1825.] Conspirators itt the famous Gunpowder Plot 



of the second, durst vndertake the plot 

 of deposing her husband by a damna- 

 ble deuice, for the raysing of her 

 Sonne, slie sent in a packe of preachers 

 poj'soncd with preiudice against the 

 present state, to prepare the peoples 

 mindes by false suggestions, to the 

 change which w as intended to follow. 

 And Adam de Orleton bishop of Here- 

 ford, that was the first deiiiser, conti- 

 nued the chiefest feeder of that dissen- 

 tion betweenc the husband and the 

 wife, taking occasion, in a sermon 

 preached at Oxford, in the presence 

 of tlie queene, and all tlie rebels, vpon 

 that text of the Scripture, Caput meum 

 tloleo, to expresse by deprauation of 

 his lawful! soueraigne, how many mis- 

 chiefs grew to the common wealth by 

 a corrupted head that gouerned tliem. 

 For ayding the enemies of Edw. 3. 

 w as tlie Bish. of Hertford arraigned. 

 And the ciiaplaine of Wat Tyler, that 

 aduiscd his chieftainc (as you AI. Gar- 

 net did your followers) to destroy all 

 the clergie & nobilitie, was Ball, a 

 masse priest. With Glousters Duke 

 against his soueraigne Richard, was 

 Oswoid bishop of Gailaway the chiefe 

 complottcr. Priests and friers they 

 were that suborned a false Richard 

 against the fourth Henry, whereof 

 eigh(, being minors, were hanged at 

 Tiborne. And Maudelen himselfe, that 

 tooke vpou him the habit and person 

 of the king, was a priest also to keepc 

 tiicm companie. Seroope the arch- 

 bishop of Yorke, for complotling a 

 conspiracie with the Earlc of Nor- 

 thumberland against the same king, 

 lost his head for his labour. Beuerlcy, 

 an anoynted priest, not to be behinde 

 some olher of his fellowes in these 

 seditious attempts, conspired against 

 the (ift Henrie, with the Lord f'oblianj 

 «ir lohn Oldcastle. 



I haue scene the copie of a learned 

 and wise letter, written by Bishop 

 Chicheley, a prelate of your owne, 

 chancellour to that king, grauelyadui- 

 sing him to beware of admitting a le- 

 gate resident in the realme, in respect 

 of the sharpc elleets by stirres that 

 haue been rayscd in former times by 

 persons of that habit, poynling, as it 

 were, to Henry Beauford, who after- 

 ward was both author and actor of 

 more niisehiefe then almost could be 

 expected or feared. 



'J'hey were priestos and friers that, 

 in the Hist ofl'^dward tlie l''ourlh <;on- 

 bjiired wit!) luspcr carlo of Pembroke, 



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and were afterward attainted and 

 executed by Acte of Parliament. 



Doctor Shaw was a priest, whom 

 Richard the Third made the trumpet 

 at Paules Crosse of his wrongfull 

 claime, against the rightful! possession 

 of his innocent ncphewes. 



That impostor that suborned Latn- 

 bart, to talce vpon him t!ie person, and 

 vsurpe tlie right, of the Duke of 

 Yorke, against t!»e blessed vnion of 

 the two roses, was a priest in Ireland. 

 Wherein I note, that as a priest would 

 then haue forestalled, so now two 

 priests, Grcenwell and Garnet, would 

 have cut off, the vnion. Hee was a 

 monke of Hcnton that intiscd the 

 Duke of Buckingham, by seducing 

 hopes, to the ruine <jf as great a house 

 as any subiect in Europe (bearing not 

 the surname of a king) can demon- 

 strate : whereof both I receiue a 

 wound, and all that descend of him. 



I speake not of those Popes that, 

 exercising more the sword of Paul 

 with passion then the keyes of I'cter 

 with instruction, haue bene kindlers 

 of great broyles. Nor of the three 

 powerfull cardinalles, Yorke, Lor- 

 raine, and Arras, in our age, that du- 

 ring their times were not much an- 

 swerable for sloth or idlenesse, what- 

 soeuer they aro otherwise for time ill 

 imployed, being persons of great spirit 

 and too great actiuitie. Nor of those 

 churchmen that, by tiieir doctrine in 

 the pulpit, and subscription of hands 

 to trayterous decrees, embased the 

 two daughters of King Henry the 

 Eight, both before and after the death 

 of King Edward the Sixt, for satisfac- 

 tion to the pride and ambition of an 

 aspiring humour. 



1 passe ouer the brainsieke opposi- 

 tion of Knox and Goodman, against 

 the two renowmed Maries, both 

 Queenes of Scotland, regent and in- 

 heretriee in our dayes ; nor of the lioric 

 triplicitie of Ballard, Clarke, and Wat- 

 son, of which number, the tirst prac- 

 tised the slaughter of the queene 

 deceased; the other two of the king 

 our soueraigne. I rip not vp the coni- 

 plots of Sergius the nionke, to bring 

 the Turke into the empire of the East; 

 nor of those false prophets that esta- 

 blished the race of Xarif, in Barbaric. 

 JVIy only drift and purpose is, to com- 

 pare former practises with tlie late 

 attempt, (though farre exceeding and 

 surmounting all that went bel'or(;,) to 

 niuke true subiects see for the better 



trial! 



