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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

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

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

THE CENSVRE of a loyall Subiect VPON 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 thankes 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 At LONDON Printed by Richard Iones dwelling at the signe of the Rose and the Crowne neere Holborne bridge CVrteous Reader my good friend M. G. W. at his departure into the Countrey left this most honest worke to be censured by me being right well assured by the continuance of our true friendshippes that I would not deceiue him with a flattering iudgment and trust me vpon a considerate reading I found it a little book containing a large testimony of his loyalty to his Prince and country a sweet comfort and most sound counsail for good subiectes concludi●g by many fair examples of Traitors ●oule endes that the reward of treason is distruction and after death 〈◊〉 infamie The matter agreeing with the condition of this troublesome time I haue aduentured to possesse thee with the benefite thereof before I made account vnto him of my liking which is that no good subiect can mislike the same and I made the more hast herein because some wicked persons that will not be admonished haue now by new conspiracy desired our publique sorrowe and by their discouery haue brought an vniuersall ioy into the church of God Giue God thankes for his wonderfull presentation of her Maiestie and the confusion of her enemies serue him and read this booke which trulie promiseth thee that 〈◊〉 miscreate persons shall neuer prosper in their deuices No r●ote but feare God and thou shalt fare well Thy louing friend T C. To the right honorable Sir William Cicill Knight Baron of Burleigh Lord high Treasurer of England and one of the Queenes Maiesties most honora●able and prudent priuie counsell a long continuance of honour and prosperous estate RIght honorable and prudent Lord the vngratious Emperor Commodus vpon the accusation of a guilty consciēce caused fourteen or fifteen discreete Roman Gentlemen to be thrown into the riuer of Tyber for no other offence but because they soberly talked of the the vertues of the good Emperor Marcus Aurelius his father alleadging that they could not praise his father without the reprouing of himselfe and certainly although Commodus did euil he spake the trueth for the cōmendation of vertue is euermore a reproch to vice which principall right honorable considered of the one part by your manifold seruices done vnto the Queenes most excellent maiestie to her blessed realm generally to the true church of God and of the other side weyed by the most odious treasons conspired by many rotten subiectes whereof iustice lately hath cut off certaine of the principall whose vile purpose reached to the life of her sacred Maiestie the subuersion of their countrey and generall callamity in the church of God no other conclusion can followe but that the reuerence of your publique seruice will alwayes reuiue the hatred of their treasons and that the reproch of their treasons will neuer suffer the reuerēce of your fidelitie to die Therefore most graue Lord desirous to honour withall duetifull affection your godly vertues as the comforte of all good men and also to acknowledge some especiall fauours shewen vnto my selfe vnder your sound protection I present for the generall instruction of my countreymen the subiects of England my obseruances of certain noted speach and behauiours of those fourteene notable Traitors which lately suffered for their treasons trusting that this censure by the sentence of all good Subiects will merite the acceptance of my former bookes which hetherto haue escaped the disgrace of publique reproofe Protesting in the behalfe of my writing that my desire hath euermore bene to instruct all men and not to iniure the worst of the wicked And now to conclude that vertue may haue her sample by your Lordship and vice her shame by these traitors in the name of experience I aduise all men who●e heades clime aboue the height of their present conditions to make loyall and honest actions the ladders of their aduancement which will commend them with a beloued life or an honorable death whē treason is the hatchet that seuereth life and ioyneth infamie vnto death The Lord be with your Lordshippe in all your affaires for whose health and honorable prosperitie the good subiectes of England continually pray Humbly at your Lordships commandement G. W. A Censure in forme of a Dialogue of certaine noted speach and behauiours of fourteene notable Traitors at the place of their executions c The speakers Walker a godlie deuine VVeston a discreet Gentleman Wilcocks a substantial Clothier West NEighbour Wilkcocks you are well welcome home Wilk I humbly thanke your worshippe VVest What is the best newes at London Wilk The best newes are fourteene of those ranke traitors that sought to bereaue the Queenes most excellent Maiestie of her life which God long preserue haue made their confessiō at the gallowee for my eies saw their traiterous harts burned and bodilesse heads aduanced to the view and comforte of manye thousands of people Walk You sawe a happie sight for the quietnesse and safetie of the Queenes most excellent maiestie and general comfort for al good subiects and a fearefull example to al traitors but for asmuch as they offended in the highest degree of treason as traitors resolued to kil the Queens Ma. whose life almighty God long preserue to spoile he● nauie to cloy the ordinance to kil some of her maiesties honorable priuy counsel to moue a generall rebelliō and what in them lay to procure a forraigne inuasion all which beeing treasons of such danger as the least of them closed vp the doores of mercie it seemeth conueniente that theire executions shoulde be with more seuerity then the common iudgemēt of Traitors Wilk Their iudgements and executions were alike saue that the first seuen were executed with lesse fauour then the latter seauen VValk What difference was there in theire executions VVilk Their iudgements were to be drawn to the place of execution there to be hanged vntil they were halfe dead their bowels to be brente before their faces c. And truly the first seauen as the most mallitious if there be anye difference in treason were executed somewhat neere the seuerity of their iudgement the other seauen were so fauouraby vsed as they hung vntill they were euen altogether dead before y ● rest of their iudgemēt was executed VValk Their treasons were so odious as Perillus Bull or the extreamest crueltie that pollicy may inuent wold be too milde to punish them so that the least fauour that might be showen vnto them

was a token of exceeding mercye in her Maiesty and mildenes in the iustice of England West There were neuer people gouerned with more mercie then the people of England vnder the raigne of our moste gratious Queene Elizabeth whose prosperitie the Lord long continue and truly I heard many wise men say that the greatnesse of her maiesties mercie applyed to an olde prouerb Ouer much pittie spoileth a Cittie is verie daungerous to the peace of England and some haue taken example by a fable of a frozen serpent that a pittiful husbandman found which he reuiued at his sire but as soone as the Serpent had gotten strength it stong the husbandmans children euen so these hollowe subiects I pray God I may not safelye name most Papists which run into many dangers of the lawe yet her Maiesties mercie so fauoureth them as it is to be feared they liue but to recouer strēgth to persecute her maiesties subiects Walk In very deede mercie breedeth presumption in the wicked but no doubt almighty God that for the crueltie which raigned vpon the earth drowned all the world saue onely Noah and his famelye is so well pleased with mercie as he seldome suffereth it to be the cause of inconuenienre especially where temperate iustice is ioyned with mercy and although the example of he pitifull husbandman and the frozen serpent may be well applied vnto her Maiesties mercie and the papists malice yet when the serpent stong his children the husbandman grieuouslye beate him euen so when these kinde of people turne her Maiesties mercye to publique disturbance Iustice will doe her office so that they shal hardly escape the censure of her maiesties lawes West God bring them to shame and confusion but Neighbour Wilcocks I pray you shewe vs thē names of the Traitors and manner of theire executions Wilk Upon the twentith day of September being tuesday Iohn Ballard a Priest and first perswader of Babington to these odious treasons was laide alone vpon a hurdell and six others two and two vpon a hurdell were drawne from Tower hill through the cittie of London vnto a fielde at the vpper end of Holborne harde by the high way side to S. Giles where was erected a scaffolde conuenient for the execution and there vpon a paire of gallowes so high and withal the place was so rayled to keepe off horsmen as the people might plainely see the execution West I am much deceiued if there were not a great multitude of people assembled to see the execution Wilk I cannot number the thousands but by computation there were able men enough to giue battaile to a strong enemie but one thing I especiallye regarded that although the assemblye were wonderfull great and the traitors all goodly personages clothed in silkes euerie way furnished to moue pittie that the order of their execution was a fearfull spectakle yet y ● odiousnes of their treasōs was so setled in euery mans heart as there appeared no sadnesse or alteration among the people at the mangling and quartering of their bodies yea the whole multitude without any signe of lamentation greedylye behelde the spectacle from the first to the last Walk Truly they that beare dutiful hearts towards the safetie of the Queenes Maiestie peace of their countrey would not but greatlie reioyce in their destruction which sought the general subuersion of the estate beside the kind affectiō motherly loue y t her Maiestie published by her gratious letters vnto the L. Maior and state of London wherein her Maiestie protesteth and sundrie of her gratious proceedinges fullie witnesseth that she desired no longer to liue then while in the whole course of her Maiesties gouernment she carried her selfe in such sort as might not onely continue their loue and goodwill but also encrease the same are causes strong enough to commaunde the multitude to reioice in nothing more then in the destruction of those that pretend any hurte vnto her Maiesties person But good neighbour Wilcocks continue your purpose concerning their execution Wilk The first day the Traitors were all placed vpon the scaffolde that the one might beholde the rewarde of his fellowes treason Ballard the Priest who was the first broacher of this treason was the first that was executed after that his bowels traiterous heart were thrown into the fire his head seuered from his shoulders was set vpon the toppe of the Gallowes West By the way I praye you what confession made this traiterons Priest at the time of his death Wilk He denied not his treason died an obstinate papist in his protestation he doubtfullie said if he had offended y ● Q. Maiestie or any mā els he was sorie so cōditionally desired forgiuenes to declare at full his traiterous mind he said I am sory I haue bin so ●●ādalous but most sory I haue bin so remis in my delings Walk The malicious affection of his heart towards the Q. maiestie appeared euē in the trēbling passage of death y t whereas his treasons were so impious odious dānable as the most wicked I meane his confederates for the most part confessed as the cōmon fame goeth y t they exceeded the greatnesse of her Maiesties mercie which may not be measured where there is any measure in offēding yet in his desire of remission at her Maiesties hands he added this cōditiō if as one that doubted if he had offēded her highnesse wel leaue we this dissembling traitor a pray to the crowes his soule to Gods iudgemēt good neighbour on with your tale to y ● next Wilk Next vnto this priest Anthony Babington was made ready to the Gallowes and in euery point was handled like vnto Ballard West Little may be the mone bad was the best but what obserued you in his end Wilk A signe of his former pride for whereas the rest through the cogitation of death were exercised in praier vpon their knees and bare headed he whose tourne was next stode on his feete with his hat on his head as if he had bene but a beholder of the execution concerning his religion he died a papist his treasons were so odious as the sting of consciēce perswaded him to acknowledge himselfe to be a most grieuous trespasser against God the Queenes maiesty West I wonder that men are so bewitched with the inticements of these Iesuits as they holde it a holly matter to lay violent hands vpon the Lordes annointed at their death their owne consciences perswade thē that the immaginations of such wickednes is damnable Wilk Pride enuie and ambition are the rootes of treason the body of treason is murther and all that mischiefe may deuise the fruites of treasons are ruines of kingdomes and common wealthes the generall reward of treason is the destruction of traitors and for that shame and perpetual infamie lead thē to the Gallowes to collor if it were possible their treason

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

rewarded of the Pope when those y ● by their outward coūtenance promise not a rebellious spirite are enter●ained neither with the one nor the other West You put me in remembrance of a special difference that I obserued in Rome which wel confirmeth your opinion and is not impertinent to our conference being in Rome Anno dommini 1580 there was presented vnto the Pope a notale English shifter who named himselfe Seamer a one eyed person and such a one as had abused sundry greate estates in Germanie this man being in want and withall vnlearned as he could hardly read English was a suter to the Pope to be entertained into the English Seminary and ther to be instructed in the profession of the Iesuits he soone obtained his purpose and with a blessing of crownes was shortly after commended to Rheames and what there became of him I haue not heard at the same time there came to Rome an English Gentleman wonderfullye dronken with the zeale of the Romishe religion he had sometimes a proper lyuing and good store of mony lefte him by his father which for the most parte he consumed in the fellowship of the Papists in fine he was enioyned by his confessor I thinke vpon pollicye because he hadde little lefte to maynetaine him to resrayne from the drinking of wine and from the eating of all manner of flesh in the execution of which pennance for that in Italie there was smal store of fish and no beere or Ale he was for the moste parte driuen to liue with bread and water this Gentleman was so strickt in obeying pennance and so deuout in the Popes holinesse as of a number of Papists he was derided of some other tickled that he was a very Sainte vpon earth but what woulde Rome and all the Seminaries of Italie doe for this ignorant and deuout Gentleman Unto the shame of all Papists I truly certifie that with many a weary step in the deepe of winter he arriued at Rome he was not without some repining entertained w t eight daies allowance in the English Colledge but one daies succour aboue he could not compasse he laboured to be admitted into the fellowshippe of the Iesuits he was flatly denied and in recompence of al his toile charge zeale he was constrained to leaue Rome with a bare purse to seeke some new blinde aduenture his vsage made me to abhor the hipocrisie of Papists and inwardly to lament the blindnesse of my poore countryman we departed from Rome together my selfe minding to go vnto Vennis and he to Madona Deloreta To showe all the follies of the man in our iorney were tedious and more ridiculous at euery two miles end there was lightlie a Chappel and where he found our Lady or any other Saint fair painted he would there kneel down and pray but if the Images were in bad attire he euermore past them ouer with the salutation of his cap many a mile he stepped foorth of his way to reuerēce some old friers relick at Loreto he turned their lewd lie of our ladyes house into English to purchase the Iesuits fauour he did al the dueties of a Romish Catholique but for all his sure they woulde not admit him into their society thus wandred he al the dead winter from religious house to religious house in Italy yet for al his pennance and straitnes of life the poore Gent. coulde not gette a resting place the reason was as you haue saide and I wel obserued he shewed an apparance of an ignorant● zeale and no signe of a dissentious spirit Walk Wel leaue we these dissembling Iesuits to the iustice of God who visibly punisheth them with shame the most of their instruments with destruction and now neighbor Wilk I pray you showe vs what obserued you in y ● end of y ● last of these traitors Wilk The last that suffered was one of the Bellamies his countenance discouered him to be a setled papist as he could say little to saue his life so at y ● gallowes he said nothing to desēd his death West Although this traitor had but a dul spirit yet it seemeth he had a mallitious heart he and his friēds succoured Babington some of his coemates when feare of the lawe and shame of their odious treasons made them to shrowde themselues like a Fox in the couert it seemeth that they were as resolute to followe the treasons of Babington as they were ready to relieue him from the daunger of the lawe otherwise if this Bellamies brother had had an innocent conscience he woulde neuer with violente handes haue hanged himselfe Wilk God be praised that these rotten branches are thus cutte off but if his prouidence preuent not the mischiefes it is to be feared that of the root there wil grow many other apt to bring foorth the fruite of publique disturbance VValk In very trueth necessitie hath made the bloody deuices of the Scottish Q. so common as no good subiect may iustly be forbidden to deriue the cause both of forraigne and domestike conspiracies from her vnprincely heart our sacred Q. Elizabeths mercy hath many yeares contēded with a number of fearful admonitions to preserue both the life and honor of this most vnkinde queen when the Scottes her own people pursued her life and printed her defame the Queenes Maiesty entertained her as Augustus did his enemye Cinna she gaue her her life that many waies sought her own life and was so carefull of her honour that she forbad the bookes of her faults to be conuersant among her english subiects which almost in euery other nation wer made vulgar but Cinna after three times forgiuenes became none so faithful to Augustus when this Scottish Queen being three times thrise forgiuen remaineth none more bloodily infected to Queene Elizabeth her own hand writings be witnesses During the whole course of her abode in Eng. which may be properly called a protection and no imprisonment ther is nothing more manifest then that her mallice thirsted the death of her own life The currantes of her practises were so general as euery good christian prince know as much and certified her Maiestie no lesse in fine seeing y ● her pretēdings were not only against the person of her Maiestie but that they also reached to the change of christiā religion some zealous members of the Church of God in publique writing did set downe the daunger of her Maiesties mercye and in christian pollicy shewed by many waightie reasons that God deliuered the Scottish Queen vnto the sword of her iustice as he did many Idolatrous Princes into the handes of the Kinges of Israell but our most gratious queen notwithstanding these continual aduertismentes with a magnanimous heart digested all this danger yea she was so farre from reuenge as shee yeelded not to make her subiects partakers of the●e forraine counsels whom next vnder her they principally concerned Lastly when the continual