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england_n	henry_n	king_n	pope_n	16,586	5	6.9376	4	true

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