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A52246	Foxes and firebrands, or, A specimen of the danger and harmony of popery and separation wherein is proved from undeniable matter of fact and reason that separation from the Church of England is, in the judgment of papists, and by sad experience, found the most compendious way to introduce popery and to ruine the Protestant religion.	Nalson, John, 1638?-1686.; Ware, Robert, d. 1696. Foxes and firebrands. Part 2.	1682 (1682)	Wing N104; ESTC R7745	85,255	246

went and related what he had heard touching this seditious Doctrine and desired of Adam Loftus Lord Viscount Elye and Richard Earl of Cork then Lords Justices of the Nation to send a file of Musqueteers and a Warrant to seize on these Malefactors but coming to the Friar Carmelites-House then in Cook-street in Dublin where these Friars were infusing of Rebellion into several of the then Popish Aldermen and Citizens of this City they arose unanimously joyning to confront the Archbishop and his attendance in a very high nature by wounding some of the Souldiers and those who assisted the Archbishop that not being sufficient they went to assault the Bishops person who for safety was fain to run through the Streets of Dublin and cry for help and so obtained safeguard by running into a House or otherwise he had been in danger of his life This Riot of the Friars was committed about Christmass 1629. The Lords Justices upon this committed the Popish Aldermen and others of the Citizens amongst which of the Aldermen one Mr. Jyans was one On the ninth of January the Lords Justices and Council gave his Majesty and the Lords of the Council of England an account of these disasters which coming to those Lords hands they returned this answer By your Letters dated the ninth of January The Lords of the Council of England to the Lords of the Council in Ireland Jan. 31. 1629. we understand how the seditious Riot moved by the Friars and their Adherents at Dublin hath by your good order and resolution been happily supprest and we doubt not but by this occasion you will consider how much it concerneth the good Government of that Kingdom to prevent in time the first growing of such evils for where such people be permitted to swarm they will soon grow licentious and endure no Government but their own which cannot otherwise be restored than by a due and seasonable execution of the Law and of such directions as from time to time have been sent from his Majesty and this Board Now it redoundeth much to the Honour of his Majesty that the World shall take notice of the ability and good-service of his Ministers there which in person he hath been pleased openly in Council and in most gracious manner to approve and commend whereby you may be sufficiently encouraged to go on with like resolution and moderation till the work be fully done as well in the City as in other places of your Kingdom the carriage whereof we must leave to your good discretions whose particular knowledge of the present state of things can guide you better when and where to carry a soft or harder hand only this we hold necessary to put you in mind of that you continue in that good agreement amongst your selves for this and other services which your Letters do express and for which we commend you much that the good Servants of the King and State may find encouragement equally from you all and the ill-affected may find no support or countenance from any nor any other contrivances used but by general advice for avoiding of further evils shall be allowed and such Magistrates and Officers if any shall be discovered that openly or under-hand favour such disorders or do not their duties in suppressing them and committing the offenders you shall do well to take all fit and safe advantages by the punishment or displacing of a few to make the rest more cautious This we write not as misliking the fair course you have taken but to express the concurrency of our judgments with yours and to assure you of our assistance in all such occasions wherein for your future proceedings we have advised And his Majesty requireth you accordingly to take order first that the house wherein Seminary Friars appeared in their habits and wherein the Reverend Archbishop and the Mayor of Dublin received the first affront be speedily demolished and be the mark of terror to the resisters of Authority and that the rest of the Houses erected or employed there or elsewhere to the use of suspitious Societies be converted to Houses of Correction and to set the people on work or to other publick uses for the advancement of Justice good Arts or Trades and further that you find out the Lands Leases or Revenues applied to their uses and dispose thereof according to the Law and that you certifie also the places and institutions of all such Monasteries Priories Nunneries and other Religious Houses and the names of all such persons as have put themselves to be Brothers and Sisters therein especially such as are of note to the end such evil Plants be not permitted to take root any where in that Kingdom which we require you to take care of As for the supply of Munition which you have reason to desire we have taken effectual order that you shall receive it with all convenient speed and so bid you heartily farewell Lord Keeper Lord Treasurer Lord President Lord Privy-Seal Lord High Chamberlain Earl of Suffolk Earl of Dorset Earl of Salisbury Earl of Kelly Lord Viscount Dorchester Lord Newbergh Mr. Vice Chamberlain Mr. Secretary Cooke Sir William Alexander His Majesty beholding and considering how rebellious his Popish Subjects have hitherto been The Papists design to take off the Earl of Straffords Head as we have already exprest even from the first entrance into his Throne some few years after sent over Thomas Lord Wentworth afterwards Created Earl of Strafford to Govern his Kingdom of Ireland who executed that place to that Kingdoms advantage by civilizing the Inhabitants and bringing them to an English Station as to this day appears by those English Plantations by him ordered in the Counties of Longford Wicklow and other places These acts or good deeds of his pleased not some peoples fancies especially not the sancies of the Irish Natives of the Popish Religion during this Nóble-mans Government He obtained a Grant of four Subsidies for the maintenance of an Army which was irksome to the ancient Natives of that Land He being recalled about the year 1640. was not long in England before he was Indicted of High-Treason his Enemies at that time casting all aspersions imaginable to make him odious to most men amongst which aspersions they gave out as if he were inclined to Popery but his actions during his Government in Ireland shews yet to the contrary He was beheaded in the Month of May 1641. then his Enemies having removed so great a Pillar of State as this Noble-man was began to shew their teeth for upon the 23d of October following by their Popish Rebellion they testified what they aimed at And the better to accomplish their design for the Plot of 1641. one White wrote this Letter following to a Popish Peer of Ireland that the City of Dublin might be at that appointed time under a Popish Jurisdiction A Letter to a Popish Peer of Ireland how he may secure the City of Dublin against the Protestants at the

hath hitherto continued This Narrative the said Nowland himself confessed un William Muschamp Esq now one of his Majesties Commissioners for the farming of his Revenues there who can certifie that this Nowland made his brags how he serv'd the Independants at Plymouth There is yet in Ireland a Clergy-man of the Church of Rome Mr. Andrew Catherwood his Narrative of one Jackson a pretended Saint yet a Romanist one Jackson by name who has Preached as we are informed by our Author for these several years past viz. ann 1668 1669 and 1670. within and about the Counnty and City of Limerick amongst the Nonconformists in those parts This Fox when he began to Preach at Limerick received from those Nonconformists at one time about fourscore Cobbs for a Sermon then Preached unto them after which he invited an acquaintance of his Mr. Andrew Catherwood to a Treat at which time he spent about twenty shillings of this summ the said Mr. Catherwood assuring us who heard him declare these words that this said Jackson was the first that ever brought him to a Bawdy-house within that City The said Mr. Andrew Catherwood doth likewise affirm that this Jackson would often pretend that he had received Letters from Francis Marsh then Bishop of Limerick and would frame these Letters as if they had weekly come from him saying that that Bishop would fain have him to Preach in his Cathedral but it was against his Conscience so to Preach therefore he had rather Preach to his Flock for Charity than to the Bishop for Gain This he framed to cologue with his Followers and would shew these pretended Letters of his to please them Mr. Catherwood also affirmeth that this Jackson would say Mass disguised to the common sort in that County upon week-days and although he seigned this outward Godliness amongst the Dissenters at Limerick that he came up to Dublin and there Preached amongst our Ministers in our Churches and after to cologue with the Dissenters in that City he pretended to them to fall from the Church of England and Preached in the Meetings where as he the said Jackson confessed to Mr. Catherwood he got about 13 l. Sterl collected by the Meeting-houses in Dublin This Jackson was born at Abberdeen in Scotland he is a great Scholar and a Traveller for he hath travelled into France Italy Germany and Spain In Spain he taught a School as being Vsher under a publick Schoolmaster there he still wandreth about this Kingdom of Ireland and was lately seen in the County of Mayo The then Bishop of Limrick Fran. Marsh now Archbishop of Dublin we suppose may have heard of this Impostors pranks already mentioned during the time that his Grace was Bishop of Limrick which if testified would strengthen this Mr. Catherwoods Evidence who declared this above Narrative unto us whose names hereafter follow Robert Ware Esq John Madden Student in Physick of Trinity-Colledge in Dublin and before Pearse Welch being upon the 25th of Feb. 1681. Thus far have we laid before you the practices of Rome devised to divide the Protestant Church of England therefore the dispensations allowed by her Popes and Clergy be many and large as appears by what you have already heard purposely to drive on and set forward her impious Plots she therefore dispenses with her Adherents to take the shape yea even of a member of the Church of England not out of love thereunto but to accomplish her intended purposes For example-sake there was a certain Knight Sir E. L. well known over his Majesties Dominions of England Scotland and Ireland who came into this his Majesties Kingdom of Ireland anno 1670 or thereabouts It is not unknown unto the Inhabitants and Citizens of Dublin that in the year following 1671 upon the one and twentieth of May there hapned a surious fire in his Majesties Castle of Dublin during which flames the Lord John Butler afterwards created Earl of Gowran third Son to his Grace James Duke of Ormond now Lord Lieutenant of the Nation took great care and pains to extinguish the same which had it been trusted unto the said Knight we question whether half the Buildings now there extant would have been seen this day For this Knight under the pretence of saving the rest of the Buildings within that Castle would have blown up the great Hall belonging to this Palace To execute this project the quicker he caused a Barrel of Gunpowder to be placed in the middle of that Hall and so to have dropt a train of Powder and to set fire to the same But this brave spirited Lord coming in at that instant and enquiring why that Barrel was there placed and having heard the project he most couragiously although the flames were over his head lifted up the Barrel of Gunpowder and carried it out on his shoulders saying I approve not of this project When this Fire hapned as is generally reported by several of the Citizens of Dublin that night the water of the City was stopt so that the Castle-pipe had no water but what they were fain to bring in from the Mill-pond in the Stable-yard without the Castle-walls It hath been generally reported that this Knight went secretly to Mass at this time but whether he did or no it was observed that he would walk before the then Lord Lieutenant amongst the Gentry to Church with his Bible publickly under his arm to be seen This posture disguised his Religion which since is discovered although at Church he would seem very zealous turning to the Texts of Scripture as fast as they were quoted by the Minister There is a Learned Doctor Doctor Salls testimony concerning this Knight some years now past who turned unto the Church of England Andrew Sall by name formerly an Ecclesiastick of the Church of Rome who hath affirmed how he had heard formerly when the Lord J. B. went Embassador into France that this Sir E. L. went with that Lord and that the French King being taken with the Knights humors he and that King covenanted together after this manner This Knight was to give intelligence to the French King The Covenants between the French King and this Knight acting under-hand for him making this Proviso for himself that in case he should be discovered and thereby incur the King of Englands displeasure if he fled into France he should be there succoured and the French King there to provide a place for him Several others besides this Divine have heard the same besides what the Letters of News have mentioned to this effect For the perfecting of this Covenant it is visible and known how he hath been accused to be one of the Conspirators in the late Popish Plot anno 1678 for which he was clapt up but afterwards being released upon Bail he fled into France where he is not only succoured to this day but likewise provided for and there preferred to be an Abbot in Paris where several of his Majesties Subjects have seen him ranting

and Mutation will cause a Relaxation which will serve as so many violent Diseases as the Stone Gout c. to the speedy distraction of our perpetual and insufferable anguish of body which is worse than death it self We proceed now by Councel and mature deliberation how and when to work upon the Dukes jealousie and revenge and in this we give the Honour to those which merit it which are the Church Catholicks There is another matter of consequence which we take much into our consideration and tender care which is to stave off Puritans that they hang not in the Dukes ears they are impudent subtil people And it is to be feared lest they should negotiate a Reconciliation between the Duke and the Parliament at Oxford and Westminster but now we assure our selves we have so handled the matter that both Duke and Parliament are irreconcilable For the better prevention of the Puritans the Arminians have already lock'd up the Dukes ears and we have those of our own Religion which stand continually at the Dukes Chamber to see who goes in and out We cannot be too circumspect and careful in this regard I cannot choose but laugh to see how some of our own Coat have accoutred themselves you would scarce know them if you saw them And 't is admirable how in speech and gesture they act the Puritans The Cambridge Scholars to their wosul experience shall see we can act the Puritans a little better than they have done the Jesuits They have abused our Sacred Patron Saint Ignatius in jest but we will make them smart for it in earnest I hope you will excuse my merry digression for I confess unto you I am at this time transported with joy to see how happily all instruments and means as well great as less co-operate unto our purposes But to return unto the main Fabrick our Foundation is Arminianism the Arminians and Projectors as it appears in the premisses affect mutation This we second and enforce by probable arguments In the first place we take into consideration the Kings Honour and present necessity and we shew how the King may free himself of his Ward as Lewis the Eleventh did And for his great splendor and lustre he may raise a vast Revenue and not be beholden to his Subjects which is by way of imposition of Excise Then our Church Catholicks proceed to shew the means how to settle this Excise which must be by a Mercenary Army of Horse and Foot For the Horse we have made that sure they shall be Forreigners and Germans who will eat up the Kings Revenues and spoil the Countrey wheresoever they come though they should be well paid what havock will they make then when they get no pay or are not duly paid They will do more mischief than we hope the Army will do We are provident and careful that this Mercinary Army of two thousand Horse and twenty thousand Foot shall be taken on and in pay before the Excise be setled In forming the Excise the Countrey is most likely to rise If the Mercenary Army subjugate the Countrey then the Souldiers and Projectors shall be paid out of the confiscations if the Countrey be too hard for the Souldiers then they must consequently mutiny which is equally advantageous unto us Our superlative design is to work the Protestants as well as the Catholicks to welcome in a Conqueror and that is by this means We hope instantly to dissolve Trade and hinder the building of Shipping in devising probable designs and putting on the State upon Expeditions as that of Cadiz was in taking away the Merchants Ships so that they may not easily catch and light upon the West-India Fleet c. This Account was sent unto the Lord Deputy Falkland from some Members of his Majesties Council of England viz. from Suffolk Salisbury Morton and the Bishop of Durbam together with this Epistle following My Lord KNowing that his Sacred Majesty and his Privy-Council assembled for the calling of this Parliament have formerly given you the reasons and urgent necessities for the same we omit it but by this late discovery here inclosed we are jealous that most of the Members herein chosen be of a factious crew and so you will find by the Copy of the discovery at Clarken-well there being taken amongst an Assembly of Recusants divers Jesuits amongst whom several treasonable Papers were found this being one amongst the rest in which you may perceive the Papists great spleen to his Grace the Duke also the treasonable Conspiracies against his Majesty Foreign and Domestick notwithstanding the discovery hereof for divers reasons we have not set this enclosed to publick view his Grace and some others having acquainted his Majesty that they will undertake to find out the bottom of this mystery and thereby politickly have advised his Majesty to permit the sitting of this Parliament from the seventeenth of this instant the better to find out their inclinations and how they be affected according to this discovery We are sensible now Ireland was in some danger of an Invasion by the French Papists and that the Papists of Ireland and they have correspondence together The Jesuits be not only a subtil Society but also an audacious sort of people fearing no punishment no not the Halter it self The D. B. his advice how to banish Friars and Jesuits out of these Dominions so that we are at a nonplus how to devise a means to banish these Wasps from His Majesties Dominions his Grace the Duke propounded in Council the other day no punishment fitter for the driving out of these sorts of Cattel than gelding them and gave very good reasons for it one of them was shame ever after to shew their faces the other was being guelded they could not execute their Priestly Function according to the Ecclesiastick laws wanting their members Your Clergie of Ireland in opposing the Popish offertures made unto his Majesty which your Lordship unto us have signified have not only through Gods Blessing protected that Dominion The Bishops and Clergy of Ireland commended for not tolerating of Popery but also saved His Majesty and this Nation from future Broils Thus concluding We bid your Lordship heartily farewel Your Lordships Humble Servants Suffolk Salisbury Morton Durham White-Hall March 2. 1627. The better to confirm the Letter directed to the Rector aforesaid this Letter is also entred and Printed amongst Mr. John Rushworth's Historical Collections pag. 474. Nothing excepting to be discerned in our Copy saving in the conclusion of the Letter these words Joyn Prayers with us imploring the Blessed Virgin and all the Host of Angels and holy Martyrs to intercede for us Thus hoping to see Count Tylley and Marquess Spynola here about July come a twelve-month I rest In the mean time we pray for an happy success in Germany and the Low-Countries Your Loving Friend c. This conclusion is wanting in Rushworth's Collections in the Letter to the Rector aforesaid When the