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A52246	Foxes and firebrands, or, A specimen of the danger and harmony of popery and separation wherein is proved from undeniable matter of fact and reason that separation from the Church of England is, in the judgment of papists, and by sad experience, found the most compendious way to introduce popery and to ruine the Protestant religion.	Nalson, John, 1638?-1686.; Ware, Robert, d. 1696. Foxes and firebrands. Part 2.	1682 (1682)	Wing N104; ESTC R7745	85,255	246

his life the Chirurgion said so It is impossible he replied I had the force of forty men assisted by him that guided my hand And being interrogated to several questions he made these answers That he was named John Felton heretofore Lieutenant to a Foot-Company under Sir James Ramsey That he had endeavoured for a Commission to be Captain in this Expedition and failed therein but without any regret upon the Duke from whom he had found respect nor for any private interest whatsoever that the late Remonstrance of Parliament published the Duke so odious that he appeared to him deserving death which no Justice durst execute That it was not many days since he resolved to kill him but finding the Duke so closely attended that it should be his business to pass a Voluntier and do it in this Voyage Somewhat he said of a Sermon at St. Faiths Church under Pauls where the Preacher spake in justification of every man in a good cause to be Judge and Executioner of Sin which he interpreted to be him That passing out at the Postern-Gate upon Tower-Hill he espied that fatal Knife in a Cutlers Glass-case which he bought for sixteen pence It was the point end of a tuff Blade stuck into a cross Haft the whole length handle and all not twelve inches fastned to his right pocket and from that time he resolved therewith to stab him That some days after he followed the Train to Portsmouth and coming by a Cross erected in the High-way he sharpned the point thereof upon the Stone believing it more proper in Justice to advantage his design than for the Idolatrous intent it was first erected That he found continual trouble and disquiet in mind until he should perform this Fact and came to Town but that morning That no Soul living was accessary with him by any ways or means of the Dukes execution That he was assured his Fact was justified and he the Redeemer of the peoples sufferings under the power of the Dukes Usurpations c. And his Paper tackt in the Crown of his Hat seemed to satisfie his Conscience that he was thereof well pleased This unhappy Murther caused great distractions especially in State-affairs so that the House of Parliament and his Majesty differed very much in setling the Customs and other matters which in conclusion was the chief Instrument or cause of this Parliaments dissolution Anno 1652. There chanced to come unto Collonel Richard Lawrence then Governour of Waterford under Oliver Cromwell one Nugent who seemed to be a fair conditioned man and so was hired by the Collonel to work in his Garden but knowing the Collonels temper and Principles in Religion he strove to please him all he could not missing Prayers in the Family or Meetings when-ever appointed Thus he continued with the Collonel for several years At last it chanced that Justice John Cook who was executed for the late Kings Murder took a great liking to this Nugent and begged of the Collonel for to let him go over with him into England which the Collonel easily granted to oblige Justice Cooke Nugent staying for a while with Justice Cooke returned into Ireland and came to his old Master Collonel Lawrence where he remained for a while and upon the Kings happy Restauration this Nugent became the Popish Confessor and Priest at Leislepp some 6 or 7 miles distant from Dublin and hath seen the Collonel several times since and laughs at him to this day when he sees him considering how he had plaid the Dissembler with him as if he had been one of the Collonels Fraternity which is of the Anabaptists Thus it is evident how Dissenters have been mightily gull'd since the years 1640 and 1641. especially by the Church of Rome purposely to make Separation in the Church of England This the Collonel himself cannot deny for he told the Author this Story on the 28th day of March 1682. besides to others yet living in the City of Dublin who can testifie this Narrative for a truth Hitherto we have shewed how the Papists have acted under the disguised habits of Presbyterians and Independants with a design to ruine the Church of England It will not be now unseasonable to shew further how they have assembled themselves among the Quakers and Preached in their Meeting-Houses with a design of inlarging and continuing the divisions of Protestants To which purpose I shall subjoin a passage out of a small Pamphlet published by Mr. Prynne called The Quakers unmasked Which runs thus The Information of George Cowlishaw of the City of Bristol aforesaid Ironmonger taken the 22th day of January 1654. WHo informeth on his Oath that in the Month of September ber last this Informant had some discourse in Bristol with one Coppinger an Irish-man formerly a Schoolfellow of his that came purposely thither for his passage into Ireland who told this Informant that he he had lived in Rome and Italy eight or nine years and had taken upon him the Order of a Friar of the Franciscan Company And he told this Informant that he had been at London lately for some months and whilest he was there he had been at all the Churches and Meetings publick and private that he could hear of and that none came so near him as the Quakers And being at a Meeting of the Quakers he there met with two of his acquaintance in Rome the which two persons were of the same Franciscan Order and Company that were now become chief Speakers amongst the Quakers and he himself had spoke among the Quakers in London about thirty times and was well approved of amongst them And this Informant further saith that the said Mr. Coppinger asked him what kinds of opinions in Religion there were in Bristol And this Informant told him that there were several opinions and judgments and not naming any opinions of the Quakers the said Mr. Coppinger asked him whether there had been any Quakers in Bristol And the Informant answered him No. Whereupon the said Mr. Coppinger told him the said Informant two or three times that if he did love his Religion and his Soul he should not hear them Whereupon this Informant told him that he thought none of them would come to Bristol Who expresly replied that if this Informant would give him five Pounds he would make it five hundred Pounds if some Quakers did not come to Bristol within three weeks or a month then following And on the morrow following the said Coppinger departed this City for Ireland his native place and about eighteen days after there came to this City Most likely his two fellow Franciscan Friars fore-mentioned who have there done much hurt and gained many disciples some whereof disturbed two of the Ministers publickly in the Church and assaulted and reviled one of them in the Streets very lately two persons that bear the name of Quakers This is a true Copy of the original Information taken upon Oath at Bristol as aforesaid the 22th of January last From