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A01507	A newyeares gifte dedicated to the Popes Holinesse, and all Catholikes addicted to the Sea of Rome: preferred the first day of Ianuarie, in the yeare of our Lorde God, after the course and computation of the Romanistes, one thousand, fiue hundreth, seauentie and nine, by B.G. citizen of London: in recompence of diuers singular and inestimable reliques, of late sent by the said Popes Holinesse into England, the true figures and representations whereof, are heereafter in their places dilated.	B. G. (Bernard Garter); Tunstall, Cuthbert, 1474-1559. Letter written by Cutbert Tunstall late Byshop of Duresme, and Iohn Stokesley somtime Byshop of London.; Stokesley, John, 1475?-1539.; Googe, Barnabe, 1540-1594.	1579 (1579)	STC 11629; ESTC S102867	65,066	113

auntiente house of Westmerlande and the deathe of the Earle of Northumberlande and manye other as Norton Markamvielde and others whyche haue steyned themselues with Treason and vndone their houses for euer There were also at that time many Bayliffes and Constables to the number of thrée hundred or vpwarde hanged whiche well deserued it in that they commaunded menne in the Quéenes name to goe to that Campe the Camp where the Rebels lay But Northerne men may say that euill is that camping where the Gallowes winnes the Goale These thyngs will not be forgotten in the North partes these hundreth yeares And therefore take héede Papistes and thinke that Northerne men will not Rebell for they haue payde for their learning You maye not vaunt as you were wont to doe saying you were sure that all the North would take your partes for if you make your reckning so you recken without your hoste for neyther Lordes nor Lurdeynes can rayse them withoute commaundemente from the Prince Therefore good Subiectes vouchsafe to reade this little Booke whereby you may learne to obey the Quéenes Highnesse truely and to detest the Popes fayned holynesse vtterly Thys little Booke or Letter was written in Anno 1537. and in the thirtith yeare of the Raigne of our late Soueraigne Lorde of famous memorie Kyng HENRYE the eyght at what time Reginalde Poole was made Cardinall for Cosma and Damian by Paule the third Bishop of Rome so as the Papistes can not mislike it for the noueltie for it carieth some antiquitie and was written aboue fortie yeares sithence Thus for my part I fare like hym whiche hathe founde a Purse or Capcace of another mans and then like a playne true dealing man maketh enquirie who is the owner of it Euen so doe I cause thys little Booke to bée newe Printed that the right owners may be knowen And sithence they be dead long agoe that the Quéenes good Subiectes maye haue it amongst them as the authoures meante it in their lyfe time And thus I ende praying God to endue hir Maiestie with perfecte health and all felicitie long and triumphantly to raigne and rule ouer vs and to turne the heartes of Papistes and to make them all good Subiects to the glorie of God and strength of the Realme Amen w. w. The Argument of the foresayde Booke or Letter commended vnto thee TH' aspiring mind causd Reynold Poole to swarue And to become a Traytor to the King Troth tryes it out and law and iustice bring Vnto his mates such death as they deserue He quakes for feare and through the Seas doth carue To Rome and there is by the holy Pope Made Cardnall and obteynes a larger scope With might and mayne Poole then the Pope doth serue And sayth the King may not be supreme head Two learned men which do lament his fall Send him this Booke that follie to forbid Yet he God wot regards it not at all But like an Asse doth for a Scarlet hatte Forsake his God his King and Countrey flatte B.G. B. G. To the Reader THou séest right gentle Reader in the fourtéene short lines last before written the argumente of the Booke or Letter whiche was written to Cardinall Poole which my right Worshipfull and approued good friend when he had perused and ioyed to sée and reade desired greately to perticipate his benefite vnto thée chiefly bycause the wéede whiche at that time choked the minds of the subiects of the triumphant King of immortal memorie Henry the eyght our late Soueraigne Lorde touching the Supremacie now eftsoones breaketh forth to the intollerable annoy of the déere and louing subiects of our most dread naturall and soueraigne Lady Elizabeth by the grace of God Quéene of Englande France and Irelande defendor of the faith and in earthe of the Church of England and Ireland next and immediately vnder Christ the sole and alonely supreme head the daughter and vndoubted heire of hir saide late father King Henry the eyght But what haue I said Supreme head in earth of the Church of England and Ireland next vnder Christ Yea forsooth what make you then of the Popes holynesse may be your demaund I aunswere that I make of the Bishop of Rome so farre forthe as he be a Christian and the seruaunt of God the like and as large accompt for his circuit though not with so great dutie bycause I am an Englishman and not of his Dioces as I make of any Bishop in Englande within his iurisdictiō vnder oure sayde Soueraigne Lady so long as the same Bishop of Rome kéepeth him within his compasse and acknowledgeth himselfe subiect to the King of that Territorie but so farre forth as he standeth harlot like vpon the type of hys worldly pompe I take him to be that Antechrist whiche Paule calleth the man of Sinne and child of perditiō You may further aske me howe if the Pope himselfe be King there I answere that how if with how if not for if Christ whose Uicar on earth the Pope claymeth to be sayth Iohn 18. My Kingdome is not of this world the Pope if he be not Antechrist can not haue kingdome in this world Me thinkes I sée the Papist smile in his sléeue for in déede he is a smooth faced fellowe at this my simple conuersion saying that I haue framed a goodly argument that is bycause the Kingdome of Christ is not of the world therefore the Popes holynesse may not be a King in Christendome as if it should be said bycause the Kingdome of HENRYE the eyght reached not ouer Europe therfore ELIZABETH his right heire may not be Quéene of England and Ireland Let me smile wyth him againe I pray you for I will yéelde him that Kingdome in Christendome which Christ did weare the earthlie Crowne of let him likewise yéelde to euery King royaltie in his owne Kingdome That I will yéelde it the Papist laugheth agayne and so must I to for in déede for me to yéeld to the Pope a terrestiall Crowne in earth and for the Pope to yéeld vnto me a celestiall Crowne in Heauen haue both like warrant and like follie and may be equally laughed at if damnable things include iest for I without treason to my Prince can not thinke the one nor he without Treason to Christ grant the other for Christ hathe reserued the Spirituall Supremacie of his vniuersall Churche vnto himselfe and the terrestiall gouernement of his people to earthly Princes vnder whome they are gouerned and tryed as golde in the furnace and happie is that lande and people whyche haue a godly Prince on earthe to beare the sway and haue Supremacie héere nexte vnder God and amongst the happyest we Englishmen most happie in our gracious Quéene ELIZABETH whose lyfe and Supreme gouernemente I beséeche the almighty Lorde long to continue ouer vs And the same God for hys Chrystes sake hathe bestowed that supremacie on oure Quéene within hyr owne Realmes whiche the Pope falsely chalengeth through all Christian Regions For there is no

wrest the sacred Scriptures to serue their turnes preferring the Pope aboue Emperour and Kings falsehoode before truth darkenesse before light ignoraunce before knowlege a Masse no Communion a Dirge no Sermon a Concubine no Wife Bulles and baggages before the sincere word of God. And our English fugitiue runnagate Papistes whiche are beyonde the Seas sende into this Realme of Englande Bulles Pardons Beades Latin Primers Papisticall Books Superaltares Pictures of Sainctes hallowed Graynes Crosses Agnus Dei wyth Sainct Iohns Gospell in them and thrée or four droppes of Balme Font water and of a hallowed Candle done by the Pope dothe make all these holy Reliques so as I thinke if the paring of the Popes nayles were sente into England it would be thought no small iewell amongst the Papists But let this passe and sée nowe what oure home Papistes sende them againe I wéepe to write they cause that many Gentlemen and some of greate Worship doe send their sons to Doway to the Uniuersitie of Louaine to Rheynes to Paris yea and some to Rome to nuzel them in Idolatrie and roote them in Papistrie And great are the summes of mony whiche yearely goe hence for the finding and maintayning of those yong Gentlemē and farre greater is the charge whiche relieueth the Papistes that are there for the number is greate and they are very liberally and boūtifully rewarded out of England by the Papists here For many Papists sell their lands and employ their great summes of money in banke contrary to the expresse word of God as the Iewes did in the time of King Williā the conqueror employ the foule increase or vsurie therof to the reliefe of other Papists beyond sea Moreouer their Buls pardons and such other néedlesse or rather damnable baggage trash trumperies are ouer dearly bought althoughe indéede they be nothing worth nay worse than naught For in the raigne of Quéene Mary I my selfe did know a Gentlewoman that gaue .xx. pound for a Bull that she might not come to Church yet was shée as Catholike as the beste of that sorte but the matter was for that the priest of the parish and she were fallen out Truly that Bull was a fit Make for a Cowe or hir charitie and aswel worth .xx. pound as an Owle is worth an ounce of fine gold and euen of that value be the rest of his Bulles pardons and sanctimonies and graunted vppon as greate considerations For it is bruted by the Papistes that the traiterous varlet Feltō is canonized for a Saint at Rome so was Thomas Becket a Prelate as traiterous as Felton the Papist was but Felton obtained the Popes great grace for the setting vp of a Bull which then was newly brought into England and for his reward was faire hanged drawen and quartered and had no more harme yet that Bull begat many Calues both Bull Calues and Cow Calues whiche it is high time to wayne for they make suche a bleating that no man can take rest or lyue quietly by them vnlesse peraduenture they receyue the Bulles rewarde And if it be true that Felton is Saincted then is it for his Treason sake And what Traytor then would not loue such a Pope as can make Saincts of Diuelish Traytors or who can but feare suche a Pope as can make Diuels of Saincts for with his holy pardons if he lie not he maketh Sainctes and with his terrible curses if he say true he maketh Diuels so as Sainctes and Diuels are at his pleasure And the Pope can do more than this too for he can send Soules to Heauen and take Soules out of Purgatorie for that as he sayeth is the bayting place by the way to Heauen or to hell And what is that the Pope can not do forsooth nothing at all for as great is his authoritie and power in making of Sainctes as a Coblers skill and arte is to make Mappes of the whole World And I beléeue there are as manye Sainctes in Heauen made by the Popes as there are blacke Swannes swimming in the Thames But for all the Popes magnificence and superabundant authoritie I had rather be a Collyer at Croyden than a Pope at Rome for in my iudgement it is better to haue a blacke body like a Collier than a blacke Soule like a Pope for vnlesse the Pope washe himselfe cleane in the bloud of Christ with the droppes and teares of repentance onely trusting in the merites of Christes Passion which he can not allow sufficient to saluation hée shall neuer sée the ioyes of Heauen but in post hast he must néedes goe to his second Sea and patrimonie in Hel to the blacke féend Lucyfer his fellow companion for Pride and whose faithfull Uicar he approueth himselfe héere for as all men know in Hell there is no redemption Now I conclude demaund what foolish senselesse Papistes are they that beléeue the Pope can help them where he can not help himselfe for we beléeue in God who sayeth Subditi estote omni humanae ordinationi propter Dominum siue Regi tanquam praecellenti c. Be subiect to all humane ordinance for the Lords sake whether it be to the King or to the most excellent c. making the King to be most excellent vnder God by which words of Sainct Peter it is manyfest that Peter did not chalenge to himselfe any primacie why then should we yéelde it to the Pope that only chalēgeth and yet wrōgfullie to be the successor of Peter No no it is the right and next God belongeth to our most dread soueraigne Lady the Quéenes Maiestie whome God long preserue and to none other through all or any hir Highnesse Realmes or Dominions And againe by special prouision or Premunire Anno. 16. Rich. 2. ca. 5. it is set downe that such as purchace or pursue in the Court of Rome Bulles Instrumentes or suche like shall be out of the Quéenes protection yet notwithstanding that both the Lawes of God and Man are against it Papistes will be Papistes spéede as they spéede may Whereto I pray thée gentle Reader haue a speciall regard and amongst the rest marke our double faced Papistes whiche Ianus like in Court and else-where doe make their boast to be the Quéenes Maiesties faithfull subiects comparable with the best Protestantes but when it commes to the tryall and touchstone to know what they thinke of the Supremacie then they cleaue to the Pope hauing no feare of God no loue to the Quéene nor no dread of iustice for in denying the Supremacie they take from the Quéenes Highnesse hir Maiestie regall authoritie and the due obeysance which she ought to haue of hyr Subiectes ▪ and most trayterouslie they renounce theyr faith loyaltie seruice and obedience whiche they owe to hir excellencie so as they make thēselues quicke sacrifices to the Deuill and manyfest Traytoures to the Quéene For to saye the truth Papistes were the cause of the last Rebellion in the North whyche was the ouerthrowe of the

past by his predecessour Agatho to the Emperour Constantine Heraclius and Tiberius in his Epistle written to them in his name and in the name of all the Synods which he thought to bée vnder the sea Apostolique wherein soone after the beginning of the Epistle he comprehendeth them all vnder the name of the Bishops dwelling in the North and West parts of their Empire So that ther in his owne Epistle he confesseth all his subiects or obedienciaries to hée onely of the North and West so appeareth euidently by his owne confession that neither by Gods law nor mans lawe he had to do with any person of the East or the South And this his high souereintie ouer all challenged as you and others say by Scripture as by his owne confession quailed and brought to a little strayght angle And this Agatho was not a man vnlearned as appeareth by the Actes of the sixt Synode Constantinopolitane in the iiij acte wherein is written at large and expressed the sayde epistle and confession And afore the Primacie of Peter which auncient Doctors speake off that was onely in preaching and teaching the fayth of Christ which he first among all the Apostles and first of all mortall men did expresse with his mouth That Primacie did so adhere to his owne person that it was neuer deriued neither to any successour nor to other Apostle but chiefely to himselfe for all other professing after the same speake it after him who had professed it before Moreouer all the Apostles as Saint Iohn sayth be fundaments in the heauenly Ierusalem not Peter only Moreouer Cyprian affirmeth as is aforesayd that all the Apostles were of equall dignitie and power which all auncient authors lykewise doe affirme For Christ gaue the Apostles lyke power in the Gospell saying Ite docete omnes Gentes baptizantes eos c. Go and teach all Nations baptizing them c. And Saint Paul as is sayd before knewe no other Primacie giuen to Peter to preach in any place but among the Iewes as he himselfe had among the Gentiles as he writeth to the Galathians where Saint Ambrose as is aforesayd affirmeth the same And that the mother of all Churches is Ierusalem as afore is sayd and not Rome the Scripture is playne both in the Prophet Esay De Syon exibit lex verbum Domini de Ierusalem Out of Syon shall the law procéede and the worde of the Lord out of Ierusalem Upon the which place Saint Hierome saythe In Ierusalem primùm fundata Ecclesia totius orbis Ecclesias seminauit Out of the Church first found in Ierusalem sprong all other Churches of the whole world And also in the Gospell which Christ before his ascension commaunded his Apostles to preach ouer all the worlde beginning first at Ierusalem so that the Bishops of Rome vniuersall power by him claymed ouer all cannot by any Scripture ●e iustified as if ye haue red the auncient Fathers expositions of the sayd Scriptures as we suppose you haue sith your letters sent hether concerning this matter and would giue more credence to their humble and playne speaking than to the latter contentious and ambitious writers of that high and aboue the Ideas of Plato his subtilytie which passeth as ye write the lawyers learning and capacitiy we doubt not but that ye perceiue and thinke the same And where ye thincke that the king cannot be taken as supreme heade of the Churche bicause he cannot exercise the chiefe office of the Church in preaching and ministring of Sacraments it is not requisite in euery body naturall that the head shall exercise eyther all manner of offices of the body or the chiefe office of the same For albeit the head is the highest and chiefe member of the naturall body yet the distribution of lyfe to all the members of the body aswell to the head as to other members commeth from the heart and is minister of lyfe to the whole bodye as the chiefe acte of the body This simlitude yet hath not his full place in a mysticall body although the Scripture speaking of king Saul sayth Cum esses paruulus in oculis tuis coustitui te caput in tribubus Israel When thou wert but of small reputacion in thine owne eyes I made thée head amongst the tribes of Israel And if a king amongst the Iewes were Caput in tribubus Israel hoc est hominum videntium Deum per vmbram tempore legis multò magis Princeps Christianus caput est in tribubus Israel hoc est verè per fidem videntium Christum qui est finis legis The heade in the tribes of Israel that is of men which sée God by a shadowe in the time of the law much more is a Christian king head in the tribes of spirituall Israel that is of such which by true fayth sée Christ which is the ende of the law The office deputed to the Bishops in the misticall body is to be as eyes to the whole bodye as almightie God sayth to the Prophet Ezechiel Speculatorem te dedi domui Israel I haue made thée an ouerseer ouer the house of Israel And what Bishop soeuer refuseth to vse the office of an eye in the mysticall body to shew vnto the body the right way of lyuing which appertayneth to the spirituall eye to doe shall shew himselfe to be a blinde eye and if he shall take other office in hande than appertayneth to the right eye shall make a confusion in the body taking vppon him an other office then is giuen to him of god Wherefore if the eye will take vpon him the office of the whole head it may be aunswered vnto it It cannot so do for it lacketh brayne And examples sheweth lykewise that it is not necessarie alwayes that the heade should haue the facultie or chiefe office of administration you may sée in a Nauy by Sea wher the Admiral who is captaine ouer all doth not meddle with stering or gouerning of euery ship but euery Maister perticular must direct the ship to passe the Sea in breaking the waues by his stering and gouernance which the Admirall the head of all doth not himselfe nor yet hath the facultie to doe but commaundeth the Maisters of the ship to doe it And likewise many a captaine of great armyes which is not able nor neuer coulde peraduenture shoote or breake a speare by his owne strength yet by his wisedome and commaundement onely he atchieueth the warres and attayneth the victory And where ye thinke that vnitie standeth not onely in the agréeing in one fayth and doctrine of the Church ▪ but also in agreeing in one head if ye meane the very and onely head ouer all the Churche our Sauiour Christ Quem pater dedit caput super omnem Ecclesiam quae est corpus eius Whome the father hath set ouer all the Church which is his bodye wherein all good Christian men doe agrée ye say truth And if ye meane of any

one mortall man to be heade ouer all the Church and that to be the Bishoppe of Rome we doe not agrée wyth you For you doe there erre in the true vnderstanding of Scripture or els yée must saye that the sayd counsell of Nyce other most auncient dyd erre which deuided the administration of Churches the Orient from the Occident and the South from the North as is before expressed And that Christ the vniuersall head is present in euery Church the Gospell sheweth Vbi duo vel tres congregati fuerint in nomine meo ego in medio eorum sum Where two or thrée be gathered together in my name there I am in the midst of them And in an other place Ecce ego vobiscum sum vsque ad consummationem seculi Beholde I am with you vntill the ende of the world By which it may appeare Christ the vniuersall heade euery where to be with his misticall body the Church who by his spirite worketh in all places how far soeuer they be distaunt the vnitie and concorde of the same And as for any other one vniuersall head to be ouer all then Christ himselfe Scripture prooueth not as it is shewed before And yet of a farther proofe to take away the scruples that peraduenture doe to your appearaunce rise of certeyne wordes in some auncient authours and especially in Saint Cyprians Epistles as the vnitie of the Church stoode in the vnitie with the Bishop of Rome though they neuer call him supreme head if you precisely weygh and conferre all their sayings together yée shall perceiue that they neyther spake nor ment other thing but when the Bishop of Rome was once lawfully elected and intronizate if then any other would by faction might force or otherwise the other lyuing and doeyng his office enterprise to put him downe and vsurpe the same Bishopricke or exercise the others office himselfe As Nouatianus did attempt in the time of Cornelius that then the sayd Fathers reconed them good Catholiques that did communicate with him that was so lawfully elected and the custome was one Primacie to haue adoe one with an other by congratulatory letters soone after the certeintie of their election was knowne to kéepe the vnitie of the Church And they that did take parte or maintaine that other vsurper to be Shismatiques bicause that vsurper was a Schismatique for that Quia non sit fas in eadem Ecclesia duos simul esse episcopos nec priorem legittimum Episcopum sine sua culpa deponi That it is not lawfull for two Bishoppes to bée at once together in one Church Nor that the former Bishop béeing lawfull ought to be deposed guiltlesse without his fault bee proued And this is not a prerogatiue of Rome Church more than of any other cathedrall speciall patriarchall or metropoliticall Church as appeareth in the third Epistle of the first booke and in the eight of the second and of the fourth booke of S. Cypriane to Cornelius Whose woordes and reasons all that peraduenture might séeme to conclude the vnitie of the Church in the vnitie of the Biship of Rome bicause they were all written to him in his owne case may as wel be written to and of any other Bishop lawfully chosen possessed who percase should bée likewise disturbed by any factions of ambitious heretickes as the Bishops of Rome then were And where ye thinke the name of Supreame head vnder Christ giuen attributed to the kings Maiestie maketh an innouation in the church perturbation of the order of the same it cannot be any innouation or trouble to the church to vse the roume that God hath called him too which good Christiā Princes did vse in the beginning when faith was most pure as Sainct Augustine ad Gloriam Eleusium saith Ait enim quidam Non debuit Episcopus pro consulari iudicio purgari quasi verò ipse sibi hoc comparauerit ac non Imperator ita quaeri iusserit ad cuius curam de qua rationē Deo redditurus esset res illa maximè pertinebat One ther is which saith that a Bishop ought not to haue bene put to his purgation before the iudgement seate of the deputie as though he himselfe procured it and not rather the Empeyour himselfe caused this inquirie to bée made to whose iurisdiction for the which he must aunswere to God that cause did especially perteine Chisostome writeth of that imperiall authoritie thus Laesus est qui non habet parem vllum super terram summitas caput est omnium hominum super terram Hée is offended that hath no péere at all vpon the earth for he is the highest potentate and the heade of all men vpon earth And Tertulianus ad Scapulum saith Colimus ergo imperatorem sic quo modo nobis licet ipsi expedit vt nominē à Deo secundū quicquid est à Deo cōsequntū solo Deo minorem hoc enim ipse volet sic enim omnibus maior est dum solo vero Deo minor est Idē in Apologetico de Imperatoribus capite 30. loquēs ait Sciunt quis illis dederit imperium sciunt qui homines qui animas sentiunt eum Deū esse solum in cuius solius potestate sunt à quo sunt secundi post quē primi ante omnes super omnes Deos. We so honour reuerence the Emperour in such wise as is lawfull to vs expedient to him that is to say as a man next the second to God of whom is deriued all the power he hath but yet inferiour to God alone for so is it his pleasure to haue it For thus is he greater thā all men while hée is inferiour but to God alonely And the sayd Tertulianus in his booke Apologetical speaking of Emperours They knowe who hath giuen to thē their gouernement they know what men they be themselues vnderstanding they haue of mans soules but so that they perceiue that God is he alone vnder whose onely power they be take themselues as second to God after whom they bée the chiefe before other aboue all the Gods Theophilactus ad Romanos super ilud Omnis onima potestatibus sublimioribus subdita sit Ait apostolū hic vniuersos erudire siue sacerdos sit ille siue Monachus siue Apostolus vt se principibus subdat Let euery soule be subiect to the higher powers Hoc est Etiam si Apostolus sis Etiam si Euangelista etiā si Propheta aut quisquis postremò fueris Non enim subuertit pietatem haec ●ubiectio Et non simpliciter Parcat inquit sed subdita sit That is ▪ although thou art an Apostle although an Euangelist although a Prophet or whatsoeuer thou art be subiect for this subiection ouerthroweth no godlinesse And he saith not onely let him obey but let him bée subiect And if the Apostles be subiect to princes much more al bishops

to obey his Prince by the doctrine of Saint Peter in hys first Epistle saying Subiecti estote omni humanae creaturae propter Deum siue regi quasi praecellenti siue ducibus tanquam ab eo missis ad vindictam malefactorum laudem vero bonorum Be ye subiect to euery mans ordinaunce for the Lords sake whether to the king as to the chiefe whether to the dukes as sent of him to the punishment of the euill doers to the prayse of the good Againe Saint Paul. Omnis omnia potestatibus sublimioribus subdita sit with other things before alleaged So that this his pretended vsurpation to be aboue all kings is directly againste the Scriptures giuen to the Churche by the Apostles whose doctrine whosoeuer ouerturneth can be neyther Caput nor Infimum membrum Ecclesiae Wherefore albeit ye haue héeretofore sticked to the said wrongfully vsurped power moued therto as ye write by your conscience yet sithens now ye sée further if ye list regard the méere truth and such auncient authours as you haue bene written to off in times past we would exhort you for the wealth of your soule to surrender into the Bishop of Romes handes your red hat by which he seduced you trusting to haue of you béeing come of a noble bloode an instrument to aduaunce his vayne glory wherof by the sayd hat he made you participant to allure you thereby the more to his purpose In which doing yée shall retourne to the truthe from which you haue erred doe your duetie to your souereigne Lord from whom ye haue declined and please thereby almightie God whose lawes ye haue transgressed And in not so doing ye shall remaine in errour offending both almightie God and your naturall souereigne Lorde whome chiefely ye ought to search to please Which thing for the good minde that we héeretofore haue borne you we pray almightie God of his infinite mercy that you do not Amen AT LONDON Imprinted by H. B. ¶ The maner and meanes of the Popes beginning Like as THe Iuie budde which from the beake of Iay Falles to the ground a thing of moment small By some kinde meanes at first is clad in clay Then taketh roote and after ginnes to scrall In groueling wise vpon the slipprie grounde And smoothly so with leaues and tenders softe Holdes on the course till some strong tree bee founde Through whose stoute helpe it may climbe vppe alofte Thereto it commes and at the lowest foote Takes holde of barke and body doth embrace And feeling then increase of sappe and root Doth still climbe vppe and windeth to the face Of that same tree and girds it in so faste As Iuie lyues but tree is killde at laste Euen so the Pope By warrant small or none at all to find In sacred writte in humble flattring wise At firste did seeke to please the hawtie minde Of Christian Kings by whome he sought t'arise And cleauing so vnto that mightie stay Lifte vppe himselfe into his stately throne And by degrees hath got the rule and sway Of al the world and subiect is to none Not so content doth counterchecke the Lord Whose Vicar sole on earth he claymes to be To Christian Kings no rule he will afforde For all is his and none must rule but he And so the prop whereby he got his strength He would confound and ouerthrow at length Euen like a Pope How proue you that Thus COnstantinus which the Monarchie did holde Of Christendome an Emperoure full good Gaue to the Pope who then might be controlde A sorte of lands which did exalt his bloude But warely yet preuenting Prelates pride Did call his gifte the patrimon of Church Till afterwardes the Papistes do decide That title and to giue the troth a lurche They by that sparke do kindle first their fire Whereby they claime dominion of the Weast And then likewise to place the Pope the higher They seeke which way to breed the Prince vnrest And Iuie like would wrap in homage bande The mightie Prince which gaue him first that lande In subtile wise For Steuchus writes in flattry of the Pope Gainst Valla that th'Emperour did giue To Rome the landes of all the Westerne scope And he himselfe euen whiles that Pope did liue Did graunt the Pope to be the greater state And therevpon is ordred by decree Rome to be chiefe and haue no earthly mate And that the Pope must rule and none but hee In matters of Religion forsooth Nor other King hee will not there vouchsafe Bicause his sacred sword eache wrong must smooth And thus both swordes you see the Pope will haue And Iuie like paste shame doth pull adowne Th' empire great that gaue to him renowne In wonted guise Once is no custome Then another touching the Charitie of the Pope ALexander the thirde of that same name Succeeded Adrian that was callde the fourth Whome Fredrike erst that Emperour of fame Lovde well and gaue him gifts of greatest worth But Wealth made Pride and Pride did cause the beast To swell in minde and beare himselfe so high As of the reste hee made the Emprour leaste And thought himselfe an ace aboue the skie Good Fredrike then repenting of his deede Thought good t' abase a beast that so coulde rage And thrust him out of Germany with speede The Prelates pride and peoples wrath t' asswage The Priest doth storme and sweares he will requite Th'Emprours acte with sword and cruell spight If he were Pope And Pope hee was and then immediatly The smothring heat thrust forth a frantike fire His cursed Buls against this Prince doe fly With roughest rage to quenche the Popes desire The Pope doth cause th' Italians to rebell And for to builde the Citie of great fame Of Alexandrîa bycause he would expell The Prince himselfe and tooke the Cities name Not so content at Venice afterwarde Th'Emprour is where Pope through passing pride Alonely not vilependes the Prince nor sparde In worde and deede from modestie to slide But caused him full humblie to kneele downe And with his foote stroke off the Royall Crowne VVhen he was Pope The vvorst is saide ¶ The liues of .ij. Popes vz. Alexander the second and Gregorie the seauenth THen hearken to the best which I wil wright plainely bycause the fewer exceptions shall be taken and also bycause in one Glasse thou maiste sée the liues of many Popes or at least the mischiefes which abound in manye of them And yet I wil but briefly touch the blacke vertues of one Pope to witte Gregorie the seauenth which before was called Hildebrandus by his nation an Hetruscan by his Countrey of Senensis by his sect a Monk of Cluniacensis But to shew him the playner I muste begin with his Predecessor Alexander the second whom the same Hildebrand did both electe and ouerthrow thereby to make himselfe Pope THis Alexander the seconde Pope of that name by his countrey a Millionese and Bishop of Lucensis was named before he came

Maister G.L. and the other two for Maister I.B. sent thē by Sir P.S. who also requested of the receiuers to haue saide a Pater noster for his fathers soule another for his mothers the third for himselfe with whiche if also they will adde one for me who am partely causer of the sending of them to thē I P.S. hope to requite it euery graine yéeldeth a thousande dayes of pardon The other loose beads were sent to other friends to like purpose but howe muche affiaunce both the sender and receiuer do attribute to these baggages wer both too long too shamefull to write but at the least they yéelde more dayes of pardon in one yeare than there be natural daies in two yeres 14 These are likewise hallowed graines sente ouer with promise of infinite dayes of pardon to al those whiche wil buy them 15 The Popes common Seale to al Bulles To which purpose Christe with his bloude hath bought vs not with golde The Pope for gaine both Christe and vs dothe sell. My life saith Christ to saue your liues was solde My trashe saith Pope will kéepe you all from Hell. Lament your sinnes saith Christe and followe me My pardons saith the Pope must set you frée My Kingdome is not of this worlde saith Christe Let him that woulde be chiefe be made your thrall Upon the earth saith Pope I am the highest The fullnesse of my power includeth all Nowe if the Pope and Christe do thus agrée Howe can the Pope on earth Christs Uicar bée Legatus and Apostolus are one In sense I meane they differ but in tongue Christ had but twelue apparantly is known The Pope forsooth hath such a shameful throng As euery King he can salute with one And yet he wanteth not a beaste at home And of the twelue that Christs had here on earth One traitorlike was euer gladde of golde And he beganne and since Christs pretious deathe Euen Iudas-like these Prelates aye haue solde The merites of his agony and smarte And say oure health consisteth in their arte Well Christs Apostles were poore Fishermen And taught the worlde the sacred worde of life And for their paines were whipped nowe and then Some stoande to death and some were kilde with knifes His Saincts were slaine for that they blamed sinne They preached Truth and spent their liues therein The Popes are Lordes and mates with euery King They come from him that neuer felte no want They take good golde for al the trash they bring They must haue store they care not who haue skant His Saintes are such as séeke their Princes spoile Their countries sacke and conquest of the soyle Shewe one such I pray you The Diu'lish Monke that poysoned King IOHN Doth prooue alas this Tragedie too true The Mayde of Kente may well come forth for one That sought to change our Hony into Rue But as they sought so God that is most iust Did yéeld them méede and will do still I trust And howe The Monke THe heartes of Kings are in the hande of God Their rule and powre are lent them by the Lorde The Tyrant stout is but his scourge and rod The godlie Prince also he doth avorde Where he doth please and straightly hath appointed No violent hande to touch the Lordes annointed This Monke forsooth that Symon Swynsted hight A Swine in déed and quite deuoyde of grace When that King Iohn had broughte this Realme in plight From Rebelles rage to somewhat better cace In doubt the King who in that Abbey lay Should touch their state deuisde this wicked way I wil ꝙ he vnplace this cruell King And ridde hys life thoughe I do die therefore For why sayth he it is a worthy thing For one to die to saue a number more I can but die and die I will herein And kill my selfe a Martyrs name to win Then goth he to the greasie Abbot straight And breakes to him the treason in his thought Who wéepes for ioy and nowe concludes the baight Whereby alas this Regicide is wrought The Monke will die to kill his liege and King The Abbot eke absolues him of the thing And thus absolvde the Monke and Abbot parte Forthwith the Monke doth to a garden go And there beginnes experience of his arte He takes a Tode and beats and prickes it so As that same Tode through rigor of the paine Casts vp his gorge wherewith the King is slaine The same he puts into a cuppe of wine And to the King he commes with smiling cheare My Liege saith he here is a draft so fine As like to it thou neuer drankest yeare I will beginne accept it at my hande This washaile shall be ioyous to thy lande The Monke therewith did drinke a hartie draught And humbly gaue the rest vnto the King Who dranke the same whereby his death he caught A wicked déede and lamentable thing A miser Monke with smooth and smiling showe To kil a King the Lords annointed so This deadly drinke on either side thus tane The Monke vnto the Farmorie doth go His guts do swell his belly breakes in twaine A death too good for him that liued so To slaye hymselfe thereby to kill his King A traytrous déede and detestable thing The King also a thrée dayes after that Gaue vp his life to liue with God aboue The Abbot and the Monkes whiche ioyed thereat Concluded then that for the constant loue The murdrer bare to them in doing this Their Popishe aide should bring his soule to blisse And graunted by decrée in Chapter Courte Thrée other Monkes continually to sing For his swéete soule that did preuent the hurte Of them and theirs by poysoning the King So as by massing meane the Diuell must misse The earthly Diuel whiche durste accomplishe this Lo double murder is absolued here A Thiefe doth kill himselfe his King to slay The holy Monkes herewith not only beare But make a meane to take this sinne away Thoughe God doth saye full plaine Thou shalt not kill The Pope doth say againe He did not ill If God and Pope herein not disagrée Then ayre and earth are both in nature iuste But from suche Popes the faithfull flocke are frée Which in the death of Christ alonely truste Triumph oh God beate backe thy foes againe And graunte our Quéene long dayes and good to raigne AMEN IF other men be of my nature and conceite then surely in reading this short repetall of the destruction of king Iohn they are in double wise perplexed the first for that a noble king after many battel 's fought with forraine foes many conflicts with his nobilitie set againste him by the Pope many cursses and excommunications pronounced against him by the Pope himselfe shoulde nowe at laste bée murdered by a foule fatte false flattering Monke And the second for that the same Diuel incarnate must to the delusion of the world and to make a path way to teach the practise of Prince murthur be in a

to be hir ghostly father by Gods appoyntmente and by conspiracie twixte him and hir caused hir still to persist and abide in the practising of hir saide false hypocrisie and dissimuling traunces and raptes and that she shuld surmise to the people that when she was in such dissimuled alteration of hir sensible partes of hir body that she was then rapt by Almighty God from the affections of this worlde and told by the holy spirit of God many things that should follow to the world for punishmente of sinnes of the Princes and the people And that she shoulde saye that she was muche prouoked and tempted as well to the sinne of the fleshe as otherwise by hir ghostly Enimie the Deuill at diuers and sundry times in diuers and sundry fashions and yet neuerthelesse that she by the grace of God was preserued and stedfastly resisted such temptations By occasion of whiche counsell and procuremente of the sayde Edwarde Bocking the sayde Elizabeth by continuance of time toke such a courage vpon hir that she falsely fayned and sayde that she had many reuelations of Almighty God and hys Sainctes wyth heauenly lightes heauenly voyces heauenly melodyes and ioyes and specially in a Chappell of Saint Giles in the sayde Nonnerie to the which Chappell she oftentimes resorted to receyue visions and reuelations as commanded by God as she falsely reported and specially by nighte saying that the Dorture dore was made open vnto hir by Gods power vttering the same as well to the sayde Edwarde Bocking as diuers other persons by which hir false feyned reuelations and cloked hypocrisie she was reputed amongst diuers people of this Realme to be a very holy woman enspired with God where indéede she had neuer vision or reuelation from God as she hathe playnely and openly confessed hir selfe And therefore hir stealing forth of the Dorture by night which was once or twice wéekelie was not for spirituall businesse nor to receyue reuelations of God but rather for bodily communication and pleasure with hir sayd ghostly father and other hir friends which coulde not haue so good leysure and oportunitie with hir by day And for a perpetuall memorie of the sayd fayned and dissimuled hipocrisie and false reuelations of the sayd Elizabeth the sayd Edward Bocking Richard Mayster and Iohn Diring a Monke in the sayd Monasterie of Christes Church aforesayde made writte and caused to be written sundry Bookes both greate and small both Printed and written concerning the particularities of the sayde false and feyned hipocrisie and reuelations of the sayde Elizabeth or the defence or greate prayse of the same amongst the which one Pamphlet conteyning foure and twentie leaues penned I wote not by what doltish dreamer Printed by Robert Redman entituled A maruellous worke of late done at Courte of streete in Kente and published as is pretended to the deuoute people of that time for their spirituall consolation was one in the whych was founde the very firste beginning to haue bin as aforesayde so farre as the premisses tende any thing at all to the credit of the sayd Elizabeth Barton but the rest amōgst a number more were founde out by the greate wisedome of the sayde late Kyng HENRIE and hys politique Counselloures for the better safegard of the sayde King and tranquilitie of hys Realme and Subiectes the subuersion and destruction of the whyche was all that thys feyned hypocrisie pretended of the whyche I will yet rehearse a Pageante or two more and make an ende There is further amongst the sayde false and feyned reuelations surmised by the sayde Elizabeth and put in writing in dyuers Bookes by the false conspiracie meanes and procurement of the sayde Edwarde Bocking Richarde Mayster Iohn Dering and other their complices expressed that the Deuill shoulde appeare to the sayde Elizabeth in dyuers fashions sometimes lyke a man wantonly apparelled sometymes lyke a Birde deformed and sometime otherwise and that Mary Magdalene shoulde often appeare to the sayde Elizabeth and reueale to hir many reuelations and at one tyme shoulde delyuer to hir a Letter written in Heauen parte whereof was limned wyth golden letters where in déede the selfesame Letters were written by the hande of a Monke of Saincte Augustines in Canterburie named Hawkherst and so approued and confessed There was also written and conteyned amongst the sayde false and feyned myracles and reuelations that when the Kings hyghnesse was at Caleys in the enteruiew betwéene hys Maiestie and the Frenche Kyng and hearing Masse in the Churche of our Lady at Caleys that God was so displeased wyth the Kings highnesse that hys grace saw not in the tyme of the Masse the blessed Sacramente in forme of bread for it was taken away from the Priest béeyng at Masse by an Angell and ministred to the sayde Elizabeth béeyng there presente and inuisible and suddaynely conueyed agayne and rapt thence by the power of God into the saide Nonnerie where she is professed with many other false feyned fables and tales deuised conspired and defended by the sayd Elizabeth and hir sayde accomplices to the vtter reproche and perill of destruction of the Kings person his honoure name and fame meaning thereby to bring hys Maiestie into a grudge and euill opinion of hys people and so to cause a generall insurrection to the vtter subuersion of this noble Realme But God whiche holdeth the enimie of Man and Prince of darkenesse the Deuill hymselfe and father of falsehode in suche compasse as he can not passe one heares breadth beyonde hys limittes checketh nowe the reine of these most wicked imaginations in suche sorte as they are quite ouerthrowne in theyr owne deuises maugre the Pope and all theyr Popishe comforters and accordyng to due deserte euerie offendour punished as the qualitie of theyr offence deserued for euery deuice was deciphered the hipocrite and hyr comforters bewrayed the deceyued people fullie satisfyed these daungerous deceyuers worthily executed and the Deuill their mayster quite and cleane confounded and that triumphant King HENRIE the eyght lyued and raigned many yeares after in hys regall Throne wyth greate conquest ouer hys Enimies and to the vtter ouerthrowe of the Pope hymselfe and all suche false Dreamers and dyed the Seruante of GOD in fayre age when it pleased the Almightie to ende hys fatall file in perfite memorie and quiete deathe and leafte behynde hym amongst other his famous Children oure dredde and soueraigne Lady Queene ELIZABETH to treade downe the Pope and all hys Papisticall ▪ and phantasticall practises and to rule and directe thys hyr Realme and hyr louing subiectes thereof in the righte and true Religion of oure Sauioure Iesus Christe wyth suche quietnesse in gouernemente and suche defence from forrayne foes as no man liuing hathe séene nor any Chronicle recordeth the lyke wherein I beséech the Lorde long to continue hir to the glory of GOD and ouerthrow of Antechrist And now to the merrie miracles of the holy Mayde of Kent BY

aucthoritie of both the swordes c. By this sayde Pope Boniface diuerse constitutions extrauagants of his predecessors were collected togither wyth many of his owne newly added thereto and so made the booke called Sextus decretalium c. By whome also firste sprang vp pardons and indulgences from Rome These things thus premised of Boniface the Pope nowe will I come to the cause of the strife betwéene him and the French King concerning which matter first I finde in the historie of Nicholas Triuet that in the yeare of our Lord. 13●1 the Bishop of Oppanaham being accused for a conspiracie against the French King was brought vp to his Course and so committed to prison The Pope hearing this sendeth worde to the king by his Legate to set him at libertie The Frenche king not daring to the contrarie looseth the Bishop but when he had done he discharged both the Bishoppe and the Legate commaunding them to auoyde his realme Wherevpon Pope Boniface reuoketh al the graces priuileges graūted either by him or his predecessours before to the kingdome of Frāce also not long after thundreth out the sentence of his curse against him And moreouer he citeth al the prelates al diuines and lawyers both ciuil common to appeare personally before him at Rome at a certaine day which was the firste of Nouember Against thys citation the king againe prouideth and commaundeth by streyght proclamation that no manner of person should export out of the realme of Fraunce eyther golde or siluer or any other maner of ware or Merchandise vpon forfeyting all their goods and their bodies at the kings pleasure prouiding withall that the wayes and passages were so diligently kept that none might passe vnsearched Ouer and besides that the sayd French king did defeyte the Pope in giuing and bestowing prebends and benefices and other ecclesiasticall liuings otherwayes than stoode with the Popes profite For the which cause the Pope writeth to the foresayd king in forme and effect as followeth Boniface Bishop and seruant to Gods seruants to his vvelbeloued sonne Philip by the grace of God King of Fraunce greeting and Apostolicall blessing BOniface the seruaunt of Gods seruaunts c. Feare God obserue his commandements We will thée to vnderstande that thou arte subiecte to vs both in spirituall and temporall things and that no gift of benefices or prebends belongeth vnto thée and if thou haue the kéeping of any being vacant that thou reserue the profites of them to the successors But if thou haste giuen any we iudge the gifte to be voide and call backe howe farre soeuer thou haste gone forwarde And whosoeuer beléeueth otherwise we iudge them Heretikes Vnto which letter of the Pope King Philip maketh aunsvvere againe in manner and order as followeth which is thus Phillip by the grace of God King of Fraunce to Boniface not in deedes behauing himselfe for Pope little friendshippe or none TO Boniface bearing himselfe for chiefe Bishop little health or none Let thy foolishnesse know that in temporall things we are subiect to no man that the giftes of prebendes many benefices made and to be made by vs were and shall be good both in time past and to come And that we wil defend manfully the possessors of the said benefices and we thinke them that beléeue or thinke otherwise fooles and mad men Giuen at Paris this Wednesdaye after Candlemasse Anno ▪ 1301. ¶ Thus muche for Fraunce I haue thoughte sufficient to expresse althoughe there are more to finde and common to euerye viewe And nowe for SCOTLANDE I will only set downe an Oration made by a Scottishe Byshop to the King of Scottes 373. yeares since in these wordes HOwe be it sundrie things presentely occurreth which affrayeth me to shew such maters as are preiudial to the common wealth yet most noble Prince when I consider thy humanitie fayth constancie giuen to nothing more than defence and welth of thy lieges I cannot ceasse for the action of common libertie to shewe the sooth For sithens the tyrannie is intollerable which is exercised by Kings or Princes descending of lineal succession to their kinglie heritage much more is the tyrannie insufferable when it is exercised on vs by men of vile and obscure linage Therfore if the sundry and manifest wrongs done to vs these many yéeres by-gon had come by the Popes mind they were to be suffred in some maner But sithens līmers of vile obscure linage which are promoted to benefices for their horrible vices haue not only interdicted our realme without any cōmission but haue spēded in their corrupt vices the money that they gathered in our countrey by the Popes authoritie for raysing of armies against the Turks I think their cursed auarice should haue no further place amongst true people specially amongst vs bicause they haue our simplicities and méeknesse in conteption Thrée yeares passed ye complained the iniuries done by Cardinal Guallo when he held your realme interdicted and many of all your Prelates vnder curssing bicause they woulde not aunswere him money to susteyne his lustes Moreouer this Guallo was so perillous a fountaine of all iniquitie and vice that howe be it he was sente to treate concorde betwixt Englishmen and Scottes yet by his ●uarice he gaue such occasion of battayle as both the realmes had not their hatred bene the more hastily pacifie 〈◊〉 inuaded ech other to their vtter destruction And sith 〈◊〉 these things be apparant what néedeth them to be remembred to your displesure Moreouer after we wer exonerate of Guallo came in his place another Legate of no better life but rather worse For when he had gotten large money for redemption of prisoners and raysing of newe armies againste the Turkes he spendeth it all in his insolence and fayned that it was stolne by théeues and briggens Therefore sithence we haue experience of so many wicked and heauye damagies done to vs by these two Legates afore rehearsed we shal be reputed miscreant fooles to admitte the third For it is not to be beléeued that this newe Legate shal be of better conditions than his fellowes were before And if anye man shal demaunde me what is to be done in this matter I say neyther this Legate nor yet any other Legate in time comming shoulde be receyued within this realme bycause the same is heriot and wasted of money by their continuall exactions If any of you haue superfluous money you maye rather dispose it to poore folke ▪ than to such corrupted vse of vicious Legats Finally these wordes are so apprysed by the counsell that this Legate was not admitted to come within the realme of Scotlande King Alexander the thirde woulde not receiue the Legate of Pope Clement the fourth within his realme but commaunded to shew his message on the borders He would not receiue certaine statutes made by him in his voyage right profitable for the gouernance of the Scots to whome king Alexander aunswered The Scots would not receiue any statutes