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A33251	The Protestant school-master containing, plain and easie directions for spelling and reading English, with all necessary rules for the true reading of the English tongue : together with a brief and true account of the bloody persecutions, massacres, plots, treasons, and most inhumane tortures committed by the papists upon Protestants, for near six hundred years past, to this very time, in all countries where they have usurped authority to exercise their cruelties ...: with a description of the variety of their tortures, curiously engraven upon copper plates ... / by Edw. Clark.	Clark, Edw. (Edward)	1680 (1680)	Wing C4437; ESTC R39367	111,345	217

up further to clear and unmask this detestable and bloody Conspiracy Dr. Oats was resolved as much as in him lay to prevent their Traiterous designs upon his Majesties Life though he endangered his own thereby since he observed that all their Contrivances were ripe and there only wanted the Fatal Blow to destroy the life of his Sacred Majesty and the Religion and Liberties of these three Kingdoms And whereas Father Whitebread the Provincial of the Jesuits had engaged Dr. Oats before his last return into England to assassinate and murder Israel Tongue Doctor of Divinity because he had translated a Book Intituled The Jesuits Morals and had promised him Fifty pound as a reward for the same Dr. Oats after his coming over became acquainted with Dr. Tongue and finding him to be a person of Trust and Integrity he gave him an Account of his Assassination and likewise some Heads of the Plot in General After which they both seriously Consulted together of the best methods for making this necessary Discovery since they were sure to meet with great opposition therein At last they concluded to acquaint Mr. Christopher Kirby therewith as a person whom for his Loyalty Courage and zeal for the Safety of his Majesties Person and the Protestant Religion they judged very fit and capable to assist them and therefore on Monday August 12. 1678. Dr. Tongue shewed Mr. Kirby Forty three Articles drawn up in writing desiring him that without making any other Person acquainted therewith he would discover the same to the King And Mr. Kirby very generously undertook the same and accordingly the next morning in St. James's Park he humbly acquainted his Majesty That his Enemies had a Design against his Life and humbly beseeched his Majesty to use all Caution for he did not know but he might be in danger in that very walk But his Majesty armed with his Native goodness and Innocency seemed more surprized with the Strangeness of the News than with the apprehension of the danger and only asked How that could be To which Mr. Kirby replyed That it might be by being shot at And gave a particular account that there were two men Grove and Pickering by name that watched an opportunity to shoot his Majesty and that another Person was hired to Poyson him His Majesty ordered further Scrutiny should be made into the business and a while after Doctor Oats having written fair Copies of his Informations upon the 28. of September 1678. went to Sir Edmundbury Godfrey and made Oath of the truth and reality thereof Sir Edmundbury desiring to keep a Copy of the Informations himself as having never before perused them which it may be was the occasion of his horrid Murther which soon after followed The Plot in General seemed to be by Fire and Sword to subvert and destroy the Protestant Religion and established Government of these three Kingdoms and to reduce them to Popery The chief Conspirators being Innocent 11 th now Pope who in The Congregation for propagating the Faith held about Decemb. 1677. and consisting of about 350. Persons Declared All His Majesties Dominions to be part of St. Peters Patrimony as forfeited to the Holy See for the Heresie of the Prince and People and to be disposed of as he should think fit And our English Cardinal Howard was appointed by the Pope to take Possession of England in his Name who was likewise made Archbishop of Canterbury and other Popish Priests were made Bishops in England all the present Bishops being designed to be removed from their Dignities Johannes Paulus de Oliva Father General of the Jesuits was to give Directions to the Provincial of the Jesuits in London how to manage their Affairs Mounsieur le Chese a Jesuit Confessor to the French King was likewise concerned with whom Edward Coleman held correspondence Also Strange and Whitebread Provincials of the Jesuits and the Benedictine Monks of the Savoy were in this cursed Conspiracy and the Jesuits and Seminary Priests of whom there were at that time in England about Eighteen Hundred Divers Lay Persons of Quality were drawn in who were to command Forces and to execute the Great Offices of the Realm as the Lord Arundel of Warder was appointed Lord Chancellour of England the Lord Powis Lord Treasurer Sir William Godolphin Lord Privy Seal Edward Coleman Secretary of State and for the Military part Lord Bellasis to be Lord General Lord Peters Lieutenant General Sir Francis Ratcliff Major General John Lambert Adjutant General Richard Langhorn Advocate General who had Commissions sent them from Paulus de Oliva and directed from Rome to Mr. Langhorn This was so great and glorious a work that the chiefest of the Romish Clergy through Europe were engaged therein so that it cannot be said to be the Act or Contrivance of any few particular Persons but The unanimous undertaking of their whole Church and so to their everlasting Infamy ought to be Recorded Now as to the Means whereby this was to be accomplished the first and chief was By Murdering his Sacred Majesty which was to be accomplisht either by Pistolling of him wherein Pickering and Grove were ingaged or by Stabbing and this to be done by Conyers and Anderton Benedictine Monks or four Irish Ruffians Or lastly by Poysoning for which Money was payd to the Undertaker 2. Another means was by firing London Westminster and the parts adjacent and likewise other Cities and great Towns in England immediately upon the Murder of his Majesty 3. By a General Massacre to which purpose they had designed to raise an Army which was to consist of Fifty Thousand men to be Listed in and about London The Officers to be all Resolute Papists and for the most part French and Irish and these they gave out were enough to cut the Throats of One Hundred Thousand Protestants especially being taken upon a Surprize when the Militia of London was undisciplined and unprovided Care was taken likewise about securing Ireland and Scotland to their Interest Great sums of Money were provided for the necessary charge of this mighty undertaking and it was discoursed that the Jesuits in England had purchased a great Estate per Annum for that purpose and that they had a great Stock in ready Money and were to receive Eleven thousand Crowns from Rome Ten thousand pound from Spain and Ten thousand from France besides several other very considerable summs for promoting this vast design And this is a brief Abstract of this bloody and Hellish Popish Plot abundance of other particulars being omitted whereby it appears that this Horrid Plot is hardly to be parallel'd in any History considering that without any provocation so many Thousand Protestants were designed for slaughter destruction and Murder only to advance and promote the Holy Catholick Religion as they falsly call that Chaos of Blasphemy and Cruelty Presently after this Remarkable discovery happened the murther of that worthy Magistrate Sir Edmondbury Godfry who as is before related having taken the

the Pope he Alighted from his Horse to receive him and held the Popes Stirrup while he Alighted also but it seems he mistook the Left Stirrup instead of the Right at which the Pope seemed to be very much offended which the Emperour observing he smilingly told the Pope That he desired to be excused since he was not accustomed to hold Stirrups with which acknowledgment the Pope seemed to be satisfied After this there happened some difference between the Pope and the Emperour whereupon the Pope curseth him and sends his Letters out against him to all the Princes of Christendom declaring that he was an accursed person and ought to be avoided and cast out of all Christian company He likewise stirred up his Subjects in Rebellion against him The Emperour then marched to Rome to chastise his pride but the Pope fled to Venice and the Venetians being required to send him to Frederick refused it whereupon the Emperour sent his Son Otho against him with men and Ships very well furnished but withal charged him by no means to attempt any thing against the Venetians till he himself came But the young man being full of heat and desire of glory ventured to ingage the Enemy and was by them overthrown and himself taken prisoner Upon this misfortune the compassionate Father to release his Son from captivity and misery was forced to submit to whatever Conditions of Peace the Pope should demand whereby it was at last agreed that the Emperour should come into S. Marks Church at Venice and there kneeling down at the Popes feet he should receive Absolution and forgiveness This the Emperour performed and the proud Pope setting his foot upon the Emperours Neck said that verse in the Psalm Thou shalt tread upon Lyons and Adders the young Lyon and the Dragon shalt thou trample under foot which the Pope applied to the Emperour but the Emperour answered Not to thee but to Peter this power is given The Pope replied Both to me and to Peter The Emperour fearing further quarrels durst say no more but was absolved and his Son was restored to his liberty III. Not long after this that is in the time of that famous King Henry the Second one Thomas Becket Archbishop of Canterbury was by his extraordinary pride and insolence the occasion of very great disturbance to the King and Kingdome for the King calling his Nobles and the Clergy together desired that some Clergy-men might be called to answer for some Villanies by them committed for it was proved that several persons had been murdered by their means This Thomas Becket would not consent unto without a Clause of seeing this Order which very much displeased the King but by the perswasion of his Brethren Becket afterward consented yet being incouraged by the Pope he again fell off and repented of what he had done which the more inraged the King against him This quarrel continued many years and the King was so tormented by this proud Prelate that he once passionately cryed out Will no body avenge me of this Becket These words were spoken in the Hearing of some Gentlemen who thereupon guessing at the Kings mind four of them presently went to Canterbury and finding the Archbishop in the Cathedral there they fell upon him and kill'd him upon the Stairs of the Altar every one striking him over the head with his Sword and then made their escape This Murder was charged upon the King by the Popes Legate and though the King swore that he was neither aiding nor consenting to his death yet he was forced to kiss the Legates Knee and submit to such Penance as he should appoint him one part whereof was that he should absolutely submit to the Pope in all spiritual matters And it is likewise recorded that King Henry coming out of France went to Canterbury and as soon as he was in fight of Thomas Beckets Church he got off his Horse and pulling off his Shoes and Stockins he went barefoot o Beckets Tomb the ways being so sharp and stony that his feet bled as he passed along and when he came there every Monk in the Cloister whipt the Kings Back with a Rod which shews saith the Historian what slavery Kings and Princes were at that time brought into by the Popes Clergy The same year the City of Canterbury was almost burnt down and Beckets Church was utterly consumed This Becket was afterward Canonized for a Saint but a Popish Historian saith of him That he was worthy death and damnation for being so obstinate against Gods Minister his King IV. King John the Son of Henry the Second was likewise made sensible of the danger of offending the Pope for in the year 1205. the King being incensed against the Clergy who possessed great Benefices and yet neglected their Charge he endeavoured to rectifie this and some other great miscarriages about Electing Bishops and several other things But the Pope fearing he would intrench upon his privileges and gain stirred Heaven and Earth against him Excommunicating and cursing him giving his Kingdome to the French King and stirring up his own Nobility and people against him so that the King being compassed about with Enemies on every side was forced to submit to the Pope promising to do whatever he should command him Nay the King took his Crown off his head and kneeling upon his knees in the midst of all his Lords and Barons he gave it to Pandulphus the Popes Legate saying Here I resign up the Crown of the Realm of England to the hands of Pope Innocent the Third and lay my self wholly at his mercy and appointment Pandulphus took the Crown from King John and kept it five days and the King giving then all his Kingdomes to the Pope to be held in Farm from him and his Heirs for evermore his Crown was restored again King John engaging to pay seven hundred Marks a year for England and three hundred for Ireland half of it at Easter and half at Michaelmas as Rent for the said Kingdomes This King John was afterward poysoned by a Monk which was judged such a Meritorious Act that the Murderer had a Mass appointed to be said for his Soul for ever after by his Fellow-Monks V. Pope Celestine the Third standing upon the Stairs of S. Peters Church in Rome he there received an Oath of Henry the Sixth Emperour of Germany and then had him into the Church and anointed him and sitting in his Pontifical Chair held the Crown of Gold between his feet and the Emperour bowing down his head to the Popes feet received the Crown the Empress likewise was Crowned in the same manner The Crown being thus put on the Pope immediately kickt it off the Emperour's Head with his foot to the ground declaring thereby that if he pleased he could depose him again Then the Cardinals took up the Crown and again put it on his Head VI. Nay to such a height did the Popes at last arrive that they governed all things Emperours

Nicholas Belerrian a Minister in Shrop-shire John Adams a Taylor and John Lacels a Gentleman belonging to King Henry the Eighth these beholding the Invincible Constancy and patience of Mistriss Askew were thereby much incouraged in their Sufferings About the same time Sir John Blage of the Kings Privy Chamber was falsly accused to have spoken against the Mass upon which he was condemned to be burnt in Smithfield whereupon the Earl of Bedford begged his pardon of the King who Commanded it to be drawn immediately After his release Sir George coming to the King Ah my Pig said he for so he usually called him Yea said Blage if your Majesty had not been better to me than your Bishops were your Pig had been roasted before this time Presently after Gardiner Bishop of Winchester and his Confederates set forth a Cruel Proclamation in the Kings Name for abolishing the Scriptures and all other English Books that discovered the truth to the people and having obtained this they very much rejoyced therein hoping that they had now for ever suppressed the Gospel so that it should never rise again and to strike the greater terror into mens minds they made a diligent search after the Professors of the Truth of whom they took the Names of some drove away others and hereby doubted not but to attain their ends But it pleased God that in the midst of these subtil Contrivances for the destruction of his Gospel and Servants to take away King Henry the Eighth within four Months after the Proclamation and thereby all their hopes and projects were utterly disappointed King Henry the Eighth being dead his only Son Prince Edward our English Josiah ascended the Throne under whom the Protestant Religion was established and Popery and Superstition abolished for he caused all Images to be demolished and as Idolatrous to be taken out of all Churches within his Dominions the Learned men of his time he encouraged and commanded them to open and expound the Scriptures he abolished the Mass and ordered the Service to be read in the English Tongue and the Sacrament of the Lords Supper to be administred in both kinds to the People But it pleased God in a short time to take him to himself for in the Seventh Year of his Reign and the seventeenth Year of his age he was taken with a lingring sickness during which time a Marriage was concluded between the Lord Guilford Dudley eldest Son to the Duke of Northumbereand and the Lady Jane the Daughter of the Duke of Suffolk whose mother being then alive was Daughter to Marry King Henry the Eighth's second Sister The Marriage being finisht and the King every day more sick than other so that he seemed past Recovery the Duke of Northumberland being ambitious to advance his Family perswaded the King that the Church and the True Religion would be in great danger if he did not chuse a pious Successor and that it was the part of a good Prince to set aside all other respects when the Glory of God and the good of his Subjects were concerned The King partly for his great desire to have the Protestant Religion confirmed and partly for the intire love which he bore to his Cousin the Lady Jane signed Letters Patents under the Broad Seal to appoint the Lady Jane to succeed him in the Kingdom although her Title were excluded by the Lady Mary who was alwaies a zealous Papist and the Lady Elizabeth This was afterwards confirmed by the Nobility and Chief Lawyers of the Kingdom and was subscribed to by all the Kings Council the Lord Maior and Aldermen of Lndon who upon the Death of King Edward which happened in a short time after proclaimed the Lady Jane Queen in London and Westminster The Lady Mary being in Hartford-shire and hearing of it presently sent to the Lords of the Council commanding and requiring them to Proclaim her Queen which if they refused to do she threatned to recover her Right by force of Arms. The Lords returned answer That the Lady Jane was invested and possessed of the Crown by just Right and Title both by the Ancient Laws of the Land and by Letters Patents signed and sealed by the late King before his death and therefore they declared they would adhere to her and to none other requesting the Lady Mary that she would not upon any pretence endeavour to disturb the peace of the Kingdom promising her that if she would carry her self as a dutifull Subject they would be ready to do her any service The Lady Mary having received this answer withdrew further from the City and the Council being sensible of her stout and unquiet disposition they raised an Army which was commanded by the Duke of Northumberland The Lady Mary went into Suffolk and Norfolk gathering such aid of the Commons as she could and kept her self in Framingham Castle to whom the Suffolk men first resorted who being alwayes forward in promoting the Gospel promised her their aid and assistance provided she would make no alteration of the Protestant Religion as it was established by her Brother King Edward To this she readily agreed and confirmed it with such Vows and Ptotestations that none could suspect her whereupon they joined with her and thus by the help of the Protestants she vanquished the Duke of Northumberland and his Army and was settled in the Kingdom but she soon forgot her promises for these very Suffolk men observing that Popery would be re-established they Petitioned to her to perform her word to them at which she was extreamly displeased and told them Forasmuch as you who are Members desire to rule your Head you shall one day find that Members must obey not se k to rule Yea one of the chief of these men Mr. Dob by name she caused for the Terror of others to be set in the Pillory several times and divers others that presented Supplications to her not to set up Popery she caused to be sent to prison Queen Mary being settled in the Kingdom the Lady Jane her Father the Duke of Northumberland and her Husband the Lord Guilford Dudley were soon after Beheaded and the Queen soon discovered her disaffection to the Protestant Religion by displacing all the Orthodox Bishops as Poinet Ridley Scorie Hooper Coverdale and by releasing out of the Tower Stephen Gardiner Bishop of Winchester whom she made Lord Chancellor of England and Bonner who was made Bishop of London Then the Queen publisht a Proclamation that she was resolved to observe and maintain the Catholick Religion wherein she was bred up requiring all her Subjects quietly to embrace the same A while after this Bonner and Gardiner begun a cruel and bloody persecution upon the Protestants and made them fall in heaps For Mr. Hooper Mr. Rogers Mr. Taylor Mr. Bradford Mr. Saunders all famous men were condemned and burned for Heresie In the year 1555. Thomas Tomkins whose hand B. Bonner burnt in prison to try his constancy was afterward burnt in Smithfield

the Pope could give her therein yet she was utterly crost also in that Design Then she lost Calice in France which had been in the possession of the English during the Reign of eleven Kings that is from the Reign of King Edward the third with which loss she was so afflicted that she told some of her Courtiers If they opened her body when she was dead they would find Calice written in her heart She was reported to be with Child but it came to nothing Her beloved Husband left her in whom she placed her greatest felicity and content So that now she could neither enjoy him nor marry another About the same time the Land was grieviously afflicted with horrible Tempests Famines Plagues mortal Diseases and burning Agues so that between October and December there dyed seven Aldermen in London that had been Lord Maiors and the mortality was so great that much Corn was lost in the Fields for want of men to gather it whereby great scarcity ensued and many poor people lived upon Acorns And lastly she was struck with a lingring and pining sickness whereof she dyed having only reigned Five years and Five months a shorter time than any of the Kings of England enjoyed since the Conquest Richard the Third only excepted 2. In the next place let us consider Gods Judgments upon some other Instruments of Cruelty and among the rest Stephen Gardiner who was a most Cruel Persecutor of the Protestants In King Henry the Eighths time he was a great stickler for the divorce from the Lady Katherine of Spain and was therefore made Bishop of Winchester In King Edward the sixths time he seemed a Friend to the Gospel and preached it up but in Queen Marys days he was the greatest and most inveterate enemy against it and the professors thereof and continued so to his dying day For the same day that Bishop Ridley and Bishop Latimer were burnt at Oxford the old Duke of Norfolk came to dine with Gardiner The Bishop deferred his dinner till about four a Clock in the Afternoon at which time came one of his Servants posting to tell him that fire was put to these Servants of God which when he was certified of he came out rejoyceing to the Duke and said Now let us go to dinner The Table was presently set and the Bishop began to eat merrily but as soon as he had eaten a few bits he was on a sudden struck very sick and being carryed from the Table to bed he there continued in such intolerable Anguish and Torment that he could void nothing either by stool or urine His Tongue was black and swoln so big that his mouth could not contain it and his body violently Inflamed In this sad condition he lay fifteen days and then ended his miserable life In the beginning of his sickness Dr. Day Bishop of Chichester coming to see him began to speak to him about the merciful Promises of God and free Justification by the blood of Christ To whom he answered What my Lord will you open that gap now then farewell all together Open this window to the People and farewell all together And being by another Person put in mind of St. Peters denying his Master and that he ought not to despair He answered I have denied Christ with Peter but I never repented with Peter 3. Bloody Bonner though he dyed in his bed yet lay under the Spiritual Judgment of Impenitency and as he had been a Persecutor of the Light and a Child of Darkness so in darkness and at midnight his Carkass was tumbled into the Earth And as himself had been a Murderer so was he layd among Thieves and Murderers a place by Gods Judgment fitly appointed for him 4. Dr. Whittington Chancellor having condemned a Godly Religous woman to be Burnt at Chipping Sadbury a multitude of People came to see her Suffer and among the rest Whittington himself At the same time there was a Butcher in another place of the Town killing a Bull who was fast bound with a Rope ready to be knockt on the head the Butcher missing his stroke the Bull broke loose just as the people were coming from the Execution of this Holy Martyr the people seeing him coming severed themselves and made a Lane for him the Bull passed through them without hurting man woman or child till he came to the place where Whittington was against whom he ran very furiously and thrusting his Horns into his belly ran him quite through and tearing out his Guts with his horns he trayl'd them about the streets to the great astonishment of those that saw his wretched end 5. One Burton Bayliff of Crowland in Lincolnshire seemed in King Edward the Sixths days to be a zealous Protestant but as soon as Queen Mary came to the Crown he turned Papist and being forward to set up the Mass he went to Church and the Curate being then reading the English Service he went to him and said Sirrah will you not say Mass buckle your self to it you knave or by Gods Blood I 'le sheath my dagger in your shoulder The poor Curate being affrighted betook himself to the Mass Shortly after this Burton and a neighbour riding together a Crow flew over his head and voided her Excrements upon his Nose which ran down his beard and yielded such an horrible stink that it caused him to vomit in a most violent manner whereupon he got home to bed but could eat nothing the stink and vomiting still continuing which made him with dreadful Oaths and Execrations curse the Crow that had poisoned him and so he continued in extream pain till he dyed A Prayer of King Edward the Sixth a while before his Death LOrd God deliver me out of this miserable and wretched life and take me among thy chosen howbeit not my Will but thy Will be done Lord I commit my Spirit to thee O Lord thou knowest how happy it were for me to be with thee yet for thy chosens sake send me that in Life or Death I may serve thee O my Lord God Bless thy People and save thine Inheritance O Lord God save thy chosen People of England O my Lord God defend this Land from Papistry and maintain the True Religion that I and my People may Praise thy Holy name for thy Son Jesus Christ his sake A Speech of Queen Elizabeth to her Army at Tilbury Camp in the time of the Spanish Invasion in the year 1588 MY Loving People we have been perswaded by some that are carefull of our safety to take heed how we commit our selves to armed Multitudes for fear of Treachery but I assure you I do not desire to live to distrust my faithfull and loving People Let Tyrants fear I have alwayes so behaved my self that under God I have alwayes placed my chiefest strength and safeguard in the Loyal Hearts and good will of my Subjects and therefore I am come amongst you as you see at this time not for my Recreation