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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02797	An apologie or defence of the watch-vvord, against the virulent and seditious ward-vvord published by an English-Spaniard, lurking vnder the title of N.D. Devided into eight seuerall resistances according to his so many encounters, written by Sir Francis Hastings Knight	Hastings, Francis, Sir, d. 1610.	1600 (1600)	STC 12928; ESTC S119773	131,190	226

to free my countrie from all vsurpers they to fill their countrie with forraine gouernment I to preserue vnto vs the sincere truth of Gods Gospell they to thrust vpon vs a false worship by Poperie and superstition And this shall suffice to shield and deliuer me from being harmed or grieued by your slaunders and for all your malice to me I am sorie you should carrie so vilde and villanous a mind as not to be vexed to see your Soueraign so dispitefully and disloyally dealt withall But I haue now so good cause to guesse the vnsoundnes of your heart to my Soueraigne by this your wrangling and wicked Ward-word as I cannot expect or hope for anie good fruit of a loyall heart towardes her Maiestie from you And to confirme me and all true Subiectes in this opinion you close vp this your last Encounter with a doubt whether Lopus euer ment to kill our deare Soraigne and why you should doubt I see not but because it was not done and with a deniall that your Catholike King should be priuie thereunto and yet all the Agents in it doe plainely confesse so by the first whereof you lewdlie labour to taxe the seat of our Soueraignes Iustice and by the second you abuse her Maiestie and her people and by both you offer to discredit the honourable testimonie in print of the proofes and proceedings by examinations before the Lords of her Maiesties Councell In which you may finde how Lopus was first solicited by Andrada from Mendoza the King of Spaines Embassadour in France to poyson her Maiestie Secondly by the same Andrada he was solicited by a token from Christophero de Moro one of the Kings priuie Councell Thirdly by one Roderoquo Marques a Portugale vnto whom Lopus did vndertake to doe the abominable fact for which he was profered and promised fiftie thousands crownes which I hope cannot be taken to be the gift of anie Subiect fourthly for this purpose Lopus sent Andrada ouer to Callis to conferre with Counte Fuentes about this practise and caused Stephano Ferrera de Gomo another Portugale to write letters to Stephano Iberra the Kings Secretary at Bruxels to assure him Fuentes that the detestable fact should be performed if the 50000. crownes were paid which letter Lopus himselfe sent by one Gomes Dauila a Portugale But Andrada not being thought fit to follow so great a cause Ferrera was chosen to manage it by whom the Doctor did againe assure the performance of this villanie and then there were bils of exchaunge for the mony deliuered by the Counte Fuentes the one from Gonzalo Gomez to Pedro de Carreras the other from Gomez to Iohn Pallacios And if through the merciful prouidence of almightie God these had not been lingered and that in the meane time by the diligence and carefulnes of one of the Lords of her Maiesties priuie Councell the matter had not been discouered the villanie had been attempted and acted and so brought out of doubt as this Espaniolized champiō seemeth to haue wished to the vnauoydable hazard of ruine in mans iudgement to our Countrie and State So haue you here vpon honorable credence plainely proued that Lopus should haue been the Actor of this villanie that Andrada Ferrera Gomez Dauila and Manuell Lewes all Portugales were Agents and Messengers to him about it that Mendoza your Kings Embassador in France Christofero de Moro Count Fuentes and Secretarie Iberra all Councellors to your King were Directors to these Agents and Messengers and how farre your King himselfe did direct herein let the booke tell you And therefore haue you no cause to doubt of Lopus his bloudie meaning in this bloudie busines To returne to your selfe Sir I make no doubt but you desire to be beleeued in all that you haue scattered in your Libell and not least in this last part for if you could creepe into the secret bosomes of our English Nation and winne credit to be beleeued that all that you say is Gospell you might then hope of some likelihood to preuaile in your shameles sute for toleration or alteration in Religion tendered to the Lords in your Remission immediatly following But as it is well knowne to them all that we haue been much blessed of God by her Maiesties gouernment although you inuert all out of your popish and traiterous affection into cursings so I doubt not but they all see and will acknowledge that the true worship of God erected and established amongst vs by her Maiestie is the verie assured and principall ground-worke of all our blessings Religion and pietie must be our safetie and so long as wee keepe God by imbracing his truth without halting so long shall God keepe this land safe from all malice of all our enemies whatsoeuer Therefore farre shall it be from them so much as to lend an eare to so impudent and euill affected a Sutor as you shew your selfe to be in daring with shameles face to slaunder and scorne our Religion to depraue our seat of Iustice to harten disobedience to excuse traitors to darken and sometimes to defend the malice of your two Monarches of Rome and Spaine against our Soueraigne Queene contrariwise when her iust commendation was set out for being God his good instrument of many great blessings brought vnto vs you maliciouslie turne them as I said before into cursings when to the praise of almightie God mention is made of her wonderfull and happy deliuerances both in the time of Queene Marie and in her owne time you doe in derision call the first a miracle of Milne-wheeles and the second you shameleslie seeme to perswade they were things rather feared by vs then intended to her When I vrge Stories traiterous and bloudie words against her you cunningly seeke to turne his meaning to other persons and purposes When I condemne Cardinall Allin and Bishop Gardiners proude and pernitious dealing towards her you fall into extraordinarie high commendations of them as if the trumpet of their praises for so dealing had been worthie to bee blowne ouer all the world when I say that we should keepe these three things safe in our breast first our Conscience to God secondly our Loue to our Countrey thirdly our Loyaltie to our Prince you earnestlie labour to proue that wee are not bound alwaies to loue our Countrey and to beare Loyaltie to our Prince but that for Religions sake wee must hate them and warre against them and when I lay downe the many and manifold wrongs most vnchristianlie and vnkindly offered to her Maiestie by Rome and Spaine you bend your whole force to couer all and to proue wrongs offered by her Maiestie and our Nation to them such is your speciall loue to these your two Monarches and to all treasons and Traytors plotted and encouraged by them and so little and key-colde is your loue and dutie to her Maiestie to whom you owe all loue and obedience But this is the fruite of Pius Quintus his Bull the perill

ciuill or forraine vndertaken for Religion is honorable All which things considered I appeale to any good natured Papist who hath in him any sparke of loyaltie in his heart to his Prince loue to his natiue countrie whether this Cardinall not only by secret practises seeking to stir rebellion against her Maiesty but by publike writing earnestly perswading the same yea animating encouraging her Subiects to lay violent hands vpon her sacred person were not indeed a cardinall and arch-traitor and for this his Proctor I answere him and conclude almost with the very words wherwith himself shutteth vp this his Encounter let all men iudge of this mans treacherie Resistance to the fift Encounter concerning the Iesuites THe sundrie occurrents in his last Encounter about Bishop Gardiner and Cardinall Allen did draw from mee moe lines then either at the first entrie I purposed or these two worthie Prelates were worthie of Now for the ground and foundation of his long and tedious prattle in this fift Encounter he saith he will set downe my accusation in mine own words which are these that ensue I doe not heare that the Popes holines is so purged from ambition or so reconciled to Religion as he meaneth not to continue his clayme for the Supremacie or will cease to settle the dregs of his poysonfull and superstitious doctrine amongst vs. I cannot perceiue that the thirst of Parsons and his Pew-fellowes is yet quenched for seeking the bloud of our deare Soueraigne and in her the destruction of vs all the cause remaining still for which heretofore they haue sought it c. And here first like a right Hicke-scorner as in deed scorning and rayling are the flowers wherewith hee doth garnish all his speech hee noteth the fond and ridiculous manner of my fantasticall writing as it is his pleasure to censure it and because his note if it were not worth noting men would thinke it worth nothing therefore hee also painteth his margent therewith that ye might not faile to remember it in these words Sir Francis ridiculous Festus called Paul a madde man who yet spake the words of truth and sobernes the madnes was in Festus himselfe euen so gentle Sir I doubt not but to sober men I shall appeare to write soberlie howsoeuer you iudge me ridiculous and the follie shall rest in your owne bosome And therefore I say againe that I doe not heare nay more then that I doubt I shall neuer heare that the Popes holines is so purged from ambition or so reconciled to true Religion c. or that the thirst of Parsons and his Pew-fellowes is yet quenched for seeking the blood of our deere Soueraigne c. And in the first you giue me a good satisfaction for you assure me that your holy Pope will neuer leaue his claime for Ecclesiasticall Supremacy because when he doth that he must leaue to be Pope In this I easilie beleeue you and for this I will neuer put you to your oath for it is hard for the Pope to cease to vsurpe other mens rights but if you should take a solemne oath vpon your holie Masse booke that your Popes Popedome or Supremacie was ordained by our Sauiour I could not beleeue you Therefore looke not that your bare word shall goe for a currant proofe with mee in this behalfe seeing you haue no one title of the word of God to warrant it it being manifestlie to be proued thereby that he is wholie opposite to Christ both in faith manners and gouernment which long challenge of his and leane proofe of yours is largelie confuted and ouerthrowne by sundrie learned Neither is it like you say that he will be so purged to become a Protestant and I confesse this is rather to be wished then hoped for but if your reason be for that the Pope cannot erre in doctrine or become an heretike such as you mistake Protestants to bee your error is great in the Popes prerogatiue● wherein not onely your owne friends will bee your enemies but the examples of sundrie Popes which fell into heresie will disproue you For Marcellinus fell not onelie into heresie but into Idolatrie for he sacrificed to Idols Honorius held taught the heresie of the Monothelites and was therefore accursed by the sixt generall Councell Honorio haeretico Anathema Cursed be Honorius the heretike Liberius became an Arrian heretike Stephen fell into the error of the Donatists and to be short Iohn the 22. did so notoriouslie erre about the state of the Soules after death that his error was by the Diuines of Paris with sound of Trumpets openlie condemned in the presence of the King himselfe who beleeued rather the Parisien Diuines in that point then the Court of Rome I would they were not so prone to heresie nay authors of heresie but that they would returne from whence they are fallen that is to that truth of Christian Religion which we professe which also many Bishops of Rome for the space of some hundreths of yeares after Christ religiouslie professed But though you thinke the Iesuites much honoured by mee in that I ioyne them as you say in slaunder and calumniation with the Pope himselfe yet you please not to ioyne them in defence with the Popes holines whom for a prerogatiue you will handle by himselfe And in deede I mislike not your method for it were absurd to make the worke equall to the workeman and to ioyne the Creator and the creature together for so a learned man writeth of the sect of the Iesuites that it is Creatura Papae nouissima nequissima The last and worst creature of the Popes making You therefore enter your plea for the Iesuites deferring the Popes cause to the last saue one that hee might bee accompanied with the King of Spaine following in the last whom yet you might if you had followed your Booke of ceremonies haue sent before the Pope to leade his horse by the bridle that the Pope in his pontificalibus might haue come all behinde But your method be at your owne choice for defence of your Iesuites you labour and sweate amaine but it is like Sisyphus toyle Saxum sudans nitendo neque proficit hilum In rouling vp the stone he takes great paine But all for naught it tumbles downe againe Your tedious and irkesome prolixitie I will recompence with all conuenient breuitie You run a long course about the contradictors of the Iesuites which you acknowledge to be not onely those whom you account heretikes but sundrie Pope-Catholikes and to them you applie the saying of the Iewes against the Christians That the sect of the Christians was euery where spoken against with a long idle discourse to the same purpose But Sir all this is besides the purpose and it is apparant that all this while you doe extra chorum saltare If you had first by Scripture proued and strengthned the originall of your Iesuiticall societie together with their