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A22060	A proclamation published vnder the name of Iames King of Great Britanny. With a briefe & moderate answere therunto. Whereto are added the penall statutes, made in the same kingdome, against Catholikes. Togeather with a letter which sheweth the said Catholikes piety: and diuers aduertisements also, for better vndersatnding of the whole matter. Translated out of Latin into English; Proclamations. 1610-06-02	England and Wales. Sovereign (1603-1625 : James I); James I, King of England, 1566-1625.; Cresswell, Joseph, 1556-1623, attributed name.; Walpole, Michael, 1570-1624?, attributed name.	1611 (1611)	STC 8448; ESTC S119940	92,335	142

suddainly when they were least ready for their accompt that by these exāples others may take heed which is a singular fauour for by chastising some few he inuiteth to his mercy the rest to whome he giueth tyme and occasion of repentance Within these few yeares there haue dyed suddainly at diuers tymes in England foure of the priuy Counsell and their deathes are so much the more markable as they were lesse prouided for For this is the misery of suddaine death when it ouertaketh a sinner and neyther giueth him warning nor leasure to repent One of these was the Lord High Treasurer a worldly wise man though not wise for himselfe who hauing spoken vehemently at the Counsell-Table in a busines touching Syr Iohn Lusons land as was sayd and bowing downe his head as though he would rest he that sate next him thinking to awake him from sleep found him dead without the least remembrance of the Eternall Iudgment to which he was called so at vnawares as he left astonished all that were present The second was the Lord (P) Thomas Popam Chiefe Iustice of England a man of cruel harsh conditiō a grieuous persecutour of Catholicks He tooke one day in the morning as many times he vsed to do certaine easy pilles for his health and after hauing to signe some Writs or as others say Warrants to apprehend Recusants suddainly found himselfe so ill that he could not go abroad as he had determined From his chaire he would haue cast himselfe vpon his bed but he (Q) Cor durum habebit male in nouissimo qui amat periculum in eo peribit Eccles 3. 27. dropped down dead He had before cōplayned of conuulsions and great paines in his body but he shewed no memory of God more then in his life time he was accustomed The third was also a priuy Counsellour that occupied the Name and Place of the Archbishop of Canterbury a great Politician and one of the plotters as is reported of the New Oath and Powderworke wherin it was founded as he had bene of many other Stratagems (R) Bene cōsurgit diluculò qui quaerit bona qui autem inuestigator malorum est opprimetur ab ijs Pro. 11. 27. and deuises against the Catholikes He ended his life as the former without tyme to prepare himselfe for the great accompt He was of base Parentage but by his diligence and wit he scambled vp to the height from whence he fell First he got into seruice with the L. Chancellour Syr Christopher Hatton as his Chaplaine and Examiner His Maister was greatly fauoured of the Prince at that tyme and a secret fauourer of the Catholikes And in this poynt M. Bancroft flattered him so cunningly that he got his good will and much money vnder him After his Maisters death he was able to do for himselfe as is reported bought the Bishopricke of London of Syr Ferdinand Gorge Gentleman of the Queenes Chāber for three thousand pounds And hauing gotten into that place with desire to ascend though against his conscience afflicted Gods seruants both at home abroad with many sleightes deuises In fine by these wayes walking alwayes with a gouldē staffe in his hand ascendit fortè Cathedrā as one merily sayd of his Predecessor he passed from London to Lambeth and there played the wolfe in a sheephards weed At length as he had allwaies a styrring brayne it disquieted him so much that he could not sleepe and for remedy he tooke of a Paracelsian Phisitian a dormytall medicine wherwith he slept so profoundly that he awaked no more onely they hard him grone pitifully and strugle with death and in this manner he ended with terrour of his friendes and seruantes that were present leauing to them and to vs and to all the world an example to feare the iust (S) Virū iniustū mala capient in interitu Psal 139. 12. Iudgmentes of God His Predecessour in (T) Iohn Whitgift Canterbury Sea and President of the priuy Counsayle died in a manner after the same fashion Vpon I know not what occasion he made a bytter inuectyue at the Counsell-Table against (V) Vae duplici corde labijs scelestis manibus malefacietibꝰ peccatori terram ingredienti duabꝰ vijs Eccl. 2. 14. the Catholicke Religion notwithstanding he knew it in his conscience to be the only Truth and hauing ended his speach he bowed downe to take vp his spectacles and being taken suddainly with an Apoplexy that made him speachlesse was carryed from the Councell-Table to his House and a few houres after departed this world to receaue his Iudgment and Reward These foure great States-men all of the priuy Counsell dyed one after another suddainly without any signes of contrition or memory of God as hath bene said and in this consisteth the obseruatiō and example for otherwise to him that liueth well no death is vntimely though it cannot be without mystery that God sendeth to so many Priuy Counsellours in England this manner of death in these times But of all the rest the most miserable and of greatest terrour and example for the Kings Royall Maiesty is the death of Queene (X) Seminauerunt triticum spinas messuerūt hereditatem acceperunt non ijs proderit Ier. 12. 13. Quantū glorificauit se in delicijs fuit tātùm date ei tormentum luctū quia in corde suo dicit sedeo Regina Vidua non sum luctū non videbo ideo in vna die veniēt plagae eius Mors luctꝰ fames igne comburetur quia fortis est Deus qui iudicauit eam Apoc. 18. 7. Elizabeth his Predecessour which being so notorious and so well knowne to his Maiesty for breuities sake and for respect to her Person I will omit Many such like examples no doubt happen in England but are more noted in two sortes of people The one of such as in their conscience haue knowledge of the Truth and outwardly deny it and oppugne it for temporall respectes as it is thought the two Archbishops did the other of such as haue a violent auersion from Catholicke Religion and vpon hatred and splene persecute such as professe it as did the L. Chiefe Iustice and other such like Well the Kings Maiesty and his Counsellours cannot deny but God (Y) Nemo potest dicere Dominus Iesus nisi in Spiritu sancto 1. Cor. 1. 2. 3. Considera opera Dei quod nemo possit corrigere quē ille despexerit Eccles 7. 14. Qui odit correptionem vestigiū est peccatoris qui timet Deum cōuertetur ad cor suū Eccl. 12. 7. dealeth mercifully with them in giuing them these publicke examples as watch-wordes and warninges to make them looke about them It may please him also to giue them grace to lay them to their hartes and make benefit of them But this also is mercy and a speciall fauour of God who onely knoweth the true causes of all that is