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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A90362	The Jesuits grand design upon England, clearly discovered in a letter lately written from a father of that society.	Peirce, Edmund, Sir, d. 1667.; J. M.	1660 (1660)	Wing P1063; Thomason E1019_16; ESTC R208327	7,068	8

matter being made use of by some persons of quality and ability who being discontented upon private occasions or else thinking they had no preferments answerable to their merits and many things too long to relate then conspiring together and driving affaires to that exigence that it was not in the power of the wisest to prevent did in some short time which your years might then begin to take notice of quite confound that which as I said before was so dreadfull to us For now the English Church which before was so much the object of our fear was onely fit for our contempt and scorn whilst we saw nothing but confusion such infinite divisions and so many frantick Sectaries still swarming and countenanced so that we could not possibly expect any the least inconvenience from thence Nay we could not in all prudence but in a little time suppose those strange distractions would afford some potent Prince of our Religion an opportunity to get considerable footing in that Nation Or else that some usurper who not altogether relying upon the inconstant and dangerous support of an Army might strike in with the Pope and strengthen himself with his and all our Interests A thing to my knowledge that hath not been altogether unattempted by you know who in either of which cases our ends had in some good measure been accomplished But it seems the Generality of the Nation are made by all these strange vicissitudes of misery that they have of late run through so fully to understand their condition that they do with their utmost vigour endeavour the freeing themselves from that force and Tyranny under which they have so long groaned in order to the obtaining a firm composure of things and re-setling their Church which truly I am in much doubt they may possibly bring about and so frustrate our grand and chief design For although there be many strange kind of divisions amongst them yet the considerable wealthy and potent part of the Nation are for the most part but of two sorts that is to say the Royal Party and the Presbyterians between whom although we have used all the art that can be imagined to create an everlasting jealousie and enmity yet we have great cause to fear that they may possibly come to some good correspondence For the Presbyterians have been made sensible that they two being such considerable Parties neither of them are able to establish any thing like to last if either of them oppose And although the Presbyterians did at the beginning some things which many have thought to have been the cause of what after hapned yet 't is long since manifestly known that publick actings were by the prevalency of our correspondents then mixed amongst them whom I suppose you know carryed a great deal further then their intentions which at the first no doubt were somewhat moderate although they were still surprized and hurried on by that party from one thing to another as the urgency of affairs required and in order at length to their own preservation And that they did much endeavour the composure of things and were in the midst of such endeavours when the Army acted those high exorbitancies quite contrary to their minds and to the amazement and grief of most of them None are ignorant as also that many of them thereupon and sundry others by the since loyall endeavours of that party were made fellow sufferers with the Royalists And for the matter of Religion the difference is not so great as some animosities of the parties have made them They agreeing in most substantials And their Divines on both sides being men of Learning and Reason heates layd aside and both parties moderated by the experience of so much affliction some healing temper perhaps not yet thought on may probably be found out That they can have no reason to believe the King should bear them the least regret seeing the premises are not onely notorious but also many of them that were once eminently active against him and his Father are now become his greatest confidents And if his mild and gentle nature were not so manifestly known to be unapt to harbour thoughts of revenge Yet his affairs being in such a condition as they are he cannot be supposed in any prudence to disoblige so potent a party but rather that it must needs be many years before he can bring the Nation to that firmness of settlement that he may with any safety exasperate or slight the most inconsiderable faction And that the Royal Party likewise would be so far from having any memory of things past that if they might but once come to that free condition that the other subjects of the Nation are in without any more fear of confinement imprisonment or mulcts peculiar to them and restored to a capacity of bearing some share equally with others in the Government that they would think themselves in a happy condition without raveling into former businesses of any kind the forgetting whereof on all hands being most absolutely necessary to a future peace These considerations as I have lately heard from a credible hand have made such an impression upon the Presbyterians that I doubt there is no little cause to fear that all our practises to hinder the aforesaid reconciliation will prove ineffectual our utmost endeavour however must not yet be omitted and somewhat was done lately to that purpose by good advice which I hope by this time is published as a Letter sent from Bruxels that affaire being put into such hands as 't is known will do it to the purpose And although we have also been in hopes that the Army joyning with these Sectaries who it seems have got a new name and are now called Phanatiques would strenuously endeavour to make some considerable new disturbance being instructed that if there should once happen to be a composure that they would absolutely be disbanded or at least remain in no power credit or countenance at all And many of their Officers having shares in the Kings and Bishops Lands cannot but think that in such case they must needs lose them yet I have heard likewise that they have been much quieted and appeased by some who have made them understand their present true and best interest And have represented to them that although in the conclusion of that sharp warre wherein all the active spirits of the Nation were almost destroyed the whole Kingdom in a consternation with their great success which was indeed as much to be attributed to the disorders and negligence of the other party as their own valour and conduct Their Body likewise then far more considerable for number then now they are and for some years quartered together and thereby with the extraordinary politique endeavours and practises of as able an head as any this latter age afforded made all of one mind They made a shift to carry on a design and bear it very high for a while yet that which all sober and