might long live to reign in peace and happiness over this kingdom. But last of all, to mar all the pottage, with one filthy weed, to mar this good prayer with an ill conclusion, he prayed God to make the King a Catholick, otherwise a Papist, which God of his infinite mercy ever forbid; and so, beseeching the King to be good to his wife and children, protesting to die in his idolatry, a Romish Catholick, he went up the ladder, and, hanging till he was almost dead, was drawn to the block, where he gave his last gasp.

After him came Keys, who, like a desperate villain, using little speech, with small or no shew of repentance, went stoutly up the ladder; where, not staying the hangman's turn, he turned himself off with such a leap, that with the swing he brake the halter, but, after his fall, was quickly drawn to the block, and there was quickly divided into four parts.

Last of all came the great devil of all, Fawkes, alias Johnson, who should have put fire to the powder. His body being weak with torture and sickness, he was scarce able to go up the ladder, but yet with much ado, by the help of the hangman, went high enough to break his neck with the fall: Who made no long speech, but, after a sort, seeming to be sorry for his offence, asked a kind of forgiveness of the King and the state for his bloody intent; and, with his crosses and idle ceremonies, made his end upon the gallows and the block, to the great joy of the beholders, that the land was ended of so wicked a villainy.

Thus have I ended my discourse upon the arraignment and execution of these eight traitors, executed upon Thursday and Friday last past, in St. Paul's Church-yard, and the Old Palace at Westminster.

Now there is certain report of the execution done on Monday, being the twenty-seventh of January, in the city of Worcester, upon one Perkins, and his man, for the receiving of traitors. God be blessed for it! And continue the justice of law to be executed upon all such rebellious and traitorous wretches, as either plot such villainies, conceal such treasons, or relieve such traitors! For, since the betraying the Lord of heaven and earth, was there ever such a hellish plot practised in the world? If the Pope were not a very devil, and these Jesuits, or rather Jebusites and Satanical Seminaries, very spirits of wickedness, that whisper in the ears of Evahs, to bring a world of Adams to destruction, how could nature be so senseless, or reason so graceless, as to subject wit so to will, as to run all headlong to confusion? Is this a rule of religion? Or rather of a legion? Where the synagogue of Satan sat in council for the world's destruction, for the satisfaction of a lousy humour, or bloody devotion, or hope of honour, or to make way to some mad fury to bring the most ourishing kingdom on the earth to the most desolation in the world; to kill at one blow, or with one blast, king, queen, prince, and peer; bishop, judge, and magistrate, to the ruin of the land, and utter shame to the whole world; and left naked to the invasion of any enemy: Is this a holy father, that begets such wicked children? Is this religion, where is no touch of charity? Or, is there any spark of grace in these priests, that so poison the souls, and break the necks of so many people?

Ignorance in the simple, and idolatry in the subtle, take ceremonies for certainties, superstition for religion, envy for zeal, and murder for charity: What can that church be, but hell, where the devil sings such masses? Servus Servorum, says he that would be Dominus Dominorum; servant of servants, that would be master of masters: Is not he a cunning herdsman, that can make one painted cow, or printed bull, give him more milk, than many a herd of better kine? Are not these sweet notes to be taken in the nature of the popish government? Kill princes, sow seditions, maintain bawdy-houses, blind the simple, abuse the honest, bereave the innocent, swear and forswear, so it be for the Pope's profit, the church will absolve you; and, if you miss the mark to hit the mischief you shoot at, you shall be a hanging saint, till you be taken down to the devil. Oh, fine persuasions! That infinite sins by numbered prayers, inward curses by outward crossings, an offence against God by a pardon from man, should be believed to be helped! A child cannot conceive it, a wise man cannot digest it, and surely none, but either blind women, or madmen, can believe it. If a man would but a little look into their idolatrics, he should see a world of such mockeries, as would make him both laugh at their foolerics, and abhor their villainies. Their kissing of babies, their kneeling to wooden ladies, their calling to saints that cannot hear them, their praying by the dozen, their taking of penance, their pilgrimages to idols, their shavings and their washings, their confessions and their crossings, and their devilish devices to deceive the simple of their comfort: These, with a world of such tricks, as would make a jackanapes a fine juggler. He, that could see them with that clear eye, that can judge betwixt light and darkness, would, if they were his friends, be sorry for them; if his enemies, laugh at them; and, howsoever, or whatsoever, leave them, and say, as he may say, that papistry is mere idolatry, the Pope an incarnate devil, his church a synagogue of Satan, and his priests the very locusts of the earth.

But let us leave them to their loathsome puddles, and let us be thankful to Almighty God for the clear water of life, that, in his holy word, we receive from the fountain of his gracious mercy; and let us a little look into the difference betwixt the traitorous papist, that dieth for his villainy, and the faithful protestant, that dieth for the truth of his conscience in the belief of the word of God.

The traitorous papist will pull down princes, and subvert kingdoms; murder and poison whom they cannot command: The faithful protestant prayeth for princes, and the peace of the people; and will endure banishment, but hate rebellion: The proud papist will shew intemperancy in passion, while the humble protestant will embrace affliction with patience: The protestant cries to God for mercy for his sins; the papist gives authority to sin, when, before the offence, the pardon is purchased.

I say, Was it not a strange speech of Digby, through the blindness of his bewitched wit, "That, to bring the kingdom into the Popish idolatry, he cared not to root out all his posterity?"

Oh the misery of these blinded people! Who forsake the true God of heaven and earth, to submit their service to the devil of the world;

be traitors to their gracious princes, to serve a proud, ungracious prelate; lose their lands and goods, beggar their wives and children, lose their own lives with an open shame, and leave an infamy to their name for ever, only to obey the command of a cunning fox, that, lying in his den, preyeth on all the geese that he can light on; and, in the proud belief to be made saints, will hazard their souls to go to the devil.

But how many millions hath this devil inchanted! And how many kingdoms hath he ruinated! And how many massacres hath he plotted! And how many souls hath he sent to damnation! God for his mercy cut him off, or open the eyes of all them Christian princes, that they may agree together and pull him down: for, during his pride, princes, that are of his religion, will be but as copyholders to his countenance; soldiers, that fight not under his banner, shall be as shake-rags to his army; lawyers, except they plead in his right, shall have but curses for their fees; divines, if not of his opinion, shall be excommunicated out of his church; merchants that bring not him commodities, shall keep no shops in his sanctuary; nor beggars, that pray not for his monarchy, shall shall any alms in his basket. And therefore I hope that God will so wipe off the scales from the eyes of the blind, that both one and other, soldier and lawyer, divine and layman, rich and poor, will so lay their heads, their hearts and hands, and their purses together, that, whereas he hath been long in rising, and could not sit fast, when he was up, he shall take a fall of a sudden, and never rise again, when he is down: to which prayer, I hope, all true Christians will say, Amen.

A TRUE REPORT

OF THE

Arraignment, Tryall, Conuiction, and Condemnation,

OF

A POPISH PRIEST, NAMED ROBERT DREWRIE,

At the Sessions-house in the Old Baylie, on Friday and Wednesday, the twentieth and twenty-fifth of February ;

The extraordinary great grace and mercie offered him, and his stubborne, tray. torous, and willfull refusall

ALSO, THE

TRIALL AND DEATH OF HUMPHREY LLOYD,

For maliciouslie Murdering one of the Guard.

AND, LASTLY,

THE EXECUTION OF THE SAID ROBERT DREWRIE, Drawn in his Priestly Habit, and as he was a Benedictine Fryer, on Thursdaie following to Tiborne, where he was hanged and quartered

London, printed for Iefferie Chorlton, and are to be sold at his Shop adioyning to the great North door of Paules, MDCVII. Quarto, black letter, containing four sheets.

The following account of a Priest, who chose rather to die than to take the Oath of Allegiance to King James the First, an (ath, which many of the Secular Priests publickly defended, and which very few of the Laity refused, is in itself very remarkable; nor can it be doubted that his firmness will be applauded by some, and his bigotry severely censured by others.

But it will be thought by the Reader still more extraordinary, when he has been toid, what the Author of this Narrative does not seem to have known, that this Priest was, in some degree, the Author of that Oath, which he died for refusing. In the year 1602, a considerable number of the Secular Priests, who had for some time publickly opposed the principles, and condemned the practices of the Jesuits, resolved yet farther to distinguish themselves from them, by a solemn and authentick protestation of their fidelity and allegiance, and therefore drew up an instrument, by which they confessed: "That they were all liable by the laws of the land to death, by their coming into the kingdom, after their taking the order of priesthood since the first year of her Majesty's reign, but that, whereas it hath pleased their dread sovereign Lady to take some notice of the faith and loyalty of them, her natural born subjects, Secular Priests, and her princely clemency hath given a sufficient earnest of some merciful favour towards them, and only demanded of them a true profession of their allegiance, thereby to be assured of their fidelity to her Majesty's person, crown, estate, and dignity, they whose names are thereunder written, in most humble wise prostrate at her

Majesty's feet, do acknowledge themselves infinitely bound unto her Majesty therefore, and are most willing to give such assurance and satisfaction in this point, as any Catholick Priests can or ought to give unto their Sovereign."

They then proceed thus:

1. Therefore we acknowledge and confess the Queen's Majesty to have as full authority, power, and sovereignty over us, and over all the subjects of this realm, as any her Highness's predecessors ever had.

II. Whereas, for these many years past, divers conspirators against her Majesty's person and estate, and other forcible attempts for invading and conquering her dominions, have been made, we know not under what pretence, or intendments of restoring the Catholick Religion by the sword (a course most strange in the world, and undertaken solely and peculiarly against her Majesty and her king. doms, amongst other princes departed from the religion and obedience of the See Apostolick no less than she) by reason of which violent enterprises, her Majesty, otherwise of singular clemency towards her subjects, hath been greatly moved to ordain and execute severer laws against Catholicks (which, by reason of their union with the Apostolick See, in faith and religion, were easily supposed to favour these conspiracies and invasions) than, perhaps, had ever been enacted or thought upon, if such hostility and wars had never been undertaken, we, to assure her Majesty of our most faithful loyalty, also in this particular cause, do sincerely protest, and by this our publick fact make known to all the Christian world, that in these cases of Conspiracies, of practising her Majesty's death, of invasion, &c.

They then declared their abhorrence of all such practices and all treasons, and made very solemn protestations of their fidelity and allegiance.

From this declaration, which was signed by Robert Drewry, and twelve others, was the Oath of Allegiance formed, by which the government intended not so much to distinguish Protestants from Papists, as one kind of Papists from another. But Robert Drewry, who had signed the declaration in 1602, chose, in 1607, rather to suffer death than to take the oath.

A true Report of the Apprehension, Examination, Arraignment, Tryall, Conuiction, and Condemnation, of Robert Drewrie, a Seminary Priest, and a Fryer, of the Order of Saint Benedict, at the Sessions-house in the Old Baily, on Friday and Wednesday, the twentieth and twentyfifth of February. And, lastly, his Execution at Tyborne, on Thursday following, &c.

IN N a case deseruing so well to be spoken off, concerning iniury to God's glory, and apparant wrong of our countrey (ouer-run with too many men of such daungerous quality) I thought it the duty of an honest subject, to say somewhat, so farre as truth would warrant me, because slaunder and detraction are no meane enemies to such maner of proceedings.

Robert Drewrie being apprehended by his Maiesties messengers at the White-Fryers, and afterward brought before the Right Reverend: Father in God, the Lord Bishop of London; declared himselfe there, as Garnet, his maister, had done before, multorum nominum, to be a: man of many names, but yet no one of them being good. For, as no lesse than sixe severall names would serve Garnets turne, so this mau