treachery of her owne children as by their default Euen so our king Egilred or as others terme him Ethelred complaineth in an Oration in this sort Wee are ouercome of the Danes not with weapon or force of armes but with treason wrought by our owne people The cause is opened by Matthaeus Westmonasteriensis Pag. 396. that when the King and his Sonne Edmond were like to haue the vpper haÌ„d against Cneuto or Canutus the King of the Danes Edrike Traitour Eadricus plaied the traytour went about by sleight and subtilty and allured of the Kinges Nauy forty shippes and he slipped to Canutus and subiected himselfe to his dominion whereby west-Saxonie and the Mercians with their horses and artillery offered themselues to him Intimatum est Regi quod nisi cautius sibi prouideret ipse à Gente propria hostibus traderetur It was priuily told the King that if hee did not prouide for himselfe more warily hee should bee berraied into the handes of his enemies by his owne nation I signified before how King Edmond surnamed Ferreum Latus Iron-side at Oxford being at the Priuy on Saint Andrewes night was slaine by the Sonne of Eadrik through the fathers instigation the father after the fact coÌ„meth to Canutus with this salutatioÌ„ Aue Rex solus Matth. Westmona pag. 402. Polyd. Vir. Ang. Hist lib. 7. Hail O King alone but he heard this his rewarde by Canutus Ego te hodie ob tanti obsequij meritum cunctis regni proceribus reddam celsiorem For this your great seruice I wil exalt you set you higher than al the Peers of the realm Periury and perdition or treason had in this realme euermore according to their desert When King Edward the Confessour kept his solemnity of Easter at Winchester at dinner Earle Goodwine being burthened at the table with the treacherous murder of his brother Aelfredus Earle Goodwin added to the murther periury and desired of God as hee was true and iust that the morsell of bread which hee held in his hand might neuer passe his throate if his brother by himselfe or by his counsail at any time were neerer to death A terrible example against forswearing and any way further from life so putting the bread into his mouth with an il conscience was choked by it When the King sawe him pale and without breath Carry out saith he this dog Jn vita Edwardi Confessor this traytour bury him in the quadrangle for he is vnwoorthy to enioy Christian burial Another traytor in the time of Egilred or Ethelred was Elfrik who being made Lieutenant of the Kings army left his Master Elfrick and took part with the Danes vpon the suddain when he should haue discharged vpon the enemies of the King and the country Polyd. Vir. lib. 7. but afterward being Admiral of the Kinges Nauy and destitute of all hope of preferment with the enemy because he returned to the King craued pardon his punishment was mitigated for he saued his life with the losse only of his eies In the time of King Edwarde the first the Scots breaking peace which they had made to their liege Lorde King of England and conspiring nowe with the king of Fraunce partly because Iohn Beliol by the king of England was made their King one Thomas Turbeuile more acquainted with chiualry than honesty Th. Turbeuile plaid on both sides promising to the French-men that by treason they should possesse the Kingdome of England vppon condition to receiue a large summe of mony land leauing for assurance his two children as Hostages And so that deceiuer returning from beyond the Sea tolde the King of England another Parasiticall tale howe hee escaped hardly out of prison how he had learned the weaknesse of Fraunce But here a crooked Snake lurked hee caried poyson mingled with hony wherewith they that touched it might be infected creeping into fauour into the secret counsels of the Realm set down al in writing directed theÌ„ to the Prouost of Paris This fraude fact being opened by the prouidence of God who is wel called of the autor Exterminator impioruÌ„ The destroier of the wicked declared to the king he was immediatly by sergeants apprehended bound with cordes carried to iudgement accused and by his owne confession condemned First laid vpon an Ox hide drawen at horse tailes thorough London guarded with disguised tormentours baited at railed on by the way mocked was hanged his body vnburied the people passing by scornfully asking Mat. West in Edou 1. Is this Thomas Turbeuile Whose Epitaph a versifier wrote in this sort That Turbeuile was a troubler of the tranquillity quietnes of the Realme therefore hee that would bee an hoate burning sparkle was become a dead spark himselfe as in those rythmes may appeere at large whereof this is the beginning Turbat tranquilla clam Thomas turbida villa Qui quasi scintilla fuit accidit esse fauilla In the time of Edward the second Andrew Earle of Carlile Andreas Hartlee created Earle of Carlile at York sent by the King into Scotland to King Robert to intreat of Peace made another matter turned it into a message for war priuily fraudulently to compasse the destruction of his owne King This though contriued secretly yet it was certified to the King hee immediatly at his returne vpon the commandement of the King Polyd. Vir. Hist Ang. lib. 18. was attached taken by the guard so by by coÌ„uicted put to death Ita Andreas crucem sibi construxit ex qua penderet So Andrewe prepared for himselfe a Gallose to hang vpon made a rodde for his owne tasle In the time of Edwarde the third like conspiracies against the Prince had the like measure Polyd. l. 19. when Edmond Earle of Kent Roger Mortimer others were beheadded Thus you see exemplified by these traitors that which was by Lawes enacted as also by another example of an Italian indeuouring to betray Calice to the French An Itaâ—â—â— trick against Calice For when an English man had committed it vnto the Italian the French-man knowing the nature of that Nation to be most couetous of golde secretly dealt with him that he would sel the castle to him for twenty thousand crownes The Englishman being made priuy of this dissembleth all thinges driueth out the French and taketh them with them the principall cause of that treachery In the time of Richard the second there was a conspiracy of some Jn Epit. Frosardi lib. 1. Eccle. 10. Ansley and Carton that had in their mouth the Prouerbe of the Hebrues Woe be to the Land whose King is a Childe And of others euen in the court as of Iohn Ansley knight and of Hugh Carton minding with their complices to set vpon the King and to murder him although they two were enemies before yet in this made one agreeing too
for sundry graces and gifts to bee woondred at for all these good blessings of God by hir to vs to be honored Are there yet foolish frogs begging of the Romish Capitoline Iupiter either a blocke to crush them or a Storcke to deuoure them Though by Gods appointment the Oliue is content to be ouer vs with her fatnes the fig with her sweetenesse and the vine with her fruitfulnesse yet wee are not content to haue them but only Rhamnus or a bramble good for nothing but to burn and consume vs. English Iewes Are there yet remaining the Offpring of Iewes desiring a Saul for a Samuel Professing protesting Nolumus hunc regnare We wil not haue him raign ouer vs that cannot abide the title of Christs crosse Iesus of Nazareth King of Iewes Or can there be found yet an Esau that will say in his heart Gen. 27. The daies of mourning for my father will come shortlie then wil I slaie my brother Iacob I will make awaie with the mother of the Lande and the godly brethren too And must wee after the inuention yea the fruition of wheate and sweet corne returne with the old world ad glandes to Akornes as in the late time of Queene Marie The Religion published by her Maiesty offendeth them And can this Romish Religion being so stained with bloode as I haue declared please them Is there no remedy but to turn the blessing of the Prophet Esay by a contrary Text into a curse Esaâ—â—â— For our gould to receiue brasse For our siluer iron and for this gouernement of peace the tyranny of Exactours and Task-masters For remedy and some redresse against these bloud-suckers of Rome The â—sseâ— of the Sermons following and our rebellious mutiners at home I haue eft soones called to the memorie of our countrimen their duety towards God and their Prince and Country and then doubtlesse God wil be a Buckler and shielde to them and to vs all In this copulatiue An exhortation to a true vnity in this double dutifulnes towards God the Prince we must be ioined with a full consent altogether as one man or as the twinnes of Hippocrates who were sicke together and hadde their fits together and recouered together as Austine reciteth out of Cicero So we head and foote De ciuit Dei lib. 5. cap. 2. and al the body must consent in the true worship and seruice of God we al high and low with hart hand must agree in this duety towarde the Prince against all forreine or domesticall aduersaries These two dueties are recommeÌ„ded to vs by Ambrose This becommeth Christians to wish for the tranquillity of peace Ambrose Epist 33. and for the constancy in the faith and in the truth And in the same place Rogamus Ibidem Auguste non pugnamus We beseech O Emperour we fight not If wee deale thus duetifully towardes God and obediently towardes our Prince then will God mercifully and mightily defend both Prince and vs. No diuelish witchcraft no Ruffians dag or dagger no inuasion of forreiners no craft or art of any enemies no nor this seuen-headed beast shall annoy Prince Peare or People He can he will send twelue legions of Angels Matth. 26. Pohdâ—h 8. Hist Ang. Then shal be truly verified that which long a go was prophecied The Kingdome of Englande shal be the Kingdome of God and that God is alone must be the Protector King of it If our Prince and Nobles and Subiects wil sincerely serue him we shall haue the protection of our lord 1.5 in oraâ— cont 〈◊〉 Seruum Christi non custodia Corporalis sed Domini prouidentia sepire consueuit saith Ambrose No guard of men or bodies but the prouidence of the Lord is the hedge and defence of the seruants of Christ It may be for our sinnes that the great ships of Tharshis may come Ies 2. but vppon our repeÌ„tance De â—â—heneide soâ— Remora Pl. l. 9. c. 2â— God wil send Remoram euen a litle fishe that shall stay the shippes though vnder saile It may bee that some Load stone may drawe some Iron vpon vs but the Lord will prepare a Diamond that shal with stand the Load-stone Lib. 13. c. 4. that it shall not haue power to drawe any at all It may be that Catiline wil make a coniuration but god wil send one Cicero or other to espy it ouerthrow it Al the Traitors against Iulius Caesar within three years perished Sueâ—on in Julio Caesare som one way some an other way some by IudgmeÌ„t some with shippe wracke some in battell others with the same poinadoe wherewith Caesar was stricken none of them had a naturall death Calippus because he would stab in and sticke Dion his friend was stabbed and killed with the same dagger himselfe by his owne frinds This shal be the reward of al those that conspire against the Lordes annointed I haue troubled your honour with many words vttering my wishes to my countrimen and declaring to you the argument intreated of in these Sermons I haue displaied the new Monster lately receiued daily rising and raging against vs. And as in this generall diuision of Christendom euery nation and faction prouide their Armour And as your L. and the whole body of the right honorable Counsel make euery way a politick preparation and euery man seeketh his piece his furniture So I hauing no weapon but only my tongue and pen haue thought good in my calling after my weak simple sort to fight with the helpe of them both against this huge Monster and against all enimies When I beganne first to expound this Text of Scripture in Ianuarie last at Oxford and proceeded in it there and in some places of Hamptonshire ended it at London at the Crosse in May I little thought of printing it and so the matter out of my heade and almost out of my papers I fear my short and vnperfect notes haue brought foorth an vnperfect vntimely fruit Howesoeuer it is I must commit it now to the world and appeale to your Lordships patronage for it I had rather offend by this temerity and negligence than to incurre the suspicion of silence and neutrality knowing the danger and penalty of Solons lawe if in this common trouble Plutarcâ—â—â— Solone and turmoile I should shewe my selfe to be idle and of no part I am bold to offer to your Lordship as a poore scholasticall New-yeares-gift as a gratulation of your prosperous returne and as a smal signification of my bounden duty to you my very good Lord and a speciall Patrone of our Vniuersity and a friend of this cause which Dauid began and I haue rudely prosecuted and ended The Lord Iesus protect our noble Dauid your honor the honorable Counsaile the whole Realm graunt vnto vs all many good new-years to his glory and to the commodity comfort of his Church Amen Oxon.
by succession as Priestes had the charge ministery of that heathenish Religion It offended also the Iewes so that Christians for their Religion were tormented and good Father Symeon Archbishop of Seleucia was accused to Sapor the King Quasi Regni Religionis Persarum proditor as a spy and a betrayer of the Realme and of the Religion of the Persians reueiling the secretes of Persia to the Emperour of Rome Soz. libae cap. 8. and so was imprisoned and put to death with an hundred Christians The ground of these violences or rather vilanies is Religion But there is a difference betweene the true and false Religion The Religion of Ieroboam was a false and caluish Religion contrary to the Religion of the house of Dauid and therefore he made two calues of goold the one in Bethel the other in Dan made Priestes of the dregges and rascalles of the people 1 King 12. commaunding them that they shoulde no more sacrifice at Ierusalem in the house of the LORD and persecuteth the Prophetes and the professours of the true seruice of GOD. And this was a pretense of Religion But the Religion of Ezechias and of Iosias Kinges of Iuda was good Religion 2. Chron. 29. 35. to pull downe Images and all Idolatrie to restore the Lawe and the Bible of GOD and the true vse of the Sacramentes What other Religion is the Reformation of Queene Elizabeth then this of these Kinges And if their reformed Religion was commended by GOD and of al the godly why should the Religion now receaued from GOD and restored by Queene Elizabeth be condemned May not I iustlie say to the posterity of cruell Saul as Ionathan saide to his Father Saul What harme hath our Dauid doone 1. Sam. 19. more then oulde Dauid then Ezechias then Iosias did Why then will you sinne against innocent bloode and slaie Dauid with-out a cause Why dooth the Popish Saul of Rome the Supreme Vicar of CHRIST persecute the annointed of God and the handemaide of Christ Surely it is hee and none but hee that is Abishai in name The Pops is Abishal in name nature and in deede I saie the Romish Abishai that is the Father of bribes and giftes by corruption a taker and giuer inueigling and perswading the Potentates and people of the world to rebell and to murther the Lordes true annointed to rise and to take weapon against their owne naturall and lawefull Prince It is hee that blesseth and consecrateth with holy water and incense a sworde In defensionem S. Romanae Ecclesiae for the defense of the holy Church of Rome and for the reuenge of the Popes enemies and that in the solemne feast of the Birth of Christ which hee fendeth abroade as a present to some most Christian or most Noble Prince for the protection of his Catholicke Church against the true Catholicke faith of Christ which is not without a mystery Câ—râ— Rom. Eccele lib. 1. Sect. 7. Fogâ—â—rat hic pontificalis gladius potestatem summanâ— temporalem à Christâ— Pontifici eius in terris vicario collatam iâ—xtae illudâ— Data est mihi omnis potest as in caelo interra Eâ—alibi Dominabitur à marivsque ad mare This Pontifical sworde doth signifie the supreme temporal power giuen of Christ to the Bishop his vicar on earth Mat. 28. according to that saying Al power is giuen vnto me in heauen and in earth And in another place You shall haue dominion from sea to sea Behold what a fisher of men Peters successour is that fisheth for the dominion of all the woorld all is fish that commeth to his nette where with he draweth to himselfe that which is properly and truely spoken of Christ by Dauid vnles hee will also haue that which followeth That al kings shal adore Psal 72. and worshippe him and that his kingdome is eternall and before the Sonne But he wil prooue in the ende to bee that foolish fisher in Theocritus that dreamed he had caught a golden fish and waking he got not so much as a frog It is that Abishai that likewise scattereth abroade in Lent his consecrated golden roses to some Princes and also sendeth to the captains or staÌ„derd-bearers of the Church of Rome Ibidem in Câ—rem his banners and armour likewise hallowed at a masse It is he that sendeth souldiors signed with the Crosse against Christian Emperours as against Frederike the Emperour who dooth signify to the King of England treasons conspiracies against him Jn Hem. 3. The practisers whereof being beseiged Matth. Paris were accompanied with Fryers and by them receiued the signe of the Crosse against him pretending the authority of the high Bishop by his Apostolicke letters ac praedictae mortis exhaeredationis nostrae summum Pontificem Greg. 9. sic asserunt incentorem affirming that the Supreme Byshoppe of Rome was the author of his disinheritaunce and destruction This Byshoppe of Rome taking occasion of the absence of Frederike being nowe in the seruice of Christ against the Turke as well to perfourme his vow in visiting the holie land as also to please the Pope notwithstanding this his daungerous viage and humble obedience he tooke from him his land in Apulia and Lombardie And when Frederike sent letters vnto the Pope of the honorable peace betwixt him and the Soldan wherein hee was forced to surrender vnto the saide Christian Emperour Ierusalem whereof he was crowned King and many other cities and wished him to publish that great ioy vnto all Christendome and to thanke GOD for that glorious victorie hee refused it and cast awaie the letters excommunicateth Frederike graunteth the Crosse and the crossed warre-fare against him as against an Infidel and Turke who at his commaundement fought valiauntly against the Turke Hee gaue out also at one time this false Alaram that he was dead and the souldiours of Germany and France that returned from the holy land hee put to cruell death that they should not tell the truth all which things wee may read in Carion Cuspinian and in Abbat Vrspergensis Lib. 3. And here the Author exclaimeth not without cause Who rightly considering such factes Ann. 1228. dooth not lament and detest them which seeme to bee signes and certaine prognostications of the ruine of the Church Greg. 9. The same Gregory by letters priuilie desireth the Soldan not to yeelde vp the holie land vnto the Emperour but as an enimie to kill him Cuspinian Against Friderick whosoeuer would fight had a pardon a promise of life euerlasting He about that time coÌ„manded to bee sung Salue Regina But beholde more faith charitie in the Turke then in the Pope for wheÌ„ the SoldaÌ„ had receiued letters from the Hospitalars TeÌ„plaries how Friderick might be taken he detesting this treasoÌ„ sent the letters vnto Friderick said vnto his own Counsailers Ecce fidelitas Christianorum Behold the fidelity of Christians A vile and
well but God turned all to the best and mery it was for the Lande and the King when theeues fel out for Ansley detecting Carton and Carton Ansley it was determined by the priuy counsel that it should be tried in a Combate in the which at the length Carton was wounded and throwen downe euen now at point of death coÌ„fessing his fault was drawen to the place of Execution as Polydor testifieth I haue entred into a long and large fielde and mind to goe out of it â—â—pish â—â—actises aâ—â—inst Reliâ—â—on in England and onely now to declare howe our Countrymen in former time haue been bewitched by Popery and haue attempted to erect and prop it vp by treachery and yet al ended in vanity The Pope hath stil practised by many but not preuailed though they came in his name and sometime with his consecrated ware and armed with his consecrated Crosses his Agnus Dei and other holy blessed stuffe Trebellius Pollio no wiser indeede then those heathen men who beleeued that those that caried about theÌ„ the image of great Alexander expressed in siluer or gold shuld haue al things fortunately fal out vnto them as they would wherein Erasmus toucheth the Bishoppes of Rome In Chiliad 1. Cen. 10. Nechodie desunt qui gladios in bello fortunatos huinsmodi nugas pollicentur Principibus Ther be some now a daies which promise to Princes swords other trifles happy fortunate in war which haue notwithstaÌ„ding an vnhappy end and there he much more marueileth that any maÌ„ can beleeue such subtile merchauntes There was such a flattering Papistical Preacher William Fitzosbert otherwise called Long-beard W. Long-bearde who in his Sermons entised the people to rebel against their King Richard the first whose Theme was takeÌ„ out of Esay Cap. 12. You shal draw with ioy waters out of the wels of saluation A faire allurement whereby hee got after him many thousand followers as fond people wil hearken to the whistle and daunce after the pipe of such Popish Libertines But this liberty was seruitude for though hee fledde into Bowe-Church with his concubine and others yet it was not long a Sanctuary for him he was plucked out and by Hubert Lorde chiefe Iustice of England was adiudged to be drawen thorough the streetes R. Holinsh Et in vitâ— Huberti and tied to the horse tailes to bee hanged to bee let downe halfe quicke his heade cut off and his body cut in foure quarters See heere I beseech you the superstition of the people they tooke this Concubinary Priest and Traytour to be a Saint forsooth A Traytor in Popery a Martyr because his chaines wherewith he was bound wrought miracles and the woman visited the place where he was laide In sana plebs vt Martyrem diu colebat The mad people did long honor him as a Martyr worshipping his members and bones as Reliques In Wales what Superstition hath there not been Welch prophecies They were so deceiued with false prophecies that they perswaded out of Merline Leoline the Prince that hee should wear the crown of Brutus therfore took armour against King Edward In vita Iohannis Peccam They were willed by Iohn Peccam Arch-Bishop of Caunterbury to cary in their handes bookes of the Gospel as reliques All these fantasies could not saue the heads of Leoline Dauid Leoline Dauid which were set vpon long poles and erected on high vpon London bridge What a Saint was the Traitour Thomas Becket Th. Becket Traitour a Sainct of the Pope In what fauour with the Pope Alexander And yet was he in a councel at Northhampton accused conuicted of extortion robbery forgery falshood treason periury in the presence of the King of the Peeres and Prelats for some matters in his Chancelarship whereupon although he lifted on high his crosse staffe and ran out of the court councell in hast and in an heat ouer the sea to Rome yet neither the Pope nor the crosse could saue him froÌ„ the crosse of death And here obserue the vniust dealing of the Pope Alexander who canonized among the Saints Thomas the Traitour the Kings deadly enimy and persecuted King Henry the second who was not accessary nor priuy at that time to it as it fel out in proofe for when the doers thereof slipping aside to Duresme looked for great thankes of the King for that they gaue out that they had most faithfully defended him rid his enemy out of the way it is written by Polydore that Henry did take this hainous act as no benefite Angl. Hist lib. 13. but vtterly misliked it insomuch as they hearing this and hoping for no pardon ran one one way another another way by reasoÌ„ of the kings displeasure died al within three yeares yet the Pope an heauy master of the King not beleeuing his Embassadours purposely sent to Rome sent into England his Cardinals for the trial of it and though the cause did not appeare yet was he compelled by oath to purge himselfe and by inforcemeÌ„t of their order to send to Ierusalem two hundred souldiours himselfe to lead an army into Syria within three years after which was perfourmed by his sonne Richard and to promise to be good afterward to the cleargy and that by an oath as some write that none after his and his Sons death should cary the name of a King but such a one as the Bishop of Rome did nominate and appoint albeit by our Chronicles Ibidem and by the practise in the tract of time no such bondage doth appear Thomas Walsingham in Richardo 2. The seditious sermon of J. Ball Priest Another seditious Preacher named Iohn Bal Priest prooueth the equality of States without any difference of callinges which made the simple people to be giddy headed His text was not taken out of scripture but borrowed out of a common prouerb When Adam delued and Eue span Who was then a Gentleman But the Epilog and conclusion of this Sermon was sorowful for himselfe being drawn hanged and beheaded at Saint Albans and his quarters sent to foure cities of the Realm There was another zealous Monk in coÌ„spiracy with the Barons of EnglaÌ„d against king Iohn against his son Henry the third Jbidem who beeing no great friend to the Pope was therefore the woorse liked of the Monk Eustachius in that point more destable theÌ„ a dog Eustachius a Trayteâ—ous Monk for the prouerb is true Canis caninaÌ„ non est nec lupus lupinam A dog is no deuourer of a dog nor the wolfe of a wolfe And yet in the war betwixt our King Lewes the French King he plaid the Apostata a rebel renegate reuoulting froÌ„ his King to another vncoÌ„stantly and perfidiously worthily called of Matthew Paris In Hypod. Neustriae per Thom. Walsing Proditor Regis Angliae Piratanequissimus being turned out of his coule into
old Oak a tree not of life to them but of death called by them the tree of Reformation The tree of Reformation but it was the tree of Absalom vppon the which Miles their Gunner and two of their false Prophets were executed for they trusted in vaine Prophecies which were partly vttered in these verses The country gnuffes Hob Dick Hick With clubs and clouted shoone Shal fil vp Dussin dale with bloode Of slaughtered bodies soone This prophecy was a dreame their captaine Ket crept into a corner but was openly put to death his other brethren were hanged in chaines the rest of meaner sort hearing the pardon proclaimed by an herauld of Armes cast downe their weapons and lifted vp their voices praying to God to preserue King Edward There brake out a new stur in Yorkshier In Yorkeshiere False Prophecies cause of rebellion by false prophecies by a fond misliking of the Kings proceeding But here also the captains that thought to raise a great flame and to set al on fier made but a smoke wherewith they were choked themselues namely a poore man William Ombler and a simple parish clerke Thomas Dale and such like All these ment vnhappily by extraordinary means to turn al the Lawes of God and ordinaunces of Princes topsie-turuie About that time of these rebellions wee had set foorth by the authority of the King to these rebels an Eloquent oration by a great learned man Sir Iohn Cheeke Schoolemaster to the King Sir I. Cheek grauely and pithily dehorting them from such vprores as contrary to Gods word the honour of a King and the safety of the comon-weale which in mine opinion would make any hard heart to melt These former and foolish attemptes in the beginning pernitious and tragicall in the end might haue persuaded our countrymen to haue learned by their fore-fathers to keepe themselues within their tedder compasse of obedience The Raign of Q. Elizabeth But alas our Soueraign Queen Elizabeth hath felt too much of their wilfull disobedience and they tasted somewhat of hir prouoked seuerity Wherefore did Thomas Pearcie Earle of NorthuÌ„berland Charles Earle of Westmerlande against the Lawes of God and man by forcible meanes set vp Masses burne Bibles and bookes of Communion Why did they rise themselues when they might haue been quiet And raise the people which should haue been taught obedience Let the death of the one and the miserable flight of the other the execution of Parson Plumtree at Duresme and of others hanged and beheaded at Knaues Mire not farre from Yorke be instructions and examples for subiects These and many mo cannot warne vs neither the history of Iohn Story prouidently caught beyond the Seas and trimly shipped into this lande and afterward iustly executed vpon a newe paire of Gallowes euen at this day commonly bearing his name Saunders li. 7. de visibili Monarchia Ann. 1566. neither the terrible end of Iohn Felton who vpon Corpus Christi day at London at the Bishoppes gate published the Declaratory sentence of Pius Quintus Pope making this Realme of England and the Queenes Maiesty a pray and a spoil to our neighbours and to al nations neither the beggerly and lamentable state of Iames Desmond neither of Iohn Desmond bearing himselfe too bould vpon an Agnus Dei and a ring sent from the Pope neither of Nicolas Saunders himself the rebellous preacher to the Irish-men Saunders and the rest in the end taken with a frensie these al while they bend the vttermost of their wittes and of their forces against the Maiesty of our Prince whom the Maiesty of God hath enthronized they al I say haue but knocked their heels against the prick spurned to their owne destruction and to the confusion of that Popish sect By these and manie others neither Campion nor the rest of the Iesuites new Incommers Campion other Iesuites and Inmates in this Realme coulde beware neither yet by them other new cutters and practisers could be warned neither yet to this day the people coulde bee taught or perswaded but that their holy fathers Buls and Decrees Declarations must be obeyed and that his waxe and his lead and his Pontifical presentes consecrated by his execrable authority may preserue exempt them from al daungers touch of our law hereafter from al perill punishment either in hel or in purgatory I am to passe ouer at this time other examples and ordinaunces of other countries adioyning to vs as of Flaunders and Fraunce which wee must differre till another time if God will In the meane time let vs aliena frui insania by the madnes of these men learne to bee wise as many of our predecessors both Princes and learned men of this Vniuersity haue doone and know that the Queenes Maiestie hath waded no farther in these causes than other Kinges of this Land who haue broken the yee before King Stephen perceiuing that Theobald Arch-Bishoppe of Caunterburie brought Popish laws from Rome into Englande by decree of Parliament condemneth them burned them as hurtful to a common weale Iohn Bale cent 2. in apeâ—â—lice as Iohn Sarisbury beareth witnes in his eight book and two twentith chapter of Polycrat King Richard the second also molested with Romish affaires and tyranny of the Pope in Parliament holden at Westminster decreed and enacted that it shoulde bee lawfull for no man for any cause to pleade before the Byshoppe of Rome Polyd. Vir. lib. 20. for excommunication of any English-man by his authoritie and if anie such commaundement came from him it shoulde not bee executed vpon paine of losse of all their gooddes and perpetuall imprisonment and therefore great marueile that any such sentence of excommunication from such a forreiner and vsurper against our gracious Prince shuld in these daies of more knowledge by our countrimen be either receiued or harkned to or feared You dearly beloued I hope wil not and that you may not take an example by old Oxford Studentes who could ne would like of a Bull of Gregory directed against Iohn Wicliffe and therefore are chidden of the Pope that would suffer cockle and darnel of his heresie to grow among pure wheat in the beutifull fieldes of their Vniuersity You may also cal to minde that are ancients the daies of Henry the eight and Edward the sixt and iustifie the thinges to be true which I haue alleadged and much more which might bee said to this purpose to the proofe of this argument of Dauid that whosoeuer laieth hand of the lords annointed shal not be accounted innocent but shal be plagued for it The Lord giue vs grace to haue this doctrine fixed and setled in our heartes and expressed in our liues To whom bee all honour c. 1. SAM 26. 9 And Dauid said to Abishai Destroy him not for who can laie his hande on the Lords annointed and bee guitlesse 10 Moreouer Dauid said As the