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A75315	The anatomie of the French and Spanish faction. With a full discovery of who they are; and what they have done, from before the beginning of King Iames his raigne unto this present. Declaring in particulars, how the many miseries and the calamities which we have, and do indure by blood, rapine, and many insupportable impositions, have proceeded directly from them, seconded by the ambitious spirits of the bishops. Wherein also all our grievances, and their subtle and horrible plots are instanced; to give a more full and ample satisfaction unto all. Published according to the order of Parliament.		1644 (1644)	Wing A3060; Thomason E35_29; ESTC R20722	7,562	16

in your mouth and now you feele he hath struck you in the mouth I must beseech your Maiesty to consider of it and not deny him in your heart least he should strike you through the heart Many yeares after this were passed away and the King oftentimes in his mirth amongst other doubts would desire to bee satisfied in his knowledge of what Religion he himselfe was and surely at the conference betwixt the Cardinall Du Peron and Monsieur Du Plessis it seems that he was more addicted to the Cardinalls part howsoever not long after it is too well known that passing through the street in his Caroach hee was struck quite through the heart with Ravilliacs knife The hearts of Princes are in the mercifull hands of God who by vile Agents can deprive them of their temporall Crownes to crowne them with glory and happinesse for evermore howsoever this is a true and a sad relation and of great use and consequence in all ages if it precisely be considered I will not trouble you with a further repetition how often in Queen Elizabeths dayes the Spanish faction by Warre by Iesuites and by some great though disaffected personages at Court did advance it self and how often it was suppressed VVhat title the Spaniard pretended to the Crowne even in the evening of her raigne is sufficiently knowne and answered I will passe therefore to the beginning of King Iames his dayes who although hee was a most wise and knowing Prince the Spanish faction found then a greater power to act their designes and Historians a lesser liberty to expresse them Almost at his very entrance into this Kingdome an impudent and wilde Petition was contrived by Father Garnet and other Priests and Iesuites for a tolleration of Religion and preferred to his Majesty but advisedly rejected upon Arch Bishop Abbots grave counsell to the King upon this deniall their Faction growing desperate they enterprised by the advice of the said Father Garnet the Gunpowder treason for which how farre they dived into Hell for counsaile the Devils themselves can witnesse Not long before in eighty eight they practised on the water to overthrow us and now as if they would make all the Elements accessary to our destruction they contrived in the Earth by fire to blow us up into the Ayre And indeed it is no wonder they should so much practise with fire and be so guilty of it who are themselves the fire brands of Hell One would have thought that such a desperate and so matchlesse a designe upon King Peers Kingdome and people should have produced the execution of some Law for the utter extirpation of all Papists and their Iesuiticall adherents but unfortunately such was then the interest with forraign Princes and the King of Spain the entertainment of whose Pentioners being some of our Nobility and Church Papists came to no lesse then three thousand or four thousand pound a yeare that after execution done upon a few the further prosecution of the Law did cease Nay so prevalent was this Spanish Faction with King Iames that by many impertinent sollicitations they induced him to condiscend to many things which have proved since very prejudiciall to him his Royall progeny the Peace of his Kingdome and the Protestant Religion then established For in the first place his Majesty was drawne to conclude a Peace with Spain the most disadvantageous to this Kingdom that ever was for by it no English were permitted to trade into the West Indies and if any did adventure so to do he was to be hanged and tortured without mercy from hence it came to passe that the English who had resolved with the Netherlands for the sending of ten thousand men between them into those parts were so deterred as that our friends the Netherlanders were left to shift for themselves who now have gotten so great a footing in Brasile which is not the tenth part of America yet bigger in scituation then three times England that the Spaniard will never be able to remove them thence And while the English for many yeares sare still the King of Spain hath beene so well inabled by the vast treasures that came from thence to make full and due payment to his Iesuiticall Factors here as that they ever since have performed most faithfull service to him And lest any thing should be wanting to the Catholicke King undertaking the Catholick Cause they perswaded King Iames to arme the King of Spain with two thousand Peeces of Ordnance under colour of which licence Sir Iohn Ieme transported twice as many what others did is not well known but it is conceived by able judgements that if the King of Spain were as well prepared with men and shipping as he is with Guns and Ammunition he might beat us with our own weapons And thus from one degree to another they have still incroached on His Majesty After this with might and main they laboured for and cried up his boundlesse prerogative a thing which Princes are generally over much delighted to hear and by this his Majestie was drawn at last to disaffect Parliaments as intrenching too much upon His Royall Prerogative and regulating the Regall power which never ought to exceed Law but when it rendeth to the relief of the subject in mitigating the rigour of it and not by impoverishing the Subjects and oppressing them with illegall Monopolies and unwarrantable taxations which by wofull experience this miserable Kingdome hath too long felt and groaned under the burthen of them Many more particulars may be alledged as the prevailing power they had with King Iames when upon the motion of Gondamore his Majesty neglected the proffer of some German Princes and condiscended to send his son and heir into Spain for the contract of a marriage with the King of Spains sister and one of a contrary Religion which had it accordingly proceeded it might have proved as prejudiciall and troublesome as the marriage with France But the proceedings of the Spanish Faction since the accesse of His Majesty that now is unto the Crowne I need not recite at large they are all within your owne memory yet for your better satisfaction I cannot but report some few particulars The first is of the laying of their foundation at the Conclave at Rome where it was concluded that his Holinesse should have a Nuntio in England and the Queen of England should have an Agent at Rome to act things here as should be there resolved on Another was to perswade his Majesty by mediation of the Queen whom they too well knew and saw that he entirely loved to prefer those to dignities and Courts of judicature who might serve best to put in execution their mischievous designes whereby it most unhappily came to passe that the Spanish Faction became the Cabinet Councellors so over-awing and over-swaying the greater and better part of the privie Councell that their meer proposals past for resolutions and hence it was that the Starchamber where these and

they whom these promoted and countenanced did bear the greatest sway did abound with extravagant Censures no lesse unconscionable then terrible by oppressing the common people and maintaining illegall taxations and inducing Prerogatives far beyond the presidents of all former times and surely had it not been for those exceeding powerfull Popish factors the high Commission had not decreed so eagerly to oppose true Religion by Suspension deprivation Excommunication Fines and imprisonment much lesse some Bishops and inferior Ecclesiasticall Courts had not adventured with such animosity to propose or with such violence to prosecute their own superstitious articles as if they had bin Canons concluded on by the whole Church of England or as if the Articles of these men which consisted only of Bishops Deans Archdeacons c. as every Bishop or slye Officiall thought good ought to binde the the whole Church being so partially if not corruptly represented For are Cathedral Churches any other but such places which Queen Elizabeth and her Councell for some political ends were pleased to let rest in some part of that popish splendor and magnificence which might take with the neighboring Princes of the contrary Religion and not render her and her people utterly reconcileable to the Church of Rome The Parochiall Churches then were better cleansed from Popish Reliques according to the well setled constitution of other reformed Churches and now forsooth better refined Parochiall Churches must again be reduced to a Cathedrall garbe because it is more ceremonious and majesticall and therein more resembleth Rome Thus with the overswelling greatnesse of those cabinet Councellours men were preferred to places of Iudicature in the Common wealth which I suppose either could not or would not maintain Iustice but were alwaies forced to advance prerogative above and against Law the subiects by many woefull complaints can witnesse how many millions of monies in few yeares have been wrested from them under the name of Lone Knighthood Shipmony c. all which though unlawfull yet were they either justified by the most part of the Iudges and the people miserably oppressed The next plot which they no lesse endeavoured then obtained was to weaken his Majesty both at home and abroad and indeed which way could they weaken him more in England then to imploy the cabinet counsell to perswade him to make sale of his own proper hereditary land and so without Parliaments to raise mony for the supporting of his royall dignity by unlawfull and unusuall meanes which could not but much withdraw the dutifull affection of the subiect from him wherein his chiefest strength consisted and how could they have devised more to lessen the reputation of his wisdome and puissance with forraign Princes then by inciting his Maiesty as if hee had married the conditions as well as the daughter of France to begin a warre with Spaine and then to conclude it partly without and partly against the approbation of the Parliament and so afterwards to France it selfe To this may be added the taking of Rochell for all the ayde of his Maiesties ships the little assistance and countenance which of late times hath been from England afforded to the Netherlands and from all their premises it may be concluded that there were all destructive wayes to the Protestant Religion and therefore promoted and prosecuted by great persons Popishly addicted to the ruine of our Peace our Lives Liberties and which is yet much dearer to us our Religion Was the plot small may we think by billetting of souldiers in all parts of this Kingdome by intending to bring in forraign forces especially many hundred of German horse and by proposing Martiall law to be put into execution which now we see to take effect yet it was under pretence of law when there was neither Reason Law nor Equity for the raising of forces or any such great summes of mony as there was raised which yet had they been imployed in any reasonable proportion for the good of the King or Kingdome neither King nor Kingdome had been so distressed as now they are but the truth is as such vast summes were illegally extorted so they were as fraudulentally disposed without his Maiesties privity even to the strengthening of the professed enemies of our Religion which now threaten the subjugation if not the utter extirpation of it The next plot was for brasse mony and the making of it currant whilst the French of all other nations were permitted to carry our gold and silver away were they of what Sexe Age or condition soever How much the Queen Mother had for her part is not nor ever will bee certainly knowne but it is conceived upon very good ground that she and her Iesuiticall traine have had two millions of mony which is tenne times as much as the Queen her daughter brought into this land and if this hath not been a heavie burthen to poore England let all men Iudge But this is not all have not the Iesuites had free egresse and regresse and intimate acquaintance with Canterbury Wren and the rest of the Popish Bishops whereby they procured the discountenancing yea the suppressing of the most able and faithfull Divines and Ministers of the Gospell when in the mean time who were advanced and put into places of trust or preferment but Arminians and Socinians whose poysenous tenents in some and many things are steps to Rome in others more dangerous as being more subtilly contrived We cannot here omit by their instigation the receiving into favour of many great Delinquents who fled from the Iustice of the Parliament the cessation of Armes in Ireland to bring over the warre and Popery into England the Queens negotiation beyond the Seas for the continuance and fomenting this unnaturall warre partly in her owne person and partly by her seconds And to this end the pawning of the Iewels of the Crowne The severall plots daily contrived to corrupt our soldiers citizens nay even our Divines themselves all which are unquiet and dangerous issues and effects of the French and Spanish Counsells And now when they can proceed no further in their mischievous devices they indeavoured to continue the last and worst of all which is still managed by the help of their old sure freinds who are so gracious at Court and that is the separating of his Maiesty from his high Cour● of Parliament and in keeping him from them as also in causing an ill opinion in some people and Counties against their own representative body so advisedly now a●sembled and at first aggregated from all shires And indeed of all other practices this is most fearfull destructive and the most desperate for who could imagine did it not evidently appeare that the Papists both of the French and Spanish faction should have such an influence on his Majesty as to make him beleive that his Parliament is set against him and the good of the land and that Privadoes and Sycophantes at Court are better affected and more able to seek for the good and safety of the King and Kingdome then they are as if it were probable the wisdome and till now the never suspected integrity of both the Houses of Parliament by which the King and Kingdome have alwayes flourished could ever prove so treacherous to King or Kingdome or be so carelesse of themselves and their posterity as to doe things dishonest and treasonable or if it were possible that men for the most part who were never greatly intrusted by his Maiesty or the State should bee able to give more faithfull Counsell or be lesse subiect to erroneous advices then they are who now sit in our high Court of Parliament Surely as after many storms at sea wee now begin to see the day and land again so great thanks for their pains prudence and patience is to be given to God by us to whom no doubt the benefit will redound FINIS This is Licensed and entred into the Register Book of Stationers Hall