THE SEA-GULL, OR THE NEW APPARITION IN THE STAR-CHAMBER AT WESTMINSTER.  PSAL. 63.11. 
The King shall rejoice in God, every one that sweareth by him shall glory, but the mouth of them that speak lies shall be stopped.  
Imprinted, 1644.   

The Sea guile, 
The Picture was taken at Sea.  OR, The new Apparition in the starchamber at WESTMINTER.  
Being a true and accurate description of a large Picture, exposed to public view, lively representing the story of Conanus and Vrsula,( taken out of the golden Legend) most grossly mistaken for His Majesties tendering the sceptre of his kingdoms into the hands of the queen and Pope.  
GRatian the son of Valentinian the elder being Emperour, 
The l●gend of St. Vrsula, & the 11000 Vi●gins that waited on her, exactly portrayed, in the aforesaid Picture, faithfully translated out of the French Copy set forth by Pete● Ribadeneyra, in the year of our Lord 1608, to amuse credulous Romish zealots.  a captain of his name Maximus, a valorous man, born in Bretaigne( at this day called England) rebelled against him, and having been proclaimed King by his Souldiers, and assured of their fidelity, and the love of his friends, passed into France, where he made great conquests, and specially in britain( then called Armorica) the which he utterly wasted and ruined, Maximus( conceiving this place to be of importance for the security of England and France, resolved to re-people the same, and to that purpose he divides amongst his souldiers which came out of England, the fertile fields, and lands of little britain, to hold of him in fee: but to the end the Souldiers might be firmly settled in that Province by marrying there, he sent to call out of England, Scotland, and Ireland, a great number of Maidens to people that country, in the which all the women had before been slain. The chief captain of all the Army was Conanus, a man of high birth, and the most renowned Lord of England, whom Maximus had made his Lieutenant general, and admiral of this Sea cost, who asked in marriage a most virtuous Damosell, the Daughter of Dio●osius, then King of Cornwall, called Vrsula, a Lady adorned with all those virtues which may be wished in a woman, honourable, faire, pleasing, and of a noble demeanour; then they sought for the purpose aforesaid throughout those Islands, eleven thousand maids, which were to accompany Vrsula, who was to be the mistress and conductresse of all the rest, whereof some went freely, others constrainedly: but such was the peremptory commands of Maximus, who was already become absolute Lord, that they must pass thither; and being embarked in divers vessels prepared for them, it pleased God that when they were at Sea there rose a rough and contrary wind, insomuch that in stead of arriving in britain, they were violently transported towards the Rhyne upon a cost where the Sea ebbs and flows. At the same time when this happened, the Emperour Gratian knowing what Maximus had done in Englan●, and France, and how he was revolted from him his sovereign and Master, had called the Picts and huns to his service, a cruel and barbarous Nation, who had vanquished the goths, and done incredible exploits in war, who being there at that time under their leaders Melga and Gannus, presently ran towards the Sea with a puissant Army, and like Robbers swept all away before them, and pillaged and destroyed whatsoever, came in their way, with an inrention to pass over into England, and hence expel Maximus, and to re-establish the Emperour, in whose pay they were: now it so happened, that they all met together in the same harbour with the Virgins, and understanding they were the enemies ships, belonging to Maximus, against whom they were come, they seized upon them; when they saw them to be fraughted with Damosels, they resolved( being people no less luxurious and lustful, then cruel and inhuman) to force and ravish them of their honour: But these generous Virgins incited and encouraged by Saint Ursula their lady and governess, determined rather to lose their lives then their chastities, and having bravely testified by their words and deeds, their resolution to endure the utmost of extremities in the defence thereof, the Barbarians turning their lust into futie, and enraged also against the Christian Faith, fell upon them( as wolves on a flock of sheep) and put them all to the Sword; that so having dispatched them, they might speedily get over into England, which they knew was disfurnishe● of men, in regard that Maximus had drawn them thence to furnish other places.  
Of all that holy company, there escaped only one name Cordula, who hide herself for fear when they massacred the rest, but perceiving what had passed, was loathe to survive her companions, and therefore( being moved & strengthened by the grace of God, offered herself the next morning, and was added to the number of the Virgin Martyrs, as the Roman martyrologue reporteth. Now the chief amongst them, whose blood was  shed for the faith of Jesus Christ, & preservation of their honour, 
A● English Bishop.  were( as Adon mentioneth) S. Ursula, guide & governess of all the other, and Santia, Gregoria, Pinnosa Mardia, Saula, Brittula, Saturnina, Saturnia, Rabacia, Palladia, ●l●mentia, & Grata. The day whe●eon they dyed, Jesus Christ their dear Spouse, triumphed in them, over infidelity, sensuality. Sin, and Hell; that so all might see, that the virtue of a Christian hath greater courage to suffer death then the cruelty of Satan hath power to inflict it, and that the fall of Christs Souldiers is their rise, their Death their conquest, for which they receive an inestimable reward which can never be taken from them. The Bodies of these holy Virgins were butted by the faithful with great Devotion, carried to Cologne, a town on the said River of the Rhine, where was founded a faire monastery of Nuns, where is yet to be seen unto this day many of those holy Virgins heads, which are had in great Reverence, and others are dispersed into divers parts of christendom. 'Tis believed by many, that the place where their Bodies rest at this day, was the same where they were Massacred, for the ground of that Church will not retain any other dead corps, 
This reason 〈◇〉 ●i h 〈◇〉 but such a● h●ve Faith in popish legends: for why should we believe that the ground should be so unhospitall, or that the ashes of holy Vigins should wo l● so uncharitable a mi●a●le, as no● to afford a lodging to a nak●● corps, especially of an innocent Child.  no not of an Infant newly bapti●ed, but if any and interred there, it is again cast up in the night, as Bishop Lyndan testifieth, which is a sign( saith the aforesaid Author) that God will not have any other bodies to be butted in that place, wherein those Illustrious Virgins and Martyrs are, who watered that earth with their blood, for the confession of their Faith, and the defence of their chastities. 'Tis also affirmed, that Saint Ursula and her holy companions, 
* This smells ra●k of popish S●perstition, for we have but o●● M. dia●●.  assist and comfort those at the hour of their death, who honoured and invoked them in their lives; their martyrdom( according to Baronius) was accomplished in the year of Grace, 383. under Gratian and Valentinian his son, and Theodosius the elder, whom Gratian assumed into the Partnership of the Empire, judging it needful( being prest on all sides by the Barbarians) to engage in his defence so valiant a captain: the day which the Church hath consecrated to their memory, was the 21 day of October.  
Now besides the Authors aforesaid, there have written of them Wandalebert, anno, 850, and Sigisbet a Monk of Gemblack, who writ after the same 500 yeares, and Roger de Cisteaux, Richard de Premonstre, and claud de la root, and Bonfinius in his history of hungary, and Petrus de Natalibus, and Polidore Virgil in his history of England and more amply then all the rest, Surius in his fifth Tome of the lives of the Saints.  

READER,  
ALthough the bare Relation of the story doth sufficiently discover to every Intelligent Reader, the gross abuse of His Majesties Subjects, by such, who suggest to the vulgar, that this Picture hath reference to His majesty, and His royal Consort: Yet because it is a matter of great difficulty, to disabuse those who are given up to strong delusions, to believe lies, because they love not the Truth, and no less then many thousands have already swallowed this Sea-Gull I have therefore thought fit, to present unto the Reader, some remarkable particulars expressed in the Picture itself, not so much to convince as confounded them, who have made a wicked use thereof, to foment and increase disloyal thoughts and jealousies in His Majesties good Subjects, whereof the plain meaning Painter of antwerp is no way guilty.;  
I. THe dress or garb of the Prince there drawn; with Sandales, bufkins, and habergeon, shows him to be an ancient Roman captain, and no King of England.  
II. The impress or Motto in this ensign, being S. P. Q. R. which signifieth Senatus Populusque Romanus, that is, the Senate and people of Rome, puts it out of question that it hath no relation to England.  
III. The glory or rays over the Head of the Princes represented, assures us, that the Painter intended not any Person now living, but a deceased and canonised Roman Saint.  
IV. The Coronets on their Heads, resembling those of Dukes or earls, and not like imperial Crownes, demonstrate them not to be sovereign, but Inferior Princes.  
V. There is not any representation of the Pope at all; for there is no Triple crown. In one of the plates whereof( Causabon affirmeth) in his short Annotations upon certain places of the new Testament was anciently engraven, the word Mysterium, but an ordinary Bishop with a mitre and a Crosier, before whom the two Princes were affianced to each other; whose tender of the sceptre to her, was Master Painters emblem, to show the commanding power of beauty.  
VI. The numerous company of Virgins, represented in the Picture( being 11000. as is the story) cannot hold any proportion with the few Ladies and Maids of Honour, which attended on her majesty at her landing at Birdlington.  
VII. The place described in the Picture, appears plainly to be the city of Cologne, known unto all Travellers by a famous mark, which is the crooked Steeple there to be seen.  
VIII. There is the bloody massacre of a princess, and an exceeding great company of women represented, whereas God be thanked, neither her Majesty nor any of her Ladies attending her, received the least hurt at their arrival aforesaid.  

Parva Santa Anna de Sevilla.  Lastly, the Picture itself was made by one Gerarde de la Valle at antwerp, as is expressed in the bottom thereof, and intended to be set up in Saint Anus Church in Sivil in Spain, as appears by the superscription( upon the wooden case wherein this Picture drawn on cloth was rolled up, when it was taken near arundel Haven about Christmas last, in a Ship belonging to one Devoes a Merchant in flanders.) In which Church, and the like hallowed places, no Pictures or Images of the living, but onely of departed Saints canonised are hanged up. Unto which, Romanists perform an inferior kind of religious worship.  Spectatum admissi risum teneatis Amici?  
FINIS.