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A07901	The English Romayne lyfe Discouering: the liues of the Englishmen at Roome: the orders of the English semiminarie [sic]: the dissention betweene the Englishmen and the VVelshmen: the banishing of the Englishmen out of Roome: the Popes sending for them againe: a reporte of many of the paltrie reliques in Roome: ther vautes vnder the grounde: their holy pilgrimages: and a number other matters, worthy to be read and regarded of euery one. There vnto is added, the cruell tiranny, vsed on an English man at Roome, his Christian suffering, and notable martirdome, for the Gospell of Iesus Christe, in anno. 1581. VVritten by A.M. sometime the Popes scholler in the seminarie among them. Seene and allovved.	Munday, Anthony, 1553-1633.	1582 (1582)	STC 18272; ESTC S112987	53,560	84

THE ENGLISH Romayne Lyfe Discouering The liues of the Englishmen at Roome the orders of the English Semiminarie the dissention betweene the Englishmen and the VVelshmen the banishing of the Englishmen out of Roome the Popes sending for them againe a reporte of many of the paltrie Reliques in Roome their Vautes vnder the grounde their holy Pilgrimages and a number other matters worthy to be read and regarded of euery one There vnto is added the cruell tiranny vsed on an English man at Roome his Christian suffering and notable Martirdome for the Gospell of Iesus Christe in Anno. 1581. VVritten by A.M. sometime the Popes Scholler in the Seminarie among them Honos alit Artes. Seene and allovved Imprinted at London by Iohn Charlewoode for Nicholas Ling dwelling in Paules Churchyarde at the signe of the Maremaide Anno. 1582. To the right Honorable Sir Thomas Bromley Knight Lord Chaunceller of Englande William Lorde Burleigh and Lord Treasorer Robert Earle of Leicester with all the rest of her Maiesties most Honourable priuie Councell A. M. wisheth a happy race in continuall honour and the fulnesse of Gods blessing in the day of ioy THis Booke right Honorable as I haue beene care full to note downe nothing in it that myghte impeach mee either with error or vntrueth mallice or affection to any but euen haue ordered the same according to certeintie and knowledge so when I had fully finished it and doone the vttermost of my endeuoure therin I considered with my selfe I was to present the same to such personages of Honor wisedome and grauitie as did mallice rule me they coulde quickly espie it or affecting my selfe to any they woulde soone discerne it then would Honour reprooue me for the one their noble nature reprehende me in the other To discharge my selfe of bothe these and purchase the fauoure wherewith your Honors are continually adorned I directed my compasse by trueth perswading my selfe that albeit in some Veritas odium parit yet in your Honours Magna est veritas et praeualet Fewe woordes suffiseth your wisedomes and circumstaūce without substaunce may incurre disliking accordinge as when I presented your Honours with my booke called the Discouerie of Campion I promised so now in my English Romaine life I haue performed thinking my selfe in as safe securitie vnder your Honourable fauor as Vlisses supposed himselfe vnder the buckler of Aiax Your Honors euer in dutie Anthonie Munday To the courteous and freendlie Reader THe thing long promised gentle Reader is now perfourmed at last and that which my aduersaries thought I would neuer set forth to their disproofe and thy profit I haue now published Thou shalt find a number of matters comprehended within this small volume some that will irritate the minde of anie good subiect and therefore to be read with regard others importing the whole course of our Englishmens liues in Roome with the od conceits and craftie iuglings of the Pope whereto our Englishmen are likewise conformable they are in such true certaine order set downe as if thou were there thy selfe to behold them I will not vse manie words now thou hast it read aduisedlie condemne not rashlie and if thou thinkest mee woorthie anie thanks for my paines then freendlie bestowe it on me Thine in courtesie Anthonie Munday ¶ The English Romaine lyfe Discoursing the liues of such Englishe men as by secret escape leaue their owne Countrey to liue in Roome vnder the seruile yoke of the Popes gouernment Also after what manner they spend their time there practising and daylie looking for the ouerthrowe and ruine of their Princesse and Countrey First howe the Authour left his natiue Countrey of England betaking himselfe to trauell and what happened in his iourney toward Roome Chap. 1. BEcause a number haue been desirous to vnderstand the successe of my iourney to Roome and a nūber beside are doubtfull whether I haue béene there or no albeit the proofes thereof sufficiently are extant to be séene as well to content the one as remoue the doubte of the other I will God ayding mée héere set downe such a certaintie thereof that if it happen not to please bothe yet if they will it may profite bothe When as desire to sée straunge Countreies as also affection to learne the languages had perswaded me to leaue my natiue Countrey and not any other intent or cause God is my record I committed the small wealth I had into my purse a Trauelers wéede on my backe the whole state and condition of my iourney to Gods appointment and beeing accompanied with one Thomas Nowell crossed the Seas from England to Bulloine in Fraunce From thence we trauelled to Amiens in no small daunger standing to the mercie of dispoyling Soldiers who went robbing and killing thorowe the Countrey the Campe beeing by occasion broken vp at that tyme. Little they left vs and lesse would haue done by the value of our liues had not a better bootie come then we were at that time the Soldiers preparing towards them whome they sawe better prouided for their necessitie offered vs the l●ysure too escape which we refused not béeing left bare enough bothe of coyne and cloathes But as then we stoode not to accoumpt on our losse it suffised vs that we had our liues whereof béeing not a little glad we set the better legge before least they should come backe againe and robbe vs of them too This our misfortune vrged vs to remembraunce of our former quiet béeing in England carefullie tendered by our Parents and loouingly esteemed among our ●●éends all which we vndutifullie regarding rewarded vs with the rod of our owne negligence béeing as then fearefull of all company on the way such cruell and heauy spectacles was still before our eyes but yet this did somewhat comfort vs we had nothing woorth the taking from vs but our liues which we had good hope to saue either by their pittie or our owne humble perswasion When we were come to Amiens we were giuen to vnderstande that there was an olde Englishe Préest in the Towne whose name was Maister Woodward of whome we perswaded our selues for Countrey sake to finde some courtesie in hope whereof we enquired for his lodging and at last found him After such salutations as passe betwéene Countreymen at their méeting I began to tell him howe we had left our Countrey for the earnest desire we had to sée forraine Dominions howe we had béene spoyled by the way of all that we had and that we hoped for some fréendship at his handes which if God vouchsafed vs safe returne should not be cast out of remembraunce Alas my freendes quoth he I am your Countreyman I will not denie but not such a one as you take me for I am a poore Préest and héere I liue for my conscience sake whereas were thinges according as they should be it were better for me to be at home in mine owne Countrey And yet trust me I pittie to sée any of my

into the sayde Uaute and to them thou shalt giue the bones and Reliques of holie and blessed Saintes which they in their Churches shal adore with great reuerēce what thou wilt haue shall be done and what thou wilt not shall not be done After these woordes Saint Fraunces vanished from him he went home to the Monastery to tell his Brethren what had happened soone after with burning Tapers and great showes of holines they brought him to the Uaute of Saint Pancratia wherin béeing entred they found a seate ready prepared for him which shined as bright as the Sun so that it dimmed the light of all their Tapers it was like vnto the Clowdes verie thick beset with twinkling Starres and ouer the head of it it was couered with a goodly Rainbowe Nothing could be séen wheron this seate depended it neither touched the groūd the top of the Uaute ouer head nor any part of the wall on eyther side therefore it was supported by Angels whome though they could not discerne yet they heard them make verie mellodious hermony to welcom this Saint to his new seat Then the Frier béeing bashfull to sée such a glorious seate prouided for him withdrew him selfe as though he were vnwoorthy to sit therein but then out of one of the Clowds stretched a hand which they sayde to be Christes wherein they sawe the fresh bléeding wound béeing pierced thorow with the nayle on the Crosse and this hand pulled the Frier to the Seat placed him very roially therin At y e sight héerof all his brethren fell downe worshipped him whervpō he deliuered vnto euery one of them diuers holy Reliques as the head of such a Saint and bones of diuers other Saints which was put in to his hand to giue them Some of them for pure zeale would not depart frō him but staied there many yéeres béeing fed nourished by Angels the other to looke to the good ordering of their Monastery were forced to depart A long time this Saint remained in that Uaute and many other that came to him whome he daylie made Saintes so that as well on the behalfe of this Saint as diuers other as good as he this Uaute is worshipped as though it were a second heauen When he had ended this braue notorious Fable deliuered foorth with farre more reuerend iesture then I can set downe or you imagine he sayde If a man should tell this to the Heretiques of our Coūtrey they would strayte way condemne it as a lye vntrueth so mightilie dooth the deuill preuayle with them to deface the daylie miracles showne in the Catholique Church Trust me thought I I know not whether they would estéeme it for a lye or no but I doo allowe it for one of the notablest lyes that euer I heard in all my life O my déere Countreimen thinke how God hath giuen ouer these men that repose credite in such abhominable vntruethes whereby he is robbed of his glory the worship which we ought of duetie to giue to him is bestowed on a rable of rascall Reliques a dunghil of most irksom noysom smell they themselues become spectacles to the world following the whore of Roome as her puddle of accursed filthinesse Their impietie hath pierced the heauens and offended the Almightie to sée that his Creatures shall thus disdaine their Maker and therefore while they are glorying and triumphing in the middest of their wickednesse he hath throwen them downe accoumpted them as bastards not chyldren that they might be an example to vs howe to liue in his feare and howe to behaue our selues lyke Christians not to giue his honour to stockes stones not to lust after dreames and fantasies of the deuilles inuencion but whyle we haue the light to walke as becōmeth the chyldren of light to kéepe our selues true and faithfull Subiectes to her by whome we enioy the light and to pray to God to blesse her and vs all to continue in the light Amen I will set downe one discourse more of an other lyke myracle done in an other of their Uautes and then I will trouble you no longer with such friuelous foolish stuffe which I will declare euen in the same manner as a Préest of theirs as yet not taken yet he is héere in England tolde me when he I and two of the Schollers more went into the sayde Uaute Without Roome about the distaunce of halfe a myle from y e Cittie there is a huge great Uaute which they call S. Priscillaes Grote and within this Uaute there is a great many of seuerall places turning one this way an other that way as in one stréete there may be diuers stréetes and lanes turning euerie way So that when they goe into this Uaute they tye the ende of a lyne at the going in and so goe on by the lyne else they might chaūce to loose them selues and so misse of their euer comming out againe or else if they haue not a lyne they take Chalke with them and make figures at euerie turning that at their comming againe béeing guided by Torch lyght for Candles will goe out with the dampe in the Uaute they may make accoumpt tyll they get foorth but this is not so ready a way as by the lyne One day I was desirous to sée this Uaute for my fellowe Thomas Nowell in the company of the Iesuites and the Schollers had béene therein and I lying sicke in my Bed bothe he and they made such a glorious report thereof to me what a Heauenlie place it was what a number of Saintes and Martirs had béene buried there and what precious Reliques was daylie found there that I verie much desired to sée the thing whereto they gaue such an admirable prayse For in soothe my fellow was euen all one with them his company was required of euerie one he as lewde in spéeches against his Countrey as the best so that I was estéemed I can not tell howe they would not misdoubt me for my Parents sake yet they would giue me many shrewd nips As when they demaunded any thing of me as concerning our gratious Princesse or any of her honourable Councell I should aunswer Her Maiestie God blesse her or the right Honourable such a Noble man of whom they asked me wherat they would check me verie much for vsing any reuerence in naming her Maiesty or any of the Lords of her honorable Coūcell And this I may say boldlie for that it is true as God is my witnes that in all the time I was amōgst them I neither offered moitie of misordred or vndecēt spéech either of her Maiestie or any Noble man in the Court no nor so much as thought yll of any of them notwithstanding the woordes they vsed sufficient had not God ordred all my dooinges to haue mooued a more stayed man then my selfe to an error I appeale to God who knoweth I set downe nothing but trueth to him that is my