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Francis Broccard (secretary to Pope Clement the Eighth) his alarm to all Protestant princes with a discovery of popish plots and conspiracies, after his co[n]version from popery to the Protestant religion / translated out of the Latin copy printed in Holland.; De foedere contra Protestantes. English
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Brocardo, Francisco.
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Wing B4833; ESTC R21110
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behalf of the said Duke treated of divers things with the Pope and Cardinals concerning the manner of proceeding and taking an opportunity for beginning of that holy War He pressed also the business of the Election and to obtain the Popes favour toward him he gave great hopes that by the Colloque at Ratisbone which was then under consideration some of the Protestant Princes might be brough over to the Romish Church Which notwithstanding the Pope could not be induced to grant that it should be held with his consent but had given command to Claudius Aquaviva that things being hazardous it should be broken off 20. The Citizens of Ausburg among whom were Mark Velsarus and George Fucherus were instant with the Pope to obtain from the Emperour that the Protestant Ministers might be expelled and cast out of the City of Ausburg which at that time they said might easily be done for that the chief inhabitants and the Magistrates of the place were Popish and the Neighbouring Princes very zealous for the Roman Religion The cause was managed in their name by Cardinal Palavicini and by the said Fucherus who the last year came to Rome on purpose And with him was one Dr. Brandanus who suggested to them by what means it might most easily be brought to pass And it was thus far brought about that the Emperour at the Popes instance consented to the ejection of those Pastors in case it could be done without commotion and sedition and did openly declare that he desir'd nothing more than that it might so be done in all the Cities of the Empire 21. In a Congregation held at Rome beginning in Jan. 1602. It was there decreed with the Emperours concurrence thereunto that there should be Jesuits plac'd and maintain'd in all Cities of the Empire by whose means the way might be prepar'd for the designed persecution For they hoped that by the Artifices of the Jesuits they might so far prevail as to get many to favour them in those Cities who were otherwise Protestants by whose assistance they hoped with more ease to suppress the Protestants The Question then was only concerning their maintenance For the Germane Bishops complained of the smalness of their Revenue And the Pope at length concluded to maintain them for the present at the charge of the treasury of the Church till some other course should be found out 22. Arch-Duke Ferdinand Prince of Stiria and Carinthia did lately make complaint to the Pope that whereas he had expelled of his Provinces all the Protestants many of them notwithstanding continued yet to live there by the indulgence of the Ecclesiastick Princes who held some places in his Provinces as for instance the Bishop of Bomberg and the Arch-Bishop of Salisbury who received and entertained them wherefore he prayed the Pope straitly to charge and to compel them utterly to cast those out otherwise he threatned to use his Soveraign Authority which he pretends to have in those places and to cast them out by an armed force even whether those Bishops would or not with which the Pope was well pleased 23. While things are in preparation for an open War against the Protestants the Popish Party are contriving how to make attempts on the Protestant Interest and have this year sent into the Countries of the Netherlands and of England a great number of Spies and Seducers by whose means many of all sorts are seduced and wrought over to their party who are then maintained in Protestant Cities at the Popes charge to be serviceable unto him in what he is designing Some of these Emissaries about a month ago went through Lipsia in a disguise in their passage into Prussia where they hope to nestle as shall afterward be shew'd If the actions of these Emissaries were well observed it would not be hard to take some of them and by their notes and memorials these and many other things might be discovered 24. A few years since the Pope erected here in Rome two Congregations or Senates whereof one is called Congregatio ad propagationem Fidei The Congregation for the propagating of the Faith the other Congregatio sacri Foederis The Congregation of the holy League In each of which are nine Cardinals and as many Councellers who meet together once every week and there they act meditate and study nothing but how to contrive propose and consider all means of propagating the Popish Tyranny and how to prepare the way for the persecution and the butchering of the Protestants and how to lay hold of all advantages of beginning that cursed War designed against them From this Congregation are sent forth those Spies and Emissaries who every year in great numbers are imployed to make broils in Protestant Countries and seduce the Professors of the true Religion And these two Congregations are the shops wherein they form all their instruments and contrive all their Machinations Treacheries Plots Villanies and all mischiefs against the Protestants These Congregations hold particular correspondence with the Jesuites and those bred up in the Colledges or Seminaries of the German English and Moravians from whence as out of a Trojan Horse come forth those Traiters and Seducers whom as we said they send out into all Protestant Countries For those of all others are judged the fittest for subtle frauds and 〈…〉 For by reason of the languages they understand their fashions kindred and relations which they have in all Protestant Countries they can easily insinuate and get into the Courts and acquaintance of Princes and persons of quality and if they find any pliable and easie to be wrought upon they make it their business by little and little with hopes and promises as in the name of the Emperour or Pope of Rome of honours dignities and great things to allure seduce and work upon them and many times with great success as we may see in those Lords and Nobles whom they have lately perverted as Baron Terrisle the younger Cicendorff the Knight Audechan the younger Baron Dermensdorff Baron Thona and many others in Germany I omit what they have done in France England and other Countries 25. There is a great number of them every day flocking to Rome to renounce the true Faith of Christ but much greater of those who do privately at home abjure it and are by these Emissaries instructed in the Popish Idolatry and are maintained in the Country and Cities of Germany that liveing covertly and under disguise amongst Protestants they may have the better opportunity of promoting the Popish Interest and do it effectually For by their means it is perfectly known to Rome what are the Protestant designs differences and inclinations 26. Part of these Apostates who flock to Rome and are of the most part of mean condition are entertained in the City of Rome and the Court it self and there maintained to be serviceable against the Protestants who resort to Rome and for many other purposes of which we shall speak by and by Others of
FRANCIS BROCCARD Secretary to Pope Clement the Eighth HIS ALARM TO ALL Protestant Princes With a Discovery of Popish-Plots and Conspiracies After his Coversion from POPERY TO THE PROTESTANT RELIGION Translated out of the Latin Copy Printed in Holland LONDON Printed by T. S. for William Rogers at the Maiden-head over against St Dunstan's Church in Fleetstreet 1679. The Translator to the READER THE Author of this Discourse was Francis Broccard sometime Secretary to Pope CLEMENT the Eighth Who by reason of that Employment was well acquainted with the Designes of the Pope and the Popish Party and thereby enabled to Acquaint the World with what Counsels they had then on Foot for the Ruin of all Protestants and Establishing their own Tyranny and Bloudy Interest The Villanous Wickedness of these Vnchristian Designs we may well presume was one great Inducement to make him forsake that Bloudy Religion and turn Protestant For though the Designs were as to others palliated under Specious Pretences yet to him who saw the bottom of those Cursed Contrivances and by what ways and for what ends they were to be brought about they did appear in their true Shape Which notwithstanding the prejudice of his Education and Interest made him detest and abhor such Principles For according to our Saviours own Direction By their Works you shall know them he might be well assured that these Counsels were not the Dictates of the Prince of Peace The time when this Discourse was Written is manifest from the Contents of it to be in the Year 1603. Being later than the Year 1602. which he mentions Num. 21. As a time past and while CLEMENT the Eighth was yet Living as is said in the Preamble who died Feb. the 21. 1604. English Stile and was the same Year in which had happened that Attempt on Geneva by the Duke of Savoy as is said at Num. 37. which began with an intended Surprise early on Sunday Morning Dec. 22. 1602. and ended with a Treaty July 21. New Stile 1603. as Thuanus tells us Lib. 29. And though he do not particularly describe the Gunpowder-Treason here in England which was then contriving though not perfectly formed and was to be executed on our Nov. 5. 1605. Because his Principal Intent was to set forth the Particular Designs on Germany Omitting the particulars on France England and other Countries as he tells at Num. 24 yet he there tells us at Num. 23 24. that out of the English Seminaries were then sent forth into England Emissaries in great Numbers to do Mischief and work Disturbance here And at Num. 40. that a great Navy was then preparing either against Holland or England as there should be occasion and that there were in England and Scotland as well as the Netherlands great Multitudes addicted to the Popish and Spanish Interest who did but wait the opportunity of such an Invasion being ready on all occasions to spend thier Bloud for the Church of Rome How Vniversal the Design was which under the Name of the Holy League was intended against the whole Protestant Party and England amongst the rest and how Subtily Sedulously and Maliciously it was carried on with all the Artifice Falshood and Treachery imaginable is evident by the Discovery made by this Convert who had been an Actor in it and Secretary to the Pope And 't is from such only that we can hope to have a particular Account of such dark Designs When God by his Providence convincing them of the wickedness of these Hellish Plots make those who had been Actors in them to betray their own Counsels And that the Designs here Discovered were not Forgeries of his own Invention but really intended is but too manifest from the History of those Times where we find many of them actually attempted and more in likelyhood would have been if that Pope who died the Year following had lived a little longer And that the same Designs have been ever since pursued as to the general but varied in Particulars as Occasions and Opportunities have required and are so at this day is very evident by the Bloudy Warrs and Massacres ever since in Germany and many other Protestant Countries in pursuant of those Designs And particularly in our late Civil-Warrs in England fomented by Jesuitical Counsels though executed by Schismaticks the Bloudy Massacres in Ireland and the present Popish Design for killing our King subverting our Government murdering his People destroying the Protestant Religion and introducing Popery amongst us Which God hath in like manner Discovered by persons ingaged in it as he did then by the Author of this Discourse The Lord grant that our eyes may at length be opened to discern these Depths of Satan and Antichristian Policy and our Hearts inlarged to Praise him who hath hitherto watched over us and Preserved us and to wait on him by a Faithful Dependance Sincere Repentance and diligent Endeavours to Prevent the Mischiefs which they Designe The Copy from whence I Translated this was Printed at Amsterdam by Jacob Younger in the Year 1677. Annexed to the Latin Translation of Mr. Potters Interpretation of the Number 666. FRANCIS BROCCARD Sometime Secretary to Pope Clement the Eighth HIS ALARM After his Conversion to the True Faith of Christ To all Christian Princes Favourers of the Protestant Religion against the Pope and Popish Plots and Conspiracies by him discovered THE most gracious God having marvelously brought me forth from the dismal Darkness of Popery to the clear Light of the Gospel and the pure acknowledgment of his Word I might deservedly be accounted the most ungrateful of all men living if I should not devote and set apart the rest of my life to the glory of his holy Name and the advantage of his Gospel For most unworthy I were and impious if him from whom I enjoy life and salvation I should not vouchsafe to serve and obey in the best manner I can And since for the present I am able to do no more I see no better way and opportunity of bringing glory to God doing good to his Church and testifying my true affection to the Protestant Religion than by detecting and making known the counsels which the Papists the sworn enemies of Christ and his Gospel are contriving and endeavouring to bring to pass against all that have a kindness for the Protestant Cause which in my opinion are such as ought not to be dissembled or concealed nor can be without great offence to his Divine Majesty and great mischief to the true Religion For the whole Popish Party have entred into a most grievous and pernicious Conspiracy against the Protestant Religion and have unanimously united and bound themselves by oath in a most strict and wicked League against all the Professors of it insomuch that without doubt they will be able to do much mischief to the Protestant Cause if those against whom these counsels are first intended to be put in practice do not take timely warning for their own defence I