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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A08453	The fountaine and vvelspring of all variance, sedition, and deadlie hate Wherein is declared at large, the opinion of the famous diuine Hiperius, and the consent of the doctors from S. Peter the Apostle his time, and the primitiue Church in order to this age: expresly set downe, that Rome in Italie is signified and noted by the name of Babylon, mentioned in the 14. 17. and 18. chapters of the Reuelation of S. Iohn.	Ocland, Christopher, d. 1590?	1589 (1589)	STC 18778; ESTC S113367	31,748	48

that escapest aliue shalt be in worse case than he that is dead A continuall torment pinching tearing of a man liuing is worse then any sharpe death The senses by death are taken the anguish on the other liuing in torment in the day time is euill and in the night worse It fretteth and suffereth still and continually as is the fable of Prometheus his liuer which as it wasteth by féeding the gréedis vultures mawes So it is renued and encreasing againe ministreth matter euery day of n●w and fresh torment and punishment This one chiefe and principall comfort but there bee many mo besides may make glad all true Subiects to call to remembrance how our Quéenes most excellent Maiestie Quéene Elizabeth together with her Graces prudent Counsellers haue prouided such plenty from the beginning of her Raigne of principall Armour Artillarie Munition a●d all other necessary furniture of warre as neuer was in England at any time before and thanked be god therefore the English throughout the Realme so appointed and fenced with Corselets and weaponed in all sortes with such readines at one houres call so forward in theyr musters that the children and yonglinges leape and spring for ioy at the sight of the same imitate men in their order of warlike array A greater comfort is that our gratious Lady and Quéen hauing reigned ouer vs now thirtie one years with al clemency administration of Iustice hath conserued this noble Island of England in long 〈◊〉 with increase of great wealth in euery sort and her highnes gouernement is such that it farre excéedeth the rule of any whatsoeuer Princesse either in Affrica Asia or Europa from the beginning of the world to this day except Debora that beloued of God among the Iudges of Israell Read the Cronicles and Histories in g●nerall written in Greeke Latine or any other tongues and it may be séene that her Maiestie is without comparison Elizabeth of England her gifts of the mind be so rare so excelling so surpassing that is her most fine and royal peircing wit in al her Princely spéeches and communications fre●●ent and mo●● apparant her learning and knowledge in the Gréeke Latine Italian French and Spanish tongues well knowen to all Ambassadours and others who haue conference in causes with her Grace farre aboue the capacitie in the Feminine Sex oner and beside the gifts of the body and other that they make this Queene of the West noble through the whole world Note also how oft by the mercie and great prouidence of God and carefull watch of her most noble Councellers her Maiesties person hath beene deliungred from perill and daunger of Treason and lately from the deuelish pra●●ses of Pary first alias Vphary called after that of Babington and his fellowes a thing miraculous in the sight of all good Subiectes in the which the wonderfull mercy and loue of our God hath bene shewed to her grace and Realme of England Looke and read ouer the Chronicles of all nations for the long raigne of women Princes and ye shall find non to haue raigned so long but Debora and one more wee English trust in GOD shee shall double her yeares of her raigne with like felicitte and victorie as her Maiestie hath already inioyed which one thing is a sure token of the fauour of God towardes the Realme and vs the inhabiters of the land For as it is written in the Prouerbes of Salomon Short raignes of Kings and Princes and oft changing of the regall seat signifieth that God is displeased with that Country or land And contrary the long raigne of a prince betokeneth Gods great blessing God grant Quéene Elizabeth long to raigne Amen Ouer and besides this the care study and diligence by her highnes Lords ●f the priuie Counsel hath beene and is such for to continue good gouernement and to preserue in vnitie peace and loue both England and her Subiects that it must néeds breed a comfort and ioy in all true Englishe people Further howe déepely hath her Grace lamented the rage and furie now many yeares practised and put in execution both in France and in the Low-Countries How hath her highnes ende●oured with all Godly zeal first to stoppe and represse the great cruelties there exercised Secondly to make mediation for vniting perfect amitie and peace betweene the one side 〈◊〉 the other heerein and in this poi●● the 〈◊〉 Noble and valiaunt Robert Earle of Leicester who from hence lately deceased meriteth his commendation of eternall fame and glory who of his own frée will and zeal to true religion leauing at home his deare Lady and wife his lands and possessions in maner and sort neglected his ease and pleasures altogether abandoned hath in two seuerall voyages very fortunate in the yeares 1586. and 1587. aduentured and hasazarded his person spent and consumed his goods money and plate euen to the great endebting of himselfe The first time he went ouer in the deepe and middest of the winter in a dark and stormy night taking shipping at Harwich Sir Henry Palmer knight Captaine and M. Gray Maister of the ship and landed the next day at Flushing so passed by Zealand into Holland And this is to bee remembred that during his ab●ad in Zealand and Holland for the more force of his martiall affaires hee was accompanied with the Earle of Essex the noble and valiant Lord Willoughbie The Lord burrowes The Lord Wentforth Lord Rich. The Lord North. Sir Thomas Cicil son heire to the Lord Burghley Lord high Treasurer of England Sir Phillip Sidney Sir Thomas Gorge Sir Thomas Sturley knight Sir William Pellam knight Sirr Thomas Perot knight Sir William Druery knight Sir Phillip Butler knight Sir William Goodier knight Sir William Read knight Sir Iohn Connaway knight Sir Iohn winckefield knight Sir Robert Sidney knight Sir Cholmely knight And many other worthy Knightes and Gentlemen of England furnished with great Horse Geldings and Armour that it was a most worthy sight to bee séene What care study and watch being there in the Low-Countries as a most wise and politike Captaine and Generall did hee vse in the night what industrie labour and paines did hee take in the day both in the house in consultations necessarie and abroad in the fieldes present in person at skirmishes and sieges of sorts and strong townes What occasion rei benè gerendae as the latine phrase is did this Earl omit either to aduance the honour of his Country either to preferre the weale publique there what good example of religion and good life did not this valiant Gentleman and noble Lord giue hauing two godly and famous learned men adorned with degrées of the Schoole of the Vniuersitie M. D. Tomson and M. D. Holland euery day preaching Gods word and saying diuine seruice what Hospitality and open house as we terme it what princely Court did this Earle kéepe for bread meat wine and béere and all other

delicate chéere so amplie so plentifully so aboundantly that the best sort in the Countrey had him in admiration the second and meanest praied wished and desired that he might continually dwell among them How did he tender the poore redresse wrongs restraine and bridle the enemie from iniurying those vnder his charge win many strong townes castles and forts and as it were wall Holland and that part of Zeland that the enemy might not approch but with great danger and difficulty And at the two yeares end came away from thence with great honor loosing in fight very few especially of fame and name but that noble hardie and most worthie knight sir Phillip Sidney who béeing hurt in a very hot and bloudy skirmish with a musket shot a farre of afterward returning to Arnam died of his wound whose fame glory no age at any time shall weare away The noble king Carolus Iacobus Sextus king of Scotland and diuers others of the Nobility of the same country beside infinite numbers of euery degrée in England mooued with his vertues valour and prowes made Latine verses most learnedly lamenting his vnripe death happening in the flower of his age Truly yea most truly there was nothing els sought either by the puissant Quéene Elizabeth the Lords of her Counsell either by the said noble earle but to preserue true and pure religion that it might not be troden vnder the foot and to stop effusion of bloud which otherwise would haue bene much And that ought to be the care and studie of euerie Christian king and Quéene to stoppe and inhibit outrage of spilling of Christians bloud Finally the gouernement of the said Noble Earle of Leycester in his abode beyond the seas hath bene such that the wise and well disposed euery where grauely consindering vpon the same giue to it condigne praise to the great benefites of the Countrey where he hath bene and to no small strengthening of vs Englishe at home in such sort that the Low-Countreis reaped thereby the benefite of quietnes and rest from the molesting of the enemie which otherwise would haue assailed them most sharpelie to their vtter confusion and vndoing This also haue wee English to ioy and to comfort our selues with all and to deliuer the same for an euerlasting memoriall to our posteritie that the last yeare it pleased God of his infinite mercie and goodnes to giue victorie by Sea to the right noble and valian● Lord the Lord Charles Howard Lord high Admiral of England vpon and ouer the Spanish Armado or fléet so huge so strong so great so furnished with double Canons and Canons and Culuerins and all other sort of geat ordinaunce and small as musket shot calyuer and others so fraught with Captaines souldiers and marriners to the number of 28000 so garnished with armor all maner of weapons so laden and stuffed fully with euerie kind of victuall to serue for long time all which did so farre passe surmount and excéed that it was Vique ad mundi miraculum Euen to the wonder of this age that the Spaniardes vpon the confidence they had in the same their owne strength were so puffed vp with pride that they had denoured all England in their hearts whilest they were yet in Spaine and before they came any thing néere our coast Neither is this here to be vntouched how the said Lord Charles Howard Lord Admiral with the nauie of England went to the Seas in the moneth of December beeing the deepe of winter to expect the enemies comming and so continued till August following What watch what labour what paines especially in winter What stormes and foule weather this noble man and his company did sustaine and abide and indure out during these nine monethes It cannot be vnknowen to al those which haue experimented voyages by Seas And in the Comming approching of the Spanish Armado to the west part of Cornewall which was about the 19 of Julie 1588. How ready desirous glad the said Lorde Howard was to méet and encounter with the Spaniard it doth by this appeare that the said Lord Admiral accompanied but with fiftie saile not exspecting the rest of the Queenes Nauie or any further aide so come did begin and enter fight with the Spaniards and so continued pressing and chacing the Duke of Medina Sidonia high Generall of the enemies companie and his hundreth and thirtie two saile from Sonday till Saterday following by the space of seuen daies night and day forbearing sléepe and bodilie rest which nature of man doth exact and require Al which time my Lord Thomas Howard my Lord Shiefield Sir Edward Hobby knight of yeares but young yet for the gifts of the mind wit learning knowledge boldnes and courage equall to the best Captaines and many other Gentlem●n in this our English Nauie of good and ancient houses for the loue zeale and dutie they did beare to the Quéenes Maiestie their Countrey and my Lord Admirall did voluntarilie not without their great charges as it were not onlie offer but intrude them selues into the seruice of the sea in this warre to winne honour and same and most couragiouslie and with lyons hearts did assault pursue and terrifie the Armado that where their purpose and pretence was to inuade and land in Englande they durst not once drawe néere to any shore but kept their course still in the chanell and déepe streame alwaies flying and seeking by night if it might bee in the darke to leese the sight of our ships On saterday night when y e enemies came to an anker afore Calis th'english anchored hard by thē y ● they could haue no rest expecting still when our men should boord them And it was deuised by the Lord Charls Howard the next night following by sira●ageme well known and therefore not needful at large to be here rehearsed to fire all the Spanish ships which in part was done and had taken further effect but the enemie for saking the rode leauing Ankers cables behind them for hast set vppe saile and fled And the next morning being Monday my Lord Admirals number being augmented aboue the Spanish with my Lord Henrie Seimers fléet of warlike shippes a feesh fight began the Spaniard flying afore to the north towards Scotland and the English folowing the chace with most sharpe bloudy fight In all which Battaile of nine daies together continuing both great wisedome and manhood was vsed by the said Lord Charles Howard by the Lords and Knights in hys company Mariners and souldiours and marueilous force was bent against the enemy For one of the ships of the Quéenes on Monday the last day of the fight shot in eight houres fiue hundreth and 32. great pellets out of her great ordinaunce hard vnder the sides of the Spanish Armado What number may we thinke all the rest of the great shippes did discharge that day They of this great fléete of the enemies beside the great