THE ANATOMIE OF POPISH TYRANNIE Wherein is conteyned a plaine declaration and Christian censure of all the principall parts of the Libels Letters Edictes Pamphlets and Bookes lately published by the Secular priests and English hispanized Iesuites with their Iesuited Arch-priest both pleasant and profitable to all well affected readers Esdr. vers 42. Magna est veritas praeualet LONDON Printed by Iohn Harison for Richard Bankworth dwelling in Paules Churchyard at the signe of the Sunne 1603. To the Reuerend father the ornament of learning and religion TOBIE the wise graue zealous and worthie Bishop of Durham THat excellent sentence worthie to be written in golden letters Right Reuerend father which the good Iew man of God Zorobabel pronounced confidently before the mightie king Darius viz. Magna est veritas praeualet is this day verified God be blessed for it euen in the publike writings of the Iesuites against the secular priests their owne deare Popish brethren And reciprocally of the secular priestes against the Iesuites their religious fathers and holy fryers The deepe and serious consideration whereof hath possessed mine heart with such vnspeakable solace as I can not easily with penne and ynke expresse the same Such is the force of truth my good Lord that it hath enforced the professed enemies of truth a thing verie rare and to be admired to testifie the truth against themselues and to publish the same in printed books to the view of the whole world God say the popish priests hath most straungely and in verie deed as it may be termed miraculously reuealed the truth which long hath beene hidden Thus them selues write of themselues Hence proceedeth that rare conceiued ioy which hath enuironed me on euerie side And which I am well assured cannot but bring great contentment to your Lordship and to all true hearted English subiects For as the Apostle saith Some preach Christ through enuie and strife and some of good will The one sort preacheth Christ of contention and not purely but the others preach him of loue What then yet Christ is preached all manner waies whether it be vnder pretence or syncerely and I therein ioy yea and will ioy Thus wrteth the chosen vessell of our Lord Iesus The Iesuites puffed vp with enuie and malice against the secular priests doe vnwittingly and vnwillingly bolt out many important truthes not onely against themselues and to their owne great preiudice but also to the euerlasting scandall and vtter ruine of theit patched hotch-potch late Romish religion The Secular priests turmoyled with the vniust vexations of the cruell Iesuites seeke by all aswell indirect as direct meanes to redeeeme their iniust molestations and to defend themselues from their villanous and diabolicall dealing The while they are thus busied they cannot inuent or deuise how to find out any end of their miseries but by laying open to the world the badde and irreligious conuersation of the Iesuites and by imputing to them those disloyall treacheries and most bloodie complots wherewith their owne hearts and hands had sometime beene imbrewed And consequently while they are encombred to disgrace and gall the malepeart and trayterous Iesuites they doe vnawares grieuously wound themselues euen with their owne chosen weapons They freely grant and can it not denie that all papists were kindly dealt withall vntill such time as themselues gaue iust cause by their disloyall plots and bloudie practises against her Maiestie of greater restraint and sharper proceeding against them For first they grant that the Earles of Northūberland Westmerlād with their adherēts were rebels their insurrectiō flat treasō that the pope ioyned with thē that he excōmunicated her Maiestie that he assoyled her subiects from their allegeance to her that he sent two popish priests Morton and VVebbe my selfe knew them both right well to bring the excommunication into England which they effected accordingly that the Pope assigned the Duke of Norfolke to be the head of the rebellion that he gaue order to Ridolphi the Florentine to take 150000 crownes to set forwarde the saide rebellion That the King of Spaine at the Popes instance determined to send the Duke of Alua into England that with all his forces he might assist the Duke of Norfolke Secondly they grant that the pope plotted with Stuckeley Fitzmo rize and others both English Irish and Italian my selfe was euen then in Rome for enterprise by force into Ireland vnder pretence of religion to further which cruell attempt Sanders did afterward thrust himselfe personally into the like action Thirdly they confesse that Parsons Campian Sherwin and others were sent disloyally into this land from pope Gregory the 13. my selfe was then in Rome and that Parsons presently vpon their arriuall fell to his trayterous Iesuiticall courses and bestirred himselfe with tooth and naile how he might set her maiesties crowne vpon an others heade Fourthly they confesse that the Iesuite Heywood was sent into Englād from the Pope that he tooke vpon him to call a synode and to abrogate auncient customes to the great scandall of many Fiftly they confesse that the Pope plotted with the King of Spaine for the assistance of the Duke of Guise to enter vpon the sodaine and to aduance the Queene of Scotland to the crowne of England For the better effecting whereof Mendoza a Iesuite as they write then ledger in this land for the king of Spaine set on worke Frances Throcmorton and many others They adde there vnto that about the same time Arden and Somervile had conspired how they might lay violent hands vpon her Maiesties sacred person Sixtly they write that about the same time Parrie was also plotting with the Iesuites beyond the sea how he might haue effected the like villanie Seuenthly they confesse freely that the earle of Northumberland was drawne into the plot of the Duke of Guise and that Parsons the bloudie Iesuite was him selfe an actor therein Eightly they write plainely that Babington and his complices committed such notorious treason against her maiestie as it was shameles boldnesse to deny or qualifie the same Ninthly they confesse roundly that Sir William Stanley committed notable treacherie falsified his faith to her maiesty Tenthly they write plainly that in the yeare 1588. the King of Spaine made a most cruell bloudie attempt not only against her Maiesty to vse the priests-words and their commō enemies but also against themselues all catholikes and their owne natiue countrey The memorie of which attempt as the priests write will be an euerlasting monument of Iesuiticall treason and brutish crueltie Eleuenthly they grant that Richard Hesket was set on by the Iesuites in the yeere 1592. or their abouts to haue stirred vp the Earle of Darbye to rebell against her maiestie Where I may not omit to deliuer mine owne knowledge in this behalfe This Hesket I knew very well in his life conuersation and professiō I
behoues for their aduantages do dayly sollicite a conquest thereof from Spaine and withall they labor to perswade vs that it is both vtill and honorable These words are put downe in the answeare to the Iesuited gentleman page 93. Note here gentle reader that nothing can please these bloud-thirstie traytors the Iesuites saue onely the conquest of this their natiue countrie Preamble VII Of going to the Church in time of common prayer THe wise Iesuits preuented all daungers they freely permitted Catholikes to goe to Church with protestants and made no sinne nor scruple thereof Yea the Iesuites father Bosgraue and father Langdale went to the Church themselues These words are in the Dialogue Page 97. 98. Note heere gentle Reader that by Iesuiticall both grant and practise the Papists may freely goe to the Church with the Protestants and thereby not sinne at all This is a poynte worthie to be remembred Preamble VIII Of eating of flesh in time of Lent A Famous Iesuite now in England made offer to a Gentleman that if he would become Catholike hée should haue licence to eate flesh in Lent and on all fasting daies among Lollards and Protestants that by so doing he might liue without suspition and escape daunger of the lawes Thus it is written in their Dialogue Page 99. Note heere gentle Reader these important points with me First that the Iesuites are right Machiuels and make Religion a nose of waxe which they vse as a seruile instrument to bring to passe all their bloudie tragicall and traiterous attempts Secondly that those trayterous persons in high authoritie vnder her Maiestie whereof I haue spoken in the third booke in the second reason of the 12. aduise who haue entered closely into league with the Spaniard do as it may seeme enioy these kinds of popish dispensation Thirdly that Iesuits and Seminaries are both most dangerous to the state and vnfit persons to liue in this land vnlesse they will ioyne in Sacraments and common prayer with the rest of her Maiesties faithfull subiects For to no other symbole or signe can credit bee safely giuen Preamble IX Of winning and redeeming of time THe Iesuites haue an axiome of winning of redeeming of time which is in effect to runne with the time in altering their positions so as they may best serue to win their desires The practise of which ground is in no one of their affaires so manifest as in labouring to set vp now this man now that man to attempt the Crowne furnishing euerie one with sufficient authoritie that of right it belongeth vnto him And true it is that rather then they faile they care not who he is or of what rase nor of what nation that will step in for the kingdome so he bee a Catholike These words are set downe in the discouery Page 64. quodl 2. art 8. pag. 43. quodl 9. art 3. pag. 293. Note heere with me that the Iesuites are most errant traitours as who desire so vehemently the conquest of this land that they care not who haue it so he bee a papist Preamble X. Of the fasting and penance which the Iesuites vse THe Iesuites haue a merrie life in not being tyed to rising vp to the quire at midnight but to lie in bed after the sunne to faire well to be well clad and all this exprofesso not to fast so much as the Frydaies to be a lyar when they will and yet be beleeued a detractor a cheater a courtier a souldier a kil-prince and what not And all without controll nay with allowance and commendation Briefe it is a merrie life for a Iesuite to trowle vp and downe the countrey from house to house from good cheare to good cheare in a gallant coach accompanied with fayre gentlewomen attended with neat seruing men his chamber to be deckt and perfumed against his comming yea a gentlewoman to plucke of his bootes by his iniunction forsooth for mortification sake Oh monstrous irreligion so to forget good manners and so to make the lay religious and themselues lay These words are let downe in the answere to the Iesuited gentleman Page 93. 94. See the second booke and third Chapter Now I beseech thee gentle reader are not those men and women voide of all sense and reason that doe so admire these Iesuites and so depend vpon them that rather then they doe not all their dissignements they will be at defiance with their soueraigne and natiue countrey Let wise men iudge and giue their indifferent censure herein Not I but their fellow-laborers the Secular priests who with tooth and nayle labour to defend the Pope and popish religion doe bitterly exclaime against them as you see I put downe their owne wordes I adde nothing I substract nothing alter nothing Let the reader therefore remember wel what I write and ponder deepely the whole discourse Preamble XI Of the dependance of the Iesuites and Iesuited persons vpon the foule fiend the diuell BY Parsons platformes Secular priests must depend vpon Blackwell and Blackwell vpon Garnet and Garnet vpon Parsons and Parsons the priests bastard vpon the Diuell and therfore doe the Secular priests pray thus when they say the Letanie a machinationibus Parsoni libera not domine These words are set downe in the Discouerie Pag. 70. quodl 5. art 8. pag. 151. Sée the second booke and fourth Chapter Note heere gentle reader that to depend vpon the Iesuites is to depend vpon the diuell and consequently that to follow the Iesuites and their bloodie tragicall and traiterous designments is nothing else indeed but to forsake God to abandon his true feare and worship to be traitours to your prince to be enemies to your natiue countrey and to make shipwracke of your owne soules I say not so If I should haue said so none would haue beleeued me But the Seminarie priests the Popes owne darlings say so and therefore it must needes be so the truth cannot but preuaile Preamble XII Of the Cardinalship of the traitorous Iesuite Robert Parsons THe Iesuite Hole Doctor Worthington drewe aformal letter supplicatiue in the names of all the English souldiers labourers artizans pensioners aswell men as women yea very seruing maids and laundresses were not omiâ—ted the same to be presented to the king of Spaine most humbly beseeching his Maiesty in regard of his great affection and care of England and the afflicted English that he would deale earnestly with the Pope to preferre the worthie Father and Prelate Father Parsons to the dignitie of a Cardinall affirming it to be the onely way to bind and vnite the English to his Maiestie These words are set downe in the discouerie Page 61. quodlib 4. art 6. pag. 121. Note heere gentle Reader that this arrogant Iesuite hath quite forgotten his vow of pouertie and obedience and must needs be a Cardinall For we may be assured that this motion was neuer made to the King without his knowledge Behold heere the final end scope and intendment of all his trauel
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
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
their owne doctrine if their supposall were graunted Which they disloyally auouch like arrant traytors as their fellow priests rightlie terme them yet were prescription sufficient in that behalfe Thirdly that they haue offered huge masses of gold and money so to allure men domestical or forraine to the cruel murder and bloudie massacre of our gracious soueraigne most noble Queene Elizabeth If papists themselues had not thus written my selfe could hardly haue beleeued it Preamble XVIII Of Obedience which must be giuen to the Pope against all kinges Princes and monarches of the world IN all warres which may happen for religion euery Catholike man is bound in conscience to imploy his person and forces by the Popes direction viz. how farre when and where eyther at home or abroad he may and must breake with his temporall soueraigne This doctrine was laid downe for a ground in iustifying Sir William Stanleyes disloyall treacherie against his naturall and annointed Soueraigne in the yeare 1587. These words are set downe in the important considerations Page 23. 24. and they are granted of the Iesuites Apol. 172. Sée the fourth booke and fift chapter and note the words Note heere gentle Reader these important points with me First that all Kings Queenes and Monarches of the Christian world are by this popish Maxime and Iesuiticall ground brought into the bondage and slauery of the Bishop of Rome and must be his slaues and vnderlings to doe what pleaseth him Secondly that the Secular priests who vnwittingly haue deliuered this doctrine against themselues are guiltie of the same treacherie with the Iesuites though not perhaps in the same degree For seeing the seculars doe professe their obedience to the Pope in euerie thing and do withall submit both themselues and all their writings to his holy censure as is to be seene at large in this discourse they must needes approoue and like well of this most traiterous doctrine because the Pope liketh and approoueth the same Thirdly that all the Papist in England which ioyne with the Iesuites who are verie many doe obstinâ—tely embrace this Iesuiticall doctrine and so are guiltie of high treason Preamble XIX Of the King of Spayne his purpose and intent against England THat the new king regnant in Spaine plotteth by Iesuiticall faction and resolueth to proceed where his father left against England it is most apparant by the present action in Ireland as also by sundrie of father Parsons subiects sent hither to be agents on the Spanish behalfe for that purpose All which doe conuince the Iesuiticall hispanized faction of falshoode hypocrisie sedition and treason and that it is not religion which the king present careth for more then his father did before him but maketh that onely a pretence to seduce all Catholikes and to draw them to rebellion hoping thereby to haue their spéedier aide and assistance making them and you all deare Catholiks to cut one anothers throate These words are set downe in the preface to the important considerations in the fourth leafe therof Note heere gentle Reader that the Iesuites bend all their thoughts words and actions to stirre vp rebellion and bloodie trecherie euerie where as also that the king of Spayne now regnant is as readie as was his father afore him to effect both in Ireland and in England all bloodie practises which the high counsell of Iesuiticall reformation shall designe and appoint to be done Preamble XX. Of the Iesuiticall hotch-potch Religion IT is a plaine testimonie of no religion in the Iesuites but flat Atheisme making religious pietie but onely amutter of meere pollicie by sending forth trumpetters to sound out their and Blackwels vertues quodl 6. art 4. pag. 168. The Iesuites haue made religion but an art of such as liue by their wits and a verie hotch-potch of emâ—â—m gâ—â—herum quodlibet 2. art 8. pag. 42. The Iesuites are to be marked out for the most malitious traiterous and irreligious calumniators that euer liued on earth vnworthie that euer the earth should heare them and it is an intollerable indignitie to the whole Church of GOD that euer such wicked members should liue vnpunished in her as they doe Quodlibet 4. art 2. page 99. Note heere gentle Reader these important points with me First that these good fellowes who pretend to bee sent of God from Heauen to reforme the English Church and State are men of no religion but men that make religion a matter of meere policie Secondly that they are so wicked so irreligious and so trayterous as the like were neuer heard of Thirdly that it is a great shame for the whole Church of God that such badde fellowes doe liue vnpunished These things well considered hee that will thinke them or the Seculars to be Gods ambassadours may iustly be deemed as wise as hee that hath no witt at all For God is so highly offended with their trayterous dealings and damnable practises that hee hath enforced themselues to discouer their owne bad proceedings against themselues that so all the worlde may knowe their abhominations and detest them with all their traiterous and cursed machinations The second Booke contayning the treacheries and tyrannie of the Pope and his Iesuiticall faction breathed out against the sacred Maiestie of Gods annoynted CHAP. I. Of the swarmes of Iesuites and Seminaries or Secular priests in this Realme of England THe number of Iesuites and secular priests in England is excéeding great as by this discourse will be made apparant and the said cursed brood is increased euery day Thrée hundred seminarie priests besides the Iesuites haue béene sent from the Pope into England And because many doe not vnderstand fully the difference betwéene Iesuites Seminaries and Secular priests it shall not be amisse briefely to instruct them in that behalfe Euerie Iesuite euen he that is but a lay-brother maketh a solemne vow of three speciall and important points whereof many of them I dare not say the greater part séeme not truly to kéepe any one And I doe not barely say it but the Seminarists shall contest the same with me The three essentiall points of Iesuiticall professioÌ„ are these in expresse termes viz. pouertie chastity and obedience Which triple vowe is common to the Iesuites with all their popish sects And for this triple vow it is that they are called religious But how truly they enioy and deserue that name let the indifferent reader iudge when he shall haue perused this discourse For albeit religious profession be a separating of men from the actions of the world yet doe they deale altogether with the world The Secular priests are all manner of priests which make not the said triple vow viz. All priests which are not 〈◊〉 or fryers For our lordly Iesuites are by profession and solemne vow poore munkes and lowly fryers They are called secular for distinction sake because they 〈◊〉 haue proprietie in secular prossessions of the world 〈◊〉 which the others are by vow abandoned but will by 〈…〉 now and then
may bee gainesaide in respect of the euerie daye expected conquest for other reason none can be yeelded and yet this perforce must be reiected Paragraph II. Of the Iesuite Bellarmine now Cardinall of the sea of Rome To proue the Iesuite Parsons an impudent and a most notorious lyer it is sufficient to pervse to remember what is already said thereof in the third chapter of this booke for after that Parsons hath set downe the narration of the seculars and freely granted the greater part thereof to be true yea the whole in effect as there it is proued and so needeth not here to be recounted he forthwith like a desperate ruffian and as one vnmindfull what he had immediately written affirmeth with shamelesse lippes and rayling tongue that the whole narration is false Which doubtles is such a notorious vntruth as nothing is worthy to be of credite that shall heare after procéede from his penne Paragraph III. Of the students in the English Colledge Parsons that arrogant Iesuite for his owne credite if it would be telleth vs in the apologie in the 184. page that vpon a certaine falling out betweene Maister Doctor Lewes then arch-deacon of Cambray and after bishop of Cassane and the English youthes then students in the English Colledge the said youthes aboue 30. in number were all dismissed thence and yet brought againe and placed in the colledge by his good meanes Thus doth this good fellow boast of his rare fauours towards the english students and his deserts in this behalfe are excéeding great if we will beleeue him But I assure thee gentle reader whosouer thou art and I speake vpon mine owne knowledge as who was at the same time one of the same number that this is to be enrolled among his other notorious vntruthes For first there was no disagreement at all betwéene the late Bishop of Cassana and the students Againe the contention was indeed betweene the Cardinal Morone then the protector of the English and the students or rather the Iesuites who like wilie foxes did all in all couertly and yet would séeme openly to be most vnwilling to haue the gouerment of the colledge Thirdly Parsons was at that time a man of no reckening among the Iesuits neither did he or could hee doe anie thing in that behalfe The reason hereof is euident because he confesseth in the said apologie that the colledge was erected in the yeare 1579. And that himselfe entered into the societie in the yeere 1574. so that he had then béene Iesuite scantly foure yeeres whereof one must be allotted for his probation now if any wise man wil beléeue him that he could be of such credite with them vpon so short a tryall he may but my selfe know the contrarie and so doe many moe yet liuing viz. Maister Meredith Maister Griffeth Maister Morgan M. Elize and sundrie others but none better then Maister Mush if he list to speake the truth therein Fourthly there were at that time Iesuited English men of long continuance in that societie who should rather haue done that exploit then this good father if it had béene but for comely order sake but as I said afore the Iesuites would not be knowen to deale in the matter Fiftly this good fellowe this good father I would say will needes bee the only man that procured the schollers to stay and a thing to bee laughed at the graue and learned father Toledo afterward Cardinall was but an instrument to helpe the said Parsons in his imployment A shame it is for this fellow to tell of himselfe such a shamelesse lye The truth is this the generall of the Iesuites was desirous indeed to haue the gouernment of the colledge committed to his societie as who knew right well that it would tend both to his credit and to his commoditie But for feare of the displeasure of Cardinall Morone who tooke part with Maister Morice the welch-man whome he had designed to be the Rector of the colledge he neither would deale openly for the schollers neither suffer any of the societie to concurre with theÌ„ in that behalfe yet he did that secretly which was the vpshot and end of all viz. he commanded by a secret message the reuerend father Toledo a great learned man and one of great reckening with the Pope at that time that he would instantly beseeth the Pope prostrate on his knees before his holinesse and to make a most pitifull lamentation for the ouethrow of England that is forsooth that now were reiected the finest wits the most toward youthes the seede of poperie and the only hope of the English nation who now exiled for zeale in religion and come to be his popish vassals must either be trained vp in papistry after the Iesuiticall manner or els should England neuer be reclamed world without end this swéet narration noe sooner sounded in the Popes eares but the commanded the schollers to be receiued into the colledge againe Where note by the way what politicians the Iesuites bee This Toledo was a Iesuite then remaining in the Popes house with the Pope and was the Popes chiefest aduiser in all ecclesiasticall causes He then being a Iesuite must needs doe the designement of his generall the maister Iesuite of all the rest For his profession was to obey at a beck And for that he was present with the Pope in his pallace Bel-vâ—dére he was free to deale without suspition in this great and weightie matter Lastly being in high esteeme with the Pope and speaking in a cause so plausible and profitable for his holinesse he was most likely to preuaile in his suite which I protest to the reader the Iesuits did more then once promise to the schollers before it came to passe Thus it is most apparant to euerie indifferent reader that the goodly story which Parsons telleth for his owne vaine glory is a lye with a witnesse For the first credite that euer he got was wrought by his treacheries treasons against his natiue country most noble England By reason whereof he crept into such credite with the King of Spaine that now he is able to doe all in all both with that Kinge and the Pope himselfe Wherefore my opinion is this that the seculars are ouer matched and that howsouer they bragge that they will haue audience or els dye for it one after another yet are they more like many of them if they goe to Rome to be cast into their holy most holy inquisition for Parsons hath now by the reason of their writings matter enough to worke vpon and therefore their best course is to submitte themselues to Queene Elizabeth and to bid the Pope faire well with all his traytorous Iesuites Paragraph IIII. Of the dealing of the Iesuite Parsons during his aboad in England THe seculars write that Parsons being in England did so exasperate the minds both of the Prince and magistrates by his doings as then first of all by that occasion capitall lawes were appointed against
sheweth copiously But because Parsons in his Apologie laboureth to purge himselfe thereof I haue thought it good to speake a little to that effect in this place Watson the secular priest hath these words we may not imagine that father Parsons was ignorant of his owne base estate as being a sacrilegious bastard in the worst sense sâ—il à spurius begotten by the parson of the parish where he was borne vpon the bodie of a verie base queane This then being so and he not so senselesse as to thinke but that he will find the Canon law more strict in dispensation with him for his irregularitie then the ciuill or common law will be for dispensation to inherit there is no question to be made of it but that some close statute and prouiso was closely made and couertly foysted into the high councel of reformation for enabling some bastards in the spitefullest sense to be capable of any honour or dignitie eyther in the Church or commonwealth And true it is that this good father Parsons alias Cowbucke filius populi filius peccati or the very fiend himselfe might be chosen to a kingdome by his doctrine if any people would be so madde as to chuse him for their king Thus doth our Quodlibetst write The same Watson in an other place writeth of the same Parsons in this manner O monster of mankind fitter for hell then middle earth If thy profession will not draw thee to consideration of the premisses yet shew some signes of charitie in sparkes of grace if it were but onely in pollicie to moue thee to forbeare thy barbarous crueltie because therby thou giuest occasion for diuers to think thou art not a méere man but some fairies brat or begotten by an Incubus or airish spirit vpon the bodie of a base woman thus doth priest Watson write you haue his owne words Againe in an other place he hath these words diuers of father Parsons bookes letters and treatises we haue and doe from our verie hearts vtterly condemne them as containing many seditious and traytorous points and being very full of slaunderous speaches and impudent caluminiations Andreas Philopater being the fruites of father Parsons and father Creswell we hold to be fraught till it almost burst againe as some of my brethren els where haue noted with all Iesuiticall pride and poyson and as touching the exthortation printed 1588. It is so detestable a treatise as all posteritie cannot choose but condemne father Parsons for a most scurrilous traytor if he had been brought vp amongst all the ruffians and curtizans in christendome he could not haue learned to haue writ more vilely prophainely and heathenishly Moreouer the said father Parsons and his fellow father Creswell doe glorie in the said booke that they haue caused not onely it but also Maister Saunders treatise de schismate to be translated into the spanish tongue and doe reioyce that thereby the Spaniards are brought already into a greater detestation of her Maiestie her gouernment and proceedings then they had before Thus writeth Maister Watson and in an other place he telleth vs plainely that he was a lewde boy in his youth that during his aboade at Oxford his conuersation was seditious wanton and factious and that for his libelling and other misdemeanour he was thrust out of Balyoll colledge Againe in an other place he hath these words I meane the great Emperour illegitimate irregular abstract quintessence of all coynes coggeries and forgeries Parsons the bastarde of Stockgersey beyond Cosinage in Somersethire This is that famous conqueror who hath bathed all England by his seditious libels in priests bloud This is that worthy excellent that lies dissembles and equiuocates at euerie word This is that learned counseller that must rule ruffe and range through euery state This is that same Parsons whome Pope Prince and peere with all true English hearts haue cause to hate This is he of whome Maister Blackewell now his darling said that his turbulent head and lewd life would be a discredite to the catholicke cause and in few the generall conceite of all that haue throughly conuersed with him is this that he is of a furious passionate hote cholericke exorbitant working humour busie headed and full of ambition enuy pride rancour malice and reueng Cursed bee the houre wherein he had the name of a Priest nay of an irreligious parson nay of a temporall lay-man Iesuite nay of a catholike nay of a christian nay of a humane creature but of a beast or a deuill a violater of all lawes a contemner of all authoritie a staine of humanitie and impostume of all corruption a corrupter of all honestie and a monopole of all mischiefe These are the words of William Watson the popish secular priest quodl 8. art 5. page 236. See the fift chapter of the second booke in the first second and third sections By these sections especiallie the fourth and fift euery man may easily see that the Iesuite Parsons is not onely acommon impudent lyar but also a most bloodie and scurrilous traytor the monopole of all mischiefe and the wickedst man vpon the face of the earth The reports recounted of this Iesuite cannot but seeme strange if not incredible to all that shall pervse the same I know it is sinne to lie on the deuill and therefore I will not affirme any lye of this Iesuite nor of any other man That which I haue written of him is most true and sincere in such sort as I haue put in downe I name my authors and their words the tale and the tale-teller the assertions and the places where they are to bee reade I graunt willingly and will it not denie that I haue set downe in this discourse many sharpe obseruations annotations correlaries illations but all are deduced by necessary and euident consequutioÌ„s out of those premises and antecedent propositions which the secular priests and Iesuites haue published in printed bookes to yâ— view of the whole worlde In regard whereof neither my selfe nor any others guided by the prescript of right reason can but giue credit to the same For first the authors thereof are many and the same of iudgement and learning and yet doe they charg the Iesuits with murdering of Kings Secondly they professe euen to death the selfe same religion with the Iesuites Thirdly they all yeeld themselues in all thinges to the censure of the pope at whole tribunall the Iesuite must needes preuaile if his case and cause bée good Fourthly they are subiect to such satisfaction if their accusations should be false as publique pennance must néedes be inioyned them and that worthily so as they shall neuer be permitted to exequute priestly function while there liues shall endure Fiftly they know that if such haynous accusations powred out against their fellow-priests especially against their religious fathers were false and vttred of malice they should thereby heape Gods heauy wrath and vengeance vpon themselues Sixtly they
85. vers 12. Pope is a cruell tyrant pag. 153. pag. 157. page 82. Poperie is annexed with treason pag. 143. vers 29. Priestes die not for religion but for treason pag. 167. pag. 127. vers 12. vers 32. page 145. page 86. Priests expect a change pag. 110. vers 9. Priests are bound in conscience to detect the Iesuites pag. 127 vers 15. Priests confesse that treasons are reuealed miraculously p. 129. vers 29. Priests must adore the deuill pag. 8. vers 4. pag. 86. vers 32. Priests sware to become traytors page 86. vers 33. Papists must depend vpon the deuill pag. 8. vers 4. pag. 68. v. 3. Parsons is an arrant traytor pag. 92. vers 33. pag. 76. vers 8. pag. 73. pag. 162. vers 13. Parsons is a bastard pag. 69. pag. 71. vers 24. Parsons would be a Cardinall pag. 71. vers 8. Parsons a monster of mankind pag. 71. vers 34. Parsons is impudent and will affirme or denie any thing p. 76. vers 23. Parsons is a gypsey p. 77. v. 34. Parsons setteth the english crowne on sale 171. Parsons is the wickedst man vpon earth pag. 174. p. 173. Parsons spendeth fiue or six crownes weekely in Postage pag. 170. vers 32. Parsons is a notorious lyar pag. 77. pag. 76. vers 23. pag. 178. vers 6. pag. 161. vers 15. pag. 168. vers 36. Parsons can rule the Pope page 82. vers 24. Pasquin in Rome talketh of Parsons treasons pag. 171. vers 30. Parsons is an incestuous person pag. 71. vers 24. Parsons an heretike of the familie of loue pag. 71. vers 30. Parsons drunken spunge pag. 71. ver 28. Parsons was begotten of some incubus pag. 71. ver 36. Parsons hath written traytorous bookes p. 173. ver 7. p. 106. P. 80. See bookes Q QVerimonie of Priests against Iesuites pag. 21. Querimone of Iesuites against the Priests pag. 19. Queene of Scots pag. 75. v. 20 pag. 45 v. 11. R REbellion in the North. pag. 83 vers 17. Religion of the Iesuites is of the deuill pag 68. v. 3. pag. 59. pag. 57 v. 17. p. 63. p. 133. pag. 15. v. 8. Religion of Iesuites is new p. 179. v. 29. p. 89. v. 8. Religion of the Iesuites brought from the deuill pag. 84. v. 22. p. 67. v. 21. Religious parsons how they are distinguished p. 4. Recusancie is linked with treason inseperably p 143. v. 28. Religion of the Iesuites is mutable pag. 56. Religion of Iesuits is flat cooznage Pag. 59. Vers. 16. Religion of Iesuites is an hotch potch of Omnigitherum Page 67. pag. 15. vers 8. Richard Hesket sent to the Earle of Darbie pag. 22. vers 30. Riston the Priest pag. 85. vers 24. S SAnders the priest the architect of rebellion p. 84. v. 12. Secular priests sworne to be traytors pag. 75. v. 36. page 86. vers 32. Seculars doe equiuocate page 118. vers 19. Seculars must enter into glorie pag. 165. vers 28. Seculars are traytors pag. 98. vers 10. page 119. Seminaries erected for treason pag. 86. vers 19. Spies made of gentlemen pag. 32. vers 24. Standish a lying fellow page 30. vers 7. T Treason in the north pag. 84. vers 5 Treason of Throckmorton pag. 84. vers 35. Treasons of Parrie Arden and Summeruile pag. 84. pag. 85. Treasons of Northumberland and Babington pag. 85. Treason of Sir William Stanley pag. 85. Treason of Norfolke pag. 83. Treasons of Saunders Webbe and Morton pag. 83. Treasons of Hesket Walpoole c pag. 22. pag. 23. Treasons reuealed miraculously pag. 75. vers 28. p. 146. v. 9. Theft of the Iesuites pag. 25. vers 3. Traytors may eate gold if they will page 12. vers 13. V Vowes of the Iesuites Pag. 46. p. 47. p. 48. p. 49. Verlets with Iesuites are honest men Pag. 77. Vers. 4. W VVealth of Iesuites P. 26. V. 32. P. 34. V. 13. Vebbe see treason Walpoole a traytor page 23. vers 8. Esd. 3. vers 42. Quodl 8. art 9. Page 267. Phil. 3. vers 15. See quodl 7. art 8. page 199. The Duke of Norfolke The duke of Alua. ann 1578. ann 1579. ann 1580. 1581. 1583. The Iesuits sludie nothing but treason 1586. 1587. 1588. 1592. Loe all traytors are welcoÌ„e to our Iesuites 1592. 1592. 1. Cor. 3. â— 6. Primò principaliter Peruse the second booke the fift chapter in the first section note it wel see also the second section and forget it not See the second book fourth chapter sixt Paragraph Quodl 1. art 4. p. â—â— 9. Quodl 9. art 4. p. 304 The Iesuits are courtiers The Iesuits loue nothing worse then a cloyster The Iesuits haue an oare in euery mans boat A notable epithet for the Iesuites See the Second booke and the 4. chapter in the 6. parag The Iesuits are poore monkes by profession but lordly fellowes in all their conuersation See the reply to Parsons libell Fol. 8. b. See the Apologie Page 22. O trayâ—eâ—â—â—s 〈◊〉 cursed broode 〈◊〉 the deuil See the complemeÌ„t of the third booke and note it well 90. prieste do hold against the Iesuites Quod l. 2. art 6. pa. 39. in fine Ergo their number is great in England The Iesuites affirme in their apologie Page 118. That 300. seminarâ—e priests are on their side Irgo the number of all is very great â—ee the â—â—d Preamble of the first booke 〈…〉 Loe the Iesuites are flat hipocrites The Iesuites are charged with theft chap. 3. Behold here 〈◊〉 meÌ„ to guide meÌ„s soules Loe the Iesuites are malitious slandere 15. A godly Iesâ—â—â—â—call prayer The Iesuâ—â—â— seeme to be most worked and hypocritical men Yet they aâ—â— acâ—â—ted of that theft chap. 3. Marke well this lesson The Iesuites are disloyal wretches They are charged with theft chap. 3. Loe the Iesuites are seditious and arrant traitors Oh bloodie 〈◊〉 Iesuite Holt and other Iesuites are traytours euen by the confession of se minarie priests The Iesuites are wholy bent to traiterous practises euerie where The Iesuites are commonly iudged to be great lyar Money taken for dispensations The priests are saints in their owne iudgment Oh braue religious fryers where is the pouertie ye professe The Iesuites are verie honest men and faithfull collectors 500. li. Who will not hang their soules vpon such religious fathers 2200. li. Page 19. 20 My selfe 〈◊〉 able to testifie this to be true O faithfull 〈◊〉 Imprisonment of Iesuites is 〈◊〉 become great libertie This yeare would be looked into Oh poore begging Fryer The Iesuites cannot be but rich though they professe pouertie The Iesuits are good hunters in seeking gold and money See book third aduiso 9. See more therefore in the third booke and 9. aduiso The Iesuits are giuen to lying cogging That they vse equiuocations it is graâ—ted in the Apologie page 205. This Standeth is a Iesuited priest â—oe the Pope 〈◊〉 deceiued by his holy priests What great crueltie or tyrannie can be vsed Loe the Iesuites haue vowed to forsake the world and yet are wholy occupied in