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A58087
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The rat-trap, or, The Jesuites taken in their owne net &c. discovered in this yeare of jubilee or deliverance from the romish faction, 1641.
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Heywood, Thomas, d. 1641.
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1641
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Wing R294; ESTC R25043
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the fourteene Traytors began in one Savage a Bastard but Instigate thereunto by two Priests Gilbert Gifford and one Hudson and the rest of the conspirators drawne in by Ballard the Priest and Iesuit who with the other guilty of the same treason against her majesties owne person the twentieth of September in Lincolnes Inn fields vpon a publick Scaffold were hang'd and quartered divers others suffered at Tiburne the prime of which and of most note were father Campion and master Soothwell who during his Imprisonment in the tower writ two excellent poems the on 〈…〉 led Saint Peters complaint the other Magdalens teares for seducing her Majesties subjects and denying the supremacy I will conclude all the Iesuitical Treasons against her and those by her own Subjects which that as Edward Squire are belonging to the Queenes stable who beeing in Spaine was perswaded and seduced from his allegeance by one Walpoole a revolted runnagate and entred into the Iesuiticall order one of these before named Invato who gave a mortiserous confection in a bladder to poyson the pummell of her saddle who after his return into England attending his opportunity one day when her Majesty was to take horse came openly with a smiling countenance in the presence of many and having prickt the bladder and wearing a thick tand glove for his owne security chapt his hand vpon the pummell of the saddle and with a lowd and cheerefull voyce sayd God save the Queene but it pleased God out of his mercifull providence to take his word not his meaning for neither mounting nor alighting nor all the way shee roade wearing a thinne glove shee once layd her hand vpon the pummell but the Treason beeing after discovered he by his owne conviction was convicted and condemned To come nearer to the dayes of Royall King Iames her successour whose Coronation by reason of the great sicknesse in and about London then raigning beeing deferrd in this Interim two Italionated Jesuite Priests whose names were Watson and Clark layes a plot to surprize the person of King Iames and Prince Henry and to compell them to subscribe two things to their owne puposticall ends and further had drawne into this conspiracy Henry Brook Lord Cobham and Lord Warden of the Cinque ports Thomas Lord Gray of Wilton Sir Walter Raliegh Lord Warden of the Staneries Sir Griffin Markham Sir Edward Parham George Brooke brother to the Lord Cobham and Bartlemew Brooksby whom these Iesuits had perswaded by their sophisticall arguments that the attempt could be no Treason beeing done before the Kings Coronation alleadging that Saul was not King till he was chosen in Mispeh though he had bin maintayned in Ramah by Samuell the Prophet neither Ieroboam who in the dayes of Samuell had been confirmed by the Prophet to raigne over Israel til the people made him King vpon the foolish answer of Rehoboam but yet notwithstanding all their syllogisticall Flourishers it was proved vnto them to their costs That in England there is no Interregum because the King never dyeth and that the Coronation is but a ceremony to shew the Prince to the people for which onely there dyed which was the Kings great mercy the two Iesnits Watson and Clarke the twenty ninth of November and George Brookes vpon the first of December next ensuing But that Damnable and Diabollicall plot of the Gunpowder arch-Treason exceedeth all president or example the like from the beginning of time not read or heard hatcht in the Iesuiticall nest of that most bloudy Brotherhood which because it is yearely remembred in every Pulpet almost thorow the Kingdome I spare further to aggravate only to put the reader in minde that no such execrable act could be put in agitation without a Iesuit to prompt and further it witnes Father Garnet an arch provinciall Priest of that murder who as the rest of those conspiratours in that satannical Conjuration dyed the death of a Traytour being drawn hangd and quartered These are but a few amongst many and ere I proceed any further I must intreate the indifferent and unpartiall Reader to take some things necessary into his consideration First how the adversaries spare not both in their words and writings bitterly to asperse and condemne the severity of the Lawes for the cutting of such pestilent and preditorious Malefactors as if they alone were all conscience and Christianity libellously traducing them as if they were like Braccoas the Legislator amongst the Athenians writ in blood pretending ours to bee a meere usurped power no better than Tyranny whom their bloody and mercilesse persecutions they strive to mittigate and extenuat by the countenance and authoritie of the Church and Apostolicall Iurisdiction when Christ himselfe left as his last Legacy upon earth his peace amongst them when the Apostles never assumed to themselves any Pontificall state and habite but were Preachers and teachers of the Word when all their successors in the Primitive Church were so far from being persecutors that themselves patiently suffered persecution and Martyrdome for the Gospell sake when the Papisticall prelates of these times instigated and spurd on by their Iesuiticall Engineeres instead of Prayer Fasting Exhortation Admonition and pious instruction deale altogether in Fire and Faggot Daggers Pistolls powder-plots and the like excluding all mercy and charity so they can but adde the least Mite to their Papall Monarchy When on the contrary our Lawes stretch no further than to punish runnagates and revolters of our owne Nation such as being borne naturall subjects renounce their allegiance to their lawfull Prince and Soveraigne transplanting themselves into other Countries acknowledging forraigne supreams denying that supremacy of their owne naturall Liege refusing to subscribe to the oath of allegiance and not herewith contented they most traiterously seeke to seduce and alienate the hearts of the subjects from their religion faith and obedience in contempt of the Lawes which in duty and conscience by the Lawes of Nations they are bound to observe Nor are these just punishments inflicted upon their capitoll delinquencies without giving them warning to flie and abandon the Realme but upon their peremptory and willfull returne in despight of Proclamation and meere contempt both of prerogative and Parlamentall authority they as it were dare justice and in their selfe-wild obstinacy thrust themselves into the hands of the hangman as if they were borne hereditary to the halter For instance and which is now at this present in agitation one Iohn Goodman a Priest and Iesuite notwithstanding all former caveats and premonitions having the libery of the whole world to retire and solace himselfe only he was banished and debar'd this land nine yeares since the entrance into wch he knew no lesse than the forfeiture of his life with a shamefull death annexed knowing withall how hateful the nama of a Romish Priest was to all the true and faithfull subjects of the kingdome yet maugre all interdiction proclamations forbidding the contrary desperately if not madly exposed himselfe unto all the penalty and dangers of the law and being taken and in the * Rat-trap held by the leg for feare of slipping away and brought unto his tryall having all the favour that could be shewne to a Malefactor in that kind by his owne free and voluntary confession accused and condemn'd himself and when judgment must of necessity as in all such cases be and was pronounced against him yet the Kings Majesty out of his great and unbounded clemency mercy when he was ready to be drawn to execution sent him a Reprieve for his life and since being delivered up unto the high Court of Parlament they in hope of his reformation and recantation have not as yet proceeded against his life unto whose mercy I leave him with whom I conclude this briefe Tractate Desiring with all the Reader to take further into his consideration the lenity of our lawes and the milde proceedings therein to spare Christian blood when on the contrary our adversaries with their Corrigidoes and Catchpooles thirst nothing more after when no Lay Protestant traveller in Rome or Spain dares so much as hold argument of his owne Faith or shew a booke in his owne Language but he shall be hurried into the bloudy Inquisition to endure more tortures and paines than in their owne devised purgatory the miseries and torments whereof if any would be further satisfied let them but read the lamentable sufferings of Mr. Lythgow amply set downe in the booke of his Travells FINIS * New-gate and iron shackle on hi◠leg