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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A25556	An Account of the present condition of the Protestants in the Palatinate in two letters to an English gentleman.		1699 (1699)	Wing A336; ESTC R1653	9,523	30

does their inhumanity end here but bloody and wounded as they left them they throw them into Prisons where they run the hazard of perishing Moreover they send to quarter upon those Complainants Dragoons who break their Doors and Windows making forcible Entries then turn their Wives and Children out of doors These crying evils induce the Inspectors to make complaints to the Deputy Lieutenants against those barbarous proceedings but they receive no other answer but that the Ministers were Rebels and therefore they ought not to meddle or concern themselves for them lest they incur themselves his Electoral Highnesses displeasure When the poor people taking the part of their innocent Ministers complain to a higher Court of these barbarous proceedings humbly begging a remedy to these grievances they receive fair promises but never see the effects thereof Thus the suffering party receives no relief and the oppressors are unpunished But what else can be expected when all the places of trust are put in Popish hands and the Protestant Natives though better qualified are not regarded This is the sad condition of our Country at this time our troubles have so dejected our countenances that death and paleness seem painted there The thoughts of our sorrows are our companions night and day our bodies are bowed down and our spirits sunk with grief so that it seems as if we had no more life left than to serve us to cry unto God for help I wish all good Christians would joyn with us in this good work Certainly our Prince must be our great enemy for else he could never have consented to the oppressions here mentioned and sure no body wou'd have condemned him for maintaining the Country in statu quo as he found it and is obliged thereto according to the constitutions of the Empire and the solemn assurances given by this Electors Father to Charles the last Protestant Elector Palatine when he named him his Successor that there should be no alterations made in Religion LETTER II. SIR SInce my last the Elector Palatine has published a Declaration for Liberty of Conscience in the Palatinate which is mightily cryed up by the Papists as an act of the great moderation of that Prince The Title indeed is very specious and may impose upon such who are not acquainted with our Constitution but those who are not altogether strangers to it must needs be convinced that this very Declaration is a most manifest Infraction of the Treaties of Westphalia and calculated for the extirpation of the Protestant Religion This puts me in mind of the Declaration of your late King James who under the same specious Title aim'd at the destruction both of your Liberty and Religion Our Prince is as much a Bigot to Rome as your abdicated King and as much rul'd by his Father Peters and therefore we might reasonably suppose that he has the same designs in view altho we should nor have yet any Fact to convince us of his Intentions You know that by the Treaties of Westphalia the Popish Religion could not be exercised in the Palatinate unless it was by a toleration of the Government to which the Protestant Princes seem but too much inclin'd All the Churches Schools Church Lands Tythes and other Ecclesiastical Revenues were in the hands of Protestants but by this Declaration the Churches are to serve equally for the use of Papists and Protestants so that this is as much a violation of our Rights as it would have been of yours if the late King James had caus'd Mass to be sung in Westminster Abbey for the Papists have no better title to our Churches than they have to yours Had his Electoral Highness been contented to give the Papists leave to exercise openly their Religion and even to build Churches for themselves we might be silent tho this would be against our Privileges but to presume to give 'em our Churches and our Ecclesiastical Incomes under pretence of Liberty of Conscience is such an injustice that I must return again to your late King to find any parallel to match it I have told you in my former how they have taken away our Schools and Colledges and given the same to Popish Priests tho some of them were so lately founded and endowed that they could not have impudence enough to pretend that they did formerly belong to the Papists I must now give you some particulars to shew the effects of this Liberty of Conscience and how it is observed The Elector has taken away all the Tythes and other Incomes for the maintenance of our Clergy and bestowed the same upon Romish Priests but to give some compensation to the Protestant Clergy he is graciously pleased yearly to allow each Minister one hundred Guilders which is hardly 15 l. sterling 20 Sacks of Corn and one Fudder of Wine This subsistence being so small that it is impossible for them to subsist upon it no doubt but they expect that the said Ministers will quit their employment for want of a livelihood and that the Flock being left without a Shepherd will be either dispersed or easily seduced A rare and precious Liberty of Conscience which deserveth our immortal thanks The very sound of the title of a Declaration for Liberty of Conscience must needs determine any impartial man to believe that thereby his Electoral Highness intends that all his Subjects shall have an entire liberty to embrace and profess what Religion they please at least of the three that are tolerated in the Empire as it is therein verbatim expressed but it is not to be wonder'd at that such who pretend that we must not hearken to the evidence of our Senses and Reason should pretend to change the genuine signification of words as you may see in the following particulars A certain woman of Sekenheim near Ladenburgh married to a Papist Husband having however brought up in the Protestant Religion her Daughter desired the Minister of the place to admit her to the participation of the Lords Supper being in the age required by the discipline of our Churches which the Minister did without any manner of scruple This proceeding was doubtless very innocent and justifiable by all divine and humane Laws but it has seemed so great a crime to the Papists that the poor Minister was taken up committed close Prisoner and fined 200 Florins Would any man think afterward that we enjoy a free Liberty of Conscience An Inhabitant of Wiselock a Papist by birth and profession but a more honest man than the generality of his perswasion marry'd some time time ago a Protestant Wife and it was agreed and covenanted between them that the Children should be Christned and brought up in the Protestant Religion His Wife being brought to be of a male child he according to his promise got him Christened by the Protestant Minister of his Parish which so incens'd the Popish Clergy that they got an order to carry him to Heidelbergh where he has been kept close Prisoner and