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A40455
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The polititians catechisme for his instruction in divine faith and morall honesty / written by N.N.
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N. N.; French, Nicholas, 1604-1678.; Talbot, Peter, 1620-1680.
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his servants in a litter to shunne the fury of the Army was taken and hanged In Westmeath Master Gauley a Gentleman of a good estate having a protection and shewing it hoping thereby to save his goods lost his life having his protection laid on his brest was shot through it to try whether it was proofe Master Thomas Talbot a Gentleman of 90. yeares of age and a great serviture in Queene Elizabeths warres in Ireland having a protection also was murthered Seven or eight hundred women and children ploughmen and labourers were burned and murthered in a day in the Kings land a tract within seven miles or Dublin where neither murther nor pillage had beene committed on the Protestants Whensoever the Army went abroad the poore Countrey people did betake themselves to the firres where the Protestant Officers did besiege them and set the firres on fire such as shunned and escaped that element were killed by the besieging Army and this they termed a â—unting sporting thenselves with the bloud of innocents These barbarous and savage cruelties were ordinary not onely neare Dublin but in all other parts of the Kingdome wheresoever the Protestants were and may be read in divers Remonstrances and Relations published in the beginning of the late troubles But why doe we detaine our selves in particulars when all the world seeth how the whole Irish Nation is murthered by the Transplantation into Conaght and by transporting them into the plantations of America Not content to starve them in those places Protestants are resolved also to damne them forcing them to an oath of abjuration against their consciences and the publick Faith given not onely by printed Declarations in the name of the English Parliament to the Irish Catholicks an 1649 and 1652. That the oath of abjuration shall not be administred to any in Ireland but also by an expresse article granted in a Treaty to the Catholicks of Ireland at Kilkenny the 12. of May 1652. in confidence whereof and of much more to the same effect the Irish submitted and laid downe their armes being assured that they should enjoy the freedome and liberty of their consciences and not be molested for not going to Church or any Protestant worship of God who in due time will comfort his people confound his enemies destroy Protestancy the murtherer of soules and Catholick Nations Doe not divers in these very times prove their constant affection to the Parliament by shewing their names subscribed to this cruell Petition Doth not the Mayor who then was of Londonderry an Englishman and a Protestant with many others testify that there was not a drop of English bloud drawne in the North of Ireland where the warre begunne untill the daughter of O Hara an Irish Lord was most barbarously murthered by Protestants But whosoever desires to be satisfied in this particular of Ireland let him read amongst all others the printed Remonstrance of the Irish Confederate Catholicks delivered by their Commissioners the Lord Viscount Preston and Sir Robert Talbot the 17. of March 1642. to his Majesties Commissioners at Trim and there he will see at large how the Catholicks desired that the murthers on both sides might be punished and how they were forced to take armes by the wicked practises of Sir Willium Persons Sir Charles Coote and other Protestants who then governed that Kingdome the best newes you could give the Councell at Dublin was that such a Gentleman or Nobleman had retired for feare of being murthered from his house this was evidence enough to declare him a Rebell and confiscate his estate their phrase was They had another estate to divide amongst themselves and their friends and seemed to rejoyce more at the taking armes of one estated man then if all the Kingdome had laid downe armes and submitted Whatsoever men may say in passion of the Irish warre its evident that Protestancy had a greater influence upon it then the Roman Catholick Religion and therefore ought not to be made the preface or pretext or persecution or oathes of abjuration 7 By what hath beene said in this Chapter it appeareth that penall Lawes and Oathes against the Catholick Roman Religion destroy the ground of Justice and the forme of Judicature because the witnesses have no evidence for their testimony the Judges not any for their sentence and the Legislatour as little for the Law They are blocks laid in the way for Catholicks to stumble at and occasions of scandall whereby they must damne their soules or loose their livelyhood How is it possible that any Christian men can drive others into such streights and necessities What Judge can finde in his heart to condemne a man to death and losse of goods because he will not of his owne accord forfeit his share of happinesse in the other life But let them who pronounce sentences against Catholicks for conscience remember that a day will come when themselves must stand at the barre and heare their dreadfull doome without hopes of reprivall Gods Justice hath fallen visibly upon some of them even in this world to the astonishment of many and repentance of very few The memory of Justice Glanviles strange wound and death by an iuvisible hand is yet fresh in Lincolne where in the end of Queene Elizabeths reigne he condemned two Priests Sprat and Hunt for refusing the oath of supremacy and not long after was suddenly strucken from his horse and killed by such another blowe as we read of Iulian the Apostata Spondanus an 1579. Cambden in his Annals relates the death of Drury but not the occasion Drury Lord Deputy of Ireland was cited to appeare before the throne of Gods judgement within the space of 15. dayes by the venerable Bishop and Marly Fr. Pathrike Ochely of the order of Saint Francis whom he commanded to be put to death for not taking the oath of supremacy and so it happened for the 14. day Drury dyed of so intolerable a disease that he cryed aloud he was tormented with all the paines of hell 8 Many other remarkable things might be set downe for the comfort of Catholicks and terrour of their persecutours these may suffise to prove that God doth not approve of penall Statutes and oathes against the Roman Catholick Religion and that the sword of divine Justice will alwayes hang over the English Nation untill they modell their Lawes to the Law of God nature and equity And though weake and coveteous Polititians be of a contrary opinion I am confident they will in time learne by experience that malicious policy must not give the Law to divine Providence nor their injustice prevaile against Gods mercies to whose divine Majesty we Catholicks continuall pray for the conversion of our most cruell persecutors and hope they will be reduced to the way of reason and salvation sooner then they deserve But in case the Lord be pleased to permit them carry on their barbarous persecution Catholicks must not despaire but assure themselves that then they are most
world if in the other he must for all eternity be but a coale to keepe in and inflame hell fire 8 In the yeare 1564. Queene Mary Steward after her returne from France married the Lord Henry Steward a Prince of the bloud royall both of Scotland and England and though Murray the Queenes base brother advised her to marry this same Prince he joyned in rebellion with the Hereticks and other seditious men against her Majesty for marrying but they were soone quasht and the heads of the faction retired into England where with Queene Elizabeth they brewed a new rebellion and to give it a better colour and successe then the former had it was thought expedient to sowe sedition and jealousies betweene the Queene and her husband who having but 22. yeares of age and being high minded had not from her Majesty that unlimited power which he desired This restriction of the yong Prince his authority was thought to proceed from the advice of David Rizius the Queenes Secretary a grave and understanding man and a severe observer of hereticall designes The Lord Henry Steward being persuaded by the Hereticks that this old man was the onely obstacle of not having all the government in his owne hands resolved to dispatch him out of the way and to that end leads a company of armed Hereticks into the Queenes chamber she being at supper and great with child of King Iames at her feete whither he repaired for protection was the poore Secretary murthered and the Queene so barbarously dealt withall that it was strange she did not dye in the place or miscarry which was all that the Hereticks aymed at But her husband reflecting upon his passion and folly being also advertised by some of the company that the Hereticks made him but an instrument of his owne ruine he entered to the Queenes chamber with pretext of causing her to signe a paper in favour of the murtherers and there acknowledging his fault both got away privatly to the Castle of Dumbar raised forces dissipated the Army of their Enemies some whereof were executed but Murray the bastard that plotted all the mischiefe was pardoned at the instance of Queen Elizabeth who was resolved by this Hereticks meanes to destroy his Sister the innocent Queene of Scots as afterwards happened 9 Prince Henry Steward considering that Queene Elizabeths kindnesse to the bastard Murray was grounded upon her hatred to his Queen and himselfe was resolved to prevent his owne death by permitting Justice have its right against a man who employed all his thoughts in rebellious designes he communicated his resolution with the Queene but she being of a more mercifull and mild disposition then the times and troubles required disswaded her husband from putting him to death though even after his last pardon there was proofe enough of treason He perceiving that the Prince looked upon him as a Traitor dealt with his confederats about murthering the Prince and promised to Iames Heburne Earle of Bothuel that he should be married to the Queene if he would kill her husband the rest of his hereticall Cabale put their hands to this engagement whereupon Bothuel murthered Henry Steward in his bed not farre from Edinburg at a Countrey house whether he had gone for his recreation and afterwards tooke the Queene prisoner as she was returning from visiting her child King Iames who was nursed at Sterling Bothuel forced his prisoner to be his wife assuring her no other hopes were left for her selfe other sonne to survive Prince Henry but his protection who was of great power amongst the hereticks as then he imagined but the contrary was soone discovered for the very same hereticks that set him upon killing the Prince and marrying the Queene raised an Army to ruine him and professed to the Queene they had no other dâ—signe in raising forces but to revenge the death of her husband whereof they knew Bothuel to be the Author and humbly desired her Majesty would be pleased to deliver him up to Justice and receive them into her grace protesting to live and dye in her obedience Bothuel was delivered to their hands whom they let escape but the poore Queene contrary to their oath and engagement was not onely made prisoner but reviled and afronted in the highest degree laying to her charge that she had murthered her husband and to make her odious and infamous to the whole Kingdome and Christian world they carried before her all the way to Edinburg the picture of her husband dead with many wounds and her little sonne painted by his fathers corps praying to God for justice against his mother This is the faith and fruit of heresy and policy When Polititians heads direct Hereticks hands we may expect nothing but such tragicall stories as this is Queene Elizabeth by destroying this poore Lady aymed at the establishment of her owne usurpation and security Murray by her death had hopes to governe Scotland Knox Buchanan and the rest of the hereticall crue looked upon the setling of Calvins Reformation and Discipline and to that end advised that the innocent Queene should be put to death of the same opinion was her good brother the bastard Murray but that glory was reserved for our Virgin Queene of England whose malice could not be satiated with afronts afflictions and many yeares imprisonment untill at length upon a publike stage the most vertuous and renowned Queene of Scots lost her head against the Law of Nature and Nations by the command of a Iezabel that cruell head heart and darling of the venerable Protestant Church of England 10 Before it was resolved by the Assembly of Hereticks whether the Queene should dye it was decreed the government of the Kingdome should be resigned to her sonne and in his minority being then but 13. moneths old to Murray and his Camerades Hereupon the Infant was declared King and in stead of the Masse honest Iohn Knox made a sermon against that holy Sacrifice and all Catholick Tenets and ceremonies recommending much to the people the observance of his Calvinian Discipline Morton and Humes swore in the young Kings name to set up the new Religion and pull downe the old which was already brought so lowe that the Queene could scarce finde one Catholick Priest to baptize her sonne the same did celebrate her husbands funerall whom she commanded to be buried in her fathers Tombe wherewith these two Catholick Princes King Iames the V. and Prince Henry Steward lyeth also enterred the Catholick Religion that for so many ages had florished in Scotland Duke Hamilton and his brother Iohn Archbishop of Saint Andrews the Earles of Huntley and Argile with many others of the Nobility protested against the oath that was taken in the Kings name of destroying that Faith which his Majesty and themselves had inherited from their noble Progenitors yet the Queene of Scots being made prisoner by Queene Elizabeth and most of the Catholick Nobility being killed in her quarrell Murray Knox and other Hereticks