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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A16784	A briefe historie of the glorious martyrdom of XII. reuerend priests, executed vvithin these tvveluemonethes for confession and defence of the Catholike faith But vnder the false pretence of treason. Vvith a note of sundrie things that befel them in their life and imprisonment: and a preface declaring their innocencie. Set furth by such as were much conuersant vvith them in their life, and present at their arraignement and death. Occidistis, sed non possedistis. that is you haue slaine them, but you haue not gotten possession.	Allen, William, 1532-1594.	1582 (1582)	STC 369.5; ESTC S117618	108,398	164

of ●e places those daies of this fiction al the world ●novveth they savv no conspiracie but Masse ●attins lectures disputations and such exercises ●s are done euery day in the yere or if there had ●een any thing that way contriued who is such a ●oole to thinke that this deliberation was kept ●mong the common schollers and Priests of the ●laces pretended and that Sledd Munday and such ●anel were made priue therevnto Vvhat wil you more if the iudgement had been ●one in Tindal and Tiuidal for wreke of deadly ●eude it could not haue been more barbarous and ●niust Consider a litle of the witnesses Of the vvitnesses first they were ●uch as neuer savv knevv nor scarse hard tel of some of them whom they accused and bare testimonie against Neither Sledd nor Munday euer savv M. Campion Bosgraue Ford Brian Collington Richardson Shert or Filbie in their liues before their troubles neither would nor could they euer haue thought of them if they had not by chaunce been taken and in prison at the same time that these fevve of the other vvhom they knevv vvere in durance also but to make them al avvay they vvere contented to svveare to the euidence indifferently against them al as they vvould haue done their conscience was so at commaundement against al the priests and Catholike men in England if they had been required Eliot that vvas the third person and vvitnes in this blouddy play neuer savv F. Campion but at his Masse and Sermon the day of his betraying vpon certaine vvordes of vvhich sermon vvhen he gaue euidence against the good Father that he exhorted men to the obedience of the POPE he was fully confounded Eliot found a false liar and found a false liar before al the bench confessing vpon the Fathers replie that he remembred not that he spake of the POPE in al his sermon But let vs consider a litle of the qualities of these witnesses that you may see what instruments the protestants are forced for lacke of better to vse to the affliction of Godly men They cal Priests and Iesuists the POPES instruments to aduaunce his intentions oh good God what difference is there then betvvixt the POPES instruments and these that the Heretikes onely vse Vvhat are Nicols Sledd The qualitie cōditions of the vvitnesses Eliot Munday companions knovven to be of no religion of euery religion coozeners dissemblers espials yea some of them to be charged with aduoutery murther and such like crimes and therfore as wel for lacke of conscience and religion as for pardon of their faults most fit to be corrupted vvhat I say are these the offal of the vvorld to be compared in truth and veritie against such men most famous for lerning vertue constancie contempt of vvordly things and al vvorthines which both ennemies and frends savv in them And yet vpon the testimonie of one onely of these without any other profes or presumptiōs in the vvorld worthy the hering vvas M. Paine against Gods lavves and the realmes condemned and executed notvvithstanding he alleaged both scriptures and actes of parliament and called for iustice in the same Vvherein the iniurie was the greater that the Apostle expresly geueth order that no accusation be hard against a Priest vvithout tvvoe witnesses yea and if the glorious doctor S. Augustine might be heard none of al these vvitnesses nor a hundreth such more should be receiued against these blessed confessors Thus he saith to Pancarius an officer and an honorable person before vvhom a certaine Priest named Secundinus was accused of a great crime Heretikes are no sufficient vvitnesses against a Catholiks Priest by S. Augustins iudgement Quod videntur obijcere presbytero non est contemnendum tantum si Catholici sunt qui obijciunt nam hereticorum accusationes contra Catholicum presbyterum admittere nec possimus nec debemus That is The crime vvherevvith they charge this Priest must be looked vnto so alvvaies if those that be his accusers be Catholikes for against a Catholike Priest vve neither can nor ought to admit the accusation of heretikes Ep. 212. But novv Gods true religion being abandoned out of our miserable countrey through our sinnes In this irreligious time Priests most subiect to iniuries the honor of God reuerent respect of his sacred Priests is gone withal and in steed of priuiledge and prerogation graunted to them by diuine and humaine lavves they are most subiect to iniuries villanies contempt and calumnies of al conditiōs and stats of the realme One prophan Doeg 2 Reg. c. 22. novv being a sufficient witnes to make foureskore and fiue most innocent Priests traitors and to be slaine on a day But to sifte better the vvorthines and vveight of the forenamed false witnesses as of the cheefe plaiers in this action Let vs compt the notorious and publike lyes which they haue vttered for furnishing their wicked accusation and euidence vvherein to haue the more certaine knovvledg I haue either by worde of mouth if the parties be in England or by letters if they continue beyond the seas had aduertisment of most things that these fellovves fayned to make matter of treason appeare that by some plaine forgeries you may see of what past the rest are A heape of Notorious lyes fained by Munday and others As of the Martyrologe vvhich Munday faineth to be in print in the colledg of Rome wherein the Martyrdoms of al late traitors very largely are vvritten as of Felton of Madder of the Nortons and such other it is knovven to be a flat lye noe such being there at al That D. Bristovves Motiues are commaunded to be read in both the colledges or seminaries of al students most false as the superiors of those houses by their letters and euery scholler here in the realme that euer was of the same do testifie who further more affirme by their faith that there is not iiij bookes as fare as they thinke in both the hovvses Of D. Allens Cathecisme it is a like shameles lye being wel knovven that he neuer made booke of that title or argumēt of the same D. his sermon in Rome and F. Persons speaches against the Q. sitting a mid-mong the students they both the one by his ovvne mouth the other by a suer meanes of aduertisment doe protest vpon their Christian faith and Priesthod vvhich waieth more in any honest mans iudgement then a world of Mundaies and such graceles boyes that there was neuer no such thing And in truth they are both to vvise to vtter such matter if it were in their breasts in those places Neither could any such thing be done but the ●●udents then in the colledg could remember it as wel as these levved fellovves but euery of them as I haue met withal vpon their saluation disauoueth it As they do al other those horrible speaches of the Queenes killing An horrible lye that Munday so diuilishly deuiseth to haue been vttered to him there