admire their jmpudency in that voyde of shame modesty religion christianity they dare so publiquely and vnjustly without blushing reuile and slaunder so gracious a Princesse as was noble Q. Elizabeth and so mercifull a King as is our Soueraigne Lord K. Iames confidering that so many more suffered in the lesse then six yeares raigne of Queene Marie onely for religion then haue sithence by their owne account beene executed in fiftie yeares of two succeeding Princes and those not for religion but for their treasons the number of the true Martyrs noted in print being in all by this account almost 300. and the number of their Seminary Priests Iesuites and Recusants by their own account not fully 200. which number and time considered is more then tenne for one Nor is there a greater disproportion in the number then in the causes of their sufferings the former suffering only for their conscience the latter for their treasons I am not ignorant that our aduersaries do taxe Mr. Fox of many vntruths and many strange matters whose errors if any such were I will not maintaine but somewhat excuse by way of recrimination by cyting out of this my popish Author some such stories of his Saints Miracles as I find in his sayd Martyrologe expressed which he hath diuided according to the moneths of the yeare leauing the truth and likely-hoode to thy censure ¶ Popish Miracles ANd first in the moneth of Ianuary I find this storie that when Saint Chad Bishop of Litchfield dyed his brother Ceds soule who was before Bishop of London was seene to descend from heauen with a troupe of Angels to accompany the same to heauen Another ST Egwine Bishop of Worcester made a payre of Iron shackles locked them close about his legges then cast the keyes therof into the Riuer of Seuerne and so went to Rome with Offa King of Mercia desiring of God that the said shackles might not be loosed from his legges vntill he had made satisfaction for all the sinnes of his youthfull yeares and in his returne backe as he came ouer the sea vpō a soden a fish leaped into the Ship wherein he sayled which being taken and killed the foresayd keyes of the shackles that hee had throwne into the Riuer were found in the fishes belly which hee applying to his shackles forthwith vnlocked them Another IN North-wales the commemoration of S. Beno Priest who leading an Eremiticall life in the west parts of England was by an Angell admonished to goe into Wales to a Noble man called Trebuith S. Wenefrides Father who gaue him a part of his lands and possessions to build a Monasterie as also his Daughter Wenefride to be instructed and brought vp in a religious manner whose head being soone after cut off by Cradocus sonne to Alane King of the same Country for not yeilding to his vnlawfull lust he miraculously set on againe shee liuing fifteene yeares after Another ST Elfled virgin and afterward Abbesse it happened vnto her that before shee was chosen Abbesse shee being in the Church at Mattins before day with the rest of her sisters going into the middest according to the custome to reade a lesson the candle wherewith shee sawe to read chanced to be put out and therevppon wanting light there came from the fingers of her right hand such an exceeding brightnesse vppon the suddaine that not onely her selfe but all the rest of the Quire might see to read by it also And hauing another time giuen much to relieue the poore whereby her chests were emptyed being therefore for her lauishnes checked by the Procurator of the house she made moane to the Lord and her Chests were againe myraculously filled as before Another ST Wereburge she vpon her death bed commanded her body to be buried at Hamburge but contrary to her will it was carried to the monastery of Trickingham where the gates fast locked the same was kept and watched very carefully But see a woonder they that kept it fell into a sleepe so as the people of Hamburge comming in the night to fetch the bodie away the gates of the Church and Monasterie were opened without hands of themselues and so they carryed the bodie and buried it at Hamburge as before she requested Another ST Patrick he obtained by his Prayers that no venomous creature should liue or breed in Ireland Another ST Richard Bishop of Chichester he dyed at Douer in Kent his body being brought to Chichester so shined with Miracles that besides others he raysed vp three dead men againe to life Another ST Frithstan one euening as hee was saying Masse as he walked in the Churchyard when he came to the words Requiescant in pace the voyces in the graues round about made answere aloud and said Amen Another ST Pyran he sustained tenne Armies of men for eight daies with the flesh of three Kine and also raysed diuers dead men to life Another ST Sewell he for his integritie and innocency of life was such and so acceptable to God that it pleased his diuine Maiestie in signe thereof to worke miracles by him both aliue and dead and among others it is recorded that lying on his death-bed he turned water into wine by onely blessing it Another KIng Henrie the sixt his veluet Hat which he vsed to weare being put on mens heads that were troubled with the head-ache they were presently cured Another ONe of the souldiers that led S. Alban to his death repented when he saw the constancy of the Martyr asked him forgiuenes which the persecutors beholding they grieuously tormented him for the same but he following S. Alban to his death when S. Albans head was cut off he tooke it vp and embraced it in his armes and thereby was immediatly cured of all his wounds Another ST Swithine he when by a mischance a woman had broken all her egges made the signe of the crosse ouer the same egges and immediatlie they all became whole againe Another THe heads of Wiaman Vnaman and Sunaman being cut off and cast into a poole by the enemies of Christ S. Sigfride on a time walking by the poole and deploring their deaths on a suddaine there appeared three miraculous lights vppon the water which encompassed the vessell wherein their sayd heads were which he seing presently leaped into the poole and embracing them wept and sayd Vindicet Deus Whereto one answered Vindicatūerit another replyed in quem the third added in filios filiorum Another A Monke of a certaine Monastery whereof S. Alexander was comming to the said Alexanders tombe to pray and hauing an vlcer in his breast which was now growne to a fistula Alexander appeared vnto him brighter then the Sun with two Crownes one on his head and another in his hand The Monke demaunded what that double Crowne meant he answered The Crowne in his hand is for the temporall Crown which he forsook for Christs loue for he shold haue
deserue the like grace for the like jnfidelity Lastly if Iudas their fellow-traitor can any whit at all grace them because he is noted in the booke of God but with this foule addition Traitour let them likewise take him and make him a brother of their Company or rather jncorporate themselues into his Society but let all that beare ill will to the Church of England and the Kings Majestie as a principall member thereof let I say their ends oh God be like vnto their master Iudas and let their bowels breake in sunder that would eat out the bowels of thy Church of England and let this blacke word of Traitour bee the jndelible spot neuer to bee washed away wherewith I brand all English Italionated Priests and Iesuites and their Abbettors Adde to these also the Iacobine Fryer and Rauilack the two murtherers of two French kings Henry 3. Henry 4. for these are also Sons of one Father the Pope the Deuill their Grandfather and those before their brethren in iniquity neuer to be spoken of but to their shame with posterity the felicity of whose Raigne namely Henrie the 4. and peaceable gouernment free from danger of any desperate attempt of stabbing or poysoning or other attempt of perill to his person by any of Romes fauourites our english Popish Recusants scienter loquor before that inhumane and hellish fact committed pleaded and strongly argued to proceed from that lenitie of his in permitting a freedome of conscience to his subiects in matter of Religion whereby they would inferre that if our Kings Maiestie would desire to liue securely from any such attempts not needing to feare perill either by stabbing poysoning powder or otherwise then let a toleration be graunted but how sound their conclusion is France hath felt England may feare and all the world is amazed thereat For if the King of France being a Papist and at most but suspected to affect the Protestant Religion could not yet be secure in his person how much lesse can our King expect any assurance of saftie by a toleration his Majesty being himselfe a professed Protestant and directly opposite in Faith and Religion Nay it might rather bee much feared that it would bee a meanes to pull Gods just judgements vpon him and vs for permission of such false worshippe of the true God for so wee may read in diuers places of the Old Testament that when the Rulers of the people fell away from God God sent vpon them many plagues miseries and oppressions by their enemies And thus much in answere to the second poynt which my friend may obiect Thine in all Christian loue TO THE WHOLE rabble of English-borne Romish male-contents and disturbers of this State NOT HOPING hereby to reclaime you that are already by Sathans witchcrafts seduced from your many dangerous and pernitious errors which cleaue more fast vnto you then the skinne vnto the flesh or the flesh vnto the bones for that were Extra spem sperare a hope without any ground Nor yet in bitternesse of spirit onely purposing to rayle vpon you as many of you most jmpudently haue done against your owne Mother for that were want of charity nor any waies intending to giue satisfaction vnto your vnsatisfiable obstinacy and wilfull-willing blindnesse by reasoning scholastically or propounding and framing logicall or as you vse sophisticall arguments to conuince your follies for that would be in me presumption For what am I that after so many rare wits and vnrefutable iudgemēts in matters Diuine as haue already laboured your conversion I should hope of better successe therein then they before haue had I rather conclude with Abraham who told the rich man that desired a messenger to be sent from the dead to the liuing to warne them that they might auoyd the like daunger of comming there That if they will not belieue the Prophets neither would they belieue though one came frō the dead so if you will not be perswaded by the scriptures and the strong and vn-answerable arguments of such excellent Diuines as haue already laboured your convesion neither will you be perswaded though Christ himselfe should descend from heauen in person to confute you But my scope and drift herein is pro viribus First to preuent the fall of those who yet stand but are ready to fall Secondly to free my late Soueraigne Queene Elizabeth that sometimes peerelesse Prince and my now dread Soueraigne the Kings Majestie and their State-ministers from many false and Serpentine jmputations layd vppon them by men of your rancke of bad spirits whose throats are open Sepulchres wherein to burie true Honour Faith-keeping Grace Mercie Pittie Piety Protection Truth and Religion in eternall obliuion breathing out from thence as from the fournace of Hell insteed thereof nothing but Dishonour Breach of promise Disgrace Crueltie Bloud Want of deuotion Oppression Heresie and Irreligion These are the motiues that enforced my pen these the reasons of my non-silence who otherwise could haue been contented quietly and securely to haue reposed my selfe in the joyfull contemplation of Gods manifold blessings and mercies of an extraordinary nature towards this Nation by continuance of the Gospell amongst vs Which that it is the Truth and that he himselfe with his owne right hand hath planted it and defended it by the power of his owne arme the many strange Miracles for such say you must needs approoue the Truth which himselfe from time to time since before the beginning of Q. Elizabeths raigne vntill this present hath wrought doe euidently confirme and prooue For is it possible that our late famous Queene of euer-blessed memorie and our now Soueraigne the Kings Maiestie should haue escaped the many pitts that haue beene digged for them and not haue fallen therein Is it possible that Queene Elizabeth full of yeares but fuller of Renowne should haue liued vnto a gray-headed age and quitely dying in her bed to be maugre all her enemies brought in peace vnto her graue Is it possible that this present State wherein wee liue should now haue a Being seeing that Hell the Pope Recusants Vt obiter notē The word Recusant now so cōmon vntill the 11. yere of Queene Elizabeths Ragine was altogether vnknowne as may appeare by all Statutes and Acts of Parliament before that time made wherin there is not a word thereof at all vntill which time all Papists some very few excepted notwithstanding that the Religion then professed in the Church of England was the very same that it was in the former yeares of her Raigne came ordinarily to our Churches nor was disparitie of religiō any cause of Recusancy vntil such times that the roaring Bull of Pope Pius 5. for then the land began to swarme with Recusants was published and Queene Elizabeth by him Anathematized Then the case was suddenly altered those who before frequented our Churches now withdraw themselues from our Society Those who before yeilded obedience to hir Maiestie now would not acknowledge her for their
popish Recusants as their Pseudomartyrologist I. W. Priest pretends but pretends to haue byn executed in England Religionis ergò since the beginning of Q. Elizabeths raigne vntill this present yere 1608. I haue cleared the second accusation of cruelty bloud and bloudy persecution for conscience evidently proouing by their owne account vnto the vnderstanding of the most simple that is not wilfully blind that many more of the first sort suffered death and were in fire consumed onely for their conscience within the lesse then six yeares raigne of Queene Marie then of the second third and fourth sort to wit Priests Iesuites and Recusants in 52. yeares since and that not for Religion but Treason Whereby it appeareth how vnjustly our late woorthy Queene our present gracious King their State-ministers haue been and are most jmpudently falsely of bloud cruelty accused taxed Nor haue I ought herein written to giue satisfaction to any such for let them sincke in their owne sinnes as being ouer deeply bewitched with Romes jdolatry doe hold that all Treasons all Rebellions all Attempts vi aut fraude against the persons and states of our late Queene Elizabeth and our now present King both were and are not only lawfull but meritorious But to enforme such of them as being of a milder temper and yet looking that way willingly confesse and acknowledge that all such as haue beene or are guilty of such crimes haue deseruedly been punished but yet doe or at least seeme to conceaue that their Priests and Iesuites haue suffered onely for their Consciences and therefore their persecution they being many in nomber is in their judgement great and lamentable Which were it graunted or could as it neuer can bee prooued that they all dyed for their conscience onely which yet is a conscience mis-enformed yet doth the nomber of our true Martyrs in lesse then 6. yeres of Queene Maries raigne although it should be permitted vnto them to take also into their number those fifty and two lay persons for so many I thinke there are registred with the Priests and Iesuites in their owne Martyrologe not onely equallize but exceed the number of theirs in full fifty yeares since by the number of almost 100. persons Insomuch that if the numbers of persons suffering and the number of yeeres of both sorts wherein they suffered bee compared and the cause of all their sufferings admitted to be alike just or vnjust of which there is no comparison yet did the cruelty of Queene Marie and her popish Clergie out-strip Queene Elizabeth and king Iames conjoyned more then tenne for one and therefore learne you that haue any sparke of grace remaining in you to be good subiects to your King and cease now at last to taxe your soueraigne any more of persecutiō whose heart bleeds that he is forced to draw bloud from others for their jntollerable demerits As for the truth of these collections whereat perhaps and not vnlike some popish spirits will take exception vnderstand that Mr. Foxe that sometime reuerend Father of our Church is my Author whome for the number of such professors of the Gospell as were burned in Queene Maries dayes I haue soly followed who albeit happily for it is almost jmpossible to bee otherwise in some things in so large a volume hee might commit some small errour in some particular cicumstances because no Historian can possibly be present euery where with his owne eyes and eares but must of necessity giue credite vnto the relations of others in many poynts Yet the grauity of his person his excellent learning his great reading his worthy and sober cariage his sound judgement and therein his wise choyce of Authours and the generall report of his honest and religious mind by an vniforme consent of all such as knew him freeth him from taxation of any wilfull and grosse errour or willing mistaking and from any malicious assertion against the Papists without a probable ground throughout his worthy woorke in whose behalfe I thinke it needlesse to bestowe much paines because the honester and greater sort are honestly already of him perswaded and for the rest as they are for number fewer and their honesty little worth so ate they many of them wilfully obstinate and will not bee perswaded As for the other sort to wit popish Priests Iesuites and Recusants such as haue beene executed since the beginning of Queene Elizabeths raigne as I. W. pretendeth for religion vntill the yeare 1608. they are coppyed word for word out of a booke called The English Martyrologe by the authority of the popish supervisors as it should seeme allowed vnles the nameles author thereof I. W. Priest doe belye them Wherin I haue dealt as truely with them to a letter as I could saue onely that I haue left out one person and in steed thereof added two to wit William Watson and William Clarke both Priests executed at Winchester Novemb. 29. 1603. I know not how by the Pseudomartyrologist omitted for he might as well haue enrolled them as those which he hath done being all alike traytors to their Prince and Country Nor am I disposed to cauill for that I find diuers of their Priests noted in that his Martyrologe by one name which yet I find set downe in our Chronicles by an other name as for example in An. 1585. Ianuary 21. Edward Transam and Nicho. Wodfine so by this our Martyrologist noted are by others named Edmund Barbar and Nicholas Deuorax which I note chiefly for this end that none might be deceiued in thinking that more haue been executed then in deed haue been because one and the same persons are in their and our writings noted by different names for they haue so many false names that amongst them all I find not one good and true He that at London is called Richard at Rome is called Iohn he that at Rhesmes and Doway is called Peter in England is called Saul he that in the Iesuites cells is Sainted for his resolution is at Tyburne hanged for his treason I haue I confesse transposed some of both sorts both of our Martyrs and their traytors but only for this end that I might reduce them to our account which beginneth the yeare on the 25. of March according to the tabular Register following whereas both Mr. Foxe the Pseudomartyrologist began the yeare the first of Ianuary As for example Mr. Foxe hath noted Iohn Rogers the first Martyr in Queene Marie her dayes to haue suffered February 4. 1555. which yet according to our account was in the yeare 1554. Likewise the Pseudomartyrologist hath in his Martyrologe noted William Richardson to haue beene executed Feb. 27. 1603. which might seeme to be in the first yeare of King Iames which yet was in the latter end of Queene Elizabeth and in the yeare of our Lord 1602. according as in that yeare in the table following you may see Now hauing compared their numbers together I could not but
necessitie from Ambition Likewise as then by one was obserued his ambition in his jntentions and thoughts so by another of higher rancke and dignitie was noted his dissimulation in his actions for said he there are in all his proceedings Vestigia manifesta vestigia occulta giving withall an jnstāce herein That this great personage had admitted T. P. that Archtraitor to be a Pentioner but yet without hauing any oath administred him either for his allegeance or yet for his particular discharge of that place whereunto he was admitted and yet vnderhand giuing out that he was sworne wherevpon he jnferred thus That wheresoeuer things were palliated which were or fayned to be which are not there alwaies is some deceit At which time he was by a third honourable personage taxed expreslie for his Hippocrisie as being Iacke on both sides whereby hee had made himselfe odious to both Protestants so tearmed and Papists nor yet though these are jnough are these all But to returne to our purpose and matter in hand Before he ascended vnto that height of honor which then by the Kings speciall favour he was advanced vnto I meane in Queene Elizabeths time when his predecessours carriage had givē just occasion of the successours further disgrace then at this very time was the same person imployed vnto his maiestie with letters from Garnet the Iesuites Prouinciall who had about that time receaued the Popes Breues to this purpose Quandocunque contigerit miseram illam faeminam meaning Q. Elizabeth ex hac vita exire c. that whensoeuer that wretched woman should die the papists should not admit of any other to inherite how neere so euer in bloud vnlesse he were a Romish Catholique and not so onely vnlesse he would also sweare to vphold to his power the popish Religion But the Kings happie acceptation with his good Subiects caused those to bee converted into ashes and then come other Breues enioyning their obedience to his Maiestie but Coacta virtus non est virtus Gramercy horse when you cannot choose then obay This is that Obedientia ex necessitate nempe ferreâ jlla coactâ which Bellarmine noteth Recognitionum pag. 16. And how long this vntill they be able to cast him out whō they were forced to receaue And your Watson soone attempted that which hee knew his vnholy Father the Pope hartily wished Hee was a lowe man in person but he aspyred high when he thought to bee Lord Chancellor of England but missing that hee was aduanced to the Gallowes for preferment but I thinke being purblind he missed the waye that hee meant I say did this double-hearted Lord jmploy T. P. the Traytor vnto the Kings Majestie then King only of Scotland with certain letters of advise but much in the behalfe of the English Romish Catholicks aduising him that he should at such time as it should please the Lord to call him to the possession of this his kingdome which as now he doth so long Lord grant he may quietly enjoye giue faire promises and hopes of tolleration vnto the Papists thereby as he therein pretended to prepare a more easie entrance for his Majestie when time should serue The Kings Majestie not as then suspecting the depth of this his Councellors drifts but vnderstanding him simply returned him an answere with thankes for his advise but withall jnferring a clause directly as since it appeareth contrarie to his Councellors expectation His Majesties words in answere to the letter were in effect as followeth Whensoeuer it shall please GOD in his due time to call mee to the possession of my right in England I purpose not to make any jnnovation in the State or to alter the Lawes and Ordinances thereof c. Wherevppon a wise man would as the LL. did haue thus jnferred No alteration in the State no changing of Lawes and Ordinances therein established why then no toleratiō of Poperie no allowance of Recusancy not because it pleased the kings Majestie out of the meeknesse of his Spirit voyd of guile and double dealing to returne him thankes for his aduise although hee did not so much as make shew that he liked thereof therefore to conclude that a toleration should be granted But he in his ambition besotted with his own follie not expounding his Majesties words as he meant but as he himselfe conceited them because he so as it should euidently appeare wished that it might bee did so farre exceed the limits of his commission and was so farre vainely transported as that at T. P. his returne from the Kings Majestie it was amongst the Papists divulged though falsely that the King had also by the sayd T. P. giuen directions to the afore remembred great Personage by word of mouth to wind himselfe into their favours for that was the word and to giue hopes of toleration in his Majesties name vnto Recusants and herehence chiefly arose that scandall of the kings Honour that he had broken promise with Recusants For the better confirmation whereof and that his Majesty neuer intended any such matter of toleration Conferre herewith Watson the Priest his confession vnto the Honourable Lord the Lord of Northampton at Winchester who being by the Earle by his Majestie therevnto appoynted examined vpon the poynt of promise of toleration freely confessed that albeit he were by some falsly accused to be the Author of that report yet it was most true that hee could neuer at any time draw any comfort from his Maiestie in the point of conscience All which notwithstanding besides the just cause that the Powder-treason and other dangerous conspiracies against his Maiesties life and kingdomes hatefull to God and all good men gaue of an hard hand ouer the Papists yet let any of you that I may vse the words of an Honorable Counsellor even the most jmpudent brazen faced amongst you shew any the least prints if you can of bloody steppes in his Majesties Course Nay rather I may much more truely say hee is a man composed all of mercy and not of any earthly element subiect to passions and disturbance but in a farre more diuine manner then ordinary men resembling his Maker for good Kings and mercifull are the most liuely representatiue jmages of the Deitie which causeth as the wicked without warrant vpō Gods mercies so Traitors and miscreants without reason vppon his Majesties Clemency jmpudently to presume to their more just condemnation And here let me tell you yet voyd of any desire of bloud or bloudy courses as God can beare record vnto my foule but onely admiring the mercies of our King That I greatly doubt whether any Prince in the world King Iames excepted if the like treason as was the Powder-treason had been plotted against him by persons of another religion or sect whatsoeuer would haue suffered either man woman or child of so dangerous and damnable a profession to haue breathed within his Dominions especially if the grounds of their religion
the Pseudo-Martyrologist by whose account there haue suffered since the first yeare of King James of these Popish Traytors as he falsely pretends for Religion to the number of 13.   1610. Iaco 9 Iaco 44.   1611.  Iaco 45   1612.     1613.     1614.     1615.     A POST-SCRIPT TO THE WEL AFFECTED READER IT may bee that some of Antichristes broode will here crye out with open mouthes and say â—ut there are many of our Catholique Martyrs who haue suffered persecution for their consciences that are not here mentioned Here is a CollectioÌ„ indeed to set down some and leaue out the rest where are those Earles of Northumberland and Westmerland with their followers where the Bishops Deanes Archdeacons Canons and other Ecclesiastical persons where Doctor Lopez Parry where many of the Gentry as Abington Babington Tichborne Sauadge and their fellowes and of late where the Lords Cobham and Gray where Digbie Percy Catesbie Tresham Rookewood the Winters Litletons their followers With diuers others both of the Nobilitie and Gentrie who for their consciences in seeking to aduance the By them so falsely called Catholique religion haue suffered Martyrdome some by death some by imprisonment some by banishment some by losse of liuings some one way some another So condemning these collections with the author thereof to the fire as sometimes their forefathers did the Gospells confessors before registred To stoppe whose mouthes let this suffice First that I neither propounded to my selfe nor promised to them to set downe herein the names of any other in Queene Mary her Raigne then onely of such as meerely for their consciences in professing CHRISTS Gospell were in those dayes with fire and fagot martyred and burned not at all medling with such as either were attainted or executed for treasons and rebellions either against her person state or dignitie whom no good Christians wil seeke to excuse in so doing nor of any other in Q. Elizab. or King Iames their raignes theÌ„ only of such Seminary Priests Iesuits Recusants as I find recorded by their martyrologist I. W. Priests whom many simple Papists being seduced by their false teachers giue out to haue suffered onely for Religion and their consciences although that in all of these Priests and Iesuites men of iudgement may easily discerne the contrarie and as for many of them the most simple cannot be ignorant that knoweth any thing nor the most shamelesse denie that is not past all shame that they were executed for plotting and contriuing for knowledge of and concealing most barbarous the like before vnheard of treasons whereas true martyrdome indeede consisteth ferendo patiendo non in agendo in bearing patiently and suffering afflictions for CHRISTS cause but not in plotting and attempting the liues and ouerthrowes of Kings and Countries their lawfull and Liege Soueraignes and natiue though of them hated habitations and byrth-place witnesse for proofe hereof 1. Ballard 2. Watson 3. Clarke 4. Garnet the Iesuites Prouinciall 5. Hall with others the first of these was a chiefe actor and plotter in Abingtons and Babingtons Conspiracie Anno 1586. the second third in Cobhams and Grayes but more properly for they are the first mouers alwaies in Watsons and Clarkes their owne conspiracie Anno 1603. The fourth and fift in the Gunpouder treason which onely to name is instar omnium the most damnable bloodie plot that euer was contriued and I hope in time will proue as their owne Greenwell prophesied the very breakneck of all Papists that will not bee recalled Anno 1605. although I greatly feare that there are many in this Kingdome who now GOD in his mercie hath defeated them seeme to condemne the plotte but yet would with all their hearts haue wished that it had taken effect Talia etenim nunquam probata antequà m acta for such attempts as these to wit the Gunpouder and others treasons are neuer liked of vnlesse they bee acted but if performed then applauded with Panegyricke Orations Well that Papistes haue found so much mercie at the Kinges handes notwithstanding this their more then heathenish crueltie as they haue let them blesse God and thanke his Maiestie and I pray God they may make a good vse thereof but let vs that are his faithfull subiects reioyce in God for his and our owne deliuerance from so eminent danger ascribing all glorie and thankfulnesse to God therefore and vnspeakeable mildnes and forbearance in our King whom no barbarous attempted cruelties for then the Gunpouder treason neuer was any more horrid more hellish can prouoke vnto rigor hee is so loath to bee of his very enemies accounted cruell But Lord grant thou Ne incidat in Scillam cupiens vitare Carybdim that his mercy towards his foes proue not crueltie to himselfe his Friends and good subiects For this I may iustly say that for a mercifull King in forgiuing his enemies whom yet hee hath power to destroy England may boast her selfe aboue all the nations of the world Secondly if Papists will haue besides these Priestes Iesuits Recusants by their Pseudomartyrologist noted all other traitors and rebels to bee likewise enrolled let them name as many as they can and register them themselues and take them into their number for well I knowe that vnto honest men the more they name the more infamous will they bee because their horrible and damnable treasons are vnto all good men to whom onely I intend this Post-script so odious and vnto the world so apparant and palpable that their names cannot but with disgrace bee recorded whereas none who were in Queene Mary her raigne burned did suffer for any other cause as the Papists themselues cannot deny but that they falsely call vs heretiques but onely for matter of religion nor can they bee iustly accused of any to haue attempted against the life of their then Soueraigne Lady Queene Mary or to haue denied her for their lawfull Queene but so Non obstante religionis disparitate although they differed in religion to haue acknowledged her so to haue prayed for her in all humilitie submitting their neckes as good subiects to the yoake of temporall obedience to her Maiestie and like true Christian martyrs their bodies to the fire for the onely profession of the Gospel of Christ Iesus whom in their bodies goods and spirits they serued Thirdly as I take not vpon mee to see downe precisely the name of euery particular Priest Iesuite and Recusant that suffered in Queene Elizabeths and King Iames their raignes nor yet the iust number of those blessed Martyrs that were burned in Queene Mary her raigne but so many onâ—ly of both sortes as are for them in I. W. Priest his English Martyrologe and for vs by that worthy man Maister Iohn Fox in his booke of Martyres recorded So I am most certainely assured that if I should nominate all
lawfull Queene herevpon followed jmmediatly the rebellion in the North and other dangerous conspiracies by your faction And to proue that Religion was not the cause of their Recusancy besides that which hath beene aboue sayd Scotland will testifie wherein albeit there haue beene and are many knowen Papists both men and women yet in all the time of King Iames his Raigne there nor yet since he raigned here haue any of thē absented thēselus or refused to come to our Churches in Scotland yet I make no question but you will say that the Romish religion is one and the same there that it is here you must needs then graunt that not religion but the Popes pleasure vnto whose girdle you are tyed is the cause of Recusancy and it behooueth his Maiestie to haue speciall regard vnto you that are Recusants and by all good meanes that he can to assure his owne estate in another regard then only that you will not interesse sacris with vs for Recusancy and Treason are so linked one in the other and compacted that hardly can hee bee a Recusant that is not a Traitour likewise See more hereof if you please in the 130 and 131. pages of Tortura Torti Recusants Seminarie Priests and Iesuites Traitors and seditious persons haue conspired against it had not the Lord himselfe miraculously defended it and maintained his Truth I need not instance particular deliuerances for who is he amongst vs that remembers not many But yet I cannot without ingratitude to God our most gracious preseruer ouer-slip in silence those two myracles of myracles to wit Our deliuerance from Spaines so falsely by them tearmed but blessed be God therefore inuincible Armado An. 1588. and from the mynes of fire and Gunpowder prepared by ympes of Hell for Englands Funerall An. 1605. which latter but that mine own eyes haue seene their preparations I should with Thomas scarcely haue belieued And no maruell though in Spain the report therof can with many hardly be credited for some at our own home that haue not with their owne eyes seene it or with their eares heard the Delinquents Viva voce confesse it can hardly yet conceaue halfe the malice therof it seemes to those that haue any sparkes of humanitie so passing cruell and incredible These if the Gospell must needs be confirmed by myracles are true myracles These are no counterfait jugling trickes or Popish jmpostures to delude the simple such as were the Sicknesse-healing Child or the Picture of the Traitour Garnets face in a wheat strawe found perhaps amongst a Popish Taylors wiues shreds or brought in in the belly of a Griffin or Gryfō intēding thereby the ruine of Troynovant as were the armed men of Yore in the bellie of Synons woodden horse for Troye the old its Destruction such as these we leaue to you to jnsert into your Legenda Aurea or Legend of lyes As for persecution for conscience against which in diuers of your pamphlets you so loudly cry the comparison of times for continuance wherein of persons for numbers in those times how many whose bloud on both sides haue been shed and the causes partly wherefore in the following Table will appeare But the grounds of religion contained in the holy Scriptures of the old and new Testament penned by the Prophets and Apostles on which we build our faith and the refutation of errors and false doctrine maintained by Romish Recusants Priests and Iesuites which in former times and in these times also haue do cause so great disturbances persecutions of the Church of Christ I leaue to bee defended by those graue and strong pillars of our Church and learned Fathers of our Clergie whose soundnesse in doctrine all the Papists in the world are vnable to evince Concerning that dishonour wherewith very frequētly but falsely as is well approued by the then Bishop of Chichester you taxe your Soueraigne Lord the Kings Maiestie for breach of promise with Recusants concerning a toleration of Popish religion that quantum in me est I may confute such vnjust exclamations against his Majesties Person and his Honour I will briefly touch that poynt by declaring not onely vnto you but vnto all the world that shall take notice hereof what mine owne eares heard in an open Court of mercy I may say rather then of justice in this case debated and censured The case stood betweene the Kings Majestie a great Peere of this Land amongst whose many grosse slippes and jnglorious acts this poynt was as the rest all which his Majestie was pleased nay as sayd the Lord Cooke then the Kings Attourney commanded that they should not otherwise bee handled then as matters of Contempt ripped vp and scanned His name I could particularly instāce but because it pleased my Soveraigne to deale with him not in rigor of law justice but meerly in Grace I hold it not my part othewise then what for clearing of the truth I needsly must him by name to disgrace Wherfore that I may helpe to wash away those aspertions of dishonour vnjustly throwen vpon his sacred Majesty by men of bad spirits and that like spots and staines neuer to be done away they may seat themselues within the muddy Circle of the duskie Moone their true Centre and not eclipse the bright honour of our splendant Sun glorious North-star I will here relate frō whence by much probabilitie this error at first sprange This noble fore-remembred Personage whose greatnesse addes a greatnes to his fault if I may linke Nobilitie with such jgnoble actions ambitiously as it should seeme affecting a singular greatnesse not at all regarding Religion as some haue thought further then as it might serue him as a ladder to promotion was in shew outwardly a seeming Protestant but vnder-hand and couertly willing to be held a Papist jnsomuch that by his close carriage hee was very honourablie thought of by his Majestie chosen by his Majestie to be very neere vnto him and yet neuerthelesse highly accompted of and respected amongst the Romanists for a sure friend of theirs vpon whom they might hold a Dependance Testified hereby that with his owne hands he deliuered and presented their Popish Supplication vnto his Majestie at Theobalds for a toleration in Anno. 1603. And that I may not seeme maliciously of my selfe without a ground to taxe him herein of ambition obserue with me that at his tryall by one for his learning judicious for his knowledge experienced in matters of State it was by euident arguments prooued that his proceedings argued a manifest Discontentmēt and withall that all discontentments proceeded from either want disgrace or ambition but not from want for his possessions and yearely revenues were exceding great not frō disgrace for his Majestie had many waies graced highly honoured him which graces as he then did so I now could particularly jnstance but that thereby I must needsly discouer his person and therefore of
as doth that of yours by euident proofes elswere convinced do allow of any such doctrine and enterprises This Powder-plot-treason was in it selfe in the eyes of some of the actors therein so horride and detestable as that one of your owne Iesuites from an apprehension of the jmmane cruelty thereof not mooued with any commiseration of their miseries who were by their designes destinated to the rage thereof but proceeding from a trembling feare least it should be discouered could say to his fellow in profession and action That if it were discouered it would be the vtter ruine and dissolution of their Society Remember also Robert Winters dreame and the horror thereof how it terrified his very soule with the gastly appearance of some of his consorts And forget not the fearefull vengeance of God in suffering their faces to be so vgly disfigured with Gunpowder in Littletons house who had prepared a Destructiō for this whole kingdome with the same matter and Substance and then conclude that God is iust and therefore in his justice did punish their wickednesse with the inventions of their owne braines Was it not time to lop those ambitious aspyring thoughts of Watson the Priest and his confederates as also to clippe the winges of the Powder-Treason contriuers and their fauorites the first affecting in his owne person the high Chancelorship of England and the latter building their hopes aboue the Moone amongst themselues concluding to set vp a Protector of their own choosing out of the number of those Popish Lords that by them were intended should bee preserued from that generall destruction of their sulphurious fire all of them directlie ayming at the vtter ruine and destruction of this noble and renowned Iland and to make desolate the most glorious Kingdome that is couered by the Heauens But as the most fruitfull trees beare their tops lowest and the most barren and vnfruitfull shoote vp highest euen so is it amongst men Those that are most emptie of vertue and laudable qualities aspire in their ambition to places of highest honour vncalled whereas the more worthy and vertuous would in their humility refuse them being jmposed were it not onely for this that they may thereby be the better jnabled to do good Admit that the Kings Majestie had in a religious pollicy promised a toleration before he were fully seated in his kingdome or come into this Kingdome nay that hee had so also meant indeed as some of you haue falsely and jmpudently giuen out yet had he not for your extreame ill carriage and disloyall demeanour just cause to haue reuoked it For before that liberty could be established for you there must needes haue beene a repeale made of those Lawes and Statutes formerly made against Recusancy which as they were by act of Parliament confirmed so must they haue been by the like authority disanulled But your Watson and Clarke thought to make a shorter cut then so by preventing the King in the performance of that which Watson himselfe knew full well the King neuer purposed nor promised albeit it should seeme by Watsons owne confession that he had much laboured and jmportuned his Majestie therein Since which time also if his Majestie had promised the like as some of your faction haue falsely giuen out was not that matchlesse Powder-treason plotted contriued furthered and assisted by beasts for men I cannot call them but rather deuils of your religion both Priests Iesuites and as you stile your selues lay Catholiques a sufficient warrantise without prejudice to his honour to recall such a grant as might giue protection to Caterpillers Degenerate persons Miscreants Vipers Monsters and not men and whatsoeuer name more odious that also yea vnworthy to bee called by the name of any of Gods creatures for they persist in their created natures but the other do not but are degenerated from men to Devils That their damnable practise doth rightly moralize the tale of the Husbandman wherein hee is fabled to haue found a Snake stiffe and almost dead with cold and to haue brought him home in his bosome and warmed him by the fire which after recouering began to hisse at the good man of the house for his paines and would with his venomous tongue haue stung him to death who had before saued his life which plainely bids King Iames beware that he nourish not vipers in his own Kingdome I pray God not in his Court. You seeme in some places of your writings to taxe Queene Elizabeth and in her all true professors of religion for a backward and frozen zeale towards the Kings Majesties rightfull succession in these his kingdomes to blazō your own forwardnesse in his Majesties behalfe but know you false-hearted and degenerate men that king Iames knowes how to judge of spirits and to hold you but hollow-hearted vnto him now because whiles you were yet Queene Elizabeths subiects you were then so vnto her and to esteeme of our late Queene Honourably and of vs as faithfull Subiects then vnto her so now no lesse vnto him And albeit that for some reasons of State vnto her selfe best knowen and which no doubt but his Majestie now very well vnderstandeth it pleased her to conceale the kings right from the multitude yet I verily perswade my selfe that his Majesty did neuer so much as conceiue a thought that Queene Elizabeth did euer purpose or intend to debarre him in his right of lawfull succession And in this poynt your fellow Catholiques thought to cast a Bone between his Majesty and his good subiects but you are made to swallow it your selues and some whose throats were to little it choaked Nor may I here let passe vntouched that Propheticall speech of that worthy Matriarke Honourable amongst women Q. Elizabeth who when in the first yere of her raigne shee was motioned to dispose her selfe to Marriage that her subiects might enioy an happy issue of her own body like as Abraham when his Sonne Isaac sayd Behold the fire and the wood but where is the Lambe for the burnt offring Gen. 22.7 replyed Deus providebit mi fili So shee Abrahams daughter by fayth likewise Fideles mei subditi my louing and faithfull Subiects although you may justly fear what may be the euent of my disposednes to a Virgin life yet be not depressed with care that way nor dejected with sorrow but trust in God for Deus providebit hee euen God euen that God who made Sarahs barren wombe fruitfull and he who although I should marrie can cause my wombe to be barren He who had another meat to eat that his Disciples knew not of Ioh. 4.32 Euen he I say will provide you a king of his owne choosing whome you do not so much as dreame of My Fathers Will must bee done Ioh. 4.34 I the Lord will bee their God and my seruant David shall be the Prince amongst them I the Lord haue spoken it Ezech. 34.24 Which that your eyes haue after
those persons who in lesse then sixe yeeres raigne of Queene Mary were famished for want of meate imprisoned dyed in prison forced to flye whipped tortured and tormented onely for matter of religion and some of these by the very handes of bloodie Bishoppe Bonner himselfe they would farre exceede the number of all such Priestes and Iesuites as the Papistes can produce to haue endured in England any kinde of torture or corporall punishment whatsoeuer for religon as they falsely pretend or otherwise for these fiftie and odde yeeres since Fourthly and lastly no Priestes are condemned simply for being Priests but if being borne his Maiesties subiects they shall take that order vppon them by authoritie deriued from the Sea of Rome and afterwards shall returne into his Maiesties Kingdomes to withdrawe and alienate the hearts of his subiectes for so they all doe from their due allegeance And for this lawe there is great reason For as Queene Elizabeth was formerly nominatim by the Pope Excommunicated and therevpon by the seducing of Priestes and Iesuites the firebrands of Christendome exposed both in her person and state to all daungers and treasonable practises that could by villaines bee deuised and her Kingdomes as the Papists hold subiect to the Popes disposing so likewise the Kings Maiestie although hee bee not for ought I knowe by the Pope by name excommunicated as yet as Queene Elizabeth was Yet by the generall excommunication whereby all Heretickes for such a one they hold his Maiestie to bee directly are anathematized hee standes at this instant excommunicated And therefore Papists holding opinions as they doe that it is lawfull for subiects to kill their Soueraignes and take armes against them so by the Pope excommunicated holding him no longer to bee their King by lawfull right of ruling then the Pope pleaseth which is onely thus qualified Rebus sic stantibus cùm deerunt vires as long as they needes must and that they dare doe no otherwise for feare of their neckes Is it not then great reason to you that in CHRIST haue learned to obey I speake that his maiestie should as neere as hee can preuent such daungers to himselfe and his State But here it may bee the Priests will reply and say Wee are bound by oath and therefore in conscience to goe whether soeuer those of whom wee receiue our Priestly Orders shall enioyne vs. But first answere me who enforced you thereto either to leaue your country or to take that order Did Queene Elizabeth doth King Iames doe you not that of your owne voluntarie wils contrarie to your own known countrie lawes Secondly whether that single sinnefull I may say Oath bee of sufficient authoritie to dissolue that treble bond of allegeance in which by being his Maiesties borne subiects you are bound by lawe diuine naturall and nationall Thirdly if you before knowing the daunger thereof will yet voluntarily take such oaths where then is the fault in the Prince that vppon good and warrantable grounds shall in a religious policie to preuent the hazard of his owne and his subiects states and liues cause such a lawe to bee enacted or in the Priestes that shall wilfully and in a resolute determination of working their countries ouerthrowe take such an oath And here for a shutting vp of all giue me leaue because the Papists hold so much of the Popes authoritie against Princes by him excommunicated to insert two questions with their answeres propounded by the right reuerend father in God the late Lord Bishoppe of London vnto Thomas Garnet Aliàs Roockwood Aliàs Sayer a Seminarie Priest at the time of the saide Garnets arraignement at the Sessions-house without Newgate in London vpon Thursday the 16. of Iune 1608. The first question was this Whether the saide Garnet had euer read any authors whatsoeuer vntill some hundreds of yeares after Christs time that did hold that the ende of Excommunication tended to a depriuation of life The second question was this Whether if the saide Garnet himselfe helde lands which by lawfull and lineall inheritance had descended from his auncestors vnto him it were lawfull for the Pope Garnet being by him excommunicated to giue the lands vnto whom hee pleased Garnets answere vnto the first was vncertaine for saide hee I remember not well what I haue reade concerning this point But vnto the second question hee answered directly Noe. Why then mildely replied the Bishoppe what reason haue you Maister Garnet to hold that the Pope hath more authoritie ouer the Kings Maiestie being your Soueraigne then ouer you being but a priuate person and his Subiect Garnets reioynder was silence hauing first by a concession in his owne case graunted that the Popes authorities was of no force herein Thus much for satisfaction in this point vnto all men out of the mouth of Thomas Garnet Seminarie Priest To this purpose see also Iohn Hart Seminary Priest his wordes in his Preface before his conference with Doctor Reignolds Nor may I here neglect that offer which Pope Paulus the fourth made vnto Queene Elizabeth in the beginning of her Raigne who when he perceiued that his vsurped authoritie and Primateship grew in England contemptible condicionally that hee might hold that power here that vniustly hee had before done when this land was drowned in Poperie would haue beene contented and caused the Queenes Maiestie to vnderstand that hee would be pleased that all matters for religion should be administred in the same manner that then they were being the very same then per omnia that now it is onely his Supremacie must bee acknowledged for that indeed not Religion not godlinesse not any thing but pride and ambition to be in the eyes of the world aboue all both was and is the cause of his raging madnesse But that noble spirited Queene whose religion was founded vpon a rock Christ Iesus being the chiefe corner stone by whom all her building was ioyned together scorned to be beholding to that Italian Priest for the exercise of that religion which were it lawfull by his dispensation she would and could by the power of God and her owne authoritie maintaine against him and all the power of darkenesse and hell it selfe without being beholding to him Let those Prince whose either Pusillanimitie or weaknes of their estates or small assurance of their subiects loues or want of courage to withstand his yoake of intrusion or whose vnlawfull mariages and thereby illicite issue and succession must bee legitimated by a more illegitimate dispensation from his vnholinesse that the power and sword of the one may vphold the authoritie of the other that his authoritie may reciprocally helpe to keepe that Crowne vpon the head of him and his successors who otherwise were thereof by their owne and Gods lawes vncapable verifying thereby that olde Prouerbe Clawe me and I will claw thee Let thy vsurped authoritie maintaine my illicite mariage and my power and purse shall maintaine
thy vsurped authoritie Let such as expect Donations of other Princes Kingdomes from their grand traÌ„slator of Empyres the Pope the diuels substitute as Philip the second of that name King of Spaine did vpon whom Pius Quintus or rather Impius intus the diuels vicegerent then at Rome conferred the Kingdome of England but all the craft was in the catching instanced and approued as an act lawfull by Azorius the Iesuite in his morall institutions part second booke eleuenth chapter the fift circa medium capitis Let such Princes I say adhere to the Pope subiugate their neckes to his trampling but let those whose cause is good succession lawful spirits more mâ—gnanimous and of a better mettall their subiects hearts generally firmely assured the word of God which is trueth it selfe on their side power and abilitie to withstand and offend him and all his vnholy confederates free Princes next vnder God in their owne Dominions Let these I say all learne of that renowned Queene Elizabeth this resolute saying rare amongst men but not to be paralleld by any woman If my religion be allowable if my mariage lawfull if my succession rightfull by the Popes Dispensation then is it so also without it and God willing I will maintaine it without him who of his power can make it no more lawfull or vnlawfull then of it selfe it is without him for against the word of God there lieth no Dispensation And let great Great Brittaines King make it known for an honour to him and his posteritie that great Elizaes spirit lodgeth in his Brest Though happie she in peace with God doth rest Thus holding Poperie to be an hotch-poch of new religion coyned in the mints of the Babylonish whore who contendeth to aduance her Kingdome aboue the Kingdome of Christ by all meanes that themselues or hell it selfe can inuent by crueltie by blood by deceit by abusing the word of God by equiuocation by what not yea she hath so taught her brats the Priestes and Iesuites and infinite others by them seduced to sweare and forsweare to promise and protest by whatsoeuer can bee named although they haue no purpose to make good any of their vowes in this kind as that they haue almost left no means whereby a man may be assured of anothers intentions although he vowe it neuer so seeming seriously Call to minde the great and serious protestations that Watson the Priest made in his Quodlibeticall questions That albeit he differed in religion from that which was professed in the Church of England yet if either Pope or Spaniard should seeke by hostile meanes to inuade his countrie hee would willingly spend his substance nay his dearest blood against any such as should attempt it and yet he himselfe was the first afterwards as I remember that came to the gallowes for violating it If I could find any thing that good is in either Priests or Iesuites I would commend them for it but because I cannot holding them all to bee traytors in heart vnto his Maiestie and their fauourers to be scarcely good subiects I will end for their coÌ„mendations with the words of a late but wittie Satyrist Fâ—uet illis quisquis de illis tacet FINIS a Vide Torturam Torti paginis 131.132 b Three conversions of Eng part 3. in many places c English Martyrologe by J. VV. Priest Anno. 1608. d VVatson and Clarke executed at VVinchester in An. 1603. Novemb. 29. Stowe Henry Garnet had 6. names to wit Gaâ—net VValley Darcy Roberts Farmer and Phillips Likewise Edward Hall alias Oldâ—orne Likewise Oswaâ—d Tesmund alias Greenway Likewise Thomas Garnet alias Rookwood alias Sayer with many others f Three conversions of England in page 426. and many pages therof besides Ianuary 7 Page 7. Ianuary 11. Page 10. Ianuary 14. Page 12. Ianuary 20. Page 18. February 3. Page 32. March 17. Page 17. Aprill 3. Page 86. Aprill 9. Page 92. May 2. Page 116. Maye 18. Maye 22. Page 134 Iune 2â— Page 167. Iuly 2. Page 178. Iuly 25. Page 202. August 6. Page 216. August 27. Page 233. September 7. Page 244. October 7. Page 372. October 8. Page 374. NoueÌ„ber 20. Page 320. DeceÌ„ber 23. Page 350. g D. Barlow in his answere to M. Broughton 1610. h The booke at large worthy to be writteÌ„ in letters of gould is this yeare newly and well printed by the Companie of Stationers in London The Miracles that god hath wrought for confirmation of his gospell Two miracles of miracles The 1. The 2. The Iesuits reported in Spaine that there was no such matter as the gun-powder Treason Related by the L Cooke at the Earle of Northumberl conviction in the Star-chaÌ„ber Iune 27. 1606. Childish and strawish Myracles In your supplication to the kings Maiestie Anno. 1603. An. 1604. in many places thereof as also in diuers other treasonable bookes since by you set forth and dispersed * Tortura Torti Page 83. The Starre-chamber Omne animi vitium tanto conspectus iâ— se crimeÌ„ habet quanto maior qui peccat habetur The now L. Cooke The Lord Archbishop of Cant. The word theÌ„ vsed was To hold an Axe ouer the Kings head The L. Zouch Vide Tortûrâ—Ì„ Torti Pag. 83. Promâ—ssa nescio quae commeÌ„ti sunt quae tamen nulla suerunt quod factuÌ„ nunquaÌ„ est id fuisse tamen factum in vulgus spargebant vide the Earle of Northamp printed speech at Garnets arraignment in pag. 1. of Aâ—a The Earle of Salisburie in his answere to certaine scandalous papers D. Reynolds in his preface before his coÌ„ference with Hart. D. Morton M. Stocke with many more Greenewell Garnet Reported at his arraignmeÌ„t in VVestminst Hall Ianu. 27. 1605 mentioned in the Earle of NorthamptoÌ„s speech in the first pag of L. Confessed vnder his owne hand in an examination openly read in the Star-chaÌ„ber at the coÌ„viction of the Earle of Northumbert Iun. 27. 1606. Confessed in diuers examinations vnder their hands openly read the time and place aforesayd Simile These forward spirits as they wold be thought for the Kings Succession would yet haue bereft vs of his head before the Crowne had adorned it Tortura Torti Page 84. See the Catholique supplication to the kings Maiestie in Ann. 1604 neere beginning thereof See your supplication to his Maiestie Anno. 1604. chap. 5. Also in the first part of Engl. three Conversions neere the beginning thereof Mentioned in M. Fox his booke of Martyrs in the very beginning of Q. Maries Raigne a Bristow in his motiues 15. Chap. 73 calleth these Martyrs Aboue 1000 of thes saythe lay Catholiques in their SuplicatioÌ„ to the Kings Maiestie 1604. abandoned their liuiÌ„gs rather then they would chaÌ„ge their religioÌ„ Also the three coÌ„uersions of England part the first page 264. a Three conuersions page 265. Of Priests aboue 100. haue Sealed the confession of their faith with blood within 40. yeeres A small nuÌ„ber in comparison of 278. martyrs in lesse then sixe yeeres a Vide Pope Sixtus the 5. his oration vpoÌ„ the death and murther of Henry the 3. French King by a Fryar Ne misericordia in inimicos fit crudelitas in se suosque a Printed in Anno 1608. as hee saith Permissu superiorum a Vide Fox his booke of Martyres in Queen Maries raigne b Vide the Lord Burleigh late Lord Treasurer his booke intituled Execution of Iustice for treason and not for Religion c Earle of Northampton in his priÌ„ted speech at Garnets arraignemeÌ„t in the fourth page of the letter GG d Their refusall of the Oath of allegeance proueth what they hold in this point and the Popes gift of Ireland to the King of Spaine mentioned by Azorius the Iesuite in his institut moral confirmeth it a Vide Faux his confession with others mentioned in the afore quoted page by the Earle of NorthaÌ„pton Confer also herewith Catesbies answere to Garnet in the last page of R. and also in the last page of T. of the former booke his words are If it were lawfull not to admitte of the Kings Maiesty at first warranted by the Popes Breeues then was it also lawfull to cast him out b This trebble bond theÌ„selues whiles they laboured to seeme good subiects acknowledged in their supplication to the Kings Maiâ—stie chap. 5. neere the end thereof Agreeable hereto is the Earle of Northamptons sound maxime in the last page of FF in his speech to Garnet c Scienti volenti non fit iniuria d Besides this Priestes confession agaiÌ„st themselues see also for thy better confirmation in this point the iudgement of two great Counsellors of state in their seuerall writings published by the Earle of Salisbury in his answere to certaine scandelous papers in the third page of C. and the Earle of Northampton in his speech at Garnets Arraignement in the letter HH in diuers pages thereof e This Thomas Garnet is the last that our Pseudomartyrologist I. W. Priest hath noted in his Beadroll to haue suffered in King Iames his raigne a D. Reignolds conference with Harts in Harts owne Preface therto b Relation of the state of religion in the west part of the world neere the beginning therof b Azorius in his institutions part 2. booke 11. chapt 5. a A strange thing that the Pope claiming to bee but Christs Vicar should yet challenge a larger power theÌ„ euer Christ himselfe did for Christ confessed that his Kingdome was not of this world and yet the Pope will be a disposer and setter vp and puller downe of Kings and Kingdomes at his pleasure b In his booke of Quodlibets c Here was Mel in ore fel in corde a smooth tongue but a treacherous heart d Conclaue Ignati in Apologia pro Iesuitis ad finem libri adiecta