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A08075	Newes from the low-countreyes. Or The anatomy of Caluinisticall calumnyes, manifested in a dialogue betweene a Brabander, and a Hollander Vpon occasion of a placcart, lately published in Holla[n]d, against the Iesuites, priests, friars &c. by those that there assume vnto themselues, the tytle of the high-mighty-lords, the States &c. Translated out of the Netherland language, into English. By D.N.; Anatomie van Calviniste calumnien. English.	Verstegan, Richard, ca. 1550-1640.; D. N., fl. 1622.; Cresswell, Joseph, 1556-1623, attributed name.	1622 (1622)	STC 18443; ESTC S120471	29,088	102

going frō the bridge ouer the riuer of Mayne from the Citty of Herbipolis or Wirtzburge to the Castle where he held his Court or Residence which Castle is neere vnto the sayd Citty His murther was caused by a Gentleman of the same Countrey of Franconia called Grumbagh What kynd of Iesuit this Gentleman was resteth in consideration for Catholike he was not but a professor of the new pretended reformation and so were also the actours which he imployed in committing of the murther The second in this vnfortunate nūber was Henry King of Scotland by his mariage with Mary Queen of Scotland Father to his Maiesty King Iames now King of England Scotlād c. This Prince was a Catholike and was murthered by a conspiracy of Caluinists and by Caluinists which thereunto were imployed he is thought to haue byn strangled These then must needes haue bin Caluinisticall Iesuites aswell those I meane that were of the conspiracy as the executors of the fact for there was not one Catholike among them The third was Iames Earle of Murray in Scotland bastard Brother vnto Mary Queene of Scotland before named He was a rebell and a persecutour of the Queene his Soueraygne and Sister by the Fathers side He forced her to fly into England and Tyrannically vsurped the Gouernment of her Kingdome vntill the time that a Gentleman named Hamilton slew him with a gun in the towne of Lithquo when being on horsbacke he was accōpanyed with many Gentleman that came with him to make his entry into that towne Hamilton notwithstanding escaped and fled into France The Earle was in religion Caluinist and so was Hamilton also that slew him It may be that he afterward in France became a Catholike If the Holland Caluinists wil make a Iesuyte of him then must he haue byn a Caluinisticall Iesuite when he committed the fact for Catholike-Iesuite he neuer was The fourth in this number was Francis Duke of Guyse This valiant Prince seruing the King of France agaynst his rebells was by one Iohn Poltrot who came behind him shot throgh the body with a pistoll as he was on horsebacke in his iourney it is worthy the noting that this Poltrot being well horst and hauing discharged his pistoll vpon the Duke put spurres to his horse and made a way with all speed possible and hauing ridden the whole night and not otherwise weening but that he was many myles from the place where he committed the murther was in the morning apprehended neere vnto the place where the deed was done If this Poltrot must now be made a Iesuyte he must then be a Geneuian Iesuyte for Geneua was his schoole and Beza the Caluinian Rabbin his schoolmayster that instructed him to murther this Prince The fifth in this nūber was William of Nassaw Prince of Orange who being in open rebellion agaynst his lawfull Soueraygne Lord King Philip second of Spayne the which by all the lawes of the world is Crimen laesae maiestatis was at Delfe in Holland slayne with a pistoll by one Baltazar Gerard alias Seragh a Burgundian Of what religion this Prince was there is no certainty but Baltazar that slew him was a Catholike that he was a Iesuyte was neuer knowne but if Caluinistes haue gotten the skill to make him a Iesuyte eight and thirty yeares after his death who in his life was neuer any it may be registred for a Caluinisticall miracle The sixt in nūber was Mary Queene of Scotland Mother vnto his Maiesty that now is King of Scotland and Englād c. This Princesse being an absolute and soueraygne Queene being enforced by her rebellious subiects fled into England vpon hope and promise to be by Queene Elizabeth succoured She was with the Queene of England in good peace and amity and was by her through her letters inuyted for her more defence and safety to come into England but so soone as she was there arriued she was layed handes on and detayned as a prisoner directly against all right and reason and so detayned about the space of twenty yeares In all which tyme Queene Elizabeth did neuer so much as once vouchsafe to see her or heare her speake In the end when she accepted of the meanes that was offered her for the escaping out of her vniust imprisonment she was murthered with an axe by the hands of the comon Hang-man which most foule and great murther was cōmitted to the euerlasting dishonour shame of false Iustice because it was done vnder the cloke and colour of true Iustice for she being an absolute Soueraigne Princes of herselfe was no subiect vnto Queene Elizabeth or vnto her lawes and yet notwithstanding she was condemned as a criminall subiect A most Tyrannous example of very murther and iniustice vnto all ensuyng posterity And most contrary to the doctrine of Caluinists that will haue Princes subiect to no authority or power vpon earth but only vnto God vnlesse they can heere make a God of Bul the Hangman This act doth the more remain to the greater shame of the actors because vpon the committing therof great bonfyers were made in the streets and the belles rung in manner of a triumph for ioy of obtaining some great victory This Queene was a Catholike The Hangman that murthered her was a Caluinian Protestant whose handes had byn imbrued in the bloud of diuers Iesuytes Priestes in the raigne of the forsayd Queene Elizabeth If Holland Caluinistes will now make a Iesuyte of of him he must then be a Gewse-reformed Iesuite that can be no great disreputation vnto them seeing that Mayster Paul Bafous a hangman in Liuonia or Liftland left his office of hangmanship and turned preacher of the Word according to the Holland reformation Vpō the death of this holy Queen the Calumnies of Caluinists raised against Iesuytes are contradicted in the ensuing Epigramme OVR Caluinists of Iesuites complayne That they of Kings and Princes killers be But if heerin they did not falsely fayne They must some such the world let know and see But since so much as one they do not show To what end then serues this Calumniation To seeme to hate for sooth Prince-killing so As hauing thereof no imagination And that meane whyle they heerof others taxe They as vnseene may bring them to the axe The seauenth in this number is Henry the third King of France who after he had caused Henry Duke of Guyse his brother the Cardinall to be muthered was murthered himselfe by one Iacques Clement a lacobin or Dominican Friar This King was a Catholyke so was also the Fryar that killed him If our Holland-Gewses wil now make a Iesuyte of him that dyed in the habite of a Dominican Fryar for he was presently killed by those that then were about the King they can do more then the French Hugenots who would as fayne haue had him a Iesuite as the Holland-Gewses would but they must notwithstanding be contented to let him be a Dominican

sundry Orders and that a Duke hath byn seene to become a Capuchin in Paris and the Brother of a Duke to become of the same austere order in Bruxelles I was mooued to thinke that it may belōg before we may see a Gewse or Caluinian Duke or Prince become a Minister albeit that condition of life obligeth not to the making and performing of any such vowes or to any austerity at all but to liue with ease in the Ghospell of free liberty There is a prouerbe in the Netherland language that Herman did in tyme get on his dublet after he had byn seauen yeares drawing on of one sleeue but I suppose Hermans dublet might wholy be gotten on and quite worne out before a man might see such persons moued by the great piety they might obserue in Ministers to enter with them into the seruice of the Word But to returne vnto my precedent purpose me thinkes it were not heere impertinent to see and consider what cause there may be found of the great hatred which Caluinists beare vnto Iesuytes and not Caluinists alone but all other Sectaryes for albeit they beare il will and hatred vnto all Catholikes especially vnto all Ecclesiasticall persons yet is it manifest vnto al the world that the Iesuites of all others haue the precedence in the malice of Caluinists And seeing something there may seeme to be that is singular in these religious men more then in others I haue the more endeauored to discerne what this may be and three thinges I haue obserued 1. This first is that there was neuer any Order in the Catholik Church that in so short a space hath dispersed it selfe so farre ouer the world to make the name of Iesus Christ knowne vnto heathen and Pagan people 2. The second is that there was neuer any Order that in so short a tyme hath written so many learned bookes aswel in diuinity as in al other laudable sciences 3. The third is that there was neuer any Order that in so short a tyme hath had so great a number of Martyrs as well by the persecution of Pagans as Apostata Christians As for their exercises of deuotion labour in preaching hearing of confessions instructing and bringing vp of youth in learning without any recompence of their parents making of attonements where there is dissention and discord readines at all houres of the day and night to visit the sicke and to consolate their soules is not now needfull heere to be spoken at large but when I well consider their manifold deedes of Deuotion and Charity I remember the wordes of Christ vnto the Iewes when for his good deedes they would haue stoned him to death I haue wrought many good workes among you for which of those will you stone me Enuy is the deadly enemy of vertue and of wel-prospering The Iesuites thankes be to God do go well forward in al their works of piety and for these Sectaryes will stone them and beeing themselues the actual murtherers of Iesuytes it is no maruell that they seeke to robbe tak away the good name fame of those whose lyues they let not to take away nor is it any wonder that they to coulour their owne tyrannous murthering of Iesuites giue out that Iesuytes are murtherers of Princes Potentates As if themselues did put Iesuites to death therby to saue the lyues of Princes potentates which Iesuites would els bereaue them off But what loue Caluinists and principally Holland-Gewse-Caluinistes do beare vnto Princes themselues doe now adayes the lōger the more make better known vnto the greatest Princes of Christendome then they can make knowne vnto them that Iesuites are murtherers of them and of Potentates The Hollander I must confesse that you haue heere manifested vnto me much more then before I euer knew or heard of But yet notwithstanding that it cannot be perceaued that the Iesuites haue had any hād in the deaths of any of the eight Princes heere by you mentioned it should seeme they haue had knowledge of intentions of murthering Princes as of Queene Elizabeth of England King Henry the fourth of France before he was murthered by Rauaillac his Maiesty that is now King of Great Britayne by the gunpowder Treason his Excellency Prince Maurice in Holland The Brabander For the first concerning Queene Elizabeth of England if we well consider her abandoning of the Catholike Religion which at her coronation she swore to mayntayne and that beeing a woman she tooke vpon her supreame authority in Ecclesiasticall causes which your Caluinian deuines in Holland do affirme to be Idolatry either in man or woman ordayning also by her Statutes that those who should deny to confesse her Ecclesiasticall authority vpon their oathes should suffer death as traytors That she deposed and put from their places the Catholike Bishops and Prelates casting some in prison forcing others to fly the realme That she ordayned a forfayture of twenty poundes a moneth for not comming to her Caluinian-protestant Church-seruice with other lesser forfaytures for Catholikes of lesse meanes who in regard of their consciences absented themselues from the sayd seruice by meanes whereof the prisons euery where became so replenished with Catholikes that new prisons must be made for thē because the old could not conteyne the number Moreouer the putting to death of so many Catholike Priestes as also the putting to death and ruyning of some Gentlemen and others that had harbored them The question now is whether Gewses or Caluinists being to the contrary so treated by any Prince that had sworne to maintayne their Caluinian religion they would with patience endure it Who can belieue this Seeing they haue not letted to rebell agaynst their Princes and Soueraignes that haue intruded no innouation or change in religion vpon them as agaynst the Kings of Spaine France and against Mary Queene of Scotland who I say can belieue this when it is apparent that the very ground-worke and foundation of Caluinian religion is layed setled vpon rebellion as to all the world it is manifest This Queene Elizabeth was so seuere and cruell that she letted not to burne alyue some of our countrey-men beeing Netherlanders not her borne Subiects for their Anabaptisme and caused some Puritans which are directly concurring in religion with the Caluinists of Holland to be hanged and others to fly the realme and lyue in exile because they had sought both by wryting and preaching to bring the religion of England to the iust forme and fashion of that of Geneua Holland Punishing then the Anabaptistes as heretikes and the Puritans as seditious she hath not letted to vse a greater cloke and colour for her persecuting of Catholikes and this was to cause to be giuen out at diuers times that they meant to kill her She imployed among other for one of her spyes sometyme in France somtyme in Italy one William Parry This Parry coming vpon a tyme out of Italy supposing to get more credit

day that this Father was deliuered into the handes of the English Ambassadour at Duyseldorp the sayd Palsgraue dyed at Heydelberge so came to tast of death himselfe sooner then the Father which he intended to send to the slaughter The Father was carryed into England where after he had remayned prisoner many yeares in the Tower of London and not the least point in the world could be proued against him cōcerning the aforesayd Treason notwithstanding that in some printed bookes it was published that he was culpable he was at last deliuered out of prison and dismissed the Realme Concerning one Peter Pan sayd to be sent by the Iesuytes of Ipres in Flanders to kill Prince Maurice in Holland the matter hath byn throughly examined and the Calumny raysed agaynst those Fathers sufficiently refuted in a Printed booke wherein is also set downe an attestation of the Magistrates of Ipres of whence this Peter Pan was wherin this accusatiō is shewed to be false Peter Pan was knowne to be a fellow that was frantike but the madnes of his braynes could not free him out of the handes of the Holland-hangman for the Iustice of Holland found it wisdome to put this poore foole to death I trust I haue heere cleerly declared how the Iesuites haue by their Caluinian enemyes byn most falsly calumniated and albeit that themselues do in such cases recomend their cause to God disposing themselues to beare with patience all iniuryes for the loue of CHRIST IESVS notwithstanding they well know how false they are yet my selfe euen of zeale vnto truth and equity could not omit to vtter thus much vpon the occasion now giuen The custome of giuing out that Iesuites and Priests do intend to murther Princes was first takē vp in England put in practise by some of Queene Elizabeths Caluinian Counsellers who to haue the better colour to persecute Catholikes whome they feared might encrease to fast as also to make them the lesse compassionate of the people did seeke to make them odious by ordinarily giuing out that they went about to kill the Queen But that the sayd Queen and her Counsellers themselues did not belieue this reason maketh manifest for whē is it found that a Prince or Ruler fearing that for some certaine notorious cause he is in dāger to be killed by any of his subiects will notwithstāding continue the same cause yea and daily more more increase it as this Queen did her persecution how can this agree with reason of State for through continuance and increase of persecution those that are persecuted doe comonly also increase and it might fall out that among the number of the persecuted for all do not alwayes endure with like patience some might be found that being driuen to desperate termes might attempt some such thing for as the Philosopher sayth the fly hath her splene but the patient suffering for religion is especially taught and recomended by Catholike teachers and the contrary by others of contrary Religions and especially Caluinists of whose hoat and reuengefull spirits the world hath already had testimony inough Father William Criton the Scottish Iesuyte before named being before some of Queene Elizabeths Counsell a little before his departure out of the Countrey sayd vpon occasion concerning this matter My Lords you vse heere a manner of giuing out among your subiects that Iesuites and Priestes do go about to kill your Queene but in very truth if we intended any such thing she could not liue for you must vnderstand that there are a multitude of people of the Catholike religion that haue wholy abandoned the world and haue chosen to liue in all strictnes and austerity sequestring themselues from all worldly pleasures desiring and indeauouring nothing more then to leaue this world and to liue with God in his Kingdome of heauen Among these men that so little respect the world diuers may be found who beeing perswaded that it were so meritorious a deed before God that he who should deliuer the world from an enemy and persecutor of the Catholike religion and therfore loose his life should straightwayes enter into the eternall ioyes of heauen without all doubt this matter would not be left vnattempted The counsellers hearing this had little to say to the contrary The Hollander To say the truth I must needs confesse I haue heere heard much more thē I supposed could be sayd I do now well perceaue a man can neuer come to the true vnderstanding of what standeth in controuersy before he haue heard both partyes The Brabander I haue first recounted what Princes and Potentates haue byn murthered or made away in our dayes and after that I haue spoken of intentions or meanings to make away Princes It resteth that I now speake of the intentions of Gewses or Caluinian reformed Brethren about the murthering or making away of Princes those innocēt wolues I meane that haue had their handes in the bloud of fiue of the eight Princes before named to the end we may also see how pure and vnspotted they are in their good meanings intentiōs to haue put that busines in further practise First then it is a thing cleere notorious that the Hugnenots of France had a resolued purpose to haue murthered the most Christian King Francis the second with his mother and sundry of the nobility in the Citty of Amboise It is also most certayne that a Zeland Gewse or Caluinist meant to haue blown vp William of Nassaw Prince of Orange with some of the Holland and Zeland States with gun-powder in the Towne-house of Flushing if it had not byn discouered by him that assisted him to conuey the powder into the seller or vault of the sayd Towne-house And had this succeeded according to the purpose of the authour thereof Baltazar Gerard that afterward killed the sayd Prince of Orange had saued his life and his labour and the Gewses reformed Brethren had had the honour of murthering six of the eight Princes before named When I consider this Prince and these intentions of his death me thinkes it must needes be a great signe that he was not in the fauour of God since as well Caluinists as Catholikes went about to kill him Heerto may also be added the Earle of Gowry in Scotland a Caluinist also The history is publike in print how he meant to haue killed the King wherof yearly memory both in Scotland England is continued on the fifth day of August for his Maiesties deliuery The Hollander You make me almost ashamed of my selfe to consider that our people in Holland do make such exclamations agaynst Iesuytes and Priestes and are shewed to be in those foule facts faulty themselues and the Iesuyts and Priests whome they accuse not faulty at all The Brabander I am well content thinke my labour well bestowed when I fynd my selfe to haue to doe with such as wil affoard place vnto truth and reason before passion and partiality But heere are you also to vnderstand

purse should cry out among the people to looke well vnto their purles for being cut by the Cut-purses The Gewses themselues of Holland haue long since brought the inhabitants of those partes to haue an auersion from their lawfull Superiours and now they say that Iesuytes and Priests do go about to do it as though it were not by themselues done already and as though the present rebellious Vsurpers of superiority there were true and lawfull Superiours But what goodly fellowes will heere be lawfull superiours Doth this lawfull Superiority belong vnto them because they haue by fraud and violence made themselues the maysters of Cittyes and Prouinces chased the lawfull superiours away Why was not then Iohn Buckleson the Tayler of Leydon a lawfull King of Munster in Westphalia when in like sort he had chased the lawfull Superiours thence And why haue your Holland-States by strong and forcible opposition hindred the Arminians from making thēselues maysters of some Cittyes that so they might become the lawful Superiours in them as well as they in others But how greatly are the poore Hollanders all the world ouer pittyed because the King of Spayne doth so much trouble them to put them out of their lawfull superiority They haue vnderstood that Catholike religion obligeth to the restitution of ill gotten detayned goods and therefore they are in feare as if they also knew that they are the vniust detayners of that which belongeth vnto another But considering that Caluinists or Gewses that haue the power and authority in their hands to make restitution are not such as goe to Cōfession to Iesuites or Priestes they may therefore haue the lesse feare As touching the murthering of Princes and Potentates there hath already sufficiently byn spoken but it seemeth by the wordes of the placcart that the Iesuytes and Priestes doe seeke to bring the good inhabitants of Holland to become the murtherers of Princes Potentates as if Iesuytes and Priestes went into Holland to seeke to make prouision of murtherers among the good inhabitants there to the end they might employ them where need should be in the murthering of Princes and Potentates in other Countreyes as though none els for such purpose could be found more fitting then among the good inhabitants of Holland That they there should also further the Tyranny domination of Spayne are two lyes No subiects of the King of Spayne are by him tyrannized neyther haue the Iesuites or Priests in Holland medled or haue had charge to meddle in matters of State or Gouernment as thinges beeing out of their profession The Hollanders cry out and take on very much about the Tyranny of Spayne but if it were so that the King of Spayne had no subiects out of Spayne but only Hollanders the Hollanders might perhaps be better belieued but he hath other subiects also in Europe and out of Spayne and of seuerall nations He hath Portugeses Neapolitans Sicilians Milaneses Burgundians Germans Walons and Netherlanders that are not vnder Holland gouernement And which of all these Nations is it that liueth not now in a more free and better state then in former tymes vnder the comaund of their particuler Kings Princes and Lordes And where among all these differēt nations is there any one found that is so Tyrannized ouer at this day as are the subiects of Holland with so great and so intollerable exactions and taxations And whereas they haue alwayes made profession to leaue people to the liberty freedom of their consciences they do notwithstanding forbid some of their good inhabitants vpon great paynes the exercise of their religion according as their consciences do require which they deny not vnto Anabaptists nor Iewes They cry out and take on about the Tiranny of Spayne to make the inhabitants afrayd of a faygned Tiranny that in the meane tyme they may the better goe forward as vnseene with their owne true and great Tiranny indeed No children may be sent to schoole in any places vnder the comaund of the King of Spayne or in Colledges of Iesuytes c. Belike there is no good Gewses-Latin or caluinian-reformed sciences there taught Neyther may any children of Holland be sent to schoole in any enemyes Countrey but this being obserued I do scarsly see where any youth of Holland may out of Holland be sent to schoole seeing the Hollanders haue behaued themselues so well and do so continew to behaue themselues that they make all the world their enemyes All collections of money gold siluer goods c. for or to the vse of any Churches Hospitailes Spirituall or o●●er Colleges or Conuenticles are pro●●bited Heerby may be perceaued that they 〈◊〉 ●etayne memory of their Church-robbing They know Catholike religion teacheth to make restitution of ill gotten or wrongfully detayned goods and now they feare that some of their good Inhabitantes Iesuyts or Priests to haue some scruple in conscience about the restoring agayne of some such goods therefore they haue held it necessary to settle their consciences in quiet by prohibiting them to come among them so not to come to know that for any Church-robbing they ought to make satisfaction nor yet to extend any charity insteed thereof to any Hospitalls spirituall or other Colledges c. for the worth-full Superiors of Holland haue occasion inogh to vse money gold siluer and other goods themselues or can fynd occasion to make vse thereof rather then it should by collections be transported out of those prouinces to other places The Hollander When I well consider of all that you haue heere recounted I am not farre from belieuing that it may all be true but in Holland we may not speake so The Comons in Holland are made belieue that all thinges are there as they ought to be that they do well and also prosper well The Brabander Those neuerthelesse in Holland that beare the heauy burthen of those great taxations must needes feele the contrary And they that do not y●● feele it though do stand in good po●●●●●lity to feele it better for the States without all doubt will from hence-forward be more and more carefull to employ all their vnderstandings so to inure their subiects to the burthen of pressures and taxations that they shall not easily by any Apoplexies loose their sense of feeling Heere will I make an end for it is now late inough to go to bed The Hollander I thanke you much for your discourse I will not forget to thinke vpon it And therfore thinke not I pray you that your wordes haue byn vttered to deafe eares The Brabander Then I hope I haue not strawed Roses before swyne but haue shewed reason to reasonable creaturess ¶ The rest of the company who with silence had listned to that which was spoken did giue thankes to the Brabander for his discourse so euery man went to his rest And heerewith wil I also rest from writing for the present and recomending my selfe vnto the continuance of yours good fauour leaue you to God From Cullen the eight of Aprill 1622. Yours vnto whom my handwryting is sufficient to let you know my Name FINIS