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<P>A COLLECTION OF SEVERAL TREATISES CONCERNING <HI>The Rea&s;ons and Occa&s;ions</HI> OF THE <HI>PENAL LAWS.</HI> VIZ.</P>
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<ITEM>I. The Execution of JUSTICE, in <HI>England,</HI> not for <HI>Religion,</HI> but for <HI>Trea&s;on:</HI> 17 <HI>Dec.</HI> 1583.</ITEM>
<ITEM>II. Important Con&s;iderations, by the <HI>Secular Prie&s;ts:</HI> Printed <HI>A.D.</HI> 1601.</ITEM>
<ITEM>III. The <HI>Je&s;uits</HI> Rea&s;ons Unrea&s;on|able: 1662.</ITEM>
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<P><HI>LONDON,</HI> Printed for <HI>Richard Roy&s;ton,</HI> Book&s;eller to His Mo&s;t Sacred Maje&s;ty. M.DC.LXXVIII.</P>
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<HEAD>THE PREFACE.</HEAD>
<P>THE de&s;ign of publi&s;hing the&s;e <HI>Treati&s;es,</HI> is to vindicate the Honour and Ju|&s;tice of our Laws from the rude a&s;per|&s;ions, which have been lately ca&s;t up|on them, by &s;uch who are better ver|&s;ed in <HI>Hollin&s;head</HI> and <HI>Stow,</HI> than in the true Rea|&s;ons and Occa&s;ions of tho&s;e Laws. This is the pre|&s;ent method of dealing with our Church and Laws, when our Adver&s;aries have been quite tired with &s;colding, they betake them&s;elves to throw dirt in the face of them; and I am &s;orry the weakne&s;s or imprudence of any late <HI>Hi&s;torians</HI> among us &s;hould furni&s;h them with dunghils for this purpo&s;e. But &s;ince we have to deal with &s;uch who have no advan|tage, but what the weakne&s;s and mi&s;takes of their <HI>Adver&s;aries</HI> give them, it were heartily to be wi&s;hed, that &s;ome effectual cour&s;e were taken, that the <HI>Hi|&s;tory</HI> of our <HI>Church</HI> &s;ince the <HI>Reformation,</HI> might be delivered to Po&s;terity with greater care and &s;ince|rity than hath yet been u&s;ed about it.</P>
<P>It hath been thought the wi&s;dom of &s;ome of the
<PB REF="4">be&s;t governed Nations in the World, to take a great care of their <HI>Hi&s;tories,</HI> by whom and in what man|ner they were written. <HI>Jo&s;ephus</HI> &s;aith, <HI>That none but the High-Prie&s;ts and the Prophets were allow|ed to write the Hi&s;tories of the Jewi&s;h Nation;</HI> the like others &s;ay of the <HI>Chaldeans, Egyptians,</HI> and <HI>Per&s;ians,</HI> who all looked upon the <HI>Hi&s;tory</HI> of their <HI>Country</HI> as a <HI>Sacred</HI> thing, and which none ought to pre&s;ume to meddle with, but &s;uch as were appointed for it, and who&s;e imployment was &s;uppo|&s;ed to free them from the &s;u&s;picion of flattery or fal&s;hood. But above all Nations, the <HI>Chine&s;es,</HI> as they were most remarkable for Political Wi&s;dom, were the mo&s;t punctual in this matter; no man dur&s;t attempt any thing of Hi&s;tory among them be&s;ides him who&s;e publick Office it was, which he was bound to perform with all &s;idelity, for his own time; but not to call in que&s;tion, or correct any thing before him; by which means, the Hi&s;tory of that mighty Empire, though written by multitudes of Authors, is one continued and entire Story without any variety or contradiction. It is very well known, that the old <HI>Romans</HI> &s;uffered none but the <HI>Pontifex Maximus</HI> to make up the <HI>Annals</HI> of every Year; which him&s;elf was only intru&s;ted with the keeping of, that the People might, upon re&s;ort to his hou&s;e, have full &s;atisfaction in all their doubts; and the&s;e were called the <HI>Annals Maximi;</HI> and although &s;ome make this custom as old as the foundation of that Government, yet <HI>Vopi&s;cus</HI> more probably makes it to be one of the wi&s;e Con&s;titutions of <HI>Nu|ma. Dion</HI> &s;aith. <HI>That while the Roman Senate continued its Authority, the Actions of every year
<PB REF="4">were &s;olemnly read out of the Publick Commen|taries to the Senate and People; and although particular per&s;ons would write Hi&s;tories according to their own inclinations, yet the Truth might be di&s;cerned out of the Publick Records:</HI> And al|though he very much laments the uncertainty of their Hi&s;tories afterwards, when the <HI>Emperours</HI> would not endure the Truth to be written; yet there were per&s;ons who would write, though they died for it, which was the ca&s;e of <HI>Cremutius Cor|dus</HI> and <HI>Titus Labienus;</HI> which made <HI>Seneca</HI> &s;ay, <HI>Res nova &amp; in&s;ueta, &s;upplicia de &s;tudiis &s;umi:</HI> but it &s;eems by what follows in him, the World may bear the lo&s;s of &s;uch Writings; for, rejoycing that this <HI>Per&s;ecution</HI> of <HI>Wits</HI> began after <HI>Cicero</HI>'s time, he &s;aith, <HI>Dii melius, qu&ograve;d eo &s;eculo i&s;ta ingenio|rum &s;upplicia coeperunt, quo ingenia de&s;ierunt.</HI> And it appears by <HI>Tacitus,</HI> that the cu&s;tom of <HI>Pub|lick Annals</HI> was pre&s;erved to his time for the greater Affairs, and the <HI>Diurna Acta Urbis</HI> for le&s;&s;er oc|currences: and <HI>Tertullian</HI> frequently appeals to the <HI>Archives</HI> and <HI>Publick Commentaries.</HI> Which cu&s;tom of pre&s;erving publick <HI>Records</HI> of History, did likewi&s;e obtain in most well-governed Cities; as <HI>Plutarch</HI> often quotes the <HI>Delphick</HI> and <HI>Laconick Commentaries.</HI> The&s;e things I only mention, that it may not be thought below the wi&s;dom of a Nation to take care of the <HI>Hi&s;tory</HI> of it; and not to &s;uffer it to be profaned or corrupted, by every mean, pee|vi&s;h, or indi&s;creet Writer, that hath &s;o little wit and judgment, as to think him&s;elf fit to write the Hi&s;tory, either of his own or former times None are fit for &s;uch a work but per&s;ons of great judg|ment
<PB REF="5">and capacity, and &s;uch who have had the be&s;t opportunities of under&s;tanding Affairs, and have the greate&s;t reputation for integrity to report them. And we want not &s;ome &s;uch as the&s;e, who are &s;o well known, that I need not name them, but they are but few in compari&s;on with others. It was complained of among the <HI>Romans,</HI> that L. <HI>Octacilius</HI> being but a <HI>Libertine,</HI> though he were <HI>Pompey</HI>'s Ma&s;ter, &s;hould pre&s;ume to write a Hi&s;tory, that being a Work pro|per for the wi&s;e&s;t Senators; and Learned men have long wi&s;hed for a <HI>perpetual Edict</HI> again&s;t &s;cribbling Hi&s;torians, as great debauchers of Truth, and corru|pters of the Faith of Hi&s;tory. I wi&s;h it were as ea&s;ie to remedy as to complain of the&s;e things; but tho&s;e of us who are concerned for the Honour of our Church and Nation, find the continual and growing incon|veniences of this mi&s;chief; when we &s;ee all the fal&s;e or indi&s;creet pa&s;&s;ages of the wor&s;t Hi&s;torians picked up, and upon all occa&s;ions made u&s;e of as the best Weapons against our Church. But thanks be to God, things are not yet &s;o bad with us, but we have &s;ufficient evidence left to clear our &s;elves of the&s;e reproaches, without being put to defend the weak|ne&s;&s;es of every trifling Hi&s;torian. What if <HI>Hollin|&s;head,</HI> or <HI>Stow,</HI> or <HI>Speed,</HI> or any later men have let fall &s;ome pa&s;&s;ages, which the Enemies of our Church make u&s;e of to its di&s;advantage? Must things pre&s;ently be concluded to be ju&s;t as &s;uch men have &s;aid, without &s;earching farther? Mu&s;t we be judged by them, rather than by &s;uch who were in the top of bu&s;ine&s;s, and knew all the fir&s;t Grounds and Rea&s;ons of Things? rather than by tho&s;e, who were as much concerned to have found out all re|proaches
<PB REF="5">again&s;t our Penal Laws; and yet acknow|ledge them to have had &s;uch Rea&s;ons for them, that no Government in the World, but upon the &s;ame pro|vocations, would have done the &s;ame things? This is that particular part of our Hi&s;tory, which I have endeavoured to clear by the&s;e following Treati&s;es, which have the&s;e advantages to recommend them to the Reader's Con&s;ideration.</P>
<P N="1"><HI>1.</HI> That the fir&s;t of them was penned by the di|rection of one of the Greate&s;t State&s;men of his Age, and one of the Wi&s;e&s;t Per&s;ons this Nation hath ever bred, <HI>viz.</HI> the <HI>Lord Trea&s;urer Burleigh.</HI> For when the <HI>Je&s;uits</HI> and their Party had filled the <HI>Courts</HI> of the <HI>Princes</HI> in <HI>Chri&s;tendom</HI> with their noi&s;e and clamours of the dreadful Per&s;ecutions in <HI>England,</HI> that Great man thought it not below him to write this <HI>Apology</HI> for the <HI>Execution</HI> of <HI>Ju&s;tice</HI> here, and to &s;hew how rea&s;onable, ju&s;t, and moderate the Pro|ceedings of the State were, con&s;idering the height and in&s;olence of the provocations; and this was publi&s;hed in &s;everal Languages, and di&s;per&s;ed in the Courts of Princes to undeceive them as to all the fal&s;e reports of the Romi&s;h Emi&s;&s;aries, who have ta|ken upon them that publick Character of the Popes Amba&s;&s;adors to <HI>lye abroad</HI> for his and their own advantage.</P>
<P N="2"><HI>2.</HI> But after that by the means of <HI>Cardinal Al|len</HI> and others, they had endeavoured to blast the reputation of that <HI>Apology;</HI> and after the death of that great <HI>Mini&s;ter</HI> of <HI>State,</HI> the <HI>Secular Prie&s;ts</HI> did publi&s;h their <HI>Important Con&s;iderations,</HI> wherein they a&s;&s;ert the Truth of what was &s;aid in the Apo|logie, and vindicate the Honour and Ju&s;tice of the
<PB REF="6">Penal Laws: which is the &s;econd Treati&s;e here pub|li&s;hed and printed according to their own Copy; and which hath been &s;o much concealed, or bought up by tho&s;e of that Religion, that it hath been heard of by few, and &s;een by fewer Prote&s;tants.</P>
<P N="3"><HI>3.</HI> And lest any &s;hould &s;ay, that all tho&s;e dange|rous Principles to Government are &s;ince his Maje|&s;ties happy Re&s;tauration utterly di&s;owned by them, I have added a third Treati&s;e, printed by one of their own Religion <HI>1662.</HI> which charges the <HI>Je&s;ui|tical</HI> Party &s;o deep with tho&s;e Principles and Pra|ctices as to make them uncapable of any Favour.</P>
<P>If other per&s;ons will pur&s;ue the &s;ame method in retrieving &s;uch con&s;iderable <HI>Treati&s;es</HI> as the&s;e are, they may do more &s;ervice to our Church and Nation than by writing Hi&s;tories them&s;elves; and I &s;hall de&s;ire the late <HI>Apologi&s;t</HI> to &s;et the&s;e <HI>Authors</HI> of his own <HI>Church,</HI> again&s;t the petty <HI>Hi&s;torians</HI> he &s;o pun|ctually quotes on all occa&s;ions: And we have &s;o much the more rea&s;on to con&s;ider the&s;e things, &s;ince in a very late <HI>Treati&s;e</HI> called the <HI>Bleeding Iphige|nia,</HI> the <HI>Iri&s;h Rebellion</HI> is defended by one of the Titular Bi&s;hops to be a ju&s;t and holy War; and &s;ee|ing they &s;till think it lawful, what can we imagine then that they want, but another occa&s;ion to do the &s;ame things?</P>
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<HEAD>THE <HI>EXEC&V;TION</HI> OF JUSTICE IN ENGLAND, For maintenance of Publick and <HI>Chri&s;tian Peace,</HI> &amp;c.</HEAD>
<P>IT hath been in all Ages and in all Countries,<NOTE PLACE="marg">All Offenders cover their faults with contrary cau|&s;es.</NOTE> a common u&s;age of all offenders for the mo&s;t part, both great and &s;mall, to make defence of their lewd and unlawful facts by untruths, and by colouring and covering their deeds (were they never &s;o vile) with pre|tences of &s;ome other cau&s;es of contrary operations or effects: to the intent not only to avoid puni&s;h|ment or &s;hame, but to continue, uphold, and pro|&s;ecute their wicked attempts, to the full &s;atisfacti|on of their di&s;ordered and malicious appetites.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Rebels do mo&s;t dange|rou&s;ly cover their faults.</NOTE> And though &s;uch hath been the u&s;e of all Offen|ders,
<PB N="2" REF="7">yet of none with more danger than of Re|bels and Traytors to their lawful Princes, Kings, and Countries. Of which &s;ort of late years, are &s;pecially to be noted certain per&s;ons naturally born Subjects in the Realm of <HI>England,</HI> and <HI>Ire|land,</HI> who having for &s;ome good time profe&s;&s;ed outwardly their obedience to their Soveraign Lady Queen <HI>Elizabeth,</HI> have neverthele&s;s afterward been &s;tirred up and &s;educed by wicked Spirits,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Rebellion in <HI>England,</HI> and <HI>Ireland.</HI></NOTE> fir&s;t in <HI>England</HI> &s;undry years pa&s;t, and &s;econdly, and of latter time in <HI>Ireland,</HI> to enter into open Rebelli|on, taking Arms and coming into the Field again&s;t her Maje&s;ty and her Lieutenants, with their For|ces under Banners di&s;played, inducing by notable untruths many &s;imple people to follow and a&s;&s;i&s;t them in their Traitorous actions. And though it is very well known, that both their intentions and manife&s;t actions were bent, to have depo&s;ed the Queens Maje&s;ty from her Crown, and to have traiterou&s;ly &s;et in her place &s;ome other whom they liked, whereby if they had not been &s;peedily re|&s;i&s;ted, they would have committed great blood|&s;heds and &s;laughters of her Maje&s;ties faithful Sub|jects, and ruined their native Country:<NOTE PLACE="marg">The Rebels vanqui&s;hed by the Queens Power.</NOTE> Yet by Gods power given unto her Maje&s;ty, they were &s;o &s;pee|dily vanqui&s;hed, as &s;ome few of them &s;uffered by order of Law according to their de&s;erts, many and the greate&s;t part upon Confe&s;&s;ion of their faults were pardoned,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Some of the Rebels fled into other Countries.</NOTE> the re&s;t (but they not many of the principal, e&s;caped into Foreign Countries, and there becau&s;e in none or few places Rebels and Traitors to their natural Princes and Countries: dare for their Trea&s;ons challenge at their fir&s;t mu&s;ter
<PB N="3" REF="7">open comfort or &s;uccour, the&s;e notable Traitors and Rebels, have fal&s;ly informed many Kings, Princes, and States, and &s;pecially the Bi&s;hop of <HI>Rome,</HI> com|monly called the <HI>Pope,</HI> (from whom they all had &s;ecretly their fir&s;t comfort to Rebell) that the cau&s;e of their flying from their Countries was for the Religion of <HI>Rome,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Rebels pre|tend Religion for their de|fence.</NOTE> and for maintenance of the &s;aid Popes Authority. Whereas divers of them be|fore their Rebellion lived &s;o notoriou&s;ly, the mo&s;t part of their lives, out of all good rule, either for hone&s;t manners, or for any &s;en&s;e in Religion, as they might have been rather familiar with <HI>Catalin,</HI> or Favourers to <HI>Sardanapalus,</HI> than accounted good Subjects under any Chri&s;tian Princes.</P>
<P>As for &s;ome examples of the heads of the&s;e Re|bellions, out of <HI>England,</HI> fled <HI>Charles Nevill</HI> Earl of <HI>We&s;tmerland,</HI> a per&s;on utterly wa&s;ted by loo&s;e|ne&s;s of life, and by Gods puni&s;hment even in the time of his Rebellion, bereaved of his Children that &s;hould have &s;ucceeded him in the Earldom: and how his Body is now eaten with Ulcers of lewd cau&s;es, all his Companions do &s;ee, that no Enemy he had can wi&s;h him a viler puni&s;hment. And out of <HI>Ireland</HI> ran away one <HI>Thomas Stukeley,</HI> a defamed per&s;on almo&s;t through all Chri&s;tendom, and a faithle&s;s Bea&s;t rather than a Man, fleeing fir&s;t out of <HI>England</HI> for notable Piracies, and out of <HI>Ireland</HI> for treacheries not pardonable,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Ringleaders of Rebels, <HI>Charls Nevill</HI> Earl of <HI>We&s;tmerland,</HI> and <HI>Thomas Stukeley.</HI></NOTE> which two were the fir&s;t Ringleaders of the re&s;t of the Re|bels; the one for <HI>England,</HI> the other for <HI>Ireland.</HI> But notwith&s;tanding the notorious evil and wick|ed lives of the&s;e and others their Confederates,
<PB N="4" REF="8">void of all Chri&s;tian Religion, it liked the Bi&s;hop of <HI>Rome,</HI> as in favour of their Trea&s;ons, not to colour their offences as them&s;elves openly pretend to do, for avoiding of common &s;hame of the World, but flatly to animate them to continue their former wicked purpo&s;es, that is, to take Arms again&s;t their lawful Queen, to invade her Realm with Foreign Forces, to pur&s;ue all her good Subjects and their Native Countries with Fire and Sword: for maintenance whereof there had &s;ome years before, at &s;undry times, proceeded in a thun|dring &s;ort,<NOTE PLACE="marg">The effect of the Popes Bull again&s;t the Queen of <HI>Eng|land.</HI></NOTE> Bulls, Excommunications, and other publick Writings, denouncing her Maje&s;ty, being the lawful Queen, and Gods anointed Servant, not to be the Queen of the Realm, charging and upon pains of Excommunication, commanding all her Subjects, to depart from their natural Allegiances, whereto by birth and by Oath they were bound. Provoking al&s;o and authori&s;ing all per&s;ons of all degrees within both the Realms to Rebell, and up|on this Antichri&s;tian Warrant, being contrary to all the Laws of God and Man, and nothing agree|able to a pa&s;tural Officer, not only all the rabble of the fore&s;aid Traitors that were before fled, but al&s;o all other per&s;ons that had for&s;aken their Na|tive Countries, being of divers conditions and qualities, &s;ome not able to live at home but in beggery, &s;ome di&s;contented for lack of prefer|ments, which they gaped for unworthily in Uni|ver&s;ities and other places, &s;ome Bankrupt Merch|ants, &s;ome in a &s;ort learned to contentions, being not contented to learn to obey the Laws of the Land, have many years running up and down, from
<PB N="5" REF="8">Country to Country, practi&s;ed &s;ome in one Corner,<NOTE PLACE="marg">The practi&s;es of the Trai|tors, Rebels, and Fugitives, to execute the Bull.</NOTE> &s;ome in another, &s;ome with &s;eeking to gather For|ces and money for Forces, &s;ome with in&s;tigation of Princes by untruths to make War upon their natural Country, &s;ome with inward practi&s;es to murder the <HI>Greate&s;t,</HI> &s;ome with &s;editious Writings, and very many of late with publick infamous Li|bels, full of de&s;piteful, vile terms, and poi&s;oned lies, altogether to uphold the fore&s;aid Antichri&s;ti|an and Tyrannous Warrant of the <HI>Popes Bull.</HI></P>
<P>And yet al&s;o by &s;ome other means, to further the&s;e intentions, becau&s;e they could not readily prevail by way of Force, finding Foreign Princes of better con&s;ideration and not readily inclined to their wicked purpo&s;es, it was devi&s;ed to erect up certain Schools which they called <HI>Se|minaries,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Seminaries</HI> erected to nur&s;e &s;editions Fugitives.</NOTE> to nouri&s;h and bring up per&s;ons di&s;|po&s;ed naturally to Sedition, to continue their race and trade, and to become Seedmen in their Tillage of Sedition, and them to &s;end &s;ecretly into the&s;e the Queens Maje&s;ties Realms of <HI>Eng|land</HI> and <HI>Ireland</HI> under &s;ecret Masks, &s;ome of Prie&s;thood, &s;ome of other inferior Orders, with Titles of <HI>Seminaries</HI> for &s;ome of the meaner &s;ort, and of <HI>Je&s;uits</HI> for the &s;tagers and ranker &s;ort and &s;uch like; but yet &s;o warily they crept into the Land, as none brought the marks of their Prie&s;t|hood with them, but in divers Corners of her Ma|je&s;ties Dominions, the&s;e <HI>Seminaries,</HI> or Seedmen, and <HI>Je&s;uits,</HI> bringing with them certain <HI>Romi&s;h</HI> tra&s;h, as of their hallowed Wax, their <HI>Agnus Dei,</HI> many kind of Beads, and &s;uch like, have as Til|lage-men,
<PB N="6" REF="9">laboured &s;ecretly to per&s;wade the peo|ple to allow of the <HI>Popes</HI> fore&s;aid Bulls and War|rants,<NOTE PLACE="marg">The Seminary Fugitives come &s;ecretly into the Realm to induce the people to obey the Popes Bull.</NOTE> and of his ab&s;olute Authority over all Prin|ces and Countries, and &s;triking many with pricks of Con&s;cience to obey the &s;ame; whereby in Pro|ce&s;s of &s;mall time, if this wicked and dangerous, traitorous and crafty cour&s;e, had not been by Gods goodne&s;s e&s;pied and &s;tayed, there had followed imminent danger of horrible uprores in the Realms, and a manife&s;t bloody de&s;truction of great multi|tudes of Chri&s;tians.</P>
<P>For it cannot be denied, but that &s;o many as &s;hould have been induced, and throughly per&s;wa|ded to have obeyed that wicked Warrant of the <HI>Popes,</HI> and the Contents thereof, &s;hould have been forthwith in their hearts and Con&s;ciences, &s;ecret Traitors, and for to be indeed errant and open Traitors, there &s;hould have wanted nothing but opportunity to feel their &s;trength, and to a&s;&s;emble them&s;elves in &s;uch numbers, with Armour and Weapons, as they might have pre&s;umed to have been the greater part, and &s;o by open civil War, to have come to their wicked purpo&s;es. But Gods goodne&s;s by whom Kings do Rule, and by who&s;e bla&s;t Traitors are commonly wa&s;ted and confound|ed, hath otherwi&s;e given to her Maje&s;ty, as to his Handmaid and dear Servant, ruling under him, the &s;pirit of Wi&s;dom and Power,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Sowers of &s;e|dition taken, convented, and executed for Trea&s;on.</NOTE> whereby &s;he hath cau&s;ed &s;ome of the&s;e &s;editious Seedmen, and Sow|ers of Rebellion, to be di&s;covered, for all their &s;ecret lurkings, and to be taken and charged with the&s;e former points of High Trea&s;on, not being
<PB N="7" REF="9">dealt withal upon que&s;tions of Religion, but ju&s;t|ly condemned as Traitors. At which times, not|with&s;tanding all manner of gentle ways of per&s;wa&s;i|ons u&s;ed, to move them to de&s;i&s;t from &s;uch mani|fe&s;t traitorous cour&s;es and opinions, yet was the Canker of their Rebellious humours &s;o deeply entred and graven into the hearts of many of them, as they would not be removed from their traiter|ous determinations. And therefore as manife&s;t Traitors in maintaining and adhearing to the ca|pital Enemy of her Maje&s;ty and her Crown, who hath not only been the cau&s;e of two Rebellions already pa&s;&s;ed in <HI>England</HI> and <HI>Ireland,</HI> but in that of <HI>Ireland</HI> did manife&s;tly wage and maintain his own people Captains and Souldiers under the Ban|ner of <HI>Rome,</HI> again&s;t her Maje&s;ty (&s;o as no Enemy could do more:) The&s;e I &s;ay have ju&s;tly &s;uffered Death, not by force or form of any new Laws e&s;ta|bli&s;hed, either for Religion, or again&s;t the <HI>Popes</HI> Su|premacy, as the &s;landerous Libellers would have it &s;eem to be,<NOTE PLACE="marg">The &s;editicus Traitors Con|demned by the antient Laws of the Realm, made 200. years pa&s;t.</NOTE> but by the antient temporal Laws of the Realm, and namely by the Laws of Parliament made in King <HI>Edward</HI> the Thirds time, about the year of our Lord, 1330. which is above 200. years and more pa&s;t, when the Bi&s;hops of <HI>Rome,</HI> and <HI>Popes,</HI> were &s;uffered to have their Authority Ec|cle&s;ia&s;tical in this Realm as they had in many other Countries.</P>
<P>But yet of this kind of Offenders, as many of them, as after their Condemnations were contented to renounce their former traiterous a&s;&s;ertions, &s;o many were &s;pared from Execution, and do live
<PB N="8" REF="10">&s;till at this day;<NOTE PLACE="marg">Per&s;ons Con|demned, &s;pa|red from Exe|cution, upon refu&s;al of their trea&s;onable opinions.</NOTE> &s;uch was the unwillingne&s;s in her Maje&s;ty to have any blood &s;pilt, without this very ju&s;t and nece&s;&s;ary cau&s;e, proceeding from them|&s;elves. And yet neverthele&s;s, &s;uch of the re&s;t of the Traitors as remain in Foreign parts, continuing &s;till their Rebellious minds, and craftily keeping them&s;elves aloof off from dangers,<NOTE PLACE="marg">The Foreign Traitors con|tinue &s;end|ing of per&s;ons to move &s;edi|tion in the Realm.</NOTE> cea&s;e not to provoke &s;undry other inferiour &s;editious per&s;ons, newly to &s;teal &s;ecretly into the Realm, to revive the former &s;editious practi&s;es, to the Execution of the <HI>Popes</HI> fore&s;aid Bulls again&s;t her Maje&s;ty and the Realm, pretending when they are appre|hended, that they came only into the Realm, by the commandment of their Superiours, the Heads of the <HI>Je&s;uits,</HI> to whom they are bound (as they &s;ay) by Oath, again&s;t either King or Country, and here to inform or reform Mens Con&s;ciences from errors in &s;ome points of Re|ligion, as they &s;hall think meet: but yet in ve|ry truth the whole &s;cope of their &s;ecret labours is manife&s;tly proved, to be &s;ecretly to win all peo|ple, with whom they dare deal, &s;o to allow of the <HI>Popes</HI> &s;aid Bulls, and of his Authority without exception, as in obeying thereof, they take them|&s;elves fully di&s;charged of their Allegiance, and Obedience to their lawful Prince and Country, yea, and to be well warranted to take Arms to Rebell again&s;t her Maje&s;ty when they &s;hall be thereunto called, and to be ready &s;ecretly to join with any Foreign Force that can be procured to invade the Realm, whereof al&s;o they have a long time given, and yet do for their advantage, no &s;mall comfort of &s;ucce&s;s: and &s;o con&s;equently the effect of their
<PB N="9" REF="10">labours is to bring the Realm not only into a dan|gerous War again&s;t the Forces of Strangers (from which it hath been free above 23. or 24. years,<NOTE PLACE="marg">The Seditious Fugitives la|bour to bring the Realm in|to a War ex|ternal and do|me&s;tical.</NOTE> a Ca&s;e very memorable and hard to be matched with an example of the like:) but into a War Dome&s;ti|cal and Civil, wherein no blood is u&s;ually &s;pared, nor mercy yielded, and wherein neither the Van|queror nor the vanqui&s;hed, have cau&s;e of triumph.</P>
<P>And fora&s;much as the&s;e are the mo&s;t evident perils that nece&s;&s;arily &s;hould follow, if the&s;e kind of Vermine were &s;uffered to creep by &s;tealth into the Realm, and to &s;pread their poy&s;on within the &s;ame, how&s;oever when they are taken, like Hypo|crites, they colour and counterfeit the &s;ame with profe&s;&s;ion of devotion in Religion: it is of all per|&s;ons to be yielded in rea&s;on,<NOTE PLACE="marg">The duty of the Queen and all her Go|vernours to God and their Country, is to repel practices of Rebellion.</NOTE> that her Maje&s;ty and all her Governours and Magi&s;trates of Ju&s;tice, ha|ving care to maintain the peace of the Realm (which God hath given in her time, to continue longer than ever in any time of her Progenitors) ought of duty to Almighty God the Author of Peace, and according to the natural love and charge due to their Country, and for avoiding of the Floods of blood, which in Civil Wars are &s;een to run and flow, by all lawful means po&s;&s;ible, as well by the Sword as by Law, in their &s;everal &s;ea|&s;ons to impeach and repel, the&s;e &s;o manife&s;t and dangerous colourable practices, and works of Se|dition and Rebellion. And though there are many Subjects known in the Realm, that differ in &s;ome opinions of Religion from the Church of <HI>England,</HI> and that do al&s;o not forbear to profe&s;s the &s;ame, yet in that they do al&s;o profe&s;s Loyalty and Obe|dience
<PB N="10" REF="11">to her Maje&s;ty,<NOTE PLACE="marg">None charged with capital Crimes, being of a contrary Religion, and profe&s;&s;ing to with&s;tand Fo|reign Forces.</NOTE> and offer readily in her Ma|je&s;ties defence to impugn and re&s;i&s;t any Foreign Force, though it &s;hould come or be procured from the <HI>Pope</HI> him&s;elf, none of the&s;e &s;ort are for their contrary opinions in Religion pro&s;ecuted or charged with any crimes or pains of Trea&s;on, nor yet willingly &s;earched in their Con&s;ciences for their contrary opinions, that &s;avour not of Trea&s;on.</P>
<P>And of the&s;e &s;orts, there are a number of per|&s;ons, not of &s;uch ba&s;e and vulgar note as tho&s;e were which of late have been executed, as in par|ticular, &s;ome by name are well known, and not un|fit to be remembred. The fir&s;t and chiefe&s;t by Office was Dr. <HI>Heth,</HI> that was Archbi&s;hop of <HI>York,</HI> and Lord Chancellor of <HI>England</HI> in Queen <HI>Maries</HI> time, who at the fir&s;t coming of her Maje&s;ty to the Crown, &s;hewing him&s;elf a faithful and quiet Subject, continued in both the &s;aid Offices, though in Religion then manife&s;tly differing, and yet was he not re&s;trained of his liberty, nor deprived of his proper lands and goods, but leaving willingly both his Offices, lived in his own Hou&s;e, and in|joyed all his purcha&s;ed Lands during all his natural life, until by very age he departed this World, and then left his Hou&s;e and living to his Friends: an example of gentlene&s;s never matched in Queen <HI>Maries</HI> time. The like did one Dr. <HI>Pool</HI> that had been Bi&s;hop of <HI>Peterborough,</HI> an ancient grave per|&s;on, and a very quiet Subject. There were al&s;o others that had been Bi&s;hops and in great e&s;tima|tion, as Dr. <HI>Tun&s;tal</HI> Bi&s;hop of <HI>Dure&s;m,</HI> a per&s;on
<PB N="11" REF="11">al&s;o of very quiet behaviour.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Names of di|vers Eccle&s;i|a&s;tical per&s;ons profe&s;&s;ing contrary Reli|gion, never charged with capital Crimes.</NOTE> There were al&s;o other, Dr. <HI>White,</HI> and Dr. <HI>Oglethorp,</HI> one of <HI>Win|che&s;ter,</HI> the other of <HI>Carli&s;le,</HI> Bi&s;hops: and Dr. <HI>Thurleby,</HI> and Dr. <HI>Wat&s;on</HI> yet living, one of <HI>Ely,</HI> the other of <HI>Lincoln,</HI> Bi&s;hops: not pre&s;&s;ed with any capital pain, though they maintained the <HI>Popes</HI> Authority again&s;t the Laws of the Realm: and &s;ome Abbots, as Mr. <HI>Fecknam</HI> yet living, a per&s;on al&s;o of quiet and courteous behaviour for a great time. Some al&s;o were Deans, as Dr. <HI>Boxall</HI> Dean of <HI>Wind&s;ore,</HI> a per&s;on of great mode&s;ty and knowledge: Dr. <HI>Cole</HI> Dean of <HI>Pauls,</HI> a per&s;on more earne&s;t than wi&s;e: Dr. <HI>Reynolds</HI> Dean of <HI>Ex|eter,</HI> and many &s;uch others having born Office and Dignities in the Church, and had made profe&s;&s;ion again&s;t the <HI>Pope,</HI> which they began in Queen <HI>Ma|ries</HI> time to change, yet were they never to this day burdened with capital pains, nor yet deprived of any their goods or proper livelyhoods, but only removed from their Eccle&s;ia&s;tical Offices, which they would not exerci&s;e according to the Laws. And mo&s;t of them for a great time ere retained in Bi&s;hops Hou&s;es in very civil and courteous man|ner, without charge to them&s;elves or their friends, until the time that the <HI>Pope</HI> began by his Bulls and Me&s;&s;ages, to offer trouble to the Realm by &s;tirring of Rebellion: about which time only, &s;ome of the&s;e aforenamed being found bu&s;ier in matters of &s;tate tending to &s;tir troubles, than was meet for the common quiet of the Realm, were removed to other more private places, where &s;uch other wan|derers as were men known to move &s;edition, might be re&s;trained from common re&s;orting to them to
<PB N="12" REF="12">increa&s;e trouble, as the <HI>Popes</HI> Bull gave man fe&s;t occa&s;ion: and yet without charging them in their Con&s;ciences or otherwi&s;e, by any inqui&s;ition to bring them into danger of any capital Law, &s;o as no one was called to any capital or bloody que|&s;tion upon matters of Religion, but have all in|joyed their life as the cour&s;e of nature would: and &s;uch of them as yet remain, may, if they will not be Authors or In&s;truments of Rebellion or Se|dition, injoy the time that God and nature &s;hall yield them without danger of life or member.</P>
<P>And yet it is worthy to be well marked,<NOTE PLACE="marg">The late Fa|vourers of the Popes Autho+rity, were the chief Adver&s;a|ries of the &s;ame, by their Doctrines and Writings.</NOTE> that the chiefe&s;t of all the&s;e, and the mo&s;t of them, had in the time of King <HI>Henry</HI> the Eight, and King <HI>Ed|ward</HI> the Sixth, either by Preaching, Writing, reading or arguing, taught all people to condemn and abhor the Authority of the <HI>Pope:</HI> yea they had many times given their Oaths publickly, again&s;t the <HI>Popes</HI> Authority, and had al&s;o yielded to both the &s;aid Kings, the Title of &s;upream head of the Church of <HI>England</HI> next under Chri&s;t, which title the Adver&s;aries do mo&s;t fal&s;ly write and affirm, that the Queens Maje&s;ty doth now u&s;e: a manife&s;t lie and untruth. And for proof that the&s;e fore&s;aid Bi&s;hops and learned men had &s;o long time di&s;avowed the <HI>Popes</HI> Authority, many of their Books and Sermons again&s;t the <HI>Popes</HI> Authority remain printed to be &s;een in the&s;e times, to their great &s;hame and reproof to change &s;o often, and &s;pecially in per&s;ecuting &s;uch as them&s;elves have taught and e&s;tabli&s;hed to hold the contrary.</P>
<PB N="13" REF="12">
<P>There were al&s;o and yet be a great number of others,<NOTE PLACE="marg">A great num|ber of Lay per&s;ons of livelyhood, be|ing of a con|trary Religion, never charged with capital Crime.</NOTE> being Lay-men of good po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ions and Lands, men of good credit in their Countries, ma|nife&s;tly of late times &s;educed to hold contrary opi|nions in Religion for the Popes Authority, and yet none of them have been &s;ought hitherto to be impeached in any point or quarrel of Trea&s;on, or of lo&s;s of Life, Member, or Inheritance, &s;o as it may plainly appear, that it is not, nor hath been for contrarious opinions in Religion, or for the <HI>Popes</HI> Authority, as the Adver&s;aries do boldly and fal&s;ly publi&s;h, that any per&s;ons have &s;uffered Death &s;ince her Maje&s;ties Reign, and yet &s;ome of the&s;e &s;ort are well known to hold opinion, that the <HI>Pope</HI> ought by Authority of Gods word to be Supream and only Head of the Catholick Church, and only to rule in all cau&s;es Eccle&s;ia&s;ti|cal, and that the Queens Maje&s;ty ought not to be the Governour over all her Subjects in her Realm being per&s;ons Eccle&s;ia&s;tical: which opinions are neverthele&s;s in &s;ome part by the Laws of the Realm puni&s;hable in &s;ome degrees,<NOTE PLACE="marg">No per&s;on charged with capital Crime for the only maintenance of the Popes Supremacy.</NOTE> and yet for none of the&s;e points have any per&s;ons been pro&s;ecuted with the charge of Trea&s;on, or in danger of life. And if then it be inquired, for what cau&s;e the&s;e others have of late &s;uffered Death, it is truly to be an&s;wered as afore is often remembred, that none at all are impeached for Trea&s;on to the danger of their Life, but &s;uch as do ob&s;tinately maintain the contents of the <HI>Popes</HI> Bull afore-mentioned, which do import, that her Maje&s;ty is not the lawful Queen of <HI>England,</HI> the fir&s;t and highe&s;t point of Trea&s;on: and that all her Subjects are di&s;charged
<PB N="14" REF="13">of their Oaths and Obedience,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Such Condem|ned only for Trea&s;on, as maintain the effects of the Popes Bull again&s;t her Maje&s;ty and the Realm.</NOTE> another high point of Trea&s;on: and all warranted to di&s;obey her and her Laws, a third and a very large point of Trea&s;on.</P>
<P>And thereto is to be added a fourth point mo&s;t manife&s;t, in hat they would not di&s;allow the <HI>Popes</HI> ho&s;tile proceedings in open Wars again&s;t her Ma|je&s;ty in her Realm of <HI>Ireland,</HI> where one of their Company Dr. <HI>Sanders,</HI> a lewd Scholar and Sub|ject of <HI>England,</HI> a Fugitive and a principal Com|panion and Con&s;pirator with the Traitors and Re|bels at <HI>Rome,</HI> was by the <HI>Popes</HI> &s;pecial Commi&s;&s;ion a Commander, as in form of a Legate, and &s;ome|time a Trea&s;urer or Pay-Ma&s;ter for tho&s;e Wars, which Dr. <HI>Sanders</HI> in his Book of his Church Mo|narchy, did afore his pa&s;&s;ing into <HI>Ireland</HI> openly by Writing,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Dr. <HI>Sanders</HI> maintenance of the Popes Bull.</NOTE> gloriou&s;ly avow the fore&s;aid Bull of <HI>Pius Quintus</HI> again&s;t her Maje&s;ty, to be lawful, and affirmeth that by vertue thereof one Dr. <HI>Moore|ton,</HI> an old Engli&s;h Fugitive and Con&s;pirator, was &s;ent from <HI>Rome</HI> into the North parts of <HI>England,</HI> to &s;tir up the fir&s;t Rebellion there, whereof <HI>Charles, Nevill</HI> the late Earl of <HI>We&s;tmerland</HI> was a Head Captain. And thereby it may manife&s;tly appear to all men, how this Bull was the ground of the Rebellions both in <HI>England</HI> and <HI>Ireland,</HI> and how for maintenance thereof, and for &s;owing of Sedi|tion by Warrant and allowance of the &s;ame, the&s;e per&s;ons were ju&s;tly condemned of Trea&s;on,<NOTE PLACE="marg">The per&s;ons that &s;uffered Death, were Condemned for Trea&s;on, and not for Religion.</NOTE> and lawfully Executed by the ancient Laws temporal of the Realm, without any other matter than for their practices and Con&s;piracies both abroad and at home again&s;t the Queen and the Realm, and for
<PB N="15" REF="13">maintaining of the <HI>Popes</HI> fore&s;aid Authority and Bull publi&s;hed to deprive her Maje&s;ty of her Crown, and for withdrawing and reconciling of her Subjects from their natural allegiance due to her Maje&s;ty and to their Country, and for moving them to Sedition: and for no other cau&s;es or que|&s;tions of Religion were the&s;e per&s;ons condemned: although true it is, that when they were charged and convinced of the&s;e points of Con&s;piracies and Trea&s;ons, they would &s;till in their an&s;wers co|lourably pretend their actions to have been for Religion: but in deed and truth they were mani|fe&s;t for the procurement and mainenance of the Rebellions and Wars again&s;t her Maje&s;ty and her Realm.</P>
<P>And herein is now the manife&s;t diver&s;ity to be &s;een and well con&s;idered, betwixt the truth of her Maje&s;ties actions, and the fal&s;hood of the bla&s;phe|mous Adver&s;aries: that where the factious party of the <HI>Pope</HI> the principal Author of the Inva&s;ions of her Maje&s;ties Dominions, do fal&s;ly alledge, that a number of per&s;ons, whom they term as Martyrs, have died for defence of the Catholick Religion, the &s;ame in very truth may manife&s;tly appear to have died (if they &s;o will have it) as Martyrs for the <HI>Pope,</HI> and Traitors again&s;t their Soveraign and Queen in adhering to him, being the notable and only open ho&s;tile Enemy in all actions of War again&s;t her Maje&s;ty,<NOTE PLACE="marg">A full proof that the main|tainers of the Bull are di|rectly guilty of Trea&s;on.</NOTE> her Kingdoms and People: and that this is the meaning of all the&s;e that have &s;o ob&s;tinately maintained the Au|thority and contents of this Bull, the very words
<PB N="16" REF="14">of the Bull do declare in this &s;ort, as Dr. <HI>Sanders</HI> reporteth them.</P>
<P><HI>PIus Quintus Pontifex Maximus, de Apo&s;tolicae pote&s;tatis plenitudine, declaravit</HI> Elizabetham <HI>praeten&s;o Regni jue, necnon omni &amp; quocun&abque; do|minio, dignitate, privilegio&abque; privatam: Item&abque; Proceres, &s;ubditos &amp; populos dicti regni, ac caeteros omnes qui illi quomodocun&abque; juraverunt, &agrave; jura|mento huju&s;modi ac omni fidelitatis debito, perpetuo ab&s;olutos:</HI> That is to &s;ay, Pius Quintus <HI>the greate&s;t Bi&s;hop, of the fulne&s;s of the Apo&s;tolick Power, de|clared</HI> Elizabeth <HI>to be bereaved or deprived of her pretended right of her Kingdom, and al&s;o of all and what&s;oever Dominion, Dignity, and Privi|ledge: and al&s;o the Nobles, Subjects, and People of the &s;aid Kingdom, and all others which had &s;worn to her any manner of ways, to be ab&s;olved for ever from &s;uch Oath, and from all debt or duty of fealty,</HI> and &s;o forth, with many threatning Cur|&s;ings, to all that dur&s;t obey her or her Laws. And for Execution hereof, to prove, that the effect of the <HI>Popes</HI> Bull and Me&s;&s;age was a flat Rebellion, it is not ami&s;s to hear what Dr. <HI>Sanders</HI> the <HI>Popes</HI> firebrand in <HI>Ireland</HI> al&s;o writeth in his vi&s;ible Church Monarchy, which is thus.</P>
<P><HI>Pius Quintus Pontifex Maximus,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Dr. <HI>Mortons</HI> &s;e|cret Amba&s;|&s;age from <HI>Rome</HI> to &s;tir the Rebellion in the North.</NOTE> <HI>Anno Domini</HI> 1569. <HI>reverendum presbyterum Nicolaum Morto|num Anglum in Angliam mi&s;it, ut certis illu&s;tribus viris authoritate Apo&s;tolica denunciaret,</HI> Elizabe|tham <HI>quae tunc rerum potiebatur, haereticam e&s;&s;e: of eam&abque; cau&s;am, omni Dominio &amp; pote&s;tate exci|di&s;&s;e,
<PB N="17" REF="14">impune&abque; ab illis velut ethnicam haberi po&s;&s;e, nec eos illius legibus aut mandatis deinceps obedire cogi:</HI> That is to &s;ay, <HI>Pius Quintus the greate&s;t Bi&s;hop, in the year of our Lord</HI> 1569. <HI>&s;ent the re|verend Prie&s;t</HI> Nicholas Morton <HI>an Engli&s;hman into</HI> England, <HI>that he &s;hould denounce or declare by the Apo&s;tolick Authority to certain Noblemen,</HI> Eliza|beth, <HI>who then was in po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ion, to be an Heretick: and for that cau&s;e, to have fallen from all Domi|nion and Power, and that &s;he may be had or repu|ted of them as an Ethnick, and that they are not to be compelled to obey her Laws or Command|ments, &amp;c.</HI></P>
<P>Thus you &s;ee an Amba&s;&s;age of Rebellion from the <HI>Popes</HI> Holine&s;s, the Amba&s;&s;adour an old do|ting Engli&s;h Prie&s;t, a Fugitive and Con&s;pirator, &s;ent as he &s;aith to &s;ome Noblemen, and tho&s;e were the two Earls of <HI>Northumberland</HI> and <HI>We&s;t|merland,</HI> Head of the Rebellion.</P>
<P>And after this, he followeth to declare the &s;uc|ce&s;s thereof, which I dare &s;ay he was &s;orry it was &s;o evil, with the&s;e words.</P>
<P><HI>Qua denuntiatione multi nobiles viri adducti &s;unt, ut de fratribus liberandis cogitare auderent, ac &s;perabant illi quidem Catholicos omnes &s;ummis viribus affuturos e&s;&s;e: ver&ugrave;m et&s;i aliter qu&agrave;m illi expectabant res evenit, qui&agrave; Cathelici omnes non|dum prob&egrave; cognoverant,</HI> Elizabetham <HI>haereticam e&s;&s;e declaratam, tamen laudanda illorum Nobilium con|&s;ilia erant.</HI> That is, <HI>By which denuntiation, many
<PB N="18" REF="15">Noblemen were induced or led, that they were boldned to think of the freeing of their Brethren, and they hoped certainly that all the Catholicks would have a&s;&s;i&s;ted them with all their &s;trength: but although the matter happened otherwi&s;e than they hoped for, becau&s;e all the Catholicks knew not that</HI> Elizabeth <HI>was declared to be an Heretick, yet the Coun&s;els and intents of tho&s;e Noblemen were to be prai&s;ed.</HI> A Rebellion and a vanqui&s;hing of Rebels very &s;moothly de&s;cribed.</P>
<P>This noble fact here mentioned, was the Rebel|lion in the North: the Noblemen were the Earls of <HI>We&s;tmerland</HI> and <HI>Northumberland:</HI> the lack of the event or &s;ucce&s;s, was that the Traitors were vanqui&s;hed, and the Queens Maje&s;ty and her Sub|jects had by Gods Ordinance the Victory: and the cau&s;e why the Rebels prevailed not, was be|cau&s;e all the Catholicks had not been duly inform|ed that the Queens Maje&s;ty was declared to be (as they term it) an Heretick: which want of infor|mation, to the intent to make the Rebels migh|tier in number and power, was diligently and cunningly &s;upplyed by the &s;ending into the Realm of a great multitude of the Seminaries and Je&s;uits, who&s;e &s;pecial charge was to inform the people thereof, as by their actions hath manife&s;tly ap|peared.</P>
<P>And though Dr. <HI>Sanders</HI> hath thus written, yet it may be &s;aid by &s;uch as favoured the two nota|ble Je&s;uits, one named <HI>Robert Per&s;ons</HI> (who yet hideth him&s;elf in Corners to continue his Travter|ous
<PB N="19" REF="15">practice) the other named <HI>Edmond Campion</HI> (that was found out being di&s;gui&s;ed like a Roy&s;ter, and &s;uffered for his Trea&s;ons) that Dr. <HI>Sanders</HI> Trea&s;on is his proper Trea&s;on in allowing of the &s;aid Bull,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Per&s;ons</HI> and <HI>Campion</HI> are offenders as Dr. <HI>Sanders</HI> is for allowance of the Bull.</NOTE> but not to be imputed to <HI>Per&s;ons</HI> and <HI>Campion.</HI> Therefore to make it plain that the&s;e two by &s;pecial Authority had charge to execute the &s;entence of this Bull, the&s;e Acts in Writing following &s;hall make manife&s;t, which are not feign|ed or imagined, but are the very Writings taken about one of their Complices, immediately after <HI>Campions</HI> Death.</P>
<P><HI>Facultates conce&s;&s;ae pp.</HI> Roberto Per&s;onio, <HI>&amp;</HI> Edmundo Campiano, <HI>pro</HI> Anglia, <HI>die</HI> 14. APrilis 1580.</P>
<P><HI>PEtatur &agrave; &s;ummo Domino no&s;tro, explicatio Bullae declaratoriae per Pium Quintum contra</HI> Eliza|betham <HI>&amp; ei adbaerentes, quam Catholici cupiunt intelligi hoc modo, ut obliget &s;emper illam &amp; hae|reticos, catholicos vero nullo modo obliet rebus &s;ic &s;tantibus, &s;ed tum demum quando publica eju&s;dem bullae executio fieri poterit.</HI> Then followed many other Petitions of faculties for their further Au|thorities, which are not needful for this purpo&s;e to be recited: but in the end followeth this Sen|tence as an an&s;wer of the <HI>Popes, Has praedictas gratias conce&s;&s;it Summus Pontifex patri</HI> Roberto Per&s;onio, <HI>&amp;</HI> Edmundo Campiano <HI>in</HI> Angliam <HI>pro|fecturis, die</HI> 14. Aprilis 1580. <HI>Prae&s;ente patre</HI>
<PB N="20" REF="16">Oliverio Manarco <HI>a&s;&s;i&s;tente.</HI> The Engli&s;h of which Latin Sentences is, as followeth.</P>
<P>Faculties granted to the two Fathers, <HI>Robert Per&s;ons,</HI> and <HI>Edmond Campion</HI> for <HI>Eng|land,</HI> the <HI>14</HI> day of <HI>April, 1580.</HI></P>
<P><HI>LET it be asked or required of our mo&s;t holy Lord,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Faculties granted to <HI>Per&s;ons</HI> and <HI>Campion,</HI> by Pope <HI>Gregory</HI> 3. <HI>Anno</HI> 1580.</NOTE> <HI>the explication or meaning of the Bull declaratory made by</HI> Pius <HI>the Fifth again&s;t</HI> Eliza|beth, <HI>and &s;uch as do adhere or obey her, which Bull the Catholicks de&s;ire to be under&s;tood in this manner, that the &s;ame Bull &s;hall always bind her and the Hereticks, but the Catholicks it &s;hall by no means bind, as matters or things do now &s;tand or be, but hereafter, when the publick execution of that Bull may be had or made.</HI></P>
<P>Then in the end the conclu&s;ion was thus added.</P>
<P><HI>The highe&s;t Pontiff or Bi&s;hop, granted the&s;e fore&s;aid graces to Father</HI> Robert Per&s;ons, <HI>and</HI> Ed|mond Campion, <HI>who are now to take their Journeys into</HI> England, <HI>the fourteenth day of</HI> April, <HI>in the year of our Lord,</HI> 1580. <HI>Being pre&s;ent, the Father</HI> Oliverius Manarke <HI>a&s;&s;i&s;tant.</HI></P>
<P>Hereby is it manife&s;t, what Authority <HI>Campion</HI> had to impart the contents of the Bull again&s;t the Queens Maje&s;ty, how&s;oever he him&s;elf denied the &s;ame.</P>
<P>And though it be manife&s;t that the&s;e two Je|&s;uits,
<PB N="21" REF="16"><HI>Per&s;ons</HI> and <HI>Campion,</HI> not only required to have the <HI>Popes</HI> mind declared for the Bull, but al&s;o in their own Petitions, &s;hewed how they and other Catholicks did de&s;ire to have the &s;aid Bull to be under&s;tood again&s;t the Queen of <HI>England:</HI> yet to make the matter more plain how all other Je&s;uits and Seminaries, yea how all Papi&s;ts naming them|&s;elves Catholicks, do and are warranted to inter|pret the &s;aid Bull again&s;t her Maje&s;ty and her good Subjects, you &s;hall &s;ee what one of their fellows, named <HI>Hart,</HI> who was condemned with <HI>Campion,</HI> did among&s;t many other things declare his know|ledge thereof the la&s;t of <HI>December,</HI> in the &s;ame year, 1580. in the&s;e words following.</P>
<P>The Bull of <HI>Pius Quintus</HI> (for &s;o much as it is again&s;t the Queen) is holden among the Engli&s;h Catholicks for a lawful &s;entence,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Harts</HI> Con|fe&s;&s;ion of the interpretation of the Bull of <HI>Pius Quintus.</HI></NOTE> and a &s;ufficient di&s;charge of her Subjects fidelity, and &s;o remain|eth in force, but in &s;ome points touching the Sub|jects, it is altered by the pre&s;ent <HI>Pope.</HI> For where in that Bull all her Subjects are commanded not to obey her, and &s;he being excommunicate and depo&s;ed, all that do obey her are likewi&s;e inno|date and accur&s;ed, which point is perillous to the Catholicks: for if they obey her, they be in the <HI>Popes</HI> Cur&s;e, and if they di&s;obey her, they are in the Queens danger: therefore the pre&s;ent <HI>Pope</HI> to relieve them hath altered that part of the Bull, and di&s;penced with them to obey and &s;erve her, without peril of excommunication: which di&s;pen|&s;ation is to endure but till it plea&s;e the <HI>Pope</HI> other|wi&s;e to determine.</P>
<PB N="22" REF="17">
<P>Wherefore to make &s;ome conclu&s;ion of the mat|ters before-mentioned,<NOTE PLACE="marg">A Conclu&s;ion that all the in|famous Books again&s;t the Queen and the Realm, are fal&s;e.</NOTE> all per&s;ons both within the Realm and abroad, may plainly perceive that all the infamous Libels lately publi&s;hed abroad in &s;un|dry languages, and the &s;landerous reports made in other Princes Courts of a multitude of per&s;ons, to have been of late put to torments and Death, only for profe&s;&s;ion of the Catholick Religion, and not for matters of &s;tate again&s;t the Queens Maje|&s;ty, are fal&s;e and &s;hamele&s;s, and publi&s;hed to the maintenance of Traitors and Rebels. And to make the matter &s;eem more horrible or lamentable, they recite the particular names of all the per&s;ons, which by their own Catalogue exceed not for the&s;e twenty five years &s;pace,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Difference of the &s;mall numbers that have been executed in the &s;pace of five and twen|ty years, from the great numbers in five years of Queen <HI>Maries</HI> Reign.</NOTE> above the number of three&s;core, forgetting or rather with their &s;tony and &s;en&s;le&s;s hearts not regarding, in what cruel &s;ort in the time of Queen <HI>Mary,</HI> which little ex|ceeded the &s;pace of five years, the Queens Maje|&s;ties Raign being five times as many, there were by Impri&s;onment, Torments, Famine and Fire, of Men, Women, Maidens and Children, almo&s;t the num|ber of four hundred: and of that number, above twenty that had been Archbi&s;hops, Bi&s;hops, and principal Prelates or Officers in the Church lamen|tably de&s;troyed, and of Women above three&s;core, and of Children above forty, and among&s;t the Women, &s;ome great with Child, out of who&s;e bo|dies the Child, by fire was expelled alive, and yet al&s;o cruelly burned: examples beyond all heathen Cruelty. And mo&s;t of the youth that then &s;uffer|ed cruel Death, both Men. Women, and Children
<PB N="23" REF="17">(which is to be noted) were &s;uch, as had never by the Sacrament of Bapti&s;m, or by Confirmation, profe&s;&s;ed, nor were ever taught or in&s;tructed, or ever had heard of any other kind of Religion, but only of that which by their blood and death in the fire they did as true Martyrs te&s;tifie. A matter of another &s;ort to be lamented with &s;im|plicity of words, and not with puffed Eloquence, than the execution in this time of a very few Traytors, who al&s;o in their time, if they exceeded thirty years of Age, had in their Bapti&s;m profe&s;&s;ed, and in their youth had learned the &s;ame Religion, which they now &s;o bitterly oppugned. And be|&s;ide that, in their opinions they differ much from the Martyrs of Queen <HI>Maries</HI> time: for though they continued in the profe&s;&s;ion of the Religion wherein they were Chri&s;tened, yet they never at their death denied their lawful Queen, nor main|tained any of her open and Foreign Enemies, nor procured any Rebellion or Civil War, nor did &s;ow any Sedition in &s;ecret Corners, nor withdrew any Subjects from their Obedience, as the&s;e &s;worn Servants of the <HI>Pope</HI> have continually done.</P>
<P>And therefore all the&s;e things well con&s;idered, there is no doubt, but all good Subjects within the Realm do manife&s;tly &s;ee, and all wavering per|&s;ons (not being led clean out of the way by the &s;editious) will hereafter perceive, how they have been abu&s;ed to go a&s;tray. And all &s;trangers,<NOTE PLACE="marg">An Adverti&s;e|ment to all Princes of Countries abroad.</NOTE> but e&s;pecially all Chri&s;tian Potentates, as Emperours, Kings, Princes, and &s;uch like, having their Sove|raign E&s;tate, either in &s;ucce&s;&s;ion hereditary, or
<PB N="24" REF="18">by con&s;ent of their people, being acquainted with the very truth of the&s;e her Maje&s;ties late ju&s;t and nece&s;&s;ary actions, only for defence of her Self, her Crown, and People, again&s;t open Invaders, and for e&s;chewing of Civil Wars, &s;tirred up by Rebel|lion, will allow in their own like Ca&s;es, for a truth and rule (as it is not to be doubted but they will) that it belongeth not to a Bi&s;hop of <HI>Rome</HI> as Suc|ce&s;&s;or of <HI>Saint Peter,</HI> and therein a Pa&s;tor &s;piritu|al, or if he were the Bi&s;hop of all Chri&s;tendom, as by the name of <HI>Pope</HI> he claimeth, fir&s;t by his Bulls or Excommunications, in this &s;ort at his will in favour of Traytors and Rebels, to depo&s;e any Soveraign Princes, being lawfully inve&s;ted in their Crowns, by &s;ucce&s;&s;ion in blood, or by lawful E|lection, and then to Arm Subjects again&s;t their na|tural Lords, to make Wars, and to di&s;pen&s;e with them for their Oaths in &s;o doing, or to excom|municate faithful Subjects, for obeying of their natural Princes, and la&s;tly him&s;elf to make open War, with his own Souldiers, again&s;t Princes mo|ving no Force again&s;t him.</P>
<P>For if the&s;e powers &s;hould be permitted to him to exerci&s;e, then &s;hould no Empire, no Kingdom, no Country, no City or Town, be po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ed by any lawful title, longer than one &s;uch only an earthly man, &s;itting (as he &s;aith) in St. <HI>Pe|ters</HI> Chair at <HI>Rome,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">The Authority claimed by the Pope not war|ranted by Chri&s;t, or by the two Apo|&s;tles, <HI>Peter</HI> and <HI>Paul.</HI></NOTE> &s;hould for his will and appe|tite (without Warrant from God or Man) think meet and determine: An Authority never chal|lenged by the Lord of Lords the Son of God, <HI>Je&s;us Chri&s;t</HI> our only Lord and Saviour, and the only
<PB N="25" REF="18">Head of his Church, whil&s;t he was in his Humani|ty upon the Earth, nor yet delivered by any Wri|ting or certain Tradition from <HI>Saint Peter,</HI> from whom the <HI>Pope</HI> pretendeth to derive all his Autho|rity, nor yet from St. <HI>Paul</HI> the Apo&s;tle of the <HI>Gen|tiles;</HI> but contrariwi&s;e by all Preachings, Pre|cepts, and Writings, contained in the Go&s;pel and other Scriptures of the Apo&s;tles, obedience is ex|pre&s;ly commanded to all earthly Princes, yea, even to Kings by &s;pecial name, and that &s;o generally, as no per&s;on is exempted from &s;uch duty of obe|dience, as by the &s;entence of St. <HI>Paul</HI> even to the <HI>Romans,</HI> appeareth, <HI>Omnis anima &s;ublimioribus pote&s;tatibus &s;it &s;ubdita;</HI> That is, <HI>Let every &s;oul be &s;ubject to the higher Powers:</HI> within the compa&s;s of which Law or Precept, St. <HI>Chry&s;o&s;tom</HI> being Bi|&s;hop of <HI>Con&s;tantinople,</HI> writeth, that even <HI>Apo&s;tles, Prophets, Evangeli&s;ts,</HI> and <HI>Monks</HI> are comprehend|ed. And for proof of St. <HI>Peters</HI> mind herein, from whom the&s;e <HI>Popes</HI> claim their Authority, it cannot be plainlier expre&s;&s;ed, than when he writeth thus: <HI>Proinde &s;ubjecti e&s;tote cuivis humanae ordinationi, propter Dominum, &s;ive Regi, ut qui &s;uperemineat, &s;ive Prae&s;idibus ab eo mi&s;&s;is:</HI> That is, <HI>Therefore be you &s;ubject to every humane ordinance or creature, for the Lord, whether it be to the King, as to him that is &s;upereminent, or above the re&s;t, or to his Pre&s;idents &s;ent by him.</HI> By which two principal Apo&s;tles of Chri&s;t, the&s;e <HI>Popes</HI> the pretended Suc|ce&s;&s;ors, but chiefly by that which Chri&s;t the Son of God, the only Ma&s;ter of Truth, &s;aid to <HI>Peter</HI> and his fellow-Apo&s;tles, <HI>Reges gentium dominan|tur, vos autem non &s;ic:</HI> That is, <HI>The Kings of the
<PB N="26" REF="19">Gentiles have rule over them, but you not &s;o,</HI> may learn to for&s;ake their arrogant and tyrannous Au|thorities in earthly and temporal cau&s;es over Kings and Princes, and exerci&s;e their Pa&s;toral Office, as St. <HI>Peter</HI> was charged thrice at one time by his Lord and Ma&s;ter, <HI>Pa&s;ce oves meas, Feed my &s;heep,</HI> and peremptorily forbidden to u&s;e a Sword, in &s;aying to him, <HI>Converte gladium tuum in locum &s;uum,</HI> or <HI>mitte gladium tuum in vaginam:</HI> That is, <HI>Turn thy Sword into his place,</HI> or, <HI>Put thy Sword in|to the &s;cabbard.</HI></P>
<P>All which Precepts of Chri&s;t and his Apo&s;tles, were duly followed and ob&s;erved many hundred years after their death, by the faithful and godly Bi&s;hops of <HI>Rome,</HI> that duly followed the doctrine and humility of the Apo&s;tles, and the doctrine of Chri&s;t, and thereby dilated the limits of Chri&s;ts Church and the Faith, more in the compa&s;s of an hundred years, than the latter <HI>Popes</HI> have done with their Swords and Cur&s;es the&s;e five hundred years,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Pope Hilde|brand</HI> the fir&s;t that made War again&s;t the Emperor. <HI>An. Dom.</HI> 1074.</NOTE> and &s;o continued untill the time of one <HI>Pope Hildebrand,</HI> otherwi&s;e called <HI>Gregory</HI> the Seventh, about the year of our Lord, 1074. who fir&s;t be|gan to u&s;urp that kind of Tyranny, which of late the Pope called <HI>Pius Quintus,</HI> and &s;ince that time, <HI>Gregory</HI> now the Thirteenth hath followed, for &s;ome example as it &s;eemeth, that is: Where <HI>Gre|gory</HI> the Seventh, in the year of our Lord 1074. or thereabout, pre&s;umed to depo&s;e <HI>Henry</HI> the Fourth, a noble Emperour then being, <HI>Gregory</HI> the Thir|teenth now at this time, would attempt the like again&s;t King <HI>Henry</HI> the Eighth's Daughter and
<PB N="27" REF="19">Heir, Queen <HI>Elizabeth,</HI> a Soveraign Queen, hold|ing her Crown immediately of God. And to the end it may appear to Princes, or to their good Coun&s;ellors in one example, what was the fortu|nate &s;ucce&s;s that God gave to this good Chri&s;tian Emperour <HI>Henry</HI> again&s;t the proud <HI>Pope Hilde|brand,</HI> it is to be noted, that when the <HI>Pope Gre|gory</HI> attempted to depo&s;e this noble Emperour <HI>Henry,</HI> there was one <HI>Rodulph</HI> a Noble man, by &s;ome named the Count of <HI>Reenfield,</HI> that by the Popes procurement, u&s;urped the name of the Em|perour,<NOTE PLACE="marg">The Judge|ment of God again&s;t the Popes fal&s;e e|rected Empe|rour.</NOTE> who was overcome by the &s;aid <HI>Henry</HI> the lawful Emperour, and in fight having lo&s;t his right hand, he, the &s;aid <HI>Rodulph,</HI> lamented his ca&s;e to certain Bi&s;hops, who in the <HI>Popes</HI> name had erected him up, and to them he &s;aid, that the &s;elf-&s;ame right hand which he had lo&s;t, was the hand wherewith he had before &s;worn obedience to his Lord and Ma&s;ter the Emperour <HI>Henry,</HI> and that in following their ungodly Coun&s;els, he had brought upon him Gods heavy and ju&s;t Judgments. And &s;o <HI>Henry</HI> the Emperour prevailing by Gods power,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Pope <HI>Gregory</HI> the Seventh depo&s;ed by <HI>Henry</HI> IV.</NOTE> cau&s;ed <HI>Gregory</HI> the <HI>Pope</HI> by a Synod in <HI>Italy</HI> to be depo&s;ed, as in like times before him his Predece&s;|&s;or <HI>Otho</HI> the Emperour had depo&s;ed one <HI>Pope John</HI> for many hainous crimes: and &s;o were al&s;o within a &s;hort time, three other <HI>Popes,</HI> namely, <HI>Sylve&s;ter, Bennet,</HI> and <HI>Gregory</HI> the Sixth, u&s;ed by the Empe|rour <HI>Henry</HI> the Third, about the year of our Lord 1047. for their like pre&s;umptuous attempts in temporal actions again&s;t the &s;aid Emperours. Ma|ny other examples might be &s;hewed to the Empe|rours Maje&s;ty, and the Princes of the holy Empire
<PB N="28" REF="20">now being, after the time of <HI>Henry</HI> the Fourth: as of <HI>Henry</HI> the Fifth<NOTE PLACE="marg">Henry <HI>5.</HI> Fre|derick <HI>1.</HI> Fre|derick <HI>3.</HI> Lewis <HI>of</HI> Banar, <HI>Em|perours.</HI></NOTE> and after him, of <HI>Frederick</HI> the Fir&s;t, and <HI>Frederick</HI> the Second, and then of <HI>Lewis</HI> of <HI>Bavar,</HI> all Emperours, cruelly and tyrannou&s;ly per|&s;ecuted by the <HI>Popes,</HI> and by their Bulls, Cur&s;es, and by open Wars, and likewi&s;e to many other the great Kings and Monarchs of Chri&s;tendom, of their noble Progenitors, Kings of their &s;everal Domini|ons: whereby they may &s;ee how this kind of ty|rannous Authority in <HI>Popes</HI> to make Wars upon Emperours and Kings, and to command them to be deprived, took hold at the fir&s;t by <HI>Pope Hildebrand,</HI> though the &s;ame never had any lawful example or warrant from the Laws of God of the Old or New Te&s;tament, but yet the &s;ucce&s;&s;es of their tyrannies were by Gods goodne&s;s for the mo&s;t part made fru&s;trate, as by Gods goodne&s;s there is no doubt, but the like will follow to their confu&s;ions at all times to come.</P>
<P>And therefore, as there is no doubt, but the like violent tyrannous proceedings by any <HI>Pope</HI> in main|tenance of Traiters and Rebels, would be with&s;tood by every Soveraign Prince in Chri&s;tendom in de|fence of their Per&s;ons and Crowns, and mainte|nance of their Subjects in Peace: &s;o is there at this pre&s;ent a like ju&s;t cau&s;e that the Emperours Maje|&s;ty, with the Princes of the holy Empire,<NOTE PLACE="marg">What&s;oever is lawful for o|ther Princes Soveraigns, is lawful for the Queen and Crown of <HI>England.</HI></NOTE> and all other Soveraign Kings and Princes in Chri&s;ten|dom, &s;hould judge the &s;ame to be lawful for her Maje&s;ty being a <HI>Queen,</HI> and holding the very place of a King and a Prince Soveraign over divers King|doms and Nations, &s;he being al&s;o mo&s;t lawfull, in|ve&s;ted
<PB N="29" REF="20">in her Crown, and as for good governing of her People, with &s;uch applau&s;e and general allow|ance, loved, and obeyed of them, &s;aving a few rag|ged Traiters or Rebels, or per&s;ons di&s;contented, whereof no other Realm is free, as continually for the&s;e twenty five years pa&s;t hath been notably &s;een and &s;o publickly marked, even by &s;trangers repair|ing into this Realm, as it were no cau&s;e of di&s;grace to any Monarchy and King in Chri&s;tendom to have her Maje&s;ties felicity compared with any of theirs what&s;oever: and it may be, there are many Kings and Princes could be well contented with the frui|tion of &s;ome proportion of her felicity. And though the <HI>Popes</HI> be now &s;uffered by the Emperor, in the Lands of his own peculiar Patrimony, and by the two great Monarchs the <HI>French</HI> King and the King of <HI>Spain,</HI> in their Dominions and Terri|tories (although by other Kings not &s;o allowed) to continue his Authority in &s;undry ca&s;es, and his glorious Title to be the univer&s;al <HI>Bi&s;hop</HI> of the World,<NOTE PLACE="marg">The Title of univer&s;al Bi|&s;hop is a Pre|amble of An|tichri&s;t.</NOTE> which Title <HI>Gregory</HI> the Great above nine hundred years pa&s;t, called a profane Title, full of Sacriledge, and a Preamble of <HI>Antichri&s;t:</HI> yet in all their Dominions and Kingdoms, as al&s;o in the Realm of <HI>England,</HI> mo&s;t notably by many ancient Laws it is well known, how many ways the tyran|nous Power of this his exce&s;&s;ive Authority hath been and &s;till is re&s;trained, checked, and limited by Laws and Pragmatiques, both ancient and new: a very large field for the Lawyers of tho&s;e Coun|tries to walk in and di&s;cour&s;e. And how&s;oever the <HI>Popes</HI> Canoni&s;ts being as his <HI>Bombarders,</HI> do make, his Excommunications and Cur&s;es appear
<PB N="30" REF="21">fearful to the multitude and &s;imple people: yet all great Emperours and Kings aforetime, in their own ca&s;es, of their Rights and Royal Preheminen|ces, though the &s;ame concerned but a City or a poor Town, and &s;ometime but the not allowance of &s;ome unworthy Per&s;on to a <HI>Bi&s;hoprick</HI> or to an <HI>Abbey,</HI> never refrained to de&s;pi&s;e all <HI>Popes</HI> Cur|&s;es or Forces, but attempted always, either by their Swords to compel them to de&s;i&s;t from their furi|ous actions, or without any fear of them&s;elves, in body, &s;oul, or con&s;cience, &s;toutly to with&s;tand their Cur&s;es, and that &s;ometime by force, &s;ometime by Ordinances and Laws: the ancient Hi&s;tories whereof are too many to be repeated, and of none more frequent and effectual than of the Kings of <HI>France.</HI></P>
<P>But leaving tho&s;e that are ancient, we may re|member how in this our own pre&s;ent or late Age, it hath been manife&s;tly &s;een, how the Army of the late noble Emperour <HI>Charles</HI> the Fifth, Father to King <HI>Philip</HI> that now reigneth, was not afraid of his Cur&s;es, when in the year of our Lord 1527. <HI>Rome</HI> it &s;elf was be&s;ieged and &s;acked, and the <HI>Pope</HI> then called <HI>Clement,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Rome</HI> &s;acked, and the Pope <HI>Clement</HI> taken Pri&s;oner by the Emperors Army.</NOTE> and his Cardinals, to the num|ber of about thirty three in his Mount <HI>Adrian</HI> or Ca&s;tle S. <HI>Angelo,</HI> taken Pri&s;oners and detained &s;even months or more, and after ran&s;omed by <HI>Don &V;go di Moncada</HI> a Spaniard, and the Marque&s;s of <HI>Gra&s;to,</HI> at about four hundred M. Duckats, be&s;ides the ran&s;oms of his Cardinals which was very great, ha|ving not long before-time been al&s;o notwith&s;tand|ing his Cur&s;es, be&s;ieged in the &s;ame <HI>Ca&s;tle</HI> by the
<PB N="31" REF="21">Family of the <HI>Colone&s;i</HI> and their Fautors his next Neighbours being then Imperiali&s;ts, and forced to yield to all their demands.<NOTE PLACE="marg">1550. King <HI>Henry</HI> the Se|cond of <HI>France</HI> his Edicts a|gain&s;t the Pope and his Courts of <HI>Rome.</HI></NOTE> Neither did King <HI>Hen|ry</HI> the Second of <HI>France,</HI> Father to <HI>Henry</HI> now King of <HI>France,</HI> about the year 1550. fear or re|gard the <HI>Pope</HI> or his Court of <HI>Rome,</HI> when he made &s;everal &s;traight Edicts again&s;t many parts of the <HI>Popes</HI> Claims in prejudice of the Crown and Clergy of <HI>France,</HI> retracting the Authority of the Court of <HI>Rome,</HI> greatly to the hinderance of the <HI>Popes</HI> former profits. Neither was the Army of King <HI>Philip</HI> now of <HI>Spain,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">The be&s;ieging of <HI>Rome</HI> and the Pope by the Duke of <HI>Alva</HI> with King <HI>Philips</HI> Army.</NOTE> whereof the Duke of <HI>Alva</HI> was General, &s;tricken with any fear of cur&s;ing, when it was brought afore <HI>Rome</HI> again&s;t the <HI>Pope,</HI> in the year of our Lord 1555. where great de&s;tru|ction was made by the &s;aid Army, and all the deli|cate Buildings, Gardens, and Orchards next to <HI>Rome</HI>-Walls overthrown, wherewith his Holine&s;s was more terrified, than he was able to remove with any his Cur&s;es.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Queen <HI>Mary</HI> and Cardinal <HI>Pool</HI> re&s;i&s;ted the Pope.</NOTE> Neither was Queen <HI>Mary</HI> the Queens Maje&s;ties late Si&s;ter, a per&s;on not a lit|tle devoted to the <HI>Roman</HI> Religion, &s;o afraid of the <HI>Popes</HI> cur&s;ings, but that both &s;he and her whole Council, and that with the a&s;&s;ent of all the Judges of the Realm, according to the ancient Laws, in favour of Cardinal <HI>Pool</HI> her Kin&s;man, did forbid the entry of his Bulls, and of a Cardinal Hat at <HI>Cal|lis,</HI> that was &s;ent from the <HI>Pope</HI> for one Fryer <HI>Peyto,</HI> whom the <HI>Pope</HI> had a&s;&s;igned to be a Cardinal in di&s;grace of Cardinal <HI>Pool;</HI> neither did Cardinal <HI>Pool</HI> him&s;elf at the &s;ame time obey the <HI>Popes</HI> com|mandments, nor &s;hewed him&s;elf afraid, being a&s;&s;i&s;t|ed by the Queen, when the <HI>Pope</HI> did threaten him
<PB N="32" REF="22">with pain of Excommunication, but did &s;till oppo&s;e him&s;elf again&s;t the <HI>Popes</HI> commandment for the &s;aid pretended Cardinal <HI>Peyto:</HI> who notwith&s;tanding all the threatnings of the <HI>Pope,</HI> was forced to go up and down in the &s;treets of <HI>London</HI> like a begging Fryer:<NOTE PLACE="marg">D. <HI>Peyto</HI> a begging Fryer</NOTE> a &s;tout re&s;i&s;tance in a Queen for a poor Cardinals Hat, wherein &s;he followed the example of her grandfather King <HI>Henry</HI> the Seventh, for a matter of Allum. So as how&s;oever the Chri&s;tian Kings for &s;ome re&s;pects in Policy can endure the <HI>Pope</HI> to command where no harm nor di&s;advantage groweth to them&s;elves, yet &s;ure it is, and the <HI>Popes</HI> are not ignorant,<NOTE PLACE="marg">The Kings of Chri&s;tendom never &s;uffer the Popes to abridge their Titles or Rights, though they &s;uffer them to have rule over their People.</NOTE> but where they &s;hall in any &s;ort attempt to take from Chri&s;tian Princes any part of their Dominions, or &s;hall give aid to their Ene|mies, or to any other their Rebels, in tho&s;e ca&s;es, their Bulls, their Cur&s;es, their Excommunications, their Sentences, and mo&s;t &s;olemn Anathematicals, no nor their Cro&s;s-keys, or double edged Sword, will &s;erve their turns to compa&s;s their intentions.</P>
<P>And now, where the <HI>Pope</HI> hath manife&s;tly by his Bulls and Excommunications attempted as much as he could, to deprive her Maje&s;ty of her Kingdoms, to withdraw from her the obedience of her Sub|jects, to procure Rebellions in her Realms, yea, to make both Rebellions and open Wars, with his own Captains, Souldiers, Banners, En&s;igns, and all other things belonging to War: &s;hall this <HI>Pope,</HI> or any other <HI>Pope</HI> after him, think that a Soveraign Queen, po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ed of the two Realms of <HI>England</HI> and <HI>Ireland,</HI> &s;tabli&s;hed &s;o many years in her Kingdoms as three or four <HI>Popes</HI> have &s;it in their Chair at
<PB N="33" REF="22"><HI>Rome,</HI> fortified with &s;o much duty, love, and &s;trength of her Subjects, acknowledging no Supe|riour over her Realms, but the mighty hand of God: &s;hall &s;he forbear, or fear to with&s;tand and make fru&s;trate his unlawful attempts, either by her Sword or by her Laws, or to put his Souldiers In|vaders of her Realm to the Sword martially,<NOTE PLACE="marg">The Queen of <HI>England</HI> may not &s;uffer the Pope by any means to make Rebelli|ons in her Realm.</NOTE> or to execute her Laws upon her own rebellious Sub|jects civilly, that are proved to be his chief In&s;tru|ments for Rebellion, and for his open War? This is &s;ure, that how&s;oever either he &s;itting in his Chair with a triple Crown at <HI>Rome,</HI> or any other his Pro|ctors in any part of Chri&s;tendom, &s;hall renew the&s;e unlawful attempts, Almighty God, whom her Ma|je&s;ty only honoureth and acknowledgeth to be her only Soveraign Lord and Protector, and who&s;e Laws and Go&s;pel of his Son Je&s;us Chri&s;t &s;he &s;eeketh to defend, will no doubt but deliver &s;ufficient pow|er into his Maidens hand his Servant Queen <HI>Eliza|beth,</HI> to with&s;tand and confound them all.</P>
<P>And where the &s;editious Trumpetters of infa|mies and lies,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Additaments to the Popes Marty rologe.</NOTE> have &s;ounded forth and entituled certain that have &s;uffered for Trea&s;on, to be Mar|tyrs for Religion: &s;o may they al&s;o at this time, if they li&s;t, add to their forged Catalogue, the headle&s;s body of the late mi&s;erable Earl of <HI>De|&s;mond,</HI> who of late, &s;ecretly wandring without &s;uccour, as a mi&s;erable Begger, was taken by one of the Iri&s;hry in his Cabin, and in an Iri&s;h &s;ort af|ter his own accu&s;tomed &s;avage manner, his head cut off from his body: an end due to &s;uch an Arch-rebel. And herewith to remember the end
<PB N="34" REF="23">of his chief Confederates, may be noted for exam|ple to others,<NOTE PLACE="marg">The &s;trange ends of <HI>James</HI> Earl of <HI>De&s;|mond.</HI> D. <HI>Saurders. James Fitz|morice. John</HI> of <HI>De&s;|mond.</HI></NOTE> the &s;trange manner of the death of Dr. <HI>Sanders</HI> the <HI>Popes</HI> Iri&s;sh Legat, who al&s;o wan|dring in the Mountains in <HI>Ireland</HI> without &s;uccor, dyed raving in a Phren&s;ie. And before him, one <HI>James Fits-Morice</HI> the fir&s;t Traiter of <HI>Ireland</HI> next to <HI>Stukely</HI> the Rakehel, a man not unknown in the <HI>Popes</HI> Palace for a wicked crafty Traiter, was &s;lain at one blow by an <HI>Iri&s;h</HI> noble young Gentleman, in defence of his Fathers Country which the Trai|ter &s;ought to burn. A fourth man of &s;ingular Note was <HI>John</HI> of <HI>De&s;mond,</HI> Brother to the Earl, a very bloody faithle&s;s Traiter, and a notable Mur|derer of his familiar friends, who al&s;o wandring to &s;eek &s;ome prey like a Wolf in the Woods, was taken and beheaded after his own u&s;age, being as he thought &s;ufficiently armed with the <HI>Popes</HI> Bulls and certain <HI>Agnus Dei,</HI> and one notable Ring about his neck &s;ent from the <HI>Popes</HI> finger (as it was &s;aid:) but the&s;e he &s;aw &s;aved not his life. And &s;uch were the fatal ends of all the&s;e, being the principal heads of the <HI>Iri&s;h</HI> War and Rebellion, &s;o as no one per|&s;on remaineth at this day in <HI>Ireland</HI> a known Trai|ter. To this number, they may if they &s;eek num|ber, al&s;o add a furious young Man of <HI>Warwick|&s;hire,</HI> by name <HI>Somervile,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">John Somer|vile.</NOTE> to increa&s;e their Kalen|der of the <HI>Popes</HI> Martyrs, who of late was di&s;cove|red and taken in his way, coming with a full intent to have killed her Maje&s;ty (who&s;e life God always have in his cu&s;tody.) The attempt not denied by the Traiter him&s;elf, but confe&s;&s;ed, and that he was moved thereto in his wicked &s;pirit, by inticements of certain &s;editious and traiterous per&s;ons his Kin&s;|men
<PB N="35" REF="23">and Allies, and al&s;o by often reading of &s;un|dry &s;editious vile Books lately publi&s;hed again&s;t her Maje&s;ty. But as God of his goodne&s;s hath of long time hitherto pre&s;erved her Maje&s;ty from the&s;e and the like Treacheries: &s;o hath &s;he no cau&s;e to fear being under his Protection, &s;he &s;aying with King <HI>David</HI> in the P&s;alm, <HI>My God is my helper and I will tru&s;t in him, he is my protection, and the &s;trength of the power of my &s;alvation.</HI> And for the comfort of all good Subjects again&s;t the &s;hadows of the <HI>Popes</HI> Bulls, it is manife&s;t to the World, that from the beginning of her Maje&s;ties Reign, by Gods &s;ingular goodne&s;s, her Kingdom hath enjoy|ed more univer&s;al Peace, her People increa&s;ed in more numbers, in more &s;trength,<NOTE PLACE="marg">The Pro&s;peri|ty of <HI>England,</HI> during the Popes cur&s;es.</NOTE> and with greater riches, the earth of her Kingdoms hath yielded more fruits, and generally all kind of worldly felici|ty hath more abounded &s;ince and during the time of the <HI>Popes</HI> Thunders, Bulls, Cur&s;es, and Maledi|ctions, than in any other long times before, when the <HI>Popes</HI> Pardons and Ble&s;&s;ings came yearly into the Realm: &s;o as his Cur&s;es and Maledictions have turned back to him&s;elf and his Fautors, that it may be &s;aid to the fortunate <HI>Queen</HI> of <HI>England</HI> and her People, as was &s;aid in <HI>Deuteronomy</HI> of <HI>Balaam,</HI> The Lord thy God would not hear <HI>Balaam,</HI> but did turn his Maledictions or cur&s;es into Benedictions or ble&s;&s;ings: the rea&s;on is, for becau&s;e thy God lo|ved thee.</P>
<P>Although the&s;e former rea&s;ons are &s;ufficient to per&s;wade all kind of rea&s;onable per&s;ons to allow of her Maje&s;ties actions to be good, rea&s;onable,
<PB N="36" REF="24">lawful, and nece&s;&s;ary: yet becau&s;e it may be, that &s;uch as have by frequent reading of fal&s;e artificial Libels, and by giving credit to them, upon a pre|judice or forejudgment afore grouned, by their rooted opinions in favour of the <HI>Pope,</HI> will re&s;t un|&s;atisfied: therefore as much as may be, to &s;atisfie all per&s;ons as far forth as common rea&s;on may warrant, that her Maje&s;ties late action in executing of cer|tain &s;editious Traiters, hath not proceeded for the holding of opinions,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Rea&s;ons to per&s;wade by rea&s;on the Fa|vourers of the Pope, that none hath bin executed for Religion, but for Trea&s;on.</NOTE> either for the <HI>Popes</HI> Supe|macy, or again&s;t her Maje&s;ties Regality, but for the very Crimes of Sedition and Trea&s;on, it &s;hall &s;uffice briefly, in a manner of a repetition of the former rea&s;ons, to remember the&s;e things follow|ing.</P>
<P>Fir&s;t,<NOTE PLACE="marg">The fir&s;t rea|&s;on.</NOTE> it cannot be denied, but that her Maje&s;ty did for many years, &s;uffer quietly the <HI>Popes</HI> Bulls and Excommunications without puni&s;hment of the Fautors thereof, accounting of them but as of words or wind, or of Writings in Parchment weigh|ed down with lead, or as of water-bubbles, com|monly called in Latine <HI>Bullae</HI> and &s;uch like: but yet after &s;ome proof that courage was taken there|of by &s;ome bold and bad Subjects, &s;he could not but then e&s;teem them to be very Preambles, or as forerunners of greater danger: and therefore, with what rea&s;on could any mi&s;like, that her Maje&s;ty did for a bare defence again&s;t them, without other action or force, u&s;e the help of reviving of former Laws, to prohibit the Publication or Execution of &s;uch kind of Bulls within her Realm?</P>
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<P>Secondly, when notwith&s;tanding the prohibiti|on by her Laws,<NOTE PLACE="marg">The &s;econd rea&s;on.</NOTE> the &s;ame Bulls were plentifully (but in &s;ecret &s;ort) brought into the Realm, and at length arrogantly &s;et upon the Gates of the Bi&s;hop of <HI>Londons</HI> Palace near to the Cathedral Church of <HI>Pauls,</HI> the principal City of the Realm,<NOTE PLACE="marg">The Bull of <HI>Pius Quintus</HI> &s;et up at <HI>Pauls.</HI></NOTE> by a lewd per&s;on, u&s;ing the &s;ame like a Herald &s;ent from the <HI>Pope:</HI> who can in any common rea&s;on mi&s;like, that her Maje&s;ty finding this kind of denunciation of War, as a defiance to be made in her principal City by one of her Subjects, avowing and ob&s;ti|nately maintaining the &s;ame, &s;hould according to ju&s;tice, cau&s;e the offender to have the reward due to &s;uch a fact? and this was the fir&s;t action of any capital puni&s;hment inflicted for matter &s;ent from <HI>Rome</HI> to move Rebellion,<NOTE PLACE="marg">The fir&s;t pu|ni&s;hment for the Bull.</NOTE> which was after her Ma|je&s;ty had reigned about the &s;pace of twelve years or more.</P>
<P>Thirdly, when the <HI>Pope</HI> had ri&s;en up out of his Chair in his wrath, from words and writings to a|ctions,<NOTE PLACE="marg">The third rea|&s;on.</NOTE> and had contrary to the advice given by S. <HI>Barnard</HI> to his Predece&s;&s;or, that is, when by his Me&s;&s;ages he left <HI>Verbum</HI> and took <HI>Ferrum,</HI> that is, left to feed by the Word, and began to &s;trike with the Sword, and &s;tirred her Noble men and People directly to di&s;obedience and to open Rebellion,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Rebellion in the North.</NOTE> and that her lewd Subjects by his commandment had executed the &s;ame with all the Forces which they could make or bring into the field: who with common rea&s;on can di&s;allow that her Maje&s;ty u&s;ed her principal Authority, and by her Forces lawful
<PB N="38" REF="25">&s;ubdued Rebels Forces unlawful, and puni&s;hed the Authors thereof no otherwi&s;e than the <HI>Pope</HI> him&s;elf u&s;eth to do with his own Rebellious Subjects, in the Patrimony of his Church? And if any Prince of People in the World, would otherwi&s;e neglect his Office, and &s;uffer his Rebels to have their wills, none ought to pity him, if for want of re&s;i&s;tance and courage, he lo&s;t both his Crown, his Head, his Life, and his Kingdom.</P>
<P>Fourthly,<NOTE PLACE="marg">The fourth rea&s;on.</NOTE> when her Maje&s;ty beheld a further in|crea&s;e of the <HI>Popes</HI> malice, notwith&s;tanding that the fir&s;t Rebellion was in her North parts vanqui&s;h|ed, in that he entertained abroad out of this Realm, the Traiters and Rebels that fled for the Rebelli|on, and all the Rabble of other the Fugitives of the Realm, and that he &s;ent a number of the &s;ame in &s;orts di&s;gui&s;ed into both the Realms of <HI>Eng|land</HI> and <HI>Ireland,</HI> who there &s;ecretly allured her People to new Rebellions,<NOTE PLACE="marg">The Inva&s;ion of <HI>Ireland</HI> by the Pope.</NOTE> and at the &s;ame time &s;pared not his charges to &s;end al&s;o out of <HI>Italy</HI> by Sea, certain Ships with Captains of his own, with their Bands of Souldiers, furni&s;hed with Trea&s;ure, Munition, Victuals, En&s;igns, Banners, and all other things requi&s;ite to the War, into her Realm of <HI>Ire|land,</HI> where the &s;ame Forces with other auxiliar Companies out of <HI>Spain</HI> landed, and fortified them|&s;elves very &s;trongly in the Sea-&s;ide, and proclaimed open War, erecting the <HI>Popes</HI> Banner again&s;t her Maje&s;ty: may it be now asked of the&s;e per&s;ons, Favourers of the Romi&s;h Authority, what in rea|&s;on &s;hould have been done by her Maje&s;ty other|wi&s;e, than fir&s;t to apprehend all &s;uch Figitives &s;o
<PB N="39" REF="25">&s;tollen into the Realm, and di&s;per&s;ed in di&s;gui&s;ing habits to &s;ow Sedition, as &s;ome Prie&s;ts in their &s;e|cret Profe&s;&s;ion, but all in their apparel, as Roi&s;ters or Ruffins, &s;ome Scholars, like to the ba&s;e&s;t Com|mon people, and them to commit to Pri&s;ons, and upon their examinations of their Trades and Haunts, to convince them of their Con&s;piracies abroad, by te&s;timony of their own Companions, and of &s;owing Sedition &s;ecretly at home in the Realm? What may be rea&s;onably thought was meet to be done with &s;uch &s;editious per&s;ons, but by the Laws of the Realm to try, condemn, and execute them? and e&s;pecially having regard to the dangerous time,<NOTE PLACE="marg">The Popes Forces van|qui&s;hed in <HI>Ire|land.</HI></NOTE> when the <HI>Popes</HI> Forces were in the Realm of <HI>Ireland,</HI> and more in preparation to fol|low as well into <HI>England</HI> as into <HI>Ireland,</HI> to the re|&s;i&s;tance whereof, her Maje&s;ty and her Realm was forced to be at greater charges, than ever &s;he had been, &s;ince &s;he was Queen thereof. And &s;o by Gods power, which he gave to her on the one part, &s;he did by her Laws &s;uppre&s;s the &s;editious &s;tirrers of Rebellion in her Realm of <HI>England,</HI> and by her Sword vanqui&s;hed all the <HI>Popes</HI> Forces in her Realm of <HI>Ireland,</HI> excepting certain Captains of mark that were &s;aved from the Sword, as per&s;ons that did re|nounce their quarrel, and &s;eemed to cur&s;e or to blame &s;uch as &s;ent them to &s;o unfortunate and de|&s;perate a Voyage.</P>
<P>But though the&s;e rea&s;ons, grounded upon rules of natural rea&s;on,<NOTE PLACE="marg">The Politick Adver&s;aries &s;atisfied.</NOTE> &s;hall fatisfie a great number of the Adver&s;aries (who will yield that by good or|der of Civil and Chri&s;tian Policy and Government,
<PB N="40" REF="26">her Maje&s;ty could nor can do no le&s;s than &s;he hath done, fir&s;t to &s;ubdue with her Forces her Rebels and Traiters, and next by order of her Laws to correcdt the Aiders and Abettors, and la&s;tly to put al&s;o to the Sword &s;uch Forces as the <HI>Pope</HI> &s;ent into her Dominions) yet there are certain other per&s;ons,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Objection of the Papi&s;ts, that the per|&s;ons executed are but Scho|lars and unar|med.</NOTE> more nicely addicted to the <HI>Pope,</HI> that will yet &s;eem to be un&s;atisfied, for that, as they will term the matter, a number of &s;illy poor Wretches were put to death as Traiters, being but in profe&s;|&s;ion Scholars or Prie&s;ts, by the names of Seminaries, Je&s;uits, or &s;imple School-ma&s;ters, that came not in|to the Realm with any Armor or Weapon, by force to aid the Rebels and Traiters, either in <HI>England</HI> or in <HI>Ireland</HI> in their Rebellions or Wars: of which &s;ort of Wretches the commi&s;eration is made, as though for their contrary opinions in Religion, or for teaching of the people to di&s;obey the Laws of the Realm, they might have been otherwi&s;e puni&s;h|ed and corrected, and yet not with capital puni&s;h|ment. The&s;e kinds of defences, tend only to find fault rather with the &s;everity of their puni&s;hments, than to acquit them as Innocents or quiet Subjects. But for an&s;wer to the better &s;atisfaction of the&s;e nice and &s;crupulous Favourers of Traiters, it mu&s;t be with rea&s;on demanded of them (if at lea&s;t they will open their ears to rea&s;on) whether they think that when a King being &s;tabli&s;hed in his Realm, hath a Rebellion fir&s;t &s;ecretly practi&s;ed, and afterward openly rai&s;ed in his Realm by his own &s;editious Subjects, and when by a Foreign Potentate or Ene|my, the &s;ame Rebellion is maintained, and the Re|bels by me&s;&s;ages and promi&s;es comforted to conti|nue,
<PB N="41" REF="26">and their Trea&s;ons again&s;t their natural Prince avowed,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Many are Trai|ters, though they have no Armor nor Weapon.</NOTE> and con&s;equently when the &s;ame Poten|tate and Enemy, being Author of the &s;aid Rebelli|on, &s;hall with his own proper Forces invade the Realm and Subjects of the Prince that is &s;o lawful|ly and peaceably po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ed: in the&s;e ca&s;es, &s;hall no Subject favouring the&s;e Rebels, and yielding obe|dience to the Enemy the Invador, be committed or puni&s;hed as a Traiter, but only &s;uch of them, as &s;hall be found openly to carry Armor and Wea|pon? Shall no Subject, that is a &s;pial and an explorer for the Rebel or Enemy, again&s;t his natu|ral Prince, be taken and puni&s;hed as a Traiter, be|cau&s;e he is not found with Armor or Weapon, but yet is taken in his di&s;gui&s;ed apparel, with writings, or other manife&s;t tokens, to prove him a Spy for Traiters, after he hath wandered &s;ecretly in his Soveraigns Camp, Region, Court, or City? Shall no Subject be counted a Traiter, that will &s;ecretly give earne&s;ty and pre&s;t money to per&s;ons to be Re|bels or Enemies, or that will attempt to poy&s;on the Victual, or the Fountains, or &s;ecretly &s;et on fire the Ships or Munition, or that will &s;ecretly &s;earch and &s;ound the Havens and Creeks for land|ing, or mea&s;ure the depth of Ditches, or height of Towers and Walls, becau&s;e the&s;e offenders are not found with armor or Weapon? The an&s;wer I think mu&s;t needs be yielded (if rea&s;on and expe|rience &s;hall have rule with the&s;e Adver&s;aries) that all the&s;e and &s;uch like are to be puni&s;hed as Trai|ters: and the principal rea&s;on is, becau&s;e the acti|ons of all the&s;e are nece&s;&s;ary acce&s;&s;aries, and adhe|rents proper, to further and continue all Rebelli|ons
<PB N="34" REF="27">and Wars. But if they will deny, that none are Traiters that are not armed, they will make <HI>Judas</HI> no Traiter, that came to Chri&s;t without Ar|mor, colouring his trea&s;on with a ki&s;s.</P>
<P>Now therefore it re&s;teth to apply the Facts of the&s;e late Malefactors that are pretended to have offended but as Scholars,<NOTE PLACE="marg">The Applica|tion of the Schola&s;tical Traiters, to o|thers, that are Traiters with|out Armor.</NOTE> or Book-men, or at the mo&s;t but as per&s;ons that only in words and doctrine, and not with Armor did favour and help the Re|bels and the Enemies. For which purpo&s;e let the&s;e per&s;ons be termed as they li&s;t, Scholars, School-ma&s;ters, Book-men, Seminaries, Prie&s;ts, Je&s;uits, Fryers, Bead-men, Romani&s;ts, Pardoners, or what el&s;e you will, neither their titles, nor their apparel doth make them Traiters, but their traiterous &s;e|cret motions and practices: their per&s;ons make not the War, but their directions and coun&s;els have &s;et up the Rebellions. The very cau&s;es final of the&s;e Rebellions and Wars, have been to depo&s;e her Ma|je&s;ty from her Crown: the cau&s;es in&s;trumental, are the&s;e kind of Seminaries and Seed-men of Se|dition: the fruits and effects thereof, are by Re|bellion to &s;hed the blood of all her faithful Sub|jects: the rewards of the Invaders (if they could prevail) &s;hould be the di&s;inheriting of all the No|bility, the Clergy, and the whole Commonalty, that would (as they are bound by the Laws of God, by their Birth and Oaths) defend their natu|ral gracious Queen, their native Country, their Wives, their Children, their Family, and their Hou&s;es. And now examine the&s;e which you call your unarmed Scholars and Prie&s;ts, wherefore they
<PB N="35" REF="27">lied and were conver&s;ant in company of the prin|cipal Rebels and Traiters at <HI>Rome,</HI> and in other places, where it is proved that they were partakers of their Con&s;piracies? Let it be an&s;wered why they came thus by &s;tealth into the Realm? why they have wandered up and down in corners in di&s;gui&s;ed &s;ort, changing their titles, names, and manner of apparel? Why they have enticed and &s;ought to per&s;wade by their &s;ecret fal&s;e rea&s;ons, the people to allow and believe all the actions and at|tempts what&s;oever the <HI>Pope</HI> hath done or &s;hall do, to be lawful? Why they have reconciled and withdrawn &s;o many people in corners from the Laws of the Realm to the obedience of the <HI>Pope,</HI> a Foreign Potentate and open Enemy, whom they know to have already declared the Queen to be no lawful Queen, to have maintained the known Rebels and Traiters, to have invaded her Maje&s;ties Dominions with open War? Examine further, how the&s;e vagrant di&s;gui&s;ed unarmed Spies have an|&s;wered, when they were taken and demanded what they thought of the Bull of <HI>Pope Pius Quintus,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Six Que&s;tions to try Traiters from Scholars.</NOTE> which was publi&s;hed to deprive the Queens Maje|&s;ty, and to warrant her Subjects to di&s;obey her: whether they thought that all Subjects ought to obey the &s;ame Bull, and &s;o to rebel? Secondly, whether they thought her Maje&s;ty to be the law|ful Queen of the realm, notwith&s;tanding the &s;aid Bull or any other Bull of the <HI>Pope?</HI> Thirdly, whe|ther the <HI>Pope</HI> might give &s;uch licence as he did to the Earls of <HI>Northumberland</HI> and <HI>We&s;tmerland,</HI> and other her Maje&s;ties Subjects to rebel as they did? or give power to <HI>D. Sanders</HI> a natural born Subject
<PB N="44" REF="28">but an unnatural worn Prie&s;t, to take Arms and move Wars as he did in <HI>Ireland.</HI> Fourthly, whe|ther the <HI>Pope</HI> may di&s;charge the Subjects of her Maje&s;ty, or of any other Princes Chri&s;tened, of their Oaths of obedience? Fifthly, whether the &s;aid traiterous Prie&s;t <HI>D. Sanders</HI> or one <HI>Bri&s;tow</HI> a rebellious Figitive, did in their Books write truly or fal&s;ely, in approving the &s;aid Bull of <HI>Pius Quin|tus,</HI> and the Contents thereof? La&s;tly, what were to be done, if the <HI>Pope</HI> or any other a&s;&s;igned by him, would invade the Realm of <HI>England,</HI> and what part they would take, or what part any faith|ful Subject of her Maje&s;ties ought to take? To the&s;e que&s;tions very apt to try the truth or fal&s;e|hood of any &s;uch &s;editious per&s;ons, being ju&s;tly before condemned for their di&s;loyalty, the&s;e lewd unarmed Traiters I &s;ay would no wi&s;e an&s;wer di|rectly hereto, as all other faithful Subjects to any Prince Chri&s;tian ought to do. And as they upon refu&s;al to an&s;wer directly to the&s;e que&s;tions only, might have been ju&s;tly convinced as guilty of Trea|&s;on, &s;o yet were they not thereupon condemned,<NOTE PLACE="marg">The offenders executed for Trea&s;on, not <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">or Religion.</NOTE> but upon all their other former actions committed both abroad and in her Realm, which were no le&s;s traiterous than the actions of all other the Spies and Traiters, and of <HI>Judas</HI> him&s;elf afore remem|bred which had no Armor nor Weapon, and yet at all times ought to be adjudged Traiters. For the&s;e di&s;gui&s;ed per&s;ons (called Scholars or Prie&s;ts) having been fir&s;t conver&s;ant of long time with the Trai|ters beyond the Sea in all their Con&s;piracies, came hither by &s;tealth in time of War and Rebellion by commandment of the Capital Enemy the <HI>Pope</HI> or
<PB N="45" REF="28">his Legates, to be &s;ecret E&s;pials and Explorers in the Realm for the <HI>Pope,</HI> to deliver by &s;ecret, Ro|mi&s;h tokens, as it were an earne&s;t or pre&s;t, to them that &s;hould be in readine&s;s to joyn with Rebels or open Enemies, and in like &s;ort with their hallowed baggages from <HI>Rome</HI> to poy&s;on the &s;en&s;es of the Subjects, pouring into their hearts malicious and pa&s;tilent opinions again&s;t her Maje&s;ty and the Laws of the Realm: and al&s;o to kindle and &s;et on fire the hearts of di&s;contented Subjects with the flames of Rebellion, and to &s;earch and &s;ound the depths and &s;ecrets of all mens inward intentions, either again&s;t her Maje&s;ty, or for her: and finally to bring into a Bead-roll, or as it were into a Mu|&s;ter-roll, the names and powers with the dwellings of all that &s;hould be ready to rebel and to aid the Foreign Inva&s;ion. The&s;e kinds of &s;editious acti|ons for the &s;ervice of the <HI>Pope,</HI> and the Traiters and Rebels abroad, have made them Traiters: not their Books, nor their Beads, no nor their Cakes of Wax which they call <HI>Agnus Dei,</HI> nor other their Reliques, nor yet their Opinions for the ceremo|nies or Rites of the Church of <HI>Rome:</HI> and there|fore it is to be certainly concluded that the&s;e did ju&s;tly de&s;erve their capital puni&s;hments as Traiters, though they were not apprehended with open Ar|mor or Weapon.</P>
<P>Now if this latter repetition, as it were of all the former cau&s;es &amp; rea&s;ons afore-recited, may not &s;erve to &s;top the boi&s;terous mouths, and the pe&s;ti|ferous tongues, and venemous breaths of the&s;e that are infected with &s;o gro&s;s errors, as to defend &s;e|ditious
<PB N="38" REF="29">Subjects, &s;tirrers of Rebellion again&s;t their natural Prince and Country:<NOTE PLACE="marg">Unrea&s;onable and ob&s;tinate per&s;ons are left to Gods Judgment.</NOTE> then are they to be left without any further argument, to the Judg|ment of the Almighty God, as per&s;ons that have co|vered their eyes again&s;t the Suns light, &s;topped their ears again&s;t the &s;ound of Ju&s;tice, and oppre&s;|&s;ed their hearts again&s;t the force of rea&s;on, and as the <HI>P&s;almi&s;t</HI> &s;aith, <HI>They &s;peak lyes, they are as ve|nemous as the poy&s;on of a Serpent, even like the deaf Adder that &s;toppeth his ears.</HI></P>
<P>Wherefore with charity to conclude, if the&s;e Rebels and Traiters, and their Fautors would yet take &s;ome remor&s;e and compa&s;&s;ion of their natural Country, and would con&s;ider how vain their at|tempts have been &s;o many years, and how many of their Confederates are wa&s;ted by mi&s;eries and cala|mities, and would de&s;i&s;t from their unnatural pra|ctices abroad: and if the&s;e <HI>Seminaries,</HI> &s;ecret Wanderers, and Explorators in the dark would im|ploy their travels in the works of Light and Do|ctrine according to the u&s;age of their Schools, and content them&s;elves with their Profe&s;&s;ion and De|votion: and that the remnant of the wicked flock of the Seed-men of Sedition would ea&s;e from their rebellious, fal&s;e, and infamous railings and libel|lings: there is no doubt by Gods grace (her Ma|je&s;ty being &s;o much given to Mercy and devoted to Peace) but all colour and occa&s;ion of &s;hedding the blood of any more of her natural Subjects of this Land, &s;hould utterly cea&s;e. Again&s;t who&s;e malices, if they &s;hall not de&s;i&s;t, Almighty God con|tinue her Maje&s;ty with his Spirit and Power long
<PB N="39" REF="29">to reign and live in his fear, and to be able to van|qui&s;h them and all Gods Enemies, and her Rebels and Traiters both at home and abroad, and to maintain and pre&s;erve all her natural good loving Subjects, to the true &s;ervice of the &s;ame Almighty God according to his holy Word and Will.</P>
<P>Many other things might be remembred for de|fence of other her Maje&s;ties Princely, honourable, and godly actions in &s;undry other things, wherein al&s;o the&s;e and the like &s;editious Railers have of late time without all &s;hame, by feigned and fal&s;e Libels &s;ought to di&s;credit her Maje&s;ty and her Go|vernment: but at this time, the&s;e former cau&s;es and rea&s;ons alledged by way of adverti&s;ements, are &s;ufficient to ju&s;tifie her Maje&s;ties actions to the whole World in the ca&s;es remembred.</P>
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<HEAD TYPE="sub">Which ought to move all true and &s;ound <HI>Catholicks,</HI> who are not wholly Je&s;uited, to acknowledge without all Equivocations, Am|biguities, or Shiftings, that the Proceedings of her Maje&s;ty, and of the State with them, &s;ince the beginning of her Highne&s;s Reign, have been both mild and merciful.</HEAD>
<P>RIght Wor&s;hipful and our dear Friends. We your ancient Teachers and &s;piritu|al Fathers, the &s;ecular Prie&s;ts in <HI>Eng|land,</HI> that &s;undry years for your &s;akes, have endured many calamities, but can|not frame our &s;elves to the new Je&s;uitical Faction, that beareth &s;o great a &s;way with you: are every where among&s;t you accounted &s;imple per&s;ons: men de&s;titute of the Spirit of Government: without all Policy and Providence, ignorant Pilots, how to ca&s;t about with our Ships in &s;udden gu&s;ts or &s;torms: not trained up in the managing of great Affairs, and far unmeet (God wot) to take upon us the guiding of Souls. All which di&s;graces, in the &s;en&s;e they are imputed unto us, we take in good part, whether they proceed from your &s;elves, or from your <HI>Spani&s;h</HI> Stati&s;ts, that can work won|ders,
<PB N="50" REF="31">or from you both: and we mu&s;t acknow|ledge, that if their cour&s;es, either formerly taken, or &s;till intended for the re-e&s;tabli&s;hing of the Ca|tholick Faith in this Kingdom, be good, ours do come far &s;hort of that pitch: and well you may think; as already you have (in your wi&s;doms) cen|&s;ured our weakne&s;s, and judged of us. Howbeit, as yet by your good patience, we mu&s;t be bold to rejoyce in our &s;implicity, and to confe&s;s in direct terms, and &s;o tell you plainly, and wi&s;h you all to mark it well: that, <HI>po&s;teriores cogitationes &s;olent e&s;&s;e &s;apientiores.</HI> Experience is &s;aid to be the Mi|&s;tre&s;s of Fools: but &s;he is no fooli&s;h Mi&s;re&s;s. The Je&s;uitical Plots for the re&s;toring of Religion in this Land, by Trea&s;ons or Inva&s;ions, are not &s;anctified or ble&s;&s;ed by the hand of God. Some of us the ancienter &s;ort of Prie&s;ts, have ever mi&s;liked their cour&s;es herein: and many other we know are of the &s;ame Judgment. The old approved paths of our Forefathers, (when men have beaten their brains to the uttermo&s;t) will always prove the be&s;t, Novelties and &s;ine devices of bu&s;ie and unquiet heads, are, but as <HI>May</HI>-flowers that are gone in <HI>June;</HI> they may carry a fair &s;hew, but they will not continue. The ancient manner of planting the Catholick Faith, hath been by Preaching, Pray|ers, private In&s;tructions, Confe&s;&s;ions, Ab&s;olutions, and by the exerci&s;ing of other Prie&s;tly Functions, given <HI>ad aedificationem non ad de&s;tructionem,</HI> to teach Obedience, not Rebellion: to fill mens hearts with joy and peace, by the inward working of the Holy Gho&s;t; and not to feed them with hopes of Inva&s;ions and Treacheries, with the Moon-&s;hine in
<PB N="51" REF="31">the water, and follies, or with prepo&s;terous cogi|tations, to think they may expect for figs from thi|&s;tles, or that men may do evil, that good may come of it. As &s;imple Prie&s;ts as you e&s;teem us, yet this we tell you, that we are not ignorant of the <HI>Ma|chiavilian</HI> Rules, which your Rabbies practi&s;e: nor of their Wild-gee&s;e Races, wherein they have run them&s;elves out of all hone&s;t breath. But we know them, not to embrace them (we thank God) but to di&s;clo&s;e them, or rather to acknowledge them for wicked (being di&s;clo&s;ed too apparently alrea|dy to our hands:) that you in time might e&s;chew them, (if you will be advi&s;ed by us) and all the World at the lengh may bear us witne&s;s, how much we dete&s;t them from our hearts, and abhor them. Whil&s;t we had any hope, that the&s;e Poli|tical Fathers (as they joy to be termed) would at the la&s;t have reclaimed them&s;elves, and grown more tractable and moderate in their de&s;ignments again&s;t our <HI>Soveraign</HI> and <HI>Native Country:</HI> we were &s;ilent in re&s;pect of the common Cau&s;e, and very well content to undergo many inconveniences and mi&s;eries, which we might have avoided (as we are per&s;waded) if we had &s;ooner opened our &s;elves, and profe&s;&s;ed our &s;aid dete&s;tation of &s;uch their, no way Prie&s;tly, but very irreligious cour&s;es: whereby the <HI>State</HI> hath been mo&s;t ju&s;tly irritated and provoked again&s;t us. For when we con&s;ider on the one &s;ide, what we know our &s;elves, concer|ning the Laws made of later years, with the occa|&s;ions of them, and likewi&s;e as touching the pro|ceedings of the <HI>State</HI> here, &s;ince the beginning of her Maje&s;ties Reign, as well again&s;t us that are
<PB N="52" REF="32">Prie&s;ts, as al&s;o again&s;t other Catholicks of the Lai|ty: and do find on the other &s;ide, what practices, under the pretence of Religion, have been &s;et on foot, for the utter &s;ubver&s;ion both of the <HI>Queen</HI> and of her Kingdom: and herewith further call to mind, what &s;undry Je&s;uits and men (wholly for the time or altogether) addicted to Je&s;uiti&s;m, have written and publi&s;hed to the World in &s;undry Treati&s;es, not only again&s;t the &s;aid Laws and cour&s;e of Ju&s;tice, but in like &s;ort again&s;t her chief Coun|&s;ellors, (and which exceedeth all the re&s;t) again&s;t the Royal per&s;on of her Maje&s;ty, her Honour, Crown, and mo&s;t Princely Scepter: it may in our opinions be rather wondred, that &s;o many Catho|licks of both &s;orts, are left alive in the Realm to &s;peak of the Catholick Faith, than that the <HI>State</HI> hath proceeded with us from time to time, as it hath done. It may &s;eem &s;trange to &s;ome, that the&s;e things &s;hould proceed from us that are Prie&s;ts: but divers of you can bear us witne&s;s, that they are no new conceits, bred in us, by rea&s;on of the oppo&s;i|tion we have with the Je&s;uits: and be&s;ides, no &s;mall number of Catholicks (as we are per&s;waded) have long expected this duty at your hands: that thereby our Allegiance and Fidelity to our <HI>Queen</HI> and Country might be the better te&s;tified, the hard opinion of us mitigated, our actions and profe&s;&s;ion of duty better credited: the cau&s;e we &s;tand for, more regarded: and we our &s;elves 9for our plain dealing, and for the good of the Church) might be the better reputed of, and e&s;teemed, or at the lea&s;t in &s;ome &s;ort born with and tolerated, as men that do di&s;tingui&s;h between Religion and Trea&s;on.</P>
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<P>We wi&s;h with all our hearts, (and groan every day at the contrary) that her Maje&s;ty had continu|ed in her obedience to the <HI>See Apo&s;tolick,</HI> as Queen <HI>Mary</HI> her Si&s;ter of famous memory, had left her a worthy Example: but &s;eeing that God for our &s;ins would have it otherwi&s;e, we ought to have carri|ed our &s;elves in another manner of cour&s;e towards her, our true and lawful <HI>Queen,</HI> and towards our Country, than hath been taken and pur&s;ued by many Catholicks, but e&s;pecially by the Je&s;uits. And therefore (as well to di&s;charge our own con|&s;ciences, as to &s;atisfie many of you of the modera|ter &s;ort of Catholicks, according to the old &s;aying, Better late than never) we have thought it our parts, (being her Highne&s;s natural born Subjects) to acknowledge the truth of the carriage of mat|ters again&s;t us, and the apparent cau&s;es of it: that the blame may indeed, from point to point, light and lie where it ought to do, and both &s;ides bear no other than their own burthens, as the Laws both of God and man do require. If hereby her Ma|je&s;ty may in any &s;ort be appea&s;ed, and the <HI>State</HI> &s;atisfied, our own former cour&s;es bettered, and the Realm &s;ecured, that the like &s;hall never hereafter be attempted or favoured by any of us, but be re|vealed, if we know them, and with&s;tood, if they be enterpri&s;ed, with all our goods and our lives, even to our uttermo&s;t ability, be their pretences never &s;o fair, for Religion, or what el&s;e can be de|vi&s;ed: we &s;hall think our &s;elves happy, and will not regard what all the malice and &s;pite of the Je&s;uits can work or effect again&s;t us.</P>
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<P>It cannot be denied, but that for the fir&s;t ten years of her Maje&s;ties Reign, the &s;tate of Catho|licks in <HI>England</HI> was tolerable, and after a &s;ort in &s;ome good quietne&s;s. Such as for their con&s;cien|ces were impri&s;oned in the beginning of her coming to the Crown, were very kindly and mercifully u&s;ed, the &s;tate of things then con&s;idered. Some of them were appointed to remain with &s;uch their friends, as they them&s;elves made choice of. Others were placed, &s;ome with Bi&s;hops; &s;ome with Deans; and had their diet at their Tables, with &s;uch con|venient Lodgings and Walks for their recreation, as did well content them. They that were in the ordinary Pri&s;ons, had &s;uch liberty and other com|modities, as the places would afford, not inconve|nient for men that were in their ca&s;es. But that our Brethren of the more fiery and Je&s;uitical hu|mour may not &s;nuff hereat: we have thought it meet to cool their heat, with &s;ome of Ma&s;ter <HI>Par|&s;ons,</HI> and his Fellow Ma&s;ter <HI>Cre&s;wels</HI> more gentle delays, (than are u&s;ual with them:) who in one of their Books, do confe&s;s as much in effect, as here we have &s;et down, if not more: thus the&s;e great Emperour-like Je&s;uits do &s;peak to her Maje&s;ty. <HI>In the beginning of thy Kingdom thou did&s;t deal &s;om|thing more gently with Catholicks: none were then urged by thee, or pre&s;&s;ed either to thy Sect, or to the denial of their Faith. All things (indeed) did &s;eem to proceed in a far milder cour&s;e: no great complaints were heard of: there were &s;een no ex|traordinary contentions or repugnancies: Some there were that to plea&s;e and gratifie you, went to
<PB N="55" REF="33">your Churches. But when afterwards thou did&s;t begin to wrong them, &amp;c.</HI> And hen was that our great <HI>Mon&s;eigneurs?</HI> Surely when&s;oever it was: (to an&s;wer for you) we our &s;elves (certain Catholicks of all &s;orts) were the true cau&s;es of it. For whil&s;t her Maje&s;ty and the <HI>State</HI> dealt with the Catho|licks, as you have heard, (which was full eleven years, no one Catholick beging called in que&s;tion of his life, for his con&s;cience, all that time:) con|&s;ider with us, how &s;ome of our profe&s;&s;ion proceed|ed with them. Her Highne&s;s had &s;carcely felt the Crown warm upon her head, but it was challenged from her, by &s;ome of her Neighbours, as Ma&s;ter <HI>Saunders</HI> noteth. The <HI>French</HI> were &s;ent into <HI>Scot|land</HI> to do &s;omewhat, you may be &s;ure: which concerned her Maje&s;ty (the circum&s;tances con&s;i|&s;idered) to look unto. Afterwards certain matters were undertaken by her Maje&s;ty in <HI>France:</HI> and the Affairs in <HI>Scotland</HI> did &s;o proceed, as that the <HI>Queen</HI> there was compelled 1567. to flie into <HI>Eng|land,</HI> where for a great time, &s;he was very honou|rably entertained, her liberty only excepted. But with the&s;e matters, what had we to do, that were either Prie&s;ts or private men? If either <HI>France</HI> or <HI>Scotland,</HI> had cau&s;e to repine or complain, &s;ome of tho&s;e Nations might have done, written, and &s;poken as it had plea&s;ed them. If little became either Ma&s;ter <HI>Saunders</HI> (otherwi&s;e an excellent man) or Ma&s;ter <HI>Par&s;ons,</HI> or any other of our own Nation, to have intermedled with tho&s;e matters, or to write as they have very offen&s;ively done in divers of their Books and Treati&s;es; to what pur|po&s;e we know not: except it were to &s;hew their
<PB N="56" REF="34">malice, to di&s;honour their own Country, as much as lay in them, and to move a greater di&s;like in the State of all that be Catholicks, than before they had. Kings ever have had, and will have their plots and practices for their own &s;afeties: it being as inconvenient to their Policy, for one Prince by his Might to over-top another, as it is among&s;t the principal members of our natural bodies, for one member to &s;well or grow too great above his due proportion. Happy had we Catholicks been at this day, if the&s;e men being Prie&s;ts, had never troubled them&s;elves with State-matters, which they have managed, as <HI>Phaeton</HI> did his Fathers Chariot: very greatly to our prejudice. Let them pretend never &s;o great skill in their di&s;po&s;ing of Kingdoms <HI>ordine ad Deum:</HI> they have certainly dealt with ours <HI>ordine ad Gehennam.</HI></P>
<P>But this is not all which the <HI>State</HI> may ju&s;tly challenge us for. In the time of our &s;aid Peace, and upon the coming into <HI>England</HI> of the Queen of <HI>Scots,</HI> whil&s;t her Maje&s;ty of <HI>England</HI> and the <HI>State</HI> were bu&s;ied, as partly you have heard before: it pitieth our hearts, to &s;ee and read, what hath been printed and publi&s;hed out of <HI>Italy</HI> in the life of <HI>Pius Quintus</HI> concerning his Holine&s;s endeavors, &s;tirred up by fal&s;e &s;ugge&s;tions to joyn with the King of <HI>Spain:</HI> for the utter ruine and overthrow both of our Prince and Country. Would to God &s;uch things had never been enterpri&s;ed: and mo&s;t of all, that they had never been printed. We that have &s;ome skill with our Pens, pre&s;ume too much a great deal, upon our own Wits. What good
<PB N="57" REF="34">the mentioning of the&s;e points can bring to the Church, we &s;ee not: but &s;ure we are, it hath done much hurt, and given our common Enemies very great advantage again&s;t us. For now it is u&s;ually objected unto us, by every one of any reach, when we complain of &s;ome hard dealings towards us: Yea, &s;ay they (very well good Ma&s;ters) were you not in quiet? Who then gave the cau&s;e that you were troubled? When her Maje&s;ty u&s;ed you kindly: how treacherou&s;ly was &s;he dealt with by you? Did not <HI>Pius Quintus</HI> practi&s;e her Maje&s;ties &s;ubver&s;ion: &s;he (good Lady) never dreaming of any &s;uch mi&s;|chief? Was not one <HI>Robert Ridolphi,</HI> a Gentleman of <HI>Florence</HI> &s;ent hither by the <HI>Pope</HI> (under colour of Merchandize) to &s;ollicite a Rebellion? Did not <HI>Pius Quintus</HI> move the King of <HI>Spain</HI> to joyn in this Exploit, for the better &s;ecuring of his own Do|minions in the Low Countries? Was not the <HI>Bull</HI> denounced again&s;t her Maje&s;ty, that carrieth &s;o fair a Preface of zeal, and pa&s;toral duty: devi&s;ed purpo&s;ely, to further the intended Rebellion, for the depriving of her Maje&s;ty from her Kingdom? Had not the <HI>Pope</HI> and King of <HI>Spain</HI> a&s;&s;igned the Duke of <HI>Norfolk,</HI> to be the Head of this Rebelli|on? Did not the <HI>Pope</HI> give order to <HI>Ridolphi,</HI> to take 150000 Crows to &s;et forward this attempt? Was not &s;ome of that Money &s;ent for <HI>Scotland:</HI> and &s;ome delivered to the &s;aid Duke? Did not King <HI>Philip</HI> at the <HI>Popes</HI> in&s;tance, determine to &s;end the Duke of <HI>Alva</HI> into <HI>England</HI> with all his Forces in the Low Counries, to a&s;&s;i&s;t the Duke of <HI>Nor|folk?</HI> Are all the&s;e things true, and were they not then in hand, whil&s;t her Maje&s;ty dealt &s;o merciful|ly
<PB N="58" REF="35">with you? How can you excu&s;e the&s;e de&s;ign|ments: &s;o unchri&s;tian, &s;o unprie&s;tly, &s;o treache|rous, and therefore &s;o un-prince-like? When we fir&s;t heard the&s;e particulars, we did not believe them: but would have laid our lives they had been fal&s;e: but when we &s;aw the Book, and found them there, God is our witne&s;s, we were much amazed: and can &s;ay no more, but that his Holi|ne&s;s was mi&s;informed, and indirectly drawn to the&s;e cour&s;es.</P>
<P>But to proceed: it being unknown to the <HI>State</HI> what &s;ecret matters were in hand again&s;t them, both at home and beyond the Seas: the Catho|licks here continued in &s;ort, as before you have heard, till the &s;aid Rebellion brake forth in the North, 1569. a little before <HI>Chri&s;timas:</HI> and that it was known that the <HI>Pope</HI> had excommunicated the <HI>Queen,</HI> and thereby freed her Subjects (as the <HI>Bull</HI> importeth) from their &s;ubjection. And then there followed a great re&s;traint of the &s;aid Pri&s;o|ners: but none of them were put to death upon that occa&s;ion: the Sword being then only drawn again&s;t &s;uch Catholicks, as had ri&s;en up actually into open Rebellion. Wherein we cannot &s;ee what her Maje&s;ty did, that any Prince in Chri&s;ten|dom in &s;uch a ca&s;e, would not have done. And as touching the &s;aid Bull, many both Prie&s;ts and Lay Catholicks have greatly wi&s;hed, that it had never been decreed, denounced, publi&s;hed, or heard of. For we are per&s;waded, that the <HI>Pope</HI> was drawn thereunto, by fal&s;e &s;ugge&s;tions of certain undi&s;|creet turbulent per&s;ons: who pretending to him
<PB N="59" REF="35">one thing, had another drift in their heads for their own advancement. And therefore we have ever accounted of it, as a &s;entence procured by &s;ur|reption: knowing it to be no unu&s;ual thing with the <HI>Pope,</HI> through indirect means and factious heads, to be often deceived in matters of Fact: as we now find it, in the &s;etting up of our new Arch-Prie&s;t.</P>
<P>Now upon all the&s;e occa&s;ions, her Maje&s;ty be|ing moved with great di&s;plea&s;ure, called a Parlia|ment in the thirteenth year of her Reign 1571. wherein a Law was made containing many bran|ches, again&s;t the bringing into this Land, after that time, of any Bulls from <HI>Rome,</HI> any <HI>Agnus Dei,</HI> Cro&s;|&s;es or Pardons: and again&s;t all manner of per&s;ons, that &s;hould procure them to be &s;o brought hither, with many other particularities thereunto apper|taining. Which Law, although we hold it to be too rigorous, and that the pretended remedy ex|ceeded the mea&s;ure of the offence, either unduti|fully given, or in ju&s;tice to have been taken: yet we cannot but confe&s;s, as rea&s;onable men, that the <HI>State</HI> had great cau&s;e to make &s;ome Laws again&s;t us, except they &s;hould have &s;hewed them&s;elves carele&s;s for the continuance of it. But be the Law, as any would have it never &s;o extreme: yet &s;urely it mu&s;t be granted, that the occa&s;ions of it were mo&s;t outragious: and likewi&s;e, that the execution of it was not &s;o tragical, as many &s;ince have writ|ten and reported of it. For what&s;oever was done again&s;t us, either upon the pretence of that Law, or of any other, would never we think have been
<PB N="60" REF="36">attempted, had not divers other prepo&s;terous oc|ca&s;ions (be&s;ides the cau&s;es of that Law) daily fallen out among&s;t us: which procured matters to be ur|ged more &s;everely again&s;t us.</P>
<P>In the year 1572. out cometh Ma&s;ter <HI>Saunders</HI> Book, <HI>de vi&s;ibili Monarchia;</HI> wherein he taketh upon him to &s;et down, how the <HI>Pope</HI> had &s;ent one Ma&s;ter <HI>Morton</HI> and Ma&s;ter <HI>Web</HI> two Prie&s;ts, before the &s;aid Rebellion, to the Lords and Gentlemen in the North: to excite them with their Followers to take up Arms. And the rather to per&s;wade them thereunto, they &s;ignified unto them by the <HI>Popes</HI> commandment, that her Maje&s;ty was excom|municated, her Subjects were relea&s;ed from their obedience, and much more to that purpo&s;e. Like|wi&s;e the &s;aid Mr. <HI>Saunders</HI> doth ju&s;tifie the &s;aid commotion, and a&s;cribeth the evil &s;ucce&s;s it had, to the over-late publi&s;hing of the &s;aid Bull (it be|ing not generally known of till the year after, when Ma&s;ter <HI>Felton</HI> had &s;et it upon the Bi&s;hop of <HI>Lon|dons</HI> Gate:) affirming that if it had been publi&s;h|ed the year before, or when they were in Arms, the Catholicks would undoubtedly &s;o have a&s;&s;i&s;ted tem (the &s;aid Rebels) as that they mu&s;t (no que|&s;tion of it) have prevailed again&s;t the <HI>Queen,</HI> and had certainly executed the &s;aid &s;entence at that time, for her depo&s;ition from the Crown. Be&s;ides, whereas the <HI>State</HI> in the &s;aid Parliament, had con|firmed the attainder of the chief per&s;ons by name, that were as heads in the &s;aid Rebellion: and had been in the field again&s;t her Highne&s;s, Mr. <HI>Saunders</HI> (building Ca&s;tles in the Air among&s;t his Books)
<PB N="61" REF="36">doth too much magnifie the &s;aid Rebels, to the great di&s;credit of the Church of <HI>Rome,</HI> and his Ho|line&s;s actions in &s;uch matters, they being men ar|raigned, condemned, and executed by the ancient Laws of our Country for high Trea&s;on. This in|tolerable and very uncatholick cour&s;e thus held by divers, to the great offence of many good Catho|licks of the graver and di&s;creeter &s;ort, and to the great hinderance of our common Cau&s;e; hath been &s;ince followed by Mr. <HI>Par&s;ons,</HI> and &s;ome of his &s;ort, with no good di&s;cretion or fore&s;ight (God he knoweth) brag the&s;e great States-men of their im|pregnable Wi&s;dom and Policy never &s;o proudly.</P>
<P>Furthermore, about the coming out of the &s;aid Book of Mr. <HI>Saunders,</HI> the whole Plot before men|tioned, of the <HI>Pope</HI> and the King of <HI>Spain</HI> with the Duke of <HI>Norfolk</HI> for the di&s;inheriting of her Maje|&s;ty, and other intended mi&s;chiefs, fell out to be ful|ly di&s;clo&s;ed. Afterwards within &s;ome four or five years, it was al&s;o commonly known to the Realm, what attempts were in hand by Mr. <HI>Stukeley</HI> (a&s;|&s;i&s;ted with Mr. <HI>Saunders</HI> and other Catholicks both <HI>Engli&s;h, Iri&s;h,</HI> and <HI>Italian</HI>) for an Enterpri&s;e by force in <HI>Ireland,</HI> under pretence to advance the Catholick Religion: which for that time (through &s;ome defects) &s;ucceeding not, the <HI>Pope</HI> him&s;elf in the year 1579. (abu&s;ed &s;till by fal&s;e pretences) did &s;et forward that cour&s;e, and &s;ending thither certain Forces, Mr. <HI>Saunders</HI> (too much Je&s;uited) did thru&s;t him&s;elf in per&s;on into that action, as a chief Ring-leader, and to per&s;wade the Catholicks, when he &s;hould come into <HI>Ireland,</HI> to joyn with
<PB N="62" REF="37">the <HI>Popes</HI> &s;aid Forces, for the better a&s;&s;i&s;ting of certain Rebels, then in Arms again&s;t their Sove|raign. Now whil&s;t the&s;e practices were in hand in <HI>Ireland, Gregory</HI> the Thirteenth reneweth the &s;aid Bull of <HI>Pius Quintus:</HI> and denounceth her Maje&s;ty to be excommunicated, with intimation of all other particulars in the former Bull mentioned, which was procured (we doubt not) by &s;urrepti|on: the fal&s;e Je&s;uits (our Country-men) daring to attempt any thing, by untrue &s;ugge&s;tions, and any lewd &s;urmi&s;es, that may &s;erve their turns. This Stratagem accompli&s;hed, and ground laid, where|upon they imagined to work great matters: the&s;e good Fathers (as the Devil would have it) come into <HI>England,</HI> and intruded them&s;elves into our harve&s;t, being the men in our con&s;ciences (we mean both them and others of that Society, with &s;ome of their adherents) who have been the chief In&s;truments of all the mi&s;chiefs that have been in|tended again&s;t her Maje&s;ty, &s;ince the beginning of her Reign, and of the mi&s;eries, which we, or any other Catholicks, have upon the&s;e occa&s;ions &s;u|&s;tained. Their fir&s;t repair hither was <HI>Anno</HI> 1580. when the Realm of <HI>Ireland</HI> was in great combu&s;ti|on, and then they entred, (<HI>viz.</HI> Mr. <HI>Campion</HI> the Subject, and Mr. <HI>Par&s;ons</HI> the Provincial) like a tempe&s;t, with &s;undry &s;uch great brags and chal|lenges, as divers of the grave&s;t Clergy then living in <HI>England</HI> (Doctor <HI>Wat&s;on</HI> Bi&s;hop of <HI>Lincoln</HI> and others) did greatly di&s;like them, and plainly fore|told, that (as things then &s;tood) their proceedings after that fa&s;hion, would certainly urge the State, to make &s;ome &s;harper Laws, which &s;hould not only
<PB N="63" REF="37">touch them, but likewi&s;e all others, both Prie&s;ts and Catholicks. Upon their arrival, and after the &s;aid brags, Mr. <HI>Par&s;ons</HI> pre&s;ently fell to his Je&s;uiti|cal cour&s;es: and &s;o belaboured both him&s;elf and others in matters of State, how he might &s;et her Maje&s;ties Crown upon another head (as appeareth by a Letter of his own to a certain Earl) that the Catholicks them&s;elves threatned to deliver him into the hands of the Civil Magi&s;trate, except he de&s;i&s;ted from &s;uch kind of practices.</P>
<P>In the&s;e tumultuous and rebellious proceedings by &s;undry Catholicks, both in <HI>England</HI> and <HI>Ire|land,</HI> it could not be expected but that the <HI>Queen</HI> and the State would be greatly incen&s;ed with in|dignation again&s;t us. We had (&s;ome of us) great|ly approved the &s;aid Rebellion: highly extolled the Rebels, and pitifully bewailed their ruine and overthrow. Many of our affections were knit to the <HI>Spaniard:</HI> and for our obedience to the <HI>Pope,</HI> we all do profe&s;s it. The attempts both of the <HI>Pope</HI> and <HI>Spaniard</HI> failing in <HI>England,</HI> his Holine&s;s, as a temporal Prince, di&s;played his Banner in <HI>Ire|land.</HI> The Plot was to deprive her Highne&s;s fir&s;t from that Kingdom (if they could:) and then by degrees to depo&s;e her from this. In all the&s;e Plots none were more forward, than many of us that were Prie&s;ts. The Laity, if we had oppo&s;ed our &s;elves to the&s;e de&s;ignments, would (out of doubt) have been overruled by us.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Saunders, Morten, Web, &amp;c.</NOTE> How many men of our calling were addicted to the&s;e cour&s;es, the <HI>State</HI> knew not. In which ca&s;e (the premi&s;es di&s;|creetly con&s;idered) there is no King, or Prince in
<PB N="64" REF="38">the World, di&s;gu&s;ting the <HI>See</HI> of <HI>Rome,</HI> and having either force or metal in him, that would have en|dured us, if po&s;&s;ibly he could have been revenged, but rather (as we think) have utterly rooted us out of his Territories, as Traiters and Rebels both to him and his Country. And therefore we may rejoyce unfeignedly, that God hath ble&s;&s;ed this Kingdom with &s;o gracious and merciful a Sove|raign, who hath not dealt in this &s;ort with us. A&s;|&s;uredly if &s;he were a Catholick, &s;he might be ac|counted the Mirror of the World: but as &s;he is, both we and all other Catholicks her natural Sub|jects, de&s;erve no longer to live, than we hereafter &s;hall honour her from our hearts, obey her in all things (&s;o far as po&s;&s;ibly we may) pray for her pro&s;perous Reign and long life: and to our pow|ers defend and protect both her and our Country again&s;t any what&s;oever, that &s;hall by force of Arms attempt to damnifie either of them. For in the &s;aid Garboils, and very undutiful proceedings, how hath her Highne&s;s dealt with us? From the time of the &s;aid Rebellion and Parliament, there were few above twelve, that in ten years had been exe|cuted for their con&s;ciences (as we hold, although our Adver&s;aries &s;ay for Trea&s;on:) and of tho&s;e twelve &s;ome perhaps can hardly be drawn within our account, having been tainted with matters of Rebellion. The mo&s;t of the &s;aid number were Se|minary Prie&s;ts, who if they had come over into <HI>England</HI> with the like intents, that &s;ome others have done, might very worthily have been u&s;ed as they were. But in our con&s;ciences, nay &s;ome of us do know it, that they were far from tho&s;e
<PB N="65" REF="38">&s;editious humors: being men that intended no|thing el&s;e but &s;imply the good of our Country, and the conver&s;ion of Souls. Marry to &s;ay the truth, as we have confe&s;&s;ed before, how could either her Maje&s;ty or the State know &s;o much? They had great cau&s;e, as Politick per&s;ons, to &s;u&s;pect the wor&s;t.</P>
<P>Be&s;ides to the further honour of her Maje&s;ty we may not omit, that the States of the whole Realm a&s;&s;embled in Parliament <HI>Anno</HI> 1576. were plea&s;ed to pa&s;s us over, and made no Laws at that time again&s;t us. The ancient Pri&s;oners that had been re&s;trained more narrowly in the year 1570. were (notwith&s;tanding the &s;aid enterpri&s;es in <HI>Ireland</HI>) again re&s;tored to their former liberty, to continue with their friends as they had done before. Such as were not &s;u&s;pected to have been dealers or abettors in the &s;aid trea&s;onable actions, were u&s;ed with that humanity, which could well be expect|ed. But when the Je&s;uits were come, and that the State had notice of the &s;aid Excommunication, there was then within a while a great alteration. For &s;uch were the Je&s;uits proceedings, and with &s;o great boldne&s;s, as though all had been theirs, and that the State &s;hould pre&s;ently have been chan|ged.</P>
<P>Her Maje&s;ty had &s;een what followed in her Kingdom upon the fir&s;t Excommunication: and was therefore in all worldly Policy to prevent the like by the &s;econd. The jealou&s;ie al&s;o of the State was much incre&s;ed by Mr. <HI>Sherwins</HI> an&s;wers upon
<PB N="66" REF="39">his examination, above eight months before the apprehen&s;ion of Mr. <HI>Campion.</HI> For being asked, whether the <HI>Queen</HI> was his lawful Soveraign, not|with&s;tanding any &s;entence of the Popes, he prayed that no &s;uch que&s;tion might be demanded of him, and would not further thereunto an&s;wer. Two or three other que&s;tions much to the &s;ame effect, were likewi&s;e propounded unto him, which he al|&s;o refu&s;ed to an&s;wer. Matters now &s;orting on this fa&s;hion, there was a greater re&s;traint of Catholicks, than at any time before. Many both Prie&s;ts and Gentlemen were &s;ent into the I&s;le of <HI>Ely</HI> and other places, there to be more &s;afely kept and looked unto. In <HI>January</HI> following 1581. (according to the general computation,) a Proclamantion was made for the calling home of her Maje&s;ties Sub|jects beyond the Seas: (&s;uch e&s;pecially as were trained up in the Seminaries) pretending that they learned little there, but di&s;loyalty: and that none after that time &s;hould harbor or relieve them, with &s;undry other points of very hard intendment to|wards us. The &s;ame month al&s;o a Parliament en|&s;ued, wherein a Law was made agreeable in effect to the &s;aid Proclamation, but with a more &s;evere puni&s;hment annexed. For it was a penalty of death, for any Je&s;uit or Seminary Prie&s;t to repair into <HI>England,</HI> and for any to receive and entertain them, which fell our according to <HI>Bi&s;hop Wat&s;ons</HI> former &s;peeches or prediction, what mi&s;chief the Je&s;uits would bring upon us. We could here as well as &s;ome others have done, &s;hew our di&s;like with &s;ome bitterne&s;s of the &s;aid Law and penalty. But to what purpo&s;e &s;hould we do &s;o? It had been
<PB N="67" REF="39">a good point of wi&s;dom in two or three per&s;ons, that have taken that cour&s;e, to have been &s;ilent: and rather have &s;ought by gentlene&s;s and &s;weet carriage of them&s;elves to have prevented the more &s;harp execution of that Law, than by exclaiming again&s;t it when it was too late, to have provoked the <HI>State</HI> to a greater &s;everity again&s;t us. And to confe&s;s &s;omething to our own di&s;advantage, and to excu&s;e the &s;aid Parliament: if all the Seminary Prie&s;ts then in <HI>England,</HI> or which &s;hould after that time have come hither, had been of Mr. <HI>Mortons</HI> and Mr. <HI>Saunders</HI> mind before mentioned (when the fir&s;t Excommunication came out,) or of Mr. <HI>Saunders</HI> his &s;econd re&s;olution, (being then in Arms again&s;t her Maje&s;ty in <HI>Ireland:</HI>) or of Mr. <HI>Par&s;ons</HI> traiterous di&s;po&s;ition, both to our <HI>Queen</HI> and Country: the &s;aid Law (no doubt) had car|ried with it a far greater &s;hew of Ju&s;tice. But that was the error of the <HI>State:</HI> and yet not alto|gether (for ought they knew) improbable, tho&s;e times being &s;o full of many dangerous de&s;ignments and Je&s;uitical practices.</P>
<P>In this year al&s;o, divers other things fell out un|happily towards us poor Prie&s;ts, and other the graver &s;ort of Catholicks, who had all of us &s;ingle hearts, and di&s;liked (no men more) of all &s;uch fa|ctious enterpri&s;es. For notwith&s;tanding the &s;aid Proclamation and Law, Mr. <HI>Heywood</HI> a Je&s;uit came then into <HI>England,</HI> and took &s;o much upon him, that Father <HI>Par&s;ons</HI> fell out exceedingly with him: and great troubles grew among&s;t Catholicks, by their brablings and quarrels. A Synod was held
<PB N="68" REF="40">by him the &s;aid Mr. <HI>Heywood,</HI> and &s;undry ancient Cu&s;toms were therein abrogated, to the offence of very many. The&s;e cour&s;es being under&s;tood (after a &s;ort) by the State: the Catholicks and Prie&s;ts in <HI>Norfolk</HI> felt the &s;mart of it. This Sum|mer al&s;o in <HI>July,</HI> Mr. <HI>Campion</HI> and other Prie&s;ts were apprehended: who&s;e an&s;wers upon their ex|aminations, agreeing in effect with Mr. <HI>Sherwins</HI> before mentioned, did greatly incen&s;e the State. For among&s;t other que&s;tions that were propound|ed unto them, this being one, <HI>viz.</HI> If the Pope do by his Bull or Sentence pronounce her her Maje&s;ty to be deprived, and no lawful <HI>Queen,</HI> and her Sub|jects to be di&s;charged of their allegiance and obe|dience unto her; and after, and Pope or any o|ther by his appointment and authority do invade this Realm: which part would you take, or which part ought a good Subject of <HI>England</HI> to take? &s;ome an&s;wered, that when the ca&s;e &s;hould happen, they would then take coun&s;el, what were be&s;t for them to do: Another, that when that ca&s;e &s;hould happen he would an&s;wer, and not before: Another, that for the pre&s;ent, he was not re&s;olved what to do in &s;uch a cafe: Another, that when the ca&s;e happeneth, then he will an&s;wer: Another, that if &s;uch deprivation and inva&s;ion &s;hould be made for any matter of his faith, he thinketh he were then bound to take part with the Pope.</P>
<P>Now, what King in the world, being in doubt to be invaded by his enemies, and fearing that &s;ome of his own Subjects were by indirect means drawn, rather to adhere unto them than to him&s;elf: would
<PB N="69" REF="40">not make the be&s;t tryal of them he could for his better &s;atisfaction, whom he might tru&s;t to? In which tryal, if he found any, that either &s;hould make doubtful an&s;wers, or peremptorily affirm, that (as the ca&s;e &s;tood betwixt him and his ene|mies) they would leave him their Prince and take part with them: might he not ju&s;tly repute them for Traitors, and deal with them accordingly? Sure we are, that no King or Prince in Chri&s;tendom, would like or tolerate any &s;uch Subjects within their Dominions, if po&s;&s;ibly they could be rid of them.</P>
<P>The duty we owe to our Soveraigns, doth not con&s;i&s;t in taciturnity or keeping clo&s;e within our &s;elves &s;uch Allegiance as we think &s;ufficient to afford them: but we are (e&s;pecially when we are requited thereunto) to make open profe&s;&s;ion of it, that we may appear unto them to be &s;uch Sub|jects as we ought to be, and as they may rely up|on, if either their Kingdoms or &s;aferies be in ha|zard or danger. And we greatly marvel, that a|ny Je&s;uits &s;hould be &s;o hard laced (concerning the performance of their duties, towards the Fa|thers and Kings of tho&s;e Countries where they were born, and who&s;e Va&s;&s;als they are) con&s;ide|ring unto what obedience they tye them&s;elves toward their own general, provincial, and other Governors: unto whom they were no way tied, but by their own con&s;ents, and for that it hath plea&s;ed them voluntarily to &s;ubmit them&s;elves un|to them. If a quarrel &s;hould fall out, for exam|ple, betwixt the Je&s;uits and the Dominicans, it would &s;eem a very &s;trange matter to the Provin|cial
<PB N="70" REF="41">or General of that Society, to be driven to be demanded of a Je&s;uit, which part he would take. But therewith we have not to intermed|dle: only we wi&s;h, that whil&s;t they look for &s;o great &s;ubjection at tho&s;e mens hands that be under them, they do not forget their own Allegiance towards their Soveraigns: or at the lea&s;t &s;o de|mean them&s;elves as we poor men (every way their equals, and as &s;ound Catholicks as them&s;elves, that we go no further) may not be brought into hatred with her Maje&s;ty, unto whom we profe&s;s all duty and true alleiance: let other men quali|&s;ie the &s;ame as they li&s;t.</P>
<P>About the time of the overthrow of the Popes Forces in <HI>Ireland:</HI> his Holine&s;s (by the fal&s;e in|&s;tigations of the Je&s;uits) plotted with the King of <HI>Spain,</HI> for the a&s;&s;i&s;tance of the Duke of <HI>Gui&s;e,</HI> to enterpri&s;e upon the &s;udden, a very de&s;perate de|&s;ignment again&s;t her Maje&s;ty: and for the delive|ry and advancement to the Crown of the <HI>Queen</HI> of <HI>Scotland.</HI> For the better effecting whereof, <HI>Men|doza</HI> the Je&s;uit and Ledger for the King of <HI>Spain</HI> in <HI>England,</HI> &s;et on work (a worthy Gentleman otherwi&s;e) one Mr. <HI>Francis Throckmorton</HI> and di|vers others. And whil&s;t the &s;ame was in contri|ving (as afterwards Mr. <HI>Throckmorton</HI> him&s;elf confe&s;&s;ed 1584.) the &s;aid Je&s;uitical humor had &s;o po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ed the hearts of &s;undry Catholicks, as we do unfeignedly rue in our hearts the remembrance of it, and are greatly a&s;hamed that any per&s;on &s;o intituled, &s;hould ever have been &s;o extremely be|witched. Two Gentlemen about that time al&s;o,
<PB N="71" REF="41"><HI>viz. Anno</HI> 1583. Mr. <HI>Arden</HI> and Mr. <HI>Somervile</HI> were convicted by the Laws of the Realm, to have purpo&s;ed and contrived how they might have laid violent hands upon her Maje&s;ties &s;acred per&s;on. Mr. <HI>Somerviles</HI> confe&s;&s;ion therein, was &s;o notori|ous, as it may not be either qualified or denied. And Doctor <HI>Parry</HI> the very &s;ame year, was plot|ting with Je&s;uits beyond the Seas, how he might have effected the like villany. How the worthy Earl of <HI>Northumberland,</HI> was about this time brought into the &s;aid Plot of the Duke of <HI>Gui&s;e</HI> (then &s;till in hand) we will pretermit. Mr. <HI>Par|&s;ons</HI> that was an Actor in it, could tell the &s;tory very roundly at <HI>Rome:</HI> It wrought the noble Earls overthrow 1585. which may ju&s;tly be a&s;cribed to the Je&s;uitical practices of the Je&s;uit <HI>Mendoza</HI> and others of that crew. Hereunto we might add the notable Trea&s;ons of Mr. <HI>Anthony Babington</HI> and his Complices in the year 1586. which were &s;o apparent, as we were greatly aba&s;hed at the &s;hame|le&s;s boldne&s;s of a young Je&s;uit, who to excu&s;e the &s;aid Traiters, and qualifie their offences, pre&s;umed in a kind of &s;upplication to her Maje&s;ty, to a&s;cribe the plotting of all that mi&s;chief to Mr. Secretary <HI>Wal&s;ingham.</HI> The treachery al&s;o of Sir <HI>William Standley</HI> the year following 1587. in fal&s;ifying his faith to her Maje&s;ty, and in betraying the tru&s;t committed unto him by the Earl of <HI>Leice&s;ter,</HI> who had given him the honourable Title of Knight|hood: as it was greatly prejudicial to us, that were Catholicks, at home, &s;o was the defence of that di&s;loyalty (made by a worthy man, but by the per&s;wa&s;ions (as they think) of <HI>Par&s;ons</HI>) greatly
<PB N="72" REF="42">di&s;liked of many both wi&s;e and learned. And e|&s;pecially it was wondred at a while (until the drift thereof appeared more manife&s;tly in the year 1588.) that the &s;aid worthy per&s;on by the &s;aid lewd Je&s;uits, laid down this for a ground, in ju&s;ti|fying of the &s;aid <HI>Standley:</HI> viz. <HI>That in all Wars, which may happen for Religion, every Catholick man is bound in con&s;cience to imploy his per&s;on and forces by the Popes direction:</HI> viz. <HI>How for, when, and where, either at home or abroad, he may and mu&s;t break with his temporal Soveraign.</HI> The&s;e things we would not have touched, had they not been known in effect to this part of the World: and that we thought it our duties to &s;hew our own di&s;like of them: and to clear her Maje&s;ty (&s;o far as we may) from &s;uch imputations of more than barbarous cruelty towards us, as the Je&s;uits in their writings, have ca&s;t by heaps upon her: they them&s;elves (as we &s;till think in our con&s;ciences and before God) having been from time to time the very cau&s;es of all the calamities, which any of us have endured in <HI>England</HI> &s;ince her Maje&s;ties reign. Which we do not write, &s;imply to excu&s;e her Highne&s;s, although we mu&s;t confe&s;s, we can be contented to endure much, rather than to &s;eek her di&s;honour: but for that we think few Princes living, being per&s;waded in Religion as her Maje|&s;ty is, and to provoked as &s;he hath been, would have dealt more mildly with &s;uch their Subjects (all circum&s;tances con&s;idered) than &s;he hath done with us.</P>
<P>But now we are come to the year 1588. and to
<PB N="73" REF="42">that mo&s;t bloody attempt, not only again&s;t her Maje&s;ty and our common Enemies, but again&s;t our &s;elves, all Catholicks: nay again&s;t this flouri&s;hing Kingdom and our own native Country. The memory of which attempt will be (as we tru&s;t) an everla&s;ting Monument of Je&s;uitical Trea&s;on and Cruelty. For it is apparent in a Treati&s;e penned by the advice of Father <HI>Par&s;ons</HI> altogether, (as we do verily think) that the King of <HI>Spain</HI> was e&s;pecially moved and drawn to that intended mi&s;|chief again&s;t us, by the long and daily &s;olicita|tions of the Je&s;uits, and other <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> Catholicks beyond the Seas, affected and altogether given to Je&s;uiti&s;m. And whereas it is well known, that the Duke of <HI>Medina Sidonia</HI> had given it out directly, that if once he might land in <HI>England, both Catholicks and Hereticks that came in his way &s;hould be all one to him: his Sword could not di&s;|cern them, &s;o he might make way for his Ma&s;ter, all was one to him:</HI> yet the &s;aid Father <HI>Par&s;ons</HI> (for &s;o we will ever charge him, though another man by his crafty per&s;wa&s;ion took upon him to be the Author of that Book) did labour with all the Rhetorick he had to have per&s;waded us, upon the &s;uppo&s;ed arrival of the <HI>Spaniard,</HI> to have joyned with him to our own detructions: telling us many fair tales, and alluring us with &s;undry great promi&s;es, all of them meer illu&s;ions, fal&s;|hoods, and mo&s;t traiterous in&s;tigations and jug|lings. He a&s;cribeth it to <HI>error of Con&s;cience, and want of courage,</HI> terming the &s;ame an <HI>effeminate dastardy: that we had then &s;uffered her Majesty almo&s;t thirty years to reign over us.</HI> He threat|ned
<PB N="74" REF="43">us with <HI>Excommunication, and utter ruine both of our &s;elves and all our Po&s;terity, if we did then any longer obey, abet, or aid, defend or ac|knowledge her Highne&s;s to be our Queen, or Supe|riour: and did not forthwith joyn our &s;elves with all our Forces to the Spaniards.</HI> The good Cardinal (by <HI>Par&s;ons</HI> means) is drawn to &s;ay, <HI>That the Pope had made him Cardinal, intending to &s;end him as his Legat, for the &s;weeter managing of this (for&s;ooth) godly and great Affair: and to affirm upon his honour and in the word of a Car|dinal, that in the fury of the</HI> Spaniards <HI>intended Conque&s;t, there &s;hould be as great care had of every Catholick and penitent per&s;on, as po&s;&s;ibly could be.</HI> And to allure the Nobility of this Realm, he pro|mi&s;ed them <HI>to become an humble Suiter on their be|halfs, that</HI> (<HI>&s;o as they &s;hew them&s;elves valiant in a&s;&s;i&s;ting the King of</HI> Spain<HI>'s Forces</HI>) <HI>they might continue their noble Names and Families.</HI> Surely they had been wi&s;e men, that &s;hould have relyed much either upon his promi&s;e, or the <HI>Spaniards</HI> courte&s;ie. This Je&s;uit al&s;o telleth all Catholicks, the better to comfort them (but indeed to the great &s;candal for ever of all Prie&s;thood,) and to &s;hew how ju&s;t and holy the cau&s;e was they had in hand: that <HI>there were divers Prie&s;ts in the Kings Army, ready to &s;erve every mans &s;piritual nece&s;&s;ity, by Confe&s;&s;ion, Coun&s;el, and all con&s;olation in Chri&s;t Je&s;us.</HI> Al&s;o he &s;o advanceth the Forces of the Ene|mies, &amp; extenuateth her Maje&s;ties abilities to with|&s;tand them, as he accounted the Victory obtained in effect before they were landed, telling us, <HI>That be&s;ides the &s;aid great Forces, we &s;hould &s;o he a&s;&s;i|&s;ted
<PB N="75" REF="43">by the ble&s;&s;ed Patrons both of Heaven and Earth, with the guard of all Gods holy Angels, with our ble&s;&s;ed Saviour him&s;elf in the &s;overaign Sacrament, and with the daily mo&s;t holy oblation of Chri&s;ts own dear body and blood, as it could not fall out otherwi&s;e, but that we mu&s;t needs prevail.</HI> Which kind of per&s;wa&s;ions, &s;ome of them being ridiculous, the mo&s;t very traiterous, and the&s;e la&s;t mo&s;t bla&s;phemous, as tending &s;o greatly to the di&s;honour of Religion, we dete&s;t and abhor. And in all the&s;e Je&s;uitical and di&s;loyal practices, this is our comfort, that albeit we doubt not, but that the Pope as a temporal Prince did joyn and con|tribute towards this intended Inva&s;ion: yet we &s;ind Father <HI>Par&s;ons</HI> declaration of <HI>Xi&s;tus Quintus</HI> &s;entence of depo&s;ition of her Maje&s;ty at that time, and of his admonition thereunto adjoyned, as in the Popes name, to have no warrant at al<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> be&s;ides his own bare affirmation, either of <HI>Breve</HI> or of any other publick In&s;trument, as in &s;uch ca&s;es had been mo&s;t nece&s;&s;ary, otherwi&s;e than that he told us, it was the Popes plea&s;ure that we &s;hould take notice thereof by his Book which was then prin|ted, and to have been &s;cattered among&s;t us. By warrant whereof (as we are per&s;waded) it was not lawful for us to have killed a Goo&s;e, if her Ma|je&s;ty had forbidden us &s;o to do.</P>
<P>Of the&s;e matters (to return &s;till to our former Apologies) we would have &s;aid nothing, were hey not objected unto us, and &s;hewed us out of the Books them&s;elves, as notes and arguments of our traiterous hearts: our Adver&s;aries pre&s;&s;ing
<PB N="76" REF="44">the &s;ame upon us, as if they did belong unto us, and we were as guilty of them, as either they that plotted or publi&s;hed them. Which conceit, if it &s;hould take root in tho&s;e that be in Authority, how could we hope for any favour, but were ra|ther to expect the greate&s;t extremity that might be? So as &s;till we may &s;ay, that the proceedings held again&s;t her Maje&s;ty well weighed, the&s;e fo|reign Je&s;uitical practices, have been the cau&s;e of all our troubles.</P>
<P>When it had plea&s;ed God to deliver her Maje|&s;ty and this Kindom from the &s;aid intended In|va&s;ion, Mr. <HI>Par&s;ons</HI> whether a&s;hamed of the foil, (for the &s;ucce&s;s whereof he was &s;o peremptory) or for that he thought matters would be better managed in <HI>Spain,</HI> if he were there to give his ad|vice, departed from <HI>Rome</HI> (as we take it) and be|came a Courtier to attend King <HI>Philip:</HI> where by <HI>Mendoza</HI> his fellow Je&s;uit's means, he grew &s;hort|ly into &s;o great e&s;timation (not for any goodne&s;s in him towards this Realm, you may be &s;ure, but rather in re&s;pect of his deadly hatred again&s;t it) that he procured a Seminary to be erected at <HI>Val|ledolyd</HI> 1589. But we will leave his proceedings in <HI>Spain</HI> a while.</P>
<P>In the&s;e ten years la&s;t mentioned from 1580. till 1590. or but little before we find her Maje|&s;ty to be excommunicated by <HI>Gregory</HI> the Thit|teenth: Mr. <HI>Sherwin</HI> and the re&s;t of our Brethren too much Je&s;uited, refu&s;e to an&s;wer, whether they will take the Queens part or the Popes, if he
<PB N="77" REF="44">&s;hould come by force of Arms to a&s;&s;ail her in her own Kingdom: <HI>Par&s;ons</HI> and <HI>Heywood</HI> are found to be Practitioners, but e&s;pecially <HI>Par&s;ons.</HI> The intention of the Duke of <HI>Gui&s;e</HI> is entertained here and pro&s;ecuted: Her Maje&s;ties life is &s;ought by treachery: <HI>Babington</HI> and his Companions &s;hoot at the Crown: <HI>Stanley</HI> is a Treacherer, breaketh his faith, and is defended for &s;o doing. Then followed the Inva&s;ion: and la&s;tly, <HI>Par&s;ons</HI> plot|tings in <HI>Spain,</HI> and the erection of new Seminaries there. Now let us con&s;ider, how we our &s;elves all this while have been dealt with. Such of us as remained in Pri&s;on at <HI>Wisbich</HI> (and were com|mitted thither 1580. and others not long after committed al&s;o thither, to the number of about thirty three or thirty four) continued &s;till in the &s;everal times of all the &s;aid mo&s;t wicked de&s;ign|ments, as we were before: and were never brought into any trouble for them, but lived there, Col|ledge-like, without any want, and in good reputa|tion with our Neighbours that were Catholicks about us. It is true that towards the number of fifty (as our memory &s;erveth us) Prie&s;ts and Ca|tholicks of all &s;orts, within the compa&s;s of the &s;aid ten years were put to death: we &s;ay upon our knowledges (concerning the mo&s;t of them) for their con&s;ciences: but out Adver&s;aries (as they think) do &s;till affirm for Trea&s;on. Such Prie&s;ts as in their examination were found any thing mode|rate, were not &s;o hardly proceeded with: in&s;omuch as fifty five (to our remembrance) that by the Laws (we acknowledge) might likewi&s;e have been put to death, were in one year, <HI>viz.</HI> 1585. (what
<PB N="78" REF="45">time great mi&s;chiefs were in hand) &s;pared from that extremity, and only bani&s;hed. Which fact, how&s;oever &s;ome have written of it, the parties them&s;elves accounted it for a great benefit, and &s;o would they al&s;o have done (we doubt not of it) if they had been hen of that number. Whereas therefore Mr. <HI>Par&s;ons</HI> (as we think) exclaimeth in a Pamphlet &s;et out &s;hortly after, &s;aying, <HI>Where are now the old Tyrants of the World,</HI> Nero, De|cius, Diocle&s;ian, Maxentius, <HI>and the re&s;t of the great Per&s;ecutors of the Chri&s;tians? Where is</HI> Gen|&s;erick <HI>and</HI> Hunricus <HI>with their Arrian Hereticks?</HI> alluding to the <HI>State</HI> here: we think both him, and divers others that have written to the &s;ame effect, very greatly to blame. Sure we are, that the general cau&s;eof Religion, for the which both we and they contend (as oft we have &s;aid) ger|teth no good but hurt by it: and contrary to the old &s;aying, (be he never &s;o bad, yet let him have ju&s;tice) though &s;ome hard cour&s;es have been ta|ken by the <HI>State</HI> again&s;t us; yet hath it not by many degrees been &s;o extreme, as the Je&s;uits and that crew have fal&s;ely written and reported of it.</P>
<P>But to return to Father <HI>Par&s;ons</HI> in <HI>Spain,</HI> and to proceed in the cour&s;e of things which have hap|pened &s;ince 1590. The &s;aid Father <HI>Parons</HI> &s;o managed the &s;aid Seminary erected in <HI>Valledolyd,</HI> as within three years, <HI>viz.</HI> 1591. twelve or thir|teen Prie&s;ts were &s;ent hither from thence. Al&s;o he procured &s;ome other Seminaries to be erected in <HI>Spain,</HI> and furni&s;hed them with &s;uch Students as he thought &s;it, which (for our parts) we great|ly
<PB N="79" REF="45">commend in him, if he took this pains, and im|ployed his favour with the King to a good end: whereof we have &s;ome doubt, knowing the Je|&s;uits fetches: but the <HI>State</HI> here did utterly con|demn him for it, finding that both he and &s;ome others were plotting and labouring by all the means they could for a new Inva&s;ion. Whereupon a Proclamation was &s;et out 1591. as well for an inquity or &s;earch for all &s;uch Seminary Prie&s;ts, as either were, or &s;hould hereafter come from <HI>Spain,</HI> as al&s;o from any other Seminaries beyond the Seas, upon &s;u&s;picion, that they were &s;ent hither for no other end, but to prepare a way for the &s;aid Inva|&s;ion. Whereas we are verily per&s;waded in our con&s;ciences, and do know it for many, that the Prie&s;ts them&s;elves had no &s;uch intention, what&s;o|ever the Je&s;uits had that &s;ent them. Again&s;t the &s;aid Proclamation, three or four have whet their Pens: but &s;till, whil&s;t they &s;eek to di&s;grace and gall the <HI>State,</HI> they have ever thereby wound|ed and beaten us, being them&s;elves in the mean time void of all danger. One of them, Mr. <HI>Par|&s;ons</HI> by name, (as we &s;uppo&s;e) writing in his &s;aid Pamphlet of the new intended Inva&s;ion, mentio|ned in the &s;aid Proclamation, telleth us, <HI>That the King hath ju&s;t cau&s;e to attempt again that enter|pri&s;e.</HI> And again he &s;aith, <HI>That the King is &s;o intere&s;&s;ed (together with the Pope) to &s;eck</HI> (as he termeth it) <HI>her Maje&s;ties reformation, that he the &s;aid King is bound in Ju&s;tice to do it, and cannot without prejudice of his high e&s;timation and great|ne&s;s refu&s;e at the &s;conest opportunity to attempt it.</HI> Mary withal to comfort us, he writeth, <HI>That the
<PB N="80" REF="46">King intendeth no rigorous dealing with our Na|tion, in the pro&s;ecution of his Inva&s;ion, when he co|meth hither.</HI> Which great favour of the King to|wards us, we are to a&s;cribe to good Father <HI>Par|&s;ons,</HI> if we may believe his dutiful Subject Mr. <HI>Southwell</HI> the Je&s;uit. For thus he telleth us, <HI>If ever,</HI> &s;aith he, <HI>the King &s;hould prevail in that de|&s;ignment (of his new Inva&s;ion) Father</HI> Par&s;ons <HI>a&s;|&s;i&s;ted with Cardinal</HI> Alanes <HI>Authority hath done that in our Countries behalf, for which his most bit|ter enemies, and generally all her Majesties Subjects &s;hall have cau&s;e to thank him for his &s;erviceable en|deavours, &s;o far hath he inclined fury to clemen|cy; and rage to compa&s;&s;ion.</HI> Sure we are greatly beholding to this good Father, that hath had &s;o kind a remembrance of us. But we wi&s;h that he had rather imployed him&s;elf as a religious man in the &s;ervice of God, and his private meditations, than thus to have bu&s;ied him&s;elf in &s;etting forward and qualifying it, when he hath done &s;o outragi|ous a de&s;ignment: and do pray with all our hearts, that neither we nor this Kingdom do ever fall into the hands of the <HI>Spaniards,</HI> who&s;e un&s;peakable cruelties in other Countries, a worthy Catholick the Bi&s;hop hath notably de&s;cribed to all po&s;terity. The &s;ame Mr. <HI>Par&s;ons</HI> al&s;o, together with his fel|low Je&s;uit Mr. <HI>Cre&s;well</HI> (as men that pretend ex|traordinary love to their Country) have written a large Volume again&s;t the &s;aid Proclamation, where|in what malice and contempt can devi&s;e, that might provoke her Maje&s;ty to indignation again&s;t us, is there &s;et out very skilfully, they them&s;elves well knowing that no other fruit or benefit could
<PB N="81" REF="46">come unto us by that di&s;cour&s;e, except it were &s;till to plague us.</P>
<P>Whil&s;t the &s;aid Inva&s;ion was thus talked of, and in preparation in <HI>Spain,</HI> a &s;horter cour&s;e was thought of, if it might have had &s;ucce&s;s. Mr. <HI>He&s;|ket</HI> was &s;et on by the Je&s;uits 1592. or therea|bouts, with Father <HI>Par&s;ons</HI> con&s;ent or knowledge, to have &s;tirred up the Earl of <HI>Derby</HI> to rebellion again&s;t her Highne&s;s.</P>
<P>Not long after good Father <HI>Holt</HI> and others with him, per&s;waded an <HI>Iri&s;h</HI> man one <HI>Patrick Collen</HI> (as he him&s;elf confe&s;&s;ed) to attempt the laying of his violent and villanous hands upon her Maje&s;ty. Shortly after in the year 1593. that notable Stratagem was plotted (the whole State knoweth by whom,) for Doctor <HI>Lopez</HI> the <HI>Queens</HI> Phy&s;ician to have poy&s;oned her, for the which he was executed the year after. This wicked de&s;ignment being thus prevented by Gods providence, the &s;aid traiterous Je&s;uit, <HI>Holt</HI> and others, did allure and animate one <HI>Yorke</HI> and <HI>Wil|liams,</HI> to have accompli&s;hed that with their bloo|dy hands, that the other purpo&s;ed to have done with his poy&s;on: we mean her Maje&s;tie de&s;tru|ction. Hereunto we might add the late villanous attempt 1599. of <HI>Edward Squire,</HI> animated and drawn thereunto (as he confe&s;&s;ed) by <HI>Walpole</HI> that pernicious Je&s;uit. But we mu&s;t turn again to Fa|ther <HI>Par&s;ons,</HI> who&s;e turnings and doublings are &s;uch as would trouble a right good Hound to trace him. For in the mean time, that the &s;aid
<PB N="82" REF="47">Traiters one after another, were plotting and &s;tu|dying, how be&s;t they might compa&s;s her Maje&s;ties death they cared not how, nor by what means, he the &s;aid Father <HI>Par&s;ons</HI> &s;o prevailed with the King, as he attempted twice in two &s;undry years, his new Inva&s;ion, meaning to have proceeded therein, not with &s;uch great preparation as he did at the fir&s;t, but only to have begun the &s;ame, by taking &s;ome Port We&s;tward, toward which he came &s;o far onward as <HI>Silley</HI> with his Fleet. At both which times, God, who &s;till hath fought for her Maje&s;ty and this Realm, did notably prevent him, by &s;uch winds and tempe&s;ts, as the mo&s;t of his Ships and men peri&s;hed in the Sea, as they were coming hitherward. Furthermore the &s;aid good Father in the mid&s;t of all the &s;aid traiterous en|terpri&s;es both at home and abroad (devi&s;ed and &s;et forward by him and his Companions) was plod|ding among&s;t his Papers, and playing the Herald: how, if all his &s;aid wicked de&s;ignments failed, he might at the lea&s;t, intitle the King of <HI>Spain</HI> and con&s;equently the <HI>Infanta</HI> his Daughter to the Crown and Kingdom of <HI>England.</HI> To which purpo&s;e he framed, and afterwards publi&s;hed a Book, wherewith he acquainted the Students in tho&s;e Seminaries in <HI>Spain:</HI> and laboured no|thing more, <HI>than to have their &s;ub&s;criptions to the &s;aid</HI> Infantaes <HI>title, therein promi&s;ing unto her their pre&s;ent Allegiance, as unto their lawful Soveraign: and that when they &s;hould be &s;ent into their Coun|try, they &s;hould per&s;wade the Catholicks there to do the like, without any further expectation of the Queen of</HI> England's <HI>death,</HI> as Mr. <HI>Charles Paget</HI>
<PB N="83" REF="47">affirmeth in his Book again&s;t <HI>Par&s;ons.</HI></P>
<P>We &s;pake of the Seminaries in <HI>Spain</HI> before, &s;omewhat &s;u&s;piciou&s;ly: and now you &s;ee the rea|&s;on that moved us &s;o to do. Be&s;ides we do not doubt, but that in the peru&s;ing of this our di&s;|cour&s;e, you will be a&s;&s;aulted with many &s;trange cogitations, concerning our full intent and mean|ing therein. Which although it cannot chu&s;e, but that it doth already in part appear unto you; yet now we come to a more clear and plain decla|ration of our purpo&s;e. You &s;ee into what hatred the wicked attempts of the Je&s;uits again&s;t her Ma|je&s;ty and the State, hath brought not only all Ca|tholicks in general, but more e&s;pecially us that are &s;ecular Prie&s;ts, although we did ever di&s;like and blame them, nay dete&s;t and hate them, no men more. For any of us to have been brought up in the Seminaries beyond the Seas, hath been, and &s;till is (as you know) a matter here very odi|ous, and to us full of danger. But by Father <HI>Par|&s;ons</HI> cour&s;es with the Seminaries in <HI>Spain,</HI> and now that he is <HI>Rector</HI> of the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> Seminary in <HI>Rome,</HI> and &s;o taketh upon him by his favour there to direct and command all the re&s;t: what will the State here think of the Prie&s;ts, that &s;hall come from any of tho&s;e Seminaries hereafter, where they mu&s;t be brought up, according to the Je&s;uiti|cal humor, and &s;ent hither with &s;uch directions as &s;hall be thereunto agreeable? The &s;aid Book of Titles compiled by <HI>Par&s;ons,</HI> is here very well known, almo&s;t to the whole Realm: and Mr. <HI>Charles Paget</HI> hath not been &s;ilent as touching the <HI>Infanta,</HI> and the bringing up of Students to be
<PB N="84" REF="48">&s;ent hither, as Prie&s;ts to promote her title. Sun|dry &s;harp cour&s;es have been taken already with us, and many Laws are made again&s;t us. But now, what may we expect, but all the cruelty that ever was devi&s;ed again&s;t any man, if the State &s;hould think both us, and all other Catholicks to be ei|ther addicted, or any way inclined to the advance|ment of any foreign Title again&s;t her Maje&s;ty, or her lawful Succe&s;&s;ors.</P>
<P>And it cannot chu&s;e, but that we &s;hould there|of be the rather &s;u&s;pected, becau&s;e at this time it is well known, that the infection of Je&s;uiti&s;m doth bear great &s;way in <HI>England</HI> among&s;t us, whil&s;t our Archprie&s;t (who taketh upon him to rule all) is him&s;elf over-ruled by <HI>Garnet</HI> the Je|&s;uit, who as a mo&s;t ba&s;e Va&s;&s;al, is in every thing at the beck and command of Father <HI>Par&s;ons.</HI></P>
<P>For the avoiding therefore of all the further mi&s;chiefs that may en&s;ue, we fir&s;t profe&s;s (as before we have often done) that we do utterly di&s;like and condemn in our con&s;ciences, all the &s;aid &s;lan|derous Writings and Pamphlets, which have been publi&s;hed to the &s;lander of her Maje&s;ty and this Realm, prote&s;ting that the Je&s;uitical de&s;ignments beyond the Seas, together with certain rebellious and traiterous attempts of &s;ome Catholicks at home, have been the cau&s;es of &s;uch calamities and troubles, as have happened unto us: great (we confe&s;s) in them&s;elves, but far le&s;s (we think) than any Prince living in her Maje&s;ties ca&s;e, and &s;o provoked would have inflicted upon us. Some of
<PB N="85" REF="48">us have &s;aid many a time, when we have read and heard &s;peeches of her Maje&s;ties &s;uppo&s;ed cruelty. Why my Ma&s;ters? what would you have her to do, being re&s;olved as &s;he is in matters of Religion, except &s;he &s;hould willingly ca&s;t off the care, not only of her State and Kingdom, but of her life al|&s;o and Princely e&s;timation? Yea, there have been among&s;t us of our own calling, who have likewi&s;e &s;aid, <HI>That they them&s;elves, knowing what they do know, how under pretence of Religion, the life of her Maje&s;ty, and the &s;ubver&s;ion of the Kingdom is aim|ed at: if they had been of her Highne&s;&s;es Council, they would have given their con&s;ent, for the making of very &s;trait and rigorous Laws to the better &s;uppre&s;&s;ing and preventing of all &s;uch Je&s;uitical and wicked de&s;ignments.</HI> Secondly, we do all of us acknowledge, that by our Learning (&s;ecluding all <HI>Machiavilian Maxims</HI>) Eccle&s;ia&s;tical per&s;ons by virtue of their calling are only to meddle with praying, preaching, and admini&s;tring the Sacra|ments, and &s;uch other like &s;piritual Functions, and not to &s;tudy how to murder Princes, nor to lici|tate Kingdoms, nor to intrude them&s;elves into matters of State, Succe&s;&s;ions, and Inva&s;ions, as Fryer <HI>George</HI> did in <HI>Pannonia,</HI> to the utter ruine of that beautiful Realm. Thirdly, we profe&s;s our &s;elves, with all godly courage and boldne&s;s, to be as &s;ound and true Catholick Prie&s;ts, as any Je&s;uits, or men living in the world, and that we do not de&s;ire to draw breath any longer upon the earth, than that we &s;hall &s;o continue; but yet therewith we being born her Maje&s;ties Subjects, do plainly affirm and re&s;olutely acknowledge it, without all
<PB N="86" REF="49">Je&s;uitical equivocation, that if the Pope him&s;ef (as &s;ome of the Apo&s;tles did) do come into this Land; or if he do &s;end hither &s;ome <HI>Fugatius</HI> and <HI>Damianus,</HI> as <HI>Eleutherus</HI> did, or &s;ome <HI>Augu&s;tine, Lau|rence</HI> or <HI>Je&s;tus,</HI> as Saint <HI>Gregory</HI> did, we will to do them &s;ervice, go unto them, and lye down at their feet, and defend with them the Catholick faith by the &s;acred Scriptures, and authority of the Church, though it co&s;t us our lives. But if he come or &s;end hither an Army, under pretence to e&s;tabli&s;h the &s;aid Catholick Religion, by force, and with the Sword, we will ever be mo&s;t ready, as native born and true Subjects to her Highne&s;s, with the hazard of our lives, and with all our might, to with&s;tand and oppo&s;e our &s;elves again&s;t him, and to &s;pend the be&s;t blood in our bodies in defence of the <HI>Queen</HI> and our Country. For we are throughly per&s;waded, that Prie&s;ts of what or|der &s;oever, ought not by force of Arms, to plant or water the Catholick faith, but in <HI>&s;piritu leni|tatis &amp; man&s;uetudinis</HI> to propagate and defend it. So it was planted in the Primitive Church, over all the World: <HI>&amp; cre&s;cit &amp; fruct ificat &s;icut &amp; in nobis e&s;t, ex quo die recepimus.</HI> The anci|ent godly Chri&s;tians, though they had &s;ufficient forces, did not oppo&s;e them&s;elves in Arms again&s;t their Lords the Emperours, though of another Religion. But our purpo&s;e is not to di&s;pute this point.</P>
<P>And now la&s;tly, we commend unto you all (our very right dear and beloved Brethren) this our mo&s;t humble Suit. Fir&s;t, that you will interpret
<PB N="87" REF="49">the whole premi&s;es no otherwi&s;e than we our &s;elves have expounded our own meaning. Secondly, we intreat you to remember, how dear we have been unto you, and that we continue our unfeign|ed affection towards you &s;till: a&s;&s;uring you, that how&s;oever you are changed, we do affect you &s;till, with a true and jealous love in Chri&s;t Je&s;u.</P>
<P>Thirdly, we de&s;ire you by the mercies of God, to take heed of Novelties and Je&s;uiti&s;m: for it is nothing but treacher, di&s;&s;imulation, ambition, and a very vizard of mo&s;t deep hypocri&s;ie. When other Kingdoms begin to loath them, why &s;hould you &s;o far deba&s;e your &s;elves, as to admire them? Give us not occa&s;ion to &s;ay with the ble&s;&s;ed Apo|&s;tle: You fooli&s;h <HI>Galatians</HI> who hath bewitch|ed you?</P>
<P>Fourthly, never give ear to any private Whi&s;|perers, or Je&s;uitical per&s;wa&s;ions, that &s;hall tend to allure you from your duties and allegiance unto her Maje&s;ty, or your native Country. All argu|ments, that can be brought to corrupt you in ei|ther, a&s;&s;ure your &s;elves, are fal&s;e and unlearned &s;o|phi&s;tications. The Catholick faith, for her &s;ta|bility and continuance hath no need of any trea|chery or rebellion. The promi&s;e made to S. <HI>Peter,</HI> is her &s;ure ground, and is more di&s;honoured with trea&s;ons, and wicked policies of carnal men, than any way furthered or advanced. The word of the &s;pirit, and not the &s;word of the fle&s;h, or any arm of man is that, which giveth life and beauty to the Catholick Church. We are fully per&s;wa|ded
<PB N="88" REF="50">in our con&s;ciences, and as men be&s;ides our Learning, who have &s;ome experience, that if the Catholicks had never &s;ought by indirect means to have vexed her Maje&s;ty with their de&s;ignments again&s;t her Crown: if the Pope and King of <HI>Spain</HI> had never plotted with the Duke of <HI>Norfolk:</HI> if the Rebels in the North had never been heard of: if the Bull of <HI>Pius Quintus</HI> had never been known: if the &s;aid Rebellion had never been ju&s;tified: if neither <HI>Stukeley</HI> nor the Pope had attempted any thing again&s;t <HI>Ireland:</HI> if <HI>Gregory</HI> the Thirteenth had not renewed the &s;aid Excommunication: if the Je&s;uits had never come into <HI>England:</HI> if the Pope and King of <HI>Spain</HI> had not practi&s;ed with the Duke of <HI>Gui&s;e</HI> for his attempt again&s;t her Maje|&s;ty: if <HI>Par&s;ons</HI> and the re&s;t of the Je&s;uits, with other our Country-men beyond the Seas, had ne|ver been Agents in tho&s;e traiterous and bloody de&s;ignments of <HI>Throckmorton, Parry, Collen, York, Williams, Squire</HI> and &s;uch like: If they had not by their Treati&s;es and Writings endeavoured to defame their Soveraign, and their own Country, labouring to have many of their Books to be tran|&s;lated into divers languages, thereby to &s;hew more their own di&s;loyalty: if Cardinal <HI>Alane</HI> and <HI>Par|&s;ons</HI> had not publi&s;hed the renovation of the &s;aid Bull by <HI>Xi&s;tus Quintus:</HI> if thereunto they had not added their &s;currilous and unmanly admonition, or rather mo&s;t prophane Libel again&s;t her Maje&s;ty: if they had not &s;ought by fal&s;e per&s;wa&s;ions, and ungodly arguments, to have allured the hearts of all Catholicks from their Allegiance: if the Pope had never been urged by them to have thru&s;t the
<PB N="89" REF="50">King of <HI>Spain</HI> into that barbarous action again&s;t the Realm: if they them&s;elves with all the re&s;t of that generation, had not laboured greatly with the &s;aid King for the Conque&s;t and Inva&s;ion of this Land by the <HI>Spaniards,</HI> who are known to be the cruelle&s;t Tyrants that live upon the earth: if in all their proceedings, they had not from time to time depraved, irritated, and provoked both her Maje&s;ty and the State, with the&s;e and many other &s;uch like their mo&s;t ungodly and unchri&s;tian practices: but on the contrary, if the Popes from time to time had &s;ought her Maje&s;ty, by kind offices and gentle per&s;wa&s;ions, never cea&s;ing the pro&s;ecution of tho&s;e and &s;uch like cour&s;es of humanity and gentlene&s;s: if the Catholicks and Prie&s;ts beyond the Seas had laboured continually the furtherance of tho&s;e mo&s;t Prie&s;t-like and divine allurements, and had framed their own proceedings in all their works and writings accordingly: if we at home all of us, both Prie&s;ts and people had po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ed our &s;ouls in meekne&s;s and humility, honoured her Maje&s;ty, born with the infirmities of the <HI>State,</HI> &s;uffered all things, and dealt as true Catholick Prie&s;ts: if all of us (we &s;ay) had thus done, mo&s;t a&s;&s;uredly the State would have loved us, or at lea&s;t born with us: where there is one Catholick, there would have been ten: there had been no &s;peeches among&s;t us of Racks and Tortures, nor any cau&s;e to have u&s;ed them; for none were ever vexed that way &s;imply, for that he was either Prie&s;t or Catholick, but becau&s;e they were &s;u&s;pe|cted to have had their hands in &s;ome of the &s;aid mo&s;t craiterous de&s;ignments: none of her Maje|&s;ties
<PB N="90" REF="51">enemies dur&s;t &s;o readily have attempted her State and Kingdom: we had been in better friend|&s;hip with tho&s;e that &s;eek now mo&s;t to oppo&s;e them&s;elves again&s;t us, and to all men (as we are per&s;waded) <HI>bonus odor Chri&s;ti, odor vitae ad vi|tam:</HI> whereas by following the &s;aid new violent Spirits, <HI>qua&s;i turbae impellentes parietem,</HI> we are become <HI>odor mortis ad mortem, non &s;olum iis qui pereunt, &s;ed etiam iis qui &s;alvi fiunt.</HI> And there|fore let us all turn over the leaf, and take another cour&s;e, than hitherto we have done.</P>
<P>To conclude, we do al&s;o further intreat and be|&s;eec you, to con&s;ider with your &s;elves, the &s;tate of the Seminaries beyond the Seas, as now they &s;tand at the di&s;po&s;ition of the Je&s;uits, and joyn together with us, that the &s;aid Je&s;uits may be re|moved from the government and direction of them. It is too well known, how hotly they are addicted to the pur&s;uing of a <HI>Spani&s;h</HI> Monarchy: for the advancement whereof, (becau&s;e it tendeth to their own glory, being altogether Hi&s;paniated and tran&s;ported into tho&s;e humors, the better to te&s;emble and imitate their Founder and Father <HI>Ignatius Loyola</HI> a Spaniard) they will certainly never cea&s;e to put in practice all the mi&s;chief, they can either devi&s;e them&s;elves, or learn among&s;t their company: which is, as they con&s;ort them|&s;elves, the very School of Machiavelli&s;m. In the which our joynt &s;uit, if we cannot prevail, it re|maineth then, that you would be plea&s;ed to be in|treated by us, not to &s;end or &s;uffer your children or friends to go beyond the Seas unto them, that &s;o
<PB N="91" REF="51">they may be driven, if needs they will train up Youths to make them Traiters, to gather them up in other Countries, whereby they &s;hall not be able &s;o much to infect or endanger us. Be&s;ides, we are fully per&s;waded, that by this cour&s;e, although at the fir&s;t we be not heard, by rea&s;on of the might that the Je&s;uitical faction are grown unto: yet his Holine&s;s, when he &s;hall perceive it, and in the depth of his &s;ingular wi&s;dom con&s;ider, what incon|venience may come thereof, will ea&s;ily be drawn to hearken unto us. Or how&s;oever (as our Sa|viour Chri&s;t &s;aith in another ca&s;e) <HI>potens e&s;t Deus de lapidibus i&s;tis &s;u&s;citare filios Abrahae:</HI> though you never &s;end your Sons or Friends beyond the Seas, to the ruinating both of your &s;elves, and of your Country, if the Je&s;uits &s;hall &s;till have the di|rection of them: &s;o &s;ay we that the Church lived before they were born, and needeth not for the advancement of her glory, any of their traiterous practices: but is able of her &s;elf by the a&s;&s;i&s;tance of God, to rai&s;e up Prie&s;ts out of our own Univer|&s;ities, and from among the Mini&s;ters them&s;elves, remain they as yet never &s;o &s;tiff or hard again&s;t us. And thus commending both you and our cau&s;e to God, and our &s;elves to your good favours, and charitable prayers, we take our leaves, and end this tedious di&s;cour&s;e, more profitable and plea&s;ing to God (we tru&s;t) than acceptable or grateful to ma|ny, which we can be but &s;orry for.</P>
<P><HI>Your true Friends the &s;ecular Prie&s;ts.</HI></P>
<P><HI>What&s;oever is written or contained in the&s;e Books, we &s;ubmit all to the cen&s;ure and judgment of our holy Mother the Catholick Church.</HI></P>
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<P>THE JESUITS REASONS Unrea&s;onable: OR, DOUBTS Propo&s;ed to the JESUITS Upon their Paper pre&s;ented to divers Per|&s;ons of Honour, for Non-Exception from the Common Favour Voted to CATHOLICKS.</P>
<Q><BIBL><HI>JON. 1.12.</HI></BIBL> Tollite me, &amp; mittite in mare, &amp; ce&s;&s;abit mare &agrave; vobis: &s;cio enim ego quoniam propter me tempe&s;tas haec grandis venit &s;uper vos.</Q>
<P><HI>LONDON,</HI> Printed <HI>Anno Dom.</HI> MDCLXII.</P>
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<HEAD>REASONS why the Je&s;uits hope that they &s;hould partake of the favor &s;hewed to other Prie&s;ts, in taking away the Sanguinary Laws.</HEAD>
<P>THE &s;ame Rea&s;ons, which moved the Peers to take away the Sanguinary Laws from other Prie&s;ts, may move them al&s;o, to take them away in re|&s;pect of the <HI>Je&s;uits,</HI> for the <HI>Je&s;uits</HI> are free born Subjects as well as others; they have been as faithful to His Majesty as others; they are of tender Con&s;ciences as well as others. The <HI>Je&s;uits</HI> all along have been furtherers of the King, and Actors al&s;o as far as their Fanction beareth; that is, they were in the Camp where &s;ome of them were killed, others impri&s;oned, most of them lost their neare&s;t Relations in the War, and in a man|ner, all had their Friends undone for the King. All tho&s;e that depended on the <HI>Je&s;uits</HI> &s;tood con|stant for the King, even to death: amongst the&s;e were &s;ome &s;ignal per&s;ons, as Sir <HI>Henry Gage,</HI> Sir <HI>John Smith,</HI> Sir <HI>John Digby,</HI> and others, who ha|ving been formerly Scholars of the <HI>Je&s;uits,</HI> were actually, when they dyed, Penitents of the <HI>Je&s;uits,</HI>
<PB REF="54">and Mr. <HI>Peter Wright</HI> who was executed at <HI>Ty|burn,</HI> for a <HI>Je&s;uit,</HI> was particularly maligned be|cau&s;e he was Sir <HI>Henry Gage</HI> his Prie&s;t. As for Noble per&s;ons who lo&s;t great E&s;tates, and endured much bard&s;hip for his Maje&s;ty, the late Duche&s;s of <HI>Buckingham,</HI> the late Marque&s;ts of <HI>Worce&s;ter,</HI> the late Earl of <HI>Shrew&s;bury,</HI> were Penitents of the So|ciety, as other prime Nobility yet in being.</P>
<P>Now whereas two things are objected again&s;t the Je&s;uits, they are both ea&s;ily an&s;wered; Fir&s;t, it is objected that the Je&s;uits teach the Doctrine of the Pope depo&s;ing Kings. It is an&s;wered, That no Community can be le&s;s accu&s;ed of that Doctrine, than the Je&s;uits. It's true, four or five Je&s;uits did many years ago teach that Dectrine, as they had found it taught by others, ancienter than their Order. But &s;ince the fir&s;t of <HI>January 1616.</HI> the General of the Je&s;uits forbade any of his to teach, preach, or di&s;pute for that Doctrine, or print any thing for it, to take away the a&s;per&s;ion which the Writings of &s;ome few have brought upon the Society. And now actually all Je&s;uits are obliged under pain of damnation, not to teach that Doctrine either in word, writing, or print, which none in the Church but they only are.</P>
<P>Secondly, 'Tis objected that the Je&s;uits do par|ticularly depend on the Pope. It is an&s;wered, That they are obliged by a particular Vow to be ready to go even to the utmo&s;t bounds of the Earth, to preach the Go&s;pel to In&s;idels, when the Pope &s;hall think it fit to &s;end them; and they have no other Vow, which doth particularly oblige them but this, which can prejudice no Kingdom. On the other
<PB REF="54">&s;ide, &s;peaking of their dependence (which my bya&s;s their affections) they have the lea&s;t dependence of the Pope, of any Church-men, for they are by &s;pecial Vow excluded from al Benefices, and Dignities, by which the Pope may win the affection of other Church-men.</P>
<P>As for which is &s;aid of the <HI>Venetians,</HI> and <HI>French</HI> bani&s;hing the Je&s;uits, it is an&s;wered that both tho&s;e E&s;tates have repealed their Acts.</P>
<P>La&s;tly, That the Je&s;uits being willing to &s;ubmit to what&s;oever all other Catholick Prie&s;ts &s;hall agree to, and offering all the &s;ecurity which others offer, they hope they may be partakers of the &s;ame favurs which &s;hall be granted to others; that &s;o, that mercy may extend to all, and the World may &s;ee that the Sanguinary Laws are truly taken away.</P>
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<P><HI>I</HI> Expect Cen&s;ures and Clamours as loud as can be again&s;t me, of uncharitable, uncatho|lick, unchristian, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> for &s;eeming to lay load upon the already oppre&s;&s;ed, and contri|bute to, and even provoke a per&s;ecution a|gain&s;t our Fellow Cathlicks. I think I have &s;aid my wor&s;t again&s;t my &s;elf: let me &s;ee how I can ju|&s;tifie my action. Premi&s;ing therefore that the ca&s;e of you Je&s;uits is apprehended by your &s;elves, and your Abettors already de&s;perate, and your Exclu|&s;ion remedile&s;s, and &s;o cannot be &s;aid to &s;pring from this paper of mine; I addre&s;s to my Defence, and offer my Motives why I publi&s;h this little Treati&s;e again&s;t you.</P>
<P>My fir&s;t is, To wipe off the a&s;per&s;ion laid upon Gods Church by &s;ome Tenets of yours; and &s;trong|ly fa&s;tened on it by your haughty calling only your &s;elves the <HI>Catholick Church,</HI> and all di&s;&s;enters from your <HI>Tenets,</HI> Hereticks.</P>
<P>My &s;econd, Becau&s;e I under&s;tand you are about to make the Common good &s;toop to the Particular one of your Order: as is your constant practice; contrary to the Law of Nature, and Principles of Chri&s;tianity. For I have been informed that you in a boa&s;ting manner affirm, the Parliament will proceed no farther about taking away the Sanguinary Laws:
<PB REF="55">and that &s;ome friends of yours endeavour to make it believed that it is not for his Maje&s;ties intere&s;t to make good his &s;olemn promi&s;e from <HI>Breda,</HI> of having regard to tender Con&s;ciences.</P>
<P>My third is, Your &s;tomachful fru&s;trating my ex|pectation. For I was really glad when I heard you had publi&s;hed Apologetical Rea&s;ons why you &s;hould not be excepted; hoping you would &s;incerely re|nounce the criminal Doctrines and Actions of your Predece&s;&s;ors, and free Religion from &s;candal. But finding no &s;uch thing, <HI>per verba de prae&s;enti,</HI> but on the contrary, a comparing and preferring your &s;elves before others: I thought my &s;elf obliged to do right to the Common Cau&s;e.</P>
<P>My fourth, To oblige you to repentance, and a hearty retractation of your unlawful Tenets and Practices; that &s;o you may de&s;erve and have as much favour as others; which is the wor&s;t I wi&s;h you: and not to wrong your own Credits and Con|&s;ciences, and fool others with di&s;&s;embling &s;hews of loyalty, which every one may &s;ee to be mere hypo|cri&s;ie.</P>
<P>My fifth, Becau&s;e I owe that duty to the Civil Magi&s;trate, who&s;e hearty Subject I am, to re&s;ent a mockery put upon him (as this your paper will ap|pear to be) under colour of offering &s;atisfaction: Every true hearted Subject owing his be&s;t endeavour to his King and Country, that none lurk among them, unle&s;s their faltring Principles of Aequivoca|tion and di&s;loyalty be purged out.</P>
<P>My &s;ixth, To offer even your &s;elves an advan|tage, if your courage and cau&s;e will &s;tretch to im|prove it. For the following <HI>Doubts</HI> are, many of
<PB REF="56">them, &s;uch as Prote&s;tants them&s;elves urge against your Rea&s;ons: and are communicated here to you, partly on purpo&s;e that you may provide better &s;a|tisfaction.</P>
<P>My la&s;t (to &s;atisfie even the pa&s;&s;ionate too) is, Becau&s;e your unchri&s;tian &s;pirit of Calumny is &s;till as unquiet as ever; having, of late, mo&s;t unjustly a&s;per&s;ed Principal Per&s;ons of almo&s;t every Body but your own; which comportment of yours makes it but fit, if Truth and the Common Good favour you not, neither &s;hould I. To think and declare thus much &s;atisfies me; if it do not others, I cannot help it. Only I wi&s;h your favourers to beware of doing any thing that may be interpreted an abetment of you, till you approve your &s;elves heartily loyal; le&s;t they di&s;cover them&s;elves <HI>too deeply</HI> tainted with your Principles and temper.</P>
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<P>TO begin then. My fir&s;t Doubt &s;hall be, Whether you <HI>Je&s;uits</HI> have ground to hope the &s;ame favour with others. For, if you, by your unju&s;t and wicked practices provoked the Magi&s;trates to enact tho&s;e Laws: if the re&s;t of Prie&s;ts and Catholicks were by you plunged in &s;uch mi&s;eries, upon di&s;covery of your Negotiati|ons, which were imputed to the whole Body of them, how can you be thought to de&s;erve remi&s;|&s;ion, who&s;e &s;editious Principles are too deeply guilty of the Blood of Prie&s;ts and Catholicks &s;hed in the Kingdom ever &s;ince you fir&s;t came into it? Tho&s;e who know your practices in the Countries, where you, by the means, ordinarily, of deluded Wives, govern the Great Ones, know this to be your Maxime, to manage Religion, not by per|&s;wa&s;ion, but by command and force. This Prin|ciple did your chief Apo&s;tle of <HI>England, Robert Par&s;ons,</HI> bring in with him. His fir&s;t endeavours were to make a Li&s;t of Catholicks, which, under the conduct of the Duke of <HI>Gui&s;e,</HI> &s;hould have changed the &s;tate of the Kingdom, u&s;ing for it the pretence of the Title of Queen <HI>Mary</HI> of <HI>Scotland.</HI> But, her Council at <HI>Paris,</HI> which un|der&s;tood bu&s;ine&s;s better, were &s;o &s;en&s;ible of his boldne&s;s, that they took from him the Queens Cy|pher which he had purloyned, and commanded him never more to meddle in Her affairs. Poor <HI>Edmund Campian,</HI> who is generally accounted an
<PB N="102" REF="57">innocent and learned man, and others &s;uffered for &s;uch practices of his.</P>
<P><HI>Par&s;on</HI>'s endeavours being &s;uppre&s;&s;ed by this Queen, he turned him&s;elf to the <HI>Spaniard,</HI> and, with all his might, fo&s;tered the <HI>Inva&s;ion</HI> of <HI>Eighty eight,</HI> which is known to have been another occa|&s;ion of Sanguinary Laws. He wrote, on that oc|ca&s;ion, his <HI>Dolman,</HI> to ju&s;tifie the <HI>Spaniards</HI> Title to <HI>England,</HI> degrading the Scotti&s;h &s;ucce&s;&s;ion and Title of our Soveraign. He wrote al&s;o <HI>Lei|ce&s;ter</HI>'s <HI>Common-wealth</HI> (at that time called com|monly <HI>Blewcoat,</HI> becau&s;e it was &s;ent into <HI>England</HI> bound in blew paper) which extremely exa&s;pera|ted the State, and augmented its indignation a|gain&s;t Cathlicks. The &s;ame man, at Queen <HI>Eli|zabeths</HI> death, pocured a <HI>Bull</HI> from the Pope to the Catholicks in <HI>England</HI> again&s;t King <HI>James;</HI> to hinder his coming to the Crown, unle&s;s he would give liberty of Con&s;cience, and, as his friends gave out, had twenty thou&s;and men li&s;ted for that effect, had not his Maje&s;ty prevented the danger with &s;weet words.</P>
<P>Next followed that dete&s;table Machination of blowing up that Royal Race, and the whole No|bility, which the Hou&s;e of Commons, which was the occa&s;ion of the Oath of Allegiance, and all the Per&s;ecution of Catholicks following upon it: King <HI>James</HI> profe&s;&s;ing, not to per&s;ecute for Religion, but for Trea&s;on. This you alledge not to be, ori|ginally, your Invention; but, is it no guilt to follow another mans wickedne&s;s, when it leads to &s;o horrid a crime? For, without doubt, both by prayers before-hand, and by publick te&s;tifications
<PB N="103" REF="57">after the Fact was di&s;covered, you were highly acce&s;&s;ary to it: nay, many years after you did, and peradventure to this very day &s;till do perti|naciou&s;ly adhere to it. I could urge great and manife&s;t in&s;tances of this, were it not to lo&s;e time. That mon&s;trous <HI>Straw,</HI> of which all Chri&s;tendom rung &s;o long, and the Pictures of <HI>Garnet</HI> and <HI>Old|corne</HI> cannot be denied, nor want they evidence of your inward minds.</P>
<P>After the&s;e came out the ridiculous and &s;atyri|cal Books again&s;t King <HI>James,</HI> the <HI>Corona Regia,</HI> and the <HI>Quaeries.</HI> And yet your &s;o well affected &s;pirits could not be at re&s;t, till your Patriarch <HI>Par|&s;ons</HI> was &s;hamefully turned out of <HI>Rome</HI> by Mon|&s;ieur <HI>Bethunes,</HI> the French Amba&s;&s;ador, and order from the King of <HI>France;</HI> being di&s;covered to plot a new Trea&s;on again&s;t his Country to introduce the Duke of <HI>Parma.</HI> Thus you followed King <HI>James</HI> to his death.</P>
<P>Direct Trea&s;on again&s;t King <HI>Charles,</HI> of glori|ous memory, before the Wars, I cannot accu&s;e you of: but, how refractory you were to the Queens de&s;ires and orders at <HI>Rome,</HI> for his late Maje&s;ties a&s;&s;i&s;tance, is well known; and what you have done &s;ince the beginning of the Wars, and how you have behaved your &s;elves, both in and out of <HI>England,</HI> is fitter for me to remit to his Maje&s;ty, and the Courts Informations, than to en|gage my pen in far fewer and weaker which I could produce. Only I &s;hall add this word; If Colonel <HI>Hutchin&s;on</HI> were well examined and pre&s;|&s;ed, he would perhaps di&s;cover &s;trange &s;ecrets, about your treating with <HI>Cromwel,</HI> no doubt much
<PB N="104" REF="58">to his Maje&s;ties advantage. So that, leaving you this <HI>Doubt</HI> to ruminate upon, whether the condi|tion of them, who have guiltily provoked and de|&s;erved the Sanguinary Laws, be the &s;ame with theirs who have &s;uffered for being mi&s;taken to be their Fellows; I proceed to</P>
<P N="2">2. My <HI>Second Doubt,</HI> about your fir&s;t Rea&s;on. That <HI>the Je&s;uits are free-born Subjects as well as others.</HI> In which, methinks, I find one of your u&s;ual &s;leights of <HI>Equivocation.</HI> For, a <HI>Je&s;uit</HI> may &s;ignifie the man who is a <HI>Je&s;uit;</HI> and may &s;ignifie, with the complexion of being a <HI>Je&s;uit.</HI> In the former &s;en&s;e there is no difference between any other Prie&s;t, Regular or Secular, and a <HI>Je&s;uit,</HI> as to free-born; but, in the &s;econd, there's a wide one. For, the others have nothing again&s;t them, but &s;uch Laws as had their beginning from diffe|rence in Religion: their degrees and communities having been accepted by the Laws of the King|dom; in virtue of which they are free-born Sub|jects and parts of the Common-wealth, as far as difference of Religion permits.</P>
<P>Now, it being the Law of <HI>England</HI> that no Ec|cle&s;ia&s;tical Community may &s;ettle here, unle&s;s ad|mitted by the Civil Power, (as we &s;ee in propor|tion, practi&s;ed in all Catholick E&s;tates) and <HI>Je|&s;uits</HI> never having participated of this favour, all your practices of u&s;urping Juri&s;diction, making Colledges and Provinces in or for <HI>England,</HI> po&s;|&s;e&s;&s;ing your &s;elves of great &s;ums of monies for &s;uch ends, and the like actions, have been hitherto all u&s;urpations, unlawful both in re&s;pect of the Do|nors and Acceptors. 'Tis unlawful for any man
<PB N="105" REF="58">(even according to the &s;en&s;e and practice of Ca|tholick times) by virtue of your priviledges, to live, or preach in <HI>England,</HI> or any of his Maje&s;ties Dominions; and whoever entertains you in &s;uch quality, is &s;ubject to the penalties ordained by the Ancient Laws. Neither, without &s;ome main Rea&s;on which might force the afore&s;aid Statute, ought you to hope or attempt any further &s;tay in <HI>England,</HI> in way of a Body, till fir&s;t you have ob|tained particular grace from the Civil Magi|&s;trate.</P>
<P N="3">3. My <HI>Third Doubt</HI> is, Whether <HI>you have been as faithful to His Maje&s;ty as others;</HI> Which is your &s;econd Rea&s;on. For which I mu&s;t note a Maxim or Practice found among you <HI>Je&s;uits,</HI> and ac|knowledged by all who look into your ways; which is, in quarrels of Princes and Great Men, to have &s;ome of your Fathers on one part, and others for the contrary. Which as I no ways de|ny to be very politickly done, and to &s;hew that you are <HI>Wi&s;er than the Children of light;</HI> &s;o, on the other &s;ide, I affirm 'tis a manife&s;t &s;ign you are faithful to neither. I &s;peak not this as to &s;ingle men, (if there be any among you who prefer your loyalty to your Prince before obedience to your Superiour) but as to the Community or Superi|ours, who give this direction or connivence to their &s;ingle Subjects, to act on both &s;ides; by which they are convinced of acknowledging duty to neither, but to work for their own intere&s;ts. Nor can the like be imputed to other Communi|ties, who&s;e obedience is more rational and free; without obligation to follow their Superiours
<PB N="110" REF="59">Judgments further than to the ob&s;ervation of Ca|nons and Rules.</P>
<P N="4">4. My <HI>Fourth Doubt</HI> is, Whether you <HI>are</HI> (as you &s;ay) <HI>of tender Con&s;ciences as well as others:</HI> (your third Rea&s;on) for which I remit him who de&s;ires a further information, to <HI>The Mystery of Je&s;uiti&s;m,</HI> tran&s;lated &s;ome years &s;ince out of <HI>French:</HI> The Author whereof is both learned in your Di|vinity, and an upright and &s;crupulous <HI>Roman Ca|tholick,</HI> as his Book manife&s;ts. Where every in|different Reader may &s;ee, as clear as noon-day, that your Con&s;cience is &s;o tender as to &s;tretch to all kind of Villanies, by the award of that Theo|logical Bawd, commonly called <HI>Probability,</HI> by which whatever three Divines hold (or, perhaps, one) is accounted <HI>Probable</HI> and lawful to be pra|cti&s;ed: and whoever under&s;tands any whit of the world, knows your General can, with a whi&s;tle, rai&s;e whole Legions of Divines to &s;peak what he has a mind &s;hould pa&s;s for <HI>probble;</HI> nay, every Provincial can rai&s;e <HI>about three</HI> to make it <HI>de fide.</HI> The World has &s;een the experience, about <HI>Depo|&s;ing Princes, Equivocations, mental Re&s;ervations,</HI> and divers other juggles.</P>
<P>Although this &s;eems enough for this point, yet it is not ami&s;s to add a Maxime of obedience which you have among you, <HI>viz.</HI> That the Subject ought blindly to obey his Superiour without examina|tion, whenever it is probable there's no &s;in in the action. Out of which per&s;wa&s;ion, if three Di|vines at the mo&s;t, &s;ay a thing may be done, which the Superiour will have done; 'tis not in a Sub|jects power, under pain of damnation, to refu&s;e
<PB N="111" REF="59">to do it. Whereby 'tis plain, the tenderne&s;s of your Con&s;ciences is only about doing or not do|ing what your Superiour orders you.</P>
<P N="5">5. My <HI>Fifth Doubt,</HI> concerning your Fourth Rea&s;on, is, whether all you &s;ay proves any hearti|ne&s;s for his Maje&s;ty. For, I que&s;tion not the truth of all this, but the <HI>Quaere</HI> remains, whether you <HI>Je&s;uits</HI> were the fir&s;t movers, or the Gentry which did the King &s;ervice, to whom you adhe|red for not lo&s;ing your places, and intere&s;t you had in the parties. Had you pleaded that any of this Gentry which you name, was unwilling of him&s;elf, and his <HI>Je&s;uit</HI> had <HI>induced</HI> him, or made him con&s;tant, when he would have relented, this rea&s;on had been &s;omewhat &s;trong: now, 'tis one of the probable Arguments which are &s;ubject to be turned to what plea&s;es the Orator.</P>
<P>But to &s;peak &s;omewhat to particulars; 'Tis known <HI>Col. Gage</HI>'s relations were to others more than to you; and I could name by who&s;e &s;olici|tation he took arms for the King, who was not of your Coat. As for Sir <HI>John Digby,</HI> there are a|live who know by whom he was armed, and &s;ent to the Kings Party, in whom you had not &s;o great intere&s;t. Concerning the Noble Per&s;ons you name, though you had the indu&s;try to make your &s;elves their <HI>Ordinaries,</HI> yet were they not, for the mo&s;t part, &s;o addicted to you, that they had not great Relations to other Eccle&s;ia&s;tical Bodies. So that it may appear, their own inclinations, and not your per&s;wa&s;ions (as far as is clear) were their motives to follow the Kings Party. I could &s;ay more, were it fitting to enter upon private mens
<PB N="112" REF="60">particular actions. And &s;o much to your Rea|&s;ons.</P>
<P N="6">6. My <HI>Sixth Doubt</HI> concerns the An&s;wer to the fir&s;t Objection, Whether <HI>Je&s;uits</HI> teach <HI>the Doctrine of the Popes depo&s;ing Kings.</HI> My Doubt is, what your An&s;wer is, whether I or no? for I can find neither. Fir&s;t, you compare your Body to o|thers, which is no An&s;wer t the Que&s;tion, but a &s;piteful and envious diver&s;ion, to examine others actions, who are &s;ufficiently cleared, becau&s;e not que&s;tioned. Secondly, you tell us that &s;ome <HI>Je|&s;uits</HI> did teach it; but that, <HI>&s;ince the fir&s;t of</HI> Ja|nuary 1616. <HI>your General has forbidden any of his, to teach, preach, or di&s;pute for that Doctrine;</HI> which an&s;wers not the Que&s;tion, and is a thing I am prone to believe. For I have been informed, that 'tis a known practice of your <HI>Society,</HI> that your Generals &s;hould forbid &s;ome actions, which they are not unwilling their Subjects &s;hould pra|cti&s;e, to the end that they may reject weak men, by &s;aying it cannot be true, becau&s;e they have a Rule again&s;t it; and to more under&s;tanding Par|ties they may excu&s;e the fault, by laying the de|fect on Particulars, who will not obey their com|mands.</P>
<P>But, I mu&s;t farther note a cunning in this An|&s;wer. For true it is, the Parliament of <HI>Paris</HI> or|dered the principal <HI>Je&s;uits</HI> to get &s;uch an order from their <HI>General,</HI> for <HI>France;</HI> upon which I &s;uppo&s;e, you build your an&s;wer: not explicating whether it reaches to other Countries, as particu|larly to <HI>England,</HI> which I never heard &s;o much as pretended: and therefore it an&s;wers nothing to
<PB N="113" REF="60">the real Que&s;tion, unle&s;s you produce the exten&s;i|on to the whole World; which you cannot do, &s;ince 'tis plain, <HI>Santarellus</HI>'s Book was printed in <HI>Rome</HI> about ten years after 1616. teaching the power of Depo&s;ing in all latitude. Wherefore either <HI>Santarellus</HI>'s fact was a manife&s;t di&s;obedi|ence to the no&s;e of his General, or the an&s;wer gi|ven, an open Impo&s;ture, making a &s;pecial Decree for <HI>France</HI> a general one, and &s;o your an&s;wer fal|lacious and none. No more than your fair infe|rence, that all <HI>Je&s;uits</HI> are bound <HI>under pain of Damnation,</HI> not to teach that Doctrine; which is a pure &s;lur you u&s;e to put upon men unaccu&s;tomed to your ways: whereas 'tis a known po&s;ition of yours, that none of your Rules bind under &s;o much as a Venial &s;in, much le&s;s under Damnation.</P>
<P>And it &s;eems you think there's no Mortal &s;in, but Di&s;obedience, or you e&s;teem the Doctrine good, though forbidden you, el&s;e you would not have added that Clau&s;e, that <HI>None in the Church but you, were bound under pain of Damnation, not to teach that Doctrine:</HI> whereas all good Chri&s;ti|ans think it damnable to teach any wicked Do|ctrine, &s;uch as this is declared to be by all <HI>France.</HI> I wi&s;h to God you would in&s;tance in what Sermons or &s;erious Di&s;cour&s;es any of you have argued again&s;t this Doctrine; out of which it might be gathered, that in your hearts you di&s;like it. I hear you and yours have much exclaimed again&s;t &s;ome even late Pamphlets that touch the Oath of <HI>Allegiance;</HI> though none of tho&s;e Books (as far as I under|&s;tand) pre&s;s the taking of the Oath it &s;elf, in its pre&s;ent terms, but only oppo&s;e this King-dethro|ning
<PB N="114" REF="61">Doctrine. Surely, unle&s;s you declare your &s;elves farther, this mu&s;t cau&s;e a main &s;u&s;picion, that you di&s;like the Oath, not as Moderate Ca|tholicks do, for the ambiguity of the expre&s;&s;ion, but becau&s;e the Doctrine of <HI>Depo&s;ition</HI> plea&s;es you.</P>
<P>And why &s;hould the Peace of Kingdoms, and the quiet of all Chri&s;tendom depend upon your Generals Order, for that's all the &s;ecurity I can find your Paper gives us? who will a&s;&s;ure us your Ge|nerals Order may not alter to morrow, and that which you call now a mortal &s;in to do, becomes then as mortal a &s;in not to do? and has not then the World rea&s;on to fear that, where and when the intere&s;t of your Body will either di&s;pen&s;e with your obedience to your General, or prevail &s;o far with him as to revoke the Prohibition you &s;peak of, you will be ready again to maintain the &s;ame Depo&s;ing Power with as much fiercene&s;s as tho&s;e few whom you now &s;eem to di&s;owne?</P>
<P>For, who are tho&s;e few? <HI>Bellarmine,</HI> of whom one of your Society (though in Pri&s;on when he &s;pake it) &s;aid, King <HI>James was no more to be com|pared to Bellarmine, than Balaams A&s;s to Balaam: Suarez,</HI> whom you e&s;teem the Ma&s;ter of the World: <HI>Le&s;&s;ius,</HI> under the name of <HI>Singleton: Fitzherbert</HI> the chief, in his time, of your Engli&s;h Writers: Patriarch <HI>Par&s;ons, Mariana, Salmeron, Becanus, Va&s;quez; Omnes Capita alta ferentes,</HI> and of whom you will renounce none for le&s;s than being frightned to lo&s;e a Province; as when, in <HI>France,</HI> you were threatned to be put out, if you had not condemned <HI>Suarez</HI> and <HI>Santarellus:</HI> With
<PB N="115" REF="61">the&s;e de&s;erves to be ranked, for his Merits in the &s;ame kind, <HI>F. Symonds,</HI> of a far later date, who procured to be condemned at <HI>Rome</HI> tho&s;e three Propo&s;itions (expre&s;&s;ed in the <HI>Chri&s;tian Modera|tor</HI>) of which the fir&s;t was expre&s;ly made to di&s;|claim the Popes power in ab&s;olving Subjects from their Obedience to the Civil Government. Are all the&s;e but <HI>four or five?</HI> Nay, I could reckon above four or five be&s;ides all the&s;e: &s;o that, there is no farther &s;ecurity of your not preaching this Do|ctrine, than until the Pope plea&s;e to attempt again the Depo&s;ition of &s;ome King of <HI>England:</HI> for then no doubt but your Generals Decree will be relea&s;ed, and the Intere&s;t of your Order to preach this Doctrine again.</P>
<P>As to that perver&s;e and un&s;ea&s;onable in&s;inuati|on, that <HI>Others, too, have defended the Popes depo|&s;ing power, as well as you:</HI> I an&s;wer, perhaps Flat|tery or Errours may have prevailed &s;o far with &s;ome others be&s;ides <HI>Je&s;uits:</HI> yet, with this diffe|rence in the point we now treat: &s;ome per&s;ons of other Communities have written for that exorbi|tant power in the Pope, and very many, and far more again&s;t it: not only the faculties of <HI>Paris</HI> and <HI>Sorbonne,</HI> but &s;even or eight whole Univer|&s;ities in <HI>France,</HI> have unanimou&s;ly and &s;olemnly condemned it: All this while, what &s;ingle <HI>Je&s;uit</HI> has &s;poken one unkind word again&s;t it? though both particularly &s;u&s;pected, and highly concerned to clear them&s;elves. Cry you mercy! you there &s;ub|&s;cribed al&s;o their Condemnation of it. But why find I not that alledged here, if there be not &s;ome juggle in't? Sure you would not have waved ur|ging
<PB N="116" REF="62">it among your be&s;t Rea&s;ons, did not your hearts di&s;avow that forced compliance then, and &s;o hate the <HI>Medium</HI> for the Conclu&s;ions &s;ake. Your Generals Prohibition (as your Rea&s;ons &s;eem to ex|pre&s;s it) is, <HI>Not to teach, &amp;c. that Doctrine;</HI> and then you are free, at lea&s;t to teach, &amp;c. the con|trary; which who of you ever did &s;o much as in a private Conference? Nor will it help you, if your Generals Prohibition be to &s;peak either <HI>for</HI> or <HI>again&s;t</HI> that Opinion (which I believe is the truth, though your Rea&s;ons craftily di&s;&s;emble it;) &s;ince then, you neither have hitherto given, nor can hereafter give the lea&s;t &s;atisfaction to Princes, without di&s;obeying your General.</P>
<P>Let any one but ca&s;t his eye upon <HI>F. Lloyd</HI> (or <HI>Fi&s;her</HI>) a famous man in his generation, and con|&s;ider what he writes in his <HI>An&s;wer to the Nine Points. That he omitted the di&s;cu&s;&s;ion of the Ninth Point,</HI> about the Pope's Authority to depo&s;e Kings; <HI>for, being bound by the command of his General given to the whole Order, not to publi&s;h any thing,</HI> of that Argument, <HI>without &s;ending the &s;ame fir&s;t to Rome, to be reviewed and approved; his An&s;wer to that Point could not have been perform|ed without very long expectation and delay.</HI> And &s;o goes on; <HI>referring</HI> His Maje&s;ty and the Reader in general, to the <HI>Treati&s;es lately written on that Subject, to which,</HI> &s;aid he, <HI>'Tis not needful any thing &s;hould be added.</HI> And, I ask, fir&s;t, is not this Je|&s;uits proceeding with his King extremely, both uncivil and di&s;loyal too? his Maje&s;ty commands an Engli&s;h Je&s;uit to write concerning <HI>the Opinion of depo&s;ing Kings, and giving away their Kingdoms
<PB N="117" REF="62">by Papal power, whether directly or indirectly:</HI> What &s;ays the Je&s;uit to this important que&s;tion, wherein all Princes, and particularly his Maje&s;ty was &s;o nearly concerned? He could not an&s;wer it without &s;ending it fir&s;t to <HI>Rome</HI> to be approved, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> and &s;o excu&s;ed him&s;elf, and made no an&s;wer at all; which now of the&s;e two will you gue&s;s was the Je&s;uits &s;upreme Soveraign, the King or his General? Nor &s;hould I have &s;tayed &s;o long upon the example of one particular Je&s;uit, though ne|ver &s;o eminent among them, but that by the&s;e their Rea&s;ons, I &s;ee they all cleave to the &s;ame Princi|ple, of not meddling with this point, whatever it co&s;ts them, without leave of their General.</P>
<P>Secondly, I ask concerning tho&s;e late Treati&s;es here mentioned by the Je&s;uit; were they not tho&s;e very Books which <HI>Paris</HI> and &s;o many whole Univer&s;ities of <HI>France</HI> publickly condemned? I have this motive to think &s;o; <HI>F. Fi&s;her</HI> wrote this Book 1626. the&s;e Treati&s;es were that very year condemned, and &s;ome of them, as <HI>Santarellus,</HI> prin|ted but the year before. But, that <HI>F. Fi&s;her</HI> ad|hered to the affirmative of the Popes depo&s;ing power, is clearly evident by his other excu&s;e, that <HI>commonly Kings are not willing to hear the proofs of coercive Authority over them, &amp;c.</HI> As al&s;o, when his Adver&s;ary objected, that <HI>Suarez</HI>'s Book was burnt by the Hangman, he an&s;wers (far from di&s;liking his Brother <HI>Je&s;uit</HI>) in the&s;e peremptory words; <HI>I likewi&s;e demand of you,</HI> &s;ays Fi&s;her, <HI>if Je&s;uit Suarez his Book be prejudicial to Princely Authority, why is the &s;ame allowed in all other Ca|tholick Kingdoms, &amp;c?</HI> Does this &s;ound, as if the
<PB N="118" REF="63"><HI>Je&s;uits</HI> had changed their inclination to that Do|ctrine; whil&s;t one of their eminente&s;t Writers &s;trives thus to defend, nay, applaud, even <HI>Suarez,</HI> one of the mo&s;t offen&s;ive and extragavant, even, <HI>Je&s;uits,</HI> that ever medled with that Subject?</P>
<P N="7">7. May <HI>Seventh Doubt,</HI> is about <HI>your dependence on the Pope,</HI> which you gloriou&s;ly explicate to con&s;i&s;t in this, that <HI>The Je&s;uits are obliged by a par|ticular Vow, to be ready to go even unto the utmo&s;t Bounds of the Earth, to preach the Go&s;pel to Infidels.</HI> I de&s;ire to know, by what virtue you explicate your Vow in the&s;e words? the terms of your Vow are the&s;e, <HI>In&s;uper promitto &s;pecialem Obedientiam &s;ummo Pontifici circa mi&s;&s;iones:</HI> which, by the tenour of the words, &s;ignifies to go whither he &s;hall &s;end you, and do what he &s;hall command you in your Mi&s;&s;ions. Fir&s;t, there's never a word of preaching the <HI>Go&s;pel,</HI> nor of <HI>Infidels;</HI> and your Mi&s;&s;ions may be as well to <HI>Caholicks</HI> as to <HI>Infidels;</HI> as we &s;ee the <HI>Peres de la Mi&s;&s;ion,</HI> in <HI>France,</HI> for the mo&s;t part, are imployed among Catholicks: and I would demand whether your Mi&s;&s;ion into <HI>England</HI> be not as well to Catholicks as to Prote&s;tants? Wherefore, by this Vow, you are bound to do whatever the Pope commands you: as for example, if the Pope &s;hould excom|municate or depo&s;e the Prince, and command you to move the Catholicks to take Arms; you were bound by your Vow to do it. And, therefore, 'tis no wonder if you give the Pope a Catalogue of the&s;e men, and their qualities, (for they are, generally &s;peaking, tho&s;e who are eminente&s;t in your Order) and brag to him how great an Army
<PB N="119" REF="63">of Pens and Tongues you bring devoted to him, to further any attempt or de&s;ign he &s;hall com|mand.</P>
<P>Be&s;ides, is it not well known, that none of your Order go into Infidels Countries, but &s;uch as de|&s;ire it, whereof no &s;mall part do it for di&s;content|ment they find in your Colledges? and that the Pope may as well &s;end one of the Pillars of St. <HI>Peter</HI>'s Church in <HI>Rome,</HI> to preach to Infidels, as one of your profe&s;&s;ed Fathers, if it be again&s;t your General's, and his own will? Therefore, this <HI>&s;pe|cial obedience</HI> is but a fla&s;h of vanity above o|thers; by which the Pope has a Chimerical pow|er over you; &s;uch as your &s;ubtilty in Divinity will call <HI>potentia remota,</HI> which, without your own wills, &s;hall never come into <HI>Act.</HI></P>
<P>Yet do I not think that His <HI>Majesty</HI> will quar|rel with you for this Vow, as you explicate it: though, to tell you my &s;ence of it, I do not know how it &s;tands with His Prerogative, that the Pope &s;hall have power over his Subjects, which may be u&s;eful to him, to &s;end them, without his leave, to <HI>Japan</HI> and <HI>China;</HI> But, this Authoity you a&s;&s;ume to your &s;elves, and further: For, you do not on|ly oblige your Subjects to come in, or go out of the Kingdom, when you command them; but play the Judges of life and death, upon the Kings natural Subjects, without his leave, or any crime that, according to Civil Laws, de&s;erves puni&s;h|ment. You pre&s;ume by your power, to &s;end them to <HI>Watten,</HI> or &s;ome &s;uch place, wherein either your &s;elves have high Ju&s;tice, or the high Ju&s;tice is at your Devotion, there frame Proce&s;s again&s;t
<PB N="120" REF="64">them, and execute them, without making account to His Maje&s;ty of the life of his Subject, for pre|tended crimes committed in <HI>England.</HI></P>
<P>This (taking the whole &s;tory together) I con|ceive to be no le&s;s than making your &s;elves Sove|raigns over His Maje&s;ties Subjects, that is, to be an Act of high Trea&s;on. Yet, all parts of this A|ction are evidently in your hands, in virtue of your obedience, and your having &s;uch places of high Ju&s;tice in your Command: &s;o that your Sub|jects have other Soveraigns than the <HI>King's Maje|&s;ty,</HI> whom, by con&s;equence, they ought to fear more than him, &s;ince their power is more imme|diate, and pre&s;&s;ing and pre&s;&s;ed on their Con&s;ci|ences. As for the Practice, 'tis &s;aid to have been u&s;ed upon one <HI>Thomas Barton,</HI> an eminent Scho|lar among you, who wrote a Book called <HI>The agreement of Faith and Rea&s;on.</HI> How true it is, I undertake not to ju&s;tifie; but if you'l ju&s;tifie your &s;elves from High Trea&s;on, it behoves you to produce the man. And &s;o you have my &s;e|venth <HI>Doubt.</HI></P>
<P N="8">8. My <HI>Eighth Doubt</HI> is, that you equivocate with us in this word <HI>Dependence:</HI> for you turn it to be dependence by <HI>Vow,</HI> whereas more likely it means dependence of <HI>Intere&s;t,</HI> and &s;ignifies, that 'tis your intere&s;t to ingage the Pope to you, by maintaining all height of Supreme Authority in him, though it be ever &s;o irrational and again&s;t Gods Law. For, by &s;o doing, you al&s;o can u&s;e it all for your own Intere&s;t, in procuring for your &s;elves and friends whatever lies either in the Popes Authority or Grace, as Exemptions, Priviledges,
<PB N="121" REF="64">Benefices, &amp;c. For, men look not on your Body as on others, who&s;e Generals have no other pow|er than according to their Rules, to look to their Di&s;cipline: But on you they look as on an Army managed by one man; who&s;e Weapons are Pens and Tongues; and the Arts of Negotiation, and all plau&s;ible means of commending your &s;elves to the World. Which you exerci&s;e in &s;uch a height, as to have had the boldne&s;s to threaten the Pope with a Schi&s;m; to tell the King of <HI>Spain</HI> your Tongues and Pens had gotten him more Domini|ons than his Armies; to attempt breaking the Li|berties of <HI>Venice;</HI> to be able to rai&s;e Seditions in mo&s;t Countries; and to be dreadful to the very Kings and Princes. And all this, becau&s;e, as Chri&s;t propo&s;ed to his Di&s;ciples the love of one another, for the Badge of Chri&s;tianity; &s;o, your Generals propo&s;e to you blind obedience for the Badge of a <HI>Je&s;uit;</HI> that is, by cooperating with them, to make them powerful and great Lords and your &s;elves invincible, and terrible to all that oppo&s;e you.</P>
<P>For this end you exalt the Popes <HI>Infallibility;</HI> that you may get your Opponents condemned in <HI>Rome,</HI> and then cry them down for <HI>Hereticks.</HI> For this rea&s;on you teach, the Pope to have <HI>all</HI> Autho|rity in the Church, and other Bi&s;hops to be but his Deputies, (&s;o joyning with your Brother-Pre&s;byters in <HI>really</HI> de&s;troying the Hierarchy) that, when you, by Grace or &s;urreption, have purloyn'd a Command from that Court, you may treat all that re&s;i&s;t you, as Schi&s;maticks and Rebels to the Church. Yet if we believe Mr. <HI>White</HI> (acknow|ledged
<PB N="221" REF="65">an able man) they are both damnable He|re&s;ies, and de&s;tructive of Faith and Church: and many others al&s;o of our mo&s;t learned, di&s;like them, though their courage, &amp;c. reaches not to brand them &s;o &s;everely. In this complication of Intere&s;ts, then, and not in your glorious Vow, con&s;i&s;ts the dependence you have &s;o &s;pecially on the Pope, in a matter not of Religion, but of Temporal profit and greatne&s;s.</P>
<P N="9">9. My <HI>Ninth Doubt</HI> is, about the compari&s;on you make between your &s;elves and others; telling us how you <HI>are by &s;pecial Vow, excluded from all Benefices and Dignities, by which the Pope may win the affection of other Church-men.</HI> Concerning which I fir&s;t inquire, whether this be roundly true? I doubt you'd be loth to reject all the Ab|beys and Benefices annexed to your Colledges, to verifie this Vow, as you have &s;et it down in your Paper: and therefore the effect of your Vow is only, that private men may not be alienated from your Order, with hope of quiet lives in &s;uch Be|nefices; and not the contempt of the Power, and Honour following it; as is &s;ufficiently te&s;tified by another Vow of yours; which is, that, if any of yours, for &s;pecial rea&s;ons, be made Bi&s;hop, he &s;hall be bound to be &s;ubject to the Provincial, or Re|ctor of the place of his Re&s;idence, and to take their advice in the government of his Church; which you extend as far as to Cardinals, to a ca|pacity of which <HI>Eminent Dignity,</HI> notwith&s;tand|ing your <HI>&s;pecial Vow,</HI> your Di&s;pen&s;ations ea&s;ily reach. So that your Vow is no Religious one, of de&s;pi&s;ing Honours; but a politick abu&s;e, mask'd
<PB N="123" REF="65">under the veil of Religion, that the abler men of your Order may not be &s;eparated from it, and &s;o the Body may remain the &s;tronger, and your Ge|neral more potent to re&s;i&s;t the Pope him&s;elf.</P>
<P>Neither does this any way dimini&s;h, but in|crea&s;e your dependence on the Pope; both, be|cau&s;e 'tis by him your Hou&s;es are furni&s;ht with Be|nefices, and tho&s;e never to return to the Popes Donation; as becau&s;e you oblige your Friends, by procuring others for them, you being at his el|bow, to &s;ugge&s;t this or that friend, on whom all his Benefices may be conferred: by which means you get the endearment due to the Pope from tho&s;e Friends, to the increa&s;e of your own power and riches; and your &s;elves &s;till find out new pre|tended nece&s;&s;ities to beg more: So that this <HI>Holy Vow</HI> of yours no ways makes you le&s;s &s;ubject to the Pope, but to &s;uck his paps the harder: as tho&s;e know, who have &s;een what pa&s;&s;ed in <HI>France</HI> and <HI>Flanders</HI> the&s;e late years; e&s;pecially under the <HI>Archduke Leopold.</HI></P>
<P N="10">10. Yet have I <HI>another Doubt</HI> concerning this <HI>Vow</HI> of yours, <HI>viz.</HI> Whether it does not make you as refractory to Kings and Princes, as to the Pope? For to &s;peak truth, whatever the Right is in other Countries, in <HI>England,</HI> where the Canons and Con|cordates with the Pope have been out of u&s;e a hundred years, and by con&s;equence, have no force, even in your own Doctors opinions; and there|fore things are to be governed by Nature and Rea&s;on: at lea&s;t, in <HI>England,</HI> I &s;ay, all &s;uch Bene|fices and Collations belong more to the King than to the Pope. For, it being clear, that the Offices
<PB N="124" REF="66">to which Benefices are annexed, are to be provided of able men; and who are able men one can tell that under&s;tand not the Office: 'tis plain, that Secular Clergy-men ought to be the chu&s;ers of Officers of their kind, Regulars of Regular Supe|riors; and by con&s;equence, the Donors of &s;uch Benefices.</P>
<P>But, the people fir&s;t got an influence on the chu|&s;ing of Bi&s;hops, becau&s;e 'twas rationally believed tho&s;e would be able to do mo&s;t good, who were in the peoples good liking. But, when Bi&s;hops grew to have great Revenues, and to be e&s;teemed men of &s;o high Quality in the Common-wealth, the Emperors and Kings began to ca&s;t an eye on their Election; and not without rea&s;on: for it concerns them that none be in eminent places, but &s;uch as they are &s;ecured of will breed no di&s;tur|bance in the Common-wealth. After this, if any Clergy-man had done the King &s;ervice, he found in the be&s;t way of recompence to cau&s;e him to be cho&s;en into a place of Authority and Eminency. The Popes title to the giving of Benefices began by his Office of Patriach of the We&s;t; which, &s;ince the Council of <HI>Nice,</HI> he more narrowly look|ed to the government of; exhorting and corre|cting by Letters &s;uch Bi&s;hops and Churches there, as did not their duties. And this held, till <HI>Pepin</HI> found how efficacious the reverence of the Pope was to make him obeyed, and accepted for <HI>King of France.</HI> Since which time, whether for Ambi|tion, or for &s;ecurity &s;ake, men began to think no Act firm, unle&s;s it were ratified at <HI>Rome.</HI></P>
<P>In times following, the Popes began to have
<PB N="127" REF="66">need of Chri&s;tian Princes: and the&s;e found it the &s;weete&s;t way to help the Popes, by granting im|po&s;ition upon the Clergy. So came the <HI>fir&s;t-fruits</HI> to the Popes; and, to a&s;&s;ure tho&s;e Incomes, the cu&s;tom of having <HI>Bulls</HI> from <HI>Rome</HI> to confirm the Elections of the Clergy, was likewi&s;e introduced. So that, this Authority of the Popes comes from the Princes Agreements with them, and not from any Superiority or Power of the Popes. Where|fore, the&s;e Agreements being, by time and e&s;&s;ential changes, annulled; all giving of Benefices belong to the Chu&s;ers and the King.</P>
<P>I come now to the clo&s;e. If your renouncing of Benefices make you le&s;s &s;ubject to the Pope, as you pretend; it makes you in <HI>England</HI> le&s;s &s;ubject to the King. And, if it makes you more hardly rewardable, and more pre&s;&s;ing on the Pope, it will make you the like to Kings. As, in <HI>Leopold</HI>'s time, you were &s;o wholly the means for coming to <HI>Benefices,</HI> that hardly a command from <HI>Spain</HI> could take place for any that was not your Con|fident.</P>
<P N="11">11. My <HI>Eleventh Doubt</HI> is, how you an&s;wer your bani&s;hment out of <HI>France</HI> and <HI>Venice,</HI> viz. that <HI>Both the&s;e States have repealed their Acts.</HI> Which an&s;wer makes nothing to this, that you either did not de&s;erve the &s;entence, or de&s;erved to have it relea&s;ed; one of which any judicious man would have expected at your hands. Now, to come to particulars; the <HI>Venetians</HI> were &s;o re|&s;olute again&s;t you, that they made it Trea&s;on for any of their State &s;o much as to motion your re|turn, and refu&s;ed divers Princes interce&s;&s;ions for
<PB N="126" REF="67">you. Till their ca&s;e reducing them to fear the &s;lavery of the <HI>Turk,</HI> if they had not the Popes a&s;&s;i&s;tance, promi&s;ed them largely if they would re-admit you: they rather cho&s;e to &s;truggle with your Trea&s;ons at home, than admit the Barbari|ans conque&s;t of their Dominions. Whether they have cau&s;e to repent, or not, I know not; But, the current news at this pre&s;ent is, that the Pope, who procured your admittance, has; ha|ving found you &s;o unfaithful to him, notwith&s;tan|ding all his love to you, in&s;omuch that he's about que&s;tion you, by what means you are &s;o &s;uddenly rai&s;ed to &s;o great wealth: wherein, I fear, he'l not find obedience &s;o ready as he found flattery, when he was to plea&s;ure you.</P>
<P>Your mea&s;ure in <HI>France</HI> was, indeed, hard; the fault being not proved to be univer&s;al but parti|cular; and &s;o, in divers places, was never execu|ted, and ea&s;ie to be repealed, having proceeded more out of pre&s;umption than proof. But, your ca&s;e in <HI>England</HI> is far different; your whole Engli&s;h Congregation following their Head, <HI>Par|&s;ons,</HI> and maintaining his Acts even &s;ince his Death.</P>
<P N="12">12. My <HI>Twelfth Doubt</HI> is, concerning your conclu&s;ion, Whether you intend to mend what, hitherto, you have done ami&s;s; or rather to per|&s;i&s;t in your Equivocations and Di&s;&s;imulations. For, fir&s;t, whereas you being the chiefly or only &s;u&s;pected Body, are therefore bound to offer more &s;atisfaction than others; you make your Propo|&s;ition to &s;ubmit to whatever <HI>all other Catholick Prie&s;ts &s;hall agree to:</HI> which &s;ounds as much as, if
<PB N="127" REF="67">any di&s;agree, you will adhere to them; or, in plain terms, that you'l agree to no more than by &s;hame you &s;hall be forced to, for not plainly ap|pearing the wor&s;t of Prie&s;ts and Enemies to the Catholick Cau&s;e.</P>
<P N="13">13. My <HI>Thirteenth Doubt</HI> is, why you, pre|tending to be the greate&s;t Divines among Catho|licks, remit your &s;elves to the determinations of others, and not, as good Subjects ought, examine what &s;atisfaction is nece&s;&s;ary and fit to be given the State; and both offer it your &s;elves, and pro|voke others to do it, not &s;tanding &s;o &s;crupulou&s;ly upon your generals decree, which &s;urely &s;hould not be thought to bind in &s;uch extreme ca&s;es: even the Laws of the Church, and of general Councils we know oblige not, where our obedience would ruine us; and will you &s;till more preci&s;ely ob&s;erve your own By-Laws, than the &s;acred Canons of the Univer&s;al Church? Methinks therefore, in due &s;a|tisfaction concerning the pretences of the Pope again&s;t the King; whatever Catholick Doctors hold favourable to Princes, in the&s;e differences, &s;hould by you be gathered together, and &s;ub&s;cri|bed, and promi&s;ed to be maintained with all your power. As, fir&s;t, the Doctrine, which denies that the Pope has any Authority in any ca&s;e to depo&s;e, or temporally mole&s;t the King, or any of His Ma|je&s;ties Subjects. Likewi&s;e that he has no Autho|rity to relea&s;e any lawfully made Oath of Alle|giance, or other promi&s;e to his Maje&s;ty, or any of his Subjects. And, becau&s;e none of the&s;e, or the like a&s;&s;ertions can be &s;trong and firm in the mouth of him that holds the Pope's <HI>Infallibility</HI> in deter|mining
<PB N="128" REF="68">points of Faith; but, whenever the Pope &s;hall determine the contrary, he mu&s;t renounce what before he held for good: therefore you &s;hould do the like in re&s;pect of the <HI>Pope's Infalli|bility.</HI></P>
<P>Moreover, becau&s;e, if the Pope, by his own, or any others Authority, may force his Maje&s;ties Subjects to go into Countries where they cannot enjoy the protection of their Prince, the Subjects are not free to maintain the&s;e a&s;&s;ertions: there|fore, this Po&s;ition, al&s;o, that a <HI>Subject to England is bound to appear before any foreign Tribunal, without His Maje&s;ties con&s;ent,</HI> is al&s;o to be con|demned. Nor is it le&s;s nece&s;&s;ary you &s;hould ex|pre&s;ly renounce the Doctrines of <HI>Equivocation</HI> and <HI>Mental Re&s;ervation;</HI> without which all the re&s;t afford very little &s;ecurity; And I could wi&s;h you would find &s;ome way how to a&s;&s;ure us, that, when you &s;olemnly make your di&s;claim of the&s;e la&s;t Opinions, you do not practi&s;e them even while you renounce them. Unle&s;s &s;uch Tenets be &s;tub|bed out of the heads and tongues of your Preach|ers, there cannot be expected any hearty Allegi|ance in the <HI>Je&s;uited Party,</HI> who&s;e con&s;ciences are governed by you; but &s;uch a one as &s;hall waver with every bla&s;t from <HI>Rome.</HI></P>
<P>Neither can any Prie&s;t exempt him&s;elf from &s;ub&s;cribing the condemnation of all the&s;e. For, Ignorance of nece&s;&s;ary truths is not to be allowed in Teachers. And, &s;uppo&s;ing that every one knows the Propo&s;itions are now Articles of Catho|lick Faith, the manife&s;t Inconveniences that fol|low them, will evidently convince they are to be
<PB N="129" REF="68">condemned. For, temporal &s;ubjection to Princes is the main ground of the peace and good govern|ment of the Common-wealth; and what is again&s;t that, is again&s;t the Law of God and Nature.</P>
<P>I &s;hould think it, therefore, not &s;o much your be&s;t, as your only way, to lay a&s;ide your private Intere&s;ts with the Pope, and declare your &s;elves not the la&s;t, but the forwarde&s;t in your Allegiance to His Maje&s;ty, that you may cancel your former proceedings, and blot out the &s;etled Opinion of your Di&s;&s;imulation. You can do it, if you will; for you teach men to depo&s;e their own private con&s;ciences on the Opinions of others. You can|not deny but the contrary Opinions are a&s;&s;erted by Catholick Doctors; and therefore by your own Maximes, 'tis lawful for you to hold them, nor will I now di&s;pute tho&s;e Maximes. It con|cerns you deeply; for, you mu&s;t have a <HI>&s;pecial</HI> favour from the Civil State: and not to pretend to &s;uch, is to profe&s;s you break the Catholick Parliament's Statutes, and pre&s;s the Popes exor|bitant Authority, and draws all your adherents into Trea&s;on before God and a <HI>Praemunire</HI> by the Laws. Think therefore &s;oberly, and conclude &s;trongly what you have to do: and, let not your General's Intere&s;t over&s;way Truth and Ju&s;tice, and your private Good.</P>
<P>Yet one reflection occurs to me worth your no|tice, ri&s;ing from the Report I toucht at the be|ginning, That you, &s;eeing your &s;elves &s;hut out from the Favour Voted by the Hou&s;e of Lords, to other Catholicks, are ca&s;ting about how to &s;top the progre&s;s of that Vote, and prevent its
<PB N="130" REF="69">growing into an Act. Whereupon I rai&s;e this <HI>Quaere,</HI> why you, who are but a particular Body, &s;hould not rather take up your roots and tran&s;|plant; than &s;o to &s;eek your private benefit, that you care not to hazard the whole? Do you not remember how and why you went from <HI>Venice?</HI> you voluntarily departed in pure Obedience to the Pope, upon a quarrel betwixt Him and that <HI>State;</HI> and were only kept out, not &s;ent away: And, were it not now as high a Charity, and as much for your reputation, to yield for a time, till your own deportments &s;hall de&s;erve your re&s;titu|tion; to which nothing can more conduce, than your peaceable departure, e&s;pecially where the circum&s;tances are &s;o different: When you left <HI>Venice,</HI> you were conceived to hope a &s;peedy re|turn, by the Popes Arms and Triumph over your own Country; whereas, if you now go away, your departure will be ab&s;olutely free from the blemi&s;h of that &s;u&s;picion, and remain to all po&s;te|rity an Action of pure Heroick Vertue; while, in &s;o tender a ca&s;e, you prefer the publick before your own pre&s;ent private good. You who could leave a Country, where you were rich and pro&s;pe|rous, meerly to comply with the Pope; can you not now depart from a Country, where your &s;elves &s;ay, you are poor and afflicted, for the uni|ver&s;al good of Religion? El&s;e, will not this pitch of Reluctance &s;avour too rankly of the rich glue which indeed fa&s;tens your hearts here; and be|tray at length to the inqui&s;itive, that your yearly Rents got by the Mi&s;&s;ion in <HI>England,</HI> are more than ten times as much as what belongs to all
<PB N="131" REF="69">Mi&s;&s;ions be&s;ide, both Secular and Regular?</P>
<P>Only this word more: I &s;hall de&s;ire you to con|&s;ider how the Catholicks of <HI>England,</HI> nay of all the World, will be &s;candalized and provoked again&s;t <HI>Je&s;uits,</HI> if they &s;ee you palpably and un|charitably drive on your own Intere&s;t alone, without caring what becomes of Religion, unle&s;s you may have your wills. This I propo&s;e, only upon &s;uppo&s;ition, that the Report is true. For, if you endeavour no more than to procure your &s;elves may be included in the Act, without endan|gering your Neighbours, I heartily wi&s;h you may prove it ju&s;t: but, bethink your &s;elves well of this <HI>Dilemma;</HI> If your &s;olicitings &s;top the progre&s;s of the Act, how will you be hated, as guilty of the continuance of tho&s;e Sanguinary Laws? if your endeavours do not &s;top it, how will you be both hated for attempting it, and &s;corned for mi&s;carry|ing in't?</P>
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