Plots, conspiracies and attempts of domestick and forraigne enemies, of the Romish religion against the princes and kingdomes of England, Scotland and Ireland : beginning with the reformation of religion under Qu. Elizabeth, unto this present yeare, 1642 / briefly collected by G.B.C. ; whereunto is added, the present rebellion in Ireland, the civell practises in France against the Protestants, the murthers of Henry the 3d. and Henry the 4th, by the popish French faction.

San Josephus with 700. Spaniards sent into Ireland.

THe next Yeare, 1580. 700. Spaniards and Italians came to divert the Qu. Forces, rather then to conquer Ireland; they landed at Smerwick,

under the command of San Josephus an Italian, they fortified it and called it Fort Delor; but being followed by the Earle of Ormond, they withdrew thence into a valley called Glammingel. Some prisoners of them were taken, who confest they were 700, and that Armes were brought for 5000, and that more were expected from Spain; that to conquer Ireland, the Spaniard and Pope had resolved, and therefore sent into the hands of Sanders, Des∣mond and his brother John, a vast sum of mony. That night the Spaniards and Italians returned to their Fort, which so soon as Ordnance could be brought, and Winter was returned with the Ships of war from England, was on eve∣ry side besieged, and after 5 days taken. The common Souldiers Italians and Spaniards, were put to the sword, the Irish hanged: only the Captains of the former were preserved. Three years after, Desmond wandering like a vaga∣bond, had his arme almost cut-off by a common Souldier, before he was known, and after was slain. Nicolas Sanders was almost famished in the Woods, and died stark mad. This yeare 1580. Priests and Seminaries much increasing in England, severe Laws were enacted against them. These were for the most part bred in the English Colledge of Doway, founded (by the procurement of Alan, somtimes a student in Oxford, afterward Priest and Cardinall) in the year 1568. Afterward under Requesenius government in the Low-countries, when the wars were betwixt England and Spain, the su∣gitives were thrust from thence, and 2. Colledges erected for them, one at Rhemos, the other at Rome, the first by the Guises, the 2^d by Gregory the 13. From these places rose in England, Hanse, Nelson, Main, Sherward Priests, who reported Q Elizabeth to be an Heretick, and so ought to be deposed, for which they suffred. In the aforesaid yeare 1580. Robert Parsons, a man of a turbulent spirit and impudent, Campian a more modest man, both Jesuites; they to serve the Catholicks turns, obtained of Pope Gregory an interpreta∣tion of Pius his Bull against Q Elizabeth, that it bound the Q. and Hereticks always, but not Catholicks, till a convenient season. Campian wrote a Book intituled 10 Reasons in defence of Rome. M. Chark answered him soberly. Par∣sons wrote against Chark virulently: but Camp. 10 Reasons were thorowly answered by D. Whitaker.