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A description of the Persons.
THe Romish professors, who teach * 1.1 the people to eate their God, and kill their King, were the chiefe in∣struments in the Powder-treason: all the Actors, and adherents were great Recusants. Lay Recusants, Catesby, Percy, Winter, Tresham, Wright, &c. deuised the plot, and
then the lesuits fell in with them: allowed, and ratified by Garnet, Gerard, O••••corne, Greenewell, &c. Iesuits, and Po∣pish Priests. Garnet imparted the Popes Breues to Cates∣by, a right Catiline, whereby he was stirred vp to deuise some way to worke a generall ouerthrowe. This Cates∣by was the inuentor of this Villanie:
* 1.2Accipe nunc Danaúm insidias, & crimine ab vno disce omnes.
Learne by this Traytors odious fault, and fall, Yee Papists to abhorre Treason in generall:
This * 1.3 Canniball, or Roman-catholicke Catesby, hauing bethought him of the powder-plot for the blowing vp of the Parliament house, in generall rearmes breakes the case to Garnet: What if in some case the innocent should be de∣stroyed with the guilty? He answers, they might, so that it were for a good able to recompence the lo••se of the in∣nocent. And afterward the plot plainly propounded to him, not by way of confession, as his Procters pleade for him, but in conference about it: as he voluntarily confes∣sed before his death, that Greenewell with this Catesby was heard of him, not confessing, but consulting: yet if it had beene by way of confession (for his owne confession prooues the contrary) he should haue reuealed the plot, if not the parties, yea the parties also, if hee would follow the example of his fellow-confessors. Bodin a 1.4 doth relate an example heerein, how a Norman had a purpose to kill King Francis, yet afterward changed his minde, (these farre from such thoughts) and opens this sinne in his con∣fession to a Minorite Frier, of his former, yet forsaken pur∣pose: the Frier doth enioine him penance, and grants ab∣splution: yet declares all to the King, and the Iudges of the Court of Paris cause him to be executed. But these who before had turned them from the true religion, and tutored them in the Schoole of rebellion, were so far from reuealing, as that their heads and hearts were with them to 〈◊〉〈◊〉 well of the accomplishing: Gerard gaue the Tray∣tors the Sacrament to kind them to secrecy: Hammond in 〈◊〉〈◊〉 house absolued the Traytors, the Treason reuea∣led:
Oldcorne, alias Hall defends the plot being discoue∣red, and willes the Catholickes not to be discouraged.
Tesmond plotted with Garnet, and goes vp and downe to raise vp Armes. The publicke writings of our state and * 1.5 records heerein, with some of their owne confessions, examinations, and subscriptions, are inuincible witnesses against all the cauels of deprauing Papists, who labour to cleere these their polyprogmaticke Priests, from hauing an hand in so hellish a plot, by desperate, and notorious vn∣truths. But it is manifest by the mouth of Time, & Truth, * 1.6 that these Priests were priuie to the Powder plot, against all Popish calumniations suggested to the contrary: and these Lay Recusants hauing first suckt the pestilent poy∣son of this vnheard Treachery out of the ill humors of Po∣pish doctrine, infused into them by the treasonable Tribe of Iesuits, who teach Treason, and cause Traytors to be canonized in Romes Calender:
* 1.7Proh Superi, quantum mortalia pectoracaecae Noctis habent: ipso sceleris molimine Tereus Creditur essepius, laudemque á crimine sumit.
O Lord, what hearts possessed with the night Of deepest ignorance, depriu'd of sauing light, Can grace with praise such deedes of darknesse right.
These politicke Priests, knowing these their Lay-disci∣ples * 1.8 to be of turbulent, and treasonable Spirits, imitated Gracchus striplings, stirring vp such as be offended alrea∣dy, making them their Captaines and Standard bearers, while they might with security expect the hoped issue of this fearefull Treachery. So that these Priests, next to the Prince of the Aire, (who caused these children of disobe∣dience to worke vnder the earth) may challenge the chiefe place, and precedencie in the Plot: and may say, da locum, giue vs the place, you were the Actors, we Authors, com∣manding you to do all seruice for the Catholicke cause, to aduenture your lifes & blood for replanting our religion, to spare neither head, or mebers, but to strike at the Root, to make such a confusion as might beget a new alteration; to labor with Esop: frogs for a Cico••ia, an Italian Storke,
and stranger to rule heere, so to suster no Protestant ruler, nolumus hunc regnare, we will haue none such rule ouer vs, and for the effecting of it, you know our Doctrine, and practise.
Flectere sinequeo superos, Acheronta mouebo:
If we cannot preuaile with God aboue, As low as hell shall our inuentions mooue.
And because some may thinke I doe them wrong, in gi∣uing such badges, and aspersions to the Iesuited * 1.9 flocke, in making them the Trumpetors of treason, and procurers, and practisers of King-killing, (an Art highly commen∣ded in their Schoole) I will take vpon me briefely to de∣clare, how welcome Traytors be to that Tribe, and how highly by them they are commended, who of all the world beside are loathed, and abhorred.
They that with their teeth will teare their brea∣den God, would eate vp Gods people as bread. psal. 14. 4.
Virg:
Si hi Sancti, qui Scythae? Si hi sunt Catholici, qui Cannibales?
Libro 2. de ••epub. c. 5.
Ex Actis public is Henrici Garnetti Londini editis.
Vide edictum re∣gium promulga∣tum 15. lanua. Anno. 1606. vbi expressum Iesuitas esse Auctores, & inuentores illius proditoriae Ma∣chinationis.
Ouid. Me∣ta. lib.
Quis tulerit Gracchos de sedi∣tione querentes?
Aequiuocans animal, penitusque Sinonià proles: doctum mancipi∣um, tuba, fax, & Machina Martis.