of such base and vulgare note as those were which of late haue bene executed as in particular some by name are well knowen and not vnfit to bee remembred The first and chiefest by office was D. Heth that was Archbishop of Yorke and lord Chaunceler of England in Queene Maries time who at the first comming of her Maiestie to y e Crowne shewing himself a faithfull quiet subiect continued in both the sayde offices though in religion then manifestly differing and yet was he not restrayned of his libertie nor depriued of his proper lands and goods but leauing willingly both his offices liued in his owne house and inioyed all his purchased lands during all his naturall life vntill by very age he departed this world and then left his house liuing to his friendes an example of gentlenes neuer matched in Queene Maries time The like did one D. Poole that had bene Bishop of Peterborough an auncient graue person and a verie quiet subiect There were also others that had bene Bishoppes and in great estimation as D. Tunstall Bishop of Duresme a person also of very quiet behauiour There were also other D. White and D. Oglethorpe one of Winchester the other of Carlile Bishops and D. Thurleby and D. Watson yet liuing one of Ely the other of Lincolne Bishops not pressed with any capitall payne though they maintayned the Popes authoritie against the lawes of the realme and some Abbots as M. Fecknam yet liuing a person also of quiet courteous behauiour for a great time Some also were Deanes as D. Boxall Deane of Windsore a person of great modestie and knowledge D. Cole Deane of Paules a person more earnest then wise D. Reinolds Deane of Exceter and many such others hauing borne office and dignities in the Church and had made profession against the Pope which they began in Queene Maries time to change yet were they neuer to this day burdened with capitall peanes nor yet depriued of any their goods or proper liueloods but onely remoued from their Ecclesiasticall offices which they would not exercise according to the Lawes And most of them for a great time were retayned in Bishops houses in very ciuill and courteous maner without charge to themselues or their friends vntill the time that the Pope began by his Buls and messages to offer trouble to the realme by stirring of rebellion about which time onely some of these aforenamed being found busier in matters of state tending to stirre troubles then was meete for the common quiet of the Realme were remooued to other more priuate places where such other wanderers as were men knowen to moue sedition might bee restrained from common resorting to them to increase trouble as the Popes Bull gaue manifest occasion and yet without charging them in their consciences or otherwise by any inquisition to bring them into dāger of any capital law so as no one was called to any capitall or bloody question vpon matters of religion but haue all inioyed their life as the course of nature woulde and such of them as yet remayne may if they will not be authors or instruments of rebellion or sedition inioye the time that GOD and nature shall yeelde them without danger of life or member And yet it is worthy to be well marked that the chiefest of all these and the most of them had in the time of King Henrie the eight and King Edward the sixt either by preaching writing reading or arguing taught all people to condemne and abhorre the authoritie of the Pope yea they had many times giuen their othes publiquely against the Popes authoritie and had also yelded to both the said Kings the title of supreame head of the Church of England next vnder Christ which title the aduersaries doe most falsly write and affirme that the Queenes Maiestie doeth nowe vse a manifest lie and vntrueth And for proofe that these foresaide Bishoppes and learned men had so long time disauowed the Popes authoritie many of their bookes sermons against the Popes authoritie remayne printed to be seene in these times to their great shame and reproofe to change so often and specially in persecuting such as themselues haue taught and stablished to holde the contrary There were also and yet be a great nomber of others being lay men of good possessions and lands men of good credite in their countries manifestly of late time seduced to hold contrary opinions in religion for the Popes authoritie and yet none of them haue bene sought hitherto to be impeached in any poynt or quarrel of treason or of losse of life member or inheritance so as it may plainely appeare that it is not nor hath bene for contrarious opinions in religion or for the Popes authoritie as the aduersaries doe boldely and falsly publish that any persons haue suffered death since her Maiesties reigne and yet some of these sort are well knowen to holde opinion that the Pope ought by authoritie of Gods worde to be supreame and only head of the Catholique Church and onely to rule in all causes Ecclesiasticall and that the Queenes Maiestie ought not to be the gouernour ouer all her subiectes in her realme being persons Ecclesiasticall which opinions are neuerthelesse in some part by the laws of the realme punishable in some degrees yet for none of these poyntes haue any persōs bene prosecuted w t the charge of treasō or in danger of life And if thē it be inquired for what cause these others haue of late suffered death it is truely to be answered as afore is often remembred that none at all are impeached for treason to the danger of their life but such as do obstinately maintaine the contents of the Popes Bull afore mentioned which do import that her Maiestie is not the lawfull Queene of England the first and highest poynt of treason that al her subiects are discharged of their othes and obedience mother high poynt of treason and all warranted to disobey her and her laws a third and a very large poynt of treason And thereto is to be added a fourth poynt most manifest in that they would not disalow the Popes hostile proceedings in open warres against her Maiestie in her realme of Ireland where one of their companie D. Sanders a lewde scholler and subiect of England a fugitiue a principall companion and conspirator with the traitors and rebels at Rome was by the Popes speciall commission a commaunder as in forme of a Legate and sometime a treasorer or paymaster for those warres which D. Sanders in his booke of his Church monarchie did afore his passing into Ireland openly by writing gloriously auowe the foresaid Bull of Pius Quintus against her Maiestie to be lawfull and affirmeth that by vertue thereof one D. Mooreton an olde English fugitiue and conspirator was sent from Rome into the North partes of England to stirre vp the first rebellion there whereof Charles Neuill the late Earle of Westmerland
left without any further argument to the iudgement of the Almightie God as persons that haue couered their eyes against the sunnes light stopped their eares against the sounde of Iustice and oppressed their heartes against the force of reason and as the Psalmist saith They speake lyes they are as venemous as the poison of a serpent euen like the deafe Adder that stoppeth his eares Wherefore with charitie to conclude if these rebels traitors and their fautors woulde yet take some remorse and compassion of their natural countrey and would consider how vaine their attempts haue bene so many yeres and howe many of their confederates are wasted by miseries and calamities and would desist from their vnnatural practises abroade and if these Seminaries secret wanderers and explorators in the darke woulde imploy their traueiles in the workes of light and doctrine according to the vsage of their schooles and content them selues with their profession and deuotion and that the remnant of the wicked flocke of the seedemen of sedition would cease froÌ„ their rebellious false and infamous railings libellings there is no doubt by Gods grace her Maiestie being so much giuen to mercie and deuoted to peace but al colour and occasion of shedding the blood of any more of her naturall subiectes of this sand should vtterly cease Against whose malices if they shall not desist Almighty God continue her Maiestie with his spirit power long to reigne and liue in his feare and to be able to vanquish them and all Gods enemies and her rebels traitors both at home and abroad and to maintaine and preserue all her naturall good louing subiectes to the true seruice of the same Almightie God according to his holy worde and will Many other things might be remembred for defence of other her Maiesties princely honourable and godly actions in sundry other things wherein also these the like seditious railors haue of late time without all shame by fained and false libels sought to discredit her Maiestie her gouernement but at this time these former causes and reasons alleadged by way of aduertisements are sufficient to iustifie her Maiesties actions to y e whole worlde in the cases remembred FINIS All offenders couer their faults with contrary causes Rebels doe most dangerously couer their faults Rebellion in EnglaÌ„d Ireland The rebels vaÌ„quished by the Q. power Some of the Rebels fled into forreine countries Rebels pretend religion for their defence Ringleaders of Rebels Charles Neuill Earle of Westmerland and Thomas Stukeley The effect of y e popes but against y e Queene of EnglaÌ„d The practises of the traitors Rebels fugitiues to execute the Bull. Seminaries erected to nurse seditious fugitiues The Seminary fugitiues come secretly into the realme to induce the people to obey the Popes Bull. Sowers of sedition taken conueÌ„ted executed for treason The seditious traitors condeÌ„ned by the auncient lawes of the realme made 200. yeres past Persons coÌ„demned spared froÌ„ execution vpon refusall of their treasonable opinions The forrein Traitors continue sending of persons to moue sedition in the realme The seditious fugitiues labor to bring the Realme into a warre externall domestical The duetie of y e Queen and all her gouernors to God their countrie is to repel practises of rebellion None charged with capitall crimes being of a cuÌ„â—â—arte religion and professing to withstaÌ„d forreyne forces Names of diuers Ecclesiasticall persoÌ„s professing contrarie religion neuer charged w t capitall crunes 〈…〉 sâ—râ—â—s oâ—â— same 〈…〉 and writinges A great nomber of lay persoÌ„s of liuelood being of a contrary religion neuer charged with capitall crime No person charged w t capitall crime for the onely inâ—â—â—â—enance of y e Popes supremacie Such condeÌ„ned onely for treason as mainteine the effects of y e Popes bul against her Maiestie and the realme D. SaÌ„ders maintenance of the Popes Bull. The persons that suffered death were condeÌ„ned for Treason not for Religion A full full proofe that the mainteiners of the bull are directly guilty of treason D. MortoÌ„s secret Ambassage froÌ„ Rome to stirre y e rebellioÌ„ in the North. Persons Campion are offenders as D. Sanders is for allowance of the Bull. Faculties graunted to PersoÌ„s CampioÌ„ by Pope Gregory 13. anno 1580. Harts coÌ„fession of the interpretation of the Bul of Pius Quintus A conclusion that all the infamous bookes against the Queene the realme are false Difference of the smal numbers that haue bene executed in the space of xxv yeres from the great numbers in v. yeres of Queene Maries saigne An aduertisement to al Princes of couÌ„tries abroad The authoritie claymed by y e Pope not warranted by Christ or by the two Apostles Peter and Paul Pope Hildebrand the first y t made warre against the Emperour An. Do. 1074. The iudgement of God against the Popes false erected Emperour Pope Gregorie the vii deposed by Henry y e 4. Henry 5. Fredrick 1 Fredrick 2 Lewes of Bauar Emperors Whatsoeuer is lawful for other princes Soueraignes is lawfull for y e Queene crowne of EnglaÌ„d The title of vniuersal Bishop is a preamble of Antichrist 1527. Rome sacked and the Pope Clement taken prisoner by the Emperours army 1550. King Henry the second of Fraunce his Edicts against the Pope and his courts of Rome The besieging of Rome and the Pope by the D. of Alua with King Philips army D. Peyto a begging Fryer The kings of ChristeÌ„dome neuer suffer the Popes to abridge their titles or rights though they suffer them to haue rule ouer their people The Queene or England may not suffer the Pope by any means to make Rebellions in her Realme Additaments to y e Popes martyrologe The ferang endes of Iames Erle of Desmond D. Saunders Iames Fitzmorice Iohn of Desmond Iohn Someruile The prosperitie or England during the Popes curses Reasons to persuade by reason y e fauorers of y e Pope that none hath bene executed for religion but for treason The first reason The second reason The Bul of Pius Quintus let vp at Pauls The first punishmeÌ„t for y e Bull. The third reason Rebellion in the North. The fourth reason The inuasion of Ireland by the Pope The Popes forces vanquished in Ireland The politique aduersaries satisfied Obiection of the papists that the persons executed are but schollers and vnarmed Many are traytors though they haue no armour nor weapon The application of the scholasticall traitors to others y t are traitors without armour Six Questions to trye traytours froÌ„ schollers The offendours executed for treason not for religion Vnreasonable obstinate persons are left to Gods iudgemeÌ„t
with them but in diuers corners of her Maiesties Dominions these Seminaries or seedemen and Iesuites bringing with them certeine Romish trash as of their hallowed Waxe their Agnus dei many kinde of Beades and such like haue as tillage men laboured secretly to perswade the people to allowe of the Popes foresaid Bulles and warrantes and of his absolute authoritie ouer all Princes and Countries and striking many with prickes of conscience to obey the same whereby in proces of small time if this wicked and dangerous traiterous and craftie course had not bene by Gods goodnes espied and staied there had followed imminent danger of horrible vprores in the realmes and a manifest blooddy destruction of great multitudes of Christians For it cannot be denied but that so many as shoulde haue bene induced throughly perswaded to haue obeyed that wicked warrant of the Popes and the contents thereof should haue bene forthwith in their hearts and consciences secret traitors and for to be in deede errant and open traitours there shoulde haue wanted nothing but opportunitie to feele their strength and to assemble themselues in such nombers with Armour weapons as they might haue presumed to haue bene the greater part so by open ciuill warre to haue come to their wicked purposes But Gods goodnes by whome Kinges doe rule and by whose blast traitors are commonly wasted and cōfounded hath otherwise giuen to her Maiestie as to his handmayde and deare seruant ruling vnder him the spirit of wisdome and power whereby she hath caused some of these sedicious seedemen and sowers of rebellion to be discouered for all their secret lurkings and to be taken and charged with these former poyntes of high treason not being delt withall vpon questions of religion but iustly condemned as traitors At which times notwithstanding al maner gentle wayes of persuasions vsed to moue them to desist from such manifest traiterous courses and opiniōs yet was the canker of their rebellious humors so deepely entred and grauen into the heartes of many of them as they woulde not be remooued from their traiterous determinations And therefore as manifest traitours in maintayning and adhearing to the capitall enemy of her Maiestie and her Crowne who hath not only bene the cause of two rebellions alreadie passed in England and Ireland but in that of Ireland did manifestly wage and maintaine his owne people Captaines and Souldiours vnder the Banner of Rome against her Maiestie so as no enemy coulde doe more These I say haue iustly suffered death not by force or forme of any newe lawes established either for religion or against the Popes supremacie as the slaunderous libellers would haue it seeme to be but by the auncient temporall lawes of the realme and namely by the lawes of Parliament made in King Edward the thirds time about the yere of our Lorde .1330 which is aboue 200. yeres and moe past when the Bishops of Rome and Popes were suffered to haue their authoritie Ecclesiastical in this realme as they had in many other countries But yet of this kind of offenders as many of them as after their condemnations were contented to renounce their former traiterous assertions so many were spared from execution and doe liue stil at this day such was the vnwillingnes in her Maiestie to haue any blood spilt without this verie vrgent iust and necessary cause proceeding from themselues And yet neuerthelesse such of the rest of the traitors as remayne in forreyne partes continuing still their rebellious myndes and craftily keeping them selues aloofe off from dangers cease not to prouoke sundry other inferiour seditious persons newly to steale secretly into the realme to reuiue the former seditious practises to the execution of the Popes foresaid bulles against her Maiestie and the Realme pretending when they are apprehended that they came onely into the realme by the commandemēt of their superiours the heads of the Iesuites to whome they are bound as they say by othe against either king or countrie and here to informe or reforme mens consciences from errors in some poynts of religiō as they shal thinke meete but yet in very trueth the whole scope of their secret labours is manifestly proued to be secretly to winne all people with whom they dare deale so to allowe of the Popes said bulles and of his authoritie without exception as in obeying thereof they take themselues fully discharged of their alleageance and obedience to their lawfull Prince and countrey yea and to be well warranted to take armes to rebell against her Maiestie when they shall bee thereunto called and to be readie secretly to ioyne with any forreine force that can be procured to inuade the realme whereof also they haue a long time giuen and yet doe for their aduantage no small comfort of successe so consequently the effect of their labours is to bring the Realme not onely into a daungerous warre against the forces of strangers from which it hath bene free aboue xxiii or xxiiii yeres a case very memorable and hard to be matched with an example of the like but into a warre domesticall and ciuill wherein no blood is vsually spared nor mercie yeelded and wherin neither the vanqueror nor the vanquished haue cause of triumph And forasmuch as these are y e most euident perils that necessarily should follow if these kind of vermin were suffered to creepe by stealth into the Realme and to spreade their poyson within the same howsoeuer when they are taken like hipocrites they couloure and counterfeit the same with profession of deuotion in religion it is of all persons to be yeelded in reason that her Maiestie and all her gouernours and magistrates of Iustice hauing care to mantaine the peace of the Realme which God hath giuen in her time to continue longer then euer in any time of her progenitors ought of duetie to almightie God the author of peace and according to the naturall loue and charge due to their countrie and for auoiding of the floods of blood which in Ciuill warres are seene to runne and flowe by all lawful meanes possible aswell by the Sword as by Lawe in their seuerall seasons to impeache and repell these so manifest and daungerous coulourable practises and workes of sedition and rebellion And though there are many subiects knowen in the realme that differ in some opinions of religion from the Church of England and that doe also not forbeare to professe the same yet in that they doe also professe loyaltie and obedience to her Maiestie and offer readily in her Maiesties defence to impugne and resist any forreine force though it should come or be procured frō y e Pope himself none of these sort are for their cōtrary opinions in religiō prosecuted or charged w t any crymes or paines of treasō nor yet willingly searched in their consciences for their contrarie opinions that fauour not of treason And of these sortes there are a number of persons not
subiects auowing and obstinatly maintaining the same should according to iustice cause the offender to haue the reward due to such a fact and this was the first action of any capital punishmēt inflicted for matter sent from Rome to moue rebellion which was after her Maiestie had reigned about the space of twelue yeres or more Thirdly when the pope had risen vp out of his chaire in his wrath from words and writings to actions and had contrary to the aduise giuen by S. Barnard to his predecessor that is whē by his messages he left Verbum tooke ferrum that is left to feede by y e word and began to strike with y e sword and stirred her noble men people directly to disobedience and to open rebellion and that her lewde subiects by his commandement had executed y e same with al the forces which they could make or bring into the fielde who with common reason can disallow that her Maiestie vsed her Principall authoritie and by her forces lawfull subdued rebels forces vnlawful and punished the authors thereof no otherwise then the pope himselfe vseth to doe with his owne rebellious subiects in y e Patrimonie of his church And if any Prince of people in the world would otherwise neglect his office and suffer his rebels to haue their wils none ought to pitie him if for want of resistāce and courage he lost both his Crowne his head his life his kingdome Fourthly when her Maiestie beheld a further increase of the popes malice notwithstanding that y e first rebellion was in her North partes vanquished in that he interteined abroade out of this Realme the traytours rebelles that fledde for the rebellion and all the rable of other the fugitiues of the Realme and that he sent a number of the same in sorts disguised into both the Realmes of England and Ireland who there secretly allured her people to newe rebellions and at the same time spared not his charges to sende also out of Italy by sea certaine shippes with Captaines of his owne with their bandes of souldiers furnished with treasure munition victuals ensignes banners and all other things requisite to y e warre into her Realme of Ireland where the same forces with other auxilliar cōpanies out of Spaine landed and fortified themselues very strongly in the seaside and proclaymed open warre erecting the popes banner against her Maiestie may it be nowe asked of these persons fauourers of the Romish authoritie what in reason should haue bene done by her Maiestie otherwise then first to apprehend all such fugitiues so stolne into the Realme and dispersed in disguising habites to sowe sedition as some Priestes in their secrete profession but all in their apparell as roisters or ruffins some scholers like to the basest common people and them to committe to prisons and vpon their examinations of their trades and haunts to conuince them of their conspiracies abroade by testimonie of their owne companions and of sowing sedition secretly at home in the Realme What may be reasonablie thought was meete to be done with such seditious persons but by the lawes of y e Realme to try condemne and execute them and specially hauing regard to the dangerous time whē the popes forces were in the Realme of Ireland and more in preparation to followe as well into England as into Irelande to the resistance whereof her Maiestie and her Realme was forced to be at greater charges then euer she had bene since shee was Queene thereof And so by Gods power which hee gaue to her on the one part she did by her lawes suppresse the seditious stirrers of rebellion in her Realme of England and by her sword vanquished all the popes forces in her Realme of Ireland excepting certaine captaines of marke that were saued from the sworde as persons that did renounce their quarrel seemed to curse or to blame such as sent them to so vnfortunate desperate a voyage But though these reasons grounded vpon rules of naturall reason shall satisfie a great nomber of the aduersaries who will yeelde that by good order of ciuill and christian policie and gouernement her Maiestie could nor can do no lesse then she hath done first to subdue with her forces her rebelles and traytours and nexte by order of her lawes to correct the ayders abettors lastly to put also to the sword such forces as the pope sent into her dominions yet there are certaine other persons more nisely addicted to the pope that will yet seeme to bee vnsatisfied for that as they will terme the matter a nomber of sillie poore wretches were put to death as traytours being but in profession schollers or priestes by the names of seminaries Iesuites or simple scholemasters that came not into the Realme with any armour or weapon by force to aide the rebelles traitours either in England or in Ireland in their rebellions or warres of which sort of wretches y e comiseration is made as though for their contrary opinions in religion or for teaching of the people to disobey y e lawes of the Realme they might haue bene otherwise punished and corrected yet not with capitall peane These kinds of defēces tend only to find faule rather with the seueritie of their punishments thē to acquite them as Innocents or quiet subiects But for answere to the better satisfaction of these nyse and scrupulous fauorers of traitors it must be with reason demaunded of them if at least they will open their eares to reason whether they thinke that when a King beeing stablished in his Realme hath a rebellion first secretly practised and afterward openly raysed in his Realme by his owne seditious subiectes whē by a forreine potentate or enemie the same rebellion is mainteyned and the rebelles by messages and promises comforted to continue and their treasons against their naturall prince auowed consequently when the same potentate and enemie beeing authour of the said rebellion shall with his owne proper forces inuade the Realme and subiectes of the Prince that is so lawefully and peacebly possessed in these cases shal no subiect fauouring these rebelles and yeelding obedience to the enemie the inuador be committed or punished as a traitour but onely such of them as shall be found openly to carrie armour and weapon Shal no subiect that is a spial and an explorer for the rebell or enemie against his naturall Prince be taken and punished as a traitour because he is not found w t armour or weapon but yet is taken in his disguised apparell with writings or other manifest tokens to proue him a spie for traitors after he hath wandered secretly in his soueraigns campe region court or citie Shall no subiect be coūted a traitour that will secretly giue earnest and prest money to persons to be rebelles or enemies or that will attempt to poison the victual or the fountaines or secretly set on fire the ships or munition or
therefore as there is no doubt but the like violent tyrannous proceedings by any Pope in maintenance of traitors and rebels would be withstoode by euery Soueraigne Prince in Christendome in defence of their persons and Crownes and maintenance of their subiectes in peace so is there at this present a like iust cause that the Emperours Maiestie with the Princes of the holy Empire and all other Soueraigne Kings and Princes in Christendome shoulde iudge the same to be lawfull for her Maiestie being a Queene and holding the very place of a King and a Prince soueraigne ouer diuers kingdomes and nations she being also most lawfully inuested in her Crowne and as for good gouerning of her people with such applause and generall allowance loued and obeyed of them sauing a few ragged Traitours or rebels or persons discontented whereof no other Realme is free as continually for these xxv yeeres past hath bene notably seene and so publiquely marked euen by strangers repairing into this Realme as it were no cause of disgrace to any Monarchie and King in Christendome to haue her Maiesties felicitie compared with any of theirs whatsoeuer and it may be there are many Kings and Princes coulde be well contented with the fruition of some proportion of her felicitie And though the Popes be nowe suffered by the Emperour in the landes of his owne peculiar patrimonie and by the two great Monarches the French King and the King of Spaine in their dominions and territories although by other Kings not so allowed to continue his authoritie in sundrie cases and his glorious title to be the vniuersall Bishop of the worlde which title Gregorie the great aboue nine hundreth yeeres past called a prophane title full of sacrilege and a preamble of Antichrist yet in all their dominions and kingdomes as also in the Realme of Englande most notably by many auncient Lawes it is well knowen howe many wayes the tyrannous power of this his excessiue authoritie hath bene and still is restrained checked and limitted by lawes and pragmatiques both ancient and newe a very large fielde for the Lawyers of those countreyes to walke in and discourse And howsoeuer the Popes Cannonistes being as his Bombarders doe make his excommunications and curses appeare fearefull to the multitude and simple people yet all great Emperours and Kings aforetime in their owne cases of their rightes and royall preeminences though the same concerned but a Citie or a poore Towne and sometime but the not allowance of some vnworthie person to a Bishopricke or to an Abbey neuer refrayned to despise all Popes curses or forces but attempted alwayes eyther by their swordes to compell them to desist from their furious actions or without any feare of them selues in body soule or conscience stoutly to withstande their curses and that sometime by force sometyme by Ordinances and Lawes the auncient hystories whereof are too many to be repeated and of none more frequent and effectual then of the kings of Fraunce But leauing those that are auncient we may remember howe in this our owne present or late age it hath bene manifestly seene howe the army of the late noble Emperour Charles the fift father to King Philippe that nowe reigneth was not afrayde of his curses when in the yeere of our Lorde 1527. Rome it selfe was besieged and sacked and the Pope then called Clement and his Cardinals to the nomber of about 33. in his mount Adrian or Castell S. Angelo taken prisoners and deteined seuen moneths or more and after ransomed by Don Vgo di Moncada a Spaniarde and the Marques of Grasto at aboue foure hundred M. duckates besides the ransomes of his Cardinals which was very great hauing not long before time bene also notwithstanding his curses besieged in the same Castell by the familie of the Colonies and their fautors his next neighbours being then Imperialistes and forced to yeelde to all their demaūds Neither did King Henry the seconde of Fraunce father to Henry nowe King of Fraunce about the yeere 1550. feare or regard y e Pope or his court of Rome whē he made seueral straight edictes against many partes of the Popes claymes in preiudice of the crowne clergie of Fraunce retracting the authoritie of the court of Rome greatly to the hinderance of the Popes former profites Neither was the army of king Philip nowe of Spaine whereof the Duke of Alua was generall stricken with any feare of cursing whē it was brought afore Rome against y e pope in the yeere of our Lord 1555. where great destruction was made by the said army and al the delicate buyldings gardens and orchardes next to Rome walles ouerthrowē wherewith his holinesse was more terrified then he was able to remoue with any his curses Neither was Queene Mary the Queenes Maiesties late sister a person not a litle deuoted to the Romane religion so afraid of the popes cursings but that both she and her whole counsel and that with the assent of all the Iudges of the realme according to the auncient lawes in fauour of Cardinall Poole her kinsman did forbid the entrie of his bulles and of a Cardinall hatte at Callis that was sent from the pope for one Frier peyto whome the pope had assigned to bee a Cardinall in disgrace of Cardinall Poole neither did Cardinall Poole himselfe at the same time obey the popes commandements nor shewed himselfe afraid being assisted by the Queene when the pope did threaten him with paine of excommunication but did still oppose himselfe against the popes commandement for the saide pretended Cardinall Peyto who notwithstanding all the threatninges of the pope was forced to goe vp and downe in the streetes of Londō like a begging Frier a stout resistāce in a Queene for a poore Cardinals hatte wherin she folowed the example of her Grandfather King Henrie the vii for a matter of Allum So as howsoeuer the christian kinges for some respectes in pollicie can indure the pope to commaunde where no harme nor disaduantage groweth to thēselues yet sure it is and the popes are not ignorant but where they shall in any sort attempt to take from christian princes any part of their dominions or shall giue ayde to their enemies or to any other their rebels in those cases their Bulles their curses their excommunications their sentences most solemne Anathematicals no nor their crosse keyes or double edged sword wil serue their turnes to compasse their intentions And now where the pope hath manifestly by his bulles and excommunications attempted asmuch as he could to depriue her Maiestie of her kingdomes to withdraw from her the obedience of her subiectes to procure rebellions in her realmes yea to make both rebellions and open warres with his owne captaines souldiers banners ensignes and all other things belonging to warre shal this pope or any other pope after him thinke y t a soueraigne Queene possessed of the two realmes of England Ireland stablished so many yeeres in
her kingdomes as three or foure popes haue sit in their chayre at Rome fortyfied with so much duetie loue and strength of her subiectes acknowledging no superiour ouer her realmes but the mightie hand of God shall she forbeare or feare to withstand and make frustrate his vnlawful attemptes eyther by her sword or by her lawes or to put his souldiers inuadours of her realme to y e sword martially or to execute her lawes vpon her owne rebellious subiectes ciuilly that are prooued to be his chiefe instruments for rebellion and for his open warre This is sure that howsoeuer either he sitting in his chaire with a triple crowne at Rome or any other his proctors in any part of Christendome shal renewe these vnlawfull attemptes almightie God whome her Maiestie onely honoureth and acknowledgeth to be her onely soueraigne Lord and protectour and whose lawes gospel of his sonne Iesus Christ she seeketh to defend wil no doubt but deliuer sufficient power into his maydens hand his seruant Queene Elizabeth to withstand and confound them all And where the seditious trumpetters of infamies and lies haue sounded forth and entituled certaine that haue suffred for treason to be martyrs for religiō so may they also at this time if they list adde to their forged catalogue the headles bodie of y e late miserable Earle of Desmond who of late secretly wandering without succour as a miserable begger was taken by one of the Irishry in his caben and in an Irish sort after his owne accustomed sauage maner his head cut off from his bodie an end due to such an archrebell And herewith to remember the ende of his chiefe confederates may be noted for example to others the strange maner of the death of D. Sanders the popes Irish legat who also wandring in the mountaines in Ireland without succour died rauing in a phrensey And before him one Iames Fits-Morice the first Traitour of Ireland next to Stukely the rakehel a man not vnknowen in the popes palace for a wicked craftie traytor was slaine at one blow by an Irish noble yong Gētleman in defence of his fathers countrey which the traitor sought to burne A fourth man of singular note was Iohn of Desmonde brother to the Earle a very bloody faithles traitor and a notable murderer of his familiar friendes who also wandring to seeke some pray like a wolfe in the woods was takē beheaded after his own vsage being as he thought sufficiently armed with the popes Buls certaine Agnus dei one notable ring about his necke sent frō the popes finger as it was said but these he saw saued not his life And such were the fatal ends of al these being y e principal heads of y e Irish warre rebelliō so as no one person remaineth at this day in Ireland a knowen traitor To this nōber they may if they seeke nomber also adde a furious yong man of Warwickeshire by name Someruile to increase their Kalender of y e popes martyrs who of late was discouered and taken in his way comming w t a ful intent to haue killed her Maiestie whose life God alwayes haue in his custodie The attempt not denied by y e traitor himselfe but confessed and that he was moued thereto in his wicked spirit by inticements of certaine seditious traiterous persons his kinsmen and allyes and also by often reading of sundry seditious vile books lately published against her Maiestie But as God of his goodnes hath of long time hitherto preserued her Maiestie from these and the like trecheries so hath she no cause to feare being vnder his protection she saying with king Dauid in the Psalme My God is my helper and I will trust in him he is my protection and the strength or the power of my saluation And for the comfort of al good subiects against the shadowes of the popes Bulles it is manifest to the world that from the beginning of her Maiesties reigne by Gods singular goodnes her kingdome hath enioyed more vniuersall peace her people increased in more nombers in more strength and with greater riches the earth of her kingdomes hath yeelded more fruits and generally all kind of worldly felicitie hath more abounded since and during the time of the popes thunders bulles curses and maledictions then in any other long times before when the popes pardons and blessings came yeerely into the Realme so as his curses and maledictions haue turned backe to himself and his fautors that it may be said to the fortunate Queene of Englande her people as was said in Deuteronomy of Balaam The Lord thy God woulde not heare Balaam but did turne his maledictiōs or curses into benedictions or blessings the reason is for because thy God loued thee Although these former reasons are sufficient to perswade all kind of reasonable persons to allow of her Maiesties actions to be good reasonable lawfull and necessarie yet because it may be that such as haue by frequent reading of false artificiall libels and by giuing credite to them vpon a preiudice or foreiudgement afore grounded by their rooted opinions in fauour of the pope will rest vnsatisfied therefore as much as may be to satisfie all persons as farre foorth as common reason may warrant that her Maiesties late action in executing of certaine seditious traitors hath not proceeded for the holding of opinions either for y e popes supremacie or against her Maiesties regalitie but for the very crymes of sedition treason it shal suffice briefly in a manner of a repetition of the former reasons to remember these things following First it cānot be denied but y t her Maiestie did for many yeres suffer quietly the popes buls excommunications without punishment of the fautors thereof accompting of thē but as of words or winde or of writings in parchment wayed downe with leade or as of water bubbles cōmonly called in Latin Bullae and such like but yet after some proofe that courage was taken thereof by some bolde and bad subiectes she coulde not but then esteeme them to be very preambles or as forerunners of greater danger and therefore with what reason coulde any mislike that her Maiestie did for a bare defence against them w tout other action or force vse the helpe of reuiuing of former lawes to prohibit the publication or execution of such kinde of Bulles within her Realme Secondly when notwithstanding y e prohibition by her lawes the same bulles were plentifully but in secret sort brought into y e realme at length arrogantly set vpon the gates of y e Bishop of Londons pallace neere to y e Cathedrall Church of Pauls the principal citie of y e realme by a lewd person vsing y e same like a herald sent frō the pope who can in any cōmon reason mislike y t her Maiestie finding this kinde of denunciatiō of warre as a defiance to be made in her principal citie by one of her