time, through their base allurements, and at length fell mad, till, by a great miracle shewn from God, she was delivered. O Israel, trust in the Lord, for in the Lord there is mercy, and with him is plenteous redemption, Psal. cxxx. London, printed, 1641. Quarto, containing six pages Rome for Canterbury: Or, a true Relation of the Birth and Life of William Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury. Together with the whole manner of his proceeding, both in the Star-chamber, High-commission Court, and in his own house; and some observations of him in the Tower. Dedicated to all the Arminian tribe, or Canterburian faction, in the year of grace, 1641. Whereunto is annexed a postscript in verse. Printed in the year 1641. Quarto, containing eight pages. Sir Thomas Roe's Speech in Parliament; wherein he sheweth the cause of the decay of coin and trade in this land, especially of merchants trade. And also propoundeth a way to the house, how they may be increased. Printed in the year 1641. Quarto, containing twelve pages A true Description, or rather a Parallel between Cardinal Wolsey, Arch- bishop of York, and William Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury. Printed in the year 1641. Quarto, containing eight pages The Bill of Attainder that passed against Thomas, Earl of Strafford. Printed for J. A. 1641. Quarto, containing six pages The Accusation and Impeachment of William Laud, Archbishop of Canter- bury, by the House of Commons, in maintenance of the accusations where- by he standeth charged with high-treason. Printed anno dom. 1641. Quarto, containing eight pages Leicester's Commonwealth fully epitomised; conceived, spoken, and publish- ed, with most earnest protestation of all dutiful good-will and affection towards this realm, for whose good only it is made common to many. Con- tracted in a most brief, exact, and compendious way, with the full sense, and whole meaning of the former book, every fragment of sense being inter- posed. With a pleasant description of the first original of the controversies betwixt the two houses of York and Lancaster. Quarto, containing sixteen An honourable Speech made in the Parliament of Seotland, by the Earl of Argyle, (being now competitor with Earl Morton for the chancellorship) the thirtieth of September, 1641, touching the prevention of national dis- sension, and perpetuating the happy peace and union betwixt the two king- doms, by the frequent holding of parliaments. London, printed by A. N. for J. M. at the George in Fleet-street, anno 1641. Quarto, containing six A Discourse, shewing in what State the three Kingdoms are in at this pre- sent. Printed in the year 1641. Quarto, containing eight pages The Negotiations of Thomas Wolsey, the great Cardinal of England, contain- ing his life and death, viz. I. The original of his promotion. II. The continuance in his magnificence. III. His fall, death, and burial. Com- posed by Mr. Cavendish, one of his own servants, being his gentleman- usher. London, printed by William Sheers, 1641. Quarto, containing The Orders, Proceedings, Punishments, and Privileges of the Commons House of Parliament in England, Printed anno dom. 1641. Quarto, THAT A WOMAN, CALLED JOAN, WAS POPE OF ROME; Against the Surmises and Objections made to the Contrary, By Robert Bellarmine and Cæsar Baronius, Cardinals: Florimondus Ramondus, N. D. and other Popish Writers, Impudently denying the same. BY ALEXANDER COOKE. London, printed by John Haviland, for William Garrat; and are to be sold at his shop in Paul's Church-yard, at the sign of the Bull's Head, 1625. Quarto, containing one hundred and forty pages. To the most Reverend Father in God, Tobias, my Lord Archbishop of York's Grace, Primate and Metropolitan of England. IT is lamentable to consider how many stars are fallen of late from heaven, how many goddesses on earth have departed from the faith, and given heed unto the spirit of errors and doctrines of slanderers, to wit, the Papists; yet, methinks, it is no matter of wonderment, because we read, that, 2 If men receive not the love of the truth, that they might be saved, God, in his justice, will give them strong delusions to 1 This is the 191st number of the Catalogue of Pamphlets in the Harleian Library. 3 2 believe lyes, that they may be damned': for few or none of these late apostates, for any thing I can learn, were ever in love with the truth. Among us they were, but they were not of us, as now appears by their departing from us; for, if they had been of us, they would have continued with us; doubtless, they would never have fallen to popery. For, though popery be managed after the most politick manner, yet, in itself, it is a gross religion; and the perfecters thereof as shameless men in avowing manifest untruths, and denying known truths, as ever set pen to paper; all which it is as easy to prove, as to object against them. But my purpose, at this time, is, to lay open their shame in denying known truths; which, though it may be shewed by divers particulars, as, namely, by 'Parsons's and Bishop's denying that they call their Pope their Lord God; by Bellarmine's denying that any Jesuit had any hand in the powder-treason; by their 'general denying that Pope Honorius the First was an heretick, and by such like; yet most apparently their impudency appears in denying the report of Pope Joan, which is proved by a cloud of witnesses, in this discourse (which I make bold to present unto your Grace) for they are driven to feign, to forge, to cog, to play the fools, and, in plain English, to lye all manner of lyes for the covering of their shame in this. Onuphrius, Harding, Saunders, Cope, Genebrard, Bellarmine, Bernartius, Florimondus, Papyrius Masso, Baronius, Parsons, and divers others, who have joined hand in hand, with purpose to carry this cause away by a strong hand, are so intangled in it, that it is with them, as with birds in the lime-twigs, which stick the faster in, by how much they flutter the more to get out. Which if your Grace, upon perusing at your best leisure, shall find true, my humble desire is, that you will give me leave to publish it under your Grace's name; partly, that, by it, the simpler sort (for I write not for the learned) may have a taste, by this, of the honesty, or rather dishonesty, of Papists, in handling of points in controversy; and, partly, that it may be a testimony of that reverent respect, which I acknowledge due to such church-governors, as your Grace is, who give atendance unto reading, which the 'apostle willed Timothy to do, and, after the example of the ancient bishops, preach often, drawing on others, not by words only, but by example also, to performance of like exercises. Hereafter, if it please God, that health and means of books serve, I shall light on some more profitable argument. In the mean while, I pray God strengthen your Grace's hands to the finishing of the Lord's work, in the province wherein you sit, as one of the seven angels in the seven churches mentioned in the Revelation; that, by your Grace's means, the epha, wherein popish wickedness sitteth, may be lifted up between the earth and the heaven, and carried out of the north into the land of Sinar, and set there upon his own place. Your Grace's at Commandment, ALEXANDER COOKE. 1 N. D. In his Warnword to Sir Francis Hastings's Watchword, Encounter I. cap. 2. 2 In his Reproof of Dr. Abbot's Defence of Mr. Perkins's Preface to the Reader, p. 10. 3 Apologia ad lib. Jacob Mag. Britan. Regis, cap. xv. p. 208. 4 Bellarm. Paron. Pighius, &c. 5] 1 Tim. iv. 13. To the Popish, or Catholick Reader. 6 6 PAPIST, or Catholick, chuse whether name thou hast a mind to (for, though I know, that, of late years, thou art proud of both, even of the name 'papist, as well as of the name 'catholick, yet I envy thee neither; only I would have thee remember, that that firebrand of hell, Hildebrand, commonly called Gregory the Seventh, was the first man who challenged it, as his sole right, to be called Papa, that is Pope, whence thou art called papist; and that divers are of opinion, as 'Hugo de Victore noteth, that, in some sense, the devil might be called a catholick.) I offer unto thee here a discourse touching Pope Joan, (if thou darest read it, for fear of falling into thy Pope's curse) whose popedom I will make good unto thee, not by the testimonies of Pantaleon, and Functius, and Sleidan, and Illyricus, and Constantius Phrygio, and John Bale, and Robert Barnes, because thou hast condemned their persons, and their books too, to hell; but by the testimonies of thy brethren, the sons of thy own mother, because as one saith, firmum est genus probationis, quod etiam ab adversario sumitur, ut veritas etiam ab inimicis veritatis probetur: That is a strong proof, which is wrung out of the adversary, when the enemies of truth are driven to bear witness unto the truth.' And, as 'another, Amici contra amicum, & inimici pro inimico, invincible testimonium est: which sounds, as I conceive it, thus: The testimony of a papist aganist a papist, and the testimony of a papist for a protestant, is without exception.' The reason why I have framed it in way of dialogue, was, that I might meet more fully with all the cavils, which thy proctors use in pleading of this case; and that it might be better understood of common readers, who are sooner gulled with continued discourses. If I have spoken truly, I would have thee bear witness with me unto the truth; if otherwise, I am content thou strike me : for, though I hold thy pa-pism, in so me respect, to be worse than atheism, agreeably to a speech fathered upon Epiphanius, xelgun nanomisia s ȧmisias, heresy is worse than infidelity, and, by consequent, thyself a dangerous neighbour to dwell by; because, as one of thy own doctors writes, certè periculosius est cum hæreticis, quam cum samaritanis quam cum gentilibus, aut Mahumetanis agere: It is, questionless, more dangerous to dwell by an heretick, than to dwell by a Samaritan, by an Heathen, by a Turk; yet I am not so far out of love with thee, but I can be content to learn of thee, as 'St. Augustine did of Tyconius the heretick, if thou canst teach me. Yea, I profess, that, though it may be gathered out of 10 Campian, thy champion and Tyburn-martyr, that thou believest one heaven cannot hold 8 1 Baron. Annot. in Martyrol. Rom. Octob. 16. b. Loriaus in Act. Apost. cap. xx. vers. 30. Anastasius Cochelet. Palæstrita Honoris D. Hallensis pro Lipsio, cap. i. pag. 6. 2 Bellarm. Lib. iv. de Ecclesia, cap. 4. Rhem. Annot. in Act. xi. 26. in Martyrol. Rom. Jan. 10. c. 4 Annot. in 1 ad Cor. xiii. prohibit 3 Baron. Annot. 5 In indice Lib. 6 Novatian. de Trinitate, cap. 18. num. 86. inter Opera Tertulliani. 7 Vives de Instrumento Probabilitatis. 8 Maldonat in Johan. iv. 9. Retract, cap. 18. 10 Ratio. 10. 9 Lib. ii. thec and such as are of my opinion; though 'Costerus wish strangely, That he may be damned both body and soul, if any of us be saved; yet that hath not estranged me so far from thee, but that I wish thee well, even eyes to see the truth, and ingenuity to acknowledge it. WE Protestant. TELL met, and welcome home, Sir. What new book have you brought us down from London this mart! Pap. Oh, I have an excellent book, which discourseth at large about Pope Joan, whose popedom you cast in the catholicks teeth so often. Prot. What language is it in, I pray you? French, or Latin, or English, and who made it? Pap. It was first written in French, but I have it in Latin. The author of it is one Florimondus Ræmondus. Prot. Florimondus Ræmondus! What is he, that I never heard of him before? Is he, and his book, of any credit? Pap. He himself is reputed 'a very famous man for life and learning; so that at this present, he is one of the French King's council at Bourdeaux, and, as for his book, it is of wonderful esteem. Prot. With whom I pray you? Pap. Even with Cardinal Baronius; for he holds it the worthiest discourse that ever was made of that argument: he professeth, that he could have found in his heart to have inserted it into his annals, but that it is somewhat too large; for by it, as the Cardinal further "noteth, he hath so confounded all the pack of hereticks, who heretofore upbraided the catholicks with it, that now they are ashamed of that which they have said. Prot. But hath any man else the like opinion of it? Pap. Yea, marry, Possevin is of the same mind; for Possevin saith, that he hath killed the hereticks outright; that, since the publishing of that book, the hereticks are silenced, they dare talk no more of a Pope Joan. Prot. And who else I pray you? Pap. Lipsius, for he writ to his friend, that Ita plene omnia exequutus est, ut nobis nihil reliqui fit præter credere & assentiri.' Florimondus had handled the matter so fully, that there remained nothing for any man to do, but to believe, and to say Amen to that which he had done. Prot. This is much but have you read it? Pap. Read it! Yea I have read it again and again: besides, I have 1 Fieri nequit, ut Lutheranus moriens salvetur, gehennam evadat, ex æternis ignibus eripiatur. Si mentior, damner ipse cum Lucifero, saith Costerus. Resp. ad Refutationem Lucæ Osiandr. Proposit. 8. pag. ult. 2 An. 1602. Possevin. in errat & præternis. 1. 10. quæ habentur ad finem To. iii Apparat. fac. 3 Vir, cum primis illustris ac pius, & doctrina inSigais. Baronius Annal. Tom. x. ad An. 853. Numb 62. dus, fima nobilis Florimundus: Baronius loco citato. ut novatores pi deat, gare scripserunt vel somniasse. ibid. qui Commentam illud sparserunt in vulgus, ut amplius ea de fabula hiscere non audeart In Apperatu sac. verbo, Florimondus. Sco Gretser, Tom, ii. defens. Bellar. Lib. iii. Cap. 24. Col. 987. 4 Præ cæteris commendan 5 Sic confecit monstrum istud, 6 Prorsus confodit Hæreticos |