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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A56469	The Jesuit's memorial for the intended reformation of England under their first popish prince published from the copy that was presented to the late King James II : with an introduction, and some animadversions by Edward Gee ...	Parsons, Robert, 1546-1610.; Gee, Edward, 1657-1730.	1690 (1690)	Wing P569; ESTC R1686	138,010	366

violently urged by the Jesuits above all others excepting that Society whose rich Colleges and abundance of Treasure made it apparent quickly to the World that some were great gainers while the poor Lay-Catholicks were made great sufferers by that Recusancy Upon Campian's Execution England grew too hot for our Father Parsons and notwithstanding the mighty zeal he pretended for the Conversion of England yet he was for saving one and getting out of harms way and therefore slips away back into France under the Pretext of conferring with Doctor Allen about the Seminaries and of Printing some Books which could not be done in England and never returned hither tho' he continued Superiour of the Jesuits Mission after this But though the Kingdom was delivered from such a Firebrand yet he continued diligent beyond Seas in his Seditious Designs and was to the last a constant Enemy to his Native Countrey As he had laboured in the promoting the Popish Recufancy and getting the English Papists to be governed by the Jesuits so he now employs all his Arts and all his interest to get Seminaries erected for the supplying England from time to time with Priests to keep up that Recufancy and to prepare the Papists here to joyn with any Invasion that they abroad should procure against their own Countrey Assoon as he was got hence to Roan in France he dealt with the Duke of Guise to erect a Seminary for such a purpose in Normandy after which he goes into Spain and prevails with King Philip to encourage and erect such in Spain so that in a short time they could not only boast of their Seminaries at Rome and at Rhemes but of those at Valladolid at Sevil at St. Lucars in Spain at Lisbon in Portugal at Doway and St. Omers in Flanders in all which their Youth were educated with violent Prejudices against their own Native Countrey and their minds were formed to all the Purposes and Designs which this chief Incendiary Parsons had in his head Father Moor the Author of the History of the Mission does indeed tell us That Father Parsons was for having the Youth that were entered into these Seminaries to take an Oath about faithfully answering the End and Benefit of their Education there but says not a word of their being forced to subscribe the Infanta of Spain's Title against the True Title of the then King of Scots King James the First The Oath was this IN. N. considering with how great benefits God hath blessed me c. do promise by God's assistance to enter into Holy Orders assoon as I shall be fit for them and to return into England to Convert my Countrey-men there whenever it shall please the Superior of this House to command me But when once Father Parsons being puffed up with his Familiarity with the King and Court of Spain had devoted his Soul and Body both to the service of that aspiring Crown then he was for having the Youth in the Seminaries to subscribe to the Spanish Title which was of his own inventing to the Crown of England then he was for speaking out his design against his Native Countrey And that he dealt in such traiterous designs after his getting out of England is proved upon him by their own Writers As touching the Colleges says Clark the Priest concerning him and Pensions that are maintained and given by the Spaniard which he so often inculcateth we no whit thank him for them as things are handled and occasions thereby ministred of our greater Persecution at home by reason of Father Parson's treacherous practices thereby to promote the Spanish Title to our Country and his hateful Stratagems with such Scholars as are there brought up enforcing them to subscribe to Blanks and by publick Orations to fortifie the said wrested Title of the Infanta meaning Isabella Clara Eugenia Daughter to Philip the Second of Spain whose Right to the English Crown was maintain'd in a Book by this Parsons made but published by him under the false name of Doleman As this Priest gives us an account of the zeal of Father Parsons for the Infanta so Watson another Romish Priest helps us to another of his knavery about the same affair That Parsons earnestly moving the young Students in Spain to set their hands to a Schedule that they would accept the Lady Infanta for Queen of England after the decease of her Majesty to wit Queen Elizabeth that now is but finding them altogether unwilling to intermedle with these State-affairs belonging nothing to them and most hurtful to both their Cause and Persons used this cunning shift to draw on the innocent and simple youths to pretend forsooth to them of Valladolid that the Students in Sevil had done it already no remedy then but they must follow And that having thus craftily gotten their names he shewed them to the Students in Sevil for an example of their fact and forwardness which he required them to imitate Though these are sufficient Evidences of the use Father Parsons put the erected Seminaries to yet I cannot but add that great and wise Cardinal the Cardinal d'Ossat's account of these very Seminaries in his Letter to the King of France Henry the Fourth about the Spaniards and Father Parsons Design against England For this purpose also says he were the Colleges and Seminaries erected by the Spaniards for the English at Doway and at St. Omers wherein the young Gentlemen of the best Families in England are entertain'd thereby to oblige them and by them their Paren●● and Kindred and Friends The principal care which these Colleges and Seminaries have is to catechise and bring up these young English Gentlemen in this Faith and firm Belief that the late King of Spain had and that his Children now have the true Right of Succession to the Crown of England and that this is advantageous and expedient for the Catholick Faith not only in England but where-ever Christianity is And when these young English Gentlemen have finished their Humanity-Studies and are come to such an age then to make them throughly Spaniards they are carried out of the Low-Countries into Spain where there are other Colleges for them wherein they are instructed in Philosophy and Divinity and confirmed in the same Belief and holy Faith that the Kingdom of England did belong to the late King of Spain and does now to his Children After that these young English Gentlemen have finished their courses those of them that are found to be most Hispaniolized and most couragious and firm to this Spanish Creed are sent into England to sow this Faith among them to be Spies and give advice to the Spaniards of what is doing in England and what must and ought to be done to bring England into the Spaniards hands and if need be to undergo Martyrdom as soon or rather sooner for this Spanish Faith than for the Catholick Religion In this Cardinal we find to what excellent purposes the Seminaries were erected that Father Parsons laboured

may be proved against them and other such-like points all which being returned by the said Visitors and reviewed by such as the Prince and his Council shall appoint to be Overseers of the said Visitation sentence may be given and published for the honour of the good and punishment of the wicked And the punishment which is used in Spain among other things seemeth very good to wit that he that shall be found to have done evil in a higher Court or Tribunal be for penance put back to a Lower Court again as for example from London to York or the like And contrariwise he that hath done well in a Lower Court be preferred to be a Judge Councellor or of a Degree in a higher Tribunal and that ordinarily may be not promoted to a higher Court without having first passed by a lower And as for the Common Laws of England themselves though most Men I believe will be of Opinion That being settled now and having endured more than five hundred years in our Realm it were troublesome and dangerous and no way convenient to have the whole course thereof changed and no doubt but in divers points especially for brevity they may be preferred before the Civil and Imperial Laws which give more space to Suits yet can it not be denied but that it was a form of Law brought in in haste and by a Conqueror of a foreign Nation with especial eye to keep down afflict and extirpate the English People And the Normans themselves that laid these Laws upon us have long ago in their own Country forsaken them and betaken themselves to the Government of the Civil Law tempered with National Statutes whereby the residue of the Countries of France are governed And for England it is evident that divers points of our Common Law brought in by the Normans touching Life and Death which is the dearest treasure that Man hath in this World do favour much of Tyranny and seem to be against not only all Laws of other Countries but also against very Reason and Justice it self and against all Law of Nature also which Law of Nature doth permit to every Man a just and reasonable defence of Life and Innocency Neither can any Prince Country or humane power take away that defence albeit they may determine the particular manner how to make the tryal But in England it seemeth that the defence it self is taken away or at least the true liberty means and possibility thereof For how is it possible for example sake that a Man standing at the Bar for his Tryal upon Life and Death feared on the one side with terrour of that may happen unto him and on the other side astonished with the sight of such a Court and Company set against him and with the many Accusations Exaggerations and Amplifications of the Prince's Attorneys and other Officers that plead against him how is it possible I say that such a Man especially if he be bashful and unlearned in so short a time as there is allotted him for answering for his Life without help of a Lawyer Proctor or other Man that may direct counsel or assist him in such an agony how can he see all the parts or points that may be alledged for his defence being never so Innocent The Imperial Laws confirmed by Justinian and other Emperors after many hundred years of proof and received since by all Christian Nations saving ours do allow to every Man that is accused for his Life all lawful and reasonable means of defence with sufficient time and deliberation for the same and no marvel for if it be reason to give freedom of defence for any parcel of a Man's Goods and Lands impugned by another how much more reason is it the same should be given for the defence of a Man's Blood wherein goeth Goods Lands Life Honour Children Kindred and all the rest all which in England is shuffled up in haste put upon the verdict malice ignorance or little Conscience or care of twelve silly Men who presently also are forced to give verdict without time or means to inform themselves further than that which they have heard there at Bar which oftentimes is nothing but Confusion Partiality and Rhetorical amplification on the King's behalf by his Lawyers that talk for their Fees that accuse and no Man is suffered to defend instruct or speak for the accused which is the greatest injustice that can be devised and no doubt but infinite innocent Blood is shed by this means and lyeth upon the heads of our Judges Juries and Quests and upon all the Commonwealth besides Whereby for remedy of so great inconveniences both before God and Man for that all foreign Nations do cry out of this our manner of Judgment it should be good at least that before the Assizes or Arraignment be made upon Life and Death the Prisoner's Process should be made by some Men of Conscience and learning appointed for that purpose in every place where the common Gaols be and that sufficient time be allotted them to examine the matter throughly first what the Accusers and Witnesses do say and to give a Copy thereof to the Prisoner with a Lawyer or Proctor to help him and to see what he can truely answer to the same and what Exceptions he hath against the Parties his Adversaries And if his poverty be such that he cannot pay the Fees of a Lawyer or Attorney to answer for him there should be a publick Attorney appointed unto him upon the Prince his Charges as in all other Catholick Countries is used not only in matters of Life and Death but also in all other suits concerning Justice wherein all such as do give Petitions that they are poor and cannot pay Lawyer 's Fees and do prove the same they have presently both Lawyers and Attorneys appointed unto them at the King 's cost and all writing and other helps given them free from all charges for prosecuting their Justice which is no doubt a notable pious Order and ought to be brought into our Country with restoring true Religion And as on the one side Christian Charity moveth to wish that to Men accused for their lives all lawful and reasonable liberty of defence and Tryal should be given so on the other side the same charity requireth that those that shall be found culpable should without remission or hope of pardon be punished for the example of others and for avoiding the great Infamy of our Nation whereof I spoke before in the Second Chapter of this Part touching robbing upon High-ways Perhaps it would not be amiss for this purpose that some distinction of punishments should be made for that crime from some other common theft and of less offence and hurt to the Commonwealth and albeit the kind of Death upon the Wheel in France and Flanders for Murders and Thefts upon the Way do seem over rigorous and horrible and no ways to be brought into our Country yet some other less