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A19395	Conspiracie, for pretended reformation viz. presbyteriall discipline. A treatise discouering the late designments and courses held for aduancement thereof, by William Hacket yeoman, Edmund Coppinger, and Henry Arthington Gent. out of others depositions and their owne letters, writings & confessions vpon examination: together with some part of the life and conditions, and two inditements, arraignment, and execution of the sayd Hacket: also an answere to the calumniations of such as affirme they were mad men: and a resemblance of this action vnto the like, happened heretofore in Germanie. Vltimo Septembris. 1591. Published now by authoritie.	Cosin, Richard, 1549?-1597.	1592 (1592)	STC 5823; ESTC S108823	96,463	116

vnitie and as it were to candie and sweeten them ouer with the louely shewe of peace and agreement which neuerthelesse being without Veritie is nothing else but a lewde Conspiracie and is rather a deadly sleepe wherewith men be ouerwhelmed then an vnitie of the spirite in the bond of peace For where all is subdued what needes any further resistance And where a strong man keepes the house all that he possesseth are in quiet till a stronger then he doe come to dispossesse him But when as God taking compassion of his Church in the eies of his mercie had in these latter times made the day-starre to shine againe in our hearts no sooner did the beames of his Gospell beginne to glimpse and breake foorth but the old craftie serpent knowing his kingdome to be inuaded a fresh and his time but short began in great wrath to rouse vp himselfe againe and to hammer ouer a new all his long approued wicked experiments and to plant newe engines for the discredite and hinderance of the passage and propagation of the Gospell This he plotteth besides many other meanes by seducing some that professe it into sedition and errour and so in their persons he bringeth the profession it selfe into obloquie and hatred with such as afore did thinke hardly of it or were not perswaded it was the trueth For by reason of his Angelicall substance corrupted with Diabolicall malice and by long experience euen of 5553. yeeres continuance he is nowe become 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 mille-artifex his perfite crafts-master in infinite deuises and subtilties So that he doeth at sundry times very manifoldly and variably suggest and plot not onely seuerall and diuers but sometimes euen contrary opinions and actions one to another howbeit all to one and the selfe same generall ende of seducing mankinde Therefore amongst his infinite deceites for hinderance of the Gospell and of mans saluation by it some whome he cannot peruert in doctrine he seeketh to attaint in life Others whome he cannot so easily seduce in their conuersation he oftentimes soweth his cockle darnel of superstition schisme heresie in their hearts and so peruerteth them in iudgement and matter of religion Some whom he cannot entangle by one sinne he tempteth to ouerthrowe by a sinne contrary vnto it Others whom he cannot snare by grosse and actual sinnes he gets ground of by making them haue ouer great estimation of their owne supposed vertues and puritie so that they growe hereby both to a conceite and selfe loue of themselues and also to contemne and condemne others with the Pharise saying Oh God I thanke thee that I am not as other men are or as the Prophet speaketh touching such proud hypocrites Depart from me for I am holier then thou Others he draweth into errour by mistaking of the true qualitie or cause of things as when not being able to corrupt the general doctrine of the church he perswadeth Preachers most to insist vpon matters of meere circumstance as if they were of especial necessitie and procureth the outward gouernment discipline to be obtruded beat vpō for a principal point of doctrine So that matters of the substance of doctrine faith in deede do either wholly slippe by vntaught or els are so sleightly and ignorantly slubbered ouer by such Preachers that the common aduersarie the Papist is thereby rather hardened then conuinced in his opinions Which practise may hereby appeare to be the very subtiltie of Sathan for that such doe vse farre more earnestnes and diligence to plant and bring in that their discipline then they doe for retaining of purity soundnes of doctrine and are lesse incensed and vehement against Papistes then they are against such as impugne that fancie Out of this head springs also that errour of some who doe attribute all disorder and personall faultes of men about execution of lawes vnto the lawes themselues and vnto the verie pollicie of the Church thereupon gathering with themselues that the plot of Discipline if it might come in place will surely serue as a Mithridate and soueraigne salue to heale with short applying all diseases and sores both of Church Common wealth Certaine be so bewitched in like sort by a kind of admiration of that which is in it selfe most necessarie as that in the meane time they ouerslippe matters of no lesse importance in the life of a Christian because they thinke it sufficient to be occupied onely about the other Hereupon it commeth that sundry doe attribute so much to the hearing of the word preached that neither publike nor priuate reading of Scripture workes of charitie praying nor practise of that which is preached is any whit almost regarded of them Whereby they are alwaies learning but neuer come vnto the knowledge of the trueth as if the very worke wrought of hearing alone could make them good and perfect Christians So that where in olde time there were certaine heretikes called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 who did nothing but pray so not without cause haue some feared left such persons would bring in an heresie of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 putting all religion in bare hearing of Sermons Diuerse also there are who are so whetted against the abuse of things that the Seducer hereby taketh opportunitie to drawe them to omit euen the good and commendable vse of them Such are those that because they will not seeme to confirme Gods trueth by humane testimonie doe therefore despise all light and helpe of good artes and learned Interpretors and in steede of them doe in their sermons nothing els but blase out their own friuolous and vnsound Collections trifling out the time without order and methode by an heape of earnest and resonant but vndigested wordes vaine repetitions tautologies and battologies without any substance of matter to the great abuse of their auditorie and of that excellent worke Many also are so afraide to fall into superstitious obseruation of daies commanded for abstinence and auoiding of most nutritiue diet that at such times they doe vsually most pamper their vile flesh euen with a purposed and setled contempt of good lawes in that behalfe prouided Neither will this kinde of persons for the most part vse any priuate fasting for subduing the body but must haue a whole side of a Countrey or an whole familie at least knowe when they fast and will not sticke to ride out a dosen or twentie miles from home to fast with others for companie though without publike authoritie there to make ostentation of great humbling themselues by abstaining perhaps from one meale howe plentifully and delicately soeuer they do fare at suppers or at their next meale Likewise to auoid opinion of superstitious worship of the outward elements at Cōmunion sundry doe refuse to kneele at the perception of it and of the contrary side doe fall to a prophane and swinish at least outward irreuerence of that high and excellent mysterie Others there are who in auoiding superstition are

day to helpe to burne them to worke vpon my body with intent to make mee call backe my sayde wordes of protestation concerning the trueth of this religion which if I would not doe sayde they but could endure the torments that they would inflict then they all would bee of my religion and would make mee Emperour ouer all Europe This tale to them that had minds afore prepared and tooke Hacket by reason of his most earnest protestations prayers shewe of zeale pretended fauour with God and such like to be a man that would not tell an vntrueth for all the worlde seemed no way vnprobable or to be discredited so that these three principall actors hauing aswell among themselues as with others often conferred hereabouts both by word and writing were by the midst of Trinitie terme become most resolute for the aduancing of their designements For in a letter written by Coppinger about that time to the aforesaid I. Thr. it is thus contained Mine owne deare brother my selfe and my two brethren who lately were together with you in Knight ryders streete doe much desire conference with you which will aske some time The businesse is the Lords owne and hee doth deale in it himselfe in a strange and extraordinarie maner in poore and simple creatures Much is done since you did see vs which you will reioyce to heare of when wee shall meete and therefore I beseech you so soone as you receiue this letter hasten an answere in writing to my sisters house therein aduertise I beseeche you when I may come to speake with you for delayes are dangerous and some of the great enemies beginne to be supursued by God as they are at their wits end The Lordmake vs thankeful for it who keepe vs euer to himselfe to doe his will and not ours By occasion also of hearing Master Charke on a Fryday about that time at the Blacke fryers Coppinger saith he was thereupon moued by God spirite to write vnto him a letter which beareth date the 9. day of Iuly last In which letter amongs other things thus hee writeth vnto him I doe not denie good Syr but that I haue nowe a good long time taken a strange and extraordinarie course such as hath offered occasion of susption of my not onely doing hurt to my selfe Note but also to the best sort of men now in question and to the cause it selfe But by what warrant I haue done this that is all for if the holy Ghost haue bene my warrant and carryeth mee into such actions as are differing from others of great note in the Church of God what flesh and blood dare speake against me This is it that I desire at your hands and at all the rest of Gods seruants that you forbeare to censure me and such others as shall deale extraordinarily with me in the Lords busines committed to our charge iudge of vs by the effects that followe which if you hereafter see to be wonderfull great then are all ordinarie men placed in callings within this land to feare and to call themselues to examination before the Iustice seate of God and see whether they haue walked faithfully before God and man in seeking the saluation of the soules of the people and the aduancement of Christs kingdome Note and the ouerthrowe of Antichristes And if all and euery one in their places shall be forced to confesse to haue fayled in not discharge of their dueties let them acknowledge their sinne and repent before plagues and punishments fall vpon them The waste of the Church cannot be denyed to be great so that there is place for extraordinary men though temporizing Christians will not admit this therefore Gods mercies shall appeare to be wonderfull great if amongst vs he haue raysed vp such as I knowe hee hath and hereafter I doubt not by Gods grace but I with the helpe of the rest shal be able to auowe against all gainesayers whatsoeuer My desire heretofore hath bene to haue counsayle and direction from others but nowe by comfortable experience I finde that the action which the Lorde hath drawen me into is his owne and he wil direct it himselfe by the holy Ghost and haue the full honour of it and therefore I wayte vpon him and yet most hartily craue the prayers of the Saints that they will beseech God to blesse all his seruants that he hath set aworke in his owne businesse And I further beseech you to shewe this Letter to Master Trauerse and Master Egerton and all the rest of the godly Preachers in the Citie and iudge charitably of me and others and let euery one looke to his owne calling that therin he may deale faithfully and let vs iudge our selues not iudge one another further then we haue warrant After this letter it hapned that M. Charke preached in the same place againe the next Sunday after at which time Coppinger tooke him selfe to be particularly meant by one part of the sermon Whereupon hee wrote a letter to another Preacher as I doe gather the thursday after viz. 15. of Iuly wherby he thus signifieth M. Charke told the people that there were some persons so desperate that they would willingly thrust themselues vpon the rockes of the lande and waues of the sea This I tooke to be spoken principally to my selfe therefore I thought good to aduertise you that he spake the trueth in those words but he touched not mee but himselfe and the rest of the ministers of the lande who haue not onely runne desperately themselues vpon the rockes and waues but carryed the whole shippe whereby they all bee in danger of shipwracke and shoulde haue perished if the Lorde had not immediatly called three of his seruants to helpe to recouer it who are not onely sent from God to his Church here but also elsewhere through the worlde My calling is specially to deale with Magistrates Another hath to doe with Ministers who hath written a letter to you of the Citie but it cannot be deliuered hardly this day The other third is the chiefest who can neither write nor reade for he is the Lords Executioner of his most holy will This letter is thus subscribed The Lords messenger of mercy Ed. Coppinger These three therefore strongly fansying to themselues such extraordinarie callings and standing resolute by all meanes to aduaunce that which they falsely call Reformation and beeing thus seduced and bemoped by Hacket it is no marueile though they entred further as by degrees into many lewde dangerous and traiterous attempts For first hauing conceaued mortall hatred against two great and and worthie Counsailors of this estate who they thought woulde not a little stop the course they had taken and hinder the purpose which they pursued Coppinger therefore by Hackets aduice directed seuerall letters vnto some honourable personages whereby he signified that certaine treasons were entended euen against her Maiesties owne sacred person meaning after to appeach those two thereof and hoping by

conferre and treate with one Edmund Coppinger Gent. and Henry Arthington Gent. concerning his traiterous purposes imaginations compassings intents aforesaid And that the said William Hacket afterward that is to say on the 16. day of Iuly in the 33. yere of the reigne of the Q. Maiestie that nowe is at London aforesaide in the house of the saide Iohn Walker in the foresaid parish of S. Marie Sommerset in the said ward of Queenehithe in London of his owne peruerse and traiterous minde and imagination maliciously aduisedly expresly and traiterously did treate had conference with the saide Edmund Coppinger and Henry Arthington by what wayes meanes and maner the said traiterous purposes imaginations compassings and intents might be accomplished and brought to passe And thereupon on the said 16. day of Iuly in the saide 33. yeere in the said house of Iohn Walker aforesaid situate and being in the sayd parish of S. Marie Sommersets in the saide ward of Queene-hithe London in the presence hearing of the said Edmund Coppinger and Henrie Arthington being then and there in the said house the said Hacket these false traiterous English words following of our said Soueraigne Q. Elizabeth falsly maliciously aduisedly expresly directly trayterously sayd rehearsed published and spoke viz. That the Q. Maiestie meaning our saide Soueraigne Ladie Q. Elizabeth had forfaited her Crowne and was worthie to bee depriued And that furthermore the said William Hacket thereupon the sayd 16. day of Iuly in the said 33. yeere in the said house of Iohn Walker situate in the parish of S. Marie Sommersets in the sayde ward of Queene-hithe London maliciously and traiterously moued stirred vp the sayd Edmund Coppinger and Henrie Arthington traiterouslie and openly to publish and declare in London aforesayd that the Queenes Maiestie that now is had forfaited her crowne to the great offence and derogation of the person of the Queenes Maiestie and to the subuersion of the state of this Realme of England and contray to the peace of our said soueraigne Lady her crowne and dignities c. And being likewise asked whether he were guiltie to this Inditement or not belike perceiuing that he was already plunged in farre inough he began then to answere more peruerslie saying to the Bench You haue wit ynough to iudge for me your selues too being asked the same againe hee sayd Fewe words are best it is good to know much and to say litle and being diuers times asked he still repeated these wordes Then being told that if hee should persist in that sort not to plead directly as by lawe hee ought it could not serue his turne for that alone was sufficient of it selfe to condemne him of the treason and being asked againe whether hee were guiltie or not hee sayd Ambo But some further good aduertisements being giuen vnto him at last after much adoe he pleaded not guiltie to that second Indictment Thereupon being asked by whom he would be tried he sayd by the countrey but being told he ought to say By God and by the countrey he said that he would be tried by the Iurie And there withall burst out into such blasphemous and hellish wordes against the Maiestie of God in trueth not to be heard by Christian eares and therefore not to be vitered or repeated here that they were to the great astonishment and horrour of all and detestation of him with all the hearers It may be that he hoped thereby to induce the Iudges to an opinion that he was mad and furious albeit in his countinance gesture attentiuenesse to that which was spoken silence when hee ought holding vp his hand when he was commaunded perceiuing the effect of all was spoken pertinent though sometimes peruerse answers through all that action no tokens of any furie or madnesse at all could be noted in him Some haue imagined that the Illusion of the deuil was so strong to perswade him of an immunitie from all danger according to his former conceiued opinions that thereby he grew to such a diuelish impatience against God when as now hee sawe himselfe to bee brought to more apparant danger thē happely he supposed there euer would be cause for him to feare Which thing seemeth more probable to haue bene the occasion thereof for that immediately after his blasphemie he also vsed these words God almightie is aboue and will he not reuenge But seeing hee could not bee brought to any other plea the Queenes Attorney generall desired in behalfe of the Queene that iudgement thereupon might be entered And seeing hee pleaded guiltie to the one and stood mute to the second in that hee answered not as law would whereupon he was to bee conuicted of both the Inditements so that none Euidence which was there readie needed either to bee vsed or by the Queenes Counsell learned to be opened or enforced Neuerthelesse for better satisfaction of the world it was by them thought meete somewhat to shew both how hainous and how euident for proofe his treasons were And albeit I am not able in any tolerable sort to repeate the graue wise and pithie discourses that were made in this behalfe by those two woorthie gentlemen master Attorney generall and master Sollicitor to her Maiestie yet I hope they will pardon me to set downe onely some few heads of their speaches as they were noted brieflie from their mouthes and afterward brought vnto mee Master Attorney declared that the originall of these plots and conspiracies came from and were for the Sectaries of this time that Coppinger in a letter to Vdall prayeth him and the rest in prison not to saint that he and others had taken a course for their speedie deliuerance and desired pardon for not comming to him which hee sayd might bee dangerous for that they should bee the sooner suspected or to that effect that there were letters dispersed in the streetes fiue or sixe dayes before the action that there were found in Wiggintons chamber printed pamplets which should bee sent to a great number of women whom I quoth master Attorney forbeare to name as is touched before that in other letters was contained that the Queene should commaund her Counsellors to their chambers because of the stirre and danger which then should bee that Hacket himselfe had afore confessed besides the other points of the Inditements how he sent Arthington and Coppinger to do and proclaime as they did Then master Sollicitor very excellently also discoursed how there was no treason more dangerous then that which is practised vnder other colours as it were in the cloudes and none wounded so deep as those that were shadowed vnder the cloke of religion zeale for of it commonly followed greatest destruction and calamities This he exemplified by the Anabaptists at Munster in Westphalia and some others that in like sort as they did this Hacket also affirmeth hee was sent from God was a principall Angel sent before the Iudgement that he doth participate with horror I reherse