THE FIERY TRIAL OF GOD'S SAINTS; ¶ (These Suffered for the witness of jesus, and for the word of God, (under Queen Mary,) who did not worship the Beast, nor his Image, nor had taken his mark upon their foreheads, or on their hands, or on their Garments, and these live and reign with Christ: Revel: 20. 4.) As a Counterpoyze to I. W. Priest his English martyrologue. AND THE DETESTABLE ENDS OF POPISH TRAITORS: ¶ (These are of Satan's Synagogue, calling themselves jews (or Catholics) but lie and are not: These worshipped the Beast saying, who is like unto the Beast? who is able to war with him. Revel. 13. 4. and these shall drink of the wine of God's wrath, and shall be tormented with fire and brimstone before the holy Angels, and before the Saints, because they worshipped the Beast and his Image. Re. 14. 10. & 11). Set down in a comparative Collection of both their sufferings. Herewith also the Concurrence and agreement of the reigns of the Kings of England and Scotland, since the first year of Q. Marry, till this present, the like before not extant.  
AT LONDON, Printed by T: P: for Arthur johnson. 1612.   

TO THE PRINCE.  

Englands' fair Hope, (borne, Down to quell  
the rage of Rome; That proud Babel;  
Which in its swelling-madde Desires,  
to World's sole Empire still Aspires;)   

Deign (Sir) to read this little Book,  
at least with mild aspect to look  
upon't. The pledge of Loyalty,  
and Subjects love to Royalty, it is.   

Vouchsafe your Princely Grace  
to me, that humbly place,  
my Faith and Duty;  
First to God, than my King  
(Who Unity did bring)  
then to my Country.   

The faithful Subject of my Lord the  
King, and your Highness,    

TO THE PATRONAGE AND protection of the high and mighty Prince, Henry, eldest Son of our Sovereign Lord the King, Prince of Wales etc.  
AS that in one place was well said by Heathen Tully; Non nobis solùm nati sumus, sed partem patria, partem parents, partem liberi, partem amici, partem propinqui & familiares, peculiaritèr sibi vendicant: So elsewhere was it spoken no less Christianlike. Non quid quis fecerit, sed quo animo & study fecerit, ponderandum est. Of these sayings, the first seemed unto me, to Challenge at my hands A special Duty to my Prince and Country, which I knew not how to perform, but in this kind: The second I assumed as an Apology for my weak and slender performance of that Duty. If my desire (noble Prince) to pay that debt for which by obligation Divine, Natural and national I stand obliged, hath transported me beyond that whereunto I am able, of your Princely Clemency, I humbly beseech you, wink at that amiss, and of your Heroical and Magnanimous Spirit, Shield me from the Darts of the mighty and malevolent. Your Kingly Father out of the goodness of his nature, (for to judge the worst, as dissonant to a good Disposition) hath been observed to conceive of things ill meant, (or which at lest might be doubtfully taken) well: you certainly being the true Heir as of his Kingdoms so also of his virtues, cannot adjudge of that which is well meant, ill. The cause which I handle is not mine own, but my Prince and Countries, wherein what I have done, I the rather undertook to publish at this time and in this Kind by reason of these encouraging Words of the reverend, than Bishop of Chichester, now of Ely, in his Book, Cuititulus est, Tortura Torti, in Epistola dedicatoria ad Regiam Maiestatem, his words are these, I am, ubi in Discrimen adducta causa communitatis, Spectator nemo sit, Actor quisque etc. My Intentions herein are right, wherein I desire, prodesse principi & patriae, non obesse: If I fail in my purpose, that is not want of will, but of power: If I have performed aught herein that good is, that same also is, Multò plus votis, quam factis. Therefore for that sometimes noble Q. Elizabeth's sake, (for she deserved to be loved, etiam post mortem) whose fame shall never die, (nam virtus post funera vivit:) For the King your Father's sake, who according to his name's signification is, a Maintainer (of our peace): for the Common wealth's sake, which is the Crown of your Glory: For your own sake who are our Hope, yield me, as the reading hereof, so also your favourable and Princely protection; then shall I not care for the faces of mine enemies.  
The Faithful Subject of my Lord the King, and your Highness.   

TO THE WELL affected, and loyal hearted Reader.  
AS to the spirit and soul of man nothing internally then a good conscience can be more comfortable; so externally, than a good report from others nothing can be more precious. And as for the first, every one that will enjoy it, must himself alone by the uprightness of his own actions, assure it unto himself in the sincerity of his own heart; so, for the second, as it depends not upon ones self alone, but upon the tongues and reports of others, every Christian by the rules of his profession is chargeable to his power to seek the preservation thereof towards others, whom he knoweth to be wronged. This being granted (as it cannot be denied) if every private man's good name so nearly touch him, as that for the preservation thereof we are all of us to others reciprocally bound, and by law divine obliged. How much more strictly than are all faithful subjects tied, as much as in them lieth, to maintain the good name, honour, and reputation of their lawful Soneraignes, by traitors, rebels, And antichristians, so unjustly, jmpiously, and jmpudently taxed both in words and writings. For as his Majesty is our King, by God appointed to rule over his British and Irish Israel, both in Church and common wealth: and as in dignity he is nulli secundus, nay more (for that may seem to admit an equal) Primus inter omnes, without a mate, highest: even so the blemish of good name, honour, and reputation in his Majesty, is of all others most dishonourable, most scandalous; as his Majesty is of all others most eminent, most conspicuous; and therefore by every good subject as occasion offereth itself (pro viribus) to be maintained. If a natural father have a bad name, though undesernedly, yet is that in the world's eye (that cannot judge thereof, but by report) a scandal unto the children. Our King is more, for he is not only Pater familiae, a father of a private family, but he is, Pater Patriae, a father of our Country; nay more, he is, Pater multorum gentium & regnorum, a father of many Kingdoms England, Scotland, France, and Ireland, and which is most, he is a good Christian, & Christianae fidei Defensor, the chief Champion for defence of Christian faith, through whose sides the enemy seeketh to wound the whole Church of Christ, and to lay aspersions of blood and tyranny upon all such as with him profess the gospel of Christ.  
The consideration whereof (as also a fervent desire to do my Country some public service, in helping (as much as in me lieth) to stop the mouths of our common adversaries the Papists, whose lavish tongues have spit out abundance of venom, and their pens stung like Scorpions, not only our late most gracious and worthy Queen Elizabeth (of ever-blessed memory, for the many unspeakable blessings that God with and through her bestowed upon this and other Kingdoms) But also our present Sovereign Lord and King, with both their state Ministers, by charging them as falsely, so maliciously with cruelty, breach of promise, blood, and bloody persecution for conscience) hath moved me to jmploye the best talon of my small ability to convince them of jmpudent and lying malicious slanders and reproachful untruths. First in a few following lines directed unto all Romish favourites, clearing my present gracious Sovereign of breach of promise with Recusants, for toleration of Popery, wherein also I have touched the ground of that slander, with the occasion and Authors thereof, with some other matters of special moment. Secondly, in a tabular computation; by a comparative collection of all such Martyrs as were burned in Queen Mary's days, with all such Priests, Jesuits, & popish Recusants, as their Pseudomartyrologist I. W. Priest pretends (& but pretends) to have been executed in England (Religionis ergò) since the beginning of Q. Elizabeth's reign until this present year 1608. I have cleared the second accusation of cruelty, blood, and bloody presecution for conscience, evidently proving by their own account, unto the understanding of the most simple, that is not wilfully blind, that many more of the first sort suffered death, and were in fire consumed only for their conscience, within the less than six years reign of Queen Marie, then of the second, third and fourth sort (to wit, Priests, Jesuits, and Recusants) in 52. years since, and that not for Religion, but 
a Vide Torturam Torti. paginis. 131. 132.  Treason. Whereby it appeareth how unjustly our late worthy Queen, our present gracious King & their State-ministers, have been and are most jmpudently & falsely of blood & cruelty accused & taxed.  
Nor have I ought herein written to give satisfaction to any such (for let them sink in their own sins) as being over deeply bewitched with Rome's idolatry, do hold that all Treasons, all Rebellions, all Attempts, vi, aut fraud, against the persons and states of our late Queen Elizabeth, and our now present King, both were and are not only lawful, but meritorious: But to inform such of them as being of a milder temper, (and yet looking that way) willingly confess and acknowledge, that all such as have been or are guilty of such crimes, have deservedly been punished; but yet do, or at least seem to conceive that their Priests and Jesuits have suffered only for their Consciences, and therefore their persecution (they being many in number) is (in their judgement) great and lamentable. Which were it granted, or could (as it never can) be proved that they all died for their conscience only, (which yet is a conscience misenformed) yet doth the number of our true Martyrs in less than 6. years of Queen Mary's reign, (although it should be permitted unto them to take also into their number those fifty and two lay persons, (for so many I think there are) registered with the Priests and Jesuits in their own martyrologue) not only equalize, but exceed the number of theirs in full fifty years since, by the number of almost 100 persons. Insomuch, that if the numbers of persons suffering, and the number of years of both sorts wherein they suffered be compared, and the cause of all their sufferings admitted to be alike just or unjust (of which there is no comparison) yet did the cruelty of Queen Marie and her popish Clergy, outstrip Queen Elizabeth and king james conjoined, more than ten for one; and therefore learn, you that have any spark of grace remaining in you, to be good subjects to your King, and cease now at last to tax your sovereign any more of persecution, whose heart bleeds that he is forced to draw blood from others for their jntollerable demerits.  
As for the truth of these collections whereat perhaps (and not unlike) some popish spirits will take 
b Three conversions of Eng: part 3. in many places.  exception; understand that Mr. Fox that sometime reverend Father of our Church, is my Author, whom for the number of such professors of the Gospel as were burned in Queen Mary's days, I have solely followed, who albeit happily (for it is almost jmpossible to be otherwise) in some things in so large a volume, he might commit some small error in some particular cicumstances, because no Historian can possibly be present every where with his own eyes and ears, but must of necessity give credit unto the relations of others in many points; Yet the granity of his person, his excellent learning, his great reading, his worthy and sober carriage, his sound judgement, and therein his wise choice of Authors, and the general report of his honest and religious mind, by an uniform consent of all such as knew him, freeth him from taxation of any wilful and gross error, or willing mistaking, and from any malicious aslertion against the Papists without a probable ground, throughout his worthy work, in whose behalf I think it needless to bestow much pains, because the honester and greater sort are honestly already of him persuaded, and for the rest as they are for number fewer, and their honesty little worth, so ate they many of them wilfully obstinate and will not be persuaded.  
As for the other sort, to wit, popish Priests, Jesuits, and Recusants, such as have been executed since the beginning of Queen Elizabeth's reign (as I. W. pretendeth for religion) until the year 1608. they are coppyed word for word out of a book called The 
c English martyrologue by J. W. Priest Anno. 1608.  English martyrologue, by the authority of the popish supervisors (as it should seem) allowed, unless the nameless author thereof I. W. Priest do belie them. Wherein I have dealt as truly with them to a letter as I could, save only that I have left out one person, and in steed thereof added two, to wit, William Watson and William Clarke, both Priests executed at 
d Watson, and Clerk, executed at Winchester in An. 1603. Novemb. 29.  Winchester Novemb. 29. 1603. I know not how by the Pseudomartyrologist omitted, for he might as well have enroled them as those which he hath done, being all alike, traitors to their Prince and Country. Noram I disposed to cavil for that I find divers of their Priests noted in that his martyrologue by one name which yet I find set down in our Chronicles by an other name, as for example, in An. 1585. january 21. Edward Transam, 
Stowe.  and Nicho. Wodfine, so by this our Martyrologist noted, are by others named Edmund Barbar and Nicholas Devorax, which I note chiefly for this end, that none might be deceived in thinking that more have been executed, then in deed have been, because one and the same persons are in their and our writings noted by different names, for they have so many false names, that amongst them all I find not one good and true. He that at 
e Henry Garnet had 6. names, to wit, Ganet, Walley, Darcy, Roberts, Farmer, and Phillips. Likewise Edward Hall alias Oldecorne. Likewise Oswa●d ●esmund alias Greenway. Likewise Thomas Garnet alias Rookwood, alias Sayer, with many others.  London is called Richard, at Rome is called john, he that at Rhesmes and Douai is called Peter, in England is called Saul; he that in the Jesuits cells is Sainted for his resolution, is at Tyburn hanged for his treason. I have I confess transposed some of both sorts, both of our Martyrs and their traitors, but only for this end that I might reduce them to our account, which beginneth the year on the 25. of March, according to the tabular Register following, whereas both Mr. Fox & the Pseudomartyrologist began the year the first of january; As for example, Mr. Fox hath noted john Rogers the first Martyr in Queen Marie her days, to have suffered February 4. 1555. which yet according to our account was in the year 1554. Likewise the Pseudomartyrologist hath in his martyrologue noted William Richardson to have been executed Feb. 27. 1603. which might seem to be in the first year of King james, which yet was in the latter end of Queen Elizabeth, and in the year of our Lord 1602. according as in that year in the table following you may see.  
Now having compared their numbers together, I could not but admire their jmpudency in that void of shame, modesty, religion, christianity, they dare so publicly and unjustly without blushing, revile and slander so gracious a Princess as was noble Q. Elizabeth, and so merciful a King as is our Sovereign Lord K. james, considering that so many more suffered in the less than six years reign of Queen Marie only for religion, then have sithence by their own account been executed in fifty years of two succeeding Princes (and those not for religion but for their treasons) the number of the true Martyrs noted in print, being in all by this account almost 300. and the number of their Seminary Priests, Jesuits, and Recusants, by their own account not fully 200. which (number and time considered) is more than ten for one. Nor is there a greater disproportion in the number, then in the causes of their sufferings, the former suffering only for their conscience, the latter for their treasons.  
I am not ignorant that our adversaries do tax Mr. Fox of many 
f Three conversions of England in page 426. and many pages thereof beside  untruths and many strange matters, whose errors, if any such were, I will not maintain, but somewhat excuse by way of recrimination, by citing out of this my popish Author some such stories of his Saints Miracles, as I find in his said martyrologue expressed (which he hath divided according to the months of the year) leaving the truth and likelihood to thy censure.  

¶ Popish Miracles.  
ANd first in the month of january; 
january 7. Page 7.  I find this story, that when Saint Chad Bishop of Litchfield died, his brother Ceds soul (who was before Bishop of London) was seen to descend from heaven with a troop of Angels, to accompany the same to heaven.   

Another.  
ST. Egwine Bishop of Worcester, 
january. 11. Page 10.  made a pair of Iron shackles, locked them close about his legs, than cast the keys thereof into the River of Severne, and so went to Rome with Offa King of Mercia: desiring of God, that the said shackles might not be loosed from his legs, until he had made satisfaction for all the sins of his youthful years: and in his return back, as he came over the sea, upon a sudden a fish leapt into the Ship wherein he sailed, which being taken and killed, the foresaid keys of the shackles that he had thrown into the River, were found in the fishes belly, which he applying to his shackles, forthwith unlocked them.   

Another.  
IN North-wales the commemoration of S. Beno Priest, 
january 14. Page 12.  who leading an Eremitical life in the west parts of England, was by an Angel admonished to go into Wales to a Noble man called Trebuith, S. wenefrid's Father, who gave him a part of his lands and possessions to build a Monastery, as also his Daughter Winifred to be instructed and brought up in a religious manner: whose head being soon after cut off by Cradocus son to Alane King of the same Country, for not yielding to his unlawful lust, he miraculously set on again, she living fifteen years after.   

Another.  
ST. Elsted virgin, 
january 20. Page 18.  and afterward Abbess; it happened unto her that before she was chosen Abbess, she being in the Church at Matins before day, with the rest of her sisters, going into the midst according to the custom, to read a lesson, the candle wherewith she saw to read chanced to be put out, and thereupon wanting light, there came from the fingers of her right hand such an exceeding brightness upon the sudden, that not only herself, but all the rest of the Choir might see to read by it also. And having another time given much to relieve the poor, whereby her chests were emptied, being therefore for her lavishness checked by the Procurator of the house, she made moan to the Lord, and her Chests were again miraculously filled as before.   

Another.  
ST. Wereburge; 
February 3. Page 32.  she upon her death bed commanded her body to be buried at Hamburge, but contrary to her will it was carried to the monastery of Trickingham, where (the gates fast locked) the same was kept and watched very carefully. But see a wonder, they that kept it fell into a sleep, so as the people of Hamburge coming in the night to fetch the body away, the gates of the Church and Monastery were opened without hands, of themselves, and so they carried the body and buried it at Hamburge, as before she requested.   

Another.  
ST. Patrick: 
March 17. Page 17.  he obtained by his Prayers, that no venomous creature should live or breed in Ireland.   

Another.  
ST. Richard Bishop of Chichester: 
April 3. Page 86.  he died at Dover in Kent, his body being brought to Chichester, so shined with Miracles that (besides others) he raised up three dead men again to life.   

Another.  
ST. Frithstan; 
April 9 Page 92.  one evening as he was saying Mass, as he walked in the Churchyard, when he came to the words, Requiescant in pace, the voices in the graves round about, made answer aloud and said, Amen.   

Another.  
ST. Pyran: 
May 2. Page 116.  he sustained ten Armies of men for eight days with the flesh of three Kine, and also raised divers dead men to life.   

Another.  
ST. Sewell: 
May 18.  he for his integrity and innocency of life was such, and so acceptable to God, that it pleased his divine Majesty in sign thereof, to work miracles by him both alive and dead; and among others, it is recorded, that lying on his deathbed he turned water into wine, by only blessing it.   

Another.  
KIng Henry the sixth: 
May 22. Page 134.  his velvet Hat which he used to wear, being put on men's heads that were troubled with the headache, they were presently cured.   

Another.  
ONe of the soldiers that led S. Alban to his death, 
june 22. Page 167.  repented when he saw the constancy of the Martyr, & asked him forgiveness, which the persecutors beholding, they grievously tormented him for the same, but he following S. Alban to his death when S. Alban head was cut off, he took it up and embraced it in his arms, and thereby was immediately cured of all his wounds.   

Another.  
ST. Swithine: 
july 2. Page 178.  he, when by a mischance a woman had broken all her eggs, made the sign of the cross over the same eggs, and immediately they all became whole again.   

Another.  
THe heads of Wiaman, 
july 25. Page 202.  Vnaman, and Sunaman, being cut off and cast into a pool by the enemies of Christ, S. Sigfride on a time walking by the pool and deploring their deaths, on a sudden there appeared three miraculous lights upon the water, which encompassed the vessel wherein their said heads were; which he seeing, presently leapt into the pool, and embracing them wept and said, Vindicet Deus. Whereto one answered, Vindicatunerit; another replied, in quem? the third added, in filios filiorum.   

Another.  
A Monk of a certain Monastery whereof S. Alexander was, 
August 6. Page 216.  coming to the said Alexander's tomb to pray, and having an ulcer in his breast which was now grown to a fistula; Alexander appeared unto him brighter than the Sun, with two Crowns, one on his head, and another in his hand. The Monk demanded what that double Crown meant? he answered: The Crown in his hand is for the temporal Crown which he forsook for Christ's love (for he should have been king of Scotland, being next heir thereto, as the story reporteth) the other on my head, is that which I have received common with other Saints. And that you may be assured of the verity of this vision, you shall be presently cured of your infirmity; and having thus spoken and the other immediately healed, he vanished away.   

Another.  
ST. Decuman first passed over the River of Severne miraculously with a faggot in steed of a boat, 
August 27. Page 233.  and afterwards was slain by a Pagan and his head cut off, which he took up from the ground and carried it to a fountain where he was wont to wash it.   

Another.  
ST. Dunstan: 
September 7. Page 244.  he on a time, when the devil appeared unto him in the likeness of a young woman tempting him to uncleanness, took a pair of pincers which lay by him, and caught the devil by the upper lip, and so holding him fast, and leading him up and down his chamber, after divers jnterrogatories drove him away.   

Another.  
ST. Osith: she after that the Danes had cut off her head, 
October 7. Page 372.  took it up in her hands and carried it three furlongs to a Church of S. Peter, and S. Paul, whither when she came all jmbrued in her own innocent blood, she fell down, and so ended the course of her Martyrdom.   

Another.  
ST. Keyna: 
October 8. Page 374.  she by her prayers turned a wood full of Serpents into stones, still retaining the likenesses of Serpents: Also she being ready to depart out of this world, an Angel came down from heaven, and put upon her a white garment wrought with Gould, bidding her to be in readiness to enter into the kingdom of her celestial Spouse.   

Another.  
ST. Edmund: 
November 20. Page 320.  he having his head cut off by the Danes, and cast into a wood near by amongst briars and bushes, the Christians afterwards seeking for the same, lost themselves in the same wood, and calling one to another, where art? where art? the head answered, Here, Here, Here, by which they found out the same.   

Another.  
ST. Inthware: 
December 23. Page 350.  she having her head cut off by her own brother Bana upon a day as she came from Church, because she was accused by her stepmother to be an harlot, her jnnocency was presently testified by this, for that she presently took it up in her own hands and carried it to the Church from whence she came. Add hereto also their late coined (Death deserving for the fact) wonder of Garnets' face in a wheat straw. Vide librum cuius titulipars est, Vera historia de admirabili spica. Rightly englished, A fabulous story of a feigned straw, first divulged by a foolish jack-daw.  
Many more such gross and palpable lying wonders are therein expressed, which I am weary to recount, and I almost wonder that they themselves are not ashamed to record for truths; but as herein, so also in their false accusations of Queen Elizabeth and King james, by unjustly and maliciously taxing them with blood, breach of promise, and bloody persecution for conscience, they are most jmpudent and shameless, yea past shame and past grace; for as a Reverend 
g D. Barlow in his answer to M. Broughton.  Father of our Church elsewhere upon another occasion (though more rightly appliable to this generation) said, Qui semel modestiae limites transilijt, knaviter fit impudens. But the Priests and Jesuits in this point of jmpudency surpass, and one main reason hereof, as I take it, is because they hold the lay Papists, of whom they have their maintenance, in such a thraldom of jgnorant obedience, as that they dare not for fear of damnation read any book whereby to inform them in the truth, but only such as their traitorous and seditious un-ghostly leaders shall permit: And so if they can hold the good opinions of their maintainers, they will never blush at whatsoever themselves say, or whatsoever be said of them by others.  
If any friend shall think that this my labour might well have been spared, because the lives of the Martyrs, the proceedings against them, & the times and causes of their sufferings are already by Mr. Fox in his large Book thereof more fully expressed; or otherwise should think that I do the Papists too great a grace, by placing them in the same Book with the true Martyrs of Christ; to him in friendly manner I thus reply, and first to the first. That though his allegation be indeed true (for I willingly confess that he hath deserved much for his extraordinary pains that ways, and hath compassed so much and such variety of matter therein, as that I cannot say whether were greater, 
1610.  his labour or the Readers profit) yet cannot every man's purse reach so great price as is that 
h The book at large (worthy to be written in letters of gold) is this year newly and well printed by the Company of Stationets in London.  Book at large; and beside I have not meddled with any matter of History contained therein, but only have borrowed out of him the names of such as were in Queen Mary's days burned, as I have likewise out of their Martyrologist the names of their Priests, Jesuits, and Recusants, for unless I should set down their names, I could make no good comparison of their numbers in opposition one to the other; which is the especial end whereat I aim.  
Secondly, although that twenty or thirty years, since many hundreds of Thousands of persons were living that could viva voce bear record how cruelly and unmercifully the Professors of Christ's truth were dealt withal in Queen Mary's days, and could also (if any seducing Priest or jesuit had accused their Sovereign of cruelty) have thus replied, Away vild harlots, bely her not, fox Queen Elizabeth was a merciful Queen, but mine eyes have seen the abundance of blood shed in Queen Mary's reign only for conscience, wherewith ye were never glutted, but now these Vive-speakers in Christ's cause being by time consumed, it is more needful to preserve by these never-dying memorial, the remembrance of their sufferings, especially seeing the adversary is so busy by all means that the Pope, the Devil, or hell itself can possibly devise to exalt their faction, and to bring a scandal both upon our Sovereigns, us, and them.  
And to the second point; That it is a Grace unto the Papists and Romanists to have their Priests and Jesuits ranked with the true Professors, I answer thus: It is not the punishment, nor the place, but only the cause that maketh a man famous for virtue, or for vice jnfamous, loved of God for his own free graces, or hated of God and good men for their villainies.  
If the Iron bars whereon Catesby's and Percies heads are fixed and nailed on the Parliament house, be a grace unto them or any of their favourites, because they possess the highest places of that Honourable house; such grace have all the king's enemies. If Garnets' scaffold because it was raised aloft for more public view, were an honour unto him or any of his jesuited society, such honour have all that are, were, or hereafter shall be his partakers. If London bridge or Newgate grace that faction, because their friends dismembered limbs are so highly thereon advanced; let Crows and Ravens likewise devour all them that deserve the like grace for the like jnfidelity. Lastly, if judas their fellow-traitor can any whit at all grace them because he is noted in the book of God, (but with this foul addition, Traitor) let them likewise take him and make him a brother of their Company, or rather jncorporate themselves into his Society, but let all that bear ill will to the Church of England, and the King's Majesty as a principal member thereof; let I say, their ends (oh God) be like unto their master judas, and let their bowels break in sunder that would eat out the bowels of thy Church of England; and let this black word of Traitor be the jndelible spot, never to be washed away, wherewith I brand all English Italionated Priests and Jesuits, and their Abettors. Add to these also the jacobine Friar and Ravilack, the two murderers of two French kings Henry 3. & Henry 4. (for these are also Sons of one Father the Pope, the Devil their Grandfather, and those before, their brethren in iniquity, never to be spoken of but to their shame with posterity,) the felicity of whose Reign (namely Henry the 4.) and peaceable government, free from danger of any desperate attempt of stabbing or poisoning, or other attempt of peril to his person by any of Rome's favourites, our english Popish Recusants (scienter loquor) before that inhuman and hellish fact committed pleaded and strongly argued to proceed from that lenity of his, in permitting a freedom of conscience to his subjects in matter of Religion; whereby they would infer, that if our King's Majesty would desire to live securely from any such attempts, not needing to fear peril either by stabbing, poisoning, powder, or otherwise, then let a toleration begraunted; but how sound their conclusion is, France hath felt, England may fear, and all the world is amazed thereat.  
For if the King of France being a Papist, and at most but suspected to affect the Protestant Religion, could not yet be secure in his person, how much less can our King expect any assurance of safety by a toleration, his Majesty being himself a professed Protestant, and directly opposite in Faith and Religion. Nay it might rather be much feared, that it would be a means to pull Gods just judgements upon him and us, for permission of such false worship of the true God; for so we may read in divers places of the Old Testament, that when the Rulers of the people fell away from God, God sent upon them many plagues, miseries, and oppressions by their enemies. And thus much in answer to the second point, which my friend may object.  
Thine in all Christian love,  monogram incorporating the letters FRANCIS BTO (? and U)    

TO THE WHOLE rabble of English-borne, Romish malcontents, and disturbers of this State.  
NOT HOPING hereby to reclaim you (that are already by Satan's witchcrafts seduced) from your many dangerous and pernicious errors, which cleave more fast unto you then the skin unto the flesh, or the flesh unto the bones, for that were Extra spem sperare, a hope without any ground: Nor yet in bitterness of spirit (only) purposing to rail upon you as many of you most jmpudently have done against your own Mother, for that were want of charity: nor any ways intending to give satisfaction unto your unsatisfiable obstinacy and wilfull-willing blindness, by reasoning scholastically, or propounding and framing logical (or as you use sophistical) arguments to convince your follies, for that would be in me presumption; For what am I that after so many rare wits, and unrefutable judgements in matters Divine, as have already laboured your conversion, I should hope of better success therein then they before have had?  
I rather conclude with Abraham, who told the rich man that desired a messenger to be sent from the dead to the living to warn them that they might avoid the like danger of coming there, That if they will not believe the Prophets, neither would they believe though one came from the dead: so if you will not be persuaded by the scriptures, and the strong and un-answerable arguments of such excellent Divines as have already laboured your convesion, neither will you be persuaded though Christ himself should descend from heaven in person to confute you.  
But my scope and drift herein is, (pro viribus) First to prevent the fall of those who yet stand but are ready to fall. Secondly, to free my late Sovereign Queen Elizabeth, that sometimes peerless Prince, and my now dread Sovereign the King's Majesty, and their State-ministers from many false and Serpentine jmputations, laid upon them by men of your rank, of bad spirits, whose throats are open Sepulchres, wherein to bury true Honour, Faith keeping, Grace, mercy, Pity, Piety, Protection, Truth and Religion in eternal oblivion; breathing out from thence (as from the furnace of Hell) instead thereof nothing but Dishonour, Breach of promise, Disgrace, Cruelty, Blood, Want of devotion, Oppression, Heresy, and Irreligion.  
These are the motives that enforced my pen▪ these the reasons of my non-silence, who otherwise could have been contented quietly and securely to have reposed myself in the joyful contemplation of God's manifold blessings and mercies of an extraordinary nature towards this Nation, by continuance of the Gospel amongst us, Which, that it is the Truth, and that he himself with his own right hand hath planted it, and defended it by the power of his own arm, the many strange Miracles (for such say you must needs approve the Truth) which himself from time to time since before the beginning of Q. Elizabeth's reign until this present hath wrought, do evidently confirm and prove.  
For is it possible that our late famous Queen of ever-blessed memory, 
The Miracles that god hath wrought for confirmation of his gospel.  and our now Sovereign the King's Majesty, should have escaped the many pits that have been digged for them, and not have fallen therein? Is it possible that Queen Elizabeth, full of years but fuller of Renown, should have lived unto a gray-headed age, and quietly dying in her bed, to be maugre all her enemies, brought in peace unto her grave? Is it possible that this present State wherein we live should now have a Being, seeing that Hell, the Pope, [Vt obiter noten. The word Recusant, (now so common) until the eleventh year of Queen Elizabeth's Ragine, was altogether unknown, (as may appear by all Statutes and Acts of Parliament before that time made, wherein there is not a word thereof at all) until which time all Papists, some very few excepted, (notwithstanding, that the Religion then professed in the Church of England, was the very same that it was in the former years of her Reign) came ordinarily to our Churches, nor was disparity of religion any cause of Recusancy, until such times that the roaring Bull of Pope Pius 5. (for then the land began to swarm with Recusants) was published, and Queen Elizabeth by him Anathematized: Then the case was suddenly altered, those who before frequented our Churches, now withdraw themselves from our Society; Those who before yielded obedience to his Majesty, now would not acknowledge her for their lawful Queen; hereupon followed immediately the rebellion in the North, and other dangerous conspiracies by your faction. And to prove that Religion was not the cause of their Recusancy (besides that which hath been abovesaid) Scotland will testify, wherein albeit there have been and are many known Papists both men and women, yet in all the time of King james his Reign there, nor yet since he reigned here, have any of them absented themselves or refused to come to our Churches in Scotland, & yet I make no question but you will say that the Romish religion is one and the same there that it is here: you must needs then grant, that not religion but the Pope's pleasure (unto whose girdle you are tied) is the cause of Recusancy, and it behoveth his Majesty to have special regard unto you that are Recusants, and by all good means that he can to assure his own estate, in another regard then only that you will not, interest sacris, with us, for Recusancy and Treason are so linked one in the other, and compacted, that hardly can he be a Recusant that is not a Traitor likewise. See more hereof if you please in the 130 and 131. pages of Tortura Torti.] Seminary Priests and Jesuits, Traitors and seditious persons have conspired against it, had not the Lord himself miraculously defended it, and maintained his Truth?  
I need not instance particular deliverances, for who is he amongst us that remembers not many? But yet I cannot without ingratitude to God, 
Two miracles of miracles.  our most gracious preserver, overslip in silence those two miracles of miracles, 
The 1.  to wit, Our deliverance from Spain's (so falsely by them termed, but blessed be God therefore) invincible Armado, An. 1588. and from the mines of fire and Gunpowder prepared by imps of Hell, 
The 2.  for England's Funeral An. 1605. which latter but that mine own eyes have seen their preparations, I should (with Thomas) scarcely have believed: 
The jesuits reported in Spain that there was no such matter as the gunpowder Treason. Related by the L. Cook at the Earl of Northumberl. conviction, in the star-chamber. june 27. 1606.  And no marvel though in Spain the report thereof can with many hardly be credited, for some at our own home that have not with their own eyes seen it, or with their ears heard the Delinquents, Viva voce, confess it, can hardly, yet conceive half the malice thereof, it seems to those that have any sparks of humanity, so passing cruel and incredible. These if the Gospel must needs be confirmed by miracles, are true miracles.  
These are no counterfeit juggling tricks, or Popish impostures to delude the simple, 
Childish and strawish Miracles.  such as were the Sicknesse-healing Child, or the Picture of the Traitor Garnets' face in a wheat straw, found perhaps amongst a Popish tailors wives shreds, or brought in in the belly of a Griffin or Gryfon, intending thereby the ruin of Troynovant, as were the armed men of Yore in the belly of Sinon's wooden horse, for Troy the old its Destruction: such as these we leave to you to insert into your Legenda Aurea, or Legend of lies.  
As for persecution for conscience, 
In your supplication to the king's Majesty, Anno. 1603. & An. 1604 in many places thereof: as also in diverss other treasonable books since by you set forth and dispersed.  against which in divers of your pamphlets you so loudly cry, the comparison of times for continuance wherein, of persons for numbers in those times, how many, whose blood on both sides have been shed, and the causes (partly) wherefore, in the following Table will appear. But the grounds of religion, contained in the holy Scriptures of the old and new Testament, penned by the Prophets and Apostles, on which we build our faith, and the refutation of errors and false doctrine maintained by Romish Recusants, Priests, and Jesuits which in former times and in these times also have & do cause so great disturbances & persecutions of the Church of Christ, I leave to be defended by those grave and strong pillars of our Church, and learned Fathers of our Clergy, whose soundness in doctrine all the Papists in the world are unable to evince.  
Concerning that dishonour wherewith very frequently but falsely (as is well 
* Tortura Torti. Page 83.  approved by the then Bishop of Chichester) you tax your Sovereign Lord the King's Majesty for breach of promise with Recusants, concerning a toleration of Popish religion, that (quantum in me est) I may confute such unjust exclamations against his Majesty's Person and his Honour, I will briesly touch that point, by declaring not only unto you, but unto all the world that shall take notice hereof, what mine own ears heard in an open Court (of mercy I may say rather than of justice in this case) debated and censured. 
The star-chamber.   
The case stood between the King's Majesty & a great Peer of this Land, amongst whose many gross slips and juglorious acts, this point was as the rest (all which his Majesty was pleased, nay (as said the Lord Cook then the King's Attorney) commanded that they should not otherwise be handled then as matters of Contempt) ripped up and scanned. His name I could particularly instance, but because it pleased my Sovereign to deal with him not in rigour of law & justice but merely in Grace, I hold it not my part (otherwise than what for clearing of the truth I needsly must) him by name to disgrace.  
Wherefore that I may help to wash away those aspersions of dishonour, unjustly thrown upon his sacred Majesty by men of bad spirits, and that like spots and stains never to be done away▪ they may seat themselves within the muddy Circle of the dusky Moon, their true Centre, and not eclipse the bright honour of our splendent Sun & glorious North-star, I will here relate from whence by much probability, this error at first sprang.  
This noble fore-remembered parsonage, 
Omne animi vitium tanto conspectius i● se crimen habet, quanto maior qui peccat habetur.  whose greatness adds a greatness to his fault, (if I may link Nobility with such jgnoble actions) ambitiously (as it should seem) affecting a singular greatness, not at all regarding Religion (as some have thought) further then as it might serve him as a ladder to promotion, was in show outwardly a seeming Protestant, but underhand and covertly, willing to be held a Papist, insomuch that by his close carriage he was very honourably thought of by his Majesty, & chosen by his Majesty to be very near unto him, and yet nevertheless highly accounted of and respected amongst the Romanists for a sure friend of theirs, upon whom they might hold a Dependence; Testified hereby, that with his own hands he delivered and presented their Popish Supplication unto his Majesty at Theobalds', for a toleration in Anno. 1603.  
And that I may not seem maliciously of myself without a ground to tax him herein of ambition, 
The now 〈◊〉 Cook.  observe with me, that at his trial (by one for his learning judicious, for his knowledge experienced in matters of State) it was by evident arguments proved that his proceedings argued a manifest Discontentment, and withal that all discontentments proceeded from either want, disgrace, or ambition; but not from want, for his possessions and yearly revenues were exceeding great; not from disgrace, for his Majesty had many ways graced & highly honoured him; (which graces as he then did, so I now could particularly jnstance, but that thereby I must needsly discover his person) and therefore of necessity from Ambition.  
Likewise as then by one was observed his ambition in his jntentions and thoughts, so by another of higher rank and dignity was noted his dissimulation in his actions, 
The Lord Archbishop of Cant.  for said he, there are in all his proceedings, Vestigia manifesta, & vestigia occulta, giving withal an jnstance herein, That this great parsonage had admitted T. P. that arch-traitor to be a Pensioner, 
The word them used was, To hold an Axe over the King's head.  but yet without having any oath administered him, either for his allegiance, or yet for his particular discharge of that place whereunto he was admitted, and yet underhand giving out that he was sworn, whereupon he jnferred thus, That wheresoever things were palliated which were, or feigned to be which are not, there always is some deceit. At which time he was by a third honourable parsonage taxed expressly for his Hypocrisy, as being jack on both sides, whereby he had made himself odious to both Protestants (so termed) and Papists: 
The L. Zouch.  nor yet (though these are enough) are these all. But to return to our purpose and matter in hand.  
Before he ascended unto that height of honour (which then by the King's special favour he was advanced unto) I mean in Queen Elizabeth's time, when his predecessors carriage had given just occasion of the successors further disgrace, then [at this very time was the same person employed unto his majesty with letters from Garnet the jesuits Provincial, who had about that time received the Pope's Breves to this purpose, Quandocunque contigerit miseram illam faeminam (meaning Q. Elizabeth) ex hac vita exire, etc. that whensoever that wretched woman should die, the papists should not admit of any other to inherit, how near so ever in blood, unless he were a (Romish) Catholic, and not so only, unless he would also swear to uphold to his power the popish Religion. But the King's happy acceptation with his good Subjects, caused those to be converted into ashes, and then come other Breves enjoining their obedience to his Majesty, but Coacta virtus non est virtus, Gramercy horse when you cannot choose, then obey. This is that Obedientia, ex necessitate, nempe ferreâ jlla & coactâ, which Bellarmine noteth Recognitionum, pag. 16. And how long this? until they be able to cast him out whom they were forced to receive. And your Watson soon attempted that which he knew his unholy Father the Pope heartily wished. He was a low man in person, but he aspired high when he thought to be Lord Chancellor of England: but missing that, he was advanced to the Gallows for preferment, but I think being purblind, he miss the way that he meant] I say did this double-hearted Lord jmploy T. P. the Traitor unto the King's Majesty then King only of Scotland, with certain letters of advise, but much in the behalf of the English Romish Catholics, advising him that he should at such time as it should please the Lord to call him to the possession of this his kingdom (which as now he doth, so long Lord grant he may quietly enjoy) give fair promises and hopes of toleration unto the Papists, thereby (as he therein pretended) to prepare a more easy entrance for his Majesty when time should serve.  
The King's Majesty (not as then suspecting the depth of this his councillors drifts, but understanding him simply) returned him an answer, with thanks for his advice, but withal jnferring a clause directly (as since it appeareth) contrary to his councillors expectation. His Majesty's words in answer to the letter, were in effect as followeth.  
Whensoever it shall please GOD in his due time to call me to the possession of my right in England, I purpose not to make any jnnovation in the State, or to alter the Laws and Ordinances thereof, etc. Whereupon a wise man would (as the L L. did) have thus jnferred: No alteration in the State, no changing of Laws and Ordinances therein established; why then no toleration of Popery, no allowance of Recusancy; & not because it pleased the king's Majesty out of the meekness of his Spirit (void of guile and double dealing) to return him thanks for his advise (although he did not so much as make show that he liked thereof) therefore to conclude that a toleration should be granted.  
But he in his ambition besotted with his own folly, not expounding his Majesty's words as he meant, but as he himself conceited them, because he so (as it should evidently appear) wished that it might be, did so far exceed the limits of his commission, and was so far vainly transported, 
Vide Tortûran Torti Pag. 83. Prom●ssa nescioquae commenti sunt quae tamen nulla suerunt & quod factum nunquam est, id fuisse tamen factium in vulgus spargebant.  as that at T. P. his return from the King's Majesty, it was amongst the Papists divulged (though falsely) that the King had also by the said T. P. given directions to the afore-remembred great parsonage, by word of mouth to wind himself into their favours, (for that was the word) and to give hopes of toleration in his Majesty's name unto Recusants, and here-hence chiefly arose that scandal of the king's Honour, that he had broken promise with Recusants. For the better confirmation whereof, and that his Majesty never intended any such matter of toleration, 
vide the Earl of Northamp. printed speech at Garnets' arraignment in pag. 1. of A aa  Confer herewith Watson the Priest his confession unto the Honourable Lord the Lord of Northampton at Winchester; who being by the Earl (by his Majesty thereunto appointed) examined upon the point of promise of toleration, freely confessed that albeit he were by some falsely accused to be the Author of that report, yet it was most true that he could never at any time draw any comfort from his Majesty in the point of conscience.  
All which notwithstanding (besides the just cause that the Powder-treason, and other dangerous conspiracies against his majesties life and kingdoms, hateful to God and all good men, gave, of an hard hand over the Papists) yet let any of you (that I may use the words of an Honourable Counsellor) even the most jmpudent & brazen faced amongst you, 
The Earl of Salisbury in his answer to certain scandalous papers.  show any the least prints (if you can) of bloody steps in his Majesty's Course: Nay rather I may much more truly say, he is a man composed all of mercy, and not of any earthly element, subject to passions and disturbance, but in a far more divine manner then ordinary men, resembling his Maker, for good Kings and merciful are the most lively representative images of the Deity, which causeth as the wicked without warrant, upon God's mercies, so Traitors and miscreant without reason upon his Majesty's Clemency jmpudently to presume, to their more just condemnation.  
And here let me tell you (yet void of any desire of blood or bloody courses, as God can bear record unto my soul, but only admiring the mercies of our King) That I greatly doubt whether any Prince in the world (King james excepted) if the like treason as was the Powder-treason, had been plotted against him by persons of another religion or sect whatsoever, would have suffered either man, woman, or child of so dangerous and damnable a profession, to have breathed within his Dominions, especially if the grounds of their religion (as doth that of yours by evident proofs elswere convinced) do allow of any such doctrine and enterprises. 
D. Reynolds in his preface before his conference with Hart. D. Morton, M. Stock, with many more.   
This Powder-plot-treason was in itself, in the eyes of some of the actors therein, so horrid and detestable, as that one of your own Jesuits from an apprehension of the jmmane cruelty thereof, (not moved with any commiseration of their miseries, who were by their designs destinated to the rage thereof, but proceeding from a trembling fear lest it should be discovered) could say to his fellow in profession and action, 
Greenewell, & Garnet.  That if it were discovered it would be the utter ruin and dissolution of their Society.  
Remember also Robert Winters dream and the horror thereof, 
Reported at his arraignment in Westminst. Hall janu 27. 1605 mentioned in the Earl of northampton's speech in the first pag of L.  how it terrified his very soul with the ghastly appearance of some of his consorts. And forget not the fearful vengeance of God in suffering their faces to be so ugly disfigured with Gunpowder in Littleton's house, who had prepared a Destruction for this whole kingdom with the same matter and Substance; and then conclude that God is just, and therefore in his justice did punish their wickedness with the inventions of their own brains.  
Was it not time to lop those ambitious aspiring thoughts of Watson the Priest and his confederates, 
Confessed under his own hand in an examination openly read in the star-chamber at the conviction, of the Earl of Northumberl. jun. 27. 1606.  as also to clip the wings of the Powder-Treason contrivers and their favourites, the first affecting in his own person the high Chancelorship of England; and the latter building their hopes above the Moon, 
Confessed in divers examinations under their hands openly read the time and place aforesaid.  amongst themselves concluding to set up a Protector of their own choosing out of the number of those Popish Lords, that by them were intended should be preserved from that general destruction of their sulphureous fire, all of them directly aiming at the utter ruin and destruction of this noble and renowned Island, and to make desolate the most glorious Kingdom that is covered by the Heavens.  
But as the most fruitful trees bear their tops lowest, 
Simile.  and the most barren and unfruitful shoot up highest, even so is it amongst men. Those that are most empty of virtue and laudable qualities, aspire in their ambition to places of highest honour uncalled, whereas the more worthy and virtuous would in their humility refuse them being jmposed, were it not only for this, that they may thereby be the better jnabled to do good.  
Admit that the King's Majesty had in a religious policy promised a toleration, before he were fully seated in his kingdom, or come into this Kingdom, nay that he had so also meant indeed, as some of you have falsely and jmpudently given out; yet had he not, for your extreme ill carriage and disloyal demeanour, just cause to have revoked it? For before that liberty could be established for you, there must needs have been a repeal made of those Laws and Statutes formerly made against Recusancy, which as they were by act of Parliament confirmed, so must they have been by the like authority disannulled. 
These forward spirits (as they would be thought) for the King's Succession would yet have bereft us of his head before the Crown had adorned it.  But your Watson and Clarke thought to make a shorter cut than so, by preventing the King in the performance of that which Watson himself knew full well the King never purpose nor promised, albeit it should seem by watson's own confession, that he had much laboured and jmportuned his Majesty therein. Since which time also, if his Majesty had promised the like (as some of your faction have falsely given out) was not that matchless Powder-treason plotted, 
Tortura Torti. Page 84.  contrived, 
See the Catholic supplication to the king's Majesty in Ann. 1604 near beginning thereof.  furthered, and assisted by beasts (for men I cannot call them, but rather devils) of your religion, both Priests, Jesuits, and (as you style yourselves) lay Catholics, a sufficient warrantise without prejudice to his honour, to recall such a grant as might give protection to Caterpillars, Degenerate persons, Miscreants, Vipers, Monsters, and not men, and whatsoever name more odious, that also; yea unworthy to be called by the name of any of God's creatures, for they persist in their created natures, but the other do not but are degenerated from men to Devils.  
That their damnable practice doth rightly moralise the tale of the Husbandman, wherein he is fabled to have found a Snake stiff and almost dead with cold, and to have brought him home in his bosom and warmed him by the fire, which after recovering began to hiss at the good man of the house for his pains, and would with his venomous tongue have stung him to death, who had before saved his life; which plainly bids King james beware that he nourish not vipers in his own Kingdom, I pray God not in his Court.  
You seem in some places of your writings to tax Queen Elizabeth, and in her all true professors of religion for a backward and frozen zeal towards the King's Majesties rightful succession in these his kingdoms, 
See your supplication to his Majesty, Anno. 1604. chap. 5.  & to blazon your own forwardness in his Majesty's behalf: but know, you falsehearted and degenerate men, that king james knows how to judge of spirits, 
Also in the first part of Engl. three Conversions, near the beginning thereof.  and to hold you but hollowhearted unto him now, because whiles you were yet Queen Elizabeth's subjects, you were then so unto her, and to esteem of our late Queen Honourably, and of us as faithful Subjects then unto her, so now no less unto him. And albeit that for some reasons of State unto herself best known, and which no doubt but his Majesty now very well understandeth, it pleased her to conceal the kings right from the multitude, yet I verily persuade myself that his Majesty did never so much as conceive a thought that Queen Elizabeth did ever purpose or intent to debar him in his right of lawful succession. And in this point your fellow Catholics thought to cast a Bone between his Majesty and his good subjects, but you are made to swallow it yourselves, and some whose throats were to little it choked. Nor may I here let pass untouched that Prophetical speech of that worthy Matriarke (Honourable amongst women) Q. Elizabeth, who when in the first year of her reign she was motioned to dispose herself to Marriage; that her subjects might enjoy an happy issue of her own body, like as Abraham when his Son Isaac said Behold the fire and the wood, but where is the Lamb for the burnt offering? Gen. 22. 7. replied, Deus providebit mi fili; So she (abraham's daughter by faith) likewise, Fideles mei subditi, my loving and faithful Subjects, although you may justly fear what may be the event of my disposedness to a Virgin life, yet be not depressed with care that way, nor dejected with sorrow, but trust in God, for Deus providebit, he even God, even that God who made Sarahs' barren womb fruitful, and he who, although I should marry, can cause my womb to be barren, He, who had another meat to eat that his Disciples knew not of, joh. 4. 32. Even he I say will provide you a king of his own choosing, whom you do not so much as dream of, My Father's Will must be done, joh. 4. 34. I the Lord will be their God, and my servant David shall be the Prince amongst them. I the Lord have spoken it, Ezech. 34. 24. Which that your eyes have, after 44. years after that, seen accomplished, do ye and your unholy father the Pope fret out your heartstrings, (for so God bless, curse ye and spare not) but let all good and faithful subjects say always, The Lords name be praised. Her own words (worthy to be written in letters of gold) are recorded by Io. Stow in his Annals of Eng. in the beginning of her reign.  
And to draw to an end with you, because you harp so much upon two strings, to wit, breach of promise and bloodshedding; 
Mentioned in M. Fox his book of Martyrs in the very beginning of Q. Mary's Reign.  remember the vows that Queen Marie made to the Suffolk men (by whose aid she was settled in her Kingdom) and her violation thereof, although not forced thereto by any Conspiracy of the Gospelers then, or any attempt (by persons different to her in religion) against her person after her right once proclaimed; and withal forget not how much blood her breach of promise cost, and having weighed both in an equal balance of an jmpartiall and not prejudicated judgement, If then you justly can, urge both and spare not, but in the mean space view in the Table following with the eyes of pity the Catalogue of them, whose blood was by her and her bloody Ministers so cruelly, only for religion, shed and exhausted. And so wishing that you would be, but little hoping that you will be, good Subjects unto his Majesty; as I found you so I leave you, void of Religion, empty of honesty.  
 
By him that affords you as good means to know me, as your Martyrologist hath done me to know him.  monogram incorporating the letters FRANCIS BTO (? and U)  

This knot doth show  
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The Author's name;  
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❧ A Brief Collection of such Martyrs as within the (less than six years) Bloody Reign of Queen Mary were burned in England for the profession of the Gospel of Christ jesus.  
¶ Opposed to the following English-Romish martyrologue of I. W. Priest.  
❀ Drawn into such an order as that at one view you may behold the year of our L: God, the years of the Princes Reigns both of England and Scotland, the Names of those that suffered, the day and month wherein they suffered, and the places of their suffering.  
¶ A Table very necessary for all Lawyers, Scriveners, Clerks, or whosoever else desire upon any occasion to know how the double account of the years of the Reigns of the Princes of England and Scotland, since the first year of Queen Marie, until this present year of our Lord 1611. do agree and concur. The like before not extant.  
¶ But more especially published to prove, unto the understanding of the most simple, that Popery is a false Bloody, Antichristian and Merciless Religion, whose professors delight in shedding the Blood of God's Saints; and on the contrary, that the Gospel which we now in England profess is the Truth, and hath for truth been confirmed with the blood of many more Martyrs (in less than six years space) than this Popish Priest in his Martyloge with any show of truth can (though falsely) pretend to have suffered in England for Religion in 50. years since.  
THE FIERY TRIAL OF GOD'S SAINTS:  ¶ These are they who were killed for the word of God, and for the Testimony which they maintained, Revel. 6. 9 

Who cry with a loud Voice.   ❀ How long Lord which art holy and true! dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the Earth. Revel. 6. 10. ❀ And these live and Reign with Christ, and are Blessed because they Died in the Lord. Revel. 14. 13. 
The year of our L. God beginning by this account Mar. 25 Q. Marry her Rai. of Engl. beginning july 6. 1553. Q. Marry her Raig. of Scotland beginning Decem. 18 1542. The Names of such Martyrs as were burned in Eng. in Q. Mary's Reign, for the profession of the Gospel. The day of the month wherein they suffered. The places where they suffered. 1553. july 6. Mariae Angli. 1 Decem. 18 Mariae Scot 12.    1554. july 6. Mariae Angli. 2 Decem. 18. Mariae Scot 13 john Rogers, burned. Feb. 4. in Smithfield. Laurence Sanders, burned. 8. at Coventry. Io: Hooper Bish: of Worcest: and Gloucest: burr. 9 at Gloucester D. Taylor, burned. eodem. die. at Hadley. Tho: Tomkins, burned. Mar. 16. in Smithfield. 1555. july 6. Mariae Angli. 3 Decem. 18 Mariae Scot 14. William Hunter, burr. Mar. 26. at Burntwod. Tho: Higbed, burr. eodem die. at Horndon Thomas Cawston, burr. eodem die. at Rayly. William Piggot, burned. 28 at Braintree. Stephen Knight, burr. eodem die. at Mauldon. john Laurence, burr. 29 at Colchester. D. Farrar Bish: of S. David's, but. 30 at Carmarthen Rawlins White, burr. eod. fe. temp. at Cardiff George Marsh, burr. April. 24 at Westchest. William Flower, burr. eodem die. at Westminst. Io. Cardmaker, & Io. warn, b. May 30. in Smithfield. Io. Simson, burr. June 10. at Rochfort, Io. Ardley, burr. June 10. at Rayly. though Hawks, burr. June 10. at Coxhall. Tho. Wats, but. June 10. at Chelmsford john Tooly digged out of his grave, & burr. eod fe. temp.  Nicholas Chamberlain, burr. June 14. at Colchester. Thomas Osmund, burr. 15. at Mamniugtre. William Bamford, burr. 15. at Harwicke. Io. Bradford, & Io leaf, burr. 15. in Smithfield. joh. Bland, Io. Frankesh. Nicholas Sheterden, & Hum Middleton, burr. July. 12. at Canterbury. Margery Pullie; Nicho. Hall, &  at Tunbridge Christo Weighed, burr. 19 at Rochester. Dirrick Carver, burr. 22. at Lewis in S Tho. jueson, burr. eod. se. temp. at Chichester james Abbes, burr. August. 2. at Bury. joh. Denly, burr. 8. at Uxbridge. George Tankervile, burr. 26. at S. Albon. Patrick Packhingham, burr. 28. at Saffronwalden. john Newman, burr. 31.  Rich: Hooke, burr. eodem mense. at Chichester. Rich: Collier, Wil: Cooker, Wil: Hooper, Henry Laurence, Rich: Wright, and Wil: Store, burr. eodem mense. at Canterbury Ely: warn, burr.  at Stratf: Bow Robert Smith, burr:  at Uxbridge. Steph: Harward, burr. eodem mense. at Stratf: Bow Thomas Fust, burr:  at Ware. Wil: hail, burr:  at Barnet. Wil: Allen, burr:  at Walsigham Roger Coo burr:  at Yexford. Thomas Cobbe, burr: mense S●pt. at Thetord. Rob: Streater, George Catmer, Anth: Burward, Geo: Bradbrige, and james Tutty, burr: eodem mese. at Canterbury Io: Goreway, and Tho: Hayward, burr: eodem mense. at Lichfield. Rob: Glover, and Correlius Bongey, burr: Septemb. 20 at Coventry. Bishop Ridley, and Bish: Latimer, burr: Octob. 16. at Oxford. Wil: Wolsey, and Robert Piggot, burr: eodem die. at Ely. john web, George Roper, & Gre: Park, burr: Novem. 30. at Canterbury. Io: Philpot Archdeacon, burr: Decem. 18. in Smithfield. Thomas Whittle, Barthelet green, john Tudson, Io. Went, Thomas Browne,   Isabella Foster, and joan Warren, burr: Janu. 27 in Smithfield. john Lomas. Anne Abbright, joan Catmer, joan Soak, and Agnes Snoth, burr: 31. at Canterbury. Thomas Cranmer Archbish. of Canter. burr: March. 21 at Oxford. john Spicer, Wil: Cobberley, & Io: Maundrell, burr: 24. at Salisbury. joan Trunchfield, and Agnes Potten, burr: eodem mense. at Ipswich. 1556. Mariae. Ang. 4. Mariae Scot 15. john Harpoole, and joan Beech, burr: April. 1. at Rochester. john Hulliar, burr: 2. at Cambridge Rob: Drakes, Wil: Tymmes, Rich: Spurge, Tho: Spurge, Io: Cavil, & George Ambrose, burr: 24. in Smithfield. Christopher Lyser, Io: Mace, john Spencer, Simon join, Rich: Nichols, and john Hamund, burr: 28. at Colchester Thomas Drury, and Thomas Crooker, burr: May 5. at Gloucester Hugh Laverhoke, and joh. ap Rice, burr: 15. at Stratford-Bowe. Katherine Hull, joan Horns, Eliz: Thackvell, and Margery. Ellies, burr: 16. in Smithfield. Tho: Spicer, Ioh: Denny, & Edmund Poole, burr: 21. at Beckleys in Suffolk. Tho: Harland, ●oh: Oswald. Tho: Auington, and Tho: Read, burr: june. 6. at Lewis in Suffolk. Tho: hood, and Thomas Mylles, burr: 20. at Lewis in Suffolk. Thomas Moor, burr: June. 26. at Leicester. Henry Adlington, Laurence Pernham, Henry Wye, Wil: Halliwell, Tho: Bowyer, George Searle, Edm Hurst, Lion Cawch, Ralph jackson, john Derrifall, john Rowth, Elyz: Pepper, and Agnes George, burr: 27. at Stratford Bow. Roger Bernard, Rob: Lawson and Adam Foster, burr: 30. at Bury. julius Palmer, Io: Gwyn, & Thomas Askine, burr: july 16. at Newberry. Katherine Cawches, Guilian Gilbert, Perotine Massey, and the said Masseys' Infant breaking violently out of the Mother's womb into the fire, was taken out once and presently thrown again into the fire, & burr. 18. in the Isle of Garnsey. Tho▪ Dungale, john Foreman, & Anne Try, burr. eodem die. at Greensted. joan Wast, burr: August. 1. at Derby. Edw: Sharpe, burr▪ Septem. 8. at Bristol. john Hart, Tho: Ravensdale; as also a Shoemaker and a Currier, burr: 24. at Mayfield. A Carpenter, burr: 25. at Bristol. john Horn, and a woman, burr: 27. at Wooton-underhedge. Wil: Waterer, Steph: Kempe, Wil: Hay, Tho: Hudson, Wil: Lowicke, and William Prouting, burr: Janua. 15 at Canterbury. Ni: Final & Mat: Brabridge, b: 16. at Ashford. Io: Philpot, & Thomas Stephens, burr: in Janu. at weigh. Martin Bucer, & Paulus Phagius bones digged up and with their books burr: also Peter Martyrs wives bones removed and buried in a dunghill. Febru. 16. at Cambridge. 1557. Mariae Ang. 5. Mariae Scot 16 Tho: Loseby, Henry Ramsey, Tho: Thirtle, Marg: Hyde, & Agnes Stanley burr: April 12. in Smithfield. Rich: Sharpe, & Tho: Hale, but: May 7. at Bristol. Steph: Gratwicke, Wil: Monant, & one King, burr: eodemmense. in S. George's field. jone Brabridge, Wal, Aplebly, & Petronell his wife, Edm: Allen, & Kath: his wife joa: Manings, & a blind maid, but: june 18. at Maidstone. joan Fishcoke, Nich: White, Nich: Pardue, Barbara Final, Brabridge his widow, wilsons' wife, & Alice Benden, burr: 19 at Canterbury. Rich: Woodman, George Stephens, Wil: Mainard, Alex: Hosman, Thomasine Wood, Mar: Morris, james Morris, Denis Burgis, ashdon's wife & Groves wife, but: 22. at Lewis in Sussex. Simon miller, & Elyzab: Cooper, but: July 13. at Norwich. Wil: Bongor, Wil: Purcas, Th: Benold, Agnes Siluerside, alias Smith, Helen Euring, Elyzab: folks, Wil: Mount, Alice his wife; Rose Allyn,   and Ioh: johnson, burr: August. 2. at Colchester. Rich: Crashfield burr: 5. at Norwich A woman, and one named Friar, burr: 20. at Rochester. Tho: Benyon, burr: 27. at Bristol. Ralph Allerton, james Austoo, Marge: Austoo, and Rich: Rooth, burr: Septem. 17 at Islington. Agnes Bongor, & Margaret Thurston, burr: eodem die. at Colchester joice Lewis, burr: eodem mense. at Litchfield. john▪ Kurd, burr: 20. at Northamp. john Noyes, burr: eodem mense. at Layfield Cycely Ormes, burr: 23. at Norwich. john Halingdale, Wil: Sparrow, & Rih: Gibson, burr: Novem. 18 at Colchester. john Rough, & Margery Mearing, burr: Decem. 22 in Smithfield. john Warner, Tho: Athoth, Io: Mylles, Nich: Holden, john Ashdon, & Tho: Spurdance, burr. eodem An. in Chichester Diocese. 1558. Mariae Ang. 6. Mariae Scot 17. Hugh Fox, john devenish, & Cuthbert Simson, burr: March. 28 in Smithfield. Wil: Nicholne, burr: April. 9 at Hereford. Wil: Seaman, Thomas Carman, & Tho: Hudson, burr: May. 19 at Norwich. Wil: Harris, Richard Day, & Christian George, burr: 26. at Colchester Henry Pond, Raynold Eastland, Robert Southam, Mat: Richardby, & Roger Holland, burr: June 27. in Smithfield. Richard Yeoman, burr: July 10 at Norwich. Robert Mylles, Steph: Cotton, Robert Dynes, Ste: Wight, john Slade, & Wil: Pikes, burr: july. 14. at Brainford. john Cook, Robert Miles, Alex: Lane, & james Ashley, burr: eodem mense. at Bury. Thomas Bembridge, burr: eodem mense. in Winchester Diocese. Alex: Gowch, and Alice Driver, burr: Novem. 4. at Ipswich. Phil: Humphrey, john David, Hen: David, and a woman named Priest, burr: eodem mense. at Exeter. This year the 17. of Nouem: died Q. Marie. john Corneford, Christopher Browne, Io: Herst, Alice, Snoth, and Kathe: Knight, (alias Tynley) being (as saith M. Fox) the last that suffered in Queen Mary's Reign, were burned. 10. at Canterbury      The whole number of Martyrs burned in 5. years of Qu. Mary's Reign, by this account is about 260.   

A Bead-roll of all such traitorous Priests, jesuits, and Popish Recusants, as by I. W. Priest in his English martyrologue are by him recorded for Martyrs in this Kingdom, since the first year of Queen Elizabeth until the latter end of the sixth year of King james our now Sovereign Lord his Reign.  
❀ Drawn into such an order as that at one view you may behold the year of our L: God, the years of the Princes Reigns both of England and Scotland, the Names of those that suffered, the day and month wherein they suffered, and the places of their suffering.  
¶ A Table very necessary for all Lawyers, Scriveners, Clerks, or whosoever else desire upon any occasion to know how the double account of the years of the Reigns of the Princes of England and Scotland, since the first year of Queen Marie, until this present year of our Lord 1611. do agree and concur. The like before not extant.  
¶ But more especially published to prove, unto the understanding of the most simple, that Popery is a false Bloody, Antichristian and Merciless Religion, whose professors delight in shedding the Blood of God's Saints; and on the contrary, that the Gospel which we now in England profess is the Truth, and hath for truth been confirmed with the blood of many more Martyrs (in less than six years space) than this Popish Priest in his Martyloge with any show of truth can (though falsely) pretend to have suffered in England for Religion in 50. years since.  
THE DETESTABLE ENDS OF POPISH TRAITORS:  ¶ These are those unclean Spirits, who like Frogs came out of the mouth of that Dragon, and out of the mouth of that Beast, and out of the mouth of that false Prophet. Revel. 13. 16. ¶ Whose Damnation is just. Rom. 3. 8. 
 ❀ For they are the Spirits of Devils, working Miracles, to go unto the Kings of the Earth, and of the whole world, together them to the Battle of that great Day of God Almighty. Revel. 16. 14. ❀ And these worshipped the beast. Revel. 13. 4▪ 
The year of our L. God beginning by this account Mar. 25. Queen Elizab. her Raig. of Eng: beginning No. 17. 1558. Q. Marry her Raig. of Scotland beginning Decem. 18. 1542. The Names of Traitors as were executed in England in Queen Elizabeth's Reign. The days of the month wherein they were executed. The places where they were executed.  Novemb. 17. Eliz. Angl. 1.     1559. Elizab. Angl. 2. Mariae Scot 18.    1560. Elizab. Angl. 3. Mariae Scot 19    1561. Elizab: Ang. 4. Mariae Scot 20    1562. Elizab. Ang. 5. Mariae Scot 21    1563. Elizab. Ang. 6. Mariae Scot 22.    1564. Elizab. Ang. 7. Mariae Scot 23    1565. Elizab. Ang. 8 Mariae Scot 24. This year july 28. H. L. Darly was proclaimed Ki. and on the morrow after he married the Qu.    1566. Elizab. Angl. 9 Mariae S●ot. 25. In this year of our L. God june 19 was our (now) Kings Majesty Borne, & Christenned the 18. day of Decem. following. The 10 of Febr. following the K. was murdered by traitors    1567. Elyzab. Ang. 10 This year in the month of july Q. Mary being prisoner in Lochleui●e willingly resigned her Crown unto    The year of our L God beginning by this account Mar. 25 Queen Elizab. her Raig. of Eng: beginning No. 17. 1558. K. james his Raig. of Scot: beginning july 29. 1567. The Names of such Traitors as were executed in England in Q. Elizabeth's Reign. The days of the month in which they were executed. The places where they were executed.   James the young Prince, our now Sovereign Lord & King, he was then but two years old.      K. james his Rai. of Scot being the 6. King of that name.      july 29 jacobi. Sexti Scoto. 1.    1568. Elyzab. Ang. 11 jacob. Scoto. 2.    1569. Elyzab. Ang. 12 Jacob. Scoto. 3.    1570. Elizab. Ang. 13 Jacob. Scoto. 4. john Felton. August. 8. in Paul's Church yard. 1571. Elyzab. Ang 14 Jacob. Scoto. 5. john Story. June 1. at Tyburn. 1572. Elyzab. Ang. 15 Jacob. Scoto. 6.    1573. Elyz: 16 jacob: 7. Thomas Woodhouse. June 19 at Tyburn. 1574. Elyz: 17 jacob. 8.    1575. Eliz: 18 jacob: 9    1576. Elyz: 19 jaco: 10    1577. Elizab: Ang: 20 jacob: Scot: 11 Cuthbert Maine. Nouem: 29 at Launston. john Nelson. Feb. 3. at Tyburn. 1578. Elyzab: Ang: 21 Jacob: Scot: 12 Thomas Sherwood, Febru. 7.  1579. Elyzab: Ang: 22 jacob: Scot, 13 Anno. 1577. in the month of january, was published a Proclamation against Seminary Priests and jesuits, and for calling home the Queen's subie&ss from foreign Seminaries, where they remained under colour of study.   1580. Elyzab: Ang: 23 jacob: Scot: 14    1581. Elyzab: Ang: 24 jacob: Scot: 15 Euerard Hanse. July 31. at Tyburn. Edmund Campion. Alexander Bryant. Ralphe Sherwyn. Decem. 1 at Tyburn. 1582. Elyzab: Ang: 25 jacob: Scot: 16 john Paine. April 2. at Chelmsford Thomas Ford. john Shirt. Robert johnson. May. 28. at Tyburn. Thomas Cottam. William Filby. Luke Kirby. Laurence johnson. May 30 at Tyburn. William Lacy. Richard Kirkman. August. 22 at York. james Tompson. in Nouem: at York. 1583. Elyzab: Ang: 26 jacob: Scot: 17 Richard Thirkhill. May. 29 at York. William Hart.  at York. james Laburne.  at Lancaster. William Carter. Janu: 11. at Tyburn. George Haddock, Io: Mundine, james Fen, Thomas Emerford, & john Nutter. Feb. 12. at Tyburn. 1584. Elyzab: Ang: 27 Jacob. Scot 18 james Bele. john Finch. April 20. at Lancaster Richard White. Octo. 18. at Wrixam.    This year also were 21. jesuits and Seminary Priests banished the Realm, janu: 21.   1585. Elyzab: Ang. 28 Jacob. Scot 19 Thomas Aufield. Thomas Webley. July 6. at Tyburn. Hugh Taylor. Marmaduke Bowes:  at York. Margaret Clitherow. in March. at York. N. Hamelton. Rob: Bicardine.  at York. Edward Transam. Nich: Woodfine. Janu. 21 at Tyburn. This year also were 32. Priests & jesuits banished the Realm, Sep. 19   1586. Elyzab: Ang: 29 Jacob. Scot: 20. Richard Sergeant. William Tompson. April 20. at Tyburn. john adam's. john Low. Rob: Debdale Rob: Anderton. Octo. 8. at Tyburn. William Marsden.  at Tyburn. Francis Ingleby.  at York. Stephen Rowsam.  at Gloucester John Finglow.   1587. Elyzab: Ang: 30 Jacob. Scot: 21. Thomas Pilchard. in March. at Dorcester. john Sands.  at Gloucester john Hamly.  at Chard. Alexander crow.  at York. Robert Sutton.  at Stafford. Edmund Sykes.   Gabriel Thimbleby.   George Dowglas.   1588. Elyzab: Ang: 31 jacob. Scot: 22 William Deane. Henry Webley. August. 28. at Myle-end-greene. William Gunter. eodem die. at the Theat: Robert Morton. Hugh More. eodem die. at Lincolns-Inne Fields. Tho: Acton, alias Holford. eodem die. at Clarkenwel Richard Clarkson. Thomas Felton. eodem die. at Hownslow Rich: Leigh, Edward Shelley, Hugh Morgan, Rich: Flower, Robert Martin, john Rock, & Margaret Wade. Aug. 30. at Tyburn. Edward james. Ralph Crotchet. Octob. 1. at Chichester. Robert Wilcockes. Edward Campion. Christo: Buxton. Rob: Widmerpoole. eodem die. at Canterbury. William Wigs. eodem die. at Kingston. john Robinson. eodem die. at Ispwich. john Weldon. October 5. at Milendgreen William Hartley. Rich: Williams. eodem die. at Halliwell. Robert Sutton. eodem die. at Clarkenwel. William Spencer.   Edward Burden.   john Hewyt.   Rob: Ludham. Richard Simpson. Nicholas Garlic.  at Derby. William Lampley.  at Gloucester 1589. Elyzab: Ang: 32 jacob. Scot 23 George Nicols, Rich: Yaxley, Tho: Belson, Hun: up-richard. July 5. at Oxford. john Annas.   Robert Dalby.   Christopher Bales. March. 4. in Fleetstreet. Alexander Blake. eodem d●e. in Gr●●n-lane Nicholas Horner. eodem d●e. in Smithfield. 1590. Elyzab: Ang. 33 Jacob. Scot 24. Miles Gerrard. Francis Dickinson. April. 30. at Rochester. Anthony Myddleton. M●y. 6. at Clarkenwel Edward jones. May 6. in Fleetstreet. 1591. Elyzab. Ang. 34 Jacob. Scot 25 Edmund genning's. Decem. 10 in Gray's Inn Fields. Swithin Welles. Eustach White. Decem. 10 at Tyburn. Polydor Plasden. Bryan Lacy. john Mason. Sidney Hodgson. Momfort Scot july. 2. in Fleetstreet. George Bisley. William Dickinson. July. 7. at Winchester Ralph Milner. Edmund Duck.  at Durham. Rich: Holiday.  Ioh: hag.  Rich: Hill.  William Pikes.  at Dorcester. William Partison. jann. 22. at Tyburn. Tho: Portmore. Feb. 21. in Paul's Church yard. This year also in the month of Octob: was published a Proclamation against Priests and jesuits.   1592. Elyz. 35 jaco. 26. Roger Ashton. June. 23. at Tyburn. 1593. Elyzab. Ang 36 Jacob. Scot 27. james Burden. March 25 at Winchester. Anthony Page. April 30 at York. joseph Lampton. jane. 23. at Newcastle. William davis. in Sep●em. at Beumaris. Edward Waterson.   William Harrington. Feb. 18. at Tyburn. 1594. Elyzab: Ang: 37 jacob. Scot 28 john Cornelius Mohum. July 4. at Dorcester. Tho: Bosgraue Patrick Salmon. john Carey. john Ingram.   Thomas Boast.  at Newcastle. james Oldbaston.   Robert Southwell. March 3. at Tyburn. 1595. Elzyab. Ang. 38 Jacob. Scot 29 Henry Walpole.   Alexander Rawiins. April ●7. at York. George Errington.  at York. William Knight.  William Gibson.  Henry Abbots.  William Freeman.   1596. Elizab Ang. 3●. jacob. S●ot. 30 N: Auleby.   N: Thorpe.   1597. Elyz: 40 jaco. 31 john Buckley, alias jones. july. 12. at S. Th: Wa: 1598. Elizab. Ang. ●1 jacob. Scot 32 Thomas Snow.  at York. Christoph: Robinson  Rich. Horner.  N: Grimston  N: Britton.  1599 Elyz: 42 jaco: 33. Math. Hayes.  at York. 1600. Elizab. Ang. ●3 Jacob Scot 34. Christopher Wharton, with a nameless Woman. May. 18. at York. john Rigby. July 21 at S: Th' Wa: Robert Nutter. in June. at Lancaster Edward Thwinge. Thomas Sprot in july. at Lincoln. Thomas Hunt. Thomas Palaser. eode mense. at Durham. john Norton. N: Talbot. john Pibush. Febr. 11. at Tyburn. Roger Filcocke Feb. ●7. at Tyburn. Mark Barkworth. Anne Live. 1601. Elyzab: Ang: 44 jacob. Scot: 35 Robert Middleton.  at Lancaster. Thurstan Hunt.  1602. Elyzab: Ang: 45 jacob. Scot 36 Francis Page. April 29 at Tyburn. Thomas Tichborne. Robert Watkinson james Ducket. N: Harrison. in April. at York. N: Bates William Richardson. Feb. 27. at Tyburn.  Mar: 24 being the last day of the year 1602 by the account of Eng: died Queen Elizab.  The whole number of such Priests, jesuits, and Recusants, as were executed in all the time of Queen Elizabeth's Reign, being 44. years and 4. months, according to the Martyrologists own account, (as he falsely pretends for religion) amounts but to 180.   The year of our L. God beginning by this account. Mar. 25 K. james his Rai: of Engl: beginning Mar: 24 16●2. K. james his Rai. of Scot beginning july. 29. 15●7. The Names of such Traitors as were executed in England in K. james his Reign. The day of the month in which ●hey were executed. The places where they were executed.  1602. Mar: 24 jacob: Ang: 1.  KING JAMES HIS Reign of England.   1603. jacob: Ang: 2. jacob: Scot 37 Stowe. William Watson. Nouem: 29 at Winchester William Clarke. This year also was published a Proclamation against Priests and jesuits, that they should depart the Land.   1604. jacob. Ang. 3. jacob: Scot: 38 Laurence Bayly. in March. at Lancaster. john Shuker. in August. at Warwick. Robert Griffold. 1605. jacob: 4. jaco: 39 Thomas Wilborne.  at York. 1606. jacob: Ang 5 jacob: Scot: 40 Edward Oldcorne. April 7. at Worcester. in Paul's Ralph Ashley. Henry Garnet. May 3. Churchyard. Robert Drury. Febru. 26. at Tyburn. This year also was published a Proclamation that all Jesuits and Seminary Priests, should depart the Land.   1607. jacob: 6. jaco. 41 Matthew Flathers. March 21 at York. 1608. jacobi. Ang. 7. Jacob: Scot: 42 George Germs. April 11 at Tyburn. Thomas Garnet. June 23. at Tyburn. 1609. jaco: 8. Ia●o: 43 And thus endeth I: W: Priest the Pseudomartyrologist, by whole account there have suffered since the first year of King James, of these Popish Traitors (as he falsely pretends for Religion) to the number of 13.   1610. jaco. 9: jaco: 44.    1611.  jaco: 45    1612.      1613.      1614      1615.       

The Pope's charge to his brats.  
Estote proditores. Go kill your Prince.    

A POSTSCRIPT TO THE WELL AFFECTED READER.  
IT may be that some of Antichristes brood will here cry out with open mouths and say, ●ut, there are many of our Catholic Martyrs, who have suffered persecution for their consciences that are not here mentioned. Here is a Collection indeed, to set down some, and leave out the rest: where are those Earls of Northumberland and Westmoreland with their followers? where the 
a Bristol in his motives 15. Chap. 73 calleth these Martyrs. Above 1000 of thes saith lay Catholics in their Supplication to the King's Majesty 1604. abandoned their livings rather than they would change their religion. Also the three conversions of England, part the first, page 264.  Bishops, Deans, Archdeacon's, Canons, and other Ecclesiastical persons? where Doctor Lopez, Party? where many of the Gentry, as Abington, Babington, Tichborne, Savage and their fellows? and of late where the Lords Cobham and Grace? where Digbie, Percy, Catesby, Tresham, Rookewood, the Winters, Litletons & their followers, With divers others both of the Nobility and Gentry, who for their consciences in seeking to advance the (By them so falsely called) Catholic religion, have suffered Martyrdom, some by death, some by imprisonment, some by banishment, some by loss of livings, some one way, some another? So condemning these collections with the author thereof to the fire, as sometimes their forefathers did the gospels confessors before registered.  
To stop whose mouths let this suffice: First, that I neither propounded to myself, nor promised to them, to set down herein the names of any other in Queen Mary her Reign, then only of such as merely for their consciences in professing CHRIST'S Gospel were in those days with fire and faggot martyred and burned, not at all meddling with such as either were attainted or executed for treasons and rebellions, either against her person, state or dignity, whom no good Christians will seek to excuse, in so doing, nor of any other in Q. Elizab. or King james their reigns, them only of such Seminary 
a Three conversions page 265. Of Priests above 100 have Sealed the confession of their faith with blood within 40. years.  Priests jesuits & Recusants, as I find recorded by their martyrologist I. W. Priests whom many simple Papists being seduced by their false teachers give out to have suffered only for Religion and their consciences, although that in all of these Priests and Jesuits, men of judgement may easily discern the contrary, and as for many of them, the most simple cannot be ignorant that knoweth any thing, nor the most shameless deny, that is not past all shame, that they were executed for plotting and contriving, for knowledge of, and concealing most barbarous & the like before unheard of treasons, whereas true martyrdom indeed consisteth ferendo & patiendo, 
A small number in comparison of 278. martyrs in less than six years.  non in agendo, in bearing patiently, and suffering afflictions for CHRIST'S cause, but not in plotting and attempting the lives and overthrows of Kings and Countries, their lawful and Liege Sovereigns and native (though of them hated) habitations and byrth-place: witness for proof hereof, 1. Ballard, 2. Watson, 3. Clarke, 4. Garnet the jesuits Provincial, 5. Hall with others, the first of these was a chief actor and plotter▪ in Abingtons' and Babingtons' Conspiracy. Anno 1586. the second & third in Cobham's and Gray's, but more properly (for they are the first movers always) in watson's and Clerks their own conspiracy, Anno, 1603. The fourth and fifth in the Gunpowder treason, which only to name is instar omnium the most damnable bloody plot that ever was contrived (and I hope in time will prove as their own Greenwell prophesied, the very break-neck of all Papists that will not be recalled) Anno, 1605. although I greatly fear that there are many in this Kingdom, who, now GOD in his mercy hath defeated them, seem to condemn the plot, but yet would with all their hearts have wished that it had taken effect, Talia etenim nunquam probata antequàm acta, for such attempts as these (to wit the Gunpowder and others treasons,) are never liked of, unless they be acted, but if performed, then applauded with 
a Vide Pope Sixtus the 5. his oration upon the death and murder of Henry the 3. French King, by a Friar.  panegyric Orations.  
Well, that Papists have found so much mercy at the kings hands (notwithstanding this their more than heathenish cruelty) as they have, let them bless God and thank his Majesty, and I pray God they may make a good use thereof, but let us that are his faithful subjects, rejoice in God for his and our own deliverance from so eminent danger, ascribing all glory and thankfulness to God therefore, and unspeakable mildness and forbearance in our King, whom no barbarous attempted cruelties, (for then the Gunpowder treason never was any more horrid, more hellish) can provoke unto rigour, he is so loath to be of his very enemies accounted cruel. 
Ne misericordia in inimicos fit crudelitas in se suosque  But Lord grant thou Ne incidat in Scillam cupiens vitare Carybdim, that his mercy towards his foes prove not cruelty to himself, his Friends and good subjects. For this I may justly say, that for a merciful King in forgiving his enemies, whom yet he hath power to destroy, England may boast herself above all the nations of the world.  
Secondly if Papists will have, besides these Priests, jesuits & Recusants by their Pseudomartyrologist noted, all other traitors and rebels to be likewise enroled, let them name as many as they can, and register them themselves, and take them into their number, for well I know that (unto honest men) the more they name, the more infamous will they be, because their horrible and damnable treasons are unto all good men (to whom only I intent this Postscript) so odious, and unto the world so apparent and palpable, that their names cannot but with disgrace be recorded, whereas none, who were in Queen, Mary her reign burned, did suffer for any other cause (as the Papists themselves cannot deny, but that they falsely call us heretics) but only for matter of religion; nor can they be justly accused of any to have attempted against the life of their then Sovereign Lady Queen Mary, or to have denied her for their lawful Queen, but so (Non obstante religionis disparitate, although they differed in religion) to have acknowledged her, so to have prayed for her, in all humility submitting their necks, as good subjects, to the yoke of temporal obedience to her Majesty, and like true Christian martyrs, their bodies to the fire, for the only profession of the Gospel of Christ jesus, whom in their bodies, goods and spirits they served.  
Thirdly, as I take not upon me to set down precisely the name of every particular Priest, jesuit, and Recusant, that suffered in Queen Elizabeth's, and King james their reigns, nor yet the just number of those blessed Martyrs that were burned in Queen Mary her reign, but so many only of both sorts as are for them in I. W. Priest, his English 
a Printed in Anno 1608. as he saith, Permissu superiorum.  martyrologue, and for us by that worthy man Master john Fox in his book of Martyrs recorded: So I am most certainly assured, that if I should nominate all those persons who in less than six years reign of Queen Mary were 
a Vide Fox his book of Martyrs in Queen Mary's reign.  famished for want of meat, imprisoned, died in prison, forced to fly, whipped, tortured and tormented only for matter of religion, and some of these by the very hands of bloody Bishop Bonner himself, they would far exceed the number of all such Priests and Jesuits, as the Papists can produce to have endured in England any kind of torture or corporal punishment whatsoever for religion, (as they falsely pretend) or otherwise for these fifty and odd years since.  
Fourthly, and lastly, no Priests are 
b Vide the Lord Burleigh late Lord Treasurer his book entitled, Execution of justice for treason and not for Religion.  condemned simply for being Priests, but if being borne his majesties subjects, they shall take that order upon them by authority derived from the Sea of Rome, and afterwards shall return into his majesties Kingdoms 
c Earl of Northampton in his printed speech at Garnets' arraignment in the fourth page of the letter GG.  to withdraw and alienate the hearts of his subjects, (for so they all do) from their due allegiance.) And for this law there is great reason. For as Queen Elizabeth was formerly (nominatim) by the Pope Excommunicated, and thereupon by the seducing of Priests and Jesuits, (the firebrands of Christendom) exposed both in her person and state to all dangers and treasonable practices that could by villains be devised, and her Kingdoms as the Papists hold, 
d Their refusal of the Oath of allegiance proveth what they hold in this point, and the Pope's gift of Ireland to the King of Spain, mentioned by Azorius the jesuit in his institut. moral. confirmeth it.  subject to the Pope's disposing, so likewise the King's Majesty although he be not for aught I know, by the Pope, by name excommunicated as yet, as Queen Elizabeth was, Yet by the general excommunication whereby all Heretics (for such a one they hold his Majesty to be directly) are anathematized, he stands at this instant excommunicated.  
And therefore Papists holding opinions, as they do, that it is 
a Vide Faux his confession with others mentioned in the afore quoted page by the Earl of Northampton. Confer all, therewith Cat●sbies answer to Garnet in the last page of R. and also in the last page of T. of the former book. his words are; If it were lawful not to admit of the King's Majesty at first warranted by the Pope's Breeves then was it also lawful to cast him out.  lawful for subjects to kill their Sovereigns, and take arms against them, so by the Pope excommunicated, holding him no longer to be their King by lawful right of ruling, than the Pope pleaseth; which is only thus qualified, Rebus sic stantibus; cum deerunt vires, as long as they needs must, and that they dare do no otherwise for fear of their necks. Is it not then great reason (to you that in CHRIST have learned to obey I speak) that his majesty should as near as he can, prevent such dangers to himself and his State? But here it may be the Priests will reply and say: We are bound by oath, and therefore in conscience, to go whether soever those of whom we receive our Priestly Orders, shall enjoin us.  
But first answer me; who enforced you thereto, either to leave your country or to take that order? Did Queen Elizabeth? doth King james? do you not that of your own voluntary wills contrary to your own known country laws.  
Secondly, whether that single (sinful I may say) Oath be of sufficient authority to dissolve that treble bond of allegiance, in which by being his majesties born subjects, you are bound by law 
b This treble bond themselves whiles they laboured to seem good subjects, acknowledged in their supplication to the King's Majesty, chap. 5. near the end thereof. Agreeable hereto is the Earl of Northampton's sound maxim in the last page of FF. in his speech to Garnet.  divine, natural and national.  
Thirdly, if you before knowing the danger thereof will yet voluntarily take such oaths; where then is the fault? in the Prince that upon good and warrantable grounds shall in a religious policy, to prevent the hazard of his own, and his subjects states and lives, cause such a law to be enacted, or in the Priests that shall 
c Scienti & volenti, non sit iniuria.  wilfully and in a resolute determination of working their country's overthrow take such an oath? And here for a shutting up of all, give me leave, (because the Papists hold so much of the Pope's authority against Princes by him excommunicated,) to insert 
d Besides this priests confession against themselves, see also for thy better confirmation in this point, the judgement of two great Counsellors of state in their several writings published by the Earl of Salisbury in his answer to certain scandelous papers in the third page of C. and the Earl of Northampton in his speech at Garnets' Arraignment, in the letter HH. in divers pages thereof.  two questions with their answers, propounded by the right reverend father in God the late Lord Bishop of London, unto Thomas Garnet, Alias Roockwood, Alias Sayer a Seminary Priest, at the time of the said Garnets' arraignment at the Sessions-house without Newgate in London upon Thursday the 16. of june 1608.  
The first question was this. Whether the said Garnet had ever read any authors whatsoever, until some hundreds of years after Christ's time, that did hold that the end of Excommunication tended to a deprivation of life.  
The second question was this. Whether if the said Garnet himself held lands, which by lawful and lineal inheritance had descended from his ancestors unto him, it were lawful for the Pope, Garnet being by him excommunicated, to give the lands unto whom he pleased? Garnets' answer unto the first was uncertain, for said he, I remember not well what I have read concerning this point▪  
But unto the second question he answered directly, Noe. Why then, mildly replied the Bishop, what reason have you Master Garnet, to hold that the Pope hath more authority over the King's Majesty, being your Sovereign, then over you being but a private person, and his Subject.  

e This Thomas Garnet is the last that our Pseudomartyrologist. I. W. Priest hath noted in his Bead-roll to have suffered in King james his reign.  Garnet rejoinder was silence, having first by a concession in his own case granted, that the Pope's authorities was of no force herein. Thus much for satisfaction in this point unto all men out of the mouth of Thomas Garnet Seminary Priest. To this purpose see also john Hart Seminary Priest, his words in his Preface before his 
a D. Reignolds conference with Hearts, in Hearts own Preface thereto.  conference with Doctor Reignolds. Nor may I here neglect that offer which Pope Paulus the fourth made unto Queen Elizabeth in the beginning of her Reign, who when he perceived that his usurped authority and Primateship grew in England contemptible, conditionally that he might hold that power here that unjustly he had before done when this land was drowned in Popery, would have been contented, and caused the Queen's Majesty to understand that he would be pleased, that all matters for religion should be administered in the same manner that then they were, (being the very same then per omnia, that now it is) only his Supremacy must be acknowledged, for that indeed, not Religion, not godliness, not any thing but pride and ambition to be in the eyes of the world above all, both was and is the cause of his raging madness.  
But that noble spirited Queen, whose religion was founded upon a rock, Christ jesus being the chief corner stone, by whom all her building was joined together, scorned to be beholding to that Italian Priest for the exercise of that religion, which were it lawful by his dispensation, she would and could by the power of God and her own authority, maintain against him, and all the power of darkness and hell itself, without being beholding to him.  
Let those Princes whose either Pusillanimity, or weakness of their estates, or small assurance of their subjects loves, or want of courage to withstand his yoke of intrusion, or whose unlawful 
b Relation of the state of religion in the west part of the world, near the beginning thereof.  marriages and thereby illicit issue and succession, must be legitimated by a more illegitimate dispensation from his unholiness, that the power and sword of the one, may uphold the authority of the other, that his authority may reciprocally help to keep that Crown upon the head of him and his successors, who otherwise were thereof by their own and Gods laws uncapable, verifying thereby that old Proverb, Claw me and I will claw thee: Let they usurped authority maintain my illicit marriage, and my power and purse shall maintain thy usurped authority. Let such as expect 
b Azorius in his institutions, part. 2. book 11. chapt. 5.  Donations of other Prince's Kingdoms from their grand translator of empires the Pope, the devils substitute, as Philip the second of that name King of Spain did, upon whom Pius Quintus, (or rather Impius intus) the devils vicegerent then at Rome, conferred the Kingdom of England (but all the craft was in the catching) instanced and approved as an act lawful, by Azorius the jesuit in his moral institutions, part second, book eleventh, chapter the fist, circa medium capitis.  
Let such Princes I say adhere to the Pope, & subjugate their necks to his trampling, but let those, whose cause is good, succession lawful, spirits more magnanimous, and of a better metal, their subjects hearts generally, firmly assured, the word of God which is truth itself on their side, power and ability to withstand (and offend) him and all his unholy confederates, free Princes next under God in their own Dominions. Let these I say all learn of that renowned Queen Elizabeth this resolute saying, rare amongst men, but not to be paralleled by any woman, If my religion be allowable? (if my marriage lawful, if my succession rightful,) by the Pope's Dispensation, then is it so also without it, and God willing, I will maintain it without him, who of his power can make it no more lawful or unlawful then of itself it is without him? for against the word of God there lieth no Dispensation. And let great, Great Britain's King make it known for an honour to him and his posterity that great,  

Eliza's spirit lodgeth in his Breast,  
Though happy she, in peace with God doth rest.   
Thus holding Popery to be an hotch-poch of new religion coined in the mints of the Babylonish whore, who contendeth to advance her Kingdom 
a A strange thing that the Pope claiming to be but Christ's Vicar, should yet challenge a larger power than ever Christ himself did, for Christ confessed, that his Kingdom was not of this world, and yet the Pope will be a disposer and ●etter up and puller down of Kings and Kingdoms at his pleasure.  above the Kingdom of Christ, by all means that themselves, or hell itself can invent, by cruelty, by blood, by deceit, by abusing the word of God, by equivocation, by what not? yea she hath so taught her brats, the Priests and Jesuits, and infinite others by them seduced, to swear and forswear, to promise and protest, by whatsoever can be named, (although they have no purpose to make good any of their vows: in this kind) as that they have almost left no means whereby a man may be assured of another's intentions, although he vow it never so seeming seriously.  
Call to mind the great and serious protestations that 
b In his book of Quodlibets.  Watson the Priest made in his quodlibetical questions, 
c Here was, Mell in ore, fell cord: a smooth tongue, but a treacherous heart.  That albeit he differed in religion from that which was professed in the Church of England, yet if either Pope or Spaniard should seek by hostile means to invade his country, he would willingly spend his substance, nay his dearest blood against any such as should attempt it, and yet he himself was the first afterwards as I remember that came to the gallows for violating it. If I could find any thing that good is in either Priests or Jesuits, I would commend them for it, but because I cannot, holding them all to be traitors in heart unto his Majesty, and their favourers to be scarcely good subjects, I will end for their commendations with the words of a late, but witty 
d Conclave Ignati, in Apologia pro jesuitis, ad finem libri adiecta.  Satirist; F●uet illis, quisquis de illis tacet.  
FINIS.