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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A13961	The fierie tryall of Gods saints (these suffered for the witnes of Iesus, and for the word of God, (vnder Queene Mary,) who did not worship the Beast ... As a counter-poyze to I.W. priest his English martyrologe. And the detestable ends of popish traytors: (these are of Sathans synagogue, calling themselues Iewes (or Catholiques) but lie and are not ... Set downe in a comparatiue collection of both their sufferings. Herewith also the concurrance and agreement of the raignes of the kings of England and Scotland, since the first yeare of Q. Mary, till this present, the like before not extant.	Burton, Francis, fl. 1603-1617.	1612 (1612)	STC 24270; ESTC S118537	37,474	82

that Queene Elizabeth full of yeares but fuller of Renowne should haue liued vnto a gray-headed age and quietly dying in her bed to be maugre all her enemies brought in peace vnto her graue Is it possible that this present State wherein wee liue should now haue a Being seeing that Hell the Pope Vt obiter notē The word Recusant now so common vntill the Eleauenth yeare of Queene Elizabeths Ragine was altogether vnknowne as may appeare by all Statutes and Acts of Parliament before that time made wherin there is not a word thereof at all vntill which time all Papists some very few excepted notwithstanding that the Religion then professed in the Church of England was the very same that it was in the former yeares of her Raigne came ordinarily to our Churches nor was disparitie of religiō any cause of Recusancy vntil such times that the roaring Bull of Pope Pius 5. for then the land began to swarme with Recusants was published and Queene Elizabeth by him Anathematized Then the case was suddenly altered those who before frequented our Churches now withdraw themselues from our Society Those who before yeilded obedience to his Maiestie now would not acknowledge her for their lawfull Queene herevpon followed jmmediatly the rebellion in the North and other dangerous conspiracies by your faction And to proue that Religion was not the cause of their Recusancy besides that which hath beene abouesayd Scotland will testifie wherein albeit there haue beene and are many knowen Papists both men and women yet in all the time of King Iames his Raigne there nor yet since he raigned here haue any of thē absented thēselues or refused to come to our Churches in Scotland yet I make no question but you will say that the Romish religion is one and the same there that it is here you must needs then graunt that not religion but the Popes pleasure vnto whose girdle you are tyed is the cause of Recusancy and it behooueth his Maiestie to haue speciall regard vnto you that are Recusants and by all good meanes that he can to assure his owne estate in another regard then only that you will not interesse sacris with vs for Recusancy and Treason are so linked one in the other and compacted that hardly can hee bee a Recusant that is not a Traitour likewise See more hereof if you please in the 130 and 131. pages of Tortura Torti Seminarie Priests and Iesuites Traitors and seditious persons haue conspired against it had not the Lord himselfe miraculously defended it and maintained his Truth I need not instance particular deliuerances for who is he amongst vs that remembers not many But yet I cannot without ingratitude to God our most gracious preseruer ouer-slip in silence those two myracles of myracles to wit Our deliuerance from Spaines so falsely by them tearmed but blessed be God therefore inuincible Armado An. 1588. and from the mynes of fire and Gunpowder prepared by ympes of Hell for Englands Funerall An. 1605. which latter but that mine own eyes haue seene their preparations I should with Thomas scarcely haue belieued And no maruell though in Spain the report therof can with many hardly be credited for some at our own home that haue not with their owne eyes seene it or with their eares heard the Delinquents Viva voce confesse it can hardly yet conceaue halfe the malice therof it seemes to those that haue any sparkes of humanitie so passing cruell and incredible These if the Gospell must needs be confirmed by myracles are true myracles These are no counterfait jugling trickes or Popish impostures to delude the simple such as were the Sicknesse-healing Child or the Picture of the Traitour Garnets face in a wheat strawe found perhaps amongst a Popish Taylors wiues shreds or brought in in the belly of a Griffin or Gryfō intēding thereby the ruine of Troynovant as were the armed men of Yore in the bellie of Synons woodden horse for Troye the old its Destruction such as these we leaue to you to insert into your Legenda Aurea or Legend of lyes As for persecution for conscience against which in diuers of your pamphlets you so loudly cry the comparison of times for continuance wherein of persons for numbers in those times how many whose bloud on both sides haue been shed and the causes partly wherefore in the following Table will appeare But the grounds of religion contained in the holy Scriptures of the old and new Testament penned by the Prophets and Apostles on which we build our faith and the refutation of errors and false doctrine maintained by Romish Recusants Priests and Iesuites which in former times and in these times also haue do cause so great disturbances persecutions of the Church of Christ I leaue to bee defended by those graue and strong pillars of our Church and learned Fathers of our Clergie whose foundnesse in doctrine all the Papists in the world are vnable to evince Concerning that dishonour wherewith very frequētly but falsely as is well approued by the then Bishop of Chichester you taxe your Soueraigne Lord the Kings Maiestie for breach of promise with Recusants concerning a toleration of Popish religion that quantum in me est I may confute such vnjust exclamations against his Majesties Person and his Honour I will briesly touch that poynt by declaring not onely vnto you but vnto all the world that shall take notice hereof what mine owne eares heard in an open Court of mercy I may say rather then of justice in this case debated and censured The case stood betweene the Kings Majestie a great Peere of this Land amongst whose many grosse slippes and juglorious acts this poynt was as the rest all which his Majestie was pleased nay as sayd the Lord Cooke then the Kings Attourney commanded that they should not otherwise bee handled then as matters of Contempt ripped vp and scanned His name I could particularly instāce but because it pleased my Soveraigne to deale with him not in rigor of law justice but meerly in Grace I hold it not my part othewise then what for clearing of the truth I needsly must him by name to disgrace Wherfore that I may helpe to wash away those aspertions of dishonour vnjustly throwen vpon his sacred Majesty by men of bad spirits and that like spots and staines neuer to be done away they may seat themselues within the muddy Circle of the duskie Moone their true Centre and not eclipse the bright honour of our splendant Sun glorious North-star I will here relate frō whence by much probabilitie this error at first sprange This noble fore-remembred Personage whose greatnesse addes a greatnes to his fault if I may linke Nobilitie with such jgnoble actions ambitiously as it should seeme affecting a singular greatnesse not at all regarding Religion as some haue thought further then as it might serue him as a ladder to promotion was in shew outwardly