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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A23722	The absolute necessity of standing by the present government, or, A view of what both church men and dissenters must expect if by their unhappy divisions popery and tyranny should return again		1689 (1689)	Wing A112; ESTC R9768	37,630	52

Upon which all Men believ'd that the King was now engag'd and the War begun Upon which the King of Navarr and the Prince of Conde were brought to Court and receiv'd with all the Marks of assured Friendship A Dispensation was also obtain'd from the new Pope for the Marriage which the Pope was easily induc'd to grant upon the Information which he had receiv'd from the Cardinal's Legate of the King 's treacherous Design in Marriage which it behov'd the Pope neither to obstruct nor delay So that the Bull being sent to the Cardinal of Bourbon the day was appointed and the chief Heads of the Protestants were all drawn into Paris partly to be present at the Solemnities partly to get Employments in the Army which all Men believ'd would be commanded by the Admiral And now the Design being ripe the Duke of Guise who was privy to the Conspiracy was order'd to gather as many Desperado's and Bravado's about him as might be fit for any sort of Mischief By which means the Plot getting into more hands took wind so that the Rochellers being inform'd of some suspicious Passages wrote to the Admiral to leave the Court and not to trust the guilded Appearances which he saw there But the Admiral was so infatuated that he wrote them back a long Answer wherein he assur'd them That the King's Heart was wholly chang'd That there was never a better Prince in the World and that for his part he would rather die a thousand deaths then suspect him capable of so base a Design So easie a thing it is for Treachery in Youth to deceive hoary Generosity and Candour On the Seventeenth of August the King of Navarr was marry'd and four days were spent in all the magnificent Divertisements which are usual upon such Occasions But now it was time for the Mine to play that had bin so long working under Ground As for the Protestants there was nothing to be blam'd but too much Candour and Confidence They design'd nothing but the Tranquility of their Country and the Grandeur of the Crown On the other side in the Papists nothing but deep Dissimulation and villanous Design While the Protestants were cajol'd with the most engaging Tokens of Friendship that ever could be shew'd they took the King to be sincere and being then but just coming to be of Age that he was going about to take new Methods of Government And he had so artificially cover'd the Cruelty of his Temper with a shew of Good Nature that the Protestants expected nothing but happiness under him And as for the Queen-Mother tho' they knew her too well to put any Confidence in her yet her passionate Affection for her Daughter and her Revenge against the King of Spain for poysoning her Daughter made them believe themselves now assur'd of her And perhaps so deep and so refin'd a piece of Dissimulation was hardly ever known in the World before So that there was but one part of the King's Deportment which could give any Ground for Jealousie and that was his continual using most horrid and blasphemous Oaths and Imprecations to make the Protestants believe the Reality of his Intentions a sort of Persuasion which always raises Suspition among sober and wary Persons However the Protestants beginning at length to apprehend some danger the Papists thought it necessary to execute their Design with all speed For they saw the King resolv'd to let those who had surpriz'd the Towns in Flanders perish without sending them any relief The Admiral also was resolv'd to take his leave in few days besides that his Friend Montmorency saw the Storm coming and was retir'd to his House together with several other little Circumstances which gave them all just Cause of Fear So that the Popish Party had no time to Iose Therefore on the Twenty second of August about Noon as the Admiral was going home from the Court reading a Paper which he had in his hand Maurenel the Assassin whom the Duke of Guise had made choice of to do the Feat shot him from a a House where the Duke had plac'd him with a Harquebuz charg'd with three Bullets thought to be poyson'd Of which one carry'd away a part of the Fore-finger of the Admiral 's Right-hand the other stook in his Left Arm and the third miss'd him The King being in the Tennis-Court when the News was brought him counterfeited a deep Resentment and seemingly full of Affliction and with a terrible Oath cry'd out Shall I never have quiet and so throwing away his Racket went out in a rage Afterwards the King of Navarr and the Prince of Conde coming to the King to complain and desiring leave to go out of Town since there was no safety so near the Court. The King seem'd to resent it more then they and with the horriblest Oaths he could think of swore he would execute such a Revenge on all that were found guilty of it whoever they were that it should never be forgotten desiring them to stay and be Witnesses of it The Queen-Mother also seem'd to inflame his Rage with most vehement Expressions by which means they were persuaded to stay The next day the King with the Queen-Mother and his two Brothers went to visit the Admiral and coming to his Bed-side express'd the greatest Tenderness imaginable and in his Looks and by the tone of his Voice dissembled the most profound Sorrow that could be saying to the Admiral You my Father have receiv'd the Wound but I feel the Smart and will punish it in so severe a manner that the like was never known The next day the Duke of Guise and his Uncle the Duke of Aumale coming to the King and desiring leave to go out of Town the King by his Looks and Carriage seem'd to abhor them telling them that they might go whether they would but that he would find them out if they appear'd to be guilty of the Fact. Upon which they took Horse as if they had intended to go out of Town but came back to Guise House and presently began to raise Commotions in Paris sending their Agents up and down the City and Arms to several Parts Upon which the Admiral sending to the King to desire a Guard about Fifty were sent him under the Command of Cossoius one of his most implacable Enemies only some of the King of Navar 's Swisses were sent to keep Guard within the Doors The King also order'd all the Papists that lay near his House to remove their Lodgings that the Protestants might have the more conveniency to be about him All which seem'd not only very sincere but very kind and by such Arts as these were the Protestants not only secur'd from Fears but also had great hopes rais'd in them of future Advantages Only the Vidame of Chartres saw through this Disguise and in a Council of the Protestant Party held in the Admiral 's Chamber spoke his mind freely and propos'd That the Admiral ill as he was might be

Cruelties which he commanded and encouraged his Minion of equal Piety and Humility S. Dominic to the utter desolation of a Populous Country and extirpation of the Inhabitants of whom the small remainder that escaped the Slaughter were constrained to fly for Refuge into Bohemia And the succeeding Slaughter of the Valdenses in the City of Merindoll and Villages adjoyning under the reign of Paul III and carry'd on by the Cardinal of Tournon and the Bishop of Cavaellon the Pope's Vice-Legate with that fury that not contented with the bloody Executions of the naked and harmless Inhabitants they said their very Habitations in Ashes and levelled them with the Earth And therefore so much the more is the Power of Rome to be fear'd and prevented in a Nation that values it's own welfare and security by how much it appears the most Cruel and Destructive Religion in the World as not deeming any People worthy to live upon the Earth but the Slaves of Papal Jurisdiction and for that Reason not content with petty Cruelties but still clearing her way to Absolute Dominion by General Massacres entire Desolations and utter Extirpations And therefore tho' it argue Folly and a womanish Fear to be scar'd with Rabble-Reports on purpose rais'd to amuse the Minds of the Vulgar Herd yet it is but common Prudence to have a watchful Eye over those that we see so frequently guilty of Impieties of the same nature and to be wary of being surpriz'd by such as are easily induced to act what has bin by their Predecessors so dreadfully committed already For that it still runs in their Blood and that they are the same People still unalterable in their Sanguinary Principles there is no need of going any farther then to begin with Queen Mary's Reign At what time England was become such a Theatre of Fire and Faggot as if Rome had design'd to have chang'd her imaginary into a real Purgatory over all this Land for the refining the Bodies of the Protestants a very uncharitable piece of Charity tho with this difference That the Sufferers could neither by Prayers nor Money obtain deliverance from this as her Adherents could both Pray and buy themselves out of their own So soon as Edward VI was dead the Lady Jane Daughter to the Duke of Suffolk whose Mother then alive was Daughter to Mary second Sister of Henry VIII was proclaim'd Queen of England and the Lady Mary King Henry's eldest Daughter put by the Succession the Nobility who then sat at the Helm being not a little apprehensive that she might entangle the Crown by marrying with a Stranger and more certainly assur'd well knowing her obstinate Bigottrie to the Romish Tenents in the time of her Brother's reign that she would alter the Religion which had bin us'd as well during the Life of her Father King Henry as in the Days of her Brother King Edward and so bring in the Pope again to the utter destruction of the Realm Upon this Mary retires into the Quarters of Norfolk and Suffolk and with such of the Commons as she could get together kept her self close for a while in Framingham Castle thither the Suffolk Men resorted to her and promised her their utmost Assistance provided she would not attempt the alteration of the Religion which her Brother King Edward had establish'd by Laws and Orders publicly enacted and received by consent of the whole Realm To which Condition she readily agreed with Promises so solemnly made That there should be no change of the setled Religion that no Man then could well have misdoubted her Thus gull'd by her feign'd Assurances the Suffolk Men stood by her and that so faithfully that with little or no Resistance she obtained the Crown But no sooner was she in Possession of the Sovereign Power but forgetting all her Promises and joyning Ingratitude to Treachery she forgat the Covenants made in Hebron and displacing the Orthodox and Learned Bishops which her Brother had advanc'd preferr'd in their rooms her own Popish Creatures and above all the rest those two Blood-suckers and mortal Enemies of the Reformed Religion Gardner and Bonner forbid Preaching and reading of the Scripture And when the Suffolk Men afterwards petition'd her to perform her Promise she returned them for Answer That seeing they who were but only Members sought to rule their Head they should one day know that she would make the Members obey the Head and to strike the more Terror into others pillory'd a Norfolk Gentleman for presuming in most humble manner to put her in mind of her Promise With no less Ingratitude did she prosecute Sir James Hales one of the Justices of the Common Pleas who had ventured his Life in her Cause as being the only Judge that had refused to set his Hand for her being disinherited by the Kings Will yet because he gave a Charge at the Quarter-Sessions conformable to the Statutes in Henry VIII's time against the Supremacy of the Pope and concerning Religion she imprisoned him in the Counter Marshalsea and Fleet where by the continual Discourses of the Warden of the Torments that were preparing for Heretics he was driven to that Despair as at last to lay violent Hands upon himself Queen Mary besides that she had bin bred up from her Infancy in the Maxims and Tenents of the Romish Church was naturally of a morose and sowre Disposition and being so bigotted as he was to the Church of Rome there was little Ground for the Protestants to expect any Favour but what they might hope for upon her Promises made to the Men of Suffolk But when she had broken those Promises and withal had advanced to the highest degrees of her Favour Gardner and Bonner then too late they were too well assured of what they had to trust to Gardner was a Man of a haughty and imperious Spirit crafty and subtle to his Superiors flattering and fair spoken to his Inferiors fierce and disdainful and against his Equals sturdy and envious so that his Emulation of Cromwel's Greatness especially for favouring Bonner for whom Gardner had no kindness at that time made him an utter enemy both of him and his Religion from which after the fall of Somerset he became so averse finding which way the Tide was like to turn that he continued a cruel Persecutor of it to his dying day For as for Divinity he had no more then to serve his turn as having alway addicted himself to those Arts and Studies that fitted him rather to be Great then Good. So that finding himself now at the highest Pinnacle of Authority to which his Ambition could aspire he abandon'd himself to those Maxims of Cruelty which he thought most proper to secure his Grandeur And therefore finding he must stand or fall by Popery he resolved to gratifie that Profession which had raised him No wonder then he were so severely Cruel for Cruelty and Popery are inseparable Nay there seems to be that deep Infection in Popery that the more