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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A08075	Newes from the low-countreyes. Or The anatomy of Caluinisticall calumnyes, manifested in a dialogue betweene a Brabander, and a Hollander Vpon occasion of a placcart, lately published in Holla[n]d, against the Iesuites, priests, friars &c. by those that there assume vnto themselues, the tytle of the high-mighty-lords, the States &c. Translated out of the Netherland language, into English. By D.N.; Anatomie van Calviniste calumnien. English.	Verstegan, Richard, ca. 1550-1640.; D. N., fl. 1622.; Cresswell, Joseph, 1556-1623, attributed name.	1622 (1622)	STC 18443; ESTC S120471	29,088	102

going frō the bridge ouer the riuer of Mayne from the Citty of Herbipolis or Wirtzburge to the Castle where he held his Court or Residence which Castle is neere vnto the sayd Citty His murther was caused by a Gentleman of the same Countrey of Franconia called Grumbagh What kynd of Iesuit this Gentleman was resteth in consideration for Catholike he was not but a professor of the new pretended reformation and so were also the actours which he imployed in committing of the murther The second in this vnfortunate nūber was Henry King of Scotland by his mariage with Mary Queen of Scotland Father to his Maiesty King Iames now King of England Scotlād c. This Prince was a Catholike and was murthered by a conspiracy of Caluinists and by Caluinists which thereunto were imployed he is thought to haue byn strangled These then must needes haue bin Caluinisticall Iesuites aswell those I meane that were of the conspiracy as the executors of the fact for there was not one Catholike among them The third was Iames Earle of Murray in Scotland bastard Brother vnto Mary Queene of Scotland before named He was a rebell and a persecutour of the Queene his Soueraygne and Sister by the Fathers side He forced her to fly into England and Tyrannically vsurped the Gouernment of her Kingdome vntill the time that a Gentleman named Hamilton slew him with a gun in the towne of Lithquo when being on horsbacke he was accōpanyed with many Gentleman that came with him to make his entry into that towne Hamilton notwithstanding escaped and fled into France The Earle was in religion Caluinist and so was Hamilton also that slew him It may be that he afterward in France became a Catholike If the Holland Caluinists wil make a Iesuyte of him then must he haue byn a Caluinisticall Iesuite when he committed the fact for Catholike-Iesuite he neuer was The fourth in this number was Francis Duke of Guyse This valiant Prince seruing the King of France agaynst his rebells was by one Iohn Poltrot who came behind him shot throgh the body with a pistoll as he was on horsebacke in his iourney it is worthy the noting that this Poltrot being well horst and hauing discharged his pistoll vpon the Duke put spurres to his horse and made a way with all speed possible and hauing ridden the whole night and not otherwise weening but that he was many myles from the place where he committed the murther was in the morning apprehended neere vnto the place where the deed was done If this Poltrot must now be made a Iesuyte he must then be a Geneuian Iesuyte for Geneua was his schoole and Beza the Caluinian Rabbin his schoolmayster that instructed him to murther this Prince The fifth in this nūber was William of Nassaw Prince of Orange who being in open rebellion agaynst his lawfull Soueraygne Lord King Philip second of Spayne the which by all the lawes of the world is Crimen laesae maiestatis was at Delfe in Holland slayne with a pistoll by one Baltazar Gerard alias Seragh a Burgundian Of what religion this Prince was there is no certainty but Baltazar that slew him was a Catholike that he was a Iesuyte was neuer knowne but if Caluinistes haue gotten the skill to make him a Iesuyte eight and thirty yeares after his death who in his life was neuer any it may be registred for a Caluinisticall miracle The sixt in nūber was Mary Queene of Scotland Mother vnto his Maiesty that now is King of Scotland and Englād c. This Princesse being an absolute and soueraygne Queene being enforced by her rebellious subiects fled into England vpon hope and promise to be by Queene Elizabeth succoured She was with the Queene of England in good peace and amity and was by her through her letters inuyted for her more defence and safety to come into England but so soone as she was there arriued she was layed handes on and detayned as a prisoner directly against all right and reason and so detayned about the space of twenty yeares In all which tyme Queene Elizabeth did neuer so much as once vouchsafe to see her or heare her speake In the end when she accepted of the meanes that was offered her for the escaping out of her vniust imprisonment she was murthered with an axe by the hands of the comon Hang-man which most foule and great murther was cōmitted to the euerlasting dishonour shame of false Iustice because it was done vnder the cloke and colour of true Iustice for she being an absolute Soueraigne Princes of herselfe was no subiect vnto Queene Elizabeth or vnto her lawes and yet notwithstanding she was condemned as a criminall subiect A most Tyrannous example of very murther and iniustice vnto all ensuyng posterity And most contrary to the doctrine of Caluinists that will haue Princes subiect to no authority or power vpon earth but only vnto God vnlesse they can heere make a God of Bul the Hangman This act doth the more remain to the greater shame of the actors because vpon the committing therof great bonfyers were made in the streets and the belles rung in manner of a triumph for ioy of obtaining some great victory This Queene was a Catholike The Hangman that murthered her was a Caluinian Protestant whose handes had byn imbrued in the bloud of diuers Iesuytes Priestes in the raigne of the forsayd Queene Elizabeth If Holland Caluinistes will now make a Iesuyte of of him he must then be a Gewse-reformed Iesuite that can be no great disreputation vnto them seeing that Mayster Paul Bafous a hangman in Liuonia or Liftland left his office of hangmanship and turned preacher of the Word according to the Holland reformation Vpō the death of this holy Queen the Calumnies of Caluinists raised against Iesuytes are contradicted in the ensuing Epigramme OVR Caluinists of Iesuites complayne That they of Kings and Princes killers be But if heerin they did not falsely fayne They must some such the world let know and see But since so much as one they do not show To what end then serues this Calumniation To seeme to hate for sooth Prince-killing so As hauing thereof no imagination And that meane whyle they heerof others taxe They as vnseene may bring them to the axe The seauenth in this number is Henry the third King of France who after he had caused Henry Duke of Guyse his brother the Cardinall to be muthered was murthered himselfe by one Iacques Clement a lacobin or Dominican Friar This King was a Catholyke so was also the Fryar that killed him If our Holland-Gewses wil now make a Iesuyte of him that dyed in the habite of a Dominican Fryar for he was presently killed by those that then were about the King they can do more then the French Hugenots who would as fayne haue had him a Iesuite as the Holland-Gewses would but they must notwithstanding be contented to let him be a Dominican