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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A57818	The case of Protestant dissenters of late prosecuted, on old statutes made against papists and popish recusants; the two thirds of whose estates are seized into the Kings hands, and the profits thereof levyed yearly. And many other [sic] prosecuted for 20 l. a month, to the ruine of many families.	Rudyard, Thomas, d. 1692.	1680 (1680)	Wing R2178; ESTC R218481	4,914	8

that Protestants were intended to be secured but never intended to be prosecuted by it as they are of late days And I may repeat the preamble of the Statute which will sufficintly Evidence the Intent and Design thereof Which runs thus viz. FOrasmuch as it is found by daily Experience that many his Majesties Subjects that adhere in their Hearts to the Popish Religion by the infection drawn from thence and by the Wicked and Devilish Councel of Jesuites Seminaries and other like Persons dangerous to the Church and State are so far perverted in point of their Loyalty and due Allegiance unto the King's Majestie and the Crown of England as they are ready to entertain and execute any treasonable Conspiracies and Practices as evidently appeareth by that more than Barbarous and Horrible attempt to have blown up with Gun-Powder the King Queen Prince Lords and Commons in the Parliament Assembled tending to the utter Subversion of the whole State lately taken by the instigation of Jesuites and Seminaries and in advancement of their Religion by their Scholars taught and instructed by them to that purpose Which attempt by the only Goodness of Almighty God was discovered and defeated And where divers Persons Popishly-affected do nevertheless the better to cover and hide their false Hearts and with more safety to attend the Opportunity to execute their mischievous Designs repair sometimes to Church to escape the punishment of the Laws in that behalf provided For the better discovery therefore of such Persons and their Evil-affections to the King's Majesty and the State of this His Realm to the end that being known their Evil-purposes may be the better prevented Be it Enacted by c. That every Popish-Recusant convict or hereafter to be convicted c. In which there is no mention made of other than Popish-Recusants not one Word of Protestant Dissenters or Recusants or other Dissenters or Recusants then Popish only Besides enquire into the Statute It provides that Popish Recusants conformed or afterward to conform should once a Month take the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper in their Parish-Church as in § 2d Inflicts the Penalties of 20 l. 1st year 40 l. the 2d and 60 l. the 3d. year for such Popish Recusanss not receiving the Sacrament as in § 3d. It Enacts that the Church-Wardens and Constables of every Town c for the time being or if none the chief Constable of the Hundred c. shall present the Names of all Popish Recusants and the Children of the said Recusants of 16 years old as in § 4th 4ly This Statute of the 3d. of K James recites the afore-said Statute of 23. Eliz. by which the said Recusants viz Popish forfeit the 20 l. per Mensem as in § 10. 5ly And also recites the afore-said Statute of 28 Eliz. directing how the Q. should recover the 20 l. per mensem by seizure of two 3ds of the real Estate of such convicted Recusants After which recital it is therein alledg'd that the 20 l. per mensem is a Burthen to the poor and ease to the rich who keep large Estates in their own hands which as says the Statute they do for the most part imploy as Experience hath taught In the maintainance of Superstition and Popish Religion and to the relief of Jesuites Seminaries Priests and other dangerous Persons to the State And So it 's clearly aparent by the delineation and explanation of Offender and Offences throughout this Statute As 1st Offenders viz. Jesuites Seminaries and such like persons dangerous to Church and State Persons Popishly-affected adhering in their Hearts to the Popish Religion To cover and hide their false Hearts and the better and with more safety to attend their mischievous Designs repair sometimes to Church c. Persons ready to execute any Treasonable Conspiracies and Practices 2ly Their Offences or Designs viz. That horrible Attempt to blow up with Gun-Powder the King Queen Prince Lords and Commons in Parliament And this to advance their Religion and to Subvert Church and State And so throughout the whole Statute the Persons enjoyned to take the Sacrament to be presented by Constables and such like are Papists persons Popishly-affected adhering to the Popish Religion and Popish Recusants By all which we hope it clearly appears That those Statutes were intended against Popish Recusants only and not against Protestant Dissenters or Recusants in general nor any other than Popish and hope that the Prosecution of Protestant Dissenters as they have been of late is and now at present are an extending the sense of those Statutes beyond Right Reason and the intent of the Law-makers All which is submitted to the Judgment of the Parliament Assembled to Consider and Redress as they in Wisdom shall see meet And this following Declaration is humbly offered as a Test to distinguish between PROTESTANTS and PAPISTS I A. B. Do Solemnly and in good Conscience Profess Testify and Declare that I do not believe that the Church of Rome or Papal Church is the true Church out of which there is no Salvation or that the Pope or Bishop of Rome is Christ's Vicar or head of the true Catholick Church on Earth or that either he or the See of Rome hath any Authority Derived from Christ or his Apostles to be head of the true Catholick Church Or that the Pope or the See of Rome joyntly or severally hath any Jurisdiction or Supremacy over the said Catholick Church in general or my self in particular or that the Pope hath any Power to depose Princes or to absolve Subjects of their Allegiance on any account whatsoever or that it belongeth to the Pope or Authority of the Church or See of Rome to be sole Judge of Spiritual matters or of the sence of Holy Scriptures or that the Pope or his Clergy hath power to Pardon Sins past present or to come or to grant or give Indulgences for Sin of any kind soever or that their Doctrine of Purgatory or Prayer to or for the Dead is according to the Doctrine of the Holy Scriptures or the Virgin Mary or any other Saint or Angels ought to be Worshipped or prayed unto or are Mediators between God and Man there being no Mediator but Christ Jesus only Or that the Elements of Bread and Wine at or after the Priest hath pronounced his Words of Consecration are Transubstantiated or the whole or any part of the substance of the Bread or Wine is at all changed into the Flesh or Blood of Christ or that the Sacrifice of the Mass as it is now said to be used in the Church of Rome is other then Superstitious and Idolatrous And I do solemnly in the Presence of God Profess and Declare that I do make this Declaration and every part thereof in the plain and ordinary sence of the Word read unto me As they are commonly understood by English Protestants without any Evasion Equivocation or Mental Reservation whatsoever And without any Dispensation already granted me for this purpose by the Pope or any other Authority or Person whatsoever and without any hope of any such Dispensation from any Person or Authority whatsoever or without thinking that I am or can be acquitted before God or Man or Absolved of this Declaration or any part thereof Although the Pope or any other Person or Persons or Power whatsoever should dispence with or pretend to annul the same or declare that it was null and void from the beginning