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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B06285	A true relation of the Popish-plot against King Charles I and the Protestant religion.	Boswell, William, Sir, d. 1649.; Laud, William, 1573-1645.; Habervešl z Habernfeldu, Ondřej.	1679 (1679)	Wing T3016; ESTC R185710	31,948	37

three years since He had a Palace adorned with lascivious Pictures which counterfeited Profaneness in the House but with them was palliated a Monastery wherein forty Nuns were maintained hid in so great a Palace It is situated in Queen-street which the Statue of a Golden Queen adorns The secular Jesuits have bought all this Street and have design'd it into a Quadrangle where a Jesuitical College is built in private with this hope that it might be openly finished as soon as the universal reformation was begun The Pope's Legat useth a threefold Character or Cipher one of which he communicates with all Nuncioes another with Cardinal Barbarini only with a third he covers some greater secrets to be communicated Whatsoever things he either receiveth from the Society or other Spies those he packs up together in one bundle dedicated under this Inscription To Monsieur Stravio Arch-deacon of Cambray From whom at last they are promoted to Rome These things being thus ordered if every thing be laid to the Ballance it will satisfie in special all the Articles propounded WHEREIN 1. THe Conspiracy against the King and Lord Arch-Bishop is detected and the means whereby ruin is threatned to both demonstrated 2. The eminent dangers of both Kingdoms are rehearsed 3. The rise and progress of that Scottish Fire is related 4. Means whereby these Scottish Troubles may be appeased are suggested For after the Scots shall know by whom and to what end their minds are incensed they will speedily look to themselves neither will they suffer the Forces of both parts to be subdued lest a middle party interpose which seeks the ruin of both 5. With what Sword the King's Throat is affaulted even when these stirs shall be ended Cuneus his Confession and a visible Demonstration sheweth 6. The place of the Affembly in the House of Captain Read is nominated 7. The day of the eight days dispatch by Read and the Legat is prescribed 8. How the names of the Conspirators may be known 9. Where this whole Congregation may be circumvented 10. Some of the Principal unfaithful ones of the King's Party are notified by name many of whose names occur not yet their habitations are known their names may be easily extorted from Read If these things be warily proceeded in the strength of the whole business will be brought to light so the arrow being foreseen the danger shall be avoided which that it may prosperously succeed the Omnipotent Creator grant The Arch-Bishops Indorsement with his own hand Received October 14. 1640. The Narration of the great Treason concerning which he promised to Sir William Boswell to discover against the King and State Historical Remarks ON THE JESUITS WHoever shall Compare the before-recited PLOT against King Charles the First of Glorious Memory with that against His most Sacred Majesty now Reigning shall find them so like in all the Parts and Circumstances that never were two Brothers more the Design the same the Contrivance the same the Working and Machination all moving upon the same Wheels of KING-killing and State-destraction and in reference to Condition Quality Religion and Motive the Conspirators the very same From whence it follows that there is no such Improbability of the Late discoverd PLOT as the Papists would have us believe An ill Name is half a Conviction Quo semel est imbuta recens natur am expellas furcalicet are the Jesuits Merals Plot Contrivance and Cruelty are so much the Essential Attributes of Jesuitism as if like so many Romulusses and Remusses they had suckt the Milk of Wolves rather than of Christian Mothers that when you hear of Plot 's and Designs against Kings and Princes you may be assur'd what sort of Cyclops were the Forgers of such Conspiracies Neither is this bare Allegation but Matter of Fact there being nothing more frequently taught nor more frequantly practis'd than the rebellious Principles of the Jesuits and their Adherents How abominably the Reigns of several of our Princes here in England has been pester'd with this Generation of Vipers and Blood-suckers the Penal Statutes of the Kingdom and the utter Expulsion of the Popish Priests and Jesuits out of the Nation are convincing Evidences And as to their Behaviour in other Countries take this following Account First then it is a Maxim most true and undoubted That a Vacuum in Nature may be as soon allow'd as that there is any Court of King or Prince where these Jesuits do not swarm and abound if they can but creep in at the least Creviss To come to particulars we will begin with Portugal a Kingdom altogether acknowledging the Papal Jurisdiction In the Year 1578. the Jesuits perswaded Sebastian King of that Kingdom to undertake that Fatal Expedition into Africa to the end that by his ruin they night transfer the Kingdom to the Dominion of the Spaniard The Success answer'd their Expectation for Sebastian being cut off together with his Son and the greatest part of the Portugal Nobility presently Philip King of Spain prepares to invade Portugal with two powerful Armies But well knowing how little Right he had on his side and how much he should be censur'd as well in Italy as in Portugal for such an Action he began to make it a Point of Conscience and referr'd his Scruples to be discuss'd by the Jesuits and Franciscans in the Colledge of Alcana de Henares and of them he desires to know Whether if it were apparent that he had a Right to the Crown of Portugal by the Death of Henry he were not oblig'd in Conscience to submit himself to some Tribunal that should adjudge the Kingdom to him Secondly Whether if the Portugals should refuse to admit him for their King before the difference were decided between the Competitors he might not by force of Arms Invest himself in the Kingdom by his own Authority To which the Jesuits and Franciscans made answer That Philip was bound by no tye of Conscience to subject himself to the Will of another but might act as he saw fitting by his own Authority Which flattering Sentence of those irreligious Cusuists being approved by Philip he presently began the War In the heat of which War the Jesuits were they that would have betray'd the chiefest of the Azores Islands to the Spaniards which so incens'd the People that some would have had them try'd for their lives others would have had them and their Colledge burnt together In France Joane Albret Queen of Navarr was poysoned with a pair of Perfumed Gloves at the procurement of the Jesuits for being the Patroness of those of the Reformed Religion That Rebellious League of the Guizes against Henry the Third of France was carried on and promoted by the Jesuits both at Paris and other places Insomuch that when the League got strength and began to appear the Jesuits making a wrong use of their Power of Confessing and Absolving would Absolve none that professed themselves obedient Subjects to the King This unfortunate Prince was not

only harrass'd and tormented by this Villanous and Jesuitical League not only driven out of his chief City but at length at the Instigation of the Jesuits stabb'd and murder'd by a Dominican Monk by them procur'd The Murder was also applauded by Pope Sixtus the Fifth in a long Oration spoke in a full Consistory of Cardinals in these words That a Monk saith he should kill the unfortunate King of France in the midst of his Army was a rare noble and memorable Act. And a little further This Act saith he was done by the Providence of God design'd by the Inspiration of the Holy Ghost a far greater Act than that of Judith who slew Holofernes Expressions rather becoming the Mouth of a Devil than of a Vicar of Christ After him Henry the Fourth was first attempted by Barrier exhorted and confirm'd in the lawfulness of the Fact by Varada the Jesuit and others of the same Gang. Secondly by John Castell at the Instigation of Gueret and Guignard both Jesuits And Francis Verona the Jesuit publisht an Apology in vindication and justification of the Fact And lastly murder'd out-right by Francis Ravaillac a great Disciple of the Jesuits And for no worse Pranks than these they were banished out of France by Decree of Parliament As Corrupters of Youth Disturbers of the public Peace and Enemies to the King and Kingdom Truly very honourable Characters for those that pretend to be of the Society of Jesus The Venetians expell'd them upon this occasion The Senate observing that the Ecclesiastics especially the Jesuits began to engross Lands and Houses of their Territories under the pretence of Legacies to the great damage of the Public Income thought it convenient to put a stop to this Jesuitical Engrossment and provide by Law that Ecclesiastical Persons should not possess all the Temporal Estates in their Territories to themselves but give leave for others to share with them it being positively against the Constitution of their Order and the Institution of Christ their Founder The Jesuits took this in great dudgeon and wrote to Pope Paul the Fifth about it The Venetians being summon'd to answer would not relinquish their Right Protesting withal that they had the Supreme Jurisdiction in their own Territories and consequently to make Laws and that the Pope had nothing to do with them in those Matters Upon which Answer the Pope thunders out his Excommunication The Duke and Senate by public Decree condemn the Excommunication as unjust and invalid which done they call the whole Body of their Clergy and to them declare how Affairs stood The elder sort take part with the Commonwealth and maintain the Argument against the Pope in writing among whom Paulus Venetus was most eminently Signal The Jesuits not enduring the kneeness of his Reasons hire two Ruffians and upon the fifth of October 1607. set them to assassinate Paulus Venetus who thinking they had done his work left him for dead and fled away This was something near Sir Edmundbury Godfreys Case The Senate hearing this by a new Law banish the Jesuits for ever out of their Territories and cut them off from all hope of ever returning And this was their Fortune in Venice In the year 1609. the Bohemians made a Complaint to the Emperour against the Jesuits for the same Encroachments of which the Venetians had accused them before desiring of Casar that they might no longer be permitted to transfer and translate into their own possession such ample Patrimonies under pretence of Donations and Legacies as they did continually Of which when the Emperour took little notice they were by the Bohemian States themselves in the year 1618. utterly expelled out of that Nation for ever with these Characters 1. That they were lavish Wasters of the Public Peace and Tranquility of the Nation 2. That they endeavour'd to subject all Kingdoms and Nations to the Power of the Pope 3. That they did nothing but set the Magistrates together by the Ears 4. That they made particular Advantage of Confessions to the destruction of the people with many other Crimes of the same nature The same year they were expell'd out of Moravia for the same Reasons and the next year out of Hungaria for the same Causes In Silesia also a Decree was made That the Jesuits should not enter that Province upon pain of Death as being the onely means to preserve peace in the Nation As to other Villanies in Poland a Polonian Knight himself a Papist in an Oration by him made in a full Assembly of the Polonian Nobility declares That Cracow the most Famous City of Poland and Ornament of the Kingdom was so plagu'd by the Jesuits that several good men though Catholicks affirmed That they would rather live in the Woods among wild Beasts than abide in the City One time among the rest these Jesuits having brought their Conspiracy to perfection brake into the most ancient Monument of Antiquity in the City and to the great danger of the whole City set it on Fire as being granted to the Evangelics by Consent of the King and States of the Kingdom In Posnania another great City of the same Kingdom they set Fire on the Church belonging to those of the Augustan Confession and committed so many Insolencies without Controul that the Nobility refus'd to meet at the Dyet shortly after to be held at Warsaw resolving to repair further off to Lublin for the redress of these Misdemeanours Neither indeed was there any thing more grievously burdensom to that Kingdom than the Pride and Avarice of those Miscreants In Muscovy upon the Death of the Great Duke Basilowich the Jesuits set up one Demetrius against the lawful Heir who had made them large Promises if he obtain'd the Dukedom Thereupon by the help of these Jesuits the said Demetrius gets Aid from the King of Poland which was not onely the Occasion of a great War in Muscovy but had like to have cost them the Alteration of their Laws and loss of their ancient Customs and Priviledges had they not prevented it by a desperate Attempt upon the Impostor and put him to Death surrounded with Impostors and Jesuits The Transilvanians publicly and with one Consent laid all the Cause of their Miseries and Calamities upon the Subtilties and Contrivances of the Jesuits for which reason by a Public Decree of the States of that Province they were Ejected out of the limits of their Territories Nevertheless they secretly fomented the Ruin of that Country and were the reason that Sigismund Bathor involv'd himself in War and Trouble and at length died an inglorious and miserable Death By their Contrivance also Stephen Potski Prince of Transilvania opposing their Bloody Sect was put out of the way as they call it by Poyson in the year 1607. In Styria and Carinthia Provinces of Germany they never left till they had voided those Provinees of all the Inhabitants of the Reformed Religion In Holland they never left till they saw the Blood of William