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A77439	A brief history of the rise, growth, reign, supports, and sodain fatal foyl of popery, during the three years and an half of James the Second, King of England, Scotland, France and Ireland Together with a description of the six popish pillars, the Anabaptists, Presbyterians, Quakers, Independents, Roman-Catholicks, & popish church-men. The perpetual addressers of the King.		1690 (1690)	Wing B4600; ESTC R229470	22,583	35

establish that great Schisme of their own Popery And thus we find the Roman-Catholicks the Anabaptists the Presbyterians Quakers Independents and Popishly inclined Church-men all link'd together in as fast a Bond of Friendship as faith and truth by Vows and Promises can tye them together in furthering the Declaration and Design of Establishing Liberty of Conscience upon the Basis of Heresie and Schism and finally to introduce Popery Now after this Foundation laid wherever any of these Six sorts of Papish Pillar-men got in to be a Mayor of a Corporation thence immediately followed an Address from that Corporation to the same effect as each Sect had afore Addressed But hitherto His Majesty had transgressed no Laws excepting that he had admitted Popish Officers into the Army and into other Places of Trust for which He pleaded Necessity However the Parliament then in force not approving thereof was Dissolved after two Adjournments and ten Prorogations in effectual was finally Dissolved July 2d 1687. Notwithstanding Necessity had no Law that putting in of Popish Officers in all Places of Trust was to be born with On February 12th 1686 the Earl of Clarendon being Removed the Earl of Tyrconnel was settled Lord Lieutenant of Ireland And on March 11th Henry Lord Arundel of Wardour a Papist was made Lord Privy Seal About the same time or before the Earl of Rochester Uncle to the King 's two Daughters for standing firm to the Protestant Religion according to the Church of England was removed out of Place from being Lord Treasurer and the Place put into Commissioners hands Popishly inclined And the Earl of Sunderland a Papist was made Lord President of the Council On February 8th the Lord Castlemain His Majesties Ambassador to the Pope had Audience But after the Addresses once began to come in thick then the King ventur'd to receive a Publick Ambassador from the Pope with all the Honours and Ceremonies usually observed on the like Occasion This was done at Windsor on July 5th 1687. And on November 11th Father Petre the King's Confessor and Clerk of the Closet was Sworn of His Majesties Privy-Council and took his Place at the Board And on November 17th was published a Book called An Agreement between the Church of England and Church of Rome Evinced from the Concertation of some of her Sons with their Brethren the Dissenters Such was the Fruit of the Addresses made by the Sir Pillars of Popery On December 11th His Majesty being encouraged by the abundance of Addresses began to view the List of His Justices of the Peace in all the Counties and of the Deputy Lieutenants and to turn out of Place all such as would not be for His Declaration of Liberty of Conscience and for taking off the Penal Laws and Test Whence great numbers in all Counties were turned out and Phanaticks Papists and popishly inclined Persons came into Place And about the same time or soon after all Corporations were Regulated by absolute Power and all Men adhering to the Law were turned out and Phanaticks Papists and popishly inclined Persons were put in place And hence it came to pass that all the Corporations in London became Regulated and filled with Hereticks and Schismaticks whence followed infinite Addresses from all these New Corporations and from all the New Model'd Companies After this it was that the Ecclesiastical Commissioners had been put in power and had begun to execute great power of Oppression over many of His Majesties Consciencious Subjects The Right Reverend Father in God the Lord Bishop of London beloved of most Men for his Fatherly care of the Church against all Law and Reason had been Suspended And on December 10th The President and Fellows of Magdalen Colledge in Oxford against all Law and Conscience were decreed and pronounced uncapable of being admitted into any Ecclesiastical Dignity These by force appointed by the Commissioners contrary to all Rules of Law had been turned out of their Freeholds on the 30th of November before On January the 23d was published The King 's right of Indulgence in Spiritual Matters with the Equity thereof Asserted By a Person of Honour About this time Commissioners were appointed and made Enquiry after all Monies received for Fines in the case of Seditious Meetings called Conventicles March the 1st was published a Book called The Legality of the Court held by His Majesties Commissioners Defended And also A Defence of the Doctrine and holy Rites of the Roman Catholick Church Against Dr. Burnet's Mystery of Iniquity Unveiled Unto such an height of Popery was the Kingdom ascended and all by means of the Sir Pillars of Addressers for alas the Popish Interest of it self was pitifully inconsiderable But by the union and conjunction of these Sir Pillars it began to look formidably And the King presuming upon the strength of the Pillars was meerly drawn in and encouraged beyond all His hope at His Coronation when he first promised and then Swore to defend and maintain the Laws of the Land Whence it may be safely maintained that wherein soever His Majesty hath acted against Law as is now generally alledged contrary to his Oaths and Promises although the Breach was really His own proper act yet the greatest blame thereof lyes at their Doors who by pleading Conscience to do the greatest Wickedness drew him in to comply with them and by promising to stand by and assist hiw to the last Breath encouraged him to do what otherwise in all likelyhood He never had intended For when it was declared by His Majesty on April the 27th 1688 what was His Majesties further will and pleasure concerning His Declaration of Indulgence He said expresly We are encouraged by multitudes of Addresses and by many other Assuances we receive from Our Subjects of all Perswasions as Testimonies of their Satisfaction and Duty to see it preserved without Distinction And in the same Declaration he further saith In pursuance of this we have been forced to make many Changet both of Civil and Military Officers throughout our Dominions c. Whence it fully appears that what by means of the Addresses and by means of private Assurances from the Parties Addressing before the Addresses came forth His Majesty was unhappily drawn in to do all those things which are counted ill ever since his Reign For as may be well observed many Addresses do boast of a Confederacy with His Majesty as to the substance matter of their Addresses from before the time of His Majesties coming to the Crown Hence followed the Orders issued forth directed unto the Arch bishops Bishops and the Clergy to read the King's Declaration in all their Provinces Dioecesses and Churches therein Which thing they humbly conceiving to be a matter against the known Laws of the Land and not fit to be done so many of them as were then in London did humbly Petition His Majesty to be excused from such reading and shewed their Reasons in their Petition But this Petition being judged Scandalous the Arch-bishop

Published on the same day April the 30th 1687. The Humble and Thankful Address of the King's Subjects commonly called Quakers in and about the City of London And these also glory in it that they were of Cabinet Council with the King acknowledging that They were privy to the design of the Declaration for Liberty long before it came forth and with great joy declare Their Thanks that they have such a King of such a Principle promising Him always to approve themselves His faithful and loving Subjects And on May the 25th came forth The Humble and grateful Acknowledgment of the peaceable Subjects called Quakers in this Kingdom from their usual Yearly Meeting in London the 19th day of the Third Month Vulgarly called May 1687. Bespeaking in all things as the former in the name of the Quakers all over England On June the 18th came forth The grateful Acknowledgement of the People called Quakers of Scotland Proclaiming God's wonderful Providence who made the King's retiring into their Country give an happy turn to His Affairs to the Defeating the Designs of His Enemies acknowledging His great Kindnesses to them for favouring them in 1679. And so proceeding in Hyperbolical Thankfulness they conclude with promises of Obedience On August the 18th much after the same rate was brought in from the Quakers of the West of Scotland And on August the 26th came the like from the Quakers of Ireland Transmitted to the King by the Earl of Tyrconnel the Lord Deputy there On September the 29th the King being in His Progress the Hearty welcome and humble Salutation of the peaceable Subjects called Quakers of Wales and the North West of England Bespeaking in their Canting way their welcome of him into those Parts their joy of Him and promises of Obedience And so also came in the Humble Congratulation of the peaceable Subjects of Bristol called Quakers bespeaking much as the rest These Quakers generally an Ignorant sort of People of uncertain Principles of Religion and without any orderly Confession of Faith have broached many old Haeresies and as is apparent have many hidden Papists among them and are thought to be much Popishly inclined and many of them appear as it were Paganish and seem as if inspired with Diabolical Delusions and Enthusiasms and are a dangerous sort of Haereticks pretending to be perfect in Righteousness full of the Light of the Spirit do much debase if not deny the use of God's holy Ordinances pretending to be above them And therefore plainly appearing to be a People void of all Conscience damnable Haereticks And yet these also under pretence of Liberty of Conscience must have Liberty to sow their Tares of Haeresies all over the three Kingdoms of England Scotland and Ireland and boast themselves as the great Confidents of King James the Second And among the rest of the Pillars of Popery Voted for the Old Members in London and were of the number of those Upbraiders of the New Members That they would bring in King James again After that of the Quakers on the same day April the 30th 1687. came forth the Humble Address of the Loyal Subjects of the Congregational Perswasion otherwise called Independants in and about the City of London Acknowledging His Majesties Declaration a Transcendent and Unparallel'd favour promising their constant Endeavour to answer His Majesties just Expectations from them that is to choose Members of Parliament for His Majesties Interest Approving themselves in Inclination as well as Duty His Majesties most Loyal Subjects These were the chief and prime actors in the Murther of King Charles the First as the Principal designers in the whole Tragedy And yet now to see to are as Zealous to make amends for all their Regicide by a most firm Affection and Diligence to maintain His Son in all His Popish Designs as from their own Profession is most plainly signified On May the 14th the Gratulatory Address of the People of the Congregational Perswasion of the City of Norwich was presented to His Majesty Acknowledging Him Placed on the Throne of this Realm by the most High God as Natural Legal and Rightful King it seems notwithstanding His being a Zealous Papist and violently Transgressing against the known Laws of the Land yet in the whole course of his Reign a Wise and Merciful King Also acknowledging that they are for Monarchy as the only An cient Legal and Rightful Government of this Nation It is to be remembred that these were the late Oliverians who turned out the Rump to set up the Protector That His Majesty hath taken care as a Common Father for the good of all his People Wherefore they shall adhere unto him as their King with all Loyalty Fidelity and hearty Service to their power On May the 17th was Published the Address of the Independents and Anabaptists together of which already said in the Anabaptist Address for Gloucester Now these Independents either spake truth from their Hearts or Dissembled If the last Then who shall believe them hereafter If the first Then they are still in their Hearts for the bringing in of King James again And if so why then upbraided they the New Members of London lately Nominated that they would bring him in But will they say they are Changed yet must they go for Impostors and false Villains for King James kept fair with them to the last however he Opprest the Church-men But what can we expect from the Sons of Murtherers They smell of the Bloud of the Father they are false to the Son and cannot be true to the Grand-child And it 's to be fear'd in the end will be found false to their own Souls On May the 28th came forth the Joynt Address of the Independents and Anabaptists of Bristol which has been mentioned before in the Addresses of Anabaptists And on June the 11th appeared another Address of the Loyal Subjects of the Congregational Perswasion dwelling in Ipswich Eury St. Edmunds c. in Suffolk Acknowledging King James to be their Covering Cherub under whose refreshing Shadow they promise themselves Rest Promising truly to subserve therefore the Interest of His Majesties Power and Greatness Which in plain terms was as much as to say The Advance of the Popish Religion At the same time also was Published the Humble Address of the Most Dutiful and Loyal Subjects of the Congregational Perswasion of Great Yarmouth in Norfolk Acknowledging Praising promising and Praying as their Fellows before them On July the 4th became Publick the Humble Address of the Loyal Subjects of the Congregational Perswasion of Bidford in Devonshire And another August the 2d of the same of the Norfolkshire-men And another September the 1st of the Presbyterian and Congregational Nonconformists of Macclesfeild in Cheshire And another September the 29th of the Congregational Perswasion of the Counties of North Wales and Shrewsbury And October the 17th another of the same together with the Presbyterians and Anabaptists of Pembroke Caermarthen Cardigan and Swansey in Glamorganshire And November