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A17981	A thankfull remembrance of Gods mercy In an historicall collection of the great and mercifull deliverances of the Church and state of England, since the Gospell began here to flourish, from the beginning of Queene Elizabeth. Collected by Geo: Carleton, Doctor of Divinitie, and Bishop of Chichester.	Carleton, George, 1559-1628.; Passe, Willem van de, 1598-ca. 1637, engraver.	1624 (1624)	STC 4640; ESTC S107513	118,127	246

then euer in the memory of any stories hath beene formerly knowne After all this Tyrone a man not framed for a peaceable course but onely for trouble fell into his last pageant in this manner Montgomery was made Lord Bishop of Derry who was after Lord Bishop of Meath and because the reuenues of that of Derry and some other Bishoprickes neare adioyning were so much impaired that they were no way able to make a reasonable maintenance the Bishop sought by lawfull meanes to get some Lands taken without right or law from his Bishopricke and to recouer things desperately lost if hee could This thing could not be effected without the offence of Tyrone who had gotten into his hands the greatest part of the Bishoprick lands In so much that Tyrone vnderstanding the Bishop sought to recouer the Lands of the Bishopricke told the Bishop thus much My Lord you haue two or three Bishoprickes and yet you are not content with them you seeke the Lands of my Earledome My Lord quoth the Bishop your Earledome is swolne so bigg with the Lands of the Church that it will burst if it be not vented The Bishop intending in a lawfull course to recouer the Lands lost found that there was no man could giue him better light and knowledge of those things then O Cane who had beene great with Tyrone and to make vse of him was a matter of difficulty yet some meanes being vsed to him he came of his owne accord to the Bishop and tould him that he could helpe him to the knowledge of that which he sought but he was afraid of Tyrone nay said the Bishop I will not trust you for I know that one bottle of Aqua vitae will draw you from me to Tyrone Whereupon hee tooke a Booke and laid it on his head saying ter liuro ter liuro which as my Lord of Meath said who tould me this story is one of the greatest kinde of affirming a truth which the Irish haue and after this ceremony performed they keepe their promise O Cane vsing this ceremony promised to reu●ale all that hee knew in that matter if hee would on the other side promise him to saue him from the violence of Tyrone and not to deliuer him into England which he promised to doe Whereupon the Bishop resolued to bring him to the Councell of Ireland there to take his confession as they came along by Dungannon Tyrones Sonne came forth with sixteene horsemen but finding the Bishop well appointed and guarded with men tould him that he came forth onely to attend his Lordship some part of the way and so after he rode with him a reasonable way tooke his leaue and returned The Bishop feared that hee came to take O Cane from him and thought that he meant to doe it if the Bishop had not beene better prouided then he was Thus they comming peaceably to the Councell the confession of O Cane was taken After this Processe were sent to Tyrone to warne him to come at an appointed time to answere to the suit of the Lord Bishop of Derry There was no other intention then but in a peaceable manner to bring the suit to a triall But behold the burthen of an euill conscience Tyrone had entred into a new conspiracie to raise another rebellion of this conspiracy was O Cane This thing was secret the Councell knew nothing of it Tyrone being serued with Processe to answere the suit began to suspect that this was but a plot to draw him in that surely all the treason was reuealed by O Cane whom he knew to be of the conspiracy that the pretence was a Processe and a triall in law but the intent was to haue his head Vpon this bare suspition Tyrone resolued with such other as was in the conspiracy to flye therupon fled out of Ireland with his confederates lost al those lands in the North of Ireland which by his Mies autority the diligence of his Mies subiects which haue been vndertakers are now planted with a more ciuill people then before This story of Tyrone being compared with that of Stucley other Irish commotions may proue the implacable mind of the Pope and the fauour of God in deliuering vs. Stucley by the prouidence of God was turned another way came not into Ireland as he purposed they who came were euer destroyed But no enemy did euer more hurt there then Tyrone But when the accompt is cast vp what haue all the aduersaries of England got in the end They haue like secret serpents nibled at the heel And indeed this hath bin the practise of the ould Serpent in troubling the Church And we haue both warning of his malice a promise of deliuerance in the end to tread on his head that now biteth at our heels The womans seed shal break the serpents head but the serpent shal bruise his heel The promise is fulfilled in Christ Iesus our head and yet by the Apostle extended to the Church Rom. 16. 20. The God of peace shall tread Satan vnder your feet shortly It is true that this is done in a spirituall battell wherin Satan sin shall be ouerthrown yet to comfort his Church and to teach vs to stay with patience the finall fulfilling of his promises he doth in the meane time send many deliuerances to his Church and many times beateth down Satan Satans instruments vnder the feet of his Church For is not this a treading down of Satans head when we see al the instruments that Satan hath stirred vp to our destruction to be by the hand of God beaten trodden to dust Verely vnto vs it is a signe of comfort that from the Lord but to our aduersaries a sign of seare The true Church of God hath a priuiledge aboue others in this world though persecuted in by this euill world yet there appeareth alwaies an eminent priuiledge of the Church Whē the Iewes were Gods Church this appeared among them what was their priuiledge They were called by God from before al other nations not because they were stronger or greater or wiser but because God would fulfill his promise to their Fathers And to them were committed the Oracles of God as the Apostle doth inlarge the same thing to them pertained the adoption theglory the couenants and the giuing of the law the seruice of God and the promises In all which may appeare what God did for them and what he doth for his Church alwaies but what are they to doe to God onely to worship him according to these oracles this law these couenants these promises which God hath giuen them By these things then may the Church be knowne we may add another thing to these whereby we finde that God would alwaies be knowne to be the God of his people of his Church that is a miraculous protection of his Church and strange deliuerance out of dangers This miraculous protection and deliuerance

Savage a barbarous fellow vpon the instigation o● Rhemish Priests voweth to kill Queene Elizabeth Babingtons treasonable practise to take away the Queenes life vpon a motion from Ballard the Priest defeated and he with his Complices deservedly punished CHAP. X. The French Ambassadours plot with Stafford to take away the life of the Queene detected by Stafford himselfe The end of Yorke and Stanl●y traytors to their Count●●y CHAP. XI The Spanish preparations for the Invincible Navie The Duke of Parma treateth of a peace Delegates sent over about it The conference of the Delegates broke off without fruit CHAP. XII The Invincible Armie described At the first setting out shaken sore with a tempest The gests of each day related particularly and punctually The trusted in their strength we in the name of our God They are fallen and we stand vpright CHAP. XIII Trouble from Ireland by Tyrone lurking in Spaine His many dissembling submissions to the Queene of England A treatie of peace concluded CHAP. XIV Vpon the comming of the Earle of Essex into England from Ireland Tyrone contrary to his promise stirreth and rebelleth afresh and is incouraged by the Pope and ayded by ●he King of Spaine These forces are vanquished by the Lord Deputie Herevpon Don Iohn de Aq●ila a Spanish Captaine who was sent to ay●●e the rebells and kept Kinsale capitulates for peace Tyrone forsaken of his followers submits himselfe to the Lord Deputie and is pardoned Plotting a new rebellion when he was called by Processe to answer a suit of the B. of Derry thinking the treason to be discovered by O cane who inforced the Bishop in his suit sted out of Ireland In ●hese troubles and treasons see the Machinations of Satans seed against the seed of the Woman that is the Church and the miraculous deliverances and victories of the Church according to that The Womans seed shall breake the serpents head spoken of Christ appliable to the Church and particularly to our Church of England which that B●laam of Rome seeks now by all meanes to draw from God because he knowes he cannot prevaile against vs till we for sake God CHAP. XV. A great mischiefe intended to the Kings Maiestie at his first entrance into the Kingdome of England before his Coronation Watson and Clark Priests administring oaths of secresie and applauding the proiect It came to nothing by Gods mercie The Kings Maiesties clemency towards the Conspiratours after iudgement pa●t vpon them No treason in England attempted but had a Romish Priest in the practise CHAP. XVI A horrible treason was a hatching and breeding in the last yeare of Queene Elizabeth By Garnetts meanes and others the King of Spaine is delt withall for an invasion he entertaines the motion but vpon the entrance of King Iames did not proceed to any forcible enterprise The Gun-powder treason takes ground and life from the doctri●e of Parsons and the Iesuites It was first propounded by Catesby to Winter The oath of secres●e taken by the Conspiratours Provision of Powder and Wood for the mine Their consultation what to doe after the blow was given The letter sent to the Lord Mounteagle scanned by the Earle of Salisbury and other Pr●vy Councellers but truely interpreted by the King in whose mouth there was a divine sentence at that time so that he did not erre in iudgement The Examination of Fawks The apprehension and confusion of the Powder-traytors God from heaven both by his Word and protection hath manifestly showne our Church to be the true Church and the Popish Church to be the malignant Church and degenerate from the auncient Romane Church both in manners and doctrines Coronis The Conclusion containes diverse Considerations proposed to such as are not well affected to Religion A THANKFVLL REMEMBRANCE OF GODS MERCY CHAPTER I. HAving a purpose to obserue Gods great and merciful deliuerāces of the Church of England and Gods holy protectiō of the same against the manifolde most dangerous most desperate practises of the adversaries that haue with strange malice and crueltie sought the destruction thereof and intending to fetch the beginning of this search from the beginning of the Raigne of Queene ELIZABETH of blessed memory I knew no better way how to enter into this Narration then to begin with the consideration of the State of Queene ELIZABETH at her first entrance for therein will appeare a wonderfull Worke of God and my intention is to obserue the great Workes of God that God may be glorified When this famous Queene first entred shee found the State much afflicted and weakned All the great States about her were enemies Friends none King Philip who offred his loue and kindnesse to her and would haue married her offering to obteine the Popes dispensation for him to marry two Sisters as the like dispensation was obteined by Ferdinand his great Grand-father for h●s daughter Katharine to marry two Brothers he offering this kindnesse and being refused and reiected grew first into dislike and discontent afterwardes into hatred and at last brake out into open Warres The French King Henry the 2. with whom she sought peace fell off also into open Warres His sonne Francis having married Mary Queene of Scotland was moved by the Guysians to cause the Armes of England to be ioyned to the Armes of Scotland to professe the Queene of Scots the heire of England and because Elizabeth was accounted by them an Heretike therefore they sought to put her by to set the Queene of Scots in her place so should the French King haue England also For the effecting of this they sent their Armies into Scotland purposing f●om thence to haue subdued England In so much that Sebastianus Martignius a young Noble man of the family of Luxenburg who was sent into Scotland with a thousand ●oote and some Companies of horse could hardly be disswaded from entring England presently So that Spaine France and Scotland were enemies The State was then much troubled and oppressed with great debt contracted partly by Henry 8. partly by Edward 6. in his minoritie The treasure was exhausted Calis was lost Nothing seemed to be left to her but a weake and poore State destitute of meanes and friends If shee would haue admitted the Popish Religion then might all these difficulties haue beene removed But establishing the Gospell shee vnderstood well that shee drew all these troubles vpon her owne head Yet she gaue the glory to God and in hope of Gods holy protection she established Gods holy truth And verily she did not serue God in vaine For it is a thing to be wondred at that the Land being then without strength without Forces without Souldiers yea without Armour all things necessary should be so suddenly furnished She had provided Armour at Antwerpe but King Philip caused that to be stayed Yet was she not discouraged but layd out much money vpon Armour though she found the Treasury but poore She procured Armour and weapons out of Germany She caused many great

September seven of the conspiratours being brought to iudgement confessed themselues guiltie and were condemned of treason Other seven came the next day who denied that they were guiltie and cōmitted themselues to God and their Country yet were they condemned by their former confessions Onely Polly though guiltie of all yet when he affirmed that he disclosed some of those matters to Sir Francis Walsingham was not called to iudgement The twentieth of that month the first seven were hanged and quattered in S. Giles fields where they vsed to meet Ballard the contriver of all the mischief asked pardon of God and of the Queene conditionally if he had sinned against her Babington who without feare beheld Ballards death whilst the rest were vpon their knees in prayer freely confessed his sinnes and after he was taken downe from the Gallowes cryed out in Latin Parce mihi Iesu the rest in their order likewise were hanged and quartered After the punishment of these Navus a French man and Curlus a Scot Secretaries to the Scots Queene were called into question vpon the Letters that were taken in the lodging of the Scots Queene and freely confessed that those Letters were of their owne writing dictated by her in French and so taken by Navus turned into English by Curle and written in secret Characters whereby she was at last brought into question which brought her also to her end The thing which we obserue vpon this Narration is to continue our complaint of these gracelesse instruments the Priests and Iesuites that by their wicked suggestions bring Princes Nobles Gentlemen of good place which might haue done good service to their Prince and Country such I say doe these wicked instruments bring to ruine and seeme to take a pleasure in the destruction of men May we not see how they come in secretly and scraule in corners like Serpents It is true the enmity is of old set betweene the Womans seed and the Serpents seed and the Church which is the Womans seed haue felt the experience hereof at all times But never had any Church in the world a more liuely experience hereof then this Church of England against whom all this hath beene wrought The Church is the house of God and this Church of England is here with vs Gods house It is apparant that this house was built not vpon the sand but vpon a rocke for the windes haue blowne fiercely vpon it the waters haue risen against it the great and huge tempests haue beaten vpon it and yet it standeth And for this we prayse Gods name that it standeth still And for this purpose is this small Worke vndertaken to giue the watch-word to all them that feare God and loue the comming of our Lord to giue most humble and most hearty thankes vnto God for this inestimable favour of God that after all these assaults which haue beene greater in danger mo●e in number then any Nation in the world at this day can number that after all I say our Church standeth and flourisheth this is our reioycing in God in his goodnesse and mercy But now consider who oppugne vs the serpents seed for can any man with any reason deny these men to be the seed of the serpent I meane the seminary Priests lesuites Are not these the seed of the serpent They plot and practise treasons they raise rebellions their heads and hands are full of bloud and murther And what can the serpent his seed doe more They are men acquainted with the deepenes of Satan they lay snares and wicked plots for des●ructions of States and least men should descry their mischiefe they set a cleane contrary countenance vpon their actions giving out that their weapons are Preces lachrymae Prayers and teares and that it is vnlawfull for them to vse any other weapons even then when they are about their most bloudy designes and what can the serpents seed doe more Can the seed of the serpent proceed more maliciously more cruelly more deeply in bloud then these haue done Then let them be knowne to be the seed of the serpent As for vs we reioyce to be the seed of the Woman the true Church of God we suffer we are reviled standered called Heretikes We learne of our Master to indure the crosse to despise the shame We run with patience the race which he hath set before vs. And we serue God not in vaine for we see that there is a reward for them that serue Him CHAPTER X. THE a next yeare following which was the yeare 1587. the Scots Queene being before condemned but yet reserved aliue discontented persons like evill spirits did continually haunt her though she her selfe would haue beene quiet yet would not they let her rest vntill their busie and pernicious working brought her to her graue for l. Au●●spinaeus the French Ambassadour Leiger in England a man wholly devoted to the Guysian faction went about to helpe the captived Queene not by faire meanes but by treason First he conferred secretly to kill the Queene with William Stafford a yong Gentleman easie to be drawn to new hopes whose mother was of the Queenes bed-chamber his brother was the English Leiger in France at this time Afterward he dealt more plainly with him touching this proiect by his secretary Trappius Who promised to Stafford if he would vndertake that matter not onely great glory great store of money but especiall grace and favour with the Pope with the Guises and with all the Catholikes Stafford his conscience grudging at so great a wickednesse refused to vndertake it Yet he commended one Moody a cut-throat a man fit for such a businesse that if money were given him would vndoubtedly vndertake and dispatch the businesse To him went Stafford where he found him kept in prison in London and told him that the French Ambassadour would gladly speake with him He answered that he was willing so that he might be freed out of prison In the meane time he intreated that Cordali●n another of the Ambassadours secretaries might be sent to him with whom he had familiar acquaintance The next day Trappius was sent to him with Stafford Who when Stafford was remoued conferred with Moody of the manner of killing the Queene Moody proposed a course to doe it by poison or by a sacke of twentie pound of Gun-powder to be laid vnder the Queenes chamber and to be fired secretly These courses pleased not Trappius but he wished that a man of such courage might be sound as was that Burgonian who killed the Prince of Orange These things were presently revealed to the Queenes Councell by Stafford Wherevpon Trappius now purposing to goe into France was intercepted and examined of these things Afterward the Ambassadour himselfe the twelfth of Ianuary was sent for vnto the house of Secretary Cecill and came in the evening where were together by the Queenes command Cecill Lord Burghley Secretary the Earle of Leicester Sir Christopher Hatton and Dauison another secretary