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A33346	A true and full narrative of those two never to be forgotten deliverances one from the Spanish Invasion in 88, the other from the hellish Powder Plot, November 5, 1605 : whereunto is added the like narrative of that signal judgment of God upon the papists, by the fall of the House in Black-Friers, London, upon their fifth of November, 1623 / collected for the information and benefit of each family, by Sam. Clark ...; England's remembrancer	Clarke, Samuel, 1599-1682.; Clarke, Samuel, 1599-1682. Gun-powder treason.	1671 (1671)	Wing C4559; ESTC R15231	43,495	131

A True and Full Narrative OF Those two never to be forgotten DELIVERANCES One From The Spanish Invasion in 88. The other from The Hellish Powder Plot November 5. 1605. Whereunto is added The like Narrative of that signal Judgment of God upon the Papists by the Fall of the House in Black-Friers London upon their fifth of November 1623. Collected for the Information and Benefit of each Family by Sam Clark formerly Pastor in Bennet Fink Behold the wicked travelleth with iniquity and hath conceived mischief and brought forth falshood He made a Pit and digged it and is fallen into the ditch which he made His mischief shall return upon his own head and his violent dealing shall come down upon his own pate Psal. 7.14 15 16. London Printed for J. Hancock and are to be sold at the three Bibles being the first Shop in Popes-Head Alley next to Cornhill 1671 TO THE HONOURABLE And His much Honoured Friends EDWARD RVSSEL Esq Son to the Right Honourable FRANCIS Earl of BEDFORD AND TO The Lady PENELOPE His prudent and pious Consort SIR MADAM I Take the boldness to present you with these Narratives not for that they are new or supposing your selves to be strangers to them but as a Testimony of my Gratitude for these favours I have received from you The high Heavens may be seen in the lowest valleys So may a large heart in the least Gift But truly though the Gift be worthless yet so is not the matter contained in it which sets forth such eminent and signal deliverances as no Church or people in these latter Ages of the world have received And there must be a recognition of Gods mercies or else there will neither follow estimation nor retribution Hence Micah 6.5 O my people saith God many hundreds of years after remember now what Balack King of Moah consulted and what Balaam the Son of Beor answered him from Shittim unto Gilgal that ye may know the righteousness of the Lord. If there be not such a recognition of former deliverances we that should be as Temples of his praise shall be as graves of his benefits Our souls indeed are too like filthy Ponds wherein fish die soon and frogs live long Rotten stuff is remembred memorable mercies are forgotten whereas the soul should be as an holy Ark the memory as the pot of Manna preserving holy truths and special mercies as Aarons Rod fresh and flourishing Oh! let us imitate that man after Gods own heart If the Lord will be Davids shepherd he will dwel in Gods house to all perpetuity Psalm 23.1 6. If God deal bountifully with him he will sit down and bethink himself what to render for all his benefits Psalm 116.7 12. A Christian counts all that he can do for God by way of retribution but a little of that much he could beteem him and thinks nothing more unbeseeming him than to bury the mercies of God in oblivion His two mites of Thankfulness and Obedience he dayly presents and then cryes out as that poor Grecian did to the Emperour If I had a better present thou shouldest be sure of it What then may we judge of those persons in our daies who labour to extenuate yea annihilate these deliverances that would have no publick commemorations of them that study how to invalidate them and to blot out the remembrance of them To render good for evil is Divine Good for good is Humane Evil for evil is brutish But evil for good is Devillish Yet alas how ordinary an evil is this among us to abuse our deliverances to Gods ' dishonour But Do ye thus requite the Lord O foolish people and unwise Is not he thy Father he hath bought thee c. Deut. 32.6 Should we not remember that good turns aggravate unkindnesses and our offences are not a little encreased by our obligations Ingrateful persons are like the Snake in the Fable who said to the Country-man when he had shewed it kindness Summum praemium pro summo beneficio est ingratitudo Ingratitude is the greatest reward of the greatest benefit How many such Snakes have we amongst us that return evil for good and unkindness for kindness Is not this to fight against God with his own weapons as David did against Goliah as Jehu did against Jehoram and as Benhadad did against Ahab with that life that he had lately given him for the preventing whereof if it may be are these things published being almost worn out of remembrance more than the very names of them Besides though they may be found in larger volumes yet are they not so fit for every Family And as I have presumed honourable and beloved to publish them udder your protection so I doubt not but they will find the better entertainment for the same My earnest desire and prayer for you is that the God of Peace will fill you with all joy and peace by believing multiplying his Blessings upon you and yours And that you would afford me a room in your Albe among those that Sir Madam Love honour and serve you Sam. Clark From my Study in Thridneedle Street Octob. 22. 1657. THE SPANISH INVASION A Commemoration of that wonderful and almost miraculous Deliverance afforded by God to this Nation from the Spanish Invation Anno Christi 1588. THe year one thousand five hundred eighty eight was foretold by an Astronomer of K●n●ngsberg above one hundred years before that it should prove a wonderful year and the German Chronologers presiged that it would be the Climacterical year of the world which was in some measure accomplished in that glorious and never to be forgotten Deliverance vouchsafed by God to us in England and in that fatal overthrow of the Spanish Navy A true Narrative whereof followes But that we may the better see what induced the Spaniard to make this hostile Invasion we must be informed both who were the inciters and by what arguments and artifices they stirred him up thereunto The Inciters were the Pope and some traiterous English Fugitives who were entertained in Spain and at Rome The design was The Conquest of England which had been hindred for the space of ten years by reason of the Spanish Wars in Portugal The Arguments were that seeing God had blessed the King of Spain with admirable Blessings and Successes had given him in Portugal the East Indies and very many rich Islands belonging to the same that he should therefore perform somewhat that might be acceptable to God the giver of so great and good things and most worthy the Power and Majesty of the Catholick King That the Church of God could not be more gloriously nor meritoriously propagated than by the conquest of England extirpating Heresie and planting the Catholick Roman Religion there This War they said would be most just and necessary considering that the Queen of England was excommunicated and persisted contumacious against the Church of Rome That she supported the King of Spains Rebels in the Netherlands annoyed the Spaniards

be governed by a stranger but by a Native Prince That they might have liberty to serve God with Freedom of Conscience And lastly that the Articles of the Pacification of Gaunt and other like treaties might be observed which things if they were granted she would condescend upon reasonable conditions to deliver up the Towns in the Netherlands which she then had in possession that it might appear that she had not for her own advantage but for the necessary defence of the Netherlands and her self taken up arms To these the Spaniards replyed that touching their preparations at Sea they did assure them that it nothing concerned England That to send away the Souldiers the King could not resolve till the Netherlanders had submitted themselves to him Concerning their priviledges that it appertained nothing to the Queen neither should She prescribe to the King a Law And so far was he from tolerating Religion that he would not so much as hear thereof otherwise then he had allowed to other Towns that had submitted to his obedience And as for those Towns which had been taken from the King and the mony expended about them They said that the Spaniard might demand as many Myriades of Ducats to be repayed to him by the Queen as he had expended upon the Low-Country War from the time that She supported the revolting Netherlanders and took them into her Protection About this time went Dale by the Queens command to the Prince of Parma and mildly expostulated with him about a Book lately published by Cardinal Allen That English Renegado wherein he exhorted the Nobility and People of England and Ireland to joyn with the Spanish Forces under the conduct of the Prince of Parma to execute the Popes sentence already published by his Bull against Queen Elizabeth wherein she was declared an Heretick Illegitimate cruel for putting to death the Queen of Scots c. And her subjects absolved from their Oath of Allegiance and commanded to aid the Prince of Purma against Her And indeed there was a great number of these Bulls and Books printed at Antwerp from thence to be dispersed all over England The Prince denied that he had ever seen any such Book or Bull neither would he undertake any thing in the Popes name howbeit that he must obey his Prince But for the Queen of England he protested that he did so honour her for her Vertues that next to the King his Master he esteemed Her above all others and would be ready to do Her service For the manifestation whereof he said that he had perswaded the King to condescend to this treaty of peace which would be more advantagious for the English than for the Spaniards For said he if the Spaniards be overcome they will soon recover their loss but if You be overcome your Kingdom and all is lost To which Dale made this reply Our Queen is provided with strength sufficient to defend her Kingdom and you your self in your wisdom may foresee that a Kingdom cannot be lost with the fortune of one Battel seeing the King of Spain after so long Wars is not able to recover his ancient inheritance in the Netherlands Be it so said the Prince These things are in the hands of the Almighty After this the Commissioners contended with mutual debates and replies still twisting and untwisting the same thread For when the English pressed that a Toleration of Religion might be granted for the Vnited Provinces at least for two years It was answered That as the Spaniard demanded not this for the English Catholicks so they hoped the Queen in her wisdom would require nothing of him which might be against the Honour Oath and Conscience of the Spaniard When they demanded the mony due from the States of Brabant to our Queen They answered that it was lent without the Kings Knowledge or Warrant and that the accounts being cast up how much the said mony was and how much the King had disbursed about the War it would soon be known to whom the most ought to be repayed With such answers as these they dallied with the English Commissioners till the Spanish Fleet was come within the view of England and the thundring of the Ordnance was heard from the Sea which put the English Commissioners into some suspicion and fear having no hostages for their safe return But they received a safe conduct from the Prince of Parma who had in the mean time drawn down all his Forces to the Sea coast and so were conducted to the borders near Calice Thus came this Treaty to nothing undertaken by our Queen as was conceived to divert the coming of the Spanish Fleet and continued by the Spaniard to surprize England unprovided and at unawares So both sides put the Foxes skin upon the Lions head And now we are come to speak of this Invincible Armado which was the preparation of five whole years at least It bare it self also upon Divine assistance having received a special Blessing from the Pope and was assigned as an Apostolical Mission for the reducement of this Kingdom to the obedience of the See of Rome and in further token of this holy Warfare there were amongst the rest of the Ships twelve called by the names of the twelve Apostles The Gallions and Galliasses were of such a vast size that they were like floating Towers and Castles so that the swelling waves of the Sea could hardly be seen and the Flags Streamers and Ensigns so spread in the wind that they seemed even to darken the Sun and to threaten destruction which way soever they turned On the nine and twentieth day of May this Fleet set sail out of the River ●ayo bending its course towards the Groin in Galizia the place appointed for the general Rendezvous as being the nearest Haven unto England But whilest they hoysed and spread abroad their proud sailes to the wind God who is an enemy to such Nimrod-like undertakings and hating such hostile actions suddenly manifested his displeasure and poured out revenge by a sudden and hideous tempest which drave the Duke of Medina the General back again into the Groin eight other of the Ships being dispersed on the Seas had their Masts broken and blown over board besides three other Portugal Gallies which were driven upon the Coasts of Bayon in France where by the valour of one David Gwin an English slave and the help of other slaves French and Turks they were delivered into the hands of the French and they freed themselves by the slaughter of the Spaniards amongst whom Don Diego de Mondrana was one About the same time the English Admiral and Vice-Admiral who had in all about one hundred Ships whereof fifteen were Victuallers and nine Voluntaries of Devonshire Gentlemen hearing for certainty that the Spanish Fleet was ready to hoise up their sails resolved to put forth from Plymouth and to meet and fight them by the way but were so met with by the same wind that they could not get past

with continual depredations surprised and sacked his Towns in Spain and America and had very lately put the Queen of Scots to death therein violating the Majesty of all Kings Again that this War would be no less profitable than just For hereby he might add to his Empire other flourishing Kingdoms extinguish the Rebellion in the Low-Countries hitherto fomented and supported from England secure his voyages from both the Indies and abate his vast expences in convoying his Indian Fleets both forward and backward For proof whereof they suggested that the English Navy was neither for number nor greatness nor strength comparable to that of Spain especially having the Portugal Fleet now annexed unto it That England was not fortified and it wanted Commanders Souldiers a Cavalry and Ammunition was bare of Wealth and Friends That there were many in all parts of it addicted to the Romish Religion and would upon the first opportunity joyn their forces with his In brief that so great was the strength of the Spaniard and so unmatchable was their valour that no man durst oppose against them and therefore they might confidently assure themselves of victory Moreover that now an opportunity was afforded by God himself to the King of Spain to effectuate this great design having no cause to fear any other enemies by reason of a Truce lately concluded by him-with the Great Turk and the French his old enemies being now embroiled in Civil Wars at home They perswaded him likewise that England was an easier conquest than the Netherlands For that he had a shorter cut to it by Sea and that an open Sea neither was it so fortified with Cities Castles c. as the Netherlands were and that England being once conquered the Netherlands would soon follow of course having lost their best supporter These and such like arguments prevailing with the King of Spain in the next place they held a serious Consultation about the manner of Invading England Don Avares Bassano Marquiss of Sancta Cruce who was to command the Armado advised that some Port-Town in Holland or Zealand should suddenly be surprized by the Prince of Parma's Land Forces who was then Governor of the Netherlands under the King of Spain and by some Spanish Ships sent to assist him by Sea that so the great Fleet might have an Harbour from whence to begin their Invasion with whom agreed in opinion the Prince of Parma himself who was very forward to promote this expedition But others opposed this by reason of the difficulty danger expence of time and vast charge that it would require They held that with the same charge England might easier be won and that the Conquest thereof would be assured if a well-appointed Army out of Spain and the Low-Counties might be landed at the Thames mouth and London the Metropolis of England surprised by a sudden assault And this opinion as the more probable prevailed And then again it was advised by some that War should first be denounced by an Herald both to remove suspicion and jealousie from neighbour Princes and to drive our Queen to call in forraign Forces to assist Her hoping that according to the insolent manner of mercenaries they would raise mutinies and spoil the Country which would make the Queens Subjects evil affected towards Her so that all things would grow into confusion in England But this motion was not hearkened to by men grown fierce insolent and confident of their own strength only they desired the blessing of the Pope upon their Armado and the prayers of the Catholicks to God and the Saints for good success And to strike the greater terror into the hearts of the English They set forth Books with printed Maps wherein was expressed the greatness of their Preparations in each particular which indeed was so great in Spain Portugal Italy and Sicily that the Spaniards themselves were amazed at it and procured the Pope to Christen it by the name of the Invincible Armado Now that the wonderful power and mercy of God to us in this poor Nation in protecting us against the same may the more gloriously appear I shall in the next place set down what their preparations were for Ships Mariners Land-Souldiers Ammunition and other provisions for the carrying on of so great an undertaking The Spanish Navy being the best appointed for men munition and all manner of provision that ever the Ocean saw had been five years in preparing consisted of one hundred and thirty Ships whereof these were the principal The Admiral Gallion of Saint Martins of a thousand Tun burden had in her one thousand seventy and seven Mariners three hundred Souldiers fifty Canon c. The Gallion of Saint Johns of one thousand and seventy Tun had in her one hundred and sixty Mariners two hundred and thirty one Souldiers fifty Canon c. The Gallion of Saint Mark of seven hundred and ninety two Tun had in it one hundred and seventeen Mariners two hundred and ninety two Souldiers c. The Gallion of Saint Phillip of eight hundred Tun had in it one hundred and seventeen Mariners four hundred and fifteen Souldiers forty Guns c. The Gallion of Saint Lewis of eight hundred and thirty Tun had in it one hundred and sixteen Mariners three hundred and seventy six Souldiers forty Guns c. The Gallion of Saint Matthew of seven hundred and fifty Tun had in it fifty Mariners one hundred and seventy seven Souldiers forty Guns c. The Gallion of Saint James of five hundred and twenty Tun had in it one hundred Mariners three hundred Souldiers fifty two Guns c. The Gallion of Florence of nine hundred and sixty one Tun had in it one hundred Mariners three hundred Souldiers fifty two Guns c. The Gallion of Saint Christopher of three hundred fifty and two Tun had in it ninety Mariners three hundred Souldiers thirty Guns c. The Gallion of Saint Bernard of three hundred and fifty two Tun had in it one hundred Mariners two hundred and eighty Souldiers thirty Guns c. A Ship of Saint Angelo of seven hundred sixty and eight Tun had in it one hundred and fourteen Mariners three hundred and twenty three Souldiers thirty Canons c. The Gangrine of one thousand one hundred and sixty Tun had in it one hundred and ten Mariners three hundred Souldiers thirty six Canons c. The Ship Saint James of six hundred and sixty Tun had in her one hundred and two Mariners two hundred and fifty Souldiers thirty Guns c. The Manuel of five hundred and twenty Tun had in her fifty four Mariners one hundred and thirty Souldiers sixteen Guns c. The Saint Mary of seven hundred and 7 Tun had in her fifty Mariners two hundred and twenty Souldiers thirty Guns c. But I need not reckon up the rest They had in all one hundred and thirty Ships containing Ffty seven thousand eight hundred and eight Tun wherein were Eight hundred and forty five Mariners

your Children shall say unto you What mean you by this service Ye shall say It is the Sacrifice of the Lords Passover who passed over the houses the Children of Israel when He smote the Egyptians and delivered our houses And how careful good Mordecai was to continue the remembrance of that great Deliverance of the people of God from Destruction plotted and contrived by that wicked Haman appears Esther 9.20 c. where they did not only celebrate those present dayes of their Deliverance with Feasting and Gladness but he together with the rest of the Jewes ordained and took upon them and their Seed and upon all such as joyned themselves unto them so as it should not fail that they would keep those days in their appointed time every year and that those days should be remembred and kept through their Generations every Family every Province and every City and that those days of Purim should not fail from amongst the Jews nor the memorial of them perish from their Seed c. And truly the remembrance of this great Mercy hath the more need to be revived at this time when some noted persons amongst us begin to lessen and decry it and wholly to lay aside the observation of that day though enjoyned by Act of Parliament and made Conscience of by most of the Godly People of the Nation I have also been induced the rather to make this brief Collection of the Story because though it be published by others yet it is in larger Volumes which are not every ones mony whereas for a small matter every family may get and keep this by them for the benefit and satisfaction both of themselves and children that so the Lord may not lose of his Glory nor they for want of information fail of their duty I shall conclude with that of the Psalmist Psal. 107.8 O that men would praise the Lord for his Goodness and for his wonderful Works to the Children of Men which is the hearty desire of Thine for thy spiritual Good Sam. Clarke Octob. 1657. THE DELIVERANCE OF OUR CHVRCH and STATE FROM THE Hellish Powder-Plot 1605. THe Plot was to undermine the Parliament House and with Powder to blow up the King Prince Clergy Nobles Knights and Burgesses the very confluence of all the flower of Glory Piety Learning Prudence and Authority in the Land Fathers Sons Brothers Allies Friends Foes Papists and Protestants 〈…〉 blast Their intent when that irreligious atchievement had been performed was to surprize the remainder of the Kings Issue to alter Religion and Government and to bring in a forreign Power Sir Edmond Baynam an attainted person who stiled himself Prince of the damned Crew was sent unto the Pope as he was a temporal Prince to acquaint him with the Gunpowder Plot and now to the Plot it self The Sessions of Parliament being dissolved July the 7th Anno Christi 1605. and prorogued to the seventh of February following Catesby being at Lambeth sent for Th●mas Winter who before had been imployed into Spain and acquainted him with the design of blowing up the Parliament House who readily apprehending it said This indeed strikes at the root only these helps were wanting a House for residence and a skilful man to carry on the Mine But the first Catesby assured him was easie to be got and for the man he commended Guy Fawkes a sufficient Souldier and a forward Catholick Thus Robert Catesby John Wright Thomas Winter and Guy Fawkes had many meetings and conferences about this business till at last Thomas Percy came puffing in to Catesby's Lodging at Lambeth saying What Gentlemen shall we alwaies be talking and never do any thing You cannot be ignorant how things proceed To whom Catesby answered that something was resolved on but first an Oath for secresie was to be administred for which purpose they appointed to meet some three days after behind Saint Clements Church beyond Temple-Bar where being met Percy professed that for the Catholick cause himself would be the man to advance it were it with the slaughter of the King which he was there ready to undertake and and do No Tom said Catesby thou shalt not adventure thy self to so small purpose if thou wilt be a Traytor there is a Plot to greater advantage and such an one as can never be discovered Hereupon all of them took the Oath of Secresie heard a Mass and received the Sacrament after which Catesby told them his Devillish Devise by mine and Gunpowder to blow up the Parliament House and so by one stroke with the destruction of many to effect that at once which had been many years attempting And for case of conscience to kill the innocent with the nocent he told them that it was warrantable by the Authority of Garnet himself the superiour of the English Jesuites and of Garrard and Tresmond Jesuitical Priests likewise who by their Apostolical Power did commend the fact and absolve the actors The Oath was given them by the said Garrard in these words You shall swear by the blessed Trinity and by the Sacrament you now purpose to receive never to disclose directly nor indirectly by word or circumstance the matter that shall be proposed to you to keep secret nor desist from the execution thereof until the rest shall give you leave The Project being thus far carried on in the next place the first thing they sought after was an house wherein they might begin their work for which purpose no place was held fitter than a certain edifice adjoyning to the wall of the Parliament House which served for a withdrawing room to the Assembled Lords and out of Parliament time was at the dispose of the Keeper of the place and Wardrobe thereto belonging these did Percy hire for his Lodgings entertaining Guy Fawkes as his man who changing his name into Johnson had the Keyes and keeping of the Rooms Besides this they hired another house to lay in Provision of Powder and to frame and fit wood in for the carrying on the Mine which Catesby provided at Lambeth and sware Robert Ke●es into their Conspiracy whom he made the Keeper of those Provisions who by night conveyed the same unto Fawkes The appointed day for the Parliament being the seventh day of February It was thought fit to begin their work in October before But Fawkes returning out of the Country found Percys Rooms appointed for the Scottish Lords to meet in who were to treat about the union of the two Kingdomes whereupon they forbore to begin their work But that Assembly being dissolved upon the eleventh of December late in the night they entred upon the work of darkness beginning their Mine having tools afore-hand prepared and baked meats provided the better to avoid suspition in case they should send abroad for them They which first began the Mine were Robert Catesby Espuire the Arch-Contriver and Traytor and ruine of his name Thomas Percy Esquire akin to the Earl of Northumberland Thomas Winter John Wright and Guy