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
Flood of Calumnies with which the Romish Dragon has persecuted our Church and driven her into the wilderness I will prove the truth of my Charge by such undeniable matter of Fact as shall leave no excuse for non-conviction to any persons to whose hands these Papers shall come except such who have resolved not to acknowledge any conviction and who by a resolute persisting in a seeming Infidelity properly called a wilful Obstinacy justly render themselves suspected if not evidently guilty of a confederacy and downright combination with the Papists to introduce Popery and Tyranny upon the ruines both of Church and State I will begin then with a remarkable Narrative of a Dominican Fryer A notable relation of a Dominican Frier who pretended himself a Puritan in Qu. Elizabeth's time being an Extract out of the Memorials of the Lord Cecil an Eminent Statesman in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth from whose Papers it was transmitred to the Reverend Bishop Vsher some time Lord Primate of Ireland whose Name so Venerable even to many Dissenters may possibly influence them to sober considerations of the danger to which they expose the Protestant Religion by their separation whilst thereby they give opportunity to these Ravening Wolves in Sheeps Clothing to enter in among them and scatter those Souls from Christs Fold who otherwise would be one Flock under that one great Bishop and Shepherd of Souls The Papers of the Lord Primate coming to the hands of Sir James Ware Knight late one of his Majesties Privy Council in Ireland Observe how early the Papists began to act Nonconformists who then were called Puritans from their pretending to a purer reformation as presently you will find this Friar do his Son Robert Ware Esq has obliged the Publick by the communication of them In the year 1567 being the ninth year of the Reign of Queen Eliz. one Faithful Commin a Friar of the Order of St. Dominick a person generally reputed a zealous Protestant and much admired and followed by the people for his seeming Piety but more particularly for inveighing in his Pulpit most bitterly against Pius Quintus then Pope was accused by John Clerkson Chaplain to the A. B. of Cant. Nicholas Draper and Mary Dean who being sworn upon the Holy Evangelists before her Majesty and the Lords of the Council deposed that the said Faithful Commin was no true Protestant but a false Impostor a Sower of Sedition among her Majesties Loyal Subjects upon which the fifth of April being Monday the said Faithful Commin was brought before the Queens Majesty and the Honourable Lords of the Privy Council and there examined by his Grace Matthew Parker Lord Archbishop of Canterbury as followeth L. Archbishop Faithful Commin of what Profession art thou Fa. Com. Of Christs Order L. Archbishop What Order is that Fa. Com. * The very same Answer which all unordain'd Speakers who are Preachers at large and run before they are sent made at this day A Preacher of the Holy Gospel L. Archbishop What Gospel is that you call the Holy Gospel Fa. Com. The Gospel of Jesus Christ L. A. B. Under what Power do you own to hold that Gospel Fa. Com. Under Christ and his Saints L. A. B. Do you acknowledge any other Power save Christ to be on Earth Fa. Com. Yes I do L. A. B. What Power is that Fa. Comm. The Holy Catholick Church L. A. B. Do you not acknowledge a Defender of the Holy Catholick Faith Fa. Comm. * Papists and Dissenters both disown Supremacy or equivocate and dissemble about it God is the only Desender Hereupon the Archbishop addressing himself to Her Majesty said Your Gracious Majesty may perceive that either this man hath been instructed what to say or otherwise he must be by his Answers a man of Craft to which the Queen replied I suppose so my Lord. Then Commin was ordered to withdraw and her Majesty and the Council were some time debating how to proceed in this Affair After which John Clerkson the Archbishops Chaplain was called in before the Board the Queen demanded his Name which he told her then she further enquired whether he was acquainted with Faithful Commin to which he answered he was the Queen asked him how long he had known him to which he replied about a year or more Queen What have you to say against Faithful Commin that he is suspected to be an Impostor J. Clerkson Three things Queen What be they J. C. First Let him prove his Ordination since he fell from the Church of Rome Secondly Why he never cometh to the Prayers of the now established Church of England but starteth up and Preacheth to the people †The exact mode of most Dissenters who will come to our Churches not coming into the Church till the Prayers be finished Thirdly Let him prove that ever he received the Sacrament according to the Church of England from any of our Orthodox Clergy-men Her Majesty and the Council having considered of these three Points sent for the said Faithful Commin to come in again who appearing the Archbishop demanded of him A. B. Were you ever ordained Fa. Com. Yes I was ordained A. B. By whom Fa. Com. By the Cardinal meaning Poul A. B. Had you no other Certificate under any of the Bishops hands since the Reformation Fa. Com. Not any A. B. Wherefore would you dare to Preach having not got a * Observe the reason and necessity of all Preachers having License to Preach and of setled Parochial Congregations as also the great care the Church of England takes to keep Papists from creeping in disguised among us and the opportunity Separation gives them to come among Dissenting Congregations License of Permission under some of our Bishops hands How shall we be assured that you are not of the Romish Church Fa. Com. There are several have heard my Prayers and Sermons and can testifie †they that rail most bitterly against Rome and the Pope may be Papists notwithstanding that I have spoken against Rome and her Pope as much as any of the Clergy have since they have fallen from her I wonder therefore why I should be suspected A. B. By your answer Mr. Commin I perceive you would have any one Preach so that he speak but against the Pope in his Sermons F. C. Not every one but he whose Function it is and he who hath the †Look here a Friar in Masquerade of a Dissenting Protestant one of the first Pretenders to this extraordinary gift of the Spirit Spirit A. B. What Spirit is this you mean F. C. The Spirit of Grace and Truth A. B. ** A Question worthy of the most deliberate Consideration of all Pretenders to the Spirit and all those who follow them for if they cannot by the fruits of the Spirit mentioned Gal. 6. prove it the Spirit of Truth or if it produces the fruits of the Flesh there mentioned Hatred Variance Emulations Wrath Strife Seditions
But the wiser sort will look to their Claws and clip them The Solemn Rites of Coronation have their ends and utility yet neither direct force or necessity they be good admonitions to put Kings in mind of their duty to God but no encreasement of their Dignity For they be God's Anointed not in respect of the Oil which the Bishop useth but in consideration of their Power which is ordained of the Sword which is authorized of their Persons which are elected by God and endued with the gifts of his Spirit for the better ruling and guiding of the people The Oil if added is but a Ceremony if it be wanting that King is yet a perfect Monarch notwithstanding and God's Anointed as well as if he was In-oiled Now for the Person or Bishop that doth Anoint a King it is proper to be done by the chiefest but if they cannot or will not any Bishop may perform this Ceremony To condition with Monarchs upon these Ceremonies the Bishop of Rome or other Bishops owning his Supremacy hath no authority but he may faithfully declare what God requires at the hands of Kings and Rulers that is Religion and Vertue Therefore not from the Bishop of Rome but as a Messenger from my Saviour Jesus Christ I shall most humbly admonish your Royal Majesty what things your Highness is to perform Your Majesty is God's Vice-Gerent and Christ's Vicar within your own Dominions and to see with your Predecessor Josiah God truly worshipped and Idolatry destroyed the Tyranny of the Bishops of Rome banished from your Subject and Images removed These acts be signs of a second Josiah who reformed the Word of God in his days You are to reward Vertue to revenge Sin to justify the Innocent to relieve the Poor to procure Peace to repress Violence and to execute Justice throughout your Realms for Presidents on those Kings who performed not these things The old Law shews how the Lord revenged his quarrel and on those Kings who fulfilled these things he poured forth his Blessings in abundance For example it is written of Josiah in the Book of the Kings thus Like unto him there was no King before him that turned to the Lord with all his heart according to-all the Law of Moses neither after him arose there any like him This was to that Prince a perpetual fame of dignity to remain to the end of days Being bound by my Function to lay these things before your Royal Highness the one as a reward if you fulfil the other as a judgment from God if you neglect them Yet I openly declare before the Living God and before these Nobles of the Land that I have no Commission to denounce your Majesty deprived if your Highness miss in part or in whole of these performances much less to draw up Indentures between God and your Majesty or to say you forfeit your Crown with a clause for the Bishop of Rome as have been by your Majesties Predecessors King John and his Son Henry of this Land The Almighty God of his mercy let the light of his countenance shine upon your Majesty grant you a prosperous and happy Reign defend you and save you and let your Subjects say Amen God save the King After his Majesties Coronation and the death of King Henry the 8th several of the foreign Protestant Clergy wrote to his Son King Edward and to that Honourable Councel whom his wise Father had carefully nominated for to instruct and advise that hopeful Prince amongst whom Mr. John Calvin was one as appears by his Letters to Archbishop Cranmer yet extant and Printed amongst others of his Epinies in which he offers his service to assist that King in the Reformation of the Church of England but King Edward and his Council refused his proffer The parties instrumental for disswading of this Prince from these offertures of Calvins and the reasons why he was not admitted to be one in this Assembly were not known until about the 9th year of his Siller Queen Elizabeth her Reign about which time Sir Henry Sidney some time Lord Deputy of Ireland and one of her Majssties Honourable Privy-Council having then the liberty to view the Papers of State within her Majesties secret Closet he happen'd to find a Letter directed to the Bishops of Winchester and of Rochester These two Bishops were Gardner and Ponett dated from Delph which he in a manuscript of his own afterwards in the custody of the most learned Dr. James Vsher late Primate of Armagh which was after transcribed by Sir James Ware and is now entred in a manuscript of that Knights number xliiii Running in this manner following Memorandum taken out of Sir Henry Sidney his Book called the Romish Pollicies numb 6. pag. 37. in fol. a manuscript with Archbishop Vsher Her Royal Highness giving me the freedom to search the affairs of State ever since her Royal Fathers denying the Jurisdiction of the See of Rome Sir Henry Sidney's words amongst other of his discourses within this Book amongst others of this sort I found a Letter directed to the Bishops of Winchester and Rochester part of the Contents being for my purpose be these as they were translated out of the Low-Dutch Edward Son of Henry the Heretick King of England by his crasty and politick Councel hath absolutely brought in Heresie which if not by art or other endeavours speedily overthrown and made infamous all other foreign Hereticks will unite with your new Heresies now amongst your selves lately planted and so have Bishops as you have and it is the opinion of our learned men now at Trent that the Schisms in England by Edward's Council established will reclaim all the foreign Sects unto their Discipline and thereby be one body united For Calvin Bullinger and others have wrote unto Edward to offer their service to assist and unite also to make Edward and his Heirs their chief Defender and so have Bishops as well as England which if it come to pass that Heretick Bishops be so near and spread abroad Rome and the Clergy utterly falls You must therefore make these offertures of theirs odious to Edward and his Council Receive N. S. and E. L. from Rotterdam their lessons are taught them take you their parts if checked by the other Hereticks for these be for Rebaptizing and not for Infant-Baptism Their Doctrine is for a future Monarchy upon carth after death which will please the ordinary kind well and dash the other that rageth now amongst you Reverend Fathers it is left to you to assist and to those you know are sure to the Mother-Church From Delph the 4th I de of May Anno Christi 1549. D. G. Her Highness one day discoursing of matters in this kind Queen Eliz. opinion at the sight of this Letter I told her of this Paper at the sight whereof she was startled the Letter being amongst her Sisters papers which caused her to express these very words I had rather than a years
be more admired by the people so the Hereticks will asperse that Heretical King and his Church as little differing from us These Instructions I am commanded to recommend unto you as being approved by his Holiness Julius the Third your Supream Father and his wholsome Council to be handled and performed to the utmost of your Powers Wealth Parts Learning and Capacities for the good of the Mother-Church Dated the fourth Ide of November 1551. Beneventum Upon these consultations I was amazed to behold these and other the contrivances that hath been contrived against the Church of England ever since King Henry her Royal Highness Father fell from the See of Rome How the Converts contrary design turned to his Conversion but yet duly taking memorandums of these things for my curiosities sake at first then designing to have practised these instructions at last seriously pondering upon these devices and upon several others of this kind which would contain a large volume to set them out to publick view I pretended to come over hither to practice the same and to colour my feigned intention I said I took these memorandums for my instructions and so left Paris in the month of April anno 1566. and landed at Dover the month following from whence I came to this Kingdom where since I have satisfied the Archbishop and the rest of my Brethren the Clergy by my last confession publickly in this City of Dublin Yet for further assurance of my confidence in the Protestant Faith of England now established by her Highness and her Parliament of this Nation I Samuel Mason being strucken in years not knowing how soon it may please the Almighty God to take me from hence as also to take off all evil Calumnies Aspersions and Suspitions of me Samuel Mason as if I should dye in the Roman Church I do humbly lay this my Narrative before your Lordship as Chief under her Highness in these her Dominions of Ireland for a true and signal testimony of my fidelity to her Highness her Government both in Church and State Dated at Dublin the 24th day of August 1566. Samuel Mason I was the more desirous to keep this Memorial of this Convert John Garvey his design for preserving of this memorandum by reason the Speech for the declaring of her Conversion was spoke in my Cathedral I being but the year before by her Royal Highness preferred to that Deanery as appears by her Majesties special Letter now on Record and also I have inserted this amongst others of my Diaries to remain hereafter with other of the memorandums concerning this Deanery desiring my Successors to follow the same for the publick benefit of their Successors and to be produced as time shall serve for their several occasions most opportunely and fit The Convert continued not fully two years in his Parsonship or Parish before he died The Converts death and burial my self preaching his Funeral Sermon where several with sorrowful tears lamented the loss of so true a Penitent choosing this Text suitable for his Conversion Blessed are they that die in the Lord c. whom all must suppose did as appears by his hearty Recantation and declaration aforesaid He was buried in his Parish at Finglas two miles distant from Dublin on the Feast of St. Bartholomew Ann. Dom. 1568. In the year of our Lord 1584. Sir John Perrot then Lord Deputy of Ireland taking his Progress into the Province of Connaught there came to his Lordship a Friar Carmelite named Malachias Malone by some called O Malone Brother unto Mr. William Eughter who had been of that Order about 36 years even from the beginning of King Edward the Sixth's Reign this Malachias and Sir John then having had great conference together in private After which this Friar in the face of a whole Congregation then met together in St. Stephens Church of Gallway renounced the Pope's Supremacy and also the Popish Religion At this Recantation he first entred into the Church in his Friars Weeds The Friar's actions and speech upon his Conversion saying to the Congregation these words Peccavi contra Deum Creatorem meum contra Reginam contra Leges Regnorum ejus Then taking off his Friar's Weeds he said Away with these Cloaks of Sin I will cloath my self with the Gospel of Jesus Christ Now good people bear witness from henceforth I conform my self to the Religion established in these her Majesties Dominions by her Majesty and her Parliaments of England and Ireland At this time several of the Roman Catholick Friars and Jesuits lurking about that City of Gallway Sir John Perrott's care of Malachias had a design against this Convert which coming to Sir John's ears he would not permit him to remain in that Province but caused special care to be taken of him and so brought him before to Dublin where he was carefully looked after and lay amongst my Lord Deputies Servants the said Lord allowing unto him a certain allowance for his maintenance during his Government in that her Majesties Realm of Ireland Sir John being this year absent from Dublin three months and odd days returned thither with this Friar upon the 11th of October following and so gave her Majesty and the Lords of the Council here an account of this his Progress amongst the rest this of Malachias was also Upon St. Simon and Jude's Feast being the 28th of October and in the same month of his return to Dublin Sir John the Archbishop of Dublin Lord Chancellor the Primate of Armagh the chief Judges and others of her Majesties Council assembled in the Castle of Dublin This said Malachias as appears by their Letters unto the Lords here of her Majesties Council having acquainted Sir John and that Council of several matters and discoveries which he had to reveal unto them he was called for to appear before them at which time he declared how he had been a grievous Traytor to God and to her Majesty and there declared this declaration in writing following having got Mr. Fenton to write the same that the Lord Deputy and Council might read it the easier I Malachias ô Malone born at Bullintobber in the County of Mayo The Friars Confession before the Lord Deputy and Council of Ireland Anno Christi 1522. in the year of our Lord 1548. upon the Assumption of our Blessed Lady I received the Order of Mount Carmel generally called Friars Carmelites and became a Member of that Order of the Convent of Ballinsmale in the said County continuing therein for the space of 12 years before I departed from thence Afterwards in the year 1561. I journied towards Cecil in Spain in the company of Tho. Lynch Garrott Fitz-Gerald of my own Order also in the company of my Cousin James Malone John Bourke Philip Corwine and of Thady ô Bryan who in the City of Sevell took on them the Order of St. Francis I tarried at that City about two years and from thence journied into
as Popishly affected the Lawn Sleeves were threatned and the Episcopal Party branded with all the names of Ignominy so that the rich and wise Citizens of the great Metropolis of London knew scarcely whether their greatest danger was from Papists or Phanaticks Wealth being always a Crime in Popular Tumults and Insurrections Sedition was as commonly talked and as hot as Coffee was drank and in a word from the Court to the Cottage none could escape the imputation of Popishly affected who durst write or speak in vindication of the Church of England or against Dissenters And that all this was but a Branch of the late horrid Popish Plot against his Majesties Life the Government by Law established and the Protestant Religion I offer the Testimony of Dr. Oats the first and principal Discoverer who all along charges the Papists the disguised Priests and Jesuits with managing the intemperate heat of Separatists against the Government and we cannot without bringing a manifest and dangerous disreputation upon the rest of his Evidence but believe him when upon his Oath he assures us that the Jesuits creep in among Dissenters under the disguise of Nonconforming Ministers to divide and exasperate to raise and blow up Animosities and Calumnies into actual Rebellion against the Civil Government under a pretence of their dislike of the Ecclesiastical Thus in his Printed Narrative Paragraph 1. He informs us that Richard Strange Provincial John Keins Basil Langworth John Fenwick and Harcourt Jesuits did write a treasonable Letter to one Father Suiman an Irish Jesuit at Madrid in Spain in which was contained the plotting and contriving a Rebellion in Scotland of the Presbyterians against the Episcopal Government In order to which they had employed Matthew Wright William Morgan and one Mr. Ireland to go and Preach under the Notions of Presbyterians and give the disaffected Scots a true understanding of their sad Estate and Condition in which they were by reason of Episcopal Tyranny exercised over them and withal to tell them they had now a fair opportunity to vindicate their Liberty and Religion and that it could be done no other way but by the Sword Paragraph 18. That the Fathers of the Society in Ireland were very vigilant to prepare the people to rise for the defence of their Liberty and Religion and to recover their Estates Paragraph 35. That the Jesuits by order of the Provincial were to send new Messengers into Scotland to promote the Commotions there and to inform the people of the great Tyranny they lay under by reason of their being denied Liberty of Conscience and that not being to be procured but by the Sword they must take that course to purchase their Liberty Paragraph 43. That two new Messengers were sent into Scotland on the 5th of August 1678. one by the name of Father Moor the other of Sanders aliàs Brown with instructions to carry themselves like Non-conformist Ministers and to Preach to the disaffected Scots the necessity of taking up the Sword for defence of Liberty of Conscience these the Deponent saw dispatched Paragraph 50. The Deponent Dr. Oats saw a Letter from Father Ireland August the 7th 1678. where among other things he intimates the joy he had that the disaffected Scots would not lay aside their endeavors for and after Liberty and Religion and that the Catholicks of Scotland had promised to use the utmost of their Interest to keep up the Commotions there Here let me be permitted to make a little break to confirm this Evidence by a remarkable Passage which fell out the last year in the tragical end of the Lord Forresler This Lord was the person that after the defeat of the Rebels at Bothwel-Bridge took occasion upon the Indulgence granted by His Majesty to erect a House within two miles of Edinburgh for a publick Conventicle of Non-conformists and for his building this Synagogue went for a zealous man among them but so it hapned that not long after he was barbarously murdered by a Woman Relation with whom he had incestuously lived many years After his death a Dispensation was found in his Closet from the Pope to marry her which it seems he delaying to do she took his Life as the price and reparation of her abused Honour Raviliac Redivivus which plainly shews that these Supporters of the Nonconformists may be and are secret Papists But to proceed Paragraph 51. Among other mysterious Phrases relating to the Plot John Keins told the Deponent that the Provincial had taken great care of keeping alive the differences between the disaffected Scots and Duke Lauderdale that Mum and Chocolate should be put down and the Order of the Magpies should be turned to their primitive Institution and Habit. By Mum and Chocolate meaning the Protestant Peers and by Magpies the Bishops And for a clear vindication of the Bishops and Episcopal Clergy of the Church of England from the unjust imputation of being Popishly affected the common brand which Nonconformists burn upon their Reputation Paragraph 72. He informs us that the Pope had issued out a Bull in which he disposes of the Bishopricks and other Dignities in England as follows Arch-Bishops Canterbury Cardinal Howard York Perrot Superior of the Secular Priests Bishops London Corker President of the Benedictine Monks Winchester White aliàs White-bread Provincial of the Jesuits Durham Strange late Provincial of the Jesuits Salisbury Dr. Godden Norwich Napper a Franciscan Friar Fly Vincent Provincial of the Dominican Monks Exeter Wolf one of the Sorbon Peterborough Gifford a Dominican Friar Lincoln Sir John Warner Baronet a Jesuit Chichester Morgan a Jesuit Bath Wells Dr. Armstrong a Franciscan Friar Carlisle Wilmot aliàs Quarterman a Secular Priest Chester Thimbleby a Secular Priest Hereford Sir Thomas Preston Baronet a Jesuit Bristol Mundson a Dominican Oxford Williams Rector of Watton a Town in Flanders a Jesuit St. Davids Belson a Secular Priest St. Asaph Jones a Secular Bangor Joseph David Keimash a Dominican Friar Abbots Westminster Dr. Sheldon a Benedictine Monk Sion House Skinner a Benedictine Monk Deans Canterbury Belton a Sorbonist St. Pauls Leybourn a Secular Secretary to Cardinal Howard Windsor Howard with twelve Benedictine Canons Chichester Morgan a Secular VVinton Dr. VVatkinson President of the English Colledge at Lisbon With many other Dignities of the Church disposed of to Foreigners in that Bull. Paragraph 74. That twelve Scotch Jesuits were sent into Scotland to keep up the Commotions in Scotland and that they had instructions given them to carry themselves like Nonconformist Ministers among the Presbyterian Scots And Pag. 67 of the Narrative numb 7. One means he says they were to use to bring in Popery was by seditious Preachers and Catechists set up sent out maintained and directed what to Preach in their own or other private or publick Conventicles and Field meetings Now as in reason we cannot believe the Papists are less sollicitous for their Affairs in England than in Scotland and Ireland so we cannot but conclude
bound to obey the Mother-Church when ever commanded I entreated Mr. Freake to give me a Copy of the Heads of the directions that were given unto those who were licenced to perform what this Bull had permitted which was thus Observe how in Cromwell's days Marriages were altered for this purpose They were permitted to marry upon two accompts First because they might not be suspected Secondly Heretical Marriage is no Marriage if their Matrimonial Ceremonies be contrary to the Romish Orders Several of these so licenced are to take divers Callings according to their inclinations Thus Rome taught Dissention in the late usurped times yet to Preach and Expound and in case they be asked upon what grounds they came by this Science they must reply by the Spirit of God by revelation and by searching of the Scriptures In case they be asked upon what grounds they take upon them to Preach In the usurped days they generally called it Teaching and not Preaching they must reply We Preach not but Teach But in case they ask and say Why do ye then Teach it self Let Statesmen consider of this Jesuitical fetch for Teaching ye must reply because the Sons of the Prophets did Teach so did Jehoshaphat and his Princes likewise did the Disciples before Christ's Resurrection also the Scribes and Pharisees and divers of the Church of Corinth and these were not Church-men If they say by this means every man may Preach that listeth A further Jefuitical fetch to adorn the Schisms of Rome you must reply I could wish we were all Preachers and Prophets because Moses wished all the Lords people were Prophets If we should make but one or two divisions amongst the English Hereticks Jesuitical Policies not to permit the Popish Laity to read Scripture it were all in vain and our labour lost and this the Council of Trent a little before its dissolution left to our Society to handle who from Paris Rome and from several places of Italy corresponded with each other and concluded that Rome her self had not continued in that splendor as she hath done hitherto in case her Popes and Council had not brought in novelties to please peoples fancies by which means it confounded the capacities of the Laity and common sort as they were not permitted to read or search the Scriptures How they have deluded the Protestant Laity by misconstruing the Scripture knowing they be permitred to read them But by reason that the Hereticks of England and other Provinces permitted them to read it was necessary before they were well grounded in their Principles to preach variety unto them to some the Doctrine of Free-will to some that Children should not be baptized till they come to Age to others a Monarchy of earthly happiness after this temporal life to others that the righteousness of man dependeth not upon the Faith of Christ but upon charity and affliction and that any gifted man may either give or receive the Sacrament All these and several such like observations as shall daily spring forth must ye undertake to perform outwardly with great fervency for thereby ye will not be suspected or discovered for that one method being duly observed will absolve ye and hide your designs designed Then receiving these Instructions I lest Paris What he delivered to Shane O Neal from Father Freake whilst he was a Papist and journied and came to Callis from thence I sailed into Scotland and so came for Ireland where I gave the Papers delivered unto me by Father Freake unto Shane O Neale which was in the year of Christ 1564. Judgments falling upon the Head of Shane O Neal for his Treachery and Rebellion against our Sovereign Lady the Queen How he came to be Converted I said within my self God doth not prosper these unjust means yet continuing still in my profession of the Order of Mount Carmel I perceived always the Roman Catholicks projects to fail them which smote my Conscience very often so that I resolved to repent that I might lay my bones in the Grave in peace with hopes of a joyful Resurrection when I and all mankind shall come before our Blessed Saviour Jesus Christ before whose Tribunal all must appear and receive according to their works and Faith in him alone Witness my hand this 28th of October Anno Dom. 1584 Malachias Malone The Original of this was sent to her Majesty and Council from Sir John Perrot Knight then Lord Deputy of Ireland and that Council as a signal assurance of this Convert's Reformation to the Protestant Church of England now established Although we should have placed these following Memorials before the Conversion of Mason or Malone yet hapning to cast an eye thereon being entred amongst my Fathers Manuscripts and given unto him from John King some time Dean of Tuum I have here set them forth that the Reader may see how sensible the Lord Cicell was of the Romish Conspiracies against the Church of England and her Majesty Worthy Sir You can assure her Highness of my care and charge which I undertook at my departing from her Grace and the Honourable Privy Council I assure you I do not miss-spend my little time it being so precious as you and others can testify by my former Intelligences sent by the hands of Captain Russel of which I was assured came safe to the Council I intended to have presented this inclosed with my own hands to her Grace but her lost message to me hath been the occasion of sending it sooner upon two accounts it being a matter of sudden prevention and likewise having so sure a hand and the conveniency of Mr. Edward Maxwell's and others of our English Factors here going from hence and guarded by her Graces Ship called the Swallow I shall make all the speed I can possible and with God's help see your Worship as chearful as ever though I am somewhat altered by this last Voyage God preserve your undertakings both at home and abroad for the publick good of her gracious Majesty and welfare of the Nation Your assured Servant E. Dennum Venice April 13th 1564. A list of several consultations amongst the Cardinals Bishops and others of the several Orders of Rome now a contriving and conspiring against her gracious Majesty and the established Church of England Pius having consulted with the Clergy of Italy and assembling them together it was by general consent voted that the immunity of the Romish Church and her Jurisdiction is required to be defended by all her Princes as the principal Church of God And to encourage the same the Council hath voted that Pius should bestow her Graces Realm on that Prince who shall attempt to conquer it There was a Council ordered by way of a Committee who contain three of the Cardinals two of the Archbishops six of the Bishops and as many of the late Order of the Jesuits who daily encrease and come into great favour with the Pope of late These
prefixed time appointed and plotted by the Irish Papists to rebell in the year 1641. found with other papers at the taking of Droghedah after the Rout of Remines My Lord IF you can procure a Patent for the City of Dublin to make their Mayors Lord Mayors as well as London This Letter directed to the Lord Viscount G. their policy will be to offer the Catholick Aldermen to become free of the same none being so proper to consult herein as Alderman Jyans who must declare to the Table of Aldermen the great affection your Lordship hath for that City and also tell them how you are going over and shall tell His Majesty how much they be his faithful Subjects and in case they would accept of your Lordship you would honour their City to become their first Lord Mayer and so procure them Letters Patents for that Dignity and that it may remain upon Record how a Noble Peer of the Realm became the first Lord Mayor thereof This being broken unto them and his Majesties Letters procured for the passing of this Patent the work is in a manner perfected We be in a fair way ere long to asswage Heresie and her Episcopacy for Exetor's Book hath done more for the Catholicks than they could have done themselves he having written that Episcopacy in Office and Jurisdiction is absolutely Jure Divino which was the old quarrel between our Bishops and King Henry the 8th during his Heresie then disputed upon which Book doth not a little trouble our Adversaries who declare this Tenent of Exetor's to be contrary to the Laws of this Land You will see a great Oke fall speedily which formerly shaded poor Ireland's Glory All is like to prosper here so I hope with you there You shall have no more from me till we meet at London which I hope will be shortly Your Lordships Humble and True Servant at call T. White London Feb. 12. 1639. Copia vera ab Originale Vt fuit cum Hen. Midensis Episcopo In the year 1640. See Mr. Prynne's demonstration shewing how the Papists contrived the late Kings Murther and the then Rebellions in Scotland and England George Con a Scotch-man being then the Pope's Nuntio Prynne's Rome's Master-piece pa. 18. Sir William Boswell being then Agent for his Majesty at the Hague having intelligence of a Plot then advising by the Jesuits and the Church of Rome to take off his Majesty in case he would not tolerate their Religion wrote this discovery unto William Laud then Archbishop of Canterbury who immediately shewed the same to his Majesty The Papists upon this account and also remembring the overthrow he gave to Fisher the Jesuit thought they could not accomplish their evil design unless they took away this Pillar of the Church also then under a dissenting disguise they cast aspersions on this holy Father knowing nothing could make him more odious to the Commonalty than to say that he was a Papist or endeavoured to bring in Popery thus continuing in the gall of bitterness until he was cut off also Rome having accomplished her desires thus far now begins to aim at a higher strain His Majesty being about this time in great distress wanting Moneys and other necessaries to support him against Romish and Puritanical policies made his application to those Subjects whom he knew he might confide in who served him faithfully to the uttermost of their abilities yet several Judas's sprinkled amongst them betraid them with their kisses for it is well known as we shall afterwards make it appear from sufficient Authors how Rome ordered her affairs under-hand For to propagate this Plot of hers she divides her Emissaries thus She sprinkles some of her Tribe amongst the faithful of the Church of England and suffers them openly to declare themselves Protestants yet with Oaths and Protestations to pretend to serve their King Then with the dissenting party she Jesuitically disguises her self into a Puritanical dress to serve the adverse party hereby the better to find out the intentions of Kings and Princes and so to play her Game accordingly by which means they brought the Head of that glorious Kingly Martyr to the Block To prove that Rome was the chief Instrument to draw the Subject into this horrible Engagement we will begin to bring that Reverend person Dr. Du Moulyn for one of our Authors who in his vindication of the sincerity of the Protestant Religion writes thus When the business of the late bad times are once ripe for an History How Rome contrived the late Kings death See Dr. Dumoulyn pag. 58 59. and Time the bringer of Truth hath discovered the mysteries of Iniquity and the depths of Satan which have wrought so much ruine and mischief it will be found that the late Rebellion was raised and fostered by the arts of the Court of Rome that Jesuits professed themselves Independent as not depending on the Church of England and Fifth Monarchy men that they might pull down the English Monarchy and that in the Committees for the destruction of the King and the Church they had their Spies and their Agents The Roman Priest and Confessor is known who when he saw the fatal stroke given to our holy King and Martyr flourished with his Sword and said Now the greatest enemy that we have in the World is gone To confirm what this Reverend Divine hath written we entreat the Readers to cast their eyes on these words which Mr. Henry Fowles specifies in his History of the wicked Plots and conspiracies of our pretended Saints pag. 14. His words being thus When the late King was murthered Prynne's brief necessary vindication pag. 45. Mr. Henry Spotswood riding casually that way just as his Head was cut off espied the Queens Confessor there on Horseback in the habit of a Trooper drawing forth his Sword and flourishing it over his own head in triumph as others then did At which Mr. Spotswood being much amazed and being familiarly acquainted with the Confessor Another testimony shewing how Rome contrived the death of the late King rode up to him and said O Father I little thought to have found you here or any of your Profession at such a sad spectacle To which he answered that there were at least forty or more Priests and Jesuits there present on Horseback besides himself The resultancy of this Story is home and pat and for the truth of it I refer you to Mr. Prynne Other Authors could we cite but to rational men knowing these two be sufficient proofs for our vindication we shall proceed no further for a testimony yet we shall desire the Reader to consider how so soon as these Priests and Jesuits had perfected this evil fact to take off the malignity of it from themselves they hit it in the teeth of the dissenting Party to this day therefore as a warning to the dissenting Party we shall desire them to consider how they were gull'd and brought into this ignominy The Papists in a
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