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A56725	The life of John Whitgift, Archbishop of Canterbury, in the times of Q. Elizabeth and K. James I written by Sir George Paule ; to which is added a treatise intituled, Conspiracy for pretended reformation, written in the year 1591, by Richard Cosin ...; Life of Archbishop Whitgift	Paule, George, Sir, 1563?-1637.; Cosin, Richard, 1549?-1597. Conspiracy for pretended reformation.	1699 (1699)	Wing P878_ENTIRE; ESTC R1659	167,057	342

Years past These two made semblance and so were Both zealous Professors of the Gospel and hot for Innovation holden to be Professors of the Gospel neither of the coldest or lewk-warm sort as such do untruly term others who be indeed godly wise with a sober moderation but rather of those that more justly may be said to be scalding hot in desire of Innovation which they falsely call Reformation They therefore standing thus affected most willingly They consort with such who spend their zeal in reproaching the Government Ecclesiastical sorted themselves in familiarity with such as by their demeanor may seem to repose a great part of their Christian Profession and Zeal in the only reproacing and odious traducing of Governors and Government Ecclesiastical These two having itching Ears most usually They hear and follow chiefly such Preachers as inveigh against and deprave the Established Ecclesiastical Polity and are for advancing that they call the Discipline heaped to themselves and made choice to hear and follow such Preachers as were thought fittest to feed their humour Which Preachers with their sad looks frequent sighs abroad long and vehement conceived Prayers bitter and plain Invectives in private and privy depraving in publick of the Laws and Policy Ecclesiastical joined with their usual Speeches besides sundry infamous Libels and other Pamphlets spread already for advancing that Government which they strangely term The Discipline may seem so to have inflamed these two Persons as that they thought this Discipline a worthy Subject whereupon they should spend most of their Actions and Cogitations Their minds being thus prepared it happened Some Preachers of the Discipline prosecuted in the Star-chamber that some Preachers of this Discipline were begun to be proceeded with in the most honourable Court of Star-chamber about the same time that this Coppinger by means of one Giles Wigginton came acquainted Coppinger brought acquainted with Hacket by Wigginton a Puritanical Minister of Northamptonshire with William Hacket the third Actor and chief Setter forth of this Tragedy Concerning the said Wigginton because this also tendeth to the better understanding of the whole Action he was born or bred up in Oundel in Northamptonshire where Hacket dwelt and he often resorted into that Country by that occasion He was not long since a Minister and Vicar of Sedberghe and Dent in the North parts but for Wigginton some time Vicar in the North for his insolences and contempt against the Laws and Peace of the Church deprived ex Officio Beneficio Hacket lived at Oundle Servant to Mr. Hussey afterwards to Sir Thomas Tresham a quarrelsome Fellow his intolerable Insolences and Contempts against Laws and the Peace of the Church was both deprived of chat his Benefice and deposed from his Ministry by Authority of her Majesty's Commission for Causes Ecclesiastical a man by report of such as know him best and favour him not a little whose zeal never came behind knowledge nor bold-hardy forwardness at any time went after discretion in him This Hacket had dwelt also by a long space in Oundel where first he served one Master Hussey an Esquire by the space of ten Years and after for some time he served Sir Thomas Tresham Knight He was a notable bragging and quarelsome Fellow yet thought in truth to be but a very recreant Dastard He long together used one lewd and ungodly practice which was to resort unto He frequently resorted to Sermons to mock and carp at them Sermons of purpose to gibe mock and carp at them And having a good Memory which was the only commendable part in him he used in scoffing manner to preach over again in Alehouses the Sermons that he had heard most insisting and sporting himself and others at such Passages thereof which pleased him least or whereat he imagined any likely matter of deriding might be gathered Whilst thus he served Master Hussey he Married a Widow with Substance but wasted it by Idleness and Lewdness obtained by his Master's countenance the marriage of one Moreton's Widow of reasonable Substance having also a good Farm in that Town But he following loose and licentious Company and an idle course of life without labour or industry either to get or save lewdly and riotously mispent and wasted in short space all her Goods It fell so out that at length he pretended Pretended from a Papist or Atheist to be converted to the Truth got intimately acquainted with Wigginton from a Papist or an Atheist to be converted to Religion and knowledge of the truth At what time he grew to be of familiar and inward acquaintance with the said Giles Wigginton and was an especial Follower and Disciple of his both at publick Sermons and private Conventicles Of late times he was also consorted in Partnership of Malt-making with Wigginton Their great acquaintance and familiarity may appear by a Letter sent from Hacket unto him the third of March last and by his lending unto Hacket of ten Pounds The Superscription is To the Worshipful Minister of God's Word M. Giles Wigginton at Newgate In the Letter thus he writeth M. Wigginton I desire to communicate my Spirit at large with you but I know not your Keeper And in the end thereof thus Good M. Wigginton make my sound heart known to Master Cartwright Master Snape Master Udall Master Lord c. By his and such others like affected mens Grew a forward Professor and great Railer against the Laws and Orders of the Church Instructions and Example of life and behaviour he so profited that in short space he proved one that professed with the forwardest and practised with the frowardest For falling as Fools do from one extremity to another Qui dum vitant vitia in contraria currunt he grew to a most insolent proud and contemptuous disdain of all Preachers and others whomsoever that flew not his pitch or lay not to the level of his pretended zeal But most gladly and with greatest felicity that might be he used to spend his mouth largely in Invectives Railings and Contumelies against Bishops and other Governors of the Church and also against the Laws Orders and whole Government Ecclesiastical not sticking as was probably suspected to procure also sundry lewd infamous Libels against them and other Preachers c. to be framed and set up thereabouts His detestation of Ecclesiastical Orders Despised the Town-Minister for his Conformity commanded was so great that he could not endure to frequent the Sermons which Ray the Minister of that Town did preach because he seemed to him a little more conformable in some few matters by Authority established than Hacket liked of Wherefore on Sabboth days Hacket usually did resort to a Place a Mile off called Stoke where the Minister fitted his Humour better in company of some of like strain to himself and of certain light idle Gossips whereof some of the sincerest were said to love and like him so

little as that she could oft-times be content to take the Meat off his Trencher which he had cut for himself and to eat it up from him But whensoever this devout Slighted the Divine Service Flock came so near to Stoke Church as they might perceive the Minister to be yet at Divine Service and Prayer then they used to stay abroad and rest themselves in the Green Churchyard there without going into the Church until they heard the Psalm begun before Sermon for fear lest they should be polluted by those Prayers One most memorable Prank above others was plaid in Oundel by Hacket which is renowned far and near for the unmanly brutishness of it It happened that M. Hussey his Master fell at debate and was offended with one Freckingham an Artificer of the Town This Freckingham had a Son which was a Schoolmaster who as in nature he was bound did take part with his Father Now Hacket meeting this Schoolmaster in an Alehouse or Inn did lovingly as seemed signify unto him how sorry he was that there should be any breach betwixt his Master and him the said Schoolmaster entertaining him that suspected no Treachery with such good Speeches till spying an advantage he so grasped both Freckingham his Arms as that he might easily hold him and throw him to the ground Thus having gotten him down on the ground under him He treacherously bit off a man's Nose in a Quarrel Hacket most savagely and currishly bit off the poor Schoolmaster 's Nose with his teeth which when he had so barbarously performed both the said Freckingham and one Clement a cunning Surgeon instantly desired the Nose of him again that whilst the Wound was fresh and green it might be stitched on and grow again as they conceived it would to avoid so foul and great deformity But the Canibal Varlet not only utterly refused so to part with it but held it up triumphantly and shewed it with great vauntery and glory to all that would behold it and after as some have reported did in a most spiteful and divelish outrage eat it up In process of time it happened that his Master fell out with him and put him from his Service I think for no good Conditions yet it is said that he was retained afterward Retain'd in the Service of Sir Charles Morrison in service by what means I know not with a very worshipful Gentleman Sir Charles Morrison Knight Nephew to his first Master and one of those against whom he lately caused his two small Prophets so vilely to exclaim and so unworthily to charge even openly in Cheatside Besides his former Vertues and good Qualities Hacket a great Swearer and Blasphemer in his Youth this Hacket was also a very great Swearer and Blasphemer of the Name of God in his younger years which course when afterward to retain the reputation of a Professor of the Gospel whereof he made great pretence he was forced to leave he turned his single Oaths in truth into worse and more horrible joined with most fearful Imprecations Which after his pretended Conversion he turn'd into areadful Execrations against himself whensoever he would make any Asseverations wherein he desired to be credited as namely these So God judge me I renounce God and God confound and damn me or do so or so unto me if this be not true which was so usual and by long custom so inveterate in him even till the time of his apprehension that in the midst of his counterfeit Holiness whereby he seduced Coppinger and Arthington he often burst forth into this kind of execration against himself as an especial motive amongst others to have his words to be better believed by them Arthington noted this course of Hacket's as a notable vertue in him and a matter of rare zeal His manner saith he of praying is as it were speaking to His strange Expressions in Prayer God face to face denouncing his Judgments against himself if he dissemble lie or seek himself in any thing but the honour of God only He prayed so confidently for Mistress H. that he charged God to have given her unto him to restore her to her former health and liberty every way saying Lord according to thy promise thou hast power and I have faith therefore it shall come to pass This Mistress H. is a Gentlewoman of London who pretendeth or feareth to be possessed with a Devil now fourteen years together Besides these he was given to quaffing and Addicted to Drunkenness and lascivious Life drunkenness Being not only a Maltster but a Malt-worm and was addicted also to lascivious life with Women which commonly accompanieth the other vicious Excess For credit whereof his own Story or Legend which himself endited as a notbale Monument of his excellent Vertues and special Holiness may give too sufficient testimony For therein he telleth of many temptations in this kind with Women which as himself confesseth he rejected not altogether but went further than either godliness or yet civil honesty would permit But he pretendeth that these Baits were offered and laid by his Enemies who sought matter against him as Snares and Traps whereby to take his holiness tardy that belike was so hard to be entangled Insomuch as Arthington in the forefront of that History which he did whilst he was yet seduced by Hacket doth stamp this brand and censure upon it That they were prophane Speeches and matters of Women which he would not have set down but that he could not otherwise reveal the villanous practice which Hacket's Enemies intended for the overthrow of the Gospel of Christ as he most childishly and ridiculously excused then the matter For further proof and manifestation of his lascivious Disposition it is also informed from the Place of his Abode that on a time under colour of giving godly Counsel he attempted to have wickedly ravished a poor man's Daughter whereupon he was forced to step aside out of the way for a season Neither did the wickedness of this Wretch here rest it self For he was vehemently holden in suspicion for committing also of sundry Robberies But that which maketh up the heap of Covers his Wickedness with Profession of Religion and zeal for Reformation all Wickedness is this That the sink of these Sins in him he always smoothly covered and parieted over especially for sundry late years with a very rare outward earnestness in profession of true Religion and with a most entire yea burning desire of reforming forsooth the Church and Commonwealth by establishing the Presbyterial Discipline which he did imagine would prove like the Box of Pandora for it promiseth cure for all Maladies and Disorders But this his zeal and desire of Reformation Which he then chiefly pretended to after he had wasted his Substance begun then most of all to enkindle it self in him and to break forth after that by riotous mispending and licentious life he had wasted the Wealth that he had

other had a former Fast at the aforesaid Lancaster's House about one Week afore that time and that her Majesties Counsel that now are must be Tryed by this King whether they are to be remov'd from her Majesty or not and that she is to have to be about her to attend her Person for the time such as himself should assign which shall be those whom he hath named in a Letter of his that is found with him and some others also he said were meant to have been assigned also for that purpose There fell out also upon some of Arthington's Examinations while he remained obstinate certain other points not unworthy to be remembred One was that whereas he in writing of a treatise against the state of this Church as it now standeth observed as he saith therein his old want to abstain from bitter speeches and raylings as a thing which he naturally abhorred yet within these few Months and after he had entred into these actions he had altred his opinion and was moved in spirit to follow another sharp and biting course of Writing as being more convenient in his judgment Also when some that examined him stood greatly upon this point to persuade him that he was seduced in those things wherein he seemed so resolute and reasoned against such their pretended extraordinary callings gifts and offices then he for better confirmation thereof said that it should very shortly appear to the world that they were no such seduced persons as was imagined For whereas a godly Gentlewoman in London so he termed her had been by the space of 14 years possessed with a Devil as is afore touched that for a sure sign of their vocation the said Devil should be thrown out of her by all or some of their three means very shortly He also persisted wilful in his former fancies until the very time that he knew Hacket was hanged for until that day he very confidently affirmed that he was most assured by the Spirit of God and by the joys and comfort he inwardly felt that Hacket did participate with Christ in a part of his office and was indeed King of all Europe on whom her Majesty and all other must hold their crowns and scepters and must govern if they would continue their government by such Laws as he should prescribe and set forth That all they three should shortly be dismissed and should go over-Sea with Hacket to take possession of all those his other Kingdoms abroad and to perform their Offices But when the vanity and danger of this strange fancy was opened unto him his answer was to this effect You think saith he somewhat pleasantly as it were pitying their error and misconceit that we have incurred the danger of laws herein and that we shall therefore be put to death but as sure as God is in Heaven the sword shall not come near to hurt us neither shall any man be able to touch the least hair of any of our heads Thus the mean time for the most part Hacket comes to his Tryal thereof from Friday the 16th of July until Monday sevennight after being spent in examinations it was thought good that Hacket should then come to his Tryal on which day being the 26th of July he was brought from Bridewell to the Sessions-house near Newgate before the Lord Mayor the Lord Wentworth Sir Gilbert Gerrard Knight Master of the Rolls Sir Walstane Dixie and Sir Richard Martin Knights Mr. Sergeant Fleetwood Recorder of London Mr. Daniel and others in that Commission where after the Grand Jury was Empannelled the Witnesses that should give evidence Sworn and two several Indictments against him found Hacket was willed to hold up his hand which he did then the first Indictment was read being of this tenour being turned into English viz. The Jury do present for the Queen That The Indictment London ss William Hacket late of Oundel in the County of Northampton Yeoman as a false Traytor against the most excellent and Christian Princess our Sovereign Lady Elizabeth by the grace of God of England France and Ireland Queen defender of the Faith c. his natural and Sovereign liege Lady having not the fear of God in his heart nor weighing his due allegiance but seduced by the instigation of the Devil maliciously and traiterously compassing imagining devising and intending the deprivation and deposing of our said Sovereign Lady Elizabeth from her honour and royal name of the Imperial Crown of this Realm of England on the 21st day of July in the 33d year of the reign of our Sovereign Lady Elizabeth now Queen of England at London that is to say in the Parish of St. Brides in the Ward of Farringdon extra London and divers other days and times betwixt the 12th of February last past and the 25th day of July in the said 33d year of her Majesties Reign as well in the Parish and Ward aforesaid as elsewhere in London aforesaid of his own perverse and traiterous mind and imagination maliciously expresly advisedly directly and traiterously in the presence and hearing of sundry faithful Subjects of our said Sovereign Lady these false malicious and traiterous English words following concerning our said Sovereign Lady the Queen's Majesty falsly maliciously advisedly expresly directly and traiterously said rehearsed published and spoke viz. That the Queen's Majesty meaning thereby our said Sovereign Lady Queen Elizabeth was not Queen of England and that the Queen's Majesty meaning thereby our said Sovereign Queen Elizabeth did represent all hypocrisy and had forfeited her Crown and was worthy to be deprived and that he had been of that opinion this four years and that he defaced her Arms in Kayes house thereby meaning the house of one Ralph Kayes situate and being in Knightrider-street in the Parish of St. Gregory near Pauls in the Ward of Baynard ' s Castle London to take away her whole power of her Authority and was moved thereunto by the spirit and that he neither was nor is sorry therefore to the great scandal and derogation of the person and Royalty of our said Sovereign Lady the Queen and to the subversion of the State of this Realm of England and contrary to the form of a statute in this case made and provided and also against the peace of our said Sovereign Lady her Crown and dignities c. Being asked whether he were guilty to this Indictment or not he confessed and He pleaks guilty pleaded guilty adding this All must be as you will Whereupon Mr. Attorney-General desired for the Queen his confession of the Indictment might be entred Then Hacket being again bidden to hold up his hand he did so accordingly whereupon the second Indictment was read being in English as followeth viz. The Jury presents for the Queen That William Second Indictment London ss Hacket late of Oundel in the County of Northampton Yeoman as a false traitor against the most excellent and Christian Princess our Sovereign Lady Elizabeth by the grace