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A00908	A defence of the Catholyke cause contayning a treatise in confutation of sundry vntruthes and slanders, published by the heretykes, as wel in infamous lybels as otherwyse, against all english Catholyks in general, & some in particular, not only concerning matter of state, but also matter of religion: by occasion whereof diuers poynts of the Catholyke faith now in controuersy, are debated and discussed. VVritten by T.F. With an apology, or defence, of his innocency in a fayned conspiracy against her Maiesties person, for the which one Edward Squyre was wrongfully condemned and executed in Nouember ... 1598. wherewith the author and other Catholykes were also falsly charged. Written by him the yeare folowing, and not published vntil now, for the reasons declared in the preface of this treatyse.	Fitzherbert, Thomas, 1552-1640.	1602 (1602)	STC 11016; ESTC S102241	183,394	262

to make others of the ●emples of the Idols which saint Gregory ordayned shuld ●e donne with casting holy water therin buylding altars ●nd placing relikes of saynts commaunding further that ●easts should be celebrated in the dayes of the dedication of ●he sayd Churches in the natiuity of the martyrs whose ●elykes should be kept there besyds that he appoynted saynt Augustin to be Metropolitan of England and sent him holy vessels and vestiments for altars and Priests and relyckes of the Apostels and martyrs and granted him the vse of the pal ad sola missarum solemnia agenda only for the celebration of solemne masses and further gaue him order to ordayne 12. Bishops vnder himself and to make another Metropolitan at Yorke who when those parts should be cōuerted should haue as many vnder him and be himself after saynt Augustins dayes dependant only vpon the sea Apostolyk and receiue the Pal from the same furthermore saynt Augustin caused King Edelbert to buyld a Church from the ground in honour of the blessed Apostles S. Peter S. Paule and a monastery not farre from Canturbury whereof the first Abbot called Peter was of so holy a lyfe that after his death it was testified from heauen by a continual light that appeared ouer his tombe Also King Edelbert caused S. Paules Church to be buylt in London and another in Rochester dedicated to S. Andrew the Apostle Hereto may be added the exercise of the Popes autority not only in the dayes of King Edelbert but also after in the raygne of other Christian Kings vntil the tyme that saynt Bede ended his history Pope Boniface sent the Pal to Iustus fourth Archbishop of Canturbury after saynt Augustin Honorius the Pope sent also the Pal to Honorius that succeded Iustus and to Paulinus Archbishop of York ordayning at the request of King Edwin and his wyfe that the longer liuer of them should consecrate a successor to the orher that should dy first to excuse so long a Iourney as to Rome The two Kings Oswy and Egbert the one of Northumberland and the other of kent sent Wigard to Rome to be made Primat when both the seas of Canturbury and Yorke were vacant and Wigard dying there Pope Vitalianus made Theodore a grecian primat in his steede Wilfrid Byshop of Yorke being twys vniustly expelled from his Bishoprik appealed both tymes to Rome first to Pope Agatho and after to Pope Iohn and being cleared by their sentences was restored to his Bishoprik and heer I wil ad a woord or two concerning the exceeding great zeale and deuotion of the Saxon Kinges to the sea Apostolyke in those dayes King Oswy determined to goe to Rome in Pilgrimage and had donne it yf death had not preuented him King Ceadwald wēt thether to be baptysed dyed there King Hun his successor after he had raygned 37. yeares wēt thether also in Pilgrimage as many sayth saynt Bede in those dayes both of the layty and clergy as wel women as men were wont to doe King Coenred did the lyke had in his company the sonne of Sigher King of the east Saxons and both of them entred into religion in Rome about the yeare of our Lord 709. not past 22. yeares before S. Bede ended his history which was almost 900. yeres a goe wherto may be added out of later historiographers the lyke examples of the extraordinary deuotion and obedience of our English Kings vnto the sea Apostolyke in ●uery age vntil after the conquest King Inas shortly after S. Bedes tyme about the yeare of our Lord 740. went to Rome and made his Kingdome tributary to the Pope ordayning the Peter pence the lyke did also afterwards Offa the King of the Mercians in the yeare of our Lord .775 Etheluolph King of England went to Rome in Pilgrimage about the yeare of our Lord 847. and made that part of England which his father Egbert had conquered tributary also to the Bishop of Rome King Edward being threatned with excommunication by Pope Iohn the tēth for that he was carelesse to prouide the English Church of Bishops caused Pleimund the Bishop of Canterbury to make many and after to goe to Rome to purge him selfe of his negligence about the yeare of our Lord 920. King Edgar obtayned of Pope Iohn the 13. with licence to giue certayne liuings of secular Priests to Monkes about the yeare of our Lord .965 Canutus King of England went to Rome in Pilgrimage about the yeare of our Lord 1024. S. Edward King of England hauing made a vow to goe to Rome procured the same to be commuted by Pope Leo the nynth into the buylding of a monastery of S. Peter he also confirmed the payment of the yearly tribute to the sea Apostolyke about the yeare of our Lord 1060. which was not past 5. yeares before the conquest after the which there were no lesse notable examples of this matter King Henry the second who by Pope Adrian was first intituled Lord of Ireland sent legats to Rome to craue pardon of Pope Alexander for the murder committed by his occasion vpon saint Thomas of Canterbury where vpon two Cardinals were sent into England before whome the King lyke a publike penitent a priuat person submitted himselfe to the Ecclesiastical discipline in a publik assembly of the cleargy and nobility When King Richard the first was kept prisoner by Frederick the Emperour his mother wrote to Celestinus the Pope calling him the successor of Peter and the Vicar of Christ quem Dominus constituit super gentes regno in omni plenitudius potestatis whome our Lord had placed ouer nations and Kingdomes in all fulnesse of power and willed him to vse the spiritual sword against the Emperour as Alexander his predecessor had donne against Frederick his Father whome he did excommunicate King Iohn being excommunicated by the Pope was not absolued before he tooke his crowne of frō his owne head and deliuered it to Pandulfus the Popes legat promising for himselfe and his heyres that they should neuer receiue it afterwards but from the Bishop of Rome I omit others of later tyme seing no mā I think doubteth but that all the successors of King Iohn liued in the communion and obedience of the Roman Church paying the old yearely tribute called the Peter pēce vntil the tyme of King Henry the 8. her maiestyes father who being maried to his brother Arthurs widdow by dispēsation of the sea Apostolyke continued many yeares after in the obedience therof and in defence of the autority of the sayd sea wrote a learned book agaynst Luther for the which the honorable title of defender of the fayth was giuen him by Pope Leo which tytle her maiesty also vseth at this day so that no man can deny that our country was conuerted by S. Gregory to the Roman fayth or that it hath continued therin vntil K.

with matter of state CHAP. XXII IN the third page yow appeale Sir Pamphleter to the knowledge of your frend in Padua for the distinction moderation of the proceeding in England in ecclesiastical causes with what lenitie and gentlenes it hath beene caryed except where it was mixed with matter of state for such are your owne wordes Hereto I answere that by your restriction exception of state matters yow ouerthrow your general proposition of clemency and proue that ther is no moderation lenitie nor gentlenes vsed at all for where is not matter of state mixed with religion now a dayes in England are not so many essential poynts of Catholyke religion made treason as no man can do the duetie of a Catholyke but he is ipso facto a traytour seing no man can be so much as absolued of his sinnes nor receyue any Sacrament of Gods Churche by the only true ministers thereof I meane Priestes but he committeth treason besydes the other captious lawes about the Supremacie the exacting of the oth and the vrging of Catholykes to come to haeretical seruice communion vnder colour of temporal obediēce to the Prince is not in all this state mixt with religion yea and to no other end then to persecute vs vnder co●our of treason and matter of state while ye persecute religion and for religion Was not this the very practise of Iulian the Apostata who to couer his persecution of Christians sometymes caused his picture to be set with Iupiter or other fais Gods and sometymes made himselfe to be paynted with their enseignes and resemblance therby to make such mixture of religion and matter of state that those which should refuse to commit Idololatry might be punished vnder colour of contempt of his emperial person Hereof sayth Sozomenus Nam sic cogitabat c. for so Iulian thought that if he persuaded thē to that he should more easely bring them to his wil in other points of religion also and if they resisted in this he might punish them without mercie as offenders against both the common wealth and the Empyre It not this now practised in England in effect for what other thing is it to annex the keyes of Peter with the Princes crowne the deuine power with the humain the supremacy spiritual with the gouernment temporal dignities no lesse distinct in nature then incompatible in lay persons and especially in women sexe what other thing is it I say then to ioyne Iulian with Iupiter and to paynt the Prince with the enseignes and resemblance of deitie and to what other end then vnder colour of treason matter of state to make away all those that shal refuse to acknowledge this pretended ecclesiastical supremacy Such then is your mixture of religion with matter of state as whiles yow pretend to punish none for Catholyke religion yow persecute cruelly all Catholykes for no other true canse then religion yea and as the pharises did yow persecute and crucifie Christ agayne in his members as an enemy to Caesar and for the same reason of state that they did cry to Pilate si dimittis hune non es amicus Caesaris if yow let him scape yow are not Caesars frend for that his fault is not religion but matter of state against Caesar and agayne si dimitiunus hunc venient Romani c. yf we dismisse this man the Romans togither with Spaniards wil come and take from vs both our place and people and wil conquer spoyle destroy vs for which respect yow haue already killed some hundreths of Catholykes vpon lyke suspitions and ealumniations by vertue of your new statutes besydes many murdred for fayned conspiracies and fals imputed crymes and an exceeding multitude of others consumed and wasted with imprisonment others pyned a way in banishment others empouerished ruined with taxes impositions and penalties and an infinite number dayly languishing in captiuity penurie and miserie for that they wil not yeeld as yow cal it temporal obedience in comming to your seruice and communion yet forsooth yow trouble none for religion But yf it please yow and your frend in Padua that knoweth as yow say this matter so wel to consider it a litle better yow wil easely see that the distinction that yow and your fellowes make is confusion your moderation persecution your lenity seueritie your shew and talk of mercy nothing els but a mere mockerie and playne cosinage of the simple reader for to preache one thing and practise an other is I trow the highest point of cosinage that may be But what maruaile is it if yow draw our religion to matter of state seing your owne religion hath no other rule nor ground but reason of state for albeit the substance of religion which now yow professe different from ours be patcht vp of old and new heresies especially of these last of Luther Zwinglius and Caluin yet that which is properly yours and the key and stay of all the rest and maketh yow a bodie and part different from other Sectes of Lutheranes Zwinglians and Caluenists Puritanes Brownists Anabaptists and the lyke is the obedience that yow acknowledge in ecclesiastical causes to a lay head which although it was first introduced into England by King Henry the S. only vpon animositie against the sea Apostolyke because thesaid sea would not allow his deuorce from Queene Catherine which King in all other poynts detested your religion yet being abolished by Queene Marie her Ma ties syster and last praedecessour it was returned agayne in the beginning of her Ma ties raigne that now is only vpon reason of state as all the world knoweth and so hath hyherto byn continued For those polityke statistes of ours that had the vse of her Ma ties eares in the beginning considering that the Queene of Scotland being then maried vnto the French King pretended title vnto the crowne of England and fearing that the sea Apostolyk would fauour her pretence in respect of the mariage of her Ma ties mother yea and that the people would also incline that way if they remayned stil in the obedience of the said sea they hadrecourse to Hieroboams pollicy and abusing the facilitie of her Ma ties good nature and yong yeares persuaded her to change the religion then publikly professed and not only to banish the authority of the Pope but also to follow her father and brothers example in taking the title of ecclesiastical supremacy vpō her self a thing absurd ridiculous vnnatural impossible therefore worthely reiected impugned and derided by Luther and Caluyn themselues and by their folowers and the Puritaines at this day in England and all other sectaries abroad as a matter without all praesident or example in any Christian common wealth or colour of Scripture except of some few texts that treat of obedience to Princes in general no lesse to Heathen Kings then Christian and therfore can not with any shew of reason be vnderstood

A DEFENCE OF THE CATHOLYKE CAVSE CONTAYNING A TREATISE IN CONFVTATION OF SVNDRY VNTRVTHES AND slanders published by the heretykes as wel in infamous lybels as otherwyse against all english Catholyks in general some in particular not only concerning matter of state but also matter of religion by occasion whereof diuers poynts of the Catholyke faith now in controuersy are debated and discussed Written by T. F. WITH AN APOLOGY OR DEFENCE OF HIS INNOCENCY IN A FAYNED CONSPIRACY against her Maiesties person for the which one Edward Squyre was wrongfully condemned and executed in Nouember in the yeare of our Lord 1598. wherewith the author and other Catholykes were also falsly charged Written by him the yeare folowing and not published vntil now for the reasons declared in the preface of this Treatyse Psalm 118. Redime me à calumnijs hominum vt custodiam mandata tua Redeeme me o Lord from the slanders of men that I may keep thy commandements Imprinted with licence 1602. THE VNTRVTHES AND SLANDERS CONCERNING matter of state some particular persons confuted in this Treatise and in the Apology following THE first concerning the conquest of Englād which O. E. in his late lybels falsly chargeth the English Catholykes to seek and s●i●●t Treatise Chap. 1. The second touching the Catholyke Kinges late attempt in Ireland which the English Catholykes are also falsly supposed to haue procured Treatyse Chap. ● The third concerning Sir VVilliam Stanley his deliuering Dauenter to the king Catholyke Treatse Chap. 1. The fourth touching father Parsons his great labours in Gods Churche peruersly interpreted shamefully slandred by the heretykes Treatise Chap. 2. The fifth an impudent malitious vntruth auouched by O. E. in his late challenge to wit that no Catholykes are put to death in England for religion but for treason and attempts against the state Treatise Chap. 3. Apology Chap. 10. 22. 23. The sixt the improbable absurd fixtion of Squyres conspiracy against her Maiesties person imputed to father Richard walpole of the holy-Society of Iesus as principal contriuer to father Creswel of the same Society to the author of this Treatise as abetters Apology Chap. 1. 2. 6. 7. 8. 9. 20. 21. The seuenth a slanderous vntruth published as wel in these later as some former libels concerning VVilliams York Patrick Cullen executed at London some yeares past and falsly supposed to be employed by the English Catholykes then at Brussels against her Maiesties person Apology Chap. 15. The 8. an impertinent vntruth publyshed in a pamphlet concerning the fayned conspiracy of Edward Squyre wherein it is affirmed that there is great moderation lenity vsed in causes of religion Apology Chap. 22. 23. The 9. a foolish inuectiue of the author of the sayd pamphlet against the Iesuits Apology Chap. 24. VNTRVTHES AND SLANDERS CONCERNING MATTER OF RELIGION DISCOVERED confuted vpon diuers occasions in this Treatise the Apology following A False impudent assertion of a shameles minister who being present at the death of two martyrs at Lincolne in the yeare 1600. affirmed publikly that England receiued the protestants religion when it was first conuerted to the Christian faith vnder the Popes Eleutherius and Gregory the first Treatise Chap. 4.5 6. An other slanderous vntruth of the heretykes charging Catholykes with Idolatry in the reuerend vse of holy Images Treat Chap. 11. 12. The lyke slanderous impudent vntruth touching the Catholikes opinion of merits of workes published lately in a pamphlet concerning the conuiction of my lord of Essex Treat Chap. ●9 A ridicul●us miracle fayned by the author of the pamphlet aboue said that concerned Squyres ●ayned conspiracy Apolog. Chap. 25. The table of the chapters followeth in the end of the Treatise THE PREFACE VVHEREIN THE AVTOR DECLARETH HIS INTENTION IN THIS TREATISE AND THE CAVSE why he wrote the same and why the Apology concerning Edward Squyre being written three yeres since was not published vntil now IT is now more then three yeres gentle reader since that one Edward Squyre hauing bin sometyme prisoner in Spayne and escaping thence into England was condemned and executed for a fayned conspiracy against her Maiestyes person wherto my self some others were charged to be priuy for as much as it seemed to mee that this fraudulent manner of our aduersaries proceeding against Catholykes by way of slanders and diffamations authorised with shew of publik Iustice and continued now many yeres did beginne to redound not only to the vndeserued disgrace discredit of particular men wrongfully accused but also to the dishonour of our whole cause I thought it cōueniēt to write an Apology in my defēce to dedicate the same to the Lords of her Maiesties priuy counsel as wel to cleare my self to their honours of the cryme falsly imputed vnto mee as also to discouer vnto them the treacherous dealing of such as abuse her Maiesties autority and theirs in this behalf to the spilling of much innocent blood with no smalle blemish to her Maiesties gouernment and the assured exposition of the whole state to the wrath of God if it be not remedied in tyme. This Apology being written by me in Spayne and made ready for the print now almost 3. yeres past it seemed good as wel to me as to other of my friends to stay the impression of it vntil we should see the issue of the treaty of peace betwyxt England and Spayne then expected with no smalle hope conceaued of many that liberty of conscience or at least some toleration of religion might ensue therof to the Catholikes of Englād therfore seeing my principal intention was no other but with the occasion of my owne purgation to seek remedy of the wrongs donne vnto vs by discouering to the lords of the councel the vnchristian and pernicious proceeding of our cheef persecutors it seemed to mee that yf the desyred effects of toleration and consequently our remedy did follow of the treaty the labour charges of printing my Apology should be needlesse And although after many moneths expectation and the meeting of the commissioners at Bullen there appeared no lykelyhood at all eyther of peace betwyxt the two kingdomes or toleration of Catholyke religion in Englād in which respect it seemed conuenient to some that my apology should be published yet for as much as so long tyme was then ouer past that the matter of Squyre seemed to bee forgot and that therfore the defence of my innocency might eyther be to litle purpose or at least seeme out of season I resolued to suppresse the same and the rather for that I vnderstood that howsoeuer some simple men might be deceaued in Squyres cause yet the wysest considering the weaknes and inualydity of the proofes and his denial of the fact at his death did take it for an inuention and a stratageme of state conforme to dyuers other of like quality which many wyse

Our doctrin of the merits of woorks and Iustification is proued and cleared from the slanders of our aduersaries commonly published in their sermons and lately insinuated in a book set forth concerning the conuiction of my Lord of Essex Chap. 19. That our aduersaries who affirme that wee derogate from the merits of Christs passion do them-selues wholy euacuat and frustrat the same by their most wicked and absurd doctrin of imputatiue iustice and concerning original sinne and diuers other points confuted in this chapter Chap. 20. The conclusion conuincing by the premisses that our Catholyke doctrin was deliuered to King Lucius by Pope Eleutherius and is the vndouted truth that Christ left to his Churche with a note of the notable impudēcy of our English ministers Chap. 21. AN APOLOGY OF T. F. IN DEFENCE OF HIM-SELF AND OTHER CATHOLYKS FALSLY CHARGED WITH A fayned conspiracy agaynst her Maiesties person for the which one Edward Squyre was wrong-fully condemned and executed in the yeare of our Lord 1598. wherein are discouered the wicked and malicious practises of some inferior persons to whose examination the causes of Catholykes are commonly committed and their iniurious manner of proceding not only against the sayd Squyre but also agaynst many Catholykes that haue ben vniustly condemned for lyke fayned conspiracies against her maiesty and the state VVritten in the yeare of our Lord 1599. and dedicated to the right honorable the Lords of her mayesties priuie councel Ecclesiast cap. 3. 5. 16. Vidi sub sole in loco iudicij iniquitatem in loco iustitiae impietatem I haue seene vnder the Sunne iniquity in place of iudgement and impiety in place of iustice Imprinted with licence 1602. AN ADVERTISMENT TO THE READER ABOVT A FORMER ANSWERE OF M. M. Ar. AFter I had set downe to my self this defence or Apologie in the forme that here it goeth there came to my hādes a certayne breif pamphlet writen in Rome by M. Mar. Ar. presentlie vpon the execution of Squier in England which confutation thoughe for the substance of the matter it seemed to me very sufficient to giue any man satisfaction by shewing the whole matter of Squyers accusatiō condēnation and execution to be a very fiction and deuised for certayne endes which there are touched yet thought I not amisse to let this Apologie passe also as it was made partly for that it conteyneth my owne particuler defence which the other toucheth not but handleth the whole action in general and partly also for that the māner of both our proceedings is different he shewing the whole subiect and argument to be a fayned thing and I that albeit some occasion had byn geuen of suspition yet the forme of proceeding against Squyer the rest to be vniust against all reason equitie law and conscience M. Mar. Ar. to proue his intent layeth downe the historical narration of all the whole matter and men touched in the same to wit how Squyer and Rolles were taken vpon the sea and brought prisoners to Siuil and had their liberty there by Father Parsons meanes and how afterwards geuing newe occasion of offence in matters of religiō they were taken agayne at S. Lucars brought back to Siuil and there agayne after certayne monethes imprisonment deliuered out of prison put in different Monasteryes for to be instructed whence they fled away to the sea syde and excused their flight afterwards by letters to Father Walpoole that was most in daunger by that flight which letters are yet extant It sheweth also the improbability of the deuise to wit that Father Walpoole being the man he is should euer haue thought of such a fond way of sending poyson into England by such a fellow as Squyer was suspected stil to be a dissembled protestant as afterwards he proued and that thing could not be wrought nor the poyson caryed so farre but that Rolles his compagnion must know somewhat thereof who being at that present in the Towre of London and neither brought foorth nor mentioned nor yet made partaker of the fact was a token that matters went not wel nor were directly handled Besides this that book declareth by many examples the practises of Protestants in these our dayes for making Catholykes odious especially Iesuites of which order Father Walpoole is who was fayned to be the contriuer of this conspiracy which is shewed to be as farre from the condition of the man as the matter it self is from all probability of truth to wit any such poyson to be made bought and sold in Siuil proued by the death of a dog sent into England by sea in bladders of leather poured vpon the Quenes Sadle as also vpon the chayre of the Earle of Essex without hurt to the sitter or ryder the matter discouered by one Stanley that neyther sawe Squyer in Spayne nor spoke with him and it was denyed by Squyer first at the barre and after at his death and since his death called in dowt by Stanley his first detector as by some hath byn written from the place where he abydeth the force also of that poyson yf any such had byn is declared by reasons and authoritie both of physick and Philosophie that it could not worke any such effect as was ymagined or pretended consequentlie that those applauses congratulations both by woords sighs teares which a company of flatterers shewed foorth at Squyers arraynment and condemnation for her Ma ties so miraculous escape was most ridiculous and vayne This is the summe effect of that answere as breifly set downe as I can gather it and it maketh the fiction most euident to all such as without partiality wil read it though I heare say that it may chance come out agayne more ample in a secōd edition with many Autentical letters as wel of the citty of Siuil as of the courte of Inquisitiō in that place to shew the manner of Squyers and Rolles running away from those partes with some other circumstances to improue the probabilitie of the deuised slander in England which letters and instruments I thought not good to insert heere to my Apologie but to leaue thē to M. Mar. Ar. now at his returne hither from Rome to ad to his former Answere if so he shal think good for that he maketh mention thereof in the same and as for this my defence gentle reader I shal not need to aduise thee of the substance manner method or argument therof for that the breife chapters ensuing wil sufficiently setfoorth the same only I would admonish thee to consider maturely with thy self how rhow mayest be vsed in matters of Religion which do most import thy soule and saluation when in matters of fact and open action thow shalt fynd thy self so egregiously abused TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE THE LORDES OF HER MA ties PRYVIE councel RIght honorable vnderstanding by common fame confirmed by letters from Italy Flanders and France that one Edward Squire was lately condemned and executed in England for

that for the remedy there wanteth nothing but that your honours may haue notice thereof which I haue therefore presumed to geue yow in this Apology by the occasion of this my purgation which I present vnto yow in all humility beseeching your Lordships for conclusion of this treatise to consider from what root all these foule vnchristian practises of our aduersaries do spring as that they are nothing els but the fruit of heresy which hath no other period where to rest but atheisme or apostacy from Christ as euidently appeareth by all the east parts of the world which from lyke schisme and heresy are falne to flat infidelity which if it please your Lordships wel to weigh and the true remedy withall which Machiauel though in other things he be most absurd and impious yet wysely teacheth in this case to wit to reduce a corrupted state of common wealth to the point frō whence it first declined I hope your honours wil see the necessity of the reduction of our realme to the ancient Catholyke religion and to the vnity of the Catholyke body of Christendome whereof it was many hundred yeares togeather a principal mēber in all honour and security florishing in iustice equity and piety whereas now by this difunion and diuorce from the said Catholyke body and religion it is not only exposed to many daungers and much in ●●my but is also replenished with iniustice and impiety as appeareth by the ordinary dayly proceedings of our aduersaries against vs declared sufficiently in this Apology which I leaue to your honours wyse consideration humbly beseeching almighty God to illuminat your Lordships and her Mayesty also in this behaulf which if it shal please his deuine Ma tie to do and with so great a grace and blessing as is the light of his Catholyke fayth to consummate and perfect those other rare gifts that he hath already bestowed vpon her Ma tie I meane her many princely partes her power by sea land her peace at home her prosperity abroad her long lyfe and raygne shee wil be one of the most fortunat famous glorious Princes that England or Christiandome hath had in many ages and a most rare example of Gods inspeakable mercy to the endles comfort of all true Christians From Madrid the last of August 1599. Your Lordships humble seruant T. F. THE TABLE OF the Chapters THE preamble to the right honorable the Lords of her Maiesties priuy councel The authors protestation of his innocency with the confutation of the fiction by the improbabilitie of the end that was supposed to moue Squyre there vnto Chap. 1. The examination of the grounds wherevpon Squyre was condemned and how vncertayne is the trial of truth by torment Chap. 2. Of the cruelty of the rackmaisters in England and of their manner of examination Chap. 3. Of the tormentors their manner of proceeding against law and conscience Chap. 4. That the common lawes of England do not admit torment in trial of criminal causes for the condemnation of the delinquent Chap. 5. Of the presumptions vrged by some lawyers against Squyre and first of the deposition of Ihon Stallage alias Stanley Chap. 6. Of the testimony geuen by a priuy councellour Chap. 7. That the euidence produced against Squyre was not sufficient in law to geue him torment and that therefore his confession extorted therby was of no force and consequently his condemnation vniust Chap. 8. An expostulation with M. Cook her Maiesties atturney Chap. 9. Of the lyke slander raysed diuers tymes heretofore against Catholyks and of the concurrence of calumniation and persecution Chap. 10. Of the vniust condemnation of father Campion of the Society of Iesus and 11. Priests for a fayned conspiracy against her Maiesty and the state Chap. 11. Of the lyke iniustice vsed against M. payne a Priest for a surmised conspiracy against her Ma ties person Cha. 12. Of the lyke vniust condemnation of M. Iames Fen M. George Haddock vpon the lyke fals pretence Chap. 13. Of two Catholykes in wales condemned vpon the testimony of fals witnesses suborned and hyred for money Cha. 14. Of VVilliams York Cullē executed for fayned conspiracies against her Maiesty Chap. 15. Of the ends that our aduersaries haue or may haue in slandering Catholyks with treasonable attempts and first of the end that they haue common with all persecutors of Gods Churche and how much they fayle of their purpose therein Chap. 16. Of other ends particuler to our aduersaries and of their disloyalty towards her Maiesty Chap. 17. That these proceedings of our aduersaries which they hold for polityke are against all policy true reason of state Chap. 18. Of two ineuitable dommages that must needs ensew to the whole state by the effusion of innocent blood with an intimation of some part of the remedy Chap. 19. The confutation of a pamphlet printed in England concerning the fayned conspiracy of Squyre and first of two notable lyes which the author thereof auoweth vpon his owne knowledge Chap. 20. Of certayne absurd improbabilities in the pāphlet touching the manner of the discouery of Squyres supposed conspiracy Chap 21. Of certayne impertinent and foolish gloses of the author of the pamphlet and first concerning the moderation and lenity which he sayth is vsed in causes of religion where it is not mixt with matter of state Chap. 22. Of the true causes of more moderatiō vsed in the beginning then afterwards and of the difference made by the lawes betwixt Seminary Queene Mary Priests Chap 23. The confutatiō of aninuectiue which the author of the pamphlet maketh against the Iesuits Chap. 24. Of the hipocrisy of the autor of the pamphlet and his fellowes and of a ridiculous miracle fayned in her Ma ties supposed escape Chap. 25. The conclusion to the lords of the councel Chap. 26. Such fevv faultes as may haue escaped in the printing it may please the courteous reader to pardon Edvvard Squyre executed for a fayned conspiracy and the author of this treatyse charge therevvith The reasons that moued the author to vvryte an Apology in his ovvne defence The Apology stayd frō the print in hope of some toleration of Catholyke religion in England Hope of toleration frustrate Squyres matter seemed to be forgot Squyres matter held by the vvyse for a stratagem of state Squyres matter lately reuyued by 3. lybels and much vrged against Catholyks The authors determinatiō to set out his Apology O. E. In his nevv challeng to N.D. Chap ● The autor ansvvereth and confuteth this slāder vpon his ovvne knovvledge The autors protestation vpon his cōscience The endeuour of Syr Fran. Englefeld F. Parsons F Cresvvel and of the autor to diuert the Catholik king from the conquest of Engl. The Catholyk kings ansvver concerning his intention Restitution of Catholyk religion in England Ease of persecution by treaty of peace The reasons vvhy the Catholyks rather expected remedy by peace then by vvarre Frequent ouuertures to treatyse of