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A28915	The mysterie of iniqvity yet working in the kingdomes of England, Scotland, and Ireland, for the destruction of religion truly Protestant discovered, as by other grounds apparant and probable, so especially by the late cessation in Ireland, no way so likely to be ballanced, as by a firme union of England and Scotland, in the late solemne covenant, and a religious pursuance of it.	Bowles, Edward, 1613-1662.	1643 (1643)	Wing B3877; ESTC R211746	35,663	51

and the fruit of their doing It is said the Archbishop of York if he have not too much or too little Grace can tell you more of this businesse Let our trembling pen passe on to His now Majesties reign and here doubtlesse some Apologie is expected but I hope to say nothing that needs it I shall endeavour to avoid known falshoods or unseasonable truths An earnest affection to the Preservation and Reformation of the Church of God hath put me upon this disquisition and the desire of preserving good men from a snare which shall be in vain spread in the sight of any bird hath prevailed with me for the discovery of my thoughts It is in service to that Cause which I desire not to over-live the welfare of And therefore without any more complement Let us begin to search out the Pla●…formes Groundworks Materials Instruments of this great service for recovery of Britain to Babylon In the beginning of His Majesties reign the Popish Faction having in Spain and otherwise obtained testimonies of His disposition a strange wi●…e is prepared for him which according to Scripture truth is a dangerous preparative for a strange god Surely they will turn away your heart after their gods 1 Kings 11. 2. Upon this marriage is the Court sufficiently loose and luxurious enough at all times dissolved into Riots and Masquings and in the midst of that noise were our Counsells and Enterprises most perfidiously mis-laid and betrayed as those of Ree and Cales and especially that of Rochell which as if no sleighter a Complement could be thought of for the fair Lady received from France must by English hands and Popish Councels be betrayed in its Religion and Liberty Thus is our guilt increased and our strength diminished and lest the Remainder of it should be imployed according to the Interests of our Religion and Nation a peace with Spain is concluded the Palatinate left to that which leaves it yet miserable and is hastening us after it a Course of treating with them who carry destruction and misery in their paths but the way of peace they have not known These things have been long known but little considered and it stands well enough with my intent and purpose to repeat things mentioned by others because I aym at shewing the dependance of the Jesuiticall proceedings one upon another and all upon the main end of subverting Religion and Liberty After these parts so well plaid abroad Let us consider how the design was carried on among our selves from the fourth yeer of His Maj●…sties reign And here as good workmen use to do They forecast the manner and provide the Instruments of their work It must be done either by force o●… fraud the first is disapproved probably upon these reasons 1. The King could not be supposed to yeeld to an invasion of His own Kingdom and it was pitie to betray so hopefull a Prince 2. It was more full of hazard as subject to the Accidents of warre as also that a violent attempt would probably joyn the Prot●…stant and Puritan against the Papist whereas a fraudulent graduall proceeding might possibly unite the Papist and Indifferent Protestant against the Puritan which they have now accomplished The latter way is resolved upon and Instruments accordingly fitted which are certainly the most considerable requisites in any work And because it was of very great concernment That the King should be brought to favour and further these Popish proceedings and preparations He must be ingaged either upon religious or politike considerations to promote this Reconciliation with Rome Not to dispute how farre He was prevailed with in matters of Religion if not for an absolute alteration yet an Accommodation or whether the ultimate End and full Design were discovered to Him or rather He made to prosecute it under another Notion This is certain That He manifestly favoured those Courses that made way for Popery and Tyranny and it is to be conceived rather with respect to power and profit which were alwayes observed to be His Majesties well consistent Interests then to the Popish or any other Religion which is evidenced by that passage that fell from His Majesty observed by the Venetian that wrote the Narrative called the Popes Nuntio sc. That His Majesty could at that time reconcile Himself to Rome with much advantage And when it was discerned that the Interest of absolute Rule with its advantages was so firmely setled in His Majesty and that He was subject to be violent in the prosecution of it and not likely to stumble at small blocks which they might well ghesse by the dissolution of Parliaments billeting Souldiers the design of the German●… horse c. They cherish him in it and set France with its broken Parliaments and full power as an Object of Emulation before him as finding the Interests of Popery and Tyranny very well to agree Now therefore is His Majesty perswaded that His Crown and the Popes Chair have common Friends and common Enemies Parliaments and Puritans are their Enemies Prelacy and Prophanenesse their Friends Let us see how things were carried with respect to them all First For Parliaments which the Popish Party knew to be very good advantages in their constitution to the preservation and reformation of the Protestant Religion they represent them to his Majesty as most disadvantagious to his desired power and profit These were onely times of recompence for wrong of petitions for right Controllers of Prerogative Assertors of popular Liberty and therefore are they dissolved disgraced by scandalous Declarations publikely aspersed both from the Presse an●… Pulpit as by Doctor Alablaster Beale Manwaring and others of that stamp And that there might be no occasion of drawing supplies of money that way which had so many other Inconveniences attending it severall exquisite Engines of iniquity and oppression were found out by Weston Noy and others as Loans Patents Ship-money c. And thus for twelve years or thereabouts were Parliaments intermitted and the hopes if not remembrance of them almost worn out Then for Puritanes men cordially Protestant and zealous of their own Religion which no where but among us is a fault because they were tenacious of just Liberty and true Religion how studiously and spightfully are they disgraced as men of Antimonarchicall Principles factious spirits ranked with Iesuites who were yet better used as the Incendiaries of Churches and States For the suppressing these men the authority of the High Commission Star-chamber Bishops Courts and the ordinary Courts of Justice through the corruption of Judges and other inferiour Officers were made very serviceable and that they might have no shelter neerer then New-England most of the faithfull Ministers and religious Justices were for some pretence or other discountenanced displaced and it was grown to that passe that he that departed from evill made himself a prey For the rooting out of Ministers whose onely fault was painfulnesse in their places severall artifices were used And because there were

and who are accounted his Majesties true Subjects who Malignants But all this is easily blasted with the Consideration that they are the Expressions of Rebels pretending his Majesties name and service for their advantage No under favour they are the expressions of his Roman Catholique Subjects so stiled in the late Cessation concluded in his Majesties name and by his Majesties authority September 15. 1643. and ranked equally with other his Majesties good Subjects and therefore no reason to discountenance this Evidence not yet those of the like nature hereafter to be produced However it aboundantly shewes the end for which it was mentioned the proving that Rebellion to be a Quarrell of Religion Let us now trie what Evidence may be brought forth to prove that the Papists in Ireland and the Armies in England engaged against the Parliament are doing the same work and that there is a line of Communication betwixt their Counsells To this purpose let us consider a Commission and a Cessation to which whatsoever else is to be said in this matter may be reduced Common fame none of the worst witnesses hath brought to every mans eares the noyse of the Kings favouring the Irish Massacre and that the Catholique Subjects there have called themselves the Queenes Army and intimated themselves the Kings by saying they had good warrant in black and white for their proceedings and crying out upon the English Parliament and Puritanes as the Kings Enemies and theirs It were well worth the knowing the truth of this so important businesse Let us goe as neare it as the nature of a Mystery will admit And first let the Copy of the Commission said to be given by the King to his Catholique Subjects of Ireland be read and examined From our Camp at Newrie this fourth of November 1641. Philem Oneale Rorie Macguire To all Catholiques of the Romish Partie both English and Irish within the Kingdome of Ireland we wish all Happinesse Freedome of Conscience and Victory over the English Hereticks who have for a long time tyrannized over our bodies and usurped by Extortion our Estates BE it hereby made known unto you all our Friends and Countrey-men that the Kings most excellent Majesty for many great and urgent Causes him thereunto moving reposing trust and confidence in our fidelities hath signified unto us by his Commission under the great Seal of Scotland bearing date at Edingburgh the first day of this instant October 1641. and also by Letters under his signe manuall bearing date with the said Commission of divers great and heinous astronts that the English Protestants especially the Parliament there have published against his Royall Prerogative and also against our Catholique Friends within the Kingdom of England The Copy of which Commission we have here sent unto you to be published with all speed in all parts of this Kingdome that you may be assured of our sufficient warrant and authority herein THE COMMISSION CHARLES by the grace of God King of England Scotland France and Ireland Defender of the faith c. To all our Catholike Subjects within Our Kingdome of Ireland greeting Know ye that We for the safeguard and preservation of Our person have been enforced to make Our abode and residence in our Kingdom of Scotland for a long season occasioned by reason of the obstinate and disobedient carriage of Our Parliament in England against Vs who have not onely presumed to take upon them the government and disposing of those Princely Rights and Prerogatives that have justly descended upon Vs from Our Predecessours both Kings and Queens of the said Kingdome for many hundred yeares past but also have possessed themselves of the whole strength of the said Kingdome in appointing Governours Commanders and Officers in all parts and places therein at their own wils and pleasures without Our consent whereby we are deprived of Our Soveraignty and left naked without defence And forasmuch as we are in Our selfe very sensible that these stormes blow aloft and are very likely to be carried by the vehemency of the ●…rotestant Party into Our Kingdome of Ireland and endanger Our Regall power and authority there also Know yee therefore that we reposing much care and trust in your duties and obedience which we have for many years past found Doe hereby give unto you full power and authority to assemble and meet together with all the speed and diligence that a businesse of so great a Consequence doth require and to advise and consult together by sufficient and discreet numbers at all times dayes and places which you shall in your judgements hold most convenient and materiall for the ordering setling and effecting of this Great work mentioned and directed unto you in Our Letters and to use all politick wayes and meanes possible to possesse your selves for Our use and safety of all the Forts Castles and places of strength and defence within the said Kingdom except the Places Persons and Estates of Our loyall and loving Subjects the Scots and also to arrest and seize the Goods Estates and Persons of all the English Protestants within the said Kingdom to Our use And in your care and speedy performance of this Our will and pleasure we shall perceive your wonted duty and allegiance unto Vs which we shall accept and reward in due time witnesse Our selfe at Edinburgh the first day of October in the seventeenth yeare of Our Reigne This Deponent maketh Oath that about the middle of November last living then in the Parish of Saint Michans neare Dublin being accompanied with one master Stapleton of Dublin aforesaid Gentleman they happened into the company of a Popish Priest commonly called Father Birne who being formerly acquainted with the said master Stapleton desired to drink with him at a Ta●…ern called the Bull upon Merchants key in Dublin where 〈◊〉 of the injuries and troubles of the times the Priest answered that the Irish not enduring to have them called Rebels had sufficient warrant for what they did and stood strongly in defence of their actions and presently to justifie his words produced a writing according to the tenour of the premises mentioned in this writing abovesaid whereof the Deponent desired a Copy and he willingly yeelded unto it and thereupon he wrote this Copy out of his literatim in the presence of the said master Stapleton who is now living in Dublin This is the true copy of that Commission with the annexed Warrant and Deposition for I will conceale nothing in a businesse of this importance as it came to my hands in a paper thus endorsed A copy of the forged Commission in Ireland published by those traiterous Rebels Sir Philemy Oneale Knight Rory Maguier Esquire and others with their lying perswasi●…n to seduce and stirre up the whole Romish Party to Rebellion wherein may be seene how heinously his Majesty is abused and the Parliament unjustly taxed by the ●…apists This last clause I take for granted but as for the rest give me leave to try whether

the inside or the outside of my paper be the tiuer And this I shall doe with all due respect both to the King and Parliament that his Majesty may see that there was some fire in the midst of all the smoak and that the jealousies of his people concerning the Irish businesse were not altogether groundlesse as also that the King may have a sit occasion to ab●…ure this Commission and cleare himselfe of the aspersions cast upon him with respect thereto and chastise as his Majesties phrase is those wicked fellows but I crave mercy they are not my fellows they are owned Subjects but I and the rest of the Parliaments friends proclaimed Rebels And that the more full and particular satisfaction may be given for discourses and protestations will not be taken any longer for payment I shall give all the Arguments I can to prove the reality of it First therefore let us consider the time a materiall circumstance when this Commission is dated that is the first of October 1641. in one copy and the fourth in another no great difference the Massacre beginning the 23. of the same month which was presently after the Conferences at White-hall with the Lord Muskerie and his fellows who returned into Ireland the same month his Majesty went for Scotland leaving the Lord Dillon who was presently after sent with the Queenes Letters requesting or requiring his being made Counsellor of Ireland to his Majesty then at Edinburgh where it is said this Commission was signed with the broad Seal of that Kingdome being not then setled in the hands of any Officer who could be answerable for the use of it but during the vacancy of the Chancellors place intmsted with Marquesse Hammilton and by him with one master Iohn Hammilton the Scribe to the Crosse Petitioners in Scotland and sometimes under the care of master Endimion Porter a very fit opportunity for such a clandestine transaction And let it not be omitted that presently after the date of this Commission Dillon Butler and divers other Irish Commanders of which the Court was then full were dispatched for Ireland by his Majesties Licence not without the just suspition of By-standers The Commission it selfe for the grounds and language of it is very suitable to other dispatches and writings under his Majesties name expressing much bittemesse against the Parliament and jealousie of the diminution of his Prerogative which was alwayes his great feare But I shall be unwilling to fetch the least proofe from the matter or stile of the Commission the Argument is not so beggarly as to necessitate a Petitio Principii Let us go on to examine the grounds why such a thing should be forged and why such a thing should be granted and see which are the more probable I know no ground why such a Commission should be forged It was not to make his Majesty odious for in all their writings they expresse all tendernesse of his honour and forwardnesse of their obedience particularly in the forementioned Assembly at Kilkenny where next after the Article for the injoyment of all the Priviledges and Immunities of the Romane Church as in the ninth yeare of Henry the third the Oath of Allegiance to his Majesty is established its likely according to the agreement of the Reconciliation with a Salvo to the Sea of Rome and their constant and generall professions of loyalty now so well confirmed by his Majesties expressions to them and their contributions to him do clearly evince that they had not so much ill will to the King as to raise such a scandall of him And more especially though a Commission might do them some advantage yet the forgery of one could not but be prejudiciall it being a necessary ingagement of his Majesty in his owne justification to have used the utmost of his skill and power against them as to have staid with his Parliament and prevented a war in England But though a forged Commission might be unprofitable yet a reall one I wonder not should be demanded though a stranger to the Mystery would wonder it should be granted First that hereby the King whom they knew in his own disposition apt enough to start from his Expressions upon an advantage might be firmly bound to them and their proceedings as also that the more backward Papists who were more good natured then to rebell against a King whom they had ●…ound so propitious and more wary then by such Rebellion to forfeit their Estates which under him with the advantage of their Religion they doubted not to enjoy might the more easily be brought in If it be objected this might be done by a forged Commission I answer not so well Forgery is an unruly help being often requited with the double hinderance of a discovery Papists though sometimes they delude us they deale freely especially in a common Catholique Cause with one another And what end such fraud could have upon the Protestants unlesse a little to amaze them at first then exasperate them I cannot conceive However it is be assured that Oneale and Mac-●…arty beare so high upon this Commission that they have offered Major Monro and the Scots in V●…ster an appeale to the King which have the truer Commission and which are the better Subjects and according to that determination to quit or hold their employment if the Scots would mutually promi●…e the same But sure sayes my honest Reader who thinks other men meane as well as he this cannot be Why not as well as that Commission for the cutting thy throat at London much after this ●…enour and pasted in the same private manner But how can it stand with his Ma●…estes Protestations against them under the name of wicked and detestable Rebels with his Declaration against any toleration of Religion there or 〈◊〉 of the Lawes in force against Recusants with his Pr●…clamation of Rebellion against then dated ●…anuary ●… 1641. directly opposite to this Commission It were heartily to be wished that his Majesty had ●…ept his word as well with the Protestants as with the Popish Faction There passed one Article in the Treaty of marriage with the Queen which through the care of Canterbury and the paines of Windebank hath been better kept then any Protestant Protestation The words of which Article are faithfully translated out of the French copy to this effect The 27. Article is That the King of Great Brittaine having regard unto the prayer of the Lady and 〈◊〉 testifie his affection to her shall grant unto his Catholique Subjects the security of their lives and goods so that they shall not be troubled for making profession of the Catholique Religion they rendring unto him that obedience and fidelity they ow●… unto him to which they shall not be thought deficient for refusing to take any Oath or doe any act contrary to their Religion But it is answered It concernes his Majesty most to look to that how his words and warrants agree yet we will be so bold in a

Cause of so great consequence as the imminent danger of the Protestant Religion as to examine some of his Actions and see whether they have been more suitable to the Commission o●… Proclamation The Proclamation it selfe though in its nature opposite yee in its time and circumstances was too suitable to the Commission being deferred from the latter end of October to the first of January and then so sparingly printed so warily published as if it had been under the controll of some former Act whose leave must first be craved But his Majesty hath reason to expresse violence against these his Catholike Subjects or to chastise them at least for they went beyond this Commission though supposed reall that gave but a Yard they took an Ell though they were allowed to sei●…e the goods estates and persons of his Majesties Protestant Subjects yet they were not allowed to cut their throats unle●…le the private Letters concomitant can help out at such a pinch and their very transgression in this matter might justly occasion and provoke the title of mercilesse wicked Rebels But to return to Actions the best Commentaries upon words it is to be feared they will be found more agreeable to the Commission then the Proclamation as may be discerned in the unanswered Remonstrance of the rise and progresse of the Grand Rebellion in Ireland For instance What shall indifferent men think of his Majesties withdrawing himself from his Parliament declared by the then reall though now pretended Parliament to be a great obstruction to the prosperity of the Irish undertakings Of his raising war against his Subjects here the greatest service that could be done to the pretended rebels there being a diversion of that strength and a distraction of those Counsels that should have suppressed them Of his granting passes for notorious Papists as Butler the sons of the ●…ord Nettersfield and others to go thither for which see the Declaration of Parliament March 16. 1641. and if you will the Answ March 19. The stopping of provisions going to the supply of the Army against them taking away the horses prepared by the E. of Leicester for that service as appears by his complaint in a printed letter to the Earl of Northumberlana Of the free accesse of those that have been active in that Design to his Majesties camp and Court Of his putting in demu●…res to the Bill of pressing souldiers and deniall to the sending ships for that service It must not be denied that his Majesty was earnest in pressing care of that businesse of Ireland upon the Houses and passed some things to the advantage of it and in a message of the 8. of April 1642. spared not to offer his going in person to chastise those wicked and detestable Rebels with the renouncing of all other Ends but if his Majesty had continued in that angry minde hee might with ease have chastised them when they came over to him as they have done ●…ince plentifully I wish I had many more such actions to repeat But it must be considered there was a Proclamation that required some countenance and could not well have lesse then it had but I forestall no mans judgement but leave the impartiall reader to the weighing what hath been said and what hath been produced upon Oath in the Declaration of the Commons Iuly 25. 1643. And if the ballance be equall I shall only cast in some scruples of the late Cessation which unlesse the beame be false will make the Commission weigh down the Proclamation 1. First the scruple of c. in the nomination of the parties in this Treaty Is his Majesties Title of Defender of the Faith come to an intricate c. Y●…s and good reason for the other party with whom his 〈◊〉 treats upon equ●…ll terms are content with an c. and are called His Romane Catholique Subjects now in armes c. whereas it should have b●…en added according to the Acts of K●…lkenny for the Exaltation of the Holy Roman Catholique Church 2. The scruple of their sudden transformation from monstrous mercilesse Rebells into Subjects conj●…yned with other his Majesties good Subjects What shall the 〈◊〉 of Scotland thinke of this who hardly obtained the l●…ke retractation when they defended the P●…orestant Religion or the Parliament of England and their Adherents who cannot yet finde that favour But yet Mopso Nisa datur quid non speremus c. His Majesty sure had thoughts of this dishonourable recancation when hee was so loth to publish the Proclamation against them 3. The third scruple is ●…ersecute for that is the word in the Irish coppy not pros●…cute A license granted to 〈◊〉 ●…ure the Bishops had a finger in this Article and that Persecuted Protestants should expect no protection from his Majesty nor any of his forces against the Parsecution of the Papists but rather have occasion to feare the joyning of the forces the King shall have interest in in the Pers●…cution as is desired by the Catholiques to whom no such trifle must be denied is to me a sad story 4. The fourth scruple that these Catholique Subjects shall have liberty to send such Agents to his Majesty as th●…y shall thinke fit from time to time Priests and Iesuites not excepted If the Scales be not yet turned take the whole Cessation and the thirty thousand eight hundred pound and that will 〈◊〉 weigh it downe to the ground But I have much 〈◊〉 leave the contemplation of this Cessation Let us take a second view 1. Of the time wh●…n it was granted mo●…t seasonably when the P●…pish party was driven to great Extremities for want of victual ●…nd had b●…en in greater had nor the Forces raised and 〈◊〉 by the Parliament b●…en seduc●…d into a disaff●…ction to their service 2. O●… the Grounds all Acts of importance that are to passe the eye and censure of the world use to come armed against a●…l Exceptions with a preamble shewing the ground and necessity of them How comes it to be here ●…mitted that we have neither real nor * pretended causes and considerations but a down-right Ces●…ation or rather Accommodation as Souldiers judge it Was it such broad●●ced iniquity that no mask neit●…er in Oxford nor Dublin would fit it Was it neither for the preservation of the Protestant Religion nor affection to the ancient and native ●…ingdom of Scotland nor for the reconciling of the Distractions of the Kingdome of England Since those dull contrivers could f●…nde no matter for a foundation give us leave to ●…upply Seing the Catholike cause which the King of England is induced to serve either nakedly or cloathed with this pret●…rce o●… upholding his Powe●… and Prerogative which is suggested to be invaded and endangered by the Puritans there is now very much concer●…ed in the due ordering of the affaires of Great Brittain a●…d Ireland And whereas the Irish Catholikes have given so good t●…stimony of their approved zeal and cruelty in massacring near two hundred thousand Hereticks