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A53949	The apostate Protestant a letter to a friend, occasioned by the late reprinting of a Jesuites book about succession to the crown of England, pretended to have been written by R. Doleman.	Pelling, Edward, d. 1718.; L'Estrange, Roger, Sir, 1616-1704.	1682 (1682)	Wing P1075; ESTC R21638	46,592	63

A LETTER TO A FRIEND OCCASIONED By the late Reprinting of a JESUITES BOOK ABOUT SUCCESSION TO THE Crown of ENGLAND Pretended to have been written by R. Doleman My Son fear thou the Lord and the King and meddle not with them that are given to change Prov. 24. 21. LONDON Printed for W. Davis and J. Hindmarsh at Amen Corner and at the black Bull in Corn-Hill near the Royal Exchange 1682. THE Apostate Protestant SIR I Received your Present and if I thank you for it 't is purely out of respects to the hand that sent it I mean a Book bearing this Title A Conference about the next Succession to the Crown of England pretended to be written by R. Doleman Yet considering what you write that you was startled and astonish'd to see in it such Horrid and Traiterous Assertions and Principles so destructive not of Monarchy only but of every Form of Government I am apt to mistrust that you parted with it chiefly out of Fear of keeping such a Lewd and Dangerous Companion in your Closet especially since you confess that 't was brought to your hands as it were by stealth being happily seized on by one of his Majesties Officers 'T is a dangerous Book indeed and without doubt is published and handed up and down to serve a Turn in these Ticklish times when some Ambitious men have taken Pepper in the Nose and to be Revenged for their disappointments endeavour to make another strong Pass at our Government and would sain hurl the world into Confusion Since you have lodged the Knave with me I 'le take care that for me he shall not go abroad to do mischief But yet I cannot answer your Commands unless I give you some account both of the Author and the Book As for the Author it was not R. Doleman that is but a Counterfeit but Robert Parsons was his Name a notorious and violent Jesuite in the days of Queen Elizabeth a fellow born at Stockersey in Somerse●shire and a Bastard it seems which possibly might be an Omen that afterwards he would own for his Mother that Church which is an Whore and as much as in him lay prefer Bastards to a Crown A man of whom the Papists themselves in those days gave this Character that he was filius populi filius peccati one born to be a Plague to the world restless seditious turbuleu● cruel imperious treacherous and in a manner the very Epitome of all wickedness They who knew him and his Dealings at Oxford have told us how seditious wanton and factious this lewd Bastards Conversation was and how for his Libelling and other misdemeanours he was thrust out of Baliol College having been so infamous there being then Master of Arts that they hissed him out with hoo-bubs and rung him out with Bells In those days saith my Author England was made the main chance of Christendom the only Butt Mark and White that was aimed at And indeed such was the strength of the Romanists their Conspiracies so frequent and their endeavours so great for a Successor for their turn that affairs were in a very uncertain and tottering condition so that it was expresly given out That England should be made an Island of Jesuites But to promote the Plot none was more industrious than this Parsons 'T was He chiefly that wrought with Pius Quintus to excommunicate the Queen 'T was He chiefly that stirred up the King of Spain to invade our Country 'T was He chiefly that sollicited her Majesties Subjects to abandon their Allegiance Nay 't was He chiefly that that occasioned those Severities the Government was forced to use upon the Papists For the Secular Priests did acknowledge that her Majesty used them kindly for the space of the first Ten years of her Reign so that their condition was tolerable and in some good quiet It was the Principles and Practices of this Parsons that were so injurious not only to our Religion and our Government but to the Interest even of his own Party too You may take this Character as I find it given and very deservedly by a Popish Priest then living This saith he is that same Parsons whom Pope Prince and Peer with all true English hearts have cause to hate This is he of whom his own General reported that he was more troubled with one English man than with all the rest of his Society This is he of whom Cardinal Alan held this opinion that he was a man very violent and of an unquiet Spirit and of whom Mr. Blackwell now his Darling said that his turbulent and lewd life would be a discredit to the Catholick Cause In short the general conceit of all that ever have throughly conversed with him is this that he is of a furious passionate hot cholerick exorbitant working humour busie headed and full of Ambition Envy Pride Rancour Malice and Revenge Whereunto through his latter Machiavilian Practices may be added that he is a most diabolical unnatural and barbarous butcherly fellow unworthy the Name nay cursed be the hour wherein he had the Name of a Priest nay of a Religious Person nay of a Temporal Lay-man Jesuit nay of a Catholick nay of a Christian nay of a Humane Creature but of a Beast or a Devil a violater of all Laws a contemner of all Authority a stain of Humanity an Impostume of all corruption a corrupter of all Honesty and a Monopoly of all mischief This was the man Sir whose Book you sent me and had I never look'd into the Book yet considering who and what the Author of it was I could not but blush and be ashamed to think that any in our days especially Pretenders to the Protestant Religion should be such Enemies to Truth to Religion and to Common Honesty as to bring such a wicked mans Issue to light again and to dress it and set it out afresh for a Tool What good can the indifferent world conceive of them who of all Principles espouse the Principles of the Jesuits who are the worst of Papists and of them do especially Admire and Recommend to our reading the Writings of this Parsons who was one of the worst of all Jesuites As touching the Book it self Sir there are divers things which are worthy your observation and which may be of good use to you and to every man in these times who is a zealous impartial and honest-hearted Protestant First That it is so full of Principles that are apparently false pestilent and scandalous that in Queen Elizabeths days when it was first Printed it did not only exasperate our English Government but did likewise give such offence to the very Popish Faction that several of them wrote Books on purpose in confutation of this Counterfeit Doleman so ashamed they were of it Nay Parsons himself finding his Party so offended and himself so rated and condemned upon the coming out of this Book though he was shameless enough endeavoured nevertheless to

put down here some part of the Oration or Speech which the Embassadors that were sent from the State of France unto Charles of Lorrain after their Election of Hugh Capet and Charles's Exclusion did use unto him in their names which Speech Gerard doth recount in these words Every man knoweth Lord Charles that the Succession of the Crown of France and so on to the very Similitude of the Pilot which our Collector useth being of the same mind with the Jesuit who speaking of a Successor to the Crown of England saith I for my part do feel my self much of the French opinion before alledged that so the Ship be well and happily guided I esteem it not much important of what Race or Nation the Pilot be Doleman Part. 1. Cap. 8. Pag. 139 140 143. Father Parsons moreover observes That this Hugh Capet had that Surname given him when he was a Boy for that he was wont to snatch away his Fellows Caps from their heads whence he was termed Snatch-cap which some did interpret as an Abodement that he would also also snatch a Crown from the true Owners head in time as afterwards it fell out But this our Collector would take no notice of lest Hugh Capet should be lookt upon as an Usurper as indeed he was notwithstanding the Election and Approbation of the Realm 4. It is an avowed Principle in Doleman that 't is both sinful in an high degree and against all Wisdom and Policy to suffer a Prince of a contrary Religion to come to the Crown Part. 1. Cap. 9. And thus much our Collector insinuates when he saith He will not dispute how far the difference of Religion which will also necessarily draw on a change of the Gocernment doth justifie men in seeking to preserve the two dearest things on earth in an orderly and lawful way Pag. 19. 5. But he doth confidently insist on this that the Crown is not a bare Inheritance but an Inheritance accompanying an Office of Trust and that if a mans defects render him uncapable of the Trust he has also forfeited the Inheritance ibid. This if it be true equally holds against the King himself as well as against his Heir For faileur in point of Trust may be and has been pleaded for the Deposing of the King as well as for the Exclusion of his Successor And so Parsons reckons who affirms likewise that the Princes power is Potestas Vicaria or delegata that is to say a Power delegate or by Commission given by the Commonwealth with such Restrictions Cautels and Conditions as if the same be not kept but wilfully broken on either part then is the other not bound c. Doleman part 1. Cap. 4. pag. 59. And from this Principle he concludes that even a true King may be deposed when he answers not that Trust which the People hath reposed in him Id. part 2. pag. 48. cap. 4. This Jesuitical Doctrine did not long ago cost one of our Kings his Throne and his Life too I pray God it may not be so chargeable to another but 't is ominous when Pretending Protestants will be nibling at such Jesuitical Principles which under colour of keeping back an Heir naturally and necessarily strike at the very Crowned Head III. Having hitherto instanced in some of this Gentlemans Principles to shew you that he hath carefully written after the vilest of Men and the worst of Books I shall now for your further satisfaction instance in those Examples which he makes use of and hath borrowed out of Doleman to prove that Succession to the Crown and even to the Crown of England dependeth upon the Pleasure and Courtesie of the People If you compare the History of Succession with this Book of the Jesuit Parsons you will find it to be nothing but a little Improvement of the eighth Chapter of Doleman Part. 1. For that Jesuit and this Collector undertaking to prove that the Commonwealth hath power to alter Titles of Succession as publick Necessity or Utility shall require do both of them shew what the Realm of England hath done and what Alterations they have made formerly and their Instances are alike as you may see by casting your Eye upon the two following Columns for it will not be amiss to set the Thief just over against the Knave Thus saith Doleman the Jesuit And thus saith the Collector of the History of Succession the Protestant King Egbert came to the Crown by Election though he were not next by propinquity of Bloud Doleman pag. 144. Egbert himself the first English Monarch came to the Crown not by Succession but Election being no ways related to Bithricus Hist. of Succession Pag. 1. Athelstan illegitimate Son to to King Edward was preferred to the Crown before his two Brothers the Princes Legitimate Id. pag. 145. Athelstan though a Bastard succeeded his Father and was Preferred to his Legitimate Brothers Id. pag. 1. King Edmond left Two Lawful Sons but for that they were young they were both put back by the Realm and their Uncle Eldred was preferred before them Id. p. 146. Eldred the younger Brother of King Edmond was advanced to the Throne though the deceased Prince had two Sons Id. ibid. Canutus was admitted for King of England by the whole Parliament and consent of the Realm Id. p. 149 Canutus had so great an Interest that by an unanimous consent in a full Council he was Elected King Id. pag. 2. After the death of Canutus all the States of the Realm met together at Oxford to consult whom they should make King and at last by the more part of voices was chosen Harald the first Son of Canutus by a Concubine c. Id. p. 149. Immediately upon the death of Canutus there was assembled at Oxford a great Council to determine who ought to succeed and Harald Harefoot Canutus his Bastard was Elected c Id. p. 2. After the death of Harald Hardicanutus was received with the great good will of all and by common consent made King Id. p. 150. Harald died in the fifth year of his Reign and then the People were content to accept of Hardiknute for their King Id. p. 2. Haraicanutus being dead the States of the Realm determined to chuse Alured for their King Id. ibid. After the death of Hardiknute the People proceeded to elect Alfred Id. ibid. Alfred being traiterously murdered by Earl Godwin of Kent Prince Edward was chosen King Id. ibid. Alfred being murder'd by the treachery of Earl Godwin they chuse his Brother Edward commonly called Edward the Confessor Id. ibid. Nor had the State herein any respect to antiquity of Bloud for that before Alfred were both his own elder Brother Prince Edward and before them both were Edmond and Edward the Children of their elder Brother Edmond Ironside Id. ibid. Nor were these Elections of theirs made with any respect to nearness of Bloud for Edmond Ironside their Elder Brother had a Son then alive whose name was Edward Id. ibid. The

Confessors Title by Succession cannot be justified for that his eldest Brothers Son was then alive to wit Prince Edward who in this Kings Reign came into England and brought his Wife and three lawful Children with him But yet was not this good King Edward the Confessor so scrupulous as to give over his Kingdom to any of them or to doubt of the right of his own Title which he had by Election c. Id. p. 151. And though this Edward had an undoubted Title to the Crown if Proximity of Bloud could have given it yet the Confessor was so far from suspecting any danger from such a Title as that he invited his Nephew into England and welcom'd him when he came with the greatest expressions of Joy and entertain'd him with the greatest confidence Id. ibid. This King Edward being dead Harald Son of Earl Godwin had also the approbation of the Realm to be King Id. p. 152. Nor had the People any regard to this Royal Bloud upon the death of the Confessor but elected Harald the Son of Earl Godwin Id. p. 2. All this is before the Conquest but if we should pass any further down we should find more Examples than before viz. of Kings made in England by only Authority and Approbation of the Commonwealth contrary to the ordinary cours● of Linc●l Successi●n by Propinquity of Bloud Id. p. 53. These few among many other instances which may be given will shew plainly enough how men intituled themselves to the Crown in those days and that then it was no strange thing to hear of a Parliaments medling with the Succession Let us go on more particularly to observe what has been done since the Conquest Id. ibid. After the Conquerors death William Rufus was chosen King though younger Brother to Robert Duke of Normandy to whom the most part of the Realm he means the Normans was inclined to have given the Kingdom presently as due to him by Succession notwithstanding his Fathers Will to the coutrary Id. p. 153. William Rufus had the consent of the Nobles and wise men for his Title and the English Interest was so great at that time that it k●pt the Crown upon William Rufus's head in spight of all that the Normans could do in the behalf of Robert though they universally joyn'd with him Id. p. 3. By like means got Henry his younger Brother the same Crown afterward to wit by fair promises to the People c. Id. p. 154. It was by the full consent and Counsel of the whole body of the Realm that the Conq●erors Third Son Henry was Elected for their King Id. p. 3. King Henry dying left a Daughter behind him named Mawd which being married first to the Emperour Henry V. he died without Issue and then was she married again the second time to Geoffry Plantaginet Earl of Anjou to whom she bare a Son named Henry But for that Stephen Earl of Bologn was thought by the State of England to be more fit to govern he was admitted and Henry put back Id. p. 154. King Henry died leaving no Issue but Mand his Daughter who had been married to the Emperour and afterward to Geoffry Plantagenet Earl of Anjou No dispute can be made but that she had all the right which Proximity of Bloud could give yet Stephen Earl of Bologn stept in before her and prevail'd with the Estates of the Realm to Elect him King Id. p. 3. The States some years after in a Parliament made an agreement that Stephen should be lawful King during his life only and that Henry and his Off-spring should succeed him Id. p. 155. Afterwards Stephen came to an Agreement with the Empress and her Son and a Parliament who alone could give a Sanction to such Agreement was assembled to confirm it and then Stephen publickly adopts Henry for his Son and with their full consent declares him his Heir and with the same consent Henry gives Stephen the name of Father and agrees that he should continue to be King during his Lise c. Id. p. 4. After King Richard John younger Brother to Richard was Admitted and Crowned by the States of England and Arthur Duke of Britain Son and Heir to Geoffry that was Elder Brother to John was against the ordinary course of Succession Excluded Id. p. 155. Richard dying without Issue Arthur Son of Geoffry Duke of Britain the next Heir to the Crown ought to have Succeeded But John younger Brother to Richard without regarding this divine right of his Nephew applies himself to the People for a more sure though but a Humane Title who being summoned together Elected him King Id. p. 5. Some years after when the Barons and States of England misliked utte●ly the Government and Proceeding of this K. John they rejected him again and chose Lewis the Prince of France to be their King and did swear Fealty to him in London depriving also the young Prince Henry King John's Son that was at that time but eight years old Id. p. 156. When King John gave over to dissemble his Nature and went about to change his Religion and discovered himself not to be that worthy man which the People supposed him to have been they remember'd whence he derived his Title and proceeded upon the same reason they had chosen him to make a new Election chusing Lewis Son of Philip King of France who coming to London was there Elected and Constituted King Id. p. 5. Upon the death of King John the People recalled again their former Sentence and admitted Prince Henry to the Crown by the name of King Henry the Third and disanulled the Oath of Allegiance made unto Lewis Prince of France Id. p. 156. King John hapning to die very opportunely the Great men of the Kingdom were called together and Prince Henry then an Infant placed in the midst of them and the whole Assembly cried out unanimously Fiat Rex and acordingly they Crowned King Henry the Third and soon after compelled Lewis to renounce all pretences to the Crown Id. p. 6. The Jesuit Parsons goes no further upon particulars in Chap. 8. Part. 1. than Henry the Third But saith Should we enter into the contention about the Crown between the Two Houses of York and Lancaster which took their beginning from King Henry the Third we should see plainly that the best of all their Titles after the deposition of King Richard the Second depended on the Authority of the Commonwealth for that as the People were affected and the greater part prevailed so were their Titles either allowed confirmed altered or disanulled by Parliaments Cap. 8. Part. 1. Pag. 156. This hint the Collector of the History of Succession took to proceed upon more particulars still and pickt them up and down out of other places in Doleman to which Book he was mainly beholden for the History of the Pretences Claims Titles and Fates of those Princes he names since Henry the Third The doubt whether Edward the First or his Brother