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A17981	A thankfull remembrance of Gods mercy In an historicall collection of the great and mercifull deliverances of the Church and state of England, since the Gospell began here to flourish, from the beginning of Queene Elizabeth. Collected by Geo: Carleton, Doctor of Divinitie, and Bishop of Chichester.	Carleton, George, 1559-1628.; Passe, Willem van de, 1598-ca. 1637, engraver.	1624 (1624)	STC 4640; ESTC S107513	118,127	246

whatsoeuer haue beene attempted against vs the Pope is firme on their side God hath manifested himselfe many waies to be on our side What cause haue we then how many waies are we prouoked to trust in God to loue him to worship him that so miraculously hath defended vs to cleaue with all singlenes of heart to that cause that hath bin so mightily maintayned by Gods hand and power And what cause haue our adu●rsaries to examine themselues and more narrowly to examine the cause which God by so many iudgements hath condemned The people of Israel were mightily protected by the hand of God so long as they truely serued God al their aduersaries could neuer preuaile against them they were defended by power from aboue God did watch ouer them but when they fell from God God did suffer them to fall into the hands of their enemies There will hardly be found any president euen among the people of God that for so many yeeres together they haue bin continually deliuered from so many so cruelly intended so dangerous assaults The deepest deuises of malice reaching euen from hell vnto hellish men vpon earth haue beene practised against vs as this last which came from the deepenesse of Satan wherein without sword or speare without any shew of warlike preparations their hellish deuise was at one blow to root out religion to destroy the state the head with the body the King with the stat● the Father of our Country the Mother of our Country the oliue branches the hopefull succession of our King the Reuerend Clergy the Honourable Nobility the faithfull Councellors the graue Iudges the greatest part of our Knights and Gentry the choisest Burgesses the Officers of the Crowne Councell Signet S●ales and of other seates of iudgement the learned Lawyers with an infinite number of common people the Hall of iustice the houses of Parliament the Church vsed for the Coronation of our Kings the monuments of our former Princes all Records of Parliament and of euery particular mans right with a great number of charters and other things of this nature all these things had the diuell by his agents deuised at one secret blow to destroy If the Lord had not beene on our side may Israel now say if the Lord had not beene on our side when men rose vp against vs they had then swallowed vs vp quicke when their wrath was kindled against vs praised be the Lord which hath not giuen vs vp a prey to their teeth our soule is escaped as a Bird out of the snare of the Fowlers the snare is broken and we are deliuered our helpe is in the name of the Lord which hath made heauen and earth We labour against the Papists to proue our Church a true Church of God They on the other side labour to proue themselues the onely Catholike Church and our assemblies to be as they call them assemblies of Heretikes God hath determined this controuersie most euiden●ly by his word and most powerfully from heauen by his continuall protection of vs and destruction of all the wicked practises which they haue attempted against vs. Was there euer any cause in the world so strongly ma●ntained on the one side as our cause hath beene was there euer any execrable practises in the world so pow●rfu●ly condemned from heauen as their practises haue beene God open their eyes that they may see and vnderstand that they fight against God The Church of Rome so long as it stood the Church of God did neuer practise either by open warres or by secret conspiracies to destroy Kings and subuert Kingdomes but by the preaching of Gods word by examples of piety and sanctimony laboured to draw the ignorant vnto the knowledge and obedience of the truth that course is now vtterly forsaken of them for how can they teach the truth to others that are themselues in ignorance and in the shadow of death or how can they giue examples of an holy life whose whole practise and conuersation is in bloud in malice in wicked and wretched actions And will they neuer vnderstand that they who practise such things can not inherit the Kingdome of God cannot be the Church of God cannot pray to God or expect any blessing from him vpon their execrable practises there is a manifest change of their Church and they will not see it They aske vs when was this change vnder what King vnder what Emperour vnder what Pope But if they were wise they would first inquire whether there be a change or no and then inquire further of the time and manner of it We say that which no man can deny that there is a notorious change this is euident for the Church of old neuer allowed the cruelty the impiety the execrable wickednesse which is daily practised by the great Masters of the Church of Rome and allowed and approued by the Pope Then there is a change it is euident to all But this is a change of manners of the Church not of the doctrines If therefore they demand of vs how a change of the doctrines may be proued We are able to point out from time to time that the doctrines which they haue inuented were neuer heard of in the Church before such times as wee are able to point at Master Iewell the reuerend Bishop of Salisbury for piety and learning the mirrour of his time hath made full and faire proofe that of those Articles wherein he challenged all the Learne● of the Church of Rome not one of them was euer taught in the Church before the 〈◊〉 of Christ 600. his proofes stand vnanswered to this day Though Master 〈◊〉 ha●● done his best to examine them who wanted neither learning nor eloquence bu● onely trut● wanting on his side the challenge is still made good We are also able to point to another time before the year of Christ 1000. many of the gr●atest grossest errors in popery was neuer taught or heard ●n the Church as the doctrines of transubstantiatio● of the reall presence as it is vnderstood in the Church of Rome of the Popes power to depose Kings and absolue their subiects f●o● their allegeance or to war●ant their subiects to rebell ●gainst them of he doctrines of Grace and iustification as now they are taught in the Church of Rome of the doctrine of merits whether ex congruo or condigro of the seauen sacraments and many other of this nature of which we are assured that not one of them can be proued euer to haue beene taught or heard of in the Church before the yeare of Christ one thousand Wee are further able to point to another time before which the rule of faith was neuer changed in the Church this was their last attempt in the points of Doctrine a desperate attempt against the truth For from the Apostles time till the Councell of Trent the rule of faith was euer held in the Church one and the same that is the doctrine contained in

to Neuil whom I entertained at my table and this was done full six moneths before he accused me After this he came to me And let vs dare said he to doe something seeing of the Queene we can obtaine nothing And he proposed some things of the delivery of the Scots Queene I did here interpose O but I haue a greater matter in my head and more profitable for the Catholike Church The next day he came and swearing vpon the Bible that he would keepe my counsell and constantly prosecute whatsoever was vsefull for the Catholike Religion And I sware in like sort Our determination was to set vpon the Queene with ten horsemen as she was riding in the fields and so to kill her Which thing Neuil concealed all this while But when the newes came that the Earle of Westmerland was dead whose inheritance he hoped to haue presently not respecting his oath he opened these things against me These things Parry confessed in the presence of the Lord Hunsdon Sir Christopher Harton and Sir Francis Walsingham privie Councellers and farther by his Letters to the Queene to Burghley Lord Treasurer and to the Earle of Leicester he acknowledged his fault and craued pardon Some few dayes after he was brought to VVestminster hall to iudgement Where the heads of his accusation being read he confessed himselfe guiltie Sir Christohper Hatton to satisfie the mult●●de present thought it fit that the crime should punctually be opened out of his own confession Which Parry himselfe acknowledged to be free not extorted and the Iudges intreated that he would reade them But the Clarke of the Crowne read them and the Letters of the Cardinall of Come Parry his Letters to the Queene to the Lord Burghley and the Earle of Leicester all which he granted to be true Yet he denied that he was at any time resolved to kill the Queene He was therefore commanded to speake if he had any thing to say why iudgement should not passe Here he answered with perturbation as one troubled with the conscience of the crime I see I must die because I was not resolved And being desired to speake more plainly if he would say any thing My bloud said he be among you When sentence of death was pronounced against him he ragingly cited the Queene to the tribunall seat of God Being brought to the gallowes he bragged much that he had beene a faithfull keeper of the Queene because he had not killed her Thus like a glorious Roman Catholike never once in one word cōmending himselfe to God he died like a traytor in the court before VVestminster Hall where the Lords and Commons were then assembled in Parliament In this Parliament some lawes were enacted for the Queenes safety against the Iesuites and Priests who attempted daily horrible treasons from the Bull of Pius V. It was therefore enacted that within forty daies they should all depart the Land If any came in againe after that and stayed here they should be guilty of treason that if any received them wittingly and willingly or interteined them nourished or helped them such should be guiltie of fellony that they who are brought vp in the seminaries if they returne not within sixe monethes after warning given and should not submit themselues to the Queene before a Bishop or two Iustices of peace they should be guiltie of treason And they who had submitted if they should within ten yeares come to the Court or nearer then ten miles of the Court that then their submission should be voyd They who sent any money by any means to the Students of the seminaries should be guiltie of Praemunire If any of the Peeres of the Realme that is Dukes Marquesses Earles Vicounts Barons of the Parliament should offend against these lawes he should be tryed by his Peeres They who know any Iesuites and Priests to lye lurking in the Realme and within twelue dayes doe not detect them shall be fined at the Queenes pleasure and put in prison If any be suspected to be one of those Iesuites or Priests and shall not submit himselfe to examination for his contempt he shall be imprisoned vntill he submit He that shall send any Christian or any other to the Seminaries and Colledges of the Popish profession shall be fined an hundreth pounds They that are so sent shall not succeed in inheritance nor inioy any goods what way soever they may chance And so shall it be to them that within a yeare returne not from those seminaries vnlesse they conforme themselues to the Church of England If the keepers of havens permit any to passe the seas without the Queenes licence or the licence of six Councellers except Mariners and Merchants they shall be remoued from their places the Ship-master that carries them shall loose the Shipp and all the goods in her and be imprisoned a whole yeare The severitie of these lawes which were no lesse then necessary for such times and such mischiefes made the Papists in England afeard and among others Philip Howard Earle of Arundell in so much as fearing least he might offend against those lawes he purposed to leaue his countrey He had his bloud restored by the Queenes favour three yeares before And after that being dis-favoured by reason of some secret suggestions of certaine great personages against him he secretly gaue himselfe to the Popish Religion and made choice of an austere life Surely if good instructours might haue beene admitted to him he might haue beene easily and happily confirmed in the truth He was once or twice called before the Councell table and refuted the things obi●cted to him Yet was he commanded to keepe his house Six moneths after he was set at libertie and came to the Parliament but the first day whilst the Sermon was preached he withdrew himselfe out of the company The Parliament being ended being as then resolved to depart he wrote to the Queene a long and a mournfull complaint which Letters he commanded should be delivered after his departure he complained of the envie of his potent adversaries wherevnto he was forced to yeeld seeing they triumphed over his innocency He recounted the vnfortunate destinies of his ancestors of his great grandfather condemned his cause not being heard of his grand-father who for matters of small moment was beheaded and of his father whom he affirmed to be circumvented by his adversaries who yet never had an evill minde against his Prince nor Countrey As for himselfe least he should succeed the heire of his fathers infelicitie said he to the end that he might serue God and provide for the health of his soule he had forsaken his Countrey but not his alleagance to his Prince After these Letters were delivered he went into Sussex and having provided a shippe in an obscure corner and now being ready to take ship he was apprehended by the mean●s of those whom he trusted and by the master of the ship discovered and was sent into the Tower as a prisoner CHAPTER

their own● ends holding small accompt of Catholikes Winter told him that there were many Gentlemen in England who would not forsake their Countrey vntill they had tried the vttermost And to add one more to their company as a fit man both for councell and execution of whatsoeuer they should resolue wished for Master Fawkes who as he had heard was a man of good commendation Owen told him the gentleman deserued no lesse but was at Brussels and that if he came not as happily he might before Winters departure hee would send him shortly after into England Winter went shortly after to Ostend where Sir William Stanly as then was not but came two dayes after Winter remained with him three or foure dayes In which time he asked him if the Catholikes in England should doe any thing to helpe themselues whether hee thought the Arch-Duke would second them he answered no. For all those parts w●re so desirous of peace with England as they would indure no speech of other enterprise Neither were it fit said he to set any pro●ect a foot now the peace is vpon concluding Winter told him there was no such resolution and fell into other speech asking him of Master Fawkes whom Sir William much commended and as they were in speech Fawkes came in Sir William told him this is the Gentleman you spake of and after they had imbraced Winter told Fawkes that some good friends of his wished his company in England and appointed to meet at Dunkirk where they might conferre Meeting at Dunkirk they had conference and resolued both to come into England They came first to Catesby whether came Master Thomas Percy The first word he spake after he came into their companie was Shall we alwaies Gentlemen talke and neuer doe any thing Catesby tooke him aside and had speech of somewhat to be done so as first they might all take an oath of secrecy which within few dayes after they did The oath was this You shall sweare by the blessed Trinity and by the Sacrament you now purpose to receiue neuer to disclose directly nor indirectly by wo●d or circumstance the matter that shall he proposed to you to keepe secret nor desist from the execution thereof vntill the rest shall giu● you leaue This oath was first taken by Catesby Percy Wright and Fawkes behinde Saint Clements After the oath taken they went into the next roome and heard Masse and receiued the Sacrament vpon it That done Catesby disclosed to Percy and Winter and Iacke Wright to Fawkes the businesse for which they tooke the oath which they approued Then was Percy sent to take the house which they vnderstood did belong to one Ferris which with some difficulty in the end he obtained and became Tenant to Whinyard as Ferris was before Fawkes vnderwent the name of Master Percy his man calling himselfe Iohnson because his face was most vnknowne and receiued the keyes of the house vntill they heard that the Parliament was adiourned to the 7. of February At which time they all departed seuerall wayes into the Countrey to meet againe at the beginning of Michaelmas Tearme It was thought conuenient to haue a house to receiue prouision of powder and wood for the mine from which house the prouision might be conueied to that house which Percy had taken this was taken in Lambeth and Keyes was appointed the trusty keeper thereof When they were agreed to begin and set things in order for the mine they were staied a while because the Scottish Lords were appointed to sit in conference of the Vnion in Percy his house The time of their sitting being past they entred vpon the mine hauing prouided themselues of baked meats the lesse to need sending abroad Whilst they were together they fell into discourse what they should doe after this deede was done The first question was how they might surprise the next heire The Prince happily would be at Parliament with the King his Father how should they then be able to seaze vpon the Duke This burden Percy vndertook that by his acquaintance he with other Gentlemen would enter the Chamber without suspition and hauing some doozen others at seuerall doores to expect his comming and two or three on horsebacke at the Court gate to receiue him he would vndertake the blow being giuen vntill which hee would attend in the Dukes Chamber to carry him safe away for he supposed most of the Court would be absent and such as were there not suspecting or vnprouided for any such matter For the Lady Elizabeth it were easie to surprise her in the country by drawing friends together at an hunting neare the Lord Harringtons and Asby Master Catesby his house being not farre off was a fit place for preparation The next was for money and horses which if they could prouide in any reasonable measure hauing the heire apparant and the first knowledge by foure or fiue dayes was oddes sufficient Then what Lords they should saue from the Parliament which was first agreed in generall as many as they could that were Catholikes or so disposed but after they descended to speake of particulars Next what forraine Princes they should acquaint with this before or ioyne with after For this point they agreed that first they could not inioyne Princes to that secrecy nor oblige them by oath so to be secure of their promise beside they knew not whether they will approue the proiect or dislike it And if they doe allow therof to prepare before might beget suspition and not to prouide vntill the businesse were acted the same letter that carried the newes of the thing done might as well intreat their helpe and furtherance Spaine is too slow in their preparations to hope any good from the first extremities and France too neere and to dangerous who with the Shipping of Holland we feared of all the world might make away with vs. While they were in the middle of these discourses they heard that the Parliament would be anew adiourned vntill after Michaelmas vpon which tidings they brake off both discourse and working About Candlemas they brought ouer in a Boat the powder which they had prouided at Lambeth and laid it in Master Percy his house because they would haue all their danger in one place Then falling to their worke in the mine they came against the stone wall which was very hard to beat through at which time they called Kit Wright to their company but as they were working vpon the wall they heard a rushing in a Cellar of remouing of coales Whereupon they feared that they had beene discouered and they sent Fawkes to goe to the Cellar who finding that the Coales were a selling and that the Cellar was to bee let viewing the opportunity thereof for their purpose Percy went and hired the same for yearely rent They had before this prouided twenty barrels of powder which they remoued into the Cellar and couered them w●th billets and faggots which they had prouided for that purpose

After this they thought fit to send Fawkes to acquaint Sir William Stanly and Master Owen with this matter but so that they might receiue the oath of secrecy The reason why they desired Sir William Stanly should be acquainted herewith was to haue him with them so soone as he could And for Master Owen he might hold good correspondencies after with forraine Princes Master Fawkes departed about Easter for Flanders and returned in the end of August He brought word that Sir William Stanly was not returned from Spaine so as he vttered the matter onely to Owen who seemed well pleased with the businesse but told him that surely Sir William wou●d not bee acquainted with any plot as hauing businesse now a foot in the Court of England but he himselfe would be alwaies ready to tell him and send him away so soone as it were done About this time Master Percy and Catesby met at the Bathe Where they agreed that the company being yet but few Catesby should haue the others authority to call in whom hee thought best Whereupon he called in Sir Euerard Digby and after that Master Tresham The first promised fifteene hundreth pounds the second two thousand pounds Master Percy promised all that he could get of the Earle of Northumberlands rents which was about foure thousand pounds and to prouide many galloping horses to the number of ten Meane while Fawkes and Winter bought somenew powder as suspecting the first to bee danke and conueied it into the Cellar and set it in order as they resolued it should stand Then was the Parliament anew prorogued vntill the fifth of Nouember So that all of them went down till some tenne dayes before When Catesby camevp with Fawks to an house by Enfield-chase called White-webs whether Winter came to them Catesby willed Winter to inquire whether the young Prince came to the Parliament Winter told him that hee heard that his Grace thought not to be there Then said Catesby must we haue our horses bey●nd the water and prouision of more company to surprise the Prince and eaue the Duke alone All things thus prepared the Saturday of the weeke immediately praeceding the Kings returne which was vpon Thursday being but ten dayes before the Parliament The Lord Monteagle sonne and heire to the Lord Morley being in his owne lodging ready to goe to supper at seauen of the clocke at night one of his footmen whom hee had sent of an errand ouer the street was met by an vnknowne man of a reasonable tall personage who deliuered him a Letter charging him to put it into my Lord his Masters hands which my Lord no sooner receiued but that hauing broken it vp and perceiuing the same to bee of an vnknowne and somewhat vnlegible hand and without either date or subscription did call one of his men to him for helping him to reade it But no sooner did he conceiue the strange contents thereof although he was somewhat perplexed what construction to make of it as whether of a matter of consequence as indeede it was or whether some foolish deuised Pasquill by some of his enemies to skarre him from his attendance at the Parliament yet did hee as a most dutifull and l●iall subiect conclude not to conceale it what euer might come of it Whereupon notwithstanding the latenesse and darkenesse of the night in such a season of the yeare he presently repaired to his Maiesties Pallace at White hall and there deliuered the same to the Earle of Salisbury his Maiesties principall Secretary The Earle hauing read the Letter and heard of the manner of comming of it to his hands did greatly incourage and commend the Lord for his discretion te●ling him plainely that whatsoeuer the purpose of the Letter might proue hereafter yet did this accident put him in mind of diuers aduertisements hee had receiued from beyond the seas wherewith he had acquainted as well the King himselfe as diuers of his Priuy Councellours concerning some businesse the Papists were in both at home and abroad making preparation for some combination among them against this Parliament time for inabling them to deliuer at that time to the King some petition for tolleration of Religion which should be deliuered in some such order and so well backed as the King should be loath to refuse their requests like the sturdy-beggars crauing almes with one open hand but carrying a stone in the other in case of refusall And therefore did the Earle of Salisbury conclude with the Lord Monteagle that he would in regard of the Kings absence impart the same Letter to some more of his Maiesties Councell Whe●eof the Lord Monteagle liked well onely adding this request by way of protestation that whatsoeuer the euent hereof might proue it should not be imputed to him as proceeding from too light and too sodaine an apprehension that hee deliuered this Letter being onely moued thereto for demonstration of his ready deuotion and care for preseruation of his Maiestie and the State And thus did the Earle of Salisbury presently acquaint the Lord Chamberlaine with the said Letter Whereupon they two in the presence of the Lord Monteagle calling to minde the former intelligence already mentioned which seemed to haue some relation with this Letter the tender care which they euer had to the preseruation of his Maiesties person made them apprehend that some perillous attempt did thereby appeare to be intended against the same which did the more neerely concerne the Lord Chamberlaine to haue care of in regard that it doth belong to the charge of his office to ouersee as well all places of Assembly where his Maiesty is to repaire as his Highnesse owne priuate houses And therefore did the said two Councellors conclude that they should ioyne vnto them three more of the Councell to wit the Lord Admirall the Earles of Worcester and Northampton to be also particularly acquainted with this accident Who hauing all of them concurred together to the re-examination of the contents of the said Letter they did conclude that how slight a matter it might at the first appeare to be yet was it not absolutely to be contemned in respect of the care which it behoued them to haue of the preseruation of his Maiesties person But yet resolued for two reasons first to acquaint the King himselfe with the same before they proceeded to any further inquisition in the matter as well for the expectation and experience they had of his Maiesties fortunate iudgement in clearing and soluing of obscure riddles and doubtfull mysteries as also because the more time would in the meane while bee giuen for the practise to ripen if any was wherby the discouery might be the more cleare and euident and the ground of proceeding thereupon more safe iust and easie And so according to their determination did the Earle of Salisbury repaire to the King in his gallery vpon Friday being Alhallow day in the afternoon which was the day after his Maiesties arriuall and none but himselfe