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A15033	The English myrror A regard wherein al estates may behold the conquests of enuy: containing ruine of common weales, murther of princes, cause of heresies, and in all ages, spoile of deuine and humane blessings, vnto which is adioyned, enuy conquered by vertues. Publishing the peaceable victories obtained by the Queenes most excellent Maiesty, against this mortall enimie of publike peace and prosperitie, and lastly a fortris against enuy, builded vpon the counsels of sacred Scripture, lawes of sage philosophers, and pollicies of well gouerned common weales: wherein euery estate may see the dignities, the true office and cause of disgrace of his vocation. A worke safely, and necessarie to be read of euerie good subiect. By George Whetstones Gent. Seene and allowed.	Whetstone, George, 1544?-1587?	1586 (1586)	STC 25336; ESTC S111678	158,442	230

no doubt might easily ouercome the most stubborne and conuaie both benefite and quietnesse to either partie and no doubt if the popular sort will be counselled for their profite and quietnesse they shall finde these Maiestrates readie to redresse their iniuries so farre as Law and charitable perswation will helpe them CHAP. 8. Of the disposition and destruction of Atheists machiuillians and Timepleasers with sundrie examples to the same purpose THe Prophet shewes the foole in heart doth say there is no God In truth Gods iustice proues them fooles that little feare his Rod. But God except who sees his thoughts and spewes him from his mouth This foole the Atheist doth beguile old age as wel as youth He Protew-like doth shape himselfe according to the time He wretch is neither whot nor cold but cleaueth like to slime To the affections of the great if fortune change their state He sets his foote vpon their throtes of whom he fauned late He knowes that gods which rule on earth haue humors like to men Not grosly closely in his words sweete flattery he doth blen He reads and doth regard these faults Loue hate and priuate gain Through partiall domes euen Iustice seate with poore mens teares doth staine He knowes lords letters beare a swinge sic volo keepes in awe And Munera speaks not for the poore that makes marreth law He knowes as Diamonds set in brasse haue but a slender grace So vertue in a poore attire sits in the meanest place And therefore clothed all in pride aboue he takes his seate And hath his tongue prepard to please the humors of the great Where fortune smiles he euer faunes and strongest parts doth take Where fortune frownes father brother and friend he doth forsake The scripture saith this cursed wretch is neither whot nor cold His conscience feeleth no remorce in murthering yong or old The stranger and the farthest borne he followes to be great And helpes to cut his neighbours throte his neighbors goods to get The widdowes teares and Orphants spoile he grieues not to behold But onely seekes to please himselfe and hath no God but gold Religion yet to serue his turne his cloake he still doth make VVhen as his Zeale is like a fane that euerie wind doth shake This wretch the prophet holds a foole and so he doth him call VVhose building grounded all on wit vpon his shoulders fall Examples of the miserable ends of Atheistes c. As I haue said the Atheists I meane are armed with all worldlie pollicies of wit to strengthen their purposes are the instruments in the practises of great Princes these bee they that followed Abimilech when he murthered threescore and eight of his brethren these be the firebrandes of the Pope and the two edged sword of Tyrauntes If they bee instruments of anie goodnesse their trauell is not of zeale if they bee vsed in anie mischiefe they outrage without pitie people farre more accursed then Pagans for they hold a kinde of religion and by the working of nature deale charitablie with their neighbours But the reprobate Atheists contemne all religion feare no God and although they faine to please all men yet they trulie loue not their owne kindred for bee it to depose their Soueraigne to spoile their Countrie and to murther their dearest friendes if they see likelihood in thier Treasons they giue consent if hope of aduauncement they first set hand to their sword But you monsters of humanitie that are drunken with the strength of your owne wittes and are bewitched with the hopefull successe of your pollicies esteeme it for sound counsaile that I giue you to vnderstande that the eternal God whom you neither feare loue nor do acknowledge seeth all your wicked pollicies in his vengeance and frustrateth them with his mercie he searcheth the reines and heartes and will giue to euerie man according to his works If you dig a pit to burie the innocent looke to fall into it your selues if you rayse a gallowes to hang them be you sure that you shall suffer thereupon if you edge your sword to pearce their hearts trust to it your own intrailes will be the sheath thereof What you doe or would doe vnto them shal be done vnto you Hamon set vp a payre of gallowes to hang Mardocheus the Iew and he and his tenne sonnes did die thereon The false Iudges that sought the life of chast Susanna were themselues stoned to death Adonibezek that had cut off the thombes and great toes of thrée score and tenne kings had fedde them with Crombes vnder his table being taken in battaile by Iuda chiefe of the Army of the Israelites had his own hands toes cut off who confessing that God had done by him as he did by others miserably died If you Atheists regard not these examples in scriptures because you studie not the sacred Bible looke into the examples of prophane Cronacles and histories of time from whence you fetch you pollicies and cunning experiments and you shall sée in all ages howe God returned the mischiefes of the wicked into their owne bowels Diomede fedde his horses with the flesh of men and Hercules made Diomede foode for his owne Horses Arnutius Peterculus hearing that the tyrant Amylius offered great rewards to him that coulde deuise any new kind of torture presented the tyrant with a brasen horse that he had inuented Amilius iust in this cruelty made him first to suffer the pains which he had prepared for others The like was the rewarde of Perillus who presented the tyrant Phalaris with a Bul which being heate with fire with the outcrie of the poore patients woulde bellowe like a Bull. Apius Claudius called the prisons the proper houses of the poore people but he himselfe by the commaundement of the Tribune of the people was throwen into prison where hée died among théeues and murtherers The Emperour Caligula was a notable Atheist and woulde in his vngodly actions alwayes dispight the Gods but in the end as Sweronius testifieth hée durst not repose in the night he was so terrified with horrible visions and he that so boldly misprised the gods at the smallest lightning and clap of thunder would in the night hide himselfe vnder bedde and in the day in the most obscure corner in fine he was violentlie slaine by Chereus Cornelius Sabin and other theyr confederates Although the Heathen people worshipped not the true God yet he seuearely punished the contemners of theyr superstitious Religion not honoring any other Pausanius reporteth that in the Citie of Cabira in Boetia a mile distant from Thebes there was a Temple dedicated to Ceres into which all men were defended to enter saue the Cabirians it fell out that Mardonius one of Xerxes Captaines with his army entred to spoile the same of a greate quantitie of treasure but of the suddaine Mardonius and his companie were assailed with such madnesse as leaping from high mountaines clifts and rocks they all

which the Popes at all aduenture said and published that he tooke the name and part of the Gibelines which done he made cruel warres vpon the Gelphes and by meanes of this declaration all Italie was diuided into these two names through which there was in euery city mortall frayes yea in particular houses the sonne was armed against the father and brother against brother and onely in affecting the one partie of the Gelphes and the other of the Gibilenes the one striuing to confound the other the stronger alwayes ouerthrowing and leuiling the houses of the weaker with the earth in which enuious quarrell there was neuer more crueltie showen amonst infidels then was then among Christians among whome no aduantage was spared Anthonie Archbishop of Florence writeth that through this faction thirtie of the most famous houses of Florence were rased and ouerthrowne the like outrage was seene throughout all Italie The greater part followed the Emperour and chased the Gelphes who againe with their vttermost power resisted thē to conclude the greatest part of Rome were ready to take part with the Emperor which the Pope séeing he forthwith set open his reliques and made a solemne Procession and sought all the meanes that might winne the people carrying before him as the people supposed the keyes of S. Peter and S. Paul and in place of most audience made a publique oration or more properly a sermon declaring how great a folly it was to persecute and kill so many men for the onely fauour of these two names which the deuill had spread abroad for the publique persecution of Italie more he affected his perswaston with other matters of so great waight as hee mooued the people to commiseration and to ioine to defend him against the Emperour who was in good hope to haue destroied the whole partie of the Gelphes this scourge for the sinnes of the people lasted a long time in Italie by meanes whereof many thousands of men were slaine many sumptuous Pallaces were destroyed and many faire houses were burned the authours of this report are Platinus in the life of Pope Gregorie the ninth Sabellicus in the thirde parte of histories and many others of great knowledge CHAP. 10. The enuious reuenge of Megolo Larcaro a Genowais against the Emperor of Tribisonde a notable example for enuious Courtiers AMong all Estates and professions of men enuy is principally entertained among Courtiers where euery man laboureth to woorke his fellowes disgrace and aboue all enuieth his prosperitie which haue bene the cause of many quarrels and often times of ciuil commotion of which there cannot be a more rare and profitable example of admonition then this which followeth At what time the Genowaies were Lordes of certaine Cities of the Leuant in the yeere 1380 It happened that among other gentlemen of Genoway and Florence which trafiqued to Caffa there was a Genowais of the family of Larcari named Megolo Larcaro who for his rare qualities and vertues was highly fauoured of the Emperour aboue all other who obtayned satisfaction of all his demaundes which fauour moued the chiefe of the Courte to great enuie anger and disdaine who sought by all means to abase him it fell out in the ende that Larcaro playing at Chests with a young Courtier a fauorite also of the Emperour who of set mallice with iniurious words disgraced Larcaro and inlarged the same in scandelizing the name and race of the Genowaies which constrained Megolo to giue him the lye for which lye the other sodenly stroke him with his fiste such was his assistants as Larcaro was depriued of present reuenge and in aunswere of sundry complaintes to the Emperour he could haue no reperation of credit who séeing his honor in this perill protested in his heart to be reuenged and dissembling his intention in few dayes after he desired licence of the Emperor to depart to order certain affayres in Genowai which the Emperor graunted Megolo hauing a prosperous wind shortly after ariued at Genowai where he was wel welcomed of all his kinsemen and friends whom he solemnely feasted and after the banquet from point to point he recounted the whole matter and beséeched their aid to reuenge this outrage which not only touched himselfe and them but also al the Genowaies To whom they all solemnely swore that they woulde not forsake him vntill they had reparation of the iniurie and preparing themselues to succour him in this enterprise in short time they prouided two gallies well armed with souldiers marriners and skilfull pilots and so set forward to sea with determination to rob and rifle all the ships of those partes and to burne the villages and towns subiect to the Emperour vpon the sea side but Megolo purposed not to kill a man that he tooke but to giue them a more grieuous life then death for euery man which fell into his handes Larcaro caused his nose and eares to be cut to their continuall reproch and although there were many vessels armed against him yet none could dammage him his Foystes were so light as knowing his aduantage he shunned and escaped all perilles he tooke many gallies and with the former disgrace he curtailed a number of men one day he went on shore to recreate himselfe and to make prouision for fresh water and victuall his men going aforeraging tooke the cattell goods and the men of a village which they sacked prisoners among the captiues there was an olde man that had on his head and beard none but white heares with whome were his two sonnes captiue who seeing the mangling of his companions and the danger of his sonnes fell humbly at the feete of Megolo and with many teares beseeched him rather to put him to death then to suffer such shame to be done to his sonnes Megolo that had a generous minde tooke compassion of the olde mans teares pardoned both him and his sones and with a great Uessell full of noses and eares he sent him to the Emperour and commanded him to deliuer the same to his Prince with this message that vntill he deliuered his enemie into his power he would not leaue to do him al the mischiefe he could The old man glad of his escape did his message The Emperour considering well of the mischiefe thought it the lesse euil to goe in proper person to the sea side and to leade the young gentleman captiue to Megolo then to suffer the continual pyracies which he committed with his gallies the young gentleman in forme aforesayde with a halter about his necke was presented before Megolo who made humble intercession for the pardon of his life Megolo with his foote strooke him first on the face said that the Genowaies were not wont to show crueltie to women and such effeminate persons as he and giuing his enemie an other blowe with his foote he retourned him to the shore not without the great reioycing of the young gentlemans friendes who but lately bemoned him as a dead

the conquest hath bene the onely hurtfull enemy of Englande Yea as I haue showne the conqueror of conquerors and subuerter of former monarchies whose conquest I haue set foorth much to the glorye of her maiesties peaceable victories who armed with grace only with a Lawrell bow in many daungerous conflicts hath ouercome her mortal enemy enuy whose wonderfull conquestes I haue in my second booke orderly registred that her maiesties louing subiectes may comfort them selues with this assurance that God is her strength and the defence of her people and that her wicked abiectes séeing their dayly confusion may be intised by her excéeding mercy to loue and reuerence her maiesty or by continuance of their ouerthrowes may be brought to feare and dread Gods vengeaunce and so giuing honor and praise to his holy name I end this first booke of my English mirrour contayning the conquest of Enuie FINIS ¶ THE SECOND BOOKE OF THE ENGLISH Mirrour intituled Enuy conquered by Vertue Publishing the blessinges of peace the scourge of traitours and glory of Queene Elizabeths peaceable victories accompanied with manie other comfortable regardes for good subiectes A Sonnet of triumph to England England reioyce the foes of thy welfare The foes that made the former monarkes bowe VVrath warre discorde and enuy fettered are Elizabeth euen with a lawrell bow Hath vanquished them that foyled Caesars band Vpon thy portes to feare thy forraine foe Destruction standes with blouddy swoord in hand VVithin thy Coast in townes and Country goe Plenty and peace armde with a hasell wande Thy subiectes true on mylke and hony feed Thy abiectes false consume like flames of reed Malgre To the right reuerend Lordes the Bishops and other the de●…ines of England accomplishment of all holy desires MOst reuerend Lordes and deuines hauing composed this English mirrour of selected counsels in sacred scripture and graue censures of morall gouernours applyed to a generall instruction where in the good maye see the large rewards of vertue the bad the seuere scourges of wickednesse The booke with a fearefull boldnes I haue armed with the shield of her Maiesties royall protection who is the liuely example of Dauids righteousnesse Salomons wisedome Augustus clemency and what vertue so euer is els contained in a religious gouernment at whose feet rather by deuine miracle then worldly policye enuye and her worst enemies fall so that in effect her excellency is a figure of the whole worke and the worke the iudgementes of religion honor and iustice Religion containing the godly counsels of the Cleargie honor the fortitude of the Nobility and Iustice the wisedome of temporall magistrates the three chiefe members of this blessed gouernment whereof her Maiestie is the heade and glorye The first part containing the conquest of Enuie next vnder her Maiesty who containeth the whole I haue directed to the right honourable nobilitie to whom appertaineth the swoord the second part containing Enuies ouerthrow by vertue or more properly her Maiesties peaceable victories I reuerently present to your reuerende Lordships as cōquests gained by grace The last part containing a fortresse against Enuy instructing euery estate with sacred and moral counsels in the offices and disgraces of their professions I humbly present vnto the temporall magistrates vpon whose wisedomes all good gouernments are buylded The part which I submit vnto your graue censors I hope will be well accepted containing so holy matters as peace godly gouernment deuine prouidence c. Peace is your visible attyre the beauty of Gods Church and of temporall blessinges the most precious Saint Paule among the offices of a Bishop forbiddeth him fighting yea perswadeth him to abhorre it in others and by circumstaunce or lawfull imagination counselleth him to protect and defende peace I need not priuiledge my boldnes in numbring the manifold benefites thereof you Reueren de deuines dayly preach them and by grace and your godly labours England possesseth them God continue his peace which passeth all vnderstanding among vs. To which good God I zealously pray for the prosperity of his church the welfare of your Lordships and all other true preachers of his word with what title so euer they be adopted At whose commaundement I reuerently remaine George Whetstone Induction to the Reader FRiendly Reader the good Oratour Demosthenes pleading the iniuries of a poore Widdowe before the Athenian Iudges was of the sayd Iudges so lightly regarded as he left his purpose and told them that he had a strange tale of the shaddow of an Asse to deliuer the Iudges eares were by and by quickned and with great earnestnesse desired Demosthenes to tell on his tale Demosthenes by this pollicie hauing got full audience openly rebuked the follie and iniustice of the Iudges who had their eares better prepared to heare the tale of the shaddow of an Asse then the oppression of a poore VViddowe and so through verie shame obtained iudgement in the VViddowes behalfe and certainely a pleasing enterance and vnexpected varietie many times causeth tedious tales to be fully hard and long Bookes to be throughly read which otherwise how good so euer they be the one might be smallie regarded and the other lesse perused But friendly Reader I salute thee not with this following Epistle of the Athenian Senate with this bare respect that thou mightest with expectation of nouels bee drawne to reade out the blessings of our English peace and the diuine and heroycall vertues of our most good Queene ELIZABETH when with the fulnes of thy owne benefites thou hast large cause hourely to contemplate of the one and the admiration of the whole world to allure thee to gaze on the other but rather writing of so diuine a subiect as Peace I thought no commendation the holie Scriptures reserued so excellent as the iudgement of the Athenian Senate who set light of the verie gaine of warre in regard of peace and by semblable iudgement arose this proue be that vnlawfull peace was to be preferred before lawfull warre For one other especiall regard I commend this graue letter vnto thy censure which was the high accompt that the Athenian Senates made of the renowmed Philosopher and good common-wealthes man Euxin that with like reuerence thou mayst honour loue and obeie our capitall Magistrates and common wealthes men placed by God and her Maiestie in Authoritie as the pillers and strength of this happie Gouernement for thy further instruction I referre thee to the letter it selfe which with the cause thereof followeth Betweene the Athenians and the Lacedemonians arose a most cruell warre about a contention for certaine townes seated vpon the riuer of Milin the day of battaile was assigned and bloodelie fought on either part but in the end the Lacedemonians were defeated and ouercome by the Athenians The vanquished demanded truce of the victorers and the more easely to obtaine this grace they sent as Ambassador the renowmed Philosopher Euxin who before the Senate set foorth the commendations of peace with such eloquence

tiranny of Princes they war without warrant that rebell against their worst kinges Were there neither authority deuine nor prophane to reprooue rebellion yet in their best quarrel destruction which is the ende of traitours sheweth their beginning to be naught God manye times suffereth both good and bad Princes to fall into the handes of their subiectes but woe be vnto those subiectes by whom either perishe We need no other torment to relish our present peace and prosperity then the remonstration of the ciuill warres bloudshed and manye grieuous calamities which for the space of 85. yéeres yea during the raignes of 6. kinges afflicted this small kingdome After the violent depriuement of king Richard the second from his crowne and dignity but in the end the Lorde hauing compassion of our manifold miseries séeing our priuate dissention ready to grow to publicke destruction euen when his wrath séemed to be moste hot euen then the beames of his mercy sodenlye comforted vs by the destruction of our arch tyraunt Richard the third who caused and committed more wicked saluadge murders then fiftéene of the most tirannous kinges of England But humbly confessing Gods prouidence with this old age Nullum violentum perpetuum This tiraunt that was giltye of the death of king Henry the 6. Prince Edward his sonne and his own naturall brother George Duke of Clarence and afterwardes within the space of thrée yéeres of his vsurped raignes caused his nephewes king Edward the 5. and Richard Duke of York his brother to be murthered in the Tower not caring for his alleageaunce towardes the one nor fearing to breake the sanctuary for the other who repudiated his owne mother offered to marry his brothers daughter as is a fore saide After these and many other murders without the procéeding of law this manifest monster the ende of Englandes ciuill misery was slaine at Boshworth field by that prudent Prince king Henry the 7. by Gods planting the root of Englandes happinesse and naked like a hog was carried vpon a bare horse backe to Lecester there buried who meriteth neither the monument of King nor Man CHAP. 3. A sommarie of the vertues of the prudent prince King Henry the seuenth THE fayrest buylding hath a foundation and the fruitfullest trée his root and albeit the beuty of either be in the outward attyre yet the strength of both consisteth in the inwarde substaunce And certainely in all discriptions the cause ought to be as well set downe as the effect that Anatomie is perfect that discouereth all the inward as well as the outward workemanship of man Uertue I grant conuayeth honor simply from a mans owne good actions yet the same is much inlarged if from desent to desent honor be issued from the monumentes of his auncestours vertues And sure the glorye of a man is much iniured or eclipsed that is blasoned but by his owne proper regardes when the same maye bee truely illustred by such auncient graces But touching my purpose some will suggest that as it is a needlesse labour to seeke a Diamonde with a torche which glimmereth in the darke so as bootelesse is the curiositie to deriue her maiesties glorye further then from her owne sacred vertues when her wicked enemies renowne her perfections and wilfully pursue their owne destruction through presumption that her excellencye is composed all of grace and mercye I am bounde reuerentlye to acknowledge that her maiesties perfection is the true discouery of imperfection and in this regarde absolute that enuye and the worste sworne enemies of God assault her prosperity yet if anye thing maye be added to extoll her name this meriteth regarde that the fruites of vniuersall comfort which her deuine and heroicall graces plentifully distributeth grow from the root of Englandes happines which no priuie conspiracy could vnplant euen king Henry the seuenth And of that gréene trée which the stinging Locustes could by no meanes wither king Henry the eight And doubtlesse who so shal zelously contemplate how that the prouidence of God euen in our greatest destructions alwaies sustained vs may easily perswade him selfe that God would haue his glory to s●…ine ouer the world next his word from the lights of this little Iland seperated as some write from the world or at the least ioyned to the outermost end thereof How easie a praye had we béene for the ambitious desire of some bordering king during the blouddye contention betwéene the two illustrous houses Yorke and Lancaster for imperiall dignitye but God would not our subuertion The history of Richard the thirds tiranny is a most lamentable cronicle yet the same considered by Gods prouidence assureth vs by that sharpe remembrance a remembraunce of his mercifull goodnesse in deliuering vs from a continuall calamity in she wing vs through the vnlawfull procéedings of the tirant a lawfull meanes to accord these two puissant houses But before this great blessing his incomprehensible wisedome so sharply scourged this realme as all her estates suppressed their priuate desires and hartely praied and laboured for this happy vnity who mercifullye regarding our patient bondage crowned king Henrie the 7. with title of both houses by taking to wife Lady Elizabeth eldest daughter to king Edward the 4. And albeit the end of our ciuill destruction in the beginning of his prudent raigne be sufficient alone to crowne king Henry the 7. name with euerlasting fame yet to gouerne vs right God indued this noble Prince with vertues answerable to so great a blessing as a general peace And certainly if Alexander surnamed Seuerus be reckoned among the number of the most wise emperors King Henry the 7. meriteth semblable title as the true imitatour of Alexanders gouernment King Henry the 7. entered vpon a kingdome no lesse disordered with continuall tumults then did Alexander with the vnmeasurable voluptuousnes of Helyogabalus the necessitye of time made him a seuere executioner of his lawes and testifieth the same to be deriued from perfect iustice he punished offences without respect of persons Honor was no plea for the mighty he iudged the trespasses of Lawyers with his owne knowledge of the law he onely pardoned ignoraunt offences and graciously relieued his poore subiectes oppressions he was thought somewhat too seueere in punishment But such murmuringes were no lawfull complaints to a fore that is deepe festered with corruption sharpe corsiues are to be applyed Euen so in a disordered common wealth seueere lawes are to be ministred He was a iust vertuous valiaunt and learned Prince a true distributour of peace plentye and prosperitye to his subiectes who in his life time had had a moste liberall portion of happinesse if in his dayes the Gospell of IESVS had had a free passage But leaue we Gods will therein who would not haue his outward temple builded in Dauids time but in his sonne Salomons and yet was Dauid a righteous man after the Lord in whose hand the harts of princes are had established a setled peace

lawes of other Countreys to hinder as much as pollicy may the iniustice of Iudges our English gouerment hath had a speciall care to kéepe the seate of iustice from the staine of iniustice For to preuent that authoritie may not outcountenance right neyther Lord nor any other person may sit with the Iudges in open Sises vpon paine of a great forfeiture to the Quéene To preuent that affection nor hatred may hinder iustice no man may be iudge of Assise in the place where he was borne or is resident vpon the paine for euerie offence 100. pound Iustice shall be solde deferred or denied to no man and the Iustices of any bench or Court whatsoeuer shall not let to execute the common lawe for any commaundement that shall come vnto them vnder the great Seale or priuie Seale manye other penall charges are sette downe vnto Iudges to binde them to the true administration of iustice and all to little purpose if the Iudge haue not the feare of God before his eyes for positiue lawes as the sage Cleobulus sayeth are like vnto cobwebs through which the hernets breake when the little flies are meashed The lawe of man may stay iniustice but the awe of God is only of force to banish it You Iudges are Gods vpon the earth listen then what the God of heauen sayeth vnto you I say vnto you that you are Gods but you shall dye like men This was the charge of Moyses Iudge righteously betweene euery man and his brother and the stranger that is with him so that you know no f●…ces in iudgement but heare the small as well as the great and be afraid of no man for the iudgement is the Lords The iudgement thus being the Lords Iudges ought to be very circumspect to administer iustice without respect of persons for his vengeance dayly maketh it knowne that nothing is more odious vnto him then iniustice corruption and cruelty they are the principall causes that God repented that he euer made man which moued him to destroy the whole world with water God by his Prophet saith that he will roote out the Iudge it followeth why because he hath solde the righteous for money and the poore for showes Daniel said vnto the false Iudges that wrongfully accused condemned Susanna The messenger of the Lord standeth waiting with the sword to cut you in peeces I coulde recite many fearefull examples to witnes that Gods vengeance swiftly followeth the Iudge that by partiall iudgement either vndoeth the poore or sheddeth giltles blood Among the rest I haue selected these speciall examples following to admonish or rather to assure all iudicial estates that God neuer faileth to reuenge their iniuries that in the bitternes of their sorrow demaund his iustice At such time as the Templers were destroied a Knight of that order a Napolitane borne by the generall iudgement of the people was at the pursuite of Philip le Bel King of Fraunce vniustly put to death by the iudgement of Pope Clement the fifth the poore Templar going to execution behelde Pope Clement and Philip le bel at a window who in the bitternesse of his sorrow sodainly cryed out Most cruel Clement since there is no worldly iudge before whom I may appeale to reuoke thy most cruell and vniust sentence pronounced against me at the malitious pursuit of Philip of France I therefore appeale thée and Philip both as most wicked iudges before the iust iudge Iesus Christ within one yeare to answere my blood which you most impiously shed before whome I oppose my cause which shall determine it without loue gaine or dread which blinded you the knight was executed according to his iudgement and about the time of his demaunde no doubt but by Gods iust iudgement The Pope dyed of an extreame paine of the stomake and in the like manner dyed Philip of France semblable was the ende of Ferdinando the fourth king of Castile who putting to death two knights more of displeasure than iustice when neither teares nor prayers aided their innocencie they cited the saide king to appeare before the tribunall seate of Christ within thirtie dayes the last whereof king Ferdinando attached by death failed not to make his answere Baptista Fulgotius writeth that a Captaine of the Gallies of Genes who making a course vpon the seas tooke a foist of Catelong in which there was a Captaine that neuer offered wrong vnto the Geneuoies notwithstanding through the hatred the Geneuoyes bare vnto the Cattelans hée commaunded that the captaine being taken prisoner shoulde bee hanged who in shedding manie teares required that his euer well vsing of the Geneuoies might repeale the iniust sentence of death pronounced vppon him but in the ende finding no grace hee repaired to deuine iustice and tolde the cruell Captaine that synce he woulde procéede to execution of his bloodie iudgement he appealed him by a certain day before god who chastiseth vniust iudges to render an account of his hard iudgement at which day the Geneuoy Captaine failed not his apparance Many other examples might be produced but this is of most speciall memory of the Archbyshop of Magonce in Almaine whose iniurie was reuenged on the whole Citie of Magonce As the renowned Poet Gontier in the life of the Emperour Frederick the first and the the Bishop Conradus in his historie of diuers accidents reporteth The sum whereof followeth In the Citie of Magonce in the yeare of our Lord 1150. or there about there was an Archbishop named Henry a man bewtified with al maner of vertues This Archbishop like a good shepheard seuerely corrected al publike sins hauing a great care of his flocke was very iealous of the honor of God and of the loue of his neighbour through enuie whereof the wicked bare him a mortall grudge and by false accusations accused him before the Pope of disabilitie and many other grieuous crimes The Pope notwithstanding that he alwayes reputed him a holy and a iust man neuertheles could not denie his accusors audience The Bishop hauing aduertisment of these enuious suggestions to purge his innocency chewsed among his friends a priest whom he had much aduanced and especially loued named Arnold This Arnold being rich of spirit Eloquence and mony so soone as he arryued at Rome pricked forward by the diuel studied how to depriue his Lord of this dignitie and to seate himselfe in the Archbishopricke And to come by the same he subborned two lewd Cardinals with a great sum of money afterwards instéede of fauorable speaking in his Masters behalfe he spake much against him saying that he was more bounde to God and the truth then vnto men and that in verie trueth the Archbyshop was guiltie of the accusation laide against him by meanes whereof the Pope was moued and abused with the report and therefore to procéede iudicially against the innocent Bishop hée sent the two Cardinals confederate with Arnold into Almaine who being ariued