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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A58691	An account of Queen Mary's methods for introducing popery, and procuring a Parliament to confirm it seasonable to be published in this time of imminent danger and dedicated to the Right Honourable the Earl of Shaftsbury.	T. S.	1681 (1681)	Wing S150; ESTC R8480	4,846	17

AN ACCOUNT OF Queen MARY's Methods For Introducing POPERY And procuring a PARLIAMENT To Confirm it Seasonable to be published in this Time of Imminent Danger AND Dedicated to the Right Honourable the EARL of SHAFTSBURY LONDON Printed for John Gay at the Flying-Horse between St Dunstans Church and Chancery lane in Fleet-street 1681. TO THE Right Honourable ANTHONY EARL of SHAFTSBVRY c. My Lord IT is I confess a great presumption to prefix your Lordships Name to so small a Treatise but since the Design of it is to inform all true English Men of what Ways the Papists used in endeavouring to bring their Religion into England that they may be prevented in all their Designs I hope your Lordship will pardon this boldness in me And my Lord I believe the English Nation have so great a Reverence for your Lordship that they will the better esteem this Piece for your Lordships Name being set before it because they will imagine that none durst have presumed to have laid it at your Feet unless it were agreeable to your Sentiments My Lord I think nothing of this kind was ever yet printed which was a great Motive to me to publish it who am My Lord Your Lordships most Humble Servant T. S. AN ACCOUNT OF Queen MARY's Methods For Introducing POPERY SEveral Persons of great Worth and Learning have already given Account of the great Cruelties that have been Exercised by Papists on Protestants an some particularly have wrote of the Dismal Condition of the Reformed Christians in Queen Maries days but none have yet as I remember acquainted the World with the Methods Queen Mary used to introduce Popery which was at her coming to the Crown in a fair way of being Extirpated And Considering that the discovering of a Rock on which some have formerly split may be of great use for others to avoid it I have undertaken to give you this Following Account Henry the Eighth King of England having left the Kingdom of England in great peace and in a fair way to shake off the burthensome Yoke of Rome Edward the 6th his Son succeeded him and Prince so hopeful that in six years time he had almost perfected the Good Work begun by his Father King Henry but unkind death snatch'd him away on the 6th of July 1553 in the 16th year of his Age whose death was much lamented throughout the Nation most people Prophetically Presaging the misfortunes which were coming on them After which the Duke of Northumberland caused his Daughter the Lady Jane to be Proclaimed Queen but her Reign lasted only ten days for the Council turning to the Lady Mary in the latter end of July 1553 caused her to be Proclaimed Queen of England in London and other parts of the Realm upon which she removed from her Castle of Framlingham towards London and being come to Warsted in Essex on the Thirtieth of July the Lady Elizabeth her Sister with a Train of a Thousand Horse went from her place in the Strand to meet her On the Third of August the Queen rode through London to the Tower where she set free Steven Gardiner late Bishop of Winchester and restored him to his Bishoprick On the Fifth of Agust Edmond Bonner late Bishop of London Prisoner in the Marshallsey and Cuthberd Tunstal the Old Bishop of Durham Prisoner in the Kings-Bench had then Pardons and were restored to their Sees On the Twelfth of August the Queen made an open Declaration in Council That tho her Conscience was staid in Matters of Religion yet she would not restrain or compel others otherwise then as God should put into their Hearts to embrace that Religion she was in which she hoped would be done by putting of Godly and Virtuous Men into Livings to Preach the Word of God Upon this all Parties hoped for a Tolleration to Worship God their own way but the Papists presuming upon the Queen being of their Religion openly commended their own Religion and reproached the Reformed So that on the Thirteenth one Bourn Canon of Pauls Preaching at Pauls Cross not onely Prayed for the Dead but Declared that Dr. Bonner Bishop of London late restored and then in presence for a Sermon by him made four years before on the same Text and in the same place had been unjustly cast into the Marshallseas which speech so offended the people who had a great Veneration for the good King Edward that a great disturbance arose and a Dagger was thrown at him but he with much difficulty was conveyed into Pauls School by Mr. Rogers whilst Mr. Bradford stept into the Pulpit and appeased the people This being repeated to the Queen she makes another Declaration That she would have all her Subjects live in Amity and charged them not to use the words Papist or Heretick Shortly after all the Bishops which had been deprived in the time of King Edward the Sixth were restored to their Bishopricks and the new removed also all Beneficed men that were married and would not renounce their Religion were put out of their Livings and others of a Contrary Opinion were put into their room These men when restored urge the Queen to re-establish Popery whom she answers That she designs nothing more yet must act with so much caution as not to inflame her Reformed Subjects In the mean time private Cabals were held by the Queen and some of the most vigorous Papists and after several Consultations it was fully resolved that Popery should be suddenly restored On the Nineteenth of August John Duke of Northumberland who professed himself a Protestant in King Edwards time and perswaded the King to declare his Daughter the Lady Jane his Successor was tryed and condemned for High Treason and on the Two and twentieth executed and at his death declared himself a Papist and to have been so always by which you may note what Temporizers Papists are who can seem to be any thing for Interest Now things seeming to be a little settled the Queen thinks it convenient to make another step towards Popery which is by a Proclamation to prohibit Preaching it being certain that when man is ignorant he is ready to embrace any Novelty not being capable of considering whether it be good or evil Many Censures past upon this Proclamation but none durst openly testify their resentment for fear of being clapt up and though the Queen seemed to carry all things fair yet some of the wisest of the Reformed being sensible that Persecution was coming on them held several Consultations but their Consciences will not let them rebel against their Soveraign yet on the Fiftteenth of September Arch-bishop Cranmer couragiously declares against the Mass of which Bonner makes use to Inflame the Queen against him and within two or three days Cranmer and Latimer are sent to the Tower upon it several Reformed Christians fly beyond Sea The Queen who had all this while contented her self with being Queen by Proclamation seeing thing something settled proceeds to her Coronation