The seditious and blasphemous Oration of Cardinal Pole both against god & his Country which he directid to th'emperor in his book entituled the defence of the ecclesiastical unity, moving theemperour therein to seek the destruction of England and all those which had professid the gospele ☞  
Translated into english by Fabyane withers.  
Reed all and than judge.   

Fabyan withers to the gentle reader.  
IF in times past the ancient historiographers ye eve the profane authors have thought it meet either to extol or abase to praise or dispraise such as in their days and times have been either grate or in grate beneficial or noisome to their common walth how much mor in these our days in thee which the true light of the gospel shineth amongst us and christian love & charity should flourish aught we to direct and disclose all such unto our posterities the which have not only gone about to seek the uter destruction and ruin of their own native Country and common wealth by inflaming and incensing prince against prince but also that which more (yea worse) is hath not fear it contrary to his own forimer professions and confessions most shanfuly & abominably to backbite and slander Christ himself his gospel and his true followers, as thauctors of all mischiefs seditious and tumults, Such a man was Renold Pole an english Cardinal but not as then of england who in the year of our Lord. M. D. xxxvi. being sent ambassador from the pope to the french king for to entreat appease was thought in this his ambassade to go about nothing else (then as by this his oration appeareth) to stir up and sow dissension malice & discord Such was his Good will that he bore to his native country and common wealth that for his own advantage and preferment he desirid (yea & procurid) as much as in him lay the uter subversion & ruin of the same, & to proceed whereas you shall read after in Athanasius gloze that at what time he was in Germani at Augusta and there was lodgid in the pastors house he said that he did very well allow and agree unto all their doctrine & that he would declare no less if there were Any covocations or common councils holden. Now be hold the great and double dissimulation of this holy hypocrite who albeit that before in his ambassade under the pretence of intreati for peace had gone about nothing else then to move and stir up discord and wars, even now again at his return unto Rome fearid not to dissemble and cloak even with God himself, for although as before you have hard he semid not to be ignorant of the truth yet when he was come to Rome (whether he were suspectid of Lutheranysme and to avoid the suspicion there of or no, or else that he did it to gratify the pope with all) he wrote a book against king Henry th'eighteight king of England entitled the defence of the unity of the church in the which book he converting his style unto th'emperor he includid this most detestable pestiferous yea and seditious oration against the king of England unto whom he was not only most near joined in affiniti and kindred but also as he himself confesseth most greatly bounden for his education and literature But now mark I pray you how the prick of his own consciens caused him to display his own hypocrisy when he had written this book he cansid it to be imprintid at Rome at his own propet costs and charges and when they were thus printed he fearing lest if they should be carried a broad and come unto the hands of such unto whom he had before professid the contrari that then it would torn to his great ignominy and reproach took all the books into his own hands & set none of them abroad saving a few which he gave unto the pope & certain cardinals whome he knew very well would allow his doings, Sed nihil occultum quod non revelabitur. For God would not suffer his church to be so much abused or deceived by his hypocrisy but that at the length he would bring it to light for although these his doings whereby a long season kept close & secret yet at the length they came unto the hands of one or to in germany who hath set theme forth to the eyes of all men, And because all true english hearts should not be ignorant what a venomous viper they have of late nourished even in there own bosoms which sought nothing else then to knaw asunder the bowels and to destory his mother and country, I have for the use & comodyty of all men translatid this his oration into english the which my labours & travails in this behalf bestowid and taken if they may reapethonly fruits of thankfulness in accepting the same, It shall cause me with more speed & greater diligence seek to gratify the again with most pleasant and godly histories to thy great delectation & comfort. now gentle reader that I have some what declared unto you th'original & cause with the time & please of this his oration with also his manner & form in setting forth of the same I will cease to be any longer tedious unto you referring it to your own discretion to judge upon the oration as you shall think the matter doth require thus wishing unto the all virtuous success in godliness I comytt the to the tuition of almighty God.  
F. W.   

Verily I do witness both the love of my country the which nature hath wrought in me & also the zeal of the church the which the son of god hath kindelid in my heart, and can by no means be expulsed or laid away. That if I understood or knew that Cesare with all his navy had already entered and taken the seas & had directid his course to wards constantinople the chiefest palais & force of the great turk. Yea albe it, all the perylls & dangers of the world were present & set before me, I would never rest nor stay until that I might come unto his presence although he had already entered the straights of hell spontus to th'end I might have convenient opportunity to talk with him before whom I would burst out and speak in this manner Cesar what dost thou go about, or what dost thou intend whether wilt thou go or sail with this thy great navy & furniture if the love of the Christian Common wealth do so much move thee, that thou wouldest assail and invade the king of turks being an ancient enemy unto the name of Christ, were it not much more meet & better for thee to convert & turn thy hole force and power, that ways from whence a greater danger is imynent unto our common wealth from whence also a present mischief and a new enemy much more grievous and worse than the turk, doth vex and grieve us, You for so much as you see so many thousands of christians, oppressed with the most vile & hard servitude & bondage of the turks you do think it a worthy & notable act to deliver them and to restore them unto liberti the which in deed is no less than praise worthy but if you count this so laudable a thing how much more glorious & praise worthy were it to redeem & release so many thousands of souls being even in present peril and danger being also violently rapt and taken away out of the lap or bosom of the church and even now brought into great doubt & danger of salvation and to restore the same again unto the church & faith of christ. such is the peril which is imminent and hanging over our heads & the enemy also which goeth about and hath brought a great part of the same to pass, is such a one as thou canst not excuse thyself o Cesar but to understand and know the same. The which thing as it is most laudable so doth it also apere most necessari first to provide and seek remedy for this mischief which is now sprung & growing upon us before thou provide or seek for the liberty of the body, & verily it is so much the more necessary that except, you immediately resist and with stand this mischief all that you now go about is but in vain although you should subdue all asai & expulsing the turks from thence you should return a conqueror. I pray you what shall you then have profited when in place of them whom you have expulsid out of asia new turks be risen and sprung up amongst us at home for what other thing are the turks than a certain sect of christians, 
New Turks.  which in time paste have shrounk and gone a way from the catholic church. Nether do thee turks, hate or abhor the name of Christ or reject his gospel but as the arrianes did in times past they take away that dignity from Christ that he should be thee son of God, 
The ariam  with many other things which they have taken of the arrianes howbeit thy affirm christ to be a great prophet, and also own no small reverence unto his mother marry. The original and beginning of the turks religion is all one with all other heresies. 
●ho●igiyal of the turks religion.  They were the first which went away from the church forsaking and denienge him to be the head which was ordained and left by Christ and so by little & little they utterly declined & swerved from the doctrine of Christ. what should I say more, do you you not see how largley & abundantly this turkish seed is spread and sown amongst us. I would to god it were so small that you could not perceive it. But you have seen that which is greatly to be sorovid even in your owen country of germany, but as yet there is not the plain turkish seed, 
The Turkish seed in ●ermany.  because it is not yet sown or spread neither by public authority neither yet by commandment of any one which hath rule or power over others to compel them unto it, and therefore it is not utterly to be despaired but that the true germane church of the germans having oppressed this adulterous & naughty seed may flourish and spring again and bring forth the true & abundant fruits of the catholic faith.  
So likewise in England where as in time past true religion did also flourish now is this seed so sown and strengthened by thanctorytuy of one man that it can starsly be discernid from the turkish seed and to thin tent that that which is alredi sown should have the better increase it is defended with the sword, and with the sword they answer all that is obiectid against it and this is the very turkish manner & thus their sect doth in crese and grow But in this point it doth differ from the turks for so much as the turks sect doth compel no man unto their opinion for he that doth not impugn there religion although he be of a clean contrary opinion he may live in safety amongst them and they do also much reverence and honour good men although they be of contrary religion. The which thing the greek monks which inhabit the mont Athusdo witness to be true whom the turkish emperor himself doth much set by, in so much that he doth often send such as have offended unto them that they should pray for them and commend them in their prayers unto almighty God unto whom he believeth the are most dearly beloved and in Favour, No man truly under all his hole emprye or dominion and of what sect soever he be if he keep his tongue is in any manner of peril or danger, But where as this new and pestiferous seed is now there is no less punishment or danger for them that keep silence them for such as most impugn and strive against them, behold. Thomas Moor who alone in virtue & Learning did chiefly. excel he was put to death for his silence, monks in lykwyse the more holy & relygeous they seem to be the more they are in danger so that finally all men's tongues are stopped by fear of the swear. what would you desire more o Cesar when thes goodly begynyngs this violence and cruelti which is exercised against holy men doth sufficntly show what peril and danger is risen to the church by denying and refusing the head of the church.  
Ye the turks themselves against whom thou dost prepare wars may be an example for thee, the which having this path or way opened unto them have attemptid to oppress and overthorw the church of christ when as they reiectid and cast of thauthority of the superme head & in stead there of have brought in the force and rigour of the.  
Sword thorough the which they have so long a time defended themselves that it is to late for the church to seek for, or call home her children again which have already forgotten their mother. If the turkish sect, do not sufficiently declare unto you the greatness & hougenes of the peril which I have spoken of before. Germany it self doth show it abundantly if thou dost consider with thyself how quiet, how peaceable, and religious a prounce it hath been in times passed, and finally how plentiful and abundant it was in all things, so long as it contynwed in the unity of the church. contrariwise if you do mark these late days or times in the which it is vexed and troubled with intestine and civil wars after that it had refused & reiectid the head of the church it is so tossed & troubled that all hope of recovery or end of there mischiefs is utterly passed except (as god grant they may) they do return again to thee unity of their head and church. Verily this acknowledging of one head or Governor hath always beneath most sure and strong fort and defence of the church. This the heretics above all things do chiefly assail & invade this same the catholics do always defend, yea and Cesar himself. like wise of late was it also defended in England even, of the nobles being the children of the church in so murch that they thought it better to offer there maked bodies unto the weapons of their enemies rather than they would forsake that only fort and strong hold the which being once subdued & overcome th'enemies of christ mighty have easy passage to assail & overthrow the church Notwithstanding they have vaanquissed and slain diverse mighty men children of the church which sought to with stand them. The which thing it is no▪ marvel though it come so to pass for so much as tehnemies have a king to bether gwyde and Capytaine. As yet in all the great miseries and calamities which have happened unto the church there was never no king which had conceived any perverse or contagious opinion against the same, but now it hath so invadid the heart of our king that he doth defend and maintain this his sect even by thee very same means as the turk doth mohammed showing & shaking his nakid and drawenswerd unto all such as dare once dissent or disagree from him. Nether doth he so much desire any thing as that he might have time and space to confirm and establish himself that he might bring a greater mischief and plague upon the church than hath at any time before been wrought by any turk and severely he will do nolesse if he obtain that which he doth desire and go about.  
Wilt thou then o Cesar: which sayest that thou bearest such a zeal and love unto the christian common wealth that thou wilt do allthings for thee lovee thereof, grant or give him this time & space, Seing this part of the Common wealth thus vexed crying and calling for thy help aid & succour seeing their ruin so near that remedi can not be any more prolonged if it should any thing at all profit.  
But you covert your hole force and pour another ways so that what thorough your far distance & absence and your doubtful wars against so mighty an enemy all hope is utterly taken away that you can by any means help or secure us in seson as them whom you go now to deliver out of bondage, wilt thou then o Cesar frustrate th'expectation of all thy friends especially seeing that the trust and confidence which thy have in you is th'only cause why the have not as yet tried there owen force and power at home neither have attemptid to defend themselves by their own strength. do not think Cesar that all the noble spirits and Courages are gone out of the english men's hearts neither judge that all the love of sincere & pure religion is utterly extinct in them. A sure coniectour & trial you may have her of by the death of them which will nigly have yielded themselves to their enemyeiss to be offered up for religion's sake. If god in the time of helias the prophet preseruide seven thousand men which had not bowed their knes unto baal from thee wicked Achab when they should have been slain through the persuasion of his wicked wife jezabel, do not think that in this time in the which the grace of the holy ghost is much more spread abroad that this wicked jezabel though she be never so swift unto slaughter could have put to death all the true worshippers of religion. Believe me there remain yet hold legions in England of those which have not bowed their knees unto Baal whom, wholly and altogether if thou do come God himself which hath preservid them will bring them unto you. The englishmen oh Cesar are even the very same which for a much lighter cause even themselves wihout any external help or aid have taken vengeance on their owen kings for the evil administration of the common wealth. They which also have called their kings to account for the wasteful spending of their money to thee damage of the common wealth and when they could not approve & justify the same they compelled them to resign both crown and strepter whose coragions and stout stomachs for so much as they do yet remain nothing doth stay neither hath stayed them a great while from revenging thinium of their king but only the hope & expectation which they had in you. unto whom they thought this matter so much to pertain, that except you would defraud your, own nature, which by many your worthy acts they were persuaded to be most noble or else that you would set a side all love of religion the which it hath appeared you to be most studions & desirous of: that they were assured that you could not but you must neds take this matter or cause upon you. For they suppose vereley that through you their evil may much more easili with less trouble and danger, unto the kingdom be remedied and withstand, then if they themselves should have attemptid it with their owen power & there in surely they judge well and worthily do look for you. But whether now o Cesar dost thou flay so far from them, what thing doth draw the away so far from thy friends leving so great an occasion ministered the at home and to go where there is less danger. do thy soldiers draw the that way? Or is their wills more bend toward thee affairs of th'east part where their ancient enemies are then to ward the west where new enemies are Risen?  
What soldiers be they o Cesar? If they be the Spaniards to whom of Right thou dost much trust whose glory also in diverse battles hath largely apearid: Truly if they hard or saw that noble progeny or offspring of Isabel oppressed with misery and calamity in a most Just cause desiring or requiring their help and aid I know Cesar that the memory of that most worthy woman is not yet so far out of their mind that they would utterly frustrate the desires and requests of her most worthy daughter. I know there is nothing so acceptable unto them which they would not willingly refuse and Leave of to help this noble woman whom th'only honour of the knygdome of spain▪ which herein is chiefly sought would sufficiently move there unto if they did but only hear or understand, that the king of spain his daughter being by the space of twenty years coupled in marriage to be thrust out of the kings palace for a harlots cause as though she had been the daughter of some light person or of some bower or else had come by stealth from the further parts of barbary unto the kings chamber & not to have had so noble a king to her parent Or that she had ryghfully been given him to wife out of so noble a kingdom, would they with a quiet mind suffer so great a injury which scarcely man of the basest sort would bear or suffer. And where as their cane scarcely any man be found of so coverdly a stomach which would not by all means possible even with the peril of his life seek to revenge such an opprobri done unto his daughter: would not the Spaniards, whose valiant courages hath been experimented the semani years in sundry victories revenge the injury of their kings daughter, how I say can the noble nation of the spainyardes neglect or think any thing to be preferred before this so great an injury which doth both deface their victories and most manifestly assault your honour and the glory & renown of spain. what thing can be more ignominious or slanderous unto you then so much to esteem other nations that spain either will not or can not revenge such a contumelious iniuri done, unto them. But truly it can not so be thought. The which that thou mayst evidently know suffer me (o Cesar) only to speak unto thy soldiers and thou shalt see them all with one accord as soon as they shall here the daughter of queen Isabella and thy nephew once named desiring their aid and help ready if thou wilt suffer them to alter their, course and journey. But I (Cesar) require or desire nothing of the nor of thy soldiers for thy cosynne katherines sake. Nether will she any thing to be spoken in her behalf complaining nothing at all of her unfortunate estate but willingli beareth the unstability of fortune that which hath so showed her cruelty upon her that even in the time in the which thou didst most flourish & she ought to have floryshed & she was cast down into a most miserable state & condition, iea & by how much thy affairs did most succeed and go forward with thee: so much the more injuriously and grewosly she was handled and oppressed. But of herself privately she doth nothing complain or say neither of her one cause, it is for england oh Cesar that she complaineth to whom it is given into the which as a noble plant or graft she is translatid & grafted that which country also she ought to love as her own & truly doth it. For this Country she doth entreat for so much as her cause is so knit by all means possible with that cause of this most noble & her dearly be loved province, and country, that her cause being neglectid it must needs follow thee country also to be in most evil estate. More over what a peaceable and quiet province she found at her coming thither, and now how it is vexed with seditious and inward wars, thee which can not happen without her great hurt and detriment, for so much as her cause is so united and knit with religion: So that if she be forsaken, it must needs follow religion to be destitute, thee ancient faith of the church to be abolished and new sects to spring and rise, not only in the Island which she found most religious and holy: but also through the contagion of the same to infect and spread over all other countries & provinces, and thereby finally all the hole church to be perturbed and troubled. If this mischief be such that none can be more grievous, in the which alone all other mischiefs are conteynid and is seen, not by conjecture or guess as a tempest hanging our our heads, but perseaved to be even at hand and to be grown unto this point that no man's estate or condition is more dangerous in england than such as be most relyons and holy the which do retain and keep the ancient custom & faith of the church (who can be in safeguard there where as such examples of cruelty hath been showed upon those most holy men Rochester and More) if finally all these things (o Cesar) be such that it would move and stir the hearts of all princes and noble men to redress and amend the same she therefore doth requir the help and succour be not longer delay or kept back from the common wealth  
For so much as that common cause doth also privately touch her the which being the dougthter of ferdinando begottem of her mother Isabella and thy cosynne (o Cesar) especially if she have committed nothing unworthy her noble parents, her stock or kindred, or to the noble realm from whence she is come forth of, neither at any time in all her trouble was their any of her most cruel enemies so bold to object or lay any such thing against her wherefore (o Cesar) she doth desire and require thee for so much as God hath granted the such power & and riches that thou art able not only to receive & withstand thy mighty enemy the turk, who reigneth over so many kingdoms when he doth invade the but also darest provoke him unto war when he is at quiet: that thou wouldest first help in that part from whence a greater mischief than the turks is risen toward the Crystian common wealth where as also easy wictory with out any peril or danger is offered unto you. This she doth make intercessione for, even for thaffinity that is between her and you, for the honour of the kingdom of spain, unto thee which chief respect is had in this matter, and for the health of the cristian common wealth, she doth most humbly desire you that you will not think any thing, to be preferred before this most holy and public utilytis and oportuniti & unto your self privately most glorious and praise worthy when as you may even at one time augment both the honour of your own house or family the glori of the kingdom which hath made the renowned in so many and sundry, victories and also torn away the great ruin which is towards the cristian. Common wealth Such as in many years before the Like was never seen And especially for so much as what so ever thou shalt do in this part or behalf shall be as an instrument or help for the more better and easy performen of those things which now altogether as unready and out of season thou dost attempt and take in hand for these things being on's brought to pass and set in order thou shalt much more better and with less labour (thy power and strength being hereby rather increased then dymynished) attempt yea and bring to effect thy other afaires & entrepryses, but what do I now mean as being rapt & carried away with aboundans of matter I seem to have forgotten with whoome I do talk, thus I have knit up my oration unto Cesar as though I talked with Cesar and not with the o prince. Therefore that I may return from whence I have dygressid. etc.  
The end of the cardinals oration.   

The gloze of Athanasius upon the oration of Cardinal Poole made unto th'emperor.  
Thou dost transfygnre thyself into an angel of light be cause thou goest about to low most deadly poison.  
This is the general & natural sense of all the popish sect to count all them which have professed the gospel for turks and worse than turks for theridamas 
Paul. 3.  is a bryeff (as they call it carted) about of paulus the iii unto th'emperor and king of the Romans in the which the very same thing is affirmed so that who soever doth consider this oration shall easily presaeve that that also was made by the same cardinal  
The Souls which are taken out of the lap and tyranny of the popish church and restored unto the true church of christ such as are all they whom thou falsely callest Turks can be in no manner of peril and danger of Salvation but all such are in great danger the which agree and consent with the popish sect in so much that all hope of their salvation is past except they be drawn a way from thence by the mighty power of god  
Thou callest the preaching of the gospel a great mischief by cause you fear that the power and existimation of your pope's should be thereby be dymynyshed for as touching the Salvation or perdition of Souls what doth that partain unto you.  
Art thou not ashamid to call the most noble kings of england Denmark and gothia and so many famous princes of germani both for their birth authority & god lines so many consuls and rulers of the free cities and fynali so many good and learned men servants of jesus christ and ministers of the gospel new turks only upon this occasion because they having reseavid that pure knowledge and understanding of the word of God have forsaken all your superstitions and idolatries, doth the truth and charity 
The king which have embrosis. the gospel.  of the Son of god which thou faygnest to be so abundant in thy heart that thou canst not lay it away? teach or persuade the hereunto.  
Christ left none to be the head of the church but only himself unto whom only we most stick and cleave & utterly reject & refuse this your feigned head thee pope.  
Albeit thou hadst not expressed it thyself who did not plainly see that all those opprobries and taunts which in thy rage and madness thou hast obiectid and cast against the king of england to redound also to the great ignomyny and shame of the most noble princes of germany the which also with him have with drawn themselves from the yoke and obedience of thee pope's, 
The turkish seed is pestiferous & false.  notwithstanding thou like a most modest and sober Cardinal even of thabundance of thy heart wouldest also by name taunt and tear this country of germany, darest thou be so bold to afirme the holy gospel of jesus christ the which we preach & teach in our churches to be the adulterous and pestiferous turkish seed? do you think that we have so much for saken & cast away the catholic veriti, if these things be true which thou dost falsli affirm then truli the apostles & all the primitive church had not the catholic faith but that pestiferous and adulterous seed. Art thou not ashamed to affirm and fett these things in thy books, and whereas thou-saist thou dost hope that this nation will abject and cast of the pure and sincere doctrine of thee gospel and return again unto your corruption and idolatry thou art much deceived or that I think rather true, you do but fain yourself so to believe or think.  
I do verily grant that it is the turkish manner to answer with the sword against all such as speak in the name of christ & I do verily grant & acknowledge that their sect and relygyonis thereby augmented and incresid but I pray you see how prudent an orator you are to propoun this matter in your oration seeing thee pope himself doth daily answer the children of God and such as do profess christ with the sword gallows & fire & you yourself in your oration go about nothing else then to move or stir th'emperor to warts and to shed the blood of good and holy men have you not wisely declared herein the pope to play a right turks part and you yourself to have a turkish mind or stomach? 
The pope pla●●h the turks part.  The like words and to the same veri effect we have Red in the bryeff which I spoke of before So that now we do not doubt but that you did also set forth that most cruel sentence the which we once suposid to have been done by Cardinal Ceruimus when he was ambassador with 
Card cer.  th'emperor & as tutor of Cardinal farnesius but in the maene time thou dost pretend and show forth such a modesty in those thy four books in thee which thou dost boast thy self to abhor all contentions never to have been at controversy with any man and to have the love & Charity of God abundantly in thy mind the which thing in deed many have often supposed & thought to be in you but there is nothing hiden which shall not be opened, for thou hast betrayed thyself & hast uttrid that which thou hast long kept secrct in thy mind.  
Do you not thus reason that because thee turkish emperor doth much regard the monks therefore they do truly worship God and Christ? It is most comely and meet for you to judge & use th'authority of that tyrant as most holy, whose example of cruelty against the Children of God you do not only follow but far surmount.  
Noman doth believe the that Moor was put to death for his silence for so much as it is evedent that he was punished for a sedition or conspirasi raised by him but thou veryli art overslanderous a person through this thy hole book against the king unto whom, 
Moor.  thou art not only joined by affinytis or kindred but also didst confess thyself most bounden who also was ordained to be thy prince and head, by god but thou sayest thou wouldest correct his errors and vices, Admytt that they were vices, which had been comeli for the to correct where I pray you have you learnid that they ought to be correctid with such slanderous fierce words as is in your book printed at Rome that which not only this present age but also the posterity to come shalrede. would you have done this thing if that you had the charity and love of God so abundantly shut up & enclosed in your heart or mind?  
We know well enough that you call the. 
The charter house ●uon●h.  Cartuslans those most holy and religious monks the which had embraced a most diverse and contrary order from the gospel of Christ and most contaminate and defiled with false kind of worshippings and went about with to the and naill to defend and keep the same and therefore stirred the people to rebellion against their king.  
Thou now goest about to teach and persuade that the sect of the turks is sprung and Risen the which would owerthrow the church, 
The Po●●  by the refusal and denial of your head of Rome, 
Mahomet.  but hearken again what our judgment is here in verily that your worthy head was the cause that Mahomet could not only plant that this most filthy and wile sect but also bring it to such eficasitie and force. Do you demand the cause why for so much as thambition and covetousness of this your head was thonli cause of all those discords and wars out of the which this great mischief sprang and burst out. Further more we affirm that the pope's themselves sitting under that shadow and colour in the church of God and exalting themselves as it were above all gods to be more hurtfulle and noisome unto the true doctrine and faith of Christ then Mahohomet himself which is an open enemy there unto. wherefore it is not for the to go about to driu this dream into men's heads that the refusal of this most evil and naughty head hath bred and brought in somani mischiefs into the cristian religion. but we rather think that thoze mischiefs which are already rooted can by no means be taken away except that your false head be first abolished as the Rote and spring of all mischief. 
Germany  whereas you do straight annex that Germani was quiet and peaceable and abundant in all things So long as it continwed under thobediences of your pope's and that since they have reiectid and cast of that yoke of obediens all things to be turned into a worse estate thorder of the gloze doth not suffer us to answer in many words (which we will do else where) now we will briefli show that you pope's you cardinals and you bishops which cannot bear nor suffer the light of the gospel to be shevyd or preached 
Popes. Cardinal and bishops.  but rather desire to have it utterly extinct and hiden, you, I say both have been and at this present are th'only authors and stirrers up of all sedition discord and mischiefs wherefore lay the fault on your own necks and not upon the doctrine of christ. I pray you tell me where as you read often in the gospel and acts of apostles that cytis were moved to sedition & that there was great Uproars & tumults amongst the people who were thauthors or movers of the same was Christ or his apostles or the infideles and enemies of the truth. surely the misbelievers and not christ nor his apostles. wherefore you may be ashamid once to make mention or speak of those wars and myschieffes which you yourselves through your own endeavour have purposeli wrought and caused. 
Hungary  Further more where as you say that germani is vexed with many inconveniences and evils because it hath denied your hedwe answer that hungarye is much more tormented the which natwithstanding never denied or refused your pope. but do you not know that thorough the afflictions which happen both to the godly and ungodly we can judge whether we be in the favour of God or no.  
Do you not know that the wyckid idolaters in jeremy did utter even the like words that you now do when as they said. 
jeremy▪ 44.  since that we have left of to offer incense and burnt offerings unto thengine of heaven we have had need & scartytie of all things & are consumid with theswerd & hunger, all these things you know well enough and yet you strive against the plain and evident truth objecting those things which you now lai before the people only to diffame and slander the doctrine of our Lord jesus Christ as most pestilent and the Rote of all mischief but believe me thou shalt receive thy reward for god himself will not suffer this great offence which thou hast ministered unto all Europe to be unrevengid, few men judged in the that thou hadst such a rancour or madness in thy mind as now thou haste uttrid thyself to have by thy fourebokes which thou hast set forth for the defence of the pope. do you not remember that christ doth call and say that who soever doth offend but one of these little ones it were good for him to have a millstone hanged about his neck and to be throven into the bottom of the see. 
Offence.  we will in no wise suffer ourselves to drawn or plucked away from Christ but are most firmly contented with this only doctrine and him to be our only head and governor intending to cleave and stick unto thee same although you should stir up a thousand times greater wars and mischiefs than you have hither to raised yea although all thee world should serve and fall away, we would willingly bear the cross with Christ.  
Where as thou deniest any other king than yours to have refused this head thou art deceived for I have already remembered too other which have done the like even the most holy and virtuous kings of denmarke & gothia whom thou dost also call turks I pray you when you did write these things did you not cast in your mind that there might happen some man to come forth which might tripe you with a lie wherbi your name and estimation might be grealty hurt but this is verily the work of God that he might destroy the wisdom of the wise Again thou reprehendest the turk for shaking his teriblesword unto all such as dare ones dissentt from him the which surely you do very well repeat renwing in our memory and also reprehending that which your own pope doth even with much more cruelty and oftener than the turk. 
The pope the Turk.   
Here thou blowest thy trumpet saying unto Cesar convert thy navy put on thy armour and transuereat into britain and destroi that kingdom with fire and sword shed the blood of the king and his people yea and be most severely revenged upon them for they have for saken the pope to be their head. Is this acomely saying of so sober, & holy man as you are, have you learned this out of the gospel of the charity and love of god which you say is so abundantly grafted in your mind, 
Christ Peter.  where as christ comandid peter when he drew his sword to put it up into the sheath agaien Thou contrary wise callest upon Cesar which hath his sword closed in his sheath, draw thy sword kill and slay? But wot you what you have brought to pass by this your oration, will you that I shall tell you? verily that almen may iustli think and judge in thee, that in this ambassade which thou now art in unto th'emperor that under the pretence of entreating of peace thou soundest none other thing in his ears then those words which I have before mentioned & that thou dost study and go about nothing else but only to move him and styrr him up against us.  
So that if it happen wars to be moved at this season against us we will impute all the calamity and miseri unto the alone, and this eternal praise and glory thou shall receive thereby  
O Immortal God how darest thou be so bold to call that the pure and sincere religion in the which you have most horribly prophanate and defiled the word of God and the sacraments which were ordained by Christ verily you could have used no word which might worse have agreed to that your romish seat and religion. 
Sincere religion.  But contrary wise we may truly call that a sincere and pure religion which we profess which is the very same that the prophets and jesus Christ himself and the Apostles have taught from this we go about with all our power and endeavour to purge away the leaven & filthy dregs with the which it was conntamyants & defiled of your pope's & their adherents. But I pray you tell me are you that call this, your religion sincere and pure thee same Cardinal Poole which made that book entitled the counsel for the amendment of the church the which also diddest write that exhortation which was had in the counsel of the fathers at tridentum? 
The counsel for the amendment of the church.  it is even so thou art th'author of them both. And in them both thou dost wisely affirm that you have forsaken the springs of the water of life (which is the true doctrine of jesus Christ) and have digged unto yourselves cisterns and pits not able to hold any water, that is to say, you have brounght in men's fainid traditions, moreover thou sayst in the same place that the pope's hath gotten unto themselves masters which do tikle them in th'ears of whom truly they learn how to invert and contamynat all good and holy things, I demand of the then, whether thou canst truly call this asincere and pure religion or no, woe be unto the Cardinal pole woe be unto the for that which nowght is thou call est good and contrary wise the good nought.  
Thou sayest most truly that the grace of the holy ghost is more abundant in these days than it hath been sense the time of the apostles even▪ 
Caiphas.  as Caiphas truly prophesied that it was meet that one man should die for thee people but as he spoke that to his owen destruction even so dost thou he understood not that christ should die for him but caused him crueli to be crucified. Thou like wise dost not a knowledge the grace of the holy ghost abundantly poured upon us but callest them heretic and new turks in whom thou dost see it most to flourish and shine, wherefore woe be unto to the Cardinal Poole woe be unto the.  
afore you called your papistical hypocrisy sincere and pure and now thou goest stoutly forward in thy purpose calling the true worshippers of religion hypocrites adding also that they have bowed there knee unto Baal the which do worship God and Christ with the holy ghost in spirit and truth. 
Baal.  But we truly know that you papists are the false worshippers of religion the which do not only prophanate and defile the merits of our Lord jesus Christ but often times do utterly extinguish and put them out of sight more over we know that you even you I say do bow your knees unto Baal when as you worship your antycrist your idols and images most foolishly calling them sometime God himself sometime saints and the bones & relics of your owen dead men and finally your sweat breads  

Concerning taking of Sengeans  give diligent ear and hear what our Cardinal Pole which will seem so holy a man doth think as concerning taking of vengeance he affirmeth plainli all such to be of a filthy cowardly mind and stomach which by all means possible will not seek to revenge an injury or shame done unto them, wherefore his mind is that all such aught to be revenged with sword and death the which have offended us either by word or deed and that we ought by no means to favour or spare them except we would be thought men of cowardly stomachs. But we contrary wise have learned of Christ that all such are of a godly mind or disposition in whom Christ doth truly inhabit or dwell, which patiently bear and suffer all in juries and wrongs done unto them neither do once think upon taking of vengeance but remit and forgive thee same yea and love their enemies and persecutors and pray for them. which doctrine then seemeth most true? The papists sect which by their books go about to inflame the hearts of men unto vengeance or worse which do teach all men patiently to bear and suffer injuries done unto them.  
Again hepryckyth forward that injuries ought by no means to be suffered crying out that the honour and glory of Spain to be thereby obscurid and hurt and that it should be a very great ignomyny and reproach to them for to suffer such acontumelious injury unrevengid what other words or enticements then even the very same doth the devil himself use when he goeth about to stir up kings and princes to wars and shedding of blood  
This most quiet and peaceable Cardinal desired of Ceasar that he might have licence to speak unto his spanish soldiers the which if he had obtained I suppose he would have spoken in this sort I know well enough that you which are soldiers do not forsake your own country of spain to go on warfare not only for glory or renown but also to get spoil and riches wherefore hearken unto me and I will show you now amean and occasion whereby you may obtain and get great riches together with great renown and glory.  

The cardinal ration to oath spaniards.  Behold the kingdom of my Country of England is now offered unto you the which is very Rich this now entre and invade with me spoil it yea and destroy it with Fire and sword and especially kill the king my kinsman and all those heryticques which have shrunk & gone away from the pope for I myself may do much there both through mi estimation and authority wherefore I will be present with you and betray and deliver that my country into your hands. And as soon as we have fynyshid those wars and thereby increase our powers we will in like manner set upon and destroy the princes of Germany and those Free cyties-This should have be Cardinal pole his oration unto the Spanish soldiers if he had been licencid by th'emperor to speak unto them.  

●new ●ce.  Thou following th'example of the old prayseiss dost call the light of the gospel which is now sprung up, a new sect howbeit thou art worthy greater punishment than they, for thou knowest that this is the treth for the which we do contend and strive with you they knew it not wherefore I will still use my acoustomed verse, woe he be unto that Cardinal Pole woe be unto the.  
Here he that before was ignorant may understand and know what is the state of this most worthy cause of religion which in these our days is in controversi we vereli teach that we ought to observe and keep th'old and ancient faith of the church so that it is not lafuull to serve from it not the breadth of a nayll when we speak of old and ancient faith we understand and even the very same which the prophets did foreshow unto us, 
The state of the cause of religion.  the same which jesus Christ brought tou of the bosonne of his father.  
And that which th'apostles through his Conaundements have preached and taught unto us.  
And the papists do agre with us in words saying that the ancient faith of the church is to be holden and kept but they understand thereby that which by little and little hath been brought in by pope's and monks contrary unto the word of God adding also that we ought to keep the ancient customs of thee church for they see in their church of Rome many things to be observed & kept which are brought in by a certain corruption clean diverse and contrari to the doctrine of the gospel & those things they would object and force upon us are astrew and catholic but all is but in vain.  
Like wise he calleth the true worshippers of the gospel cruel enemies than whom nothing can be more meek or gentle, but Cardinal Poole is not a love which speaking of our brethren doth us this bitter and sharp kind of phrase, There is another man both eloquent and learnid through whose pregnant wit & gentleness we hopid of better than is come to pass, 
Cardinal ceruinus.  he in a certain preface doth recite that the block heeded cardinal Cervinus was on a time sent to oppress the tyranny of the Luteranc sect. what thing could have been more cruelly or uncharitablely spoken of us, well we admonish him to leave those rough words lest through his slanders he lose thee good name and estimation which he hath hitherto gotten by his learning and gentleness. And lest that he provoke the wrath and indignation of God against himself.  
Thou sayest (Cardinal Pole) that in many ages before there was never such a ruin and decay brought upon the cristian commonwealth as this is now: 
Thr cristian common wealth  The which things utterly falls for the light of the gospel which is now sprung out and the grace of the holy ghost which is aboundantli spread abroad doth not bring ruin and destruction but health and salvation: unto the cristian common wealth. but you would have said unto the romish church the which we grant is deed, hath not been so invadid and assaultid in many years as it is at this present. 
The core of Romm  Such is the power and force of the gospel and truth the which being opened partly with the pens and partly with the tongues of certain of the servants of jesus Christ and coroborate and strengthened with th'authority of many years and ages and confirmed with, thee power of many king's princes and people that in thee space scarcely of thirty. years it could so shake and batter that romish fort and court and in short time utterly over throw it, for every plant and thou knowest what follows.  
Thou willest Cesar above all things to go about to subdue England under his owen power and dominion through thobtaining of which kingdom and the riches there in his power and glory being thereby encresid he might the better attempt and finish his other affairs. But I pray you Cardinal Pole show us what be those other affairs which are yet to be attemptid and finished.  
Thou dost not express but only signify that there are yet certain things to be attemptid and done by wars, what if that I do guess what thou diddest think when thou wrotest those things wilt thou that I shall speak them openly? Truly I will so do Thou goest about nothing else in this thine oration then that which thou hast written for many years past & now dost accomplish in this tihme ambassade putting Cesar still in mind to take this occasion now offered and to translate thee kingdom of England unto him and his posterity and when by the means there of his power is augmented and incresid he may with less danger invade and overthrow Germani and also if he will assault the venetian common wealth & all other princes of Italy the high bishop only except.  
But we trust th'emperor will not here the as he thought good not to hear but to reject and cast of that dominican friar zotus of Segobia now a professor in the new school of Tilniga when as he being his confessor did affirm that he could by no means be saved except that with force and armour he did subdue and bring all Germany under the obediens jurisdiction of the pope's of Rome. 
zotus the dominicam monk of spaym.   
Thou sayest thyself to be rapt to write these things with abundant of matter but thou shouldest trulier have said with ambition and covetousness to obtain and get the a bishopric for when Cardinal Theatinus did on a time accuse thee, 
Cardinal Theatinus.  that thou didst favour our doctrine Thou to purge thy self from the great Crime diddest set forth a book against: us in the which thou diddest also enclose and contam this most venomous oration but thou shall recave thy reward Cardinal Pole, woobe unto the woe be unto the.   

¶ Imprinted At London by Owen Rogers dwelling between both. S. Bartelmews, at the Spread Eagle.