thy vsurped authoritie Let such as expect Donations of other Princes Kingdomes from their grand traÌ„slator of Empyres the Pope the diuels substitute as Philip the second of that name King of Spaine did vpon whom Pius Quintus or rather Impius intus the diuels vicegerent then at Rome conferred the Kingdome of England but all the craft was in the catching instanced and approued as an act lawfull by Azorius the Iesuite in his morall institutions part second booke eleuenth chapter the fift circa medium capitis Let such Princes I say adhere to the Pope subiugate their neckes to his trampling but let those whose cause is good succession lawful spirits more mâ—gnanimous and of a better mettall their subiects hearts generally firmely assured the word of God which is trueth it selfe on their side power and abilitie to withstand and offend him and all his vnholy confederates free Princes next vnder God in their owne Dominions Let these I say all learne of that renowned Queene Elizabeth this resolute saying rare amongst men but not to be paralleld by any woman If my religion be allowable if my mariage lawfull if my succession rightfull by the Popes Dispensation then is it so also without it and God willing I will maintaine it without him who of his power can make it no more lawfull or vnlawfull then of it selfe it is without him for against the word of God there lieth no Dispensation And let great Great Brittaines King make it known for an honour to him and his posteritie that great Elizaes spirit lodgeth in his Brest Though happie she in peace with God doth rest Thus holding Poperie to be an hotch-poch of new religion coyned in the mints of the Babylonish whore who contendeth to aduance her Kingdome aboue the Kingdome of Christ by all meanes that themselues or hell it selfe can inuent by crueltie by blood by deceit by abusing the word of God by equiuocation by what not yea she hath so taught her brats the Priestes and Iesuites and infinite others by them seduced to sweare and forsweare to promise and protest by whatsoeuer can bee named although they haue no purpose to make good any of their vowes in this kind as that they haue almost left no means whereby a man may be assured of anothers intentions although he vowe it neuer so seeming seriously Call to minde the great and serious protestations that Watson the Priest made in his Quodlibeticall questions That albeit he differed in religion from that which was professed in the Church of England yet if either Pope or Spaniard should seeke by hostile meanes to inuade his countrie hee would willingly spend his substance nay his dearest blood against any such as should attempt it and yet he himselfe was the first afterwards as I remember that came to the gallowes for violating it If I could find any thing that good is in either Priests or Iesuites I would commend them for it but because I cannot holding them all to bee traytors in heart vnto his Maiestie and their fauourers to be scarcely good subiects I will end for their coÌ„mendations with the words of a late but wittie Satyrist Fâ—uet illis quisquis de illis tacet FINIS a Vide Torturam Torti paginis 131.132 b Three conversions of Eng part 3. in many places c English Martyrologe by J. VV. Priest Anno. 1608. d VVatson and Clarke executed at VVinchester in An. 1603. Novemb. 29. Stowe Henry Garnet had 6. names to wit Gaâ—net VValley Darcy Roberts Farmer and Phillips Likewise Edward Hall alias Oldâ—orne Likewise Oswaâ—d Tesmund alias Greenway Likewise Thomas Garnet alias Rookwood alias Sayer with many others f Three conversions of England in page 426. and many pages therof besides Ianuary 7 Page 7. Ianuary 11. Page 10. Ianuary 14. Page 12. Ianuary 20. Page 18. February 3. Page 32. March 17. Page 17. Aprill 3. Page 86. Aprill 9. Page 92. May 2. Page 116. Maye 18. Maye 22. Page 134 Iune 2â— Page 167. Iuly 2. Page 178. Iuly 25. Page 202. August 6. Page 216. August 27. Page 233. September 7. Page 244. October 7. Page 372. October 8. Page 374. NoueÌ„ber 20. Page 320. DeceÌ„ber 23. Page 350. g D. Barlow in his answere to M. Broughton 1610. h The booke at large worthy to be writteÌ„ in letters of gould is this yeare newly and well printed by the Companie of Stationers in London The Miracles that god hath wrought for confirmation of his gospell Two miracles of miracles The 1. The 2. The Iesuits reported in Spaine that there was no such matter as the gun-powder Treason Related by the L Cooke at the Earle of Northumberl conviction in the Star-chaÌ„ber Iune 27. 1606. Childish and strawish Myracles In your supplication to the kings Maiestie Anno. 1603. An. 1604. in many places thereof as also in diuers other treasonable bookes since by you set forth and dispersed * Tortura Torti Page 83. The Starre-chamber Omne animi vitium tanto conspectus iâ— se crimeÌ„ habet quanto maior qui peccat habetur The now L. Cooke The Lord Archbishop of Cant. The word theÌ„ vsed was To hold an Axe ouer the Kings head The L. Zouch Vide Tortûrâ—Ì„ Torti Pag. 83. Promâ—ssa nescio quae commeÌ„ti sunt quae tamen nulla suerunt quod factuÌ„ nunquaÌ„ est id fuisse tamen factum in vulgus spargebant vide the Earle of Northamp printed speech at Garnets arraignment in pag. 1. of Aâ—a The Earle of Salisburie in his answere to certaine scandalous papers D. Reynolds in his preface before his coÌ„ference with Hart. D. Morton M. Stocke with many more Greenewell Garnet Reported at his arraignmeÌ„t in VVestminst Hall Ianu. 27. 1605 mentioned in the Earle of NorthamptoÌ„s speech in the first pag of L. Confessed vnder his owne hand in an examination openly read in the Star-chaÌ„ber at the coÌ„viction of the Earle of Northumbert Iun. 27. 1606. Confessed in diuers examinations vnder their hands openly read the time and place aforesayd Simile These forward spirits as they wold be thought for the Kings Succession would yet haue bereft vs of his head before the Crowne had adorned it Tortura Torti Page 84. See the Catholique supplication to the kings Maiestie in Ann. 1604 neere beginning thereof See your supplication to his Maiestie Anno. 1604. chap. 5. Also in the first part of Engl. three Conversions neere the beginning thereof Mentioned in M. Fox his booke of Martyrs in the very beginning of Q. Maries Raigne a Bristow in his motiues 15. Chap. 73 calleth these Martyrs Aboue 1000 of thes saythe lay Catholiques in their SuplicatioÌ„ to the Kings Maiestie 1604. abandoned their liuiÌ„gs rather then they would chaÌ„ge their religioÌ„ Also the three coÌ„uersions of England part the first page 264. a Three conuersions page 265. Of Priests aboue 100. haue Sealed the confession of their faith with blood within 40. yeeres A small nuÌ„ber in comparison of 278. martyrs in lesse then sixe yeeres a Vide Pope Sixtus the 5. his oration vpoÌ„ the death and murther of Henry the 3. French King by a Fryar Ne misericordia in inimicos fit crudelitas in se suosque a Printed in Anno 1608. as hee saith Permissu superiorum a Vide Fox his booke of Martyres in Queen Maries raigne b Vide the Lord Burleigh late Lord Treasurer his booke intituled Execution of Iustice for treason and not for Religion c Earle of Northampton in his priÌ„ted speech at Garnets arraignemeÌ„t in the fourth page of the letter GG d Their refusall of the Oath of allegeance proueth what they hold in this point and the Popes gift of Ireland to the King of Spaine mentioned by Azorius the Iesuite in his institut moral confirmeth it a Vide Faux his confession with others mentioned in the afore quoted page by the Earle of NorthaÌ„pton Confer also herewith Catesbies answere to Garnet in the last page of R. and also in the last page of T. of the former booke his words are If it were lawfull not to admitte of the Kings Maiesty at first warranted by the Popes Breeues then was it also lawfull to cast him out b This trebble bond theÌ„selues whiles they laboured to seeme good subiects acknowledged in their supplication to the Kings Maiâ—stie chap. 5. neere the end thereof Agreeable hereto is the Earle of Northamptons sound maxime in the last page of FF in his speech to Garnet c Scienti volenti non fit iniuria d Besides this Priestes confession agaiÌ„st themselues see also for thy better confirmation in this point the iudgement of two great Counsellors of state in their seuerall writings published by the Earle of Salisbury in his answere to certaine scandelous papers in the third page of C. and the Earle of Northampton in his speech at Garnets Arraignement in the letter HH in diuers pages thereof e This Thomas Garnet is the last that our Pseudomartyrologist I. W. Priest hath noted in his Beadroll to haue suffered in King Iames his raigne a D. Reignolds conference with Harts in Harts owne Preface therto b Relation of the state of religion in the west part of the world neere the beginning therof b Azorius in his institutions part 2. booke 11. chapt 5. a A strange thing that the Pope claiming to bee but Christs Vicar should yet challenge a larger power theÌ„ euer Christ himselfe did for Christ confessed that his Kingdome was not of this world and yet the Pope will be a disposer and setter vp and puller downe of Kings and Kingdomes at his pleasure b In his booke of Quodlibets c Here was Mel in ore fel in corde a smooth tongue but a treacherous heart d Conclaue Ignati in Apologia pro Iesuitis ad finem libri adiecta
The Popes charge to his Bratts Estote proditores Goe kill your Prince THE FIERIE TRYALL OF GODS SAINTS ¶ These Suffered for the witnes of Iesus and for the word of God vnder Queene Mary who did not worship the Beast nor his Image nor had taken his marke vpon their foreheads or on their hands or on their Garments and these liue and raigne with Christ Reuel 20.4 As a Counter-poyze to I. W. Priest his English Martyrologe AND THE DETESTABLE ENDS OF POPISH TRAYTORS ¶ These are of Sathans Synagogue calling themselues Iewes or Catholiques but lie and are not These worshipped the Beast saying who is like vnto the Beast who is able to warre with him Reuel 13.4 and these shall drinke of the wine of Gods wrath and shall be tormented with fire and brimstone before the holy Angells and before the Saints because they worshipped the Beast and his Image Re. 14.10 11. Set downe in a comparatiue Collection of both their sufferings Herewith also the Concurrance and agreement of the raignes of the Kings of England and Scotland since the first yeare of Q. Mary till this present the like before not extant AT LONDON Printed by T P for Arthur Iohnson 1611. TO THE PRINCE ENglands faire Hope borne Downe to quell the rage of Rome That proud Babell Which in its swelling-madde Desires to Worlds sole Empire still Aspires Deigne Sir to reade this little Booke at least with milde aspect to looke Vpon 't The pledge of Loyaltie and Subiects loue to Royaltie it is Vouchsafe your Princely Grace to me that humbly place my Faith and Dutie First to God then my King Who Vnitie did bring then to my Countrie The faithfull Subiect of my Lord the King and your Highnesse TO THE PATRONAGE AND protection of the high and mightie Prince Henry eldest Sonne of our Soueraigne Lord the King Prince of Wales c. President of his Maiesties most Honorable Priuie Councell AS that in one place was well sayd by Heathen Tullie Non nobis solùm nati sumus sed partē patria partem parentes partem liberi partem amici partem propinqui familiares peculiaritèr sibi vendicant So elsewhere was it spoken no lesse Christian-like Non quid quis fecerit sed quo animo studio fecerit ponderandum est Of these sayings the first seemed vnto me to Challenge at my hands A speciall Dutie to my Prince and Country which I knew not how to performe but in this kind The second I assumed as an Apologie for my weake and slender performāce of that Duty If my desire noble Prince to pay that debt for which by obligation Diuine Naturall and Nationall I stand obliged hath transported me beyond that wherevnto I am able of your Princely clemency I humbly beseech you winke at that amisse and of your Heroicall and Magnanimous Spirit Shield me from the Darts of the mightie and maleuolent Your Kingly Father out of the goodnes of his nature for to iudge the worst is dissonant to a good Disposition hath been obserued to conceiue of things illment or which at least might be doubtfully taken well you certainly being the true Heire as of his Kingdomes so also of his vertues cannot adiudge of that which is well ment ill The cause which I handle is not mine owne but my Prince and Countryes wherein what I haue done I the rather vndertooke to publish at this time and in this Kind by reason of those encouraging Woordes of the reuerend then Bishop of Chichester now of Ely in his Booke Cuititulus est Tortura Torti in Epistola dedicatoria ad Regiam Maiestatem his wordes are these Iam vbi in Discrimen adducta causa communitatis Spectator nemo sit Actor quisque c. My Intentions herein are right wherein I desire prodesse principi patriae non obesse If I faile in my purpose that is not want of will but of power If I haue performed ought herein that good is that same also is Multò plus votis quam factis Therefore for that sometimes noble Q. Elizabeths sake for she deserued to be loued etiam post mortem whose fame shall neuer die nam virtus post funera viuit For the King your Fathers sake who according to his names signification is a Maintainer of our peace for the Common wealths sake which is the Crowne of your Glory For your owne sake who are our Hope yeald me as the reading hereof so also your fauourable and Princely protection then shall I not care for the faces of mine enemies The Faithfull Subiect of my Lord the King and your Highnesse TO THE PATRONAGE and protection next vnto that of Prince Henry of the right noble L and strong Supporter of great Brittaines happinesse Robert Earle of Salisburie Lo high Treasurer of England c. Right Hono THE REASONS ESpecially inducing me to expose my selfe to the wounding darts of malice and enuie by publishing these Collections are in number Fiue 1 The vniust clamours of Papists so frequently crying out both in words and in writings of breach of promise bloud and bloudy persecution for Conscience 2 The preseruation to my poore powre of the Honour of our late Queene of famouse and blessed memory and also of the honour of the Kings Maiestie so vniustly by them taxed and reuiled being set like Rabshakeh to rayle vpon the Hoast of the liuing God 3. In regard of your Honourable selfe who haue been chosen and singled out by wicked men both at home and abroade as a Butt whereat to shoote their venemous arrowes of slaunder threatnings and reproch by laying greuious but false imputations vpon your Honour of plotting Tragicall stratagems against Catholiques so stiling themselues and seeking king the bloud of Recusants 4. A Desire quantum in me est to cleare our late memorable Queene our present Gracious King your honourable selfe and the whole State both then and now as also the Ghospell which we professe from vniust bloud-shedding or any desire thereof rightly retorting it vppon themselues in approuing by particular instances out of their owne I. W. priest his popish Martyrologe published Anno 1608. your Honours Assersion to be true That in the Raygne of those two Sisters to wit Q Mary and Q Elizabeth of different religions there was more bloud shed in the lesse then six yeares of the first then in full forty and fowre of the later as by the Register following appeareth And lastly a Generall ease intended vnto all in vnderstanding the double account of his Maiesties Raigne of England and Scotland and the Concurrance of the one with the other The reasons also wherefore I being vnro your Honour vnknowne and with all populorum cum censu tum doctrina penè infimus presumed to shroud my selfe vnder your Hono winges are Chiefly likewise Fiue 1. The Honorable report of your name for many and excellent things are spoken of thee for thy zeale to Religion loue to the State and more expected from thee most faithfull
Councellor 2. Because none can haue a better sence and feeling of anothers griefe then he that hath felt the like Afflictions Your Honour hath been by Sathans instruments threatned with vnavoydable Death But God who hithervnto hath still defende you and yet are those who were sayd to haue vowed the enterprize tearmed good men by those that in the libell seemed but God forbid that euer the saftie or ouerthrowe of the State should rest in their power to dislike of the powder treason therefore I doubt not but your Honour will defend the poore in a iust cause if neede so require against the rage and furie of the wicked and mightie 3. In regard the cause your person excepted is Secundum quid all one for which your Honour hath been reuiled mis-iudged slaundered and menaced with mine for which happely I also may vndergoe the like Namely The Conscionable seruice of my Soueraigne in my meane but contented place 4. Yours Honours owne Position That that seruant whose faith and zeale in the seruice of his King stands in awe of enemies eyther for power or enuie is not worthy of protection warranteth that these my meane but daring-loyall indeauours in behalfe of my Soueraigne shall finde fauour with your Honour 5. Because true Nobilitie which were it not that I speake vnto your Honor I would say were seated in your breast neuer respecteth the person of any man but the qualities affections endowments and intentions of the mind and therefore myne owne priuitie to my owne thoughts which telleth me and that vppon good grounds that your Honor deserueth well of the State in Generall and doth loue it and are generally in a recyprocall manner of them beloued doth also assure me in particular that nothing which is vertuous can from a good affection be commended vnto so Honorable a Patron and suffer shipwrack by Contempt Your Honor hath elsewhere spoken in your owne person That you would glory more to be alwaies found his Maiesties honest and humble subiect then absolutely to command in any other calling euen so I the weakest of many thousands desire nothing more pardon herein Noble Lord my ambition then that I may be able to performe some seruice vnto God my Prince Country and the furtherance of the Gospell and in them vnto your Honourable selfe And herein Right Honorable Lord namely in Desire to do good the poorest subiect his Maiestie hath absit inuidia Dicto may equallize his greatest Peere for the Loue Faith zeale of the one may be as great firme deuout as the other the difference consisting onely in outward meanes to approoue them in both The God of all power and might who exalted the Father of so honorable a sonne to be Lord high Treasurer vnto so worthy a Queene and the sonne of so honorable a father to beare the same office vnder so Gracious a King on earth the same God for his sonnes sake through the Grace of his holy spirit bind vp the sonne as I hope already he hath done the Father in the bundle of his Saints that after your long and faithfull Seruice to your earthly Prince with the father Sonne and Holy Spirit you may enioy the true Treasure of eternall happines in the Kingdome of Heauen Amen Amen Your Honors in all humble seruice TO THE WELL affected and loyall hearted Reader AS to the spirit and soule of man nothing internally then a good conscience can bee more comfortable so externally then a good report from others nothing can be more precious And as for the first euery one that will enjoye it must himselfe alone by the vprightnesse of his owne actions assure it vnto himselfe in the sincerity of his own heart so for the secōd as it depends not vpō ones selfe alone but vpon the tongues and reports of others euery Christian by the rules of his profession is chargeable to his power to seeke the preseruation thereof towards others whome hee knoweth to be wronged This being graunted as it cannot be denyed if euery priuate mans good name so neerely touch him as that for the preseruation thereof wee are all of vs to others reciprocally bound and by law diuine obliged How much more strictly then are all faithful subiects tyed as much as in them lyeth to maintaine the good name honour and reputation of their lawfull Soueraignes by traytors rebels And antichristians so vniustly jmpiously and jmpudently taxed both in words and writings For as his Majestie is our King by God appoynted to rule ouer his Brittish and Irish Israell both in Church and common wealth and as in dignity he is nulli secundus nay more for that may seeme to admit an equall Primus inter omnes without a mate highest euen so the blemish of good name honour and reputation in his Majestie is of all others most dishonourable most scandalous as his Majesty is of all others most eminent most conspicuous and therefore by euery good subiect as occasion offereth it selfe pro viribus to be maintained If a naturall father haue a bad name though vndeseruedly yet is that in the worlds eye that cannot iudge thereof but by report a scandall vnto the children Our King is more for he is not onely Pater familiae a father of a priuate family but he is Pater patriae a father of our Country nay more he is Pater multorum gentium regnorum a father of many Kingdomes England Scotland France and Ireland and which is most hee is a good Christian Christianae fidei Defensor the chiefe Champion for defence of Christian faith through whose sides the enemy seeketh to wound the whole Church of Christ and to lay aspersions of bloud and tyrany vpon all such as with him professe the gospell of Christ The consideration whereof as also a feruent desire to doe my Country some publique seruice in helping as much as in me lyeth to stop the mouths of our common aduersaries the Papists whose lauish tongs haue spit out aboundance of venome and their pennes stung like Scorpions not onely our late most gracious and woorthy Queene Elizabeth of euer-blessed memorie for the many vnspeakeable blessings that God with and through her bestowed vpon this and other Kingdomes But also our present Soueraigne Lord and King with both their state Ministers by charging them as falsely so maliciously with cruelty breach of promise bloud and bloudy persecution for conscience hath mooued mee to jmploye the best talent of my small ability to convince them of jmpudent and lying malicious slaunders and reproachfull vntruths First in a few following lynes directed vnto all Romish fauorites clearing my present gracious Soueraigne of breach of promise with Recusants for toleration of Popery wherein also I haue touched the ground of that slaunder with the occasion and Authors thereof with some other matters of speciall moment Secondly in a tabular computation by a comparatiue collection of all such Martyrs as were burned in Queene Maries days with all such Priests Iesuites
deserue the like grace for the like jnfidelity Lastly if Iudas their fellow-traitor can any whit at all grace them because he is noted in the booke of God but with this foule addition Traitour let them likewise take him and make him a brother of their Company or rather jncorporate themselues into his Society but let all that beare ill will to the Church of England and the Kings Majestie as a principall member thereof let I say their ends oh God be like vnto their master Iudas and let their bowels breake in sunder that would eat out the bowels of thy Church of England and let this blacke word of Traitour bee the jndelible spot neuer to bee washed away wherewith I brand all English Italionated Priests and Iesuites and their Abbettors Adde to these also the Iacobine Fryer and Rauilack the two murtherers of two French kings Henry 3. Henry 4. for these are also Sons of one Father the Pope the Deuill their Grandfather and those before their brethren in iniquity neuer to be spoken of but to their shame with posterity the felicity of whose Raigne namely Henrie the 4. and peaceable gouernment free from danger of any desperate attempt of stabbing or poysoning or other attempt of perill to his person by any of Romes fauourites our english Popish Recusants scienter loquor before that inhumane and hellish fact committed pleaded and strongly argued to proceed from that lenitie of his in permitting a freedome of conscience to his subiects in matter of Religion whereby they would inferre that if our Kings Maiestie would desire to liue securely from any such attempts not needing to feare perill either by stabbing poysoning powder or otherwise then let a toleration be graunted but how sound their conclusion is France hath felt England may feare and all the world is amazed thereat For if the King of France being a Papist and at most but suspected to affect the Protestant Religion could not yet be secure in his person how much lesse can our King expect any assurance of saftie by a toleration his Majesty being himselfe a professed Protestant and directly opposite in Faith and Religion Nay it might rather bee much feared that it would bee a meanes to pull Gods just judgements vpon him and vs for permission of such false worshippe of the true God for so wee may read in diuers places of the Old Testament that when the Rulers of the people fell away from God God sent vpon them many plagues miseries and oppressions by their enemies And thus much in answere to the second poynt which my friend may obiect Thine in all Christian loue TO THE WHOLE rabble of English-borne Romish male-contents and disturbers of this State NOT HOPING hereby to reclaime you that are already by Sathans witchcrafts seduced from your many dangerous and pernitious errors which cleaue more fast vnto you then the skinne vnto the flesh or the flesh vnto the bones for that were Extra spem sperare a hope without any ground Nor yet in bitternesse of spirit onely purposing to rayle vpon you as many of you most jmpudently haue done against your owne Mother for that were want of charity nor any waies intending to giue satisfaction vnto your vnsatisfiable obstinacy and wilfull-willing blindnesse by reasoning scholastically or propounding and framing logicall or as you vse sophisticall arguments to conuince your follies for that would be in me presumption For what am I that after so many rare wits and vnrefutable iudgemēts in matters Diuine as haue already laboured your conversion I should hope of better successe therein then they before haue had I rather conclude with Abraham who told the rich man that desired a messenger to be sent from the dead to the liuing to warne them that they might auoyd the like daunger of comming there That if they will not belieue the Prophets neither would they belieue though one came frō the dead so if you will not be perswaded by the scriptures and the strong and vn-answerable arguments of such excellent Diuines as haue already laboured your convesion neither will you be perswaded though Christ himselfe should descend from heauen in person to confute you But my scope and drift herein is pro viribus First to preuent the fall of those who yet stand but are ready to fall Secondly to free my late Soueraigne Queene Elizabeth that sometimes peerelesse Prince and my now dread Soueraigne the Kings Majestie and their State-ministers from many false and Serpentine jmputations layd vppon them by men of your rancke of bad spirits whose throats are open Sepulchres wherein to burie true Honour Faith-keeping Grace Mercie Pittie Piety Protection Truth and Religion in eternall obliuion breathing out from thence as from the fournace of Hell insteed thereof nothing but Dishonour Breach of promise Disgrace Crueltie Bloud Want of deuotion Oppression Heresie and Irreligion These are the motiues that enforced my pen these the reasons of my non-silence who otherwise could haue been contented quietly and securely to haue reposed my selfe in the joyfull contemplation of Gods manifold blessings and mercies of an extraordinary nature towards this Nation by continuance of the Gospell amongst vs Which that it is the Truth and that he himselfe with his owne right hand hath planted it and defended it by the power of his owne arme the many strange Miracles for such say you must needs approoue the Truth which himselfe from time to time since before the beginning of Q. Elizabeths raigne vntill this present hath wrought doe euidently confirme and prooue For is it possible that our late famous Queene of euer-blessed memorie and our now Soueraigne the Kings Maiestie should haue escaped the many pitts that haue beene digged for them and not haue fallen therein Is it possible that Queene Elizabeth full of yeares but fuller of Renowne should haue liued vnto a gray-headed age and quitely dying in her bed to be maugre all her enemies brought in peace vnto her graue Is it possible that this present State wherein wee liue should now haue a Being seeing that Hell the Pope Recusants Vt obiter notē The word Recusant now so cōmon vntill the 11. yere of Queene Elizabeths Ragine was altogether vnknowne as may appeare by all Statutes and Acts of Parliament before that time made wherin there is not a word thereof at all vntill which time all Papists some very few excepted notwithstanding that the Religion then professed in the Church of England was the very same that it was in the former yeares of her Raigne came ordinarily to our Churches nor was disparitie of religiō any cause of Recusancy vntil such times that the roaring Bull of Pope Pius 5. for then the land began to swarme with Recusants was published and Queene Elizabeth by him Anathematized Then the case was suddenly altered those who before frequented our Churches now withdraw themselues from our Society Those who before yeilded obedience to hir Maiestie now would not acknowledge her for their
lawfull Queene herevpon followed jmmediatly the rebellion in the North and other dangerous conspiracies by your faction And to proue that Religion was not the cause of their Recusancy besides that which hath beene aboue sayd Scotland will testifie wherein albeit there haue beene and are many knowen Papists both men and women yet in all the time of King Iames his Raigne there nor yet since he raigned here haue any of thē absented thēselus or refused to come to our Churches in Scotland yet I make no question but you will say that the Romish religion is one and the same there that it is here you must needs then graunt that not religion but the Popes pleasure vnto whose girdle you are tyed is the cause of Recusancy and it behooueth his Maiestie to haue speciall regard vnto you that are Recusants and by all good meanes that he can to assure his owne estate in another regard then only that you will not interesse sacris with vs for Recusancy and Treason are so linked one in the other and compacted that hardly can hee bee a Recusant that is not a Traitour likewise See more hereof if you please in the 130 and 131. pages of Tortura Torti Recusants Seminarie Priests and Iesuites Traitors and seditious persons haue conspired against it had not the Lord himselfe miraculously defended it and maintained his Truth I need not instance particular deliuerances for who is he amongst vs that remembers not many But yet I cannot without ingratitude to God our most gracious preseruer ouer-slip in silence those two myracles of myracles to wit Our deliuerance from Spaines so falsely by them tearmed but blessed be God therefore inuincible Armado An. 1588. and from the mynes of fire and Gunpowder prepared by ympes of Hell for Englands Funerall An. 1605. which latter but that mine own eyes haue seene their preparations I should with Thomas scarcely haue belieued And no maruell though in Spain the report therof can with many hardly be credited for some at our own home that haue not with their owne eyes seene it or with their eares heard the Delinquents Viva voce confesse it can hardly yet conceaue halfe the malice therof it seemes to those that haue any sparkes of humanitie so passing cruell and incredible These if the Gospell must needs be confirmed by myracles are true myracles These are no counterfait jugling trickes or Popish jmpostures to delude the simple such as were the Sicknesse-healing Child or the Picture of the Traitour Garnets face in a wheat strawe found perhaps amongst a Popish Taylors wiues shreds or brought in in the belly of a Griffin or Gryfō intēding thereby the ruine of Troynovant as were the armed men of Yore in the bellie of Synons woodden horse for Troye the old its Destruction such as these we leaue to you to jnsert into your Legenda Aurea or Legend of lyes As for persecution for conscience against which in diuers of your pamphlets you so loudly cry the comparison of times for continuance wherein of persons for numbers in those times how many whose bloud on both sides haue been shed and the causes partly wherefore in the following Table will appeare But the grounds of religion contained in the holy Scriptures of the old and new Testament penned by the Prophets and Apostles on which we build our faith and the refutation of errors and false doctrine maintained by Romish Recusants Priests and Iesuites which in former times and in these times also haue do cause so great disturbances persecutions of the Church of Christ I leaue to bee defended by those graue and strong pillars of our Church and learned Fathers of our Clergie whose soundnesse in doctrine all the Papists in the world are vnable to evince Concerning that dishonour wherewith very frequētly but falsely as is well approued by the then Bishop of Chichester you taxe your Soueraigne Lord the Kings Maiestie for breach of promise with Recusants concerning a toleration of Popish religion that quantum in me est I may confute such vnjust exclamations against his Majesties Person and his Honour I will briefly touch that poynt by declaring not onely vnto you but vnto all the world that shall take notice hereof what mine owne eares heard in an open Court of mercy I may say rather then of justice in this case debated and censured The case stood betweene the Kings Majestie a great Peere of this Land amongst whose many grosse slippes and jnglorious acts this poynt was as the rest all which his Majestie was pleased nay as sayd the Lord Cooke then the Kings Attourney commanded that they should not otherwise bee handled then as matters of Contempt ripped vp and scanned His name I could particularly instāce but because it pleased my Soveraigne to deale with him not in rigor of law justice but meerly in Grace I hold it not my part othewise then what for clearing of the truth I needsly must him by name to disgrace Wherfore that I may helpe to wash away those aspertions of dishonour vnjustly throwen vpon his sacred Majesty by men of bad spirits and that like spots and staines neuer to be done away they may seat themselues within the muddy Circle of the duskie Moone their true Centre and not eclipse the bright honour of our splendant Sun glorious North-star I will here relate frō whence by much probabilitie this error at first sprange This noble fore-remembred Personage whose greatnesse addes a greatnes to his fault if I may linke Nobilitie with such jgnoble actions ambitiously as it should seeme affecting a singular greatnesse not at all regarding Religion as some haue thought further then as it might serue him as a ladder to promotion was in shew outwardly a seeming Protestant but vnder-hand and couertly willing to be held a Papist jnsomuch that by his close carriage hee was very honourablie thought of by his Majestie chosen by his Majestie to be very neere vnto him and yet neuerthelesse highly accompted of and respected amongst the Romanists for a sure friend of theirs vpon whom they might hold a Dependance Testified hereby that with his owne hands he deliuered and presented their Popish Supplication vnto his Majestie at Theobalds for a toleration in Anno. 1603. And that I may not seeme maliciously of my selfe without a ground to taxe him herein of ambition obserue with me that at his tryall by one for his learning judicious for his knowledge experienced in matters of State it was by euident arguments prooued that his proceedings argued a manifest Discontentmēt and withall that all discontentments proceeded from either want disgrace or ambition but not from want for his possessions and yearely revenues were exceding great not frō disgrace for his Majestie had many waies graced highly honoured him which graces as he then did so I now could particularly jnstance but that thereby I must needsly discouer his person and therefore of
end of the sixt yeare of King Iames our now Soueraigne Lord his Raigne †Drawen jnto such an order as that at one viewe you may behold the yeare of our L God the yeares of the Princes Raignes both of England and Scotland the Names of those that suffered the day and moneth wherein they suffered and the places of their suffering ¶ A Table very necessary for all Lawyers Scriueners Clarkes or whosoeuer else desire vpon any occasion to know how the double account of the yeares of the Raignes of the Princes of England and Scotland since the first yeare of Queene Marie vntill this present yeare of our Lord 1611. doe agree and concurre The like before not extant ¶ But more especially published to prooue vnto the vnderstanding of the most simple that Poperie is a false Bloudy Antichristian and Mercilesse Religion whose professors delight in shedding the Bloud of Gods Saints and on the contrary that the Gospell which we now in England professe is the Truth and hath for truth beene confirmed with the bloud of many more Martyrs in lesse then sixe yeares space then this Popish Priest in his Martyloge with any shew of truth can though falsely pretend to haue suffered in England for Religion in 50. yeares since THE DETESTABLE ENDS OF POPISH TRAYTORS ¶ These are those vncleane Spirits who like Frogges came out of the mouth of that Dragon and out of the mouth of that Beast and out of the mouth of that false Prophet Revel 13.16 ¶ Whose Damnation is iust Rom. 3.8 †For they are the Spirits of Deuils working Myracles to go vnto the Kings of the Earth and of the whole world to gather them to the Battle of that great Day of God Almighty Reuel 16.14 †And these worshipped the beast Revel 13.4 The Detestable Ends of Popish Traytors The yere of our L. God beginning by this account Mar. 25. Qu Elizab her Raig of Eng beginning No. 17. 1558. Q. Mary her Raig of ScotlaÌ„d begining DeceÌ„ 18 1542. The names of Traitors as were executed in England in Queene Elizabeth Raigne The days of the moneth wherein they were executed The places where they were executed  NoueÌ„b 17. Eliz. Angl. 1.     1559. Elizab Angl. 2. Mariae Scot. 18.    1560. Elizab. Angl. 3. Mariae Scot. 19    1561. Elizab Ang. 4. Mariae Scot. 20    1562. Elizab. Ang. 5. Marioe Scot. 21    1563. Elizab. Ang. 6. Marioe Scot. 22.    1564. Elizab. Ang. 7. Mariae Scot. 23    1565. Elizab. Ang. 8 Mariae Scot. 24.      This yere Iuly 28. H. L. Darly was proclaimed Ki. and on the morrow after hee married the Qu. Marioe Scot. 25.    1566. Elizab. Angl. 9. In this yeare of our L. god Iune 19 was our now Kings Maiesty Borne Christenned the 18. day of Decem. following      The 10 of Febr. following the K. was murthered by traitors    1567. Elyzab Ang. 10 This yeare in the moneth of Iuly Q. Mary being prisoner in Lochleuine willingly resigned her Crown vnto James the yoÌ„g Prince our now Soueraigne Lord King he was theÌ„ but two yeares old      K. Iames his Rai of Scot. being the 6. King of that name      Iuly 29 Iacobi Sexti Scoto 1.    1568. Elyzab Ang. 11 Iacob Scoto 2.    1569. Elyzab Ang. 12 Jacob. Scoto 3.    1570. Elyzab Ang. 13 Jacob. Sâ—oto 4. Iohn Felton August 8. in Paules Church yard 1571. Elyzab Ang. 14 Jacob. Scoto 5. Iohn Story June 1. at Tyburne 1572. Elyzab Ang. 15 Jacob. Scoto 6.    1573. Elyz 16 Iacob 7 Thomas Woodhouse June 19. at Tyburne 1574. Elyz 17 Iacob 8.    1575. Elyz 18 Iacob 9.    1576. Elyz 19 Iaco 10    1577. Elyzab Ang 20 Iacob Scot 11 Cuthbert Mayne Nouem 29 at Launston  Iohn Nelson Feb. 3. at Tyburne 1578. Elyzab Ang 21 Jacob Scot 12 Thomas Sherwood Febru 7.  1579. Elyzab Ang 22 Iacob Scot 13 Anno. 1577. in the moneth of Ianuary was published a Proclamation against Seminary Priests and Iesuits and for calling home the Queenes subie s from forraigne Seminaries where they remained vnder colour of studie   1580. Elyzab Ang 23 Iacob Scot 14   1581. Elyzab Ang 24 Iacob Scot 15 Euerard Hanse July 31. at Tyburne  Edmund Campion Decem. 1 at Tyburne    Alexander Bryant    Ralphe Sherwyn 1582. Elyzab Ang 25 Iacob Scot 16 Iohn Paine Aprill 2. at Chelmsford  Thomas Ford. May. 28. at Tyburne    Iohn Shert    Robert Iohnson    Thomas Coâ—tam May 30 at Tyburne    William Filby    Luke Kirby    Lawrence Iohnson    William Lacy. August 22 at Yorke    Richard Kirkman    Iames Tompson in Nouem at Yorke 1583. Elyzab Ang 26 Iacob Scot 17 Richard Thirkhill May. 29 at Yorke  Iohn Slade Octob. 30 at Winchester    William Hart.  at Yorke    Iames Laburne  at Lancaster    William Carter Janu 11. at Tyburne    George Haddocke Io Mundine Iames Fen Thomas Emerford Iohn Nutter Feb. 12. at Tyburne 1584. Elyzab Ang 27 Jacob. Scot. 18 Iames Bele Aprill 20. at Lancaster  Iohn Finch    Richard White Octo. 18. at Wrixam    This yeare also were 21. Iesuits and Seminary Priests banished the Realme Ianu 21.   1585. Elyzab Ang. 28 Jacob. Scot. 19 Thomas Aufield July 6. at Tyburne  Thomas Webley    Hugh Taylor  at Yorke    Marmaduke Bowes     Margaret Clitherow in March at Yorke    N. Hamelton  at Yorke    Rob Bicardine     Edward Transam Janu. 21 at Tyburne    Nich Woodfine    This yeare also were 32. Priests Iesuits banished the Realme Sep. 19.   1586. Elyzab Ang 29 Jacob. Scot 20. Richard Sergeant Aprill 20. at Tyburne  William Tompson    Iohn Adams Octo. 8. at Tyburne    Iohn Low    Rob Debdale    Rob Anderton  at Tyburne    William Marsden     Francis Ingleby  at Yorke    Stephen Rowsam  at Gloucester    Iohn Finglow   1587. Elyzab Ang 30 Jacob. Scot 21. Thomas Pilchard in March at Dorcester  Iohn Sands  at Gloucester    Iohn Hamly  at Chard    Alexander Crowe  at Yorke    Robert Sutton  at Stafford   Â
Edmund Sykes      Grabriell Thimbleby      George Dowglas   1588. Elyzab Ang 31 Iacob Scot 22 William Deane August 28 at Myle-end-greene  Henry Webley    William Gunter eodem die at the Theat    Robert Morton eodem die at Lincolns-Inne Fields    Hugh More    Tho Acton alias Holford eodem die at ClarkeÌ„wel    Richard Clarkson eodem die     Thomas Felton at Hownslow    Rich Leigh Edward Shelley Hugh Morgan Rich Flower Robert Martyn Iohn Rocke Margaret Wade Aug. 30. at Tyburne    Edward Iames. Octob. 1. at Chichester    Ralph Crochet    Robert Wilcockes eodem die at CaÌ„terbury    Edward Campion    Christo Buxton    Rob Widmerpoole    William Wigges eodem die at Kingston    Iohn Robinson eodem die at Ispwich    Iohn Weldon October 5. at MileÌ„dgreen    William Hartley eodem die at Halliwell    Rich Williams    Robert Sutton eodem die at ClarkeÌ„wel    William Spencer      Edward Burden      Iohn Hewyt      Rob Ludham  at Darby    Richard Simpson     Nicholas Garlicke     William Lampley  at Gloucester 1589. Elyzab Ang 32 Iacob Scot. 23 George Nicols Rich Yaxley Tho Belson HuÌ„ vp Richard    July 5. at Oxford    Iohn Annas      Robert Dalby      Christopher Bales March 4. in Fleetstreet    Alexander Blake eodem die in Gr In. lane    Nicholas Horner eodem die in Smithfield 1590. Elyzab Ang. 33 Jacob. Scot. 24. Myles Gerrard Aprill 30. at Rochester  Francis Dickinson    Anthony Myddleton May. 6. at ClarkeÌ„wel    Edward Iones May 6. in Fleetstreet 1591. Elyzab Ang. 34 Jacob. Scot. 25 Edmund Gennings Decem. 10 in Grays Inn Fields  Swithin Welles    Eustach White Decem. 10 at Tyburne    Polydor Plasden    Bryan Lacy.    Iohn Mason    Sidney Hodgson    Momfort Scot. Iuly 2. in Fleetstreet    George Bisley    William Dickinson July 7. at Winchester    Ralph Milner    Edmund Ducke  at Durham    Rich Holiday     Ioh Hagge     Rich Hill     William Pykes  at Dorcester    William Pattison Iann 22. at Tyburne    Tho Portmore Feb. 21. in Paules Church yard    This yeare also in the moneth of Octob was published a Proclamation against Priests and Iesuits   1592. Elyz 35 Iaco. 26. Roger Ashton June 23. at Tyburne 1593. Elyzab Ang 36 Jacob. Scot. 27. Iames Burden March 25 at Winchester  Anthony Page Aprill 30 at Yorke    Ioseph Lampton Iune 23. at Newcastle    William Dauis in Sepâ—em at Beumaris    Edward Waterson      William Harrington Feb. 18. at Tyburne 1594. Elyzab Ang 37 Iacob Scot. 28 Iohn Cornelius Mohum July 4. at Dorcester  Tho Bosgraue    Patricke Samon    Iohn Carey    Iohn Ingram      Thomas Boast  at Newcastle    Iames Oldbaston      Robert Southwell March 3. at Tyburne 1595. Elzyab Ang. 38 Jacob. Scot. 29 Henry Walpole    Alexander Rawlins Aprill 17. at Yorke    George Errington  at Yorke    William Knight     William Gibson     Henry Abbots     William Freeman   1596. Elizab. Ang. 39 Iacob Scot. 30 N Auleby    N Thorpe   1597. Elyz 40 Iaco. 31 Iohn Buckley alias Iones Iuly 12. at S. Th Wa 1598. Elizab. Ang. 41 Iacob Scot. 32 Thomas Snow  at Yorke  Christoph Robinson     Rich. Horner     N Grimston     N Britton  1599. Elyz 42 Iaco 33. Math. Hayes  at Yorke 1600. Elizab. Ang. 13 Jacob. Scot. 34. Christopher Wharton with a namelesse Woman May. 18. at Yorke    Iohn Rigby July 21. at S Th. Wa    Robert Nutter in June at Lancaster    Edward Thwinge    Thomas Sprot in Iuly at Lincolne    Thomas Hunt    Thomas Palaser eodeÌ„ meÌ„se at Durham    Iohn Norton    N Talbot    Iohn Pibush Febr. 11. at Tyburne    Roger Filcocke Feb. 27. at Tyburne    Marke Barkvvorth    Anne Lyue 1601. Elyzab Ang 44 Iacob Scot 35 Robert Middleton  at Lancaster  Thurstan Hunt  1602. Elyzab Ang 45 Iacob Scot. 36 Francis Page Aprill 29 at Tyburne  Thomas Tichborne    Robert Watkinson    Iames Ducket    N Harrison in Aprill at Yorke    N Bates  Mar 24 being the last day of the yere 1602. by the account of Eng dyed Queene Elizab  William Richardson Feb. 27. at Tyburne   The whole number of such Priests Iesuits and Recusants as were executed in all the time of Queene Elizabeths Raigne being 44. yeares and 4. moneths according to the Martyrologists owne account as he falsely pretends for religion amounts but to 180.    1602. Mâ—â— 24 Iacob Ang 1.  KING IAMES HIS Raigne of England   1603. Iacob Ang 2. Iacob Scot 37 William Watson Nouem 29 at Winchester  William Clarke   Stowe This yere also was published a Proclamation against Priests and Iesuits that they should depart the Land   1604. Iacob Ang 3. Iacob Scot 38 Lawrence Bayly in March at Lancaster  Iohn Shuker in August at Warwicke    Robert Griffold 1605. Iacob 4. Iaco 39. Thomas Wilborne  at Yorke 1606. Iacob Ang 5. Iacob Scot 40 Edward Oldcorne Aprill 7. at Worcester  Ralph Ashley    Henry Garnet May 3. in Paules Church yard    Robert Drury Febru 26. at Tyburne    This yeare also was published a Proclamation that all Iesuites and Seminary Priests should depart the Land   1607. Iacob 6. Iaco 41 Mathew Flathers March 21 at Yorke 1608. Iacobi Ang. 7. Jacob Scot 42 George Geruis Aprill 11 at Tyburne  Thomas Garnet June 23. at Tyburne 1609. Iaco 8. Iaco 43 And thus endeth J VV Priest
the Pseudo-Martyrologist by whose account there haue suffered since the first yeare of King James of these Popish Traytors as he falsely pretends for Religion to the number of 13.   1610. Iaco 9 Iaco 44.   1611.  Iaco 45   1612.     1613.     1614.     1615.     A POST-SCRIPT TO THE WEL AFFECTED READER IT may bee that some of Antichristes broode will here crye out with open mouthes and say â—ut there are many of our Catholique Martyrs who haue suffered persecution for their consciences that are not here mentioned Here is a CollectioÌ„ indeed to set down some and leaue out the rest where are those Earles of Northumberland and Westmerland with their followers where the Bishops Deanes Archdeacons Canons and other Ecclesiastical persons where Doctor Lopez Parry where many of the Gentry as Abington Babington Tichborne Sauadge and their fellowes and of late where the Lords Cobham and Gray where Digbie Percy Catesbie Tresham Rookewood the Winters Litletons their followers With diuers others both of the Nobilitie and Gentrie who for their consciences in seeking to aduance the By them so falsely called Catholique religion haue suffered Martyrdome some by death some by imprisonment some by banishment some by losse of liuings some one way some another So condemning these collections with the author thereof to the fire as sometimes their forefathers did the Gospells confessors before registred To stoppe whose mouthes let this suffice First that I neither propounded to my selfe nor promised to them to set downe herein the names of any other in Queene Mary her Raigne then onely of such as meerely for their consciences in professing CHRISTS Gospell were in those dayes with fire and fagot martyred and burned not at all medling with such as either were attainted or executed for treasons and rebellions either against her person state or dignitie whom no good Christians wil seeke to excuse in so doing nor of any other in Q. Elizab. or King Iames their raignes theÌ„ only of such Seminary Priests Iesuits Recusants as I find recorded by their martyrologist I. W. Priests whom many simple Papists being seduced by their false teachers giue out to haue suffered onely for Religion and their consciences although that in all of these Priests and Iesuites men of iudgement may easily discerne the contrarie and as for many of them the most simple cannot be ignorant that knoweth any thing nor the most shamelesse denie that is not past all shame that they were executed for plotting and contriuing for knowledge of and concealing most barbarous the like before vnheard of treasons whereas true martyrdome indeede consisteth ferendo patiendo non in agendo in bearing patiently and suffering afflictions for CHRISTS cause but not in plotting and attempting the liues and ouerthrowes of Kings and Countries their lawfull and Liege Soueraignes and natiue though of them hated habitations and byrth-place witnesse for proofe hereof 1. Ballard 2. Watson 3. Clarke 4. Garnet the Iesuites Prouinciall 5. Hall with others the first of these was a chiefe actor and plotter in Abingtons and Babingtons Conspiracie Anno 1586. the second third in Cobhams and Grayes but more properly for they are the first mouers alwaies in Watsons and Clarkes their owne conspiracie Anno 1603. The fourth and fift in the Gunpouder treason which onely to name is instar omnium the most damnable bloodie plot that euer was contriued and I hope in time will proue as their owne Greenwell prophesied the very breakneck of all Papists that will not bee recalled Anno 1605. although I greatly feare that there are many in this Kingdome who now GOD in his mercie hath defeated them seeme to condemne the plotte but yet would with all their hearts haue wished that it had taken effect Talia etenim nunquam probata antequà m acta for such attempts as these to wit the Gunpouder and others treasons are neuer liked of vnlesse they bee acted but if performed then applauded with Panegyricke Orations Well that Papistes haue found so much mercie at the Kinges handes notwithstanding this their more then heathenish crueltie as they haue let them blesse God and thanke his Maiestie and I pray God they may make a good vse thereof but let vs that are his faithfull subiects reioyce in God for his and our owne deliuerance from so eminent danger ascribing all glorie and thankfulnesse to God therefore and vnspeakeable mildnes and forbearance in our King whom no barbarous attempted cruelties for then the Gunpouder treason neuer was any more horrid more hellish can prouoke vnto rigor hee is so loath to bee of his very enemies accounted cruell But Lord grant thou Ne incidat in Scillam cupiens vitare Carybdim that his mercy towards his foes proue not crueltie to himselfe his Friends and good subiects For this I may iustly say that for a mercifull King in forgiuing his enemies whom yet hee hath power to destroy England may boast her selfe aboue all the nations of the world Secondly if Papists will haue besides these Priestes Iesuits Recusants by their Pseudomartyrologist noted all other traitors and rebels to bee likewise enrolled let them name as many as they can and register them themselues and take them into their number for well I knowe that vnto honest men the more they name the more infamous will they bee because their horrible and damnable treasons are vnto all good men to whom onely I intend this Post-script so odious and vnto the world so apparant and palpable that their names cannot but with disgrace bee recorded whereas none who were in Queene Mary her raigne burned did suffer for any other cause as the Papists themselues cannot deny but that they falsely call vs heretiques but onely for matter of religion nor can they bee iustly accused of any to haue attempted against the life of their then Soueraigne Lady Queene Mary or to haue denied her for their lawfull Queene but so Non obstante religionis disparitate although they differed in religion to haue acknowledged her so to haue prayed for her in all humilitie submitting their neckes as good subiects to the yoake of temporall obedience to her Maiestie and like true Christian martyrs their bodies to the fire for the onely profession of the Gospel of Christ Iesus whom in their bodies goods and spirits they serued Thirdly as I take not vpon mee to see downe precisely the name of euery particular Priest Iesuite and Recusant that suffered in Queene Elizabeths and King Iames their raignes nor yet the iust number of those blessed Martyrs that were burned in Queene Mary her raigne but so many onâ—ly of both sortes as are for them in I. W. Priest his English Martyrologe and for vs by that worthy man Maister Iohn Fox in his booke of Martyres recorded So I am most certainely assured that if I should nominate all