the Protestants secretly sought entrance into the Queens Presence with a drawn Sword set upon one or two in his way and being apprehended confessed that he purposed to have killed the Queen Ed. Ardern his Father-in-Law a Gentleman of Warwick-shire and Arderns Wife and their Daughter Somervil's Wife and Hall a Priest were condemned as guilty of Somervil's practice After three days Somervile was found strangled in Prison for fear of revealing it as was thought where he lay and Ardern was hanged the next day Mendoza the Spanish Ambassador thrust out of England IN 1584 some English Gentlemen began to practise the delivery of the Queen of Scots Francis Throgmorton was suspected by Letters written to the Queen of Scots and intercepted Presently Thomas Lord Paget and Charles Arundel a Courtier left the Land secretly Henry Earl of Northumborland and Philip Earl of Arundel were commanded to their Houses And there was great cause of circumspection for the Papists by printed Books incited the Maids of Honour to do that agianst the Queen that Judith did against Holofernes Yet was the Queens Mercy such that she caused 70 Priests to be sent out of England The chief of them were Gasper Heywood who of all the Jesuits first came into England James Bosgrave John Haâ—â— and Edward Rishton who presently after wrote a Book against the Queen At this time Bernardinus Mendoza the Spanish Ambassador was thrust out of England for practising Treason against the State He having dealt with Throgmarton and others to bring in strangers to invade the Land as appeared by Throgmorton's action who being apprehended sent one of his Packets to Mendoza His other Packets being searched there was found a Catalogue of all the Havens in England sit to land in and another of all the Noblemen in England which favoured the Romish Religion And he did not deny that he had promised his help to Mendoza and the help of those Nobles it was fit he should deal with A Popish practice against Q. Elizabeth discovered not without a Miracle by Creighton's torn Papers a Scotish Jesuit QUeen Elizabeth that rare Paragon of her Sex and that fairly flourishing Flower which Traitors though oft attempted could never nip nor crop up being a Princess both Prudent Pious and Pitiful seeking therefore a fair opportunity and sutable means to set the Queen of Scots at those Times tainted with some Treasonable Practices against her Crown and Person at liberty And for that purpose sent Sir William Wade who was then returned out of Spain to confer with her of the means thereunto And the good Queen was about to send Sir Walter Mildmay to bring this aim of hers to further issue But some further terrors and fears in the interim brake out between them which disturbed that intention especially by a notable discovery by certain Papers which one Creighton a Jesuit sailing into Scotland did then tear in pieces when he was apprehended in the Ship by Dutch-Pirates at Sea whose person being by them â—â—ised on he took forth his Papers wherein it seems the project of a Traiterous Plot against Queen Elizabeth at that time was described tore them into small pieces and with all his force threw them into the Sea But see how the Lord 's good Providence ordered it as they flew in the Air the Wind blew stifly by force whereof they were all blown back again into the Ship even in a miraculous manner as the Jesuit himself confessed when he saw it Which Papers were all kept and gathered together sent to England to Sir William Wade aforesaid and with much labour and singular skill so joyned and set together again that he found they contained a notable new Plot among many other of the Popes the Spaniards and the Guise's resolution to Invade England Whereupon and by reason of many other rumours of dangers intended against the Queen and whole Kingdom of England a great number of all sorts of Men out of common charity and to shew their love and affectionate care of the welfare of the Queen and State bound themselves by an Association as then it was called by mutual promises and subscriptions of Hands and Seals to prosecute all such by all their force and might even unto death that should attempt any thing against the Life of the Queen or Welfare of the Kingdom Now the Queen of Scots took this as a thing devised to bring her into danger and she also was so continually set upon by seditious spirits who if they may but have access are able to draw the greatest Princes to destruction And what have been their practices from time to time but to bring great Persons and greatest Families to ruin Lamentable experience shews openly the fruit of their malice and mischievous plots of Treason which they impiously and audaciously call and count nothing else but advancing of their Catholick Cause Now the Scots Queen led on by her blind guides dealt most importunely with the Pope and Spaniards by Sir Francis Englefield that by all means they would with speed undertake their intended Business namely the Invasion of our Realm For the advancing whereof the Pope and Spanidrd had resolved on these points 1. That Queen Elizabeth should be deprived of her Kingdom 2. That the King of Scots a manifest favourer of Heresie should utterly be dis-inherited of the Kingdom of England 3. That the Scots Queen should Marry some Noble-Man of England that was a Catholick 4. That this Man must be chosen King of England by the Catholicks of England 5. That this choice so made must be confirmed by the Pope 6. That the Children of him so chosen begotten of the Scots Queen must be declared Successors in the Kingdom All these things were confirmed to be true by the testimoney of one Hart a Priest Who was that noble English-man that should marry the Scots-Queen was much enquired after by Sir Francis Walsingham with all diligence but not certainly found out yet there was strong suspicion of Henry Howard Brother to the Duke of Norfolk who was Noble by birth unmarried and a fast favourer of that Religion and in great grace and favour with them All these things were discovered by this Creighton the Jesuite's torn Papers as aforesaid And all this their plotting and contriving of France Spain and the Pope against Queen Elizabeth and King James for no other cause but for their Religion which they had now fairly begun to establish among their People Parry Executed for Treason IN the year 1585 William Parry a Welehman and Doctor of Law spake against that Law which in the Parliament then held was Exhibited and called it a Bloody Law Presently after he was accused of practizing the Queen's death He confessed voluntarily in the Tower that having obtained the Queen's pardon for breaking into the Chamber and wounding one Hare for which he was Condemned he being a sworn Servant to the Queen from England he went into France and was reconciled Afterward at Venice in consultation
had and should receive The King of Navarre besought the King to remember his promise of Alliance newly contracted and not to constrain him in his Religion The Prince of Conde also more fervently answered that the King had given his Faith unto him and to all those of the Religion with so solemn a Protestation and Vow that he could not be persuaded that his Majesty would falsify such an authentick Oath and that thereupon he had thus far yeilded to his Majesties Demands and faithfully performed what he had required of him on this Assurance But as touching the Religion whereof the King had granted him the free exercise and God the true knowledg to whom he was to make an account therein for this his Religion he said he was fully resolved to remain most constant therein and which he would always maintain to be true although it were with the loss of his Life This answer of the Prince set the King into such a choller that he began to call him Rebel seditious and Son of a seditious Person with horrible threatnings to cause them to lose their Heads if within 3 days they took not better counsel and indeed these threatnings and other crafty carriages in this way so wrought on both these Princes at last that they forsook their Faith and first Love and turned to Romish abominations Now the King perceiving that this Massacre of Paris would not quench the Fire but rather kindle it the more fearing lest those of the Religion in his other Provinces and Towns might assemble and unite themselves together and so give them new work he with the speedy advice of his Counsellors sent two Messengers with two several Messages the one to the Governours and seditious Catholicks of his remoter Towns wherein were many of the Religion with express command to massacre them the other containing certain Letters to the Governors of Provinces by which he pretended this Massacre to be perpetated by the Duke of Guise and the Admiral to be murthered on a particular and private quarrel betwixt them two and that the King 's honest meaning and intention was utterly against these things and seriously to maintain his former Edict of a general Pacification and therefore that his care and vigilancy had ceased it the same day it began and yet as my Author recordeth in his History on the Tuesday following being the 26 of the same August the King accompanied with his Brethren and the chiefest of his Court went to the Court of Parliament and there publickly declared in express terms That whatsoever had hapned in Paris was done not only by his consent but also by his Commandment and of his own motion And as for his other former mentioned Message and Letter to other Towns and Provinces for the massacring of those of the Religion among them also his bloody command herein was immediately put in execution at Lyons and many other places where the poor Protestants were murthered and massacred in most hideous and horrible manner by those merciless and inhumane Butchers of bloody Rome who knockt down the innocent Christians among them as so many Dogs cut their Throats mangl'd their Bodies slash'd off their Hands with great sharp Knives as on their Knees they held them up to the Villains praying for the sparing of their Lives yea and were known to rip up their Bellies and take out their Fat from their Bowels and to sell it to the Apothecaries to make Medicines Thus also in those remoter parts from Paris were very many thousands of the Religion murdered without any difference or distinction either of Sex or Age. And so deeply enraged was the King and his Adherents and so desperately resolved to root out and extirpate the memory of those of the Religion especially of any note or eminency that the King having at last got into his custody one Briquemant a noble French Gentleman of the age of seventy years one that had valiantly imployed himself in the Service of the Kings of France having been found in the House of the Ambassador of England then resident in France wherein he had hid himself whilst the greatest fury of the Massacre was executed was by the King's command put in close Prison together with another vertuous Gentleman Cavagnes Master of the Requests both which Gentlemen bare great affection both unto the Religion and also unto the renowned Admiral and were themselves of great esteem and reputation in France but the King having them now fast in hold threatned to tear them in pieces upon the Rack if they would not write and sign with their Hands that they had conspired with the Admiral to kill the King his Brethren the Queen and the King of Navarre But they having most constantly and justly refused to avouch so horrible a lye against their own and their godly Friends Innocencies were racked and cruelly tormented and by a most unjst sentence of the Court of Parliament in Paris they were both declared guilty of Treason and condemned to be hanged upon a Gibbet which was accordingly executed The Queen-Mother leading the King her two Sons and the King of Navarre her Brother-in-Law to see the Execution Her Counsellors thinking that at this last exploit what they had wickedly projected namely the false transferring of the cause of this bloody Massacre on a treasonable Plot intended by the Admiral and others of the Religion against the King as was fore-mentioned would now be wrought out and effected if Briquemant in presence of all the People now at the time of his expected Death would ask pardon of the King withal to work it on the more sending one to him to certifie and assure him that so he might easily save his Life for the King was merciful and that he should have pardon if he would desire it confessing this fact wherewith he was charged But Briquemant answered boldly and with a good courage that it belonged not unto him but to the King to ask pardon of God for such an heinious Offence That he would never ask pardon for a fault wherein he had not offended but knew himself to be most innocent whereof he called GOD to witness desiring him to pardon the King 's so great Disloyalty and Cruelty Cavagnes also the other noble Gentleman did the like until he died Insomuch that this execution contrary to the King's expectation served to no other end but more to publish the iniquity of all those cruel Homicides and of all their most pernicious Counsels The Papists Plots in reference to the late Troubles and particularly about the Death of King CHARLES the First of blessed Memory as proved by Doctor Du Moulin WHen the Businesses of the late bad Times are once ripe for an History and Time the bringer forth of Truth hath discovered the Mysteries of Iniquity and the depths of Satan which hath wrought so much Crime and Mischief it will be found that the late Rebellion was raised and fostered by the Arts of the Court of
Rome That Jesuits professed themselves Independent as not depending on the Church of England and Fifth-Monarchy-Men that they might pull down the English Monarchy and that in the Committees for the destruction of the King and the Church they had their Spies and their Agents The Roman Priest and Confessor is known who when he saw the fatal stroke given to our holy King and Martyr flourished with his Sword and said Now the greatest Enemy that we have in the World it gone When the news of that horrsble Execution came to Roan a Protestant Gentleman of good Credit was present in a great Company of Jesuited Persons Where after great expressions of Joy the gravest of Company to whom all gave ear spake much after this manner The King of England at his Marriage had promised us the Re-establishing of the Catholick Religion in England and when he delayed to fulfil his promise we summoned him from time to time to perform it We came so far as to tell him than if he would not do it we should be forced to take those Courses which would bring him to his Destruction We have given him lawful warning and when no warning would serve we have kept our word to him since he would not keep his word to us That grave Rabby's Sentence agreeth with this certain Intelligence which shall be justified whensoever Authority will require it That the year before the King's Death a 〈…〉 of English Jesuits were sent from their whole party in England first to Paris to consult with â—â—e Faculty of Sâ—rbon then altogether Jesuited to whom they put Question in writing That seeing the state of England was in a likely pâ—sture to change Government whether it was lawful for the Catholicks to work that Change for the advancing and securing of the Catholick Cause in England by making away the King whom there was no hope to turn from his Heresie Which was answered Affirmatively After which the same Persons went to Rome where the same Question being propounded and dehated it was concluded by the Popeland his Council that it was both lawful and expedient for the Catholicks to promote that alteration of State What followed that Consultation and Sentence all the World knoweth and how the Jesuits went to work God knoweth and Time the bringer forth of Truth will lèt us know But when the horrible Paricide committed on the King's sacred Person was so universally cried down as the greatest Villany that had been committed in many Ages the Pope commanded all the Papers about that Question to be gathered and burnt in obedience to which Order a Roman Cathollck in Paris was demanded a Copy which he had of those Papers But the Gentleman who had had time to consider and detest the wickedness of that Project refused to give it and shewed them to a Protestant Friend of his and related to him the whole carriage of this Negotiation with great abhorrency of the practices of the Jesuits In pursuance of that Order from Rome for the pulling down both Monarch and the Monarchy of England many Jesuits came over who took several Shapes to go about their work but most of them took party in the Army About Thirty of them were met by a Protestant Gentleman between Roan and Diep to whom they said taking him for one of their Party that they were going into England and would take Arms in the Independent Army and endeavour to be Agitators A Protestant Lady living in Paris in the time of our late Calamities was persuaded by a Jesuite going in Scarlet to turn Roman Catholick When the dismal news of the King's Murther came to Paris this Lady as all other good English Subjects was most deeply afflicted with it â—nd when this Scarlet Divine came to see her and found her melting in tears about that heavy and common disaster he told her with a smiling countenance that she had no reason to lament but rather to rejoyet seeing that the Catholicks were rid of their greatest Enemy and that the Catholick Cause was much furthered by his Death Upon which the Lady in great anger put the man down Stairs saying If that be your Religion I have done with you for ever And God hath given her the Grace to make her word good hitherto Many intelligent Travellers can tell of the great joy among the English Convents and Seminaries about the King's Death as having overcome their Enemy and done their main work for their settlement in England of which they made themselves so sure that the Benedictines were in great care that the Jesuits should not get their Land and the English Nuns were contending who should be Abbesses in England An understanding Gentleman visiting the Friars of Dunkirk put them upon the discourse of the King's Death and to pump out their sense about it said that the Jesuits had laboured very much to compass that great work To which they answered that the Jesuites would engross to themselves the glory of all great and good Works and of this among other Works whereas they had laboured as diligently and effectually for it as they So there was striving for the glory of that Atchievement and the Friats shewed themselves as much Jesuited as the Jesuites In the height of Oliver's Tyranny Thomas White Gentleman a Priest and a right Jesuit in all his Principles about Obedience set out a Book Entituled the Grounds of Obedience and Government Wherein he maintains that If the People by any Circumstance he devolved to the State of Anarchy their promise made to their expelled Governour binds no more That the People are remitted by the evil managing and insufficiency of their Governour to the force of Nature to provide for themselves and not bound by any promise made to their Governour That the Magistrate by his miscarriages abdicateth himself from being a Magistrate and proveth a Brigand or Robber instead of a Defender The word Defender by writes with a greot D that the Reader may take notice whom be means If the Magistrate saith he have â—ruly â—â—served 〈…〉 or if it be rationally doubted that he hath deserved it and he actually out of possession In the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 iâ— is certain the Subject hath no Obligation to hâ—â—ard for 〈◊〉 Restitution but rather to hinder it For since it is the Commom Good that both the Magistrate and the Subject are to 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 out of what is exprest it is the common harm to 〈◊〉 again of such a Magistrate every one to his power is bound to resist him The next Case is if he be Innocent and wrongfully Deposed nay let us add One who had Governed well and deserved much of the Commonwealth yet he is totally Dispossessed And so that it is plain in these Circumstances It were better for the Common Good to stay as they are than to venture the restoring him because of the publick hazard And now to set down all his words and follow his stile which is affectedly
〈…〉 â—â—â—â—UNT 〈◊〉 â—HE â—everal PLOTS CONSPIRACIES and Hellish ATTEMPTS of the Bloody-minded PAPISTS against the Princes and Kingdoms of England Scotland and Ireland from the Reformation to this present Year 1678. AS ALSO Their Cruel Practices in France against the Protestants in the Massacre of Paris c. WITH A more particular Account of their Plots in relation to the late Civil War and their Contrivances of the Death of King CHARLES the First of blessed Memory LONDON Printed for J. R. and W. A. 1679. Plots Conspiracies and Attempts of Domestick and Foraign Enemies of the Romish Religion against the Princes and Kingdoms of England Scotland and Ireland c. THose which make descriptions of large Countries in small Tables offend not against truth though somewhat against quantity so Pliny telleth us Notwithstanding with much convenience case to the beholder and truth of observation things are presented to our Eyes in those little Draughts that the very places themselves being viewed with great Trouble and loss of Time cannot yeeld more benefit to the most diligent oftentimes not so much Wherefore especially because the Argument cannot be now unseasonable for the abridgment of the Commentaries of large Histories is not unlike Maps of Kingdoms I have here collected out of divers Authors which have severally handled parts of this subject into one The chief Conspiracies and Attempts against the Kingdoms alone and immediately of great Britain and Ireland or else mediately through the sides of the Princes of these Countries by Traytors at home or abroad of the Romish Religion or foraign Enemies by treacherous courses of those of the same bloody superstition The beginning I make the first-time of Reformation of Religion here in England under Queen Elizabeth and the extent unto this present Year I begin no higher than Queen Elizabeth because the Reformation of Henry the eight was but in part and the other of King Edward was an interrupted one by the sudden succession of his Sister Queen Mary the rather because for ought we know there was no great matter plotted against this hopeful young Prince that was not rather from Ambition if there was any such than from a desire of subverting Religion Not but that the Enemies of our Religion and Kingdom had us then in their Minds but other ways there were before bloody and desperate Practises were to be taken in hand to be first entred into of less difficulty and more hopeful success And these are the steps the Adversaries of our Religion use to tread who thirsting after England labour first to bring us back to Rome by striving to make our selves hate our own Religion and leave that God which brought us out of the Land of Egypt bewitching us with glorious Idolatry of the golden Calves of Rome introducing Ignorance and Blindness that we may when our Eyes are out patiently grind in the Mill of Slavery If this course fail the next is by Poyson Murdes and force of Arms to draw us to Sodom and Egypt The Reformation of England and Ireland fall under one time and because that of Scotland also differeth not many years in age they may all be brought in one account With the Plots are jointly handled the Deliverances which in some respect or other may very well be called great either in regard of the Misery we had fallen into if God had not prevented them of the slavery of Soul and Body and this agreeth with all Or else for the strangeness of the discoveries of their mischiefs sometime almost miraculous before they have come to their birth or disappointing them of their purposes when the Authors have put them in practise and these two respects the one or the other which may well denominate God's goodness to us in disappointing them to be great may be found in all likewise So that for these Mercies received we ought to ascribe to our Deliverer that which is due unto him the praise of his own Work and continual thanks for his Mercies which even to this day is from those Deliverances of the days of old extended we should have bin then betrayed but we had now bin Slaves both we our selves and ours one Plot had it succeded had bin the betraying of England at once to them who love themselves too well to have it lost easily and are so wise that they endure no Traitors but for themselves nor can endure any that loves his Country but a Spaniard We may learn also to trust in him even now particularly who is the same yesterday and to day and for ever nor is his hand shortned that he cannot save nor his Ear heavy that he cannot hear those that call upon him lifting up pure Hands in sincerity of Heart although the Sins of our Nation in general may justly provoke our God to punish us by them that hate us for that cause that instead of extirpating Popery and Superstition a thing not hard to be done in human Reason if the Children of Papists were carefully educated under Protestant Tutors we think their Religion tolerable and nothing so dangerous to Soul or Body as some Men seem to make it Should we not detest and abhor the Religion of such a Generation as count they do God good service by killing us witness the bloody Persecution under Queen Mary and the damnable Plot of the Gun-Powder Treason Yet some there are that would seem Protestants and yet deny that their cruelty was such as the Author of the English Martyrology makes the Marian Persecution to be Others of no small esteem in the Church of England instead of acknowledging Foxes History a Monument of Martyrs call it a Book fraught with Traitors and Hereticks And for the Gun-Pouder Conspiracy some affirm it the deeds of a few Male-Contents far from the approbation of the Catholicks others as falsly that there was no such Treason intended but that it was an invention of him whom in reverence I forbear to name But yet this may incourage us that God will still preserve us for their sakes that have now and heretofore stoutly defended God's true Religion and that in very many places of this Land we have had those that with all their power have opposed the very beginnings of Popery But wonderful it is and scarcely credible that any should so much have forgotten the Gun-Powder Treason as to say that they would rather trust a Papist than a Puritan as if they believed not there was any such Treason or had forgotten it or that they thought that those whom Men call Puritans were traiterously minded and bloody Persons In the most Reverend and Judicious Assembly of this Kingdom a Member of that Assembly declared in particulars how the best Men have bin branded with the name of Puritan it was where any Man might freely have spoken yet no Man contradicted him If it be given sometime to the best without question those ordinarily called by that bie-name are none of the worst because from likeness at least
under his command 800 Italians the Spaniard paying the Soldiers Stucley then went to Sebastian King of Portugal to intreat him to be chief Conductor but was perswaded by the said King and the King by Abdalla's Son Mahomet to go first unto the African War where both King Sebastain and himself lost their lives And thus God overthrew their wicked counsels for that time Fitz-Morris his second attempt against Ireland ANno Domini 1579 James Fitz-Morris formerly having fled into France being pardoned for a former Rebellion in Ireland goeth now to the Spaniard and is by him sent unto the Pope to consult with him about his request which was to reduce that Kingdom by force of Arms unto Popery The Pope at the earnest suit of Nicholas Sunders an English and Alan an Irish Priest gave Fitz-Morris some Money to that intent and sendeth him back to the Spaniard from whence with his Priests three Ships and a few Soldiers he arrived at Smerwick in Kerry in Ireland and raiseth a Fort there Thomas Courtney an Englishman presently supriset the Ships John and James Brethren to the Earl of Desmond join themselves to Fitz. Morris who was their Kinsman The Earl of Desmond although he pretended the contrary favoured them drew forces together and by this pretence of Desmond caused the Earl of Clanrickard who came to oppose them to withdraw himself Fitz. Morris seeing few Irish come to his aid under pretence of going in Pilgrimage to the holy Cross of Tipperary went toward Conaught and Vlster to draw Forces together whose Horses being tired he took some Horses from the Plough of William a Burgh his Kinsman and being pursued by the Sons of William a Burgh Fitz-Morris perceiving that told his cousin Theobald a Burgh that it was no time now to fall out about Horses but to join with him in the business of Rebellion for which he was come into Ireland These Brethren had bin in a former Rebellion but now declared unto Fitz-Morris their sorrow for it yet now fighting with Fitz-Morris to recover the Horses both the Brethren and some others were slain Sir William Drury was then Lord Deputy who sent for the Earl of Desmond who made a promise by his Wife to the Dputy that he and his Men would fight against the Rebels He dissembled long but after that Malbey had defeated John his Brothers Forces and had sent for Desmond to come unto him about Rekel a Town of Desmond he plainly discovered his Rebellion That Night the Rebels set upon Malbeys Tents but were disappionted Afterward Desmond was sent for to come in person by the Lord Deputy Pelham who succeeded the deceased Sir William Drury but excuseth himself by a Letter sent by his Wife The Earl of Ormond was sent unto him that he should deliver Sanders the Priest the Castles of Carigofoile and Asketton and to submit himself absolutely The prosecuting of him was committed to the Earl of Ormond who ruined Conilo the Rebels only refuse â—e hanged the Bayliss of Youghall at his Door for refusing to take an English Garrison into the Town besieged the Spaniards in Strangical but they withdrew themselves and after were all killed and so hard he pressed Dismond and his Brethren that madly they intreated the chief Justice to take their parts Afterward the Justice sent for the Nobility of Munster to come to him and would not dismiss them till they had given pleadges that they would assist against the Rebels They made the Baron of Lixenaw yield himself took Carigofoil Castle killed and hanged all the Spaniards in it and the Captain also an Italian San Josephus with 700 Spaniards sent into Ireland THe next Year 1580 700 Spaniards and Italians came to divert the Queens Forces rather than to conquer Ireland they landed at Smerwick under the command of Son Josephus and Italian they fortified it and called it Fort Delor but being followed by the Earl of Ormond they withdrew thence into a Valley called Glammingel Some Prisoners of them were taken who confest they were 700 and that Arms were brought for 5000 and that more were expected from Spain that to conquer Ireland the Spaniard and Pope had resolved and therefore sent into the hands of Sanders Desmond and his Brother John a vast sum of Money That Night the Spaniards and Italians returned to their Fort which so soon as Ordnance could be brought and Winter was returned with the Ships of War from England was on every side besieged and after five days taken The common Soldiers Italians and Spaniards were put to the Sword the Irish hanged only the Captains of the former were preserved Three Years after Desmond wandring like a Vagabond had his Arm almost cut off by a common Soldier before he was known and after was slain Nicholus Sanders was almost famished in the Woods and died stark mad This Year 1580 Priests and Seminaries much increasing in England severe Laws were enacted against them These were for the most part bred in the English Colledg of Doway founded by the procurement of Alan somtimes a Student in Oxford afterward Priest and Cardinal in the Year 1568. Afterward under Requesenius's Government in the Low-Countries when the Wars were between England and Spain the Fugitives were thrust from thence and two Colledges erected for them one at Rhâ—mes the other at Rome the first by the Guises the second by Gregory the 13. From these places rose in England Hanse Nelson Main Sherward Priests who reported Queen Elizabeth to be an Heretick and so ought to be deposed for which they suffered In the aforesaid Year 1580 Robert Parsons a Man of turbulent Spirit and impudent Campian a more modest Man both Jesuits they to serve the Catholicks turns obtained of Pope Gregory an interpretation of Pius his Bull against Queen Elizabeth that it bound the Queen and Hereticks always but not Catholicks till a convenient sâ—ason Compian wrote a Book intituled 10 Reasons in defence of Rome Mr. Chark answered him soberly Parsons wrote against hark virulently but Campian's 10 Reasons were thorowly answered by Dr. Whitaker Campian and others condemned EDmund Campian Ralf Sherwin Luks Kerby Alexander Briant were taken in the year 1581 as Traitors to the Queen and State and condemned for coming into England to stir up Sedition Still more and more Priests came into England and for their dangerons Doctrine That Princes excommunicated were to be thrown out of their Kingdoms that Princes of any other than the Roman Religion had lost their Kingly Dignity that those who had taken Orders were freed from Princes Jurisdiction and not bound by their Laws it was enacted 1582 That it should be Treason to disswade any Subject from his Allegiance and from the Religion established in England c. Somerviles attempt to kill the Queen AN. Dom. 1583 divers Priests and Jesuits wrote dangerous Books against Q. Eliz. and certain other Princes excommunicated which prevailed so far that one Somervile a Gentleman breathing out nothing but Blood against