ALthough, at the late arraignments at Westmin­ster of Edmonde Campion, and other his complices cō ­demned there of sundry high treasons, it was manifestly declared and fully proued, how they all, vnder prctence of the names of Ie­suites, Seminarie Priests, & other persons of like condition, had secretly come into this Realme by the sending of sundrie persons authorized by the Pope, to moue the people by their secret per­swasions to change their professions in the mat­ter of Religion, of long time quietly established in this Realme, and to be reconciled to the obe­dience of the Pope, and withdrawen from their naturall allegeance due to the Queenes Ma­iestie, and by these meanes to be readie in their heartes and mindes and otherwise prouided, to ioyne their forces aswell with such as their Heads & superiours which sent them, intended speedily to procure to be sent into this Realme, as with other rebellious Subiectes by them to be thereto also excited, of purpose to depriue her Maiestie of her life, crowne and dignitie, in like [Page] maner as lately hath bene notoriously attemp­ted and put in execution by D. Sanders an errant and detestable Traitour, and whilest hee liued one of the saide Campions companions, and by other English and Irish Iesuites and Traitours in Ireland, where they had first by their like se­cret meanes and perswasions, entised a great multitude of people of that Land, first to change their profession of Religion and to acknowledge the Popes authoritie, and to renounce the iust authoritie of her Maiestie, and so departing from their allegeance vpon the arriuall of for­reine forces they did enter into a manifest Rebel­lion, against the which Almightie God the iust auenger of Rebels, by his goodnesse hath giuen her Maiestie (through her good ministers) pow­er to the vanquishing not onely of those forreine forces, but also of a great number of the Rebels there: Yet it is maliciously, falsly, and traite­rously by some of the secret fauourers of the said Campion, and other the said condemned Trai­tours, whispered in corners, that the offences of these traitours, were but for their secret attemp­tings as Iesuites by exhorting & teaching, with Shriuing, Massing, & such like actes, to moue people to change their Religion, and to yelde their obedience to the Pope as Christes vicar (although the same are of themselues offences very vainous, and seedes of sedicion not allow­able by the Lawes of the Realme) whereas in [Page] very trueth neuerthelesse it did manifestly ap­peare vpon their Juditements and at their ar­raignements by sundrie confessions of some of their owne companions, and by many good proofes and witnesses produced and sworne be­fore their faces, that their factes, whereof they were arraigned and condemned, were such as were in trueth high Treasons committed a­gainst her Maiesties most Royall person, and against the ancient Lawes and Statutes of this Realme, which many hundred yeeres past were in force against like Traytours, and not for factes of doctrine or Religion, nor yet for of­fences against any late or newe Statutes, the same being many conspiracies at sundry times beyond the Seas, at Rome in Italie, and other places, and lastly at Rheims in Fraunce, where there are nourished by the Popes authoritie in Seminaries, multitudes of English Iesuites, Se­minarie Priestes, and Fugitiues, whereof their Heads & Gouernours vse continually in their Sermons and in their Bookes publiquely printed, as Traitours to declare their traite­rous mindes, as farrefoorth as they can, to the depriuation of the Queenes Maiestie of her life and crowne, to which endes the saide Cam­pion & his said Companions, by procurement of their ssaid Heads, came secretly into this Realme to moue the Subiects to renounce their natu­rall obedience, and according to a Bull of the [Page] last Pope Pius published, to perswade all sortes with whom they durst secretly deale, that her Maiestie, by the sayd Popes excommunication, was not the lawfull Queene of the Realme, nor that the Subiects were bounde to obey any of her lawes or Ministers, but that they were all free and discharged of their obedience and alle­geance, and that they might lawfully, yea that when time might serue, they ought to take armes against her Maiestie, as in the late rebel­lion in y ^e North was manifestly by like meanes put in execution, and as nowe also lately was notoriously attempted in Ireland, by stirring vp the people in the Popes name, and vnder his standerd to an open general rebellion, & to haue brought these thinges to passe in this Realme, was the comming into this Realme of the said Campion & his Complices most manifestly tried and proued, as if by Gods goodnesse by their ap­prehensions after their secret wanderings and disguisings of them selues in a great part of the Shires of the Realme these Traitours had not bene now stayed, and by iust punishments orde­red to be executed, there would haue appeared such mischiefe as is lamentable to be thought of, to y ^e danger of her Maiesties person, & to the ha­zard and ruine of the whole Realme, by inuasion of the same with forreine enemies, & by raising of inward warre within the Realme, the ende and euent whereof, as of all warre ciuil, can not be [Page] without great griefe mentioned or imagined.

And to y ^e further reproofe and condemnation of the saide Campion and other the Traitours nowe condemned, they being all seuerally and earnestly required at y ^e place of their arraigne­ment to declare what they thought of the saide Popes Bull (by which her Maiestie was in the Popes intention depriued of the Crowne) and of Doctor Sanders, and of Bristowes traiterous writings in maintenance of the saide Bull, and allowance of the Rebellion in the North, and of Saunders trayterous actions in Irelande, and being likewise demaunded what they did thinke if the present Pope should publish the like Bull, none of them all, but one onely named Rushton, coulde be perswaded by any their an­sweres to shewe in any part their mislykings eyther of the former Bull, or of D. Sanders, or Bristowes traiterous writings or actions, or of the Pope that nowe is, if he shoulde nowe pub­lish the like Bull against her Maiestie, so as they did apparantly shew their traiterous hearts stil fixed to persist in their deuilish mindes against their naturall allegeance: Whereof God giue all good Subiects being true Englishmen borne, grace to beware, and in no sort to giue eare or succour to such pernicious Traitours, how­soeuer they shall be couered with hypocrisie, and false and fained holines of Rome.

God saue the Queene, long to reigne to his honour.