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A09610	An aduertisement written to a secretarie of my L. Treasurers of Ingland, by an Inglishe intelligencer as he passed throughe Germanie towardes Italie Concerninge an other booke newly written in Latin, and published in diuerse languages and countreyes, against her Maiesties late proclamation, for searche and apprehension of seminary priestes, and their receauers, also of a letter vvritten by the L. Treasurer in defence of his gentrie, and nobility, intercepted, published, and answered by the papistes.; Elizabethae, Angliae Reginae, haeresim Calvinianam propugnantis saevissimum in Catholicos sui Regnis edictum. English. Abridgments	Parsons, Robert, 1546-1610.; Cresswell, Joseph, 1556-1623, attributed name.; Verstegan, Richard, ca. 1550-1640, attributed name.	1592 (1592)	STC 19885; ESTC S121696	41,247	68

Maiesties eares with matters feigned of himself how God plagued him for his furious crueltie againste catholiques how he died in debt depriued of his greate Idol Sir Philipp Sidney his sonne in law and strooken in the secret partes of his body as Eusebius reporteth of Maximus the Tyrant After Sir Francis VValsingham he bringeth vnto the stage Sir Christophor Hatton whose good nature he cōmendeth aboue all the rest and saith that yf he had any feeling of any religion he thought the catholique to be the trewer and that so he had signified diuerse wayes in his life time and that he had vpon sundrie occasions protested moste earnestly in secret to his frendes and namely to father VVilliam Crighton the Scottishe Iesuite at his deliuerie out of the Tower that his hand had neuer subscribed to the death of any one catholique nor neuer should which yet this awnsweret thincketh not to be trew considering his authoritie and place he had in the Councell and the bitter speeches which he openly vsed often times in the starre chamber and other places against catholiques for maintenance of his creditt And here by this answerer frameth a certaine consideration how wicked a course this is of the Councell to sett forward in common a thing so hoatly for the murdering and persecuting of Catholiques which most of them in priuate will deny to their frendes to haue their fingers in which he sheweth also in other Councellers at this day besides Hatton and namely and aboue the reste in my L. Treasurer who euer secretly feigned him self to be a moderator and mollefyer of Catholiques afflictions vntill of late he saith his lordship hath byn inforced to shewe himself openly theire vnmasked enemy The like also he sheweth to haue bin in the Councell of King Edward the sixt when the Duke of Northumberland the Earle of Arundell the Earle of Penbrooke the L. Pagett Sir VVilliam Peter and others sate dayly vpon orders to punishe and extinguishe Catholiques whose religion notwith stāding at that time both they knew to be trew and after chose the same to die therin when they found themselues more free of the bondage of ambition wherin before they liued VVherefore he thincketh Sir Christofer Hatton to haue bin most vnhappie euen in these thinges wherein other men doe thinck him fortunate which are the fauours had with her Maiestie the causes begininges and increase whereof this awnswerer declareth and finally his death much subiecte as he saith to suspicion of poyson and how the very next day after his death my L. Treasurer triumphed and gat forth this 〈◊〉 nation againste Catholiques which he neuer had done yf the other had liued and the causes why In the fifte and laste place he commeth to treate of my L. Treasurer and that much more largely then of any of the reste for that he yet liueth and for that as this man saith he more then all the reste together hath and doeth in deede seeke the destruction of the Catholiques by couert meanes though whiles the others liued that were more open he shrowded himself and his doings now vnder VValsingham and now vnder Lecester signifyinge in secrett vnto Catholiques when they sued vnto him that they onely were the causes which since hath bin knowen to haue bin quite contrary c. Of my L. Treasurers pedegrie and how Cecil his father was grome of the wardrop and was neuer called maister in all his life vnles it were in iest how his mother would neuer suffer her self to be called Mistresse but after her sonne was made Baron of Burlegh how my L. Treasurers grandfather was one of the kinges guard and kept the best Inne in Stamford how my L. Treasurer himself is said to haue bene first of al belringer in S. Ihons Colledge in Cambridge and after grew by learning and cunninge and by the helpes and fauoures of Sir Ihon Cheeke and Sir Antony Cooke to be secretary to the Duke of Somersett that was protector to whome he was a stickler to sett him against his owne brother the Admirall for pleasinge the Duches and to cutt of his head as he did and that he is thoughte to haue bin the principall instrumente to bring in father Latimer that fond and hypocriticall preacher to be an agent as he was in that barbarous tragedie and that for this seruice chiefely by the Duches of Somersets procurement to her husbād M. Cecile was made Secretarie to king Edward the sixt How afterward he seing Dudley the Earle of warwick to be more cunning and potent then the duke of Somersett his maister he secretly forsooke and betraied him and gaue matter of ouerthrow to warwicke againste him for which seruice when the Duke and his trustie frendes were pulled downe and cut of maister Cecil was set vp by warwick and brought in to the kinges fauour and counsaile againe so he folowed that mans fortune euer after so long as he stoode in prosperitie euen to the consenting to the depriuation and deposition of all king Henry the 8. his children and nanamely of Queene Mary and this Queene against whome this awnswerer saith that Sir VVilliam Cecill wrote and penned the proclamatiōs and othes that the Dukes of Northumberland and Suffolke sett forth against them and woulde haue bene content to haue byn the headsman also himself to haue dispatched them both with his owne handes at that tyme rather then they should haue escaped to his losse or disgrace yf Northumberland would haue putt him to it How Queene Mary being established in the crowne and the Duke of Northumberland beheaded my L. Treasurer bestirred himself to gett creditt with the Catholiques frequented Masses said the Litanies with the prieste laboured a paire of greate beades which he continually caried preached to his parishioners in Stamford and asked pardon of his errours in king Edwardes tyme what he said and protested to diuers and namely to Sir Francis Inglefeild then of the Councel about his beleef of all pointes of the Catholique Roman faith How he deceaued Cardinal Poole and persuaded Sir VVilliam Peter to resigne vp his office of the Secretariship vnto him yf Queene Mary would haue admitted the same who neuer could be persuaded to beleue him How M. Cecil being reiected by Queene Mary he gat to serue the lady Elizabeth and how he entered with her afterward when she came to the crowne to persuade her to the change of Religion for his owne interest against the opiniō of other councelors VVhat reasons he laid for the same and what great difficulties he founde in the Queene and otherwise and by what crafte he ouercame them and how yf he had by byn admitted secretary in Queene Maries tyme he had neuer sought the change of Religiō in this Queenes dayes VVhat shiftes and deceites were vsed by him and M. Bacon in the change of Religion how the Earle of Arundell was cosened by them with hope of hauing the Queene in mariage and thereby his sonne