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A33307	England's remembrancer a true and full narrative of those two never to be forgotten deliverances : one from the Spanish invasion in 88, the other from the hellish Powder Plot, November 5, 1605 : whereunto is added the like narrative of that signal judgment of God upon the papists by the fall of the house in Black-Fryers London upon their fifth of November, 1623 / collected for the information and benefit of each family by Sam. Clark.	Clarke, Samuel, 1599-1682.	1677 (1677)	Wing C4512; ESTC R24835	49,793	136

England's Remembrancer A True and Full NARRATIVE OF Those two never to be forgotten DELIVERANCES One From The Spanish Invasion in 88. The other from The Hellish Powder Plot November 5. 1605. Whereunto is added The like Narrative of that signal Judgment of God upon the Papists by the Fall of the House in Black-Fryers London upon their fifth of November 1623. Collected for the Information and Benefit of each Family by Sam. Clark formerly Pastor in Bennet Fink Behold the wicked travelleth with iniquity and hath conceived mischief and brought forth falshood He made a Pit and digged it and is fallen into the ditch which he made His mischief shall return upon his own head and his violent dealing shall come down upon his own pate Psal. 7. 14 15 16. LONDON Printed for J. Hancock and are to be sold at the three Bibles in Popes-Head Alley next to Cornhill 1677. TO THE HONOURABLE And his Much Honoured Friends EDWARD RVSSEL Esq Son to the Right Honourable Francis Earl of BEDFORD AND TO The Lady PENELOPE His prudent and pious Consort Sir Madam I Take the boldness to present you with these Narratives not for that they are new or supposing your selves to be strangers to them but as a Testimony of my Gratitude for those favours I have received from you The high Heavens may be seen in the lowest valleys So may a large heart in the least Gift But truly though the Gift be worthless yet so is not the matter contained in it which sets forth such eminent and signal deliverances as no Church or people in these latter Ages of the world have received And there must be a recognition of Gods mercies or else there will neither follow estimation nor retribution Hence Micah 6. 5. O my people saith God many hundreds of years after remember now what Balack King of Moab consulted and what Balaam the Son of Beor answered him from Shittim unto Gilgal that ye may know the righteousness of the Lord. If there be not such a recognition of former deliverances we that should be as Temples of his praise shall be as graves of his benefits Our souls indeed are too like filthy Ponds wherein fish die soon and frogs live long Rotten stuff is remembred memorable mercies are forgotten whereas the soul should be as an holy Ark the memory as the pot of Manna preserving holy truths and special mercies as Aarons Rod fresh and flourishing Oh! let us imitate that man after Gods own heart If the Lord will be Davids Shepherd he will dwell in Gods house to all perpetuity Psalm 23. 1 6. If God deal bountifully with him he will sit down and bethink himself what to render for all his benefits Psalm 116. 7 12. A Christian counts all that he can do for God by way of retribution but a little of that much he could beteem him and thinks nothing more unbeseeming him than to bury the mercies of God in oblivion His two mites of Thankfulness and Obedience he daily presents and then cryes out as that poor Grecian did to the Emperour If I had a better present thou shouldest be sure of it What then may we judge of those persons in our daies who labour to extenuate yea annihilate these deliverances that would have no publick commemorations of them that study how to invalidate them and to blot out the remembrance of them To render good for evil is Divine Good for good is Humane Evil for evil is brutish But evil for good is Devillish Yet alas how ordinary an evil is this among us to abuse our deliverances to Gods dishonour But Do ye thus requite the Lord O foolish people and unwise Is not he thy Father he hath bought thee c. Deut. 32. 6. Should we not remember that good-turns aggravate unkindnesses and our offences are not a little encreased by our obligations Ingrateful persons are like the Snake in the Fable who said to the Country-man when he had shewed it kindness Summum praemium pro summo beneficio est ingratitudo Ingratitude is the greatest reward of the greatest benefit How many such Snakes have we amongst us that return evil for good and unkindness for kindness Is not this to fight against God with his own weapons as David did against Goliah as Jehu did against Jehoram and as Benhadad did against Ahab with that life that he had lately given him For the preventing whereof if it may be are these things published being almost worn out of remembrance more than the very names of them Besides though they may be found in larger Volumes yet are they not so fit for every Family And as I have presumed honourable and beloved to publish them under your protection so I doubt not but they will find the better entertainment for the same My earnest desire and prayer for you is that the God of Peace will fill you with all joy and peace by believeing multiplying his Blessings upon you and yours And that you would afford me a room in your Albe among those that Sir Madam From my Study in Thridneedle-Street Octob. 22. 1657. Love honour and serve you Sam. Clark THE Spanish Invasion A Commemoration of that wonderful and almost miraculous Deliverance afforded by God to this Nation from the Spanish Invasion Anno Christi 1588. THE year one thousand five hundred eighty eight was foretold by an Astronomer of Koningsberg above one hundred years before that it should prove a wonderful year and the German Chronologers presaged that it would be the Climacterical year of the World which was in some measure accomplished in that glorious and never to be forgotten Deliverance vouchsafed by God to us in England and in that fatal overthrow of the Spanish Navy A true Narrative whereof followes But that we may the better see what induced the Spaniard to make this hostile Invasion we must be informed both who were the inciters and by what arguments artifices they stirred him up thereunto The Inciters were the Pope and some traiterous English Fugitives who were entertained in Spain and at Rome The design was The Conquest of England which had been hindred for the space of ten years by reason of the Spanish Wars in Portugal The Arguments were that seeing God had blessed the King of Spain with admirable Blessings and Successes had given him in Portugal the East-Indies and very many rich Islands belonging to the same that he should therefore perform somewhat that might be acceptable to God the giver of so great and good things and most worthy the Power and Majesty of the Catholick King That the Church of God could not be more gloriously nor meritoriously propagated than by the Conquest of England extirpating Heresie and planting the Catholick Roman Religion there This War they said would be most just and necessary considering that the Queen of England was excommunicated and persisted contumacious against the Church of Rome That she supported the King of Spains Rebels in the Netherlands annoyed the Spaniards

priviledges nor be governed by a stranger but by a Native Prince That they might have liberty to serve God with Freedom of Conscience And lastly that the Articles of the Pacification of Gaunt and other like treaties might be observed which things if they were granted She would condescend upon reasonable conditions to deliver up the Towns in the Netherlands which She then had in possession that it might appear that she had not for her own advantage but for the necessary defence of the Netherlands and her self taken up arms To these the Spaniards replyed that touching their preparations at Sea they did assure them that it nothing concerned England That to send away the Souldiers the King could not resolve till the Netherlanders had submitted themselves to him Concerning their priviledges that it appertained nothing to the Queen neither should She prescribe to the King a Law And so far was he from tolerating Religion that he would not so much as hear thereof otherwise than he had allowed to other Towns that had submitted to his obedience And as for those Towns which had been taken from the King and the mony expended about them They said that the Spaniard might demand as many Myriades of Ducats to be repayed to him by the Queen as he had expended upon the Low-Country War from the time that She supported the revolting Netherlanders and took them into her Protection About this time went Dale by the Queens command to the Prince of Parma and mildly expostulated with him about a Book lately published by Cardinal Allen that English Renegado wherein he exhorted the Nobility and People of England and Ireland to joyn with the Spanish Forces under the Conduct of the Prince of Parma to execute the Popes sentence already published by his Bull against Queen Elizabeth wherein she was declared an Heretick Illegitimate cruel for putting to death the Queen of Scots c. And her Subjects absolved from their Oath of Allegiance and commanded to aid the Prince of Parma against Her And indeed there was a great number of these Bulls and Books printed at Antwerp from thence to be dispersed all over England The Prince denied that he had ever seen any such Book or Bull neither would he undertake any thing in the Popes name howbeit that he must obey his Prince But for the Queen of England he protested that he did so honour her for her Vertues that next to the King his Master he esteemed Her above all others and would be ready to do Her service For the manifestation whereof he said that he had perswaded the King to condescend to this treaty of peace which would be more advantagious for the English than for the Spaniard For said he if the Spaniards be overcome they will soon recover their loss but if You be overcome your Kingdom and all is lost To which Dale made this reply Our Queen is provided with strength sufficient to defend her Kingdom and you your self in your wisdom may foresee that a Kingdom cannot be lost with the fortune of one Battel seeing the King of Spain after so long Wars is not able to recover his ancient inheritance in the Netherlánds Be it so said the Prince These things are in the hands of the Almighty After this the Commissioners contended with mutual debates and replies still twisting and untwisting the same thread For when the English pressed that a Toleration of Religion might be granted for the Vnited Provinces at least for two years It was answered That as the Spaniard demanded not this for the English Catholicks so they hoped the Queen in her Wisdom would require nothing of him which might be against the Honour Oath and Conscience of the Spaniard When they demanded the mony due from the States of Brabant to our Queen They answered that it was lent without the Kings Knowledge or Warrant and that the accounts being cast up how much the said mony was and how much the King had disbursed about the War it would soon be known to whom the most ought to be repayed With such answers as these they dallied with the English Commissioners till the Spanish Fleet was come within the view of England and the thundring of the Ordnance was heard from the Sea which put the English Commissioners into some suspicion and fear having no hostages for their safe return But they received a safe conduct from the Prince of Parma who had in the mean time drawn down all his Forces to the Sea-Coast and so were conducted to the borders near Calice Thus came this Treaty to nothing undertaken by our Queen as was conceived to divert the coming of the Spanish Fleet and continued by the Spaniard to surprize England unprovided and at unawares So both sides put the Foxes skin upon the Lions head And now we are come to speak of this Invincible Armado which was the preparation of five whole years at least It bare it self also upon Divine assistance having received a special Blessing from the Pope and was assigned as an Apostolical Mission for the reducement of this Kingdom to the obedience of the See of Rome and in further token of this holy Warfare there were amongst the rest of the Ships twelve called by the names of the twelve Apostles The Gallions and Galliasses were of such a vast size that they were like floating Towers and Castles so that the swelling waves of the Sea could hardly be seen and the Flags Streamers and Ensigns so spread in the wind that they seemed even to darken the Sun and to threaten destruction which way soever they turned On the nine and twentieth day of May this Fleet set Sail out of the River Tayo bending its course towards the Groin in Galizia the place appointed for the general Rendezvous as being the nearest Haven unto England But whilest they hoysed and spread abroad their proud Sailes to the wind God who is an Enemy to such Nimrod-like undertakings and hating such hostile actions suddenly manifested his displeasure and poured out revenge by a sudden and hideous tempest which drave the Duke of Medina the General back again into the Groin eight other of the Ships being dispersed on the Seas had their Masts broken and blown over board besides three other Portugal Gallies which were driven upon the Coasts of Bayon in France where by the valour of one David Gwin an English slave and the help of other slaves French and Turks they were delivered into the hands of the French and they freed themselves by the slaughter of the Spaniards amongst whom Don Diego de Mondrana was one About the same time the English Admiral and Vice-Admiral who had in all about one hundred Ships whereof fifteen were Victuallers and nine Voluntaries of Devonshire Gentlemen hearing for certainty that the Spanish Fleet was ready to hoise up their Sails resolved to put forth from Plymouth and to meet and fight them by the way but were so met with by the same wind that they could not get

only we would have branded them in the Foreheads with the letter L. for Lutheran and reserved them for perpetual bondage This I take God to witness saith my Author I received of those great Lords as upon examination taken by the Council and by Commandment published it to the Army The next day saith he the Queen rode through her Army attended by Noble-Footmen Leicester Essex and Norris then Lord Marshall and divers other great Lords where she made an Excellent Oration to her Army and withal commanded a publick Fast to be kept Her Oration was this MY loving people we have been perswaded by some that are careful of our safety to take heed how we commit our selves to armed multitudes for fear of treachery but I assure you I do not desire to live to distrust my faithful and loving people Let Tyrants fear I have alwaies so behaved my self that under God I have alwaies placed my chiefest strength and safeguard in the loyal hearts and good will of my Subjects and therefore I am come amongst you as you see at this time not for my recreation and disport but being resolved in the middest and heat of the battel to live or die amongst you all to lay down for my God and for my Kingdom and for my people my Honour and my Blood even in the dust I know I have the body but of a weak and feeble Woman but I have the Heart and Stomach of a King and of a King of England too and think foul scorn that Parma or Spain or any Prince of Europe should dare to invade the Borders of my Realm to which rather than any dishonour shall grow by me I my self will take up Arms I my self will be your General Judge and Rewarder of every one of your vertues in the Field I know that already for your forwardness you have deserved Rewards and Crowns and we do assure you in the word of a Prince that shall be duly paid you In the mean time my Lieutenant General Leicester shall be in my stead than whom never Prince commanded a more Noble or Worthy Subject not doubting but by your Obedience to my General by your Concord in the Camp and your valour in the Field we shall shortly have a famous Victory over those Enemies of my God of my Kingdoms and my people Thus we see the curse of God and his threatning in Scripture accomplished They came out against us one way and they fled seven wayes before us making good even to the astonishment of all Posterity the wonderful Judgments of God poured out commonly upon such vast and proud aspirings After this Glorious Deliverance of our Land by the Power of the Omnipotent and the wild Boar repelled that sought to lay waste Englands fair and fruitful Vineyard our Gracious and Godly Queen who ever held Ingratitude a Capital Sin especially towards Her Almighty Protector as she had begun with Prayer so she ended with Praise commanding solemn Thanksgivings to be celebrated to the Lord of Hosts at the Cathedral Church of Saint Paul in her chief City of London which accordingly was done upon Sabbath day the eighth of September at which time eleven of the Spanish Ensignes the once badges of their bravery but now of their vanity and ignominy were hung upon the lower Battlements of that Church as Palmes of Praise for Englands Deliverance a shew no doubt more pleasing to God than when their spread colours did set out the pride of the Spaniards threatning the blood of so many innocent and faithful Christians Queen Elizabeth her self to be an example unto others upon Sabbath the twenty fourth of September came from her Palace of White-Hall in Westminster through the streets of London which were hung with blew Cloth the Companies of the City standing in their Liveries on both sides with their Banners in goodly order being carried in a Chariot drawn with two Horses to St. Pauls Church where dismounting from Her Chariot at the West door she humbled Her self upon her Knees and with great devotion in an audible voice She praised God as her only Defender who had delivered Her Self and People from the bloody designes of so cruel an Enemy The Sermon then preached tended wholly to give all the glory to God as the Author of this wonderful deliverance and when that was ended Her Majesty Her self with most Princely and Christian Speeches exhorted all the people to a due performance of those religious services of thankfulness which the Lord expected and required of them About the same time the Fair being kept in Southwark the Spanish Flags were hung up at London-Bridge to the great joy of the beholders and eternal infamy of the Spaniards proud attempts as irreligious as unsuccessful But the solemn day appointed for Thanksgiving throughout the Land was the nineteenth of November being Tuesday which accordingly was observed with great joy and praising of God and well it were if it had so continued still being no less a Deliverance than was that of Purim amongst the Jews which they instituted to be kept holy throughout their Generations The Zelanders also to leave a memorial of their thankfulness to God and their faithfulness to our Queen caused Medals of Silver to be stamped having engraven on the one side the Armes of their Country with this Inscription Glory to God alone and on the reverse the Portraicture of great Ships under written the Spanish Fleet and in the Circumference It came It went It was Anno 1588. In other Medals also were stamped Ships floating and sinking and in the reverse Supplicants upon their Knees with this Motto Man proposeth God disposeth 1588. The Hollanders also stamped some Medals with Spanish Ships and this Motto Impius fugit nemine sequente the wicked fly when none pursues Our Queen to shew Her Gratitude as well to the Instruments as to the Author of this great Deliverance assigned certain yearly Rents to the Lord Admiral for his gallant service and many times commended him and the other Captains of Her Ships as men born for the Preservation of their Country The rest She graciously saluted by name as oft as she saw them as men of notable deserts wherewith they held themselves well apaid and those which were Wounded Maimed or Poor She rewarded with competent Pensions The Lord of Hosts having thus dispelled this Storm the Queen dissolved Her Camp at Tilbury and not long after the Earl of Leicester ended his dayes having been a Peer of great Estate and Honour but liable to the common destiny of Great Ones whom all men magnifie in their life time but few speak well of after their Death This Admirable Deliverance was congratulated by almost all other Nations especially by all the reformed Churches and many Learned Men celebrated the same in Verse amongst which I shall onely mention two The first was that Poem made by Reverend Mr. Beza Translated into all the chief Languages in Christendom to be perpetuated to all ensuing Posterity It