vertues and such as the Gentiles had or whether they all lacked those Christian vertues which are the fruits of the Christian faith whether thy demaunde be of the first or of the second tell mée without any dissimulation Trisander I aske whether all popes that arrogantly claimed to them selues Supremacie in earth and the false pretensed succession of Peter in the Sée Apostolike were prophane in conuersation of life Panteleon There were no such arrogant Popes but they liued only Christianlike and as their religion was repugnant to Gods worde so their life and maners were contrarie to the commandement of the liuing God Trisander But father can you tell their names and how impiously they liued Panteleon What their names were I knowe and what their maners were likewise I knowe of certentie but forasmuch as I haue said somwhat of Pope Gregorie the xiii I thinke it not amisss to tell what his predecessour was and howe hée came to the Popedome this Pope Pius Quintus descended of very poore Parentage as at Rome is reported of him At Minerua hée was a Dominican Friar for a certaine space then hée became Pryor of that Monasterie at what time Cardinall Morone was suspected for one that sauoured not of Popishe religion Wherefore this Pryor Dominican was sent by the Pope to heare Cardinall Morons confession which when hée vndertooke and thought to haue hearde the Cardinals confession hée was reiected for that hée was neyther Bishop nor Cardinall But a poore Fryar This Dominican returned backe againe to the Popes Courte and tolde the Pope that Cardinall Morone disdained to take him for his confessor being no Cardinal but a poore Dominican The Pope hearing these wordes was muche out of pactence he was sore offended and his wrath was so kindeled that in his angrie moode hée called for a Cardinals hatte and gaue it vnto this Dominican willing him foorthwith to go againe to Cardinall Morone Now when hée came Cardinall like Cardinall Morone submitted himselfe yeelded to make his confession before him to answere to any Article that hée had to lay againste him and in his examination hée shewed him selfe conformable to the Popes Lawes It happened afterwardes that this Pope dyed and then as the order is the Colledge of Cardinals assembled together in a certaine appointed place of the Popes Courte to elect and choose amongest themselues some méete man to take vpon him the charge of so great and Sathanicall function The whole Colledge of Cardinalles that were present there except this one Dominican Cardinall gaue their assent and consent to this Cardinall Morone that hee shoulde haue béene Pope but when this Dominican Cardinal was asked why hée gaue not his voyce with the rest he made this answere I will neuer saith hée giue my voyce to any person suspected of heresie Then spake Cardinall Morone I will not be Pope though I might Heereupon all the Cardinals were willing that this Cardinall Morone should elect whom he best fansied to bée Pope of Rome which thing beeing graunted vnto him hée vttered these wordes saying I knowe none more worthie to bée made Pope then the Cardinall of Alexandria who refused to giue his voyce to my election for that some time I was suspected to bée an Heretike a worthier man then hée to beare rule may seldome or neuer bée found though wée sought for one through out the worlde Therefore séeing your graces good wil and pleasure was that I shoulde choose whom I best liked to the Popedome I nominate and pronounce this Cardinall of Alexandria These wordes thus vttered euery Cardinall in his degrée doing obeysance came and kissed this newe Popes féete This Pope had a nephewe supposed of some Romans to haue béene his bastarde whome hée created Cardinall ouer that Citie Alexandria whereof he himselfe had béene Cardinal before This his nephewe or rather as the common bruite or same goeth at Rome was bounde apprentise to a poore Tailour who dwelleth in the Englishe Seminarie at Rome and because hée was altogether vnapt for that science this poore taylour came vnto his vncle the aforesaid Pope Pius Quintus but then a Dominicā Frier in the monasterie of Minerua and tolde him that his nephewe was vnfitte to bée a taylour for that hée sawe no towardnesse at all in him touching that Art But sée now my sonne howe fortune fauoureth fooles howe shée exalteth the vnworthie For this felow the Popes nephewe can scarce reade his Masse booke much lesse vnderstande it and yet loe on a sodaine hée is created Cardinall of Alexandria This Pope his vncle as the report goeth was a better practicioner in hearing Nunnes confessions and fitter to play the Cooke then to supplie an office and roome of suche high dignitie to the which the Maiestie of Emperours kings by the iudgement of the Papistes is counted inferiour This Pius Quintus at the first was a beggar then afterwardes hee became a Dominican Friar and consequently a Cardinal and in fine a Pope Thus fortune exalted him to high degrées of promotion The recordation and remembrance of his pristinate and former state before fortune had smiled on him shoulde by right haue moued him to bee humble and lowly to all men in his Papall Maiestie Trisander Truely Father as for his base estate of byrth if his vertues were good or if his excellencie of wit was suche that it surpassed the wisedome of others I dde not weigh nor make any account nor doe so vilely thinke of his simple Parents that therefore I shoulde esteeme him vnworthie to haue béene as hee was promoted to a higher degree of function Panteleon Louing sonne to the derogation of his promotion I speake not a worde and as for his Papall dignitie it dothe not touche mee who hath it or who euer had it either noble or vnoble poore or riche But mine intention was to tell thee howe at the first hée became Chapline to Sainte Dominicke then afterwardes Chamberlaine to Beelzebub and last of all sonne to Lucifer by marriage For hee married his begotten daughter pride Trisander From suche offices and degrées of function good Lorde deliuer vs. I pray you father will you shewe mee if you can what his lyfe was being Pope Panteleon Yes that I can and hew hée liued I will declare to thée as followeth Hée was a blooddy persecutor of the Christians and caused many a faithfull beléeuer of the Gospell most lamentably to bée burned yea hée was the cause of that butcherly effusion of Christian blood at Paris and in all other places of Fraunce His successour Gregorie xiiii wickedly allowed the cruell handeling formentes shewed vpon the great Admirall of Fraunce the instrument of God for defence of true religion and for the consolation of the afflicted Christians Whiche facte is entred in marble stone in the imperiall hall of the Popes Court artificially set foorth but to speake of Pius Quintus this Pope was certified by a certaine Cardinall that in Rome there was an noble
condition where dwell you and howe long haue you stayed in this Countrie Diawinckiani For olde acquaintance sake curtesie mooueth mée to giue a direct resolute answere to euery particular demaund of yours I intende to trauell to Italie my state is not so happie as it hath béene for now I am poore then I was rich now and then I haue money plentie but then I had store alwayes Haec est vicissitudo rerum This is the course of the Cardes I haue no certaine limitted dwelling but sometimes I dwell in this Monasterie sometimes in that nowe in this Nunrie and to morrowe in that now in this Hospitall nowe in that nowe in this Countrie in another soone after nowe héere nowe there nowe I cannot tell where Hanc viuo vitam This life I leade in spight of the Diuell Lastly I tell you that in Fraunce Germany Italy Bohemia Polonia Flaunders Brabant and Freezeland I haue trauelled euer since the Coronation of this Quéene Elizabeth Trisander Wherfore went you out of the Realme and why returne you not againe Diawinckiani I went out of the Realme for conscience sake and because of religion Trisander What religion then do you professe Diawinckiani Papistrie otherwise and that rightly termed the Catholike faith which I doe imbrace with all my hearte Trisander What doe I héere Are you stil a Papist Will you neuer renounce the Pope with all his Traditions and filthie abhominations With all his idolatrie and superstitious Ceremonies I pitie your case alacke my friend hath Satan blinded your eyes with the cloudie mist of ignorance and hardened your heart as the flint or adamant stone I lament your state I bewayle your grosse errour wherewith you are intangled Oh my friende for the loue I beare you and for the olde acquaintance that hath béene-betwixte vs these many dayes I councell you for your owne saluation for your own glory life euerlasting to examine your vnstable religion grounded vpon a sandie and fickle foundation which is easie to bée ouerthrowne with the leaste blast of winde that can bée Diawinckiani To examine my religion I haue no néede it is warranted and grounded vpon a riche rocke strong auaileable against all stormes winds and tempests My religion standeth built vpon a good foundatioÌ„ as the pope â—s Cardinals Bishops and Abbots do â—ouch and declare in their assemblies â—nd councels generall Trisander Surely my friende thou â—iest truth For I hearde tell that S. â—eters Churche is builte vpon a little â—ocke very rich I cannot denie it For the Pope dwelleth fast by-it and hath â—he most of his treasure in that plott of â—rounde But your religion shoulde not â—ée contrary to the truth of Christes heaâ—enly Gospell though Saint Peters Churche were richer then it is though â—he Pope and his Cardinals with the â—est of his adherentes to kéepe their great titles honours dignities and promotions boldly say that the Romishe faith is the true religion Diawinckiani My friend Trisander the Pope hath larger reuenewes then any Prince in Christendome why therefore is hée not Christes Vicegerent And the Church of Saint Peter is the costliest Church in the worlde in many respects why therefore is not the Church of S. Peter the holy Catholike Church the holy ghost in the fourme of an owâ— hath confirmed this faith before the faâ— of a Councell and in the presence of tâ— Pope himselfe Therefore assure yoâ— selfe this is the Catholike faith whiâ—â— I holde and allowe This is the trâ—â— religion confirmed by the Pope Trisander O my friende thou a 〈◊〉 fouly deceiued For the holy Ghoste wont to appeare in the forme of a Douâ— but not in the likenesse of an owle Thâ— Pope is not able to establish true religâ—on but hée can peruert all truth for thâ— hée fitteth in the chayre of pestilence anâ— claimeth to himself supremacie on eartâ— But I purpose not to discusse of religioâ— séeing that I haue no sufficient leasuâ— oportunitie thereunto but this briefâ— I tell thée giue ouer thy lewde opinioâ— and let vs both trauell together as twâ— brethren and reconciled Christians Foâ— sometimes I was of thy religion albeiâ— not in all pointes Diawinckiani Let wordes of religion passe by and let vs talke of our long and tedious voyage which wée haue to take Trisander I am content let vs do you haue said How many miles haue â—ée now to Paris Diawinckiani Thrée short miles Trisan What is it of the clocke â—ay wée bée at the Citie before night Diawinckiani It is one of the clock â—â—d easily before the going downe of the â—unne wee may beat Paris Trisa Let vs ride a pace where shal â—e finde good lodging Diawinckiani Doe not you care for â—hat wée shall bée very well entertamed â—â—y the Prior of Saint Dominicks Monaâ—erie and our good fare shall cost vs noâ—hing Trisander But can my Lorde Priâ—r speake English Diawinckiani Not a worde but he â—peaketh Latine no man better then â—ée Trisander I am glad that hée speaketh Latin so well but is he so vertuous that hee will so friendly receiue into his Monasterie such trauellers as I am Diawinckiani Hée is very vertuous But this I forewarne you of that if you sée him with others of his Cloyster walking after supper to the fieldes and many of the Parisian Cleargie sporting in the faire meddowes speake not a worde if after their woonted maner man with man worke filthinesse as Sainte Paul writeth in the first Chapter to the Romans That some men leaue the naturall vse of the women and burne in their lustes one with another This thing hath béene doone this long time and this wickednesse is as yet practised amongest them secretely Trisander In the booke of the Bishop of Cambray I haue read of this abhomination vsed most commonly amongst the Parisian Cleargie and whether in those places as yet they vse the like filthinesse I cannot tell but surely I am perswaded that at home in their houses they are not ashamed to defile theÌ„selues one with another For I resorting to som of their houses as a stranger might easily gather by their vnseemely playing one with another that their life is Sodomiticall and by their carnall and venereal talke a man may rightly hee persuaded that they liue as the Sodomites and Gomorreans did Diawinckiani They had rather liue like Sodomites then bée married as the ministers of the reformed churches are for the auoiding of all occasions of these carnall and fleshly pranckes I will bring thée my friende to manie Monasteries in the Popish Countries where it is the Monkes and Friers custome to practise the vices specified by S. Paule in the first Chapter to the Romans At Shalome in Burgundie thrée Monks were taken in doing this déede and were banished the Citie A German Prieste and a Frenche Priest of the Cathedrall Churche there in the saide Citie will not bée ashamed to offer this villanie to straungers that come to their houses This vice and iniquitie aboundeth
vnfained beleeuâ—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 recoÌ„ciled 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 theÌ„ 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
very much to séeke to haue accesse to Cardinall Modone for their letters of presentation to this Deanerie and that Deanerie to this Archdeaconship that Archdeaconship to this benefice and that benefice About a two yéeres agoe there was such a brute at Rome that Queene Elizabeth was dead that the schollers triumphed and were at variance betwéene themselues who shoulde haue the beast Ecclesiasticall liuinges here in England some said hée would bée deane of Paules another woulde assigne to him selfe the Deanerie of Yorke so euery one would choose to himselfe one peculiar place or other therein to be deane archdeacon or parson one of the schollers made sute to Cardinall Modone to haue his letters of presentatiō to be made M. Parson assoone as hée came to Englande And at another time there was great sturre and controuersie at Rome betwéene Goldwel Quondam bishoppe of saint Asse and Shelley Prior of the order of the crosse which of them shoulde be Archbishoppe of Canterburie for both of them were perswaded through a false surmised report that our louing Quéene was disceased whom God preserue frō day to day to his glory and the publique benefite of this fortunat English Iland Their vaine interrogations may bée fed and pleased by the newes before mentioned Trisander I am content to dee as you haue saide for by the recitall of suche newes I will satisfie their inquisitiue demaundes But tell mée good friend Theophilactus howe long may wée lawfully remaine in the Englishe hospitall without offence vnto the superiours of that house Theopilactus Eyght dayes may we stay there and haue both meate drinke and lodging which dayes being expired wée must depart thence Trisander But shall wée bee examined of our religion of the Popes inquisitours Theophilactus There is no examination of religion vnlesse they haue you in suspition of a contrary religion You may be in Rome twentie yéeres and neuer be examined touching your religion vnlesse some of your acquaintance to bewray you or els that you speake one worde or other inuectiuely against their Romish religion which if yée doe then shall you bee straitly examined of the inquisitours and haue no fauour without recanting the trueth but suffer taunts and rayling words which you shall not want nor any miserie or sorrowe that they can procure you in any respect Trisander But wée will take héede what wée speake that wée fall not into their mercie But let these words passe and nowe tel me I pray you who were the founders of this hospitall and what reuenewes hath it and what is he that is protectour of this hospitall Theophilactus Kings of Englande first founded this hospitall and bought certaine houses within the walles of the Citie of Rome for the maintenance therof as for landes it hath none belonging vnto it Cardinall Morone is protectour thereof and of the English colledge adioyning vnto the same D. Morice a welch man is the prouider and manciple thereof which D. Morice was sometimes Rectour of the English Seminarie but during the time of his Rectourship there was such dissention in the Colledge amongst the English men and the welchmen that I thinke the spirits of darkenesse did better agrée together in hell This D. Morice fauoured his own countreymē more then hée did the other wherfore the Englishe men coulde not abide him nor allow him to bée Rectour D. Parkar if hee vsed no parcialitie but spake vprightly surely he was worthy to be commended D. Morice saide he to mée beeing then at Millan in his house is appoynted Rectour of the English Seminarie but he is so proude and stately that hée rideth in a Wagon as though hee were a prince and causeth the English schollers to follow him all a long aloofe a farre of While he thus rangeth and wandereth abrode the Englishe schollers are sure to fare hard but the Welshmen will not be so vsed Maister Morice say they is our countruman and therefore we will fare of the best and surely so they did as I vnderstoode by their owne confession For they had the best chambers the best apparrell and the best commons for the cooke was a welshman the kéeper of the wine seller was a welshman al were welshmē that had any office so that they could controul the other schollers at their pleasure And when any english scholer made sute to be of the Colledge he would aske him with a grim countenance from whēce he came and what was the cause of his comming then he woulde tell him that there came more wandering fugitiues out of england then out of Wales But if he vnderstoode there came a welsh man he woulde receiue him very courteously and entertaine him ioyfully and so woulde his countreimen take him by the fiste with many congratulations O proud vncharitable wretches what distinction make you of Wales and England that there shoulde breede in your poysoned breastes such canckred malice towardes them that bee of your owne crewe and superstitious secte of poperie This Morice the welshman neuer loued thē that were borne in England for proofe whereof I will bring his owne slaunderous reportes which I haue heard with mine eares vttered frō his owne mouth euen to his countreimen The englishmen sayd he are proud and ambitious braggers and they are slaunderers of our nation If he had sayd both we welshmē and you englishmen are high minded ful of enuie bragging and standering one of another I would haue holden with him but seeing he sought to cleare himselfe and his owne countreymen in shifting their faults from themselues to the englishmen I commend not his charitie He would say often that the english papists were plaine hypocrites and had no more religion to vse his owne termes then a dogge that they sought for vaineglorie and a name of holines And so they did doubtles and so did his owne countreimen too albeit he spake nothing against them as hereafter in the sequel of this chapter most manifestly shall appeare to the viewe of England I will speake the truth for both I will not spare to discouer the malice and hypocrisie of the one and the other I will not be partiall neither shall affection drawe mée to display the offences of the one and kéepe in silence the enormities of the other but with an vpright conscience and an equal minde I will write of them both as well of welshmen as of Englishmē as the truth shall giue place They neuer came to dinner or supper without iarring brauling one with the other they vsed such ignominious names the one to the other as I am loth to rehearse for Ciuilitie sake I am a Gentleman quoth the one thou art a rascall quoth the other The welshman beginneth to fret and fume and saith albeit I came to Rome with broken rent apparrell yet I am borne of as good blood as thou art stop there quoth the other nay I tell thée plainely I am as good a Gentleman as thou art where sir quoth
shall reape the commoditie If the benifice bee woorth threescore poundes a yéere sir Iohn shall haue twenty or scarce that if it be woorth more the patrone of the benefice hath the greater profite and sir Iohn lacke latine not a whit the better And when these popish priests are apprehended some had rather wilfully weare Stories Tippet then yéelde to the trueth They knowe their names shall bée celebrated as the names of Saints amongst the viperous Progenie of wicked papists They know moreouer that their apparell shall bee adored and woorshipped if it may bee bought or gotten of the Papistes their bodyes also should be holy reliques in the Pharisaicall sinagogue of Papistes if they coulde come by them by some secret meanes Thus haue I briefly and without prolixitie of woordes declared the dissention and discorde of the Studentes amongst themselues I haue written also of the orders of the English Seminary at Rome I haue shewed howe vnnaturall the Studentes be to their natural mercifull princesse to rayle vpon her maiestie in their sermons reuile her which reprochfull words I haue shewed likewise howe much hurt they wish to their countrey I meane Englande For they had rather it were destroyed with fire sword and famine then if shoulde continue in the trueth of Christian religion Nowe the Christian reader may easily vnderstande what crueltie they would practise vpon their own Countrey men if power and strength were correspondent to their satanicall desires God hath weakened the might of our aduersaries and I hope will holde it enfebled continually Let the Popes schollers and all other papists wishe what tyranny they list to bée vsed vpon Englande it will not bée as they desire but it wil be as it pleaseth the Lord. If persecution and miserie fall vpon Englande it is for the sinnes of England and not for that they reiect the Popes authoritie and his forged religion This English Seminarie hath foure thousand Crownes a yéere for the maintenaunce thereof There was great suite made vnto the Pope before hee woulde graunt anye exhibition for the maintenaunce of any number of schollers at Rome There was an Englishe Lady that wrote vnto him about it and many Doctours besides other Englishmen of some worshippe and credite Doctor Allen the chiefest scholler of an Englishe man that is beyonde the Seas and president of the Englishe Seminarie at Rhemes came a foote to Rome and was glad within these seuen yeeres to haue beene Thomas Beckettes Chapilan and to receiue foure crownes a moneth to buie him meate drinke and cloth His fauour then with the Pope was very small but yet hée coulde not gette this poore liuing for that Doctor Morice being a malicious and enuious man who vnder Cardinall Morone had the preferring of him there vnto denied it him partely for that he was an Englishe man and partly fearing least that by such meanes by little and little hée shoulde come in fauour with the Pope as well as hée At the first the Pope was intreated to giue exhibition for sixe schollers secondly hée was persuaded to maintaine fourtéene and by little and little the number is growne to thréescore So that in Rhemes hée maintaineth fourescore and eight But our English Gentlemen as I haue hearde D. Alen report to the Rector of the Englishe Seminarie at Rome supplieth the want of that Colledge with seuenscore poundes at a time I Haue now Gentle Reader put in writing the dissention and orders of the English Seminarie and haue written so truely whatsoeuer I haue hearde and seene that my aduersaries except they haue an impudent face can say nothing to the contrarie And yet I haue not written all the disorders of that Colledge but leaue that for another time when occasion shall better serue In all this booke I haue fained nothing neither emptied my gal neither spoke I any thing of hatred or fauour to any man God the iudge of all men is my witnesse But I haue written thus much to this ende that our cake holy Priestes may not delude the people with the false praises of their fained holynesse If proud malicious enuious slaunderous luxurious and ambitious men deserue to bee counted vertuous why then the Popes schollers are vertuous For they are proude malicious enuious c. For when they come on the Saturdayes to receiue their shyrts the one saith to him that deliuereth the shyrts come giue me a good shyrt for a naughtie shyrt doth not become the beautie of my face very well Ther will bee sometime such contention amongest them who shall haue the fairest shirt that it is a worlds wonder to see it One saith I am of better complexion then hee another doth contrary him in his saying oftentimes I haue looked two or three houres for a shyrt and was loth to contende with any for my beautie was burnt with the heat of the Sunne or to say as it is I neuer had any and passe not it I neuer shal There was one honoredin that colledge as a saint for his beauties sake but lo now he is a carkase I saw him dead but so deformed that I scarse knewe him albeit I vsed his company for a long tyme. Quid superbis terra cinis Why art thou proud thou earth and ashes The Lorde gaue thee that beauty wherein thou so much gloriest and within one houre wil take it away at his pleasure and leaue thee an ougly sight to the beholders Repent you that are the Popes schollers repent you of your pride repent you of your Romish religion repent you of your cankred malice both to Queene and Countrie be humble imbrace the truth bee loyall to your Soueraigne and loue your Countrie God graunt you may doe so for your owne soules health Amen The seuenth Dialogue Wherein is shewed that the Turks Iewes by the Popes licence are permitted to haue their sinagogue in his vsurped kingdome iurisdiction how he suffereth Curtezans in their filthinesse for a yeerely tribute paid to his Treasure house which tribute of theirs amounteth in the yeere to twentie thousande poundes The speakers are Trisander the Christian Pilgrime and Merādulabasca the Turkish Merchant and Rabbi Diacothelah the craftie Iewe. Trisander SEing my friend Theophilactus is gone away from mée to looke vnto his businesse I thinke it necessary for my comfort and greater ease to mée in mine expences to ioyne my selfe to the company of some trustie traueller and pilgrime which intendeth to goe to Madonna di Loreto As hée bethought him selfe in this wise how to finde a faithfull friende in his iourney loe héere hée méeteth with a wealthie rich merchant Turke that determineth to goe to Ancona a Citie not farre from Madonna di Loreto this man vnderstanding that Trisander wanted a companion saith after this maner as followeth Merandulabasca Your faire and cleare cōplexiō doth make manifest that you are an Englishman your stature behauiour gesture and apparell doth testifie the same are you not What say you
selfe will the instruments of Sathan and men pleasers in iniquitie they that buy embrace bookes wherin consisteth matter of defence in true religion or a plaine discouery of the hypocrisie of the wicked or the manifestation of the corrupt liues of suche as fight against their own consciēce I meane Papists What Papiste is there of any knowledge learning or reading in diuinitie but he knoweth seeth and readeth the trueth D. Alen. D. Bristow D. Nicolson Parsonnes Campion others were sometimes Protestantes but nowe as Demas Crescens Titus and Alexander they are departed from vs because perhaps they woulde not nor coulde not anie longer abide with vs what shall I say of the Seminarie men the most part of them all forsooke their Countrey for want of liuings for want of maintenaunce there are fiftie Schollers in the English Seminarie at Rome that coulde not tell what shift to make for their liuing here in England therefore being loth to bee taken as vagrantes and burnt in the eare as Roges they thought it farre better for the auoyding of this infamie to hazarde their soules to keepe their eares whole and their necke bone vnbroken they feared maister Recorder of Londō very much they thought it good to proue the Popes liberalitie in renouncing the trueth which before they professed and in acknowledging him to be their Christ to be their Messias to be their Iesuah And for some succour sake they outwardly faine themselues to be Papistes but inwardly the most part of them doe see the trueth and confesse they are in a wrong way some of them oftentimes tolde me at Rome whose names I omitte to put in writing hoping their conuersion that the Romish faith was not the true faith Foure of these with mee determined very often secretly to forsake Rome and returne to our countrey But these foure Schollers by their familiar frindes and fellowe Schollers were with much a doe perswaded to remaine at Rome vntill by their Rectours they shoulde be sent to England But as for me what I once determined to do by the sufferāce of god that I thought to bring to passe perswasions coulde nothyng cause me to change my purpose I was perswaded by diuers both by the Iesuites and by the schollers to remaine at Rome but I woulde not nor coulde not vnlesse I had despaired of my saluation as I did during the time of my sicknesse for that in hypocrisie I liued as a Papist my conscience striued so mightily within me that I feared not in talke with my fellowes to speake against the Romishe religion insomuch that oftentimes I was at Rome called heritique I appeale vnto them for testimonie of this trueth that haue heard mee so speaking at Rome but what is this to the purpose greater was my sinne that for any temporall liuing I shoulde forsake my God wherefore very often troubled I am in conscience and grieued in mind that I committed such an horrible offence in the sight of God In deede I must needes confesse that I beleeued vnfaignedly a Monasticall life to haue beene allowable before God I graunted inuocation of Saintes and as for transubstantiation I doubted these two pointes of the Romish religion I did hold a little before my conuersion at the Towre to haue bene firme and agreeable to God his holy worde and as for the thirde point which was transubstantiation I could not tell what to thinke therof but nowe God be thanked I am resolued in these three points as a Christiā ought to bee this treatise is called the book of Pilgrimage for that in my perigrinatiō I haue seen with mine eies the most things which I haue written in this booke for your instructiō christian readers not for any profite of mine estimation fame or glorie to bee gotten thereby as the Papistes doe surmize I am briefer then I woulde bee and that because there are certaine bookes scattered against mee and against my workes whiche bookes if I may geat I meane God willing to pourge my selfe of the slaunders and false reportes of the aduersaries I take no great pleasure in writing greater pleasure would I take to applie my studies but seeing that the Papistes seeke to deface my sayings it is reason that I should defend mine owne cause as farre forth as I may if they flow in termes of Rhetorique and seeke to shadow the truth with their subtilitie I woulde be contented with a plain stile so that I were able to bring forth somewhat in defence of truth I craue the spirite of mildnesse and not the spirite of scoffing and taunting which spirite they neuer want Farewell louing readers God graunt you a perfect faith and to me likewise and also for my former sinnes and hypocrisie the fatherly visitation of God here in this worlde that I may once feele Gods loue towardes me a sinner an abiect and wormes meate God be mercifull vnto me and confirme my faith God forgiue me mine hypocrisie my wicked life and lewde behauiour God giue me grace neuer to commit the like trespasses against his diuine maiestie in word or deede Be thou fauourable O Lorde vnto Sion build vp the broken walles of Ierusalem forsake not thy Sanctuarie but saue thine elect from the pernitions customes of the wicke◠worlde so full of poyson so full of murther so full of whoredome so full of auarice so full of contempt and so full of securitie that alas euen with horrour it swelleth to the toppe of the vppermost heauens and it annoyeth the seate of the most highest Such as are gone astray God bring them home such as are conuerted God make them strong such as are and euer herevnto haue bene in the true faith of Christ God giue thē perseuerance vnto the ende and in the ende suche as are wicked God make them good God increase the number of his elect God make vs all his faithfull seruantes to raigne with him in glory and blisse in his kingdome of euerlasting ioy Amen I. N. If vertue faile as it doth beginne The people must quaile and die in their siune And if it decrease Gods curse is at hand To destroy vs our peace our soules and our lande Therefore let vs amende Gods plagues to preuent For when life is gone it is to late to repent Take heede then to preaching Gods worde to imbrace And learne to take warning least God you deface IN not well perusing my copie through my default Christian readers fiue or sixe grosse words haue escaped my hands to the print vncorrected but yet they are not so grosse and obscure but that others more learned then I am in a matter more graue haue writen the like wherefore let not these fiue or sixe words offend your modestie neither thinke the woorse of my booke if any other faultes bee escaped in the booke amēd them I pray you and construe them to the best A Lessandro imperatore diceua che il prencepe doueria sempre essere piu prōto presto in dare
of that Cloister and are bounde to pray for the Emperours good successe in all his affaires The Emperours of the Turkes oftentimes consulte with these Monkes touching the state of his Empire they foretel him what mishap is like to chance in his enterprises and prognosticate the euent of all his procéedinges These Monkes neuer departe out of their cloysters except vpon some great and vrgent occasion This order is not farre vnlike to the Carthusians order for they are seldome séene out of their cloisters An other order is of them that goe a begging from doore to doore with great beades aboute their armes and crye Allah Mahomet saue you good dame and good maister I wil pray for the soule of your fathers and mothers and of your Grandsiers allah blesse you little children We see say they that these children of yours are like to come to high degree of honour This pilgrime who liued fourtéene yeeres at least as captiue amongest these Turkes in his historie maketh mention of their begging from house to house suche flattering I thinke they vse as these Iesuites doe when they are commaunded to goe a begging These Monkes are like the Iesuites in superffition and idolatry These Turkishe Monkes neuer goe a begging but when their rectour or their prouost commandeth them So the Iesuites in like manner when they are commanded by their generall or rectour to goe a begging they must needes obey yea admitte hee be a preacher a confessour a publique professour of diuinitie or philosophie or of any other science if hée bée commaunded to take wallet and bottle hée must néedes doe it and may not denie vnlesse hée will incurre his superiours displeasure Father Peter father Ioseph Iesuites of the English Seminarie tolde me that the vicegenerall being a gentleman man borne of most noble parentage was commanded at his firste enteraunce into the societie of Iesus to carrie a basket to bée solde which basket being not woorth vi d He was willed notwithstanding to receiue no lesse then a crowne and as for his dinner hée shoulde begge it at other mens houses abroad in the citie of Rome This man being coÌ„maunded to goe sel his basket did so and as hée sought to sell it being very olde and rotten all men laughed him to skorne and when they knewe the price which hee demaunded for the basket they derided him the more and cryed what meanest thou thou soole to séeke v.s. for thy baskette béeing not worth v. .d. This thing was done by his superiours to proue his pacience and to try how wel he would frame himselfe to their orders as this Nouice being sometimes a Lorde by byrth and riche in possessions suffered himself to bée laughed of all sortes of people and as hée went about the marked places of Rome and walked in euery street hée met by chance with one that in time past had béene his seruaut this Nouice Iesuite knew him not but this man that had béene his sernaunt in time past knewe the saide Nouice Iesuite verye well and saining as though hée had not knowen him he came vnto him asked him the price of his basket This Nouice answered v.s. then hée that had béene his seruaunt gaue him v. s according to his owne demaunde And when this Nouice Iesuite had added moreouer that hée was commaunded to séeke his dinner abroad then this man inuited him to dinner The duke of Millans sonne and heire was inchaunted by these Iesuites to forsake his father his mother and all the fréendes that hée had yea to renounce his inheritaunce that shoulde haue befallen into his handes after the decease of his father This noble youth tobecome a Iesuite regarded no worldly wealth nor princely promotion But this young Gentleman was abused very much as you may heare as follow eth They caused him not only to practise the arte of begging but also to sast and to whippe himselfe so often hauing neyther respect to his tender and féeble state of bodie by reason of his delicate education on and bringing vp neither yet to his vnaccustomed manner in so chastising him beyonde al reason and measure that he fell into a pitifull consumption in so much that being worne and consumed to the bare bones he died The parentes in sundrye Cities of Italie crie out against these new sect of Iesuites for they seduce their children to their sect and with their flattering woordes fatre spéeches and large promises of great giftes at Christs handes in the heauenly citie Hierusalem they deceiue and corrupt the towardely dispositions of many a youth to vertue and Christian religion and abuse them vnto all vngodlynesse and heresies In Rome Anno domi 1579. There was a young Gentleman of great reputation amongst the Romanes this man beeyng heire to his father deceased was beewitched with such an immoderate desir to be a Iesuite that neither his mother nor any freinde that hee had coulde perswade him to the contrary At last he was admitted into the societie of Iesuites and being amongest the Iesuites his mother made earnest supplication vnto the Pope that her sonne being commaunded by his holinesse letters directed vnto the generall might bée be put out of their societie and might returne vnto her and peaceably inioy that which his father had bequeathed him in his last will and Testament Now as shée demaunded of the Pope to haue her sonne released set frée from the societie of Iesu so it came to passe But yet the Iesuites hauing accesse vnto the youngmaÌ„ so incensed his minde with the loue of their profession the being kept for a space in a close chamberr vnder a false and forged pretence of looking for his shyrt to bée made warme before the fire hée conueied himselfe out of the chamber and came directly to the Iesuites Colledge Of many such coulde I make rehear all but the time doth not permit nor my leasure doth suffer me to say more hereof then is alreadie saide Trisander It was told mée that the Iesuites take greate paynes to informe youth in learning vertue what say you doe they so or not Diawinckiani They do informe the youth with such austeritie and in suche ordâ—r that they are become odious too most Studentes as may plainly appeare by this example following In the Romane Colledge Anno Domini 1580. there was a Iesuite slaine by a Student of the Colledge and because belike the Iesuite had offended the Student too too much the Superiours of that Colledge suffered the Student to depart without any manner accusation The Iesuites in that Colledge oftentimes were hurte by the Students for their proud and hawty mynde in seeking to ouerrule them The like happened in many other Colledges of Italy as it was told mée trauelling the Countrey but for this thing that was done at Rome I know it my selfe to bée true béeing at that present at Rome a scholler in the English Seminary For about this time German a priest the Popes Scholler