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 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
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
Iesuites are put to death for their conscience and not for treason For séeing they graunt those penall lawes by which they are conninced of treason to be iustly made against them they doe consequently grant that they are executed for treason Yet it may also be said that they die for their conscience because their conscience is to take part with the Pope and to make warre against their soueraigne We learne Secondly by this aduiso that the Iesuites are so seditious and traytâ—rous companions that the secular priests are bound in conscience to detect and reueale there bad disloyall dealing To which I must needes adde as a plesant adiunct that these good fellowes the seculars are in the same predicament with the Iesuites and guiltie of the selfe same treasons as is alreadie proued Aduiso VIII Of the great strong and mightie frends of the Iesuites and seculars THe Iesuits thinke it is vnknown vnder whose wings the arch-priest liues shrowded or to and from whome the letter was sent on father Gerards behalfe to wish her after some few complements and thankes for the token shee lent him to keepe her Iewell the said Gerard well c. Or who they be that plie and plead for the Iesuites vnder-hand or by whome they are backt to be so bould as they are both in prison and abroad to make their vaunt that they haue moe greater friends both in the English Scottish court then the seculars haue more then halfe naming some particular Nobles and others in high estéeme and authority vnder her maiestie that are secretly entered into league with them on the spanish behalfe These words are set downe quodl 7. art 2. page 188. Againe in an other place it it plainly written that the Earle of Essex was solicited to be the Kinge of Spaines close pensioner for furdering of the inuasions quodl 7. art 2. pag. 189 A Iesuite priest was sent from Parsons to the said Earle of Essex to moue him to take a pension of the King of Spaine priuatly for the aduancement of his designements quodl 5. art 8. pag. 150. In an other place they write bouldly that foure seminarie priests were altogether at supper with a noble person a Lord of high renoune who would not sit downe vntill they all were set and placed before him quodl 3. art 1. page 51. In an other place it is thus written these two noble persons are now most earnest persecutors of the Iesuites and Arch-priests sedition falsehood and faction quodl 4. art 7. page 126. In an other place thus and other like speaches he vsed of him to an honorable Earle who told me it quod 4. art 9. page 132. In an other place thus Parsons in his bookes affirmeth the infortunat Howard of Norfolke to haue béene one and the chiefe cause of the ouerthrow both of the Church and common wealth yet with whome hee and his haue had I will not say haue videant ipsi more inward and close dealing for the aduancement to the crowne by marriage of the ladie Arbella c. and other means then with any other house and familie quodl 7. art 9. page 212. This is a worthy and a very golden aduiso For by it hee that hath but one eye may sée what a daungerous kind of people the Iesuites and the seculars bee For to say nothing of their practises with the late Earle of Essex nor of that tender and deare familiaritie which they haue with many of the nobilitie this is a thing that maketh me sigh and grone when I remember it viz. That some nobles and others in high esteeme and authoritie vnder her maiestie are secretly entered into league with the Iesuites on the behalfe of the King of Spaine for the longe intended conquest of this land This this is it which can not but grieue and wound euen to the heart all true hearted English that shall heare the same Not the seminaries doubtles of themselues but the holy Ghost enforcing them thereunto haue reuealed this notable stratageme Yea the seculars doe acknowledge thus much themselues where they write in this maner God hath most straungly and in very indeed as it may bee termed miraculously reuealed the truth which longe hath béene hidden quodl 8. art 9. pag 267. Thus we sée the Priests haue discouered long hidden traytors and detected many notorious treasons yet not intending good thereby to Quéene Elizabeth but to their owne persons in their combat with the Iesuites I trust her maiesties wise and faithfull counsellers will haue due coÌ„sideration of this aduiso pauca sufficiunt sapienti Aduiso IX Of the Iesuiticall exercise and their profitable effects thereof First Iohn Gerard the Iesuite caused Henrie Drurie to enter into this Iesuiticall exercise and thereby got him to sell the mannor of Lozell in Suffolke other lands to the value of 3500. pounds got all the money himselfe the said Drurie hauen chosen to be a lay-brother Afterwards he sent him to Antwerpe to haue his Nouitiat by the prouinciall there by name Oliuerius Manerius for at that time father Garnet had not authority to admit any where after twelue or fourthteene daies he died not without suspition of some indirect dealing Secoudly the said Gerrard gaue the same exercise to Maister Anthonie Rowse of whome he got aboue 1000. pounds Thirdly the saide Gerrard gaue the exercise to Edwarde Walpoole whome hee caused to sell the manner of Tuddenham and had of him about 1000. Markes Fourthly he gaue the exercise to Maister Iames Linacre his fellow prisoner in the Clinke from whome hee drewe there 400. pounds and afterwards got a promise of him of all his lands but was preuented thereof by the said Linacres death Fiftly vnder pretence of the said exercise he confined syr Edmond Huddlestones sonne and heire by sundry sleights of aboue .1000 pounds Sixtly he hath drawen Maister William Wiseman into the said exercise so oft as he hath left him now very bare to liue So he dealt also with Maister Thomas Wiseman whose land he gotte and theÌ„ sent him to Antwerpe where he died Seuenthly he wrought so with Maister Nicholas King lately of Grayes Inne as he hath gotten most of his liuing and sent him to Rome Maister Roger Lee of Buckinghamshire hath beene in this exercise likewise and is also by him sent to Rome Eightly in like manner he dealeth with such gentlewomen as he thinketh fit for his turne and draweth them to his exercise as the Ladie Louell mistresse Haywood and mistresse Wiseman now prisoner of whom he get so much as now shée féeleth the want of it Ninthly he drue Mistresse Fortescue the widowe of Maister Edmond Fortescue into his exercise and so got a farme worth 50. poundes a yéere and paide her no rent Tenthly by this his exercise of consinage he perswadeth such gentlewomen as haue large portions to their mariage to giue the same to him and his companie and to become Nunnes So he preuayled
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
doe not assure you that his port and carriage was more Baronlike then priestlike all the world will condemne them for most partiall and impudent deniers of the truth Was he not wont to ride vp and downe the countrey in his coach had he not both seruants and priests attendants in great numbers was not his pompe such as the places where he came séemed petie-courts by his presence traine and followers againe for present I referre you to father Garnets pompe and expences of which I haue heard some honest priests who haue béene much with him report that he cannot spend lesse then 500. pound by the yeare The mightie and extraordinarie excesse of master Iohn Gerard hath béene such and so notorious that I suppose few priests besides our cath to be ignorant thereof His apparrell at one time hath béene valued at an higher rate then I will for shame speake of His horses were many and of no small price My selfe haue knowne him to haue two geldings in a gentlemans stable at 30. pound a gelding besides others else-where and horses of good vse During his imprisonment in the Clinke he kept a priuate table continually with great store of dainties and much resort daily Besides he paid his ordinarie commons at the common table and chamber rent Let them which haue liued in the Clinke but iudge what this would come vnto in the yeare But that you may not thinke this to haue been the vttermost of his excesse you shall vnderstand that he ordinarily kept his geldings in the towne and his man which I suppose to be some round charge vnto him He also so wrought the matter that he rode into the countrey at his pleasure and returned Which I thinke you will suppose cost his purse well in bribes to such as were his keepers if to no other He also maintained two houses in the towne with seruants in them and not this without great expences I weene Sure I am that such as liued with him in the Clinke were of opinion that he could not maintayne all this I haue spoken of vnder 400. or 500. pounds by the yeare I may not omit master Oldcorm though but a pettie Iesuite in this kinde I know that his apparrell is seldome lesse worth then 30. or 40. pound He is alwaies extraordinarily well prouided for horses and those of the best An honest gentleman and one whom I thinke you will iudge to be no lyer besides that he is not euill affected towards the Iesuites told me that he had eight good geldings at one time Such as haue heretofore béene secular priests and were wont to goe on foote sometimes to visit poore people willingly becomming afterwards Iesuites haue béene so a cockhorse that it must be thought no small fauour to be worthy of their presence and that not without their attendants and other ceremonies Witnes this master Bankes master Blunt and others now Iesuites This long storie of the Iesuites their expences and gallantrie is set downe in the replie to Parsons libell Fol. 14. and fol. 15. Neither was it euer yet my hap to be made a rich mans executor whereby to better my estate that way and to braue it in girdle and hangers of thirtie pound price as a Iesuite hath done neither beare I so Iesuiticall a conscience These words are put downe in the third letter of A. C. P. 65. 5. Nothing is more familiar to the Iesuites by their buls constitutions then beggery yet neuer had any men better skil to scrape vp coyne that they might liue at their ease In this occupation they played more trickes of legerdemaine then master Peter Patelin or Frances de Villon or Panurge de Rabelais For all that these thrée worshipfull Doctors did was but in matters of trifles But to doe as our reuerend fathers the Iesuites do is to fish for Whales not for Goodgins for which purpose they haue first the instructing of youth which is their first hooke Viz. The allurements they vse to them their auriculer confessions which they know how to imploy to the benefit of their house the visiting of the sicke the waiting vpon them to the very last gaspe that they may neuer be out of sight the extraordinarie absolutions which they say they can giue them wherwith they féede their humour that they may draw some rich legacie from them the deuises of their simple vow and a thousand other hypocriticall shiftes which they call charitie but with this condition that their charitie begin at themselues because the predicament ad aliquid is not an accident to them but wholy the substance of their sect So that one may iustly call them not the order of the Iesuites but the ordure of the Iesuites For although they make shew not to meddle with retayling yet they sell by whole sale the administration of the holy Sacrament dearer then Giezie Elizaeus man would haue sold the spirituall gifts of Naaman At once so it is that within these thréescore yeares they haue raked togither more treasure by this their sophisticall beggerie then all the Monasteries of Fraunce haue done two or three hundred yeares These words are set downe in the Iesuites Catchisme in the second booke and fourtéene chapter But you perhaps will demaund how such summes should come to their hands I answere that it is well knowne that the Iesuites haue had disposition of the common purse for many yeares and the receits of almost all legacies in pios vsus yearely almes extraordinarie gifts besides restitutions de bonis meritis much for dispensations in diuers cases and for Alienations Aduowsons and such like All which receits rise to no small summe There hath falne by way of legacies within these few yeares of my knowledge besides what other men can say 2000. pound some affirme 3000. pound from one of worth 500. pounds from another priuate gentleman 800. pound from another and some 100. pound yearely in lands and rents Master Iohn Gerard for his part got by one gentleman 200. pound at one time and 700. pound at another time besides the disposition of 100. pound by the yeare The said Iesuite had in another place by a priests procurement who told me of it 160. pound of another he receiued 500. pound in a matter of restitution certa pro incertis the partie hauing compounded before the aduise of another priest for 300. pound which he should haue giuen to the prisoners of Wisbish But this young father Iesuite comming to the partie hoysed the summe vnto 500. pound and tooke it vnto himselfe These words are set downe in the reply to Parsons libell Fol. 24. Note heere gentle Reader for Christs sake what impostors and coozners these Iesuites be whom for all that so many sillie and simple soules doe repute for saints and men of God First you see that they will sell their holy so supposed sacraments for money and that at a dearer rate then Giezie Elizaus man would haue solde the
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