required It is not vnknowne what a villanous attempt the traytor Parrie vndertooke against the life of hir Maiestie ann 1583. With which outragious plot sundrie of the Iesuites were acquainted and namely this arrant traytor Parsons who also intituled Alexander the Duke of Parma to hir Maiesties crowne and indeuoured with all his skill to perswade the Duke in the right of his sonne Ranutius to set vpon this Realme with all his force But the attempt of anno 1588. By the King of Spaine against hir Maiesty and this whole kingdome is to be abhorred aboue all the rest and to be had in perpetuall detestation And yet in that cruell attempt this our Iesuite was a chiefe firebrand and had his hand in that pernitious booke that was then printed for the stirring vp of her Maiesties subiects to haue taken part with the Spaniard if he could haue arriued These words are to be found in the sparing discouery pag. 49. page 51. pag. 52. A large volumne is set forth by this Parsons and his generall called the high counsell of reformation for England to take place and to be of force when the catholike conquerour shall be established in great Brytaine First no religious order will that famous volumne permitte in great Brytain but Iesuites and Capuchines Neither Benedictines nor Carthusians nor Dominicans must enter heere sicut placuit Iesuitis for the holy Ghost hath forsaken all other religious orders and is onely in the Capuchenes and Iesuites If you aske vs why they make choise of the Capuchenes onely we answere you as a good Capuchene did to the like question we sute best quoth he with the humor of the Iesuits for their drift is to haue all and to rule all and on the contrarie our orders are such as we must neitheir rule at all neither haue any thing at all Secondly all bishoprickes great and small all parsonages vicarages and monasteries must be no more in the hands of bishops Abbots parsoÌ„s the rest as heretofore it was accustomed They all must bee put to their pensions and the father prouinciall must â—ull out foure Iesuites and two secular Priests which must be demiâ— Iesuits These six vicars these mightie great Lords shall haue lands mannors Lordships parsonages monasteries and whatsoeuer els into their owne hands allowing the Bishoppes and the rest pensions or stipends at their good pleasures Thirdly no parson no vicar no bishop no fellow of any colledge must be so hardy as once to demaund an accompte what is become of their reuenewes lands and lordships Fourthly the nobilitie must be limited also what retinewe they shall keepe what they shall haue to spende yeerely and what diet they shall keepe at their tables Lastly the common lawes of our contrie must be abolished and the ciuill beare the sway happie is hee that can see and read this booke called the counsell of reformation These words are to be found both in the sparing discouerie pag. 28. 29. and in the dialogue also page 95. as also quodlibet 4. art 2. page 93. quodlibet 9. art 2. pag. 289. Note heere gentle reader these important points with me First that the Iesuites doe perswade themselues confidently and would perswade all others in like manner that they can procure a conquest of England at their pleasure Secondly that themselues are the onely wise men in all Europe at least in their owne conceits and consequently that all people or all estates and condition whatsoeuer must in reason yeelde to their counsell of reformation Thirdly that all bishops parsons and vicars must depend vpon the Iesuiticall munks those irreligious and trayterous fryers a thing neuer heard of since the world began Fourthly that not onely the ancient lawes of the Church but also of the Realme must be altered by Iesuiticall profested fryers Fiftly that munks the hautie and arrogant Iesuites I meane must be the high treasurers of the land Sixtly that all the nobilitie of the land must be censured and limited by the said Friers what retinew they shall keepe what summes of money they shall spend and what diet they shall vse Seuenthly and lastly that these Iesuits these Lordly Friers these noble treasurers of England are lawles and independent aboue all and vnder none no man may call them to accoumpt no man may once aske them what is become of the common treasure Two Priests Maister Bishoppe Maister Charnocke being messengers to Rome sent in the name of all the rest were imprisoned at Rome before their message was deliuered The French Ambassadour came to the Pope and told him that in imprisoning those two men he had done that whereof no example could begiuen in any age And therefore beseeched the Pope to giue them audience After the Ambassadours departure forthwith commeth the Spanish Ambassadour suborned by Parsons and disswadeth the Pope from that which he had promised The French Ambassadour commeth againe the second time and vrgeth as before and againe audience was granted to the Priestes This being knowne to the Iesuites they procured the said Spanish Ambassadour to come againe to disswade the Pope at whole motion audience againe was denied and the Priests cast into prison These words are set downe in the preface to the important considerations fol. 8. page 2. See also Maister Elies notes vpon the Apologie pag. 108. for there the same is auouched Note here gentle reader these points with me First that the Iesuites are men which respect neither religion nor conscience nor honest morall dealing Againe that the Pope is an vnfit man to gouerne any one nation and much lesse fit to gouerne all the christian world But all is well his traytorous Iesuites can doe it for him Yea they can rule the Pope himselfe For so themselues affirme These are their words in the notes vpon the Apologie page 267. Parsons for his credit you say in the Romaine court doth greatly let hinder their designements And this their saying was not manie monethes since confirmed by one of his owne coate passing by this way who said Father Parsons could doe what he would with the Pope Paragraph II. Of the Popes dealing in matters of treason Piâ—s quintus practised hir maiesties subuersioÌ„ he sent into England one Ridolphi a gentleman of Florence vnder colour of marchandize to sollicite a rebellion He moued the King of Spaine to ioyne in this exploite for the better securing of his owne dominions in the lowe countries He denounced his bull against hir maiestie purposely to further the intended rebellion and to depriue hir from hir kingdome The Pope and king of Spaine assigned the Duke of Norfolke to be the head of this rebellion The Pope gaue order to the said Ridolphi to take 150000. crownes to set forward his attempt some of which mony was sent for Scotland and some deliuered to the said Duke King Philippe at the Popes instance determined to send the Duke of Alua into England with all his forces into the low countries
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
wronges will soone redresse Christs Gospell still he will maintaine Our true peace to prolonge Both Spaniard Pope and Iesuite May sing a doolefull songe They sought by treason Scotlands crowne On Spanish head to bind Crichton was actor chiefe who may in then'd an halter find Most traytorous parts and bloudie plots To Iesuites are deare To all that will this booke peruse This truth must needs appeare Disloyall papists still presume A tollerate to craue But God preserue our gracious King No such sport must they haue Their combes are cut their crests are falne They stand amaz'd with feare Their spirits rampant are made couchant Their doome will soone appeare For this rare blessing yeelde him thankes That sits in heauen aboue And let our faith and Godly life Make knowne to him our loue The Preface to the gentle Reader THis Anatomie of popish Tyrannie gentle Reader was compiled and made readie for the presse before the tenth of October in the yeare of our lord God 1602. but by reason of casuall accidents and other circumstances concurring it was not printed vntill this present yeare 1603. before which time it pleased the Almightie to call hence to his mercie our most gratious Soueraigne the mightie Princesse Elizabeth late Queene of England France and Ireland Against whose sacred person the Pope the Spaniards and Englist Spaniolized Iesuites with all Iesuited popelings deuised contriued and practised many most cruell stratagems and bloodie complottes All which were effected for this sole and onely purpose because forsooth her most excellent Maiesty of holy memorie did euer with singular Christian zeale and rare magnanimitie protect patronize and stoutly maintaine Christs holy gospell and his diuine worship throughout her Realmes and Dominions These treacheries and most villanous conspiracies against her royall person with innumerable indignities against her Realmes most louing subiects contriued and put into actuall execution by the cursed crew of English Iesuites and Iesuited papists are compendiously distinctly and pithily comprised in this present volume By reason whereof it commeth that though this present worke be published after that the imperiall Diademe of the Realmes afore named came and descended wholy and lawfully to the high and renowmed prince now our vndoubted Soueraigne lord Iames the first King of England Scotland Fraunce and Ireland yet must all the chiefest parts thereof be referred principally to our late Soueraigne ladie Queene Elizabeth I say principally for that the same doe in some sort concerne his royall person regall prerogatiues who this day most happily raigneth ouer vs. For the cursed and trayterous Iesuites who for their manifold treasons against their Soueraigne lords the late king of France the king now regnant are iustly banished out of the whole kingdome of Fraunce euen by publike decree of Parliament as the French papists tell vs and who also as the Secular priests their owne brethren write of them haue endeuoured with tooth and nayle to stirre vp sedition in the kingdome of Scotland so to set the imperiall Crowne thereof vpon a Spaniards head will not now doubtlesse surcease from their inueterate and wonted bloodie treacheries seeing their profession is linked inseperably with treason as the priests affirme against them if our liege lord king Iames the first shall graunt them any footing and resting place within any of his kingdomes territories or dominions God for his mercie sake which hath no end eyther conuert them soundly or confound them vtterly for the peace of his Church the safetie of our gracious King and the comfort of all his true hearted subiects English Scottish and Irish. Amen The names of the Secular priests that subscribed to the supplication sent to the Pope Thomas Bluet Christopher Bagshaw Christopher Thules Iames Tayler Iohn Thules Edward Caluerley William Coxe Iames Cope Iohn Collington George Potter Iohn Mush William Watson William Clarke Iohn Clinsh Oswald Nedeme Roger Strickland Robert Drurie Francis Munford Anthonie Heburne Anthonie Champney Iohn Lingley Iohn Boswell Robert Thules Edward Bennet Robert Benson Cuthbert Trolope Iohn Bennet William Mush Richard Button Francis Foster Note heere gentle Reader that though these thirtie onely who make a number sufficient did subscribe to the appeale and to the petition sent to the Pope yet were there and are there many others as the priestes write which would willingly haue set to their hands but that they were in feare to deale against the proud tyrannizing Iesuites Yea as the Iesuites write there are this day in England 300. priests God eyther conuert them speedily or confound them vtterly Amen A memorable caueat to the gentle Reader I Haue imployed my whole industrie and best indeuour gentle Reader to doe thee good and to confirme thee in the truth of Christs gospell who if I shall vnderstand that my paineful labours for thy sake shall be accepted in good part and be an instrument vnder God to direct thee the readie way to eternall life shall doubtlesse attaine my desire and hold my selfe fully satisfied for my paines Now for the better accomplishment of mine expectation herein I haue thought very expedient and necessarie to instruct thee in some generall points without the knowledge whereof neither canst thou fruitfully read this discourse nor fully and perfectly vnderstand the same First therefore the gentle Reader must obserue seriously though some otherwise learned be of an other opinion that the discontented secular Priests are in truth and without all doubt at vtter defiance with the Arch-Priest and the Iesuites that they condemne the proceeding and dealing of the Arch-Priest that they vtterly abhorre and derest the licentious liuing the vnchristian coozening and the treacherous practises with infinite other badde dealing of the Iesuites as also that they write nothing of or against the Arch-Priest or the Iesuites but that onely which they thinke themselues bound in conscience to write and to make the same knowne vnto the world I my selfe am thus perswaded of them doubtlesse and I prooue the same many waies First because the Secular Priests haue a long time suffered intollerable iniuries at the hands of the Iesuites because they haue often insinuated so much one to another because they haue often complained of the hard vsage of the Iesuits against them because they haue often repined at their partiall dealing with their fauorites and rough dealing against such as would not bow and bend to their designes at a becke this my selfe know to be so as also that it hath euer beene their vsuall practise euerie where Secondly because the Secular priests were most vnwilling to reueale the turpitude and the villanous dealing of their religious fathers the Iesuits as who professe one and the same religion with the Iesuits saw rightwel that it could not but tend to the great scandall vtter disparagement of their Romish religion vntill necessitie it selfe enforced them therunto Thirdly because their Seculars write nothing of our English Iesuits in deed but the French papists haue in effect and
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
court of Rome And yet vnwitingly they condemne themselues in an other place graunting that they may not by worde or writing impugne the parliamentall Lawes of this land Thirdly by not appealing they should haue beene preiudiciall to prince Church and all estates as is in the second obseruation but not to the prince Church or State of England ergo to the prince Church and State of Rome for of force they must so meane the force of trueth hath inforced their penne Fourthly they appealed for her Maiesties securitie as is in the third obseruation where I cannot enough admire the impudent insolencie of these disloyall Seculars who make a treacherous flowrish as if the securitie of their dread Soueraigne did depend vpon their Popes good pleasure and their treacherous appeale vnto him Herein they make hauocke other Maiesties statute-lawes which els where by popish statization and equinocation they say they may not offend A note worthy to be remembred Fifthly they appealed for the quiet of the state which is as disloyally spoken as the former for God auert that the peace of her Maiesties state and her Realmes do at any time stand in neede of the Popes fauour the intreatie of the sedicious Seculars Sixtly they appealed for the auoydance of inuasions and conspiracies as is in the fiâ—th obseruation out of which confession I inferre these two important corollaries First that conspiracies and inuasions are still intended against her sacred person her royall throne her crowne her state and dominions Secondly that the Pope is the principall actor in all plots conspiracies treacheries inuasions and conquests intended against the Queen her realms and faithfull subiects I therefore conclude that the Seculars are this day as dangerous in al treasonable plots bloody practizes and disloyall conspiracies as they haue beene heretofore For albeit they belabour themselues seriously to hide and bolster out all their cursed intendements against their dread soueraigne and natiue Countrey especially when they are occasioned to speake of matters of state as they doe or may concerne their owne persons yet doe they but equiuocate and temporize in so doing and that as scornefully and treacherously as euer did the Iesuites Of which point none can be ignorant that shall seriously peruse and ponder this discourse Wherefore as the Seculars say of the Iesuites so say I of them that though they sweare can yet we not safely beleeue them in state-affairs the reason is euident because they doe not acknowledge any magistrate vnder her Maiestie to be their lawfull and competent iudge If they say write or sweare the contrary yet giue no credite to them therein for euen then doe they seeke to delude the Magistate by their hypocriticall and execrable equiuocations No no it neither doth nor can stand with popish religion to thinke and beleeue that Queen Elizabeth whom God long preserue ouer vs can ordeine any competent iudge ouer them And consequently vntill the Seculars renounce the Pope and his damnable procéedings against Christian kings their royal diademes and sacred regalities they will doubtlesse delude the maiestrates with their fondely inuented equiuocationes This is a graue aduiso which may not beforgotten Aduiso V. Of the opinion affection and true meaning of the seculars in all the treasonable practises bloudie conspiracies and other disloyall intendmentes against their dread soueraigne and natiue countrie THe seculars conspire concurre and iumpe with the Iesuites in opinion affection and inward meaninge touching the Popes authoritie the bloudie conspiracies inuasions conquest other disloyall intendments against most noble Queene Elizabeth and our natiue country this I proue by manie strong weightie and irrefragable reasons The first reason The pretenses of such practises were generall and common to all Catholikes alike all maintaining one the same opinion concerning what might be done by Apostolical power authoritie neuer talking of what was necessarie Thus is it written quodl 8. art 9. pag. 277. but the seculars are papists aswell as the Iesuites Ergo of the same opinion with the Iesuites Heere the reader may see plainely that the seculars iumpe with the opinion of the Iesuits touching the popes authoritie For by apostolicall power they vnderstand the power and authoritie of the Pope To which must be added which is alreadie proued that the Pope hath excommunicated her Maiesty de facta and hath beene the chiefest agent in all treasonable practises bloodie conspiracies inuasions conquests and other execrable intendments against her Maiesties person honour state and dominions To this must likewise be added which is also proued that the Iesuites affirme malepeartly damnablie and disloyally that the Pope hath done nothing in the premisses but that he lawfully might doe The second Reason Among many examples of the deare loue and compassion of the Popes holines towards the inhabitants and princes of this land in times of imminent commonwealths dangers the chiefe since the Norman conquest was shewed in the daies and raignes of king Henrie the second surnamed Fitzempresse and of his sonne king Iohn the third Monarke of England of a Plantagenets royall race Against whom hauing vsed his fatherly correction as pastor vnivniuersall ouer the whole flocke of Christ for their great crueltie and tyrannie vsed towards their naturall subiects yet vpon their repentance mercifully receiuing them into grace and fauour of Gods Church againe his holines on the behalfe of the second did not onely accurse and excommunicate prince Lewis of France with all his adherents forcing him to yeeld vp all the interest right and title that he or his posteritie had or euer should haue to the English crowne but also surrendred vp the said crowne of England franke and free to king Iohn and his heires and successours from of the head of Cardinall Pandulphus hauing sit inthronized three daies therewith in the Popes right And thousands there are in England that desire as much Thus is it written quodl 8. art 9. page 327. Out of these words it is euidently deduced that the Pope taketh vpon him though most iniuriously and tyrannically to translate kingdomes to depose kings Emperours and Monarkes and to bestow their princely Diademes and royall regalities as seemeth best to his good pleasure Yea which is more to be admired the seculars who in outward shew of words by often and earnest protestations affirme themselues to be most loyall subiects approue the Pope in so doing For first where the Pope had excommunicated and deposed king Henry they terme it his fatherly correction Secondly they say he did it by his vniuersall authority ouer the whole Church Thirdly they terme the deposing of prince Lewis and the restoring of king Iohn to the crowne the chiefest fatherly compassion since the Norman coÌ„quest Fourthly they tell vs that Cardinall Pandulphus was three daies enthronized with the crowne of England vpon his head in the right of the Pope which forraine tyrannicall fact they commend approue Fiftly they tell vs that
the Pope enforced king Lewis to yeeld vp his whole title and right that eyther he or his posteritie had or euer should haue to the English crowne This they likewise approue and commend Sixtly they crie and exclayme with open mouthes that thousands in England desire as much to be done Which is all one as I interprete it as if they wished the Pope to send some Cardinall from Rome to be enthronized three daies with the English crowne vpon his head in the right of his holines and then to surrender it vp to Arbella or to some other popish fauorite For so the Spaniard or other foreyner haue it not they haue their desire Me thinke this my glosse swarueth not much from the text The reason is cleare the reader can easily make application thereof The third Reason I know that Iure ecclesiastico and by the authoritie and sentence of the Popes holines much more may be done then heere I will speake of But yet I thinke it will proue in the end the best course for men not to doe so much as they may Many things be lawfull which are not expedient Thus is it written quodl 9. art 3. pag. 293. This reason ab authoritate for better reasons then their owne grants and confessions cannot be had is as strong as the former if it be well noted with the circumstances thereof For first after Watson who speaketh in the name of the seculars had told vs by the doctrine of a learned man that if we goe no further then to the law of nature or to the law of God no king is depriued from his soueraigntie ouer his subiects though it be for the sinne of apostasie from faith forthwith he addeth the words of this present reason affirming peremptorily that the Pope can do more then he will heere set downe Secondly he telleth vs here that kings can neyther by Gods law nor by the law of nature be deposed from their crownes and regalities and consequently when he saith the Pope can doe more hee must perforce affirme both impudently and senselesly that the Popes power is aboue the power of God The latter he dare not say and yet hath Satan so bewitched and besotted him that it followeth necessarily of the former that is of the doctrine which he deliuereth from the penne of a learned writer and putteth it downe for good Now what is it that the Pope can doe more then may be done by the law of nature and of God forsooth he can excommunicate kings depose kings from their royall thrones and put their Diademes vpon the heades of others This is it that Watson will not say heere because it is not expedient Yet vnwittingly the truth enforcing him he telleth vs no lesse in another place For a reuerend priest saith he and ancient gentleman ould master Middleton was content at Parsons his motion to subscribe to the title of Infanta vpon condition that she should be ioyned by marriage to some noble or péere of our land Thus they write peruse the place quoted in the margent Againe in another place it is thus written say then for the present which yet is more then I would willingly put to maintaine the time of our afflicted state considered that his holines and the king of Spayne might lawfully haue taken armes against her Maiestie and this her kingdome our natiue land yet was it a shamefull part of father Parsons and his companions to be the contriuers or instigators of 〈◊〉 These are the expresse words of the place quoted in the margent Out of these two seuerall assertions the confirmations of the third reason generall I gather first that all the difference betweene the Iesuites and the Seculars concerning the inuasion and conquest of this land consisteth in this onely point viz. that the Iesuites would haue the Ladie Infanta of Spayne to be the Queene of England but the seculars will haue an English man to be king of the land They differ not in the thing to be done but in the manner of contriuing the thing that should be done not in the partie to be deposed from the crowne but in the person that should haue the Crowne not about taking the crowne from Queene Elizabeth but about giuing the crown to the Spanish Ladie The reason hereof is euident because our Quodlibetist telleth vs roundly that old Middleton consented willingly to giue his name to the charter of subscription in the behalfe of the Ladie Infanta of Spayne vpon condition that she should be married to some English noble man Which disloyall narration the secular Quodlibetist approoueth and greatly commendeth terming the said Midleton a reuerend priest and ancient gentleman I gather secondly that our Quodlibetist Watson singeth the selfe same song with old trayterous Midleton For he putteth the case that the pope Spanish king should be said to haue taken armes lawfully against her Maiestie and her Realme of England That done forsooth he telleth vs that he would not willingly maintain that doctrine the time circumstances considered Where he vnwittingly auoucheth that the Pope and king of Spayne might lawfully take armes to depose her Maiestie from her royall Diademe Yea he granteth that he would defend the same doctrine but that the time is not correspondent thereunto Let the words be well pondered and this will be the sense The fourth Reason The Quodlibetist and the seculars doe often protest their obedience to the pope and submit themselues and all their writings yea euerie word sillable and title to the censure of the Romane Church One place may suffice where these words are to be read With all humble obedience to the sea Apostolike be it spoken Quodl 8. art 8 pag. 267. This reason doth plainely conuince the contents of this fift aduiso to be true For how is it possible to conceiue that they shall in true meaning say or write any thing against the pope on the behalfe of her Maiestie who protest zealously before God and his Angels that they will yeeld all obedienc◠to the pope therefore do submit themselues and all their writings sentences words and sillables to his censure and iudgement it cannot be they do but temporize in these state matters they vse Iesuiticall equiuocation The fifth Reason The seminaries were willing at the first to colour hide and conceale all making the Iesuites causes attempts intents practises and proceedings their owne in euery thing vntill at last they were intangled by penall lawes iustly made against them equally as against the Iesuites These words are set downe in the preface to the Quodlibets page 6. Againe in another place the priests write thus we had some of vs greatly approued the said rebellion highly extolled the rebels and pitifully bewailed their ruine and ouerthrow Many of our affections were knit to the Spaniards and for our obedience to the pope we all do professe it The attempts both of the pope and Spaniard failing in England
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
lying cogging slaundering of all his treasons cruell tragedies and most bloodie designements He must forsooth be a Cardinall then the Popes Legate in England and so rule the king and all God saue my Lord Cardinall bastard Cowbucke of Stockgersee for so is his right name as shall be seene hereafter Yea he is termed King Cardinall quodl 5. art 8. hee is said to haue a vile bloodie and bastardly minde quodl 5. art 8. and to be the bastardly vicar of hell quodl 5. art 9. pag. 157. Preamble XIII Of the pompe and pride of our traiterous Iesuites THe Iesuite Heywood kept many men horses and coaches as the Iesuite Garnet doth at this present By meanes whereof the vsuall contributions to the Secular priests were and are greatly diminished These words are set downe in the Discouerie Page 48. Note heere gentle Reader that by this and many other the like proceedings it appeareth eudiently that the Iesuites seeke for nothing else but honour preserment case delicate faire sumptuous apparrell horses coaches and their owne sensuall pleasures To which may be added that both they and the Seminaries haue money and worldly wealth at their pleasures vnlesse the foure score and ten Seculars which of late are bent against the Iesuites be lately by that meanes bereaued of their former golden banks But questionlesse their hauing as yet is farre aboue their deseâ—ts See the tenth Preamble Preamble XIIII Of the dissention amongst the Iesuites THe Iesuite Heywood was against the Iesuite Parsons neither would Parsons be vnder Heywood nor Heywood vnder Parsons Parsons alledged that their generall had appointed him to be the prouinciall all ouer all the Iesuite in England consequently ouer Heywood But Heywood replied that his mission was immediately from the Pope and that he thereby was exempted from all submission to him This quarrel grâ—w to be hote and had many partakers on eyther side In the end the said Heywood loathing and abhorring many enormities amongst the Iesuites wrote sundrie letters to the Pope instantly desiring his hâ—linâ—s that the Iesuites might be reformed affirming that otherwise he should see their ruine he feared in his owne dates These words are to be found in the discouery Pagâ— 48. 46. Behold heere gentle Reader the sweete vnitie betweene these Iesuites marke the arrogancie of them both call to minde their vowes of pouâ—rty and obedience forget not how the priests were deuided touching this Iesuiticall quarrell and putting all together thou shalt easely perceiue and behold as in a glasse of Christall that God who is the author of peace and not of dissention 1. Cor. 14. vers 33. did neuer send them into this land but is highly displeased with their disloyall and treâ—cherous dealing God graunt that all simply seduced papists may in due time consider the same Preamble XV. Of the Duke of Medina IT is knowen right well both from the Duke of Medina his owne mouth and by other certaine intelligence that all the Catholicks in England as well as others and perhaps rather were designed to the slaughter For the said duke beeing told that there were 〈◊〉 Catholikes in England made answere that he cared not I will make quoth hée the best Protestants in England as good Catholickes as they if I haue them once vnder my sword I respect neither the one nor the other I meane to make roome there for my mâ—ster This he hath spoken diuerse times and the Iesuites themselues haue so reported yea the Iesuite Southwell did confesse no lesse at 〈◊〉 in the hearing of diuers priests their prisoners These words are set downe quodl 6. art 10. pag. 177. and the same is affirmed in the important considerations Pag. 25 vers 18. as also in the reply to Parsons libell sol 65. a. vers 24. fol. 29. a. Note heere gentle Reader this important point with me Viz. That if the Spaniards should make a conquest of this land as the Papistes doe disloyally expect whose expectation God of his mercie hath hitherto confounded and will I trust still confound the same then doubtlesse they would make a most tragicall and bloody massacre of all promiscuè neither respecting one nor other for their intendment is to aduance and entich themselues to haue a kingdom not to reforme religion No no neither they nor yet the Iesuites haue any such meaning Preamble XVI Of the title of Isabella the Spanish Ladie THe Iesuite Parsons caused the students in Spaine to subscribe to the Ladie Infantaes title to the Crowne of England and to what else he would hauing gotten their names to three seuerall blanks These words are set down in the hope of peace Page 22. See the next Preamble and note it well Note heere gentle Reader that euerie allegation one after another iumpeth vpon this setled and constant position Viz. that the scope and whole intendment of the Iesuites is flat auowed rebellion and doth nothing at all concerne religion See the fourth Chapter in the sixt Paragraph Preamble XVII Of most notorious and intolerable treason intended against her Maiesties sacred person and the royall Crowne of England THe Iesuites are so desirous to set the Diademe of England vpon the head of the princesse Isabella the Insanta of Spaine that they haue set forth a booke to this purpose and in that booke they giue her such an interest as they make the kings of this land for many yeares to haue beene vsurpers they haue also procured men by indirect means to subscribe to this Ladies soueraigntie ouer vs. Yea offers haue béene made to one of the secular priests that if hee could haue eaten gold and would but haue giuen his countenance and assistance that way he should haue had it In briefe some of the Iesuites haue conspired among themselues and with sundrie other most wicked persons at diuers times to haue laid violent hands vpon the quéene and to haue bereued her of her life It cannot be denied but that they haue done so the circumstances haue shewed it the parties themselues with whom they practised haue confessed it yea sundrie Catholicks beyond the seas doe verie well know it and haue charged in their writings some of them with it These words are set downe in the Discouerie Page 9. see the 16. Preamble Note here gentle reader these important points with me First that the Iesuites labour with tooth and nayle with gold and money with threats and faire promises to cause others both domesticall forraine to ioyne with them in setting the royall diadem of England vpon the Spanish Infantaes head Secondly that they affirme in a most traytorous and execrable booke published for that end that the kinges of England haue beene vsurpers and not lawfull princes for manie yeares together Where I must needes put them in minde of this one thinge that their Cardinall Bellarmine telleth them with their Popes good liking that if the Popes had somtimes beene vsurpers yet prescription would iustifie the Popes title in these dayes So then by
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
put downe in the Preface to the important considerations Fol. 9. page 2. Note heere gentle Reader that this sweete harmonie betweene the Pope the Iesuites and the Secular priests were able to make an horse to breake his halter And doubtlesse the Pope yea many Popes successiuely haue thus commaunded them as shall appeare in the due place of this discourse The Iesuites holde this position for a constant doctrine that the people may depose their princes and choose others at their pleasures haue they any or no right to the Crown that is not materiall so it be done ad Deum that is by our interpretation as the Iesuites shall appoint it Héere we would haue you to note an other rule of our english Iesuites which must concurre with that of ordine ad Deâ—m and it is this that all things must be wrought and framed as the times and occasions require For example if the king of Spayne or the Infanta can by no other practise obtaine the Crowne of England then in that case the people are to haue a right to doe what they list so they will choose one of them for their soueraigne These expresse words are set downe by the priests in their sparing Discouerie Page 14. 15. quodl 3. art 4. pag. 68. Note heere gentle reader that the Iesuites and their complicies are not imprisoned or put to death for religion as they would leaue the world to thinke but for â—â—at treason and purposely intended rebellion For so much their owne pennes by Gods prouidence doe here testifie as you see And consequently politicke godly and very necessarie are the 〈…〉 in that case prouided While the inuasion was talked of and in preparation in Spayne Richard Hesket was set on by the Iesuites 1592. or there abouts with father Parsons consent knowledge to haue stirred vp the Earle of Darbie to rebellion against her highnesse Not long after father Holt the Iesuite and others with him perswaded an Irish man one Patriâ—cke Collen as he himselfe confessed to attempt the laying of his violent and villanous hands vpon her Maiestie Shortly after 1593. that notable stratagâ—me was plotted for Doctor Lopez the Queenes phisition to haue poysoned her This wicked designement being thus preuented by Gods prouidence the said traiterous Iesuite Holt and others did allure and animate one Yorke and Williams to haue accomplished that with their bloodie hands that the other purposed to haue done with his poyson we meane her Maiesties destruction Heereunto we may adde the late villanous attempt 1599. of Edward Squire animated and drawen thereunto as he confessed by Walpole that pernitious Iesuite These words are set downe in the important considerations Page 33 see chap. 4. paragraph 6. of Walpoole the Iesuite The Iesuites laboured in Fraunce euen the french Iesuites themselues to haue lifted the Spaniard into the throne of that kingdome with the consequent ouerthrow of their owne natiue countrey All Christendome to their perpetuall shame ring loudly of it They made great stirre in Spayne to perswade the king to inuade England yeelding to him many reasons why he was bound to vndertake that enterprise and assuring him of great assistance if once his forces were landed Hereunto may be added how many they haue intituled to the Crowne of England as the Duke of Parma the Earle of Darbie and others exciting some of them by force of armes to assaile her Maiestie and buzzing into their eares how easily the scepter might be wrung out of her hands and they obtaine it But most pertinent to the purpose is that their plotting and compassing how to set the Diademe of this Realme vpon the head of the princesse Isabella the Infanta of Spayne To this purpose they haue written a booke wherein they gaue her such an interest as they make the kings of this land for many yeares to haue béene vsurpers These words are to be read in their discouerie Page 8. quodl 9. art 2. pag. 288. The Iesuites take pleasure to scatter rumors and to suggest certaine nouelties in the eares of Catholikes yea to forge and inuent things that are not insomuch as they are commonly held now a daies great lyars and it is come to passe that though they sweare men wil not beléeue them These words are set downe in the Relation Page 73. quodlibet 2. art 6. pag. 39. CHAP. III. Of the excessiue expences and great gallantrie of the Iesuites THe Iesuites endeuour by all meanes possible that both those almes which are giuen for the relief of them that are in prison or any other poore afflicted whatsoeuer as also whatsoeuer is paid in cases of dispensation may come to their hands Now what is done with this money we know not Prisons and Colledges are depriued of the great summes the banished haue them not the priests sée them not but there are hired here with seditious persons deuisers of fables slaunderers of their brethren and scorners of the saints are herewith enriched these and such as these receiue large stipends of their labours And yet so great a masse of monies cannot be consumed but that the fathers bestow much vpon themselues For they goe in déed in great gallantrie no Iesuite goeth to visit any one or trauelleth from one place to another but he is richly apparrelled and is attended on with a great traine of seruants as if he were a Baron or an Earle They wrangle and reprooue the priests garments and spendings whereas the expences of one Iesuite were able to maintaine twentie priests richly Neither by this meanes also could so great a quantitie of almes be wasted but that as the report goes much treasure is conueyed beyond the seas but to what purpose we know not vnlesse it be bestowed vpon their bodie their corporation or societie These words are to be found in the Relation Page 70. See the tenth Preamble and note it well The Iesuites became our collectors or rather not ours but their owne to whom for their accounts the false Steward in the gospell may giue place One Iesuite hath taken at times aboue 500 pound that was giuen to the imprisoned priests then at Wâ—â—â—â— and imployed the same at his owne pleasure Percie the Iesuite escaping from Wisbish tooke fraudulently from benefactors abroad 57. pound 17. shillings and the yeare after stole 27. pound of the common money by the consent of the other his fellow Iesuites They haue so fleeced their fauorers as ouer aboue their owne expences which are excéeding great they haue beene able to send out long since 2200. pound towards the Low countries To scrape together so much money they haue many sleights besides their apparant consenages frauds and thefts before mentioned Thus they write in their discouerie Page 19. First I will but referre you vnto all the priests and Catholikes that liued in England in father Haywoods time of libertie and knew him his manners and fashions well and if they
absolution Sequitur Our kings represent the true image of God against whom this yeare there hapned three straunge and vnusuall accidents first the rebellion against the late king which they coloured with the pretext and title of tyranny secondly the parricidie committed vpon his person by a Monke and lastly the continuance of that rebellion against the king that now is for his religion Sequitur their confessions were instructions or rather destructions to teach rebellion refusing to absolue them which eyther were not in their consciences fully confirmed in their reuolt from the two kings or had any inclination to acknowledge them for their soueraignes And which is full of horrour and detestation their ordinarie conrse was before they would absolue them to make them sweare by the holy gospell conteyned in their breuiaries neuer to take these two kings for their lawful soueraignes That which I speake I haue by good information from many that were faine to passe through that strait and I know one amongst the rest more néere me then the rest who rather then he would giue credit to their doctrine departed from his confessour without receiuing absolution These words are set downe by a Catholike papist a French man in the booke called the Iesuites Catechisme Lib. 3. cap. 12. fol. 165. fol. 166. Note heere gentle Reader these important points with me First that not onely our English papists but euen the French also do write the same argument in substance against the Iesuites and their damnable doctrine Secondly that they vse confession as an instrument of patricidie euen of Gods annoynted princes Thirdly that they would absolue none which acknowledged true loyaltie to their soueraignes Fourthly that they caused all those whom they did absolue to sweare by the holy gospell neuer to take the king now regnant nor king Henry his predecessor for their lawfull soueraignes It therefore is high time for all kings to abandon and expell all this cursed crue out of their kingdomes territories and dominions Jesuitisme agréeth with the Anabaptists opinion in two propositions in medling with state matters and in causing princes and kings to be murdered accordingly to the conueniencie of their affaires I will adde that in the carriage of this Iesuiticall warre within France there was some conformitie of names betweene this and that the Anabaptists vndertooke in Germanie the yeare 1535. for they had one Iohn Mathew their chiefe prophet vnder Iohn Leydon their king and one Bernard Rotman and Bernard Cniperdolin principall actors in their faction for the seducing of sâ—mple people euen as our Iesuites had their father Claudius Mathew and Bernard Rouellet I will not héere recite the other particulars of our troubles being contented plainely to haue shewed vnto you that our Iesuites were the first seminaries thereof These words are set downe in the Iesuites Catechisme Lib. 3. cap. 11. fol. 164. Note heere gentle Reader that the French papists write as sharpely against the Iesuites as doe our secular popish priests And consequently the priests assertions and reports of them are of more credit in that behalfe The Iesuites hauing set foote in Portugall sollicited the king Sebastian by all manner of illusions to make an vniuersall law that none might be called to the Crowne vnlesse he were of their societie and moreouer elected by the consent and suffrages of the same Whereunto they could not attaine albeit they met with the most deuout superstitious prince that could be They were the men that kindled the first coales of that accursed league which hath béene the vtter ruine and subuersion of France In fauour of the Spaniard they set on worke to kill the king one Peter Barriere whom they caused to be confessed in their Colledge at Paris afterwards to receiue the Sacrament and hauing confirmed him by an assured promise of Paradise as a true martyr if he died in that quarrell they set forward this valiant champion who was thrise at the verie point to execute his accursed enterprise and God as often miraculously stayed his hand vntil at length being apprehended at Melun he receuied yâ— iust hyre of his traiterous intention in the yeare 1593. I speake nothing but what mine eies can witnesse and what I had from his owne mouth when he was prisoner View and peruse all the iniquities that you will you shall finde none so barbarous as this To perswade an impietie to kill a king and then to couer it with such a seeming maske of pietie In a word to destroy a soule a king paradise and our Church all at a blow to make way for their Spanish and halfe-pagan designments Thus is it written in the Iesuites Catechisme Lib. 3 cap. 18. fol. 185. Note heere gentle Reader these materiall points with me First that the Iesuites labour with might and maine as our Secular priests truly write of them to ouerrule the whole world For they would haue had a generall law made that none should be made king of Portugall vnlesse he were a Iesuite and also elected by their consent and suffrages Secondly that they suborned Peter Barriere to kill his and their liegelord the king of France Thirdly that they abused the Sacrament to that end and purpose Fourthly that they promised him Paradise and to be canonized for a martyr if he should kill his soueraigne and die in that quartell Fiftly that all this was done in the honour and behalfe of the Spanish king Put all these together and see if the same be not the Iesuiticall practise heere in England as the Secular priestes haue told vs. It happened vpon Saint Iohn Enangelists day in the yeare 1594. after the reducing of Paris vnder obedience to their soueraigne that the king going to his chamber accompanied with many princes and lords found himselfe vnlookt for sodainly strokeÌ„ in the mouth with a knife so that neither he nor those that were with him could perceiue it For assoone as Iohn Chastell who was the traytor and but nineteene yeares of age had giuen the stroke he dropped downe the knife and set himselfe in the midst of the prease Euerie one was in a maze and busie to thinke who had done that trayterous déed and it wanted not much but that this young yâ—uth had made an escape Notwithstanding God would not permit that this detestable act should remaine vnpunished By chance it was that some ore casting his eyes vpon him he became as one sore affrighted and appald with feare But as he promised himselfe to haue the paradise of Iesuites if he died one of their martyrs so also he confessed this fact more readily and promptly then was looked for at his hands Whereby by decree of the Court of Parliament in Paris he was condemned to die I haue no greater argument then this to shew that the trade of murthering was lodged within their Colledges For where there was any exercise of good education and studie no scholler would haue vndertaken such a damnable determination but such a one
our specall grace and fauour we confirme them Out of this generall constitution they haue drawne one particular which is worthy to be knowne in the 16. part of their constitutions chap. 5. The title beginning thus That the constitutions may not binde any man in conscience sith the societie desires that all their constitutions declarations and order of life should be without euasion conformable to our direction and also neuerthelesse wisheth to be secured or at least succoured that they be not snared in any sinne which may growe by their constitutions or ordinances we haue thought good in the Lord exception taken to the expresse bow wherewith the societie is bound to the Pope for the time being and the thrée other essentiall vowes of pouertie chastitie and obedience that no constitutions declarations or any order of life shall impose any yoake of mortall or veniall sinne vpon them vnlesse their superiour command those things in the name of our Lord Iesus Christ or in the vertue of obedience And againe in stead of feare of offending let loue and desire of all perfection come in place and let the glorie and praise of Christ our Lord maker be the more exalted By the first article it is lawfull for them to change and rechange their constitutions at their owne pleasure for their owne good By the second their constitutions are held in regard of the soule indifferent so that the Iesuite may breake them without committing mortall or veniall sinne A law which their great law-giuer gaue them to the end that to Gods honour and glory there might he fewer sinners in their societie Oh holy soules oh pure consciences who restrayning their inferiours from sinne take themselues the reines committing all manner of sinne vncontrolled Let vs examine these points without passion and let let vs consider the scope of these two propositions By the first no prince shall be assured of his estate and by the second no prince shall be secure of his person in his owne kingdome Concerning the first point call to minde how matters haue béene carried for these 25. or 30. yeares There hath béene no nation where they be fostered but they would be tempering with their affaires of state I thinke they are such honest men as what herein they haue done they haue vndertaken to doe it by vertue of their silent constitutions for if they did it by their owne priuate authoritie the generall were vnworthie of his place should he suffer it Further this was forbiden them in the yeare 1593. when they saw all their plots were frustrate Admitte new troubles should arise these gallants will cassiere and disanull this last ordinance suffering their companions to intermeddle as before But what are their rules in such affaires Marrie that is it lawfull to kill a tyrant that a king breaking the common lawes of the land may be depriued of his Crowne by the people That there are other causes for the which princes and great personages may be slaine In what a miserable condition shall princes liue if the assurance of their estate shall depend vpon these fellowes Let us sée their new constitutions of 1593. I will that they medle not at all in affaires of state in generall termes And that particularly they practise not vpon the person of princes Are they bound to obey this Nothing lesse For their law-giuer chargeth not their consciences but in expresse termes he would otherwise haue charged them by vertue of their blind obedience And this is the cause that Commolet preaching since this new statute that there wanted a new Ehud to kill our king and Walpoole furnishing Squire with poyson and instructions to kill the Quéene of England his mistresse thought they sinned not therein These words are set downe in the Iesuites Catechisme Lib. 3. cap. 26. fol. 234. fol. 236. It is not christian charitie O Iesuites that leads you to that course but Iesuitish charitie Your whole profession is nothing else but a particular coozning of our priuate families and a generall villanie of all the countries where you inhabite These wordes are put downe in the Catechisme Lib. 2. cap. 12. fol. 106. The Iesuites make ostentation of a solemne decree concluded among them that they shall no more intermeddle in matters of estate But let vs see what date this decrée beares They say of an 1593. hath your Maiestie then alreadie forgotten that since that time they haue practised twise against your life Behold the performance of this glorious decree Doe not we know the generall exception of all their statutes vnlesse it be for the good of the Church an exception that extends as farre as they list to straine it The Iesuites neuer harboured in their hearts any other proiect but the subuersion of states disauthorizing of magistrates and seducing of subiectes from their alleageance These words are set downe in the franke discourse Page 98. Ribadiner wrote his historie onely vpon report of the countrey as the further a Iesuite goes the lowder he lies These words are in the Iesuites Catechisme Lib. 2. cap. 17. fol. 61. Such iuglings and shiftings of late haue béene vsed by the Iesuites that not onely protestants but also catholiks yea priests can scarce tell when they speake sincerely when otherwise These words are set downe in the reply to Parsons libell Page 23. 1. vers 2. These are ordinarie iugling tricks which are too too familiar with our good fathers the Iesuites In the reply to Parsons libell Page 19. 2. vers 14. Concerning the imputation of lying so famous and notorious are their equiuo cations and so scandalous that the verie protestants take notice thereof to the great preiudice of our profession alwaies heretofore famous for our truth and sinceritie In the replie to Parsons libell Page 23. 1. vers 1. Note heere gentle Reader these important points with me first that the Iesuites are notorious lyers and that their owne fellowes can not tell when to trust them Secondly that they are notorious coozners and full of iugling tricks Thirdly that the Iesuites acknowledge the Pope to be Lord spirituall and temporall ouer all christian princes Fourthly that the Iesuits are notable temporizers as who account all things lawful that will serue their turne Fiftly that the Iesuites are so perfidious a people as their faith is become Fides panica the Carthagenians faith that is a false and detestable faith Sixtly that the Iesuites will be Spaniards or Frenchmen or whatsoeuer else if opportunitie be offered thereunto Seuenthly that no estate is free from the villanie of the Iesuites Eightly that the Iesuites make hauocke of the Popes Buls and constitutions Ninthly that the Iesuites change and rechange their rules and lawes at their owne good will and pleasure The Iesuites therefore are good fellowes fit for all times all places and all companies Paragraph X. Of the profession and Religion of the Iesuites in generall THe Iesuites neuer harboured in their hearts any other proiect but the subuersion of
Of his notortous treasons and bloodie trecheries THe next point brought in by father Parsons is the last Irish attempt but before we say any thing to that we must put his fatherhood in minde of his practises concerning two other preparations wherein he cannot denie himselfe to haue beene not onely a dealer but also the verie chiefe and principall actor The first was that wheâ—in Doctor Stillington and some others got their death which miscarried by reason of the ignorance of their pilotes or rather by the prouision of God thirtie foure ships being shiuered vpon their owne bayes If he denie this wee haue master Thomas Leake a reuerend priest and others witnes thereto with whom he dealt to goe in that armie And because master Leake refused he intreated him accordingly This preparation was intended as then was thought for Ireland The second preparation was some thrée or foure yeares after if I be not deceiued of which father Parsons maketh mention in a letter written to master Thomas fitzharbert from Rome into Spayne desiring to heare of the successe thereof saying withall that they had little hope of that attempt at Rome This preparation as I remember was in the same yeare that the Earle of Essex went into the Ilands and it miscaried also by tempests These two preparations are so euident to haue procéeded with his concurreÌ„ce cooperation as he no way can denie it without the note of impudencie so many witnesse and his owne letters being in testimonie against him What wise man will not laugh at father Parsons to heare him in such sober protestation affirme that he neuer intended that the king of Spaine should haue any temporall interest to the Crowne of England and yet by all his might and power seeke to make him master thereof by inuasion and force of armes Was the booke of titles wherein the kings daughter the Ladie Infanta was intituled to all her Maiesties dominions writ to no purpose but to exercise father Parsons wit was it a vaine speculation in the ayre without relation to effect or end there is a most trayterous letter of his extant which in time may come to light But should I labour to light a candle at noone tide whose positions good father are these the Catholikes in England may fauour Tyrone in his warres and that with great merit and hope of eternall reward as though they warred against the Turkes All Catholikes do sinne mortally that take part with the English against Tyrone can neyther be saued nor absolued from their sinnes by any priest vnlesse they repent and leaue the English They are in the same case that shall helpe the English with any victuals or any such like thing The most worthie prince Hugh ô Neale and other Catholikes of Ireland that fight against the Queene are by no construction rebels How say you fryer Robert out of what forge came these warlike engins they were hammered in Salamanca the seuenth day of March 1602. and are as you see read hote But what Vulcan was the workeman of them you shall heare euerie one of them speake for themselues So I Iohn de Sequenza professour of Diuinitie in the Colledge of the societie of Iesus in the famous Vniuersitie of Salamanca do thinke I Emanuel de Royas professor of Diuinitie in the same Colledge of the societie of Iesus am of the same opinion I Iasper de Mena professor of diuinitie and of the sacred scripture in the same Colledge doe assent to these fathers sentence as to an assured truth I Peter Osorio preacher in the Colledge of the societie of Iesus at Tire ain altogether in iudgement with these fathers Now father Parsons speake out man haue any of your company beene practicioners in the treasons of Ireland the Catholike author of the Iesuites Catechisme telleth vs that all the late rebellious treacheries and murthers hée there mentioneth were plotted and contriued in the colledges of the Iesuites in France and doe not these Iesuiticall professors tell vs as much of their owne procéedings in their colledges in Spaynt for our treasons rebellions and murthers in Ireland I can be but sorie that the auncient Christian faith and rebellion of Christ should thus be scandalized by Machiuilians vnder pretence of the blessed name of Iesus We can alledge his letter written to the Earle of Angus the 24. of Ianuarie 1600. wherein he confesseth that he had laboured eight or tenne yeares for his Maiesty of Scotland and the preferment of his title with the summe of twentie hundred crownes a yeare for two yeares together from Spayne which were as hee saith disbursed in the yeare 1583. and 84. as also 4000. crowns procured to yâ— same effect from Pope Gregory the 13. by bil of exchange which he confesseth he brought to Paris and there deliuered it And he saith the same had continued it any correspondencie of gratitude or hope had continued from Scotland with no small assurance of farre greater matters and aduauncement to the kings person if the enemies since of both our Realmes as hée saith had not ouer throwne and altered that course This he hath in that letter and much more Whereby you may perceiue what his practises haue béene from time to time against her Maiestie and State séeking first as you see by large pensions from Spayne to worke with the Scots and others for the vntimely aduancement of his title which must haue beene with the ouerthrow of her Maiestie or otherwise you know it could not haue beene And heere I request the reader to note these labours of father Parsons for the affayres of Scotland to haue beene in the yeares 1583. and 1584. in which selfe same yeare happened the trayterous plots of Patry Frances Throgmorton and the Earle of Northumberland and the practises with the Duke of Guise Spayniard and other English abroade about the deliuerie of the Queene of Scots and ouerthrow of her Maiestie and shortly after the treasons of Babington and his complices Which I note that you may see how father Parsons courses concurred at the same instant with their attempts and by this you may gesse whether it be not more then probable that he was inward with all those deuises and perhaps some of that money was imployed to the setting forward of those attempts though he would seeme cleare in all things But it is Gods will that his owne letters and writings should discouer his dealings There want not other letters of his and his complices which shew his good will towards our soueraigne and countrey but these shall be sufficient at this time These words are set downe in the reply to Parsons libell Fol. 65. fol. 66. fol. 67. fol. 68. The Iesuite Parsons caused the students in Spayne to subscribe to the Ladie Infantaes title to the crowne of England and to what else he would hauing gotten their names to three seuerall blankes These wordes are set downe in the hope of peace page 22. and they are defended to be true in
to assist the Duke of Norfolke Are all these things true were they not then in hand whilest her maiestie dealt so mercifully with you how can you excuse these desâ—gnements so vnchristian so vnpriestly so treacherous when we first heard these particulars we did not beleeue them but when we saw the booke and found them there God is our witnes we were much amazed and can say no more but that his holines was misformed indirectly drawen to these courses To proceed the Catholikes continued as before till the said rebellion brake forth in the North 1569. a little before Christmasse and that it was knowne that the Pope had excommunicated the Queene and thereby freed her subiects as the bull importeth from their subiection TheÌ„ followed a restraint but the sword was only drawne against such Catholikes as had risen vp actually into open rebellion Well the sentence was procured by surreption and the Pope was deceiued as hee is often in matters of fact These wordes are set downe in the important considerations page 10. 11. Maister Sanders also telleth vs that Maister Morton and Maister Webbe two secular priests were sent by the pope before the said rebellion to the Lords and gentlemen in the North to excite them with their followers to take vp armes against their soueraigne And the rather to perswade them thereunto they signified to them by the Popes commandement that her maiestie was excommunicated and her subiects released from their obedience And the said Maister Saunders doth iustifie the commotion and ascribeth the euill successe it had to the ouerlate publishing of the Bull it being not generally knowne of till the yeare after when Felton had set it vp vpon the Bishoppe of Londons gate These words are set downe in the discouerie afore said Pag. 12 in the said important considerations page 12. The Priests confesse that Maister Saunders doth to much extoll the said rebels because say they they were men arraigned and executed by the auncient lawes of our country for high treason In the place alleaged the Priests confesse that Parsons and others of his coate haue since followed the former intollerable and vncatholike course They confesse also that with in foure or fiue yeeres it was commonly knowne to the Realme what attempts were in hande by Maister 〈…〉 Maister Saunders for an interprise by force in 〈◊〉 in which action Maister Saunders being to much Iesuited did thrust himselfe in person as a chiefe ringleader for the better assisting of the rebells and whilst these practises were in hand in Ireland Gregorie the 13. reneweth the said Buâ—â— of Pâ—us quintns and denounceth hir maiestie to be excommunicate with intimation of all other particulars in the former Bull mentioned which was procured no doubt by surâ—â—ption the false Iesuites daring to attempt any thing by vntrue suggestion and lewd surmises which Iesuites as the diuell would haue it came into England and intruded themselues into our haruest being the chiefe instruments of all the mischiefes that haue beene intended against her maiestie since the beginning of her raigne Their first comming was in the yeare 1580. Campion the 〈◊〉 and Paâ—sons the prouinciall Alias bastard Cardinall Cowbucke as you haue heard alreadie In the said important considerations pag. 22. it is set downe how the Pope by the insâ—â—gations of the Iesuits plotted with the King of Spaine for the assistance of the Duke of Guise against the Queene of England For the better effecting whereof Mendoza the Iesuite and ledger for the King of Spaine in England set on worke Fraunces Throckmorton and diuers others two others also about the same time viz. ann 1583. Arden and Sommervile were purposed and had contriued how they might lay violent hands vpon her Maiesties sacred person And Doctor Party the same yeare was plotting with Iesuites beyond the seas how he might haue effected the like villanie About the same time the Earle of Northumberland was brought into the plot of the Duke of Guise Hereunto may be added the notable treasons of Anthonie Babington and his complices in the yeare 1586. the treacherie also of Sir William Stanley the yeare following 1587. in the page 40. it is confessed that Cardinall Allen and Parsons published the renouation of the Bull by Sixtus Quintus so as the Pope must needes be condemned to haue dealt in matters of treason and to haue beene the chiefest author thereof For in his name and vpon his pretensed authoritie the others did all that was done and without him they durst not haue done any thing as is euident by this discourse Paragraph III. Of the Popes Seminaries THat the Pope did erect his seminaries for to withdraw English subiects from their due obedience and allegeance to their naturall soueraigne it may and doth appeare most euidently by his first mission of his seminarists into the Realme of England For I pray you when Sherwin Râ—ston and Birket were sent into this land from Rome who were the first that came from thence did not the Pope send with them at the same time the Iesuites Câ—mpion and Parsons that priestly bastard I wote he did my selfe was â—estis oculatus being then one of that Colledge And how did he send them Mush one of these secular priests which now stand against these Iesuites can tell as well as my selfe because he was then of the same colledge at Rome I know and he knoweth that the excommunication was then renewed in fresh print and common in euerie mans hands my selfe had one of them at the same time In which Bull her Maiestie was denounced to be excommunicate to be an vsurper and pretensed Queene of England and all her subiects were thereby absolued freed and discharged of their allegiance to her In this manner furnished these good fellowes receiue the Popes blessing and their viaticum which was a good one I warrant you and so they march towards England Who forthwith after their arriuall as you may read in the important considerations Page 14. bestirred themselues as the diuell would haue them for these are the verie wordes of the priests like a tempest with great brags and challenges and Parsons forthwith fell to his Iesuiticall courses of which you haue heard copiously in the chapter next afore going Touching the erection of popish seminaries who so listeth may read at large in my booke of motiues in the chapter of dissention CHAP. VII Of the English hispanized Seminaries and the intent of their erection IT is apparant that the seminaries in Spaine were intended by father Parsons of purpose to cause a conquest and to bring this land into the bondage and slauerie of the Spaniard quodl 8. art 10. pag. 278. The Iesuites haue beene plotting about this Monarchie these twentie yeares together That is to say how to bring both states ecclesiasticall and temporall vnder their subiection For this cause it is that father Parsons so speedily obtained of the king of Spayne there
grant the fact and know not how to excuse the same Yet they seeme to haue a great desire to excuse the Pope if possibly they could tell how And therefore they say he was misinformed and indirectly drawen to these courses For which respect I will put downe the next conclusion The second conclusion THe pope was neither misinformed nor indirectly drawn to deale as he did in the matters of treason I proue it many waies First because he knew that our gracious Ladie Queene Elizabeth was heire to the crowne of England by succession in blood royall that she was opposite to his disholy holines in religion and that the crowne was set vpon her head by Oglethorpe the bishop of Carlett a papist to his owne liking 2. Because he knew his owne plottings in that matter viz. that he did excommunicate her Maiestie that he did depriue her from her kingdome by his Bull that he did pronounce her an vsurper and that he discharged absolued and freed all her subiects from their allegeaÌ„ce to her 3. Because he knew Ridolphi the Florentine the king of Spayne the Duke of Guise and Stukeley to say nothing of the rest 4. Because he denounced his Bull as theÌ„selues grant purposely to further the intended rebellion 5. Because he designed Ridolphi as the priests also grant to take 150000. crownes to set forward the said attempt So then it is verie ridiculous to say the Pope was misinformed For euerie thing was truly related to him and he was ignorant of no important point No no he will not say as the priests doe that hee hath no such authoritie For the Iesuite Bellarmine ascribeth the saide authoritie to the Pope and defendeth it in that verie booke which hee dedicated to the Pope himselfe which booke is this day in pâ—int in all or most parts of Europe If the priests doe not recant this point and submit themselues to his holinesse I am well assured they must smart for the same I would therefore aduise them that as they haue wisely renounced the Iesuites and the Archpriest so they will also as I haue conceiued some hope therein renounce the vsurped and diabolicall authoritie which the bishop of Rome falsely chalengeth to himselfe The third conclusion THe Pope euen by the doctrine of the secular priests hath erred iudicially in a matter of faith For the proofe whereof we must oâ— serue first that the Pope hath no authoritie neither from Chirst nor from Saint Peter to translate kingdomes tradere gentem in gentem or to giue the 〈◊〉 of one prince to an other He hath no such powe granted him vpon the face of the earth Thus much â— freely granted in expresse termes by the testimonie of th secular priests Their words are set downe in the chapte next aforegoing Sect. 2. Secondly that the Popes power is wholy spirituall and that hee can no way proceede against transgressing kings and kingdomes but onely in denouncing Gods displeasure against them by ecclesiasticall censures Thus much the priests grant Cap. 8. sect 3. Thirdly that such a tradition as of England to Spaine by the sword can no way stand eyther with Christs honour or his vicars Thus much the priests graunt Cap. 8. sect 4. Fourthly that to obey the pope in that he seeketh to aduance an enemy to the crown is against the law of nature of nations and of man And consequently that such a uommaundement ought not to be obeyed neyther will the priests obey the same Thus much the priests confesse freely Cap. 8. sect 5. Fiftly that the pope hath de facto thus commaunded This I prooue by two strong reasons First because the Iesuite Parsons did charge the English priests vnder paine of excommunication to ioyne themselues foorthwith with all their forces to the Spaniards against our most gracious Ladie Queene Elizabeth Secondly because Cardinall Alien did affirme openly that the pope had made him cardinall with intent to send him as his Legate for the sweeter managing of the said great affayre I will heere alleage their expresse words as the secular priests haue published them in print Thus they write Father Pâ—rsons ascribeth it to error of conscience and want of couraâ—e terming the same an effeminate dastardy that we had then suffered her maiestie almost 30. years o raigne ouer vs. He threatned vs with excommunication and vtter ruine both of our selues and all our posteritie if we did then any longer obay or aide defend or acknowledg her highnesse to be our Queene or superiour and did not forthwith ioyne our selues with all our forces to the Spaniards The good Cardinall Allen by Parsons meanes is drawne to say that the Pope had made him Cardinall intending to send him as his legate for the sweeter managing of this forâ—oth godly and great affaire and to affirme vpon his honor and in the word of a Cardinall that in the fury of the Spaniards intended conquest there should beeas great care had of euery câ—tholike and penitent person as possiblie could be And to allure the nobilitâ—e of his Realme he promised them to become an humble suter on their behalfes that so as they shew themselues valiant in assisting the King of Spaine his forces they may continue their noble name and families These words are set downe in the important considerations page 25. 26. quodl 8. art 7. page 247. See the fourth booke and the fift chapter in the first section and note it well Sixtly that by popish doctrine euery papist is bound in conscience to employ his person and forces by the popes direction For in iustifying the disloyalty of Sir William Standley a worthy papist laid downe this ground viz. that in all warres which may happen for religion euery Catholike man is bound in conscience to imploy his person forces by the Popes direction viz Now farre when and wher either at home or abroad he may and must breake with his temporall soueraigne These wordes are sette downe in the important considerations page 24. See the fourth booke and fift chapter and note it well in the first section Out of these obseruations well marked and throughly pondered the verity of my third conclusion is inferred of necessitie For first seeing it is a matter of conscience faith and religion to follow the Popes direction in all warres concerning religion as is proued in the sixt obseruation Secondly seeing the Pope hath intended willed directed and commanded his english Priests other his popish vassals to â—oyne themselues with the Spaniard and to assist them with all their forces as is proued in the first obseruation Thirdly seeing the Pope hath no such power and authoritie as he may or can lawfully so will direct or command as appeareth by the first Second third and fourth obseruations it is so euident as none hauing but common sence can denie the same that the Pope hath erred de facto euen iudicially and in a matter of faith when he affirmed it to be
of Constance and one of the best account in the same councell Out of whose words I gather many verie excellent documents well worthie to be written in golden letters First that no Christian is bound to beléeue the decrée definition determination or resolution of the Pope as he is barely and precisely Pope or Bishoppe of Rome without the assistance of a generall councell Secondly that the Pope may erre both priuately and publikely in resolutions of faith aswell as other bishops and ministers of the Church Thirdly that the Pope is subiect to a generall councell and may be controlled by the same Fourthly that the contrarie opinion is a flat heresie condemned in the councell of Constance Fiftly that an inordinate affection to the bishoppe of Rome withdraweth many men from the truth of Christs Gospell Sixtly that a generall councell is so aboue the Pope that it hath power and lawful authoritie to depose the Pope for any notorious crime whatsoeuer Which authoritie saith this great papist was practised and de facto put in execution both in Pope Iohn the 12. and in Pope Iohn the 23. of that name Seuenthly that a generall councell hath full power to compell a Pope lawfully elected to the place to renounce and forsake the popedome and to giue place to him whom the councell shall appoint Eightly that if the pope shall withstand the councell and refuse to obey the decrées and constitutions thereof he must be excommunicated and reputed as an Ethnicke and publican Ninthly that a generall councell may be summoned and kept without consent of the pope that is both lawfully elected and then liuing Tenthly that the Church or a generall councell is a rule set downe by the holy Ghost and giuen vs by Christ to which all people aswell the pope as others must yeeld obedience or else be as the ethnicks and publicans Eleuenthly that neither the pope nor any one man vpon earth is or can be an infallible iudge in matters of faith Twelftly that the iudgement which we must rest vpon in all controuersies of faith and religion is eyther the vniuersall Church or a lawful generall councell This is sound and most Catholike doctrine though procéeding from the penne of a great papist Which doctrine as the councell of Constance did approue so do I embrace the same with all my heart humbly thanking God that by the mightie power of his truth our aduersaries are enforced to deliuer vs the truth against themselues This doctrine is proued more at large in my my booke of Motiues and in my Suruey in many places also of this present volume euen by the confession of the priests vnawares and shall be confirmed God willing in my Golden ballance of triall now readie to the presse Aduiso XII Of the tolleration expected by the Seculars TOuching the toleration which the secular priests ayme at I will only put downe the reasons which perswade me that it cannot stand with the peaceable gouerment of this land referring the decision thereof as appertayneth to the graue consideration of higher powers The same toleration is no lesse daungerous in the kingdomes of Scotland and Ireland a poynt that would not be forgotten The first reason In the booke which Cardinall Allen published in his owne name when the inuasion of England was chiefely intended with the cruell massacre of her Maiesties sacred person in the yeare 1588. which booke the Iesuites partly framed to his hands they first make their entrance into their discourse with a most odious and shamefull declaration against her Maiestie thereby to stirre vp her subiects hearts to contempt of her highnes and to make her beholden euerie where for odious both to God to the world and to all good men Secondly in that booke the Cardinall and the Iesuites threaten the nobilitie genâ—rie and all the rest of the inhabitants of this kingdome with losse of all their goods their lands their liues and with damnation besides except that presently vpon the landing of the Spaniards they ioyned themselues and all their forces men munition victuals and whatsoeuer else they could make with that Catholike armie The words of that booke be these if you will auoid say they the popes the kings and other princes high indignation let no man of what degree soeuer obey abet aide defend or acknowledge her c. adding that otherwise they should incurre the Angels curse malediction be as déeply excoÌ„municated as any because yâ— in taking her maiesties part they should fight against God against their lawful king against their country Ergo the Iesuites are vnfit men to enioy any toleration in a well managed commonweale And whatsoeuer I say of Iesuites coÌ„cerning this toleratioÌ„ I vnderstand yâ— same indifferently of the secular priests My reasons mouing me therunto are manifold First because Cardinal Allen with whose opinioÌ„ all the seculars did euer iumpe put his owne hand to this shamelesse abhominable libell Secondly because many of the secular priests were in the campe as is said in the same article which is quoted in the margent Thirdly Because Ballard the secular priest did at his comming ouer about the yeare 1586. deliuer a like message to al reconciled persons buzzing into their eares to acknowledge the quéen of Scotland for their soueraigne Fourthly because all the seculars professe their obedience to the Pope and are still deuoted to him euen as they were before Fiftly because the seculars iumpe with the Iesuites in all things concerning the Popes authoritie as is alreadie proued The second reason Many nobles and others in high esteeme and authoritie vnder her maiesties are secretly entered into league on the behalfe of the Spaniard and that by procurement of the Iesuites as I haue proued in the eight aduiso Ergo the Iesuits and seculars are vnfit men to enioy and toleration in a well managed common weale The third Reason All papists must imploy their persons and forces by the Popes direction how farre when and where either at home or abroade as men bound in conscience to further all warres for religion and to breake with their temporall soueraigne at the Popes appointmeÌ„t This is proued preamble 18. Ergo Iesuites and Seculars c. The fourth Reason The King of Spaine plotteth and by Iesuiticall faction resolueth to proceede where his father left against England And for this ende sundry persons are sent into England to be agents in that behalfe This is proued preamb. 19. Ergo. The fift Reason The seculars confesse in plaine termes that the penall statutes are iustly made against them this is proued in the seuenth aduiso Ergo vnfit men to haue a toleration The sixt Reason The seculars commend the pope for taking the English diademe from the king and highly approue the dissoyal fact of Cardinall Pandulphus in kéeping the said English crowne three dayes vpon his heade in the Popes right Ergo. c. This is proued in the first aduiso in the second reason The seuenth
vers 26. Borromeo reiected the Iesuites pag. 156. vers 12. Bull renewed by Allen. pag. 85. vers 9. Babington See treason Birket the priest pag. 85. vers 24. C CArdinals letter indited by Parsons Page 170. vers 27. Cardinall Allen. See Allen. Cardinall Bellarmine See Bellarmine Cardinall Boromeo See Boromeo Cardinals poysoned by Iesuites pag. 107. vers 19. pag. 37. vers 34. Cardinall Toledo was Parsons boy pag. 159. 27. Cardinall Pandulphus crowned in the Popes right Pag. 120. pag. 20. Capuchenes why they agree with the Iesuites page 80. vers 20. Conquest of England threatned by the Iesuites page 32. vers 22. Coaches vsuall to Iesuites pag. 9. vers 20. pag. 7. vers 17. pag. 25. vers 18. Coozenage practised by Iesuites pag. 59. vers 16. Confession dissliked by Pope Sixtus pag. 134. vers 16. Church of Rome hereticall pag. 134. vers 9. Confession vsed tyrannically by Iesuites pag. 39. vers 12 Constitutions of the Iesuites are mutable pag. 56 Campion his martyrdome pag. 97. vers 11. Chaunge expected by the papists pag. 101. vers 9. Cogging of the Iesuites pag. 29. Crichton the Iesuite a traytor pag. 45. vers 11. pag. 75. vers 28. pag. 181. vers 12. D DEuill brought Iesuites into England pag. 84. vers 22. pag. 86. vers 8. Doctrine of Iesuites is contrarie to the truth pag. 133. vers 21. Duke de Medina threatned to kill all pag. 11. vers 3. Duke of Parma intituled to England pag. 23. p. 79. Duke of Guise should haue inuaded England pag. 75. pag. 84. vers 32. Duke of Alua purposed to inuade this land pag. 83. Deuill brought the Iesuits into England pag. 84. pag. 83. v. 22. Deuill ruleth and raigneth in the Iesuites pag. 68. vers 3. Dissention betweene the priests and Iesuites pag. 19. Day of channge expected pag. 101. vers 9. E EQuiuocation of the Iesuites pag. 29. pag. 35. vers 13. Expences of the Iesuites pag. 34. vers 15. pag. 26. vers 31. Exercise vsed by the Iesuites pag. 29. vers 6. pag. 130. Examination of the Popes dealing pag. 94. vers 16. F FRench Ambassadour pag. 82. vers 5. French king murdered by Iesuites pag. 37. vers 34. pag. 107. vers 34. French king banished the Iesuites pag. 36. vers 3. Firebrands of sedition pag. 36. vers 21. pag. 80. vers 1. Ferdinando Earle of Darbie pag. 22. vers 33. Felton set vp the Popes Bull. pag. 83. vers 38. Figges giuen by Iesuites pag. 107. vers 3. G GErrarde the Iesuite a good hunter for money pag. 29. Grains hallowed for treason pag. 86. vers 28. Gybseys-Iesuites pag. 77. vers 35. H HEsket a messenger for treason pag. 22. vers 33. Haddocke a badde fellow pag. 30. vers 9. pag. 165. vers 8. High councell of reformation pag. 80. vers 8. pag. 81. v. 5. Hallowed grains See grains I IEsuites by secret vowes pag. 78. vers 9. Iesuites are arrant traytors pag. 75. vers 35. pag. 12. pag. 11. pag. 44. vers 5. pag. 22. vers 17. Iesuites are great lyers pag. 53. pag. 35. vers 13. pag. 77. vers 27. pag. 58. Insuites are cruell tyrants pag. 80. pag. 73. vers 6. pag. 132. vers 34. Iesuites make a triple vow pag. 17. vers 35. pag. 46. pag. 47. Iesuites are States-men pag. 2. Iesuites ride like Earles Pag. 24. vers 22. pag. 34. vers 12. Iesuites must haue their chambers perfumed pag. 7. vers 17. Iesuites are murtherers pag. 107. pag. 7. vers 12. pag. 42. pag. 37. vers 34. pag. 23. pag. 107. vers 18. Iesuites are diuels pag 133. vers 8. pag. 8. Iesuites are right Machiuels pag. 21. vers 20. pag. 15. Iesuites will not come at processions Pag. 133. vers 10. Iesuites are theeues pag. 25. vers 3. Iesuites are proud men pag. 24. vers 21. pag. 25. pag. 26. vers 23. vers 32. pag. 33. vers 24 Iesuites ride in coaches pag. 25. vers 18. pag. 7. vers 16 Iesuites are Scribes and Pharisees page 133. vers 14. Iesuites commaund gentlewomen to pull of their bootes pag. 7. vers 19 Iesuites trowle vp and downe from good cheare to good cheare pag. 7. vers 15 Iesuites promise to restore men to their liuings pag. 32. vers 21. Iesuites doe threaten a conquest pag. 32. vers 22 Iesuites are franke gamsters pag. 2. vers 6 Iesuites cannot abide cloysters P. 2. vers 14 Iesuites vse great penance pag. 7 Iesuites are firebrands of sedition pag. 21. vers 7. See firebrands Iesuites how they pray pag. 20. vers 21 Iesuites the wickedst men vpon earth pag. 15 Isabella of Spayne must haue the Crowne pag. 11. pag. 12. pag. 22. pag. 23. K Kinge of France murdered by the Iesuites p. 107. v. 19. p. 37. v. 34. Kinge of France banished the Iesuites p. 36. v. 3. Kinge of Spaine intendeth to conquer England p. 14 King of Spaine is the life of poperie p. 3. v. 4. Kinge of Spaine did resist the Pope p. 66. v. 15. v. 7. Kinges cannot be deposed by the Pope p. 90. v. 13. p. 88. Kinges haue beene deposed by Popes p. 106. v. 19. p. 119. v. 35. p. 120. L LOpez would haue poysoned the Queene pag. 22. vers 38. League made by the nobilitie to Spaine pag. 128. vers 24. Lawes are iustly made against papists pag. 119. page 124. vers 10. Lands promised to be restored in the conquest page 32. vers 21. Leases may not be let to any but by Iesuites page 31. verse 19. M Murders done by Iesuites page 107. vers 19. Page 37. Vers. 34. Page 38. Vers. 30. Medina will kill all afore him pag. 11. vers 4. Mendoza is a Iesuite pag. 84. vers 34. Martyrdome of Iesuites page 97. vers 9. Miracles done by Iesuites pag. 51. vers 14. Mutabilitie in Ies. religion pag. 55. N NOble men in league with the Spaniards Pag 128. Vers. 24. 129. Noble men take part with the Iesuites pag. 128. vers 24 Noble men assist the priests pag. 128. vers 33. v. 30. New religion of the Iesuites page 89. vers 8. p. 179. v. 29. O OLim dicebamur preferred by the Ies. to the Pope Pag. 178. Vers. 14. Order of the Iesuites page 56. Outcries of the secular priests pag. 21. Outcries of the Iesuites pag. 19. P POpe may be iudged of any man Pag. 94. vers 13. Pope Sixtus damned saith our Iesuite pag. 133. vers 38. Pope Sixtus a monster on earth pag. 133. vers 29. Pope may be an ethnicke pag. 134. vers 5. Pope may be an heretike pag. 133. verse 29. Pope obeyed against Kings page 13. vers 17. Pope cannot depose Kinges page 88. Pope can play trickes of fast and loose p. 125. v. 23. pag. 126. Pope cannot erre and how page 125. Pope erreth not but Sathan vnder his pall pag. 127. uers 4. Pope will depose kinges pag. 120. Pope not the lawfull bishoppe of Rome pag. 3. vers 22. Pope deluded by the Iesuites pag. 30. vers 12. Pope is the cause of all rebellion pag. 82. v. 30. pag.
worldly affaires Behold here tyran ny ambition in Iesuiticall proceedinge O cruell tyrannie o tyranous crueltie Loe the Iesuites proudly do promise a conquest Iohn Gerard the Iesuite said to the Ladie MarkhaÌ„ of Notinghame shire that the Iesuits would make the seculars leape at a crust ere it be longe quodlib 3. art 10. p. 83. What a malepeart â—aucinesse is this what greater pride can be found 〈…〉 O braue gallanâ—â— O humble le Iesuits â— O poore 〈◊〉 O Iesuits where is your vow 〈◊〉 pouerty Loe I pray you the Iesuites caÌ„ steale The Iesuites surpasse the false steward in the gospel Loe the Iesuits are men of good credit All is fish that come to the Iesuites haÌ„ds see the next paragraph The Iesuites are seditious All religious men hate the Iesuites The Iesuites are banished out of â—â—ance for their seditious dealing O what a cursed crew is this O deepe gulfe of sedition Iohn Chasteâ—'l â—as brought vp in the Iesuites schoole O wâ—he Foxe O religious Iesuits What a 〈◊〉 is here Zauier or Xauier The Iesuites are iuglers maâ—ke well my discourse See the 〈◊〉 and 〈…〉 and note them well Loe the Pope cannot depose kinges nor translate their kingdomes The Pope is readie to curse slow to blesse Loe the bearers of the Pope bull were set vpon the pillory Pervse the fiâ—t chapter in the first section â— note it well Lo the Iesuites vse to preferre factious heads The Archpriest must be a witnes against his good master Parsons the author of the trayterous booke of titles See more of this fellowes treasons in the next chapter Loe Parsons hath the trade of lying Remember the memorable caueâ—â— The high counsell of reformatioÌ„ Loe the Pope purposely intended rebellion The Duke of Norfolke a traytour King Philip appointed the Duke of Alua to aide the Duke of Norfolke Ergo the Pope may erre Rebellion in the North. 1569. Loe euery thing tendeth to rebellion The priest Saunders was the Ringleader â—â—â—bellion Loe the deuill brought the Iesuits into England Ano. 1580. Mendoza is a Iesuite See impors coÌ„sid p. 22. 24. P. 23. 18. Important considerat p. 22 24. p. 23. 18. Gregory 13. See the 16. Preamble See the fourth chapter in the 11. Paragraph See the 4. chapter the 6. Paragraph The Pope is the cause of all rebellion Read the 4. chapter in the 10. 11. Paragraph See the 4. and 5 chapters and note then wâ—ll This doth confound the secular priests O gracelesse Cardinall O most cruell and bloodie villaine See the third booke in the third aduito Fie sâ—e shal the 〈◊〉 depend vpon the courtisie of the Spaniardâ—â— goodly new no recompence to all It is lawfull for euerie christiaÌ„ to judge of the Popes doâ—trine See the sixt quodlibet art to infine and the apologie page 17. For the proofe see the fift aduiso in the third realâ— and note it well See the fourth booke and fourth chapter in the .5 section See the fourth aduiso in the answere to the sixt reason See the preface to the discouerie in the end Campion is canonized for a Saint The Seculâ—â— are either traytors or not sound papistes This worthy man was Cardinall 〈◊〉 Quadl S. art 5. page 223. See quodl 8. art 6. page 243. â—ehould how God inforceth the Papists to disclose the very truthâ— truth will euer preuaile in time See quodl 9. art 8. pag 8. pag. 27. et quodâ— 8. art 9. pag. 277. The Secular priests in matters of treason and state seeme to equiuocate The authors booke 〈◊〉 iustifid by the priests See more hereof in the third booke in the fourth aduiso in the latter end Page 68. It is good and necessarie to keepe the papists vnder See quodl 8. art 9. Page 270. Loe the papists expect a day as Esau did when be meant to kil his brother Gen. 27. 41. Loc their Popish Archpriest is an idol The king of France murdered by the Iesuits Loe the Iesuites are most skilfull Phisitions PreaÌ„bles 7 and 8. Deut. 32. v. 35. Rom. 15. 19 Psal. 82. 6. Iohn 13. 1. Rom. 13. 1. Mat. 26. v. 52. If a like ergo treasonablie Quod. 8. art 1. pag. 223. See the answere to the 〈◊〉 gentleman page 24. quodlib 8. art 1. page 223. The seculars are insolent fellowes Corall 1. Corall 2. See the 10. chapter in the 3. Paragraph in the second booke In the second booke chap 3. 〈…〉 Quodl 8. art 9. pag. 277. Loe thousands are bent and wish disloyaltie The Pope hath greater power then God Quod. 9. art 5. pag. 306. Quod. 8. art 6. page 24â— Marke this well that ye may vnderstand it aright Loe the secular priests are as traytorou as the Iesuites See the fiâ—t reason Imp. consid p. 43. quodlib 342 p 267. p. 361. Loe the penall lawes are iustly made against the seminaries Loe the seminarie priests are traitors See the 3. reason See the 4. booke and 7. chapter This is a maxime in the RomaÌ„ church see D. Elyes notes vpon the Apologie p 93. 31. et p. 103 6. The Pope may be iudged euen by Popish doctrine See booke 2. cap. 9. â—euel 3. How the Pope cannot erre but the diuell in his coate Note this word iustly for it is of great importaÌ„ce The Priests are bound to detect the Iesuits Loe here the Priests confesse freely that they are traytors Note this point well it is to be admited and to bee sought into carefully Note this point well Marke well for Christs sake See the replie to Parsons libell fol. 68. 3500. pounds 100. pounds 1008. Markes 400. pounds 1000. pounds See the sixt Aduiso and note it well King Henry now regnant Gerson pri part de examin doctrinar confider 2. Gerson vbi supra Gerson pripart in serm pro. viagio regis Roman part 3. direct 1. Gerson in pri part in serm pro â—agio regis Rom. direct 2. Gerson pri part dâ—â—statiâ—us ecclesiastic consider 3. Gerson in serm coâ—â— concil Constan K. prim part Gerson ibidem Gerson in serm pro viagio regis Romanorii direct 1. prim part Gerson pâ— parte in tractatu de appellatione à papa circa medium Gerson vbi 〈◊〉 in 2. propâ—it See the Apologie page 172. and note it well Loe the like treason was neuer hard of to this day These words are set downe quodl 8. art 7. page 247. This my selfe know to be so Quodl 7. art 7 p 196. I speake this of my owne knowledge See the â— chapter the seconâ— section Apologie page 2. See Collingâ—ons defence page 123. p. 124. p. 126. Apologie page 211. Apologie page 162. page 10. Apologie page 194. It is not Parsons manner to put his name to his bookes See the apologie page 172. O tyrannie of all tyrannies in world See D. Elies notes vpon the Apologie p. 108. p. 111. p. 112 vers 20. Apologie Page 139. Page 154. How would these Iesuites intreat others that deale so cruelly with the popes friends Aske my brother if I bea a these Apologie page 193. Iohn 8. vers 44. O blessed Iesuitical Cardinall seruant of the diuell Page 199. Note this dilemna The Pope is a most cruell tyrant Apologie Page 193. Page 191. Apologie Page 99. Apologie page 99. See Collington Page 126. Page 127. and note them well Apologie page 4â— Note this 〈…〉 See the râ—pâ—â—e to 〈…〉 See Colleton page 224. See the Second booke in the fift chapter Apologie p. 184. 1579. 1574. Parsons would very gladly haue credite but it will not be Apologie page 183. Apologie page 183. Parsons hath lost his wiâ— Note this point well Apologie page 183. Apologie page 167. Psal. 5. v. 9. See Colleton page 126. See also the 5 6. chapter follow See the second booke and third chapter in the 〈◊〉 paragraph See the â—eply to Parsons libell fol. 96. a. See Colleton page 1â—â— Apologie page 172. See Colleton page 126. See also the fift and sixt chapters following See Colleton page 294. Apologie Page 221. 222. Apologie Page 22. Apologie page 172. See the second booke and ninth chapter in the sixt obseruation Note here that the secular priests dostil commend Cardinal Allen in al things See Colleton p. 282. Apologie page 177. Apologie page 176. See the third chapter Parsons loueth the priestes dearly as appeareth by the intâ—â—atiâ— of then messengers sent to Rome See Apolog pag. 〈…〉 Parsons spendeth 5 or 6. crowns a weeke in 〈…〉 Loe Parsons studideth deepe diuinitie Parsons the cause of sharp lawes See note page 297. Loe the Crowne of England is set on sale Quodl 4. art 2. page 109. Quodl 8. art 5. page 238. Quodli 7. art 10. page 184. Quoâ—l 7. art 10. page 217. Quodl 8. art 5. page 236. Loe Parsons is purtrayed in his best be seeming colours Of the vttered by Parsons see ColletoÌ„ page 126. Colleton page 179. CollingtoÌ„ page 194. page 281. Colleton pag. 163. CollingtoÌ„ page 180. CollingtoÌ„ pag. 272. Marke wel all Iesuites Iesuited persons do depend â—pon the diuell Parsons is a great lyar well worthey of the wet-stone Behold deceitfull dealing Colleion page 126. page 127. Collington page 147. Quodli 2. art 8. page 43. Apologie page 212. They sent Watson with others â—ge the seculars are traitors like the Iesuites When theues begin to reckon then true men shall come to their owne See the 4. chapter towards the end Let this be well marked 2. Reg. 18. 2. Par. 19. 2. Reg. 23. 2. 34. Victor de potest Papae concil relect 4. pag. 139. Couarr 10. 1. cap. 20. par 11. in med
to institute three seminaries on his Maiesties costes and charges that graines and indulgences must be published in England on the Spanish behalfe for all that take his part that all who come out of Spayne must sweare vow professe or at least acknowledge an obedieÌ„ce to master Blackwell in all things Yea euen to become ranke traytors against their prince and country for that is principally intended These words are set downe in the end of the preface which is annexed to the sparing discouerie Parsons caused diuers by fayre meanes and threats to subscribe that in all conferences they should when they came into England aduance the Infantaes title not intending therby to expect her Maiesties death but by all means to remoue her from the present possession of her royall estate These words are set downe in the discouerie Pag. 57. as also in the important considerations Page 34. By these testimonies gentle reader two things are cleared the one that Parsons the Iesuite aliâs bastard Cowbucke taketh vpon him as roundly as traiterously to place and displace to put on and take of royall Diademes at his good will and pleasure The other that the three English hispanized semiminaries erected in Saint Lucars Siuill and Valledolid are and must be mainteyned to further ayde and assist the Spanish bloodie intendments against their vndoubted soueraigne and natiue countrey CHAP. VIII Of the Popes authoritie I Haue discoursed at large of this theame in my booke of motiues I meane heere to speake thereof onely as the printed bookes published by the secular priests haue ministred â—t occasion to me Where I wish the indifferent reader to marke well what I shall by Gods helpe deliuer in this behalfe In which my dispute I will for perspicuitie sake proceede by way of sections Sect. I. Of the Popes fact in assoyling her Maiesties subiects from their homage to her TOuching the Bull of Pious Quintus and the same since confirmed by Gregorie 13. against her Maiestie as neither the Spaniard nor any other forraine power is eyther by expresse or implied termes thereof incited to dominion ouer this land as little are English hearts therby disallegeanced so from her Maiestie as to concurre with any forraine inuadour For though the said Buls vpon her Maiesties excommunication therein promulged doe de facto assoyle the subiects of this Realme from their homage to her it therfore followes not that they must and ought to be parties against her Maiestie and their country to a forraine power howsoeuer pretending euen Religion or the ciuill good thereunto For that were to conster the Popes act so ouermuch in religion and grace as to the destruction of nature which were against the marime aforesaid These words are taken out of the answere to the Iesuited gentleman Page 39. Sect. II. Of power granted to Saint Peter A Man to goe against his owne countrey is and euer was holden in the ciuill part of the world an act contraius gentum also vnnaturall yea against all grace Besides that Christ neuer did delegate any such power to S. Peter as tradere gentem in gentem that being a meere temporall reuenge and he but his vicar spirituall Sect. III. Of the confirmation of the power named in the former Section SAint Peters commission against transgressing kings and kingdomes is no more then onely to denounce by excommunication and other the like ecclesiasticall censures Gods displeasure against them for their transgression and not to exercise the secular sword at all These words conteyned in the third and second sections are set downe in the answere to the Iesuiticall gentleman Page 40. Sect. IIII. Of the explication of the former confirmation I Say againe I doe not see howe that chaire and those keyes to be imbrued in blood and to atchieue conquests especially such a tradition as of England to Spaine by the sword can any wayes stand eyther with Christs or his said vicars honour These words are set downe in the answere to the Iesuited gentleman Page 42. Sect. V. Of the obeysance to the Popes comamundement WE all of the secular cleargie doe with one assent vtterly renounce both Archpriest and Iesuites as arrant traytors to their prince and countrey whom to death we will neuer obey no if the Popes holinesse should charge vs to obey in this sense to aduance an enemie to the English crowne we would neuer yeeld to it as by no law of nature of nations or of man to be compelled thervnto These words are set downe in the preface to the important considerations Fol. 9. pag. 2. Sect. VI. Of the Popes stat commaundement in matters of treason THe secular priests hauâ—ng told vs that the Pope denounced his â—ul against her Maiesty purposely to suffer the intended rebellion that he gaue order to Ridolphi the Florentine to take 150000. crownes to set forward the said attempt and much other matter to the like effect wherof I haue spoken at large in the sixt chapter doe adde thervnto these expresse words when we first heard these particulars â—e did not beleeue them but would haue laid our liues they had beene false but when we saw the booke and found them there God is our witnesse we were much amazed and can say no more but that his holines was misinformed and directly drawn to these courses These words are set downe in the important considerations Page 10. Now out of these waightie and important points conteyned in these Sections certaine conclusions are necessarily inferred for which I haue reserued the next chapter wishing the reader seriously to obserue the same CHAP. IX Of certaine memorable conclusions worthie to be kept in perpetuall remembrance The first conclusion THe bishop of Rome hath no authoritie deriued from Christ or S. Peter by which he may lawfully depriue and dispossesse her Maiestie that now most happily raigneth ouer vs from her royall Diademe and regalitie and giue the same to the king of Spayne to Isabella his sister or to any other forraine potentate whosoeuer This conclusion is effectually proued by all the sections of the former chapter For in the first section this authoritie is said to tend to the destruction of nature which power is denied to the Pope In the second section it is flatly affirmed that Christ neuer gaue any such power to Saint Peter whom all papists will grant to haue had as great power as their Pope hath I am sure In the third section it is said plainly that Saint Peters commission was onely to denounce by excommunication Gods displeasure against trangressors of his lawes In the fourth section it is auouched that this kinde of proceeding doth neither stand with Christs honour nor with his vicars In the fift section it is affirmed in plaine termes that subiects can not be charged to obey such a commaundement and the reason is yeelded to be this because it is against the law of nature of nations and of man In the sixt section the priests