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A09610	An aduertisement written to a secretarie of my L. Treasurers of Ingland, by an Inglishe intelligencer as he passed throughe Germanie towardes Italie Concerninge an other booke newly written in Latin, and published in diuerse languages and countreyes, against her Maiesties late proclamation, for searche and apprehension of seminary priestes, and their receauers, also of a letter vvritten by the L. Treasurer in defence of his gentrie, and nobility, intercepted, published, and answered by the papistes.; Elizabethae, Angliae Reginae, haeresim Calvinianam propugnantis saevissimum in Catholicos sui Regnis edictum. English. Abridgments	Parsons, Robert, 1546-1610.; Cresswell, Joseph, 1556-1623, attributed name.; Verstegan, Richard, ca. 1550-1640, attributed name.	1592 (1592)	STC 19885; ESTC S121696	41,247	68

writ preached that no woman oughte to reigne with a comparison of the Catholique cōtrary doctrine and doctors in this behalf and of theire modestie constancy and certayne rule of conscience far different frō heretiques in these affaires And finally he cōcludeth this head with a large proof and declaration that by no law of Christian conscience nor by any reasonable consequence or illation can this coming in of priests in so peaceable and apostolicall sorte as they do come be accompted treason and that the Turke More or Persian doeth not make this consequence against the lewesior Christians that liue vnder them that of all other infelicities this is the greatest that her Maiestie shoulde be brought to accompte such men so borne and so brought vp so learned wise vertuous and modest and so determined to dy in Gods and her Maiesties seruice yf she would accepte it to be her mortal enemies and of this he saith much The third head of this Section THE third head of this Section is about these wordes in the tytle of the proclamation with a prouision very necessary for remedie thereof c. Shewing that this prouision sett downe by my L. Treasurers witt in this proclamation is moste insufficient for the remedie pretented but rather to make the sore farr worses for seing it is the very same prouision and no other then Antiochus Herod Nero Decius Diocletian and other tyrantes and persecutours inuented against gods seruants in olde tymes to wit founded onely vpon crueltie tyrannie and false surmysed crimes it can haue no other ende or effecte then theirs had which was the destructiō of the deuisers and happines of the sufferers That the old persecutours edicts against Christians though they pretended treasons as this doeth yet were they more moderate and discreet in willing onely such to be punished as were accused or knowen publiquely to offend not to turne vpsid-downe their estates Kingdomes with such searching and reuoluing both of towne citie countrie as this proclamatiō prescribeth leauing neither village howse nor cōmō Inne vntossed which to all the world must needes seeme extreame barbarous and to the very protestants themselues at home intolerable who must needs also be sought examined as well as others excepte they alwayes cary their pasportes with them in their pocketts ride vp downe Ingland as they would passe thorough Turky Of the miserable endes of all common wealthes and gouernours that haue growen to these extremities in gouernment and that it is impossible for Ingland and her Maiestie to auoide the same yf this violente course be vsed to driue men to desperation That all the solicitude vsed to extinguish Catholique Religion by persecution is meere follie and that all is very poison to the vvounde which my L. Treasurer vseth for medicine that a little time vvil proue this to be true with an exhortation to her Maiestie to take some other course both for sauing the Realme and those that stand at the gouernmente thereof The second Section THIS second section awnswereth the firste parte of the preface to the proclamatiō vvherin her Maiestie complaineth of the King of Spaines proceeding towardes her other Princes namely towardes Nauarr named King of France it is reduced to three principal partes or branches according to the matters therein conteyned For firste her Maiestie is made by M. Cecil to complaine that the King of Spaine for the space now almoste of 33. years had alwayes sought to moleste trouble her dominiōs without any iuste cause on her parte giuē c. To this before this awnswerer commeth to say any thing in perticuler he maketh a large cōplainte against my L. Treasurer and such other like politiques men of no conscience or religion as he imagineth them vvho from the beginning of this Queenes raigne to make matters of the Catholique faith more odious punish able haue sought to entangle them euer vvith matter of estate and vvith forged cōspiracies vvith forraine Princes as Gensericus and Hunricus Arian Kings did vvith the Catholiques of Africa vnder pretēce they dealte vvith the Pope of Rome and so he saith that our gouernours of Ingland haue not pursued matters of Religion as points of Religion in this Queenes gouernemente according as the Catholique Church doth vse to doe vvith heresies but rather haue chosen to punish them as forged matters of estate vvhich this awnswerer sheweth to be true by diuerse former proclamations sett forth against the Seminaries of Doway Rheims and Rome in vvhich diuerse feigned conspiracies were put to be cōtriued by the studēts vvith the Pope the Duke of Florence other Princes all vvhich tyme had proued to be as vaine and false as he saith this is of their cōspiracie now vvith the King of Spaine After this he commeth to avvnsvvere M. Cecils cōplainte as he calleth it against the King of Spaine for his proceedings against her Maiestie and for more equall triall as he saith he layeth downe eche Prince his doings tovvardes the other for the space of more then thirtie years firste for the King of Spaine he declareth hovv that cōming into Inglād the yeare 1554. by the cōsent inuitatiō of the realme to marry Queene Mary he foūde lady Elizabeth after she had bin some space prisoner in the tovver for Sir Thomas vviates rebellion cōmitted novv to vvoodstoke vnder the custodie of Sir Henry Benengfild in extreame great daunger of her life for that both Queene Mary the Inglish Councell vpon euidente confessions of Sir Thomas VViat himself and others of that conspiracie vvere resolued to haue caused her to be araigned and executed How the King deliuered her Maiestie out of this dāger of her life and of two the like afterwards to wit vpon the conspiracies detected of Sir Antonie Kingston Vdal and his cōpagnions and of Thomas Stafford that tooke Scarbrough and was beheaded at London in all which her Maiestie was againe touched and had bin executed but for the special fauour of the King and his Spanis he Councell Of many other fauours of the King to her Maiestie whiles he was in Ingland and after how he gaue her freely al Queene Maryes lewells and other riches that she had of his how the to wne of Calis being loste and betraied by cōspiracie of Inglishe heretiques that were within it and specially of the Lord wentwoorth without any faulte in the world of the Kinge yet that after his great victorie had against the French at S. Quintins he would admitt no peace at all with them but with restoring of Calis vntill the Inglish themselues without him had made their peace with them and renounced Calis vnto the French for euer Of the Kings proceedings towardes her Maiestie after he retorned into Spaine and how constantly he euer mayntained his league with her for thirtie yeares together notwithstanding the manifold iniuries that on the other side he receaued of the Inglishe diuers wayes

saide she I know not vvhome it shoulde meane excepte it were M. Cecil who being out of credit at this present and neuer like to come in againe I hope shall neuer be able to bring that to passe This doe reporte such as haue hard it of the Countesse owne mouth and perhaps her sonne may yet remember it though he vvil not dare to speake it neither remembred M. Cecil at that tyme to vvrite himself Sitsilt to euacuate that prophecie as he mighte haue done had he knowen himself then to haue descended of that howse which now he pretendeth Moreouer this awnswerer asketh how yf it be trevv that Dauid Cecil my lordes grandfather descended of the nobles Princes of wales was so greatly in creditt with K. Henry the 7. as to be squyer for the body as well to him as to his sonne K. Henry the eighte hovv then is it lykely that he would keepe an Inne in Stāford as diuers vvorshipfull yet aliue or lately dead haue affirmed to haue layen in the same also how it is possible that his sonne the Treasures father named also Dauid Cecil if I forget not should be onely groome of the vvardrobe so plaine and meane a man as thousandes yet can testifie that he was how finally VVilliam Cecil their child now Treasurer could be so poore and meanely brought vp as to get parte of his mayntenance by ringing the morning bel at his beginning in S. Ihons colledge in Cambridge as commonly yet in that vniuersitie is reported And lastly this awnswerer taketh this for an euidente argumente of M. Cecills cogging and coseninge in this behalf that for diuers yeares he tooke himself farr different armes frō these vvhich of late he hath taken vp of the Sitsiltes for his former armes yf I be not deceaued vvere twoo Lyons eating of a wheaten sheafe betwene them as it is to be seene in diuers of his howses vvhere they are yet engrauen aftervvard seing the Armes of the Sitsiltes an auncient howse greatly decayed yf not extinguished to be six Lyons he hath taken them also to himself as it is here reported to terrifie the vvorld perhaps vvithal and to liken himself thereby to Princes that commonly haue Lyons in their armes where as a good fatt capon or a rosted pigg seemeth a fitter cognisaunce for an Inneholders grandchild as this man affirmeth seing that those things are more commonly to be founde in Innes and Osteries then are Lyons and thus much in effecte he avvnsvvereth to the contents of my L. Treasurers letter touching his gentry which this defender taketh either vvholy to be feigned or moste vainely to be delated by the old mans ambition After this he commeth to avvnsvvere those wordes of the proclamation vvherin is is saide that my Lord Cardinall and father Parsons do gather together with greate labours a multitude of dissolute yonge men who haue partly for lack of liuing and partly for crimes committed become fugitiues rebelles and traitours for whome there are in Rome and Spaine and other places certaine receptacles made to liue in there to be instructed in schoole points of sedition c. All vvhich vvordes this avvnsvverer examineth and firste vvhat difference there is in holy vvryt betvvene dispersers and gatherers and vvhat curse there is laide vpon the one blessing vpon the other by Gods ovvne mouth and that seing M. Cecill and other persecutours at the instigation of the devil do so attend to disperse their countreymen good reason some others should serue God in gatheringe and nourishing the dispersed for his cause Secondly he sheweth that these two men haue no need to vse greate labours in gathering together these youthes as the proclamation feigneth for that God himself gathereth them aboundantely from al partes of the Realme and the euidente truth of the Catholique faith stireth them to seeke meanes abreode for the saluation of their soules seing they can not be permitted to haue them at home and whereas many were letted before from comming out of Ingland for that they knew not where to goe to be receaued mayntayned and instructed now being informed thereof by this indiscrete proclamation of M. Cecils penning which admonis heth all men that besydes the former colledges and Seminaries in France and Rome there are other also newly erected in Spaine many haue resolued to come ouer which otherwise had stayed in Ingland so them selues at theire comming haue professed and the King of Spayne among other Princes hauing seene so barbarous an edicte and considered the conscienceles causes of their distresses hath greatly enlarged his fauours towardes the saide Inglishe Seminaries in his dominions both by his personall visiting of that in validolid and larger allowance tovvardes the mayntenance of the same and thus doeth M. Cecil profit by his new diuises Thirdly he sheweth that these students come not out of Ingland neither for lacke of liuing nor for crimes committed as the proclamation moste vnjustly doth slaunder them Not for the firste for that they being commonly gentlemen or vvealthie peoples children and as good witts as any lefte behynd them they might casely haue preserrmente yf they vvould apply themselues to the protestant proceedings and here he sheweth at large the great multitude of gentlemens sonnes vvhich leauing their inheritances and other hopes of vvorldly possibilities at home do come ouer dayly to study and be made priests vvith infinite desire to returne againe quickly to Ingland vvhere priesthoode is more hated infamed and pursued then any cryme or vvickednes in the vvorld and that no such desire vvas seene in gentry and nobilitie to priesthood in Catholique tyme vvhen is vvas honorable and commodious to be a prieste vvhich muste needes procede of Gods owne hande and that there are more gentlemen this day in the Inglishe Seminaries of France Rome Spaine then in all the Clergy of Ingland tvvise told to vvhich no gentleman commonly will affoord his sonne to be a Minister and much lesse his daughter to be a Ministers vvyf vvith diuers examples of the basenes of their chiefe Prelates as among others of Pierse Cooper Archbisshop Bisshop of yorke and winchester both borne at Oxford as this felow saith the one the sonne of a labourer and the other of a cobler and diuers others like vnto them vvhich yet M. Cecil toucheth not with basenes nor that they went to their ministerie for neede And that these students come not ouer for crymes committed he saith is much more plaine by the desire the Magistrates of Ingland haue to receaue them backe againe with all grace and fauor yf they vvould returne and he noteth for a very markable thing that in these twentie yeares vvherein aboue a hundred of the Seminaries haue bin put to death publiquely and vvillingly for their religion and many hundreds haue liued in Ingland in common attire of other men the more thereby to dissemble their calling neuer yet any one of them in so many

How he for conseruing the saide league and frendship refused to gyue aide to the aunciēte nobilitie of Ingland the yeare 1567. when they ment by force to haue reformed the estate and to haue hanged Cecil and Bacon againe how he denyed the same the nexte yeare after to the Earles of Northumberland VVestmerland and to the L. Dacres when they rose for the restoring of Religion in the North pressed ther vnto by M. Cecils vrginge How the K. afterwaerds to wit the yeare 1575. For contenting her Maiestie and at the persuasion of some of his owne officers but namely of the Commendader Maior that for the present gouerned Flanders was content to yeld to the banishement of all Inglishe Catholiques out of his estates of Flanders for the space of two years thoughe he paide them alwayes their pensions to liue on as before And for the same consideracion of frendship with the Queene and for his keeping his league with her he denyed diuers yeares helpes to the Irishe that demaunded the same as namely the yeare 1578. to Sir Iames Fizmoris and to Sir Thomas Stukeley and to the later of them when afterward he came with some fiue or six hundred men that he had broughte from Italie the King would not graunte so much as a porte in Spaine to enter into whereby he was forced to passe to Lisbone where finding the King of Portugall ready to go with his army to Barbary he could not refuse to go with him where he was slaine but to Sir Iames Fizmoris returning againe the nexte yeare to aske succours for the Irishe oppressed for their Religion in Ireland the Kinge denyed the same againe vntill at laste at the earnest sute of the Pope for that D. Sanders vpon his extreame zeale had aduentured to go thither before to comforte the Catholiques with lesse then fiftie men his Maiestie was contente to wynke at and say nothing whiles Sega the Bishop of Placētia the Popes Nuncio vnder certaine of his Italian Captaynes did send thither some foure or fiue hundred souldiers taken vp vpon the Sea coste of Italie which this awnswerer saith were those which my L. Gray so cowardly and traiterously murdered in Irland after they had yeilded themselues by cōposition the yeare 1580. And so from this time forward vntill the yeare 1585. he sheweth that the King of Spayne obserued most exactely his league with her Maiestie and the Inglishe nation at what tyme being inforced by the Queenes open taking of Flushing Briel Ostēde other townes in Flanders he made the arreste of the Inglishe shippes in Spaine but on the other side he declareth how the Inglish euen from the firste entrance ofher Maiestie to the crowne haue exercised all kinde ofhatefull hostile actions against the King by stirring vp and fauoring firste of all his rebelles in Flanders by intercepting his money firste in the Duke of Alua his time and alwayes after when they coulde lay handes on it by treating also first the comming of the Duke Matthias into Flanders and after ofMounsieur the Duke of Alenson and assisting him publiquely against the King in time of peace by mayntayninge and bolstering vp ofDon Antonio that calleth himself King ofPortugall by sending Hawkins Frobishire Drake Candishe other Pirates to the Indians and some ofthem euen in to Spaine it self for which he alleageth out ofStowes chronicles speciall commission geuen by her Maiestie to spoile the King of Spaines subiects by sea long before any breach ofleague was talked of by the Kinges parte and so he concludeth that this firste accusation of the proclamation is moste iniuste and that the whole world will laugh thereat that the writer thereof which he taketh to be my L. Treasurer was very shamelesse in setting it downe The 2. parte of this section THE secōde poynte of this Section cōcerneth that which the proclamation affirmeth of the King of Spaines ambitious doings also towardes other Princes besydes her Maiestie and that all Christendome is troubled at this day by his onely warres For discussing whereof this awnswerer laieth downe al the proceedings both ofher Maiestie and the King of Spaine with their neighboures from the beginnings of both their raignes And firste for the King ofSpaine he sheweth his dealings in particuler with the Turke Moores and other infidels then also with the Italians Portugalls French Inglishe Irishe Scotishe and Flemishe and sheweth al to haue bin euer most honorable quiet iuste without iniury offered to any as by their owne testimonies and witnesse also of all writers appeareth and for the warre and other affaires that haue passed in Portugall he proueth in particuler out of Hieronimo Franchi a Genoes that vvas present and wrote the storie and in other points sheweth himself no great frind to Spaniardes yet doeth he so iustifie all the Kings actions in this affaire euen by testimony of the Portugalles themselues as they seemed rather ouer scrupulous then onely iustifiable He proueth also outof Genebrard a French writter the King of Spaines noble proceedings with France in all the tymes of the minorities of al Kinge Henry the secōd his children to witt of Francis Charles and Henry the thirde and how he neuer soughte not onely to profit himself or to impaire the kingdome of France duringe those troubles as the Queene of Ingland did by taking new hauen but also ofhis owne charges sent aydes of men horse victualls and money often tymes to the succors of these younge Princes against their rebells notwithstanding the olde enimities emulatiō betweene these two crownes of France Spaine the cruell warres that had passed betwene them many years before Likwise he sheweth the kings wonderfull clemente proceeding with his owne subiects that haue rebelled in the low countreys as appeareth by his many pardons peaces and tolerations made with them his liberall and noble dealing with Inglishe Irishe and Scottishe especially such as haue bin troubled afflicted for their consciences at home whom he hath sustayned liberally abrode without requyring any seruice at their hands After this he taketh in hand to compare with this the Inglishe proceedings towardes all their neighbours rounde about them to whome he sheweth that they haue bin the proper and continuall causes of troubles warres sedition bloodshedd and vtter perdition as namely in Frāce of fower ciuill warres besides all other reuoltes and conspiracies against the true Kinges turmoyles in Religion and other garbroyles and the like to haue bin caused by them in Flanders by stirring vp and ayding firste the Guses and other rebelles of the countrie and then by settinge on foote Orenge and bringing in other princes and forraine povvers and lastly by open iniustice of inuadinge and holding the same to themselues as at this day they do In Scotland also he declareth very particulerly out of the Inglishe cronicles themselues what vvicked and sinfull stratagemes at the beginninge were vsed to putt that people at discorde the one against

the other and to pull dovvne firste the Queene Dovvager by the Hamiltons and by them the Catholique religion and afterward the Hamiltons againe by others and then to ouerthrovv the true Queene proprietarie vvith her husband and to crowne her ovvne child against her self vvith the slaughters that ensued and affliction of Scotland by the often hostile entrance of the Inglishe souldiours which are recounted with many particulers of greate miserie and compassion their troublesome proceedings also vvith other nations are recou●●ed vvhich compared vvith the calme quiet and iuste proceedings of the Kinge of Spayne doe shevv as this ansvverer saith that my L. Treasurer vvhich he accounteth to be both author counceler and scribe of this proclamation not onely to lacke shame but also vvisedome and consideration in that he maketh her Maiestie to publishe to the vvorld things soo euidently false as these are that the King of Spaine is the onelie cause of the trouble of Christianitie at this day The third point of this section THE thirde member of this Section is about these wordes where it is saide in the proclamation that the King of Spaine now in his declined yeares meetest for peace when he ought to be satisfied with his owne without seekinge of more Kingdomes by violence seing be possesseth at this day more crownes Kingdomes and countreyes then euer any Christian Prince had before that all this notwithstanding he hath begunne a most vniuste warre aganist the present Kinge of France most daungerous to all Christendome which yet is like to be the ruine of himselfe as his enterprise against Inglande gaue him iuste cause to repent c. For answere of all this there are many points touched firste that the King of Spaine not onely in this his olde age but in all his life by testimony of the whole world hath bin euer most desirous and obseruante of peace and the Inglishe quyte contrary secondly that this exprobratiō of the Kinges old age is ridiculous her Maiestie folowinge him so nere in years as she doeth my L. Treasurer farr passing him and nerer to his graue by all likelyhood Thirdly that so greate amplification of the Kinges forces wealth and power being their enemy was inconsiderate and can serue to no other effecte but to terrifie their owne frends and subiects and to animate their contraries and to shew their lack of prouidence in making so vnequalla match fowerthly that this great power of the King of Spaine being so iustely and temperately vsed at it is can not be fearefull to any good man but rather confortable nor is it daungerous to Christendome but rather a great and singuler stay prouidence of almightie God who forseing the tumultes and reuoltes that heresies should bring in these tymes hathe prouided this so potent and opulent a Prince of all ages for the defence of his Catholique church in these troobles Fystly that this warre of the Kinge against Nauarre is not iniuste but moste iuste necessary not for any intereste of the Kings but onely for the good of France it self and consequently that all reasons and circumstances considered and the forces on both partes wayed it can not be like to be the ruine of the King of Spaine but rather of Nauarre and other heretiques depending of him or ioyning with him and albeit the Kings last fleete against Ingland had not the successe which was expected yet it was not for wante of strength or by any valure or praise of the Inglishe but rather by tēpeste lacke of experience in some principall officers and other such casualties that often fall out in warre whereof the Inglishe oughte not to bragg seing there are so many reasons and examples of enterprices that take successe the second or thirde tyme which did not at the firste whereof this awnswerer alleageth many testimonies and authorities both prophane and diuine which in the booke are to be seene After this he entreth to treate at large of Nauarres iniuste pretence to the crowne of France being an open knowen heretique as he saith and refusing to take the othe of mayntayning the Catholique Romaine religiō which all Kings both of Fraunce and Ingland haue taken before this and are bounde to take from the firste institution of Christian Kinges and that her Maiestie tooke also the same othe at her entrance to her crowne of Ingland and that by Cecils councell also by whose councell the same othe was afterwarde violated that the tytle of particuler succession in Kingdoms being founded onely vpon positiue lawes of seuerall countreyes and not vpon law of nature or nations for that Kingdomes and monarchies neither were from the beginning nor are at this day in all realmes a like it muste needes folow that the whole righte of these successions and interests to the same do depend of the particuler ordinances lawes othes and conditions with which each countrey hath ordayned admitted authorized their Kings vvhereof the cheefe condition beinge in the Kingdome of France hat the Kinge shall sweare and geue assurance to defende and mayntaine the olde Catholique Romaine religion and the professors thereof and Nauarre refusing to do the same he can by no law diuine or humaine be admitted to the crowne which is largely proued by many authorities examples and reasons Vpon this he declareth how al Catholique people in France are bounde vnder payne of damnable synne to resiste Nauarrs entrance into that crowne considering the inestimable dāmage that is like to ensew therof vnto that whole realme yf he shoulde preuaile And for the same consideration he proueth that the Catholique partie of French nobilitie that either for hope of honour and commodity or for hatred and emulation against others that are againste Nauarre or for any other passion or pretence whatsoeuer do folow or fauour him in this his pretēce doe offend God highely and are guiltie of al euills miseries of their countrey and that besydes the eternall punishement which they are to expecte at Gods handes excepte they repente they will also be destroied and pulled downe by Gods iuste iudgements in this world as this awnswerer sheweth by as many of the nobilitie both of France Flanders Ingland and Scotland by name as for any pretence whatsoener haue bin the firste ayders of heretiques in their countreyes haue perished and come to naught The III. Section THE third Section conteyneth an other large complaynte no lesse vniuste then the former as though the King of Spaine not onely by himself but by other mens helpes also wente aboute to annoy Inglād and this by three manner of wayes The firste is for that he is saide heere for fortifyinge of his strange violent attempts to haue procured a Milanois a Vassall of his owne to be exalled to the Papacie of Rome and to haue seduced him without consente of the colledge of Cardinalls to exhauste the Treasures of the church there with to leauie forces in Italie which had no sounde of ware in is

before to inuade France a Kingdome that hath bin alwayes a mayntainer of that church in all their oppressions c. These are the wordes of the edicte which the awnswerer doth play vpon diuersly asking where my L. Treasurers wit was when se set foorth these fancies for first he saith that it is no noueltie for a vassall of the Kinge of Spaines to be made Pope seing the greatest partes of Italy and the Ilandes adiacent out of which nation in our times the Popes commonly are wonte to be chosen are vnder him the onely state of Millaine in our dayes hath had three Popes which were Pius quartus Pius quintus and this Gregorie the fourteenth whereof this proclamation speaketh Secondly he sheweth that it is rather a signe of great pietie and humility in the King then to be attributed to ambition yf he shoulde desire a subiecte of his owne to be made Pope and thereby to be made his superiour and better for that as this awnswerer auoucheth the pryde of hereticall Princes can not beare such a matter in particuler he thincketh my L. Treasurer for examples sake would not choose Cardinall Allen of all others to be Pope thoughe he be an Inglishman Thirdly he saith that it is a ridiculous complaynt that the Kinge seduced this Pope to exhauste the Treasures of the churche without the consent of the Colledge of Cardinalls as though the Pope were a childe or that Ingland had such care to conserue the Churches treasure whereof it seemeth that my L. Burley would also be treasurer aswell as of that of her Naiestie yf he might Fowerthly it is much more childishe saith he that the Pope by leuying souldiours in Italy for France did trouble the peace of Italie as my L. Cecill insnuateth moste of all it is foolishe saith he that the Church of Rome by sending ayde to the Catholiques of France doeth invade that Kingdome which hath bin a mayntayner of that churche in al her afflictions for neyther is this ayde of the Popes to inuade France but to assiste France nor is it sente against the French but for the French neyther is Nauarre of those Frenth Princes that ayded the church of Rome but contrarie to them and to theire faith affection towards that churche neither doeth there thing with thinge nor tyme with tyme nor person with person as he saith agree whereof he maketh pastyme at large against my L. Treasurer and and his broken Rhetorique as He tearmeth it The second point of this section THE secōde poynte touched in this sectiō is about the accusations layde against Cardinall Allen and father Persons whome the writer of the edicte calleth heads of sedition and of base birth saying that they haue bin dealte withall hy the King of Spaine to gather together with greate labours vpon his charges a multitude of dissolute younge men who either for lathe of liuing or crimes committed leaue theire countrey become fugitiues rebells and traytors and are broughte vp in certaine demies and receptacles named Seminaries erected in Rome Rheims Spaine For awnswere of this is examined first why these two men aboue others should be so odious to the state of Ingland seing they neuer cōmitted any thing against them that mighte iustely be imputed to hatred or euill will but rather haue soughte by all meanes their good both temporall and eternall yf they would see it And whereas the Scribe as this awnswerer tearmeth him thrusteth in a parēthesis as hath bin said that these two men are very base in birth the awnswerer handleth that poynte somewhat at large especially touching the Cardinall for that he lyuing in so eminent a place of dignitie such a slaunder as he saith is not to be passed ouer by silence albeit the other beinge a Religious mā and hidden from the worlde make lesse accompte of such affaires And by this occasion he commeth to defend the Cardinals gentry and to compare it with the nobilitie of all the present clergie of Ingland and with diuers of the Councell his enemyes namely with my L. Treasurer the bringer in of this comparison of whome he saith that a letter of his writen with his owne hande at westminster vpon the 10. of January last 1592. to a certaine intelligēcer of his in the low countries came vnto his hādes euen at this very tyme when he was come to awnswer this point of gentry and nobilitie touched in the proclamation and for that he saith the matter of the saide letter fell out fitt for this place he resolued to awnswer the same heere reducing the effecte hereof to two principall heads For my L. Treasurer in that letter first geueth thancks to the saide Intelligencer for sending him a copy of a printed pamphlet set forth presently in avvnsvver of this proclamation in which avvnsvver both the fact of setting foorth this proclamation and bloudy course determined to be folovved by the same is vvith many reasons thoughe briefely yet very pithely reproued and some persons that haue bin causers thereof but namely my L. Treasurer by reason of this his byte to the Cardinalls birth is insinuated to be but of very meane parentage wherevnto his L. replieth in these wordes firste that this course is a necessary course seing the multitude of priests saith he that come in dayly appeareth now to be so great as they are seuen for one in a yeare in respecte of former tymes and that this course will not he lefte for any such audacious censure of this awnswerer that he douhteth not but that the scope thereof is iustifiable in all Kingdomes and common wealthes where it shalbe knowen To which wordes of his L. this awnswerer saith firste that the necessitie of this course hath proceeded of the inconsideration and euill councell of such as haue gouerned more for their owne passion and interests then for the common good haue broughte her Maiestie by little litle to this bloudy necessitie which can not indure And secondly yf it be trew that seuen priests for one do returne home now in respecte of former tymes then saith he may his L. see what he and others haue profited by their former persecutions against Catholiques and accordinge to that may make their accompte and proportion for the tyme to come for yf they had not so vexed men at home neuer so many vvould haue come abrode nor yf there had not bin so great hope of martyrdome vvithin the Ilande neuer vvould so many haue desired to returne nor vvoulde forayne Princes so greedily haue sett vp Seminaries and offered mayntenance abrode for the same To the third poynt wherin his L. saith that this censure of this awnswerers and this laying of their errors before their eyes vvil not stay this course begunne of persecutiō this man saith he is also of the same opiniō that he tooke not this awnswere in hande with any such hope of stayinge this course vntill God shall bend or burste

the same of himself and that for all this men may not cease to speake the truth for that Christe did not omit to tell the Scribes and Pharisees of their errours and wickednes thoughe he knew that they were obdurate therin would not cease to shedd his bloud for the same so also he surceased not to forewarne ludas of his perdition albeit he knew it would little auayle him and generally when he sent both prophets and other good men to reprehend both by worde and writings the wicked Kings and Queenes of lurie and other countreys and common wealths as Moab Idumea Egypte and the like that persecuted his seruants he sent them not with any hope for the moste parte that they would leaue or amend their course thereby but rather be worse in the sending of Moyses and Aaron to Pharao it is wonderfull to cōsider that on the one side God woulde haue him warned of his ruyne on the other syde he saide in plaine wordes that he would obdurate or harden his harte so as he should not heare the good councell geuen him but rather waxe more fierce thereby and run on headling to his owne destruction for that there are some kinde of people as the Prophete saith which haue made a league and contractewith death so as nothinge will make them to auoyde the same which this later awnswerer sheweth principally to be fulfilled in wicked and ambitious gouernours who laying commonly all conscience aside being tyed to the prosecution of their euill actions once begunne with the forcible chaynes of honor credite riches authoritie envy malice ambition haue no other way ordinarily of retreate but when Gods hand entreth and breaketh downe all and then al falleth together like old muddy walles with losse of al that was moste deare vnto them in this life and of that also that shoulde haue bin for the life to come And finally to the laste clause he awnswereth that all forayne Kingdomes and states are so farre of from allowing or iustifying the scope of this desperate Inglish course that the very protestante Princes and Councellors that otherwise are no enemyes to Ingland do cry out of the same The reste that are aduersaries do laugh in their sleeues to see Inglād ruine it self on the rocks the sandes as is dothe by this course which muste needes be er lōg their totall destructiō only the poore Catholiques which rather I should call happy saith he are those that abide the brunte for the presente who are sent to heauen more hastely then otherwise they would perchance haue walked of themselues and others are inforced to merite more by sufferinge then they had purposed which is al the hurte they receaue for as for their seede it shall remaine for euer peccator videbit irascetur dentibus suis fremet tabescet In the second parte of my L. Letter he defendeth somewhat the gentry of three persons touched before in the firste Inglishe awnswere to vvit my L. of Leicester Sir Nicolas Bacon and his owne and for the firste he saith that Leicesters great grādfather whome many men reporte to haue bin a carpenter was no lesse then a lord Dudleys sonne wherewith this awnswerer saith he vvil not greatly trouble himself at this present thoughe this new genealogie seeme strāg not credible to many Inglishe mens eares of moste knowledge experience that liue abwade and neuer heard of the same before For the second his L. saith no more but that albeit Bacons father were no man of liuing yet was he accounted so wealthy as he lefte to two of his sonnes stocks of mony to be honeste marchants and to the third which vvas afterward L. keeper mayntenance for his study in Grayes Inne al vvhich supposed to be trew saith this awnswerer it is nothing against that vvhich before hath bin spoken of him To the third vvhich is himself my L. Treasurer saith much more for his gentrie affirming that his howse to wit the Cecills of Stamford doe come of the auncient howse of the Sit siltes of wales and are descended from the reigne of the conquerour haue matched come of many noble howses both of Ingland and wales yea of the Princes of wales for these are my L. owne wordes in his fore said letter aud that his L. grandfather Dauid Cecil came out of Brytany as a sergeuit at armes first with King Henry the seuenth and was by the saide King placed at Samford and was Steward of his mothers howse the Countesse of Richmond and after was squyer for the body both to King Henry the 7. and also to King Henry the eight hitherto is my L. Treasures ovvne allegation for this gentry and nobility To all vvhich this awnswerer replieth that so diligent a displaying of genealogies by his owne hand vvriting at this instant when he handleth the match of his grandchild with Arbella implieth a further sequel them euery man doth looke into especially vvhere he addeth that his howse is descended of the very old Princes of wales themselues Secondly he taketh vpon him to shew that al this flourish or at leaste wise the more part thereof is but an ambitious fiction of M. Cecill himself and very ridiculous to all Inglish of the discreeter sort for that he saith that many yet remēber when M. Cecil for diuers yeares after his comming to creditt went about to deriue his name of Cecil frō Cecilius the Romaine name whereof theire vvere diuers but especially that famous rich man named Caecilius Claudius vvho as Plinius writeth after greate losses receaued in the ciuil warres lefte notwithstanding in his testament aboue foure thousand slaues and aboue three thousand yoke of oxen and aboue two hundred and fifty thowsand of other catell besydes infinite quantitie of ready mony vnto whome this awnswerer upposeth that our M. Cecil at that tyme desired to be like as well in vvealth as in name and for that he imagined that the progenye of those Cecils had remayned in Ingland euen from the Romaines tyme and that his howse vvas descended of the same He write himself as he doeth now also in this his letter Cecil with two c. c. and after the first of them an E which is far different in antographie frō Sitsilt vvhich himself writeth with tvvo s. s. twoo T. T. and tvvo I. I. By occasion also of this this defender telleth a story how that in Q. Maryes tyme when M. Cecil had deceaued Sir VVilliam Peter and had made him beleeue he was an earnest papiste and had persuaded him to offer the resignation of his office of Secretariship vnto him as before hath bin touched the old countesse of huntingtō mother to the earle that now liueth though far differēt from him in Religion told the Queene and maydes of honor in the courte that she had hard an old prophecie that one who had two c. c. in his name should be the destruction of Ingland which thinge

owne fancie and designements for the tyme present to serue his turne And by this occasion this awnswerer declareth how the old fathers and doctours did not vse this name of Ghospell commonly but only for the sacred writings of the fower Euangelists to whome the priuilege of this highe word was peculiarly attributed for that nothing in the said writing could be false or erroneous that the Religions of Christians founded thereon especially against heretiques was vsually called the Catholique faith and doctrine vntill these our dayes when euery man that deuised new opinions or wayes would needes cal it the very ghospell it self so began Luther and after him folowed Oecolampadius and Zwinglius though different from him and after them both Ihon Caluine and about the same tyme the Anabaptistes Trinitaries and new Arrians in Transiluania and synce that in Ingland both protestants puritanes and family of loue of vvhich no one will admit worse name to his sect then the sacred name of the holy Ghospel it self vvhich being but one and a simple truth and these men different and repugnant to them selues can not possibly be posiessed by them all though all pretend it and therefore saith this awnswerer as in a cittie where one onely pretious stone is knowen to be yf a man should fynd the streets ful of diuers cryers that sweare and protest euery one of them to haue this iewell to himself alone it vvere able to make a wise man thincke rather that none of them had it then that all could haue it euen so saith he in this case of pretending the Ghospell Moreouer he sheweth that of all these sects which at this day professe the name of Gospell abroad in the world no one eyther within or without the realme will confesse that the Religion generally held in Ingland at this day is the pure Ghospell exept perhaps some at home that dare not say the contrary or esteeme little of any Religion for abroade he sheweth first out of Luther himself how he condemned to hell the heresy of Zwinglius Caluin now held in Inglād which VVestphalus Illiricus and all other Lutherans haue followed synce as appeareth by their brokes yet in printe the decrees are extant of the Earles of Mansfild in the yeare 1559. and of the Lutheran cities of VVittenberg Hamberg and others the yeare 1560. and of al the reste of Saxonie the yeare 1562. which condemned the Religiō of Caluin now held in Ingland for damnable heresie The like did the Zwinglians as appeareth by the doings and writings of Andreas Zebedaeus and loannes Angelus Zwinglian Ministers against Caluin himself being yet aliue when they accused him to the Magistrates of Berna in Zuicerlād for an Archiheretique by the publique decree of the same citty and Magistrate yet extāt published in the yeare 1555. Is commaunded that Caluius institutions such other bookes of his as in the assertions impugned by these Ministers were found should be burned and prohibited as hereticall for euer At home also the determination of King Henry the eighte and his parlament for his six Articles against this Religion the difference of the communiō booke in King Edwardes tyme from this that now is the exclamation of Caluin and Beza against the supremacie of a woman or lay Prince whereof dependeth the hart of Inglishe Religion lastly the multitude of erors heresies abominatiōs gathered out of late by the puritans now defended by M. Cecil in their late bookes against the protestants whome M. Cecil also muste needs admit all these things saith this awnswerer do wel shew what ground or certaintie there is in M. Cecils Ghospell and how little it oughte to moue a discreete man his often repeating of the same This therefore passed ouer he commeth to handle the secōd remedy appoynted in the proclamatiō which is of the forces and preparations of her Maiestie hy sea and land to withstand this imaginarie inuasion wherevnto M. cecil exhortethal good subiectes to geue assistāce with their handes purses and aduises of which three things this awnswerer saith that he nothing doubteth but that M. Cecil wil easely admitt the former two to wit that men do assiste with their handes and purses for that in the firste which is to fight or put handes to woorke M. Cecil hath no skill nor wil to entermeddle himself but only to set men on whiles he and his do looke vpon them In the second of their purses seing he is Treasurer it serueth for his purpose to pull them on as many waies as he can deuise and perhaps it was the greatest motiue of all this tragedie to fill his coffers by this deuise but for the third which is to assiste with their aduises it is spoken onely for courtesies sake for in matters of moste weighte in gouernemēte state M. Cecil admitteth few but himself and his owne peculier instruments and in this I reporte me saith this awnswerer to the reste of her Maiesties priuie Councell how truely I speake in this behalf After this saith this awnswerer that notwithstanding M. Cecils great bragg of forces whereof the poore people of the Realme do beare the burdē yet yf all things be indifferently and wisely considered it may be saide of M. Cecil as it was of Moab by the Prophet VVe haue beard of the pride and arrogancy of Moab his pride land his arrogancie and his wrath is greater then his strength which this man applieth to M. Cecils arrogancie exceeding foolish and furious wrath in breaking so openly and arrogantly with all the old Allies of the crowne of Ingland in prouoking so many and so potent Princes abroad to reuenge their iniuries in attempting so great and dangerous changes and innouations and exasperatiōs at home as muste needs at lengh bring al the whole howse about his owne eares and other mens to and can not possibly endure by all which and many other things that he alleageth this defendant wil needes haue mēbeleue that my L. Treasurer is vnaduised not only wanteth conscience and Religion but also wisedome circumspection in the greatest of his doings and that in very truth laying Godes cause aside whereof his care is least he is also for ciuil gouernement a very insufficient man Thirdly and lastly he commeth to the forme of inquisition appointed in the proclamation for the finding out of the Seminarie priests and punishement as vvel of them as of all such as shall receaue harbour or comforte them about vvhich poynt after this awnswerer hath shewed that this forme of search punishement is more rigorous cruell considering all circumstances then euer vvas any search in former tymes of any old persecutours or tyrants he sheweth himself to wonder more at the impudencie and follie of M. Cecil in setting downe this saide forme of Inquisitiō then at any thinge touched in this awnswere before And for his impudency he alleageth these vvordes of the proclamation vvherein it is

auouched that this forme of examination vexing of men for the Catholique faith in Inglād is in no wise contrarie but agreable to the moste auncient lawes and good vsages of our Realme which this man refuteth beginning from the firste Christian King of the Britans named Lucius that tooke his faith frō Rome vnto the laste called Cadwalladar that made himself a monke and died in Rome after that from Ethelbert the firste Inglishe Kinge Christined by S. Augustine a monke sent from Rome vntill the laste Kinge Edward the cōfessor held for a sainte in the same Religion after him from VVilliam Conquerour first King of the Normans vnto King Henrie the eighte father of her Maiestie all which Kinges and Queenes this awnswerer sheweth to haue bin contrarie in Religion to this of M. Cecils consequently to haue made all their lawes and ordinances in fauour of Catholique Religion against that which is now held in Ingland and so their formes of search and Inquisitiō must needes be against this not against that and therefore that it is extreame impudency in M. Cecil to auouch so openly in proclamation that this tyrannicall forme of his inuention against the Catholiques is in no vvise contrary but agreable to the most auncient lawes of Inglande Secondly for M. Cecils folly and lack both of wit consideratiō in pressing a free people with such irking bloudy lawes which driue to desperatiō he alleageth the authoritie of all graue men that euer wrote of gouernemente of commō wealthes who affirme that such proceeding is lacke of wisedome for that violent courses endure not long and feare is no good conseruer of perpetuity and ouermuch rubbing bringeth out bloud and patience abused turneth into furie He noteth also a want of ludgement in Maister Cecil the scribe to put downe in her Maiesties name after recital of so great rigour that she is resolutely determined to suffer no fauour to be vsed for any respect of any persons qualities or degrees which may chance to stirr vp some Matathias and his children and frends one day to do as he hid in his zeale for Gods cause being inforced therevnto by the indiscreet oppression of Antiochus the tyrant to his owne destruction and seing that it is euident that these hard and rigorous woordes could not proceed of her Maiesties owne inclination but were thruste in by Cecil in despite and disgrace of nohility principall peeres of whome he was afeard leaste the Queene mighte haue some respecte in these cases of Religion this awnswerer exhorteth him to looke vnto it and to thincke betymes vpon the end of pierse os Gauerston the Spencers others that haue abused their Princes fauours in Inglād heretofore to the debasing of true nobilitie and pilling of the people he willeth him also to thincke of the endes of wicked leroboā Achab with the death of seuentie children of his in owne day notwithstanding they were as well established and allied for matters of the world as M. Cecils of spring can be Finally he beseecheth also her Maiestie to looke about her betyme not to suffer her self to be caried away or to be made a pray to one mans ambition only who will not be able to remedy the calamities that now he soweth but will leaue them all on his Princes backe when he can wade no further as the pittifull examples of King Ihon King Edward the second Richard the second Henry the sixt and others driuen into miseries by such euill Councellours do wel declare nor is it safe for any Prince to leane to much to one mans councell especially one that seeketh so euidently his owne intereste as in M. Cecil doth moderate courses do indure but this is desperate neither want there meanes to reduce things yet to some cōposition or moderation at least yf her Maiestie would folow her owne Princely disposition and leaue the bloudy humour of this old ambitions serpent Her Maiesties age requireth more loue and peace of her subiects now and to attend rather to securitie then to enter into new odious conflicts the fly hath her splene saith the Philosopher and much more men of courage and free education and so much bloud spent by violence as lately hath bin in Ingland can not but threaten much bloud againe in the end All this much more to purpose saith this awnswerer and in the end concludeth all with certayne effectuall cōsolatiōs vnto Catholiques out of Eusebius Gregorie Nazianzene and Victor Vticensis who recompte the exceeding comforts which God gaue vnto Catholiques that had suffred for him after their persecutours were destroyed confounded He writeth also certayne annotations vpon the instructions annexed to the proclamation for the commissioners how to execute their forme of inquisitions and all he maketh very odious and cruell which I can not set downe here for lacke of tyme but I hope to send yow the booke it self very shortly 1591. Five councelors Sir Nicolas Bacon He VVas chief hynde vnto the Abbot Earle of Lecester Sir Francis VValsinghā Sir Christophor Hatton The L. Treasurer Treason against his Maister Extreme bypocrisie and cosenage His entrāce vvith this Q. M. Cecilesca peth hanging But aboute some 50. offices in all Sir VValter Ravvley The trevv causes of the troubles of Ingland Discord of heretiques among them selues Incertitud of succession Great infelicitie Insufficient prouision K. Philips doings to vvardes th Queene Sir Thomas Stukelyes death Inglishe actions tovvardes Spaine The King of Spaine dealinges vvith his neighbours Inglish proceedinges vvith ther neighbours Diuers fals hodes and folyes of M. Cecil Nauarres iust exclusion from the crovvn of France My L. Treasure ●●●er of his gētry VVicked men are vvarned vvithout ope of amendment Psal. 111. Plin. 1. 23. cap. 10. A story Manisest argumentes He is said to hauebene first an ostler in that Inne and after to haue marie the hostesse In stede of tvvo Forses at a botle of bay Ezech. 9. Prouerb 29. The order and institution of the Seminaries How priests returne to Ingland Great iniquitie Contradictions of M. Cecil Great 〈◊〉 An egregious bloodsucker An impudent tale M. Cecil 〈◊〉 vviseman The vvord Catholique pacianus exempla ad Symp. Nouat Kinges confessors Aug. lib. 2. de visit infirm cap. 4. Matth. 18. Cecils grandchild in Rome The Ministers 〈◊〉 doctrine Feigned pretences of M. Cecis The vayne vaunting of Ghospell Forces of Ingland 〈◊〉 16. The forme of Inquisition M. Cecils folly Councel and exbortation