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A13961	The fierie tryall of Gods saints (these suffered for the witnes of Iesus, and for the word of God, (vnder Queene Mary,) who did not worship the Beast ... As a counter-poyze to I.W. priest his English martyrologe. And the detestable ends of popish traytors: (these are of Sathans synagogue, calling themselues Iewes (or Catholiques) but lie and are not ... Set downe in a comparatiue collection of both their sufferings. Herewith also the concurrance and agreement of the raignes of the kings of England and Scotland, since the first yeare of Q. Mary, till this present, the like before not extant.	Burton, Francis, fl. 1603-1617.	1612 (1612)	STC 24270; ESTC S118537	37,474	82

words of an Honorable Counsellor even the most jmpudent brazen faced amongst you shew any the least prints if you can of bloudy 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 miscreant 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 soule 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 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 purpose 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 profes●ors 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 44. yeares after that seene accomplished do ye and your vn-holy father the Pope fret out your heart-strings for so God blesse curse ye and spare not but let all good and faithfull subiects say alwaies The Lords name be praised Her own words worthy to be written in letters of gold are recorded by Io. Stow in his Annalls of Eng. in the beginning of her raign And to draw to an end with you because you harpe so much vppon two strings to wit breach of promise and bloudshedding remember the vowes that Queene Marie made to the Suffolke men by whose ayd shee was setled in her Kingdome and her violation thereof although not forced therto by any Conspiracy of the Gospellers then or any attempt by persons different to her in religion against her person after her right once proclaimed and withall forget not how much bloud her breach of promise cost and hauing waighed both in an equall ballance of an jmpartiall and not prejudicate judgement If then you justly can vrge both and spare not but in the meane space view in the Table following with the eyes of pittie the Catalogue of them whose bloud was by her and her bloudy Ministers so cruelly only for religion shed and exhausted And so wishing that you would be but little hoping that you will be good Subiects vnto his Majestie as I found you so I leaue you voyd of Religion emptie of honesty By him that affoords you as good means to know me as your Martyrologist hath done me to know him This knot doth showe If thou would'st know The Authors name Then it vntye And him descrye Or your Priest blame For had he set his name to his Then had I mine also to this ❧ A Briefe Collection of such Martyrs as within the lesse than six yeares Bloudy Raigne of Queene Mary were burned in England for the profession of the Gospell of Christ Iesus ¶ Opposed to the following English-Romish Martyrologe of I. W. Priest ❀ Drawen jnto such an order as that at one viewe you may behold the yeare of our L God the yeares of the Princes Raignes both of England and Scotland the Names of those that suffered the day and moneth wherein they suffered and the places of their suffering ¶ A Table very necessary for all Lawyers Scriueners Clarkes or whosoeuer else desire vpon any occasion to know how the double account of the yeares of the Raignes of the Princes of England and Scotland since the first yeare of Queene Marie vntill this present yeare of our Lord 1611. doe agree and concurre The like before not extant ¶ But more especially published to prooue vnto the vnderstanding of the most simple that Poperie is a false Bloudy Antichristian and Mercilesse Religion whose professors delight in shedding the Bloud of Gods Saints and on the contrary that the Gospell which we now in England professe is the Truth and hath for truth beene confirmed with the bloud of many more Martyrs in lesse then sixe yeares space then this Popish Priest in his Martyloge with any shew of truth can though falsely pretend to haue suffered in England for Religion in 50. yeares since THE FIERIE TRYALL OF GODS SAINTS ¶ These are they who were killed for the word of God and for the Testimonie which they maintained Revel 6. 9. Who crye with a loud Voyce ❀ How long Lord which art holy and true doest thou not judge and auenge our bloud on them that dwell on the Earth Reuel 6. 10. ❀ And these liue and Raigne with Christ and are Blessed because they Dyed in the Lord. Revel 14. 13. The yere of our L. God begining by this account Mar. 25 Q. Mary her Rai of Engl. beginning Iuly 6. 1553. Q. Mary her Raig of Scotlād begining Decē 18 1542. The Names of such Martyrs as were burned in Eng. in Q. Maries Raign for the profession of the Gospell The day of the mōneth wherin they suffered The places where they suffered 1553. Iuly 6. Mariae Angli 1 Decē 18 Mariae Scot. 12.       1554. Iuly 6. Mariae Angli 2 Decē 18. Mariae Scot. 13 Iohn Rogers burned Feb. 4. in Smithfield Lawrence Sanders burned 8. at Coventry Io Hooper Bish of Worcest and Gloucest bur 9. at Gloucester D. Taylor burned eodem die at Hadley Tho Tomkins burned Mar. 16. in Smithfield 1555. Iuly 6. Mariae Angli 3 Decē 18 Mariae Scot. 14. William Hunter bur Mar. 26. at Burntwod Tho Higbed bur eodem die at Horndon Thomas Cawston bur eodem die at Rayly William Piggot burned 28 at Braintree Stephen Knight bur eodem die at Mauldon Iohn Lawrence bur 29 at Colchester D. Farrar Bish of S. Dauids bu 30 at Carmarthē Rawlins White bur eod fe tēp at Cardiffe George Marsh bur Aprill 24 at Westchest William Flower bur eodem die at Westminst Io. Cardmaker Io. warne b. May 30. in Smithfield Io. Simson bur June 10. at Rochford Io. Ardley bur June 10. at Rayly Tho Hawkes bur June 10. at Coxhall Tho. Wats bu June 10. at Chelmsford Iohn Tooly digged out of his graue bur eod fe tēp   Nicholas Chamberlaine bur June 14. at Colchester Thomas Osmund bur 15. at Māniugtre William Bamford bur 15. at Harwicke Io. Bradford Io Leafe bur 15. in Smithfield Ioh. Bland Io. Frankesh Nicholas Sheterden Hum Middleton bur July 12. at Cāterbury Margerie Pullie Nicho. Hall   at Tunbridge Christo Waide bur 19. at Rochester Dirrick Caruer bur 22. at Lewis in S Tho. Iueson bur eod se tēp at Chichester Iames Abbes bur August 2. at Bury Ioh. Denly bur 8. at Vxbridge George Tankervile bur 26. at S. Albons Patrick Packhingham bur 28. at Saffron-walden Iohn Newman bur 31.   Rich Hooke bur eodē mēse

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 antequàm 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 set 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 onely 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 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 religion 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

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 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 L L. 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