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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A08196	Iohn Niccols pilgrimage whrein [sic] is displaied the liues of the proude popes, ambitious cardinals, lecherous bishops, fat bellied monkes, and hypocriticall Iesuites.	Nicholls, John, 1555-1584?	1581 (1581)	STC 18534; ESTC S113251	106,007	296

was persecuted for his Christian profession in a towne of Galizia there was a germane Marchant that as the idole of the Masse was caried in the stréetes he neglected to kneele downe wherefore he was apprehended and put in prison and bein● there a Monke came vnto him to perua●t him but coulde not the Monke aske● him if h●e coulde make a hundreth Duccates this Dutch Marchante answered that he coulde make so much why then sayd the Monke I wil warrant thee thy life without deniall of thy fayth but thou must doe as I will tell thee when thou comest before the Inquisitour whatsoeuer he demaundeth say I woulde gladly learne The Dutch marchant saide as I by you am instructed so will I doe but my faith I will neuer godwilling renounce The Monke went before the Inquisitour and told him that he had conferred with this Dutch marchant but with a verier foole he neuer talked Therfore said this Monke seing I gather by his words that hée is worth a hundreth Duccates take what he hath and let him goe to his countrey The In quisitour was contented to take the money and caused him to be sent for who when hee came was willed to say his pater noster I woulde gladly learne sayde the Dutch marchant did not I say the trueth quoth the Monke that this man is a very foole the Inquisitour bid him say his credo in Deum patrem I woulde gladly learne quoth the Dutch marchant the Inquisitour asked him why he knéeled not before the reuerende Sacrament of the altar then he sayde that cost mee a hundreth Duccates I perceiue now quoth the Inquisitour to the Monke that he is a very foole well goe with him into his shippe and receiue the money As the Monke the Dutch marchant passed by a Church the Monke stouped downe mouing his hoode and doing obeisaunce to the picture of Christ to the pictures of saint Frācis and saint Dominick the Dutch marchant neuer touched his bonet Wherefore the Monke rebuked him the Dutche marchāt asked to whō he should vncouer his head said the mōke to the picture of christ and to the pictures of saint Francis and saint Dominicke Truly sayd the Dutch marchant I was to blame for not putting off my bonet there is Christ in déed for I heard tell that Christ was crucified betweene two theeues and I thinke that saint Frances saint Dominicke were those théeues this Dutch marchant paid to this Monke the hundreth Duccates and gaue the Monke a cloth gowne Graunt Lorde that none within this lande no one that draweth breath In heart disdaine to crie God saue our Queene Elizabeth I Youth when Fancie bare the sway Within my peeuishe braine And reasons lore by no meanes could my wanton will restraine My gadding minde did pricke me forth a Pilgrimes life to proue Whose golden shewes vaine delights my senses then did mone O mightie God which for vs men didst suffer on the crosse The painefull pangues of bitter death to saue our soules from losse I yéelde thée here most hearty thankes in that thou doest vouchsafe Of me most vile and sinfull wretch so great regarde to haue Alas none euer had more cause to magnifie thy name Then I to whome thy mercyes shewde do witnesse well the same So many brunts of fretting foes Who euer coulde withstand If thou hadst not protected me with thy most holy hand A thousand times in shamefull sort my sinfull life had ended If by thy gracious goodnes Lord I had not béene defended In stinking pooles of Poperie so déepely was I drownde That none there was but thee alone to set my foote on ground When as the fiende had led my soule euen to the gates of hell Thou caldst mée backe doest me choose in heauen with thee to dwell Let furies now fret on their fill let sathan rage and rore As long as thou art on my side What néede I care for more God saue our Quéene Elizabeth and graunt her many yéeres to raigne with health peace and prosperitie God defende her honourable Counsell and guide them with his holy spirite in all their actions the nobilitie Bishoppes Magistrates and commons their heartes good Lord incline to all goodnesse The complaint of a sinner LIke as the thiefe in prison cast with wofull wayling mones When hope of pardon cleane is past and sighes with dolelfull grones So I a slau● to sinne with sobs and many a teare As one without thy helpe forlorne before thy throne appeare O Lorde in rage of wanton youth my follies did abounde And eke since that I knewe thy trueth my life hath béene vnfound Alas I doe confesse I sée the perfect way Yet frailtie of my féeble flesh doth make me run astray Aye me when that some good desire woulde moue me to doe well Affections fond make me retire and cause me to rebell I wake yet am asléepe I sée yet still am blinde In ill I runne with headlong race In good I come behinde Loe thus in life I dayly die and dying shall not liue Vnlesse thy mercy spéedily some succour to me giue I die O Lord I die If thou doe mée forsake I shall be likened vnto those That fall into the lake Yet though my hard and stony heart be apt to run astray Yet let thy goodnesse mée conuert so shall I not decay Swéete God doe rule my plants And shéelde mée from annoy Then my poore soule this life once past shall rest with thée in ioy H. G. G. FINIS ¶ Imprinted at London at the three Cranes in the Vinetree by Thomas Dawson for Thomas Butter and Godfrey Isaac 1581.

vnfained beleeu●rs of the Gospell of Christ Iesu O Englishmen you that are Priestes secundum ordinem Antichristi Papae Romani after the order of Antichriste the Pope of Rome be no longer enemies to the truth deuided and sundred from God and your louing Quéene Elizabeth Your obstinacie ingendereth wrath and prouoketh iudgement and iudgement by law ministreth death and damnation wyth death entereth the deuill and with hym heapes of infinite miseries and calamities In this pickle the impenitent lyeth for euer without redemption of our Lord and Sauiour Iesu Christ So long as you hold with the Pope you shall be execrable vnto God and odious vnto your Prince expend therfore and weigh in your mindes caste with your selues in what a miserable perplexitie wretched case you Massemongers are so many as be not yet recōciled vnto the truth in Christ Tourne vnto the liuing God and as you haue long tasted of his wrath so now beginne to taste hys frendship A better frend you cannot haue yea to say the trueth no other frende ye lacke but him whome if you haue your frende no enemy can do you hurte if he be your enemie no frende can do anye good if ye desire his frendship ye néede not séeke it farre it is offred vnto you in the Scripture at what tyme so euer ye recante God is ready to receiue you into hys fauour and grace But then you must take it while it is offred Behold now the acceptable yeare yet is the good tyme yet the golden time yet is the daye of saluation yet to day lasteth and yet the gate is open wherein the wise virgins maye enter But if it be once shutte againe the foolish virgins shall neuer haue it open any more Take mercy and pardon therfore while it is offred refuse it not least ye be refused The eternall God and father of our Lord Iesus Christe which is true in his promises and wonderfull in all his workes haue pittie of al Papists and spéedelye conducte you to the knowledge of the truth that you may be saued through the merites of Christ Iesus our onely redéemer and Sauiour Trisander Amen And I beséeche the same God to géeue them some porcion of his holy Spirite to kepe and confirme them in the knowledge of the eternall trueth of his Gospell that wée all like brethren and children of one father maye laude and prayse the name of the Lord our God that exalteth the humble and méeke doth throw pull downe the proud and highe minded Papistes And thus muche brieflye touchinge this Dialogue of Popish Priestes and theyr execrable abuses The end of the fifte Dialogue The sixt Dialogue wherein is laid open the dissention that hath beene in the Englishe Seminarie at Rome and the orders of that Seminarie The speakers are Trisander the Christian Pilgrime and Theophilactus the conuerted Christian Trisander NOwe are wee come to Rome the famous Citie of the worlde and the seate of Antichrist but before wée enter into this Citie can yée tell me how this Church is called and who payde for the building of the same Theophilactus What the name therof is I cannot tel but Pope Iulius the third when the state of true religion was subuerted and altered and papistrie planted erected the same Church of his owne expences and made processions and singing Te Deum with great solemnitie to declare the ioye and gladnesse that was pretended for this reconciliation Trisander I thinke the Diuell triumphed very much great ioies were then in hell amongst his route of Angels For this metamorphoses and sodaine alteration in religion the Pope his vice gerent here on earth reioysed and the Diuel his maister was glad that both king and quéene nobles and commons disioyned and disseuered themselues from the vnitie of Christes Church The Pope was more enriched his authoritie amplified his kingdome enlarged the Pope had plentie of worldly goodes and Peter pence pleased him best the Diuell sought nothing els but the sillie soules of the wretched persecutours and their vnhappie soules contented him most of all But tell mee I pray you good friende Theophilactus what moued the Pope to erect this Church without the walles of the Citie Theophilactus I knowe not in good sooth what caused him so to doe vnlesse he had thus conceit in his subtil braines that K. P. and Q. M. shoulde stande without the Citie to sée the repayring of the ruinous walles of Rome the cytie of iniquitie and there both K. P. Q. M. should stande to paye the workemen their hyre And suerly so it came to passe in the daies of K. P. and Q. M. that a great part of the ruines of that Citie was repayred vp agayne to the contentment of the Pope and his master whome hée serueth euen the iayler of hell But nowe all prayse bée ascribed to the Lorde that by the meanes of his faithfull seruant Queene Elizabeth our gracious princesse the light of the Gospell shineth throughout all this kingdome the ruines that were once repayred are nowe broken downe againe Antechristes religion is exiled and the trueth is preached of painefull labourers in Christes vineyarde and their doctrine is embraced of all true English subiectes Gods holy name bée praysed therefore Trisander Let vs nowe enter into the Citie where shall wee take our loding to night can you tell Theophilactus Yes that I can wée will go to the English hospitall and there wee shall bee welcome if we tel the schollers any newes that are in the colledge adtoyning to that hospitall Trisander What newes shall wée shew them they are of a contrary religion to vs they are disloyall subiectes both to God and to their princesse And if wée woulde tel them any such newes as they couet to heare wée shoulde offende both God and our louing Quéene therefore wee dare certifie them of nothing done in Englande without offence and if wée durst yet we would not for that they are degenerated from the faith and are vnnaturall vnto their Countrey Theophilactus Tush man you are melancolique you feare to vtter that which may be vttered for newes vnto the schollers Let vs tell them that father Edmunde Campion Ignatius di layolas priest is highly promoted in Englande For hee is Archbishoppe of the Towre of London and retaineth in his seruice many a stout Prelate Let vs tel thē of their Catholique martyre William Sherwood which was executed and put to death for that hee committed a horrible murther vpon Richard Hobson Gentleman both prisoners in the Kinges benche for the profession of Poperie Let vs bidde them make haste to returne home they shall want no preferment the Bishopricke of Newgate is voyde the Archdeaconship of the Kinges bench is vacant and many rich benefices in the towre doe waite and tarry their comming home For these recited places are receptacles of all the worthiest vnreformed priestes that come from beyond seas These newes wil animate embolden the Popes schollers