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A76483	Mutatus polemo. The horrible strategems of the Jesuits, lately practised in England, during the Civil-Wars, and now discovered by a reclaimed Romanist: imployed before as a workman of the mission from his Holiness. Wherein the Royalist may see himself outwitted and forlorn, while the Presbyterian is closed with, and all to draw on the holy cause. A relation so particular, and with such exquisite characters of truth stampt upon it, that each of our three grand parties may here feel how each others pulses beat. Also a discovery of a plot laid for a speedy invasion. / By A.B. novice. Published by special command.	A. B., Novice.	1650 (1650)	Wing B21; Thomason E612_2; ESTC R23105	40,723	56

should I dare publikely to speak all I know of the persons of some men and their now black and dangerous actings and imployments for the restoring of not Charls but to his ancient bloudy Tyranny Suffice thee my Reader thou shalt know all in time it must first be my work at the Councell Table where I shall God willing bring in a horrible large Catalogue of more pernitiously damnably dangerous Actors then was in the year 1605. in that infernall Powder plot If ever there were such a fry of Devils in mens shapes yea in ministers too crept in to undermine a People and State judge you by that time I shall have discharged the duty of a Sound Convert and a Native English Gentleman to those Patriots and worthies whom God by most miraculous providences hath owned to be our undoubtedly lawfull Governours But Non omnes volucres Auceps non omnia lustra Venator spoliat I shall do my uttermost Return we to see what the Catholike faction are a brewing Each had their Conventicle the Cavaleer Buzzard I may say Bayard had their fools o In Oxford a place so fitly called for Newes-meeters Corner and we our p The Catholike savern so generally called Knaves Some of us resolve one thing some another all agree in this we must desert the Royall Cause and as we could get in with the Presbyter One of such a quality cryes out I le compound and goe home fight Dog fight Bear Another I 'le take the Covenant and turn Presbyter But this last sort had carryed themselves meer Amphibiums in religion and not openly known for reall Catholikes but a part of us of more hot spirits not of the laity but of some severall orders did conclude it our best way not only cleerly to relinquish our party but to engratiate our selves with the Enemy by acting some handsome piece of treachery that in time we might revive the old Catholike Cause by more able and apt Instruments then by a company of staring hare-brain'd Cavaleers who are not able to act so powerfully as those we desired to joyn Interest with nor indeed as Solomon speaks when they had a price in their hands were they able to get wisdome And for this Conjunction were there very plausible reasons laid down Say some Had the King prevailed against the People the fawning Bishops to uphold their usurped power would have stampt any Religion upon their Proselyte King that they again might have vanted in their Lawn sleeves and stoln q Pedo Episcopali grande inest mysterium Miters the number of us Catholikes being in England much inconsiderable to that of Hereticks and the King not pertinacious nor a jot solicitous of any Religion which diminishes the least tittle of his monarchical prerogative In this huddle of opinions up starts a Dominican Fa Car by name now in Calice but then known by the degree of Quartermaster Lawrence born at Hexam in Northumberland and seriously in my opinion he spake as we say veteratorie like an old Fox Truly said he I can with better conscience and more liberty fight for and converse with the Scot then the Infidel the Presbyter then the Cavaleer I have more hopes of him for a Convert which is of some religion then of him which is of none and so far quoth he may we call the King but his Party especially true Cavaleers And if we truly consider some points of the Religion and the rigidness I may not call it but the zeal of the Presbyter with its Discipline and Polity you shall find as in severall points I could plainly hold it forth and demonstrate the parallel that there is no Religion in the world does so neerly consent with the true Catholike faith as does the Scotch Presbyterie though I do not say it be super veritate fundatum as ours is Besides said he I might urge the great hopes and probability of a Presbyters conversion for unde aliquis flatus ostenditur vela dat he is subject to turn with every winde no men in the world being of more unstable mindes and r Witness the common-pr-Directory Covenanting-royall-assembly-engageing Ministers of England giddily wavering as are they which if Arguile in time does not as no doubt but he will both the Leslies and the generality of the Brethren will make good Simul ac fortuna dilapsa est devolant omnes As for their guidly Covenant it 's but a Volaticum Iusjurandum seald with butter which they will only make use of to pick a quarrell with England when they have need of one and are out of imployment which the French will soon finde a way to put them upon when the young Å¿ Prince Charles Run-away shall have once given an assurance of his real conversion to the Catholike faith then shall you see the Presbyter the only staffe we must lean upon But for the Cavaleers said he they are Duri Capitones a company of foolish obstinate Asses our hardest taske will be to yoak these * Disparibus bobus vix trahitur Vehiculum two beasts to draw our Pough they that refuse you shall see them pessum premi trodden under foot by * Quod lupus est lupulum nunquam prius est mihi visum us and the * other These and many other arguments being laid down by this Father it was instantly desired by one known at that time generally by no other name but Captain Saint Iohns and yet well known somewhere now in this Country of the order of t Sunt qui Jesu nomen praetexentes hominum animas ipsi Satanae mancipant Jesus though he then walked the streets in a Chlamys how we should speedily dispose of our selves Non ad praeteritum consul valet immo futurum The time and season required our consultations to be brief and pithy and the result was that some of the more aged of unactive bodies for military exploits but of busy spirits to set things in combustion and to augment feuds should be left behind and the rest should inveigle as many as they possibly could of the Cavalry to fall off which to effect some of our younger Novices dispersed themselves to severall petite Garrisons which were not reduced to the States obedience yea verily to almost all the Royall unsurrendred Garrisons in England for really we had enough in Oxford to furnish them besides what before they were stored with and there were few without u Jesuits and preists some some with many I dare affirm none without any Nor was it long ' ere the fruits of our Projects did appear As in the great falling off of many both Souldiers and men of eminency which we could in any way make stoop to the lure of Presbyterie and swallow the goodly godly Covenant more particularly that almost totall defection of the Wallingford Horse led off by one Beard and Pawlet in which I my self had an hand But I shall deviate too much in instancing on the

Bondslave from his captivity and bring him like a painted Pageant in pomp up to London But this poor pretence though politike enough to catch the credulity of the throughout gulld Cavaleer because opinionating ends ever by words yet we who ever judged of mens words by their ends knew the inside of the piece to be clean contrary for the Scots though they had an egging minde to have more plunder were advisedly too cowardly to be thus valiantly foolish knowing the strength and resolution of that gallant dreadfull Army of England whom they durst as well eat Peark as look upon though they now make some flourishes of purpose to get some gelt for the Son as well as the Father and then you should see them fling him off and creep to an Englishmans elbowe for another confederacy In the mean time while things fell out very happily for our Party the Cabs knew nothing but what we thought fit to tell them and they very quietly acquiesced in our Oracles For now was I with my two forementioned Comerades imployed afresh by Monsieur Montril about such a like business as we had in Northumberland which was to muster all the Gentlemen we could ferret out and to take a strict and particular list of all that were Catholikes which we in time effected and delivered it to the Monsieur who commanded us to attend him the next day at Hally-Rood house where D. Hambleton played Rex and kept court as Lord Protector and Steward in the Dotage of his Cozin whither when we came and were called for to the Presence The e We all conferred in the french tongue Duke a rightwary pure Saint of Scotland as being pretty competently politique abundantly zealous and very indifferently religious first demanded of the Agent whether we were such as he might dare to confide and imploy in his Masters business we being Englishmen and for ought I know quoth he Cavaleers they are such replyed the Monsieur who do omnes unum studere and whose Characters I have received from no slender Testimony besides this gentleman pointing to Mr. Catesb being my old acquaintance and a reall servant to the Flur de luis whom being English and as they are I dare sooner trust then any men alive none being able to do our business with that influence and facility they may with their old dear acquainted Oxonions Gentlemen quoth the Duke then to us were it not prejudiciall to your selves as you have no reason to think I could wish that I knew how to equall my respects to your severall qualities But be confident I am overjoyed in this blessed opportunity of serving his Most Christian Majesty Here are up and down this City a crew of odd fellows old beaten Souldiers of the King of Englands party who can now serve for nothing better then to fill ditches thereby to salve their lost honours when they shall shed their bloud in the service of a more puissant Prince to whose gracious Majesty I shall ever devote my best performance Let it be your part therefore as much as in you lies to prepare them for this Expedition which you will the easlyer effect by taking these few verball Instructions with you much to this purpose First let them understand by you from mee the great compassion I take on their severall distresses and sad conditions and how studious I am to better it and to render them capeable of doing his f A double-tongued Scot. Majesty of England more good service and that to this end I am very willing to engage my self unto hs Majesty of France's Agent here for some competent sum of money for their subsistance and future pay which who so lists may receive and that I will freely but privately procure of the States of this Kingdome Passes for their going beyond Sea and will also provide vessels and be my self at the charge of their Transportation all which I shall do as a demonstration and pledge of that service I owe to my yong Mr. the Prince of England whom be sure to tell them what I say by their and others recourse to him with some foraign Princes assistances I hope and little doubt speedily to see in an invasive capacity to revenge his g Si non ante diem Parcae sua fila secantur Fathers indignities and powre out flouds of the blood of those rebellious Roundheads You shall also said he take money with you to give advance to all those who shall enroll themselves as souldiers for the French expedition for under that Notion you must tell them it must be carried on that so the States of this Kingdome may not be unfurnisht of a pretence and excuse against the urgings of those of England when they shall see us play foul play under-board But above all I beseech you that you make a diligent enquiry into the temper and imployment of some of those Anglers I am told there are some amongst them of most accomplisht parts and my Agents in London have given me warning that there are certainly some of them imployed by the English Parliament as Spies and Intelligencers concerning the transactions and consultations of me and this State Let such be nippily markt and taken notice of and where you shall find deserts in any other of them as conducible to our purpose proceed to collate large and particular encouragements Gentlemen quoth he you may not and I know you are not ignorant of the end of our design in which while we seem to help these base scoundrels our ambition is to serve his h King of France most Christian Majesty according to our long-continued and lately renewed obligation against either Spanish or English adversary at the present to fight the one and ere long to invade the other the latter of which his Majesty may hereafter easily atchieve having so many plausible pretensions on his side as not only the restauration of his nearest Ally but which is the main string of his bow his entring with so many native Englishmen which will stop the people from banding against his forces when they enter and occasion many thousands to joyn with them against their own Natives and Countrymen which when God shall please to bring to pass I shall then be openly able to declare to the world how much I am in Allegiance his subject and in conscience your servant Thus after our most humble regratulations to his Grace for these pictae tectoria linguae and indeed his affable and noble deportment to us with his tender respect of our religious qualities for the Agent had whisperingly told him what Mr. Catwas we were now departing the presence when presently we were remaunded by the Monsieur who told us that he had a very great desire to see as many of the gentlemen as could be got together at a Rendezvous if the Duke held it safe to which Mr. Br answered it were more convenient to defer that for one week longer till more of them

stake to encounter with a common Enemy for whom Civil Commotions set at variance Forraign Hostility reconciles And surely A wise Forraigner would be cautious in undertaking an expensive Design upon the report of such as are exiled their Country whose ends expect Advantages from their Assistance their miseries laying hold of all Opportunities and seeking to be made whole though upon their ruine for an Invader repelled must expect at the next bout to be Invaded However If Forraigners will be Fooles who can help it Reader be thou wise in relying on God and being true to thy Country Let no flattering wish deceive thee malice urge thee price nor promise bribe thee nor ought else tempt thee to take part with any Enemy of the State Assure thy self if thou dost whoever wins thou art lost If the State prevaile thou art branded for a Rebell and markt for death If the Enemy prosper thou shalt be reckoned as a Traytor and not secured of thy life He serves the State that destroys a Rebell And it is a common thing for a forraign Prince that loves the Treason to hate the Traitor Above all presume not on Secresie such confidence hath undone many Innumerous are the waies of finding out a man besides finding him in the very act Nor think a good wit can assuredly carry thee through an ill business Every man may not be the Wit he thinks himself And if he be or more yet none so cunning to cover but to discover there are others as wise If you think well to seem faithfull you must needs think it is better to be so Humanum est errare condonare Divinum Whoever wanders as I have let him quickly return to God his Country and himself The Shortest errours are the best Be not ashamed to be wise be thou encouraged for Peter through the mercifull aspect of Jesus doubled the grace by repenting which he had lost by offending Now for the Plot it is thus laid Reader thou hast it from a good hand and an affectionate heart to thy good Believe it to thy preservation for which be thankfull and doubt it not in simple ingratitude to God and to thy destruction The Scots that is the Presbyterians both of England and Scotland for London hath a lusty finger in the Breda-pye are the fore horses to draw on the good Catholike Design The little Queen this every one knows hath laid a strict command on her Lad by all possible means to compose differences and close interests with his guide friends the Scots English Presbyters upon any kinde of conditions how base or ignoble soever so that they may be brought to grapple with the English State These are to advance and keep some spudder in the North to draw down a considerable party thitherward the English-brethren are by all possible means to work some strong diversion if they can or dare in the Southern or some other parts The Montrossians at first were designed to keep warm the backs of the Scots and presently with their forraign Mercenaries Danes Swedes Suitzers Kerns Normans and some Germans to advance as neer the guide town of Edenburgh as they could But this too late for their advantage was perceived and did put the Leslyans to more then an halt in their resolutions even to a turning faces upon the Hurreying Invaders so that now it seems they are remaunded and have cross orders to hoyse for Ireland as t is given out to make all cleer there in a trice but this is but a flim-flam they are as I have some reason to suppose and report to joyn with the Lord Hopton in the Western Islands who is only usefull and imployed for nought else but to cover an Out-landish Invasive Enemy with his plausible presence and some English with him and others to prick on the Jockies to be sent in their steed into Scotland but not till the English and Scots come to Handy-gripes Nor are any to second Hopton but these and some Flemish aide by sea and land till he hath made the Gap wide and the way cleer for some other Party and then expect from all parts and Kingdoms some sweeping Armies of Catholikes to land in severall places at once which as the Cavalcers themselves do brag and give out shall come like a floud and in a trice rush and overflow the whole land like an * Et tunc immenso impetu Hostis confinibus ingruit Inundation But of this more in my next Treatise which I am confident will be convincing enough to stir up the spirits of the most venemously unsatisfied ones that are to an unanimous opposition of at least all the forreign Enemies of our Peace and Country who if ever as God forbid they should come to gain a conquest over poor England be ye assured Presbyterians and Cavaleers too that ye also must to pot and are in as great a Predicament of confusion as he that is now and ever The most faithful Servant of the Common wealth of England And real Convert to the Reformed Religion working by Jesus Christ in the power of the * Sedulò Inspirationibus internis attendo Spirit Amen Commune discrimen Dissidentes conjungit FINIS Epilogue to the Author SIR YOur Papers you were pleas'd to communicate to me I here return and as you desir'd they have been read over and I am ready to give you this account of them First I beleeve you report nothing but truth in them for these particulars agree exactly with my generall Observations 2ly I beleeve many of those who have been formerly of an other opinion will be convinced with your report 3ly I beleeve you will hereby gain no discredit nor incur danger except onely from those who are most certain and knowing that you speak truth herein I mean plainly if you provoke any enemies hereby it will be the Cavaleers the Papists and Presbyterians and yet all Papists Presbyterians and Cavaleers though they know these things are more then probable do not certainly know by any privity of their own that they were so acted as to particulars as is here described and therefore you need not fear all As for the Independents they are rather justified then provoked hereby and as for the Levellers though you pritty well describe them yet you insist not much upon them and if you had they are not very formidable at this time partly because the major part of them never yet fell totally from the Ordinances of God or from us and all such now as fell not so far have quitted their blasphemous Atheisticall ringleaders and I am in great hopes that some of them which have not yet retracted may be woone upon by your cleer ingenuous discoveries therefore do not withdraw one foot backwards Tutum est cumtimeas inferre gradum You know what Scipio said being once imploy'd upon an hard service Necesse est ut eam non ut vivam and you know better what our Saviour said He tbat will save his