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A01507	A newyeares gifte dedicated to the Popes Holinesse, and all Catholikes addicted to the Sea of Rome: preferred the first day of Ianuarie, in the yeare of our Lorde God, after the course and computation of the Romanistes, one thousand, fiue hundreth, seauentie and nine, by B.G. citizen of London: in recompence of diuers singular and inestimable reliques, of late sent by the said Popes Holinesse into England, the true figures and representations whereof, are heereafter in their places dilated.	B. G. (Bernard Garter); Tunstall, Cuthbert, 1474-1559. Letter written by Cutbert Tunstall late Byshop of Duresme, and Iohn Stokesley somtime Byshop of London.; Stokesley, John, 1475?-1539.; Googe, Barnabe, 1540-1594.	1579 (1579)	STC 11629; ESTC S102867	65,066	113

past by his predecessour Agatho to the Emperour Constantine Heraclius and Tiberius in his Epistle written to them in his name and in the name of all the Synods which he thought to bée vnder the sea Apostolique wherein soone after the beginning of the Epistle he comprehendeth them all vnder the name of the Bishops dwelling in the North and West parts of their Empire So that ther in his owne Epistle he confesseth all his subiects or obedienciaries to hée onely of the North and West so appeareth euidently by his owne confession that neither by Gods law nor mans lawe he had to do with any person of the East or the South And this his high souereintie ouer all challenged as you and others say by Scripture as by his owne confession quailed and brought to a little strayght angle And this Agatho was not a man vnlearned as appeareth by the Actes of the sixt Synode Constantinopolitane in the iiij acte wherein is written at large and expressed the sayde epistle and confession And afore the Primacie of Peter which auncient Doctors speake off that was onely in preaching and teaching the fayth of Christ which he first among all the Apostles and first of all mortall men did expresse with his mouth That Primacie did so adhere to his owne person that it was neuer deriued neither to any successour nor to other Apostle but chiefely to himselfe for all other professing after the same speake it after him who had professed it before Moreouer all the Apostles as Saint Iohn sayth be fundaments in the heauenly Ierusalem not Peter only Moreouer Cyprian affirmeth as is aforesayd that all the Apostles were of equall dignitie and power which all auncient authors lykewise doe affirme For Christ gaue the Apostles lyke power in the Gospell saying Ite docete omnes Gentes baptizantes eos c. Go and teach all Nations baptizing them c. And Saint Paul as is sayd before knewe no other Primacie giuen to Peter to preach in any place but among the Iewes as he himselfe had among the Gentiles as he writeth to the Galathians where Saint Ambrose as is aforesayd affirmeth the same And that the mother of all Churches is Ierusalem as afore is sayd and not Rome the Scripture is playne both in the Prophet Esay De Syon exibit lex verbum Domini de Ierusalem Out of Syon shall the law procéede and the worde of the Lord out of Ierusalem Upon the which place Saint Hierome saythe In Ierusalem primùm fundata Ecclesia totius orbis Ecclesias seminauit Out of the Church first found in Ierusalem sprong all other Churches of the whole world And also in the Gospell which Christ before his ascension commaunded his Apostles to preach ouer all the worlde beginning first at Ierusalem so that the Bishops of Rome vniuersall power by him claymed ouer all cannot by any Scripture ●e iustified as if ye haue red the auncient Fathers expositions of the sayd Scriptures as we suppose you haue sith your letters sent hether concerning this matter and would giue more credence to their humble and playne speaking than to the latter contentious and ambitious writers of that high and aboue the Ideas of Plato his subtilytie which passeth as ye write the lawyers learning and capacitiy we doubt not but that ye perceiue and thinke the same And where ye thincke that the king cannot be taken as supreme heade of the Churche bicause he cannot exercise the chiefe office of the Church in preaching and ministring of Sacraments it is not requisite in euery body naturall that the head shall exercise eyther all manner of offices of the body or the chiefe office of the same For albeit the head is the highest and chiefe member of the naturall body yet the distribution of lyfe to all the members of the body aswell to the head as to other members commeth from the heart and is minister of lyfe to the whole bodye as the chiefe acte of the body This simlitude yet hath not his full place in a mysticall body although the Scripture speaking of king Saul sayth Cum esses paruulus in oculis tuis coustitui te caput in tribubus Israel When thou wert but of small reputacion in thine owne eyes I made thée head amongst the tribes of Israel And if a king amongst the Iewes were Caput in tribubus Israel hoc est hominum videntium Deum per vmbram tempore legis multò magis Princeps Christianus caput est in tribubus Israel hoc est verè per fidem videntium Christum qui est finis legis The heade in the tribes of Israel that is of men which sée God by a shadowe in the time of the law much more is a Christian king head in the tribes of spirituall Israel that is of such which by true fayth sée Christ which is the ende of the law The office deputed to the Bishops in the misticall body is to be as eyes to the whole bodye as almightie God sayth to the Prophet Ezechiel Speculatorem te dedi domui Israel I haue made thée an ouerseer ouer the house of Israel And what Bishop soeuer refuseth to vse the office of an eye in the mysticall body to shew vnto the body the right way of lyuing which appertayneth to the spirituall eye to doe shall shew himselfe to be a blinde eye and if he shall take other office in hande than appertayneth to the right eye shall make a confusion in the body taking vppon him an other office then is giuen to him of god Wherefore if the eye will take vpon him the office of the whole head it may be aunswered vnto it It cannot so do for it lacketh brayne And examples sheweth lykewise that it is not necessarie alwayes that the heade should haue the facultie or chiefe office of administration you may sée in a Nauy by Sea wher the Admiral who is captaine ouer all doth not meddle with stering or gouerning of euery ship but euery Maister perticular must direct the ship to passe the Sea in breaking the waues by his stering and gouernance which the Admirall the head of all doth not himselfe nor yet hath the facultie to doe but commaundeth the Maisters of the ship to doe it And likewise many a captaine of great armyes which is not able nor neuer coulde peraduenture shoote or breake a speare by his owne strength yet by his wisedome and commaundement onely he atchieueth the warres and attayneth the victory And where ye thinke that vnitie standeth not onely in the agréeing in one fayth and doctrine of the Church ▪ but also in agreeing in one head if ye meane the very and onely head ouer all the Churche our Sauiour Christ Quem pater dedit caput super omnem Ecclesiam quae est corpus eius Whome the father hath set ouer all the Church which is his bodye wherein all good Christian men doe agrée ye say truth And if ye meane of any

one mortall man to be heade ouer all the Church and that to be the Bishoppe of Rome we doe not agrée wyth you For you doe there erre in the true vnderstanding of Scripture or els yée must saye that the sayd counsell of Nyce other most auncient dyd erre which deuided the administration of Churches the Orient from the Occident and the South from the North as is before expressed And that Christ the vniuersall head is present in euery Church the Gospell sheweth Vbi duo vel tres congregati fuerint in nomine meo ego in medio eorum sum Where two or thrée be gathered together in my name there I am in the midst of them And in an other place Ecce ego vobiscum sum vsque ad consummationem seculi Beholde I am with you vntill the ende of the world By which it may appeare Christ the vniuersall heade euery where to be with his misticall body the Church who by his spirite worketh in all places how far soeuer they be distaunt the vnitie and concorde of the same And as for any other one vniuersall head to be ouer all then Christ himselfe Scripture prooueth not as it is shewed before And yet of a farther proofe to take away the scruples that peraduenture doe to your appearaunce rise of certeyne wordes in some auncient authours and especially in Saint Cyprians Epistles as the vnitie of the Church stoode in the vnitie with the Bishop of Rome though they neuer call him supreme head if you precisely weygh and conferre all their sayings together yée shall perceiue that they neyther spake nor ment other thing but when the Bishop of Rome was once lawfully elected and intronizate if then any other would by faction might force or otherwise the other lyuing and doeyng his office enterprise to put him downe and vsurpe the same Bishopricke or exercise the others office himselfe As Nouatianus did attempt in the time of Cornelius that then the sayd Fathers reconed them good Catholiques that did communicate with him that was so lawfully elected and the custome was one Primacie to haue adoe one with an other by congratulatory letters soone after the certeintie of their election was knowne to kéepe the vnitie of the Church And they that did take parte or maintaine that other vsurper to be Shismatiques bicause that vsurper was a Schismatique for that Quia non sit fas in eadem Ecclesia duos simul esse episcopos nec priorem legittimum Episcopum sine sua culpa deponi That it is not lawfull for two Bishoppes to bée at once together in one Church Nor that the former Bishop béeing lawfull ought to be deposed guiltlesse without his fault bee proued And this is not a prerogatiue of Rome Church more than of any other cathedrall speciall patriarchall or metropoliticall Church as appeareth in the third Epistle of the first booke and in the eight of the second and of the fourth booke of S. Cypriane to Cornelius Whose woordes and reasons all that peraduenture might séeme to conclude the vnitie of the Church in the vnitie of the Biship of Rome bicause they were all written to him in his owne case may as wel be written to and of any other Bishop lawfully chosen possessed who percase should bée likewise disturbed by any factions of ambitious heretickes as the Bishops of Rome then were And where ye thinke the name of Supreame head vnder Christ giuen attributed to the kings Maiestie maketh an innouation in the church perturbation of the order of the same it cannot be any innouation or trouble to the church to vse the roume that God hath called him too which good Christiā Princes did vse in the beginning when faith was most pure as Sainct Augustine ad Gloriam Eleusium saith Ait enim quidam Non debuit Episcopus pro consulari iudicio purgari quasi verò ipse sibi hoc comparauerit ac non Imperator ita quaeri iusserit ad cuius curam de qua rationē Deo redditurus esset res illa maximè pertinebat One ther is which saith that a Bishop ought not to haue bene put to his purgation before the iudgement seate of the deputie as though he himselfe procured it and not rather the Empeyour himselfe caused this inquirie to bée made to whose iurisdiction for the which he must aunswere to God that cause did especially perteine Chisostome writeth of that imperiall authoritie thus Laesus est qui non habet parem vllum super terram summitas caput est omnium hominum super terram Hée is offended that hath no péere at all vpon the earth for he is the highest potentate and the heade of all men vpon earth And Tertulianus ad Scapulum saith Colimus ergo imperatorem sic quo modo nobis licet ipsi expedit vt nominē à Deo secundū quicquid est à Deo cōsequntū solo Deo minorem hoc enim ipse volet sic enim omnibus maior est dum solo vero Deo minor est Idē in Apologetico de Imperatoribus capite 30. loquēs ait Sciunt quis illis dederit imperium sciunt qui homines qui animas sentiunt eum Deū esse solum in cuius solius potestate sunt à quo sunt secundi post quē primi ante omnes super omnes Deos. We so honour reuerence the Emperour in such wise as is lawfull to vs expedient to him that is to say as a man next the second to God of whom is deriued all the power he hath but yet inferiour to God alone for so is it his pleasure to haue it For thus is he greater thā all men while hée is inferiour but to God alonely And the sayd Tertulianus in his booke Apologetical speaking of Emperours They knowe who hath giuen to thē their gouernement they know what men they be themselues vnderstanding they haue of mans soules but so that they perceiue that God is he alone vnder whose onely power they be take themselues as second to God after whom they bée the chiefe before other aboue all the Gods Theophilactus ad Romanos super ilud Omnis onima potestatibus sublimioribus subdita sit Ait apostolū hic vniuersos erudire siue sacerdos sit ille siue Monachus siue Apostolus vt se principibus subdat Let euery soule be subiect to the higher powers Hoc est Etiam si Apostolus sis Etiam si Euangelista etiā si Propheta aut quisquis postremò fueris Non enim subuertit pietatem haec ●ubiectio Et non simpliciter Parcat inquit sed subdita sit That is ▪ although thou art an Apostle although an Euangelist although a Prophet or whatsoeuer thou art be subiect for this subiection ouerthroweth no godlinesse And he saith not onely let him obey but let him bée subiect And if the Apostles be subiect to princes much more al bishops

but such as were commaunded by the generall counsell For aye the more precepts sayde he be giuen the more transgressors be founde Anno. 1271. Thus in what estimation the Scottes this long agoe held the Pope and his Legates this short Oration sufficiently sheweth And nowe of Englande IN the .xxix. yeare of the raigne of King Edwarde the first in a certaine declaration made against Pope Boniface the eyght by a singular learned man these words amōgst other were vttered I propounde also saith he that the said Boniface is wrapt in infinite manifest heynous sinnes his mouth is full of cursing his féete and steppes are swifte to shedde bloud he vtterly teareth in péeces the Churches which he ought to cherish wasting wickedlie the goodes of the poore and making much of wicked men that giue hym rewards persecuting the righteous and among the people not gathering but scattering bringing in new sectes of destruction that haue not bin heard of blaspheming the way of truth and by robberie thinking himselfe equall to the Lorde Iesus Christe which is blessed for euer And beyng most couetous thirsteth for golde coueteth golde and by some deuise getteth golde of euery people and vtterly not regarding the worshipping of God with feyned wordes sometime by flattering sometimes by threatning sometimes by false teaching and all to get money withall hée maketh merchandise of vs all enuying all things but hys owne louing no man nourishing warre persecuting and hating the peace of his Subiectes He is rooted in all vnspeakeable sinnes a contrarie and strife againste all the wayes and doctrines of the lord He is truly the abhomination of the people whiche Daniell the Lords Prophete described Therefore I answere that lawes weapons and all the Elements ought to arise againste him whiche thus ouerthroweth the state of the Churche for whose sinnes God plagueth the whole worlde And finallye nothing remayneth to him being so vnsatiable to satisfie him withall but onely the vnsatiable mouth of Hell and the fire whiche cannot be quenched continuing for euer And thus gentle Reader saying as Pasquillus sayd Roma vale vidi satis est vidisse reuertar Quum leno aut meretrix scurra cinoedus ero Which may be thus Englished Oh Rome farewell the sights I see suffize I le backe again But whē I wil be baud or whore or scolde thine am I then I take my leaue of thée and of all these auntient matters and pray thée to holde the same opinion of Rome whiche Fryer Mantuan a Poet of later time helde and properly vttered in these two verses following viz. Si quid Roma dabit nugas dabit accipit aurum Verba dat Heu Romae nunc sola pecunia regnat In English thus If Rome yeeld aught they are but toyes she taketh glistring golde For words alas Rome nowe by coyne hir royall raigne doth hold And amongst those gifts of Rome I will for thy farewell yéeld thée one more of the Popes benefits which perchance may pleasure thée if thou neuer vse it It is forsooth a medicine to staunch bloud by words And I wil tell thée howe thou shalt come best cheap by it but first to the wordes whiche are these L●ngius miles perforauit Lancea ✚ latus Christi continuo ✚ exiuit sanguu redemptionis ✚ et aqua baptismatis ✚ In nomine Domini cessat sanguu iste ✚ In nomine spiritus sancti amen ✚ and after say S. Ihons Gospell In principis erat verbum verbum erat apud Deum Deus erat verbum c and this wil suffize so thou do it in order wherein I wil tel thée thy readiest beste cheape waye bycause I sée thou arte affected Turne backe againe to the place in this booke where the Popes wares are desciphered and vnder the number of 10. thou shalte finde an Agnus Dei which is hollow that must be bought get it as good cheape as thou canst for I wil haue nothing for my counsell then muste thou gette written in fine parchment or paper by the hande of some deuout religious man the Gospell of S. Iohn and the charme aforesaide but take héede that he be well contented for his labour or else it auaileth not This writing muste he put into the Agnus Dei and close it vp againe and weare it about thy ne●ke by a string of purple or crymson silke and so soone as thy nose bléedeth clap it to the Gospell and then if it bléede trust me no more Vale. Conclusio We see the bird ful braue abroad and free from euery ill Is brought to baine through Fowlers fraude by sweete ●●co●ding quill The hony harlots sugred speach so snares the minde of man As wisest wits in wantons webbe is tangled nowe and than Bur beaten fishe can safely swimme and by a piercing looke Foresee the fraud of fishers ●rie and shunne both bayte hooke So he that stirs his beaten ba●ke by compasse carde and skill At laste obtaines his wished porte holds himself harmlesse stil. No fish nor fowle by craft nor skill nor youth by female fraudes Haue bin deceivde as al the world hath bin by Romish gaudes An apple or an egge may call a child to Butchers boule The Pope by baggage beads and buls hath bittē many a soule His blyssyngs e●st haue made vs blyth who hath not feard his curse His buzzing bees haue bleard our eies whiles falshod fild their purse What Diuel bewitched worldly wits that none estate could scape But gaue their goodes as if it were for mowing of an Ape Nay worse for happy had we bin if none but coine were lost We left our God and folowed Baal bought the Diuel with cost Shake off therefore this costly course and bea●en nowe beware Of fisher fouler foxe or Diuell the Pope hath craftiest snare Foresee therefore in time his Cha●ibdes and his Scill The compasse of the worde of God auoydes the daungers still And brings thy beaten barke from storms to port in perf●●e test Where through the bloud of Iesus Christ his saincts for aye arc blest To which when that our noble Q. hath livde the age of No● And beaten quite conquered Baal God sēd hi● soule with ioy And graunt eche subiect still to see that vnder Chris●i● earth For England is no supreame head but Queene Elizab●th ●end loyaltie and loue in al confound hir foes and ●●en ●hall Babilon be ouerthrowen which● gra●●● oh god Amen FINIS B.G. Alia Conclusio THe wādring wight that succour seekes in dāgers deep distresse As Hecuba when greedy Greekes did ransackt Troy possesse Is fayne to try such foraigne friends as league of former loue Yeeldes cause to trust but fortune lends to glad spoiles to proue For in the end yong Polidore King Priams sonne was slayne By fathers friende wo worth therefore the loue that lokes for gayne Then England seeke thy Prince t' obey and aske no foraigne ayde Shake off in time the shauelings sway whome truth hath nowe bewrayd The Qu. by

nature law right vpholds hir royal crowne Whose grace mercy mixt with might hath won so large renowne That Subiects true do deeme them sure that foes are forst to quake Change Bulles for blysse from doctrine pure run not to Lerna lake FINIS ꝙ B.G. Certaine of the Popes Merchandize lately sent ouer into Englande 1 Superlatare 2 3 4 4 5 Bulla 6 Bauarie granum benedictum 7 8 9 9 10 10 11 POSITVS IN MEDIO O VO ME VERTARNESCIO ST NICHOLAVS CRISTESIS M●●●●ROPITIVS MARIA SIS MIHI PROPITIA 12 13 14 15 INNO CENTIVS pp. 1111 15 SPASPE The figures of these are sette out at large in this Booke as in perusing thou shalte finde The Iewes entred in the time of King William the Conquerour in Anno. 1067. and were expelled in the raigne of K. Edward the firste 1291. Pet. Epist. 1 ▪ Cap. 2 ▪ Luke 15. Mat. 18. 1. Cor. 3. Luke 22. 1. Petri. 5. Act. 20. De simplicitate clericorum Contra Iouiniū Cap. 1. super Titum Lib. 3. Cap. 21. Lib. 5. Cap. 6. Lib. 3. Cap. 23. Lib 4. Cap. 23. Epistolae 10.2 Vide duas Epistolas ad Bonifacîum pp. 1. to concilioram Fol. 307.308 Dist. 16. viginti Hist. trip Li. 4 cap. 16. Apoca. ●1 Mat. 28. Esa. 2. 2. Reg. 15. Eze. 3. Mat. 18. Mat 28. August Epist. 162. Rom. 13. 1. Par. 28. 2. Par. 16. 2. Par. 19. 2. Par. 16. Epist. 81. Actione 4 ▪ 1. Pet. 2. Rom. 13. * Of Excommunication Presumption Bishops Conscience accuseth the Pope The maner of his creeping Ellusio The Pope a poysoner of Bishoppes Vrbanus a wicked Pope A suddayne passion of the Pope The walles of Rome throwen downe by the Deuill An horrible deuice of the Pope thereby to destroy the Emperour his liege Lorde The charitable clemencie of the Emperour towardes a Traytour which soughte his destruction A notable blaspemie against Christ done by the Pope Compare this with the Popes proceedings nowe towards the Queenes Maiestie Note howo Ralph speedeth afterwards The Emperor and his wife and yo●●g son way●e three dayes t● c●me ●o the speeche of the Pope The reward of an intruder The chastitie of the Pope The Pope canonizeth an Heretike The Pope put from his Papacie and an other placed by the Emperour Some of Heldebrands Angels A good Parentesis or faire shadowe to a foule lie See how the faith which we should repore in the bloud of Christ is transported to a peece of Crossed Papacie Auarice in a Monke Symonie The Pride and rauine of the Pope controlled wyth the gentle admonition of God. The chaste Pope had proper children Tiranny An impassible ioy conceyued in bloudshed was the death of the Pope A desperate Monke A stinking Martyre Talis pater qualis filius The falsest hart shews fairest face The beginning of hir diuinations and yet a troth by chaunce Things before taught hir by hir cōfederates The marke she shotte at Here beganne the Pageant Here beganne the Pageant A sweete preparatiue to to a newe Pilgrimage A lye at first dash for there were no belles in the steeple A sweete preparatiue to to a newe Pilgrimage A lye at first dash for there were no belles in the steeple A ready aunswere She was informed immediately after dinner of the best dishe that the Hermite shoulde haue to supper Papacie hydeth Treason and aduāceth Traytours The weake mayde is nowe a strong hypocrite Miracles in shew and not in deede as shall be shewed how in the end of this story She was made a Nonne you see the cause why Hipocrisie is found out whē sinceritie pursueth hir Ri. Mayster was the man which told hir what shoulde be done at the Church and Hermitage alwayes before hande Now waxed she cunning Another lye for she was not healed at hir comming nor at all by miracle but by Phisicke as appeareth in the Statute Anno. 25 ▪ Henrici 8. This lye wrought wonders by the help of hir ghostly father A dead blacke made a liue woman as the blinde man receyued his sight by miracle at S. Albanes The holy Nonne scarce honest Blasphemy She felt hir selfe a woman yet honest ynough she sayth Sweete pastime in S. Giles his Chappell in the night time I beleeue heerein she sayd true The marke whiche the Pope and Papistes did and do shoote at to ouerthrow The Deuill did often visit hir The Angell which brought the writing to Pope Leo from Heauen brought this to the holy Mayde of Kent Good subiects I warrant you The woonted guise of the Pope againste such Princes as aduance the Gospell of Christ. Sainst Giles Chappel The Ladie of VValsingham and the holye Mayde had vertue alike A good consideration