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A copie of the oath taken by the papists, as it was given to the governour and captaines by Fryer Darcy, lately guardian of the Franciscans in Ireland, and imployed by the rebels upon a treaty. With a short glosse upon the confused oath of the pretended Catholiques for this religious rebellion. By N.B.
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1642
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Wing B143; Thomason E136_20; ESTC R15578
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They have said come let us cut them off from being a Nation that the name of Israel be no more in remembrance they have conspired together with one consent saying let us take to our selves the Houses of God in possession Would ye see your face by way of Prophecy looke into Saint Pauls 2. Tim. 3.2 In the latter daies men shall be unthankefull without naturall affection truce-breakers false Accusers fierce Traitors heady high minâ—ed yet having a forme of Godlinesse or a pretence of Religion but denying the power of it For such of you as have bin drawne to take this unlawfull Oath let them thinke they are no more bound to observe it then David was by his to have kil'd Abigail Herod to have beheaded S. Iohn the Baptist or the 40 Conspiratours to have slain S. Paul To such as have not yet taken it let them hearken to the Councell of Salomon 1. Pro. 10. My Son if sinners intice thee consent thou not if they say Come with us let us lay wait for blood let us lurke privily for the innocent without cause let us swallow them up alive as the Grave and whole as those that goe downe into the Pit We shall finde all precious substance we shall fill our houses with spoyle Cast in thy lot among us let us all have one purse My Son walke not thou in the way with them refraine thy foot from their path And for us in this Towne Blessed be God who hath not given us over as a prey unto your teeth our soule is this day escaped as a bird out of the snare of the Fowler the snare is broken and we are escaped Blessed be the name of the Lord who hath made Heaven and Earth Ps 124.6 7 8. Vpon the treatie of this Fryer and others who in the name of the Commanders of the Catholike Army for so they terme it demanded the surrender of this Towne of Drogheda for his Majesties use and service the Governour and Captaines of the said Towne caused this Protestation and Oath to be drawn up as followeth The Protestation of the Governour and Captaines of the Town of Drogheda for their unanimous defence of it for his Majesties use and service VVHereas we are beset with such who pretend their attempt in taking of this Towne to be for the advancement of his Majesties service which notwithstanding we believe is but a pretext for the deluding of the Vulgar We the Governour and Captaines of the said Towne for the further manifestation and approbation of our loyalty and faithfullnesse to his Majesty by whose immediate Command we are here charged for the defence of his Majesties Royall Title in it doe likewise hereby unanimously make this following Protestation and Oath and doe enjoyne it to be taken by every Souldier and Inhabitant of this Towne as the Evidence of their faith and truth to the Kings Crowne and Dignity which we shall maintaine with our lives and estates and that such as shall refuse it be put out of the Gates The Oath 1. I Shall to my uttermost endeavour the defence of this Towne against all outward or inward attempts whatsoever for his Majesties Service 2. I shall forthwith discover any Plot Conspiracy or Combination which may or shall come to my knowledge from without or within which may be any wayes intended to the prejudice of the whole Towne or to the persons of the Maior Aldermen Governour or any of the Captaines or Officers garrison'd in it 3. I shall not attempt nor consent that the Towne shall be given up upon any pretence or cause whatsoever without the consent of the Governour Major and greater part of the Captaines and Aldermen in it or without some speciall command from his Majesty or chiefe Governour or Governours of the Kingdome All which I doe hereby sweare truly and faithfully to observe and keepe without any fraud deceipt or mentall reservation whatsoever THis Oath howsoever intending the safety of the Towne Officers as the Garrison and either readily taken or offered to be taken by the Captaines Officers and all the Souldiers yet being presented to the Major and Aldermen they first delayed it by desiring a Copie of it with some time of consideration and so after advice with their Learned I will not say Religious Counsell returned a flat refusall onely cullor'd with a pretence of indangering the favour of a faire Quarter which they expected from the enemy if the Towne were taken FINIS
A COPIE OF THE OATH Taken by the Papists as it was given to the Governour and Captaines by Fryer Darcy lately Guardian of the Franciscans in Ireland and imployed by the Rebels upon a Treaty With a short Glosse upon the confused OATH of the pretended Catholiques for this Religious Rebellion By N. B. LONDON Printed for William Bladen MDC.XLII A short Glosse upon the confused Oath of the pretended Catholiques for this religious Rebellion I A. B. do in the presence of Almighty GOD and all the Angels and Saints in a A contradiction at first sworn on Earth and yet at the same instant in the presence of the Saints then in Heaven will you attribute unto them an Omni-presence to fill heaven earth at once proper only to him who is Infinite Heaven Promise Vow Sweare and b This is over-sworn we observe your Oath for Religion is well bound runs strongly upon 4 wheels the next for the King is but weakly mounted on one but there is good reason this is the prime the other but an attendant Protest to mainetaine and defend as farre as I c That is as farre as J am able but we hope you are now at your furthest and as S. Paul of Jannes and Jambres your folly will be made manifest before all men may with my life Power and Estate the d What wanted you but the publike exercise of it in our Churches which you have indeed of late practised in many places by violence Publique and e Were any of you fined or restrained in bonds for it free exercise of the true and Catholique f As if we could not be of the Catholike Church unles of the Roman as much to say a man could not be in Ireland unles he were in Dublin And yet by that very addition of Roman to Catholike by way of distinction is necessarily confest there is also a true Catholique Religion not Romane Roman Religion against g No exceptions of the King here who hath often declared himself against it All Persons that shall oppose the same I further sweare that I will beare h But is it not your Doctrin no Faith need be kept with Heretiques and hath not the Pope often declared our Kings to be such Faith and i Take heed what you doe there are two Bulls of the Popes against your taking the Oath of Allegiance and a long Tractate of Cardinall Bellarmines to show the unlawfullnesse of it this is more then we pressed you too or looked for from you Allegiance to our Soveraigne k If you be a Priest you professe to have no Lord even in Temporalibus but the Pope Lord King l And yet the Earle of Ormond hath a Commission under the Hand and Seale of our King Charles for the suppressing of you as evidently runne into Rebellion against him Charles his heires and Successours and that I will defend him and them as m Well put in as a good reservation that is as farre as it may stand with the former Article or till I am restrained by the Pope farre as I may with my life power and estate against all such persons as shall attempt any thing against their Royall Persons Honours and Estates or Dignities and against all such as shall directly or indirectly endeavour to suppresse their Royall n How the season hath altered your dispositions were you not this last Summer in Parliament directly and indirectly the greatest opposers of it would not you have had an Act and Acts for suppressing it Tempora mutantur vos c. Prerogatives or doe any Act or Acts contrary to o It should be Papall Government Regall Government As also the Power and p Why doe you then detaine so many Parliament men here besieged from attending it who are priviledged from so much as an arrest are you not perjured in it Priviledges of Parliament the lawfull rights and Priviledges of the q Be good Subjects your selves first and take not in the meane time a Priviledge to destroy those who are such Subject and every r We guesse whose apes you are in this but the cause and end is much differing and the successe will be according person that makes this vow Oath and Protestation in whatsoever he shall doe in the lawfull pursuance of the same And to my power as farre as I may I will oppose and by f 'T is no matter whither lawfull or no. All waies and means endeavour to bring to t Condigne this word needs a Glosse indeed for the Vulgar but they are used enough to an unknown language and an implicite Oath may be as safe as an implicite faith what the boast of the merit of your good works is ex condigno we know but what will proove a condigne punishment for a pretended bad worke I believe the poore people will sooner feele then understand condigne punishment even to the u Bloudy it must be or you cannot own it enough we had of this for murder robbery and imprisonment before we heard of this Oaths framing onely then inflamed by him who was a murderer from the beginning losse of life liberty and estate all such as shall either by x What need this alas have ye not cruelly starv'd and undone thousands that never were guilty of any of these that medled not with your Religion lived harmelesse and innocently by you and were your best friends who were not of that strength as to force of that disposition as to be practising of that reach as to be plotting or so false as to be conspiring all which we freely as having nothing to do with them resigne up to your selves again force practice councels plots conspiracies or otherwise doe or attempt any thing to the contrary of any Article clause or any thing in this present Vow Oath and Protestation contained So help me y And why is there not added And all his Saints as your custome was and is wherby your farewell had bin somewhat answerable to your entrance but 't is possible if the Angels and Saints were present at the beginning of the first Article they so abhorred the Progresse that they would not stay to be witnesses of the conclusion God Well God helpe you indeed and open your eyes to see into this mystery of Iniquity the perjury and contradiction with which your souls are in hazard make your consciences sensible of the guilt of blood your hearts to smite you for making this rent in the Kingdome and give you repentance to turne from those evill wayes least in the end the mischiefe returne upon your own heads Would ye know whose steps ye have followed formerly you shall find Psal 83. to be the cursed Edomites and Ishmaelites Moab Ammon and Amalek with the Philistines of whom the Psalmist by way of complaint to God saith thus They have taken crafty councells against thy people and consulted against thy hidden ones