King was Ingaged in the wars against the Scots with certain prayers added For their good success in that Designe against the Scots For the more effectuall carrying on whereof the Popes Nuncio with the Colledge of Jesuites then in Queen-street secretly summoned a kind of Parliament of Roman Catholicks and Jesuites in London out of every County of England and Wales in which Conne the Popes Nuncio sate President by the Queens commission and direction in April 1639. Who granted and collected an extraordinary large Contribution by way of Subsidy from the Papists to carry on this war against our Protestant Brethren of Scotland and raise forces to joyne with the Spainards whom they then expected to cut the English Protestants throats The Jesuitical and Prelatical Popish party much displeased with the defeat of this their Plot by the unexpected Pacification with the Scots 1639. induced the King soon after to break and revoke it Anno 1640. the very year of the Jesuites Jubilee which they solemnized in all places being the 100. yeer from the first Erection of their Order by Ignatius Anno 1540. they caused a new Army to be raised and sent into the North against the Protestants of Scotland to subdue destroy them At the same time they secretly listed an Army of no less then 7000. Romish Catholickes kept in private pay of purpose To cut the Protestants throats who should resist them and to Conquer the Protestants in England first and then in Ireland which Designe they were to put in execution when the Pope or his Legat with the Spanish French and Venetian Ambassadours should appoint who designed them to begin to execute it When the King went into Scotland against the Scots as O Conner the Queen-Mothers Priest confessed to Anne Hussey who justified it to the Lords of the Councel then and afterwards before the Lords in Parliament upon her Oath The Jesuites were so confident of the good success of their designes amongst us and compleat Victory over all the Protestants throughout the world this yeare of their Jubilee making Triumph over their Enemies one of their Notes of the true Church that they appointed a solemne Enterlude to be acted by their Society in the publique Hall at Aquisgran in Germany in honour of their Jubilee wherein they signified to the people by printed Tickets and Pageants that the Popish Church of Rome should be brought in upon the Stage happily fighting against triumphing and reigning over all her enemies every where throughout the world in all ages till that present day and especially of later times by their meanes The beginning of this Enterlude being happily acted and succeeding according to their mindes at last there were two Armies of soldiers brought by them upon the Stage ready to encounter each other the one of Jesuites and Papists fighting for the Church of Rome the other representing the Protestants warring against her Before their fight a Jesuitical actor clad in black personating a Popish Masse-Priest divineth good success to the Popish Army praying for it with an affected devotion and solemne invocation or rather profanation of Gods name after which the Popish Army of actors as being certain of the instant victory uttered these words to their Captain as their parts directed them with a loud reiterated voyce and shout Pereat Pereat Quisquis est hostis Ecclesiae Let him perish let him perish whoever is an enemy of the Church whereupon a great part of the Stage on which they acted together with the whole Popish Army not one Souldier or Captain excepted at the repeating of these words and wishes fell to the ground immediately with so great celerity that many of them felt they were fallen down before they discerned themselves to fall their feigned enemies of the Church representing the Protestants standing all fast at least in place if not in mind on the other part of the Stage which fell not at all With this sudden fall many of the Popish Army were bruised in peeces with the beames of the Stage falling upon them who through pain and horror needed Monitors to silence their outcries others having their bones broken and Limbes put out of joynt were carried to the Chirugions to be dressed and all the rest confounded with shame crept away secretly under the Veile to their Lodging And so this Jesuitical Enterlude by divine justice ended in a real unexpected bloody Tragedy and real rout of the whole pretended victorious Popish Army of Jesuites and the Scotish Wars that yeer which they so much depended on through Gods mercy concluded in a blessed Peace and Union between both Nations Whereupon the Irish Popish Rebels by the Jesuites Plots and instigations seconded with secret encouragements and promises of assistance with Arms and Moneys from Cardinal Richliou the King of Spain Pope and other forraign Popish Princes undertook the late horrid bloody Massacre of all the Protestants in Ireland and surprisal of all the Forts Castles Arms and Ammunition therein on the 23 of October 1641. being Ignatius day the Founder and New Canonized Saint of the Jesuited Society for the greater Honour of their Patron Order they being the chief Plotters of this horrid bloody Treason Which horrid Conspiracie though happily discovered the night before its execution at Dublin and some few places else yet it took effect in most other parts of Ireland to the slaughter of neer two hundred thousand Protestants there in few months space seconded with a bloody Warre for sundry years to the losse of many thousands more lives To this Plot all the Papists in England were privy who intended the like Massacre in England and soon after by the Popes and Jesuits instigations by the assistance of sorragin Popish Princes they eugaged the King and Parliament in a long-lasting bloody uncivill unchristian war against each other concluding in the Kings and Parliaments joynt ruines by an Army raised for their mutual defence seduced thereunto through the Jesuits instigations and policies After which they engaged the Protestants of England and Scotland formerly united by the strictest Bâ—nds and Covenants against them to war upon invade and destroy each other by land and soon after that by the Spanish Agents Assistance raised a most dangerous bloody Warre between our Protestant old Allies of the Neitherlands and the English by Sea to the infinite dammage prejudice of both and the effusions of whole Oceans of the Gallantest Christian Protestant blood that ever yet was shed the expence of more treasure and men in these intestâ—â—e Wars than would have conquered all Spain Italy and the Indies had they been imployed upon such a designe and to the entailing of a perpetuall Army on us and our Posterities more ready as we have of late years found by sad experiments to hearken to the Jesuits clandestine suggestions â—eductions and execute their fore-plotted Designes to ruine our Kingdomes Parliaments Laws Liberties Monarchy
there is a Paper wherein these words are engraven Ego sicut Oliva fructifera in domo Dei taken out of Ps 52. 8. which pourtraictures they then printed and published to the world wherein they set forth the number of their Colledges and Seminaries to be no less then 777. increased to 155 more by the yeer 1640. in all 932. as they published in like Pictures Pageants printed at Antwerp 1640. Besides sundry New Colledges and Seminaries erected since In these Colledges and Seminaries of theirs they had then as they print 15591 Fellews of their Society of Jesus besides the Novices Scholars and Lay-brethren of their Order amounting to neer ten times that number So infinitely did this evil weed grow and spread it self within one hundred yeers after its first planting And which is most observable of these Colledges and Seminaries they reckoned then no less then 15 secret ones IN PROVINCIA ANGLICANA in the Province of ENGLAND where were 267 SOCII or Fellows of that Society besides 4 COLLEDGES OF ENGLISH JESUITES ELSEWHERE In IRELAND and elsewhere 8 Colledges of IRISH JESUITES and in SCOTLAND and otherwhere 2 Residencies of SCOTTISH JESUITES What the chief imployments of Ignatius and his numerous swarms of Disciples are in the World his own Society at the time of his Canonization for a Romish Saint sufficiently discovered in their painted Pageants then shewed to the people wherein they pourtraied this new Saint holding the whole world in his hand and fire streaming out forth of his heart rather to set the whole world on fire by Combustions Wars Treasons Powder-plots Schismes new State and old Church-Heresies then to enlighten it with this Motto VENI IGNEM MITTFRE I came to send fire into the World which the University of Cracow in Poland objected amongst other Articles against them Anno 1622. and Alphonsus de Vargas more largly insisteth on in his Relatio de Stratagematis Sophismatis Politicis Jesuitarum c. An. 1641. c. 7 8 24. Their number being so infinite and the Pope and Spaniard too having long since by Campanella's advice erected many Colledges in Rome Italy Spain the Netherlands and elsewhere for English Scottish Irish Jesuites as well as for such secular Priests Friers Nuns of purpose to promote their designs against the Protestant Princes Realms Churches Parliaments of England Scotland Ireland to reduce them under their long prosecuted UNIVERSAL MONARCHY over them by Fraud Policy Treason intestine Divisions and Wars being unable to effect it by their own Power no doubt of late yeers many hundreds if not thousands of this Society have crept into England Scotland and Ireland lurking under several disguises yea an whole Colledge of them sate weekly in counsel in or neer Westminster some few yeers since under Conne the Popes Nuntio on purpose to embroyle England and Scotland in bloody civil wars therby to endanger shake subvert these Realms and destroy the late King as you may read at large in my Romes Master-piece published by the Commons special Order An. 1643. who occasioned excited fomâ—nted the first and second intended but happily prevented wars between England and Scotland and after that the unhappy Differences Wars between the King Parliament and our three Protestant Kingdoms to bring them to utter desolation and extirpate our reformed Religion The Kings Forces in which many of them were Souldiers after some yeers wars being defeated thereupon their Father Ignatius being a SOULDIER and they his Military sons not a few of them secretly insinuated themselves as Souldiers into the Parliaments Army and Forces as they had formerly done into the Kings where they so cunningly acted their parts as extraordinary illuminates gifted brethren and grand States-men that they soon leavened many of the Officers Troopers and common Souldiers with their dangerous Jesuitical State-politicks and Practises put them upon sundry strange designs to new-mould the old Monarchical Government Parliaments Church Ministers Laws of England erecting a New General Councel of Army-Officers and Agitators for that purpose acting more like a Parliament and Supream Dictators then Souldiers And at last instigated the Army by open force against their Commissions Duties Oaths Protestations and Solemn League Covenant to Impeach imprison seclude first eleveÌ„ Commoners then some six or seven Lords after that to secure seclude the Majority of the Commons House suppress the whole House of Lords destroy the King Parliament Government Priviledges Liberties of the Kingdom Nation for whose defence they were first raised which by no other adverse power they could effect This produced new bloody divisions animosities wars in and between our three Protestant Realms and Nations after with our Protestant Allies of the Netherlands Campanella's express old projected Plots to subject us both to the Popes and Spaniards Monarchies effected by the Spaniards Gold and Agents with sundry heavy Monthly Taxes Excises Oppressions Sales of the Churches Crowns and of many Nobles and Gentlemens Lands and Estates to their undoing our whole Nations impoverishing and discontent an infinite profuse expence of Treasure of Protestant blood both by Land and Sea decay of Trade with other sad effects in all our three Kingdoms yea sundry successive New changes of our publick Government made by the Army-Officers who are still ringing the changes according to Campanela's and Parsons Platforms So that if Fire may be certainly discerned by the smoke or the Tree commonly known by its Fruits as the Truth it self resolves Matth. 12. 33. we may truly cry out to all our Rulers as the Jews did once to the Rulers of Thessalonica in another case Act. 17. 6. THOSE Jesuites WHO HAVE TURNED THE WORLD UPSIDE DOWN ARE COME HITHER ALSO and have turned our Kingdoms Kings Peers Monarchy Parliaments Government Laws Liberties yea our very Church and Religion too in a great measure UPSIDE DOWNE even by those very Persons who were purposely raised commissiond waged engaged by Protestations Covenanes Vows Oathes Laws Allegiance and Duty to protect them from these Jesuitical Innovations and subversions And those Jesuites Spanish Romish Agents who have so far seduced so deeply engaged them contrary to all these Obligations and to their own former printed Engagements Remonstrances Representations Proposals Desires and RESOLUTIONS for setling this Nation in its just Rights the Parliament in their just Priviledges and the Subjects in their Liberties and Freedoms published to all the World in the name of Sir Thomas Fairfax THE ARMY AND THE GENERAL COUNCEL OF THE ARMY none Volume London 1647. which they may do well to peruse yea against the Votes Intreaties Desires Advices of both Houses of Parliament the Generality of the good Ministers people of the three whole Kingdoms and their wisest best affected Protestant Friends who commissioned raised paid assisted them for far other ends O whether may they will they not in all humane probability rashly blindly suriously henceforth lead drive precipitate them to our whole three Kingdoms Churches Parliaments
keep no faith nor truce with them yea that it would be more profitable for the Church and more conducing to Gods glory for all Christians to give over their warrs they wage against the Turkes by common consent and to let the Turks alone and to turn all their arms and forces against the Evangelical Sectaries or Protestants which live amongst them who are worser and ought to be more odious to true Christians then Turkes and utterly to destroy and persecute them to death rather then to delete the unbelieving Mahometans who are not so dangerous as they Hoc quà m pie et juxta mansuetudinem Christianam dicatur ipsi qui conscientias alioram moderantur conscientiam suam rogant Subjoynes Thuanus though a Papist And Joannis Paulus Windeck in his Book De extirpandis Haeres antid 10. p. 404. 412. antid 11. p. 480. and p. 244. positively determines That the Lutheranes and Calvinists are to be persecuted with warrs and not onely to be terrified but likewise deleted cut off taken out of the way and utterly extirpated with arms and flames That all Catholike Princes ought to enter into Holy leagues associations confederacies to destroy and root them out as they did in France Anno 1587. That the oportunity is not to be neglected namely Quando Protestantes Pecuniis exhausti sunt when the Protestants Purses and money are exhausted as they are now amongst us by excessive endless Taxes Excises Civil wars and a perpetual army too much swayed by Jesuitical counsels to eat us out and ruine us with our Religion in conclusion ere disbanded And that the Catholickes may more easily oppress and destroy these Sectaries they are to be severed one from and divided against each other by sundry various arts and means and all occasions laid hold on for this purpose And are we not so now in all our Realmes and Dominions more then ever by the Jesuites and Romish Emissaries Which the Emperor Charles the 5 observed in his proceedings against the Protestants in Germany to his great advantage In pursuance of these Jesuitical Positions Anno 1576. and 1577. the King of Spain Duke of Guise with sundry others Jesuited Popish Princes Nobles and Papists of all degrees by the Jesuites instigation and Popes speciall approbation entred into a bloody Conspiracy or holy League as they term it To restore and retain the most holy worship of God according to the form and maner of the holy catholike Apostolike Church of Rome to abjure all errors or corruptions contrary thereunto c. To spend not onely all their Estates but lives to repeal all publique Edicts in favor of the Protestants and their associates to extirpate all Heresies heretickes and pursue all such as publike enemies with fire and sword to death who should any way oppose or withstand this League or refuse to joyne with them in it or fall off from it upon any pretext after this Oath to observe it Which League they several times renewed and in the renovation thereof Anno 1598. the Jesuits openly boasted That they would use their utmost endeavours that before the year 1600. began Evangelium So they termed the Protestant Religion Radicitus ex orbs toto extirpetur Should be clean extirpated out of the whole world The Massacres Slaughters of how many thousand Protestants by open intestine wars and bloody Conspiracies this League occasioned in France Germany and the Netherlands together with the murders of two French Roman Catholike Kings the French and Belgick Histories of those times will sufficiently inform the Reader In the year 1602. the Jesuites erected a new Colledge and Society at Thonon in Savoy to convert or utterly extirpate the Protestants under the Notion of Heretickes 1. by Preachings 2. by pious frauds 3. by Vi armata by force of armes to which new Society many Popish Kings Nobles and others gave their names and in June that yeare listed above 25000 expert Soldiers all Roman Catholickes to put this their Designe against the Protestants in execution upon the next oportunity there being above 50 Jesuites disguised in Lay-mens habits imployed in England to stir up the Papists and people there to joyn with them in this new Association to root out the Protestants in all places by the Sword the Principal Engine used by these Ignatians to effect it To pass by all the conspiracies and attempts of the Jesuites in Queen Elizabeths reigne to extirpate our Religion and the Professors of it by open wars Rebellions Spanish and forraign invasions both in England Ireland and Scotland recorded by Mr. Cambden Speed and others in her life and William Watson in his Quodlibets with their attempts of like Nature in the beginning of King James his raign recited in the Statutes of 3. Jacobi c. 2. where all may peruse them I shall onely acquaint you That a little before the beginning of our late bloody wars Divisions contrived fomented by the Jesuites and Papists as I have elsewhere at large discovered and many Parliament-Declarations attest one Francis Smith an English Jesuite openly affirmed to Mr. Waddesworth and Mr. Yaxly That it was not now a time to bring their Religion by disputing or Books of controversie but It must be done by an Army and By the Sword And it is very considerable That when the Jesuites Spanish and Romish Agents had engaged the King and English Protestants against their Protestant Brethren of Scotland 1639. to cut one anothers throats the King of Spain had provided a great new Spanish Armado by the Jesuites sollicitation and a great Land-Army of old Spanish Soldiers to invade the Western and Southern parts of England then destitute of all forces Arms Ammunition to defend it all drawn to the Northern parts against the Scots and to joyn with the Popish confederates here to extirpate the English he retickes and Protestants which designe of theirs through the Hollanders unexpected encounter which scattered their fleet upon the English Coasts and the Pacification with the Scots before any engagement of both Armies was happily prevented That this Spanish Fleet was then especially designed for England appeares besides other Evidences which I have elsewhere touched by the confession of an English Pilot in that Navy upon his death-bed mortally wounded in the first fight to an English Minister and others to whom he revealed it out of conscience by some Letters I have met with and by a Pamphlet made and printed by the Jesuites Anno 1640. intituled The Jubilee of the Jesuites taken from a Papist at Redriffe and presented by Sheriffe Warner to the whole Commons House November 14. 1640. Wherein among other Passages then read in the House entred in the Journal of that day out of which I transcribed them there was a Particular prayer For the holy martyrs that Suffered in the Fleet sent against the Hereticks of England 1639. with this advice That the Papists must fish in troubled waters to wit whiles that The
more than the Power of the Parliament of the Commonwealth of England together with the transcendent ambitious Title of The Supream Authority of the Nation in derogation of the Army Officers Supremacy who sufficiently chastised them for this strange Usurpation who have made it their chief businesse not only to New-model our ancient Fundamental Government Parliaments Ministry Ministers maintenance by Glebes Tithes and our Universities much according to Parsons and his Fellow Jesuites forementioned Plat-formes and Thomas Campanella his Instructions to the King of Spain De Monarchia Hisp. c. 25. but likewise to New-mould subvert eradicate the whole Body of our municipal Laws and with them the great Charter of our Liberties it self And in their last casâ—iered unelected Convention as some of their Companions now in greatest Power assure us in their True State of the Case of the Commonwealth of England c. London 1654. p. 5 16 17 18. there was a strong prevailing party whom nothing would satisfie but A Total Eradication of the whole body of the good old Laws of England the Guardians of our Lives and Fortunes to the utter subversion of civil Right and Propriety who likewise took upon them by vertue of a supposed right of Saintship in themselves to lay the foundation of a new Platform which was to go under the Name of A Fift Monarchy never to have an end but To war withall other powers and break them to pieces baptizing all their proselites into this Principle and perswasion that the Powers formerly in being were branches of the Fourth Monarchy of England Scotland and Ireland which must be rooted up and destroyed And what other Fifth Monarchy this could be but that projected universal Monarchy of the Iesuites which would bring the whole Monarchy of Great Britain and Ireland together with France Spain and all other Princes States in Christendome under the â—esuites subjection and break all other powers in pieces mentioned by Watson in his Quodlibets p. 306 to 333. and Alphonsus de Vargas Relatio de Stratagematis Sophismatis Politicis societatis Iesu Ad Monarchiam orbis terrarum sibi conficiendam c. 8. c. or else that Elective New Monarchy of Great Britain and Ireland projected by Campanella and Cardinal Richelieu which some Grandees now endeavour by their Instrument to erect and perpetuate for ever without alteration in themselves and their Successors though they thus expresly brand it in others let themselves and wise men resolve it being apparent by the practises and proceedings of all the Propugners of this new Project that this Fifth Monarchy they intend to erect is neither the spiritual Kingdom of Iesus Christ in their own hearts mortifying their ambitioÌ„ covetousness pride self-seeking unrighteousness violence rapines other worldly lusts nor the personal reign of Christ himself alone in and over our 3 Kingdoms and all other Nations for ever depriving all Temporal Kings and Princes of their Crowns Rights and Government over their Subjects which they falsly endeavour to evince from Dan. 2. 44 45 c. 7. 14 27. Micah 4. 1 2 7. Luke 1. 32 33. Rev. 20. 1. to 8. 1 Cor. 15. 24 25. Heb. 12. 26 27 28. but a meer supream arbitrary temporal Authority without Bounds or Limits encroached by and erected in themselves and their confederates without any colour of Right or Title by the Laws of God or the Realm and no ways intended but refuted by all these sacred Scriptures others which explain them This design of the Jesuites to alter and subvert the whole body of our Laws was so far promoted by the Iesuitical and Anabaptistical party in this last Assembly elected only by the Army-Officers that on Aug. 20. 1653. as our News-books print they Ordered there should be a Committee selected to consider of a A new Body of the Law for the Government of this Commonwealth who were to new-mould The whole Body of the Law according to Parsons his mould And hereupon our cheating Astrologers especially Lilly Culpeper the Iesuites grand Factors to cry down our Laws Tithes Ministers from the meer visible earthly Conjunctions Votes Motions Influences of these New wandring excentrick Planets at Westminster only not of any Coelestial Stars as they would make Country-Clowns believe alwayes moving and acting themselves by an unalterable Law from the very Creation until now Gen. 1. 14. to 19. c. 8. 22. Psal 104. 19. Psal 136. 8. 9. Ier. 31. 35 36. c. 33. 20 21. Iob 38. 32 33. therefore no ways exciting men to alter Fundamental Laws and Governments here on earth took upon them in their Monthly Prognostications for this year 1654. versity College Lands by Monthly endless Taxes Excises a perpetual Law Tith-oppugning Parliament-dissolving Army in whose Councels we have cause to fear the Iesuites have been most predominant of late years and will still make use of them to our final ruine if not effectually purged out and the Army new moulded new principled if any longer continued under pretext of publick safety and not wholy disbanded for the peoples ease and Liberty It is worthy observation that Tho. Campanella prescribed the sowing and continual nourishing of Divisions Dissentions Discords Sects and Schisms among us both in State and Church by the Machivilian Plots and Policies he suggests punctually prosecuted among us of late years as the principal means to weaken ruine both our Nation and Religion and bring us under the Spanish and Popish yokes at last witness his IAMVERO AD ENERVANDOS ANGLOS NIHIL TAM CONDUCIT QUAM DISSENTIO ET DISCORDIA INTER ILLOS EXCIT AT A PERPETUOQUE NUTRITA Quod citâ— meliâ—res occasiones suppeditabiâ— and that principally by instigating the Nobles and chief Men of the Parliament of England UT ANGLIAMIN FORMAM REIPUBLICAE REDUCANT AD IMITATIONEM HOLLANDORVM which our Republicans lately did by the power of the Army Officers or by sowing the seeds of an inexplicable war between England and Scotland By making it an Elective Kingdom as some now endeavour under another Notion or by setting up Other Kings of another Race without Legal Right or just Title against that ancient unquestioned undoubted Right and Title setled established in King Iames and his Royal Posterity by Inherent Birthright and lawfull right of Descent by God himself and his Laws confirmned strengthned by all possible Titles and Rights of compact Laws Statutes Oaths perpetual uncontradicted custome Protestations Covenants the solemn Publick Faith and Engagement of our English Parliaments Nation for themselves Their Heirs Posterities for ever as the Statutes of 1 Iacobi c. 1. 2 3 Iac. c. 1. 4 7. Iac. c. 6. which both houses of Parliament in their Declaration of Nov. 2. 1642. Exact Collect. p. 705 resolve And that upon this suggestion to the People Crudelem fore SCOTUM ubi semel Imperium in illos obtinuerit 〈…〉 mente repostum quanta injuria Angli Scotos superioribus
Laws Liberties total final desolation and the Armyes too in conclusion beyond all hopes of prevention unless God himself shall miraculously change their Hearts Councels and reclaim them from their late destructive heady violent courses or put an hook into their Noses to turn them back by the way by which they came or set a timely period to their usurped Armed power and extravagant late proceedings of such a desperate unparallel'd unprotestant strange Nature as none but the very worst of Ignatius his Disciples and Engineers durst set on foot or still drive on amongst us Protestants Which I earnestly beseech adjure and conjure them now most seriously to lay â—o heart before it be over-late Those who will take the pains to peruse all or any of these several printed Books most of them very well worth their reading written against the Iesuites and their Practises as well by Papists as Protestants as namely Fides Iesu Iesuitarum printed 1573. Doctrinae Iesuiticae praecipua capita Delph 1589. Aphorismi Doctrinae Iesuâ—ticae 1608. Cambitonius De Studiis Jesuitarum abstrusioribus Anno 1608. Iacobus Thuanus Passages of the Jesuites Hist l. 69 79 83 94 95 96 108 110 114 116 119 121 124 126 129 131 132 134 136 137. 138. Emanuel Meteranus his Passages of them Belgicae Hist l. 9 12 17 18 19 21 23 26 to 34. Willielmus Baudartius Continuatio Meterani l. 37 38 39 40. Donatus Wesagus Fides Iesus Iesuitarum 1610. Characteres Iesuiticae in several Tomes Elias Husenmullerus Historia Iesuitici Ordinâ— Anno 1605. Speculum sive Theoria Doctrinae Iesuiticae necnon Praxis Jesuitarum 1608. Pasquier his Jesuite displayed Petrus de Wangen Physiogmonia Jesuitica 1610. Christopherus Pelargus his Novus Jesuitismus Franciscus de Verone his Jesuitismus Sicarius 1611. Narratio de proditione Jesuitarum in Magnae Brit. Regem 1607. Consilium de lesuitis Regno Polonia ejiciendis The Acts of the States of Rhetia Anno 1561 1612. for banishing the Jesuites wholly out of their Territories NE STATUS POLITICUS TURBARETUR c. mentioned by Fortunatus Sprecherus Palladis Rheticae l. 6. p. 251 273. Melchior Valcius his Furiae Gretzero c. remissae 1611. Censura Jesuitarum Articuli Jesuitarum cum commonefactione illis oppositae Anti-Jesuites au Roy par 1611. Variae Doctorum Theologorum Theses adversus quaedam Jesuitica Dogmata The Remonstrance of the Parliament of Paris to Henry the Great against the re-establishment of the Jesuites And their Censure of Mariana his book to be publickly burnt printed in French 1610. recited in the General History of France in Lewis 13. his life Peter Matthew l. 6. par 3. Historia Franciae Variae Facultatis Thologiae Curiae Parisiensis quam aliorum Opuscula Decreta Censurae contra Jesuitas Paris 1612. Conradus Deckerus De proprietatibus Iesuitarum 1611. Quaerelarum inclyti Regni Hungariae adversus corruptelas Iesuiticas defensio Lucas Osiander his writing about the Jesuites bloody Plot Han. 1614. Iesuitarum per unitas Belgii Provincias Negotiatio Anno 1616. Radulphus Hospinianus Historia Iesuitica 1619. Bogermannus his Catechismus Iesuiticus Lodovicus Lucius Historia Iesuitica Basil 1627. Arcana Imperii Hispanici 1628. Mercure Iesuite in several Tomes Geneve 1626 De Conscientia Iesuitarum tractat Censura sacrae Theologiae Parisiensis in librum qui inscribitur Antonii Sanctarelli societatis Iesu de Haeresi Schismate Apostasia c. Paris 1626. Anti-Cotton Ioannes Henricius Deliberatio de compescendo perpetuo crudeli Conatu Iesuitarum Fran. 1633. A Proclamation of the States of the united Provinces Anno 1612. And another Proclamation of theirs with two other Proclamations of the Protestant States of the Marquesate of Mâ—ravia for the banishing of the Iesuites London 1629. Alfonsi de Vargas Toletani Relatio ad Reges Principes Christianos De Stratagematis Sophismatis Politicis Societatis Jesu ad Monarchiam Orbis terrarum sibi conficiendam in qua Jesuitarum erga Reges Populos optimè de se meritos infidelitas erga ipsum Poutificem perfidia contumacia IN FIDEI REBUS NOVANDI LIBIDO illustribus documentis comprobatur Anno 1641. Jubilaeum sive Speculum Jesuiticum exhibens PRAECIPUA JESUITARUM SCELERA MOLITIONES INNOVATIONES FRAUDES IMPOSTURAS ET MENDACIA CONTRA STATUM ECCLESIASTICUM POLITICUMQUE in extra EUROPEUM ORBEM primo hoc centenario confirmati illius Ordinis INSTITUTA ET PERPETRATA ex variis Historiis inprimis vero Pontificiis collecta Anno 1644. a piece worth perusing Or else will but cast their eyes upon our own forecited Statutes and the Proclamations of Queen Elizabeth King James and King Charls against Jesuites and Seminary Priests A brief Discovery of Doctor Allens Seditious Drifts London 1588. Charles Paget a Seminary Priest his Answer to Dolman concerning the succession of the English Crown 1601. William Watson a secular Priest his Dedachordon or Quodlibets printed 1602. now very well worthy all Protestants reading A Letter of A. C. to his Dis-Jesuited Kinsman concerning the Jesuites London 1602. Romish Positions and Practises for Rebellion London 1605. The Arraignment of Traytors London 1605. John King Bishop of London his Sermons on November 5. 1607 1608. King James his Conjuratio Sulphurea Apologia pro Juramento fidelitatis Responsio ad Epistolam Cardinalis Peronii An Exact Discovery of the chief Mysteryes of the Jesuitical iniquity and The Jesuites secret Consultations both printed London 1619. William Crashaw his Iesuites Gospel London 1621. William Feak of the Doctrine and Practice of the Society of Jesus London 1630. The many printed Sermons of Doctor Iohn White Bishop Lake Bishop Andrews Doctor Donne Doctor Featly Doctor Clerk and others preached on the fifth of November Lewis Owen his Running Register London 1620. His Unmasking of all Popish Monkes and Jesuites 1628. And his Jesuites Looking-Glass London 1629. John Gee his Foot out of the Snare c. London 1624. with the Jesuitical Plots discovered in my Romes Master-piece and Hidden works of darkness brought to publick Light London 1645. shall see the Jesuites and their Seminaries charged with convinced of and condemned for these ensuing Seditious Treasonable Antimonarchical Anarchical Positions and Practises for which their Society hath by publick Acts and Proclamations been several times banished out of Hungaria Bohemia Moravia Poland the Low Countries Rhetia France Transilvania Sweden Denmark the Palatinate Venice Aethiopia Japan and Turkey as well as out of England Scotland and Ireland as most insufferable Pests and Traytors in many of which they have yet gotten footing again 1. That at least â—ifty several prime Authors of that infernal Society of Jesus in several printed books which you shall finde specified in Doctor John Whites Defence of the Way c. 6 10. Aphorismi-Jesuitarum Iubilaeum or Speculum Iesuiticum p. 187 188. and the Appendix to my Fourth part of the Soveraign power of Parliaments p. 187 188. have dogmatically maintained That the Pope hath absolute power not onely to
Bull the Jesuites after her decease disswaded the Romish-minded Subjects from yielding in any wise obedience to King James as their Soveraign and entrâ—d into a Treasonable Conspiracy with the Lord Cobham Lord Gray and others against him to imprison him for the ends aforesaid or destroy him pretending that King Iames was no King at all before his Coronation and that therefore they might by force of Arms lawfully surprise his person and Prince Henry his Son and imprison them in the Tower of London or Dover-Castle till they inforced them by duress to grant a free toleration of their Catholick Religion to remove some evil Counsellors from about them and to grant them a free Pardon for this violence or else they would put some further project in execution against them to their destruction But this Conspiricy being discovered The Traytors were apprehended arraighned condemned and Watson and Clerk two Jesuited Priests who had drawn them into this Conspiracy upon the aforesaid Pretext with some others executed as Traytors all the Iudges of England resolving that King Iames being right Heir to the Crown by descent was immediately upon the death of Queen Elizabeth actually possessed of the Crown and lawful King of England before any Proclamatâ—on or Coronation of him which are but Ceremonies as was formerly adjudged in the case of Queen Mary and Queed Iane 1 Mariae there being no Interregnum by the Law of ENGLAND as is adjudged declared by Act of Parliament 1 Iac. c. 1. worthy serious perusal 8. their horrid Gun-powder Treason Plot contrived fomented by Garnet Superiour of the English Jesuites Gerard Tensmod and other Jesuites who by their Apostolical power did not onely commend but absolve from all sin the other Jesuited Popish Conspirators and Faux The Sculdier who were their instruments to effect it Yea the Jesuitical Priests were so Atheistical as that they usually concluded their Masses with Prayers for the good success of this hellish Plot which was suddenly with no less then 36 Barrels of Gunpowder placed in a secret Vault under the House of Lords to have blown up and destroyed at once King James himself the Queen Prince Lords Spirituall and Temporal with the Commons assembled together in the Upper-House of Parliament upon the 5 of November Anno Dom. 1605. and then forcibly to have seised with armed men prepared for that purpose the persons of our late beheaded King then Dake of York and of the Lady Elizabeth his Sister if absent from the Parliament and not there destroyed with the rest that so there might be none of the Royal Line left to inherit the Crown of England Scotland and Ireland to the utter overthrow and subversion of the whole Royal Family Parliament State and Government of this Realm Which unparallel'd inhumane bloody Plot being miraculously discovered prevented the very day before its execution in perpetual detestation of it and of the Jesuites and their traiterous Romish Religion which both contrived and approved it the 5 day of November by the Statute of 3 Jacobi ch 1. was enacted to be had in perpetual Remembrance that all Ages to come might thereon meet together publickly throughout the whole Nation to render publick praises unto God for preventing this infernal Jesuitical Design and keep in memory this joyful Day of Deliverance for which end special forms of publick Prayers and Thankesgivings were then appointed and that Day ever since more or less annually observed till this present And it is worthy special observation that had this Plot taken effect It was agreed by the Jesuites and Popish Conspirators before-hand That the Imputation of this Treason should be cast upon the Puritans to make them more Odious as now they father all the Powder-Plots of this kinde which they have not onely laid but fully accomplished of late yeers against the King Prince Royal Posterity the Lords and Commons House our old English Parliaments and Government upon those Independents and Anabaptistical Sword-men whom they now repute and stile the most reformed PURITANS who were in truth but their meer under Instruments to effect them When as they originally laid the Plots as is clear by Campanella's Book De Monarchia Hisp ch 25. and Cardinal Richelieu his Instructions at his death to the King of France And it is very observable that as Courtney the Jesuite Rector of the English Jesuites Colledge at Rome did in the year 1641. when the name of Independents was scarce heard of in England openly affirm to some English Gentlemen and a Reverend Minister of late in Cornwal from whom I had this Relation then and there feasted by the English Jesuites in their Colledge That now at last after all their former Plots had miscarried they had found out a sure way to subvert and ruine the Church of England which was most formidable to them of all others by the Independents who immediately after by the Jesuites clandestine assistance infinitely encreased supplanted the Presbyterians by degrees got the whole power of the Army and by it of the Kingdom into their hands then subverted both the Presbyterian Government and Church of England in a great measure with the Parliament King and his Posterity as Monsieur Militiere a Jesuited French-Papist observes So some Independent Ministers Sectaries and Anabaptists ever since 1648. have neglected the observation of the fifth of November as I am credibly informed and refused to render publick thanks to God for the deliverance thereon contrary to the Act for this very reason which some of them have rendered That they would not mock God in publick by praising him for delivering the late King Royal Posterity and House of Lords from destruction then by Jesuites and Papists when as themselves have since destroyed and subverted them through Gods providence and repute it a special mercy and deliverance to the Nation from Tyranny and Bondage for which they have cause to bless the Lord Performing that for the Jesuites and Powder-Traytors which themselves could not effect The Lord give them grace and hearts to consider how much they acted the Jesuites and promoted their very worst Designes against us therein what infamy and scandal they have thereby drawn upon all zealous Professors of our Protestant Religion and what will they do in the end thereof 9. To omit all other Forraign instances cited in Speculum Jesuiticum p. 124 to 130. where you may peruse them at leisure By their poysoning King Iames himself in conclusion as some of them have boasted 10. By the Popes Nuntio's and a Conclave of Jesuites Conspiracy at London Anno 1640. to poyson our late King Charles himself as they had poysoned his Father with a poysoned Indian Nut kept by the Jesuites and shewed often by Conne the Popes Nuntio to the Discoverer of that Plot or else to destroy him by the Scotish wars and troubles raised for that very end by the Jesuites in case he refused to grant them a
universal liberty of exercising their Popish Religion throughout his Realms and Dominions and then to train up his Son under them in the Popish Religion To which not onely heretofore but now likewise they strenuously endeavour by all possible means to seduce him as appears more especially by Monsieur Militiere his late book dedicated to Him for that purpose to invite him to the Roman Catholick Faith Surely all these premised instances compared together and with that memorable passage of the English Jesuite Campian in his Concertatio Ecclesiae Catholicae or Epistle to Queen Elizabeths Councel Treviris 1583. p. 22. Velim sciatis quod ad Societatem nostram attinet omnes nos qui per totum Orbeni longe lateque diffusi sunt quarum est continua successio magnus numerus Sanctum foedus infisse nec quamdiu unus nostrum supererit studium consilia nostra intermissuros ad Reges Hereticos quovis modo tollendos as Hospinian relates and expounds his words and meaning Religionem vestram extingâ—ere Iampridem jacta est ratio inchoatum certamen nulla vis nullus Anglorum impetus superabit so as to hinder this their holy League and Covenant long since entred into To destroy take out of the way ruine all Protestant Kings throughout the World under the Notion of Hereticks by any means whatsoever and the Protestant Religion togetherwith them With a Copy of a Letter sent by an Independent Agent from Paris some few weeks before the Kings removal from the Isle of Weight by the Army-Officers declaring the Jesuites implacable Enmity to the King and to hereditary Monarchy throughout the World And an Express sent from Paris to the King himself some three dayes before his seisure and translation from Weight to this effect as I have heard from persons of Honour That the Jesuites at a general meeting in France had resolved by the power of their friends in England to seise on his Majesty bring him to justice and cut off his head because he had contrary to their expectation closed with the Parliament consented to the abolishing of Episcopacy and to five new Bills against Jesuites Popish Priests Mass Popery and all Popish Ceremonies in the last Treaty and advising Him to prepare for this new storm which within few days after fell upon him will sufficiently inform the world that the late unparallel'd capital proceedings against our Protestant King contrary to the Votes of both Houses of Parliament the Parliament Members Peers House and forced dissolved late Parliament too proceeded not from the Principles of our reformed Protestant Religion as this Monsieur in his printed Pamphlet would make his Reader the youg King to whom he dedicates it and all the World believe but from the Popes and Jesuites forecited Treasonable Opinions seconded with their clandestine Sollicitations and Practises and that they with some French Cardinals Jesuites as well as Spanish and English then present in England to promote their Designes were the chief original Contrivers Promoters of them whoever were the immediate visible Instruments as I have elsewhere more fully demonstrated for the wiping off this Scandal from our reformed Religion the sincere Professors of it who both abominated and protested against it in print 〈◊〉 Radolphus Hospinian in his excellent Historia Jesuitica l. 4. f. 244 245. reckons up these three prime causes of the Jesuites Regicides other Notorious Treasons The first is that blinde Obedience which they vow to their Superiours to execute with great celerity spiritual joy and perseverance whatever their Superiours shall enjoyne them by being perswaded That all their Cemmands are Iust to them by renouncing their own Opinion and Iudgement with a certain Blinde Obedience and by believing that those who live under Obedience are carried and governed by Divine Providence a word now most in use with our Army-Saints and Souldiers wholly infected with this Jesuitical Doctrine of Obedience by their Superiors whithersoever they shall suffer themselves to be carried or in what sort soever they shall be dealt with by them like a staffe in the hand of a man which readily obeys him that holds it wheresoever and in what thing soever he will please to use it especially when backed with a pretext of Necessity Religions Safety Publick Good Exemplary Justice and promoting the common Cause for which their Society was first instituted 2. That they hold themselves obliged to no Kings Princes or Civil Magistrates by any Oath of Allegiance but onely to the Pope and their Generals and therefore think themselves free and unable to commit any Treason at all against them although at the Popes and â—heir Superiours commands they still rise up against murder â—stroy them 3. That they deem those Kings Princes which the Pope and Jesuites or other learned men of their Religion or the common people shall deem Hereticks to be thereby wholly made uncapable of any Empires Kingdoms or Principalities or any other civil Diguity yea to be accursed Tyrants unworthy of the name of Kings that thereby their Subjects are totally absolved from the bond of Allegiance to them and that thereupon it is lawful to kill and destroy them and the murders of such are meritorious Now that these three Jesuitical Grounds and Principles infused into our Army-Officers and Souldiers by the Jesuites and their Instruments of late yeers against their Primitive Orthodox Positions Protestations Declarations Oaths Covenants Engagements backed with secret Avarice Ambition and Self-ends were the principal impulsive Causes of all the extravagant violent Proceedings both against the late King and Parliament not the loyal Principles of the Protestant Religion is apparent unto all the World by the Armies own Declarations of Nov. 16. and Decemb. 7. 1648. Their True State of the Commonwealth of England c. 1654. and other Pamphlets for their justification which all true Protestants blush at 〈◊〉 3. That the Jesuites ever since the Establishment of their Military Order under Ignatius their Martial General have been the principal Firebrands Bellows Instruments of kindling somenting raising continuing all the publick commotions wars seditions and bloody fewds that have happened in or between any Kings Kingdoms States Princes Soveraigns or Subjects throughout the Christians world and more particularly of all the Civil commotions wars in France Germany Transylvania Bohemia Hungary Russia Poland England Scotland and Ireland to the effusion of whole Oceans of Christian blood which one poetically thus expresseth Quicquid in Orbe mali passim Peccante Gradido est Quicquid turbarum tempora nostra vident Cuncta Sodalitio mentito Nomine Jesu Accepta Historiâ teste referre licet Itâ— modò vestrae celebrate Encaenia Sectae Militis inventum Loiolana cohors Yea it is well worthy observation what Jacobus Crucius a Jesuite Rector of the Jesuites Novices at Landsberge presumed to publish in his Explication of the Rules of the Jesuites Anno 1584. in these words The Father
Church Religion then to follow the Advice Votes Councels Directions Commands of our Parliaments Kingdomes and the best affected Protestants of all ranks who first raised and have so long maintained them for quite other ends hereafter touched then what they of late times have most pursued to the Popes and Jesuits great content 5. That the Jesuits have endeavoured attempted the convulsion concussion subversion not onely of the Empires Realms and ancient setled Governments and States of Germany Russia Bohemia Hungaria France Poland but likewise of England Scotland and Ireland and to new model them into other Forms of Government What mould of Government they intended to cast England into is thus long since described by William Watson a secular Priest in his Quodlibets Anno 1602. page 309 310 330 331. England is the main chance of Christendome at this present by seditions factions tampering and aspiring Heads the onely But Mark White the Jesuits aym at as well in intention as execution of their pretended expedition exploit and action I am of opinion that no man on earth can tell what Government it is they intend to establish ratifie and confirm when they come to their preconceited Monarchy no not any of their Plot casters No question it is but their Government shall be as uncertain as their New conceited Monarchy their Monarchy as mutable as their Reign and their Reign as variable as the Winde or Proteus in his Complements But no question is to be made of it but that the Government they do directly intend at this present is A MOST ABSOLUTE SOVERAIGNTY DOMINION AND STATE CLEARLY EXEMPTED from any subordination TO ANY LAW or Legifer divine or humane and therefore it is rightly called DESPOTICON in the highest degree of exemplary immuniâ—le IMPERIALITY AND ABSOLUTE REIGN RULE AND AUTHORITY as containing in it three sorts of Government Sâ—il Monarchical Aristocraticall Democraticall in matters of Counsell and mannaging of Common wealths causes not in point OF REGALITY HONOUR AND INHERITANCE For there shall be neither Title nor Name nor Honour given taken or done to any Prince Duke Marquesse Earl Viscount Lord Baron or the like all the Jesuitical Governours being Puritan like Seniours Elders Provincials c. neither shall there be any successions by Birth or blood TO ANY HONOUR OFFICE OR MAGISTRACY from the Monarch Pater General to the Minor Pâ—ter Minister but ALL SHALL GO BY ELECTION OR CHOICE Whether our late and present variable floating New moulded Governments have not been cast by this long since predicted Jesuiticall Mould let wise men with all our late yea present Governours now sadly consider and determine 6. That the Jesuits in a publique Disputation held at Madrid published by them under this Title Conclusiones Politicae sub Regis Domini nostri praesidio instructed the King of Spain their Chief Protector whom they most extoll above all other Kings to promote both his universall Monarchy and their own thereby That in relation to his Empire Power was necessary which power they defined to be A faculty not onely of retaining the Kingdomes he already possessed but likewise of acquiring other mens Perswading him by this Doctrine to believe That he was therefore consecrated a Catholike King by God that he might enjoy a faculty not onely of keeping his own but also OF INVADING AND SEISING UPON OTHER MENS DOMINIONS For to retain ones own was the praise onely of a private family DE ALIENIS CERTARE REGIA LAUS EST but it was a Royall praise to fight for that which is other mens NEC REGNANDI CAUSA JUS VIOLARE CRIMEN EST DUM CAETERIS REBUS PIETAS COLATUR Neither is it a Crime to violate Law or Right to reign or gain a Crown whiles that Piety in other things shall be observed Which Jesuitical Machivilian unrighteous Doctrine though as Alphonsus Vargas a Spanish Popish Priest resolves it be diametrically contrary to the doctrine of our Lord Jesus himself instructing men that aliena obtinere non Potentis Principis SED IMPOTENTIS AC VIOLENTI PRAEDONIS EST Yet the Jesuites and their Instruments of late years have sufficiently propagated it amongst our English Grandees and Army-Saints for a most sacred Oracle as their violent invasions of other mens Realms Powers Offices Pallaces Lands Estates and Possessions of all kindes by meer armed power and might demonstrate beyond contradiction 7. That the Jesuites in their Book De Zelo S. Ignatii in Religione sua instituenda printed at Madrid p. 13 do glory Hoc Societatis proprium esse ut quotidie novâ—â— promat inventiones quibus homines ad Deum perducantur That this is the property of their Society that it DAILY BRINGS FORTH NEW INVENTIONS whereby men may be brought home to God that is to their Religion and Society the principle whereof they and Vargas record to be these Their perswading of men to embrace the Gospel by AN ARMY the use of ARMES Power Terrour Fire Their Exercise of Merchandize which many of them in most places in England too now use they being very great Merchants Factors and Returners of Moneys by Bils of Exchange and of all other Secular Imployments Callings in Lay-mens habits the more easily to insinuate themselves into all Countries Places Companies and Societies of men to infect seduce and discover their secrets according to this their received Maxime JESUITA EST OMNIS HOMO a Jesuit is every man that is a man of all Professions Callings Sects Religions to effect his ends Their questioning traducing oppugning censuring of all the Articles of the Apostles Creed and received Principles Doctrines of Christian Religion corrupting slighting falsifying the Scriptures themselves together with Councils Fathers Schoolmen and all other Divines but those onely of their own Order which they incomparably extoll above and prefer before all other Their venting of new Opinions Notions Revelations Exposâ—â—ions Crochets Herefies Problems both in Divinity itself and all other Arts and Sciences in the Presse Pulpit Universities Schools And if these as Vargas assures us be their properties and new inventions to propagate the Gospel and draw men unto God which our Lord Jesus himself and his true Disciples were wholy ignorant of may we not certainly conclude that they have of late years been extraordinary busie at this their harvest work amongst us and more especially in spreading their Gospel by AN ARMY and taking upon them the use of Arms in 〈◊〉 of their Military Father Ignatius with all other secular Imployments and New Sects to draw Proselites and new separate Congregations to them throughout our Realms to destroy both our Church Discipline and Religion as well as our Civill Government and Laws 8. That as the whole House of Commons in their Remonstrance of 15. December 1641. charge the Jesuites and late Jesuited Court-Counsellors with a Malignant and pernicious designe of SUBVERTING THE FUNDAMENTAL LAWS and Principles of Government upon which the Religion and Justice of the
Kingdome are firmly established So William Watson a Secular Priest chargeth Father Parsons the English Jesuite and his Jesuited companions in their Memorial for Reformation of England when it should be reduced under the power of the Jesuites as Parsons was confident it would be though he should not live to see it written at Sevil in Spain Anno Dom. 1590. that they intended to have Magna Charta with our Common Fundamental Laws and Liberties abrogated and suppressed thus expressed by William Watson in his Quodlibets pag. 92 94 95. Father Parsons and the Jesuites in their deep Jesuitical Court of Parliament begun at Styx in Phlegeton have compiled their Acts in a compleat Volume intituled THE HIGH COVRT OF REFORMATION FOR ENGLAND And to give you a taste of their intent by that base Court of A TRIBE of TRAITORS sawcily like to Gade Jack Straw and Tom Tiler VSVRPING the AVTHORITY of both STATES ECCLESIASTICAL and TEMPORALL in all their REBELLIOVS ENTERPRICES these were principall points discussed set down and so decreed by them c. He first mentions three of them relating to Church-men Scholars and Church and Colledge-Lands which were to be put in Fee offâ—â—s hands and they all to be reduced unto Arbitrary Pensions c. And then proceeds thus to the Fourth The fourth Statute was there made concerning the COMMON LAWS of this LAND and that consisted of this one principal point That ALL THE GREAT CHARTERS of ENGLAND MUST BE BURNT the manner of holding Lands in Fee simple Fee tail Kings service Soccage or Villanage brought into villany scoggâ—â—y and popularity and in few the Common Law must be wholy annihillated abolished and troden down under foot and Caesars civill Imperials brought amongst us and sway for a time in their places All whatsoever England yeelds being but base barbarous and void of all sence knowledge or discretion shewed in the first Founders and Legifers and on the other side all whatsoever is or shal be brought in by these out-casts of Moses stain of Solon and refuse of Lycurgus must be reputed for metaphysical seme-divine and of more excellency than the other were Which he thus seconds Quodlibet 9. Article 2. p. 286. First it is plain that Father Parsons and his Company divide it amongst them how they list have laid a plot as being most consonant and fitting for their other Designments That the Common Laws of the Realm of England must be forsooth either abolished utterly or else bear no greater sway in the Realm than the Civil Law doth And the chief reason is for that the State of the Crown and Kingdome by the Common Laws is so strongly settled as whilest they continue the Jesuites see not how they can work their wills And on the other side in the Civil laws they think they have some shreds whereby they may patch a cloak together to cover a bloody shew of their Treasons for the present from the eys of the Vulgar people Secondly the said good Father hath set down a course how every man may shake off all authority at their pleasures as if he would become a new Anabaptist or King John of Leydon to draw all the world into Mutiny â—ebellion and Combustion And the Stratagem is how the Common people may be inveigled seduced to conceit to themselves such a liberty or prerogative as that it may be lawfull for them when they think meet to place and displace Kings and Princes as men do their Tenants at will hirelings or ordinary Servants Which Anabaptistical and abominable Doctrine proceeding from a turbulâ—nt tribe of Traiterous Puritanâ—s and other Hereticks this treacherous Jesuite would now foist into the Catholick Church as a ground of his corrupt Divinity And p. 330 332. He intends to alter and change all Laws Customs and Orders of this Noble Isle He hath prejudiced the law of Property in instituting Government Governours and Hereditary Princes to be BENEPLACITVM POPVLI and all other private possessions ad bene-placitum sui c Whether any such new deep Jesuitical Court of Parliament and high Court of Reformation for England to carry on this old Design of the Jesuites against our Laws hath been of late years sitting amongst us in or neer Westminster or elswhere in secret Counsel every week as divers intelligent Protestants have informed me and Hugh Peters reported to divers on his own knowledge being well acquainted with their Persons and practises of late years it concerns others neerer to them and more able then I to examine Sure I am a greater man by far then Hugh Peters in an Assembly of Divines and others for reconciling all dissenting parties not long since averred to them on his own knowledge That during our late innovations distractions subversions in Church State and overturning of Laws and Government the common adversary hath taken many advantages to effect his designes thereby in civill and spiritual respects That he knew very well that Emissaries of the Jesuites never came over in those swarms as they have done since these things were on foot That DIVERS GENTLEMNE CAN BEAR WITNES WITH HIM that they had a CONSISTORY AND COUNCEL ABROAD THAT RULES ALL THE AFFAIRS OF THE THINGS IN ENGLAND That they had fixed in England in the limits of most Cathedrals of which he was able to produce the PARTICULAR INSTRUMENT an Episcopal power with Archdeacons and other persons to pervert seduce and deceive the people And all this whiles we were in this sad and deplorable distracted condition Yea most certain it is that many hundreds if not some thousands of them within these few years have been sent over from Forraign Seminaries into England under the disguises of converted Jews Physitians Chyrurgions Mechanicks of all sorts Merchants Factors Travellers Souldiers and some of them particularly into the Army as appears by the late printed Examination of Ramsey the Anabaptized New-dipped Jesuite under the mask of a Jewish Convert taken at New Castle in June 1653. and by sundry severall late instances I could name To pretermit all instances of diverse particular Jesuites come over into England not only within these few years but moneths discovered by persons of credit with Sir Kenelm Digby who though the son of one of the executed old popish Gunpowder Traitors a dangerous active seducing Jesuited papist if not a professed Jesuit who in the years 1638 and 1639. conspired with the Popes Nuncio and a Conclave of Jesuites sitting in Council at London to subvert our Religion introduce a universall tolleration of the popish Religion in our kingomes new modle and shake our former established government and to poyson destroy the late King himself in case he consented not to them therein and for this very purpose both plotted raised promoted the first Wars between the Protestants of England and Scotland which he abetted all he could by his letters and secret Collections of moneys from all the Papists throughout England and elswhere who
Britain To which I shall add that of Rob Turner an English Jesuit in his Epistles printed at Ingolstad An. 1584. Ep. 19. Volui irrepere volui irrumpere in intimas Aulas Principum volui videre omnia ut ad Justitiae norman praeclare exigerem Vix coeperam obiâ—e PrincipuÌ„ Aulas cum viderim HoereticoruÌ„ illum Mundum ADMINISTRARI A STULTIS c. with that of Hospinian Historia Jesuitica l. 3. p. 148. That the Jesuits are so subtil vigilant bold laborious and indued with such a faciâ—lty of flattery insinuation acting and hurting in Princes Courts that they exactly discover know and fish out all their secrets which they eveâ—l to their Superiors the Pope and Spaniard and alone rule all things in them so that the Courts of Europe are more grievously infested afflicted by the Iesuites than the Court of Pharoah was of old by the Aegyptian â—rogs And may we not then justly fear our new Court hath been as much pestered and infested by them of late years as our old Court heretofore 〈◊〉 That the Jesuites hope and endeavour to have England Scotland and Ireland under them to make these Northern Islands a Iaponian Island of Iesuites and one Iesuitical Monarchy and to infeoffe themselves by hook or by crook In the whole imperial Dominions of great Britain with the remainder over To their Corporation or puni-Fathers succeeding them as heirs specially in their society by a state of perpetuity Putting all the whole Blood Royal of England to the Formidon As but Heirs general in one Predicament together as now they have done 3. That the Jesuites have Magistracy Kings Magistrates Ministers Priesthood and Priests in high contempt publishing many slanderous seditious trayterous and infamous speeches libels and books against them to render them odious and contemptible to the People full of Plots exasperations against the Church and Commonwealth like rebellious Traytors to bring all into an uproar that they may have all Countries Kingdoms Governments Successions States Inhabitants and all at their pleasure 4. That the Jesuites have taught the people in order to get England under their power and in order to God or Religion as they stile it That Subjects are bound no longer to obey wicked or heretical Princes and Kings deflecting from the Catholick Religion and drawing others with them but till they be able by force of arms to resist and depose them That the popular multitude may upon these grounds when they think meet place and displace their Princes and chief Officers at their pleasure as men may do their Tenants at will hirelings or ordinary Servants putting no difference in their choice Vpon any Right or Title to Crowns or Kingdome by Birth or Blood or otherwise then as these Fathers forsooth shall approve it By this all things must be wrought and framed conformable to opportunities of times and occasions as for example The people must have a right and interest in them and to doe what they list in choice of their Kings and Supream Governours til they have set such a person or Usurper in the Crown as they for their ends have designed and then the times and occasions changing when such a one is setled in the Throne the former doctrine and practises must be holden FOR A MISTAKING yet such as seeing it cannot be holpen the people must beware herafter of attempting the like again By this a check must be given to the publishers of such paradoxes when they have accomplished their designed ends after that a dispensation procured for the Offenders and then all shall be well ever after till a new opportunity for their further advantage 5. That the Jesuits by absâ—rd equivocations counterfeited perjuries Sacriledges and cousenage become all things to all men that they may gain all as to be Seminary Priests amongst Seminaries Secular Priests among Seculars Religious men among Religious Seditious men among Seditious Factions Spaniards amongst Spaniards ENGLISH TRAYTORS AMONG TRAYTORS SCOTISH VILAINS AMONG SCOTS c. and amongst all these to deny and affirm to object and answer to swear and forswear whatsoever may be a gain to them for their pragmatical Commonwealth and society No wonder then if they transform themselves into all shapes and take upon them all professions now amongst us 6. That the Jesuits by their devices and practises have brought all to Machiavels rule DIVIDE ET IMPERA in sowing division breeding of jealousies and making of hoslile strife by opposition of King against King State against State Priest against Priest Peer against Peer Parents against children children against parents sisters against brothers servants against masters wives against husbands husbands against wives and one friend against another raising up rebellions MVRDRING OF PRINCES making uproars every where until they make those they cannot otherwise winne unto them either yield to be their vassals to live quiet by them or force them to flight or drive them out of their wits or otherwise plague them to death 7. That the Jesuits by their cursed positions and machiavillian practises have made religion it self a meer political and atheal device a pragmatical science of Figboys and but an art of such as live by their wits and the principles of Machiavel taught by their Rabbâ—es yea a very hotch potch of omnium gatherum religious secular clergical laical ecclesiastical spiritual temporal MARTIAL civil Aecomenical political liberal mechannical municipal irregular and ALL WITHOVT ORDER so that they are not worthy to be called religious ecclesiasticks catholicks nor temporal mechannical Christians but rather Machiavillians Atheists Apostates their course of life shewing what their study is and that howsoever they boast of their perfections holiness meditations and exercises as if they were all Superlatives all Metaphysicians all entia transcendentia yet their platform is heathenish tyrannical sathannical able to set Aretine Lucian Machiavel yea and Don Lucifer in a sort to school Those I say who shall sadly ponder all these premises and compare them with the late practises policies and proceedings of some swaying politicians of our age infected likewise with this Atheistical State-Maxime amongst others derived from the Jesuits and Machiavillian Spanish State-Counsellers In Reipublicae administratione quaedam LICITA ESSE RATIONE STATVS alia respectu Conscientiae which Thomas Campanella as bad as he is not only severely censures but thus declaims against with highest detestation Qua opinione profecto NIHIL MAGIS ABSVRDVM AVâ— IMPIVM ne excogitari quidem potest Nam qui conscientiae universalem suam jurisdictionem in omnes res humanas TAM PVBLICAS QVAM PRIVATAS subtrahit ostendit SE NEC CONSCIENTIAM NEC DEVM HABERE c. Siquidem omnia scandala Ecclesiae Dei PERTVRBATIONES ORBIS TERRARVM INDE ORTA SVNT that men may do against all Laws of God and Man their own Consciences Trusts Oaths out of a pretext of the benefit safety of the State publick good as most now do Or compare
to violate we shall appeal to the judgement of any indifferent man how little truth is contained in this their assertion or in the Army Officers printed Papers to the same effect The Parliament is to be considered in three severall respects First As a Councell to advise Secondly As a Court to judge 3. As it is the body representative of the whole Kingdom to make repeal or alter Laws and whether the Parliament hath enjoyed its priviledges in any of these respects under the Army-Officers and powers as well as late King let any that hath eyes open judge For the first We dare appeal even to the Consciences of the Contrivers themselves and to the consciences of the Army-Officers Souldiers and Whitehall men themselves whether matters of the highest importance witness all the publick proceedings against the late Parliament King Peers Government the Warrs with Scotland Holland their new Magna Châ—rta repealing the old Entituled The Government of the Commonwealth of England Scotland and Ireland wherein they take upon them such an Omnipotent Soveraign power as To pass a decree upon the wavering humors of the people and to say to this Nation yea to Scotland and Ireland too As the Almighty himself said once to the unruly Sea Here shall be thy bounds hitherto shalt thou come and no further as some of them most arrogantly if not blasphemously publish in print to all the world in their True State of the Case of the Commonwealth p. 34. Their making of new binding Laws and Ordinances repealing old Laws and Statutes in and by pretext of this Instrument out of Parliament as their manifold Whitehall Folio new Edicts amounting to near 700 pages attest have not been agitated and determined in and by the Army-Officers General Councel and other unparliamentary Juncto's not only without but contrary to their Advice and Votes too and whether private unknown Councels in the Army Whitehall and elswhere yea the private Councels Plots conspiracies of Iesuits of Forraign Popish and Spanish Agents have not been hearkned unto approved and followed when the Faithful and wholsom advice of the great Counsel hath been scorned neglected by the Army Officers and their Confederates And yet none can deny but it is one of the Principle ends why a Parliament is called To Consult the great Affairs of the Church and State And what miserable effects and sad events this neglect of the great Councel and preferring of unknown and private Councels before it hath produced let the present Distractions of this Kingdom bear witnesse with all the bloody unchristian Wars Taxes Oppressions Distractions since the Armies force upon the King Members Houses Anno 1647. and 1648. to this present time Concerning the Second it sufficiently appears by the making the Kings Court by the Force and Power of the Kings Army the Sanctuary and refuge of All sorts of Delinquents against the Parliament and Kingdom and protecting and defending them from the Justice thereof and by admitting such to bear places of great trust in the Army and to stand in defiance of the Parliament and the Authority thereof and is it not a far greater crime to make the Parliaments Army it self a Delinquent against the Parliament and Kingdom the sanctuary of such Delinquents against both and to continue such Officers in places of greatest trust in the Army who have levied actual war against the Parliament secluded secured members of Parliament kept divers years under their armed guards in defiance of the Parliament without any particular Charge or Impeachment refusing to release them even when the Serjeant was sent at first from the House it self to demand the Members seised By all which it is apparent how our Privledges have been torn from us by piece-meals from time to time And we might mention many passages whereby they were endeavoured to be pulled up by the root and totally subverted As the attempt to bring up the late Army from the North to force Conditions upon the Parliament His Majesties Letters and Commands to the Members of both Houses which found obedience in a great many to attend him at York and so By depriving the Parliament of their Members destroy the whole Body And was not the actual twice bringing up of the Parliaments own Army by the Army Officers against the Parliament it self to impeach secure some principal Members of both Houses seclude the Majority of the Commons House suppress the whole House of Lords break off the Treaty behead the King the Head of the Parliament against the Parliaments Votes alter the Government force conditions on the Parliament it self to omit the 12 21 24 32 37 38 39 Articles of their New Government with the secluding of all the Members lately admitted by Armed Souldiers till they took a New Engagement and keeping out all others a taking of the Privileges of the Parliament from them all by Whole-sale and a more desperate pulling up by the Roots and total subversion of all the Priviledges and whole Body of the Parliament than this objected against the Northern Army or the Kings Jesuitical ill Councel Which is enough to prove the vanity of the Contrivers of that Declaration and of the Army Officers too to feed themselves with hope of belief That the Priviledges of Parliament are not Violated but intended to be preserved with all due observance Concerning the Allegation That the Army raised by the Parliament is to murder the KING oft alledged by the King and his Party in many printed PROCLAMATIONS Declarations before and after this here mentioned We hoped the Contrivers of that Declaration or any that professed but the name of a Christian could not have so little charity as to raise such a SCANDAL especially when they must needs know the Protestation taken by every Member of both Houses and Army Officers too whereby they promise in the presence of Almighty God TO DEFEND HIS MAJESTIES PERSON The Promise and Protestation made by the Members of both Houses upon the nomination of the Earl of Essex to be General and to live and die with him wherein is expressed THAT THIS ARMY WAS RAISED FOR DEFENCE OF THE KINGS PERSON Our oft earnest and most humble Address to his Majesty to leave that desperate and dangerous Army c. A request inconsistent with any purpose to offer the least violence to His Person which hath and ever shall be dear unto us And concerning the imputation laid to our Charge of Raising this Army to Alter the whole Frame of Government and Established Laws of the Land which the King and his party frequently objected in print we shall need give no other Answer but this That the Army Raised by the Parliament is to no other end but for the Preservation of his Majesties Person to Defend themselves the Laws of the Land and the true Protestant Religion After which they there and elswhere conclude And by this time we doubt not but every man doth plainly discern through
the Mask and Visard of their Hypocrifie what their the Kings ill Counsels design is To Subject both King and Parliament and Kingdom to their needy Ambitious and Avaritious Spirits and to the violent Laws Martial law of Governing the People by guards and by the Souldiers But alas for grief how superlatively have many of the Army Officers and their confederate members though parties to these Declarations and Protestations violated them and both Houses Faiths Trusts intentions ends in raising the Army in every of these particulars How have they verified justified the Kings Declarations Jealousies concerning the Parliaments Army in every point here and elswhere disclaimed by both Houses How have they exceeded out-acted the Kings Jesuitical Counsellers and most desperate Popish Army in violating subverting both the Parliaments Priviledges Members and Parliaments themselves together with our Fundamental Laws Liberties Government for whose preservation they were only raised paid How have they pursued the Kings and his worst Jesuited Counsellers footsteps in all the charges here objected against them by both Houses in relation to the Parliaments priviledges Members Constitution Rights Laws to their utter subversion dissolution and waged war against them And doth not every man plainly discern through the Mask and Visard of their Hypocrifie to use both Houses expressions that their design is just the same with that here objected by the Parliament to the Kings ill Jesuited Counsellers and Popish army even to subject both King Parliament and Kingdom to their needy ambitious avaritions spirits and to the violent Laws marshal Law of Governing the People yea Parliaments themselves by Guards and by the Souldiers and By Conquest to establish an absolute and unlimited power over the Parliament and good Subjects of this Kingdom as the Houses elswhere thrice objected against the late King his Army and party being the very design as many wisemen fear of the 27 Article of their New Government to settle a constant Annual revenue for the maintenance of 20000 Foot 10000 Horse and Dragoones to be alwayes constantly kept up Winter and Summer without disbanding or diminution for the Defence and Security of England Scotland and Ireland Which must henceforth be kept under by Mercinary Foâ—ces to guard of Protectors when as the Heathen Poet assures us â—nteger vitae scelâ—risque purus non eget Mauri jaculis nec arcu much less our English Nation ever formerly secured by their own unmercinary Militia of the Trained Bands and those Lords and Gentlemen who hold their Lands by Knight-service O that they would now in the name and fear of God as they tender the eternal salvation of their Souls the honour and priviledges of all future Parliaments the ease welfare settlement of our Nation Lay all this most seriously to their Hearts and make it a matter of their greatest lamentation and repentance Besides this have they not falsified that memorable late Declaration of the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament Novemb. 2. 1642. in Answer to his Majesties well worthy perusal now and made good both for the time past and all succeeding Parliaments whiles there shall be any standing Army in England able to over-power them all the odious scandalous positions in relation to the English Parliament its Members and priviledges deduced from the Kings Declaration only by inference but disclaimed by the King summed up by them in the close of that Remonstrance and published in these ensuing terms as will evidently appear if applied to the Army and their Generall Councel of Officers by adding or exchanging their names only for the Kings in a parenthesis 1. That the King the * Army General and their General Councel of Officers when he pleaseth may declare the Major part of both Houses which in all sorts of Republicks doth yea ought of right to over sway the Minority their Votes to be firm and binding to all men as Aristotle himself resolves a faction of Malignant Schismatical and ambitious Persons so that all Parliaments that have been heretofore and SHALL BE HEREAFTER AND ALL LAWS MADE IN THEM may by this means be called in question at pleasure yea nulled and repealed for ever as some former Parliaments have been when held and over-awed by armed power or unduly elected packed summoned without Lawfull Authority or some of the Members forcibly secluded as you may read at large in the Statutes of 21 R. 2. c. 11 12 16 17 18. 1 H. 4. c. 3. 1 H. 4. Rot. Parl. n. 22 23 36 48 66 70. 113. 39 H. 6. c. 1. 17 E. 4. c. 7. worthy the serious perusal of our present Grandees and all illegitimate Parliaments where they may read the fatal end of all new unparliamentary projects laws devices wherein many now so much glory as if they would continue form for ever when as in a few years space they will all probably prove nullities be for ever reversed yea branded to posterity as most pernicious presidents 2. That his Majesty the Army and their General Councel may declare what is the known Law of the Land against the judgement of the Highest Court and consequently of all his Courts So that the safety and right of King and people and THE LAW IT SELF must depend upon his Majesties the Army General and their Councels pleasure 4. That as the King hath a property in his Townes Forts and Kingdoms so he the Army and their General Councel may dispose of them as he pleaseth and the Representative body of the whole Kingdom may not intermedle in discharge of his Majesties the Armies Generals Councels trust though by the advice of evil Councellers they see it diverted to the hazard of the publique peace safety of the Kingdom 5. That his Majesty the Army General and their Councel or any other person may upon suggestions and pretences of Treason Felony or breach of peace or of their Trusts a fourth Army new-minted cause Take the Members of Parliament without giving satisfaction to the House whereof they are Members of the grounds of such suggestion or accusation and without and against their consent as in the case of the late secured secluded Members and their two Junctâ—'s since so they may Dismember a Parliament when they please and make it what they will when they will 6. That whosoever shall follow the King Army General and their Councel in the wars against the Parliament though it were to destroy Laws Liberty Religion the Parliament it self and the whole Kingdom yet he shall be free from all crime or punishment And that on the other side to oppose by force any such force though in the most Legal way and by authority of the Representative body of the whole Kingdom is to leavy war against the King Army General and TREASON within the Letter of 25 E. 3. or of their new Knacks since So our Lands Liberties Lives Religion and Laws themselves Whereby all the Rights both of King and People
greatest pretenders to publike Liberty Law and the â—heifest inveighers against Arbitrary Regal Tyranny and Power which never publikely established such arbitrary illegal Tryals and new Butcheries of Christian English Freemen by any law and may fall to imitate them in future Ages by their example Each of these I intend to prosecute in distinct Chapters in their order CHAP. 1. 1. For the first of these That the Kingdome and Freemen of England have some ancient Hereditary Rights Liberties Priviledges Franchises Laws and Customs properly called FVNDAMENTAL and likewise a FVNDAMENTALL GOVERNMENT no wayes to be altered undermined subverted directly or indirectly under pain of High Treason in those who shall attempt it especially by fraud force or armed power I Shall confirm the first part of it by these ensuing punctual Authorities of moment against those traiterous late published Pamphlets which professedly deny it and endeavour a totall abrogation of all former Lawes to set up a New modell and Body of the law to rule us for the future according to their pleasures The first is the expresse words of the great Charters of the Liberties of England granted by King John Anno 1215. in the 16 year of his Reign Regranted and confirmed by King Henry the third in the 9 year of his Reign and sundry times afterwards and by King Edward the first in the 25 and 28 years of his reign Wherein these three Kings successively by their several grand Charters under their great Seals did grant give and confirm to all the Nobility is and ever shall be far from the thoughts and intents of all good Kings Governours and Parliament who bear a sincere care and affection to the Subjects of England to alter or innovate them 3. That by these ancient good Laws Priviledges and customs not only the Kings Regall Authority but the peoples Security of lands livings and priviledges both in general and particular are preserved and maintained 4. That by the abolishing or altering of them it is impossible but that present confusion will fall upon the whol state and frame of this Kingdom Which I wish all Innovators and New Modellers of our Lawes and Government would now at last lay seriously to heart and the whole Kingdome and English Nation sadly consider who have found it an experimental truth of late years and no imaginary seigned speculation 3. The third is The Remonâ—trance of the whole House of Commons in Parliament delivered in Writing to King James in the Parliament of 7. Jacobi Anno 1610. which begins thus To the Kings most Excellent Majesty Most Gracious Soveraign Whereas we your Majesties most humble Subjects the Commons assembled in Parliament having received first by Message and since by speech from your Majesty a Command of restraint from debating in Parliament your Majesties Right of imposing upon your Subjects Goods exported out of or imported into this Realm yet allowing us to examine the grievance of these Impositions in regard of quantity time and other circumstances of disproportion thereto incident We your humble Subjects nothing doubting but that your Majesty had no intent by that command to infring the ancient and fundamentall Rights of the Liberty of PARLIAMENT in point of exact discussing of all matters concerning them and their Possessions Goods and Rights whatsoever Which yet we cannot but conceive to be done in effect by this Command Do with all humble Duty make this Remonstrâ—nce to your Majesty First we hold it an Ancient general and undoubted Right of Parliament to debate freely all matters which do properly concern the Subject and his Right or Estate which freedome of debate being once fore-closed the essence of the Liberty of Parliament is withall dissolved c. Here the whole House of Commons in a speciall Remonstrance to King James printed and published by Order of a Committee of the House of Commons for licensing of Books dated 20 Maii 17. Caroli 1641. Declare resolve vindicate and maintain one principal ancient fundamentall general undoubed right of the Liberty of Parliament against the Kings intrenchment on it Of which should they be but once fore closed the Essence of the Liberty of Parliament is withall dissolved And peradventure it may not be unworthy the most serious disquisition of the next ensuing nominal or real Parliament to examine whether some clauses and restrictions in the 9. 12. 14. 16 17. 21. 22. 24 25. 27. 30. 32 33. 36 37 38 39 40. Articles or strings of the New Instrument intituled The Government of the Common-wealth of England Scotland and Ireland and the Dominions thereunto belonging as it was publikely declared at Westminster the 16. day of December 1653 c. do not as much nay far more intrench upon the ancient Fundamental General undoubted Rights and Liberty of Parliament and parliamentary free debates to the dissolution of the Essential liberty of all future Parliaments as this Command of King James did or as the Bishops late Canons imposed on the Clergy in and by the Convocation Anno 1640. ever did and this clause in their c. Oath then made now imitated by others who condemned it I. A. B. do swear that I will never give my consent to alter the Government of this Church by Arch-bishops Bishops Deans and Arch-Deacons c. as it stands now established and as by right it ought to stand Which clause and Oath imposed onely on the Clergy-men Resolved by the whole House of Commons and Peers too in Parliament without one dissenting voice December 16. 1640. to be a most dangerous illegal Oath contrary to the Rights and Priviledges of Parliament and to the Fundamental Laws and Statutes of the Realuâ— c. and of dangerous consequence the contriving whereof was objected to the late Archbishop of Caterbury in his original Articles of High Treason for which amongst other things he lost his head The fourth is the notable Petition of Grievances of the whole House of Commons in Parliament presented to King James in the seventh year of his Reign after their Vote against his Right to levy Impositions on goods imported or exported without assent and grant of Parliament in these ensuing words The Policy of this your Majesties Kingdomes appropriates unto the Kings of this Realm with assent of Parliament as well the Soveraign power of making Laws as that of taxing or imposing upon the Subjects Goods or Merchandises wherein they have justly such a property as may not without their consent be altered or changed this is the cause that the people of this Kingdome as they have ever shewed themselves faithfull and loving to their Kings and ready to aid them in all just occasions with voluntary contributions so have they been ever careful to preserve their own Liberties and Rights when any thing hath been done to prejudice or impeach the same And therefore when their Princes either occasioned by war or by their own bounty or by any other necessity have without consent of
after so many Declarations and solemn Protestations made by his Majesty to rule by the known Laws of this Land his Majesty by advice of his ill Councellors should be perswaded to set such a Commission on foot which is so clearly contrary TO THE FUNDAMENTAL LAWS OF THIS LAND the Rights of Property and Liberty of the Subject contrary to former resolutions of Parliament and to the Petition of Right I am certain the generality of the Nation are now as much and more agrieved that some who were Parties to this Declaration and others who have made as many or more Declarations Protestations as his Majesty ever did to rule by the known laws of the Land should since this far exceed his Majesty in the like nay greater more exorbitances in the Militia Excises Taxes Impositions Imprisonments arbitrary extravagant proceedings capital executions in new erected Courts of Injustice and whole volumes of new binding Ordinances as they term them and their ill-sounding Instrument obliging all our three Nations both for the present all future ages in their intention as diametrically contrary as the Kings Commissions of Array to the Fundamentall Laws of the Land four times together so stiled and insisted on as such in this one Declaration of both Houses the Right of Property of the Subject contrary to former Resolutions and the Petition of Right yea which is most abominable to their own Declarations Remonstrances Votes Protestations Vows Solemne Leagues and Covenants in Parliament to their own eternall Infamy as well as the peoples intolerable oppression and slavery who thereupon may justly conclude and protest against them as both Houses did in the close of this Declaration against the Array viz. And the Lords and Commons do and shall adhere to their former Votes Resolutions That all those that are Actors in putting of this Commission of Array these Instruments Ordinances new Taxes Imposts Excises in execution shall be esteemed disturbers of the Peace of the Kingdome and of the Properties and Liberties of the Subject 10. The tenth Evidence is the Vote and Letter of both Houses of Parliament sent to his Majesty at Oxford 9. March 1643. in Answer to his Majesties of the third of March and wherein there is this passage We the Lords and Commons assembled in the Parliament of England c. Have resolved with the concurrent advice and consent of the Commissioners of Scotland to represent to your Majesty in all humility and plainnesse as followeth That this present Parliament convened according to the known and FUNDAMENTAL LAWS OF THE KINGDOME the continuance whereof is established by a law consented to by your Majesty is in effect denied to be a Parliament c. And hereupon we think our selves bound to let your Majesty know That since the continuance of this Parliament is settled by a Law which as all other laws of your Kingdome your Majesty is sworn to maintain as we are sworn to our Allegiance to your Majesty those Obligations being reciprocall we must in duty and accordingly are resolved with our Lives and Fortunes to Defend and preserve the â—ust Rights and full Power of this Parliament To which the Earle of Essex then General by both Houses order in his Letter to the Earle of Forth January 30. 1643. adds this Corolary My Lord the mainâ—enance of the Parliament of England and the Priviledges thereof is that for which we are resolved to spend our bloud as being THE FOVNDATION WHEREON ALL OVR LAWS AND LIBERTIES ARE BVILT Which both the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament in their Declaration 23. March 1643. touching their proceedings upon his Majesties Letter concerning a Treaty of Peace wherein this Earls former letter is recited thus second The Parliament of England is the onely Basis the chief Support and Pillar of our Laws and Liberties c. And if notwithstanding all these Obligations the King shall at his pleasure dissolve this Parliament the Kingdome is not onely deprived of the present but made uncapable of enjoying the benefit of any future Parliament or Laws any longer than shall stand with the will and pleasure of the King and consequently THE FUNDAMENTALS OF ALL OUR LAWS AND GOVERNMENT ARE SUBVERTED Let the Parliament-purging securing sequestring dissolving Officers Army and their Confederates seriously ponder this yea let all the whole English Nation and their Trustees who shall hereafter sit in Parliament consider and reform it in the first place if ever they expect any Freedome free Parliaments Peace settlement enjoyment of their Fundamental Laws Rights or Liberties for the future depending on our Parliaments Freedome and exemption from all force and violence on its Members The eleventh is the Ordinance of both Houses of Parliament 13. Junii 1644. For the Forces raised in the County of Salop which begins thus The Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament taking into their serious considerations the great Oppressions under which the Inhabitants of the County of Salop lie by reason the insupportable Taxes c. and the present condition of the County by reason of the great number of Irish Rebels that have invaded it and joyned with Papists and other ill affected Persons now in those parts which threaten the extirpation of the Protestant Religion and the subversion of the FUNDAMENTAL LAWS and GOVERNMENT OF THE KINGDOM For prevention whereof c. A direct Ordinance in point The twelfth is a Declaration of the Commons of England assembled in Parliament 17. Aprilis 1646. Of their true intentions concerning the ANCIENT and FUNDAMENTAL GOVERNMENT OF THE KINGDOME securing the people against ALL ARBITRARY GOVERNMENT c. wherein they complain That the Enemy being in dispair to accomplish his Designes by War do mis-represent our intentions in the use we intend to make of the great successes God hath given us and the happy opportunity to settle Peace and Truth in the three Kingdomes to beget a belief that we now desire to excâ—ed or swerve from our first Aym's and Principles in the undertaking of this War and to recede from the Solemn League and Covenant and Treaties between the two Kingdomes and that we would prolong these uncomfortable troubles and bleeding distractions IN ORDER TO ALTER THE FUNDAMENTAL CONSTITUTION AND FRAME OF THIS KINGDOME to leave all Government in the Church loose and unsettled and ourselves to exercise THE SAME ARBITRARY POWER OVER THE PERSONS and ESTATES OF THE SVBJECTS which this present Parliament hath thought fit to abolish by taking away the Star-Chamber High-Commission and other arbitrary Courts and the exorbitant Power of the Council Table all which we have seen experimentally verified in every particular in the highest degree notwithstanding this Declaration by some in late and present power and new White-hall Council Tables exceeding the old in illegal Taxes Law-making and other extravagances All which being seriously considered by us c. We do declare THAT OUR TRUE and REAL INTENTIONS ARE and OUR ENDEAVOUR SHALL BE
to settle Religion in the purity thereof TO MAINTAIN THE ANCIENT and FUNDAMENTALL GOVERNMENT OF THIS KINGDOME TO PRESERVE THE RIGHTS and LIBERTIES OF THE SUBJECT to lay hold on the first opportunity of procuring a safe and well grounded peace in the three Kingdoms and to keep a good understanding between the two Kingdomes of England and Scotland according to the grounds expressed in the Solemn League and Covenant And lest these generals should not give a sufficient satisfaction we have thought fit to the end men might no longer be abused in a misbelief of our intentions or a misunderstanding of our actions to make a further enlargement upon the particulars And first Concerning Church-Government c. because we cannot consent to the granting of an Arbitrary and unlicensed Power and Jurisdiction to neer ten thousand Judicatories to be erected within this Kingdome and this demanded in such a way as is not consistent with the FVNDAMENTAL LAWS and GOVERNMENT OF THE SAME c. Our full resolutions still are sincerely really and constantly to endeavour the Reformation of Religion in the Kingdome of England and Ireland in Doctrine Worship and Government according to the word of God and the example of the best Reformed Churches and according to the Covenant WE ARE SO FARRE FROM ALTERING THE FUNDAMENTAL GOVERNMENT OF THIS KINGDOME BY KING LORDS and COMMONS that we have onely desired that with the consent of the King such Power may be settled in the TWO HOVSES without which we can have no assurance but that the like or greater mischiefs than those which God hath hither to dilivered us from may break out again and engage us in a second and more destructive war whereby it plainly appears Our intentions are not to change the Antient Frame of Government within this Kingdome but to obtain the end of the Primitive Institution of all Government The safety and weal of the People not judging it wise or safe after so bitter experience of the bloody consequence of a pretended Power of the Militia in the King to leave any colourable authority in the same for the future attempts of introducing AN ARBITRARY GOVERNMENT OVER THIS NATION We do declare That we will not nor any by colour of any Authority derived from us shall interrupt the ordinary course of Justice in the severall Courts of Judicatories of this Kingdome nor intermeddle in the cases of private interest other where determinable unlesse it be in case of male-Administration of Justice wherein we shall see and provide that Right be done and punishment inflicted as there shall be occasion ACCORDING TO THE LAWS OF THE KINGDOME Lastly Whereas both Nations have entred into a Solemn League and Covenant we have and EVER SHALL BE VERY CAREFULL DULY TO OBSERVE THE SAME that as nothing hath been done SO NOTHING SHALL BE DONE BY US REPUGNANT TO THE TRUE MEANING AND INTENTION THEREOF c. WHO WILL NOT DEPART FROM THOSE GROUNDS AND PRINCIPLES upon which it was framed and founded Though the generality of the afterwards secured and secluded Majority of the House of Commons endeavoured constantly to make good this Declaration in all particulars yet how desperatly the garbled Minority thereof continuing in power after their Seclusion prevaricated apostatized and falsified their Faith herein in every particle in the highest degree we cannot but with greatest grief of heart and detestation remember to the subversion ruine of our King Lords Commons Kingdome Parliaments Fundamentall Laws Government and the peoples Liberties c. almost beyond all hopes of restitution or reparation in humane probability without a miracle from heaven The Lord give them grace most seriously to consider repent of and really sincerely reform it now at last and to make it the principle subject of their prescribed publike Humiliations Fasts and Lamentations as God himself prescribes Isa 58. 5 6 7 8. Jer. 34. 8. to 22. Ezech. 19. 1. 14. Hos 10. 3 4. and not still to adde drunkennesse to thirst lest they bring them to temporall and eternal condemnation for it in Gods own due time and engender endlesse Wars Troubles Taxes Changes Confusions in our Kingdomes as they have hitherto done and will do till all be restored to their just Rights Powers Places Possessions and Liberties By this full Jury of Parliamentary Authorities to omit many others of like or inferiour nature and lesse moment it is undeniable That the people of England have both ancient Fundamentall Rights Liberties Franchises Laws and a Fundamental Government which like the Laws of the Medes and Persians neither may nor ought to be altered or innovated upon any pretence but perpetually maintained defended with greatest care vigilancy resolution and he who shall deny or oppugn it deserâ—â—s no refulation by further arguments since it is a received Maxime in all Arts Contra Principia negantem non est disputandum but rather demerits a sentence of Condemnation and publike execution at Tyburn as a Common Enemy Traitor to our Laws Liberties Nation it being no lesse than a transcendent crime and High Treason by our Laws for any person or persons secretly or openly to attempt the undermining or subversion of our fundamental laws rights Liberties Government especially by fraud treachery force or armed power and violence the later part of my first proposal which I shall now confirm by these twelve following Presidents and Evidences corroborating likewise the former part That we have such Fundamental laws liberties rights franchises and a fundamental Government too In the fifth year of King Richard the second the vulgar rabble of people and villains in Kent Essex Sussex Norfolk Cambridge-shire and other Counties under the Conduct of Wat Tyler Jack Straw and other Rebels assembling together in great multitudes occasioned at first by the new invented Tax of Poll-money granted by Parliament and the over-rigorous levying thereof on the people by the Kings Officers though nothing so grievous as our Excises Contributions new Imposts now so long exacted without any legal Grant in true free and full English Parliaments resolved by force and violence to abrogate the law of Villenage with all other laws they disliked formerly setled to burn all the Records kill and behead all the Judges Justices and men of law of all sorts which they could get into their hands to burn and destroy the Inns of Court as they did then the new Temple where the Apprentices of the law lodged burning their Monuments and Records of Law there found to alter the tenures of lands to devise new laws of their own by which the Subjects should be governed to change the ancient Hereditary Monarchicall Government of the Realm and to erect petty elective Tyrannies and Kingdomes to themselves in every shire A project eagerly prosecuted by some Anarchicall Anabaptists Jesuits Levellers very lately and though withall they intended to destroy the King at last and all the Nobles too when they had gotten sufficient power yet at first to
Ecclesiasticall Censures Excommunication Suspension Deprivation and Degradation CONTRARY TO THE LAWS of this kingdome Thirteenth He did by his own authority and power contrary to Law procure sundry of his Majesties Subjects and enforced the Clergy of this Kingdome to contribute towards the maintenance of the War against the Scots That to preserve himself from being questioned for these other his Traiterous courses he hath laboured to subvert the Rights of Parliament and the ancient course of Parliamentary proceedings and have not the Army Officers and others actually done it since upon the same accompt and by false and malicious slanders to incense his Majesty against Parliaments All which being proved against him at his Triall were after solemn Argument by Mr. Samuel Brown in behalf of the Commons House proved and soon after adjudged to be High Treason at the Common Law by both Houses of Parliament and so declared in the Ordinance for his Attainder for which he was condemned and beheaded as a Traitor against the King Law and Kingdom on Tower Hill January 10. 1644. 11. In the same Parliament December 21. Jan. 14. Febr. 11. 1640. and July 6. 1641. Sir John Finch then Lord Keeper Chief Justice Bramston Judge Berkley Judge Crawly Chief Baron Davenport Baron Weston and Baron Trevour were accused and impeached by the House of Commons by several Articles transmitted to the Lords OF HIGH TREASON for that they had Traiterously and wickedly endeavoured to subvert the Fundamental Laws and established Government of the Realm of ENGLAND and instead thereof to introdâ—ce an Arbitrary and Tyrannical Government against Law which they had declared by traiterous and wicked words opinions judgements and more especially in this their extrajudiciall opinion subscribed by them in the case of Ship money viz. We are of opinion that when the good and safety of the Kingdome in generall is concerned and the whole Kingdome in danger your Majesty may by Writ under the Great Seal of England without consent in Parliament command all your Subjects of this your Kingdome at their charge to provide and furnish such a number of Ships with Men Victuall and Ammunition and for such time as your Majesty shall think fit for the Defence and safeguard of the Kingdome from such danger and perill And we are of Opinion that in such case your Majesty is the sole Judge both of the danger and when and how the sume is to be prevented and avoided And likewise for arguing and giving judgment accordingly in Mr. John Hampdens case in the Exchequer Chamber in the point of Ship money in April 1638 which said opinions are Destructive to the Fundamental Laws of the Realm the Subjects Right of Property and contrary to former Resolutions in Parliament and the Petition of Right as the words of their severall Impeachments run Sir John Finâ—h fled the Realm to preserve his head on his shoulders some others of them died through fear to prevent the danger soon after their Impeachments and the rest who were lesse peccant were put to Fines 12. Mr. John Pym in his Declaration upon the whole matter of the charge of High Treason against Thomas Earl of Strafford Aprill 12. 1641. before a Committee of both Houses of Parliament in Westminster Hall printed and published by Order of the House of Commons proves his endeavour to subvert the Fundamental Laws of England and to introduce an Arbitrary Power to be High Treason and an offence very hainous in the nature and mischievous in the effects thereof which saith he will best appear if it be examined by that universall and supream Law Saluâ— Populi the element of all Laws out of which they are derived the end of all Laws to which they are designed and in which they are perfected 1. It is an offence comprehending all other Offences Here you shall finde several Treasons Murthers Rapines Oppressions Perjuries There is in this Crime a Seminary of all evils hurtfull to a State and if you consider the Reasons of it it must needs be so The Law is that which puts a difference betwixt good and evill betwixt just and unjust If you take away the law all things will fall into confusion every man will become a law to himself which in the depraved condition of humane nature must needs produce many great enormities Lust will become a Law and Envy will become a law Covetousnesse and Ambition will become laws and what Dictates what decisions such laws will produce may easily be discerned in the late Government of Ireland and England too since this The law hath a power to prevent to restrain to repair evils without this all kindes of mischiefs and distempers will break in upon a State It is the Law that intitles the King to the Allegiance and Service of his people it intitles the People to the Protection and Justice of the King c. The Law is the Boundary the measure betwixt the Kings Prerogative and the Peoples Liberties whiles these move in their Orbe they are a support and security to one another but if these Bounds be so removed that they enter into contestation and conflict one of these great mischiefs must needs ensue if the Prerogative of the King overwhelm the Liberty of the people it will be turned into Tyranny If Liberty undermine the Prerogative it will turn into Anarchy The Law is the safegard the custody of all private interests your Honours your Lives your Liberties and your estates are all in the keeping of the Law without this every man hath a like Right to any thing and this is the condition into which the Irish were brought by the Earl of Strafford and the English by others who condemned him And the reason which he gave for it hath more mischief than the thing it self THEY ARE A CONQUERED NATION let those who now say the same of England as well as Scotland and Ireland consider and observe what followes There cannot be a word more pregnant and fruitfull IN TREASON than that word is There are few Nations in the world that have not been conquered and no doubt but the conquerour may give what Laws he please to those that are conquered But if the succeeding Parts and Agreements do not limit and restrain that right what people can be secure England hath been conquered and Wales hath been conquered and by this reason will be in little better case than Ireland If the King by the Right of a Conquerour give Lawes to his people shall not the people by the same reason be restored to the Right of the conquered to recover their Liberty if they can What can be more hurtful more pernicious than such Propositions as these 2. It is dangerous to the Kings Person and dangerous to his Crown it is apt to cherish ambition usurpation and oppression in great men and to beget sedition discontent in the people and both these have been and in reason must ever be great causes of trouble
later times in corrupt cowardly time-serving degenerate Lawyers and Judasses rather than Judges to the disgrace of their Profession now generally spoken against their own dishonour infamy reproach the scandall of Religion which some of them have eminently professed the prejudice and subversion of the Fundamentall Laws Liberties Rights Priviledges of our Nation Peers Parliaments and of the ancient Fundamental Government of this famous Kingdome whereof they are Members and that contrary to some of their own late Judgments sciences Consciences Votes Printed Arguments Speeches Declarations against others even in and out of Parliament and their own first Charges in their Circuits repugnant to their later 4. To instruct those Jesuited Anabaptists Levellers and their Factors especially John Canne and the rest of the Compilers Publishers Abetters of the Pamphlet intituled Leiutenant Colonel John Lilburn tried and east and other forementioned publications who professedly set themselves by Words Writings Counsels and overt Acts to subvert both our old Fundamentall with all other Laws Liberties Customs Parliaments and Government what transcendent Malefactors Traitors and Enemies they are to the publique and what Capital punishments they may incurre as well as dâ—merit should they be legally prosecuted for the same and thereupon to advise them timely to repent of and dâ—sist from such high Treasonable attempts 5. To clear both my self and this my seasonable Defence of our Fundamental Laws Liberties Government from the least suspition or shadow of Faction Sedition Treason and Emnity to the publique peace weal settlement of the Nation which those and those onely who are most factious and seditious and the greatest Enemies Traitors to the publique tranquility Weal Laws Liberties Government and establishment of our Kingdome as the premises evidence will be ready maliciously to asperse both me and it with as they have done heretofore some other of my Writings of this Nature with all which they must first brand Mr. St. John Mr. Pym the whole House of Commons the two last with all other Parliaments forecited and themselves too from which they are so much changed and degenerated of late years ere they can accuse traduce or censure me who do but barely relate apply their words and judgments in their purest times without malice or partiality for the whole Kingdomes benefit security and resettlement To these punctual full Juries of Records and Parliament Authorities in point I could accumulate Sr. Edward Cook his 3. Institutes p. 9. printed and authorised by the House of Commons speciall Order the last Parliament The severall Speeches of M. Hide M. Waller M. Pierpoint and M. Hollis July 6. 1641. at the Lords Bar in Parliament by Order of the Commons House at the Impeachment of the Shipmony Judges of High Treason printed in Diurnal Occurrences and Speeches in Parliament London 1641. p. 237 to 264. M. Samuel Browns Argument at law before the Lords and Commons at Canterburies Attainder all manifesting their endeavouring to subvert the Fundamentall Laws and Government of the Realm to be High Treason with sundry other printed Authorities to prove That we have Fundamental Laws Liberties Rights and a Fundamental Government likewise which ought not to be innovated violated or subverted upon any pretences whatsoever by any power or prevailing Faction Which Fundamental Rights Liberties Laws Sr. Thomas Fairfax and the Army under his Command by their Declaration of June 14. 1647. particularly promise and engage to assert vindicate against all arbitray power violence oppression and against all particular parties or Interests whatsoever which they may doe well to remember and make good But to avoid prolixity the double Jury of irrefragable and punctuall authorities already produced being sufficient to satisfie the most obstinate opposites formerly contradicting it I shall onely adde three swaying authorities more wherewith I shall conclude this point The first is a very late one in a Treatise intituled A true State of the Common Wealth of England Scotland and Ireland and the Dominions thereunto belonging in Reference to the late established Government by a Lord Protector and a PARLIAMENT It being the Judgement of DIVERSE PERSONS who throughout these late troubles have approved themselves faithfull to the Cause and interest of God and their COUNTRY presented to the publike for the satisfaction of others Printed at London 1654. who relating the miscarriages of the last ASSEMBLY at Westminster elected nominated by the Censurers of them the Army Officers onely not the people use these expressions of them page 13 14 16 17 21 22. But on the contrary it so fell out in a short time that there appeared many in this Assembly of very contrary principles to the interest aforesaid which led them violently on to attempt and promote many things the consequence whereof would have been A subverting of the Fundamentall Laws of the Land the Destruction of Property and an utter extinguishment of the Gospel In truth their Principles led them TO A PULLING DOWN ALL AND ESTABLISING NOTHING So that instead of the expected settlement they were running into FURTHER ANARCHY AND CONFUSION As to the Laws and Civil Rights of the Nation nothing would serve them but a TOTALL ERADICATION OF THE OLD AND INTRODUCTION OF A NEW and so the good Old Laws of England the Guardians of our Laws and Fortunes established with prudence and confirmed by the experience of many Ages and Generations The Preservation whereof was a principall ground of our late quarrell with the King having been once abolished what could we have expected afterwards but an inthroning of Arbitrary power in the Seat of Judicature and an exposing of our Lives our Estates our Liberties and all that is dear unto us as a Sacrifice to the boundlesse appetite of meer Will and Power c. Things being at this passe and the House through these proceedings perfectly disjointed it was in vain to look for a settlement of this Nation from them thus constituted but on the contrary nothing else could be expected But that the Common-wealth should sink under their hands and the great cause hitherto so happily upheld and maintained to be for ever lost through their preposterous management of these affairs wherewith they had been intrusted Whereupon they justifie their dissolution and turning them forcibly out of doores by the Souldiers with shame and infamy to prevent that destruction which thereby was coming on THE WHOLE LAND by this New Powder Treason plot set on foot by the Jesuites and Anabaptists to destroy our Laws Liberties Properties Ministers and Religion it self at one blow and that in the very Parliament House where some destroyed and blowed up Kings Peers and Parliaments themselves as well as Lawes and Parliament Priviledges of late years where they had been constantly defended vindicated preserved established in all former Ages by ALL TRVE ENGLISH PARLIAMENTS The second is The Votes of the House of Commons concerning a Paper presented to them entituled An Agreement of the people for a firm present
extravagant Heavy Taxes Contributions from the exhausted Free-born People of England especially being now pretended new Free State against all our Fundamental Lawes Statutes Franchises Charters Properties Liberties Records Parliamentary Iudgements their own late Remonstrances Declarations Votes the Presidents of all former ages yea of all our Kings coming in by the Sword to their Thrones let the Imposers of them seriously advise as they will answer it at their utmost peril to God Men and the whole English Nation who expected better things from them even a total final exemption from all such illegal Burthens after all their late Wars Agonies Expences to redeem and preserve their Lawes Liberties Estates Properties Posterities from such exorbitant Oppressions diametrically contrary to all the forecited Iudgements Resolutions Remonstrances Statutes Votes Presidents and sundry others which I shall hereafter insist on in the third Chapter of this Treatise to which I must refer you And shall we not then adventure a distresse a Prison quartering upon or any other Duresse yea Death it self rather than volutarily submit our selves and Posterities backs thereto when as we spend our Bloods Lives Treasures against lesser easier Royal Impositions How shall we answer it to God Men or our enslaved Posterities if we now most safely unworthily submit thereto in perpeâ—uity without the least legal strenuous publick oppression or debate of its legality If any here allege as some men do in Iustification of these three or rather four forecited kinds of illegal universal Taxes imposed levied on the whole Nation without consent of Parliament That they are all warranted by the Instrument of the new Gevernment Article 27 28 29. That a constant yearly revenue shall be raised setled and established for maintaining Ten Thousand Horse and Dragoons and Twenty Thousand Foot in England Scotland and Ireland for the Defence and security thereof and also for a convenient number of Ships for guarding the Seas besides two hundred thousand pounds per annum for defraying other necessary charges for Administration of Iustice and other expences of the Government which Revenue shall be raised by the Customes and such other ways and means which shall be agreed uâ—oâ— By the Lord Protector and Council and shall not be taken away or diminished nor the way agreed upon for the raising of the same altered but by consent of the Lord Protector and the Parliament That the said yearly Revenue shall be paid into the publick Treasury and issued out for the uses aforesaid That in case there shall not because hereafter to keep up so great a Defence at Land or Sea but that there be an abatement made thereof The Mony which shall be saved thereby shall remain in banke for the Publick service c. All which they in the True state of the Case of the Common-wealth p. 43 44 commend for a most excellent Provision A coâ—stant Revenue A Publike Bank or Treasury upon all occasions c. which they intend to perpetuate on the whole Kingdom without end or abatement as well in times of peace safety as of war and danger Therefore the Protector and his Counsell at Whitehall in pursuance hereof may lawfully impose by vertue of these Articles both Excise Customs Tonnage Poundage Ship-money and contributions for these ends upon our three whole Kingdoms and all the Freeborn English by printed Ordinances of their own in what Proportions and for what time they please yea and for perpetuity without consent or grant in Parliaments and restrain all future Parliaments both from taking away or diminishing them or altering the way agreed on for their raising without their Protectors consent thereto as the expresse words run and their practise yet expounds them notwithstanding all former Laws Statutes Charters Resolutions Iudgements Remonstrances Oathes Vowes Declarations Presidents either in or out of Parliament to the contrary To this I answer first that I cannot but stand amazed to hear any Army-Officers Souldiers Lawyers or persons in present trust or power who bear the name or hearts of English Freemen Saints Christians Lovers Patriots or Protectors of their Native Country of England its Parliaments Laws and Liberties to make such a stupendious irrational objection as this which justifies all the exorbitant Opinions Proceedings Taxes Oppressions Impositions of our late beheaded King Strafford Canterbury the Ship-money Iudges old Whitehall Council Table yea all our other former Kings and their evil Counsellors most irregular Exaction of mony in all ages from Brute till now and will render the very worst of all our Kings if compared with our late and present Tax-masters and pretended Assertors of our Liberties rather good gracious just righteous Princes Benefactors than Tyrants or Oppressors for the future seeing they never out of Parliament imposed enforced on their subjects any such heavy various perpetual Taxes Imposts Excises Ordinances or new Articles of the Governmentâ— as these forecited 2ly This Objection if admitted just or solid gives a private Cabinet â—uncto of obscure persons yet unknown by name unto our Nation a Superlative Super-Parliamentall Authority to contrive and set on foot a new devised Instrument to undermine and blow up all our former fundamental Laws Customs great Charters Liberties Franchises Properties Parliaments former frame of Government at one crake after all our late bloody costly contestations for their preservation both in the Supream Courts of Publick Iustice and fields of War without our privities or consents thereto either in or out of Parliament contrary to all their and our Protestations Oathes Covenants Commissions Trusts Promises Pretences And instead of English Freemen as we were before these contests and wars to strip us quite naked of all our former Freedoms Liberties Properties Customs Rights derived to us from our Noble Ancestors as the purchas of their dearest blood render us our Posterities for the future the most absolute Issachars Vassals slaves under Heaven inthralled to all sorts of intollerable illegal unpresidented incessant endlesse Taxes of all kinds without hopes of alteration or mitigation by any future Parliaments without their Protectors or his Successors voluntary consents which they cannot expect and to a constant standing Mercenary Army of Horse and Foot by Land and Navies of Hirelings by Sea to keep us and ours in perpetual Bondage under such New irregular Successive Tax-Masters who must elect their successors like themselves 3ly All our former antient Laws Statutes Parliaments till now in all changes Revolutions of State or Government ever constantly asserted maintained provided That no Tax Tallage Custom Contribution Impost Subsidy Charge Excise Loan or Payment whatsoever should be imposed on the Freemen of England without their common consent and grant in full free lawfull English Parliaments and if any were imposed otherwise by any Power or Pretext whatsoever out of Parliament that it was Null and void to all intents to bind the people But these Monstrous Articles quite turn the scales impowring a few private persons neither elected nor intruâ—ted by the people
for such ends by colour of this ill tuned Instrument contrived privatly by themselves alone as most conjecture for their own self-interests to impose perpetuall Imposts Excises Customes Contributions of all kinds on our whole three Kingdoms and Nations which neither they nor their Parliaments though never so grievous extravagant unreasonable or oppressive shall have power to take away diminish alter or regulate in the forecited illegall oppressing violent wayes of levying them unless their Grand Soveraign Lord Protector shall first give his consent thereto which they cannot expect nor enforce and in cale of his refusall they are utterly left remediless he having Thirty thousand armed Mercenary Horse and Foot in severall Quarters by Land and a strong numerous Navy by Sea at his command to keep them under endless Tributes to him and his Successors for ever O England England to omit Scotland and Ireland consider seriously and timely to what a blessed Liberty and long-expected freedome this New invented Instrument and the Irish Harp lately quartered with the English bloody Cross as our Free-State Arms hath now at last reduced thee if these objected Articles must remain inviolable maugre all our Laws Statutes c. to the contrary as our New Tax-masters and their Instruments both literally and practically conclude unlesse you use your uttermost lawfull present diligent joynt Endeavours to prevent it 〈…〉 4ly The whole House of Commons yea some who were parties to this Instrument lately impeached and with the Lords â—ouse by judgement of Parliament condemned beheaded the Earl of Strafford and Archbishop of Canterbury as guilty of High Treason in subverting our Fundamental Lawes Liberties and setting up an arbitrary Tyrannical Government for resolving at the Councel Table before-hand To assist the King to raise Monies on the Subjects to carry on the Warres against the Scots by extraordinary wayes in case the Parliament should prove peevish and refuse to grant such Subsidies as they demanded of them And for Straffords affirming That Ireland was a Conquered Nation and that the King might do with them what he pleased That they were a Conquered Nation and were to expect Lawes as from a Conqueror And that he would make an Act of Councel board in that Kingdom of Ireland as binding as an Act of Parliament And do not the Objectors Contrivers of this New Instrument Articles and those who now vigorously put it in execution in any kind as too many do speak out and do as much as bad as they in each of these particulars nay farre more and worse Do not they after the late violent breaches of our former Parliaments and their own Junctoes by the Army raise monies in more vast proportions by more irregular violent extraordinary wayes by longer continued Taxes Excises Impositions and constant yearly Revenues then they ever did or designed quite out of Parliament by their own arrogated Legislative Tax-imposing Power Do not they by this very Instrument proclaim to all the world that not only Ireland and Scotland but England it self is now a meer Conquered Nation that thereupon they may do with us what thâ—y please and we must not only expect but receive Lawes from them as Conquerors having already published whole Volumes of New-Laws and Ordinances of all sorts at their New-erected Councel board which the Old never did and made them as binding not only to Ireland but England and Scotland too as an Act of Parliament yea farre more binding than any Parliament Acts by binding the hands power of future Parliaments themselves and our three whole Nations as aforesaid and that in Perpetuity which no Parliaments nor Acts of Parliament can do and by repealing nulling all our former Fundamental Laws Charters Liberties Free Government made by Parliaments with our very Parliaments themselves And if so let the Objectors now seriously consider both the Treasonableness unparliamentalness sad Consequences of this Objection and what ill effects it may produce in present or future ages 5ly The Statutes of 25 E. 1. c. 2. 42 E. 3. c 2. yet in force declare All judgements given or to be given by the Justices or any other contrary to the points of the Great Charter to be void and holden for Nought and if any Statute be made to the contrary it shall be holden for none Therefore these Instrument Articles and Paper Ordinances made by colour of them in direct opposition to and subversion of the points of the Great Charter and all other Acts for their confirmation must needs be holden for nought and void to all intents to bind this whole Free-born Nation or any one Freeman of England in particular 6. If these Articles and Instrument for the premised reasons and defect of Legal power in the yet unknown Instrument-makers be not void in Law to all intents and purposes as all wise men repute them yet other clauses and Articles of this very Instrument admit it valid and obligatory to our Nations give a fatal blow to all the forementioned Excises Impositions Contributions by colour thereof and to the Objected Articles First the Prologue to the Oath at the close thereof proclaims the Government setled by it to be such as by the blessing of God might be lasting secure Property and answer The Great Ends of Religion and Libertie so long Contended for But these Articles as the Objection and premises evidence do no wayes secure but utterly subvert all Property in the highest degree and answer not but eternally frustrate abolish the Great ends of our Religion condemning all illegal unrighteous Taxes and Tyrannical Usurping Oppressing arbitrary Powers but especially of our Liberties so long contended for and are rather likely to raise new troubles and unsettlements than make the Government lasting as many late Presidents with those ancient ones in Dr. Beard his Theatre of Gods Judgements l. 2. c. 36. to 42. may perswade us Therefore it must be exploded as repugnant to the whole scope of the Instrument 2. The 6. Article of it is fatall and destructive to the objected Articles viz That the Laws shall not be altered suspended abrogated or repealed nor any New Law made Nor any Tax Charge or Imposition laid upon the People but by common consent in Parliament Save Only as is expressed in the 30th Article not 27. Now these objected 27 28 29 Articles being diametrically contrary to every word clause of this 6 Article and agreeable to our Fundamental Laws which the last clause of the Oath obligeth their Protector and his Successors to maintain and to govern the People by which Laws must be all altered suspended abrogated repealed by these Articles alone if reputed valid in giving Power to them to impose any Tax Charge Imposition upon the People without common consent in Parliament and being not within the saving of this or the 30th Article must needs be void and repealed by this very sixt Article and the Oath it self 3. The 30th Article following them diametrically contradicts repeals them in
it which would have forestalled affronted the next and all future Parliaments in their proper work of granting regulating all future Taxes according to the 6. and 30. Articles and made them meer Cyphers clearly takes away this evasion with all their former and future Whitehall Impositions after the 3 of September as contrary both to their Instrument and Oath 5ly The words of the 30th Article whereto this Saving refers are observable That they shall have power until the meeting of the first Parliament to raise Monies for defraying the Charges of the Extraordinary Forces both at Land and Sea In respect of the present Wars To which for the purposes aforesaid in the Saving relates But the present Warres being many Moneths since ended both by Land and Sea by the Peace concluded with Forreign Nations and so no need nor use of Extraordinary Forces to be still continued by Land or Sea the ancient Trayned Bands and Militia of the Realm being now well able to defend secure us at their owne cost without any Mercenary Forces Excises or Contributions only to pay them the power of raising Monies in this Saving with the grounds thereof are now at an end as well as our Warrs and the whole 27 Article too Since the old standing Militia and Trayned Bands of the 3. Nations will be a sufficient Safeguard to them without our Mercenary Army or Forces which usually prove Treacherous Supplanters Usurpers Oppressors to all who rely 〈◊〉 them whereupon our prudent Ancesters since 〈◊〉 gernes usurpation intrusted their Militia and Defence of the Realm only in the hands of the Nobility Gentry Freeholders and persons of best ability and estates not in Mercenary Armies which supplanted the Britons And our Warres now ceasing the antient Revenues Lands Customes of the Crowne and Perquisits of the Courts of Justice will be sufficient to defray all the Ordinary expences of the Government Navy old standing Garrisons if continued though useless Officers of State and Justice as they did in all former ages and still ought to do for the peoples ease and benefit 6ly It hath been the special policy care of our prudent Fore-fathers and wise Parliaments never to grant any annual Tax or Charge except Tonnage â—and Poundage in some cases for a limited time for Publike Defence unto their Kings and Governours nor usually to give them above Subsidy or one or two Fifteens or a single Escuage and sometimes not so much in any one Parliament upon any extraordinary occasion or necessity and that upon these Grounds 1. Because extraordinary Aydes ought to be granted only for and proportioned to extraordinary present emergent Necessities visibly appearing which being not lasting but momentany and various one from another no standing certain Contribution can or ought to be allotted for them but only a temporary and mutable the ordinary setled Crown Revenues being sufficient to defray all ordinary expences without other Aydes 2ly To keep a perpetual tye upon their Kings and Governours to summon frequent Parliaments and redreâ—s all their Grievances in them before they should receive any Grant of new Ayds or Subsidies from them to supply their publique Necessities to preserve a Power and Right in Parliaments to examine the grounds and present necessity of all Taxes demanded and to take an Accompt how former Taxes the Kings Revenues had been disbursed before they granted new ones All which the granting of standing annual Aydes for publique Defence would frustâ—â—e 3ly To prevent the encroaching of a constant Charge and Revenue on the People which if granted but for years life or but twice or thrice in the same kind and proportion without alteration though but as a free gift in Parliament would thereupon be claimed exacted from them afterwards as a meer just annual Right and Revenue without their future grants as Danegeld was by some of our Kings of old Imposts once granted by Edward the 3. and other Kings heretofore and the Customes of Tonnage Poundage by King Charles of late 4ly To avoid all unjust Oppressions of the people by imposing on them more Taxes at once than the present urgent necessities required 5ly To prevent the inhaunsing doubling of Taxes by any new dangerous Presidents Sir Edward Coâ—k observes in his 4 Institutes p. 33. That the Commons never used to give above one Temporary Subsidie and two Fifteens in any one Parliament and sometimes less till the Parliament of 31 Eliz. which gave 2. Subsidies and 4 Fifteens upon which first breach of this old circle and usage their Taxes still increased afterwards by degrees for in 35 39 Eliz. they rose to 3. Subsidies and 6 Fifteens in 43 Eliz. to 4 Subsidies and 8 Fifteens in 21 Jacobi to 3 Subsidies and 6 Fifteens in shorter time then had been before in 3 Caroli to 5 Subsidies in shortest time of all and now of late to constant annual Imposts Excises endless Monethly Contributions amounting to at least 3 Subsidies every Moneth 6ly Because a standing extraordinary Tax especially for years or life when once claimed or received as part of the publique Revenue would be hardly relinquished or discontinued without much contest and danger as appears by Danegeld of old and Tonnage Poundage Excise Monthly Contributions of late imposed as of right upon us by every new upstart Power and when once customarily claimed collected as a Duty will no ways ease nor exempt the people from new Extraordinary Aydes and Taxes This is evident by that memorable President concerning Abby-Lands in King Henry the 8 his reign setled on him as a large annuall standing Revenue of purpose to defend the Realm and ease the People from all future Aydes by the Parliaments of 27 H. 8. c. 28. 31 H. 8. c. 13. 32 H. 8. c. 14. Yet were these Lands no sooner setled on the Crown for these ends but in the same Parliament of 32 H. 8. the King demanded and â—ad of his Subjects one extraordinary Subsidy both of the Clergy and Laity and 34 H 8. c. 16 17. 37 H. 8. c. 24. he demanded and had the like Subsidy of them again and his Successors the like and greater Subsidies every Parliament since The like we see in the Case of Tonnage and Poundage granted only for the Defence of the Seas and Realm against Forraign Enemies Pirates Which no sooner taken by the late King as a standing Revenue of the Crown but he exacted and levied against Law a New annual Tax of Shipmony to guard the Seas for which very use he received Tonnage Poundage and the ancient Customes as our late Governors did and present do together with new Imposts and Excises and yet impose Land rates of Forty thousand pounds a Month besides to Maintain the Navy To instance in one particular more Our late new Governours made sale of all Archbishops Bishops Deanes Chapters Delinquents Kings Queens Princes and Sequestred Lands and Goods both in England Scotland and Ireland one after another under pretext
to ease the People in and of their heavy Taxes But what was the issue all their Taxes Excises and other Impositions were still continuep on them without any intermission or diminution nay advanced higher than ever to 120 thousand pounds Contribution by the Month for England besides Scotland and Ireland even whiles all these Lands and Goods were selling the Lands and Goods sold consumed without any publique Accompt yet given of the Monies or their disposall or any present ease to the oppressed people and the ordinary standing Revenues of the Realm being now by this meanes decayed dissipated and almost brought to nothing these New Projectors and Dissipators of this vast publique Revenue instead of easing by colour of this Instrument resolve to impose upon the undone long-oppressed Peoples gauled broken backs and Estates such perpetual constant annual Taxes Excises Imposts Revenues as you have heard for the Maintenance both of the Army Navy Administration of Justice and other ordinary expences of the Government which no Kings of England ever yet received or pretended to Which if any future Parliaments shall be so mad or improvident once to settle or the Kingdom not unanimously to oppugne if setled by them without a Parliament instead of easing of the People of their long insupportable Taxes now their wars are ended in all succeeding Parliaments they shall still be burthened with new extraordinary Taxes upon new pretended extraordinary occasions and Forces raised as the words of the 30 Article compared with the 27 and 29 declare as if this new constant revenue had never been setled and if our Parliaments refuse to grant them these New Projecting Tax-Masters who must dispose of all the moneys in the intervals of Parliaments will impose and levy them at their pleasure by their Supertranscendent usurped Tyrannical Power and Sword men and dispose of them as they please without a Parliament as they have already done without rendring any other publick Accompt to the people thereof than hath hitherto been given to them of all the many millions of Treasure already extorted from them of late years to no other end as appears by these Articles of our New Government but now at last to bring and keep them under perpetual endlesse Taxes of all sorts and the intollerable worse than Turkish Slavery of a perpetual domineering Mercenary Army Navy instead of long promised Liberty ease and exemption from them till they are all brought to a morsel of bread and till their private estates be utterly consumed as well as the publick Crown and Church Revenues yet remaining The lad and serious consideration of all which Premises I humbly submit to the Impartial Iudgements Consciences of our present Governours Army Officers Souldiers themselves how discrepant they are from all their former printed Deolarations Protestations Promises Vowes Engagements to the People and what they expected from them It was the Speech of the Scythian Embassadours to Alexander the Grand Conquerour of the world Nec Servire ulli possumus nec regnare desideramus Si Deus es tribuere mortalibus bâ—nificia debes non sua eripere sic Homoâ—es id quâ—d es semper esse te cogita Stultum est eorum memintsse propter quae tui oblivisceris Let it be all Heroick English Freemens to our pretended Conquerors who may do well to remember that Hermolaus and other Officers and Souldiers of Alexanders own Guard conspired his destruction after all his Persian Conquests for this very reason which they justified to his face Quia non ut ingenuis imperare caepisti Sed quati in mancipia dominaris because he had begun not to raign over them as Freemen but to domineer over them like Slaves and because Revelaetions in this age may be more prevalent with some Men than Gods own Oracles or our Lawes I shall inform our Tax-imposing Governours that St. Bridget of Sweden in the 8 Book of her Revelations of the Heavenly Emperour unto Kings cap. 6 records That she had this Revelation from the Son of God That Kings and Governours ought to love the People and Commonalty of their Realms That they then shew they truly love them when they permit them to enjoy their approved Laws and Liberties when cruel Exactors and Collectors domineer not over them if they burthen them not with new Inventions of Impost Taxes and Tributes nor with grievous and unaccustomed Hospitality Permanencies or Freequarter For although for the resisting of Infidels they may humiliter petere auxilium a Populo humbly request an aid from the People and Commons of their Realms not imperiously impose it when there is a necessity yet let them beware quod necessitas illa non veniat in consuetudinem legem that the necessity comes not into a custom and law For that King or Ruler who layes not aside his unjust Exactions and Fraudulent Inventions to raise monies and oppresse his People making his reigns and Kingdoms meer robberies and rapines as most then did and nâ—w too let him know for certain he shall not prosper in his doings but shall lead and end his life in grief dismisse his Kingdoms in tribulations his Son and Posterity shall be in such hatred reproach and confusion that all men shall wonder thereat his Soul shall be tormented by the Devils in Hell which she manifests by the example of an unjust Tax-imposing King damned to Hell and there tormented by the Devils For that to retain the Kingdom to himself and defend it from Invasions he petended the antient Revenues of his Eschequer would not defray the Expences of the Government and Realms defence whereupon he devised certain new Inventions and fraudulent Exactions of Imposts Tributes Taxes and imposed them on his Kingdome to the dammage of the Natives and oppression of innocent Merchants and Strangers although his conscience dictated to him Quod ista erant contra Deum et omnem Iustitiam et Publicam Honestatem that these things were against God and all Iustice and Common Honesty as our forementioned Excises Imposts Taxes are now Let those who are now guilty of this sinne in the highest degree beware they incurre not the self-same temporal and infernal punishments thus threatned to and inflicted upon others And let our whole English Nation and their Trustees upon serious consideration of all the premises beware how they in any kind through fear or cowardise submit their necks or backs to the forementioned illegal Yokes and Burdens of perpetual standing Excises Imposts Contributions and Taxes to enslave themselves and their Posterities for ever to an oppressing Military New Government and perpetual Army For which end I shall only recommend unto their meditation and practise this observation and policy of our prudent Ancesters Binus actus inducit Consuetudinem that a double generall submission to and payment of such exorbitant illegal Taxes will introduce a customary future exaction and payment of them which made them always as we have greatest reason now to do
peremptorily to withstand the firs to prevent a second customary future exaction and payment in like kind pursuing the Poet Ovids old sage Counsel wherewith I shall conclude this point Principiis obsta serò medicina paratur Cum mala per longas invaluere moras How transcendently all the other Fundamental Laws Liberties Rights of our English Freeborn Nation have by late and present Governours and their Instruments been infringed subverted in an higher avowed degree than ever in former ages by forcible tyrannical Proceedings of all kindes in breaking open mens Houses by armed Souldiers and other unsworn illegal Officers Excise-men Sequestrators both by day and night seising their Persons Horses Armes Papers Writings ransacking their Studies Truncks Cabinets upon false surmises suspicions close imprisoning their persons by multitudes without before any examination particular accusation hearing trial in unusual places and some of them in remetest Isles Garrisons under Souldiers Their pressing of men for Land and Sea service and carrying them away perforce by Soldiers Troopers Officers Mariners like so many Prisoners out of their own Counties and the Realm to unnatural unchristian Warrs against their Wills and Consciences Their disinheriting many Thousands of English Freemen of all sorts of their Freeholds Lands Offices Fraâ—chises Honors Authorities spoyling them and theirs of theirs Goods Chattles Estates Lives in and by Arbitrary Committees Martial other extravagant Courts of highest Injustice Subverting Changing our ancient Fundamental Lawes Statutes and enacting New without the Peoples free consents in Lawfull English Parliaments altering the whole Frame and Constitution of our Monarchy Government and Parliaments themselves Depriving the people of the Free election of their Parliament Members and other Elective Officers contrary to our Lawes Charters Usages securing secluding the Members of Parliament themselves by armed Force dissolving Parliaments by the Sword alone without Writ or legall power contrary to Acts and Privileges of Parliament by erecting New Legislative Tax-imposing Self-created Powers not elected by the People at Whitehall and elsewhere not to be paralleld in any age By creating New-Treasons contrary to the old ones and the Statute of 25 E. 3. and condemning sequestring imprisoning executing English Peers and Freemen only for their loyalty Duty to their lawfull Soveraigns and defence of the Rights Privileges Liberties Laws of the Kingdom Parliament Nation according to their Oathes Protestations League Covenant and Gods own Precepts against the publique Enemies Oppugners Vnderminers Subvertors of and Conspirators against them By making publick wars at Land and Sea with our Christian Protestant Brethren and other Nations and concluding Leagues Truces without common consent or advice in Parliament By alienating selling giving squandring away the ancient Demesnes Lands Honours Rents Revenues Rights Inheritances of the Crown of England yea of Scotland and Ireland likewise to Officers Souldiers of the Army and others for pretended Arrears Services or inconsiderable values which should defray all the constant ordinary Expences of the Government publique State Officers Embassadours Garrisons Navy Courts of the Kingdom and ease the People from all kind of Taxes Payments Contributions whatsoever towards them except in extraordinary emergent cases and necessities in times of war requiring extraordinary expences for their publique safety supplied by Aydes and Subsidies granted only by common consent in Parliament only and not otherwise which now must be wholly or for the greatest part defrayed by the People alone out of their own exhausted private estates by endlesse Taxes Excises Contributions as appears by the 27 28 29 30. Articles of their New ill sounding Instrument foreinsisted on whiles others without right or legal Title enjoy the old standing Demesnes Lands Rents Revenues and Perquisites of the Crown for their private advantage without any Acts of Resumption usual in all former ages to keep the Kingdom Nation from becoming Bankrupts and people from oppression which should ease the people of those intollerable constant burthens lately laid upon them against all Justice Law Conscience and make insufferable wasts and spoyles of the stately Houses Timber Woodâ— Mines Forrests Parkes of the Crown without restraint to the Kingdoms extraordinary prejudice for which they ought to give an Account and make full reparations if the Earl of Devonshires case Cook 11 Reports f. 89 90 91 be Law And by sundry other particulars requiring whole Baronian volumes to recite and specifie to the full is so well known by dayly experience and multitude of Presidents fresh in memory to our whole three Nations that I shall here no further insist upon them all which experimentally confirm the truth of our Saviours own words Iohn 10 1 10. Verily verily I say unto you He that entreth not by the Doâ—r into the Sheepfold but climbeth up some other way the same is a Theef and a Robber The Theef cometh not but steal and to kill and to destroy Whatever his pretences be to the contrary And this rule of Johannes Angelius Wenderhagen Politiae Synopticae lib. 3. c. 9. sect 11. p. 3. 10. Hinc Regulae loco notandum Quod omne Regnum vi Armata acquisitum in effectis Subditos Semper in durior is Servatutis conditiones arripiat licet a principio Dulcedinem prurientibus spirare videatur which we now find most true by sad sensible experience Ideâ— cunctis hoc cavendum Ne temere se seduci patiantur FINIS This Epistle should have been printed before the first part but was omitted through hast a See the several Epistles of Frederick the Emperor against Pope Gegory the 9 and Innocent the 4 recorded by Mat. Paris p. 332. to 693. sparsim b See Extraâ— de Majoritate Obedientia Augustinus Triumphus Bellarminus Becanuâ— and others De Monarchia Remani Pontificis Hospiniaâ— Hist Jesui l. 3 4. * Henricus de Knighton de Eventibus Angli ae l. 2. c. 14 15. c See Massaeus Vegius Petrus Ribadeniera in vita Ignatii Loyolae Heylins Micracosme p. 179. d See Lewis Owen his Jesuites Looking-glass printed London 1629. the Epistle to the Reader and p. 48 to 58. Jubilaeum sive speculum Jesuitiâ—um printed 1644. p. 307 to 213. Hospinian Hist Jesuitica l. 2. * Speculum Jesuiticum p. 210. See Romes Master-peice Conterburies Doom p. 435 c. Hiddeâ— works of Darkness 88 144. e Mercure Iesuâ—le tom 1. p. 67. Speculum Jesuitieum p. 1. 56. f See Lewis Owen his running Register his Jesuited Looking glass The Anatomy of the English Nunnery at Lisbone g De Monarchia Hispanica p. 146 147 148 149 204 234 235 236 185 186. h See Thomas Campanella de Monarchia Hispaniae Watsons quodhbets Coâ—loni Posthuma p. 91. 10 107. Cardinal de Ossets Letters Arcana Imperii Hispanici Delâ—h 1628. Advice a tous les Estat's de Europe touches les maximas Fundamentales de Government dissâ—iennes Espaginols Paâ—is 1625. i Set my Speccb in Parliament p. 107. â—o 119. and the History of Independency k Exact Collâ—ction p. 651 652 662 666 813