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A58087	The rat-trap, or, The Jesuites taken in their owne net &c. discovered in this yeare of jubilee or deliverance from the romish faction, 1641.	Heywood, Thomas, d. 1641.	1641 (1641)	Wing R294; ESTC R25043	10,100	31

treason saith another I suppose rather by sowing some seditious libels amongst them to make one Nation jealous of the other a third replyed to invade one of the Kingdomes by sea to which purpose they would sollicite the Catholike Princes to joyne in a solemn combination but a fourth cut him off and said I like not these attempts by sea since the bad successe and utter overthrow of the great Armado in Eighty eight though it had the Popes blessing along and was by his Holinesse stiled Invincible O but said the Prolocutour the reason of that may be easily given for the sinnes of the Land were not then ripe which since are growne to full maturity But had it then prevailed with our pistols and ponyards steeletto's and knives whips fire and faggots we would have made them taste of that Purgatory here on earth which they will not beleeve to have place in any corner of Hell But to leave others let mee now acquaint you with a project of mine owne that I think wants president for policie hath prevailed where puissance hath been repulst and fraud hath entred where force could not for Vlysses did more in his Tent then Ajax did in the field At this all their eares were prickt up in attention when he spake on as followeth The King of Spaine is stiled the most Catholike the King of France the most Christian King and the King of England is titled Defender of the Faith having under his Dominion three Kingdomes England Scotland and Ireland the first Protestants the second Puritans the third Papists Now in this distraction of religions how easie is it to raise troubles and tumults Now wee have Iesuites in voto ingenious and active and fit to be employed in these deep and mysticall designes Now if you ask me the manner how they are to bee sent over and disperst into the Courts and families of Noble-men and places bought them or offices in which they may gaine the best intelligence by screwing themselves into the bosomes as well of the noble as ignoble rank now if you object and say this cannot bee without charge and great disbursments of money I answer have we not Collectors Receivers and Treasurers to that purpose employed in severall parts of Christendom as M. L. the Goldsmith in Fleet-street for the parts of Flaunders M. D. for France Mr. Borrowes for Spaine and others elsewhere these of the English Nation only and them our penetrating and insinuating Agents and Ministers being so planted and placed neare about the Prince and principall persons of those three Kingdomes they may take their opportunity and catching occasion by the fore-lock find severall tooles and engines to work with as to incense the Papists with whom our Society is most embraced against the Puritans and set them and other Separatists against the Papists and both against the Protestants to bring in new Innovations into the Churches of England and Scotland such as wee know the most distaste and can worst digest to alter their ancient Liturgy by inserting new additions into their books of Common prayer and by admitting into Church livings none but such as can conforme themselves to all such Tenents as shake hands with the Romish Traditions and Doctrines and to thrust out of their Benefices all such as stand stiffe for the Reformed Religion but especially to thrust in Ceremonies such as they call Superstitions Altars and the like into the Scottish Kirk which Nation we know to be perverse obstinate and impatient of any Innovation or change especially in their Religion Thus wanting power to conquer their Countries let it be our practice to undermine and blow up their consciences ruinating them in their distraction about Religion for what will not men or women hazard even goods lands nay life it selfe too for their Religion for what is more deare or nearer to a Christian than his God and his Religion what will cause more dissension than not to have freedome of their Religion Nay the very Turke himselfe will not feare to dye though a pseudo-Martyr even by torments or tortures ere hee can bee compelled to forsake his Mahomet Now we knowing the Protestant so constant in his Religion that hee will suffer no alteration the Papist so selfe-will'd he will brook no reformation and the Puritan so obstinate hee will endure no Innovation and all these spurr'd on by our subtill Agents animation what seditions what suspitions what commotions what combustions are probable to ensue thereof but by this Incendiary kindled in their Kingdomes Ireland may grow tumultuous Scotland combustions and take armes and Englands peace bee altogether disturbed and disquieted at least to the exhausting of their treasure if not their blouds to their great detriment if not their generall desolation and in these jealousies and troubles to bring in forraine Forces there would be some hope to attaine our ends Which speech being gravely delivered was by the rest greatly applauded and the Assembly dissolved with a determinate resolution to put all the former projects in speedy practice with an Et caetera But to come neare to our owne Country what miraculous deliverances had Queene El●zabeth of ever blessed memory from the plots and underminings of those Arch Iesuiticall Regecides During her minority in the reigne of her sister what projects and stratagems were devised to insidiate her life her sundry commitments and impris●nments nay a warrant for her death 〈◊〉 by the Queene at the animation of 〈…〉 Clergy Her damage by water when her barge at a low ebbe grated upon the arches of the Bridge when shee was sent a prisoner to the Tower by fire when her lodgings were burnt over her head during her confinement at Woodstock In the beginning of her reigne what complotting by the Iesuites of Spaine France and Italy to supplant her from her true and lawfull inheritance by discharging her Subjects from their loyalty and obedience Troubles also were raised in her Kingdom of Ireland by one Nicolas Saunders a pestilent Traytour and one of that seditious Order whose pen and tongue spared not only malitiously to calumniate the Queene her selfe but the Lady Anne Bulleine her mother who having purchased a consecrated Banner with power Legantine landed amongst the Rebels whither was sent also S. Iosephus with an army of Italians and Spanyards to joyne with the revolted Earle of Desmond his brother Fitz Morris and others but their army was soone distrest the Earle dyed wretchedly and Saunders fell mad and dyes starved in the cliffes of an almost unaccessible mountaine The like machinations were devised against her by Cardinall Allen Englefield and Rosse as also by Doctor Parry by travell Hispanisied Italionated and fully Iesuitified who after his returne when the Queenes Majysty vouchsafe him her gracious presence in her garden came arm'd with a Pistoll to have taken away her life had he not beene miraculiously prevented for which horrible Treason he was soone after drawne hang'd and quartered The horrible Treason of

THE RAT TRAP OR The IESVITES taken in their owne Net c. Discovered in this yeare of Jubilee or Deliverance from the Romish faction 1641. Imprinted 1641. The Rat-Trap OR The Iesuites taken in their owne Net c. THe first institution of the Jesuiticall Order was by the Father of that Sect Ignatius Loyola not granted at the beginning thereof without great pretence of Sanctity and religious piety as professing and protesting to imitate Jesus himselfe whose cognizance they seeme to carry both in his Life and Doctrine But these Wolves having crept into the Church in Sheeps cloathing and admitted into the Flocke not able to bridle or restraine their bloody and savage natures have not onely preyd upon them whom they pretended to protect but also by insinuating into the humours and dispositions of the most powerfull Potentates have insidiated both their lives and fortunes as by divers pregnent but prodigious demonstrations may appeare being growne to bee the most cunning Engineers politick underminers subtile supplanters and dangerous incendiaries of any order quality or condition or any faction spirituall or temporall whatsoever Of whom to make a more generall discovery They first skrew themselves into the hearts and thoughts of Princes villifying unto them all other Sects and Orders the better to preferre and dignifie their owne by which crafty meanes they have inpatronized themselves into the best Abbyes Monasteries and other Cloystered and sequestred places of Religion and by the supplantation of others interessed and inherited themselves by which meanes growing rich and eminent they may the better mannage all their politick proceedings the manner whereof followeth In Rome lives their Father generall to whom the inferiour sort cald his assistance tender due obedience and these are imployd through all the parts of Christendome and beare the names of the places in which they recide as the assistance of Spain of France of Italy England c. who by meanes of their correspondents who disperse themselves into the principall Cities of that Province first informe themselves of the state condition and quality of that Kingdome and informe the assistants of all passages and occurrants of which they give notice to the Father generall at Rome who curiously examining them and conferring them together at last conclude to favour the affaires of one Prince and depresse the designes of another as shall best correspond with their owne pleasure and profit being most preposterous and almost against Reason that these pure Professors should onely intend and interesse themselves in matters of State for raine from their Oath and Order and in the meane time carelessely neglect both the saving of their owne soules and others committed to their charge for which the foundation of their society and brother-hood was at the first authorised It is apparent to all men that they are Confessors to the greatest part of the Nobility through all the Roman Catholike estates not without great prejudice to the Princes themselves to which office they were also to them admitted by which they penetrate into every designe and purpose of which they give intelligence to their further generall and as secrefie is the sole preservation of a State without which it is not able to subsist and that Princes themselves punish with the greatest vigour such as discover their Counsells as the greatest enemies both to their owne Principality and the safety of their Kingdome yet the Jesuites by their Confessions and Consultations which their correspondents have being planted in the chiefe Cities of the Christian world are sincerely and punctually advertised of all determinations concluded in their most secret Cabinets and Closets so that they better know the power possessions expences and private projects of Princes than themselves suppressing or advancing their affaires at their pleasures which they may easily do by reason that by their auricular Confessions they penetrate even to the very secrets of their soules by which meanes the secrets of State being discovered breeds sometimes a jealousie in Princes of their best and most faithfull Servants and Officers not without the great prejudice both of the King and Subject and indangering the whole state of the Kingdome And to continue their stratagems the better these Jesuiticall Machiavells distinguish themselves into foure rankes or degrees the first consists of secular or lay-persons who are joyned to their fraternity and submit themselves wholly to their power and patronage and these are for the most part of the prime Gentry of both Sexes wealthy widdowes Citizens and Merchants from whom by their flattery and insinuations they draw rich donatives perswading from some annuall pensions and others to forsake the world and leave all their revenues moveables coyne and jewels to enrich their ingurgitating Monasteries perswading them that it will prove meritorious for the health of their soules whilst they with these profits Feast and fat their owne bodyes A second sort consists of men onely and these as well of Priests as Lay-men such as professe a sequestred life and retired capable of Church preferments but with a vow to take upon them the habit whensoever it shall please the Father general to call them unto it and such are called Jesuites in voto The third are those that live in Cloysters and Monasteries and these are either Priests Clarkes or Converts who because they were not originall of that profession may by the authority of the Father generall be deprived and degraded though they before have ty'd themselves to keep it by oath and these not being as yet called to Office are subject in all things to the superintendents command The fourth are the prime politicke Jesuites through whose hands passeth all the government of Religion who labour to reduce their society to an absolute Monarchy and to plant and settle the head thereof in Rome where all the affaires of the Christian world meet together as in a center that being also the seat of the Father generall and divers of his agents who are dayly admitted into the houses of Embissadors and Courts of Cardinals by which meanes they preoccupate the affaires of forraine Princes that notwithstanding the importunity of their Embassadors and agents nothing can be there determined or concluded of which stands not with their pleasure and redounds not to their profit by which they are grown to that pride and arrogancie that they have publikely boasted that they can make Cardinals Nuntioes and in temporall affaires Lieutenants Praefects and Governors that their Generall in these times have more power than the Pope himselfe adding that it is better and much more noble to make Cardinals than to be a Cardinall And for their avarice and greedy accumulating of wealth and riches they are so farre from obeying the Cannon which enjoynes them to humility integrity and austerity of life but they ingage themselves into all temporall affaires to the great distaste and detriment of most of the Romish Kings and Princes and further make Merchandize of Pearles Rubies Emeralds Diamonds and