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A40040	The history of the wicked plots and conspiracies of our pretended saints representing the beginning, constitution, and designs of the Jesuite : with the conspiracies, rebellions, schisms, hypocrisie, perjury, sacriledge, seditions, and vilefying humour of some Presbyterians, proved by a series of authentick examples, as they have been acted in Great Brittain, from the beginning of that faction to this time / by Henry Foulis ...	Foulis, Henry, ca. 1635-1669.	1662 (1662)	Wing F1642; ESTC R4811	275,767	264

by the invading Tartars Nor could such a Government handsomly desire any longer footing when rustick women servants and little children were able to evince its rationality Nor must such learned Petitions as these be discountenanced but the Commons shall know of it who severely chid the Lord Major and Sheriffs of London because they gave some check to a tumultuating paper carrying on the Commons Presbyterian design These actions might well move the late martyr'd King thus to expostulate with his and their enemies How oft was the business of Bishops enjoying their ancient places and undoubted priviledges of the House of Peers carryed for them by farre the Major part of Lords Yet after five repulses contrary to all order and custome it was by tumultuary instigations obtruded again and by a few carryed when most of the Peers were forced to absent themselves In like manner was the Bill against Root and Branch brought in by Tumultuary clamours and Schismatical terrors which could never pass till both Houses were sufficiently thinned and over-awed For though the Commons as abovesaid had a great while agoe voted the Bishops to have no Votes in the Lords House yet the Peers would never consent to it till they were not only threatned by Petitions but unheard-of Tumults And when the Lords by these unlawful and extravagant courses had been forced to agree with the Commons against the Bishops good God! How did the Sectaries triumph What bonefires What bells ringing What yelling and roaring in the streets That the noise made by the neighbours when Don Russel took Madam Chaunteclere away towards the Wood was but a silence in respect of this Thundering Triumph So strongly did malice carried on by industry work amongst the giddy multitude as if Presbytery had given philters about the Nation or the people madded themselves with too much Hemlocks and acknowledged no curing Hellebore but the extirpation of Bishops and the violation of Laws Yet if it had been only the sottish multitude who had thrown durt in the face of Episcopacy their ignorance had been some pardon for their malice But when men that pretend to great learning do join with the rabble in their revilings I may have some cause to think that their unbounded malice led them to act either contrary to their principles or learning Yet might these also be born withall there being repentance with the Proverb on this side Heaven But when people after twenty years meditation of our former miseries are nothing moved but as stubborn as ever Pharoahs obstinacy must be confest to yield to theirs This resolvednesse or it may be the scorn to be baffled like Mr. Knewstub's friends in Suffolk possessing some people makes me the less wonder at those who yet defie Episcopacy So that I am nothing astonished when I see Prynns Titus unbish reprinted with a worshipful preface knowing the hot-headed zeal of the Author Nor am I troubled when I see Mr. Baxter one that would be thought sober not long since flirting against Episcopacy telling them That the best of the Clergie and the best of the people would disown them so that the most ignorant drunken prophane unruly with some civill persons would be at first their Church or Diocesse For the cause of the peoples love to Episcopacy is because it was a shadow if not a shelter to the prophane Passing over his comparison of a Prelatical Church to an Ale-House or Tavern to say no worse where some honest men may be These things I say from Baxter are no offence to me for had he said much more he had not said more then might be expected from one of his Principles not fitting to be allowed in a settled Kingdome For he confesseth himself though with some repentance for just then his hopes were dasht by the deposing of his friend Richard that he was one of them that blew the coals of our unhappy distractions Nor need we doubt it seeing he not only acknowledgeth the Parliament to be the highest Power whereby he was so farre obliged to join with them against the Kings party that if he had been for the King he had incurr'd the danger of the Condemnation threatned by God against resisters of the higher powor And if his opinion had only then been so his fault might have received a mitigation as well as others who have seriously repented of their former actions But he is yet so farre against the King as to professe publickly if it were to do again he would do it For if I should do otherwise I should be guilty of Treason or disloyalty against the Soveraign power of the Land and of perfidiousnesse to the Common-wealth And again I had been a Traitor and guilty of resisting the highest powers I give you his own very words And his opinion of the Kings Army is farre from that charity which his proselytes would needs cloathe him with calling them Impious and Popish Armies and whether this following rule of his alludes to them or no let others judge That all those that by wickednesse have forfeited their Liberties may neither choose nor be chosen to sit in Parliaments Independants and Anabaptists he can not mean because he joins them with Godly men nor would he the Presbyterians being of his own party and what the words have forfeited their Liberties signifie is not unknown But no more of this grating discourse Let who will rail against the Reverend Bishops yet Mr. Edwards a stiff Presbyterian and one as his acquaintance assures us that was often transported beyond due bounds with the keennesse and eagernesse of his Spirit doth highly commend both them and their Chaplains as zealous and couragious against errors and false doctrines Having thus infused into the Rabble a spirit of opposition both to Church and Court The next thing was to try how forward they would be in action For which purpose nothing could be thought more convenient for their designs then the agitation of Tumults and such like unlawful uproars Which are commonly one of the first steps to the ruine of a Nation and therefore held most wicked and odious by all Countries and Ages So that for such seditious persons the Laws have every where provided severe punishments The ancient Romans did not only use to punish the Ringleaders with death but sometimes also every tenth man of the too oft abused multitude Nor hath the English been lesse severe against the tumultuating disturbers of the peace not only hanging the Chief-tains but cutting off the feet or hands of the inferior rabble nor hath this been looked upon as satisfactory but all the Magistrates of London have been deposed and others put in Nay so odious have these people been to society that the Roman Orator looks upon the murthering of a seditious person to be if wicked yet glorious and truly noble And I shall so far agree with the same Orator that though it be no

Historian Prudencio de Sandoval tells us a memorable passage of the Conde de Salvatierra who sent a Priest to Vittoria the Metropolis of Alava a little Province in old Castile only as it were to have some discourse with the Junta but upon suspition was presently put in Prison by Diego Martinez and search'd where they found Letters to the Fryers and some other people desiring them to perswade the people to Rebellion The Scotch Stories are plentiful of Pulpit-Treasons nor must our English Tub-thumpers be exempted a sort of people more antick in their Devotions than Don Buscos Fencing-Master and can so wrincle their faces with a religious as they think it wry-Look that you may read there all the Persian or Arabick Alphabet and have a more lively view of the Aegyptian Hieroglyphicks then either Kircherus or Pierius will afford you Yet for all this outward zeal experience hath told us that the chief of them were but Time-serving Pratlers acting more for their own Interest than the Publick good and according to the prosperity of their favourites so was their passion transported and apt to be cooled again from the least dissatisfaction of a Grandee that I look upon many of them to be not only as simple but as inconsistent as that Biscayner Priest in Charles the V. time who when the Commonalty rebell'd against the Emperour took so much their part that he used to pray publickly for it and Juan de Padilla and his Wife Maria Pacheco the chief promoters of that warre by the name of King and Queen affirming all other Kings to be but Tyrants yet this zeal kept not long heat for afterwards Padilla and his Soldiers marching by where the Priest lived and some of them being quartered in his house drank him up a little barrel of wine took away a wench which he kept and did other soldier-like extravagancies which turn'd his stomach so much against them and their cause that the next Sunday he thus bespake his Parishioners You know my brethren how that Juan de Padilla marching by this place his soldiers left me not one Hen they eat up my Bacon and dranke me up a whole barrel of Wine and have taken away my Catharine with them Therefore for the future I charge you not to pray to God for him but for King Charles and his Queen Juana which are our true Kings As for the Antiquity of Lecturers if looked into it will be found to be but upstart to witt in the latter end of Queen Elizabeths time and this fashion too stoln from Geneva and here introduced by those who had no Authority unless you allow Trevers and his companions to have the sway of the English Church And what law they have for their vindicarion I know not unlesse they plead an Order of the Commons whereby any Minister was permitted to use weekly Lectures in his own Church But whether any such Authority was intrusted with the Commons or if it were whether this permitted them to thump in other peoples Pulpits lyeth out of my study though a novice in Law is able to satisfie any man in this Yet were many of these Lecturers though never in orders recommended cherish'd and held up in their bold and seditious railing against the Church Book of common Prayer and the King and his Government and licence publickly given to their Pamphlets whereby many of the people were drawn to take part against their King For they having the sway or'e the Conscience which is the rudder that steers the astions words and thoughts of the rational Creature they transport and snatch it away whither they will making the beast with many heads conceive according to the colour of those rods they use to cast before them as Mr. Howell very ingeniously saith And for this cause it is that the state of Venice have a special care of the Pulpit and Press that the Priests dare not temper in their Sermons with the designs and transactions of State which the same Gentleman alloweth to be one reason why that Republick hath lasted so long in such a flourishing condition and to the benefit of this the wise and peaceful King James did agree in the Hampton Court Conference yet for all this so resolved were the Commons to carry on their designs that in 1641. they by a strong hand put several Lecturers into other mens pulpits and put the true Ministers of those Churches into aboundance of trouble because they did not at first consent to such innovations and intruders as many parishes in London are able to testifie and into what good humours that great City was preach'd by these thunderers experience hath sadly told us Nor in plain English is there any such need of these Lecturers as is pretended to by our Non-conformists for consider our Sunday-sermons with those upon our Festivals with the appointed and accidental Fasts and Thanks-giving ones and I am confident there will be as many in a year as are either well made use of or well preached Another mode they had to drive on their designes of altering the government of England confirm'd by so many wholsome Laws was to get the Lords and Commons jumbled together into one house for which purpose they put several agitators to draw up a Petition against a malignant faction and that the Peers who were agreeable to them would remove and sit and vote with the Commons professing unless some speedy remedy were taken for their satisfaction they would lay hold on the next remedy that was at hand and not to leave any means for their relief and that those who agreed not to them might be publickly declared and removed And this worshipful petition was accordingly framed and by the Commons presented to the Lords This extravagant paper was presented with the like words of a Commoner the same day that those Lords who would concurr with the Commons about the Militia would make themselves known that the dissenting Peers might be made known to the Commons These threats I say as a Royall pen informes us did so astonish many of the Lords that so many of them with indignation departed that the vote against the Kings Militia passed though it had severall times been denied before And by such like unhandsome jugling tricks as this were the rest of their designs promoted And that they really had an intent to have but one House by making the Lords sit with them a Dr. well-skilld in these times assures us out of Sr. Edward Deering's Speeches and besides this that the King himself should be but as one of the Lords and then their work was done Besides these the Presbyrerian faction had other waies to make themselves Lords and Maisters especially one without which the rest though obtain'd would not relish well with them And this it was they having oft heard from King James and he learnt it by good experience No Bishop no King cast about how to ruine the first and

late have done Nor can I subscribe to till I be better informed that Priviledge given to the Commons by I know not whom yet I suppose of no vulgar apprehension viz. That the King may hold his Parliament for the Communalty of the Realm without Bishops Earls and Barons so that they have lawful Monitions or summons albeit they come not Yet the same Book affirms that the King with his Bishops Earls and Barons cannot hold a Parliament without the assistance of the Commons And his reason for all this assertion is because Sometime there was neither Bishop Earl ne Baron and yet the King did keep and hold his Parliaments To which I shall only answer in brief thus That if he mean that our Kings have kept Parliaments when there was no such thing as or distinction in this Nation of Priest or Nobility or some such Rank above the common People I shall utterly deny his Proposition Or if he understand that Parliaments have been held only by the King and Commons I shall not yield to him till I be assured where and when yet if both were allowed it can be no good consequence that it may be done so now if custom have any sway in England which is now a main Card of the Commons Game And because some of late more through malice than judgement have not only asserted the King to be one of the Estates by which plot they will equal themselves to him and so overthrow his Rule and Government of which Sir Edward Deering doth a little hint but also exclude the Clergy It will not be amiss in this place to right both by one or two authentick Instances The first shall be the Parliaments Bill presented to King Richard III. when but Duke of Glocester to desire him to take upon him the Kingship the which is very long but in it you shall find these words Vs the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons of this Realm of England according to the Election of us the three Estates of this Land Therefore at the request and by the assent of the three Estates of this Realm That is to say the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons of this Land assembled in this present Parliament Here we have Three Estates the Clergy being one and the King none My second Instance shall be taken out of one Titus Livius de Frulonisiis a Book quoted several times by Stow in Henry V. which Manuscript is also in Latin in St. Benit's Colledge Library in Cambridge where having related the life and death of Henry V. he tells us that After all these things and Ceremonies of his burying were solemnly finished as is to-fore rehersed the Three Estates of the Realm of England assembled them together in great number to take advice and deliberation amongst them what was most necessary to be done for the Regiment and Government of the said Realm of England where they concluded to take for their King the only Son of the late King Henry whose name was also Henry which was the VI. of that Name since the Conquest of England But because some may slight this as only the judgement of a private Historian we will strengthen our Assertion by the Laws of our Land In Queen Elizabeth's time an Act of Parliament affords us these words We your said most loving faithful and obedient subjects representing the Three Estates of your Realm of England as thereunto constrained by Law of God and Man c. Here are again Three Estates and the Queen none and that the Clergy are one another Act of Parliament will inform us in these words The State of the Clergy being one of the greatest States of this Realm And after this same manner was the Clergy in Scotland one of the Estates as may also appear by their own Acts of Parliament one of which runs thus That the Three Estates especially considering the persons exercising the Offices Titles and Dignities of Prelates which persons have ever represented one of the Estates And in another Parliament some thirteen years before this viz. 1584. it was thus Enacted That none presume to impugne the Dignity and Authority of the Three Estates or to seek or procure the innovation or diminution of their Power and Authority or any of them in time coming under pain of Treason And whether the Scots have of late behaved themselves according to these Laws is well known And it seems strange to me that they durst be so impudent against their King who considering his power in choosing Parliaments was one of the most absolute Monarchs in the World till the modern Rebellious Retrenchments These things are convincing to me that the King never was one or part of but above the Three Estates it being ridiculous that his Majesty should Petition himself and call himself subject to himself Nor see I any reason to doubt that the Clergy was one having Acts of Parliament for it who knew their own Constitution best 'T is true of late the Clergy have had no Representatives in Parliament the Reverend Lords Spiritual being I do not know how thrown out of the Upper-House and the action at last by threats and other villainies procured to be signed by the Royal Assent for which and seeing they are since happily restored again I shall not at this time presume to question though many who are learned in our Fundamental Laws suppose that reasons might be shewn and that grounded upon law of it's nullity to which purpose the learned Dr. Heylin hath given a short Essay both from the binding of Magna Charta the darling too of our Presbyterian Parliaments which especially provides for the Priviledges of the Clergy as also by the voiding of all actions done by the King by compulsion and not of his free-will And that Kings may be so wrought upon appears by King James who when King of Scotland was by his unruly Subjects constrained to declare several times quite contrary to his judgement and so was King Edward III. as appears by the Revocation of a Statute made the 15. year of his raign And how unwilling King Charles the first was to sign this Bill is not unknown the Parliament having got a new Art of getting their ends about viz. by Tumults and Threats so that the King was rather fought than reasoned out of it And what impudence the Commons were brasoned with to presume thus to extirpate the Spiritual Lords whose Antiquity in Parliament was double to theirs is experimentally beyond expression But they and so did the Puritanical Faction of the Nobility for such Animals were amongst them too know well enough that the King would not only be weakened but themselves strengthened by annihilation of 26. such sound Royal and Orthodox Votes for which qualifications the Schismatical Lords and Commons hated them But enough of this only I shall leave some Quaeries to the consideration of the Presbyterian mad-caps Lord or Common of the wicked