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A15033	The English myrror A regard wherein al estates may behold the conquests of enuy: containing ruine of common weales, murther of princes, cause of heresies, and in all ages, spoile of deuine and humane blessings, vnto which is adioyned, enuy conquered by vertues. Publishing the peaceable victories obtained by the Queenes most excellent Maiesty, against this mortall enimie of publike peace and prosperitie, and lastly a fortris against enuy, builded vpon the counsels of sacred Scripture, lawes of sage philosophers, and pollicies of well gouerned common weales: wherein euery estate may see the dignities, the true office and cause of disgrace of his vocation. A worke safely, and necessarie to be read of euerie good subiect. By George Whetstones Gent. Seene and allowed.	Whetstone, George, 1544?-1587?	1586 (1586)	STC 25336; ESTC S111678	158,442	230

only taketh that place but will thus be called Domine Deus noster Papa O Lord our God the Pope they may perceiue in him a fulfilling of the prophet Daniel that he should place himselfe aboue all things in the worlde that he should distribute lands kingdoms to such as should take him for a God worship him Leauing to write further of this monsters other damnable sinnes which being past number shall purchase him torments wtout end I will in his enuious tyrannies towards such Princes as were not the seruants of his will reueale this prophecie continue my purpose Morrall Esope reciteth a fable of a snake which being nie frozen to death was by a good husbandman pitied and brought vnto the fire but when the fire had giuen strēgth to this viper he forthwith stung the husbandmans children euen so this Apostata or reuolter from Christ did with all the venime he coulde afflict weaken the Emperiall dignitie whose rulers gaue him first earthly promotion and from time to time sustained him in all his troubles Behold how Pope Benedictus the third enuyed the soueraintie of Emperors anointed Kings who condemned for heretiques one Okan and Dant two persons blinded with al his idolatries superstitions saue that they maintained that Emperors helde their Empires of God and not of the Pope this Pope might more properly haue bene adopted Maledictus then Benedictus as one wiped out of the booke of life which it seemeth he little read and lesse regarded for if he had studied the sacred Bible the perfect mirror both of heauenly grace morrall gouernement it is like he might haue light vpon these passages of holy scripture By me kings raigne and Counsailours discerne iustice by me kinges rule and rulers iudge the earth hearken then you kinges c. for power is giuen you of the Lord. Dauid thus saith The Lord teacheth the kings hands to mannage armes and his fingers to war c. the Lord establisheth Kings hath power ouer kingdoms and disposeth them at his pleasure and to whome he please The great King Artaxerxes acknowledgeth that the most great good God gaue him his forefathers their kingdom And briefely to conclude the excellencie of imperiall and regall dignitie there is no superiour power but of God well though the least of these vnreproueable authorities suffice to condemne these tyrannous Popes to hel no wonder that they all stopped not his accursed mouth that pronounced the vniust sentence against these two innocent persons for he the Pope I meane who striueth to matche the Maiestie of God enuyeth the recordes of his power and feareth not what is writte of his vengeance much lesse can endure that Emperors Kings and such potentates should be Gods Lieutenantes on earth his pride bewrayeth the one and his enuie dayly discouereth the other The Chronicles of euery christian common wealth are testimonies that since Princes became the subiects of this proude Pope their kingdomes were neuer free from curses excommunications nor Kinges cleare from depriuement of kingdomes their subiects free from priuie seditions nor their countreyes vnoutraged with open rebellions if his worde gouerned not the sworde and his will stood not in steade of law so that it is a question whether his hypocrisie haue wrought more mischiefe in the West or the Turkes open tyrannies in the East Upon some enuious suggestions Gregory the ninth and Innocentius the fourth Pope of Rome did depose the Emperour Fredericke the second excommunicated and banished his faithfull and obedient subiects absolued the rest of their othe and furthermore graunted great indulgences and pardon to such as would rebelliously rise to confound him yea after he had with an hundred and twentie thousand markes redeemed himselfe from this excommunication he was notwithstanding that once againe banished and accursed The perfect histories of Fraunce witnesse that Pope Vrbane the fourth about the yeere of our Lord 1264. violently did depose Conradus of his kingdome of Scicilia being his right inheritance and gaue the same to Charles Earle of Angion and brother to Lodouicke the French king to frustrate which gift Pope Nicholas the thirde about the yeere 1268. caused Peter king of Arragon to come out of Italie to depriue the said Charles and to possesse him thereof hee wrought a practise that in one night all the French both men women and children within the Iland of Scicilia were murthered by the inhabitants thereof In remembrance of which crueltie to this day there is a worde called the Scicilian euensong Pope Boniface the eight enuiyng the maiesty of the Emperour Adelphus de nassan predecessor of the Prince of Orenge for challenging to be the Popes superiour stirred vp Albert the first Duke of Austriche of that name and race to take armes against the Emperour for the imperiall seate and assisted him with the secreat councell and strength of Gerrard Archbishop of Maience in which battaile the Emperour was slaine and Albert succéeded in the Empyre In so much as puffed vp with pride for the lucky successe of his vngodly practises this vngratious Pope in his Iubile caused two swoordes in triumph to be carried before him making the bearer of the one to cry O Christ see there the Vicar on earth And the other O Peter see there thy successour In so much as the French king called Philip le Bell hating his pride refused to acknowledge him for his superiour For which contempt he pronounced the recited Albert king both of Rome and Fraunce whervpon the said Phillip secreatly in the night vnder the conduct of Sarra Colomna sent out 400. horse men tooke the Pope at Anagnia and from thence ledde him prisoner to Rome To whom the king in this scoffing maner wrote Sciat fatuitas vestra c. and after his beastlye death which shortlye followed his arriuall at Rome he was long remembred with this reproch Intrauit vt vulpes regnauit vt leo morritur vt Canis Sée what large coates Pope Gregorye the 7. cut of other mens cloath because he could not make the Emperour Henry the fourth the vassaile of his will he firste excommunicated the sayde Emperour and cursed all his adherentes and after gaue Ralphe Duke of Swaben his kingdome with an imperiall crowne bended with this trim verse Petra dedit petro petrus diadema Radulpho A diadem the rocke gaue Peter and his race And Ralph receaued a royall crowne from Peters holy grace But although the Pope were prodigall in his gift yet his holines nor power could shield the vnfortunate Ralphe from the vengeaunce due vnto traitours who shortly after was pitifully slayne who hauing his handes first cut off lamentablye exclaimed before the bishops that through the Popes their prouocations he and his confederates were accursed for rebelling against his owne lord supreme head Not long after this succéeded pope Paschalis the seconde who excōmunicated the emperor a freshe

titles that anye monarch can possesse And more then was due to Alexander Caesar Tāberlaine and others who contrarywise were the rods of Gods ire and quellers of many millions of innocentes Cronicles expose their vertues at large and who so euer shall ioyne regard with his reading in the gouernments of these eight Henries shall find many worthy obseruaunces which degression this place will not beare the summary of whose vertues containing a larger volume then is determined for this subiect so much as concerneth this purpose I am bound to report of the two latter noble Henries the one béeing the root the other the trée which brought foorth the fruites of Gods glorye of the greatest peace plentye and prosperity that euer Nation people or subiects enioyed euen the graue Henrye the seuenth Grandfather and the victorious Henry the eight father of our gracious soueraigne Lady the most good Quéene Elizabeth Upon whose vertues heauen and earth fixeth regard A princesse I say regarded of God with the eies of fauour regarded of the world with the eares of enuy and regarded of good and happy subiects with the harts of true obediēce A Quéene and more the visible image of God as well in respect of the happinesse and deuine giftes which her maiestie possesseth but principally for that mercy is chiefe of her vertues which enuy and her maiesties worst enemies are bound to witnesse in whose royall person the perfection of all good Princes are contained For what may be iustly sayde of all their righteousnesse wisedome and clemency are but wordes of her workes and written examples of her maiesties liuelye vertues the which the godly in their comfort the wicked through selfe destruction and enuie by continuall defeates haue ingraued in the Capitals of the whole world the triumph of whose peaceable victories to Gods glory and vniuersall wonder followeth CHAP. 2. An introduction to the peaceable victories of the Queenes most excellent maiesty against enuy and all her enemies THe nobility and commons of England impatient of the misgouernment of K. Richard the second deposed by maine force the saide Richard and possessed Henry Bolingbroke Duke of Herteford with Emperiall dignity a prince indued with many great vertues And albeit he entered vnlawfullye he gouerned his subiects like a gracious and prudent Prince But this good which followed an euill attempt acquited not the realme from the vengeaunce which God inflicteth vpon disloyall subiects The father which taketh the rod to chasten his sonne if the sonne taketh correction patiently in hope of amendment burneth the rod. But if the sonne stubbornly and violently catcheth at the rod the father dubleth his wrath trebeleth the sonnes punishment euen so God which appointeth tirauntes to be the scourges of his ire conceiued against wicked and vnthankfull people if in patient suffering they acknowledge his wrath to be iustlye imposed vpon their sinnes he dealeth with the tirant as the good father doth with the rod. But if they spurne at his vengeaunce and offer to reuenge the tiranny of their princes he causeth tirauntes to rise like Hydraes heads which shal torment them as in the bitternes of their affliction they shal be driuen to pray for their worst prince as the old Romane did for the prosperity of wicked Nero This Nero was a most cruell emperor he set Rome his emperiall city on fire for seuen dayes together and commaunded that the people should neither saue their goods nor quench the fire He slew his owne mother put to death the husbandes of Octauia and Sabina and tooke them for wiues but shortly after sent them the way of their former husbands And to shew that he passed all other in enuye hearing one to pronounce a Greeke verse which containeth this desire After my death I wishe Heauen and earth to perishe And I quoth he rather wish the same while I liue he so much enuied that so glorious a work should remaine after his death Upon a time Nero passing by a poore old man hartely prayed for the life and prosperitye of Nero Nero which knew by the accusation of his own euill that no man had cause to wish him good demaunded the reason why he contraried all mens desires in wishing his welfare that would nothing but mischiefe to the Romanes The old man boldly aunswered Tiberius thy predecessour was a cruell Emperor and him the people slew After him succéeded Caius Caligula a more cruell and barbarous Emperor and him likewise did the people sley and now thou most inhumaine and sauage Nero raignest for thy life and prosperity I pray least if thou be likewise slaine the diuel him selfe come and raigne ouer vs. Thus heaped God his vengeance vpon the stiff-necked Romanes which would not bow vnto his yoke the more they resisted his chastisement the more sharply he scourged their disobedience The senators of Rome thought the emperiall authority a seuéere bondage and therfore by their mutuall assents Iulius Caesar their first emperor was slaine in the Senate house But when they saw Brutus Cassius that firste sette hande to the swoorde to die likewise by the swoord when they afterwardes saw the bloudy euentes that sprong of the contention betwéen the Triumuirate of Octauius Antonius and Lepidus they most ioyfully receiued imperiall seruitude and afterwardes how wicked so euer their Emperours were the grauer Senators tollerated their gouerment or voluntarily banished them selues so that they for the most part were destroyed by Gods iustice in the common peoples outrage God by a seueere commaundement threatneth that he will visite the sinnes of the parents vpon the children vnto the thirde and fourth generation of those that in their spirituall worship adore any other God or the likenesse of any other creature in heauen or earth The same God annoynteth kinges as the visible images of him with the semblable maiestye concerning temporall worship he calleth them Gods and S. Paule saith he that resisteth the ordinaunce of the kinge resisteth the ordinaunce of God He then that striueth to depose his naturall king and to exalt a straunger committeth earthly idolatry in likewise as the worshippers of false Gods commit spirituall And therefore Princes in all gouernmentes heathen and christian the one by reuelation the other by imitation of holy scriptures haue publike lawes to lay the trespasses of traitours vppon their children the landes and goods of traitours are forfaited and the reputation of their posterity is corrupted The emperor Vespatian commending the vertues of Iosephus vnto his sonne Titus willeth him to trust him as one no wayes corrupted saying further vpon occasion that the son of a traitour ought not to liue To lay violent handes vpon the Lordes annoynted is a damnable thing Saule vniustly persecuted Dauid but Dauid hauing Saules life many times in his power refused to offer him any violēce saying the Lord kéep me from laying my handes of the Lordes annoynted Which prooueth though subiectes may flye from the

liuer and euerie man that hath authoritie is bounde both to correct the offence and to enquire after the offender If euerie man in his calling woulde thus truely doe the office of a good Common wealthes man Enuie and all euill woulde bee easilie withstoode men woulde soone looke into the dueties of their proper vocation for feare that others looked into the abuses thereof I haue with the authoritie of the wise and learned set downe what is needefull for euerie man to consider of his calling if they will striue against vertue and the credite of their vocations they are worthy of double punishment both for the fault and for wilfulnesse being warned of which I hope the godly reader will be admonished MIRROVR Lib. 3. CHAP. 1. Of the excellency of Royal dignities and dueties of a good King and of the short raignes and violent ends of Tyrantes THE dignitie Royall is so greate and holy as kings that are protectors and defenders of humane society imitate the prouidence of God whose office action is to gouerne al things and therfore rightly and properly are they called Uicars and Ministers of that most soueraine puissant and vniuersall gouerner And he himselfe calleth them gods figuring in that sacred name two hie charges the one that kings crowned with so glorious a name should imitate God whose lieuetenants they are in their religion Iustice and gouernement the other that subiectes knowing the honour that God giueth vnto kings should adore and worship them with all possible reuerence S. Paul saith he that resisteth the ordinance of the king resisteth the ordinance of God Looke what dignitie instruction is giuen vnto the king the Lord vouchsafeth to say that he bestoweth the same himselfe as in these passages of Scripture By me kings raigne Harken then you kings for power is giuen you of the Lord. Dauid thus singeth the Lord teacheth the kings hands to mannage Armes and his fingers to war And to the like effect are many other authorities Porrus king of the Indians being taken in battaile Alexander demaunded of him how he would be intertained Porrus answered as a king Alexander demaunded againe if he would say any thing else Porrus said no for all honor is contained in this word king This name king was held of so great reuerence among the people of many nations as the Indians and the Persians worshiped their kings as deuine Idols held the incounter happie if by chance they saw their king The Ethiopians so reuerenced their king as they adiudged him worthie of death that did but spit in their kings presence The Poets celebrated Iubiter more by the name of king than any other title It is wonderfull with what patience the Romanes and other Nations suffered the tyrannie of their vitious Emperors and barbarous kinges and if by Gods Iustice any of them were cut off the vnciuile multitude were the instruments thereof for the graue and wise senators were seldome guiltie of their destructions At this day the Turkes so reuerence their Emperors commaundements as they execute themselues if their Emperour pronounce the sentence Christian kings are nothing so seuere towards their subiectes but Christian subiectes are farre lesse obedient to their kings well euill will fal vpon his house that resisteth against the ordinance of the king for he that resisteth receiueth vnto himselfe damnation Yea albeit the king bée a tyrant so long as his commaundements are not to the dishonour of God He that resisteth because the king is a tyrant encreaseth his sinnes and doubleth Gods wrath who sendeth Tyrants to punish the sinnes of the wicked who saith I will do vengeance on my enimies by my enimies God saieth Iob maketh the hypocrite to raigne for the sinnes of the people In O see God speaketh thus I will giue thee a king in my furie And in Esay Assur is the Rodde and staffe of my furie By these and many other testimonyes it is apparant that God setteth kings in their kingdomes by they good or euill and will not haue them remoued at their subiectes pleasure A man that placeth an euill steward ouer his house in no case will allow that his seruaunts shall put him out of office for that such boldnesse would lessen the authoritie of their master who hath the prerogatiue to place and displace his officers much more presumption is it if subiects displace their prince who hath a greater power ouer them than a master ouer his seruaunts for the master in some cases shal answere the sute of his bond-man but the king in no case de Iure shall answere a trespasse done to his subiect for his prerogatiue is aboue the law although many good kings suffer themselues to be gouerned by their good Lawes God setteth them in their kingdomes and God alone will haue the authoritie to remoue them Saul vniustly persecuted Dauid yet Dauid hauing aduantage to slay him said to Abisai distroy him not for who can lay his hands of the Lords annoynted and bee guiltlesse And he further saide The Lord keepe me from laying my hands of the Lords annoynted In auncient times kings not onely gouerned the common wealth but also tooke charge of the Sacrifices and Ceremonies The Hebrewes annointed their kings with the selfe same Oyle that they did their hie Priestes which prooueth that kings are sacred and who so euer layeth violent hands vppon them cannot but bée guiltie of Irriligion Wée sée dignitie of Royall gouernement which dependeth vppon one soueraigne heade to be liuely figured in man himselfe in whom reason gouerneth as soueraigne Quéene The world it selfe where aboue our eyes we behold infinite bodies and motions which hindreth not one an others course belowe we sée a Sea that continually threateneth the earth and yet ouerfloweth it not The earth being verie waightie and massiue we may perceiue to be set or rather hanging in the aire and yet stirreth not all which would soone be out of order if it were not gouerned by the wisedome of one onely God Euen so a kingdome which as Plato defineth is composed of a mightie number of people and as the prouerbe goeth So manie men so many iudgements would soone haue come to naught through the couetous desire to raigne and disdaine to obey if there were not one soueraigne commaunder of these infinite affections which prooueth that Monarchia which is the gouernement of one is far more sacred excellent and perfite then Aristocratia Democratia Oligarchia Laocratia or any other compound gouernement for it is a harder matter to finde out many than one that is good The contrarietie of affections where there are many heads can hardly but bring forth enuie deuision and to conclude continuall dissention Considering then the worthines of Monarchia and the maiestie of a king obedience is not onely required of a subiect but the daunger that followeth counselleth and forbiddeth so much as to murmure against princes There is an auncient

tiranny of Princes they war without warrant that rebell against their worst kinges Were there neither authority deuine nor prophane to reprooue rebellion yet in their best quarrel destruction which is the ende of traitours sheweth their beginning to be naught God manye times suffereth both good and bad Princes to fall into the handes of their subiectes but woe be vnto those subiectes by whom either perishe We need no other torment to relish our present peace and prosperity then the remonstration of the ciuill warres bloudshed and manye grieuous calamities which for the space of 85. yéeres yea during the raignes of 6. kinges afflicted this small kingdome After the violent depriuement of king Richard the second from his crowne and dignity but in the end the Lorde hauing compassion of our manifold miseries séeing our priuate dissention ready to grow to publicke destruction euen when his wrath séemed to be moste hot euen then the beames of his mercy sodenlye comforted vs by the destruction of our arch tyraunt Richard the third who caused and committed more wicked saluadge murders then fiftéene of the most tirannous kinges of England But humbly confessing Gods prouidence with this old age Nullum violentum perpetuum This tiraunt that was giltye of the death of king Henry the 6. Prince Edward his sonne and his own naturall brother George Duke of Clarence and afterwardes within the space of thrée yéeres of his vsurped raignes caused his nephewes king Edward the 5. and Richard Duke of York his brother to be murthered in the Tower not caring for his alleageaunce towardes the one nor fearing to breake the sanctuary for the other who repudiated his owne mother offered to marry his brothers daughter as is a fore saide After these and many other murders without the procéeding of law this manifest monster the ende of Englandes ciuill misery was slaine at Boshworth field by that prudent Prince king Henry the 7. by Gods planting the root of Englandes happinesse and naked like a hog was carried vpon a bare horse backe to Lecester there buried who meriteth neither the monument of King nor Man CHAP. 3. A sommarie of the vertues of the prudent prince King Henry the seuenth THE fayrest buylding hath a foundation and the fruitfullest trée his root and albeit the beuty of either be in the outward attyre yet the strength of both consisteth in the inwarde substaunce And certainely in all discriptions the cause ought to be as well set downe as the effect that Anatomie is perfect that discouereth all the inward as well as the outward workemanship of man Uertue I grant conuayeth honor simply from a mans owne good actions yet the same is much inlarged if from desent to desent honor be issued from the monumentes of his auncestours vertues And sure the glorye of a man is much iniured or eclipsed that is blasoned but by his owne proper regardes when the same maye bee truely illustred by such auncient graces But touching my purpose some will suggest that as it is a needlesse labour to seeke a Diamonde with a torche which glimmereth in the darke so as bootelesse is the curiositie to deriue her maiesties glorye further then from her owne sacred vertues when her wicked enemies renowne her perfections and wilfully pursue their owne destruction through presumption that her excellencye is composed all of grace and mercye I am bounde reuerentlye to acknowledge that her maiesties perfection is the true discouery of imperfection and in this regarde absolute that enuye and the worste sworne enemies of God assault her prosperity yet if anye thing maye be added to extoll her name this meriteth regarde that the fruites of vniuersall comfort which her deuine and heroicall graces plentifully distributeth grow from the root of Englandes happines which no priuie conspiracy could vnplant euen king Henry the seuenth And of that gréene trée which the stinging Locustes could by no meanes wither king Henry the eight And doubtlesse who so shal zelously contemplate how that the prouidence of God euen in our greatest destructions alwaies sustained vs may easily perswade him selfe that God would haue his glory to s●…ine ouer the world next his word from the lights of this little Iland seperated as some write from the world or at the least ioyned to the outermost end thereof How easie a praye had we béene for the ambitious desire of some bordering king during the blouddye contention betwéene the two illustrous houses Yorke and Lancaster for imperiall dignitye but God would not our subuertion The history of Richard the thirds tiranny is a most lamentable cronicle yet the same considered by Gods prouidence assureth vs by that sharpe remembrance a remembraunce of his mercifull goodnesse in deliuering vs from a continuall calamity in she wing vs through the vnlawfull procéedings of the tirant a lawfull meanes to accord these two puissant houses But before this great blessing his incomprehensible wisedome so sharply scourged this realme as all her estates suppressed their priuate desires and hartely praied and laboured for this happy vnity who mercifullye regarding our patient bondage crowned king Henrie the 7. with title of both houses by taking to wife Lady Elizabeth eldest daughter to king Edward the 4. And albeit the end of our ciuill destruction in the beginning of his prudent raigne be sufficient alone to crowne king Henry the 7. name with euerlasting fame yet to gouerne vs right God indued this noble Prince with vertues answerable to so great a blessing as a general peace And certainly if Alexander surnamed Seuerus be reckoned among the number of the most wise emperors King Henry the 7. meriteth semblable title as the true imitatour of Alexanders gouernment King Henry the 7. entered vpon a kingdome no lesse disordered with continuall tumults then did Alexander with the vnmeasurable voluptuousnes of Helyogabalus the necessitye of time made him a seuere executioner of his lawes and testifieth the same to be deriued from perfect iustice he punished offences without respect of persons Honor was no plea for the mighty he iudged the trespasses of Lawyers with his owne knowledge of the law he onely pardoned ignoraunt offences and graciously relieued his poore subiectes oppressions he was thought somewhat too seueere in punishment But such murmuringes were no lawfull complaints to a fore that is deepe festered with corruption sharpe corsiues are to be applyed Euen so in a disordered common wealth seueere lawes are to be ministred He was a iust vertuous valiaunt and learned Prince a true distributour of peace plentye and prosperitye to his subiectes who in his life time had had a moste liberall portion of happinesse if in his dayes the Gospell of IESVS had had a free passage But leaue we Gods will therein who would not haue his outward temple builded in Dauids time but in his sonne Salomons and yet was Dauid a righteous man after the Lord in whose hand the harts of princes are had established a setled peace

in this long disquiet realme in the 24. yéere of his raigne he peaceably called this noble king Henry vnto his heauenly kingdome and as a visible signe that he blessed the ioyninge of these two kingly houses in one hee gaue vnto this noble king by Quéene Elizabeth his wife sundrye goodly children of which as the vndoubted heyre of the kingdome by both titles was crowned the victorious king Henry the eight CHAP. 4. A sommarie of the royall vertues of king Henry the eight THe most victorious king Henry the 8. sonne of king Henry the 7. beganne his triumphaunt raigne the 22. of Aprill 1509. whose inuincible courage was feared and admired through al Europe He was a moste bountefull Prince towardes well descruing subiectes the magnanimity of his countenaunce kept them in a louing obedience In the 5. yéere of his raigne a fore presagement that he should clymbe aboue the Pope of Rome The Emperour Maximilian the Popes lawfull soueraine and all the nobilitie of Holland Braband and Flaunders receaued wages vnder king Henries banner whose puissaunce discomforted and abashed the whole power of Fraunce This royall king besides that he was Alexander in fielde he was a Philosopher in the Uniuersity And in his great learning blessed his subiectes with the fruites of this olde Prouerbe happy are those people whose king is a Philosopher And doubtlesse where the Prince is learned the people are peaceably gouerned Science which containeth all duties with varietie of examples so liberallie instructeth the louers and followers of her lore In the thirtéenth yeare of his raigne the King wrote with his owne hand a booke against Martin Luther for which the Pope named him Defender of the faith but little fore-feared he that God would make him the capitall offender of the Romish superstition Saule breathing out threatnings and slaughter against the disciples of the Lorde receiued a speciall charge from the high Priests for the persecution of all sort of Christians at Damasco but God whose wisedome iudgeth the determinations of men wrought a wonderfull change in Saule for of a persecutor he made him a faithfull Apostle and chiefe strengthener of the Gentiles Euen so gratious●…ie dealed God with this most noble King whereas the Pope imagined to haue by this title made him the sustainer of hys Idolatrie God by his holie spirit moued him to vse the same to the first capitall disgrace of Antichrist the Pope But as the good Father Latimer certified his Maiestie the title Defender of the faith simplie considered was more then was due to any earthly prince whē his holy word deliuered by his Ministers both fostered and defended the same But in as much as it was Gods good will that vnder this kings and his offsprings authoritie the same should haue the most visible protection it may be lawfully thought that it was his will that the Pope should so intitle him as foreséeing by his wisedome that this prince in his séed should ouerthrow the Popes vsurped authoritie the most publike enimie of the true auncient and Apostolike faith Many interprete this prophesie of Esdras ecce leo concitatus de sylua rugiens c. loe a Lyon hastely running out of the wood roring who with a mās voice reprooued the saucie and misproud Eagle to figure thys noble prince Henry the 8. The rauening Eagle that had the victory ouer the foure beasts which God would haue had rained in the world that troubled the méeke c. is likewise interpreted to be Antichrist the Bishop of Rome The Armes of Rome which is the Eagle and the actions of the Pope wel approueth their interpretation Now who is more like to be this Lion that came roring out of the wood and shewed the rauening Eagles villanies to all the princes of the earth then King Henry the eight who euermore stoutly defied the Pope who euermore plainely painted his murthers deceits and abhominations then King Henry the 8. nay who first catched him by the throte but King Henry the 8. When all christian princes stood in awe of his curse he banished all his authoritie out of England when the meanest Bishops in other realmes would checke their Kings in his cause he caused the whole Cleargy by his learned Councell to be iudged in a premunire for mainteining the power legantine of Cardinall Wolsey who being called by processe into the Kings bench were glad by submission to pray pay á hundred thousand pounds for remission When other princes feared to murmur against the Pope secretly King Henry in the name of himselfe and his Nobles wrote a booke against the counsell appointed by the Pope at Mantua signifying to the whole world that the Pope had no more authoritie then an other Bishop and how that the appointment of Counsels only appertained to the Emperour and other Princes of Christendome What Lion was euer so bold with the Eagle of Rome as this Lion of England What Lion is so like to come roring out of the wood as the Lion of England The Lion of Vennice commeth out of the water The Lion of England is proper passant bowes and arrowes which are his strength commeth out of the wood I would the Popes english fauourers would wey this prophelie with the pride enuy outrage both of diuine humane blessings setled in the hart and séene in the actions of this Emperious Pope and then by allegorie they would peraduenture repute him to be this ambitious Eagle signified by the armes of his sea capitol city Rome And on the contrary part if with the like regard they would behold the wonderful disgraces that this noble king by himselfe princely children hath daily giueth this enuious Pope they should haue large cause to beléeue that our Lion signified by the armes of England with his mans voice should set this misproud Eagles head aw●…y should vanish his wings weaken his kingdome in fine set his whole body of fire If they had any sence they might féele that our Lion in the name of the Lord thus saith hence thou misproud Eagle appeare thou no more neither thy horrible wings thy mischeuous heads thy rauening clawes nor thy hollow body cōpact of vanities The cause straight foloweth that thou once gone the earth may be refreshed that thy kingdome once fallen men may returne to freedom c. I demād what reckning they cā make of the egles 12. wings that ouerspread the earth by Gods appointment since our Lion first shoke him vp or as the text saith since the wind K. Henries thūdring voice spread abrod his wickednes Sée if Englād be not shronk frō him Scotlād denieth him Hol and Brabant and Flanders delieth him Germany paints him as a mōster Denmark is parted frō him France is deuided Polland is indifferent if Spaine Italy be constant they be well paid for their frendship The Eagle the Pope that sometimes was capitalis dominus as well as summus pontifex

with Dauid I will not be afrayde of tenne thousande of people that haue set themselues against me round about it followes in another place for thou O Lord makest me dwell in safetie the diuell is bound and the hand of the Lord is vpon the magitioner Paul stroke Elimas Bariehu the arrogant sorcerer blinde the diuell aunswered the vacabond Iewes the seauen sonnes of S●…eua one of the chiefe priests which did adiure him by Iesu whome Paule preached Iesus I knowe and Paule I knowe but who are yee forsooth they were vnbeléeuing Iewes whome the spirit would not obeie yea he caused the man whome he tormented to runne vppon them and to ouercome them so that they fled out of the house naked and wounded it is the best reward that the diuell bestoweth vpon them that deale with him He many times faileth to performe the desire of his disciples but he neuer faileth to bring them to confusion yea in the tune of the Prophets when his strength was greatest his ministers were alwaies confounded in matters wherein the glory of God was to be séene as appeareth in the passadges marked in the margent For further example let it suffice that Gods mercie preserued her maiestie and his iustice put the chiefe practisers of this magicke in the possession of her vengeance Doctor Story was miraculously brought out of Flanders and as he notoriouslie deserued by common iustice was adiudged and executed as a Traitor Yea he confessed at his execution that it was God that dimmed the eyes of his vnderstanding yea it was surely God that wrought his deliuerie into the hands of her Maiesties lawes Prestall and Phaier were both after wardes prisoners at her Maiesties mercie her excéeding mercie measured grace vnto them both that vngratiouslie sought her destruction they both had life and libertie Phaier was afterwardes executed for coyning hys head was too busie to stande vppon his shoulders Prestall vpon speciall considerations long after was called to the aunswere of his olde treasons he had no defence but to flie to her Maiesties mercie with protestation that vppon that safeconduit he came into Englande a presumption that highly honoreth her Maiestie that those subiects which offended in the highest degrée of treason durst vpon her Maiesties bare promise venter vpon the danger of her lawes when at this day among most princes the saying Who knoweth not how to dissemble knoweth not how to raigne is holden for a principle in gouernement But sure the counsell is much against the honor of a prince whose promise ought to haue the strength of a law vnlesse in such rare cases as where the subiect offendeth beyond all merit of commiseration but to eternize her Maiesties gratiousnesse be it knowen the law long sithence hath adiudged Prestall death and yet he liueth by the sole vertue of her princely word and certainly the godly iustice of England deserueth vniuersall admiration and reuerence where the worst and most dangerous traytors are only confounded by solemne conuiction of law and by fauour therof a number escape that policy would haue cut short Our eares are daily occupied with the newes of secret poysoning and vnlawfull murthering of noble personages in most gouernements without attainder triall or any other ordinarie course of iustice but God who is therewith pleased be therefore praysed since the first day of her highnes blessed gouernement neither her Maiesty nor her iustice is yet stained with any such politicke or rather diuelish destroying of any one of many her enimies but yet to slander the peaceable procéedings of her Maiesty and godly maiestrates the notorious fugitiues in Rome Reames and other forraigne parts make shew of wary looking vnto themselues as if their liues were dayly assailed when their consciences and her Maiesties gratiousnes assureth them that they feare without cause albeit they giue cause of narrow vengeance if the order of her gouerment obserued the councels of their bloody practises she might finde brauoes a number in France and especially in Italy that for a hangmans fée would do execution of her rankest traytor abroad among whom murther is so common as the least iniurie is in a maner death by custome the easie escape out of one iurisdiction into another maketh them thus bold where the feare of God is no bridle I report this vppon the knowledge of my owne obseruances while I liued in those parts it is generally knowne that there are hirelings that make no more conscience to murther a man then to kill a bird but the actions of wicked men are no examples of imitation but admonitions of terror to the godly for that lightly vengeance followeth such works At my being in Italy there was a heardman executed about Tyuoly that had murthered more than fourescore persons and the notable outlaw Catenea who had slaine thréescore and tenne persons was led prisoner vnto Rome God may defer but he seldome leaueth murther without visible vengeance Aboue all sinnes nature abhorreth murther When the heathen men at Milete saw the viper to hang vpon Pauls finger euen from the hatred of nature they murmured and sayd No doubt this man is a murtherer whome though he haue escaped the sea yet vengeance suffereth not to liue Nature taught the infidels to beléeue that vengeance followeth murther Erasmus saith that in murther the consenter is as gilty as the actor Pylate against the sentence of his own conscience hauing pronounced death vppon our Sauiour Christ thought to haue washed away the fact with the washing of his hands and this protestation I am innocent of the blood of this iust man ye shall see but Pylates conscience made him gilty of Christes death whome the wrath of God still followed After this wicked iudgemēt he did nothing but iniustice and being thereof accused as also for prophaning the temple robbing the common treasure in Rome he was by the Emperor Caligula banished vnto Lions the place as some said of his birth through griefe of which disgrace by the iustice of God he desperatly flew himself that he might die by the most wicked person aliue Many other things are written of Pylats end by Ioseph in his antiquities Eusebius Ioachin Vadian and others which for breuity I omit The instructiō stretcheth euen vnto the seate of iustice which maketh the criminall Magistrate to be gilty of murther if for loue feare or gaine he vniustly pronounce death vppon any innocent person Yea murther crieth for vengeance against anointed kings Because Dauids hart murthered Vrias God laid the reuenge of Vrias blood many ways vpon Dauid and although he put the sin frō Dauids person yet the child begotten vpō Vrias wife in adultry died for it there sel 3. yeres dearth together in the days of Dauid Dauid enquired the cause the Lord answered It is for Saule and the house of blood because he slew the Gibonites It further appeareth that murther is so odious in the