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A09610	An aduertisement written to a secretarie of my L. Treasurers of Ingland, by an Inglishe intelligencer as he passed throughe Germanie towardes Italie Concerninge an other booke newly written in Latin, and published in diuerse languages and countreyes, against her Maiesties late proclamation, for searche and apprehension of seminary priestes, and their receauers, also of a letter vvritten by the L. Treasurer in defence of his gentrie, and nobility, intercepted, published, and answered by the papistes.; Elizabethae, Angliae Reginae, haeresim Calvinianam propugnantis saevissimum in Catholicos sui Regnis edictum. English. Abridgments	Parsons, Robert, 1546-1610.; Cresswell, Joseph, 1556-1623, attributed name.; Verstegan, Richard, ca. 1550-1640, attributed name.	1592 (1592)	STC 19885; ESTC S121696	41,247	68

the other and to pull dovvne firste the Queene Dovvager by the Hamiltons and by them the Catholique religion and afterward the Hamiltons againe by others and then to ouerthrovv the true Queene proprietarie vvith her husband and to crowne her ovvne child against her self vvith the slaughters that ensued and affliction of Scotland by the often hostile entrance of the Inglishe souldiours which are recounted with many particulers of greate miserie and compassion their troublesome proceedings also vvith other nations are recou●●ed vvhich compared vvith the calme quiet and iuste proceedings of the Kinge of Spayne doe shevv as this ansvverer saith that my L. Treasurer vvhich he accounteth to be both author counceler and scribe of this proclamation not onely to lacke shame but also vvisedome and consideration in that he maketh her Maiestie to publishe to the vvorld things soo euidently false as these are that the King of Spaine is the onelie cause of the trouble of Christianitie at this day The third point of this section THE thirde member of this Section is about these wordes where it is saide in the proclamation that the King of Spaine now in his declined yeares meetest for peace when he ought to be satisfied with his owne without seekinge of more Kingdomes by violence seing be possesseth at this day more crownes Kingdomes and countreyes then euer any Christian Prince had before that all this notwithstanding he hath begunne a most vniuste warre aganist the present Kinge of France most daungerous to all Christendome which yet is like to be the ruine of himselfe as his enterprise against Inglande gaue him iuste cause to repent c. For answere of all this there are many points touched firste that the King of Spaine not onely in this his olde age but in all his life by testimony of the whole world hath bin euer most desirous and obseruante of peace and the Inglishe quyte contrary secondly that this exprobratiō of the Kinges old age is ridiculous her Maiestie folowinge him so nere in years as she doeth my L. Treasurer farr passing him and nerer to his graue by all likelyhood Thirdly that so greate amplification of the Kinges forces wealth and power being their enemy was inconsiderate and can serue to no other effecte but to terrifie their owne frends and subiects and to animate their contraries and to shew their lack of prouidence in making so vnequalla match fowerthly that this great power of the King of Spaine being so iustely and temperately vsed at it is can not be fearefull to any good man but rather confortable nor is it daungerous to Christendome but rather a great and singuler stay prouidence of almightie God who forseing the tumultes and reuoltes that heresies should bring in these tymes hathe prouided this so potent and opulent a Prince of all ages for the defence of his Catholique church in these troobles Fystly that this warre of the Kinge against Nauarre is not iniuste but moste iuste necessary not for any intereste of the Kings but onely for the good of France it self and consequently that all reasons and circumstances considered and the forces on both partes wayed it can not be like to be the ruine of the King of Spaine but rather of Nauarre and other heretiques depending of him or ioyning with him and albeit the Kings last fleete against Ingland had not the successe which was expected yet it was not for wante of strength or by any valure or praise of the Inglishe but rather by tēpeste lacke of experience in some principall officers and other such casualties that often fall out in warre whereof the Inglishe oughte not to bragg seing there are so many reasons and examples of enterprices that take successe the second or thirde tyme which did not at the firste whereof this awnswerer alleageth many testimonies and authorities both prophane and diuine which in the booke are to be seene After this he entreth to treate at large of Nauarres iniuste pretence to the crowne of France being an open knowen heretique as he saith and refusing to take the othe of mayntayning the Catholique Romaine religiō which all Kings both of Fraunce and Ingland haue taken before this and are bounde to take from the firste institution of Christian Kinges and that her Maiestie tooke also the same othe at her entrance to her crowne of Ingland and that by Cecils councell also by whose councell the same othe was afterwarde violated that the tytle of particuler succession in Kingdoms being founded onely vpon positiue lawes of seuerall countreyes and not vpon law of nature or nations for that Kingdomes and monarchies neither were from the beginning nor are at this day in all realmes a like it muste needes folow that the whole righte of these successions and interests to the same do depend of the particuler ordinances lawes othes and conditions with which each countrey hath ordayned admitted authorized their Kings vvhereof the cheefe condition beinge in the Kingdome of France hat the Kinge shall sweare and geue assurance to defende and mayntaine the olde Catholique Romaine religion and the professors thereof and Nauarre refusing to do the same he can by no law diuine or humaine be admitted to the crowne which is largely proued by many authorities examples and reasons Vpon this he declareth how al Catholique people in France are bounde vnder payne of damnable synne to resiste Nauarrs entrance into that crowne considering the inestimable dāmage that is like to ensew therof vnto that whole realme yf he shoulde preuaile And for the same consideration he proueth that the Catholique partie of French nobilitie that either for hope of honour and commodity or for hatred and emulation against others that are againste Nauarre or for any other passion or pretence whatsoeuer do folow or fauour him in this his pretēce doe offend God highely and are guiltie of al euills miseries of their countrey and that besydes the eternall punishement which they are to expecte at Gods handes excepte they repente they will also be destroied and pulled downe by Gods iuste iudgements in this world as this awnswerer sheweth by as many of the nobilitie both of France Flanders Ingland and Scotland by name as for any pretence whatsoener haue bin the firste ayders of heretiques in their countreyes haue perished and come to naught The III. Section THE third Section conteyneth an other large complaynte no lesse vniuste then the former as though the King of Spaine not onely by himself but by other mens helpes also wente aboute to annoy Inglād and this by three manner of wayes The firste is for that he is saide heere for fortifyinge of his strange violent attempts to haue procured a Milanois a Vassall of his owne to be exalled to the Papacie of Rome and to haue seduced him without consente of the colledge of Cardinalls to exhauste the Treasures of the church there with to leauie forces in Italie which had no sounde of ware in is

auouched that this forme of examination vexing of men for the Catholique faith in Inglād is in no wise contrarie but agreable to the moste auncient lawes and good vsages of our Realme which this man refuteth beginning from the firste Christian King of the Britans named Lucius that tooke his faith frō Rome vnto the laste called Cadwalladar that made himself a monke and died in Rome after that from Ethelbert the firste Inglishe Kinge Christined by S. Augustine a monke sent from Rome vntill the laste Kinge Edward the cōfessor held for a sainte in the same Religion after him from VVilliam Conquerour first King of the Normans vnto King Henrie the eighte father of her Maiestie all which Kinges and Queenes this awnswerer sheweth to haue bin contrarie in Religion to this of M. Cecils consequently to haue made all their lawes and ordinances in fauour of Catholique Religion against that which is now held in Ingland and so their formes of search and Inquisitiō must needes be against this not against that and therefore that it is extreame impudency in M. Cecil to auouch so openly in proclamation that this tyrannicall forme of his inuention against the Catholiques is in no vvise contrary but agreable to the most auncient lawes of Inglande Secondly for M. Cecils folly and lack both of wit consideratiō in pressing a free people with such irking bloudy lawes which driue to desperatiō he alleageth the authoritie of all graue men that euer wrote of gouernemente of commō wealthes who affirme that such proceeding is lacke of wisedome for that violent courses endure not long and feare is no good conseruer of perpetuity and ouermuch rubbing bringeth out bloud and patience abused turneth into furie He noteth also a want of ludgement in Maister Cecil the scribe to put downe in her Maiesties name after recital of so great rigour that she is resolutely determined to suffer no fauour to be vsed for any respect of any persons qualities or degrees which may chance to stirr vp some Matathias and his children and frends one day to do as he hid in his zeale for Gods cause being inforced therevnto by the indiscreet oppression of Antiochus the tyrant to his owne destruction and seing that it is euident that these hard and rigorous woordes could not proceed of her Maiesties owne inclination but were thruste in by Cecil in despite and disgrace of nohility principall peeres of whome he was afeard leaste the Queene mighte haue some respecte in these cases of Religion this awnswerer exhorteth him to looke vnto it and to thincke betymes vpon the end of pierse os Gauerston the Spencers others that haue abused their Princes fauours in Inglād heretofore to the debasing of true nobilitie and pilling of the people he willeth him also to thincke of the endes of wicked leroboā Achab with the death of seuentie children of his in owne day notwithstanding they were as well established and allied for matters of the world as M. Cecils of spring can be Finally he beseecheth also her Maiestie to looke about her betyme not to suffer her self to be caried away or to be made a pray to one mans ambition only who will not be able to remedy the calamities that now he soweth but will leaue them all on his Princes backe when he can wade no further as the pittifull examples of King Ihon King Edward the second Richard the second Henry the sixt and others driuen into miseries by such euill Councellours do wel declare nor is it safe for any Prince to leane to much to one mans councell especially one that seeketh so euidently his owne intereste as in M. Cecil doth moderate courses do indure but this is desperate neither want there meanes to reduce things yet to some cōposition or moderation at least yf her Maiestie would folow her owne Princely disposition and leaue the bloudy humour of this old ambitions serpent Her Maiesties age requireth more loue and peace of her subiects now and to attend rather to securitie then to enter into new odious conflicts the fly hath her splene saith the Philosopher and much more men of courage and free education and so much bloud spent by violence as lately hath bin in Ingland can not but threaten much bloud againe in the end All this much more to purpose saith this awnswerer and in the end concludeth all with certayne effectuall cōsolatiōs vnto Catholiques out of Eusebius Gregorie Nazianzene and Victor Vticensis who recompte the exceeding comforts which God gaue vnto Catholiques that had suffred for him after their persecutours were destroyed confounded He writeth also certayne annotations vpon the instructions annexed to the proclamation for the commissioners how to execute their forme of inquisitions and all he maketh very odious and cruell which I can not set downe here for lacke of tyme but I hope to send yow the booke it self very shortly 1591. Five councelors Sir Nicolas Bacon He VVas chief hynde vnto the Abbot Earle of Lecester Sir Francis VValsinghā Sir Christophor Hatton The L. Treasurer Treason against his Maister Extreme bypocrisie and cosenage His entrāce vvith this Q. M. Cecilesca peth hanging But aboute some 50. offices in all Sir VValter Ravvley The trevv causes of the troubles of Ingland Discord of heretiques among them selues Incertitud of succession Great infelicitie Insufficient prouision K. Philips doings to vvardes th Queene Sir Thomas Stukelyes death Inglishe actions tovvardes Spaine The King of Spaine dealinges vvith his neighbours Inglish proceedinges vvith ther neighbours Diuers fals hodes and folyes of M. Cecil Nauarres iust exclusion from the crovvn of France My L. Treasure ●●●er of his gētry VVicked men are vvarned vvithout ope of amendment Psal. 111. Plin. 1. 23. cap. 10. A story Manisest argumentes He is said to hauebene first an ostler in that Inne and after to haue marie the hostesse In stede of tvvo Forses at a botle of bay Ezech. 9. Prouerb 29. The order and institution of the Seminaries How priests returne to Ingland Great iniquitie Contradictions of M. Cecil Great 〈◊〉 An egregious bloodsucker An impudent tale M. Cecil 〈◊〉 vviseman The vvord Catholique pacianus exempla ad Symp. Nouat Kinges confessors Aug. lib. 2. de visit infirm cap. 4. Matth. 18. Cecils grandchild in Rome The Ministers 〈◊〉 doctrine Feigned pretences of M. Cecis The vayne vaunting of Ghospell Forces of Ingland 〈◊〉 16. The forme of Inquisition M. Cecils folly Councel and exbortation

Maiesties eares with matters feigned of himself how God plagued him for his furious crueltie againste catholiques how he died in debt depriued of his greate Idol Sir Philipp Sidney his sonne in law and strooken in the secret partes of his body as Eusebius reporteth of Maximus the Tyrant After Sir Francis VValsingham he bringeth vnto the stage Sir Christophor Hatton whose good nature he cōmendeth aboue all the rest and saith that yf he had any feeling of any religion he thought the catholique to be the trewer and that so he had signified diuerse wayes in his life time and that he had vpon sundrie occasions protested moste earnestly in secret to his frendes and namely to father VVilliam Crighton the Scottishe Iesuite at his deliuerie out of the Tower that his hand had neuer subscribed to the death of any one catholique nor neuer should which yet this awnsweret thincketh not to be trew considering his authoritie and place he had in the Councell and the bitter speeches which he openly vsed often times in the starre chamber and other places against catholiques for maintenance of his creditt And here by this answerer frameth a certaine consideration how wicked a course this is of the Councell to sett forward in common a thing so hoatly for the murdering and persecuting of Catholiques which most of them in priuate will deny to their frendes to haue their fingers in which he sheweth also in other Councellers at this day besides Hatton and namely and aboue the reste in my L. Treasurer who euer secretly feigned him self to be a moderator and mollefyer of Catholiques afflictions vntill of late he saith his lordship hath byn inforced to shewe himself openly theire vnmasked enemy The like also he sheweth to haue bin in the Councell of King Edward the sixt when the Duke of Northumberland the Earle of Arundell the Earle of Penbrooke the L. Pagett Sir VVilliam Peter and others sate dayly vpon orders to punishe and extinguishe Catholiques whose religion notwith stāding at that time both they knew to be trew and after chose the same to die therin when they found themselues more free of the bondage of ambition wherin before they liued VVherefore he thincketh Sir Christofer Hatton to haue bin most vnhappie euen in these thinges wherein other men doe thinck him fortunate which are the fauours had with her Maiestie the causes begininges and increase whereof this awnswerer declareth and finally his death much subiecte as he saith to suspicion of poyson and how the very next day after his death my L. Treasurer triumphed and gat forth this 〈◊〉 nation againste Catholiques which he neuer had done yf the other had liued and the causes why In the fifte and laste place he commeth to treate of my L. Treasurer and that much more largely then of any of the reste for that he yet liueth and for that as this man saith he more then all the reste together hath and doeth in deede seeke the destruction of the Catholiques by couert meanes though whiles the others liued that were more open he shrowded himself and his doings now vnder VValsingham and now vnder Lecester signifyinge in secrett vnto Catholiques when they sued vnto him that they onely were the causes which since hath bin knowen to haue bin quite contrary c. Of my L. Treasurers pedegrie and how Cecil his father was grome of the wardrop and was neuer called maister in all his life vnles it were in iest how his mother would neuer suffer her self to be called Mistresse but after her sonne was made Baron of Burlegh how my L. Treasurers grandfather was one of the kinges guard and kept the best Inne in Stamford how my L. Treasurer himself is said to haue bene first of al belringer in S. Ihons Colledge in Cambridge and after grew by learning and cunninge and by the helpes and fauoures of Sir Ihon Cheeke and Sir Antony Cooke to be secretary to the Duke of Somersett that was protector to whome he was a stickler to sett him against his owne brother the Admirall for pleasinge the Duches and to cutt of his head as he did and that he is thoughte to haue bin the principall instrumente to bring in father Latimer that fond and hypocriticall preacher to be an agent as he was in that barbarous tragedie and that for this seruice chiefely by the Duches of Somersets procurement to her husbād M. Cecile was made Secretarie to king Edward the sixt How afterward he seing Dudley the Earle of warwick to be more cunning and potent then the duke of Somersett his maister he secretly forsooke and betraied him and gaue matter of ouerthrow to warwicke againste him for which seruice when the Duke and his trustie frendes were pulled downe and cut of maister Cecil was set vp by warwick and brought in to the kinges fauour and counsaile againe so he folowed that mans fortune euer after so long as he stoode in prosperitie euen to the consenting to the depriuation and deposition of all king Henry the 8. his children and nanamely of Queene Mary and this Queene against whome this awnswerer saith that Sir VVilliam Cecill wrote and penned the proclamatiōs and othes that the Dukes of Northumberland and Suffolke sett forth against them and woulde haue bene content to haue byn the headsman also himself to haue dispatched them both with his owne handes at that tyme rather then they should haue escaped to his losse or disgrace yf Northumberland would haue putt him to it How Queene Mary being established in the crowne and the Duke of Northumberland beheaded my L. Treasurer bestirred himself to gett creditt with the Catholiques frequented Masses said the Litanies with the prieste laboured a paire of greate beades which he continually caried preached to his parishioners in Stamford and asked pardon of his errours in king Edwardes tyme what he said and protested to diuers and namely to Sir Francis Inglefeild then of the Councel about his beleef of all pointes of the Catholique Roman faith How he deceaued Cardinal Poole and persuaded Sir VVilliam Peter to resigne vp his office of the Secretariship vnto him yf Queene Mary would haue admitted the same who neuer could be persuaded to beleue him How M. Cecil being reiected by Queene Mary he gat to serue the lady Elizabeth and how he entered with her afterward when she came to the crowne to persuade her to the change of Religion for his owne interest against the opiniō of other councelors VVhat reasons he laid for the same and what great difficulties he founde in the Queene and otherwise and by what crafte he ouercame them and how yf he had by byn admitted secretary in Queene Maries tyme he had neuer sought the change of Religiō in this Queenes dayes VVhat shiftes and deceites were vsed by him and M. Bacon in the change of Religion how the Earle of Arundell was cosened by them with hope of hauing the Queene in mariage and thereby his sonne

writ preached that no woman oughte to reigne with a comparison of the Catholique cōtrary doctrine and doctors in this behalf and of theire modestie constancy and certayne rule of conscience far different frō heretiques in these affaires And finally he cōcludeth this head with a large proof and declaration that by no law of Christian conscience nor by any reasonable consequence or illation can this coming in of priests in so peaceable and apostolicall sorte as they do come be accompted treason and that the Turke More or Persian doeth not make this consequence against the lewesior Christians that liue vnder them that of all other infelicities this is the greatest that her Maiestie shoulde be brought to accompte such men so borne and so brought vp so learned wise vertuous and modest and so determined to dy in Gods and her Maiesties seruice yf she would accepte it to be her mortal enemies and of this he saith much The third head of this Section THE third head of this Section is about these wordes in the tytle of the proclamation with a prouision very necessary for remedie thereof c. Shewing that this prouision sett downe by my L. Treasurers witt in this proclamation is moste insufficient for the remedie pretented but rather to make the sore farr worses for seing it is the very same prouision and no other then Antiochus Herod Nero Decius Diocletian and other tyrantes and persecutours inuented against gods seruants in olde tymes to wit founded onely vpon crueltie tyrannie and false surmysed crimes it can haue no other ende or effecte then theirs had which was the destructiō of the deuisers and happines of the sufferers That the old persecutours edicts against Christians though they pretended treasons as this doeth yet were they more moderate and discreet in willing onely such to be punished as were accused or knowen publiquely to offend not to turne vpsid-downe their estates Kingdomes with such searching and reuoluing both of towne citie countrie as this proclamatiō prescribeth leauing neither village howse nor cōmō Inne vntossed which to all the world must needes seeme extreame barbarous and to the very protestants themselues at home intolerable who must needs also be sought examined as well as others excepte they alwayes cary their pasportes with them in their pocketts ride vp downe Ingland as they would passe thorough Turky Of the miserable endes of all common wealthes and gouernours that haue growen to these extremities in gouernment and that it is impossible for Ingland and her Maiestie to auoide the same yf this violente course be vsed to driue men to desperation That all the solicitude vsed to extinguish Catholique Religion by persecution is meere follie and that all is very poison to the vvounde which my L. Treasurer vseth for medicine that a little time vvil proue this to be true with an exhortation to her Maiestie to take some other course both for sauing the Realme and those that stand at the gouernmente thereof The second Section THIS second section awnswereth the firste parte of the preface to the proclamatiō vvherin her Maiestie complaineth of the King of Spaines proceeding towardes her other Princes namely towardes Nauarr named King of France it is reduced to three principal partes or branches according to the matters therein conteyned For firste her Maiestie is made by M. Cecil to complaine that the King of Spaine for the space now almoste of 33. years had alwayes sought to moleste trouble her dominiōs without any iuste cause on her parte giuē c. To this before this awnswerer commeth to say any thing in perticuler he maketh a large cōplainte against my L. Treasurer and such other like politiques men of no conscience or religion as he imagineth them vvho from the beginning of this Queenes raigne to make matters of the Catholique faith more odious punish able haue sought to entangle them euer vvith matter of estate and vvith forged cōspiracies vvith forraine Princes as Gensericus and Hunricus Arian Kings did vvith the Catholiques of Africa vnder pretēce they dealte vvith the Pope of Rome and so he saith that our gouernours of Ingland haue not pursued matters of Religion as points of Religion in this Queenes gouernemente according as the Catholique Church doth vse to doe vvith heresies but rather haue chosen to punish them as forged matters of estate vvhich this awnswerer sheweth to be true by diuerse former proclamations sett forth against the Seminaries of Doway Rheims and Rome in vvhich diuerse feigned conspiracies were put to be cōtriued by the studēts vvith the Pope the Duke of Florence other Princes all vvhich tyme had proued to be as vaine and false as he saith this is of their cōspiracie now vvith the King of Spaine After this he commeth to avvnsvvere M. Cecils cōplainte as he calleth it against the King of Spaine for his proceedings against her Maiestie and for more equall triall as he saith he layeth downe eche Prince his doings tovvardes the other for the space of more then thirtie years firste for the King of Spaine he declareth hovv that cōming into Inglād the yeare 1554. by the cōsent inuitatiō of the realme to marry Queene Mary he foūde lady Elizabeth after she had bin some space prisoner in the tovver for Sir Thomas vviates rebellion cōmitted novv to vvoodstoke vnder the custodie of Sir Henry Benengfild in extreame great daunger of her life for that both Queene Mary the Inglish Councell vpon euidente confessions of Sir Thomas VViat himself and others of that conspiracie vvere resolued to haue caused her to be araigned and executed How the King deliuered her Maiestie out of this dāger of her life and of two the like afterwards to wit vpon the conspiracies detected of Sir Antonie Kingston Vdal and his cōpagnions and of Thomas Stafford that tooke Scarbrough and was beheaded at London in all which her Maiestie was againe touched and had bin executed but for the special fauour of the King and his Spanis he Councell Of many other fauours of the King to her Maiestie whiles he was in Ingland and after how he gaue her freely al Queene Maryes lewells and other riches that she had of his how the to wne of Calis being loste and betraied by cōspiracie of Inglishe heretiques that were within it and specially of the Lord wentwoorth without any faulte in the world of the Kinge yet that after his great victorie had against the French at S. Quintins he would admitt no peace at all with them but with restoring of Calis vntill the Inglish themselues without him had made their peace with them and renounced Calis vnto the French for euer Of the Kings proceedings towardes her Maiestie after he retorned into Spaine and how constantly he euer mayntained his league with her for thirtie yeares together notwithstanding the manifold iniuries that on the other side he receaued of the Inglishe diuers wayes

How he for conseruing the saide league and frendship refused to gyue aide to the aunciēte nobilitie of Ingland the yeare 1567. when they ment by force to haue reformed the estate and to haue hanged Cecil and Bacon againe how he denyed the same the nexte yeare after to the Earles of Northumberland VVestmerland and to the L. Dacres when they rose for the restoring of Religion in the North pressed ther vnto by M. Cecils vrginge How the K. afterwaerds to wit the yeare 1575. For contenting her Maiestie and at the persuasion of some of his owne officers but namely of the Commendader Maior that for the present gouerned Flanders was content to yeld to the banishement of all Inglishe Catholiques out of his estates of Flanders for the space of two years thoughe he paide them alwayes their pensions to liue on as before And for the same consideracion of frendship with the Queene and for his keeping his league with her he denyed diuers yeares helpes to the Irishe that demaunded the same as namely the yeare 1578. to Sir Iames Fizmoris and to Sir Thomas Stukeley and to the later of them when afterward he came with some fiue or six hundred men that he had broughte from Italie the King would not graunte so much as a porte in Spaine to enter into whereby he was forced to passe to Lisbone where finding the King of Portugall ready to go with his army to Barbary he could not refuse to go with him where he was slaine but to Sir Iames Fizmoris returning againe the nexte yeare to aske succours for the Irishe oppressed for their Religion in Ireland the Kinge denyed the same againe vntill at laste at the earnest sute of the Pope for that D. Sanders vpon his extreame zeale had aduentured to go thither before to comforte the Catholiques with lesse then fiftie men his Maiestie was contente to wynke at and say nothing whiles Sega the Bishop of Placētia the Popes Nuncio vnder certaine of his Italian Captaynes did send thither some foure or fiue hundred souldiers taken vp vpon the Sea coste of Italie which this awnswerer saith were those which my L. Gray so cowardly and traiterously murdered in Irland after they had yeilded themselues by cōposition the yeare 1580. And so from this time forward vntill the yeare 1585. he sheweth that the King of Spayne obserued most exactely his league with her Maiestie and the Inglishe nation at what tyme being inforced by the Queenes open taking of Flushing Briel Ostēde other townes in Flanders he made the arreste of the Inglishe shippes in Spaine but on the other side he declareth how the Inglish euen from the firste entrance ofher Maiestie to the crowne haue exercised all kinde ofhatefull hostile actions against the King by stirring vp and fauoring firste of all his rebelles in Flanders by intercepting his money firste in the Duke of Alua his time and alwayes after when they coulde lay handes on it by treating also first the comming of the Duke Matthias into Flanders and after ofMounsieur the Duke of Alenson and assisting him publiquely against the King in time of peace by mayntayninge and bolstering vp ofDon Antonio that calleth himself King ofPortugall by sending Hawkins Frobishire Drake Candishe other Pirates to the Indians and some ofthem euen in to Spaine it self for which he alleageth out ofStowes chronicles speciall commission geuen by her Maiestie to spoile the King of Spaines subiects by sea long before any breach ofleague was talked of by the Kinges parte and so he concludeth that this firste accusation of the proclamation is moste iniuste and that the whole world will laugh thereat that the writer thereof which he taketh to be my L. Treasurer was very shamelesse in setting it downe The 2. parte of this section THE secōde poynte of this Section cōcerneth that which the proclamation affirmeth of the King of Spaines ambitious doings also towardes other Princes besydes her Maiestie and that all Christendome is troubled at this day by his onely warres For discussing whereof this awnswerer laieth downe al the proceedings both ofher Maiestie and the King of Spaine with their neighboures from the beginnings of both their raignes And firste for the King ofSpaine he sheweth his dealings in particuler with the Turke Moores and other infidels then also with the Italians Portugalls French Inglishe Irishe Scotishe and Flemishe and sheweth al to haue bin euer most honorable quiet iuste without iniury offered to any as by their owne testimonies and witnesse also of all writers appeareth and for the warre and other affaires that haue passed in Portugall he proueth in particuler out of Hieronimo Franchi a Genoes that vvas present and wrote the storie and in other points sheweth himself no great frind to Spaniardes yet doeth he so iustifie all the Kings actions in this affaire euen by testimony of the Portugalles themselues as they seemed rather ouer scrupulous then onely iustifiable He proueth also outof Genebrard a French writter the King of Spaines noble proceedings with France in all the tymes of the minorities of al Kinge Henry the secōd his children to witt of Francis Charles and Henry the thirde and how he neuer soughte not onely to profit himself or to impaire the kingdome of France duringe those troubles as the Queene of Ingland did by taking new hauen but also ofhis owne charges sent aydes of men horse victualls and money often tymes to the succors of these younge Princes against their rebells notwithstanding the olde enimities emulatiō betweene these two crownes of France Spaine the cruell warres that had passed betwene them many years before Likwise he sheweth the kings wonderfull clemente proceeding with his owne subiects that haue rebelled in the low countreys as appeareth by his many pardons peaces and tolerations made with them his liberall and noble dealing with Inglishe Irishe and Scottishe especially such as haue bin troubled afflicted for their consciences at home whom he hath sustayned liberally abrode without requyring any seruice at their hands After this he taketh in hand to compare with this the Inglishe proceedings towardes all their neighbours rounde about them to whome he sheweth that they haue bin the proper and continuall causes of troubles warres sedition bloodshedd and vtter perdition as namely in Frāce of fower ciuill warres besides all other reuoltes and conspiracies against the true Kinges turmoyles in Religion and other garbroyles and the like to haue bin caused by them in Flanders by stirring vp and ayding firste the Guses and other rebelles of the countrie and then by settinge on foote Orenge and bringing in other princes and forraine povvers and lastly by open iniustice of inuadinge and holding the same to themselues as at this day they do In Scotland also he declareth very particulerly out of the Inglishe cronicles themselues what vvicked and sinfull stratagemes at the beginninge were vsed to putt that people at discorde the one against

to cause them to renounce their allegeaunce due to the crowne of Ingland vpon hope of a Spanish inuasion that they binde men with othes and Sacramenes to yeilde their obedience to the Pope and Spanish King and that for this they bring indulgences for them that wil yeeld to their persuasions and curses to the contrary all which this defender saith is feigned stuffe false calumniations excepte the firste two points that they come into Ingland in secret manner and that they haue their spiritual authoritie from the Pope which two points he confesseth and saith that the former of them is warranted by Christes owne example which walked not openly some tymes but in secret as the Euangeliste saith at such tymes I meane as the Iewes soughte to kill him and the second he confirmeth by diuers testimonies of the same Christe our Sauior who assigned al principality of spiritual authoritie vnder himself to S. Peter and his successours whereby the Catholique Church hath euer vnderstode that no priest can be made or haue iurisdiction to deale with soules but by authoritie deriued either immediately or mediatly from this supreame and vniuersall pastor largely he declareth the disorders implicatiōs of the protestātical cleargie for want of this subordinatiō among themselues the sea Apostolique These two points onely then granted he denyeth all the reste to wit the intention to moue sedition or rebellion the renouncing of allegeaunce dew vnto the crowne of Ingland the hope of a Spanishe inuasion the binding of men by othes or Sacraments to yeild any temporall obedience to the Pope or King of Spaine or lastly the bringing in of any indulgences or curses to that ende All which points are meere fictions saith he of VVilliam Cecils head and diuelish deuises to make innocente men odious and to shed their blouds and that they vvere neuer yet proued or cōfessed by any can not be presumed but by infinite malice among all other this old murderers abhominations which this man saith are infinite and do cry vengeance at Gods hands none are more impious and damnable or that vvillye more heauily on himself his progenie for euer as the bloud of Christe doth lve vpon the lewes vnto this day then this vvilfull slaundering accusing of men against his knowledge and conscience for seruing only his ovvn turne this is the effecte of this awnsvvers speach to this third parte of the Section though more largely delated in the booke it self The fourth Section THE fourth Section of this proclamation the awnsvverer reduceth to tvvo generall heads the firste concerninge the true causes of priests deathes and other Catholiques suffering in Ingland and the seconde touching certayne particularities layed against Cardinall Allen and father Parsons As touching the firste the proclamatiō auoucheth that none suffer in Ingland for Religion or are impeached in their liues goods landes or liberties for the same except onely in a certaine pecuniary summe as a penaltie for the tyme to those that do refuse to come to church and that the priests such others as are put to death suffer not for any points of Religion but onely for meere treasons as appeareth by their arraignements and condemnations and that is a manifeste course to falsifie the slaunderous speaches and libelles of fugitiues abrode This is the totall summe yea the very wor des themselues of the proclamation in this Section vvhich this avvnsvverer taking to come vvholly from M. Cecils head and penne as he doth also the vvordes to the same effecte vttered in the booke intituled the execution of Iustice in Ingland vvriten some yeares ago published in diuers languages to the same end that this novv is though it vvas euidently refuted out of hand saith this man by the Catholiques he adioyneth here many sentences out of that booke of Cecils to these of the same authour in this proclamation vvhich affirme that no Catholique at all yea not one is troubled in Ingland for his conscience vvhich woordes and sentences after he hath laide together then doeth he shew the plaine contrary contradictory by other vvordes of the Queene and Cecill himself and of the whole parlament in sundry statutes and in this also and other proclamations and by the vvordes of Holingshead and Stow in their chronicles and so maketh sporte and vvoonder of Maister Cecils contradictions against himself and of his shameles impudency in affirming things so euidentlie false as yf a soole saith he vpon a stage shoulde auouch such stuffe in a comedy he would be hissed out and not permitted whereas this man telleth it both as an accuser a witnes and a Iudge in a moste bloudy tragedy in the sighte and hearing of the whole worlde Firste then to beginne withall this awnswerer sheweth out of S. Hilary S. Nazianzene Eusebius and other auncient fathers and vvriters the custome of all diuelish persecutors and especially of heretiques to haue bin euer to enuy the glory of such as they put wrongfully to death to the ende they should not be honoured accomted for martyrs for that reason euer lightly affirmed the causes of their deathes to he seditiō rebellion treason which lying course the Catholique Church notwithstanding would neuer yet vse saith this man for that shee neuer vvould punish heretique vndet other tytle then onely for heresy but that M. Cecill thought good to folow the other vvay so to procure a double crowne to the murdered the one of martyrdome in that they dye for the trew faith and the other of Iustice for that they suffer for supposed false treasons which they neuer imagined After this he passeth on to auouch the matter more in particuler by diuers examples both of men and women martyred in Ingland vvhose causes could not conteyne any shew of trew treason by any law or reason in the vvorld nor that the iudges or accusers did in their arraignements or condemnations alleage any such matter against them but onely of Religion and Acts of the same made crimes by parlament as yf the Burgeses of Ingland should make it adulterie to heare a womans confession or thefte to geue almes and this he proueth by the very recordes of the condemnations yet extant and by the testimony of the Inglishe chronicles printed by allowāce of the present state which haue set downe in print the causes of diuers executed far different frō that which M. Cecil here telleth vs vvhos woordes he citeth He handleth also the peculiar punishements for hearing of masse the 20. L. a moneth for not cōming to Church which are euident peynes for matters of Religion which matters M. Cecil so often and impudently saith he in his foresaide booke of execution of Inglish iustice denieth vtterly to be punished in Ingland and though in this proclamation he confesse that there is a pecuniary payment for such as refuse to come to Church yet he doth it very slyly and vnderhand and vttereth not what

owne fancie and designements for the tyme present to serue his turne And by this occasion this awnswerer declareth how the old fathers and doctours did not vse this name of Ghospell commonly but only for the sacred writings of the fower Euangelists to whome the priuilege of this highe word was peculiarly attributed for that nothing in the said writing could be false or erroneous that the Religions of Christians founded thereon especially against heretiques was vsually called the Catholique faith and doctrine vntill these our dayes when euery man that deuised new opinions or wayes would needes cal it the very ghospell it self so began Luther and after him folowed Oecolampadius and Zwinglius though different from him and after them both Ihon Caluine and about the same tyme the Anabaptistes Trinitaries and new Arrians in Transiluania and synce that in Ingland both protestants puritanes and family of loue of vvhich no one will admit worse name to his sect then the sacred name of the holy Ghospel it self vvhich being but one and a simple truth and these men different and repugnant to them selues can not possibly be posiessed by them all though all pretend it and therefore saith this awnswerer as in a cittie where one onely pretious stone is knowen to be yf a man should fynd the streets ful of diuers cryers that sweare and protest euery one of them to haue this iewell to himself alone it vvere able to make a wise man thincke rather that none of them had it then that all could haue it euen so saith he in this case of pretending the Ghospell Moreouer he sheweth that of all these sects which at this day professe the name of Gospell abroad in the world no one eyther within or without the realme will confesse that the Religion generally held in Ingland at this day is the pure Ghospell exept perhaps some at home that dare not say the contrary or esteeme little of any Religion for abroade he sheweth first out of Luther himself how he condemned to hell the heresy of Zwinglius Caluin now held in Inglād which VVestphalus Illiricus and all other Lutherans haue followed synce as appeareth by their brokes yet in printe the decrees are extant of the Earles of Mansfild in the yeare 1559. and of the Lutheran cities of VVittenberg Hamberg and others the yeare 1560. and of al the reste of Saxonie the yeare 1562. which condemned the Religiō of Caluin now held in Ingland for damnable heresie The like did the Zwinglians as appeareth by the doings and writings of Andreas Zebedaeus and loannes Angelus Zwinglian Ministers against Caluin himself being yet aliue when they accused him to the Magistrates of Berna in Zuicerlād for an Archiheretique by the publique decree of the same citty and Magistrate yet extāt published in the yeare 1555. Is commaunded that Caluius institutions such other bookes of his as in the assertions impugned by these Ministers were found should be burned and prohibited as hereticall for euer At home also the determination of King Henry the eighte and his parlament for his six Articles against this Religion the difference of the communiō booke in King Edwardes tyme from this that now is the exclamation of Caluin and Beza against the supremacie of a woman or lay Prince whereof dependeth the hart of Inglishe Religion lastly the multitude of erors heresies abominatiōs gathered out of late by the puritans now defended by M. Cecil in their late bookes against the protestants whome M. Cecil also muste needs admit all these things saith this awnswerer do wel shew what ground or certaintie there is in M. Cecils Ghospell and how little it oughte to moue a discreete man his often repeating of the same This therefore passed ouer he commeth to handle the secōd remedy appoynted in the proclamatiō which is of the forces and preparations of her Maiestie hy sea and land to withstand this imaginarie inuasion wherevnto M. cecil exhortethal good subiectes to geue assistāce with their handes purses and aduises of which three things this awnswerer saith that he nothing doubteth but that M. Cecil wil easely admitt the former two to wit that men do assiste with their handes and purses for that in the firste which is to fight or put handes to woorke M. Cecil hath no skill nor wil to entermeddle himself but only to set men on whiles he and his do looke vpon them In the second of their purses seing he is Treasurer it serueth for his purpose to pull them on as many waies as he can deuise and perhaps it was the greatest motiue of all this tragedie to fill his coffers by this deuise but for the third which is to assiste with their aduises it is spoken onely for courtesies sake for in matters of moste weighte in gouernemēte state M. Cecil admitteth few but himself and his owne peculier instruments and in this I reporte me saith this awnswerer to the reste of her Maiesties priuie Councell how truely I speake in this behalf After this saith this awnswerer that notwithstanding M. Cecils great bragg of forces whereof the poore people of the Realme do beare the burdē yet yf all things be indifferently and wisely considered it may be saide of M. Cecil as it was of Moab by the Prophet VVe haue beard of the pride and arrogancy of Moab his pride land his arrogancie and his wrath is greater then his strength which this man applieth to M. Cecils arrogancie exceeding foolish and furious wrath in breaking so openly and arrogantly with all the old Allies of the crowne of Ingland in prouoking so many and so potent Princes abroad to reuenge their iniuries in attempting so great and dangerous changes and innouations and exasperatiōs at home as muste needs at lengh bring al the whole howse about his owne eares and other mens to and can not possibly endure by all which and many other things that he alleageth this defendant wil needes haue mēbeleue that my L. Treasurer is vnaduised not only wanteth conscience and Religion but also wisedome circumspection in the greatest of his doings and that in very truth laying Godes cause aside whereof his care is least he is also for ciuil gouernement a very insufficient man Thirdly and lastly he commeth to the forme of inquisition appointed in the proclamation for the finding out of the Seminarie priests and punishement as vvel of them as of all such as shall receaue harbour or comforte them about vvhich poynt after this awnswerer hath shewed that this forme of search punishement is more rigorous cruell considering all circumstances then euer vvas any search in former tymes of any old persecutours or tyrants he sheweth himself to wonder more at the impudencie and follie of M. Cecil in setting downe this saide forme of Inquisitiō then at any thinge touched in this awnswere before And for his impudency he alleageth these vvordes of the proclamation vvherein it is