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A25712	An Appeal to all Protestant kings, princes, and states, concerning the apparent danger of the Protestant religion, and the great decay of its interest in Europe with a most awakening account of the unjust and cruel methods for the destruction thereof, that are practiced in several countries.		1700 (1700)	Wing A3567; ESTC R8897	21,558	40

and that to be accus'd was to be sure to be condemn'd saved themselves by flight into other Countries They next fell upon Persecuting the Protestant Ministers and in several places seiz'd the Churches and Schools into their hands and by their intolerable proceedings soon shew'd that the Inquiry was really not who were Rebels but who were Protestants The Numbers of those that fled were so great the Persecutions and Confiscations of all they had in their hands were so intolerable and the Insolence and Exactions and Outrages of the German Soldiers so barbarous that the people were so inrag'd at last as to take up Arms to assert their Lawful Liberties against those German Soldiers that were brought into their Nation contrary to the Laws of it And though the Teuth part of the Protestants neither consented to nor joyn'd in these Tumult yet they must all equally be made the mark of their cruel Persecutors The Archbishop of Strigonium Lord Lieutenant of Hungary in 1673 cites some of the Protestant Ministers and School-masters to appear at Presburg in September and in March after almost all the rest of them in the Kingdom to answer such things as were to be laid to their charge They were accus'd of conspiring with the Rebels and knowing their Innocence and that they might publickly before God and the World wipe off so foul an aspersion they appear'd according to their Citations But when they appear'd instead of being legally proceeded against this Arch-bishop with the Bishop of Newstad and some Temporal Lords required of them 1. That they should lay down their Ecclesiastical Employments and ingage never to resume them again Or 2dly Depart the Kingdom never to return again nor Preach or Teach therein upon pain of Death and loss of Estates Or 3dly Embrace the Popish Religion denying and forswearing the Protestant Some of those cited the Year 1673. were surpriz'd of frighted into a consent to relinquish their Ministry or to go into Exile but the whole of those cited in 1674. unaimously refus'd judging such a compliance as the Author of the Brief Narrative of the State of the Protestants in Hungary c. printed with allowance at London 1677. well expresses it not onely as contrary to Gods Will in his Word and against their Consciences but also a betraying the Cause of God his Church and people together with their established Laws and Liberties Upon this the Fiscal put in a plea against them charging them with calling their King an Idolater Preaching against the blessed Virgin Mary and stirring up the people to Rebellion and assisting the Rebels But this Method failing also the Fiscal not being able to produce so much as one Person of Integrity against them they next tryed to bring them by Threats and Promises to sign the three Propositions and when these also fail'd to work upon them they then pronounced Sentence against the Protestant Ministers the 4th of April and against the School-masters the 7th 1674. That they should lose their Lives and Estates A Barbarous sentence this when no Proof had been made against them But where will Popish Cruelty stop when a Protestant is thus unhappily in its Power A few subscrib'd to quit their Functions and the rest were hurried into several Prisons Ninety Two of them were cast into most loathsome and stinking Prisons their Legs fetter'd with Turkish Chains and driven daily to the hardest labours and filthiest Employments cleansing Ditches emptying Jakes's and the like for almost a Year and fed in the mean time with course Bread and Water only deny'd the converse of Friends or any others and none permitted to shew any Charity to them And as if all these Barbarities were not enough they were sometime drag'd by the Hair sometimes driven with Pikes and Musquets to the Popish Mass and when they would not kneel there were beaten and wounded by the Soldiers being forbid all Praying and Singing of Psalms and disturbed by the Soldiers howling like Dogs when they did Nor did their Miseries how great soever end here Forty One of them were sent by the Emperor to serve the King of Spain as Soldiers in Italy in March 1675. who in a terrible Journey of Seven weeks were driven chain'd and fetter'd through Moravia Austria Stiria Carntola Istria and Italy to Naples and endur'd the most Barbarous usage that Brutality and Popery could inflict Two dyed in the way at Triesta in Istria they were robb'd of that little they had left stript of their Cloaths and their Beards cut off and there press'd to serve the Emperor in his Wars which they refusing were most Cruelly beaten at Thiatin Six more were left in Prison unable to Travel further their Chains having eaten into their legs whereof Four soon dy'd The rest were sold at Naples for about Fifty Crowns a head to serve as Slaves in the Gally's where they were put their Hair being cut off Two or Three in a Gally enduring all the Miseries of that Condition and place which is the nearest resemblance to Hell that this World can afford Five more soon dy'd in the Gallies of their cruel and barbarous usages and when they were releas'd after Ten Months Slavery in the Gally's by the Christian and Generous Charity of the Dutch Admiral De Ruyter in 1676 only Twenty Six were left alive Of which Eight were brought into England and did furnis us with this account of their dreadful Persecutions This Usage of the Hungarian Protestants is such a Specime of the cruel Spirit of Popery as can need no words to aggravate it And after such a Havock of their chief Men and of their Ministers one must expect a lamentable account of the State of the Protestant Religion in Hungary which was in the beginning of this Emperors Reign in such a flourishing Condition there The Wars of Hungary gave the Protestants some respite from their Perfecutions and the success of the Turkish Arms against the Emperor in Hungary deliver'd them quite from them But in this last War as success turn'd to the Emperors side the Persecutions of the Protestants began again who find by dear experience that Papists can be more cruel and perfidious than Mahometans themselves A Person of Note who was in Hungary in April 1690. Assures us that had the Emperor continued uncontroul'd Master of Hungary most certainly all the poor Protestant Churches there had been destroyed Several of their Ministers declaring to him that they liv'd much more easily under the Turks than under the Germans and that in manifest violation of Treaties and Faith given the Popish Bishops and Priests daily depriv'd them of their Churches and oppresse them and that their Poverty was unspeakable We will add a part of the Letter which the Bishop of Quinque Ecclesiae then had written to the Protestants of his Diocess which will tell us as well as a Thousand Expresses could what is the present case of the Protestants in Hungary Persuadete vobismet ipsis si quotidie 25 Cumulos

grow never the Wiser nor consider how soon this may be their own Case Nay they will scarce so open their Eyes as to take notice of those very Arts that are using against themselves by which others have been destroyed And now to Awaken all if possible out of this Lethargy we will as briefly as may be give an Account of what they of the Church of Rome have done in other Countries for the Ruining of the Protestant Religion and Interest and perhaps afterwards of what they are now doing against our own Church To give Instances of their Cruelties and Plicies and of their Success against the Protestant Interest in the several parts of Europe is as easie as it is a Melancholy Task As for those beginnings of a Reformation which were entertain'd and which spread not a little in ITALY and SPAIN the Inquisition was let loose upon them and that bloudy and barbarous Tribunal soon extinguish'd them In BOHEMIA the Reformation was reciv'd with so much readiness BOHEMIA that in a short time the Protestant Religion became almost the Religion of the Countrey Bohemia indeed was ready for it having struggl'd for some Ages before against the Usurpations of the Church of Rome and been prepar'd not onely by the Doctrine but by the Sufferings of their two Countreymen John Huss and Jerome of Prague who had been burnt for their Religion by the Popish Council at Constance expresly contrary to the Faith given them by the Emperor Sigismund This flourishing of the Protestant Religion in Bohemia was a mighty Eye-sore to the Church of Rome and the Ruin of it was their great aim and that which one might have hop'd to have been the Eternal Establishment of it there became the fatal opportunity of the Ruin of it viz. the Election of a Protestant Prince from Germany to be their King To understand how this became the Ruin of the Protestant Interest in Bohemia it will be necessary to look a little into their sad History That Kingdom hd been by their Constitution for many Ages Elective as that great Statesman who had been so often Embassador abroad and to Vienna it self Sir Thomas Roe has demonstrated in a Book of his call'd Regnum Bohemiae Electivum The Emperors of Germany had among others been sometimes elected their King by the States of the Countrey but when the Austrian Family became greater and had Three of them Ferdinand Maximilian and Rodolphus successively chosen Kings of Bohemia they had a mind to joyn it to their other Dominions by making it Hereditary In order to this Matthias who had himself been nominated upon the surrender of the Emperour Rodolphus with the Consent of the States of the Countrey declares his adopted Son Ferdinand Successor to the Crown of Bohemia without any Election from the States at all This the States of that Kingdom looking upon as a manifest infraction and subversion of the Liberties of their Nation They reject Ferdinand as their States had formerly done to Vladislaus 3d. for the same reasons and Elect Frederick 5th Count Palatine of the Rhine a Protestant Prince to be their King This Act of the States is immediately call'd Rebellion and the whole Popish Party catch at this opportunity not onely of being reveng'd on the new King and his Party but of Extirpating the Protestant Religion out of Bohemia upon it Popery Flyes to its best Argument that of Arms. Ferdinand that bitter Enemy of the Protestant Religion puts the new King under the Imperial Ban raises a too potent Army against him and discomifits him at the Battle of Prague Thus Success puts an end to the New King's Power ruines all his Friends and the Protestant Religion in Bohemia and I cannot but say it 's the greatest blot upon the Memory of all the Protestant Princes of that time but especially of King James the First of England He having been so shamefully wanting to so just a Cause and to his own Son in Law in it Thus fatal was this War to the Protestant Interest in Bohemia and to convince the World what Regard Popery has to Rights and Laws the Protestant Religion and the Civil Rights and Liberties of that Countrey were ruin'd together and both buried in the same Grave The Jesuits who had before been expell'd out of that Kingdom for their wicked Pranks the great Governours of that Emperor Ferdinand have reason to triumph in that success against the Protestant Interest since it not only ruin'd the Protestant Religion but restor'd them there and gave them for their pains in it such a share of the forfeited Estates of the Exil'd Barons and Protestants as is almost incredible They that self-denying Order which minds nothing but the Glory of God possessing more Lands and Lordships in Bohemia than the Duke of Tuscany does in Italy They began with Bohemia where the Protestant Religion is quite destroy'd and this success encourag'd them to persecute the same Religion in HVNGARY where it is almost in the same condition The Reformation was so well receiv'd in Hungary HUNGARY and so well settled there in the Year 1567 that there were ten Protestants to one Papist before their late Persecutions and at least 2500 Protestant Churches in that Kingdom The Free exercise of it was establisht by their Laws and their Kings sworn in their Coronation Oaths to maintain and preserve the same but what Laws or Oaths signifie against the persecuting and bloudy Principles of Popery the present State of the Reform'd Religion there will plainly tell us It looks like madness to attack a Religion when it is become the Religion of the Countrey when it has the establishment of the Laws and of the Constitution but the Popish Clergy were resolv'd to leave no way untry'd to ruin the Protestant Religion in Hungary for all that They onely want a tolerable pretext to begin their persecutions of them and such an one they thought they had got in the Year 1670. There was an Insurrection that year in Hungary the Heads whereof Serini Nadasti Frangipani the two Barkoksys c. were known and profest Papists and though it was about matters purely Civil and nothing relating either to the one Religion or the other yet this opportunity was laid hold on by the Jesuits and others the Protestants are accus'd vehemently as being guilty or at least complices in it and assoon as the Emperor had upon this Insurrection Garrison'd all the strong places of the Kingdom with his Popish German Soldiers which was contrary to the Laws and Liberties of their Countrey it was thought high time to begin their Persecution of the Protestants there They began with the chief Patrons of the Protestants that were of the Nobility and afterwards with the Generality of the Gentry and Citizens imprisoning the Persons of such as did not fly and confiscating their Estates as guilty of Rebellion which they prov'd themselves altogether innocent of The rest of the Principal Protestants seeing that Innocence was no Protection