as was brought vp vnder them In other Colledges they know not what it meant to instruct schollers how to murther kings and specially in ours But in the Iesuits Colledges it is contrarie and preached in their owne assemblies nothing so much as that alone Of the which indéed they were but too prodigall in their sermons These words are set downe in the Iesuites Catechisme Lib. 3. cap. 8. fol. 155. When our Iesuites saw themselues remoued from their princes fauour they began to lay a snare to intrappe him And as their societie is composed of all sorts of people some for the penne others for practise so had they amongst them one father Henry Sammier of Luxenburge a man disposed for all affaires and resolued to any hazard This fellow was sent by them in the yeare 1581. towards diners Catholike princes to sound the fourd And to say truly they could not haue chosen one more fit For he disguised himselfe into as manie formes as obiects one while attired like a souldier an other while like a priest by and by a countrey swaine Dice cards and women were as ordinarie with him as his presired houres of prayer saying he did not thinke he sinned in this because it was done to Gods glory and that he miâ—â—t not be discouered changing his name together with his habite according to the countries where he purposed to negotiate These words are to be read in the Catechisme Lib. 3. cap. 11. Fol 162. William Crichton the Iesuite went into Spaine by the licence of his generall Whither he is no sooner come but he practiseth to infinuate himselfe into the kings fauour And to that effect drawes a tree of the descent and pedegree of the Infanta his daughter shewing therein that the Crownes of England Scotland did by right appertaine to her and so incite him the rather to take armes against the Scottish king hee scattered abroad diffamatorie libels against him Whereunto the king of Spayne giuing no eare Crichton determined with himselfe by letters to sollicite the Catholike Nobilitie of Scotland to the same purpose and to that ende wrote letters in the yeare 1592. to Gourdon and other Iesuites remaining in Scotland whereby hee gaue them to vnderstand in what grace he was with the king who by his incitement was resolued aswell for the inuasion of England as for the restoring of the auncient Religion in Scotland These words are in the Iesuites Catechisme Lib. 3. cap. 16. fol. 173. Certaine young diuines infected with the poyson of the Iesuites loosed the reines to subiects against their king in the yeare 1589. and Commolet the Iesuite with his adherents sounded the trumpet of warre in their pulpets against the king deceased Whereupon insued those outragious disorders which we haue seene in France since that time These words are in yâ— Catechisme Li. 3. c. 14. fol. 169. Walpole the Iesuite in the yeare 1597. deliuered a poysonous confection to Squire therewith to make away the Queene of England his Soueraigne The Iesuites at Doway in the yeare 1598. sent the Cooper of Iper to kill Graue Maurice of Nassaw These wordes are set downe in the Iesuites Catechisme Lib. 3. cap. 13. fol. 168. It is well knowne O Iesuites that your Colledge was the fountaine and seminarie of all those calamities which we endured during the last troubles There was the rebellion plotted and contriued there was it fully and wholy nourished and maintained Your prouincials your rectors your deuout superiours were the first that troade that path they that first and last dealt with this merchandise Your Colledge was the retreat or Randeuous of all such as had vowed and sold themselues aswell to the destruction of the State as to the murther of the king In which your doings you at that time gloried and triumpht both in your sermons and lectures Sequitur this was the houre of Gods wrath who hauing long temporized with your sinnes thought it good to make Chastell a spurre in the hearts of the iudges to incite them to do iustice aswell vpon you as vpon him that you might all serue for an example for posteritie to wonder at To the accomplishment of this worke he permitted that Chastell who had beene nurtured and brought vp in your schoole should assay to put in practise your deuout lectures and exhortations against the king not in the countrey but in the citie of Paris and that his dwelling house should be not in any obscure corner of the towne but in the verie heart of the citie in a house right opposite to the gate of the pallace the ancient habitation of our kings and of the supreame and soueraigne iustice of Fraâ—nce This house belonged to the father who was so infortunate as not to reueale to the Magistrate the damnable intention of his sonne whereof hee had knowledge as himselfe confessed God made speciall choyse of that place of purpose to make the punishment more notorious For which cause this house was râ—â—nated and raced by order and in the place thereof a Pyâ—amis or piller raysed bearing the memoriall not onely of Chastels offence but of the Iesuites also and this to stand in opposite view of this great royall Pallace To the ende that our posteritie may knowe heereafter how highly Fraunce is beholden to this holy societie of Iesus These wordes are set downe in the Iesuites Catechisme Lib. 3. cap. 19. fol. 191. Note here gentle reader with me these important obseruations First that Iohn Chastell but 19. yeares of age went about trayterously with a knife prepared for that purpose to murther his naturall Soueraigne Secondly that hee the said youth was fully perswaded by Iesuiticall education and doctrine that to murther his liege Lord the King was the readie way to heauen Thirdly that nothing was more freely taught in the schooles of the Iesuites then the doctrine of the killing of lawefull kinges Fourthly that their sermons abounded with this kind of maladie Fiftly that the Iesuites imployed in this kind of marchandise one Henrie Sammier a most licentious dissolute villaine giuen to all vices vnder heauen Sixtly that he reputed all his vices for vertues in respect of his godly intents and purpose viz. Of killing Kinges Seuenthly that the Iesuite Crichton sollicited the Spanish King to inuade both England and Scotland affirming that the crownes of both the kingdomes did by right pertaine vnto him Eightly that the Iesuite Commolet and his adherents sounded the trumpet of warre against their king euen out of the pulpets â—s if it had beene an high point of diuinitie and most fit for edification Ninthly that the Iesuite Walpoole endeuoured by poyson to take away the life of his Soueraigne Tenthly that the Iesuites at Doway sent the Cooper of Iper to kill Graue Maurice of Nassaw Eleuently that the colledge of the Iesuites was the fountaine and seminarie of the calamities in France That in their colledge was all rebellion plotted coÌ„triued nourished maintained Twelftly that the prouincials rectors and
THE ANATOMIE OF POPISH TYRANNIE Wherein is conteyned a plaine declaration and Christian censure of all the principall parts of the Libels Letters Edictes Pamphlets and Bookes lately published by the Secular priests and English hispanized Iesuites with their Iesuited Arch-priest both pleasant and profitable to all well affected readers Esdr. vers 42. Magna est veritas praeualet LONDON Printed by Iohn Harison for Richard Bankworth dwelling in Paules Churchyard at the signe of the Sunne 1603. To the Reuerend father the ornament of learning and religion TOBIE the wise graue zealous and worthie Bishop of Durham THat excellent sentence worthie to be written in golden letters Right Reuerend father which the good Iew man of God Zorobabel pronounced confidently before the mightie king Darius viz. Magna est veritas praeualet is this day verified God be blessed for it euen in the publike writings of the Iesuites against the secular priests their owne deare Popish brethren And reciprocally of the secular priestes against the Iesuites their religious fathers and holy fryers The deepe and serious consideration whereof hath possessed mine heart with such vnspeakable solace as I can not easily with penne and ynke expresse the same Such is the force of truth my good Lord that it hath enforced the professed enemies of truth a thing verie rare and to be admired to testifie the truth against themselues and to publish the same in printed books to the view of the whole world God say the popish priests hath most straungely and in verie deed as it may be termed miraculously reuealed the truth which long hath beene hidden Thus them selues write of themselues Hence proceedeth that rare conceiued ioy which hath enuironed me on euerie side And which I am well assured cannot but bring great contentment to your Lordship and to all true hearted English subiects For as the Apostle saith Some preach Christ through enuie and strife and some of good will The one sort preacheth Christ of contention and not purely but the others preach him of loue What then yet Christ is preached all manner waies whether it be vnder pretence or syncerely and I therein ioy yea and will ioy Thus wrteth the chosen vessell of our Lord Iesus The Iesuites puffed vp with enuie and malice against the secular priests doe vnwittingly and vnwillingly bolt out many important truthes not onely against themselues and to their owne great preiudice but also to the euerlasting scandall and vtter ruine of theit patched hotch-potch late Romish religion The Secular priests turmoyled with the vniust vexations of the cruell Iesuites seeke by all aswell indirect as direct meanes to redeeeme their iniust molestations and to defend themselues from their villanous and diabolicall dealing The while they are thus busied they cannot inuent or deuise how to find out any end of their miseries but by laying open to the world the badde and irreligious conuersation of the Iesuites and by imputing to them those disloyall treacheries and most bloodie complots wherewith their owne hearts and hands had sometime beene imbrewed And consequently while they are encombred to disgrace and gall the malepeart and trayterous Iesuites they doe vnawares grieuously wound themselues euen with their owne chosen weapons They freely grant and can it not denie that all papists were kindly dealt withall vntill such time as themselues gaue iust cause by their disloyall plots and bloudie practises against her Maiestie of greater restraint and sharper proceeding against them For first they grant that the Earles of Northūberland Westmerlād with their adherēts were rebels their insurrectiō flat treasō that the pope ioyned with thē that he excōmunicated her Maiestie that he assoyled her subiects from their allegeance to her that he sent two popish priests Morton and VVebbe my selfe knew them both right well to bring the excommunication into England which they effected accordingly that the Pope assigned the Duke of Norfolke to be the head of the rebellion that he gaue order to Ridolphi the Florentine to take 150000 crownes to set forwarde the saide rebellion That the King of Spaine at the Popes instance determined to send the Duke of Alua into England that with all his forces he might assist the Duke of Norfolke Secondly they grant that the pope plotted with Stuckeley Fitzmo rize and others both English Irish and Italian my selfe was euen then in Rome for enterprise by force into Ireland vnder pretence of religion to further which cruell attempt Sanders did afterward thrust himselfe personally into the like action Thirdly they confesse that Parsons Campian Sherwin and others were sent disloyally into this land from pope Gregory the 13. my selfe was then in Rome and that Parsons presently vpon their arriuall fell to his trayterous Iesuiticall courses and bestirred himselfe with tooth and naile how he might set her maiesties crowne vpon an others heade Fourthly they confesse that the Iesuite Heywood was sent into Englād from the Pope that he tooke vpon him to call a synode and to abrogate auncient customes to the great scandall of many Fiftly they confesse that the Pope plotted with the King of Spaine for the assistance of the Duke of Guise to enter vpon the sodaine and to aduance the Queene of Scotland to the crowne of England For the better effecting whereof Mendoza a Iesuite as they write then ledger in this land for the king of Spaine set on worke Frances Throcmorton and many others They adde there vnto that about the same time Arden and Somervile had conspired how they might lay violent hands vpon her Maiesties sacred person Sixtly they write that about the same time Parrie was also plotting with the Iesuites beyond the sea how he might haue effected the like villanie Seuenthly they confesse freely that the earle of Northumberland was drawne into the plot of the Duke of Guise and that Parsons the bloudie Iesuite was him selfe an actor therein Eightly they write plainely that Babington and his complices committed such notorious treason against her maiestie as it was shameles boldnesse to deny or qualifie the same Ninthly they confesse roundly that Sir William Stanley committed notable treacherie falsified his faith to her maiesty Tenthly they write plainly that in the yeare 1588. the King of Spaine made a most cruell bloudie attempt not only against her Maiesty to vse the priests-words and their commō enemies but also against themselues all catholikes and their owne natiue countrey The memorie of which attempt as the priests write will be an euerlasting monument of Iesuiticall treason and brutish crueltie Eleuenthly they grant that Richard Hesket was set on by the Iesuites in the yeere 1592. or their abouts to haue stirred vp the Earle of Darbye to rebell against her maiestie Where I may not omit to deliuer mine owne knowledge in this behalfe This Hesket I knew very well in his life conuersation and professiō I
with many other circumstances concurring doe euidently conuince it to be see For to say that it hath not his name is too too vaine and friuolous for by that reason no man should be the author thereof because it hath no mans name To which I adde that it is not the wonted manner of Parsons to put his name to his bookes The secular priests haue truly vnfolded that secresie in their publike writings And Parsons himselfe vnawares reporteth no lesse in effect in this Apologie Well what doth Parsons call euill edification Richard Hadocke I am well assured spent his whole time or the greater part thereof subtracting time for sleeping eating and drinking in hawking hunting carding dicing and licentious liuing to say nothing of other more homely but lesse comely qualities Of which manner of liuing he was sufficiently admonished I know when where and by whom and can so decipher all the particulars thereof as himselfe shall neuer be able to denie the same I therefore conclude that when Parsons saith it is false c. The falshood proceedeth from his owne stinking mouth He indeed is the libeller though it please him to bestow that name on the seculars But such good fellowes as Haddocke must be maintained to bolster out master Parsons and his detestable treacheries For by his plotting to set the English Crowne on the Spanish Infantaes head he is become so familiar with the Spanish king and the Arch-dutchesse Isabella his sister that he is able with his word to set vp or pull downe all disloyall kil-princes in the world Who then dare write against him the seculars haue entered the combat and if they faile in the conflict a halter will be the end He séeketh by flatterie to make them yeeld and to bring them to submssion but if that be once done actum est de illis they must enter into glorie that is to say into the holy inquisition where there they must eyther remaine perpetuo or be bondslaues to Parsons and his Iesuited familie I might enlarge my selfe in discoursing vpon many other vntruâ—hs leasings falshoods and caluminiations published for truths in this scandalous and most disloyall Apologie But by these falshoods alreadie discoured it is apparant to all the world that no credite can be giuen to the words or writings of the notorious traytor Robert Parsons that bloodie Iesuite CHAP. V. Of Parsons his contradictions peremptorily vttered in his lewde Apologie Sect. I. Concerning traytors like himselfe and his confederates PArsons in one place of the Apologie hath these words for as the common saying is howsoeuer the treason be embraced yet the traytor is hated and contemned But in another place he hath these words what say you of my Lord Cardinall Allen his answere to the English iustice his defence of the twelue martyrs in one yeare his epistle for allowance of sir William Stanleyes rendring vp of Dauentry his declaration against her Maiestie and the present state in the yeare 1588. when the Armado was on the seas were these exasperating treatises or no and how then is father Parsons onely named by this man as though his writings onely were the cause of all exasperation Nay was there any man euer knowen to be particularly troubled hitherto for any booke written by father Pasons by name we are sure that neyther master Mush nor any of his can euer proue it These are the verie expresse words set downe in the Iesuiticall Apologie in the places quoted in the margent Out of which words the indifferent reader may obserue these important poyntes with me First a notable contradiction in wordes of the Iesuite Parsons who seemeth to repute himselfe the onely wiseman in the world For in the former place he telleth vs that howsoeuer the treason be embraced yet the traytor is hated and contemned But in the second place he singeth another song for he commendeth the notorious treason of sir William Stanley and defendeth him therein Secondly that all traytors which take part with the Pope and king of Spayne are well thought of and deemed right honest men It is euident in Sir William Stanley a man in great esteeme with them Thirdly that Cardinall Allen was a notorious traytor euen by the testimonie of the Iesuits though they will not grant so much in plaine termes For of the said Cardinall this Apologie affirmeth foure things as you haue heard First that he wrote against English iustice done vpon the seminaries Secondly that hee wrote in defence of the seminaries that were executed and affirmed them to be martyrs Thirdly that he iustified sir William Stanleys treasons and highly extolled him for the same Fourthly that he published a most traytorous booke against her Maiestie and the State in the yeare 1588. when the kings Armado was on the seas Adde hereunto for the complement that the seminaries who euer to this houre speake most reuerently of that Cardinall and did obey him during life at a becke could not but be vp to the eares in deepe treasons seeing the Cardinal himselfe was so forward in all the bloodie treacheries Sect. II. Of Parsons his letters written to Master Bishop THe Iesuite Parsons wrote a letter the ninth of October 1599. to master Bishop in Paris for answere as Persons pretendeth to certaine grieuous calumniations which master Bishop and master Charnocke had spread abroad the world of the hard and iniurious dealing vsed to them in Rome which were contrarie to all truth if the good Iesuites words were of any credit In one place of the said letter he hath these words Master Bishop it beeing now diuers moneths since you departed from hence and no one letter appearing yet from you nor from your friend master Charnocke it made vs maruell considering your promise at your departure In another place of the same letter he hath these words by a state letter which I receiued this weeke from you I perceiue c. These are the words of the Apologie In which words any man may easily behold a flat contradiction For in the former place he denieth the receit of any one letter but in the latter he granteth that he had receiued one stale letter The seculars haue charged him with this contradiction and he answereth that from May to Nouember is more then halfe a yeare in which time no letter was come from them contrarie to their promises vntill this present weeke This is the answere To which answere I reply in this manner I say first that when Parsons saith it is more then halfe a yeare from May to Nouember he is a lyar For from May to Nouember are onely fiue moneths and yet do 12. moneths concurre to the complement of one yeare Againe if he begin his supputation the first day of May which is to reckon from Aprill rather then from May yet is it but iust halfe a yeare and consequently Parsons affirming it to be more is still a lyar Secondly that his reckoning
substance made the same knowne vnto the world affirming generally that for their seditious and treacherous dealing they are wholy banished out of the kingdome of France and that by a publike decree of Parliament Hereof none be ignorant that shall throughly and duely peruse the Iesuits Catechisme and the Franke discourse lately set foorth by the Catholike Frenchmen in the french tongue and since translated into English by some of the Secular priests Fourthly because neither the Iesuits nor the Seculars do spare one another in catching and snatching the least aduantage that they can finde or picke out of their reciprocall writings so to reproach and giue the foyle one to another Fiftly because other English Secular priests lay-papists of best account beyond the seas seeing such endlesse contention betweene the Iesuits and the other priests and knowing the badde dealing of the Iesuits against them haue thought themselues bound in conscience to take part with the Seculars in England and thereupon haue written verie sharpely against the Iesuits on their behalfe Sixtly the same is proued by many inuincible reasons which the Reader shal find set down at large in the last section of the fift chapter of the fourth booke all which in regard of breuitie I heere omitt Againe the gentle reader must obserue seriously that though I do charge the seculars with treasonable practises and dissimulation in state-affairs haue proued the same out of their own bookes and writings in rigor of wordes yet will I not denie but they may haue a better meaning toward the state then their bare words externally seeme to insinuate purport For albeit they professe themselues wholy deuoted to the Pope do submit their bookes their writings their opinions and their own selues also to his censure yet do they seeme vtterly to dislike of many of his proceedings yet do they flatly condemne all English popish treasons yet do they renounce the doctrine of Sanders Allen Iesuits in state-matters of wars and kingdomes yet do they write plainly and resolutely that the Pope hath no power to depriue kings of their royal scepters regalities nor to giue away their kingdomes to another In which opinion likewise the French papists do concurre iump with them For though Cardinall Allen affirmed roundly that all papists were bound in conscience to ioyne with the Pope and his power in all maner of wars for religiō though also the secular priests do highly cōmend him for many respects yet doth it not follow of necessity but the seculars may take part with our soueraigne against the Pope fight on her side in defence of their natiue country as they professe to do in their bookes The reason hereof is this because the Seculars though they acknowledge the Popes power supereminent in spiritualibus yet do they disclaime from it in temporalibus when he taketh vpon him to dispose kings of their Empires and to translate their kingdomes Thirdly the gentle reader must obserue seriously that howsoeuer the seculars may be doubted and suspected to dissemble or equiuocate in state-affaires which are not articles of popish faith yet may we safely beleeue them and securely giue credit to their words and writings whensoeuer and how often soeuer they speake write or deliuer their opinions in matters of popish faith and doctrine For to make equiuocation lawfull euen in popish manner of proceeding these three things must all concurre or else it may not stand First the matter must not be an article of popish faith Secondly it must bee before an incompetent iudge Thirdly it must be in a matter of moment as to redeeme ones vniust vexation and the like Fourthly the gentle Reader must obserue seriously that the secular priests acknowledge themselues bounde in conscience to detect the Iesuits to the vttermost For these are their owne words all priests and others that are not of that seditious Iesuiticall and Spanish faction are bound in charitie as now the case stands to detect them to the vttermost First for a caueat to the ignorant multitude seduced by them hereafter to beware of them Secondly per legemtalionis returning their malice detraction defamation calumniation obloquie and what not inuented by them against the innocent vpon their owne heads thus it is written verbatim Quodl 1. art 4. pag. 9. the Reader must likewise obserue that the seculars confesse treason to be now by Iesuiticall proceeding linked inseperably with Priesthood For these are their owne words The execution of Priesthood and treason are now so linked together by the Iesuites in England as they cannot exhort any to the Catholike faith but Dogmatizando in so doing they draw him in effect to rebellion thus it is written quodl 9. art 4. p. 304. The Reader must further obserue that the Secular priests know where the Iesuits vsually reside where their walkes are and with whom they doe conuerse For these are their owne words which of the Iesuits hath hitherto beene in danger of apprehension by our means and yet we know all or most of their residences in England their walkes I am sure he will say that if we were so lewdly disposed we would beginne with them first Thus is it written verbatim in the replie to Parsons libell fol. 57. a. in fine The reader must yet further obserue that the English penall lawes are iustly made against the Iesuites For these are their owne words vntill at last they were intangled by penall lawes which were iustly made against them equally as against the Iesuites thus it is written verbatim in the Preface to the Quodlibets towards the end of the sixt page And when the gentle reader hath well obserued all these foure points first that the Secular priests are bound in conscience to detect the Iesuites to the vttermost secondly that treason is inseparable to Iesuitical practises can no way be seuered from them thirdly that the Seculars know the walkes of the Iesuits the persons with whom they conuerse and the houses where they reside Fourthly that the seculars acknowledge and willingly confesse the penall lawes of this Realme to be iustly made against the Iesuites then may he rightly informe himselfe therewith and constantly hold this opinion as built vpon a sure and sounde foundation viz. that if the secular priestes be indeede as they write sincerely and loyally affected to her maiestie and fully resolued to spend their liues and best bloud in their bodies in defence of her sacred person and of their natiue countrey against the King of Spaine the Pope and the Iesuites then doubtles they will make knowne those disloyall persons who haue cōspired with the Iesuites in their bloudie treacheries the persons who haue and still doe harbour aide and releiue them the persons that haue deuoted and consecrated themselues to the king of Spaine the Pope and the Iesuites against their naturall soueraigne and deare countrie Then doubtlesse they will disclose to her maiestie the howses where the traytorous Iesuites
their owne doctrine if their supposall were graunted Which they disloyally auouch like arrant traytors as their fellow priests rightlie terme them yet were prescription sufficient in that behalfe Thirdly that they haue offered huge masses of gold and money so to allure men domestical or forraine to the cruel murder and bloudie massacre of our gracious soueraigne most noble Queene Elizabeth If papists themselues had not thus written my selfe could hardly haue beleeued it Preamble XVIII Of Obedience which must be giuen to the Pope against all kinges Princes and monarches of the world IN all warres which may happen for religion euery Catholike man is bound in conscience to imploy his person and forces by the Popes direction viz. how farre when and where eyther at home or abroad he may and must breake with his temporall soueraigne This doctrine was laid downe for a ground in iustifying Sir William Stanleyes disloyall treacherie against his naturall and annointed Soueraigne in the yeare 1587. These words are set downe in the important considerations Page 23. 24. and they are granted of the Iesuites Apol. 172. Sée the fourth booke and fift chapter and note the words Note heere gentle Reader these important points with me First that all Kings Queenes and Monarches of the Christian world are by this popish Maxime and Iesuiticall ground brought into the bondage and slauery of the Bishop of Rome and must be his slaues and vnderlings to doe what pleaseth him Secondly that the Secular priests who vnwittingly haue deliuered this doctrine against themselues are guiltie of the same treacherie with the Iesuites though not perhaps in the same degree For seeing the seculars doe professe their obedience to the Pope in euerie thing and do withall submit both themselues and all their writings to his holy censure as is to be seene at large in this discourse they must needes approoue and like well of this most traiterous doctrine because the Pope liketh and approoueth the same Thirdly that all the Papist in England which ioyne with the Iesuites who are verie many doe obstinâ—tely embrace this Iesuiticall doctrine and so are guiltie of high treason Preamble XIX Of the King of Spayne his purpose and intent against England THat the new king regnant in Spaine plotteth by Iesuiticall faction and resolueth to proceed where his father left against England it is most apparant by the present action in Ireland as also by sundrie of father Parsons subiects sent hither to be agents on the Spanish behalfe for that purpose All which doe conuince the Iesuiticall hispanized faction of falshoode hypocrisie sedition and treason and that it is not religion which the king present careth for more then his father did before him but maketh that onely a pretence to seduce all Catholikes and to draw them to rebellion hoping thereby to haue their spéedier aide and assistance making them and you all deare Catholiks to cut one anothers throate These words are set downe in the preface to the important considerations in the fourth leafe therof Note heere gentle Reader that the Iesuites bend all their thoughts words and actions to stirre vp rebellion and bloodie trecherie euerie where as also that the king of Spayne now regnant is as readie as was his father afore him to effect both in Ireland and in England all bloodie practises which the high counsell of Iesuiticall reformation shall designe and appoint to be done Preamble XX. Of the Iesuiticall hotch-potch Religion IT is a plaine testimonie of no religion in the Iesuites but flat Atheisme making religious pietie but onely amutter of meere pollicie by sending forth trumpetters to sound out their and Blackwels vertues quodl 6. art 4. pag. 168. The Iesuites haue made religion but an art of such as liue by their wits and a verie hotch-potch of emâ—â—m gâ—â—herum quodlibet 2. art 8. pag. 42. The Iesuites are to be marked out for the most malitious traiterous and irreligious calumniators that euer liued on earth vnworthie that euer the earth should heare them and it is an intollerable indignitie to the whole Church of GOD that euer such wicked members should liue vnpunished in her as they doe Quodlibet 4. art 2. page 99. Note heere gentle Reader these important points with me First that these good fellowes who pretend to bee sent of God from Heauen to reforme the English Church and State are men of no religion but men that make religion a matter of meere policie Secondly that they are so wicked so irreligious and so trayterous as the like were neuer heard of Thirdly that it is a great shame for the whole Church of God that such badde fellowes doe liue vnpunished These things well considered hee that will thinke them or the Seculars to be Gods ambassadours may iustly be deemed as wise as hee that hath no witt at all For God is so highly offended with their trayterous dealings and damnable practises that hee hath enforced themselues to discouer their owne bad proceedings against themselues that so all the worlde may knowe their abhominations and detest them with all their traiterous and cursed machinations The second Booke contayning the treacheries and tyrannie of the Pope and his Iesuiticall faction breathed out against the sacred Maiestie of Gods annoynted CHAP. I. Of the swarmes of Iesuites and Seminaries or Secular priests in this Realme of England THe number of Iesuites and secular priests in England is excéeding great as by this discourse will be made apparant and the said cursed brood is increased euery day Thrée hundred seminarie priests besides the Iesuites haue béene sent from the Pope into England And because many doe not vnderstand fully the difference betwéene Iesuites Seminaries and Secular priests it shall not be amisse briefely to instruct them in that behalfe Euerie Iesuite euen he that is but a lay-brother maketh a solemne vow of three speciall and important points whereof many of them I dare not say the greater part séeme not truly to kéepe any one And I doe not barely say it but the Seminarists shall contest the same with me The three essentiall points of Iesuiticall professioÌ„ are these in expresse termes viz. pouertie chastity and obedience Which triple vowe is common to the Iesuites with all their popish sects And for this triple vow it is that they are called religious But how truly they enioy and deserue that name let the indifferent reader iudge when he shall haue perused this discourse For albeit religious profession be a separating of men from the actions of the world yet doe they deale altogether with the world The Secular priests are all manner of priests which make not the said triple vow viz. All priests which are not 〈◊〉 or fryers For our lordly Iesuites are by profession and solemne vow poore munkes and lowly fryers They are called secular for distinction sake because they 〈◊〉 haue proprietie in secular prossessions of the world 〈◊〉 which the others are by vow abandoned but will by 〈…〉 now and then
put downe in the Preface to the important considerations Fol. 9. page 2. Note heere gentle Reader that this sweete harmonie betweene the Pope the Iesuites and the Secular priests were able to make an horse to breake his halter And doubtlesse the Pope yea many Popes successiuely haue thus commaunded them as shall appeare in the due place of this discourse The Iesuites holde this position for a constant doctrine that the people may depose their princes and choose others at their pleasures haue they any or no right to the Crown that is not materiall so it be done ad Deum that is by our interpretation as the Iesuites shall appoint it Héere we would haue you to note an other rule of our english Iesuites which must concurre with that of ordine ad Deâ—m and it is this that all things must be wrought and framed as the times and occasions require For example if the king of Spayne or the Infanta can by no other practise obtaine the Crowne of England then in that case the people are to haue a right to doe what they list so they will choose one of them for their soueraigne These expresse words are set downe by the priests in their sparing Discouerie Page 14. 15. quodl 3. art 4. pag. 68. Note heere gentle reader that the Iesuites and their complicies are not imprisoned or put to death for religion as they would leaue the world to thinke but for â—â—at treason and purposely intended rebellion For so much their owne pennes by Gods prouidence doe here testifie as you see And consequently politicke godly and very necessarie are the 〈…〉 in that case prouided While the inuasion was talked of and in preparation in Spayne Richard Hesket was set on by the Iesuites 1592. or there abouts with father Parsons consent knowledge to haue stirred vp the Earle of Darbie to rebellion against her highnesse Not long after father Holt the Iesuite and others with him perswaded an Irish man one Patriâ—cke Collen as he himselfe confessed to attempt the laying of his violent and villanous hands vpon her Maiestie Shortly after 1593. that notable stratagâ—me was plotted for Doctor Lopez the Queenes phisition to haue poysoned her This wicked designement being thus preuented by Gods prouidence the said traiterous Iesuite Holt and others did allure and animate one Yorke and Williams to haue accomplished that with their bloodie hands that the other purposed to haue done with his poyson we meane her Maiesties destruction Heereunto we may adde the late villanous attempt 1599. of Edward Squire animated and drawen thereunto as he confessed by Walpole that pernitious Iesuite These words are set downe in the important considerations Page 33 see chap. 4. paragraph 6. of Walpoole the Iesuite The Iesuites laboured in Fraunce euen the french Iesuites themselues to haue lifted the Spaniard into the throne of that kingdome with the consequent ouerthrow of their owne natiue countrey All Christendome to their perpetuall shame ring loudly of it They made great stirre in Spayne to perswade the king to inuade England yeelding to him many reasons why he was bound to vndertake that enterprise and assuring him of great assistance if once his forces were landed Hereunto may be added how many they haue intituled to the Crowne of England as the Duke of Parma the Earle of Darbie and others exciting some of them by force of armes to assaile her Maiestie and buzzing into their eares how easily the scepter might be wrung out of her hands and they obtaine it But most pertinent to the purpose is that their plotting and compassing how to set the Diademe of this Realme vpon the head of the princesse Isabella the Infanta of Spayne To this purpose they haue written a booke wherein they gaue her such an interest as they make the kings of this land for many yeares to haue béene vsurpers These words are to be read in their discouerie Page 8. quodl 9. art 2. pag. 288. The Iesuites take pleasure to scatter rumors and to suggest certaine nouelties in the eares of Catholikes yea to forge and inuent things that are not insomuch as they are commonly held now a daies great lyars and it is come to passe that though they sweare men wil not beléeue them These words are set downe in the Relation Page 73. quodlibet 2. art 6. pag. 39. CHAP. III. Of the excessiue expences and great gallantrie of the Iesuites THe Iesuites endeuour by all meanes possible that both those almes which are giuen for the relief of them that are in prison or any other poore afflicted whatsoeuer as also whatsoeuer is paid in cases of dispensation may come to their hands Now what is done with this money we know not Prisons and Colledges are depriued of the great summes the banished haue them not the priests sée them not but there are hired here with seditious persons deuisers of fables slaunderers of their brethren and scorners of the saints are herewith enriched these and such as these receiue large stipends of their labours And yet so great a masse of monies cannot be consumed but that the fathers bestow much vpon themselues For they goe in déed in great gallantrie no Iesuite goeth to visit any one or trauelleth from one place to another but he is richly apparrelled and is attended on with a great traine of seruants as if he were a Baron or an Earle They wrangle and reprooue the priests garments and spendings whereas the expences of one Iesuite were able to maintaine twentie priests richly Neither by this meanes also could so great a quantitie of almes be wasted but that as the report goes much treasure is conueyed beyond the seas but to what purpose we know not vnlesse it be bestowed vpon their bodie their corporation or societie These words are to be found in the Relation Page 70. See the tenth Preamble and note it well The Iesuites became our collectors or rather not ours but their owne to whom for their accounts the false Steward in the gospell may giue place One Iesuite hath taken at times aboue 500 pound that was giuen to the imprisoned priests then at Wâ—â—â—â— and imployed the same at his owne pleasure Percie the Iesuite escaping from Wisbish tooke fraudulently from benefactors abroad 57. pound 17. shillings and the yeare after stole 27. pound of the common money by the consent of the other his fellow Iesuites They haue so fleeced their fauorers as ouer aboue their owne expences which are excéeding great they haue beene able to send out long since 2200. pound towards the Low countries To scrape together so much money they haue many sleights besides their apparant consenages frauds and thefts before mentioned Thus they write in their discouerie Page 19. First I will but referre you vnto all the priests and Catholikes that liued in England in father Haywoods time of libertie and knew him his manners and fashions well and if they
absolution Sequitur Our kings represent the true image of God against whom this yeare there hapned three straunge and vnusuall accidents first the rebellion against the late king which they coloured with the pretext and title of tyranny secondly the parricidie committed vpon his person by a Monke and lastly the continuance of that rebellion against the king that now is for his religion Sequitur their confessions were instructions or rather destructions to teach rebellion refusing to absolue them which eyther were not in their consciences fully confirmed in their reuolt from the two kings or had any inclination to acknowledge them for their soueraignes And which is full of horrour and detestation their ordinarie conrse was before they would absolue them to make them sweare by the holy gospell conteyned in their breuiaries neuer to take these two kings for their lawful soueraignes That which I speake I haue by good information from many that were faine to passe through that strait and I know one amongst the rest more néere me then the rest who rather then he would giue credit to their doctrine departed from his confessour without receiuing absolution These words are set downe by a Catholike papist a French man in the booke called the Iesuites Catechisme Lib. 3. cap. 12. fol. 165. fol. 166. Note heere gentle Reader these important points with me First that not onely our English papists but euen the French also do write the same argument in substance against the Iesuites and their damnable doctrine Secondly that they vse confession as an instrument of patricidie euen of Gods annoynted princes Thirdly that they would absolue none which acknowledged true loyaltie to their soueraignes Fourthly that they caused all those whom they did absolue to sweare by the holy gospell neuer to take the king now regnant nor king Henry his predecessor for their lawfull soueraignes It therefore is high time for all kings to abandon and expell all this cursed crue out of their kingdomes territories and dominions Jesuitisme agréeth with the Anabaptists opinion in two propositions in medling with state matters and in causing princes and kings to be murdered accordingly to the conueniencie of their affaires I will adde that in the carriage of this Iesuiticall warre within France there was some conformitie of names betweene this and that the Anabaptists vndertooke in Germanie the yeare 1535. for they had one Iohn Mathew their chiefe prophet vnder Iohn Leydon their king and one Bernard Rotman and Bernard Cniperdolin principall actors in their faction for the seducing of sâ—mple people euen as our Iesuites had their father Claudius Mathew and Bernard Rouellet I will not héere recite the other particulars of our troubles being contented plainely to haue shewed vnto you that our Iesuites were the first seminaries thereof These words are set downe in the Iesuites Catechisme Lib. 3. cap. 11. fol. 164. Note heere gentle Reader that the French papists write as sharpely against the Iesuites as doe our secular popish priests And consequently the priests assertions and reports of them are of more credit in that behalfe The Iesuites hauing set foote in Portugall sollicited the king Sebastian by all manner of illusions to make an vniuersall law that none might be called to the Crowne vnlesse he were of their societie and moreouer elected by the consent and suffrages of the same Whereunto they could not attaine albeit they met with the most deuout superstitious prince that could be They were the men that kindled the first coales of that accursed league which hath béene the vtter ruine and subuersion of France In fauour of the Spaniard they set on worke to kill the king one Peter Barriere whom they caused to be confessed in their Colledge at Paris afterwards to receiue the Sacrament and hauing confirmed him by an assured promise of Paradise as a true martyr if he died in that quarrell they set forward this valiant champion who was thrise at the verie point to execute his accursed enterprise and God as often miraculously stayed his hand vntil at length being apprehended at Melun he receuied yâ— iust hyre of his traiterous intention in the yeare 1593. I speake nothing but what mine eies can witnesse and what I had from his owne mouth when he was prisoner View and peruse all the iniquities that you will you shall finde none so barbarous as this To perswade an impietie to kill a king and then to couer it with such a seeming maske of pietie In a word to destroy a soule a king paradise and our Church all at a blow to make way for their Spanish and halfe-pagan designments Thus is it written in the Iesuites Catechisme Lib. 3 cap. 18. fol. 185. Note heere gentle Reader these materiall points with me First that the Iesuites labour with might and maine as our Secular priests truly write of them to ouerrule the whole world For they would haue had a generall law made that none should be made king of Portugall vnlesse he were a Iesuite and also elected by their consent and suffrages Secondly that they suborned Peter Barriere to kill his and their liegelord the king of France Thirdly that they abused the Sacrament to that end and purpose Fourthly that they promised him Paradise and to be canonized for a martyr if he should kill his soueraigne and die in that quartell Fiftly that all this was done in the honour and behalfe of the Spanish king Put all these together and see if the same be not the Iesuiticall practise heere in England as the Secular priestes haue told vs. It happened vpon Saint Iohn Enangelists day in the yeare 1594. after the reducing of Paris vnder obedience to their soueraigne that the king going to his chamber accompanied with many princes and lords found himselfe vnlookt for sodainly strokeÌ„ in the mouth with a knife so that neither he nor those that were with him could perceiue it For assoone as Iohn Chastell who was the traytor and but nineteene yeares of age had giuen the stroke he dropped downe the knife and set himselfe in the midst of the prease Euerie one was in a maze and busie to thinke who had done that trayterous déed and it wanted not much but that this young yâ—uth had made an escape Notwithstanding God would not permit that this detestable act should remaine vnpunished By chance it was that some ore casting his eyes vpon him he became as one sore affrighted and appald with feare But as he promised himselfe to haue the paradise of Iesuites if he died one of their martyrs so also he confessed this fact more readily and promptly then was looked for at his hands Whereby by decree of the Court of Parliament in Paris he was condemned to die I haue no greater argument then this to shew that the trade of murthering was lodged within their Colledges For where there was any exercise of good education and studie no scholler would haue vndertaken such a damnable determination but such a one
the contradiction or imperfection of that which man requireth to be done For this cause God cannot bring to passe that Lazarus was not once dead albeit he could and de facto did raise him vp from death to life againe For this cause God cannot make another God equall to himselfe For this cause God cannot sinne Yet whatsoever neither implyeth contradiction nor imperfection that God can doe without all peraduenture because hee is omnipotent Now then the malefactor that hath killed a man and is by a popish priest absolued from the guilt of that fact must perforce tell a leasing to the iudge when he saith he killed not the man though we suppose it true that at that time hee be freed from the sinne For it is one thing to haue killed the man an other thing to be freede from the crime euen as it was one thinge for Lazarus to be restored to life an other thing to haue beene dead And as it can neuer be true to say Lazarus was not once dead so can it neuer be true to say the malefactor did not once kill the man Againe the papists teach generally and vniformely that none without a speciall reuelation from heauen can know that he is in the state of saluation and fréede from his mortall sinnes The malefactor therefore cannot assure himselfe that he is purged from the murder by vertue of his absolution And so we sée or at lest may sée the fondnes of Iesuiticall doctrine Fie vpon it See the end of yâ— fifth chapter how they bind men womeÌ„ vnto theÌ„ Fourthly the Iesuites in Rome acknowledge the Pope to be Lord spirituall temporall ouer all christian princes All the extrauagant decretals impose the same vpon all monarchies it is a proposition verie familiar in the court of Rome and in the buls appointed for the publication of the Iubily in the yeare 1600. Saint Peter and Saint Paule are called princes of the earth These words are set downe in the Iesuites catechisme Libr. 3. cap. 26. fol. 233. The Iesuites teach that the Pope hath authoritie to excommunicate Kinges and to transferre their kingdomes to others as also to free subiects from their allegance to their soueraignes this is proued as well in my Suruey as in sundry places of this discourse yet the absurditie hereof both the English priests and French Papists do acknowledge and most euidently confute the same marke their proofes which now follow in order Againe where Master A. C. saith that power was not giuen to Saint Peter by Christ to transferre gentem in gentem it is both catholike and true doctrine and in vaine shall father Parsons goe about to infring it These wordes are set downe in the replie to Parsons libell Fol. 97. b. 17. Neither can any lawe or necessitie in the world contradict or impeach the law of nature borne with man and alwaies remaining in himselfe Thus it is written in the replie to Parsons libell Fol. 42. b. 18. And in an other place of the said replie viz. fol. 35. b. It is plainly and flatly auouched that the law of Premunire against the Pope and Romish mischiefes was enacted and published with the frée and full consent of all the clergie and temporaltie This we haue said doe say yâ— religious men priests haue not to doe with kingdomes and those of our owne nation which haue delt in such affaires against their Prince and countrie we doe therein condemne their actions and disclaime from them as vndutifull and vnpleasant to all true English natures these words are in the reply to Parsons libell fol. 38. b. Jesuite learne this lesson of me for I will not suffer either our countrie-men to be infected with thy poysonous propositions or strangers that shall reade this booke of thine to conceiue that the maiesty of our King is by thy comming anie whit empayred First we maintaine and vphold it for an article inuiolable in France that the Pope hath no authoritie to bee liberall of our Realme for any mans aduantage whatsoeuer what fault soeuer our King shall be found capable of none excepted the Pope hath no power but what is giuen him by commission from God He is neither that Samuel nor that Iehoiada who were commanded by God to doe what they did vnder the old law For vnder the new which we call the new testament there is no mention of any such matter The Pope cannot by the power of his spirituall sword controll the temporall We hold it for an article firme and indubitable in this Realme of France that our kinges are not subiect to the Popes excommunication A thinge which wee haue receiued from all antiquitie Lothaire king of Austracia deceaâ—â—â— lest Lewes his brother who was Emperour King of 〈◊〉 to be his successour king Charles the Balde vncle to them both seazed on it by right of occupation as lying fit for his hand Lewes had recourse to Pope Adrian whoe vndertooke the quarrell for him and summoned Charles to do his nephew right But Charles gaue no eare to him So the Pope went on to interpose his censures with bitter curses and comminations He enioyned Hingmare arch bishop of Rhemcs not to admitte the King to communicate with him vpon paine himselfe to be depriued of his holinesse his communion â—â—gmare aduised by diuers prelats barons of France wrot backe to the Pope that all of them were ofâ—ended and grieued with his decree and would not obey him These words are set downe in the Iesuites catechisme libr. 3. cap. 17. fol. 179. Boniface the eight felling at variance with king Phillippe The faire would needes excommunicate him but there was neuer excommunication cost pope so deare as that did him For his Nancios were committed prisoners his Buls burnt and Boniface himselfe being taken by Nangeret chancelor of France presently after died for very sorrow and despight that hee had receiued so foule a disgrace at the hands of his enemie Wherein King Phillippe did nothing but by the counsell and consent of the whole clergie of France So farre was his excommunication from â—alling to the preiudice of the king and his Realme that contrariwise it turned to his shame and confusion by whome it was decreed Bennet the 13. Otherwise called Peter De luna interdicted Charles the sixt and his Realme The King sitting in the throne of iustice in the parliament or high court of Paris the 21. of May 1408. gaue sentence that the bull should be rent in peeces and that Gonsalue and Conseloux the bearers thereof should be set vpon a pillorie and publiquely notified and traduced in the Pulpit The meaning whereof was that the people should be taught and informed that the king was not liable to any excommunication Which decree was accordingly put in execution in the month of August with the greatest scorne that could be deuised the two nuncios or legats hauing this inscription vpon their miters these men are disloyall to
lawfull and a matter of conscience to obey his wicked and most execrable sentence when hee appointed the English preiests and others to take part with the Spanish powers against their soueraigne And heere by the way the gentle reader may note this excellent and golden corollary viz that though the priests and all Papists hold if for a coÌ„stant maxime that the pope is the onely iudg in controuersies yet doe the priests now when the case toucheth themselues take vpon them to censure the Pope and to say bouldly that they will not because they are not bound in such and such cases to obey him Marke well for Christs sake it is not my doctrine but the doctrie of the secular Priests and so of greatest force against them and all other papists The fourth conclusion THe Pope hath no authoritie to assoyle or exempt the subieces of this Realme from the homage to her maiestie This conclusion is cleare and plaine by the free graÌ„t and open confession of the secular Priests where and when they write in expresse tearmes as you haue heard in the chapters a foregoing more then once that the Pope hath no power ouer yâ— law of nature which is indeed the law of God therfore he is no more to be obeyed therein theÌ„ if he should command to commit adulterie incest or to murder our selues or our parents that I may vse the priests their owne words And the case is euident to euery childe for who knoweth not that no inferiour hath power to chaung or alter the law of his superiour And yet is it cleare I weene enen in the opinion of euery papist that God is the Popes superiour and so the Pope hath not to chaunge or alter his law How the difficultie is this if there be any difficultie at all whether the Popes fact in assoylinge subiects from their loyaltie be against the law of nature or nor To which I aunswere briefly that it is so And I proue it because our allegeance to our soueraigne is coÌ„prised in the first precept of the decalogue which is morall and of the law of nature under the name of parents For in the name of parents are contained and vnderstood al superiours by what title or name soeuer they be termed all both old and late writers without exception doe so hold write and beleeue If any papist can this denie let him put downe his reasons I am readie to reply vpon him But I suppose none of theÌ„ will oppose himselfe against this vndoubted truth I therefore conclude that the late bishops of Rome shew who and what they are when they proudly take vpon them to assoyle subiects from their allegeance and naturall obedience to their Prince CHAP. X. Of the secular Priests and there late Printed Bookes Paragraph I. Of there religion in matters of state THe secular priests professe themselues to hould constantly euery point and article of the Romish faith For thus doe they write name that article or one point of the catholike Romish faith wherein the secular priests doe either stagger in themselues or seeke to seduce you These words are set downe in the preface to the important considerations fol. 4. page 2. Touching this demande I haue thought it worth the labour to make a syncere answeare vnto the priests out of their owne papers and writinges published to the iudgement of the world Partly that they themselues may see if they will not continue obstinate their owne folly in religion as also the great absurdities which thereby they do vnwittingly and vnwillingly admit and defend Partly also that others may dislike their religion and more zealously embrace the truth First therefore the bishoppe of Rome holdeth that he may and can assoyle subiects from their allegeance and depriue her maiestie from her royall dâ—ademe The Iesuites affirme it Cardinall Allanâ— approued it and your selues haue granted the same as I haue alreadie shewed How either you the secular priestes I meane hold the same opinion or not If ye doe not then are yee not such perfect papists as you write If ye doe so hould then are you traytors against your soueraigne aswell as the Iesuites whome yet your selues tearme arraÌ„t traytors as they are indeede Secondly the Pope houldeth That Queene Elizabeth is not the lawfull Queene of England but an vsurper and pretensed Queene you know it you write so How if you hold not so you are not perfect papists If you hold so you are arrant traytors Beare with mee for my wordes youre selues haue prouoked mee therevnvnto Thirdly the Pope holdes that her maiesties subiects may and ought to take part with the king of Spain against her If you hold not so you are not perfect papists If you hold so you are ranke traytors Fourthly the Pope holds that he may consecrat grains and â—gnus deis and grant pardon to all them that will take parte with him against our soueraigne and vse them as signes and seales of that couenant If you hold not so you are not perfect papists If you hold so you are traytors Fiftly the pope holds and his papists with him as I haue the wed that subictes must in conscience follow his direction in all warres for religion If you hold not so you are not sound Romish catholikes or papiste If you hold so you are traytours Master Saunders a secular priest iustifieth the rebellion in the North and holdeth the Earles with their adherents to be glorious martyrs Morton and Webbe doe hold the same opinion who are likewise secular priests the Iesuites at Rome are of the same stampe and defend the same treason in the highest degrée for Alphonsus the Iesuite then rector of the English colledge in Rome caused the Organs to be sounded in the English chappell all the students to come to the chappell of which number my selfe was one and then and there hee himselfe putting on his backe a white surplesse to signifie for sooth the puritie of the matyrdome and the stole about his necke sange a collect of marrtyrs so after his manner canonizing Campion the rebell for a saint This to be so Iohn Mush one of these secular priests knoweth right well and cannot denie the same seing himselfe was then present in the colledge at Rome which publique solemnitie for a traytorous Iesuite Campion I meane Alphonsus durst not haue attempted doubtles vnlesse he had first obtained the consent of his generall neither yet would yâ— generall for he durst not so haue done haue approued the fact if he had not had the consent of the Pope whose consent is the consent of all the popish Church To which I must needes adde that it is vsuall amonge the English papists to keepe the relikes of Campion Sherewin and the rest and to pray vnto them as vnto the saints of God How if you secular priestes hold not thus you are not sound papists If you hold so you are arrant traytours So then the seculars are
court of Rome And yet vnwitingly they condemne themselues in an other place graunting that they may not by worde or writing impugne the parliamentall Lawes of this land Thirdly by not appealing they should haue beene preiudiciall to prince Church and all estates as is in the second obseruation but not to the prince Church or State of England ergo to the prince Church and State of Rome for of force they must so meane the force of trueth hath inforced their penne Fourthly they appealed for her Maiesties securitie as is in the third obseruation where I cannot enough admire the impudent insolencie of these disloyall Seculars who make a treacherous flowrish as if the securitie of their dread Soueraigne did depend vpon their Popes good pleasure and their treacherous appeale vnto him Herein they make hauocke other Maiesties statute-lawes which els where by popish statization and equinocation they say they may not offend A note worthy to be remembred Fifthly they appealed for the quiet of the state which is as disloyally spoken as the former for God auert that the peace of her Maiesties state and her Realmes do at any time stand in neede of the Popes fauour the intreatie of the sedicious Seculars Sixtly they appealed for the auoydance of inuasions and conspiracies as is in the fiâ—th obseruation out of which confession I inferre these two important corollaries First that conspiracies and inuasions are still intended against her sacred person her royall throne her crowne her state and dominions Secondly that the Pope is the principall actor in all plots conspiracies treacheries inuasions and conquests intended against the Queen her realms and faithfull subiects I therefore conclude that the Seculars are this day as dangerous in al treasonable plots bloody practizes and disloyall conspiracies as they haue beene heretofore For albeit they belabour themselues seriously to hide and bolster out all their cursed intendements against their dread soueraigne and natiue Countrey especially when they are occasioned to speake of matters of state as they doe or may concerne their owne persons yet doe they but equiuocate and temporize in so doing and that as scornefully and treacherously as euer did the Iesuites Of which point none can be ignorant that shall seriously peruse and ponder this discourse Wherefore as the Seculars say of the Iesuites so say I of them that though they sweare can yet we not safely beleeue them in state-affairs the reason is euident because they doe not acknowledge any magistrate vnder her Maiestie to be their lawfull and competent iudge If they say write or sweare the contrary yet giue no credite to them therein for euen then doe they seeke to delude the Magistate by their hypocriticall and execrable equiuocations No no it neither doth nor can stand with popish religion to thinke and beleeue that Queen Elizabeth whom God long preserue ouer vs can ordeine any competent iudge ouer them And consequently vntill the Seculars renounce the Pope and his damnable procéedings against Christian kings their royal diademes and sacred regalities they will doubtlesse delude the maiestrates with their fondely inuented equiuocationes This is a graue aduiso which may not beforgotten Aduiso V. Of the opinion affection and true meaning of the seculars in all the treasonable practises bloudie conspiracies and other disloyall intendmentes against their dread soueraigne and natiue countrie THe seculars conspire concurre and iumpe with the Iesuites in opinion affection and inward meaninge touching the Popes authoritie the bloudie conspiracies inuasions conquest other disloyall intendments against most noble Queene Elizabeth and our natiue country this I proue by manie strong weightie and irrefragable reasons The first reason The pretenses of such practises were generall and common to all Catholikes alike all maintaining one the same opinion concerning what might be done by Apostolical power authoritie neuer talking of what was necessarie Thus is it written quodl 8. art 9. pag. 277. but the seculars are papists aswell as the Iesuites Ergo of the same opinion with the Iesuites Heere the reader may see plainely that the seculars iumpe with the opinion of the Iesuits touching the popes authoritie For by apostolicall power they vnderstand the power and authoritie of the Pope To which must be added which is alreadie proued that the Pope hath excommunicated her Maiesty de facta and hath beene the chiefest agent in all treasonable practises bloodie conspiracies inuasions conquests and other execrable intendments against her Maiesties person honour state and dominions To this must likewise be added which is also proued that the Iesuites affirme malepeartly damnablie and disloyally that the Pope hath done nothing in the premisses but that he lawfully might doe The second Reason Among many examples of the deare loue and compassion of the Popes holines towards the inhabitants and princes of this land in times of imminent commonwealths dangers the chiefe since the Norman conquest was shewed in the daies and raignes of king Henrie the second surnamed Fitzempresse and of his sonne king Iohn the third Monarke of England of a Plantagenets royall race Against whom hauing vsed his fatherly correction as pastor vnivniuersall ouer the whole flocke of Christ for their great crueltie and tyrannie vsed towards their naturall subiects yet vpon their repentance mercifully receiuing them into grace and fauour of Gods Church againe his holines on the behalfe of the second did not onely accurse and excommunicate prince Lewis of France with all his adherents forcing him to yeeld vp all the interest right and title that he or his posteritie had or euer should haue to the English crowne but also surrendred vp the said crowne of England franke and free to king Iohn and his heires and successours from of the head of Cardinall Pandulphus hauing sit inthronized three daies therewith in the Popes right And thousands there are in England that desire as much Thus is it written quodl 8. art 9. page 327. Out of these words it is euidently deduced that the Pope taketh vpon him though most iniuriously and tyrannically to translate kingdomes to depose kings Emperours and Monarkes and to bestow their princely Diademes and royall regalities as seemeth best to his good pleasure Yea which is more to be admired the seculars who in outward shew of words by often and earnest protestations affirme themselues to be most loyall subiects approue the Pope in so doing For first where the Pope had excommunicated and deposed king Henry they terme it his fatherly correction Secondly they say he did it by his vniuersall authority ouer the whole Church Thirdly they terme the deposing of prince Lewis and the restoring of king Iohn to the crowne the chiefest fatherly compassion since the Norman coÌ„quest Fourthly they tell vs that Cardinall Pandulphus was three daies enthronized with the crowne of England vpon his head in the right of the Pope which forraine tyrannicall fact they commend approue Fiftly they tell vs that
the Pope enforced king Lewis to yeeld vp his whole title and right that eyther he or his posteritie had or euer should haue to the English crowne This they likewise approue and commend Sixtly they crie and exclayme with open mouthes that thousands in England desire as much to be done Which is all one as I interprete it as if they wished the Pope to send some Cardinall from Rome to be enthronized three daies with the English crowne vpon his head in the right of his holines and then to surrender it vp to Arbella or to some other popish fauorite For so the Spaniard or other foreyner haue it not they haue their desire Me thinke this my glosse swarueth not much from the text The reason is cleare the reader can easily make application thereof The third Reason I know that Iure ecclesiastico and by the authoritie and sentence of the Popes holines much more may be done then heere I will speake of But yet I thinke it will proue in the end the best course for men not to doe so much as they may Many things be lawfull which are not expedient Thus is it written quodl 9. art 3. pag. 293. This reason ab authoritate for better reasons then their owne grants and confessions cannot be had is as strong as the former if it be well noted with the circumstances thereof For first after Watson who speaketh in the name of the seculars had told vs by the doctrine of a learned man that if we goe no further then to the law of nature or to the law of God no king is depriued from his soueraigntie ouer his subiects though it be for the sinne of apostasie from faith forthwith he addeth the words of this present reason affirming peremptorily that the Pope can do more then he will heere set downe Secondly he telleth vs here that kings can neyther by Gods law nor by the law of nature be deposed from their crownes and regalities and consequently when he saith the Pope can doe more hee must perforce affirme both impudently and senselesly that the Popes power is aboue the power of God The latter he dare not say and yet hath Satan so bewitched and besotted him that it followeth necessarily of the former that is of the doctrine which he deliuereth from the penne of a learned writer and putteth it downe for good Now what is it that the Pope can doe more then may be done by the law of nature and of God forsooth he can excommunicate kings depose kings from their royall thrones and put their Diademes vpon the heades of others This is it that Watson will not say heere because it is not expedient Yet vnwittingly the truth enforcing him he telleth vs no lesse in another place For a reuerend priest saith he and ancient gentleman ould master Middleton was content at Parsons his motion to subscribe to the title of Infanta vpon condition that she should be ioyned by marriage to some noble or péere of our land Thus they write peruse the place quoted in the margent Againe in another place it is thus written say then for the present which yet is more then I would willingly put to maintaine the time of our afflicted state considered that his holines and the king of Spayne might lawfully haue taken armes against her Maiestie and this her kingdome our natiue land yet was it a shamefull part of father Parsons and his companions to be the contriuers or instigators of 〈◊〉 These are the expresse words of the place quoted in the margent Out of these two seuerall assertions the confirmations of the third reason generall I gather first that all the difference betweene the Iesuites and the Seculars concerning the inuasion and conquest of this land consisteth in this onely point viz. that the Iesuites would haue the Ladie Infanta of Spayne to be the Queene of England but the seculars will haue an English man to be king of the land They differ not in the thing to be done but in the manner of contriuing the thing that should be done not in the partie to be deposed from the crowne but in the person that should haue the Crowne not about taking the crowne from Queene Elizabeth but about giuing the crown to the Spanish Ladie The reason hereof is euident because our Quodlibetist telleth vs roundly that old Middleton consented willingly to giue his name to the charter of subscription in the behalfe of the Ladie Infanta of Spayne vpon condition that she should be married to some English noble man Which disloyall narration the secular Quodlibetist approoueth and greatly commendeth terming the said Midleton a reuerend priest and ancient gentleman I gather secondly that our Quodlibetist Watson singeth the selfe same song with old trayterous Midleton For he putteth the case that the pope Spanish king should be said to haue taken armes lawfully against her Maiestie and her Realme of England That done forsooth he telleth vs that he would not willingly maintain that doctrine the time circumstances considered Where he vnwittingly auoucheth that the Pope and king of Spayne might lawfully take armes to depose her Maiestie from her royall Diademe Yea he granteth that he would defend the same doctrine but that the time is not correspondent thereunto Let the words be well pondered and this will be the sense The fourth Reason The Quodlibetist and the seculars doe often protest their obedience to the pope and submit themselues and all their writings yea euerie word sillable and title to the censure of the Romane Church One place may suffice where these words are to be read With all humble obedience to the sea Apostolike be it spoken Quodl 8. art 8 pag. 267. This reason doth plainely conuince the contents of this fift aduiso to be true For how is it possible to conceiue that they shall in true meaning say or write any thing against the pope on the behalfe of her Maiestie who protest zealously before God and his Angels that they will yeeld all obedienc◠to the pope therefore do submit themselues and all their writings sentences words and sillables to his censure and iudgement it cannot be they do but temporize in these state matters they vse Iesuiticall equiuocation The fifth Reason The seminaries were willing at the first to colour hide and conceale all making the Iesuites causes attempts intents practises and proceedings their owne in euery thing vntill at last they were intangled by penall lawes iustly made against them equally as against the Iesuites These words are set downe in the preface to the Quodlibets page 6. Againe in another place the priests write thus we had some of vs greatly approued the said rebellion highly extolled the rebels and pitifully bewailed their ruine and ouerthrow Many of our affections were knit to the Spaniards and for our obedience to the pope we all do professe it The attempts both of the pope and Spaniard failing in England
Iesuites are put to death for their conscience and not for treason For séeing they graunt those penall lawes by which they are conninced of treason to be iustly made against them they doe consequently grant that they are executed for treason Yet it may also be said that they die for their conscience because their conscience is to take part with the Pope and to make warre against their soueraigne We learne Secondly by this aduiso that the Iesuites are so seditious and traytâ—rous companions that the secular priests are bound in conscience to detect and reueale there bad disloyall dealing To which I must needes adde as a plesant adiunct that these good fellowes the seculars are in the same predicament with the Iesuites and guiltie of the selfe same treasons as is alreadie proued Aduiso VIII Of the great strong and mightie frends of the Iesuites and seculars THe Iesuits thinke it is vnknown vnder whose wings the arch-priest liues shrowded or to and from whome the letter was sent on father Gerards behalfe to wish her after some few complements and thankes for the token shee lent him to keepe her Iewell the said Gerard well c. Or who they be that plie and plead for the Iesuites vnder-hand or by whome they are backt to be so bould as they are both in prison and abroad to make their vaunt that they haue moe greater friends both in the English Scottish court then the seculars haue more then halfe naming some particular Nobles and others in high estéeme and authority vnder her maiestie that are secretly entered into league with them on the spanish behalfe These words are set downe quodl 7. art 2. page 188. Againe in an other place it it plainly written that the Earle of Essex was solicited to be the Kinge of Spaines close pensioner for furdering of the inuasions quodl 7. art 2. pag. 189 A Iesuite priest was sent from Parsons to the said Earle of Essex to moue him to take a pension of the King of Spaine priuatly for the aduancement of his designements quodl 5. art 8. pag. 150. In an other place they write bouldly that foure seminarie priests were altogether at supper with a noble person a Lord of high renoune who would not sit downe vntill they all were set and placed before him quodl 3. art 1. page 51. In an other place it is thus written these two noble persons are now most earnest persecutors of the Iesuites and Arch-priests sedition falsehood and faction quodl 4. art 7. page 126. In an other place thus and other like speaches he vsed of him to an honorable Earle who told me it quod 4. art 9. page 132. In an other place thus Parsons in his bookes affirmeth the infortunat Howard of Norfolke to haue béene one and the chiefe cause of the ouerthrow both of the Church and common wealth yet with whome hee and his haue had I will not say haue videant ipsi more inward and close dealing for the aduancement to the crowne by marriage of the ladie Arbella c. and other means then with any other house and familie quodl 7. art 9. page 212. This is a worthy and a very golden aduiso For by it hee that hath but one eye may sée what a daungerous kind of people the Iesuites and the seculars bee For to say nothing of their practises with the late Earle of Essex nor of that tender and deare familiaritie which they haue with many of the nobilitie this is a thing that maketh me sigh and grone when I remember it viz. That some nobles and others in high esteeme and authoritie vnder her maiestie are secretly entered into league with the Iesuites on the behalfe of the King of Spaine for the longe intended conquest of this land This this is it which can not but grieue and wound euen to the heart all true hearted English that shall heare the same Not the seminaries doubtles of themselues but the holy Ghost enforcing them thereunto haue reuealed this notable stratageme Yea the seculars doe acknowledge thus much themselues where they write in this maner God hath most straungly and in very indeed as it may bee termed miraculously reuealed the truth which longe hath béene hidden quodl 8. art 9. pag 267. Thus we sée the Priests haue discouered long hidden traytors and detected many notorious treasons yet not intending good thereby to Quéene Elizabeth but to their owne persons in their combat with the Iesuites I trust her maiesties wise and faithfull counsellers will haue due coÌ„sideration of this aduiso pauca sufficiunt sapienti Aduiso IX Of the Iesuiticall exercise and their profitable effects thereof First Iohn Gerard the Iesuite caused Henrie Drurie to enter into this Iesuiticall exercise and thereby got him to sell the mannor of Lozell in Suffolke other lands to the value of 3500. pounds got all the money himselfe the said Drurie hauen chosen to be a lay-brother Afterwards he sent him to Antwerpe to haue his Nouitiat by the prouinciall there by name Oliuerius Manerius for at that time father Garnet had not authority to admit any where after twelue or fourthteene daies he died not without suspition of some indirect dealing Secoudly the said Gerrard gaue the same exercise to Maister Anthonie Rowse of whome he got aboue 1000. pounds Thirdly the saide Gerrard gaue the exercise to Edwarde Walpoole whome hee caused to sell the manner of Tuddenham and had of him about 1000. Markes Fourthly he gaue the exercise to Maister Iames Linacre his fellow prisoner in the Clinke from whome hee drewe there 400. pounds and afterwards got a promise of him of all his lands but was preuented thereof by the said Linacres death Fiftly vnder pretence of the said exercise he confined syr Edmond Huddlestones sonne and heire by sundry sleights of aboue .1000 pounds Sixtly he hath drawen Maister William Wiseman into the said exercise so oft as he hath left him now very bare to liue So he dealt also with Maister Thomas Wiseman whose land he gotte and theÌ„ sent him to Antwerpe where he died Seuenthly he wrought so with Maister Nicholas King lately of Grayes Inne as he hath gotten most of his liuing and sent him to Rome Maister Roger Lee of Buckinghamshire hath beene in this exercise likewise and is also by him sent to Rome Eightly in like manner he dealeth with such gentlewomen as he thinketh fit for his turne and draweth them to his exercise as the Ladie Louell mistresse Haywood and mistresse Wiseman now prisoner of whom he get so much as now shée féeleth the want of it Ninthly he drue Mistresse Fortescue the widowe of Maister Edmond Fortescue into his exercise and so got a farme worth 50. poundes a yéere and paide her no rent Tenthly by this his exercise of consinage he perswadeth such gentlewomen as haue large portions to their mariage to giue the same to him and his companie and to become Nunnes So he preuayled