put downe in the Preface to the important considerations Fol. 9. page 2. Note heere gentle Reader that this sweete harmonie betweene the Pope the Iesuites and the Secular priests were able to make an horse to breake his halter And doubtlesse the Pope yea many Popes successiuely haue thus commaunded them as shall appeare in the due place of this discourse The Iesuites holde this position for a constant doctrine that the people may depose their princes and choose others at their pleasures haue they any or no right to the Crown that is not materiall so it be done ad Deum that is by our interpretation as the Iesuites shall appoint it Héere we would haue you to note an other rule of our english Iesuites which must concurre with that of ordine ad Deâ—m and it is this that all things must be wrought and framed as the times and occasions require For example if the king of Spayne or the Infanta can by no other practise obtaine the Crowne of England then in that case the people are to haue a right to doe what they list so they will choose one of them for their soueraigne These expresse words are set downe by the priests in their sparing Discouerie Page 14. 15. quodl 3. art 4. pag. 68. Note heere gentle reader that the Iesuites and their complicies are not imprisoned or put to death for religion as they would leaue the world to thinke but for â—â—at treason and purposely intended rebellion For so much their owne pennes by Gods prouidence doe here testifie as you see And consequently politicke godly and very necessarie are the 〈…〉 in that case prouided While the inuasion was talked of and in preparation in Spayne Richard Hesket was set on by the Iesuites 1592. or there abouts with father Parsons consent knowledge to haue stirred vp the Earle of Darbie to rebellion against her highnesse Not long after father Holt the Iesuite and others with him perswaded an Irish man one Patriâ—cke Collen as he himselfe confessed to attempt the laying of his violent and villanous hands vpon her Maiestie Shortly after 1593. that notable stratagâ—me was plotted for Doctor Lopez the Queenes phisition to haue poysoned her This wicked designement being thus preuented by Gods prouidence the said traiterous Iesuite Holt and others did allure and animate one Yorke and Williams to haue accomplished that with their bloodie hands that the other purposed to haue done with his poyson we meane her Maiesties destruction Heereunto we may adde the late villanous attempt 1599. of Edward Squire animated and drawen thereunto as he confessed by Walpole that pernitious Iesuite These words are set downe in the important considerations Page 33 see chap. 4. paragraph 6. of Walpoole the Iesuite The Iesuites laboured in Fraunce euen the french Iesuites themselues to haue lifted the Spaniard into the throne of that kingdome with the consequent ouerthrow of their owne natiue countrey All Christendome to their perpetuall shame ring loudly of it They made great stirre in Spayne to perswade the king to inuade England yeelding to him many reasons why he was bound to vndertake that enterprise and assuring him of great assistance if once his forces were landed Hereunto may be added how many they haue intituled to the Crowne of England as the Duke of Parma the Earle of Darbie and others exciting some of them by force of armes to assaile her Maiestie and buzzing into their eares how easily the scepter might be wrung out of her hands and they obtaine it But most pertinent to the purpose is that their plotting and compassing how to set the Diademe of this Realme vpon the head of the princesse Isabella the Infanta of Spayne To this purpose they haue written a booke wherein they gaue her such an interest as they make the kings of this land for many yeares to haue béene vsurpers These words are to be read in their discouerie Page 8. quodl 9. art 2. pag. 288. The Iesuites take pleasure to scatter rumors and to suggest certaine nouelties in the eares of Catholikes yea to forge and inuent things that are not insomuch as they are commonly held now a daies great lyars and it is come to passe that though they sweare men wil not beléeue them These words are set downe in the Relation Page 73. quodlibet 2. art 6. pag. 39. CHAP. III. Of the excessiue expences and great gallantrie of the Iesuites THe Iesuites endeuour by all meanes possible that both those almes which are giuen for the relief of them that are in prison or any other poore afflicted whatsoeuer as also whatsoeuer is paid in cases of dispensation may come to their hands Now what is done with this money we know not Prisons and Colledges are depriued of the great summes the banished haue them not the priests sée them not but there are hired here with seditious persons deuisers of fables slaunderers of their brethren and scorners of the saints are herewith enriched these and such as these receiue large stipends of their labours And yet so great a masse of monies cannot be consumed but that the fathers bestow much vpon themselues For they goe in déed in great gallantrie no Iesuite goeth to visit any one or trauelleth from one place to another but he is richly apparrelled and is attended on with a great traine of seruants as if he were a Baron or an Earle They wrangle and reprooue the priests garments and spendings whereas the expences of one Iesuite were able to maintaine twentie priests richly Neither by this meanes also could so great a quantitie of almes be wasted but that as the report goes much treasure is conueyed beyond the seas but to what purpose we know not vnlesse it be bestowed vpon their bodie their corporation or societie These words are to be found in the Relation Page 70. See the tenth Preamble and note it well The Iesuites became our collectors or rather not ours but their owne to whom for their accounts the false Steward in the gospell may giue place One Iesuite hath taken at times aboue 500 pound that was giuen to the imprisoned priests then at Wâ—â—â—â— and imployed the same at his owne pleasure Percie the Iesuite escaping from Wisbish tooke fraudulently from benefactors abroad 57. pound 17. shillings and the yeare after stole 27. pound of the common money by the consent of the other his fellow Iesuites They haue so fleeced their fauorers as ouer aboue their owne expences which are excéeding great they haue beene able to send out long since 2200. pound towards the Low countries To scrape together so much money they haue many sleights besides their apparant consenages frauds and thefts before mentioned Thus they write in their discouerie Page 19. First I will but referre you vnto all the priests and Catholikes that liued in England in father Haywoods time of libertie and knew him his manners and fashions well and if they
absolution Sequitur Our kings represent the true image of God against whom this yeare there hapned three straunge and vnusuall accidents first the rebellion against the late king which they coloured with the pretext and title of tyranny secondly the parricidie committed vpon his person by a Monke and lastly the continuance of that rebellion against the king that now is for his religion Sequitur their confessions were instructions or rather destructions to teach rebellion refusing to absolue them which eyther were not in their consciences fully confirmed in their reuolt from the two kings or had any inclination to acknowledge them for their soueraignes And which is full of horrour and detestation their ordinarie conrse was before they would absolue them to make them sweare by the holy gospell conteyned in their breuiaries neuer to take these two kings for their lawful soueraignes That which I speake I haue by good information from many that were faine to passe through that strait and I know one amongst the rest more néere me then the rest who rather then he would giue credit to their doctrine departed from his confessour without receiuing absolution These words are set downe by a Catholike papist a French man in the booke called the Iesuites Catechisme Lib. 3. cap. 12. fol. 165. fol. 166. Note heere gentle Reader these important points with me First that not onely our English papists but euen the French also do write the same argument in substance against the Iesuites and their damnable doctrine Secondly that they vse confession as an instrument of patricidie euen of Gods annoynted princes Thirdly that they would absolue none which acknowledged true loyaltie to their soueraignes Fourthly that they caused all those whom they did absolue to sweare by the holy gospell neuer to take the king now regnant nor king Henry his predecessor for their lawfull soueraignes It therefore is high time for all kings to abandon and expell all this cursed crue out of their kingdomes territories and dominions Jesuitisme agréeth with the Anabaptists opinion in two propositions in medling with state matters and in causing princes and kings to be murdered accordingly to the conueniencie of their affaires I will adde that in the carriage of this Iesuiticall warre within France there was some conformitie of names betweene this and that the Anabaptists vndertooke in Germanie the yeare 1535. for they had one Iohn Mathew their chiefe prophet vnder Iohn Leydon their king and one Bernard Rotman and Bernard Cniperdolin principall actors in their faction for the seducing of sâ—mple people euen as our Iesuites had their father Claudius Mathew and Bernard Rouellet I will not héere recite the other particulars of our troubles being contented plainely to haue shewed vnto you that our Iesuites were the first seminaries thereof These words are set downe in the Iesuites Catechisme Lib. 3. cap. 11. fol. 164. Note heere gentle Reader that the French papists write as sharpely against the Iesuites as doe our secular popish priests And consequently the priests assertions and reports of them are of more credit in that behalfe The Iesuites hauing set foote in Portugall sollicited the king Sebastian by all manner of illusions to make an vniuersall law that none might be called to the Crowne vnlesse he were of their societie and moreouer elected by the consent and suffrages of the same Whereunto they could not attaine albeit they met with the most deuout superstitious prince that could be They were the men that kindled the first coales of that accursed league which hath béene the vtter ruine and subuersion of France In fauour of the Spaniard they set on worke to kill the king one Peter Barriere whom they caused to be confessed in their Colledge at Paris afterwards to receiue the Sacrament and hauing confirmed him by an assured promise of Paradise as a true martyr if he died in that quarrell they set forward this valiant champion who was thrise at the verie point to execute his accursed enterprise and God as often miraculously stayed his hand vntil at length being apprehended at Melun he receuied yâ— iust hyre of his traiterous intention in the yeare 1593. I speake nothing but what mine eies can witnesse and what I had from his owne mouth when he was prisoner View and peruse all the iniquities that you will you shall finde none so barbarous as this To perswade an impietie to kill a king and then to couer it with such a seeming maske of pietie In a word to destroy a soule a king paradise and our Church all at a blow to make way for their Spanish and halfe-pagan designments Thus is it written in the Iesuites Catechisme Lib. 3 cap. 18. fol. 185. Note heere gentle Reader these materiall points with me First that the Iesuites labour with might and maine as our Secular priests truly write of them to ouerrule the whole world For they would haue had a generall law made that none should be made king of Portugall vnlesse he were a Iesuite and also elected by their consent and suffrages Secondly that they suborned Peter Barriere to kill his and their liegelord the king of France Thirdly that they abused the Sacrament to that end and purpose Fourthly that they promised him Paradise and to be canonized for a martyr if he should kill his soueraigne and die in that quartell Fiftly that all this was done in the honour and behalfe of the Spanish king Put all these together and see if the same be not the Iesuiticall practise heere in England as the Secular priestes haue told vs. It happened vpon Saint Iohn Enangelists day in the yeare 1594. after the reducing of Paris vnder obedience to their soueraigne that the king going to his chamber accompanied with many princes and lords found himselfe vnlookt for sodainly strokeÌ„ in the mouth with a knife so that neither he nor those that were with him could perceiue it For assoone as Iohn Chastell who was the traytor and but nineteene yeares of age had giuen the stroke he dropped downe the knife and set himselfe in the midst of the prease Euerie one was in a maze and busie to thinke who had done that trayterous déed and it wanted not much but that this young yâ—uth had made an escape Notwithstanding God would not permit that this detestable act should remaine vnpunished By chance it was that some ore casting his eyes vpon him he became as one sore affrighted and appald with feare But as he promised himselfe to haue the paradise of Iesuites if he died one of their martyrs so also he confessed this fact more readily and promptly then was looked for at his hands Whereby by decree of the Court of Parliament in Paris he was condemned to die I haue no greater argument then this to shew that the trade of murthering was lodged within their Colledges For where there was any exercise of good education and studie no scholler would haue vndertaken such a damnable determination but such a one
vers 26. Borromeo reiected the Iesuites pag. 156. vers 12. Bull renewed by Allen. pag. 85. vers 9. Babington See treason Birket the priest pag. 85. vers 24. C CArdinals letter indited by Parsons Page 170. vers 27. Cardinall Allen. See Allen. Cardinall Bellarmine See Bellarmine Cardinall Boromeo See Boromeo Cardinals poysoned by Iesuites pag. 107. vers 19. pag. 37. vers 34. Cardinall Toledo was Parsons boy pag. 159. 27. Cardinall Pandulphus crowned in the Popes right Pag. 120. pag. 20. Capuchenes why they agree with the Iesuites page 80. vers 20. Conquest of England threatned by the Iesuites page 32. vers 22. Coaches vsuall to Iesuites pag. 9. vers 20. pag. 7. vers 17. pag. 25. vers 18. Coozenage practised by Iesuites pag. 59. vers 16. Confession dissliked by Pope Sixtus pag. 134. vers 16. Church of Rome hereticall pag. 134. vers 9. Confession vsed tyrannically by Iesuites pag. 39. vers 12 Constitutions of the Iesuites are mutable pag. 56 Campion his martyrdome pag. 97. vers 11. Chaunge expected by the papists pag. 101. vers 9. Cogging of the Iesuites pag. 29. Crichton the Iesuite a traytor pag. 45. vers 11. pag. 75. vers 28. pag. 181. vers 12. D DEuill brought Iesuites into England pag. 84. vers 22. pag. 86. vers 8. Doctrine of Iesuites is contrarie to the truth pag. 133. vers 21. Duke de Medina threatned to kill all pag. 11. vers 3. Duke of Parma intituled to England pag. 23. p. 79. Duke of Guise should haue inuaded England pag. 75. pag. 84. vers 32. Duke of Alua purposed to inuade this land pag. 83. Deuill brought the Iesuits into England pag. 84. pag. 83. v. 22. Deuill ruleth and raigneth in the Iesuites pag. 68. vers 3. Dissention betweene the priests and Iesuites pag. 19. Day of channge expected pag. 101. vers 9. E EQuiuocation of the Iesuites pag. 29. pag. 35. vers 13. Expences of the Iesuites pag. 34. vers 15. pag. 26. vers 31. Exercise vsed by the Iesuites pag. 29. vers 6. pag. 130. Examination of the Popes dealing pag. 94. vers 16. F FRench Ambassadour pag. 82. vers 5. French king murdered by Iesuites pag. 37. vers 34. pag. 107. vers 34. French king banished the Iesuites pag. 36. vers 3. Firebrands of sedition pag. 36. vers 21. pag. 80. vers 1. Ferdinando Earle of Darbie pag. 22. vers 33. Felton set vp the Popes Bull. pag. 83. vers 38. Figges giuen by Iesuites pag. 107. vers 3. G GErrarde the Iesuite a good hunter for money pag. 29. Grains hallowed for treason pag. 86. vers 28. Gybseys-Iesuites pag. 77. vers 35. H HEsket a messenger for treason pag. 22. vers 33. Haddocke a badde fellow pag. 30. vers 9. pag. 165. vers 8. High councell of reformation pag. 80. vers 8. pag. 81. v. 5. Hallowed grains See grains I IEsuites by secret vowes pag. 78. vers 9. Iesuites are arrant traytors pag. 75. vers 35. pag. 12. pag. 11. pag. 44. vers 5. pag. 22. vers 17. Iesuites are great lyers pag. 53. pag. 35. vers 13. pag. 77. vers 27. pag. 58. Insuites are cruell tyrants pag. 80. pag. 73. vers 6. pag. 132. vers 34. Iesuites make a triple vow pag. 17. vers 35. pag. 46. pag. 47. Iesuites are States-men pag. 2. Iesuites ride like Earles Pag. 24. vers 22. pag. 34. vers 12. Iesuites must haue their chambers perfumed pag. 7. vers 17. Iesuites are murtherers pag. 107. pag. 7. vers 12. pag. 42. pag. 37. vers 34. pag. 23. pag. 107. vers 18. Iesuites are diuels pag 133. vers 8. pag. 8. Iesuites are right Machiuels pag. 21. vers 20. pag. 15. Iesuites will not come at processions Pag. 133. vers 10. Iesuites are theeues pag. 25. vers 3. Iesuites are proud men pag. 24. vers 21. pag. 25. pag. 26. vers 23. vers 32. pag. 33. vers 24 Iesuites ride in coaches pag. 25. vers 18. pag. 7. vers 16 Iesuites are Scribes and Pharisees page 133. vers 14. Iesuites commaund gentlewomen to pull of their bootes pag. 7. vers 19 Iesuites trowle vp and downe from good cheare to good cheare pag. 7. vers 15 Iesuites promise to restore men to their liuings pag. 32. vers 21. Iesuites doe threaten a conquest pag. 32. vers 22 Iesuites are franke gamsters pag. 2. vers 6 Iesuites cannot abide cloysters P. 2. vers 14 Iesuites vse great penance pag. 7 Iesuites are firebrands of sedition pag. 21. vers 7. See firebrands Iesuites how they pray pag. 20. vers 21 Iesuites the wickedst men vpon earth pag. 15 Isabella of Spayne must haue the Crowne pag. 11. pag. 12. pag. 22. pag. 23. K Kinge of France murdered by the Iesuites p. 107. v. 19. p. 37. v. 34. Kinge of France banished the Iesuites p. 36. v. 3. Kinge of Spaine intendeth to conquer England p. 14 King of Spaine is the life of poperie p. 3. v. 4. Kinge of Spaine did resist the Pope p. 66. v. 15. v. 7. Kinges cannot be deposed by the Pope p. 90. v. 13. p. 88. Kinges haue beene deposed by Popes p. 106. v. 19. p. 119. v. 35. p. 120. L LOpez would haue poysoned the Queene pag. 22. vers 38. League made by the nobilitie to Spaine pag. 128. vers 24. Lawes are iustly made against papists pag. 119. page 124. vers 10. Lands promised to be restored in the conquest page 32. vers 21. Leases may not be let to any but by Iesuites page 31. verse 19. M Murders done by Iesuites page 107. vers 19. Page 37. Vers. 34. Page 38. Vers. 30. Medina will kill all afore him pag. 11. vers 4. Mendoza is a Iesuite pag. 84. vers 34. Martyrdome of Iesuites page 97. vers 9. Miracles done by Iesuites pag. 51. vers 14. Mutabilitie in Ies. religion pag. 55. N NOble men in league with the Spaniards Pag 128. Vers. 24. 129. Noble men take part with the Iesuites pag. 128. vers 24 Noble men assist the priests pag. 128. vers 33. v. 30. New religion of the Iesuites page 89. vers 8. p. 179. v. 29. O OLim dicebamur preferred by the Ies. to the Pope Pag. 178. Vers. 14. Order of the Iesuites page 56. Outcries of the secular priests pag. 21. Outcries of the Iesuites pag. 19. P POpe may be iudged of any man Pag. 94. vers 13. Pope Sixtus damned saith our Iesuite pag. 133. vers 38. Pope Sixtus a monster on earth pag. 133. vers 29. Pope may be an ethnicke pag. 134. vers 5. Pope may be an heretike pag. 133. verse 29. Pope obeyed against Kings page 13. vers 17. Pope cannot depose Kinges page 88. Pope can play trickes of fast and loose p. 125. v. 23. pag. 126. Pope cannot erre and how page 125. Pope erreth not but Sathan vnder his pall pag. 127. uers 4. Pope will depose kinges pag. 120. Pope not the lawfull bishoppe of Rome pag. 3. vers 22. Pope deluded by the Iesuites pag. 30. vers 12. Pope is the cause of all rebellion pag. 82. v. 30. pag.
as was brought vp vnder them In other Colledges they know not what it meant to instruct schollers how to murther kings and specially in ours But in the Iesuits Colledges it is contrarie and preached in their owne assemblies nothing so much as that alone Of the which indéed they were but too prodigall in their sermons These words are set downe in the Iesuites Catechisme Lib. 3. cap. 8. fol. 155. When our Iesuites saw themselues remoued from their princes fauour they began to lay a snare to intrappe him And as their societie is composed of all sorts of people some for the penne others for practise so had they amongst them one father Henry Sammier of Luxenburge a man disposed for all affaires and resolued to any hazard This fellow was sent by them in the yeare 1581. towards diners Catholike princes to sound the fourd And to say truly they could not haue chosen one more fit For he disguised himselfe into as manie formes as obiects one while attired like a souldier an other while like a priest by and by a countrey swaine Dice cards and women were as ordinarie with him as his presired houres of prayer saying he did not thinke he sinned in this because it was done to Gods glory and that he miâ—â—t not be discouered changing his name together with his habite according to the countries where he purposed to negotiate These words are to be read in the Catechisme Lib. 3. cap. 11. Fol 162. William Crichton the Iesuite went into Spaine by the licence of his generall Whither he is no sooner come but he practiseth to infinuate himselfe into the kings fauour And to that effect drawes a tree of the descent and pedegree of the Infanta his daughter shewing therein that the Crownes of England Scotland did by right appertaine to her and so incite him the rather to take armes against the Scottish king hee scattered abroad diffamatorie libels against him Whereunto the king of Spayne giuing no eare Crichton determined with himselfe by letters to sollicite the Catholike Nobilitie of Scotland to the same purpose and to that ende wrote letters in the yeare 1592. to Gourdon and other Iesuites remaining in Scotland whereby hee gaue them to vnderstand in what grace he was with the king who by his incitement was resolued aswell for the inuasion of England as for the restoring of the auncient Religion in Scotland These words are in the Iesuites Catechisme Lib. 3. cap. 16. fol. 173. Certaine young diuines infected with the poyson of the Iesuites loosed the reines to subiects against their king in the yeare 1589. and Commolet the Iesuite with his adherents sounded the trumpet of warre in their pulpets against the king deceased Whereupon insued those outragious disorders which we haue seene in France since that time These words are in yâ— Catechisme Li. 3. c. 14. fol. 169. Walpole the Iesuite in the yeare 1597. deliuered a poysonous confection to Squire therewith to make away the Queene of England his Soueraigne The Iesuites at Doway in the yeare 1598. sent the Cooper of Iper to kill Graue Maurice of Nassaw These wordes are set downe in the Iesuites Catechisme Lib. 3. cap. 13. fol. 168. It is well knowne O Iesuites that your Colledge was the fountaine and seminarie of all those calamities which we endured during the last troubles There was the rebellion plotted and contriued there was it fully and wholy nourished and maintained Your prouincials your rectors your deuout superiours were the first that troade that path they that first and last dealt with this merchandise Your Colledge was the retreat or Randeuous of all such as had vowed and sold themselues aswell to the destruction of the State as to the murther of the king In which your doings you at that time gloried and triumpht both in your sermons and lectures Sequitur this was the houre of Gods wrath who hauing long temporized with your sinnes thought it good to make Chastell a spurre in the hearts of the iudges to incite them to do iustice aswell vpon you as vpon him that you might all serue for an example for posteritie to wonder at To the accomplishment of this worke he permitted that Chastell who had beene nurtured and brought vp in your schoole should assay to put in practise your deuout lectures and exhortations against the king not in the countrey but in the citie of Paris and that his dwelling house should be not in any obscure corner of the towne but in the verie heart of the citie in a house right opposite to the gate of the pallace the ancient habitation of our kings and of the supreame and soueraigne iustice of Fraâ—nce This house belonged to the father who was so infortunate as not to reueale to the Magistrate the damnable intention of his sonne whereof hee had knowledge as himselfe confessed God made speciall choyse of that place of purpose to make the punishment more notorious For which cause this house was râ—â—nated and raced by order and in the place thereof a Pyâ—amis or piller raysed bearing the memoriall not onely of Chastels offence but of the Iesuites also and this to stand in opposite view of this great royall Pallace To the ende that our posteritie may knowe heereafter how highly Fraunce is beholden to this holy societie of Iesus These wordes are set downe in the Iesuites Catechisme Lib. 3. cap. 19. fol. 191. Note here gentle reader with me these important obseruations First that Iohn Chastell but 19. yeares of age went about trayterously with a knife prepared for that purpose to murther his naturall Soueraigne Secondly that hee the said youth was fully perswaded by Iesuiticall education and doctrine that to murther his liege Lord the King was the readie way to heauen Thirdly that nothing was more freely taught in the schooles of the Iesuites then the doctrine of the killing of lawefull kinges Fourthly that their sermons abounded with this kind of maladie Fiftly that the Iesuites imployed in this kind of marchandise one Henrie Sammier a most licentious dissolute villaine giuen to all vices vnder heauen Sixtly that he reputed all his vices for vertues in respect of his godly intents and purpose viz. Of killing Kinges Seuenthly that the Iesuite Crichton sollicited the Spanish King to inuade both England and Scotland affirming that the crownes of both the kingdomes did by right pertaine vnto him Eightly that the Iesuite Commolet and his adherents sounded the trumpet of warre against their king euen out of the pulpets â—s if it had beene an high point of diuinitie and most fit for edification Ninthly that the Iesuite Walpoole endeuoured by poyson to take away the life of his Soueraigne Tenthly that the Iesuites at Doway sent the Cooper of Iper to kill Graue Maurice of Nassaw Eleuently that the colledge of the Iesuites was the fountaine and seminarie of the calamities in France That in their colledge was all rebellion plotted coÌ„triued nourished maintained Twelftly that the prouincials rectors and
to institute three seminaries on his Maiesties costes and charges that graines and indulgences must be published in England on the Spanish behalfe for all that take his part that all who come out of Spayne must sweare vow professe or at least acknowledge an obedieÌ„ce to master Blackwell in all things Yea euen to become ranke traytors against their prince and country for that is principally intended These words are set downe in the end of the preface which is annexed to the sparing discouerie Parsons caused diuers by fayre meanes and threats to subscribe that in all conferences they should when they came into England aduance the Infantaes title not intending therby to expect her Maiesties death but by all means to remoue her from the present possession of her royall estate These words are set downe in the discouerie Pag. 57. as also in the important considerations Page 34. By these testimonies gentle reader two things are cleared the one that Parsons the Iesuite aliâs bastard Cowbucke taketh vpon him as roundly as traiterously to place and displace to put on and take of royall Diademes at his good will and pleasure The other that the three English hispanized semiminaries erected in Saint Lucars Siuill and Valledolid are and must be mainteyned to further ayde and assist the Spanish bloodie intendments against their vndoubted soueraigne and natiue countrey CHAP. VIII Of the Popes authoritie I Haue discoursed at large of this theame in my booke of motiues I meane heere to speake thereof onely as the printed bookes published by the secular priests haue ministred â—t occasion to me Where I wish the indifferent reader to marke well what I shall by Gods helpe deliuer in this behalfe In which my dispute I will for perspicuitie sake proceede by way of sections Sect. I. Of the Popes fact in assoyling her Maiesties subiects from their homage to her TOuching the Bull of Pious Quintus and the same since confirmed by Gregorie 13. against her Maiestie as neither the Spaniard nor any other forraine power is eyther by expresse or implied termes thereof incited to dominion ouer this land as little are English hearts therby disallegeanced so from her Maiestie as to concurre with any forraine inuadour For though the said Buls vpon her Maiesties excommunication therein promulged doe de facto assoyle the subiects of this Realme from their homage to her it therfore followes not that they must and ought to be parties against her Maiestie and their country to a forraine power howsoeuer pretending euen Religion or the ciuill good thereunto For that were to conster the Popes act so ouermuch in religion and grace as to the destruction of nature which were against the marime aforesaid These words are taken out of the answere to the Iesuited gentleman Page 39. Sect. II. Of power granted to Saint Peter A Man to goe against his owne countrey is and euer was holden in the ciuill part of the world an act contraius gentum also vnnaturall yea against all grace Besides that Christ neuer did delegate any such power to S. Peter as tradere gentem in gentem that being a meere temporall reuenge and he but his vicar spirituall Sect. III. Of the confirmation of the power named in the former Section SAint Peters commission against transgressing kings and kingdomes is no more then onely to denounce by excommunication and other the like ecclesiasticall censures Gods displeasure against them for their transgression and not to exercise the secular sword at all These words conteyned in the third and second sections are set downe in the answere to the Iesuiticall gentleman Page 40. Sect. IIII. Of the explication of the former confirmation I Say againe I doe not see howe that chaire and those keyes to be imbrued in blood and to atchieue conquests especially such a tradition as of England to Spaine by the sword can any wayes stand eyther with Christs or his said vicars honour These words are set downe in the answere to the Iesuited gentleman Page 42. Sect. V. Of the obeysance to the Popes comamundement WE all of the secular cleargie doe with one assent vtterly renounce both Archpriest and Iesuites as arrant traytors to their prince and countrey whom to death we will neuer obey no if the Popes holinesse should charge vs to obey in this sense to aduance an enemie to the English crowne we would neuer yeeld to it as by no law of nature of nations or of man to be compelled thervnto These words are set downe in the preface to the important considerations Fol. 9. pag. 2. Sect. VI. Of the Popes stat commaundement in matters of treason THe secular priests hauâ—ng told vs that the Pope denounced his â—ul against her Maiesty purposely to suffer the intended rebellion that he gaue order to Ridolphi the Florentine to take 150000. crownes to set forward the said attempt and much other matter to the like effect wherof I haue spoken at large in the sixt chapter doe adde thervnto these expresse words when we first heard these particulars â—e did not beleeue them but would haue laid our liues they had beene false but when we saw the booke and found them there God is our witnesse we were much amazed and can say no more but that his holines was misinformed and directly drawn to these courses These words are set downe in the important considerations Page 10. Now out of these waightie and important points conteyned in these Sections certaine conclusions are necessarily inferred for which I haue reserued the next chapter wishing the reader seriously to obserue the same CHAP. IX Of certaine memorable conclusions worthie to be kept in perpetuall remembrance The first conclusion THe bishop of Rome hath no authoritie deriued from Christ or S. Peter by which he may lawfully depriue and dispossesse her Maiestie that now most happily raigneth ouer vs from her royall Diademe and regalitie and giue the same to the king of Spayne to Isabella his sister or to any other forraine potentate whosoeuer This conclusion is effectually proued by all the sections of the former chapter For in the first section this authoritie is said to tend to the destruction of nature which power is denied to the Pope In the second section it is flatly affirmed that Christ neuer gaue any such power to Saint Peter whom all papists will grant to haue had as great power as their Pope hath I am sure In the third section it is said plainly that Saint Peters commission was onely to denounce by excommunication Gods displeasure against trangressors of his lawes In the fourth section it is auouched that this kinde of proceeding doth neither stand with Christs honour nor with his vicars In the fift section it is affirmed in plaine termes that subiects can not be charged to obey such a commaundement and the reason is yeelded to be this because it is against the law of nature of nations and of man In the sixt section the priests
court of Rome And yet vnwitingly they condemne themselues in an other place graunting that they may not by worde or writing impugne the parliamentall Lawes of this land Thirdly by not appealing they should haue beene preiudiciall to prince Church and all estates as is in the second obseruation but not to the prince Church or State of England ergo to the prince Church and State of Rome for of force they must so meane the force of trueth hath inforced their penne Fourthly they appealed for her Maiesties securitie as is in the third obseruation where I cannot enough admire the impudent insolencie of these disloyall Seculars who make a treacherous flowrish as if the securitie of their dread Soueraigne did depend vpon their Popes good pleasure and their treacherous appeale vnto him Herein they make hauocke other Maiesties statute-lawes which els where by popish statization and equinocation they say they may not offend A note worthy to be remembred Fifthly they appealed for the quiet of the state which is as disloyally spoken as the former for God auert that the peace of her Maiesties state and her Realmes do at any time stand in neede of the Popes fauour the intreatie of the sedicious Seculars Sixtly they appealed for the auoydance of inuasions and conspiracies as is in the fiâ—th obseruation out of which confession I inferre these two important corollaries First that conspiracies and inuasions are still intended against her sacred person her royall throne her crowne her state and dominions Secondly that the Pope is the principall actor in all plots conspiracies treacheries inuasions and conquests intended against the Queen her realms and faithfull subiects I therefore conclude that the Seculars are this day as dangerous in al treasonable plots bloody practizes and disloyall conspiracies as they haue beene heretofore For albeit they belabour themselues seriously to hide and bolster out all their cursed intendements against their dread soueraigne and natiue Countrey especially when they are occasioned to speake of matters of state as they doe or may concerne their owne persons yet doe they but equiuocate and temporize in so doing and that as scornefully and treacherously as euer did the Iesuites Of which point none can be ignorant that shall seriously peruse and ponder this discourse Wherefore as the Seculars say of the Iesuites so say I of them that though they sweare can yet we not safely beleeue them in state-affairs the reason is euident because they doe not acknowledge any magistrate vnder her Maiestie to be their lawfull and competent iudge If they say write or sweare the contrary yet giue no credite to them therein for euen then doe they seeke to delude the Magistate by their hypocriticall and execrable equiuocations No no it neither doth nor can stand with popish religion to thinke and beleeue that Queen Elizabeth whom God long preserue ouer vs can ordeine any competent iudge ouer them And consequently vntill the Seculars renounce the Pope and his damnable procéedings against Christian kings their royal diademes and sacred regalities they will doubtlesse delude the maiestrates with their fondely inuented equiuocationes This is a graue aduiso which may not beforgotten Aduiso V. Of the opinion affection and true meaning of the seculars in all the treasonable practises bloudie conspiracies and other disloyall intendmentes against their dread soueraigne and natiue countrie THe seculars conspire concurre and iumpe with the Iesuites in opinion affection and inward meaninge touching the Popes authoritie the bloudie conspiracies inuasions conquest other disloyall intendments against most noble Queene Elizabeth and our natiue country this I proue by manie strong weightie and irrefragable reasons The first reason The pretenses of such practises were generall and common to all Catholikes alike all maintaining one the same opinion concerning what might be done by Apostolical power authoritie neuer talking of what was necessarie Thus is it written quodl 8. art 9. pag. 277. but the seculars are papists aswell as the Iesuites Ergo of the same opinion with the Iesuites Heere the reader may see plainely that the seculars iumpe with the opinion of the Iesuits touching the popes authoritie For by apostolicall power they vnderstand the power and authoritie of the Pope To which must be added which is alreadie proued that the Pope hath excommunicated her Maiesty de facta and hath beene the chiefest agent in all treasonable practises bloodie conspiracies inuasions conquests and other execrable intendments against her Maiesties person honour state and dominions To this must likewise be added which is also proued that the Iesuites affirme malepeartly damnablie and disloyally that the Pope hath done nothing in the premisses but that he lawfully might doe The second Reason Among many examples of the deare loue and compassion of the Popes holines towards the inhabitants and princes of this land in times of imminent commonwealths dangers the chiefe since the Norman conquest was shewed in the daies and raignes of king Henrie the second surnamed Fitzempresse and of his sonne king Iohn the third Monarke of England of a Plantagenets royall race Against whom hauing vsed his fatherly correction as pastor vnivniuersall ouer the whole flocke of Christ for their great crueltie and tyrannie vsed towards their naturall subiects yet vpon their repentance mercifully receiuing them into grace and fauour of Gods Church againe his holines on the behalfe of the second did not onely accurse and excommunicate prince Lewis of France with all his adherents forcing him to yeeld vp all the interest right and title that he or his posteritie had or euer should haue to the English crowne but also surrendred vp the said crowne of England franke and free to king Iohn and his heires and successours from of the head of Cardinall Pandulphus hauing sit inthronized three daies therewith in the Popes right And thousands there are in England that desire as much Thus is it written quodl 8. art 9. page 327. Out of these words it is euidently deduced that the Pope taketh vpon him though most iniuriously and tyrannically to translate kingdomes to depose kings Emperours and Monarkes and to bestow their princely Diademes and royall regalities as seemeth best to his good pleasure Yea which is more to be admired the seculars who in outward shew of words by often and earnest protestations affirme themselues to be most loyall subiects approue the Pope in so doing For first where the Pope had excommunicated and deposed king Henry they terme it his fatherly correction Secondly they say he did it by his vniuersall authority ouer the whole Church Thirdly they terme the deposing of prince Lewis and the restoring of king Iohn to the crowne the chiefest fatherly compassion since the Norman coÌ„quest Fourthly they tell vs that Cardinall Pandulphus was three daies enthronized with the crowne of England vpon his head in the right of the Pope which forraine tyrannicall fact they commend approue Fiftly they tell vs that
Reason All that come out of Spaine must sweare to be rancke traytors against Quéene Elizabeth This is proued in the second booke chapt 4. page 6. Ergo. c. The eight Reason The seminaries in Spaine were intended and erected of purpose to cause a conquest and to bring England into the slauery of the Spaniard This is proued quodlibet 8. art 10. page 278. Ergo. c. The ninth Reason The seculars in their answere to the Iesuited gentlemaÌ„ doe prowdly vaunt of their great power and forces in the 68 page Ergo. The 10 Reason In all the blondie attempts and treasonable practises of the Pope and Spaniards none were more forward then the secular priests This is proued in the important considerations page 15. Ergo. The 11. Reason The seminaries were willing to colour hide and conceale all the attempts intents practises and proceedinges of the Iesuites vntill they were intangled by penall lawes these words are set downe in the preface to the quodlibets Ergo. The 12. Reason All papists seculars and Iesuites maintained one and the same opinion in all the practises and bloudie complots concerning England This is proued quodli 8. art 9. page 277. But some seculars were as forward against Quéene Elizabeth as the bloudie Spaniards as is proued in the 10. Reason Ergo vnfit men to haue a tolleration The 13. Reason The seculers granut fréely as is allready proued at large that they haue many friends both of the nobility and of the gentrie who loue them dearely are deuoted to the Pope Ergo. many other reasons may be gathered to this effect out of this precedent discourse but I will not stande vpon the matter Her Maiesties graue and wise counsellours know best what is to be done herein onely this I wish to be remembred which is already made manifest in the second booke chapter 4. paragraph 1. that the Iesuites are banished out of the kingdome of France for their seditious dealing there For doubtlesse if they be vnfit persons to dwell in that Realme where popery is openly professed and therefore are banished from thence it séemeth not to stand with christian pollicy to grant them a tolleration to liue as they list in England And séeing the seculars were as deepe as forward in all bloudie practises as yâ— Iesuites or spaniards as is alreadie proued seeing with all they doe still professe their obedience to the Pope her Maiesties professed mortall enemie they seeme as dangerous and as vnfit to enioy a tolleration as doe the Iesuites What say I of a tolleratioÌ„ seeing the seculars coÌ„fesse as I haue proued that the penall lawes are iustly made against them it were not a misse thinke I if this their generall maxime were put in execution viz. fiat iustitia ruant coeli For as our quodlibetist telleth vs the execution of priest-hood and treason are now so linked together by the Iesuites in England as they cannot exhort any to the catholike faith but dogmaâ—â—zando in so doing they draw him in effect to rebellion quodl 9. art 4. page 304. note the next reason The 14. Reason The Pope will not suffer nor permit the Iewes to dwell in Rome vnles they will orderly and dutifully heare the popish sermons in their popish Churches and yet are the popish sermons as much against the conscience of the Iew as are the English sermons against the conscience of the papist Againe the Iewes are not the Popes subiects and so doe they owe lesse dutie to the Pope theÌ„ our english papists owe to Quéene Elizabeth And consequently if the Popes practise with the Iewes be made a rule to square and measure the actions of his popish English vassals they must haue no toleration to abide in England vnles they will come to the Church to heare godly sermons To which I must néedes adde that the Iewes liue peaceably in Rome and doe not any way meddle in seditious and treasonable practises which for all that is a thing very common and vsuall with our English papists as is alreadie proued If therefore the execution of popish priesthood be lincked inseperably with treason as is alreadie proued I hope popery will bee so farre from a tolleration as no disloyall papist shall be permitted to haue any footinge within this land The complement of the three former bookes Paragraph I. Containing a golden redolent posie for the Iesuites and their Iesuited familie presented by the secular Priests to signifie their amitie THe Iesuites and their arch-priesbyteran or Spanish faction inueighing against the secular priests for appealing to the Sea apostolike for iustice in spiritualibus and to the regall throne of sacred maiestie in defence apologiticall of their innocencie in temporalibus do peruert all laws customes and orders and arrogate to theÌ„selues a dignitie preheminence authoritie aboue the Pope and Prince are therebie guiltie of high treason These words are set downe in the preface to their dialogue Note heere gentle reader these important points first that by the flat testimonie of the seculars the Iesuites are censured to be guiltie of high treason and consequently that they are worthily condemned by the lawes of this land for the same secondly that these good fellowes the secular priests do make themselues guiltie of the same treason though not in the same degree For their appeale to the Pope in spiritualibus implyeth high treason against their naturall soueraigne Which to be so themselues confesse els where as shall appeare in the next paragraph Paragraph II. Shewing that the secular priests vnawares condemne themselues in their owne publike writings THe seminaries were willing at the first to colour hide and conceale all making the Iesuites causes attempts intents practises and procéedings their owne in euery thing and yéelding to them the preheminence fame honor and renowne in euery action acted by them vntill at last they were intangled by penall lawes iustly made against them equally as against the Iesuits These words are set downe in the preface to the quodlibets Note heere gentle reader these important points with me first that by the free confession of the seminarie priests the penall statutes are iustly made against them and consequently that the seminaries are iustly condemned for treason Secondly that the penal lawes were made as iustly against the seminaries as they were made against the Iesuites and consequently seeing the notorious treasons of the Iesuites were the cause of the said penall lawes it followeth by necessarie consequution that the seminaries are guiltie either of the same or at the least of other like treasons Thirdly that the seminaries for a longe time made all the bloudie intents and treasonable practises of the Iesuites their owne in euerie respect Fourthly that they honoured the Iesuites euen in their bloudie attempts and cuâ—sed treasons Fiftly that the seminaries did hide and conceale the treasons of the Iesuits for the space of twenty yeares together For the Iesuites began their treasons in the yeare 1580.