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A76483	Mutatus polemo. The horrible strategems of the Jesuits, lately practised in England, during the Civil-Wars, and now discovered by a reclaimed Romanist: imployed before as a workman of the mission from his Holiness. Wherein the Royalist may see himself outwitted and forlorn, while the Presbyterian is closed with, and all to draw on the holy cause. A relation so particular, and with such exquisite characters of truth stampt upon it, that each of our three grand parties may here feel how each others pulses beat. Also a discovery of a plot laid for a speedy invasion. / By A.B. novice. Published by special command.	A. B., Novice.	1650 (1650)	Wing B21; Thomason E612_2; ESTC R23105	40,723	56

Bondslave from his captivity and bring him like a painted Pageant in pomp up to London But this poor pretence though politike enough to catch the credulity of the throughout gulld Cavaleer because opinionating ends ever by words yet we who ever judged of mens words by their ends knew the inside of the piece to be clean contrary for the Scots though they had an egging minde to have more plunder were advisedly too cowardly to be thus valiantly foolish knowing the strength and resolution of that gallant dreadfull Army of England whom they durst as well eat Peark as look upon though they now make some flourishes of purpose to get some gelt for the Son as well as the Father and then you should see them fling him off and creep to an Englishmans elbowe for another confederacy In the mean time while things fell out very happily for our Party the Cabs knew nothing but what we thought fit to tell them and they very quietly acquiesced in our Oracles For now was I with my two forementioned Comerades imployed afresh by Monsieur Montril about such a like business as we had in Northumberland which was to muster all the Gentlemen we could ferret out and to take a strict and particular list of all that were Catholikes which we in time effected and delivered it to the Monsieur who commanded us to attend him the next day at Hally-Rood house where D. Hambleton played Rex and kept court as Lord Protector and Steward in the Dotage of his Cozin whither when we came and were called for to the Presence The e We all conferred in the french tongue Duke a rightwary pure Saint of Scotland as being pretty competently politique abundantly zealous and very indifferently religious first demanded of the Agent whether we were such as he might dare to confide and imploy in his Masters business we being Englishmen and for ought I know quoth he Cavaleers they are such replyed the Monsieur who do omnes unum studere and whose Characters I have received from no slender Testimony besides this gentleman pointing to Mr. Catesb being my old acquaintance and a reall servant to the Flur de luis whom being English and as they are I dare sooner trust then any men alive none being able to do our business with that influence and facility they may with their old dear acquainted Oxonions Gentlemen quoth the Duke then to us were it not prejudiciall to your selves as you have no reason to think I could wish that I knew how to equall my respects to your severall qualities But be confident I am overjoyed in this blessed opportunity of serving his Most Christian Majesty Here are up and down this City a crew of odd fellows old beaten Souldiers of the King of Englands party who can now serve for nothing better then to fill ditches thereby to salve their lost honours when they shall shed their bloud in the service of a more puissant Prince to whose gracious Majesty I shall ever devote my best performance Let it be your part therefore as much as in you lies to prepare them for this Expedition which you will the easlyer effect by taking these few verball Instructions with you much to this purpose First let them understand by you from mee the great compassion I take on their severall distresses and sad conditions and how studious I am to better it and to render them capeable of doing his f A double-tongued Scot. Majesty of England more good service and that to this end I am very willing to engage my self unto hs Majesty of France's Agent here for some competent sum of money for their subsistance and future pay which who so lists may receive and that I will freely but privately procure of the States of this Kingdome Passes for their going beyond Sea and will also provide vessels and be my self at the charge of their Transportation all which I shall do as a demonstration and pledge of that service I owe to my yong Mr. the Prince of England whom be sure to tell them what I say by their and others recourse to him with some foraign Princes assistances I hope and little doubt speedily to see in an invasive capacity to revenge his g Si non ante diem Parcae sua fila secantur Fathers indignities and powre out flouds of the blood of those rebellious Roundheads You shall also said he take money with you to give advance to all those who shall enroll themselves as souldiers for the French expedition for under that Notion you must tell them it must be carried on that so the States of this Kingdome may not be unfurnisht of a pretence and excuse against the urgings of those of England when they shall see us play foul play under-board But above all I beseech you that you make a diligent enquiry into the temper and imployment of some of those Anglers I am told there are some amongst them of most accomplisht parts and my Agents in London have given me warning that there are certainly some of them imployed by the English Parliament as Spies and Intelligencers concerning the transactions and consultations of me and this State Let such be nippily markt and taken notice of and where you shall find deserts in any other of them as conducible to our purpose proceed to collate large and particular encouragements Gentlemen quoth he you may not and I know you are not ignorant of the end of our design in which while we seem to help these base scoundrels our ambition is to serve his h King of France most Christian Majesty according to our long-continued and lately renewed obligation against either Spanish or English adversary at the present to fight the one and ere long to invade the other the latter of which his Majesty may hereafter easily atchieve having so many plausible pretensions on his side as not only the restauration of his nearest Ally but which is the main string of his bow his entring with so many native Englishmen which will stop the people from banding against his forces when they enter and occasion many thousands to joyn with them against their own Natives and Countrymen which when God shall please to bring to pass I shall then be openly able to declare to the world how much I am in Allegiance his subject and in conscience your servant Thus after our most humble regratulations to his Grace for these pictae tectoria linguae and indeed his affable and noble deportment to us with his tender respect of our religious qualities for the Agent had whisperingly told him what Mr. Catwas we were now departing the presence when presently we were remaunded by the Monsieur who told us that he had a very great desire to see as many of the gentlemen as could be got together at a Rendezvous if the Duke held it safe to which Mr. Br answered it were more convenient to defer that for one week longer till more of them

Mutatus Polemo THE Horrible Stratagems of the Jesuits lately practised in England during the Civil-Wars and now discovered by a Reclaimed Romanist imployed before as a Workman of the Mission from his Holiness Wherein the Royalist may see himself Out-witted and forlorn while the Presbyterian is closed with and all to draw on the Holy Cause A Relation so particular and with such exquisite Characters of Truth stampt upon it that each of our three grand Parties may here feel how each others Pulses beat ALSO A discovery of a Plot laid for a speedy Invasion By A. B. NOVICE. In scelus addendum scelus est in funera funus Published by special Command LONDON Printed for Robert White 1650. To the Right Honorable the Lord President BRADSHAVV My LORD SOme men meanly qualified have adventured Dedications of mean Pieces unto Princes but my impudence I fear transcends theirs for indeed it would better become me with a Rope about my neck to dedicate my self to your Justice then this piece to your Patronage My Lord I have deserved death but you know my retractations and if acknowledgements of my former offences against this State may make any expiation I beseech you to believe I have bin ingenuous I present this to your Lordship not to inform you but to disabuse the people for more of these Conspiracies then is revealed here is already known to you but since men falling off from a party create enmities and dangers to themselves as I now expect to do I cannot propose a more undanted patern to my self or desire a more Heroical Patron to this Pamphlet then your self You my Lord have dared in a strange time to judge between a King and a Kingdom and like a wise Salomon you have and yet without division divided the true living childe to its own Mother You have gone on gallantly and not like those other scorned Judges who now appear upon the Bench again but durst not sit there when the grand Case was to be decided those that hated you now fear you and those that feared you before now begin to honor you and believe you could not have gone on so but that you are invisibly prompted by a more then ordinary Power You are now fixt in an Orb above mean enmities and we that are below fear our enemies the less for your sake In this I flatter not and even this blunt story I hope will testifie me to be a man free from adulation for here I spare no man nor party that falls within my Verge Here most parties may see themselves how they are packt and shuffled for an after game which is speedily to be plaid the Royalist and the Presbyterian both may here see if they please that the Cards are to be dealt by other hands then theirs See what complottings what hurliburlies what heart-burnings here are whilst some fond men make it their main hope and ambition to undo themselves because forsooth they will needs take their enemies for friends and friends for enemies Now the Spanish are landing here the French there now the Scots have fifty thousand men to affront Cromwell and yet can spare Massey ten thousand more to take in Carlisle Vt populi folia omni vento sic populi corda hinc inde omni rumore moventur In the mean time my Lord God blesses your pious Cause and your pious Cause procures you a gallant Armado at Sea a victorious Army in Ireland another as numerous in Scotland a powerful Militia remaining besides in England neither is money nor courage nor unanimity wanting to all these Your enemies now have nothing to hope but that confidence in your wealth and strength will undo you O herein let your evil counsellors be made good ones to you But soft I become a trespassor upon your pretious time and I should beg pardon both for this fancy Dedication and rude Excursion but that I have pardon to beg for greater offences and am not thereof as yet sufficiently assured Onely if that pardon may not be granted to words let it be obtained by the constant future good comportment of My Lord The most real Servant of Englands Law and particularly your Honors A. B. NOVICE. Reader THou distrustest perhaps this piece which is now presented to thy view that it is a Romance or a meer figment But I assure thee t is not so for some of our greatest Statesmen know the reality of these things already and thou shalt ere longe by another more serious tract which is now in fitting for the Press receive a fuller confirmation I will not call this an history but a miscellany rather of some passages historically written and it chiefly contains Scotch and French Transactions together with the eminent inter-actings of the Pontificall party and sometimes I have made mention of my self whom I hope thou shalt be better acquainted with hereafter In the mean time know that I am of a sanguine complexion and though I can in some degree pity the miseries of the Cavaleer and the knavery of the Presbyter yet I am more apt to laugh at their fooleries with Democritus then to weep for them with Heraclitus I have been likewise at Rome but could never swallow down all her Fopperies amongst all the miracles there I never thought any of them was a true one but that wise men should believe in their truth Yet I was much bewitched with the pomp of that religion and had died a zealous votary for it but that God by an Incomparable * Mr G. of C. C. in Oxf. Divine sent a spirit of conversion upon me And now I hope to take the Ministry upon me and so draw others to God by shewing them the strange work of God upon my self Some will object against my stile as was once against Erasmus and say that it is more vain then becomes a Divine and more satyricall then becomes a Christian but consider the subject and thou wilt say t is not unsuitable thereunto Siquis est qui dictum in se inclementius Existimavit esse sic existimet I look for no favour at any parties hands the whole world hath no ingagement upon me so highly am I independent yet if any moderate man shall be offended at my lightness or tartness to Him I will submit and promise amends in my next more secret and more solid discourse Read therefore and censure but rest confident what thou readest here is true and that I have written it partly to exonerate my conscience of the guilt of an Incendiary contracted upon my soul for some years last past and partly to make some amends to my poor dilacerated Countrey I am as fearfull of poysoning the world with untruth as any man can be I know well Qui librum perniciosum edendum promovet Sibi cibum in Inferno edendum praeparat Let us therefore pass on to the mater Haec legat tristis Censor castusque sacerdos Reader In the last page of this book but one

by that last but new Southern c Colch Ken. and Wal. rupture in which the French and catholikes in generall were on edge to have a finger But upon better deliberation having not then the power and influence on the Scots and English Presbyters which by reason of the yong King they now have they have reserved their strength for this very years after game And most strangely confident were they all that a breach one way or other would be wrought betwixt them especially when they heard of the Peoples eager violence crying out for Justice against the Capitall Delinquent for they hoped this would have reduc'd the Parliament to an hard Dilemma as whither it were fitter to deny the requests and clamours of the generality of the people and so incense them or else by stopping the due course of Justice to claw with a few inconsiderate discontented Laodiceans whose luke-warm neutrality having in time of yore put their hands to the plough of Reformation turns them cleer off from what they had first ingaged themselves to compleat Which peice of Justice as it must of necessiry have been done they resolved would without doubt very sufficiently provoke the Presbyter happily because they had not the honor of doing it themselves the Cavaleers themselves are generally all of them fully of this opinion and say they had these been suffered to domineer over us we had not found that equall intermixture of justice with mercy which we now do find at the hands of the Independent the little finger of their gouty-loyned Covenant which none of us would take would have proved heavier to us then that line of an Engagement which we all have taken nay they now say that a reconciliation betwixt them is meerly impossible and yet they all hope if they stir no more in rebellion they shall see the happy day of a generall pardon from their now Governours But that which was the greatest obstruction and did most of all binde the hands of the French from medling in the last new Presbyterian and Malignant Rebellion was first not only the Spanish difference which caused them to have an eye in their pole not being yet made up as anon I shall speak of secondly nor only the proneness of their own enslaved people to attain that precious liberty which the English had chalkt them out the way of but thirdly and which is all in all Cardinall Mazarin Father D and a a Ies. Le M. had not yet done their do with their yong b P. Ch. Pupill but a fair and hopefull progress they had made in the business They had brought him by that time we came thither to this that he would very usually but closely go to see the fashion of a Private Mass with his Mother and to my knowledge I have seen that he can cross himself prettily of a young Beginner but to Confession indeed they could not of a long time bring him though he might not be ashamed to confess what in forty weekes was so visibly seen by that young French Lady of Honor another young dainty French English Heir Apparent yet at last great promises prevailed and the better to confirm them his brother Jemmy whipt into a Religion by his Mother and turning like a twyne threed was forthwith to be Capt a Cardinall and besides all Catholique Princes should be invited and consulted with for an unanimous invasion of England But loe news comes a loft upon the wings of the Winde that the people and State of England had summoned his Father to an high Court of Judicature to bring him to a trial for all the innocent blood he had spilt and the hideous devastations he had caused This was no little good news to the Cardinalical party I mean the Jesuitical for in my next I shall satisfie thee concerning their cunning workings how even these who pretend so much charity and friendship to the Son did seek by all machinations to expidite and accelerate this high piece of Justice upon the Father and now say his Tutors to him If they proceed to death with your father it will prove rhe better for you for it will utterly allienate the hearts and affections of the people from them and you shall finde them to be the more eagerly violent for your re-investment not considering the change of your Religion which by any means shall not be publikely known to any but your good Catholique Subjects of England till such time as you have wrested power enough into your own hands to protect it and your self in it but indeed the Lad had some of the Fathers astutiousness in him presently asked the Cardinal the same question which his Father once did the King of Spain when he was almost easily intreated to have turned to the Faith Catholique How shal I said he ever expect to be King of England if once the English should understand I am turned Catholique To which they easily gave a satisfactory resolution telling him That as the case now stood he must never look to be admitted but by Fire and Sword the main force of arms must make way for him neither could he ever in the least probability atchieve that or put it in execution without the aide of Catholique Princes which they will never be brought to act in without a firm assurance of your reall and faithful conversion 'T is true I must ingenuously acknowledge for some term of time he made a little pauze upon this hard Lecture but no sooner was there certain news arrived of his Fathers decollation but he was heard by some of his attendance to swear a great oath That he would turn Turk or any thing to be revenged of the bloody English which mad boyish words were like to lose him the Lord Hopton and other of the most considerable of his party of the Episcopal Protestants for they plainly saw the great endeavours therewere for his conversion besides that most times they were secluded and barred from their attendances and indeed they could not otherwise judge but that he would easily be induced to Popery who was resolved to turn Alcoranite or any thing for revenge Besides all his Chaplains were turned to the wilde world a grazing except onely those who did constantly assert their real conversion as that Scotch dissembling Hypocrite yet most rare Linguist Doctor Chrichton did and some few others Hopton 't is true and some more which I could easily name was packing up to be gone and desert such a dangerous cause and rash Master had he been admitted to pardon but he was woon and wound back again by that old subtile Fox that Church-Papist or rather Atheist Cottington and by the great Protestations and intreaties of many others English and French not for the least affection they bear him but well considering how fit and plausibly he may serve to usher in a forraign Enemy and be a Nose of Wax to the great design of Englands second Conquest especially being so