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A17869 A particular declaration or testimony, of the vndutifull and traiterous affection borne against her Maiestie by Edmond Campion Iesuite, and other condemned priestes witnessed by their owne confessions: in reproofe of those slanderous bookes & libels deliuered out to the contrary by such as are malitiously affected towards her Maiestie and the state. Published by authoritie. Campion, Edmund, Saint, 1540-1581. 1582 (1582) STC 4536; ESTC S107506 10,643 30

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Catholicam egregie confessi sunt multi eorum animas pro fratribus qui summus est charitatis gradus posuerunt reliqui seipsos tum ex haereseos tum ex peccati seruitute in libertatem vendicarunt eam qua Christus nos liberauit That is to say The purposes or endeuors of these Noblemen were to be praysed which wanted not their certaine and happy successe For though they were not able to drawe the soules of all their brethren out of the pitte of schisme yet both they themselues nobly confessed the Catholique faith many of them gaue their liues for their brethren which is the hyest degree of Charitie and the rest of them reskued themselues from the bondage both of schisme of sinne into that freedome wherewith Christ hath made vs free Bristowe in his booke of Motiues published with allowance of Doctor Allen in the 15. Motiue fol. 72. c. 73. FOr a full answere to them all although the very naming of our Catholique Martyrs euen of this our time to any reasonable man may suffice as the B. of Rochester Sir Thomas Moore the Monks of the Charterhouse with many moe vnder King Henry and now of late time all our holy Martyrs that haue bene and dayly are made by losse of their liuings by poyson by whipping by famishing by banishment Bishops Priests Deanes Archdeacons Canons Ecclesiasticall persons of all sortes Knightes Esquires Gentlemen laymen of all sortes so many likewise that haue openly suffered the good Earle of Northumberland D. Storie Felton the Nortons M. Woodhouse M. Plumtree and so many hundreths of the Northren men such men both in their life and at their death as neither the enemies haue to stayne them as their owne consciences their owne talke and the worlde it selfe doeth beare good witnesse many of them also and therefore all of them because of their owne cause being by God himselfe approoued by miracles most vndoubted Although I saye no reasonable man will thinke those stinking Martyrs of the heretiques worthy in any respect to be compared with these most glorious Martyrs of the Catholiques yet supposing c. Sanders lib. 7. pag. 732. SPeaking of the Northren commotion he saith Certè quidem illud miraculo imputetur necesse est quòd cum viri ferè quingenti exijs qui arma pro fide sumpserunt ab haereticis capti morte affecti essent nemo illorum repertus sit qui aut fidem Catholicam deseruerit aut belli eius authores alicuius culpae accusarit that is to say Verely this must needes be imputed to a miracle that whereas nere fiue hundred men of those that tooke armes for the faith were taken and put to death by the heretiques yet there hath not bene founde any one of them which hath either forsaken the Catholique faith or hath accused of any blame the authors of that warre And a litle after Nobile etiam Martyrium in eadem causa subierunt duo viri Nobiles de familia Nortonorum ex quibus alter dicebatur Thomas Nortonus alter verò Christopherus Christopherus quidē Thomae nepos erat ex fratre ille autem huic patruus Qui ambo nec à fide sua dimoueri nec vt Elizabetham confiterentur legitimam Reginam adduci potuerunt c. That is to say There suffered also a noble martyrdome in the same cause two worshipfull Gentlemen of y e house of Nortons of whome the one was called Thomas Norton the other Christopher and Christopher was Thomas his brothers sonne and Thomas was Christophers Vncle which both could neither be remooued from their faith nor be brought to confesse Elizabeth to be lawfull Queene Sanders lib. 7. pag. 734. AFter a long recitall of the causes that moued Pius quintus to excommunicate her Maiesty he sayth De Apostolicae potestatis plenitudine declarauit praedictam Elizabethā haereticam haereticorum fautricem eique adhaerentes in praedictis Anathematis sententiam incurrisse Quin etiam praetenso regni praedicti iure necnon omni quocunque dominio dignitate priuilegioque priuatam Itemque proceres subditos populos dicti regni ac caeteros omnes qui illi quomodocunque iurauerunt a Iuramento huiusmodi ac omni prorsus dominij fidelitatis obsequij debito perpetuo absolutos prout illos tunc sententiae suae authoritate absoluit priuauit eandem Elizabeth praetenso iure regni alijsque omnibus supradictis praecepitque interdixit vniuersis singulis Proceribus subditis populis alijs praedictis ne illi eiusue monitis mādatis aut legibus auderēt obedire Qui secus agerent eos simili anathematis sentētia innodauit That is to say Of the fulnesse of Apostolike power hath declared the said Elizabeth an heretike and a fauourer of heretikes and that such as adhere vnto her in the promisses haue incurred the sentence of Anathema accursed Moreouer that she is depriued of her pretensed right of the said kingdom and also of al and whatsoeuer dominion dignitie priuiledge Furthermore that the nobles subiects and peoples of the said Realme and all other which any wise whatsoeuer haue taken othe vnto her are assoyled for euer from such othe and vtterly from all duetie of allegeance fidelitie and obedience euen as he then assoyled them by authoritie of his sentence and depriued the same Elizabeth of her pretensed right of the kingdom and all other things aboue sayd And he hath commaunded and forbidden all and euery the nobles subiectes peoples and other aforesayde that they be not so bolde to obey her or her aduertisements commaundements or lawes and whosoeuer otherwise do he hath bounde with like sentence of curse Bristowe in his 6. motiue fol. 31. WHereby it is manifest that they do miserably forget them selues who feare not excommunications of Pius quintus of holy memorie in whome Christ him selfe to haue spoken and excommunicated as in Saint Paul they might consider by the miracles that Christ by him as by Saint Paul did worke In his 40. motiue vnder the title obedient subiectes ANd if at any time it happen after long toleration humble beseeching and often admonition of very wicked and notorious Apostates and heretiques no other hope of amendement appearing but the filthie daily more and more defiling him selfe and others to the huge great heape of their owne damnation that after all this the soueraigne authoritie of our common pastor in religion for the sauing of soules do duely discharge vs from subiection and the Prince offender from his dominion with such griefe of the heart it is both done of the Pastor and taken of the people as if a man should haue cut off from his bodie for to saue the whole some most principall but rotten part thereof Sanders lib. 7. fol. 744. VNder this title Insigne martyrium Iohannis Feltoni The honourable martyrdome of Iohn Felton c. he sayth of Felton in this maner Is enim Catholicae fidei studio zeloque adductus cùm