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A08197	The oration and sermon made at Rome by commaundement of the foure cardinalles, and the Dominican inquisitour, vpon paine of death. By Iohn Nichols, latelie the Popes scholler. Which sermon and oration was presented before the Pope and his cardinalles in his Consistorie, the xxvij. day of Maie. 1578. and remaineth there registred. Now by him brought into the English tongue, for the great comfort and commoditie of all faithfull Christians. Heerin also is aunswered an infamous libell, maliciouslie written and cast abroad, against the saide Iohn Nichols, with a sufficient discharge of himselfe from all the Papists lying reports, and his owne life both largelie and amplie discouered.	Nicholls, John, 1555-1584?	1581 (1581)	STC 18535; ESTC S105660	86,257	238

as good towardnesse as Tom Collier thy fathers man And where as more impudentlie then an Asse thou writest That the most parte of my reportes touching your treacheries and malicious practises against the Queenes Maiestie and her honourable Councell is vntrue If I wrote any thing otherwise then the trueth was why dydst thou not make mention thereof that I might haue purged my selfe of infamie and vntrueth But I wrote no more then trueth gaue place but in the booke of Pilgrimage I wyll discouer God wylling more at large your treasonable attemptes against the Crowne and dignitie against her honourable Councell and against her common weale I haue spoken and doo speake and wyll speake nothing else but trueth of you But it is as harde a thing to heare trueth of you as it is for the Pope to giue his Miter away to poore beggers And finally where as thou concludest thy Lybell with these wordes That there shall neuer want vacabounds and runnagates for gaine If thou wylt haue these wordes to haue relation to thy selfe and to thy brothers who in déede are Vacabounds and runnagates from Tauerne to Tauerne from Towne to Towne from Shiere to Shiere Thou sayst well and truely and I goe not about to disprooue thy wordes but if thou meanest of me I am no runnagate I stay in one place and am not affrayde to shewe my face in the presence of you all if I could tell where to finde you But you are not farre vnlyke to the théeues who in the day tyme sléepe or lurke in Caues and in the night tyme raunge abroade I thinke you meete bothe together on the plaines of Salisburie the theefe he séeketh but the purse but you are not contented with the purse but seeke to bereaue a man of his body and soule We had more néede by a great deale if we haue respect to the safetie of our bodies and soules to take héede that we be not deceyued by the craftie iugling of these wandering Popish Préests Thus haue I aunswered to euerie particular Article contayned in the infamous Lybell against me written and I thought it good to containe the same in this Epistle written vnto you worshipfull Company for this cause onely For that they say That I attempted many most malicious thinges betweene the Prince of Orainge and the King of Spaine If you heare and vnderstand it of credible persons that I was such a fellowe as they report me to be I desire you as not compelled to make mention thereof in your Letters and conuay it to London I am sure and certaine that there is no man can auouch that I was such a fellowe as they make me to be I confesse my life hath béene wicked and lewde but neuer so wickedlie and lewdlic bent as the Papists doo report They say I am irreligious I am altogether giuen to vngodlinesse God hath forsaken me there is no hope of my saluation This is but theyr rashe iudgement God forgiue them I wishe them well to doo God graunt them a penitent heart and a tongue to speake trueth I am not the first that hath béene wrongfullie slaundered nor shall be the last There is a Popishe Préest héere in England that reported that he knewe him selfe bothe noble men worshipfull and Preachers héere in this Land to be of the householde of Atheisme But as I told so tell I againe that Papists can doo nothing else but lye and falselie report I leaue héere to trouble you any farther beeing otherwise occupied with waightier affayres then to obtaine fitte opportunitie and leasure to peruse this rude Letter of mine Pray that I may stand fast to the glorie of his name and the good example of others whose lyke conuersation I doo heartily wishe in the Lord. And so desiring your good prayers to Iesus Christe worshipfull Company to assist me with his grace that I may persenere in this his gratious calling to the end and in the end The Lord Iesus gouerne and guide you in true obedience of his glorious Gospell to the glorie of his name Amen Your fellow seruant in the Lord. Iohn Nichols ❧ The Oration made at Roome before the fowre Cardinalles of the Inquisition and the Dominican Inquisitour presented also before the Pope the .xxvii. day of May. 1578. YOu commaunded me most illustrious and most reuerend Cardinalles to write what I could against our holie Father the Pope and against the Catholique faith What your meaning is herein I knowe not if you seeke to knowe what learning I haue I confesse I haue none the time of my studies in the flourishing Vniuersities of England hath beene but short my maintenance in other common Schooles dured but for a small space of time wherfore neither in the Vniuersities neither yet abroade in the countrie could I reape any sound and vnconfused knowledge in good Letters therefore you may easilie be persuaded that if you require of me that which you would of a learned Scholer demaund my want of learning and rudenesse of inuention is such that I can not sufficiently whereas I gladly would accomplishe your request according to your minde If your desire be to vnderstand howe in times past liuing in blindnesse and errour Marke heere I counted the bright shining beames of Christ his Gospell blindnesse and the preaching thereof the preaching of errour I subuerted corrupted and prophaned as much as I could the doctrine of our holie mother the Church Scilicet If you are desirous to knowe wherein I haue offended our holie Father the Pope and wherin I haue more tashly thē wisely spoken against the catholique Religion to obey your cōmaundement I did what I could to put in writing such words as I vsed against him and his Religion and trusting to your woonted clemencie in forgiuing my trespasse I write as boldlie as if I were in England if I did not so your commaundement should not be accomplished Wherefore how so euer I speake be not greeued and turne not therefore your fatherly fauour from me the fault is not in me to write the thing commaunded I write what I spake whiles that I lyued in England and I spake as I was taught nowe I write that which I hate but spake then that which I lyked This is a newe metamorphesis of a Collier to become a Scholler of a plow-man a Preacher and of an heretique to become a catholique there are colliers that haue gon to schoole haue read there is but one God one Baptisme one faith in Iesus christ why are they not schollers There are plow-men that can teache theyr household to looue God aboue all things to loue one another as god loued vs and gaue his only begotten sonne to reconcile vs vnto him beeing his enimies transgressours of his holie law and commaundement and are they not Preachers Heretiques will become catholiques if they consider and examine the corrupt lyuing of babling Preachers their vsurping of Ecclesiasticall liuinges their ambition to higher degrees of

to the Pope and his Romish Sinagogue How father Minister a graue and learned Iesuite commended my dooings and sayd I was one of the best Oratours among all the whole rowt of Students And as for to speake Latin I taught that most part of them all to speake true Latin although they were farre from any Ciceronian phrase They haue such blockheads that studie Philosophie that in talke they vse an Accusatiue case in stéede of a Nominatiue and the Masculine in stéede of a Feminine gender and I wyll name them for your sakes Master Dodipol Oliuerius Master Douter Doctor I would say Mushe with twētie more they are not able to make a true construction betwixt the Nominatiue case and the Verbe the Substantiue and the Adiectiue the Relatiue and his Antecedent Yet for all that by meanes of theyr déepe Philosophie they thinke to ouer-crowe our Studentes héere in England They that studie Diuinitie when they are commaunded to make such an Exhortation as I haue done often in your Seminarie of mischéefe for I can not say of learning or yet of vertue I would I could they ascend vp to the Pulpit with a brazen face or a fooles vizarde but they descende with shame and with discommendation some haue I séene of your company iollie Champions went about to preach but were not able to prosecute theyr matter Wherfore they came downe from the Pulpitte and left halfe theyr Sermons vnsayde for that they had forgotten the residue of theyr Sermon eyther for that they quafte too much Wine or else that they had supt too much pottage Except two according to the report of Father Minister of whome I spake and who soone after Saint Peter ad Vincula his day dyed There was not one amongst thrée score that coulde preache as well as our common Taylors and Shoomakers in England In déede they excelled them in one point for that they obserued more guyle and deceipt in theyr preaching to intrap our Englishe men in the snares of idolatrie then men of Occupation in persuading the people to decline from papistrie And whereas verie impudentlie thou sayst I was a common game to the rest of the Studentes who made me often to mount on a stoole and to preach to them the Sermons which I had vttered in England Thine owne fellowes such as are taken denie the same to be true as they doo the rest of the chéefest pointes of thy infamous Lybell he that was my Chamber fellowe maye reporte this to be a lye as the rest of thy Articles If he report truely this is all that he or any other is able to auouch That béeing merelie disposed I once but neuer afterwardes stoode vpon a stoole as the Iesuits doo when they preach standing vpon bulks or else vpon stooles and demaunded of him who is nowe prisoner in the Towze to giue me what Theame he would and so be dyd and therevpon made a discourse Extempore Wherefore it is vntruth to report that I preached a Sermon vttered once before in England and to say that I dyd it oftner then once The lyke thing many of you haue done whose names I could recite but because the matter is of no more importance I wyll not name them at all Good man lyer I knowe not thy name for that thou hast not written it belike thou wert ashamed to name thy selfe least thou mightest be taken and thy treacheries espied Wheras thou sayst That I lingred behinde my fellowes at a Towne in Vmbria called Fuligne That is as true as the Pope hath made thee a Cardinal for I left them their bay Horse ouerladen with the Popes blessinges hauing a gréeuous disease and not able to goe in the plaine feeldes I forsooke your company And if so be that this sicknesse had not chaunced vnto me yet had I occasion offred me to forsake their company for they made me pay eleuen Iulyes for seuen and caused me to pay for their mans charges as well as they What charity you pelting wandering Massemongers haue I wyll declare There came this last Summer a Northren Scholer to Roome who could not be admitted to the Colledge but the Rector taking compassion on him wylled the fowre Préestes whereof I suspecte thee to be one who went in my company for thrée dayes space to giue this poore Scholer a Crowne a péece among whome also I gaue him a Crowne But howe vncharitably they vsed him in the iourney for thrée dayes you may reade as followeth They caused him all the way to leade theyr Horse by the brydle or to driue him forwardes yet would they not pay for the mans meate nor suffer him to ryde béeing verie sicke and scarse able to stande on his féete and payde more then a Stranger would haue paid vnto them The thirde day of our iourney it so befell when I departed from them that this youth was so faint that hée layd himselfe downe on the ground in the middle of the feeldes not able to mooue a foote farther When they sawe that he was able to leade theyr Horse no longer they forsooke him not bydding him farewell neyther giuing him so much as the value of one small pennie Behold what charitie Papistes haue behold theyr inhumanitie to theyr own countrey-man Héere in England they shewe such counterfeyt holinesse that a mā would scarse thinke that they would play the Varlettes they deceyue the people wounderfullie But if our Englishe men had béene so much conuersant among them as I haue béene and had tryed theyr manners as I haue done they would beware howe to giue credite to such hypocriticall fellowes But if our countrey men wyll bestowe the reading of the booke of Pilgrimage I wyll lyuelie paint foorth the crafte and subtiltie of our Englishe Studentes beyond the Seas I will describe the horrible abuses crept into the Churche of Roome which I haue séene with mine eyes and vnderstoode of many that were credible persons And whereas thou sayst That the first Sunday after my comming to the Tower I refused to repayre to the Church I graunt it so to be But whereas thou sayst The second Sunday following I pronounced this Recantation of mine which is nowe in print That is as true as a Catte bringeth foorth whelpes for Maister Lieuetenant and my Kéeper with many moe knowe that to be vntrue And whereas thou sayst That if I shall want preferment heere I wyll goe beyond the Seas againe Who wyll beléeue this to be true where as I haue béene once pardoned already for that I haue béene of the contrarie Religion all men knowe that the Popishe lawes are against them that reuolte twyse from theyr Religion If I returned vnto Roome againe or to the Popes dominions I should be condemned eyther to the fire or to the Gallies Wherfore I meane to abide in England hap well or hap yll England hath no fellowe better it is to liue in pouertie then to be whipped on the Seas and to be taught to rowe hauing therevnto