A replie vnto a certaine libell, latelie set foorth by Fa: Parsons, in the name of vnited priests, intituled, A manifestation of the great folly and bad spirit, of certaine in England, calling themselues seculer priestes VVith an addition of a table of such vncharitable words and phrases, as by him are vttered in the said treatise, aswell against our parsons, as our bookes, actions, and proceedings.

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A replie vnto a certaine libell, latelie set foorth by Fa: Parsons, in the name of vnited priests, intituled, A manifestation of the great folly and bad spirit, of certaine in England, calling themselues seculer priestes VVith an addition of a table of such vncharitable words and phrases, as by him are vttered in the said treatise, aswell against our parsons, as our bookes, actions, and proceedings.
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Clark, William, d. 1603.
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Anno Dom. 1603.
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Parsons, Robert, 1546-1610. -- Manifestation of the great folly of certayne in England calling themselves secular priestes.
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"A replie vnto a certaine libell, latelie set foorth by Fa: Parsons, in the name of vnited priests, intituled, A manifestation of the great folly and bad spirit, of certaine in England, calling themselues seculer priestes VVith an addition of a table of such vncharitable words and phrases, as by him are vttered in the said treatise, aswell against our parsons, as our bookes, actions, and proceedings." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A17505.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 28, 2025.

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A Table of the passionate, and vn∣charitable words and sentences, vsed by Fa: Parsons in his Libell of Manifestation, as well a∣gainst our persons, as our actions and proceedings: with the Chapter and leafe noted, where you may see them.

The preface is an inuectiue discourse vpon enuie, which he applieth in his booke vnto vs, with other reuiling spee∣ches, as sal infatuatus, infatuated priests, fuch as haue lost not onely all sauour of priestly wisedom, & shining light of true vnderstanding, but also the true spirit of Christian priests, and priesthood: with an application also of the vncleane spirit departing from a man, and returning, entreth with sea∣uen worse then himselfe, and infinite other inuectiue spee∣ches, as proud, turbulent, irefull, impudent, &c.

¶In the first Chapter.
  • Fol. 1. Passionate writers, of distempered humors: our bookes seditious, full of iniquity, vanity, scurrility.
  • fol. 2. Passion and perturbation of minde, folly, impru∣dencie, clamorous in writing with contempt.
  • fol. 3. Men free of speech, and conuersation giuen to li∣berty.
  • fol. 4. Contemners of all helps for the increase of spirit, vsed by vertuous men, that we be de larga manica, of scanda∣lous conuersation: turbulent standing in defence of disorder, liberty, and dissolution: imputation of whoredome, drun∣kennes, dicing, pewter stolne, &c. all this against the priests in Wisbich.
  • fol. 5. Extreame surfet of vnchristian malice, passion, le∣uitie, anger, high and odious malice, malice and stomacke, perturbation of minde.
  • fol. 6. Shamelesse Libellers: open, & apparant malice.
  • fol. 7. Petulancie.
  • fol. 8. Exceeding madnes, impotent blindnes of passion, slaunderous tongue, malicious obiection.
  • fol. 9. Want of good conscience, enuie her selfe, odious,

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  • and malicious stuffe, impudency, and folly: rayling, and re∣uiling without stop, or stay, eyther of shamefastnes, or con∣science: men expressing the sinnes of drunken men, and cursers, or euill speakers, by their intemperancie of tongue, slaunderous and malicious, ignorance or malice.
  • fol. 10. Giber fitter for Ruffians and Souldiers, &c, in∣temperate tongues, passionate brethren.
  • fol. 11. Folly, phrenzie, furious inuectiues, spite, highly enuying others gifts and graces, priuate mutiners, publique enemies, bidding warre, and defiance to all, &c. madnes.
  • fol. 13. Iustifying the proceedings of heretikes, and per∣secutors, &c. excluding all spirituall authority, &c. defenders of paradoxes, & absurd positions, parasiticall adulation, per∣nitious, eroneous, and hereticall, wicked, and reproachfull: trayterous, ridiculous, impious, base, and wickedly minded, publike proctors of heretikes and persecutors; open accusers against the persecuted Catholickes, sundred in wicked at∣tempts, secular in order, degree, minde, harts, & desires.
  • fol. 14. Transformed by passion of enuie and malice, sold their tongues to the common enemie, ridiculous and con∣temptible, rayling without modesty or measure, tyed to no law of truth, probability, proofe, or modesty.
  • fol. 15. Libellers, by passion conspiring with heretikes, defenders of irreligious paradoxes, compared to Anabap∣tists, and Luther: confident in follies, pride, ignorance, folly, falshood.
  • fol. 16. Base flattery of new fawning brethren, impious brauing against the Pope.
  • fol. 17. Of Priests made Souldiers, fighting against theyr chiefe pastor; anger, enuie, passion, giuing consent à posterio∣re, to spilling of blood, &c. accusers of their brethren, flatte∣ring and perfidious, champions that will fight euen with God himselfe, &c. perfidious to their owne people, Syco∣phants, possessed with one of the seauen wicked spirits.
¶In the second Chapter.
  • Fol. 18. Discontented and distempered brethren, of indis∣cretion & bad spirit, odious arguments, defence & patronage

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  • of disorder and liberty; open rayling, and rebellion against superiours, errors in doctrine, extreame passion, lacke of iudgement, modesty, and moderation: contemptible, and odious: no reason, desire of truth, zeale of reformation, loue of vnion, spite, choler, enuie, malice, desire of reuenge, and other pernicious inductions, insufficiencie in wisedome, lear∣ning, and all other vertues.
  • fol. 19. Fury of passion, and rage of reuenge, gall, choler, enuie, hate, folly, and lacke of discretion, venome, malice, gallings, and spightfull speech, simplicity, folly, want of wis∣dome, and more necessary vertues, folly, malice, contemptu∣ous spirit.
  • fol. 20. Outrageous iniuries, rebellious subiects, intempe∣rance, angry, contumelious censure, high folly, and higher maleuolence, folly, frenzie, passionate people, troublesome, and dissolute, vnchristian censure, spirit of scoffing.
  • fol. 21. Clamours, odious braules, disorders, contempt, scoffing at piety, scoffers, and scorners, foolish caueling and calumniation, against good things, malicious, interpretations, disdaine.
  • fol. 22. Folly, passionate proceedings, folly, simplicity, blindnes of passion, folly, passion, simple, passionate.
  • fol. 23. Wrangling, brethren, pickers of quarrells, cauill, calumniats.
  • fol. 24. Cauillations to procure a worse breach, grosse folly, gone in blinde passion, egregious folly, highest folly, immo∣dest scoffings, railing speeches.
  • fol. 25. Pride, phrenzie, comparison to Luther, rancour, malice.
  • fol. 26. Malice, scold, insolents, and intemperate raylings, notorious ingratitude, folly, bitter gauling, and venomous speeches, bitternes of raylings, spightfull, venomous slaun∣derings, soft and delicate nicenes in words, scandalous beha∣uiour, disorders, discontented brethren.
  • fol. 27. Passion, fury of passion, passion, blindnes, & ob∣scurity of passion, passion.
  • fol. 28. Ioyning with most bloody enemies impious.
  • fol. 29. Malice, passion, folly, passionate spirits.

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    ¶In the third Chapter.
    • Fol. 29. Angry men, passion, lauished out, and bidding battell, all in their wayes spirituall, sinne, pride, and presump∣tion.
    • fol. 30. Disordinate brethren, contumeliously, presumptu∣ous, and haynous sine, infinite discredite, folly, no credite but with heretikes, great passion and folly, hate for religions sake, notorious inconsideration, hired by the common ene∣mie, contumelious iniuries, intemperate tongue.
    • fol. 31. More impudent, then heretikes intollerable spight∣full insolency, barbarous ingratitude, inconsiderate and pas∣sionate people, pride, audatious, contemptuously.
    • fol. 32. Contumely to the Pope, intemperate behauiour, make warre against the Popes highest authority, transported by the force of passion, intemperate speeches.
    • fol. 33. Diuers false slaunders against Doct: Bagshawe, and Ma. Bluet, Ma: Champney, and Ma: Barnebee, desperate, petty Doctors, young Maisters.
    • fol. 34. Younkers, malicious imputation, odiously, hatred and enuie, passion, malice, folly, bid warre to all good and learned men of our Nation, foolish assertion, absurd Libells, take vpon them the parts and persons of heretikes, raile, lye, diffame the actions and intentions of best Catholikes, slaun∣derous calumniation, contemptuously, most spightfully.
    • fol. 35. Calumniation, raile extreamly, contentious words, enemies in hart, hatred, and faction to Cardinall Allen, fol∣lies, madnes, enmity, and principall hatred, intemperatly, pas∣sion of hatred, conspiring and coniuring factious attempts, and desires.
    • fol. 36. Clamorous bookes, slaunders, scoffes, contume∣lious speeches, much malignity, shamefull, passionate bre∣thren, raging and rauing, wonderfull extreame passion, with open mouth, and most violent spirit impugne true Martyres.
    • fol. 37. Flattering the state, betraying their companions, like to make other men Martyrs by betraying them, false & malicious calumniation.
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    • fol. 38. Passion, hostility with Martyrs, troublesome and sedicious, proud and disobedients.
    • fol. 39. Pride, folly, lacke of discretion, reproach, con∣tempt, belyed the Seminaries to make them traytours that come from thence, passion, enraged by force of choler, and impotent appetite of reuenge.
    ¶In the fourth Chapter.
    • Fol. 39. Follies, improbabilities, open vntruthes, passio∣nate brethren, bad or no conscience at all, custome of telling vntruthes, not reflecting vpon conscience or credite, falshood vttered with facility, notorious falshoods and vntruthes.
    • fol. 40. Manifest and open vntruthes, slaunders, and ca∣lumniations, forsworne.
    • fol. 41. Lyes, false calumniations, little conscience, poyson of malice, malignant fruites, cries, clamors, oathes.
    • fol. 42. Malice exceeding the malice of heretikes, malig∣nant proceeding, malignities, malignity exceeding malice.
    • fol. 43. If they be brethren, if they be Priests, odious speech, malignant & false, calumniators.
    • fol. 44. Sedicions, ioyning with enemies and heretikes, cy∣nicall, or sycophanticall.
    • fol. 45. Opprobrious and contumelious calumniations, sedicious people.
    • fol. 46. Barbarous insolencie of slaunderous companions, contempt, hollow harts, oath, and consciencelesse protesta∣tion, spightfull and iniurious arraignment of Catholikes, per∣fidious, and vnchristian malice, lost lads, apparant false ca∣lumniations, lye notoriously against their conscience.
    • fol. 47. Blinde rancor, wilfull malice, lacke of conscience, malignant passion, mad and furious inuectiue, spightfull, ca∣lumniations, ridiculous, malicious sycophancie.
    • fol. 48. Foolish malicious people, calumniations, malig∣nant enuie, malignity.
    • fol. 49. Distracted passionate clamours of discontented people, calumniate, discompose, wrangle, trouble, cry, and curse, shamelesse calumniation, lyes.
    • fol. 50. Poeticall fictions, false, slaunderous, malignant vn∣truthes,

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    • open calumniation, seditious writer, make-bate, ma∣nifest slaunder.
    • fol. 51. Malicious fictions, lying detractions, malicious ca∣uillation, absurd calumniation.
    • fol. 52. Bold & ridiculous assertion, vnprofitable wrang∣ling people.
    • fol. 53. Contumely farre from wisedome, &c. extreame, audacity, absurd and ridiculous matters.
    • fol. 54. Meere faction, audacity, little shame and consci∣ence, wrath, raile, follies, open falsities, immodesty, passionate and inconsiderate brethren, folly, falshood.
    • fol. 55. Fond rayling, without end or measure, exceeding folly and malice, conspiracie, seditious designments, folly, passion.
    ¶In the fift Chapter.
    • Fol. 56. Enuie, emulation, anger, passion, boysterously, furiously, passionate people, outragious dealing, enuie ex∣ceedingly, rancor, malice, enuie, rayling and calumniation, all their vertue, & humanity extinguished with enuie, greefe, and enuie.
    • fol. 57. Falsity, falsly, calumniation, notoriously false, peeuish, and maligne calumniation, wrangling, and lying humor.
    • fol. 58. Detractors, want of vertue, malicious enuying humor.
    • fol. 59. Impugne the very name of reformation.
    • fol. 61. Calumniators, calumniations, odiously, malici∣ous.
    • fol. 62. Spightfully doe maligne and cauill.
    • fol. 63. Great passion, intemperate folly, malepert sauci∣nes, younglings, insolent dealing, indiscreete, rash greene heads, deuoued to carpe, maligne, cauilations, men of hu∣mor.
    • fol. 64. Intemperatly exclaime, dispassionate, hereticall, Libell, contradicting company, counterfet Doctor, impu∣pudent cauiller.
    • fol. 65. Egregious foolery, wise Doctor, wise discouerer.
    • ...

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    • fol. 66. Confederates of faction, reuolted Priests, hatred and enmity, eger discouerer, sedicions.
    • fol. 67. Weakenes and folly, calumniation, malicious em∣peachings of others, malicious, malignant, flattering malig∣nant discouerer.
    • fol. 68. Flattering discouerer, mutinous partners maleuo∣lous calumniator.
    ¶In the sixt Chapter.
    • Fol. 68. Folly and blindnes, deceaued spirits, passionate if not possessed, perturbation of enuie, emulation, malice, re∣uenge, anger, and like enchauntments, and sorceries of theyr soules, furies of spirituall madnes, rage and runne a desperate course of rayling, and rauing out-cries.
    • fol. 69. Clamors, mutinous and sedicious people, out-cries, stomack, sobernes, notorious lye, flattery, false procu∣pation, grosse and odious vntruthes.
    • fol. 70. False detraction, sedicion, clamors, scandalous tu∣multuation, deceitfull speaking & dealing, malicious books, scandalous and sinfull action, folly, fury, shamelesse Libells, horrible scandall.
    • fol. 71. Hired to make debate, and set diuision, spies, in way to be heretikes, rebellion, tumultuous, scandalous tumul∣tuation of turbulent students, tumults, broyles, sedicion, tu∣multuous people.
    • fol. 72. Tumultuous, tumultuous students, tumultuation, hatred of order, discipline, and superiority, tumultutous, tu∣multuous people, troublesome, tumultuous, tumultuous, tu∣multuous.
    • fol. 74. Tumultuous, troublesome, enuie, emulation, malice.
    • fol. 75. Troublesome, out-cries, Horses, Colts, fiercely wanton, tumultuous, turbulent crew, folly and indiscretion, clamors.
    • fol. 76. Troublesome sedition, sedicious course, tumul∣tuations, vnchristian deuice, odious to God and good men, maliciously, malicious, set sedition, tumultuous, presump∣tuously.
    • ...

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    • fol. 77. Passion, venome of stomack, indiscretion, intem∣perance, lacke of conscience, modesty, shame, contumelious speeches, a most wicked and iniurious deuise, vnfortunate men, hired by the publike aduersary, capitall slaunder.
    • fol. 78. Slaunderously, iniuriously, strife, contention, great and strange passion, intemperate spirit, reuenge, enuie, and precipitation, treason, traytors, contemptible.
    • fol. 79. Betrayed, and iniuriously vexed by our own, small consideration, mutable, weake and passionate.
    • fol, 80. Folly, bad and mad course.
    ¶In the seauenth Chapter.
    • Fol. 80. Transported brethren, exceeding the limits of modesty, anger, emulation, passionate motiues, no stay of conscience or religion, open breach to all licentious liberty of vnshamefull rayling, opprobrious, and contumelious scol∣ding, breach of modesty, contempt infamy.
    • fol, 81. Notorious lyes, manifest slaunders, false calumnia∣tions, scurrilous, immodest, neither modesty, shame, nor con∣science, disgorging gall, wanton, malapert, & mad speeches, wicked Libell.
    • fol. 82. Hideous and horrible detractions, slaunders, and infamations, sinfull dealing, sinfull burden, horrible sinnes, vnchristian calumniations, sinfull lad, sinfull suds, defectu∣ous and sinfull, wrong shapen, blinking aspect, looking nine wayes at once, wanton imaginations, lasciuious phrases, sen∣suall and venerous apprehensions, contemplations, and de∣sires.
    • fol. 83. Sinfull and wretched poore fellow, lost lad, true staine of his religion and order, falsly and wickedly, vsed by the deuill, publique reproach of our profession, infamous books, factious, base and absurd instrument, base instrument, mutined brethren, rebellion, begging boy, contemptible & ridiculous thing.
    • fol. 84. Liberty & sensuallity, dizzards, and absurdities.
    • fol. 85. Bewraying; and betraying Cath: simple ridicu∣lous, no learning, voluntary conspiring with the common e∣nemie, meere malice, enuie, pride.
    • ...

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    • fol, 86. Miserable fellow, state of damnation, desperate case, licentious course, shifter, malice, disorderly life, notori∣ous foolery, dignity of perdition, mutined and discontented priests, mutinie, dissension, no care of truth, raile, reuile, and reuell, as turbulent spirits, shamelesse, fooish, malicious, insolently, faction and rebellion, impudent lyes, absurd, wic∣ked, impious speech.
    • fol, 87, Hereticall obiection, a most ridiculous compani∣on, pride, as high presumption as any heretike can professe, few companions, impiety, Lucianisme, raylings, lyings.
    • fol. 88. Proctors for persecutors, wicked, impious, Hero∣dians, wicked deuises, bloody companions, odious dispute, impiety suggested by heretikes, ribauld speech, notorious lyes, shamelesse, contemptuous and scoffing spirit.
    • fol. 89. Infidelity, prophane irreligiosity, lacke of spirit & sence in Gods affaires, outragious detraction, fiery darts of hellish hatred, serpentine tongues, mad and possessed men, raue and rage, sedicious, contentious, tumultuous, desastred, dissolute, malicious and enuious calumniation, passionate e∣mulators, malicious slaunders, impudencie, lyes, and malici∣ous inuentions, miserable men, enuie, setters on of heretikes, malice, wicked men, vnchristian and deuillish deuise, mali∣cious people.
    • fol. 90. Wicked companions, exorbitant malice, consci∣encelesse rayling people, malice, scurrilous obiection.
    • fol. 91. Malicious cauill, counterfet or cauiling Cath: ma∣lignity, pure malice, swelling enuie, pestilent bookes, violent and virulent people, without wit or honesty.
    • fol. 92. Shamelesse bookes, false Libellers, wilfull calum∣niations, fabulous Lucianicall narration, spirit of spite, lacke of shame.
    • fol. 93. Infamy, fardell of lyes, impudencie her selfe, bra∣zen or iron face, desperate behauiour, a life of loud lyes de∣speratly faced out, monstrous lye, impudent lye, shamelesse, insolent, impious.
    • fol. 94. Wild, mad, insolent, desperate course, frantike & possessed men, monstrous lyes, absurd prophanities, malici∣ous fictions, consciencelesse calumniations, wretched and mi∣serable

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    • mens harts, dispightfully, breake with enuie and ran∣cor, furious barkings, outragious Libells, hatred, hellish spi∣rit, poysoned entralls, horrible puddle of lyes, slaunderous inuectiues, deuillish detraction, base, vile, malicious, ve∣nome of life, and loose tongue armed with audacity, defen∣ded with impudencie, stirred vp with enuie, enraged with furie, bounded by no limits of conscience, piety, or feare of God, &c. loathsome ragges of a filthy dunghill.
    • fol. 95. Vnworthy ragges torne and rent from the hono∣rable Clergie by wilfull mutiny and rebellion, wrangling Clergie, pride, arrogancie, ignorance, obstinacie, wicked & odious both to God and man.
    • fol. 96. Malicious things, desperatly, secret Apostasie, sedicions, a scold, wanton idle headed boy, younkers, leuity of the lad, vnconstant head.
    • fol. 97. Infamous inuectiue, spleene, spight, malicious stomacke, way to perdition, vnsuited Gentleman, shuttle braines, lasciuious companion, beastly and sensuall imagi∣nation.
    • fol. 98. Copes-mate, and Apostata in hart, impudencies, deadly and deuillish hatred, trayterous & Iudas like natures, slaunderous lyes and reproaches, malice, malicious deuised calumniations.
    • fol. 99. Sedicious falshood, forged and malicious, shame∣lesse creatures, ridiculous, impious, fond, furious, mad men, watt tumbler, contemptible and contumelious, audacious, rash, vnlearned, fantasticall, scurrilous, infamatory, a most lewd Libell fraught with foolery, ignorance, audacity, and notorious impudencie, and irreligious impiety, egregious impiety, contemptibility.
    ¶In the eight Chapter.
    • fol. 101. Scandalous, clamorous, contradictious scanda∣lous fact, disordinate and discontented Priests, sedicions, as∣sault of sathan vnder Priests coates, sedition, dangerous, and poysoned humors, naughty will, rayling broyles.
    • ...

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    • fol. 102. Become as Tho. Bell, passion, malice, brabling people, vnquiet spirity, enuie, perfidiousnes to God, passio∣nate disordred brethren, friends in a traunce, men possessed with violent and raging spirits.
    • fol. 104. Spirit of pride, enuie, reuenge, clamors, slaun∣ders, calumniation, disobedience, wicked spirit, quodlibet∣ticall companion, prophane, audacious, impudent spirit, wicked spirit, irreligious companions.
    • fol. 105. Pride, emulation, ignorance, temerity, and folly, outragious malice.
    • fol. 106. Folly, madnes, spiritus vertiginis, or arreptitius, e∣nemies against the Pope, deadly hatred.
    • fol. 107. The deuill himselfe, rayling, lying, malicious fashood, calumniator, wicked forgery, malicious people, o∣dious and irefull vaine of rayling, mad fellow.
    • fol. 108. Contemptuous discourse, Pharisaicall vanity, basenes, euill feature, contemptible qualities.
    • fol. 109. Insolencies, vaine, false, and wicked, without all conscience, modesty, or respect of Christianity, perfidi∣ous detractions, seditiously, rancor, malice, sedition, impu∣dent forged lyes, meere forgery, without remorse of consci∣ence, spirit of sathan.
    • fol. 110. Disorderly Scholers.
    • fol. 111. Lying spirit, notorious slaunders & lyes, shame∣lesse assertions, notorious lyes, blind Bayard.
    • fol. 112. More then halfe franticke, meere madnes, spi∣rits of clamors, rage, reuenge, enuie, emulation, audacious speeches, disobedience, contempt, &c. discontented peo∣ple.
    • fol. 114. Ambition, liberty of life, &c.

    I haue here set downe onely the words for the most part, not the sentences, for the auoyding of tediousnes: referring the reader for tryall, vnto the Chapters and pages cited: yet haue I omitted not onely diuers bitter words and sentences, and all his vncharitable predictions and forspeakings, but al∣so

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    all his contumelious, and disgracefull comparisons made very often and frequent betweene Luther, Anabaptists, and other heretikes, and vs: as also all his vntruthes & falshoods, which if I should haue compiled heere together, would haue exceeded the measure of this worke intended at the first: wherefore I remit the Reader to the discourse it selfe, where he shall finde them dispersed in great number thoroughout the booke.

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