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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A00402	Wonderfull newes of the death of Paule the. iii. last byshop of Rome [and] of diuerse thynges that after his death haue happened, wherein is trulye set ... the abominable actes of his most mischeuous life. Written in Latin by. P. Esquillus, and Englyshed by W. B. Londoner.; Epistola de morte	Flacius Illyricus, Matthias, 1520-1575.; Vergerio, Pietro Paolo, 1498-1565, attrib. name. aut; Baldwin, William, ca. 1518-1563?	1552 (1552)	STC 10532; ESTC S112433	12,155	42

¶ wonderfull newes of the death of Paule the. iii. last byshop of Rome or diuerse thynges that after his death haue happened wherein is trulye set ●●● the abhominable actes of his most mischeuous life Written in Latin by P. Esquillus and Englyshed by W. B. Londoner ¶ Apoca. viii Come awaye from her my people that ye be not partakers of her sinnes and that ye receiue not of her plagues ¶ W. B. to the louyng Reader IT is wonderfull good Reader to see the sundry diuersities of wittes what meanes they inuente to declare publishe suche thynges as they thinke necessary to be knowē some vnder the colour of fayned histories some vnder the persons of specheles beastes and some vnder the shadow of dreames and visions of which thou haste here a notable and wurthy example For some wittie man as it appeareth by his wrytyng priuie of the laste Popes secretes whiche are so abhominable as I haue hearde of fewe lyke willinge to declare to the worlde howe men were deceyued in him whiche not onely called but also beleued hym to be more than halfe a god hath vnder the name of P. Esquillus writtē an Epistle to his frēd forius Wherin after that he hath trulye declared the time of his death he fayneth a poesie in manner of a vision in which he seeth Paule Frenes the Pope receyued into hell and there meteth his sōne Petrus Aloysius who in talking to his father setteth forthe his wycked beliefe and doctrine After that he beholdeth Arches and Pinnacles wherin are graued the mischeuous dedes of the Pope as the geuyng of his sister to be abused of one that was Pope before hym the poysonyng of his mother and of his sister because she loued another better than hym the abusyng of his owne daughter and his persecuting of Christians with diuers other thinges At last folowyng on still S. Johns reuelaciō he seeth him abuse princes at last cast with them into a lake of burnyng fyre All this he fayneth properly but lyeth not I am afrayed And nowe somwhat to saye my fansy in the matter me thinketh the booke is very good and necessary I wold wishe that al christē mē especially princes for whose cause principally it semeth to be written had red it that they mighte learne here howe Popes and theyr ministers haue doen and doe abuse them For I beleue that al whiche is here written of the Popes actes and of others be true that because I knowe no man would haue bē so shamcles so to make reporte excepte he were assured of them And to th entēt that all Englishe men myghte thanke God the more for his aboundāt mercy in deliuering them through knowlege of his truth from the tiranny of so corrupt and stinking an heade and that better loue and obeye our soueraygne lord and kyng theyr head by God appoynted I haue good Reader according to my poore cunnyng Englished Esquillus Epistle that al they maye see therein the Popes moste detestable mischeuous and deuillishe doctrine lyfe and deedes that suche as yet for lacke of knowlege fauour hym maye throughe credyting this detest and abhorre hym or at leste wyse his vices whiche are vnseparably ioyned vnto the Popedome Wherfore yf thou good reader shalt for this entente reade it I shall thinke my paynes not onelye well bestowed but also as I wishe they maye be abundātlye requited Fare well ¶ Loue and lyue ¶ To his derely beloued brother Marke Forius wel learned in both lawes Publius Esquillus master of Prelates wisheth ioye and peace HOwe heuily I toke thy departure from the citie brother Marke both at thy goyng awaye and sence by letters thou knowest well ynough In somuche that yt the Pope had not feared me more absent than presente I muste nedes haue goen with thee or els dyed yf I had be mortall The Pope durste not stryue with me beyng presente because he remembred to howe greate a foyle I putte Adrian the sixte and Clement the seuenth For whan God made me Maister of Byshops and Prelates he gaue me also suche a nature and cōdiciō as could fele no death chiefely because it is ordeyned by nature that men shall dye but once whiche I haue once done already therfore I shall lyue alwaye to set a worke and correct the prelacie for euer But thou art happye O marke Forius whose chaunce it was to haue so sone witnesse of thou heauenly discipline whiche thou learnedst through out accompanying whā as Pope Paul beyng in a rage callyng that either to recāt or dye thou escapedst with a fewe For what more certayn witnesse can any mā haue of Gods fauour toward hym of hys owne allowaunce than that the byshops priestes phariseis as they dyd to Christ himself bitterly curse trouble vexe endeuour to torment kyl hym But to let passe this which thou taught from aboue knowest welynough let vs come to the pith of the matter for which I wryte nowe Thou remēbrest I suppose that whā we commoned of the cōmon weale in heauē thou madest me to promisse that if I shoulde at any tyme as I once dyd walke through the vpper coastes chaunce to passe through the neither that is to say the secretes of hel of spirites I should lykewyse certifie the therof Which thing now hath happened wonderously well For after that this dottrel I meane Paule Farnesius was buryed caryed into hel I also decēded thyther saw there many thīges which if byshops and other men would beleue they woulde neyther persecute Christe Iesus and waste his church as they do nor yet suffer thēselfes to be led away frō Christ with folish tryfles supersticions But for as much as I cannot nowe be present to talke with the shew the those thynges I will in this Epistle as briefely as I can describe the whole tragedie Wherefore as thou art wont marke thou wel consider in thy minde the thinges which thou shalt reade PAule whiche is also Saule began to dye in the fift Ide that is the. ix day of Nouember about the first watche of the nighte At what tyme I was with Titus Polibius whom thou knowest to be a man of singuler sobrietie among all the rest of the Citezins of Rome and suche a one as may worthely be called a wiseman With hym I held communicacion of the calamities of the Christen common welthe and of the remedies of the same But before our talk was ended and therfore deferred tyl an other time it pleased Polibius to make me lodge at his house that night But eare I was on slepe beholde Genius that ghost which ten yeares agone had caried me into heauen semed to be present before me and sayde Up Publius arise yf thou desire to see with what pompe and what preparacion Paule is receiucd of Dites the prince of darknes and of the other fyendes What quod I than is our most holye father dead Yea sayed he he is dead