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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

and also the powder-plot since against King Iames and the whole Parliament our blood shall rest upon our owne heads who would not take timely notice of our incumbent dangers nor suddenly prevent them whiles we might YO have read before in the plot it selfe what an active instrument Captaine Read was in promoting this conspiracie of the Iesuites and how he was intrusted with the dispatch and delivery of all their Letters and Packets of intelligence and his house the ordinary randevouze where they weekely met yet see what a Protection this desperate Traytor obtained from his Maiesty to secure him against all apprehensions and prosecutions to advance this designe recorded in the Clerke of the Peace hi● Book for Middlesex in open sessions for his greater immunity and in the Crowne Office By the King VVHereas We have received good testimony of the Loyalty and Duty of Our trusty and welbeloved Captaine Iohn Read and because he may be subject to the penalty of the lawes for Recusancie These are to signifie that We are graciously pl●ased to extend Our speciall Grace towards him and doe hereby will command that no Inditement Presentment Information or Suit in Our name or in the name of any other be henceforth commenced prosecuted or accepted against him by any of Our Officers or Subjects whatsoever for or concerning Recusancie and if any such shall happen then Our will and pleasure is that upon sight hereof the same shall be discharged and made voyd or otherwise not prejudiciall to him Given under Our Signet at Our Court at Theobals the 13. day of Iuly in the 10 th yeere of Our Raigne To all and singular Our Iudges of Assize Iustices of Peace Maiors Sheriffes Clerkes of Assize and Peace Bayliffes Constables Informers and all other Our Officers and Ministers whom it doth or may concerne and to every of them The Examination of Henry Mayo WHo saith That on Thursday last being the twentieth of Iuly one thousand six hundred forty three he being at Bridges in Flanders heard Proclamation made in Dutch who understands it very well that all people within that City that would goe to the Governours house and give any Money to maintaine the Romane Catholiques in England they should have their Money re-paid them againe in a yeeres time with many thanks HENRY MAYO This Examination was taken before us EDWARD BOYCE JOHN BOYCE GEORGE TROTTER FINIS * Psal. 31. 12. Psal. 88. 4 5. a Rom. 11. 33. b Dan. 2. 22 23. ● C●r 13. 8. a See the Acts of the General Assembly of the ●ebels at ●ilkenny Anno 164● printed at ●ondon Marc● 6. 1643. T●e Myste●y of lniquity p. 32. 33. c. b The 48 week ending Decem ● p. 681. 685. * If a stranger were thus affected at the hearing of this Plot how should we our selves be sensible thereof * The Je●uits pl●ts are never ended till they obtaine their desired ends in all things * The Pope and Cardin●ll 〈◊〉 His Majesty and the Realme may be soone betrayed by such false attendants I beseech Your Majesty read these Letters a● they are endorsed by figures 1 2 3 c. Ye had reason so to doe It is an unanswerable Dilemma I c●ncur totally with you in opinion assuring you that no body doth or shall know of this businesse and to shew my care to conceale it I received this but this afternoon and now I make this dispatch before I sleepe Herewith I send his warrant as you advise which indeed I judge to bee the better way I like your answer extreame well and doe promise not to deceive your confidence nor make you break your word I have sent all back I thinke these Apostyles will bee warrant enough for you to proceed especially when I expressly command you to doe so In this I am as far from condemning your judgement as suspecting your fidelitie C. R. * The Kings hand and date * The Archbishops Postscript * A very good Argument of truth and reality * Therefore a man of note and imployment * Jesuites know well how to equivocate thus * If Popes must not favour pro●●stant Princes it s a miracle that they should favor them or harbour any of their agents now neer them * The papacy of Cant. and this other world is of greater value then an Italian Cardinalship * The quality of the discovere● meane● inducing him to reveale this plot * The Popes Nuncio then in England Four sorts of Jesuits * A good caveat to Nobles Gentlemen to beware they entertaine not a Jesuit or Romish spie in their houses in stead of a servant * We had need look about when so many active Traytors are harboured among us even perchance at this present Therfore both Kindoms need look to themselves Strange that such a society should be erected under the Defender of the faith A strange world when a Popes Legate shall be openly harboured so neere the King and Court and have fr●e●ccesse to both without controule If the King truly hate the Pope it will make his Instruments lesse effectuall if they come in his name Popes Instruments are ever very active Strange it was that the chiefe men should not set themselves against him his to send thē packing hence especially that the King himselfe did it not when he thus tempted assaulted him That a Popes Legat should be so familiar with the King and the King make much of him in steed of banishing him is a riddle * The Archb. therefore he had some familiarity and acquaintance at first * This offer appears under the Archbishops own hand in the Journall of his life But he kept not him from the Court. Jesuites are both diligent and able to remove their greatest opposites at Court from out of place and favour too * It is admirable this faction should be so powerfully predominant as to displace the greatest and faithfullest Officers Iesuites wil be sure to move hell when they cannot prevail with Heaven Jesuites cannot indure neuters If a man may be saved in any Religiō he may safely imbrace any and cleave close to none * The Bishops ty●●nny against Puritans the best advantage and greatest advancement of popes designes * He means the Scottish Prayer book the alterations whereof frō the English were found in the Originall copy under the Archbishops own hand whē his chamber was searched The Jesuits love to fish when the Bishops trouble the streames with their innovations and Popish Ceremonies The Iesuits the plotters chief directors of the Scotish war * The King tied to conditions by papists befor they aided him * Now practised in Oxford Wales and the Northern parts by open toleration * The more shame pity and a caveat for the Parliament henceforth to look to it * The King thē must needs be in great danger amongst Papists now * Jesuites make but a vaunt of poysoning Kings * The Jesuites it seems know very well King Iames was poysoned belike by some of their Instruments * It seems some Noblemens Chaplains are but the Popes and Jesuites intelligencers if not their confederates All forraigne popish States contribute their best assistance to reduce England to Rome * A meet guerdon for such a service * Jesuites will not give over acting till they accomplish their designes Bishops Sons oftentimes the Popes greatest Agents His industrious activity should shame our slothfulnesse The protestants want of such mutuall correspondency and intelligence is a great weakning to their cause Let them learn Wisedome by their Enemies * A fit place for their intelligence and correspondency with Ireland lying in the midst between both The Jesuites now make good use of all Nations and Instruments * O that such Romish seducers should obtaine such power and rewards for being seducing Instruments The Jesuites it seems are very powerfull at Court The Popes weekly intelligence at Rome from hence can produce no good to England Jesuites know how to conceal thei● Names and Lodgings There are more Popish Chappels in and about London then are commonly known Jesuites can counterfeit any habit or part to delude the vulgar Papists large contributions to undermine our Religion should make us liberall to defend it Jesuites are as wise as Serpents though not so innocent as Doves The Jesuits learne of the Serpent to seduce men by small instruments to their ruine Her voyage to Rome to visit the Pope made her frequently to visit his legat The Countesse belike was his forerunner thither No wonder the Earls debts be so great A School of Nunnes Is not the King in great danger who hath such a person in his Bed-chamber now keeper of the great Seal Both King and Prince have Iesuiticall agents in their Bed-chambers All businesses and imployments must be set aside to promote this plot A Iesuiticall Secretary his flight and Articles in Parliament confirme all this and more Papists spare no cost The other Conspirators names A ●●●cover for such a dish It seemes their purses were strong their hopes great His Maiesty perchance hath learnt to write Characters from him as appeares by some of his late intercepted Letters A good 〈◊〉 for England now * This must needs be the Legat or one imployed from him * Page 171. * Conference with Fisher neere the end * See the Generall Hist. of France in the life of H. 3. 4. * See the English Pope * With which his Speech in Star-chamber agrees There it is Hoc est corpus m●um c. * To elevate the Hos●ia as Papists do● * See the Articles against him in Parliament * Antiq. Eccles. Brit. p. 322. Ead. lib. 1. and Fox Acts and Mon. Vol. 1. edit ult p. 926. * 23. Eliz. c. 1. 35. Eliz. c. 1. 3. Iac. c. 3. 4 5. * See 1. 2. Phil. Mary c. 8. See the Royall Popish Favorite * Ioh. 10. 10. 11 12 13. * 2 Ioh. 10. 11. * Gratian caus 23. * Gen. 3. * 1 King 11. * Qui amat periculum peribit in 〈◊〉 * So are th● Shrewesbury printed copies See the Royall Popish favorite where it is largely proved * Grimston in his life * Fox Speed Generall hist. of France in Hen. 3. 4. * Meteran●s Grimston * See Doctor Eggl●shams Booke and the Commons charge against the Duke of Buckingham * 〈◊〉 12 10.

pragmaticall peremptory Iesuits who in Popish Kingdomes are in perpetuall enmity with all other orders and they with them they having beene oft banished out of France and other Realmes by the Sorbonists Dominicans and other orders no Protestants writing so bitterly against this Popish Order as themselves as some of their Priests Dominicans and other Friers have done yea the Priests and Jesuites in England were lately at great variance and persecuted and writ against one another with much violence This same then is no good argument that the Arch-bi held no correspondence with Priests and other Orders can beare no good affection to the Church of Rome in whose superstitious Ceremonies he outstripped most Priests themselves VVhat correspondency he held with Franciscus de Sancta Clara with other Priests and Doctor Smith Bishop of Calcedon whom the Jesuits likewise have persecuted and got excommunicated though of their owne Church and religion is at large discovered in a Books in●●●●led The English Pope and how well he approved of some Romish doctrines Alt●●s and Massing rites is evident by the Scottish Common-prayer-booke then found in the Archbishops chamber with all those alterations wherein it differs from the English written with his owne hand in the margin some of which smell very strongly of Popery as namely his blotting out of these words at the delivery of the Bread and Wine in the Sacrament Take and eate this in remembrance that Christ dyed for thee and feed on him in thy heart by faith with thankesgiving Take and drink● this in remembrance that Christs blood was shed for thee c. and leaving onely this former clause the better to justifie and imply a corporall presence of Christ in the Sacrament The body of our Lord Iesus Christ which was given for thee The blood of our Lord Iesus Christ which was shed for thee preserve thy body and soule unto everlasting life And this popish Rubricke therein written with his owne hand The Presbyter during the time of consecration shall stand AT THE MIDDLE OF THE ALTAR where he may with more ease and decency USE BOTH HIS HANDS then he can do if he stand at the North end with other particulars of this kind Moreover in his booke of Private devotions written with his owne hand he hath after the Romish form reduced all his prayers to Ca●●nicall houres many of them for his late good Lord and Master the Duke and Dutches of Buckingham and their family and some against the Scotch Rebels as he stiles them And in the fore-mentioned Memorials of his life written with his owne hand there are these suspicious passages among others besides the offer of the Cardinals-cap An. 1631. I●n 21. and 26. My nearer acquaintance began to settle with Do. S. God blesse us in it I●nii 25. D. S. with me at Fulham cum M● c. meant of Dr. Smith the Popish Bishop of Calcedon as is conceived Iun. 25. Mr. Fr. Windebanke my old friend was 〈◊〉 Secretary of State which place I OBTAINED FOR HIM of my gracious Master King Charles What an Arch-Papist and conspiratour he was the Plot relates and his flight into France for releasing Papists and Iesuits out of prison from executions for debts by his owne Warrants and imprisoning those Officers who apprehended them confirmes About this time Dr. Theodor Price Subdean of Westminster a man very intimate with the Archbishop and recommended specially to the King by him to be a Welsh Bishop in opposition to the Earle of Pembroke and his Chaptain Griffith Williams now an Irish Prelate soon after died a reconciled Papist and received extream● Vnction from a Priest Noscitur ex comite August 30. 1634. He hath this memoriall Saturday at Oatelands the Queen sent for me and gave 〈◊〉 thanks for a businesse with which she trusted me her promise then that she would be my friend and that I should have immediate addresse to her when I had ●ccasion All which considered together with his Chaplaines licencing divers popish Bookes with their ●xpunging most passages against Popery out of Bookes brought to the Presse and other particulars commonly knowne will give a true Character of his temper that 〈◊〉 is another Ca●●ander or middle man betweene an absolute Papist and a reall Protestant who will far sooner hug a popish Priest in his bosome then take ● Puritan by the little finger an absolute Papist in all matters of ceremony pompe and externall worship in which he was over● zealous even to an open bitter persecution of all consci●●tious Ministers who made scruple of them if not halfe an one at least in Doctrinall 〈◊〉 How far he was guilty of a conditionall voting the breaking up the last Parliament before this was called and for what end it was summoned this other memoriall under his owne hand will attest Dec. 5 1639. Thursday the King declared his resolution for a Parliament in case of the Scottish rebellion the first movers to it were my L. Deputy of Ireland my Lord Marquesse Hamilton and my selfe And a Resolution voted at the Board to assist the King in extraordinary wayes if the Parliament should prove peevish and Refuse c. But of him sufficient till his charge now in preparation and since transmitted to the Lords shall come in Observations on and from the relation of this plot FFom the relation of the former Plot by so good a hand our own three Realms and a●● forraigne Protestant States may receive full satisfaction First that there hath been a most cunning strong execrable conspiracie long since contrived at Rome and for divers yeeres together most vigorously pursued in England with all industry policy subtilty engines by many active potent confederates of all sorts all sexes to undermine the Protestant Religion re-establish Popery and alter the very frame of civill government in all the Kings Dominions wherein a most dangerous visible progresse hath been lately made Secondly That to effect this traiterous designe they have not onely secretly erected some Monasteries of Monkes Nunnes in and about London but sent over hither whole Regiments of most active subtill Iesuits incorporated into a particular new society whereof the Pope himselfe is head and Cardinall Barbarino his Vicar which Society was first discovered and some of them apprehended in th●ir private Colledge at Clerken-well together with their bookes of account Reliques and Massing Trinket● about the beginning of the second Parliament of this King yet such power favour friends they had then acquired that their persons were speedily and most indirectly released out of Newgate without any prosecution to prevent that Parliaments proceedings against them which examined this abuse and illegall release Since which this conjured society increasing in strength and number secretly replanted themselves in Queens-street and Long-acre and their purses are now so strong their hopes so elevated their designes so ripened as they have there purchased founded a new magnificent Colledge of their owne for their habitation neere the