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A35246	The Secret history of the four last monarchs of Great-Britain, viz. James I, Charles I, Charles II, James II to which is added an appendix containing the later reign of James the Second, from the time of his abdication of England, to this present Novemb. 1693 : being an account of his transactions in Ireland and France, with a more particular respect to the inhabitants of Great-Britain.	R. B., 1632?-1725?	1693 (1693)	Wing C7347; ESTC R31345	102,037	180

2000 l. and the Guineas flew about the Country far and near to the Corporations to Hire Places and get fit Men the Heads of the Counties and Corporations were sent for and told what Men would be serviceable and acceptable to the King● and particularly the Gentlemen of E●sex were sent to by the Chief Justice Scroggs and Cau●ions that they should not chuse Mildmay whatever they did And new Charters were obtained for some Corporations with new Priviledges and sent them down to be hung out at the Windows to animate the People to chuse such Men as they were directed What more could have been done by a Protestant Prince to destroy his Protestant Subjects and advance the Roman Catholick Cause When this Parliament Sate the King pursued his old Method of Speaking with his Lips what was farthest from his Heart and being in the House of Lords he there tells Both Houses a plausible Story how he had consented to the Exclusion of the Popish Lords from their Seats in Parliament to the Execution of several Criminals both upon the Score of the Plo● and the Murder of Sir Edmundbury Godfrey but above all how he had Commanded his Brother to absent himself from him because he would not leave the most Malicious Men room to say he had not removed all Causes which could be pretended to Influence him to Popish Counsels In all which there was not one word of Truth as to the Motives that engaged him to do what he did For as to the Exclusion of the Popish Lords he knew it was what he could not avoid unless he would have absolutely thrown off his Protestant Mask which he was sensible it was not seasonable for him so to do As for the Jesuits that were Hanged for the Plot he pleased himself as well as the People by Sacrificing a few Inconsiderable Miscreants to his own Revenge for ungrate●ully Plotting against his Life who had all along been so faithful to their Cause and indeed it was but ●ust they should dye like Knaves and Traytors who ●ad been such Fools to mistrust so true a Protestant Prince As to the Murther of Sir Edmundbury Godfrey what could he have done less except he would have expos●d himself to the Clamour of the whole Nation That would have been the greatest Folly in the World for a Prince that loved to Sleep in a whole Skin as he did for the Preservation of Three or Four Rascals Convicted of a Bloody Murther to have Sacrificed His Honour and His Safety to Publick●Scandal and Resentment And then as for the Removal of his dear Brother it was done after a long and deep Consultation upon these Considerations First That the Duke being out of the way might stop the ●arther Examination of the Plot in Relation to himself and thereby one of the chi●f Conspirators be preserved safe And Secondly For a shew that the King was such an Enemy to Popery and Popish Counsels that he would not suffer so much as the Breath of a Brother near him for fear o● Infection For in these Gracious Protestant Acts lay all his hopes of making the Parliament give Credit to his Words and getting Money from them at a time when the French King most Treacherously failed him Notwithstanding these things the Parliament not being to be deluded by all those seeming Acts of Protestant Grace took little notice of those G●●dy Trappings of the Kings Discourse but fell briskly to work upon the Plot and the Murther of Sir Edmundbury Godfrey ● to which purpose they made choice of a Secret Committee to pursue that Business and laid all other Considerations aside but those of securing the Nation against Popery and Arbitrary Government in order whereunto they began to think of bringing the Lords and others in the Tower to their Tryals And upon a Report of their Committee of the Duke of York's Letters wherein it appeared what great Joy had been conceived at Rome for the Dukes Conversion even to draw Tears from his Holynesses Eyes with several other Papers discovering much of the Court Intreague with Rome They Voted the Hopes of his coming to the Crown to be one of the chief Causes of the Popish Plot and ordered a Bill to disinable him to Inherit the Imperial Crown of the Realm These Proceedings were of so high a Nature and so directly tending to the overthrow of that Structure which the King and the Duke had been so long erecting that it was thought requisite to Treat them wi●h all the Art and Subtilty imaginable which produced Two of the greatest Master pieces that ever were acted by the Conspirators ever since their first designing Popery and French Tyranny The first was To blind and couzen the House of Commons by seeming to shew an utter dislike of all former Councils that had brought the Nation to the Condition it was in In pursuance of which the old Council was Dissolved and the greatast Sticklers against the Plot and for the Protestant Religion chosen in their room to the end that if any Miscarriages happened they might be all laid to their Charge or th●t Miscarriages might receive a more Candid Interpretation as being done by such good Men against whose Fidelity the Nation had no exception The next Device was To turn the whole Plot and the Odium of it upon the Protestants under the Notion of Presbyterian and Phanaticks which is so well known needs no repeating But in the midst of th●se Court Intrigues to run down the Plot the House of Commons went on vigorously bo●● against the Plot and Popish Delinquents which grated so hard upon the Popish Party and was such an Obstruction to their Designs That the King compassionating their Grievances more than those of his Protestant Subje As give way to the Dissolution of the Parliament yet with promise of another to meet towards the latter end of the Year under pretence of frequent Parliaments but in reality to try if he could get another fitter for his turn Ane now the King having laid aside the Parliament and freed his Instruments ●rom the Terror of it was so far from not permitting himself to be influenced by Popish Counsellors that he began to play the Old Game and first of all the popular Protestant Lords of the Council were by degrees decently laid aside and the Duke was sent for home The Lord Shaftsbury for opposing it was severely Reprimanded in Council with a Wonder How any Person that sate at that Board durst so bolply affront his Royol Highness For the Face of Affairs was changed and the King was now swimming in his own Element again Only it was strange that he was no more concerned to see the strain of the whole Kingdom run against him For notwithstanding all his Industry to have brought in his Band of Pensioners again it was found the new Chosen Parliament which was by this tim● ready to Sir was likely to prove wo●se for his turn than any of the former which made him have recourse

us and Thanks to themselves then that some of our Countrey-Men Zealous of the Truth though differing from the Religiin which we have sucked from our Infancy should have an H●nourable Occasion of making their abode in the Court of Rome from whom your Holiness may be certainly insormed of the state of our Affairs In this regard We recommend to you the Bishop of Vazion who as he d●th impute whatsoever increase of his condition to your Holyness alone so We are earnest Suitors that for our sake especially the H●nour of the Cardinals Cap may be added to his former Advantages By this means the Calumny of our Enemies will cease when such are present with you who may be able to assert the truth of our doing We do not desire any of our Actions should be concealed from just Arbitrators for though We have been bred up in the Truth of that Religion which we now profess yet We have always determined That there is nothing better and safer than piously and without ostentation to endeavour the promoting of those things which really belong to the Glo●y of God's Name and laying aside the Goads of Envy and applying the warmth and fomentation of Charity diligently to consider what belongeth not to the empty Name of Religion but to the Holy Symbol of true Piety But because we have discoursed more at large of these things with the Bearer hereof a Man not Vnl●arned and indifferently well conversant in our Affairs We have thought best to be no more tedious by a long Letter From Holy Rood Septemb. 24. 1599. Your Holiness's Most Dutiful Son James Rex This Letter was conveyed by Edward Drummond the Lawyer whom the King sent to the Pope the Duke of Tuskany the Duke of Savoy and other Princes and Cardinals First You shall most respectively Salute in Our Nam● the Pope and those other Prin●es and Cardinals and having delivered our Letters of Credence shall signifie That we exceedingly desire to reserve with them the measure of Love and Good VVill which is fitting to remove not only all suspicion but any thing that may be the cause of suspicion That altho we persist in the Religion which we sucked from our I●fancy yet we are not so void of Charity but to think well of all Christians if so be they continue in their Duty first towards God and then towards the Magistrate whose S●bjects they are That we never exercised any Cruel●y against the Catholicks for their Religion And because it doth very much concern us that we may be able to assert the Truth by our Friends and Subjects with the same diligence that Slanderers Lye therefore you shall endeavour to the utmost to perswade the Pope a● well at our Entreaty as for the desire of th●se m●st illustrious Princes whom in our Letters we have solicited on our behalf to make the Bishop of Vazion Cardinal wherein if you be successful as so●n as we shall be certified thereof we will proceed further You must be cautious not to proceed any farther in this business● either with the Pope or th● most Illustrious Cardinals ●●less there be a certain hope of our wished event THE SECRET HISTORY OF King CHARLES I. THE Misfortunes of this Monarch Son to King Iames with the uncouth dismal and unexpressable Calamities that happened thereupon was in a great measure caused by the imprudent Commissions and voluntary Omissions of King Iames As it may justly be said He like Adam by bringing the Crown into so great a Necessity through profuse Prodigality became the Original of his Sons Fall who was in a manner compell'd to stretch out his Hands towards such Gatherings and Taxes as were contrary to Law by which He fell from the Paradice of a Prince to wit The Hearts of his People though th● best Politicians ex●ant might Miscarry in their Calculation of a Civil-War immediately to follow upon the Death of Queen Elizabeth in Vindication of the numerous Titles and Opinions then current Yet the Beggarly Rabble attending King Iames not only at his first coming out of Scotland but through his whole Reign like a fluent Spring found still c●ossing the River Tweed did so far justifie the former conjecture as it was only thought mistaken in relation to time The fi●st thing this King did after the performing his Father's Funeral Rights was the consummating the Marri●ge with● Henrietta Maria a Daughter of F●ance whom he had formerly seen in his Journey through that Countrey into Spain The King then call'd a Parliament who met the 11th of Iune following to whom he represented in a short Speech The urgent necessity of raising a Subsidy to ●a●ry on the VVar with Spain But the Parliament presented first their Two Petitions concerning Reas●ns of Religion and Complaint of their Suff●rings which points had been offered to his Father King Iames In both which they at present received Sati●faction Upon which the King obtained two Subsidies to be paid by Protestants and four by Papist Laiety and three from the Clergy On the 11th of Iuly 1629. the Parliament was Adjourned ●ill August the 1st when the King declared to them the necessity of setting for●h a Fleet for the Recovery of the Palatinate The Lord Treasurer ins●anced the several Sums of Money King Iames died Indebted to the City of London this occasioned very warm Debates in the House of Commons who alleadged That Evil Councils guided the King's Designs That the Treasury was misimployed That it would be necessary to Petition the King for Honester and Abler Council● Tha● it was not usual to grant Subsidies upon Su●sidies in one Parliament and no Grievances Redressed with many other of the like nature And being incensed against the Duke of Buckingham they began to think of divesting him ●f his Office and to require an account of the publick Money c. To prevent which● the King Dissolved the Parliament And now the King 's put upon taking up Money upon Loan of such Persons as were thought of Ability to Lend To whom Letters were Issued out in the King's Name to ex●ite them to it But this not answering the King Summons a Parliament to Si● Feb. 6. and being Me● they ●ell immediately ●pon Debate of the publick Grievances much the same as the former Then the House of Commons were very busie in searching the Signet Office for the Original of a Le●ter under the Signet written to the Mayor of York for Reprieving divers Priests and Jesuits This was Reported by Pim Chair-Man to the Committee for Religion but the King immediately demanded a supply for the English and Irish Forces This was highly resented by the Commons and several sharp Speeches were made in the House But notwi●h●●anding the Commons a● last Voted Three Subsidies and Three Fifteen● and the Bill shall be brought in as soon as the Grievances which were Represented were Redressed But the King observing they did not make the has●e he expect●d sends a sharp Message to them complains against their Grievances and