Althogh it might haue bene in some sence a speciall point of vncharitable pollicy for the Iesuits to haue reiected that friendly offer to haue brought vp 30. of our English youthes as at Rome because that probably many of those would haue bin Benedictines and haue frustrat the Iesuits hope of hauing al here for themselues without copartners yet was it no pollicie in thē to beate a Priest almost to death for but making the motion of receiuing one into the Benedictines order for that foule fact did openly bewray their vnmortified passionate humours pride ambition malice auarice and other shamefull vices too too bad to be spoken of but most of all to be in any religious person that with the worlds weapons they make their vaunt that they can conquer the world Therefore dare they attempt to bid battell liuing in the world to religious men liuing out of the world and still themselues be no worldlings Herein then consists the miserie which being discouered any man may reade the riddle plaine scil that for asmuch as the Benedictines had all or the most part of the Abbey lands in England bequeathe vnto their Monasteries by sundry deuout holy and vertuous Catholike men and women in times past liuing in this Realme and for that the Dominicanes haue the chaire of authoritie for reading in the schooles especially in Salamanca in Spaine which grieues these pure spirited soules at the very heart and what banding brawling and quarrelling they haue made with them about it were too long to recite and also to them belongs of due right the soueraigne authoritie of the sacred Inquisition and withall to be called Predicatores preachers where euer they go with an higher prerogatiue then euer any Iesuite could or I hope euer shall haue for it were daungerous and great pitie that euer such ambitious men should obtaine such ample priuiledges And lastly for that the Scotists Franciscanes especially the Obseruants haue also had sundrie Frieries here in England as also the Carthusians commonly called the Charterhouse Monkes haue had the like in some sort Therefore was there bona causa cur none of all these or any other religious order that had euer enioyed either house or land in Albions Ile should euer come there again or any other religious order that might liue without the Iesuits for their sakes But all of them as reprobates and of God forsaken must be banished hence and a statute made in that high Councell that none such should euer come within this land after it is conquered by Spaniards and Iesuits sicut placuit Iesuitis The second Act enacted or statute made in that high infernall Consistorie was concerning the Church and Abbey lands scil That forasmuch as there be an hundred Bishoprickes great and small in these three kingdomes of England Scotland and Ireland with well nigh 20000. Parsonages and Vicariges and how many Monasteries Nunneries Frieries and other religious houses it is hard to tell the number Notwithstanding there was a booke brought into Paules Churchyard in written hand to be bound vp and sent God knowes where into Spaine as it may be thought because the partie that brought it was a sideman of the Iesuits the collection wherof as it was there reported stood the party in foure hundred pounds In which booke of a huge volume in a small hand there were set downe all the religious houses that euer haue bene in this Realme what land was giuen vnto them where it yet lyeth who gaue it how long since vpon what condition and prouiso when by whom how much and wherein altered diminished or increased and in whose possession it is at this present These with other circumstances and particulars being set downe no man can iudge otherwise but it was a worke fit for that Synodicall court to haue the perusing and censuring of it And there if any where is their nūber of religious houses like these to be found All which as also nothing else belonging either to the Ecclesiasticall or Monasticall state must be any longer in the hands of Bishops Abbots or other secular or religious persons as heretofore they were accustomed and incorporated vnto their seuerall orders But all must be vnder the holy society of Iesus presently vpon the establishing of the spiritual monarchy Which done their father General or Prouinciall must call out foure Iesuits two secular Priests who must be also demy Iesuites else all were naught These sixe Vicars I pray God not of hell for of heauen they are not they smell so ranckly of Cartwrights and Bruses pure synodall ministery like sixe Dutch Peeres of whom the Prophecies talke or so many mighty Lords shall haue the lands mannors Lordships parsonages monasteries and what soeuer else belonged to Church or cloister resigned ouer into their hands allowing to the Bishops Parsons and Vicars competent stipends pensions to liue vpon according as Bishops Suffragans Montseniors haue allowance in other Catholike countries or rather as the Turkes Bassaes Ianizaries vnder him are maintained And all this sicut placuit Iesuitis as the Romanes in their leagues were wont to write or rather iuxta decretum Medorum atque Persarum à quo prouocare non licet as king Darius sayd Liuery and seisen thus taken by these sixe Tribunes or popular Nobles all the rest must be imploied in pios vsus as father Generall of Rome shall thinke good The Colledges in both Vniuersities must be likewise in the power of these mortified creatures No Bishop nor Parson nor Vicar nor fellow of any Colledge must be so hardy as once to demand an account what is become of their reuenues lands and Lordships If they do this shall be the answer mirantur superiores c. or in plaine tearmes how dare you seeme to inquire how a Iesuite disposeth of any thing being peculiarly guided by the Spirit c. The third Statute was there made concerning the Lords temporall and other of the Nobility Gentry of this land And this Statute did consist of this point especially sci That euery Noble or Gentleman of special account and liuing such as to omit others Sir Robert Cicill Sir Iohn Fortescue Sir Iames Harington Sir Robert Dormer Sir Iohn Arundell now his sonne maister Iohn Arundell called great Arundell of Cornwall Sir Iohn Peter Sir Mathew Arundell of Warder his sonne and heire Sir Henry Constable Sir Iohn Sauage with sundry other Knights and Esquires all which were there limited by that blind prophane Parliament what retinue they should keepe when time came of inhauncing how much should be allowed them to spend yearely and what diet they should keepe at their tables The fourth Statute was there made concerning the common lawes of this land and that consisted of this one principall point that all the great charter of England must be burnt the manner of holding lands in see-simple free-taile franke Almaigne c. by Kings seruice soccage or villanage brought into villanie scoggerie and popularitie and in
crow so fast ouer all Surely were I a Iesuite and vnpriested I would neuer abide one hower in their order for feare of afterclaps Well I will be no blabbe nor do wish to be the Prophet of their destruction but fiat iustitia ruant coeli they haue had their time of defaming disgracing and accusing let them giue vs ours of defending THE IIII. ARTICLE VVHether is it lawfull to set out the Iesuits in their proper colours to vse satyricall and biting words and writings against them and to detect them of all such vices as may humble them and breed in peoples hearts a true conceit of them euen as they are and none otherwise better or worse Or else fitter to conceale from the worlds eare all such things as yet are not discouered of them and only to defend in mild answers c THE ANSWERE ALL Priests and others that are not of that seditious Iesuiticall and Spanish faction are bound in charitie as now the case stands to detect them to the vttermost First for a caueat to the ignorant multitude seduced by them hereafter to beware of them Secondly per legem talionis returning their malice foule detraction defamation calumniation obloquie and what not inuented by them against the innocent vpon their own heads Thirdly for that the same legifer Who willed the patient if smitten on the one eare to offer the other did also allow it as iust and lawfull that in what sinne soeuer a man had sinned in the same he should be punished and with like measure to his brother giuen it should be remeasured to him againe Fourthly for this cause it was that our Sauiour Christ himselfe although he acknowledgeth that the Scribes and Pharisees sitting in Moses chaire were in their doctrine to be obeyed that is so long as they remained visible members of and in Gods church they ought to be obediently beleeued in all points of doctrine concerning the Catholike faith yet for their corrupt manners lewd life and hypocrisie with how many vaes and woes to you Scribes and Pharisees did he come vpon them How many hypocrites how many progenies and vipers broodes and how many Sathans and begotten of the diuell did he tearme them yea and sometimes also euen his owne beloued Apostles And haue not all the saints and seruants of God vsed the like libertie of speech when occasion was giuen and time was for it Reade Saint Paules Epistle to his Timothe to his Corinthians to his Galathians c. Reade the Ecclesiasticall histories of the words of Saint Iohn the Euangelist of Saint Policarpe of Saint Anthony of Saint Chrysostome c. yea reade but for proofe hereof sundry of Fa. Parsons letters bookes libels and pamphlets together with sundrie Satyricals of Maister Blackwels though silly man I verily thinke he wrote some things against his conscience at the instigation of those seeming top of wits willing precise Pythagorists the Iesuits In the which libels pamphlets and Satyres seeing you shall find a manifest but most vnlawfull libertie of speech to detract the innocent then à fortiori no reason but those should be discouered in way of iustice and common charitie who hold an vniust charter of another mans good name fame and life tearing it in peeces with their toungs euery houre at their pleasure as though the fee simple of all mens acts words and thoughts were in their gift to raise and let fall the price of all at their deuotion Fiftly this discouery made by the secular cleargie and Seminarie Priests of the Iesuits trecherous abuse of Synonamaes Epithetons phrases tialitie and simplicitie to be made such a dotterell as the Iesuits cannot chuse but laugh in their sleeue to thinke how they can draw wind and make him willingly to speake write or act what they please with or against himselfe without all sense honestie modestie conscience religion vnderstanding or learning Insomuch as it appeares by this that his simplicitie is so great that he stands in such awe of them and so much and wholy at the Iesuits deuotion to stand or fall that if they should send vnto him or will him to set out an edict that all crowes were white he would commaund all vnder paine of excommunication to subscribe vnto it For how is it possible otherwise that in a case so manifest as this is scil the Iesuits write directly infamous libels against both Catholicke Priests and against the whole Common-wealth of their natiue land and against all in generall of both states ecclesiasticall and temporall and the Seculars write onely Apologies in a iust defence of all these this being the case on both sides how is it possible that a halfe witted man vnlesse ouercome with partiall fauour or feare should erre so grossely and palpably in the sight of all the world as to suspend excommunicate c. or at least make it be giuen out so or winke at the brokers of it to haue it thought that the Priestes bookes may not be read and yet the Iesuits bookes may nay shall be commended vnto both men and women of purpose to be read as most excellent rare and learned matter scil for to bring their necks into the halter well if God pardon maister Blackwell this fault there is good hope he will pardon all his offences yet is it vincibilis yea and Crassa ignorantia in the highest degree of grosnesse Secondly Maister Blackwels authoritie is onely if he haue any and not lost all by abuse of it in causes ecclesiasticall concerning Religion c. and therefore let him looke to the case of premunire for his accepting of an vnheard of soueraigntie contrarie to the order prescribed by the ancient lawes of this kingdome as some do hold and for his intermedling in allowance of the Iesuits libels and statizations and not threaten the seculars in that wherein he hath nothing to do Thirdly if his authoritie extended as it is pretended to inhibite and forbid all kind of bookes but such as he should approue allow and licence yet in all reason it hath this limitation viz where he himselfe is not a partie or if not so yet in an action of life and death of soule bodie honor or good name he cannot forbid any whosoeuer to write or speake in defence of anie the said liues and to cleare himselfe if he can neither can he yet forbid or forwarne any one to reade or heare any thing that may saue the life of the innocent And therefore the most inhumane vnchristian vncatholicke vniust and vncharitable part that euer was heard of to stop or seem to stop the Priests Apologies written in defence of their good names taken away by the Iesuits an act so cruell vnnaturall and contrarie to all lawes diuine or humane as the Popes Holinesse cannot dispense with any one to fulfill it no more then to dispense with any one to kill himselfe either bodily or ghostly as the not writing of these Apologies or the like were at least the
vt in quo quis peccauit in eodem punietur Now then that this neuer practised nor ordinarily heard of the like crueltie amongst heathen and infidels should be in vse amongst the Christians nay amongst Catholickes nay amongst Priestes nay amongst religious persons and that against their own deare brethren countrimen and friends that suffer for the same cause which they pretend to suffer for that this should be maintained as lawfull by any Iesuit who takes vpon him to be an illuminate an inculpable guider of soules a man come to the highest step of the scale or ladder of perfection that all laws shold bind men to giue of their owne proper goods and treasures for reliefe of captiues and the poore and needie and that these men notwithstanding should withhold not their own which were more tollerable but other deuout and charitable persons both men and womens deuotions and beneuolence and that not from ordinarie captiues or other poore afflicted for Christ his sake but for such as are not without cause of iealousie had of thē all for the Iesuits cursed conspiracies treacherous attempts persecuted imprisoned put to death The very Canibals and Anthropophagies shall rise vp at the last day and condemne this barbarous and sauage generation of Belials brood for this crime And whereas the grace of God deriued to his Church by the sacred priesthood ought to be bestowed gratis as is said Gratis accepistis gratis date the Iesuits haue deuised a false kind of exercise whereby to fleece charitable people and so inrich themselues therin imitating Simon Magus in selling Gods blessings nay in that their precise course is farre more execrable then his was For Simon Magus dealt plainly though villanously and most blasphemously in offering to buy the holy Ghost and gifts of God for money But these ô what shall I terme them deale cousiningly in making people beleeue that the exercises or other graces which they bestow in Gods behalfe are more precious and singular in themselues then if giuen by anie other either secular or religious Priest that is not Iesuited The persecutiō of the Iesuites is so extreme in depriuing of prisoners yea and all others abroade so much as they can possibly of all reliefe that vnlesse her Maiestie and honorable Councell either clearly dismisse her tried most loyall subiects with a gracious conniuence at their secret vse of their function no way seeking to offend any one or else extend her magnificall beneficence in maintaining them as condemned to her Highnes prisons they are not possibly long to continue hold out or liue and so draw them on by litle and little to make it seeme a matter in conscience to giue anie thing from them nay not to giue all a man or woman hath or can possibly make for them in recompence of these so great and extraordinary giftes graces bestowed vpon them As though the least gift of God or drop of grace giuen in and by any sacrament ministred by any though the meanest priest be able to be counteruailed with all the wealth in the world which foule abuse is nothing else but a meere mentall Simonie vsurie sacriledge and most impious hypocrisie That this shamefull theft should not onely passe vnpunished in measure according to the qualitie condition and state of the person who taking vpon him a religious profession it aggrauates at least if it do not alter and change the sinne to be more hainous in him then in any other by many degrees of impiety But withal that the people should be set on to auow it as most iust conuenient to be so scil that no reliefe should be sent to anie opposite to a cursed pharisaicall Iesuites designements yea and that the Iesuits themselues should glory in it make their vaunt of it scil that they wil make all the secular priests leape at a crust ere it be long for so said that good holy father Iohn Gerrard of late to the Ladie Markham in Notingham shire who told it shortly after to Master Atkinson c. and that they will driue the Seculars perforce to yeeld vnto them for meere pouerty want The pillages of the Iesuits both in England and Scotland being so much the more odious by how much as spirituall robberies yea and that committed by religious seeming persons passe al temporall pilferings there are three in chiefe which are generally to be noted First a report of faculties gotten to abstract from what parsonage or vicarige they list all spiritualities for preuenting forsooth of symony thereby to make them meerely temporal and saleable and then being sold at the highest rates vpon pretence of deuiding the mony betwixt S. Peter and poore prisoners one good father or other comes with Dominus opus habet and makes alwaies the best part of it their owne cleare gaines Secondly alike to this is their order set downe for restitution as verbi gratia an vsurer or extraordinary gaine-maker by buying or selling or by anticipation or dilation of payment or a Lawyer taking more of Clients then his ordinary fees or a procurer of any euill cause also a landlord Sherife or other officer or persō whosoeuer that gets any thing falsly or indirectly for which a restitutiō as indeed there ought must be made because the parties often know not how much nor to whom to make it therefore must they compound forsooth with the fathers giuing certa pro incertis to Saint Peter and the prisoners but the fathers swallow vp all or the most of it yearly amounting to a mighty sum of mony some one man hauing giuen 500. pounds to that end Thirdly but amongst al their deuises to enrich increase their order their forme of meditatiō called by thē an holy exercise is worthy the noting for all others to beware of them that haue not felt the smart of it already and this practise is for such as are either for their pregnancie of wit learning or their parentage friends or their wealth possessions fit for the Iesuits purpose cannot otherwise but by the taking of this holy exercise be allured to their society this then is such a barbarous cruelty as I want words to expresse the abhominatiō of the sin Maister Tempest was so canuased amongst them that hauing his faculties taken from him and being thrust out a doores of his owne friends his father in law hiding his face whē he came in place where he was his owne sister not daring to owne nor acknowledge him nor to send him any reliefe and in few his ghostly father denying him to come at the Sacraments at length being thus cruelly dealt withall he was forced to yeeld to whatsoeuer they would vrge him vnto notwithstanding that as himselfe hath since confessed and told some of his friends he neuer to death could or should like of them in his hart knowing their tyranny and extreame cruelty to passe all measure against whomsoeuer they powred out their
Maister Thomas Wiseman and by giuing him the exercise he got his land and sent him to Antwerpe where he died He also gaue the exercise to the eldest sonne of Maister Walter Hastings And he hath drawne Maister William Wiseman into the said exercise so oft as he hath left him now very bare to liue He hath so wrought with Maister Nicholas King lately of Grayes Inne as he hath gotten most of his liuing and sent him to Rome Maister Roger Lee of Buckingham shire hath bene in this exercise likewise and is also by him sent to Rome In like manner he dealeth with such Gentlewomen as he thinketh fit for his turne and draweth them to his exercise as the Ladie Louell Mistresse Haywood and Mistresse Wiseman now prisoner of whom he got so much as now shee feeleth the want of it By drawing Mistresse Fortescue the widow of Maister Edmond Fortescue into his exercise Maister Garnet had the dealing with the Tremain◠and not maister Gerrard he got of her a farme worth 50. pounds a yere and paid her no rent Another drift he hath by his exercise of cousinage which is to perswade such Gentlewomen as haue large portions to their mariage to giue the same to him and his companie and to become Nuns So he preuailed with two of M. William Wisemans daughters of Broddocke with Elizabeth Sherly borne in Leicestershire with Dorothy Ruckwood M. Richard Ruckwoods daughter of Suffolke who had a great portiō giuen vnto her by the Lady Elizabeth Drurie her Grandmother with Mistresse Mary Tremaine Maister Tremaines daughter of Cornwall she hauing a large portion with Mistresse Mary Tremaine of Dorcetshire of whō he had aboue 200. pounds with Mistresse Anne Arundell of whom he got a great portiō with the Lady Mary Percie who is now a Nun at Bruxels Thus you see by these deuises how mightily the Iesuites haue increased their riches and enriched their coffers expecting a time no doubt when to draw foorth their treasure to their most aduantage and will offer largely when they thinke to get some principall man on their side or otherwise to worke his ouerthrow as was manifest by their sundrie practises against the Lord Dacre to whom a Priest set on as was supposed by Father Holt the Iesuit after all their many grosse abuses offered vnto his Lordship which with honour he can neuer put vp at their hands made offer of a large annuall summe of money so as he would be ruled you must imagine by a Iesuit in profession or faction But this is enough for this time of their practises by Fame and Report THE ARGVMENT OF THE fourth Generall Quodlibet FOrasmuch as it doth seeme by the last Quodlibet of Fame and Report that the Iesuits direct all their intents indeuors and studies to the aduancement of their societie they care not which way by hooke or by crooke and by consequent that they make religion in generall and therein their holy exercise in speciall but a meere Machiuilean deuice of pollicie onely to make strong themselues in their busie preparations for a spirituall Monarchie therefore shall the next Quodlibet be of plots by Atheisme to examine throughly how farre wit conscience honestie and religion may runne together and not be discredited by one the other in their worldly politicall affaires THE FOVRTH QVODLIBET of Plots by Atheisme THE I. ARTICLE WHether politia be a vertue or a vice and whether lawfull or vnlawfull to be vsed THE ANSWERE POlitia is like to a nose of waxe which may be turned what way soeuer a man listeth and is plyable at all times as fit to receiue all impressions fresh and faire or foule and filthie But to speake properly of it agreeing to the Etymologie of the word it is alwaies a vertue a speciall head prime or maister braunch of prudence And yet againe take it agreeing to the cōmon acceptance in speech vse and practise of it now adaies and it is a vice And so by consequent pollicie is lawfull or vnlawfull good or bad a vertue or a vice according to the intention of the subiect wherein it is inherēt and the matter occasion and other circumstances which do concurre or may occurre and are or may be in hand THE II. ARTICLE VVHether Maister Nicholas Machiauell or Father Robert Parsons excelled one the other in pollicie or whether any be in England this day to be preferred before either of them or any other Iesuit whosoeuer THE ANSWERE IF any will beleeue Father Parsons or other Iesuit there neither is neither was there euer any borne in this land that could equall that prudent Polipragmon or else can be able in any respect to be compared with him nay nor with the veriest dunce that peepes out of his Nouitiate in a Iesuites schoole In so much as in their deepe Iesuiticall court of Parliament begun at Styx in Phlegeton and suggested thence into Fa. Parsons sconce was ended and compiled into a full complete volume by him and his Generall intituled The high court of reformation for England There was therein sundrie acts enacted to this intent and purpose whereof we speake which were to take place be in force when the Catholike conqueror of Spaine or Austria should be inuested with the scepter royall of our noble Elizaes and sit enthronized in her princely seate as sole Monarch of all the Albions or great Britaines Isl s. And to giue you a tast of their intent by that base court of a tribe of traitors sawcily like to Cade Iacke Straw and Tom Tiler vsurping the authoritie of both states Ecclesiasticall and temporall in their rebellious enterprises these were principall points discussed set down and so decreed vpon by them Note here these Anabaptisticall heretickes how boldly they dare censure of all others and auouch themselues predestinates First that no religious order should resort into this land or be permitted to liue within the Britaines Ocean saue onely Iesuits and Capouchines And their reason was as alwaies a reason must be giuen for a prouiso whē it seemes extraordinarie contrarie to a statute law or former act enacted because the holy Ghost hath forsaken all the rest of religious orders and is onely in the Capouchines and Iesuites But if you would know further how this good fortune falleth so out to the Capouchines to be exempted from this generall irregularitie and to be consorted with these predestinates the reason is for that as a good Capouchine once answered to the like question they sute best with the Iesuits humour by an Antipathie not of nature but of nurture which consists in this that the Iesuits drift is to rule and will haue all and their profession is to haue nothing nor to rule at all in anything And now although these Iesuits professe voluntarie pouertie and to renounce the world with all that belongs thereto as all other religious orders do yet because they are homines secundum cor meum so throughly mortified in the world
sadnes command me now to a sorrowfull silence and so concluding this long article that whatsoeuer the end of our countries calamities happen to be for subiection captiuitie bondage desolation or the like yet if Parsons say and affirme that they who were the originall cause and occasion of our heauie and iust downefall be sure to beare the greatest burden and to abide the sorest triall if he haue been that infortunate Saians iade vpon whom whosoeuer hath sitten haue come to a sorrowful and wretched end as all his tampering platformes with this and that noble haue declared if he haue hitherto euer ioyned most with those whom himselfe hath euer iudged most infortunate and iustly to haue merited these plagues which he threateneth on Gods behalfe to fall vpon them and their posteritie Then what mad man or woman is he or she that to second his owne sorrowes will consort him or her selfe with the Iesuiticall faction to side with those of whom their Polypragmon hath prophecied the destruction Therefore happy say I is he or she that setting all priuate respects aside for their owne gaine seeke the conuersion of their countrie as the seculars doe For that although there neither is neither can there be any assurance of either side to wit whether euer our countrie shall be againe conuerted all wholy to the catholike faith or no either by secular or Iesuit or any other yet more hope questionles there is of conuersion of it by the seculars then by the Iesuits course bicause the seculars is more apostolicall and directly tending to the preseruation of all c. THE X. ARTICLE VVHether any certaintie or possibilitie of conuersion of any of the Lords of her Maiesties honorable Counsell or other magistrates or officers in speciall authoritie vnder her highnes whom the seculars deale withall and if none then whether they may trust them in other matters and proceedings as D. Bagshaw M. Bluett and others doe or no without offence scandall or other danger either to themselues or their friends THE ANSWERE THis question is sufficiently debated before to wit That although all or any one appointed by her Maiestie to deale in these affaires meant fraudulently and with intent to intrap the seculars one way or other to worke their greater discredite disgrace and vtter ouerthrowe thereby which yet were very ingrateful vnciuill and inhumane for any so to iudge and censure without cause for as it is said it is sinne to lie of the diuell and sure this calumniation and slaunder raised of these men for their intercourse with those in authoritie vnder her Maiestie declares a most malitious Iesuiticall spirite there being no question to be made of it to the contrary bicause former examples of other Iesuites haue proued it true and led the seculars first the daunce in seeking of fauours at ciuill magistrates or others hands but that if either Master Blackwel or Father Garnet or any Iesuite of them all that deale now in hucker mucker and therefore more daungerously and pernitiously as I said before might haue free accesse and either were as cleere in their owne conscience as these seculars are or else might haue imputatiue iustice by conuiuence from her Maiestie on their side to obtaine so much fauour by as these haue obtained there is not the purest of them but would come with his hat in his hand to the Bishop of London or to any other in authority for to be shrowded vnder them and so by consequent to ingrate thus iniuriously both vpon her Maiesties officers the secular priests as the Iesuites doe bicause they haue not the like fauour deserues the challenge to a combat if they were other men then they are yet howsoeuer although as I said there were euill intended seeing notwithstanding that there is no way possible to worke any euill to the seculars or their friends thereby vnlesse they count it euill for a man condemned to the gallowes to be deliuered and set free and his life graunted him or for him that is condemned in a premunire or otherwise to perpetuall prison to be deliuered thence or for him that is in daunger to be searched and ransackt euery hower to haue a breathing fit of safetie and securitie to sleepe one weeke or fortnight a sounder sleepe then he had slept in twenty yeeres before or for him that hath by statute lawes forfeited his life lands goods and all he is worth to haue some mitigation and find an ease not onely in pardon of his life but also in releasement of the confiscation of his goods and sauing of his lands c. And if any litle ease to languishing harts be comfortable if lawfull it be for any redimere iniustam vexationem if all men be bound to cleere themselues and to liue without exasperating of any nor giuing offence no not to Infidels if for these and the like causes sundry secular priests haue vpon sufficient approbation and triall had of their innocency found extraordinary fauour and others also by their meanes And if a Sebastian could court it out with his Lord and Emperor and yet keepe a religious hart to God ward helpe and saue many a mans life that otherwise had died if a Daniell could obtaine so speciall fauour at a kings hands as not onely to be deliuered out of prison yea and from out of the lyons den but also to be made liefetenant generall princeps exercitus and Emperor of the field euen amiddest those amongst whome he and all his countrimen liued captiue If both a Peter and a Iohn could be like deerely accounted of to their Lord master Christ and yet euen he who was rather of the two yea or most of all the rest in greatest danger bicause by his royall blood and alliance to the king his maker and his master a iust cause of ielousie was to be had of him but notwithstanding this we finde that Saint Iohn found friendship when and where Saint Peter could not at the high priestes hands and amongst other inferior officers and yet none euer spake against it or thought the woorse of him for it Yea if S. Peter although he had better haue vsed his friend in another matter but that it was oracled so to be vsed Saint Iohns helpe to come in amongst the thickest of his masters enimies Then say I it is the most enuious malitious and pharisaicall part that these prowd disdainfull sycophants could possibly play and doth as much discouer their vile and base mindes as any one thing could possibly doe to maligne slaunder and backbite men of better deserts then themselues But the diuell is euer enuious An enuious man is alwaies murmuring grudging and repining at an others good fortunes and to heare of a Iesuitical fellow to giue a good word of any that is not Iesuited in faction or affection he sure by my consent shall be a king cipher to command the nine figures in algorisme with o rare amongst the rarest illuminates So then to