Original Account of the Trial of the 



434 



for Iicr riches, more famous for her 

 people, (lianiiiE; abouc fine hundred 

 thousand sonles within her and her 

 liberties,) most famous tor her fidelitie, 

 and more then most famous of all tlie 

 cities in the world for her true religion 

 & sernice of God. Holde vp thy 

 head (noble citie) and aduance tlty 

 selfe, f<n- tiiat nenerwas tliy brow blot- 

 ted with tiio least taint or touch, or 

 suspicion of disloyaitie: thou mayest 

 trnely say with the prophet Dauid, 

 " I will take no wicked thin"- in liand, 

 I liatc llie sinnc of vnfaithfulnesse, 

 tliere sliali no sucli clcaue vnto me :" 

 therefore for thy fidelitie thou art ho- 

 noured Mitli the title of tlie King;s 

 Chamber, as an inward place of his 

 greatest safefie. And, for thy comfort 

 and ioy this day, hath Britaincs great 

 king honoured thee with tlie proceed- 

 ing- vpon this great and honourable 

 conunission, after tiic Iieauie and dole- 

 full rumours this other day, when it 

 was certainly knowen that King lames 

 was in safety, vvell did the fidelitie of 

 this citie ai)peare, (whereof I was an 

 eye-witncssc,) Vna voce couclamauerunt 

 omnes, saluu Londiinim, salua patria, 

 salnareligio, lacohus Rcxnostcr salmis; 

 Our citii', our countrey, our religion, 

 is safe, for our King lames is iu 

 safetie. 



[June I, 



EXTRACTS rUOM THE KAllL OF 

 NORTHAMPrON's SI'EIXH. 



[The following commences his exordium.] 

 Though some of IMatocs followers, 

 and those not of the meanest ranke, 

 Laue rather apprehended in con( eyle, 

 then demonstialed by slreight lines, 

 that nothing is which hath not bene 

 before ; if it w ere jiussiblc to take 

 right obsernalions out of true records, 

 and that all counsels and attempts, as 

 well as contiguratitins and aspects, re- 

 turne as it were ex po>t-limimo, by 

 reuolution to the pojnt from wh(>nce 

 they first began ; yet, if my Epheme- 

 rides fayle me not in setting vp the 

 figure of this late intended plot, I may 

 confidently pronounce with a graue 

 senator, Reperinm esse hodieruo die 

 faciniis, quod iiec poeta fingere, nee his- 

 trio sonnre, nee mimus hnitari poterit ; 

 so desperatly malicious, and so vn- 

 kindly and vnseasonably fruitful, is 

 our age in producing monsters, when 

 the ' force and heate of eharitie de- 

 cayes, and so violent ore the damned 

 spirits of Satans blacke guard now 

 before the winding vp of the last bot- 

 tome of terrestriail aflayres, in spin- 



ning finer threeds of practise and con- 

 si>iracie vnder the maske of piety & 

 zeale, which the spirit of truth termeth 

 most significantly, Spirilualis nequitia 

 in ccelestibus* 



[His observations on the eternal wick- 

 edness of priests are worthy of notice at 

 the epoch of the contest in Spain', excited 

 by the same fraternity.] 



By the course and recourse of times 

 and accidents, wise men obserue, that 

 very seldome hath any mischicuous 

 attempt bene vndertakcn for disturb- 

 ance of a state, without the counsell 

 and assistance of a priest, in the first, 

 in the middle, or lastacte of the trage- 

 dic ; and that all along with such a 

 chorus of confederates to entcrtaine 

 the stage, while the Hues and fortunes 

 of great princes being set vpon the 

 tenterhookes, haue put all in hazard. 

 For while Moyses stoode in conference 

 with God vpon the Mount, his brother 

 Aaron, impatient (as for the most part 

 churchmen are in their desires,) of 

 pauses or delay es, fell instantly to 

 mould and worship the golden calfe, 

 to their commaunders ve^atiou and 

 Gods dishonour. Abiathar was con- 

 demned for complotting with the Suna- 

 mite, and loab lieutenant generall 

 against his soueraigne. With what 

 distemper and disorder some priestes 

 haue rocked the cradle of the churches 

 infaneic in raysing heresies (the seeds 

 of factions) onely to that ende, no man 

 can be ignorant, that hath rnn ouer 

 the churches histories. 



Odo bishop of Uayon was imprison- 

 ed by his brother, the first William, as 

 a stirrer of sedition, and after con- 

 spired with Robert carle of Mortaigne, 

 to depose his sonne, against w))om also 

 Gelfrey bishop of Constance fortified 

 in acluall rebellion the castle of Bris- 

 liill. The captiuitie of the lion-heart- 

 ed Richard, champion of the Holy 

 Warres, was by the practise of Sana- 

 ricus bishop of Bathe. Geruas the 

 great preacher entred with Lewis the 

 French kings sonne, ])urpo>ing to root 

 vp the race of oiu- kings, and to plant 

 himselfc and his progenie. Of the re- 

 bellious arniic that vsurped against 

 Henry 3. the title of ExcrcUnm Dei 

 (although by the Popes legate, reptitali 

 sunt filij Uilitil) Cleriei favtores erant, 

 sa) th the nionke of Chester. For con- 

 spiracy against the firsi F.dward, was 

 the Archb. of Cant, exiled (ho king- 

 dom. And before that Isabel, the wife 



.See former Note. 



of 



