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A58087
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The rat-trap, or, The Jesuites taken in their owne net &c. discovered in this yeare of jubilee or deliverance from the romish faction, 1641.
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Heywood, Thomas, d. 1641.
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1641
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Wing R294; ESTC R25043
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treason saith another I suppose rather by sowing some seditious libels amongst them to make one Nation jealous of the other a third replyed to invade one of the Kingdomes by sea to which purpose they would sollicite the Catholike Princes to joyne in a solemn combination but a fourth cut him off and said I like not these attempts by sea since the bad successe and utter overthrow of the great Armado in Eighty eight though it had the Popes blessing along and was by his Holinesse stiled Invincible O but said the Prolocutour the reason of that may be easily given for the sinnes of the Land were not then ripe which since are growne to full maturity But had it then prevailed with our pistols and ponyards steeletto's and knives whips fire and faggots we would have made them taste of that Purgatory here on earth which they will not beleeve to have place in any corner of Hell But to leave others let mee now acquaint you with a project of mine owne that I think wants president for policie hath prevailed where puissance hath been repulst and fraud hath entred where force could not for Vlysses did more in his Tent then Ajax did in the field At this all their eares were prickt up in attention when he spake on as followeth The King of Spaine is stiled the most Catholike the King of France the most Christian King and the King of England is titled Defender of the Faith having under his Dominion three Kingdomes England Scotland and Ireland the first Protestants the second Puritans the third Papists Now in this distraction of religions how easie is it to raise troubles and tumults Now wee have Iesuites in voto ingenious and active and fit to be employed in these deep and mysticall designes Now if you ask me the manner how they are to bee sent over and disperst into the Courts and families of Noble-men and places bought them or offices in which they may gaine the best intelligence by screwing themselves into the bosomes as well of the noble as ignoble rank now if you object and say this cannot bee without charge and great disbursments of money I answer have we not Collectors Receivers and Treasurers to that purpose employed in severall parts of Christendom as M. L. the Goldsmith in Fleet-street for the parts of Flaunders M. D. for France Mr. Borrowes for Spaine and others elsewhere these of the English Nation only and them our penetrating and insinuating Agents and Ministers being so planted and placed neare about the Prince and principall persons of those three Kingdomes they may take their opportunity and catching occasion by the fore-lock find severall tooles and engines to work with as to incense the Papists with whom our Society is most embraced against the Puritans and set them and other Separatists against the Papists and both against the Protestants to bring in new Innovations into the Churches of England and Scotland such as wee know the most distaste and can worst digest to alter their ancient Liturgy by inserting new additions into their books of Common prayer and by admitting into Church livings none but such as can conforme themselves to all such Tenents as shake hands with the Romish Traditions and Doctrines and to thrust out of their Benefices all such as stand stiffe for the Reformed Religion but especially to thrust in Ceremonies such as they call Superstitions Altars and the like into the Scottish Kirk which Nation we know to be perverse obstinate and impatient of any Innovation or change especially in their Religion Thus wanting power to conquer their Countries let it be our practice to undermine and blow up their consciences ruinating them in their distraction about Religion for what will not men or women hazard even goods lands nay life it selfe too for their Religion for what is more deare or nearer to a Christian than his God and his Religion what will cause more dissension than not to have freedome of their Religion Nay the very Turke himselfe will not feare to dye though a pseudo-Martyr even by torments or tortures ere hee can bee compelled to forsake his Mahomet Now we knowing the Protestant so constant in his Religion that hee will suffer no alteration the Papist so selfe-will'd he will brook no reformation and the Puritan so obstinate hee will endure no Innovation and all these spurr'd on by our subtill Agents animation what seditions what suspitions what commotions what combustions are probable to ensue thereof but by this Incendiary kindled in their Kingdomes Ireland may grow tumultuous Scotland combustions and take armes and Englands peace bee altogether disturbed and disquieted at least to the exhausting of their treasure if not their blouds to their great detriment if not their generall desolation and in these jealousies and troubles to bring in forraine Forces there would be some hope to attaine our ends Which speech being gravely delivered was by the rest greatly applauded and the Assembly dissolved with a determinate resolution to put all the former projects in speedy practice with an Et caetera But to come neare to our owne Country what miraculous deliverances had Queene Elâ—zabeth of ever blessed memory from the plots and underminings of those Arch Iesuiticall Regecides During her minority in the reigne of her sister what projects and stratagems were devised to insidiate her life her sundry commitments and imprisâ—nments nay a warrant for her death 〈◊〉 by the Queene at the animation of 〈…〉 Clergy Her damage by water when her barge at a low ebbe grated upon the arches of the Bridge when shee was sent a prisoner to the Tower by fire when her lodgings were burnt over her head during her confinement at Woodstock In the beginning of her reigne what complotting by the Iesuites of Spaine France and Italy to supplant her from her true and lawfull inheritance by discharging her Subjects from their loyalty and obedience Troubles also were raised in her Kingdom of Ireland by one Nicolas Saunders a pestilent Traytour and one of that seditious Order whose pen and tongue spared not only malitiously to calumniate the Queene her selfe but the Lady Anne Bulleine her mother who having purchased a consecrated Banner with power Legantine landed amongst the Rebels whither was sent also S. Iosephus with an army of Italians and Spanyards to joyne with the revolted Earle of Desmond his brother Fitz Morris and others but their army was soone distrest the Earle dyed wretchedly and Saunders fell mad and dyes starved in the cliffes of an almost unaccessible mountaine The like machinations were devised against her by Cardinall Allen Englefield and Rosse as also by Doctor Parry by travell Hispanisied Italionated and fully Iesuitified who after his returne when the Queenes Majysty vouchsafe him her gracious presence in her garden came arm'd with a Pistoll to have taken away her life had he not beene miraculiously prevented for which horrible Treason he was soone after drawne hang'd and quartered The horrible Treason of