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A39588 A short narrative of Mr. Fitz-Gerald who lately was summoned up from Bristol by one of His Majesties messengers, to the honourable Privy Council, for suspicion of high treason : giving a brief account of his carriage there at the board, his innocency, and other particulars relating to the farther discovery of this hellish popish plot. Philalethes. 1680 (1680) Wing F1075; ESTC R37346 5,619 10

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A SHORT NARRATIVE OF Mr. Fitz-Gerald Who lately was Summoned up from BRISTOL By one of His Majesties Messengers To the HONOURABLE PRIVY COUNCIL For SUSPICION of HIGH TREASON Giving a Brief Account of his Carriage there at the Board his Innocency and other particulars relating to the farther Discovery of this Hellish POPISH PLOT Omnibus qui patriam conservaverint adjuverint auxerint certus est coelo definitus locus ubi beati aevo sempiterno fruuntur Cicero Printed in the Year 1680. A SHORT NARRATIVE OF Mr. Fitz-Gerald VVho was lately Summoned up from Bristol by one of His Majesties Messengers to the Honourable Privy Council for suspicion of High-Treason giving a Brief Account of his Carriage there at the Board his Innocency and other particulars relating to the farther Discovery of this Hellish Popish Plot. MR. Fitz-Gerald formerly a Franciscan Lecturer of Philosophy and Student of Divinity in Ireland having been very diligent and studious in the reading of Books of Controversies such as Thomas Aquinas c. and being very desirous to satisfie and settle his mind upon the best Basis and Foundation which had been for a long time very wavering found very sensibly that the Church of Rome both in her Doctrine and Manners had departed in many weighty points from her primitive purity for which the Ancient Romans in St. Paul's time were so highly commended and their faith become famous throughout the Universe and that now the Church of Rome having apostatized and so far degenerated from her primitive Integrity was no longer to be embraced by him but to be accounted no better than a spuriour Harlot by all good Christians To this end therefore that he might set himself seriously to this so necessary a work of his Conversion there being several errours which that Church maintains and of which he could not be well satisfied by his reading of their Divines and Authors he often conferred with many persons accounted learned of several strange points and opinions which that Church holds such as Transubstantiation Purgatory c. who gave have him not the least content and satisfaction to those Queries he proposed to them Since therefore that in Ireland he found so little success he resolved to travel into France and Italy where he conversed and often disputed with the most famous and learned of those Nations but was no wiser than before and the more he consider'd of their tenets he found nothing but sensless absurdities contained in that Idolatrous Religion and thus concluded with himself that no persons of common sense and endued with any reason could believe or give their assent to them who make Ignorance the mother of Devotion and deprive men of the Word of God which as the Apostle has told us is only able to make us wise unto salvation who introduce in the room of it their own sensless and ridiculous fopperies empty gaudy Pageantry to amuse poor ignorant souls with the outward splendor of it full of empty Ceremonies but quite destitute of that Innocency meekness and spotless purity which becomes the Gospel of Christ as it was delivered and taught by our blessed Saviour himself and transmitted down unto us by the holy Apostles the Church of Rome holding only the name of Christians and every day becoming more and more odious unto all persons who daily forsake her Communion and abhor to have any society with her by reason of her abominable practices damnable and no less than Atheistical Principles Hellish Plots countenancing Massacres and Treasonable Contrivances which she daily infuses and perpetually instills into the minds of her deluded Votaries who walking blindfold through an implicit faith of obedience which they suppose is due to their Church and the Popes Infallibility refuse no attempts imposed on them though never so Diabolical and hope to merit Heaven by assassinating Kings and destroying Kingdoms subverting Laws and the Government and endeavour to make all those Hereticks which oppose them to truckle under the Popes Dominion whom they blasphemously call by no less a name and title than this Deus Noster Papa Our Lord God the Pope Having seriously ponder'd and weigh'd these things before-mentioned he thereupon fully purposed to leave those Countreys and come for England where he hoped to find not only greater satisfaction in his Conscience as to Religion by conferring with those many worthy and Reverend Divines which abound amongst us but likewise to serve his King and Countrey in some very weighty Discoveries mindful of that memorable saying of Cicero non nobis nati sumus sed partim patriae c. Men are not born for themselves but for their Countrey Parents Kindred and Friends but our Countrey above all the rest ought to have the Preheminence as Ovid very well Nescio qua natale solum dulcedine cunctos Ducit immemores non sinit esse sui These his Discoveries are touching the Plot in Ireland how affairs were there carried on by the Popish Party to subvert and destroy the Government now established amongst us and to bring Popish Anarchy and Confusion in the room of it wherein they were indefatigably industrious for several Popish Bishops met and had divers Consultations and Meetings near the River Shannon in Ireland very large summes of Money were raised to carry on their design the Popes Legate was in Ireland and did encourage the Popish Party in this their Enterprize as likewise to dispose of the Kingdom for his Holiness own use great Encouragements and Preferments were promised those Persons which would hazard their lives for the good of the Catholick cause which was no less than meritorious told them that this was an opportunity which by no means was to be neglected but every one of their party must put a helping hand to it they likewise took care that their youth should be well exercised in Armes and to be all ready when they should be commanded to fight he likewise gives us an Account of a large vessel which came from Spain fraught with Powder Ball and all sort of Armes and Ammunition which was happily cast away near Kingsale Harbour no doubt to the great grief of all good Catholicks who we may imagine were possest with no little Consternation at this unlookt for unlucky Accident who being such exquisite Incendiaries no doubt would have made excellent use of that Cargo if it had landed and come safe to them But thus the Divine Providence defeats and confounds the wicked and treacherous practices of unreasonable and cruel men who delight in blood and passionately desire to embrew their hands in the blood of the Innocent who cry aloud for vengeance to the Almighty who does miraculously deliver them from such Monsters and brings them to condign punishment for such Enormities But I only designing a short discourse of their proceedings in Ireland you may ere long expect a more full and exact Account in his own Depositions which he does ere long intend to publish to the world to the shame