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<P>THE SEA-GULL, OR THE NEW APPARITION IN THE STAR-CHAMBER AT WESTMINSTER.</P>
<Q><BIBL><HI>PSAL. 63.11.</HI></BIBL>
<P>The King &s;hall rejoyce in God, every one that &s;weareth by him &s;hall glory, but the mouth of them that &s;peake lyes &s;hall be stopped.</P></Q>
<P>Imprinted, 1644.</P>
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<HEAD>The Sea Gull,<NOTE PLACE="marg">The Picture was taken at Sea.</NOTE> OR, The new Apparition in the Starre-Chamber at WESTMINTER.</HEAD>
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<P>Being a true and accurate de&s;cripti|on of a large Picture, expo&s;ed to publike view, lively repre&s;enting the &s;tory of <HI>Conanus</HI> and <HI>Vr&s;ula,</HI> (taken out of the golden Legend) mo&s;t gro&s;&s;ely mi&s;taken for His Maje&s;ties tendring the Scepter of his Kingdomes into the hands of the Queene and Pope.</P>
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<P><HI>GRatian</HI> the Sonne of <HI>Valentinian</HI> the elder being Em|perour,<NOTE PLACE="marg">The l<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">gend of St. Vr&s;ula, &amp; the 11000 Vi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">|gins that wai|ted on her, exactly pour|traied, in the afore&s;aid Picture, faithfully tran&s;lated out of the French Copy &s;et forth by Pete<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> Ri|badeneyra, in the yeare of our Lord 1608, to amu&s;e credulous Romi&s;h Zelots.</NOTE> a Captaine of his named <HI>Maximus,</HI> a valorous man, borne in <HI>Bretaigne</HI> (at this day called <HI>England</HI>) re|belled again&s;t him, and having bin proclaimed King by his Souldiers, and a&s;&s;ured of their fidelity, and the love of his
<PB N="2" REF="3"> friends, pa&s;&s;ed into <HI>France,</HI> where he made great conque&s;ts, and &s;pecially in <HI>Britaigne</HI> (then called <HI>Armorica</HI>) the which he utterly wa&s;ted and ruined, <HI>Maximus</HI> (conceiving this place to be of im|portance for the &s;ecurity of <HI>England</HI> and <HI>France,</HI> re&s;olved to re-people the &s;ame, and to that purpo&s;e he divides among&s;t his &s;oul|diers which came out of <HI>England,</HI> the fertile fields, and lands of little <HI>Britaigne,</HI> to hold of him in fee: but to the end the Soul|diers might be firmely &s;etled in that Province by marrying there, he &s;ent to call out of <HI>England, Scotland,</HI> and <HI>Ireland,</HI> a great number of Maidens to people that Countrey, in the which all the wo|men had before bin &s;laine. The chiefe Captaine of all the Army was <HI>Conanus,</HI> a man of high birth, and the mo&s;t renowned Lord of <HI>England,</HI> whom <HI>Maximus</HI> had made his Lieutenant Generall, and Admirall of this Sea Coa&s;t, who asked in marriage a mo&s;t ver|tuous Damo&s;ell, the Daughter of <HI>Dio<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">o&s;ius,</HI> then King of <HI>Corn|wall,</HI> called <HI>Vr&s;ula,</HI> a Lady adorned with all tho&s;e vertues which may be wi&s;hed in a woman, honourable, faire, plea&s;ing, and of a noble demeanour; then they &s;ought for the purpo&s;e afore&s;aid throughout tho&s;e I&s;lands, eleven thou&s;and maids, which were to accompany <HI>Vr&s;ula,</HI> who was to be the mi&s;tre&s;&s;e and conductre&s;&s;e of all the re&s;t, whereof &s;ome went freely, others con&s;trainedly: but &s;uch was the peremptory commands of <HI>Maximus,</HI> who was already become ab&s;olute Lord, that they mu&s;t pa&s;&s;e thither; and being imbarqued in diver&s;e ve&s;&s;els prepared for them, it plea&s;ed God that when they were at Sea there ro&s;e a rough and contrary wind, in&s;omuch that in &s;tead of arriving in <HI>Britaigne,</HI> they were violently tran&s;ported towards the <HI>Rhyne</HI> upon a coa&s;t where the Sea ebbs and flowes. At the &s;ame time when this happened, the Emperour <HI>Gratian</HI> knowing what <HI>Maximus</HI> had done in <HI>Englan<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">,</HI> and <HI>France,</HI> and how he was revolted from him his Soveraigne and Ma&s;ter, had called the <HI>Picts</HI> and <HI>Hunnes</HI> to his &s;ervice, a cruell and barba|rous Nation, who had vanqui&s;hed the <HI>Gothes,</HI> and done incredi|ble exploits in war, who being there at that time under their lea|ders <HI>Melga</HI> and <HI>Gannus,</HI> pre&s;ently ran towards the Sea with a pui&s;&s;ant Army, and like Robbers &s;wept all away before them, and pillaged and de&s;troyed what&s;oever, came in their way, with an in|rention to pa&s;&s;e over into <HI>England,</HI> and hence expell <HI>Maximus,</HI> and to re-e&s;tabli&s;h the Emperour, in who&s;e pay they were: now it &s;o happened, that they all met together in the &s;ame harbour with the Virgins, and under&s;tanding they were the enemies &s;hips,
<PB N="3" REF="3"> belonging to <HI>Maximus,</HI> again&s;t whom they were come, they &s;eiz|ed upon them; when they &s;aw them to be fraughted with Damo&s;els, they re&s;olved (being people no le&s;&s;e luxurious and lu&s;tfull, then cruell and Inhumane) to force and ravi&s;h them of their honour: But the&s;e generous Virgins incited and encouraged by Saint <HI>Ur&s;u|la</HI> their Ladie and Governe&s;&s;e, determined rather to lo&s;e their lives then their cha&s;tities, and having bravely te&s;tified by their words and deeds, their re&s;olution to endure the utmo&s;t of extre|mities in the defence thereof, the <HI>Barbarians</HI> turning their lu&s;t into futie, and enraged al&s;o again&s;t the Chri&s;tian Faith, fell upon them (as wolves on a flock of &s;heepe) and put them all to the Sword; that &s;o having di&s;patched them, they might &s;peedily get over into <HI>England,</HI> which they knew was disfurni&s;he<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> of men, in regard that <HI>Maximus</HI> had drawne them thence to furni&s;h other places.</P>
<P>Of all that holy companie, there e&s;caped only one named <HI>Cordula,</HI> who hid her &s;elfe for feare when they ma&s;&s;acred the re&s;t, but per|ceiving what had pa&s;&s;ed, was loath to &s;urvive her companions, and therefore (being moved &amp; &s;trengthned by the grace of God, offered her &s;elfe the next morning, and was added to the number of the Virgin Martyrs, as the <HI>Roman Martyrologe</HI> reporteth. Now the chiefe among&s;t them, who&s;e blood was &s;hed for the faith of Je&s;us Chri&s;t, &amp; pre&s;ervation of their honour,<NOTE PLACE="marg">A<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> Engli&s;h Bi&s;hop.</NOTE> were (as <HI>Adon</HI> mentioneth) S. <HI>Ur&s;ula,</HI> guide &amp; Governe&s;&s;e of all the other, and <HI>Santia, Gregoria, Pinno&s;a Mardia, Saula, Brittula, Saturnina, Saturnia, Rabacia, Pal|ladia, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">l<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">mentia,</HI> &amp; <HI>Grata.</HI> The day whe<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">eon they dyed, Je&s;us Chri&s;t their deare Spou&s;e, tryumphed in them, over Infidelitie, Sen&s;ua|litie. Sin, and Hell; that &s;o all might &s;ee, that the vertue of a Chri&s;tian hath greater courage to &s;uffer death then the cruelty of Satan hath power to inflict it, and that the fall of Chri&s;ts Souldi|ers is their ri&s;e, their Death their conque&s;t, for which they re|ceive an ine&s;timable reward which can never be taken from them. The Bodies of the&s;e holy Virgins were buried by the faithfull with great Devotion, carried to <HI>Cologne,</HI> a Towne on the &s;aid River of the <HI>Rhine,</HI> where was founded a faire Mona&s;terie of Nuns, where is yet to be &s;eene unto this day many of tho&s;e holy Vir|gins heads, which are had in great Reverence, and others are di&s;|per&s;ed into divers parts of Chri&s;tendome. 'Tis beleeved by many, that the place where their Bodies re&s;t at this day, was the &s;ame where they were Ma&s;&s;acred, for the ground of that Church will
<PB N="4" REF="4"> not retaine any other dead corps,<NOTE PLACE="marg">This rea&s;on <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">i h <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> but &s;uch a<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> h<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ve Faith in pop<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;h le|gends: for why &s;hould we be|lieve that the ground &s;hould be &s;o un+ho&s;pitall, or that the a&s;hes of holy Vi|gins &s;hould wo l<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> &s;o un|charitable a mi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">a<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">le, as no<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> to afford a lodging to a nak<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters"> corps, e&s;pecially of an innocent Child.</NOTE> no not of an Infant newly bapti|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ed, but if any <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e interred there, it is againe ca&s;t up in the night, as Bi&s;hop <HI>Lyndan</HI> te&s;tifieth, which is a &s;igne (&s;aith the afore&s;aid Author) that God will not have any other bodies to be buried in that place, wherein tho&s;e Illu&s;trious Virgins and Martyrs are, who watred that earth with their blood, for the confe&s;&s;ion of their Faith, and the defence of their cha&s;tities. 'Tis al&s;o affirmed, that Saint <HI>Ur&s;ula</HI> and her holy companions,<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">This &s;mells ra<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">k of popi&s;h S<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">per&s;tition, for we have but o<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters"> M. di|a<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">.</NOTE> a&s;&s;i&s;t and comfort tho&s;e at the houre of their death, who honoured and invoked them in their lives; their Martyrdome (according to <HI>Baronius</HI>) was accom|pli&s;ht in the yeare of Grace, 383. under <HI>Gratian</HI> and <HI>Valentinian</HI> his &s;on, and <HI>Theodo&s;ius</HI> the elder, whom <HI>Gratian</HI> a&s;&s;umed into the Partner&s;hip of the Empire, judging it needfull (being pre&s;t on all &s;ides by the <HI>Barbarians</HI>) to ingage in his defence &s;o valiant a Cap|taine: the day which the Church hath con&s;ecrated to their memo|rie, was the 21 day of <HI>October.</HI></P>
<P>Now be&s;ides the Authors afore&s;aid, there have written of them <HI>Wandalebert, anno,</HI> 850, and <HI>Sigisbet</HI> a Monk of <HI>Gemblack,</HI> who writ after the &s;ame 500 yeares, and <HI>Roger de Ci&s;teaux, Richard de Premon&s;tre,</HI> and <HI>Claude de la Rote,</HI> and <HI>Bonfinius</HI> in his Hi&s;to|rie of Hungarie, and <HI>Petrus de Natalibus,</HI> and <HI>Polidore Virgil</HI> in his Hi&s;torie of <HI>England</HI> and more amplie then all the re&s;t, <HI>Suri|us</HI> in his fifth <HI>Tome</HI> of the lives of the Saints.</P>
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<OPENER><SALUTE>READER,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P><HI>ALthough the bare Relation of the &s;torie doth &s;ufficiently di&s;|cover to everie Intelligent Reader, the gro&s;&s;e abu&s;e of His Maje&s;ties Subjects, by &s;uch, who &s;ugge&s;t to the vulgar, that this Picture hath reference to His Maje&s;tie, and His Royall Con&s;ort: Yet becau&s;e it is a matter of great difficultie, to di&s;abu&s;e tho&s;e who are given up to &s;trong delu&s;ions, to beleeve Lyes, becau&s;e they love not the Truth, and no le&s;&s;e then many thou&s;ands have alreadie &s;wallowed this <HI>Sea-Gull;</HI> I have therefore thought fit, to pre&s;ent unto the Reader, &s;ome remarkable particulars expre&s;t in the Picture it &s;elfe, not &s;o much to convince as confound them, who have made a wicked u&s;e thereof, to foment and increa&s;e di&s;loyall thoughts and jealou&s;ies in His Maje&s;ties good Subjects, whereof the plaine mean|ing Painter of <HI>Antwerpe</HI> is no way guiltie.</HI></P>
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<P N="1">I. THe dre&s;&s;e or Garbe of the Prince there drawne; with Sandales, Buskins, and Habergion, &s;hewes him to be an ancient Roman Captaine, and no King of <HI>England.</HI></P>
<P N="2">II. The Impre&s;&s;e or Motto in this En&s;igne, being <HI>S. P. Q. R.</HI> which &s;ignifieth <HI>Senatus Populusque Romanus,</HI> that is, the Senate and people of <HI>Rome,</HI> puts it out of que|&s;tion that it hath no relation to <HI>England.</HI></P>
<P N="3">III. The glory or raies over the Head of the Princes re|pre&s;ented, a&s;&s;ures us, that the Painter intended not any Per&s;on now living, but a decea&s;ed and canonized Ro|man Saint.</P>
<P N="4">IV. The Coronets on their Heads, re&s;embling tho&s;e of Dukes or Earles, and not like Imperiall Crownes, de|mon&s;trate them not to be Soveraigne, but Inferior Princes.</P>
<P N="5">V. There is not any repre&s;entation of the Pope at all; for there is no Triple Crowne. In one of the plates whereof (<HI>Cau&s;abon</HI> affirmeth) in his &s;hort Annotations upon certain places of the new Te&s;tament was ancient|ly engraven, the word <HI>Mysterium,</HI> but an ordinary Bi|&s;hop with a Miter and a Cro&s;ier, before whom the two Princes were affianced to each other; who&s;e tender of the Scepter to her, was Ma&s;ter Painters Embleme, to &s;hew the commanding power of Beautie.</P>
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<P N="6">VI.The numerous company of Virgins, repre&s;ented in the Picture (being 11000. as is the &s;torie) cannot hold any proportion with the few Ladies and Maids of Ho|nour, which attended on her Maje&s;tie at her landing at <HI>Birdlington.</HI></P>
<P N="7">VII. The place de&s;cribed in the Picture, appeares plainly to be the Citie of <HI>Cologne,</HI> knowne unto all Travellers by a famous marke, which is the crooked Steeple there to be &s;eene.</P>
<P N="8">VIII. There is the bloody ma&s;&s;acre of a Prince&s;&s;e, and an exceeding great company of women repre&s;ented, wher|as God be thanked, neither her Maje&s;ty nor any of her Ladies attending her, received the lea&s;t hurt at their ar|rivall afore&s;aid.</P>
<P><NOTE PLACE="marg">Parva San|ta Anna de Sevilla.</NOTE>La&s;tly, the Picture it &s;elfe was made by one <HI>Gerarde de la Valle</HI> at <HI>Antwerpe,</HI> as is expre&s;t in the bottome thereof, and intended to be &s;et up in Saint <HI>Anus</HI> Church in <HI>Sivil</HI> in <HI>Spain,</HI> as appeares by the &s;uper&s;cription (up|on the wooden ca&s;e wherein this Picture drawne on cloth was rolled up, when it was taken neere <HI>Arundell</HI> Haven about Chri&s;tmas la&s;t, in a Ship belonging to one <HI>Devoes</HI> a Merchant in <HI>Flaunders.</HI>) In which Church, and the like hallowed places, no Pictures or Images of the living, but onely of departed Saints canonized are hanged up. Unto which, Romani&s;ts performe an inferior kind of religious wor&s;hip.</P>
<Q>Spectatum admi&s;&s;i ri&s;um teneatis Amici?</Q>
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