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A08075	Newes from the low-countreyes. Or The anatomy of Caluinisticall calumnyes, manifested in a dialogue betweene a Brabander, and a Hollander Vpon occasion of a placcart, lately published in Holla[n]d, against the Iesuites, priests, friars &c. by those that there assume vnto themselues, the tytle of the high-mighty-lords, the States &c. Translated out of the Netherland language, into English. By D.N.; Anatomie van Calviniste calumnien. English.	Verstegan, Richard, ca. 1550-1640.; D. N., fl. 1622.; Cresswell, Joseph, 1556-1623, attributed name.	1622 (1622)	STC 18443; ESTC S120471	29,088	102

sundry Orders and that a Duke hath byn seene to become a Capuchin in Paris and the Brother of a Duke to become of the same austere order in Bruxelles I was mooued to thinke that it may belōg before we may see a Gewse or Caluinian Duke or Prince become a Minister albeit that condition of life obligeth not to the making and performing of any such vowes or to any austerity at all but to liue with ease in the Ghospell of free liberty There is a prouerbe in the Netherland language that Herman did in tyme get on his dublet after he had byn seauen yeares drawing on of one sleeue but I suppose Hermans dublet might wholy be gotten on and quite worne out before a man might see such persons moued by the great piety they might obserue in Ministers to enter with them into the seruice of the Word But to returne vnto my precedent purpose me thinkes it were not heere impertinent to see and consider what cause there may be found of the great hatred which Caluinists beare vnto Iesuytes and not Caluinists alone but all other Sectaryes for albeit they beare il will and hatred vnto all Catholikes especially vnto all Ecclesiasticall persons yet is it manifest vnto al the world that the Iesuites of all others haue the precedence in the malice of Caluinists And seeing something there may seeme to be that is singular in these religious men more then in others I haue the more endeauored to discerne what this may be and three thinges I haue obserued 1. This first is that there was neuer any Order in the Catholik Church that in so short a space hath dispersed it selfe so farre ouer the world to make the name of Iesus Christ knowne vnto heathen and Pagan people 2. The second is that there was neuer any Order that in so short a tyme hath written so many learned bookes aswel in diuinity as in al other laudable sciences 3. The third is that there was neuer any Order that in so short a tyme hath had so great a number of Martyrs as well by the persecution of Pagans as Apostata Christians As for their exercises of deuotion labour in preaching hearing of confessions instructing and bringing vp of youth in learning without any recompence of their parents making of attonements where there is dissention and discord readines at all houres of the day and night to visit the sicke and to consolate their soules is not now needfull heere to be spoken at large but when I well consider their manifold deedes of Deuotion and Charity I remember the wordes of Christ vnto the Iewes when for his good deedes they would haue stoned him to death I haue wrought many good workes among you for which of those will you stone me Enuy is the deadly enemy of vertue and of wel-prospering The Iesuites thankes be to God do go well forward in al their works of piety and for these Sectaryes will stone them and beeing themselues the actual murtherers of Iesuytes it is no maruell that they seeke to robbe tak away the good name fame of those whose lyues they let not to take away nor is it any wonder that they to coulour their owne tyrannous murthering of Iesuites giue out that Iesuytes are murtherers of Princes Potentates As if themselues did put Iesuites to death therby to saue the lyues of Princes potentates which Iesuites would els bereaue them off But what loue Caluinists and principally Holland-Gewse-Caluinistes do beare vnto Princes themselues doe now adayes the lōger the more make better known vnto the greatest Princes of Christendome then they can make knowne vnto them that Iesuites are murtherers of them and of Potentates The Hollander I must confesse that you haue heere manifested vnto me much more then before I euer knew or heard of But yet notwithstanding that it cannot be perceaued that the Iesuites haue had any hād in the deaths of any of the eight Princes heere by you mentioned it should seeme they haue had knowledge of intentions of murthering Princes as of Queene Elizabeth of England King Henry the fourth of France before he was murthered by Rauaillac his Maiesty that is now King of Great Britayne by the gunpowder Treason his Excellency Prince Maurice in Holland The Brabander For the first concerning Queene Elizabeth of England if we well consider her abandoning of the Catholike Religion which at her coronation she swore to mayntayne and that beeing a woman she tooke vpon her supreame authority in Ecclesiasticall causes which your Caluinian deuines in Holland do affirme to be Idolatry either in man or woman ordayning also by her Statutes that those who should deny to confesse her Ecclesiasticall authority vpon their oathes should suffer death as traytors That she deposed and put from their places the Catholike Bishops and Prelates casting some in prison forcing others to fly the realme That she ordayned a forfayture of twenty poundes a moneth for not comming to her Caluinian-protestant Church-seruice with other lesser forfaytures for Catholikes of lesse meanes who in regard of their consciences absented themselues from the sayd seruice by meanes whereof the prisons euery where became so replenished with Catholikes that new prisons must be made for thē because the old could not conteyne the number Moreouer the putting to death of so many Catholike Priestes as also the putting to death and ruyning of some Gentlemen and others that had harbored them The question now is whether Gewses or Caluinists being to the contrary so treated by any Prince that had sworne to maintayne their Caluinian religion they would with patience endure it Who can belieue this Seeing they haue not letted to rebell agaynst their Princes and Soueraignes that haue intruded no innouation or change in religion vpon them as agaynst the Kings of Spaine France and against Mary Queene of Scotland who I say can belieue this when it is apparent that the very ground-worke and foundation of Caluinian religion is layed setled vpon rebellion as to all the world it is manifest This Queene Elizabeth was so seuere and cruell that she letted not to burne alyue some of our countrey-men beeing Netherlanders not her borne Subiects for their Anabaptisme and caused some Puritans which are directly concurring in religion with the Caluinists of Holland to be hanged and others to fly the realme and lyue in exile because they had sought both by wryting and preaching to bring the religion of England to the iust forme and fashion of that of Geneua Holland Punishing then the Anabaptistes as heretikes and the Puritans as seditious she hath not letted to vse a greater cloke and colour for her persecuting of Catholikes and this was to cause to be giuen out at diuers times that they meant to kill her She imployed among other for one of her spyes sometyme in France somtyme in Italy one William Parry This Parry coming vpon a tyme out of Italy supposing to get more credit

and fauour came vnto her and told her that at his being in Italy where he bare himselfe as a Catholike hauing leaue so to do he there demaunded of a Iesuyte if it should be a deed well done to kill the Queene and that the Iesuyte answered yea that thereupon he had promised the Iesuyte to do it Parry being then demaunded if he had not in his trauayles abroad byn acquaynted with one Father William Criton a Scotish Iesuyte who at that tyme was prisoner in the Tower of London he answered yea Being then demaunded if he had asked the same question of the sayd Father Criton he answered he had but that Father Criton had disswaded him from it he thought belike that if he had answered yea he should haue byn brought face to face with Father Criton who might haue conuinced shamed him and therefore he thought it easier for him to bely a Iesuyte that was absent then one that was present Father Criton within a whyle after was deliueret out of the Tower and the rather for that he was a Scotsman no borne subiect howbeit he was bannished out of the Countrey Parry because of his seruices in matter of spiery solicited to haue a place and office that now was fallen vacāt the place was giuen to another Parry grew malecontent and cast out wordes of murmuration The Earle of Leycester loued him not he was known and discouered among the Catholikes for a spy that he had broght diuers principall Catholikes in trouble being thus discouered he was grown out of date and vnable to do seruices of the same kind as he had formerly done Parry was apprehended and charged he had an intention to kill the Queene in fine he was hanged and this was at last the reward he got for the good offices he had done The reason why he was hanged seemeth to haue byn that if they had let him liue not giuen him liuing according to his desyre he might haue discouered many secrets he wrote a letter vnto the Queene out of the Tower wherin among other things he sayd vnto her Pitty poore Parry and relieue him for life without liuing is not fit for him It is no custome that a criminall offender and in so haynous a matter as the murthering of a Prince shall not only wryte to be set at liberty but to be prouided of meanes to liue by He knew well that they knew that the counsell which he said was giuen him by a Iesuite in Italy was but an inuention of his owne head for the more conuenient persecuting of such as might be found to haue receaued Iesuytes into their howses of the confiscation of whose goods Parry might haue had his share but it so fell out that Parry played wily-beguyle himselfe For when he came to the gallovves and savv how the matter went he grew so ill contented that he plainly sayd that the Queene after his death would say that she had lost the best keeper of her parke Some yeares after the death of Parry one Edward Squyre was also hanged who as it was giuen out did meane to poyson the Queene Earle of Essex who afterward by the sayd Queene was put to death This Equire came out of Spayne and sayd that a Iesuyte there had coūselled him to poison the Queen and the Earle The poyson he sayd was deliuered him in a bladder in Spayne there with he should annoint the saddle wheron the Earle should ryde and the chayre wherin the Queene should sit This must haue byn a very wonderfull poyson that a chayre a saddle being but annoynted therewith it would kill those who should sit in the one ride on the other Who cānot thinke this to be a most palpable lye how must he then speed that must bring this forcefull poyson in a bladder if any bladder could contein it and anoynt it on the chayre and on the saddle But the lying foolish knaue that came with this tale in his mouth vpon hope of reward because he would not performe the busines but discouered it was notwithstanding rewarded at Tiburne with a halter which was held necessary because it might be thought the Queene had much reasō to sustaine the quarrell of the Hollanders seeing Spayne so much hated her that murtherers were sent from thence for her destruction for Squyre was ouerborne by the force and torment of the racke to intend meane the thing indeed that himselfe came to reueale and so was hanged notwithstanding he was a good Protestant As concerning the constant and glorious Martyr Father Edmund Campian who with others to wit thirteene in number was condemned for hauing in Rome and Rhemes conspired the Queens death as a couple of most false witnesses affirmed is as shamefull and vniust a matter as euer any did passe by way and course of Iustice for after these false witnesses had taken their oathes that these thirteene persons had at Rome and Rhemes on such and such days of such such moneths of such a yeare conspired the Queens death one Mayster Thomas Lancaster a Gentleman and one Mayster William Nicolson being there present and both credit-worthy persons did offer to proue by diuers witnesses that some of these thirteen persons had not byn out of England that yeare wherin the false witnesses had sworne they conspired the Queens death in Rome Rhemes that they had not bin out of England in some yeares both before that yeare and after it and the prisoners themselues protested at the Barre on their soules that in all the dayes of their lyues they had neuer byn all togeather at one tyme in one place but only there that very day And albeit the protestation and offer of proofe made by the two persons before named had byn sufficient in all law and iustice throughout the world to haue discouered these false witnesses and to haue caused them to haue had their deserued punishment yet proceeded the Iudges forward in iniustice and condemned Father Edmund Campian almost all the rest to death as being culpable of that conspiration whereof by these false witnesses they were accused But at this we need not wonder if we consider what the Iustice was of this Queene who letted not to make a law directly contrary to the law of God and all the world that one witnesse only should be sufficient for the condemnation of a man to the losse of life and goods if it were in a case concerning herselfe which without all doubt may cause wonderful iniustice in a coūtrey where such persidious people are inough to be found as for reward will not make scruple to take any oath agaynst whosoeuer it be let the cause be what it will and the more in the cause of the Prince whereby hope of fauour and greater reward is giuen But because the history of this glorious martyr and of those others also that were with him condemned is published to the world in Print in the Latin