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A58828	A narrative of the wicked plots carried on by Seignior Gondamore for advancing the popish religion and Spanish faction heartily recommended to all Protestants by Rich. Dugdale, Gent.	Scott, Thomas, 1580?-1626.; Lerma, Francisco de Sandoval y Rojas, Duque de, 1552-1625.; Gondomar, Diego Sarmiento de Acuña, Conde de, 1567-1626.; Dugdale, Richard.	1679 (1679)	Wing S2086; Wing D2472_CANCELLED; ESTC R22577	21,050	21

the name of the distressed afflicted persecuted and imprisoned Priests that his Majesty would interceed for them to free them from the intollerable burdens they groaned under and to procure them their Liberties and Letters were directed from us to that end that you would negotiate that Demand with all speed and diligence Most excellent Prince replyed Gondamore I did your Command with a kind of Command my self not thinking it fit to make it a Suit in your Name or my Masters I obtained them Liberty to walk freely up and down to face and out-face their Accusers judge Magistrates Bishops and to excuse their Function almost as freely altogetheras safely as at Rome Here the Nuntio replyed that he did not well in his Judgment in procuring their Liberty since they might do more good in prison than abroad because in prison they seemed to be under persecution and so were pitied of others and pity of the person prepares the affection further besides then they were careful over their own Lives to give none Offence but abroad they might be scandalous in their Lives as they use to be in Rome and Spain and other Catholick Countries and so the opinion of their Holiness which upholds their credit and cause against the married Clergy would soon decay But the Embassador answered he considered those Inconveniences but besides a superiour Advantage arose from the profit of Liberty more than of Restraint for now they might freely confer and were ever practising and would doubtless produce some work of wonder and besides by reason of their Authority and means to change places did apply themselves to many persons whereas in prison they could only deal with such as came to be taught and were their own before and this quoth he add as a secret that as before they were maintained by private Contributions to denounce Catholicks even to access so much more now shall they be able to gather great Sums to weaken the State and furnish them for some high attempt by the example of Cardinal Woolsey barrelling up Gold for Rome and this they may easily do since all Catholicks rob the Heretical Priests and hold Tithes from them by fraud or force to give to theirs of their own to whom it is properly due and if this be spyed it is an easy matter to lay all upon the Hollander and say He carryeth the Coyn out of the Land who are forward indeed in such practises and so ours shall not only be excused but a flaw made betwixt them to weaken their amities and to get suspition betwixt them of each others Love But amongst all these Priests quoth the Inquisitor General did you remember that Old Reverend Father Baldwin who had a Finger in that admirable attempt made on our behalf against the Parliament House Such as he deserving so rightly adventuring their Lives so resolutely for the Catholick Cause must not be neglected but extraordinarily regarded thereby to encourage others to the like undertaking Holy Father quoth Gondamore my principal care was of ●im whose Life and Liberty when I had with much difficulty obtained of the King I solemnly went in Person attended with my Trayn and diverse other well-willers to fetch him out of the Tower where he was in durance as soon as I came into his sight I behaved my self after so lowly and humble a manner that our Adversaries stood amazed to see the Reverence we gave to our Ghostly Fathers and this I did to confound them and their contemptous Clergy to beget an extraordinary Opinion of Holiness in the Person and Piety in us and also to provoke the English Catholicks to the like devout Obedience that thereby at any time their Jesuites whose Authority was somewhat weakened since the Schism betwixt them and the Seculars and the succeeding POUDER PLOT may work them to our ends as Masters their Servants Tutors their Scholars Fathers their Children Kings their Subjects and that they may do this the more boldly and securely I have somewhat dasht the Authority of their High Commission upon which whereas there are diverse Pursevants Men of the worst kind and condition resembling our Flies and Familiars attending upon the Inquisition whose Office and Imployment is to disturb the Catholicks searching thier Houses for Priests Holy Vestments Books Be●des Crucifixes and the like religious Appurtenances I have caused the Execution of their Offices to be slackned that so an open way may be given to our Spiritual Instruments for the free-exercise of their Faculties And yet when these Pursevants had greatest Authority a small Bribe in the Country would blind their Eyes or a little greater at Court or in the Exchequer frustrate and cross all their Actions for that their Malice went off like Squibs made a great Crack to fright Children and new-born Babes but hurt no Old Men of Catholick Spirits and this is the effect of all other their Courses of Proceedings in this kind in all their Judicial Courts whether known Catholicks committed as they stile them or often summoned and cited threatened and bound over but the danger is past so soon as the Officer hath his Fee paid him then the Execution goeth no further nay upon my conscience they are as glad when there are offenders in that kind because they are bountiful and the Officers do their best to favour them that they may encrease and so their Reuenue and Gain come in freely And if they should be sent to Prison even that place for the most part is made a Sanctuary to them as the Old Romans were wont to shut up such by wayes of restraint as they meant to preserve from the Peoples Fury for they live safe in Prison till we have time to work their liberty and assure their Lives and in the mean time their place of restraint is as it were a Study to them where they may have opportunity to confer together as in a Colledge and to arm themselves in Unity against the Single Adversary abroad But quoth the Inquisitor General how do they for Books when they have occasion either to write or to dispute My Lord replied Gondamore all the Libraries belonging to the Roman Catholicks through the Land are at their command from whence they have all such Collections as they can require gathered to their hands as well from thence as from all the Libraries of both Vniversities and even the Books themselves if it be requisite besides I have made it a principal part of my Imployment to buy all the Manuscripts and other rare and antient Authors out of the hands of the Hereticks So that there is no great Scholler dyes in the Land but my Agents are dealing with his Books in so much as even their l●arned Isaac Causabons Library was in election to be ours had not their Vigilant King who foreseeth all dangers and hath his Eye busie in every place prevented my PLOT for after the Death of that great Scholer I sent to request a Catologue of his Books with the Price

A NARRATIVE OF THE WICKED PLOTS Carried On by SEIGNIOR GONDAMORE For ADVANCING the Popish Religion AND Spanish Faction Heartily Recommended to all PROTESTANTS By Rich. Dugdale Gent. Ephes v. 11 12. Have no Fellowship with the unfruitful Works of Darkness but rather reprove them For it is a shame even to speak of those Things which are done of them in secret LONDON Printed by T. B. and are to be sold by Robert Clavel at the Peacock in St. Paul's Church-yard 1679. THE PREFACE Courteous Reader THIS following Narrative has run all the hazards and risks of Fortune it breathed for a long time in the obscure Shadow of a Country and Loyal DIVINES Study after the death of that Worthy and Eminent person a Relation to the Great E. of Strafford it fell into the ●ands of One of his Younger Sons who being a Man of Business and a da●ty Frequenter of Westminster-Hall that Great Mart and Exchange of Law This lay hundled up among some bundles of insigni●icant and Worthless Papers till it pleased God to confine this Gentleman to his Chamber by a Distemper which though it was so severe as to deny him to Act abroad yet it did not so at home Under this Imprisonment for Restraint is such to Active Spirits He reviewed His long neglected Writings and being unwilling like the Rable of the Town to condemn and exceute upon a bare Presumption of Guilt He calls all to a single Scrutiny and Examination The Multitude here as in the World proved Trash and Refuse only this Manuscript like Moses among the Reeds was preserved alive because it was of a very fair and beautiful Countenance Perils and Manifold Sorts of Death attend Writings as well as their Authors and Gods Providence is as legible in the extraordinary Preservation of useful and profitable BOOKS as in Raising up and Protecting PERSONS of invincible Resolution and Courage to be the publcik Instruments of the Churches and Kingdoms Deliverance Of this advantageous Nature and Consideration I take these following Sheets to be for herein are evidently discoursed and unridled the Designs of the Spanish Match the Strategems of the comprehensive Statesman Gondamore and of his faithful Adherents the JESUITES for the Introduction of his Masters Religion and Empire into these Nations together the Negotiations betwixt Spain and Great Britain were in King James Raign the unaccountable State-Secrets and Mysteries These exercised and distressed the Combin'd Heads and Wits of our Great Council raised the Fears and Jealousies of the People and prepared them to entertain those groundless Suggestions which afterward both gave Rise and Support to our late Civil Wars The Designs of the Catholick Bishop and Monarck in all these Treaties of Mariage were to enslave us to a False and Foppish Religion and a Tyrannical Government and though Pretences of Commerce and Friendship swom at the Top yet these were the great Motives which lay at the Bottom To compass these Perjuries and the Violation of the Mariage-Oath with an Heretical Prince would be a Sacred and Meritorious Action and if the Antichristian Beast could be drawn in as the Giant did the Cattle into his Den backward and by the Tayl 't is no matter how much Reason and Morality is affronted nay His Holiness out of the Plenitude of his Power will Indulge his faithfullest Adherents to renounce even in extremis at the very point of Death Some Essential and Reproachful Articles of their Faith as the Lawfulness of Deposing Kings and Soveraign Princes that the whole System may with the less Suspition be glibly swallowed down and entertained The Dimensions of Hercules were exactly calculated by the measure of his Foot and the Magnitude of a Limb may discover to the Intelligent the true Bulk of a Sumetrical and well built Body and the horrid Lies and Immoralities Rapines and Murders Assassinations and Massacres approved of in This small Pamphlet for the Effecting of the Romish DESIGN may sufficiently Instruct such of the villanous and pernicious Nature of the whole as have cast out the Two Devils of Prejudice and of a blind and implicite Faith in that Arch-Fanatick of Europe and Divider of Kingdoms for he it is and for this Lesson I must acknowledg my self intirely indebted to this Paper who sows the Tares of Division betwixt the Gown-men of this Nation Sets the Lawyer to quarrel the Divine The Two Temples to deprecate the Church and Westminster-Hall to envy the Princely and Magnificent Structure of the Abby Read This DISCOVERY with Seriousness and I am confident it will prove very Instructive in many Important Particulars 'T was its Misfortune to lie so long in obscurity and so was it too to breath first of all in an Air infected with the Stench of such an infinite Number of puny insect and Imperfect Libels Here is nothing in this but what is Masculine the Argument is weighty the Style passant and expressive the Discovery of the Popish DESIGNS in that Juncto of Affairs clear and palpable and that it may be serviceable in this to the Publick-weal is the Only Design and hearty Wish of Him Who is Reader A hearty Well-willer to the Wellfare and Prosperity of this NATION RICHARD DUGDALE A NARRATIVE OF THE Popish Strategems Carried On by Seigniour GONDAMORE THE SPANISH EMBASSADOR c. HIS Catholick Majesty having given Commandment that presently upon the Return of Seigniour GONDAMORE the Leiger Embassador from ENGLAND a special meeting of the Principal States of Spain who were of his Councel together with the Presidents of the Council of Castile of Aragon of Italy of Portugal of the Indies of the Treasure of War and especially of the Holy Inquisition should be held at Monson in Arragon the Duke of Lerma being appointed President who should make Declaration of his Majesties pleasure take an Account of the Embassadors Service and consult touching the STATE and RELIGION respectively to give satisfaction to his Holiness's Nuntio who was desired to make one in this Assembly concerning Overtures of Peace and Amity with the English and other Catholick Princes which might engender Suspicion and Jealousie betwixt the Pope and his Majesty if the Mystery were not unfolded and the ground of those Counsels discovered aforehand This made all men expect the Embassadors Return with a kind of Longing that they might behold the Issue of this Meeting and see what good for the Catholick Cause the Embassadors Employment had effected in England answerable to the general opinion received of his Wisdom and what further project would be set on foot to become matter for publick Discourse At length he Arrived and had present notice given him from his Majesty That before he came to Court he should give up his Account to this Assembly which Command he gladly received as an earnest of his acceptable Service and gave Thanks that for his Honour he might publish himself in so judicious a presence He came first upon the day appointed to the Councel Chamber not long after

the Spanish State and Romish Religion together First it is well observed by the Wisedom of our State that the King of England who is otherwise one of the most accomplish'd Princes that ever Reigned extreemly hunts after Peace and so affects the true name of a Peace-maker as that for it he will do or suffer any thing and withall they have beheld the general bounty and munisicence of his Mind and necessity of the State so exhausted as it is unable to supply his desires who seeks to have that he may give to others upon these advantages they have given out directions and instructions both to me and others and I have observed them as far as I was able And for this purpose whereas there was a Marriage propounded betwixt them and us how soever I suppose our State too devout to deal with Hereticks in this kind in earnest yet I made that a Cover for much Intelligence and a means to obtain what I desired whilst the State of England longed after the Marriage hoping thereby though vainly to setle Peace and fill the Exchecquer Here the Aroh-Bishop of Toledo Inquisitor-General stept up and interrupted Gondamore saying that Marriage was not to be thought on first for Religions sake lest they should endanger the Soul of the Young Lady and the rest of her Company might become Hereticks Secondly for the State least by giving so large a Portion to Hereticks they should enrich and enable themselves for War and impoverish and weaken the Catholicks To the first Objection the Popes N●●●io answered that his Holiness for the Catholick Cause would dispence with the Marriage and urged these following Reasons First that there was Valuable Danger in the hazarding of One for the gaining of Many perhaps of all Secondly that it was no hazard since Women especially Young Ones are too obstinate to be removed from their Opinions and abler to win Solomon to their Opinions than Solomon to work them to his Faith Thirdly it was great advantage to match with such from whom they might break at pleasure having the Catholick Cause for a Colour and besides if need were to be at liberty in all respects since there was no Faith to be kept with Hereticks and if his Holiness may dispence with the Murder of such and dispose of their Crowns as what good Catholick doubts but he may much more he may and will he in their Marriages to prevent the Leprosy-Seed of Heresy and to setle Catholick-Blood in the Chair of State to the second Objection the Embassador himself answered saying that though the English generally loathed the Match and would as he thought buy it off with half their Estates hating the Nation of Spain and their Religion as appears by an uproar and assault a day or two before his Departure from London by the Apprentices being greedy to vent their own Spleen in doing him or any of his a mischeif yet two sorts of People unmeasureably desired the Match might proceed First the begging and beggarly Courtiers that they might have to furnish their Wants Secondly The Romish Catholicks who hoped thereby at least for a Moderation of Fines and Laws perhaps a Toleration and perhaps a total Restauration of their Religion in England in which regard quoth he I have known some Zealous Persons protest that if all their Friends and half their Estates could procure the Service of our Lady if she came to be married with the Prince they would use the means faithfully to ●ight under her Colours when they might safely do it and if it came to Portion they would under-hand contribute largly of their Estates to the Spanish Collector and make up half the Portion of themselves perhaps more So by this Marriage it might be so wrought that the State should be rather robb'd and weakened which is our Aim than strengthened as the English vainly hope besides in a small time they should work so far in the Body of the State by buying Offices and the like either by Sea or Land of Justice Civil or Ecclesiastical in Church or State all being for Money exposed to Sale that with the Help of Jesuites they would undermine with meer wit without Gunpowder and leave the King but a few Subjects whose Faith he might rely upon while they were of a Faith adverse to his For what Catholick-Body that is sound at the Heart can abide a Corrupt and Heretical Head or Ruler With that the Duke Medina des Rio Setto President of the Council of War and of the Council of State rose up and said His Predecessors had felt the Force and Wit of the English in 88. and he had cause to doubt the Catholicks themselves that were English and fully Jesuited upon any Foreign Nation would rather take part with their own King though an Heretick than with his Catholick-Majesty a Stranger The Embassador desired him to be of another mind since First for their Persons generally their Bodies by long disuse for Arms were disabled and their Minds effeminated by Peace and Luxury far from what they were in 88. when they were flesht in our Blood and made haughty in Customary Conquests and for the affection of those whom they call R●cusants quoth he I know the bitterness of their inveterate malice and have seen so far into their Natures as I dare say they will be for Spain against all the world yea quoth he I assure your Honours I could not imagine so basely of their King and State as I have heard them speak nay their Rage hath so perverted their Judgments that what I my self have seen and heard from their King beyond Admiration even to Astonishment they have sleighted misreported scorned and perverted to his disgrace and my rejoycing magnifying in the mean time our defect for grace Here the Duke Pastrane President of the Counsel for Italy steps up and said he had lately read a Book of one Cambdens called his Annals wherein writing of a Treaty of a Marriage long since between English Elizabeth and the French Duke of Andiou He there observes that the Marriage was not seriously intended on either side but Politickly pretended by both States counterchangeably that each might effect their own ends there the English had the better and I have some cause to doubt since they can dissemble as well as we that they have their Aimes under hand as well as we and intend the Match as little as we do and this quoth he I believe the rather because the King as he is wise to consult and consider so he is a constant Master of his word and hath written and given strong Reasons against Matches made with Persons of contrary Religion which Reasons no other Man can answer And therefore doubtless he will not go from nor counsel his Son to forsake those Rules laid down so deliberately Your Excellency mistakes quoth the Embassador the advantage was then on the Side of the English because the French Men sought the Match now it must be upon ours