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A15032	The censure of a loyall subiect upon certaine noted speach & behauiours of those fourteen notable traitors, at the place of their executions, the xx. and xxi. of September, last past. As also, of the Scottish queen, now (thanks be to God) cut off by iustice, as the principal roote of al their treasons. On Wednesday the 8. of Februarie 1586. Wherein is handled matter of necessarie instruction and comfort for al duetiful subiectes: especially, the multitude of ignoraunt people. Feare God: be true to thy Prince: and obey the lawes.	Whetstone, George, 1544?-1587?; Churchyard, Thomas, 1520?-1604, attributed name.; T. C., fl. 1587.	1587 (1587)	STC 25334A; ESTC S113962	29,620	55

they make religion their ground of rebellion and with this holly showe strengthen themselues but when Iustice hath deliuered them to the Hangman death sommōneth their wickednes before their consciences and then the feare of Hell maketh thē openly to confesse the matter to be dānable which they took to be a holly ground of rebelliō West I am well satisfied now good neighbour forward with the rest Wilk Next vnto Babington Sauadge was made ready for the execution west This notable traitor as y e same goeth was y ● mā y t cōferred w t D. Gifford at Paris by the cōfirmatiō of y ● english fugitiues at Rhemes was resolued to kil y ● Queenes Maiestie whose defence the God of hoastes euermore be It is likewise said that vpon the apprehension of Ballard the priest Babington hastened this Sauadge to dispatch his resolution and that he only deferred the matter but for making of a court like sute of apparell Walk God by sundrie examples preserueth the innocent from the violent handes of the wicked euen in the pride and greatest hope of their purposes Hāmon erected a Gallowes for Mardocheus the Iewe and he and his tenne sonnes suffered therupon the false Iudges had got sentence of death against chaste Susanna but by deuine prouidēce the stones dashed out their owne braines but where the practize tendeth to the murder of annointed Princes the odiousnesse of the matter so highly offendeth the Maiestie of God as he miraculously hath defended notable Tyrants from the murthering swordes of traitors Comodus was a wicked Emperor and to kill him the traitor Quintianus waighted at the entring of the Amphiatre his daggar was redy drawne his heart was resolute and his hande was striking the stroke the Traitor cried This the Senate sendeth thee by which fore-warning Quintianus was staied and the Emperor escaped vnhurte The day before Scevinius determined to kill the Archtyrant Nero he put an olde rustie Daggar to grinding he made his testament he franchised his bonde men and got rowlets in a readines to wrappe woundes in by which tokens Milcheu his seruante gathered he wente about some waightie purpose and so accused him to the Emperor Sceuinnius straightwaies confessed that his entent was to haue slaine the Emperor If God plucketh wit and prudence from Traitors that purposed to kill such notable Tyrantes it is constantlye to be beleeued that with the shield of his strength he wil defend righteous princes among whom our most gratious Elizabeth is crowned with the soueraigne renown of vertue in which dignitie the king of kings long continue her Maiestie The murther of a prince is so odious as nature crieth out against it King Craessus had a yong sonne that from his birth was mute and yet when one of king Cyrus Souldiors taking him for a cōmon person was redy to kil him the infant cried out O kill him not for he is the king my father A●iben Ragel in his Iudicials reporteth a stranger matter of a kinges sonne of his Countrey that brake foorth of his mothers intrals to giue his father warning of his enemies presentlie after his birth cried out I am born in an vnfortunate hower to be the messenger of no better tidings then that my father the king is in present danger to loose both his life and Kingdome Which notice signified the infante presently died we hereby perceiue howe the person of an anointed Prince is so sacred as nature maketh a passage for suckling babes and domb personnes to deliuer the same from danger and withall the traito● is ●o open to destruction as the preacher faith to the traitor a birde of the aire shall bewray t●y vo●ce and with her feathers she shall bewray thy wordes Dathan Corath and Abiran they and all that they had went down quicke into hell because of their rebelliō which is a great witnes of the saying of S. Paule who forbiddeth to resist against the Magistrate For he that resisteth receiueth vnto himselfe damnation And certainely whosoeuer marketh the sequel of treason shall find an hundreth examples to one to proueth end of Traitors to be miserable West Upon Gods prouidence in●rustrating the mischieuous purpose of Sauadge the Traitor M. VValker you haue deliuered matter of necessarie instruction for all subiects especially the common multitude to learne whoe are manye times tempted to rebellion with allurementes of godly and honest apparance when it plainely appeareth that there is no warrāt yea that destruction followeth to rebell against tiranous Princes Walk The serpēt inticed Eue and Eue Adam to disobey Gods commaundement in eating the forbidden fruite with this subtill perswasion If you eat of this fruit you shal not dy the death but your eies shall be open and ye shall be as Gods knowing both good euill euen so with subtill perswasions are the simple multitude euer more drawne vnto rebellion When the noble king Henrie the eight banished the Popes imperiall authority out of England the Popes instrumēt Cardinal Poole thought ciuil cōmotiō to be the rediest way to bring y ● same in againe and to bring his purpose to the better effect he perswaded the Northrē men that no man shold eat any dainty meat in his house neither should any one be married but he should pay a tribute for the same vnto the king In king Edward the sixt his daies ther was almost a general rebellion throughout England the papists tempted the commons to rebellion with perswasions to throw down inclosure and for them selues foysted in to haue their olde religion and acte of six articles restored the banishment of straungers hath bene the cause of many cōmotions but my counsail is that my louing brethren the subiects of england opē not their eares to such pleasing perswasiōs lest rebellion enter into their harts and so vengance light vpon their whole bodies vpon the holliest ground of rebellion destructiō of traitors haue euermore growen The Northren men had but a bad proofe of two rebellions when they had the crosse and banner of fiue wounds borne before them God placeth kinges in their kingdomes and he alone wil haue the dissoluing of them If Princes be good let vs be thankfull to God for them if they be tirannous let vs looke into our sinnes for God sendeth Tyrants to punish the sinnes of the wicked whoe saith I will doe vengeance on my enemies by my enemies God saith Iob maketh the H●pocrite to raigne for the sinnes of the people In Osea God speaketh thus I will giue thee a Kinge in my surye And in Esaye Assur is the rod and staffe of my furie Be Princes good or bad let subiects be obedient least for their disobedience God take away the good and double the tyranny of the bad West I would this sound counsell were grafted in all mens hearts then no doubt the rotten branches of rebellion woulde soone be cut off now good neighbour on with

Baiazet the nienth c. but innumerable that haue ben destroyed by the treason of their seruants West I hope these odious attempts wil discouer them and for that they are crept into seruices of accompt by subtilty it shal be the part of euery good subiect to certify their Lords who are perhaps vnacquainted with their religion of such dangerous seruants Wilk The last of these seauen that suffered was Abingtō his father was an officer of good credite in her maiesties house and for many aduauncements was bound to say God saue good Queene Elizabeth but his sonne was a notable Papist an Archtraitor and at his death did all that in him lay to settle a feare in the heartes of the ignorant multitude with a speach that ther could not choose but be a great effution of blood in England very shortly VValk Gods prouidence maketh it apparāt that y ● prophises of traitors proue not euermore scripture Throgmorton the traitor said before one yeare were expired the prosperitie peace of England should be tourned into general callamitie but the date thereof is out and I hope the destiny past No doubt he knewe of a number of mallitious enemies vnto the state and with the spirite of their wickednesse he blundered foorth his prognostication but let all good subiects to their comfort and Traitors to their confusion knowe that the wicked diggeth a pit and falleth therein himselfe and who treadeth down the hedge a serpēt shal bite him ther is no wisedome there is no vnderstāding there is no counsell against the Lord The horse is prepared the day of battaile but the Lord giueth the victory The Iewes had S. Paule in prison yea fortie of thē vowed that they wold nether eat nor drink vntil they had flaine him but God according to the Psalmist in a due time defended him yea in that distresse he came and stode by Paule thus comforted him Be of good cheare Paule for as thou hast testified of mee at Ierusalem so muste thou beare witnesse also at Rome The Angell of the Lorde led Peter foorth of prison the Angell of the Lorde defended Sidrack Mi●aack and Abednago in the burning fire the Angell of the Lorde stopped the Lions mouthes that shoulde haue deuoured Daniell the Angell of the Lorde with a drawne sword tould Io●ua that he was the chiefe of the Lordes hande A comfortable saying and a true experiment that this holie Angell of the Lord with a drawne sworde although not visibly seen stādeth between the godly their enemies and then though the wicked come armed with horses chariots an hoast of men they shal be ouercome with their subtil deuices their twords shall go through their own harts The lord wil haue the p●ide of y ● vncleane Pope abased al the world striue in vain to set him vp again if his friends look into his disgraces since victorious King Henrye the eight first vnmasked his abhominatiō they shal finde no cōfort to take his part he was thē in his strēgth the greatest princes of christēdome his friend yea for the Popes cause they were K. Henries greatest enemies the Pope sent Cardinal Poole ambassadors to moue the French K against the K. of England the French made many braggs but bit little the mighty Emperor Charles the 5. prepared a great Nauie at the Popes request to trouble the peace of england the fauoring of whose inuasion cost the Marques of Exe●ers head but this attempt prospered not but which had likelihood to do more hurt then all the boast of forrain power by the practize of Cardinal Poole 20000 rebels in Lincolne shire for religiōs sake had put themselus in armes but when they vnderstood of the K. power cōming against thē they cried for pardon least their chieftaine D. Mackerel monk called captain cobler to the censure of iustice In february following the Pope by his instrument cōpassed a meer cōmotion in Yorkshire of 40000. rebels but by the prouidēce of God the night before the armies should ioine they were seuered by a mighty fal of water in somuch as vpon a part by the captaines of both sides the rebels were appeased departed w tout blodshed in the 3. yere of K. Eward the 6. the Pope to set vp his authority in Eng. by his seditious instruments moued generall rebellions through Eng. but they were ended w t the destruction of the kings rebellious subiects Q Marie though vnsound in religion had the better hand against her rebels whom no doubt God therin fauoured for her godly father K. Henry the 8. as he did the Idolater Abdias for his greate grandfather Dauids sake But the manifold disgraces which our soueraign lady Q. Elizabeth hath giuen vnto this bloody pope out of whose tirany euē frō her very cradle the Angel of y e lord hath miraculously deliuered her maiesty open the incomparable strength of Gods prouidence and offer cause of admiration to the whole worlde when for our sinnes Queen Mary committed both the word and fworde to the hipocrisie and tyranny of the Cleargie good lady her life was assayled with a thousand publique and priuate practises but the Angel of the Lord stil stode between her and her harmes and from the fetters of aduersitie loosed and crowned her Maiestie with the supreame dignitie of this Realme and as a prognosticatiō of his ruine by her renown the yeare that God placed her royall throne he displaced these christian Princes the Popes great friendes The Emperor Charles the sift the Queene of Hungarie Queene Mary of England two kings of Dēmarke Bona Sferza Queen of Polonia Henrie the third the French king Ierolme Pruoli Duke of Vennice Hercules Daeste Duke of Ferrara and Paule the fourth Pope of Rome that these setled friēds of the Pope being remooued other princes better affected or at lest not so hurtful to the passage of the gospel might occupy their places the Pope and all his fauorers while their strength yet lasted shot to depriue her maiestie of her crowne and dignitie God so strengthned her maiestie as by her power the French were dishonorably driuen out of Scotland and by her wisedome both Realmes were deliuered from forraine bondage yea the King of Scottes is bound to confesse that from God and her Maiesties goodnesse he and his posterity possesse a kingdome this peaceable victorie against the french discomforted the Pope a few yeares in fine Pius Quintus set D. Morton an english fugitiue a worke to raise a commotion in the north parts the Earle of Northumberland the Earl of Westmerland and others entred into open rebellilion the very sound of her Maiesties power dismaed them and happy was he that could run fastest away the principals fled but escaped not the iustice due vnto traitors the Earle of Northūberland was soone broughte vnder the censure of her maiesties lawes and according to his deserte was beheaded at

your matter VVilk When Sauadge was executed Barnwell was made readie to die VVest And what of him Wilk He died an obstinate Papist and for his treason he made conscience his best excuse VValk He had had but a rotten conscience that was infected with the murther of a vertuous Queene and since his conscience was so bad I hope but a fewe that heard him but forbad their conscience to pitty him other then charitably to be sorrowful for his error which was damnable Wilk After Barnewel Tichburnes turne was next he was a goodly yong Gentleman and certainly his humilitie and moue moued much compassion he was not setled so much in papistrie as the other but he was so much setled to the proud humor of Babington as his head could no longer settle vpō his shoulders In his mone which I very well marked he compared his state to Adam who said hee was placed in Paradice and ther inioyed all the pleasures of the earth he was onely forbidden to eate of the fruite of one tree but for his trasgression he not onely procured wretchednesse and miserie vpō his owne heade but vpon the heades of all his posteritie So ꝙ he I that wanted nothing but had helth welth and friends and so might long haue liued if I could haue forborn to haue bin vntrue to my prince But alas for my offēce I haue brought my self vnto this miserie by which my good mother my louing wife my four brethren and six sisters yea our whole house neuer before attainted is infamed and our posterity for euer like to be vndone Walk His lack of grace is to be lamented and by his ouerthrowe al men are warned to make choice of good company for the olde prouerbe is beri●ied Euill companie corrupt good manners And truly the iniurie that he hath done vnto his wife his mother and to so many brethren and sistirs and to conclude to his whole posterity is a fearefull example to feare men from treason especially the Nobility and better sort of Gentlemen for they thereby not only lose their life liuing but the honor of their house is corrupted neither seemeth it an iniury against reason that in punishment of treason a number beare the burthen and blot of one mans fault when for the vertue and dutifull seruice of one man a nūber in his posterity receaue both honour and many other temporall blessings further in his confession or comparing his offence to Adams ●t concluded he likened her Maiestie to the pleasaunt and glorious fruite so pretions in Gods eies as he forbad Adam and all other to lay violent handes vpon thus by the mouth of her enemies God causeth her sacred excellencie to be blazed West You put me in remembraunce of a tale that a Gentleman a trau●lor once told me who being at Rome when Pope Gregorie ther liued and finding at the English Colledge ouer the armes of England a Phenix drawn which the Pope did appropiate vnto himselfe the Gentlemā dutifully reuerensing her maiestie as his soueraigne and Phenix of the worlde in scorne of the Pope wrote these verses And reason good the Lion should the Phoenix stand belowe For though the leaues bewray the tree the fruit the goodnesse showe Applying in secreat zeale the construction therto of this sēce The armes of England to leaues as but the generall badge of her kingdome and the Phenix he did propriat to the vertues of her maiestie as her excellent beautie and glorie of the world And of the contrary parte the matter was wel takē I know not by what mistaking Walk It is like enough that the meaning was perceiued for the pollicie of the Pope and his fauourers is to turne all to their honours that in the market place blazeth not their dishonor as for example A pleasant Frier being appointed to preach before the Pope and his Cardinals who marking with what maiestie and pompe they entred into S. Peters church as one rauished w t their brightnes he scoffingly cried out ●y of S. Peter fy of S. Paule sy fy vpon their beggerlye Apostels what reckoning is to bee made of their religion whē the honor therof cōsited in casting forth of deuils clensing of Lepors raising the dead in making the blinde to see the deaf to hear y ● domb to speak the lame to go the good they did was to beggers their liuing was as beggerly bareleg barefoot they wādred from country to cuntry their raiment was simple their diet thin their deaths violēt But honor reuerence be to the Popes holines the glory of his religion is visibly seene he is able to make kings to dispose kindomes his raimēt is of golde his victuals the plētie of the earth he dwelleth dieth in pallaces is buried like a God c. This sermon was so wel liked as the Frier was inuited to dine with the Pope who to relish his good sermon excused himselfe by y ● weaknes of his braine y t could endure no strong sauor when his meaning was de●aunded hee aunswered since Emperors kinges kissed his holines feet he thought his lot would be but to kisse the homeliest part of his holines al which was wel taken yet perceiued to be vnhapelie mēt For if y e Pope shold reuenge euery dry bloe he his Cardinals would soone set Rome in an vprore but if you make no publique professiō of y ● gospel for al other offēces Rome wil beate w t you for a few peterpēce y e pope wil pardō you West God blesse me from such pardons that bring many men to the gallowes Wil. Tilney one of y ● Q maiesties pensioners next vnto Tichburne made worke for the Hangman VVest By statute lawe it is pettie treason for a seruāt to murther his maister or maistris being but a subiect how detestable a treasō is it then for a sworne seruant to lay violent handes on his annointed Prince The offence being in the extreamest degree of sinnes the punishment ought to be according to the seuerest censure of Iustice. Walk Euery mans houshold wel gouerned resembleth a common wealth wherein seruāts ought to liue in the awe and subiection of Subiects and among the Romans there was an ancient lawe that aucthorised the maister to punish the offences of their seruants with death but the wicked pollicy of men hath alwaies bin such as where open power was to weak ambition enuie and money allured the familliar seruants and meaner persons to Emperours Kings men of al estates to lay violent hands of their maisters and to betraye them to death Iudas one of the Apostels betraied our sauiour Iesus into the handes of the Iewes King Alexander was poisoned by his phisition Thessalus the death of the Emperor Commodus was compassed by the practize of his sister Lucilla Many haue had their banes by their wiues as King Candaulus some by their sonnes as the greate Turke

Yorke the Earle of Westmerland euer after for a bare allowance was subiect to the proud controlement of euery raskal Spaniard Felton to drawe her Maiesties subiects from dutiful obedience set vppe the Popes Bul vpon the Bishop of Londons gates but God be praised the hornes that shold haue gored the innocent turned into a halter to hang maister Felton the Pope expected no good successe by open force and therefore he now armed his practises with Machiuels pollices Madder and Barlowe were made instruments to murther some principal Maiestrates but their confusion was speedy their purpose frustrate This wily Pope with an ambicious humour then infected the principal Pear and most popular subiecte of England his treason was so dangerous as the person of the Queens maiesty and the peace of England could not be in safetie vntill the Duke was set lower by the head in whose confusion by Gods prouidence the peace of England was no waye troubled the conspiracie of Throgmorton Apleyard Brooke and others had no better successe then in helping some of those wicked members to the gallowes The Pope his instruments seeing the pollicie of man preuailed not against the Lords annointed they set the deuill a worke to destroy her sacred maiestie The notable traitor Doctor Storie whom God woulde haue cutte off by the censure of her Maiesties lawes confessed that certaine persons of whome there is yet that liueth by vertue of her princely word mercy vndertooke to destroy her excellency by Nigromancie but the deuil had no power where the Angel of the Lord was the shielde of his annointed by the solliciting of the Athiest Stukeley the pope tooke hart of grace by open force to alter the godly gouernment of England and for his better strength Stukeley thought to haue compassed the K. of Portingals armie after an ende of his battail with Mulei Maluco King of Feze and Marocoes but Gods prouidence turned his hope to an idle fancy for in that battail the K. of Portingale was slaine his army was discomforted and Stukeley was cut off from disturbing of the peace of England But yet of keepe the Popes purpose a foote Iames fitz Morrice an Irish Traitor tooke vpon him to be the Popes captaine a man both for courage iudgemente and experience better armed to doe mischiefe then Stukeley and to make passage for forraigne power he conuayed himselfe into Ireland where he soone allured the Earle of Deasmonde sir Iohn his brother and others vnto rebellion but such was Gods iustice when the Traitor Fitzmorrice least thought to be surprised hee was casuallie slaine before he saw any successe of his treason D. Saunders supplied his place and after him followed the Italian and Spanish forces it was Gods good pleasure to giue her maiesty sohonorable a victory as not one man escaped to carrie newes saue a very few that were spared toreporte the mercie and power of her Maiestie Doctor Saunders wandred vp and down in the Mountaines like a rogue and died of frensie the Earle of Deasmonde was driuen to liue like a begger in the Mountaines and to finish his miserable life after his accustomed and sauage maner had by an Irish man his head strokē off in his Caben sir Iohn his brother like a Wolfe in the wooddes wandring to seeke some pray was taken and headed after his owne vsage when the practize of the Pope concerning open rebellion was thus rent in peeces necessitie droue him by his vagrant Iesuits in euery corner to sound sedicious Schimeons proclamation which was to entertain murtheres theeues A thiests all maner of discontented persons into the seruice of the pope to the intēt that they should murther the Q. maiestie and alter the state of this gouernmēt both in matters of religion pollicy these Iesuits in disguised habits some like ruffiās some like seruingmē y e most like courtiers transformed themselues at pleasure like vnto Protew and made their night walks like owles not w tstāding Gods prouidēce hath deliuered their Champion Campion and diuers others of thē into the hands of Iustice Iustice by orderly trial after ward condemned Campion and some of the most malitious of the Iesuits to the Gallowes whereof a number of good subiectes wondred at their deformities and plainely saw that the Lord of hoasts heaped the deuices of the wicked vpō their own heads and shewed foorth the vncomely priuities of Bebilon according to promise West With your fauour sir I the lesse maruel y t these Iesuits sow their seditiōs in such disguised warlike ruffianly order and intice men to violent murther without difference of persons when their first founder Ignatius Layola was a spanish souldier who decreeped with woundes to keepe himselfe frō begging in age disguised himselfe with the habite of holinesse and with counterfeit miracles began this holy order not vnlike to the curtisanes of Rome who when the sale of their bewtie is past professe themselues Nunnes to get them a liuing by cloister brokadge in their age Walk in very trueth since the time that it pleased God to make the glorie of himselfe and the passion of his sonne Iesus to be knowne and reuerenced among the Gentiles the godly embraced religion to nourish their soules and the wicked dissembled religion to pamper their carnall bodies and when that experience discouered that the multitude were like vnto a barrel that is ready to receaue euery liquor and that with hasty running they followed euery new doctrine the ambitious Athiests straight deuised some new forme of deuinity to rob God of his glorie many men of their liues and liuelyhode but which is most to be lamented huge milliōns of their saluation in the primitiue church there were such a huge sight of heretiques as christendome resembled a mighty armie wher the souldiers vnder a number of seuerall Ensignes followed seuerall Captaines for after euery heretique followed a multitude of people The enuious Monke Sergius through enuy that his heresie in Cōstantinople was put to silence deuised the damnable secte of Mahomet and to strengthen his purpose he picked foorth Mahomet the most proud arrogant and insolent person of Arrabia to take vpō him to be a prophet by magick wroght such counterfeit miracles as to this day a great part of the world are led 〈◊〉 his error One Ismael seeing what force followed the banner of new religion deuised a religion different frō Mahomets by the strēgth of his followers grew in fine to be the great Sophie of Persia the vnnatural enemie to the great Turke The number of orders of Friers had their beginning for the most part from ambition or enuie and to this day there is a malitious hatred among them as whosoeuer wil read Erasmus dialogue called Funus shal well perceaue seing the knaueries of the old orders of the friers waxed so publique as the date of

gouernmēt of their natiue country Themistocles the good Athenian was vniustly banished Athens for succour was driuen to go to K. Artaxexces the Athenians sworn enmy Artaxerxes glad of this aduantage laboured to guide his army against Athens whē the Captain could no longer w tstand the kings importunitie● he drunke buls blood and died rather then he would reuenge the ingratitude of his country with forraigne bondage there was mortal hatred betweene two worthye Captaines Cretinus Magnetius one Hermias so y ● the whole countrey was occupied w t their discord but whē the K Mithridates assailed their countrey Cretinus Magnetius volūtarily banished him selfe that y ● ielosie of their hatred might not hinder y ● publique seruice of his valiant enemy Hermias y ● traitor that for his priuate aduancement laboreth to betray his country would if his countries danger so required be loth to follow y ● exāple of K. Codrus who vnderstāding that y ● liberty of his country stood vpō the losse of his life he presently in the habite of a slaue entred the camp of the Peloponians Dorians his enemies there quarelled vntil he was slaine to do their countrey seruice Ane●rus K Midas son Curtius voluntarily leaped into a deuouring gulf of y ● earth Caius Graccus sacrifized his own daughter y ● noble Roman Seuola aduētured alone to kil Poisinus in his camp In auciēt time mē bore this zeal toward their country y ● a nūber in de●ence thero● ran vpon violēt death If these general traitors had but experiēce to cōsider of ther own thra●dom they could not be so redy to welcome y ● forraign enemy w t one hand as they woulde bee forward to throwe him forth with al their force the Popish Cleargie who● with Cardinall Poole say Roma mihi patri● est helpte the Spaniarde into England the king of Spaine and his counsellors laboured for the Monarcal Diadem and as the time then serued they thought and it is verye like they had wrought diuers of the Nobilitie to fauour their purpose it is easie to be iudged the euill that they meant vnto their enemies when they purposed to deale thus with their friends they determined first by their help to cut short such of the nobility as they found contrary to their desire and then they meant to make their friends safe with honorable dignities abroad whereof they should take such sound possession as they should neuer see England again as whosoeuer hath seene a letter in forme of an admonition written by the godly martyr M. Iohn Bradford to the nobilittie of England may more largely perceiue Bernardin de Mendoza y ● late ambassador for Spain who trained Throgmorton a principall traitor and many others no doubt vndiscouered to make a passage for a forraigne inuasion after his forced departure out of England diuers times hath said that if he had continued stil in England he wo●d not haue left a Papists head of anye account standing vpon their shoulders meaning that before the comming of the Spanish power to leaue no man of estate or reckoning that might lawefullye looke to strike a stroke in their gouernment for the Spaniard will be Domine fac ●otum wheresoeuer he ruleth where is then the reckoning of those traitors that look for dignitie by this vnnaturall treason West You haue already red their fortunes and I praye God both by the falles and follies of these traitors that all English men may haue their harts to withstand the forraigne enemye strengthened with the protestation of Iones his tongue at the hower of his death Amen Wilk After Iones had paide the price of his treason with all possible fauour Charnock was excecuted and after him Trauis both men as it seemed bewitched with an ignorant deuotion for that in their endes there was nothing to be obserued but their praying to our Lady calling vpon Saintes ioyned with a number of ceremonies crossings blessings so that it appeared that in their prayers they were bound to a forme more then vnto faith Walk The Pope can finde out no instrument so constant for his purpose as the ignorant per●on bewi●ched with his superstitious deuotion for he resolutely followeth whatsoeuer is giuē him in charge such a one was hairbraine Somme●●ile that intended to kil her maiestie whose life as the life of Englands happines God long continue and such an other was young Iarugo that first wounded the godly Prince of Ora●ge whoe was so simple as hee perswaded himselfe that the Pope had the power and would cause him to doe the deed inuisible and therefore the Pope was wont to practise moste rebellions by the ignorant multitude who so long as they were blinded with his errors were euer constant in the execution of his pollices and certainlye although the simple ignorance error of these two traitors were to be bemoned yet the dāger of their treasons considered their executions were verye necessary both for example her maiesties safetie West You say very truly Wilk When the Hangman had giuen these two sencelesse papists his heauy blessing Gage prepared himselfe to dy he began his protestation that there was neuer a subiect more bound to a Prince then his Father was to her Maiestie and from that true acknowledgement of her maiesties gratiousnes ●ell to excuse himselfe of the odious trealons for which he died but vpon so weake a ground as the simplest indgement then present founde by the order of his own confession that he was a dangerous instrument for the Pope he confessed that he accompanied Balla●d the Seminarie Prieste into Yorkshire and that he wrote a letter for the saide Prieste to a French man or a Spaniard of accompte beyond the seas and in al the course of his confession in indifferent iudgmēts he accused him selfe to be a hollow subiect and a sound Papist West This cunning traitor Gage coulde neuer haue made a confession of more infamye vnto himselfe then in acknowledging y ● Queens most excellent fauour shewed vnto his father which a dutiful sonne ought to esteeme a benefit vnto himselfe so to dauble reproch his treasons he condemned himselfe of ingratitude which vnnatural fault Per●ander euermore sentenced w t death but in my opinion if y ● Queen were les mercifull the papists would be more faithful for truly their punishment is so mi●de as by the faith o● an honest man I heard in Rome a Popish Prieste in the presence of other ●ugitiues wish to be her maiesties p●soner in the 〈◊〉 rather then to enioy his liberty o● con●cience in R●me VVilk It is verye likely that the 〈…〉 Priest was regarded in Rome as olde dogges are with their maisters when the date of their hunting is out the sentence of their hanging is at hand for I haue heard how those marked people that holy scripture wils vs to beware of are welcome to Rome and no lesse