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A46364	The last efforts of afflicted innocence being an account of the persecution of the Protestants of France, and a vindication of the reformed religion from the aspersions of disloyalty and rebellion, charg'd on it by the papists / translated out of French.; Derniers efforts de l'innocence affligée. English	Jurieu, Pierre, 1637-1713.; Vaughan, Walter.	1682 (1682)	Wing J1205; ESTC R2582	121,934	296

wicked of men doth it follow that because out of hatred to the Roman Religion and for Excluding the Duke of York from the Succession he would have suborn'd some Witnesses against the Queen and the Duke he must therefore have framed and invented this long train of Conspiracies and that multitude of particular matters of Fact Letters Meetings and Consultations that appear in the History of the Plot Doth it follow that because he would have suborn'd Witnesses he must therefore succeed in it Or if he hath had the fortune to find one Wretch or two capable to be Suborn'd is it probable he could have found out so great a number Hath he search'd England and Ireland all over to scum out for his purpose all the Rascals capable to give and maintain a false Testimony How many Witnesses have been produc'd about the Plot in Ireland Hath the Earl of Shaftsbury Suborn'd them too Is this probable Sir or will any man believe it Par. This probably is all you have to say to us about the Plot in England I think it high time to put an end to our Discourse it hath been somewhat long you may well be weary of speaking as we are of hearing Hug. Law We should have had much more to say to you if we were allow'd to speak and could produce all the proofs the Cabal hath found the means to bury Had we but seen Plunket's Tryal we could without doubt have added many things to what you have heard And if it were in our power to discover the Mysteries of the Irish Plot we should certainly stop their Mouths who say the reason of our ill usage in France is that the King may revenge the Outrages done to the Roman Catholicks in England Hug. Gen. Gentlemen if you please before we make an end because I am in the humour of making Retractations and Confessions I will confess t' you that speaking last year of the death of King Charles the 1st and how great a share the Jesuits had in his Death I gave you but a very imperfect account I have since search'd into the bottom of that affair and if you please will acquaint you what I have learnt Du Moulin's Answer to Philanax Anglicus pag. 58. I must tell you then that 't is known when the late King of England was Beheaded there was a Roman Priest a Confessour who having seen the King's Head cut off flourish'd his Sword and with Demonstrations of extraordinary joy cryed out Now we are rid of our greatest Enemy There is proof that the News of the King's Death being come to Roan and discours'd in a great Company of men very well instructed in the Mysteries of the Zealous Cabal one of them spoke thus Pag. 58 59. The King of England had promis'd us at his Marriage that the Catholick Religion should be re-establish'd in England and because he put it off from time to time we often call'd upon him to perform his promise we were so plain as to tell him That if he did it not we should be forc'd to make use of means to destroy him We gave him fair warning and because he would not follow our advice nor keep his Word with us we have kept ours with him A Gentleman of honour a Protestant who was in the Company gave me this Relation The Author who produces this Proof produces also a Letter from a Secretary of State who was actually in the Service of the Crown when the Accusation was brought against the Jesuits about the Death of the King this Secretary whose name was Morrice in answer to a Letter from the Author of the Accusation says to this purpose I am not allow'd nor does it become me to make Conjectures or draw Consequences from the Orders his Majesty gave me concerning you beyond what he hath precisely exprest You know in what trust and capacity I serv'd his Majesty Pag. 64. and what it was my duty to say and whereof to be silent But this I may safely say and will do it confidently that many Arguments did create a violent suspicion very near convincing Evidences that the Irreligion of the Papists was chiefly guilty of the Murder of that Excellent Prince the Odium whereof they would now file to the account of the Protestant Religion The same Author adds That a Protestant a little before the King's death met upon the Road from Roan to Diep a Company of Jesuits who taking him for a Catholick told him they were going into the Army of the Independants in England and that they would make work enough there An English Lady at Paris being seduc'd by a Jesuit turn'd Roman Catholick soon after came the news of the King of England's Death The Jesuit visiting the Lady found her all in Tears for this lamentable Accident Madam says the Jesuit smiling you have no reason to lament what hath happened the Catholicks are delivered of the greatest Enemy they had and his Death will be much to the advantage of the Catholick Religion The Lady angry at this discourse sent the Jesuit packing down Stairs and conceiv'd such horrour against the Roman Catholick Religion she would never after endure to hear speak of it A very understanding Man visiting the Monks at Dunkirk that he might sound them what they thought of the King's Death said That the Jesuits had labour'd much to bring about that great work A Monk answer'd That the Jesuits always assum'd to themselves the credit of every great Work but that their order had contributed to this as much if not more than they 'T is certain there was an universal Joy in all the English Seminaries on this side the Sea for the Death of the King They thought themselves so sure of their Designs that the Benedictines were taking care how to prevent the Jesuits from possessing themselves of the Lands belonging to their order and the Nuns quarrell'd among themselves who should be Lady Abbesses To conclude the same Author reports That he offer'd to prove in due course of Law Pag. 61 62. his Charge against the Jesuits for the Death of the King but that he was unwilling to publish his Proofs before hand lest those who were guilty of the Charge might have opportunity to get them out of the way or destroy them I do not understand English but I got a Friend of mine who does to Translate me this Book being an Answer to a Book entituled Philanax Anglicus I remember these Particulars in it which in my opinion sufficiently prove that the Charge of the King's Death on the Roman Catholicks is not altogether groundless but I begin to be sensible we abuse your patience Therefore Gentlemen we will break off here and take our Leaves Prov. I wish'd them gone a quarter of an hour ago The Lawyer as he took out of his Pocket the Oath he gave us to read dropt a Paper I took up and having half open'd it I spy'd written a top To the King I folded it up again

more weight than what is said by an Author without Merit and without a Name Hug. Law The Charge is the same though the Accusers are different By answering either we answer both Save that Dr. Arnaud aims farther than the Anonymus Church-man and lays his Accusation general against all the Reformed of Europe as if they had kindled a War and alter'd the Government where-ever the Reformation was introduc'd The generality of this Charge deserves a particular Consideration and if these Gentlemen please I will let them see how unjust it is Par. We shall gladly give you the hearing 'T is a thing we had to say to you in Justification of the Conduct of the Ministers against you and of the design the King hath to destroy you And I explain it thus You are naturally inclin'd to a Republican Government you hate Monarchy and your Sect hath not made appear that Spirit of Rebellion that animates it in France alone but in the Low-Countries in Germany in England And generally in all places where it is establish'd you have shaken off the Yoke of your Lawful Princes and setled your Religion by taking up Arms against your Soveraigns Hug. Law If a Gentleman so clear-sighted as you can charge us so unjustly what Equity can we expect from those ordinary understandings which are guided wholly by prejudice To hear you speak one would think we had in every place set up the Standard of Rebellion And that like Mahomet we had establish'd our Sect by force of Arms. The ground of all this is no other but that in the time of our Reformation the Low-Countries withdrew themselves from under the Dominion of Spain and the Protestants of Germany had some engagements with Charles the 5th To let you see the injustice of this Complaint I must intreat you to take a short view of the States where our Reformation is establish'd and you will see whether it hath entred every where by Arms and Rebellion As to England all the World knows the Reformation was introduc'd there by Authority of the Soveraign not by popular Sedition Henry the 8th shook off the Yoke of the Pope and enfranchis'd his Kingdom from the Tyranny of the Court of Rome Edward the 6th his Son and Successor finished what he began Mary the Daughter of Henry destroy'd all her Father and Brother had done and brought the Kingdom again under the Dominion of the Roman Church Elizabeth her Sister overthrew all Mary had done restablish'd the Reformation of the Protestants in all her Dominions and strengthned it by a Raign of above forty years Swede was reform'd under the Authority of Gustavus Erikson whom your most Catholick Writers cannot reproach with any thing but his banishing the Roman Religion out of his Countries He was descended of the Ancient Gothish Kings and Grandchild to Charles Chanut King of Swede He was chosen King of Swede by all the States of that Kingdom with universal joy and great acclamation as having merited that Honour by the great Service he had done his Countrey in delivering it from the tyranny of the Danes This then was no usurper but a Lawful King A Prince of so much goodness and wisdom as Swede ever had He Raign'd happily thirty seven years and in acknowledgment of his Merit the Swedes made their Crown hereditary in favour of his Children which had before been Elective This Prince reform'd Religion in his Countries without Violence without Threats but by fair and gentle Means without a Sword drawn or drop of Blood shed Denmark receiv'd the Reformation the same time under Frederick and Christiern the 3 d. his Son without Violence and only by the Authority of these two Princes The last Roman-Catholick King of Denmark was Christiern the 2 d. whom F. Maimburg in his History of Lutheranism describes as a Monster He assur'd himself the Conquest of Swede by the most inhumane and barbarous Action History ever mention'd That is by Massacring the Senate and all the flower of the Nobility of the Kingdom at a Feast he invited them to This Tyrant was driven out of Denmark by his Subjects there who call'd in Frederick Duke of Holstein and plac'd him on the Throne This Frederick was a Prince as eminent for wisdom and renowned for goodness as Christern the last who made profession there of the Roman-Catholick Religion was infamous for his Wickedness Treachery and Cruelty For proof of this truth I rely not on a Witness lyable to suspition but on Father Maimbourg in his first Book of the History of Lutheranism I have already made out a considerable number of the Reformed Countries where it appears the Reformation was not introduc'd by revolt of the Subject but establish'd by Authority of the Soveraign The Swisses were a free State before the Reformation and therefore at liberty to make choice of their Religion and may be added to the number of Countries reform'd without Rebellion Par. Let me advise you Sir to stop there For if you step but a little further you will come to Geneva your Metropolis and your Rome And I believe you will find it a hard task to justifie their manner of changing the Ancient Religion there They expell'd their Bishop depriv'd the Dukes of Savoy of the ancient Rights they had in the City erected themselves into a soveraign Republick against all sorts of Right Humane and Divine Hug. Law I think Gentlemen you have no cause to suspect the History of Geneva lately published by Monsieur Spon He affects a sincerity not very pleasing to the Protestants They of Geneva have judg'd it so little favourable to them they have prohibited the sale of the Book in their City And it has pleas'd the Enemies of the Protestants so well they have given it high Elogies and magnificent Approbations However I will rely on what that Author says If you read that History Sir you will find the Bishop of Geneva was not in any Age Soveraign of the City true it is he had some rights over the temporalties of it as some Bishops of France particularly those who are Dukes Earls and Peers of the Kingdom have over their Sees and Episcopal Cities as the Bishop of Strasbourg had there as the Elector and Arch-bishop of Cologne hath over that City But these are not rights of Soveraignty The Bishop of Geneva never was a Soveraign Prince but the Syndic and Councel of the City have always been Soveraign Magistrates in Civil Affairs The Historian tells you further the Duke of Savoy never had any lawful right over the City of Geneva They have had Judges who were called Vidons but the Judges had jurisdiction over no other but Savoyards settled in the Territory of Geneva And 't was by meer sufferance of the Genevois the Dukes of Savoy had a right of Jurisdiction over the Savoyards in their City 'T is confess'd the Dukes of Savoy have sometimes kept their Court in Geneva but without any Authority other than the permission of the Syndics and