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B00425	The pope's parliament, containing a pleasant and delightful historie, wherin are ... deliuered ... the paltry trash and trumperies of him and his pelting prelats ... : Whereunto is annexed an Anatomie of Pope Ioane, more apparently opening her whole life and storie. / Written by Iohn Mayo.	Mayo, John, fl. 1607-1629.	1591 (1591)	STC 17752; ESTC S124300	38,680	52

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What though she was brought vp in mans apparrell What though she was Pope of Rome with child and deliuered thereof in procession What spot and crime is this to vs What cause of banishment I pray you heartely can we heale the sore or quiet the slaunder Hath it béene in our power to remedie the euill and asswage the mischiefe Was not she fiue hundred yeares and more before this our time Then truely truely we are for that no more to be banished then the French are because their ancetours were sometime like to spoile and sacke the Capitoll or the Italians are because Petrus the head Captaine of the citie of Rome with two Consuls and twelue Aldermen and diuers other nobles gathering their powers togither laid hands vpon Pope Iohn the fourtéenth in the church of Laterane and clapt him in prison eleuen monethes Whereas it is farther obiected that our kinges Magistrates and rulers haue contemned and vilified the holy sea of Rome and haue verie ill entreated the Popes themselues with their Legates and faithfull seruants and that none of our countrie haue done such seruice fealtie and obedience to this blessed chair of Peter as it was meete and requisite for them I will proue the contrarie and that by such cléere and euident testimonies that you shal sée the obiections against vs flie away as the night clouds before the sunne What one of all our kings before the time of king Henrie the eight but did fauour and fortifie the holy Sea of Rome did homage and duetifull obedience to it and princely and honourablie fought in defence of it against the Turkes and Infidels and all other aduersaries whatsoeuer What a famous and singular king was Edgar What a worthy maintainer of the catholike faith doctrine He builded for religious monks 48 monasteries or as some report as many as be sundayes in the yeare Did not king Iua after he had ruled the West Saxons 37. yeares go to Rome and become a Monk resigning his kingdom to Ethelardus his Nephew These kings became Monkes Did not the Quéene also Ethelburga become an Abbesse ledde thereto with great and pure deuotion Did not Ethereldus of Mercia Kemedus of Mercia Offa of East Saxons Selly of East Saxons and Sigebertus king of East Angles do the like Haue not manie Queenes and kings daughters with other noble women become Nunnes for the zeale and loue they had to the Apostolique faith of Rome as Hilda Ercheirgoda with her sister Ermenilda These Queens became nūnes Edelberga Werburga Kinreda Kinswida her sister Elfleda with many others What shall I tell you of king Canutus who went to this holy citie on pilgrimage and founded here an hospital for English pilgrims and had such loue and heartie affection to it that he gaue to the Pope many precious gifts and burthened his land with a yearely tribute called the Romeshot I could tell you of many mo but for breuitie I will ouerslip them What shall I speake of many other excellent men which England hath nourished and fostered who haue refused no paines and forsaken no perils for the glorie and aduauncement of the Sea Apostolique of Rome He wrote a book against him called Opus scintillaerum Weakly and simplie God knoweth as is to be seen Traitors and conspirators Shall I tell you of Lanfrancus bishop of Canterburie that confuted the Sacramentarie heresie of Berengarius of the learned Abbot Petrus Cluniacensis that conuicted the doctrine of the Peterbrusians of Thomas Walden a most learned man that wrote against Wickliffe of the holie Bishop Fisher that learnedly refuted Luther Oecolampadius Shall I tel you of Cardinal Poole Gardiner Martin and of others of later memorie as Saunders Cope Bristow Dorman Parsons Morton and of an hundred more all which haue beene such worthie proctours and singular champions for the Catholike religion that no other Countrey hath yéelded and brought forth the like For as that nation first receiued the fayth from Rome so those which are not fallen into the damnable beresies of the Hugonetes and other secrataries do reuerence and obey the same and for their conscience will abide any crosse and tribulation whatsoeuer Saint Eleutherius Pope and Martyr the first Apostle of Brytaine preached in that land by Damianus Fugatius within little more then 100. yéers after Christs death Gregorie the great that holie Pope caused to be preached to the English nation by Augustinus Melitus and other holy priestes although the gospellers that be there now denie this and say that as well the report of Eleutherius as also of Augustine that the one was the first Apostle of the Brittaines the other of the English is vntrue and blindly hold that the faith was not first preached there by them the Gospel came into England frō the East and not from Rome but either by Ioseph of Arimathaea or by S. Paul the Apostle passing that way into Spaine or by Simon Zelotes or by the Gréeks or some others But the English only you say and none but they do hinder and annoy your sacred and ghostly procéedings and also subuert the good and gracious attempts of all your friends most loyall children What is this to vs They are gone from vs they are not of vs they are none of our fold they are giuen ouer to Sathan we haue forsaken them we haue no societie with them we defie damnifie detest them we reuolt not nor once so much as wauer we stick wholly and solely A verie hote and earnest proctor firmly fréely to the auncient Romane doctrine and so we will do come life come death come heauen come hell come fire come sword come any crosse or losse whatsoeuer Shal we be for this our loue tender affection reiected shal we be lopped off frō this fruteful vine as vnprofitable vnsauerie branches shall we be banished and yet iustly conuicted of no crime or offence that deserueth it If we be we must take it patiently but truly we will say and say againe iniusta nouerca summum ius summa iniuria an vnnaturall mother great right great iniurie The Pope perceiuing his vehement allegations his tediousnesse therein interrupted him with this chat Cease thy babling Cardinal leaue off thy ands and ifs tittle tattles I know not what iwis all not worth a blue point much a do and litle helpe fat féeding and leane cattell Hei misero pingui macer est tibi taurus in aruo Thou kickest against the pricke and castest water into the sea and shewest thy selfe not a Cardinall but a caitife not a catholicke but a schismaticke not an obedient child A graue and discreet reasoning of a Pope but a bastardly and beggerly brat so much to canuasse and cancell my words to spurne at my celestiall and lawfull procéedings and to go about to repel and obliterate my good purpose and determination Hast thou forgotten nosce teipsum know thy selfe Hast thou

against him Anno. 1581. Vide the Abridgment of the Acts and Monuments pag. 285. the illustrate lampe and Phenix of all the world the mother of Christian Princes and the verie Maul of me and all my ceremonies Looke vpon their bishops and doctours and you shall finde them to be blocks in our way and the onely subuerters of our faith and dominion What shall I tell you of Grosted sometime bishop of Lincolne who wrote diuers inuectiues against the high bishop Innocentius the fourth and reproued manifold abuses in the church of Rome yea and said that this old verse may be truly verified vpon it Eius auaritiae totus vix sufficit orbis Eius luxuriae meretrix non sufficit vna The whole world doth scarse satisfie his couetousnesse neither doth one harlot suffice for his leacherie I omit to tell you of Laurence Wickliffe and an hundred other such who proudly withstood the bishop of Rome made open disputation against him called him Antichrist and Rome great Babilon And as they haue earnestly and eagerly withstood and oppugned vs and our faith so haue they euill entreated and cruelly handled the professours thereof Héere I might tell you of Becket Moore Roffensis and manie others how bitterly they haue béene vsed by them and what torments and tortures they haue suffered for the profession of our faith I will come to men of later and fresher memorie and to those which with a false cloake and counterfait shew haue deceiued our holinesse and brought our religion into miserable contempt and obloquie Who knoweth not the lewd pranckes and knauerie that Stukely that arrant vagabound plaid of late with vs Who knoweth not the bold presumption and diuelish attempts of that mad and harebraind Sacramentarie Richard Atkins who rebuked the disorder of our liues proudly and heretically with splene and rancour scorned vpbraided and vilified this grounded rocke of Peter caught at the holy sacrament as the priest was carrying it to haue throwne it downe and héere in S. Peters church threw downe the Chalice with the wine and striued to haue pulled the cake out of the priests hands I could recite others vnto you as Nichols Munday with manie more who like peruerse hypocrites dissembled to be constant Catholiques and made external shew thereof but afterwards returning to their owne countrey reuolted and wrote most cursed scandales and satyricall inuectiues against vs and our Catholike faith but for breuities sake I will omit them Moreouer consider I pray this exactly how long hath that land reiected and disallowed the Apostolike Romane religion and the syncere professors thereof and how vehemently doth it now roote and ransacke it and the zealous fauourers thereof What land so much hindereth my procéedings battereth downe my title and supremacie and ouerthroweth the glorious fame and benediction of the Romane Church What land so much vexeth and annoyeth my swéet and sugred sonne Philip king of Spaine What land so much helpeth and succoureth the king of Nauerre fighting now for the crowne of France God giue him victorie ouer his enemies and quietly stablish him in his kingdom against the holy leaguers my welbeloued children and deuoted seruants What land euerie kinde of wayes standeth so stoutly and strongly against vs and all our louing friends Shall we harbour any inhabitants of that land Shall we holder and succour such viperous broodes and maintaine such rascall heretiques and libertines No no Ferro flamma perdamus Note the stomack and splene of the Pope let vs rather with fire and sword destroy them let vs no longer affect and fancie that rebellious nation yea noble Cardinals let vs go vpon these adders and lions and tread and trample them vnder our féete let vs curbe and chastice them and lay their honor in the dust and in so doing saluus erit Petrus salua erit ecclesia catholica Cardinall Allen séeing the Pope so malcontent and in such extreame enuie and enimitie against him and his countrymen could no longer be silent but this roundly vnlaced his mind Now do I find that true which I counted but for a fable that the greatest clearkes be not commonly the wisest men Now I sée that to be an oracle Polycraticon Iohannis Salisburiensis lib. 6. cap. 26. which heretofore I thought but a méere cauill that Roma non tam matrem exhibet quàm nouercam Rome sheweth herselfe not so much a naturall mother as a stepmother spoiling and deuouring her children when they thinke she most liketh and loueth them Now do I know by experience those words to be infallible veritie which that famous and learned doctour Erasmus vsed speaking of the aunswere of Pope Innocentius vnto the councel of Carthage Inter Epist August Epist 91. Eras In hac Epistola dictionem ingenium eruditionem tali Praesule dignam cogimur desyderare In this Epistle we misse both eloquence and wit and learning méete for such a Prelate 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 O miserie of mankind I would my head were full of water and mine eyes a fountaine of teares Is iustice now turned to wormewood good vnto euill swéete vnto sowre and light into darknesse Are Catholikes become cynickes Prelates become Pilates Philosophers become 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and religious men become irreligious Are small théeues according to Socrates led of great théeues to the gallowes and are the verie heads and pillers of the church themselues drowned in corruption and infected with manie pestilent diseases Why then Nec Petrus nec Paulus quid ergo restat Neither Peter nor Paul will helpe what shall we doe And must the English Catholikes be banished They are iustly serued if they be so that haue forsaken their countrey their goods and friends for the Romaine faith Must they be expelled who haue béene as faithfull louing and trustie seruants to the sea of Rome as anie other nation whatsoeuer And must they be exiled that haue aduentured their liues If you had bene good subiects you might haue liued at home and hazarded themselues into millions of daungers for their zeale to their mother church and to the professours thereof Then let the Spanish the French the Irish and the Scottish Catholikes be likewise exiled and pact out of Rome for they are as iustly to be thus vsed as we and as lawfully to be banished as we are and this I will proue But Quidlibet est quodlibet in suo genere as the Logicians say therefore I will first of all aunswere the reasons that haue béene obiected against vs by my high Lord and bishop least in saying nothing I should séeme to consent and so be conuicted The Cardinall doth bestir himselfe to defend himselfe his countrimen The principall and chiefest thing that is laid against vs is the woman Pope Dame Ioane who maketh no more against vs then Laterane church doth when it hath one English man or two in it What though she was an English woman and yet it is doubtfull whether