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A96038	A discovery of the Popes pride, ambition and cruelty, in a tyrannicall, barbarous and bloudy manner exercised on Emperours, Kings, and kingdomes the miseries, ruine, and desolations by them brought on the Christian world. With their vitious and unchaste lives, their wicked practices for obtaining the Popedome, by murthers, poysonings, &c. / By J.V.	J. V.	1651 (1651)	Wing V7A; ESTC R230526	42,039	47

and died stark mad This yeare 1580. Priests and Seminaries much increasing in England severe Laws were enacted against them These were for the most part bred in the English Colledge of Doway founded by the procurement of Alan somtimes a student in Oxford afterward Priest and Cardinall in the year 1568. Afterward under Requesenius government in the Low-countries when the wars were betwixt England and Spain the fugitives were thrust from thence and 2. Colledges erected for them one at Rhemes the other at Rome the first by the Guises the 2d by Gregory the 13. From these places rose in England Hanse Nelson Main Sherward Priests who reported Q. Elizabeth to be an Heretick and so ought to be deposed for which they suffred In the aforesaid yeare 1580. Robert Parsons a man of a turbulent spirit and impudent Campian a more modest man both Jesuites they to serve the Catholicks turns obtained of Pope Gregory an interpretation of Pius his Bull against Q Elizabeth that it bound the Q. and Hereticks always but not Catholicks till a convenient season Campian wrote a Book intituled 10 Reasons in defence of Rome M. Chark answered him soberly Parsons wrote against Chark virulently but Camp 10 Reasons were thorowly answered by D. Whitaker Campian and others condemned EDmund Campian Ralfe Sherwin Luke Kirby Alexander Briant were taken in the year 1581 as Traitors to the Q. and State and condemned for comming into England to stir up sedition Still more and more Priests came into England and for their dangerous doctrin that Princes excommunicate were to be thrown out of their Kingdomes that Princes of any other then the Roman Religion had lost their Kingly dignity that those who had taken orders were freed from Princes jurisdiction and not bound by their Laws it was enacted 1582. that it should be treason to disswade any Subject from his allegiance and from the Religion established in England c. Somerviles attempt to kill the Queen AN Dom 1583. divers Priests and Jesuites wrote dangerous books against Q. Eliz. and certain other Princes excommunicated which prevailed so far that one Somervil a Gentleman breathing out nothing but bloud against the Protestants secretly sought entrance into the Queens presence with a drawn sword set upon one or two in his way and being apprehended confessed that he purposed to have killed the Queen Ed. Arden his father in law a Gentleman of Warwick-shiere and Arderns wife and their daughter Somervils wife and Hall a Priest were condemned as guilty of Somervils practise After 3 days Somervile was found strangled in prison for fear of revealing it as was thought where he lay and Ardern was hanged the next day Mendoza the Spanish Ambassadour thrust out of England IN 1584. some English Gentlemen began to practise the delivery of the Qu. of Scots Francis Throgmorton was suspected by letters written to the Qu. of Scots and intercepted Presently Thomas Lord Paget and Charles Arundell a Courtier left the Land secretly Henry Earle of Northumberland and Philip Earle of Arundel were commanded to their houses And there was great cause of circumspection for the Papists by printed Books incited the Maids of Honour to do that against the Qu. that Judith did against Holofernes Yet was the Queens mercy such that she caused 70. Priests to be sent out of England The chief of them were Gasper Heywood who of all the Jesuites first came into England James Bosgrave John Hart and Edward Rishton who presently after wrote a book against the Queen At this time Bernardinus Mendoza the Spanish Ambassadour was thrust out of England for practising Treason against the State He having dealt with Throgmorton and others to bring in strangers to invade the Land as appeared by Throgmortons action who being apprehended sent one of his packets to Mendoza his other packets being searched there was found a catalogue of all the Havens in England fit to land in and another of all the Noblemen in England which favoured the Romish Religion And he did not deny that he had promised his help to Mendoza and the help of those Nobles it was fit he should deale with A Popish practise against Qu. Elizabeth discovered not without a miracle by Creightous torne Papers a Scottish Jesuite QUeen Elizabeth that rare Paragon of her Sex and that fairly flourishing Flower which Traitors though oft attempted could never nip nor crop up being a Princesse both prudent pious and pittifull seeking therefore a faire opportunity and sutable meanes to set the Queen of Scots at those times tainted with some treasonable practises against her Crown and Person at liberty and for that purpose sent Sr. William Wade who was then returned out of Spain to confer with her of the meanes therunto And the good Queen was about to send Sr. Walter Mildmay to bring this ayme of hers to further issue But some terrours and feares in the interim brake-out between them which disturbed that intention especially by a notable discovery by certain papers which one Creighton a Jesuite sailing into Scotland did then teare in peeces when he was apprehended in the Ship by Dutch-Pirates at Sea whose person being by them ceased-on he tooke forth his papers wherin it seems the project of a traiterous plot against Qu. Elizabeth at that time was described tore them into small peeces and with all his force threw them into the Sea But see how the Lords good providence ordered it as they flew in the ayre the winde blew stifly by force wherof they were all blowne back again into the ship even in a miraculous manner as the Jesuite himself confessed when he saw it Which papers were all kept and gathered together sent to England to Sr. William Wade aforesaid and with much labour and singular skill so joyned and set together again that he found they contained a notable new plot among many other of the Popes the Spaniards and the Guises resolution to invade England Wherupon and by reason of many other rumors of dangers intended against the Queen and whole Kingdome of England a great number of all sorts of men out of common charity and to shew their love and affectionate care of the welfare of the Queen and State bound themselves by an association as then it was called by mutuall promises and subscriptions of hands and seales to prosecute all such by all their force and might even unto death that should attempt any thing against the life of the Queen or welfare of the Kingdome Now the Queen of Scots tooke this as a thing devised to bring her into danger and she also was so continually set upon by seditious spirits who if they may but have accesse are able to draw the greatest Princes to destruction And what have bin their practises from time to time but to bring great personages and greatest Families to ruine Lamentable experience shews openly the fruit of their malice and mischievous plots of treason which they impiously and audaciously call and count nothing els but

was such a man as being of great wealth mighty in friends and singular abilities of mind could better bring about what was desired then a man of no great riches at any time but was now in extreme poverty and disgrace in the Dominions of the King of Denmark and notoriously infamous for his crimes in Scotland The Rebellion of the Earles of Northumberland and Westmerland AT this time the King of Spaine wrote unto the Duke of Norfolk to joyn with the Earles of Northumberland and Westmerland to raise a Rebellion in England and to the Earle of Ormond to do the like in Ireland These Letters were shewen unto Qu. Elizabeth by the Duke and the Earle that from hence at least might appeare their loyalty Neverthelesse whether by the advice of the Bishop of Rosse who lay as Ambassadour at London for the Queen of Scots and one Rodolf a Florentine going in the appearance of a Merchant factor or purposing of himselfe whatsoever he might pretend he privately sought to marry the Q. of Scots she being next heir to the Crown of England contrary to his promise made unto his Soveraign Q. Elizabeth The Q. of Scots and the Duke participate of one anothers mind by Letters written in hidden characters Neither was this a matter only supposed but the Dukes Secretary one Hieford who was commanded by the Duke to burne such Letters as came from the Qu. of Scots but did it not and hid them under a mat in his chamber and being under examination he caused them to be reduced This was when the two Earles of Northumberland and Westmerland had secretly complotted to raise Armes and not long after the Dukes apprehension they fell into open Rebellion One of the Letters which was shewen at the Dukes arraignment was to this purpose That the Qu. was sorry that the said Earles of Northumberland and Westmerland were in Armes before the Dukes forces were ready This was undertaken after that Pope Pius quintus had in Bulls from Rome printed and sent to Ridolf absolved Q. Elizabeths Subjects from their allegiance The Pope perswaded the Spaniard to assist the conspiratours that his affairs in the Netherlands might prosper the better and the French did the like that the Qu. of England might be lesse able to send aid to the Protestants in France Northumberland and Westmerland having thus taken Armes supplies and monies failing withdrew themselves into Scotland Norfolk was thrown into prison Ridolf being in custody for whom the Pope had appointed 150000 crowns to the partners in the Treason He being with the Pope is sent by him to the Spaniard to presse him to give assistance to the King of Portugall also for the same purpose He wrote also to the Duke of Norfolk promising to send him aid The Popes letter to the Spaniard was that he should send an Army out of the Low-countries to invade England And this very thing the Spaniard endeavoured There was now a difference betwixt Q Elizabeth and the Spaniard about mony sent by him to the Duke of Alva but was intercepted by the Queen and that was one pretence that the Spaniard had for his dealing against our Queen and Kingdome But the Duke of Norfolk was put to death Nor is this the Relation of an English Protestant but of a Papist a good part whereof had not bin knowne but for him one Hieronimus Calena The Book was printed at Rome by the priviledge of ●ius quintus 1588. The Earles of Northumberland and Westmerland seduced by one Morton a Priest and at Duresme set up the Masse thence they marched to Clifford moore where hearing that the Queen of Scots was removed to Coventry that the Earle of Sussex was sent with strong forces against them and that Sir George Bowes was behind them and had fortified Bernards Castle that Scroupe and Cumberland had fortified Carliel and had also an Army in readines that the souldiers of Barwick and the power of Northumberland were in New-castle besieged Bernards Castle and took it on conditions Then for feare of the Earle of Sussex they fled to Hexam thence by bie-wayes to Naworth Castle from that place into Scotland and from thence was Northumberland sent and here beheaded Westmerland escaped into the Netherlands where with a poor pension under the Spaniard he lived poorly all his days Dacres his endeavour to deliver the Scots Queen IN the Yeare 1569. Leonard Dacres second son of William Lord Dacres of Gillesland being grieved to see a very great patrimony go from him to the daughters of the Baron whom the Duke of Norfolke their Father in law had joyned in marriage with his sons grew revengefull and joyning with the Rebels endeavored to deliver the Queen of Scots yet a little before being at the Court promised to assist the Queen his Soveraign against the Rebels but treacherously he undertook to kill the L. Scroup and Bishop of Carleil to whose custody the Scottish Queen was committed but he failing in the performance took Grastock Castle holding it as his own and gathered Souldiers The L. Hunsdon met him with the trained Souldiers of Barwick and after a sharpe conflict overcommeth him and Dacres fled into Scotland from thence into the Netherlands where at Lovaine he lived and dyed poorly Fitz-Morris raiseth Rebellion in Ireland IN this Yeare Edmund and Peter Butler brethren to the Earle of Ormond joyning with James Fitz-Morris of the house of Desmond entred into a conspiracy against Qu. Elizabeth and to further it came Joannes Mendoza secretly out of Spaine The Earle of Ormond going into Ireland caused them to submit they were imprisoned and for their brother the Earles sake not brought to tryall The Lord Deputy and Sir Humphrey Gilbert through Gods assistance appeased that rebellion It is cleare enough that this rebellion in Ireland arose from the Spaniard as the first mover for to this end he sent Mendoza into Ireland and had not long before written to the Earle brother to the two Rebels to raise a rebellion in Ireland Stanleys Conspiracy IN the Yeare 1570. under a colour of delivering the Queen of Scots Thomas Stanley and Edward younger sons of the Earle of Darby Thomas Jerard Rolston Hall with others in Darby-shiere conspired but the son of Rolston which was pensioner to the Queen disclosed the conspiracy All but Hall were impisoned Hall escaped into the Isle of Man thence by the commendation of the Bish of Rosse he was sent into Dunbretan whence the Castle being won he was brought to London and suffered death Dissimulation of Don John of Austria IN the Yeare 1576. Don John of Austria comming into the Low-Countries as Governour sent Gastellus to Qu. Elizabeth pretending a perpetuall Edict for peace The Queen as if ignorant of any bad intent sent Rogers to congratulate Don Johns Edict yet she knew that Don John had conceived a certain hope of marrying the Qu. of Scots and of enjoying Scotland and England intending to invade the Isle of Man that from thence

Commissioners should meet to treat of peace then was the L. Generall sent for into England after whose departure Tyrone takes the Field againe in the time of cessation of Armes the Spaniard sent him some Money and Ammunition the Popes Indulgences and a Plume of Peacock-Feathers Anno 1600. The L. Mountioy came into Ireland as Lieutenant Generall and in divers small skirmishes beat the Rebels The Spaniard to further the Rebellion sent Don John de Aquila with 2000. old trained Souldiers with some Irish fugitives who landed at Kingsale There were also at that same time 2000. Spaniards more arrived at Been-haven Ballimore and Castle-haven The L. Deputy encamped neare Kingsale S. Richard Levison with two of the Queenes Ships blockt up the Haven and on both sides the Town was battered Then S. Richard Levison sunke five of their Ships To these Spaniards Odonel betook himselfe and presently after Tyrone Orork Raymund Burk Mac Mahon Randul Mac Surly and Tirrell with the chiefe of the Nobility in all 6000. Foote and 500. Horse Tyrone on a hill not far from the Camp made a bravado two dayes together as if he would give the English Battaile The L. Deputy at the foote of the hill chose a convenient plot to fight with him but Tyrone soundeth a retreat whom the L. Generall followed and forced to make a stand in midst of a bogge where by the E. of Clanrikard their Horse were routed and defeated Alonso O. Campo one of the Spanish Generalls and six Ensign-bearers were taken prisoners and the Ensignes taken by the English and 1200. Spaniards slaine Tyrone was forced to fly into Vlster Odonel fled into Spaine the rest hid themselves The L. Generall returned to Kingsale to batter it in 6. dayes space the enemy attempted nothing against him The Don John offereth conditions of surrendring the Town which propounded the L. Generall the English being wearied out with a Winters siege agreeth with the Spaniard on certaine Articles and taketh possession of the Town and sendeth away all the Spaniards as well as those in this Town into Spaine The next Spring the Generall pursueth Tyrone into Vlster and spoileth the Country upon which the Rebels make haste to come in unto the Deputy and Tyrone beggeth pardon upon his knees From Dublin Tyrone should have bin carried into England but the Queens death hindered that and K. James pardoned him Afterward he entred into another conspiracy with Ocane but being sent for with a Processe to answer a suite which the Bishop of Derry had against him and fearing he had bin sent for for his conspiracy he fled out of Ireland Garnet Catesby and others labour to invade England IN the last Yeare of Queen Elizabeth there was a plot layed against her by Garnet Catesby and others that the Spaniard should joyne with the Papists here in the Invasion of England Winter was sent into Spaine for that purpose and Creswell the leger Jesuite in Spaine Don Pedro Francisco second Secretary of State and the Duke of Lerma assured Winter that this Message would be very acceptable to the K. of Spaine Then had Winter an Answer by Count Miranda that the K. would bestow 100000. Crownes toward the expedition and at the next Spring at farthest would set his foote in England Winter returneth and acquainteth Garnet Catesby and Tresham with all and they others but before the next Spring the Queen died The Gun-powder-Treason AT the Queens death Christopher Wright was sent into Spaine and Guy Fawkes also from Bruxels by S. William Stanley to advertise them there that K. James was as violent against the Catholicks as Q Elizabeth and therfore urged the Spaniard to prosecute the old designe The Jesuites privately suggested that they should not admit him into England as being an heretick Catesby held that the K. being an heretick forfeiteth his Kingdome before any sentence pronounced The Parl was dissolved the 7th of July which the K. held and prorogued till the 7 ●h of February Catesby at Lambeth broke with Winter about blowing up the Parliament House Winter told him that it strooke at the roote but what and if it should not take effect Catesby won Winter to consent but first said he goe over and winne the Constable to obteyne more favour for Catholicks and if you may bring over with you some confident Gentlemen as M. Fawkes Winter went met with the Constable at Bergin and delivered his Message The Constable answered that his Master commanded him to doe all good offices for the Catholicks but he shewed the Constable nothing of the matter Fawkes and Winter came both into England This plot of blowing up the Parliament House after an Oath of secrecy and the Sacrament received upon it Catesby disclosed it to Percy and Winter and Wright to Fawkes Percy hired the House Fawkes was pretended to be Percies man and Names himselfe Johnson and kept the keyes of the House till the adjournment of the Parliament at which time all the conspirators departed into the Country A House was hired at Lambeth by Percy to keep the Powder and Wood for the mine to which it was to be conveyed When the plot had taken effect what should they doe Percy with two or three of them with a dozen more would seize on the Duke and carry him away The Lady Elizabeth was to be surprized at a hunting neare the L. Harringtons They would save from the Parliament first Catholicks then some particular persons While they wrought in the mine they fed on baked meates that they might not goe forth At Candlemas the Powder is brought over about which time working in the mine they came against a sto●● wall when hearing a rushing noise of Coales they feared they were di●covered But it was only the moving of Coales to be sould which Cellar Fawkes hired 20. Barrells of Powder they had provided which they hid with Billets and Fagots Fawkes went into Flanders to acquaint therewith Stanley and Owen Stanley was not there Owen approved it Percy and Catesby met at the Bathe and it was agreed that Catesby should call in whom he thought best the number being small He called in Sir Everard Digby and afterward M. Tresham The Parliament was anew prorogued till the 5. of November Then the conspirators all went into the Country and returned 10. dayes before the Parliament and hearing that the Prince would be absent from the Parliament said they would then seize on the Prince and let alone the Duke Saturday before the Kings returne which was on Thursday a letter in the street was delivered to the L. Mounteagles man to put into his Masters hand Jt had neither date nor superscription and by the Lord was that night sent to the Earle of Salisbury who made acquainted with it the Lord Chamberlaine the Lord Admirall the Earle of Worcester and Northampton The Letter was this My Lord OVt of the love I beare to some of your friends I have a care of your preservation Therefore I would advise you