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
Mutatus Polemo THE Horrible Stratagems 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 Out-witted 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. In scelus addendum scelus est in funera funus Published by special Command LONDON Printed for Robert White 1650. To the Right Honorable the Lord President BRADSHAVV My LORD SOme men meanly qualified have adventured Dedications of mean Pieces unto Princes but my impudence I fear transcends theirs for indeed it would better become me with a Rope about my neck to dedicate my self to your Justice then this piece to your Patronage My Lord I have deserved death but you know my retractations and if acknowledgements of my former offences against this State may make any expiation I beseech you to believe I have bin ingenuous I present this to your Lordship not to inform you but to disabuse the people for more of these Conspiracies then is revealed here is already known to you but since men falling off from a party create enmities and dangers to themselves as I now expect to do I cannot propose a more undanted patern to my self or desire a more Heroical Patron to this Pamphlet then your self You my Lord have dared in a strange time to judge between a King and a Kingdom and like a wise Salomon you have and yet without division divided the true living childe to its own Mother You have gone on gallantly and not like those other scorned Judges who now appear upon the Bench again but durst not sit there when the grand Case was to be decided those that hated you now fear you and those that feared you before now begin to honor you and believe you could not have gone on so but that you are invisibly prompted by a more then ordinary Power You are now fixt in an Orb above mean enmities and we that are below fear our enemies the less for your sake In this I flatter not and even this blunt story I hope will testifie me to be a man free from adulation for here I spare no man nor party that falls within my Verge Here most parties may see themselves how they are packt and shuffled for an after game which is speedily to be plaid the Royalist and the Presbyterian both may here see if they please that the Cards are to be dealt by other hands then theirs See what complottings what hurliburlies what heart-burnings here are whilst some fond men make it their main hope and ambition to undo themselves because forsooth they will needs take their enemies for friends and friends for enemies Now the Spanish are landing here the French there now the Scots have fifty thousand men to affront Cromwell and yet can spare Massey ten thousand more to take in Carlisle Vt populi folia omni vento sic populi corda hinc inde omni rumore moventur In the mean time my Lord God blesses your pious Cause and your pious Cause procures you a gallant Armado at Sea a victorious Army in Ireland another as numerous in Scotland a powerful Militia remaining besides in England neither is money nor courage nor unanimity wanting to all these Your enemies now have nothing to hope but that confidence in your wealth and strength will undo you O herein let your evil counsellors be made good ones to you But soft I become a trespassor upon your pretious time and I should beg pardon both for this fancy Dedication and rude Excursion but that I have pardon to beg for greater offences and am not thereof as yet sufficiently assured Onely if that pardon may not be granted to words let it be obtained by the constant future good comportment of My Lord The most real Servant of Englands Law and particularly your Honors A. B. NOVICE. Reader THou distrustest perhaps this piece which is now presented to thy view that it is a Romance or a meer figment But I assure thee t is not so for some of our greatest Statesmen know the reality of these things already and thou shalt ere longe by another more serious tract which is now in fitting for the Press receive a fuller confirmation I will not call this an history but a miscellany rather of some passages historically written and it chiefly contains Scotch and French Transactions together with the eminent inter-actings of the Pontificall party and sometimes I have made mention of my self whom I hope thou shalt be better acquainted with hereafter In the mean time know that I am of a sanguine complexion and though I can in some degree pity the miseries of the Cavaleer and the knavery of the Presbyter yet I am more apt to laugh at their fooleries with Democritus then to weep for them with Heraclitus I have been likewise at Rome but could never swallow down all her Fopperies amongst all the miracles there I never thought any of them was a true one but that wise men should believe in their truth Yet I was much bewitched with the pomp of that religion and had died a zealous votary for it but that God by an Incomparable * Mr G. of C. C. in Oxf. Divine sent a spirit of conversion upon me And now I hope to take the Ministry upon me and so draw others to God by shewing them the strange work of God upon my self Some will object against my stile as was once against Erasmus and say that it is more vain then becomes a Divine and more satyricall then becomes a Christian but consider the subject and thou wilt say t is not unsuitable thereunto Siquis est qui dictum in se inclementius Existimavit esse sic existimet I look for no favour at any parties hands the whole world hath no ingagement upon me so highly am I independent yet if any moderate man shall be offended at my lightness or tartness to Him I will submit and promise amends in my next more secret and more solid discourse Read therefore and censure but rest confident what thou readest here is true and that I have written it partly to exonerate my conscience of the guilt of an Incendiary contracted upon my soul for some years last past and partly to make some amends to my poor dilacerated Countrey I am as fearfull of poysoning the world with untruth as any man can be I know well Qui librum perniciosum edendum promovet Sibi cibum in Inferno edendum praeparat Let us therefore pass on to the mater Haec legat tristis Censor castusque sacerdos Reader In the last page of this book but one
jovially passed for currant said thus cunningly I 'le undertake for halfe a Kings price their whole Nation will D themselves and the strictest Formalists among the guide Breethren account it no sinfull Engagement to eat nothing but ungodly Pearke for an whole year The plot I say by our nimble-underhand invisible fomentings then grew near to an head Near indeed Not only excepted Delinquents unpardonable Cavaleers but Catholikes yea known Priests and Jesuites we also by a generall order were publikely quartered in the most affluent and secure Townes and Villages You will think it strange to hear me say there was at that time and how much more now they have like Sampsons foxes joyned tayles to the number of two Regiments of Catholikes nay to my certain knowledge there was one meer-all-wholly-a Catholike Regiment new raised before the money came down from London and reduced under the conduct of my Lord Synclare a Presbyterian-Papist and this also I protest to God I can affirme for reall truth there was not only then to be a conjunction with Montross but Irish Rebels to be transported and a war with England then resolved upon see what money can do had not these policies over ballanc't their resolutions First That the world would have cryed shame upon them that they should so soon have broken their own Covenant with the English which they resolved to referre to a longer time hoping to insinuate to the world that the English first began with them whensoever they shall have a minde to invade ordisturbe our tranquillity Secondly That they should more then hazzard the losse of the great sum if they did too soon shew their teeth and not being able to pretend the least reason that would hold water why they should pick a quarrell with their even now Confederates And as cunningly also did they repell the incessant importunities of their prisoner-King telling him their surrendry of him would prove for the best and that it should be to no other intent but to furnish them with more plausible pretences for a war and breath with the English States For indeed they well considered that the Parliament of England could do no less in justice upon that Capitall Delinquent then what might bear them out in the opinion of seduced Englishmen as a sufficient excuse for their many peremptory bawling mischeivous papers and messages which since that they have interruptingly dared to trouble our State with besides that their other years Run-away 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and yet still are they so impiously politick or rather blockishly impudent as to make this their pretence that what they do is for their guid King his son whom rather then they would have been at the charge to have kept him till this time I dare say they would have poysoned in which that travelling Nation is very b Witnesse their countrimen Dr. Crichton his Sermon before yong Stuart at the Hauge expert or have put to a more exemplary death then that * Ad generum Cerer is sine caede sanguine pauci Descendunt Reges siccd morte Tyranni Iuvenal Few Tyrants in their beds do dye But headlong they to Hell do hye condigne and yet honourableone which he here received by the Plebiscitum Sponte sua cecidit sub leges arctaque jura Sed rigidum jus est inevitable mortis But all this while the poor Cavaleer is hood winkt and held in strong suspence neither can they imagine whether these Scotisticall Pioneers will be Scots or no Scots but Scots will be Scots And they allowed them too bread and cheese pay from the English which indeed was no small boon considering the small Nook so vast an Army which had been at Hereford were glad to be thronged into poor Animals these credulous Cattell or blind Bears as they were then so are they still led on by the nose in hopes by their worst first Enemies what else makes them Ampullas sesquepedalia verba bolt out such high bug-bear Raunts what else makes them triumphingly so heave up their heavy heads and be so silly as to bragg meerly on the dependance o 'these crafty Cattamountaines that Grata superveniet quae non sperabitur hora That speedily a day will come which will pay for all Royalist let me tell thee in love Sapientia prima est stultitiâ caruisse Do not be so unwise as to be so foolish as to beleeve a Scot But I do saxum Sysiphon urgere beat the ayre to * Vecordes verbis non subiguntur no purpose Ye Ardelio's think ye out-wit all the world besides when faciunt nae intelligendo ut nihil intelligant these 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in plain English would seem to know all things and yet they knew nothing but are a company of dull easily beguiled Asses Yet wellfare my Lord Synclare if there be any Scot worth the whistling after I am confident it is he I cannot be oblivious of his affable deportment and tender sympathy he had of the conditions of some of the pittiful Renegado gentlemen I dare aver I can reckon up betwixt fourty and fifty heretofore high-flying Dammee-Raunters now in a lowzie starving condition which he releived and were admitted sometimes to be drunk with his gor-bellied brother Harry that old Court-Curr Harbert Price That Welsh-French Gallowpoasted fellow Turburvil Morgan That easie Catholique Durham gent. Colonel Jack Forcer with many others which I could name of greater quality who did eat of his free-quarter bread or had perished But O the miseries of some Gentlemen of lower quality then these Synclare sometimes for the great ones would go a begging to the great begger for a sute but for these poor souls not a doit but Scotch fragments If ever any of those Gentlemen which were then amongst them confide in a Scot again I shall swear they are Cur-Spaniels and horribly bewitched Amongst these latter lower sort did we three get in for quarters pretending as much indigency as the meanest of them and searching out who were Catholiques amongst them that so we might List them under a certain Collection which very secretly and closely we had got raised of the Northumberland Catholique Gentlemen Nor did we easily give credence to any that urged himself a Catholique for indeed that would have made our number swell too great the Cavies being at that time ready to turn any thing except Round-head for some money to be chirpingly drunk and sing away sorrow but many reall ones indeed were found a great company of them being crowded into a very good quarter at Mistress Thyrwalls house a Catholique widdow in a mile of Hexam in Northumberland amongst whom was Sir Thomas Tildesly with a tottered tail as well as the rest who sent for Mr. Bre to speak with him whither we being come with him found a company of lamentable Tag-rags outvying our disguise going under the names of Colonels Majors and Captains some playing at Irish some at Gleek all at Noddy
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
by themselves and a way made for the banner of Christ and the Standard of my Master to be in time set up in that base adjacent Heretical plot of earth Master Ca told him though our hopes were once great by our influence on the King and his party yet it would be greater then ever if we could once see a conjunction betwixt the Royalist Presbyter and both willing to accept of aide from his most Christian Majesty you shall see strange things done quoth the Agent if ever we can but bring them to shake hands though with the teeth outward which in some time though perchance also with some little difficulty we shall bring about The Royallist is sufficiently madded already for they say they will take the Turks yea the Devils side to conquer England and in time you shall see we shall work on the dissatisfactions of the Presbyter that we shall bring them to joyn with us and their enemies to overthrow their brethren and friends And now Reader I can busie thy fancy with little of this weeks work onely the great mirth of the Jovialists they are no small boys now and I le warrant you drink no small Bear New faces still appear to be listed an 't were for the Turk all is one thirty English shillings advance was then a considerable summ In three or four dayes the Agent sent a Gentleman to command our attendance at the Dukes Court when he we no sooner being come asked us whether our number did increase or decrease We assured him that we had listed thirty six more then we had advance money for which was presently delivered us But said he to the Duke how shall we provide now to keep them together from running away By doing as you do now quoth the Duke meaning by letting them have money enough belike but it was presently resolved upon that a party of Horse should scour the Country England ward and it was given out that it was onely to surprize and take up wandring English Malignants and Delinquents and to send them to the Parliament of England But the next thing put to the Question by my self was who were fittest to be chosen for the Officers of these listed men Well said quoth the Agent a thing indeed most necessary next to be consulted on for either we must pitch upon some of our own friends or at least their enemies my meaning is Catholique or Presbyter the last being as serviceable to promote our enterprizes as the first Here is a noble Gentleman quoth Master Cat one Collonel Forcer who is not onely discreet but really their enemy and your servant yet very popular amongst them for the fools have a vein still to love us how plain soever our practises appear against them he is one that by a certain interest besides Religion would be glad by any means to advantage and set forward the French Design being also not ignorant of the greatest state of affairs and doth very well know how great hopes we have for the advancement of the Catholique Cause by bringing the Cavaleer under the Lee of the Presbyter Introth you have onely anticipated me quoth the Monsieur tell him I kiss his hand and desire a word with him for had you not mentioned him I must have had some conference with him about some higher concernment And thus again we parted with Orders to return with most convenient speed which the next day we did the Colonel in our Company and after some private conference betwixt Monsieur Montril and himself we were soon dispatched and gave out among the Totterdemallions that all things were now concluded but that a Colonel General was wanting which we doubted would be a Scot if we did not solicite the Agent that we might select Officers among our selves and amongst us none so fit and faithful a Conducter as would noble Colonel Forcer be which they every one presently relished Well now approaches the second and last day of our liquorish Worlds-End Rendezvouz where after high Bravadoes how we would plunder London and torture the Roundheads at our return into England making no distinction between Independent or Presbyter when we had subdued them both it was at last generally given to understand Thar the farthest way about was our nearest way home and that we must first visit France where we should lye at Rack and Manger Free quarter in Garrison against the Spaniard till such time as a League and Amnestie could be procured betwixt the French and them and untill the difference betwixt the Independent and Presbyter did flame to the very height which we assured them would erelong so come to pass and that it would prove a very feasible business by flattering the one to destroy both But behold the grand Pa the Monsieur approaches where by reason of different languages at the first accost there was nothing but dumb shews and Serviteur tres humbles but there came a Scotch Interpreter with him who was commanded to express the Agent in this wise Gallant Sirs his Honor here hath commanded me to let you know that though he be indeed a French man yet he was ever naturally devoted to the service of great Brittains Monarch and that by the solicitation of the most renownedly vertuous Henrietta Maria their Queen his Mistress he was now imployed by his Majesty of France to agitate concerning the English affairs and in special particular for the restauration of his most distressed Majesty of England and understanding that so considerable a number of his party most gallant Genlemen and Commanders had by the cruelty of the enemy been beaten into this Kingdom for refuge and safegard things indeed fell out more successfully for his business then he could have wished for or expected because now he was not onely in a capacity to serve their Prince but the Gentlemen in their miserable exigencies and to put them into that way which must of necessity be followed for the reducing of the English Rebels He hopes he hath no cause to doubt of the aversness of any in the promotion of this business if there be any such for perchance you may not be alike zealous in a good cause it is desired that they would please to urge their reasons to shew why it may not be accounted more safe to go into France to your Prince then to return back into the jaws of your merciless enemies Your accomodation there shall befit Gentlemen of your quality and in prcoess of time you shall finde your work done to your hands by some unknown servants of yours who are now stirring up of fewdes and flinging Marrow-bones betwixt those two Curs the Presbyterian and Independent yea some there are that are invisibly acting in their very Councels and Army whom if they cannot involve into a quarrel one against the other they shall raise up some strange * The Levellers a Plot of the Jesuits spirits amongst them that shall vigorously oppose and perchance utterly confound them