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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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 Somerseâ—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 turbuleuâ— 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

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 coursâ— of Lincâ—l Successiâ—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 kâ—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 Conqâ—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 utteâ—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

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