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A07892 A breefe aunswer made vnto two seditious pamphlets, the one printed in French, and the other in English Contayning a defence of Edmund Campion and his complices, their moste horrible and vnnaturall treasons, against her Maiestie and the realme. By A.M. Munday, Anthony, 1553-1633. 1582 (1582) STC 18262; ESTC S112998 24,614 78

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so His triumphe Englands ruine and decay The Pope his Captaine thirsting for it aye From ease to paine from honour to disgrace From looue to hate to daunger béeing well Thus dyd he fall flying his natiue place and Countrey where by duty he should dwell Our no Apostle comming to restore The bloody sway was sometime héere before His natures flowers were mixt with hūny gall His lewd behauiour enimie to skill A climing minde reiecting wisedomes call A sugred tongue to shrowde a vicious will A Saintlyke face yet such a deuillish hart As sparde no trauaile for his coūtries smart With tongue and pen the trueth he did suppres Stopping the way that Christians did desire Which pleased God for his great wickednes To stay his race wherein he dyd aspire Then his behauiour witnessed the more What he was then as also long before His fare was good yet he a scornefull cheare His prison fayre yet he a froward minde His councell good yet deafned was his eare Perswasions large he obstinate and blinde Oh stubborne mā oh minde nature straūge Whome wisdom pittie grace nor looue could chaunge After great pause they brought him to dispute With Bookes as many as he could demaund His chéefest cause they quickly did confute His proofe layd downe reprooued out of hand So that the simplest present there could say That Campions cause did beare the shame away After his foyles so often to his face It was thought good Iustice his déedes should trie Upon appearaunce of so fowle a case Nature her selfe wild doome deseruedlie Traitour he was by prooues sufficient foūd The Iewrie sawe his Treasons so abound Her Maiestie to be depriu'd of lyfe A forraine power to enter in our Land Secrete rebellion must at home be rife Seducing Préests receiu'd that charge in hād All this was cloaked with Religious showe But Iustice tried and found it was not so Then rightfull doome bequeathed them to dye Whose treasons put her Maiestie in feare Out on the fiend whose mallice wrought so slie Hath wun a number part with him to beare But thinketh he his enuie can preuaile No little Dauid did the Giaunt quaile My gratious Princesse sée your Subiects mone Such secret foes among them should be found Who serue your Grace in duety euery one though treasō séek to make their harts vnsoūd The bloody woolf prayes on y e harmles shéepe So treason séekes in loyall harts to créepe England looke vp thy Children doo rebell Unreuerent actes haue entred in their minde The subiect séekes his rightfull Prince to quell Yea to his natiue Countrey prooues vnkinde Campiō who somtime y u didst swéetly sourse Prepares his venome to destroy his Nourse Eliot reioyce that God prolonged thée To take the man who meant vs all such yll As for thy slaunders take them patiently Enuie drawes blood and yet hée can not kyll Those who by words he séemde to put in feare Haue washt their hāds in iudgement soūd and cleare My selfe as witnesse Sled and all the rest who had their treasons noted in our Booke Account our selues of God most highly blest who gaue vs grace to such attempts to looke And hauing giuen our witnes sound plaine We feare not mallice nor his spightful train The well aduised Iewrie on this cause Who with discretion pondred euerie thing Behelde their treasons with such héedfull pause That they foūd out the depth of Enuies sting Whereby they saw the stirrers of this strife Were farre vnwoorthy any longer life Yea Elderton dooth deskant in his rime The high offences of such gracelesse men Which causeth him to yrke at euerie crime And gainst their treasons to prouide his pen. Yet not without wisedome and modestie To warne all other that liue wickedlie Remember you that would oppresse the cause Our Church is Christes his honour cānot die Though hell him selfe reuest his griefly iawes And ioyne in league with treason poperie Though craft deuise and cruel rage oppresse Christe will his chosen styll in safetie blesse You thought perhaps presūptious Cāpiō could disseuer those whom Christ hath ioynd in one And that our gratious louing shéepheard would Before the woolfe forsake his flock alone No he preserues his Shéepe for greater good And drownes y e rauener in his enuious blood We knowe that Campion liuing did intreate The Subiect from his vowde humilitie Nowe therefore shame his dealings dooth repeate Throughout the world to his great infamie The skies thēselues with lowring angry face Adiudge his déedes woorthy of all disgrace All Europe woonders at this shamelesse man England is fild with rumor of his race London must néedes for it was present than whē Iustice did thrée Traiterous minds deface The stréets y e stones y e steps they halde thē by Pronounst these Traitours woorthy for to die The Tower sayeth he Treason did defend The Barre beares witnesse of his guilty minde Tiborne dooth tell he made a Traitours ende On euery gate example we may finde In vaine they work to laude him w t such fame For heauen earth beares witnes of his shame The rightful sentence giuen of him héere Will charge his conscience in the time to come Although they say he is excused there And shall not taste Gods iudgemēt his doome Saint Paul dooth say in reuerence of y e highest We all shall come before the seate of Christ. There to make aunswer vnto euerie thing And to receyue reward accordinglie If well the Cittie of our heauenlie king Shall recompence our former miserie Where we with Angels voice continuallie Shall laude the gaine we haue so happilie Then blinded mallice shall perceyue and sée His owne deuises Author of his rueth And how true Subiects haue felicitie In recompence of their assured trueth The one condemnd for his disloyaltie The other crownd for his fidelitie Can Treason then preuent our happy peace Or blustring winds assayle our sprouting Trée No soueraine Faith sends down her due encrease And shroudes her Plant in swéete tranquilitie So that the foe presuming on his might Is forste to know Faith can preuent him quite Let vs not feare a mortall Tirant then Séeing Faith Trueth dooth eleuate our harts God hath reserued one to conquer ten Let vs then learne to play true Christiās parts The head of him that sought our Coūtries wo Dooth witnesse shame to all that seeke it so His youth dooth byd vs bannish filthy pride his fleeting hēce to serue our Prince in trueth His lew● profession dooth lay open wide To fall from God how gréeuous is the rueth His home returne his Challenge deface Saith Subiects keep true harts in euery place His Hardle drawes his sect vnto like ende His spéeches there vnfolde their tretcherie His death dooth say Who so his life dooth spēd In faith and trueth reapes ioy eternallie His first and last and all agrée in one Ther's none to helpe vs but our God alone Blessed be God who cut him off so soone Thāked be Christ which blest his
with forraine Princes might Would vse our England as him pleasde and put our Queene from right Howe that these men were sent before by his perswasion To make all ready gainst the tyme of his inuasion So that destruction suddenlie should come vpon vs all Those onely sau'd had holie Graynes or could the watch woord call All this did Iustice playne discerne with many matters more Where through they had the iust desart that they deseru'd therefore God saue Elizabeth our Quéene God sende her happie raigne And after earthlie Honours héere the heauenlie ioyes to gaine And all that séeke her secrete harme or to annoy her Grace God turne their hearts or that they may enioy but lyttle space Anthony Munday FINIS Honos alit Artes. Not for their religion but for high treason The manner of the af●resayde tray●erous Booke To buylde vpon heare say prooueth but a slender foundation His Maister was then in the Iayle at Reading iudge then howe Campion could be within with his M●●ster By that which followeth written by George Eliot him selfe consider of the trueth of this report Who frequenteth their company shall finde all their dealings disloyall and trayterous It is very vnlike that he which neuer sawe Campion in all his life nor knew where he was could make any promise to bring him foorth I sawe the warrant my selfe and neither was Campion Payne or any one named therin but all Preestes Iesuits and such seditious persons A holy kinde of Church whereof the Deuill is Uicar The father of lyes hath made his Children so prompt in his Art that they cannot chuse but make knowledge thereof These horrible treasons which were manifestly prooued to their faces are but fables and lyes sayth he All good Subiectes will say as much as I doo but as for such as will not God cut them off or turne their harts Heere he describeth him selfe and all chose of his sect and condityon 1. Cor. 1. If he had applyed this vnto themselues he had spoken but trueth for they had the fowle ouerthwart euerie way It is their cheefest glorie to reuile and slaūder but therein they aptly shewe themselues The true construction of the former woordes vttred so highlie on the behalfe of Campion A notable vntrueth made on our secrete Authors fyngers endes This is so well known to be false that it scant deserueth any aunswere at all A manifest vntrueth as the reproofe thereof succeeding doth euidentlye declare VVilliam Nicholson his presumptiō to defend a Craitours cause at the barre wherby he brought him selfe into y e same p●edicament I would the Pope would keepe his meere looue to him selfe for we might very well be without it A meete Auncient bearer for such an Idolatrous and superstitious thing Of him that accustometh him selfe in lyes it is verie harde to heare any trueth A verie straunge vision Too straunge to be true Note this This is as true as all the rest is Learning enough in so small a time to be a Preest A notable lye In my English Romaine lyfe you shall reade many of theyr wunderfull miracles Bothe the right honorable and woorshipful with y e great number of people that were there present can witnesse the fearfulnesse and timeriousnesse of Campion Our reporter maketh Campion a wunder to the world in rehearsing those giftes which were neuer in him Campions owne woordes to those of woorship whyle hee was in the Tower Campions estate beeing beyond the Seas whiche if euerie one consider with iudgement they shall well perceyue his glorious reportes to be but fables This Reporter behaueth him selfe vnreuerently to my Lord bishop of London mislyking his iudgement on Campions learning and Master Whitakers Booke A notable lye on the behalfe of Campion Math. 5. An other manifest vntrueth applied on the behalfe of Alexander Brian The māner of the Papists charitie to Christes members In my booke which shall shortly come foorth you shall reade the cruelty lately vsed to an English mā at Roome for the christian faith I would they all bare as true hartes to her Maiestie as he dooth I was not called by the name of Anthony Munday but by an other name which they set downe in their Table A verie trayterous Booke secretly imprinted and made by a Catholique preest They that hādle pitch will be defiled therewith
any such promise But that he may learne an other time to order his matters with more trueth discretion I wil set down bothe how I wēt with what commission and to what intent then let him haue iudgemēt according to the credit of his woorke When I had reuealed the traiterous spéeches of Payne the Préeste how and after what māner you may reade in the Booke before expressed I was demaunded if I knew where hee was at that time I could not make any certayne answere wherefore I was demaunded againe if I would doo my endeuoure to search him out whereto according to my bounden dutie I agréede right willinglie Then was I appointed in company with Dauid Ienkins one of the Messengers of her Maiesties Chamber and to vs was deliuered a warrant to take and apprehend not any one man but all Préestes Iesuites and such like seditious persons as in our iourney we should méete with all neither was Campion Paine or any one man named in the warrant for that as the one was iudged harde to be found so was it vncertaine where to finde him I knew well enough Wherefore remembring when I serued Maister Roper that there was one Thomas Cooper a Cooke who serued him likewise and also knew the aforesayde Paine to him I thought good to go because I had vnderstanding that he dwelt at Liuarde in Barkeshire with one Maister Yates who was a very earnest Papist and gaue great entertainement to all of that sect thinking as it might so fall out that we eyther might finde the sayd Paine there or els vnderstand where he was And considering the generalitie of our warrant some other Préestes might chaunce to be there in respect he was such an Hoste for all of that disposition When we came to Liuard and had talked with this aforesayd Thomas Cooper we were framing our selues to depart thence not hauing béene within the house at all but he desiring vs to staye Dinner we alighted and went in with him he not telling me that Campion was there with his Maister for he was then in the Iayle at Reading or any other Preeste though it hath pleased our namelesse Author to write so When we were within the house this Cooper brought vs into the Buttery where he whispering me in the eare demaunded if my fellow were within the Church or no as much to say as whether he was a Papist or no I aunswered he was not yet neuerthelesse quoth I he is a very honest mā and one that wisheth well that way Then sayde the Cooke will you goe vp Héereby I vnderstood that he would bring me to a Masse whereto I consenting leauing Dauid Ienkins in the Butterie he brought me vp where after one Satwell alias Foord had sayde Masse Campion prepared himselfe to say Masse And there was the first time that euer I saw Campion in all my life not hauing heard by any that he was ther in the house before I was brought vp into the Chamber As concerning how he was taken how he was brought vp to London and how all thinges passed in that seruice I haue already set downe in my booke imprinted which conferring with his false reporte you shall finde it as much to differ as trueth dooth from falshood This haue I thought good héere to set downe in the reproofe of him who hath published such a manifest vntrueth and as concerning what I haue reported to be spoken by Payne I am ready at all times to iustifye it with my death that they are his woordes according as he spake them By me George Eliot THus may you sée how apparant these vntruethes are which he and his sect take for their infallible ground woorke comparing the one with the other you shall hardly finde him to say trueth in any place but euen according to his owne profession béeing gouerned by lyes and vniust actions wherein he is growne so prompte and headstrong that he must néedes shewe it accordingly els he should estraunge himselfe from the ordinary course of their nature but now againe to our Historie He sayth that after Campion was brought to the Tower he was hardly entertayned bothe for lodging and victualles I néede not héere to laye open how and after what manner all prisoners that come there are entertayned for euery one well dooth know how bountifully liberally and truely they are serued béeing the Quéenes Maiesties Prisoners which many a poore man would be highly contented to fare in the order as they doo But in déede hee kéepeth order very well to make as many lyes as lynes his Booke will be the better estéemed of them that delight therein Now as concerning the time of his imprisonment his Disputations and other matters Whereat he sayth he thanketh God he was present himselfe such a one hath taken those matters in hand that when they come foorthe you shall sée our Historian made the perfect Anotamye of all vntrueth mallice and egregious slaunders After what manner hee hath behaued himself to Maister Nowell the Deane of Paules Maister Doctor Day and Maister Whitakers Who sayth he hath put foorth a Booke in answere to the Booke made by the Father Campion but any man may see saith he with what ignorance and impudencie Indéede ignoraunce hath so peruersely blinded them that either they cannot or will not sée the learning modestie and grauitie handled in that skilfull Booke for trueth whereof I appeale to all the learned Diuines in England who very well know that I reporte no otherwise then trueth is my warrant After he hath showen some part of his accustomed vntruethes in opening part of the Disputations he commeth to reporte whereof they were endicted As cōspiring the death of the Queens Maiestie ouerthrowe of the Realme of England prouoking forraine Princes to ioine therein and perswading the people of Englande vnto manifest Rebellion all these beeing fables and no trueth saith he not able to be prooued any way albeit they were garnished with sundrye false witnesses who were corrupted and bribed onely for that purpose I take God to my witnesse that neither I receyued bribe nor any manner of corrupting in the worlde or any premise of my preferment any way but onely what I sayd and did long before that time when I was brought to my examination without demaūd of any such matter promise bribe or corruption I declared that which was nothing but the méere trueth as diuers at my first comming ouer can witnesse that what I tolde them of treasons pretended and conspired against her Maiestie and the Realme I reported at the Araignement and haue set downe in my Booke the very same which as I knowe to be true and many other not to be publiquely named so will I stande in maintenaunce thereof to the death and in the death for the sauegarde of my Princesse whom I pray God long to continue in honor and benefit of my Country which I pray God to blesse continually from all attempts
of Traytours from all motions of mischaunce that may any way annoy it and that as God hath blessed it hither to with the glorious beames of his sacred Gospell through her who is the mother and maynetainer of our ioy by the same euen so that he wyll long lend vs her to increase it long blesse the Realme to enioy it and vs all faithfully to looue it and her Maiestie And whereas he sayth they were all fables and no trueth not able to bee prooued any way notable testimony remaineth how theyr treasons were manifestly prooued bothe by their owne confessions and writings vncorrupted witnesses and euident proofe of euery thing that was obiected against them and not that they were condemned for their religion as this false reporter saythe but for high Treason intended practised and conspired against her Maiestie and the Realme the summe whereof is so odious that any good minde loatheth to heare it Agayne he sayth That when the witnesses where produced and sworne to witte Munday Cradocke Sled and Hill all of very base condition who were so well seene in lyes that they seemed to be borne and nourished therein they had the foule ouerthwart albeit with shamelesnes and vehemencie they mainetayned theyr accusation against these good and innocent men As for our basenes or simplenes we will not stande to contend with him though wee knowe we haue all one father and that we are all made of one mettall Againe we know God hath chosen the despised of the world to confoūd them that thinke themselues moste mighty But where he saith We were so well seene in lyes that we seemed to be borne and nourished therein I can leuell at his meaning How that bothe he and they beléeuing in lyes obeying the Author of lyes and dayly fed and nourished with lyes hate nothing so much as the trueth so that when they are truely and faithfully reprooued of their owne wicked and naughtie dealings then they storme and keepe a coyle exclayme defame and vse vnreuerent spéeches so that what toucheth them with moste trueth is starke false and nothing but lyes If this be not his meaning I take it so and can prooue it so for that bothe impudentlie and shameleslie they denied all manifest truethes brought and prooued against them and neither had we a fowle ouerthwart or any motion of a disproofe but in déede Maister Campion oftentimes would offer to trippe me in my tale and would question with the other subtillie according to his vsuall wunt and if this was a fowle ouerthwart when no reason was made or showen of any such occasion let the learned iudge who can discerne trueth from falsehood and traytours from true and loyall Subiects but we must suffer him to kéepe his ordinarie course of vntrueth least perhaps he shoulde chaunce to forget it Then he setteth downe y e Euidēces giuen which you may sée in my other Booke with more trueth then he vseth the matter reporting that which Sled neuer spake nor thought wherfore we let it passe among the number of vntruethes And then vnreuerentlie he cōmeth to Maister Seriant Anderson and Maister Popham the Quéenes Maiesties Attorneye generall wherein our Historian aptlie discouereth him selfe but as Enuie braggeth and draweth no blood so he thinking to iniure others sheateth his venemous blade in his own brest And all this whyle sayth he the good religious Campion shewed him selfe so prudent and aunswered with such pietie and modestie that he not onely astonied the people there present but also brought the Iudges into admiration of him he was so present to him selfe and defended with so great equitie bothe his owne and his companions cause that it was esteemed they should be declared guiltlesse In deede I wyll not denie but this good irreligious Campion handled euerie cause with a smoothe and cullorable countenaunce béeing verie present and quick to him selfe in Sophistical conueyances and farre fet déepe pointes of Logique and indéede he did it with such a modest showe as Iudas when with a kisse he betrayed his Maister And I am perswaded that the people there present were astonied to heare and perceyue that so modest a countenaunce coulde harbour such a false and trayterous heart to God his Princesse and Countrey yea the Iudges dyd admire that a man as he was professing learning and looue in outwarde appearaunce shoulde be so ouercome by the Deuil as to séeke the spoyle and ruine of his Princesse and Countrey Good cause had the people to be astonied that so wicked members as they should be found among them who were true and faith full Subiectes and more cause had the Iudges of admiration to sée their owne Countreymen in a matter so horrible to appeare before them little dyd any there thinke to heare them declared guiltlesse their treasons so apparant and the proofe so euident but rather thought no torment sufficient to reward them who were so haynous offendours and therefore woorthilie and according to desart they were giuen vp guiltie And whereas he sayth It was since reproched to one of the twelue for the yll aduise vsed in searching their cause and that he should make aunswer he could doo no otherwise least he should not be thought a freend to Caesar We adde this to the trothlesse number lykewise the men béeing all knowne to be no one of them such as woulde make any such aunswere but as they sayd then they thāked God that they had liued to doo their Princesse such seruice as to cut off such rotten braunches from such a quiet common wealth so they saye styll and wyll continue therein let the aduersarie report what he can And héere he bringeth in That the next day Collington was found not to be at Rheimes in the specified time for that Maister Lankaster of Grayes Inne witnessed him then to be there with him by which meanes sayth he he delyuered this innocent man from death whereto he was already condempned Howe false this is it is sufficientlie knowne for so soone as the question was mooued Maister Lankaster béeing by made aunswer and neither was Collington condemned nor any of them there that was as then condemned for that all the matters were not heard neither had the Iewrie determined vppon any thing wherefore you maye sée howe he kéepeth his hande in vre with his accustomed vntruethes Vppon this sayth he one William Nicholson Preest standing by and knowing well that Foorde one of the prisoners was as wrongfullie accused as this other earnestly moued with a cōsciēce of veritie would as wel defend the innocencie of Foorde as the other before had done of Collington but it would not fadge with him for he was takē sent to prison Now shal you perceiue what trueth can be gathered of this place which if he were not so confounded in shame he would haue showen some signe of more discretiō rather then to set it so falsely downe after this manner When as Alexander
may be coniectured what all the restis a fardell of follie aptlie figuring bothe him that writ it they who are defended in it and them all that are of that sect and opinion First he findeth him selfe agreeued That Maister Campion should be reported at the tyme of his death tymerous fearefull as also that Sherwin is sayde to shewe more humilitie and discretion and therefore sayeth he dyed a Protestant I will appeale to the right Honorable Woorshipfull that were there present and also to Maister Hearne the other godly Preachers who in offering him comfortable doctrine to strengthen him and establish his faith according as they heartilie desired perceiued him to be very fearfull wauering as it seemed would haue opened something but that this affliction of his minde would not suffer him This is he who was reputed For the flower of Oxensoorde whyle he studied there and since abroade in other forraine Countreyes by whome our Countrey hath gotten great honour the fruites of his learning vertue rare gifts were in him so admirable and wunderfull bothe heere at home and abroade in Italie Germanie and Bohemia an honour to our Countrey a Glasse and mirrour a lyght and lanterne a patterne and example to youth age learned vnlearned religious and the laytie of all sortes state and condition for modestie grauitie eloquence knowledge vertue and pietie Is it not meruaylous to heare the impudencie of this shamelesse Reporter howe according to our French Historian he maketh him selfe the Image of all vntrueth You shall heare Campion his owne confession to those of woorship in this Cittie during the tyme he was in the Tower and then let this large style blazed of him be receyued into iudgement accordinglie He confesseth that he neuer passed farder in Diuinitie then Canisius dictates whose writing is verie well known to our learned Diuines héere in England according as he writ he followed in study so that if he writ false then he followed false if he sayde true then he was in the truth which of these he could not make aunswere which was most certaine This was déepe learning and high knowledge for him to make so prowde a Challenge as he dyd and for this Reporter to write so arrogantly as he dooth inferring such modestie grauitie eloquence knowledge and vertue on him who was nothing acquainted with such singuler giftes Besides this Campion lykewise confessed him selfe that when he was at Praga beyonde the Seas he had lyttle or no helpes at all to imploye his studie which is some reason that he could not be so profounde so present and so well lettered as this gallant gloser fayneth him to be For at verie sildome tymes he had any Bookes to guide him and into such necessitie he was driuen teaching there two Gentlemens sonnes in the Latin tongue as when he had paper he had neither pennes nor inke and when he had inke eyther he wanted pennes or paper so that euer he was without some néedefull thing that should haue holpen him euerie way All these thinges considered maye mooue the simplest body to vnderstād he coulde not be such a fellowe as he was takē for of some This béeing vnderstoode well perceyued by many bothe woorshipfull learned and wise who had conference with him caused them to estéeme of him according and to make reporte of his learning as they found it Which hath made this Reporter vnreuerently and without modestie to reprooue my Lord Bishop of London who sayde of Campions learning as before is expressed which this fellowe ridiculouslie applieth to follie neither giuing him his calling of Honour nor shewing him the reuerence he ought to doo but according to the nature of them all plainlie sheweth his venemous heart And there lykewise he scorneth at Maister Whitakers Booke mislyking my Lords iudgement thereof promising an aunswer thereto as also to publish the disputations in the Tower to the honour of Campion I wyll not gainesay but they may as wel shuffle foorth a shamelesse reporte on theyr owne parte concerning the sayde disputations as they haue this trayterous Libell but when it commeth I trust it shall not passe without the iudgement of those who wil aunswer them to any thing I will omit sayth our Reporter though it be much materiall Campion his vsage in his tyme of imprisonment his constancie and patience his fiue dayes fast from temporall and bodilie sustenaunce his two nightes abstinence from ordinarie sleepe and rest and the time he bestowed in meditation prayer This to be false and vntrue they that can tel haue auouched it wishing all men to estéeme it as an horrible and detestable vntrueth Comparing the māner of the executiō the English with the French I finde them so different the one from the other and bothe of them so far from trueth as I accoūpt it a waste labour to bestowe time in setting thē downe For bothe of them make these Traitors To be so milde patient vertuous as though neuer their like was seen wherfore the bréefe and true manner therof which I my self haue published in my former book shall aunswer all the errors made by them As for the course of rayling he taketh against those of woorship learning and iudgement I will aunswer with the Euangelist Blessed are you when men shal curse you speake all euill against you and make lyes of you for my sake be you glad and reioyce because your reward is the greater in the kingdome of heauen for so haue they dealt with the Prophetes that were before you Now where he saith What charity was it to put pinnes vnder the nailes of Alexander Brian and for his corporall sustenaunce he was driuen to lycke the moysture of the walles It is as all the rest are a most deuillishe and malicious report and that Sir Owen Hopton will affirme with many more who sayeth it to be as false as it is true that God lyueth in heauen But then let me aske him what charity is it for them so vnmercifully to torment the members of Christes body as they doo daylie some tormented three dayes and three nightes together in the Strapado some hanged vp naked by the armes and pricked to death with sharpe Canes others dismembred gréeuouslie and a number persecuted with excéeding tiranny A spectacle of their charitable dealinges shall shortly come foorth in my other Booke howe cruelly they tormented an Englishe man to the death at Roome onelie for his faith and spotlesse Christianitie Then you shall beholde their looue and charitie which forced their owne Doctors into a troubled and vexed conscience beholding the patience triumphing and great ioy this faithful persecuted Martir made bothe at his death and continuing the whole tyme of theyr horrible tormentes He concludeth his Lybell saying God saue the Queene thinking therby to shaddowe his villainous and trayterous heart No no we knowe that all that say Lord Lord shall not enter into the