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A34380	A Continvation of the histories of forreine martyrs from the happy reign of the most renowned Queen Elizabeth, to these times : with sundry relations of those bloudy massacres executed upon the Protestants in the cities of France, in the yeare 1572 : wherevnto are annexed the two famous deliverances of our English nation, the one from the Spanish invasion in 88, the other from the Gunpowder Treason in the yeare 1605 : together with the barbarous cruelties exercised upon the professors of the Gospell in the Valtoline, 1621.		1641 (1641)	Wing C5965; ESTC R21167	283,455	124

liked well only adding this request by way of protestation that whatsoever the event hereof might prove it should not be imputed to him as procéeding from too light and too suddaine an apprehension that he delivered this Letter being only moved thereunto for demonstration of his ready devotion and care for preservation of his Majesty and the State And The Lord Chamberlain made privy to the letter by the Earle of Salisbury thus did the Earle of Salisbury presently acquaint the Lord Chamberlaine with the said Letter Whereupon they two in the presence of the Lord Mountegle calling to minde the former intelligence already mentioned which séemed to have some relation with this Letter The tender care which they ever carried to the preservation of his Majesties person made them apprehend that some perillous attempt did thereby appears to be intended against the same which did the more néerely concerne the said Lord Chamberlaine to have a care of in regard that it doth belong to the charge of his office to oversée as well all places of assembly where his Majesty is to repaire as his highnesse owne private houses And therefore did the said two Counsellors conclude that they should joyn unto themselves thrée more of the Counsell to wit the Lord Admirall the Earles of Worcester and Northampton to be also particularly acquainted with this accident who having all of them concurred together to the re-examination of the contents of the said Letter they did conclude that how slight a matter it might at the first appeare to be yet was it not absolutely to be contemned in respect of the care which it behooved them to have of the preservation of his Majesties person Wherefore they resolved for two reasons first Thought meet by the Counsellors to acquaint the King with the Letter to acquaint the K. himselfe with the same before they procéeded to any further inquistition in the matter as well for the expectation and experience they had of his Majesties fortunate Iudgement in cléering of obscure riddles and doubtfull mysteries as also because the more time would in the meane while be given for the practise to ripen if any was whereby the discovery might be the more cléere and evident and the ground of procéeding thereupon more safe just and easie And so according to their determination did the said Earle of Salisbury repaire to the King in his Gallery on Friday being Alhallow day in the afternoone which was the day after his Majesties Upon Alhallow day the Earle of Salisbury shewed the letter to the King arrivall and none but himselfe being present with his highnesse at that time where without any other speech or judgement given of the Letter but only relating simply the forme of the delivery thereof he presented it to his Majesty the contents whereof follow MY Lord out of the love I beare to some of your friends I have a care of your preservation Therefore I would advise you as you tender your life to devise some excuse to shift off your attendance at this Parliament For God and man have concurred to punish the wickednesse of this time And thinke nor slightly of this advertisement but retire your selfe into your country where you may expect the event in safety For though there be no apparance of any stir yet I say they shall receive a terrible blow this Parliament and yet they shall not see who hurts them This counsell is not to be contemned because it may doe you good and can doe you no harme for the danger is past so soone as you have burnt the Letter And I hope God will give you the grace to make good use of it To whose holy protection I commend you The King no sooner read the Letter but after a little pause and then reading it over againe hée His Majesties judgement of the Letter delivered his judgement of it in such sort as hée thought it was not to be contemned for that the stile of it séemed to be more quicke and pithy then is usuall to be in any Pasquill or Libell the superfluities of idle braines But the Earle of Salisbury perceiving the King to apprehend it déeplier then he looked for knowing his nature told him that he thought by one sentence in it that it was like to be written by some foole or mad man reading to him this sentence in it For the danger is past so soone as you have burnt the Letter which he said was like to be the saying of a foole for if the danger was past so soone as the Letter was burnt then the warning behooved to be of little availe when the burning of the letter might make the danger to be eschewed But the King on the contrary considering the former sentence in the Letter That they should receive a terrible blow at this Parliament and yet should not see who hurt them Ioining it to the sentence immediately A terrible blow indeed at once to have wracked King Queen Prince and Progeny Religion State and all following already alledged did thereupon conjecture That the danger mentioned should bée some suddaine danger by blowing up of powder For no other insurrection rebellion or whatsoever other private and desperate attempt could bée committed or attempted in time of Parliament and the Authors thereof unséene except onely it were by a blowing up of Powder which might be performed by one base knave in a darke corner whereupon he was moved to interpret and construe the latter sentence in the Letter alledged by the Earle of Salisbury against all ordinary sence and construction in Grammar as if by these words For the danger is past so soone as you have burnt the Letter should be closely understood the suddainty and quicknesse of the danger which should be as quickly performed and at an end as that Paper should be blazing up in the fire turning that word of As soone to the sence of As quickly and therefore wished that His Majesties opinion for searching of the under roomes of the Parliament house before his going to the Parliament the under roomes of the Parliament house might be well and narrowly searched But the Earle of Salisbury wondering at this his Majesties commentary which he knew to be so far contrary to his ordinary and naturall disposition who did rather ever sin upon the other side in not apprehending nor trusting due advertisement of practises and perils when he was truly informed of them whereby he had many times drawne himselfe into many desperate dangers and interpreting rightly this extraordinary Caution at this time to procéed from the vigilant care he had of the whole State more then of his owne person which could not but have all perished together if this designement had succéeded He thought good to dissemble still unto the King that there had béene any just cause of such apprehension and ending the purpose with some merry jest on this subject as his custome is tooke his leave for that time But

to minde what I have often told you namely how God prolonged King Hezechias Isa 38 5. life for fiftéen yeares But he hath preserved my life much longer for it is many yeares agoe since you saw me at the point of death and through Gods goodnesse I am alive and I hope yea I am assured that he will so long preserve me as shall be for his glory and my eternall good through his only frée grace From the prison of Ast the sixteenth of September 1601. The Bishop of Ast was somewhat troubled about this his prisoner for if he had let him go he feared it would bréed some scandall and many might thereby be emboldned to open their mouths wide against the Romane religion Besides there was a clause in the Contract made betwéene his Excellency and the people of Vandois which exempted those of the religion from offence in these words And if it shall fall out that they be asked or questioned withall in Piemont about the cause of Religion by any of his excellencies subjects it shall be lawfull for those of the said Religion to answer without suffering any penall or personall punishment for the same Now Copin had a question put to him in which respect he ought to have béen cléered But the Bishop would by no meanes heare that hee had un●ustly imprisoned him and therefore that his death should not be laid to his charge nor yet that hee should be sent away absolved he sent the cause of his Endictment to Pope Clement the eighth to know what should be done with him We cannot learne what answer the Pope returned to the Bishop but not long after this good man was found dead in prison not without some apparent suspition of his being strangled there lest if they had executed him in publique the people should have been edified by his constancy Being dead he was condemned to bee burned and therefore having caused him to be brought out of priso● they read his sentence openly and the body was cast into the fire Thus have you the last among the Vandois which is come to our knowledge that were persecuted to death for the cause of Religion ¶ Mention hath heretofore been often made of sundry bloudy massacres in forreine parts but wee are now come to fall upon the report of a businesse neerer home which if the most wise and watchfull providence of God had not timely and graciously prevented it would have to the ruine of our Church and state proved such a massacre the like whereof the heart of man never conceived the care of man never heard of nor the tongue or pen of man could scarse ever have utteted namely at one blow to have blowne up not onely the King Quéene and royall posterity but the whole body of the state in generall Now as the Church and State had each of them a share in this so admirable a deliverance from God upon the fifth day of November Anno 1605. so each of them shewed their care if it might be for ever to perpetuate the praise of God for the same on the said day the one by stablishing an act of Parliament for it the other by publishing a forme of thanksgiving the better to effect it some expression whereof the Reader may hap to méet with at the end of the discourse following ¶ A discourse touching the manner of the discovery of the Pouder-treason with the examination of some of the Prisoners WHile this land and whole Monarchy flourished in a most happy and plentifull peace as well at home as abroad sustained and conducted by these two maine pillars of all good government Piety and Iustice no forraine grudge nor inward whispering of discontentment any way appearing the King being upon his returne from his hunting exercise at Royston upon occasion of the drawing néere of the Parliament time which had béen twise prorogued already partly in regard of the season of the yeare and partly of the Terme as the winds are ever stillest immediately before a storme and as the Sunne blenks often hottest to foretell a following showre so at that time of greatest calme did that secretly hatched thunder begin to cast forth the first flashes and flaming lightenings of the approaching tempest For the Saturday of the wéeke immediately preceding the Kings returne which was upon a Thursday being but ten daies before the Parliament the Lord Mountegle sonne and hoire to A letter delivered to the L. Mountegle the Lord Morley being in his owne lodging ready to goe to supper at seven of the clocke at night one of his Footmen whom he had sent of an errand over the stréet was met by an unknowne man of a reasonable tall personage who delivered him a Letter charging him to put it in my Lord his Masters hands Which my Lord no sooner received but that having broken it up and perceiving the same to be of an unknowne and somewhat unlegible hand and without either date or subscription did call one of his men unto him for helping him to read it But no sooner did he conceive the strange contents thereof although hee was somewhat perplexed what construction to make of it as whether of a matter of consequence as indéed it was or whether some foolish devised Pasquil by some of his enemies to ●karre him from his attendance at the Parliament yet did he as a most dutifull and loyall subject conclude not to conceale it what ever might come of it Whereupon notwithstanding the latenesse and darkenesse of the night in that season of the yeare hee presently repaired to his Majesties Palace at Revealed to the Earle of Salisbury Whitehall and there delivered the same to the Earle of Salisbury his Majesties principall Secretary Whereupon the said Earle of Salisbury having read the Letter and heard the manner of the comming of it to his hands did greatly encourage and commend my Lord for his discretion telling him plainly that whatsoever the purpose of the Letter might prove hereafter yet did this accident put him in minde of divers advertisements he had received from beyond the seas wherewith he had acquainted as well the King himselfe as divers of his privy Counsellors concerning some businesse the Papists were in both at home and abroad making preparation for some combination among them against this Parliament time for enabling them to deliver at that time to the King some petition for toleration of Religion which should be delivered in some such Purpose of the Papists for delivering a petition to his Majesty to crav toleration of religion order and so well backed as the King should be loth to refuse their request Like the sturdy Beggers craving almes with one open hand but carriing a stone in the other in case of refusall And therefore did the Earle of Salisbury conclude with the Lord Mountegle that he would in regard of the Kings absence impart the same Letter to some more of his Majesties Counsell whereof my Lord Mountegle