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A08200	A true report of the late apprehension and imprisonnement of Iohn Nichols minister at Roan and his confession and ansvvers made in the time of his durance there. VVherevnto is added the satisfaction of certaine, that of feare or frailtie haue latly fallen in England.; True report of the late apprehension and imprisonnement of John Nichols minister at Roan.	Allen, William, 1532-1594.	1583 (1583)	STC 18537; ESTC S105146	45,115	86

my self to be an heretick that thereby I might procure his licence and so goe to my freends both without their danger mine owne The Bishop being a wily Fox straight waies commaunded me to signifie so much in publick audience and then he vvould graunt me my request then beganne the tragedie of my vvo miserie I began to excuse my self of fearefulnes to wepe before him that taught the Bishops sonnes and befote Iohn Dias the Bishops chaplen Then I thought vvith my self that if I should withstand the Bishop a thowsand worldly inconueniences should haue ensued thereof because I had said before I vvas as he vvas in religion these and other such like causes of my miserable outward defection did the Diuel put into my hed who although he had thought to haue throwne me downe for euer at that time yet I hope to giue him and al his the ouerthrow and neuer here after vvhile I liue to yeld to such like temptations for the performaunce vvhereof I beseech the blessed virgin Marie and al the holy company of heauen and al good Catholicks to pray for me I could name some vvitnesses of the great passions and in ward strife I had vvith my self vpon the first consideration of my pretended reuoult but that I dare not name them for putting the godly men in danger this onely I vvil ade therein that al the world may see I neuer vvas theirs in hart sith my first reconcilemēt to the Catholick Church First when I was in prison in the Gatehorrse I went euery daie to the dore of a Catholick which lay in the next rome to the chamber I lay in weeping bitterly shevved him that I should do against my conscience from vvhich he merueilous charitably and comfortably dehorted me vvith great reasons and incouragement to be constant in confession of my faith but the Diuel his Ministers and mine infirmitie preuailed and I did that vvhich was required at my hands After I had done that which euer since hath ben a naile in my conscience in diuers places I vvas conuersant vvith the Catholicks and neuer vttered or hurt any nor vvould haue done for al the good in the vvorld the persons and places I could name but for their endangering When I vvas at Cambrige I counselled diuers to go ouer sea and persuaded them so that I had brought them ouer vvith me in deede if it had not ben for feare of their Tutors-Many youthes there be God be thanked for it vvel bent to vertu and the Catholick Religion I beseech God bring them thence Besides vvhen my chamber fellowes especially one Sir Hutton Doctor Hutton his nephevv vvould speke against F. Campion I haue defended him so farre that he called me often Papist and defendor of Traitors and threatened he vvould complaine of me to the Maister and the Seniors I haue spoken the same and hovv he vvas falsely accused c. in mine ovvne countrey to one being both vvell learned and very catholickly bent as vvee vvalked by the Seas side But some vvil obiect I kept company vvith Io●● Nichols a feruent heretick to vvhich Obiection I ansvvere confessing that I kept him company to much for if I had follovved him in al points he vvould haue brought both him self and me to euerlasting destruction for I am sure that neuer vvoman brought out such a horrible and ougley monster in manners as he is But if ye consider th' end vvherefore I vvas conuersant vvith him I hope ye vvill not thinke me to be much blame vvorthie First I vvent about to knovv his lying spirite and his detestable manners vvhich I am sure I knovv although to mine owne discredit as vvell as any but especially I vvent about to get him out of England from being the cause of shedding of Innocent blood the vvhich I thanke God I haue obteined haue procured his apprehension not for hatred or hurt of his person as God dooth knovv but for desire of sauing his soule and detections of his foule slaūders against the Church of God and her children I vvas neuer I thanke God most humbly of his malitious humor if I had ben I might haue vomited my poison against the Catholicks I might haue gone to the priuie counsel haue enstauled my self as many do I might haue receiued good conditions of liuing being offred I might haue staide at Cambrige at the cost of my parents vvhich are able to keepe me in the schooles of learning many commodious vvaies for vvorldly preferment I might haue follovved if I had invvardly liked of that foule heresie nether had I any neede to go into a strāge coūtrey vvhere I knevv I should liue poorely To be short vvhiles I was in England this last time I vvas neuer quiet in conscience because vvhatsoeuer I did I did it against the same Other reasons I could yeld but because I vvilbe short these shal suffice one thing doth comfort me no litle that many haue falne as grosely as I haue donne and aftervvards haue become most firme and constant It remaineth onely that for this publick sinne and scandal and al other offences I craue pardō of God of the holy Church of Christ his Vicar here vpon earth Gregory the XIII of that name head of the said holy Church and al other that I gaue scandall to thereby And I request al good Catholicks to take me as their brother in Christ Iesu And I beseech al good Christians for Iesus Christ his sake to pray for me that I neuer become an heretick but that I may liue and die in the Catholick and Apostolick Church which is the Church of Rome and that after this life I may enioy the kingdom of heauen to the vvhich God bring vs for Iesus Christ his sake to vvhom vvith the Father the holy Ghost be al honor power and glory both now and for euer world without end Laus Deo ac deiparae virgini Mariae By me Laurence Caddey THE COPIE OF A LETTER vvritten by the said Laurence Caddey to his Patron and frend I Thinke my self happy most worthy Patron that your Fatherly affection towards me is not decreased but wonderfully and more then I could looke for augmented I now see that first of al you haue a great loue to my soule secondarily to your Countrey and to me your poore countrey-man a great thing it is to bestowe vpon me my habit but vvhat greater then to giue your vvord and besides a testimoniall most necessarie in these perillous times but you can do no other seing that the quallities of the trevv Church be in you eminentissimo quodam modo the vvhich most aboundantly dooth bestow not onely interna Charismata vpon those that penitētly doo runne vnto her for soccour but also al exteriour graces necessary for them you therfore be no stepfather nor shee no stepmother but most louing and charitable nourishers both of the invvard and outward man of your penitent and contrite children As for the declaration of my

good Lord and so it is that euery vnordinate appetite should be a punishment to it self But no sinne breadeth this internall vexatiō so much as that which is committed against a mans owne skill and conscience specially the voluntarie forsaking of that faith truth and religion vvhich God by his spirit in the Holy Church and sacred word hath made him partaker of I speake not of his case that impugneth of malice the knowne truth as many arch-heretikes haue done wickedly do for that is a sinne against the holy Ghost such often carieth about with them such hellike torments of conscience and desperation that they may be thought to beginne their dānation euen in this life but I meane of others only vvho by frailtie of the flesh feare of worldly distresses doubte of temporall torments and disgraces or somme other humane infirmitie be often driuen to yeld in somme points to the threates perswations or allurements either of worldly freends or gostely enemies euen these also for that they haue denied Christ before men preferred the body before the soule hazarded heauen and their saluation for the breefe vncertaine and miserable state of this transitorie vvorld cary about with them in their brest farre vvorse torments then any are in the Tovvre for the auoiding of vvhich many times men make that vnhappy choise vvee see them doe Of this miserie vvoe to me and my sinnes therefore I haue made to much experience but I trust to my euerlasting saluation as my mercifull Lord God hath now vsed the matter towards me Who after I had denied him forsaken him foresworne him wickedly subscribed to certen blasphemous articles and made a priuate abrenūciation of the pereles power and soueraine auctorite of Christs Lieutenant vpon earth a flat denial of the Catholike faith a plaine abiuration of my Priesthod yea by the subtile crafte of the Churches deadly enemies was induced or rather driuen to accuse most traiterously and vniustly certen his holy honorable renoumed confessors and to beare vnhappy vvitnesse against them after al this yet loked vpon me from heauen vvith those eyes of grace by vvhich he conuerted Paule restored Peter pardoned Marie Magdalen others not onely his fraile freends but many his plaine persecutors and by skourging my conscience vvith contrnuall remorse and dovvleful consideration of my soule fall and damnable condition hath a leingth brought bitter teares out of my stonie hart and called me againe out of that Sodom of our loste countrey and put me into the holy societie and communion of his body misticall vvhich is his Church Catholike th' only true mother of al the faithfull the hovvse of God the pillar and establishment of al truth In vvhich only is al comfort al grace al benediction and out of vvhich as I novv knovv by mine owne experience and by the certen vew of other mens cases with whom I haue of late in England conuersed there is nothing but error blindnes doubte or plaine desperation His name be blessed for euermore that hath so povvrably and mercifully deliuered me his poore vnworthy seruant out of these and like miseres from the snares of such as doe nothing but seeke hovv by terror or machiuillian practise and pollicie to driue men not to be of their religion for such as be the cōmon dealers in these cases God vvot haue none but to seeme to be of that secte vvhich they would be counted of Surely I can not for the honor of our countrie and the dew respect I haue to office and auctoritie though to saie truth they be not of any high function that vvorke vs these woes commonly discouer their foule vncharitable vnchristian abuse of my frailtie in procuring my fall from God and reuolt from the trevv Catholike Church vvhich other vvise to the shame of that irreligious heresie and mine owne confusion in this vvorlde that I might finde more mercie for the next I vvould willingly lay open to the Christian reader This only which is the least of thousandes of their sinfull and craftie collusions I may not omit to warne you that they giue out as often as any man of feare pusillanimitie or any other worldly respect yeldeth to their desires that it is Gods owne hande miraculous vvorcke proceding of the inuinceible force of their spirit gospel and doctrine against which no learning nor other obstinacie of man may resiste So surely they behaued them selues in my case vvhē they knew it best them selues in their conscience to be othervvise being the craftie procurers of my fall and that they had not in my invvard opinion or iudgement which vvas neuer I take God to vvitnesse altered though in outvvarde shevv ouerthrowen me Novv my dearely beloued bretheren and vvho soeuer els shall happe to reade this my pitiful complainte of my late distresses and tragicall actes I doe protest vnto you before God and al his sainctes and holy Angels that my yelding to their damnable desires came not of any motion of the holy Ghost by any probabilite of argument or auctoritie ether of holy scripture doctor or any other reasonable motiue or for that I had any doubt vvhether the Catholike Romane religion vvere the trevv and only sauing faith and vvorship of God or no for though I be neuer so simple yet being in common sence and taking triall of both in such places as I haue liued in it is not possible that I or any man should in deede and hart preferre the protestants pretensed religiō to the Catholike faith but to tell the plaine truth and shame the Diuel and my self to so farre as I follovved his peruerse suggestions al came of mine ovvne concupiscence euil desire and delicaces which vvarred against me in my members as th'Apostle saieth and so did ouer rule in my spirit captiuated and caused me to yeld to flesh and bloode making me to feare to suffer any paines or abandon my pleasures for my Lord and masters sake vvho had suffered so much sheade so many teares so great abundance of innocent and pretious blood for me The aduersaries threated me vvith Phalaris bull so to call their torments or as in truth them selues termed it vnto me Sir Ovven Hoptons schole vvith dungeons and death also except I vvould admit an vngodly oth to answere truely to their captious and cursed interrogatories confesse such things as the feare and reuerence of God prohibited me accuse my self appeache the chosen seruants of God Our Lord God gaue me many goodly motions at the very time of that combat to resiste their terrors and temptations as he did also his manifold graces good inspiration to contemne their swete promises of good benefices and other liuings if I vvould conforme my self vnto them but a lasse through my great sinne frailtie the aduersaries for the time preuailed and specially my carnal freends vvho by I cannot tell vvhat secret swete poyson of fleshly loue and pretense of naturall kindnes do more deepely vvound