(Vol. viii., p. 54.; Vol. ix. _passim_.)
Your correspondent NOVUS has very judiciously warned controversialists on
the use of a document as emanating from the papal court, which, to every
one who reads it through (if a shorter examination will not be
satisfactory), must carry evidence of its not being papal authority, but
intended as a satire on Rome. A writer in the _Christian Remembrancer_,
vol. xii., attaches undue importance to the signatures, in the absence of
which, he admits, "we should conclude that this was the production of some
enemy in disguise."
In a 4to. volume of Tracts now before me is a copy of the genuine
document--
"Consilium delectorum cardinalium et aliorum prælatorum, de emendanda
ecclesia. S. D. N. Papa Paulo III. ipso jubente conscriptum et
exhibitum anno 1538;"
two copies of the supposititious
"Consilium quorundam episcoporum Bononiæ congregatorum quod de ratione
stabiliendæ Romanæ ecclesiæ Julio III. Pont. Max. datum est. Quo artes
et astutiæ Romanensium et arcana imperii papalis non pauca propalantur.
Ex bibliotheca W. Crashauii. Londini, 1613;"
and several other tracts, so rare that an enumeration of them, and a few
extracts, will perhaps be acceptable to many of the readers of "N. & Q."
Fourth in order:
"Marcus Antonius de Dominis archiepiscopus Spalatensis, suæ
profectionis consilium exponit. Londini, 1616."
"Bellum Papale, sive concordia discors Sixti Quinti et Clementis
Octavi, circa Hieronymianam editionem, etc. Auctore Thoma Jamesio.
Londini, 1600."
"[Ejusdem] Bellum Gregorianum, sive corruptionis Romanæ in operibus D.
Gregorii M. jussu pontificum Rom. recognitis atque editis, etc. Oxoniæ,
1610."
"Summa actorum Facultatis Theologiæ Parisiensis contra librum
inscriptum, Controversia Anglicana de potestate regis et pontificis,
etc. Auctore Martino Becano. Londini, 1613."
"Antitortobellarminus, sive refutatio calumniarum, mendaciorum, et
imposturarum laico-cardinalis Bellarmini, contra jura omnium regum et
sinceram illibatamque famam Serenissimi, potentissimi piissimique
Principis Jacobi ... fidei catholicæ defensoris et propugnatoris: per
Joan. Gordonium. Londini, 1610."
"Tu super _hoc cepha_ fingis Christum ore loquutum
Fundamen caulæ nidificabo meæ:
Vernac'lo at Christus Solymis sermone loquutus,
Separat articulis mascula foemineis;
Petre, ait, hic cepha es, sanctæ fundamina caulæ,
Et super _hac cepha_ ponere dico meæ:
. . . . . .
Quòd tu sic audes Christi pervertere verba
Et pro foemineo subdere masculeum,
Nil mirum; Papis solenne est cardineisque
Sic pro foemineo subdere masculeum."
"Epilogus ad quatuor colloquia D^{ni} D^{ris} Wrighti pro mala fide
habita; et a Jacobo Nixon non bona fide relata; et Guilielmo Stanleio
nullius fidei perduelli dicata: pro amico et gentili suo D^{no} Thoma
Roe equite editus. Authore Guilielmo Roe. Londini, 1615."
"D^{no} D^{ri} Wright Anglo, malæ causæ clienti: et Jacobo Nixon
Hiberno, advocato pejori: et Guilielmo Stanleio, patrono pessimo;
religionis et patriæ hostibus: poenam seram et poenitentiam seriam
Guilielmus Roe exoptat."
This is the opening of the epilogus _Colloquii Spadani_, a copy of which
rare tract is in the extensive collection of the President of the Chetham
Society. The epilogue contains an unmeasured invective against these three
"vassal slaves of servile Rome."[1] Wright's panegyric on Stanley is thus
introduced and distorted:
"Egregia facinora tua vidit Hibernia, experta est Hollandia, agnoscit
Hispania, prædicat Gallia, fatetur Flandria, neque potest negare
Anglia. Ergo cum bona frontis tuæ serenitate sustinebis, si elogii tui
vocem ad assensum nostrum repercussam, instar Ecchus remittamus, et
Stanleium hominem egregie facinorosum dixerimus, quod in Hispanis
consilio suo immissis vidit Hibernia, in Daventriæ proditione {519}
experta est Hollandia, in stipendio proditioni imputato agnoscit
Hispania, in pluribus locis frustra et cum ignominia tentatis prædicat
Gallia, et nullam illi præfecturam unquam integrè credendo fatetur
Flandria, neque post tot in patriam suam molitiones, et præsertim
expeditionem quam ad fragorem pulverariæ conjurationis in nos habiturus
erat, negare potest Anglia."
"Eadgarus in Jacobo redivivus: seu pietatis Anglicanæ defensio. Ab
Adamo Reuter. Londini, 1614."
"[Ejusdem] Libertatis Anglicanæ defensio seu demonstratio: regnum
Angliæ non esse feudum pontificis: in nobilissima et antiquissima
Oxoniensi academia, publice apposita Martino Becano. Londini, 1613."
"[Ejusdem] Oratio: quam Papam esse Bestiam quæ non est et tamen est,
apud Johan. Apoc. xvii. 8. in fine probantem ... recitavit Adam Reuter.
Londini, 1610."
"[Ejusdem] Contra conspiratorum consilia orationes duæ. Habitæ ... 5^o
Aug. et 5^o Nov., anno 1611, diebus regiæ liberationis a conspiratione
Govvrie, et tormentaria. Londini, 1612."
"Ejusdem, Delineatio consilii brevissima: quam societati mercatorum
Belgarum Londini florentiss. commorantium consecrat A. R. Londini,
1614."
"[Greek: Ponêsis Christophorou tou Angelou], etc. At Oxford, 1617."
"[The same]. Christopher Angell, who tasted of many stripes and
torments, inflicted by the Turkes for the faith which he had in Christ
Jesus. At Oxford, 1617."
"[Ejusdem] Labor C. A. Græci. De apostasia ecclesiæ, et de homine
peccati scilicet Antichristo, etc. Gr. et Lat. Londini, 1624."[2]
"Expositio mysteriorum misse et verus modus rite celebrandi. A
Guilhelmo de Gouda. Daventrie, 1504."
Had I not already occupied so much space, I should have added an extract
from Angell's _Epistle in commendation of England and the Inhabitants
thereof_. He begins thus:
"O faire like man, thou most fertill and pleasant countrie of England,
which art the head of the world, indued with those two faire eies, the
two Universities."