put downe in the Preface to the important considerations Fol. 9. page 2. Note heere gentle Reader that this sweete harmonie betweene the Pope the Iesuites and the Secular priests were able to make an horse to breake his halter And doubtlesse the Pope yea many Popes successiuely haue thus commaunded them as shall appeare in the due place of this discourse The Iesuites holde this position for a constant doctrine that the people may depose their princes and choose others at their pleasures haue they any or no right to the Crown that is not materiall so it be done ad Deum that is by our interpretation as the Iesuites shall appoint it Héere we would haue you to note an other rule of our english Iesuites which must concurre with that of ordine ad Deâ—m and it is this that all things must be wrought and framed as the times and occasions require For example if the king of Spayne or the Infanta can by no other practise obtaine the Crowne of England then in that case the people are to haue a right to doe what they list so they will choose one of them for their soueraigne These expresse words are set downe by the priests in their sparing Discouerie Page 14. 15. quodl 3. art 4. pag. 68. Note heere gentle reader that the Iesuites and their complicies are not imprisoned or put to death for religion as they would leaue the world to thinke but for â—â—at treason and purposely intended rebellion For so much their owne pennes by Gods prouidence doe here testifie as you see And consequently politicke godly and very necessarie are the 〈…〉 in that case prouided While the inuasion was talked of and in preparation in Spayne Richard Hesket was set on by the Iesuites 1592. or there abouts with father Parsons consent knowledge to haue stirred vp the Earle of Darbie to rebellion against her highnesse Not long after father Holt the Iesuite and others with him perswaded an Irish man one Patriâ—cke Collen as he himselfe confessed to attempt the laying of his violent and villanous hands vpon her Maiestie Shortly after 1593. that notable stratagâ—me was plotted for Doctor Lopez the Queenes phisition to haue poysoned her This wicked designement being thus preuented by Gods prouidence the said traiterous Iesuite Holt and others did allure and animate one Yorke and Williams to haue accomplished that with their bloodie hands that the other purposed to haue done with his poyson we meane her Maiesties destruction Heereunto we may adde the late villanous attempt 1599. of Edward Squire animated and drawen thereunto as he confessed by Walpole that pernitious Iesuite These words are set downe in the important considerations Page 33 see chap. 4. paragraph 6. of Walpoole the Iesuite The Iesuites laboured in Fraunce euen the french Iesuites themselues to haue lifted the Spaniard into the throne of that kingdome with the consequent ouerthrow of their owne natiue countrey All Christendome to their perpetuall shame ring loudly of it They made great stirre in Spayne to perswade the king to inuade England yeelding to him many reasons why he was bound to vndertake that enterprise and assuring him of great assistance if once his forces were landed Hereunto may be added how many they haue intituled to the Crowne of England as the Duke of Parma the Earle of Darbie and others exciting some of them by force of armes to assaile her Maiestie and buzzing into their eares how easily the scepter might be wrung out of her hands and they obtaine it But most pertinent to the purpose is that their plotting and compassing how to set the Diademe of this Realme vpon the head of the princesse Isabella the Infanta of Spayne To this purpose they haue written a booke wherein they gaue her such an interest as they make the kings of this land for many yeares to haue béene vsurpers These words are to be read in their discouerie Page 8. quodl 9. art 2. pag. 288. The Iesuites take pleasure to scatter rumors and to suggest certaine nouelties in the eares of Catholikes yea to forge and inuent things that are not insomuch as they are commonly held now a daies great lyars and it is come to passe that though they sweare men wil not beléeue them These words are set downe in the Relation Page 73. quodlibet 2. art 6. pag. 39. CHAP. III. Of the excessiue expences and great gallantrie of the Iesuites THe Iesuites endeuour by all meanes possible that both those almes which are giuen for the relief of them that are in prison or any other poore afflicted whatsoeuer as also whatsoeuer is paid in cases of dispensation may come to their hands Now what is done with this money we know not Prisons and Colledges are depriued of the great summes the banished haue them not the priests sée them not but there are hired here with seditious persons deuisers of fables slaunderers of their brethren and scorners of the saints are herewith enriched these and such as these receiue large stipends of their labours And yet so great a masse of monies cannot be consumed but that the fathers bestow much vpon themselues For they goe in déed in great gallantrie no Iesuite goeth to visit any one or trauelleth from one place to another but he is richly apparrelled and is attended on with a great traine of seruants as if he were a Baron or an Earle They wrangle and reprooue the priests garments and spendings whereas the expences of one Iesuite were able to maintaine twentie priests richly Neither by this meanes also could so great a quantitie of almes be wasted but that as the report goes much treasure is conueyed beyond the seas but to what purpose we know not vnlesse it be bestowed vpon their bodie their corporation or societie These words are to be found in the Relation Page 70. See the tenth Preamble and note it well The Iesuites became our collectors or rather not ours but their owne to whom for their accounts the false Steward in the gospell may giue place One Iesuite hath taken at times aboue 500 pound that was giuen to the imprisoned priests then at Wâ—â—â—â— and imployed the same at his owne pleasure Percie the Iesuite escaping from Wisbish tooke fraudulently from benefactors abroad 57. pound 17. shillings and the yeare after stole 27. pound of the common money by the consent of the other his fellow Iesuites They haue so fleeced their fauorers as ouer aboue their owne expences which are excéeding great they haue beene able to send out long since 2200. pound towards the Low countries To scrape together so much money they haue many sleights besides their apparant consenages frauds and thefts before mentioned Thus they write in their discouerie Page 19. First I will but referre you vnto all the priests and Catholikes that liued in England in father Haywoods time of libertie and knew him his manners and fashions well and if they
as was brought vp vnder them In other Colledges they know not what it meant to instruct schollers how to murther kings and specially in ours But in the Iesuits Colledges it is contrarie and preached in their owne assemblies nothing so much as that alone Of the which indéed they were but too prodigall in their sermons These words are set downe in the Iesuites Catechisme Lib. 3. cap. 8. fol. 155. When our Iesuites saw themselues remoued from their princes fauour they began to lay a snare to intrappe him And as their societie is composed of all sorts of people some for the penne others for practise so had they amongst them one father Henry Sammier of Luxenburge a man disposed for all affaires and resolued to any hazard This fellow was sent by them in the yeare 1581. towards diners Catholike princes to sound the fourd And to say truly they could not haue chosen one more fit For he disguised himselfe into as manie formes as obiects one while attired like a souldier an other while like a priest by and by a countrey swaine Dice cards and women were as ordinarie with him as his presired houres of prayer saying he did not thinke he sinned in this because it was done to Gods glory and that he miâ—â—t not be discouered changing his name together with his habite according to the countries where he purposed to negotiate These words are to be read in the Catechisme Lib. 3. cap. 11. Fol 162. William Crichton the Iesuite went into Spaine by the licence of his generall Whither he is no sooner come but he practiseth to infinuate himselfe into the kings fauour And to that effect drawes a tree of the descent and pedegree of the Infanta his daughter shewing therein that the Crownes of England Scotland did by right appertaine to her and so incite him the rather to take armes against the Scottish king hee scattered abroad diffamatorie libels against him Whereunto the king of Spayne giuing no eare Crichton determined with himselfe by letters to sollicite the Catholike Nobilitie of Scotland to the same purpose and to that ende wrote letters in the yeare 1592. to Gourdon and other Iesuites remaining in Scotland whereby hee gaue them to vnderstand in what grace he was with the king who by his incitement was resolued aswell for the inuasion of England as for the restoring of the auncient Religion in Scotland These words are in the Iesuites Catechisme Lib. 3. cap. 16. fol. 173. Certaine young diuines infected with the poyson of the Iesuites loosed the reines to subiects against their king in the yeare 1589. and Commolet the Iesuite with his adherents sounded the trumpet of warre in their pulpets against the king deceased Whereupon insued those outragious disorders which we haue seene in France since that time These words are in yâ— Catechisme Li. 3. c. 14. fol. 169. Walpole the Iesuite in the yeare 1597. deliuered a poysonous confection to Squire therewith to make away the Queene of England his Soueraigne The Iesuites at Doway in the yeare 1598. sent the Cooper of Iper to kill Graue Maurice of Nassaw These wordes are set downe in the Iesuites Catechisme Lib. 3. cap. 13. fol. 168. It is well knowne O Iesuites that your Colledge was the fountaine and seminarie of all those calamities which we endured during the last troubles There was the rebellion plotted and contriued there was it fully and wholy nourished and maintained Your prouincials your rectors your deuout superiours were the first that troade that path they that first and last dealt with this merchandise Your Colledge was the retreat or Randeuous of all such as had vowed and sold themselues aswell to the destruction of the State as to the murther of the king In which your doings you at that time gloried and triumpht both in your sermons and lectures Sequitur this was the houre of Gods wrath who hauing long temporized with your sinnes thought it good to make Chastell a spurre in the hearts of the iudges to incite them to do iustice aswell vpon you as vpon him that you might all serue for an example for posteritie to wonder at To the accomplishment of this worke he permitted that Chastell who had beene nurtured and brought vp in your schoole should assay to put in practise your deuout lectures and exhortations against the king not in the countrey but in the citie of Paris and that his dwelling house should be not in any obscure corner of the towne but in the verie heart of the citie in a house right opposite to the gate of the pallace the ancient habitation of our kings and of the supreame and soueraigne iustice of Fraâ—nce This house belonged to the father who was so infortunate as not to reueale to the Magistrate the damnable intention of his sonne whereof hee had knowledge as himselfe confessed God made speciall choyse of that place of purpose to make the punishment more notorious For which cause this house was râ—â—nated and raced by order and in the place thereof a Pyâ—amis or piller raysed bearing the memoriall not onely of Chastels offence but of the Iesuites also and this to stand in opposite view of this great royall Pallace To the ende that our posteritie may knowe heereafter how highly Fraunce is beholden to this holy societie of Iesus These wordes are set downe in the Iesuites Catechisme Lib. 3. cap. 19. fol. 191. Note here gentle reader with me these important obseruations First that Iohn Chastell but 19. yeares of age went about trayterously with a knife prepared for that purpose to murther his naturall Soueraigne Secondly that hee the said youth was fully perswaded by Iesuiticall education and doctrine that to murther his liege Lord the King was the readie way to heauen Thirdly that nothing was more freely taught in the schooles of the Iesuites then the doctrine of the killing of lawefull kinges Fourthly that their sermons abounded with this kind of maladie Fiftly that the Iesuites imployed in this kind of marchandise one Henrie Sammier a most licentious dissolute villaine giuen to all vices vnder heauen Sixtly that he reputed all his vices for vertues in respect of his godly intents and purpose viz. Of killing Kinges Seuenthly that the Iesuite Crichton sollicited the Spanish King to inuade both England and Scotland affirming that the crownes of both the kingdomes did by right pertaine vnto him Eightly that the Iesuite Commolet and his adherents sounded the trumpet of warre against their king euen out of the pulpets â—s if it had beene an high point of diuinitie and most fit for edification Ninthly that the Iesuite Walpoole endeuoured by poyson to take away the life of his Soueraigne Tenthly that the Iesuites at Doway sent the Cooper of Iper to kill Graue Maurice of Nassaw Eleuently that the colledge of the Iesuites was the fountaine and seminarie of the calamities in France That in their colledge was all rebellion plotted coÌ„triued nourished maintained Twelftly that the prouincials rectors and
wronges will soone redresse Christs Gospell still he will maintaine Our true peace to prolonge Both Spaniard Pope and Iesuite May sing a doolefull songe They sought by treason Scotlands crowne On Spanish head to bind Crichton was actor chiefe who may in then'd an halter find Most traytorous parts and bloudie plots To Iesuites are deare To all that will this booke peruse This truth must needs appeare Disloyall papists still presume A tollerate to craue But God preserue our gracious King No such sport must they haue Their combes are cut their crests are falne They stand amaz'd with feare Their spirits rampant are made couchant Their doome will soone appeare For this rare blessing yeelde him thankes That sits in heauen aboue And let our faith and Godly life Make knowne to him our loue The Preface to the gentle Reader THis Anatomie of popish Tyrannie gentle Reader was compiled and made readie for the presse before the tenth of October in the yeare of our lord God 1602. but by reason of casuall accidents and other circumstances concurring it was not printed vntill this present yeare 1603. before which time it pleased the Almightie to call hence to his mercie our most gratious Soueraigne the mightie Princesse Elizabeth late Queene of England France and Ireland Against whose sacred person the Pope the Spaniards and Englist Spaniolized Iesuites with all Iesuited popelings deuised contriued and practised many most cruell stratagems and bloodie complottes All which were effected for this sole and onely purpose because forsooth her most excellent Maiesty of holy memorie did euer with singular Christian zeale and rare magnanimitie protect patronize and stoutly maintaine Christs holy gospell and his diuine worship throughout her Realmes and Dominions These treacheries and most villanous conspiracies against her royall person with innumerable indignities against her Realmes most louing subiects contriued and put into actuall execution by the cursed crew of English Iesuites and Iesuited papists are compendiously distinctly and pithily comprised in this present volume By reason whereof it commeth that though this present worke be published after that the imperiall Diademe of the Realmes afore named came and descended wholy and lawfully to the high and renowmed prince now our vndoubted Soueraigne lord Iames the first King of England Scotland Fraunce and Ireland yet must all the chiefest parts thereof be referred principally to our late Soueraigne ladie Queene Elizabeth I say principally for that the same doe in some sort concerne his royall person regall prerogatiues who this day most happily raigneth ouer vs. For the cursed and trayterous Iesuites who for their manifold treasons against their Soueraigne lords the late king of France the king now regnant are iustly banished out of the whole kingdome of Fraunce euen by publike decree of Parliament as the French papists tell vs and who also as the Secular priests their owne brethren write of them haue endeuoured with tooth and nayle to stirre vp sedition in the kingdome of Scotland so to set the imperiall Crowne thereof vpon a Spaniards head will not now doubtlesse surcease from their inueterate and wonted bloodie treacheries seeing their profession is linked inseperably with treason as the priests affirme against them if our liege lord king Iames the first shall graunt them any footing and resting place within any of his kingdomes territories or dominions God for his mercie sake which hath no end eyther conuert them soundly or confound them vtterly for the peace of his Church the safetie of our gracious King and the comfort of all his true hearted subiects English Scottish and Irish. Amen The names of the Secular priests that subscribed to the supplication sent to the Pope Thomas Bluet Christopher Bagshaw Christopher Thules Iames Tayler Iohn Thules Edward Caluerley William Coxe Iames Cope Iohn Collington George Potter Iohn Mush William Watson William Clarke Iohn Clinsh Oswald Nedeme Roger Strickland Robert Drurie Francis Munford Anthonie Heburne Anthonie Champney Iohn Lingley Iohn Boswell Robert Thules Edward Bennet Robert Benson Cuthbert Trolope Iohn Bennet William Mush Richard Button Francis Foster Note heere gentle Reader that though these thirtie onely who make a number sufficient did subscribe to the appeale and to the petition sent to the Pope yet were there and are there many others as the priestes write which would willingly haue set to their hands but that they were in feare to deale against the proud tyrannizing Iesuites Yea as the Iesuites write there are this day in England 300. priests God eyther conuert them speedily or confound them vtterly Amen A memorable caueat to the gentle Reader I Haue imployed my whole industrie and best indeuour gentle Reader to doe thee good and to confirme thee in the truth of Christs gospell who if I shall vnderstand that my paineful labours for thy sake shall be accepted in good part and be an instrument vnder God to direct thee the readie way to eternall life shall doubtlesse attaine my desire and hold my selfe fully satisfied for my paines Now for the better accomplishment of mine expectation herein I haue thought very expedient and necessarie to instruct thee in some generall points without the knowledge whereof neither canst thou fruitfully read this discourse nor fully and perfectly vnderstand the same First therefore the gentle Reader must obserue seriously though some otherwise learned be of an other opinion that the discontented secular Priests are in truth and without all doubt at vtter defiance with the Arch-Priest and the Iesuites that they condemne the proceeding and dealing of the Arch-Priest that they vtterly abhorre and derest the licentious liuing the vnchristian coozening and the treacherous practises with infinite other badde dealing of the Iesuites as also that they write nothing of or against the Arch-Priest or the Iesuites but that onely which they thinke themselues bound in conscience to write and to make the same knowne vnto the world I my selfe am thus perswaded of them doubtlesse and I prooue the same many waies First because the Secular Priests haue a long time suffered intollerable iniuries at the hands of the Iesuites because they haue often insinuated so much one to another because they haue often complained of the hard vsage of the Iesuits against them because they haue often repined at their partiall dealing with their fauorites and rough dealing against such as would not bow and bend to their designes at a becke this my selfe know to be so as also that it hath euer beene their vsuall practise euerie where Secondly because the Secular priests were most vnwilling to reueale the turpitude and the villanous dealing of their religious fathers the Iesuits as who professe one and the same religion with the Iesuits saw rightwel that it could not but tend to the great scandall vtter disparagement of their Romish religion vntill necessitie it selfe enforced them therunto Thirdly because their Seculars write nothing of our English Iesuits in deed but the French papists haue in effect and
be intermedling a little therewithall shall 〈…〉 I say for distinction sake beâ—â—â—â—â— the word secular both fitly distinguish them from the Dominicans Carthusians Benedictines Carmelites Iesuites and the rest All which are called religious because they make a more strict profession of religion then other Christians doe howsoeuer they keepe the same The seminarie priests are méere secular as well as they that neuer were out of this land They are called seminaries because they studie and are maintained in the Colledges or seminaries and some of them neuer are made priests at all I say some because verie few are in that predicament CHAP. II. Of the vnspeakable dissention betweene the Iesuites and Secular priests THe malice of the new vpstart Iesuites is exceeding great and the wâ—th plainely that they are badde fellâ—â—â—s licentâ—â—â—s proud hautie cruell couetous ambitious 〈◊〉 deceitfull irreligious nothing lesse then that which they would seeme and professe to bee All this to be tree shall euidently appeare out of printed bookes 〈◊〉 euen by the Iesuites themselues and the secular priests to the iudgement of all the world yea the Pope himselfe in his sacred Pallaâ—◠〈◊〉 For of Weston the Iesuite thâ—s write the priests a man as impatient as some of his fellowes and of as hautie a spirit as any man can be It was wonderfull to consider what humblenes simplicitie he would pretend in the time of his prouincialship His sighes and zeale seemed to be extraordinarie as though the perteetion of true mortification had béene the onely thing he aymed at Marrie with all his hypocrisie he deceiued none but such as did not looke narrowly into his proceedings A righter Pharisee cannot easily be found In the most of his humility nothing did trouble him more then that Master Bagshaw being a Doctor of Diuinitie should haue place before him at the table insomuch as the better to content him we were driuen to place him at the tables end with him Thus write the secular priests in their relation Page 5. Paragraph I. Of the outcries of the Iesuites against the secular priests LIster the Iesuite hath written a booke in which he chargeth all the priestes that appealed to the Pope to be flat schismatikes To which booke Blackwell the Archpriest and Garnet the prouinciall in England did both subscribe In this booke the Iesuites charge the priests to haue fallen from the Church and the spouse of Christ to haue troden vnder their féete their obedience due to the Pope to haue lost their faculties authoritie to be irregular to haue incurred the sentence of excommunication to be in all mens mouthes as infamous persons To be as publicans and sinners and to be nothing better thou are soothsayers and idolaters These words are set downe in their relation Page 60. The Archpriest by Iesuiticall appointment affirmed audaciouslie that he had receiued a resolution from the mother Citie of Rome that the refusers of his authoritie were schismatikes and that he would not giue absolution to any who should make no conscience thereof and gaue direction that they should make account thereof and make satisfaction before they receiued absolution Hee denied to giue any faculties to Master Benson vnlesse he would renounce the schismaticall conuenticle of the secular priests Hee declared also that M. Moore had written in preiudice of the faith when he wrote in the behalfe of the priests concerning the matter of schisme whereupon neither his ordinarie ghostly father would administer the sacraments to him nor his ghostly children receiue any of him or be present when he said masse These words are set downe in the hope of peace Page 31. Our Arch-priest chafeth the prouinciall his good master clappes him on the backe and egges him forward the rest of the Iesuites what their tongues and prepare their pens to speake and write what they can falsely deuise to make vs odious so as presently we are become a by-word in their mouthes and are nothing with them but rebels Apostates and what they list to report of vs. These wordâ— are set downe in the relation Page 60. The Iesuites caused a libell to be cast out against doctor Lewis a secular priest and for that they loued the man in the course of their hote charitie they made this deuout prayer for him vel Turca velmors vel demon euen eripiat à nobis Eyther the Turke or death or the diuell take him away from vs. And indeed not long after he died we leaue it to Gods iudgement whether they were the causers of it or not Thus write the priests in their discouerie Page 32. quodl 4. art 2. pag. 97. The Iesuites triumphed openly vpon the death of an other English priest Cardinall Allen by name and amongst other their calumniations against him they said that God had taken him away in good time for if he had lâ—â—ed longer he would haue disgraced himselfe and lost the credit which he had got These men haue the best fortune in the world for no man if once they begin to hate him doth liue any long time after it These words are set downe in the discouerie Page 34. In the same place the priests write that the said Cardinall was thought to be poysoned by Iesuiticall meanes and procurement Paragraph II. Of the outcries which the Secular priests make against the Iesuites THe priests exclaime against the Iesuites for their Machiuilian practises diabolicall plots in their concurrence incitements and execrable perswasions which they vsed and practised with the Spaniards and with other forraine and domesticall powers for the inuasion conquest and vtter subucrsion of most noble England of her sacred Maiestie and of all her loyall and faithfull subiects This is true Catholike religion in this case and true English nature and valure true faith and true charitie and what the Iesuits perswade vs toward a conquest of our deare countrey vpon pretence of neuer so much pietie were abhominable disloyaltie in vs to our prince These words are set downe in the answere to the Iesuited gentleman Page 70. The Iesuites affect rule ouer the secular cleargie so to bring armes and conquest into the Church contrarie to all scriptures and to that end they doe manage matters of state more machiuilianly then Machiuell himselfe as appeares by their erection of the Arch-priest and all his carriages according to them and it These words are set downe in the aunswere to the Iesuited gentleman Page 79. Wee all of the Secular Cleargie vna voce doe vtterly disclayme and renounce from our hearts both Arch-priest and Iesuites as arrant traitors vnto their prince and countrey whom to death we will neuer obey no if the Popes holines should charge vs to obey in this sense to aduance an enemie to the English Crowne we would neuer yeeld to it as by no law of nature of nations or of man to be compelled therevnto These words with many moe to the like effect are
required It is not vnknowne what a villanous attempt the traytor Parrie vndertooke against the life of hir Maiestie ann 1583. With which outragious plot sundrie of the Iesuites were acquainted and namely this arrant traytor Parsons who also intituled Alexander the Duke of Parma to hir Maiesties crowne and indeuoured with all his skill to perswade the Duke in the right of his sonne Ranutius to set vpon this Realme with all his force But the attempt of anno 1588. By the King of Spaine against hir Maiesty and this whole kingdome is to be abhorred aboue all the rest and to be had in perpetuall detestation And yet in that cruell attempt this our Iesuite was a chiefe firebrand and had his hand in that pernitious booke that was then printed for the stirring vp of her Maiesties subiects to haue taken part with the Spaniard if he could haue arriued These words are to be found in the sparing discouery pag. 49. page 51. pag. 52. A large volumne is set forth by this Parsons and his generall called the high counsell of reformation for England to take place and to be of force when the catholike conquerour shall be established in great Brytaine First no religious order will that famous volumne permitte in great Brytain but Iesuites and Capuchines Neither Benedictines nor Carthusians nor Dominicans must enter heere sicut placuit Iesuitis for the holy Ghost hath forsaken all other religious orders and is onely in the Capuchenes and Iesuites If you aske vs why they make choise of the Capuchenes onely we answere you as a good Capuchene did to the like question we sute best quoth he with the humor of the Iesuits for their drift is to haue all and to rule all and on the contrarie our orders are such as we must neitheir rule at all neither haue any thing at all Secondly all bishoprickes great and small all parsonages vicarages and monasteries must be no more in the hands of bishops Abbots parsoÌ„s the rest as heretofore it was accustomed They all must bee put to their pensions and the father prouinciall must â—ull out foure Iesuites and two secular Priests which must be demiâ— Iesuits These six vicars these mightie great Lords shall haue lands mannors Lordships parsonages monasteries and whatsoeuer els into their owne hands allowing the Bishoppes and the rest pensions or stipends at their good pleasures Thirdly no parson no vicar no bishop no fellow of any colledge must be so hardy as once to demaund an accompte what is become of their reuenewes lands and lordships Fourthly the nobilitie must be limited also what retinewe they shall keepe what they shall haue to spende yeerely and what diet they shall keepe at their tables Lastly the common lawes of our contrie must be abolished and the ciuill beare the sway happie is hee that can see and read this booke called the counsell of reformation These words are to be found both in the sparing discouerie pag. 28. 29. and in the dialogue also page 95. as also quodlibet 4. art 2. page 93. quodlibet 9. art 2. pag. 289. Note heere gentle reader these important points with me First that the Iesuites doe perswade themselues confidently and would perswade all others in like manner that they can procure a conquest of England at their pleasure Secondly that themselues are the onely wise men in all Europe at least in their owne conceits and consequently that all people or all estates and condition whatsoeuer must in reason yeelde to their counsell of reformation Thirdly that all bishops parsons and vicars must depend vpon the Iesuiticall munks those irreligious and trayterous fryers a thing neuer heard of since the world began Fourthly that not onely the ancient lawes of the Church but also of the Realme must be altered by Iesuiticall profested fryers Fiftly that munks the hautie and arrogant Iesuites I meane must be the high treasurers of the land Sixtly that all the nobilitie of the land must be censured and limited by the said Friers what retinew they shall keepe what summes of money they shall spend and what diet they shall vse Seuenthly and lastly that these Iesuits these Lordly Friers these noble treasurers of England are lawles and independent aboue all and vnder none no man may call them to accoumpt no man may once aske them what is become of the common treasure Two Priests Maister Bishoppe Maister Charnocke being messengers to Rome sent in the name of all the rest were imprisoned at Rome before their message was deliuered The French Ambassadour came to the Pope and told him that in imprisoning those two men he had done that whereof no example could begiuen in any age And therefore beseeched the Pope to giue them audience After the Ambassadours departure forthwith commeth the Spanish Ambassadour suborned by Parsons and disswadeth the Pope from that which he had promised The French Ambassadour commeth againe the second time and vrgeth as before and againe audience was granted to the Priestes This being knowne to the Iesuites they procured the said Spanish Ambassadour to come againe to disswade the Pope at whole motion audience againe was denied and the Priests cast into prison These words are set downe in the preface to the important considerations fol. 8. page 2. See also Maister Elies notes vpon the Apologie pag. 108. for there the same is auouched Note here gentle reader these points with me First that the Iesuites are men which respect neither religion nor conscience nor honest morall dealing Againe that the Pope is an vnfit man to gouerne any one nation and much lesse fit to gouerne all the christian world But all is well his traytorous Iesuites can doe it for him Yea they can rule the Pope himselfe For so themselues affirme These are their words in the notes vpon the Apologie page 267. Parsons for his credit you say in the Romaine court doth greatly let hinder their designements And this their saying was not manie monethes since confirmed by one of his owne coate passing by this way who said Father Parsons could doe what he would with the Pope Paragraph II. Of the Popes dealing in matters of treason Piâ—s quintus practised hir maiesties subuersioÌ„ he sent into England one Ridolphi a gentleman of Florence vnder colour of marchandize to sollicite a rebellion He moued the King of Spaine to ioyne in this exploite for the better securing of his owne dominions in the lowe countries He denounced his bull against hir maiestie purposely to further the intended rebellion and to depriue hir from hir kingdome The Pope and king of Spaine assigned the Duke of Norfolke to be the head of this rebellion The Pope gaue order to the said Ridolphi to take 150000. crownes to set forward his attempt some of which mony was sent for Scotland and some deliuered to the said Duke King Philippe at the Popes instance determined to send the Duke of Alua into England with all his forces into the low countries
lawfull and a matter of conscience to obey his wicked and most execrable sentence when hee appointed the English preiests and others to take part with the Spanish powers against their soueraigne And heere by the way the gentle reader may note this excellent and golden corollary viz that though the priests and all Papists hold if for a coÌ„stant maxime that the pope is the onely iudg in controuersies yet doe the priests now when the case toucheth themselues take vpon them to censure the Pope and to say bouldly that they will not because they are not bound in such and such cases to obey him Marke well for Christs sake it is not my doctrine but the doctrie of the secular Priests and so of greatest force against them and all other papists The fourth conclusion THe Pope hath no authoritie to assoyle or exempt the subieces of this Realme from the homage to her maiestie This conclusion is cleare and plaine by the free graÌ„t and open confession of the secular Priests where and when they write in expresse tearmes as you haue heard in the chapters a foregoing more then once that the Pope hath no power ouer yâ— law of nature which is indeed the law of God therfore he is no more to be obeyed therein theÌ„ if he should command to commit adulterie incest or to murder our selues or our parents that I may vse the priests their owne words And the case is euident to euery childe for who knoweth not that no inferiour hath power to chaung or alter the law of his superiour And yet is it cleare I weene enen in the opinion of euery papist that God is the Popes superiour and so the Pope hath not to chaunge or alter his law How the difficultie is this if there be any difficultie at all whether the Popes fact in assoylinge subiects from their loyaltie be against the law of nature or nor To which I aunswere briefly that it is so And I proue it because our allegeance to our soueraigne is coÌ„prised in the first precept of the decalogue which is morall and of the law of nature under the name of parents For in the name of parents are contained and vnderstood al superiours by what title or name soeuer they be termed all both old and late writers without exception doe so hold write and beleeue If any papist can this denie let him put downe his reasons I am readie to reply vpon him But I suppose none of theÌ„ will oppose himselfe against this vndoubted truth I therefore conclude that the late bishops of Rome shew who and what they are when they proudly take vpon them to assoyle subiects from their allegeance and naturall obedience to their Prince CHAP. X. Of the secular Priests and there late Printed Bookes Paragraph I. Of there religion in matters of state THe secular priests professe themselues to hould constantly euery point and article of the Romish faith For thus doe they write name that article or one point of the catholike Romish faith wherein the secular priests doe either stagger in themselues or seeke to seduce you These words are set downe in the preface to the important considerations fol. 4. page 2. Touching this demande I haue thought it worth the labour to make a syncere answeare vnto the priests out of their owne papers and writinges published to the iudgement of the world Partly that they themselues may see if they will not continue obstinate their owne folly in religion as also the great absurdities which thereby they do vnwittingly and vnwillingly admit and defend Partly also that others may dislike their religion and more zealously embrace the truth First therefore the bishoppe of Rome holdeth that he may and can assoyle subiects from their allegeance and depriue her maiestie from her royall dâ—ademe The Iesuites affirme it Cardinall Allanâ— approued it and your selues haue granted the same as I haue alreadie shewed How either you the secular priestes I meane hold the same opinion or not If ye doe not then are yee not such perfect papists as you write If ye doe so hould then are you traytors against your soueraigne aswell as the Iesuites whome yet your selues tearme arraÌ„t traytors as they are indeede Secondly the Pope houldeth That Queene Elizabeth is not the lawfull Queene of England but an vsurper and pretensed Queene you know it you write so How if you hold not so you are not perfect papists If you hold so you are arrant traytors Beare with mee for my wordes youre selues haue prouoked mee therevnvnto Thirdly the Pope holdes that her maiesties subiects may and ought to take part with the king of Spain against her If you hold not so you are not perfect papists If you hold so you are ranke traytors Fourthly the Pope holds that he may consecrat grains and â—gnus deis and grant pardon to all them that will take parte with him against our soueraigne and vse them as signes and seales of that couenant If you hold not so you are not perfect papists If you hold so you are traytors Fiftly the pope holds and his papists with him as I haue the wed that subictes must in conscience follow his direction in all warres for religion If you hold not so you are not sound Romish catholikes or papiste If you hold so you are traytours Master Saunders a secular priest iustifieth the rebellion in the North and holdeth the Earles with their adherents to be glorious martyrs Morton and Webbe doe hold the same opinion who are likewise secular priests the Iesuites at Rome are of the same stampe and defend the same treason in the highest degrée for Alphonsus the Iesuite then rector of the English colledge in Rome caused the Organs to be sounded in the English chappell all the students to come to the chappell of which number my selfe was one and then and there hee himselfe putting on his backe a white surplesse to signifie for sooth the puritie of the matyrdome and the stole about his necke sange a collect of marrtyrs so after his manner canonizing Campion the rebell for a saint This to be so Iohn Mush one of these secular priests knoweth right well and cannot denie the same seing himselfe was then present in the colledge at Rome which publique solemnitie for a traytorous Iesuite Campion I meane Alphonsus durst not haue attempted doubtles vnlesse he had first obtained the consent of his generall neither yet would yâ— generall for he durst not so haue done haue approued the fact if he had not had the consent of the Pope whose consent is the consent of all the popish Church To which I must needes adde that it is vsuall amonge the English papists to keepe the relikes of Campion Sherewin and the rest and to pray vnto them as vnto the saints of God How if you secular priestes hold not thus you are not sound papists If you hold so you are arrant traytours So then the seculars are
denyed The priestes confesse as you heare that their contention was the ground of the Archpriestes authoritie that their garboyles did beget his greatnesse and therefore that they are his good masters Fourthly that the secular priests the Romish seminarists repute it no shame to publish in printed bookes that the superioritie among them proceedeth of sedition and factious dealing Happie are they forsooth that are guided by such rulers The third Booke containing sundry graue aduisoes set downe for the good of all true-hearted Subiects least they be hereafter seduced with Iesuiticall hypocrisie and treacherous Poperie Aduiso I. Of Popish proceedings against Kinges Potentates and Monarkes of this world THE Iesuite Parsons in his booke Philopater is verie peremptorie slie and saucie verie boldly affirming that when kings deflect from the Catholike religion and draw others with theÌ„ then their subiects are frée and both may and ought if they be able to cast such a man out of his dominions An other Iesuite giueth vs this lesson the quarrel for Religion saith he and defence of innocencie is so iust that Heathen princes not at all subiect to the Churches lawes may in that case by the Christian armes be resisted An other Iesuite saith thus that Christians in times past did not depose Nero and Dioclesian and Iulian the Apostata and Vâ—lens the Arrian and others it was because Christians did then want temporall forces for otherwise they might lawfully haue dealt so with them Thus it is written quodl 9. art 4. q. 296. Note here gentle Reader that most vnnaturall rebellion is as a naturall or proper passion to all seditious Popish religion which doubtlesse is a graue aduiso seriously to be thought vpon Aduiso II. Of the charitable physicke of the Iesuites IF hereafter any Pope shall crosse the Spaniards plots and purposes the Iesuites will haue such a figge in store or his paines that shall doe so as no Ruebarbe Angelica Mithridate or other medicine or antidote shall expell the venime poyson or infection from his heart nor any Bezar Pearle gold or Vnicornes horne long preserue his life after it And if there be as there are shrewde suspitions in Rome concerning the death of two Popes two Cardinals and one Byshop alreadie and that but for breaking or rather intending to breke the Iesuites a little of their will and vnbridled insolencie and onely to reforme them in their order then no maruell at their disignments for England and much lesse doubt to bee made what they would doe in such a case if it came to canuasing for a kingdome Thus is it written quodl 8. art 6. p. 245. It is true that in France there are publike monuments of Isuiticall tyrannie For first they procured Henrie the third to be excommunicated and then by degrees they murderd him quod 8. art 8. p. 261. see the 2. Booke chap. 2. and 2. Parag. Note here gentle Reader three important points with me first that our holy fathers the late vpstart Iesuites are not religious fathers as they professe to be but disordered dissolute and blood-thirstie companions Secondly that they are charged with wilfull murder and that of no meane personages but euen of Byshops euen of Kings euen of Cardinals yea euen of Popes themselues Thirdly that murder is a thing so common or rather so connaturall to Iesuiticall faction that if their purposes and plots bee but a little crossed not onely by Barons Earles or Dukes but euen by Kings Emperours and monarkes nay euen by the Pope himselfe whom they would be thought to honour aboue the rest then doubtlesse that Barton Earle duke King Emperour or Pope shall haue such a fig giueÌ„ him by these skilful Phisitions for his restoratiue Catholike anâ—tpast as he shall neuer after it be in neede of any Christian preseruatiue post-past this is a graue Aduiso it doth pourtray our Iesuites gallantly in their deserued and well beseeming colours Aduiso III. Of Cardinal Allens intendment against his prince and natiue Countrey IT can not be denied but that in the yere 1588. Cardinall Allen compiled a booke to be published when the Spaniards should haue arriued to haue stirred vp all English papists to take armes against their Soueraigne for the speedy conquest of their natiue Countrey The first part of which booke was intituled a declaration of the sentence The second part An admonition to the Nobilitie and people of England but presently vpon the ouerthrow of the great invincible Armado vnder their heroical Adlantado for shame of the world they procured the whole Impression to be burnt sauing some fewe that had beene sent abroad beforehand to frindes such as had otherwise béene conueyed away by the Printer and others in secret wise Thus it is written quodl 8. art 6. p 240. Note here gentle Reader that Cardinall Allen the chiefe gouernour vnder the Pope in all popish English affaires did further the Spaniards intended conquest of England with all his might strength power and force and that hee published a most trayterous booke in his own name for the speedy complement of that most cruell and bloody attempt to which adde with mee that the sayd Allen was sent by the Pope to manage that great affaire and was also made Cardinall for that onely ende and purpose as I haue proued in the second Booke ninth chapter and third conclusion now then seeing the Pope the Cardinall and the Iesuits did all wholy intend the inuasion and conquest did at all times bend their Buls bils libels and all their forces to depose her Maiestie from her Crowne and royall Scepter and seeing also that the Secular priests confesse freely as is already proued in the second book tenth chapiter and second Paragraph that many of their affections were knit to the Spaniards and that none were more forward then they in those bloodie treacheries and seeing thirdly that the said priests do still professe their obedience to the Pope in euerie thing and humblie submit themselues and all that they haue written to be decided iudged and censured as shall seeme good to his holinesse for so they write in their important considerations pag. 43. quodlibet 10. p. 342 et p. 361. let them the secular priests I meane say and write what they list and like of their true and loyall hearts towarde her maiestie I for my owne parte will neuer giue credite to them vnlesse they will ioyne with vs in sacrament and commoÌ„ prayer And I verely thinke that whosoeuer shal marke this discourse seriously will be of mine opinion For concerning equiuocating and temporizing instate affaires they are nothing inferiours to the false cogging Iesuites They vtter in deed many truthes but they doe it of necessitie so to be auenged of the Iesuites and to be deliuered from their tyrannie The Iesuites they spare in no respect But Cardinall Allan they highly commend and the Pope they dare not in any case oâ—tend Which two the Pope and the Cardinall while they doe commend
the principall English in Rome And I pray you who were these Parsons himselfe forsooth and his brother Iesuite Baldwin lately come for that intent out of England Haddocke also Martin Array and Allen all Iesuited vassals and at his commaund Thirdly diuers other principall men wrote out of Spayne to signifie the sufficiencie of Blackwel for his Arch-presbiteran office and that he should be the gouernour This doth Parsons or his flattering vassals at his designement set downe in expresse termes in their Apologie Now I beseech the gentle reader who is so blind as cannot see this malitious treacherie Parsons seeketh by hooke and by crooke to hide his false dealing and yet doth he vnwittingly bewray his owne villanie Men forsooth in Spayne must please Parsons for their owne gaine and they must write to the Protector at Rome that Blackwell whose sufficiencie they know not is a most sufficient man Hee and none but he must gouerne all the priests in England Will ye know the reason this Blackwell is Iesuited if not a close and secret Iesuite and consequently he being the gouernour Parsons may rule at his pleasure and banish all that will not subscribe to his treasons For not onely the prests but the Cardinall also yea the Pope himselfe must conclude and agrée to the Iesuites their designements Who so will read the instructions which the Arch-priest is inioyned to follow can not possibly but be of my opinion CHAP. IIII Of the fashoods leasings and vntruthes conteyned in the Iesuiticall Apologie published to the world Paragraph I. Concerning Boromoeo the late Cardinall of Millan ANd as for that which our discontented brethren do cite in diuers places of their bookes of Cardinall Boromaeo of holy memorie that he tooke the gouernement of one of his seminaries in Millan from the fathers we haue informed our selues of the trueth that the fathers of their owne will and vpon their owne earnest suite left the said gouernment of the great labour and trouble thereof as also some little difference in opinion about the schollers education which the good Cardinall would haue had somewhat more bare in their diet and apparrel then the fathers order in their seminaries did permit For which the holy Cardinall alledged no euill reason saying that seeing they were to be sent afterwards abroad to poore benefices among countrey people where they must faire hardly they would refuse to goe beeing brought vppe after the diet of other seminaries But the fathers thought it easier for them to leaue this gouerment then to admit this difference and so they left it And the good Cardinall did vse all the meanes possibly he could both there in Rome to stay it in their hands These are the expresse words of Parsons his Iesuited vassals or rather of Parsons himselfe in the said Aplogie By these words two things are cleare The one that the Iesuites had once the gouernment of one of the seminaries in Millan vnder the iurisdiction of the Cardinall Boromaeo the other that the said Cardinall was a good man and of holy memorie Now the controuersie is this whether the good Cardinall disliked of their gouernment and therefore displaced them or that the Iesuites were wearie of the place and therefore did voluntarily leaue it The seculars say that the Cardinall◠〈◊〉 them the Iesuites denie it But why would the Iesuites giue ouer that gouernment which they had once taken vpon them because forsooth the good Cardinall would haue had the schollers to bee brought vp more barely in their diet and apparrell Thus they say but the contrarie is the truth For first eyther the Cardinals allowance was sufficient or not sufficient If it were not sufficient then was he not so good a man nor of so holy memorie as the priests do affirme If it were sufficient then was that excessiue and consequently vitious which the Iesuites did require then was their gouernment iustly disliked then did they shew themselues to be a prude and arrogant kinde of people that would not condescend to the Cardinall in his most lawfull demaund Secondly Doctor Lewis the late bishop of Cassana a man of great credit and renowne and who had great familiaritie with the said Cardinall did often affirme to his friends that the Cardinall could not endure them nor like of their gouernment Master Hugh Griffeth master Morgâ—n and master Meredith all priests this day liuing can and will testifie this to be so Thirdly my selfe admiring that the Iesuites kept not that place which sometime they had in Millar enquired diligently what should be the cause for that I thought well of the Iesuites at that time indeed And one of their owne order being then a Prefect in the English Colledge to say nothing of the common report of others confessed fréely that the Cardinall could not brooke well their fathers but he would not in any case shew the cause thereof This to be true I protest before God and his holy Angels Fourthly they alledge a reason which they would haue to be the Cardinals but both it is from themselues and doth consute themselues The reason is this viz. because they were to be sent afterward abroad to poore benefices where they must fare hardly But this reason is their owne and neuer framed by the Cardinall and it is confuted many waies For first they grant marke their words alreadie cited that the cardinals reason was good and consequently that the Iesuites were bad and without all reason when they refused to yeeld vnto reason Secondly where shall those benefices be found and in what country which are not sufficient to fill the priests belly No where doubtles for the mainteynance of Popish priests is too great euery where Yea by the setled law of poperie would God it were so in our english ministery euery priest at the houre of his consecration hath some title for his sufficient maintenance to say nothing of the huge commodities that doe dayly insue vpon his priestly function And for this cause the papists that now come into England where they haue no titles are created ad titulum sanctissimi and so may iustly chalenge necessary maintenance of the Pope howsoeuer he hath imprisoned the messengers but bestowed no viaticum on them at all neither great nor small Fiftly it followeth of the Iesuites their owne procéedinge that they are vnfit men for gouernance For it is against all reason to allow larger commons and more liberall diet to those that must be sent where no certaine maintenance is so be had and more bare and sparing diet to such as must haue well setled liuings And yet doth the case thus stand by Iesuiticall precéedings in the seminaries For they grant as you see that the Cardinals reason was good but it is their owne indeed in regard of the poore benefices which are farre larger and better a wiseman would thinke then the vncertaine and accidentiall maintenance of the Seminaries in this lande But this happely
may bee gainesaide in respect of the euerie daye expected conquest for other reason none can be yeelded and yet this perforce must be reiected Paragraph II. Of the Iesuite Bellarmine now Cardinall of the sea of Rome To proue the Iesuite Parsons an impudent and a most notorious lyer it is sufficient to pervse to remember what is already said thereof in the third chapter of this booke for after that Parsons hath set downe the narration of the seculars and freely granted the greater part thereof to be true yea the whole in effect as there it is proued and so needeth not here to be recounted he forthwith like a desperate ruffian and as one vnmindfull what he had immediately written affirmeth with shamelesse lippes and rayling tongue that the whole narration is false Which doubtles is such a notorious vntruth as nothing is worthy to be of credite that shall heare after procéede from his penne Paragraph III. Of the students in the English Colledge Parsons that arrogant Iesuite for his owne credite if it would be telleth vs in the apologie in the 184. page that vpon a certaine falling out betweene Maister Doctor Lewes then arch-deacon of Cambray and after bishop of Cassane and the English youthes then students in the English Colledge the said youthes aboue 30. in number were all dismissed thence and yet brought againe and placed in the colledge by his good meanes Thus doth this good fellow boast of his rare fauours towards the english students and his deserts in this behalfe are excéeding great if we will beleeue him But I assure thee gentle reader whosouer thou art and I speake vpon mine owne knowledge as who was at the same time one of the same number that this is to be enrolled among his other notorious vntruthes For first there was no disagreement at all betwéene the late Bishop of Cassana and the students Againe the contention was indeed betweene the Cardinal Morone then the protector of the English and the students or rather the Iesuites who like wilie foxes did all in all couertly and yet would séeme openly to be most vnwilling to haue the gouerment of the colledge Thirdly Parsons was at that time a man of no reckening among the Iesuits neither did he or could hee doe anie thing in that behalfe The reason hereof is euident because he confesseth in the said apologie that the colledge was erected in the yeare 1579. And that himselfe entered into the societie in the yeere 1574. so that he had then béene Iesuite scantly foure yeeres whereof one must be allotted for his probation now if any wise man wil beléeue him that he could be of such credite with them vpon so short a tryall he may but my selfe know the contrarie and so doe many moe yet liuing viz. Maister Meredith Maister Griffeth Maister Morgan M. Elize and sundrie others but none better then Maister Mush if he list to speake the truth therein Fourthly there were at that time Iesuited English men of long continuance in that societie who should rather haue done that exploit then this good father if it had béene but for comely order sake but as I said afore the Iesuites would not be knowen to deale in the matter Fiftly this good fellowe this good father I would say will needes bee the only man that procured the schollers to stay and a thing to bee laughed at the graue and learned father Toledo afterward Cardinall was but an instrument to helpe the said Parsons in his imployment A shame it is for this fellow to tell of himselfe such a shamelesse lye The truth is this the generall of the Iesuites was desirous indeed to haue the gouernment of the colledge committed to his societie as who knew right well that it would tend both to his credit and to his commoditie But for feare of the displeasure of Cardinall Morone who tooke part with Maister Morice the welch-man whome he had designed to be the Rector of the colledge he neither would deale openly for the schollers neither suffer any of the societie to concurre with theÌ„ in that behalfe yet he did that secretly which was the vpshot and end of all viz. he commanded by a secret message the reuerend father Toledo a great learned man and one of great reckening with the Pope at that time that he would instantly beseeth the Pope prostrate on his knees before his holinesse and to make a most pitifull lamentation for the ouethrow of England that is forsooth that now were reiected the finest wits the most toward youthes the seede of poperie and the only hope of the English nation who now exiled for zeale in religion and come to be his popish vassals must either be trained vp in papistry after the Iesuiticall manner or els should England neuer be reclamed world without end this swéet narration noe sooner sounded in the Popes eares but the commanded the schollers to be receiued into the colledge againe Where note by the way what politicians the Iesuites bee This Toledo was a Iesuite then remaining in the Popes house with the Pope and was the Popes chiefest aduiser in all ecclesiasticall causes He then being a Iesuite must needs doe the designement of his generall the maister Iesuite of all the rest For his profession was to obey at a beck And for that he was present with the Pope in his pallace Bel-vâ—dére he was free to deale without suspition in this great and weightie matter Lastly being in high esteeme with the Pope and speaking in a cause so plausible and profitable for his holinesse he was most likely to preuaile in his suite which I protest to the reader the Iesuits did more then once promise to the schollers before it came to passe Thus it is most apparant to euerie indifferent reader that the goodly story which Parsons telleth for his owne vaine glory is a lye with a witnesse For the first credite that euer he got was wrought by his treacheries treasons against his natiue country most noble England By reason whereof he crept into such credite with the King of Spaine that now he is able to doe all in all both with that Kinge and the Pope himselfe Wherefore my opinion is this that the seculars are ouer matched and that howsouer they bragge that they will haue audience or els dye for it one after another yet are they more like many of them if they goe to Rome to be cast into their holy most holy inquisition for Parsons hath now by the reason of their writings matter enough to worke vpon and therefore their best course is to submitte themselues to Queene Elizabeth and to bid the Pope faire well with all his traytorous Iesuites Paragraph IIII. Of the dealing of the Iesuite Parsons during his aboad in England THe seculars write that Parsons being in England did so exasperate the minds both of the Prince and magistrates by his doings as then first of all by that occasion capitall lawes were appointed against
priests and their receiuers Parsons answeareth that this is a calumniation which hath diuerse euident falshoods reproueable by the witnesse of all that liued at that time in England both catholikes and heretikes But I reply yâ— this aunsweare of Parsons containeth a lye so palpable and so notorious as I wonder how he could vtter it without blushing For first diuers of the seculars in England at that time refuse to witnes this false narration Secondly many good christians whome it pleased this good fellowe to terme heretikes will witnes against him Thirdly if all must witnes with him then doubtles none will witnes against him which is most absurd to say or hold Fourthly his owne disputation will confute it selfe For after hee hath told vs of his great paines in preaching teaching and writing and namely in setting forth the reasons of refusall of going to the protestants Churches hee forthwith addeth these words vpon which preaching and writing when many chiefe men refused to goe to hereticall seruice there was called a parliament in the end of the same yeere and the law of twentie pound a moneth for recusancie was ordained but no capitall law made against priests or their receiuers vntill diuers yeeres after father Parsons was gone forth of England This is that goodly narratioÌ„ which father Wiseman maketh for his honest purgation if it may stand good either in law or with right reason let vs examin it to know the truth therof First he granteth fréely that by reason of his godly preaching and writing the penall statutes of 20. pound the month was imposed for recusancie Secondly he granteth fréely yâ— by his traytorous preaching and writing many chiefe men refused to goe to hereticall seruice Thirdly he granteth fréely that he wrote against going to the protestant Churches Fourthly he granteth likewise that he termed the godly prayers vsed in the churches of England hereticall seruice and consequenly hee termed her maiestie an heretike like an arrant traytour as he is And yet forsooth we must beléeue him yâ— he did not exasperate he Maiestie and her magistrates to make capital lawes against Iesuites and seminaries who can thinke that this fellow hath any witte Who is so blind as hee seeth not his contradictions Who seeth not how the deuill hath bewitched him For what was the cause of capitall lawes against Iesuites and seminaries Doubtles the deniall in English subjects of their due allegeance to their naturall soueraigne the profession of that same to the Pope her mortall enemie And yet is this consequent necessarilie inferred of the premisses which this fellow fréely hath admitted I cannot but admire the folly of the man that doth not see it for euery recusant is reconciled to the Pope and must perforce take parte with the Pope against the Queene as is already proued And to this recusancie must be ascribed as to the principall cause the enacting of all capitall lawes and other penall mulcts whatsoeuer I say to this recusancie that is to that recusancie to which treason is annexed as an inseperable accident therof For vntill recusancie was so linked with popish treason that disloyaltie was thereby set a broach in euery corner recusants did iâ—ioy all curtesie libertie freedome Wherof this is a sufficient argument because all the capitall and other sharpe penall statutes did nothing at all touch the old popish recusants Albeit we sée this day which is to be imputed to the traytorous Iesuites that other priests together with the lay-people are as deepely drowned in treasonable practises as the seminarie-priests But what Can Parsons say nothing for him selfe Yes forsooth he telleth vs first that he was gon forth of England before capitall lawes were made against priests or their receiuers Alas alas what a poore shift is this Nay what a foolish man is this Parsons committed treason vpon treason and then ran away for feare of the halter Ergo the capitall lawes ensuing were not made to preuent his and the like future treasons Euery child I weene will sée the absurdity of this consequution He telleth vs secondly that in CaÌ„pions arraignment which was after Parsons his departure there was no one action of Parsons objected in particular against the state though he were known to haue béene the superiour in that mission To this I reply that the silence of Parsons in Campions arraignment cannot discharge Parsons of the same or like treasons Besides it may be that the state was aduertised how dastardly Parsons ran away and that they thought that their conniuence and silence in the matter would be an occasion of his returne and then they would talke with the good fellow He telleth vs thirdly that Parsons was the chiefe in the Iesuiticall mission which assertion doubtlesse doth vtterly confound the man For séeing all the capitall lawes were enacted onely and solely against the Iesuites and their fauorites it must needes bée granted it cannot be denied that they were principally intended against the principall Iesuite that is to say against Parsons who will needes be the chiefe I therefore conclude that the Iesuite Parsons is a notorious lyar and that the lye which he would bestowe vpon others is iustly and fitly retorted against himselfe See the fift chapter in the second section Paragraph V. Of Haddockes life and conuersacion Richard Haddocke now doctor as Parsons termeth him is charged by the secular priests to haue béene of no edification in England in his life and conuersation But Parsons because he resisted the messengers sent to Rome and was readie at a becke to doe his designements desperatly affâ—rmeth with a brasen face the contrary in these words as for his libertie of life as they call it while he was in England it is false that it was of any euill edification and some of vs knew him better then these libellers these are the words of our graue Apologians To which I aunswere breifely that these wordes of the Prophet are truely verified of Parsons who was the author of this Apologie indeede There is no faithfulnes in his mouth there inward parts are verie wickednesse their throats an open sepulchre they flatter with their tongues For my selfe knew the man and his life right well and I will onely say that in few words of him which I thinke himselfe will not deny If he doe it shall God willing be proued heareafter by a multitude of honest witnesses and by such particular knowne circumstances of times places and parsons as no possible deniall can be made thereof for it shall neuer be proued God willing that I write any vntruth of any man liuing God is my witnesse that is farre from my meanining But I wonder that the earth doth not open her mouth to swallow vp quicke the Author of this Apologie for his manifolde notorious slanders impudent leasings and most excerable caluminations And Parsons is the man as I haue proued in the first chapter The phrase stile and methode
must end vpon the ninth day of October at which time Parsons wrote his letter and so perforce he is farre short of his halfe yeare and consequently a lyar Thirdly that when Parsons saith from May to Nouember is more then halfe a yeare in which time no letter was come from them he both contradicteth himselfe and is an impudent lyar I proue it because euerie child knoweth that betweene may and Nouember intercéedeth the moneth of October and yet as Parsons confesseth liberally he wrote his letter to master Bishop the ninth of that moneth and the same weeke receiued a stale letter firm the same Bishop So then it is true that Parsons receiued a letter from master Bishop in the moneth of October and consequently it is false that he receiued no letter from May to nouember Fourthly that the word now in Parsons his letter doth connotate the time present that is the time of the date of his letter to wit the ninth of October at which time as he saith in one place he had receiued no letter but as he saith in another place he had that weeke receiued a stale letter Ergo Parsons is a stale lyar This lye is confirmed in perpetuam res memoriam by the word yet for when he saith no one letter appearing from you yet he doth flatly contradict himselfe when he saith by a stale letter which I receiued this weeke from you Fiftly that when Parsons saith the reports of the hard and iniurious dealing vsed to the messengers in Rome is contrarie to all truth the falshood proceedeth from his lying lips as I haue alreadie proued Sixtly that master Bishop I know the man right well is of better credit then twentie Iesuited Standishes 70. Iesuited Haddockes 100. Iesuited Personians Sect. III. Of the Secular priests and their writings PArsons in the preface of his Apologie telleth vs that these bookes must needes be presumed to haue beene published eyther by some one or few discomposed passionate people or by some heretike or other enemie to dishonour them all and to discredit their cause and nation and so as to such he will answere and not against his brethren whom he loueth most intirely but in many other places he singeth an other song For page 63. he affirmeth it to be probable by many euident arguments that a long and slanderous narration was written by the proper pen of the chiefe authors of all these broyles Againe page 8. he confesseth that two priests whom he termeth the ambassadours of the secular priests came to Rome about the controuersie Againe page 9. he confesseth that in Nouember last 1600. diuers of the discontented made a generall appeale from the Archpriests iurisdictien Againe page 24. he saith that his brethren doe vse so fonde a calumniation against the Iesuites as no man can but wonder thereat Againe page 105. he termeth the authors of the bookes his discontented brethren To be briefe in maine other places he confesseth that master Bishoppe master Charnocke master Mush master Bagshaw master Champney master Collington master Warson and others haue written against the Iesuites so as contradictions may be deemed a thing verie common with our graue and holy Iesuite Robert Parsons who knew right well that the declaration sent to his holinesse was subscribed with the hands of thirtie priests whose names I would here put downe but that I studie to tbe briefe Sect. IIII. Of the elegant Epithetons ascribed to the Iesuite Parsons by Iohn Collington the Secular priest in his booke of Defence IOhn Collington hath lately published a large volume in defence of the seculars for their appeale to the Pope against tyrannizing Blackwel which book came lately to my hand but doth so euidently conuince the Arch-priest and the Iesuites specially that notorious traytor Robert Parsons as I cannot omit to make briefe recitall of some parts therof for the common peace of this our natiue countrey In the page 30. He hath these words whose busie head he speaketh of Parsons actions haue béene the cause and increase of much trouble and persecution in our Church and Realme And who being a member of an other bodie and professing also a mortified state and to haue relinquished the world seeketh neuerthelesse to be our great master and to rule all or to tyrannize rather Againe pag. 31. He saith they haue most pregnant grounds to proue that Parsons was the inditer of the Cardinals letter constitutiue for the archpriests iurisdiction Againe page 296. He affirmeth that Parsons writeth no booke discourse nor scarse any letter of these stirres wherein he doth not recount some good act of his owne Againe page 297. he telleth vs that Parsons by managing of the Colledge hath gotten such store of money as he spendeth fiue or sixe crownes a weeke in postage for letters onely Againe page 253. hee affirmeth boldly that Parsons appointed the Arch-priest Againe page 255. he termeth Parsons the Arch-deuiser in getting the Cardinals hand subscription and seale Againe page 206. hee chargeth Parsons with many vntruthes and to haue as little synceritie in his actions as truth in his writings Againe page 256. he hath these words it would make to the praâ—se of father Parsons if religion were lesse worldlisted in him and state matter and the designing of kingdomes had not so great a part in his studies Againe page 170. he hath these words we assure our selâ—es father Parsons that your restlesse spirit and pen your enterprising and busie actions haue turned heretofore our Catholike professants to infinit preiudice for to no knowne cause can we impute so much the making of the seuere lawes of our countrey as to your edging attempts and vocations Againe page 240. hee telleth vs plainely that Parsons hath proferred and reprofered the Crowne of England to seuerall princes now to one now to another as opportunities best serued to entertaine the personage with the hope thereof And to omit many testimonies because I would not be tedious I will heere recount one for all which master Colleton setteth downe in these words Neyther is father Parsons holden onely of our magistrate for a statist or marchandizer of the Crowne Diademe though this were enough to estrange vs from hauing any partaking in ought with him but his trauels and negotiations this way are become so notoriously knowne that euen Pasquine in Rome as intelligence is sent vs speaketh in this manner of him if there be any man that will buy the Kingdome of England let him repayre to a marchant in a blacke square cappe in the Citie and hee shall haue a verie good penny worth thereof Thus writeth Colleton of Parsons who both are deuoted to the Pope alike Sect. V. Of Parsons his birth and expulsion out of Balioll Colledge in Oxford THat Robert Parsons the Iesuite and marchandizer of the Crowne of England as in the former Section is a bastard and a man of bad demeanour the fift chapter of the second booke
first be content to recall his peeuish opinion terming the opinion péeuish that doth not hold vs for schismatikes Furthermore your reuerence affirmed the assertion of father Iones a priest of the societie to bee true auowing all those to incurre presently the censure of holy Church who should stiffely defeÌ„d that we were no schismatikes Which position you againe ratified in your letters the 14. of March 1600. thus writeth Colleton pag. 195. Thirdly Blackewell sent forth a most arrogant absurd and diabolicall decrée against both the clergie and the laity in these words I George Blackewell arch-piest in England in vertue of holy obedience and vnder paine of suspension from your office and losse of all faculties in the deede it selfe to be incurred doe prohibite al priests to divulge any booke set out within these two yéeres or heareafter to be set out by which the lawfull state may be disturbed or the same of any clergie catholike person of our english nation may be hurt by name and the same commaÌ„dement is giuen to the laity vnder paine of being interdicted the 17. of Ianuary 1599 thus reporteth Iohn Colleton pag. 197. Fourthly when the famous vniuersâ—ty of Paris after full mature consideration had of the matter did deliuer their censure on the behalfe of the seculars affirming theÌ„ neither to be scismatikes nor to haue committed any sinne at all in that fact of not obeying the new arch-priest in it selfe coÌ„sidered then our M. arch priest of the new religion thundred out an execrable curse as it were froÌ„ the M. diuell of hell commanding strictly in vertue of obedience vnder paine of suspencion from diuine offices and losse of faculties in the fact if selfe to be incurred all ecclesiasticall persons and also alâ—â—ay catholikes vnder paine of being interdicted semblablie in the fact it selfe be incurred that neither directly nor indirectly they maintaine or defende in word or in writing the censure of the vniuersitie of Paris whether it be truely giuen or forged whether vpon true information or otherwise as being preiudicial to the dignitie of the sea apostolike and his holinesse breue Thus writeth Maister Colleton of the arch-priests decrée published the 29. of May. 1600. Out of these sections and Paragraphes of the fift and sixt chapters I note first that the Iesuites are most impudent lyars Secondly that they are most arrant traytors Thirdly that they are most cruell tyrants Fourthly that they are most seditious libellers Fiftly that they are most insolent arrogant sawcy companions Sixtly that they endeuour by flatterie falshhood bribes and tyranny to raigne and rule as Lords independent ouer this Realme of England Seuenthly that they respect neither right nor wronge neither truth nor falsitie neither iustice nor iniustice neither the iudgement of many nor of few neither of vniuersities nor of countries neither false nor true informatioÌ„s in their manner of procéeding Eightly that their owne wills terrene respects sensuall appetites are yâ— sole only rule by which they measure all their actions that they haue made religion by their new dealing but an art of such as liue by their wits and a very hotch potch of omnium githerum as the secular priests are hold to write of them And consequeÌ„tly that foolish and senselesse may they be thought who referre theÌ„selues their soules their bodies and all they haue to be managed by such bad fellowes lewd companions CHAP. VII Of the disloyall dealing of the seculars in state-affaires I haue deliuered my opinioÌ„ coÌ„cerning the seculars in this behalfe where I shewed by their owne frée coÌ„fessions yâ— they were sometime howsoeuer they be now as déepely drowned in bloody treasonable practises defignments as are their brethren by hopish profession the lordly insolent disloyall Iesuites I therefore meane here to set downe no other thing but that only which the Iesuite Parsons in his apology sendeth vnto theÌ„ in way of salutation if he meane saith Parsons speaking of M. Bluet any other causes of offence as practising against the state or the like then is it calumnious to them both First to all the Iesuites in England who are no lesse innocent vpon our consciences in this point theÌ„ other priests and secondly to the order of secular priests themselues especially the better sort adhering to their superiour Blackewell the Arch-priest who are as innocent also in this behalfe as this mans most part For whiles all other both priests Iesuits haue beene quiet silent in statematters these men haue béene busie as farre as their power or credit wil reach or as any prince would hearken to them or deale with them And this appeareth for that they haue sent of their owne men euen to Scotland to deale with that prince in matters of succession and haue tempered also with the king of France by others of their consorts to like effect as the Lords themselues of her maiesties councell cannot but know and at their going ouer into France we doubt not and so we heare it alreadie by some of their counsell but they meane to offer themselues wholy to that kings disposition for the next succession of our Crowne thereby to gaine his grace fauour And yet they vant euery where that they and theirs are innocent in these affaires onely Iesuites and their friends doe deale therein and so master Bluet told the Queene and counsell Out of these words I note first that the secular priestes are heere charged with disloyall dealing against their naturall soueraigne by plotting not onely with the king of Scotland but also with the king of France I note secondly that the seculars are as guiltie of traytorous practises and treasonable complots as the hautie nocent Iesuites I note thirdly that the Iesuite Parsons doth héere vnawares confesse himselfe and his brethren to be traitors For he doth not simplie and absolutely affirme them to be innocent marke well my words but respectiuely and relatiuely to be nolesse innoceÌ„t then other priests that is to say to be nocent guilty in very déed For towards the end of his narration he chargeth them with double treason aswell by plotting in Scotland as in the Realme of France And in the marginall note he saith Watson was sent with some others I therefore conclude this discourse that seeing on the one side the Iesuites are impudent lyars notorious cousiners and arrant traytors euen by the testimonie of the seculars and seeing on the other side that the secular priests are bad fellowes no better then southsayers and idolaters and that by the verdict of the Iesuites and séeing withall that both the secular priests and the Iesuites professe one and the same religion and are all deuoted to the pope alike all men and women noble and ignoble learned and vnlearned rich and poore young and olde after mature deliberation had of these matters and this whole discourse must perforce and of meere necessitie loath detest and abhorre both them their
court of Rome And yet vnwitingly they condemne themselues in an other place graunting that they may not by worde or writing impugne the parliamentall Lawes of this land Thirdly by not appealing they should haue beene preiudiciall to prince Church and all estates as is in the second obseruation but not to the prince Church or State of England ergo to the prince Church and State of Rome for of force they must so meane the force of trueth hath inforced their penne Fourthly they appealed for her Maiesties securitie as is in the third obseruation where I cannot enough admire the impudent insolencie of these disloyall Seculars who make a treacherous flowrish as if the securitie of their dread Soueraigne did depend vpon their Popes good pleasure and their treacherous appeale vnto him Herein they make hauocke other Maiesties statute-lawes which els where by popish statization and equinocation they say they may not offend A note worthy to be remembred Fifthly they appealed for the quiet of the state which is as disloyally spoken as the former for God auert that the peace of her Maiesties state and her Realmes do at any time stand in neede of the Popes fauour the intreatie of the sedicious Seculars Sixtly they appealed for the auoydance of inuasions and conspiracies as is in the fiâ—th obseruation out of which confession I inferre these two important corollaries First that conspiracies and inuasions are still intended against her sacred person her royall throne her crowne her state and dominions Secondly that the Pope is the principall actor in all plots conspiracies treacheries inuasions and conquests intended against the Queen her realms and faithfull subiects I therefore conclude that the Seculars are this day as dangerous in al treasonable plots bloody practizes and disloyall conspiracies as they haue beene heretofore For albeit they belabour themselues seriously to hide and bolster out all their cursed intendements against their dread soueraigne and natiue Countrey especially when they are occasioned to speake of matters of state as they doe or may concerne their owne persons yet doe they but equiuocate and temporize in so doing and that as scornefully and treacherously as euer did the Iesuites Of which point none can be ignorant that shall seriously peruse and ponder this discourse Wherefore as the Seculars say of the Iesuites so say I of them that though they sweare can yet we not safely beleeue them in state-affairs the reason is euident because they doe not acknowledge any magistrate vnder her Maiestie to be their lawfull and competent iudge If they say write or sweare the contrary yet giue no credite to them therein for euen then doe they seeke to delude the Magistate by their hypocriticall and execrable equiuocations No no it neither doth nor can stand with popish religion to thinke and beleeue that Queen Elizabeth whom God long preserue ouer vs can ordeine any competent iudge ouer them And consequently vntill the Seculars renounce the Pope and his damnable procéedings against Christian kings their royal diademes and sacred regalities they will doubtlesse delude the maiestrates with their fondely inuented equiuocationes This is a graue aduiso which may not beforgotten Aduiso V. Of the opinion affection and true meaning of the seculars in all the treasonable practises bloudie conspiracies and other disloyall intendmentes against their dread soueraigne and natiue countrie THe seculars conspire concurre and iumpe with the Iesuites in opinion affection and inward meaninge touching the Popes authoritie the bloudie conspiracies inuasions conquest other disloyall intendments against most noble Queene Elizabeth and our natiue country this I proue by manie strong weightie and irrefragable reasons The first reason The pretenses of such practises were generall and common to all Catholikes alike all maintaining one the same opinion concerning what might be done by Apostolical power authoritie neuer talking of what was necessarie Thus is it written quodl 8. art 9. pag. 277. but the seculars are papists aswell as the Iesuites Ergo of the same opinion with the Iesuites Heere the reader may see plainely that the seculars iumpe with the opinion of the Iesuits touching the popes authoritie For by apostolicall power they vnderstand the power and authoritie of the Pope To which must be added which is alreadie proued that the Pope hath excommunicated her Maiesty de facta and hath beene the chiefest agent in all treasonable practises bloodie conspiracies inuasions conquests and other execrable intendments against her Maiesties person honour state and dominions To this must likewise be added which is also proued that the Iesuites affirme malepeartly damnablie and disloyally that the Pope hath done nothing in the premisses but that he lawfully might doe The second Reason Among many examples of the deare loue and compassion of the Popes holines towards the inhabitants and princes of this land in times of imminent commonwealths dangers the chiefe since the Norman conquest was shewed in the daies and raignes of king Henrie the second surnamed Fitzempresse and of his sonne king Iohn the third Monarke of England of a Plantagenets royall race Against whom hauing vsed his fatherly correction as pastor vnivniuersall ouer the whole flocke of Christ for their great crueltie and tyrannie vsed towards their naturall subiects yet vpon their repentance mercifully receiuing them into grace and fauour of Gods Church againe his holines on the behalfe of the second did not onely accurse and excommunicate prince Lewis of France with all his adherents forcing him to yeeld vp all the interest right and title that he or his posteritie had or euer should haue to the English crowne but also surrendred vp the said crowne of England franke and free to king Iohn and his heires and successours from of the head of Cardinall Pandulphus hauing sit inthronized three daies therewith in the Popes right And thousands there are in England that desire as much Thus is it written quodl 8. art 9. page 327. Out of these words it is euidently deduced that the Pope taketh vpon him though most iniuriously and tyrannically to translate kingdomes to depose kings Emperours and Monarkes and to bestow their princely Diademes and royall regalities as seemeth best to his good pleasure Yea which is more to be admired the seculars who in outward shew of words by often and earnest protestations affirme themselues to be most loyall subiects approue the Pope in so doing For first where the Pope had excommunicated and deposed king Henry they terme it his fatherly correction Secondly they say he did it by his vniuersall authority ouer the whole Church Thirdly they terme the deposing of prince Lewis and the restoring of king Iohn to the crowne the chiefest fatherly compassion since the Norman coÌ„quest Fourthly they tell vs that Cardinall Pandulphus was three daies enthronized with the crowne of England vpon his head in the right of the Pope which forraine tyrannicall fact they commend approue Fiftly they tell vs that
the Pope enforced king Lewis to yeeld vp his whole title and right that eyther he or his posteritie had or euer should haue to the English crowne This they likewise approue and commend Sixtly they crie and exclayme with open mouthes that thousands in England desire as much to be done Which is all one as I interprete it as if they wished the Pope to send some Cardinall from Rome to be enthronized three daies with the English crowne vpon his head in the right of his holines and then to surrender it vp to Arbella or to some other popish fauorite For so the Spaniard or other foreyner haue it not they haue their desire Me thinke this my glosse swarueth not much from the text The reason is cleare the reader can easily make application thereof The third Reason I know that Iure ecclesiastico and by the authoritie and sentence of the Popes holines much more may be done then heere I will speake of But yet I thinke it will proue in the end the best course for men not to doe so much as they may Many things be lawfull which are not expedient Thus is it written quodl 9. art 3. pag. 293. This reason ab authoritate for better reasons then their owne grants and confessions cannot be had is as strong as the former if it be well noted with the circumstances thereof For first after Watson who speaketh in the name of the seculars had told vs by the doctrine of a learned man that if we goe no further then to the law of nature or to the law of God no king is depriued from his soueraigntie ouer his subiects though it be for the sinne of apostasie from faith forthwith he addeth the words of this present reason affirming peremptorily that the Pope can do more then he will heere set downe Secondly he telleth vs here that kings can neyther by Gods law nor by the law of nature be deposed from their crownes and regalities and consequently when he saith the Pope can doe more hee must perforce affirme both impudently and senselesly that the Popes power is aboue the power of God The latter he dare not say and yet hath Satan so bewitched and besotted him that it followeth necessarily of the former that is of the doctrine which he deliuereth from the penne of a learned writer and putteth it downe for good Now what is it that the Pope can doe more then may be done by the law of nature and of God forsooth he can excommunicate kings depose kings from their royall thrones and put their Diademes vpon the heades of others This is it that Watson will not say heere because it is not expedient Yet vnwittingly the truth enforcing him he telleth vs no lesse in another place For a reuerend priest saith he and ancient gentleman ould master Middleton was content at Parsons his motion to subscribe to the title of Infanta vpon condition that she should be ioyned by marriage to some noble or péere of our land Thus they write peruse the place quoted in the margent Againe in another place it is thus written say then for the present which yet is more then I would willingly put to maintaine the time of our afflicted state considered that his holines and the king of Spayne might lawfully haue taken armes against her Maiestie and this her kingdome our natiue land yet was it a shamefull part of father Parsons and his companions to be the contriuers or instigators of 〈◊〉 These are the expresse words of the place quoted in the margent Out of these two seuerall assertions the confirmations of the third reason generall I gather first that all the difference betweene the Iesuites and the Seculars concerning the inuasion and conquest of this land consisteth in this onely point viz. that the Iesuites would haue the Ladie Infanta of Spayne to be the Queene of England but the seculars will haue an English man to be king of the land They differ not in the thing to be done but in the manner of contriuing the thing that should be done not in the partie to be deposed from the crowne but in the person that should haue the Crowne not about taking the crowne from Queene Elizabeth but about giuing the crown to the Spanish Ladie The reason hereof is euident because our Quodlibetist telleth vs roundly that old Middleton consented willingly to giue his name to the charter of subscription in the behalfe of the Ladie Infanta of Spayne vpon condition that she should be married to some English noble man Which disloyall narration the secular Quodlibetist approoueth and greatly commendeth terming the said Midleton a reuerend priest and ancient gentleman I gather secondly that our Quodlibetist Watson singeth the selfe same song with old trayterous Midleton For he putteth the case that the pope Spanish king should be said to haue taken armes lawfully against her Maiestie and her Realme of England That done forsooth he telleth vs that he would not willingly maintain that doctrine the time circumstances considered Where he vnwittingly auoucheth that the Pope and king of Spayne might lawfully take armes to depose her Maiestie from her royall Diademe Yea he granteth that he would defend the same doctrine but that the time is not correspondent thereunto Let the words be well pondered and this will be the sense The fourth Reason The Quodlibetist and the seculars doe often protest their obedience to the pope and submit themselues and all their writings yea euerie word sillable and title to the censure of the Romane Church One place may suffice where these words are to be read With all humble obedience to the sea Apostolike be it spoken Quodl 8. art 8 pag. 267. This reason doth plainely conuince the contents of this fift aduiso to be true For how is it possible to conceiue that they shall in true meaning say or write any thing against the pope on the behalfe of her Maiestie who protest zealously before God and his Angels that they will yeeld all obedienc◠to the pope therefore do submit themselues and all their writings sentences words and sillables to his censure and iudgement it cannot be they do but temporize in these state matters they vse Iesuiticall equiuocation The fifth Reason The seminaries were willing at the first to colour hide and conceale all making the Iesuites causes attempts intents practises and proceedings their owne in euery thing vntill at last they were intangled by penall lawes iustly made against them equally as against the Iesuites These words are set downe in the preface to the Quodlibets page 6. Againe in another place the priests write thus we had some of vs greatly approued the said rebellion highly extolled the rebels and pitifully bewailed their ruine and ouerthrow Many of our affections were knit to the Spaniards and for our obedience to the pope we all do professe it The attempts both of the pope and Spaniard failing in England