from whose modesty the recovery of the Kings favour assailed him afresh and without respect of his Majesty at such time as he led his Armies lately against the Peace-breakers with severe and terrible Letters nothing savoring of fatherly Devotion or Pastoral Patience but most bitterly threatning him with sentence of Excommunication and his Kingdom with an Interdict whereas on the otherside he rather ought with admonition to have mollified him and with merits and meekness overcome him If the Kings humility be so requited what will be determin'd against the stubborn If the ready devotion of obedience be esteem'd so slightly in what manner shall wilful obstiuacie be revenged Nay father to these so grievous threats are added yet matters far more grievous for he Excommunicated some of his Majesties Liegemen most inward with our Lord the King the Principal of his Privy Council who managed the counsels of the King and the affairs of his Kingdom and all this being neither cited nor impleaded neither as they say or call it guilty of any crime nor convicted nor confessing any thing Yea he went farther yet insomuch as he suspended from his Priestly and Episcopal Office our reverend Brother the Bishop of Salisbury being absent undefended neither confest nor convict before ever the cause of his suspension was approved of by the advice of those of the same Province or any others If therefore this course of proceedings in judgements so preposterous we spare to say inordinate be followed concerning the King and Kingdom what will be the end considering the time is evil and yeildeth great occasion of malice but that the band of grace and favour whereby the Kingdom and Priesthood have hitherto been united will be rent asunder c And so they appeal against the Archbishop Thomas The Church being somewhat troubled with these divisions it was the earnest desire of several to procure a peace and this the Pope himself wish'd having work enough to do with the Emperour Frederick To accomplish this upon the desire also of Henry An. 1168. he sends two Legates a Latere viz. Cardinal William and Cardinal Otto and accordingly impowered them with instructions to manage that accommodation in France He writes also to a Bar. anno 1168. § 3 4. Thomas desiring him by all means to give himself to peace and rather than not to have concord to wink at some things and yeild for a while Yet as if Thomas were not great enough before he intended to raise him above all in France to which purpose he resolved to make him Legat also over all those Churches but before he could bestow upon him that Legantine Authority he was to desire the King of France his leave which accordingly he did by b § 7 8 9. Letter As for the manner of the Treaty of Peace between the King and Thomas take the story of it from the Legates themselves to the Pope § 33. To our most blessed Father and Lord Alexander c. William and Oddo by the same Grace Cardinals c. Coming to the c c i. e. in France Dominions of the renowned King of England we found the controversie between him and Canterbury aggravated in far worse sort believe us than willingly we could have wished For the King with the greatest part of his followers affirmed how the Archbishop with great vehemencie d d Speed § 29. This Accusation Thomas denyed incensed the most worthy King of France against him and in like sort induced his Cosin the Earl of Flanders who before did bear him no malice to fall out with him and raise the most powerful war he could against him and this he knew of a certainty and it appear'd so by several evident demonstrations For whereas the said Earl departed from the King very friendly the Archbishop coming into his Province to the very seat of the War incited as much as in him lay as well the King of France as the said Earl to Arms The King affirm'd also that the Informations concerning the ancient Customs of England deliver'd to you were false and not true which also the Bishops there present did witness The King offer'd also that if any Customs since his time were devised contrary to the Ecclesiastical Laws he would submit them to your judgement Calling therefore to us the Archbishops Bishops and Abbots of the Kings Dominions that the King might not deprive us of all hopes of peace but rather suffer himself to be drawn to have a Conference with the Archbishop as well concerning the peace as the judgement Sending therefore Letters unto a a i. e. Thomas him by our Chaplains we appointed a certain and safe place where we might have conference with him on the Feast of St. Martin he nevertheless pretending excuses put off this Conference until the Octaves of that Saint which truely vexed the King more than could be imagined But when we saw that the Archbishop although we offer'd him safe conduct would nevertheless give us no meetings in any part of the Kings Dominions next the French we being willing to yeild to him that there might be nothing wanting in us which might redound to his profit came to a place in the Realm of France which himself appointed Being come to the Conference we began most earnestly to perswade him that he would behave himself to the King who had been his singular Benefactor with such humility as might afford us sufficient matter on which to ground our Petition for peace At which retiring himself aside with his friends after some consultation with them he answer'd that He had sufficiently humbled himself to the King without impeaching the honour of God the liberty of the Church the reputation of his own Person the possessions of the Church and farther the justice due to him and his friends These things so numbred up we seriously perswaded him as it was necessary to descend to particulars but when he would alledge nothing either certain or particular we demanded of him if in the matters specified in your Letters he would submit himself to our judgement as the King and Bishops had already promised to do to which he presently replyed that he had received no Mandat from you to this purpose But if he and all his might first be fully restored he would then proceed according as the Apostolick See should direct him So returning from the Conference since his words neither tended to judgement nor agreement nor yet would he by any means enter into the matter We manifested unto the King some things but concealing other passages as it was convenient and tempering other things what we heard c. Thomas b Bar. § 38 39 c. writes also to the Pope and informs him of the same conference and in a manner confesseth all here set down expecting his instigating the French against King Henry And another c § 53 54. Letter he writes to the Cardinals at Rome pitifully complaining that King
carrying himself so cunningly that at last by his own commendations and flatteries he inveagled himself into the esteem and favour of Pius V Bishop of Rome whom this Stukely had perswaded that with three thousand Italians he would drive the English out of Ireland and fire all their Fleet Things which old Pius greedily wish'd for with the destruction of the Queen But this Pope whom they have almost sanctifyed and made a a Worker of Miracles dying there succeeded to him Gregory XIII who carryed on with the same desires bare the same favour to poor Stukely hoping to get the Kingdom of Ireland for his own son Giacopo de Boncompagno whom a little before he had made Marquess of Vineola and of this Royalty Stukely assured him and made proud the Bastard Thus the Pope and his Son full with hopes of a new Kingdom the better to countenance this their beggerly boasting Factor Gregory as if all Ireland and Authority were his own honours Stukely with the Noble Titles of Baron of Ross Vicount Morough Earl of Wexford and Caterloghe And Marquess of Leinster Thus with a muster of Titles and a Band of eight hundred Italian Foot some say a Jeron Conestaggio 600 others b Cicarella in vita Gregor XIII 6000 with a plenary c Tho. Bell's Motives p. 34. Indulgence for Stukely's soul to avoyd Purgatory he imbark'd in a Genoa Ship at Civita Vecchia In the mean time Sebastian the youthful King of Portugal had rais'd a Potent Army some think to fall upon Ireland But a dissention falling out for the Kingdoms of Morocco and Fez between d Mulei signifieth a Lord 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈…〉 Royal bloud Mulei Moluc some call him Abdala Meluc or Abdelmeluch the Uncle and his Nephew Mulei Mahomet in which it hapned the latter to have the worst and to be beat out of the Kingdom which for some time he had possest as eldest Son to old Abdala Mulei Mahomet the Nephew thus routed addresseth himself by his Agents to Sebastian for assistance The King of Portugal spur'd on as some have fancyed by the Jesuits the better to make way for the Spanish sway over that Kingdom should Sebastian miscarry promiseth to relieve and resettle him and so provides for his passage into Africa Whilst things are preparing Stukely arrives with his Titles and Followers at the mouth of the River Teio in Portugal lands at Oeras whither Sebastian goeth to see him and perswades him and the rest to venture with him in his Mauritanian expedition The King and his Army take Ship and land in Africa the Chieftains more like Courtiers then Souldiers the other liker Pesants then men at Arms Thus under the fickle conduct of a rash King they meet the Moors in the plain of Tamita fight are routed and cut to pieces and this by some is call'd the Battel of the three Kings because here three ended their days but in different fashions I. Don Sebastian King of Portugal was slain valiantly fighting But some would have him to live many years after and appear at Venice to the fobbing up of some Portugals the little trouble to the Spaniard but a certain imprisonment and ruine to the undertaker though he had a minde to King it for a while II. Mulei Meluc came sick to the Field and dyed before his Victory was fully accomplish'd And after the fight and Victory his younger Brother Mulei Hamet who here acted as General of his Horse was saluted King of Morocco and Fez. III. Mulei Mahomet the Nephew and Competitor seeing his friends the Portugals beaten thinking to save himself by flight was drown'd as he thought to pass the River Mucazen And amongst these great ones our Thomas Stukely had the fortune and honour to end his days And thus Ireland escaped a mischief for the carrying on of which Treasons of Stukely Dr. Lewis Archdeacon of Cambray Referendarie to the Pope and afterwards Bishop of Cassano though born a subject to England was very forward and active very much soliciting Gregory XIII in behalf of the said Stukely and his projects against his own Queen and Country About the beginning of King Charles I his Reign I meet with one call'd a James Wadsworth his English-Spanish Pilgrime chap. 7. pag. 64. Edit 2. Sir Thomas Stukely living at Milan as a Pensioner to the Spanish King and him I finde branded as a Traytor and Enemy to his Country but of what relation or kin to the former Stukely I know not Thus this mischief intended against Ireland was for a time cut off For Portugal thus deprived of her King his great Uncle Cardinal Henry was proclaimed who being old the Spaniard after his death resolved for the Crown for the better securing of which he staid and kept his great forces lately levyed in Italy as some think for Ireland to pour upon and win Portugal when occasion served which he afterwards accomplish'd of which see at large b Istoria dell ' Unione del Regno di Portogallo alla Corona di Castiglia Jeronimo Conestaggio an excellent and understanding Genoes Historian though I meet with a c A Book call'd in Spanish Trattade Parenetico and Fuoro Villaco as Dralymont translating it into French la Liberte de Portugal The English bad Translator calls it The Spanish Pilgrime and so the Author subscribes himself in his Dedicatory Epistle to Henry IV of France Portugallized Spaniard very sharp and severe with him which Kingdom the Portugais regain'd again 1640 in the name of Don Juan Duke of Braganza whom they Crown'd and saluted King John the Fourth This storm thus blown over another appears We heard formerly how James Fitz-Morice submitted himself to Sir John Perot but in his pretended loyalty and honesty he could not long continue for he steals into France addresseth himself to Henry III offers him the Kingdom of Ireland but desires a few Forces to beat out the English and so to subdue that Nation to the French obedience Henry having his thoughts at home straitned between the Guisian and Hugonot wisely rejects such idle thoughts Upon which Fitz-Morice hastes to Spain where he makes the same offers to the Catholick King Philip II lends him an ear sends him to Gregory XIII who year 1579 hugs the designe and joyns with him Nicolas Sanders an English-man born in Surrey well known by his writings and one Allan an Irish man both Doctors and Priests The first was by the Pope declared his Nuncio for Ireland and bless'd with a Consecrated Banner to be known by its Cross-Keyes Thus sanctified wâ—â—h an Infallible Authority and a little money in their fists with Letters of Commendation to the Spanish King they haste to Spain thence ship for Ireland and land in Kerry Upon which the English Romanists at Rome a 〈…〉 cap. 11. pag 156 157 158. rejoyce and triumph not quâ—stioning but all would be their own And for a farther reâ—râ—iâ— the Pope orders more Souldiers to be rais'd in his
all before them another Fleet is prepared to invade England and for a further encouragement as well of English as others to be assistants in this enterprise their Lord high Admiral draws up a Proclamation which was printed and published and you may Dr. Mat. Sutcliff's Blessings on Mount Gerizzim or the happy Estate of England pag 292 293 294 295. take it as followeth as I meet with it COnsidering the Obligation which his Catholick Majesty my Lord and Master hath received of God Almighty to defend and protect his holy Faith and the Apostolical Roman Church he hath procured by the best means he could for to reduce to the ancient and true Religion the Kingdoms of England and Ireland as much as possibly hath been in his power And all hath not been sufficient to take away the offence done against God in damage of the self-same Kingdoms with scandal of whole Christianity yea rather abusing the Clemencie and Benignity of his Catholick Majesty the heads and chief of the Hereticks which little fear God have taken courage to extend their evil Doctrine with the oppressing of Catholicks Martyring them and by divers ways and means taking from them their lives and goods b b He hath forgot the Spanish Inquisition forcing them by violence to follow their damnable Sects and Errours which they have hardly done to the loss of many souls Which considered his Catholick Majesty is determin'd to favour and protect those Catholicks which couragiously have defended the Catholick Faith and not onely those but such also as by pusillanimity and humane respects have consented unto them forced thereunto through the hard and cruel dealings of the said Catholicks Heretical Enemies And for the execution of his holy Zeal he hath commanded me that with force by Sea and Land which be and shall be at my charge to procure all means necessary for the reduction of the said Kingdoms unto the obedience of the Catholick Roman Church In Complement of the which I declare and protest that these Forces shall be imploy'd for to execute this holy intent of his Catholick Majesty directed onely to the common good of the true Religion and Catholicks of those Kingdoms as well those which be alreadie declared Catholicks as others who will declare themselves such For all shall be received and admitted by me in his Royal Name which shall separate and apart themselves from the Hereticks And furthermore they shall be restored to the Honour Dignity and Possessions which heretofore they have been deprived of Moreover every one shall be rewarded according to the Demonstrations and Feats which shall be shown in this Godly enterprise And who shall proceed with most valour the more largely and amply shall be remunerated with the goods of obstinate Hereticks Wherefore seeing Almighty God doth present to his Elect so good an occasion therefore I for the more security Ordain and Command the Captains General of Horse and Artillerie the Master General of the Field the Captains of Companies of Horse and Foot and all other Officers greater and lesser and men of War the Admiral General and the rest of the Captains and Officers of the Army that as well at Land as Sea they use well and receive the Catholicks of those Kingdoms who shall come to defend the Catholick Cause with Arms or without them For I command the General of the Artillery that he provide them of Weapons which shall bring none Also I Ordain and straitly command that they have particular respect unto the Houses and Families of the said Catholicks not touching as much as may be any thing of theirs but onely of those that will obstinately follow the part of Hereticks in doing of which they be altogether unworthy of those favours which be here granted unto the good who will declare themselves for true Catholickes and such as shall take Arms in hand or at least separate themselves from the Hereticks against whom and their favourers all this War is directed in defence of the honour of God and good of those Kingdoms trusting in Gods Divine mercy that they shall recover again the Catholick Religion so long agone lost and make them return to their ancient quietness and felicity and to the due obedience of the holy Primitive Church Moreover these Kingdoms shall enjoy former immunities and priviledges with encrease of many others for time to come in great friendship confederacie and traffick with the Kingdom of his Catholick Majesty which in times past they were wont to have for the publick good of all Christianity And that this be put in execution speedily I exhort all the faithful to the fulfilling of that which is here contain'd warranting them upon my word which I give in the name of the Catholick King my Lord and Master that all shall be observed which is here promised And thus I discharge my self of the losses and damages which shall fall upon those which will follow the contrary way with the ruine of their own souls the hurt of their own Country and that which is more the honour and glory of God And he which cannot take presently Arnis in hand nor declare himself by reason of the tyranny of the Hereticks shall be admitted from the Enemies Camp and shall pass to the Catholick part in some skirmish or battel or if he cannot he shall flee before we come to the last encounter In testimony of all which I have commanded to dispatch these presents confirmed with my Hand sealed with the Seal of mine Arms and Refirmed by the Secretary underwritten Though Father Parsons was very solicitous to understand the W. Clarkes Reply unto a Libel fol. 65. success of these preparations yet he did not expect any great matters to be performed by them and so it fell out to the no small grief we need not question of many Romanists And to augment the sorrow of the Hispanioliz'd Faction the death of the Spanish King hapned the same year to whom succeeded his son Philip III of whose attempts against Queen Elizabeth you may hear in the next Century The end of the seventh Book THE HISTORY Of the HOLY League AND Covenant IN FRANCE BOOK VIII CHAP. I. An INTRODUCTION to the HOLY LEAGUE THE Beginning of this Century had like to have been year 1502 troublesom to Germany by a mischievous League designed in the Bishoprick of Spire by a Company of barbarous clownish rustick High-shooes and so by the Germans t is Nicol. Basel Addit ad Chroâ— Naucleri p. 394. L. ur Sâ—râ—â— Com p 3â— call'd Bundiscuch These like our Levellers were to raise themselves into as high a Grandeur as any by swearing to reduce all other men to their meanness by equalling all mankind into the same condition by rooting out all Magistracy Dignities and Laws As for the Church which is continually struck at by Traitors and such Sacrilegious Wretches she was not to escape their Villanies they designing to rob her of her Revenues Titles and Decency to
done on him his Twelve men were also executed Yet for all these great and noble Successes of the Loyallists the Rebels would not absolutely give over their wickedness though their main security were some beggarly lurking-places in Boggs and Woods But that which render'd them so stubborn was the great confidence they had in the Spanish Army which indeed had come to their relief if the loss of Dunboy had not so much discouraged the Catholique King who upon notice of its taking sent into Gallicia to Carrazena Governour of Corunna to stop the Army and other Necessaries for Ireland considering the place where he expected to land them was taken One of the chief Incendiaries among them at this time was their Bishop of Ross Owen Mac Eggan or as some call him Eugenius O-Hegan who by his pretended Dignity as Vicarius Apostolicus his favour and credit with the King of Spain his Interest with their Clergy being impower'd by the Pope to dispose of all the Ecclesiastical Livings in Munster and other Favours he enjoyed carryed a great stroke amongst the people commanding and ruling all as he pleased and such was his malice against obedient Subjects were they Irish or Romanists that all that he could any ways seize on he would in piety as he pretended first have them confessed and absolved and then presently in his own sight murdered and this he esteemed a notable sign of Catholique Sanctity At last it was the fortune of the Loyallists to meet with a Party of the Rebels in which Conflict this furious Mac Hegan commanded an hundred Horse himself leading them on with his Sword drawn in one January 1602 â— hand and his Breviary and Beads in the other where he was slain and the Rebels routed In short such was the prosperity of the Loyallists that the Traytors seeing no safety for them either in Rebellion or Spaniard began by degrees to crave pardon and submit and Tir-Oen himself sent several Letters to the Queen acknowledging his offence and begging her mercy and at last thus submitted himself to Montjoy The said Lord Deputy being at Mellifont not far from Drogheda thither March 30. 1603. comes Tyrone only with one or two in company Being admitted to the Presence Chamber the L. Deputy sitting in the Chair of State he fell on his knees at the very Threshold Having laid prostrate a while the Lord Deputy beckon'd unto him to come nearer Then approaching Speed some steps he prostrated himself again on his knees saying In the Royal Clemency of my dread Soveraign and most gracious Queen I do only lay the hope and rest of my remaining Estate unto whose pleasure I absolutely remit my Life and whole Revenues and do most submissively deplore mine own misery Beseeching again her Mercy whose bountiful Favours I have heretofore and mighty Powers now of late both felt and found and well hope that the Fountain of her everlasting Graces are not drawn dry Let me I pray be the Subject whereon her Mercy may work and an ensample for ever of her mild Clemency both to divulge her Princely Lenity and to redeem in some part the Honour I have lost For Age I am not so unserviceable nor of Body so unable neither in Courage so dejected but that my faithful Service in her behalf may expiate and make some measure of satisfaction for these my many and disloyal Rebellions And yet I may justly complain That through the malicious Envy of some I have been hardly and unfriendly dealt with which may somewhat extenuate my Crime and Offence For He was proceeding to offer some Excuses for his faults but the Lord Deputy interrupted him saying That so great a Crime was not to be colour'd March 31. The. Bown's Appendix to his Translation of Cambden's Elizab. with any excnse Then after some few words pronounced Majesteriously Conqueror-like he commanded him to depart aside And the next day Tir-Oen signed this following submission with his own hand and delivered it up to the Lord Deputy I Hugh O-Neale by the Queen of England France and Ireland her most gracious favour created Earl of Tir-Oen do with all true and humble Penitency prostrate my self at her Royal Feet and absolutely submit my self unto her Mercy most sorrowfully imploring her gracious Commiseration and appealing only to her Princely Clemency without presuming to justifie my unloyal proceedings against her Sacred Majesty only most sorrowfully and earnestly desiring that it may please her Majesty rather in some measure to mitigate her just Indignation against me in that I do religiously vow That the first Motives of my most unnatural Rebellion were neither Practice Malice or Ambition but that I was induced first by fear of my Life which I conceived was sought by mine Enemies practise to stand upon my guard and afterwards most unhappily led to make good that Fault with more hainous offences which in themselves I do acknowledg deserve no forgiveness and that it is impossible for me in respect of their greatness in any proportion even with my Life to make satisfaction I do most humbly desire her Majesty to pardon them that as I have already been a sufficient Argument of her Royal Power having little left but my Life to preserve it self so that it may now please her Majesty to make me an Example of her Princely Clemency the chiefest Ornament of her High Dignity And that I may be the better able hereafter with the uttermost service of my Life to redeem the foulness of my Faults I do most humbly sue unto her Majesty That she will vouchsafe to restore me to my former Dignity and Living in which estate of a Subject I do most religiously vow to continue for ever hereafter Loyal in all true obedience to her Royal Person Crown Prerogative and Laws and to be in all things as far and as dutiful conformable thereunto as I or any other Noble-man of this Realm is bound by the duty of a Subject to his Soveraign or by the Laws of this Realm Utterly renouncing and abjuring the Name and Title of O Neale or any other Authority or Claim which hath not been granted or confirmed unto me by her Majesty and that otherwise by the Laws of this Realm I may not pretend just interest unto And I do religiously swear to perform so much as is above-mentioned and the rest of these Articles subscribed by mine own hand as far as shall any way be in my power and to deliver such Pledges for the performance thereof as shall be nominated unto me by the Lord Deputy I do renounce and abjure all Forreign Power whatsoever and all kind of dependency upon any other Potentate but her Majesty the Queen of England France and Ireland and do vow to serve her faithfully against any Forreign Power invading her Kingdoms and to discover truly any Practises that I do or shall know against her Royal Person or Crowns And namely and especially I do abjure and renounce all manner of
Worth and Quality attempted through the Undertaking spirits of some more fiery and turbulent than zealous aâ—d dis-passionate Catholicks hath made the general state of our Catholique Cause so scandalous in the eye of such whose corrupted Judgments are not able to fan away and sever the fault of the Professor from the Profession it self as that who now is found to be of that Religion is perswaded at least in mind to allow though God knoweth as much abhorring as any Puritan whatsoever the said former most inhuman and barbarous Project And whereas some of his Majesties Council but especially your Lordship as being known to be as the Philosopher termeth it a Primus Motor in such uncharitable proceedings are determined as it is feared by taking advantage of so foul a scandal to root out all the Memory of Catholique Religion either by sudden Banishment Massacre Imprisonment or some such unsupportable Vexations and Pressures and perhaps by decreeing in this next Parliament some more cruel and horrible Laws against Catholiques than already are made In regard of these Premises there are some good men who through Good men and Roman Catholiques their earnest desire for the continuing the Catholique Religion and for saving many souls both of this present and of all future posterity are resolved to prevent so great a mischief though with a full assurance aforehand of the loss of their dearest lives You are therefore hereby to be admonished that at this present mayâ— murther Privy-Councellors there are Five which have severally undertaken your Death and have vowed the performance thereof by taking already the Blessed Sacrament if you continue your daily plotting of so Tragical Stratagems aginst Recusants It is so ordered that none of these Five knoweth who the other Four be for the better preventing the discovery of the rest if so any one by attempting and not performing should be apprehended It is also already agreed who shall first attempt it by shot and so who in order shall follow In accomplishing of it there is expected no other than assurance of death yet it will willingly be embraced for the preventing of those general Calamities which by this your transcendant Authority and grace with his Majesty are threatned unto us And indeed the Difficulties herein are more easily to be digested since two of the intended Attempters are in that weak state of body that they cannot live above three or four Months The other Three are so distressed in themselves and their Friends as that their present Griefs for being only Recusants do much dull all apprehension of Death None is to be blamed in the true censuring of Matters for the Nor are they to be blamed for it undertaking hereof For we protest before God We know no other means left us in the World since it is manifest that you serve but as a Match to give fire unto his Majesty to whom the worst that we wish is That he may be as great a Saint in Heaven as he is King on Earth for intending all Mischiefs against the poor distressed Catholicks Thus giving your Lordship this Charitable Admonition the which may perhaps be necessary hereafter for some others your Inferiors at least in Grace and Favour if so they run on in their former Inhuman and Unchristian Rage against us I cease putting you in mind That where once True and Spiritual Resolution is there notwithstanding For 't is a True and Spiritual Resolution all dangers whatsoever the Weak may take sufficient Revenge of the Great Your Lordship 's well-admonishing Friends c. A. B. Câ— c. It may be your Lordship will take this but as some forged Letter of some Puritans thereby to incense you more against Recusants But we protest upon our Salvation It is not so Neither can any thing in human likelihood prevent the effecting thereof but the change of your course towards Recusants This Letter at the beginning offers fair seeming to detest the Gunpowder-Plot but little of truth and sincerity may be expected from it when we consider that the design of it is to Apologize for Murther to which it appears there is a Club or number of them consenting and attempting and they are not ashamed to assert That though they murther Privy-Councellors yet the Murtherers may be good men nor are they to be blamed for it for 't is a True and Spiritual Resolution But enough of this Letter to which the Earl himself was pleased to give an Answer The Oath of Allegiance was prudently drawn up and confirmed by Act of Parliament which Oath being the Foundation and Sum of this Treatise take as followeth word for word and for distinction sake divided into several Branches or Articles The Oath of Allegiance Anno Tertio Jacobi I A. B. do truly and sincerely Acknowledg Profess Testifie and Declare in my Conscience before God and the World That our Soveraign Lord King is Lawful and Rightful King of this Realm and of all other his Majesty's Dominions and Countreys And that the Pope neither of himself nor by any Authority of the Church or See of Rome or by any other means with any other hath any Power or Authority to Depose the King Or to dispose any of his Majesties Kingdoms or Dominions Or to Authorize any Forreign Prince to Invade or Annoy him or his Countreys Or to Discharge any of his Subjects of their Allegiance and Obedience to his Majesty Or to give License or Leave to any of them to bear Arms raise Tumults c. Or to offer any violence or hurt to his Majesties Royal Person State or Government or to any of his Majesties Subjects within his Majesties Dominions Also I do swear from my heart That notwithstanding any Declaration or Sentence of Excommunication or Deprivation made or granted or to be made or granted by the Pope or his Successors or by any Authority derived or pretended to be derived from him or his See against the said King his Heirs or Successors or any Absolution of the said Subjects from their Obedience I will bear Faith and true Allegiance to his Majesty his Heirs and Successors And him and them will defend to the uttermost of my Power against all Conspiracies and Attempts whatsoever which shall be made against his or their Persons their Crown and Dignity by reason or colour of any such Sentence or Declaration or otherwise And will do my best endeavour to disclose and make known unto his Majesty his Heirs and Successors all Treasons and Trayterous Conspiracies which I shall know or hear of to be against him or any of them And I do further swear That I do from my heart Abhor Detest and Abjure as Impious and Heretical this Damnable Doctrine and Position That Princes which be Excommunicated or Deprived by the Pope may be Deposed or Murthered by their Subjects or any other whatsoever And I do believe and in Conscience am resolved That neither the Pope nor any Person whatsoever hath
sent to Robert Gâ—iscard Chief of the Normans and Lord of Pulia and Calabria to beg his help at a dead-lift who though then in Wars against the Grecian Emperour Alexius sends him sufficient relief who deliver him from Castle St. Angelo thence they convey him to Salerno in the Kingdom of Naples where he a An. 1085. Baron anno 1098. § 13. dyed Sigebert and lately Father b Remonstrantia Hibernorum part 5. p. 2. Caron tells us that being neer his death he confess'd that he had stirr'd up all these troubles by the suggestion of the Devil c. But the Popes Champions would not have us to believe this but on the contray that he is a Saint for more confirmation of which they have placed his name in their c 25 May. Calendar and if we look for Miracles to prove it we might begin at his Infancie where we finde him being the Son of a Carpenter which d An. 1073. § 16. Baronius thinks a good hint strangely to foretell by his Fathers Chips his own Dominion over the World from Sea to Sea And if we take him towards his latter end lest his actions which so many question should be held as illegal or any what amiss we are told Baron an 1084. § 10 11 12. pretty stories how they were all approved of and declared authentick from Heaven by the holy Ghost And thus much for Gregory the Seventh or Hildebrand after whom his partakers in Italy chose Victor the Third who followed the steps of his Predecessor Gregory by which divisions Italy and Germany were pittifully harass'd especially Rome having daily wars and fightings in her very streets between the Souldiers of the two Popes Clement and Victor but the latter lived not long dying the second year of his Popedom After whom the Anti-Imperialists chose Vrban the Second by An. 1088. some jeeringly call'd Turbanus who also shew'd himself a fierce Enemy against the Emperour which broyls were no small detriment to Christendom Clement and Vrban cursing one another and their adherents to the purpose insomuch that between them there were few Christians in Germany and Italy left uncurst or damn'd and blest and saveâ— again at the same time But that which greatly strengthned Vrban was the revolt of Conrade Eldest Son to Henry whom the Emperour leaving in Italy in his absence he rebell'd An. 1093. against his Father and took part with Vrban who acknowledged him to be King of Italy and accordingly was Crown'd so at Millan and to make him more sure they had him marryed to the Daughter of Roger Duke of Sicily besides this they had taught this their young King so much obedience to the See of Rome as to hold the Popes e Baron an 1095. § 8. Stirrop And this revolt or unnatural rebellion lost Henry all his interest in Italy many of his old Friends adoring the rising Sun not thinking but Conrade would be Emperour But death spoils many a design for Conrade dyed before his Father year 1100 and so did Vrban and Clement Upon which several pretended to the Chair of St. Peter but Paschal the Second got the surest footing between whom and the Emperour was no more agreement than with those gone before This Paschal confirming all the thundring Excommunications and Deprivations against Henry who was now fallen into a great trouble For his now Eldest Son Henry Conrade being dead was perswaded by wicked counsel that it was best to look about him and take the Government upon him his Father having no right to Rule by reason of the Roman Decree against him And many fine words did they tell him of St. Peter of Christs Vicar of the power of the Church c. And thus under the pretence of piety was he perswaded to rebel against his Father This being known Germany was divided some standing for the Father others for the Son and both parties behaved themselves so carefully that both their Armies were powerful and between them much bloud was shed but at last the Marquess of Austriae and the Duke of Bohemia An. 1105. turn'd tail and fled over to the Son basely leaving the old Emperour in the lurch which so lesned his Force that he was constrain'd to take advice and shift for himself with a few trusty Friends Being thus down the winde there were small hopes of recruting every one now running over to the Conqueror To be short a meeting is appointed at Mentz where meet many Bishops and Nobles and trusty cards for young Henry and to carry more Authority Paschal had sent thither his two Legats and to make all sure young Henry himself was there who made pretty canting Speeches to the people telling them that he intended no harme to his Father neither desired his deposition onely took care for the Glory of God and the honour of St. Peter and Christ's Vicar c. which hony-words pleas'd the seditious people exceedingly so that here they conclude the old Emperour not fit to Rule and that his Son ought to be the man and Governour Having gone thus far it was not now for them to look back and so they very fairly go and have him deposed The story it self being somewhat lamentable take as followeth out of their own approved Authors The Bishops of Mentz Colen and Worms were order'd to go to Car. Sigonius de Regno Ital. anno 1106. Helmoldus Hist Sclavorum c. 32. Aâ—b Krantzius Hist Saxon. lib. 5. c. 20 21 22 23 24. him and to bring from him the Imperial Ensigns viz. the Cross Lance Scepter Globe or Golden-ball and Crown with the Sword They went and demanded of him these Badges of which things he demanded the reason they replyed Because he had committed Simony in nominating to Bishopricks and Abbies To whom the amazed Emperour thus answered You my Lords of Mentz and Colen tell me by the Name of God what I have received from you They confess'd that he had received nothing Then said the Emperour Glory be to God that in this We are found faithful for your great Dignities might have brought great gain to me had I gone that way My Lord of Worms likewise knows that he received his Bishoprick freely My good Fathers break not your Oaths I am now old and you need stay but a little But if there be no remedy I shall deliver the Crown to my Son with mine own hands But they making offer to lay hands upon him he retired himself put on his Imperial Ensigns and returned to them saying The goodness of God and the election of the Princes gave these to me and God is able to preserve them unto me and to with-hold your hands from this action although We want Our Forces though I doubt not of any such violence c. Hereupon the Bishops stay'd a while as if they knew not what to do yet at last incouraging one another they bolted up the Emperour took the Crown from his head and then taking him out
and dated his Letters from the year of his Popedom And now I talk of datings I might speak here of Philip the First of France of his Excommunication An. 1100. and how some would thence conclude that he was thereby deprived from his Kingdom and bring for a proof some datings not with the Raign of the King but the year and Rule of Christ under this form Regnante Christo But seeing c Hist de France tom 2. p. 89. § 5. Scipion Dupleix slights it as of no validity and that vastly read David Blondellus hath in a particular large a De formulae Regnante Christo usu Treatise shewn its mistake and that such Forms have been many times used when no Excommunication or Censure obliged it I shall not trouble the Reader nor my self any farther with it CHAP. III. 1. The Kings of England denyed the Popes Coercive Authority over them or their Dominions 2. The troubles of England by the arrogancie and obstinacie of Thomas à Becket against his Soveraign King Henry the Second Sect. 1. The Kings of England denyed the Popes Coercive Authority over them or their Dominions HAving now seen in part how the greatest Emperours have been tost about by the Popes it will not be amiss to hint at their indeavours to reduce England to the slavery of their humours and what may we not expect from their pretended grand Spiritual jurisdiction when we shall see an Archbishop and a born Subject too bandy against his Soveraign Henry the Second which story is here related As for England the Pope would be Lord over it as well as other Nations nor did his Religion any way advance the Obedience and Allegiance of Subjects For though one Pope had approved of King William the First his Conquest by sending him a b Speed book 9. c. 2. § 2. consecrated Banner an Agnus Dei and one of St. Peters Hairs in way of his good speed Yet the next Pope viz. Gregory the Seventh demands fealty from him as may appear by the Kings Dr. Geo Hakewell's Answ to Dr. Cariers Letter pag. 141. Answer in Sir Robert Cottons Library Hubertus Legatus tuus Religiose Pater ad me veniens ex tua parte me admonuit quatenus tibi successoribus tuis fidelitatem facerem de pecunia quem Antecessores mei ad Romanam Ecclesiam mittere solebant melius cogitarem unum admisi alterum non admisi fidelitatem facere nolui nec volo quia nec ego promisi nec Antecessores meos Antecessoribus tuis id fecisse comperio Hubert your Legat Holy Father coming unto me advertised me as from you that I was to do fealty to you and your Successors and that I should bethink my self better of the Money which my Predecessors were wont to send the Church of Rome the one I admitted the other I admitted not The fealty I would not perform neither will I because neither my self promised it nor do I finde that my Predecessors performed it to yours Upon which refusal some suppose Gregory returned that furious and uncivil Letter seen amongst his other a Lib. 7. Ep. 1. Epistles to his said Legat Hubert in which he accused the King of Impudence and that he had done more against the Church than all the b Nemo omnium Regni etiam Paganorum contra Apostolicam sedem hoc praesumpsit centare quod is non eâ—ubuâ—â— facere Ib. Pagan Kings themselves had offer'd Nor did his Son King Henry the First acknowledge any subjection to the See of Rome for though Pope Paschal the Second expected it and accordingly thus wrote to him to put him in minde of it Paschalis servus servorum Dei dilecto filio Henrico illustri Anglorum Regi salutem Apostolicam Benedictionem Cum de manu Domini largius honorem divitias pacemque susceperis miramur vehementius gravamur quod in Regno potestateque tua Beatus Petrus in B. Petro Dominus honorem suum justitiamque perdiderit Sedis enim Apostolica Nuntii vel literae praeter jussum Regiae Majestatis nullam in potestate tua susceptionem vel aditum promerentur nullus inde clamor nullum inde judicium ad sedem Apostolicam destinatur Paschal the servant of servants of God to our beloved Son Henry the renowned King of England health and Apostolical Benediction Since you have plentifully received Honour Riches and Peace from the hand of the Lord We exceedingly wonder and take it in ill part that in your Kingdom and under your Government St. Peter and in St. Peter the Lord hath lost his Honour and Right in as much as the Nuntio's and Breves of the See Apostolick are not thought worthy entertainment or admittance into your Dominions without your Majesties Warrant No Complaint now no Appeal comes from thence to the Apostolick See To which King Henry the First after some terms of Complement replies in this manner Eos Honores eam Obedientiam quam tempore Patris mei Antecessores vestri in Regno Anglia habuerunt tempore meo ut habeatis volo eo videlicet tenore ut dignitates usus consuetudines quas Pater meus tempore Antecessorum vestorum in Regno Angliae Ego tempore vestro in eodem Regno meo integre obteneam Notumque habeat Sanctitas vestra quod me vivente Deo auxiliante Dignitates usus Regni Angliae non minuentur Et si Ego quod absit in tanta me dejectione ponerem Optimates mei imo totius Angliae populus id nullo modo pataretur Habita igitur Charissime Pater utiliori deliberatione ita se erga nos moderetur benignitas vestra ne quod invitus faciam à vestra me cogatis recedere obedientia That Honour and Obedience which your Predecessors had in the Kingdom of England during the raign of my Father my will is that you should have in my time with this condition That my self fully and wholly enjoy all the Dignities Prerogatives and Customs which my Father enjoy'd in the said Kingdom in the time of your Predecessors And I would that your Holiness should understand that during my life the Dignities and Prerogatives of the Crown of England by Gods Grace shall not be diminished And if I should so far debase my self which God forbid my Lords and Commons would by no means indure it Wherefore most dear Father upon better advice let your gentleness be so tempered towards us that I be not inforced which I should unwillingly do to withdraw my self from your obedience But to save my self trouble I shall refer the Reader to Sir a Rep. part 5. Edward Coke and Mr. b Hist of the the Popes intolerable Usurpations Prynne where he may abundantly satisfie himself that the Kings of England not onely slighted the Papal Coercive Power but all along exercised Authority in and over Ecclesiastical Causes Though the Pope made it his business to trample upon all Temporal Jurisdiction and make it a meer
the famous Cardinal Ximenes whilst he govern'd those Dominions This great Minister of State of the Family of the Cisneres was first Christned Alfonso which afterwards in his Cloyster he changed to Francis being a Franciscan by Order first he studyed at Alcaela de Henares then read the Laws at Salamanca for some time acted as an Advocate in the Court of Rome In short he grew so famous for his learning and integrity that he rose to be Archbishop of Toledo got a Cardinals Hat and the Government of all Spain to be in his hands This Grandeur from a mean beginning procured him no small envy and ill-will from many of the Nobility but he kept his ground nor would he lose an inch of his Authority he was civil where he met with civility but was so great a friend to Justice that he would not let the Laws be like Spiders webs for he made no distinction the greatest Grandee lying as open to Chastisement as the meanest Vassal It would be too tedious to relate how he reduced the revolted Moores in Granada how he conquer'd Mersalcabir and Oran in Africa the latter of which they say was not acted without some miracles as how a Cross appear'd to them at their landing and that the Sun stood still for above four hours as an Assistant and Spectator of their Victory At home he was ever now and anon allarm'd with Conspiracies and Seditions but still he was himself undaunted and victorious One of the first who flew out was Don Pedro Portocarrero brother to the Duke Del Escalona who made some disturbance to make himself Grand Master of St. Jago but this uproar the Cardinal over-topt The next was more formidable the Ring-leader being Don Pedro Giron eldest son to the Earl Vregna who by force of Arms would seise upon the Dukedom of Medina Sidonia and in this he was seconded by many of the chief Nobility But this was also quell'd by the prudence of out Cardinal But that which threatned him most was the insurrections of Valladolid and the other chief Cities in Old Castile perswaded to this Revolt by many of the Nobles I so zealous were they that they mounted their Cannons fortified themselves crying along the streets This is against Ximenes the peoples Tyrant But this faction he also over-topt yet he is not quiet for those of Malaga mutiny beat out the Judges and the Admiralty fortifie themselves mount their Cannon making one piece bigger then all the rest with these words Ingraven on it Malacitanae libertatis Assertores F. C. The Defenders of the Malaquins liberty have caused this Gun to be made This he also supprest as he did the Sedition of D. John Velasques of Cuellor who would right or wrong keep the Town or Arevalo Nor did it fare any better with those Noblemen who had affronted the Cardinal and violated all justice in Villefratre and the Duke of Alva's contention for the Priory of St. John of Hierusalem came little better off being conquer'd and forced to submit In short this great Cardinal held up his head against all opposition and the better to strengthen his Authority he first rais'd in Spain the Train-bands consisting of above thirty thousand substantial house-holders all which he had ready at a small warning And though many dependants of the Nobility who must follow their Lords Example hated him yet never was there any favorite in all Spain better beloved then he by the generality of people such was his impartiality to Justice Charity to the Poor and care for the well-fare and honour of his Master and his Dominions One time some of the discontented Nobility desired to know by what right he acted as he did the Cardinal replyed By the will and power of his Catholick Majesty This not satisfying he shew'd them his Guards then shewing his Franciscan Girdle and kâ—acking his Fingers added This is enough to tame the proudest Vassals And lastly the better to inform their curiosity he order'd a Train of Artillery to be discharged concluding This is the power by which I do and will govern Spain until the Prince our Lord come to take the charge of it himself And in this he was as good as his word King Charles arrived in the Asturias in a 1517. September and the Cardinal dyed in November alter not without a grand suspition of poyson he was buâ—yed at Alcala de Henares where he had built an excellent Colledge and where to his immortal honour and vast expenses he had caused his Biblia Complutensia to be printed in diverse Languages as Hebrew Caldee Greek and Laetine to accomplish which he had procured many Copies from the Vatican and hired many excellent Linguists from sundry places And thus much in short of this great Cardinal of whom you may see more in Alvaro Gomez and Michael Baudier the first having writ his life at large in Latine and the other in French who in him endeavours to pattern out an exact Minister of State to the great Cardinal de Richelieu Nor doth envie it self finde any fault in him but that some fancie him to be one too lofty and one that could not brook an opposition qualifications which some think agreeable enough with a Governour But leaving him though I could say no less seeing he was Prud. de Sand val Hist del Carlos V. part 1. lib. 6. Ja. Wadswâ—â—th such a grand Patron to Learning let us take a view of a more formidable Rebellion In Spain we finde ruling Don Carlos I. a young Prince not well acquainted with the Kingdom having been brought up in Flanders he was born there in Gendt 1500. where the Flemings had so inveagled themselves into his favour that at his coming into Spain for the Crown they ruled all as they pleas'd and got the chiefest Preferments and places for themselves to the no small grief and trouble of the Natives Of the Forraigners Guillermo de Crouy Lord of Xeures or Cheures Duke of Sora in Naples and of Arschot in Brabant was the chiefest favourite and indeed sway'd the King and Kingdom as he pleas'd and in his actions was so partial and covetous that he became abominable to the Spaniards who for his faults lessen'd their Affection and Loyalty to their King And here by the way take one merry and instructive story of a favourite A Petitioner having presented this Xeures with an handsome Mule with rich Furniture that his desire might be the sooner granted Xeures being asked presently by another Gentleman where he had got that curious Beast replyed He knew not The poor Petitioner being by and seeing himself so soon forgotten and so his business neglected went his ways and orders his Mule to be cryed declaring all her Marks and Furniture Which the other Gentleman hearing went presently and told Xeures that according to the Marks it must needs be that this Mule had been stoln by which device the poor Petitioner recovered his Mule which he had given before to small
of them whom they murdred and had acted the same Tragedy on the other but that he was rescued by one Diego Pisador which prevention at last so enraged the people that they fell upon Pisador pursued him to his house assaulted it so that he thinking to take sanctuary in St. Nicholas Church they seis'd upon him and kill'd him with their daggers Having thus ran into mischief they proceed and rescue a fellow from execution though justly condemn'd for very heinous crimes They despised all Justice and Magistrates scorned and flouted at all Noble and Gentlemen whom like our Levellers they intended to root out and destroy all the Kingdom over which occasioned a Hat-makers wife in St. Catherines street seeing some Gentlemen go by bid her Children look at them the boys desiring a reason she replyed d Porque quando se ais gâ—andes podais dezir que vistes los Cavalleâ—os Pru. Sandoval l. 6. § 20. Part 1. â— Because when you come to manhood you may say that you have seen Gentlemen The confederate Rabble chose one Sorolla a Cloth-worker for their Captain an impudent base fellow and then the better to carry on their mischief they framed this Plot Sorolla was to hide himself in his house and they were to report about that Don Diego de Mendosa the Viceroy either had or was going to hang him This report being cunningly spread through the City the people grew mad flew to their Arms and so march'd with Drums and Colours to Mendosa's house crying out Let the Viceroy dye if he deliver us not Sorolla Mendosa defended himself all day long and by chance was thus preserved from their fury A good woman by hap espying Sorolla in his house went and told it to the Bishop of Segorbe who hastes to Sorolla's house which he caused to be broke open and the villain found had him set on a Mule himself riding by on another and so they rode to the Viceroy's house to undeceive the people who seeing him thus alive rais'd their Siege and Battery which had continued all day and most of the night This plot not fadging against the Viceroy they gave out that he was raising men to punish their insolencies upon which the people besiege his house again which forced him to send his Lady out of the City and steal out himself all the Nobles and Gentry doing the like with their Families for their own security whose houses the villains pull'd down or burn'd and plunder'd all they could lay their hands on went to the Kings Custom house broke the Records took away the Books defied the Emperour appointed XIII to govern them and for the General of their Armies chose Juan Caro a Sugar-baker The City Xativa the Marquisate of Helche Alacante and Orihucla run into the same Rebellion the latter chusing for their Lord and Governour one Palomares a poor Serving-man And now the Kingdom of Valencia seem'd to be over-run by a gang of Rebels but they had a notable shock at a place to this day call'd The Field of slaughter where they left above 5000 of their frateraity dead on the â—â—or After this they chose for their Captain one Vincent Perez a Fellow whose trade was to gather up Acorns but their chief General of all was ore a Or John of Bilbo Juan de Vilvao who made them believe that he was Doâ— Juan the onely Son to Fernando and Isabella King and Queen of Castile and Arragon and so the true heir to their Crowns though that Prince dyed young at Salamanca However the giddy people put so much credit to him that they sware Allegiance to him as their King magnifying him as their Redeemer calling of him the b El Encubicito Disguised man and one sent from God to their relief But what this Impostor was take thus He was the Son of a Jew and was carryed by his Father into Barbary the same year that the Jews were driven out of Castile A Biscan Merchant call'd Juan de Bilbao met with him on ship board 1512 as he was trading to Oran on the Coasts of Barbary and finding him to write and read well and speak several Languages as Spanish Arabick and Hebrew took him for his Factor The fellow calling himself from his Masters name Juan de Bilbao with him he lived four years till 1516 he turn'd him away for being too familiar with his Wife The Corregidor or Mayor of Oran not knowing the sault entertain'd him for his Steward This Mayor of Oran being a young man kept privately a little wanton in his house to whom this Fellow shew'd much affection and Courtship but she being trusty to her Master tells him all and that he also perswaded her to witchcraft Upon this the Corregidor hath him imprisoned and upon a Market-day set upon an Ass and so whipt through all the principal streets of the City to the amazement of the people who had a good opinion of him so cunningly did he carry himself Being thus banish'd Oran he returns for Spain lands upon the Coasts of Valencia just in these distractions under the name of Don Henrique Manrique de Ribera and here he behaved himself so cunningly taking hold of the opportunity that at last he made the people believe that he was their true King and for such they acknowledged him He carryed his business politickly kept correspondence with divers Cities in Arragon and Catalonia and might have given a main stroak for the whole Kingdom had not the valiant and loyal Marquiss of Cenete and Don Pedro Faxardo the Governour or Lord-lieutenant Adelantado Mayor of the Kingdom of Murcia with other noble Cavaliers by their valour and industry put a stop to his carreer The chiefest loss to the Rebels was in Valencia it self where Vicente Periz had almost carryed the whole City but the Marquiss here carryed himself so cunningly that he out-braved the Rebel making most of his followers disband and retire to their own dwellings This day and plot was so happy to that City that to this time 't is call'd the Thursday of Vicente Periz yet Periz received fresh supplies from Juan de Bilvao with which he grew so hardy that he fought de Cenete in the very streets of the City though to his own ruine being beaten himself taken and his head presently struck off After which the Impostor Kingling John of Bilbao was also taken by the Marquess the nineteenth of May 1522. who according to his desert was drawn hang'd and quarter'd and his head stuck upon a Lance. After which Valencia began to be more quiet and wholly submitted themselves upon the return of the Emperour Charles And thus much in brief for the Rebellion of the Kingdom of Valencia not to tell of all their Church-robbings Plunderings Burnings Devastations and Factions even in the very Cloisters and Monasteries themselves insomuch that one party in the same Covent would pray to God for the King whilst the other pray'd as heartily for the Rebels But now
â—â—giunte aâ—le 〈…〉 p. 〈…〉 â—7â— 15â—8 some hâ—ld an honest man whilst others accuse him of no less thâ—n or underâ—â—and-dealings with the Turks into whose power they sâ—y â—e designed to deliver up the Kingdom And passing by also the troubles the said Ferdinand I received at hâ—s Election into the Empire by the Resignation of his Brother Charles V Pope Paul IV rejecting him and his Title alledging none to have power to resigne but into his hands and â—o be and not the Electors is to nominate nor would he at any time acknowledge him for Emperour though upon his death his Succâ—ssor Pius IV willingly admitted him for a lawful Emperor and what need Ferdinand or any other care whether the Roman Bishâ—p â—â—nsented or no it being no way necessary and the outside but a Complement But leaving these and suchlike beyond-Sea â—â—â—â—res let us come a little neerer home And first if we look upon Scotland we shall finde it a Kingdom miserably rent between two Factions the Puritan and Popish Of the insoleâ—eies of the first I have elsewhere treated nor can the latter excuse themselves from the same crimes if not worse by endeavouring to betray their King and Country to a forraign power and usurpation as may appear by these following Observations Here we finde Reigning King James VI a Prince made wise and wary by the several troubles he had run through The Spanâ—aâ—â—â— preparing his great Armado to invade England several 158â— Pâ—â—â—â—tâ— and Jesuites went into Scotland to get those people to assiâ— the designe And amongst the rest the Lord Maxwell was 〈◊〉 aâ—â—ive coming out of Spain and landing at Kirkudbright year 1588 in Galloâ—ay gather'd together some men but they were presently â—â—ppâ—â—st and himself taken and imprisoned The Lord Bothwell who troubled himself not much with this or that Religion having no ends but interest the Admiral of that Kingdom had also secretly listed many Souldiers giving out they were for the safety of the Nation Amongst others also Colonel a He afterwards lived a Pensiâ—â—â—r in Spain where he began the Foundation of a Scotch Semenarie intending to make his bastard Hugh Sempill whom he train'd up with the Jeâ—uites the Rectâ—â— oâ— it He was living there about the beginning of King Charles I his Reign and was very mallepert in the designes of his Spanish match James Wadsworth his English-Spanish Pilgrime cap. 7. pag. 61. Edit 2. Sempil who for some time had resided with the Duke of Parma having betray'd the Town of Lire to the Spaniards landed at Lieth with an intent to farther the plots but he by the mistrust of some papers was seiz'd on by Sir John Carmichael Captain of the Kings Guard but being rescued by the Earl of Huntley escaped the law But the hopes of the Romanists were quite blown away by the overthrow of the Spanish Fleet yet the Duke of Parma chears them up again by telling them of another Army and Fleet to be set out next Spring This good news he sends by Robert Bruce to the Earl of Huntly to be communicated to the rest of that Faction the chief of which was the Earl of Arrol the Lord Maxwell who call'd himself Morton the Earl of Crawford the Lord Claude Hamilton and suchlike And a little after Parma sent over ten thousand Crowns by John Chesholme Thus incouraged and also thrust on by Father Hay Father year 1589 Creighton and other Jesuites they resolved to undertake some noble act the better to credit themselves with Spain and Parma And nothing is thought better then to seize on the Kings person In this plot there was Montross Bothwell Crawford Arrol Huntley the Lairds of Kinfawns of Fintrie and others The design was laid to meet all at the Quarry-holes between Lieth and Edenbrough thence to go to a T is sometimes also call'd the Abbey 'T is the Kings Court at the East-end of Cannygate at Edinborough Halyrood house to seize on the King to kill the Chancellor and Treasurer and then they need not fear to carry all as they pleas'd But Huntley coming before the rest and suspected is imprison'd upon which the rest retire Montross and Crawford submit and ask pardon whilst Bothwell and Arrol are declared Traytors for refusing to come in upon summons Huntley is by the Kings favour set at liberty upon promise to be quiet for the future but in his going home in the North he meets with Crawford who joyn together again and fall upon the Treasurer then having joyn'd themselves with the Earl of Arrol they raise what forces they can and enter Aberdeen The King upon notice marcheth against them upon which the Lords are discouraged retreated and divided one from another at the b This day and action is call'd The Raid of the Brig of Dee Bridge of Dee The King thus victorious the Confederate Lords seeing no other safety submit themselves to the Kings Mercy and Tryal They are accused For practising with Jesuites and Seminary Priests and the receiving of Spanish Gold to hire Souldiers to disturb the Kingdom For entring into Bond and Covenant with the Earls of Arrol and Montross and others and treasonably to have surprised b Perth â— Now better known by the name of St. Johnstons with intent to keep it against the King For conspiring to take the King prisoner at Halyrud-house and to kill his Servants and Counsellors For besieging the house of Kirkhill firing it and forcing the Treasurer the Master of Glammis to yeild himself For summoning the Subjects by Proclamation falsly in the Kings name falsely giving out that he was a prisoner and desired them to set him at liberty For marching to the Bridge of Dee to fight and invade the King For taking the Kings Herald at Arms in Aberdeen spoiling him of his Coat and Letters when he was to proclaim them And that Bothwell for his part had hired Souldiers as well strangers as others with an intent to seise on Lieth in the Kings absence Upon tryal they are found guilty but the sentence by the Kings favour and warrant was suspended in the mean time they were imprisoned Bothwell in Tantallon Crawford in Blackness and Huntley in Edinborough Castle Now for the better and clearer discovery of their plots and designes for the King of Spain against their own King and Country take these following Letters Mr. Robert Brâ—ce the chief Agent his Letter to the Duke of Parma Governour in the Netherlands for the King of Spain My LORD MR. Châ—sholme arrived in this Country five days after his departure from you and with requisite diligence came to the Earl of Huntley in his own house at Dunfermeâ—â—ng where having presented to him your Highness Letters of the 13 of October he declared amply unto him the credit given him in Charge conformable to the tenour of the Letters from your Highness wherein they perceived your Highness great humanity and affection to the advancement of the glory of God in this Country
should fall out for the weal and furtherance of this Cause c. But now I will sayone word of him and so come to some other purposes of our own If I had a thousand tongues with so many mouths with Cicero ' s Eloquence I could not be worthie enough to commend this Gentleman to you and all your company as I shall let you understand God-willing if ever we do chance to meet face to face and therefore whensoever you may prevent him with any benefit either by your self or any other abide not till he crave it of you for he is the worst asker in his own cause that ever you conversed with f f Here follows some private lawbusiness concerning some lands in the Lairdship of Spot My Lord Levingstone is departed out of this world You heard before that g g David Graham Laird of Fentrie yet there was also a rich Citizen of Sterling call'd David Forrester who was kill'd or murdred 1595. David Forester had one son and now hath another born in the Castle of Striveling where he is in custodie hardlie handled There is but one of our Nobilitie which hath of the King of Spain any pension well paid of twelve hundred Crowns the which apparentlie are evil bestowed for he nor any of his as yet hath ever done any kinde of good in the promotion of the Kings Matters wherefore such pensions were better bestowed on others who travel dailie and hourlie putting in hazard both their goods and lives as the Beareâ— hath done and dailie doth and others as he can shew you c. Because I have no other thing to write and have been long enough I commend me to your prayers and you to God Yours at his Power a a i. e. Rob. Abircrumby Robert Sandesoun At Scotland the XV of Decemb. M D XCII The surprisal of these Letters discover'd all and spoil'd the designe David Graham of Fintrie was tryed and found guilty and b 15 or 16 of February 1592. beheaded in the High-street of Edinbrough The Earl of Angus having been imploy'd by the King who then doubted not of his loyalty to quiet some troubles in the North not knowing any thing of the seising of Kar and the discovery of the Spanish designe returns to Edinbrough where he was presently arrested by the c The Mayor and Aldermen Provost and c Bayliffs of the City and sent prisoner to the Castle But from this imprisonment he escapes flees into the North joyns himself with Huntley and Arrol and raise what Forces they can But upon the report of the Kings marching against them year 1593 they fled into the Mountains and seeing no other help sent their Ladies to the King to intercede for them the King tells them he will shew them what favour he can but adviseth them to submit to a tryal In the mean time the Presbyterian Kirk grow very mally part and a Club of their Ministers being jumbled together on their own heads they forsooth would condomn them and so they Excommunicate the Earls of Anguss Huntley and Arrol the Lord Hume and Sir James Chesholme nor could the King by all his Authority and desires get the Brethren to forbear or stay the publication of their sentence Though the Earls had waited upon the King submitted themselves and desired a Trial. But the truth is the Popish Lords gave no signes of real repentance no though the King had used divers means to gain them and was willing to wink at their past crimes upon assurance of their good behaviour for the future yet all his Majesties endeavours were in vain the Jesuits prevailing too much over them with their bad counsels and feeding them daily with hopes of forraign aid No though the King through love exhorted them to enter themselves in custody to pleasure the Kirk and make some signes of a tryal would they give any obedience to the Kings desires These contempts rendring them more odious a Parliament is held and the Roman Lords brought to Tryal and are found year 1594 guilty of Treason and sentence was pronounced against the thrâ—â— Earls and Sir Patrick Gordon Laird of Achindown their Sâ—uâ—checas of Arms are torn by the Herald and their Honours Lands and Estates declared forfeited Yet the King had some favour for them but they grow worse and worse for joyning themselves with the Earl of Bothwell they make a Covenant or Bond amongst themselves at the Church of Memmore and so flee to Arms the main stickler in this business being Sir James Douglas of Spot And opportunately to assist them arrives a Spanish Ship at Montrose which brought some gold for their supplies The King informed of all by the apprehension of Allan Orme servant to Bothwell sends Argile Northwards to quell them Argile gets an Army of 10000 men but a The Battle of Clenlivat October 3. are beat by 900 commanded by Huntley who here lost his Uncle of Achindown and Arrol was sore wounded in his armand leg But for all this the Confederate Lords at the long run were so put to it that they desired liberty to depart the Kingdom giving security to practice no more against the King or Religion so away they went and Bothwell steals into France thence into Naples where he lived miserably and dyed beggerly about the year 1624. The banish'd Lords not finding themselves in that favour beyond Seas as they expected resolve to return home Huntley steals year 1596 over and being got into the North sends a supplication to the King desiring that he might be permitted to stay in the Country upon security to be no more troublesome the King is willing and conditions are consulting of Arrol thinking to slip through the Low-Countries is seis'd on and deliver'd to Mr. Robert Danielstone the Kings Agent there but from him he makes an escape and returns Huntley for some time keeps off the conditions the Kirk being his enemy And his Uncle James Gordon the Jesuit came into the year 1597 Country to perswade him from any reconcilement but at last not onely he but Angus and Arrol submit subscribe to the Faith of Scotland are absolved at Aberdene from their former Excommunications and received into grace and favour of the King About the same time there was discovered a designe to fortifie the Isle of Elsay in the West Seas This Island is a great Rock four miles in compass wherein an old ruinous Tower is built on the steep ascent of the Rock the plot was that by seising on the Island the Forces that the Spanish King had promis'd to send might here be received The main actor in this was Hugh Barklay Laird of Lady-land who having been the year before committed in the Castle of Glasgow had made an escape and fled to Spain and this year return'd to pursue his old designe Having got some followers he enters the Island with an intention to have well victual'd it But Mr. Knox the same who took Ker understanding his purpose
Cardinal de Guise and some others were great sticklers for the League countenanced there by Cardinal Pellevé◠The actions of which Cardinal being a Subject of France did so vex King Henry III. that we are * Journal De 1586. 1587 told that he order'd his Revenues to be seiz'd on and distributed to the poor The King being gone from Paris with an Army to oppose the Germans then marching into France to assist the Huguenots the Covenanters had some thoughts of seizing on the City in his absence according to Guise his Instructions who phansied that he might secure the Kings Person in the Country To this purpose they sent Lauchart to Guise for further information who upon maturer advice would not allow of the plot sâ—eing the King then to have such a Force about the City and a good Army under his command However they assure the Duke of their strength and willingness to attempt any thing that he shall command And the better to incite the Rabble to Rebellion the Pulpit the worst Instrument in Seditious design is made use of several turbulent Priests or Ministers being set on work to bespatter the King and his actions one of the chief of these Firebrands was Jean Boucher Preacher of St. Benoist a zealous wall-ey'd Fellow of whose wicked Doctrines we have told you formerly out of his book De justa abdicatione Henrici III. The King sent for him and publickly told him of his lies and slanders as how he had told the people in the Pulpit that the King caused one Burlart of Orleans to be put into a Sack and thrown into the River although the said Burlart was yet alive and daily kept company with the said Boucher by which the King told him he had committed two grand faults first so basely to bely his lawful Sovereign and then after telling such a lie in the Pulpit to go forthwith to the Altar and Sacrament without acknowledging his foresaid falsities although all confess that every one ought to confess his faults before he receive the Eucharist yet the King told him that at this time he would forgive all though he might revenge himself as Pope Sixtus V. did who year 1587 sent several Franciscans to the Gallies for traducing him in their Sermons Another call'd Prevost being Preacher of St. Severin amongst his many other Seditious prattlements had from the Pulpit told his Parishioners that The King was a Tyrant and an Enemy to the Church and People Upon which the King as became him sent for him which so netled the Covenanters that they forthwith spread abroad that the King was resolved to punish and imprison all the good and godly Preachers A thing very offensive to all manner of Zealots of what pretended Opinion soever Rebellious Experience making it a certain rule that none clamour up Preaching more then those who pretend to know Religion better then their Teachers the more ignorant the people be the more apt they are to think they comprehend the deepest mysteries and though they are bid to obey for Conscience-sake yet for all their crying up of the Bible they make a contrary fundamental-Rule viz. Rebell for Conscience-sake yet let these Toleration comprehensive or in sum Rebellious Villains for their actions hitherto in History hath not separated them be worse then can be imagined they shall never want some rascally upstart Nobles who raised themselves by fighting the King and cheating the Church to be their Treasonable and Sacrilegious Patrons especially where their Twatling Dames have more zeal then honesty and from such Vagabonds in Religion good Lord deliver all Kings Kingdoms and Churches but when Kings are subjects people will be Kings but a brave and daring Prince durst never yet be opposed to the ruine of the Undertakers but such can never be whose Favorites are more for pleasure then true honesty and a National interest as it hapned now in France Prevost inform'd that he was sent for was secur'd in an house of one of his Neighbors call'd Hatte a Notarie and for his farther protection Jean le Clerc Sieur or Landlord de Bussy one of the chief of the Covenanting Sixteen with several other Armed men put themselves into the foresaid house oppos'd and fought against those whom the King sent to enquire for the same Delinquents and made such an Hubbub and Riot that the Kings Messengers though headed by Seguier the Lieutenant-Civil or one of the Judges were forced to withdraw themselves and shift for their own security These and such like seditious actions so incouraged the Leaguers that the Town sounded nothing now but the misdeeds of the King and the Glories of Guise that if it had not been for him the Ark would have fallen into the hands of the Philistins and Heresie would have triumphed over the true Religion Nay the Sorbonists were so bold as to make as we are told a secret Decree That Princes might be depos'd from their Government Journal if they did not what became them as the charge taken away from a negligent Guardian And towards the latter end of this year 't is said that the King was Id. inform'd that the Duke of Guise had posted disguised to Rome where he stayed only three days with Cardinal Pellevé and that the Pope sent him a rich sword Another tells us that one Viliers was sent to Rome to desire the Popes assistance and that a Letter was found about him said to be writ by the Dutchess of Lorraine Mother to the Duke containing thus much I am very glad to understand the state of your Affairs and I advise you to Ant. Colynet p. 173 174. go forward for never a fairer Occasion was offered you to put the Scepter in your hand and the Crown upon your head The two last years we could not expect much matter from the Leaguers though we see their designs bad enough seeing most of the Souldiery in France were imployed against Navarre and his Huguenots many of the Covenanting Nobles being engag'd in those wars which diverted them from their attempts upon the King but we shall see the next year make amends for all The Duke of Guise the better to make all things sure hath a meeting 1588 Davila p. 667 669. D Aubigne tom 3. l. 1. c. 21. Spondâ—nus of the Chieftains of the House of Lorrain at Nancy a strong Town in that Dukedom where it is talk'd high of deposing the King of putting him into a Monastery of destroying the House of Bourbon to dispose of all things themselves and such like extravagancies But at last it was concluded that the Duke of Lorrain should keep the Forces of the League in action and that Guise and others should unite with Cardinal Bourbon to present a Petition to the King much for their own advantage which if granted their business might easily be done without clamour or any great opposition if denied they had force sufficient to obtain it Accordingly the Paper is presented to
make the Peace more sure and durable all former Leagues Plots Actions especially those of the 12th and 13th days of May last at Paris done by the Guisards and their Party are pardon'd and forgot as if they had never been done HENRY At Rouen 15 July 1588. By the King in his Council Publish'd in the Parlement at Paris Publish'd by sound of Trumpet by the Crier Visa * * Afterwaâ—ds better kâ—own by the name of Villeroy De Neufville Du Tillet T. Lauvergnat Thus we see how careful some were to have this Agreement ratified published and confirmed But this was not all for besides this two Armies must be rais'd and paid against the Huguenots one commanded by the King the other by the Duke of Mayenne the Leaguing Lords are to retain for six years the Cities and Fortresses granted them 1585 and that Orleans Dourlans Bourges and Montereau should be added to them the Duke of Guise to command all the Forces in the Kingdom that in October next the States General should be held at Blois and several such like advantages were granted to the Leaguers Upon which Guise waits upon the King and none seem so kind as those two but it was but from the teeth outward of which we are told one story how the King at dinner ask'd the Duke to whom they should drink To whom you please quoth Guise then said the King Let us drink to our Journal Aoâ—st 12. 1588. good friends the Huguenots 'T is well said Sir replied the Duke Yea added the King and to all our good Barricadors at Paris to which Guise yielded a counterfeit smile not well pleas'd that the King should compare the Barricadors with the Huguenots And now behold the greatest wonder that Toute la Cour fut veue habillée à l' Espagnole le long Estoc à la garde Crossée à l' Espagnole les grosse chausses les jartieres houpées le pourpoint collé sur le corps la grande fraize bien godronnée la Monstache la barbe le chappeau à l' Espagnole tout leur parles Espagnol Rodomontades Espagnoles bref vous eussiez dict qu' en ce temps la le François avoit en horreur mispris de parler se dire François qu' on luy faisoit tort de ne l'appeller Espagnol Andre Favin Hist de Navarre p. 940. ever yet happened in France The whisking Monsieur converted to a grave Don all the Court clad after the Spanish garb a long Tuck with a cross-bar'd Hilt great Trunckbreeches tufted Garters strait and close Doublet a great high-set Ruff staring Mustachoes with Beard and Hat after the Castilian mode all they speak is Spanish and that Rodomontadoes too insomuch that one might think that now Monsieur was asham'd or scorn'd to speak his own language or call himself a Frenchman nay would take it in snuff not to be thought a Spaniard Such an esteem and love had the Castilian got amongst the people for his assisting them in their wicked League and Covenant against their King and Soveraign And by this also appeared not onely the Boldness but Authority and Power of the Guisian Faction to whose caprichioes and Interest the Royalists were thus forced to submit and truckle Guise thus having all sway and glory the better to advance his Reputation Pope Sixtus V. sendeth him long Congratulatory Letters giving him many thanks for his Zele and Actions comparing him to the old Maccabees bidding him go on as he had begun and telling him that he would send a Legat into France to assist at the approaching States which Letters were spread abroad by the Leaguers in great triumph to the no small discredit and regret of the King who in these Papal Commendations and Blessings had no share nor taken notice of and such Pontifical Neglects used to be the Forerunner of Laying aside or Cutting off Well the Assembly of the States General meet at Blois the major part 16 Octob. 1588. being Covenanters by which Guise was so strengthened that 't is thought that he at least aim'd at the same Authority that the ancient Major-domes had in France whereby the King would be but a mere Cypher whilest the Duke might make himself King when he pleas'd So to gratiate himself with the people and remove all obstacles he proposeth that Taxes and Impositions might be lessened which was thought irrational seeing at the same time he will have the war vigorously carried on against the Huguenots yet he gain'd his desires Then he moveth that the Council of Trent might be received but this is denied by most as contrary to the Liberties of the Gallican Church But which was the main of all he proposeth that the King of Navarre and his Relations as Hereticks shoul'd be declar'd uncapable of Succession which was presently granted him by the Three Estates but it was not so recâ—ived by the King who though he was forc'd to consent to it in dubious and general terms yet told them that he would think further of it and would take care himself to have the Decree drawn up But before this Navarre understanding their designs had at an Assembly at Rocâ—el fram'd a Protestation pronouncing all their Votes and Actions against him and his Right null as being no stubborn Heretick willing to submit to a General Council and to be instructed that the States were not free nor full and that they could not justly condemn him before they heard him Whilest these Proposals were vexing the King news is brought that Charles Emanuel Duke of Savoy had seiz'd on the little Marquessate of Saluzzo towards the head of Po in Italy who had also pretended a right to it end so took advantage at the Kings Expulsion out of Paris and these French Troubles though at this time he pretended a necessity viz. that otherwise the Huguenots from Dauphine would have taken it and Favyn p. 93â— others suppose that he wanted not assurance from the Leaguers However it was the Kings jâ—alousie and anger did daily increase and 't is said that here Guise expresly refus'd though commanded to Ant. Colynet p. 303 304 305 306. swear Allegeance to the King saying He would not and if he offended they might punish him But this is not so bad as a further design plotted by him and his Complices which they say was to take away the Kings life of which 't is said the King had private Information In short the Spond § 18. King considering what Favours the House of Guise had received from the French Crown yet how many Rebellions he had rais'd against him Hist des dâ—râ—iers troubles de France l. 4. fo 142 143 144 152 158. what Combinations he had made against him and the Crown with the very Enemy to both viz. the Spaniard that for all his outward pretensions for Religion yet he had made secret Overtures to joyn with Navarre how he had beaten and driven him from his Royal
this Oath 716 717 718 Pope Urban VIII ' s Breve against it 725 Obelerio Duke of Venice cut in pieces 183 Orders in Religion the stories of their Founders 2 3 4 5 6 7 Oxford a Priest pretends to cure diseases there in 1663. p. 447 Otho IV Emperor deposed 265 P Paris a Council of Sixteen appointed there to act for the League 515 Their designe of surprizal of Bologne discovered to the King by Poulain 516 Their designes to seize on the K. and kill him discovered by Poulain 516 517 518 521 522 They break the Kings Great Seal and make another 539 A new Oath injoyned ibid. Is besieged by Henry IV 565 Its Famine relieved by the Duke of Parma 575 Yeilded to the King 590 William Parry Dr. of Laws his several attempts and treasons against Q. Elizabeth 437 c. Incouraged to kill the the Queen 439 440 Executed in the Palace-yard 442 Father Parsons vid. Persons Partitiato Duke of Venice thrust into a Monastery 183 Pope Paul V his quarrels with the Venetians 619 to 639 Pepin made King 165 166 The first Christian King that was Anoynted 168 Cardinal Perron his bad Principles 57 59 84 85 Fa. Parsons bad Principles 75 76 77 90 91 93 94 101 His life 679 to 688 Philip the Emperor murther'd 263 Philip I King of France Excommunicated 232 Philip IV le Bell King of France his troubles by Pope Boniface VIII 282 c. Pius V his Bull against Q. Elizabeth 427 to 436 Its interpretation granted by Pope Gregory XIII 435 436 Pope his Power and Authority 31 32 c. Extravagant Titles given him 33 The Pope is God 34 Can create something out of nothing ibid. Above all power in Heaven or Earth 35 We must bow at the name of the Pope 40 Pope to be obeyed rather then Christ or God ibid. Pope can depose Emperors and Kings and dispose of their Dominions 41 42 c. Can absolve Subjects from their Allegiance to their Kings 82 83 c. Great strivings to be Pope 131 132 c. The manner of their Elections ibid. 141 Formerly chose by Emperors 139 179 180 198 201 202 216 217 Whether there be really a true Pope 142 143 c. Their Toes kist 38 162 167 230 260 Vs'd to adore the Emperors 170 Their horses led by Kings and Emperors 38 181 252 253 259 Their succession not agreed on 195 196 197 c. 116 117 Of 18 years old 200 Of 10 or 12 years old 216 The changing of their names 201 Popes stirrop held 227 252 253 255 259 260 299 Despise the Imperial Power 253 Schism amongst them and reflections upon some of their actions 323 324 c. Declares it lawful for Subjects to fight against their King if an Heretick 507 Nicholas Poulain taken into the Council of Sixteen 516 Discovers all their designes to the King 516 517 518 c. Flees from Paris to the King 525 R THe Reformation of the Church of England defended 412 413 Reliques false and spurious 14 15 24 25 Nicol. de Renzo his pranks at Rome 305 306 William Reynolds an account of him 560 Richard II King of England his deposing death 312 113 314 Charles Ridicove a Fryar sent to kill the King 597 Rodolph declared Emperour against Henry IV 223 slain 226 Robert Rodolpho sent into England by Pope Pius V to stir up rebellions against Q. Elizabeth 426 427 Roger King of Naples shot to death 252 Rome taken by the occasion of an Hare 187 Swears Allegiance to the Emperour 188 Odd Tumults there 305 306 S SAints sottish beastly and unchristian 18 19 20 Counterfeit that never were 20 21 Sanders bad Principles 62 66 67 83 Scotland plots there by the Romanists against King James VI 366 367 368 369 370 371 372 373 374 375 c. Scripture basely abused 3 5 6 32 33 35 39 Segovia tumults there begun upon the Emperour Charles V ' s leaving Spain 355 Simony 143 144 151 The Council of Sixteen vid. Paris Sixtus V Pope his Bull against K. of Navar and Prince of Conde Very furious against Queen Elizabeth 454 Deprives the Queen of her Dominions and absolves her Subjects from Allegiance ibid. Soâ—â—â—z vid. Suaâ—ez Sâ—rbonne Colledge their bad Prâ—nciples 73 When built 99 They make a secret Decree that Princes may be deposed c. 519 They decree that the people of France are freed from the Oath of Allegiance and Obedience to Hen. III and may fight against him 530 531 They send to Sixtus V for a ratification of this Decree 532 533 534 They conclude that Prayers are not to be made for the King and the word Henry to be dashed out of their Prayer-books 537 Spain ' s rebellious League against Charles V 351 Or the holy Junta or Assembly 357 Or Coâ—â—â—unalty 355 Tumults there upon Charles V ' s departure for Germany 355 356 357 The Spanish Invasion vid. Invasion Squire ' s designe to kill Q. Elizabeth Stapletons bad Principles 44 Stephanus Pâ—pe strangled 197 Thomas Stukely his ambition for a Kingdom 387 His designes against Ireland 388 Fran. Suarez bad Principles 61 Subjects of themselves may depose Kings 86 87 c. May kill their King 95 96 c. Suercherus II King of Swedland murdred 252 Suercherus III kill'd Ibid. Suintila K. of Spain deposed 158 159 Supremacie an interpretation of the Oath 400 401 T THomas à Becket his troubling Henry II 235 c. Declar'd perjured and a Traytor 238 Further accus'd 244 The Bishops complain against him 240 241 His Horse-bridle held by the King 246 He is murther'd Ibid. William Thomas defends King Henry VIII 407 Tir-Oen rebel to Q. Elizabeth in Ireland 393 Pardon'd and rebels again 394 Raises a Rebellion in Ireland lib. 9. c. 3. Proclaim'd Traytor by Mount-joy Lord Deputy 653 Submits and delivers himself up 665 Tradenico D. of Venice murder'd 183 Trajans soul deliver'd out of Hell 157 Traytors how punish'd 256 261 262 Gunpowder-Treason 689 to 695 The Council of Trent not free 425 V VAlentia troubles in that Kingdom 359 360 Venetians their insolences to their Dukes 183 Dog-trick to get off their Interdict 307 Quarrels between them and Pope Paul V 619 to 639 Verstegan his life 415 Vitalis Michele II D. of Venice kill'd 253 Virgin Mary vid. Mary Edict of Union or July a peace made by it 525 The Heads of it 525 Pope Urban VIII sends a Breve against taking the Oath of Allegiance 725 W WIlliam I K. of Naples imprison'd 252 Willan ' s designe to kill Q. Eliz. 463 464 Witches 208 209 215 X XImenes Cardinal his life actions 251 252 Y YOrk designes to kill Q. Elizabeth 463 464 Z ZAchary Pope absolves subjects from their Oaths of Allegiance 166 FINIS