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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A60496	The narrative of Mr. John Smith of Walworth ... containing a further discovery of the late horrid and popish-plot ...	Smith, John, of Walworth.	1679 (1679)	Wing S4127; ESTC R15413	45,689	42

as they are pleased to stile the Protestant Religion they were at last as they apprehended come within view of infallibly compassing their design Now there were some things which afforded them advantages for the attaining these Ends which at no time since the Reformation were they before now possessed of the assistance of The first was That Interest at Court and universal esteem through the whole Kingdom which the pretented Loyalty of many Catholicks during the late unhappy War betwixt His late Majesty and many of His People who acted under the influence and supposed Authority of a Parliament reconciled and gave unto them This together with the Assistance which some of the Papists contributed to the escape of his present Majesty and the seeming readiness of many of them to co-operate with others in his Restauration gave them not only a share in the peace and quiet which these Kingdoms were restored unto but procured a further degree of respect to them than had been either usually or universally shown them since the Reformation And though I would not endeavour to lessen their Loyalty at any time when they might but seem to pretend to it yet to deal plainly I know very little reason for their pretences of Loyalty to King Charles the first more than to His Majesty who now happily Reigns yea I know very much why they ought at least to supercede all right of merit on that foot of account For not to insist upon what preceded the unhappy War though antecedently to that we are told of a Conspiracy to destroy the Kings Life whereof the discovery was found in Archbishop Land's Library being declared by Andreas ab Haberfeld to Sir William Boswell Embassador then at the Hague who revealed it to the Archbishop But I say not to dwell upon this nor upon that that I am now to say namely that it is affirmed and that with all the moral certainty imaginable that the Romish Emissaries were both the principal Authors of that Vniformity with England which was pressed upon Scotland and also prime sticklers to prevent its being entertained there and all to foment a War betwixt the two Kingdoms The Priests names have been oftner then once published to the world who were sent by Cardinal Richlieu into that Kingdom to raise and inflame differences betwixt the two Nations And the motives upon which that great Boutefeu of Europe was so earnest to kindle a War in His Majesties Dominions are sufficiently understood by all who are not wholly strangers to the affairs of that time But there are two things which overthrow all their pretences of Loyalty to his late Majesty of which they so confidently boast and have made so large advantages One is their commencing that bloody War in Ireland in the massacring so many of His Majesties Protestant Subjects which as it increased the Jealousies that the like might be designed against those of the same Religion in this Kingdom so the making all Assistances by the War which they had begun there from thence impossible gave confidence to the Parliament to be the more peremptory in those demands which His Majesty finding it necessary to refuse to comply with proved the causes of that unnatural War which fell out among our selves and of all the fatal consequences of it And as a further Testimony of their Loyalty to that Prince they not only renounced all Allegiance to Him and banished His Lieutenant but assumed the Royal Authority to themselves owing only a dependance upon the Pope and his Nuncio The second is that accession which they had to the murder of His late Majesty For as the principles upon which those seem to have acted who publickly destroyed the King are not only countenanced but most especially taught by the Doctors and Casuists of the Church of Rome so the effects of those principles are to be charged as well upon them that teach Doctrines of such pernicious consequence as upon them that practise them Hear then what the greatest Authors in the Romish Church declare to the purpose before us The Power of a Nation saith Bellarmine is setled in the whole multitude as its true and proper Subject and accordingly they may change a Kingdom into an Aristocratical or Democratical state whensoever they find cause for it If a Prince be a Tyrant saith Lessius he may be deposed or declared a publick enemy by the Common-wealth and thereupon it may be lawful to attempt any thing against his Person When the Common-wealth saith Mariana cannot other ways secure and preserve its own peace and safety it may by a right inherent in it self declare the King to be the common Enemy and then destroy him with the Sword Thus we plainly see that whatsoever others did the Jesuits had first taught them the principles upon which they might justifie the doing of it But this is not all for over and above this they have not only been openly charged to have had a hand in the contriving and actually compassing the late Kings death but the person that doth thus accuse them undertakes the Justification of it either before his present Majesty or before any one who can legally require it of him And which is an evident demonstration of their Guilt notwithstanding all the interest which they have had of late years from which they might at least promise themselves Justice if they could not expect Favour yet though challenged to bring this matter to a hearing they have not so much as once dared to attempt it Yea the late King himself was informed a little before his death that the Jesuits at a general meeting in France in revenge for his condescending in the Treaty at the Isle of Wight to pass some Bills in prejudice of them and the Romish Religion had unanimously resolved by the power interest and influence that they had in and upon the Army to bring him to Justice and get him Executed Accordingly when the stroke was given both one that was a Romish Priest and a Confessor namely Sarabras brandished his Sword and proclaimed That now their greatest Enemy was cut off and destroyed I suppose that the Judgment of Sir William Morrice late Secretary of State will bear some weight with all English men as well upon the account of his great Integrity as the many opportunities he enjoyed beyond others of satisfying himself in a matter of this importance hear then what he declares in a Letter to Dr. du Moulin August the 9 th 1673. This I may say safely and will do it confidently that many Arguments did create a violent suspition very near convincing Evidences that the irreligion of the Papists was chiefly guilty of the murder of that excellent Prince the Odium whereof they would file to the account of the Protestant Religion However the Papists having not only escaped Legal Arraignments upon this account but having since the Kings return been esteemed by some His late Majesties best friends they have