A
TRVE
REPORT
OF
THE
LATE
APPREHENSION
AND
IMPRISONNEMENT
OF
IOHN
NICOLS
Minister
,
at
Roan
,
and
his
confession
and
answers
made
in
the
time
of
his
durance
there
.
Wherevnto
is
added
the
satisfaction
of
certaine
,
that
of
feare
or
frailtie
haue
latly
fallen
in
England
.
PRINTED
AT
RHEMES
By
Iohn
Fogny
.
1583.
THE
PREFACE
.
Good
Christian
reader
,
the
children
,
and
specially
the
Priests
of
Gods
Church
,
haue
ben
manifoldly
assailed
by
their
aduersaries
in
our
countrey
these
later
yeres
:
first
by
the
writing
and
preaching
of
the
Sect-maisters
,
which
made
no
great
impression
:
Secondly
by
authoritie
of
the
Ciuil
Magistrate
,
which
was
more
forceible
,
but
yet
preuailed
no
further
then
to
the
losse
of
some
rich-mens
transitory
goods
,
&
a
few
poore
mens
temporal
liues
,
neither
the
one
nor
the
other
perished
to
the
owners
but
both
laid
vp
with
Christ
and
bestowed
vpon
him
to
the
hundreth fould
aduantage
in
the
next
,
and
to
the
great
encrease
of
the
Catholike
partie
in
this
life
.
Lastly
by
practise
and
pollicie
of
certain
crafty
conscienceles
men
,
by
falshood
&
forgerie
,
altering
in
the
sight
of
the
simple
the
causes
of
their
death
&
punishment
,
&
making
their
liues
&
actions
odious
to
the
world
.
Whereby
they
disaduantaged
in
deede
the
Catholike
part
much
more
then
by
any
plaine
violence
or
pretended
iustice
whatsoeuer
.
Besides
the
common
persuasions
of
Protestants
but
most
false
(
though
grounded
vpon
the
experiment
of
their
owne
disloyaultie
in
the
daies
of
Q.
Mary
)
that
al
Catholikes
be
ennemies
to
the
state
:
was
it
not
a
great
temptation
to
such
as
know
not
the
deepe
subtiltie
of
Sathan
,
to
see
that
certain
good
fellowes
were
found
to
preach
,
print
,
&
aduouch
to
the
faces
of
the
poore
desolate
persons
,
yea
and
to
sweare
that
they
had
purposed
and
practized
the
Queenes
death
?
particularly
recording
the
time
,
place
,
and
circumstances
:
and
naming
such
and
such
of
the
Counsel
,
that
were
with
all
to
be
massacred
,
and
al
this
,
either
so
coulorably
and
confidently
,
or
so
plausibly
&
oportunely
for
the
practize
,
that
publike
iustice
passed
vpon
them
as
malefactors
,
and
therewith
many
pretty
pamphlets
put
forth
and
spred
for
the
tempering
of
mens
speaches
and
conceits
of
such
strange
procedings
.
In
this
case
truly
a
poore
and
vnaduised
man
might
haue
ben
either
for
some
time
abused
,
or
haue
found
good
cause
to
say
with
the
prophete
,
Penè
moti
sunt
pedes
mei
:
my
feete
were
almost
moued
.
But
he
that
said
,
nothing
is
hidd
,
which
shall
not
be
reuealed
,
would
not
haue
this
error
long
to
preuaile
,
but
hath
to
his
owne
glory
,
the
honor
of
his
saincts
and
great
aduantage
of
the
Catholike
cause
in
our
countrey
and
the
whol
Church
,
many
waies
discouered
that
trechery
:
as
short
gaudies
almost
hath
the
ennimie
of
such
traffick
,
as
Iudas
had
of
the
betraying
and
sale
of
Christ
,
who
disclosed
his
owne
treason
,
yelded
vp
his
money
againe
,
and
hanged
him self
,
before
his
Maister
(
whom
he
sould
)
was
executed
.
God
giue
the
aduersaries
better
grace
and
an
other
kind
of
repentance
then
that
proditor
had
:
to
saluation
and
not
to
perdition
.
But
truely
his
name
be
therefore
euerlastingly
glorified
,
our
mercifull
lord
,
hath
merueilously
reuealed
to
the
shame
of
heresie
,
these
sinful
inuentions
of
the
Churches
ennemies
.
The
conscience
and
certen
knowledge
of
so
many
good
men
,
that
knew
those
holy
confessors
innocency
,
the
wisedom
of
others
that
saw
the
practiz
,
coulour
,
and
collusion
,
the
note
of
their
answeres
and
full
satisfaction
giuen
at
the
barre
,
their
vniforme
and
sincere
protestations
of
their
innocencie
at
their
death
,
the
very
qualities
of
such
persons
as
were
the
first
brochers
and
instruments
of
their
accusation
and
condemnation
,
al
these
things
and
diuers
treatises
set
forth
of
the
matter
,
haue
openned
and
made
clere
the
case
to
the
whol
world
:
whereby
god
of
his
old
mercies
hath
turned
all
these
difficulties
and
apparent
distresses
to
the
singular
benefit
of
his
truth
.
And
lo
here
more
,
to
see
his
swet
prouidence
and
disposition
of
these
things
,
Iohn
Nichols
him self
,
the
first
author
of
the
shamfull
fiction
,
and
that
first
set
downe
the
particularities
for
which
the
men
of
god
were
condemned
and
executed
,
falling
of
late
into
the
handes
of
the
iustice
at
Roan
,
hath
confessed
al
the
collusion
and
forgerie
.
Which
was
thought
meete
to
be
published
Verbatim
,
euen
as
him self
wrote
&
gaue
forth
to
the
Officers
and
others
:
the
Original
partly
remaining
in
the
court
roules
,
partly
to
be
shewed
of
his
owne
hand
writing
.
In
setting
it
downe
,
no
one
title
is
altered
,
nor
the
very
incongruities
of
his
speach
amended
.
And
though
he
was
in
prison
when
he
did
it
,
yet
he
did
nothing
of
feare
or
compulsion
,
being
assured
that
he
could
not
for
such
matters
as
he
had
committed
in
England
,
nor
for
religion
,
be
any
long
time
in
durance
in
Fraunce
:
but
al
came
of
deepe
remors
of
mind
and
conscience
for
the
death
of
the
innocents
,
which
he
knew
came
by
his
false
accusation
,
wherewith
he
was
inwardly
so
vexed
in
England
,
though
he
continued
as
he
dooth
yet
in
his
peruerse
pretended
religion
,
that
he
both
confessed
his
foule
dealing
to
one
of
the
condemned
persons
and
to
some
in
office
and
authoritie
there
:
and
also
in
fine
left
the
Realme
therefore
specially
,
and
partly
,
as
he
saith
him self
,
because
the
Bishops
who
were
commaunded
and
had
promised
him
euery
one
of
them
a
yerely
pension
for
recompence
of
that
his
seruice
,
would
not
keepe
touch
with
him
.
but
shaked
him
of
with
a
Tu
videris
,
like
as
the
iewes
did
their
copesman
sudas
.
Where
vpon
he
obteined
a
peece
of
mony
of
an
other
,
his
principal
patron
,
who
thought
it
pitie
or
at
least
no
pollicie
to
cast
the
poore
miser
of
,
in
that
sorte
,
and
passed
ouer
into
the
lowe
countrey
without
taking
his
leaue
,
&
went
forward
into
Germany
,
prowling
as
his
manner
hath
long
ben
with
Epistles
for
his
liuing
,
and
not
finding
contentement
so
,
he
purposed
into
Turkey
,
and
thitheward
he
went
on
,
till
by
the
persuasion
of
his
companion
one
M.
Laurence
Caddey
sometime
student
of
the
English
College
in
Rome
,
he
was
turned
back
from
that
desperat
course
into
Fraunce
:
by
whose
godly
endeuours
for
both
their
saluations
,
notice
was
giuen
of
the
said
Nichols
in
Rhemes
and
Paris
,
and
after
was
apprehended
in
Roan
,
where
he
wrote
and
spake
the
letters
and
other
things
following
,
and
therevpon
was
dimissed
very
shortly
.
And
being
afterward
among
some
contreymen
of
his
owne
religion
,
to
whom
he
resorted
for
payment
of
his
fees
,
he
was
demanded
before
them
,
by
some
that
were
Catholiks
whether
he
would
now
being
at
liberty
,
auouch
all
the
things
confessed
in
the
time
of
his
restraint
:
he
answered
that
all
were
most
certaine
,
&
that
he
would
stand
to
all
that
he
had
vttered
.
A
protestant
yet
he
would
be
still
,
though
in
prison
he
showed
him self
willing
to
conferre
and
to
yeld
to
reason
,
and
might
at
the
same
time
haue
easily
ben
inuited
to
Rhemes
,
if
he
had
not
falne
into
the
Protestants
hands
,
at
his
releasing
.
At
his
first
arriual
in
Roan
,
the
vaine
man
told
some
of
his
companions
that
he
had
talked
and
disputed
with
Doctor
Allen
,
and
that
he
profered
him
a
hundred
pound
English
a
yere
to
be
of
his
religion
.
The
fellowes
lif
and
fortune
,
though
he
be
not
old
,
hath
ben
exceding
various
,
if
all
were
recorded
sith
he
first
was
Minister
,
where
his
miserie
began
:
but
nothing
need
to
be
spoken
,
of
the
causes
of
his
first
comming
ouer
sea
,
of
his
following
the
Camp
,
of
his
wandring
in
Flanders
,
Fraunce
,
and
Italy
,
and
such
like
:
onely
I
thought
it
necessarie
for
an
introduction
to
the
rest
,
to
set
downe
his
formal
Abiuration
Verbatim
,
as
it
is
recorded
in
the
Court
of
Inquisition
at
Rome
:
faithfully
translated
into
English
.
Into
which
office
of
holy
Iustice
against
Heretikes
,
he
went
to
accuse
him self
of
his
owne
accord
,
and
in
the
end
the
matter
passed
as
followeth
.
A
TRVE
REPORT
OF
THE
LATE
APPREHENSION
AND
IMPRISONMENT
OF
IOHN
NICOLS
Minister
,
at
Roan
,
and
his
confession
and
answers
made
in
the
time
of
his
durance
there
.
Wherevnto
is
added
the
satisfaction
of
certaine
,
that
of
feare
or
frailtie
haue
lately
fallen
in
England
.
The
true
copie
of
the
Abiurations
that
Iohn
Nicols
(
latly
relapsed
from
the
Church
by
Apostasie
)
made
at
Rome
in
the
yere
of
our
lord
1579.
which
Abiurations
,
in
his
English
reuolte
latly
published
in
print
,
are
by
him
termed
two
Sermons
that
he
preached
before
the
Popes
holynes
.
faithfully
translated
into
English
out
of
the
auctentik
Latine
copie
,
newly
sent
from
Rome
where
the
Original
is
extant
of
recorde
.
NOS
Frater
Thomas
Zobbius
ordinis
praedicatorum
,
Sacrae
Theologia
Magister
,
&
Commissarius
generalis
,
sanctae
&
vniuersalis
Inquisitionis
Romanae
.
Cum
tu
Ioannes
Nicolaus
,
filius
alterius
I●annis
Nicolai
de
loco
Walliae
,
Dioecesis
Landauiensis
in
Regno
Angliae
,
aetatis
tuae
annorum
viginti
quatuor
,
velcirca
,
sponte
coram
nobis
comparueris
in
hoc
sancto
Officio
,
atque
confessus
fueris
,
&c.
Wee
B.
Thomas
Zobbius
of
the
order
of
the
Preachers
Doctor
of
diuinitie
and
Commissarie
general
of
the
●oly
vniuersal
Inquisition
of
Rome
.
For
asmuch
as
thou
Iohn
Nicols
the
sonne
of
an
other
Iohn
Nicols
of
the
prouince
of
Wales
in
the
Diocesse
of
Landaff
within
the
Realme
of
England
of
the
age
of
twenty
and
fower
yeres
or
there
abouts
,
hast
voluntarily
appered
before
vs
in
this
holy
Office
,
and
hast
confessed
that
after
the
Sacraments
of
Baptisme
&
Confirmation
in
thy
childhod
by
thee
rightly
receiued
after
the
manner
of
the
CATHOLIKE
CHVRCH
,
thou
hast
ben
trained
and
brought
vp
in
pernitious
schisme
,
and
sundry
wicked
heresies
vntill
thou
camest
to
the
age
of
twenty
and
one
yeres
,
and
the
same
diddest
beleeue
,
namely
these
,
to
wite
:
Pilgrimages
to
holy
places
,
offring
of
Candles
and
such
like
,
to
be
meere
superstitious
.
Beades
not
to
be
vsed
.
The
Images
of
Saincts
neither
to
be
had
nor
worshiped
.
That
Saincts
ought
not
to
be
praied
vnto
:
nor
that
they
haue
any
care
or
knowledge
of
the
necessities
of
mortall
men
,
nor
can
pray
for
them
.
That
praiers
ought
to
be
made
in
the
vulgar
tong
which
the
common
people
vnderstand
.
That
lamps
,
ashes
,
which
are
put
vpon
the
faithfull
on
Ashwednesday
,
and
al
other
ornaments
and
vestements
of
the
Church
,
and
finally
all
ceremonies
Ecclesiastical
whatsoeuer
ought
to
be
taken
away
.
That
it
is
lawfull
for
Priests
to
marry
,
and
for
all
persones
to
eate
flesh
at
all
times
.
The
Bishop
of
Rome
not
to
be
head
and
cheef
of
the
vniuersall
Church
.
That
there
is
no
Purgatorie
after
this
life
.
That
man
hath
not
free
will
.
That
he
is
iustified
by
faith
onely
.
The
most
blessed
Sacrament
of
the
body
and
blood
of
Christ
,
to
be
onely
a
signe
of
our
lords
passion
,
but
not
the
body
of
our
Sauiour
IESVS
CHRIST
.
That
no
Masse
ought
to
be
vsed
in
the
Church
,
nor
that
the
Apostles
did
celebrate
any
.
That
there
are
onely
two
Sacraments
,
that
is
to
say
:
Baptisme
and
the
Lords
supper
.
Finally
that
thou
hast
preached
vnto
the
people
in
many
places
the
foresaid
heresies
,
by
the
space
of
one
half
yere
,
and
that
after
the
rites
and
manners
of
Heretikes
thou
hast
taken
the
order
of
Deacon
and
Priesthood
,
and
diddest
obteine
and
get
one
benefice
by
Simonie
,
and
an
other
by
free
gift
,
and
the
fruicts
thereof
diddest
enioy
by
the
space
of
three
yeres
.
And
forasmuch
as
thou
hast
said
,
that
thou
art
right
sory
and
penitent
for
those
thy
former
errors
,
and
that
by
the
mercie
of
God
thou
art
called
to
that
faith
which
our
holy
CATHOLIKE
and
APOSTOLICK
mother
the
CHVRCH
of
ROME
dooth
beleeue
and
teach
,
and
that
thou
mindest
firmely
to
hold
it
,
&
to
stand
therein
to
the
death
,
and
hast
humbly
desired
that
thou
maist
be
admitted
into
the
lappe
of
the
holy
Church
,
and
to
be
absolued
from
the
censures
Ecclesiasticall
which
thou
hast
incurred
for
those
causes
,
and
to
be
dispensed
with
for
such
irregularities
as
thou
hast
thereby
brought
thy self
in
danger
of
,
and
to
haue
remitted
to
thee
such
fruicts
as
thou
hast
taken
of
the
said
benefices
.
The
decree
of
the
most
honorable
&
most
Reuerend
L.
Cardinals
Inquisitors
generall
,
in
the
publike
assembly
of
the
holy
Inquisition
,
by
the
counsel
of
the
Doctors
in
diuinitie
,
and
law
,
enacted
the
sixth
of
this
present
moneth
of
May
,
being
seene
:
whereby
the
dispatche
of
this
cause
standing
in
question
,
betwene
thee
and
the
right
worshipfull
and
Reuerend
Doctor
Sig.
Anselme
Canutus
,
Doctor
of
both
lawes
Canon
and
Ciuil
,
Procuror
fiscal
of
this
most
holy
Office
,
is
committed
to
vs
:
we
are
come
to
pronounce
this
vnderwritten
sentence
.
The
name
of
Christ
and
of
that
most
glorious
virgin
his
mother
being
first
inuocated
,
we
sitting
in
the
seate
of
the
iudgement
,
and
hauing
onely
God
before
our
eyes
,
by
this
our
definitiue
sentence
,
which
we
haue
in
this
writing
made
,
say
,
pronounce
,
iudge
,
decree
,
and
declare
thee
,
the
foresaid
Iohn
Nicols
to
haue
ben
a
Schismatick
and
Heretick
,
and
to
haue
incurred
all
the
paines
and
punishments
that
are
by
the
holy
Cannons
and
Constitutions
whatsoeuer
general
or
special
prouided
and
made
against
Schismaticks
and
Hereticks
.
Yet
for
somuch
as
thou
hast
voluntarily
presented
thy self
before
vs
,
protesting
that
thou
art
sory
from
thy
hart
,
and
hast
withall
humilitie
desired
to
be
admitted
into
the
lappe
of
the
holy
ROMANE
CHVRCH
,
which
is
not
wont
to
be
shut
vp
against
such
as
retorne
therevnto
:
we
doo
benignely
and
mercifully
receiue
thee
,
according
as
thou
requirest
,
so
that
thou
do
detest
,
accurse
,
and
abiure
from
thy
hart
all
schisme
and
heresies
,
especially
those
aboue
recited
,
and
all
errors
that
are
contrary
and
dissonant
to
the
said
holy
CATHOLICK
CHVRCH
,
in
such
sorte
and
manner
as
we
commaund
thee
by
this
our
definitiue
sentence
,
to
accurse
,
detest
,
&
ab●●re
them
.
And
yet
to
the
intent
,
that
Iustice
be
not
vtterly
seperated
from
Mercy
,
seing
that
the
one
is
linked
and
knit
with
the
other
,
and
to
the
end
the
mercy
of
God
by
meane
of
Iustice
may
be
more
plentifull
and
large
towards
thee
,
we
enioine
thee
for
holsome
penaunce
,
that
thou
do
two
seueral
times
visite
the
seuen
Churchs
of
this
citie
,
and
that
all
thy
life
time
,
thou
say
daily
fiue
times
,
Pater
noster
,
and
fiue
times
,
the
Aue
Maria
,
and
for
the
space
of
fiue
yeres
,
thou
say
once
a
weeke
,
the
Seuen
penitentiall
Psalmes
together
with
the
Litanies
and
Praiers
following
:
and
once
in
the
moneth
,
the
office
of
the
deade
,
called
the
Dirige
.
And
that
foure
times
in
the
yere
of
the
said
fiue
yeres
,
thou
faste
,
and
euery
moneth
confesse
thy
sinnes
to
a
law
full
priest
,
such
as
is
allowed
by
his
ordinarie
,
&
by
his
counsel
and
consent
,
to
receiue
the
B.
SACRAMENT
of
the
altar
once
euery
moneth
,
and
in
the
feastes
of
the
Natiuitie
of
our
Lord
,
of
Easter
,
Pentecost
,
and
the
Assumption
of
the
gloriouse
and
perpetual
virgin
Mary
the
mother
of
God
.
And
so
wee
do
hereby
Say
,
Iudge
,
Enioine
,
Decree
,
and
Declare
.
Sending
thee
to
the
feete
of
our
most
holy
Lord
the
POPES
HOLINES
for
the
forgiuenes
of
thy
fructs
taken
,
&
absolution
from
the
spot
of
Simony
,
and
for
the
inhabling
thee
to
holy
orders
,
and
other
things
which
are
prohibited
to
Schismaticks
&
Hereticks
.
THOMAS
ZOBBIVS
COMMISSARIE
GENERAL
.
The
aboue
written
sentence
,
was
giuen
,
awarded
,
and
iudicially
pronounced
by
this
writing
,
by
the
aforenamed
our
reuerend
father
Thomas
de
Zobbiis
of
the
order
of
the
preachers
,
Doctor
of
diuinitie
,
Commissioner
general
of
the
Office
of
the
holy
Romane
and
vniuersal
Inquisition
,
sitting
in
the
Iudgement
seat
at
Rome
,
in
the
Pallace
of
the
said
holy
office
in
the
Vatican
of
S.
Peter
:
&
was
read
&
published
by
me
the
Notarie
,
at
the
commandement
of
the
said
reuerend
father
the
Commissarie
,
in
the
yere
of
the
Natiuitie
of
our
Sauiour
1579.
in
the
seuenth
indiction
,
the
viij
.
day
of
the
moneth
of
May
,
in
the
time
of
the
Bishoprick
&
See
of
our
soueraigne
and
most
holy
Father
in
Christ
Gregorie
by
Gods
prouidence
the
thirteenth
of
that
name
,
the
said
Iohn
Nichols
being
present
,
and
with
thanks
giuing
,
accepting
the
foresaid
sentence
:
who
willing
to
obey
the
same
,
and
all
the
contentes
thereof
,
kneeling
vpon
his
knees
before
the
said
reuerend
Father
Commissarie
general
of
the
holy
office
,
corporally
touching
with
his
hands
the
holy
scriptures
,
did
Abiure
,
Accurse
&
Detest
,
al
those
errors
&
schisme
,
and
the
heresies
which
he
helde
and
beleeued
in
manner
and
forme
as
in
the
Abiuration
hereafter
following
,
subscribed
with
his
owne
hand
may
appeere
:
made
at
Rome
in
the
pallace
of
the
said
holy
office
,
then
and
there
being
present
as
witnesses
,
Benedictus
de
Solanis
,
Peruzin
,
and
Petrus
Bilaqua
of
the
Dioces
of
Firmiano
.
I
Iohn
Nichols
,
the
sonne
of
an
other
Iohn
Nichols
,
of
the
prouince
of
Wales
,
of
the
Dioces
of
Landaf
,
in
the
Realme
of
England
,
of
the
age
of
twenty
and
fower
yeres
,
or
there
about
,
kneeling
on
my
knees
before
the
re●erend
Father
Thomas
Zobbius
of
the
order
of
the
Preachers
,
Doctor
of
Diuinitie
,
and
Commissioner
general
of
the
office
of
the
holy
and
vniuersal
Inquisition
of
Rome
:
touching
personally
the
holy
Gospels
,
do
sweare
,
that
I
beleeue
and
wil
to
my
death
beleeue
,
that
faith
which
the
holy
CATHOLICK
and
APOSTOLICK
ROMAN
CHVRCH
doth
beleeue
and
teach
.
But
for
so
much
as
after
the
Sacraments
of
Baptisme
and
Confirmation
rightly
and
Catholikely
by
me
receiued
and
taken
in
my
childhood
,
I
was
brought
vp
and
trained
in
pernitious
schisme
,
and
sundry
most
impious
heresies
,
till
I
came
to
the
age
of
twenty
and
one
yeres
,
and
them
did
beleeue
,
namely
and
specially
:
That
Pilgrimages
to
holy
places
,
Offring
vp
of
candles
,
&
such
like
,
were
meere
superstitious
.
That
praying
vpon
beads
ought
not
to
be
vsed
:
That
the
images
of
Saincts
ought
neither
to
be
worshipped
nor
had
:
That
the
Saincts
in
heauen
ought
not
to
be
praied
vnto
,
nor
that
they
haue
any
regard
,
care
,
or
knowledge
of
the
necessities
of
mortal
men
,
nor
can
pray
for
them
.
That
praiers
ought
to
be
made
in
the
vulgar
tong
,
which
the
common
people
doo
vnderstand
.
That
Candles
,
Ashes
,
which
are
vsed
to
be
put
on
the
faithful
vpon
Ashwenesday
,
all
ornaments
and
stuf
of
the
Church
,
and
finally
,
all
Ceremonies
ecclesiastical
whatsoeuer
ought
quite
to
be
taken
away
.
That
it
is
lawful
for
Priests
to
marry
,
and
for
all
persones
daily
to
eate
flesh
.
That
the
Bishop
of
Rome
is
not
the
head
of
the
vniuersall
Church
of
Christ
.
That
there
is
no
Purgatorie
,
after
this
life
.
That
man
hath
no
freewil
,
&
is
iustified
by
onely
faith
.
That
the
most
blessed
Sacrament
of
the
body
and
blood
of
Christ
,
is
onely
a
signe
of
the
death
&
passion
of
our
Lord
,
but
not
his
very
body
.
That
no
Masse
ought
to
be
vsed
in
the
Church
or
was
celebrated
by
the
Apostles
.
That
there
are
onely
two
Sacramentes
,
to
wite
:
Baptisme
,
and
the
Lords
supper
.
And
these
heresies
haue
I
preached
by
the
space
of
half
a
yere
,
and
after
the
rite
and
manner
of
hereticks
,
haue
receiued
the
order
of
Deaconship
and
Priesthood
,
and
obteined
one
Ecclesiasticall
benefice
by
Simonie
,
and
an
other
of
gift
,
and
receiued
the
fruicts
thereof
.
And
for
these
causes
was
adiuged
by
this
holy
office
a
Schismatick
and
Heretick
.
I
therfore
do
from
my
hart
,
Abhorre
,
Detest
,
and
Abiure
,
all
schisme
and
heresies
,
namely
those
aboue
specified
.
And
sweare
that
neuer
hereafter
will
I
beleeue
heresies
or
keepe
company
with
hereticks
,
or
read
their
books
.
And
do
further
swere
that
I
wil
denounce
and
declare
vnto
this
holy
court
,
and
to
the
inquisitors
and
ordinaries
,
of
the
places
in
the
which
I
shal
become
,
al
and
singular
persones
whom
I
shal
know
either
to
be
professed
hereticks
,
or
suspected
of
heresie
.
And
swere
also
,
that
I
wil
obserue
and
performe
al
the
points
of
the
penance
enioyned
me
:
and
in
case
I
do
not
.
I
subiect
my self
to
al
the
paines
and
punishements
due
by
the
law
,
to
such
offendors
,
so
help
me
God
,
and
these
most
holy
Gospels
.
I
the
foresaid
Iohn
Nicols
haue
Sworne
,
Abiured
,
and
Promised
as
before
:
and
in
faith
thereof
this
schedull
written
with
an
other
hand
,
I
haue
subscribed
with
mine
owne
:
At
Rome
in
the
Palace
of
the
said
holy
office
,
the
viij
.
day
of
the
moneth
of
May
,
Anno
1579.
Which
Abiuration
being
made
,
the
foresaid
Reuerend
Father
Commissarie
general
,
did
absolue
the
said
Iohn
Nicols
there
present
and
most
humbly
vpon
his
knees
erauing
the
same
,
and
him
discharged
from
the
Excommunications
,
Censures
,
and
Penalties
by
him
incurred
by
reason
and
cause
of
the
premises
,
and
him
restored
to
the
communion
of
the
faithful
,
to
the
participation
of
the
Sacraments
,
and
to
the
vnitie
and
lap
of
our
said
holy
mother
the
CATHOLICK
CHVRCH
.
And
hath
enioyned
him
for
healthful
penance
as
is
expressed
in
the
aboue
written
sentence
,
recorded
and
authentiked
as
is
before
said
,
in
the
presence
of
the
aforenamed
witnesses
.
This
copie
was
taken
out
of
the
first
&
proper
Original
,
with
which
(
vponcōferēce
made
)
it
agreeth
&c.
In
faith
and
witnes
whereof
I
haue
subscribed
and
sealed
it
with
the
seale
of
the
said
holy
Office
in
such
cases
vsed
.
At
Rome
in
the
Palace
of
the
said
holy
Office
the
thirteenth
of
the
said
moneth
of
Maij
1579.
So
it
is
,
Signed
by
me
Flaminius
Adrianus
Notary
of
the
holy
Romane
&
general
Inquisition
in
faith
and
testimonie
of
the
premisses
.
LAVRENCE
CADDEY
of
whom
we
made
mention
before
,
lately
passing
the
seas
with
Iohn
Nicols
,
and
his
fellow
in
iourney
into
Germany
,
daily
conceiuing
more
and
more
sorrow
of
the
misery
he
was
falne
into
by
his
frailtie
and
coacted
forsaking
of
the
vnitie
of
the
CATHOLICK
CHVRCH
,
retired
into
France
in
Ianuary
last
An.
1583.
and
his
said
Companion
with
him
:
and
approching
neere
Rhemes
,
whither
he
came
for
his
comfort
of
conscience
,
being
in
a
village
neere
the
suburbs
of
the
Citie
,
he
made
his
way
by
this
letter
written
to
the
President
of
the
College
,
as
followeth
.
ALthough
I
might
comme
to
the
Citie
of
Rhemes
,
because
I
neuer
offended
the
same
,
or
any
inhabitant
thereof
:
yet
in
respect
of
you
my
deere
country
men
.
I
neither
will
come
thither
or
vnto
you
,
although
as
I
shall
be
saued
at
the
daie
of
iudgement
,
I
loue
you
,
and
haue
loued
you
as
the
apple
of
mine
eye
.
And
although
the
desire
I
haue
to
speake
with
you
be
vnspeakeable
,
the
matter
for
the
which
I
would
speake
with
you
is
the
greatest
that
euer
I
had
with
any
since
I
was
borne
,
or
can
haue
whiles
I
liue
in
this
miserable
world
,
and
as
I
hope
more
profitable
both
for
soule
and
bodie
then
any
thing
whatsoeuer
in
this
world
Besides
it
apperteineth
to
both
the
Seminaries
,
that
of
Rome
,
and
this
of
Rhemes
,
concerning
waightie
matters
in
respect
of
them
both
.
Moreouer
it
concerneth
the
abhominable
lyes
of
Iohn
Nicols
,
which
hereby
may
be
redressed
.
To
conclude
,
if
your
Seminaries
haue
ben
iniured
by
the
sclaunders
of
any
,
hereby
they
may
be
I
trust
cleared
againe
:
and
I
trust
that
in
respect
of
some
,
it
may
be
said
that
the
same
Scorpion
that
stinged
being
crushed
on
the
same
,
wil
sonest
heale
the
wound
she
made
.
Therfore
M.
Doctor
Allen
,
I
request
you
for
the
loue
you
beare
to
Christ
crucified
,
his
blessed
mother
,
and
all
the
Saincts
of
heauen
,
&
as
you
tender
the
life
of
a
soule
almost
deade
in
sinne
desiring
by
your
meanes
to
be
quickened
,
and
as
you
couit
to
heale
the
sores
wherewith
,
your
Seminaries
haue
ben
wounded
,
send
in
all
hast
without
any
delay
a
Priest
wel
learned
,
vertuous
,
and
mortified
,
and
of
a
good
nature
,
and
to
him
largely
the
cause
of
my
arriual
here
,
I
wil
lay
open
,
so
that
by
him
you
may
be
fully
certified
thereof
.
the
which
I
would
haue
to
be
either
M.
Gregorie
Marten
,
or
Doctor
Barnard
the
neede
of
body
bringeth
me
not
hither
,
but
of
Soule
,
and
causes
alleged
.
I
am
at
Tessi
half
a
league
from
you
in
a
tauerne
:
hither
therfore
send
as
I
request
with
this
messenger
in
all
hast
that
can
be
,
and
if
the
said
Priest
lodged
here
al
night
it
were
best
,
Your
humble
Orator
.
laden
with
sinne
,
wishing
and
comming
hither
to
be
healed
,
whose
name
you
shall
know
.
Post
scriptum
.
I
haue
a
letter
from
the
said
Nicols
to
your
worship
,
who
is
on
this
side
the
sea
which
I
wil
deliuer
to
the
Priest
sent
.
It
was
endorced
thus
.
Venerabili
viro
D.
Doctori
Alano
Anglorum
Seminarij
Rhemensis
dignissimo
pręsidi
,
hae
statim
tradantur
litera
.
A
Monsieur
le
Docteur
Allen
Anglois
.
Iesus
Maria.
Si
non
sit
in
Ciuitate
D.
Alanus
,
tradantur
Doctori
Bernardo
,
aut
D.
Gregorio
Martino
.
THe
President
being
not
then
at
home
,
but
newly
gone
to
Paris
,
this
letter
was
receiued
and
reade
by
the
other
to
whom
in
his
absence
it
was
directed
,
and
by
whom
his
godly
desire
was
also
in
part
accomplished
:
but
for
more
ful
satisfaction
of
his
conscience
,
he
was
aduised
to
go
forward
to
Paris
,
where
he
might
deale
with
D.
Allen
him self
:
and
so
he
resolued
to
doo
,
hauing
appointed
also
before
to
meete
Iohn
Nicols
againe
there
,
who
departed
from
him
(
as
he
said
)
at
Challon
,
ten
leagues
from
Rhemes
,
where
Nicols
(
for
a
Brauado
)
wrot
this
letter
following
to
the
said
Doctor
:
which
letter
,
at
once
with
Laurence
Caddeyes
,
he
receiued
by
a
special
and
speedy
messager
,
before
Laurence
him self
arriued
DOctor
Alane
,
multi
te
ferunt
librum
quendam
edidisse
sub
nomine
Apologiae
diuulgatum
vtriúsque
Seminarij
Romae
Rhemisque
Romani
Pontificis
impensis
extructi
.
In
eo
libro
tuo
nimis
in
me
ferociter
irruisti
&
maledictis
lacessiuisti
,
si
tu
aliqua
salutis
meae
cupiditate
flagrasses
illa
conuitia
atque
maledicta
quibus
abundasti
silentio
pretermisisses
.
Satis
in
meum
vituperium
dixisse
arbitratus
es
,
cum
dixeras
me
his
deciuisse
à
religione
vestra
,
quid
hoc
ad
propositum
,
nunquid
Apostoli
(
qui
omnibus
virtutis
ornamentis
exculti
fuerant
)
semper
Christum
agnouerunt
?
minime
gentium
sed
Christum
aliquando
negauerunt
vt
sacra
scripturarum
loca
testantur
.
Quid
si
ego
vestram
religionem
(
si
vera
esset
religio
)
decies
abnegassem
,
&
postea
eam
amplexus
fuissem
quandiu
vixissem
,
nunquid
post
miseram
hanc
vitam
me
reprobum
sentiretis
?
profectò
haud
sic
,
si
veri
Christianiessetis
.
vestram
religionem
multis
erroribus
implicatam
denegasse
laetor
,
maximè
si
fides
vestra
Romana
ab
Apostolorum
sententia
mintmè
dissentiret
,
ab
illa
nullis
terrortbus
atque
suppliciis
adduci
vllo
modo
potuissem
:
sed
quia
traditionibus
humanis
innititur
,
illam
non
probo
.
Alane
mi
,
Consule
tibi
dum
tempus
est
,
Resipisce
,
Renuncia
erroribus
quibus
irretiris
,
Reuertere
in
patriam
,
Prosternas
teipsum
ad
pedes
pientissimae
Reginae
nostrae
,
explices
perfidiam
tuam
,
deplora
te
talem
fuisse
qualem
terra
vt
ferret
indignus
fuisti
.
Romae
quid
didici
?
hypocrisim
,
mendacium
,
arrogatiam
,
breuiter
,
omnia
mala
.
in
Seminario
regnat
libido
,
superbia
,
inuidia
,
ira
,
maledicentia
,
vt
breui
comprehendam
,
illud
collegium
est
sentina
omnium
malorum
.
Perhorresco
literis
mandare
quae
oculis
meis
vidi
,
non
crederes
,
quia
nimis
faues
illis
.
Raptim
scripsi
.
Rescribe
si
vis
,
aut
si
elatus
animus
patietur
.
scriptum
Nancy
.
Per
me
Ioannem
Nicolaum
Anglum
.
DOctor
Allen
,
manie
reporte
that
you
haue
published
a
booke
vnder
the
title
of
an
Apologie
of
both
the
Seminaries
of
Rome
and
Rhemes
,
erected
at
the
Popes
charges
.
In
that
booke
you
haue
pushed
at
me
very
furiously
and
prouoked
me
with
many
reproches
.
If
you
had
had
any
care
of
my
soules
health
,
you
would
haue
passed
ouer
those
reproches
and
detractions
with
silence
:
but
you
thought
to
disgrace
me
excedingly
in
reporting
that
I
had
twise
forsaken
your
religion
.
what
is
that
to
the
purpose
?
why
?
did
the
Apostles
(
which
were
adorned
with
all
ornaments
of
vertue
)
alwaies
confesse
Chrisi
?
nothing
lesse
.
For
sometimes
they
did
denie
him
as
holie
writ
testifieth
.
What
if
I
had
denied
your
Religion
ten
times
(
if
it
were
a
true
religion
)
and
afterward
had
embraced
it
againe
as
long
as
I
liued
,
would
you
notwithstanding
haue
taken
me
for
a
reprobate
after
my
death
?
if
you
were
true
Christians
,
I
thinke
you
would
not
.
I
am
ful
glad
that
I
haue
denied
your
Religion
,
which
is
mixed
with
manie
errors
.
If
your
Romane
faith
dissented
not
from
the
doctrine
of
the
Apostles
,
I
should
neuer
haue
ben
drawen
from
it
,
with
terrors
or
torments
whatsoeuer
:
but
because
it
is
vnderpropped
with
mens
traditions
,
I
cannot
like
or
allow
of
it
.
O
M.
Allen
,
prouide
for
your self
while
you
haue
time
.
Amende
,
and
for
sake
your
errors
wherewith
you
are
entangled
.
Retourne
home
to
your
country
.
Cast
your self
downe
at
the
feete
of
our
merciful
Queene
.
Confesse
your
disloyaultie
,
and
lament
that
you
haue
ben
such
a
one
,
as
the
earth
is
vnworthie
to
beare
.
what
learned
I
at
Rome
?
hypocrisie
,
lying
,
pride
,
and
to
be
short
al
that
euel
is
.
In
that
Seminarie
there
,
raigneth
lust
,
pride
,
enuie
wrathe
,
detraction
,
and
to
say
al
at
a
worde
,
that
College
is
the
sinke
of
sinne
.
I
do
tremble
to
write
the
things
,
that
I
haue
seene
with
mine
eyes
:
neither
would
you
beleeue
them
,
because
you
fauor
them
to
much
.
I
haue
written
in
hast
,
write
againe
if
you
wil
,
or
if
your
prowde
stomack
will
suffer
you
.
Written
at
Nancy
.
By
me
Iohn
Nicols
Englishman
.
ABout
three
daies
after
the
receipt
of
the
aboue
written
letters
,
came
Laurence
Caddey
and
found
D.
Allen
and
all
other
Catholicks
very
redy
,
as
duty
required
,
to
giue
him
the
comfort
and
succour
they
could
to
his
great
contentement
:
as
also
vpon
intelligence
that
Iohn
Nichols
was
in
the
towne
,
many
meanes
were
sought
to
bring
him
to
conference
and
speach
of
the
learned
for
his
recouery
:
but
missing
of
that
,
there
was
thought
no
other
remedy
to
saue
his
soule
,
&
to
reclame
him
from
the
damnable
state
that
he
liued
and
was
like
to
dy
in
:
but
by
his
apprehension
and
imprisonning
,
which
,
by
reason
of
his
speedy
departure
from
Paris
,
could
not
be
donne
there
:
but
it
was
atchiued
at
Roan
,
where
vpon
his
restraint
,
he
wrot
with
his
owne
hand
at
seuerall
times
the
letters
and
others
things
in
Latine
,
to
D.
Allen
.
DOctor
Alane
,
tua
meam
petulantiam
vicit
charitas
,
ad
te
(
temeritate
ductus
magis
quam
prudentia
fretus
)
acriter
scripsi
,
tu
ira
non
commotus
omnia
bona
mihi
optasti
,
pollicitus
es
cum
fueram
tibi
inimicus
ea
quae
non
speraueram
à
te
concedi
,
tua
elementia
me
superauit
supra
modum
.
Parisiis
Rhemos
venissem
si
mea
culpatāta
non
fuisset
quantum
explicare
verbis
nequeo
.
Pudore
impeditus
,
Rhemos
petere
nolim
.
Tua
patientia
mea
maior
fuit
malitia
,
tua
verba
ex
charitate
fraterna
producta
ostenderunt
quo
spiritu
suffultus
eras
.
Laurentius
Caddeus
,
qui
meas
tibi
dedit
literas
,
iuramento
facto
predicta
confirmauit
,
qua
charitate
audita
in
quae
prorupi
verba
testetur
.
Si
illam
Domine
D.
Alane
animae
meae
curam
te
habere
verum
sit
,
vt
tuam
reuerentiam
non
pigeret
peregrinationis
multorum
locorum
modo
saluares
eam
,
des
tunc
operam
vt
saluetur
.
&
mea
anima
salua
tua
opera
,
saluabitur
anima
tua
iuxta
verbum
diuinum
.
Si
anima
&
corpore
peribo
tua
incuria
atque
negligentia
,
redditurus
es
rationem
huiusmodi
mortis
meae
in
die
iudicij
.
Sum
detentus
in
carceribus
,
&
non
indignè
.
Sustentor
lautius
hucusque
quam
deberem
,
appello
ad
tuam
reuerentiam
,
&
non
ad
Papae
Nuntium
.
Si
promittes
tuis
literis
,
quod
mea
culpa
quoquo
modo
commissa
contra
quoscumque
ignoscetur
mihi
,
&
quod
nemo
ob
mea
delicta
perpetrata
,
me
è
medio
tollere
conabitur
,
Rhemos
veniam
,
&
ponam
vitam
meam
in
manibus
tuis
:
si
hoc
mihi
negabis
,
sanguis
meus
à
te
requiretur
,
&
eris
causa
perditionis
animae
meae
.
Non
curo
propter
vitam
corporis
mei
.
singulis
diebus
contentus
sum
mori
,
si
semel
animam
meam
&
virtute
&
religione
verbo
diuino
innixam
,
suffultam
sentirem
,
oh
nemo
mortalium
me
laetior
esset
.
Dicunt
multi
me
nullam
religionem
habere
,
&
verè
dicunt
secundum
opera
mea
,
flagitiis
enim
multis
coopertus
sum
.
hoc
ego
dico
et
in
suggestu
sepe
dixi
.
Quodcumque
scriptum
est
in
veteriatque
nouo
testamento
firmiter
credo
si
me
ad
ignem
,
autad
patibulum
lictores
iam
traherent
,
aliud
non
crederem
,
instar
vmbrae
est
vita
mea
,
à
carcere
Rothomagensi
clamo
ad
te
vir
magne
,
&
vir
plene
charitatis
vt
mihi
succurras
dum
hac
vitae
vsura
fruor
.
Si
conquaereris
de
scriptis
meis
,
quod
falsum
est
retractabo
,
causam
indicabo
cur
sic
scripseram
,
totam
mentem
meam
iuxta
veritatis
limites
satis
abundè
explicabo
.
D.
Alane
,
etsi
grauiter
offenderam
,
tamen
curam
tibi
committo
animae
meae
.
Nescio
quid
de
me
consultum
est
,
si
Papa
&
Cardinales
,
&
omnes
alij
qui
autoritate
praecedunt
alios
,
consultius
aestimant
esse
vt
vindictam
sumant
iniuriae
illatam
illis
immeritò
,
fiat
voluntas
Domini
,
sciunt
vbi
me
inueniant
:
exequantur
quod
in
mentem
venit
,
sed
aliter
de
illorum
charitate
spero
.
In
his
angustiis
quibus
constitutus
sum
D
Alane
,
praesto
mihi
sis
,
&
consilio
&
labore
&
aliis
omnibus
charitatis
operibus
:
&
accumulabis
tibi
magnum
thesaurum
in
caelis
,
&
me
tibi
in
aeuum
deuinces
.
Non
sum
obstinatus
,
cupio
saluus
esse
,
saluum
me
reddat
Deus
anima
à
corpore
dissoluta
.
Scripsi
.
bene
vale
,
oraque
pro
me
peccatore
maximo
.
Dum
viuo
,
spero
Redde
bonum
D
Alane
pro
malo
,
&
eris
discipulus
Christi
:
sic
fecit
Christus
,
sic
docuit
.
Per
me
Ioannem
Nicolaum
Anglum
,
tui
amantissimum
.
POst
scriptum
.
Spiritus
pugnat
contra
carnem
,
caro
contra
spiritum
ad
tempus
spiritus
diluuio
peccatorum
submersus
carni
succubuit
,
sed
spero
quod
spiritus
emergetur
,
&
carnis
vires
mulalidabit
Deus
sit
mihi
propitius
.
Capituitas
est
medium
per
quod
viam
ad
coelum
inueniam
D.
Alane
,
partim
quia
Christum
agnoscis
,
&
partim
quia
conterraneus
meus
es
,
consule
mihi
dum
tempus
est
.
Lego
vestros
libros
,
non
taedet
me
legere
,
aliquam
mihi
legendo
consolationem
comparaui
.
Legam
,
&
sermonem
habere
cum
Catholicis
Romanis
inficias
non
ibo
.
Scripsi
,
&
expecto
responsionem
voluntatis
tuae
propensae
,
vt
spero
in
meam
salutem
.
18.
Feb.
1583.
Per
me
peccatorem
grauissimum
,
Ioannem
Nicolaum
indignum
hac
vita
quam
dego
.
DOctor
Allen
,
Your
charitie
hath
ouercome
my
impudencie
.
I
wrote
vnto
you
very
sharpely
,
being
led
thereto
rather
through
rashenes
,
then
guided
by
wisdome
.
you
for
your
owne
part
being
nothing
atal
moued
therewith
to
anger
,
wished
al
good
vnto
me
promising
to
me
your
enmmie
such
benefits
as
I
could
not
haue
looked
for
at
your
hands
.
your
clemencie
therefore
hath
wonderfully
vanquished
me
.
I
would
haue
come
from
Paris
to
Rhemes
,
if
my
offence
had
not
ben
so
haynous
,
as
cannot
be
by
wordes
expressed
.
The
cause
why
I
came
not
to
Rhemes
,
was
,
because
I
was
ashamed
of
my self
.
Your
Pacience
is
greater
then
my
mallice
.
Your
wordes
proceeding
from
brotherly
charitie
,
do
declare
with
what
spirit
you
are
endewed
.
Laurence
Caddey
who
deliuered
my
former
letter
vnto
you
,
hath
affirmed
the
fore said
things
to
be
true
and
that
with
an
other
he
also
can
witnes
into
what
speaches
I
burst
forth
when
I
vnderstood
this
your
charitie
.
If
it
be
true
(
M.D.
Allen
)
that
you
haue
so
great
care
of
my
soule
,
that
your
Reuerence
would
not
sticke
to
trauaile
to
what
place
soeuer
,
to
saue
it
:
do
you
your
endeuour
then
to
saue
it
.
For
if
my
soule
be
saued
by
your
meanes
,
you
shall
saue
your
owne
soule
also
,
as
holy
writ
saith
:
but
if
I
doo
perish
bodie
and
soule
by
your
carelessnes
and
negligence
you
are
to
render
accompt
thereof
at
the
daie
of
Iudgement
.
I
am
emprisoned
,
and
that
worthely
:
and
am
fedd
hitherto
more
delicatly
then
I
haue
deserued
.
I
do
appeale
to
your
worship
and
not
to
the
Popes
Nunce
.
And
if
you
will
promis
me
by
your
letters
that
the
faults
which
I
haue
by
any
meanes
whatsoeuer
committed
against
any
man
,
shal
be
forgiuen
me
,
and
that
no
man
shal
pursue
me
to
death
for
the
crimes
that
I
haue
committed
,
I
will
come
to
Rhemes
,
&
yeld
my self
into
your
hands
:
if
you
deny
me
this
,
my
bloud
shal
be
required
at
your
hands
,
and
you
shal
be
the
cause
of
the
losse
of
my
soule
.
I
esteeme
not
this
transitorie
life
,
I
am
content
to
dye
,
and
that
euery
daie
.
Oh
if
I
felt
once
my
soule
to
be
endewed
with
vertue
&
religion
staied
vpon
Gods
holie
word
,
no
man
would
be
more
glad
then
I
should
be
.
Many
report
that
I
haue
no
religion
in
me
,
and
they
saie
truely
in
respect
of
my
works
,
for
I
am
ouerwhelmed
with
many
abhominable
vices
.
I
say
thus
much
&
haue
often
said
it
out
of
the
pulpit
.
That
I
doo
firmely
beleeue
whatsoeuer
is
written
in
the
old
and
new
Testament
.
If
the
Sergants
were
drawing
me
to
the
fire
or
gallowes
,
I
would
not
beleeue
any
other
thing
.
My
life
is
like
a
shadowe
,
I
crie
to
you
(
worshipfull
Sir
and
full
of
charitie
)
out
of
the
prison
of
Roan
,
to
assist
me
whiles
yet
I
liue
.
If
you
complaine
of
my
books
,
I
will
retract
that
which
is
false
,
I
will
shewe
the
cause
why
I
wrot
so
.
I
will
open
my
mind
aboundantly
so
far
as
the
limites
of
truth
will
permit
.
M.D.
Allen
albeit
I
haue
greuously
offended
,
that
notwithstanding
I
commit
the
care
of
my
soule
vnto
you
.
I
know
not
what
the
Pope
,
Cardinals
,
and
others
in
authoritie
ar
determined
to
do
with
me
:
if
they
thinke
it
best
to
take
vengeance
on
me
for
the
iniuries
which
I
haue
vniustly
donne
vnto
them
,
the
lords
will
be
donne
:
they
know
where
to
finde
me
,
let
them
put
their
designes
in
execution
hardly
:
but
for
all
that
I
hope
better
of
their
charitie
.
Being
brought
into
these
distresses
,
I
beseech
you
D.
Allen
to
assist
me
with
counsel
and
al
other
works
of
charitie
,
and
you
shal
thereby
heape
to
your self
a
treasure
in
heauen
,
and
shall
binde
me
to
be
yours
foreuer
.
I
am
not
obstinate
.
God
graunt
I
may
be
sauued
after
this
life
.
I
haue
written
.
Fare
you
well
,
and
pray
for
me
a
greuous
sinner
:
for
as
long
as
I
liue
,
I
will
hope
.
M.D.
Allen
,
render
good
for
euil
,
and
by
so
doing
you
shal
be
Christe
his
disciple
.
For
so
Christ
did
,
so
he
taught
,
By
me
,
Iohn
Nichols
Englisman
,
your
louer
.
POst
scriptum
.
The
spirit
doth
fight
against
the
flesh
,
and
the
flesh
against
the
spirit
:
and
for
a
time
the
spirit
being
ouer
whelmed
with
the
flood
of
sinnes
,
doth
yeeld
vnto
the
flesh
,
but
I
hope
that
the
spirit
will
get
the
victorie
,
and
weaken
the
force
of
the
flesh
.
God
be
merciful
vnto
me
.
Imprisonment
is
a
meanes
by
which
I
may
finde
the
way
to
heauen
.
M.
D.
Allen
helpe
me
with
your
aduice
whiles
time
is
:
partely
,
because
you
are
a
Christian
man
:
partly
also
,
because
you
are
my
country
man
.
I
reade
your
bookes
and
am
not
weary
of
reading
,
I
haue
gained
great
comfort
&
consolation
by
reading
them
.
I
will
reade
still
and
will
refuse
no
conference
with
any
Roman
Catholik
.
I
haue
written
,
and
now
expecte
your
fauorable
answere
,
as
I
hope
,
to
my
saluation
.
18.
Feb.
1583.
By
me
most
greuous
sinner
,
Iohn
Nicols
,
vnworthy
to
liue
.
DOctor
Alane
,
contra
Papam
,
Cardinales
&
Episcopos
quaecunque
scripsi
,
scripsi
ambitionis
causa
:
&
quae
audiueram
in
Italia
de
moribus
Papae
,
Cardinalium
,
Episcoporum
aliorúmque
inter
agrestes
&
inopes
homines
,
literis
in
Anglia
mandaui
:
nullum
librum
aedidissem
(
Deus
est
mihi
testis
)
nisi
Praeses
Castri
Londinensis
me
ad
scribendum
prouocasset
.
Partim
tunc
temporis
grandipromissione
delusus
,
partim
appetens
interituram
gloriam
,
a
me
publicè
scripta
sunt
ea
,
praesertim
de
moribus
Papae
,
Cardinalium
,
Episcoporum
,
totiusque
ecclesiastici
ordinis
quae
fama
acceperam
à
viris
non
fide
dignis
,
libertate
mihi
eo
tempore
concessa
paulo
post
resipui
&
me
nequiter
scripsisse
Domino
Lucae
Kirbeo●am
vita
defuncto
,
cum
in
carceribus
detentus
fuerat
,
confessus
sum
.
Multa
scripsi
,
multa
feci
,
quae
scribere
aut
facere
negaui
prorsus
,
antequam
Praeses
Turris
Londinensis
saepe
minatus
sit
,
Grauissimum
torquaris
tormentum
,
quam
acerbam
poenam
pati
meafragilis
caro
abhorruit
.
Illius
igitur
inuentionem
atque
voluntatem
executus
sum
,
quod
imperabat
scripsi
,
feci
,
sic
locutus
sum
,
non
ex
malitia
,
sed
ex
impulsu
,
non
ex
praua
voluntate
,
sed
ex
satanica
suggestione
.
Multa
scripsi
falsò
,
quae
scripsisse
poenituit
me
antequam
ex
Anglia
tanquam
profugus
ob
enormia
peccata
mea
quae
conscientiae
meae
magnam
inquietem
diu
&
noctu
iniecerunt
,
discesseram
,
Nun
quam
in
Anglia
steti
coram
Iudice
,
aut
alio
quouis
magistratu
tamquam
testis
contra
quemuis
Catholicum
Romanum
,
quando
in
iudicium
vocati
sunt
,
ex
proposito
abfui
Londino
.
Papa
,
Cardinales
,
Episcopi
,
&
alij
Catholici
Romani
in
me
multa
contulerunt
beneficia
,
quae
ingratitudine
recompensaui
,
sed
causa
ostenditur
,
metus
grauissimi
supplicij
,
magnifica
promissa
me
à
Deo
auocauerunt
.
si
vos
viri
dignissimi
,
in
eodem
periculo
versaremini
,
nescio
quid
faceretis
.
Nihil
aliud
audire
potui
in
carceribus
quam
has
minas
,
Fac
sic
,
aut
satellites
te
ducent
torqueri
:
maluissem
si
dixisset
suspendi
.
Non
bona
res
est
,
corpus
isto
cruciatu
longius
fieri
per
duos
fere
pedes
quam
natura
concedit
.
Narratum
est
mihi
modus
torquendi
,
cum
audiueram
,
timor
&
horror
istiusmodi
supplicij
me
omnino
vicit
in
meaexaminatione
.
Quorum
voluit
ille
Praeses
aut
sernus
illius
nomina
scribi
,
scripsi
.
Georgius
Peccam
,
aeques
auratus
in
Catalogo
fuit
Papistarum
,
Iudex
Southcotus
,
&
alij
multi
mihi
ignoti
&
ad
nomen
&
ad
personam
(
antequam
ad
castra
Londini
veneram
)
in
meo
Catologo
,
suggestu
praedictorum
locum
occupauerunt
inter
caeteros
Romanae
religioni
addictos
.
Si
captus
non
fuissem
cunctis
Papistis
indicassem
interrogantibus
me
causam
scribendi
talia
mendacia
in
mea
examinatione
.
Ego
fui
scriptor
,
sed
Deus
scit
,
alios
fuisse
autores
.
Si
mea
fragilit
as
me
non
excusabit
,
appello
ad
misericordiam
vestram
qua
munitos
esse
dicitis
:
ostendite
tunc
illam
,
&
pro
amore
Dei
liberate
me
,
&
non
vrgeatis
me
sicut
caeteri
,
loqui
&
scribere
contr
a
conscientiam
meam
:
&
postea
cernetis
sine
impulsu
,
quod
liberè
fatebor
veritatem
.
D.
Alane
grauiter
te
offendi
,
sed
tamen
dico
,
quod
recumbo
in
tuam
clementiam
.
De
religione
nihil
dico
quod
scriptura
docet
(
nullum
excipio
librum
neque
veteris
neque
noui
)
firmiter
credo
:
nihil
aliud
credam
,
facite
mecum
quod
vultis
,
comburite
,
suspendite
,
interficite
,
decapitate
,
ego
idem
sum
:
si
veritatem
non
habeo
,
Christus
est
veritas
,
ostendat
mihi
veritatem
,
&
aper●at
oculos
meos
.
D.
Alane
,
Odowenus
Hoptonus
Praeses
Castri
Londinensis
minis
iussit
vt
examinationem
iuxta
voluntatem
illius
scriberem
.
Quando
nomina
Papistarum
patefeci
(
quorum
quam
plurima
nomina
nunquam
ante
audiueram
)
eos
fautores
Papae
,
Reginae
Scotorum
,
acerrimos
inimicos
Regiae
Maiestatis
,
virorum
à
conciliís
,
&
omnium
illorum
qui
defensores
sunt
religionis
quae
publicè
in
Anglia
docetur
asserere
non
vererer
.
Et
omnes
illi
de
quibus
mentio
facta
est
,
nobiles
&
generosi
fuerunt
.
Hoc
si
à
te
factum
erit
Regina
promouebit
te
,
inuenies
me
promptissim
um
fore
ad
te
iuuandum
.
Cuncti
proceres
te
magno
prosequuntur
amore
,
&
nihil
indigebis
.
Mittam
tecum
seruum
Oxonium
,
ibi
sustentaberis
,
centum
Marcas
singulis
annis
dabo
operam
vt
adipiscaris
&
sine
dubio
pingue
sacerdotium
tibi
dabitur
.
Si
hoc
non
praestabis
grauissima
poena
mulct
aberis
,
consule
tibi
igitur
Et
hanc
ob
causam
,
partim
metu
ductus
,
partim
adulatione
victus
,
hoc
in
me
quadrauit
adagium
:
Quid
ipse
aiebat
,
confirmaui
:
promissum
illius
iuramento
perstrictum
fuit
.
Haec
quae
exaraui
adeò
vera
sunt
vt
nihil
verius
.
Videte
homines
,
qua
mecum
Tragedia
vsus
est
ille
Praeses
.
Quamprimum
veneram
in
conspectum
D.
Odoweni
Hopton
,
ductus
cum
satellite
,
confessus
sum
me
illius
religionis
fuisse
,
&
tamen
hypocrisi
maxima
me
vti
voluit
,
paratus
eram
in
die
Dominico
istius
hebdomadae
qua
captus
eram
in
ecclesiam
venire
mea
sponte
,
&
tamen
iussit
vt
apparerem
reluctari
,
&
seruus
illius
iussus
fuit
trahere
me
ad
ecclesiam
quasi
inuitus
fuissem
:
ex
his
paucis
colligite
plura
.
De
bulla
affix
a
parietibus
Rhemis
,
hoc
non
audeo
consirmare
,
sed
ita
fama
volauit
inter
alummos
Papae
in
Collegio
Anglicano
Romae
sito
,
vtrum
ista
excommunicationis
bulla
contrae
nostram
●eginam
Elizabetham
renouata
fuit
,
&
ex
integro
impressa
Romae
prorsus
ignoro
,
sed
ignoscite
mihi
quae
tali
modo
temere
&
falso
scripsi
&
feci
.
Quae
literis
mandantur
,
me
libera
sponte
sine
compulsione
vlla
,
vt
conscientiam
meam
liberam
redderem
in
praesentia
Gulielmi
Iohnson
&
Georgij
Robinson
mand
at
a
sunt
in
carcere
Rothomagensi
in
die
Sabbati
.
19.
Februarij
.
An.
1583.
Ioannes
Nicolaus
.
DOctor
Allen
what
things
soeuer
I
haue
written
against
the
Pope
,
Cardinals
and
Bishops
,
I
wrote
them
through
ambition
:
and
such
things
as
I
printed
in
England
,
touching
the
manners
of
the
Pope
,
Cardinals
&
Bishops
,
I
had
heard
them
in
Italie
of
peisantes
and
poore
men
.
I
had
neuer
published
any
booke
(
God
is
my
witnes
)
if
the
Lieutenant
of
the
Tower
of
London
had
not
prouoked
me
to
write
:
for
I
was
partly
deluded
at
that
time
with
great
promises
,
partly
also
pricked
forward
with
desire
of
vaine
glorie
.
Such
things
haue
ben
written
by
me
pubickly
,
cheefly
touching
the
manners
of
the
Pope
.
Cardinals
,
Bishops
,
and
of
the
whol
Clergie
,
which
I
had
by
report
of
men
of
no
credit
.
But
as
sone
as
I
had
obteined
my
libertie
,
incontinent
I
amended
my
former
fault
,
and
confessed
to
M.
Luck
Kirby
now
executed
,
but
then
a
prisoner
,
that
I
had
written
very
lewdly
.
I
wrote
many
things
,
I
did
many
things
,
the
which
I
vtterly
denied
either
to
write
or
to
do
,
before
that
the
Lieutenant
of
the
Tower
threatened
me
,
and
that
often
,
to
rack
and
torment
me
,
which
greuous
punishmentes
my
fraile
flesh
did
abhorre
.
And
therefore
I
did
but
execut
his
will
and
inuention
.
Whatsoeuer
he
commaunded
,
that
I
wrot
,
that
I
did
,
so
I
spake
,
not
of
mallice
,
but
by
constraint
,
not
of
euell
will
,
but
of
deuellish
suggestion
I
wrote
many
things
falsly
,
and
it
repented
me
that
euer
I
wrote
them
before
I
departed
out
of
England
as
a
runnegate
for
my
enormeous
sinnes
,
which
vexed
and
disquieted
my
conscience
daie
and
night
excedingly
.
I
neuer
appeered
before
any
Iudge
or
other
officer
in
England
as
a
witnes
against
any
one
Romane
Catholick
:
in
so
much
that
when
they
were
araigned
,
I
absented
my self
from
London
of
purpose
.
The
Pope
,
the
Cardinals
,
the
Bishops
,
and
other
Catholick
Romanes
,
haue
bestowed
many
benefits
vpon
me
,
and
I
haue
requited
them
with
ingratitude
,
but
I
haue
shewed
the
cause
:
feare
of
greuous
punishement
and
magnificall
promises
withdrew
me
cleene
from
God
.
If
you
(
worthie
men
)
had
ben
in
the
like
danger
,
I
know
not
what
you
would
haue
donne
.
I
could
heare
nothing
els
whiles
I
was
in
prison
,
but
these
threates
:
Do
so
or
els
the
Officers
shal
carry-thee
to
be
racked
:
I
had
leuer
he
had
said
to
bee
hanged
.
It
is
an
euel
thing
to
haue
my
bodie
by
these
tortures
to
be
made
two
foote
longer
,
then
euer
God
made
it
.
They
recompted
vnto
me
the
manner
and
order
of
racking
,
which
when
I
heard
,
the
feare
and
horror
of
this
kinde
of
punishement
did
quite
ouercome
me
in
mine
examination
.
I
wrote
downe
into
my
booke
the
names
of
such
as
the
Lieutenant
or
his
seruant
would
haue
me
write
.
Sir
George
Peckam
knight
was
in
the
rowle
of
the
Papists
.
Iudge
Suthcot
,
and
many
other
(
whose
names
and
personnes
were
vnknowne
to
me
before
I
came
to
the
tower
)
occupied
a
rome
in
my
rowle
among
the
rest
that
were
addicted
to
the
Roman
religion
,
and
that
by
the
suggestion
of
the
forenamed
.
If
I
had
not
ben
apprehended
,
I
would
haue
answered
all
Papists
that
would
haue
asked
me
for
what
cause
I
wrote
so
many
lies
in
my
examination
:
That
I
was
the
writer
in
deede
,
but
(
God
knoweth
)
other
men
were
the
Authors
.
If
my
frailtie
will
not
excuse
me
,
I
appeale
to
your
mercie
:
where
with
you
say
,
you
are
fenced
:
shew
it
then
,
and
for
the
loue
of
God
set
me
at
libertie
,
&
afterwards
you
shall
see
,
that
I
will
confesse
the
truth
freely
without
all
constraint
.
I
haue
greeuously
offended
you
D.
Allen
,
yet
I
saie
thus
much
,
I
do
commit
my self
wholy
to
your
clemeneie
.
I
saie
nothing
of
my
religion
,
whatsoeuer
the
scripture
dooth
teach
(
I
except
no
booke
of
the
old
or
new
Testament
)
I
do
firmely
beleeue
,
I
beleeue
no
other
thing
.
Do
with
me
what
you
list
,
burne
me
,
hang
me
,
kill
me
,
behead
me
:
I
am
the
same
man
,
if
I
haue
not
the
truth
,
Christ
is
the
truth
,
let
him
shew
me
the
truth
and
open
mine
eies
.
D.
Allen
,
Sir
Owen
Hopton
the
Lieutenant
of
the
Tower
commaunded
me
with
threates
,
to
write
mine
examination
according
to
his
will
&
pleasure
,
&
willed
me
(
when
I
published
the
names
of
the
Papists
,
many
of
whose
names
I
neuer
heard
of
before
)
not
to
be
afraid
to
affirme
them
to
be
fautors
of
the
Pope
,
of
the
Queene
of
Scots
,
to
be
mortal
ennimies
to
the
Queenes
Maiestie
,
to
her
Counsellers
,
&
to
al
those
which
were
defendors
of
the
religion
which
is
now
publickly
taught
in
England
.
And
they
were
al
noble
men
or
gentlemen
,
that
were
there
mentioned
.
If
thou
wilt
do
this
(
quoth
he
)
the
Queene
will
promote
thee
,
and
thou
shalt
find
me
most
ready
to
helpe
the
:
al
the
nobilitie
will
loue
thee
excedingly
,
and
thou
shalt
want
nothing
:
I
will
send
my
man
with
thee
to
Oxford
,
and
thou
shalt
be
mainteined
there
:
I
will
find
the
meanes
that
thou
shalt
haue
one
hundred
Marks
yerely
:
and
without
all
doubt
,
thou
shalt
haue
a
fat
benefice
.
If
thou
wilt
not
do
this
,
thou
shalt
be
tormented
and
that
greeuously
:
therefore
take
good
aduice
what
to
do
.
And
for
this
cause
,
partly
led
with
feare
,
&
partly
ouercome
with
flatterie
,
the
old
prouerb
was
verified
in
me
:
whatsoeuer
he
did
saie
,
thesame
I
did
sooth
:
al
his
said
promises
were
bound
with
an
othe
.
These
things
that
I
haue
written
are
so
true
,
as
nothing
can
be
more
true
.
See
(
ô
men
)
how
tragically
the
Lieutenant
of
the
Tower
delt
with
me
.
Assoone
as
euer
I
came
in
Sir
Owen
Hopton
sight
,
being
brought
by
an
officer
,
I
confessed
my self
to
be
of
his
religion
,
yet
for
al
that
he
would
needes
haue
me
play
the
hypocrite
I
was
reddy
to
go
to
church
on
mine
owne
accorde
the
next
sondaie
after
I
was
apprehended
,
yet
notwithstanding
he
commaunded
me
to
seeme
to
resiste
,
&
his
man
was
willed
to
draw
me
to
the
church
,
as
though
I
went
against
my
will
:
of
these
sew
you
may
gather
many
things
.
Concerning
the
Bull
which
was
fastened
vpon
the
wals
at
Rhemes
,
I
dare
not
affirme
it
,
but
there
went
such
a
report
among
the
Popes
schollers
in
the
English
College
at
Rome
:
whether
this
Bull
of
excommunication
against
our
Queene
Elizabeth
was
renewed
and
printed
againe
at
Rome
,
I
am
vtterly
ignorant
:
but
forgiue
me
that
haue
after
such
sort
written
and
donne
,
both
rashly
and
falsely
.
Such
things
as
I
haue
written
at
this
present
,
I
haue
written
them
of
mine
owne
free
will
without
any
constraint
to
vnburthen
my
conscience
,
in
the
presence
of
William
Iohnson
and
George
Robinson
,
in
the
prison
of
Roan
,
on
Saterdaie
being
the
19.
of
Februarie
in
the
yere
of
our
Lord
1583.
Iohn
Nichols
.
MAKING
SVTE
FOR
A
WARRANT
TO
ATTACH
THE
SAID
IOHN
NICOLS
,
demaund
was
made
whether
any
thing
could
be
layd
to
his
charge
sauing
matters
of
religion
:
it
was
answered
yea
:
and
therevpon
these
articles
and
accusations
following
were
drawen
out
against
him
,
vpon
which
the
prisoner
being
examined
he
answered
to
euery
one
seuerally
,
as
is
here
set
downe
first
in
Latine
,
afterward
in
English
.
1
ACcusamus
Ioannem
Nicolaum
,
primum
quod
famosos
libello
fecerit
,
&
praelo
mandauerit
contra
Principes
&
publicas
person
as
atque
collrgia
,
qui
famosi
libelli
etiam
in
ditionibus
suae
Maiestatis
Christianissimae
in
multorummanus
venerunt
&
famam
multorum
leserunt
.
Respondeo
vt
sequitur
.
Ego
Ioannes
Nicolaus
,
protestans
in
religione
,
20.
Februarij
anno
Domini
1583.
neque
metu
,
neque
fauore
cuiusquam
hominis
,
aliquid
à
me
respondebitur
.
Quantum
ad
hunc
primum
articulum
,
fateor
me
ture
recteque
accusatum
esse
.
2
In
his
libris
,
turpissimorum
criminum
mendaciter
&
calumniose
insimulat
nominatim
certos
Cardinales
,
obiiciens
eis
stuprum
&
scelera
pessima
,
ex
mera
contra
sacrum
ordinem
malitia
.
Ad
secundum
sic
respondeo
.
Fateor
me
sic
scripsisse
,
sed
fama
atque
relatione
hominum
prauorum
,
vt
opinor
.
3
Sanctissimum
Dominum
nostrum
Papam
seditiosè
&
maledi●è
in
iisdem
scriptis
incusat
iniustitiae
furti
,
rapinae
,
&
omnis
iniquitatis
,
particulatim
nominans
quasdam
rapinas
quas
eum
fecisse
fingit
.
Respondeo
,
me
sic
scripsisse
,
sed
magis
ambitionis
&
malitiae
causa
,
quam
veritatis
,
nifi
vt
acceperam
illum
fecisse
aliquid
quod
à
me
literis
mandatum
sit
à
viris
illius
conatibus
minimè
fauentibus
,
quod
nunc
non
omnino
à
me
approbatur
.
4
In
suis
libris
praedictis
iniquissimè
,
&
(
quod
postea
confessus
est
)
falcissimè
accusauit
,
proditionis
&
laesae
Maiestatis
homines
sanctissimos
,
&
innocentissimos
,
per
quod
ipsius
&
aliorum
suorum
complicum
falcissimum
testimonium
,
plurimi
,
id
est
12
religiosissimi
viri
aut
plures
fuerunt
crudelissima
morte
sublati
.
Eumque
interrogari
cupimus
,
an
aliorum
inductione
vel
sua
sola
malitia
,
eos
falsò
accusauerit
,
&
qui
eum
induxerunt
ad
hoc
.
Ad
quartum
sic
respondeo
.
Me
semper
negasse
aliquod
testimonium
in
ducturum
contra
quemcunque
hominem
qui
ob
religionem
passus
est
:
sed
in
libris
meis
insinuaui
,
quod
multi
in
Collegio
Anglicano
Romae
si●o
,
optauerunt
mortem
Reginae
,
&
multorum
aliorum
vt
scribitur
isto
libro
:
&
in
illo
articulo
addidi
plus
quam
veritas
concessit
.
Et
quantum
ad
nomina
illustrissimorum
virorum
,
vt
nomen
Domini
Leicestriae
,
vt
nomen
Domini
Burleighi
,
Reginae
conquaestoris
,
Domini
Francisci
Walzingham
&c.
quos
viros
neque
accusatos
,
neque
minatos
ab
aliquo
in
isto
Collegio
audiui
,
sed
hoe
ambitionis
&
lucri
causa
finxi
.
5
Accusauit
mendaciter
&
malitiosè
Anglorum
Collegium
(
suae
Maiestatis
fauore
Rhemis
residens
)
quod
Bullam
Pij
V.
contra
Reginam
Angliae
datam
,
Rhemis
publicauerit
,
&
valuis
&
postibus
illius
vrbis
affixerit
,
ex
quo
iniquissimo
mendacio
,
&
calumnia
,
illius
collegij
alumni
,
magnam
posteà
incurrerunt
Reginae
suae
indignationem
.
Ad
quintum
articulum
sic
respondeo
.
Quod
iuniores
studentes
retulerunt
mihi
quod
Bulla
anaihematis
per
Pium
V.
facta
contra
Reginam
nostram
Elizabetham
,
renouata
fuit
per
Gregorium
Papam
XIII
.
&
retulerunt
mihi
quod
illa
Bullae
Pij
V.
publicata
fuit
●hemis
&
valuis
&
postibus
illius
vrbis
affixa
.
Hoc
leui
illorum
relatione
scripsi
:
sed
hac
dere
,
non
melius
sciui
,
quam
infans
vnius
diei
,
quia
Rhemis
tunc
temporis
non
fui
.
6
Nuper
etiam
in
Galliis
existens
scripsit
ante
10.
dies
,
apertas
literas
ad
quendam
grauem
virum
,
in
quibus
famam
&
honorem
Collegij
Anglorum
multiplici
mendacio
,
conuitio
,
calumnia
,
&
detractione
grauissima
,
laesit
:
dicens
praedictum
Collegium
docere
&
committere
omnia
mala
,
&
quod
viderit
oculis
suis
continuo
in
Collegio
fieri
quae
nimis
sunt
dictu
turpia
&
horrenda
,
vt
ita
falcissima
calumnia
&
patres
societatis
Iesu
,
qui
illud
Collegium
Romae
regunt
,
&
ipsorum
discipulos
collegij
alumnos
infamia
notari
.
Quantum
ad
sextum
,
hoc
respondeo
.
Istiusmodi
literas
scripsi
,
sed
superbia
,
&
animus
cupiens
in
Anglia
promoueri
,
ad
scribendum
me
duxit
.
Et
quantum
ad
Collegium
Rhemense
,
hoc
dico
:
quod
plus
ex
malitia
,
quam
ex
veritate
dixi
.
&
sic
alterum
Collegium
quod
est
Romae
falsò
à
me
accusatum
est
.
Et
de
Doctore
Alano
,
in
conscientialoquor
,
nihil
aliud
scio
aut
audiui
quam
innocentiam
,
sua
religione
excepta
.
7
Praeterista
,
periurij
crimen
ipsum
incurrisse
,
probabimus
.
non
solum
ex
eo
,
quod
post
publicam
,
solemnem
&
voluntariam
haereseon
abiurationem
Romae
ante
quadriennium
factam
,
relapsus
sit
in
abiuratas
haereses
:
sed
ex
eo
quod
interposito
tureiurando
promiserit
(
cum
Collegij
Romani
alumnus
esset
)
se
suscepturum
sacros
ordines
,
&
in
Angliam
profecturu
ad
propagandum
fidem
Catholicam
,
quandocunque
à
superioribus
id
esset
sibi
mandatum
.
Quod
promissum
iureiurando
confirmatum
,
iam
ipse
eum
ing
enti
scandalo
irritum
fecit
.
Ad
septimum
articulum
respondeo
.
Illum
articulum
esse
verum
,
&
incurri
periurium
,
quia
Romae
vixi
vt
hypocrita
,
nunquam
existens
in
religione
Cathelicae
Romana
,
praesertim
corde
.
8
Porro
,
obiicimus
illi
,
quod
Pontificem
dolo
male
fraudauerit
,
quando
sub
pretextu
aduersae
valetudinis
,
&
quod
aërem
Romanum
ferre
non
potuerit
,
petiit
à
sua
Sanctitate
veniam
eundi
ad
Collegium
Rhemense
,
vt
ibi
studia
prosequeretur
,
&
sacerdotium
susciperet
,
in
eum
finem
postulans
&
accipiens
à
sua
Sanctitate
50.
aureos
,
cum
ille
accepta
per
fraudem
hac
pecunia
recte
profectus
est
in
Angliam
.
Ad
octauum
articulum
respondeo
,
me
defraudasse
Papam
25.
aureor
um
,
quos
mihi
dedit
in
via
viatici
vt
Rhemos
peruenirem
,
sed
Rhemos
non
veni
,
recta
in
Angliam
profectus
sum
.
Ob
omnes
praedictos
articulos
sic
à
me
Ioanne
Nicolao
concessos
dolor
magnus
me
tenet
,
&
sub
pedibus
cuiusque
quem
sic
malitiosè
&
grauiter
offendi
,
me
ipsum
prosterno
&
subiicio
.
Deus
scit
,
animo
euadendi
fortunatus
promotionibus
,
quam
desiderio
veritatem
loquendi
ductus
.
Deus
sit
mihi
misericors
,
&
propitius
,
&
ignoscat
mihi
pariter
cum
illis
quos
sic
temere
&
impieo
ffendi
.
Peto
vt
omnes
illi
qui
per
me
offensi
sunt
,
pro
amore
Christi
,
tantae
iniuriae
immerito
illis
illatae
,
obliuiscantur
.
partim
hanc
tetigi
culpam
Satanae
suggestu
,
&
partim
quod
multilaudauerunt
ea
quae
sic
impudenter
scripseram
.
Per
me
Ioannem
Nicolaum
Anglum
.
1
WEe
doo
accuse
Iohn
Nicols
,
first
,
for
that
he
made
infamous
libels
,
and
set
them
downe
in
print
,
against
Princes
,
publicks
persones
,
and
Colledges
:
which
infamous
libels
came
to
the
handes
of
many
in
his
most
Christian
Maiesties
Dominions
,
and
haue
blemished
the
good
name
of
many
a
man
.
I
Iohn
Nicols
Protestant
,
the
xx
.
of
February
An.
Domini
1583.
doo
answere
as
followeth
:
That
I
meane
to
do
nothing
for
feare
nor
fauor
as
touching
the
first
article
,
I
confesse
that
it
is
a
truth
that
I
am
accused
of
.
2
In
these
bookes
he
doth
accuse
falsely
and
slanderously
many
Cardinals
by
name
,
of
most
filthie
crimes
,
obiecting
vnto
them
whoredonne
,
and
most
wicked
acts
,
and
that
of
meere
mallice
against
the
sacred
function
.
As
touching
the
second
,
I
confesse
that
I
wrot
so
,
but
vpon
the
report
of
lewde
persons
.
3
In
the
same
writings
,
he
dooth
accuse
sediciously
and
reprochfully
the
Popes
holynes
of
iniustice
,
theste
,
roberye
,
and
al
iniquitie
,
naming
certen
roberies
particularly
,
which
he
hath
fained
him
to
commit
.
To
the
third
article
I
agree
,
that
I
haue
written
so
,
but
of
ambition
and
mallice
:
but
euen
as
I
haue
receiued
(
by
reporte
that
the
Pope
did
somewhat
as
is
written
of
him
by
me
)
of
men
that
sauored
not
his
proceedings
:
which
things
afterward
vpon
better
aduisement
,
I
did
not
,
nor
do
allowe
.
4
In
his
foresaid
bookes
he
hath
accused
most
holy
and
innocent
men
,
most
vniustly
and
(
as
him self
confessed
afterwards
)
most
falsely
,
of
treason
and
conspiracie
against
their
princes
persone
:
so
that
through
his
,
and
his
companions
false
witnes
:
many
,
that
is
to
saie
,
xij
.
most
religious
men
or
more
,
were
put
to
most
cruel
death
.
And
we
desire
you
to
enquire
of
him
,
whether
he
falsly
accused
them
of
his
owne
mallice
,
or
induced
therevnto
by
others
,
and
what
they
were
that
therevnto
induced
him
?
To
the
fourth
thus
I
answere
:
that
I
alwaies
denied
to
bring
forth
any
euidence
against
any
one
persone
that
suffered
in
England
for
religion
:
but
I
insinuated
in
my
booke
that
diuers
in
the
College
at
Rome
,
wished
the
death
of
the
Queene
and
diuers
others
as
is
specified
in
that
booke
.
and
in
that
article
I
added
more
then
truth
is
.
And
as
concerning
the
names
of
honorable
personages
,
as
my
Lord
of
Leycester
,
my
Lord
Burleigh
,
Sir
Frauncys
Walzingham
&c.
which
men
I
neuer
heard
accused
or
threatened
,
by
any
of
the
College
,
but
were
for
ambition
and
preserment
sake
forged
.
5
He
hath
falsly
and
maliciously
accused
the
English
College
(
now
by
his
maiesties
fauor
resident
in
Rhemes
)
that
they
did
publish
in
Rhemes
the
Bull
that
Pius
V.
set
forth
against
the
Queene
of
England
:
and
that
they
did
fasten
it
vpon
the
gates
and
wals
of
that
citie
:
by
occasion
of
which
wicked
lye
&
slaunder
,
the
studentes
of
that
College
,
did
incure
the
highe
indignation
of
their
Queene
.
As
touching
the
fifth
article
,
this
I
saie
:
that
by
light
reporte
of
the
yonger
studentes
,
I
reported
in
my
booke
that
the
Bull
of
Pius
V.
was
renued
by
the
Pope
Gregorie
the
thirteenth
,
&
was
fixed
vpon
the
posts
at
Rhemes
,
which
thing
I
knew
aswel
as
the
infant
of
one
daies
age
.
6
And
now
of
late
being
here
in
Fraunce
,
he
wrote
not
ten
daies
since
,
open
letters
to
a
certain
graue
man
:
in
which
letters
he
did
with
many
a
lie
,
reproche
,
slaunder
,
and
greeuous
detraction
,
empaire
the
good
fame
and
honor
of
the
English
College
:
saying
that
the
foresaid
College
dooth
teach
and
commit
al
euels
,
and
that
he
hath
seene
with
his
eies
that
to
be
donne
continually
in
that
college
,
which
are
horrible
things
,
&
to
filthie
to
be
spoken
,
so
that
by
this
most
false
slaunder
,
he
dooth
defame
,
both
the
fathers
of
the
societie
of
Iesus
,
which
gouuerne
that
College
at
Rome
,
as
also
their
schollers
the
studentes
of
that
colledge
.
As
touching
the
sixth
article
,
this
I
answere
,
that
I
wrote
such
a
letter
,
but
of
pride
,
&
a
minde
to
be
preferred
in
England
.
And
as
touching
the
College
of
Rhemes
,
this
I
saie
,
that
I
spake
more
of
mallice
then
of
truth
:
and
so
in
likewise
the
College
of
Rome
was
falsely
accused
by
me
.
And
as
concerning
M.
Doctor
Allen
,
I
say
in
conscience
,
that
I
know
or
haue
heard
by
the
man
nothing
els
but
innocencie
,
his
religion
excepted
.
7
Besides
these
we
will
proue
him
to
be
a
periured
person
,
not
onely
for
that
he
is
in
relapse
,
&
falne
againe
into
those
heresies
,
which
he
abiured
publickly
,
solemnely
,
&
voluntarily
at
Rome
4.
yeres
since
:
but
for
that
he
promised
vpon
his
othe
(
when
he
was
a
student
in
the
English
College
at
Rome
)
that
he
would
take
holy
orders
,
and
go
into
England
,
and
there
to
teach
the
Catholick
faith
whensoeuer
he
should
be
sent
by
his
superiors
.
which
promis
(
confirmed
with
an
oth
)
he
hath
broken
,
not
without
great
scandall
.
The
seuenth
article
is
true
:
and
I
haue
incurred
periurie
,
for
that
at
Rome
I
liued
as
an
hypocrite
,
being
neuer
in
hart
of
the
Romane
religion
.
8
Moreouer
we
obiect
to
him
,
that
he
abused
the
Pope
with
craft
and
deceipt
,
when
vnder
pretence
of
sicknes
,
and
that
he
could
not
awaie
with
the
aier
of
Rome
,
he
desired
leaue
of
his
holynes
to
come
to
the
College
at
Rhemes
,
there
to
follow
his
studie
,
and
to
be
made
prieste
,
and
to
that
ende
requesting
and
receiuing
of
his
holynes
50.
crownes
of
gold
,
but
assoone
as
he
had
gotten
the
money
thus
fraudently
,
he
went
straight
into
England
.
As
concerning
the
eight
article
it
is
graunted
,
I
defrauded
the
Pope
of
25.
crownes
giuen
vnto
me
in
way
of
Viaticum
to
bing
me
to
Rhemes
.
For
al
these
articles
being
thus
graunted
by
me
Iohn
Nicols
,
I
am
right
sory
,
and
submit
me self
vnder
the
feete
of
any
such
as
I
haue
maliciously
and
greuously
offended
.
God
knoweth
I
spake
these
things
with
a
desire
to
be
promoted
,
rather
then
with
a
minde
to
vtter
the
truth
.
God
be
merciful
vnto
me
and
pardon
me
,
and
al
those
whom
I
haue
thus
offended
wilfully
I
crie
mercie
:
and
beseech
them
for
Christ
his
sake
to
forget
such
iniuries
so
impudently
committed
against
them
,
partly
by
Sathans
prompting
,
partly
by
the
countenance
of
others
in
commending
such
stuf
.
By
me
Iohn
Nicols
Englishman
.
M.
Stubs
gaue
me
the
matter
of
my
booke
in
the
Tower
,
intituled
:
The
recantion
of
Iohn
Nicols
,
&c.
M.
Wilkinson
did
write
in
the
margent
the
notes
:
and
also
added
to
that
which
I
wrote
,
and
corrected
the
faults
by
me
escaped
.
Moreouer
I
told
my
Lord
Treseurer
about
alhallowtide
last
past
Anno
Domini
1582.
these
wordes
that
followe
:
If
it
may
pleas
your
honor
,
I
am
right
sorie
that
I
haue
such
bookes
put
forth
,
that
conteine
more
falsehood
then
truth
.
My
lord
answered
,
that
the
Papist
found
out
that
I
lyed
.
When
I
confessed
to
M.
Kirkby
in
the
tower
that
it
repented
me
in
writing
such
bookes
as
were
contrary
to
the
truth
,
M.
Lucas
Kirkby
reported
these
my
words
to
M.
Reignolds
of
Oxford
,
who
made
reporte
thereof
to
Sir
Frauncys
Walzingham
who
being
certified
of
this
thing
wrote
or
sent
to
M.
Lieutenant
of
the
Tower
of
London
,
that
I
should
be
sent
for
,
and
examined
face
to
face
before
M.
Kirkby
to
know
whether
it
was
so
or
not
as
Sir
Frauncis
was
certified
.
When
I
came
to
the
Tower
,
M.
Kirkby
vsed
these
wordes
to
me
when
he
saw
me
.
Speke
the
truth
(
quoth
he
)
and
shame
the
Diuel
.
So
I
will
(
quoth
I
)
doubte
not
thereof
:
M.
Kirkby
was
examined
apart
,
and
I
answered
truly
,
if
I
had
been
permitted
by
M.
Lieutenant
so
to
do
.
For
when
I
said
so
,
I
told
M.
Kirkby
that
I
wrote
those
bookes
for
ambition
,
say
not
so
(
quoth
M.
Lieutenant
)
write
(
quoth
he
to
his
Secretary
)
after
this
manner
:
That
he
was
sorie
that
he
wrot
his
bookes
so
rudely
as
he
did
.
When
M
Reignolds
in
the
presence
of
Doctor
Humfrey
told
me
that
he
would
proue
to
my
face
before
M.
Doctor
Humfrey
(
M.
Kirkby
being
called
before
them
)
that
I
had
vttered
such
words
,
as
that
I
was
sorie
that
my
bookes
were
published
conteinning
more
vntruth
then
veritie
,
and
that
I
said
I
would
forge
no
more
against
the
Papists
neither
in
print
nor
pulpit
.
Which
thing
when
M.
Lieutenant
heard
,
he
had
him
hold
his
peace
.
and
talke
no
more
thereof
.
By
me
Iohn
Nicols
.
THE
SATISFACTION
.
OF
LAVRENCE
CADDEY
,
TOVCHING
his
frailties
,
and
fall
from
the
Catholike
Church
,
at
his
retorne
into
England
.
IF
there
be
any
Catholicks
in
England
or
out
of
England
,
that
heard
of
my
speach
or
recantation
at
Paules
crosse
,
which
was
in
the
yere
of
our
Lord
1581.
These
are
to
certifie
them
that
it
was
directly
against
my
conscience
,
and
that
I
was
neuer
of
that
Religion
that
then
I
pretended
,
as
God
shal
saue
me
at
the
general
day
of
Iudgement
.
For
I
will
shew
plainely
and
manifestly
that
of
my
inward
defection
from
our
Mother
the
Catholick
Church
there
were
neuer
any
effectual
causes
,
whereby
it
may
most
cleerely
appeere
that
inwardly
I
was
neuer
since
my
first
reconciliation
to
the
Catholick
Church
an
heretick
.
For
either
I
inwardly
separated
my self
from
the
Catholick
Church
,
because
I
thought
some
points
of
the
Churches
doctrine
to
be
false
,
or
for
the
euel
life
of
the
Catholicks
.
For
the
first
,
although
I
neuer
studied
diuinitie
,
but
as
much
as
some
Cathecumini
do
,
and
the
yonger
schollers
that
are
yet
in
the
course
of
Philosophie
,
or
other
prophane
sciences
,
yet
I
am
not
(
I
thanke
God
)
so
dull
of
wit
,
but
I
can
Iudge
somewhat
of
Religion
and
of
the
difference
betwene
the
Catholicks
and
the
Protestants
,
by
the
sermons
of
learned
men
which
I
haue
here
to fore
frequented
,
by
the
conuersation
I
had
with
learned
Fathers
,
which
daily
did
expound
the
harder
points
of
Religion
,
and
often
did
dissolue
diuers
folish
and
childish
Sophismes
of
hereticks
.
Whereby
I
know
,
and
truly
euer
since
my
first
conuersion
did
know
,
that
euery
point
of
the
Catholick
religion
is
conformable
to
the
word
of
God
,
although
the
hereticks
do
falsely
say
that
they
are
grounded
vpon
the
bare
traditions
of
men
:
and
to
me
it
is
euident
that
there
is
no
article
of
the
Catholick
faith
now
called
in
doubt
,
which
may
not
be
proued
by
diuers
places
of
the
scriptures
,
or
by
most
cleere
sequell
inuincebly
deduced
and
gathered
of
the
same
.
And
where
the
aduersaries
say
,
that
either
the
Catholicks
do
recite
places
out
of
the
scriptures
,
which
are
not
authentical
,
or
els
if
they
do
allege
places
out
of
the
true
scriptures
that
they
expound
them
falsely
according
to
their
owne
fancies
,
I
was
neuer
since
my
first
reconcilement
so
simple
or
necligent
of
my
saluation
,
as
not
to
see
,
that
to
be
an
vsual
stale
euasion
of
al
old
hereticks
.
For
this
I
know
,
that
Luther
that
prowde
Lucifers
Primogenitus
,
or
what
other
singular
sectarie
soeuer
,
being
but
one
man
,
although
he
had
ben
most
holy
in
the
sight
of
men
,
as
in
deede
he
was
most
vnholy
and
wicked
both
before
God
and
man
,
ought
not
to
iudge
scriptures
to
be
authentical
or
not
authentical
by
his
owne
priuate
,
vnconstant
and
variable
spirit
,
and
refuse
the
Iudgement
of
the
Church
and
General
Councel
which
determineth
such
things
by
the
spirit
of
truth
,
promised
by
Christs
expresse
word
,
and
so
cleerely
testified
in
scriptures
,
to
abide
with
the
same
to
th'
end
of
the
world
.
And
in
truth
,
it
was
a
note
sure
enough
for
me
to
confirme
my self
in
my
forefathers
faith
and
to
condemne
in
my
conscience
the
contrary
sect
of
the
Protestants
,
that
I
heard
by
men
of
full
credit
(
howsoeuer
th'
English
sectaries
writh
and
wrangled
in
the
matter
of
late
to
saue
their
honesties
)
that
one
heretick
,
as
Luther
,
by
his
spirit
denieth
some
bookes
that
our
Caluinists
accept
to
be
Gods
word
by
the
iudgement
of
their
spirit
.
and
I
saw
it
plainely
by
mine
owne
late
experience
of
them
,
that
they
receiue
and
condemne
,
admit
or
repell
,
euen
as
they
thinke
good
for
the
vantage
of
the
cause
,
and
as
may
best
serue
for
the
defence
of
their
deuellish
doctrine
.
Wherein
truly
(
I
say
for
the
reuerend
respect
and
honotable
dealing
with
the
diuine
booke
of
Gods
word
)
not
withstanding
the
aduersaries
pretending
al
reuerence
towards
the
scriptures
,
and
tedious
vaunting
,
talking
,
and
tossing
of
them
,
the
Catholicks
yet
do
so
farre
passe
them
in
Religious
keeping
,
preseruing
,
interpreting
,
translating
,
alleaging
,
&
al
other
vse
of
holy
writ
,
as
the
true
owner
and
occuper
of
any
thing
,
passeth
the
theefe
and
vsurper
.
I
beleeue
it
,
and
haue
had
experience
of
it
in
both
sides
,
and
therefore
I
speake
it
.
For
the
second
,
that
is
,
th'
exposition
of
scriptures
,
I
knew
it
was
the
property
of
al
hereticks
to
abuse
,
wrest
and
wring
them
,
to
whatsoeuer
them selues
list
,
and
particularly
to
the
priuate
sence
of
euery
secte
maister
,
ech
one
for
his
owne
erronious
doctrine
and
the
condemnation
of
his
fellowes
.
I
haue
heard
with
mine
owne
eares
,
and
seene
with
mine
owne
eyes
:
that
the
scriptures
sound
al
for
Luther
and
against
the
Sacramentaries
in
Germany
:
and
in
England
and
some
other
places
,
al
the
Bible
is
at
Caluins
and
Bezas
beck
,
and
soundeth
whatsoeuer
they
say
,
against
not
onely
the
Catholicks
or
Lutheranes
,
but
against
their
owne
booke
of
common
praier
,
actes
and
iniunctions
published
by
authoritie
:
the
Puritanes
there
hauing
reconced
aboue
an
hundreth
and
sortie
errors
in
th'
English
seruice
against
the
scriptures
,
&
which
I
noted
in
the
time
of
my
being
in
England
especially
in
London
and
Cambridge
,
aswel
the
writers
,
Preachers
,
Readers
and
Disputers
,
as
most
other
schollers
and
prentises
be
puritanes
,
condemning
by
Gods
word
that
same
seruice
&
administration
which
them selues
daily
resort
vnto
.
For
which
who
soeuer
shall
reade
the
writings
of
M.
Whittakers
,
or
the
disputes
of
Fulke
,
Charke
,
Walker
,
and
such
other
Ministers
lately
had
in
the
Tower
,
they
shal
find
my
words
and
obseruation
true
,
and
shall
see
many
points
of
puritanisme
decided
by
them
by
coulor
of
scriptures
,
against
their
owne
authorized
seruice
,
&
all
those
things
set
out
by
authoritie
.
I
neede
not
stand
to
tell
you
now
the
Lutheranes
expound
this
notorious
text
,
Hoc
est
corpus
meum
,
so
farre
otherwise
then
the
Zuinglians
and
Caluinists
,
that
they
haue
prooued
these
,
by
Gods
expresse
word
hereticks
:
and
these
,
them
for
the
reciproke
,
plaine
carnal
men
and
Idolaters
:
both
th'
one
and
th'
other
writhing
the
sacred
words
to
their
owne
erronious
and
damnable
sect
against
the
proper
nature
and
plaine
sense
,
which
the
letter
,
the
circumstance
,
the
conference
of
places
,
the
auncient
fathers
,
Councels
,
and
the
whole
Church
expresly
setteth
downe
.
With
this
I
haue
marked
that
the
Sectaries
of
our
countrey
and
al
other
places
,
being
singular
,
vaine-glorious
,
louers
of
them selues
,
and
cherisers
of
their
owne
fantasies
,
seeke
for
nothing
but
nouelties
,
and
in
th'
exposition
of
scriptures
to
finde
out
that
which
neuer
neither
foole
nor
wiseman
found
out
before
them
,
and
al
this
with
a
ridiculous
boast
of
euery
mans
seuerall
spirit
,
gifte
and
knowledge
,
which
to
me
and
others
that
see
their
liues
and
learning
,
and
partly
know
their
intention
,
is
a
straunge
case
.
How
soeuer
it
be
,
their
exposition
so
new
,
so
improbable
,
so
inconstant
,
so
various
,
so
farre
differing
from
the
commentaries
of
al
the
fathers
,
passing
al
these
men
in
al
grace
and
knowlege
,
from
the
general
Councels
,
that
not
by
particular
fansie
of
a
few
,
but
by
vniforme
consent
of
the
most
learned
in
the
world
,
haue
by
Gods
word
(
truly
through
th'
assistance
of
the
holy
Ghost
vnderstood
)
defined
these
things
to
our
hands
:
this
consideration
I
say
of
their
vngodly
behauiour
towards
the
holy
scriptures
,
the
glorious
Doctors
,
&
the
vniuersall
Church
of
al
ages
and
nations
,
of
which
by
my
late
being
among
them
,
I
haue
enformed
my self
better
then
euer
I
could
haue
donne
by
reading
of
bokes
or
here
say
,
hath
fortified
my
faith
against
them
,
I
trust
in
God
,
during
life
.
But
because
I
professe
not
in
this
breif
satisfaction
to
dispute
of
the
matter
,
or
arrogate
to
my self
any
profound
knowlege
in
these
things
,
I
for
this
point
say
no
more
but
this
,
that
if
I
had
ben
partly
bent
to
heresie
when
I
went
into
England
,
as
I
was
not
(
I
speake
it
as
before
God
)
the
more
I
had
ben
conuersant
with
the
Protestants
,
yea
with
the
learnedsts
amongst
them
,
the
soner
should
I
haue
ben
reclaimed
from
that
heresie
.
For
in
other
things
though
I
may
bouldly
saie
they
haue
the
gifts
of
the
mind
as
plentifully
as
any
nation
,
yet
in
diuinitie
&
specially
in
these
controuersies
,
they
are
so
bewitched
,
that
through
the
common
malady
of
heresie
,
which
by
Gods
iust
iudgement
of
sinne
and
forsaking
th'
obedience
of
his
Church
,
is
euer
ioyned
with
pitifull
darkenes
of
vnderstanding
,
especially
in
such
as
brag
most
of
the
light
,
that
when
they
bring
but
Sophismes
to
proue
their
religion
,
they
both
thinke
and
bouldly
aduouch
,
that
they
are
demonstrations
.
But
here
they
wil
exclaime
after
their
manner
and
say
they
bring
places
of
scripture
,
&
wil
charge
me
that
I
cal
the
scriptures
Sophismes
.
No
God
forbid
,
for
that
were
blasphemie
,
but
I
call
the
false
and
childish
exposition
,
or
the
place
(
either
by
false
translation
or
exposition
wrested
)
a
Sophisme
,
the
which
may
sone
be
espied
of
him
that
hath
any
iudgement
or
common
sense
,
especially
if
God
hath
lightened
his
vnderstanding
by
the
doctrine
of
the
Catholick
Church
.
Besides
,
if
I
had
fauored
heresies
,
this
would
haue
reuoked
me
,
to
see
some
of
those
that
on
this
side
the
scas
were
both
counted
&
know
to
be
void
of
all
good
gifts
and
qualities
of
the
minde
,
not
capable
of
any
science
,
yet
at
their
retorne
home
,
to
be
admitted
to
be
publick
preachers
,
and
their
words
,
being
nothing
but
knowne
forgeries
&
blasphemous
lyes
,
to
be
compted
●s
Oracles
and
conclusions
deduced
out
of
th'
expresse
word
of
the
Lord
,
as
they
speke
in
our
countrey
.
One
saith
very
wisely
of
Aristotle
,
that
he
vsed
hard
and
difficult
termes
in
Philosophie
to
driue
awaie
from
the
reading
of
his
bookes
those
that
were
simple
and
vnlearned
,
lest
saith
he
,
Omnia
harpiarum
more
immundo
contactu
conspurcarent
:
that
is
to
say
:
lest
they
should
diminish
and
abase
the
reuerend
maiestie
of
philosophie
by
their
foolish
and
doting
expositions
.
How
soeuer
it
is
in
that
facultie
of
Philosophie
,
sure
it
is
,
that
the
written
word
of
God
is
full
of
profound
mysteries
,
&
yet
is
confidently
,
bouldly
and
malepertly
expounded
now
in
England
,
as
wel
priuatly
at
euery
table
and
tauerne
,
as
in
the
pulpits
and
common
assemblies
of
simple
and
vnlearned
artificers
,
so
that
the
lay
people
,
prentises
especially
and
yong
schollers
,
assone
as
they
can
bid
Caesar
good
morrow
in
Greeke
,
or
reade
th'
English
Testament
,
yea
the
women
dare
presume
to
dispute
with
the
Clergie
of
the
cheefest
points
of
Religion
,
and
bouldly
condemne
the
cheefest
clercks
in
the
world
.
Is
not
this
I
pray
you
a
great
abasing
of
th'
excellencie
of
the
word
of
God
?
surely
if
I
had
fauored
heresies
:
this
would
haue
ben
a
sufficient
motiue
to
haue
reuoked
me
.
I
could
bring
many
moe
strong
reasons
to
this
purpose
,
but
because
I
am
a
yong
nouice
in
learning
,
and
because
I
thinke
this
which
I
haue
brought
will
suffice
to
proue
that
there
was
no
cause
of
my
inward
defection
in
respect
of
my
particular
knowledge
,
I
wil
here
end
this
first
point
.
For
the
second
,
that
I
had
no
cause
to
seperate
my self
from
the
Catholick
church
for
the
euel
life
of
the
Catholicks
,
and
to
come
to
be
a
Protestant
for
their
holynes
,
I
wil
shew
it
manifestly
,
and
yet
no
great
profe
wil
be
loked
for
at
my
hands
therein
.
First
,
suppose
the
Catholicks
liued
very
euel
,
&
as
ill
as
their
aduersaries
(
purposely
to
deceiue
the
people
)
faine
them
to
do
,
if
I
thinke
the
Religion
to
be
good
,
their
euel
life
should
neuer
cause
me
to
for
sake
it
,
if
a
man
should
measure
truth
&
faith
by
the
elle
of
vertu
and
innocencie
in
the
professors
&
followers
of
any
sort
,
in
mans
frailtie
&
miserie
of
this
life
,
God
should
haue
no
people
nor
part
in
this
world
al
being
subiect
to
sin
and
danger
in
this
mortal
state
.
But
surely
if
wee
should
docide
the
matter
by
the
difference
of
life
,
behauiour
,
and
conuersation
of
both
sides
,
I
were
worse
then
an
asse
to
determine
for
the
Protestants
against
the
Catholicks
,
amongest
whom
the
first
Professors
were
Saincts
,
and
the
cheef
leaders
and
teachers
afterward
most
holy
,
and
al
these
followers
though
fraile
and
sinfull
men
,
yet
finding
remedy
by
the
medicinable
Sacraments
,
penaunce
and
discipline
of
the
Church
,
for
their
daily
offences
.
Where
contrary
wise
the
very
first
authors
of
this
Protestancy
,
Luther
,
Caluin
,
Beza
and
the
like
,
or
as
them selues
call
them
,
the
restorers
&
reformers
of
Religion
,
were
not
onely
vulgarly
nought
,
but
of
notorious
infamous
wicked
life
:
as
their
Ministers
be
in
al
countreies
,
and
their
zelous
followers
not
good
in
any
place
,
specially
in
England
,
where
they
haue
notoriously
betraied
their
false
faith
,
by
their
foule
fruicts
.
Yea
and
where
it
is
knowne
that
their
doctrine
it self
,
hath
só
altered
to
the
worse
al
kinde
of
States
:
and
that
their
pulpits
are
nothing
els
but
a
schoole
of
sinne
,
licentiousnes
,
lust
and
liberty
,
that
al
wisemen
wonder
at
it
,
and
good
men
lament
the
case
.
Who
knoweth
not
that
vertue
,
deuotion
,
&
godly
life
it self
is
bourthenous
and
hateful
to
the
Protestants
,
so
far
surely
that
they
seeke
as
I
haue
seene
not
onely
to
abolish
,
deface
;
and
destroy
,
the
bookes
now
or
of
ould
written
for
defence
and
proofe
of
the
Catholick
faith
,
which
they
may
do
vpon
some
pretence
of
errors
conteined
in
the
same
,
but
they
burne
vp
al
godly
treatises
and
bookes
of
contemplation
,
meditation
,
and
instruction
of
Christian
life
and
manners
,
conteining
no
dispute
of
religion
at
al
,
as
long
sith
they
vsed
a
deuout
treatise
,
of
the
life
and
Immitation
of
Christ
:
and
now
of
late
they
openly
burned
a
number
of
the
bookes
of
prayer
and
meditation
of
prayer
made
by
Lewes
of
Granado
together
with
the
new
Testament
.
Assure
your selues
that
they
cannot
abide
such
bookes
of
al
others
,
knowing
that
deuout
praier
onely
,
penaunce
and
amendement
of
life
,
will
easily
bring
men
from
their
pretended
Religion
,
in
which
no
such
deuotions
are
found
.
Neither
,
if
you
marke
well
,
shall
you
euer
finde
that
the
learned
of
the
Protestants
writ
or
treat
of
any
such
argument
,
al
their
doings
are
in
pugnis
verborum
,
in
strife
,
emulation
,
contention
,
contradiction
,
destruction
.
They
stand
vpon
quick
dispatch
,
and
attribute
al
to
Christ
his
passion
,
without
ether
much
meditation
of
it
,
or
conforming
them selues
vnto
it
.
Finally
they
haue
turned
the
grace
of
Christ
into
carnal
lust
and
licence
.
To
see
these
things
which
in
England
are
so
open
and
euident
,
not
so
much
profound
learning
is
requisite
,
as
due
consideration
,
and
some
experience
of
other
places
,
which
if
our
Gentlemen
,
students
and
others
,
ether
of
the
ynnes
of
Court
or
vniuersities
,
or
of
what
other
place
or
calling
soeuer
might
haue
:
as
diuers
by
trauelling
ouer
the
seas
to
ether
of
the
Seminaries
or
other
Catholick
schooles
haue
happely
proued
,
they
should
see
what
difference
of
life
,
manners
,
education
,
and
behauiour
there
is
betwixt
the
one
and
th'
other
.
This
one
thing
I
dare
be
bould
to
say
,
for
the
Seminary
of
Rome
,
where
I
most
liued
in
mine
absence
from
my
countrey
which
therefore
I
knew
best
,
and
which
the
wicked
calumniators
haue
most
sought
to
slaunder
,
the
youthes
and
students
al
,
there
,
be
as
vertuous
as
any
be
in
Christendome
.
And
let
both
Oxford
and
Cambrige
,
giue
me
one
such
for
hollynes
of
life
and
conuersation
(
so
long
as
they
be
there
vnder
the
Protestants
regiment
)
as
there
be
a
number
in
the
said
Seminary
,
and
I
promis
you
I
will
say
in
S.
Peters
in
Rome
,
al
that
I
said
at
Paules
crosse
in
London
.
Not
withstanding
(
as
I
said
)
al
euel
life
maketh
not
nor
proueth
one
to
be
an
heretick
,
for
I
am
an
offendor
as
other
men
,
and
perhaps
the
cheef
of
many
sinners
,
but
I
haue
found
remedy
,
mercie
&
saluation
,
in
the
Church
,
in
which
onely
the
holie
Passion
of
Christ
the
cause
of
al
remission
,
is
profitable
,
and
out
of
the
same
,
nothing
but
damnation
though
mans
life
seeme
neuer
so
iuste
and
holy
.
For
this
his
blessed
passions
sake
I
trust
he
will
nether
now
remember
the
sinnes
of
my
youth
nor
this
my
exterior
reuolt
from
his
holy
Church
,
which
I
professe
as
before
to
haue
ben
of
frailtie
against
mine
owne
conscience
and
knowlege
.
God
that
knoweth
al
things
,
knoweth
that
I
did
it
not
for
any
liking
I
had
of
the
Protestants
either
life
or
religion
,
knowing
both
to
be
starke
nought
,
onely
the
Diuel
by
false
and
subtil
persuasions
was
the
cause
of
my
outward
defection
.
First
I
had
a
seruent
desire
to
see
my
parents
and
freends
,
and
because
I
was
afraid
,
they
neither
durst
nor
would
receiue
me
for
seare
of
the
statuts
.
I
thought
it
good
to
play
the
hypocrite
(
if
that
may
be
called
hypocrisie
,
to
put
on
the
habit
and
resemblance
of
wickednes
)
with
the
Bishop
of
London
,
that
is
,
to
faine
my self
to
be
an
heretick
,
that
thereby
I
might
procure
his
licence
,
and
so
goe
to
my
freends
both
without
their
danger
&
mine
owne
.
The
Bishop
being
a
wily
Fox
straight
waies
commaunded
me
to
signifie
so
much
in
publick
audience
,
and
then
he
would
graunt
me
my
request
,
then
beganne
the
tragedie
of
my
wo
&
miserie
.
I
began
to
excuse
my self
of
fearefulnes
,
&
to
wepe
before
him
that
taught
the
Bishops
sonnes
,
and
befote
Iohn
Dias
the
Bishops
chaplen
.
Then
I
thought
with
my self
,
that
if
I
should
withstand
the
Bishop
,
a
thowsand
worldly
inconueniences
should
haue
ensued
thereof
,
because
I
had
said
before
,
I
was
as
he
was
in
religion
,
these
and
other
such
like
causes
of
my
miserable
outward
defection
did
the
Diuel
put
into
my
hed
:
who
although
he
had
thought
to
haue
throwne
me
downe
for
euer
at
that
time
,
yet
I
hope
to
giue
him
and
al
his
the
ouerthrow
,
and
neuer
here
after
while
I
liue
to
yeld
to
such
like
temptations
,
for
the
performaunce
whereof
,
I
beseech
the
blessed
virgin
Marie
,
and
al
the
holy
company
of
heauen
,
and
al
good
Catholicks
to
pray
for
me
.
I
could
name
some
witnesses
of
the
great
passions
and
in
ward
strife
I
had
with
my self
vpon
the
first
consideration
of
my
pretended
reuoult
,
but
that
I
dare
not
name
them
for
putting
the
godly
men
in
danger
:
this
onely
I
wil
ade
therein
,
that
al
the
world
may
see
I
neuer
was
theirs
in
hart
sith
my
first
reconcilement
to
the
Catholick
Church
.
First
when
I
was
in
prison
in
the
Gatehorrse
,
I
went
euery
daie
to
the
dore
of
a
Catholick
which
lay
in
the
next
rome
to
the
chamber
I
lay
in
,
&
weeping
bitterly
,
shewed
him
that
I
should
do
against
my
conscience
,
from
which
he
merueilous
charitably
and
comfortably
dehorted
me
,
with
great
reasons
and
incouragement
to
be
constant
in
confession
of
my
faith
:
but
the
Diuel
,
his
Ministers
,
and
mine
infirmitie
preuailed
,
and
I
did
that
which
was
required
at
my
hands
.
After
I
had
done
that
which
euer
since
hath
ben
a
naile
in
my
conscience
,
in
diuers
places
I
was
conuersant
with
the
Catholicks
,
and
neuer
vttered
or
hurt
any
,
nor
would
haue
done
for
al
the
good
in
the
world
,
the
persons
and
places
I
could
name
but
for
their
endangering
.
When
I
was
at
Cambrige
,
I
counselled
diuers
to
go
ouer
sea
,
and
persuaded
them
so
,
that
I
had
brought
them
ouer
with
me
in
deede
,
if
it
had
not
ben
for
feare
of
their
Tutors-Many
youthes
there
be
(
God
be
thanked
for
it
)
wel
bent
to
vertu
and
the
Catholick
Religion
,
I
beseech
God
bring
them
thence
.
Besides
,
when
my
chamber
fellowes
especially
,
one
Sir
Hutton
,
Doctor
Hutton
his
nephew
,
would
speke
against
F.
Campion
,
I
haue
defended
him
so
farre
,
that
he
called
me
often
Papist
,
and
defendor
of
Traitors
,
and
threatened
he
would
complaine
of
me
to
the
Maister
and
the
Seniors
.
I
haue
spoken
the
same
,
and
how
he
was
falsely
accused
,
&c.
in
mine
owne
countrey
to
one
,
being
both
well
learned
and
very
catholickly
bent
as
wee
walked
by
the
Seas
side
.
But
some
wil
obiect
I
kept
company
with
Io●●
Nichols
,
a
feruent
heretick
:
to
which
Obiection
I
answere
,
confessing
that
I
kept
him
company
to
much
,
for
if
I
had
followed
him
in
al
points
,
he
would
haue
brought
both
him self
and
me
to
euerlasting
destruction
:
for
I
am
sure
,
that
neuer
woman
brought
out
such
a
horrible
and
ougley
monster
in
manners
as
he
is
.
But
if
ye
consider
th'
end
wherefore
I
was
conuersant
with
him
,
I
hope
ye
will
not
thinke
me
to
be
much
blame
worthie
.
First
I
went
about
to
know
his
lying
spirite
and
his
detestable
manners
,
which
I
am
sure
I
know
(
although
to
mine
owne
discredit
)
as
well
as
any
:
but
especially
I
went
about
to
get
him
out
of
England
,
from
being
the
cause
of
shedding
of
Innocent
blood
,
the
which
I
thanke
God
I
haue
obteined
,
&
haue
procured
his
apprehension
,
not
for
hatred
or
hurt
of
his
person
,
as
God
dooth
know
,
but
for
desire
of
sauing
his
soule
,
and
detections
of
his
foule
slaunders
against
the
Church
of
God
and
her
children
.
I
was
neuer
(
I
thanke
God
,
most
humbly
)
of
his
malitious
humor
,
if
I
had
ben
,
I
might
haue
vomited
my
poison
against
the
Catholicks
,
I
might
haue
gone
to
the
priuie
counsel
,
&
haue
enstauled
my self
as
many
do
,
I
might
haue
receiued
good
conditions
of
liuing
being
offred
,
I
might
haue
staide
at
Cambrige
at
the
cost
of
my
parents
which
are
able
to
keepe
me
in
the
schooles
of
learning
:
many
commodious
waies
for
worldly
preferment
I
might
haue
followed
,
if
I
had
inwardly
liked
of
that
foule
heresie
,
nether
had
I
any
neede
to
go
into
a
strange
countrey
,
where
I
knew
,
I
should
liue
poorely
.
To
be
short
,
whiles
I
was
in
England
this
last
time
,
I
was
neuer
quiet
in
conscience
,
because
whatsoeuer
I
did
,
I
did
it
against
the
same
.
Other
reasons
I
could
yeld
,
but
because
I
wil
be
short
,
these
shal
suffice
:
one
thing
doth
comfort
me
no
litle
,
that
many
haue
falne
as
grosely
as
I
haue
donne
,
and
afterwards
haue
become
most
firme
and
constant
.
It
remaineth
onely
,
that
for
this
publick
sinne
and
scandal
,
and
al
other
offences
,
I
craue
pardon
of
God
,
of
the
holy
Church
,
of
Christ
his
Vicar
here
vpon
earth
Gregory
the
XIII
.
of
that
name
,
head
of
the
said
holy
Church
,
and
al
other
that
I
gaue
scandall
to
thereby
.
And
I
request
al
good
Catholicks
to
take
me
as
their
brother
in
Christ
Iesu
.
And
I
beseech
al
good
Christians
for
Iesus
Christ
his
sake
to
pray
for
me
,
that
I
neuer
become
an
heretick
,
but
that
I
may
liue
and
die
in
the
Catholick
and
Apostolick
Church
,
which
is
the
Church
of
Rome
,
and
that
after
this
life
I
may
enioy
the
kingdom
of
heauen
:
to
the
which
God
bring
vs
for
Iesus
Christ
his
sake
,
to
whom
with
the
Father
&
the
holy
Ghost
,
be
al
honor
,
power
,
and
glory
,
both
now
and
for
euer
world
without
end
.
Laus
Deo
ac
deiparae
virgini
Mariae
.
By
me
Laurence
Caddey
.
THE
COPIE
OF
A
LETTER
written
by
the
said
Laurence
Caddey
,
to
his
Patron
and
frend
.
I
Thinke
my self
happy
most
worthy
Patron
that
your
Fatherly
affection
towards
me
is
not
decreased
,
but
wonderfully
and
more
then
I
could
looke
for
,
augmented
.
I
now
see
that
first
of
al
you
haue
a
great
loue
to
my
soule
,
secondarily
to
your
Countrey
and
to
me
your
poore
countrey-man
,
a
great
thing
it
is
to
bestowe
vpon
me
my
habit
,
but
what
greater
then
to
giue
your
word
,
and
besides
a
testimoniall
most
necessarie
in
these
perillous
times
,
but
you
can
do
no
other
seing
that
the
quallities
of
the
trew
Church
be
in
you
eminentissimo
quodam
modo
,
the
which
most
aboundantly
dooth
bestow
not
onely
interna
Charismata
,
vpon
those
that
penitently
doo
runne
vnto
her
for
soccour
:
but
also
al
exteriour
graces
necessary
for
them
,
you
therfore
be
no
stepfather
nor
shee
no
stepmother
,
but
most
louing
and
charitable
nourishers
both
of
the
inward
and
outward
man
,
of
your
penitent
and
contrite
children
.
As
for
the
declaration
of
my
faith
it
was
abruptly
in
three
howers
donne
by
me
,
beside
none
at
Paris
either
helped
me
or
saw
it
as
yet
,
therefore
it
must
needes
be
childishe
.
I
pray
you
let
it
come
to
light
both
for
the
honor
of
the
Church
and
my
credit
also
,
and
for
the
discharging
of
my
conscience
,
besides
I
made
a
solemne
oth
,
that
there
is
nothing
but
that
it
is
true
,
euery
good
Christian
will
thinke
so
,
and
I
would
you
could
learne
his
name
that
was
in
prison
neere
me
in
the
Gatehowse
,
&
aske
him
,
&c.
as
for
the
resolution
of
entring
into
religion
,
I
haue
chosen
,
meaning
thereby
to
worke
(
by
Gods
grace
)
my
saluation
:
I
do
it
not
for
neede
,
for
first
I
might
&
may
be
(
but
I
will
not
)
a
Carthusian
,
although
I
neuer
offred
my self
.
besides
going
with
a
good
Religious
Father
to
Says
in
Normandie
,
there
in
an
Abbey
of
Sainct
Martin
,
I
was
requested
of
most
of
the
Brethren
(
as
this
Father
can
testifie
)
to
enter
into
their
order
,
but
I
neither
offred
my self
there
or
to
any
other
order
but
this
:
Nor
minde
to
be
of
any
but
this
of
the
Carmes
,
which
I
trust
I
haue
made
choise
of
by
Gods
suggestion
,
not
condemning
any
other
order
,
al
doublesse
being
of
God
,
neither
yet
enter
I
into
religion
for
neede
or
for
desperation
,
for
I
know
that
if
the
number
of
my
sinnes
were
more
then
the
litle
sandes
of
the
sea
,
if
I
vnfainedly
repent
,
by
Contrition
,
Confession
,
and
Satisfaction
as
much
as
I
can
,
that
God
will
be
mercifull
vnto
me
:
to
be
short
,
I
will
neither
in
any
calling
dispaire
or
presume
.
for
if
in
any
thing
,
in
this
it
is
truely
said
,
In
medio
consistit
virtus
.
Briefly
I
will
either
attempt
it
with
zeale
,
deuotion
,
and
full
desire
of
working
my
saluation
and
the
seruice
of
God
,
or
els
Manum
de
tabula
,
that
is
,
I
will
leaue
of
betime
,
and
not
take
the
habit
and
afterwards
,
Valedicere
habitui
&
conuentui
.
As
for
the
rest
in
your
letter
,
if
I
study
not
to
put
them
in
execution
to
th'
vttermost
of
my
power
,
surely
my
hart
is
more
hardened
then
euer
Pharoes
hart
was
,
seing
that
one
not
much
inferiour
to
Moyses
,
doth
both
by
word
of
mouth
and
by
writing
speake
vnto
me
so
louingly
&
effectually
.
Thus
leuing
of
to
trouble
you
,
I
request
al
your
prayers
for
me
,
and
as
my
bound
dutye
is
,
I
will
whiles
I
liue
be
your
beades
man
.
At
Paris
.
Your
daily
Oratour
,
Laurence
Caddey
.
THE
CONFESSION
OF
RICHARD
BAINES
PRIEST
AND
LATE
STVdent
of
the
Colledge
of
Rhemes
,
made
after
he
was
remoued
out
of
the
common
gaile
to
his
chamber
.
AS
my
miserie
&
wickednes
was
greate
which
I
will
now
set
downe
to
the
publishing
of
my
ingratitude
to
God
,
the
Church
,
and
my
superiors
,
so
was
Gods
iustice
,
mercy
and
prouidence
meruelous
towards
me
to
saluation
as
I
verely
hope
.
Of
al
which
to
the
glory
of
Christ
,
and
satisfaction
of
the
holy
Church
and
all
her
children
whom
I
haue
offended
or
scandalized
,
&
to
mine
owne
worthy
confusion
temporall
,
I
intend
to
make
this
my
publike
confession
,
that
al
that
stand
,
may
by
my
example
beware
of
a
fall
,
and
such
as
be
fallen
may
thereby
make
hast
to
aryse
againe
.
The
very
ground
of
my
fall
and
of
al
the
wickednes
ether
committed
or
intended
,
was
my
pride
which
droue
me
to
a
lothsomenes
to
liue
in
order
and
obedience
,
to
conceipts
of
mine
owne
worthines
and
manifold
discontentement
of
the
schollarlike
condition
wherein
I
liued
,
to
an
immoderat
desire
of
more
ease
,
welth
,
and
(
which
I
specially
also
respected
)
of
more
delicacie
of
diet
and
carnal
delits
then
this
place
of
banishment
was
like
to
yeld
vnto
me
,
though
(
wo
vnto
me
that
could
not
see
so
fare
before
)
the
students
state
in
the
Seminarie
,
where
I
was
in
very
honest
compt
and
calling
is
in
all
points
so
good
and
happy
,
that
most
wise
men
wonder
at
Gods
so
mercifull
and
plentifull
prouision
for
the
competent
maintenance
of
so
many
in
such
a
blessed
trade
of
life
and
education
.
Besides
this
,
though
I
was
not
onely
a
student
in
diuinitie
,
but
also
a
priest
(
though
many
waies
I
shewed
and
made
my self
most
vnworthie
of
that
high
degree
)
pretending
in
dede
in
the
sight
of
my
superiors
the
study
of
holy
scriptures
as
dewly
required
:
yet
in
truth
I
most
delited
in
prophane
writers
and
the
worst
sort
of
them
,
such
as
ether
wrot
against
the
truth
or
had
least
tast
of
religion
,
whereby
the
holy
writers
of
my
Christian
profession
&
priesthood
,
began
daily
to
waxe
more
and
more
tedious
and
lothsome
vnto
me
,
in
so
much
that
in
the
doing
of
such
publike
exercises
as
by
my
course
of
study
or
my
superiors
appointment
I
often
made
,
I
had
a
delit
rather
to
fil
my
mouth
and
the
auditors
eares
with
daintie
,
delicat
,
nice
and
radiculous
termes
and
phrases
,
then
with
wholsome
sound
and
sacred
doctrine
.
Whereby
at
leinght
I
had
such
a
liking
of
my self
,
that
through
nouelties
of
wordes
ioyned
with
pretty
prouerbs
,
termes
and
mocking
taunts
,
wherevnto
by
natural
inclination
and
by
my
said
prophane
vsage
I
was
much
giuen
,
I
found
meanes
to
insinuat
my self
to
the
familiaritie
of
some
of
the
yonger
sort
that
me
thought
might
easely
be
caried
into
discontentment
&
to
mislike
of
rule
and
discipline
and
of
subiection
to
their
maisters
and
gouernors
:
for
which
purpose
I
vsed
ordinarily
some
prety
skoffes
against
euery
of
the
elders
of
our
howse
.
Vndermining
by
art
also
,
but
in
pretence
of
great
playnnes
and
holy
simplicitie
certen
very
honest
men
,
whom
I
thought
knew
somewhat
of
my
superiors
secrecie
,
the
knowledge
whereof
(
our
lord
God
forgiue
me
)
I
purposed
to
abuse
as
occasion
afterward
should
be
giuen
,
to
the
annoyance
and
great
hurt
as
wel
of
the
Catholike
cause
as
of
the
Seminaries
,
our
President
and
other
principal
persons
,
to
whom
by
the
law
of
God
,
nature
,
and
by
singular
benefits
donne
to
me
I
owe
all
duety
.
With
this
I
began
by
litle
and
litle
to
the
scandal
&
ruyne
of
diuers
of
the
youth
and
other
my
fellowes
,
if
God
had
not
preserued
them
by
his
singuler
grace
as
wel
by
my
example
of
licentious
life
,
as
by
wicked
words
,
to
shew
my
mislike
of
fasting
and
praying
,
calling
for
flesh
pies
or
pasties
in
my
chamber
on
fry
daies
at
night
,
and
omitting
the
diuine
seruice
prescribed
to
men
of
my
calling
,
often
iesting
and
skoffing
thereat
before
some
of
my
companions
in
whose
secrecie
&
loue
toward
me
I
had
some
affiance
.
And
then
proceding
farther
and
farther
in
wickednes
I
began
to
mocke
at
the
lesser
points
of
religion
,
which
is
the
high
way
to
Heresie
,
Infidelitie
&
Athisme
.
as
to
my
great
daunger
I
haue
experience
in
myne
owne
case
,
so
lamentable
.
desiring
al
Christian
people
to
take
head
by
my
example
.
Protesting
to
al
the
world
,
that
it
is
not
reason
,
nor
scriptures
,
nor
the
spirit
of
God
,
which
are
so
much
pretended
by
protestants
,
that
leadeth
any
man
to
that
damnable
sect
,
by
which
one
countrey
is
perished
,
but
it
is
voluptuousnes
,
sensualitie
,
pride
,
ambition
singularitie
delite
and
loue
of
mans
selfe
,
that
driueth
downe
persons
laden
with
sinne
to
this
heresie
of
the
Protestants
,
and
that
the
next
dore
,
yea
the
next
steape
of
this
staire
is
atheisme
and
no
beleefe
at
al.
A
few
wordes
wil
serue
a
wise
man
.
Wel
when
I
had
thus
entangled
my self
,
&
for
some
daies
proued
that
such
as
I
had
vttered
my
euel
heretical
speaches
vnto
kept
al
things
close
,
I
bouldly
aduentured
vpon
their
familiaritie
and
secrecie
to
vtter
diuers
horrible
blasphemies
in
plaine
termes
against
the
principal
points
of
religion
,
specially
to
one
person
of
myne
owne
calling
who
afterward
(
as
I
must
needes
confesse
to
the
shame
of
th'
ennemy
)
godly
and
trewly
for
both
our
good
and
saluations
vttered
the
whole
matter
vnto
our
superior
which
was
Gods
great
mercy
to
me
,
for
otherwise
I
had
doubtles
perished
for
euer
more
.
For
a
moneth
space
or
there
abouts
I
delt
with
my
said
fellow
bouldly
not
only
by
arguments
and
often
communication
to
drawe
him
to
heresie
,
but
also
vttered
to
him
my
intention
to
goe
into
England
,
there
to
preach
heresie
:
and
to
annoye
the
common
cause
of
Christs
Church
,
and
specially
this
Seminary
,
the
President
and
superiors
thereof
,
as
much
as
I
could
possibly
:
discoursing
with
him
and
declaring
that
there
was
no
remedy
,
but
the
counsel
must
needes
seeke
the
dissolution
of
the
Seminary
,
or
els
sustaine
their
state
to
be
ruyned
in
time
by
it
.
Therevpon
I
vttered
sondry
meanes
vnto
him
,
how
first
the
president
him self
might
be
made
away
,
and
if
that
missed
,
how
the
whole
company
might
easely
be
poysoned
or
otherwise
dispersed
further
more
offering
my
hand
to
gage
,
that
the
president
should
not
be
a
liue
that
daie
two
yeres
that
I
spake
it
,
one
of
the
yeres
being
now
gone
and
yet
he
aliue
:
as
I
desire
God
he
may
be
many
.
This
was
often
my
deuilish
communication
,
and
whether
I
should
not
haue
giuen
this
ouerture
to
the
counsel
when
I
came
into
England
for
dispatch
of
him
and
the
said
Seminarie
my
derest
nurce
,
my self
know
not
(
to
say
he
lest
)
how
farre
the
deuil
would
haue
driuen
me
,
who
now
holy
occupied
my
hart
in
hope
of
aduauncement
in
England
by
these
practises
.
For
which
purpose
I
had
also
fraudulently
discouered
certaine
points
of
secrecie
&
set
them
downe
in
writing
with
intent
to
giue
the
note
of
the
same
to
the
counsel
,
wherein
I
rather
detected
my
owne
malice
then
any
other
thing
,
for
the
matters
were
of
no
importance
in
deede
.
In
breefe
this
I
must
needes
acknowledge
that
I
would
haue
done
any
of
these
impious
iniuries
rather
then
haue
fallen
from
the
preferment
I
hoped
&
gaped
after
so
inordinatly
,
our
Lord
of
his
infinite
mercies
for
giue
me
that
detestable
treason
against
him
and
his
Church
:
and
the
abhominable
periurie
dissimulation
&
fiction
,
when
for
a
whole
moneths
space
after
I
had
discouered
my
minde
to
my
fellow
,
yet
I
said
Masse
daily
,
sought
for
leaue
and
viaticum
of
M.
President
to
goe
home
to
encrease
by
preaching
and
al
endeuours
the
Catholick
cause
,
and
toke
an
oth
vpon
the
Euangelists
that
I
beleeued
al
points
of
the
Catholick
faith
,
and
had
no
other
purpose
of
going
into
England
but
for
the
aduancement
of
the
same
.
And
I
desire
good
M.
President
&
the
whole
howse
euen
for
the
blessed
death
and
woundes
of
our
Sauiour
for
whose
sake
they
sustaine
al
this
contradiction
of
me
and
other
sinners
,
to
pardon
and
healp
me
by
their
praiers
to
true
repentance
and
remission
.
And
that
good
Priest
my
deare
louing
fellow
,
whom
I
would
haue
had
partaker
of
my
wicked
and
damnable
reuoult
I
cry
him
mercy
euen
vpon
my
knees
,
and
thanke
him
(
though
to
the
carnal
wordly
man
it
might
be
compted
an
iniury
that
he
discouered
al
my
counsel
vnto
his
superiors
and
myne
.
for
els
I
had
been
with
out
doute
damned
for
euer
more
.
But
al
this
came
of
the
sweet
mercies
and
dispositions
of
our
Lord
God
and
Sauiour
who
ouertooke
and
ouer
raught
me
happely
in
the
very
course
of
my
malice
and
damnable
designements
,
and
hath
by
his
vnspeakable
wisedom
,
caused
not
onely
my
imprisonment
,
and
other
my
bodely
afflictions
which
he
procured
for
me
at
the
very
same
time
that
I
had
thought
to
haue
been
in
my
ruffe
and
iolitie
amongest
his
ennemies
,
but
turned
my
very
sinnes
and
wickednes
to
the
good
of
his
honor
and
my
saluation
:
at
the
same
time
both
deliuering
his
trew
and
innocent
seruaunts
of
the
Seminarie
and
others
whom
my
malice
might
haue
annoyed
,
and
me
also
,
in
most
gracious
&
miraculous
sort
,
his
name
be
blessed
therefore
for
euer
more
.
And
it
is
his
goodnes
that
hath
deliuered
me
from
the
accomplishment
of
my
wicked
desires
as
powrably
and
miraculously
al
most
as
he
did
Saul
persecuting
the
Christians
,
but
with
much
more
mercie
then
him
,
for
that
he
found
grace
because
he
did
it
of
ignorance
in
incredulitie
:
where
I
did
al
against
my
owne
skill
and
conscience
:
neuer
doubting
but
the
Catholick
Romane
religion
was
the
onely
true
,
Christian
,
auncient
and
Apostolick
faith
,
and
worship
of
God
:
though
I
fained
my self
for
the
atchiuing
of
my
detestable
designement
to
doubt
thereof
and
to
haue
some
reasonable
motiues
against
the
same
,
and
sought
by
al
meanes
possible
to
haue
enformed
my
conscience
against
that
truth
which
otherwise
I
in
hart
beleeued
.
Now
therefore
for
the
poore
amends
that
lieth
in
me
to
make
vnto
Gods
Church
.
I
protest
before
the
blessed
Trinitie
,
and
al
the
glorious
company
in
heauen
and
by
this
publike
writing
which
I
voluntarily
make
and
subscribe
with
mine
owne
hand
:
That
I
beleeue
in
al
points
the
holy
,
Catholick
,
Apostolick
&
Romane
Church
,
submitting
my self
to
her
and
the
cheefe
gouernor
thereof
our
Lord
and
Maister
Gregory
the
xiij
.
Christs
supreme
Minister
in
earth
:
and
do
Detest
,
Accurse
,
Anathematize
and
Condemne
from
the
botome
of
my
hart
,
al
Heresies
,
Schismes
and
Sectes
,
and
specially
the
heresies
of
Luther
,
Caluin
,
and
al
others
vnto
which
I
might
seeme
by
my
outward
wicked
behauiour
and
dissimulation
to
haue
been
enclined
vnto
:
Desiring
God
and
our
holy
mother
the
Church
,
no
otherwise
to
haue
mercie
on
me
to
saluation
,
then
so
long
&
so
farre
as
I
keepe
,
professe
and
mantaine
,
to
my
power
the
said
faith
of
our
holy
forefathers
,
taught
&
set
furth
by
the
See
Apostolick
.
Giuen
in
my
chamber
at
Rhemes
the
xiij
.
of
May
1583.
in
the
presence
of
M.
Thomas
Bailly
Priest
,
M.
Humphrey
Ely
Doctor
of
the
Lawes
.
and
M.
Seth
Foster
Priest
.
I
acknowledge
this
to
be
mine
owne
act
,
Richard
Baines
Priest
.
THE
SATISFACTION
OF
EDWARD
OSBERNE
PRIEST
,
TOVCHING
his
frailties
,
and
fall
from
the
Catholike
Church
,
at
his
being
in
England
.
IT
is
almightie
Gods
great
wisedom
&
mercy
,
that
he
hath
besides
his
other
iuste
iudgements
either
temporall
or
eternall
vpon
sinners
,
ioyned
also
for
most
parte
some
great
affliction
and
torment
of
minde
for
a
continuall
inward
checke
and
chasticement
of
their
offences
euen
in
them selues
,
and
in
this
life
.
which
caused
a
great
Clearke
to
saie
,
Thou
haste
commaunded
good
Lord
,
and
so
it
is
,
that
euery
vnordinate
appetite
should
be
a
punishment
to
it self
.
But
no
sinne
breadeth
this
internall
vexation
so
much
,
as
that
which
is
committed
against
a
mans
owne
skill
and
conscience
,
specially
the
voluntarie
forsaking
of
that
faith
,
truth
,
and
religion
which
God
by
his
spirit
in
the
Holy
Church
,
and
sacred
word
,
hath
made
him
partaker
of
.
I
speake
not
of
his
case
that
impugneth
of
malice
the
knowne
truth
,
as
many
arch-heretikes
haue
done
,
&
wickedly
do
,
for
that
is
a
sinne
against
the
holy
Ghost
,
&
such
often
carieth
about
with
them
such
hellike
torments
of
conscience
and
desperation
,
that
they
may
be
thought
to
beginne
their
damnation
euen
in
this
life
▪
but
I
meane
of
others
only
,
who
by
frailtie
of
the
flesh
,
feare
of
worldly
distresses
,
doubte
of
temporall
torments
,
and
disgraces
,
or
somme
other
humane
infirmitie
,
be
often
driuen
to
yeld
in
somme
points
to
the
threates
,
perswations
,
or
allurements
,
either
of
worldly
freends
,
or
gostely
enemies
:
euen
these
also
,
for
that
they
haue
denied
Christ
before
men
,
preferred
the
body
before
the
soule
,
hazarded
heauen
and
their
saluation
,
for
the
breefe
,
vncertaine
,
and
miserable
state
of
this
transitorie
world
,
cary
about
with
them
in
their
brest
,
farre
worse
torments
,
then
any
are
in
the
Towre
,
for
the
auoiding
of
which
,
many
times
men
make
that
vnhappy
choise
,
wee
see
them
doe
.
Of
this
miserie
(
woe
to
me
and
my
sinnes
therefore
)
I
haue
made
to
much
experience
:
but
I
trust
to
my
euerlasting
saluation
,
as
my
mercifull
Lord
God
hath
now
vsed
the
matter
towards
me
.
Who
after
I
had
denied
him
,
forsaken
him
,
foresworne
him
,
wickedly
subscribed
to
certen
blasphemous
articles
,
and
made
a
priuate
abrenunciation
of
the
pereles
power
and
soueraine
auctorite
of
Christs
Lieutenant
vpon
earth
,
a
flat
denial
of
the
Catholike
faith
,
a
plaine
abiuration
of
my
Priesthod
,
yea
&
by
the
subtile
crafte
of
the
Churches
deadly
enemies
,
was
induced
,
or
rather
driuen
,
to
accuse
most
traiterously
and
vniustly
certen
his
holy
,
honorable
,
&
renoumed
confessors
,
and
to
beare
vnhappy
witnesse
against
them
:
after
al
this
,
yet
loked
vpon
me
from
heauen
with
those
eyes
of
grace
,
by
which
he
conuerted
Paule
,
restored
Peter
,
pardoned
Marie
Magdalen
,
&
others
not
onely
his
fraile
freends
,
but
many
his
plaine
persecutors
,
and
by
skourging
my
conscience
with
contrnuall
remorse
,
and
dowleful
consideration
of
my
soule
fall
,
and
damnable
condition
,
hath
a
leingth
brought
bitter
teares
out
of
my
stonie
hart
,
and
called
me
againe
out
of
that
Sodom
of
our
loste
countrey
:
and
put
me
into
the
holy
societie
,
and
communion
of
his
body
misticall
,
which
is
his
Church
Catholike
,
th'
only
true
mother
of
al
the
faithfull
,
the
howse
of
God
,
the
pillar
and
establishment
of
al
truth
.
In
which
only
is
al
comfort
,
al
grace
,
al
benediction
,
and
out
of
which
,
as
I
now
know
by
mine
owne
experience
,
and
by
the
certen
vew
of
other
mens
cases
,
with
whom
I
haue
of
late
in
England
conuersed
,
there
is
nothing
but
error
,
blindnes
,
doubte
,
or
plaine
desperation
.
His
name
be
blessed
for
euermore
,
that
hath
so
powrably
and
mercifully
deliuered
me
his
poore
vnworthy
seruant
out
of
these
and
like
miseres
,
&
from
the
snares
of
such
,
as
doe
nothing
but
seeke
how
by
terror
,
or
machiuillian
practise
and
pollicie
,
to
driue
men
not
to
be
of
their
religion
(
for
such
as
be
the
common
dealers
in
these
cases
,
God
wot
haue
none
)
but
to
seeme
to
be
of
that
secte
which
they
would
be
counted
of
.
Surely
I
can
not
for
the
honor
of
our
countrie
,
and
the
dew
respect
I
haue
to
office
,
and
auctoritie
(
though
to
saie
truth
,
they
be
not
of
any
high
function
that
worke
vs
these
woes
commonly
)
discouer
their
foule
vncharitable
,
&
vnchristian
abuse
of
my
frailtie
,
in
procuring
my
fall
from
God
,
and
reuolt
from
the
trew
Catholike
Church
.
which
other
wise
to
the
shame
of
that
irreligious
heresie
,
and
mine
owne
confusion
in
this
worlde
,
that
I
might
finde
more
mercie
for
the
next
,
I
would
willingly
lay
open
to
the
Christian
reader
.
This
only
which
is
the
least
of
thousandes
of
their
sinfull
,
and
craftie
collusions
,
I
may
not
omit
,
to
warne
you
,
that
they
giue
out
,
as
often
as
any
man
of
feare
,
pusillanimitie
,
or
any
other
worldly
respect
,
yeldeth
to
their
desires
,
that
it
is
Gods
owne
hande
,
&
miraculous
worcke
,
proceding
of
the
inuinceible
force
of
their
spirit
,
gospel
,
and
doctrine
,
against
which
,
no
learning
,
nor
other
obstinacie
of
man
may
resiste
.
So
surely
they
behaued
them selues
in
my
case
,
when
they
knew
it
best
them selues
in
their
conscience
to
be
otherwise
,
being
the
craftie
procurers
of
my
fall
,
and
that
they
had
not
in
my
inward
opinion
or
iudgement
(
which
was
neuer
I
take
God
to
witnesse
altered
)
though
in
outwarde
shew
ouerthrowen
me
.
Now
my
dearely
beloued
bretheren
and
who
soeuer
els
shall
happe
to
reade
this
my
pitiful
complainte
of
my
late
distresses
and
tragicall
actes
,
I
doe
protest
vnto
you
before
God
,
and
al
his
sainctes
,
and
holy
Angels
,
that
my
yelding
to
their
damnable
desires
came
not
of
any
motion
of
the
holy
Ghost
,
by
any
probabilite
of
argument
,
or
auctoritie
ether
of
holy
scripture
,
doctor
,
or
any
other
reasonable
motiue
,
or
for
that
I
had
any
doubt
whether
the
Catholike
Romane
religion
were
the
trew
,
and
only
sauing
faith
and
worship
of
God
or
no
,
for
though
I
be
neuer
so
simple
,
yet
being
in
common
sence
,
and
taking
triall
of
both
,
in
such
places
,
as
I
haue
liued
in
,
it
is
not
possible
that
I
,
or
any
man
should
in
deede
,
and
hart
,
preferre
the
protestants
pretensed
religion
,
to
the
Catholike
faith
,
but
to
tell
the
plaine
truth
,
and
shame
the
Diuel
,
and
my self
to
,
so
farre
as
I
followed
his
peruerse
suggestions
,
al
came
of
mine
owne
concupiscence
,
euil
desire
,
and
delicaces
,
which
warred
against
me
in
my
members
,
as
th'
Apostle
saieth
,
and
so
did
ouer
rule
in
my
spirit
,
captiuated
,
and
caused
me
to
yeld
to
flesh
and
bloode
,
making
me
to
feare
to
suffer
any
paines
,
or
abandon
my
pleasures
for
my
Lord
and
masters
sake
,
who
had
suffered
so
much
,
sheade
so
many
teares
,
so
great
abundance
of
innocent
and
pretious
blood
for
me
.
The
aduersaries
threated
me
with
Phalaris
bull
(
so
to
call
their
torments
)
or
as
in
truth
,
them selues
termed
it
vnto
me
,
Sir
Owen
Hoptons
schole
,
with
dungeons
and
death
also
,
except
I
would
admit
an
vngodly
oth
,
to
answere
truely
to
their
captious
and
cursed
interrogatories
,
confesse
such
things
,
as
the
feare
and
reuerence
of
God
prohibited
me
,
accuse
my self
,
&
appeache
the
chosen
seruants
of
God
.
Our
Lord
God
gaue
me
many
goodly
motions
at
the
very
time
of
that
combat
,
to
resiste
their
terrors
,
and
temptations
,
as
he
did
also
his
manifold
graces
,
&
good
inspiration
,
to
contemne
their
swete
promises
of
good
benefices
and
other
liuings
,
if
I
would
conforme
my self
vnto
them
:
but
(
a
lasse
)
through
my
great
sinne
&
frailtie
,
the
aduersaries
for
the
time
preuailed
,
and
specially
my
carnal
freends
,
who
,
by
I
cannot
tell
what
secret
swete
poyson
of
fleshly
loue
,
and
pretense
of
naturall
kindnes
,
do
more
deepely
wound
and
enchaunte
their
dearest
freends
,
then
other
men
can
doe
their
deadly
enemies
.
These
lo
are
the
arguments
,
and
not
any
colour
of
scriptures
,
any
learning
of
the
heretikes
,
or
any
other
probabilitie
in
the
world
,
that
can
moue
any
man
to
be
of
their
religion
:
the
same
reasons
will
as
easely
make
one
a
Turke
(
I
doe
speake
it
before
God
)
as
a
protestant
.
For
though
those
,
that
be
from
their
childehod
brought
vp
in
their
Vniuersites
,
or
other
their
Scholes
,
and
Churches
:
without
a
special
miraculous
grace
of
God
,
can
not
lightly
be
of
any
other
religion
,
because
they
can
not
ordinarely
beleeue
excepte
they
heare
,
or
reade
some
catholike
trew
teachers
or
writers
,
whose
writings
therefore
the
protestants
hide
from
them
with
all
diligence
:
yet
none
that
euer
hath
ben
a
brode
in
the
world
,
and
seene
th'
other
,
or
that
hath
the
good
lucke
to
looke
to
the
faith
of
our
forefathers
in
our
countrie
,
or
any
other
Christian
countrie
,
can
be
in
hart
a
protestante
.
And
would
God
al
the
youthe
of
both
vniuersites
,
especially
my
deare
Brethren
(
whom
God
hath
blessed
with
wit
,
learning
,
and
good
nature
)
saw
what
loue
,
sinceritie
,
sweete
and
plaine
dealing
,
is
vsed
in
the
Seminarie
of
Rhemes
(
where
I
now
by
God
his
grace
am
)
and
how
easely
vpon
a
few
daies
conference
and
hearing
,
with
out
al
Rackes
,
Feares
,
Forces
,
Tormentes
,
worldly
allurementes
,
or
presermentes
,
by
the
only
force
of
truth
,
and
euidence
of
holy
scriptures
,
and
such
other
plentiful
proofes
,
as
the
Church
of
God
,
and
al
Catholike
scholes
haue
,
for
al
the
articles
in
controuersie
,
besides
the
great
difference
betwixt
the
life
,
order
and
manners
,
seene
here
in
Churches
and
scholes
,
and
the
wilde
behauiour
of
our
maisters
and
Scholers
in
England
.
Or
at
least
,
it
were
to
be
wisshed
,
that
our
fellow
students
in
both
the
Seminaries
,
or
other
Catholikes
,
might
haue
the
like
fredom
to
come
to
those
vniuersites
,
as
theirs
do
hither
,
and
there
to
trie
,
with
out
threates
of
imprisonment
&
death
,
or
terrifyinge
,
by
calling
men
traitors
,
rebels
,
and
I
can
not
tell
what
,
to
see
then
,
whether
their
spirit
or
word
(
whereof
they
so
childisly
vaunte
them selues
)
could
conuert
any
of
this
education
in
the
holy
Church
,
to
their
improbable
secte
.
At
the
beginning
I
know
,
when
their
wares
were
fresh
,
and
their
nouelties
ioyned
to
the
promises
and
doctrine
of
luste
and
licentiousnes
,
they
found
some
schollers
,
and
may
yet
finde
some
,
to
follow
their
concupiscences
,
but
none
trewly
(
I
thinke
)
either
yong
,
or
olde
,
that
can
be
perswaded
by
their
arguments
.
They
make
much
a
doe
,
when
they
gaine
the
exterior
assent
of
infirme
persons
,
which
in
deede
,
are
(
thankes
be
to
God
)
very
fewe
in
comparison
of
the
great
number
of
those
,
that
gloriously
and
constantly
contemne
their
terrors
&
perswasions
,
through
whose
forcible
praiers
,
and
merits
,
I
verely
thinke
,
God
hath
giuen
me
now
at
this
time
,
and
in
manner
al
the
rest
of
their
feeble
brethren
,
grace
&
mercy
,
that
th'
enemies
there
may
haue
confusion
by
vs
,
where
they
looked
for
glorie
,
the
weake
that
fell
,
or
were
scandalised
by
vs
,
may
rise
and
repent
with
vs
,
and
those
that
stande
may
be
warned
by
our
frailtie
,
and
by
the
admonition
of
the
holy
Apostle
,
to
take
head
they
fall
not
.
For
mine
owne
part
(
God
knoweth
)
since
I
knew
what
religion
ment
,
I
was
neuer
(
and
least
of
al
,
of
late
,
when
they
caused
me
to
subscribe
to
them
)
of
their
meaning
.
I
subscribed
(
our
Lord
God
forgiue
me
)
to
that
,
which
one
William
Harte
parler-preacher
to
my
vncle
Sir
Robert
Lane
deuised
,
&
which
I
neither
knew
of
before
,
wrote
my self
,
nor
beleeued
my self
.
The
very
truth
is
,
one
Richard
Lewis
a
minister
,
Person
of
the
Parish
where
I
was
bred
vp
,
&
where
I
then
abode
,
a
famous
preacher
in
deede
,
but
(
as
I
am
able
to
iustifie
)
a
most
infamous
liuer
,
brought
me
to
that
vnlucky
bargaine
,
as
he
was
before
the
procurer
of
my
first
relenting
,
which
he
may
remember
,
by
this
token
,
that
his
energumicall
spirit
could
not
abide
the
signe
of
Christs
Passion
,
portred
in
a
glasse
window
,
in
my
Fathers
Parler
,
which
was
the
Crosse
and
woundes
of
our
Redemer
,
with
this
sentence
written
about
the
same
,
Pittey
his
passion
,
that
caused
our
redemption
,
this
goodly
speach
he
scraped
out
:
&
let
the
rest
alone
which
his
diuisishnes
,
no
Christian
(
I
suppose
)
will
allow
,
nor
I
,
though
fallen
before
,
could
like
in
him
,
but
once
fell
into
hote
dispute
with
him
about
the
same
,
whose
foolish
defence
(
which
was
,
for
that
Christ
is
omnipotent
,
and
a
glorious
God
)
I
can
not
now
stande
to
reporte
.
Surely
the
very
acquaintance
with
such
mens
actions
,
and
wordes
which
they
often
lett
fall
in
familiar
communication
,
among
such
as
they
deale
with
all
secretly
,
would
make
a
man
abhorre
them
:
one
example
may
be
of
Fox
,
the
auctor
of
the
volume
of
Crackes
&
many
lies
(
I
would
saie
,
Actes
&
monuments
)
to
whom
when
I
had
of
late
in
conference
,
alleaged
a
place
of
S.
Peter
,
2.
Pet.
c.
1.11
.
for
proofe
that
our
good
workes
were
cause
of
our
iustification
,
and
saluation
,
the
fellow
answered
flatly
:
such
wordes
I
doe
not
remember
,
but
if
S.
Peter
say
,
that
wee
are
iustified
or
saued
Per
praesidia
bonorum
operum
(
for
so
he
is
wont
to
interlace
his
English
speaches
,
with
latten
wordes
)
I
would
say
that
he
lied
,
because
Iame
sure
that
Paul
hath
the
contrary
.
whereby
,
and
by
diuers
like
thinges
,
I
wel
perceue
those
good
fellowes
measure
all
religon
by
their
owne
meere
phansie
,
caring
in
truth
,
nether
for
Peter
,
nor
Paul
,
nor
Christ
,
further
then
their
can
writh
they
wordes
to
their
lust
.
I
am
sommething
beholden
to
this
man
not
withstanding
,
for
that
,
at
our
very
first
acquaintance
of
al
,
he
made
me
partaker
of
a
certen
secrete
,
which
he
said
he
had
not
reueled
to
any
man
els
,
vz.
That
he
was
called
by
God
him self
to
make
his
new
latten
booke
of
iustification
.
Againe
,
at
the
same
time
very
impertinently
to
our
talke
,
he
told
me
,
that
he
had
sent
an
angell
to
alderman
Martin
to
change
into
single
pense
,
for
to
imploye
them
in
almees
:
verely
I
laughed
in
my
sleue
to
heare
this
vaine
hypocrite
talke
:
thought
I
with
my self
,
Hypocrita
cupit
videri
iustus
.
These
wicked
ministers
of
Satan
were
they
,
that
by
their
craft
,
pollices
,
&
promises
,
procured
my
subuersion
,
and
subscription
of
the
said
articles
,
and
other
vniust
actions
.
All
which
articles
,
which
were
seuen
,
I
now
by
this
publike
testimony
doe
reuoke
,
and
recant
of
mine
owne
free
wil
,
as
before
in
hart
,
so
now
openly
before
all
the
world
,
protesting
,
that
I
will
by
the
grace
of
God
,
liue
,
and
die
,
in
the
communion
,
and
felloship
of
the
Catholike
and
Apostolike
Church
of
Rome
,
and
during
life
will
obey
in
al
spiritual
causes
,
our
holy
Father
Gregory
the
XIII
.
and
his
successors
in
th'
Apostolike
seate
Christs
vicars
in
earth
,
the
reuolte
from
whom
,
hath
bene
the
cause
of
al
these
errors
,
sectes
,
and
diuisions
,
and
that
wee
can
not
liue
in
rest
and
peace
of
conscience
in
our
vnhappy
daies
,
and
countrie
,
as
our
auncetors
in
times
past
did
,
but
be
thus
spoyled
,
&
massacred
,
for
no
fellony
,
trespas
,
or
treason
,
but
for
holding
that
faith
,
which
al
our
happy
forefathers
,
and
our selues
were
baptised
in
,
and
out
of
which
,
I
know
there
is
no
saluation
in
the
next
world
,
nor
grace
in
this
.
Beseching
Christ
our
merciful
Sauiour
,
to
pardon
me
that
I
denied
him
,
and
his
truth
,
for
feare
of
man
and
mortall
paines
.
As
I
also
humbly
(
for
his
sake
)
desire
al
Catholikes
,
whom
I
haue
vniustly
offended
in
this
my
fieblenes
to
forgiue
,
and
pray
for
me
,
that
I
neuer
fall
to
the
like
tentation
againe
:
namely
those
glorious
confessors
,
whom
I
loue
as
mine
owne
soule
,
and
honor
as
the
chosen
vessels
of
God
,
who
were
iniured
by
my
vndew
dealing
.
For
I
confesse
,
and
acknowledge
in
my
conscience
,
that
I
should
haue
suffered
any
torments
in
the
world
,
rather
then
haue
vttered
any
their
godly
religious
actes
,
to
their
dommage
,
whether
it
were
trew
,
or
false
:
and
that
I
should
not
,
nor
ought
by
Gods
word
,
haue
disclosed
any
such
thing
,
though
I
had
taken
an
oth
to
doe
it
,
and
to
answere
to
al
interrogatories
concerning
the
same
:
being
assured
that
al
such
othes
,
be
vnlawful
,
and
ought
not
to
be
taken
,
nor
be
kept
,
if
of
frailtie
they
chaunce
to
be
taken
.
Because
no
man
can
binde
him self
,
neither
by
oth
,
vow
,
or
any
other
obligation
to
God
or
man
,
to
accuse
,
or
be
wraye
any
innocent
to
the
persecutor
:
no
such
othes
(
I
say
)
binde
,
being
one
sinne
to
take
them
,
and
an
other
,
and
that
greater
,
to
keepe
them
.
But
the
thing
a
lasse
is
now
past
,
and
can
not
be
amended
in
it self
,
but
only
may
be
forgiuen
,
as
I
verely
hope
,
it
is
both
at
God
and
mans
hand
,
by
this
my
sincere
confessing
,
humble
crauing
pardon
,
and
poore
publike
satisfaction
,
till
the
which
was
done
,
I
could
neuer
finde
reste
in
my
wounded
conscience
,
nor
durst
approche
to
the
holy
Altar
,
to
offer
the
deutiful
giftes
of
my
priesthod
:
made
much
vnworthy
of
that
high
function
,
through
my
said
greuous
offence
,
and
scandal
.
Which
being
now
(
as
I
hope
)
in
our
Lords
mercy
,
and
their
great
charitie
,
remitted
,
I
shal
daily
with
great
comfort
doe
,
during
life
,
these
soueraine
duties
of
religion
for
them
,
as
also
(
as
I
am
most
bound
in
deutie
)
for
my
deare
Mother
and
al
her
Christian
offpringe
,
my
dearely
beloued
Brethren
and
Sisters
according
to
the
flesh
,
desiring
God
,
to
reliue
their
zele
with
trew
vnderstanding
,
humbly
beseeching
my
louing
Brother
,
&
Sister
,
who
bound
them selues
in
a
certen
somme
of
mony
for
my
good
behauiour
(
so
they
cal
the
conformitie
to
their
English
procedings
)
not
to
impute
my
departure
to
any
vnnaturall
carlesnesse
of
the
losses
,
&
dangers
that
may
fall
vnto
them
by
forfaiting
their
bande
,
by
my
retire
ouer
sea
:
for
God
knoweth
,
it
is
the
speciall
wordly
thing
,
that
greueth
me
:
but
rather
to
accompte
it
a
supplie
of
my
patrimonie
(
which
would
haue
surmonted
it
much
in
valewe
)
&
a
case
of
such
meere
necessitie
,
both
of
my
soule
and
body
,
as
no
interest
of
temporall
goods
whatsoeuer
,
may
counteruaile
it
:
and
of
their
singuler
brotherly
and
sisterly
affection
(
if
any
extremitie
should
be
vsed
towards
them
in
the
matter
)
as
I
trust
verely
their
innocencie
wel
knowen
to
the
Counsel
,
&
their
great
earnestnes
,
and
diligence
to
gaine
me
to
that
religion
(
which
they
of
error
and
ill
education
thinke
to
be
true
)
shal
procure
them
al
courtesie
,
&
fauour
therein
,
not
to
accompte
the
losse
of
monye
,
which
one
daye
,
either
in
this
,
or
the
next
world
,
may
be
redered
by
God
,
or
man
againe
,
for
the
health
&
saluation
of
their
owne
flesh
&
blood
:
or
at
least
,
if
they
thinke
this
not
the
waie
to
saluation
,
yet
for
quieting
of
his
conscience
,
against
which
what
soeuer
a
man
doth
,
must
needes
be
sinne
,
and
damnable
.
Thus
I
ende
desiring
them
,
and
al
Catholikes
,
my
louing
brethren
in
Christ
,
to
pray
and
thanke
God
with
me
,
for
al
his
mercies
,
that
he
hath
done
to
my
soule
,
as
it
shal
laude
and
blesse
his
holy
name
for
euer
more
.
Giuen
at
Rhemes
this
19.
of
May
,
being
the
Ascension
of
our
Lord
IESVS
,
to
whom
be
al
thankes
and
eternall
glorie
,
for
euer
and
euer
.
Amen
.
1573.
By
me
a
poore
sinner
,
your
Brother
in
Christ
,
Edward
Osberne
Priest
.
THE
SATISFACTION
OF
M.
IAMES
BOSGRAVE
THE
GODLY
CONFESSOR
of
Christ
,
concerning
his
going
to
the
Church
of
the
Protestants
at
his
first
comming
into
England
.
To
al
Christians
and
al
that
professe
the
Catholike
faith
,
to
al
such
as
are
chained
,
Imprisoned
,
or
otherwise
afflicted
for
the
faith
and
religion
of
Iesus
Christ
,
peace
and
saluation
.
BLessed
be
the
God
and
Father
of
our
Lord
IESVS
CHRIST
,
the
father
of
mercies
and
God
of
al
comfort
,
who
comforteth
vs
in
al
tribulation
.
I
am
merueilous
heauy
and
sorrow
full
at
the
hart
,
for
that
I
vnderstand
that
there
is
a
certen
sinister
opinion
sprong
&
spred
abroade
euery
where
of
me
,
as
though
I
had
renied
that
faith
&
religion
which
had
her
beginning
of
our
Lord
Iesus
Christ
,
was
receiued
of
the
Apostles
,
and
Doctors
,
&
hath
ben
perfited
&
sealed
,
not
onely
with
the
blood
and
death
of
the
worthy
Martyrs
,
but
principally
with
the
blood
and
death
of
Christ
our
Lord
.
Would
to
God
that
I
had
either
neuer
ben
borne
,
or
els
that
I
had
ben
buried
immediatly
after
my
death
.
If
I
(
borne
of
Catholike
parents
,
nourished
&
brought
vp
vnder
Catholike
scholmaisters
,
trained
vp
in
learning
in
those
countries
where
the
Catholike
religion
dooth
greatly
prosper
and
florish
)
now
at
the
length
after
my
retorne
into
my
countrey
to
mine
owne
and
my
parents
comfort
:
should
depart
from
that
Church
which
S.
Paul
calleth
the
piller
&
ground
of
truth
,
should
deny
Christ
our
Lord
,
and
breake
my
faith
plight
in
baptisme
,
and
whereas
al
men
did
expect
,
that
I
should
haue
borne
grapes
,
to
bring
furth
weedes
.
My
deere
and
welbeloued
brethren
,
to
whom
I
write
these
fewe
,
whose
glorie
and
saluation
I
seeke
,
and
whom
I
beare
in
my
bowels
.
I
forsake
my
part
of
heauen
,
and
wish
neuer
to
see
the
good
of
God
in
the
land
of
the
liuing
,
and
would
that
my
name
were
blotted
out
of
the
booke
of
life
,
if
I
euer
either
did
or
attempted
,
or
as
much
as
thought
any
such
thing
,
let
me
also
be
accursed
and
a
Maranatha
,
if
I
would
either
crucifie
Christ
our
Lord
againe
,
or
make
void
and
frustrate
the
blood
that
the
holy
Apostles
,
and
worthie
martyrs
haue
shed
:
who
al
were
slaine
for
that
religion
&
faith
which
Christ
our
Lord
hath
communicated
&
reuealed
vnto
vs
gratis
:
of
the
which
(
religion
and
faith
)
I
my self
am
partaker
and
for
the
which
I
am
readie
to
suffer
death
.
O
wretch
that
I
am
,
&
of
al
men
the
vnhapiest
,
what
hope
of
saluation
could
I
haue
,
how
durst
I
lift
vp
mine
eies
to
heauen
,
with
what
face
might
I
call
Christ
our
Lord
,
Father
,
if
I
should
forsake
his
spouse
,
the
Church
our
Mother
?
I
know
(
most
louing
brethren
)
that
there
is
no
more
saluation
to
be
looked
for
out
of
the
Church
,
in
the
which
I
beleeue
my self
to
be
with
you
:
then
there
was
out
of
the
Arch
of
Noë
,
which
bare
the
type
&
figure
of
the
Catholike
&
Apostolike
Church
.
Do
not
yee
therefore
giue
ouer
light
credit
to
euery
flying
tale
,
for
I
know
that
the
ende
shall
proue
al
these
rumors
that
haue
ben
spred
of
me
,
to
be
false
and
fayned
.
For
I
hope
brethren
(
and
this
is
my
desire
)
that
I
shal
be
bound
with
the
same
chaine
,
and
for
the
same
faith
,
that
you
are
,
&
I
trust
to
be
partaker
both
of
your
tribulations
&
your
rewards
.
God
forbid
that
I
should
glorie
(
to
vse
the
speach
of
the
vessel
of
election
,
and
of
the
Doctor
of
the
Gentils
,
with
out
al
arrogancie
and
pride
)
sauing
in
the
Crosse
of
our
Lord
Iesus
Christ
.
I
beseech
you
therefore
(
as
yet
not
being
bound
,
but
peradventure
to
be
bound
in
our
Lord
)
that
you
remaine
,
and
walke
worthily
in
the
vocation
religion
and
faith
to
which
you
are
called
:
and
that
you
be
ready
to
shed
your
blood
for
the
same
.
You
haue
heard
,
that
I
was
become
a
Protestant
,
I
call
God
and
his
Angels
to
witnes
(
brethren
)
that
this
hath
ben
mine
election
and
that
full
often
(
if
I
ly
,
then
I
praie
God
,
I
neuer
speake
more
)
that
I
had
rather
be
a
Turke
or
a
Iew
,
then
a
Protestant
,
that
is
,
to
be
enrouled
among
those
that
haue
renied
the
faith
of
Christ
.
There
be
many
I
know
which
haue
heard
me
(
albeit
with
murmuring
and
indignation
)
vtter
these
words
.
For
it
were
better
for
me
in
deede
,
neuer
to
haue
knowen
the
way
of
truth
,
then
after
the
knowledge
thereof
to
start
back
from
it
.
If
therefore
(
my
freends
)
the
fame
of
my
retorne
into
my
countrey
be
come
vnto
your
eares
,
if
peraduenture
these
naughtie
reports
of
me
be
commonly
talked
of
amongst
you
:
if
you
do
ouer
expect
any
thing
of
me
that
perteineth
to
the
duty
of
a
brother
,
freend
or
kinsman
of
yours
,
&
that
which
the
name
of
a
Christian
man
dooth
require
,
which
is
borne
,
brought
vp
,
and
by
the
space
of
many
yeres
as
it
were
confirmed
in
the
Catholike
Church
and
faith
,
perswade
your selues
for
certain
,
that
I
will
(
by
Gods
assistance
)
satisfie
your
expectation
.
You
haue
heard
peraduenture
,
that
I
would
go
to
the
Church
.
God
almightie
(
in
whose
sight
I
am
,
&
speake
,
and
who
is
the
searcher
of
the
hart
and
reines
of
men
)
dooth
know
,
that
I
neuer
went
to
the
Protestants
church
with
the
mind
to
pray
,
or
to
allow
and
professe
their
sect
,
neither
by
constraint
or
free
accord
,
to
seeme
by
any
meanes
to
approue
by
consent
and
liking
this
religion
,
which
they
terme
,
reformed
:
but
I
went
sometimes
&
that
but
seldoome
,
when
I
thought
it
good
,
only
for
to
see
their
rites
,
and
then
manner
of
preaching
and
doing
,
and
to
make
mine
English
tong
more
prompt
&
ready
.
Nor
do
you
not
thinke
,
that
,
that
which
is
lawfull
to
some
one
for
certen
causes
,
is
conuenient
to
al
men
,
for
I
would
not
counsel
other
men
to
go
to
the
protestants
church
,
yea
I
haue
diswaded
men
from
it
aboue
a
thousand
times
:
and
haue
shewed
them
,
that
it
was
in
no
case
lawful
:
because
,
that
he
that
loueth
danger
,
shall
fall
into
it
:
neither
would
I
haue
gone
to
their
conuenticles
for
any
thing
,
if
I
had
know
that
I
should
haue
giuen
occasion
of
scandall
.
You
haue
heard
(
and
do
maruel
at
it
)
that
I
am
at
liberty
,
and
therefore
you
suspect
that
I
am
retorned
to
my
vomit
.
Deerely
beloued
,
I
am
of
al
lyers
the
va●nest
,
if
I
do
not
enuie
you
your
chaines
,
your
prison
,
your
banishment
,
your
gard
,
your
losse
of
goods
,
your
tribulation
for
Christ
:
and
perswade
not
your selues
I
praie
you
,
that
I
do
reioyce
in
this
my
fortune
and
libertie
,
but
rather
that
it
is
sorrowful
&
loth
some
vnto
me
,
that
I
am
not
worthy
to
suffer
contumely
for
the
name
of
Iesus
.
Therefore
I
attribut
my
liberty
to
the
clemency
of
God
almightie
,
to
the
courtosie
of
the
Q.
Maiesties
honorable
and
wise
Counsellers
,
I
impute
it
to
mine
owne
mishap
,
&
to
my
great
sinnes
:
but
that
which
is
differred
is
not
altogether
taken
awaie
.
If
I
vsed
doutfull
words
before
the
Q.
Maiesties
counsel
,
for
the
which
they
set
me
at
liberty
,
I
haue
interpreted
them
more
plainely
by
my
letters
,
which
I
haue
now
sent
to
the
Q.
most
honorable
&
sage
Counsellers
.
But
put
the
case
I
yelded
vnto
them
:
why
brethren
,
ought
I
to
attribute
more
to
my self
,
then
to
most
blessed
Peter
,
most
holy
Marcellinus
,
most
stout
Thomas
of
Canterbury
,
of
the
which
,
the
two
former
were
Popes
,
and
al
after
the
denial
of
Christ
,
obteined
pardon
,
and
shed
their
blood
for
the
Catholike
faith
.
Be
you
not
therefore
seduced
,
with
the
wicked
example
of
one
man
,
but
stand
stoutly
&
dwell
in
this
church
,
in
which
wee
haue
ben
borne
and
bred
:
the
which
Christ
our
Lord
hath
built
and
brought
forth
vpon
the
foundation
of
the
Apostles
and
their
Successors
:
whose
ruines
do
begin
now
after
a
sort
to
be
repaired
and
restored
.
But
to
draw
to
an
ende
,
I
beseech
you
brethren
by
by
the
bowels
of
the
mercie
of
Iesus
Christ
,
by
that
charitie
wherewith
he
so
loued
vs
that
he
vouchsaued
to
be
hanged
on
a
tree
for
vs
,
by
his
crosse
,
his
wounds
,
by
the
nailes
and
speare
(
which
are
the
badges
of
our
Sauiour
)
that
you
,
be
not
frighted
nor
moued
with
false
reportes
,
th'
end
wil
proue
al
:
and
perswade
your selues
,
that
as
I
am
partaker
of
one
countrey
with
you
,
so
am
I
partaker
of
one
Church
,
one
faith
,
one
religion
,
one
doctrine
,
with
you
.
I
thought
good
to
write
this
letter
,
to
witnes
thereby
vnto
you
,
that
I
am
of
the
same
religion
,
in
which
I
was
borne
againe
by
baptisme
and
for
the
which
I
am
most
ready
to
dye
with
you
.
I
desire
you
also
to
pray
vnto
Christ
Iesus
crucified
for
me
,
to
giue
me
grace
to
direct
al
my
thoughts
,
words
and
works
,
to
the
glory
of
his
most
holy
name
,
to
mine
owne
saluation
and
to
the
profite
and
commoditie
of
my
countrey
.
Let
vs
also
pray
continually
and
with
a
common
accord
,
that
Christ
our
Lord
would
preserue
the
Queenes
Maiestie
,
and
her
sage
Counsellers
,
and
illuminate
them
with
al
truth
,
that
al
their
beginnings
&
proceedings
tende
to
the
glory
of
almighty
God
.
Christ
Iesus
embrace
vs
al
in
the
bowels
of
his
mercies
,
confirme
vs
and
make
vs
al
in
one
agreement
in
the
Church
which
he
hath
founded
with
his
most
precious
death
.
Fare
yee
well
.
AN
ADMONITION
TO
THE
READER
.
THere
are
no
more
of
regard
,
as
farre
as
we
yet
heare
,
that
haue
relented
al
this
long
&
perilous
time
of
practize
and
persecution
,
sauing
M.
Aufild
,
and
M.
Govwe
,
the
former
in
England
,
through
extreeme
feare
of
torments
yelding
onely
to
goe
to
their
church
once
,
and
that
with
many
qualifications
:
the
other
in
Fraunce
,
vpon
other
frailtie
,
specially
for
desire
to
retorne
home
and
enioye
the
commodities
temporal
that
God
had
giuen
him
in
his
countrey
:
who
both
streight
vpon
their
fall
(
being
in
regard
of
humane
frailtie
not
great
)
wept
bitterly
,
haue
done
penaunce
accordingly
,
written
their
letter
to
our
Presidet
in
Rhemes
of
th●●●
readines
to
doe
any
satisfaction
for
the
scandal
and
offence
committed
,
and
so
be
reconciled
to
Gods
Church
againe
,
and
haue
done
since
that
,
and
doe
,
al
they
can
possibly
for
th'
aduauncement
of
the
Catholike
faith
.
Whose
like
publike
acknowledge
of
their
offence
should
here
haue
been
set
furth
,
but
that
the
same
could
not
be
so
speedely
sent
hither
as
the
dispatch
of
these
other
was
compted
necessary
.
Onely
in
al
this
(
gentil
reader
)
I
desire
the
to
marke
for
thy
consolation
,
the
mercies
of
God
:
how
in
this
long
combat
with
so
forcible
and
powrable
ennemies
according
to
the
flesh
,
who
want
no
meanes
worldly
,
either
to
force
by
feare
of
death
&
torments
,
or
to
tempt
by
pleasure
proffit
&
preferments
,
or
to
entangle
by
art
and
pollicie
,
he
hath
giuen
vs
his
poore
seruaunts
and
souldiars
,
not
onely
to
fight
,
stand
,
hold
out
,
&
haue
assured
hope
of
victory
ouer
the
aduersaries
,
but
to
haue
it
with
so
small
a
losse
,
by
the
death
of
so
few
,
with
the
fall
or
wounding
of
so
few
,
so
easely
recouered
againe
to
farre
more
aduantage
of
the
cause
,
as
our
Lord
hath
of
his
grace
vsed
the
matter
,
then
if
they
had
neuer
had
experience
of
their
owne
infirmitie
,
and
of
the
necessitie
of
his
holy
ayde
,
by
whom
onely
we
are
vpholden
in
this
spiritual
fight
for
our
faith
,
and
defence
of
his
deare
Spouse
our
Mother
the
Church
,
which
by
no
power
of
man
or
Diuel
can
be
ouerthrowne
.
Fare
wel
gentil
reader
,
and
make
thy
profit
to
saluation
,
of
these
examples
of
our
frailtie
,
whereby
thou
seest
Gods
streinght
to
be
perfited
in
our
infirmitie
,
and
our
weakenes
to
be
sustained
by
the
force
〈◊〉
his
grace
,
to
him
be
al
honor
and
glorie
.
Amen
▪
The
first
of
Iune
1583.