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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A01219	An oration against the vnlawfull insurrections of the protestantes of our time, vnder pretence to refourme religion Made and pronounced in Latin, in the Schole of Artes at Louaine, the .xiij. of December. Anno. 1565. By Peter Frarin of Andwerp, M. of Arte, and Bacheler of both lawes. And now translated [by John Fowler] into English, with the aduise of the author.; Oratio Petri Frarini quod male reformandae religionis nomine arma sumpserunt sectarii nostri temporis habita. English	Frarinus, Petrus.; Fowler, John, 1537-1579.	1566 (1566)	STC 11333; ESTC S112684	57,035	182

and a dog an adder a cocke and an Ape w tin the bag with him and being so beset and accompanied with those vgly dismold and deadly mates packed about him was cast aliue into the sea if it were nigh els into the next riuer So y t being yet aliue he lost the vse and seruice of al y ● foure elements at ones the aier the fire the earth y e water because he had bereued that man of his life by whose benifite he was brought to the world and to the vse of all these And this strainge kind of most shameful ignominious punishment death was executed only vpon those y t had killed their parēts for their vnnatural vile and abhominable offense But this mā y t was put to so strainge filthy infamous kind of most cruel death who was cōpelled against nature to eat his owne flesh which euery man spareth and cherisheth haue bene of likelihood giltie of such so great so vilanouse a trespace that excepte he had bene rydde out of the waye and put to the moste cruell death that coulde be inuented the whole frame of all the world must nedes haue fallen downe and perysshed And yet to this miserable man who shalbe spoken of hereafter to y ● worldes end and be peraduenture the rufull argument and lamentable matter of tragicall stages this only faulte was laied that he was a Christian man a Catholike a Priest It was againste theyr will that y ● Ministers of the Gospell punished him so cruelly but yet for Reformations sake they could not chuse but of necessity do it For reformations sake also I doubt not as the Reformed brethren in Christ doe fondly beleue they sacked spoiled threw doune to the grounde the most Christian Kings house at Orleans and the goodly Temple of S. Anian that stoode by it buylded with Princely worke of y t kings charges and al the faire and riche Churches of that noble and renoumed Citie excepte certaine litle Churches whiche they spared to put in their Harnesse Artiliary and prouision for Warre and the chiefe Cathedrall Churche S. Crosse which they reserued standing but yet all to rifled rased and mangled to preach in and to be the place of their dailye walke for recreation The Englishe men who by the lawe of armes by manhode princely prowesse and force of warre had conquered and wonne well nigh all Fraunce could neuer ouercome and get the strong mighty and most defensed walles and rampiers of Orleans But this Gospellish Refourmation in this last Insurrection in Fraunce hath filled vp the Ditches with earth stones and rubbell hath throwen downe to the ground the surest towres the strongest Bulwarkes all the defense of the Towne and all the stronge holdes and Fortresses round about they haue made the Walles so flat and plaine that in sundry places Cartes and Horses may cas●y passe ouer yea they haue brought al the goodly streates Suburbes Vines about the Towne to a bare barein and naked field The moste Christian king Lewys the eleuenth his body was buried Honorably and princely in a goodly tumbe richly garnished with his Image grauen on the outside in our Lady Church at Clery foure leagues from Orleans For reformations sake they did hew the kinges Image in peeces cut of his armes feete and head and when they thoughte they had sufficiently punished the Image they open the sumptuous honorable graue pluck vp the kinges body out of the lead wherein it was enclosed caste it into the fire and burne it and at laste they spoyle the goodly Church that was trimly builded with costly and faire worke they vncouered the toppe of it and caste it quite downe For Refourmations sake the harte of good king Francis the second who died lately poysoned as it is thought by the meanes of these Gospellers that was buried before the highe Aultare in the Churche of S. Crosse at Orleans was digged out of the ground broyled on a grediern and at last burned For Reformatiōs sake Orleās Roan Lions and many other rich Townes in Fraunce the whiche florished sometime with great traficke of marchaundise are brought to extreame pouertye and miserable lacke and scarcitie of all things necessary And haue fewer occupiers porer Marchauntes and are lesse hanted then euer they were before in any mannes remembraunce How many parents bereaued of their children how many children benummed of their Parentes how many Widowes weping for y e death of their husbāds how many Burgises turned out of house and home are nowe to be sene commonlie in Fraunce latelye reformed and all for reformations sake S. Peter had neither golde nor siluer nor yet passed vpō the getting of any he gaue to y ● pore man that asked his almes helth in stede of money But these newe Postles the disciples of Iudas Iscarioth and Simon Magus who trauail toth nail not to alter change but to abolishe and take quite and cleane away both law and Priesthode haue exceadinge greate store of gold and syluer which they scraped and gathered together by robbinge and spoiling and sacrilegiouse ●acking of Churches and yet they geue neither money nor helth to such as ask their almes they feede them with faire wordes and geue them sometymes stripes blowes wondes and most cruell death in steed of almes They say that the Cleargie is to riche and therefore they take away both from them and from the laietie also without respect or partialitie such hindrance letles impedimentes of pietie deuotion and perfection And they them selues in the meane tyme good men doe beare patiently vpon their neckes the synnes of the people and al this traish mucke and heauie burdens They throw down townes and Cities ouerthrow Temples and Churches to get gold without the which theyr Gospell can not be planted the world can not be refourmed yea they go into y ● bowelles and bottome of the earthe They robbe the dead to fill theyr owne purses they open and breake vp sepulchres and graues to haue y ● very lead wherein dead mens bodies bones and asshes are wrapped What tounge is able to expresse in wordes the spoile saccage and ruines of the Churches of Poictiers Lions and of other townes in al quarters of France This is moste certaine that Beza and his companions Theeues curthrotes like him selfe stole out of the Churches and Vesteries at Tours two thousand markes in syluer and a thousand marke in gold besides pretiouse stones chaines and other Iewels and ornamentes of greate valew yea and that with suche a rage such an vnmeasurable desyre and outragiouse couetousnes such a furiouse affection and thyrste of stealing and hauinge that they scratched all that euer they could by anie meanes and lefte not as much as a naile or peece of yron behinde them And bysydes all this the Holy Beza dubbled this myscheuous robbery of his with an other enormous outrage so haynouse and greate that no condigne and worthy ponisshment