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A02797	An apologie or defence of the watch-vvord, against the virulent and seditious ward-vvord published by an English-Spaniard, lurking vnder the title of N.D. Devided into eight seuerall resistances according to his so many encounters, written by Sir Francis Hastings Knight	Hastings, Francis, Sir, d. 1610.	1600 (1600)	STC 12928; ESTC S119773	131,190	226

and storme at her enioying of the Crowne as at her Christian and Religious gouernment Buls are not hastelie procured your Pope must be sued vnto and false informations must be giuen and it might be as they had vaine hopes for a time to feede themselues with so those hopes fayling the fittest season for publishing of the Bull was thought to be when others were prepared to raise rebellion The second point is a matter of as deepe consideration as the former wherein hee telleth vs by enumeration of diuers hard vsages offered by her Maiestie and the Protestants against the Pope and Popish Catholicks that it must needs be that not malignitie of the Pope and his adherents against her but diuers iniuries and cruelties offered inforced the publication of the Bull. I will not vouchsafe to make an Apologie for defence of those things which you Sir Encounterer recken vp as wrongs and iniuries offered to your Pope and Pope-worshippers this onely I say for answere that as her Maiestie hath done nothing in the reformation of Religion in requiring an oath of her people for acknowledgement of her authoritie in inforcing her Subiects to the true seruice of God in punishing offenders and obstinate persons and such like proceedings but that which God commaunded her and the godlie zealous Princes haue done before her so it doth not necessarilie follow that notwithstanding all those things haue been done in godlie zeale and louing care for the saluation of the soules of her people therefore you are free from malignitie your faultines wherein I haue euidentlie proued before though in your deepe and cunning flatterie you would gladlie denie it you fawne vpon her Maiestie and yet accuse her most falselie of breach of promise in altering Religion you seeme to free her from a desire to publish Gods Gospell and yet affirme that your Pope had great cause to proceede against her Other Princes as Edward the first Richard the second Henrie the fourth haue made lawes against the Bishop of Rome his authoritie and vsurped iurisdiction and yet haue not tasted so much of his malice which sheweth the malignitie of your Pope and his adherents against her Maiestie As for your Poperie and superstition rooted out of this land it was not of so long continuance as you boast for but little before William the Conqueror Kings were Gods Vicars for gouerning his Church Ecclesiasticall liuings were bestowed by the Princes they made Ecclesiasticall lawes Priests were married and your Transubstantiation was not then knowne You blasphemouslie scoffe at the Sacrament of the Lords Supper and ye glorie in the dissention betweene vs and the Lutherans but as the Lord is of will and power to mocke mockers so can hee make the infirmitie of his seruants worke to his glorie and their good I passe ouer many things willinglie in this your Rhetoricall flourishing contenting my selfe to haue shewed the non sequitur of your allegation The third point which you would haue considered is that it was an acte of iurisdiction from an Ecclesiasticall superiour as also an auncient kinde of proceeding against Princes in our land as well as in other places without any trouble to the people for the same and therefore you would not haue your Catholikes to be charged with it or troubled for it For answere thereunto this I affirme that as wee acknowledge not your Popes superioritie or Ecclesiasticall iurisdiction ouer vs he playing the vsurping Tirant in censuring our Prince so we neither yeelde that this his proude and malicious cursing and excommunication of Princes hath been of long continuance or that those his adherents who iustifie his proceedings are to bee freed from blame We acknowledge that Princes the annointed of the Lord are the higher powers ordained to execute Iustice and Iudgement ouer the good and euill We knowe no other Superiour in nations and kingdomes next and immediatelie vnder God but such as the Apostle Peter willeth vs to be subiect vnto when he saith Submit your selues vnto all manner ordinance of man for the Lords sake whether it be vnto the King as to the Superiour c. he speaketh of one not of many superiours where a Monarchie is established The time was when your Bishop of Rome was far from hauing a superioritie euen in Rome and his dominions for both Charles the great and Otho the great had right soueraigntie and royaltie of the Countries giuen to your Popes with acknowledgement to bee their Soueraigne Lordes in regarde of which they yeelded tributes and other seruices vnto them as also in former times the Emperours had their Lieutenants and deputies in Rome euen to Gregorie the seuenths time and your Popes obtained not the Soueraigntie which now they challenge till it was almost 1200. yeares after Christ in the daies of Alexander the third and Innocentius the third both Bishops of Rome Your vsuall engine of excommunication and depriuing of Princes of their Crownes is likewise far short of that antiquitie by which you would seeme to mitigate the rigour and crueltie thereof For as there was neuer any Romane King or Emperor excommunicated and depriued of his kingdom by any Bishop of Rome before Henry the fourth Emperour of Rome who was excommunicated cursed by Gregory the seuenth the brand of hel who being a Necromancer a periured person and a most wicked man confessed at his death to a Cardinall that he was set on by the Diuell to raise vp discord and warres in Christendome so in England from the conquest vnto King Henrie the eight there was no Prince of this land deposed by your pope but onely King Iohn It is a noueltie Sir N.D. and not a matter of antiquitie as Sigebert telleth you to teach that people owe no subiection to euill kings c. As for that you say that Subiects heretofore in our land haue not beene troubled or forced to alter their beliefe concerning the Popes power notwithstanding his cursing and depriuing of Princes is more then you know and it maketh no great matter whether it were so or no seeing that your vse of excommunication hath not been so frequent in our land and your dealings were neuer so treacherous and desperate as they haue been of late Our English Nation did neuer at any time since the first receiuing of the faith vnto this day acknowledge the vsurped power of your Pope to depose Princes much lesse hath it been anie matter of our faith your Pope Nicholas and Boniface the eight may put in transubstantiation to be an Article of our beliefe and make your popes supremacie of the necessitie of saluation but wee haue learned to ground our faith vpon the Scriptures of God which teacheth no such absurd and diuellish points The lawes of our land haue heretofore in King Richard the seconds time and Edward the thirds time made it treason to bring in any excommunication from Rome to impugne the lawes of the Realme for benefices and patronages to compasse or imagine the

death of the King to leuie warre against the Prince or to be adherent and fauourers of the Kings enemies all which lawes doe verie neerly concerne such amongst you as vouch the Popes wicked claime to depose Princes and are perswaders aiders and comforters of inuasion and rebellion Your affections wee deale not with but with your confessions wee punish you not for your faith but for your works What punishment did the lawes of our Realme in the first twentie yeeres of her Maiesties raigne inflict vpon anie Recusant for his recusancie but either imprisonment or amercement If your aduentures had not been most audacious and your attempts most dangerous being as men perplexed and enraged to see her Maiestie liue and gouerne in so long happines you might haue been stil vsed with as much mercie and clemencie as it is possible for a Christian Prince to offer to vnrulie and vndutifull subiects● Princes for their safetie and repressing of rebellions may temper their lawes with seuerity and make that treason which to some seemeth a matter of Religion as wee see in Augustines time it was treason to say that Emperours perished for persecuting which yet Petilian and his companie thought they might say trulie and zealously You desire a reconciliation betweene your Pope and our Prince longing to see the daie when you might againe imbrue your handes in the bloud of Gods Saints but as wee know there can be no agreement betweene light and darknes so wee doubt not but the powerfull and mightie God will continue our Prince all her daies to be a true defender of the faith and will preserue his poore flocke from the sauage crueltie and bloudines of woluish tirants and Romish Prelates Our sinnes indeed doe hasten vpon vs the seueritie of Gods iustice but our hope is that the God of heauen will for his mercies sake be fauourable vnto his Sion and continue his truth and true worship amongst vs wherein standeth our chiefest happines our praier shall be to the Lord as Dauids was Let not the vngodly haue his desire ô Lord let not his mischieuous imaginatiōs prosper least they be too proud It may be the Lord himselfe will correct vs in mercie as he hath done manie times alreadie and not deliuer vs into the handes of our enemies to be punished by them It may be the mother of Sisera shall looke out at the window and crie out at the casement Why is his Chariot so long in comming Why tarry the wheeles of his Chariot So let thine enemies O Lord the enemies of thine annointed perish but let them that loue thee and thy truth continue as the Sunne when he riseth in his might as Oliue plants in the house of God that flourish for euer Amen The third and last hostilitie against which in this Encounter you take exception is the rebellion and traiterous practises of diuers of your Catholikes against our gracious Soueraigne where with I charge them which though you labour with all your skill and cunning to excuse will appeare to be no lesse impious and hainons in them nor lesse daungerous to Prince and Countrie then I haue affirmed Your colours and cloakes wherewith you would gladlie couer and hide the rebellious hearts and seditious minds of sundrie your Romish Catholikes are speciallie these the onely actuall rising of two Earles as you say the great pressures wherewith you haue beene burdened being the common griefe of all Common-wealthes and cause that they are troubled with commotions and rebellions the admirable patience of Papistes and Catholikes the practises of Protestants at home and abroad and lastly the light and small offence of such as are charged to haue been rebels and traitors to her Maiestie all which being throughly considered will appeare either most false ●● too slender ●o coue● such treacherous hearts and rebellious practises And to giue the reader a taste thereof although I will not long insist vpon them hath there been but one actuall rising of your Catholikes in fortie yeeres and haue not the wicked counsels of Romish traitours burst out more then once into open hostilitie what say you to the rebellion in Ireland vnder Doctor Saunders their chiefe encourager what of the alienating mouing of the people by your open Masses in La●kashire and else where what of your other attempts with armes so neere the quicke procured by your Iesuiticall Masses of reconcilement what of the canonizing of the Northren Rebels for Martyrs and proclaiming such warres to be godly iust and honorable Lastly what is to be thought of your resoluing directing and encouraging Babington Parrey Somerfield and sundrie others that with violent hands sought to abridge our Soueraignes life Are not these open hostilities and open and actuall proofes that there is in you a resolution to doe anie thing that you can for the ouerthrow of the present State vnder which through Gods mercie we happily and blessedlie liue That we had but one commotion in this Realme we may thanke our good God and not you and your Catholikes who haue done your best by procuring inuasion from abroad and ripening rebellion at home to multiplie that one to many but that the mightie hand of God did alwaies disioynt your deuises praised be his name for it You complaine of the bloudie listes of Lawes rigorous execution and incredible molestations amplifying the correction which is here laid on you for your good with words of the highest and hotest degree but looke backe Sir Auditor to your owne accounts and view with shame enough both your cruell and bloudie persecution with fire and sword as also the mildnes of her Maiesties Regiment whose twentie yeeres together pressed you with no heauier burthens then the penaltie of a shilling by the weeke or some restraint of libertie your Marian persecution yeelded in foure yeeres more effusion of Christian bloud by hanging heading burning and prisoning then euer was heard of in anie Princes raigne in this land before or I hope will euer hereafter It is no new thing with you and your adherents by outcries tragicall exclamations and most slaunderous vntruthes to seeke to blemish her Maiesties milde gouernment and the iust execution of Iustice amongest vs there is a God that knoweth all and will iudge betweene vs how light a matter soeuer you take it to be to rayle vpon his annointed and to vilifie and reuile the reuerent Iudges and wholesome lawes of the land by the odious names of Atheists and bloudie lawes The third colour wherewith you would dasell our eies in beholding your traiterous practises is no lesse vaine and foolish then the other two before are slanderous and false for what though it be incident to all Common-wealthes to be troubled with commotions shall it therefore not follow that your rebellious and seditious practises moued onely for the maintenance of the Romish primacie and saith doe manifest the dangerousnes of your doctrine and treacherie of your hearts against

durst protect felons and murtherers against the King and Iustice of the land neither reuerencing King nor obeying his lawes passed ouer without licence to the King of France Further being adiudged to prison by the King for refusing to giue accounts of great summes of money receiued by him and Reignold Earle of Cornewall and Robert Earle of Leicester being sent to him to tell him of the iudgement set downe against him this meeke Martyr and holy Saint was so farre from the obedience of a subiect that he told the earle of Leicester in these words That how much more precious the soule is then the bodie so much more ought he to obey Becket then his terreine King So notorious and euident was the rebellious opposition of this Popish Prelate against his lawfull Prince that he was openly by the king and his Nobles called Traitor in that he refused to giue earthly honour to his King as he had sworne to do and therefore they generally agreed that he was wel worthy to be handled as a periured Traitor and rebell and therefore most impudent is this Ward-worders assertion that neyther the King nor his Officers did charge him with treason If you please to adde hereunto the arbitrement of this controuersie put into the French kings handes with king Henries large offer and Beckets proud refusall there is no man I hope that knoweth what it is to be an obedient subiect but will condemne him for a rebellious Traitour The kings offer in that arbitrement was this There haue been saith he Kings of England before me both of greater and lesse puissance then I am likewise there haue been many Bishoppes of Canturburie both great and holy men what the greatest and most holy of all his predecessours before him hath done to the least of my predecessors before me let him doe the same to me and I am content Which offer though it were in it selfe and so deemed by all that stood by not onely reasonable but more then reasonable so that they all cried with one voice the king hath debased himselfe enough to the Bishop yet the rebellious spirit of this Archbishop would not yeelde vnto it nor accept peace with his King vpon so fauourable a condition What a Giant-like pride traiterous presumption is this to refuse to yeelde so much obedience to his Prince and Soueraigne as the greatest and holiest of his place haue alwaies yeelded to the meanest kinges of this land what needeth any further proofe of Beckets treason Yet if you will you may remember the letter of Maud the Empresse to him Wherin she chargeth him that in as much as in him lay he went about to disinherit the king to depriue him of his crown and if the Empresse might be thought to speake partially on the King her sonnes behalfe yet the two Cardinals sent by the Pope to heare all this controuersie out of question will not condemne him without iust cause And yet in a letter sent from them to the Pope they do condemne him of exciting stirring vp forraine Potentates to make warre against his naturall liege Lord the words of which letter were these William and Otho Cardinals of the Church of Rome to Alexander the Pope c. comming to the land of the king of England we found the controuersie betwixt him and the Archbishop of Canterburie more sharpe and vehement then we would for the King and the greater part about him said that the Archbishop had stirred vp the French King grieuouslie against him as also the Earle of Flaunders his kinsman who was verie louing and kind to him before he made his open aduersarie readie to wage warre against him as is by diuers euidences most certain c. Now for a subiect to stirre vp forraine States to make warre vpon his Soueraigne and countrie was at all times high treason but that Becket did so by the Cardinals confession was by diuers euidences most certaine therefore Becket not now his enemies but his bre●hren the sonnes of his owne mother being Iudges was a traitor Who then but such a one as hath sold himselfe to all impudencie and shamelesse gainsaying the truth would seeke to couer Beckets rebellions by the facts of Iohn Baptist Ambrose Hillarie of Athanasius Chrysostome which haue as much agreement with the cause of Becket as hath light with darkenes good with euill sweet with sower concerning whose Saint-being I will say nothing sith my purpose is not to search what he is with God after his death but what he was towards his Prince in his life neither am I priuie to his repentance which might be secret at the last gaspe or to Gods iudgements into which I presume not to presse Yet you may remember that long since it was a generall Prouerbe of your Pope-made Saints That many are worshipped for Saints in heauen whose soules are burning in Hell and that in particular concerning Becket great doubt was moued as is by writers alleadged out of Caesarius the Monke whose words are these Quaestio Parisijs inter magistros ventilata fuit vtrum damnatus an saluatus esset ille Thomas c. There was a question debated amongst the masters at Paris whether Thomas Becket was saued or damned To this question answereth Roger a Norman that he was worthie death and damnation because he was so obstinate against Gods minister the king Peter Cantar a Parisien disputed on the contrarie that his miracles were great signes and tokens of saluation and of great holines in him c. Which argument this Encounterer likewise vrgeth But behold what strength is in it For one of these we shall find to be true that either they seemed only and were no miracles indeed such as many by the craft and conueiance of idle Monks haue been shewed to the people as namely those miracles of the Dominicke Friers in their hot contentions with the Franciscans about the conception of our Ladie who thinking by sleight to worke in the peoples heads that which by open preaching they durst not now attempt deuised a certaine Image of the Virgin so artificially wrought that the Friers by priuie gynnes made it to stirre to make gestures to lament to complaine to weepe to grone and to giue answeres to them that asked c. vntill the Franciscans seeing by this meanes their credits to decay and all the almes to be conueyed to the Dominickes boxe and not being vnacquainted with such cousening practises espied their iugling and discouered their feined fraudulent miracles For which cause foure of the chiefest actors in this iugling miracle were burned at Bern● Or secondly if they were not counterfeite but done in deed they were not wrought by God but by the power of Sathan to draw men from Christ to Antichrist Of these the Apostle foretelleth vs that whensoeuer it commeth to passe it might not trouble vs That the comming