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A56199	Romes master-peece, or, The grand conspiracy of the Pope and his iesuited instruments, to extirpate the Protestant religion, re-establish popery, subvert lawes, liberties, peace, parliaments, by kindling a civill war in Scotland, and all His Majesties realmes, and to poyson the King himselfe in case hee comply not with them in these their execrable designes revealed out of conscience to Andreas ab Habernfeld, by an agent sent from Rome into England, by Cardinall Barbarino, as an assistant to con the Popes late nuncio, to prosecute this most execrable plot, (in which he persisted a principall actor severall yeares) who discovered it to Sir William Boswell His Majesties agent at the Hague, 6 Sept. 1640. he, under an oath of secrecie, to the Arch-bishop of Canterbury (among whose papers it was casually found by Master Pyrnne, May, 31. 1643) who communicated it to the King, as the greatest businesse that ever was put to him / published by authority of Parliament by William Prynne ...	Prynne, William, 1600-1669.; Habervešl z Habernfeldu, Ondřej.; Boswell, William, Sir, d. 1649.; Laud, William, 1573-1645.	1644 (1644)	Wing P4056; ESTC R7561	44,036	61

Committee of the House of Commons where any incredulous Thomas who dares trust his own senses may view them at his leasure will evidence to all who know their Hands or Seales Thirdly that the Archbishop himselfe and his Servants have confessed the verity reality of the Plot and Papers to divers who repaired to them for their own resolution therein and the Archbishop in his late Petition to the Lords in Parliament for restitution of these Papers hath againe fully acknowledged their reality Fourthly which puts all out of question had these Letters Papers been Forgeries or Impostures not reall verities his Majesty himselfe or the Oxford Mercury for him at least the Archbishop Sir William Boswell Andreas ab Habernfeld or some of their Instruments being all living and the Presses open would long ere this have detected this forgery and disclaimed these Papers and Letters in Print which neither of them have done in seven Months space whereas each of them on the contrary as I am informed have avouched these severall Letters Papers to be genuine and their own Finally it had been a strange over-sight yea madnesse in my self and a great dishonour to a most impolitique devise in the Parliament to publish forged Letters in these eminent living Persons names who want neither will meanes nor power immediately to detect refute and manifest such a grosse Imposture to all the world to the eternall infamy of the Publishers Let Malignants and Papists then with all others who have any sparks of Honesty or Policy remaining in them henceforth rest assured of the verity reality of this Plot these Papers though they have formerly doubted of them else let them perish in their groundlesse Infidelity who will neither believe the King the Archbishop Sir William Boswell nor Hab●rnfeld under their Hands and Seales nor yet the Parliament nor Discoverer of them by an admirable unexpected Divine Providence who abhorres all fictions frauds Impostures whatsoever and can doe nothing against the truth but for the truth I shall only adde this to the Premises that the multitude of his Majesties royall Letters of Grace and Discharges of Popish Recusants Priests Iesuits together with his Marriage-Articles Oathes Letter to the Pope and other evidences lately published in The Popish Royall Favourite the late horrid Rebellion in Ireland the Rebels seising of the Goods Estates and Persons of all the English Protestans there to the Kings use and their bloody massacre by blood-thirsty Papists For the exaltation of the holy Roman Catholike Church and the advancement of his Maiesties service c. And that by vertue of his Majesties speciall Commission under the Great Seale of Scotland and Letters of direction sent therewith for the effecting of this great Work which Commission together with the Arguments evidencing the reality thereof you may read at large in the Mystery of iniquity newly published pag. 34. to 42. his Majesties Articles of Pacification with those Rebels ratified under the Great Seale of England wherein he cals these bloody Rebels his Roman Catholike Subjects and good Subiects in some copies and gives them Authority to persecute his Protestant Subiects in Irelands with license to send such Agents to his Majesty from time to time as they shall think fit accepting a grant of thirty thousand eight hundred pound from them and making their base Irish money currant in England by a speciall Proclamation his sending for the Souldiers sent by the Parliament into Ireland to subdue the Rebels and for Irish Rebels too into England and that By his Maiesties speciall Commission and Authority as Mercurius Aulicus informs us twice together and administring an Oath to every Officer and Souldier that shall be transported To the utmost of his power and hazard of his life to fight against the Forces now under the conduct of the Earle of Essex and against all other Forces whatsoever that are or sha●l be raised under what pretence soever contrary to his Majesties Command or Authority in defence of our Protestant Religion Lawes Liberties All these particulars laid together will infallibly demonstrate the reality of this designe and how farre it hath prevailed even with the King himselfe whose heart and person now wholly captivated and stolne away from the Parliament and Kingdome by these Conspirators the good God rescue out of their Traytorly hands and restore unto us in d●e season which shall be the prayer of the Publishe● of this Plot William Prynne Errata COurteous Reader I pray correct these Presse-errours which during my absence at St. Albanes have through the Printers oversight escaped the Presse in this Edition Page 4. l. 1. r. suffer p. 7. l. 20. na●●ragio p. 9. l. 29. them and most p. 15. l. 6. quam p. 28. l. 3. not brooke l. 27. his zeale 1. 29. strong strang p. 29. l. 33. Chaplaine p. 31. l. 10. men these l. 15. yet come into the Kings p 34. l. 29. his destiny l. 40. reasonable l. 46. dele as p. 35. l 26. conspired In the Margin p. 22. l. 18. small r. female ROMES MASTER-PEECE IF there be any professing the Protestant Religion within the Kings Dominions or elsewhere who are yet so wilfully blinded as not to discern so so●tishly incredulous as not to believe any reall long-prosecuted conspiracy by former secret practises and the present warres to extirpate the Protestant Religion re-establish Popery and inthrall the people in all three Kingdomes notwithstanding all visible effects and transparent Demonstrations of it lively set forth in the late Declaration of the Lords and Commons concerning the Rise and Progresse of the Grand Rebellion with other Remonstrances of that nature most visibly appearing in the late Articles of Pacification made by his Majesties Authority and approbation with the Irish Rebels contrary to divers Acts of Parliament passed by the King this present Session Let them now advisedly fixe their Eyes Minds upon the ensuing Letters and Discoveries seised on by Master Prynne in the Archbishops Chamber in the Tower May 31. 1643. by Warrant from the Close Committee to search his Papers there being unexpectedly commanded on that service and then they must needs acknowledge it an indubitable verity Since Sir William Boswell the Archbishop himselfe if not his Majesty and those who revealed this Plot were perswaded of its reality upon the first Dis●overy before it brake forth openly in Ireland and England Who and what the Authour of this Discovery was who the chiefe active instruments in the Plot when and where they assembled in what vigorous manner they daily prosecuted it how effectually they proceeded in it how difficult it is to dissolve or counter-work it without speciall diligence the Relation it selfe will best discover Whose verity if any question these Reasons will inforce beliefe First That the Discoverer was a chiefe Actor in this Plot sent hither from Rome by Cardinall Barbarino to assist Con the Popes Legate in the pursute of it and privy to all the particulars therein discovered

Secondly That the horrour and reality of the conspiracy so troubled his conscience as it ingaged him to disclose it yea to renounce that bloody Church and Religion which contrived it though bred up in preferred by it and promised greater advancements for his deligence in this designe Thirdly That he discovered it under an Oath of Secrecy and offered to confirme every particular by solemne Oath Fourthly That hee discovers the persons principally imployed in this Plot the places and times of their secret conventions their manner and diligence in the purs●ite of it with all other circumstance● so punctually as leaves no place for doubt Fifthly The principall Conspirators nominated by him are notoriously known to be fit instruments for such a wicked design Sixthly Many particulars therein have immediate relation to the King and Archbishop to whom he imparted this Discovery and it had been an impudent boldnesse and irrationall frentick act to reveale any thing for truth to the King and Bishop which they could disprove on their own knowledge Seventhly Sir William Boswell and the Archbishop if not the King himselfe were fully satisfied that it was reall and most important Eightly Some particulars are ratified by the Arch-bishops testimony in the Memorials of his own life written with his own hand some yeares before and others so apparent that most intelligent men in Court and City were acquainted with them whiles they were acting though ignorant of the plot Finally The late sad effects of this Conspiracy in all three Kingdomes in prosecution of this design compared with it are such a convincing evidence of its reality and Gods admirable hand of Providence in bringing this concealed plot so seasonably to light by an instrument unexpectedly raised from the grave of Exile and imprisonment to search the Arch-bishops papers in the Tower who had there seised his in former times and shut him up close prisoner in a Forraine Dungeon such a testimony from Heaven super-added to the premises that hee who deemes it an imposture may well be reputed an Infidell if not a Monster of incredulity The first overture and larger Relation of the plot it selfe were both writ in Latin as they are here Printed and faithfully translated word for word as neare as the Dialect will permit All which premised the Letters and plot here follow in order Sir Williams Boswels first Letter to the Arch-bishop concerning the Plot. May it please your Grace THe offers whereof your Grace will finde a Copy here inclosed towards a further and more particular discovery were first made unto me at the second hand and in speech by a friend of good quality and worth in this place But soone after as soone as they could be put into Order were avowed by the principall party and delivered me in writing by both together Upon promise and Oath which I was required to give and gave accordingly not to reveale the same to any other man living but your Grace and by your Graces hand unto his Majesty In like manner they have tyed themselves not to declare these things unto any other but my selfe untill they should know how his Majesty and your Grace would dispose thereof The Principall giving me withall to know That hee puts himselfe and this secret into your Graces power as well because it concernes your Grace so nearely after his Majesty As that he knowes your wisdome to guide the same aright And is assured of your Graces fidelity to his Majesties Person to our State and to our Church First Your Grace is humbly and earnestly prayed To signifie his Majesties pleasure with all possible speed together with your Graces disposition herein and purpose to carry all with silence from all but his Majesty untill due time Secondly When your Grace shall think fit to shew these things unto his Majesty To doe it immediately not trusting to Letters nor permitting any other person to be by or in hearing And to entreat and counsell his Majesty as in a case of Conscience to keep the same wholly and solely in his own bosome from the knowledge of all other creatures living but your Grace untill the businesse shall be cleare and sufficiently in his Majesties and your Graces hands to effect Thirdly Not to enqure or demand the names of the parties from whom these overtures doe come or any further discoveries and advertisements in pursute of them which shall come hereafter untill due satisfaction shall be given in every part of them Nor to bewray unto any person but his Majesty in any measure or kinde that any thing of this nature or of any great importance is come from me For as I may believe these overtures are verifiable in the way they will be layed and that the parties will not shrink So I may accompt That if never so little a glimpse or shadow of these informations shall appeare by his Majesties or your Graces speech or carriage unto others the meanes whereby the businesse may bee brought best unto tryall will bee utterly disappointed And the parties who have in Conscience towards God and devotion to his Majesty affection to your Grace and compassion of our Countrey disclosed these things will runne a present and extreame hazard of their persons and lives So easily it will be conjectured upon the least occasion given upon his Majesties or your Graces parts who is the discoverer By what meanes and how he knowes so much of these things And where he is These are the points which together with the offers they have pressed me especially to represent most seriously unto your Grace For my own particular having most humbly craved pardon of any errour or omissions that have befalne me in the mesnaging of this businesse I doe beseech your Grace to let me know First Whether and in what order I shall proceed hereafter with the parties Secondly What points of these offers I shall chiefly and first put them to enlarge and cleare Thirdly What other points and enquiries I shall propose unto them And in what manner Fourthly How farre further I shall suffer my selfe to heare and know these things Fifthly Whether I shall not rather take the parties answers and discoveries sealed up by themselves and having likewise put my owne seale upon them without questioning or seeing what they containe so to transmit them to his Majesty or your Grace Sixthly Whether I may not insinuate upon some faire occasion That there will be a due Regard held of them and their service by his Majesty and your Grace When all particulars undertaken in these generall offers and necessary for perfecting the discovery and work intended shall be effectually delivered to his Majesty on your Grace Upon these heads and such others as his Majesty or your Grace shall think proper in the businesse I must with all humility beseech your Grace to furnish me with instructions and warrant for my proceedings under his Majesties hand with your Graces attestation as by his Majesties goodnesse and Royall disposition is usuall

things The same houre I went to Master Boswell the Kings Leger at the Hage who being tied with an oath of secrecie to me I communicated the businesse to him I admonished him to weigh these things by the ballance neither to defer but act that those who were in danger might be speedily succoured He as becomes an honest man mindfull of his duty and having nearer looked into the businesse refused not to obey the monitions moreover he forthwith caused that an expresse should be dispatched and sent word back again what a most acceptable oblation this had been to the King and your Grace for which we rejoyced from the heart and we judged that a safe and favourable Deity had interposed it selfe in this businesse whereby you might be preserved Now that the verity of the things related might be confirmed some principall heads of the conspiracy were purposely pret●rmitted that the knowledge of them might bee ext●rted from the circumvented society of the conspirators Now the things will be speedily and safely promoted into act if they be warily proceeded in at Bruxels By my advise that day should be observed wherin the Packet of Letters are dispatched which under the title of To Monsieur Strario Archdeacon of Cambray tied with one cover are delivered to the postmaster such a packet may be secretly brought back from him yet it will be unprofitable because all the inclosed Letters are written Characteristically Likewise another Packet comming weekly frō Rome which is brought under this subscription To the most illustrious Lord Count Rossetti Legat for the time these are not to be neglected to whom likewise Letters writ in the same Character are included That they may be understood Reade is to be consulted with The forenamed day of dispatch shal be expected In Reades house an accumulated congregation may be circumvented which succeeding it will be your Graces part to order the businesse The intestine enemy being at length detected by Gods grace all bitternesse of minde which is caused on either side may be abolished delivered to oblivion deleted and quieted the enemy be invaded on both parts thus the King and the Kings friend and both Kingdomes neere to danger shall be preserved delivered from imminent danger Your Grace likewise may have this injunction by you if you desire to have the best advise given you by others that you trust not overmuch to your Pursevant● for some of them live under the stipend of the popish party How many Rocks how many Scillaes how many displeased Charibdes appear before your Grace in what a dangerous sea the Cockbote of your Graces life next to shipwrack is t●ssed your selfe may judge the fore deck● of the Ship is speedily to be driven to the harbour All these things I whisper into your Graces eare for I know it bound with an oath of secresie therefore by open name I would by these presents become known to your Grace Hage 14. Sept. S. N. 1640. Your Graces most observant and most officious Andrew Habernfeld Andreas ab Habernfeld a Noble Bohemian Dr. of Physick to the Queen of Bohemia his indorsement hereon Illusstrisimo ac Reverendissimo Dom. Domino G●lielmo Archiepiscopo Cantuariensi Primati Metropolitano totius Regni Angliae Dom. meo The Archbishops indorsment with his own hand Rece Octob. 14. 1640. Andreas ab Harbenfed His Letters sent by Sir W. Boswell about the discovery of the treason I conceive by the English Latin herein that he m●st needs be an Englishman with a concealed and changed name And yet it may be this kind of Latin may relate to the Italian Or else he lived some good time in England The declaration of this treason I have by His Majesties speciall command sent to Sir W. Boswell that he may there see what proofe can be made of any particulars The generall Overture and Discovery of the Plot sent with Sir William Boswels first Letter The Kings Majesty and Lord Archbishop of Canterbury are to be secretly informed by Letters 1. THat the Kings Majesty and the Lord Archbishop are both of them in great danof their live● 2. That the whole Commonwealth i● by this means endangered unlesse the mischiefe be speedily prevented 3. That these Scottish troubles are raised to the end that under this pretext the King and Archbishop might be destroyed 4. That there is a meanes to be prescribed whereby both of them in this case may be preserved and this tumult speedily composed 5. That although these Scottish tumults be speedily cōposed yet that the King is endangered and that there are many waies by which destruction is plotted to the King L. Archbishop 6. That a certaine society hath conspired which attempts the death of the King and L. Archbishop and Convulssion of the whole Realme 7. That the same society every week deposits with the President of the society what intelligence every of them hath purchased in eight daies search and then confer all into one packet which is weekly sent to the Director of the businesse 8. That all the confederates in the said conspiracy may verily be named by the poll But because they may be made knowne by other meanes it is thought meet to defer it till hereafter 9. That there is a ready meanes whereby the villany may be discovered in one moment the chiefe conspirators circumvented and the primary members of the conju●ation apprehended in the very act 10. That very many about the King who are accounted most faithfull and intimate to whom likewise the more secret things are instrusted ARE TRAYTORS TO THE KING corrupted with a forraigne Pension who communicate all secrets of greater or lesser moment to a forraigne power These and other most secret things which shall be necessary to be known for the security of the King may be revealed if these things shall be acceptable to the Lord Archbishop In the mean time if his Royall Majesty and the L. Archbishop desire to consult well to themselvas they shall keep these things onely superficially communicated unto them most secretly under deep silence not communicating them so much as to those whom they judge most faithful to them before they shall receive by name in whom they may confide for else they are safe on no side Likewise they may be assured that whatsoever things are here proposed are no figments nor fables nor vaine dreams but such reall verities which may be demonstrated in every small tittle For those who thrust themselves into this businesse are such men who mind no gaine but the very zeal of Christian charity suffers them not to conceale these things yet both from his Majesty and the Lord Archbishop some small examplar of gratitude will be expected All these Premisses have been communicated under good faith and the Sacrament of an oath to Mr. Leger Embassadour of the King of Great Brittain at the Hague that he should not immediately trust or communicate these things to any mortall besides the King and the L.