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A58991	The second part of The amours of Messalina, late Queen of Albion wherein the secret court intrigues of the four last years reign are further pursued, particularly the imposture of the child / by a woman of quality ...	Woman of quality, fl. 1689-1690.; Leti, Gregorio, 1630-1701.	1689 (1689)	Wing S2299; ESTC R38613	14,173	38

make a full Harvest of these Hot-headed Christians as they boast themselves and at once root out these obstinate Disturbers of our Peac The Queen who was naturally of a malicious sullen Temper and who was not ignorant how stubborn and averse the Albionites were to her Interest had heard Poliorchetes speak with a bundance of satisfaction but being willing to hear what the rest would propose giving thanks to the Chancellour she expected with impatience their Thoughts and Opinions When Pedro rising up said he could not but Applaud the Zeal and Opinion of Poliorchetes and wish'd that his design could be as easily executed as propos'd that his aversion and malice to the Christians of Albion had inspir'd him with such desires of Revenge that with Nero he wish'd they had all but one Neck and that he among his Fraternity did not doubt to find thousands that would strive to be their Executioner but that to his sorrow he fear'd the Chancellours project however well design'd would not be feasible for besides the Alarm that Forreign Auxiliaries would raise throughout the Kingdom the natural antipathy that the Albionites had both to the Gauls and Iberians was such that they would incontinently rise to Repel and Destroy them and that if those Forreigners should fail in their Attempt the reproach of the design would be wholly thrown on Lycogenes and his Court and that it would beget so implacable a malice in the Heart of the Albionites who were most of them Christians that he might justly fear a general revolt and thereby the total ruine of the Pagan Interest in Albion for ever his opinion therefore was that they should rather ensnare and delude them and so at advantage cut them off and destroy them t is known said he how wonderfully our fraternity have promoted the Mahometan Interest by their subtile and secret Plots and Contrivances have not we by fomenting and raising Divisions between the Regular and Dissenting Christians in Albion more weakened the strength of the pretended Reformado's than ever Polydorus by his Dragoons or Contributions Albion with submission to the Chancellor is not by publick Hostility to be forc'd they are valiant in their Natures and stubborn in their Principles and though the hopeful Doctrine of Passive Obedience and sweet Non-resistence has been useful unto us and lull'd them for a while yet it may be dangerous to raise those sleeping Lions within them lest we too late repent our over-fond Credulity and to our sorrow feel the effects of their resentments set your Policies on work if you wish to prevail and if you must strike let it be in the dark we all of us know we are sick and out of order but few of us consider the root and cause of our distemper all disinteressed persons would think at first view that we were now in a hopeful way of thriving we have a King not only a Pagan and our Friend but zealous and resolv'd to go through with his work but alas is resolution sufficient without means T is true by his power he can secure us for a while but what will that signifie to a lasting satisfaction How do our Enemies wait and gape for his death And with the hopes of revenge after his dissolution they patiently submit to their present Impositions we know the main Pillars whereon they all lean Anaximander and Artemisia are their delight and their hope the Princess Philadelphia waits too in reversion and from these three do spring all our fears and misfortunes and I and my Brethren bear the Title of our great Prophet and suffer his Cause to be shaken by the weak intercession of three single Lives Oh Holy Loyola our first Holy Patron and Foander how would thy mighty Spirit fret and and grieve within thee shouldst thou see the degenerate baseness of thy unworthy Followers Where are the Records of all our Glorious Heros that have trod on the Necks of Emperors and pierc'd the Hearts of Kings to propagate and vindicate our Holy Religion can we forget Borgia Clement Ravilliac and others who have freely Sacrific'd themselves for their Religion and for reasons less considerable than ours and can we tamely remit all our present Advantages and be bafled of our future hopes by the weak puny opposition of three petty pretenders ' No no continued he let us lay hold on the present opportunity and at once finish our long wish'd for deliverance These three must fall a Sacrifice to our Prophet and from the removal of that cause will all our other Apprehensions cease Father Pedro had always bore such reputation with Lycogenes and Messalina that they look'd on his Counsels little inferiour to Oracles and though the execution of them had always prov'd prejudicial through their great violence to the Pagan Interest yet they could not but value the sincerity of his meaning and always applauded his wise apprehensions they knew his proposals in this Zealous Oration were very consonant to reason and agreeable to their true interest but knowing that the Eyes of all Europe were upon these three Princes and that the least baseness and imposition upon them would engage all Christendom in their quarrel they could not so readily conclude or resolve upon any violence against their persons besides Pedro in a small Apology afterwards insinuated to the Company the inconvenience of letting the King know any thing of this Project if happily they should all agree upon it For said he though I know Lycogenes 's Zeal would make him overlook a thousand difficulties yet nature and conscience could not with any decency or reason be suppos'd capable of being so wholly obliterated as to consent to any barbarity upon the persons of his own children but again what may prove a sufficient ground of scruple in him may at the same time leave us free and disinteressed from every thing and person that stands in opposition to our designs The Company however upon the Considerations aforesaid were very unwilling to engage in Pedro's Resolutions or Proposals and incontinently desir'd the Marchioness de Tomazo to give her opinion of this grand Affair The Marchioness who had been a Woman of Amour most of her time and who now though Age had ungenerously depriv'd her of the power to please was very fond and Ambitious of being thought a Woman of Intrigue had heard the violent Counsels and Proposals of the Chancellor and Father Pedro with a great deal of impatience and displeasure she could not digest those rough and hard terms of cutting of Throats Poysoning or Assassinations she had been always us'd to Amorous Sighs Billet deux and Assignations therefore rising and making her Compliment to Messalina and giving a hard look on Poliorchetes and Pedro she thus began 'T is not without the greatest regret imaginable that I find my self obliged to contradict persons whose known wisdom and experience in the world may with reason claim an entire submission of judgment from me and though the command and service of

Marchioness de Tomazo Aspasia and Pedro have laid down there remains therefore no more but that you immediately consult of the manner and method of bringing it on and from time to time to communicate your advice to us I advise and think fit that Boanerges the High Priest our most Holy Kinsman have timely notice of your proceedings as also Polydorus our Royal Friend and Ally that they may take care to order Affairs in Forreign Parts so as that we may have the universal assistance of all our Friends to promote a Project so highly advantageous to all their Interests This gracious Speech and Condescention was received with unspeakable joy by the Counsel and Father Pedro stepping to the Door gave orders for private Thanksgiving throughout all the Mosques in Albion as also for Processions Feasts and other expressions of joy and having again seated himself they immediately fall close to the point The first business they resolve on is That being five in number viz. the Count Pedro Polyorchetes the Chancellor the Marchioness de Tomazo and Aspasia they severally have several Employments and Offices assigned them for the more effectual and speedy accomplishment of their business The Count who by his Office and Interest with Boanerges could claim a Domination over the Pagan Priests was to summon a Convocation and to give them instructions how to disperse the News of her Conception and to insinuate as if by Divine Inspiration they knew it would be a Prince as also to quash any Objections or Doubts concerning it and to make remarks of the persons Father Pedro was to be made one of the Privy-Council and as he was one of the chief Contrivers at first so now he was to enliven and confirm the report of the Queens Conception at the publick Board and to represent it with all the seeming Candour imaginable he was to silence all Disputes and Contests that might happily arise upon it and to make motions to the Board to give such order concerning her Majesty and the Child as should gain a General Approbation and belief throughout the Kingdom and though there arose a Controversie whether it were not fitter for some other Pagan Lords of Albion to espouse this part yet they soon concluded on the ability of Pedro who was better qualify'd to represent it in handsom Colours and consequently would go down the glibber and pass secure with the people seeing they had so good Vouchers as Privy-Councellors The Chancellor being a Man of an hardned Constitution was appointed to wait with diligence against the time of the pretended Birth and by a positive Asseveration if any suspicion should arise as in all Cheats probably may happen he was to maintain the Rem in Re which from so grave a person as the chief Judge of Conscience would surely be believ'd and as readily assented to as the words of an Oracle Aspasia being concern'd so near Messalina as Lady of the Bed-Chamber c. She was to Caress the Ladys with the joyful News of the Queens Conception and from time to time insinuate passages belonging to Child-bearing to give an account of the growth of the Burthen and to make the thing feasible she was to carry on a suspicion or fear of a Miscarriage and it being once granted that she could possibly Miscarry included the belief that she was really Teeming And now there was none but the Marchioness remaining who being a Woman as is before said of a quick Judgment in Intrigues and who knew well how to manage an Imposture of that nature it was laid upon her with Secrecy and Assurance to procure two or three young wholsome Women whose time of Delivery should critically agree with the Queen's time allotted and set down by this Councel the Marchioness was not dissatisfied with the Task though she could not but be sensible it requir'd depth of Judgment a great deal of discreet Enquiry and continual Care to manage them to a Hairs breadth lest any unlucky accident might spoil the whole Intregue but upon a little consideration she remembred she had heard an Inkling of a young Kinswoman of her own how that through weakness she had been forc'd to surrender her Virginity to the Assaults of a young Spark who had since forsaken her and had withal lest her a sure pledg of his Love and Vigour so that being so well encouraged at first she readily submits to the Commands of the Board and engages upon Honour to answer their Expectation and now the generals being concluded on and appointed they disperse and forthwith apply themselves to their several Employments and as a Prologue to their intended Villany they give out among their own Party at least the necessity of Unity in their Prayers to their Saints and the Deity to send their Majesty's an Heir to succeed him in his Throne and Dominions and to settle their Holy Religion in this Heretical Land they cause Processions and Pilgrimages Offerings and Supplications to be made first to the great Saint at Loretto then to St. Winifred and they cause Messalina to repair to several Waters that are famous Antidotes against Barrenness thô at the same time they did not consider that the People look'd upon it very awkard and strange that the Queen had never found out this way of preparing for Child-bearing before but such are the practices of the Pagan Religion that the greatest Villanies and Rogueries they intend to commit are still preceded and usher'd in with great appearances of Sanctity and now all things being in a readiness the Queen declares her self publickly to be with Child and Orders were given for publick Thanksgiving throughout the Isles and in other Forreign parts Rejoycings and Feastings were made by the Kings Residents and Ambassadors especially in Rome and Gaule as if it were not enough to impose so great a Villiany on the whole Kingdom without enforcing them to prevaricate with the Deity in their Prayers and to make Petitions for that which really was not but notwithstanding all the Contrivance and Advice to carry on this Intrigue the People especially the Christian Nobles and Gentry of Albion were mightily surprised with so improbable an Accident though by reason of an Indisposition which Messalina for some while before lay under the Kings weakness and other circumstances they could not readily free themselves from a suspicion of Treachery yet they resolv'd to bear themselves with all moderation and to have a diligent Eye upon Messalina and all about her the first real occasion of dislike was that the Queen did not treat the Christian Ladies of Albion especially the Princess Philadelpha with that freedom as the joy and pride of so great a happiness if real would naturally have prompted her to for she would resent it highly if she could but observe any of the Christians making the least observations of her Breasts Belly her Look or any other Symptome by which Women in that Condition are easily distinguished another great reason was that