he might out of Ireland the north of England and Scotland also where he knew were many Papists invade England This man to help forward this great designe practised secretly with the Pope and with the King of Spain for the Havens of Biscay But the King of Spain neglected him in this desire accounting England and Scotland a morsell fitter for his own palate During this treaty of perpetuall peace this treacherous Don treateth secretly with the Scotish Queen about the marriage and the better to work his own ends took divers Towns and Castles in the Low-countries by treachery and wrote into Spain that for the invasion of the Netherlands it would be best to seize on first the Towns of Zealand before the more inland places and that England might with the more ease be first invaded The Queen in the mean while prepareth for war but God cut off this her enemy very sodainly before the fruits of his high thoughts were ripe Stueleys designe against Ireland NOt long before this time in Ireland Thomas Stucley a prodigall riotous and needy English-man discontented for that he lost the Stewardship of Wexford breathes out contumelies against the Queen and betaketh himselfe to the Pope with whom he treateth and boasteth that he will subdue Ireland with 3000. men and burne the Queens Navy Pope Pius quintus had a great opinion of him After him Gregory the 13. and the King of Spaine consulted together to invade England and Ireland at once The Pope aymed to get for his Son James Boncompayno the Kingdome of Ireland and the Spaniard chiefly to imitate the course of Qu. Elizabeth who to keep the Spaniard busie abroad secretly sent ayd to the Dutch that he might with-draw her help from the Low-countries But because the strength of England consisteth chiefly in the Navy the King of Spaine setteth the Merchants of Italy and the Netherlands a worke to hire the Merchants ships of England and so to send them away in very long voyages that the ships being from home and Stucley joyning with the Rebels of Ireland the Queens Navy might be over-thrown by a greater The Pope gave him very great Titles in Ireland and sent under his command 800. Italians the Spaniard paying the souldiers Stucley then went to Sebastian King of Portugall to intreat him to be chiefe Conductor but was perswaded by the said King and the King by Abdallas son Mahomet to go first unto the African warr where both King Sebastian and himself lost their lives And thus God overthrew their wicked counsels for that time Fitz-Morris his second attempt against Ireland ANno Domini 1579. James Fitz-Morris formerly having fled into France being pardoned for a former Rebellion in Ireland goeth now to the Spaniard and is by him sent unto the Pope to consult with him about his request which was to reduce that Kingdome by force of Arms unto Popery The Pope at the earnest sult of Nicolas Sanders an English and Alan an Irish Priest gave Fitz-Morris some mony to that intent and sendeth him back to the Spaniard from whence with his Priests 3. ships and a few Souldiers he arrived at Smerwick in Kerry in Ireland and raiseth a Fort there Thomas Courtney an English-man presently surpriseth the ships John and James brethren to the Earle of Desmond joyn themselves to Fitz-Morris who was their Kinsman The Earle of Desmond although he pretended the contrary favored them drew forces together and by this pretence of Desmond caused the Earle of Clanrickard who came to oppose them to withdraw himselfe Fitz-Morris seeing few Irish come to his aid under pretence of going in pilgrimage to the holy crosse of Tipperary went toward Conaught and Vlster to draw forces together whose horses being tired he took some horses from the Plough of William a Burgh his kinsman and being pursued by the sons of William a Burgh Fitz-Morris perceiving that told his cousin Theobalda Burgh that it was no time now to fall out about horses but to joyne with him in the businesse of rebellion for which he was come into Ireland These brethren had bin in a former rebellion but now declared unto Fitz-Morris their sorrow for it yet now fighting with Fitz-Morris to recover the horses both the brethren and some others were slain Sir William Drury was then Lord Deputy who sent for the Earle of Desmond who made a promise by his wife to the Deputy that he and his men would fight against the Rebels He dissembled long but after that Malbey had defeated John his brothers forces and had sent for Desmond to come unto him about Rekel a Town of Desmond he plainly discovered his rebellion That night the Rebels set upon Malbeys Tents but were disappointed Afterward Desmond was sent for to come in person by the Lord Deputy Pelham who succeeded the deceased Sir William Drury but excuseth himselfe by a letter sent by his wife The Earle of Ormond was sent unto him that he should deliver Sanders the Priest the Castles of Carigofoile and Asketton and to submit himself absolutely The prosecuting of him was committed to the Earle of Ormond who ruined Conilo the Rebels only refuge he hanged the Bayliffe of Youghall at his doore for refusing to take an English garrison into the Town besieged the Spaniards in Strangicall but they withdrew themselves and after were all killed and so hard he pressed Desmond and his brethren that madly they intreated the chiefe Justice to take their parts Afterward the Justice sent for the Nobility of Munster to come to him and would not dismisse them till they had given pledges that they would assist against the Rebels They made the Baron of Lixenaw yeeld himself took Carigofoil Castle killed and hanged all the Spaniards in it and the Captain also an Italian San Josephus with 700. Spaniards sent into Ireland THe next Yeare 1580. 700. Spaniards and Italians came to divert the Qu. Forces rather then to conquer Ireland they landed at Smerwick under the command of San Josephus an Italian they fortified it and called it Fort Delor but being followed by the Earle of Ormond they withdrew thence into a valley called Glammingel Some prisoners of them were taken who confest they were 700 and that Armes were brought for 5000 and that more were expected from Spain that to conquer Ireland the Spaniard and Pope had resolved and therefore sent into the hands of Sanders Desmond and his brother John a vast sum of mony That night the Spaniards and Italians returned to their Fort which so soon as Ordinance could be brought and Winter was returned with the Ships of war from England was on every side besieged and after 5 days taken The common Souldiers Italians and Spaniards were put to the sword the Irish hanged only the Captains of the former were preserved Three years after Desmond wandering like a vagabond had his arme almost cut-off by a common Souldier before he was known and after was slain Nicolas Sanders was almost famished in the Woods
A DISCOVERY OF THE POPES PRIDE AMBITION and CRUELTY In a Tyrannicall Barbarous and Bloudy manner exercised on Emperours Kings and Kingdomes The Miseries Ruine and Desolations by them brought on the Christian world WITH Their vitious and unchaste lives their wicked practices for obtaining the Popedome by Murthers Poysonings c. By J. V. LONDON Printed for William Raybould at the Sign of the Unicorn in Pauls-Church-yard 1651. The Contents PHilip the second King of Spain his offer of Marriage with Q. Elizabeth rejected The practice of the Guises with the Q. of Scots against the Crowne of England The Rebellion of the Earles of Northumberland and Westmerland the Pope sends Letters to the King of Spaine and K. of Portugall to send an Army to invade England Leo Dacres joyning with the Rebells indevoureth to deliver the Q. of Scots after a sharp conflict with the Lo. of Hunsdon is put to flight Iames FitZ-Morris of the House of Desmond raiseth Rebellion in Ireland Thomas and Edward Stanley with others conspire against the Queene Don Iohn of Austria his perpetuall but treacherous Edict for Peace Stucley his designe against Ireland turned another way by the K. of Portugall Iames Fitz-Morris his second attempt to reduce Ireland to Popery San Iosephus an Italian sent by the Pope and K. of Spaine with 700. Spaniards and Italians into Ireland Campian Sherewin and others comming into England taken and condemned for Treason Somervile his desperate attempt against the Queenes Person Mendoza the Spanish Embassador thrust out of England for practising with Throgmorton and others to invade the Land D. Parry for practising the Queenes death executed Savage and others their attempt to kill the Queene The French Ambassador his plot to kill the Queene The Spanish Armado in Anno 1588. D. LopeZ his attempt to poyson the Queene Squires practise to poyson the Queenes Saddle Tyrone his Rebellion in Ireland Garnet Catesby and others their attempt for Invasion of England The Hellish Gun-powder Treason Sir Griffin Markham and others their conspiracy against King Iames. The present bloudy Rebellion in Ireland The cruell Massacre at Paris The Murther of Henry the 3d. The Murther of Henry the 4th Gentle Reader THou mayest evidently see by this ensuing discourse what are the fruits and effects of Popery how the Popes have kindled the fier amongst all the Princes and States of Europe and like Balaam the false Prophet troubled us with their wiles cursed the Church and State of England and by their Incendiaries the Priests and Iesuites for effecting their owne pernicious and divellish designes have stirred up one Nation against an other and all Christendome against the English tainted many a great House and endangered their Lives and Estates to the ruine of great and Noble Families in this Kingdome Plots Conspiracies and Attempts of Domestick and Forraigne Enemies of the Romish Religion against the Princes and Kingdomes of England Scotland and IRELAND c. THose which make descriptions of large Countries in small Tables offend not against truth though somewhat against quantity so Pliny telleth us Notwithstanding with much convenience ease to the beholder and truth of observation things are presented to our eyes in those little draughts that the very places themselves being viewed with great trouble and losse of time cannot yeeld more benefit to the most diligent oftentimes not so much Wherfore especially because the Argument cannot be now unseasonable for the abridgement of the Commentaries of large Histories is not unlike Maps of Kingdomes I have here collected out of divers Authours which have severally handled parts of this subject into one The chief conspiracies and attempts against the Kingdomes alone and immediately of great Brittany and Ireland or els mediately through the sides of the Princes of these Countries by Traytors at home or abroad of the Romish Religion or forraigne Enemies by treacherous courses of those of the same bloody superstition The beginning I make the first time of Reformation of Religion here in England under Queen Elizabeth and the extent unto this present yeere I begin no higher then Queene Elizabeth because the Reformation of Henry the eight was but in part and the other of King Edward was an interrupted one by the sudden succession of his sister Qu. Mary the rather because for ought we know there was no great matter plotted against this hopefull young Prince that was not rather from ambition if there was any such then from a desire of subverting Religion Not but thaa the Enemies of our Religion and Kingdome had us then in their minds but other wayes there were before bloody and desperate practises were to be taken in hand to be first entred into of lesse difficulty and more hopefull successe And these are the steps the adversaries of our Religion use to tread who thirsting after England labour first to bring us back to Rome by striving to make our selves hate our own Religion and leave that God which brought us out of the Land of Aegypt bewitching us with glorious Idolatry of the golden Calvs of Rome introducing ignorance and blindnes that we may when our eyes are out patiently grind in the Mill of slavery If this course fail the next is by poyson murder and force of Arms to draw us to Sodom and Aegypt The Reformation of England and Ireland fall under one time and because that of Scotland also differeth not many years in age they may all be brought in one account With the Plots are joyntly handled the Deliverances which in some respect or other may very well be called great either in regard of the misery we had fallen into if God had not prevented them of the slavery of soule and body and this agreeth with all Or else for the strangenesse of the discoveries of their mischiefes sometime almost miraculous before they have come to their birth or disappointing them of their purposes when the Authours have put them in practise and these two respects the one or the other which may well denominate Gods goodnesse to us in disappointing them to be great may be found in all likewise So that for these mercies received we ought to ascribe to our Deliverer that which is due unto him the praise of his own work and continuall thankes for his mercies which even to this day is from those Deliverances of the dayes of old extended we should have bin then betrayed but we had now bin slaves both we our selves and ours one Plot had it succeeded had bin the betraying of England at once to them who love themselves too well to have lost it easily and are so wise that they endure no Traitors but for themselves nor can indure any that loves his Country but a Spaniard We may learne also to trust in him even now particularly who is the same yesterday and to day and for ever nor is his hand shortened that he cannot save nor his eare heavy that he cannot heare those that call upon him lifting up pure hands in
and died stark mad This yeare 1580. Priests and Seminaries much increasing in England severe Laws were enacted against them These were for the most part bred in the English Colledge of Doway founded by the procurement of Alan somtimes a student in Oxford afterward Priest and Cardinall in the year 1568. Afterward under Requesenius government in the Low-countries when the wars were betwixt England and Spain the fugitives were thrust from thence and 2. Colledges erected for them one at Rhemes the other at Rome the first by the Guises the 2d by Gregory the 13. From these places rose in England Hanse Nelson Main Sherward Priests who reported Q. Elizabeth to be an Heretick and so ought to be deposed for which they suffred In the aforesaid yeare 1580. Robert Parsons a man of a turbulent spirit and impudent Campian a more modest man both Jesuites they to serve the Catholicks turns obtained of Pope Gregory an interpretation of Pius his Bull against Q Elizabeth that it bound the Q. and Hereticks always but not Catholicks till a convenient season Campian wrote a Book intituled 10 Reasons in defence of Rome M. Chark answered him soberly Parsons wrote against Chark virulently but Camp 10 Reasons were thorowly answered by D. Whitaker Campian and others condemned EDmund Campian Ralfe Sherwin Luke Kirby Alexander Briant were taken in the year 1581 as Traitors to the Q. and State and condemned for comming into England to stir up sedition Still more and more Priests came into England and for their dangerous doctrin that Princes excommunicate were to be thrown out of their Kingdomes that Princes of any other then the Roman Religion had lost their Kingly dignity that those who had taken orders were freed from Princes jurisdiction and not bound by their Laws it was enacted 1582. that it should be treason to disswade any Subject from his allegiance and from the Religion established in England c. Somerviles attempt to kill the Queen AN Dom 1583. divers Priests and Jesuites wrote dangerous books against Q. Eliz. and certain other Princes excommunicated which prevailed so far that one Somervil a Gentleman breathing out nothing but bloud against the Protestants secretly sought entrance into the Queens presence with a drawn sword set upon one or two in his way and being apprehended confessed that he purposed to have killed the Queen Ed. Arden his father in law a Gentleman of Warwick-shiere and Arderns wife and their daughter Somervils wife and Hall a Priest were condemned as guilty of Somervils practise After 3 days Somervile was found strangled in prison for fear of revealing it as was thought where he lay and Ardern was hanged the next day Mendoza the Spanish Ambassadour thrust out of England IN 1584. some English Gentlemen began to practise the delivery of the Qu. of Scots Francis Throgmorton was suspected by letters written to the Qu. of Scots and intercepted Presently Thomas Lord Paget and Charles Arundell a Courtier left the Land secretly Henry Earle of Northumberland and Philip Earle of Arundel were commanded to their houses And there was great cause of circumspection for the Papists by printed Books incited the Maids of Honour to do that against the Qu. that Judith did against Holofernes Yet was the Queens mercy such that she caused 70. Priests to be sent out of England The chief of them were Gasper Heywood who of all the Jesuites first came into England James Bosgrave John Hart and Edward Rishton who presently after wrote a book against the Queen At this time Bernardinus Mendoza the Spanish Ambassadour was thrust out of England for practising Treason against the State He having dealt with Throgmorton and others to bring in strangers to invade the Land as appeared by Throgmortons action who being apprehended sent one of his packets to Mendoza his other packets being searched there was found a catalogue of all the Havens in England fit to land in and another of all the Noblemen in England which favoured the Romish Religion And he did not deny that he had promised his help to Mendoza and the help of those Nobles it was fit he should deale with A Popish practise against Qu. Elizabeth discovered not without a miracle by Creightous torne Papers a Scottish Jesuite QUeen Elizabeth that rare Paragon of her Sex and that fairly flourishing Flower which Traitors though oft attempted could never nip nor crop up being a Princesse both prudent pious and pittifull seeking therefore a faire opportunity and sutable meanes to set the Queen of Scots at those times tainted with some treasonable practises against her Crown and Person at liberty and for that purpose sent Sr. William Wade who was then returned out of Spain to confer with her of the meanes therunto And the good Queen was about to send Sr. Walter Mildmay to bring this ayme of hers to further issue But some terrours and feares in the interim brake-out between them which disturbed that intention especially by a notable discovery by certain papers which one Creighton a Jesuite sailing into Scotland did then teare in peeces when he was apprehended in the Ship by Dutch-Pirates at Sea whose person being by them ceased-on he tooke forth his papers wherin it seems the project of a traiterous plot against Qu. Elizabeth at that time was described tore them into small peeces and with all his force threw them into the Sea But see how the Lords good providence ordered it as they flew in the ayre the winde blew stifly by force wherof they were all blowne back again into the ship even in a miraculous manner as the Jesuite himself confessed when he saw it Which papers were all kept and gathered together sent to England to Sr. William Wade aforesaid and with much labour and singular skill so joyned and set together again that he found they contained a notable new plot among many other of the Popes the Spaniards and the Guises resolution to invade England Wherupon and by reason of many other rumors of dangers intended against the Queen and whole Kingdome of England a great number of all sorts of men out of common charity and to shew their love and affectionate care of the welfare of the Queen and State bound themselves by an association as then it was called by mutuall promises and subscriptions of hands and seales to prosecute all such by all their force and might even unto death that should attempt any thing against the life of the Queen or welfare of the Kingdome Now the Queen of Scots tooke this as a thing devised to bring her into danger and she also was so continually set upon by seditious spirits who if they may but have accesse are able to draw the greatest Princes to destruction And what have bin their practises from time to time but to bring great personages and greatest Families to ruine Lamentable experience shews openly the fruit of their malice and mischievous plots of treason which they impiously and audaciously call and count nothing els but
3. Ships by the help of David Guin an English servant and the Turkish Rowers were carried into France the rest of this mighty Fleet was by Gods help overthrown and dispersed with 8. fire Ships made to cut their Cables weigh their Anchors and fly confusedly and the Admirall Gallyasse was taken when they began again to gather together they were battered and torne divers of them perishing in the Sea so a Navy 3. years in preparing was overthrowne in a Month many of their men being slain and drowned divers of their Ships sunck and taken not 100 English-men lost and but one Ship driven about Scotland Orchades and Ireland much impaired and returned with shame Gods Name be honoured Lopez his undertaking to poyson the Queene IN the Yeare 1593. one Stephen Ferrera de Gama which came with Don Antonio the expulsed K. of Portugall into England and afterwards sought to be reconciled to the K. of Spaine being of inward familiarity with one Roger Lopez a Portugues the Queens Physitian prevailed with him to promise to poyson Q. Elizabeth Ferrera writeth to Ibarra the K. of Spains Secretary at wars about the promise of Lopez and his requiring for the undertaking 50000. Crowns Ferrera promised him that there should one come in the habit of a Marriner to him who should bring him the value of 50000. Crowns in Rubies and Diamonds this was Lopez own confession who added also that it could not be but that the King of Spaine was acquainted with the matter for the mony was to come from the King of Spaine he further confessed that Stephen Ferrera told him that if he would offer to the Count Fuentes this great service to poyson her Majesty he should want no mony and hereupon he was content that Ferrera should write to tâ—â— Count Fuentes or Secretary Ibarra to assure them that the Doctor would undertake to poyson her this secret was discovered by letters which were intercepted for all letters to any Portugues and every Portugues comming from beyond Sea was to be staied superscribed to Diego Hernandes from Francis Torres Diego Hernandes Ferrera confessed to be himselfe Francis Torres was one Manoel Lowys who had served the King of Portugall but remained now at Bruxels about Count Fuentes the letter was very mysticall and pretended merchandise as that the Merchants on the other side did commend his wares c. assuring him of good returne c. and therefore desired him to continue there some time They commended the Jewell he sent and reported how the Amber and Musk was highly esteemed and spake of broad Cloath Scarlet threads of Pearle Dyamond c. which letter was confessed to be in Answer to that was written by Lopez to take away the Queenes life more letters there were to the foresaid purpose from Secretary Ibarra to Stephen Ferrera and from the Count Fuentes at Bruxells Stephen Ferrera told Peter Ferrera his Keeper that himselfe and Lopez had written into Spaine and made offer to give the Qu. poyson Squires Practice to poyson the Queenes Saddle ANno Dom 1596. one Edward Squire sometimes a Scrivener at Grenewich afterwards a deputy Purveyer for the Queens Stable in S. Francis Drakes last voyage was taken prisoner and carried into Spaine and being set at liberty one Walpole a Jesuite grew acquainted with him and got him into the Inquisition whence he returned a resolved Papist he perswaded Squire to undertake to poyson the Pummell of the Queenes Saddle and to make him constant made Squire receive the Sacrament upon it he then gave him the poyson shewing that he should take it in a double bladder and should prick the bladder full of hoales in the upper part when he should use it carrying it within a thick glove for the safety of his hand should after turne it downward pressing the bladder upon the Pummell of the Queenes Saddle This Squire confest Squire is now in Spaine and for his safer dispatch into England it was devised that two Spanish prisoners taken at Cales should be exchanged for Squire and one Rowles that it might not be thought that Squire came over but as a redeemed captive The Munday sevennight after Squire returned into England he understanding the Horses were in preparing for the Queenes riding abroad laid his hand and crushed the poyson upon the Pummell of the Queenes Saddle saying God save the Qu. the Qu. rode abroad and as it should seem laid not her hand upon the place or els received no hurt through Gods goodnesse by touching it Walpole counting of it as of a thing done imparted it to some principall fugitives there but being disappointed of his hope supposing Squire to have bene false to be revenged on him sent one hither who should pretend to have stolne from thence with letters wherein the plot of Squire was contained this letter was pretended to be stolne out of one of their Studies Squire being apprehended confessed all without any rigor but after denied that he put it in execution although he acknowledged he consented to it in the Plot at length he confessed the putting it in execution also Earle of Tyrones Rebellion ANno Dom 1597. Hugh a Bastard made Earle of Tyrone by Q. Eliz pardoned also by her for a murder and usurping the Title of Oneale set on by the Spaniard with whom he had lived a fugitive assaulted the Fort of Blackwater and at that very time when he wrote to S. John Norris the English Generall that he might be dealt mildly withall least he should run on the rocks of rebellion wrote also to Kildare to side with him the Qu desiring to spare shedding of blood agreed unto a conference with him by her Commissioners the Rebell not liking the conditions proposed by the Commissioners departed and spoiled the Country about Blackwater and plucked down the Town of Dunganon The Country wasted and no victuall to be had Tyrone presented to the Generall a Petition craving pardon upon his knees at the foote of the Qu picture and in the mean time dealt for aide out of Spaine the K. of Spaine promised him aide requiring him to admit of no Articles of peace with the English hereupon though there was a cessation of Armes he burneth and spoileth the Country then he put on againe his old habit of dissimulation and sues for pardon presently by shufling or neglect Conaught and Vlster revolted then he fell to rebellion againe and about the Blackwater overthrew 1500. English then the Earle of Essex comming Generall into Ireland he cleared Munster thence went into Lemster against the O Conors and O Neales whom he vanquished he sent thence S. Conyers Clifford against Ororke himselfe going another way to distract the Forces of Tyrone but S. Conyers was slaine and his Forces defeated Tyrone comming neare to the Generall he declared he desired not to fight but parley of peace which was denyed afterward he obteyned conference with the L. Generall and then another conference where it was concluded that next day
Commissioners should meet to treat of peace then was the L. Generall sent for into England after whose departure Tyrone takes the Field againe in the time of cessation of Armes the Spaniard sent him some Money and Ammunition the Popes Indulgences and a Plume of Peacock-Feathers Anno 1600. The L. Mountioy came into Ireland as Lieutenant Generall and in divers small skirmishes beat the Rebels The Spaniard to further the Rebellion sent Don John de Aquila with 2000. old trained Souldiers with some Irish fugitives who landed at Kingsale There were also at that same time 2000. Spaniards more arrived at Been-haven Ballimore and Castle-haven The L. Deputy encamped neare Kingsale S. Richard Levison with two of the Queenes Ships blockt up the Haven and on both sides the Town was battered Then S. Richard Levison sunke five of their Ships To these Spaniards Odonel betook himselfe and presently after Tyrone Orork Raymund Burk Mac Mahon Randul Mac Surly and Tirrell with the chiefe of the Nobility in all 6000. Foote and 500. Horse Tyrone on a hill not far from the Camp made a bravado two dayes together as if he would give the English Battaile The L. Deputy at the foote of the hill chose a convenient plot to fight with him but Tyrone soundeth a retreat whom the L. Generall followed and forced to make a stand in midst of a bogge where by the E. of Clanrikard their Horse were routed and defeated Alonso O. Campo one of the Spanish Generalls and six Ensign-bearers were taken prisoners and the Ensignes taken by the English and 1200. Spaniards slaine Tyrone was forced to fly into Vlster Odonel fled into Spaine the rest hid themselves The L. Generall returned to Kingsale to batter it in 6. dayes space the enemy attempted nothing against him The Don John offereth conditions of surrendring the Town which propounded the L. Generall the English being wearied out with a Winters siege agreeth with the Spaniard on certaine Articles and taketh possession of the Town and sendeth away all the Spaniards as well as those in this Town into Spaine The next Spring the Generall pursueth Tyrone into Vlster and spoileth the Country upon which the Rebels make haste to come in unto the Deputy and Tyrone beggeth pardon upon his knees From Dublin Tyrone should have bin carried into England but the Queens death hindered that and K. James pardoned him Afterward he entred into another conspiracy with Ocane but being sent for with a Processe to answer a suite which the Bishop of Derry had against him and fearing he had bin sent for for his conspiracy he fled out of Ireland Garnet Catesby and others labour to invade England IN the last Yeare of Queen Elizabeth there was a plot layed against her by Garnet Catesby and others that the Spaniard should joyne with the Papists here in the Invasion of England Winter was sent into Spaine for that purpose and Creswell the leger Jesuite in Spaine Don Pedro Francisco second Secretary of State and the Duke of Lerma assured Winter that this Message would be very acceptable to the K. of Spaine Then had Winter an Answer by Count Miranda that the K. would bestow 100000. Crownes toward the expedition and at the next Spring at farthest would set his foote in England Winter returneth and acquainteth Garnet Catesby and Tresham with all and they others but before the next Spring the Queen died The Gun-powder-Treason AT the Queens death Christopher Wright was sent into Spaine and Guy Fawkes also from Bruxels by S. William Stanley to advertise them there that K. James was as violent against the Catholicks as Q Elizabeth and therfore urged the Spaniard to prosecute the old designe The Jesuites privately suggested that they should not admit him into England as being an heretick Catesby held that the K. being an heretick forfeiteth his Kingdome before any sentence pronounced The Parl was dissolved the 7th of July which the K. held and prorogued till the 7 â—h of February Catesby at Lambeth broke with Winter about blowing up the Parliament House Winter told him that it strooke at the roote but what and if it should not take effect Catesby won Winter to consent but first said he goe over and winne the Constable to obteyne more favour for Catholicks and if you may bring over with you some confident Gentlemen as M. Fawkes Winter went met with the Constable at Bergin and delivered his Message The Constable answered that his Master commanded him to doe all good offices for the Catholicks but he shewed the Constable nothing of the matter Fawkes and Winter came both into England This plot of blowing up the Parliament House after an Oath of secrecy and the Sacrament received upon it Catesby disclosed it to Percy and Winter and Wright to Fawkes Percy hired the House Fawkes was pretended to be Percies man and Names himselfe Johnson and kept the keyes of the House till the adjournment of the Parliament at which time all the conspirators departed into the Country A House was hired at Lambeth by Percy to keep the Powder and Wood for the mine to which it was to be conveyed When the plot had taken effect what should they doe Percy with two or three of them with a dozen more would seize on the Duke and carry him away The Lady Elizabeth was to be surprized at a hunting neare the L. Harringtons They would save from the Parliament first Catholicks then some particular persons While they wrought in the mine they fed on baked meates that they might not goe forth At Candlemas the Powder is brought over about which time working in the mine they came against a stoâ—â— wall when hearing a rushing noise of Coales they feared they were diâ—covered But it was only the moving of Coales to be sould which Cellar Fawkes hired 20. Barrells of Powder they had provided which they hid with Billets and Fagots Fawkes went into Flanders to acquaint therewith Stanley and Owen Stanley was not there Owen approved it Percy and Catesby met at the Bathe and it was agreed that Catesby should call in whom he thought best the number being small He called in Sir Everard Digby and afterward M. Tresham The Parliament was anew prorogued till the 5. of November Then the conspirators all went into the Country and returned 10. dayes before the Parliament and hearing that the Prince would be absent from the Parliament said they would then seize on the Prince and let alone the Duke Saturday before the Kings returne which was on Thursday a letter in the street was delivered to the L. Mounteagles man to put into his Masters hand Jt had neither date nor superscription and by the Lord was that night sent to the Earle of Salisbury who made acquainted with it the Lord Chamberlaine the Lord Admirall the Earle of Worcester and Northampton The Letter was this My Lord OVt of the love I beare to some of your friends I have a care of your preservation Therefore I would advise you
a most accursed Covenant just as our Popish-Pouder-Traitors did in their damnable designe and bound themselves by an oath of Confederation and Secrecy Reily a prime Popish-Priest and others like his father the Devill compassing the Earth farre and neer to draw into their conspiracy such as had not before bin therwith acquainted as also to satisfie all scruples if any arose in any of their minds about the lawfullnesse of their actions just as Garnet that old Romish Jesuiticall Fox did with his Pouder-conspirators 1605. And wheras they falsly have masked this their most inhumane Treason and Rebellion under the Kings name pretending his authority and all they did or doe in obedience to his Majesty and tender respect to his Royall Prerogative yet it hath bin by some others of them professed that they intended to have a King of their own yea that they had one already some saying Tyrone was he others Sir Philim O Neal who hath bin audaciously and traiterously honoured with the stile of his Majesty and that they will with the assistance of Spain and France set footing in England having completed their own devillish Irish-work and after that in Scotland where all things being setled to their desires the whole forces of Ireland in way of retribution and acknowledgement of gratitude was intended as hath bin confessed for the King of Spain against the Hollanders Such mighty and invincible Conquerours had they made themselves in their owne conceipts and most bold and bloudy imaginations Unto which their horrible disloyalty and unparalleld treachery and Rebellion they added most execrable expressions of unheard of hatred and inhumane barbarity to the Subjects of the English-Nation Banishment or perpetuall slavery were the greatest favours that would have bin afforded them their generall profession being for a generall extirpation even to the last and least drop of English-blood from among them Yea and that which transcends all former extents of rage and unpattern'd wrath and malignity not so much as an English beast or any of that breed was to be left alive in that whole Kingdom And as the hearts and tongues of these most base and abhominable Traitors and Rebels were boundlesly and extremely cruell in intention and profession So it pleased the Lord for the sins of his people there to permit power unto these barbarous Rebels to act with their hands the most accursed and profane perpetrations that ever Christian eyes beheld or eares have heard of both for impiety against God and his holy Gospell and almost unexpressible inhumanity toward the true Professours therof among them blaspheming our God stripping his Servants starke naked and then bidding them goe to their God to be cloathed againe breaking into Churches burning Pulpits with extream hatred to our Religion and exceedingly tryumphing in all their impieties Dragging some Professours of the Gospell by the haire of their heads through the Streets into the Churches and there stripping and whipping them and with most cruell and taunting termes abusing them telling them if they came to morrow they should heare the like Sermon Yea so excessively impious was their hatred to the Gospell of Christ that they tooke the sacred bookes of the holy Scriptures and cast them into kennels and puddles of dirt and mire treading them under-foot and leaping and skipping on them and ô horrid impiety causing a bagg-pipe to play all the while and bidding a plague upon them saying they were the cause of all quarrels and burning some and saying it was hell-fire that was then flaming and wishing they had all the Bibles in Christendome that they might use them so And as for the most inhumane and more than Scythian cruelties of these Irish Canibals and most barbarous blood-sucking Tygres of whom we may most properly say as Jacob did of his bloody sons Simeon and Levi in their massacre of the Shechemites Gen. 49.7 Cursed be their anger for it was fierce their wrath for it was cruell Yea certainly more cruell than ever any eye did see or ear did heare yea I say past the most exquisite historicall expressions of any ancient or modern Relations witnes their stripping stark-naked men women and children even children sucking their poore mothers brests whereby multitudes of all sorts ages and Sexes in the extremitie of that cold season of frost and snow have most lamentably perished women being dragg'd up and downe naked women in child-bed drawne out thence and cast into prison one delivered of a child while she was hanging one ripped up horresco referens and two children taken out of her and all cast unto and eaten up by Swine One stab'd in the brest her child sucking An infant cruelly murthered whom they found sucking his dead mother slain by them the day before A child of 14 years of age taken from his mother in her sight cast into a Bog-pit and held under water while he was drowned Together with many other yet more horrid hideous and more than savage or beast-like barbarities too terrible for me any farther to relate but may be more fully found in that most lamentable Remonstrance of this Irish-Rebellion and all there proved by testimonies on Oath wherunto I referr the Reader Which makes me call to mind that old observation proverbially spoken of Ireland which is That no poysonous Serpent will live on Irish-ground which how true in the historicall meaning I know not but now I am sure 't is most false in the mysticall meaning of it for here it seems that Satans Serpentine seed a brood of most poysonous native-Serpents Adders and Snakes of villany and cruelty doe live yea and thrive there also but I trust but for a season for certainly the Lord the most righteous Judge of all men and severe revenger of all wrongs will not suffer such horrible impieties and unpattern'd cruelties to goe unpunished but will undoubtedly ruinate such a pestilent generation of Romish Vipers and Babilonish blood-suckers as these are which he hath already most blessedly begun First by his most gracious and timely discovery of their main plot the taking of the City of Dublin which was indeed the Master-peice of their intended Epidemical mischief but prevented I say by the Lords great mercy and good providence in a most strange manner by a native Irish Gentleman one M. Owen Mack-Connell once Servant to that pious and most worthy Gentleman Sir John Clotworthy and this also by a most remarkable way and worke of the Lords speciall providence as is more particularly and punctually related in the preamble of Irelands Tears to which I referre the Reader And secondly by the Lords most glorious and victorious over-powring the out-ragious power and petulancy of those barbarous miscreants now in open Rebellion by the hands of a very small remnant of poore Protestants there among them who by reason of the most unhappy distractions and unnaturall civill-discords raised up among us in England by the Popish Faction also and their Pontifician abettors cannot be by us so
sufficiently supplyed with men and arms as is fit and much desired therfore I say the Lord of Hoasts abhorring and abominating such atrocious and hell-fomented blasphemies murthers and mercilesse cruelties makes his just indignation and wrath to prosecute and pursue them at the heeles giving those small and inconsiderable companies such admirable and even almost miraculous victories over them as most evidently declare the hand of the Lord to be against them and his gracious purpose utterly to supplant and exterminate such devillishly desperate and intolerably barbarous and bloody Rebels and Traitors the lively lims and lineaments of that bloody Strumpet of Rome The most bloody Massacre at Paris Anno 1572. extracted out of the French History truly and briefly related ANd now good Reader give me leave a little to seeme to digresse not so much from the matter as from the persons and places at first propounded and to looke but a little into our neighbour Kingdome of France where I say I shall only vary from personages but the subject matter the same with the former setting forth the bloody plots and conspiracies of the Popish Faction among them also against those of the reformed Protestant Religion in France and especially in that most butcherly and barbarous Massacre at Paris where it primarily and chiefly began to be cruelly acted and executed on Gods innocent lambes marked out to the slaughter before hand And thus it was in brief In the yeares 1571. and 72. Charles the ninth then K. of France the said K. the then Duke of Guise and others of the Romish Faction bearing a most inveterate hatred which was craftily concealed against those of the Religion and in speciall against the then most renowned Admirall of France whose Piety Prudence and Prowesse was such and in so high esteem of all both friends and foes also that whiles he subsisted and survived the Popish-party maugre their malice could doe nothing to any purpose to the prejudice of the cause of the Religion At last a plot was laid most craftily and cruelly under pretence of a marriage between the Prince of Navarr a noble and pious Prince of the Religion and the Kings Sister by which snare to bring the said Prince the Admirall and the rest of the heads of the Religion to the Court and City of Paris that so these heads being first smitten-off the inferiour members therof might the more easily be destroyed Under this colour I say the King invites the Admirall to the Court at Paris pretends a faire correspondence and agreement of all matters in difference 'twixt his Majesty and those of the Religion especially himselfe and the Admirall and a reconcilement also betweene this noble Admirall and the Duke of Guise In which interim one Lignerolles a French Gentleman was openly slain in the Court for discovering some secrets concerning this plot against those of the Religion and the Cardinall of Chastillon then in England and ready to depart thence for France brother to the Admirall of France was poysoned by one of his Chamberlaines and dyed therof to the great griefe of all his friends and servants The most noble and religious Admirall on the Kings invitation comes to Paris was with extraordinary fair shows of love and regall respect most welcomely entertained both he and divers others of the Religion that came with him The fore-said marriage was not long after solemnized in Paris with great pretences of joy and content on all sides expressed in most sumptuous and liberall feasts and banquets Maskes and dances the sweet innocent Princes little dreaming of such a dance to be now a leading by the King Queen-mother and Duke of Guise with the rest of their Romish bloody faction as stain'd nay steep'd all their dainties in streames of their hearts blood in so much as 't was admired to see such a seeming friendly mixture of those of the Religion with the Romish Catholiks just like so many lambs among so many greedy wolvs Now whiles every one imployed himself in such like mirth jollity divers that were sent for by the K. Q-Mother Du. of Guise that so they might be sure to be the stronger party speedily arrived in Paris the Catastrophe of all that follows having bin made not long before among them the Dukes of Guise and Anjon being the principall actors openly seen in this wicked work who resolved not to let the Admirall depart out of Paris but there to dispatch him and all such as should indeavour to defend him Now it so fell out that one morning the Admirall comming out of the Lonure and going to dine at his lodging being on foot and without least suspition of any villanie to be attempted against him as he was reading a Petition one shot at him with a harquebush the bullet wherof tooke away the fore-finger of his right-hand and hurt him in the left-arme the villaine that shot escaped by flight a horse standing ready to post him away after he had done the deed The noble Admirall being therupon brought to his lodging shewed most singular Piety Constancy and Patience under his Surgeons hands was visited by divers Lords and Gentlemen of the Religion the K. of Navarr now the K. of France his brother in law and the Prince of Conde The French K. also though a maine plotter in the work craftily complained to these Princes of the mischiefe thus happened protesting his sorrow and swearing revenge and severe execution of Justice on the offendor whosoever he were The K. himself also went to visit the Admirall making many serious and deep protestations of his high esteem of his loyalty and fidelity to his Person and Crowne alwayes and that he held and esteemed him a most discreet and valiant Commander in Arms and that therfore he much respected him with many such like French complements Immediately after the Kings departure the K. of Navarr and the Prince of Conde were certainly but very secretly enformed of the intended massacre on all of the Religion and advised as speedily as they could to get away out of Paris and to be assured that that blow given to the Admirall was but the beginning of the Tragedy but alas good Princes they so much confided on the Kings vows promises that they rejected this advise and counsel staied ther still About Saturday evening being the 23. of Aug. 1572. certain Protestant Gen. offered themselves to watch that night with the good Admirall but Teligny his son in law would not suffer them but dismissed them with many thanks little suspecting still any approaching or precipitating danger on his father Night being come-on the Duke of Guises Lieut. in this action which now at this present was to be declared to the Duke of Anjon sent for all the Captains of the Switzers and companies of Strangers which still increased into the Town shewing them his Commissions to kill the Admir and all his partakers exhorting them to be couragious in shedding of blood and making spoyle of