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A09610	An aduertisement written to a secretarie of my L. Treasurers of Ingland, by an Inglishe intelligencer as he passed throughe Germanie towardes Italie Concerninge an other booke newly written in Latin, and published in diuerse languages and countreyes, against her Maiesties late proclamation, for searche and apprehension of seminary priestes, and their receauers, also of a letter vvritten by the L. Treasurer in defence of his gentrie, and nobility, intercepted, published, and answered by the papistes.; Elizabethae, Angliae Reginae, haeresim Calvinianam propugnantis saevissimum in Catholicos sui Regnis edictum. English. Abridgments	Parsons, Robert, 1546-1610.; Cresswell, Joseph, 1556-1623, attributed name.; Verstegan, Richard, ca. 1550-1640, attributed name.	1592 (1592)	STC 19885; ESTC S121696	41,247	68

the other and to pull dovvne firste the Queene Dovvager by the Hamiltons and by them the Catholique religion and afterward the Hamiltons againe by others and then to ouerthrovv the true Queene proprietarie vvith her husband and to crowne her ovvne child against her self vvith the slaughters that ensued and affliction of Scotland by the often hostile entrance of the Inglishe souldiours which are recounted with many particulers of greate miserie and compassion their troublesome proceedings also vvith other nations are recou●●ed vvhich compared vvith the calme quiet and iuste proceedings of the Kinge of Spayne doe shevv as this ansvverer saith that my L. Treasurer vvhich he accounteth to be both author counceler and scribe of this proclamation not onely to lacke shame but also vvisedome and consideration in that he maketh her Maiestie to publishe to the vvorld things soo euidently false as these are that the King of Spaine is the onelie cause of the trouble of Christianitie at this day The third point of this section THE thirde member of this Section is about these wordes where it is saide in the proclamation that the King of Spaine now in his declined yeares meetest for peace when he ought to be satisfied with his owne without seekinge of more Kingdomes by violence seing be possesseth at this day more crownes Kingdomes and countreyes then euer any Christian Prince had before that all this notwithstanding he hath begunne a most vniuste warre aganist the present Kinge of France most daungerous to all Christendome which yet is like to be the ruine of himselfe as his enterprise against Inglande gaue him iuste cause to repent c. For answere of all this there are many points touched firste that the King of Spaine not onely in this his olde age but in all his life by testimony of the whole world hath bin euer most desirous and obseruante of peace and the Inglishe quyte contrary secondly that this exprobratiō of the Kinges old age is ridiculous her Maiestie folowinge him so nere in years as she doeth my L. Treasurer farr passing him and nerer to his graue by all likelyhood Thirdly that so greate amplification of the Kinges forces wealth and power being their enemy was inconsiderate and can serue to no other effecte but to terrifie their owne frends and subiects and to animate their contraries and to shew their lack of prouidence in making so vnequalla match fowerthly that this great power of the King of Spaine being so iustely and temperately vsed at it is can not be fearefull to any good man but rather confortable nor is it daungerous to Christendome but rather a great and singuler stay prouidence of almightie God who forseing the tumultes and reuoltes that heresies should bring in these tymes hathe prouided this so potent and opulent a Prince of all ages for the defence of his Catholique church in these troobles Fystly that this warre of the Kinge against Nauarre is not iniuste but moste iuste necessary not for any intereste of the Kings but onely for the good of France it self and consequently that all reasons and circumstances considered and the forces on both partes wayed it can not be like to be the ruine of the King of Spaine but rather of Nauarre and other heretiques depending of him or ioyning with him and albeit the Kings last fleete against Ingland had not the successe which was expected yet it was not for wante of strength or by any valure or praise of the Inglishe but rather by tēpeste lacke of experience in some principall officers and other such casualties that often fall out in warre whereof the Inglishe oughte not to bragg seing there are so many reasons and examples of enterprices that take successe the second or thirde tyme which did not at the firste whereof this awnswerer alleageth many testimonies and authorities both prophane and diuine which in the booke are to be seene After this he entreth to treate at large of Nauarres iniuste pretence to the crowne of France being an open knowen heretique as he saith and refusing to take the othe of mayntayning the Catholique Romaine religiō which all Kings both of Fraunce and Ingland haue taken before this and are bounde to take from the firste institution of Christian Kinges and that her Maiestie tooke also the same othe at her entrance to her crowne of Ingland and that by Cecils councell also by whose councell the same othe was afterwarde violated that the tytle of particuler succession in Kingdoms being founded onely vpon positiue lawes of seuerall countreyes and not vpon law of nature or nations for that Kingdomes and monarchies neither were from the beginning nor are at this day in all realmes a like it muste needes folow that the whole righte of these successions and interests to the same do depend of the particuler ordinances lawes othes and conditions with which each countrey hath ordayned admitted authorized their Kings vvhereof the cheefe condition beinge in the Kingdome of France hat the Kinge shall sweare and geue assurance to defende and mayntaine the olde Catholique Romaine religion and the professors thereof and Nauarre refusing to do the same he can by no law diuine or humaine be admitted to the crowne which is largely proued by many authorities examples and reasons Vpon this he declareth how al Catholique people in France are bounde vnder payne of damnable synne to resiste Nauarrs entrance into that crowne considering the inestimable dāmage that is like to ensew therof vnto that whole realme yf he shoulde preuaile And for the same consideration he proueth that the Catholique partie of French nobilitie that either for hope of honour and commodity or for hatred and emulation against others that are againste Nauarre or for any other passion or pretence whatsoeuer do folow or fauour him in this his pretēce doe offend God highely and are guiltie of al euills miseries of their countrey and that besydes the eternall punishement which they are to expecte at Gods handes excepte they repente they will also be destroied and pulled downe by Gods iuste iudgements in this world as this awnswerer sheweth by as many of the nobilitie both of France Flanders Ingland and Scotland by name as for any pretence whatsoener haue bin the firste ayders of heretiques in their countreyes haue perished and come to naught The III. Section THE third Section conteyneth an other large complaynte no lesse vniuste then the former as though the King of Spaine not onely by himself but by other mens helpes also wente aboute to annoy Inglād and this by three manner of wayes The firste is for that he is saide heere for fortifyinge of his strange violent attempts to haue procured a Milanois a Vassall of his owne to be exalled to the Papacie of Rome and to haue seduced him without consente of the colledge of Cardinalls to exhauste the Treasures of the church there with to leauie forces in Italie which had no sounde of ware in is

How he for conseruing the saide league and frendship refused to gyue aide to the aunciēte nobilitie of Ingland the yeare 1567. when they ment by force to haue reformed the estate and to haue hanged Cecil and Bacon againe how he denyed the same the nexte yeare after to the Earles of Northumberland VVestmerland and to the L. Dacres when they rose for the restoring of Religion in the North pressed ther vnto by M. Cecils vrginge How the K. afterwaerds to wit the yeare 1575. For contenting her Maiestie and at the persuasion of some of his owne officers but namely of the Commendader Maior that for the present gouerned Flanders was content to yeld to the banishement of all Inglishe Catholiques out of his estates of Flanders for the space of two years thoughe he paide them alwayes their pensions to liue on as before And for the same consideracion of frendship with the Queene and for his keeping his league with her he denyed diuers yeares helpes to the Irishe that demaunded the same as namely the yeare 1578. to Sir Iames Fizmoris and to Sir Thomas Stukeley and to the later of them when afterward he came with some fiue or six hundred men that he had broughte from Italie the King would not graunte so much as a porte in Spaine to enter into whereby he was forced to passe to Lisbone where finding the King of Portugall ready to go with his army to Barbary he could not refuse to go with him where he was slaine but to Sir Iames Fizmoris returning againe the nexte yeare to aske succours for the Irishe oppressed for their Religion in Ireland the Kinge denyed the same againe vntill at laste at the earnest sute of the Pope for that D. Sanders vpon his extreame zeale had aduentured to go thither before to comforte the Catholiques with lesse then fiftie men his Maiestie was contente to wynke at and say nothing whiles Sega the Bishop of Placētia the Popes Nuncio vnder certaine of his Italian Captaynes did send thither some foure or fiue hundred souldiers taken vp vpon the Sea coste of Italie which this awnswerer saith were those which my L. Gray so cowardly and traiterously murdered in Irland after they had yeilded themselues by cōposition the yeare 1580. And so from this time forward vntill the yeare 1585. he sheweth that the King of Spayne obserued most exactely his league with her Maiestie and the Inglishe nation at what tyme being inforced by the Queenes open taking of Flushing Briel Ostēde other townes in Flanders he made the arreste of the Inglishe shippes in Spaine but on the other side he declareth how the Inglish euen from the firste entrance ofher Maiestie to the crowne haue exercised all kinde ofhatefull hostile actions against the King by stirring vp and fauoring firste of all his rebelles in Flanders by intercepting his money firste in the Duke of Alua his time and alwayes after when they coulde lay handes on it by treating also first the comming of the Duke Matthias into Flanders and after ofMounsieur the Duke of Alenson and assisting him publiquely against the King in time of peace by mayntayninge and bolstering vp ofDon Antonio that calleth himself King ofPortugall by sending Hawkins Frobishire Drake Candishe other Pirates to the Indians and some ofthem euen in to Spaine it self for which he alleageth out ofStowes chronicles speciall commission geuen by her Maiestie to spoile the King of Spaines subiects by sea long before any breach ofleague was talked of by the Kinges parte and so he concludeth that this firste accusation of the proclamation is moste iniuste and that the whole world will laugh thereat that the writer thereof which he taketh to be my L. Treasurer was very shamelesse in setting it downe The 2. parte of this section THE secōde poynte of this Section cōcerneth that which the proclamation affirmeth of the King of Spaines ambitious doings also towardes other Princes besydes her Maiestie and that all Christendome is troubled at this day by his onely warres For discussing whereof this awnswerer laieth downe al the proceedings both ofher Maiestie and the King of Spaine with their neighboures from the beginnings of both their raignes And firste for the King ofSpaine he sheweth his dealings in particuler with the Turke Moores and other infidels then also with the Italians Portugalls French Inglishe Irishe Scotishe and Flemishe and sheweth al to haue bin euer most honorable quiet iuste without iniury offered to any as by their owne testimonies and witnesse also of all writers appeareth and for the warre and other affaires that haue passed in Portugall he proueth in particuler out of Hieronimo Franchi a Genoes that vvas present and wrote the storie and in other points sheweth himself no great frind to Spaniardes yet doeth he so iustifie all the Kings actions in this affaire euen by testimony of the Portugalles themselues as they seemed rather ouer scrupulous then onely iustifiable He proueth also outof Genebrard a French writter the King of Spaines noble proceedings with France in all the tymes of the minorities of al Kinge Henry the secōd his children to witt of Francis Charles and Henry the thirde and how he neuer soughte not onely to profit himself or to impaire the kingdome of France duringe those troubles as the Queene of Ingland did by taking new hauen but also ofhis owne charges sent aydes of men horse victualls and money often tymes to the succors of these younge Princes against their rebells notwithstanding the olde enimities emulatiō betweene these two crownes of France Spaine the cruell warres that had passed betwene them many years before Likwise he sheweth the kings wonderfull clemente proceeding with his owne subiects that haue rebelled in the low countreys as appeareth by his many pardons peaces and tolerations made with them his liberall and noble dealing with Inglishe Irishe and Scottishe especially such as haue bin troubled afflicted for their consciences at home whom he hath sustayned liberally abrode without requyring any seruice at their hands After this he taketh in hand to compare with this the Inglishe proceedings towardes all their neighbours rounde about them to whome he sheweth that they haue bin the proper and continuall causes of troubles warres sedition bloodshedd and vtter perdition as namely in Frāce of fower ciuill warres besides all other reuoltes and conspiracies against the true Kinges turmoyles in Religion and other garbroyles and the like to haue bin caused by them in Flanders by stirring vp and ayding firste the Guses and other rebelles of the countrie and then by settinge on foote Orenge and bringing in other princes and forraine povvers and lastly by open iniustice of inuadinge and holding the same to themselues as at this day they do In Scotland also he declareth very particulerly out of the Inglishe cronicles themselues what vvicked and sinfull stratagemes at the beginninge were vsed to putt that people at discorde the one against

before to inuade France a Kingdome that hath bin alwayes a mayntainer of that church in all their oppressions c. These are the wordes of the edicte which the awnswerer doth play vpon diuersly asking where my L. Treasurers wit was when se set foorth these fancies for first he saith that it is no noueltie for a vassall of the Kinge of Spaines to be made Pope seing the greatest partes of Italy and the Ilandes adiacent out of which nation in our times the Popes commonly are wonte to be chosen are vnder him the onely state of Millaine in our dayes hath had three Popes which were Pius quartus Pius quintus and this Gregorie the fourteenth whereof this proclamation speaketh Secondly he sheweth that it is rather a signe of great pietie and humility in the King then to be attributed to ambition yf he shoulde desire a subiecte of his owne to be made Pope and thereby to be made his superiour and better for that as this awnswerer auoucheth the pryde of hereticall Princes can not beare such a matter in particuler he thincketh my L. Treasurer for examples sake would not choose Cardinall Allen of all others to be Pope thoughe he be an Inglishman Thirdly he saith that it is a ridiculous complaynt that the Kinge seduced this Pope to exhauste the Treasures of the churche without the consent of the Colledge of Cardinalls as though the Pope were a childe or that Ingland had such care to conserue the Churches treasure whereof it seemeth that my L. Burley would also be treasurer aswell as of that of her Naiestie yf he might Fowerthly it is much more childishe saith he that the Pope by leuying souldiours in Italy for France did trouble the peace of Italie as my L. Cecill insnuateth moste of all it is foolishe saith he that the Church of Rome by sending ayde to the Catholiques of France doeth invade that Kingdome which hath bin a mayntayner of that churche in al her afflictions for neyther is this ayde of the Popes to inuade France but to assiste France nor is it sente against the French but for the French neyther is Nauarre of those Frenth Princes that ayded the church of Rome but contrarie to them and to theire faith affection towards that churche neither doeth there thing with thinge nor tyme with tyme nor person with person as he saith agree whereof he maketh pastyme at large against my L. Treasurer and and his broken Rhetorique as He tearmeth it The second point of this section THE secōde poynte touched in this sectiō is about the accusations layde against Cardinall Allen and father Persons whome the writer of the edicte calleth heads of sedition and of base birth saying that they haue bin dealte withall hy the King of Spaine to gather together with greate labours vpon his charges a multitude of dissolute younge men who either for lathe of liuing or crimes committed leaue theire countrey become fugitiues rebells and traytors and are broughte vp in certaine demies and receptacles named Seminaries erected in Rome Rheims Spaine For awnswere of this is examined first why these two men aboue others should be so odious to the state of Ingland seing they neuer cōmitted any thing against them that mighte iustely be imputed to hatred or euill will but rather haue soughte by all meanes their good both temporall and eternall yf they would see it And whereas the Scribe as this awnswerer tearmeth him thrusteth in a parēthesis as hath bin said that these two men are very base in birth the awnswerer handleth that poynte somewhat at large especially touching the Cardinall for that he lyuing in so eminent a place of dignitie such a slaunder as he saith is not to be passed ouer by silence albeit the other beinge a Religious mā and hidden from the worlde make lesse accompte of such affaires And by this occasion he commeth to defend the Cardinals gentry and to compare it with the nobilitie of all the present clergie of Ingland and with diuers of the Councell his enemyes namely with my L. Treasurer the bringer in of this comparison of whome he saith that a letter of his writen with his owne hande at westminster vpon the 10. of January last 1592. to a certaine intelligēcer of his in the low countries came vnto his hādes euen at this very tyme when he was come to awnswer this point of gentry and nobilitie touched in the proclamation and for that he saith the matter of the saide letter fell out fitt for this place he resolued to awnswer the same heere reducing the effecte hereof to two principall heads For my L. Treasurer in that letter first geueth thancks to the saide Intelligencer for sending him a copy of a printed pamphlet set forth presently in avvnsvver of this proclamation in which avvnsvver both the fact of setting foorth this proclamation and bloudy course determined to be folovved by the same is vvith many reasons thoughe briefely yet very pithely reproued and some persons that haue bin causers thereof but namely my L. Treasurer by reason of this his byte to the Cardinalls birth is insinuated to be but of very meane parentage wherevnto his L. replieth in these wordes firste that this course is a necessary course seing the multitude of priests saith he that come in dayly appeareth now to be so great as they are seuen for one in a yeare in respecte of former tymes and that this course will not he lefte for any such audacious censure of this awnswerer that he douhteth not but that the scope thereof is iustifiable in all Kingdomes and common wealthes where it shalbe knowen To which wordes of his L. this awnswerer saith firste that the necessitie of this course hath proceeded of the inconsideration and euill councell of such as haue gouerned more for their owne passion and interests then for the common good haue broughte her Maiestie by little litle to this bloudy necessitie which can not indure And secondly yf it be trew that seuen priests for one do returne home now in respecte of former tymes then saith he may his L. see what he and others haue profited by their former persecutions against Catholiques and accordinge to that may make their accompte and proportion for the tyme to come for yf they had not so vexed men at home neuer so many vvould haue come abrode nor yf there had not bin so great hope of martyrdome vvithin the Ilande neuer vvould so many haue desired to returne nor vvoulde forayne Princes so greedily haue sett vp Seminaries and offered mayntenance abrode for the same To the third poynt wherin his L. saith that this censure of this awnswerers and this laying of their errors before their eyes vvil not stay this course begunne of persecutiō this man saith he is also of the same opiniō that he tooke not this awnswere in hande with any such hope of stayinge this course vntill God shall bend or burste