BOOK great search made, the money was found and restored, she I. not knowing of the same. The recorder examined her in Anno 1581. his study privately. But by no means would she confess 64 the same: but did bequeath herself to the Devil, both body and soul, if she had the money, or ever saw it. And this was her craft, that she then [when she said so] had not the money for it was either at her friend's, where she left it, or else delivered. Then he asked her, whether the French merchant did not bring her a bag sealed, full of the metal that was weighty; were it either plate, coin, counters, or such like: then said she, I will answer no further. And then the recorder, using the lord mayor's advice, bestowed her in Bridewell; where she was punished, being well whipped. It was observable what she said then, that the Devil stood at her elbow in the recorder's study, and willed her to deny it. But so soon as she was upon the cross to be punished, he gave her over. A woman a necromancer, self. The same recorder, Fleetwood, about this time, acquainted secretary Walsingham, in a letter to him, of another drowns her- strange accident; of a woman, named Mrs. Norton, that had drowned herself. She was mother-in-law to one Thomas Norton, a person of some reputation in London; whose father was then aged, and sick in bed. In her youth she was bred up in sir Thomas More's family: in which place she learned idolatrous toys, (I transcribe from the recorder's letter,) and usages in the night; so as thereby she was led by evil spirits sometimes to hang herself, and sometimes to drown herself, as she did at last. Some part of her lewd demeanour was in the exercise of necromancy: that is to say, in conferences and speeches had (as she thought) with dead bodies, being of her old acquaintance. The recorder writ this accident the rather to the said secretary, because she had left behind her divers children, brothers to the said Thomas Norton, which were shrewdly given. And that if the old man should then die, it was to be feared all his goods would come to a spoil. And therefore he proposed, that if Mr. Peter Osborn [who was a worthy citizen and remembrancer of the exchequer] had a commandment, he VI. could devise some good order (as he, the recorder, thought) CHAP. for the saving of things that might be lost. And he prayed his honour to make the lord treasurer [who was master of Anno 1581. the wards] acquainted with the unfortunate case. Such was the care of this good recorder, of the children of the city. CHAP. VII. Books set forth this year. English Justice, by cardinal Allen. A Discovery of Campion, the Jesuit, by A. Monday. The English Roman Life. Answer Apologetical, by Dr. Haddon and J. Fox, to Osorius's Invective. The unfolding of sundry Untruths, &c. in answer to a book writ by a libertine. Castalio's book of Free-Will, complained of. A View of Antichrist in our English Church unreformed. Exposition of the Symbol of the Apostles, by J. Field. Two sermons of T. Bradford, the martyr. Examination of certain ordinary complaints. Positions for Education of Children in Learning, by R. Mulcaster. A Discourse of Royal Monarchy, by Charles Merbury. The Pathway to Martial Discipline. Another, called, A compendious Treatise de re militari; dedicated to Mr. Philip Sydney. A brief Conceipt of English Policy. Eirenarcha, of the office of justices of peace, by Mr. W. Lambard. The Pentateuch in six Languages: sent from Beza. IN this year, I find these books printed; set forth by persons of divers principles, the authors. 65 cardinal Al English Justice: a book set forth by cardinal Allen, of English the sufferings, deprivations, and banishments of the catholic Justice, by clergy and laity, under queen Elizabeth, chiefly upon her len. access to the crown, in these words: "We yield unto the "libeller (as he styled him that gave occasion to his writing "that his English Justice) fourteen noble and most worthy bishops at one time, [who were deprived,] inferior in vir"tue and learning to none in Europe; who were all de 66 1. BOOK prived of their honours and high callings: and most of "them imprisoned, and spitefully used in all respects: beAnno 1581." side the famous confessor, archbishop of Armachar, pri"mate of Ireland, and a number of bishops of that coun 66 66 try. Next, we yield you in banishment two worthy Eng"lish prelates of the same dignity: the one [viz. Pate] dead, "the other [viz. Goldwel] yet alive in Rome: three elects, "bishops, all now departed this life. We name the ho"nourable abbot of Westminster, [Feckenham,] four priors, 66" or superiors of religious covents, with three whole covents, put out of their possessions, either into prison, or "out of the realm. In the same case were a dozen of fa"mous, learned deans, which, next to the bishops, do hold "the chief dignities in the English cathedral churches; "fourteen archdeacons; above threescore canons of cathe"dral churches; not so few as an hundred priests of good preferment in queen Mary's reign, besides many one made "in our banishment, and since martyred; fifteen heads or "rectors of colleges in Oxford and Cambridge, men of "great importance in those universities and in the com"monwealth; and with them, and the rather by their good "example and provocation, not many years after, many of "the chief professors of all sciences, and above twenty doc"tors of divers faculties, for conscience sake fled the realm, "or were in the realm imprisoned. And both at the first, " and in divers years since, have many of the very flower of "the universities come over, both into the society, [of Je 66 sus,] seminaries, and other places famous for learning; "where, through God's goodness, and the great benignity "of prelates, princes, and catholic people, they have passed "their long banishment in honest poverty, and some in "worshipful callings and rooms in universities, with as "much grace and favour as to foreigners could be yielded; "in no place, thanks be to our Lord God, impeached of "crimes or disorders. Whereof we can shew the honour"able testimony of the best, where we have lived in all na❝tions." This was in answer to what the libeller (as he styled him) wrote, viz. "That very few were fled for religion, other CHAP. "than such as were not able to live at home but in beg 66 VII. gary, or discontinued for lack of preferment, which they Anno 1581. gaped for unworthily in universities and other places, or "bankrupt merchants," &c. And then this writer shewing the difference between those that left them and those that came over to them, both in respect of number and quality, thus he boasts: "So ear"nestly they woo every poor apostata, lewd scholar, and "loose companion, that for weariness of banishment, loose "life, or impatience, looketh homeward toward heresy, or "carnal liberty, or licence again, &c. While we, in the 66 mean space, receive hundreds of their ministers, a num"ber of their best wits, many delicate young gentlemen, “ and divers heirs of all ages, voluntarily flying from their "damnable condition, and seeking after God: and many "of them also becoming priests or religious." This is the strain of the foresaid book: and as far as the writer is to be depended on, we may learn how the state of the kingdom stood as to popery, and particularly the industry of these English learned papists abroad to make proselytes. But this book was substantially answered a year or two after, viz. 1583, in a book called The Answer to English Justice. The Discovery of Campion, the Jesuit: a book that came The Discoout about this time; writ by A. Monday, a man the better very of Campion. able to discover what Campion was, and his courses, himself having sometimes lived in the seminary at Rome, the pope's 67 scholar there; and afterwards came home, and fell off from them. His book he presented to Bromley, lord chancellor, to lord Burghley, lord treasurer, and to the earl of LeicesThis writer made a further discovery of the English at Rome, in another book which he printed some years after, and dedicated it to the same noble persons. It was called The English Roman Life. "Discovering the lives of such "Englishmen as by secret escape left their own country to "live in Rome, under the servile yoke of the pope's governAlso after what manner they spend their time "there: practising and daily looking for the overthrow and ter. "ment. BOOK "ruin of their princess and country." And further account I. may be given of this book hereafter, in the course of the Anno 1581. history. An Answer cal to Oso rius. This year also came forth an Answer Apologetical against Apologeti- Jerome Osorius, a Portuguese bishop of Sylvain, being a pretty thick quarto, translated out of Latin into English, by James Bell, and dedicated to the lord Arundel. That which gave occasion to this book was this. This Portugal bishop had writ a long epistle in Latin to the queen; in which he fancied many monstrous errors to be received in our church; and with reproachful railings depraved the professors of that gospel. This somewhat provoked Walter Haddon, a learned civilian; insomuch that he gave answer to several particular points in his book: which he did in a very elegant Latin style; thinking that what he had writ might have better informed and satisfied the man. Of this I have Vol. i. chap. given some account in my Annals. After a year or two, Haddon was appointed the queen's agent in Flanders, and was leger at Bruges. At which time another Portugal bishop, called Emanuel d'Almada, undertook the defence of his friend Osorius; and stuffed a great volume full of slanders and brabbles: and in the end of his book caused certain ugly pictures to be pourtrayed, thereby to defame Haddon's personage; one of their ways of answering an Apology for author by personal abuses. In this Apology, (for so he Osorius, by called it,) Haddon seeing how it was filled with scoffs and absurdities, (which two things being taken away, there remained nothing else beside,) after some deliberation with himself, he despised the answering of it. 32 and 87. Dalmada. Character of Osorius. Two years being past, Tho. Wilson, LL.D. (and Haddon's friend,) returning from Portugal to England, brought over, at Osorius's request, several volumes of the said Osorius, framed into three books. One of them he delivered unto Haddon. He perused it once or twice, (as he tells us in his epistle,) and trusted that Osorius, being now installed a bishop, would have been a much more modest man than he was before; but found that it fell out quite contrary. For instead of a civil and sober person, he found him a most fri |