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A03851	A view of the Romish hydra and monster, traison, against the Lords annointed: condemned by Dauid, I. Sam. 26. and nowe confuted in seuen sermons to perswade obedience to princes, concord among our selues, and a generall reformation and repentaunce in all states: by L.H.; View of the Romish hydra and monster, traison, against the Lords annointed: condemned by David, I. Sam. 26. and nowe confuted in seven sermons.	Humphrey, Laurence, 1525 or 6-1589.	1588 (1588)	STC 13966; ESTC S118809	105,796	218

treachery of her owne children as by their default Euen so our king Egilred or as others terme him Ethelred complaineth in an Oration in this sort Wee are ouercome of the Danes not with weapon or force of armes but with treason wrought by our owne people The cause is opened by Matthaeus Westmonasteriensis Pag. 396. that when the King and his Sonne Edmond were like to haue the vpper hād against Cneuto or Canutus the King of the Danes Edrike Traitour Eadricus plaied the traytour went about by sleight and subtilty and allured of the Kinges Nauy forty shippes and he slipped to Canutus and subiected himselfe to his dominion whereby west-Saxonie and the Mercians with their horses and artillery offered themselues to him Intimatum est Regi quod nisi cautius sibi prouideret ipse à Gente propria hostibus traderetur It was priuily told the King that if hee did not prouide for himselfe more warily hee should bee berraied into the handes of his enemies by his owne nation I signified before how King Edmond surnamed Ferreum Latus Iron-side at Oxford being at the Priuy on Saint Andrewes night was slaine by the Sonne of Eadrik through the fathers instigation the father after the fact cōmeth to Canutus with this salutatiō Aue Rex solus Matth. Westmona pag. 402. Polyd. Vir. Ang. Hist lib. 7. Hail O King alone but he heard this his rewarde by Canutus Ego te hodie ob tanti obsequij meritum cunctis regni proceribus reddam celsiorem For this your great seruice I wil exalt you set you higher than al the Peers of the realm Periury and perdition or treason had in this realme euermore according to their desert When King Edward the Confessour kept his solemnity of Easter at Winchester at dinner Earle Goodwine being burthened at the table with the treacherous murder of his brother Aelfredus Earle Goodwin added to the murther periury and desired of God as hee was true and iust that the morsell of bread which hee held in his hand might neuer passe his throate if his brother by himselfe or by his counsail at any time were neerer to death A terrible example against forswearing and any way further from life so putting the bread into his mouth with an il conscience was choked by it When the King sawe him pale and without breath Carry out saith he this dog Jn vita Edwardi Confessor this traytour bury him in the quadrangle for he is vnwoorthy to enioy Christian burial Another traytor in the time of Egilred or Ethelred was Elfrik who being made Lieutenant of the Kings army left his Master Elfrick and took part with the Danes vpon the suddain when he should haue discharged vpon the enemies of the King and the country Polyd. Vir. lib. 7. but afterward being Admiral of the Kinges Nauy and destitute of all hope of preferment with the enemy because he returned to the King craued pardon his punishment was mitigated for he saued his life with the losse only of his eies In the time of King Edwarde the first the Scots breaking peace which they had made to their liege Lorde King of England and conspiring nowe with the king of Fraunce partly because Iohn Beliol by the king of England was made their King one Thomas Turbeuile more acquainted with chiualry than honesty Th. Turbeuile plaid on both sides promising to the French-men that by treason they should possesse the Kingdome of England vppon condition to receiue a large summe of mony land leauing for assurance his two children as Hostages And so that deceiuer returning from beyond the Sea tolde the King of England another Parasiticall tale howe hee escaped hardly out of prison how he had learned the weaknesse of Fraunce But here a crooked Snake lurked hee caried poyson mingled with hony wherewith they that touched it might be infected creeping into fauour into the secret counsels of the Realm set down al in writing directed thē to the Prouost of Paris This fraude fact being opened by the prouidence of God who is wel called of the autor Exterminator impiorū The destroier of the wicked declared to the king he was immediatly by sergeants apprehended bound with cordes carried to iudgement accused and by his owne confession condemned First laid vpon an Ox hide drawen at horse tailes thorough London guarded with disguised tormentours baited at railed on by the way mocked was hanged his body vnburied the people passing by scornfully asking Mat. West in Edou 1. Is this Thomas Turbeuile Whose Epitaph a versifier wrote in this sort That Turbeuile was a troubler of the tranquillity quietnes of the Realme therefore hee that would bee an hoate burning sparkle was become a dead spark himselfe as in those rythmes may appeere at large whereof this is the beginning Turbat tranquilla clam Thomas turbida villa Qui quasi scintilla fuit accidit esse fauilla In the time of Edward the second Andrew Earle of Carlile Andreas Hartlee created Earle of Carlile at York sent by the King into Scotland to King Robert to intreat of Peace made another matter turned it into a message for war priuily fraudulently to compasse the destruction of his owne King This though contriued secretly yet it was certified to the King hee immediatly at his returne vpon the commandement of the King Polyd. Vir. Hist Ang. lib. 18. was attached taken by the guard so by by cōuicted put to death Ita Andreas crucem sibi construxit ex qua penderet So Andrewe prepared for himselfe a Gallose to hang vpon made a rodde for his owne tasle In the time of Edwarde the third like conspiracies against the Prince had the like measure Polyd. l. 19. when Edmond Earle of Kent Roger Mortimer others were beheadded Thus you see exemplified by these traitors that which was by Lawes enacted as also by another example of an Italian indeuouring to betray Calice to the French An Ita●●● trick against Calice For when an English man had committed it vnto the Italian the French-man knowing the nature of that Nation to be most couetous of golde secretly dealt with him that he would sel the castle to him for twenty thousand crownes The Englishman being made priuy of this dissembleth all thinges driueth out the French and taketh them with them the principall cause of that treachery In the time of Richard the second there was a conspiracy of some Jn Epit. Frosardi lib. 1. Eccle. 10. Ansley and Carton that had in their mouth the Prouerbe of the Hebrues Woe be to the Land whose King is a Childe And of others euen in the court as of Iohn Ansley knight and of Hugh Carton minding with their complices to set vpon the King and to murder him although they two were enemies before yet in this made one agreeing too

factious mates Abishai yealdeth reasons that he may dee it The authority of God the opportunity of the time the possibility and easines of the fact for he saith God hath deliuered thine enimy into thyne hand this day and he saw both Saul and Abner and the people in a deadly sleepe and promiseth at one blow to destroy him but the others doe far differ from Abishai especially in the maner howe they doe it and in the causes why they doe it The manner is The manner of Traitors not only fiercely and forcibly to rise against man but most communelie and cunningly with sweete and faire words to commit this foule and filthy Act. The first murderer that euer was vsed this pleasant speach speaking to Abel as it is in the greeke text Brother let vs goe walke into the field but a good beginning in shewe brought an il ende according to that which is written by this our Dauid against his false familiar friend The woords of his mouth were softer thē butter Psa 55. yet war was in his hart his woordes were more gentle then oyle yet they were swordes And also by his Sonne Salomon A man that flattereth his neighbour Proue 29. spreadeth à net for his steppes This Cainicall course followed Absalom 2. Sam. 13. who inuiting his brother Amnon to a sheepe-shearing feast killed him When I read the Commission giuen by Absalom to his seruantes it seemeth to me that the Romish Absalom Pius Quintus speaketh against a Prince Smite kill feare not for haue not I commaunded you Be bould therefore Is not this a strange father of Peace an Absalom Likewise Ioab laid his net against Amasa 2. Sam. ●● whom he tooke by the beard with the right hand to kisse and with his sworde priuily and traiterously smote him to death I omit Iudas the disciple and traitour of Christ and that with a kisse and with fair words Aue Rabbi Haile Master Luc. 22. This Iudas had two Schoole-masters Scribes and Pharisies but the chiefe was Satan who entred into him euen as these Papistical Traitors are not successours of Peter in this point but of Iudas and are schoole-fellowes with him It is not only Iudas his treasō but a Turkish-trick against Christian Prínces and gouernours One Sarracene vsed this against Edward king of Britane or England It maie beè the Author meaneth Rich. To him ayding the Christians against the enemies of Christ came this fleeting fellow secretum colloquium ab eo petens requesting secret conference with him and striketh but after two woundes receiued the King laid handes vpon him and siue him Another Sarracens was suborned by the Sultan to kil Iames Lusignane king of Cyprus vnder the pretense of caryeng letters but he missed and was tormented for it These flattering traitours that with this courtly or rather crafty curtesie and Popish holy-water work this cruelty eyther by woords and insinuations or by presents and gifts or by deliuery of letters or messages or other waies vnder colour of friendshippe the more close they be the more crafty are they the more priny the more perilous for flattery is more hurtful then the most cruell poyson according to the verse Blanditi a plusquam dira venena nocent Wherefore it were to be wished that Princes and great personages would purge and clense their Courtes and houses of such that haue beene taught in the Schoole of Gnato to denye to double dissemble and by the lesson of Cato Saluta libenter seeke not to salute nor to saue but to slaie them Take the drosse from the siluer Prou. 25. and there shall bee made a precious vessell for the finer Take awie the wicked from the King and his throne shal be stablished in righteousnesse Out Dauid had his eies vpon the faithfull of the land that they might dwell with him and vpon them that malk in a perfect may that they might serue him There shall saith hee no deceitefull person dwell in my house Psal 101. Hee that telleth lies shall not remaine in my sight This faithfulnes is first towardes God and then towardes the Princes and neighbours this deceitfulnes flattering glosing temporizing must needes offend God and man and therefore ought not to be regarded The example of Constantius as it is noted by Eusebius found out these vnconstaunt men-pleasers Lib. 1. de vita Con●● tanquam Proditores Dei as traitours to God esteemed them vnworthy to be with an Emperour and determined they should be banished out of the Court for that they will neuer be true to Emperour who are found vnfaithfull towardes God Quomodo enim Imperatori fidem seruarent his qui erga Deum deprehensi sunt perfidie Because these fleering counterfaites are hardly found out therefore there needeth great circumspection in discerning and tryeng them and also earnest praier to God that he would giue vs the spirit of discretion by his prouidence to preserue vs from them Such discretiō this Constātius seemed to haue A Philosopher the nephew of Plato discreetly espied it who said vnto a flateterer Desine adulari nihil prosicis cùm te intelligā Leaue off this flattering fauning for thou preuailst not I perceiue thee Praier also is needful as an old prouerb importeth Cui fidem adhibeo ab ●o me deus custodiat God keep me frō him in whō I put my trust for the other I wil see to my self The effect of this is that the maner of dealing in these mē is worse thē the doing of Abishai You may see by this that al is not goulde that shineth like gould that euen Bees though they carry hony in their mouth yet may sting that Sirenes or Myrmaidens sing sweetly and haue their amiable entertainementes and allurements but otherwise bring Shipwracke to Mariners and therefore Vlysses gaue counsail to his Shipmen to stop their eares I wish al men to take heede of Scorpions though flattering in face yet pernicious in the taile the beginning may bee plausible the end clean coutrary The Crocodile whyneth and plaieth the Hypocrite but it is to catch and to kil The flattering Dragon the Diuel as Augustine termeth him is woorse than the roaring Lyon and this is the maner fashion of this new or rather ould rotten naughty world Now we are to consider the motiues causes perswading these men to enter into these high pointes of treacherous actions 2. Part. Causes of a reason passing the compasse of this Abishai There are many but I reduce them to these following Some men are led or rather missed by couetousnesse 1. Cause ●●centious●esse that is either desirous of liberty and impunity which is loosenes or else of gaine which is ai●arice or else of henour and dignity which is ambition In the time of the Emperour Henry the fourth certaine gentlemen not liking the bridle of discipline nor the restraint of their dissolutenes laid their heads together how they might rid that

would I feare God neither durst I rashlie offend the King ordained by him neither am I ignoraunt where I haue read He that resisteth the power resisteth the ordinance of God 1. Peter 2. Peter exhorteth to bee subiect to all maner of ordinaunce of man in the Lord and Paul especially aboue all beseecheth vs to make supplications A reason in nature drawen from commoditie of obediēce praiers intercessions giuing of thanks for Kings and for al that are in authority and al this is proued to bee profitable for common tranquillity to obey Nero and such like although they were heathen men in profession and conuersation The commodity of that heathenish gouernment is thus set foorth Hee is the minister of God for thy good Rom. 13.1 Tim. 2.1 Pet. 2. we may lead a quiet and a peaceable life vnder them in al godlines and honesty Gouernours are sent for the punishment of euill doers and for the praise of them that doe wel Chrysostome sheweth the commodities of this politicke gouernment In that there are principalities in that some commaund and some obey Ad Ro. 13. and in that al things are not turned vpside downe by fortune and chaunce and the people are not tosted hither and thither I affirm it to be the work of the wisedome of God And hee saith it is for the auoiding of discordes and dissensions in these words Because the equality of honour and state bringeth in commonly fighting and braules God hath ordeined many principalities and many subiections namely of the husband and the wife of the sonne and of the father of the ould man and the young of the seruant and of the free of the Prince and the subiect of the schoole-maister and the scholer he concludeth thus Innumera bona c. Infinite commodities come to cities by Magistrates which if you take away al things wil come to wreck Now let vs recount with our selues if this be the blessednes of gouernment vnder the heathen how much more are we bound to God for a Christian and godly regiment Euen Nabuchadonezer a tyraunt and infidel was to be praied for And the Iewes are willed to pray for him for Babylon and to seeke the peace of that City where they were captiues for thus saith Ieremie Ierem. 29. In the peace thereof shal you haue peace This is the office and duty of the Iewes though straungers toward the Babylonians notwithstanding their straunge and idolatrous religion O that our great soiourner receiued in England with fauour Q. of Scots entertained with honour vsed with al liberal liberty pardoned many times by mercy woulde haue sought the peace of the land where shee harboured or at least had not sought the disquietnes of the state the disturbaunce of the realme the hauocke and vndooing of manie Gentlemen the perill of the person of the Prince of the land so gratiously affected towarde her beeing but a Queene quondam a Queene without a Kingdome and onely in name Such soiournours haue been here not a few What shal I say a Snakish and Serpentine generation I might so Thomas Walsingham remembreth in his Chronicle of three vnkind guests a Mouse in a wallet a Serpent in ones bosome and fier in the lap Nay I might say woorse They passe some Serpents In Aegypt an Aspis or Serpent by nature learned this to shew friendship to a friend and an host for beeing brought vp in a poor mans house deliuered of young-ones and perceiuing that one of that brood had with byting and stinging killed the good mans Sonne shee did sley al her children and was neuer after seen in that house O admiranda Dei virtus saith Baptista Fulgosus O wounderful power and vertue of God! A cruel Serpent towards her host would shewe her selfe thankfull euen with the death of her younglings and with her own discommodity and a man Ful. l. 5. c. 7. a reasonable creature oftentimes more cruell than the Aspis will destroy man and host Doubtles a great and grosse ingratitude But now what reward either forreiners or domestical practisers and traytours haue had from time to time among these heathen vnder the Law of nature giue me leaue by exampls somewhat to make manifest vnto you Great Pompeie flying for succour into Aegypt and requesting to soiourne vnder Ptolomeie a young King a Councell was called about it and whereas one thought him to hee admitted another to be repelled Theodotus Chius Schoole-master to Ptolomeie in the Art of Rhetorik agreed to neither of them For if they receiued him they should haue Caesar an enemy if they should refuse him it woulde turne to some reproch to them and bee offensiue to Pompeie Wherefore the best is quoth he to dispatch him adding as Plutarch saith merily 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Dead men bite not J●●i●e Pom●●● and yet here was no present practise by Pompeie but a fear of some troubles and treacheries by him Among the Romanes it hath bin seuerely punished whensoeuer any such trayterous prancke hath beene displaied either against their country either against their frindes or foes Lib. Offic. Ambrose commendeth highly Fabritius the Romane who perceiuing that a Physitian offred to poyson Pyrrhus his Kingsent the traitour backe againe to his Master to suffer condigne punishment for it Metius Suffetius keeping touch neither with the Albanes nor with the Romans as he was double and trayterous in heart so with wild horses his body was rent and diuided where Tullus cōfesseth that there is no war greater or more perilous than cum proditione persidia sociorum Liui. decad 1. lib. 1. when there is falshoode in fellowship Tarpeia the daughter of the Lieuetenaunt of the tower or Capitolium in the battell betwixt the Romanes and the Sabines corrupted In vita Romul either by bracelettes as Plutarch writeth or for gold as Liuie telleth betraieth the tower vnto Tatius and had rewarde but such as choked her Maximinus killed men as it were beasts against whom when the Osdroens bowmen had made a faction and commotion and chosen a newe Emperour one Macedonius did slay him and brought his heade to Maximinus who thanked him with courteous woordes but afterward in seuere maner as a traytour put him to death What should I repeat the traiterous Schoolmaster of the Faliscians who bringing out of the city his scholers as the maner was for their recreation now cōmeth into the camp of Camillus and deliuered Principum liberos Noble mens children vnto him ioyning with his wicked act more wicked speach that the Valerians did yeelde themselues into the hands of the Romanes in that he yeelded into their power those children whose parents were the heads and chiefest there but Camillus espyeng the treachery after his sharpe aunswere to him stript him naked tyed his hands behinde his back committed him to the boies with rods in their hands to whip the traitor into the city againe whereby Camillus got thankes and renowme of the