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

vntill this booke come forth that I may sende you a copie VVhich yf you thinke good you may present to our good Lord and master in my name as you may doe also the exstract thereof that now I send though in trueth the tooth and stomack of the writer seemeth to be so specially great against his lordship aboue all others and toucheth him so bitterly in so many places esteeming him the principall cause of al the bloudshedd of his partie that I am ashamed and half afraide also that it sholde be given vnto his honour in my behalf yet could I not with my dewtie and allegeance but aduertise the matter as I finde it and so haue I done in the abbreuiation taking out euery thinge as neer as I cā in sense though not in wordes as in the booke it lieth and that in more sweete and temperate manner also diuers tymes then there it is sett downe culling out onely the heades of the most principal matters and leauing vtterly the discourses declarations and proofes of the same wich are in truth more pearcing plausible and popular then will easily be imagined but by reading the whole and in one word beleeue yow Sir that it is a very pestilent booke and so I pray you aduertise his lordship and commend my seruice with continuing me in his honors good grace and fauour which I euer desire to deserue as I may and so to the lord I commyt you from Augusta this first of August 1592. Your most affectionate THE EXTRACT AND ABBREVIATION OF THE BOOKE OF IHON PHILOPATRIS AGAINST her Maiesties proclamation The preface of the Author FIRST in the preface he taketh vpon him to discouer the trew causes of this proclamation which he saith to be the feare of the new Seminaries lately begunne in Spayne with the cōtinuance flourishing of the others in Rome and Rheims feare of the Pope and king of Spaines preparations of warr againste France the lacke of mony in Inglande to helpe the K. of Navarre and to prosecute other designementes and the arte to get it this way by feigning terrours and troubles at home Secondly he sheweth what modestie and humility the Catholiques for his wordes I will vse hereafter in all this extract haue vsed hitherto in their owne defence alleaging for this the example of two Apologies wrytten by 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 other bookes vpon hope that some clement gentler way would be taken by her Maiestie and her Councell but seing as he saith that by all theire submilsiō they haue profited nothing he taketh leaue by the president and example of many aunciēte fathers that wrote sharpely against the persecutours of their times but namely and chiefely of S. Hilarie whose wordes he alleageth against Cōstātinus the Arrian Emperour to deale more plainely in this his awnswere then others haue donne heretofore promisinge notwithstandinge the modestie that shal be conuenient for the tyme persons and matter he handleth THE FIRST SECTION OF THE PROCLAMATION AND ANSWER The first Section conteyneth onely the title of the proclamation and is deuided in to three principal heades THE firste head concerneth those first wordes By the Queene about the which he examineth whether these so many fierce cruell lawes and proclamatiōs as he cal leth them which come out dayly against Catholiques do proceede of her Maiesties owne inclination and propension or no or whether by the instigation of others for theire owne commodities abusing her Maiesties sexe and age at the beginning where vnto he rather yeildeth and nameth fiue or six principall men who haue bin the causes and instrumentes of all miserie to Ingland as he tearmeth it and of the perdition of the realme by theire especiall authority with her Maiestie These men he affirmeth to haue bin Sir Nicolas Bacon and my L. Treasurer the Earle of Leicester Sir Francis VValsingham and Sir Christophor Hatton of whome he saith he will tell their beginninges their entrance with the Queene their manner of proceeding their actions and their endinges obseruing the order rather of their deathes and falling then of their rising to honours for that he saieth the remembrance of this day is more ioyfull to good men then that of the other and so for that my L. Treasurer is the onely mā of all the five that now liueth he reserueth his story for the laste place of all Of Sir Nicolas Bacon he sheweth how he rose and how my L. Treasurer and he the one helping the other by the assistance of Sir Antony Cooke theire father in law and Sir Ihon Cheeke King Edwardes schoole-maister came both first in fauor That Sir Nicolas Bacons father beinge seruant to the Abbote of Bery and keeper of his sheepe and cattell put his sonne to Greyes Inne where first he was vnder-butler aud afterward grew vp higher vntill by the augmentation court and atturneship of the VVardes he came to be lord keeper wherein this man saith he shewed himself so corrupt and partiall for bribery as neuer man before or since in that place for which he allegeth a protestation also of Plowdē the famous lawier made at the Chauncery barr Bacon beinge present that he woulde neuer returne thither so long as so cortupte a iudge should sitt in that place which he performed here vnto he addeth diuers other perticularities touchinge the life and death of Sir Nicolas Bacon Of my L. of Leicester and the varietie of fortune which he saw and proued in his life how he was borne and brought vp in all aboundāce and felicitie and after saw himself againe in extreame calamity his father and bretheren being put to death and himfelf condemned to the same lotte but that fortune turning againe lifted him vp higher then euer before but all to the worse for that he had neuer bin so wicked yf he had not byn so potent How he was the sonne of a Duke brother of a Kinge nephew of an esquier and great grandchild of a Carpenter as the common fame runneth which yf it be trew the Carpenter by all likelyhoode was the happiest man of all the generation for that perhaps he was an honeste man and died in his bedd whereas all the other perished by violent deathes for theire wickednes c. Of Lecesters entrāce in to fauour with her Maiestie of the begininge of his greatnes how he firste lefte the Catholique faith which at the beginning for diuers yeares he fauoured of the murdering of his wife at Cūner of his adulteries murders and rapines after of his dealings in flanders and miserable death without heyre or frind and of the quicke mariage of lady Lettece after his dispatch Of Sir Francis VValsinghams seruing of Leicesters turne in all thinges how he was Embassador in France and how he came to be of the Councell how he helde a faction againste my L. Treasurer was a man of hastie fiery and cruell nature especially againste catholiques spente infinitely vpon spyery and when matter wanted filled her

Maiesties eares with matters feigned of himself how God plagued him for his furious crueltie againste catholiques how he died in debt depriued of his greate Idol Sir Philipp Sidney his sonne in law and strooken in the secret partes of his body as Eusebius reporteth of Maximus the Tyrant After Sir Francis VValsingham he bringeth vnto the stage Sir Christophor Hatton whose good nature he cōmendeth aboue all the rest and saith that yf he had any feeling of any religion he thought the catholique to be the trewer and that so he had signified diuerse wayes in his life time and that he had vpon sundrie occasions protested moste earnestly in secret to his frendes and namely to father VVilliam Crighton the Scottishe Iesuite at his deliuerie out of the Tower that his hand had neuer subscribed to the death of any one catholique nor neuer should which yet this awnsweret thincketh not to be trew considering his authoritie and place he had in the Councell and the bitter speeches which he openly vsed often times in the starre chamber and other places against catholiques for maintenance of his creditt And here by this answerer frameth a certaine consideration how wicked a course this is of the Councell to sett forward in common a thing so hoatly for the murdering and persecuting of Catholiques which most of them in priuate will deny to their frendes to haue their fingers in which he sheweth also in other Councellers at this day besides Hatton and namely and aboue the reste in my L. Treasurer who euer secretly feigned him self to be a moderator and mollefyer of Catholiques afflictions vntill of late he saith his lordship hath byn inforced to shewe himself openly theire vnmasked enemy The like also he sheweth to haue bin in the Councell of King Edward the sixt when the Duke of Northumberland the Earle of Arundell the Earle of Penbrooke the L. Pagett Sir VVilliam Peter and others sate dayly vpon orders to punishe and extinguishe Catholiques whose religion notwith stāding at that time both they knew to be trew and after chose the same to die therin when they found themselues more free of the bondage of ambition wherin before they liued VVherefore he thincketh Sir Christofer Hatton to haue bin most vnhappie euen in these thinges wherein other men doe thinck him fortunate which are the fauours had with her Maiestie the causes begininges and increase whereof this awnswerer declareth and finally his death much subiecte as he saith to suspicion of poyson and how the very next day after his death my L. Treasurer triumphed and gat forth this 〈◊〉 nation againste Catholiques which he neuer had done yf the other had liued and the causes why In the fifte and laste place he commeth to treate of my L. Treasurer and that much more largely then of any of the reste for that he yet liueth and for that as this man saith he more then all the reste together hath and doeth in deede seeke the destruction of the Catholiques by couert meanes though whiles the others liued that were more open he shrowded himself and his doings now vnder VValsingham and now vnder Lecester signifyinge in secrett vnto Catholiques when they sued vnto him that they onely were the causes which since hath bin knowen to haue bin quite contrary c. Of my L. Treasurers pedegrie and how Cecil his father was grome of the wardrop and was neuer called maister in all his life vnles it were in iest how his mother would neuer suffer her self to be called Mistresse but after her sonne was made Baron of Burlegh how my L. Treasurers grandfather was one of the kinges guard and kept the best Inne in Stamford how my L. Treasurer himself is said to haue bene first of al belringer in S. Ihons Colledge in Cambridge and after grew by learning and cunninge and by the helpes and fauoures of Sir Ihon Cheeke and Sir Antony Cooke to be secretary to the Duke of Somersett that was protector to whome he was a stickler to sett him against his owne brother the Admirall for pleasinge the Duches and to cutt of his head as he did and that he is thoughte to haue bin the principall instrumente to bring in father Latimer that fond and hypocriticall preacher to be an agent as he was in that barbarous tragedie and that for this seruice chiefely by the Duches of Somersets procurement to her husbād M. Cecile was made Secretarie to king Edward the sixt How afterward he seing Dudley the Earle of warwick to be more cunning and potent then the duke of Somersett his maister he secretly forsooke and betraied him and gaue matter of ouerthrow to warwicke againste him for which seruice when the Duke and his trustie frendes were pulled downe and cut of maister Cecil was set vp by warwick and brought in to the kinges fauour and counsaile againe so he folowed that mans fortune euer after so long as he stoode in prosperitie euen to the consenting to the depriuation and deposition of all king Henry the 8. his children and nanamely of Queene Mary and this Queene against whome this awnswerer saith that Sir VVilliam Cecill wrote and penned the proclamatiōs and othes that the Dukes of Northumberland and Suffolke sett forth against them and woulde haue bene content to haue byn the headsman also himself to haue dispatched them both with his owne handes at that tyme rather then they should haue escaped to his losse or disgrace yf Northumberland would haue putt him to it How Queene Mary being established in the crowne and the Duke of Northumberland beheaded my L. Treasurer bestirred himself to gett creditt with the Catholiques frequented Masses said the Litanies with the prieste laboured a paire of greate beades which he continually caried preached to his parishioners in Stamford and asked pardon of his errours in king Edwardes tyme what he said and protested to diuers and namely to Sir Francis Inglefeild then of the Councel about his beleef of all pointes of the Catholique Roman faith How he deceaued Cardinal Poole and persuaded Sir VVilliam Peter to resigne vp his office of the Secretariship vnto him yf Queene Mary would haue admitted the same who neuer could be persuaded to beleue him How M. Cecil being reiected by Queene Mary he gat to serue the lady Elizabeth and how he entered with her afterward when she came to the crowne to persuade her to the change of Religion for his owne interest against the opiniō of other councelors VVhat reasons he laid for the same and what great difficulties he founde in the Queene and otherwise and by what crafte he ouercame them and how yf he had by byn admitted secretary in Queene Maries tyme he had neuer sought the change of Religiō in this Queenes dayes VVhat shiftes and deceites were vsed by him and M. Bacon in the change of Religion how the Earle of Arundell was cosened by them with hope of hauing the Queene in mariage and thereby his sonne