution that the seminaries are guiltie either of the same or at the least of other like treasons Thirdly that the seminaries for a longe time made all the bloudie intents and treasonable practises of the Iesuites their owne in euerie respect Fourthly that they honoured the Iesuites euen in their bloudie attempts and cuâ—sed treasons Fiftly that the seminaries did hide and conceale the treasons of the Iesuits for the space of twenty yeares together For the Iesuites began their treasons in the yeare 1580.
the Pope was there Thirdly that it was decréed that they should be imprisoned so soone as they came These three obseruations are expresly conteyned in the former part of the Cardinals letter to speake nothing yet of the last clause thereof because that part is denied But the former part is freely granted which may not be forgotten Fourthly that the Pope was aduertised in Ferrara by his Nuntioes in Fraunce and Flaunders that the priestes would come to him Fiftly that the Pope willed the Cardinall to write to Parsons to be enformed of them and their pretences Sixtly that the Cardinall Bellarmine can testifie all this to be their fiction for so saith the Apologie These obseruations duely pondered it will appeare to the indifferent reader as cleare as the Sunne when it shineth at the noone tide that the Iesuite Parsons is câ—ndemned in his owne conscience and knoweth now no other meanes how to defend his badde dealing but by hypocriâ—ie falshood and impudent lying First therefore he chargeth the Cardinall Bellarmine with false testimonie This is euident by the first obseruation where after hee told vs the words of the Cardinals letter he addeth immediatly to the same words the exclamation of the priests That done he forthwith with an impudent mouth auouceth that the Cardinall can testifie all this to be their fiction Peruse the words in the beginning of this third chapter and marke them well The diuell is termed a lyer and pater eius but henceforth let him giue place to Parsons in that behalf For hauing told vs of the Cardinals letter written to him and of the contents thereof he forthwith affrmeth to vs that all is false and the méere fiction of the priests And yet is the greater part or rather the totall summe of their narration conteyned in the said Cardinals letter But let vs in the way of dispute and in fauour of our good Iesuite Parsons and in regard of his trauels for the king of Spayne against our natiue countrey suppose with him that the priests had vttered many vntruthes the contrarie whereof God willing shall shortly be made manifest yet must the lye perforce be retorted vpon Parsons as vpon him that best hath deserued it for his impudent shamelesse and most notorious lying The reason is euident because he granting a great part to be true affirmeth in the same periode the whole to be false But it shall be proued before the ende of this replie that there is no falshoode therein at all saue that onely which procéedeth from his owne lips Secondly Parsons to purge himselfe of bad dealing if possibly it would bee telleth vs in the fift obseruation that the Pope willed the Cardinall to write to him to be enformed of the priests and their pretences Heere Parsons either condemneth himselfe or else giueth the Pope a mortall wound If the Pope gaue no such charge to his Cardinall then hath Parsons committed a damnable sinne in lying so egregiously vpon the Pope and his Cardinall And it séemeth verie probable that the Pope was not then acquainted with the matter but that the Generall of the Iesuites by Parsons his information had required the Cardinall to moue the Pope for their imprisonment if perhaps they should come to Ferrara while the Pope made his abode there And for this cause did the Cardinall answere that the priests were not yet come but should be imprisoned when they came as we haue in the third obseruation As if he had said haue yee no care I will be mindefull to gratifie you in your desire The priests are not yet come but I shall not faile to procure their imprisonment at their comming For it can not be imagined that intelligence of this matter could come to the pope but by the consent of Parsons and as Parsons did designe to be done The reason is euident because Parsons boasteth that he is appointed the Rector of the English Colledge the Prefect of the English mission and the like All which is true indéed and by reason hereof all English papists depend vpon Parsons and will doe nothing without his aduise the seculars euer excepted that now oppose themselues against him who doubtlesse would not bewray their owne cause If the Pope gaue such a charge indéed then did he shew himselfe to be the diuels vassall and not Christes vicar as he pretends to be For who but the diuell of hel would first decrée that the priests should be imprisoned and afterward labour to know what offence they had committed For if Parsons say truly the Pope knew not what offence was done Wel be this as it be may it is confessed on all sides that the priests with the Popes knowledge were first imprisoned then inioyned to liue in exile and neuer to returne into their natiue countrey without licence and could not to this day be permitted to speake to the Pope Iustly therefore may the priests exclayme O miserable times O wicked manners of men O cursed Parsons O cruell bishoppe of Rome Doest thou send thy priests with the daunger of their liues to execute thine imployments and when they haue taken a long painefull and chargeable iourney to know thy further pleasure in their doubts and distresses in that behalfe doest thou cause them to be imprisoned Doest thou punish them before thou know any cause Doest thou condemne them nay banish them before thou doest heare them speake they truly haue deserued no lesse because they haue taken part with thee against their naturall soueraigne Yet is it a shame of all shames for thee to haue dealt so cruelly with them They may see if they haue but one eye left that thou art neither Saint Peter nor Christs lawfull vicar Thirdly they were more strictly imprisoned at Rome then the Iesuites are this day in England though knowen professed enemies to the crowne For first Parsons was the chiefe Iaylour Secondly the priests were put in â—eucrall places of the prison so as the one could not speake with the other Thirdly they could not be permitted to talke with schollers nor the schollers to talke with them This is a good president â—ew to deale with tayâ—orous Iesuites when they shall hereafter be apprehended in this land Fourthly the notarie that penned the examination was a Iesuite so as Parsons had his desire in euerie respect These things put together with the former the last clause of the Cardinals letter of Parsons his hasting to Ferrara will be euident Fourthly Parsons fearing that the Pope would make some subordination in England laboured by all meanes possible that Blackwell might be the Arch-priest I proue this euidently For first the Pope willed that information should be procured out of England who were the fittest men for gouernment And yet Parsons confesseth that the opposite seculars were not acquainted therewith Albeit they were the fittest men as I shall proue demonstratiuely if any Iesuite will prouoke me thereunto Secondly the Protector demaunded the opinions of
the principall English in Rome And I pray you who were these Parsons himselfe forsooth and his brother Iesuite Baldwin lately come for that intent out of England Haddocke also Martin Array and Allen all Iesuited vassals and at his commaund Thirdly diuers other principall men wrote out of Spayne to signifie the sufficiencie of Blackwel for his Arch-presbiteran office and that he should be the gouernour This doth Parsons or his flattering vassals at his designement set downe in expresse termes in their Apologie Now I beseech the gentle reader who is so blind as cannot see this malitious treacherie Parsons seeketh by hooke and by crooke to hide his false dealing and yet doth he vnwittingly bewray his owne villanie Men forsooth in Spayne must please Parsons for their owne gaine and they must write to the Protector at Rome that Blackwell whose sufficiencie they know not is a most sufficient man Hee and none but he must gouerne all the priests in England Will ye know the reason this Blackwell is Iesuited if not a close and secret Iesuite and consequently he being the gouernour Parsons may rule at his pleasure and banish all that will not subscribe to his treasons For not onely the prests but the Cardinall also yea the Pope himselfe must conclude and agrée to the Iesuites their designements Who so will read the instructions which the Arch-priest is inioyned to follow can not possibly but be of my opinion CHAP. IIII Of the fashoods leasings and vntruthes conteyned in the Iesuiticall Apologie published to the world Paragraph I. Concerning Boromoeo the late Cardinall of Millan ANd as for that which our discontented brethren do cite in diuers places of their bookes of Cardinall Boromaeo of holy memorie that he tooke the gouernement of one of his seminaries in Millan from the fathers we haue informed our selues of the trueth that the fathers of their owne will and vpon their owne earnest suite left the said gouernment of the great labour and trouble thereof as also some little difference in opinion about the schollers education which the good Cardinall would haue had somewhat more bare in their diet and apparrel then the fathers order in their seminaries did permit For which the holy Cardinall alledged no euill reason saying that seeing they were to be sent afterwards abroad to poore benefices among countrey people where they must faire hardly they would refuse to goe beeing brought vppe after the diet of other seminaries But the fathers thought it easier for them to leaue this gouerment then to admit this difference and so they left it And the good Cardinall did vse all the meanes possibly he could both there in Rome to stay it in their hands These are the expresse words of Parsons his Iesuited vassals or rather of Parsons himselfe in the said Aplogie By these words two things are cleare The one that the Iesuites had once the gouernment of one of the seminaries in Millan vnder the iurisdiction of the Cardinall Boromaeo the other that the said Cardinall was a good man and of holy memorie Now the controuersie is this whether the good Cardinall disliked of their gouernment and therefore displaced them or that the Iesuites were wearie of the place and therefore did voluntarily leaue it The seculars say that the Cardinall◠〈◊〉 them the Iesuites denie it But why would the Iesuites giue ouer that gouernment which they had once taken vpon them because forsooth the good Cardinall would haue had the schollers to bee brought vp more barely in their diet and apparrell Thus they say but the contrarie is the truth For first eyther the Cardinals allowance was sufficient or not sufficient If it were not sufficient then was he not so good a man nor of so holy memorie as the priests do affirme If it were sufficient then was that excessiue and consequently vitious which the Iesuites did require then was their gouernment iustly disliked then did they shew themselues to be a prude and arrogant kinde of people that would not condescend to the Cardinall in his most lawfull demaund Secondly Doctor Lewis the late bishop of Cassana a man of great credit and renowne and who had great familiaritie with the said Cardinall did often affirme to his friends that the Cardinall could not endure them nor like of their gouernment Master Hugh Griffeth master Morgâ—n and master Meredith all priests this day liuing can and will testifie this to be so Thirdly my selfe admiring that the Iesuites kept not that place which sometime they had in Millar enquired diligently what should be the cause for that I thought well of the Iesuites at that time indeed And one of their owne order being then a Prefect in the English Colledge to say nothing of the common report of others confessed fréely that the Cardinall could not brooke well their fathers but he would not in any case shew the cause thereof This to be true I protest before God and his holy Angels Fourthly they alledge a reason which they would haue to be the Cardinals but both it is from themselues and doth consute themselues The reason is this viz. because they were to be sent afterward abroad to poore benefices where they must fare hardly But this reason is their owne and neuer framed by the Cardinall and it is confuted many waies For first they grant marke their words alreadie cited that the cardinals reason was good and consequently that the Iesuites were bad and without all reason when they refused to yeeld vnto reason Secondly where shall those benefices be found and in what country which are not sufficient to fill the priests belly No where doubtles for the mainteynance of Popish priests is too great euery where Yea by the setled law of poperie would God it were so in our english ministery euery priest at the houre of his consecration hath some title for his sufficient maintenance to say nothing of the huge commodities that doe dayly insue vpon his priestly function And for this cause the papists that now come into England where they haue no titles are created ad titulum sanctissimi and so may iustly chalenge necessary maintenance of the Pope howsoeuer he hath imprisoned the messengers but bestowed no viaticum on them at all neither great nor small Fiftly it followeth of the Iesuites their owne procéedinge that they are vnfit men for gouernance For it is against all reason to allow larger commons and more liberall diet to those that must be sent where no certaine maintenance is so be had and more bare and sparing diet to such as must haue well setled liuings And yet doth the case thus stand by Iesuiticall precéedings in the seminaries For they grant as you see that the Cardinals reason was good but it is their owne indeed in regard of the poore benefices which are farre larger and better a wiseman would thinke then the vncertaine and accidentiall maintenance of the Seminaries in this lande But this happely
must end vpon the ninth day of October at which time Parsons wrote his letter and so perforce he is farre short of his halfe yeare and consequently a lyar Thirdly that when Parsons saith from May to Nouember is more then halfe a yeare in which time no letter was come from them he both contradicteth himselfe and is an impudent lyar I proue it because euerie child knoweth that betweene may and Nouember intercéedeth the moneth of October and yet as Parsons confesseth liberally he wrote his letter to master Bishop the ninth of that moneth and the same weeke receiued a stale letter firm the same Bishop So then it is true that Parsons receiued a letter from master Bishop in the moneth of October and consequently it is false that he receiued no letter from May to nouember Fourthly that the word now in Parsons his letter doth connotate the time present that is the time of the date of his letter to wit the ninth of October at which time as he saith in one place he had receiued no letter but as he saith in another place he had that weeke receiued a stale letter Ergo Parsons is a stale lyar This lye is confirmed in perpetuam res memoriam by the word yet for when he saith no one letter appearing from you yet he doth flatly contradict himselfe when he saith by a stale letter which I receiued this weeke from you Fiftly that when Parsons saith the reports of the hard and iniurious dealing vsed to the messengers in Rome is contrarie to all truth the falshood proceedeth from his lying lips as I haue alreadie proued Sixtly that master Bishop I know the man right well is of better credit then twentie Iesuited Standishes 70. Iesuited Haddockes 100. Iesuited Personians Sect. III. Of the Secular priests and their writings PArsons in the preface of his Apologie telleth vs that these bookes must needes be presumed to haue beene published eyther by some one or few discomposed passionate people or by some heretike or other enemie to dishonour them all and to discredit their cause and nation and so as to such he will answere and not against his brethren whom he loueth most intirely but in many other places he singeth an other song For page 63. he affirmeth it to be probable by many euident arguments that a long and slanderous narration was written by the proper pen of the chiefe authors of all these broyles Againe page 8. he confesseth that two priests whom he termeth the ambassadours of the secular priests came to Rome about the controuersie Againe page 9. he confesseth that in Nouember last 1600. diuers of the discontented made a generall appeale from the Archpriests iurisdictien Againe page 24. he saith that his brethren doe vse so fonde a calumniation against the Iesuites as no man can but wonder thereat Againe page 105. he termeth the authors of the bookes his discontented brethren To be briefe in maine other places he confesseth that master Bishoppe master Charnocke master Mush master Bagshaw master Champney master Collington master Warson and others haue written against the Iesuites so as contradictions may be deemed a thing verie common with our graue and holy Iesuite Robert Parsons who knew right well that the declaration sent to his holinesse was subscribed with the hands of thirtie priests whose names I would here put downe but that I studie to tbe briefe Sect. IIII. Of the elegant Epithetons ascribed to the Iesuite Parsons by Iohn Collington the Secular priest in his booke of Defence IOhn Collington hath lately published a large volume in defence of the seculars for their appeale to the Pope against tyrannizing Blackwel which book came lately to my hand but doth so euidently conuince the Arch-priest and the Iesuites specially that notorious traytor Robert Parsons as I cannot omit to make briefe recitall of some parts therof for the common peace of this our natiue countrey In the page 30. He hath these words whose busie head he speaketh of Parsons actions haue béene the cause and increase of much trouble and persecution in our Church and Realme And who being a member of an other bodie and professing also a mortified state and to haue relinquished the world seeketh neuerthelesse to be our great master and to rule all or to tyrannize rather Againe pag. 31. He saith they haue most pregnant grounds to proue that Parsons was the inditer of the Cardinals letter constitutiue for the archpriests iurisdiction Againe page 296. He affirmeth that Parsons writeth no booke discourse nor scarse any letter of these stirres wherein he doth not recount some good act of his owne Againe page 297. he telleth vs that Parsons by managing of the Colledge hath gotten such store of money as he spendeth fiue or sixe crownes a weeke in postage for letters onely Againe page 253. hee affirmeth boldly that Parsons appointed the Arch-priest Againe page 255. he termeth Parsons the Arch-deuiser in getting the Cardinals hand subscription and seale Againe page 206. hee chargeth Parsons with many vntruthes and to haue as little synceritie in his actions as truth in his writings Againe page 256. he hath these words it would make to the praâ—se of father Parsons if religion were lesse worldlisted in him and state matter and the designing of kingdomes had not so great a part in his studies Againe page 170. he hath these words we assure our selâ—es father Parsons that your restlesse spirit and pen your enterprising and busie actions haue turned heretofore our Catholike professants to infinit preiudice for to no knowne cause can we impute so much the making of the seuere lawes of our countrey as to your edging attempts and vocations Againe page 240. hee telleth vs plainely that Parsons hath proferred and reprofered the Crowne of England to seuerall princes now to one now to another as opportunities best serued to entertaine the personage with the hope thereof And to omit many testimonies because I would not be tedious I will heere recount one for all which master Colleton setteth downe in these words Neyther is father Parsons holden onely of our magistrate for a statist or marchandizer of the Crowne Diademe though this were enough to estrange vs from hauing any partaking in ought with him but his trauels and negotiations this way are become so notoriously knowne that euen Pasquine in Rome as intelligence is sent vs speaketh in this manner of him if there be any man that will buy the Kingdome of England let him repayre to a marchant in a blacke square cappe in the Citie and hee shall haue a verie good penny worth thereof Thus writeth Colleton of Parsons who both are deuoted to the Pope alike Sect. V. Of Parsons his birth and expulsion out of Balioll Colledge in Oxford THat Robert Parsons the Iesuite and marchandizer of the Crowne of England as in the former Section is a bastard and a man of bad demeanour the fift chapter of the second booke
sheweth copiously But because Parsons in his Apologie laboureth to purge himselfe thereof I haue thought it good to speake a little to that effect in this place Watson the secular priest hath these words we may not imagine that father Parsons was ignorant of his owne base estate as being a sacrilegious bastard in the worst sense sâ—il à spurius begotten by the parson of the parish where he was borne vpon the bodie of a verie base queane This then being so and he not so senselesse as to thinke but that he will find the Canon law more strict in dispensation with him for his irregularitie then the ciuill or common law will be for dispensation to inherit there is no question to be made of it but that some close statute and prouiso was closely made and couertly foysted into the high councel of reformation for enabling some bastards in the spitefullest sense to be capable of any honour or dignitie eyther in the Church or commonwealth And true it is that this good father Parsons alias Cowbucke filius populi filius peccati or the very fiend himselfe might be chosen to a kingdome by his doctrine if any people would be so madde as to chuse him for their king Thus doth our Quodlibetst write The same Watson in an other place writeth of the same Parsons in this manner O monster of mankind fitter for hell then middle earth If thy profession will not draw thee to consideration of the premisses yet shew some signes of charitie in sparkes of grace if it were but onely in pollicie to moue thee to forbeare thy barbarous crueltie because therby thou giuest occasion for diuers to think thou art not a méere man but some fairies brat or begotten by an Incubus or airish spirit vpon the bodie of a base woman thus doth priest Watson write you haue his owne words Againe in an other place he hath these words diuers of father Parsons bookes letters and treatises we haue and doe from our verie hearts vtterly condemne them as containing many seditious and traytorous points and being very full of slaunderous speaches and impudent caluminiations Andreas Philopater being the fruites of father Parsons and father Creswell we hold to be fraught till it almost burst againe as some of my brethren els where haue noted with all Iesuiticall pride and poyson and as touching the exthortation printed 1588. It is so detestable a treatise as all posteritie cannot choose but condemne father Parsons for a most scurrilous traytor if he had been brought vp amongst all the ruffians and curtizans in christendome he could not haue learned to haue writ more vilely prophainely and heathenishly Moreouer the said father Parsons and his fellow father Creswell doe glorie in the said booke that they haue caused not onely it but also Maister Saunders treatise de schismate to be translated into the spanish tongue and doe reioyce that thereby the Spaniards are brought already into a greater detestation of her Maiestie her gouernment and proceedings then they had before Thus writeth Maister Watson and in an other place he telleth vs plainely that he was a lewde boy in his youth that during his aboade at Oxford his conuersation was seditious wanton and factious and that for his libelling and other misdemeanour he was thrust out of Balyoll colledge Againe in an other place he hath these words I meane the great Emperour illegitimate irregular abstract quintessence of all coynes coggeries and forgeries Parsons the bastarde of Stockgersey beyond Cosinage in Somersethire This is that famous conqueror who hath bathed all England by his seditious libels in priests bloud This is that worthy excellent that lies dissembles and equiuocates at euerie word This is that learned counseller that must rule ruffe and range through euery state This is that same Parsons whome Pope Prince and peere with all true English hearts haue cause to hate This is he of whome Maister Blackewell now his darling said that his turbulent head and lewd life would be a discredite to the catholicke cause and in few the generall conceite of all that haue throughly conuersed with him is this that he is of a furious passionate hote cholericke exorbitant working humour busie headed and full of ambition enuy pride rancour malice and reueng Cursed bee the houre wherein he had the name of a Priest nay of an irreligious parson nay of a temporall lay-man Iesuite nay of a catholike nay of a christian nay of a humane creature but of a beast or a deuill a violater of all lawes a contemner of all authoritie a staine of humanitie and impostume of all corruption a corrupter of all honestie and a monopole of all mischiefe These are the words of William Watson the popish secular priest quodl 8. art 5. page 236. See the fift chapter of the second booke in the first second and third sections By these sections especiallie the fourth and fift euery man may easily see that the Iesuite Parsons is not onely acommon impudent lyar but also a most bloodie and scurrilous traytor the monopole of all mischiefe and the wickedst man vpon the face of the earth The reports recounted of this Iesuite cannot but seeme strange if not incredible to all that shall pervse the same I know it is sinne to lie on the deuill and therefore I will not affirme any lye of this Iesuite nor of any other man That which I haue written of him is most true and sincere in such sort as I haue put in downe I name my authors and their words the tale and the tale-teller the assertions and the places where they are to bee reade I graunt willingly and will it not denie that I haue set downe in this discourse many sharpe obseruations annotations correlaries illations but all are deduced by necessary and euident consequutioÌ„s out of those premises and antecedent propositions which the secular priests and Iesuites haue published in printed bookes to yâ— view of the whole worlde In regard whereof neither my selfe nor any others guided by the prescript of right reason can but giue credit to the same For first the authors thereof are many and the same of iudgement and learning and yet doe they charg the Iesuits with murdering of Kings Secondly they professe euen to death the selfe same religion with the Iesuites Thirdly they all yeeld themselues in all thinges to the censure of the pope at whole tribunall the Iesuite must needes preuaile if his case and cause bée good Fourthly they are subiect to such satisfaction if their accusations should be false as publique pennance must néedes be inioyned them and that worthily so as they shall neuer be permitted to exequute priestly function while there liues shall endure Fiftly they know that if such haynous accusations powred out against their fellow-priests especially against their religious fathers were false and vttred of malice they should thereby heape Gods heauy wrath and vengeance vpon themselues Sixtly they