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A93674	Englands warning-peece or the history of the gun-powder treason: inlarged with some notable passages not heretofore published. Whereunto is annexed The Act of Parliament for publick thanksgiving upon the fifth day of November yearly. / By T.S.	Spencer, Thomas, fl. 1658.; England and Wales. Parliament.	1658 (1658)	Wing S4961; Thomason E2255_2; ESTC R210140	32,617	87

worship the Devil that did hold it lawful or rather meritorious to kill Prince or people for quarrel of Religion the Papists only excepted who do palliate and cover all their perfidious practises with the fair pretext of conscience and the good of the Catholick cause When did the Bishop of Rome who is commonly called the Pope ever call any of these Priests and Jesuites in question that fled hence into Italy who were Fomenters of this damnable Conspiracy much less punished them for it Whatsoever is done in favor of the Church of Rome must be accounted well done though never so ill done His Holiness so called by an antiphrase and his Parasites will command bloody Massacres will commend Treason and Rebellion Pope Innocent the third who lived in the time of our King John and was his great and troublesome Enemy decreed an immortal war against the poor Christians that went under the names of Valdenses or Albigeans charging them with all kindes of Heresies because they blamed and detested the Vices and Errors of the Pope and his Clergy Many Princes are commanded by the Pontifical Authority to arme against them and the Croisado is preached against them as against Infidels See the History of France pag. 125. 131. This was in the year of our Lord a thousand two hundred and ten Simon Earl of Montfort is chosen General of the Army who enters into Languedoc and there besieges Bezeirs with such cruel success as having taken it the blood flowed by the loss of threescore thousand persons And when preparation was made for a new search to root out the remainder of them Lewis the ninth of France commonly called St Lewis would not give allowance to any further proceeding against them within his Dominions saying that they must be perswaded by reason and not constrained by violence For piety is a duty of man unto God over which worldly force hath no power Pope Sixtus the fifth mnde a Panegyrick Oration in his consistory wherein he did praise and commend the Divelish Fryer an excrement of Hell See King James his Apol. pag. 67 pa. 75. that murthered King Henry the third of France by sheathing a knife in the bottom of his belly Cardinal Richard Allen an English Fugitive being honored by the Pope with the degree of a red hat was not ashamed to publish in print an Apology for Sir William Starlies treason maintaining that by reason of Queen Elizabeth's excommunication and Heresie it was not only lawfull for any of her Subjects but they were even bound in conscience to deprive her of any strength which lay in their power to do And whether it were armies towns or fortresses of hers which they had in their hands they were obliged to put them in the King of Spain her Enemies hand she no more being the right owner of any thing But whatsoever the Cardinal saith the best policy is to be an honest man And Oldcorn that refined and sublimated Fryer preached Treason upon Treason and Rebellion upon Rebellion For after the discovery of this horrid intended Massacre and a little before notice was given to the Sheriff of the County of his hiding and for his apprehension at Henlip aforesaid he did there preach consolitary Doctrine to his popish Anditory exhorting them not to faint for the misgiving of this Enterprise nor think the worse thereof See King James his Premonition pag 127 128. that it succeeded not alleaging diverse Presidents of such godly enterprises that misgave in like manner especially that of St Lewis King of France who in his journey to the holy Land was taken prisoner by the Sultan of Egypt and the greatest part of his Army was destroyed by the Plague and thereupon exhorted and perswaded them not to give over but still to hope that God would bless their enterprize at some other time though this did fail By these demonstrations we may know the mind of all of that profession and what they would do if they had the power in their hands and were Lords over us When they want force of argument and sound reason to perswade us they will then use force of arms fire and sword treason and rebellion to destroy us which should rouse up our spirits and ingender in our hearts First a detestation of the bloody but cherlie and most ignoble practises of the Pope and his Adherents Secondly gratulation and thanksgiving to the most high God who hath hitherto compassed us about with songs of deliverance And lastly circumspection caution valour and vigilance for the time to come that we be not suddenly surprized and swallowed up quick of our implacable Enemies while we dally and play with Popery The Scorpion is not without a sting though he doth not always strike A Cain a Cataline a Catesby full of Malignity hating with cruel hatred will always be working some great mischief And therefore to our own safety and security our own diligence and sedulitie is evermore required Their thoughts are vain who think that their watching can preserve the City which God himself is not willing to keep And are not theirs as vain who think that God will keep that City for which they themselves are not carefull to watch The providence of the Almighty must be served with the use of lawful means In the Third YEAR of KING JAMES An ACT for a publicke Thanks-giving to Almighty God on the fifth day of November every Year FOrasmuch as Almighty God hath in all Ages shewed his Power and Mercy in the miraculous and gracious deliverance of his Church and in the protection of Religious Kings and States And that no Nation of the earth hath been blessed with greater benefits then this Kingdom now enjoyeth having the true and free profession of the Gospel under our most Soveraigne Lord King James the most Great Learned and Religious King that ever reigned therein inriched with a most hopeful and plentiful Progenie proceeding out of his Royal loynes promising continuance of this happiness and profession to all posterity the which many Malignant and Divellish Papists Iesuites nnd Seminary Priests much envying and fearing conspired most horribly when the Kings most excellent Majesty the Queen the Prince and all the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons should have been assembled in the Vpper-House of Parliament upon the fifth of November in the Year of our Lord one thousand six hundred and five suddainly to have blown up the said whole house with Gun-powder an invention so inhumane barbarous and cruel as the like was never before heard of and was as some of the principal Conspitors thereof confesse purposely devised and concluded to be done in the said House that where sundry necessary and Religious Laws for preservation of the Church and State were made which they falsely and standerously term cruel Laws enacted against them and their Religion both place and persons should be all destroyed and blown up at once which would have turned to the utter rume of this whole Kingdom had it not pleased Almighty God by inspiring the Kings most excellent Majesty with a Divine spirit to interpret some dark phrases of a Letter shewed to his Maiesty above and beyond all ordinary construction thereby miraculously discovering this hidden treason not many hours before the appointed time for the Execution thereof Therefore the Kings most excellent Maiesty the Lords Spiritual and temporal and all his Maiesties faithfull and loving Subiects do most iustly acknowledg this great and infinite Blessing to have proceeded meerly from God his great mercy and to his most holy name do ascribe all Honor Glory and Praise and to the end this unfeigned thankfulness may never be forgotten but be had in a perpetual remembrance that all ages to come may yield praises to his Divine Maiesty for the same and have in perpetuall memory This joyful day of deliverance Be it therefore enacted by the Kings most excellent Majesty the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and the Commons in this present Parliament assembled and by the Authority of the same that all and singular Ministers in every Cathedral and Parish Church or other usuall place for common Prayer within this Realm of England and the Dominions of the same shall always upon the fifth day of November say morning Prayer and give unto Almighty God thanks for this most happy Deliverance And that all and every Person and Persons inhabiting within this Realm of England and the Dominions of the same shall always upon that day diligently and faithfully resort to the Parish Church or Chappel accustomed or to some usual Church or Chappel where the said Morning Prayer preaching or other service of God shall be used then and there to abide orderly and soberly during the time of the said Prayers preaching or other service of God there to be used and ministred And because all and every person may be put in mind of this Duty and be the better prepared to the said Holy Service Be it enacted by authority aforesaid that every Minister shall give warning to his Parishoners publikely in the Church at Morning Prayer the Sunday before every such fifth day of November for the due observation of the said Day And that after Morning Prayer or preaching upon the said fifth day of November they read distinctly and plainly this present ACT. FINIS

by the two Bulls or Letters of Pope Clement the eight See the Hist of France P. 1196. they ought not to have received the King into the Kingdome then by a greater reason being received the Pope would have him made away as if Kings Free Princes and States were to live but at the pleasure of the Pope The proditorious doctrine of the Josuits did likewise add much fuel to this fiery enterprize which was first made known and revealed by Cateshy to Thomas Winter of Huddington in the County of Worcester when they met together at London who gave his consent and approbation thereunto And shortly after went into Flanders to negotiate with Baldwine the Jesuite with the Constable with Owen with Faewkes and also with Sir William Stanley who for many yeers together did lurk in those parts of the Netherlands that were under the obedience of Albertus Archduke of Austria and Clara Isabella his Wife the Daughter of the King of Spaine and durst not come into England For this was that Sir William Stanley who contrary to his Oath did treacherously deliver up D●venter a rich Town in Oven Yssell to the King of Spaine which had bin gotten a little before by Robert Dudley Earl of Leicester sent into the low Countries with some considerable Forces by Queen Elizabeth to aid the Dutch against the Spaniard but the Town was regained shortly after by the States of Holland He that is false to God will be false to Man and when opportunity serves will keep no faith with them that are no better then Heretikes in his account When Winter had conferred with the parties aforesaid and had imparted to them so much of his minde as he thought convenient at this time he returned back into England and brought with him Guide Fawks a very desperate Souldier and a monstrous instrument of mercilese cruelty And when they came to London they met with Robert Catesby Thomas Percy and John Wright at a house behinde St. Clements Church without Temple Bar where they spake of doing some thing but first they thought it fit to take an Cath of secrecie which they gave to each other upon a Primer the contents whereof here followeth YOu shall swear by the blessed Trinity and by the Sacrament you now purpose to receive never to disclose directly nor indirectly by word or circumstance the matter that shall be proposed to you to keep secret nor desist from the Execution thereof untill the rest shall give you leave And for their further confirmation they went into a more private chamber and there heard Mass and received the blessed Sacrament at the hands of William Gerrard a Priest who told them that it was better that some Innocents did perish with the nocent for the advantage of the Catholicks rather then the service should quaile the necessitie of time and occasion so requiring it And now did Catesby and Winter disclose the business to the rest wherefore they took the Oath which they all approved And Percy by the Authority of the rest was sent to take some house or lower roome either under or near the Parliament house to lay in the Powder which was to be bought by Winter and Fawkes Now while this Cockatrices Egge horrible Treason was hatching to the end that it might succeed well and breake forth into a Basiliske a flying and fire-breathing Serpent whose deadly eye might destroy both Prince and People in a moment in the twinkling of an eye the Papists gave themselves to their devotions and Prayers both at home and abroad For although the vulgar sort knew not of the particulars of the damnable design yet they had a general notion and confused knowledge of some thing to be done in the Parliament for the good of their Church And the Priests and Jesuits themselves did usually conclude their Masses and oblatory Sacrifices with these verses made by Henry Garnet Provincial over the Jesuits here in England Gentem auferte perfidam credentium de finibus Vt Christo laudes debitas persolvamus alacriter Which I English thus Even from the Coasts of faithfull men A faithless Nation take That chearfully to Christ our Lord We may due praises make And others prayed See Speed his Chron. as they were taught thus Prosper Lord their paines that labour in thy cause day and night let Heresie vanish away like smoake let the memory of it perish with a crack like the ruine and fall of a broken house Hereby alluding to their working in the Myne the mounting smoak of the Powder and the violent fall of the Parliament house In Flanders Baldwine was not slack to improve his Interest in Heaven for the speeding of their great errand At Rome Parsons the Jesuite being Governor of that Colledge which was founded by Pope Gregorie the thirteenth for English Fugitives and discontented malignants did give order to the Students of the house after their ordinary devotions were ended to pray for some extraordinary thing Orate proconversione Turcae One while they must pray for the conversion of the Turke some two or three daies together Another while they must pray as long for the Captives in England meaning the Papists that were in Prison But for two moneths together before the day appointed for the execution of their bloodie design Orate pro Captivis in Anglia Parsons commanded them to pray for the intention of their Father Rector which made the Students of the house wonder what their Father Rectors intention should be Orate pro intentione Patris Rectoris They had set formes of Prayer for these things made by Parsons But when they heard of a Barbarous Treason discovered in England sixteen of them forsook the Colledge and came over the Alpes down into France waiting for a better season to return home with some of which who forsook the Church of Rome and embraced the reformed Religion I had some conference The King began his Raign as we have shewed upon the foure and twentieth day of March the last day of the year according to the date of the Lawyers in the yeer of our Lord God one thousand six hundred and two And in the Summer Quarter following and in part of the Autumnal the Plague in London made a lamentable ravage upon mankind the weekly Bills of mortalitie I very well remember were exceeding great But when it pleased God to lighten his hand and relent the violence of his devouring Angel against the people of that City giving good hope that the infection was come to a period then did his Majesty call his Parliament upon the nineteenth day of the next March and upon the seventh of Iuly concluded the first Sessions thereof and adjourned it to the seventh of February in the second yeer of his raign And before that time came he did adjourne it again to the sift of November in the third yeer of his raign and in the yeer of our Lord one thousand six hundred and five which proves a most