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A47078	Elymas the sorcerer, or, A memorial towards the discovery of the bottom of this Popish-Plot and how far his R. Highness's directors have been faithful to his honour and interest, or the peace of the nation : publish'd upon occasion of a passage in the late Dutchess of York's declaration for changing her religion / by Tho. Jones ...	Jones, Thomas, 1622?-1682.	1682 (1682)	Wing J992; ESTC R1915	54,782	40

at Lannunnis in Dyssrin Cluid May 26. 1669. THat on the first of July 1666. at a Consecration Dinner at Lambeth it pleased the Right Reverend Father in God George Lord Bishop of Winton to incense and provoke the Bishop of Bangor Mr Jones his Diocesan in these or the like words That he was the Errant'st Rogue in England and that my Lord of Bangor should use him accordingly when he came to his Living That from that time and especially from August 1668. after other Attempts fail'd upon a pretence about a Reading seat in the Parish Church of Landurnog my Lord of Bangor did sufficiently answer and gratifie my Lord of Wintons pleasure touching Mr. Jones by all manner of unfavourable proceedings Excommunications Censures ab ingressu Ecclesiae ab Officio Beneficio and other defamations against Mr. Jones the Living being in my Lord of Bangors own Gift and Patronage That Mr. Jones upon Appeal being restored to his Church March 14. 1668. Did by way of Appology Verify his Life and Innocence from his Infancy at the Altar for the satisfaction of his Parishoners in point of Loyalty and Principles and conversation and particularly his Obedience to his Diocesan touching the Reading Seat declaring therewithal that my Lord of Winton who had privately accused Mr. Jones to his R. Master and diligently incens'd several great Persons in Church and State against him was driven to wave and clear Mr. Jones from all manner of Charge and exception against him before he was willing to accept or repair to his Living at Landurnog the usual Residence by Commendam of the Bishop of Bangor he having before refused the Bishoprick it self preferring his R. Highness Rays and Service before an untimely Dignity That the same time Mr. Jones did and doth submit his whole life for Thirty Years Backward to the strictest Examination of my Lord of Winton and Bangor who have sufficient jurisdiction and Power over him and If in all that time no Flaw or blame can be found in his Loyalty conversation or Principles He then did and still doth Declare that the true cause of my Lord of Wintons Wrath and War against him was First his introduction of a Portugues Nobleman and convert to her R. Highness Favour and Charity who complains and Mr. J. conceives not without Ground of wrongs and snares from my L. of W. against his Life who for his quality and unblameableness confessed by his Adversaries was useful while encouraged to prevent the growth of Popery which Mr. Jones had special Orders to Endeavour in his R. Highness's Family whereof he had Charge of Souls by that other Instances did effect with Gods assistance in good part 2dly when his R. Highness began kindly and frequently to mention Mr. Jones his performance of his Duty with him in his Dangers at Sea and especially when his sacred Majesty and R. Highness were pleased to take notice of him in the Royal Chappel in time of Divine Service in view of many my Lord of Winton from that time never ceased to employ his utmost Power and interest to ruine Mr. Jones in Court and Country Mr. Jones Therefore doth Humbly desire the Right Reverend Bishops of Bangor and St. Asaph to cause this matter to be search'd by competent Authority as in their Wisdoms they shall think fit least there be any Design laid against the Church or Judgements be multiplied upon the Nation by unsincere Oaths or the Presbyterian Party bear away the Glory of defending the Protestant interest and the late glorious King's Cause and Martyrdom receive Wrong or Old Fears and jealousies be justified And particularly least by any misinformation Mr. Jones be oppressed by the Church for his Fidelity to the Church as well against the Schismatical Interest when it formerly prevailed as against the Popish when it began clandestinly to prevail Tho. Jones But my Diocesan made no regard notwithstanding of this Information under my hand only sent up a Coppy thereof attested by a Publique Notary as the Notary himself told me In Hilary term following I went to London to pursue my Appeal where after some space I was Arrested by the Bishop of Winchester upon an Action of Scandalum Magnatum and coursely used In E●●s●●● Term he put in his Declaration for the words He is a Promotor of Popery and a subverter of the Church of England as spoken by me at Lanunnis October 3. 1668. I told his Agent that I did not speak nor own such words But the Bishops proved them for him at Kings-Bench and a Verdict of 317 l. recovered thereupon against me in February 1670 and my Rectory Sequestred also my House seiz'd and abused and Family turn'd out of Doors by an obsolete Writ vi Laica Amovenda to supply their Writ of Sequestration and Glebelands plowed and all held from me for Three years without any Contenement or Allowance whatsoever whereby I was much disabled to maintain my Appeal till his Agents received near Twice his Verdict as was prov'd at Kings-Bench When they had wrested my Calling and Living from me they set friends upon me to perswade me to submit and ask forgivoness for the words I never spoke nor own'd and to recede from the Paper under my hand which I over own'd and was now more confirmed in by the Rumour'd Apostacy of the Dutchess in 1671. which I did suspect and fear from 1666. And such importunities of Friends and Superiors with offers of Remission and restoration I never could shake off till I declared my Resolution to his Highness in this Paper following My last Address to the Duke April 20. 1673. The Submission of Tho. Jones with his humble request to his R. Highness HAving serv'd your Highness with my utmost love and fidelity to the best of my Skill and judgment as I ought it was my fate to be approv'd by your Princely knowledg and suddenly destroyed upon hear-say Neither find I any hope left after many years patience of recovering your promised favour as long as your Highness is politickly possessed that I refuse to submit to the Bishops against all that I have or can speak or act to the contrary unless your Highness would admit me to submit to their Lordships or their Proxies in your Highness presence that your Highness your self may see and be satisfied as well with my submission as I hope you are with my Innocence and Integrity The number of my Submissions tender'd from time to time esteem'd satisfactory in the judgment of Gentry Clergy Lawyers Civilians Bishops Nobles I have made known to the R. Bp. of Worcester as also my manner of Life and Loyalty for 20 or 30 years past and the passages of my calling with Bradshaw in his Circuits against his execrable Act to support the Loyalty of my Country-men against him which was not the way in those days to thrive But his Lordship is slow or loath to make his report to your Highness in a concern of his Reverend Brethren whom neither

she expected me being as yet ignorant of the prohibition against my Preaching before Her She came not to Chappel when you served but sent for me from the Kings Chappel to read Prayers to Her in Her Closet whereby I found She did not set on the Bishop of W. as he alledg'd but was set on by him against me which is of great use and importance to know in order to find by whom She was perverted And you staid not here but likwise prohibitted my Preaching and Officiating before the Duke at Sea in his firist Dutch-War and though I was the Chaplain appointed to attend him and priviledg'd with a Cabbin which you knew to your sorrow and the Salary of the Ship and at no other expedition had His Highness more than one Chaplain yet as soon as I went to Sea you were as soon after another that fell sick dispatch'd after me to make me a cipher and to Officiate alone to His Highness all the while and to Administer Sacraments to him monthly in stead of Sermons which were suppressed by my Lord of W. contrivance against His Highness's first orders by His Almoner to me and when I endeavour'd to have this order altered which was scandalous to the Fleet and uncharitable to the Sea-mens needs and desires against my return after the fight to Sea whither the Duke commanded me before him with an intention to follow this was the first and only colour and pretence of displeasure that ever the Bishop had while I was at St. James's to object against me Bona fide and with any truth whatever it were though he began to undermine me upon the score of De Macedo about a yeare before so that this pretence which the Duke was made to countenance was like the Lambs troubling the River below stream to the other Creature that drank above Among several passages at Sea I could never forget one which was that if the Dutch should be then beaten the neck of the Protestant interest should be broken and their deliverance then from being totally destroyed I thought they owed not to Sleep or slackening Sails by night as was rumoured but to too much faith in men and guides by day in not falling on at an opportunity as the Duke himself had a mind a Providential pledge that Popery will be defeated by its own Principles This strange expression which reverence to the Government made me then disregard I found afterwards too well to agree with passages in Coleman Fitz-Harris and Common's Address and the strange alteration in France against the Protestants and when I asked you then what Religion you were of you said you were of the Universal Church and that Protestancy was a name of Schisme to which your prejudice I had a particular respect in my Booke least His Highness had imbib'd the same from you or your party as sometimes the patient is to be Administred unto through the Nurse Now I hear'd and you better know I am sure that there was a Popish Priest in the Ship But if there was another in a Protestant mask to celebrate Protestant Sacraments with a design'd malice the same time against the very throat of Protestancy the dissimulation of our Tyburn Jesuites comes short of this in some respects but it could never sink into my suspition and belief how any generous Person of clear Honour and Courage or of understanding as to know and recognize the right Soveraign of his heart could be won or bewitched by any damnable dispensation to dissemble with God and man on Deaths borders for any Worldly design or end And if Pretestants have been out-witted to massacre and ruine one another by collision of their vast force and treasure yet Heaven appeard remarkably against it to hinder and part them by miraculous mists and an unparalel'd Plague and Fire in which last permitted judgment the subservient malice of Rome visibly crossed its own designs and suffered Amsterdam to escape for once to pursue a studied opportunity never else to be regained of retorting 666. on London And if this be so The Lord in mercy watch over this poor Nation our Cities Fleet Universities Libraries c. And teach our Senators Wisdom and deliver me and others from Blood guiltness O God thou God of my Salvation and my tongue shall sing aloud of thy Righteousness Psal 51. The Even before the fight June 2.65 when both Fleets were neare together I was commanded because you were unwilling to Officiate and exhort which I did with Protestant sincerity and with what an acknowledg'd omen of victory annnex'd to the duty you may perhaps remember for you among others told me then of his Highness's beliefe declard to that purpose but neither the recommendation of Heaven believed nor intense Favour by other laudable means acquir'd and Graciously attested to his Majesty and the World nor false accusations baffled and confuted and innocency fully cleared nor the undoubted Divine right and charge and glory of Rulers to punish knaves rather than honest men which I did humbly intimate and insist on could secure me from being destroyed in a moment and that as soon as I was newly delivered from the same publick dangers according to your infallible prediction as afore now seconded with other Popish threats both Forraign and Domestick about the time of De. Macedo's miraculous escape at Portsmouth and his appearing to me at St. James's after he had been burnt for Sodomy at Paris about half a yere before as some of your party publickly affirmed to my face and complaining of a conspiracy between some of your party and the Popish Chaplains against his life made very probable to me by other good Testimonies and Cadaverous faces and Gentile tricks and Parliaments from this time awakened to enquire into the insolence c. of Popery Now though I can and daily have prayed that God would forgive your wrongs to me yet I am not to forgive your wrongs to my Friends especially to the Duke and Nation nor the cause and root of this general disturbance to all manner of People and of the high and unheard of debates between Succession and Salus publica and care of the Kings Life and of our Laws and Liberties and Religion least they become Articles of Nants for to use the unexpired right and duty of a Chaplain I take them to be the first Authors of the doleful bill of exclusion who for preferments have at first complyed and encourag'd to those revolts that work the once darling Prince out of the hearts and trusts of the People to the great infelicitie of both Whereby the Nation is nigh dissolved in fiction as in a separation of Soul and Body for what is a Nation though never formidable and renoun'd without a Prince they can trust but a dead unactive Carcass or what is a Prince though never so magnanimous without the hearts and trusts of his People but a lean wandering Ghost and Apparition An army without a general or a