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A40040	The history of the wicked plots and conspiracies of our pretended saints representing the beginning, constitution, and designs of the Jesuite : with the conspiracies, rebellions, schisms, hypocrisie, perjury, sacriledge, seditions, and vilefying humour of some Presbyterians, proved by a series of authentick examples, as they have been acted in Great Brittain, from the beginning of that faction to this time / by Henry Foulis ...	Foulis, Henry, ca. 1635-1669.	1662 (1662)	Wing F1642; ESTC R4811	275,767	264

the Parliament in the 23. year of her raign for presuming to Vote a Fast to be solemnized at the Temple-Church for such of their own Members as could conveniently be present there telling them by her Messenger Sir Thomas Henneage then Vice-Chamberlain With what admiration she beheld that Incroachment on her Royal Authority in committing such an apparent Innovation without her privaty or pleasure first known Upon which they desired Sir Thomas to present their Submission to the Queen and to crave her pardon Nor would she suffer her Parliaments to meddle in Ecclesiastical affairs And plainly used to tell them that their Priviledges were but the free pronouncing these two words Yea and No. And King James perceiving his last Parliament but one to soar somewhat high told their Speaker Sir Thomas Richardson in a Letter from New-market That some fiery and popular spirits of the Lower-House did debate matters above their capacity to our dishonour and Prerogative Royal. These are therefore to make known to them That none shall hereafter presume to meddle with any thing concerning our Government or matters of State with our Sons match with the Daughter of Spain nor to touch the Honour of that King or any other our Friends or Confederates Nor with any mans particulars which have their due Motion in our Ordinary Courts of Justice But to put them out of doubt of any question hereafter of that nature We think our self very free and able to punish any mans misdemeanour in Parliament as well sitting there as after which we mean not to spare hereafter upon any occasions of any mans And that King James had good grounds for what he wrote I am apt to believe not only considering his own Learning and Knowledge in State-affairs But that if a Parliament man by their own Orders is not abusively to reflect upon any of their own Members to me it seems very irrational to think that they may openly vilifie the Crown and throw dirt upon Regal Authority Therefore I shall perswade my self that Sir Henry Ludlow who said there that King Charles was not worthy to be King of England was farr more unfit to live As for the other Priviledge which the Parliament doth vigorously demand as their due and right we shall find their clamour to be not unlike some Bills in Chancery where many thousand pounds are demanded when scarce twenty is due Or the towring expectations of Lambert Simnell a Bakers son who under a Princely Vizard required the Crown of England as his Birth-right yet after all the bloud-shed in his behalf was happy to be a Turn-spit to King Henry the Seventh 'T is true for Debt and such private and peculiar Engagements a Member cannot be Imprisoned for if so a plot might be framed to shrink the Houses again though in a more plausible method to a New Rump And this was the case of Mr. George Ferrers Burgess for Plymouth 1542. who being arrested for debt was at the desire of the Commons released and the Sheriff of London sent to the Tower for two dayes But yet the best of them may be imprisoned though then actually in Parliament either for Treason Felony or refusing to give security for the Peace And for this cause was Thomas Thorp Speaker to the Commons arrested and put into Prison in the 31. year of King Henry the Sixth And the learned Judges of the Land declared he was not capable of a Release which being made known to the Commons by Walter Moyle one of the Kings Serjeants at Law they presently chose themselves another Speaker viz. Sir Thomas Charleton and never clamour'd that the Priviledges of Parliament were broken In Queen Elizabeth's time nothing was more common then to serve Subpoena's upon and imprison extravagant Members Witness the two upon Mr. Knevet An. Reg. 39. one upon Mr. Coke An. Reg. 127. and Mr. Peter Wentworth was committed to the Tower and Sir Henry Bromley Mr. Stevens Mr. Welch to the Fleet 35. Elizab. for desiring the Intailment of the Crowns Succession And in the 35. of her raign she sent into the House of Commons and took out Mr. Morris and committed him to Prison with divers others for some speeches in the House and when the rest of the Commons petitioned her Majesty for their release she sent them a severe check telling them that they were not to discourse of things of such high nature And the same Answer did King James return them 1621. when they endeavoured to know the reason of Sir Edwin Sandis his restraint And though he was a merciful and peaceful King yet when they presumed to incroach upon him he would make them learn more manners in the Tower and other Prisons witness the committment of several of them in the 12. year of his raign And though never any King was more afflicted and bandied with Parliaments than the late King Charles yet the sweetness of his temper made him wink at many insolent Indiscretions till at last their Impudence grew so high as not to permit the Serjeant of the Mace to go to the King upon his Command to lock the Parliament-door and deny the Kings Messenger entrance to hold by force the Speaker in the Chair swearing deep Oaths that he should sit still as long as they pleas'd though the King command the contrary to deny the Kings Power to dissolve them by Proxy that they are not bound to give an account to the King but to their own House of their actions be they what they will in Parliament upon which several of them were imprisoned the Judges delivering their Opinions positively that their crimes were within cognizance out of Parliament affirming that if it were not so if a Parliament-man should commit murder in time of Parliament he could not be tryed and arraigned until a new Representative and for confirmation of their Opinions they alledged many Presidents as that of Plowden in Queen Mary's time who was fined in the Kings-Bench for words spoken in Parliament against the dignity of the Queen And to be brief though the Long-Parliament made great hubbubs and brags about the five Members yet afterwards when they were in their height of pride they in print did acknowledge and confess that Members might be arrested and detained for Treason Felony and other crimes though they would gladly smooth it up so farr as to make themselves Judges I shall say no more but that what Priviledge soever they have the Laws of our Land allow the same to the Clergy and their Servants and Familiars for that is the word in the Statute when call'd to a Convocation and this either in coming carrying or going home again CHAP. VII The beginning of the Presbyterians with the wicked Principles of the Ring-leaders of that Factious Sect. HAving thus hinted upon the Kings Prerogative the Origin of the Commons and their Priviledges by which 't is plain that the King is Supream and by

this Blake is summon'd before the Council which so incensed Andrew Melvill that he labour'd to make it a Publick Cause and did so much That they declare it would be ill to question Ministers and boldly told King James who asked them if they had seen the Conditions of Huntly's Pardon That both he and the rest should either satisfie the Church in every point or be pursued with all extremity so as they should have no reason to complain of the over-sight of Papists And as for Blake they gave him a Declinator affirming it was the Cause of God whereunto it concerned them to stand at all hazzard and this Declinator was sent to all the Presbyteries in the Kingdom who were desired not only to subscribe it but to commend the Cause in their private and publick Prayers to God by which means they fancyed themselves so strong that they deny the King to have power to judge a man for speaking in Pulpit and that the King in what he had already done had so wronged Christs Kingdom that the death of many men could not be so grievous to them And therefore they ordain a Fast for averting the Judgements then threatning the Kirk This action so vext his Majesty that he forbad all Convocatings and Meetings but they little cared for him or his Orders for Mr. Walter Balcanquall did not only forthwith rail against the Court naming several of the chief Courtiers but desired all the well-affected to meet in the Little Church to assist the Ministry who did accordingly and Petition the King in behalf of the Kirk But the King asking them who they were that durst convene against his Proclamation was worshipfully replyed by the Lord Lindesey That they durst do no more then so and that they would not suffer Religion to be over-thrown Multitudes unmannerly thronging into the room the King departed and they went to the little Church again where Lindesey told them No course but one let us stay together that are here and promise to take one part and advertise our friends and the favourers of Religion to come unto us for it shall be either theirs or ours Upon which great clamours shoutings and lifting up of hands followed some crying to Arms others to bring out Haman for whilst the Lords were with the King being sent as above-said from the Little-Church Mr. Cranstone read to the People that story others cryed out The Sword of the Lord and of Gideon and so great were the Peoples fury rais'd on a sodain That if the Provost by fair words and others by threats had not tamed them they had done some violence These actions of the Kirkers makes the King leave the Town go to Linlithgow whereupon they resolve for Warr the Ministers agitating them Amongst the rest one John Welsh in his Sermon rail'd pitifully against the King saying He was possest with a Devil and compared him to a Madd-man and affirmed That Subjects might lawfully rise and take the Sword out of his hand In this fiery zeal they write a Letter to the Lord Hamilton desiring him to be their General telling him in it That the People animated by the Word and Motion of Gods Spirit had gone to Arms. But all came to nothing Hamilton refusing such rebellious honour carryeth the Letter to the King who orders the guilty Ministers to be apprehended who escape by flying into England and the Magistrates of Edenburgh are pardoned The overthrow of this one business strengthened the Kings Authority mightily which was also confirmed by the Assembly at Perth now better known by the name of St. John's Town The Ministry being now pretty quiet Ruthen Earl of Gowry conspired to kill the King but to his own ruin His Majesty for this Preservation orders that Thanks should solemnly be render'd to God but in this he found the Presbyters cross-grain'd denying to do any such thing for such a deliverance whereupon they were silenced yet afterwards shewing their willingness were restored In this year was King James his third son his second viz. Robert dying young Charles born afterwards King of England The next year was kept an Assembly at Burnt-Island whither Mr. John Davidson wrote a rayling Letter checking them for their cowardise in not opposing the ungodly telling them that the King was not sound and that Warr was more commendable than a wicked Peace But the graver sort rather pittyed and smiled at the mans madd zeal then troubled themselves to vex at him And now Queen Elizabeth dying King James the undoubted next Heir to the English Crown is at London Proclaimed accordingly whither he went to receive his Crown having thus happily united the two Kingdoms And here I shall leave off from prosecuting the Presbyterian Story in Scotland any further though I might tell you of their calling against the Kings consent an Assembly at Aberdeen to rant against Episcopal Government nor would they dissolve at the Kings command till they were proclaimed Traytors and yet did some of them scorn to acknowledge their Error and were by some of their Brethren vindicated to King James face in England the next year And many more instances of their Waspish humour in denying the Kings Authority might be shewn out of their own Historians who abound in such examples but if Symmetry will tell us the stature of the man by the proportion of his foot these may serve so much at this time to satisfie that I fear they will rather nauseate And really those who thought it a hard case that Mr. Blake should be punished for affirming in a Sermon 1596. That all Kings were the Devils Barns that the Kings heart was treacherous and that the Devil was in the Court and the guiders of it That the Queen of England was an Atheist and a wicked Woman That the Nobility and Lords were miscreants bribers degenerated godless dissemblers and Enemies to the Church That the Council were Holliglasses Cormorants and men of no Religion And in his Prayer for Queen Anne he said We must pray for her for the fashion but we have no cause she will never do us good Nor did he word it only but also rais'd Arms both Horse and Foot against the Kings consent These men I say who thought it unjust to have him questioned for such rebellious actions may also for ought I know think it strange with Buchanan that our Laws do not provide ample and honourable rewards for those who can boldly murder their Prince And yet must this Buchanan and Knox be cryed up as valiant noble bold and publick-spirited men and this present world scorned because we have no such fire-brands And whether this title is rashly thrown upon them let any ingenious man judge not only by their fore-mentioned tenets and actions against their Kings but by the answerable nurturing up of their Disciples who at the University of St. Andrews instead of Divinity Lectures had these Political or rather a ruine to

Policy Questions used to be discust 1. Whether the Election or Succession of Kings were the better Form of Government 2. How farr the Royal Power extended 3. Whether Kings might be censured for abusing their Power and deposed by the Estates of the Kingdom And how they stated these Questions let their deeds be judge as they are most proper and then let any man tell me if men of such turbulent spirits can be good Subjects and by consequence good Christians for I believe the World can scarse parallel in one Kingdom so many treasonable and impudent actions in so short a time as less then fifty years let but our late English madness of which theirs and our Presbytery were the Original be at this time excepted And most of these Actions you will find confirm'd and owned though in a different style by the History of The Scots Reformation wrote by whom I know not for a late Reverend Authour denyes it to be Knox's And it is the custom of men of this perswasion to Father their Brats upon others witness Wilson's History of King James a Book not to be believed in all things Nor is it all the Nation hath these spots There is a Church as well as Kirk of Scots And to vilifie the whole Kingdom because it hath nurst up some hot-spurs would be implacable malice and to bring all the World into Ignomy If the Proverb assure us That it is a good Family which hath neither Whore nor Thief in it 't will be a difficult thing to expel Vice from a whole Nation The Virgin-City Venice esteem'd one of the Glories of the World and whose Government for Exactness yields to none abounds with more Venerian pleasures than any of her Christian Neighbours The Spaniards are famous for loyal Subjects yet a Rebel is no Monster in Castile her self Scotland hath been the Mother of as famous men as any other Kingdom if Denmark Germany Poland and the Low-Countries may testifie their valour whilest France will assure you of their fidelity whose Kings have altogether trusted their persons to their Guardship But enough since David Camerarius hath writ a whole Volume in the Commendation of the Scottish Nation CHAP. IX The illegal malepart and impious Plots and Designes of our Schismatical Presbyterians in England in the Raigns of Queen Elizabeth King James and King Charles till the beginning of the wicked Long-Parliament NOr was this hot-braind humour fostered alone in Scotland but England also tasted the fiery tryal of their madd pranks Queen Elizabeth no sooner setled in her Throne but the Zealots deface all Monuments and Pictures in Churches they met withall nor did the ashes of the dead lie undisturb'd which caus'd the Queen to set forth a Proclamation against such violations But these men having their malice stopt against Stones and Glasswindores will vent it against those who can be sensible of injuries Goodman Whittingham Gilbie and others having learn'd their lessons at Geneva came roring over against our English Church venting their venom not only by their Preachments and Conventicling but also in Print The latter of these viz. Anthony Gilby of whom formerly born in Lincolnshire and of Christs Colledge in Cambridge tearmed our Ceremonies Liveries of Antichrist accursed Leaven of the blasphemous Popish Priesthood cursed patches of Popery and Idolatry Nor must the Ceremonies alone suffer but the Reverend Bishops too by others of the same gang as Throgmorton Penry Fenner Udal and such like Bravado's calling them Antichristian Petty-Popes Bishops of the Devil cogging and cozening Knaves dumb Dogs Enemies of God c. And for our Worship they affirmed it to be an impious thing to hold any thing common with Rome and from this Argument they refused to come to Divine Service But at last such was the vigilancy of the Queens Council that the fautours of these seditious Non-conformists were found out and Sir Richard Knightly and Sir Wigston were fined in the Starr-Chamber for receiving the Printers and Publishers of such Schismatical Books the celler of one of the Gentlemen bringing forth like Lucian some foul mouth'd Pamphlets against the Church or other Neither do these men mount their Battery only against the Church but also throw their wild-fire and indignation against the Queen and their Supream Authority witness Mr. Edward Deering of Kent's Sermon in which how unworthily let others judge he compared her Highness to an untamed Heifer and Christopher Goodman in a Book publickly vindicated Wiat's Rebellion affirming All who took not his part were Traytors to God his People and their Countrey And as some Common-Lawyers towl'd away by inticing tongues and Gold of the Non-conformists wrote against the Authority of Bishops so some pretending to the Civil and Canon-Law were obliged to oppose and deny the Queens Supremacy in Causes Ecclesiastical Nor might these fore-mentioned things seem strange since they were easily to be vindicated from some of the Geneva Notes upon our Bible where you may find the Disciplinarians highly to complain against Asa because he did not kill his Mother furiously calling of it lack of zeal and foolish pity And maliciously to compare our Arch-bishops Bishops Doctors and such like degrees with the Locusts though they carelesly seem to quit themselves in the exit And yet these are the very same men who profest to Queen Elizabeth That their Applications are such as may most appertain to Gods glory though how hide-bound they were at the same time from Charity may appear by their then slandering the Reverend and Learned Bishops with the ignominious title of ambitious Thus was Authority begun to be blasted by the Puritans a name now almost an hundred years old beginning in 1564. as Fuller thinks though Dr. Heylin out of Genebrard makes it two years younger though in a later History he seems to moderate its original between both viz. 1565. And these were so denominated as the word implyes and Genebrard and experience tells us because they thought themselves so much purer then other Christians that they would not perform Divine Service with them utterly rejecting all Forms used in the Primitive Ages and looking upon all decent Garbes to be unlawful in Church-affairs if different from the common wear or rather if not according to the Geneva-cut The Antiquity of this Name is very ancient as we may see in the old Hereticks who presumptuously call'd themselves Caethari i. e. Puritans the same with the Novatiani with whom the Parmenianistae in supposed purity did something agree and by this Name of Cathari I find Johnstonus in his large History to signifie our Non-conformists The Queen perceiving these men to sleight both her and the Bishops and to act only by the advice of private persons as Mr. Tho. Cartwright who affirm'd That we ought rather to conform our selves in Orders and Ceremonies to the fashion of the Turks then to the Papists Mr. Travers c. who had

upon this last change have call'd those irrational who questioned the jus divinum of Episcopacy And how many of our Presbyterians have declared their perpetual adhearing to their Covenant against our present Church-government yet since the Change have taken contrary preferments with a pretty distinction that they onely swore against the wickedness accidentally happening to such forms These Non-conformists have been originally the main enemies as far as sword would go against the late King and This present yet now that he is restored none courts the rising Sun-more then they and that with thwacking Rodomantado's of their activity for his Restauration and what danger and jeopardy they have incurr'd for his cause which puts me in mind of the first Reformation in Scotland When the Scriptures were allowed to be read in English then those who had ever scarce read ten sentences of it would chop their acquaintances on the cheek with it and say This hath lain under my beds feet these ten years Others would glory O! how oft have I been in danger for this book How secretly have I stoln from my wife at midnight to read upon it All which was done meerly to curry favour the Governour being then held one of the most servent Protestants in Europe And how far this story quadrates with our Presbyterian temper may be seen by the sequel discourse I have seen some men in the Rump's time when condemn'd to death for Felony by the then Judges earnestly plead their former siding with and activity for the Parliament thinking thereby to gain so much favour from the Judge who had been formerly brothers in one and the same iniquity as the procurement of a Reprieve if not a pardon But now the plea is so much alter'd that the same Faction pretends to hold forth some small favours to the present King as a badge to denote the bearers so stuft with Loyalty as to be capable of the greatest trust When the Father was alive then they fought against him to make him more glorious And now that the Son 's restored they onely sent the Earl of Warwick to pelt him beyond seas to learn humility because Affliction and Presbytery are the best Tutors to that vertue For rather then He or his Father should suffer any real damage or hurt they would do just nothing Which cal●s to my remembrance the flatterer Afranius who swore to Caligula then sick that he would willingly dye so the Emperour might recover who upon Caligula's restoration to health was by command slain that he might not be for sworn Whether Afranius meant really or no I know not but this I am confident of That our Presbyterians take little care of any oaths tending to the safety and peace of King and Country and therefore take what liberty they please to protest knowing his Majesties mercy is such that he had rather give them time to repent for their former wickedness and perjury then put a period to their beings by the mode of Trussing as they had done formerly to many of his most faithful Subjects Americus Vespacian the Florentine had the confidence to denominate the best Continent of the West-Indies by his name though if he had not had the benefit of Colono or Colombo of Genua his observations he might as soon it's probable have found out Nigra Rupis or the certain Station of Ophir as have seen that other world And if the ever to be honour'd Duke of Albermarle had not contrived and as I may say of himself wrought out the happy Restauration of his Majesty The Brethren alas would as soon have found out the ten tribes as of themselves endeavoured the King's return unless upon Tyrannical Conditions So that if Virgil took it ill that Bathyllus had robb'd him of the honour but of one Distick the Duke of Albermarle hath no reason to favour those people who would pluck from him the greatest glory that in possibility could be thrown upon a Subject If the Presbyterians did any thing advance his Majesties Restauration it must either be by Chance or Industry As for the first they cannot expect any thanks since this event proceeded not from resolution but rather contrary to their desire or at least expectation The Ape little thought by putting on his Master's Cap to cure him of a Pluresy and he who wrote to the Lord Monteagle did not think thereby to discover the Gun-powder plot The Surgion had no intention to destroy Charles II. King of Navarre by burning the thread too carelesly and what resolutions the Presbyterians had to restore our Charles II I must yet plead ignorance till better informed but I am confident they would never willingly have this way pleasured King Charles the first And that they ever so much troubled their thoughts with the King as to make his Restauration a part of their business is hitherto as far from my discovery as the true situation of the old Towns in Ptolemy or the Northern bounders of America I hear not of any of their actions in England when his Majesty was beyond seas before his agreement with the Scots I hear of none of their designs here to assist the King or their own Brethren for him in Scotland I know of no assistance that they afforded or brought to the King when he marched for Worcester but have heard of some who have then opposed him with all their might Nor am I informed of their activeness in any of the many Plots against Oliver and if in none of these things they have been stirring their Grand Plea of Loyalty must fall to the ground unless they did his Majesty good service by being obedient and faithfull subjects to the Rump and Oliver sworn enemies to the King and in this case their plea cannot be so ingenious as that of the immortal Poet John Cleaveland I remember Antonio de Torquemeda tells a story of some men and their horses that were carried to Granada in Spain by the advantage of one Cloak though they thought they had onely been getting their dinners not thinking of such a journey And if the Presbytery did any service for the King it was I suppose after this manner when they never dreamed of it Nay I do not so much as hear the whispering of any relief till the other day of monies or such like conveniencies that they assisted the King with or any of his distressed followers Major General Massey and Captain Titus excepted and that but a poor pittance too some 400l between them not for any design but a supply of personal necessities And the reason of this beggerly liberality was not so much because they were sufferers for the King as that the former had done good services for the Presbyterian Parliament as Master Love himself doth more then hint besides this we will not forget the huge summe of 40l to Coll. Bampfield and his man Yet as a pretty token of their Loyalty they keep a great deal of clutter concerning the

of Reconciliation upon that Condition taking themselves to be Supream forsooth and so the King obliged to pardon them but not they him or his If the King and Countrey have any desire of Peace his Propositions are neglected he being tyed either to hearken and consent to their malapert Proposals or trust to the misery of War or utterly thrown by as unworthy any more Addresses Must the Reverend and Ancient Church-government be violently pluckt down though the Bill with that concerning the Militia several times rejected by the Peers and some other up-start Invention plodded out to instruct Boyes in the mode of pratling then where must we hunt for this pretty young thing but in Scotland And who must be the Masters of the Game but a crew of domineering Zealots thrust up into a Rebellious Authority And for a small piece of Formality was jumbled up a pack of stiff Presbyterians under the Title of an Assembly dapled here and there with Independency and Anabaptism and a little to allay the censures of some people two or three were added to them of good Learning and Principles though quickly jugled out thence and other preferments as the Reverend Dr. Featly to make way for some sweet-soul'd Myrmidon And what these praepossest-Teachers constitute concerning a praejudged Government must be confirm'd by their Task-Masters the Parliament as if perform'd by a grave and learned Convocation of Divines Must his Majesty or any of his true Subjects be tryed for their lives and martyred None must be their Judges but those who are his and their mortal Enemies and bring with them a Sentence resolved upon long before the Tryal nor are the Prisoners permitted to question any of them though the Laws grant liberty to the errantest Rogue in England to except against 35. Jury-men without shewing any reason why If the Royal Family of the Stuarts be exstirpated Kingship Voted and Enacted unnecessary burthensom and dangerous and an ancient flourishing Monarchy sprouted into a many-headed Common-wealth None more fit to be the contrivers of this Confusion than those who acted not for a publick Benefit but a private Interest having run so far into Rebellion that self-preservation prompted them to be Judges as was a party in our domestick broyls it being not solid reason but because they were Moderators which changed the frame And if the Reverend Clergy must be outed their Livings then none must be their Tryers or Examiners but those Juglers of Peter's and Nye's Fraternity a sort of frantick people sworn Enemies to all Learning and Church-government and therefore the more fit to pass judgement against the other as Antagonists Thus like the Calvinists must we be Judges in our own Cause and that in things against all Law and then we are certain to remain Conquerers VI. When the People of Hildelberg who were neither satisfied with these new Teachers or Plots did Petition that the Lutheran Preachers might be setled and restored again amongst them no notice is taken of any such thing by the Superiours and so no satisfactory Answer hapned to their desires But rather on the contrary those Ministers in whose favour the people petitioned were frowned upon and censured as too hasty furious and heady Answerable to the Palatinate hath the affairs in England been carryed on all our Petitions working small effect unless scribled according to Parliamentary Interest The several Petitions from the two Universities and most Counties of the Nation at the beginning of these Wars in the behalf of Episcopacy Liturgy Church-Revenues and suppression of Schismaticks prevailed nothing with the Parliament though subscribed by the chief Nobility and Gentry in the Kingdom Nor had that of Worcestershire about 10. years after in the behalf of an able Ministry and the Universities any better luck only obtaining the formality of thanks from the Speakers mouth and after this fashion hath been the exit of others And yet with what alacrity and cheerfulness did the same men receive that Impudent Petition taken notice of by the King of a company of beggarly Rascals in London who desired that the Lords and Commons might be jumbled into one House that they might subdue the pride of the King of all which if they had not a speedy remedy they would take the cure into their own hands and destroy the disturbers of the Peace These frantick demands were pleasant to the Commons because agreeable to their desires if not set on foot by themselves the which is something probable because they owned it so farr as to present it to the Lords However it must be granted some favour that the People are permitted to present their desires though the Army themselves profest that it was the undoubted right of the People to Petition as in truth it is yet afterwards they denyed the same liberty to the London Prentises knowing their desires to be more for the Publick benefit than the Armies satisfaction so that Mr. Wharton sung not amiss when thus Petitioning the Birth-right of the Saints VII After all these Revolutions nothing appearing to harbour any signs of Tumult the people perceiving no harm done to themselves little regarded the concerns of the Church though it and the State should suffer reciprocally the Lutherans were outed of their Parochial Churches and Benefices all being delivered to the Calvinists The traceing of this Observation is not unknown to any that hath heard of a Persecution How many famous Divines were sequestred and thrust from their Livings in these unnatural Wars London should lament the expulsion of so many learned men from her and the supplying of their Places by a Band of hot-braind long-winded and Schismatical Presbyterians And as if this were not enough Oliver must add to their afflictions by one Order forbidding them to Preach or Teach School as if like the Italian he gloryed not only to kill their Bodies but Souls also And all this done because prompted by their stedfast and sure Consciences they would not swallow like our Temporizers Contradictory Oaths Whereby I may well raise this Quaere Whether those who after they have with much consideration once made a lawful Vow will keep it or those who as the Tyde serves will swear point-blanck one Oath against another rather than be kept from the shoar of Preferment or thrown from that which they have unlawfully got are most godly and honest To all these who have been put out of their Places by shew of Publick Command I might add these who were kept back by the sear'd Consciences of their ignorant and malicious Examiners a sort of people not so much fearing God and hating Covetousness if Mr. Sadler may have credit whither I referr you for satisfaction VIII The Scholars of the University who were Lutherans if they would not turn Calvinists were turned out and the Calvinists put into their places The Parallel of this is too palpable to discourse much of Oxford will never forget the Lord Pembroke's Visitation nor Cambridge that

to them by their own fears they skud to their Dam with all speed and secure themselves in the same paunch whence they first proceeded At this time I dare boldly say that there is none pleads more in behalf and toleration of the Phanaticks then their Presbyterian Mother doth under the specious and whining pretence of Tender Conscience though when they were on Cock-horse none did more oppose that plea than themselves as I shall shew hereafter Which abominable jugling with many others used by this Fraternity prompts me to so much indignation that I can scarce allow the Foundation of Presbytery so charitable a thought as I do that poor miserable fellow who being accused of Bestiality at his Arraignment confessed it yet that it was not out of any evill intention he had done it but only to procreate a Monster with which having nothing to sustain his life he might win his bread by going about the Country to shew it These Puritans having formerly stirr'd up the Rabble by their seditious Pamphlets and Lectures to Rebellion against King Charles the Father are now driving the same way against the Son as a preparative to which they are daily instilling into the peoples Noddles Principles of disobedience schisme discontent and Rebellion for they Still find it good To keep th' infection high i th' peoples blood For Active Treason must be doing still Lest she unlearn her Art of doing ill I shall not tell the Londoners how King Henry III and King Richard II used them nor how Frederick Barbarossa the German Emperour clawd the Milanois and their City but it will not be amisse to hint to our factious Presbytery how the same Emperour made Hermon the Elector Palatine with his associates carry dogs upon their backs then held a punishment and disgrace for being disturbers of the peace And were the same inflicted upon our Boute-feu's Good God! what snarling would there be at Christ-Church in London and the lecturing junctos how zealously would the sister-hood meditate on the Temple-Barre Off-spring of Lay-Elders how would it puzzle the tender-hearted souls to decide the grand controversies which ears were longest or which animal best conditioned Thus would the Pulpit be guarded like St. Malo And our Non-conformists would have another plea against Tobit as Apocryphal because not agreeable to their practise his Dog running before but these lugd behind By this means dogs would be used to smell out a Presbyter as the Italian dog could Fornicators and Adulterers and it may be by this conjunction the Brethren might smell Popery in Obedience and Decencie as they do Idolatry in kneeling and loyalty in opposing the King For Monsieur Borel tells us of a man that by the biting of a dog had his common smelling rais'd to the sagacity of a hound or spaniel And possibly the presence of those crafty and cruel Hyena's might make the dogs as silent as those found in Africa and the East-indies or those in Virginia which cannot bark but howle and since fair means and gentlenesse will not work upon the churlish humour of the men they should blame themselves if severity like a Wolfe should appear to silence them otherwaies if the dog and man should be thus coupled together our Curs at London and other places would in time be brought to be as devout at Lectures and Conventicles as the Lisboan dog Tudesco so call'd I suppose in hatred to the Dutch as a Lancashire Gentlewoman call'd her three Cats having no ears Pryn Burton and Bastwick was serious and zealous for the Romish Church But because they may grumble and call this railing though you see how merry I make my self at their Worships I shall since they will not give me leave to anger them make them so odious to posterity that a sign of Jack Presbyters head would intice no Customers but Fauxes Ravilliacks Olivers and such like detestable animals And for these things in this and the following Chapters I shall go no higher than our late times which may serve as part of a Supplement to the Reverend Bishop Bancroft But it may be said To what purpose is all this since they themselves do not deny it and all the world knows it 'T is true However a few hints will not be amiss if it be only to tell the people that these Blades are still of the same mettall So that I dare boldly affirm that if this Loyall Parliament or the Reverend Bishops would make these Incendiaries recant their former Rebellious and seditious speeches formerly affirm'd in Pulpit and Writings it would be the greatest blow that ever the enemies of Church or State received and the only way to make the simple people see how they have been misled and abused If they refuse such Recantations it must either be through scorn and contempt or that they are still of the same Rebellious humour for both which the Laws provide punishment and I hope their interest would not be so great as to stop This. I need not tell you who they were who Rebell'd lately against his Majesty yet would I gladly have the Consistory to enform me in these three Quaeries First Why the Non-conformists and only the Non-conformists did oppose fight and rebel against the King Secondly Why the Episcopal part of the Lords and Commons with the Judges Lawyers and others who followed his Majesty should not did not or could not understand the Prerogative of the King Priviledges of Parliament and Liberty of the Subject as well as the Puritanical party which opposed his Majesty Thirdly Why since the Reformation None of the Reformed Episcopal perswasion have in Arms Rebelled against their Soveraigns Whereas ever now and anon we are alarm'd with some Presbyterian Rebellion or other The Proverb assures us that There is no smoak without some fire And why all these men should be seditious as experience assureth us I shall leave to the consideration of Dr. Burges being one of the oldest amongst them But it may be some of them in answer to these Quaeries will say in the seditious Tenent of that Scotch-firebrand Mr. Robert Blair who taught his Schollers in his Lectures upon Aristotle That Monarchial Government was unlawful And were not the blew-capt Covenanting Brethren pretty birds that could finde no fitter man to make Professor of Divinity in the University of St. Andrews then this furious Orestes Some it might be would affirm that they only fought to obtain the desire of that Scotch Bully who in his sermon thus stirr'd up his Auditors Let us never give over 'till we have the King in our power and then he shall see how good Subjects we are Others it might be were weary of the Kings ruling over them and so might act for England as others belcht out concerning a neighbour-Kingdome viz. That Scotland had been too long a Monarchy and that they would never do well so long as one of the Stuarts was alive And possibly some