late have done Nor can I subscribe to till I be better informed that Priviledge given to the Commons by I know not whom yet I suppose of no vulgar apprehension viz. That the King may hold his Parliament for the Communalty of the Realm without Bishops Earls and Barons so that they have lawful Monitions or summons albeit they come not Yet the same Book affirms that the King with his Bishops Earls and Barons cannot hold a Parliament without the assistance of the Commons And his reason for all this assertion is because Sometime there was neither Bishop Earl ne Baron and yet the King did keep and hold his Parliaments To which I shall only answer in brief thus That if he mean that our Kings have kept Parliaments when there was no such thing as or distinction in this Nation of Priest or Nobility or some such Rank above the common People I shall utterly deny his Proposition Or if he understand that Parliaments have been held only by the King and Commons I shall not yield to him till I be assured where and when yet if both were allowed it can be no good consequence that it may be done so now if custom have any sway in England which is now a main Card of the Commons Game And because some of late more through malice than judgement have not only asserted the King to be one of the Estates by which plot they will equal themselves to him and so overthrow his Rule and Government of which Sir Edward Deering doth a little hint but also exclude the Clergy It will not be amiss in this place to right both by one or two authentick Instances The first shall be the Parliaments Bill presented to King Richard III. when but Duke of Glocester to desire him to take upon him the Kingship the which is very long but in it you shall find these words Vs the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons of this Realm of England according to the Election of us the three Estates of this Land Therefore at the request and by the assent of the three Estates of this Realm That is to say the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons of this Land assembled in this present Parliament Here we have Three Estates the Clergy being one and the King none My second Instance shall be taken out of one Titus Livius de Frulonisiis a Book quoted several times by Stow in Henry V. which Manuscript is also in Latin in St. Benit's Colledge Library in Cambridge where having related the life and death of Henry V. he tells us that After all these things and Ceremonies of his burying were solemnly finished as is to-fore rehersed the Three Estates of the Realm of England assembled them together in great number to take advice and deliberation amongst them what was most necessary to be done for the Regiment and Government of the said Realm of England where they concluded to take for their King the only Son of the late King Henry whose name was also Henry which was the VI. of that Name since the Conquest of England But because some may slight this as only the judgement of a private Historian we will strengthen our Assertion by the Laws of our Land In Queen Elizabeth's time an Act of Parliament affords us these words We your said most loving faithful and obedient subjects representing the Three Estates of your Realm of England as thereunto constrained by Law of God and Man c. Here are again Three Estates and the Queen none and that the Clergy are one another Act of Parliament will inform us in these words The State of the Clergy being one of the greatest States of this Realm And after this same manner was the Clergy in Scotland one of the Estates as may also appear by their own Acts of Parliament one of which runs thus That the Three Estates especially considering the persons exercising the Offices Titles and Dignities of Prelates which persons have ever represented one of the Estates And in another Parliament some thirteen years before this viz. 1584. it was thus Enacted That none presume to impugne the Dignity and Authority of the Three Estates or to seek or procure the innovation or diminution of their Power and Authority or any of them in time coming under pain of Treason And whether the Scots have of late behaved themselves according to these Laws is well known And it seems strange to me that they durst be so impudent against their King who considering his power in choosing Parliaments was one of the most absolute Monarchs in the World till the modern Rebellious Retrenchments These things are convincing to me that the King never was one or part of but above the Three Estates it being ridiculous that his Majesty should Petition himself and call himself subject to himself Nor see I any reason to doubt that the Clergy was one having Acts of Parliament for it who knew their own Constitution best 'T is true of late the Clergy have had no Representatives in Parliament the Reverend Lords Spiritual being I do not know how thrown out of the Upper-House and the action at last by threats and other villainies procured to be signed by the Royal Assent for which and seeing they are since happily restored again I shall not at this time presume to question though many who are learned in our Fundamental Laws suppose that reasons might be shewn and that grounded upon law of it's nullity to which purpose the learned Dr. Heylin hath given a short Essay both from the binding of Magna Charta the darling too of our Presbyterian Parliaments which especially provides for the Priviledges of the Clergy as also by the voiding of all actions done by the King by compulsion and not of his free-will And that Kings may be so wrought upon appears by King James who when King of Scotland was by his unruly Subjects constrained to declare several times quite contrary to his judgement and so was King Edward III. as appears by the Revocation of a Statute made the 15. year of his raign And how unwilling King Charles the first was to sign this Bill is not unknown the Parliament having got a new Art of getting their ends about viz. by Tumults and Threats so that the King was rather fought than reasoned out of it And what impudence the Commons were brasoned with to presume thus to extirpate the Spiritual Lords whose Antiquity in Parliament was double to theirs is experimentally beyond expression But they and so did the Puritanical Faction of the Nobility for such Animals were amongst them too know well enough that the King would not only be weakened but themselves strengthened by annihilation of 26. such sound Royal and Orthodox Votes for which qualifications the Schismatical Lords and Commons hated them But enough of this only I shall leave some Quaeries to the consideration of the Presbyterian mad-caps Lord or Common of the wicked
the Church in Sudly Castle at the beginning of these Wars profaned Not only the Monuments of the Chandoises spoil'd but one part of the Church converted to a Stable whilst the other was little better than a Shambles the Pulpit being made the chief stall where the meat was hung up and the communion-table served for a board to joynt upon The Inhabitants of Weden-Pinkney in Northamptonshire cannot yet forget how Mr. Losse their Minister was abused whilest he was officiating by the souldiers who rid into the Church and wounded the Minister because he would not go along with them they refusing to tell him by what authority they commanded him An action so wicked that the very heathens will rise up in judgment against them And those of Chelmsford in Essex need no remembrancer how their Church-windows having the History of Christ and the Scutchions of Bene factors painted in them were batter'd down by the instigated rabble who not content with this layd violent hands on Dr. Michelson their Parson and rent the Common Prayer Book with a great deal of joy This reformed town as my Author saith was govern'd by a Tinker two Coblers two Taylors and two Pedlers How miserably was the ancient Cathedral Church at Winchester dealt withall the famous Monuments of the Dead utterly defaced the bones of Kings Bishops c. thrown about the Church the two famous Brazen Statues of King James and King Charles erected at the entrance into the Quire pulled down the Communion-Plate books hangings cushions c. seis'd upon and made away the Church-vestments put on by the heathenish soldiers riding in that posture in derision about the streets some scornfully singing pieces of the Common-prayer whilst others tooted upon the broken pieces of Organs The stories of the old and new Testament curiously beautified with colours and cut out in carved work they utterly destroy'd against which wickednesse the Prophet David of old complained Nor did the famous Organs escape their fury being pull'd to pieces and imployed to private uses As one in York something advanced his houses if my memory fail me not with Organ and Church-wood which if he had turn'd into Looms and Shuttles had been more proper for his trade And of the brasse torn from violated Monuments might have been built a house as strong as the brazen Towers in some old Romances And after this manner was the Cathedral of Exceter served where the Commandements were defaced the Common-Prayer Book burnt the glasse-windows monuments statues and organs broke and the name of Jesus over the Communion table blotted out as superstitious Nor can some honest people of London yet forget the intolerable actions of the saint-like soldiers at St. Peter's Pauls-wharf sunday 9 Sept. 1649 who rode into the said Church with swords drawn and pistols spann'd crying out Knock the Rogues on the head shoot them kill them which was accordingly done an old woman being shot into the head and above 40 more grievously wounded and the Minister Mr. Williams hurried Prisoner to White-Hall And all this because the Common prayer establisht by the true Laws of the Land was read whence my Author observes that these Hereticks though they loudly cry up Liberty of Conscience yet will allow none to others but take all to themselves the better to cloak their villanies with pretended Religion and reformation The Cathedral of Chichester was sufficiently violated being robb'd of all her vestments and plate and not so much as a Cushion left in the pulpit the Organs and ten Commandements broke down and spoil'd the Pictures of the Kings of England and Bishops of that See defaced with the monuments seats stalls and painted walls And after the same manner was the Cathedral of Peterborough used and how Lichfield escaped is not unknown And their fury being once begun no man can expect that the Metropolitan Church of Canterbury could escape where Coll. Sandys soldidiers barbarously overthrew the Communion-Table tearing the velvet cloth from before it defacing the goodly Screen violating the monuments of the dead spoiling the organs breaking down the ancient rails and seats with the brazen Eagle which supported the Bible tearing the surplices gowns bibles and Arras hanging in the Quire representing the whole story of our Saviour wherein observing divers figures of Christ one said that here is Christ and swore that he would stab him another said here is Christ and swore that he would rip up his Bowels which they did accordingly so farre as the figures were capable and not content with this finding another Statue of our Saviour in the Frontispiece of the south-gate shot about forty shots at it tryumphing much when they had hit the head or face The ancient Cathedral of Durham can yet shew her ruines and can tell with what unspeakable tyranny the Kings poor friends were used in it And that of Carlisle deplores the want of a part of its body being ruined to be imployed in wicked Warre whilest it was intended a house of prayer and peace Nor is it unknown how sacrilegiously that excellent structure of St. Pauls in London was abused making of it an Exchange where things may be bought and sould not only contrary to the Laws of God but also of man and that not only of our own but forraign Churches as may appear by several Canons against such violations The laws of our Nation expresly forbidding any Fair or market to be held in Church-yards and by consequence not in the Church it self so that a late writer said not amisse that one might well be amazed at the genius of this age that suffered this goodly and venerable fabrick to be built about and converted into rascally ware-houses and so sordidly abused and defaced that an Argument of greater avarice malice meanesse and deformity of mind cannot possibly be exprest England is the sole spot in all the world where amongst Christians their Churches are made jakes and stables markets and tipling houses and where there were more need of Scorpions than Thongs to drive out the Publicans and Money changers And that St. Pauls by the wicked reformers was converted into a stable is not unknown to it's Neighbours which iniquities and such like occasioned the Saying That we had now a thorough Reformation in England since our horses also went to Church Yet some not content to have their horses in the Church unlesse some other villanie were done witnesse the damnable wickednesse of one Captain Beamont who at Yakesly in Huntingtonshire Anno. 1644. having pist in the Font fetched his bold horse from Mr. Finnemores stable and in derision of Baptism sprinkled it on the horse calling of him Ball Esau because he was hairy and in scorn to the Church of England crost him on the forehead and to make their villany compleat one Robert Rayner Corporal acted the part of the Minister and would also have God-Fathers one Bartly Ward but nick-named Widdow Shropshire acting the part of
will defend me Difficile est Satyram non scribere nam quis iniquae Tam patiens Urbis tam ferreus ut teneat se We must be angry Who can choose but frown When Traytors thrive by a Rebellious Town If my fault be only speaking tartly the then Dr. Reynolds will assure this to be no such crime by telling them that there is sometimes a Necessity of sharp Rebukes and Mr. Hickman in this will stifly plead mine Innocency when he tells the World in these words that c If at any time I seem to depart from that meekness of spirit which is required in a Minister I shall desire that it may be considered not only what is fit for me to speak but what is meet for them to hear If I were to mention their fact who took the Reliques of Peter Martyr ' s Wife's carkase out of the Grave and after buried them in a Dunghill would you not allow me to call it Unchristian and Inhumane c. And in another place either himself or his Friends have bestirr'd themselves notably to plead the necessity and justness of my keenness by declaring to all people that If any where I have used more sharpness then is pleasing to men I shall only say that their hard grateing hath sharpned my style and made it more keen and piercing than I could have allowed my self to use towards a good-natured Adversary 'T is almost morally impossible for him who contends with a fiery and furious Antagonist sometimes not to be a little over-heated But yet I am very willing to lye under the lash of their severest Titles provided they will be so Ingenious as to distribute Justice with an equal hand If they look upon me as an hot-headed Rayler for calling them Rebels and Traytors and what can be more true I wonder how they can quit John Calvin from the same Epithet who call'd those who could not agree to his will Profane Impudent Brasen-faced Impostours Fools wicked Forgeries Perfidious Uncharitable Peevish Hang-man Plague void of Grace Knaves Serpents Devils Filthy Dog c. If they censure me as-an impudent and sawcy Fellow for calling them Hypocrites I hope they will give the same Title to John Knox the Father of the Scotch Presbytery and a great assistant to these in England This man had so got the knack of villifying that his Tongue could be no Slander Passing by those of Inferior Rank take some of his Complements to Queen Mary calling her several times a wicked Woman tells her that she was not sober merciful but cruel and wicked Mischievous false dissembling unconstant proud and a Breaker of Promises an open Traitoress to the Imperial Crown of England Nor is this all but he calls her Reign The Monstriferous Empire of a wicked Woman the yoke of the Devil her most Tyrannical Iniquity that most unhappy and wicked Womans Authority that reigneth in Gods wrath an usurped Government c. and calls his own Queen Regents actions Idolatry Avarice and Cruelty If they think me malepert for calling them Schismaticks they cannot handsomely quit Marshal Calamy Young Newcomen and Spurstow of the same guilt for terming the Reverend Bishop Hall false and confident self-confounding-man and of a confident boldness and that his Book is full of falsities and contradictions For ranting against Episcopacy as an Iron and Insupportable yoke unjust Opposition uttering words bordering upon Blasphemy A Stirrup for Antichrist to get into the Saddle Corrupt Prelates that they discountenance discourage oppose blaspheme Preaching that they are Rotten Members Sons of Belial And then thunders out strange things of their Intolerable Oppressions and Tyrannies Drunkennsss Profaness Superstition Popishness of the English Clergie and then talks of their Cruelty Tyranny scandalous Sins hateful Enormities and that the Bishops do encrease Popery Superstition and Profaneness And to make their malice compleat would gladly bear the people in hand that it hath been the Bishops great design to hinder all farther Reformation to bring in Popery and Libertinism to keep out and beat down the Preaching of the Word to silence the faithful Preachers to oppose and persecute the most zealous Professors and to turn all Religion into a pompeous outside and to tread down the Power of Godliness If they think me uncivil for hinting at their Perjury they cannot but be as angry with their Brethren in Scotland the Committee of Estates for calling that Famous Loyal and Religious Marquess of Montross several times Excommunicate Traytor Viperous brood of Satan declared Traytor whom the Church hath delivered into the hands of the Devil and the Nation doth generally detest and abhorr Impudent braggard lyer and malicious man perfidious Traytor a Child of the Devil Dissembling Hypocrite of a mean and desperate Fortune vain man miserable miscreant malicious man and accuseth him of wickedness base treacherous practises Rebellion and Treason and then fairly concludes that he is a person justly excluded from civil Society for his Treasonable Practises and Excommunicated from the Church for his abominable Transgressions And this way of Presbyterian slandring is bravely imitated by their gude Kirk who call the same noble General That Excommunicated and forfeited Traytor That wretched man that Monster of men that excommunicate wretch unnatural Man that perfidious and proud Atheist and then also concludes their Charity that he is delivered into the hands of the Devill If they have a bad opinion of me for giving them now and then some names which they think are attributed by way of Reproach they can have no better thoughts of Mr. Hickman for scornfully calling the learned Dr. Pierce a wanton wit uncharitable one that tumbles out his ugly Tropes and rowls himself in his railing Eloquence a deplorable Dilemmatist a doughty Disputant accuseth him of Malice Railing Impudence and Nonsense That his Book is full of bitter girds and scurrilous gibes and that himself foams out of his own shame and waxeth worse and worse The same party calls Mr Hobs a Prodigious Writer and Commune Dei hominum que Odium And terms the learned and ingenious Author of Tilenus Junior an Aethiopian scribler poor fellow and accuseth him of Impudence Nor is this all but throws his venom upon the late Supporter of Learning the Reverend Arch-bishop Laud by affirming that the flourishing of him was the decaying and languishing of Church and State Nor could either body well recover but by spewing out such evill instruments as he and Buckingham So that it seems in his opinion there was a necessity of murthering them both The same Gentleman can also tell you who sufficiently abused and vilified the Learned Dr. Heylin and Mr. Pierce and at last threw his malice to the purpose upon the poor sequestrated Episcopal Divines telling the World that a greater part of them were unsavory salt fit only to be cast upon the Dunghill And if reports be true he can also tell you who not long since call'd the Bishops Schismaticks and threw great reproaches upon that
party I could also tell you how Mr. White once a great Brother in Authority scandalized those who adhered to the King in the late Wars And what wicked Epithets another Brother threw upon the Book of Common-Prayer and severall others as Prynne Vicars Leyton and others mentioned in this Book But that it would be too tedious both for my self and Reader Should I tell you of the abominable railing scolding and brawling of Barlee Bagshaw and Baxter three noted B's you would bless your self to see these people who pretend to all Sanctity and Holiness to have so much of the Devil in their mouths Thus have I stopt their rage against me by making them more angry And if this do not satisfie them I shall treble it the next time yet might all this have been spared if they would as patiently permit others to tell them the Truth as they will impatiently throw Lyes and Scandals upon their betters But these People do not love to be touch'd on their sores though it be to cure them They say 't is one way to find a Thief to note who blusheth at the discourse of stealing but these men are farr from that sign of Grace Tell them but of the sins belonging to their Religion as Treason Schism Perjury c. they will presently fly in your face though take no great notice of other Peccadiglio's like the Baker in the Play who took all names and reproaches without any offence but being once by chance call'd Mealstealer was so inraged that he would have spoiled all their sport unless they had left off such close Reflections And thus much in part to pay them home with their own Coyn. As for the Author whilst a School-Boy he was too much sway'd to Presbytery and delighting in the Stories of our Times had none to peruse but May Vicars Ricraft and such like partial Relators By which means believing with the Ignorant all things in Print to be true was perswaded to incline to the wrong side But a little before his going to the University lighting by chance upon Dr. Bate's Judicious Book Elenchus Motuum he found the Laws and true Government to be opposite to his former Readings and therein the knavery and jugling of their Opposers strange things which he had never heard of before Which with some other assistance so farr prevail'd with him that in a short time he threw off Father Schism and ever since like little Loyal John in the Epitaph For the King Church and Bloud-Royal He went as true as any Sun-Dial As for the Learned in History neither Preface nor Book was intended for them And as for those who are not somewhat studied this way though they are not able of themselves to search out the Truth yet are they not obliged to believe all in Print If they finde something in these Papers not agreeable to the Canting Tales of every zealous Brother let them not censure mine as false because the other pretends himself to be a Saint These People though they make a great deal of noyse being commonly the most ignorant and partial in Humane Story To say no more If we believe every thing in Mr. Clarke's Story-Books we shall with him make wicked men Saints Rebels good Subjects and Schismaticks the best Church-men which all should desire to be really perform'd who wish the Honour of his Majesty Peace of the Church Prosperity and Happiness of the Nation St. George's day 1662. The Contents of the Chapters BOOK I. CHAP. I. Nothing so wicked but some will undertake and vindicate Pag. 1. CHAP. II. The Life of Ignatius Loyola the first founder of the Jesuits Pag. 6. CHAP. III. Some Observations of the Jesuits Political Constitution Temper and Actions especially relating to our late Troubles Pag. 10. CHAP. IV. The helps and assistance which the Calvinist Presbyterian and Jesuite afford one another for the ruine and alteration of Kingdomes with their Plots to destroy the Government and Tranquillity of England Pag. 15. CHAP. V. The Originall of the Commons in Parliament That the Clergy is one of the three Estates and the King supream above all Pag. 30. CHAP. VI. The Priviledges of Parliament and that in some Cases they are null and voyd Pag. 38. CHAP. VII The beginning of the Presbyterians with the wicked Principles of the Ring-leaders of that factious Sect. Pag. 42. CHAP. VIII The Rebellious Actions of the Presbyterians in Scotland till the death of King James Pag. 45. CHAP. IX The illegal malepert and impious plots and designs of our Schismatical Presbyterians in England in the Raigns of Q. Elizabeth King James and K. Charles till the beginning of the Wicked Long Parliament Pag. 59. BOOK II. CHAP. I. THe mischievous and impudent contrivances and innovations of the wicked Long Parliament 1. Their false slaunders thrown upon the Court and Church 2. Their affection to and siding with the chief of the Schismatical Incendiaries 3. The impudence and seditiousnesse of the Lecturers thrust amongst the simple people by the power and cunning of the Parliament 4. Their designs to alter the frame of the Civil Government 5. Their plots to overthrow Episcopacy Divine service and the Orthodox Clergy 6. Their stirring up the people to Tumults whereby they frighted the King and Queen from London 7. The small esteem which the Commons had of the King and Nobility whereby it is plain that it was not the King but the Parliament which occasioned and began the Warrs Pag. 73. CHAP. II. The Abominable Hypocrisie and jugling of the Parliament and Army till the horrid murder of his Majesty Pag. 106. CHAP. III. The inconstancy villany and monstrous Tyranny of the wicked Army till the happy Restauration of the King Pag. 119. CHAP. IV. The grand perjury of the Parliament and Army Pag. 130. CHAP. V. The wicked Sacriledge of the Parliament and Army Pag. 133. CHAP. VI. That some through ignorance and acredulous disposition prompting them to embrace their specious pretences might be charmed to side with the Parliament though really designed no dammage either to the Kings person or Authority Pag. 141. BOOK III. Â THat the Presbyterians were not willingly and actively instrumental for the uncapitulated Restauration of his Majesty Pag. 149 CHAP. II. The wickednesse of our Presbyterians in throwing Aspersions upon his Majesty and instigating the People to Rebellion by assuring them in the Lawfulnesse of Subjects fighting against their Kings Pag. 171. CHAP. III. The small or rather no Authority that the Presbyterians allow the King to have over them Pag. 197. CHAP. IV. THat the Presbyterians are but Conditional Subjects no longer obedient to their King or acknowledging Him then he serves their turns and is subservient to their fancies Pag. 207. CHAP. V. I. The wicked Reproaches the Presbyterians cast upon the present Episcopal Church 2. What small reason they have to desire Toleration from the King and Episcopal Party since they deny the same to them with their scandals upon the Church as Popish
Scotland by domestick dissentions stir'd up against him by Hay Creighton Bruce Graham and other Jesuites who furnished the Rebellious Nobility with moneys from Spain to carry on their designs Nor hath Ireland reason to rejoyce in their acquaintance where the Seminary Fryars of late dayes had gone so far as in Dublin it self not only to appear in their habits but also to affront the Archbishop and Maior of that City nor were they wanting to the erection of Colledges and Societies maintain'd by good Benefactors as appears by a Letter from the Council in England to that in Ireland Yet for all this hath their rebellious favourits dealt mildly with them though the Laws be severe enough and 20. years ago look'd upon this kind of mercy as a crime fit to be thrown in the face both of King and Bishop but how deservedly let any judge but Prynne whose malice and partiality is well enough known Nor need we much trouble our selves to prove the Jesuite somewhat medling their familiarity with the Anabaptists Quakers and such like Phanaticks being suspicious Of which many examples might here be shewn but that their common knowledge would make the Relation tedious only take notice that the very Weekly Gazet suspects Mr. Rogers and those of his Fraternity to have some Jesuite or Priest at the Helm with them And Mr. Rogers takes no good course to clear himself by endeavouring to vindicate the Jesuite from having any hand in our late Warrs which this following Story is sufficient to confute When the late King was murdered Mr. Henry Spotteswood riding casually that way just as his Head was cut off espyed the Queens Confessor there on Horse-back in the habit of a Trooper drawing forth his Sword and flourishing it over his own head in Tryumph as others then did At which Mr. Spotteswood being much amazed and being familiarly acquainted with the Confessor road up to him and said O Father I little thought to have found you here or any of your Profession at such a sad spectacle To which he answered that There were at least forty or more Priests and Jesuites there present on Horse-back besides himself The resultancy of this Story is home and pat and for the truth of it I referr you to Mr. Prynne Nor need we here relate the great correspondency betwixt the late Grandees and Cardinal Mazarini of which Mr. Walker gives us a hint and experience can proclaim the rest Nor is it probable that they should have no hand in the promotion of our late distractions as most beneficial to the Catholick Cause since they have been the chief fomenters of all other Wars in Christendom leaving nothing un-essay'd that may bring all into confusion as Ludovicus Lucius and others can inform you more at large Besides all this we might give some Extracts out of the Plot discovered by Andreas ab Habernfield 1640. September to Sir William Boswell the Kings Agent at the Hague and by him to the Archbishop and so to his Majesty A design managed abroad by the Pope and Cardinal Barbarino and in England chiefly by George Con a Scotch-man and the Pope's Nuncio The substance of which was that the Roman-Catholicks here should stirr up the Puritans to revenge themselves of the Bishops and the Scots should also be perswaded to Arms whence the English should so adhere that the King remaining Inferiour in Forces should be constrain'd to crave aid from the Papists which should be deny'd unless he favoured them with a Toleration which if absolutely deny'd it was contrived by sodain death to remove him But because we find the Reality of the Plot questioned by an understanding Gentleman we shall referr you to L'estrange and Prynne's Relation But let this Plot be as it will 't is more then suspicion that our Phanaticks have been beholden in many things to the Jesuite of which one example may somewhat satisfie They caus'd the Book written by Parsons Anno 1524. under the faigned name of Doleman and call'd A Conference about the Succession of the Crown which Book was condemned by Act of Parliament 35. Elizab. to be publish'd again under the title of Several Speeches delivered at a Conference concerning the Power of Parliaments to proceed against their King for Mis-government The Arguments and Precedents are meerly the same though the fashion of the Book be a little altered Parsons having made it a Dialogue and these men into Speeches And how agreeable to this Rule of King-killing they steer'd their course is impossible to be forgot as long as Memory or Record can be had in this World CHAP. IV. The helps and assistance which the Calvinist Presbyterian and Jesuite afford one another for the ruine and alteration of Kingdoms with their Plots to destroy the Government and Tranquillity of England THat the Independents should only be beholden to the Jesuits or these Fathers the sole Ingeneers of Wickedness would mainly over-cloud the Reputation of the Presbyterians who look upon themselves as active for any mischief and as cunning contrivers And therefore 't is best for them to go hand in hand each discovering to other what new Plots they have found out for the subversion of Governments By which Club they have afforded certain Rules to Politicians which have exactly been observed and followed by our late Schismaticks as is palpable by the following Observations And first we shall begin with the Plots of the Calvinists a people never negligent to promote their own Interests Of whose Sect as the Emperour Ferdinand affirm'd the proper genius is To hold nothing either Fraud or Wickedness which is undertaken for the Religion No sanctity of Oath nor fear of Dishonour hinders them A Chararacter like that given by the experienced King James to the Puritans the same with our Non-conforming Presbyterians of whom one gives this sentence Puritans and all other Sectaries who though scarce two of them agree in what they would have yet they all in general are haters of Government And to this purpose was the judgement of the wise Secretary Walsingham when to Monsieur Critoy Secretary of France he assured them to be dangerous and very popular not Zeal nor Conscience but meer Faction and Division and besides this gives a short description of their Cunning Jugling and Rebellion for which with the Jesuite they start strange Doctrines to be as an Umbrella to their Illegal proceeding Of which the learned Bancroft Mr. David Owen and an Ingenious Epistle Congratulatory under the Name of Lysimachus Nicanor will afford you many Instances Whereby you may see that the Presbyterians in their Principles and Actions have more of Rome than the late reverend Archbishop Land or his favorites Let Bayly and the spurious Irenaeus Philalethes or any others collect or steal out of him what they please The Calvinists being resolved to root the Lutherans out of the Palatinate took this following Method to bring their ends about as
wounded And none being suffered to speak with the King but whom they pleas'd he cryed out to some Noble-men whom the Duke of Lenox had sent to see him that he was a Captive and desired his good Subjects to release him But this his Jaylors forced him presently to recant by setting forth a Proclamation in his Name that all things were done according to his own desire Then is the King carryed to Edenburgh where the Estates and Assemblies of Ministers justifie this bold action singing in triumph as they went up the High-street the 124. Psalm Now Israel may say c. Whilst the King lay under this constraint from France came two Embassadours Monsieur la Motte and Menevel to get the King releas'd and a Treaty betwixt the two Crowns Against these the Ministers declaim in their Sermons most bitterly but especially against La Motte who being Knight of the Order du Sainct Esprit an Order constituted at Paris by Henry the third King of France and Poland 1579. did wear according to the custom of his Order the Badge of a White-Cross upon his shoulder This they call the Badge of Antichrist and him the Embassadour of a bloudy Murtherer brave language to those who knew the Authority of such Persons and whom they represented These dayly out-cryes and perceiving nothing to be done moved the Embassadours to depart But the King being willing to dismiss them with some content desired the Magistrates of Edenburgh to Feast them before their parting for he for his part was not suffered to do any thing the which they did the next next Munday But the Ministry to shew their rebellious Authority and Devillish crossness proclaim a Fast to be kept upon the next Munday the day appointed for the Embassadours Entertainment at this Fast the Ministers thundred out against the Magistrates and other Noble-men that waited upon the Embassadours by the Kings directions Nor was this all but they pursued the Magistrates with the Censures of the Church and could scarce be stay'd from Excommunicating them for not observing the Fast they proclaimed The King not liking his Restraint and perceiving how Imperious his Subjects grew whilst he was under hatches consults an Escape which was performed by the means of Col. Stewart Captain of the Guard upon which those who would not now submit to his Majesty were proclaimed Traytors he also declaring that however his Proclamation came forth yet it was extorted from him by violence and therefore of no validity But for all this the Ministers in their Pulpits vindicate the late Imprisoning of the King for which Andrew Melvil was charged to enter his person at Blackness but he instead of obedience fled to Barwick which proceedings against Melvil caused great grumblings amongst the Brethren who affirmed that neither King nor Council can censure men for words in Pulpit but their own Associates the Presbytery only The next year the Earl of Gowry with whom joyned some of the Ministers run into open Rebellion but the Earl being taken was beheaded and the Ministers fled for it The Nation being thus rent into distractions by a company of babling malepert Boute-feus the Parliament hoped by giving Caesar his due and gagging his Enemies mouths all things would then tend to Peace and Settlement For which purpose they confirm his Majesties Authority over all Persons and in all Causes And that to decline the Kings Judgement and the Councils in any thing should be High-Treason and that any thing whatsoever not approved of by the King and the Three Estates should be null And that no person whatsoever should either privately or publickly either in Sermon Declamation or Discourse utter any false untrue or slanderous speeches to the reproach dishonour hurt or prejudice of the King or any of his Parents or Progenitors or his Council nor meddle with the affairs of the King or State These good and honests Acts made the Presbyters Horn-madd who like our bordering Moss-Troopers are never content but when doing mischief to others They protest against these wholsom Statutes many of them fly away into England scorning to live in such subjection and Libels and Pamphlets fly plentifully against the King and Court And by Letter protest those Acts to be against the Word of God and therefore if they submit to them they should then be Traytors to God reviling Bishops whom they call Gross Libertines Belly-gods and Infamous and such like charitable stuff as this This turbulent spirit flowing amongst them made many of them be imprisoned and others suspended from their Livings But this lasted not long for the next year the Scales turned the banished Lords being come again into Scotland they joyn Forces and march to Sterling where they seize upon the Kings Person again whom they constrain by Proclamation to pardon them all Now did the Court put on a new face the old Officers are turn'd out and others put in This imboldens the Ministers who fled to return again but much of their intended malice was stopt by a Parliament who order that none shall reproach his Majesties Person State or Government This incensed the Ministry so much as to stir up one Watson in his Sermon to rail to the Kings face of his evil Government for which he was imprisoned at Blackness This mans mouth being thus stopt another of that gang call'd James Gibson in his Sermon at Edenburgh affirmed the King to be the Persecutour of the Church and calls him to his face Jeroboam pronouncing this Curse against him That He should dye childless and be the last of his Race For this because before the Council he maintained the same again he was committed yet afterwards 1587. upon better advice he acknowledged his fault and was ordered publickly to do the same in his next Sermon the which he promised to do yet did not whereupon being charged for breaking his promise he stubbornly answered That out of infirmity and weakness he had confess'd a fault but now his Conscience told him that his words were innocent The Chancellour perceiving the mans inconstancy put it to the Assembly whether Gibson had done well or no where though many were ready to vindicate him yet at last a majority found him slanderous and offensive but he not appearing in the afternoon to receive his censute after much bandying to and fro he was only suspended during the pleasure of the Assembly and this lasted but to the next August when without ever acquainting the King he was by his Brethren quitted the which Countenancing of such Seditious Actions did so incense his Majesty that Gibson was forced to fly into England where he was entertained by the hot-brain'd Non-conformists The Presbytery to shew themselves more formidable call a Synod at St. Andrews where they accuse the Bishop of the same place for having had a hand in the late Acts against the unruliness of the Brethren as Melvil accused him The Bishop appeals to the King and three Estates and
denyes their Judicatory not being call'd by the Kings consent but for all this they judge him fit to be Excommunicated yet none would pronounce the Sentence against him till at last many of them being departed a young fellow named Andrew Hunter said that he was warned by the Spirit to pronounce the sentence and so ascending the chair read the same out of a Book This boyling humour of the Ministers troubled King James not a little which greatly augmented when they insolently refused to pray for the Queen his Mother then near herend though he had earnestly commanded them But the greatest of all was the execution in England how handsomly I know not though he greatly endeavoured to stop it But the King thinking to put an end to all tumults thought fit to reconcile the Nobility which at last he did Feasting them all at Haly-rud-house thence causing them to walk hand in hand two and two to the Market Cross at Edinburg where they sealed their Concord by drinking one to another The same peace he thought to have made with the Ministers but this not fadging all fell to nothing After this Huntley Bothwell Crawford Montross and Athol agitated by the Jesuits rebell but upon thier submission were pardoned Yet though the King was so easie to shew favour so was not the Presbytery who deprive the Bishop of Saint Andrews of all spiritual function for marrying the King's Cozen the Duke of Lenox his Sister to the Earl of Huntly though he did it by the King 's express Command yet was the King forced to dissemble his dislike of their insolency knowing their power and stubborness and having another thing in hand viz. his marriage with Ann the King of Denmark's Daughter whom to to fetch he presently took ship and married her in Upslo in Norway thence through part of Swedeland and Denmark he returned with her into Scotland where she was crowned though the accustomary unction was much opposed by the Ministry calling it a Jewish Rite abolished at Christs coming and introduced by the Pope After this Bothwell and some others conspire against the King endeavouring to seize upon his person at Haly-rood-house and Faulkland but without success and so was glad to fly into England The Presbyterie taking advantage against the King in these troubles Petition that the Acts made 1584. to restrain the insolencies of these hot heads should be abrogated which the King was constrained fearing lest they should also rebell against him upon a denyal in some sort to consent to Though the next year he assures them that he would not suffer the Priviledges of his Crown to be lessen'd nor Assemblies to meet without his Order but this they slightly answer by telling him that they will keep to the benefit allowed them the year before Nor shall they hold their tongue in the Pulpit upon just and necessary causes Such small esteem had they for their Soveraign though they would humble themselves to inferiour people in greater matters For when they had with the consent of the Council of Edinburgh made an Act that the Munday Market in that City should be alter'd to Tuesday The Shoomakers whom it most concerned gathered together before the Ministers doors threatning to chase them out of Town if they harp'd upon that string any more which was the reason of this Saying there Rascals and Sowters can obtain from the Ministers what the King could not in matters more reasonable Bothwell as aforesaid having fled to England for Treason returns again and being assisted with other Nobles and by the cunning of the Lady Atholl seizeth upon the King at Haly-rood-house where he constrains the King to pardon all and that several persons of quality should be turned from the King's service But the King getting to Sterling the Estates there decreed Bothwels actions to be Treasonable and the King not obliged to performance because forced whereupon Bothwell falling to open Rebellion is pronounced Rebell If the King's Authority could do this the Kirk thought they had as much power to excommunicate the Catholick Lords which the King the Lord offering themselves to Tryal endeavoured to stop telling them that they had nothing to do in such affairs but this denial so troubled and vext the Assembly that they order all of their fraternity to be in Arms For this insolency the King checking them they replyed That it was the Cause of God and in the defence thereof they could not be deficient Hereupon the King puts forth a Proclamation prohibiting all meetings yet for all this they kept on their Course so that the King was forced to yield Yet this procured him no peace though the birth of Prince Henry rejoyced him For Bothwell falls again into Rebellion assisted by Argile Arrol c. Nay the Presbyterie were so active in this Treason as to carry on his designs they give him the monies collected for the relief of their then distressed Brethren at Geneva By this means having got some forces together he fights the King's Party in which though he was not beaten yet shifts for himself dissolving his Souldiers Yet after this having joyned himself with some Catholick Lords to surprize the King again but being discovered flyes to open Rebellion and having with nine hundred men under the Command of Huntly beat Argile who had above 10000. upon Composition are pardoned but banished And Bothwell gets himself to France thence to Naples where he dyed miserably poor about the year 1624. The King for peace-sake and good policy had a mind to pardon and call home the banished Lords to which at last Mr. Robert Bruce the Minister consents provided that Huntly should not return but the King reasoning with him for Huntly too he imperiously answered I see Sir that your resolution is to take Huntly into favour which if you do I will oppose and you shall choose whether you will lose Huntly or Me for us both you cannot keep This is that Bruce whose popularity outvyed the King's who seeing one time what a multitude conducted him into Edinburgh said By my sale Bruce puts me down in his Attendants And this is he who had preached many years without Ordination nor would he be ordained which was the occasion of some disputes 1598. Yet for all this self-conceited pratler the Lords return which mads the Ministry who meet about it proclaim a Fast order inquiry to be made into their Favourites against whom they proceed with Censures and clamour as if the Kirk had been singing her Requiem The King troubled at these turbulent actions under his very nose by Proclamation dissolves them Whereupon they Petition him not to incroach upon the Limits of Christs Kingdom And these hubbubs were the more heightned by the Sermon of Mr. David Blake in which he ranted against the King Queen and Lords and call'd Queen Elizabeth an Atheist and a Woman of no Religion of which the English Ambassador complain'd and demanded satisfaction Upon
Policy Questions used to be discust 1. Whether the Election or Succession of Kings were the better Form of Government 2. How farr the Royal Power extended 3. Whether Kings might be censured for abusing their Power and deposed by the Estates of the Kingdom And how they stated these Questions let their deeds be judge as they are most proper and then let any man tell me if men of such turbulent spirits can be good Subjects and by consequence good Christians for I believe the World can scarse parallel in one Kingdom so many treasonable and impudent actions in so short a time as less then fifty years let but our late English madness of which theirs and our Presbytery were the Original be at this time excepted And most of these Actions you will find confirm'd and owned though in a different style by the History of The Scots Reformation wrote by whom I know not for a late Reverend Authour denyes it to be Knox's And it is the custom of men of this perswasion to Father their Brats upon others witness Wilson's History of King James a Book not to be believed in all things Nor is it all the Nation hath these spots There is a Church as well as Kirk of Scots And to vilifie the whole Kingdom because it hath nurst up some hot-spurs would be implacable malice and to bring all the World into Ignomy If the Proverb assure us That it is a good Family which hath neither Whore nor Thief in it 't will be a difficult thing to expel Vice from a whole Nation The Virgin-City Venice esteem'd one of the Glories of the World and whose Government for Exactness yields to none abounds with more Venerian pleasures than any of her Christian Neighbours The Spaniards are famous for loyal Subjects yet a Rebel is no Monster in Castile her self Scotland hath been the Mother of as famous men as any other Kingdom if Denmark Germany Poland and the Low-Countries may testifie their valour whilest France will assure you of their fidelity whose Kings have altogether trusted their persons to their Guardship But enough since David Camerarius hath writ a whole Volume in the Commendation of the Scottish Nation CHAP. IX The illegal malepart and impious Plots and Designes of our Schismatical Presbyterians in England in the Raigns of Queen Elizabeth King James and King Charles till the beginning of the wicked Long-Parliament NOr was this hot-braind humour fostered alone in Scotland but England also tasted the fiery tryal of their madd pranks Queen Elizabeth no sooner setled in her Throne but the Zealots deface all Monuments and Pictures in Churches they met withall nor did the ashes of the dead lie undisturb'd which caus'd the Queen to set forth a Proclamation against such violations But these men having their malice stopt against Stones and Glasswindores will vent it against those who can be sensible of injuries Goodman Whittingham Gilbie and others having learn'd their lessons at Geneva came roring over against our English Church venting their venom not only by their Preachments and Conventicling but also in Print The latter of these viz. Anthony Gilby of whom formerly born in Lincolnshire and of Christs Colledge in Cambridge tearmed our Ceremonies Liveries of Antichrist accursed Leaven of the blasphemous Popish Priesthood cursed patches of Popery and Idolatry Nor must the Ceremonies alone suffer but the Reverend Bishops too by others of the same gang as Throgmorton Penry Fenner Udal and such like Bravado's calling them Antichristian Petty-Popes Bishops of the Devil cogging and cozening Knaves dumb Dogs Enemies of God c. And for our Worship they affirmed it to be an impious thing to hold any thing common with Rome and from this Argument they refused to come to Divine Service But at last such was the vigilancy of the Queens Council that the fautours of these seditious Non-conformists were found out and Sir Richard Knightly and Sir Wigston were fined in the Starr-Chamber for receiving the Printers and Publishers of such Schismatical Books the celler of one of the Gentlemen bringing forth like Lucian some foul mouth'd Pamphlets against the Church or other Neither do these men mount their Battery only against the Church but also throw their wild-fire and indignation against the Queen and their Supream Authority witness Mr. Edward Deering of Kent's Sermon in which how unworthily let others judge he compared her Highness to an untamed Heifer and Christopher Goodman in a Book publickly vindicated Wiat's Rebellion affirming All who took not his part were Traytors to God his People and their Countrey And as some Common-Lawyers towl'd away by inticing tongues and Gold of the Non-conformists wrote against the Authority of Bishops so some pretending to the Civil and Canon-Law were obliged to oppose and deny the Queens Supremacy in Causes Ecclesiastical Nor might these fore-mentioned things seem strange since they were easily to be vindicated from some of the Geneva Notes upon our Bible where you may find the Disciplinarians highly to complain against Asa because he did not kill his Mother furiously calling of it lack of zeal and foolish pity And maliciously to compare our Arch-bishops Bishops Doctors and such like degrees with the Locusts though they carelesly seem to quit themselves in the exit And yet these are the very same men who profest to Queen Elizabeth That their Applications are such as may most appertain to Gods glory though how hide-bound they were at the same time from Charity may appear by their then slandering the Reverend and Learned Bishops with the ignominious title of ambitious Thus was Authority begun to be blasted by the Puritans a name now almost an hundred years old beginning in 1564. as Fuller thinks though Dr. Heylin out of Genebrard makes it two years younger though in a later History he seems to moderate its original between both viz. 1565. And these were so denominated as the word implyes and Genebrard and experience tells us because they thought themselves so much purer then other Christians that they would not perform Divine Service with them utterly rejecting all Forms used in the Primitive Ages and looking upon all decent Garbes to be unlawful in Church-affairs if different from the common wear or rather if not according to the Geneva-cut The Antiquity of this Name is very ancient as we may see in the old Hereticks who presumptuously call'd themselves Caethari i. e. Puritans the same with the Novatiani with whom the Parmenianistae in supposed purity did something agree and by this Name of Cathari I find Johnstonus in his large History to signifie our Non-conformists The Queen perceiving these men to sleight both her and the Bishops and to act only by the advice of private persons as Mr. Tho. Cartwright who affirm'd That we ought rather to conform our selves in Orders and Ceremonies to the fashion of the Turks then to the Papists Mr. Travers c. who had
their inspirations and commands from Geneva thought fit for example sake and fear to let the Law so much by them violated take her course whereby Copping and Thacker were hang'd at Saint Edmondsbury in Suffolk Barrow and Greenwood were executed at Tyburn Coppinger dyed in Prison and Hacket was hang'd by the Cross in Cheapside the two last were more extravagant then the rest falling to open blasphemy Nor did John Penry a Welshman escape this was the man who made those scurrilous Pamphlets against our Church under the title of Martin Mar Prelate a man so much guilty of his own villanies that with Cain he feared death from every mans hand and therefore was forced to sculk and ramble amongst his brethren for protection so that his Antagonist was not amisse when he sang of him thus Qui tantum constans in knavitate sua est He was taken at Stepney and condemned for felony and hang'd at Saint Thomas Waterings Upon whose death an honest Northern Rimer made these Couplets The Welshman is hanged Who at our Kirke flanged And at our state banged And brened are his buks. And though he be hanged Yet he is not wranged The De'ul has him fanged In his kruked kluks Besides these Udal Billot Studley and Bouler were condemned yet through the Queens mercy were reprieved and Cartwright and some others were imprisoned These round dealings did a little terrifie the rest of them and gave a check to the furiousnesse of the wiser sort But yet having some of the Nobility their Patrons whether for Conscience or Policy let others judge as Leicester Lord North Burleigh Shrewsbury Warwick Walsingham Sir Francis Knollys Mr. Beal Clerk of the Council and others they took heart again and proceeded in their Consultations and Actions as formerly Nor was Arch-bishop Grindal thought to be so vigilant as his place required for which he got the Queens displeasure Yet formerly had they kept meetings of some of their Ministers to carry on their intended innovations but privately for fear of discovery The first known to be kept in England was at Wandsworth in Surry 1572. Novemb. 20. Another they had at Cockfield in Suffolk where threescore of their Ministers met 1582. May 8. where they consulted concerning our Common-Prayer-book Canonical Apparel and other Ceremonies of the Church though they had no call but their own presumption And because they resolved to be vigilant they had another Synod passing by one also the same year at Cambridge where was drawn up a form of Discipline scorning to submit to Ours or Anthority by which they were to be guided of which thus a painful and learned Antiquary will inform us Inventing out of their own corky brains a new certain no-form of Liturgy to themselves thereby to bring into the Church all disorder and confusion And in the same Assembly they made a Collection for their Scottish brethren who fled into England for their guilt of high Treason and what loyalty can be expected from such traiterous Assistants let moderate men judge though I am apt to give some credit to one of our old English Versifyers Nor Queen in her Kingdom can or ought to sit fast If Knox or Goodman's books blow any true blast After this another Synod was held at Coventry 1588. June 10. where they imperiously condemned the reading of Homilies Crosse in Baptism that Bishops ordination by them and their autherity are all unlawful and that a Bishop is neither Doctor Elder nor Deacon And besides all this they decree that occasions are to be sought to bring the people in liking to their Discipline and that those of deeper apprehensions shall be drawn to it by all private allurements possibly And these positions with others were carried cunningly abroad to be subscribed by all to make their faction more unanimous And many other Meetings and Assemblies they had at London Oxford Cambridge and other places to carry on their designs as appears by the confession of Mr. Thomas Stone and the Collections of the Right Reverend Bancroft And so powerful were they grown amongst some of the Nobility and Gentry that at the Parliament at Westminster 1585. they were so vigilant by their whispering with the Members day and night that if the Queen had not interposed her authority they might have given the Bishops a scurvy lift by the assistance of their Schismatical Brethren by them voted into the House To this Parliament the Non-conformists having framed another Book by them called A Book of the Form of Common Prayers c. in which was contained the substance of their pretended Discipline To this Representative I say in them having great hopes they presented this book With this Petition May it therefore please your Majesty that it may be Enacted that the Book hereunto annexed Intituled A Book of the Form of Common-prayers Administratien of Sacraments and every thing therein contained may be from henceforth authorized put in ure and practised throughout all your Majesties Dominions By this they shewed themselves no enemies to set Forms of Prayer but only that they not others should have the honour of making it Like the Cardinal who confess 't that Reformation was necessary but was vext that Luther should undertake it And at the Dissolution of this Parliament Queen Elizabeth takes special notice of our Innovators for finding fault with our orderly Church-government the which humour she not unfitly terms New fanglednesse I might here tell you of many more bold actions in this Queen's time used by these Renegadoes as a very serious and learned Gentleman calleth them But only one shall instance for an hundred to shew you how partial they were in all their dealings as to make the Proverb true that Kissing goeth by favour and this shall be of one of their grand Masters viz. Mr. Snape and thus it was in brief Mr. John Nelson of Northampton one of their Elders or Deacons had his Worship's daughter classically got with child by his serving-man nor durst the Elders maid associate with the same species that the Mistris doth For this Snape brings the poor man to publick repentance and ignominy amongst his neighbours nor do I blame him if he had used the Gentlewoman so too and impowred to do it but she O she was the Daughter of a rich Brother and Sectaries were of old observed to gain most by pleasuring simple women and colloguing with those who had full coffers She therefore good soul was esteemed to run counter to the Primitive Fall there the woman but here the man or rather poverty is judged the tempter But because the Country had both eyes and ears therefore a marriage was thought most plausible to vindicate the Brethren the which was accordingly performed by a lame Souldier of Barwick by the appointment of Snape by whose order the same Souldier had married many others at the same place And it may be Barebone's Parliament drew their new model of coupling
was done by the Instigation of Sir John Eliot a great stickler in such things who also read it the Speaker and Clerk denying to do it These Actions may well be brought to savour of a Non-conforming Spirit of Contradiction and as a Glass more really to observe their humours by It is not unworth the notice by what artifices they did really endeavour to make the King odious to his Subjects of which I shall only hint upon one grand Imposture fobb'd about by many of these chief Ring-leading Members And this was of a Papet by them carefully and plantifully spread abroad to discover the impertinence of Parliaments and how by the Subjects Purses to keep the Nation in a good defence against the Kings Enemies And this was suggested that the King had not only such a Design a foot but that by him or his means this Plot first took birth whereas it was discovered by Sir David Foulis one not ignorant of State-affairs being thereunto several times imploy'd by King James of blessed memory that this Paper was contrived several years before viz. about 1613. by Sir Robert Dudley then living at Florence under the title of Duke of Northumberland By which means it seems some men would not leave any stone unturned rather than fail of their intended ends Nor can I quit him from the same ignorance and malice who long afterwards published it under the name of Strafford's Plot discovered c. endeavouring thereby to make him odious to the simple people as if he had been the Composer of it and this only because a Copy of it was found in his Study an argument by which I might be proved the Compiler of it and other Memoires of State if Transcripts could make Syllogisms The Actions of this Parliament countenanced many Puritans to shew their teeth and amongst the rest one Leighton a Doctor in Physick and a hot-headed Scotch-man put forth a Book call'd Sions Plea and dedicated it to this Parliament wherein he did not only rail against but endeavoured as much as in him lay to stirr up the People to kill all the Bishops and storm'd highly against the Queen calling her the Daughter of Heth a Canaanite and Idolatress and with such like language was his Book stuft for these and other things he was sentenced in the Starr-chamber to be punish'd to quit which he made an escape but being taken again felt the smart accordingly And whether or no such Incendiaries did not deserve severe punishments let any moderate man judge Yet the Long-Parliament afterwards did so much pitty his case forsooth because he seem'd by it to be an asserter of their Cause that they ordered him for requital 10000 l. and this a great while before the wars whence a consequence may be drawn that that Presbyterian body did not only permit but encourage Villains to scribble both against Church and State which denotes them the Authors of our following mischiefs and therefore will be a brand upon those Members to eternity After this the Scots who had a long time been stuffing themselves with discontents took an occasion to vent it upon the Divine service-book sent to them by the King in some things differing from our English one especially in those most agreeable to that Nation viewed over first by some learned Bishops but not as that impudent and maliciously lying wretch that Protean Gage would make some believe a man unworthy the Relation of such a noble Brother as he had This book no sooner began to be read in Saint Giles Church in Edinburgh by the Dean of that City but the people in a fury threw their stools Bibles and any thing that came in their way at the Dean who was rescued from their hands by the Provost and Bayliffs but not from their malice who all the while pelted the Church-windows with stones and so violently assaulted the Bishop going home that if he had not been rescued he had probably been murthered And in the afternoon sell upon the Bishop again These tumults with much ado were a little pacified but broke out again For the Council observing multitudes of people from most parts of the kingdom to haste to Edinburgh and when there to keep Conventicles and rant against Bishops the book by Proclamation command upon pain of Rebellion all people to depart to their own homes but those who could shew reason of Lawful businesse which incensed the Kirk-party so much that the next day they pursue the Bishop of Galloway into the Council-house which they beset and with threatnings demanded his Person upon which the Lord-Treasurer and the Earl of Wighton going to pacifie the people were most barbarously set upon by them and with that fury that they pulled down the Lord-Treasurer took away his hat cloak and white wand and so haled him to the Council-house and this Tumult lasted till they were pacified by some of the Non-conforming Lords and Gentlemen who were desired by the assaulted Nobility to quiet their brethren Upon this the Lords of the Council by Proclamation forbid any tumults for the time following and another from the King to the same purpose and for adjourning the Term to Sterling but the King's Proclamation was no sooner read at Edenburgh but the Earl of Hume Lord Lindsey and others caused their Protestation against it to be read and in despight of the King's Proclamation gathered four Tables The first for the Nobility Second for the Gentry Third for the Burroughs Fourth for the Ministers These four prepared what they thought fit to propound to the General Table consisting of several Commissioners chosen from the rest And having thus ordered themselves to make all more strong they unite themselves by entring into a Covenant a thing exceeding like the Coward Clinias in Sir Philip Sydney viz. The very Fritter of fraud and seething pot of iniquity And yet this Imp for all its wickedness raised it self to an high esteem amongst many as if it had been something related to Tereus in the Poet as probably it was which is Ipso sceleris molimine Creditur esse pius laudemque à crimine sumit Prais'd for its sin and as some think and trust Is in its very wickedness most just The chief Promoters of the Covenant were these three Ministers Henderson Dickson and Cant who with their Covenant were learnedly repulst by the Orthodox Divines of Aberdeen The King not liking these Combinations sent the Marquess of Hamilton as High-Commissioner to pacifie them but took no effect they declaring to renounce their Baptism rather then Covenant though to give them content the King null'd the Service-book and gave them an Assembly and Parliament The Assembly was held at Glascow Novemb. 21. 1638. In which the Presbyterie were so far from suffering Bishops to sit as if they had not been Clergy-men that they would have had them to appear before their Kirkships as guilty persons and so to be proceeded against But this the Bishops
and Chapters Prebendaries c. So that in four dayes time the hasty Commons over-throw as much as in them lay the Reverend Church of England which had continued many hundreds of years a flourishing glory to the Nation The Commons for their parts having thus pull'd down the pale of our Church fastned and strengthened by so many Authentick and Fundamental Laws as old again as the House of Commons will not leave Religion without some Government No good souls they were more kind-hearted And therefore in the first place they Vote that all the Lands and Means belonging to Deans and Chapters Chancellors or Commissaries Archdeacons Deans Prebendaries Chapter Canon c. shall be taken away and disposed of to the advancement of Learning and Piety That is if their after-actions may be taken for Expositors to maintain Rebellion Heresie Sacriledge and ruine Universities for these mens promises like Hebrew must still be read backwards and after this rule did they send a request to the King by Secretary Vain That he would give them leave to look into his Revenues and Expences and they would make him the richest King in Christendom But the Parliament will not spend their time only in selling Lands but something must be considered of a Church-Government too and therefore they Vote that all Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction fit to be exercised in England shall be committed to such a number of persons and in such a manner as their Worships shall think fit Nor were they long without making the Nation happy with the discovery of their Intellectuals which was That six of the Clergy and six of the Laity should be appointed in every County for the setling of Church-Government But this was a little shaken by an after conclusion viz. That nine of the Laity and three of the Clergy in every Diocess should have power to exercise all Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction as shall be ordered by Parliament and to have their Monethly meetings for that purpose And the next day to make this hotch-potch Model more compleat they Vote That there shall be several select Committees of the Clergy appointed for the Ordination of Clergy-men into the Ministry But yet this Presbyterian Brat would not come to perfection And therefore to give more encouragement to the Covenanting-admirers they conclude That all Archiepiscopal and Episcopal Jurisdiction shall be exercised in this Kingdom by the Commissioners as there was by Bishops And the same day read the Bill for the using of Lectures taking away Cross in Baptism Surplis bowing at the Name of Jesus standing up at the Gospel Gloria Patri Pictures in Churches c. and conclude the day with the appointing of a Committee for the Propagation of the Gospel And the next day they give further power to their nine Commissioners to wit That after the first of August any five of them shall be a Quorum and have full power to try all Ecclesiastical Causes and to appoint Deputies under them in several places And after this they further agreed That if any of the nine Commissioners should dye that five or more of them are to choose another presently and so if any of them resign and that if any came to take Orders that these Commissioners shall appoint five Clergy men to grant Ordinations And for the more speedy putting of this medly in practise the Knights and Burgesses of every Shire are commanded to bring in the Names of the nine Commissioners for their several Counties to be appointed and that no Clergy-man be of the Commission Thus farr had the Commons thrown I cannot say built up this their confused Babylon when on a sodain an unexpected Remora was joyned to their further proceedings by some fallings out betwixt the Lords and them about the Protestation For the Commons having ordered that it should be taken all over the Kingdom were in this opposed by the Peers who threw it out of their House which so incensed the Commons that they presently Vote That what person soever shall not take the Protestation is unfit to bear Office in Church or Common-wealth And thinking that the Bishops were the reason of the Lords dissent appoint a Committee for impeaching them about the late Canons who accordingly Voted thirteen Bishops to be Delinquents whom the Lords also suspended their house till a further hearing And so violently were these good men persecuted by the Presbyters that they never left plotting till they had got them Voted Traytors and sent to the Tower Nor could they have any outward content any where considering the reproaches threats and curses daily thrown against them by the wicked the danger of their lives by Tumults and their Lands Voted from them long before by their and Religions Enemies the Non-conforming Commons though they agreed to allow them a liberal allowance during life and how unhandsomly the Parliament in this neglected this promise the Reverend Bishop Hall will satisfie you The Commons now having as they thought bridled the Bishops and their Party are resolved to root out the Common-Prayer Book too to which purpose some of them desire that it might be altered and some thing added to it the which after some speeches being put to the Vote it appear'd that there were then but 55. Disciplinarians in the House no more voting for Alterations so that the Book came off with credit the Orthodox Party knowing well enough that if that House once fell to alter it it rather belonging to able and lawful Divines they would equal the Tinker who made two holes for mending one The Anti-Episcopalians being thus baffled fall to it again getting it to be moved again in the House the next week where they came off with the like success And the next day being a Thanks-giving day for the Peace between the two Nations to shew their malice to Church-Government and countenance the Schismaticks the Commons would not go to St. Margarets Westminster as was by them appointed because the Bishop of Lincoln had caus'd a set Form of Prayer for that occasion to be printed and used in the Church the news of which so started their Worships that they turn'd tail and went to the preachment at Lincolns Inne But if the Commons were troubled at this they were after out of their wits and all stark-madd against the Lords Because they had put forth an Order and sent it all over the Nation strictly injoyning the reading of the Common-Prayer against which and many other Church-affairs the Commons the same day put forth a Declaration ordering it to be printed and sent over the Kingdom and with them they also got the nine dissenting Lords to protest against the Order made by the House of Peers This cross-graind action of the Commons so incensed the Lords that they left off sitting for a while causing the Hangings of their House to be taken down Nor did this any way vex the Commons
who neither cared for them nor their sitting nor any else that would not dance after them and Geneva For they are resolved for Jack Presbyter and therefore being informed that the Lords Order for the Common-Prayer had been read in Churches and not their Declaration they drew up an Order and sent it to be printed enjoyning that their aforesaid Declaration should be read in all Churches And so severe were they in this point that they put Dr. Haywood of St. Giles to some trouble for not permitting their Order to be read though he had not only his own Conscience and the Lords Order but the Law of the Land to testifie his justness And what more ridiculous then to astonish the people into discontents and sidings by reading to them at the same time two contrary Orders and that of the Commons being quite against the Laws of the Land Thus did the Commons batter down Religion as Captain Jones in the Poet did the Jesuites more by strong hand then reason yet had they left one thing undone which was the extirpation of Episcopacy root and branch to bring which villany about they Voted them to have no place in the House of Lords nor to meddle with any secular affairs But here before they went any further they were somewhat troubled at the King because he being then in Scotland had sent Mr. Warwick Orders to draw up five Congé d'Eslire's for five new Bishops there being then so many Sees vacant but in this strait Mr. Stroud thinks it fitting to Petition the King to stop these five till they had dispacht the charge against the other Bishops Yet what need they care whether the King make Bishops or no since they are resolved never to acknowledge them to be so for they can with the same ease cut off all as one Therefore seeing the King for Bishops they bend themselves more resolutely against them and so prepare their charge against those formerly accused and for the Champions to mannage this Combate Pymme and St Johns by the commendations of one another are chosen The death of the first is noys'd by report and the honesty of the latter is not unknown to any The Parliament was something stopt in their proceedings against Bishops by the Irish Rebellion yet having taken some breath they sent a message to the Lords desiring that the 13. Bishops might speedily come to answer And not long after as an incouragement to the factious they released Simmonds a Printer who had been in custody for printing a Book against the Common-Prayer yet the very same day was Walker the Iremonger imprisoned only for Printing a Book concerning Mr. Prynne though the first deserved as much hanging as the latter Imprisonment and from these men the Bishops might well expect good justice But still they sit and Vote in the House of Lords which vext the Sectaries to the guts because they could not tell how to get them out handsomly for they had no great confidence in their Articles of Canons and Constitutions and whilest they Voted there the Orthodox Party would still exceed At last some ill spirit or other put it into the noddles of Isaac Pennington Captain Ven and such combustible humours to raise such tumults against the Reverend Fathers the fear whereof should either keep them from the House or bring some ruine sacrilegiously to be acted upon them And accordingly up cometh the Rabble of London to the Parliament House crying out No Bishops no Bishops And at last got the Bishop of Lincoln then going to the House with the Earl of Dover into the midst of them where they had like to have squeez'd him to death And having thus begun many hundreds of them come again the same day with Swords and Staves causing great uproars both in Westminster and London not only to the affrightment of the Bishops but the King and Queen and the next day also assaulted Westminster Abby These Tumults obtain'd the end of their Contrivers keeping the Bishops from the House pelting of them with stones as they endeavoured to go By which they drew up a Petition to the King how that the Tumults kept them out and therefore protested against all things that should be done in the House of Peers in time of their thus violent seclusion Which did trouble the Parliament so much that one Mr. Weston of the Commons House thought he had spoke bravely when he moved that the Bishops might be sent to Bedlam But Glyn and others were cleerly for High Treason which accordingly was done and ten of them sent to the Tower and two to the Black Rod. And thus their businesse being don the great tumults ceas'd the Presbyterians sang Victoria whilst the reverend Church of England lay in the dust miserably trod upon by a Schismatical zeal yet had they they nothing to accuse the Bishops of and so were forced to release them all but two against one of which they could say nothing for if they could they would and whether the cry of the others bloud be yet stopt I know not How were the Country cheated with swarms of Petitions against this Ecclesiastical Order yet in this none more ridiculous then the Londoners One troup of Tradesmen petition against Bishops and their reason was because their being was the decay of trading and in the clause of all gave a notable lash at the House of Lords Nor is this all but the very Porters 15000 said to be in number Petition too and affirm that they cannot indure the weight of Episcopacy any longer and therefore must have redress Nay the very women by the pushing on of their hot-headed associates thought themselves so much concerned in these Church-affairs that they must petition too And these as fit persons to apprehend Chuch-government as the simple Cockney country-businesse who thought a bush hung about with black moles skins to be a black pudding tree yet these sort of Fanaticks are apt to have abominable discretions for thus the Scots some years before in their Petition against the Common Prayer Book begun it thus We Men Women and Children and Servants having considered c. Most miraculous Children Born like Adam at the top of understanding O the happiness to spring from the loins of a Covenanter who as it was said of the Lady Margaret can bring forth men instead of children Certainly these children were akin to that boy of Cracovia in Poland which had not only teeth but spake the first day of its birth but when he received Christianity lost that faculty And probably had these covenanting Children women and such like known more of Christianity then these did they had never acted so violently against Church-government Or it may be they were somewhat related to that other child born in the same City which spoke distinctly at half a year old yet nothing but mischief was by it uttered distruction to all Poland and that
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Synodique sua autoritate coactae ad omnibus quidem Provinciis hominibus praefervidis concionandique peritis sed minoris ut plurimum literaturae regiminique Ecclesiastico insensis constitutionibus commendant non autem huic liberè res even I le ndas permittunt ultra metas ab ipsis statutas Elenc Mot. pag. 64. 22. Decemb. 1652. Ex. Coll p. 548. Representat 5. Octob. 1659. pag. 6. Quod Posterorum quoque odia accenderet Academias visitandi specie doctissimos quosque in Exilium amandare El. Mot. p. 91. Hist Independ Part. 1. Sect. 19 20 21. Recueil des Traictes de France les Princes Estats de Estrangers pag. 123 124. Letr l. 7. let 268. pag. 552. let 291. p. 617 c. * W. Clarks Reply to Fa. Parsons Libel Watson's Quodlibets of Religion and State p. 92 93 94 95 286. Falle of Princis lib. 6. fol. 156. b. 2. 5. Decemb. 1640. Cabala p. 260 261. De Monarch Hisp cap. 25. p. 203 204. Gal. Gualdo Hist part 3. lib. 3. p. 176. Seneca Epist 27. 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Fairfax Letter to the Parl. from Cambridge 6. Jun. 1647. Their letter to London from Royston 10. Ju. * Declara concerning their advance to London 1647. pag. 10. Humble Remonstrance from St. Albans 23. Jun. 1647. pag. 12. 9. April 1648. a 30. April b May. 3. June 30. June Sept. 1648. 5. Decemb. Breviary pag. 212. 6. Decemb. Ang. 19. 1641. Their humble Answer 3. Jan. 1648 9. p. 2. Hist Independ part 2. Sect. 23. Armies plea 1659 p. 28. 4 January 1648 9 9 Jan. Remonstrance from Kingston 18 Aug. 1647. pag. 20. Humble Remonst from St. Albans 23 June 1647. pag. 10. Lilburns and Overtons books The Army harmlesse Roial project A pair of Crystal Spectacles Scots Cabinet open'd 11 Sept. 1648. October 16 Octob. Novemb. December 7. 16 Dec. January 16. 18. Novem. * Pag. 22 23 24. 50. 56. 61. 64. Id pag. 62. 2 Aug. 1648. Elenc Mot. p. 119 120. The Army harmlesse p. 3 4. Anno. 1647. Edw. Gangraen part 3. p. 172. Vox Coeli p. 5. A model of Truths Sect. 4. Tho. 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