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A07901	The English Romayne lyfe Discouering: the liues of the Englishmen at Roome: the orders of the English semiminarie [sic]: the dissention betweene the Englishmen and the VVelshmen: the banishing of the Englishmen out of Roome: the Popes sending for them againe: a reporte of many of the paltrie reliques in Roome: ther vautes vnder the grounde: their holy pilgrimages: and a number other matters, worthy to be read and regarded of euery one. There vnto is added, the cruell tiranny, vsed on an English man at Roome, his Christian suffering, and notable martirdome, for the Gospell of Iesus Christe, in anno. 1581. VVritten by A.M. sometime the Popes scholler in the seminarie among them. Seene and allovved.	Munday, Anthony, 1553-1633.	1582 (1582)	STC 18272; ESTC S112987	53,560	84

THE ENGLISH Romayne Lyfe Discouering The liues of the Englishmen at Roome the orders of the English Semiminarie the dissention betweene the Englishmen and the VVelshmen the banishing of the Englishmen out of Roome the Popes sending for them againe a reporte of many of the paltrie Reliques in Roome their Vautes vnder the grounde their holy Pilgrimages and a number other matters worthy to be read and regarded of euery one There vnto is added the cruell tiranny vsed on an English man at Roome his Christian suffering and notable Martirdome for the Gospell of Iesus Christe in Anno. 1581. VVritten by A.M. sometime the Popes Scholler in the Seminarie among them Honos alit Artes. Seene and allovved Imprinted at London by Iohn Charlewoode for Nicholas Ling dwelling in Paules Churchyarde at the signe of the Maremaide Anno. 1582. To the right Honorable Sir Thomas Bromley Knight Lord Chaunceller of Englande William Lorde Burleigh and Lord Treasorer Robert Earle of Leicester with all the rest of her Maiesties most Honourable priuie Councell A. M. wisheth a happy race in continuall honour and the fulnesse of Gods blessing in the day of ioy THis Booke right Honorable as I haue beene care full to note downe nothing in it that myghte impeach mee either with error or vntrueth mallice or affection to any but euen haue ordered the same according to certeintie and knowledge so when I had fully finished it and doone the vttermost of my endeuoure therin I considered with my selfe I was to present the same to such personages of Honor wisedome and grauitie as did mallice rule me they coulde quickly espie it or affecting my selfe to any they woulde soone discerne it then would Honour reprooue me for the one their noble nature reprehende me in the other To discharge my selfe of bothe these and purchase the fauoure wherewith your Honors are continually adorned I directed my compasse by trueth perswading my selfe that albeit in some Veritas odium parit yet in your Honours Magna est veritas et praeualet Fewe woordes suffiseth your wisedomes and circumstaūce without substaunce may incurre disliking accordinge as when I presented your Honours with my booke called the Discouerie of Campion I promised so now in my English Romaine life I haue performed thinking my selfe in as safe securitie vnder your Honourable fauor as Vlisses supposed himselfe vnder the buckler of Aiax Your Honors euer in dutie Anthonie Munday To the courteous and freendlie Reader THe thing long promised gentle Reader is now perfourmed at last and that which my aduersaries thought I would neuer set forth to their disproofe and thy profit I haue now published Thou shalt find a number of matters comprehended within this small volume some that will irritate the minde of anie good subiect and therefore to be read with regard others importing the whole course of our Englishmens liues in Roome with the od conceits and craftie iuglings of the Pope whereto our Englishmen are likewise conformable they are in such true certaine order set downe as if thou were there thy selfe to behold them I will not vse manie words now thou hast it read aduisedlie condemne not rashlie and if thou thinkest mee woorthie anie thanks for my paines then freendlie bestowe it on me Thine in courtesie Anthonie Munday ¶ The English Romaine lyfe Discoursing the liues of such Englishe men as by secret escape leaue their owne Countrey to liue in Roome vnder the seruile yoke of the Popes gouernment Also after what manner they spend their time there practising and daylie looking for the ouerthrowe and ruine of their Princesse and Countrey First howe the Authour left his natiue Countrey of England betaking himselfe to trauell and what happened in his iourney toward Roome Chap. 1. BEcause a number haue been desirous to vnderstand the successe of my iourney to Roome and a nūber beside are doubtfull whether I haue béene there or no albeit the proofes thereof sufficiently are extant to be séene as well to content the one as remoue the doubte of the other I will God ayding mée héere set downe such a certaintie thereof that if it happen not to please bothe yet if they will it may profite bothe When as desire to sée straunge Countreies as also affection to learne the languages had perswaded me to leaue my natiue Countrey and not any other intent or cause God is my record I committed the small wealth I had into my purse a Trauelers wéede on my backe the whole state and condition of my iourney to Gods appointment and beeing accompanied with one Thomas Nowell crossed the Seas from England to Bulloine in Fraunce From thence we trauelled to Amiens in no small daunger standing to the mercie of dispoyling Soldiers who went robbing and killing thorowe the Countrey the Campe beeing by occasion broken vp at that tyme. Little they left vs and lesse would haue done by the value of our liues had not a better bootie come then we were at that time the Soldiers preparing towards them whome they sawe better prouided for their necessitie offered vs the l●ysure too escape which we refused not béeing left bare enough bothe of coyne and cloathes But as then we stoode not to accoumpt on our losse it suffised vs that we had our liues whereof béeing not a little glad we set the better legge before least they should come backe againe and robbe vs of them too This our misfortune vrged vs to remembraunce of our former quiet béeing in England carefullie tendered by our Parents and loouingly esteemed among our ●●éends all which we vndutifullie regarding rewarded vs with the rod of our owne negligence béeing as then fearefull of all company on the way such cruell and heauy spectacles was still before our eyes but yet this did somewhat comfort vs we had nothing woorth the taking from vs but our liues which we had good hope to saue either by their pittie or our owne humble perswasion When we were come to Amiens we were giuen to vnderstande that there was an olde Englishe Préest in the Towne whose name was Maister Woodward of whome we perswaded our selues for Countrey sake to finde some courtesie in hope whereof we enquired for his lodging and at last found him After such salutations as passe betwéene Countreymen at their méeting I began to tell him howe we had left our Countrey for the earnest desire we had to sée forraine Dominions howe we had béene spoyled by the way of all that we had and that we hoped for some fréendship at his handes which if God vouchsafed vs safe returne should not be cast out of remembraunce Alas my freendes quoth he I am your Countreyman I will not denie but not such a one as you take me for I am a poore Préest and héere I liue for my conscience sake whereas were thinges according as they should be it were better for me to be at home in mine owne Countrey And yet trust me I pittie to sée any of my

of money apparell an● 〈◊〉 other néedefull thinges by the onelie appointment of God wha no doubt put it in my minde at that tyme I willed him to followe the and come woe want miserio or any other calamitie I would n●●er leaue him to the death But if any exercise might get it any paines compasse it or the extreme shifte of begging attayne it I would doo all my selfe whereby to maintaine vs onelie that he would but beare me company for I would trie all meanes that might be ere I woulde forsake my Faith This to be true I am sure and certayne himselfe will not denie who séeing my earnest in treatie and the promises I made to the vttermost of my 〈…〉 to goe with me and so we left the way to Rheimes and went on strayte to Paris In Paris we mette with a French man who coulde speake a little broken Englishe and he conducted vs where my Lord the English Ambassador laie to whome I gaue the Letters and after certaine talke he vsed with vs he bestowed his Honourable lyberalitie vppon vs wishing vs to returne backe againe into England Leauing my Lord and walking into the Cittie we met too certayne English Gentlemen some of them for the knowledge they had of me in England shewed them selues verie courteous to me bothe in money lodging and other necessaries And through them we became acquainted with a number of Englishe men more who lay in the Cittie some in Colledges and some at their owne houses where vsing dailie company among them sometime at dinner and sometime at supper we heard many girdes and nippes against our Countrey of England her Maiesty very vnreuerently handled in woords and certayne of her honourable Counsell vnduetifullie tearmed Great talke they had about Doctor Saunders who they sayde eyther as then was or shortlie would be arriued in Ireland howe he had an Armie of Spaniardes with him and howe him selfe vnder the Popes Standarde would giue such an attempt there as soone after should make all England to quake beside there were certaine Englishe men gone to the Pope for more ayde if néede should be at whose returne certaine Noble men English men then béeing in those partes whose names I omitte for diuers causes would prosecute the matter with as much spéede as might be The very same did the Préest at Amiens giue vs to vnderstand of almost in euerie point agréeing with this which made vs to doubt because in euerie mans mouth her Maiesty styl was aimed at in such māner as I trēble and shake to thinke on their woordes All this tyme that we remained amongst them diuerse of the Gentlemen and others who were lyke factors for the Pope as Maister Woodward at Amiens Doctor Bristowe at Doway and Doctor Allen at Rheimes were to encrease his Seminaries with as many Englishe men as they might verie earnestlie perswaded vs to trauell to Roome assuring vs that we should be there entertained to our high contentment beside they would giue vs Letters for our better welcome thether We were soone entreated to take the iourney on vs because we thought if we could goe to Roome and returne safelie againe into England we should accomplish a great matter the place béeing so farre of and the voyage so daungerous Uppon our agréement to vndertake the trauell we receyued of euerie one lyberallie toward the bearing of our charges and Letters we had to Maister Doctor Lewes in Roome the Archdeacō of Cambra and to Doctor Morris then the Rector of the English Hospital or Colledge in Roome that we might there be preferred among the English Students Taking our leaue of them and yeelding them thankes for their greate courtesy we iournied to Lyons where in the house of one Maister Deacon the wordes were spoken by Henry Orton one of them condemned and yet liuing in the Tower which in my other booke I haue auouched From thence wee went to Millaine where in the Cardinall Boromehos Pallace we found the lodging of a Welshman named Doctor Robert Griffin a man there had in a good accoūt and Cōfessor to the aforesaid Cardinal By him we were very courteouslye entertained and sent to the house of an Englishe Prieste in the Cittie named Maister Harries who likewise bestowed on vs very gentle acceptaunce as also three English Gentlemē who lay in his house being very lately retourned frō Roome they likewise both in cost and courtesie behaued them selues like Gentlemen vnto vs during the time that we made our abode in Millaine Our comming to Millayne was on Christmas euen and hauing lyen that night at an Osteria where Maister Harryes appoynted vs on Christmas day we dyned with Doctor Griffin where we had great cheere and lyke welcome In the dinner time he moued many questions vnto vs as concerning the estate of England if we heard of any warres towardes and howe the Catholiques thriued in Englande and at the laste quoth he haue you not séene three Gentlemen that lye at Maister Harryes his house Yes that we haue quoth I to vs they séeme meruailous curteous and offer vs such freendshippe as we haue neuer deserued Oh quoth he if all things had fallen right to their expectation they would haue béene iolly fellowes I am sure you haue heard what credite Captaine Sukelye was in with the Pope and howe he was appointed w t his Armie to inuade England he being slayne in the battaile of the King of Portugall thinges went not forwarde according as they should haue done These three Gentlemen came foorth of the North partes of England taking vpon them to goe forward with that which Stukely had enterprised which was to haue the Popes Armie committed to theyr conduction and so they would ouerrun England at their pleasure then they would make Kings and Dukes and Earles euery one that they thought well off To helpe them forwarde in this matter they purchased the Letters of Doctor Saunders Doctor Allen Doctor Bristow and others who thought very well of their intent therfore furthered thē in their Letters so much as they might to Doctor Lewes Doctor Morris Doctor Moorton and diuers other Doctors and Gentlemen at Roome all of thē verye earnestly following y e sute hereof to y e Popes holines informing him how they had already wun such a nūber in England to ioin with thē when y e matter came to passe y e graunting thē his holines Army they would presently ouerrun all England and yeelde it wholly into his hand But when the Pope had scanned on this hasty busines well noting the simple and arrogant behauiour of the men and their vnlikelihoode of performing these thinges euen accordinge as they deserued they were denyed theyr request sent away without any recompence The Pope was not to truste to any such as they he well knowes England is too strong yet till the people be secretely perswaded as I doubt not but there is a good number

since haue followed it They must denounce that damnable heresie crept in to the Church of England that proude vsurping Iezabell meaning our bread gracious Princesse whom quoth he God reserueth to make her a notable spectacle to the whole world for keeping y e good Queene of Scots frō her lawfull rule but I hope ere long y e Dogs shall teare her flesh those y t be her props vpholders Then drawing a paper out of his pocket he sayd I haue a Bead role of them heere who little knowes what is prouiding for them I hope shall not know till it fall vpon them Then he read their names vnto me which that all may perceiue the villainous trayterous mindes of our owne Countriemen so many of them as I can call to memory I will set down euen in the same manner as he read thē But first I must craue pardon of those honourable personages to whome the words doo offer great abuse and whom I vnfeynedlye reuerence and honour that they would not admit any euill conceite against mee but in the noble nature wherewith they are dayly adorned I béeing but the reporter may be pardoned and not reprooued First quoth he héere is my Lord Keeper the Bacon hogge the Butchers sonne the great guts oh he woulde fry well with a Faggot or his head would make a fayre showe vpon London bridge where I hope shortly it shall stand Next is eloquent Maister Cecill Lorde Treasorer you shall shortly see if he can saue his owne life with all y e wit he hath had it not béen for these two before named England had gon to wracke long since Then heere is the Earle of Leicester the Queenes Ostler his brother Ambrose Dudly a good fat whorson to make Bacon of with other words of my Lorde of Leicester not here to be rehearsed My Lord of Bedforde he forsooth is y e Queenes Coozin we will sée how finely his Coozin he can hang together Sir Fraunces Walsinghā Doctor Wilson they be her Secretaries for euery warrāt they haue suffered to apprehend any of our Priestes our fréends or other by that time they haue coūted their reckoning they shall find they haue a deere payment Sir Christopher Hatton he pleased y e Queene so wel dauncing before her in a Maske y t since y t time he hath risen to be one of y e Counsell with other words which I referre for modestie Sir Fraunces Knowles and other of the Counsell whose names I well remember not he gaue them many a heauy threatning Then opening the paper farder at the end therof was a great many of names of Magistrates other belonging to this Cittie among whome was Maister Recorder Maister Nowell Deane of Paules Maister Foxe Maister Crowlye sundry other whose names I cannot very well remember and therefore am loth to set downe any thing but that whereof I am certainly assured but verye well I remember there was no one named but he had the order of his death appoynted eyther by burning hanging or quartering and such like It is not vnlike but that this vnreuerent matter will offende some in the reading that men of honour and worshippe and those of credite and countenaunce shoulde haue their names published in print in suche sorte I haue had the iudgement of those of worshippe and learning on this behalfe and they haue sayde how it is necessary that theyr owne wicked spéeches should be set downe for an example to all men howe they abuse her Maiestie her honourable Councell and learned and discréete Maiestrates whereby their trayterous dealings may be the better discouered And to them thus vndutifully regarded it can not séeme an offence considering that Christe vnto his chosen vessels hath sayd You shall be mocked scorned and reuiled for my sake but doo you reioyce and be glad for your rewarde is the greater in the kingdome of Heauen and you remaine blessed Then putting vp his Paper agayne he began after this manner As I haue sayd before so now I saye the same such as come to this holy place must faithfully bende his life and conuersasion to honour and reuerence our prouident and holy Father the Pope in all thinges that shall like him to commaund to holde and confesse him the vniuersall supreme heade of Christes church embrace his decrees as the onely ordenance will of God For he is the person of God on earth and he can not sinne because the spirite of diuine grace guideth him continuallie he hath aucthoritie ouer all Kinges and Princes to erect and suppresse whome he pleaseth and that shall England well knowe ere long that he hath such power and aucthoritie To honour and obey him to be a true and faithfull member of his Church and to liue and die in his cause this ought to be the intent of all that commeth héere This long Tale contayning a number of more circumstaunces than I can vnfolde made me studie what aunswer I should make him which after some pause came foorth as thus Credite me Sir I am but a Nouesse in these matters and therefore you might as well haue disputed with me in the déepest Schoole points that is and I should haue censured bothe alike Nay quoth he I thinke not your ignoraunce so great albeit it séemeth great enough though you haue béene looselie brought vp yet you haue béene with me bothe at Masse and at Confession diuers times at such time as I serued my Lady B. Beside there are a great many of Priestes in England as in Warwickshire at Maister I. T. in Staffordshire at Maister G. of C. and at S. T. F. in the same shyre all these be neere your Fathers and not one of them but visiteth your Fathers house three or fowre times euerie yéere as they dyd when I was there for there is no long tariaunce in one place for a Priest but he must shifte styll least he be taken and I am sure your Father would sée you duelie confessed Nowe I was put to so harde a shifte that I knewe not well what to say I knewe none of these men he named but one and he in deede had a Priest who after his long raunging about his Maister the Popes businesse heere in England I thanke God I haue caused to be stayed Likewise I knewe not the Gentleman whome bothe they at Paris and he sayde to be my Father neither where he dwelt nor what he was which made me stand in feare to be disprooued hauing auouched my selfe before to be his Sonne Wherfore referring my case to God who had so prouided for me tyll that time in his name I resolued my selfe on this aunswer not knowing howe it might happen to spéede In déede Sir I can not denie but that I haue oftentimes heard Masse as also béene at Confession but my deuotion thereto hath béene ●ender as you your selfe haue séene knowing me to be so