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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A68000	A declaration of the true causes of the great troubles, presupposed to be intended against the realme of England VVherein the indifferent reader shall manifestly perceaue, by whome, and by what means, the realme is broughte into these pretented perills. Seene and allowed.	Verstegan, Richard, ca. 1550-1640.	1592 (1592)	STC 10005; ESTC S101164	40,397	78

inuasions and forreyne warres And howsoeuer the vvisdome of the vvriter of the late ProclamatioÌ„ hath ouermuch presumed vpoÌ„ the readers ignorance in extoling the coÌ„tinuall peace traÌ„quillitie of EnglaÌ„d yet yf the present state thereof be rightly looked into it wilbe fouÌ„de to exceede all former afflictioÌ„s what soeuer And first for matters of religion let vs consider what they are come vnto The Protestantized Caluinisme being but of 33. yeares antiquitie and peculiarly chosen and compounded of many and fully agreeing with none is now growen vnto such diuision in it self as is very wonderful and being established by aucthoritie of a Parlamentall synode and aduanced vnto the highe tytle of the glorious Gospell of Christ hathe not yet bene able so fewe yeares to retaine that credit and esteeme but is growen coÌ„temptible detected of Idolatry heresy and many superstitious abuses by a purified sorte of professors of the same Gospell And this contention is yet become more intricate by reasoÌ„ of a third kynde of Gospellers called Brownistes VVho being directed by greater feruor of the vnholy ghoste do expressly affirme that the Protestanticall Church of EnglaÌ„d is not gathered in the name of Christ but of Antichrist that it woorshipeth not God truly but after a fals idolatrous manner and that yf the Prince or magistrate vnder her do refuse or defer to reforme the Churche the people may without her consent take the reformatioÌ„ into their owne haÌ„des Yea and that the ministry yf their ensue not reformation may for some causes excomunicate the Queene And one VVillam Hacket affirming that he had within him the very soule of our Sauior did send his two prophets to depose her Into such termes is the vnitie of the Gospell now come insomuch that there was neuer more bitter and vehement writing betwene any Catholikes Heretykes then of late there hathe bene betwene the professors of one same Gospell VVhose false faith is not only detected in their owne woordes and writings scoffed at and turned by themselues into a fooles cote but confirmed in the euill lyues and conuersations of theire very ministers And yet notwithstanding their manifest treasonable atteÌ„pts dissention in religion practize of euill lyf the whole force and rigor of persecution is bent against the Catholykes whose great vertue modesty and patience dothe manifeste in them a farr differeÌ„t spirite from the others They neuer discharged pistoles nor yet threwe daggers at preachers in there sermons in this Queens tyme as did the others in the dayes of Queene Mary Neither haue they entred into Churches and wounded Ministers at Seruice as one of them did a Priest at Masse in the tyme of the said Queene Nor yet during the raigne of the Queene that now is haue they coÌ„mitted any violent actes in Churches as Puritaines haue not letted to do in her owne chapell by ouerthrowing casting downe the ornameÌ„ts thereof euen in dispight of her Neither haue they attempted to murther any principall person of her Court as did Burchewe in wounding a Gentleman in stede of Sir Christopher Hatton but haue suffred with exceding patience the greatest iniuries vexations barbarous vsage that flesh and bloudis able to endure Only puritaines are tolerated to say do write what they list be it either in flat deniall of the Supremacie or other rebellious actions these they can excuse by some deuice or other or els they can call with full exclamation Dimitte nobis Barabam but against Catholykes only they cry Nos legem habemus and Crucifige Crucifige Neither had VVilliaÌ„ Hacket bene excuted for his blasphemy or treason yf he had not opeÌ„ly before so many people pronounced the Queens deposition And seeing that so many barbarous lawes as with great diligence and all extremitie haue these many yeares bene vsed could nether extinguish the Catholyke partie at home nor ruyne the Semenaries abrode which more more haue encreased not by force of armes but by euydent truthe To giue the more colour vnto a more cruell persecution the very author of all present and future mischiues dothe seeke by imaginarie feares to drawe mennes considerations from greater calamities and miseries and to turne the hatred which himself hathe deserued vpon a fewe poore Priestes and Iesuites by publishing that they are sent into the realme to perswade men to assist the King of Spaine in an intended inuasion whereas they are not otherwise sent but to exercise their priestly office and function as they go vnto the Indies other places where the exercise of their religion is also prohibited Neither are they in their Seminaries otherwise exercised then in other Scooles and Colleges as are also the Germaines other nations in their Seminaries in Roome and els where which is not of their countrymeÌ„ falsely and malitiously said to be in treason and sedition as England only no place els dothe proclame And it is wounderfull to consider that notwithstaÌ„ding the odious clamours of treasonable practizes daily raised against these men it is well knowne that some of their greatest persecutors haue not letted to offer free libertie and secret protections vnto priestes to reroncyle Catholykes to say Masse to heare Confessions and to do such lyke offices appertaining to their function where and to whome they listed conditionally that they should afterward discouer vnto theÌ„ in what places with what persons they had bene Yea they haue not letted to appoint some of their spies to go to confession of purpose to apprehend and betray their ghostly fathers Such is the impious treacherie of the aduersaries that will not lett to vrge men to the breach of their owne lawes which argueth that it is not sinceritie and zeale of religion that they stand vpon when they will directly apoint the contrary vnto theirs to be exercysed as also that themselues do litle feare such treasons as they pretend to be wrought by priestes when they seke to lycence them and not to prohibite them which proueth also that themselues do well know that Catholikes are exercysed in the offices of their religioÌ„ not in practizes of treason as they vntruly reporte And yet for confirmation of the ill opinioÌ„ they do labor to make the people to haue of them the Archpolitike hathe fraudulently prouyded that when any Catholike or Priest is araigned the enditemeÌ„t is euer farced with many odious matters as of conspiratie killing the Queene stiring the subiects to rebellion drawing them from their obedience the lyke yet when they come to proofes they can proue nothing in the world but only that he is Priest or hathe relieued priests and nothing els being witnessed and somtymes that not knowne neither but by the priestes or other parties owne confession the Iury crieth guilty to all the endytement and the whole enditement is enroled as yf the party had bene iustly conuicted of all that therin is conteyned And vpon this do they so impudently reporte that

none haue beene condeÌ„ned but for treasoÌ„ as they say their enditementes do shew in the recordes VVhereas yf they had recorded no more then had beene prooued as in all law and iustice they were bound they should not finde any one priest Ballard only excepted that euer had any imagination of treason prooued against him And notwithstanding all the aforesaid enfarced treasons conspiracies it is coÌ„monly seene that almost at euery araignment and execution Catholikes are offred their liues liberties yf they will but go to the Churche which doubtlesse can-be no satisfactioÌ„ for any temporall treason but only for matters of religioÌ„ VVhereofno maÌ„ of any vnderstanding can remaine ignorant except such as was the wise gentleman that told a freind of his that he had seene a Priest executed that letted not at the very tyme of his death to coÌ„mitt Highe treason and being asked what it was answered that he began to say his Pater noster in Latin Is it possible quoth the other I assure you quoth this partie it is out of all doute for he begaÌ„ to say it before a multitude of witnesses and would haue said it vnto the end but that as hap was the hangman was redy to dispatche him before he had half donne This diepe conceited person and such as was his compagnion will without any great scruple belieue the proclamation in saying that none are put to death for religion but for treason And the aduersary in somuch labouring to detaine from Catholikes the deserued honor and glory of the cause for which they suffer dothe thereby proclame his owne iniquitie and iniustice to all the world making that to be new Treason which is nothing els but old faith and religioÌ„ A thing as repugnaÌ„t vnto common sence as yf the Pope should make murther thefte or extorsion to be Heresy Yet such is his great and absurd impudeÌ„ce that there is no treason that seemeth greater nor no crime more vnpardonable in England then there to be a Catholike nor yet any offence so seuerely punished There was neuer Scythian nor sauage Tartar that could vse more inhumaine cruelty then to rip vp the bodies of innocent men being perfectly aliue to teare out their entrailes to be consumed with fyre There was neuer Turk nor Barbarian that imposed vpon Christians so great and continuall a tribute as twenty poundes for euery eight-and-twentie dayes absence from their Moskeyes Nor there were neuer Arrians or other ennemyes since the generall persecutions of the Romaine Emperors that more vexed spoiled imprisoned and tortured Catholikes then dothe now the state of England And thus haue I abreuiated vnto the reader a huge volume of the present lamentable state of religion TOuching rhe second point concerning the nuÌ„ber of exterior enemyes how mighte the case be other with England then now it is seeing that during the continuance of thirtie and three yeares they neuer sent foorth any one soldier nor neuer drew swoord in any iust quarrel or honorable action They neuer sought to endomage the Turk the comon enemy of Christendome nor neuer defended any lawful prince or King in all the world But haue inuented prosecuted the most dishonorable inglorious vniust and tyranicall actions that euer were practized by any Christian state VVhen the Queene of Scotland was in her owne realme and they acknowleged her for the lawful prince of that countrie did they giue aid vnto her or vnto her rebells In the tymes of Frauncis Charles and Henry the late Kinges of Fraunce was their assistance giueÌ„ to theÌ„ whome they knew to be lawful Kinges or to their rebells and as for the succour they do now giue vnto Nauarr his Huguenotes it is no otherwise then it was before when they acknowledged theÌ„ to be rebells In this long rebellion in the low countries whether haue they taken parte with the King their old coÌ„federate or with Orange the other rebells wheÌ„ Sebastian king of Portugal warred with the Mahometaines of Africa gaue they ayd vnto the ChristiaÌ„s or vnto the infidells And since in the realme of Portugall gaue they help vnto the lawfull prince or to the bastard his rebell In the warres of Colen did the English succur the lawfull Bishop or the vnlawfull deposed apostata And yf we shal looke into sea matters see who it is that hathe set vp a publike piracie to spare neither freind nor foe Aske the Spanish the FreÌ„ch the Scottish the Flemish the HauÌ„ce townes yea the Indies and further partes of the earth who they are that do so coÌ„tinually robbe and spoile theÌ„ Yf the English had but only procured the king of Spaine to be their enemy they needed not to haue soughte any others for neither England nor any other Christian country els hathe euer had any so great And as they haue made espetiall choise of the enmitie of the greatest so haue they employed the tyme of 33 yeares to deserue it And as for the King of Scotland albeit he do dissemble amoÌ„g many lesse iniuries one so great as the cutting of of his owne mothers head yet some of his owne nation being of good intelligence haue said vnto straungers in defence of their Kinges honor that albeit they of England haue cut of the head of his mother he must not therefore by vn-tymely reuenge cut him-self from the possibilitie of that crowne But hauing once obtained thesame he will then fall to the cutting of of the heades of those that assented to that action and to the confiscatioÌ„ of their landes and goodes therewith to reward his freindes followers and so demonstrate vnto the world that he could politikely chuse a tyme conuenieÌ„t to discharge such duty as is incident vnto the honor and reputation of a King And touching Fraunce albeit that by the death of the three late Kinges the iniuries doÌ„ne vnto them cannot be by them remembred yet the people of the realme that were participaÌ„t of the wroÌ„ges are still lyuing in whome the desyre of reuenge is of late newly reuyued throughe the assisting of the Huguenote of Nauarr their capitall enemy but not their lawfull King And last of all which of al other is the greatest there extreme enmitie with the chief Bishop pastor of Gods Churche VVhereof ensueth their general discord with all the Catholike ChristiaÌ„s of the world Thus the realme of England being brought into breach of amitie not only with the Churche of God but with all their old alies and freindes yf we now consider with whome they are ioyned in true freindship we shal fynde them to be so fewe as none at all since they haue neither spared to offend freind nor foe But yf we looke what new confederates they haue chosen in stede of the old we shall see them to be the great Turk the kinges of Fesse Marocco and Algiers or other Mahometains and Moores of Barbarie all professed enemies to Christ. Against whome some of the most noble and famous kinges of England went

him a writer vnder some clerck or officier of the courte had bene very conuenieÌ„t for him because as a courtier told her he was fittest for such purpose for that he caried his deske on his back But such is the omnipotencie of his father that he plotteth to effectuate greater thinges theÌ„ this and thinketh to determyne bothe of crowne and kingdome and to dispose of prince and people and to purchase his desyred greatnesse with the effusion of the blood of somany thowsandes as he shal list to send vnto the slaughter He hathe of late bene very vigilaÌ„t to fynde such in the Queenes debt after their deceasse as before by her fauour and countenaÌ„ce vsed extorsions in the comon welth but himself yf he were wel looked vnto would be found much more in her debt by how much more he hathe menaged her treasure so long a tyme together and wrong himself into so many matters of gaine and was neuer yet accomptable for all the thirtene score poundes by yeare which he hathe exacted of somany Catholike recusants VVhat should I speake of his pluralitie of offices wherewith he can neuer be contented but maketh a monopoly of all thinges within the realme that any way may turne to his comoditie By which meanes his gettinges are so infinite that his seruantes with the very shreddes of his briberies and extorsions are able to purchase great reneuewes to buyld stately palaces yet himself is so encroching that he letteth not to entrude into Churche matters yea and to contend with the B. of Canterbury about the appointing of preachers He kepeth I knowe not by what vnhappy coÌ„stellation or rather deuilish enchauntemeÌ„t the fauour of his prince which neuer subiect somuch abused He hathe made himself the very owner of her determinations not permitting her to recompence the seruice of her other officers seruantes and diuers tymes when she hathe promised reward he denieth her the meanes of performance and so forceth her to breake and go from her woorde yea he maketh her accoÌ„ptable to hiÌ„ how she enteÌ„deth to dispose of her owne which yet must neuer be but as himself lyketh Al men may iustly lay vnto him the vndoing of the realme not somuch coÌ„demning her whose sexe is easy to be mis-led nor the rest of the councell whose willes by him are violently ouerruled He is neither embraced in the courte nor beloued in the couÌ„try He is freindly to none but for his owne profit He is not welcome to his peeres nor of affection followed of his inferiors but resembleth a storme in the aire which all creatures do feare and shun and none do loue or desyre And albeit that he now in his altytude dothe manifest in himself the very nature and conditioÌ„ of a Tyrant whose vile and abiect courage is to murther butcher such as innoceÌ„tly liue vnder his iurisdictioÌ„ let him not think that thereby he can diuert the iust iudgmeÌ„t of God vnto whome their sacred bloode do the incessantly call for ven geance Nor that all the reuenges of iniuries wroÌ„ges and violences don vnto other princes and espetially vnto the King of Spaine caÌ„ possibly be auoyded by his killing of a fewe poore priestes and Iesuytes which he may assure himself should be remembred yf there were neither Iesuyte nor Seminarie Priest liuing in the world And he that preserued his Prophets Apostles and the holy men of the primitiue Churche in caues dennes woodes wildernesses fed theÌ„ miraculously from heaueÌ„ will not forsake those that shall serue him sincerely but will giue theÌ„ courage and meanes also bothe to enter and to abyde in the realme and there to serue such numbers as of mercie he will haue saued Against which apostolicall practize let him prosecute what new Cecillian Inquisition he can deuise and to vexe forraine princes abrode let him make as many shippes to the sea as he list and to fortifie himself at home let him commaunde as many musters by land as he pleaseth our hope and confidence is in God who can dissipate the councell of Achitophel and all others that are against him During the tyme of thirty and three yeares bothe lawe swoord all humaine force hathe bene vsed to extinguishe the Catholike party pulpites proclamations and all meanes els employed against it their liuinges comodities disposed of by the aduersary and yet thesame standeth and putteth him in more feare then euer afore And yf he were not blynde perhappes by God himself blynded for his sinnes he would seeke another way to saue himself ab ira ventura which is to cease from persecuting of Gods Churche and to returne vnto the obedience thereof where is mercy the only way to remedy all these feares to escape that which he feareth not and that is eternall damnation THus good reader haue I briefly ended this precedent discours and declared vnto thee bothe by whose meanes and in what manner the realme of England is distressed with somany present calamities and deliuered to such feares of greater future troobles The mature consideration of the premises I refer vnto thy indifferent iudgement The iust blame of these euills where it is iustly deserued And the reformation of so great iniquity to the infynite mercy of almighty God who voutsaf to woork thesame by the sweetest easiest meanes that his iustice may admitt And now in conclusion I haue not deemed it amisse to giue the some caueat of a vile and hatefull kynde of dealing which the aduersary of late hathe vsed in diuulging nuÌ„bers of false and defamatorie libells which it seemeth custome hathe made so familiar to the libellers themselues that by an ordinary habite which therein they haue gotten they seme to haue forgotten that there is any difference betwene lying and telling ttuthe for otherwise it might be presumed they would neuer so greatly busy themselues so egregiously to abuse the world And albeit as the Psalme saith MeÌ„tita est iniquitas sibi that these libells do comonly cary their owne discredit in themselues by being ouercharged with most palpable lies yet because they tend vnto the furtherance of the pretended Gospell and that the necessitie of that cause so much requireth it they must passe without contradiction of them that can detect them of falshoode and be taken for verities of those that are not able to discerne them for vntruthes And therefore in respect of pitie of the abused multytude I wil make recitall of some fewe of this kynde to the end that the reader may giue such creditt vnto the lyke hereafter as he shall well perceaue the former to haue deserued Of these sortes of libells many do declare great numbers of French Flemish victories which are so famous that sundry of them were neuer knowne nor heard of in all the world but only in England Others are of obscure and tryfling matters except such as is that of the happy conquest of the suburbes of Paris c.

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