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A04224	The vvorkes of the most high and mightie prince, Iames by the grace of God, King of Great Britaine, France and Ireland, defender of the faith, &c. Published by Iames, Bishop of Winton, and deane of his Maiesties Chappel Royall; Works	James I, King of England, 1566-1625.; Montagu, James, 1568?-1618.; Elstracke, Renold, fl. 1590-1630, engraver.; Pass, Simon van de, 1595?-1647, engraver.	1616 (1616)	STC 14344; ESTC S122229	618,837	614

our Myne vnto the Wal and about Candlemas we had wrought the Wall halfe through And whilest they were in working I stood as Sentinell to descrie any man that came neere whereof I gaue them warning and so they ceased vntill I gaue notice againe to proceed All we seuen lay in the House and had shot and powder being resolued to die in that place before we should yeeld or be taken As they were working vpon the wall they heard a rushing in a cellar of remoouing of coales whereupon we feared wee had bene discouered and they sent mee to goe to the cellar who finding that the coales were a selling and that the cellar was to be let viewing the commoditie thereof for our purpose Percy went and hired the same for yeerely rent Wee had before this prouided and brought into the House twentie barrels of powder which we remooued into the cellar and couered the same with billets and faggots which were prouided for that purpose About Easter the Parliament being prorogued till October next wee dispersed our selues and I retired into the Low countreys by aduice and direction of the rest aswell to acquaint Owen with the particulars of the plot as also lest by my longer stay I might haue growne suspicious and so haue come in question In the meane time Percy hauing the key of the cellar layd in more powder and wood into it I returned about the beginning of September next and then receiuing the key againe of Percy wee brought in more powder and billets to couer the same againe and so I went for a time into the countrey till the 30. of October It was further resolued amongst vs that the same day that this acte should haue bene performed some other of our confederates should haue surprised the person of the Lady ELIZABETH the Kings eldest daughter who was kept in Warwickshire at the Lord Haringtons house and presently haue proclaimed her Queene hauing a proiect of a Proclamation ready for that purpose wherein wee made no mention of altering of Religion nor would haue auowed the deed to be ours vntill we should haue had power ynough to make our partie good and then wee would haue auowed both Concerning duke CHARLES the Kings second sonne we had sundry consultations how to seize on his person But because wee found no meanes how to compasse it the duke being kept neere London where we had not forces ynough wee resolued to serue our turne with the Lady ELIZABETH THE NAMES OF OTHER PRINCIPALL PERSONS THAT WERE MADE PRIVIE AFTERwards to this horrible conspiracie Euerard Digby knight Ambrose Rookwood Francis Tresham John Grant Robert Keyes Commiss Notingham Worcester Suffolke Deuonshire Northampton Salisbury Marre Dunbar Popham Edw. Cooke William Waad ANd in regard that before this discourse could be ready to goe to the Presse Thomas Winter being apprehended and brought to the Tower made a confession in substance agreeing with this former of Fawkes onely larger in some circumstances I haue thought good to insert the same likewise in this place for the further clearing of the matter and greater benefit of the Reader THOMAS WINTERS CONFESSION TAKEN THE XXIII OF NOVEMBER 1605. IN THE PRESENCE OF the Counsellors whose names are vnder-written My most Honourable Lords NOt out of hope to obtaine pardon for speaking of my temporall part I may say The fault is greater then can bee forgiuen nor affecting hereby the title of a good Subiect for I must redeeme my countrey from as great a danger as I haue hazarded the bringing of her into before I can purchase any such opinion Onely at your Honours command I will briefly set downe mine owne accusation and how farre I haue proceeded in this businesse which I shall the faithfullier doe since I see such courses are not pleasing to Almightie God and that all or the most materiall parts haue bene already confessed I remained with my brother in the countrey from Alhallontyde vntill the beginning of Lent in the yeere of our Lord 1603. the first yeere of the Kings reigne about which time master Catesby sent thither intreating me to come to London where hee and other my friends would be glad to see me I desired him to excuse me for I found my selfe not very well disposed and which had happened neuer to mee before returned the messenger without my company Shortly I receiued another letter in any wise to come At the second summons I presently came vp and found him with master Iohn Wright at Lambeth where he brake with me how necessary it was not to forsake our countrey for he knew I had then a resolution to goe ouer but to deliuer her from the seruitude in which shee remained or at least to assist her with our vttermost endeuours I answered That I had often hazarded my life vpon farre lighter termes and now would not refuse any good occasion wherein I might doe seruice to the Catholicke cause but for my selfe I knew no meane probable to succeed He said that he had bethought him of a way at one instant to deliuer vs from all our bonds and without any forraine helpe to replant againe the Catholicke Religion and with all told mee in a word It was to blow vp the Parliament house with Gunpowder for said he in that place haue they done vs all the mischiefe and perchance God hath desseigned that place for their punishment I wondered at the strangenesse of the conceipt and told him that trew it was this strake at the root and would breed a confusion fit to beget new alterations But if it should not take effect as most of this nature miscaried the scandall would be so great which Catholicke Religion might hereby sustaine as not onely our enemies but our friends also would with good reason condemne vs. He told me The nature of the disease required so sharpe a remedie and asked me if I would giue my consent I told him yes in this or what els soeuer if he resolued vpon it I would venture my life But I proposed many difficulties As want of an house and of one to cary the Myne noyse in the working and such like His answere was Let vs giue an attempt and where it faileth passe no further But first quoth hee Because wee will leaue no peaceable and quiet way vntryed you shall goe ouer and informe the Constable of the state of the Catholickes here in England intreating him to sollicite his Maiestie at his comming hither that the penall Lawes may be recalled and wee admitted into the rancke of his other Subiects withall you may bring ouer some confident Gentleman such as you shall vnderstand best able for this businesse and named vnto mee master Fawkes Shortly after I passed the Sea and found the Constable at Bergen neere Dunkirke where by helpe of master Owen I deliuered my message Whose answere was that hee had strict command from his Master to doe all good Offices for the Catholickes and for his owne part hee thought himselfe

suo And of these notes making a little pamphlet lacking both my methode and halfe of my matter entituled it forsooth the Kings Testament as if I had eiked a third Testament of my owne to the two that are in the holy Scriptures It is trew that in a place thereof for affirmation of the purpose I am speaking of to my Sonne I bring my selfe in there as speaking vpon my Testament for in that sense euery record in write of a mans opinion in anything in respect that papers out-liue their authours is as it were a Testament of that mans will in that case and in that sense it is that in that place I call this Treatise a Testament But from any particular sentence in a booke to giue the booke it selfe a title is as ridiculous as to style the booke of the Psalmes the booke of Dixit insipiens because with these wordes one of them doeth begin Well leauing these new baptizers and blockers of other mens books to their owne follies Ireturne to my purpose anent the shortnesse of this booke suspecting that all my excuses for the shortnesse thereof shall not satisfie some especially in our neighbour countrey who thought that as I haue so narrowly in this Treatise touched all the principall sicknesses in our kingdome with ouertures for the remedies thereof as I said before so looked they to haue found something therein that should haue touched the sicknesses of their state in the like sort But they will easily excuse me thereof if they will consider the forme I haue vsed in this Treatise wherein I onely teach my Son out of my owne experience what forme of gouernment is fittest for this kingdome and in one part thereof speaking of the borders I plainely there doe excuse my selfe that I will speake nothing of the state of England as a matter wherein I neuer had experience I know indeed no kingdome lackes her owne diseases and likewise what interest I haue in the prosperitie of that state for although I would be silent my blood and discent doeth sufficiently proclaime it But notwithstanding since there is a lawfull Queene there presently reigning who hath so long with so great wisedome and felicitie gouerned her kingdomes as I must in trew sinceritie confesse the like hath not beene read nor heard of either in our time or since the dayes of the Romane Emperour Augustus it could no wayes become me farre inferiour to her in knowledge and experience to be a busie-body in other princes matters and to fish in other folkes waters as the prouerbe is No I hope by the contrary with Gods grace euer to keepe that Christian rule To doe as I would be done to and I doubt nothing yea euen in her name I dare promise by the bypast experience of her happy gouernment as I haue already said that no good subiect shall be more carefull to enforme her of any corruptions stollen in in her state then shee shall be zealous for the discharge of her conscience and honour to see the same purged and restored to the ancient integritie and further during her time becomes me least of any to meddle in And thus hauing resolued all the doubts so farre as I can imagine may be moued against this Treatise it onely rests to pray thee charitable Reader to interprete fauourably this birth of mine according to the integritie of the author and not looking for perfection in the worke it selfe As for my part I onely glory thereof in this point that I trust no sort of vertue is condemned nor any degree of vice allowed in it and that though it be not perhaps so gorgeously decked and richly attired as it ought to be it is at the least rightly proportioned in all the members without any menstrous deformitie in any of them and specially that since it was first written in secret and is now published not of ambition but of a kinde of necessitie it must be taken of all men for the trew image of my very minde and forme of the rule which I haue prescribed to my selfe and mine Which as in all my actions I haue bitherto preassed to expresse so farre as the nature of my charge and the condition of time would permit me so beareth it a discouery of that which may be looked for at my hand and whereto euen in my secret thoughts I haue engaged my selfe for the time to come And thus in a firme trust that it shall please God who with my being and Crowne gaue me this minde to maintaine and augment the same in me and my posteritie to the discharge of our conscience the maintenance of our Honour and weale of our people I bid thee heartily farewell OF A KINGS CHRISTIAN DVETIE TO WARDS GOD. THE FIRST BOOKE AS he cannot be thought worthy to rule and command others that cannot rule and dantone his owne proper affections and vnreasonable appetites so can hee not be thought worthie to gouerne a Christian people The trew ground of good gouernment knowing and fearing God that in his owne person and heart feareth not and loueth not the Diuine Maiestie Neither can any thing in his gouernment succeed well with him deuise and labour as he list as comming from a filthie spring if his person be vnsanctified for as that royal Prophet saith Except the Lord build the house Psal 127 1. they labour in vaine that build it except the Lord keepe the City the keepers watch it in vaine in respect the blessing of God hath onely power to giue the successe thereunto and as Paul saith he planteth 1. Cor. 3.6 Apollos watereth but it is God onely that giueth the increase Therefore my Sonne first of all things learne to know and loue that God whom-to ye haue a double obligation Double bond of a Prince to God first for that he made you a man and next for that he made you a little GOD to sit on his Throne and rule ouer other men Remember that as in dignitie hee hath erected you aboue others so ought ye in thankfulnesse towards him goe as farre beyond all others A moate in anothers eye is a beame into yours a blemish in another is a leprouse byle into you and a veniall sinne as the Papists call it in another is a great crime into you Thinke not therefore that the highnesse of your dignitie The greatnesse of the fault of a Prince dimmisheth your faults much lesse giueth you a licence to sinne but by the contrary your fault shall be aggrauated according to the height of your dignitie any sinne that ye commit not being a single sinne procuring but the fall of one but being an exemplare sinne and therefore drawing with it the whole multitude to be guiltie of the same Remember then that this glistering worldly glorie of Kings The trew glorie of Kings is giuen them by God to teach them to preasse so to glister and shine before their people in all workes of sanctification and

of God for the weale of them that doe well and as the minister of God Rom. 13. to take vengeance vpon them that doe euill as S. Paul saith And finally 1. Sam. 8. As a good Pastour to goe out and in before his people as is said in the first of Samuel Ierem. 29. That through the Princes prosperitie the peoples peace may be procured as Ieremie saith And therefore in the Coronation of our owne Kings as well as of euery Christian Monarche they giue their Oath first to maintaine the Religion presently professed within their countrie according to their lawes whereby it is established and to punish all those that should presse to alter or disturbe the profession thereof And next to maintaine all the lowable and good Lawes made by their predecessours to see them put in execution and the breakers and violaters thereof to be punished according to the tenour of the same And lastly to maintaine the whole countrey and euery state therein in all their ancient Priuiledges and Liberties as well against all forreine enemies as among themselues And shortly to procure the weale and flourishing of his people not onely in maintaining and putting to execution the olde lowable lawes of the countrey and by establishing of new as necessitie and euill maners will require but by all other meanes possible to fore-see and preuent all dangers that are likely to fall vpon them and to maintaine concord wealth and ciuilitie among them as a louing Father and careful watchman caring for them more then for himselfe knowing himselfe to be ordained for them and they not for him and therefore countable to that great God who placed him as his lieutenant ouer them vpon the perill of his soule to procure the weale of both soules and bodies as farre as in him lieth of all them that are committed to his charge And this oath in the Coronation is the clearest ciuill and fundamentall Law whereby the Kings office is properly defined By the Law of Nature the King becomes a naturall Father to all his Lieges at his Coronation And as the Father of his fatherly duty is bound to care for the nourishing education and vertuous gouernment of his children euen so is the king bound to care for all his subiects As all the toile and paine that the father can take for his children will be thought light and well bestowed by him so that the effect thereof redound to their profite and weale so ought the Prince to doe towards his people As the kindly father ought to foresee all inconuenients and dangers that may arise towards his children and though with the hazard of his owne person presse to preuent the same so ought the King towards his people As the fathers wrath and correction vpon any of his children that offendeth ought to be by a fatherly chastisement seasoned with pitie as long as there is any hope of amendment in them so ought the King towards any of his Lieges that offend in that measure And shortly as the Fathers chiefe ioy ought to be in procuring his childrens welfare reioycing at their weale sorrowing and pitying at their euill to hazard for their safetie trauell for their rest wake for their sleepe and in a word to thinke that his earthly felicitie and life standeth and liueth more in them nor in himselfe so ought a good Prince thinke of his people As to the other branch of this mutuall and reciprock band is the duety and alleageance that the Lieges owe to their King the ground whereof I take out of the words of Samuel dited by Gods Spirit when God had giuen him commandement to heare the peoples voice in choosing and annointing them a King And because that place of Scripture being well vnderstood is so pertinent for our purpose I haue insert herein the very words of the Text. 9 NOw therefore hearken to their voice howbeit yet testifie vnto them and shew them the maner of the King that shall raigne ouer them 10 So Samuel tolde all the wordes of the Lord vnto the people that asked a King of him 11 And he said This shall be the maner of the King that shall raigne ouer you he will take your sonnes and appoint them to his Charets and to be his horsemen and some shall runne before his Charet 12 Also hee will make them his captaines ouer thousands and captaines ouer fifties and to eare his ground and to reape his haruest and to make instruments of warre and the things that serue for his charets 13 Hee will also take your daughters and make them Apothicaries and Cookes and Bakers 14 And hee will take your fields and your vineyards and your best Oliue trees and giue them to his seruants 15 And he will take the tenth of your seed and of your Vineyards and giue it to his Eunuches and to his seruants 16 And he will take your men seruants and your maid seruants and the chiefe of your yong men and your asses and put them to his worke 17 He will take the tenth of your sheepe and ye shall be his seruants 18 And ye shall cry out at that day because of your King whom ye haue chosen you and the Lord God will not beare you at that day 19 But the people would not heare the voice of Samuel but did say Nay but there shal be a King ouer vs. 20 And we also will be like all other Nations and our King shall iudge vs and goe out before vs and fight our battels That these words and discourses of Samuel were dited by Gods Spirit it needs no further probation but that it is a place of Scripture since the whole Scripture is dited by that inspiration as Paul saith which ground no good Christian will or dare denie Whereupon it must necessarily follow that these speeches proceeded not from any ambition in Samuel as one loath to quite the reines that he so long had ruled and therefore desirous by making odious the gouernment of a King to disswade the people from their farther importunate crauing of one For as the text proueth it plainly he then conueened them to giue them a resolute grant of their demand as God by his owne mouth commanded him saying Hearken to the voice of the people And to presse to disswade them frō that which he then came to grant vnto them were a thing very impertinent in a wise man much more in the Prophet of the most high God And likewise it well appeared in all the course of his life after that his so long refusing of their sute before came not of any ambition in him which he well proued in praying as it were importuning God for the weale of Saul Yea after God had declared his reprobation vnto him yet he desisted not while God himselfe was wrath at his praying and discharged his fathers suit in that errand And that these words of Samuel were not vttered as a prophecie of Saul their first Kings defection

glimmering twi-light of Nature yet howsoeuer their profession was vpon this ground haue they all agreed That when either their Religion their King or their countrey was in any extreme hazard no good countreyman ought then to withhold either his tongue or his hand according to his calling and facultie from ayding to repell the iniurie represse the violence and auenge the guilt vpon the authors thereof But if euer any people had such an occasion ministred vnto them It is surely this people now nay this whole Isle and all the rest belonging to this great and glorious Monarchie For if in any heathenish republique no priuate man could thinke his life more happily and gloriously bestowed then in the defence of any one of these three That is either pro Aris pro Focis or pro Patre patriae And that the endangering of any one of these would at once stirre the whole body of the Common-wealth not any more as diuided members but as a solide and indiuiduall lumpe How much more ought we the trewly Christian people that inhabite this vnited and trewly happy Isle Insula fortunata vnder the wings of our gracious and religious Monarch Nay how infinitely greater cause haue we to feele and ressent our selues of the smart of that wound not onely intended and execrated not consecrated for the vtter extinguishing of our trew Christian profession nor ioyntly therwith onely for the cutting off of our Head and father Politike Sed vt nefas istud sacrilegiosum parricidium omnibus modis absolutum reddi possit And that nothing might be wanting for making this sacrilegious parricide a patterne of mischiefe and a crime nay a mother or storehouse of all crimes without example they should haue ioyned the destruction of the bodie to the head so as Grex cum Rege Arae cum focis Lares cum Penatibus should all at one thunderclap haue beene sent to heauen together The King our head the Queene our fertile mother and those young and hopefull Oliue plants not theirs but ours Our reuerend Clergie our honourable Nobilitie the faithfull Councellors the graue Iudges the greatest part of the worthy Knights and Gentry aswell as of the wisest Burgesses The whole Clerkes of the Crowne Counsaile Signet Seales or of any other principall Iudgement seate All the learned Lawyers together with an infinite number of the Common people Nay their furious rage should not onely haue lighted vpon reasonable and sensible creatures without distinction either of degree sexe or aage But euen the insensible stockes and stones should not haue bin free of their fury The hal of Iustice The house of Parliament The Church vsed for the Coronation of our Kings The Monuments of our former Princes The Crowne and other markes of Royaltie Al the Records aswell of Parliament as of euery particular mans right with a great number of Charters and such like should all haue bene comprehended vnder that fearefull Chaos And so the earth as it were opened should haue sent foorth of the bottome of the Stygian lake such sulphured smoke furious flames and fearefull thunder as should haue by their diabolicall Domesday destroyed and defaced in the twinkling of an eye not onely our present liuing Princes and people but euen our insensible Monuments reserued for future aages So as not only our selues that are mortall but the immortall Monuments of our ancient Princes and Nobility that haue beene so preciously preserued from aage to aage as the remaining Trophees of their eternal glory and haue so long triumphed ouer enuious time should now haue beene all consumed together and so not onely we but the memory of vs and ours should haue beene thus extinguished in an instant The trew horror therefore of this detestable deuice hath stirred mee vp to bethinke my selfe wherein I may best discharge my conscience in a cause so generall and common if it were to bring but one stone to the building or rather with the Widow one mite to the common boxe But since to so hatefull and vnheard-of inuention there can be no greater enemy then the selfe the simple trewth thereof being once publikely knowen and that there needes no stronger argument to bring such a plot in vniuersal detestatiō then the certainty that so monstrous a thing could once be deuised nay cōcluded vpon wrought in in full readinesse and within twelue houres of the execution My threefold zeale to those blessings whereof they would haue so violently made vs all widowes hath made me resolue to set downe here the trew Narration of that monstrous and vnnaturall intended Tragedie hauing better occasion by the meanes of my seruice and continuall attendance in Court to know the trewth thereof then others that peraduenture haue it onely by relation at the third or fourth hand So that whereas those worse then Catilines thought to haue extirped vs and our memories Their infamous memory shall by these meanes remaine to the end of the world vpon the one part and vpon the other Gods great and merciful deliuerance of his Anoynted and vs all shall remaine in neuer-dying Records And God graunt that it may be in marble tables of Thankefulnesse engrauen in our hearts WHile this Land and whole Monarchie flourished in a most happie and plentifull PEACE as well at home as abroad sustained and conducted by these two maine Pillars of all good Gouernement PIETIE and IVSTICE no forreine grudge nor inward whispering of discontentment any way appearing The King being vpon his returne from his hunting exercise at Royston vpon occasion of the drawing neere of the Parliament time which had beene twise prorogued already partly in regard of the season of the yeere and partly of the Terme As the winds are euer stillest immediatly before a storme and as the Sunne blenks often hottest to foretell a following showre So at that time of greatest calme did this secretly-hatched thunder beginne to cast foorth the first flashes and flaming lightnings of the approching tempest For the Saturday of the weeke immediatly preceding the Kings returne which was vpon a Thursday being but tenne dayes before the Parliament The Lord Mountegle sonne and heire to the Lord Morley A letter deliuered to the Lord Mountegle being in his owne lodging ready to goe to supper at suen of the clocke at night one of his foot-men whom he had sent of an errand ouer the street was met by an vnknowen man of a reasonable tall personage who deliuered him a Letter charging him to put it in my Lord his masters hands which my Lord no sooner receiued but that hauing broken it vp and perceiuing the same to bee of an vnknowen and somewhat vnlegible hand and without either date or subscription did call one of his men vnto him for helping him to reade it But no sooner did he conceiue the strange contents thereof although hee was somewhat perplexed what construction to make of it as whether of a matter of consequence as indeed it was or whether some

Germanic c. 32. TORTVS Pag. 88. 5 Adde heereunto that Cuspinian in relating the history of the Turkes brother who was poysoned by Alexander 6. hath not the consent of other writers to witnesse the trewth of this History CONFVTATION The same History which is reported by Cuspinian is recorded also by sundry other famous Historians See Francis Guicciardin lib. 2. Histor Ital. Paulus Iouius lib. 2. Hist. sui temporis Sabellic Ennead 10. lib. 9. Continuator Palmerij at the yeere 1494. THE NOVEL DOCTRINES WITH A BRIEFE DECLARATION of their Noueltie NOVEL DOCTRINE Pag. 9. 1 IT is agreed vpon amongst all that the Pope may lawfully depose Hereticall Princes and free their Subiects from yeelding obedience vnto them CONFVTATION Nay all are so farre from consenting in this point that it may much more trewly be auouched that none entertained that conceit before Hildebrand since he was the first brocher of this new doctrine neuer before heard of as many learned men of that aage and the aage next following to omit others of succeeding aages haue expresly testified See for this point the Epistle of the whole Clergie of Liege to Pope Paschal the second See the iudgement of many Bishops of those times recorded by Auentine in his historie lib. 5. fol. 579. Also the speech vttered by Conrade bishop of Vtretcht in the said fifth booke of Auentine fol. 582. And another by Eberhardus Archbishop of Saltzburge Ibid. lib. 7. p. 684. Also the iudgement of the Archbishop of Triers in constitut Imperialib à M. Haimensfeldio editis pag. 47. The Epistle of Walthram Bishop of Megburgh which is extant in Dodechine his Appendix to the Chronicle of Marianus Scotus at the yeere 1090. Benno in the life of Hildebrand The author of the booke De vnitate Ecclesiae or the Apologie for Henry the fourth Sigebert in his Chronicle at the yeere 1088. Godfrey of Viterbio in his History entituled Pantheon part 17. Ottho Frisingensis lib. 6. c. 35. praefat in lib. 7. Frederick Barbarossa lib. 6. Gunther Ligurin de gestis Frederici and lib. 1. c. 10. of Raduicus de gestis eiusdem Frederici Vincentius in speculo historiali lib. 15. c. 84. with sundry others NOVEL DOCTRINE Pag. 51. 2 In our supernaturall birth in Baptisme wee are to conceiue of a secret and implied oath which we take at our new birth to yeeld obedience to the spirituall Prince which is Christes Vicar CONFVTATION It is to bee wondred at whence this fellow had this strange new Diuinitie which surely was first framed in his owne fantasticall braine Else let him make vs a Catalogue of his Authors that hold and teach that all Christians whether infants or of aage are by vertue of an oath taken in their Baptisme bound to yeeld absolute obedience to CHRISTS Vicar the Pope or baptized in any but in CHRIST NOVEL DOCTRINE Pag. 94. 3 But since that Catholike doctrine doth not permit for the auoidance of any mischiefe whatsoeuer to discouer the secret of Sacramentall confession he Garnet rather chose to suffer most bitter death then to violate the seale of so great a Sacrament CONFVTATION That the secret of Sacramentall confession is by no meanes to bee disclosed no not indirectly or in generall so the person confessing bee concealed for auoydance and preuention of no mischiefe how great soeuer Besides that it is a position most dangerous to all Princes and Common-wealths as I shew in my Praemonition pag. 333 334. It is also a Nouell Assertion not heard of till of late dayes in the Christian world Since the common opinion euen of the Schoolemen and Canonists both old and new is vnto the contrary witnesse these Authors following Alexander Hales part 4. qu. 78. mem 2. art 2. Thom. 4. dist 21. qu. 3. art 1. ad 1. Scotus in 4. dist 21. qu. 2. Hadrian 6. in 4. dist vbi de Sacramen Confes edit Paris 1530. pag. 289. Dominic Sot in 4. dist 18. q. 4. art 5. Francis de victor summ de Sacram. n. 189. Nauar. in Enchirid. c. 8. Ioseph Angles in Florib part 1. pag. 247. edit Antuerp Petrus Soto lect 11. de confess The Iesuites also accord hereunto Suarez Tom. 4. disp in 3. part Thom. disp 33. § 3. Gregor de Valentia Tom. 4. disp 7. q. 13. punct 3. who saith the common opinion of the Schoolemen is so NOVEL DOCTRINE Pag. 102. 4 I dare boldly auow that the Catholikes haue better reason to refuse the Oath of Allegeance then Eleazar had to refuse the eating of Swines flesh CONFVTATION This assertion implieth a strange doctrine indeede that the Popes Breues are to be preferred before Moses Law And that Papists are more bound to obey the Popes decree then the Iewes were to obey the Law of God pronounced by Moses NOVEL DOCTRINE Pag. 135. 5 Churchmen are exempted from the Iurisdiction of secular Princes and therefore are no subiects to Kings yet ought they to obserue their Lawes concerning matters temporall not by vertue of any Law but by enforcement of reason that is to say not for that they are their Subiects but because reason will giue it that such Lawes are to be kept for the publike good and the quiet of the Common-wealth CONFVTATION How trew friends the Cardinall and his Chaplen are to Kings that would haue so many Subiects exempted from their power See my Praemonition Pag. 296 297. Also Pag 330. 331. c. But as for this and the like new Aphorismes I would haue these cunning Merchants to cease to vent such stuffe for ancient and Catholike wares in the Christian world till they haue disprooued their owne Venetians who charge them with Noueltie and forgerie in this point A DECLARATION CONCERNING THE PROCEEDINGS WITH THE STATES GENERALL OF THE VNITED PROVINCES OF THE LOW COVNTREYS Jn the cause of D. CONRADVS VORSTIVS TO THE HONOVR OF OVR LORD AND SAVIOVR JESVS CHRIST THE ETERNALL SONNE OF THE ETERNALL FATHER THE ONELY ΘΕΑΝΘΡΩΠΟΣ MEDIATOVR AND RECONCILER OF MANKIND IN SIGNE OF THANKFVLNES HIS MOST HVMBLE AND MOST OBLIGED SERVANT IAMES BY THE GRACE OF GOD KING OF GREAT BRITAINE FRANCE AND IRELAND Defender of the FAITH Doeth DEDICATE and CONSECRATE this his DECLARATION THat it is one of the principall parts of that duetie which appertaines vnto a Christian King to protect the trew Church within his owne Dominions and to extirpate heresies is a Maxime without all controuersie in which respect those honourable Titles of Custos Vindex vtriusque Tabulae Keeper and Auenger of both the Tables of the Law and Nutritius Ecclesiae Nursing Father of the Church do rightly belong vnto euery Emperour King and Christian Monarch But what interest a Christian King may iustly pretend to meddle in alienâ Repub. within another State or Common wealth in matters of this nature where Strangers are not allowed to be too curious is the point in question and whereof we meane at this time to treate For our zeale to the glory of God being the onely motiue that induced

and vile monsters This custome continued this practise stood in force for diuers aages euen vntill the times of Gregorie 7. by whom the whole West was tossed and turmoiled with lamentable warres which plagued the world and the Empire by name with intolerable troubles and mischiefes For after the said Gregorian warres the Empire fell from bad to worse and so went on to decay till Emperours at last were driuen to beg and receiue the Imperiall Crowne of the Pope The Kingdome of France met not with so rude entreatie but was dealt withall by courses of a milder temper Gregorie 4. about the yeere of the Lord 832. was the first Pope that perswaded himselfe to vse the censure of Excommunication against a King of France This Pope hauing a hand in the troublesome factions of the Realme was nothing backeward to side with the sonnes of Lewis surnamed the Courteous by wicked conspiracie entring into a desperate course and complot against Lewis their owne father as witnesseth Sigebert in these words Pope Gregorie comming into France ioyned himselfe to the sonnes against the Emperour their Father Bochel Decret Eccles Gallican lib. 2. tit 16. But Annals of the very same times and hee that furbushed Aimonius a Religious of S. Benedicts Order doe testifie that all the Bishops of France fell vpon this resolution by no meanes to rest in the Popes pleasure or to giue any place vnto his designe and contrariwise In case the Pope should proceed to Excommunication of their King hee should returne out of France to Rome an excommunicate person himselfe The Chronicle of S. Denis hath words in this forme The Lord Apostolicall returned answere that hee was not come into France for any other purpose but onely to excommunicate the King and his Bishops if they would bee in any sort opposite vnto the sonnes of Lewis or disobedient vnto the will and pleasure of his Holinesse The Prelates enformed heereof made answere that in this case they would neuer yeeld obedience to the Excommunication of the said Bishops because it was contrary to the authoritie and aduise of the ancient Canons After these times Pope Nicolas 1. depriued King Lotharius of Communion for in those times not a word of deposing to make him repudiate or quit Valdrada and to resume or take againe Thetberga his former wife The Articles framed by the French vpon this point are to bee found in the writing of Hinemarus Archbishop of Reims and are of this purport that in the iudgement of men both learned and wise it is an ouerruled case that as the King whatsoeuer hee shall doe ought not by his owne Bishops to be excommunicated euen so no forreine Bishop hath power to sit for his Iudge because the King is to be subiect onely vnto God and his Imperiall authoritie who alone had the all-sufficient power to settle him in his Kingdome Moreouer the Clergie addressed letters of answere vnto the same Pope full of stinging and bitter termes with speaches of great scorne and contempt as they are set downe by Auentine in his Annals of Bauaria Annal. Boi● lib. 4. not forbearing to call him thiefe wolfe and tyrant When Pope Hadrian tooke vpon him like a Lord to command Charles the Bald vpon paine of interdiction that hee should suffer the Kingdome of Lotharius to bee fully and entirely conueyed and conferred vpon Lewis his sonne the same Hincmarus a man of great authoritie and estimation in that aage sent his letters conteining sundry remonstrances touching that subiect Among other matters thus he writeth The Ecclesiastics and Seculars of the Kingdome assembled at Reims haue affirmed and now doe affirme by way of reproach vpbraiding and exprobation that neuer was the like Mandate sent before from the See of Rome to any of our predecessours And a little after The chiefe Bishops of the Apostolike See or any other Bishops of the greatest authoritie and holinesse neuer withdrew themselues from the presence from the reuerend salutation or from the conference of Empererours and Kings whether Heretikes or Schismatikes and Tyrants as Constantius the Arrian Iulianus the Apostata and Maximus the Tyrant And yet a little after Wherefore if the Apostolike Lord bee minded to seeke peace let him seeke it so that he stirre no brawles and breed no quarrels For we are no such babes to beleeue that we can or euer shall attaine to Gods Kingdome vnlesse wee receiue him for our King in earth whom God himselfe recommendeth to vs from heauen It is added by Hincmarus in the same place that by the said Bishops and Lords Temporall such threatning words were blowen forth as hee is afraid once to speake and vtter As for the King himselfe what reckoning hee made of the Popes mandates it appeareth by the Kings owne letters addressed to Pope Hadrianus as we may reade euery where in the Epistles of Hincmarus For there after King Charles hath taxed and challenged the Pope of pride and hit him in the teeth with a spirit of vsurpation hee breaketh out into these words What Hell hath cast vp this law so crosse and preposterous what infernall gulph hath disgorged this law out of the darkest and obscurest dennes a law quite contrary and altogether repugnant vnto the beaten way shewed vs in the holy Scriptures c. Yea he flatly and peremptorily forbids the Pope except he meane or desire to be recompensed with dishonour and contempt to send any more the like Mandates either to himselfe or to his Bishops Vnder the reigne of Hugo Capetus and Robert his sonne a Councell now extant in all mens hands was held and celebrated at Reims by the Kings authoritie There Arnulphus Bishop of Orleans then Prolocutor and Speaker of the Councel calls the Pope Antichrist and lets not also to paint him forth like a monster as well for the deformed and vgly vices of that vnholy See which then were in their exaltation as also because the Pope then wonne with presents and namely with certaine goodly horses then presented to his Holinesse tooke part against the King with Arnulphus Bishop of Reims then dispossessed of his Pastorall charge When Philip 1. had repudiated his wife Bertha daughter to the Earle of Holland and in her place had also taken to wife Bertrade the wife of Fulco Earle of Aniou yet being aliue hee was excommunicated and his Kingdome interdicted by Vrbanus then Pope though he was then bearded with an Antipope as the L. Cardinal here giueth vs to vnderstand But his Lordship hath skipt ouer two principall points recorded in the historie The first is that Philip was not deposed by the Pope whereupon it is to be inferred that in this passage there is nothing materiall to make for the Popes power against a Kings Throne and Scepter The other point is that by the censures of the Pope the course of obedience due to the King before was not interrupted nor the King disauowed refused or disclaimed but on the contrary that Iuo of Chartres taking Pope