her to the number of thrée score much to all their comfortes who had not séene her Grace of long season before notwithstanding they were commaunded in the Quéenes name immediatlie to depart the Towne to both their and her Graces no little heauines who could not be suffered once to speake with them So that night all her men were taken from her sauing her gentleman Usher three gentlewomen two Groomes and one of her Wardroppe the Soldiours watching and warding round about the house and she close shut vp within her prison The next day following her Grace entred Hampton Court on the backe side into the Princes lodging the doores being shut to her and she garded with Soldiours as before lay there a fortnight at the least or euer any had recourse vnto her At length came the Lord William Haward who meruailous honourablie vsed her Grace whereat she tooke much comfort and requested him to be a meane that she might speake with some of the Councell To whome not long after came the Bishop of vvinchester the Lord of Arundell the Lord of Shrewesburie and Secretarie Peter who with great humilitie humbled themselues to her Grace She againe likewise saluting them said My Lords quoth she I am glad to sée you for me thinkes I haue béen kept a great while from you desolately alone Wherefore I would desire you to be a meane to the King and Quéenes Maiesties that I may be deliuered from prison wherein I haue béene kept a long space as to you my Lordes it is not vnknowne When she had spoken Stephen Gardiner the Bishoppe of vvinchester knéeled downe and requested that she would submit herselfe to the Quéens Grace and in so dooing he had no doubt but her Maiestie would be good vnto her She making aunswer That rather then she would so doo she would lie in prison all the dayes of her life adding That she craued no mercie at her Maiesties hand but rather desired the lawe if euer she had offended her Maiestie in woord thought or déede And besides this in yéelding quoth she I should speake against my selfe and confesse my selfe to be an offendour which neuer was towards her Maiestie by occasion whereof the King and Quéene might euer héereafter conceiue of me an euill opinion And therefore I say my Lords it were better for me to lie in prison for the trueth then to be abroad and suspected of my Prince And so they departed promising to declare her message to the Quéene On the next day the Bishop of VVinchester came againe vnto her Grace and knéeling downe declared that the Quéene meruailed that she would so stoutlie vse her selfe not confessing to haue offended so that it should séeme the Quéenes Maiestie wrongfullie to haue imprisoned her Grace Nay quoth the Lady Elizabeth it pleaseth her to punish me as she thinketh good Well quoth Gardiner her Maiesty willeth me to tell you that you must tell an other tale ere that you be set at libertie Her Grace aunswered that she had as liefe be in prison with honestie and trueth as to be abroade suspected of her Maiestie and this that I haue saide I will saide she stand vnto for I will neuer belye my selfe VVinchester againe knéeled downe and said Then your Grace hath the vauntage of me and other of the Lordes for your so long and wrong imprisonment What vauntage I haue quoth she you know taking God to record I séeke no aduauntage at your hands for your so dealing with me but God forgiue you and me also With that the rest knéeled downe desiring her Grace that all might be forgotten and so departed she being fast locked vp againe A seuen-night after the Quéene sent for her Grace at ten a clocke in the night to speake with her for she had not séene her in two yéeres before Yet for all that she was amazed at the so sudden sending for thinking it had béene wurse for her then afterwardes it prooued and desired her gentlemen and gentlewomen to praye for her for that she could not tell whether euer she should sée them againe or no. At which time Sir Henrie Benifield with Mistresse Clarencius comming her Grace was brought into the garden vnto a stayres foote that went into the Quéenes lodging her Graces gentlewomen waiting on her her gentleman Usher and her Groomes going before with Torches where her gentlemen and gentlewomen being commaunded to staie all sauing one Woman Mistresse Clarencius conducted her to the Quéenes bed Chamber where her Maiestie was At the sight of whome her Grace knéeled downe desired God to preserue her Maiestie not mistrusting but that she should trie her selfe as true a subiect towardes her Maiestie as euer did any and desired her Maiestie euen so to iudge of her and saide that she should not finde her to the contrarie whatsoeuer report otherwise had gone of her To whome the Quéene aunswered You will not confesse your offence but stande stoutlie to your trueth I praie God it may so fall out If it dooth not quoth the Lady Elizabeth I request neither fauour nor pardon at your Maiesties handes Well saide the Quéene you still stiflie perseuer in your trueth belike you will not confesse but that you haue béene wrongfullie punished I must not saye so it it please your Maiestie quoth she to you Why then saide the Quéene belike you will to other No if it please your Maiestie quoth she I haue borne the burden and must beare it I humbly beséech your Maiestie to haue a good opinion of me and to thinke me to be your true Subiect not onelie from the beginning hitherto but for euer as long as lyfe lasteth And so they departed with verie fewe comfortable wordes of the Quéene in Englishe but what she saide in Spanishe God knoweth It is thought that King Phillip was there behinde a cloath and not séene and that he shewed himselfe a verie fréend in that matter c. Thus her Grace departing went to her lodging againe and the seuenight after was deliuered of Sir Henrie Benifield her Goaler as she tearmed him and his Soldiours and so her Grace being set at libertie from imprisonment went into the Country and had appointed to goe with her Sir Thomas Pope one of Quéene Maries Counsaylors and one of her gentlemen Ushers Maister Gage And thus straitlie was she looked too all Quéene Maries time and this is the discourse of her Highnesse imprisonment Then there came to Lamheyre Maister Ierningham and Maister Norris gentleman Usher Quéene Maries men who tooke away from her Grace Mistresse Ashley to the Fleete and three other of her gentlewomen to the Tower which was no little trouble to her Grace saying that she thought they would fetch away all at the end But God he praised shortlie after was fetched away Gardiner by occasion of whose oportune decease the life of this excellent Princesse the wealth of all England was preserued
the poysoning of him at length the giuing the Land to the French Kinges sonne the inuading thereof by the Dolphin of Fraunce his so long possessing a great part of it the rebellion of the Barons to take the French mens part all the mischéefes that fell in all this whyle were they not the good workes of Popes and Papistes The great deuision of the two noble houses of Lancaster and Yorke which cost so much Englishe blood that there remayneth no house of high or meane Nobilitie that hath not smarted for it So many foughten fieldes within the Realme so long and so great vncertaintie which side were true men and which were Traitours and for how many dayes or howres they should be so estéemed such desolation and miseries to whome are they to be imputed but to the Popishe Clergie and Papists and among other to Thomas Arundell Archbishoppe of Canterburie that trayterouslie practised the deposing of his lawfull Soueraigne Lord King Richard the second But come yet to later times Howe was the Quéenes Maiesties most noble Father assaulted by the Pope and Papistes His Realme was interdited and giuen away to him that could catch it Legates and one notable English traitour were sent about to perswade Christian Princes to inuade England to destroye and depose King Henrie and to take the Realme in reward for their labour When Charles the late Emperour was setting forward against the Turke Cardinall Poole being sent by the Pope made a solemne Oration to him which is yet extant in print to perswade the Emperour to turne his prepared power from inuading the Turke and to bend it against King Henrie the eight as one wurse then any Turke What turmoile was then raised by the Northren Rebelles against him whereof some by his clemencie a good example haue liued to this day to raise a new rebellion How troubled they her Maiesties most excellent Brother with vnhappy seditions How vexed they and how endaungered they the Realme and the Quéenes own person in her Sisters time as in the Storie before rehearsed you may reade at large What might Charles the Emperour haue doone for recouery and enlarging of Christendome if his force that way intended had not by the Popes practise béene peruerted sundrie wayes and times to â—â—â—in shedding of christian blood and wasting of Christendome and to the ouerthrowe of his victorious course What tempests hath the late conspiracie of Trent blowne vp in Christendome that cannot yet be quieted and all because the Pope hath instilled an opinion into his Papistes that Princes if he dispence with them are not bounde to kéepe faith and promise no not the word of a King wherby no peace can be assured Whereof yet ryseth one good admonition to trust them no more and to be well ware of them and speciallie to thinke of this one particular that wicked persons who haue giuen occasion of daungerous rebellions against the Quéenes Maiestie their chéefe and onelie succour and refuge will neuer be withholden by any respect from attempting or procuring to be attempted any most high and heinous treason and mischéefe against our Soueraigne Ladies safetie if an auauntageable oportunitie may serue them so long as such persons are infected with Papistrie and can thinke the Pope able to pardon or rather willing to reward them yea so farre as they shall suppose themselues not onely to winne the Kingdome of England therby but also the kingdome of Heauen It is perillous to thinke what traiterous rage may doo being armed with drunken superstition It is a sore thing to consider the impotencie of ambition specially when it is ioyned with the furie of reasonlesse loue The common experience is how daungerous those knottes of théeues be where there is a woman in the company Thus is it plaine that for as much as the Pope claymeth such wrongful vsurpation and tiranny ouer Kings Realmes and sith Papists holde that he sayth true and claymeth but his right and cannot erre in discerning it all such Papists are Traitours to all Kinges and Kingdomes As for the second Conclusion which accuseth Englishe Papistes of treason to the Quéenes Maiestie it is sufficientlie prooued for that it is a perticular within a generall included in the former Yet for the speciall confirmation of it it hath certaine priuate and seuerall reasons It is well knowne and you haue read the whole discourse before how they sought her Graces death in her Sisters time what practises what fetches were vsed for it what examinations what searchinges were to finde couller of her destruction yea how farre without couller they procéeded if God had not miraculouslie kept her to the preseruation of this Realme and the comfort of all Christendome But to make some demonstration of their hatred to her Maiestie by reason after to discend to the examples and practises let vs examine the causes Whereas the Papistes holde that the Pope is head of Gods vniuersall Church and that such authoritie as the Quéene claimeth in England ouer Ecclesiasticall persons and in Ecclesiasticall causes as due to her Highnesse in right of her Crowne is not due to her but belonging to the Pope in so saying they must saye that her Maiestie claymeth an vniust tyrannicall power And who so euer shall so saye though not in the same sillables is an vniust and an errant traitour and cannot loue her that hath pul led him downe whome they call head of their Church Where the Pope hath accurssed the Quéenes Maiestie as an Heretique and Scismatique all those Papists which suppose that the Pope hauing the disposition of Gods sentence and the thunderbolte of excoÌ„munication in his hand cannot erre doo also suppose that the Quéenes Highnesse our Quéene Elizabeth I meane is not lawfull Quéene of England as many of them haue not spared to saye for so must all Papistes holde that holde the Pope to say true for the Pope dooth not so accept her And Papistes haue published that Gospellers whome they call Heretiques ought not to haue any office among Gods people much lesse a Kingdome And this point is well to be considered that they which take from the Quéenes Maiestie the Supremacie ouer Ecclesiastical persons and causes doo transferre the same iurisdiction to the Pope for they neuer yet vouchsafed to giue it to any other And yet I am sure that after so many examples of Bées and Beastes and other thinges they will not nowe haue any perticular Church headlesse and destitute of a supreme Gouernour either vniuersal like a Monarch as they would haue it or speciall vnder God of eche Kingdome or Dominion as Gods good disposition hath forced it If then the Pope haue in their opinion any Ecclesiasticall iurisdiction in England he must haue I us excommunicandi lawfull power and authority to excoÌ„municate in England without which the Ecclesiasticall power cannot stand Which power if he iustlie haue hath excommunicated and accurssed her Maiestie
at Tiborne and Wapping in the Wose beside London A Commotion was made by the Commons of Cornevvall who vnder the leading of Iames Tuchet of Audley Lord of Audley with Michael Ioseph a Horse Farrer or Blacksmith of Bodman and other came to Blacke heath where the King mette with them and discomfited the Rebelles taking their Captaines and there were slaine of the Rebelles about thrée hundred and a thousand and fiue hundred of them taken the King gaue to them that tooke them their goodes The Lord Audley was beheaded on the Tower hyll and the Blacke Smith and Flamoke a Lawier were hanged headed and quartered at Tiborne A Shoomakers sonne in Bishoppes gate stréete of London was hanged at Saint Thomas Watrings on Shroue Tuesdaie for naming himselfe to be Edward Earle of VVarwicke Sonne to George Duke of Clarence which Edward Earle of VVarvvicke was then and had béene all the raigne of this King kept secret prisoner in the Tower of London The aforenamed Perkin Werbeck that named himselfe King Edwardes Sonne and Iohn a Water Maior of Corfe were executed at Tiborne In the raigne of King Henrie the eight of famous memorie EDward Duke of Buckingham was accused of high treason for which he was apprehended and sent to the Tower of London on the sixtéenth day of Aprill before which time the Dukes Chauncellour was taken who had confessed matter of high treason concerning the Kinges person Shortlie after the Duke was arraigned at VVestminster where were brought against him as witnesses Sir Gilbert Perke his Chauncellour Iohn de la Court his Confessour Charles Kneuet Esquier and a Monke Priour of Henton In the end he was found guiltie and had iudgement to be drawne hanged and quartered so on the seuenth day of Maie following the saide Edward Duke of Buckingham Earle of Hereford Stafford and Northhampton was beheaded on the Tower hyll such is the ende of ambition the credite of false Prophecies and of euill life In December at the Cittie of Couentrie Frauncis Phillip Schoolemaister to the Kinges Henxmen Christopher Pickering Clarke of the Kinges Larder and Anthonie Manuile Gentleman intended to haue taken the Kinges Treasure of his Subsedie as the Collectours of the same came towardes London and therewith they intended to haue raysed men and to haue taken the Castell of Killingvvoorth and then to haue made battaile against the King for the which they were drawne hanged and quartered at Tiborne the eleuenth of February the rest of their conspiracie were executed at Couentrie Elizabeth Barton the holie Maide of Kent and diuerse other of her faction were drawne from the Tower of London to Tiborne there hanged and headed c. for sundrie conspiracies by them committed in the matter of diuorce betwéene the Kinges Maiestie and Quéene Katherine The nine and twentie day of Aprill the Priour of the Charterhouse at London the Priour of Beuall the Priour of Exham Reinoldes a Brother of Sion Iohn Haile Uicare of Thistlewoorth were all condemned of high treason so the fourth day of Maie following they were drawne hanged and quartered at Tiborne their heads and quarters set on the Gates of the Cittie all sauing one quarter which was set on the Charterhouse at London The eightéene day of Iune thrée Monkes of the Charterhouse at London named Exmewe Middlemore and Nidigate were drawne to Tiborne and there hanged and quartered for treason The two and twentie day of Iune Doctor Iohn Fisher was beheaded on the Tower hyll and his head was set on London Bridge and the sixt of Iulie following Sir Thomas More was beheaded on the Tower hyll for denying the Kinges supremacie Thomas Fitz-garret Sonne and heyre to the Earle of Kildare was beheaded fiue of his Unckles were drawne to Tiborne and there hanged and quartered for treason In the same Moneth which was Februarie Nicholas Musgraue Thomas Gylbie and other stirred a new rebellion and besieged the Cittie of Carlile from whence they were driuen and many of them taken and put to death Also the same moneth Sir Frauncis Bigot Sir Robert Constable and other began a conspiracie and for the same were attainted The nine and twenty day of March twelue men of Lincolne were drawne to Tiborne there hanged and quartered for the rebellion in Lincolneshiere fiue were Priestes and seuen were Lay men one was an Abbot a Suffragan Doctour Mackerell an other was the Uicar of Louthe in Lincolneshiere and two Priests In Aprill through certaine Commissions sent into Sommersetshiere to take vp Corne the people began to make an iusurrection which was by Maister Pawlet and others alayed the beginners thereof to the number of thrée score were condemned whereof fouretéene were hanged and quartered one of them was a woman Frier Forrest was hanged by the middle in a chaine of yron and then burnt in Smithféeld for denying the King to be supreame head of the Church and with him was burnt the Image of Daruel Gatherine of Wales Hugh Ferringdon Abbot of Reading and two Priests named Ruge and Onion for denying the Kinges supremacie were hanged and quartered at Reading the same day was the Abbot of Glastenburie Richard Whitting hanged and quartered on Torre hill beside his Monasterie for the same cause Thomas Lord Cromwell Earle of Essex being in the Councell Chamber was suddenlie apprehended and committed to the Tower of London the nine and twentie day of Iulie following he was attainted by Parliament of heresie and treason and the eight and twentie day of Iulie he was beheaded on the Tower hill with the Lord Walter Hungerford of Heitisburie Rober Barnes Thomas Gerrard and William Ierome Priestes were burnt in Smithféed and the same day Thomas Abel Edward Powel and Richard Fetherstone were hanged and quartered for denying the Kinges supremacie Laurance Cooke a Priour of Dancalfe William Horne a lay Brother of the Charterhouse Giles Horne Gentleman Clement Philpot Edmond Bromham Darby Kenham Robert Bird and Iaruis Carrowe were all put to death for treason In Aprill certaine persons beganne a new rebellion in Yorkeshiere who were shortly after taken and put to execution in diuers places of which Leigh a Gentleman Tatarsal a Clothyer and Thorneton a Yeoman were put to death at London Sir Iohn Neuell Knight and ten persons more were put to death at Yorke The Lord Leonard Grey being endighted of certaine points of treason by him committed and was alleadged against him was arraigned at Westminster but he discharged the Iurie and confessed the endightment wherevppon he had iudgement and was beheaded on the Tower hyll on Saint Peters euen The first day of Iulie a Welch minstrell was hanged and quartered for singing of Songs which were interpreted to be prophecying against the King Germaine Gardner and Larke Parson of Chelsea were executed at Tiborne for denying the Kinges supremacie with them was executed for other offences one Singleton and
God against Kinges and their Kingdomes Against God I call them treasons though our Lawe the iudge of ciuill treasons in England haue no such name because the nature of the offence so properlie receiueth that tytle and also the vsuall name of high treason in Iure gentium in the common lawe of Nations and in other languages dooth so plainelie expresse it High treasons are in their true nature offences against high Maiestie that is either to the destruction of the persons or deniall and defacement of the iust dignities and authorities of those that beare the name of Maiestie and to whome the highest duetie of obedience faith and alleageaunce extendeth And therfore is treason called Crimen lesae Maiestatis the crime of violating or abating Maiestie Greater Maiestie then the Maiestie of God cannot be therefore higher and verier treasons then against God cannot be His person cannot be destroyed or touched but his dignitie honour glorie and authoritie may be slaundered and blasphemed and his Subiects who are mortall men may be withdrawne from their due obedience and drawne into rebellion against him And this I say is high treason to God to violate or abate the Maiestie of God and this doo Papists For though God be King of the whole world and so is rightlie called the Lord by vniuersall name yea euen of deuilles yet is his Church his more proper and certaine kingdome whereby he is more restrainedlie and aplie called our King and our Father and so more fitlie called our head in respect of the body which is his Church and not the rest of the world In this Kingdome his highest dignitie is to be the onelie head therof which the Papistes take from him and deriue it to their Pope And though with gloses they excuse it that their Popes take it not from God but vse it vnder God as his Uicares yet must they be admonished that without sufficient deputation and warrant from the King him selfe which the Pope hath not the Subiect to thrust him selfe into the gouernance of the kingdome is high treason where he that being a straunger would séeke to conquere it were but an enimie And so is it rightlie to be saide that the Turke is to God an enimie and the Pope is to God a traitour and all his adherents are principall traitours for treason admitteth no accessaries But now let vs come to that part which toucheth men more néerelie then any loue of God Let vs now sée how they be traytours to Kinges and Kingdomes If we haue minde to sée that Papistes which holde all the Popes doctrine to be true are traytours in déede to Kings and Kingdomes it behooueth vs to call to minde what are the Popes doctrines dooinges and practises concerning the Crownes of Kinges and states of Kingdomes Popes haue challenged and Papistes that affirme the Popes to be frée from error their doctrine to be true and their authoritie to be lawfull doo also holde that it is their due which they challenge that is To haue authority of both Swords Spirituall and Temporall the one in exercise the other in power To haue the disposition of all the Crownes of Christian Princes To haue the iudgement of deciding to whome the right of any kingdome belongeth To haue power for disobedience to him or by his discretiō to transferre the Crownes of Kinges to whome he will To haue lawfull power to giue Kingdomes to prey spoyle and conquest to such as can inuade and possesse them To haue power to assoyle and discharge Christian subiectes from faith and alleageaunce to theyr lawful and naturall Soueraigne Lordes Kinges and Princes To haue power to giue leaue yea commaundement blessing reward forgiuenesse of sinnes and Heauen it selfe to Subiects to rebell against theyr Prince to depose the Prince disherite and destroy him That there is of common right and by the méere lawe of God reserued to the Pope a speciall subiection resorte appellation and obedience of one great part of all Princes Subiectes yea and of all Subiectes of all Princes in one great part of theyr causes Be not these heinous treasons And these cannot be denied to be the naturall and verie treasons of all Papists that is to say of all that depend vpon credite of the Pope that holde him for Gods Uicar for Peters successor for whome Christ prayed that his faith should not fayle that applie to him this title Ad quem perfidia non potest accedere to whome falsehood cannot reach that holde him for a constant Rocke an assured Preacher of trueth an Apostolicall man if he be not some other thing then a man to whome our beléefe is bounden with such other false tytles wherewith Popes themselues haue garnished themselues and theyr Parasites haue ouerloden them Consider the ordinarie practise of Popes and Papistes according to these doctrines and then you shall sée that from the most high treason which the Pope committed against his Soueraigne Lord the Emperour the renting and destructiō of the Empire all the victories and successes of the Saracens and Turkes against Christendome all the tearing away of most noble and large Kingdomes and prouinces from the body of Christianitie all the subduing and thralling of infinite Christian soules to Mahomet and the Deuill all the deposinges murderinges turmoylings ciuill warres debates betwéene Christian Princes shedding of Christian blood indignities and oppressions of Christian Kinges and Emperours conquestes rebellions and mischéefes for these fiue hundred yéeres and aboue are wholly and chéefely to be imputed to the treasons of Popes and Papistes All Grecia sometime most noble and learned yet lamentably rueth it All Affrica the mother of most constaunt Martyres féeleth it The Germane Emperours with most heinous reproches and fowle treading on theyr neckes may not forget it The Kinges of Fraunce and Spaine both at home in their natiue Kingdomes and abroad as well in Naples Sicilie Lombardie as in other territories of Italie and of the Empire haue sharply felt it The Lordes and States of Italie haue béene daylie and long shaken with it The Kinges of England haue béene poysoned whipped beaten with rods murdered deposed the Land giuen in conquest interdited made tributarie robbed pylled and scraped of theyr treasure brought into slauishe subiection depriued of honour and estimation euerie way most villainously abused To let passe the elder times and further Realmes let vs speake of deposing of olde Emperours erecting of newe setting the Sonne against the Father the Subiect against his Lord making them come bare footed themselues with theyr wiues and children long waighting with submission in colde frostes treading on theyr neckes spurning of their Crownes a thousand such abhominable prides of Popes and slaueries of Princes Let vs deale but with our selues and with our owne féeling knowledge and memorie The accursing of King Iohn the receyuing him vassaill the making his Realme subiect and feudatorie to the Pope the arming his Subiects against him
may be great crueltie when it ouerfloweth to the good mens daunger The other Conclusions that followe haue great difference from these whereof I haue made some explication yet haue I not made so large an explication as trueth is well and easilie able to furnishe neither can I so well make it as the expedience of the cause asketh to giue the vauntage of eloquence to the goodnesse of the matter to helpe to drawe it into credite and effect of well moouing But being as it is rude and true great cunning and finenesse is the lesse néedefull where those for whome it is intended are so wise as it is farre more easie for naked troth to enforme them then for any gaie spéeche to leads them As for the other Conclusions that followe I neither haue nor will wade so farre in them because they are matters of consultation and meditation The effect thereof which is the safe preseruation of the Quéenes royall Maiestie and the Realme the auoiding of daungers that threaten the same the establishing of assurednesse boldnesse courage and fréedome of her Highnesse most good Councellours and Subiectes the taking auauntage of oportunitie and occasions the wéeding out of deceiuers and vnderminers the defence of her Maiesties honour and dignity the meanes to aunswer their charge toward God and namelie in dealing with men as they be affectioned to or against God The effect I saye of these other Conclusions I knowe doo continuallie busie her Maiestie and her most honourable Counsailours in thinking on them and prouiding for them therefore it shall no furder occupie me and other meane Subiectes then in prayer and readinesse to serue as her Maiestie and her Councell shall sée fitte to imploy vs. It shall suffise me and so ought it to content all other to knowe as we doo knowe what a wise Prince we haue what good Councell she hath chosen how well they haue gouerned what fruite we haue had of it so as nothing is left to vs but to giue thankes to beware that our sinnes giue not the occasion of losse and chaunge to serue duetifullie and to pray deuoutlie The Conclusion THus haue I England bréefelie collected such matters héere together as if thou héedfullie marke thou mayst make great profite of them And in trueth great néede thou hast to be carefull of them for Papistes were neuer bolder nor treason put more in practise then it hath béene of late dayes Remember that cruell murder in Fraunce at the mariage when the famous Admirall Shatilion was so vnnaturallie murdered Remember the late and horrible murder of the noble Prince of Orange and let these teach thée to be more circumspecte to that daungerous broode I could wade into furder matters as to tell thée of many other crimes and offences which thou hast meruailous néede to looke vnto but because I entended this present purpose in this Watchwoord I referre the rest to my other Booke called the Court of Conscience which thou shalt shortlie receyue from me And I dare awarrant thée that thou neuer readst not such a Booke in all thy life both for the circumstances of the matter and the woorthinesse of the whole in generall but tyll it come that thou thy selfe mayst iudge of it I will bréefelie desire thée to ioyne in prayer with me for the good successe of all happinesse that may please God to send thée Let vs praye that we may sée when those that shall wrest or procure to chaunge Lawe to erect the courage of any daungerous Uiper to such endes or to any aspiring hope of preuenting and vndermining vnder what couller name pretence or otherwise or to the safegarde of their persons that haue so attempted that they maye be declared and executed as enimies to the state and to the Quéenes safetie Let vs praye that we may sée such Lawes prouided for her Highnesse preseruation and the same so executed without restraint or slackenesse for any respect as the hope of Papistes such as be enimies to God the Quéene and the Realme may if they repent not be cutte off for euer Let vs praye to liue to sée that none may haue place Office or accesse into her Maiesties Court nor household no nor once into her presence that shall not be knowne to fauour both God and her so farre as any circumspection or policie can prouide it Let vs praye that no Office of dignitie Lawe or Iustice may be in their handes who doo not fauour the Lawe of God and acknowledge her Maiesties right that is head of Lawe and Iustice in this Realme Let vs praye that her Maiestie and her Councell may haue such particular knowledge of men that those that haue well deserued yea haue and yet doo hazard their liues in her Maiesties defence and haue vtterlie wasted themselues and their fréendes in her Maiesties seruice yet remaining vnrecompenced that they maye not loose the benefite of their labours that no euill tongue maye raise slaunder to their discredite but that they maye according to their good seruice be effectuallie and duelie rewarded the onelie meane to encourage other to earnest taking of paines Let vs praye that all such as be her Maiesties enimies may be weakened and her faithfull fréendes and well-willers strengthened that all auauntages may be vsed for her safetie and all subtill deuises and practises may be supplanted We trust it will be so for God hath not drawne these late mischéefes into lyght for nothing But before all thinges let vs praye to GOD to sende vs true repentaunce more ioyfull and effectuall receyuing of his Gospell and more and more vertuous ensuing it least as we lost our best King with liuing yll wee loose our best Quéene with liuing wurse And that therewith it may please him to direct all the dooinges of her Maiestie and her Councell to procéede in their good aduauncing his glorie and preseruation of the estate which without ielous circumspection for preseruing the Quéenes most royall personne can not be doone And that such good meanes and prouisions as GOD offereth to that ende be not refused or neglected which were to tempt GOD to forsake his cause to betraie our noble Prince and to giue away or rather cast away the Realme These be the daylie and nightlie prayers of good Subiectes and while we busie our selues with these prayers we doo after our principall confidence in Gods goodnesse rest our selues vppon the trust of her Maiestie and her most honourable Councell for whome we prayse God and to them we referre the guiding of vs and ours readie to followe them when we are commaunded with the vttermost of our power and perill knowing how they spare not their vttermost endeuour and perill with susteining the most vnpleasaunt life God knowes that may be for our sakes for our quiet profits and defence FINIS God long preserue and blesse our Queene Elizabeth and confound all her enimies Honos alit Artes. 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are mur derers of Gods flocke The seuenth conclusion of the causes of supplan ting assured safetie The eight conclusion how tymerous policie is wurst in a good cause The ninth conclusiō of zealous boldnesse in seruing the Queen The tenth conclusion that boldnesse dooth encourage the freendes The eleuenth conclusion of the daunger in medling with a naughty man The twelfth conclusion of tyme. The thirteenth conclusion as good the killing a true mā as sparing a traitour The foureteenth conclusion that the life of a king is the lyfe of his kingdome The fifteenth conclusion the most perillous traytour The sixteenth conclusion of such as stand against the Princes defence The seuenteenth conclusion when God is lesse serued then the deuill The eighteenth conclusiō that no attempt against her Maiestie ought to be accounted a priuate cause The meaning and proofe of the first conclusion Not all Papistes are traitours Note this England Which Papistes are traytours Learned Papists wilfull traitours Treason offence against Maiesty Treason against God Papists violate the Maiestie of God which is high treason against him The Pope an high Traitour against God and the Turke but an enimie Papists Traitours to Kinges and Kingdomes Traiterous doctrines of Popes for Kinges and Kingdomes The Pope will giue heauen to Subiectes to rebell against their Prince Traiterous dooinges of Papistes against Kinges Kingdomes speciall matter for England to marke Behold the horrible pride and villainous dealing of Popes Papistes and slauerie of Princes Example of the Popes Papistes dealing with King Iohn The great deuision between the two noble houses of Lancaster and Yorke caused by the Popish Clergy and Papistes Thomas Archbishop of Canterbury practised the deposing of King Richard the second King Henry the eight assaulted by the Pope and Papistes King Edward the sixt vexed by the Papistes The conspiracie of the late Coūcell of Trent The Pope teacheth to keepe no faith The whoore of Rome an actuall dealer in all wicked practises against Kinges Kingdomes The second conclusion prouing Englishe Papistes traytours to the Queene Papists that hold the Pope head of the Church in England are traytours to her Maiestie Papistes that hold the Popes excommunication against the Queene lawfull are traytours The Pope cannot excommunicate in England vnlesse he had iust authoritie so to doo Papistes drawe obedience from the Queene Papistes meritorious treason Seditious writers that send theyr trayterous Lybelles into England The circūstances of those trayterous Bookes These trayterous Bookes want no fauourers to spread them abroad and to credit them with what cōmendations they may The euyll dealing of Papistes a good lesson for England The third conclusion proouing English papistes traytours to the Realme of England The Papistes reuerence to theyr Pope hath made them carelesse of theyr Prince and Countrie Such an one as alloweth of all these wicked causes must needes be a traytour to his Countrie Clemencie cannot win a Papist whyle he continueth a Papist speciall examples for England to remember All dueties of loue kindred and nature broken by Papistes Example of the Papistes thankefulnes to Bishop Cranmer Example of the Papistes kindnes toward her Maiestie for the great lyberalitie of her most noble Father Papistrie increaseth and flourisheth by lenitie Christian trueth respecteth Heauen and Papistry the world Too much clemencie may be great crueltie A Booke called the Court of Conscience which I entend God aiding me to publish verie shortly God graunt that such Papistes as be enimies to her Maiestie and the Realme may be quickly cutte off