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A01472	Great Brittans little calendar: or, Triple diarie, in remembrance of three daies Diuided into three treatises. 1. Britanniæ vota: or God saue the King: for the 24. day of March, the day of his Maiesties happy proclamation. 2. Cæsaris hostes: or, the tragedy of traytors: for the fift of August: the day of the bloudy Gowries treason, and of his Highnes blessed preseruation. 3. Amphitheatrum scelerum: or, the transcendent of treason: the day of a most admirable deliuerance of our King ... from that most horrible and hellish proiect of the Gun-Powder Treason Nouemb. 5. Whereunto is annexed a short disswasiue from poperie. By Samuel Garey, preacher of Gods Word at Wynfarthing in Norff.	Garey, Samuel, 1582 or 3-1646.	1618 (1618)	STC 11597; ESTC S102859	234,099	298

and fidelity will animate vs like that Romaine Marius who being accused by the Senate of Treason in a passion teares his garments and in sight of them all shewes them his wounds receiued in the seruice and defence of his Countrey saying Quid opus est verbis vbi vulnera clamant What need of words our wounds declare our blood was shed for your welfare Faithfull seruice is laudable before men and acceptable before God it may be by the wicked sometimes blamed but it cannot be shamed though it be not alwayes rewarded on earth it shall be sure to find rewards in Heauen as they once complained Penes caeteros imperij praemia penes ipsos seruitij necessitas that others found the sweet preferment and they had horse and heauy burthen for their seruice yet vertue is a reward to it selfe bonorum laborum gloriosus fructus the seruice of the righteous is accepted and the remembrance thereof shall neuer be forgotten Ipsa quidem virtus sibimet pulc herrima merces And this seruice due to our King and Country if neede require must reach vsque ad aras prodigall of labor limbe or life to defend both the safetie of both eyther King or Country is so inseparable that the seruice done to eyther is alwaies commendable and honourable VVee haue famous presidents in this kinde to presse vs to performe the vtmost of our seruice in loue to our Country in duety to our King the 3 Decij Zophirus Cn Scipio ●uluius Nassus c. all offered to sacrifice their liues in loue for their Countrie Dulce decorum est pro patria mori The story is most famous of Quintus Curtius a noble Romane who hearing by the Oracle that the safety of the city of Rome consisted onely in the sacrifice of one of her best affected children valiantly and voluntarily leaped into that deuouring gulfe and so preserued the Citie Hor. ad Flor. Hoc opus hoc studium parui properemus ampli Si patriae volumus si nobis viuere chari A spectacle of loue and loyalty a sacrifice of high obedience that is presented vpon the wings of death I will not ●…y worthy of imitation because like vnto selfe sacrifiing of Cleombrotus they were Martyrs stultae Philosophiae Martyrs of their fond Philosophy yet notwithstanding worthy to stirre vp great affection for Subiects to loue as truely their King and country and the King and Country to loue such Subiects that for them aduenture their liues Naturally euery one loues his Country Nemo patriam diligit quia magna est sed quia sua est saith Seneca No man loues his Country because it is great but because it is his owne Ouid Nescio quâ natale solum dulcedine cunctos ducit immemores non sinit esse sui The Persians did beare such loue to their Country that they must sweare by the Sunne rising neuer to become Iewes Grecians Romans Egyptians but euer to remain Persians They counted no fault more foule then to be a foe to his owne Country It was an excellent saying of Aulus Fuluius who finding his sonne in the conspiracy of Catiline tells him Ego non te Catilinae genui sed Patriae I did beget thee not for Catiline but for thy Country They that are Traytors to their King and Country may fitly be compared to Vipers The Vipers are conceiued as Pliny writes by biting off the Males head and borne by eating through their Mothers belly So they would Decapitare Caput destroy the King their head and lacerare matrem teare the bowels of their mother their natiue Countrey Our English Fugitiues are the spawnes of these Vipers Parsons Saunders c. who because they could not eate through her bowels and belly with their teeth in reuenge raile at her with their tongues to whom I cannot giue a fitter answer then that which the Spanish Verdugo gaue to Sir William Stanley railing against this his natiue Country saying Though you haue offended your Countrey yet your Countrie neuer offended you These Iesuited fugitiues who at Rhemes or Rome doe now Caluo seruire Neroni vnnaturally forsake their King Country Kindred and deuote their liues labours to giue all homage to the chayre of Rome and though they colour their treasonable plots and proiects of confusion vnder pretence of conuersion yet bloudy is that faith that Cain-like will kill their natiue brothers and Nero-like rip vp their dearest Mother Conuersio animae praetenditur subuersio regis reip Ecclesiae intenditur They pretend religion but they intend rebellion and desolation But to leaue these Vipers of whom I may say as the Souldiers at the death of the sonne of Maximus Non debet seruari vnus Catulus Not any of their young ones worthy to be kept vp for store let vs in an example or two behold the deepe affection of Kings loues vnto their Subiects The story is common of King Codrus the Athenians King who being assaulted and assailed by enemies receiued this Oracle That his army should preuaile if he would suffer himselfe to be slaine of his enemies which newes when it came to the eares of his aduersaries they made an edict Nemo tangat Codrum None might touch Codrus Codrus then changed his habit see the fire of loue he went to his enemies thus disguised marke the flame there was he slaine looke vpon the ashes the vrne of Codrus what doe they say but Hor. Quo nos cunque feret melior fortuna parentes ibimus ô socij comitesque So King Leonides sacrificeth his dearest bloud at Thermopilas fighting valiantly in defence of his Country and kingdome Cic. 1 Tusc Dic hospes Spartae nos te hic vidisse iacentes dum sanctis patriae legibus obsequimur In a worde I neuer read of any King vnlesse such as Nero and Caligula that did not wish well to his owne Country and kingdome For Principis est consulere omnibus prospicere saluti patriae saith Cicero It is the office of a King to take care and counsell for the welfare of his people Princeps suorum subditorū velut sui ipsius corporis membrorum curam gerit saith Agapetus A Prince takes care of all his Subiects euen as the members of his owne bodie And so Alfonsus a King had his symboll a Type of his true loue a Pellican with her bill pricking her brest feeding her young with her bloud with this inscription pro lege pro grege declaring Emblematically That Kings with continuall cares wast their liues to prouide for their peoples welfares For good Kings will say with Hadrianus Caesar Sic se gesturum principatum vt sciant rem populi esse non suam They will so gouerne that all men may see they aime more at the publicke good then any priuate gaine It is their office to protect their people prouide for the welfare of the common-wealth maintaine good Lawes execute

vp Israel against Dauid and all Adoniahs that gape to take the kingdome from our Salomon all like them let them perish like them Then will all loyall subiects reioyce when they see the vengeance they shall wash their feet in the bloud of the wicked Let our feruent prayers be daily powred forth vnto God to defend him from all Traytors to reueale their plots and reuenge their purposes that they qui volunt occidere regem posse nolunt That they who would kill a King may neuer haue power to performe it that no danger may assault him no treachery may endanger him giue thine Angels charge O Lord to sentinell ouer him make his chamber like the tower of Dauid built for defence a thousand shields hang therein and all the targets of the strong men and his bed like Salomons threescore strong men round about it of the valiant men of Israel they all handle the sword and are expert in warre euery one hath his sword vpon his thigh for the feare by night that so no enemy may oppresse him nor the wicked approach to hurt him to destroy his foes before his face and plague them that hate him his seed long to endure and his daies as the daies of heauen So shall the Lord be gracious to his Seruant and mercifull to vs his people who continually pray God saue the King Corporally CHAP. X. 2. Spiritually GOD Saue the King Spiritually God euer keep him constant and couragious to maintaine the true profession of the Gospell and to labour to purge Gods Church of all superstition and to plant in it Gods true religion This is the first duety of Kingly seruice vnto God to cleanse his Church of all idolatry and superstition The good Kings Ezechias and Iosias were carefull in this behalfe Ezechiah when hee came to the Crowne of Iudah he tooke away the high places brake the Images and cut downe the groues and brake in peeces the brazen serpent c. that is rooted and raced out all Idolatry So Iosiah puts downe all Idols and Idolatrous Priests who defiled the Temple So Asa tooke the wicked Sodomites out of the land and deposed Maacha his Mother because shee had made an Idoll in a groue So Salomon installed in his kingdome built a Temple for seruice and worship of the Lord. It is the office of a King specially to take care to prouide that God may be religiouslie worshipped that his people may feare the Lord serue him in the trueth for the happinesse of King and Kingdome consists in the trueth of their religion For that nation and kingdome which will not serue the Lord shall perish and be vtterly destroyed saith the Prophet Esay Est boni Principis religionem ante omnia constituere saith Liuie It is the part of a good King first to establish true religion for that is the very fountaine and foundation of all felicity Beneficentia quae fit in cultum Dei maxima gratia That loue and care which is declared towards the true worship of God is most commendable for true religion is Cardo or Axis the very Pillar of all prosperity the soule of Tranquility the totall summe of true felicity Propter Ecclesiam in mundo durat mundus saith Luther Christs Church on earth is the cause of the continuance of this earthly world without the light of the Gospel Kings people liue in thraldome in the Egypt of wofull blindnesse it is but painted happinesse a vaine flourish nay a dangerous ship of state where God sits not at the sterne As all kingdomes stand luteis pedibus vpon clay feet so that Kingdome cannot stand at all which wants the foundation true religion It is the speech of an Heathen but may be the lesson of a Christian Religio vera est firmamentum reip c. True religion the foundation of a Common wealth and the chiefe care ought to be to plant the same So Dauid reioyces in nothing so much as in the Arke of God desirous rather to be a dore-keeper in Gods house then to rule in the tents of the vngodly Like to that good Emperor who gloried more to be membrum Ecclesiae then caput Imperij a member of Gods Church then an head of a great Empire Salomon begins well first in building an house for God knowing nothing can prosper without God Except the Lord keep the City the watchman watcheth but in vaine In vaine doe the Kings of the earth stand vp if they assemble against the Lord for then hee laughes them to scorne and shall haue them in derision Be wise now therefore O ye Kings serue the Lord in feare be wise in Diuine matters serue the Lord in feare for his feare is the beginning of wisedome to direct you to rule your selues and people in the seruice and worship of his holy name We read it recorded of Constantinus the Emperor that when he died he did much lament for three things which had happened in his reigne First the murther of Gallus his kinsman Secondly the liberty of Iulian the Apostate Thirdly the change and alteration of religion And surely there cannot be a greater cause of lamentation then an innouation or alteration of religion yea then a tolleration of a contrary religion It had beene a hard matter to haue had obtained a tolleration of such a thing as a Masse at Moses hands with a masse of money A godly Prince may not suffer any religion but the true religion in his Dominions and this we may proue by diuers reasons First the exercise of a false religion is directly against the honour and glory of God Ergo. Secondly consent in true religion is vinculum Ecclesiae the chayne and bond of Gods Church for there is but one faith therefore a difference and dissention in religion is a dissolution in Gods Church but no Prince ought to haue his hand in dissoluing Gods Church for Kings are nursing Fathers of the Church Thirdly it is the Princes duty to prouide for the safety of the bodies much more for the safety of the soules of his Subiects Now true religion is the foode but false the bane of soules and you know Qui non seruat periturum cum potest occidit He that doth not helpe one ready to perish being able to helpe kills him Fourthly the Angell of the Church of Pergamus is reprooued for hauing such in Pergamus as maintained the doctrine of Balaam and the doctrine of the Nicholaitans and the Church of Thiatyra reproued for suffering Iezabel to teach and deceiue Fiftly the Lords Altar and Baals Altar must not stand together Quae concordia Dei Belial No agreement twixt God and Belial Indeed the Papists haue beene very earnest to supplicate for a Tolleration for their corrupt religion and yet themselues neuer allow it The Pope neuer afforded such fauour to Protestants witnesse their

Marre runne to goe by the passage his Maiesty went in at but Gowrie better acquainted with his owne denne made with his seruants for another way vp a quiet turne-pecke which was euer condemned before and onely then left open as it appeared for that purpose In the meane time his Maiesty with striuing and strugling with this base Traytor impar congressus Achilli had brought him perforce out of the study the dore being open and got Alexanders head vnder his arme and himselfe on his knees his Maiesty driuing him backe perforce hard to the doore of the same turne-pecke and as his Maiesty was throwing his sword out of his hand thinking to haue stricken him therewith and shot him ouer the staire the other fellow Henderson standing behinde the Kings backe and doing nothing but trembling all the time that euer-honoured man Sir Iohn Ramsey now meritoriously graced with more noble titles finds the turne-pecke dore open followes it vp to the head the first that did enter into the chamber to helpe the King Virg Primus ibi ante omnes summa decurrit ab arce As the Poet of Laocoon it was his happy fortune to haue that glory and the King his first helpe they are very happy subiects that are a meanes to preserue Kings from traitors for therein they stand in stead of Gods Angels This valiant and noble Lord instantly tooke his dagger strikes Alexander twice or thrice his Maiesty stil keeping his hold on this traytor and immediately this Alexander by the shoulder taken and shot downe the staire who no sooner was shot out of the doore but hee was met by Sir Thomas Erskinne who ended this vile wretch and traytor there a iust punishment for so bloudy a miscreant who attempted to kill the Lords Annointed This Arch traytor may well bee placed in the blacke Calendar of bloudy traitors in the first ranke whose name is odious and infamous to the whole world Thus the King being thus happily preserued from the assault of this butcherly Assasinate and Sir Hugh Hereis Sir Thomas Erskins and one Wilson being got into the Chamber where the King was instantly before they could get the doore shut comes the insolent and bloudy-minded Earle Gowry hauing a drawen sword in each hand and a steele bonnet on his head accompanied with 7. of his seruants hauing each a drawen sword the Earle at his sirstentry cryed out with a great oath They should all dye as Traytors The King seeing the Earle come in with swords in his hands sought for Alexanders sword hauing no sort of weapons of his owne But the loyall loue and immortall fidelity of his true Subiects there rather desirous to hazard their liues in the fortune of that fight then any more to endanger the King gat him backe into the little study and the doore shut vpon him and so put him in safety re-encountred the Traytor Earle and his seruants where after many blowes on all hands it pleased God in his great power and pitty to giue his Maiesties seruants the victory Sir Iohn Ransey did strike dead with a thrust through the heart the Traytor Earle the shame of Nobility and scandall to Christianity who as hee liued wretched addicted to Necromancers and after his death had in his pocket found Magicall Characters and words of enchantment so at his last gaspe neuer named God vix bene moritur quimale vixit as Austen much more in this case he cannot die well who liued so ill who did so ill and died so ill yet I may not touch his eternall doome onely say with Cicero Mors terribilis esti●s quorum cum vita omnia extinguuntur Death is terrible vnto them with whose life al things be extinguished for all temporal things lost with him his heyres by Act of Parliament depriued for euer of his estate name same and fortunes goods with him from his for euer vanished The rest of the confederates in this fray were dung ouer the staires with many hurts as also Sir Iohn Ramsey Sir Thomas Erskin Sir Hugh Hereis a true Triumviri of right Noble Valiant and spirited Knights famous for euer for this seruice were sore wounded in this chamber-conflict yet they grudged not their bloud had it beene spent to the last droppe in so good a cause for the defence of the King being in so perillous extremity But all the time of this fight the Duke of Lennox and Earle of Marre and the rest of the Court were striking with great hammers at the vtter doore where his Maiesty passed vp to the Chamber and beeing a double doore could not bee broken open the space of halfe an houre and more so that though their faithfull hearts and feruent prayers poured out to God for the King which were effectuall to helpe in this perill yet their hands could not as they all desired be present in this seruice But hauing at last made a way and finding his Maiesty beyond their expectation deliuered from so imminent a death and the chiefe conspirators slaine infinitely reioyced And his Maiesty immediately kneeling downe on his knees in the middest of them did most heartily praise the Lord for his deliuery assuring himselfe that God had preserued him from so despaired a perill for the perfecting of some greater worke for the glory of God and good of his subiects committed to his charge Thus I haue set downe the chiefe substance of the story of this conspiracy and the manner of the Kings deliuery with the two chiefe Traitors death and tragedy Vnnecessary it is for mee to recite the end of Bour and Logane c. conspirators dead and deuoured of wormes whose memoriall is perished with them onely behold the power and prouidence of God in opening the mouth of Sprott haling him to the Ministers of Iustice and causing him to bee his owne accuser eight yeares after when no mortall creature could detect him all the confederates dead except the guilty conscience of his owne breast And as Seneca grauely Nullum conscium peceatorum tuorum magis timueris quàm temetipsum altum enim potes effugere ●e autem nunquam nequitia enimipsa est suipoena Thou maist not feare any who are priuy to thy sinnes more then thy owne selfe for thou may flye from an other yet neuer from thy selfe sinne is a punishment to it selfe and Blessed is the man who is not condemned in his owne conscience for a good conscience is a continuall feast but it is a fearefull thing when malice is condemned by her owne testimony and a conscience that is touched doth euer forecast cruell things Conscientia mala bona sperare non potest What the vltimate end was which Gowrie aymed at it is not knowne certainely yet sure he looked for more then the life of an innocent King proiected more then the bare reuenge of his Fathers death his trauelling into Italy into those parts where they would giue sundry folkes Breues as his follower Rinde