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. III.

TREASON hath beene alwaies accounted an heynous sinne, and by k 1.1 Iustinian ranked next to Sacriledge, Crimen laesae Maiestatis proximū Sacrilegio, &c. Treason is next to Sacriledge, the one a robbery of God, this is 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 a fighting with God: so odious that the sole intention, without action or execution, is death: for Voluntas reputatur pro facto in * 1.2 causa proditionis, The will is accounted for the deede in Treason.

Principis in rehus & voluisse sat est.

And therefore there was a statute made in the reigne of Edward the third, That whosoeuer shal imagine the Kings death, are guilty of rebellion, and high treason. This sta∣tute toucheth all Iesuites, who are perduellionum signiferi, the ring-leaders of Rebels to animate them to rebellion, vnder a colour of religion.

If the meere intention of Treason be so capitall, what then is the Action?

Clamitat im coelum vox sanguinis:

The * 1.3 voyce of blood cryes to heauen for reuenge. VVhat doth the voyce of royall bloud spilt by the hands of exe∣crable Parricides, destroying Gods owne image, the Lords Annointed? May I not call such, as Polycarpe called Mar∣cion, l 1.4 Daemonis filiolos, the Deuils children? and say as our Sauiour did to the Iewes, Ye m 1.5 are of your Father the De∣uill,

he hath beene a murtherer from the beginning.

Nay, the very Heathens (void of Gods word) did great∣ly abhorre Traitors, and seuerely punish them.

Traitors among the Greekes were brought to Delphos, and they did offer them a quicke sacrifice to Apollo. The Persians did bury such quicke: and the Romanes brought such to the publicke Theaters, where they were hewed in peeces per gladiatores, by the sword-players. Cn: Pompeius the Great, made a Law (as n 1.6 Pomponius re∣lates it) to punish Parricides, destroyers of Fathers or Mo∣thers in this kinde, To put them into a great vessell or tun, or such like instrument, inclosing with them in it a Dogge, a Viper, a Cocke, and an Ape, and to cast them into the Sea. VVhat then shall be done to the publicke Parricides, destroyers of Kings and Countries? Our Lawes of o 1.7 Eng∣land hath prouided for them a fit punishment, which is this: A Traytor conuicted, hath his punishment to be drawne from his prison to the place of execution, as being vnwor∣thy any more to tread vpon the Mother earth, and that backward, his head downe-ward, as hauing beene retro∣grade to the naturall course of obedience, after hanged vp by the necke twixt heauen and earth, as deemed vnworthy of both: his priuy parts cut off, as vnfit to leaue any ge∣neration behinde him: his bowels and entrailes burned, which in wardly conceiued and concealed Treason: his head cut off which imagined such mischiefe: and last of all, his body quartered, as a prey for the birds of the aire: and * 1.8 as it was said of a traiterous Iesuite:

Sic bene pascit aues, qui malè pauit oues:

In life he had no care the sheepe to feede, And now his carkasse serues the fowles in neede.

The Apostle p 1.9 Paul saith, That they that resist shall re∣ceiue to themselues iudgement. The greeuousnesse of iudgement should be proportionable to the heynousnesse of the crime; for if the law q 1.10 requireth an eye for an eye a tooth for a tooth, life for life; what death sufficient for a r 1.11 Traytor that kills a King, a murderer of many, who is worth ten thousand of vs, so that hee cannot be sufficient∣ly

punished of man, but God also will punish him who is a reuenger of such sins. Neuer did I reade of any Traytor * 1.12 that did euer escape both the hand of man, & hand of God.

Looke vpon Absalom a double Traytor, to his Father, and his King, his end sutable: First, his chiefe Counseller and plotter s 1.13 Achitophel hanged himselfe: t 1.14 twenty thou∣sand of his adherents were slaine in battell: Last of all, Absalom u 1.15 by the hand of Heauen was hanged vp by the hayre of his head, in stead of an halter, vpon an Oake tree in stead of a gallowes or gybbet.

Sheba * 1.16 that traiterous Rebell lost his head for his trea∣son against Dauid.

King x 1.17 Ammon, the sonne of King Manasses, an euill King, was slaine by his seruants, who conspired against him, & slew him in his owne house: but this bloudy fact of King-killing was so odious to the people of the land, that they slew them al that had conspired against King Ammon.

Treacherous y 1.18 Zimri slue his King, but the people hea∣ring of it, made Omri King, to take Zimri; who fired the Kings house, and died in the fire.

Bigthan z 1.19 and Teresh, who sought to lay hand on King Assuerus, were both hanged on a tree.

The Scripture is plentifull in such examples. In profane histories there is a cloude of witnesses to verifie the pu∣nishments of Traytors.

Brutus and Cassius, who killed Caesar, neuer enioyed good, till bloud was requited with bloud.

VVe reade of * 1.20 Eugenius that rebelled against the Em∣peror Theodosius, whose rebellious army the Lord dismaid, so that Eugenius was forced to fall downe at the feete of Theodosius, and had his rebellious head cut off from his shoulders.

So of a 1.21 Procopius, who rebelled against the Emperour Ʋalens, who being taken, had for reward his two legges tyed to two young trees growing neare together, bowed downe by strength; which being suddenly let rise, rent the body of Procopius, who would haue rent the body of the kingdome.

So of b 1.22 Magnensius, who rebelled against Constans the Emperor, who neuer enioyed good day after, till hee was destroyed by Constantius the Emperors brother.

Annibal c 1.23 Bentiuolus, chiefe Ruler of the Bononians, was killed by Cannensis, who conspired against him; but presently the multitude were stirred vp with the sight of that bloudy fact, and destroyed with death all that stocke and family.

The same d 1.24 Author tells vs of the bloudy and treache∣rous murder of that butcherly Monster Oliuerot, who sen∣ding letters to Iohn Foglianus, that he might be honoura∣bly receiued at Firmanis, and beeing nobly entertained, treacherously pretends a great Feast, inuiting Foglianns, and the chiefe men of the City; after the banquet, by his Souldiers appointed in secret places, kils them all that were present: a most barbarous and diuellish stratagem: but afterwards he payd the price of bloud, for * 1.25 his throat was cut and so hee died: Miserè pereunt, qui malè perdunt, Bloud calls for bloud. Caines Conscience so prickt for murder, that he thought e 1.26 euery man that met him would haue killed him: if they escape (which yet is rare) the hand of man, neuer the hand of Diuine Iustice.

Herod no parricide, or Regicida, but Puericida, a mur∣derer of children f 1.27 from two yeeres olde and vnder, by his greatnesse scapes mortall reuenge, but not Diuine Iustice on earth; for hee died most miserably, and I will set it downe in g 1.28 Theophylacts words, Amara morte perijt Herod, febri, dysenteria, & scabie, & podagra, & putredine veren∣dorum, generatione vermium, spirandi difficultate, & tremore, & contractione membrorum malam absoluit animam. Alike was the end of that bloudy Tyrant Antiochus, whom h 1.29 the Lord punished with the paine of the bowels that was re∣medilesse, and sore torments in the inner parts, and all his members bruised with a great fall; so that wormes came out of the body of this wicked man in aboundance, and * 1.30 his flesh fell off for paine, and all his army grieued at the smell, so that no man could beare him because of his stink, * 1.31 no not his owne selfe: Thus that murderer suffered most

grieuously, and as he had intreated other men, so he died a miserable death: for with what i 1.32 measure men mete, it shall be measured to them againe.

This is so cleare a Truth, that murder neuer goes vnpu∣nished on earth, by God or Man, as that diuine & humane histories, & common experience affords pregnant proofes and examples: then how much more will the Lord re∣uenge the murder of his owne Vicegerents, whom hee hath giuen a generall precept, not k 1.33 to touch them, no l 1.34 not to curse them in thought, much lesse to hurt them in deed, as Traytors doe, or desire?

Hor: epod. 7.

• Quô, quô scelestiruitis, aut cur dexteris
• Aptantur enses conditi?

What meane you (ô ye monsters of men,) are you m 1.35 not afraid to put forth your hands to destroy the Anointed of the Lord? Can you lay your hands vpon them and be guilt∣lesse? Remember n 1.36 Ignatius godly counsell, No man euer remained vnpunished which lifted vp himselfe against his Prince. Though they want power to accomplish their bloudy actions, yet are they odious Traytors in the eyes of God and man.

Looke vpon the tragedy of those Traytors whom Hel∣debrand the Pope stirred vp against * 1.37 Henry the fourth the Emperor. First he stirred vp Rodulphus, then Hermannus, and afterward Ecbertus, all seruants and subiects to their Lord and Master the Emperor. And when these failed, his successour Pope Ʋrbane * 1.38 raised vp Conradus, and Hen∣ricus, the Sonnes against the Father; all laboured to their power in this proiect of rebellion, marke the issue and end.

First their Author & ghostly Father in this Treason the Romane Achitophel, Gregory the seuenth, alias Heldebrand, not like Achitophel hanged himselfe, but for his bloudy & bestiall life was forsaken of his people, eiected out of his * 1.39 Popedome, and died in sorrow, misery, and infamy.

Secōdly, Rodulph had his right hand cut off in a skirmish, & fetching deepe sighes, ready to giue vp the ghost, said to certaine Bishops, Behold this is the right hand wherewith * 1.40

I swore fealty to Henry, and lo now I leaue his kingdome and my life.

Thirdly, Hermannus had his treacherous head by a great stone cast downe by a woman, deadly broken, so that his braines dasht in peeces, running about his eares: which did affright his army, and scattered them with feare.

Fourthly, Ecbertus did flie out of his Throne into a sinkehole, and hoping to saue his life, lost it.

Fiftly, Conradus the elder sonne, rightly dis-inherited, did end his daies miserably. * 1.41

Sixtly, Henry the younger sonne by periurie and cruell treachery against his Father, gate the Crowne, but with * 1.42 little comfort.

And since many of the Popes of Rome haue Heldebran∣dized, raising vp Subiects to rebell against their Soue∣raignes; whose successe hath bin sutable to their attempts.

The Chronicles of euery Nation haue too many exam∣ples * 1.43 of Dukes, Earles, Lords, Knights, Gentlemen, and others of inferiour sort, prouing Traytors to their annoin∣ted Gouernours, whose treacherous acts haue found tra∣gicall ends.

Traytors are odious euen to their Abettors and Mai∣sters, * 1.44 who first moued them to that villany: and, as it was said of Antoninus, Odit Tyrannum, non tyrannidem, They may like the treason, but they loath the Traytor. Alex∣ander the Great (as Iustin saith) at his Fathers obsequies, commanded publike iustice to be done vpon those, whom he had before secretly imployed to kill him.

And Nero the monster of men, as o 1.45 Tacitus saith, disauo∣wed his Commissiō giuen to asouldier to kil Agrippa. Such agents are abhorred of their Adiutors, and if possibly they can, they will be their executioners, for feare they should disclose their conspiracy: for both are * 1.46 Traytors, & both worthy of death. Some desperate wretches, who for loue of the trencher, or for hope of reward, or for some other respects, will be wagered and hired to enterprise hellish and horrible designes; who being debosht vassals, bank∣rout of grace and goodnes, to purchase loue or liuing (as

they hope) of them of whom they haue dependance, whose hearts are died in a deepe tincture of disobedience, will hazard life, lands, yea hell it selfe, to atchieue the pro∣iects of their animating superiours. So said Restalrig, that * 1.47 is, a perfect Traytor or Gowrie, for they two in this con∣spiracy had but one heart; My Lord, I am resolued (saith he) to perill life, lands, honor, goods, yea and the hazard of hell shall not fray mee, though the scaffold were alrea∣die * 1.48 set vp. A miserable resolution with a miserable con∣fusion. But hee had his demerits though not in so high a kinde as hee deserued: and bloudy Gowrie strooken stone dead in the place where he intended, and striued to act his Treason: p 1.49 Cognatum, imo innatum omni sceleri sceleris sup∣plicium: The fruits of Treason, shame and death: That it may be said of wicked Gowries and their adherents, in the words of the q 1.50 Psalmist; O enemy, destructions are come to a perpetuall end, their memoriall is perished with them. The hea∣then are sunke downe in the pit that they made, in the net that they hid is their foote taken.

Notes

• k 1.1

  F: Tit. ad legem Iulian. Ma. l. 1.
• * 1.2

  Et patitur paenas peccandi sola vo∣luntas: Hor.
• * 1.3

  Gen. 4. 10.
• l 1.4

  Iraeneus lib. 3. c. 3
• m 1.5

  Iohn 8. 44.
• n 1.6

  De Roma. legib'.
• o 1.7

  Stanford pleas of the Crowne. lib. 3. c. 19.
• * 1.8

  In cruce pascere corues.
• p 1.9

  Rom. 13. 2.
• q 1.10

  Exod. 21. 23. 24.
• r 1.11

  2 Sam. 18. 3.
• * 1.12

  Sequitur hos à ter∣go vltor Deus, vel homo:
• s 1.13

  2 Sam. 17. 23.
• t 1.14

  2 Sam. 18. 7.
• u 1.15

  2 Sam. 18. 9.
• * 1.16

  2 Sam. 20. 22.
• x 1.17

  2. Chron. 33: 24. 25.
• y 1.18

  1 King. 16. 18.
• z 1.19

  Ester. 2. 21. 22. So that Amale∣kite that hasted Sauls death, yet wishing and wil∣ling it, was put to death by Da∣uid. 2 Sam. 1. 15.
• * 1.20

  Trip. histo. lib. 9. c. 45.
• a 1.21

  Trip. hist. lib. 7. c. 15.
• b 1.22

  Lib. eccl. 10. c. 15.
• c 1.23

  Mach. prin. c. 19▪
• d 1.24

  Mach. prin. c. 8.
• * 1.25

  Fracta gula in∣terijt vbi supra.
• e 1.26

  Gen. 4▪ 14. Clytus Ghoast terrifies great Alexander: and Agrippinas Nero.
• f 1.27

  Math. 2. 16.
• g 1.28

  Theoph. enar. iu 2 Math.
• h 1.29

  2 Macch. 9. 5.
• * 1.30

  7. 9.
• * 1.31

  10 12 28
• i 1.32

  Math. 7. 2,
• k 1.33

  1 Chr. 16. 21.
• l 1.34

  Eccl. 10. 2••,
• m 1.35

  2 Sam. 1. 14.
• n 1.36

  Ignat. epist. 2, ad Magnesianos.
• * 1.37

  T'is Emperor vexed by; Popes H••ld••brand, Vr∣•…•… & T•…•…balis.
• * 1.38

  Ipsias V•…•…ni auyhoritate regnis aduersus patrem i•• Lombar•…•… •…•…∣pit: Sigon. reg. 〈◊〉〈◊〉. p. 384.
• * 1.39

  Sigeber. Anno 1084.
• * 1.40

  Ʋspergen. in Anno 1080.
• * 1.41

  Sigon. pag. 387.
• * 1.42

  Nau••••er. pag. 801. Vit. Hen. pag. 49.
• * 1.43

  Tormenta malorū s••nt exempla mul∣torum.
• * 1.44

  Proditores etiam 1, quos anteponūt muisi sunt.
• o 1.45

  Tacit. 1. Annal.
• * 1.46

  Nihil interest, an faueas sceleri, an illud facias? Sene. Nulla est excusatio ••ccati, si amici ausa 〈◊〉〈◊〉: 〈◊〉〈◊〉 in L•…•…o.
• * 1.47

  Exam: of George Sprot: pag. 〈◊〉〈◊〉.
• * 1.48

  Si timor Dei non tenet, teneat timor Iudicis, m••tus ge∣bennae, laque•• mor∣tis, dolores infer∣ni, &c. Hugo. lib. 3. de Anima.
• p 1.49

  Lipsi••es de Const. lib. 2. c. 13.
• q 1.50

  Psal. 9. 6. 15.