yeeres on Barthelmewe daie in the yere one thousand fiue hundred seauentie and seauen at the Machaunt sailers hall in the Citie of London to the Maior and comcommunaltie of the citie of Yorke one hundred and foure pounds to be lent to foure young men free of the sayde Citie of Yorke fiue and twentie poundes a peece for the space of ten yeeres without paying anie interest for it The foure pounds ouerplus of the hundred four he gaue to the Maior communaltie for their paines The verie same or the like order hee tooke for the deliuerie of one hundred and foure pounds in the yeere of our Lorde 1578. to the Citie of Canterburie in the yeere 1579. to Reading 1580. to the companie of the Marchaunt Tailers 1581. to Glocester 1582. to Worcester 1583. to Exeter 1584. to Sarisburie 1585. to Westchester 1586. to Norwich 1587. to Southamtō 1588. to Lincoln 1589. to Winchester 1590. to Oxford 1591. to Hereford East 1592. to Cambridge 1503. to Shrewsburie 1594. to Linne 1595. to Bath 1596. to Ipswich 1598. to Colchester 1599. to New-castle and then to begin againe at Bristow one hundred and foure poundes the next yeere to the citie of Yorke and so forth to the said cities as before and the same to continue for euer Also this said sir Thomas White gaue to the Maior and communaltie of Couentrie one thousand and foure hundred pounds to purchase lands to the value of three score and ten pounds a yeere which rents he deuised as foloweth First that twelue poore inhabitants of the foresayde citie shall haue paide them foure twentie poundes yeerely the eleuenth daie of March that is fortie shillings a peece for euer Furthermore hee deuised for the space of ten yeres to commence within one yere after his decease to foure pore men of the said Citie forty pounds yerely vz. ten poundes to each of them for nine yeres after the receit therof in free lone And after those nine yeeres were expired to other foure poore men of the same citie for nine yeeres and so from nine yeres to nine yeres for euer At the end of which nine yeeres he deuised that the maior and communaltie of Couentrie for the space of thirtie yeeres shall imploy the said fortie poundes yeerely to two young men of the sayd citie for nine yeres in free lone for euer and so after those nine yeeres from nine yeeres to nine yeeres for euer And after the expiratiō of those thirty yeres the sayd fortie pounds to be delyuered to one yong man of the sayd Citie in free lone for nine yeeres and so from nine yeeres to nine yeres for euer Afterwards he deuised the sayd sum of fortie pounds to bee deliuered to Northampton and to be lent to one young man of the sayde towne for nine yeeres in free lone and so from nine yeeres to nine yeeres for euer And then the next yeere after that to the towne of Leicester as aforesayd The yeere following to the Towne of Northampton as aforesayd The next yere after that to the towne of Warwike as aforesayd And then againe to Couentrie for one yeere and so to the other townes aforesayde one after another for euer But to leaue this worthie person and to hasten vnto others Iohn Alcocke Bishoppe of Elie founded a free schoole at Kingstone vppon Hull and gaue to the same certaine landes for euer King Henrie the sixt built Eaton colledge in the yeere of our Lorde 1443. Our most gracious and dread soueraigne Ladie Elizabeth the Queenes Maiestie that nowe is whom God preserue for euer not onely reedified but also inlarged with greate and ample reuenewes the famous free schoole of Westminster Iohn Collet Deane of Paules founded a goodly free schoole in the Churchyard of Saint Pauls in London called Paules schoole in the yeere 1510. Iohn Tat builte Saint Anthonies schoole in London The Worshipfull Companie of the Marchant tailers built a famous schoole in the Citie of London called the Marchant tallers school anno 1560. Hugh Prise Doctor of the lawe founded a new colledge called Iesus colledge in the yeere 1572. King Bladud founded the Vniuersitie of Stanford and brought Philosophers from Athens thether Besides all which Colledges Vniuersities and schooles of learning we reade almost of infinit Churches Temples Chappels Abbies Frieries Monasteries and other religious houses not onely in England but euen throughout all christendome which they our forefathers I meane haue founded erected to their perpetual praise honor renown But of many heare a few King Ethelbert for the singular zeale hee bare to religion built St Augustines a goodly Church in Canterburie Hee built also S. Paules Church in London and S. Andrewes in Rochester Cissa built the Abbey of Abingdon and Erkenwald Bishop of London built the Abbeies of Chertsey Barking Ostricke Duke of Glocester founded the Abbey of Glocester Remingus Bishop of Dorchester built a goodly new Church in Lincolne Osmond Bishop of Sarisburie founded the Cathedrall Church of Sarisburie in the yeere 1091. Herbert Bishoppe of Norwich built the Cathedrall Church of Norwich in the yeere 1202. Queen Mathild built the church of the Trinitie within Algate in London in the yeere 1108. One Peter a Priest of Colchurch was the first that built Londō bridge of timber in the yeere 1562. And yet ceased they not heere but other some built hospitalles spittles and almes houses for the poore as namely Walter Brune Citizen of London and Rosia his wife founded the hospitall without Bishops gate in London Iohn Lowkin sometime Maior of London builte a Chappell and an hospitall for the poore at Kingstone vpon Thames he built also the Parish Church of Saint Michael in crooked lane Iohn Philpot Maior of London gaue certaine landes to the chamber of London for which they are to paie seuen pence a peece to thirteen poore persons for euer in the yeere 1379. One William Seuenocke founded in the Towne of Seuen-oke in Kent a freeschoole and twelue almes-houses in the yeere of our Lord 1418. Iohn Clapton Maior of London built a stone bridge at Straitford vpon Auon and also a high waie of foure miles long in the yere 1492. Iohn Milborne builte certaine almes houses by Crochet Friers in London wherein are maintayned twelue poore people who haue theyr dwellinges rent free and two shillings sixe pence a peece the first daie of euery month for euer Nicholas Gibson builte the free schoole in Ratcliffe by London gaue ten pound a yeere to the master and twentie nobles a yeere to the vsher for euer besides hee built there certaine almes houses for foureteene poore people who quarterly receiue vi shillings eight pence a peece for euer Sir Thomas Lupton knight founded a free Schoole and certayne almes houses at Arendale in Northamptonshiere where seuen poore people haue eight shillinges eight pence a peece the quarter for euer Sir Rowland Hill Mercer of London caused a causie or pauement to bee made in the high waie betwixt
and being not able by reason of the iniquitie of the time to finish it it was afterward perfited by Elizabeth wife to King Edward the 4. in the yere of our Lord 1465. Katherine Hall was built by Robert Woodlarke Doctor of Diuinitie and Chancelor of Cambridge by him indowed with cōpetēt possessions Iesus Colledge was conuerted from a Priorie into a Colledge by Iohn Alcocke Bishop of Ely in the yeare of Christ 1502. and by him both reedifyed and also possessed with sufficient reuenewes the rents whereof were afterward inlarged by Sir Robert Reade Knight Doctor Eleston Doctor Royston and Doctor Fuller with others Christes Colledge was first founded by King Henry the syxt who named it Gods house afterward it was translated by the Lady Margaret Countesse of Richmond Darby in the yeare of our Sauiour 1505. and called Christs Colledge To this Colledge Edward the 6. conferred one felowship and three schollerships That honorable Knight also Sir Gualter Mildmay and Edmund Grindall late Archbishop of Canterbury were notable contributors benefactors to this Colledge gaue to it annuall pēsions for euer Saint Iohns Colledge was translated from a Priorie into a Colledge by the Lady Margaret Coūtesse of Richmond and Grandmother to King Henry the eyght in the yeare of our Lord 1508. Magdalen Colledge was conuerted frō a house of Monks into a Colledge by the noble Duke of Buckingham in the yeare of our Lord 1519. This Colledge hath since beene greatly repayred and beawtified with goodly buildings by Sir Christopher Wray Knight late Lorde chiefe Iustice of England Trinity Colledge was erected by King Henry the 8. in the yere of our Lord 1546. who gaue vnto it yearely for euer 1300. poūds besides the old ancient possessions Qu. Mary augmēted the same Colledge and gaue to it in lands 338. pounds Sir Gualter Mildmay Knight founded a goodly Colledge called Emanuell Colledge in the yeare of our Lord 1584. The Lady Francis Countesse of Sussex hath also begun the foundacion of a newe Colledge and hath geuen to the same 5000. pound in the yeare of our Lord 1588. But to come to the Vniuersitie of Oxforde and so to make an ende Alfredus sometime King of this land for the zeale he bare to good letters erected the Vniuersitie of Oxford in the yeare of our Lord 872. but some attribute the first building of it to Mempricius before Christ 1015. yeares othersome ascribe it to Vortiger after the birth of Christ 474. yeares King Aluredus or Alfredus whether you will for he was called by both those names built the Vniuersitie Colledge which beeing afterwards almost defaced William Bishop of Durham repaired agayne and gaue to it goodly reuenewes in the yeare of our saluation 1217. Bailiol or Ballioll King of the Scots built Balioll Colledge in the yeare of our Sauiour 1263. and his wife Deruergulla indowed it with yearely reuenewes Gualter de Merton sometyme Lord Chancelor of England built Merton Colledge in the yeare of our Redeemer 1264. and inuested it with great and large possessions Gualter Stapleton Bishop of Exceter built Exceter Colledge in the yere of our Lord 1316. Edward the 2. after the Conquest or as some hould Sir Adam Browne Almoner to the sayde King built Oriall Colledge in the yeare of our Lord 1323. Robert Eglesfield Bacheler of Diuinitie built the Queenes Colledge in the yere of our L. 1340. wherto Edmund Grindall Archbish. of Canterbury besides 100 pound in money which hee gaue in his life time gaue also 20 pound a yere for euer The same Archbishop also at his death gaue to the same Colledge many goodly bookes ten pound in mony to buy chaynes to tye them in besides plate and other iewels of great value William Wiccam sometime Bishop of Winchester and Lord Chancelor of Englande built a most stately Colledge called New Colledge in the yeare of our Lord 1375. gaue to it goodly reuenewes The same Bishop also built a goodly Colledge in the suburbs of the Citie of Winchester for the better erudition of youth in good letters Richard Flemming Bishop of Lincolne in the yeare of grace 1420. built Lincolne Colledge and bestowed vpon it lands and possessions which remayne to this day Henry Chichley Archbishop of Canterbury built All Soules Colledge in the yeare of our Lorde 1437. and gaue to it large reuenewes About the same time Humfrey called the good Duke of Glocester built a most famous Schoole called the Diuinitie Schoole wherein he placed a goodly Library of 129. chosen bookes which he had gathered out of the most places in Christendome to his vnspeakable great cost and charges William Wamflet Bishop of Winchester in the yeare 1459. built Magdalene Colledge and gaue fayre lands and goodly possessions to it He built also a good part of Eaton Colledge besides a free Schole at Wamflet in Lincolne shire William Smith Bishop of Lincolne built Brasen nose Colledge in the yeare 1513. Richard Fox Bishop of Winchester erected Corpus Christi Colledge in the yeare 1516. and indowed it with sufficient reuenewes Thomas Wolsey Cardinall Archbishop of Yorke founded a goodly Colledge called Christs Colledge or Christs Church in the yeare 1546. gaue to it many great possessiōs Sir Thomas Pope Knight reedified Trinitie Colledge in the yere 1556. which Colledge was first founded by Thomas of Hatfeild Bishop of Durham for his Monkes and bestowed great possessions vppon it also Sir Thomas White Knight repaired the colledge first begun by Henrie Chichley Archbishop of Cantuburie and called it Saint Iohns Colledge whereto he gaue in reuenues for euer fiue hundred pounds a yeere this he dyd in the yere of Christ 1557. The said sir Tho. White also founded a hall for students called Saint Iohns hall but sometime Glocester colledge which beeing suppressed he bought it with his monie and placed therein a principall and a hundred poore schollers and moe and hauing made great reparations of the same hee adioyned it to Saint Iohns colledge which before he had founded He also erected free schooles at Bristow Reading Moreouer he gaue in his lyfe time two thousand poundes to the citie of Bristow to purchase landes to the value of one hundred and twenty poundes a yeere for the which the Maior and communaltie of Bristow in anno 1567 and so yeerely during the terme of tenne yeeres following shoulde cause to be paide at Bristow one hundreth pounde The first eight hundreth pounds to be lent to sixteene pore young clothiers and free men of the same towne for the space of ten yeeres fiftie pounds a peece they ptuting in sufficiēt sureties for the same And at the end of tenne yeeres the same to bee lent to other sixteene at the discretion of the Maior and communaltie aforesayde The other two hundred poundes to bee imployed for the prouision of corne for the releefe of the poore of the same Citie for theyr readie monie without gains to be taken And after the ende of nine
answered I am glad so that Christ be preached whether it be of enuie of malice of pride or of any affection else whatsoeuer and euen so say I I am glad that good workes are done whether it be of enuie of pride of vayne-glory or of any other affection else and I pray God to rayse vp moe good men to doe moe good workes for our great talking little walking our great prating and protesting and little or no working maketh our enemies the Papistes to open theyr mouthes so wyde agaynst vs and to slander both vs and our profession affirming that we teach nothing but carnall libertie and abandoning of all good workes But how false this theyr shameles slaunder is shal afterwards appeare Christ willing in his place And yet truly I must needes confesse that euen as the Apostle tould the Galathians the Gospell was euill spoken of and slaundered amongst the Heathen thorowe theyr wickednes so I say the Gospell and word of saluation is blasphemed and slaundered amongst the Papists who are not-only scandalized thereby but also in effect vtterly disswaded and drawne away both frō vs and our religion thorowe our inordinate licentious liues Yea and would God it were not true with grief of hart I speak it there are I feare me moe good works done daily by the Papists if they may be called good workes and not rather workes of ciuile office which the heathen the Turks or Iewes may doe than by the Protestants For he the Papist trusteth most blasphemously sacrilegiously to be saued by his works therfore he is carefull to do thē the other trusteth to be saued by a bare naked faith deceiuing him selfe without good works therfore eyther careth not for thē or at least setteth little by thē By which meanes it cōmeth to passe that many men had rather deale with him that is a palpable Papist than with him who is a precise Protestant And certainly to speak truth there is many times found plainer cōscionabler dealing among most of thē than among many Protestāts And if we looke narrowly into the former times and ages past wee shall finde more godlynes deuocion and zeale though it were but a blinde zeale more loue one towards an other more simplicitie in dealing more fidelitie and faythfulnes euery way to haue remayned in them than is now to be foūd amongst vs. A mās bare word or naked promise then was better than any bands bills or writings now They passed their conueighances and state of lands in those dayes by so slender words and in so fewe lynes as now it is sooner wondered at of all than followed of any They studyed not to coyne quirkes quiddities nor to hammer clauses and prouisoes to circumuent and deceyue one another But now adays we must haue if not so many skinnes of parchment yet so many lynes as they had wordes and a great sort moe and yet all will not serue neyther but mayster Lawyer forsooth will finde you a hundred holes in it And for good works who seeth not that herein they went farre beyond vs and wee farre inough behinde them For example What memorable famous buildings what stately edifices of sundrye kyndes and what ancient monuments haue they left to the world behinde them What Churches Chappells and other houses of prayer did they erect to the ende the religion and seruice of God might be continued amongst all posterities to the end of the world Yea what Monasteries Abbeys Priories and other religious houses to their infinite cost and charges albeit they were afterwards most horribly abused by Popish Locusts that came out of the bottomlesse pit as out of the Troian horsse to the destruction of the Church of God did they build and erect What number of goodly Bridges did they make What and how many almes houses hospitalls and spittles did they found for the reliefe of the poore and indowed them with cōpetent lands and liuelodes for mayntenance of them What high wayes what pauements and causies for the safe and easy passage of the people did they make In summe what famous Colledges Halles and Vniuersities for the cōseruatiō of learning did they found and edifye What Schooles free schooles as well in the Vniuersities as also in the cuntreys abroade did they erect indowed thē with wonderfull goodly reuenewes lands and rents for the maintenāce of poore schollers propagatiō of learning knowledge amongst all posterities to the end of the world For proofe whereof and to the end I may stir vp the minds of this frosen and key cold age of ours to the like practise of good works I will giue you a tast of certain notable personages men womē that were famus herein that as briefly as I cā It is recorded by ancient credible historians that one Cantabar a Spanyard before the incarnation of Christ 375 yeres not only built but also furnished with learned mē the thrise renowmed and famous Vniuersitie of Cambridge Afterwards being somwhat ruinate and decayed thorow the calamities of those times it was reedifyed and restored to his pristine state by Sebertus king of the East Angles in the yeare of our Lord 656. Hugh Balesham Bishop of Ely built the Colledge dedicate to S. Peter now called Peter house or Peter Colledge in the yere of Christ 1284. and indowed it with great reuenewes Richard Badewe then Chaunceler of Cambridge layd the first foundacion of Clare Hall now called the Vniuersitie Hall Afterwarde it was inlarged by Gualter Thacsted and lastly by Elizabeth Lady of Clare who called it after her owne name Clare Hall Pembroke Hall was founded by Marie of Valentia sometime wife to Adomare de Valentia Earle of Pembroke in the yeare of Christ 1343. and by her indowed with great possessions Corpus Christi Colledge was founded by the Aldermen brethren of Corpus Christi guilde with the helpe of the fraternitie of S. Maries guilde in the yeare of our redemption 1344. Trinitie Hall being first an hostell was purchased by Iohn Crandon prior of Ely for his brethrē the Monks of that house to study in which Hall afterwards by the industrie and good helpe of William Bateman Bishop of Norwich was conuerted into a Colledge and by him indowed with goodly reuenewes Gonuill and Caius Colledge was built by one Edmund Gonuill in the yeare of grace 1348. and one Caius a Phisition in the yeare of Christ 1557. and by them indowed with large possessions King Henry the syxt built a most famous Colledge now called by the name of Kings Colledge in the yeare of our Lord 1443. and adioyned to it a most sumptuous Chappell This Henry the syxt also built Aeton Colledge where are maynteined threescore schollers who in time as they rise in learning are promoted to Kings Colledge and gaue to them both goodly possessions Margaret Andegauensis wife to King Henry the syxt layde the foundation of Queenes Colledge in Cambridge in the yeare of Christ 1448.
not now bee anie meanes to build vp or repayre his Church agayne any manner of waie The Lorde hath all meanes in his handes and both can and will in his good time build his Church by other meanes than by the reliques of Antichrist orrmaenentes of idolatrie and superstition Therefore let vs rest contented with whatsoeuer he doeth knowing let vs rest coytented with whatsoeuer he doth knowing that his wyll is the perfect square rule of all perfection and that he doth all things for his owne glorie and the good of his Church But to returne to the matter in hand so to conclude this point I graunt indeede that the building of Abbies and Monasteries in regarde of the abuses which afterwards insued of them by them was altogether vnlawfull pernitious and execrable yea altogether abhominable and consequentlie intollerable yet in respect of the intentions of the first founders of them and of the end whereto they were erected as namely to the end that God might bee glorified by them and his religion exercised maintained practised in them amongst all generations to the end of the world and the like I saie in respect of these ends they were not altogether so vnlawfull nor intollerable but beeing done to these ends to maintaine superstition and idolatrie to iustifie vs before God to purchase righteousnes to merit euerlasting life the like thē were they abhominable and detestable before God man But whatsoeeuer the building of thē was good or badde as good it could not be these are not such as the papists that liue in this age do greatly accouut of to be good workes And therefore to the end no man may heereafter bee ignorant hereof I will as briefly as I can endeuor my selfe to set down in order some such as the Papists now a daies do account for good workes in deede and such as deserue say they in this life infinit renumeratiō in the life to come euerlasting saluation These such like are they as followe The third Section Wherein is contained a briefe rehearsall of such workes as the Papists doe account to bee good workes and of great merite and desert before God though they bee repugnant and contrarie to the word of God and therefore cā they merit nothing but damnation in the iustice of God THE Papists account it a worke of infinit merite and vnspeakable deserte to persecute the Church of God to murther and kill his Saintes to massacre his children and to shedde innocent bloud That this is true I refer you to the registers and records of all ages and times that haue bene since the beginning of the worlde to this daie but especially in that famous ecclesiasticall cronologie of Actes and Monumentes of the Church made and published by that reuerend Father and learned diuine master Iohn Foxe wherein you shal finde almost infinite millions of blessed martyrs which haue bene murthered and put to most cruell death by these bloud-thirstie Papists yea in fiue yeres space to wit in the daies of Queene Marie you shall finde welneere if not altogether one thousand men women children of all ages degrees and sexes to haue bene some hanged strangled murthered burned racked and otherwise most cruelly tortured and put to death for the testimonie of Iesus and for the word of God If you list to haue further profe I refer you to that most perfidious cruell and more than barbarous massacre of Paris wherein were murthered and put to the swoord aboue fortie or fiftie thousand protestants within the compasse of one month throughout the whole realme of Fraunce And yet was this bloudie crueltie and slaughter of Gods Saintes so much applauded of the Pope that hee not onely dispensed with the murtherers but also graunted them pardon and indulgence of all their sinnes besides large promises of rewardes made to the perpetrators thereof as also bone fires banquettinges and feastinges throughout all the Citie of Rome for ioy as though it had beene the yeere of Iubelie or the creation of a newe Antichrist And heerein they doo but theyr kinde For it is the badge of the Church of Antichrist and the cognisaunce of the synagogue of Sathan to persecute murther and kill the Church of God It hath bene so from the beginning and shall bee so as Iohn in the Reuelation most prophetically speaketh to the end of the worlde Cain was a figure of theyr bloudie Church who persecuted his brother euen to the effusion of his bloud Esau was also a type of theyr Antichristian Church who persecuted Iacob threatning his destruction and which no doubt hee had perfourmed had it not beene wisely preuented by his mother Ishmael was the like who persecuted Isaac Pharao the verie same who persecuted the Israelites And truely this is a notable and an infallible marke to knowe the Church of GOD by from the synagogue of sathan For the badge of the Church of God is to bee afflicted persecuted and to haue theyr bloude shedde Contraryly the marke of the Antichristian church is to persecute to kill to slaie to murther and shed bloud to the end It was neuer read in any age or time that the church of GOD dyd euer persecute or shedde bloud but was alwaies persecuted and had theyr bloud shed by the synagogue of sathan and yet for all that which is myraculous the Church of God hath doeth and euer shall flourishe and increase still more and more maugre the heades and spite of all Papists and schismatikes whatsoeuer Yea by how much the more they goe aboute to suppresse it by so much the more it increaseth dayly much lyke to the Palme tree which the more waight it hath layde vpon it the broader it spreadeth his loppes and branches on euerie side True therefore is that saying of an ancient father Sanguis martyrum semen Ecclesiae The bloude of martyres is the seede of the Church And therfore would I wish all Papists to leaue off from murthering the poore Saintes of God anie longer for this if for no other cause yet for that they shall neuer bee able to preuaile against them no they are so inuinsible through the might of Christ who raigneth in them and strengthneth them that the gates of hell cannot preuaile against them nor death itselfe ouercome or vanguish them but euen in the middest of the raging flames they triumph ouer it The Papists also thinke it a worke of inestimable merite before God to laie violent handes vppon the Lordes annointed to kil and murrher Emperours Kings and Princes when they haue done they are canonized Saintes for theyr labour A fit guerdon for such a facte For as a holy writer sayth Multi adorantur per sanctis in hoc mundo quorum animae in inferno sepeliuntur Many are worshipped for Saintes vppon earth whose soules are buryed in hell Such Saintes are these whom the Pope doeth thus canonize Good king Dauid inspired with the spirit of God was of another mind when he
sayd God forbidde that I should laie violent handes vppon the Lordes annoynted The Apostle Paul was indued with another spirite when he sayde Omnis anima potestatibus supereminentibas subdita sit Let euerie soule hee sayth not one soule or some soules but euerie soule bee subiecte to the higher powers his reason for there is no power but of GOD the penaltie or dannger of those that doo resist and those that doo resist sayth hee the power they resist the ordinaunce of GOD and purchase to themselues eternall damnation Then I woulde aske these murthering Papists if they that doe but resist the power doe purchase to thēselues damnation both of bodie and soule oh then what doo they purchase that not onely doo resist but also murther and kill the Lords annoynted And yet theyr delight is in nothing so much as to imbrue theyr cruell handes in the bloud of kings and princes For example What Emperours haue they poysoned yea in the verie wine of the challice What Kings and Princes what Peeres and Nobles haue they most cruelly murthered in sundrie partes of the worlde Did they not most trayterously murther the good Prince of Orenge with a dagge The late famous King of France with a double poisoned knife by the subornation of a Iacobine Frier Doe they not now also by all meanes possible by all plots and deuises seeke and practise the death of him who at this present is the most lawfull king of France Haue they not murthered two or three of the late kinges of Scotland And to come neerer home Haue they not practised attempted the murthering of our gracious soueraigne Queene Elizabeth by infinite waies meanes and by innumerable plots and deuises As first by sending in a number of Iesuites and seminary priests starke roagues and plaine traytors into her Maiesties realme to withdrawe the heartes of the people from theyr allegeance and to raise vp warres and commotions in euerie place And when these deuises and driftes dyd not take effect according vnto theyr expectation then they suborned and hired a sort of desperate graceles and reprobate villaynes to kill her Maiesties royall person as namely Parry Sommeruile Arden Throgmorton Babington with 13. moe of his collegues and confederates besides many moe which heare to recite were but superfluous All whiche notwithstanding Gods name be praysed for it receyued such condigne punishments for theyr deserts as I pray God all Traytors against their Prince and Cuntrey may do They hould it also for a principall good worke and of great merite to take armor and to rayse vp warres for the mayntenance inlarging and augmenting of their pretenced conterfeite Catholike Church or rather most diuelish antichristian synagogue of Sathan And therefore is the Pope with his Cardinals Abbots Friers Monks and all other consorts of that viperous generation sworne at their creation that they shall to the vttermost of theyr powers defend mayntayne and inlarge as they falssely call it Saint Peters patrimonie And to this end doth the Popes vnholie holynes sende abroade hys bandogges the Cardinalles hys curre dogges the Abbots and Monkes and his spanyels the sneaking Friers into euery cuntrey to perswade Kings and Princes to take Armes agaynst such and such for such and such causes as he hymselfe shall frame in the forge of hys owne brayne And the better to effect hys purpose hee sends them eyther some lowsye indulgence or else some beggerly pardon or other in a Bull of leade and that of all their sinnes for euer or else hee sends them some scalde relique or other and if that wyll not serue sometymes he sends them a goodly oyntment called rubrum vnguentum which wyll worke more then all the rest And when hee hath thus set them together by the eares then commes hee as a rauenous Gripe and deuoures eyther the one or both of them at hys pleasure And thus rageth hee euery where through-out Christendome so that in my conscience the Pope with the rest of hys broode are the very authors of all the warres and bloudshead in all Europe at thys present and that for the inlarging forsooth of Saint Peters Patrimonye What warres hath hee raysed heeretofore in Spayne What warres hath hee and at thys present doeth hee manage and maynteyne in the Kingdome of Fraunce in Flaunders and in the lowe cuntreys in Germany in Italy and sundry other places of the world it is vnpossible to number the infinit millions of Gods saints that he hath murthered and beene author of theyr murthers what warres he hath raysed what tumults he hath caused what rebellions insurrections and commotions he hath stirred vp throughout all Christendome and all to maynteyne his paunch his honor his glory his renowne his dignitie and estimation in the world And yet all will not serue for thanks be to God he cums tumbling downe euery day And the more he striues to be honored and magnified in this world the more is he hated of God and detested of men The Pope and Papists also accoumpt it a good worke to set vp stewes and brothell houses whether euery man may resort at his pleasure and that sana conscientia with a safe conscience as they say and inioy his whore or whores as many as he list and no man may say blacke is his eye or Domine cur ita facis because forsooth the Pope hath dispensed with him in a wanyon And as though this were no sinne but rather a good worke for so he and they all accompt it indeede he tollerateth Buggery Sodometry and other filthy sinnes for money which are not once to be named amongst the children of God And this is his reason Is it not better sayth this vile beast for me to tollerate them receyuing yearely a million or two of gould for them towards the maintenance of the Church or rather his owne carren carkasse than they to commit them secretly without my tolleration I receyuing nothing therfore But how light soeuer they esteeme of whoredome the word of God condemneth both it and the doers thereof to hell Was not Sodoma and Gomorrha consumed with fire and brimstone from heauen for this filthie sinne of whoredome buggery and yet thinke they to escape free The whole world eyght persons only excepted was drowned in that great and vniuersall deluge for the same sinne of whoredome The citie of the Sichemites was wholy destroyed and put to the sword for the same sinne also There were slayne of the Beniamites in one day 25000. for the defiling of a Leuites wife Zimri and Cosbi were both slayne for their whoredome together by Phinehas whose fact so pleased God that hee turned away hys wrath from the rest of the people that they were not destroyed Besides examples the Apostle Paule sayth that neither whoremongers adulterers nor incestuous persons shall enter into the kingdome of heauē The Apostle Iohn saith mariage is honorable amongst all mē and the bed vndefiled but whoremongers and adulterers God