Great Brittans little calendar: or, Triple diarie, in remembrance of three daies Diuided into three treatises. 1. Britanniæ vota: or God saue the King: for the 24. day of March, the day of his Maiesties happy proclamation. 2. Cæsaris hostes: or, the tragedy of traytors: for the fift of August: the day of the bloudy Gowries treason, and of his Highnes blessed preseruation. 3. Amphitheatrum scelerum: or, the transcendent of treason: the day of a most admirable deliuerance of our King ... from that most horrible and hellish proiect of the Gun-Powder Treason Nouemb. 5. Whereunto is annexed a short disswasiue from poperie. By Samuel Garey, preacher of Gods Word at Wynfarthing in Norff.

CHAP. II.

AS the highest mountaines are most subiect * 1.1 to thunder and tempests, so the greatest Potentates exposed to dangers. Enuie and Treason, neuer aime at misery, but flies an higher pitch, and like vnto the s 1.2 Spider, liues in Kings Palaces, and lookes with blood-fallen eyes vpon the royall hands of him that holds the Scepter to bring him downe to his Sepulcher.

This hath befallen to many Kings, both good and bad, Christian and Heathen in all ages. Not to recite a long ca∣talogue of this cursed crew of Trayterous miscreants, whose memorial is perished with them, who haue attemp∣ted Treason against the Lords Annointed: Dauid a man after Gods owne heart, yet loc t 1.3 Sheba, the sonne of Bichri blowes his Trumpet, saying; We haue no part in Dauid,

neither haue we any inheritance in the sonne of Ishai; nay, not onely strangers, but his owne sonne u 1.4 Absolom proues a Traytor, and seekes his Kingdome. So, many others of the Kings of Israel, found Traytors to indanger them; yea, our Sauiour himselfe had a Iudas to betray him: King As∣suerus * 1.5 had his Bigthan, and Teresh, Traytors: Ester 2. Eze∣ch••as had his Shebna: Esay 22. 15. Looke vpon the reignes of Heathen Kings, and you shall find Histories full fraught with many examples. * 1.6 Augustus a famous Emperour, ten times assaulted by treacherous villains. Iulius Caesar found a Brutus and Cassius to kill him. Ʋespasian made totus ex clementia, All of mercy, as the Historian tels vs, yet for all that, x 1.7 Machinationes nefariorum assiduas expertus est, Hee found daily Treacheries attempted against him; and his Princely sonne Titus, graced in those dayes with Amor, & deliciae generis humani, the loue and delight of all mankind, yet had y 1.8 a Trayterous Cecinna to assault him. Antoninus had Traytors to trouble him, Cassius, Titianus, and Priscia∣nus: Berengarius the Emperour found Flambertus a Tray∣tor, whom yet he highly aduanced, and vsed in the secre∣cies of State, and familiarity; Sed eô magis aestuaret innocen∣tē tollere regem, So much the more he was set on fire to de∣stroy the innocent King, saith z 1.9 Cuspinian. What should I rehearse the troope of Traytors, which in former Ages haue lift vp their hands and hearts against their royall Ma∣sters? This last Age, prophesied by * 1.10 Saint Paul, to be peril∣lous times, wherein men shall be Traytors, hath fulfilled that prediction. These last dayes haue swarmed with such desperate and diuellish wretches, who by all meanes of mischiefe haue laboured in these attempts, not to play the part of a Notary or Recorder in forraign Nations, in pub∣lishing the names of Traytors, who haue infested their Kings or Countries; wee haue had too many in our natiue Countrey (whose names are registred in the Popes Kalen∣der of Martyrs, or the Hangmans Booke) who haue assaul∣ted in late times, our late dread Soueraigne Queene Eli∣zabeth, of blessed memory; and our most gracious and ver∣tuous King: two as famous Princes as euer here reigned,

and both admired of all the Monarkes vnder the Sunne. How many Traytors swarmed in Queen Elizabeths daies, how frequent were conspiracies of vngodly persons, Par∣ries, Lopusses, Babingtons, Campians, &c? and the roaring a 1.11 Buls came from Rome with thunderbolts of excommuni∣cation, depriuation; and all this was but Sonitus spinarum ardentium sub ••lla, Like the noise of thornes burning vn∣der the Pot, as Salomon, Eccle. 7. 8. And therefore these ful∣minations were againe confirmed by Pius Quintus his suc∣cessour, Gregory the 13. Yet all these plots instar vaporis euanuerunt, vanished away like smoake proceeding out of that smoaky Kingdome of Antichrist: and her Crowne, and person by the fauour of the Almighty, vnder whose shadow shee was protected, safely defended, and reigned forty and foure yeeres, foure moneths, and eight dayes, a Virgin Queene, and died in peace, in a full and glorious age; so beloued, so honoured, and so esteemed of her sub∣iects at home, and Princes abroad, as neuer any Queene more: so that it was verified of her truly, which the b 1.12 Psal∣mist of Christ typically; Why did the Heathen rage toge∣ther, and the People imagine a vaine thing? The Kings of the Earth stand vp, and the Princes assembled together a∣gainst the Lord, and against his Annointed: but he that dwelled in the Heauens did laugh them to scorne, the Lord had them in derision: for there c 1.13 is no wisdome, nei∣ther vnderstanding, nor counsell against the Lord.

And this our deare and dread Soueraigne, (whom the Lord of mercy still preserue) hath beene subiect to sundry dangers by wicked Traitors, as his Maiesty doth d 1.14 wit∣nesse it himselfe, not onely since his birth, but before his birth, euen in his Mothers belly; but especially to two most horrible Treasons, this in Scotland attempted by the bloudy Gowries, the fift of August, and the other in Eng∣land, the fift of Nouember, the Gun-powder Treason, from both which barbarous and monstrous proiects, (the latter no age can parallel the like) the great King of all Kings in his great mercy graciously protected him; that both King & subiects may say with Zachary, e 1.15 Being deliuered out of

the hands of our enemies, we may serue him without feare, in holinesse and righteousnesse before him all the daies of our liues. So that our King may vse the f 1.16 Psalmists words; When the wicked, euen mine enemies and my foes came vpon me to eat my flesh, they stumbled and fell. The Lord did g 1.17 reward them according to their deeds, and according to the wickednesse of their inuentions. Therefore giue i 1.18 vnto the Lord O ye sonnes of the mighty, giue vnto the Lord all the glory for your deliuerance.

Notes

• * 1.1

  Feriunt summos fulmina mentes. Sola miseria caret inuidia:
• s 1.2

  Pro. 30. 28.
• t 1.3

  2 Sam. 20. 1.
• u 1.4

  2 Sam. 15.
• * 1.5

  King Benhadad his Hazael to strang••e him. 2 K. 8. 15. King Antiochus his Tryphon to kill him. 1 Mach. 13. 21.
• * 1.6

  Sueton. c. 19.
• x 1.7

  Sueton. c. 25.
• y 1.8

  Sueton. c. 16
• z 1.9

  Cuspinian in •…•…∣reng.
• * 1.10

  2 Tim. 3. 1 4
• a 1.11

  Pius Q. An. Do. 1570. In qua declarauit reginam hereti∣cam, & regni iure prtuatam, & sub∣ditos omni domi∣nij fidelitatis, & obsequij debito perpetuò absolutos, &c.
• b 1.12

  Psa. 2. 1. 2. 4.
• c 1.13

  Pro. 21. 30.
• d 1.14

  His speech the Parliament after the Gun-powder treason. Pag. 2.
• e 1.15

  Luk. 1. 74. 75
• f 1.16

  Psalm. 27. 2.
• g 1.17

  28. 4.
• i 1.18

  Psalme 29. 1.