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A08075	Newes from the low-countreyes. Or The anatomy of Caluinisticall calumnyes, manifested in a dialogue betweene a Brabander, and a Hollander Vpon occasion of a placcart, lately published in Holla[n]d, against the Iesuites, priests, friars &c. by those that there assume vnto themselues, the tytle of the high-mighty-lords, the States &c. Translated out of the Netherland language, into English. By D.N.; Anatomie van Calviniste calumnien. English.	Verstegan, Richard, ca. 1550-1640.; D. N., fl. 1622.; Cresswell, Joseph, 1556-1623, attributed name.	1622 (1622)	STC 18443; ESTC S120471	29,088	102

going frō the bridge ouer the riuer of Mayne from the Citty of Herbipolis or Wirtzburge to the Castle where he held his Court or Residence which Castle is neere vnto the sayd Citty His murther was caused by a Gentleman of the same Countrey of Franconia called Grumbagh What kynd of Iesuit this Gentleman was resteth in consideration for Catholike he was not but a professor of the new pretended reformation and so were also the actours which he imployed in committing of the murther The second in this vnfortunate nūber was Henry King of Scotland by his mariage with Mary Queen of Scotland Father to his Maiesty King Iames now King of England Scotlād c. This Prince was a Catholike and was murthered by a conspiracy of Caluinists and by Caluinists which thereunto were imployed he is thought to haue byn strangled These then must needes haue bin Caluinisticall Iesuites aswell those I meane that were of the conspiracy as the executors of the fact for there was not one Catholike among them The third was Iames Earle of Murray in Scotland bastard Brother vnto Mary Queene of Scotland before named He was a rebell and a persecutour of the Queene his Soueraygne and Sister by the Fathers side He forced her to fly into England and Tyrannically vsurped the Gouernment of her Kingdome vntill the time that a Gentleman named Hamilton slew him with a gun in the towne of Lithquo when being on horsbacke he was accōpanyed with many Gentleman that came with him to make his entry into that towne Hamilton notwithstanding escaped and fled into France The Earle was in religion Caluinist and so was Hamilton also that slew him It may be that he afterward in France became a Catholike If the Holland Caluinists wil make a Iesuyte of him then must he haue byn a Caluinisticall Iesuite when he committed the fact for Catholike-Iesuite he neuer was The fourth in this number was Francis Duke of Guyse This valiant Prince seruing the King of France agaynst his rebells was by one Iohn Poltrot who came behind him shot throgh the body with a pistoll as he was on horsebacke in his iourney it is worthy the noting that this Poltrot being well horst and hauing discharged his pistoll vpon the Duke put spurres to his horse and made a way with all speed possible and hauing ridden the whole night and not otherwise weening but that he was many myles from the place where he committed the murther was in the morning apprehended neere vnto the place where the deed was done If this Poltrot must now be made a Iesuyte he must then be a Geneuian Iesuyte for Geneua was his schoole and Beza the Caluinian Rabbin his schoolmayster that instructed him to murther this Prince The fifth in this nūber was William of Nassaw Prince of Orange who being in open rebellion agaynst his lawfull Soueraygne Lord King Philip second of Spayne the which by all the lawes of the world is Crimen laesae maiestatis was at Delfe in Holland slayne with a pistoll by one Baltazar Gerard alias Seragh a Burgundian Of what religion this Prince was there is no certainty but Baltazar that slew him was a Catholike that he was a Iesuyte was neuer knowne but if Caluinistes haue gotten the skill to make him a Iesuyte eight and thirty yeares after his death who in his life was neuer any it may be registred for a Caluinisticall miracle The sixt in nūber was Mary Queene of Scotland Mother vnto his Maiesty that now is King of Scotland and Englād c. This Princesse being an absolute and soueraygne Queene being enforced by her rebellious subiects fled into England vpon hope and promise to be by Queene Elizabeth succoured She was with the Queene of England in good peace and amity and was by her through her letters inuyted for her more defence and safety to come into England but so soone as she was there arriued she was layed handes on and detayned as a prisoner directly against all right and reason and so detayned about the space of twenty yeares In all which tyme Queene Elizabeth did neuer so much as once vouchsafe to see her or heare her speake In the end when she accepted of the meanes that was offered her for the escaping out of her vniust imprisonment she was murthered with an axe by the hands of the comon Hang-man which most foule and great murther was cōmitted to the euerlasting dishonour shame of false Iustice because it was done vnder the cloke and colour of true Iustice for she being an absolute Soueraigne Princes of herselfe was no subiect vnto Queene Elizabeth or vnto her lawes and yet notwithstanding she was condemned as a criminall subiect A most Tyrannous example of very murther and iniustice vnto all ensuyng posterity And most contrary to the doctrine of Caluinists that will haue Princes subiect to no authority or power vpon earth but only vnto God vnlesse they can heere make a God of Bul the Hangman This act doth the more remain to the greater shame of the actors because vpon the committing therof great bonfyers were made in the streets and the belles rung in manner of a triumph for ioy of obtaining some great victory This Queene was a Catholike The Hangman that murthered her was a Caluinian Protestant whose handes had byn imbrued in the bloud of diuers Iesuytes Priestes in the raigne of the forsayd Queene Elizabeth If Holland Caluinistes will now make a Iesuyte of of him he must then be a Gewse-reformed Iesuite that can be no great disreputation vnto them seeing that Mayster Paul Bafous a hangman in Liuonia or Liftland left his office of hangmanship and turned preacher of the Word according to the Holland reformation Vpō the death of this holy Queen the Calumnies of Caluinists raised against Iesuytes are contradicted in the ensuing Epigramme OVR Caluinists of Iesuites complayne That they of Kings and Princes killers be But if heerin they did not falsely fayne They must some such the world let know and see But since so much as one they do not show To what end then serues this Calumniation To seeme to hate for sooth Prince-killing so As hauing thereof no imagination And that meane whyle they heerof others taxe They as vnseene may bring them to the axe The seauenth in this number is Henry the third King of France who after he had caused Henry Duke of Guyse his brother the Cardinall to be muthered was murthered himselfe by one Iacques Clement a lacobin or Dominican Friar This King was a Catholyke so was also the Fryar that killed him If our Holland-Gewses wil now make a Iesuyte of him that dyed in the habite of a Dominican Fryar for he was presently killed by those that then were about the King they can do more then the French Hugenots who would as fayne haue had him a Iesuite as the Holland-Gewses would but they must notwithstanding be contented to let him be a Dominican

Fryar as he liued and dyed Heere can I not omit also to note that if so be that for this fact of Iaques Clement the Caluinists should giue vnto the Fryars of S. Dominikes order the name of a Pernicious and Murtherous Sect or that they sought to bring subiects to the murthering of Princes and Potentates they had in all truth done the Religious men of this Order much wrong for there can be no reason that a whole order should beare the blame reproach of the fault that one of the same order hath committed and wherin the others were innocent How much lesse reason can then be found that the Iesuites of whose order no one was euer knowne that euer killed Prince or other person should of slaunderous Gewses be calumniated with the name of a murtherous sect and to be stirrers vp of the inhabitants of Holland to the murthering of Princes and Potentates which were a greater pitty for the inhabitants of Holland to doe considering that Princes Potentates are not among them in so great aboundance vnlesse the meaning of the Placcart should be that the Iesuites and Priestes did intend to imploy the inhabitants of Holland to goe murther Princes and Potentates in other Countreys The eight and last of this vnfortunate number and ranke was Henry the fourth King of France who was murthered by one Francis Rauaillac and if so be the Holland Gewses will make of him a Iesuite also yet the administers of Iustice in France which are as far-seeing as those of Holland and haue throughly enformed themselues of this mans condition and state of life and done their vttermost endeauours to come to the full knowledge of all that might concerne the matter of the Kings death could neuer find that he so was And yet the sharp-sighted states of Holland that can looke further into milstones then other men can better discerne who are the murtherers of Princes and Potentates in other Countreyes then the officers of Iustice themselues in whose handes they happen to fall that commit such criminall facts The Hollander But can there no Princes els be found that haue byn killed or murthered since the Iesuites haue had ther beginning then only these you haue named The Brabander I know not of any more but of this number of eight Marry heere by the way is to be noted that fiue of this number haue byn murthered by Caluinists and three by Catholikes King Henry 3. King Henry 4. both Kings of France William of Nassaw Prince of Orange by Catholikes Melchior Zobell Bishop of Wirtzburge and Duke of Franconia Henry King of Scotland Iames Earle of Murray Francis Duke of Guyse and Mary Queene of Scotland by Caluinists And if thinges had succeeded according to intentions Caluinists had had the honour to haue had six of these eight to haue byn murthered by them for William Prince of Orange before named was in very great possibility to haue byn murthered by a Protestant also and I wot not how many Zeland States with him to haue borne him cōpany in the ayre when he and they should haue byn blowne vp togeather with gunpowder wherof I may take occasion to speake more anone In the meane time behold whether in this odious busynesse of Prince killing Caluinists haue not the precedence by oddes Notwithstanding they cry out so lowd and so falsely vpon Iesuites giuing thē the name of a pernicious and murtherous sect when themselues in this foule fact fall foulest of all that therein are to be touched the Iesuites not found to be touched at all Let all the world now iudge to whome it is that the odious Epithete of Prince-killing is best befitting either to Iesuites or Calumists Who might not laugh at this mad accusation and thinke that reformed Holland-Gewses are turned fooles not knowing what they say They seeme through the vehemency of their malice to be become blind and giue occasion themselues of the manifestation of their owne shame which before lay vndiscouered What strange kindes of Iesuites haue heere byn found among the murtherers of Princes and Potentates The Holland Gewse-reformed brethrē may heere see what comes of lying That their preachers continew their lying in their pulpits I can in some sort tollerate the poore fellowes haue charge of wife children their preaching is their trade to liue by and to mayntaine their families But the worshipfull Lordes the States to lye and to publish lyes in Printed Placcarts that indeed is somwhat to grosse you may please to excuse me for beeing so free with your Lords and States Because He that speaketh what he should not Must heare for his answer what he wold not Me thinkes they that practise lying should in reason become more cūning then to make lyes that are so grosse and palpable and doe indeed bring credit and reputation to Iesuites and shame vnto themselues that spred them for alwayes it is found that when any one is accused and afterward found innocent the accuser is cursed and hated the false accused pittyed beloued and belieued These Caluinian Calumniatours will seeme by calling Iesuites Priests the murtherers of Princes and Potentates as if they poore innocent soules were becom great Care-takers for Princes Potentates safeties This surely is a very suddainly-growne-vp affection they were not wont to be so for me thinks it is not so long ago that Princes can haue forgotten that at such tyme as their subiects rebelled against them the good Hollād-Gewses were alwayes readier to assist their rebelles agaynst them then them against their rebelles I must needes acknowledge some reason why it so should be that is that simile gaudet simili if at this day any Princes find this to be true themselues know it best But further to manifest their good affection to Princes we are to note that it hath not only byn shewed in the fiue aforenamed who they murtherously haue bereft of their liues but also in some vnto whome euen after their deathes they haue shewed indignity and villany as vnto William the Conqueror King of England who was buryed at Cane in Normandie where the French-Hugenotes in their Rebellion in the yeare 1562. vnder conduct of Chastilian when they tooke this towne and spoyled the Churches they brake open the tombe of this great Cōquerer and threw his bones about the streets At Orleans where they also committed their Church-robbery and Sacrilege they brake open the tombe of King Lewys the eleuenth and burnt his bones The bones of Iohn Earle of Angolesme Father to King Francis the first of France who for his vertue deuotion deuotion was reputed as a Saint they suffered not to rest in his sepulcher but threw them out This hate may haue proceeded of two causes the one because he was a Prince the other posible the greatest because of his Sanctity for to the bones of Saints or holy mē haue Caluinists shewed so great hatred that at Towres they tooke the bones of the

and fauour came vnto her and told her that at his being in Italy where he bare himselfe as a Catholike hauing leaue so to do he there demaunded of a Iesuyte if it should be a deed well done to kill the Queene and that the Iesuyte answered yea that thereupon he had promised the Iesuyte to do it Parry being then demaunded if he had not in his trauayles abroad byn acquaynted with one Father William Criton a Scotish Iesuyte who at that tyme was prisoner in the Tower of London he answered yea Being then demaunded if he had asked the same question of the sayd Father Criton he answered he had but that Father Criton had disswaded him from it he thought belike that if he had answered yea he should haue byn brought face to face with Father Criton who might haue conuinced shamed him and therefore he thought it easier for him to bely a Iesuyte that was absent then one that was present Father Criton within a whyle after was deliueret out of the Tower and the rather for that he was a Scotsman no borne subiect howbeit he was bannished out of the Countrey Parry because of his seruices in matter of spiery solicited to haue a place and office that now was fallen vacāt the place was giuen to another Parry grew malecontent and cast out wordes of murmuration The Earle of Leycester loued him not he was known and discouered among the Catholikes for a spy that he had broght diuers principall Catholikes in trouble being thus discouered he was grown out of date and vnable to do seruices of the same kind as he had formerly done Parry was apprehended and charged he had an intention to kill the Queene in fine he was hanged and this was at last the reward he got for the good offices he had done The reason why he was hanged seemeth to haue byn that if they had let him liue not giuen him liuing according to his desyre he might haue discouered many secrets he wrote a letter vnto the Queene out of the Tower wherin among other things he sayd vnto her Pitty poore Parry and relieue him for life without liuing is not fit for him It is no custome that a criminall offender and in so haynous a matter as the murthering of a Prince shall not only wryte to be set at liberty but to be prouided of meanes to liue by He knew well that they knew that the counsell which he said was giuen him by a Iesuite in Italy was but an inuention of his owne head for the more conuenient persecuting of such as might be found to haue receaued Iesuytes into their howses of the confiscation of whose goods Parry might haue had his share but it so fell out that Parry played wily-beguyle himselfe For when he came to the gallovves and savv how the matter went he grew so ill contented that he plainly sayd that the Queene after his death would say that she had lost the best keeper of her parke Some yeares after the death of Parry one Edward Squyre was also hanged who as it was giuen out did meane to poyson the Queene Earle of Essex who afterward by the sayd Queene was put to death This Equire came out of Spayne and sayd that a Iesuyte there had coūselled him to poison the Queen and the Earle The poyson he sayd was deliuered him in a bladder in Spayne there with he should annoint the saddle wheron the Earle should ryde and the chayre wherin the Queene should sit This must haue byn a very wonderfull poyson that a chayre a saddle being but annoynted therewith it would kill those who should sit in the one ride on the other Who cānot thinke this to be a most palpable lye how must he then speed that must bring this forcefull poyson in a bladder if any bladder could contein it and anoynt it on the chayre and on the saddle But the lying foolish knaue that came with this tale in his mouth vpon hope of reward because he would not performe the busines but discouered it was notwithstanding rewarded at Tiburne with a halter which was held necessary because it might be thought the Queene had much reasō to sustaine the quarrell of the Hollanders seeing Spayne so much hated her that murtherers were sent from thence for her destruction for Squyre was ouerborne by the force and torment of the racke to intend meane the thing indeed that himselfe came to reueale and so was hanged notwithstanding he was a good Protestant As concerning the constant and glorious Martyr Father Edmund Campian who with others to wit thirteene in number was condemned for hauing in Rome and Rhemes conspired the Queens death as a couple of most false witnesses affirmed is as shamefull and vniust a matter as euer any did passe by way and course of Iustice for after these false witnesses had taken their oathes that these thirteene persons had at Rome and Rhemes on such and such days of such such moneths of such a yeare conspired the Queens death one Mayster Thomas Lancaster a Gentleman and one Mayster William Nicolson being there present and both credit-worthy persons did offer to proue by diuers witnesses that some of these thirteen persons had not byn out of England that yeare wherin the false witnesses had sworne they conspired the Queens death in Rome Rhemes that they had not bin out of England in some yeares both before that yeare and after it and the prisoners themselues protested at the Barre on their soules that in all the dayes of their lyues they had neuer byn all togeather at one tyme in one place but only there that very day And albeit the protestation and offer of proofe made by the two persons before named had byn sufficient in all law and iustice throughout the world to haue discouered these false witnesses and to haue caused them to haue had their deserued punishment yet proceeded the Iudges forward in iniustice and condemned Father Edmund Campian almost all the rest to death as being culpable of that conspiration whereof by these false witnesses they were accused But at this we need not wonder if we consider what the Iustice was of this Queene who letted not to make a law directly contrary to the law of God and all the world that one witnesse only should be sufficient for the condemnation of a man to the losse of life and goods if it were in a case concerning herselfe which without all doubt may cause wonderful iniustice in a coūtrey where such persidious people are inough to be found as for reward will not make scruple to take any oath agaynst whosoeuer it be let the cause be what it will and the more in the cause of the Prince whereby hope of fauour and greater reward is giuen But because the history of this glorious martyr and of those others also that were with him condemned is published to the world in Print in the Latin

day that this Father was deliuered into the handes of the English Ambassadour at Duyseldorp the sayd Palsgraue dyed at Heydelberge so came to tast of death himselfe sooner then the Father which he intended to send to the slaughter The Father was carryed into England where after he had remayned prisoner many yeares in the Tower of London and not the least point in the world could be proued against him cōcerning the aforesayd Treason notwithstanding that in some printed bookes it was published that he was culpable he was at last deliuered out of prison and dismissed the Realme Concerning one Peter Pan sayd to be sent by the Iesuytes of Ipres in Flanders to kill Prince Maurice in Holland the matter hath byn throughly examined and the Calumny raysed agaynst those Fathers sufficiently refuted in a Printed booke wherein is also set downe an attestation of the Magistrates of Ipres of whence this Peter Pan was wherin this accusatiō is shewed to be false Peter Pan was knowne to be a fellow that was frantike but the madnes of his braynes could not free him out of the handes of the Holland-hangman for the Iustice of Holland found it wisdome to put this poore foole to death I trust I haue heere cleerly declared how the Iesuites haue by their Caluinian enemyes byn most falsly calumniated and albeit that themselues do in such cases recomend their cause to God disposing themselues to beare with patience all iniuryes for the loue of CHRIST IESVS notwithstanding they well know how false they are yet my selfe euen of zeale vnto truth and equity could not omit to vtter thus much vpon the occasion now giuen The custome of giuing out that Iesuites and Priests do intend to murther Princes was first takē vp in England put in practise by some of Queene Elizabeths Caluinian Counsellers who to haue the better colour to persecute Catholikes whome they feared might encrease to fast as also to make them the lesse compassionate of the people did seeke to make them odious by ordinarily giuing out that they went about to kill the Queen But that the sayd Queen and her Counsellers themselues did not belieue this reason maketh manifest for whē is it found that a Prince or Ruler fearing that for some certaine notorious cause he is in dāger to be killed by any of his subiects will notwithstāding continue the same cause yea and daily more more increase it as this Queen did her persecution how can this agree with reason of State for through continuance and increase of persecution those that are persecuted doe comonly also increase and it might fall out that among the number of the persecuted for all do not alwayes endure with like patience some might be found that being driuen to desperate termes might attempt some such thing for as the Philosopher sayth the fly hath her splene but the patient suffering for religion is especially taught and recomended by Catholike teachers and the contrary by others of contrary Religions and especially Caluinists of whose hoat and reuengefull spirits the world hath already had testimony inough Father William Criton the Scottish Iesuyte before named being before some of Queene Elizabeths Counsell a little before his departure out of the Countrey sayd vpon occasion concerning this matter My Lords you vse heere a manner of giuing out among your subiects that Iesuites and Priestes do go about to kill your Queene but in very truth if we intended any such thing she could not liue for you must vnderstand that there are a multitude of people of the Catholike religion that haue wholy abandoned the world and haue chosen to liue in all strictnes and austerity sequestring themselues from all worldly pleasures desiring and indeauouring nothing more then to leaue this world and to liue with God in his Kingdome of heauen Among these men that so little respect the world diuers may be found who beeing perswaded that it were so meritorious a deed before God that he who should deliuer the world from an enemy and persecutor of the Catholike religion and therfore loose his life should straightwayes enter into the eternall ioyes of heauen without all doubt this matter would not be left vnattempted The counsellers hearing this had little to say to the contrary The Hollander To say the truth I must needs confesse I haue heere heard much more thē I supposed could be sayd I do now well perceaue a man can neuer come to the true vnderstanding of what standeth in controuersy before he haue heard both partyes The Brabander I haue first recounted what Princes and Potentates haue byn murthered or made away in our dayes and after that I haue spoken of intentions or meanings to make away Princes It resteth that I now speake of the intentions of Gewses or Caluinian reformed Brethren about the murthering or making away of Princes those innocēt wolues I meane that haue had their handes in the bloud of fiue of the eight Princes before named to the end we may also see how pure and vnspotted they are in their good meanings intentiōs to haue put that busines in further practise First then it is a thing cleere notorious that the Hugnenots of France had a resolued purpose to haue murthered the most Christian King Francis the second with his mother and sundry of the nobility in the Citty of Amboise It is also most certayne that a Zeland Gewse or Caluinist meant to haue blown vp William of Nassaw Prince of Orange with some of the Holland and Zeland States with gun-powder in the Towne-house of Flushing if it had not byn discouered by him that assisted him to conuey the powder into the seller or vault of the sayd Towne-house And had this succeeded according to the purpose of the authour thereof Baltazar Gerard that afterward killed the sayd Prince of Orange had saued his life and his labour and the Gewses reformed Brethren had had the honour of murthering six of the eight Princes before named When I consider this Prince and these intentions of his death me thinkes it must needes be a great signe that he was not in the fauour of God since as well Caluinists as Catholikes went about to kill him Heerto may also be added the Earle of Gowry in Scotland a Caluinist also The history is publike in print how he meant to haue killed the King wherof yearly memory both in Scotland England is continued on the fifth day of August for his Maiesties deliuery The Hollander You make me almost ashamed of my selfe to consider that our people in Holland do make such exclamations agaynst Iesuytes and Priestes and are shewed to be in those foule facts faulty themselues and the Iesuyts and Priests whome they accuse not faulty at all The Brabander I am well content thinke my labour well bestowed when I fynd my selfe to haue to doe with such as wil affoard place vnto truth and reason before passion and partiality But heere are you also to vnderstand

sundry Orders and that a Duke hath byn seene to become a Capuchin in Paris and the Brother of a Duke to become of the same austere order in Bruxelles I was mooued to thinke that it may belōg before we may see a Gewse or Caluinian Duke or Prince become a Minister albeit that condition of life obligeth not to the making and performing of any such vowes or to any austerity at all but to liue with ease in the Ghospell of free liberty There is a prouerbe in the Netherland language that Herman did in tyme get on his dublet after he had byn seauen yeares drawing on of one sleeue but I suppose Hermans dublet might wholy be gotten on and quite worne out before a man might see such persons moued by the great piety they might obserue in Ministers to enter with them into the seruice of the Word But to returne vnto my precedent purpose me thinkes it were not heere impertinent to see and consider what cause there may be found of the great hatred which Caluinists beare vnto Iesuytes and not Caluinists alone but all other Sectaryes for albeit they beare il will and hatred vnto all Catholikes especially vnto all Ecclesiasticall persons yet is it manifest vnto al the world that the Iesuites of all others haue the precedence in the malice of Caluinists And seeing something there may seeme to be that is singular in these religious men more then in others I haue the more endeauored to discerne what this may be and three thinges I haue obserued 1. This first is that there was neuer any Order in the Catholik Church that in so short a space hath dispersed it selfe so farre ouer the world to make the name of Iesus Christ knowne vnto heathen and Pagan people 2. The second is that there was neuer any Order that in so short a tyme hath written so many learned bookes aswel in diuinity as in al other laudable sciences 3. The third is that there was neuer any Order that in so short a tyme hath had so great a number of Martyrs as well by the persecution of Pagans as Apostata Christians As for their exercises of deuotion labour in preaching hearing of confessions instructing and bringing vp of youth in learning without any recompence of their parents making of attonements where there is dissention and discord readines at all houres of the day and night to visit the sicke and to consolate their soules is not now needfull heere to be spoken at large but when I well consider their manifold deedes of Deuotion and Charity I remember the wordes of Christ vnto the Iewes when for his good deedes they would haue stoned him to death I haue wrought many good workes among you for which of those will you stone me Enuy is the deadly enemy of vertue and of wel-prospering The Iesuites thankes be to God do go well forward in al their works of piety and for these Sectaryes will stone them and beeing themselues the actual murtherers of Iesuytes it is no maruell that they seeke to robbe tak away the good name fame of those whose lyues they let not to take away nor is it any wonder that they to coulour their owne tyrannous murthering of Iesuites giue out that Iesuytes are murtherers of Princes Potentates As if themselues did put Iesuites to death therby to saue the lyues of Princes potentates which Iesuites would els bereaue them off But what loue Caluinists and principally Holland-Gewse-Caluinistes do beare vnto Princes themselues doe now adayes the lōger the more make better known vnto the greatest Princes of Christendome then they can make knowne vnto them that Iesuites are murtherers of them and of Potentates The Hollander I must confesse that you haue heere manifested vnto me much more then before I euer knew or heard of But yet notwithstanding that it cannot be perceaued that the Iesuites haue had any hād in the deaths of any of the eight Princes heere by you mentioned it should seeme they haue had knowledge of intentions of murthering Princes as of Queene Elizabeth of England King Henry the fourth of France before he was murthered by Rauaillac his Maiesty that is now King of Great Britayne by the gunpowder Treason his Excellency Prince Maurice in Holland The Brabander For the first concerning Queene Elizabeth of England if we well consider her abandoning of the Catholike Religion which at her coronation she swore to mayntayne and that beeing a woman she tooke vpon her supreame authority in Ecclesiasticall causes which your Caluinian deuines in Holland do affirme to be Idolatry either in man or woman ordayning also by her Statutes that those who should deny to confesse her Ecclesiasticall authority vpon their oathes should suffer death as traytors That she deposed and put from their places the Catholike Bishops and Prelates casting some in prison forcing others to fly the realme That she ordayned a forfayture of twenty poundes a moneth for not comming to her Caluinian-protestant Church-seruice with other lesser forfaytures for Catholikes of lesse meanes who in regard of their consciences absented themselues from the sayd seruice by meanes whereof the prisons euery where became so replenished with Catholikes that new prisons must be made for thē because the old could not conteyne the number Moreouer the putting to death of so many Catholike Priestes as also the putting to death and ruyning of some Gentlemen and others that had harbored them The question now is whether Gewses or Caluinists being to the contrary so treated by any Prince that had sworne to maintayne their Caluinian religion they would with patience endure it Who can belieue this Seeing they haue not letted to rebell agaynst their Princes and Soueraignes that haue intruded no innouation or change in religion vpon them as agaynst the Kings of Spaine France and against Mary Queene of Scotland who I say can belieue this when it is apparent that the very ground-worke and foundation of Caluinian religion is layed setled vpon rebellion as to all the world it is manifest This Queene Elizabeth was so seuere and cruell that she letted not to burne alyue some of our countrey-men beeing Netherlanders not her borne Subiects for their Anabaptisme and caused some Puritans which are directly concurring in religion with the Caluinists of Holland to be hanged and others to fly the realme and lyue in exile because they had sought both by wryting and preaching to bring the religion of England to the iust forme and fashion of that of Geneua Holland Punishing then the Anabaptistes as heretikes and the Puritans as seditious she hath not letted to vse a greater cloke and colour for her persecuting of Catholikes and this was to cause to be giuen out at diuers times that they meant to kill her She imployed among other for one of her spyes sometyme in France somtyme in Italy one William Parry This Parry coming vpon a tyme out of Italy supposing to get more credit