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A96038	A discovery of the Popes pride, ambition and cruelty, in a tyrannicall, barbarous and bloudy manner exercised on Emperours, Kings, and kingdomes the miseries, ruine, and desolations by them brought on the Christian world. With their vitious and unchaste lives, their wicked practices for obtaining the Popedome, by murthers, poysonings, &c. / By J.V.	J. V.	1651 (1651)	Wing V7A; ESTC R230526	42,039	47

sincerity of heart although the sins of our Nation in generall may justly provoke our God to punish us by them that hate us for that cause that instead of extirpating Popery and superstition a thing nor hard to be done in humane reason if the children of Papists were carefully educated under Protestant Tutors we thinke their Religion tolerable and nothing so dangerous to soul or body as some men seem to make it Should we not detest and abhorre the Religion of such a generation as count they doe God good service by killing us witnesse the bloudy Persecution under Qu. Mary and the damnable plot of the Gun-powder-Treason Yet some there are that would seem Protestants and yet deny that their cruelty was such as the Authour of the English Martyrology makes the Marian persecution to be Others of no small esteem in the Church of England instead of acknowledging Foxes History a Monument of Martyrs call it a Book fraught with Traitors and Heretiques And for the Gun-powder conspiracy some affirm it the deeds of a few male-contents farre from the approbation of the Catholiques others as falsely that there was no such Treason intended but that it was an invention of him whom in reverence I forbeare to name But yet this may incourage us that God will still preserve us for their sakes that have now and heretofore stoutly defended Gods true Religion and that in very many places of this Land we have had those that with all their power have opposed the very beginnings of Popery But wonderfull it is and scarcely credible that any should so much have forgotten the Gun-powder-Treason as to say that they would rather trust a Papist then a Puritan as if they believed not there was any such Treason or had forgotten it or that they thought that those whom men call Puritans were traiterously minded and bloudy persons In the most Reverend and Judicious Assembly of this Kingdome a Member of that Assembly declared in particulars how the best men have bin branded with the name of Puritan it was where any man might freely have spoken yet no man contradicted him If it be given sometime to the best without question those ordinarily called by that bie name are none of the worst because from likenesse at least divers men have one Name We will acknowledge hypocrites among them but because one is such no man will conclude they must be all so No man of us almost abhorreth the name of Protestant to be given him and yet of these some will lie others will steale and a third sort will do worse Since this Parliament perhaps I imagine the time and reason aright the Jesuites and Jesuited have invented a strange name for such men and let fall the reproach of Puritan They call them by a figurative name which is ignorantly spoken by most falsly by all and as the roundest figure is of the largest capacity so they have shaped them a name which larger then Precisian Brownist or the like surroundeth every one that thinketh it not a just thing to rail against the Parliament or curse the Fathers of his Country But I desire not to be called but to be totus teres atque rotundus So much by the way to fall upon the busines now The King of Spaine offereth Marriage to the Queen AT the beginning of the raigne of Qu. Elizabeth Philip the second of Spaine sought to win her to him by Marriage not doubting to procure a dispensation for the Incest but was as wisely answered as he wickedly and craftily intended that the Queen could not so soon forget her Sisters death she knowing it to be a part of discretion to keep in hope so potent an Adversary if he should be incensed by a denyall her own Kingdom by reason of the change of Religion and the depriving of many Popish Bishops which the blinded people had in some esteem among many other alterations being of doubtfull affections till she could better provide for her own security The Spaniard in the mean time perceived that his suit was not like to succeed when the thought of uniting England to Spaine by the marriage of Q. Elizabeth if like her sister Mary she proved not barren was taken away he took hold on the next occasion The practice of the Guises with the Queen of Scots against ENGLAND MAry now Queene of Scots Daughter and heire apparant unto James the fift and Wife unto Francis Dauphine of France Daughter of Mary of Loraine who was Sister unto the Duke of Guise She after the death of Qu. Mary of England being incouraged thereunto by the Guises her Uncles usurpeth the Armes of England uniting them to the Armes of Scotland on her plate in the windowes of her house and on her servants coats declaring her selfe thereby Queen of England Her meaning was well understood and this it is very probable in the fourth yeare of Qu. Elizabeth made Arthur Poole and his Brethren descended of George Duke of Clarence Brother to Edward the fourth and Anthony Fortescue their Brother in law with their confederates to conspire secretly to fly unto the Guises in France and thence and with their help to come with an Army into Wales and ther to proclaime the Queen of Scots Queen of England and Arthur Poole Duke of Clarence God was pleased in a very good time to discover this Plot. For had they gone thither and discovered their intents it had if God had not powerfully opposed it not only animated the Guises to have seconded them and furnished them with men and mony but having returned into Wales they would have gathered great forces to augment their numbers and put the Queen to the incomparable trouble and danger of a civill warre Beside all this she had at this time on every side enemies abroad the French King the King of Spaine the Guisian and Popish faction in Scotland The loyall people of Scotland were so unable to helpe her that they stood in need of her helpe The Low-Countries were under Spanish tyranny and a convenient place from whence to annoy this Kingdome The Conspiratours confessed that they did not intend to put in practise this thing during the life of our Queen for indeed they were made beleeve by predictions of Popish Astrologians that Qu. Elizabeth could not live above one yeare The good Queen notwithstanding pardoned their lives after sentence of death upon them from their own confession And how zealously the Guises endeavoured to invade England may appeare by the inclination of Sebastian Martigius sent into Scotland by the counsell of the Guises for about those times their alone counsels were principally followed with Horse and Foot to assist in the civill warre of Scotland who could hardly be restrained from invading England presently and first of all presuming no question on the ayde of Papists in England from intelligence held with them here For otherwise what could a 1000. Horse and not very many Foot do in respect of conquering all England

Now was the Queen of Scots in France and although the Regency of Scotland was put into the hands of the Marquesse of Hamilion yet the power of the Qu. Dowager with her French faction did so increase and on the other side the authority of the Marquesse Regent so abate that after the promise from the French King of 12000. crowns by the yeare and Duchy of Castle Herald to which was added the preferment of all the Marquesses chiefe kindred the Marquesse resigned his place into the hands of Mary of Loraigne Qu. Dowager a thing for a woman to be Regent in Scotland but once before known She had made many promises unto the Scots of the freedome of exercising the Protestant Religion but being now setled in the Regency she discovered her mind wholly bent to alter Religion She told her friends in plain tearmes that though the Ministers whom she named should preach more honestly or as she called it more sincerely then they had done yet they should all be banished She expressed at the death of a young-man whom she seemed to bewaile being slain for that his father had not rather excused him being a stout defender of the reformed Religion that she was cruelly minded toward the Professours thereof Easter also was commanded to be celebrated after the Romish custome For these and divers other overtures of her Messengers were sent unto her to desire her to be good to the Protestants and to remember the many promises she had made unto them to that end But all in vaine She told the Earle of Glencarne and Sir John Cambell who were sent unto her that performance of promises was to be expected from Princes no farther then stood with their profit Upon this they told one another that they then renounced all obedience and duty toward her Violence now with art was to be used for effecting her purpose touching Religion Hereupon advice was given by Labrosse a French Commander in Scotland to put to death all the Nobility of Scotland for that the people being bereaved of their heads would after be easily brought to undergo any yoake but that things might appeare with a more pleasing colour there was a shew as if the Queen had laboured and would endeavour to convince her adversaries in Religion by no other way but by arguments Into Scotland were sent 3. Sorbon Doctours with the Bishop of Amiens But with what safety might any man dispute with them when he that did so was in the midst of his armed enemies and there was greatest feare of violence from the disputers themselves For the Bishop of Amiens counselled the Queen Regent that if any there were which should be found to dispute against these Romish Decrees he should be put to death yea even those who but seemed to be of another mind only We are not informed that the Qu. Regent put in practice the fore-going counsels perhaps the time was not altogether seasonable nor doe we take every single action which might conduce to the subverting of Religion to be a conspiracy but we may well esteem by the Queens words the Counsellours and Commanders intents and purposes the placing of such a Regent all this to be a continued conspiracy to strangle in the birth the Church of Scotland having yet scarcely taken breath in the world Not long after the Qu. Regent dyeth and although it will perhaps be said there was no discovery of any conspiracy which was in acting as to put to death all the Nobility or all that would dare dispute against the Bishop or Doctors could be no easie taske to goe about the latter because the death of their last Martyr Walter Mille did seem so grievous unto them and if any more should suffer how would such a thing be taken by French-men people of another Nation It may be objected from the above named arguments that there wanted no endeavour After the death of the Mother the Daughter returning into Scotland was married unto Henry Lord Darnley who being of the same Religion with the Queen and they both a brothers and sisters children did strongly maintain Popery against the Protestant Religion We cannot imagine here that any thing should be contrived against the lives of those Princes by a Popish party to overthrow Religion For to subvert Religion no way could be found better then by maintaining in life and honour such Princes as these two were who professed and maintained Popery as contrarily to subvert Religion Laws Liberties and the like the best means are thorough the sides of such Kings and Queens as are projectors and maintainers of them So the holy Scripture declareth by word and example I will smite the Shepheard and the sheepe shall be scattered For this Queen was so far from furthering the establishment of Religion nay from connivence at those who should goe about any such matter that she professed that she would follow the example of her cousin Qu. Mary of England which was no other thing then maintaining in her dominions the Pope and Popery and punishing the contrary minded as Hereticks It will not be thought I suppose that either the Papists at home in Scotland or those in France or els where would go about to take away the lives of such Princes whose lives secured their Religion For what was attempted against the life and most unhappily succeeded of the King was not any way to subvert Popery because the deed was committed and the plot chiefly layed by Papists It rather was undertaken against the life of this Prince by some to make way for their own family to inherit the Crowne of Scotland by others to get the Kingdome and admit any Religion But those which look farther into matters judge this act to be committed against a Professour of the Romish Religion that he being taken out of the way another might succeed which had greater power and friends to bring to passe what K. Henry the Queens husband had a mind but not power enough to do And that made those which were no enemies to the King in point of Religion not dislike the Treason for the ends sake I cannot be of their minds altogether who judge that of the Queen of Scots being now in restraint in England not long before married to Earle Bothnile and presently to desire a divorce from him and to require that he should be summoned within the space of a very few days to return into the Kingdom to make answer and defence to the Queens suit of divorce to have proceeded from the changing fancy of the Queen not so much from conscience For it was as well known before her departure into England as after that Earle Bothnile had a wife living when he married the Queen in so much that at the publishing of the banes of their Matrimony one stood up in the Church and forbad them It was generally thought that it was that a way might be open for the Duke of Norfolk who then made suit unto her He indeed

and died stark mad This yeare 1580. Priests and Seminaries much increasing in England severe Laws were enacted against them These were for the most part bred in the English Colledge of Doway founded by the procurement of Alan somtimes a student in Oxford afterward Priest and Cardinall in the year 1568. Afterward under Requesenius government in the Low-countries when the wars were betwixt England and Spain the fugitives were thrust from thence and 2. Colledges erected for them one at Rhemes the other at Rome the first by the Guises the 2d by Gregory the 13. From these places rose in England Hanse Nelson Main Sherward Priests who reported Q. Elizabeth to be an Heretick and so ought to be deposed for which they suffred In the aforesaid yeare 1580. Robert Parsons a man of a turbulent spirit and impudent Campian a more modest man both Jesuites they to serve the Catholicks turns obtained of Pope Gregory an interpretation of Pius his Bull against Q Elizabeth that it bound the Q. and Hereticks always but not Catholicks till a convenient season Campian wrote a Book intituled 10 Reasons in defence of Rome M. Chark answered him soberly Parsons wrote against Chark virulently but Camp 10 Reasons were thorowly answered by D. Whitaker Campian and others condemned EDmund Campian Ralfe Sherwin Luke Kirby Alexander Briant were taken in the year 1581 as Traitors to the Q. and State and condemned for comming into England to stir up sedition Still more and more Priests came into England and for their dangerous doctrin that Princes excommunicate were to be thrown out of their Kingdomes that Princes of any other then the Roman Religion had lost their Kingly dignity that those who had taken orders were freed from Princes jurisdiction and not bound by their Laws it was enacted 1582. that it should be treason to disswade any Subject from his allegiance and from the Religion established in England c. Somerviles attempt to kill the Queen AN Dom 1583. divers Priests and Jesuites wrote dangerous books against Q. Eliz. and certain other Princes excommunicated which prevailed so far that one Somervil a Gentleman breathing out nothing but bloud against the Protestants secretly sought entrance into the Queens presence with a drawn sword set upon one or two in his way and being apprehended confessed that he purposed to have killed the Queen Ed. Arden his father in law a Gentleman of Warwick-shiere and Arderns wife and their daughter Somervils wife and Hall a Priest were condemned as guilty of Somervils practise After 3 days Somervile was found strangled in prison for fear of revealing it as was thought where he lay and Ardern was hanged the next day Mendoza the Spanish Ambassadour thrust out of England IN 1584. some English Gentlemen began to practise the delivery of the Qu. of Scots Francis Throgmorton was suspected by letters written to the Qu. of Scots and intercepted Presently Thomas Lord Paget and Charles Arundell a Courtier left the Land secretly Henry Earle of Northumberland and Philip Earle of Arundel were commanded to their houses And there was great cause of circumspection for the Papists by printed Books incited the Maids of Honour to do that against the Qu. that Judith did against Holofernes Yet was the Queens mercy such that she caused 70. Priests to be sent out of England The chief of them were Gasper Heywood who of all the Jesuites first came into England James Bosgrave John Hart and Edward Rishton who presently after wrote a book against the Queen At this time Bernardinus Mendoza the Spanish Ambassadour was thrust out of England for practising Treason against the State He having dealt with Throgmorton and others to bring in strangers to invade the Land as appeared by Throgmortons action who being apprehended sent one of his packets to Mendoza his other packets being searched there was found a catalogue of all the Havens in England fit to land in and another of all the Noblemen in England which favoured the Romish Religion And he did not deny that he had promised his help to Mendoza and the help of those Nobles it was fit he should deale with A Popish practise against Qu. Elizabeth discovered not without a miracle by Creightous torne Papers a Scottish Jesuite QUeen Elizabeth that rare Paragon of her Sex and that fairly flourishing Flower which Traitors though oft attempted could never nip nor crop up being a Princesse both prudent pious and pittifull seeking therefore a faire opportunity and sutable meanes to set the Queen of Scots at those times tainted with some treasonable practises against her Crown and Person at liberty and for that purpose sent Sr. William Wade who was then returned out of Spain to confer with her of the meanes therunto And the good Queen was about to send Sr. Walter Mildmay to bring this ayme of hers to further issue But some terrours and feares in the interim brake-out between them which disturbed that intention especially by a notable discovery by certain papers which one Creighton a Jesuite sailing into Scotland did then teare in peeces when he was apprehended in the Ship by Dutch-Pirates at Sea whose person being by them ceased-on he tooke forth his papers wherin it seems the project of a traiterous plot against Qu. Elizabeth at that time was described tore them into small peeces and with all his force threw them into the Sea But see how the Lords good providence ordered it as they flew in the ayre the winde blew stifly by force wherof they were all blowne back again into the ship even in a miraculous manner as the Jesuite himself confessed when he saw it Which papers were all kept and gathered together sent to England to Sr. William Wade aforesaid and with much labour and singular skill so joyned and set together again that he found they contained a notable new plot among many other of the Popes the Spaniards and the Guises resolution to invade England Wherupon and by reason of many other rumors of dangers intended against the Queen and whole Kingdome of England a great number of all sorts of men out of common charity and to shew their love and affectionate care of the welfare of the Queen and State bound themselves by an association as then it was called by mutuall promises and subscriptions of hands and seales to prosecute all such by all their force and might even unto death that should attempt any thing against the life of the Queen or welfare of the Kingdome Now the Queen of Scots tooke this as a thing devised to bring her into danger and she also was so continually set upon by seditious spirits who if they may but have accesse are able to draw the greatest Princes to destruction And what have bin their practises from time to time but to bring great personages and greatest Families to ruine Lamentable experience shews openly the fruit of their malice and mischievous plots of treason which they impiously and audaciously call and count nothing els but

advancing of their Catholike cause Now the Scots-Queen led on by her blind guides dealt most importunely with the Pope and Spaniard by Sir Francis Englefield that by all meanes they would with speed undertake their intended businesse namely the invasion of our Realme For the advancing wherof the Pope and Spaniard had resolved on these points 1. That Qu. Elizabeth should be deprived of her Kingdom 2. That the King of Scots a manifest favourer of heresie should utterly be dis-inherited of the Kingdom of England 3. That the Scots-Queen should marry some noble man of England that was a Catholike 4. That this man must be chosen King of England by the Catholikes of England 5. That this choice so made must be confirmed by the Pope 6. That the children of him so chosen begotten of the Scots-Queen must be declared Successours in the Kingdom All these things were confirmed to be true by the testimony of one Hart a Priest Who was that noble English-man that should marry the Scots-Queen was much enquired after by Sir Francis Walsingham with all diligence but not certainly found out yet there was strong suspition of Henry Howard brother to the Duke of Norfolke who was noble by birth unmarried and a fast favourer of that Religion and in great grace and favour with them All these things were discovered by this Creighton the Jesuites torn Papers as afore-said And all this their plotting and contriving of France Spaine and the Pope against Queene Elizabeth and King James for no other cause but for their Religion which they had now fairely begun to establish among their people Parry executed for Treason IN the yeare 1585. William Parry a Welch-man and Doctor of Law spake against that Law which in the Parliament then held was exhibited and called it a bloudy Law Presently after he was accused of practising the Queens death He confessed voluntarily in the Tower that having obtained the Queens pardon for breaking into the chamber and wounding one Hare for which he was condemned he being a sworne fervant to the Queen From England he went into France and was reconciled Afterward at Venice in consultation with Benedict Palmeus he told him that he had found out a way to help the afflicted Catholikes in England if the Pope or some learned Divines would approve it as lawfull The Jesuite Palmius approved it Next in France one Morgan drew him to consent to murder the Queen if it should prove lawfull This act the Popes Nuntio Ragazonius commended Parry afterward having accesse to the Queen shewed her all and not long after Cardinall Come his letter approving the enterprise Now he taketh a new resolution to perform it encouraged specially by D. Alins Book teaching that Princes excommunicate are to be spoiled of their Kingdoms and lives These with many other things Parry confessed before the Lord Hunsdon Sr. Christopher Hatton and Sr. Francis Walsingham In Westminster Hall the heads of his accusation being read he confessed himself guilty He died in the Palace-yard before Westminster Hall not once calling on the name of God At this time also Henry Earle of Northumb for entring into traiterous counsels with Paget and the Guises to invade England was cast into the Tower where he was found dead being shot with 3. bullets under his left pap the chamber door bolted in the inside A pistoll was found in his chamber and himself the author of his own death Thus from time to time the most noble Families of England have bin seduced and ruined by the false and bewitching counsels of Jesuits and Seminaries Savages attempt to kill the Queen NOw againe there was a most abominable treason conspired and voluntarily confessed by the conspirators One Gifford a Doctor in Divinity Gilbert Gifford and Hodgeson Priests perswaded one John Savage a bloody fellow to undertake to kill Queen Elizabeth To hide their mischievous intents more cunningly from the Queens Counsell who were very carefull to fore-see all danger they wrote a Book in which they advise the Papists in England not to goe about to hurt the Queen For they were to use no other weapons against their Prince then the Christian weapons of Teares Fasting Prayers and the like and most cunningly also these Foxes spread a rumour that George Gifford one of the Queens Pensioners had sworne to kill the Queen and for that cause had gotten from the Guises a very great summe of Mony The Easter following John Ballard an English Priest of the Colledge of Rhemes was come into England who had bin trying the minds of Papists in England and Scotland He had dealt with Mendoza the Spanish Ambassador in France Charles Paget and others for the invasion of England And although it seemed to be a very hard work yet he had sworne to use his utmost endeavour in it and also for the liberty of the Queen of Scots At Whitsuntide in a Souldiers habit and under the name of Captain Fortescue he had a conference in London with Anthony Babington a young Gentleman of Darby-shiere Romishly affected who not long before in France had conference with Thomas Morgan and the Bishop of Glasco the Scotch Queens Ambassadour He was drawn by them shewing him most assured hopes of honour from her to addict himselfe to them and by their meanes had favourable letters from her Ballard and Babington conferred together concerning the invasion of England but it was not deemed a thing could be done Queen Elizabeth being alive Then Ballard informed Babington that Savage had undertooke to kill her Babingtons advice was that it should not be committed to Savage alone least perhaps he might be hindered but to six resolute men of which number Savage should be one Vpon this Babington took into his consideration the Ports in which the invaders should land the confederates that should joyne in the act of murdering Q. Elizabeth and delivering the Scots-Queen In the mean time a letter was brought from the imprisoned Queen to Babington in a secret character blaming Babingtons long silence but he excused it because she was under the custody of Sr. Amice Paulet a severe keeper declared unto her that which Ballard and he had resolved before and that himself with one hundred more would deliver her The purpose by her letters unto Babington was commended and it was advised that it should be undertaken considerately and nothing should be moved before they were sure of externall forces that they should make an association as if they feared the Puritans that some tumults might be raised in Ireland while the thing should be done here That Arundell and his brethren and Northumb should be drawn to the side Westmerland Paget and others called home The way to deliver the Scots-Queen was appointed to overthrow a Coach in the gate or set the Stables on fire or intercept her as she rode to take the aire betwixt Chartly and Stafford Babington undertook for rewards to all that should give their help He had gotten unto him Edward Windsor