therefore as there is no doubt but the like violent tyrannous proceedings by any Pope in maintenance of traitors and rebels would be withstoode by euery Soueraigne Prince in Christendome in defence of their persons and Crownes and maintenance of their subiectes in peace so is there at this present a like iust cause that the Emperours Maiestie with the Princes of the holy Empire and all other Soueraigne Kings and Princes in Christendome shoulde iudge the same to be lawfull for her Maiestie being a Queene and holding the very place of a King and a Prince soueraigne ouer diuers kingdomes and nations she being also most lawfully inuested in her Crowne and as for good gouerning of her people with such applause and generall allowance loued and obeyed of them sauing a few ragged Traitours or rebels or persons discontented whereof no other Realme is free as continually for these xxv yeeres past hath bene notably seene and so publiquely marked euen by strangers repairing into this Realme as it were no cause of disgrace to any Monarchie and King in Christendome to haue her Maiesties felicitie compared with any of theirs whatsoeuer and it may be there are many Kings and Princes coulde be well contented with the fruition of some proportion of her felicitie And though the Popes be nowe suffered by the Emperour in the landes of his owne peculiar patrimonie and by the two great Monarches the French King and the King of Spaine in their dominions and territories although by other Kings not so allowed to continue his authoritie in sundrie cases and his glorious title to be the vniuersall Bishop of the worlde which title Gregorie the great aboue nine hundreth yeeres past called a prophane title full of sacrilege and a preamble of Antichrist yet in all their dominions and kingdomes as also in the Realme of Englande most notably by many auncient Lawes it is well knowen howe many wayes the tyrannous power of this his excessiue authoritie hath bene and still is restrained checked and limitted by lawes and pragmatiques both ancient and newe a very large fielde for the Lawyers of those countreyes to walke in and discourse And howsoeuer the Popes Cannonistes being as his Bombarders doe make his excommunications and curses appeare fearefull to the multitude and simple people yet all great Emperours and Kings aforetime in their owne cases of their rightes and royall preeminences though the same concerned but a Citie or a poore Towne and sometime but the not allowance of some vnworthie person to a Bishopricke or to an Abbey neuer refrayned to despise all Popes curses or forces but attempted alwayes eyther by their swordes to compell them to desist from their furious actions or without any feare of them selues in body soule or conscience stoutly to withstande their curses and that sometime by force sometyme by Ordinances and Lawes the auncient hystories whereof are too many to be repeated and of none more frequent and effectual then of the kings of Fraunce But leauing those that are auncient we may remember howe in this our owne present or late age it hath bene manifestly seene howe the army of the late noble Emperour Charles the fift father to King Philippe that nowe reigneth was not afrayde of his curses when in the yeere of our Lorde 1527. Rome it selfe was besieged and sacked and the Pope then called Clement and his Cardinals to the nomber of about 33. in his mount Adrian or Castell S. Angelo taken prisoners and deteined seuen moneths or more and after ransomed by Don Vgo di Moncada a Spaniarde and the Marques of Grasto at aboue foure hundred M. duckates besides the ransomes of his Cardinals which was very great hauing not long before time bene also notwithstanding his curses besieged in the same Castell by the familie of the Colonies and their fautors his next neighbours being then Imperialistes and forced to yeelde to all their demaūds Neither did King Henry the seconde of Fraunce father to Henry nowe King of Fraunce about the yeere 1550. feare or regard y e Pope or his court of Rome whē he made seueral straight edictes against many partes of the Popes claymes in preiudice of the crowne clergie of Fraunce retracting the authoritie of the court of Rome greatly to the hinderance of the Popes former profites Neither was the army of king Philip nowe of Spaine whereof the Duke of Alua was generall stricken with any feare of cursing whē it was brought afore Rome against y e pope in the yeere of our Lord 1555. where great destruction was made by the said army and al the delicate buyldings gardens and orchardes next to Rome walles ouerthrowē wherewith his holinesse was more terrified then he was able to remoue with any his curses Neither was Queene Mary the Queenes Maiesties late sister a person not a litle deuoted to the Romane religion so afraid of the popes cursings but that both she and her whole counsel and that with the assent of all the Iudges of the realme according to the auncient lawes in fauour of Cardinall Poole her kinsman did forbid the entrie of his bulles and of a Cardinall hatte at Callis that was sent from the pope for one Frier peyto whome the pope had assigned to bee a Cardinall in disgrace of Cardinall Poole neither did Cardinall Poole himselfe at the same time obey the popes commandements nor shewed himselfe afraid being assisted by the Queene when the pope did threaten him with paine of excommunication but did still oppose himselfe against the popes commandement for the saide pretended Cardinall Peyto who notwithstanding all the threatninges of the pope was forced to goe vp and downe in the streetes of Londō like a begging Frier a stout resistāce in a Queene for a poore Cardinals hatte wherin she folowed the example of her Grandfather King Henrie the vii for a matter of Allum So as howsoeuer the christian kinges for some respectes in pollicie can indure the pope to commaunde where no harme nor disaduantage groweth to thēselues yet sure it is and the popes are not ignorant but where they shall in any sort attempt to take from christian princes any part of their dominions or shall giue ayde to their enemies or to any other their rebels in those cases their Bulles their curses their excommunications their sentences most solemne Anathematicals no nor their crosse keyes or double edged sword wil serue their turnes to compasse their intentions And now where the pope hath manifestly by his bulles and excommunications attempted asmuch as he could to depriue her Maiestie of her kingdomes to withdraw from her the obedience of her subiectes to procure rebellions in her realmes yea to make both rebellions and open warres with his owne captaines souldiers banners ensignes and all other things belonging to warre shal this pope or any other pope after him thinke y t a soueraigne Queene possessed of the two realmes of England Ireland stablished so many yeeres in
left without any further argument to the iudgement of the Almightie God as persons that haue couered their eyes against the sunnes light stopped their eares against the sounde of Iustice and oppressed their heartes against the force of reason and as the Psalmist saith They speake lyes they are as venemous as the poison of a serpent euen like the deafe Adder that stoppeth his eares Wherefore with charitie to conclude if these rebels traitors and their fautors woulde yet take some remorse and compassion of their natural countrey and would consider how vaine their attempts haue bene so many yeres and howe many of their confederates are wasted by miseries and calamities and would desist from their vnnatural practises abroade and if these Seminaries secret wanderers and explorators in the darke woulde imploy their traueiles in the workes of light and doctrine according to the vsage of their schooles and content them selues with their profession and deuotion and that the remnant of the wicked flocke of the seedemen of sedition would cease froÌ„ their rebellious false and infamous railings libellings there is no doubt by Gods grace her Maiestie being so much giuen to mercie and deuoted to peace but al colour and occasion of shedding the blood of any more of her naturall subiectes of this sand should vtterly cease Against whose malices if they shall not desist Almighty God continue her Maiestie with his spirit power long to reigne and liue in his feare and to be able to vanquish them and all Gods enemies and her rebels traitors both at home and abroad and to maintaine and preserue all her naturall good louing subiectes to the true seruice of the same Almightie God according to his holy worde and will Many other things might be remembred for defence of other her Maiesties princely honourable and godly actions in sundry other things wherein also these the like seditious railors haue of late time without all shame by fained and false libels sought to discredit her Maiestie her gouernement but at this time these former causes and reasons alleadged by way of aduertisements are sufficient to iustifie her Maiesties actions to y e whole worlde in the cases remembred FINIS All offenders couer their faults with contrary causes Rebels doe most dangerously couer their faults Rebellion in EnglaÌ„d Ireland The rebels vaÌ„quished by the Q. power Some of the Rebels fled into forreine countries Rebels pretend religion for their defence Ringleaders of Rebels Charles Neuill Earle of Westmerland and Thomas Stukeley The effect of y e popes but against y e Queene of EnglaÌ„d The practises of the traitors Rebels fugitiues to execute the Bull. Seminaries erected to nurse seditious fugitiues The Seminary fugitiues come secretly into the realme to induce the people to obey the Popes Bull. Sowers of sedition taken conueÌ„ted executed for treason The seditious traitors condeÌ„ned by the auncient lawes of the realme made 200. yeres past Persons coÌ„demned spared froÌ„ execution vpon refusall of their treasonable opinions The forrein Traitors continue sending of persons to moue sedition in the realme The seditious fugitiues labor to bring the Realme into a warre externall domestical The duetie of y e Queen and all her gouernors to God their countrie is to repel practises of rebellion None charged with capitall crimes being of a cuÌ„â—â—arte religion and professing to withstaÌ„d forreyne forces Names of diuers Ecclesiasticall persoÌ„s professing contrarie religion neuer charged w t capitall crunes 〈…〉 sâ—râ—â—s oâ—â— same 〈…〉 and writinges A great nomber of lay persoÌ„s of liuelood being of a contrary religion neuer charged with capitall crime No person charged w t capitall crime for the onely inâ—â—â—â—enance of y e Popes supremacie Such condeÌ„ned onely for treason as mainteine the effects of y e Popes bul against her Maiestie and the realme D. SaÌ„ders maintenance of the Popes Bull. The persons that suffered death were condeÌ„ned for Treason not for Religion A full full proofe that the mainteiners of the bull are directly guilty of treason D. MortoÌ„s secret Ambassage froÌ„ Rome to stirre y e rebellioÌ„ in the North. Persons Campion are offenders as D. Sanders is for allowance of the Bull. Faculties graunted to PersoÌ„s CampioÌ„ by Pope Gregory 13. anno 1580. Harts coÌ„fession of the interpretation of the Bul of Pius Quintus A conclusion that all the infamous bookes against the Queene the realme are false Difference of the smal numbers that haue bene executed in the space of xxv yeres from the great numbers in v. yeres of Queene Maries saigne An aduertisement to al Princes of couÌ„tries abroad The authoritie claymed by y e Pope not warranted by Christ or by the two Apostles Peter and Paul Pope Hildebrand the first y t made warre against the Emperour An. Do. 1074. The iudgement of God against the Popes false erected Emperour Pope Gregorie the vii deposed by Henry y e 4. Henry 5. Fredrick 1 Fredrick 2 Lewes of Bauar Emperors Whatsoeuer is lawful for other princes Soueraignes is lawfull for y e Queene crowne of EnglaÌ„d The title of vniuersal Bishop is a preamble of Antichrist 1527. Rome sacked and the Pope Clement taken prisoner by the Emperours army 1550. King Henry the second of Fraunce his Edicts against the Pope and his courts of Rome The besieging of Rome and the Pope by the D. of Alua with King Philips army D. Peyto a begging Fryer The kings of ChristeÌ„dome neuer suffer the Popes to abridge their titles or rights though they suffer them to haue rule ouer their people The Queene or England may not suffer the Pope by any means to make Rebellions in her Realme Additaments to y e Popes martyrologe The ferang endes of Iames Erle of Desmond D. Saunders Iames Fitzmorice Iohn of Desmond Iohn Someruile The prosperitie or England during the Popes curses Reasons to persuade by reason y e fauorers of y e Pope that none hath bene executed for religion but for treason The first reason The second reason The Bul of Pius Quintus let vp at Pauls The first punishmeÌ„t for y e Bull. The third reason Rebellion in the North. The fourth reason The inuasion of Ireland by the Pope The Popes forces vanquished in Ireland The politique aduersaries satisfied Obiection of the papists that the persons executed are but schollers and vnarmed Many are traytors though they haue no armour nor weapon The application of the scholasticall traitors to others y t are traitors without armour Six Questions to trye traytours froÌ„ schollers The offendours executed for treason not for religion Vnreasonable obstinate persons are left to Gods iudgemeÌ„t
of such base and vulgare note as those were which of late haue bene executed as in particular some by name are well knowen and not vnfit to bee remembred The first and chiefest by office was D. Heth that was Archbishop of Yorke and lord Chaunceler of England in Queene Maries time who at the first comming of her Maiestie to y e Crowne shewing himself a faithfull quiet subiect continued in both the sayde offices though in religion then manifestly differing and yet was he not restrayned of his libertie nor depriued of his proper lands and goods but leauing willingly both his offices liued in his owne house and inioyed all his purchased lands during all his naturall life vntill by very age he departed this world and then left his house liuing to his friendes an example of gentlenes neuer matched in Queene Maries time The like did one D. Poole that had bene Bishop of Peterborough an auncient graue person and a verie quiet subiect There were also others that had bene Bishoppes and in great estimation as D. Tunstall Bishop of Duresme a person also of very quiet behauiour There were also other D. White and D. Oglethorpe one of Winchester the other of Carlile Bishops and D. Thurleby and D. Watson yet liuing one of Ely the other of Lincolne Bishops not pressed with any capitall payne though they maintayned the Popes authoritie against the lawes of the realme and some Abbots as M. Fecknam yet liuing a person also of quiet courteous behauiour for a great time Some also were Deanes as D. Boxall Deane of Windsore a person of great modestie and knowledge D. Cole Deane of Paules a person more earnest then wise D. Reinolds Deane of Exceter and many such others hauing borne office and dignities in the Church and had made profession against the Pope which they began in Queene Maries time to change yet were they neuer to this day burdened with capitall peanes nor yet depriued of any their goods or proper liueloods but onely remoued from their Ecclesiasticall offices which they would not exercise according to the Lawes And most of them for a great time were retayned in Bishops houses in very ciuill and courteous maner without charge to themselues or their friends vntill the time that the Pope began by his Buls and messages to offer trouble to the realme by stirring of rebellion about which time onely some of these aforenamed being found busier in matters of state tending to stirre troubles then was meete for the common quiet of the Realme were remooued to other more priuate places where such other wanderers as were men knowen to moue sedition might bee restrained from common resorting to them to increase trouble as the Popes Bull gaue manifest occasion and yet without charging them in their consciences or otherwise by any inquisition to bring them into dāger of any capital law so as no one was called to any capitall or bloody question vpon matters of religion but haue all inioyed their life as the course of nature woulde and such of them as yet remayne may if they will not be authors or instruments of rebellion or sedition inioye the time that GOD and nature shall yeelde them without danger of life or member And yet it is worthy to be well marked that the chiefest of all these and the most of them had in the time of King Henrie the eight and King Edward the sixt either by preaching writing reading or arguing taught all people to condemne and abhorre the authoritie of the Pope yea they had many times giuen their othes publiquely against the Popes authoritie and had also yelded to both the said Kings the title of supreame head of the Church of England next vnder Christ which title the aduersaries doe most falsly write and affirme that the Queenes Maiestie doeth nowe vse a manifest lie and vntrueth And for proofe that these foresaide Bishoppes and learned men had so long time disauowed the Popes authoritie many of their bookes sermons against the Popes authoritie remayne printed to be seene in these times to their great shame and reproofe to change so often and specially in persecuting such as themselues haue taught and stablished to holde the contrary There were also and yet be a great nomber of others being lay men of good possessions and lands men of good credite in their countries manifestly of late time seduced to hold contrary opinions in religion for the Popes authoritie and yet none of them haue bene sought hitherto to be impeached in any poynt or quarrel of treason or of losse of life member or inheritance so as it may plainely appeare that it is not nor hath bene for contrarious opinions in religion or for the Popes authoritie as the aduersaries doe boldely and falsly publish that any persons haue suffered death since her Maiesties reigne and yet some of these sort are well knowen to holde opinion that the Pope ought by authoritie of Gods worde to be supreame and only head of the Catholique Church and onely to rule in all causes Ecclesiasticall and that the Queenes Maiestie ought not to be the gouernour ouer all her subiectes in her realme being persons Ecclesiasticall which opinions are neuerthelesse in some part by the laws of the realme punishable in some degrees yet for none of these poyntes haue any persōs bene prosecuted w t the charge of treasō or in danger of life And if thē it be inquired for what cause these others haue of late suffered death it is truely to be answered as afore is often remembred that none at all are impeached for treason to the danger of their life but such as do obstinately maintaine the contents of the Popes Bull afore mentioned which do import that her Maiestie is not the lawfull Queene of England the first and highest poynt of treason that al her subiects are discharged of their othes and obedience mother high poynt of treason and all warranted to disobey her and her laws a third and a very large poynt of treason And thereto is to be added a fourth poynt most manifest in that they would not disalow the Popes hostile proceedings in open warres against her Maiestie in her realme of Ireland where one of their companie D. Sanders a lewde scholler and subiect of England a fugitiue a principall companion and conspirator with the traitors and rebels at Rome was by the Popes speciall commission a commaunder as in forme of a Legate and sometime a treasorer or paymaster for those warres which D. Sanders in his booke of his Church monarchie did afore his passing into Ireland openly by writing gloriously auowe the foresaid Bull of Pius Quintus against her Maiestie to be lawfull and affirmeth that by vertue thereof one D. Mooreton an olde English fugitiue and conspirator was sent from Rome into the North partes of England to stirre vp the first rebellion there whereof Charles Neuill the late Earle of Westmerland
will that it belongeth not to a Bishop of Rome as successor of Saint Peter and therein a pastor spirituall or if hee were the Bishop of all Christendome as by the name of Pope he claymeth first by his Bulles or excommunications in this sort at his will in fauour of traytours and rebels to depose any soueraigne Princes being lawfully inuested in their Crownes by succession in blood or by lawfull election and then to arme subiects against their naturall Lordes to make warres and to dispense with them for their othes in so doing or to excommunicate faithful subiects for obeying of their natural Princes and lastly himselfe to make open warre with his owne souldiers against Princes mouing no force against him For if these powers shoulde be permitted to him to exercise then shoulde no Empire no kingdome no countrey no Citie or Towne be possessed by any lawful title longer then one such onely an earthly man sitting as he saith in S. Peters chaire at Rome should for his will and appetite without warrant from God or man thinke meete and determine An authoritie neuer chalenged by the Lorde of lordes the sonne of God Iesus Christ out onely Lord and Sauiour and the onely head of his Church whilest he was in his humanitie vpon the earth nor yet deliuered by any writing or certaine tradition frō Saint Peter from whome the Pope pretendeth to deriue all his authoritie nor yet from Saint Paul the Apostle of y e Gentiles but contrariwise by all preachings preceptes writings conteined in the Gospel and other Scriptures of the Apostles obedience is expresly commaunded to all earthly Princes yea euen to Kings by speciall name and that so generally as no person is excepted from such duetie of obedience as by the sentence of Saint Paul euen to the Romanes appeareth Omnis anima sublimioribus potestatibus sit subdita That is Let euery soule be subiect to the higher powers within the compasse of which law or precept Saint Chrisostome being Bishoppe of Constantinople writeth that euen Apostles Prophets Euangelists and Monkes are comprehended And for proofe of Saint Peters minde herein from whome these Popes claime their authoritie it can not be plainlyer expressed then when he writeth thus Proinde subiecti estote cuiuis humanae ordinationi propter Dominum siue Regi vt qui superemineat siue presidibus ab eo missis That is Therefore be you subiect to euery humane ordinance or creature for the Lorde whether it be to the King as to him that is supereminent or aboue the rest or to his presidents sent by him By which two principall Apostles of Christ these Popes the pretensed successours but chiefely by that which Christ the Sonne of God the onely Master of trueth sayde to Peter and his fellow Apostles Reges gentium dominantur vos autem non sic That is The Kings of the Gentiles haue rule ouer them but you not so may learne to forsake their arrogant and tyrannous authorities in earthly and temporall causes ouer Kings and Princes and exercise their Pastorall office as Saint Peter was charged thrise at one time by his Lorde and Master Pasce oues meas Feede my sheepe and peremptorily forbidden to vse a sworde in saying to him Conuerte gladium tuum in locum suum or mitte gladium tuum in vaginam that is Turne thy sword into his place or Put thy sworde into the scabbard All which precepts of Christ and his Apostles were duely followed and obserued many hundred yeeres after their death by the faithfull and godly Bishops of Rome that duely followed the doctrine and humilitie of the Apostles and the doctrine of Christ thereby dilated the limittes of Christs Church and the fayth more in the compasse of an hundred yeeres then the latter Popes haue done with their swordes and curses these 500 yeeres and so continued vntil the time of one Pope Hildebrand otherwise called Gregory theseuenth about the yeere of our Lorde 1074. who first beganne to vsurpe that kinde of Tyrannie which of late the Pope called Pius Quintus and since that time Gregory nowe the thirteenth hath followed for some example as it seemeth that is Where Gregory the seuenth in the yeere of our Lord 1074. or thereabout presumed to depose Henry y e fourth a noble Emperour then being Gregory the thirteenth nowe at this time would attempt the like against King Henry the eightes daughter heire Queene Elizabeth a soueraigne Queene holding her Crowne immediatly of God And to the ende it may appeare to Princes or to their good Counsellours in one example what was the fortunate successe y t God gaue to this good Christian Emperour Henry against the proud pope Hildebrand it is to be noted that when the pope Gregory attempted to depose this noble Emperour Henry there was one Rodulphe a noble man by some named the Count of Reenfield that by the Popes procurement vsurped the name of the Emperour who was ouercome by the sayde Henry the lawfull Emperour and in fight hauing lost his right hand he the said Rodulphe lamented his case to certayne Bishoppes who in the popes name had erected him vp and to them he said that y e selfe same right hand which he had lost was the same hande wherewith he had before sworne obedience to his Lorde and master the Emperour Henry and that in following their vngodly counselles he had brought vpon him Gods heauy and iust iudgementes And so Henry the Emperour preuailing by Gods power caused Gregory the pope by a Synode in Italy to be deposed as in like times before him his predecessour Otho the Emperour had deposed one pope Iohn for many heynous crymes and so were also within a short time three other popes namely Siluester Bennet and Gregory the sixt vsed by the Emperour Henry the third about the yere of our Lord 1047. for their like presumptuous attemptes in temporall actions against the said Emperours Many other examples might be shewed to the Emperours maiestie and the Princes of the holy Empire nowe being after the time of Henry the fourth as of Henry the fifth and after him of Fredericke the first and Fredericke the second and then of Lewis of Bauar all Emperours cruelly and tyrannously persecuted by the popes and by their bulles curses and by open warres and likewise to many other the great Kings and Monarches of Christendome of their noble progenitors Kinges of their seuerall dominions whereby they may see howe this kind of tyrannous authoritie in popes to make warres vpon Emperors and Kings and to commaund them to be depriued toke holde at the first by pope Hildebrande though the same neuer had any lawefull example or warrant from the Lawes of God of the olde or new Testament but yet the successes of their tyrannies were by Gods goodnesse for the most parte made frustrate as by Gods goodnesse there is no doubt but the like will followe to their confusions at all times to come And